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The ‘e% e THURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Aceress All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAEE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE .Telephone Press 201 PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS, . to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202, Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. . Single Copies. 5 Cents. Mail, Including Postage: day). one year.. 6.00 ), 6 months 2.00 snday), 3 month 1.5 Single Month. e . One Year.. 1.50 LY CALL, One Year. o 1.0 All postmasters are nuthorized to receive subscriptions. ed when requested. AND OLD ...111S Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. . Margustte Builting, Chicags, ““Central 2619."") PONDENT: . ..Herald Square REPRESENTATIVE: Tribune Bullding ~ STEPHEN B. SMITH - w York." 1dy streets—Specialties. udeville every afternoon and Recital, Sunday night, and)—Races. MORE BUTCHERY. T atior “peace, it ty and s between the For- on W ersee wan- he mo: hat Te t the no provoca- ery ai that the LR ties, filled , and nd rot eacefu and burn ke the name of tench in the East. China veness and care fc tten by the overrunning of time being harried by the n negotiation and the he tragedy, it is re- ed to penetrate as far as pos- t is known th another see has or incapable of are at the mercy may ing reports that have come and En e perpet ce under Von Wal- and fed his troops We desire to im- situation upon our var forbids the sacking of an he robbery and slaughter of a The career of Genghiz 1 to picture the horrors-of which 1 o point the contrast with iz never sacked an unde- e was at peace with the empire the Governor of Otrar killed a traders. Genghiz demanded r be delivered to him for punish- ng with this demand Mnu- e of the envoys who brought it k without their beards. Then great Khan marched on Bok- 3 After its defense by 400,000 d he entered it and, mounting the steps . cried out to his troops, “The hay is s fodder.” ble ¢ v needed no second invitation s sacked and the inhabitants aped beyond the walls or were compelled to submit to infamies worse than death. As a final act of vengeance the town was fired.” But that was about the year 1220, nearly seven hun- o, and the looter of Bokhara was the ngol raider born to battle with a clot of blood in his clenched hand. And the city resisted. A vast ce, and, dred years son of a as well equipped as his, opposed his ad- ter all, ke did no worse than Von Wal- 3 £ | dersee and his allies 2t Paotingfw and a dozen other | t were not defended, made no re- ce and freely offered food and shelter to their 1 destroyers. ow the Ger: n commander in chief of the allies proposes a renewal of this military infamy. There is nothing in the situation that requires a single soldier to leave camp. There is not an armed force in all the region he intends to There is not a city capable of resistance, not a man nor woman in all that zone able to defend property or honor. Does the so-called <ivilized world comprehend the situation? This new expedition is not to protect anybody. It is not to punish any new anti-foreign outbreak. It is not to effect any good purpose in politics. It is simply for murder and robbery, and worse. The Americzaa people are gratified that our troops under General Chaffee are not to take part in this cowardly and ignoble movement. They ace pleased that our flag is not to be carried in the t-ain of robbers and murderers whose crimes by contrast have made the excesses of the Boxers look like the innocert games of a country Sunday-school. We are glad that the religious press of this coun- try is awakening to its duty. The Central Christian Advocate, organ of the Methodist church, admits that “even the Boxers themselves have been outdone by the lust, the outrages and rapine of the foreign sol- diers,” and quotes an eye-witness in Peking to the effect that “for a century to come Chinese converts will consider robbery and vengeance+to be Christian virtues.” ¢ Hing change of aGGress should %e | SDRESS in oner | nce with thelr Tequest. | at China has | THE ‘ RUSSIAN SUGAR. { HE policy of the Dingley bill being to protect ! T domestic sugar 1efining, by giving a differentiai ! duty on refined sugar to offset the cost of re- fining, it became necessary to extend this m-thod | to the bounty-paid beet sugar of Europe by adding to | the differential an amount equal to the bounty. This countervailing duty was put at once upon the German sugar, and has now Leen added to the normal dii- ferential on the beet sugar of Scuthern Russia. | To comprehend the situation as a protective meas- | ure it is only necessary to realize that the bounty paid by the Governments of the beet sugar countries reduces the cost of iefining to such an extent that bountied sugar can enter this country in spite of the normal differential. The effect of bountied sugar is | shown in England. That country does no sugar re- ! fining at all, but takes the bountied sugar of the Con- tinent. Although England has cane sugar