The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1901, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1901. Che ~2oisse Eall SDAY .. cce0sssssessanssess ISR 34, TOPL THU JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor.” Adéress A1l Commoniestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. FUBLICATION Oi'l'lfl! Market and Third, S. F. Teleph Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS o 221 Stevemsom St. Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5§ Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: ILY CALL (including Sunday), one year ing Sunday), 6§ months A A One Year.. sssess 1 All postmasters mre anthorized to receive subscriptions. e copies will be forwarded when requested. subscribers In ordering change of address should be £ive both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order v &« prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ©....1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mansger Forsign Advertising, Marguetts Building, Chicage. @ Distance Te! e “Central 2619."") CORRESPONDENT: .Herald Square NEW YOR . C. CARLTON.... NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: . 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VISITIANG “TRADE KING3.” of March 4 there leit Ci cago in special train of six & composed of a the le g men of the Commercial Club ds bound for the West g their departure They are deserving ere many of the most 1ess men of that pro- ho travel with them Arthur J. Caton and Robert M. Bur Club, and Isaac W. e St. Louis Comme-cial San Diego on Wednes- re probable they will reach Saa Their reception will, of i commercial men, and no s have been already made e San Francisco weicome. ould not be leit wholly to o distinguished a company tnity, and as far as po 1ade in the name of t California No mat: the State, resources s for busi tly we have much to gain n, enterprising, sagacious ng should be done to inter- e such men v or a holiday tour. direct business interests that it there is the gratifica- tance and establishing men of their type and character. Cali ote from the East that comparatively for cultivating personal rela- astern industry and trade. ortunity ought o be made use of tc t. Consequently the members of this d be received with a cordial welcome that morable to them so long as they live. We ndship even if we never have any direct gs with them, and that fact should bz ifest in every feature of their reception. 1 ! and a commercial people. The nt to labor, who convert raw orts of products, who construct rail- «nd advance the prosperity of the people end the greatness of the republic, are the men whom we delight to honor. Among such workers uilders are the trade kings who are coming to rom Chicago, and their guests from other cities. For 2! of them California has a cordial welcome, and San Francisco should chow it in every form of enter- tainment hospitality can devise. A recent decision by City Attorney Lane indicates that he would prefer o see the Board of Public Works receive the money which should pay the back debis of the city. Mr. Lane ought also to suggest some means by which San Francisco may accept insolvency v.ithout its sting of discredit. 2 The recent escapade of a prominent sculptor, who made noisy the hours of the night, indicates that the istic temperament ic sometimes liable to exhibitions which, though brilliant in their conception, are some- times too spectacular in their execution. Recent dispatches are authority for the announce- ment that our commercial policy is puzzling the Ger- mans. This should Le a reasomably safe indication that we are not making any serious mistakes. n the southern part of the State, | 2l into sources of wealth, who find profitable | BENJAMIN HARRISON. | Y the death of Benjamin Harrison the United | B States suffers a genuine loss. He was not an ! old man. His strength was not exhausted by age or weakened by disease. In the ordinary course of nature he might have lived for many years and con- tinued in full vigor to serve his country with that zeal and patriotism for which he was noted from his ear- | liest manhood to the day of his death. That service he would undoubtedly have given, and its value would unquestionably have been as great as any he had ever given in the past, and consequently the loss of it is in the nature of a public disaster. country in which a capacity for the highest public service has been transmitted from generation to gen- eration. In fact with the exception of the Adams family of Massachusetts none other compares with 1t in that respect. Nor does the Adams family equal it, for while that family furnished a signer of the Declara- tion of Independence and two Presidents of the | United States, as did the Harrison family, yet the | Adamses have never been distinguished in war, while both President William Henry Harrison and President Benjamin Harrison zerved the republic with as much patriotism and efficiency on the battlefield as in the Senate or the White House. Born of an illustrious parentage, but to nothing of wealth or social prestige, Benjamin Harrison passed his youth amid conditions that best fit the American for the service of his country. He was one of the people. He knew poverty and learned the lessons of equality and of the