The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1901, Page 6

. A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1901. 6 | ASYLUM CREMATION. G"‘ . i Gall. ITHIN the last twenty years there have been i‘}i‘ID\Y e JANUARY a1, 1901 W painful and appalling tragedies caused by fires JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. RS OFFICE ++..Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 20! EDITORIAL ROOM! Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. & Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALT, (including Sunday), one yea: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Mon EUNDAY CALL. One Year. ¢ One Year. All postmasters are horized to receive subscriptions. be forwarded when requested. 80 .00 Eample coptes Mall suhscribers In ordering change of address should de r to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order 10 msure & prcmpt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OF ....1118 Broadway €. 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Yorke, ock, o’clock, THE NEW IMMIGRATION. nterest to study the immigration that to become a permanent part d members of the body politic. the great tide of immigration was These immi d, and in the second gener: able from the original 2d Germany inguish: ago the Latin races began to hers, the admixture of Latin and Gotl. dF gz began to send their gurplus er opportunities. We fougd n to our population, but less n the Celtic and German stoc’ the Fi has analyzed our still vhich presents some aston- year we received 460,000 immi- Of these 100,000 were from 100,000 from Russia, 40,000 only fi ngland 1ows that we received twice as 1d Slavonians as English, three ians as Scotch, as many Slovaks 1d a hali times as many Southern e as many Hebrews as Germans, and Magyars and Ruthenians. geography to locate these 1 elements in the year’s acces- 1 were: South Italians, 84,346; 60.765: Polish, 46,938; the Irish rank next. w them Scandinavians, 32,952, and Germans, sion to our pop feb ebrew 1 belc v as 1860 our immigration from the Brit- France, Germany and Scandinavia was three-quarters of the whole as been said that India is a museum of races. each of the many races now flocking to the ited States sho But if Id preserve its national type and isolated and non-assimilagive, this country would present a greater diversity and be more a race museum than India. It is a tenable theory that our institutions require for their maintenance a homogeneous people, and it may well be feared that the diversity of races and na- tiopalities now pouring in upon us may soon begin to overtax our power of assimilation and produce a case national indigestion The first sign of non- assimilation is the appearance of their ancestral na- tional customs and racial habits in the second and third generations of these immigrants. Whenever we have distinct Polish, Siovak, Croatian and Lithuaniay groups in our population the danger line will - have been reached. It is believed by some statisticians and observers that this already appears. In some parts of of Pennsylvania the Huns and Slavs are remaining apart fiom each other and distinct from the American com- munity. The same menians 1t is noteworthy that many of these nationalities, the Huns, Magyars, Syrians, Armenians and Slavs, are of not remote Oriental origin. They are com- mon stock with the Siberian Scythians and thas Tartars. It is vitally necegsary that our immigration laws he addressed to weeding out the insane, deficient, dis- eased and indigent from this new immigration. British Isles, Germany and the Scandinavian states formerly sent to us their physical, mental and moral health. Let us see to it that these strange races do not inoculate us with their disease and indigence. e e e General Kitchener seems to be wonderfully lacking in originality. Time 2fter time in his reports to his home office he is making use of the expression made famous by General Buller—*I regret to say.” Why not make it, “We have met the enemy and we are theirs” is true of the Syrians and Ar- ! The i in orphan and insane asylums and seminary dormitories. The last one, in New York, caused the | burnihg to death of more than a score of orphan chil- dren. It is time that public authority be exerted to com- pel a change in the building of orphan asylums, State | schools for incorrigible youth and insane asylums. In | none of these should the housing under one roof of hundreds of persons be any longer permitted. In the case of orphans and juvenile incorrigibles there are | other objections besides the danger from fire. The vices of adolescence are more easily propagated when hundreds are in one dormitory. It is a system that | p=rmits na selection nor discrimination in association, | and by throwing all together is a means of leveling the mass down to the’moral plane of the least worthy rather than raising it to that of the most worthy. We believe that Michigan, in the State school at Coldwater, was the first State to take an advance step, and Towa followed in the Home for Indigent Orphans at Davenport The plan adopted included a central building for ad- ministration, in which were the offices, the hospital, dining and school rooms, and chapel or assembly | room. Then cottages were built around the quad- rangle, or on regular streets, each with parlor, sitting- | room, bedrooms, bath and conveniences for a family Each cottage is in the care of a mother, a lady wh | wisely selects