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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1901 Call. DNESDAY......... veen.....MARCH 20, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Agdress Al Commanieations te W. 8. LEAKE, Mansger. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: luding Sunday), one year. ding Sunday), 6 months. uding Sunday), 3 months. y Single Month 1. One Year. LL, One Yea: A All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Eample coples will be forwarded when requested. CALL SUBSCRIBERS contemplating a change of residence the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new addresses by notifying The Call Busi- mess Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer gesorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the coart. 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BRANCH OFFICES—&27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open uotll 930 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until $:30 o'clock. 6% MoAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1341 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1088 Valencla, open uotl] § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until o'clock. NW. cor- Der Twent bra—"“The Angel of the Alley.” “The Wedding Day.” n Bawn.” performance Thursday night, March 2L fornia—"The Telephone Girl."” ~Vaudevllle. Mason and Eddy streets—Spectalties. Theater—Vaudeville every efternoon and Piano Recital Friday night. ‘oncert Friday night. SANTA CLARA COLLEGE. LL Californians ‘”I find something to inte-est | 1 ‘ them in the celebration of the jubilee of Santa ge Col The h story of the college State of the American Union, s been one of the most al forces that tend to the liie, and the record of what one that can be read with ness by every patriot tory of colleges in Europe f some of the Eastern States, the Santa Clara College has at- In California, however, it It is one of the institu- own to us fro:n the days of the he proofs that the men who cams: t were not all of them mere adventurers ds. The men who founded Santa Clara Col- isefulness were something more than self- b were not men who build for to-day Il time. They gave freely of their bors, their thoughts and their treasure generations of the future. be true, as Ruskin says, that any work of man something of nobleness by being designed for 1en this institution ranks‘among the noblest t have ever been done on the Pacific Coast ated to the service of liberal education for 1 time to come, and from the past fifty years of ear- mest labor can draw auguries that the designs of its founders will be abundantly realized from generation to generation. The jubilee that it cele- brates now is but the record of an infancy. It is but at the beginning of its career, and yet when measured by the work done it might well be called venerable. From the college there have gone forth men to serve the State with usefulness in every department of endeavor. Some among them have attained high dis- tinction and rank among the most honored of our citizens. Not a few of them are among the illustrious dead whose deeds will brighten the pages of history and whose examples will live long as incentives to T but for their aspiring youth. Yet it is not by these distinguished | graduates only that the work of the college is to be measured. It has been said with world knows nothing of its greatest men” Many a faithful worker lives in obscurity unknown to fame whose deeds and whose influence is as helpful as those of any whom fame attends. Indeed the welfare of a community is mainly dependent upon those silent and unnoted workers, who do their work because it is a duty and not because of any renown or glory that are to come from it. many a noble man of that type. Through their influence her lessons have been extended widely throughout the world. No humian means can meas- ure the extent of it, but every citizen can appreciate something of its value to himself and to his com- and be thankful to those who fifty years ago laid in Sonta Clara the foundations of the college whose jubilee finds it with such a glorious record of accomplished good. B —————T Andrew Carnegie is reported to receive nearly a toa ters every week asking for donations to every sort of thing known to American life. That is one ble consequences of being known as 3 illionaire and has the good effect of, in- % the tevenues of the Postoffice Department vithout hurfing anybody, for, of course, the recipients of the letters do not put in any valuable time reading them o1 A Mohammedan Mahdi named Muludzi Uganda has proclaimed himseli the leader of a new doctrins. As 2 preliminary to success he ought to make an ef- fort to get a new name. gold to carry back to their homes iu | those