The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1901. The TUESDAY JANUARY 1, 1921 MEETING OF THE CENTURIES. HILE it is true that every day is the begin- ning of a year and of a century, the definite division and measure of time invests one day JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Commuciestions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. 3 SRS OFFICE Telephone Press 203 Single Copies. 5 Cen Terms by Mail. Inclading Postage: DAILY CALJ, (incluing Sunday), ope year..... ‘ DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months DAILY CALL Uncluding DAILY CALL—By Single Month EUNDAY CALL, One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are authorized fo receive subscriptions. Sampie coples will be f Mail subscrfbers. in ord particolar to give both NEW to mneure & prompt and OAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Toreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Obieago, Long Distance Tel ne “‘Central 2615."') NEW YORE . €. CARLTON NT « ...Herald Square NEW YORK R STEPHEN B. SMITH. . NTATIVE 30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK Waldorf-Astorta Hotel; A, Breptavo, 51 Uniop Square: Murr Hotel WASHINGTON RTON D. C.) OFF BRANCH OFFICES—:2] Montgomery, corner of Clay, open nth, open until 8 o ucky, opeh unttl 9 o'clock AMUSEMENTS. tant gather- indu: the interes! for its des ct the decadence 1 price to the con- ought about by the de- ke our meat domain, used When destroyed potentialities, and the n sense ‘enough in the d begin the grocess cor that it has and the price on is limited ro t Lake City con- fornia should We believe the Governor has gates and the State Agricul- entation, as are the and the railroads. bject. Not only ou~ is in peril, but a possible ex- t proportions. The stock ranger, e transportation companies have he mattér and should work at the State is represented? pply FROM LAKE TO OCE@N. ) managed to launch before the e of the nineteenth century a ship designed e the vovage from the lakes actoss the rope. It is a step toward the accomplish- object upon which Chicago enterprise bent. So eager have they been to ity into direct communication with the n some way that most Chicagoans would have ood deal of regret had the century closed with- something done in the way of its ac- lishment. b ew boats will be freighters only, but -will bably have the effect of cutting down te a con- jerable extent the trade New York has carried on he way of handling Chicago’s traffic with'the Old As grain and other freight shipped by the y launched vessel and others like it will not have break bulk or be transshipped, therq will be a large ving as compared to the present mode of shipping. d New York will have to offer counterbalancing antages or lose the trade. 2 or some time past there has been much opposition in New York to the project for a deep waterway from the lakes to the ocean on account of the loss of business the construction of such a canal might entail. The operation of the new -vessels will show whether the fears of New Yorkers in that respect. are well founded. As four of them are to be engaged in the trade and as each of them has a capafity of 7000 tons, it will be seen they will be able to very thoroughly test Chicago’s fitness to compete with New York as an importing city; and the results may materially hasten the construction of the -proposed deep-water canal by demonstrating the benefits direct communication from the lakes-to the sea will be to the people of the Mississippi Valley. D — In removing competent clerks, efficient: deputiés and experienced subordinates,”and substituting- for them men who giye no indicition in their services that they know any business but -that of deception, local civil service has fulfilled the prediction of Highness the Mayor that it woyld 4 b tion in San Francisco. : The revelations of 2 certain tml recently held i; one of our Jocal courts indicate. very clearly thar woman as her own defender is a <lfining example of orld. i create a revolu- everything which is not conducive to a tipping of the ‘!I done this and so has | permit the flocks and herds | they feed o The | with a certain noble interest. That cne day is the one that begin as the hand on the dial moves the smallest fraction past midnight on the 31st.of December, in.all countries that keep the Gregorian calendar. | Last night two centuries met at midnight, one to cease, the other to begin. Since life was conscious | of time, countless centuries have met at one point and second of time, but never has one rolled up its scroll as filled with the record of man's progress and deeds accomplished as the nineteenth, and none