among the inmates those as likely to be agreeable in association as a natural family. Each family in its cottage is subject to the pleasantest sur- roundings, the wisest admonition and motherly care and advice. Out of the institlon library its members bring books to read, and all are brought within the most excellent of influence. If one cottage burn, es- cape from it is easy, and spread of the conflagation is unlikely. An orphan asylum or State school for the incorrigible so planned and administered takes on the appearance of a clean and wholesome village. Its streets and lawns are cared for and its gardens culti- vated by the inmates. Matters of drainage and sani- tation are more easily cared for, and the whole sys- | tem conduces to the moral and physical well being of the beneficiaries. Sometimes complaint is made that California has five insane asylums to house her insane population of 5000. Those who complain do not stop to think of what would follow putting those five regiments of un- fortunates all in one mstitution. It may well be foreseen that our whole system of | caring for the insane will be revolutionized early in this century. The existing plan of gathering hun- same roof will very likely pass away. The insaue asylum of the near future will probably be built upon | the village system, with places for restraint of the more violent, and greater freedom and‘more nearly family surroundings for the curable and the gentle This will not be in the nature of an experiment, for it will be only a slight modification of the system in use at Gheel, in Belgium, for a long time. California will do well to consider immediately the change in plan for our orphan and incorrigible insti- tetions, The buildings mow used for dormitory and admin- istrative purposes at Tone and Whittier may be eco- nomically adapted to the new system, and there will be no difficulty in finding good and devoted women, needful of the employment, who will gladly mother families of the unfortunate. As to orphan institutions, there is, after all, a sting in charity, but it is less deep and hurtful in the home and cottage system than when aiter. life carries the memory of a great building, whose frowning walls speak of restraint ani seem but little different from a jail. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM O much of American criticism upon public schools is directed toward the jobbery, or Boards of Education, that we fre- quently overlook the genuine excellence of the worl done in the schools. Foreign critics who note the re- sults of the training given rather than the politics of the boards are more iust in their estimates of our edu- cational system. They perceive that the work accom- plished is of a high order of merit, and attribute much of the success of our people in industrial and commer- cial enterprises to the influence of their schoo! edu- | cation. One of the latest of these critics is Thomas Erskine, British Vice Cousul at Chicago, who in a recent re- port to his Government says: “The system of edu- | cation in the United States, and especially in the city | of Chicago, can be stated to be the most practical in worse, of | the world for fitting the youth of the country for the | | battle of life.” | Mr. Erskine states that during his residence in this ccuntry he has noticed that a remarkably large num- | ber of important executive positions are held by { young men, and it occurred to him that the system | of public education has something to do with the fact. He then adds: “At my own motion I undertook to | investigate the matter. The first thing that struck me was the large number of pupils who leave the pub- lic schools at the age of fourteen or younger and then | enter af once on the practical business of life. They seem to be well qualified to take hold at once, and in | a few years are doing important work in a satisfac- tory way. It seemed to me there must be something about the way they are educated which is responsible. | T was particularly impressed during my investigation with the practical nature of the education offered. | * * * The course seems to develop their fighting | | qualities, to make men out of them. When they get | through they are not afraid to face the world; they | have a good degree of seli-confidence, and they are | not content to wait for fortune to come and look them up.” Among the features of our school training which Mr. Erskine notes with special commendation are instruction in the use of tools and the development | of patriotism. The first fits the pupil to succeed in | life, and the second inspires him with an ambition to do so. Of the latter feature the report says: “Great attention is paid to teaching children to love their | country and the flag, and it is impressed upon them | that no other country is so free and that their flag ; represents justice and liberty wherever it flies, * * * | The careers of Americans who have risen successfully through their labors and talents to wealth and to prominence in science and politics are brought prominently before the children, who are taught that | they also may becpme Rockefellers, Lincolns' or | Edisons.” This view of our schools taken by a foreigner well fitted to pronounce judgment upon such subjects can | hardly fail to be gratifying to Americans generally. | It id#n evidence that despite the handicap of Boards of Education which are frequently inefficient and often corrupt, our teachers have