The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1901, Page 6

X THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1901 Che +Salase Call.. .MAY 23, 1901 THURSDAY.....c00-0 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. AR Address All Communiestions t» W. 8. LEAKE, Ksnager. A% AGER’S OFFICE. . ..Telephone Press 204 4 L BLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. ¥. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Precs 202, Delivered wy Carriers. 15 Cents Per Weell. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postages VATLY CALL (including Sunday), one yoar, DATLY CALL (including Sunéay), subscriptions. Eemple coples will be forwarded when requested Mafl subscrfbers in erdering chanes of addrese should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o nsure & prompt and correct complience with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE ...1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESN. Meneger Yoreign Advertising, Marqustts Building, Chicags. (ong Distance Telephone “Central 2619.) NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: €. C. CARLTON..c..cuvvvssesses.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ... .+30 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co. Grest Northern Hotel Fremont House; Aulitorium Hotel. BRANCH OFFICES—:2! Montgomery, corner of Clay. open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open untl $:30 c'clock. €33 McAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin. open until 930 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, ccrmer Sixteenth. open until § o'clock. 108 Valencia. open wrefl § o’'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. cor- mer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl § p. m. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—*'Heartsease. Alcazar—"“The First Born™ and *“‘Gloriana.” Grand Opera-house—*“The Queen of Chinatown.” California—'"Barbara Frietchie.” Central—""Shadowh of a Great City."” Tivoli—*“The Toy Maker.” Olympia. corner Mason and Eddy st pecialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening Fischer's—Vaudeville. e Alpambra—Benefit Children's Hospital une 1 Fut Baths—Swimming. Emeryville Racetrack—Races Saturday matinee, to-day. £UCTION SALES. By Fred H. Chase—This day, at 11 o'clock, sixty head of @riving end business horses, at 1732 Market street. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new ®ddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer Fesorts and is represented by a local ageat im all towss on the coast. THE SEA AND ITS DEAD. ROM Mrs. Armitage S.'C. Forbes there has Fcpmc a suggestion concerning the ceremonies of Decoration day so patriotic in motive and so poetic in spirit that it is certain to meet with a respon- sive chord in every American heart. The suggestion, which was elaborately reviewed in the local columns of The Call yesterday, is that in the solemn services of the day we should comsiemorate not only those heroic men who died on land for the Union, but those whose graves are in the sea, and that while so many flowers are strewn upon the mounds of the graveyards some should be cast upon the waves in memo#y of those who Jie beneath the waters. The suggestion has been submitted to many men of high official station and has received their prompt and cordial approval. In this city, at any rate, its adoption will not be difficult,”for the sea is 2l around us, and at the Presidio it is easy of access under conditions befitting such a ceremony as is proposed. Moreover, from the warships and other vessels in the harbor it will be facile as well as a graceful thing to scatter flowers over the surface of the great cemetery of the sea. There is needed no argument in a matter of this kind. The suggestion appeals directly to the heagt as well 2s to the brain. For many a year now the whole English-speaking race has been responsive to the words of Sir Samuel Fergusson: Give honor to their memories who left the pleasant land To shed their blood so freely for the love of fatherland; Who left their chance of quiet age and grassy church- yard graves 8o freely for a restless bed amid the tossing waves. Sailors and soldiers fought alike for the nation and have an equal honor in the hearts of the people. Ever since the great Civil War we have annually decorated the graves of those who rest beneath the soil of the land tif§y loved, but it has been hitherto deemed im- possible to so decorate the last resting place of those whom the ocean holds in its deeps. That impossibility is overcome by the poetic 4nspiration of the patriot woman, and now we have only to follow it to give to our Decoration day 2 new beauty, a new ceremony of deep significance, and to remind the youth of the republic of the valor of those who upheld the flag amid the storms and battles of the sea. No less than eight trials for murder or manslaughter were running «t once in New England during the carly part of this month, and as'five of the accused parties were of the best Puritan blood and training, there is 2 growing suspicion that something is going wrong with the old stock. —_— An Illinois man, sentenced to an inebriate asylum, has appealed to the courts for release on the ground that to compel him to undergo a course of treatment that would destroy his appetite for