The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1900. c, Call. ___DECEMBER 20, 1000 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. LEAKE, Mamager. Telephone .l:'f.- fl\’ Third, §. F. Adéress All Communications to W. NMANAGER'S OFFICE. PUBLICATION OFFICE Teleph .Market a Press 201. % EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Centa. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALI, (Including Sunday), one year.... DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. Y CALL—By Single Month.. EUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year 2 . All postmasters are zed to receive subscriptions. Sample coptes will be forwarded when requested. subscribers In ordering change of address should be | give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order and correct compliance with thelr reques: Ma .1118 Broadway « Mecager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building. Chicage, GEORGE KROGNE! Long Distance Telephone “Central 2618."") CORRESPONDENT: vessss.Herald S NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. .. 80 Tribune Buil NEW YORK C. C. CARLTON.... NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 51 Union Square: e | ICAGO NEWS STANDS: | use; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Ho!el.‘ Auditorfum Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. corner of Clay, open | ntil $:30 o'clock. €33 Larkin, open until | BR ES—s k. 300 Montgomer: Hayes, op $:30 o'clock ANCH OFFIC 3 € open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, r pen until § o'clock. 1096 Valen open | % Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. cor- | - and Kentucky, open until 3 o'clock AMUSEMENTS. m Dockstader Minstrel ne Heart of Maryland White Horse Tavern. s Officer of the Sezond Home. ets—S pecialties. every afternoon and Monday evening, De- Banjo Clubs, Thursday AUCTION SALES. vng—This Day, at 12 o'clock, Racehorses, at RED CROSS WATCH MEETINGS. the modes United States will be he s wi by wn of the twentieth century, | be more significant of great cater good to come than the watch by the association known as e Red Cross. c one of the noblest results of all | i intellectual work of the nineteenth is iversal, generous, seli- anit nd beneficent rom every good impulse 1 every abiding sympathy of the mind, directs to the accomplishment It makes for the purpose of arraying the against those of another, but for | { inciting them to emulate ons work of advancing the welfare harity in war and in peace. ‘! s comparatively brief history the | h many weary nights among fields and among the suffer members have shrunk neither m pestilence. They have been in among the besieging forces, with | the conquered; and always they | 1 every position as friends and helpers ey have looked upon no man as a foeman. They received by none with hostility. Under all tances and by all sorts and conditions of men nd s and with | hey have been welcomed with gladness. Conse- quently at the closing of the century the flag of the; Red ( nds as the banner of humanity, and it | will be ed as such in the century to come. | he universalism of the Red Cross there is noth- | I ing of sentimentality. It does not ignore the nations, | nor regard patriotism as a little thing. On the con- | trary it appeals to ail noble national sentiments and | aspirations. Thus there is a branch of the organization | and it is our own American 12l Red Cross that is going to keep watch-night i in our cities and towns. We can therefore co-operate with Americans proud of our nation and ready to give help to every good work done in its name. It is announced that the object of the meetings is 1 aise funds for the American National Red and partly to signalize the dawning of another | by giving worid-wide prominence to that fra- ternity between nations which tends to ameliorate th Each of these purposes appeals to the humane and to the generous instincts of the people, | and will doubtiess draw to every one of the meetings audiences sufficiently large to make them enthusiastic | and impressive. It is stated that the meetings have been arranged for in upward of fifteer. thousand cities and towns in the United States. They will therefore constitute something like a great national and popular dempr.- { stration.. One of the features of the meetings will be ; the “Greetings” which have been contributed for the occasion by eminent men and women of all civilized countries, including rulers, statesmen, poets, philos- “ ophers, soldiers and novelists. These men, represent- | ing the light 2nd leading of the age, have consented to assist the Red Cross in welcoming the age that is in every Nat great country, horrors of war. to come, and their messages of greeting “will be among the best features of the celebrations. | San Francisco should do her share in showing | honer to the Red Cross. The branches of the organi- zation in other lands have been endowed by various means, but the American Red Cross has as yet had no endowment or sustaining fund. Let us now con- tribute to its work. Let us give the American Red Cross the means of leading its allied societies of other nations in all the work it may have to do in advan- cing the cause embodied in its watchword, “Huy. manity.” 