The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1901, Page 4

THE Che 2% Call. ARY 2, 1901 WEDNESDAY.......c000s...-.JANU JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Mazager. MANAGIIR'S OFFICE. . .o ‘TQISIIIDIQ Press 204 P1LBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevemmon St. Telep! Per Week. DATLY CALL (incluing Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DATLY CALL—By Single Mont : SUNDAY CALL, One Year.... WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. - All postmasters are authorized to receive criptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers In ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. e OAKLAND OFFICE L1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS, Masager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chisago, (ong Distance Telephone “Central 2618.°) YORK CORRESPONDENT: Herald Square NEW C. €. CARLTON. . NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. .. . .30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, & Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel WASHINGTON (D, € ) OFFICE....1408 G §t., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—:2T Montgomery, corner of Clay, open unt!] 930 o'clock. 3% Hayes, open until 9:30.o'clock. 633 McAllister, open unt!] 3:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin. open un‘ll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 30 o'clock Market, @orner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1086 Valencia. opea ety clock. 105 Eleventh, open until § o'clock, cor ner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock ~ AMUSEMENTS. e Heart of Maryland and A UC"[IOfi SA;.ES. e caprice or tem per of the ma he ay be reviled or struc new t he is: called The uppér s of‘the plebes es of hoi ch the plebe was selects a nghter h plebe h, under such cir- ere are m es in w stances, the plebe has been beaten info insensi- i the countsy -is ‘interested. in: know this rough house, horse play. burning hot grease, beating into a jelly, is necessary to make and a gentlema It will want to know, whether young men are sent to West Point to as servants in a mefial capacity to the upper class 1 require this? - If so they. propriety. in making a That should be. part of the training of 1t is necessary to his irdependence and his in Theré is no humilia- tion in his doing such service for himself. - But there is unnecessary humiliation and shame in compelling whethe s own room work. soldier. iative. cadet do him to be kicked around like a dog in the performance | of such service for those who have no right to exact it from him which was once so prevalent in English schools. West Point has shown sorpe symiptoms that need attention. There were grounds for tiie: suspicion that Jewish cadets were ostracized and forced out of the academy through race and. religious -prejudice, but it is moforious that none with negro biood are al- Jowed to stay there, though we hive several regi- ments of hegroes in our regular army and white of- ficers object to leading them: All oi these things need looking ifto. . As far'as the negroes are concerned, if we are $6 keep them. in the army there should be no objéction 1o establishing 2 separate school in which to train negro-officers to command them, But the other zbuses at the Point should be sternly dealt with, even: if. every man in an upper class has to be expelled and jarbidden to re turn. 3 —ee : Seattle has been trying the experiment of a wide- open town, and now the law-abiding, self-respecting people of the city have arisen in 2 united demand for a vigilance committee. Chief of Police - Sullivin ought to: congratylate ‘himgelf that his superiors did | not indorse the scheme to tun Chinstown wide open | ir its gambling and social evils. RPN Y One of the most significantly pleasant incidents of the holiday season, to students of the affairs of na- tions, is the conditions existing in France. The Min- istry is at splendid war with itself, and the nation is consequently safe. S 2 5 Spain has decided, after a bitter argument with herself, to have her navy increased. - Even nations, |of price may have appeared at times injurious.to some | like children, are not taught by experience and will insist upon playing with dangerbus toys. Co.; Great Northern Hotel: ino# €st point, 73: 1t is an acute form of the “fagging” | { FORESTS @ND MOISTURE. ' UDGE SPENCER of Susanviile in a lettér to ‘QJ The Call attacks the policy of férest reservation | and denies that forests are a factor in the con- iscrva:ion of mqisture. He says, on the latter point: | “The people of Northern California have only to look | up to our grand old Shasta to see that huge drifts of 1elemal snow looking down upon them are above the | timber Tine, while the great forests around its base | are not only destitute of snow, but present a most | balmy and delightiul atmosphere.” } This is a strange error in regard to the forest | function below the snow line of high mountains. The | forests hold the soil in place, restrict evaporation and | prevent the water from the melting snow becoming a torrent, If Judge Spencer will study tracts that have been stripped of timber, and have been burned over so often that no roots nor forest floor remain, he will find that the soil has slipped away, leaving the bare, rocky ribs of the mountain, over which the water flows ‘in torrents, flooding the streams tem- porarily and leaving them to dry up when the flood ceases. On'the other hani, where the forest is preserved below the snow line the water flows into the soil held in place by the trees, is protected by the forest floor and is delivered through springs and :streams that have a steady and permanent run-off. | The: preservation of forests for the conservation ‘m’ moisture and their good effect upon climate is no | longer ‘an ‘academic question. It is demonstrated. So, teo, their preservation for economic reasons re- | lated to the permanent commercial value of their con- i stant crop of timber is demonstrated. { { | | Heretofore the processes of the American lumber- | man haye beerf destructive. In harvesting a crop of timber that is ripe for the ax and saw he has ruth- lessly destroyed uture crops of timber on the same ground 1e truth of this statement may be seen in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, tliat vast pine region which supplied the lumber and tim- ber-to build the shelter of the many millions of peo- rle who live in the vpper Mississippi Valley. That forest that extended from the Maumee to the Lak: « he Woods grew in a soil adapted to the pro- rack and The lumbertien began at. its edges sawed and burned They cut the ripe crop and by fire destroyed its generations duction”of the white pine, white cedar, tz her: conifers and felled, as they went i successors were as improvident as would ard owner w and apple trees to pic ey e an orch > would cut down his peach their first crop. Reservation of the forest land doe ot mean, economic ige Spencer to think, that use It means that such usz e forests permanent. be cut for commercial when it is fit for such use, but that in cutting it ming on shall not be destroyed, but n, be cut ts tur and use How it ot to be per- »n of trees and de That is all. Er nd intelligent lumbermen are upon this. The good old days of ruthless are pas way, &nd the Gov- on of the forests and permitting e St ions will m their rese on, and 1 have fut iure crops of timber for their use and enjoyment A COMPARISON OF PRICES. EPORTS from Washington give a summary of R a publication i by the Royal Statistical Society of London, showing a comparison of prices ‘in 1800 with those of preceding years. The statistics are e work of Profes Sauerbeck. The statement of v s in the form of index numbers in price during the period from 1867 100 and the relative price in the 1 1880 to 1869 is based thereon. The i articl re computed, but they x zroups: vegetable food, animai nd tea textiles, and in the summary that comes to 1s the prices are given by groups and not for the articlés separately The report shows that for vegetable food the in lex wber for the vear 1880 was 89: for the year 68;. for the y 180 it was 63; in 1896 it 1eached its lowest point, 33: and in 1899 averaged for the vear 60. In animal food, the figure for 1880 was 101; for 1883, 88: for 1890, 82 in 1896 again the low- Sugar, tea and coffee 70: and reached their and in 1809, 79. stood in 1880 at 88: in 1800, Jowest average, 51, in 1898, and in 1899 stood at 53, though for coffee and tea. as shown in the discussion companying the ta 1809 figiires were the st. recorded in th In ‘minerals, the index figure in 180 was 79; in 18Rs. 665 in 1800, Ro; in 1895 it its lowest point, and in 1899 stood at 92, by far the highest point in the twenty years” period, 1880-09, under con- Usideration:’ In textiles the index figure for 1880 was 81: for 1800, 66; and reached the lowest point in 1897 |'and 188, when it stoad in each year at 51, returning in 1800 to-58. In‘the list headed “sundry materials,” !'the index figure for 1880 was 89: for 1883, 76; for 1800, 69, and: reached its lowest point’ in: 1897, when ['stood at'62: and in 809 returned to 65. |' ' Taking::the grand- total of the forty-five articles | ‘considered in- the various classes of vegetable food; animal fo6d; sugar,.coffee and tea: minerals, textiles +2nd’ sundries, the.index figure for 1880 was 88; for { {2 |50 Prufef T Sal_!efl)t:ck is quoted as saying in a dis- ‘eussion iof . the shawing made; by the figures that in 11890 “the: index namber for all commodities was 68, | against 64 in 1898 or thirty-twol per’cent: below the I'standard period of .1867-77, -and. fourteen :per -cent “below’ the ten years, 1878:87, but three per cent above the tables. io reached 1808:the: advance amounted to four points .