who gave to it the support that in- | some truth “thse | ra College has furnished for the service | ANOTHER PREACHER REBELS. E have been glad to note every instance of re- bellion among the clergy against the conduct of the so-called Christian nations in China. The different branches of the Christian church have too readily assumed that if China were cut and carved to suit the commercial greed of the Western powers it would be as easy to fasten Christianity upon the pieces as it is to paste circus bills on the ruins of a house that has been gutted by fire. This fecling has led to a policy either of approba- tion or silence on the part of the clergy as to the doings which have made the path of the Christians in China scarlet with the blood of the people. We have never seen any reason to anticipate that the Chinese people could be soundly converted by the crimes com- mitted among them in the name of the faith they are zsked to embrace. Mahometanism was a religion of the sword. It spread by war from the Pyrenees to Cashmere. But its method was different from the slaughter and thieving that have attended the Chris- tian progress in China. If a city or a kingdom would acknowledge one God and accept the son of Abdal- lah as his Prophet the captains of the Caliphs coua- termarched their armies and left the country inde- pendent and undisturbed in any of its civil institu- tions. The Mahometan soldier was abstinent, seli- controlled and disciplined. In religion he was as fanatical as the most pronounced Christian mission- ary, but as a man and a soldier he lived strictly up to the ideals of his faith. It is needless to say that the Christian armies in China have not carried the cross there, and that their conduct has been more savage, bestial, inhuman and awful than has ever characterized the warfare of wild and primitive man. That seems a hard judgment, but its truth rests upon the unimpeachable testimony of men like Sir Robert Hart and Dr. Dillon. Recently the Rev. Dr. Eaton of New York, in his Sunday sermon, joined Bishop Potter and Cardinal Vaughan in denouncing the Christian policy and con- duct in China. Dr. Eaton said: “If it be necessary to convert China at the cannon’s | mouth and by the bloody sword, at the behest of | the spirit of commercialism and greed, then I say | a thousand times rather would I have Confucius rule China than Jesus. War is not Christian. I do not say that war is not sometimes necessary, but I do say it is always unchristian. The war in China was one which we were perhaps compelled to fight, but it is one that does not reflect any credit on Chris- tianity. “We cannot open ports in the name of Jesus. The history of the Christian nations in China during the last year has been a disgrace to Christianity. It has been a history of murder, rapine and rape, in the name of Christianity, in the name of the Golden Rule. “If China can only be christianized by dismem- berment and exploitation, then far better that ths | Chinese should remain followers of Confucius, who was a firm believer ia equity and justice and taught tc that effect. “May some almighty power keep back our hands from the throat of China. God grant that China may be won for Christianity, but God grant also that China may have the courage and the power to resist | until the Christian nations have learned the true les- sons of Christianity. “Thefe are abundant signs now that if we do not | desist from our course the submissive yellow race will rise in its might and sweep from the earth a Chris- | tianity which has become the synonym of cruel | commercial greed.” | Those words are true and brave words. We hope | soon to have occasion to add to the honor list many more American clergymen. It is the current custom to berate Russia for her reprehensible greed in Manchuria. Her policy from | the view-point of honesty and honor is highly crim- inal. But why is such a policy possible? Why does a great nation pursue a course which stains her honor | and degrades her civilization? It is because other nations have never resisted sim- ilar temptations under similar circumstances, and there is no evidence that they will resist them now. | There being no honor among thieves of that kind, | Russia is simply improving her opportunity and | making the most of her position, which happens to | be more favorable for land stealing than that of her rivals. China is not blind to the situation, and is no | doubt willing to give Manchuria to “Adam Zad, the | Bear,” provided Adam will help her save the rest of | her territory from theft by the other beasts of prey | that are murdering and robbing her people. No wonder that Bishop Potter declares that in the cause celebre of China against the Christian world | he appears as counszl for China. And we are