nevertheless developed a l system of school work that is of the highest value to ireds of them between the same walls and under the | the country. It inspires our boys and gitls with higa ideals and equips them with the knowledge required to attain success. To our schools, then, as well as to our rich resources do we owe the prosperity of our people and the greatness of our country, and the fact should not be forgotten. Moreover, in the multitude of carping and shallow critics that come to us from abroad we should not neglect to give due credit to Vice Consul Erskine for his ability to recognize the excellence of our schools and his fairness in stating the good results of their work. A o e T— SALARIES AT WASHINGTON. R. LOUDENSLAGER of New Jersey has in- /\/\ troduced into the House a bill providing that the salary of the Vice President of the United | States shall be increased to $25,000 a year ‘and the salary of each Cabinet officer to $15,000. It will be remembered that at the last session of Congress Sena- tor Hoar introduced a bill to increase the salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to $15.500 a “I‘hc two bills will doubtless be considered together, | for taken separately each is incomplete. It would be | unreasonable to increase the salaries provided for in | the one without making the increase provided for in | the other. | Tt seems to be conceded on all sides that the sala- | ries now paid to high officials at Washington are too | small. A double evil results from the parsimony. In the first place it is not fair to ask men of high ability to serve the public for a sum far below what they could earn in private business; and, in the second | high office, thus making those positions something like 2 monopoly for the rich. The amounts proposed either by Senator Hoar for [_the Justices of the Supreme Court or by Mr. Louden- | slager for the Vice President and the members of the Cabinet are certainly not unreasonable. The people | of the United States have become the richest in the tcgether. From highest to lowest all | have been compelled to demand farger incomes than ;sm‘ficed men in the same class a generation ago. | There has been an increase in the wages of nearly all kinds of labor, and in the salaries paid in almost all scrts of private business. It is no more than right that the nation should follow this upward movement of its people. Washington is no longer a village, an- public officials cannot 'practice village economies while living there. They are required to do a much larger amount of work than was required of their predecessors and are justly entitled to better pay. At the present time Federal salaries for high officials are the lowest paid by any great nation in the world The President of the United States receives $50,000 a year, while the President of France receives $120,000. "he Vice President of the United States, who serves the Speaker of the British House of Commons re- | ceives $25,000 a year and in addition has an officia’ | residence during his term of office and a pension of | | $20,000 a year for life when he retires. Since 1874 there has been no increase made in high official salaries. It is Yime for the nation to act more generously and more justly to those who undertake | its most important services. It will be a bad thi g for this country if the time should ever come when the cost of official life will be so high and the salary so small that none but a rich man could afford to ac+ cept the office. We wish a Government that gives every citizen an equal chance for its highest offices, | and to have it so we must act upon the divine rule, “The workman is worthy of his hire.” THE ELECTION COF SENATORS. irom them should come the first earnest renewal of | the agitation for a change in the method of electing Senators. There are other States, however, that in | all probability will soon unite with them in the cam- the storm centers of the Senatorial contests of | tana and Tllinois. | Governor Stone.of Pennsylvania has taken the | lead in urging an amendment of the Federal constitu- | tion so as to provide for the election of Senators by irect vote of the people. In his message to the Legislature he has recommended the change in the interest of the States themselves. He says: “Candi- | dates for the Legislature are now too often selected by reason of their supposed friendship or opposition to some candidate for the United States Senate. Their qualifications to properly legislate for the districts which they represent are too often forgotten or ig- nored.” The evils thus pointed out by the Governor of Eennsylvania are bad, but they are by no' means the worst of the results of the present method of electing Senators. In several States the system leads to some- thing like a wholesale debauchery of the voters and the legislators. The scandals of the Clark and Daly fight in Montana have been fully exposed and are well known. The detcrmination of Addicks to pro- | cure a seat in the Senate from Delaware has resulted ir. scandals in that State hardly less notorious than those in Montana. Governor Tunnell in his mes- sage to the Legislature, speaking of the last election in Delaware, says: - “Bribery, corruption and intimida- tion walked brazenly through our State at the last election, and the only barrier in the way of shameless and open violation of law and decency was our pres- ent system of voting.” The Governor does not say so, but it is well