The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1899, Page 6

THE SA FRA SCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 PTEMBER 24, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. NS SESUET RN Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. , ~ < ~— e A PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 IERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. e Coples, B cents. Mafl, Including Postage: Sunday Call), Sunday Call), ingle Month . CAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mansger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, CORRESPONDENT: . e ......Herald Square NEW YORK €. C. CARLTON NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR. 29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS 6TANDS. Bherman House Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS 6TANDS. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unlen Bquare; Muwrey Hill Hotel. WASH TON (D. C.) OFFICE. ....Wellingten Hotel &, L. ENGLISH, Corrcspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open untl 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:Z0 c'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1541 Mission strect, open until 10 o'clock. 22C° Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencla street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventd street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Tweaty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivi ‘Othello."” farfe Antoinette,” Monday evening, Septem- ber Oalifornia Theater—"A Yenuine Yentleman,” Sunday, Oc- tobe: Johnson.” ‘The Drum Major's Daughter.” heater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Mason and Flils strects—Specialties. Races, etc. {rcus—Sixteenth and F Pavillon—Mechunics’ g Park—Coursing To-day. HAWAIIAN LABOR. ACT labor is being landed in Hawaii by addition to the thousands that have received since the islands came under the n of the United States. tramp steamer Victoria was taking on act laborers at Madeira when the nes, served notice on the e British ii had be This de rred about half of them charter party of the steamer hrough the British legation. our Government and now there nited States by the ungt ult was an investigation by g the C ainst the U ¢ servitude, and that “in the United States ution r the impression that the to be respected and With pol. j ction in the Sulus and involuntary servitude by contract labor flourishing in Hawaii, and eight huv- dred thousand dollars a day being spent in a war | not declared by Congress, there seems to be some | support for General Merritt's declaration that the country has outgrown the constitution. Recently the lightship, anchored off the heads to guide vessels into the harbor of San Francisco, was brought inside the bay without notice to mariners. It is the season of fog off shore, and ships arriving tried to find the lightship. Some of them nearly struck above Point Bonita and some narrowly escaped vreck below Point Lobos. They missed the familiar p and sailed ahead with a feeling of safety in the belief that they were still far off shore. The constitution is the lightship which guides our ship of state. If it is withdrawn, by what is the state to be guided? There are shoals and rocks and bars to be avoided. What shall mark them and by what shall the ship be steered? The Republican party does not wish to be made responsible for the present plan of navigation by “dead reckoning.” It will certainly protest against responsibility for what may follow. It will refuse to be put in the attitude of indorsing polygamy and slavery and contract labor. It is this aspect which disquiets the party, while it loyally sup- ports the administration in doing all that lies within nal power to end the painful situation in the Philippines, but the party has its own future ness affi its duty to the republic to con- general!, its constitt and usefu sider. When Consuls are turned down for deciding that the I of the United States must be respected, and our Government incurs a claim for damages by void- s¢ there arise responsibilities which use to bear. s ing its own law:! the party wi 1 management of William F. Her- rin has proved unsatisfactory to his employers some of his friends might suggest to a theatrical magnate 1at William possesses certain qualities which might him to become a successful stage manager. Or perhaps he might shine better in a circus. Since the po Jimenes was received in San Domingo with some- thing like an ovation, but it appears his followers did shouting before the right time. An opposition has orisen, and as the army has not received from ] es the pay it counted on there is danger it will jein the revolution. P A Now that an actress has shot a stage manager for calling her an “amateur” it is pertinent to inquire whether the professional ethics of the ntagc/ would have justified the manager in shooting her if she had been an amateur. Tt is about time to establish a close season for Southern Pacific accidents. The killing threatens to reduce the population too much. P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel} | Fair and Philippine Ex- | . 