worth of labor that are essential to the formation of the character of statesmen who are to guide the politics of a republic. Though descended from Souhern ancestry he had no sympathy with slave-holding, and like tha: great Kentuckian, Lincoln, he espoused the cause of freedom 4n his | youth, making his home in a free State and vigorously | opposing every effort uc the extension or the increase | of the slave power. When the war broke out young Harrison was | among the first to enlist for the preservation of the Union. His military capacity was such that despite | the fact that he had no education or training in the art of war he rapidly rose to command and was among the most eminent of the generals of the volunteer army. After the war he returned to the practice of |1aw and to an active engagement in politics. His career in Congress, while not brilliant, was sufficiently rotable to attract to him the attention and win for | him the esteem of his countrymen in all parts of the Union, so that he soon became recognized as a Presi- dential possibility. His nomination for that office | was not the result of a political accident. He had | abundantly merited it, and his career in the office | proved him to be in every way fitted for its highest duties. Despite his statesmarship and his never-questioned fidelity to duty, Harrison was not 2 good party Jeader. | He became involved 1n controversies that disturbed the Republican organization throughout the country, | led to the retirement of Blaine from the Cabinet, and in the end brought about Harrison’s defeat when a | candidate for re-election. Those controversies, how- | ever, have long since been forgotten by men of this | generation and will not occupy much attention from | historians, Since he has been out of office he has | borne himself in such a manner as to win the esteem of all classes of Americans. Of late he became a not- ‘,ab]e contributor to reviews and magazines, and gave promise of taking a front rank among statesmen who have inwetirement cultivated literature. Such fortune, however, has been denied him. In the maturity of 2 superb manhood he has fallen a victim to the dread | disease of pneumonia, and the republic has to mourn the loss of a great man whom she can ill spare. l Morgan of Alabama has abrogated the Clayton- Bulwer treaty, declared war on Great Britain, | whipped her without the loss of a man, destroyed the British empire, plowed it up, sowed it with salt and danced on the desert he has created. One is at a loss to decide whether this old man is | more bad than foolish. He has been an extreme sup- | porter of all the expansive measures of McKinley's | administration, and then has joined rapidly the politi- cians who denounce those policies. He is a self- elected champion of the Nicaragua canal and has ad- vocated nearly every device of its enemies to defeat His course is to be accounted for only by the theory of periodical exaltation due to artificial aids of | enthusiasm, and the corresponding reaction in which he abstains from the hair of the dog. He pursued the same course with the Cleveland administration, and is about as useful in public life as a Populist who gets office by advocating the abolition of salaries and im- mediately appeals to the Legislature to have his own | increased. | When the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was made it was | intended to supersede the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. It was an honorable agreement, assented to by Great | Britain and this country. . Anticipating its ratification | by the Senate, our Minister to Costa Rica and Nica- (ragua, Captain Merry, was instructed to negotiate | with those States protocols for canal treaties, based | not upon the Clayton-Bulwer but upon the Hay- | Pauncefote treaty. This was to economize time, and !in the event of the ratification of the latter treaty to | enable the last Congress to pass a canal bill and permit | the work to begin this year. The three treaties were gccmsis:cnl parts of a system of international agree- | ments which must be made if this Government is to build a canal on the territory of two independent sovereignties. But the Senate refused to ratify the Hay-Pauncefote treaty as made, and amended it into a sort of chronic declaration of war against the civil- |ized world. By its terms, if ratification were not ex- changed on the fourth day of this month it fell and expired, and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty stands unsub. stituted and, by our own admission, in force. Of this Senator Morgan is perfectly aware. He is not such a fool as to be ignorant of what is known to every citizen who has traced the current history of the canal measures. Yet he tells the Senate and the country that the President in making the Central American protocols “nobly defied Great Britain” and ignored the existence of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. | Whereupon Morgan hypocritically commends the President’s defiance and bellows for war. Patience with such a creature is difficult. No Jin- telligent man can read the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and the explanation of it made by John M. Clayton in the Senate of 1853 without seeing that it was made at the instance of this