glad | to enroll Rev. Dr. Eaton as his associate counsel, — GAG RULE. ‘ S WAS to have been expected, the Bryan press /:\ is lurid with denunciation of “gag rule” in the I Senate. To begin with, no rule of closure has | been adopted in the Senate. A closure rule has been | proposd by Mr. Platt of Connecticut which will enable | a majority to get a vote on a measure when a vote is ‘impeded by speeches thirteen and sixteen hours in | length. The Senate may or may not adopt the closurs. As we have explained, such summary motions as | the previous question and to lay on the table were omitted from the Senate rules on the theory that thers | should be no bar to the expression of sentiment upon | pending legislation. It was intended that the minority | should fully antagonize a majority measure, but nos | that the minority should abuse its privilege by pre- venting legislation for which the majority is willing | to assume responsibility. But, whether there be a closure or not, by what right do the Bryanites froth about a gag rule in the Senate? The Senate is not the fountain head and source of government in this country. It is two re- moves away from the source at which gag rule can be made effective in destroying our institutions. Their source is the ballot-box. When the ballots are kept out of it or.are dishonestly counted a blow is struck | at freedom that is effective. Such a gag rule gags | indeed. It strikes at the real vitals of the Government, If it were not for the successful application of this | fatal gag by Bryan’s followers two Senators from | Mississippi, two from Alabama, two from South Carn- | lina and two from North Carolina would not Be | that body to mouth about closure, Eight Senators - will sit in the next Senate from those States because | 2 majority of the voters have been successfully gagged ' and shut away from the ballot-box. What is to be | said of the authors and beneficiaries of such a gag !law, and what of the law itself when compared to ,a rule that is merely prohibitive of thirteen and six- | teen hour speeches consisting mostly of wind?% . During the next legislative and Congressional cam- paign the country will be abundantly tormented by this Senatorial gag rule talk,'as it was in 1800 about Reed’s rules in the House. But the country will probably remember that when a Democratic House succeeded the House over which Reed set up his rules its Democratic Speaker was compelled to adopt them in order to compel not the Republicans but his own party to attend to public business. Under the thin disguise of a “Committee on Rules,” of which the Speaker is dictator, Reed’s rules were retained in force by Crisp during two Democratic Congresses, and are in force to-day. Therefore when the campaign cry is raised next year the people will smile. The gentle Tillman will complain in vain, for he sits in the Senate by virtue of a tmurdered franchise, as do Morgan and Pettus, Money and Sullivan, and as soon will sit two Senators from North Carolina. —— OUR WINES AND FRUITS @BRO@D. NSULAR REPORTS for March contains G?wo reports, one from France and the other from England, referring to the extent to which our wines and fruits are making their way in the for- eign market, and each of them can be read with no little satisfaction. They show that the excellence of our products is becoming generally recognized, and give ground for expecting an increased demand witli an increased profit in the near future. The report from France comes from John C. Covert, Consul at Lyons, and deals with “French Wine Production in 1900.” After pointing out that the wine production of France for that year was 1,721,000,000 gallons, “a yield that has only been ex- ceeded three times during the past century,” he goes on to say that the Government is trying to augment the consumption of French wine by making it cheaper, and to that end has already reduced the wine tax and will probably repeal it altogether. Then he adds: “Wine is now produced. more cheaply in California than in France. \e efforts to introduce French wins into Japan have all'been ineffectual on account of Cali- fornia competition, the Japanese declaring that they could buy wine cheaper and of as good a quality in San Francisco as in France.” With reports of that nature coming from France itself it is likely the wine consumers of our Eastern States will learn at last that California wine is worth as much under its own label as under a French label, and we shall then have a home market that will ma- terially improve the conditions of the industry. The English report, coming from S. C. McFarland, Consul at Nottingham, says: “Fruit from the vast orchards of Oregon and California has flooded Lon- don and the large provincial towns. The imports of the season have thus far