1 annexed to the United | fer the laws of this country, their con- | ; : der the laws of this country | took the bait, and in his speech at Wooster swallowed | the Consul’s action, and pre- | tes forbid contract la- | jurisdiction.” The Consul | | en- | goes off its feet and is biting its own thumb at itself. ers chosen and sworn for | fonecism in Toledo, the street Surely it is time to take an observa- | Cyyahoga County, and McLean's infiuence in Hamil- our exact political latitude and longi- | ¢, present a vexatious THE BY-ELECTIONS. HE condition of parties in the States which votey next November is such as to excite the interest of partisans and to rouse the thought of political philosophers. The Republican convention in Nebraska has followed the example of all that pre- ceded it in other States, in careful abstention from | any indorsement of imperialism, temporary or per- | manent. They uphold the President in the military effort to maintain such authority in the Philippines | | as the treaty of Paris conveyed, but this is done in the | | spirit of the Senate resolution explanatory: of its | | ratification of that treaty, which declared that perma- | nent occupancy of the Philippines was not intended { thereby. It is easy to see that the Republican party has adopted the Fabian policy and proposes to wait upon events and hold itself in a position to bring influence to bear upon the next session of Congress. The Bryan Democracy is blindly clouding counsel | by an indiscriminating assa on the administra- | tion, and is just now, by epithet and invective, doing | for imperialism the same service that was rendered | anti-imperialism by the attacks of Merritt, Reid and | others upon the constitution and the Declaration of | | Independence. The Republican party everywhere | | seems to be keeping its head cool and its feet warm, | | while in temperature its enemy changed ends, and | is marching on cold feet an th hot head to an assault that will but little benefit it next year. | In many of the States both parties are distressed by ! factions which are especially active. In Kentucky the Democrats are at each others’ throats with tooth and | claw, and in Ohio the Republicans are not much bet- ter off. The Southern Democracy is very tired of Bryan and wants to unload him. For that the Sara- toga conference was called, and for that the word | has been passed throughout the South, and there has | followed a general feeling of unrest. Such men as | ex-Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, Gorman of Maryland and Scott Howell of Georgia are weary of yan's leadership, and some of them show sig { W ot | intending to fall in behind Henry Watterson and Sen- | ator Morgan in the indorsement of imperialism as an | open reason for antagonizing the Nebraskan. Among | these has lately beer hted a new hope. If Kentucky | go Republican in November it will furnish the South | a pretext for repudiating Bryan and save it the neces- | sity of openly supporting imperialism for that pur- {pose. This, seeming to be understood in | Kentucky, is what puts such serious weight into the “hn‘ i of John Young Brown against Goebel, the regular nominee. The crux of the Re- ‘ publi n is in Ohio. That State is the ancient on in both' parties. 1to tatters by the feud between Wash. Thurman. McLean Thurman had stood in the in the time when the green- as a political blizzard. oughly identified himself with sound money as did Cleveland and Carlisle later on. But Thurman was | ambitious to succeed himself. He was getting old, and to found out his life and end it in a Senatorial career, which for a Western Democrat must be the | first in duration and importance since Thomas H. [ Benton, became his dearest wish. Wash. McLean | had fought him, but now he appeared as a friend and tempter. If Thurman would go to Ohio and make a greenback speech he should be Senator and succeed himself. The ambitious old man well The Democracy and Senator was an triguer of rare ability. or sound money He had as thor- always He was beaten and dropped into the ranks of the “old Romans,” the | American euphemism for old has-beens. it and the hook and himseli. Since then the party in Ohio has been wandering hout its head, an object of pity, indigent and incapable of self-support. But this year it found “an angel” in John R. McL: son, and for the first time' in many ye: seem to be tight. Strangely enough, or naturally eno look at it, just as the Ohio De signs of union and strength, O which had trotted along smoothly enough, breaks, around