has received from its predecessor such a heritage and | held out such exalted promise as the twentieth, of | our era. The century that ceased so recently that its pulses are not yet still was peculiarly one devoted to ! the application of all the knowledge that man had ar tained before, and to the addition of wisdom and lcarning to the heritage of things known, which | it inherited g, hundred years ago. The world we live !in now is 56 different from that of 1800 that we could not endure the conditions of that far time. The nineteenth century was nearly a score of years old before gas was used for lighting. But it reached | its end in a blaze of clectric light, and the watchers and the revelers who celebrated its close rode home in cars lighted and moved by the same agency. | The century came in with travel and transporta- | tion carried on by horses and cattle and sail ships. | When it went out men traveled and goods were car- ried in fast trains, capable of making a mile a min- ute, and in great steamships that nearly repeat oan | the sea the speed of movement on the land. The luxuries of a hundred years ago, limited to the zre now ‘the comforts ireely enjoyed by all Since the forehead of man rose above his ears there s not been as general diffusion of learning as that With lezrning has gone hand in hand a greater recognition of popular rights. tury’s beginning the ¥ight of the people to some voice few, century saw. in their government was recognized, practically, only | in this country, and our Government was an experi- ment only thirteen years old. Now every great Government except Russia has a parliament through which the popular will is impressed upon its policies. We may fairly take to ourselves the credit .of the century’s great progress in the science of govern ment. Our example made men everywhere edger to have a voice in their political destiny, to influence the measure of taxation they should endure, and con- trol the purpose for which their stibstance is spent. record, One great fact stands out in the century and that is the controlling influence of the races which speak the English language. Philologists know that the adolescence of races is marked by the growth of the language they speak. Rome grew while the Igtin tongue grew. it assimilated from other languages, absorbed them and added to its vocabulary and its vigor, the race i that used it grew. And then they died together, not in a day, nor a century, but they died. The English language during the last century so erriched its vocabulary, and was so fertilized by the humus of speech long dead, that the plain people have to-day a larger vocabulary than students and | scholars could command a hundred years ago. There- | fore all who speak this language think more than they did then. Langnage is but a transportation facil- ity for thought, and with increase in facility comes crlargement of that which uses it. The century that is now aged less than a day comes in with all the possibilities that are in agencies yet untried, though known. From the last one it takes liquid air; the conservation of solar heat; the harnessinz of the power of the tides. It knows all about the conservation of force and the transmission of energy, but must upply that knowledge to forces not yet utilized. If it solve these problems it m®y | production since 1800. The centuries have met, sa.ated and parted. The | old one is history. The new one is hope. s e st LIGHT IN THE PHILIPPINES. : the problems which confront the country at the beginning of the new century .is that of our aealings ‘with the Philippines. There is much of gloom upon the prospects there, but evidence is not E of the questions which will engage the | lacking of a coming light that will clear%he skies. If! affairs be not well now, there is promise at least they will improve from this time on. | The dark side of the situation is fairly well under- stood. Aguinaldo shows no signs of either making an unconditional surrender or of accepting any con- | ciliatory tactics on our part. His followers, though | weak in a ta require us to maintain an army of 60,000 men in | the islands to keep the prestige of authority. As for }disturbed, that appears for the present to be an im- possibility. There are other dark spots. Recent reports to the War Department are to the effect that attempts to supplant Mexican silver in the islands with Ameri- can money have been futile, that the alien contract labor law of the United States could not be enforced there without injuring large agricultural interests; and that various- efforts to establish civil administration under American supervision have failed. ‘! The