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6 THE SAN FRANCISLO -CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1901. Che e call. .JUNE 15, 1901 SATURDA JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. LEAKE, Kazager. 204 MANAGER'S OFFICE.... “or Ex FUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market Telephome Press 201. EDITORIAL RCOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St: Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single. Copies. 5 Ce: Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DATLY CALL (including Sun.ay), DAILY CALL- (including Sunday), § months DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAJLY CALL—-By Single Month. WEEKLY 'CALL, Ode Year.. 8 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Alcazar—*For. Bonnie Prince Charlie.” Grand Opera-house—'‘The Empress Theodora.” California—""A Parisian Romance.” Central—"Jim the Westerner.” Tivoli—“The Toy Maker.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia~"‘Darcy of the Guards.” Olvmpia, corner Mason and Eddy. streets—S. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudevifie every eveninz. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball Sutro Baths—Swimming Excursion to Los Gatos—Monday. Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. m and AUCTION SALES. y A. M. Scott & Co.—This day, at 11 o’clock, Horses,. at 35 Dore street . By G H. Choice Property Tmbsen & Co.—Monday, June 24, at 12 o’clock; at 14 Montgomery street. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWK FOR THE SUMMER. Call 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 puper will alse be on sale at all summer | ®ecoris and is represented by a local agemnt im &li towss en the coast. PANOPLIED HATRED. REDERIC HARRISON recently declared that Fhe ana his supporters in Great Britain regard 4 the Boers with “panoplied atred,” and, having been called upon to explain, has so in something like 3000 words of such a de- nunciation of “the infamous war” as has hardly been uttered by the fiercest of the Boers themselves. Mr. Harrison declares the origin of the war “is the old struggle for ascendency—just the claim of the Orange Protestant minority in Ireland to bring to heel the Catholic native race.” He speaks of it as “a stupendous folly, arn abominable crime, into which British adventurers have plunged the empire,” and “They rigged the political market, theys gave commissions to leading politicians, they hired the press in Africa and at home, they poured out on the public ear a torrent of calumny and sensational false- hoods, they organized a foul act of piracy, they bullied the war against says: and blackmailed the ‘department,’” they made the rep- | resentative of the crown their creature. This respon- sible Governor of a seli-governing colony stooped to | play the part which scme noble chairman of a rotten company performs as the figurehead of a board of guinea-pig ' directors. * * * He mouthed out rhetorical abuse of the Government with which he was sent to negotiate, and when he saw the possibil- ity of a peaceful issue of the imbroglio he had fanned he took care to make a’settlement impossible, and war the natural result.” The actual conflict Mr. Harrison describes as “a wasting and savage war which has gone on for nearly twenty months with no wvisible result except the slaughter of myriads of men, the waste of £150,000,000, ruin, devastation and famine broadcast over the very y we pretend to call a part of our empire, and hatred ‘planted in a race. of men that neves forget,"whom we pretend to call our fellow citizen As a further explanation of the cause of his panoplied hatred he adds: “Not only are we being ruined, humiliated and made odious as a nation, but we are being made the laughing-stock of the world. This grotesque fooling for party ends is transforming us into a race of blackguards. The disgusting orgies of Mafeking and carnivals were encouraged and financed by politicians and advertising tradesmen. They were blessed by the clergy of that church which assures us that “God made war.” Soldiers who have violated the law of nations, and have left the field of their so- called conquests 2 scene of chads and confusion, swept by incessant and aimless fighting, are hailed as if they were the saviors of the country. Generals who have suffered humiliating defeats, over which the civ- | ilized world has made merry, vapor about at bazaars and garden parties as heroes and heaven-born com- manders.” S That Frederic Harrison is not the only eloquent Englishman who regards the war with abhorrence and detestation is made evident by the recent speech of John Morley in the House of Commons. Referring to the statesmen who brought about the war he said: “Were not your advisers and inspirers dreaming when they launched you on this business? The expenditure of this 150 millions has brought not what British statesmen wanted, but precisely what they did not want. It has brought about havoc and ruin, material havoc and material ruin, unspeakable, unquenched, and for long unquenchable racial animosity, a task of pojitical reconstruction of incomparable difficulty. "All the othier consequences I need not dwell upon of, this war, which you must let me call, as I think, a