w ars its hoops . as one may seracy is showing Republicanism, railroad strike in s uation to torment the Re- gamy and slavery under our flag and | puplican managers. As if this were not enough, the | chronic temper of Senator Foraker is apparent in the situation. It is known that in 1896 the State was long in doubt, and it is believed to have been saved by the gold Democracy, and it is also known that For- aker’s friends would not have worn the usual badge | of mourning for thirty days if it-had not been saved at all. If there is not some balm for the party feuds this | year it is not impossible that Democratic Ohio may | salute Republican Kentucky across the Ohio River. | Then what? That such a result would profoundly affect the attitude of each party toward its present leadership there can be no doubt, and so there can be {no doubt that the general result of the by-elections | will leave the Republican party as firmly cn!rcnchet[' as ever, and then the wisdom of its conservatism on imperialism will be manifest. | o e The Sheriff of Santa Clara County admits he can- | not find Dunham nor the skeleton whose discovery | | wae reported, but he claims to have found the spot | where the bones lay, and counts that as a clew. 1 N rected attention to the decadence in banking | { which is taking place in the country districts of the East, and now the New York Times points | out that there has been a movement among the ! larger banks of that city to establish branches in for- | eign countries to facilitate our expanding commerce. The two items taken together show a tendency in financial as well as in commercial and industrial | circles toward the expansion of large institutions at the expense of small ones. In reviewing the decline in the country banks of | the Eastern States the Investor attributes it to a | | growing disinclination on the part of the managersl | of such banks to discount mercantile paper and a ten- | | dency to loan only on collateral security. The ne\x"i | course is regarded as an evil to the community, since | the average merchant or manufacturer in the country districts has no collateral. Such money as he owns | is invested in business. What he horrows upon is his standing in the community, his business ability and his integrity. His energy and his work are, more- | over, prime factors in building up the community in which he lives and in giving employment to its labor. ! When the banks refuse loans his business is crippled | and the locality suffers. The evil is made worse by | the fact that the money of the country banks, being no longer used at home, goes to the cities, wh capitalists who have collateral make use of it for the purpose of promoting great undertakings, many of which are wholly speculative. It is probable that the drain of money in that way from the country districts to the great centers is what produces the congestion of capital in those centers and engenders that spirit of spe;‘lition which of late | | BANKING DEVELOPMENTS. OT long ago the United States Investor di- L ;Snmh are many, and in the aggregate constitute great power. = has been so marked in the purchase of shares in in- dustrial trusts of almost every kind. It may also account for the facts that we have been lending money to Europe and that the larger bankers of the East purpose to open branch banks in foreign coun- tries for the purpose of finding employment for their capital. What is noted here as merely the beginning of a movement toward the upbuilding of great banks at the expense of small ones is a tendency which in Great Britain has already reached a point where it has become a widespread evil. About a year ago the London Chronicle published an elaborate series of papers on the subject, and in the course of them stated that while a capitalist who wished to borrow a million pounds could get it at lower rates of interest than were ever before known, yet the tradesmen and smaller manufacturers of the king- dom could hardly get money at all. So great had the evil become that in many cases the large manu- facturers were forced to borrow money in large sums and divide it in loans to the retailers who handled | their goods. In other cases co-operative borrowing societies were formed among tradesmen and small manufacturers to obtain money for their business. It is well to have this tendency of the time pre- sented now, before it reaches in this country anything like the point it has attained in Great Britain. Our local industries are too valuable to be subjected to the double danger of being crushed by great trusts and stifled by-a lack of financial advantages. The issue will come before Congress when it undertakes the work of currency reform, and care should be taken at that time to provide that ample banking facilities b given to every district of the country. THE MINING ENGINEERS. ALIFORNTA