(or sk and 2 quartér.per cent), while the rise on 1806, the lowest year: 67_6 record. ‘was as much a3 seven points. (or {eleven aid a half per cent). The rise was smaller | this is-explained by the fact that the average advance \for the whole year applied only ta materials; and here ‘principally to mingrals, to a smaller extent to textiles, ‘@ very slight extent to sundry. materials. Articles of food, ‘on the. other hand, were in: the ag- | gregate Tower—an' advantage no doubt to_consumers —and were ‘exactly on a level with 1807, so that ths | advance obtained in 1808 was again lost.” Tt will he noted irom the figures that there has ‘I been a decline during the last twenty years:in'almost everything. necessary to humafi life: it is alo well %known during ~he same time there has been a general rise in wages, consequently while the changes the tendency on the whole has been directly to the advantage of the working classes. It costs less of i |the average of the last ten years. As compared with | than was probably expected by many observers, an-l | |lzbor to support life:than ever before, but | increase of comfort and education there has arisen )among civilized ‘men a demand: for a higher level !nl living than in former times, and consequently the | ! strain and the struggle in the social competition has | | not been in any wise diminished. % | O | burden of debt that rested upon it; and being now as- sured of the permanence of a well established institu- | tion, begins the new century with the prospect of soon holiday season is the report that the Uni- nia, and it would indeed be a matter of deep regret if | we should lose even the smallest of those whose ex- | | istence dates from the days of the pioneers and gives to our educational system a historic continuity from | the foundations of the State dowr to this time. The | University of the Pacific is the oldest college of liberal arts on the coast, having been founded in 1851. It & therefore a monument of what the pioneers of Cali- fornia aimed at even in those early years, and is a | | proof that among the men who ¢ame here were many who did not come merely to get gold; but came to | make homes for themselves and their children, and to | lay the foundations of a great. American common- | wealth. What other purpose could they have had ir | view when they contributed to the establishment of | an institution like the University of the Pacific anl dedicated it to the cause of Ligher education? : Of late years there has been much discussion con- | | | obtaining liberal endowments. | } . | b | | | I We can hardly have too many colleges in Califor- i | | | | cerning the position in our educational work of wha is called “the small college.” By the term is meant institutions like the University f the Pacific, which i in former years would have been accounted the pride of their communities, but which of late have been overshadowed by larige universities on whom States ‘ and millionaires have lavished so much of wealth that i point of buildings, equipment and students they now rank among the greatest of the world. It 'is a 14 queéstion over which authorities differ; but the public | will give'little heed to the controversy, for it is knowna that in this country there is room and need for both. Some of our hest and most wholesome training has | been developed in the smallest colleges, and it will be so to the end -of time, For every purpose it has in view the University of : the Pacific is ideally located. It stands in a cultured community surrounded by other educational institu- tions, such as Santa Clara College, the State Normal School at San Jose, the Notre Dame College for girls the College of Our Lady of Angels, Mount Hamilton Observatory and Stanford University; while within . « few hours’ ride is San Francisco. Under such favor- | ing conditions, the university being now freed from | debt ought to flourish and augment in power and use fulness. It represents the highest educational efforts of one of the great churches of the community and can surely count upon the merhbers of that church for the support needed to maintain it and advance it for all time to come. | SHAFROTH’S IRRIGATION BILL. HAFROTH of Colorado has introduced into | the House of Representatives a bill providing | 5 “for the construction of reservdirs in the ari land States, and for the disposal of the public lands | reclaimed thereby.”” T1r has been referred to the Com- | mittee on Public Lands, and wkile it is not likely to | be adopted at this session, it will serve the purpose of bringing the irrigation problem definitely before