understood that the bribery and the bulldozing were done as parts of the Senatorial fight. The new campaign for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people opens, then, with plenty of facts to point the meral. Moreover, an abundance of new facts are likely to be forthcoming from the States where Senatorial contests are to en- | Ruge the attention of Legislatures this winter. In many of these States the general subject of legislation will be almost who‘lly neglected by reason of the ab- sorption of the legislators in the fight for the senator- ship. Possibly we may have new scandals and new deadlocks added to the already large number of such offenses. The outlook, therefore, for the desired re- form is brighter than ever before. The people ars already disgusted with the existing method of elec- tion, and another batch of scandals will bring about a resolution to apply the remedy. = County divisionists at Sacramento are said to be afraid that they have not money enough to secure the adoption of measures which they seek. Do the gentlemen mean to insinuate that anybody in the State Capitol weuld demand or accept money to zssisq in the adoption of a bill? g - Captious critics who are remarking that our State Legislature has begun its labors without ostentation and with very little noise should remember that tha Renublicans and not the Demacrats are in contral 1 % year and the salaries of Associate Justices to $15.000. | ! place, it tends to exclude men of small means from | | world, and the scale and the cost of living have risen | Americans | as President of the Senate, receives $8000 a year, while | ELAWARE and Pennsylvania are at present | the year, and consequently it is natural thas | paign of education, for, according to all reports, there | | are likely to be prolonged contests in Colorado, Mon- | QUEEN MARY’S GHOST IN TOWER OF LONDON —_—— . LR kS e of England. the matter, could find no | England since the time of Elizabeth. married Bothwell, one month thereafter she was seized Sha escaped and fled to E and then In other castles. cry or showed any other sign of fear. Queen was heard wailing in the tower. , where When she was led to the block she bore up bravely, and, although only injured a little by the fi Three blows were required to ¢ispatch her. It is said that Queen Elizabeth never recovered her composure after the death of Mary, and thus just before the death n This visitation, so tradition runs, ways been repeated when an English monarch is about to die. I | | | | HE ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots, according to a writer in the St. Louls Post-Dispatgh, was heard iIn the bloody tower of London Tower last Christ- mas eve, and thissaccording to the tradition, means the death of the Queen The story was circulated Christmas day claims he heard a long wall followed by the sound of fcotsteps. times was the performance repeated, and the guard, who promptly investigated ause for the sourds. Scottish Queen has made, Itself heard just before the death of every monarch of REvery kyowledge of the rumor from Queen Victoria. Queen Mary was beheaded on February the murderer of Lord Darnle and fc by a guard, who Three It is said that the spirit of the effort is being made to keep a s . On May 15, 1567, she y, her second husband, and just ced to ahdicate in favor of her son. beth confined her first at Carlisle El st blow of the ax, she made no out- »f Elizabeth the ghost of the Scott has est trees for Christ corations. evéry thinking pers: quaint custom of Christmastide need beautiful. same time. possess a li dendrologi g Christmas tree. i ffofofniote ool ool oo el el g | fruiting without pause!™ grown folks, too! eral methods are open to us. est. &pecimen. evergreens, incl Christmas trees from almost an; put to a good purpose. ink where we have before received. Berkeley, January 7, 1900. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. F. Stabel of Redding is at the Grand. Joe D. Biddle of Hanford, a banker, is at the Grand. ¥ E. C. Voorhies of Sutter Creek is at the Palace Hotel. Dr. B. Brown and wife of Watsonville are at the Russ. J. C. Hudner, a Hollister attorney, is registered at the Lick. J. D, Ludwig, a Redding mining man, is registered at the Grand. W. W. Chapin, a Sacramento molder, Is at the Palace. Former Congressman T. J. Geary of Santa Rosa is at the Lick. Mark R. Plaisted of the Fresno Evening Democrat is at the California. Thomas Johnson, a Winnipeg mining man, is registered at the Palace. W. B, Chapman, a New York book- maker, registered at the Grand last even- ing. T. G. Hendricks and family of Eugene, Or.,, are spending a few days at the Grand. H. H. Hunter of San Jose, owner of a big copper mine in Montana, is at the Grand. . Dr. L. A. Van Dyke and wife of New York are stopping at the California for a few days. Lindsay Fitzpatrick, one of the landed gentry of the west ofsIreland, is at the Palace for a few days. K Mr. Fitzpatrick has come to this country to purchase a number of coach and hunting horses. He is the uncle of Miss Shelagh Cornwallis ‘West, who Is to marry the young Duke of ‘Westminster. fron CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—J. F. Brown- ing of San Francisco is at the Raleigh. Paul Sanford and wife of California are at the Johnson. < ———— A Candid Wedding Invitation. Everybody %knows that an, invitation to a wedding is a gentle intimation that presents, however small, will be grateful- 1y received by the bride. But it has beeu left to a distinguished native of India to make open confession of this pleasing hypocrisy. Writing to the people in his station, asking them to his hter's wedding, this tleman used the follow- ing formula: ‘‘Mr. and Mrs. request the presents of Colonei and the officers of the ment at the wedding of their daughter.” The story is true.