The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1900, Page 6

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Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Thursday, Friday and Satur- at 31-33 Sutter street, Bcoks. le—Friday, December 21, at 11 o'clock, . at corner Natoma and New Mont s Horses, t Twelf ns — Saturday, December th and Harrison streets. at 11 o'clock, LIBRARY CONSOLIDATION. he meeting of the trustees of the Mechanics’ Tuesday evening an arrangement h the Philatelic Society be- the Mechanics’ Library, to the It yrted that this is the first step ‘toward f a comprehensive plan by which : literary, professionai, scientific and art societies are to be united with the institute. It thus ent toward the consolidation ies i is fairly under way, and that ay soon have in existence a library equal to the Institute 1bers of both -erganizations, hmen ce our people and worthy of the city In the movement toward consolidation the trustees s libraries in San Francisco will find a e 'and to follow in what has iished by the managers of libraries e varic to emaula in lar to that which exists in San There were several excellent libraries, but t was of first rank. The trustees recog- much better work could be done by con- han by separate effort, and accordingly a ed to bring the Astor, Lenox and Til- ns together. The moment so g-eat a in sight 1the whole community took an Steps were taken to provide a struc- e for it, and now New York is to have a ng which will surpass the noted one at , which at present is the finest library world. New York, however, is not content with effecting mnion of the three foundations named. Efforts re now being made to bring the New York Free ating Library into the combination. The Cir- Library has cleven buildings in different parts and its property as a whole is valued at $700,000. That in itseli will be a magnificent addi- the great library of the city, but that is not all. ans of consplidation include co-operation ba- tween the library and the schools which have branch ries, so that when all has been perfected New will have a library system so comprehensive that I supply the needs of all classes of people from tion t libra school-children up. 3 ce in an old city like New York the conserva- 1 that held the Lerox, Astor and Tilden libraries separate for sentimental reasons has been overcome ard a vigorous new movement started which will give the city library facilities superior to any other city in the world, it is not too much to expect that in 4 young city like San Francisco a2 similar movement once started would soon increase in power and extent ani go forward until this city also has a library of the first magnitude It is to be noted in this connection that the Ameri- can people like big things, and will strain themselves to advance a great enterprise when they would hardly give g thought to a little one. So long as the Astor, Lenox and Tilden libraries were separate the people of New York did little or nothing to promote them. The moment they were united the whole community took an interest in them. The city voted a magnificent site for a building and also a liberal appropriation. Private citizens came forward with contributions, and so the great work augmented like a rolling snow- ball until it has reached its present magnitude, and the end is not yet. . It is not too much to expect something of the same kind will happen in San Francisco if we can once get a great library fairly launched. It is therefore grar- ifying that the first step has been made. A general movement on the part of the city and the citizens to provide San Francisco with a magnificent library and z building of 2 monumental character would be a good enterprise with which to start the new century, Perhaps one of the things we may discover during the :omin(emturyisawlodddmmiulciq government and making the reform keep its color, Not long 'ago New York was in a con- perhaps even the monumental structure | THE COURT AND THE COLONIES HE Dred Scott decision was an epoch-making Tact of the Supreme Court of the United States. While it was both misrepresented and misunder- | stood, and was unpopular in the North, it was the i most searching judicial discussion of the constitution that had occurred in ouf history. As affecting the case it decided it was cbsoleted by the Civil War, but | this had to be done by the thirteenth, fourteenth and | fifteenth amendments, which imported into the con- stitution principles that were not in existence when the decision was rendered. Therefore it stands as a valid interpretation of constitutional principles as they were fixed in the original instrument. $ ince that great de- icision was rendered no issue bgic | | ore the court has ! equaied the one then joined, until now. The expansive results of the Spanish war have put | upon the country burdens and responsibilities