3 The Mexican millionaire who fleeced an unsuspect- ing Oakland real estate ‘agent the other day is sin- gularly like certain Mexican politicians whom we have known. This sure-thing habit must be one of the dis- eases produced by the southern climate. | with peculiar venom znd vehemence. | and is not ignorant of the issues decided by a na- | brought about the Transvaal war. ! But they should be admonished by the fate that befell | so shall have the aid of the State to an amount equal | the less progressive counties. | nor is it likely that any other would be received in | men, and differences of conditions among counties, | have even made a movement for road improvement. TRYING TO MAKE TROUBLE. HE W:emington correspondents of the London T Times and Chronicle are said to be Americans. This being so, it is peculiar that, in their cor- respondence, they go so much beyond any bitterness of feeling that has been shown in England over the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. { The British Foreign Office has made no sign at all, and the British press has shown feeling only be- | cause of the talk in cur Senate of abrogating the Clayton-Bulwer treaty without consulting England’s | wishes in the matter. The two correspondents glaringly misrepresent tha constitutional duty of the President, and attack him They mislead their English readers by assuming that the Hay- Pauncefote treaty, in its original form, was passed upon and approved in a specific sense by our people ut the recent election, and that the President and the Senate are in a conspiracy to disobey that popular | iniunction. 1i the British Foreigr Office act upon this ranting misrepresentation it will be apt to take a position supposed to be in harmony with the wishes of our people. which will of course be dreadfully antagonis- tic to the Senate and the administration. This will | create a sensational situation and lead to an acute misunderstanding berween the two Governments, We do not for a moment suppose that the British Foreign Office will do this, for it understands per- | fectly the constitutional limitations of the President, ‘ tional election in this country. But it is probably different with the British public, | and it is to that public that the American authors of this sinister correspondence look for the effect which | they hope to produce. The people of :England When the Queen rode in the stately procession during-her jubilee the spectators-——gentry and mob alike—saluted her with the cry, “Ma’am, please give us a go at old Kruger.” In their present frame of mind the people of this coun- try want no war. It is true that to avoid one they will | not sacrifice any rights nor put any in jeopardy. But they have no ill feeling toward Great Britain, nor, | believe, have the British people against this | ountry. The action of these American correspondents can be explained only on the theory that they are de- liberately seeking to embroil the two countries. Our war with Spain, with all its unseen conse- quences, and sequels of which none can see the end, ! was not brought about by the administration, but by the people, appealed to and moved by methods -not creditable to those who used them. We do not wi to see this country and England nagged into war by like methods. The proper policy of both countries is peace with%ach other and with the world Their Governments have upon them the duty of we | conserving the prosperity and happiness of the peo- ple, and this duty cannot be discharged by war We resent the aspersions upon President McKin- ley all the more because of their origin with American correspondents of foreign newspapers, who know better than the rot they write. The American pecple should understand the ! scurce of these attacks and treat the controversy in a level-headed way. In the recent campaign they were deluged with denunciations oi what politicians called an alliance with Great Britain, of which they pre- | tended to see evidences. But this sort of talk pro- | duced no effect because our voters refused to be stam- peded. We have faith that they will be as steady now. President McKinley and Secretary Hay do not in- tend that the honor of the country shall suffer, either by sacrificing any prestige to keep peace or by violat- ing faith pledged in solemn treaties. When the peo- rle understand that the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is a valid, vital and existing convention, they will desire the country’s honor to be vindicated by observing it. This is not the kind cf a nation that holds others to treaties because they are weak, but breaks treaties