has for the members of the In- C stitute of Mining Engineers a welcome more than usually warm. The foundation of the State was laid by miners, in the most romantic and adventurous period of its history it was under the control of miners, most of the fortunes of the early days were gathered from the mines, and to this day mining constitutes one of its most important indus- tries. The miners who are now to visit us are very differ- ent from the adventurous men who came to work the placers in the days of old. They are not men who take chances. They are men of science. Their work in the mines is based upon a foundation in which luck and fortune cut but a small figure. It is constructed of all that human learning has gained from experience in mines in every part of the globe and from experi- ments in the laboratories of the civilized world. They are better fitted to appraise the worth of our mining resources than any other body of men in the country, and it is because of their ability to appreciate the mineral stores of our rich commonwealth that we | sc highly appreciate them. The members of the mining institute are not them- selves investors in mines to any great extent, but they are the authorities and experts whom the mining cap- italists consult and by whose advice they are guided in | making investments. Such reports as they make of our developed and of our undeveloped resources of mineral wealth will be of vast importance to us. They are not idle holiday seekers who are here for pleasure | merely, but guests whose purpose is the acquirement of knowledge as well as the enjoyment of such enter- tainments as we may provide, and therefore are doubly welcome to a State whose people even in their moments of recreation are alive and alert to the great issue of advancing the material welfare of their com- | monwealth. THE NEW ENGLAND COTTCN OUTHWARD the New England cotton mills take their way, and unless some means be found paratively few years'the great bulk of the cotton cioths of the country will be manufactured south of the Potomac and the Ohio. long been noted, and in that section has been studied with considerable care. For a time it was believed the Southern mills would never be able to compete INDUSTRY. S to prevent, it is probable that within a com- The driit of the mills away from New England has with New England in the manufacture of any except the coarser fabrics, but that belief, which was founded | on hope rather than on reason, has proved fallacious. in manufacturing the best class of goods have moved south, and the end is not yet. According to late re- ports arrangements are being made for the removal of the Springvale Cotton Mills (Springvale, Maine) to Fort Valley, Georgia. This will be the second migration from York County, Maine, the first being that of the plant and business of the Portsmouth Cot- ton Mill of South Berwick, about a year ago. The Springvale mills operate 300 looms and 10,500 spin- dles, making sateens principally. The economic forces that draw the mills to the a The Southern mills have newer and better machinery than those of the North; they get he raw material cheaper, because the cost of trans- portation is less; they obtain cheaper labor, because the cost of living is less in the South than in New England; and in addition to these natural advantages on the part of the South there are others of legisla- tion not less effective. Competition and high taxes are driving the mills from New England, and induce- ments in, the shape of remission of taxes for a long period of years, grants of land (in some cases free of cost), free water rights, etc, are attractive forces | which are drawing the evicted mills toward the South. It is a significant fact, not generally known, that many of the largest, newest and finest cotton mills in the South have been erected with New England capi- tal. As a means of counterbalancing the advantages of the South and thus preventing what threatens to be a wholesale migration of the cotton industry south- ward, some New England capitalists have suggested the advisability of organizing a great trust to operate the mills of that section. The scheme has been much discussed. Some authorities pronounce it “consoli- dation run mad,” but others affirm it has already been virtually accomplished in all essential matters and is absolutely necessary for the preservation of one of the greatest of New England industries. To form the purposed trust will require a capital | of $150,000,000—or, at least, that is the amount of capital stock suggested for the enterprise. Comment- ing upon it, the New York Tribune says: “The theory is that a centralized management will not only get rid of all sorts of leaks and weaknesses resulting’ from local influences, but will effect radical and long needed improvement in methods and machinery, being no longer