that have to be borne or gotten rid of; or, if their con- tinuance under the constitution require administra- ticn incompatible at once with that instriment and the interests of the country, it may be amended | conformity with both. We regard it as the settled conviction of a majority of the American people that the many millions of peo- ple brought under our jurisdiction by the treaty of Faris shall not become citizens and, as such, be incor- paizted in the American Union. - If the court decide that they are to be so incorporated, two courses are open, either of which may be taken. The constitution may be amended s@ as to hold the territory acquired, govern it by such principles and administer it by such policy as the amendment may declare, or the territory and the people may be thrust outside of our jurisdic- tion and, under our tutelage, exercised to the same extent as in Cuba, be made responsible for their own government in a condition of independence. The opening argument of Attorney General Griggs, in the case now being heard, will disclose an ‘issue which we believe has not heretofore been the subject of a judicial decision. He said: “It was the inten- ion of the treaty of Paris not to make the ceded islands a part of the United States, and not to make | the inhabitants of those islands citizens. This raises the question of the constitutional char- acter of a treaty. Must it, like a law of Congress, con- form to the constitution? ticle VI, section 2) uses peculiar phraseology: “This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shail be made, under authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land.” The limiting and qualifying phrase, “in pursuances thereoi,” unquestionably applies to what precedes it, to the laws of the United States, but does it also apply to “all treaties made or which shall be made”? Does it limit the antecedent clause as well as the precedent? If it be held to apply only to the precedent, a de- cision to that effect wins the case of the Government; otherwise that case fails. The greatest intellects of this country and Europe have regarded the constitution as one of the most in- teresting studies involved in the science of govern- ment. Its phrasing, punctuation, the arrangement of its clauses, the effect of one upon another and upon all, and of all upon one, when studied have shown that it contains nothing meaningless. Throughout its structure, everywhere, meaning and purpose are ap- parent. From this view of it lawyers and laymen, Judges and students, may well inquire why section 2 af article VI was not made to read: “This constitu- tion, and the laws of the United States, and all trea- ties made or which shall be made, in pursuance thereof, under autMority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land.” That would have left it clear that the inteation of the makers of the con- stitution was that all treaties, as well as all laws, must conform to the constitution. On the other hand is the tenable contention that the supreme law of the land cannot be at war with itself, and that one set of rights may be conferred by the constitution but denied by a treaty. The great issue raised can be settled only by the Supreme Court. It cannot be adjusted by ballots, |nor made the play of shifting party politics. The Porto Ricans and Filipinos cannot be citizens by the result of ofe election and returned to alienage by the adverse result of the next. That would mean chaos, 1against which the constitution distinctly canonizes, The country will await the decision with high ex- pectation, and when rendered the future will be seen ;in 2 clearer atmosphere. | e e— FROM LAKE TO OCEAN. to | OR the States bordering upon the Great Lakes | —and for those between the lakes and the sea the recent report of the deep waterway commission is as interesting as the report of the commissign on | the isthmian canal. There has long been a deskre-for ia deep canal from the lakes to the ocean, and the com- [ nittee reports that the enterprise is feasible. There are now canals on the upper lakes giving |a twenty-foot channel from Duluth to Buffale. The | Erie canal, connecting the lakes with the Hudson, is | insufficient for the incieasing traffic, and so the com- ‘mmee recommends a canal from Lake Erie to Lake | Ontario, via Lasalle and Lewiston, and then from ! Lake Ontario to the Hudson River, via Oswego and | thé Mohawk Valley. | The report contemplates either a twenty-foot or a | thirty-foot channel, but if the work be undertaken it is safe to say the dezper channel will be adopted. | When constructed the canals, with the lake and the | rivers, will give throsigh the territory of the United | States a deep waterway by which the largest vessels | may pass from the ocean through to the lakes, and {all the lake cities will be virtually seaports. The enterprise is a big one