hateful war, a war insensate and infatuated, a war of uncom- pensated mischief and irreparable wrong.” In the course of his speech Mr. Morley was taunted with being a “little: Englander,” and in re- plying to the-taunt he said: = “I quote again a sen- tence from a great divine: ‘Things are what they are, and their consequences will be what they will be. Why then seek to deceive ourselves?” Wear out your coal, pile up your debt, multiply and magnify your responsibilities in every part of the globe, starve so- cial reforms among your people at home, and then indeed you will have a little England, a dilapidated heritage, to hand on to your children and your chil- dren’s children.” Speeches like these recall the ¢loquence with which Chatham. Camden and Barre opposed the insensate war of King George upon the American colonies, and they may be read by Englishmen hereafter with re- gret that their warning was not heeded. In the mean- time, however, the stolid Briton goes or sending more and more reinforcements to Kitchener, and the wasting war continues to comsume life and treasure despite all the appeals that impassioned eloguence can make, 3 ’UNITED STATES AND GERMANY. E VER: since Senator Lodge made at the opening of the Buffalo Exposition his much discussed speech of warning to Europe to keep out of | Sotith America, acconipanied by an intimation that | we may yet have to go to war to maintain the Monroe | doctrine, there has peer a great deal of speculation as to what power he looks upon as a probable antago- |nist. In the absence of any explanation from the Senator himself, which is not to be expected, public | opinion has come to the conclusion that he meant : Germany. The reasorns for the conclusion are that the lGermans have extensive interests in Brazil and other | South-American countries, are known to be desirous | of obtaining colonies and an empire, and are sup- ;poscd to be antagonistic to the United States. ‘; Such antagonism as exists is nothing more than the | | outcome of the opposition of German farmers to the importation of American farm products.. It is a com- mercial rivalry merely and is not directed toward the United States any more than toward Russia, Argen- | tine, Aust;a]ia or any other grain and meat producing {country. If jt have been expressed more loudly againstus than against the-others, the explanation {will be found in the’fact that our competition $s the | more extensive and the more feared. 1 There is apparently no reason for believing the | Germans have any intention of violating the Mon- | roe doctrine or of forcing us to go to war to defend Iit. Referring to statements that the German Govern- |ment is trying to obtain coaling stations in this | hemisphere the Cologne Gazette recently said: “A naval or coaling staticn could be of value only if it furnished a base for our fleet. Americans might lkind]y consider how great the naval force is that we | maintain in these waters. As a rule it consists of one, ]or at most two, little cruisers, and now and again a | training or cadet ship strays into this part of the | world. Why, then, should we, for such a small num- | ber of ships, desire to acquire a coaling station? The cost of administration would swallow up more than jany possible profit in coal, and a naval station, with arsenals, docks, etc., would be a still worse invest- | ment. Such an installation would be unproductive and fimpractical in the highest degree, and if the United | States should ask us in the most friendly fashion to take possession of such an island we would decline such a gift with thanks.” While the German press disclaims any desire for icoaling stations, or any intentions of aggression in this | hemisphere, the representatives of South American | countries just as emphatically disclaim any fear on | their part that such aggressions might be- committed. Thus Baron Rio Branco of Brazil is quoted as saying: “While the Germans in the three southern provinces, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catherina and Parana, are numerous and exert a certain influence, the Brazilian population is in the majority and Brazilian political | influence is dominant. The Hanseatic colonization | company, which alone systematically encourages Ger- man immigration to the extensive lands it has ac- quired, cannot find Germans to settle there, and has | been forced to send for Swiss. Austrians, Russians and even Boers. The talk about German designs upon Brazil is the merest twaddle.” It may be taken, then, as well settled that there is no antagonism between Germany and America over the-Monroe doctrine or anything else. The next time Senator Lodge makes a speech of that kind he should either be more careful of what he says or more spe- cific as to his charges. | SOUTH CAROLINA IMBROGLIO. HEN Senators Tillman and McLaurin sent their resignations to Governor McSweeney thtere was a thrill of expectancy in the coun- Everybody looked to have the dullness of the try. summer season brightened up a bit by a fierce and furious campaign in South. Carolina. When the Gov- ernor declined to accept the resignations and advised their withdrawal there was a sense of disappointment, | and when Tillman, swearing he would ne'er consent, consented to recall his