The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1900, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO JALL, FRIDAY . DECEMBER 14, 1900, COLLEGES AND NEWSPAPERS. 3 HE last meeting of the California Editorial As- Tlociation was made interesting by the addresses | of the presidents of the two universities, Drs. Jordan and Wheeler. Each gave his views about the function of the press, and each was in his way imgre;z- | ing and instructive. The press has become a mighty | factor in our modern life and has come to deserve | study, as an institution, a force, that affects the actions :m men, and to a degree influences the destiny of na- | tions. Whenever anything appears in the world that | can influence the relations of men and of nations, it D. SFRECKELS, Proprietor. IOHN Address A MANAGE cations to W LEAKE, Manager. _Telephone Press 204 Third, §. ¥. s PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market Telephone Press 201 EDITORIAL ROOMS. ... .. 217 to 221 Stevenson St Telepbone Press 202, v Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Simgle Copies. 5 Centn. Terms by Mall. Inciuding Postage: DATLY CALL (in ing Sunday). one ook s Delivered DAILY C (including Sunday), § m: DAILY C. dncluding $u DAILY CALL—By Eing} . NDAY CALL. Ore WEEKLY CALL, Ope Yea - re anthorize weri All postmasters d to receive Races to-day. range of address should be ing ot compliance with thel ® request LHOGNESS. Building. Chicago. ‘Central 2619.”") AN ANARCHIST THREAT. Chicago the an- New York It of 1 present family the sas- umbert. One of approved of resident McKiniey | newspaper side o | possible. becomes the subject of scientific investigation. The press has reached that point. It does good and it | works evil. Like the old myth of the prince of the 'powrrs of the air, it has benefits and harm to dis- | pense, and they fall upon individuals and the com- munity | The good and evil done by a newspaper depends wpon the one will that guides and controls it and fixes its policy. This will may in some cases be the aggre- | | gate mind of an editorial council, but, if so, the ag- | gregation of views must be brought to unity. Or | | the control may ke one mind only. There can be no | newspaper success, nor influence, if the paper be lack- | | ing in this unity of control. Dr. Wheeler, in his address to the country editors, seemed to go searching for an analogy betwecen the newspaper and the college. In doing this he flouted a: the idea of one will controlling the policy of a paper or a university, and spoke vaguely of the freedom, usefulness of the press and the college. From the it the analogy is unreal and im- The newspaper has a double function—to print the news, and influence public opinion by its edi- torial expression. In this latter office the press is an educator, and therein the press takes rank with the teacher. But the most successful educators among American newspapers have been those founded or controlled by men who have felt the impulse of a mission in the world, and have chosen to preach and teach it through the columns of a newspaper. Benjamin Franklin was the first American journal- ist of that kind. He felt it his mission to impart philosophy, thrift and economy to his countrymen, | and did it as the owner and editor of the Saturday Evening Post. Aiter him some time passed before another jour- nalistic philosopher appeared. It is true that Fenno, :n New York City, and the old Telescope and Gazette and Timepiece fitfully fulfilled the educating function of the press, but a close examination does not con- ince that such was the master motive of Fenno and those publications. But when Greeley appeared, with the Tribune as his organ, there began the most wop- derful education of the American people ever accom- rlished by one newspaper. Yet it was the work oi | to degrade American labor. | academic and journalistic, necessary to the success and | v AND OLD ADDRESS fn order | | would serve the purpose desired. W | one man, the impression of a single will. When his and in many parts of were made, and ap- ie President of France, Federal constitution, Fed question would retation of that amend- al rchists interference ch Alexander Horr death. The question is a arge numbers of for- ray well constitute a me time require the attention of resen e o this countr; d if in any other coun- to threaten and plan the officers of this republic, and tha wn rs in Chicago. for the nations to enter npounding anarchists within ey belong, that each Govern- atch its ewn contingent. AND THEZ FORESTS. ve an intelligent interest in tha forest preservation in this State | be felt no little gratification in the given to the campaign of education on ladies. Woman’'s work is always