—Lon- don Globe. A GAY SEASON is promised at Hotel del Coronado, PLEA FOR LIVING CHRISTMAS TREES. EDITOR OF THE CALL—In your editerial of 5th inst. you voice the sen- timent of Mr. William H. Mills regarding the gross destruction of young for- Your m must deplore with prompted to offer a single suggestion as a remedy not be aboli Few of us who have experfenced the delights of the Christmas tree would care to deny like pleasures to the litt those yet to come, especially since a greater lesson may be My plan would be that each.of us who values t Speaking.from the standpoint of a practical , I can say that this is not only possible, but a simple matter as well How full of interest to see them grow, the pine, the spruce or the cedar.: “How beautiful they are, all and each after their kind! What a joy for man to stand at his door and simply look at ‘What lessons for the But how, you ask, are we to do and to have this? Sev- We may The bay counties abound in such as I have in mind, numerous seedlings from one to three feet in height may readily obtained to dig a crowded specimen or two, thus giving their neigh- bor more elbow room. They should be carefully dug, with a ball of earth if possible, and the roots injured as little as pe transplanted intp a tub or box—eight inches in diameter for an eighteen- inch specimen and a twelve-inch in diameter box or tub for Or we may purchase boxed and establi: ing the Douglass spruce, nursery. Sizes range from two to ten feet and can be purchased for 50 cents per foot or even less, lived and may serve several generations. beautiful custom than this may create? Let the children grow their own seedlings. them, the unfoldment of the tiny plantlet. the less valuable on that account, and the surplus? With them we may pay the debt we owe by plant- Will not The Call take hold and further the movement the evil, will it not welcome a remedy? B O e i ANSWERS TO QUERIES. | CHANGING A NAME—F. R., City. If Jooferts plea is strong and earnest and vou this wanmton waste. I am feeling that this, to me, ed, but instead made more ones now about us and aught at the s old custom blossoming. and for us them growing, leafing, children; ves, take an outing to some near-by for- readily be found and permission as sible.-and then without delay a “three-foot ned specimens of various the variety commonly used for They are long Can any of us imagine a more Our schools may alsd take a hand. What a lesson it will teach A slow process, Yes, but none Yes, that, too, can be ? Since it' deplores F.G. K. ofe your name is too ldng and you wish to shorten it, or change it. you shonld make application to the Superfor Court. SIX-DAY RACE—H. C. R., Clty. cisco, in which C. W. Miller was the win- ner, was- closed February 19, CANADA—S. J. K., Lemoore, Cal. The pcpulation of the Dominion of Canada, ac- | cording to the census of 1891, was 4,823,875, The census is taken every ten years. It is expected that the flznrfi'.;mnf the current | . | vear will show. about 5 DRILL AT THE PRESIDIO—Visitor, City. Drills are held at the Presidio in the morning, but at this time they do mot amount to much of a military display, as the men who are there are casuals and the drills are purely instructive for the men, not ceremonial. BRECKINRIDGE AND ENGLISH—C. R., City. Richard R. Breckinridge and Laurence English (“Buck’) did not rob a train, but they stopped a stage In Napa County and English was shot,~but recov- ered. On May 30, 18%, Breckinridge was sent to San Quentin for twenty-five years and on July 10 following English was sent to the same place for life. The crime was in the early part of May, 1865. GOLD AND LEAD-T. A. V., City. Gold Is weighed by troy weight, which has twelve ounces to the pound, while lead is weighed by avoirdupois, which has six- | teen ounces to the pound. The welght of a grain is identical in each of the weights, but according to the established rule the troy pound contains 5760 grains, while the avoirdupois pound is 7000 grains, and the former is to the latter as 144 to 175. .N., Oakland. Cal. There is not now and never has been anything in the constitution of the United States that says that a woman shall not become President of the United States. The constitution says that any naturai born citizen (and a woman is a citize who has atteined the age of 35 vears ai has been fourteen years a resident within the United States, Shall be eligibl Presidency. SN, oy NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP— A correspondent who signs himself R, B. T. writes to say that the answer to an. | other correspondent to the effect that every person born in China is a Chinese is not correct. many others, confounds nationadity. ‘A person try is a native of that country, no mat- ter what may be the nationality of the parents. A born in Germany is Ger- man, one bornin France is a Frenchman one born in Italy is an Italian, and so on. One born in China is a' Chinese, but not necessarily a ngolian. American’ parents who are traveling .in China or any foreign country, or wj is born while ‘the father is a country in the States, is born in any coun- service of the United el but 1s not oo L R o S M RS A The six-day bicycle race in 159 in San Fran- | The correspondent, like citizenship’ with A child born to —————e EDITORIAL An Uncanny Tradition Revived by the Grewscme Tale|american Merchant Marine. of One of the Guard. The American shippers paid $160,000,000 !