brighter side of the problem is presented in a | recent letter from Colonel Parker, who is in com- {mand of a province in Southeastern Luzon, with a population of about 50,000. The letter, written to a friend, was published in the Outlook. The writer says: “Things are gradually progressing here. We have. Mayors and police in all the. towns of the province, and also schools. I'detail a soldier to téach lects; Bicol, Visayan, ilolan and Tagal, the text books have always been Spanish. I trust that the commis- sion will not allow this system to be perpetuated. .I propose_that in the schools of this district the chil- dren shall learn geography, history and arithmetic in English, as they desire to do.” The notable -point in the statement is -the an- nouncement that the children desire to learn in Eng- lish.. Their willingness implies an-almost equal will- inghess on the part of the.parents, for if the children were taught at home to hate Americans, or to be op- posed to American ways, they would show the resuft everything American i%t‘rodpced into their lessons. As an illustration the .temper of the people toward American instruction, Colonel Parker says: '2. one of the schools :fl):u;'-fimm here the children, taught two hours y by a soldier, orally, (. 1 have no books) _have learned in six weeks By~ ‘English words, and can even sustain a short conversa- tion, their accent being ahd distinet. Nowadays, as ride about my province I am saluted at every door by ttle childish voices up, “Good morning, » 1 stop and speak with in English. They answer . At the cen- | | ishment was only a term in the penitentiary, what might | fifteen—young Cudal:y's age—if detection meant a sen- As long | obsolete the steam engine, and antiquate all the de- | | vices for power that have revolutionized economic | attention of zll patriots in pondering upon | military sense, are still so numerous as | making a well ordered peace and keeping ‘it un- | English in each school and the children are making | | great progress. -On-account of the confusion’ of did- | of that teaching by sullenness and by antagonism to | over 500 me proudly from their little store of newly acquired knowledge, and as I ride away they always cry out, “Good-by, colonel.” The boys are all our friends. They play with the soldiers and talk to them. There is no use for Spanish here any longer. those who re- celved an unusual education can talk and read Spanish. There is, then, that much of light in Luzon, and it is a light that promises great things, for when the children learn our language they will learn our ideas and something of our social and political aspirations. They wili then seek better conditions of life and improve in industry and morals. received an anonymous létter warning him | M that if he persist in his efforts to capture the | criminals who kidnaped his son and extorted a ran- som of $25,000 for his release, the “job will be fin- ished with a bullet.” The threat of murder is thus added to the original offense, and another incentive lis given to the immediate adoption of legislation tending to the suppression of that form of crime. | ——— PENALTY FOR KIONAPING. R. CUDAHY of Omaha is reported to have som, and has tentatively suggested a death penalty | for the offense. where; and it is reported that in Illinois a strong movement has been started to procure legislation to | that effect. By reason of that movement the issus has taken a definite shape in the East, and is being extensively discussed there. It was not to be expected that all should take the same view of the question. There are many voices in opposition to the ‘death penalty for such an offense. It is argued by the Baltimore American, for example, that the impcsition of an extreme pen- | alty might produce more evil than good. It says: Kidnaping differs from other crimes usually pun- ished with death, fn that the perpetrator, after the com- | | mission of the act, has it in his own power to inflict still | | greater injury if the exigencies of his escape from cap- | ture require it. The prevailing theory in the Charlie Ross case is that the little boy was put to death when it became evident to his captors that his existence in | the flesh embarrassed their chances of evading detection. If such a result covld follow—and if it didn't follow in the Ross case it might in some other—when the child was of tender years (four years old), and when the pun- not be done by unscrupulous brigands with a boy of | tence to the gallows? It is just possible that punishment may be made so extreme as to defeat its own ends. There is the further danger that, instead of acting as a deterrent of crime, the