been phenomenal both in quality and in quantity.”” A leading fruit merchant is quoted as saying: “The immense crop of California and Oregon apples will be of great advantage to con- sumers, who will be able to purchase fine fruit at mod- erate prices. * * * In other kinds of fruit, such as plums and oranges, the California trade is growing with great rapidity.” The Consul directs attention to the fact that the Canadians have gstablished a line of steamers da- s:gred mainly for carrying fruit to Europe, and says: “Is it not worth while for American fruit-growers to consider the advantages reaped by the Canadians | through the institution of this new line of ocean fruit vessels, to consolidate their interests, and\to meet the eminently practical features of this new competition?” That question will have to be considered in con- | nection with the general plan of upbuilding the Amer- iczan merchant marine. So long as our Government leaves our ocean carrying trade in the hands of for- | eigners and does nothing to promote American ship- ping interests, we can hardly discuss fruit steamers as a practical question. In the end, however, the ship- ping bill will certainly be enacted, and we shall then b able to meet the Canadians or any one else on equal terms. : e —— THE TREATY REJECTED. HE British Cabinet, as was expected, has re- Tj:ctcd the &-Iay-l’auncefote treaty on account of the Senate amendments. The note to that effect is said to contain evidences that the British Government would receive in a proper spirit of concession a proposal to discuss the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty by assent and joint action of rthe two Governments, while it also contains evidence that Great Britain will not agree to be put in the position of yielding that point under such fire as Morgan directs at her. This brings into view the impolicy of Morgan's kind of Senatorial diplomacy. In his speech he criti- cized the British Government and attacked the King, and that sort of thing is resented when it is offered by part of the treaty-making power of this Govern- ment. It is considered in proper place in the Housa and of course as necessary on the stump. But it is no more proper in the Senate 'than it would be in thas Fresident or Secretary of State. Recent events have made no change in our inter- national obligations. In our outside intercourse with the Governments of the world we are under the sume decent restraints that were always upon us. The red-hot jingoes might learn something from the atti- tude and conduct of Washington, ‘He was the suc- cessful revolutionary leader who overthrew British power, accomplished independence and as first Presi- dent under the constitution had to enter into inter- national relations with the Government he had hu- miliated. Those relations he sustained like a states- man, without a show of prejudice or passion and without rousing either on the part of Great Britain. His successors in the Presidency have been mindful of his lofty example. But all this makes no impres- sion upon the mere politicians, who ascribe the atti- tude of Washington when assumed by a modern Presi- dent to a cringing and subservient disposition. It is a misfortune that Morgan did his evil worst to prevent just the henorable consummation fore- shadowed in the British note. Otherwise the two Cabinets would probably have arranged honorably to set aside the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and clear for the canal a path that has been continually obstructed by an alliance between the fool friends and the implacable I enemies of the great enterprise. Aluminum is now produced so cheaply that it is reported to be'coming into use for the manufacture of portable houses. Tt is said to be superior to any other material for that purpose, and, in fact, is re- ported tq be <o convenient for such uses that in the near foture almost every well-regulated family will have an aluminum house ready to be set up anywhere in the mountains or along the seashore that the family may desire to spend the summer, — The commander of a French ship refused in stolid indifference the other day to help men and women who were in imminent danger of shipwreck on At- lantic waters. This shipmaster must have heard of the disaster to the Rio de Janeiro and taken his cue from the conduct of our life-saving service. An Oakland woman has tried five times without success to kill herseli. She ought to be particularly well qflahqed to organize a suicide club and imbibe some original suggestions from the members on the theory and practice of self-destruction. B PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. —————— PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FrANCISco CALL What American Women Are Doing to Up- lift the Colored Race and Solve the Negro Problem. Mrs. John K. Ottley. MEMBER OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL FEDER- ATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS. e i (COPYRIGHT, 1901.) V.