whisky would be equivalent go depriving him of his pursuit of hap- piness. Hundreds of Porto Ricans, inspired by a desire to improve their condition, have started on their way to the Hawaiidn Islands. This ought to supply the local yellow sheet with another opportunity to indulge i new spasms of sentimental and sensational nonsense. . Some comment has been expressed that a fortune in Oakland hangs upon a single letter. In general inter- est this is nothing in comparison to the fact that on more than one occasion a punctuation mark has deter- mined the ldettiny of communities. Count Castellane, irrepressible, irrespc;ngible and apparently incorrigible, has finally sought a quarrel in a field where his lust for trouble will probably be satiated. He is tfying to provoke a row in the French | sources from which they always suffered injury.’ One such centers, raising interest at a distance and produc- i The committee carried this matter into the Repub- | becomes insolvent are protected in the hands of the BANKING REFORM. HE country is familiar with the benefits of the gold standard legislation. It has protected the general credits of the country against the two ki of these was the decline in speculative credits, due to | such scenes as were recently witnessed on Wall street. Speculation in the paper representatives of property, when carried to such lengths as to break into wild fluctuations, has always heretofore infected commer- cial credits with panic and produced widespretd dis- aster. Since the gold standard was definitely adopted there have been two sharp and alarming epidemics of stock speculation, with no effect at all upon commer- cial credits. The other source of danger has always been fluctua- tion in the iron market. Whether it is a business su- perstition or a reality, it has always been held that sharp decline in the iron trade must damage commer- cial credit, and as that effect always followed that cause, panic was always expected from such condi- tions in the metal trade. Since the gold standard was adopted there occurred a decisive decline in iron, and credit and general com- merce were totally unaffected by it. The business world is not unmindful of these things, and sees in them the wisdom of the policy of the Indianapolis Monetary Conference, which has urged and promoted this legislation. This should give the business community confidence in the further purposes of the executive committee of that conference, and should procure for the committee the financial as$istance which it will require fop the completion of its work. That committee will'urge Congress at its next ses- sion to pass a bill that inaugurates bank reform in a conservative way. As we have often demonstrated, a banking system is needed that will distribute the sur- plus capital, which is the loan fund of the country, more equally than is possible now. At present such capital congests in the money centers, lowering inter- est there, and, by creating stringency remote from | ing a distressing, inequality. lican National Convention last year and secured the adoption of the following in the party platform: “We recognize that interest rates are a potent factor in pro- duction and business activity, and, for the purpose of further equalizing and of further lowering the rates of interest, we favor such monetary legislation as will enable the varying needs of the seasons and of all sec- tions to be promptly met, in order that trade may be evenly sustained, labor steadily employed and com- merce enlarged.” In his annual message last December President Mc- Kinley called attention to this pledge, saying: “The partyin power is committed to such legislation as will better make the currency responsive to the varying needs of business at all seasons and in all sections.” A bill was introduced in the House last winter by | Mr. Lovering to provide the conservative elasticity of the banking currency which will redeem that pledge. It authorizes the issue by national banks of credit notes up to 1@ per cent of the capiy] of the bank, guarded by a gold guaranty fund. This fund is main- tained by all the banks and is in the custody of the Treasury, so that the credit notes of any bank that holder, just as the national bank notes are now by the bonds held by the Treasury. The amount of such safe and elastic currency issu- able will not be so large as to endanger inflation. On the 3oth of last June the total capital of the national banks was $627,503,095. A 10 per cent issue on that total would amount to $62,750,309. At that date the banks had in circulation only $309,- 640,443. The Secretary of the Treasury declared that under the existing law and this discrepancy between capital and circulation it is clear “that our currency #ystem, under which the volume of circulating medi- um is more responsive to the market price of Govern- ment bonds than to the requiremerts of trade and industry, is not yet satisfactory.” It is believed by the committee and by financiers that when this conservative measure is put in opera- tion it will so commend itself to the business com- munity, which is the borrowing community, that further steps in banking reform will be easy. ‘It will be seen that the reform is in the interest of the borrower. It is intended to give him a more eco- nomical use of his credit, and to equalize conditions