restricted by desire to earn dividends on the plants which need reconstruction, and will stop the competition which has been found destructive. Whether the man or men can be found who have the faculty or the strength to accomplish what the best men in the business have failed to accomplish is of course the question on which everything depends, and which no theory can possibly answer.” Yachtsmen, and, indeed, all lovers of sporting events, will be well pleased to learn that Captain Evans of the United States navy has been detailed to patrol the course in the coming race between the Columbia and the Shamrock, and that for the performance of the work he is to have under his command “a small squadron of revenue cutters and | other light naval craft.” The supervision of the race by an offl- cer of such rank and of the well-known firmness of Captain Evans will assure fair play for the yachts. He can be re- lied upon to keep the course clear and to prevent any interference on the part of excursifn steamers or pleasure boats of any kind that may go down to see the sport. That much is excellent. There s, however, an after thought sure to rise sooner or later in the minds of reflect- | ing citizens. Why should a naval offi- | cer of Evans’ rank be deputed with a number of United States cutters to at- tend a yacht race? The Prince of Wales is a yachtsman in Great Britain, and yacht races there have been interfered with by steamers; i but as yet his Royal Highness has | never ordered a British naval officer to | attend his sports. Kalser Willlam is a yachtsman, and he also has known ex- cursion steamers to crowd the course of the vacht races in Germany; still there has never been any report of the Kalser detailing a squadron from his navy to supervige them. ‘We are getting a nice little display of imperialism in this performance. If the navy can be used to promote the sports of millionaires on the sea, why should not the army be used to attend their sports on land? Golf clubs frequently complain of trespass on the part of the country folks, and farmers have been known to interfere with the noble sport of fox-hunting or chasing the anise- seed bag. Why not detall General Shaf- | ter with a squadron of cavalry to at- | tend the games at Burlingame, or send General Merritt to lackey the amuse- { ments of Newport? The:thing is feas- | ible. Since we are to have imperial | sports under the patronage of the Gov- ernment and at the expense of the na- | tion, let us do it in the fashion of old | Rome and provide for military guards { on land as well as naval escorts on the sea. | . The office, the dignity and the re- sponsibilities of the position of admiral of yacht racing will probably not be displeasing to Captain Evans, for “Fighting Bob,” as a devotee of rod and gun, is in all likelthood a votary of all sports, and would as soon command a yachting contest as to direct a con- | flict with the navy of a first-class sea power. He declared at the outbreak of the late war he would make Spanish the court language of hell, and he is doubtless now arranging to start the New York excursion steamers in the same direction. Possibly when he re- turns from the races he will recelve a triumph, have a memorial arch in his honor and be mentioned as a candidate for the Presidency by several newspa- pers. Let us accept the situation as it stands with unfretted minds and be thankful the detail was not assigned to | SBampson or Schiey or to Dewey him- self. eI, Concerning Sir Thomas Lipton, who has come to this country to advertise his wares and to win the Amer! if he can, there & wide diffi opinion. He has been greeted in New York with something like an ovation and welcomed with the hearty words: “We like you, Sir Thomas.” In London he is not so much esteemed. One of the aristocratic weeklies of that city, in discuseing the yacht race, sald recentl “The man can be of no interest what- ever except to his family and the | shareholders of his grocery business.” | The American appraisement of the | challenger is undoubtedly the more cor- | rect of the two. Sir Thomas Is decid- | edly of interest to more people than | London aristocrats think, and the judg- ment pronounced upon him by the weekly which circulates in the clubs was probably due to the neglect on his. part te judiciously place his advertis- ing. Certainly a man born In such humble circumstances that it is a dis- puted point whether he had his birth in Ireland or in Scotland, and who, starting as a homeless walif, has worked his way up to the proud position of a challenger in an International yacht race, must be interesting to all persons except those who are blase and those | who like to talk about the weather. He | has no blue blood in his veins, but he has what is better—the rich red blood of a vigorous, sanguine manhood. He knows his worth, moreover, as well