—WOMEN’S CLUBS AND THE NEGRO PROBLEM. That the twentieth is to be the woman's century means not alone that in it women are to have more liberty or more *rights.” They will have these, too, but, above all, they will be possessed of a wider responsi- bility through which their influence for a higher standard of morals and ideals will be extended beyond the home to the State in its every department. The foremost concrete agency through which this diffused influence of-woman is being attained is the organized life into which women of all creeds, classes and de- grees are being drawn. In organization is not only strength, but develcpment, and through it nearly all the women of the civilized world are coming into some sort of realization of their true place and power as special pleaders for the higher ethical ideal and representa- tives of the gpiritual values of life as off- set against the material. From women must come any special advance in this struggle for “sweetness and light” in the individual or national life of our people; their cfforts must leaven the whole lump of our social organi®t. To this end not some but all the women must be enlisted; each class in our complex social organism can be reached only by the women of that class, The enlarged vision, the raised ideal, cannot be handed down from a great height and-swallowed whole by a waiting substratum. Aspiration and conception must be kindled and quickened within the hearts and minds of some individuals of every class, and they will ignite the whole. Negro Women’s Work for the Race. For reasons like these many of us feel the vital necessity for organization among those women who are the wives and moth- ers of the more than 8,000,000 persons who constitute the negro race. Moral uplift, a higker standard of character, a purer and loftier race ideal, with a corresponding raising of the plane of practical life—these are the things of which the negro stands S0 much in need and no amount of effort from without will bring them to him. Mis- slonaries may preach and schools and col- leges may teach, but until the propaganda ot a higher standard of living 1s taken up and pushed by the people themselves we shall see littié fruit from great labor. In the light of such reflection, very special interest attaches to a meeting which has recently convened in Atlanta, Ga., and which marks the most decfsive movement yet instituted for aggressive work among negro women and through them for thelr race. On December 27 and 2 the Soutkern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs helq its first annual convention in Atlanta; at this meeting its existence was confirmed and its plans and methods of work more fully outlined than had been possible at the initial meeting in Mont- gomery the ;‘)arevlous December. Its pres- ident, "Mrs. Booker Washington, of Tus- kegee, is a_devoted member and earnest upholder of the National Federation of Colored Women'’s Clubs, but living, as she does, in the heart of the “black beit,” she could see how different were the needs and present possibilities of the millions of negroes in the South from those of the scattered colored population of all the oth- er lates in the Union. These needs of the Southern colored women are not only different but a thousand times more press- ing, and circumstances prevent them from depending upon a faroff organization for elp or inspiration. A few earnest spirits urged upon Mrs. Washington the forma- tlon of a small organization, which, while working in full accord with the national federatfon, should afford an arena and an oppertunity for the great mass of colored women who are, of course, congested in the South. Mrs, Washington could not re- sist such_arguments; she assumed the burden and threw herself into the move- ment which has since taken form as the utllhern Federation of Colored Womcn's ubs. Beginning a Great Movement. A few delegates from various parts of the South met In Montgomery in Decem- ber, 1899, and formed a provisfonal organi- zation, with Mrs. Washington as. presi- dent and Mrs. Alice Cary of Atlanta as secretary. Mrs. Cary was a warm adyo- cate of a Southern organization, knowing as she did the crying need for concen- trated effort among the colored people of the Southern States. Though a teacher by profession, for years she had devoted her leisure time and her private means to rescue work in the slums of Atlanta, and especmll¥ in the prison camps and chain gangs. Through Buch experiences as she met there the moral and soclal needs of her people had eaten into her