of credit between the businéss center and circumference of the country. The press and people of the West and South are especially charged with the duty of urging it upon Congress. A Tew ‘days ago Mayor Phelan suggested to the working newspaper men of this city that they go on strike and insist upon telling the truth as an incident of their labors. He probably does not need two assurances that if they told the ‘whole truth about some people somebody would go out of business and- the sufferers would not be newspaper men. His Honor should leave well enough alone. HILE reports continue to come from Jack- THE REVIVAL OF JACKSONVILLE. Wsonville of distress resulting from the big fire, they by no means constitute all the news ffom that city. The people there are proving them- selves, in this hour of disaster, to be thorough Amer- icans and are going about the task of rebuilding their homes and their business houses with as much vigor as was shown by those of Galveston, of Boston and of Chicago. The work of clearing away the debris of the fire began the next day, and now preparations have been made for rebuilding the city on an improved plan. The papers of the city declare that by next November there will be ample hotels for tourists and hardly a trace of the recent devastation will be left, so that hen the annual throng of visitors goes southward in the fall to escape the cold weather of the North there will await them in Jacksonville not only a cordial welcome, but abundant accommodations, Nor is that all. It appears the fire may prove to have been a blessing to the community as a whole in I spite of the heavy loss inflicted upon individuals. "The town was not originally laid out for.a great winter pleasure resort. Its’ greatness and popularity grew, by slow degrees and its sumptuous hotels stood amid blocks of old and shabby buildings. Those having been swept away, their sites will be occupied by new structures for all sorts of purposes—stores, dwellings and public buildings. Thus the new Jacksonville will be far more attractive than the old and will date from the fire the beginning of a new era of prosperity in | every direction. - These evidences of American pluck and enterprise are always gratifying, and the very vigor with which Jacksonville sets about helping herself will incline capitalists from other sections to help her. It is fairly | has a move on it. Neasit e R ddmo it i R AR . FowE LN e L ibe largely suppressed. | torn. Clear them away. certain that large sums of Northern money will seck investment in the rebuilding of the city,and the expan- sion of its trade, and along with the money will go a considerable influx of men to make théir homes, so that in the end the indirect benefits resulting from what is now regarded as a great calamity may far more than repay all the damage done. There is an excellent chance that the Congressional Committee-on Rivers and Harbors will pay us a visit to inspect our waterways. The committee may be assured that it will see much which is eminently worth seeing and much which should receive the heartiest support and encouragement of the national Govern- ment. B convention at Denver recently there! were adopted resolutions denouncing ‘“ragtime” tunes as “unmusical rot,” and pledging the members of the federation to “make every effort to suppress and disc\ourage the playing and the publishing of such musical trash.” : The language of the resolution is not altogether commendable, but in a case of this kind no good man will find fault with the manner in which the condem- nation is pronounced. As William Lloyd Garrison said he would not trouble himself to'try to be moder- ate in dealing with slavery, so the musicians of the United States may justly claim that in dealing with the abomination of ragtime it is not necesgary. to be nice in the selection of epithets. There is no polite word that fitly characterizes ragtime, and so it might just as well be called “rot” as anything else. There is nothing original about ragtime except the iniquity of it. Similar effects have occasionally been used in music from time immemorial, and when used sparingly and with good taste the syncopations added a grace to music/ When the practice was overdone, and what is called ragtime was produced, the muse of melody and of harmony shrieked and fled. There was no longer any music remaining, but ionly a concate- nation of sounds that tickled the ears of unmusical people. It was perpetrating upon music much the same outrage that was perpetrated upon literature by the dialect story, and was even more inexcusable. It is a good thing for the world that the long- suffering musicians of the American Federation have at last revolted and have started a crusade for the protection of American ears and American taste. There may be no way to kill the amateur ragtime man, any more than there is a way of killing the cats that sing cat-time music in%the back yard, but he may If the professional musicians will stand by the resolutions adopted at the Denver convention they will deserve the gratitude of their fellow citizens. A CRUSADE IN MUSIC. Y the American Feéderation of Musicians in —— The local Board of Education has decided to reduce the salaries of the teachers in the department. The board is evidently determined that in the race of municipal departments for