as any self-made man in our own country, and though British clubmen sneer at him the iron will never enter his soul as long as he has tin in his purse. * s s Professor Bacon of the State Univer- sity, in an address before the Unitarian Club, set forth the imperialist justifi- cation of the conquest of the Philippines in this way: “The theory of the white man’s bur- den may briefly be stated as this: It {s the business and the interest and the duty of the white man—that is, the man of civiization—to rule, to care for, to uplift, to enlighten and to bring if pos- sible into the light of modern civiliza- tion the other man wherever he is found; that it is at once their interest and their duty to do this, with violence, with tact, with kindness, as each may be necessary; to do it whether the other man likes it or not; to do it at infinite and immeasurable cost allke to the white man and the other man, and, if possible, to 1ift this lower, alien, colored race to something like the plane of civ- {lization which the most advanced na- tions have reached.” . That is the way conquest appears to a closet philosopher. The way in which it is applied in practice is told in a re- cent story by the Japan Mail. A crowd of negro soldlers who were taking in Manila and painting it as red as mili- tary regulations permit were accosted by a globe-trotter with the question: “What are you boys doing here?” “Why, boss,” was the ready retort, ‘“we’se heah to take up de white man's burden.” A Denver poet who has been casting a prophetic eye into the dim and dis- tant future tells us in the rhyme of something less than a dozen stanzas in the Denver Post what will happen a century from now; and it is gratifying to note that the prospect is promising— £0 promising, indeed, we need not worry over imperialism, trusts, woman's cmomflmmnn;»uflmmfl”’*} EDITORIAL VARIATIQNS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. DHOrOTOXOXDXOXOXOLOAOKOROKAXOEDLOROXDROROROROROROXIXOROXO 3 rights or any other problem. He closes by saying: We yet will A century from now, Blue-penciled by official skates, A century from now. rint Mantla dates, in command The pampered pet who's Will daily tell a waitin, ls.nq'. “The situation’s well in hand, A century from now. But you and I will never care, A centur{ from now; We'll be old timers over there, A century from now. For all who quit this world of woe Will dwell where peaceful waters flow— There'll be no hell at all, you know, A century from now. ST In the batch of papers brought in from Japan by the latest steamer are a good many items of minor interest illustrating certain phases of life in that reawakened land. One of these is the statement in the Japan Herald that it has been offered a daily supply of tel- egrams but has refused them. The rea- son given for the refusal is this: “We would have been quite willing at once to close with the offer did not our | experience and that of every other jour- | nal paying for telegrams prove that their cost is never reimbursed by the; public, for whose information they are | procured and issued. If we with any | sort of certainty were able to look for- | ward to belng repaid to the extent ot“ say one-half or upward the expendi- | ture, we would be disposed to incur the cost of the balance.” Imagine a land where people who patronize newspapers published in the: English language will not encourage | an. expenditure for telegrams! One| would have supposed the American and | the Briton abroad would rather have telegrams than beer, but it appears civilization grows languld in the Orient, and even the most wide-awake dwellers in the happy clime value telegraphic dispatches less than Storles told in the Pun{aub. When the yellow twilights pale And monkeys talk together, Holding each other's tall. There be enterprising men in Japan, however, and some of them have set about the task of booming it as a para- dise for pleasure seekers—a land of an infinite variety of delights. In thel Japan Herald a description of a new | tourist hotel just opened in one of the | romantic districts of the island says | of the village in which it is situated: “Though it has not much population the degree of livelihood of the inhabit- ants Is comparatively excellent. Their natural disposition is gentle and honest, and their mutual friendship is so har- monijous as®that of a family. Draught of pure air suspends no poisonous mix- ture, and always cleanses the deflle- ment of our spirit. During the winter days the coldness robs of all pleasures from our hands, but at the summer months they are set free. The first pleasure in visiting the place is the view of Fuji. Its regular configuration, hanging down the sky like an opened white fan, may be looked long at equal shape from several regions surrounding it. Every one who saw it ever has nothing but applause. Wind proper in