letter and retain his seat all hope of a fight was over, but there was still a belief that McLaurin would stay in the ring as a challenger and make it lively for the man with the pitchfork. When at last he withdrew the affair was at an end and the country knew it had been humbugged by a politi- cal farce. By the nation at large the whole controversy has been well nigh forgotten and people are talking of other things; but down, in South Carolina they are still wondering and speculating how it happened that +a promised -political duel so quickly turned into a foot race for cover. The perplexing point in the problem is the action of the Governor. At the time he asked the angry Senators to recall their resigna- tions he gave as a reason for doing so that he did not wish to subject the people of the State to the ex- citement of an intense campaign during the heat of the summer. There are people in the State who de- cline to accept that explanation with simple faith and declare a conviction that it is nothing more than buncombe. | Discussing public’ sentiment on the subject the | Charleston correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says: | “Friends of Governor McSweeney throughout South Carolina have recently been loud in their commenda- | tion of his act in returning their resignations to Sena- tors Tillman and McLaurin. There is a-big political move in this, however, and Mr. McSweeney is ex- pected to profit by it next summer when he goes be- fore the people as a candidate for the Senate. The people who have really sent up the loudest praise of the Governor are the personal supporters of Mec- Laurin. This element recognizell that the junior Sen- ator did not have a bit of a show in 'a battle with Tillman this year and is naturdlly rejoicing that the great fight will not take place. The McLaurin shout- ers, with the close friends of Governor McSweeney, who want to make him solid for the race next year, have been trying to express the sentiment of the | State, but the great volume of TiI_l;nan backers has | kept quiet.” 350, ‘_ It thus appears the Governor calléd off the contest ‘hot because he has any objection to thé excitement it would have caused but because he would -have had: no chance to share in it and make a struggle for the stakes. ‘Next year the contest will not be between Tillman and McLaurin only. It will be a free-for-all struggle and the redoubtable McSiruergey will be in it from start to finish. " South Carolina therefore* has suffered not a loss of her expected conflict, but ‘only a postponement of it. Let her content herself this sum- mer with eating watermelons in the shade. Next sum- mer she will have a hot time. When Carnegie is not scattering millions o'er a grinning land he anruses himself by prop} esying about the future, so that almost every day we have to stop and ask, What is he giving us?. Now that Dowie has publicly claimed to be Elijah, come again, it might be well to put him tothe test " by asking him to take to the wilderness for a while l\znd let the ravens feed him. RAILROAD OBJECT - LESSON. LONG with 2hcbcurxent reports of railroad H combinations and traffic deals there come A others which will be received by the public | with more satisfaction. Several of the great lines have | entered upon a systematic improvement of their sta- }tion buildings, so as'to add to the convenience of the | passengers, and in many instances the improvement { will consist in the construction of an entire new edifice | which will be an ornament to the town in -which it | stands. In addition to improvements of a purely utilitarian kind it is announced that the New York Central has adopted a plan for making the grounds around its stations attractive by grass, shrubbery and flowers. Of course the idea is not new. A great many stations lin the United States and a considerable number in | California are already adorned to some extent by such gardens, but it appears that the Central intends to un- | dertake the work on a more comprehensive scale than | has ever before been tried in America. It is stated that a landscape gardener has been appointed to | superincer]d the work along the whole line of the road, and it is believed that under his management every station will be made attractive and satisfying to the eye. A more notable experiment is reported to have been decided upon' by the Illinois Central. It is said to | have equipped a train with the machinery for con- structing sample stretches of highway and will send it out to give object lessons in good road building all the way from Chicago to New Orleans. The railroad }has furnished the train with transportation for the equipment and party, including sleeping and commis- sary facilities for eighteen people, besides six laborers «| who are with the train. Seven manufacturers of road- making machinery have contributed the apparatus which will be used, and share the expense of the ex- pedition for the purpose of making their machinery known. Each sends a competent man. The work of road construction is to be done under I the direction of President Moore of the National Good Roads Association, assisted by a representative i.Of the Department of Agriculture. It is therefore well | assured that the object lessons given