ue to which she may well di- her energies. It is not going to ‘procure the establishment and f wprehensive and scientific the assistance of every vy in the work will be hailed with S n a circular recently issued it intends to make a resolute effort to to take action toward forest preser- f delay. ch, after setting forih the 2 proper care of our forests ilting from negligence, goes on to these incontestable facts the Cali- beseeches the United States Government of her own interests to make an appropria- view on beha tion of money to be expended in the accomplishment | of the objects named in the above preamble, and the club urges on all citizens, all organizations and legis- lators, both State and national, to join in commend- ing and furthering this course of action.” Such a petition merits the support of the Legisla- ture, of Boards of Trade, industrial associations and all other organizations that are charged with the duty of promoting the welfare of the people. At this juncture there is hardly any problem more vital to ifornia than that of preserving her woods and con- serving her flood warers. It is, moreover, a problem demanding an immediate solution. Every year the State suffers a loss of many thousands of dollars by the waste of her forests, and the loss throughout the mation runs up to many millions annually. We are barbarians so far as forestry is concerned, and jt is high time for us to act like civilized people. Some night prowling rascal has taken to hugging the Berkeley co-ed. They should receive the limit of the law for presuming to do what most of us have only dared to think. by either the State or | State who have turned their | re those who compose “the ! The circular calls for | two disciples, Henry J. Raymond and Charles A. Dana, left him and went, one to the Sun and the other to found the New York Times, though they became personal and business rivals of Greeley they followed his method. As long as Raymond lived the Times taught editorially his belief of things and his view of politics, and “the little villain,” as Greeley called him, never departed from that method to the moment of his death on the doorstep of his office. So it was with Dana. The Sun shone in the reflected light of his intelligence and his malice until both werc quenched in death. In like manner the New York Herald was the crea- ture of the will of the elder Bennett, and among the modern press, in the newer cities, the Chicago ! Tribune was the classroom in which Joseph Medill | taught, and the Times was the school set up in Chi- cago by Wilbur F. Storey. The news in a paper is made up of what men do, in their individual capacity | or in the aggregate as nations, and of what happens | tc men 2s a result of manifestation of the power of na- ture, in fires and famines, tempests and temblors. | This news should be given impartially and as fully as is necessary to inform the reader. It should neither | be faked nor sophisticated. The newspaper manager | who changes or invents news is guilty of a serious moral forgery, for which the law should provide ade- | quate punishment. The editorial page of a news- paper, its classroom, its pulpit, its blackboard, re- flects the policy, inculcates the principles and pro- ':rnmcs the mission of the one mind that controls the | paper. | 1i Dr. Wheeler would try running a newspaper on | the plan of his analogy with what he calls academic freedom he would be involved in a confusion com- | pared with which the labyrinth was a straight line. | The work of many minds goes into the harmonious | | whole of each issue of a metropolitan newspaper, but | it is conformed to the one controlling wil. } We are of opinion, too, that in a high sense the ! | same is true of a great university, and that President | Wheeler's practice at Berkeley is different from his | preaching to the editors. We are of the opinion that if | his engineering department should set up caricatures of Mrs. Hearst's building plans and deride her taste | in architecture there would be vacancies. So, if the art department of a newspaper girded at its editorial policy the directing mind would direct a change in | that branch of the business. From this we may conclude that the kind of aca- demic freedom that is talked about is regarded as the | best for the other man's academy. | IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION. ANIFOLD and important as are the measures ‘M before Congress at this session, it is to be | hoped time will be found to devise and enact an immigration restriction bill which will adequately | protect the country from undesirable immigrants | The passage of such 1 bill may be regarded as one of urgency, for if it be not enacted this winter we can | bardly expect the enactment for a year to come, and in that time we may suffer much injury from the lack f it. Reports from the Fast are to the effect that im- | migrants are flocking into the country in large num- | bers. It is said the steerage of vessels coming across flhe Atlantic is crowded with passengers, and the offi- | cials charged with the duty of scrutinizing the new- Icomers are almost overwhelmed with work. The ar- rivals are in excess of the aggregate for many a sea- son, and there is every reason to believe there will be an enormous influx next spring unless something be | | done to check it. 4 For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, the num- ber of immigrants amounted to 520,000; in 1809 they | numbered 341,000; for 1898, 229,000; for 1897, 230,000 for 1896, 343,000; for 1893, 279,000. It will be seen that the increase during the past fiscal year over the arrivals of the previous years was very large. This year will show an even greater increase. It appears that immigration is approaching the great magnitude it reached during the industrial boom of 1882, when the total number of foreigners who came to the coun | try to profit by high wages exceeded 788,000. It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that the in- crease in numberg has been accompanied by a de- | of | 305. crease in the quality of the immigrants. The immi- gration officials report that when tested by ability to read, by the amount of money in possession and by nationality, the newcomers of to-day are inferior to those of past years. We are now receiving large numbers of persons who can hardly be expected to understand American ideals of politics or labo-, and it is doubtful if they can ever be fitted for American citizenship. In a recent account of the immigration at that port the New York Post said: “In one day in May, for example, 8000 immigrants were passed through the | Barge Office, and the immigration officials and other | attendants were not especially edified and encouraged - with the quality of the aliens with whom they had to deal. The older employes recalled the days when the majority of those who passed through their hands were Irish, German, FEnglish or Scandinavian, and found a striking contrast in the Italians, the Polesani the miscellaneous racas of the Austro-Hungarian em- pire, which commanded the larger part of their atten- | on. They were also jorced to recall that whereas, 1 or Turk—was a curiosity, he had now /grown to be 1 | rather familiar sight in the detention pen, and such unaccustomed figures as Greeks, Magyars, Slovaks, | Croatians, Ruthenians, Montenegrins, Servians and other strangers from the Balkan states were altogether common.” There is of course no desire to shut out immigrants who are fitted for citizenship and who will not tend It would seem, therefore, that the Ladge bill, providing an educational test, It is high time that popular demand should compel Congress to enact that or some similar measure. There is, it is true, a desire in all parts of this country for an increase of population, but none wish it in the way it is now coming. THE CRUMPACKER BILL. HILE it is not at all likely a change will be will come up for debate. A bill has been already in- troduced by Crumpacker of Indiana which has for its plain purpose the limitation of the number of repre- scntatives from the South in accordance second section of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution. membership of the House from 357 to 365, so that under its terms the increase or decrease in members of different States would be as follows: NORTHERN STATES, Ine. Dec. Colorado .. California Connectcut Tiifnols .. Kansas . 5% Massachusetts Mignesota . Nebraska .. New Jersey . New York . North Dakota . Pennsylvania ‘Washington . [ rors | b e e | {3 ‘West Virginia . el SOUTHERN STATES. - N AL o 8 Arkansas Florida . Missour{ Texas . Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina . South Carolina Virginia i) ol Blmemonl wobyl kol Ll Total . Net loss . | in the former days, an oriental—a Syrian, Armenian | made in the proportion of representation from | the Southern States should an apportionment | bill be enacted this winter, it is certain the question with the | The bill provides for increasing the | PLANS TO PREVENT COLLISIONS AT SEA Italian Genius Designs a Gontrivance That Seems to Soive the Problem. S S i | EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Is Mince Pie Criminal? The keepers of the Massachusetts State Frisqn ave, crossed Mot lneticadion 'Tne the 0 lare of nst murderers, forgers, looters, burglars and others high in criminal soclety will no longer feast on “ples such as mother used | Sgumakesy ing PItImECS panal fasti: | Tutions have discovercd that criminal ten- | dencies are developed bz a diet of the succulent dessert. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, in a carefully considered comment on this subjeet, asks pertinently: “If & mince pte, especially a hot mince pie. IS bad for a criminal, what must its effects 1 i BECCHIONT, an Itallan engineer, has invented a contrivance for tha prevention of collisions upon the high seas. In its main feature the invention consists of a small | boat constructed after the pattern of the | Whitehead torpedo, which is connected Wwith the ship by means of two cables and precedes it at-a distance of 40 to 500 meters. The warning boat i propelled hy electricity generated upon the ship and conducted to the motor by means of ths cables. At the front end of the warning boat there {s a forklike feeler which, in case'of contact with any solid obstacle, lensases by means of a lever an electric alarm, which s communicated to the ship by means of a separale wire. At the sama | time it reverses the motion of the warn- | ing boat until the lever becomes again | disengaged. If, after the boat has re- sumed the direction of the ship, its feeler should once more run against an obstacle, the whole operation is repeated. In the meantime the ship would have ample time to slow up or stop, thus avoiding a collision. If two ships whose courses cross one another should both be provid- ed with warning boats it is expected that the forklike feelers of the one will catch the cable of the other and convey the signal to its respective ship. t;l‘ha warning ! boats are only to ut n fogxy | eather or at night, particularly in much | frequented sea highways. | | sit sullen and thirsty in the restaurant: i pestiferous little semicolon. The hotel- | are thinking of calling on the Legislature to extirpate that deceitful little semi- colon. Thisis the story of the semicolon: passed this statute: to his house for food or lodging. SRR R R comma, which permitted the “licensed parched throats of his guests between ist or zealous prohibitionist, p! ter of a semicolon there. Notice the di to his house for food or lodging. In 18 has so construed the statute. General Court. This anecdote teaches us the moral some of us were inclined to look down Sun. R RERR) ) B s e i i I S 'PERSONAL MENTION. Jo D. Sproul of Chico is at the Grand. Dr. K. Hopmann of Honolulu is at the Occtdental. W. D. Tillotson, a Redding attorney, s at the Grand. Julius L. Haas, a prominent Portland merchant, is at the Lick. J. A. Chanslor, a successful Los Angeles oil man, is at the Palace. Benjamin Grauss, Chief of Police at In the States not included in the tables there will | cajistoga, is at the Russ. be no change from the present number of representa- tives. Under the present apportionment what are | known as “Southern States” have 142 votes in the Electoral College, while the remaining States have Under the Crumpacker bill the South would have but 134 electoral votes, against 321 in the North and West. The issue is a perplexing one. The language of the constitution apparently leaves no other course to be pursued than that of making the apportionment upon | the principle of the Crumpacker bill, and yet many of the foremost authorities hold a different view. It is known that neither the President nor any emi- | nent Republican leader in either House has favored a reduction of representation from the South, whils many of the most influential papers of the country have strongly opposed it. It seems to be conceded no apportionment of the kind proposed by Crumpacker could be enacted this session. Congress will be too busy and the session too short to undertake the passage of a measure that would be fought by all sorts of tactics known to par- liamentary minorities. Therefore if there is to be any determined effort made to restrict the representation from the South, the fight will go over to the next Con- gress and there will be no apportionment at all this winter. Such a result, however, is hardly expected, for as yet there has been no evidence of an inclination on the part of the Republican press or Republican leaders to force a fight on the issue. The prevailing sentiment among conservative Re- publicans, at any rate, is very well expressed by the Baltimore American in saying: “This is not the time to pass upon this question of Southern representation. | Causes are pending in the Federal courts testingthe legality of negro~disfranchisement, and when they shall | | | | 8 8 Lyon, United States Ernest T. Tamm, a Los Gatos wine man, | is at the California. V. 8. G. Hough, a Los Angeles raflroad man, is registered at the Palace. T. W. Mather, a prominent Napa mer- chant, is registered at