it- self because it is strong, and no good American sires that it shall become such a nation. | It is perfectly plain that some politicians in the | country desire to embarrass the administration, as they did in the months preceding the Spanish war. them as a result of their intrigues then, and not re- peat them now. = S ——— WORKING FOR GOOD RO@ADS. OW that the time for the assembling of the va- | N rious State Legislatures is approaching there is in all progressive communities a revived in- terest in the subject of legislation to promote the | improvement of highways. Plans of one kind or | another are being advanced in nearly every State in the Union whose Legislature meets this winter, and from a study of some of them California may be able to derive information of advantage in dealing with her own problems of road construction. A plan recently proposed by the Supervisors oi Cneida County, New York, has attracted much at- tention in that State and is worth noting even at this distance. In its essential elemen‘s it is simply a pro- posal of co-operation between the State and the counties. The State is to appropriate $500,000 and the | counties are to appropriate an equal amount for the | general scheme of improving the chief highways of the State. If all the counties do not vote their share of | the amount desired, then the plan. is that those doing | te their local expenditures, and so be enabled to go forward with road improvement without waiting for The plan, of course, has not met universal approval, that way. There are differences of opinion among and consequently agreement is difficult. The essen- tial point is to get some plan that will have the sup- port of the majority, and by giving it a fair trial dem- onstrate to all that it would be better to get road improvement by that plan than not to get it at all. The discussion that has taken place over the Oneida proposition has brought out the fact that despite the three years’ campaiga of education in New York un- der the good roads law, only twenty-seven counties In those counties, it is said, petitions have been filed for the improvement of 696 miles of road, 407 miles have been surveyed for improvement, but less than | 54 miles have been or are being improved. So small a showing on the part of the counties of a rich and populous State like' New York tends to console us for our own lack of progress. We have dcne almost as well as that ourselves. When we re- view the work in really progressive commonwealths, however, our delay in road improvement appears something like a disgrace to the State. For example, the New York Tribune says: “The State of Con- necticut has built 200 miles of good roads, or had done so a year ago, not to mention what it may have done in the last year. Massachusetts down to two years ago had built more than 270 miles. And New Jersey, which was the piencer and is still the banner ~ ; close up the, forbidden State in the good roads mo-vement,/lus built since 1893 no less than 588 miles of good roads, including 148 miles this year.” 4 We have not referred to the Oneida plan for the Furpose of advocating the adoption of a similar plan here. Our conditions are not like those of New York, and what may Le expedient there might be the reverse here. The one thing to be noted is the evi- dence shown of a wiilingness on the part of Oneida County to co-operate with the State in improving the | \ | chief highways. If a similar willingness can be excited among the progressive counties of California to co- | operate in the work here, it may be possible to devise | @ plan which will enable us to start the new century with a good roads movement that will soon enable us to make as good a showing as New Jersey, which row has the credit of leading the Union in the work. A SENSATION THAT F@ILED. ROM the promptness and unanimity with which the Police Commissioners on Thursday evening rejected any suggestion of licensing gambling, ! or of evading the law which forbids such licensing, it is evident there was never much danger that such a policy would be undertaken. The sensation on the subject appears to have been a case of exaggerated teports, and of making much ado about nothing. | The policy was discussed by members of the com- mission and given consideration, but that seems to have been about all. At least when the issue was pre- sented the Commissioners speedily rejected it, and | further expressed their disapproval of it by instructing the Chief of Police to “enforce alf the laws and o=di- nances of the city aud county and al;o of the State relating to gambling.” With this action there passes away a threatened | sensation. The Commissioners, if they ever had any itention of adopting the plan, were wise in aban- doning it. As was pointed out by The Call yester- day, it would have been an outrage against law to have attempted to put it into practice by the evasive | tactics which were at one time suggested. Whatever