heart, and she looked eagerly for the next step for- ward. This step, she belleves, lies in the universal kindergarten for the_negro. Some years since Horace Fletcher of New York was in Atlanta as the guest of Mrs. Rebecca Douglas Lowe and the Women’s Club. He came to urge the es- tablishment in large numbers of slum kin- dergartens as a method of soclal quaran- ne. The clubwomen of sthe South became deeply interested in the idea and were not long in percelving that for their section the kindergarten work as a method of so- clal quarantine must begln,wllh the ne- gro: since he furnishes the substratum of our social structure he must be reached first, and that 'n a way which the schools wer¢ failing to do. Through the club- women a few of the colored women of the South became aroused to the paramount necessity of the kindergarten movement among their people. Chief among these was Mrs. Cary, who after a year or two of local agitation in connection with some leading Southern ciubwomen gladly seized the opportunity of the Montgomery meet- Soi Cl ‘ing to propose that the Southern clubs of colored women should adopt as their special line of work the promotion of the kindergarten idea among their people. She had enthusiastic backing from lrrn. ‘Washington, who is an ardent advocate of the social value of the kindergarten. Mrs. Cary was made chalrman of the movement for the first year, which has just closed. The society was too oung and unformed to be possessed of funds, and so the work has been slow, depending upon happy accidents which might fure nish transportation here or there. Even these unsystematized efforts have, how- ever, borne sufficient fruit to convince those interestcd that the harvest genu- ‘| inely is great. Ready Response to the Suggestion. That the colored women of the South are ready and anxious to undertake this work for the children of their race is evi- denced by the fact that in every town where the matter has been broached women in plenty have been found mdg and willing to form mothers’ clubs, whic are, in turn, to inaugurate kindergartens. Such beginnings for the work.have been made_in Atlanta, Montgomery, Charles- ton, Macon, Rome and Ba That these places ha due solely to the fact was able by ort to make her way there. Wns rrlonnl lundreds of other Southern red women throughout hlu thern States in o zation for the purpose of £ecurin, for their children. Such c&ort ‘would ve the most ef- fectual means «f moral and ethical devel- SR e omeelt it er 2 lH{o: 6“!17 without a leader? this point, then, of securing systema- dw for colored wi m{efi:‘eug&n r colored women in es- rten olored | izer. + e Mrs. Booker Washington. + 4 Southern Federation, was, therefore, warmly confirmed and the members con- secrated themselves anew to its further- ance. The president was empowered to appoint the following representatives: (1) gen- eral organizer for the entire South, who shall systematically canvass for the for- mation of mothers’ clubs and kindergar- tens, (2) A State organizer for each of the Southern States, who shall work in her local fleld under the general organ- (3) A general representative of the kindergarten work of the Southern eration of Colored Women's Clubs, whose duty it shall be to travel in its interest and secure funds which shall be necessary to the success of the work. ‘Vast Importance of the Work. Thus will be practically launched the most important measure yet inaugurated in behalf of the negro race. With sober- ness and due consideration I am_con. vinced the granting of political suffrage and the founding of mighty universities in its behalf never meant half so much to the race as will this initlal step, where- by its women move forward in honest, genuine, practical effort to help them- selves through their children, first time the vital springs of motive in the race itself are being touched: the con- sequent effort and its results wiil be gen- uine. The movement thus outlined presents several features which command special interest and promise well for its outcome, It is a movement of nesroes for negroes. In this respect it is unique. Nearly every movement which has been inaugurated for the negro has come from the outside and has been offered to him as a gift. Even when he has been asked to help in it the plan, at least, has come from with- out. In this case, aithough white women have given advice and substantial aid, the movement s and will continue to be the work of colored v;umhe'n. Its leaders feel ce of this, Khow they maust have .nanciel aid, they are convinced that every colored woman in the South should contribute of her in- dividual suhslaglce gl: %ned'n':'lhe‘sen:;r?eg:' to be obtained. TiThe ‘Goubt that they have struck bedrock here; the condition of the negro problem | to-day