will be of value to the communities through which the road passes, and may lead to extensive highway improvements that will materially benefit the nation at large. The undertaking of these various works on the part of railroads will of course be received with no little gratification. Their good effects will eventually reach us. The Southern Pacific has already begun improv- ing its stations through the Sta’te, and perhaps it will ere long occur to the officials that it is high time to give San Francisco a passenger depot worthy of the travel that passes through it. ANGLO-SAXON BIRTH RATE. ANADA is dissatisfied with the census returns ‘ of her population. While the complete re- turns have not yet been compiled, the results of the count thus far lead to the conclusion that in- |stead of a population of upward of 6,000,000; as was ex- pected, the returns will show hardly more than 5,500,- 000. The most depressing feature of the count, how- ever, is the revelation that while the birth rate of the | French element of the population is high, that of the | British races in the Dominion has fallen during the past decade much below what it was in former years. The diminished birth rate of the British Canadians is regarded by students of population as the more | significant because it:corresponds with a similar de- cline among the British peoples of other countries. In the New England States, for example, it has long been noted that the old families of so-called “native Americans”—that is to say, the people of British descent—have actually ceased to multiply, and in some New England localities the death rate among them is higher than the birth rate. The recent census in England shows that the Birth rate there in 1899 was but 20.3 per thousand inhabitants as compared with 35.6 in 1878. Furthermore, Australian reports show a decrease in the birth rate there. Thus it ap- pears that in old England and in New England, in the under all the varying conditions of those widely separated countries, the Anglo-Saxon birth rate has begun to fall below the standards of the past. -From these figures some philosophers draw the con- clusion that the British race, like the French, has passed. the period of its highest fertility and has started on the decline. It may be the facts cited can be explained upon some other hypothesis than that of a diminished fertility, but if so it is curious that the diminution should have occurred so generally in all parts of the world where the British races have settled and colonized. The one fact that stands in opposition to the theory is that the birth rate among the whites of the Southern States, who are an almost purely Brit- ish people, having but little admixture from foreign immigration, continues to be large. In other sections of the Union the descendants of the original British colonists have been so blended with other races that their birth rate can hardly be considered in this con- nection. We have, then, the facts that outside the South the birth rate of the British races and their descendants, when unmixed with other races, has de- clined in all parts of the world, and it would seem, therefore, that the theory of a loss of fertility is not an unreasonable one. It would be a curious thing if the Anglo-Saxon race, which has met the new century with the proud expec- tation of dominating the world before the century closes, should suddenly cease to multiply in propor- tion to other races and lose its prestige among the peoples of the earth. It is to be noted there is no diminution of the birth rate among the Italians or the Germans. The rapid increase of the Italian race of recent years has been, in fact, one of the marvels of Europe. Ip spite of a heavy emigration that has car- ried millions of Italians into every progressive coun- try in Europé and to all parts of North and South America, the populatiun of Italy has in twenty years advanced from 21,000,000 to 35,000,000, There has been of late much talk of “decadent” races, and now the statistical experts are intimating that the mighty Anglo-Saxon may have to be included among them. 3 . | reece——————con s Towre, of Minnesota, the free silver orator, has quit politics and will settle in New York and devote “himself to money-making, but he will not follow Bryan's example and start a weekly paper. Even in the wildest times of the free silver craze it was noted that Towne had a certain amount of horse sense. 5 The wanderings of Oom Paul around Europe are not easily explainable, but perhaps he is looking for that High Court of International Arbitration the Peace”pqnfcrenc: left lying around somewhere when it was arranging to put an end to war. Now that the authorities in New York have been arresting people for playing golf on Sunday all talk about the wickedness of the State has ceased, and in- stead ‘of the old denunciations we now hear complaints | of its “excessive piety.” 