unpopularity it shall not be distanced by any with which his Highness the Mayor | has afflicted the city. CARNEGIE'S LATEST GIFT. HE Scotch univgsities are old and celebrated. TGreat names illuminate their history. In science and. literature their work pioncered_.; in__many directions. But their income was fixed and insuscept- ible of increase, and they found the modern world going so far ahead of them that decline and decay were inevitable. In‘this emergency they appealed in vain for financial assistance. Not less than ten millions would put them in competitive form to take their place in the intellectual activities of the present. That is a large sum of money, and no man or combination | of men in the British Isles appeared willing to donate it: ‘While the old universities sat in their moss-grown shelters, smelling the mold above the rose, and despair- ing of rejuvenation, suddenly appeared that wizard of the age, Andrew Carnegie, offering his check for, ten millions to put the old institutions in new raiment and fresh heart. It is an extraordinary benefaction by an extraordi- nary man. endure forever. His gifts in behalf of human progress and education promise to do more for the future than all the wars of the past did for the present. What are the deeds of the crusaders, the victories of Henry V and of Marlborough and Wellington compared to the efficient education of all the generations to come? There is a sturdy democratic spirit in Carnegie. Most men possessed of his colossal fortune would dream of founding a family, planting it in an entailed castle and providing for a sort of dynastic perpetuation of his name. But these projects seem to have no interest -for him. He desires to bestow his fortune upon the people who, nearly or remotely, were con- cern&d in the conditions under which he accumulated it. e provides that millions of families shall get the benefit, rather than that one shall be established. Rudyard Kipling has lost, in an American court, a suit instituted for damages for an alleged infringement of a copyright on one of his books. As this permits a cheap circulation of his mental fruit, the question is pertinent whether or not the American public is the injured party. Obrightcning the streets by night in honor of the President’s visit much might be said in com- mendation of all concerned, but of the decorations designed to beautify the city by day the least said the better. ~ Still it is necessary that something be said. The thin garlands of evergreens and the tawdry fes- toons were never gaily decorative at any time and, now that they have been draggled by the fain and the garlands are limp and loose, while the colors have been washed out of the cheap red cloths, they are mournful and depressing—an eyesore rather than an adornment. Let them be cleared away. The committee on decoration had a good deal of money to defray the cost of the work, but-evidently something was lacking, for the results were jnade- quate. Evergreens under certain forms are more sug- gestive of a funeral than of a holiday, and it is under —— CLEAR THEM AWAY. F the illuminations arranged for adorning and those forms they now present themselves to the pub- | lic. We were compelled to tolerate them for a time and even in our enthusiasm to make a show of admir- | ing them, but it is no longer necessary to make that pretense. They are draggled, tattered, colorless and ¥ v As an example of what a E:icago Maytime is like the papers of that city note that on one day recently the thermometer at 2:45 p. m. indicated 83 degrees, but fifteen minutes later the temperature had fallen 42 degrees and thé mercury stood at 46. Surely that is something to brag of. \In that city even the weather & ar V1 R D 1 M “ Carnegie is building his monument to | THE\ OA ) The beginning of old age is not marked by the passing of any uniform number of years of life. Many persons present more of the attributes of\old age at fifty than some others do at seventy years. Human life naturally consists of three periods—one of growth, called childhood and youth; one of maturity or adult age, when both mental and physical activity and endurance are most efficient, and one of decline or old age. The first is pre-eminently the period of adaptation or adjustment to its sur- roundings or environment; the second is one of comparative stability and efficiency in the prosecution of some chosen line of work; while the third has little capacity for adjustment to new environments or new lines of labor, and is prone to cling to previous habits or lines of worl, with annually decreasing efficiency until com- pelled to cease. The circumstances that favor the attain- ment of old age are the inheritance of a good type of organization or tenacity of life from healthy, long-lived parentage; the cating of only a fair variety of whole- some food; the constant use of fresh, pure air; moderate outdoor exercise daily, and total abstinence from the use of narcotic, gnesthetic or intoxicating drinks of every In addition to the forcgoing, the period of youth should be accompanied by such educational training as will favor an equal and full development of the various or- Zans and functions of the body and of the faculties of the mind, both moral and in- tellectual, but without extremes of either physical exertion or intensity of mental application. 