lands in abundance in her tropical colonies, her free trade pol- icy, acted upon by the sugar bounty of the Continent, has obsoleted her production of raw and refined sugar. Under the protection policy of this country the | sugar issue is exactly the same as all the other issues involved. The law is not made by the Secretary of the Treas- ury, but, as he has justly observed, is committed to , him for enforcement. When he ordered the counter- | vailing duty put on Russian sugar the importer had { recourse in a protest which finally reaches the | General Appraisers, 2nd from them an appeal lies 1o the Circuit Court. Until this recourse has been ex- hausted, and the process is not long, it may not be said that Russian sugar is excluded. If the importers do not protest at all, it is their admission that the Secretary has only enforced the law, and the only further appeal is to Congress. It is said that Russia has already retaliated by im- posing maximum duties on American machinery and metal products. This will affect our exports, especially to Siberia, where American mining machinery is in demand. But Russian commercial interests confess that American manufactures are the cheapest and best, and to ex- clude them compels a resort to products that cost more and are of less excellence. European discomfort under the rapid extension of trade and in the face of our capacity to protect it has shown another symptom in Austria, where our pork products are about to be shut ont in the interest of the home producer, although his pork is neither as cheap nor as good. It must not be forgotten that European Govern- ments which of have These have had a chance at American products, have found them cheaper and better than others, and will not long patiently pay more for inferior articles. Germany and land expect benefit to their ex- port trade from the action of Russia. But unless they economize production and improve the quality of their product they will not long enjoy any benefit from a merely artificial event in commerce. T o sue this polic excluion finally to reckon with their own consumers. A recent explanation ‘of the British Ministry con- cerning the purchase of steel bridges for the Uganda railroad from American instead of British firms brought out the fact that an American contractor of- fered to have the bridges ready for use in three months’ less time than any British bidder offered to have the material ready for shipment from England. It goes without saying the explanation was sufficient : to justify the Goverament, for at this juncture the British have no time 10 waste in any part of Africa. ANTI-IRRIGATION FIGURES. URING the debate in the House on a bill ap- D propriating the sum of $100,000 for the purpose of investigating the water resources of the arid districts of the country the whole subject of irriga- tion came under discussion. The salient points of the speeches made by the men who opposed the bill are worth noting as illustrations of the arguments which the West will have to meet in carrying on the cam- paign of education in favor of the great enterprise. The first of the arguments against the measure was based upon’ estimates of the probable. cost. Hill of Connecticut in opposing the bill said that the irriga- tion of our arid lands would cost in the aggregate $36,000,000,000, Mr. Cannon, chairman of the Coin- mittee on Appropriations, said the enterprise would in the end cost the treasury upward of $750,000,00c. When such estimates are placed side by side thei: worthlessness is at once apparent. Between $750,000,- 000 and $36,000,000,000 there is an immense gap. It is clear the men who used such arguments have never tmade an estimate of the cost. They have hardly given the subject a moment of serious thought. Had they done so their estimates of the cost would have been at least within gunshot of one another. Such an argument is valuable only because it shows the temper with which many influential Eastern men approach the subject of irrigation. They are so an- | tagonistic to it'they will not reason-about it. They | content themselves with assertions having no valid- ity, and are evidently relying upon the prejudices and the ignorance of the Eastern people to support them ir their opposition. | Should any refutation be required for such ex- travagant misstatements it can be found in the care- | ful estimates made by experts who have studied the | subject. - At the Irrigation Congress held at Chicago last fall the estimates of experts were that there are from 75,000,000 to 100,000,000 acres of land in the | arid regions that can be irrigated at a cost not too | great to make the enterprise profitable. Captain Hiram Chittenden of the engineer corps that made a survey of the region in 1897 and who is regarded as the highest authority on the subject taken as a whole reported to the congress that a complete system of reservoirs could be constricted for $143,000,000. The highest estimate made by any competent authority is that the average cost of irrigation would not exceed $2 an acre. According to these