Government, that in entering into it Great Britain yielded to our wish and that it was for the purpose of promoting the speedy building of the canal which Mr. Clayton had advocated in the Senate in 1835. We have from its ratification to this time ceaselessly recognized the existence of that treaty and its binding force. In the face of its history to abro- gate it against the attitude of Great Britain would be an act of national dishonor, or, in its best aspect, an act to be excused only in the presence of an over- MORGAN AGAIN. this called as in the regular session of the Senate it. | | The Harrisons are among the few families of this | mastering necessity, for which there was no other remedy. | It is so plain that none should fail to see it, that the men who oppose a reasonable substitute for the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, as was the Hay-Pauncefote | treaty, and who inspire the jingo cry in favor of lin- | ing the canal with garrisoned fortifications, and there- | by making it a challenge to the world, are the enemies | of the canal; and the best plea that can be made for | Morgan is that he is the tool of those enemies of the | work. The country is weary of the delay and is dis- gusted with Morgan, his followers and his methods. — PREVENTION OF SHIPWRECKS. HEN commenting upon the wreck of the Rio The Call directed attention to the fact that re- | cent successes obtained in experiments with i wireless telegraphy give reason to believe that within |a time comparatively chort science will devise a means | by which the officers of a ship proceeding along a | dangerous coast or through a narrow channel will be | able to know exactly how near they are to the coast, | or to any rock that menaces their safety. The means i of attaining that much desired object seem to be well ! nigh at hand. In fact we may soon see them estab- i lished not only around our harbor but at every point of note along our Pacific Coast. Dispatches from Washington announce that Secre- | tary Wilson is experimenting with wireless telegraphv | along the coasts of Vitginia and North Carolina for | the purpose of increasing the efficiency and reliability | of the reports of the Weather Bureau and has obtained | good results. Professor Moore, chief of the bureau, | is reported to have said in a recent interview: “The | most efficient method of long distance transmission has been found to be from wire cylinders. The new | coast stations are being equipped with cylinders of | sixteen wires each and 140 feet in length. From these ‘ cylinders it is expected to cover a magnetic field of | not less than 500 miles. The stations now in opera- tion are at Hatteras and at Roanoke Island, in the Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. Workmen are be- | ginning the construction of a station at Cape Henry | which will be the third station. When this is finished | the two remote stations will be 127 miles apart. The | three points now are connected by a Government telegraph line, but this line will be abandoned on the | completion of the Cape Henry station. This, inci- dentally, will save the expense of maintenance of a ‘1 hali dozen repair stations.” | While our Government is thus directing its energies ;toward increasing the value of the service that notes | the approach of storms, the Canadians are working | directly toward the end of providing danger signals | for ships. In “Consular Reports” for this monta | there is published 1 statement from Consul Dudley at | Vancouver, giving an account of steps now being taken to assure the safety of ships on the Britizh | Columbian coast. The account says: “It will intes- | est those whose calling takes them into these wate-s | to learn that an invention is now being investigated | by the marine authorities and navigators at South- | end-on-sea, which, if it may not go a long way toward | making lighthouses obsolete and unnecessary, is ex- | | pected to be of much value in the prevention of ship- | wreck from any one of 00 per cent of the usual causes. | This is an automatic system of signaling which will | warn ships of their approach to dangerous rocks and coasts in all weathers when even a flashing light might | not be seen and the booming of a foghorn might bz | unheard.” In describing the methods of signaling employed in the experiments, the report goes on to say: “A metallic conductor is fixed on an €levation on shore, or on a lightship or 1eef. From this, etheric waves are transmitted over a zone which has a radius of seven miles. All vessels fitted with receivers, when within that area are warned of their proximity to dan- ger, the distance and the point of the compass. being | registered. * * * The automatic part of the in- vention consists of steel bearings with a number of | teeth which pass over a Morse transmitter. No operators are needed. The machine works absolutely automatically.” Itiszdded: “In its elementary prin- ciples the system resembles Marconi’s method of wire- | less telegraphy, but in detail the system is essentially different.” i Such are the experiments that are now going on toward providing for the safety of ships along our coasts. Of course nothing that science and invention can do will ever suffice to make up for a lack of vigil- ance and care on the part