death penalty may, as it does so often in murder cases, act as a deterrent to conviction | on anything but the strongest form of direct evidence. The views thus presented must be given serious consideration. American society is confronted by a | serious evil, one with which we have had .little ex- perience; and consequently one whose most effective punishment is unknown to us. The one thing certain is that something should be done at once. Already there have come reports of other attempts at kidnap- | irg, the criminals being doubtless incited thereto by | the success obtained in the Omaha case. Nor can it be questioned that the danger is great. If a boy of 15 can be abducted from a public highway in a well-settled district and carried off with impunity in one locality, the same thing can be done elsewhers. | By some means the law should deal out to_ it a stern | justice that will deter criminals from attempting it. S Parkhurst did not have ,an opportunity to bring out this morning his ideal newspaper, so that it might be seen in contrast with that which | Alired Harmsworth, editor and proprietor of the | London Mail, is to get out for the New York World. | The ideal papér of the zealous moral ‘reformer and | the ideal paper of the practical editor appearing on | the same day would furnish an interesting and pos- sibly an instructive cbject lesson for editors and re- formers alike. In the absence of any production from Dr. Park- hurst, we shall have to set against the paper which Harmsworth will present the experience of Rev. Dr. Parker of the City Temple, London, who for | & week had charge of the London Sun and conducted it according to his notion. -Parker was not satisfied | with the result of his efforts and concluded that the | public and not the press is to blame for whatever | may be deserving of blame in the modern newspaper. | A dispatch giving a report of his allusion to the i subject in his Christm:s sermon says: | His remarks revealed that he was disappointed by | the fallure of his anti-gambling crus de in that paper. | He said he almost feared it was impossible for a daily | paper to live without gambling. Christians were dead or it would not be so. A theoretical Christlan lald aside hia Bible and hymnbook to follow the betting news. A Christian. of this type barred the greatest reformation | the world would ever see, namely in the region ot jour- nalism. Continuing, Mr. Parker sald: “The letters I re- ceived from nominal Christians during my editorship dis- gusted me. Christians are becoming invalids, and the :;_h:;cl.l is a hospital. Nurses are wanted. - Manliness is ead. . That, then, is the result of trying to run an ideal newspaper according to the notions of men who know nothing about newspapers or the newspaper public. Men are not as bad nor are Christians as weak as Dr. Parker reports them. There is much of virtue and of intelligence in the world, as all true rewspaper men know. The trouble with Parker is that he tried to reach that intelligence and appealed to that virtue in the wrong way. The moral of the les- | son is that if the ideal cewspaper is to be developed in | this century it will be developed under the direction and according to the ideals of newspaper men. THE IDEAL NEWSPAPER OMETHING of regret may be felt that Dr. | Although the postal card was designed for the pur- pose of convenience the report of the Postmaster Gen- | eral shows that during the past year there‘\ym sent through the mails six letters for every postal card. It appears we are neither so lazy nor so economical as some folks think. We would rather write a letter and pay two cents postage than to scrawl a postal card and send it for a cent. 15 Colombia insists that the sovereignty of the Amer- ican’.isthmian canal shall be hers in order that she | shall' be the bulwark against which the aggressions | of greedy nations shall not avail. She must feel like the little boy who wanted to go out and whip the world and was brought back to his senses by an ap- plication of the maternal slipper. —_— . The Call has poimed out that under our existing [’ statutes no adequate punishment is provided for the crime of abduction with the intent of extorting ran- | A similar view has been taken else- | SLOT MACHINES PLAYED BY THE WILY ANCIENTS Herd, Who Flourished Before Christ, Invented a Device That Responded Only to Coin. | | | | | | | | SAY 1L PUT YER NEXT- ) * WON ‘£ IN DAT ARELY fifteen years have elapsed since the automatic coin-in-the-slot machine first appeared in public placés to supply customers with ci- garettes, matches, -chocolates, sweetmeats, stationery, ete., while in its latest phase this contrivance—in