The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY Ty 30, 1901, Che ol Call. .MAY 30, 1901 THURSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. AM.N.’E Communieations to W. MANAGER’'S OFFICE... FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 16 Cents Per Weelk. Singie Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Suncay), one year. z DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. ; DAILY CALL (including Eunday), 3 months -50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. ‘&;cc WEEKLY CALL, One Year... All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order 1o ineure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. . ...1118 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Masager Foreign Advertising. Marquette Building, Chicago. 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The Toy Maker.” m—Vgudeville. umbia—*"The Importance of Being Earn-s Alcazar—"The First Born” and “Gloriana. Grand Opera-house—""Cleopatra.” California—*"Phroso.” Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and even Recreation Park—Raseball Union Coursing Park—Coursing to-day. Alhambra—Benefit Children's Hospital, Saturday matinee, Ju Baths—Swimminz. eryville Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Occidents] Horse Exchange-Saturday, June 1, &t 11 o'clock, sixty head of Horses, at 721 Howard street. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cali subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summe: is represented by a local agent in sl towss en the coast. DECORATION DAY. NCE more the nation engages in the solemn O ceremonies attending the decoration of the graves of the men of the army and the navy who during the strenuous years of the Civil War up- held the national banner and all the glorious hopes it symbolizes. Once mere the Grand Army rallies its rapidly thinning ranks to direct the ceremonies and to take, as is proper, the chief part in them. To the minds of the people is recalled _the greatness of the sacrifices made by the veterans that the Union might live, and once more feclings of gratitude and of honor fill every patriotic heart. On this occesion it is probable that in many parts of the Union a ncw and poetic ceremony will be added to those to which we have been accustomed— that in addition to the decoration of the graves of those who rest in the soil of the republic there will be strewn upon the waves of the sea offerings of flowers in memory of those who fought for the Union upon the ocean and who now rest beneath its waves. In that ceremony the memory of brave men and stanch patriots will be commemorated who have hitherto been neglected from the ceremonies though not forgotten, and so the day will be more truly a memorial festival than ever before. As the years pass the character of the celebration of the day changes. That of course was to have been expected. It began as a day of mourning for the loss of the heroic dead, but now as the grief of the people has weakened with the passage of time so has the | feeling of rejoicing over the restored Union increased. Decoration day to a vast number of the American people has become a day of gladness rather than of sorrow. Many will cbserve it as a holiday of pleas- ure, and while in some respects it is to be regretted that it is so, nevertheless it is not strange that a joy in the living Union should survive the mourning for the departed dead. The veterans of the Grand Army as they march with solemn step and slow to the decoratiqn of the graves of their comrades, as they recall with loving hearts the memories of those who have joined the silent majority, and look with sad eyes upon the lessening aumber of those who are still alive, need not regret that in the multitude of their fellow citizens there are many who seem indifferent to the sacredness of the day. The indifterence is one of seeming only. Deep in the heart of every American patriot is a sense of honor and gratitude to the men who fought the war that freed the slave and kept the nation whole. Young America will not forget the men of the generation of Lincoln and Grant any more than it will forget these of the days of Washington and Jefferson. The Union is to-day stronger than ever before in its history. Men of 2ll sections are more thoroughly united in sentiment and in loyalty than at any previous time since first the flag was given to the breeze. The republic has now advanced to the rank of the first among the nations of the earth, and all of its people recognize how much of their individual prosperity is due to the unity which holds them together as citi- zens of so glorious a country. In that recognition there will not fail to be a spirit of universal thankful- ress for the patriotism of the men who have preserved the Union from destruction and kept it for the bless- WHAT THE DECISION DECIDES. HE Supreme Court, if it read the volume of Tnewspaper opinions upon its decision in