3 ¢ climate of Canada and in the climate of Australia, and | | obviously beneficial to be disputed. “Behold, how great: a matter a little fire kindleth!” Good deeds, like leaven, have a pervasive and beneficial influence. Numerous inquiries as to the character and methods of the Peabody education fund and for coples of the letter of gift have reached me. - Tulane, in the contri- bution which resulted in Tulane Univer- sity, states that he was moved thereto by the success of the Peabody fund. Mr. Slater makes distinct personal acknowl- edgment of the encouragement to the execution of the long-cherished purpose of his charitable foundation which derived from the eminent wisdom and success that had marked the conduct of that fund in a field of operation not remote from that contemplated by him, It was fortunate that Dr. D. C. Gilman, the able and scholarly president of Johns Hopkins University, was the friend and adviser of Mr. Slater, for when consulted he was able to give the benefit of his large | and varied educational experience, his sound judgment amd his sagaclous wis- | dom. He sketched for Mr. Slater an out- | line of the objects within the range of | accomplishment by such a trust'and thus | gave clearness and shape to the ideas and wishes which were unformulated in the mind of the founder. Dr. Bacon's pen put in final form the letter, which bears date | March 4, 1892, addressed to Messrs. Hayes, Waite, Dodge, Brooks, | Gilman, Stewart, Colquit, Jesup, Boyce and Willlam A. Slater. These gentlemen were invited to procure a charter under which they might organize, and Mr. Mor- | ris K. Jesup, with whom Mr. Slater had | conferred freely as to the character of | the securities to be transferred, pro- | ceeded to Albany and secured the requisite lact of incorporation, liberal in its pro- visions and exempting the property and ! all investments and reinvestments, ex- . cepting real estate, from taxation of any 1 and every nature. This forethought and | influence have been a great saving to the fund. Organizing for Work. The first meeting of the trustees was held May 18, 1882, in New York City, with ex-President Hayes, who had been desig- nated by the donor as president of the | board, in the chair. According to by- laws promptly adopted, Chief Justice Waite became the vice president.” Mr. | Jesup the treasurer and Dr. D. C. Gilman | the secretary. Mr. Slater himself was | present at this meeting and paid over to | the trustees the sum of $1,600,000, of which | $620,750 was invested in raiiroad bonds, and | the remainder was in money. The letter of gift designated, as the general object to be exclusively pursued, “‘the uplifting of the lately emancipated .population of the Southern States and their posterity by | conferring on them the blessings of Chris- | tian education.” It was not only for the sake of the negroes but also for the safety ! of our common country that Mr. Slater was desirous to to aid the freedom by | “providing them with the means of such | education as shall tend to make them good . men and good citizens.” The lines of op- | eration to be followed in the then con- {‘dlllon of things were “‘the training of | teachers from among the people requiring | to be taught and the encouragement of | #uch institutions as are most effectually { useful in promoting the training of teach- TS, From the first meeting, with the cordial | approbation of Mr. Slater, until the pres- | ent time, the trustees have construed their | instructions as requlflnfi that the scholars in aided schools “shall be trained in some manual occupation simultane- { ously with their mental and moral instruc- tion.”” and that in alding ‘‘such schools as are best fitted to prepare young colored | men and women to become useful to their race,” those should be “carefully sought out and preferred which give instruction in trades and other manual occupations.” Efforts of Dr. Haygood. Atticus G. Haygood. D. D., of Georgia, was selected in Octobery, 1883, as general ent, and the board soon approved a plan of operations, as outlined by him, for car- | rying out the directions contained in the | letter of gift. With great activity, enthu- | slasm and ability, Dr. Haygood prosecuted | the delicate and difficult duties with which he had been charged. He aroused a larger and more enlightened interest in | the education of ‘“our brother in black,” | was regarded as a special benefactor and | fricnd of the race, because of his judi- | clous counsel, his large sympathies “and | his boldness and eloquence in pleading for right and justice. He traveled thousands | of miles, visiting leading institutions in | North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennes- | see, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis- iana and Texas, and acquired an amount and accuracy of information on the sub- ject of negro education not surpassed by that of any other man in the country. As the result of earnest and inteiligent study his convictions were strengthened as to industrial training ‘“‘affording the means of making a more self-reliant and self-supporting population and necessary as furnishing some of the conditions of the best intellectual and moral discipline of the colored people—especially of those Who ‘are to be the teachers and guides of their people.” What he saw as to the in- ferior quality of most of the teaching done in the public schools for the negro children illustrated forcibly the wisdom and patriotism of Mr. Slater In requiring the use of his means for the encourage- ment of ‘institutions useful in the training of teachers. Dr. Haygood was confirmed