of captains and pilots, but if the experiments now being made prove successful, the danger of wreck will be materially lessened. Tt is of course easy to be too sanguine in matters of this kind, but nevertheless wircless telegraphy has been | advanced so rapidly since its first introduction by The | Call ‘in practical news-gathering that there are good | grounds for expecting some practical system of signaling the location of dangerous rocks will soon be | devised. | i i The decree has gone forth that employes of the municipality must not sell their salary warrants to money brokers. The repeated efforts which have been ! made to convict an ex-employe for selling his waz- rant to too many money brokers are evidence that the new rule may be a distinct saving for the criminal courts, —_— The State Legislature has adopted a measure which gives San Francisco power to appoint new police offi- cers but leaves to us the serious problem of how to pay their salaries. This biennial effort of our legisla- tive friends to sell us a gold brick is becoming tire- some. Some of Uncle Sam'’s soldiers raised a riot in an Eastern camp the other day because they had no can- teen. With this mild inspiration for trouble it would be interesting to know what the troopers would have done under the exhilarating influence of a camp can- teen. —_—— The Federal investigation into the wreck of the steamship Rio de Janeiro has established at least one fact. If the hearing of some of the life-saving look-- outs is as bad as their memory their service to the Government is absolutely worthless. The young rascal who was convicted of bigamy in | a local court the other day and pleaded that he did not know the nature of his offense was probably laboring under the delusion that he was operating in Utah. |a o ~==[PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. Health and Life Depend Most Seriously Upon Exercise Taken Systematically and Scientifically. IR P J. William White. JOHN RHEA BARTON PROFESSOR OF SURGERY, UNIVERSITY OF PENN- SYLVANIA. COPYRIGHT, 1%01. 1V.—VALUE OF EXERCISE IN PROLONGING LIFE. By Dr. My belief in the value of exercise and athletics in the prolongation of life has ! its foundation in certain scientific princi- ples which are connected with the early life history of the race. If we begin at the real beginning we should understand that we are animals | very much like other animals, and that we are made up, as they are, each of us, of myriads of cells that are practically identical for all animals and have prob- ably not changed materially for countless ages. The health and vitality of these cells—and of the aggregations of cells that | make up the individual animal—which | have enabled them to multiply, to survive the struggle for existence and to bring about animal life as it exists to-day re- sult from sualities that have been devel- oped through untold centuries of fierce competition for food, for shelter, for the preservation of Yamily or tribal relations —in fact, for life itself. In this way the necessity for bodily exertion for the full development of the powers of the indi vidual became established as a basal con- dition in relation to the health of the hu- man race. The comparatively brief pe- riod covered by “history” ‘and the still | more insignificant time assigned to “civ- ilization” have not affected in the very least the primal attributes of an animsl organization whose essential qualities are the result of immeasurable ages of strife with other animals and with the ele- ments, of e;apouure without covering to sun and wind and rain—to conditions, in other words, the conquest of which was necessary for the preservation of the life of the individual and the perpetuation of the species. The effect of these ages of struggle, when, to use the phrase of the day, life was truly “strenuous,” has been that every separate cell of the millions that make up a given human organism is the descendant of similar cells that owed thelr life and their ability to reproduce their kind to a resistant power to the at- tacks of disease and injury and exposure developed under conditions of extreme physical stress and exertion. Primitive Requirements of Health. It is Inconceivable that in the compara- tively few years of which we have any knowledge any essential change should have been wrought in the primal qualities developed in the organism through the infinitude of centuries during which the race was developing to its present status. There has not been time yet for us to lose entirely even such gross and now unes- sential structures as the muscles that in some of our ancestors—the carnivora, for | example, were used for pricking up the ears, but are valueless to us; the little crescent-shaped fold of skin at the inner angle of the eye, useless to us, but of great value to the sharks and other primi tive relatives of ours; or the append vermiformls, worthless and dangerous us, but larger and most useful in the di- gestive processes of our vegetarian pre- decessors. It is evident to the scientist, whether he studies disease and notes the | fact that some of the most deadly enemies to life, as the bacillus tuberculosis, for example, die and are powerless in direct sunlight; or studies health and observes the victory over such microscopic