estimates the total sum required for irrigation of all the arid lands that can be profitably irrigated would not exceed $200,000,- 000. That sum, moreover, would be expended during a long series of years, and the sale of the lands as they were brought under irrigation would furnish the | Government with fuads to carry on the work, so that the direct cost upon the East would be small. The second objection made to the enterprise is that the irrigation of the arid regions should be carried on by States and Territories and not by the National Government. Here, again, the objectors disclose their ignorance of the problem. Some of the streams from which water for irrigation will have to be ob- tained traverse two or more States, and there are other complications that make separate State action unadvisable. The enterprise, in fact, is national and should be treated as such. From the statements made it will be seen we have ' a long task ahead of us in educating Congress on this lsubiect. Fertunately a good deal has been already done. There are not many men who believe th: ir- SAN FRANCISCO GALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1901. rigation will cost $36,000,000,000, or that it is an af- fair of the States and not of the nation. Sl The Atlanta Constitution reports that the Bryan Birthday Club of Chattanooga; Tenn., which it says was organized “to celebrate annually the birthday of the greatest Democrat since Jefferson,” has re- cently had a row among its members, and accord- ingly there will be no banquet this year. The greatest | since Jefferson will have to celebrate alone. j 2% APPALACHIAN FOREST RESERVE. | NE of the most important forestry enterpriscs O contemplated by the Government is that of | cstablishing a great reserve in what is known as the Appalachian belt. The bill now before Con- gress provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shail purchase not more than 2,000,000 acres of forest in the States of Virginia, West Virginia, North and | South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. The object is to place in the hands of the Govern- ment a forest covering the watersheds of the moun- tains out of which flow so many important streams |in the States named. It is generally understood, | however, that if the measure be adopted the main reserve will be in the mountains of North Carolina, which are the highest on this continent east of the | Rockies. While the plan is being urged mainly by members of Congress from the various States whose streams would be affected by the preservation of the forest area, it has had considerable support in the North. It is recognized that such a reserve would afford the Eastern side of the country a great national park similar to Yellowstone Park. The North Carolina mourifains abound in beautiful scenery and are among the healthiest localitiss in the world. They are now so well traversed by railroads that it is said the pro- posed park would be accessible to people from as far east as Boston, as far west as St. Paul and as far south as New Orleans within twenty-four hours. In addition to the double good of protecting the water supply and providing a spacious pleasure- ground the great park would also serve as a means | of preserving an extensive area of hardwood forests. It would thus serve as a great school of forestry, teaching by object lessons on the grandest scale, and in that way would have a beneficial effect upon the country at large. Under our system of government the greater part of the work of forest protection and promotion must. be performed by the States. Nevertheless, the Fed- eral Government can do much in preparing the way and demonstrating how the work should be done. That guidance, moreover, ought to be promptly | given.. We have reached the stage in our develop- ment where forest protection will have to be under- | taken on scientific principles and on a comprehensive scale, or else the penalty will be heavy. | Fortunately for California the nation has here pre- | served extensive ranges of park. It now behooves tli=*State to follow up the good work and do some- thing for itself. The plan proposed by the Semper- virens Club, for the preservation of the redwoods of | the Big Basin, is one that might well be taken up at | this session of the Legislature. ~No such forest as preservation would provide near the center of popu- lztion on this coast a holiday ground more wonderiul even than that which the East hopes to see estab- lished among the heights of the Great Smoky Range in North Carolina. ot e o s Eastern poets, moved to verse by the munificent gifts of Andrew Carnegie, are said to be in despair because they cannot find a rhyme for his name. The Springfield Republican the only rhyme is “plaguey.” Evidently such a rhyme is of no use; but | how would it do for the poets to have a little rhyme about “pulling his leggy”'? Frious report that applications from Eastera home-seekers for information concerning various | ccunties in the State have frequently to be inade- | auately answered by reason of the lack of county