the island cases, will be apt to feel undecided as to the meaning of its own decision. The Examiner is of opinion that it has been af- firmed, and quotes itself as a court of first instance. As that paper has been upon all sides of the issue dealt with by the court, it can make its claim with some show of reason. But, as in jurisprudence, even | of the yellow journalistic variety, the last decision stands as the law of the case until reversed, one may go to the Examiner’s latest judgment in order to !comparc it with the decision of the court. Within ten days the Examiner's latest judgment was de- clared. Under the caption, “Aguinaldo Converted,” | that paper said: “Even Aguinaldo has at last been driven by the compulsion of facts and common sense | to accept the view which the Examiner has steadily | maintained ever since the Philippine question forced itself upon the American people. A dispatch from | Manila announces that in an interview with a cor- | respondent of the Associated Press the caged leader of the insurrection expressed the opinion ‘that the American government of the Philippines, in order to ;‘be satisfactory, should conform strictly to the con- | stitution.” This has been the Examiner’s position | from the beginning. We have never wavered in the | belief that both Congress and the insurgent command- | ers would in time recognize the justice and wisdom | of a territorial government for the Philippine people, ‘Vunder the broad guarantees and careful limitations of | the constitution.” : And now the Examiner says its opinion is affirmed! | But the court says, in terms, that the power of Con- | gress over the Philippines is “outside the constitu- | tion,” and is expected to be exercised as justly and | carefully as the powers of that body within the con- | stitution. That is to say, the new power.of Congress | discovered by the court is not subject to “the broad | guarantees and careful limitations of the constitu- ‘tion," unless Congress choose to accept them as its | guide. The power, therefore, is plenary in Congress, in the sense of being full, original with that body, underived, and without limitation, and not subject to constitutional review or restraint. That this is so is | plain in the argument made by the court, in these | terms: “It is safe to say that if Congress should ven- | ture upon legislation manifestly dictated by selfish | interests it would receive quick rebuke at the hands of | the people.” If that have any meaning it is that the | islands must rely for fair and unselfish legislation not ! upon the broad guarantees and careful limitations of lthc constitution, but upon the justice and mercy of the American people, who can reverse oppressive | legislation by retiring the Congress that indulges in |it. Within the pale covered by the constitution the ' resort of the oppressed is to the courts. Without that | pale it is to the people. i Again, the decision flatly admits that there is no | provision in the constitution for such acquisition of | territory as we have made in the case of Porto Rico |and the Philippines, and therefore no provision ex- |ists for its government. Hence the right of ac- | quisition and government is outside the constitution, | and the court derives it from the general nature of | sovereignty. So the court says: “If it be once con- | ceded we are at liberty to acquire foreign territory a iprcsumption arises that our power with respect to | such territory is the same power which other nations | have been gccustomed to exercise with respect to ter- }ritory acquired by them. If, in limiting the power | which Congress was to exercise within the United ’States, it was also intended to limit it with regard to !such territories as the United States should thereafter | acquire, such limitations should have been expressed.” I ‘What other nations does the court mean when it :sceks for the powers which Congress may exercise as | it says “outside the constitution”? . They are of course | the nations that have been acquisitive of territory. | They are England, Russia, Germany, France, Hol- | land and the others which have by conquest sought !addilions to their landed empire. If the Examiner | can prove that they have bestowed upon these acqui- isi(ions the broad guarantees, and have in their gov- | ernment been restrained by the careful limitations of | the American constitution, it may be able to connect its views with the court’s decision. | Perhaps, however, it relies upon its ability to fool | most of its readers all of the time. | ————— | The cultivation of tobacco has been carried to such |an extent in Wisconsin that it has been decided to | open a large public tobacco market in Milwaukee, | and the Sentinel of that city says that this year “Dane | County is the greatest tobacco-growing county in the Union.” So it will be seen that while the cotton fac- | tories are moving South the tobacco market is mov- iing North, and