'he adult period should be spent in the pursuit of some useful occupation requir- ing, or at least permitting, a fair propor- tion, of daily exercise of both body and mind, followed by from six to eight hours of natural sleep at night. Characteristics of 0ld Age. The chief characteristics of old age are less mental activity and less retentiveness of memory regarding recent events; less erect position and less rteadiness of step in walking; slower circulation of the blocd; less depth of breathing, and a tend- ency to become much more quickly fa- tigued by either physical or mental iabor. The dim{nlshed activity of circulation and respiration, due in part to ossification of the cartilages of the ribs, causet the amount of oxygen furnished to the blood and of waste carbon liberated through the air-cells of the lungs to be diminished. This lessens the activity of the processes of nutrition and secretion and favors a slow impairment or degeneration of the muscular structures, especially of the heart and arteries. They thus become pro- gressively weaker, until they are no longer capable of continuing the circulation, and the individual dles from passive accumu- lation of bloodsin the capillaries of the brain or lungs, or by failure of the heart to contract, constituting death from old age. acn being the nature and tehdencies of genuine old age, the question how to use it to the best advantage is one of much interest and importance. In answering it, it is necessary to keep 1n mind the distinc- tion between simple old age as just de- scribed and the cases of premature failure ‘of life, often in the micdle of the adult Perk\ chronic diseases produced by njurious occupations and habits or modes of living. Such cases are numerous in all classes of society and are often designated as examples of premature old age. e fundamental principle involved in the treatment of all such consists in the im- provement of their occupations and the correction of their erroneous hn,blt1 or modes of living. Mecdicines may be needed to aid in cor- recting discrdered functions in some cases, but no drug or ‘“elixir of life" can permanently rejuvenate the prematurely old without removing the causes that have led to the early decline’ Vain Search for Elixirs of Life. These remarks regarding the use of medicines to arrest premature life de- cline, and to perpetuate indefinitely the vigor of adult activity, apply with even greater propriety to the treatment of casgs of genuine old age. . Through all the ages of the past philosophers and doc- tors have spent much time and thought in searching for an elixir of life, by the use of which youthful activity and aduit vigor could be rendered perpetual. But all | their efforts have thus far come to nought, like those of Paraceisus, the prince of charlatans of the sixteenth cen- tury A. D., who died with his much- vaunted ‘“‘elixir of life” in his pocket at the early age of 48 years. If we would use old age o the best ad- vantage we must adopt such personal habits or mode of living and such occu- ation as will favor its prolongation and ge productive of the most valuable re- sults. It is the special periow in which the Individual is least capable of adjust- ing himself to new environment, new o cupations or to suuuen and marked ehanges in climate. As has been previ- ously intimated, the periods of youth and early adult age are those of ready ad- justment to any and all varieties of cli- mate, occupation and environments. Old age, however, has no such elasticity or ready adjustment to new and marked changes in either physical or mental con- ditions. Consequently, the most important prin- ciple applicable to its most successful management is strictly conservative. It consists In simply keeping the individual's work, both mental and physical, gradu- ally diminishing in the same ratio as old age advances, and his supply of food more simple and less in quantity. For the person engaged in active work eight or ten hours of the day undergoes more waste of his tissues than when he works only five or six hours. Men and women accustomed to active physical labor through life, .as they pass their fiftieth year should begin to seek lighter work or the privilege of working a less number of hours, an, if theed be, let them require proportionately less pay, that they may have more time to rest and conserve their health and ability to do more years of work. Instead of doing this, however, a large proportion of the laboring pgpulation continue their effort to do full labor until they either break down and yleld to attacks of disease, or are refused work altogether, and are compelled to spend their last years either h:‘ the almshouse or as a burden to their friends. } s Hard Work and Increasing Years. If we turn our attention to the numer- ous and important class of people who are actively engaged in carrying on the various business enterprises that charac- terize civilized communities and nations, _we ghall find a large proportion of tho: ‘who have entered upon their period of ol age still prosecuting their chosen business th all the energy of early manhood, often making new contracts involving in- eg‘ ruponlibuisr, as though life had no patural end. ny of them, before passin; é.l'.elmiddl:'vufG {r old ngelpcrlpog, are suddenly arr i 818, apo- P x’r'xon!