pub- lications giving the cesired facts. It appears that many counties have not supplied the board with de- scriptive pamphlets or circulars for distribution, and consequently the home-seeker who desires to learn something about a county before making a journey to it is forced to turn his attention to some other section. The fact is somewhat singular. If there be any peo- ple in the world who ought to know the value of ad- vertising it is the people of California. This State is remote from the center of American population. It is in climate, soil and resources distinct from other sec- tions of the Union. It has advantages which are not to be found elsewhere, and of which the majority of Eastern people are wholly ignorant. Therefore to attract cettlers and capitalists seeking investments for their money it is necessary there should be an exten- sive advertising of the resources of every section of the State, for in no other way can the variety of re- sources and advantages be made known. In no other respect is California more distinct from the East than in the wide differences that exist be- tween the soil, the climate and the general conditions of localities that are geographically near one another. On the other side the mountains a whole State is known as a wheat State, a corn State, a cotton State, a fruit-growing State or a grazing State. In one the climate is cold; in another it is warm. No such con- ditions prevail here. ~ Within the confines of Cali- fcrnia one county is often radically distinct from the county adjoining it, so that no home-seeker can profit much by what is known as “general information.” He must study each county separately. If he fail to do so he may make a mistake that will cost him dear by locating in a county where a particular in- dustry he desires to undertake may prove far less profitable than it would be in an adjoining county. During the boom years that preceded the financizl panic, the industrial depression and the long drought. there was an abundance of literature descriptive of California counties. Some of the pamphlets issued ar that time were amorg the best compendiums of in- formation that could be devised. They were attractive and interesting as well as instructive, and their cir- culation had a beneficial effect upon the whole State. Such pamphlets should be again prepared and circu- lated. There is no county in California so well known as not to need further ndvenisigg, nor any so back- ward as not to be able to afford the cost of publish- ing descriptive circulars. The railroad has offered inducements for home- seekers to visit the State. The increase of wealth during the recent prosperous years will enable many families to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by the roads. Consequently we are, likely to have during the whole of this year a considerable number of persons seeking homes in California or places in which to invest money, and the counties should be prompt in providing all information the visitors desire. says INFORMATION WANTED. ROM the State Board of Trade comes the cu- 3 that can be found elsewhere on the globe, and its | PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. — e PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR Cicero in that most delightful of all his minor writings, ‘‘De Senectute,” says: What {s there in man’s life that can celled long? * * ¢ To my mind nothing whatever seems of long duration in which there is an end. For when that arrives, then the time which has passed has flowed away; that only remains which you have secured by virtue and right conduct. 8 Eighteen hundred vears later Dr. Sam- uel Johnson, one of the brightest minds of England, writes: It capnot surely be supposed that old_age. worn' with labors, harassed with anxieties and tortured with diseases, should have any glad- ress of its own or feel any satisfaction from the contemplation of the present. All the com- forts that can now be expected must be {hP called from, the past or borrowed from the future, Within_the halt century just closed Charles Kingsley sings: When all the world gets old, lad, and all the trees turn brown, And all the jests get stale, lad, and all the lad—the matmed be wheels run down, Then bie back to thy home, and sick among; Thank God if there you find one when you were young. 