the new era is keeping the balance | even, OIL EXPORTS AND PRICES. WING to the public interest in the oil in- | O dustry occasioned by the recent discoveries of | oil wells in this State and in Texas the Treasury Bureau of Statistics has recently compiled for publication a report showing the exports of oil from the United States, together with a review of | prices of the product for a long series of years. From the figures it appears the exports this year will be the largest in the history of the oil industry. In 1875 the exports of illuminating oil amounted to 204,000,000 gallons, while this year it is estimated the | export will be in excess of even the great export of 1900, which was 721,000,000 gallons. From 1876 to 1900 the total value of mineral oils exported from the United States was about $1,200,000,000, an average of about $48,000,000 a year, but during the later years of that period the average has been $60,000,000 per annum. : In reviewing the course of prices the report points out that there has been a remarkable decrease in the price to the consumer during the period in which the actual exportations and the net value of the exports have been increasing. The average value of the illumi- nating oil exported in 1876 was about 15 cents per gal- lon, and in 1877, an exceptional year, 20 cents per gal- lon. By 1881 the price had fallen to about 10 cents per gallon, the figures for that year being 332,000,000 gal- | lons, valued at $34,000,000. By 1801 the average price | was about 7 cents per gallon, the exports of that year having been 564,000,000 gallons, valued at $41,000,000. By 1808 the average export price was abott 3 cents per gallon, the quantity exported having been 824,000,000 | gallons, and the value reported to the Bureau of ;‘Statistics by exporters through the customs collect- | ors $42,022,682. In the nine months of the present | fiscal year, for which the figures are completed, the total exports of illuminating oil amounted to 569,624, ing of all generations to come. So we meet the day | 751 gallons, valued at $37,030.574, or 6 2-3 cents per with salutation to the living veterans and with flowers | gallon. and tears for those who are passed away after having | In addition to illuminating oils there are other oil fought the good. fight and kept the faith on land and | export® such as crude and lubricating oils, naphthas | and residuum. Taking these, together with the illu- | a casual study of conditions in Chiza would tell wh(. sea. minating oils, the total exports for the first nine months of the current year are valued at $52,745,06, and the estimates are that for the full fiscal year the amount will be about $70,000,000. E For a long time Russia has been a close competitor of the United States in the quantity of oil produced, but as American oil is much superior to Russian and yields nearly twice as much refined illuminating oil in proportion to the crude oil, the value of our output has been much greater than that of the competing producer. The difference in our favor will be aug- mented by the recent discoveries in Texas and Cali- fornia, and conseqggently we shall continue to hold our lead in the oil markets of the world. ———— A\l Amid the general expressions of delight over the bright coloring of “the rainbow city,” as the Buffalo Exposition is called, we regret to note one captious critic complaining because in the decorative scheme the lions in one of the gardens have been painted green. It is evident that such a critic must be a be- sotted realist and has no conception of art for art’s sake. G first annual report to the State Department has said in effect that the island would be a valuable possession were it not for the inhabitants, and the inhabitants would be good were it not for bananas and sweet potatoes. From the summary of | the report that has been made public it appears the Governor speaks quite plainly and says that in a climate where a man can lie in a hammock, pick a banana with one hand and dig a sweet potato with one foot the incentive to idleness is too great to be | overcome by people who are willing to live on that diet, and he urges the introduction of meat-eating Anglo-Saxons with push and energy to break the lethargy of the islanders and develop the natural | richness of the country to its full measure. The report will not surprise the United States. Despite all glowing words that have been written of the wealth of tropical countries, every intelligent man knows they are not rich, nor can they be made rich | even by the infusion of Anglo-Saxon energy unless | means be taken to send in a fresh supply of workers about every two years, for it rarely takes more than two tropical summers to convince even the white man that under a burning sun it is a good deal wiser to ‘eat bananas, work little and live than to eat meat, work hard and die. g The people of Porto Rico do not eat bananas and | sweet potatoes rather than