Congress. Under the terms of the bill the Geological Survey. | is directed to survey at least four practical reservoir | sites and ¥rrigation ditches from the reservoirs to | the public lands to be irrigated, in each of the arid | land States: and to make a report to the Secretary of | the Interior, who, if he deem the project practicable, | shall have the works constructed, provided that th: | cost of them in any one State shall not exceed | $1,000,000. The States to be considered as arid land | States within the meaning of the act are California, \ Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Mon- tana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South ' Dakota and North:Dakota. The sum of $13,000,000 is to be appropriated for the work. Upon' the completion of eich irrigation project | the lands to be irrigated thereby are to be subject to : homestead entry after notice by the Secretary of the Interior, upon condition that the entryman after mak- ing final proof of settlement shall pay to the Govern- ment the sum of $2 50 an acre; and no single entry shall exceed eighty acres. It is further provided “That when the major part of the land intended to be irrigated from each 1eservoir has been duly located upon as aforesaid, the management of the reservoir and irrigation ditches connected with the’ irrigation project shall be turned over to the said homesteaders, who shall manage and maintain the same either as a Bbody or through a corporatioh to be formed’ by them.” | Tt will be perceived the bill is of an experimental | It provides, aot for the beginning of a com- | prehensive system:of irrigation, but only for making : certain tests. Moreover the terms under which the | tests are to be made are not.of a wholly satisfactory I ! character. Not less than four reservoirs with attend- | ant ditches are to be constructed in each State, and vet the total expenditure for the State is not to ex- ceed $1,000,000. ::That will be an average of but $250,000 for each set of works. It is safe to say befora- ' hand that such tests will not be adequate to determine ! the problem of reclaiming our arid lands. Tt will be !but a repetition of that scattered and wasteful ex- | penditure which has sc often .marked the undertak- ing of Governmental work. ‘Many reservairs will be _Degun, none of them will fully conserve the waters of the district, and ome of them may never be com- pletely finiched. i Even as it is, however, the bill merits ¢ommenda- tion, If serves atileast to raise the question of con- erving ‘our flood :waters and' redeeming our arid {lands. Perhaps it would be impossible to procure the | passage ‘of a better measure at this time. . The main thing now is to get the wark begun, and for that | purpose the Shafroth bill may be as good as any Con- ! gress is.likely to be persuaded to adopt in the near ' future. ; © The local investment companies which are accused | by the Building and Loan Commissioners of main- | taining lotteries probably believe that if our powerful | Police Commissioners can afford to license Chiness | & slip now and again by white men will not be amiss, | nature. Revelations in. the investigation of hazing at West Point are evidence conclusive that some of the" {ncad:m_v wards of the Government are afflicted with that peculiar form of | brutality. idiocy which finds expression in 'The local . saloan-keeper whose dream cost him- [ 10,000 has -certainly 1eceived a most emphatic sug-’ gestion to-overcome a costly. habit and wake up NE of the gratifying announcements of the | 13 ! | UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC. | | 1 versity of the Pacific has been freed from the | |4 | “seide” 1s German and means silk. | the Cantonese dialect. The Journal Amusant, of Paris, having heard Mme. Bernhardt and M. Coquelin in New York, whom the greater credit belongs, solves the dilemma by presenting a com- posite portrait of the two famous players. ot cat success of and being uncertain as to — ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. The word It is in SEIDE—M. J. G., City. pronounced as if written ‘“‘sigh-day” English. THE BOMB THROWER-M. J. K, Cit. It was on the night of the 9th of | | February, 1887, that John Hodges lhrew’ a bomb In the Grand Opera House while | Patti was singing. CONSUMPTION OF MEAT—C. City. It Is estimated that the consump- tion of meat per capita in the United | Stat>s annually is 150 pounds. population, 76,295,220; in England, 118 pounds, popula- tion, 27,499,984; #nd Germany, 64 pounds, population, 52,279,901 MOTION TO ADJOURN—C., Haywards, Cal. A motion to adjourn to a particular | date does not come up under unfinished | business unless at a previous meeting no- | tice was given that such a motion would | be made. It may be made at and takes precedence. A NOTE—M. C. J., City. In transerib- | ing the answer to when a ten-year note drawn January 1, 1900, would mature the date when it would mature was written | 1911 instead of 1910. The note would fall ! due January 1, 1910, having run the full | ten years. 