and will cost a lot of | money. It is estimated that to provide thirty-foot ™ channels through all the canals on the route from New York to Duluth will cost $317,000,000. Ths gl,’nitcd States could do a greaY deal with that sum of | money in the way of 1edeeming the arid lands of the Great West and conszrving the forests of the whole country. Consequently the work is not going to be undertaken without mature consideration of the ques- | tion whether there is not other work for the Govern- ment of more pressing urgency than furnishing a ship canal that will benefit only one section of the country. The fact that Canada is preparing for the construc- tion of a deep waterway through her ‘tefritory may induce many persons to favor the construction of one through our territory. We are not likely to have war with Great Britain, but nevertheless few Americans would like to see the British in possession of an open way fi the ocean to the lakes while we have none. The ning of a deep waterway either through Canada or the United States will make a tremendous economic change in the conditions of the whole lake region. The grain traffic of the lakes is already enor- mous, and of recent years there has been also an im- mense traffic in iron ore, coal and other products. At the present time shipments from the lake States in- | tended for Europe tlere transhipped. The constitution itself (ar- | down to New York and are |along hs gimthenndunnefiufix'mu‘ vessels that loaded at Duluth would steam past New York or Montreal and go on their way across the ocean. Much of the shipping business now carried on in New York would bé at an end, and the hope of Chicago of being some day the metropolis of the | world would be near to realization J millions to the University of Chicago, and his giits have followed one another so rapidly, that they have ceased to attract much attention from the general public. In fact, a donation of a million or two from the founder to the univérsity is a sort of annual event and is passed ovgswith comparative indifference as one of the things, everybody expected. GIFTS TO UNIVERSITIES. OHN D. ROCKEFELLER has given so many tention at the close of the century how much the American people are indebted to rich men for ali | manner of liberal gifts. Rockefeller’s donation is not going to stand alone at the closing of the century. Recent reports announced that Yale expects to have | a million added to her endowment fund within a short |time, ‘and other universities are to be the recipients | of gifts hardly less large. b | dent Harper took occasion to sa “Whatever may | have happened in other universities, in the University | of Chicago neither the trustees nor the president, nor | any one in official position, has at any time called an linstructor to account for any qulic utterances which e may have made. In order not to be misunderstood I wish to say that no donor of funds to the university —-and I include in the number of donors the founder |of the university, Mr. Rockefeller—has ever by a | single word or act indicated his dissatisfaction with the instruction given to'the students of the university | with the public expression of opinion made by an of- ficer of the university. I vouch for the truth of this | statement, and I trust it may have the largest possible publicity.” It is gratifying to have that positive statement from Dr. Harper. There is no doubt that the Ameri- can people have become very sensitive upon the sub- ject of the domination of universities by great capi- talists. Such domination, if it were exercised to even a fraction of the extent reported, would be a serious evil to the nation. Fortunately there are assurances forthcoming that it dces not exist. liberal millionaires have made their gifts to educa- tional institutions for the purpose of advancing knowl- edge and not with the intent of propagating any dogmas of their own. Chicago University is to be | congratulated upon the magnificent gift that comes to her without imposing a single restraint upon her irtellectual freedom. | THE WOM@AN IN THE C@ASE. OME days ago Mark Twain in addressing ths S St. Nicholas Society in New York said: “Gen- tlemen, you have the best municipal govern- ment in the world; the purest and the most fragrant. The very angels envy you and wish they could estab- lish a government like it in heaven. You got it by noble fidelity to civic.duty.” The commendation cid not make the dignitaries at the banquet very happy. The halo didn’t fit. All New York has been talking ever since the election of the need of reform and each man has been eager for all other men to perform their civic duty. Consequently any sarcasm like that of the humorous Mr. Twain seemed a little more stinging than it would have been at any jother time. The New Yorkers are aware that Tammany gives them the best government they de- serve, for if