corn beef and cabbage through any natural depravity or idle epicurean taste, In the struggle for existence in the tropics the vege- tarian has survived and the flesh-eater has perished. Food is a matter of climate, and even so is work. Take the best Anglo-Saxon stock that can be gathered in the world, place them as colonists in a tropical land, and either they will enslave the natives and live on the | labor of slaves, or else they will within two genera- tions become themselves addicted to bananas and | manana. Commenting upon the government of the islands the Governor says: “I feel as the result of a year’s close study on the spot of all conditions surrounding | this problem that Congress has gone quite as far as it could safely venture in the form of government al- ready existing on the island, and as the result of such experience and observation I fully believe, with good | men devoted to the work, the island will develop | faster under such form, and its people through expe- rience and education will advance more rapidly in their knowledge of civic virtues under present meth- ods than could be gained in any other way.” That means of course the maintenance in Porto Rico of a form of government similar to that which the British, the French and the Danes practice in the West Indies. It is doubtless the best that can be done at present, but its adoption is not going to be any great inducement to Americans to go to Porto Rico and infuse energy into industry. BANANAS AND MANANA. OVERNOR ALLEN of Porto Rico in his The local yellow sheet which, in offering a reward for exclusive information of the identity of a murderer, has plunged into the realm of the horrible, might complete the dread spectacle by offering an addi- tional sum for kinetoscope views of the actual crime, with poses by amateurs. Wpreme Court might have to meet, collateral to its island decision, respecting the effect of an impost laid in Porto Rico upon exports from the United States we had overlooked the presence of that very question in a case before the court. It | seems that a case is made embodying the principle of the cotton tax decision, and a decision was ex- pected before the court took its vacation. Just at present the matter is not of such importance as may appear farther on in our history. The court | has affirmed our right of acquisition of extraconti- nental possessions. Under such affirmation our con- quests may be limited only by our physical power to prosecute them. They might include the British em- pire, our best customer in trade. To protect our home labor it would be necessary to maintain a tariff against the products oi that acquisition. But, govern- ing it outside the constitution, can we also set up within such territory a tariff against the exports of the United States? We are of opinion that the necessity of maintaining a tariff against the cheap labor and production of Porto Rico and the Philippines will materially abridge the commercial importance of those islands to us. We will not get the expected profits of their exploita- tion. ® True, we may under the court’s decision still further cheapen labor in the Philippines by unlimited admis- sion of low-priced Chinese coolie production, but that will avail little if the tariff wall is raised as wages are lowered. As we said some time ago, the real crux of the whole matter appears when we come to deal with the issues of peace and not of war, affecting our expan- sion policy. AN EXPORT TAX. HEN we referred to the issue that the Su- New, England naturalists are complaining that the spring has been so stormy and wet the birds in that section have not been able to build nests; and in their sympathy with the poor things they seem to overlook the fact that if the birds had any sense they would come West. T i A Californian has smuggled four Angora goats out of Turkey into this country. This is the first indica-" tion of value that there is anything in Turkey which, to a Californian, would be worth the trouble of stealing. B Great indignation has been expressed in Philadel- phia that missionary funds are growing low. Perhaps PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SaN FrRANCISCO CALL. An Analysis of the Chances Which Men and Women Have of Living to Be One Hundred Years Old. By Frederick L. Hoffman. COPYRIGHT, 1901 XV. In a recently published volume, ‘“The Map of Life,” Mr. Lecky has laid down a principle which I cannot but think in- dispensable as a guiding rule in every dis- ‘| cussion of old age and the value of in- creased longevity. “In all civilized coun- tries,” Mr. Lecky writes, ‘“‘the average (duration) of life has been raised and there is good reason to believe that not only old age, but also active, useful, en- joyable old age, has become much more frequent.” "A useful, enjoyable, active old age, not mere continued existence, but LiFE—not a weary, monotonous drag of days, but active, useful, cheerful hours, a blessing