5 TEN ORE—C. W. O., Hilton, Cal. The silver coln described in the letter of in- | quiry is a 10-dre plece of Sweden, issued during the reign of Charles XV, who | relgned from 1859 to 1872. Dealers offer ;;5. for sale at prices varying from 15 to | cents. SNOW=—A. B, City. No snow fell in gan Francisco on New Year's day, 1883 | There was a fall of snew on the Coast Range and on Mt. Tamalpais on that day. The snowstorm that you no doubt desire | to be informed about is the one of Decem- ber 31, 1882. CATARRH-B. G., City. Catarrh af- fects different people differently, and that | which is good as a remedy for one may | g have no effect upon another. There are a number of remedies that offer relief, but the proper way to treat the trouble is to follow the advice of a reputable physi- cian. Some people claim to have been relieved by snuffing salt water. RUSSIAN P AND CHINESE TLAN- GUAGES—W. F. T., Occldental, Cal. A | person desiring to study the Russian or | Chinese language should secure the ser- i vices of a teacher in each language who | speaks the purest. WIith a language | learned in its purity it is not difficult to | acquire the dialects. The purest and most grammatical Russian is that spoken | in the center of Russla. about Moscow. | The purest Chinese is spoken at Nankin. | The Chinese In California speak, as a rule, Any first-class | any time | | from the principal theaters of bookseller will furnish you a list of, the best textbooks in each of the languages named. WALKING FISHES—Subscriber, Oak- land, Cal. monly called walking fishes. They are the ophicephalus, belonging to the family anabasidea. These fishes are peculiar to Asla. They are called walking fishes be- cause of thefr habit of traveling across land. During drought they burrow in the mud. Their habitat is in the fresh water shallows near the shore. They are pro- vided with an accessory chamber which retains water. They breathe air and are able to remain out of water for a long time. They die if they breathe water too long. Thereare about thirty species of this fish, which are found in the fresh waters of the East Indles and Africa. BOOTH—OIl4d Californian, City. Junius Brutus Booth, the tragedian, made his first appearance In San Francisco, July 30, 1852, in the character of Sir Edward Mortimer in “The Iron Chest.” peared in the Jenny Lind Theater, which afterwards became the City Hall, and in connection with his appearance there was published at that time as an advertise- ment: “The above named theater (Jenny Lind) wiil be opened by permission of the city authorities for a few nights previous to its alteration for a city hall, under the management of Messrs_ Daly & Chapman, who have the pleasure to announce thaf they have, at great expense, engaged the services of the celebrated tragedian, Mr. | Booth, also Mr. J. B. Booth Jr., and his brother, Mr. Edwin Booth, together with the celebrated comedian, ‘Mr. G. Spear. the United States.” ST. ELIAS AND ORIZABA—Fngq., City. unt St. Elias, cn the northwest coast of rth America, partly in the territory of Alaska and partly in the Dominion of Canada, has been given various heights. The alt{tude of this peak. according to La Perouse in 175, is 12 ; Malpasina in 1791, 17851 feet; Russian hydrographic chart, 1847, 17,850 feet; Tebenkof, 1847, 16,938 : sh admiralty chart, 1872, 14970 . of the United Siates Coast Survey, 1874, 19700 feet: Russell, of the Natlonal Geogeaphical Society, 15,100 feet. None of these determinations are bar- ometric. The altitude of Orizaba or Citlaltepel, the well-known Mexican volcanic peak, has also been}{l\'en at various figures as follows: By Humboldt, 17375 feet; Mex- ican Scientific .Commission, feet: Ferrer, 17879 feet; Kaska, '18.270. In 1592 Scoville and Bunsen established a base line of 1500 feet at the 13000-foot level and took angles upon the summit. Their result was 12 feet. The year before these surveyors carried a line of spirit levels from Kaska's datum plane to a helgnt of 14,000 feet'and determined the re- maining altitude by anerold barometers, obtaining 18,179 feet. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. B. L Sandow of Kansas is at the | Palace. Dr. J. W. Hudson of Chlcago s at the California. Charles King, a Hanford cattle dealer, is at the Lick. C. T. Spearing, a Tondon banker, is reg- istered at the Palace. Fred Wright, a London merchant, and his wife are at the Palace. Joseph D. Blddell, a Hanford rancher | and ofl man, Is at the Grand. J. B. Wattles, a brominent Healdsburg fruit grower, is at the California. Edgar A. Newcomb, author of the Ha- walian National Anthem, is at the Occi- dental. Judge J. R. Webb and bride of Fresno have' taken apartments at the Lick for the holidays. A. P. Adams, Interested in the Lind Vineyard Company at Fresno, 18 regis- tered at the Grand. 