they deserved better they would long ago have overthrown Tammany and established a decent administration. Such being the situation the sensitive citizens of the metropolis have been looking about for excuses and have found one. It has been stated that after all the rule of Tammany is due mainly to the married women of the city. It appears that the wife of nearly every good citizen objects to his going out at night unless he takes her along. Of course men cannot take their wives to mass meetings and primary elections, and so they do not attend such things. The consequence is that New York is run’by bachelors and by men whose wives would rather have them out of the house than in it. Upon this showing the reform movement in New York must begin with a demand for latch keys. Until the respectable married man can attend to his political duties without a domestic disturbance every time he goes to a ward meeting at night the city will be badly governed. Most married men would rather let Tam- many rule the roost than to have a fight for liberty at home. Either, then, there must be a latch key for the lord of the house or else arrangements must be made to provide seats for ladies at all political meetings and elections. That is the situation, and the simple statement of it shows how cruel Mark Twain was in taunting his hosts for neglect of civic duties. D A SCHOOL OF FINANCE. ARTMOUTH is the first American college to D found a separate and distinct school of admin- istration and finance, in which to train young men in the broad principles of modern- business and- scientific finanee. It is founded by Mr. Edward Tuck of Paris in memory of his father, who graduated at ‘Dartmouth in 1835, and was a prominent figure in New Hampshire in the early anti-slavery struggle. The son is also a Dartmouth man, having graduated in 1862. He began life in our diplomatic service as = member of the legation at Paris, and is one of the directors of the Chase National Bank in New York. The curriculum of the Tuck school includes instruc- tion in the problems of taxation, currency, practical banking, corporate and municipal administration, the growth and status of foreign trade and general eco- nomic questions. . This foundation is the result of the public inter- est in the campaign of education on these subjects which began in 1806. That campaign revealed the need of accurate training in the principles of finhnce and trade which would equip for thinking upon them as accurately as upon any other scientific subject. We can see great value to the community in such a col- lege department, and it is highly probable that Dart- mouth will not long be alone in the matter. The training is distinctly for practical life. There is a standing complaint that universities do not equip their graduates for actual life, except in the sense of train- ing their minds for use. But this does not train them in the use. 2 We are undoubtedly to be a greater commercial people in the future than in the past, and as we train men and women for the prafessions, why not train them also for. busines: e Everything looks promising for the Nicaragua canal, but things have looked that way before. It is to be noted the lobby that has fought the bil all THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 The gift will serve; however, to recall to public at- } i It is to be noted that in announcing the gift Presi- As a rule our | SNAKE RUNS AFOUL OF “THAT JUG HANDI ING FOR R THAT "EGGs MARY FINE?! JUST WAT(H ME" RAT TLING SER! MY FINISH-) FORGOT TO CRAWL OUT: QF. THAT HOLE BEFORE | TO A LITTLE BROWN JUG e Reptile’s Curiosity and Hankerirg After the Good Things of Life Cause His Early Downfall Q “HARD WORK | THOUGH? am "1 SEE o5 LAST PiLL" “COUGH UP,” HE IS KILLED., e A CAPAY VALLEY SERPENT WITH A FONDNESS FOR EGGS BE- COMES IMPRISONED IN A JUG HANDLE, WHERE, REFUSING TO — AN HUBBARD recently returned from Capay Valley, says the Woodland Democrat, and unloaded a new snake story upon his friends. It runs this way: C. E. Pierce lives near Guinda. About two weeks ago a box of eggs, was left in the cellar of the Pierce residence. Beside the box sat an ordinary jug. Members of | the Pierce household were surprised to find a huge rattlesnake with its _slimy body half way through the jug handle | and unable to move either way. It all occurred in this manner. The snake -+ swallowed' an egg after which it be- gan an exploration of the cellar, winding up with a peep in the jug. It evidently concluded to erawl through the handle of the jug, and as a result the egg was crowded well back toward its tall. When it could go no further it was In easy reach of the eggs and swallowed another. An €gg In the body on each side of the handle made it impossible for the reptile to move either way, and, as it was too greedy to cough anything up, it was held in captiv- ity until discovered and