to the man who lives and to those who live with him. “What I ad- mire in Ramsay,” sald Boswell to Dr. Johnson, “is his continuing so young.” “Why, yes, sir,”” answered the old doctor; “I value myself upon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversa- tion.” In a more pointed manner Hazlitt reflected upon old age in his remark: “Artists, I think, who have succeeded in their chief objects live to be old and are agreeable old men. Their minds keep allve to the last. Cosway’s spirit never flagged till after 9, and Nollekins, though nearly blind, passed all his mornings in giving directions about some group or bust or in his workshop.” Such, then, is the ideal conception of old age; a cheertul useful existence—not a mere continue life of useless years added to other years which have wearily preceded it. Industry lies at the bottom of social progress, and happiness and long life in- variably go hand in hand with days well spent in active employments. Proof is not wanting to show that the man who works has allotted to him a longer share of life than the man who does not work, an idle aristocrat or vagabond and tramp. Occupied males, according to trustworthy data, enjoy a mortality 132 per cent more favorable than those who eat their bread in idleness, and perhaps in no manner and way has nature stamped the sin of idle- ness with more emphatic disapproval than in the severe rule that he who does not work for his bread shall not live long enfiugh to enjoy the fruit of the labors of others. Value of Temperance and Morality. ‘With industry goes morality as a most, perhaps the most, important factor mak- ing for continued and enjoyable exist- ence. Whether it be morality in general, or as implied in anti-social trades, he whose existence is adverse to soclal pro- gress is not likely to live long and ply his trade. Married women with children, fol- lowing the business of motherhood and home life, are among the most blessed in years and happy hours. Liquor dealers are short-liveq, in fact, are among those whose days are least, because their usual habits of intemperance cause most havoc to their constitutions. Temperance in drinking is, as a rule, an essential re- quirement for long-continued life, though some fond of ‘‘the golden-brown drink that England has brewed for a thousand Octobers” have lived to see the dawn of another century, after a life which, in the opinion of teetotalers, suould have been cut short in youth. Intemperance in eat- ing is probably far more fatal to long life than any other factor, since idleness and immorality most often go with gluttony. Overweight, in fact, is recognized by medical examiners as one of the signs most unfavorable to longevity, tending to nervous, circulatory and kindred diseases. Morality and industry, then, must be accepted as essentlals making for a long existence. Jews and Quakers enjoy a long life and old age which for cheerfulness and usefulness has probably no equal. Those Who Live Long. Mere physical labor, mere activity as such, even if prolonged for many years cannot be looked upon as being of intrin- sic_social and economic value. It was Carlyle who touched upon the point with his common emphasis in the remark: “In the name of production, be brutes.” Merchants, traders, brokers and all who make the accumulation of wealth their primary object are less likely to live long | than those who relegate the pursuit of wealth to the ‘secondary place. The years which a man lives after 60 are in- deed to be -considered the most import- ant, since the complacent retrospect of active, useful years finds in_this period of afterglow its rich reward. A study of sudden deaths of men of affairs will point out lessons of the utmost si%lfl- cance, and we see men like Willlam Win- dom, Henry George, Roswell P. Flower or Garret A. Hobart pass away at a time when they had just reached the period of greatest usefulness. & Among those whcee lives are longest we may mention clergymen, gardeners. farm- ers, teachers, laborers on farms, artists, engravers, sculptors and architects. The lives of eminent painters alone are a wor- thy record of iong-continued, useful exist- ence, conciudivg with a cheerful old age, a blessing and hope to new generations. Clergymen have lived long largely, doubt, because of useful lives lived in temperate ways and hclped by a prudent self-denial of things human which are most apt to cut short the natural life of man. There is much to be learned from the vital statistics of occupations which n’;:y be applied to a higher social philoso- phy. List of Dangerous Occupations. The list of @angerous and unhealthful trades is indeed a Iong and, to a sensitive mind, a shocking one. Filemakers, pot- ters, hatters, printers, stonecutters, glass- workers and sreelters work under condl- tions which cut short their existenc while yet they render useful—in fact, in- dispensable—service to the community. Most of the conditions