0. J. Woodward, a Fresno banker, ac- companied by his wife and daughter, 1s staying at the Lick for a few days. B. J. Elliott and bride of Sacramento are at the Russ. They are on their way to Los Angeles to spend their honeymoon. 'W. Morshead, a London barrister, who has a suit pending against the stockhold- ers of the Central Pacific, is at the Grand. State ‘Senator W. M. Cutter of Marys- ville is' among the late arrivals at the Grand. Joseph R. Grismer, a former San Fran- cisco actor who has been playing in the Bast with much suecess for a number of years, 18 at the Palace with his wite. He will spend some time here renswing old aequaintances. —_———————— “Did you trump my ace, dear?” ‘asked ‘Mr. Meekton, who was his wife's partner at whist. aid,” she rejoined, sternly. *“What of “I merely inquired to relieve my he answered, with a gentle smile. a greal 1f any one else had trumped it, you know, ‘we should have lost the trick.”—Washing- ton Star. 4 ART AND ARTISTS. Among the many remarkable features of the late Bohemian Club exhibition of paintings, the unusual number of pictures sold is not least remarkable. Though the club ethics forbid a published list of sales, it is well understood that almost every artist-exhibitor was the financial gainer by his exhibit. It was not for nothing the best work was reserved for the | zng‘g Bohemian exhibition, that the Mark Hop kins gallery made so poor a showing this year, and that even the Sketch Club eli- | entele made ineffective sacrifice of their autumn harvest, In hope of the emolu ments and glory of tnis popular exhibl- tion. And the latest dictate of ungallantry bars the woman-artist from the walls of the club! But the artist certainly got what he had Wwalted for. The exhibition was one of the best ever seen here. Large wds the piotures and as before said, many. pictures were sold. The best efforts of the local artist were to be seen, and, v.hon{h names like Keith, Matthews and Joullin were missing from the catalogue. an excellent showing was made. Natu. rally the artist will go where he can seil his work, and the comparative financial results of the two important exhibitions g.fm:h- y_rc:x ::flat. the wisde ice. e 't arti: oI the town, In mbte o e ters, a limited thoug public and a limited activ- ito of Timited ‘quar recent exhibition illus- An amusing ecriticism cernin; artists well known in sz:.fi.u. lp:o.‘r'eg the other day in a Chicago paper. Mersfelder, whose work is well anl'm:l: known_here, perpetrates the criticism and Jule: e agtist criticized. Al- imself: . “The life-size nude pain! Jules MT called "l'lunl:de.l'l ub" an elevating picture to be placed the refinement of this country. We do not need pictures of this standard to culti- vate the tastes direc- tion. It is true draw and gluthmthen progress tray 1t Ta-a beauttrul or CELS n a ‘manner, it should be pul let him select. and treat it wil i There is a genus of fishes com- | He ap- | EDITORIAL UTTERANCE ' IN VARIETY Warships for Turkey. The rumor that the United States was to "collect its indemmity claims agains. Turkey by the subterfuge of an overpay- ment for & battleship to be built for tha Sultan in this countrv has set England thinking. She now wants to build soma warships for Turkey on the same terma. The Sultan may yet be forced to buy a whole fleet in order to meet the bills tha wers hold against him.—rHILADEL~ 'HIA NORTH AMERICAN. | Cost of Civilization. Almost every people has gained its hold n civilization through thé bardest sort experience, and we imagine that, if tha incidentg of the prehistoric past of our own race could be revealed, it would be found that before the peopié of Northera Europe became measurably civilized they had to pass through ordeals fully as tr ing as those to which the negro race has been subjected during the last tbree or four hundred years.—BOSTON HERALD. Hopes of the South. The tide s setting toward the South, and responsible bodles or Individuais should be careful that uothbing is dome to disturb the movement; we have opportun- itles for safe and profitable Investment in | abundance without risking too much or trying to create a “boom.” Yet in every | Instance, while capital is scarce, prefe: | ence shéuld be given to those activities | which handle the products of our imme- diate neighborhood and develop the re- | sources of those who give us their trade. | =FLORIDA TIMES-UNION. | Build a Memorial. The project of making permanent ths | arch buflt to heighten the cffect of Dew- | ey’s welcome here i e rall of 1509 was fll advised, for reasons now unnecessary