- or mnmurt fail- """ ‘Others of the same class, finding themselves getting tired more read deavor to relieve their feel ness by more wine or beer an stead of less Bours of labor and more rest, and thereby they merely render an early, sudden death more certain. An- ther large class cf the most prosperous g iness men in this country, ey bcgn to feel the burden Adeavo; parry it \lr_{ an annual or annual vacation, during which the& mal ick tours across and continen oceans thus encountering avariety of climate: et they extend it course th risks of of their b PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS: PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR N FrANCISCO CALL. What Men and Women Must Do in Their Youth and Physical and Mental Ma- turity to Win Happy Old Age. e By Dr. NW. S. Davis. ————————— COPYRIGHT, 190L XIV.—OLD AGE. \ defects. Even then to be effectual they must be judiciously selected and contin- ued many months, and in some cases a number of years, or their auspoued bene- fits prove only temfwrary or delusive. But for fhe aged _all quick and strongly marked climatic- changes and still more a suceession of such are more likely to do harm than good. T1here is another important class of busi- ness men whose chief aim during their years of activity appéars to be simply the accumulation of sufficient -wealth to en- able them, on the approach of old ags, to retire altogether from their accustomed business and to spend their declining Years in absclute leisure, that they may, like the foolish rich man in the parable, “eat, drink and be merry.” Those who | swcceed in getting their “barns and store- /houses” sufficiently filled and suddenly commence their period of expected ease are generally the most unhappy and short-lived of all the aged persons we raeet. After many vears of daily mental activity and physical exercise they sud- denly find themselves without either. Con- sequently some of them endeavor to fill the® vacant hours in their social clubs, where newspapers, idle gossip, cigars and anesthetic drinks help to make them ob- livious to the passing time, while at the same time they hasten the failures of cir- culation, respiration and nerve force, and cause death to overtake the individual when least expected. Others readily ac- cept the invitations of their families or friends to join' them in excursions to South America, Europe, Asia or round the world, and soon succumb to the fatigue of siglitseeing, irregular hours of eating and sleeping and vain efforts to keep pace with younger travelers, as has been al- ready described. ‘Ease That Brings Unhappiness. But the most unhappy of all those who have suddenly retircd from some strictly money-making business are persons with only limited education and equally lm- ited attention to pullic affairs, wth fewer familiar assocates and no thought of for- eign travel. In this group are found some who have been livery and stage coach men, successful contiactors, some mer- chants and not a few industrious farmers. Having by active industry and rigid econ- omy accumulated an abundance for their support through old age, they yield to the suggestion of friends or interested mem- Lers of their families and dispose of their business, with the confident expectaton of rest for both body and mind for the re- mainder of life. But the sudden stopping of their previous daily routine of thought and activity, without any substitute capa- ble of attracting (keir attenon and en- grossing at least a part of their time, their expected rest becomes extreme restless- ness. For the mind accustomed to a daily routine of thought and accretion for twen- ty-five qr thirty years, abruptly deprived of that routine and ieft vacant, first be- comes restless, then gloomy or despond- ent, and finally demented, with the fixed idea that the individual is on the verge of poverty or of becoming a grievous bur- den to family or friends. Wearied with such forebodings, many of them commit suicide, and others end their days in hos- pitals for the insane. Useful and Cheerful Old Age. From the foregoing statements it is ob- vious that all persons who spend the strength and energy of their adult years for the .sole purpose of accumulating wealth or for selfish duglny find it very difficult to make their old age either long or-enjoyable. On the contrary, those who have diligently prosecated their various lines of work, not so much for the selfish purposes of accumulation or estentatious display as for obtaining means for aiding the important educational, religious and charitable interests ever present in civil- ized communities, and have thereby be- come interested in both the public wel- fare and the relief of individuals in need, seldom if ever find old age a period of mental vacuity or parren of peaceful en- Joyrtent. 