which make for ill health in the industries named could be, .as others have been, removed, but commercial greed and human indifference are the causes of continued existence of factors detrimental to human progress hardly yet recognized by otherwise intel- ligent observers. Conditions. of factory life are not as bad in this country as they are ‘abroad, but even here they affect to a considerable degree the health and lon- gevity of employes. There is implied in this not only a great social waste, but a direct and considerable loss to the employer himself, in that em- ployes developed to a high degree of effi- clency die just when their services are the most useful. Thus, lead poisoning in the potteries, phosphorous poisoning in match works, mercurial polsoning in hat fac- tories and lung diseases in glass works cause annually premature deaths of thou- sands of able workmen just when these men have reached the age of 40 or 50 and when a lesser degree of activity with more intelligence would produce a sufficlent in- come for a cheerful period of advanced age. Immense progress has been made, especially in this country, where factories are new and where money is liberally sgenc for improvements tending to better the conditions under which workin!men live, but'a vast field is vet unexplored and unrecognized. Industrial hygiene is in its intancy. The timc will come when work- ! ingmen wili use their unions more for their health than for their wages, and when strikes will take place because o conditions which shorten life rather than because of conditions which are of far less importance. As {et the average workman has but faintly realized the im- mense ¥osalhllitles of social amelioration mthe direction of a healthier and a longer e, ‘The End of One Who Despairs. It is not a pleasing task to digress from this essay upon long life into the mystery of despair and self-inflicted death. “Life is a conflict and a march.” wrote Mazzini , in strenuous opposition many vears ago, to Carlyle's sousel of despair. “Not life itself, but the deviation from life, is a disease; life is sacred. life is the aspira- tion toward /the ideal. It is blasphemy to pronounce one word of anger nst it.” T 2dd his words, “We must not dis- credit it, but make it holy. icide, contempt for life, must be included in the deadly sins. Those who have hel to make the world a better place to live in are the men and women who have real- | INDUSTRY, MORALITY AND OLD AGE. ized that we are here to do our duty, in- spired by a deep and active feeling of duty, which once more in the, words of Mazzini, “he believes to be the mission of man’upon earth.” This duty includes cheerfulness, patient forbearance, yet joy of living and existence. Vital feelings of delight, not the soul-deadening cry of de- spalr and unwarranted complaint.’ Such a life only is worth living to the end of 100 years.” If men wish to live long they must grow old gracefully and to the last hour remain cheerful, for there is an im- mense economic gain in cheerfulness, just as there is a political, or at least a social, gconomy of couragé and the spirit to Let a man but will to live and he can. Will is largely a moral product and will without activity, effort and aim s fmpos- sible. ““Why, even death itself stands still ‘and walits an hour sometimes for such a will.” Ay, death will wait many a year for the man who has lived aright his vears and who has an object worth living for. Increasing Length of Life. I have not thought it worth while to enter at length upon the question of the possibility of long-continued existence. It need not be Pointed out that there is no set limit to life, and there appear no physiological reasons why life should end, why the heart should cease to per- form its functions at the age of 70 any more than at 120. Certainly the facts are abundant tending to prove that authenti- cated old age is being attained by men and women in this country with an in- creasing degree of frequency, and, whal is better, to quote the words of E. P. Powell, “It is certain that our American men at 60 are not broken up as badly as our fathers of 40.” Immense gains have been made In the direction of de- creasing the mortality of children, and larger numbers reach the age of 30 and 40 than at any other period of our his- tory, but there are still at work deadly foes to long life which continue to elude the control of man. Typhoid fever, con- sumption and the various forms of lung diseases cause premature death in many cases when life could have been pro- longed under improved conditions. But it is to the diseases of middle life and of the age period 55 and over, the affections of the heart and nervous system, the va- rious forms of liver and urinary diseases, and among women even more than among men, the most dread disease of cancer, that old age is far more rare than it would be could- medical science make the progress which surgery has made and