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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1900. " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propr ietor. Address A1l Cot MANAGER'S OFFICE..... PUBLICATION OFFICE. Telephone .Market Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevens Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Ma , Imcluding Postage: 00 7 .00 Y CALL (Including Sunday), 3 month: . 1.60 ILY CALL—By Eingle Month. . e I'NDAY CALL. One Year.. . 1.0 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. - e - 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. subecribers in ordering change of address should be P Jar to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. +...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Xunager Yereign Advrtising, Marquette Building, Ohisagn, (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.. tssassss.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. .30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: toria Hotel, A. Brentano, 5I Union Square; Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G S{., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. We Murrsy E Fre: BRANCH OFFICES—S527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open " #:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 until §:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until Mission, open until 10 o’clock. 2251 Market, open until o'clock. 109 Valencia, open sck. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. cor- econd and Kentucky, open ustil § o'clock, hty Anth. 5 se and Dockstader Minstrels. lla The Heart of Maryland.” the White Horse Tavern.” Vaudeville vera -} se—"'An Officer of the Second.” and Eddy streets—Speciaities. cater—Vaudeville every afternocy and AUCTION SALES. December 29, at 12 o'clock, THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. REAT BRITAIN stands first and our own (J great repu stands- second among the na- tions that are at this time bearing the burden ¢ 1 nt peoples. Each is earnestly and finding it not. Each declares h knows better than to with- brees from the scene of war. e distance between the Boer and distance is fully revealed in the r methods of making war. The have shown strategy, tactics, skill and daring ndomitable resistance. They have performed Il shine brilliantly on the pages of his- te possible that Dewet may rank in fu- ng with the most renowned patriots whb with ed forces have withstood the armies of t between th ir country. None of those things filipinos. They have shown neither ccording to our standards of such is not the sort f our ideals of a hero. of man who In one thing, d the Filipino are alike. They of them quit fighting. They will neither sent to be pacified in the interests of civili- r the British have been warring Every city or town of note in the w in the hands of the civilizer and e Br h flag. Nevertheless not a single Brit- er can be spared from the front unless an- fi sent to take his place. It is said there men with the British colors in South than there were at this time last year, and still i is for reinforcements. Fresh troops are t not only from Great Britain but from the and many of them are now on the way. the Philippines our situation is hardly better. »m Washington state that at a conference 1as eve between the Secretary of War and er General Ludington it was decided that on can be taken with regard to the re- inteers from the Philippines until Con- nake provision for their replacement. The “Acting upon representations niade by General MacArthur, the department has con- d that it is absolutely necessary to maintain an i 60,000 men in the Philippine Islands until the current policy of establishing municipal government throughout the archipclago has been executed. It is stated at the department that with any reduction of the military strength below that figure existing condi- tions would doubtless ;rove most disastrous to the in- terests of the United States.” It will be seen the white man’s burden is heavy and that it will probably continue so for a long time. “Pacification” appears to be as costly as war. It seems, moreover, to be all the same whether at- tempted upon weak men or strong men. We are hav- ing almost as much trouble in toting Aguinaldo’s bur- den as the British have in shouldering that of Kruger. Out of our present troubles good, we trust, will soon gress report goes on to sa be forthcoming:; but we ought to Jearn now the lesson | of what it costs to force civilization upon even the weakest of races that prefers freedom to any blessings