intrud- ers obtained by the living cells of the bodv When they are voung and vigorous and active, that in the advancement of civili- zation many elementary hygienic princ les have been lost sight of. Disease Peen lassened, it is trie, by the discove of technical methods of prevention ar cure, but the needs of body, t essentlal and primitive requirements health, as old as the race ftself, are co | stantly forgotten or ignored. The afr breathed by crowds, the dust and dirt of great cities, the covering of the body sur- face so as to exclude the direct rays of the sun, the substitution of sedentary and slothful babits for a life of incessant ac- tivity, the modification in diet and drink— in other words, the changes in environ- ment with little or no change in the or- ganism itself, are responsible for much of the disease and death with which th> physician has to deal, and for many of the faflures and not a few of the crimes that concern society at large. Some Disadvantages of Progress. > diminished general death rate due mTf;fe (llabcurs and discoveries of the medi- cal profession is, of course, gratifying, but it should be remembered that even tais has another side, and that it neces- sarily means the preservation of thou- sands of weak!ings, who, if they perlsl'!ml in childhood, or soon after middie age was passed, would, at least, nmot perpetuate their imperfections in coming generations The lowered price of meat in many countries has put within the reach of the Jaboring clagses an amount of animal food vastly larger than ever before in historic times. This has been in some ways an obvious advantage, but there are Keen observers who associate the com- parative excess of meat eating, and the coincident lessening of the hours of*labor and of physical effort required to procure subsistence, with the increase in cases t cancer that is thought to be taking place in most civilized countries. ‘Education in modern times is far more general, is begun earlier, is continued un- fil later inlife, and embraces a curricu- lum which has widened with the develop- ment of human knowledge until it has perforce been divided and subdivided so that the fear has arisen that the days of a really broad education are numbered, and that we are on the eve of developing only specialists. There can, at any rate, be no doubt that the stress and strain have increased, examinations with the at- tendant nervous tension have multiplied, competition has become keener and re- wards greater and disappointments have been correspondingly more bitter and de- pressing. All this occurs during the devel- opmental period, when the foundations of health and strength should be laid and when the nervous system especially is most sensitive to external impressions. A child will have a general convuision from an attack of indigestion that would give an adult only 1 stomach ache. Mental in- digestion produces correspondingly grave results in other portions of the brain. With all the good that flows from the comparatively wide diffusion of educa- tion and of knowledge at the present day comes the counterbalancing evil, the in- creased percentage of insanity, associat- ed undoubtedly with the substitution of mental for physical strain in the struggle for existence «nd having its foundation, in too many cases, in the period devoted to education. It must be noted here that it is strain, not activity, that causes men- tal disease. The proper use of the brain, just as that of the body, tends to thé preservation of health. The Cave Man's Legacy to Moderns. ‘Mr. Treves has called attention jocular- 1y to the fact that with precisely the same alimentary canal as served the cave man after his meals of raw hyena meat we at- tack the aldermanic public dinners of the nineteenth century. It is equally true that while our Ihl',ea td[e:end upol‘l't t:; of the same sort a T uuent;l in a sense an indivi- cestors the Fears are being expressed that California, in the abundance of prolific nature, is producing too much | basal oil. This does not deter the great oil monopoly, how- | fhese habits, the more we recognize and ever, from trying to grab all that we produce. Semt&;r Hanna, it is said, intends to discipline Dela- ware for neglecting to elect two Republican Senators, | ex: Perhaps an exposition of what he knows of methods in Ohio might be more efficacious. uman 'A determined and organized effort is to be made Felopmnet in New York to save the morals of the poor. This | “fles! "nlhl! seems to be a particularly unjust discrimination against the rich. 3 cave man af extent has f living, with (> °h.u:'.