2 And a similar strain of sadness and de- spalr runs through the prose and poetry of all times and the minds of al me!r’x. glorifying youth_and bewailing the al- vent of old age. So universal is this sentl- ment that praise of old age would almost seem to require, by way of preface, an apology. If such were needed I waud present it in the masterful essay on ol age by that master mind of Amerltil. Ralph Waldo Emerson. How true his words, that ‘“when life has been well spent age is a loss of what it can well spare— muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old age in infancy, is young in four score years, and, dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects a mind purified and wise. People Are Only as Old as They Feel. The attalnment of this wisdom should be the aim and object, and when attained at the same time, the glory of declining years. Nothing is more despicable than an old person parading in the garb of vouth and.substituting wig and cosmetics for the curls and bloom of early days. While not admitting that a woman 1S as old as she looks, I firmly believe that both men and women are only as old as they feel. As there may be an old head on young shoulders, so also there may be, and should be always, a young heart un- der old shoulders. Not years but disposi- tion and stagnation of intellect make us old, and also that spirit of laisser aller which shirks from the exertion of adapt- ing our physical necessities to the changed conditions™ incident to the advance of years. What an old man was Byron, when at the age of 36, just prior to his death, he exclaimed: o v the yellow lea e wrs wnd fruits of love are gonet The worm, the canker and the griet Are mine alone. = Contrast with this what Dr. eems, pastor of the Church of the Strangers in New York, writes In answer to the ques- tion, “How does a man feel at three score years and ten?’: P most relieving sensations of my Lita"was when T had passed the ‘three score years and ten,” and I remember the buoyancy of feeling which came to me one December morning when I arose and stretched myself and to myself did say most cheerfully, I am 711* ¢ * % Then I commenced a new life, and so far as times, seasons and periods are concerned 1 have no feelings different from those which characterized my life thirty yea ago. * * * I am not consclous of having a of those several symptoms which have gener- ally been supposed to indicate old age. n Adams, at 8, when informed of th{ao?!lec(lon of his son to the Presidency, exclaimed: “I am rejolced because the nation is happy!” And Cornaro, “whu lived to be 99, sald of himself at §3: “Life at this age is not a dead, dumpish and sour life, but cheerful, lively and pleas- ant.” face you loved Past. There recently died in the city of New York within a few days of each other four prominent men engaged in different pursuits and past the meridian of life, { all well known to me—Judge J. H. Beek- | man, one of the brightest and most in- dustrious members of the Supreme Court bench of this city, aged §; Charles C. Beaman, a profound and brilllant law- ver, partner of Joseph M. Choate, aged 81; ‘Oswald Ottendorfer, journalist, editor of the greatest German newspaper in the country ' and multi-millionaire, aged 75; Hugo Wesendonck, prominent in business circles, founder and president of the Ger- mania Life Insurance Company, at the age of 84, Of these men I would designate Judge Beekman as the most learned; Mr. B man as the happlest, owing to his de- lightful associations and the enjoyment of "'his lelsure hours: Mr. Ottendorfer, while the poorest in health, yet the most successful, as he combined with vast wealth great power and high honor, and Mr. Wesendonck as the best in health and of the most cheerful disposition. Each one of these men was a braln worker in the best sense of that word; each had attained a position af affluence which saved him from the petty annoy- ance and worry of struggling for a daily existence; each had achieved the greatest success in his respective calling, and none of them appear to have been the victim of any dire organic disease of heredity. While, therefore, they were so nearly on a par in the elements which are generally supposed to tend more es- geclnlly to the prolongation of life, yet, rom my personal knowledge of them, I would say that in fact the voungest of them in years was the oldest, and the oldest in_years the youngest. Judge Beekman, while a most pleasant companion, Impressed me as the most in- clined to 100k too seriously upon the daily routine of life’s duties, while Mr, Wesen- donck, though not unmindful of these du- tles, yet always uDJ:eM'ed to be in the most delightful mood. and in the full en- joyment of the passing hour. Judge Beek- man was somewhat of a recluse; Mr Wesendonck was what may be termed in the swim of life. Certainly in the pres- ence of these two men one was impressed with the vouth of the octogenarian and the age of the man just past 50. At what perlos. then, with these men did old age —old age In the popular acceptation of that term—begin? Surely not with years. At What Age Do People Become Old? This leads me to the question, When may a_man or woman in general con- sidered old? What is the line of demarca- tion between middle and declining life? Many writers have contended that this oceurs at about the age of 63, yet in the examples which I have above given this certainly does not hold true. Fixed lim- its, in fact, both as to the commencement of ‘old age and as to the natural dura- tion of life itself (numerous writers fix it at five times the perlod of growth, 18 to 21, or at 9 to 105 years), are, in my opin- Yéars does not as a rule indicate old age; jon, purely theoretical, because fullness of years does not as a rule indicate old age; nor, on the other hand, does a life of few- er yednru ’:m:e-urlly demonstrate prema- ure demise. ; 3 That is not to say, however, that a life long in years may not also be a long life without the inroads'of the infirmities and annoyances’ of old age, and that is the Zoal which the advocates of longevity seek to attain—not a lor;, life of misery and disease, but a long life of heaith and happiness. The iveness of Worry. prolong life in the f I were to What can be done to 1ast mentioned sense? 