we can give in exchange. B The advance of civilization threatens to run over many of oug,best industries; the Southern States st boasting of their increased output of cottonseed oil, which is frequently sold as olive oil, and along the Mississippi they have begun canning catfish and branding them as salmon. The companies controlling the various patents for voting machines have combined, and now before we . can take a step toward the improved system of voting we shall have to pay tribute to the trust. If it had not been for the wickedness of the Boers, the Filipinos and the Chinese, the good old century could have had a happy Christmas and gone out sing‘_ ing “Peace on earth; good will to men.” 1i it be too late now to send California g:)odg to your Eastern friends for Christmas, you can send them something for New Year's. There are always oppor- “unities for doing the proper thing. Great Northern Hotel: | . York, three each in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas; CONGRESSIONAL @PPORTIONMENT. HILE there is little probability of any ex- W tended debate in the House at this session @ipor: the question of restricting the representation in Congress of ‘the Southern States in proportion to the exclusion of the negroes of those States from the right of suffrage, it is likely there will be a good deal | of opposition to the Hopkins bill on the ground that | it decreases the number of Representatives from sevs eral States because they have not advanced in popu- lation as rapidly as the rest of the country. The Hopkins bill reported by the majority fixes the number of Representatives at 357, the same as in | the present House. That would be at a ratio under | the new census of one for every 208,868 of population. The changes effected by the bill are shown in the fol- lowing table, giving the present and proposed num- | ber of members from each State: Pres. Pro- Pres. Pro- ent. posed. ent. posed., Alahama L] 9! Nevada .......... 1 Arkansas [ 6 2 California . 7 7 8 f Colorado 2 2 34 Connecticut B 4 9 | Delaware 1 1|North Dakota. 1 Florida 2 2/Ohio . 21 | Georgia 1 11 Oregon 2 | 1aaho 3. 1|Pennsylvania ... 30 Tilinois . 2 23| Rhode Island 2 Indiana 13 12/8outh Carolina.. 7 @ Towa . 1 1i{South Dakota... 2 Kansas 7 7| Tennessee . 10 Kentucky 1 10| Texas 3 Louisiana [ 7|Utah 1 | Maine 4 3| Ver: 2 | Marylan 6 §| Virginia 10 3 | Massachus 13 13| Washington 2 2 | Michigan . 12 12| West Virgini; 4 5 Minnesota. 8| Wisconsin 19 1 Mississippi 7| Wyoming 1 1 | Missouri . }5) — Montana Totals . 857 Nebraska. H Under that bill it will be seen that New York, New | Jersey, Louisiana, Illinois, Minnesota and West Vir- ginia would each gain one member, and Texas would gain two. Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, | Nebraska, South Carolina and Virginia would each | lose one member. California’s delegation would re- | main unchanged. | The opposition to the bill comes not only from | States that would lose memibers by it adoption, but | (‘a)so from States that have expected a gain in the number of Representatives. A minority bill proposes to increase the membership of the House to 387, or one for every 102,676 of population. Under that rule Nebraska would be the only State that would lose a Representative. There would be a gain of four in New | | two in Minnesota and New Jersey, and of one in | Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, | Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. It has been claimed that the House of Representa- | tives is already too large, but the claim is not well founded. In comparison with other repruentati\'ei bodies it is, in fact, small. The British House of Commons contains.670 members, the French Chamb, of Deputies 584, and the German Reichstag 397. | Neither of those countries has anything like so large | a population as the United States, nor has either of them so much territory, or such diversities of interest | to be represented. It would appear, therefore, that an ircrease in the House is not in itself objectionable. | The Hopkins bill is too conservative. Califoraia | should have another Representative, and our Con- gressmen should unite with those who favor a larger House. | e e The man who has remembered the poor with help- fulness and not with a vain sympathy is the man who 2| had no right to take loot. | right to demand is indemnity for igjury done by the | mand of officers. | left the rest for the less expert looters. | perience teaches. will have the best of the Christmas joys, and if any have forgotten that truth it is well to remind him it i€ not too late yet