‘_2‘.m no reference to the of the cells which The less we conflict with meet these needs, the higher will be the | P city of some of the functions of the hu- man_species. Indissoluble ties link us to all the res: of organic nature, and the four mos rimitive requirements of health—sun- ight, oxygen, food to replace worn-out cells, and (as soon as we reach the ani- mal kingdom) motion, or ‘“exercise’—are the same now as they were when the xllulse'uf life first began to beat on this anet. Keeping the Tissues Healthy. Health in a human being to-day, as al- ways, consists in such a comdition of growth and development of all the tissues and organs of the body as enables them to fulfill their functions easily and com- pletely, respond promptly to occasional unusual demands upon them and resist effectually the attacks of disease. It de- numberless atoms or cells that constitute the body are cast off and reolaced by others, and upon the strength and vitality of the' jatter, and this strength, there is every reason to believe, is in almost direct proportion to their newness. The young cell, like the young person, has a reserve force, an energy, a vitality, a power of resistance that invariably begins to di- minish as soon as full Xevelopmem has been attained. The physiologist or physi- cian, who, Aladdin-like, could offer ‘“‘new cells for old,”” would have discovered the secret of perpetual youth. Every time we move or breathe or even think, certain cells die, are disintegrated, and must be replaced by others. This work s done by the blood, which lays down the new material and carries off the old, to be thrown out by the lungs, the skin and the kidney e succession of events makes up “life d, reducing the ossible terms, and strength statement to the !Imple;fl We may say that the healt of any individual are in direct proportion to the thoroughness and celerity with which these occurrences take place. Con- sequently, we are able to understand how an agent of any sort which influences these processes favorably must be one which will promote at the same time the destruction of the old celis and their rapid replacement by new ones; in other words, on which, while it hastens the death of certain tissues, will at the same time send them an increased amount of material with which to repair damages, or which may even enable them to improve upon and add to’the original structure. Now, when we look for such an agent, discard- ing drugs, of course, as inapplicable and injurious, and assigning food to its proper place as fuel which may be transformed into force, but is useless alone and unas- sisted, we find that there is but one means within our reach for effecting this purpose safely, continuously and healthfully, and that Is exercise. : The Chief Agent in Prolonging Life. We have voluntarilv, perhaps sarily, cut ourselves off (by our clothes and our houses and our habits) from the suniight In which the entire bodies of our ancestors—not alone their hands and facea —were bathed continuously—not on little occasional “outings.” Let the critie study the bacteriacidai effect of sunlight, tne climatic treatment of consumption, the open-air treatment of surgical tuberculo- sls, the relation to the percentage of sun. light to the mortality from influenza an 1 similar subjects, before he dismisses this neces- n.\:fl‘lmem a].u ln(-elevnn!. e supply of oxyg=n to th » has been simfilarly limited b'y e'g:lflfid‘fi!)! increased time spent indoors, often in poorly — ventilated rooms, and among crowds of fellow-beings, congregated for wgfk dor’ for pleasure, 00d is probably better in quality auantity” than ever before. hae siatied overeating has followed, and as a result special diseases, not oniy cancer, as has been stated, but gout and Bright's diseas-, are thought to be increasing, 3 We thus have left of the four elemen- tary requirements only exercise as a prac- tical agent for procuring or preserving health and prolonging life. - y ‘“‘exercise” is meart certain ve- of the voluntary muscics—those muscies which are under the coutrol of the will and made with sufficient force and rapt ity to quicken the breathing and the culation of the blood; hat is, to augm: the :(cil:on ;‘11 the 1n\'?lumary muscles con cern n those functions, chief 1 and the diaphragm. . Siindeey ‘What Exercise Does for the Body. Exercise increases the breathin, rids us of carbonic acid and Durifics et blood; increases the action of the heart. sending a larger quantity of this purified blood to all the tissues of the body, moving their waste, supplying the mate- rial for their renewai, and quickening all the vital processes: it thus fulfills all the conditions necessary in an agent which is to increase health and strength. The most obvious but least useful effect of exercisé is the increase in the size and power of the voluntary muscies; the most import- ant effect 1s a strengthening of the in- voluntary muscles concerned in the pro- cesses of respiration and _ eircmlation, which enables us to use the Increased power of the voluntary muscles with pends upon the activity with which the | mfort and safety, and to influence fhrough these pr rocesses Dot omly the health and strength but also owt, and development of the whole bog and even the activity and force of the mental processes. With these conditions is as- sociated an increased resistant power to the attacks of disease and a postpone- ment of the degenerative processes in- separable from advancing years, that, faken together, render irresistible the conclusion that we have for the prolong- ation of life no more valuable factor than judiclous exercise. In the opinion of the writer, exercise is benefictal largely In proportion to what Hamerton calls the “faith” in exercise— the firm conviction of its value and neces- sity which makes one go out in all weath- ers, or take time under all eircumstances for' the discipline and hardening of the body, even leaving for that purpose the most urgent intellectual