conjunc- tion with a lighted street lamp—has been made available for the automatic purvey- ‘ance of hot water and hot drinks. Surely it may be thought this extremely utilita- rian invention can only have been due to the ingenuity of the present generation; and it is, therefore, startling to learn that the automatic machine is one of the old- est projects in everyday use, since it was known a century before Christ, being the invention of that great mathematician, .He!sfi. of Alexandria, who flourished B. C. 17-81. | ways. Hero, according to Good Words, invent- | ed what he termed a “sacrificial vessel, | which_flows only when money is intro- duced,” and a full description of this ap- paratus contained in his famous treat- ise on pneumatics, reissued by Thevenot, royal librarian to Louis XIV of France, in the vear 1692. *If inte certain sacrificial 1 of 5 drachmas be thrown, vessels a water or w shall flow out and sur- round them,” so runs the postulat The expl he mechanism in- side the vase was very simple; the vessel contains. near to the 1 the wine, and ed a vertical rod about which turns a_well-balanced beam. | When the coin is dropped through the slot it falls on one end of this horizontad | beam, which, being depressed, opens a | valve suspended from a chain at the other | end, and the wine commences to flow out through a pipe. One hundred years ago & man could not take a ride on a steamboat. He could not go from Washington to New York in a few hours. He had never heard of a Pullman palace car porter. He had never seen an electric light or dreamed of an electric car. He could not make a cake of ice as big as a lump of sugar. He could not cool himself under an elec- tric fan or warm himself at a steam ra- diator, He could not send a telegram. He could not talk through the telephone, and he had never heard of the hello girl. He had never seen a shirt waist or a rainy-day skirt. He could not ride a bicycle He could not call in a stenographer and dictate a letter. He had never received a typewritten communication. No matter how grave a crime he com- mitted, he never could be electrocuted for it. He had never heard of the germ theory { or worried over bacilli and bacteria. He had never looked pleasant before a photographer or had his picture taken. He wouldn't have known a complex lens from a jinrickisha. He had never heard of Neptune and C eres. He couldn't measure the distance be- tween the stars. ‘He had heard of oxygen, but would not have understood an allusion to liquid air. He had never heard of the molecular constitution of matter, or the conserva- ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. | tion of energy, and did not know that | he was descended from & monkey. He could not predict a rain or announce the coming of a cold wave or a cyclone. He was aware that there was such a thing as electricity, but looked upon it as | a germ. | He never heard a phonograph talk or | saw a kinetoscope turn out a prize fight. | He never saw through a Webster's Un- | abridged Dictionary with the aid of a | Roentgen ray. | g He had never taken a ride in an eleva- or, He had never imagined such a thing a | type-setting machine or a typewriter. | Hle bad never used anything but a wood- | en plow. | e had never seen his wife using a| sewing machine. He had never struck a match on his pants or anything else. He had never hung up agalnst a gas- | post. He had never /seen a searchlight or drunk a_cocktail. He couldn’t take an anesthetic and have his_leg cut off without feeling it. He knew nothing of geology because geology knew nothing of ltsel{’ He had never visited a free library. He had never purchased a ten-cent mag- azine, which would have been regarded as a miracle of art. }éelmuld not buy a paper for a nickel and learn everything that had happened the day before all over the world. o He had never crossed an iron bridge or_traveled in a public omnibus. H:] had never salled through the Suez canal. He had never used a deadly explosive or tried “smokeless powder. In short, there were several things that he could not do and several things he did not know. PERSONAL MENTION. J. C. Muir of Ukiah is at the Lick. George E. Goodman Jr. of Napa is at the Palace. Dr. A. C. Winn of Marin County is at the California. T. L. Reed and H. M. Reed of Reedly are at the Grand.. Chaplain James L. Smiley, U. 6. A, is at the Occldental. Dr. R. B. Ward of the United States navy is at the Palace. Captain E. P. Newhall, a Grayson min- ing man, is at the Russ. R. G. Morrison, an oll operator at Ba- kersfleld, s at the California. H. A. Jastro, a prominent Bakersfleld ‘business man, is at the Grand. Frank H. Webster, a Minturn vineyard- ist, is registered at the Grand. 