to act upon it. QJ submarine torpedo boat which bears his name, is sanguine that the problems of submarine ravigation have been virtually mastered, and that all remaining to be done is to develop and perfect the mechanism of the submarine vessels now in operation. | He is of the opinion we shall soon see submarine boats nsed for navigation of short waterways, and argues that under some circumstances they will he much more advantagecus than surface vessels. In an article in the current number of the North | American Review on “The Submarine Boat and Its Future,” he avows an expectation ' of seeing sub- | marine boats engaged in regular passenger traffic | within ten years, and goes on to say: “For trans- atlantic travel submarine boats will never be possible | commercially. Here znd there no doubt such boats will cross, but the regular ocean carrying trade will | be always conducted on the surface. For short trips, | however, the submarine boat offers commercial ad- | vantages that will render it a dangerous rival to the | surface vessel, if, indeed, it does not drive the latter entirely out of competition in particular waters. Take, | for example, the trip across the English Channel. | | No other water journey causes an equal amount of suffering. The most hardy traveler becomes sea- | sick. The fogs and heavy traffic are constantly caus- | ing collisions. * * * The submarine boat will effectually remove all these objections. There will | be no sea-sickness because in a submerged boat there lis absolutely no perceptible motion. * * * There iwi]l be no collisions because the boats coming and | going will travel at different depths. The water over, | head may be crowded with large and with small craft, lbut the submarine boat will have a free and unob- | structed course. Storms and fogs will have no ex- | istence for the traveler, for weather cannot penctrats | below the surface of the water.” | The question of danger Mr. Holland dismisses as | a2 matter of such improbability it is hardly worth while taking it into calculation. There will be acci- dents, of course, for they occur in all forms of activ- ity, but he does not believe they will be so frequent | under water as above it. On that point he says: “Twenty-one vears I have been experimenting with submarine craft. I have traveled in submerged boats under all sorts of conditions and with all sorts of crews. All my work has been experimental, the mst dangerous stage of any mode of travel. Yet I have never had an accident.” In that connection it is worth noting that an ex- tremely interesting story is told by W. P. Bradley in | an article on “Submarine Navigation,” published in the Popular Science Monthly for December. In giv- ing an account of a submarine boat used by the Con- | federates during the war to attack United States war- ships off Charleston, he states that in her trial trip the hoat sank and her entire crew was drowned. She was raised from the bottom and another crew volun- teered to test her. Again she sank and all exceot four of the crew were lost. On the third trial she sank again and all hands were drowned. Neverthe- less the boat was again fitted out and another crew was found ready to volunteer to make an attack with her upon the Housatonic. That crew succeeded in biowing up'the warsh:p, but their boat perished, and with her all the crew were killed. &% | ' SUBMARINE NAVIGATION. | OHN P. HOLLAND, constructer of the famous | { The heroes who, volunteered on such a forlorn hove as that are men of whom the whole nation may 2 3 be proud. When Mr. Holland’s hopes are realized and the submarine boat becomes a safe and pleas- ant means of traveling, it will be time to write the history of the invention; and in that history the names of the gallant men who died in making the tests for the Confederate boat will deserve an appre- ciative commemoration for their valor. THE LOOT OF CHINA. RANCE, through her Governmenf, has an- [:nounccd that she will not accept any share in the loot obtained by the armies of civilization in Peking and other cities of China. Other Govern- ments, it is to be hoped, will follow the example. Asa matter of fact there should have been no looting by any responsible authority, and so far as the pillaging of the soldiery could be prevented, that also should have been stopped. The allied armies marched to Peking as the avowed supporters of civilization. It was repeatedly declared on official authority of all the Governments that their armies were not making war on China, but were going to Peking to assist the Chinese Government in suppressing an