labors. Ingivid- ual examples might be adduced without end, but to take omly two from the ree- ords of the two great Emglish-speaking races—when we hear that Willlam Cullen Bryant, a most remarkable example of the preservation of undiminished mental and physical vigor to zdvanced years, a tributed it to a habit formed in earl: i of devoting the first hour or two after leaving his bed in the morning to moder- ate gymnastic exercise, his allowance of which he had not reduced “the width of a thumbnail” in his eighty-fourth -year; and when we read that Mr. Gladstone, on the morning that he introduced his home rule bill, while all England—indeed, the whole world—was to be his audience In a few hours, and while the fate of great parties and of an entire race was involved in his presentment of his case, in spita of his advanced age, “spent an hour in his_private gymuasium, after which he we bathed and ate a light breakfast, may well believe that exercise has sor thing to commend it to thoughtful att ion. Hon ostly Results of Indifference. I belleve that as a rule it does not re. ceive this attention to the degree it mer- either from my profession, fr arents or guardians, or from the g ng bodies of educational fastitutior Physicians and surgeons too often advis it in a merely perfunctorv manner, their real indifference being reflect the conduct of the pagient, turn to ¢ to stimulate skin or Kldneys or hea lungs—work infinitely be‘ter done ercise. The generally accepted axiom of to- that too much food is one of the m notable factors in causing fatal should in the majority of cases rea much food relatively to the amount exercise.” Less food, even in the absc of exercise, would save many lives: o same amount of food with abundant et ercise would save many more; but most useful text from which to preach modern communities would be “much les: food and much more exercise.” PERSONAL MENTION. E. M. Durant of Los Angeles is at the Palace. J. P. Rapin of Santa Cruz is at the Grand. H. A. Bee of Sacramento s .a guest at the Grand. W. F. Price of Santa Rosa !s registered at the Grand. F. A. Hihn, a Santa Cruz capltalist, is at the Grand. G. M. Martin, 2 Watsonville merchant, Is a guest at the Lick. J. W. Nelson, a mining man of Mojave, is staying at the Grand. J. M. Coleman, an ofl man of Bakers- fleld, is at the California. P George Jessen and wife of Watsonville are guests at the Grand. G. W. Crystal, a fruit grower of Vaca- ville, is staying at the Grand. L. T. Hatfleld, an attorney of Sacra- mento, is staying at the Lick. Parker Wilson, a resident of Stockton, is at the Grand for a few days. Bank Commissioner A. W. Barrett of Los Angeles is at the California. V. 8. McClatehy, proprietor of the S: ramento Bee, is a guest at the Palace. H. P. Goodman, a banker of Napa, ac- companted by his wife, is registered at the Palace. L. C. Smith, the manufacturer of the Smith-Premier typewriter, is at the Pal- ace with his wife, from Syracuse, N. Y. Hon. Charles T. Caldwell, a prominent attorney of Parkersburg, W. Va.,is spend- ing a few days-in the city and is regis- tered at the Lick. Benjamin F. McKinley, assistant post- master of San Francisco, has returned from Washington, -where he went to wit- ness the inauguration of his nephew, the President. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 13.—The following Californians ave in New York: From San Francisco—T. J. Davis, at the Belvidere: 8. C. Davis, at the Delavan; F. W, M. Draper, at the Park Avenue; W. F. Her- rin, Miss Herrin, at the Holland: J. ¥. Ulrich, at the Hoffman; C. F. Moore, at the Herald Square, D. J. I. Stephen, at the Gilsey. —_————— Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel ¢ —_— e ——— Cal. glace fruit ic per b at Townsend's.* —_—— Speclal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by ths Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- goroery st. Telephone Main 1043, - < et Man, wiser than his Maker, is steeped in ignorance and deems himself a para- gon. N . No grippe, o pneumonta in the early winter, those who build up their systems after the hot season by using Dr.Siegert's Angostura Bitters ATLAS. SLIGHT DELAY IN COMPLETING . A slight delay has become imperative in the delivery of The Call's premium atlas, but what is lost in time will be more than com- health of mankind. nvdnnm. & e argument may far afield, and vet it 1S the scientific Tiatification for the belief in the value of has shown us that the chain of life has begun in the simple ended in the complex. has nstral that the influence of h ity h 1 during its de- pensated for in the added value of the splen- did work which will be offered tc subscrib- ers of this paper. The atlas is not only to be absolutely accurate, but will have the lat- est official statistics obtainable. The Federal Government has been slow in compiling and revising the census, and The Call atlas, which mnst have this latest information, has necessarily been delayed. The following tele- gram explains the situation: CHICAGO, March 7, 1901. John D. Spreckels, Proprietor of The Call, San Francisco: Owing to delay of Govern- ment in compiling and revising census it will be impossible to ship first carload of atlases ordered by_you before March 30th. They will go forward promptly that day by fast freight. GEORGE F. CRAM.