also in the opinion of himself and the board that best results would be attained, not by diffusion of “the available in- come, but by concentration upon a com- ratively small number of institutions. ts judgment has been more strictly ad- hered to in later years, with results too To those who know the facility with which schools, hardly such except in name, are started’ in hundreds of plares and how solicitors are kept in every Northern Stdte and town eamestlir and sometimes wickedly begging for hel R which is used forJ)eraonnl benefit, and how many thou- sands of dollars have been worse than wasled upon pathetic but unworthy ap- peals, an argument cannot be necessary to vindicate or enforce a resolution of the trustees, “‘that no money be appropriated to institutions that are not, with good rea- son, belleved to be on a permanent basis,” and that appropriations to schools and colleges should be dependent upon a like or larger sum being raised for the same specific purpose by the parties Interested. Influence of Ex-President Hayes. At the meeting of the board in October, , President es announced the resignation of Dr. Haygood, who had been eclected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In the consid- eration of the necessary action conse- quent upon the resignation the office of general agent was abolished, and an edu. cational committee was appointed, whose chairman was empowered ‘“‘to stud: education and uplift] of the . :2: race of the South,” mns generally to per- form such dutles ‘as had reviously been the work of the gener: agent. Mr. Hayes, the president of the board, wrote to t]l"I’O ?onf. tll‘xomg C. Winthrop, the recident ‘of the Peabody b Fiin ‘entire unanimity tbe Sard’ board preferred that the agent of the Peabod ard should take up the work laid domy: by Bishop Haygood, and that the agent had been elected a member of the Slater board - and made c its educa- tional committee.” It was deemed wise lth.t the two boards should act in entire harmony. The Wwriter of this paper ac- cepted the position, and the co-operation B etis thatEwD) Dossds has resulted in increased economy and efficiency. On January 17, 1863, President Hayes dled. HJ: deagh’tw‘n'a ut great loss hto the corporation, as as to many of - ferests in which he was Goncerned. Tt wia a h tho:fht in Mr. Slater to put him at the head of the trust. At &ny inconvenience and sacrifice, the meetings of the , -he atf matmdad 'PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FO THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. By J. L. M. Curry, LI. D, EX-UNITED STATES MINISTER TO SPAIN, AND GENERAL AGENT OF THE PEABODY AND SLATER FUNDS. (COPYRIGHT, 1%01.) XVIIL.—SOMETHING THE oovmum FAILS TO DO. tees, and no one met more conscientious- ly and wisely the obligations he assumed. He was unsparing of self, discreet m speech, s: lous in counsel, courageous in following his convictions, and set a stimulating example of promptness, pa- tience, courtesy, hopefulness and faith. Havmé held the highest and most hongr- able office in the world was no excuse for abandonment of personal duties nor for cessation of labors for his country’s weal. He consecrated his sound judgment, his wide intelligence, his tenderness, his gen- ercsity—all the powers of nd, heart—to the illiterate, the unfortunate, and went about over the whole land do- ing good. Dr. D. C. Gilman’s Influence. The election of a successor was an easy task and Dr. D. C. Gilman was unani- mously chesen. As all eyes had turned instantaneously to him, 'no alternative vas to be considered. Of his ripe schoi- arship, unique personality, exhibition of those qualities which in rare combindtion make the wise counselor and the unex- celled president of a great university, this is not the place to speak. Johns Hopkins University is largely the creation of his extraordinary girts, and _well-trained young men are carrying and reproducing | his influence into nearly all the colleges | of the West and Sodth. The greatachieve- | ments of the' Slater fund have been in no small degree due to his wisdom, experi- ence, grasp and mastery of difficulties. At the first meeting Mr. Jesup was made treasurer, and the talents, as a fiuancier, displayed in his private busi- ness and as a director of corporations have been given with equal results to the trest which has eniisted his time, thought and constant labors. While keeping up anrual appropriations for the schools the | fund has, under his financial skill and ability, reached nearly $1,500,000. The dis- bursements for schools have aggregated over $650,000. Benefits to the Southern Negro. A volume would not suffice to give a meager detail of the work of the trust or of the heneficial influence exerted on pub- lic sentiment or on the wisest methods of instruction for the “lately emancipated.” Skepticism as to the mental capability of a race kept continuously, from time imme- | morial, in a state of ignorance, supersti- | tion and savagery, enslaved in this coun- try for 200 years, without schools or ade- quate religious instruction, is natural, per- | haps unavoidable. Prejudices engendered | by the war and the more disastrous sub- sequent consequences of the war, adverse | Congressional legislation and criminal negiect by