insurrection of Boxers. Under such circumstances and in the face of such declarations they The utmost they have a Boxers and repaymeat of the cost of the military and raval “assistance” given to the Chinese Government | without invitation, The looting done by private soldiers and officers off duty is of course a different matter. Wherever there is war there will be lcoting. To the victors belong the spoils. The maxim does not mean so much now as it did in the days of old Rome, but even yet it means much. Men who fight have an irrepressible desire to spoil the enemy and obtain trophies, booty and plunder. For the private trooper such things are « part of the stakes of the game, and while pillaging in our time has been narrowed far below what was tol- | erated and even encouraged by the commanders of armies in times past, it is still something which even the most enlightened nations have to wink at when | they go to war. In this connection it is worth noting that an eye- | witness of the looting done by the soldiery of the | various armies in China gives precedence in the busi- | ness to the British. This witness, Robert M. Collins, who, as a correspondent of the Associated Press, en- tered both Tientsin and Peking with the allies, says: “Who were the worst looters? Well, the British were the most successful, because they were most system- atic. They went about it as a regular piece of busi- ness; sent out men with carts and wagons under com- Their experience in India had made them connoisseurs in things oriental, and they selected only the best of the silks and embroideries, the rarest of the jade and the finest of the jewels, and The Japan- | ese did the least looting, and the Americans were next to the Japs in this respect.” It will be seen that in this, as in other trades, ex- The British alone among civilized nations have had pracfice in the gentle art of spoil- | ir.g thetenemy during the life of this generation. Their veterans are old hands at the trade. They managed to obtain more than the soldiers of other nations, and doubtless they also cxerted the least amount of bru- tality and force in extorting it from the conquered, for systematic looting is better than irregular looting. It is a species of economy and obtains the biggest re- sults at the least cost. CONSUMPTIVES EXCLUDED. O appearance in the advertisements of what are known as “resort” hotels in the Eastern and Southern States of the phrase, “Consumptives ex- cluded.” It shows how far back the pendulum has swung from tife days not long ago when such hotels made a special effort to attract people of weak lungs by describing their localities as well fitted for the cu-e of persons afflicted with consumption. ; In one of these advertisements now beforé us it is NE of the significant signs of the times is the / | announced that the hotel is in “the highest and dry- y est section of the long leaf pine region of North Carolina, an. ideal place for health, rest and recrea- tion.” That is exactly the sort of advertisement which in former years would have added that the location is a “natural sanitarium” for consumptives, but now it notes in big letters “Consumptives excluded.” Humanity.in its action and reaction invariably goe‘s too far in each direction. Undoubtedly considerable evil resulted to healthful communities by the persis- tent efforts of tourist hotels to obtain the patronage oi censumptives. Germs of the disease were in that way brought into districts whose people would otherwise have been in no danger of that scourge. On the other hand, the policy of exclusion which is now threatened is likely to result in evils fully as grear. The consumptive should not be treated like a pariah nor shut away from the comfortable hotels that have been established in the healthful sections of the coun- try. Advertising for comsumptives was a folly, but the exclusion of them would be something like an vutrage on humanity. Shm&ld the exclusion policy be carried far, it will bs necessary for States to provide sanitariums for those afflicted with consumption. Some States, in fact, have already done so. These institutions have even in the short time of their existence effected much good. A recent report of one established in Massachusetts was so encouraging in its nature that New York set about following the example. “A similar movement has been started to establish a sanitarium in this State, and it is probable that like enterprises are under way else- where. 