reach that point of exactitude and contro] of forces by which a disease in its early stages can be successfully ar- rested. Unhappily, medical treatment is usually sought too late, at a time when the system has been too far broken down by the encreachment of disease germs de- stroying vital tissue. Improving Habits of Youth. Thus far the gain has been mostly upon the younger lives; it is in youcth that we form our habits, and I belleve chat ou young men, spite of all remarks to the contrary, are to-day stronger, healthier, more active and more ambitious than the youth of any nation at any time in the past. It is no longer fashionable to look pale and delicate, with a tendency to con- sumption or scrofula and anaemia. John Burn Bailey called attention to the fact which he had noted from his own in- quiries ‘“‘that the mentally deficient or in. tellectually inactive fail to be represented in his list of the longlived; enersy of brain must coexist with vigor of body to insure extreme longevity,” and to this remark I may add one of Hufeland's observations on the art of prolonged life, that “no in stance can be.found o attained to a remarkable old age.” 0ld Age That Is Worth Having. ‘What I have tried to make clear in these few remarks upon industry and long life is the necessary relation between continued years and increasing . usefulness. Mere continued vears cannot be looked upon or desired from an individual or social point of view unless the increase of years brings increase of happiness to the one who lives | beyond the normal age, and to those with whom his existence is interwoven. “Why stay we on earth unless we grow?’ Everything pertaining to the right view of long life is to be found in these few words | " Not a| of Browning, “unless we grow. standstill, not a retrogression, a second childhood, decrepit and dependent, but a strong, persistent vitality continued to the end. Without an intellectual life such ex- | istence is impossible. It must prove a bore to the man who lives and to those who have to live with him. No.one has ex- ?lressed this thought more beautifully than amerton: “I compare the life of the m- tellectual”—and, as he has said elsewhere, the intellectual life is possible to all who earpestly desire it—'to a long wedge of gold; the thin end of it begins at birth, and the depth and value of jt go on in- definitely, increasing until at last comes Death, who stops the auriferous process. Oh, the happiness of the fortunate old men whose thoughts went deeper and deeper like a wall that runs out into the sea.” Such, then, is the old age, the long life worth living, worth striving for, worth fighting for. Chances of Living 100 Years. ‘What, then, are thefchances of reaching the age of 100 under present-day condi- tions? The answer to this cuestion is somewhat difficult, since life tables are based on the general population, for which the returns at advanced afes are notably in error, while data supplied by life in- surance 'companies are not apo icable to the people in general, including the un- healthy and otherwise impaired from an insurance point of view. For Massachu- setts a recent life table has been prepared by which it is possible to arrive at the peint desired with at least an approxi- mate degree of accuracy. Dr. 8. W. Ab- bott has calculated on the returns for the years 1893-1897 that out of 10,000 born in that State nine persons may be expected to reach the century mark, and those who_attain this age may still expect to live 1.2 years longer if males and 1.5 years lcrger if females. A comparative table for the vear 1855 shows that about half a_ century ago_ very few indeed had .a chance to reach the extreme a{e of 100, since by a table prepared by Elliott only nine out of 100,000 would survive to that age. In other words, the chance of at- taining the age of 100 in Massachusetts is to-day ten times what it was half a cen- tury ago. But in a large measure the attaining of old age by the few is of far less impor- tance to the community than the attain- ing of middle age and years past middle age by the many. Every death betweenm the ages of 15 and 30 is a social calamity and economic loss, in that a life comes to an end when most has been sunk in its production and when least has been re- turned to the community in the shape of productive labor and surplus gain. It is, then, a matter of importance to note that there has been a material increase in the number of those who survive to the ages of 30, 40 and 50, although the gain has not been as large as would be desirable and as will be possible under better conditions of city life. At present in Massachusetts there are expected to survive to the age of 50 5275 persons out of every 10,000 born, against 4409 survivors out of the same number in 1855. At the age of 80 the num- ber of survivors is 1266 at present, agamnst 1059 half a centiry ago: and thus the most valuable lives, valuable because of en- hanced intelligence and comprehension, have been saved to the state because of the sanitary zud other social progress made during the last fifty years. Low Rates—Improved Service. $10 35, San Francisco to Los Angel. first_cabin passage, including meu?'