1f during their years of efficient activity they have succeeded in not only receiving enough for their own support and to give a fair dggree of help to the needy around them, but a surplus for their declining years, they, unconsciously perhaps, welcome the leisure hours of age as affording them the opportunity they had desired for more judiciously drspens- ing aid to the individuals and.institutions needing it. If it should so happen that the old man’s liberality to others during his years of activity had been such that he had reserved no surplus for his declining years, still the memery of his past good deeds and the cordial greeting of lifelong friends would add comfort and content- menteto his latest days, though they might be extended to a hundred years. It is thus seen that both the duration and the usefulness of old age depend very much upon the manner in which the pre- ceding periods of life have been spent. If the moral and intellectual faculties have been developed, disciplined and_stored with knowldefe during youth and if the years of adult activify and vigor have been spent not only in the diligent prose- cution of some legitimate and useful line of work, but also in lending a helping hand to all such public and private inter- ests as need the help of all good citizens. old age will ;enernui be long;'dpeueml and useful. But if the first and second periods of life have been dominated by unrestrained selfishness, whether in ‘r“:.( ifying personal appetites and lons o1 simpfy in Iccumurlun‘ ‘wealth, the peri lod of old age will be short and filled with anxiety and vain re ts. It is evident, therefore, that the first step toward using precedi in accordance with the st md. active citizenship. If the individual done this as a mere laboring man or woman and the days of diminished strength and activity have ceme, let that person at once seek lighter kinds of la- bor or less hours for the day, and cheer- fully accept correspondingly less pay. By so doing one will continue to earn some- thing to the latest period possible and will prevent the ennui of idleness and the con- sclous depression of helplessness or want. Throwing Off Cares of Business. It one has been diligently pursing any line of business, as he enters upon ol age, let him sfmply diminish the number of hours of active work and intrust more to others, while he rests or rides in the open air, or stores his mind with a knowl- edge of the affairs of his own and other countries from the columns of his daily paper. If his business is in the crowded city, with its dust and smoke and foul air, let him early select on the nearest shady hillside or by lake or sea, just acres enough for a summer home, with shaded walks, shrubs and flowers and a garden of fresh vegetables and fruit, where his family may spend the hot months of sum- mer, and to which he may flee as the evening approaches each day, and spend the night and early mornlng with them. And when old age has so far advanced that he can no longer give personal atten- tion to business he can find no better earthly paradise than this. If his business has been that of farming and he is, of course, accustomed to coun- try alr, physical labor, and the mental vigilance necessary to make his business successful, when he begins to feel the weariness of old age, let him not com- mit the very common mistake of surren- dering all his land and taking a residence in a crowded city or a de\ualmovulated village, thereby making a to change both in habits of life and surroundings. Better far for such to change from their broad acres only to a suitable resi- dence to which Is attached just land enough to support a cow, a horse, pig and chickens, with a good vegetable and fruit garden. Here they would have fresh country air and merely enough of the la- bor to which they have been accustomed to prevent time from hanging heavily on their hands, and still to afford them abundance of 1&Tsure time for reading and acts of benevolence, together with social and religlous duties. When the Cld Man Marries. One more lesson attested by abundant observation and our present task will be ended. It is that men in actual old age who contract marriage with young of middle-aged women, expecting thereby to render their remaining years more cheer- ful and happy. are very genmerally disap- pointed. For in a very large majority of such cases either a divorce court is re- sorted to in a few months or the men die early from the efforts to perform all the social and family duties of early adult age. ANSWERS TO QUERIES THREE PRESIDENTS—M. G., City. Three Presidents of the United States have visited San Francisco—President Hayes, who arrived September 9, 1380; President Harrison, who arrived Septem- ber 26, 1591, and President McKinley, who arrived May 12, 1901 LIGHTED BUILDINGS-J. H., City. During the recent i{llumination in San Francisco The Call building displayed 3422 lights, the City Hall 2i40 and the ferry building 1825. The Call building had 682 more than the City Hall and 1597 more than the ferry building. RUSSIAN EMPIRE—N. H., City. The population of the Russian empire is 129,- 211,113; strengt’r of the army. 860.000 men and 3400 guns. The cost of maintaimng the same {is 324,343,686 rubles. The cost of education is 4,108,045 rubles for the uni- versities and 9,390,035 for the schools of the ministry, out of a total of 51,062.843 rubles. The attendance is 3.779.818. The finances show a revenue of 139,745,658 rubles, with expenditures of 1,593,745,680. FIRE DEPARTMENT VACATIONS— Subscriber, City. A member of the San Francisco Fire Department is allowed two days’ vacation a month, to commence from the time he enters the service. Af- ter he has been in the service one year he is allowed a vacation of ten days a year at ore time, in addition to the two c¢ays a montn. 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