1. A. Nadeau of Seattle, general agent for the Northern Pacific, s at the Occi- dental. ‘W. J. Hollingsworth, a prominent Los Angeles real estate man, is at the Occl- dental. Robert G. Barton, proprietor of the - ton Opera-house at Fresno, is registered at the California. Governor Gage left the city for Los An- les Bunday afternoon, expecting to re- next Thursday. Frank P. Flint, United States Attorney for the Southern Distriot of California, ar- rived in the city yesterday. Dr. Bertha A. H. Saunders, wife of Cap- tain Saunders of the Pacific Mail, is at the Occldental after an absence of six months attending the Paris Exposition. Mrs. R. B. Paddock, wife of Major Pad- dock, located at Manila, came in on the transport Grant yesterday, and will leave in a day or two for Chicago, her home. George Clarke, who has been superin- tendent of the Pullman Company at Oak- land pler for twelve years, has been ap- The old-time assessment system by which subordi- | nates in public offices were forced to make holiday presents to their superiors seems this year to have the deputies in the form of dismissal for “the good of the service.” * 5 < 7 e T The Oaklander who sliced off his thumb while try- ing to cut for himself a bit of free lunch the other day would probably resent a tion that he was overcome by some hidden prompting which leads to cannibalism. The venturesome hunters who narrowly escaped death in a raging torrent in Dry Creek would prob- “ably like to meet the idiot who gave th‘lt name to the stream. pointed superintendent of the Chicago di- vision. He leaves for the East to-morrow morning. Commander Drake, who was to have been reversed. The “packages” have been handed to |%ailed on the Coptic several days but ‘who was detalned at the last the serious illness of his wife, is at the Occidental with Mrs. Drake, she having recovered. They will leave for the Orlent on the next steamship. CALIFORNTANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, Dee. 3L.—T. Dickson is o b ANSWERS TO QUERIES TWO HOTELS—8.,, City. The Palace Hotel was opened in 1875 and the Bald- ‘win in 1877, A HAND IN CRIBBAGE—Sub, Gold Run, Cal. Three sevens,.one six and eight turned up, in ecribbage, count twenty-one points. TO SOUTH AMBERICA—A. P. G.,, Mor- ristown, Tenn. Steamers for Guayaquil and other South American ports leave \!‘t‘lr:gl!co on the $th and 18th of each ‘month. HUMP ON THE NOSE-B. G., City. A hump on the nose is the formation of na- ture. This department does not know of home treatment that will reduce such a hump. ON THE PHILADELPHIA-M. V., City. For such information as you desire about your son who is on the United States steamship Philadelphia, you should address a letter to the executive officer, and if the information you seek can be given it will be sent to you. A GIFT DEED—A. 8, City. A person the owner of a piece of realty may exe- cute a deed of gift of the same to a child for love and affection as a consis tion, but if the party making such gift Hoes not want the child to come in possession of | ‘; L | pledgea to give Cuba a ci | pendence, | survives among. | ery friendly and | delight in it as | languages and the delicate | be great. the property during the life time of the ‘maker, the party executing the deed can place it in escrow with a third party, to be held until the dv.:r?;l of '.hnm grantor, when it shall be dell to the grantee, and it can then be placed on record. Or the party may make an absolute deed to the child if such is of age to enter into a contract. In such a case there must be a consideration named in the deed. It may be as low as a dollar. A party ine to make such a conveyance should place the matter in the hands of a repu- ‘who will prepare the hould be. papers as IMMIGRATION—-H. J. F.. Decoto, Cal. An {mmigrant coming to the United States from a foreign country does not have to pay a bonus before he can land. You probably have in mind the follow- ing from the law that governs the land- ing of ts, which’ requires that et 2 e, Tt lc&t of on board lndm!'fl. ¥ello:vlu information as to each immi- grant: * and sex; 38, L name, nge and i wheiher marrjed ity: the last States; the lestination, if any, beyond the llmvl landing: whether ha thi to dest. 5 immigrant d his own or whether it has been paid by any of ment; whefher in possession of money, ot $0, and how much o, Jews; w to join_a relative, and £0, Wha! ve, before in United and : whether ever P tet whabher wndes contract ‘:" oem labor 3 the fi"&l or %0 from ‘where: niform Divorce Laws. The present Congress may be asked to (‘onlidcpr the expediency of uniform mar- riage and divorce laws.' The ease of American divorce is one of the national jokes. There is an apportunity for 113 legislation ' in - that direction.