7 While these movements are good, there is the ob- jection that the campaign of education in their favor is often conducted in an exaggerated way so as o occasion something like a panic on the subject. Con- sumption is not now any more dangerous than it was ten years ago when every Southern winter resort was advertising for consumptives. As a matter of fact it is not so dangerous, for the world has learned much in late years concerning the disease, and care is now exercised to prevent its spread. There is conse- quently less reason for exclusion now than ever before, and it is hardly likely the intense reaction from the policy of former years can be maintained very long. The one good feature of the scare manifest by these advertisements is that it will help along the edu- cation of the public mind in regard to the disease and thus help to check it in exery part of the Union. At present it is one of the greatest scourges of Ameri- can life. Consumption destroys more lives in New England than yellow fever in the South, and yet un- til very recently little or nothing was done to deal with it in a scientific way. Now there is good prom- ise that the ravage will be greatly diminished within a few years, and it is to be hoped the phrase “Con- sumptives excluded” will not long be seen in the ad- vertisements of any American hotel. 2 e We can safely challenge the world to beat us on istmas weather. The California climate was evi- - s i S Y Sl 'fij | TWO NEW TRUE STORIES ABOUT MRS. HETTY GREEN % } STORIES. MRS. HETTY GREEN, THE RICHEST WOMAN IN AMERICA, CONCERN- ING WHOM THE PRESS OF THE COUNTRY HAS PUBLISHED MANY | | ETTY GREEN, whose latest photograph is presented here- with, is supposed to be the rich- est woman in America. Yet Mrs. Green is not generally looked upon as an extravagant woman. A hall bedroom in an obscure boarding house amply fulfills her ideas of a home. Her meals are frugal and her gowns are not made by Worth. Mrs. Green's cHosen boarding houses, says a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle, are | obscure not especlally because she is fond of seclusion, but rather because of her de- sire to escape the attentions of report- ers. If'there is one thing on earth that Mrs. Green detests more than a reporter it is another reporter. They are the bane of her life, for they Insist wpon printing things about her frugality just because she’'s rich. These stories are sometimes more or less interesting, but they are not exactly of the sort to promote the entente cordiale between Mrs. Green and the re- porters. Up to the hour of going to press no man who has attempted to write about the inner life of Mrs. Hetty Green has ever allowed himself to be hampered and bound down by a paucity of facts. But here 18 one story about Hetty Green, which has never been printed, which is absolutely true. It happened in Chicago in April, 1867. The Cubans were struggling against great odds to gain thelr freedom. of one hundred prominent Chicago women was formed to raise funds for Cuban hos- pitals of which Mrs. P. was secretary. Mrs, P. took up her work with unbounded enthusiasm and energy. She heard that Hetty Green was at the Great Northern Hotel, so she decided to solicit a small contribution for suffering Cubans from the richest woman in America. heard tales about Mrs. Green's frugality. so she fortified herself both with sound arguments and pathetic appeals. She meant to overwhelm Hetty with such a torrent of eloquence that she couldn’t re- sist the temptation to part with some of her dollars. Or, if worst came to worst, she would talk until Hetty would be glad to purchase silence with a contribution. Mrs. P. found Hetty in one of the big business blocks she owns in Chicago, su- perintending the work of a corps of serub women. Mrs. P. had fixed up a most elab- orate plan of campaign. She would m- { troduce herself first, of course, and as | her family is prominent, that would se- cure a respectful hearing which would be all the more readily accorded because of her stunning costume. Having thus car- ried the outer works of the enemy by storm, Mrs. P, proposed to follow up her | advantage closely by a withering fire of unabridged dictionaries which would not give Mrs. Green a chance to say a word A committee | She had | except at the end, when she would faintly gasp: “‘Put me down for a thousand dollars.” It worked to perfection up to the point | where Mrs. P., after introducing herself, | had stated her business. Then, by a bril- liant flanking movement, Mrs. Green car- ried her assallant off her feet, cut her off from her reserves and then poured in a murderous torrent of small talk at short range. Hetty began with a circumstantial account of her war on