be the law, it must be obeyed by all citizens and en- ifi\rccd by all officials charged with that duty. Now that this issue is out of the way the police should set about adopting measures to effectively places. No should be made between one class of offenders and another. Many forms of vice have been carried on in this city with such boldness as to justify a belief in the public mind that the authorities are not eager- to suppress them. That belief remains, notwithstand- ing it is well known great difficulties e ing evidence to convic: or juries that will return ver dicts against certain evildoers. The obstacles in the way of the police are understood, and the public will | not condemn the officers unjustly. Nevertheless the opinion prevails that many oi the worst places in Chinatown or out of it could be suppressed if the police authorities were more resolute and determined The approach of the new century should stimulate the Police Commissioners to turn over a new leaf in dealing with vice. They have done wisely in re- jecting a bad plan; now let them act more wisely still in devising a good one, and by enforcing it with @ vigor which will rid the city of thpse vicious re- sorts that are a temptation to fools and a source of crime. s e DISRESPECTS TO CLEVELAND e sion of hatred for him by the men who ousted and succeeded him in the leadership of the party. The occasion came in the banquet to Colonel Pryan at Lincoin. The Colonel and John W. Kern ci Indiana and all the othe] speakers took stunts at the ex-President and belabored him and all his works, by direction and indirection, by innuendo, insinuation and all other ways known to politicians and | binders. Colonel Bryan improved the occasion to issue a | prospectus of his forthcoming weekly paper, in which he will meet all comers, attack all goers, and answer HE CALL was not mistaken when it said that the only response to Mr. Cleveland’s letter on spell- | all questions, from why is a dog’s nose cold to the reason why wheat ani silver se often part company and go asunder in spite of his declaration that they were divinely joined. Mr. Kern, who go: well thrashed last month as | the Bryan candidate for Governor of Indiana, girded | at Cleveland viciously, and put Barmony behind him, | In! Indianapolis, Mr. Kern an- | apparently through a desire for another beating. 1896, at a weeting in | nounced himself a goid standard Democrat and made 2 notable sound money speech in praise of the finan- cial recommendations of Mr. Cleveland. Yet he was surprised at his defeat for Governor this year, when { he stood on a silver standard and paper currency plat- form! | This broadside is the first answer of the besieged | insiders to Mr. Cleveland's assault dn their position. They own the organization and occupy the works, and propose that the party shall remain Populistic, even if it lose Montana, Idaho, Nevada and Colorado, the only States left to it in the North. fuse to improve the new year and the new century by | announce that they are of the tribe of Ephraim, and will stay joined to their idols. The other branch of the party march under the banner of Eli. They want te: “get there,” and in 1904 we will have the two tribes in the field beyond a doubt. Each will have a candidate, and each will woo the rank and file to support it. The . Republicans will probably be able to repress their grief at the spectacle and will go right on seek- ing commerce, expanding trade, building ships, ex- porting products of American industry, digging the Nicaragua canal, keeping our money sound, our credit good and our position as a_creditor nation unassail- {able. In fact, will go on conquesting the commercial world and keeping Uncle Sam’s feet warm and his head cool, in_spite of Colonel Bryan ahd his news- paper, and Mr. Kern and his%ore head. Meantime, the political fatigue of the South will seek rest by wheeling into the Republican ranks, where its interests and inclinations lead it: The gen- ctation that bore a grudge against the party that con- cluded the Civil War has passed. A new generation | is on, that wants to live in two-stdry houses and wear white shirts, go to church and travel, run cotton mills and iron smelters and build ships and sail them. It respects the memory of its forbears, but for all that does not find it necessary to always live in rags and tags. 4 2] = % The new Sputh wants prosperity, to gain money evert to build monuments in memory of the old South, and it finds 10-cent cotton to be more profitable than the Chicago platform and Colonel Bryan’s political hysterics. - ———— Anindignant local citizen has had- four T of the Spade :c';t‘ rested %«u% offenses. He should kave drawn for one more and played with a full house. o) SRl discrimination | st in obtain- | party rehabilitacion would be a further expres- | The critics of Cleveland firmly, but not mildly, re- | swearing off and quitting their vagaries, and proudly | i | ON EARTH. ASTRONOMER’ - OF THE WORLD’S END| UTTERANCE PROFESSOR T. J. J. SEE OF THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY AT WASHING- TON, WHO HAS CALCULATED THE YEARS OF MAN'S EXISTENCE S VIEW Professor See of Naval Observatory Sees the Finish of Mankind. | | | | | he threshold of a new century, it is well to halt for a moment the better to see vour finish as others see it. Cne of the others, accord- ing to the Chicago Times-Herald, is Professor T. J. J. See, an astronomer, who has charge of the big telescope in the naval observatery at Washington. He claims to have made a discovery that Jends him to helieve that mankind has Yonly 2,000,000 years to live on mother earth. In a recent interview on the sub- | ject Professor See sald: “I believe that the existence of man- | kind will end on this earth in about 3,000,- | 000 years, although, of course, I cannot | | state this as an undeniable fact. The de- struction of the earth will undoubtedly be | caused by the sun, but I do not accept the | | theory tbat it will be brought about by I collision or fire. “Cold will be the exterminator. The sun | will eventually fail in force, and light and heat will depart from our planet. The condition of the sun has been changing for | many thousands of years, and the end is ! still a long way off. “The excessive heat this summer was, 1 believe, due to an unusual condition of the sun, which made itself manifest in the eclipse which was watched with such interest by astronomers all over the | world. { *“1 was in charge of one of the parties sent South to observe the eclipse where | | it was total. 1t was noticed there that { the corona, that peculiar light which the sun throws out In slanting rays, was more clearly defined and larger than ever observed before. % | “According to astronomical calculations the rays of light extended much farther than any other previous report accounts for and were brighter. After careful in- | vestigation I came to the conclusion that | the unusual size and_brilllancy of the corona was the cause of the extraordinary heat all over the northern hemisphere this | summer. It necessarily follows that the | more force the sun expends the sooner it will burn itself out. The closest esti- S S R GRS mate T can make as to when our bright and shining light will forsake us is 3,000,000 | years in the future. |, “There is a diversity of opinion as to | just how the end of the world will come | to pass, and a great many storles have been set afloat frightening the timid and credulous into a bellef that the day of judgment was very near. Most of these scares have been based upon the theory that the sun was moving rapidly toward | the earth and would eventually collide | With our terrestrial planet. “There is_still another theory, and ithis | is the one I hold—that the earth will not | be burned, but frozen; that our world will | not be destroyed, but merely made unin- | habitable by the excess of cold. ““This will, according to my discoveries, come to pass because of the exhaustion of the sun's encrgy. Old Sol has already expended eight-ninths of its energy. and | at the present rate of heat increase it will take no more than 3,000,000 years for the remaining one-ninth to burn out, “The entire solar system will then be bathed in perpetual night. The earth and its sister planets will continue, however, to travel on their orbits around the dark- ened sun, which will still remain the cen- ter of the solar system. “‘Despite the eternal darkness which will relgn when the sun has burned itself out, | man couid still continue to live on this | gloomy earth if it were all he had to | cope with, for long before 3,000,000 years | have elapsed mwan will have learned to | manufacture artificial daylight. But when the light of the sun is withdrawn the heat | which makes life possible will go with it This, jt is my bellef, wili be what is termed the en: of the world. | _“In my theory of the extermination of the Pl!‘!z by cold I am backed by Poulliet, | who some sixty vears ago found by ex- | peri on the solar radiation that as | cording®y the amount of heat annually lost by the sun it would.take but 2180 years before its present force began to lessen. Later Langley decreased, by ex- perlmenits, the loss of heat until he deter- mined that the present force would endure for 2300 yvears and that it would be over 2.000,000 ears before plunged into total darkness.” i | tPEkSONXL MENTION. | «Governor Henry T. Gage Is at the Pai- ace. C. W. Pendleton of Los Angeles is at the Grand. ‘ E. H. Cox, a Madera banker, is at the Palace. Dr. W. J. Younger of Paris is at the Palace. Rev. W. L. Clark of Benicia is at the California. John Hickman, a Nevada cattle man, is at the Russ., Thomas E. Hughes, a Mexico mining man, is at the Lick. C. E. Johnson and wife of Yreka are at the Grand for o few-days. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Pritchard Jr. of Sac- ramento are at the Grand, J. M. Canty, a fruit merchant of Gray- son, is at the Grand, | S. M. Griffiths and W. H. McKenzle of Fresno are registered at the Occidental. | W. D. Tillotson, a Redding attorney and mining man, is registered at the Grand. Jonathan C. Royle, a capitalist of Sait | Lake City, is at the Occidental with his wife. Lee Parker, a Spokane merchant, is spending a few days at the Lick with his | wife. Captain John Irving is registered at the Palace. He is interested In Yukon River transportation. McDonald Douglass, assistant manager of the Hughes House at Tucson, is regis- tered at the Lick. Eugene E. Smith, ex-secretary of the late arrivals at the Grand. General George W. Davis and Captain | F. L. Parker are at the Occidental. They | are on thelr way to thc Philippines. o i CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dee. 28.—L. McCreery is at the Gordon; J. McMullen is at the Shoreham; T. Magee is at the Raleigh. All are from San Francisco. —_——————————— Laugh With The Call. Rocklin Representative, ' George W. Peck, ex-Governor of Wis- consin and author of “Peck’s Bad Boy,” is 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,” which will appear from time to time in the Sunday ‘World and also in the San Franclsco Sun- | day Call. “Peck’s Bad Boy" ca more 5“““‘!0 laughter than any like| publica- know. 1t was a for the blues. k'S " prom- ises to be more funny. Bunday San Francisco Call laugh and grow fat. ‘McKeesport (Pa.) News, The ni of the Fran- cm Sunday, is pne of the masterpleces Irate Father—I never o my - be your father' didn’t| need n%m i A : | ANSWERS TO QUERIES Pacific Coast Jockey Club, is among the | i T | CHAMBERLAIN-M. R. H., Sheep | | Raneh, Cal. Joseph Chamberlain was not, l‘a Lord of England at the time of the | breaking out of the South African war. | | e | ,ROAD COMMISSIONER—C., San Ma- | |#eo, Cal. In California the County Super- | visors - are the Road Commissioners of | thelr respective counties. They discharge | the duties of that office’ without compen- sation. . | BANK COMMISSIONERS—H. J. M., | City. The Bank Commissioners will lis- | ten to any complaint you may have to | make about the conduct of a bank and in- | vestigate If there is any merit in the com- | plaint. Office of the commission is at 53 | alifornia street, San Francisco. | TRAIN ROBBERY—C. R., City. If this | correspondent, who neglected to give his | address, so that he might be communi- | cated with, will tell where and aboui when the train robbery he seeks informa- | tion"about occurred the answer asked for will be furnished in this department. | TO PROBATE A WILL—Reader, West Side, Cal. The law does not permit any one to practice in the Superior Courts of | | California who has not been admitted as | {an attorney. As the probating of a will | must be in the Superior Court of the | | county in which it is offered, an attorney | must attend to the business. The execu- | tor, unless an attorney, cannot attend to | such a matter. i S s | ELECTRICAL COOKING-M. S. H., City. All sorts of apparatus and utensils are made for convenience in cooking by electricity. An electric oven with a glass door is lighted with incandescent lamps, ‘while the thermometer shows the degree of heat. A visit to any store where scch | are sold will give at a glance to any one | interested the manner in which the lamps are applied to the various utensils. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS—A. 8., Crockett, Cal. If you wish to take the United States Civil Service examination select the department in which you desire a position, write to the clerk of the com- mission in that department and he will, if you send him a stamped and self-ad- dressed envelope, furnish the desired in- formation. As You do not designate the department you seek a position In this | department cannot advise you. BANK DEPOSITS—R. E. C., Cummins- ville, Ohio. The law of California’ rela- tive to the publication of the names of certain depositors in savings banks pri- vides that within fifteen days after the 1st. day of December, 1893, and within fifteen | the iarger part of the the worid was ' days after the 1st of December in each :fifimweh"hen a Ih‘t' ors who have not during a period of ten years made any deposi in which they have an Secount. (¢ bank DRILLING GLASS—G., City. By wet- ting an ordinary drill with petroleum or benzine it will bere through common glass s rapidly as steel. If bore through the 1--“»1':'0-:'1‘:1“'"’“’5 i be first countersunk on each side wit) off S0 as to form a very &t‘thdr:'o‘f sidad pyramid. It has been rece diluted sulphuric ":3::': certained that ective, with less wear of [ B of ITORIAL IN VARIETY Mr. Bryan’'s Gift. Mr. Bryan's gift is as a speaker nthes than a writer. It is his personality anc his oratory that have drawn nundreds of thousands (to listen and applaud. Thes= cannot be presented a an editorial.