—OHI! STATE JOURNAL. Our Manifest Destiny. There are many other Orfental countries besides China whose wants are being de- veloped by civilization and which we are in the best position to supply. Our ‘“mani- fest destiny” is taking us across the Pa- cific Ocean as well as to the South.— LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL. Give Cuba a Chance. The United States stands definitely hance to try inde- and President McKinléey has given every proof of a desire to fulfill this pledge. Any utterance casting doubt upen its ultimate fulfiliment places the admin- istration in a false light and makes the of Cuban reconstruction more diffi L:\:ll.—L'H]UAGO TIMES-HERALD. Akin to Savagery. A ut of college the barbarism of ng - e own men. Nearly ev- enevnlentd ordler has its rite’of initiation based on ridiculous form of cruelty and torture, and middle-aged, sober business men seem to take the same the boys. Our boasted so deep after all and you will 't need to ORK civilization is not Scratch a man deepdenough“u find a savage—and yo! scratch & boy to find one.—NEW ¥ WORLD. Fine Distinctions. A good deal is sald about the “fine dis- ' the words of foreign unc"gm among e By meaning obtainable by thelr correct use. But the very persons who make these fine points are advocates of the loosest use of our own speech and defend all sorts of misuse of words on the ground that it is “justifed by custom’ which makes language. These are the people to whom we are indebted for such en- richments of our tongue as ‘peopls of both sexes” and “politicians of both par- ties.” But the last is not sueh a_rarity | as the first. —~HARTFEORD COURANT. | Advantages of Metric System. The practical advantuges of the metric stem, if not numerous, would certainly It would simplify the count- less computations of business in two A decimal system of welghts and measures, like the decimal system of coinage, facilitates all calculations in which fractions are involved. And the use of the same standard ch prevails in countries from which we import largely would render it unnecessary to comvert meters into yards and liters into bushels or gallons. It must bs remembered that at the present time an Immense quantity of merchandise importea from Burope is hought by one standard and seld by an- other—NEW YORK TRIBUNE. More Sailors Wanted. England, with her superfor naval re- sources, IS mever above criticism in the House of Commons, but, compared with the United States, she 13 always in a state of preparedness. Her difficulty is in finding sailors to man an establishment which includes hundreds of war vessels. In this country there is no lack of men to serve, but a lack of the necessary leg- islation to enlist them. The needs of the army may be greater for the moment, for the pacification of the Philippines is press- ing; but in any war which can be con ceived of the navy would become of the greater importance. There must be legis- lation for both‘ establishments before Congress- adjourns in March, and liberal- ity would be the truest wisdom.—BAN- GOR NEWS. Bryan Don’t Understand. No Democrat will be in the least sur- prised to learn that Mr. Cleveland's stir- ring adjuration is wholly unintelligible to W. J. Bryan. Re-establish the old-time faith? I do not know what that means, says Mr. Bryan. Mr. Cleveland must ex- piain. Return from our wanderings? How could Bryan be expected to under- stand that? He never saw the old home, and for the life of him could not tell where it stands. Nor can the nomadic adventurer comprehend the reference to strange symbols on banners borne by un- famifar hands. He never stood beneath the old flag. Any banner, any symbols will do for him, if they are changeable at his will, and ‘the chieftain of a rabbles army recruited on the march is never too particular about the hands that hold up the stafft.—NEW YORK TIMES. Naturally Belongs to Us. ‘We have long belleved that Cuba would logically and inevitably become a part and parcel of the United States, as a re sult of the war with Spain. We also be- lieve that this will be with the full cor sent of the great majority of the Cubans themselves. The conservative men of the fsland must have mado up thelr minds that it would be a hazardous undertaking for the Cubans to set up an independert republic, and ws feel sure that all such people, down In their hearts, prefer to-oe a part of & great country like the United States than to be independent and without the protaction of our flag. 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