to review. Far mistaken was the impulse that seattered the subscriptions | received for the arch when the committes in charge of them became satisfled th | the enormous sum originally hoped f could mever be obtained. There should | be in New York, the ci hich Dewey first landed on a3 refurn from Maniia, a i Dewey monument, an Olympia mo | ment, an American Navy monument, fi | Signifying the tribute to the victors of anila. that their country owes them, ani secondly, showing that New York has aid her peculiar share of It—NEW FORK SUN. | 01d-Time Mittens. | Hearts are just as warm now, but are the hands? e young women of to-day | make many things of exquisite workman- | ship and mysterious use, but do they knit? Can they knit mitt'ns? Of course they can, if they will Wa ho to see Mitt'n Knittin' clubs spring up all over the State and wherever snow falls or ice forms. Our wise ard | plous _ancestors used to get a Arink of New England or West India rum when- ever they went to a_village store to buy | & knittin’ needle. That was a kind of | libation to a modest and useful house- | hold god. In the hands of women en- | tirely great, the kmittin’ needle wrought | many marvels. It could test infallibly a ple. It could make cold-scorning mi‘- t'ns. Where is the ple? Whers ars the mitt'ns now?—NEW YOKRK SUN. | Mightiest Social Force. Individualism 1s the mightiest social | o id. ¥ 1o altopether Ber- fect. It has many serious and a few ter- | rible fauits. It is easy to l.\'fllfn it for | high crimes and misdemeanors. It is easy to convict it of some ~enuine atrocities. But it can | | | nt to thousands of years of | rogress where socialism points onl | thousands of years of fallure. It has & It has enriched and en- | lightened mankind. It has constantly bet- tered the condition of mankind. It has not done ail that it might have dome. but all that has been done it has accomplished Even the gentle and sympathetic spirits who have set forth what they have con- celved to be the beauties of socialism in | dued the earth. | their most attractive form are the bes. | fruits of individualism. _Individuaiism hop Soclalism does not hope.—~CHICA- GO CHRONICLE. The Negro’s Future. The future of the negro, Booker Wash- fngton holds, depends upon himseif. If, | through education, he can make himself a worthy citizen; if, through his industrs | and talents, he can vossess himself roperty and become in this way a fact: | 2 The tndustrial and financial worid, then | he can rest assured that he will receive a | degree of recognition that has not thus far been accorded to him in this country. | Mr. Washington has reason to belieic | that along these lines of effort he can o tain the co-operation of a consideral | part—and this the mors Intelligent and _ public-spirited part—of the white pec [ of the South. If this is the case—and personal experfences give good reason to belleve it—the work which he is undertak ’lng is one the importance of which It would be tmpossible o exaggerate, sinco it potnts to: the solution of one of the most serious problems which confronts the American people. Churches and Dancing. Dancing is one of that considerable class of amusements of which the poasible harm does not lie in the thing itself but | in the use which is made of it and in | its effect upon the individual. Tt Is wicked | to fritter away time, it is foolish if not | sinful to endanger one's health, and im- | purity is a sin beyond any question. Dancing 18 or 1s not harmful just to the extent to which it leads to any of thess | Tesults. That is a matter for the indi- vidual conscience and cannot be settled for people in masses, as the early kings used to order out companies to be bap- ! tized into Christianity. Churches of all | denominations are coming to this funda- | mental and psychical view amuse- ments. The progress is not as rapid as | some eager souls would ke to see it, but | it is fast enough to distress many con- | servatives who were brought up under | hard and fast rules for right and wrong. —BROOKLYN EAGLE. | e — ' Cholce candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel * ————— Best eyeglasses, specs, 2c to 50e. Loolk out for 81 4th, front barber and groeery. * —_——r——— | Townsend's California glace fruits. 5oc a | pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jaj ets. A nice present for Eastern friend €39 Market street, Palace Hotel building. Spectal information suppiied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clij Bureau iul-‘- 510 t- gomery st lephone n‘i . Thirty Tailrosd companies have opened their shops to the apprenticeship of stu- department of the dents of the rallroa Cornell University. Parker's Hair Balsam keeps the hair soft and plentiful and restores the color when gray. 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