killed by a mem- ber of Mr. Plerce's family. PERSONAL MENTION. W. C. Potts, a Jamestown railroad man, is at the Grand, Dr. E. G. Glass and wife of Montana are stopping at the Russ. C. W. Eastman, a Modesto attorney, is registered at the Grand. B. U. Steinman, ex-Mayor mento, is at the Palace. J. A. Fillmore will be back Eastern trip to-morrow night. Judge 8. E. Gell of Salinas is late arrivals at the Occidental. Bishop W. H. Moreland and wife of Sac- ramento are at the Occldental. | J. O. Hestwood, a San Jose mining man, | is stopping at the Grand for a few days. Mr. and 's. William Cluff have gone to New York for the Christmas holidays. D. O. Davis, superintendent of a large hop plantation at Healdsburg, Is regis- tered at the Russ. James McCudden, the Vallejo naval con- tractor, accompanied by his daughter, is stopping at the Grand. John T. Skelton, traveling agent for the Denver and Rio Grande,/ with headquar- ters at Sacramento, is in town. C. V. and Jobn L. Inderrieden, large dried fruit merchants in Chicago, are at the Occidental. They are on a combined business and pleasure trip to the Coast. J. G. Johnson of Kansas, chairman of the executive cémmittee of the Demo- cratic National Committee, is in town on a brief visit. Mr. Johnson is on his way to Los Angeles. Julius Kruttschnitt, general manager of the Southern Pacific, left last night with his family for New Orleans, Mr. Krutt- schnitt’s old home, where they will spend the Christmas holidays. J. H. Lathrop. formerly general agent of the Union Pacific, has been appointed general eastern frelght agent of the Ore- gon Rallroad and Navigation Company and the Oriental Steamship Company, with headquarters in New York City. CALIFORNTANS IN WASHINGTON | WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—David Lu- bin of Sacramento is at the National: C. ‘W. Burrell and wife of Los Angeles are at the St. James; G. H. Coffin, wife and of Sacra- from his among the it advisabi 10 leave the | son of Pasadena are at the Raleigh; Wil- | lam Addison and wife of San Francisco are at the Shoreham. —_—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A HALF OF 1805 Subscriber, Gold. Bluff, Cal. A half-dollar of the issue of 1805 does not command a premium from dealers. THE BRITISH ARMY—Reader, Honcut, Butte County, Cal. Service in the Brit- ish army is entirely by voluntary enlist- ment, the same as i the United States. THE CHURCH MURDERS—G. B. G, Stockton, Cal. The bodies of the two girls who were murdered in the Emmanuel Church were discovered one April 13 and the other April 14, 1895. LARGEST THEATERS-P. S, City. The theaters of the world that have the B T ondon; © Bolanels, Bt betersbar: San Carlos, Naples, and La Scala, Milan. Each has a capacity of 5000, POULTRY JOURNALS—H. C., Pacific Grove, Cal. Papers published in Califor- niagand devoted to poultry are: Califor- nia’ Cultivator and Poultry-Keeper, Los Angeles; California Poultry Tribune, Los Angeles, and Fanciers’ Monthly, San Jose. PHOTOGRAPH—Subscriber, City. If a man receives a copy of a photograph from a friend and he is then mean enough to have the same copyrighted without the | fhora Is o law to prevent him. 1t be se. | copyright he alone can issue the HALF-DOLLAR OF 18%2—8. F., Cayu- A half-dollar of 1832 half of that issue they charge from $2 50 to $3 50 if it has large letters in the legend. 1f it has small letters in the leg- end they charge from 75 cents to $1. REGISTRATION—C. W., City. A man when he registers in order to vote in the State of California has to answer tons under cath. a false statement cuted for perjury. THE COLOSSEUM—P. 8., City. The Colosseum at Rome was not a theater as the term is applied to playhouses. Ity was simply an amPhlthester. The theater has only a semicircle of seats fronting the stage: the amphitheater is entirely sur- rounded by seats. The Colosseum had a capacity for 87,000 persons. + CUT THIS OUT—There are but few Ralf dollars of the United States Mints that command a premium. Those that do com- mand such premium are of the following dates: 1794, 1796, 1797, 1801, 1802, 1815, 1838, i without E Pluribus on the reverse: 1538 With O between the bust and date; 1552, 1853, without arrows at date or rays about the eagle. DEAF AND DUMB—A. S., City. Statis- tics show that the children of deaf mutes are not all born deaf. There is congenital Geafness; dumbness in such cases is a con- sequence. Children born deaf have all that is requisite for speech, but not hear- ing sounds cannot repeat them. There Is a varfety of causes to account for con- enital deafness. Deafness may be hered- tary and it more often Is the result of consanguineous marriage: Toilet Sets for Christmas. Genuine ebony and silver mounted toflet m: manicure sets in leather cases with silk linings and cheaper sets in celluloid cases, silk lined, wltrbeauuful celluloid fittings for $150 to $15 per set. Nothing so desirable as presents for young ladies. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. *+ 1f he deliberately make he is liabie to be prose- Ever Seen ques- | SUNDAY’S CALL DECEMBER 23, 1900. AMUSEMENTS. A Sermon by Rev. Samuel Slocombe. The Greatest Chinese Funeral How Bears Saved the Life of W. J. Lamrick. Washington Society for 1901, Christmas in Our Latin Quar- ter. A Night on a Fire Engine. \DmeDyxbee. The Subtle Art of Posing. By Patrice. WbereChrist-nsToysm Made. And Other Stories of Human 'EDITORIAL ' UTTERANCZ .~ IN VAREETY Rural Free Delivery. | _Rural free delivery is bound to eom: and it is only a question of time when it | will cover the country. Every extension | of the system s accompanied by appeal :f%r new routes by !arneajxs‘. 'h';e::eu A;.s | advantages demonstrat, n o 3 and meir appeats cannot be disregarded. —PHILADELFPHIA LEDGER. Joy Through Suffering. | 1In real life, as in tragedy, the depreg sion over the facts of existence is ro» lieved by a consciousness of Increasing power—if mot of control, at least of ene durance. Experience means more suffefe ing as well as more joy. Evolution or higher life is bought at fearful cost, yet the zest of life, the sense of power over- comes even the tragic facts of existence, and man w to live although,cold cal« culation wou decide agalnstiit.—CHI- | EAGO CHRONICLE. Good for Chaffee. The American gereral displayed the tr: American spirit in_his letter of st_to Von Waldersee, and also in his furiher notification to the Ministers of the various powers that all persons would be prohib- ited from passing the American guards posted at the south gate of the imperial palace in Peking. ~General Chaffec's countrymen cannot but be proud of him at such a moment. He is conducting him- self In splendid accordance with the tra- ditions of the army to which he has the honor to belong.—ST. LOUIS REPUBLI- CAN. Race for the Poles. Never in the history of tion has there been so much interest ex- hibited in the determined attempts to solve the great problem of how to ge§ there as at the present time. No less than twelve expeditions will be at work ! in Antarctic and Arctic nslom next year and most of these itions will be headed by men who are trained polar ex- plorers. Of these expeditions three are now cut, while six are planned to go | ward the north pole and three toward the | south pole. — PHILADELPHIA IN- | QUIRER. | The Cuban Constitution. Let the Cubans take all the time they | need in the framing of their organic law. | They will remain under the ianship of !g:e United States until their new ¢har- | ter goes into actual operation, and there- | fore there is no especial need on their part | for haste. The question for the Cubans to decide Is as to whether they want a re- public of their own or will have annexa- | tion to the United States, and that is an | Issue which they will decide themselves | without any interference from this coun- | try. No monarchy will be established on | the island In an; case.—ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT. Control Common Carriers. | It 1s rdported that leading raflread of- | ficers in the West have been In confer- | ence the past week with representatives | of various financial inferests over ways and means to stop the rebate and secret | contract lawlessness and bring the roads | to an honest observance of the interstate | commerce law. This is well. But the | State itself is not to be regarded as so | impotent that it must rely upon the vol- untary action of the roads whether the law is obeyed or not. The closer public control of the common carrier is a great | public_necessity. The common carriers gn\'e made it so by making themselves uncommon carriers.—SPRINGFIELD RE. PUBLICAN. Cruel Social Customs. Under our present social customs the bud who is at all a favorite in soclety is Fpractically without rest after the season | opens until Lent comes to her relief. She | 1s_compelled to dress in a manner that ue lar explora- | exposes her most to colds and other mai- | adles; she [ to balls when people of | even liberal domestic habits are about | going to bed. and she arrives home about | 8 or 4 o'clock in the morning weary and | nervous. and this is called the enjoyment of social life. She goes to a dinner In the home of fashion where wealth rules, and she is bewildered by the studled extray gance exhibited on avery side. These din- | ners are of many courses, with mone con- | Qucive to health, are tiresome ta the last | degree and offen end in the dance that is | grfllnng'd after the midnight hour— | PHILADELPHIA TIMES. | —_——— | Choice candles, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —_—— | Ex. strong nearhouna candy. Townsend's* | —————— | | Thousands of pounds of Californfa g! fruits all ready for shipping. 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