cockroaches in_the old building of her many reverses and final triumph ending in a massacre of every surviving cockroach. She told the history of the dress she wore. As it was a very ancient dress not built originally for Mrs. Green. the tale required much time for { the telling. Then followed with a wealth of detail the manner in which Mrs. Green had trimmed her hat and the marvelous cheapness thereof. From this, by a gentle entered upon a life history of her scrub women, taking up the biography of one at a time. This suggested a disquisition upon the worthlessness of hired help and the means of combating it hit upon by Mrs. Green. Combat suggested lawyers and lawyers called to mind numberless in- stances of the depravity and greed of the whole caboodle. « By this time Mrs. P.'s head was swim- ming and she felt faint. But, brave woman that she was, she tried again and again to stem the torrent of Mrs. Green's elo- quence long enough to work in a word about the Cubans. fered to Mrs. Green for ten cents to go to the Cuban hospital fund. e offer was spurned. Mrs. P. fled. The footman had almost to carry her across the sidewalk and lift the cash But the fresh alr revived her. She or- dered the coachman to drive to the Trib- | une office, called for pencil and paper, wrote an account of her two hours’ inter- view with the richest woman in America, paper at space rates, credited the Cubans with $5 received for the story and drove home with the serene consciousness of having taken the last trick. One of the latest on Mrs. Green is told by a business acquaintance. He met Mrs. Green one day and noticed that she looked very ill. Upon lnr\u!ry he was told that Mrs, Green was {ll. She explained that she had ordered two boile breakfast at a cheap restaurant that morning, and, that not feeling hungry, she had eaten some toast and tea and puf the eggs In her pocket for future refer- ence, as a frugal person should. Later in the day, when she feit the need of food, she had opened the eggs. ey were not eggs for they were bought and paid for, and Mrs. Green was not the sort of woman who could deliberately forego a chance to get the worth of her money. So she ate the eggs and— Well, you can guess the rest. PERSONUENTION. George A. Arnold, a Vacaville merchant, is at the Lick. Joseph D. Biddle, a Hanford ofl man, is at the Grand. Dr. H. N. Winton and wife of Hay- wards are at the Grand. Dr. B. J. Bloyd of the United States marine hospital service is stopping at the Occidental. W. H. Simson, in the employ of the Santa Fe Company at Chicago, is regis- tered at the Grand. James S. Kiest, a Nome mining man, s registered at the Palace, as is Eugene Chilberg, a Seattle hotel man. Senator A. Cazaux of the City of Mexi- co is at the Grand. The Senator is re- puted to be one of the wealthiest men in Mexico. —_——————— Panacea for the Blues. From (he Placer (Placer County) Represent- George W. Peck, ex-Governor of Wis- consin, and author of “Peck’s Bad Boy,” 1s back in harness. He has been engaged on the New York World staff, and he is writing a series of articles, entitled “Peck’'s Bad Boy Grown Up,” v/h|sch will time to time in the Sunday $Phra n!rrgn;lau in the San Francisco Sun- day Call. “Peck’s Bad Boy' caused more genuine laughter than any like publication we know. It was a panacea for the blues, “Peck's Bad Boy Grown UP" promises to be more funny. Read it in the Sun San Francisco Call and you will laugl and grow fat. ——————————— The Call’s Good Work. From the Lodi Sentinel. The San Francisco Dalily Call continues in the lead of Pacific Coast journalism. With solid fln“d;'.ll hnclm(xl: and an e:or vert; and - subscription };‘:‘.’:3?.’25 t;.li- fs to b _expected. oo St est good work was the issuance of a mam- moth Christmas. edition. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Arabella doesn't look at sll happy.” “No; she married a man younger than berself ander the ression that he would be more mln%en e than an older one."