0 pre- scribe a programme I would say: Culti- vate, above all things, a genial, happy dis- position, which looks upon the osy Father Ihake the most of favorable clroumstances and turns to the best possible advantage td ‘bl Cg:':fl h tél.“:‘ o higrig ‘was blinded 5] ursting of a si- of ', and immediate Fis its “togeter > B | lndlnvenkqlm 3‘-‘: also one of the o Examples Taken From the Recent | du- ration, and be ‘attained by e ention. "M his must. Bowerer. ot THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. Preliminary Observations of a Series of Arti- cles on the Art of Living a Hundred Years. By Theodore Sutro. VICE PRESIDENT OF THE HUNDRED-YEAR CLUB OF NEW YORK. (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) 2 be confounded with a phlegmatic and in- different temperament, which is the great- est obstacle to progress. Proper ambition and striving to improve necessarily beget a certain restlessness, without which man- kind would run in a rut. Stagnation is worse than death, and it Is better that our existence should run out than rust out. The disposition of mind which I re- fer to as the bane of a desirable old age is of the fretful, worrying kind, which makes a mountain out of a molehill and sees no good in anything. & “Dotre Worry Club,* which has been organized in New York, though amusing in its title is really founded upon & thor- oughly legitimate idea and unconsclous- 1y, perhaps, is working in the direction of prolonged life and assuring a !erc’ne and happy old age in inculcating its prin- cl;rllul to a far| grdenr:er!ges;‘exe t! " ‘mpn‘fl}: socleties organize lor e ITPOSe Suing and discussing sclentific medical in- Vestigation. Proper Food, Shelter and Dre:ll. 4 Yet freedom from worry alone will T Tove in itself to be the elixir of youth, With it a careful regard for our phys = and mental well-being in every respect ; indispensable. Proper food, shelter an raiment must be provided, and with re- spect to all these due regard must be had for the teachings of science as gather from long experience, Food must be adapted to our constitu- culiarities—best of all, under medlcn(v‘;dvlce—and in drink every sacr'l- fice should be made in order to obtain that rarest of all fluids, the purest kind of water. We should seek our shelter in well-ven- tilated dwellings in healthful locations, and these considerations should outweigh the dictates of either fashion or conveni- ence. In raiment also we should be independ- ent enough to follow the promptings of common sense and not torture our bodies into disease by the straitjacket of tight lacing, pinching shoes, heavy headgear and all the other monstrosities of our so- called modern civilization. To these must be added, as of almost equal importance, the necessity of allow- ing nature, rather than expediency, to prescribe the hours of sleep and rest; and under rest I include every kind of proper recreation and diversion. And, on the other hand again, exercises, both physical and mental, which react upon each other, must not be omitted from our pro- gramme. As health of body is essential to prolonged, severe, successful mental ef- fort, so, also, and even more, in my opin- ion,” there cannot be permanent perfect physical health without the exercise of our mental faculties. The farmer, with the sinews of iron, but mental sloth, as a rule dies younger than the Fmtes:lona.l man with ‘constant brain activity. Keep Clean, but Avoid Extremes. Careful bathing and ablutions and pure alr must also recelve attention, yet in nothing are people more apt to run to ab- surd extremes than in these. The mania for “hardening” ourselves by plunging into ice-cold or boiling tubs of water or subjecting ourselves to the onslaughts of the wintry blasts or burning currents of our eccentric ¢limate without regard to our physical condition for the time being is as illogical as it is perniclous. Clean- liness ang fresh air, in the sense of these extremities, kill more people than what they would probably call reprehensible ab- stention from either. Moderation in these things, as well as in everything that may be carried. to ex- tremes, should be our watchword if we desire to prolong life at the same time that we preserve amr health. There may be as much intemperance in exercise, the use of food and water and every essentlal of existence as In the indulgence in stimu- lants or tobacco. There is nothing won- derful, therefore, in the examples so-often cited that this individual or that has lived to an extreme old axe, although he daily took his dram or tobacco or did this thing or that which, in the eyves of the extrem- ists, is belleved to be sure