hinges largely upon the fact that the n:xro has had too much done for him. Both sections by giving him too many things before he had earned them have fostered, instead of removing, his frre- sponsibliiity. The Southern States, by the expendituse of the immense sum of $100,- 000,000, have removed 3 per cent of the race from flliteracy, and the North, by the creation and maintenance of many in- stitutions for the higher education, has taught the negro many things. And et, if all these sums and all the benefits they have brought could have come as the re- sult of some effort on the part of the ne- gro himself, I can but believe that other and more valuable racial results would have accrued, of whichtall interested are now feeling the lack. However, all these things are already done or not done: it is | jdle to look back except as looking b.cld‘ may help us in going forward. We should | be wiser than our past and by this llgm‘- special significance lles in the fact that, this movement of Southern colored wo-| men is inaugurated by them for their own race and will be thus carried .on. White Women Lend Their Md.h oint of interest In the phe- nomenon betore s is that the | colored | women who are inaugurating this work | have, in so doing, been from-the begin- | ning in close touch ~with friends among the white women of the South, who stand at the very head of the club move- | ment of the United States. In every case | where o ization among the colored | women of a town has been effected the organizer has gone_to that town armed with letters from Southern club women to other Southern club women, and in every Instance aid, advice, encouragement and indorsement have been gladly given. | The plan of the work for the future in- | cludes' the idea that the ciub of white | Wwomen all over the South shall stand back of this work of colored women, and by every possible means aid and further it The Atlanta Women's Club has. by re-| quest of tne colored women, ap inted 1 Committee which will be at their ser- vice for advice and encouragement; the Georgla State Federation will use the In- fluence of its forty-seven clubs to promote the work. Other Southern States will gladly foliow Georgia's lead. Thus South- ern club women are embracing heartily the opportunity to glve all possible aid and encouragement to the colored women. This ald the latter in the best possible it glad! accep! H {e third place the special work which this movement Erupooefl is the one thing needful to fill the gap that all previous efforts have left in the system of negro ducation. ““Ihe white people of the South have given the negro his grammar school edu- cation, a hundred lions of it; the white le of the North have given him hun- Breds of thousands of dollars Worth oOF higher educatlon; the negro himself has helped earnestly, and for the first time, in securing a considerable measure of indus- trial education. and yet, with all these rovisions, education “is ‘not accomplish- [ for the negro what it should. Why? Becausenone of it begins soon enough. The very little children must be reached with moral suggestion. Many are lost as citl- zens before they reach the public schools, and there the effort is to train the intellect, rot to form character. The demand for inlant education is more peremptory with the negro than with the whites, because his need of character buiiding and of moral suggestion is so much greater, and because his home influences retard moral advancement. The kindergarden, widely diffused and especlally adapted, is the foundation upon which negro education of the future' must rest. That its inaugura- ticn has been left for women Is a signi- ficant sign of the times. The fourth point of interest in the plan of the new mo’ it presents itself in the immense interactionary value of the mothers’ club and the Kindergartens. ‘The mothe nt interplay between the two, and the homes will stand l‘ dual chance of being affected by the moral life of the kindergarten. Mrs. W hln:t’hll. I . rs. Was] on am further this work among Sou u.nhldymln wemen with her utmost efforts: she has some capable and interested workers who will stand back of her; more can be en- listed and back of them stretches a fleld for endeavor which is boundless. wmumzl;:: wun'ng of the !um&' will SF R iR oo Bing atinl ek Mo . seek a paying Inv,-tl-’m 1 £ r'or the I and while they | recommend this work, and to these genuinely anxious to heip the negro race 1 ne say: Cease Specchmaking on the subject T o) PRhts name ‘l’n v ¥4 trll‘l“::t'hlen of Y s—namely, a his children need and can assimilate. = PERSONAL MENTION. E. M. Boyd of Honolulu is at the Ocel- dental. Walter Scott, dmerghant of Selma, Is at the Lick. ‘f. H. Haden, a hotel man of Oroville, is at the Grand. Dr. T. H. Shorey