—Chicago Record. ‘Miss Chatterby called on me to-day,” remarked Miss Cayenne. “I was very glad to see her. She seemed to take a great interest in me.” “But isn't she just a bit of a tale- i "YT That's why thflfl to see . It flatters me to f at I am b to be gossiped nbon".: i rmm as, o ladelphia Press. | DATE OF The act of Con; ANSWERS TO QUERIES HELEN GOULD-M. ,» San Benito, Cal. The residence of Miss Helen Gould | is on Fifth avenue, New York City. She has a country home at Irvington, on the Hudson. SUBJECT TO ATTACHMENT-A. C. ‘W., City. One-half of a man's wages are subject to attachment in payment of goods furnished such as are known as the necessaries of life. SILVER DOLLARS-J. D., Truckee, Cal. Dealers in old cofns do not offer premium for United States silver dollars, except those of the following dates: 1794, 17%, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 3 3 g 1804, 1836, 1838, 1839, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857 and 1858. ASBESTOS-D., Yager, Cal. The sam- ple of Culifornia asbestos sent to this de- partment was submitted to several ex- perts and dealers, who declared that it is like all California asbestos, too brittle for weaving, There may come a time when a use can be found for such asbestos, as ex- periments are being made with it. Until such a discovery is made California as- bestos 1l not have any value in t.hq market. enlist men for the States army whose term of enlistment shall expire June 30, 191, was approved March 2, 1899, NTURY—B. W., City. During the controversy more than a year ago about the new century, there was pub- lished in all pa 2 statement to the afl:lct e‘dh‘t‘h lt!b.ih 4 or (;t Germany h‘:‘i’ eclars e cen commen with the first otv.hnulry."fi. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY—P. M. 8., Fort Jones, California. The twentieth century commences on the 1st day of Jan- and artistic transition, the richest woman | As a last resort she | pulled out a Cuban button, which she of- | her into her carrfage. | its object and result, sold the story to the | as good as some eggs sometimes are, but | EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY | Work Together. | In the present contest for commercial supremacy among the various nations. that country is sure to succeed best which maintains the most harmonious relations Petween capital and labor. Both must together for the common CLEVELAND LEADER. Tobacco in War. Experience in new climes has led to some unexpected conclus . Sugar stands higher in the army dictary than it did before Americans saw service in tropic countries. Its claims as a genuine food are admitted in quarters where they had been Strenucusly denied. From South'Africa d from our own marches and battles in the Antilles and Ebilippines comes the testimony that with a pipe of tobacco t soldier will march longer and fight and more speedily forget his fatigue the bivouac than with any mere | The tobacco habit, like some other h is in better ogor in war than in pea NEW YORK MAIL AND EXPRESS A Harbor Wanted. » richest agricultural sections of t ccfl’fn t are naturally drained into t Gulf of Mexico; is it not the duty of the Government to provide a deep-water por: on the Gulf? From the stanpoint of the navy the Atlantic seaboard is the first line of defense against attack from Europe: should all the Southern coast be left with- out a port of call? These are questions that should be shot continually at the jority in Congress and kept before appropriate committees in both Ho The West should join the South in this mand for right and justice. e shipg of the day demand a harbor to suit.—FLOR- IDA fiMES-L'NlO)L Britons and Boers. : British policy may be summed up naT’;ierst, Deace and submission, and then extension of self-government as rapt as possible. The weak point in this ¢ p structive policy Js that the Boers may refuse to accept it. They have not been fishting for more home rule under the British _crown, but for absolute dom. For that vital point they are fighting. The success of the Britis policy obviously depends on Lord Kitc ener’s abllity to convince the Boers that it Is better to yield than to fight. Tne question is still primarily a military one, for so far the Boers are standing fast by the idea that they would rather be dead than be British subjects. —CHICAGO | INTER OCEAN. A Marvelous Campaign. It required something more than ecour- fge to conduct a column like Dewet's into the best protected fleld cf British occupa- tion. It required good generalship and | daring on the part of the Boers to attack General Brabant's Cape Colony cavalry at Zastron. It requirs good generalship and alertness to concentrate a superior Soer feree against General Clements. All these things were done. General Dewet de his roid and escaped. General De- y attacked, and, capturing 600 of the British, compelled_General Clements to retreat. Gereral Brabant made a stub- | born_but evidently a losing fight against | the Boer force opposed to him. At Vry- | heid and Lichtenberg the Boers were less fortunate. But taken as a whole their campaign was a marvelous one, estimated | either on the operations or on the re- | sults.