quantity suits to our boat to slip by sail, and moonlight shining on the sky, shivers quartzy luster over ripples of the lake. The cuckoo singing near to our hotel plays on a harp! and the gulls flying about to and fro seek their food in the waves. All these panorama may be gathered only in this place.” el Such a galaxy of allurements so brightly depicted is apt to breed in the mind a fervent desire amounting almost to a fever to hasten to Japan and en- joy the delights. Fortunately the anti- dote to the fever is furnished by a writer for the Japan Mail, who declares the land is by no means satisfactory to civilized man. He admits there are many charms. “All the irksome eti- quette of European customs,” he says, “may be dispensed with, all the wearisome conventionalities Ignored, and amid beautiful scenery in a salu- brious climate one may lead a comfort- able, untrammeled existence, ignorant of the heart-burnings of cliques, re- lleved from the slavery of the tall hat and the frock coat, and guaranteed against the worry of servants.” He argues, however, there are many deficiencies which more than counter- balance the joys, and sadly declares: “Music, the drama, art, the march of scientific discovery, the vigorous struggle of the political paloestra, the sight of the leaders of thought and the sound of their voices, the great con- tests of physical skill in which the Anglo-S#ons delight, the splendid museums that bring us into touch with buried generations, the light of women's loveliness, and, last but not least, the chiming of the church bells—all these things fade out of the life of a man who makes Japan his place of abode.” ST In that wail for the lost joys of Europe by a satlated reveler in the blisses of a land where newspaper read- ers are indifferent to telegrams and the cuckoo has a harp, there is a sadness se vivid it can almost be photographed. Most assuredly it could be painted. It is a pity that Millet is dead. The poetic genius that painted the Angelus could have made a dear and deeply moving picture of a stray Amertcan or Briton standing in the twilight, looking with unsatisfied eves upon a garden where the Gelshas are dancing, listening with unpleased ears to the tinkling of the little Japanese lutes, and longing for the sound of —church bells. The pathos of the thing is so natural it must appeal at once to every appealable heart. 35 S It is only fair to both writer and to Japan to add that coustderable qualifi- cation is given to the statement that Japan has neither muslec, drama nor lovely women. He admits they have such things, but maintains they might as well be without them so far as the foreigner is concerned. “The music of Japan,” he says, “is beyond our com- prehension; it makes no sort of appeal to us. The drama we recognize to be of the highest class, if histrionic skill alone is considered. To the Furopean or American, however, it is merely a curiosity.” As for the womben, it is added: “We do not want to be uncomplimentary to the Japanese fair sex when we speak of the absence of the light of woman's loveliness. The words are chosen care- fully. It is one thing to see a few pretty faces and graceful costumes al- most lost in the somber monotony of a dingy crowd; it is another and a totally different thing to see the varied beauty that glows at a fete In Europe or Amer- lca, with all the dazzling adjuncts that our luxurious civilization provides.” The defect of that statement is mtl ”» while it will not sufficlently atone to the Japanese for the lack of adoration of the loveliness of the ladies of Japar it casts a shade of suspicion upon th teeling which prompted the yearning for church bells, and inclines to the be- ltef that what the wanderer really longed for were the.lest‘al belles. . There is one thing further to add upon the issue. The statements of the Japan Mail on any subject are mnot indorsed by the Japan Herald. Indeed the H T ald, in reviewing the course of the Mail on general matters, says: “If we are entitled to form a judg- ment based on what seems his present aberration of mind. destiny in dealing with the editor of the Mail may event- ually determine his being an out-and- out crank; but for the present he ap- pears to be in that indeterminate and ambiguous condition which lies be- tween the border land of sanity and the reverse, though as yet thers»_ls no sufficient reason for immuring him in the walls of a lunatic asylum.” Of course the Mail man has his opin- fon of the Herald, and expresses it with equal vigor. The question whether Japgn is or is not & better pleasure land than this remains, therefore, open not only to debate but to almrv.atlou and to Invective. The only conclusion to be drawn with sureness from it all is that while the English-speaking resi dents of Japan are willing to dispensa | with telegrams they delight heartily in the