to kill. “In medio tutissimus ibis” I would emblazon as the motto at the very commencement of my programme—"The middle course is the safest.” Intelligent Study of Health Condi- tions. Recently a society was started in the city of New York to study and discuss the problems and conditions conducive to longevity, If experience has taught that in individual cases mere fortuitous circum- stances and observances have led to an exceptional prolongation of life, why should not statistical observation ‘in nu- merous cases eventually evolve principles on which the expectation of longer life than the traditional three score years and ten or four score years may be predi- cated? Such a society. in order to be success- ful, should have for its nucleus a member- ship of serious professional and scientific men, who would be able to pursue their investigations and discuss and compare their results intelligently. Fads, foibles and the cranks and dreamers who possess them should be rigidly excluded from such an organization or it is' bound to be a fallure. The trouble with nearly all move. ments_ heretofore in that direction has been that they have fallen into the hands of quacks and dilettani, who imagine that they can discover some panacea for the indefinite prolongation of life merely by talking about it, without the slightest re- gard for the teachings of sclence or ex- perience. The problems involved in this Qquestion are of the most serious nature and require the profoundest study and consideration. 0ld Age Is Opportunity. TUndoubtedly the world has progressed, not only in ameliorating the condition, but in prolonging the period of what in' the Sralnary acceptance of the term is called old age, and 1 have no doubt that the time will come when the majority of men will be at their best at 1, instead of, as is now go often the case, at thelr worst at 40; Shen men and women will be not only as o1d as they feel but as they look, and will both feel and look as they should at every period of life, even at five score or more; when youth will not arrogate to itself the sole right of existence, and when old age Wil believe that 2 is opportunity no less rhnn". youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is flled with stars, invisible by day.” A CHANCE TO SMILE. Teacher—What is the functio: iron in the blood? 9 o Tommy Tucker—It's what makes the finger nafls.—Chicago Tribune. Tess—Mamma was rummaging through the attic to-day, and she found the cradle I used when I Wwas a baby. She was go- ing to throw it out, but I wouldn’t let her. ess—1 should ua{ not. Antiques are all the rage now.—Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Oak Park—Do you call your hus- band “hubby?" Mrs. Hyde Park—No. He is from Boston.—Chicago News. “Euphorbia,” sald the youth, hoarsely, *“you love another man! Don't deny fti 1 have scen the evidence In black and ‘white!"” “Alfred,” she exclaimed, turning fright- that ou me Love fully pale, *“can it be it v of writing that ‘English Woman's Letters’?"—Chicago Tribune. It was in the harbor of Malta one day that a midshi eight Inches addressed himself to the six- feet-two captain of his first seagoing The captain looked down upon the lmflinfi and good-naturedly said: ““Well, youngster, so you hate come to M"fa:h!t ease,” meekly responded the y\;én‘hhr{u“ o&‘ccrl.a'“ % e same ol 2 of the tamily 10 seat ° ent the fool sir.” kly responded the lad. o “No, «“Oh, ho; things have changed since time.” o I call him Hub, | EDITORIAL UTTERANCE - IN VARIETY A Trinity of Reformers. How would it be if Mr. Bryan, the Rev Mr. Sheldon and W. T. Stead should form a trinity- for the regeneration of world? Mr. Stead could take Chica Mr. Bryan could solve the problems Great Britain, while Mr. Sheldon could what his partners left undone. If the tr could not show us how the world shou be run we should have to come to the cor clusion that it was a hopeless task.—Phil- adelphia Telegram. ‘Will Corbin Outrank Miles? Query—Now that General Miles fs lieu- tenant general, will Corbin still outranic ?—Indianapolis News. hlg:)rbln Oulra‘.’noled him when Miles had the rank, pay and uniform of a lieuten- ant general, and it is to be presumed that the conferring of the commission will make no difference. Miles will have t privilege of appending “‘by order of t Heutenant general commanding’ und‘ sign- | ing_his name to army orders, but Corbin will continue to dictate the orders.— Kansas City World. A Hint to Congress. The report to the French Chamber of the bill providing 1,400,000 francs for new embassy buildings at Washington and Vienna contained this passage: “However heavy the sacrifice may be, we do not hesitate to ask the Chamber to accept it. believing with the Government that it is essential for the proper working of our services and the dignity of the representa- tion of France in two of the greatest powers in the world.” Isn't it near time for our Congress to follow this exampile and provide us with proper embassfes in 'S’:!:A,.m‘ capltals?’