—IN- DIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Favored Mortals We. Man has lived to see charity deeper and wider in the human breast, time has taught him that every man stands equal in nature, that the lineage of the street urchin goes back just as far as that of the kid-gloved gentleman passing him by that accident and opportunity made over the other. serstition is dead sight of nature’s phemomenon no longer is expressive of evil spirits or angry gods Fortunate, indeed, in the accident of na ture, is the man and woman who breathes as the ninetee —FLORIDA TIMES-UN Mind and Body. There is o play. Boys and - stums. In schoe merely to cultivate time of Elizabeth, when the y lect was fed on the rules of vers but also to cultivate”the body works exceptions: the poor boy poor girl must labor between st make up for the misfortune or the iz ance of their parents. The rule, how is the developniént of a healthy m a healthy body. The new generat the better for it, and the coming ge tions will still more fervently bless encouragement of these sound, humane principles.—BOSTON JOURNAL. A Manufacturing Nation. The evolution of the United States from a raw material to a manufacturing nation is one of the most significant features of the present age of development. It is anticipation of futurs competition, from other raw material areas now rapidly de- veloping, which discounts a danger ready foreseen by shrewd American ex- porters. In 189 the per capita imports of the United States were $13 and the per capita exports about the same. In 190 the per capita imports have fallen to $10 90 and the exports nave increased to $14 92. While there is an increase In the American exports of breadstuffs, by far ain is in_manufac- ORK COMMBER- tur: goods. —NEW CTAL ADVERTISER. The Nome Scandal. it is high time that the Government in- vestigated the Cape Nome receiverships. The resolution of Mr. Frick of Indiana. introduced into the House last week, pro- vides an expensive way of l“mm!u-lem facts, but it Is a move in the right - tion. The Treasury Department ought to have some authority by which the matter can be approached and the Attorney Gen- eral’'s Department surelg. could provide a_meang of getting at t truth. The charges against Judge Noyes are so seri- ous that it is a disgrace that he shguld remain at his post while they are un- answered. In the United States proper no Federal Judge could afford to remain silent under the accusations made agains: him.—PROVIDENCE JOURNAL. Ratio of Representation. Undoubtedly it is desirable for repre- sentation in State Legislatures to be based on a much smaller ratio than in Congress It would be absurd to Send to Washington such an army of Representatives as the Natfon would have on the Connecticut basis, or even on that of New York. It is doubtful even if it is desirable to swell our Congress to the numerical sizé of those of Europe. The British Parliament needs to be chosen on a smaller ratio, and thus to be “‘nearer to the people,” than our Congress, because it largely fulfills the functions of Congress and State Leg islatures In one. The same may be said of the French and German houses. The experience of the latter two countries has been that larger es are apt to be un- wieldly and ineffective, rlotous. Such considerations will doubtless be en- tertained at Washington. It may be deemed best slightly to increase the num- ber of Representatives; but the ratio will probably be still more increased. To en- large the House In proportion with the growth of the Nation would be Impracti- cable. -NEW YORK TRIBUNE. +* FROM PARIS. + - i FASHION HINT i | # SMART WALKING DRESS. The walking dress represented in the Mustration is of blue hussar cloth. trimmed with brandenburgs and a “de. passant™ of astrakhan. The skirt has flat pieats, sewn half way down, on the sides. * —_———— Plenty of fruit at Townsend's. ® —————— All new stock of candies at Townsend's. * —_——— New fire-etched boxes at Townsend's. * —_———— Choice candies, Townsend's,Palace Hotel.* ——————— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's* ———————— Thousands of pounds of Californta glace fruits all ready for shipping. Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend’s famous broken and plain mixed candy, 2 Ibs 2%5c. 629 Market street.” —_————— Time to express Townsend's California glace fruits to your Eastern friends. * oo it ke Townsend's California glace fruits. 50e a Eound. in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- ets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. * Specfal information supplied daily to business houses and public men b‘ the Press Cli Bureau <Mlenl'&)£m ont- gomery st Telephone Main terprising St. Louls tobacconist A:n;:n Tmported cigars of my own v ‘manufacture.” — e — The California Limited morning, January Ist, will Jeave dally thereafier at same hour. will be a duplicate of the Limited of last sea- 41 been provided. contain ten sections and two drawing The Observation Car, with it3 ¥ i