.':; berth. Only twemy-six hours en route. Steamer Santa Rosa or Queen from Broadway wharf every Sunday and Wednesday. stopping only at Santa Bar- bara. Paciflc Coast Steamship Company. ew n mery street, under Palace Hotel. g N —_—— It is becoming more and more diffiault to distinguish ketwee; row lition in Venezuela. S f an idler having | SOME MORE FACTS ABOUT THE PLAGUE At the recent session of the State Medl cal Soclety at Sacramento Dr. Woirad ‘Winterberg of this city contributed an ex- ceptionally Interesting and timely address on the plague. In part he spoke as fol- lows: Before passing any such resolution as the one under dm:xnluyn. I am of the opinion that we ought to know, first of all. that plague ever has existed and still ex: San Francisco. Now, I for one cannot the existence of the said disease without con- vincing vron!.‘.ru:‘ 1 cl;:llma.;e Gngeog:nfn th hall to bring forth such proo The two pioneers in the fleld of bacterfo- logical work in relation to bubonic plagua found and described two widely different bacilll as the cause of sald disease. 1 mean Kitarato and Yersin. Ogata and Yamagiwa later on controverted the claim of their coun- tryman Kitarato to the discovery of the plague baeillus by demonstrating that his bacillus differed in_various points from the one discovered by Yersin. lwa _ only found the Kitarato bacillus in the cadaver. while specimens taken fronf the living only | showed Yersin's bacillus, without any other | microbes, and he therefore thinks that Yer- sin’s bacillus Is the cause of bubonic plague. Now from all the information I have been able to gather in regard to the methods of examination practiced here at different times and by different Investigators, I have falled to find one single case reported in which an amination of the blood or tissues taken from the living had been made with a view ot establishing the existence of the disease, and it fs mot surprising at all that only cadavers were examined and experimented with for the stmple reason that living respectable cases could nowhere be found. Now them, I ask. when it is impossible to find pal fiicted with the disease (Which is known to ba of a highly virulent and infectious character) in the very heart of that focus of all kinds San Francisco which is called Chinatown, the very heart of that focus of all xinds of infectious material, whers the most favor- able conditions prevail for the propagation and multiplication of disease germs, where shall we look for the plague in order to find it? 4t not justifiable, in consideration of _these never was facts, to claim that there is not any plague in San Francisco and that we should waste our time looking for it with lantern even lnhbmad dayl’llht. like Diogenes ing for an honest man? hfkp:gtuuy agree with Dr. Ellinwood want to place myself on record as any resolution with regard to plague befors we have f that such a disease exists ia Son Franciaco or elsewhere in the State. PERSONAL MENTION. W. E. Davis, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is at the Occidental. W. E. Voolsey, a prominent fruit grower of Santa Rosa, is a guest at the Occi- dental. Dr. W. H. Hood of Battle Mountain is at the Grand for a few days, accompanied by his son. H. J. Small, an official of the Southern Pacific at Sacramento, registered at the Palace yesterday. R. D. H. Vroom, a brass manufacturer of New York, is here on business and is staying at the Palace. John P. Seymour of Fresno, superintend- ent of thé San Joaquin Electric Light Company, is at the Lick. Former Assemblyman Arthur W. North of Woodland is at the Occidental. He is a prominent young attprney. Willlam L. Lloyd of Albany, N. Y., is in town and staying at the Palace. He js secretary to Senator Chauncey Depew and assistant secretary to the New York Cen- tral Railroad. Lynn Austin, formerly an artist on The Call, but recently employed as a day clerk at the Palace Hotel, left yesterday for the | Hotel Rowardennan, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where he will act as manager. | —_————— | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON | WASHINGTON, May 29.—The following Californians are in Washington: At the Arlington—E. S. Pillsbury, San Fran- cisco; St. James—V. J. F. Lanigan, Oak- land; Everett—Hon. Eugene F. Loud, San Francisco. |ANSWERS TO QUERIES BARBERS—C. M. B, Salinas, Cal. Up | to the 15th of May Governor Gage had not_appointed a board of examiners of barbers. | PILLOW OF ROSES—A. L. O. R, Oak- | land, Cal. To restore the perfume of a pillow of roses that has lost its fragrance use a small quantity of attar of roses. FOUR CITIES—C. D., City. 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