(o subsidized foreign ships last year, and | but $15,000,000 to American ships. Some- | thing must be done for the American merchant marine as soon as the Govern- ment’'s finances will permit.—Iowa State | Register. | | A Job With Charms. | The job of delegate to Congress from Hawali has special charms. The salary i= $5000 a i cents a mile for mileage. to Washington is a distance of 00 miles, which means $2000 additional for the delegate, although you can travel between the two citles for | $200. ' Delegate Wilcox is entirely satisfied | now with annexation.—Springfield Repub- ‘ Hean. | | Vaccinating Vassarlines. Six hundred Vassar girls who went to | thefr homes for the ho s were com- pelied to submit to vaccination before leaving, and the source from which this information is derived solemnly adds tha h limping as there was on that las as the girls walked to the trolley cars un to the raflway station had not athletic contests ville American. a that been witnessed since t of last spring.”—Nas American Industrial Success. The secret of American industrial sue- cess is the superior skill and productive energy of American working men and wo- | men. The greatest of English statis clans admit that in these respects Ameri- cans are in a class by themselves. When these qualities are combined with inven- tivenesy and the best mechanical appli- nces B ehehoutic development of the United States is no long surprising. — Baltimore Sun. Finnish Immigration. Immigration into the United States from Christiania, Sweden, has been nearly dov- ble that of any former year. The increase is believed to be due to the move ment of the Finns forced out of their own country Ly the pressure brougi to bear upon them by the Russian Govern- ment in the nrocess of Russianizing the | province of Finland. These immigrants are mainly of the agricultural class and well-to-do.—Minneapoils Times. Neither Burkes nor Foxes. There are no statesmen in the British House of Commons to plead as eloquentiy for the South African burghers as Burks | and Fox pleaded 125 years ago for the | North American Continentals, but in some respects history is repeatirg itself in Lon- don. Liberty-loving Englishmen ar~ as active to-day { and 1778 in demanding that a war against | freemen shall be brought to a close. With the London Dail J s under the control dical element Englishmen able soon to make their influ- ence felt.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Marriageable Dukes Ars Scarce. With the marriage of the Duke of West- | minster the number of eligible and un- married English peers of that degree, girls, is reduced to one. The Duke of St. Albans is 30. but he is not looking for an American bride. There are, however, two Scottish aukes who are bachelors— the Duke ‘of Hamilton, who is premier peer of Seotland. and the Duke of Rox- burghe, who is only 24, and who, when he succeeded to his dukedom, was counted a downright pauper. Mr. Astor had an » on him for son-in-law, but the plan through. Then there is a thirteen- ar-old dukelst, his Gace of Letnster, in peerage of Ireland, and four widower who must be left out of the run- g. In fact, the duke market needs a boost—Exchange. Money of the World. The annual report Mint contains some i the Director of the rmation of mora interest concerning the world. The tables show t the total has increased from $4,600.- ¥0 in 1573 to $11.600,000.000 in 1990—more n 16 per cent. Of this increase $3.5M .- 030.000 has been in gold, while there has been a decrease in the amount of paper not fully covered by metallic reserves. These data come in the nature of a fur- ther answer to the silverite argument of r money and the question, ““Where is gold to come from?” More than hAIf f all the-increase in the total of money in gold, and the rate of increase has been more rapid than the growth of pop- ulation. Money is cheaper now than ever. Gold money is cheaper, measured in the earning power of labor, than in 1873. If the quantity of money available the the Popocrats contend—of its value it must be cheaper than before sil- ver was demonetized. There is not much in a cheap mone¥ propaganda when ex- amined in the light of facts.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch A CHAN(}E TO SMILE. Be sure you are richt won’t get left.—Phila The preacher las usually the one who preach Philadelphia Record “Football may be a d sald the professor, dredth part as deadly Boston Journal. _ Ed Cudahy paid consi son back, but just look what Papa-in-law Zimmer is paving for a_son-in-law and he wasn't Kidnaped, either.—Minne- apolis Times, and then ye Tphia Record. longest g shortest.— angerous sport.”* it isn't a hu the highbail.” — derable to get his “I understand she lov “Yes, that was before. “Before what?" “Before she found mistaken him for l‘laj‘elam‘l Plain Dealer. illie had been told that whem a hen is heard cackling around it is a pret: sures sign that she has laid an egR. Ono day he ran into his mother in an exeitid manner and exclaime-: 3 “Oh, mamma! T jus:i heard the cucko- in ‘xhn 1‘]3‘;'1( ':-nake a roise. 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