live journalism that takes the skin off the other fellow In every issue. P e POSTAGE ON SUNDAY CALL. SUNDAY CALL wrapped ready for mailing—postage 2¢ to all points in United States, Canada and Mexico, and 4o to all for- eign points. WW — ——e—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FOR HONDURAS-J. H. rB..PUC!!:L teamers leave New Orleans for erto (s:ortez. Honduras, A., every Thurs- day. THE VILAINE—P. W. R., ‘I‘r'a.cy;, CbaL River Vilaine, in France, is navigable ?33?,\ Just above Rennes by vessels of sixty tons for fifty-four {n“E!. THE GOVERNME Tracy, Cal. The Government name of t island in_San Francisco Bay comr called “Goat Island” is Yerba Island. ACTORS' SALARIES—A. O. R, City. Henry Miller, Robert Mantell and other actors of that grade when playing as stars for managers who engage their services are pald $200 to $250 per week. MINING CLAIMS—C. R., Angels, Cal Mining claims in California, after being atented and final payment made to the Bn!led States, like other property become subject to taxation in the manner of the county In which loc: COLONEL FREEMAN—H. H. B.,, Mar- tinez, Cal. Colonel H. B. Freeman, com- manding the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Infantry, U. 8. A, is af this time in com- mand 5F the milifary post at the Presidiq of Ban Francisco. Companies A, C, E, F, , H, I and K of that regiment were on fhe ist of September at the Philippine Islands; Company B was at Vancouver Barracks, Wash.; Company D at Fort Harrison, Mont.; Company L at Dvea, ‘Alaska, and Company M at Fort Wright, ‘Wash. TELEGRAPH WITHOUT WIRES-M., Avalon, Cal. For sending and recelving by the wireless telegraph system there {8 required spark coils, storage batterles or dynamo connections, besides nearly all of the instruments used {n ordinary teleg- raphy. If the power for operating the spark coils could be obtained without storage cells, the cost of a plant would be about $750. An ordinary telegraph oper- ator can neither indtall the apparatus nor adjust it to the nicety required for oper- ation. The system i3 new, hence costly in experiment, The adjustment of a lete plant will cost as much for skilled filbnr as the plant itself. The greater the distance the more complicated the ad- justment becomes. RIFLES—A. J. G., City. This depart- ment has not been able to ascertain that the “United States Government is pre- paring for adoption in the army a new rifle.”” The Government has had some tests made with the Mauser revolver, and it is possible that it is that which you have reference to. The tests of that small arm have proved very satisfactory. The German army uses the Mauser-Mann- licher rifle, pattern of 1888, caliber .311, box magazine five rounds, weight 8.8, in- ftial velocity 2.034. Russia, the Mouzin rifie of 1891, caliber .300, box magazine flve Tounds, weight 8.8, velocity 2.001. Japan, Murata rifie of date not given, caliber 315, magazine eight cartridges, weight 9, velocity 1.850. United States, Krag-Jor- gensen of 1592, caliber .200, side box, five rounds, weight 9.8, velocity 2.000. —_—————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's. * ——e—————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by th Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, + —_——————— Husband (as wife shows him new bath- ing suit)—Surely, you haven’t got the face to wear that? Wife (sweetly)—Perhaps not, but.I've got the figure.—Puck. —_—————————— Northern Pacific Railway. Upholstered tourist sleeper through to St. Paul every Tuesday night. No change. This car is nicely upholstered in leather and s ex- tremely comfortable in every respect. Pullman sleeping cars of the latest pattern on every train. Tickets sold at lowest rates to all polnts EBast. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st., Ban Franoisco. Cheap Rates. Beptember 29 to October § Inclusive, the San- ta Fe Route will sell tickets to Chicago at very low rates. Occasion, corner-stone Government bullding and fall festivitie: full particulars at 628 Market street. e e Insurance Clerk—Here is a woman that wishes her pet cat fnsured. 2 Manager—All right, put tell her she'll have to take out a policy on each one ot the cat's lives.—Chicago Ne OIL. lnvestme_n_t 0il Co. Adjoining the famous section 20, which is now producing about 4000 barrels daily. Limited amount of stock was offered few days ago at $3.00 for devel- oping purposes. Considering sales already made, balance will be sold by 1st of October. This # an opportunity unequaled in +all the oil territory, and when a big well is struck this stock will go up in the hundreds if not thousands. Home Oil Company, adjoining, is worth $5000 share and none for sale. Developing will begin right away. Free prospectus, giving con- vincing information. JOE D. BIDDLE, 20 MONTGOMERY STREET. A. HALSEY, Secretary, San Francisco Savings Unlon, fifth floor.