—CHICAGO INTER OCEAN. Don’t Taunt the South. In view of these recent lynchings in Northern States it is no longer consistent to taunt the South with its outrages against justice or its contempt for the law. It 1s true these outrages occur much more frequently in the South than in the | North. There have been but seven cases | this year irr Northern States, while there have been 101 in the Southern, most of the victims being negroes, but, when it is taken into account that four of the | seven Northern victims have been ne- | groes, that they were in three different g(ut#s. that the negro population of the South is vastly greater than that of the | North, and that there are proportionately | & larger number of ignorant and viclous negroes in the South, further criticism of its conduct is improper. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.— CHICAGO TRIBUNE. A Day of Days. For all the lack of visible preparation, it is not true, however, that the century | will die an unregarded death. “Of alil sounds of all bells,” says Lamb. “most | solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the old year.” Much more is this true when the knell of the century | 1s sounded; the last day of this Decem- | ber fills a larger space in the unconscious | thought of men than they realize. With none of the superstitious expectation of | portent oréudgmem witn which the world | approached the dawn of the tenth cen- | tury and with none of the flippant “after- | us-the-deluge” cynicism with which it ap- | proached the dawn of the nineteenth. it approaches the dawn of the twentieth century. An added jollity, an added rev- | erence, a more gemeral celebration will | set the occasion in thee procession of ths years so that the old men of two genera- S de: | | tions after our time will say, “That was a | GayNEW YORK MAIL AND BXx- PRESS. Choice candies, Townsend’s Palace HotePe, Best eyeglasses, specs, 20c to 80e. Look out for 81 4th, front barber and groeery. * Townsend's California glace fruits, Sc a und, In fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel bullding.* Special information supplied dally to business houses and public ni the Press C'uvpu':l% Bureau (Allen’ -;, 510 Mont- gomery st lephone Main 1042, . The town of Gloucester, Mass., showed the smallest rate of increase of popula- tion of any town of any importance in the State. The fishing and whaling busi- ness s no longer of Importance there. The California Limited On the Santa Fe starts for Chicago Tuesday morning, January 1st, at nine o'clock, and will leave daily thereafter at same hour. It will be & duplicate of the Limited of last sea- son. except that entirely new equipment has been provided. The Pullman Sleepers each contain ten sections and two drawing rooms. The Observation Car, with its wide plate glass windows, affords unobstructed views of the surrounding country. All meals em route ar served in mew Dining Cars, under the man- agement of Mr. Fred Harvey. This sumptuous train runs from San Francisco to Chicago in 75 hours. Get a handsome Folder, deseribing #t fully, at Santa Fe Office, 641 Market street. —————— A GAY SEASON is promised at Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal., this winter with a Jolly houseful, an expert golf tournament, meet- ing.of field trials club, hunting, fishing, boat- ing, dancing, etc. . Guillet’s ice cream, mocha, camella, pistache, chocolate cakes. 905 Larkin, phone East 198, * % Properly qualified teachers of whist are in such demand In New York that thosa known to be competent have more logn- &nu -: scholars than they can possibly end to. e ———— uary, 1901. It takes one hundred years to complete a century, nineteen ilmdnd years to complete nineteen centurles; so the nineteenth cycle of one hundred years closes with the last day of the current year. A POEM—15860 Santa Cruz, Cal. This Nfin::de;:!“:l"l where the poem from ‘whic] e fol ng stanza Is be obtained: > sl o Bring me men to match moun! BflnE me men to match nlx.y'phhu: Men with empires in their purpose. And new eras in tEelr brains, : Can any of the read oAl 20,0 SR e of (e depart lent ? so m) lcatie in which it may g’rofii - A THIEF—H. '—H., City. If a party to.wuntlwtmmotsm::m party accused escapes and is - loum in another secu the warran has the meu‘m’efi It escapes e detective 'Mhomm' h:o“nnlr- but it against v ‘would not 1ses of wmm returaing 1 | emulsion of cod-liver oil. * ant tight ADVERTISEMENTS. FAT BABY Fat is the cushion that na- ture fills out and surrounds the little ones with, to protect their tender parts—the same with kittens and puppies—fat is not tender. 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