the Kederal Government of those whose emancipation and citizenship | logically and humanely involved a result- {ns obligation to prepare and gualify for | the new responsibilities and dutles and other causes have combined to deprive the | negro of the benefits which should have come from general and proper education. | An argument conclusive, irrefutable, in | favor of the capability of the negro would | be a visit of inspection to some, to many, | of the schools which have been benetict- | aries of the Slater fund. Take Hampton, the best, the monument to the patriotism, | the educational statesmanship, the gentus | of that wonderful man, General S. C. Armstrong. The institute was a pioneer in indus- trial training, and is among the best ex- ponents of this new movement in educa- tion. To meet the needs of the negro this necessary adjunct, this essential part of his education, was introduced and cor- related with academic training. The in- dustries are not a kind of play, are not | merely intended as helpful in making a | living, although that is very important, but they are intended to cultivate as well | true art in its refining and artistic effects. The girl pupils are encouraged and stimu- lated to make their rooms models of good housekeeping, and every nook and corner must be kept in readiness for daily in- spection. The trade school, the primary school, the normal work, domestic science, agricultural instruction, all the depart- ments under faithful and accomplished instructors, are working out a great prob- lem in the most hopeful manner. It would be grossest injustice in describing and ad- | miring the noble and stupendous work accomplished at Hampton not to ascribe preper credit, exalted merit, to the prin- cipal, H. B. Frissell, D.D., whose piety, integrity, common sense, tact, énergy and ability have contributed so powerfully to the growth and character of the institute and placed him on the roll among the chief educators of our country. Schools at Atlanta and Tuskegee. Spelman Institute, In Atlanta, is for the eaucation of girls, and is under the exclu- sive control of female teachers. Many persons regard it as, on the whole, the most_successful and admirable school in the South. It is so excellent as to esca; adverse criticism from the most censori- ous. As far back as 1884 and 188 Dr. Hay- good said: “The general agent wishes to add as to the work done at Spelman; he does not know any school where money goes farther In doing good. One could ardly exaggerate a statement of the good nccomgllshed in this school.” Dr. Glenn, the able Superintendent of Schools in Georgia, has often spoken in most eulo- gistic terms of the discipline, the instruc- tion, the atmosphere, the most wholesome influence of this school, and after twenty years of close observation and annual in- Spection I take great pleasure in repeating ithe Norpaal arid e Normal Industrial Institute at Tuskegee, 'Ala., was established . of the Legislature in 1880, and has since, ‘without fnterruption, received aid from the State. On July 4. 1881, it began its re- markable career under the superinten- dence of Booker T. Washington. The se- ries of autoblographical papers that re- cently appeared in the g:tlook and at- tracted such wide and favorable attention gives a sra?hic account, humorous, pa- thetic, thrilling, of the difficulties which attended the inauguration of the enter- prise and of the persistence, courage, ability, hopefulness and faith which have characterized Booker T. Washington. He is now almost as well known as any man in the United States, and Harvard Uni- versity has honored itself by conferring on him ‘the degree of master of arts, Since the genesis of this institution in 1581 (I became agent of the Peabody educa- tion fund in that year) I have known him and his work, and I doubt whether any school ever established in this or in any other country has attained in so short a time such marvelous and deserved tri- umph. Forty buildings for over %0 stu- dents have been erected, and these from the drawing of the plans to the putting in of tie electric fixtures have been al- most wholly the product of student All who enter the institute must learn some industry. A knowledge of all the steps of the progreSs only enhances one’s es te of the school and its ex- The Slater fund, al. ways: treasure what Mr. Washington said ears ago: “For t;e impetus given ndustrial department e to the indebted to John Slater fund.” Greater indebtedness has been frequentiy and gratefully expressed in later reports, Need of Government Aid. ‘These schools have been as examplea of £ood. work done SSHY Southern States, but the purpose of their introduction would be greatly misunder- stood and perverted if construed as a dis. paragement of many others which are not mentioned, but which, If deseril would bring_into still clearer light capability of” the negro and the advan- tages to the race and the country of er and more liberal effc TRt education. - Valuable® ok & e thens in- and other they are full, ‘adequate to meet and to wntha ’;du- theF .lchool is chiefly bed, the supply giogg posas of the AsroAlricas ot ", Nt e *, Squiltable Dublic Provision for tamcatiind and autho: rized the ot e sidlary to existing in: education so as to