-New York Evening Distance Annihilator. The Weather Bureau has been able ta telegraph fifty miles without wires, and thinks 500 miles will soon be possible. The wireless system is now a pretty well established fact and the early part of the twentleth century will no doubt see 1% in general use. The imagination is almost staggered at its possibilities. Who can say that wireless telegraphs will not be so perfected some day that everybody | can carry around his own sending and receiving instruments and strike up a con- versation with a friend on the other side of the globe at will, and as easily as he would talk to him face to face? Talk about a “distance annthilator,” here it is! —Indianapolis News. Admit Them to Statehood. Congress ought not to adjourn with- out giving to New Mexico statehood.| It is forty-one vears since New Mexico was organized Into a Territory. It has peoplo erough and property enough to suppe State government, and the objection th: a great portion of the people are of a other race and not fitted to take part self-government does not any more because there are enough there of fcans to handle the machiner and there are no visible reasons Government would not be as pure a of ordinary States in the Union. i Territories a chance. Let them wor their own salvation PERSONAL MENTION. G. Loeb of San Jose is at the Palace, John C. Quinn of Monterey is at ghe Lick. Frank Lyman of Sacramento is at the Grand. Dr. J. J. Miller of San Jose is at the Oc- cidental. J. G. Roberts of Madera is registered at | the Palace. | W. G. Hughey of Los Angeles is at the Occidental. H. S. Berry, a mining man of Selma, is at the Lick. H. M. Shreve, an attorney of Tulare, s at the Lick. Governor Gage s registered at Palace Hotel. John R. Ruben, a merchant of Fresno, is at the Lick. L. C. Koberg, a Healdsburg merchant, is at the Grand. Charles P. Morgan and wife of San Jose are at the Palace. John C. Bull, a contractor of Arcata, s a guest at the Lick. [ W. H. Atkinson, a vineyardist of Napa, is a guest at the Grand. J. B. de Jarnatt, a mining man of Co- lusa, s at the Occidental. W. S. Tupper, an insurance man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. ‘W. R, Carithers, a Santa Rosa attorney, is a guest at the California. J. H. Arnold, an attorney of-Guerne- ville, is a guest at the California. W. E. Woolsey, a fruit grower of Santa, Rosa, is registered at the Occidental, Gus and Ernest P. Lion, merchants ot San Jose, are registered at the Palace. Jobn F. O'Shea, connected with the Un- fon Meat Company of Portland, Or., is at the Lick. E. W. Hale of Hale Bros., Sacramento, accompanied by his wife, is registered at the Palace. C. E. Randall, one of the District As- sessors of Chicago, accompanied by hisg wife, Is at the Palace. L —— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Franciseo—H. Parmlee, at the Matropoli- tan; C. H. Boyle, at the Grand; J. Hooper, at the Murray Hill. From Los Angeles, H. Chandler, at the Pabst. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. THE OLD MILL STREAM—J. D. P, City. “Down by the Oid Mill Stream” i3 a ballad. the i THE PARK—4. E. T., City. If you have any complaint as to the management of any department of Golden Gate Park you should make it to the Commissioners. APPARENT DISTANCE—W. B., City. If the correspondent gives the names of two fixed stars, and their distance from the earth is known, it is possible that the apparent distance, to the naked eve, cam be given. ek COINS—Copper Coin, Oakland, Cal Dealers in old coins do not offer a pre- mium for any of .the many coins de- seribed in the letter of inquiry. The de- seription of the last coin mentioned is not sufficiently clear to enable one to locate it In the catalogues. A FUNERAL—Constant Reader, San Andreas, Cal. It is perfectly proper for body of individuals who accompany funeral cortege to walle ahead of the hearse. Be it a military or a civie body, it precedes the hearse, and if it does not go to_the burying ground it at a point agreed upon opens ranks, the 1 Standing with bared heads as the heates and immediate mourners pass. If the in- dividuals walk as far as the burying ground the ranks are opened at the gate. A NEWSPAPER—J. R., Upper Mattols, C‘l. In the hurry to transmit news, pre- pare such for.the press and place the same before the reader in a limited time it sometimes happens that those who do that work let a faulty constructed sen- tence slip. The people want the news and want it quickly, and as long as the same is comprehensive it is all that is expected of a dally paper. If those who have to make up the paper were to spend the time necessary to and rewrite copy where faulty and bring it to a grammati- cal st . Inctuate it and then re- Yisu the precte_so. {hat. eseh sentence ‘would be letter perfect t might get a paper out about once a wi A dally pa- per is a news-distributing medium, got out in ge to convey to the readers ‘what they want to ; it is Dot a com- pilation of critical essays. Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel.* Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —————— ““Go away . roared the Foud caeny™ o Birlhgham "k | B Sy b e PR T