the California. George W. Heintz, general passenger agent of the Rio Grande at Salt Lake City, i in town. J. B. Lippincott, 8. G. Bennett and J. F. Danforth of the United States Geological Survey are at the Palace. B. Campbell, a prominent Portland rail- | road man, accompanied by his wife, ar- | rived at the Palace yesterday. Forty-eighth Reglment and who has just W. P. Lynch and J. Ross Jr., mining men from Oroville and Sutter Creek re- spectively, are registered at the Lick. Professor T. S. C. Lows, founder of the Mount Lowe Observatory, registered from Pasadena at the California yesterday. J. J. Hebbron, superintendent of the Pacific Improvement Company’s ranches at Salinas, s at the Grand for a few days 8. H. Babcock, traffic manager of the | Rio Grande Western Railway, with head- | quarters at Salt Lake City, is at the Pal- ace. General 1. 8. Catlin, who has just been ordered to Manila, is at the Occidental with his wife and they will go to the Philippines on the next transport. George A. Bluhm, a wealthy Chicago bookmaker, and his family arrived at the Occidental last night. They will spend the winter at this popular hostelry. Consul at Kobe, Japan, accompanied by his wife and child, arrived at the Palace last even- ing. They will spend several days in the city. l C)I'io L. Llovd, manager of the Morning Press, Santa Barbara, arrived in the city yesterday. Mr. Lloyd is one of the pro- gressive young Republicans of California. have been determined it will be time enough to think | 'As a member of the Republican State about retaliation. Now the sections dwell toéether in amity, and the relationship should not be disturbed. [ So far as the matter of a general reapportionment is | concerned, we believe it may best be settled by raising | the basis 5o as to keep the House down to its present | number, and without changing the numerical repre- | sentation now enjoyed by the several States.” The appeal which will be made at the approaching | session of the Legislature for measures to protect the | forests of the State will have one tremendous recom- mendation—it will involve neither the expenditure of public money nor the appointment of useless office- holders. Local civil service teform appears to be one of | those institutions by which under cover of law you can punish your, enemies. Mayor Phelan says he in- tends to punish the Auditor for alleged contempt of civil service by crippling his office. It would be wise for the people of Oakland.to end their contest with the Contra Costa Water Company before the corporation owns the town. The value of the company is increasing, by expert. testimony, with mushroom growth every day. —s The people of Oakland have defeated all of the pro- posed amendments to the town's charter. Perhaps the voters took both bitter, political factions at their word and refused to hazard the danger of giving either more power. Committee in 1898 anl ag secretary of the Republican County Central Committee of Santa Barbara in the recent campaign he took an active part in organizing the Re- publican forces of that county. Mr. Lloyd is a candidate for the office of chief clerk of the Assembly. B —_— e | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON e e WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18.—Mrs. F. P. Church of California is at the Ebitt, Henry Clay Thackery of California is at the Arlington. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Allen, Miss Gertrude Allen and John A. Benson of San Francisco are at the Shoreham, H. L. Van Wyck and family and W. P, Dunham of Los Angeles and A. Schilling and Purcell Rowe of San Francisco are at the Raleigh. G. H. An- derson, N, C. Hale, H. Heckman and wife and Miss Scheir of San Jose are at the St. James. Hon. R. J. Waters of Los An- geles and W. L. Heise and E. S. Tharp of San Francisco are at the National. —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE DIPPER—Reader, Colusa, Cal. The change of the earth’s position makes the Dipper appear to move around the north star. VON WALDERSEE'S WIFE—K. N. A., City. The wife of Field Marshal Count von Waldersee was an American woman, who by marriage to her first husband be- came Princess von Noer. Her name was Martha Esther Lee, the daughter of an American grocer. A MIDDLE NAME-J. B, City. It {s not unlawful for a person to add a middle name to the one he has. It often hap- pens that there are several persons of the '+ SAD STORY OF A BOSTON SEMICOLON. e There is gloom in Boston hotels, all becausé of a wretched little semicolon. Nobody, not even a guest, can get a drink in 2 Boston hotel after 11 p. m., and all on account of a miserable little semicolon. Theater parties after the show No sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquor shall be made between the hours of 12 at night and 6 In the morning, nor during the Lord's day, except that if the licenses is also licensed as an innholder he may supply such liquor to guests who have resorted Give heedful note to the comma after “morning,” a kindly and hospitable 1n 1881 the statutes were consolidated and somebody, careless copyist, humor- icked away the innocent comma and set a biis- No sale of spirituous or Intoxicating liquor shall be made between the hours of 12 at night and 6 in the morping; nor during the Lord's day, the hour was changed from 12 to 11, but the comma was not restored, Obviously the fatal little semicolon shuts out the innkeeper from his former right of seliing liquor to guests between 11 p. m. and 6 a. m., and merely per- mits him to sell on Sunday. ~This week the Supreme Court of Massachusetts The semicolon has overruled H. J. Parker, a first lieutenant in thel returned from Manila, is at the Russ. | s of the Boston hotels and abominate a keepers, who pay $2000 for their licenses, In 1575 the Great and General Court innholder,” at least, 12p. m. and 6 a. m. to comfort the fference: except that If the licenses is aleo licensed as an innhdlder he may supply such liquor to guests who have resorted the Great and and legal value of punctuation, which - | upon in our younger days.—New York | | same name in a locality, and in ord . ¥, er to avoid confusions parties adopt a middle name or initial to distinguish one from | the other. In California a man cannot change his family name wit e cess of law. % VOh ena e NEA YORK DIRECTORY-Subscriber, City. Directories of the city of New York are on file in the San Francisco Free Pub- lic Library and in Francisco D!rec(ory-"‘e s S ae COLONIAL DAMES—F., Oakland, Cal. wThe Colonial Dames of' America,” in ‘alifornia, is the name of a societ: State, of ‘which Mrs. 5 Weight 15 the chalrman. It is incorporated | branches. L Catiande COLORED PLATES—W. H. W., Sacra- mentd, Cal. This correspondent wishes to know where he can obtain a copy of the World's Fair_colored plates from water colors from the originals of Charles Gra- ham. Can Any of the readers of this de- partment furnish the information? | | | | | RIFLES-S. 8, Turlock, Cal. The Krag- Jorgenson rifle was invented by Captain | | 0. Krag, director of the royal smallarms | factory at Kongster, Norway, and E. Jor- genson, armorer at the same place. The rifle is in use by the armies of the United States, Denmark, Norway and Turkey. The German army is armed with the Mannlicher rifle, as are also the armies | of Austria, Brazil, Chile, Greecs, Holland, | Peru and Roumania. GREAT BRITAIN'S REVENUE-S. S, Turlock, Cal. Great Britain does not de- rive any revenue by taxation from her | colonfes. The national income is derived | from excise, customs, property and in- | come tax, estate duty, the postoffice and | stamps. Excise and customs account for | nearly one-half of the total amount re- | ceived. The contribution from the post- office swells. the amount to aimost three- | fifths of the whole. The majority of the national income {s derived from voluntar contribution and indirect taxation. Pa. ing for the services of the postoffice de artment is classed as voluntary cortri- ution, for the people are not forced to use it. | MUST PERFORM MILITARY DUTY— | A Reader, Porterville, Cal. It a German | left his native country at the age of 19| without having performed military duty and he subsequently receives notice that | hecause of non-appearance to perform that duty he was fined 150 marks and sen- tenced to three months’ imbrisonment it | he should return to his native country, | the fact that he has been an American | citizen would not save him from the pen- alty imposed and the performance of mili. | | tary duty. The United States does nn(‘ | protect an adopted citizen in the ma of an obll%mlon he owes to his Im;i!\e'; country which was incurred before he be- came a citizen of the United States. | DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION | —F., Oakland, Cal There is no such body as “a State organization of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution.” Each member joins the national soclety direct That is the only point of difference be- tween the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the Revolution. The latter have State organ. izations, subject to a national body There 18 no soclety of the Daughters of the Revolution in California. The chap- ters of the Daughters of the Americith Revolution in this State are Sequota | Puerto del Oro and California 1n® Sap | gar&cl;co:beiia’chsscholmu in Los Angeles, | n sal n San Jo in | iy Jose and Oakland in LYNCHING A WOMAN-—The an: | sSwer that was given some time since relative | to the lynching of a woman in Downie. | ville, in 1851, was based on Information | found in a work on the early days of the | State. C. M. Pike of Oakland, who writes | to this department that he was an eye—l‘ Wwitness of the hanging, gives tne follow. ing account of it. “The crime for whien the woman was Iynched took place in her own cabin on Jersey flat, just across thy Yuba river. Her husband was not inter ested in a saloon, but was a hard averle s miner, and what'she was lynched for was for protecting her honor against the u’f ault of a drunken bully named Cann, e assaulted her in the evening of the $if of July, 1 She repulsed him and he | went away. He returned a few houre later, fill ur With more whisky, kicked in the door of the cabin and repeated th, :,’fl;“"'s ‘Hrfin ‘3,'; Wwoman stabbed hln: a stiletto. She was taken by a moh and the next day h: Eridge.” e off Durgan A GAY SEASON is promised at Coronado, Coronado, Cal., this -:me‘rh::nlu:&.‘ Jolly houseful, an expert golf tournament, meet. ing of fleld trials club, hunting, fishing, boat. ing, e | regarding the riz { accidental, and on that | in such surroundings? | a dream of the French nation. be on an honest man?'—PHILADEL- PHIA INQUIRER. Policeman and His Pistol. Judge Biddle, in his charge to the jury in a recent case in which a policeman was accused of assault and battery with in- tent to kill, recited some very sound law t of policemen to shoot persons whom the are trying to arrest for trivial offens In the case on trial the defendant claimed the shooting was glea the jur?; ac- quitted him: but the Judge in his charge told the jury that a policeman had 5o right to use a revolver except to defénd himself. He sald that the policeman on trial had no more right to shoot the prose- cutor, who was trying (o escape from ar- rest for cock fighting, than he had te shoot the Judge or a member of the jury. —PHILADELPHIA TIMES. The West Point Scandal. Colonel Mills argues that Booz re- ceived no injuries because he did not fm- mediately tell the authorities all that had happened to him, and that it would have been impossible anyway for the young man to have avoided the sick repori. ~He made no complaint of iil-treatment,” says Colonel Mills. , he was under or- ders to @o so if such treatment was ac- corded.” t part can such orders play It is stated that the man who forced the mixturs down young Booa's throat is perfectly well known and that he is now one of the most gopulu cadets at the academy. If what as been told is irue that young man maust be detached from the service and made to bear his just load cf obloquy.— NEW YORK 8U Not All a Dream. There are reasons to belleve-that an in- vasion of England is something more than Forces aggregating 150,000 men are kept in the north of France within an hour of the coast, although the official relations of the two states are friendly enough. While the British naval maneuvers wers oing on in the summer it was noted that i‘resldem Loubet reviewed a formidable fleet off the coast. Attention has been called_to the superiority in Europe of French artillery and the ingenious and extenslve uses which have been made of bicycles, motor cars, as well as the elab- orate experiments with submarine boats, aerostats and other devices particularly adapted for a war with a neighbor.—NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS. A Neglected Opportunity. While the industrial advance of the South In the last few years has been won- derful, the people of this section have negiected some opportunities for material development which are so plain that they should have been taken advantage of long 2go. One of these opportunities which | offers absolutely certain and largely prof- itable returns for intelligent investment of canning veg wasted or left to rot in the South every summer because of the overcrowded con- dition of the markets at that time canned would supply the entire deman of the South for canned goods. As it We rarely see such goods with the label of a Southern factory on them.—ATLAN- TA JOURNAL. A Costly War. The present probability is that the co of the South African war will be $500,000,000, or be five times as any one supposed at the outset it wou be. Of course it may reach even high figures than this. There is an utter | possibility to make any estimate as the future cost of the conflict, in the fleld seem numbers. in to be and they been successes recently, i giv couragement to cont the hope of tiring the British out thus securing better terms tha offered them thus far costliest struggle, and also in life. waged since that in the years ago.—ST. LOUIS CRAT. 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