and wife of Vallejo are at the Grand. George H. Pratt of Hastings, at the Oceidental. A. Meyer, a merchant of Modesto, Is a grest at the Lick. J. C. Quinn, an oll man of Bradley, is staying at the Lick. L. A. Gross, a mining man of Drytown, is staying at the Lick. T. P. Spiers, a merchant of San Jose, is a guest at the Palace. Thomas J. King. a merchant of Sacra- | merto, is at the Palace. Clark Alberti of San Diego registered at the Occldental yesterday. F. H. Kennedy, an attorney of Stockton, 1s a guest at the California. Peter Johnson, a jeweler of Angels Camp, is a guest at the Lick. E. R. Graham, an ofl man of Bakers- field, is a guest at the Palace. Captain A. Jordan, a n%:?.hlp man of Bremen, is at the Occiden J. B. Chinn, a frult raiser of Porter- ville, is registered at the Grand. ‘W. R. Carithers, a newspaper man of Santa Rosa, is at the California. E. L. Van Cleeck, an attorney of Sants Cruz, is a guest at the California. M. Bittens, manager of the Byrom Springs, is registered at the Palace. Thomas L. Neal, an attorney of Los An~ geles, is registered at the Occidental. R. M. Hersey, a merchant of San Jose, accompanied by his wife, is staying at the Palace. - 3 G. F. McEifresh, high chief ranger the Foresters of America, s at the Grand for a few days. — Edward Chambers, general freight agent of the Santa Fe In Los Angeles, 1s stay- ing at the Palace. e . W. Miller, a merchant of o l:. l:vln town on business and is regis- tered at the Palace. b C. W. Waldron, a merchant of Santa Cruz, accompanied by his wife, i3 spend- ing a few days at the Palace. Miss Lottie R. Walker, daughter of J. C. Walker, a capitalist of Fresno, has re- turned from Homolulu and Is staying at the Lick. FEugene Sheehy and John Munroe left yesterday for Idaho, where they will spend several months looking after min- ing interests. A cablegram was recelved here yester- day conveying the information that John D. Spreckels, who is now at Sydney, Aus- tralia, is about to leave that city on his return trip. The cablegram further states that he will sall as far as Honolulu on the Ventura and at that place transfer to the next Oceanic Company’s steamship bound this way. The Ventura will arrive on April 8 and Mr. Spreckels will reach this city a few days later. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 19.—The following Californtans are in New York: From San Books, at Holland: Dr. J. 8t. Cloud; F. B. Findlay, at Albemarle; M. H. Hickey, at Grand Un- | fon; Miss 8. Jarvie, at Unton Square: L. V. Levison, at Holland: J. Marks and | wite, at Savoy; A A. McPennison and F. | Stadtmeler, at Grand Union; A. P. Tal. bot, at Manhattan; J. H. White, at Herald Square; Mrs. W. Lewis, at Earlington; S. Grimany, at Navarre: S. F. Shields, at Murray Hill ————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 19.—The follow- |ing Californians are in Washipgton: At { the St. James, Joseph L. Frake of San Francisco; at the Raleigh, O. Newhouse of San Francisco; at the Normandie, Charles Monroe of Los Angeles and David Withington of San Diego. Neb., Is AT HOTEL DEL CORONADO the season is now on at full tide. American and Europsan plans. Best of everything, including the caas~ acter of entertainment. Apply 4 New Montg m- ery st., city. for special ticket. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE—N. M. T., City. An executive committee is a cre- ated body, the duties of which are dé- fined by the constitution of the organiza- tion appointing such. The duties of such a committee generally are to carry out the wisAes of the body creating it: In some- instances the executive committes has vested in it all the powers of the cre- ating body between sessions of that body. SUBJECT FOR DEBATES—Miss I. It is a ruie of this department never to give reasons for or against any proposition se- lected as a subject for debate. If this de- partment furnished reasons In support of the proposition, you being on the affirma- tive side, and you snould ndogt them, they would not be your reasons. object of a debate is to draw out the individual rea- sons of the debaters. Suggest that you tc the reference room of the hni’ubfi:: Library and there read up the ar ts that were presented for and subject mentioned in and then visit the pe: institution t the our communication, odical rooms of that d read up In the reviews ar- ticles for and against, then draw your own conclusions. Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel * Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men the Press Cprl? Burcau (Allen's). mzmn- gomery st. Telephone In 1042, . At nt pennies are all coined tn Phil- adelphia bg' fi.w, because there was for- | merly no demand at ail for them in the wouthwest and in the far West. 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