make their advantages- more freely accessible to poor students of the colored race.” That time has not come. In their poverty, the Southern State have done most liberally. The country needs to realize that public schools, State organized, State supported, State controlled, free from partisanship and sectarianism, are the only agency for giving general education to all the people. PERSONAL MENTION. - Judge W. J. Tinnin of Fresno is at the Recommendation to the Federal Govern- %2 ment to Assist in the Work of Edu- cating the Colored Race. Ex-County Assessor W. P. Lynch of Oroville is at the Lick. P. L. Flangan, a miding man of Reno, is a guest at the Grand. Ex-Assemblyman C. B. Jilson, a well- known mining man, is at the Grand. S. C. St. John, one of the most prom- inent residents of Fresno, is at the Lick. Edward Stratton, a prominent oil man of Bakersfleld, is a guest at the Califor- nia. James Gallagher, grower of Fresno, Grand. < 8 Migs Jogephine Robb, a well-known writer !o:’e Eastern magazines, is at the Palace. Judge Adair Wilson of Denver, accom- panied by his wife and daughter, is at the Palace. B Dr. E. T. Gould of Sonora is spending a few days in the city and has made the Lick his headquarters. Thomas D. Wood, an extensive land an extensive ralsin is registered at the ~owner of Santa Barbara, is at the Palace with his wife and family. G. ‘A.' McElfresh, chief ranger of the Foresters, arrived from Los Angeles yes- terday and is at the Grand. R. R. Munro, chief postofice inspector, has returned from a visit to Washington and New York citles on officlal business. George A. Rice, who recently arrived from London, has returned from the northern part of the State, where he has been inspecting his mining properties. He is at the Palace. ——————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 14—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—W. F. Holden, at the Imperial; J. W. Keyes, at the Cadil- lac; J. L. Shetterly, at the Astor; E. D. Baker, at the Navarre; H. C. Bunker, at the Imperial; J. F. Fidsen, at the Grand Union; G. W. Lunt, at the Imperial; J. F. Rowe and E. A. Rowe, at the Grand Union; J. W. Bourdette, at the Imperial; Miss E. Dean, at the Netherland; E. L. Foster and wife, at the Empire; J. F. Hank and wife, at the Sinclair; S.- Levy, at the Cosmopolitan; T. H. Macdonald, at the Astor; Mrs. W. Shaw, at the Nether- land; E. Stevenson and J. J. Stevenson at the Continental, and Mrs. S. Wonham at the Netherland. From Los Angeles—F. E. Clark, at the Murray Hill. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. OREGON SHORT LINE-McK., City. The Oregon Short Line belongs to what is known as the Harriman Syndicate. ‘WIFE IN ENGLAND—J. P. L, City. On the 15th of last May the “deceased wife's sister law in England” had not been passed. COLORED POPULATION—S., Kelsey- ville, Cal. It will be impossible to give the number of colored people in the United States at this time until the Census Bu- reau shall have given out the figures. SANTA ANA—F. W. 8., Campbell, Cal. The rainfall in Santa Ana, Orange Coun- ty, California, for 1898 was 4.07; for 1399, 9.69; for 1900, 8.53, and for the season of 1901 about the same as the previous year. THE MINIMUM AGE—A. W., Golden Gate, Cal. The minimum age when one may be ordained a priest in the Catholic church is 24 years. Under extraordinary circumstances some priests have been or- dained at the age of 23. STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY-—F. H. S, Santa Rosa, Cal. The following have been appointed on the State Board of Pharmacy: John G. Calvert of San Franciseo, J. B. Finger of Santa Barbara and J. J. Crowley of San Francisco. THE FORTY-FIFTH—A. L. O. J,, City. The reason that the men of the *Forty- fifth regiment were stationed at the Pre- sidio on their return from the Philippines was that it was understood before they landed here that there should not be any wholesale leave giving to visit the city. SEA OTTER—Subseriber, Monterey, and I., Sausalito, Cal. The law approved De- cember 29, 1900, relating to the protection h tter and fur animals, prohibits P mnban) Sehing nOFth of the 5th des gree, north latitude. That passes through this State just above the northern bound- ary of Santa Barbara County. SIR JAMES McINTOSH—E. M. V., Oakland, Cal. Sir James MclIntosh, the philesopher, was born October 24, 1765, at urie, the banks of Loch Ness, sAél‘?:n l':ilel from Inverness. He died at his home in Langham Place 30, 1832, and was buried at Hampstead June 4 fol- lowing. THE ENCINAL—E. M. V., Oakland, Cal. In the early days of California that portion of Alameda County now led Alameda was covered with caks. In - ish encinal means the wi the ever- green oaks, and because of the oaks onm that territory it was called - ish-speaking people “El Encinal.”” NO ONE OF THAT NAME-—Pine St., City. There never was an Australlan named Futton in the United States Con- gress, either as a Senator or a Represent- ative, This department does not recom- mend any one engaged In any particular g,rlvnte business, nor advertise which in- vidual is the most eminent in his private professional business. TO QUEENSTOWN-D. N. P, City. To determine the all-water distance from San Francisco to Queenstown and from the same port to Capetown it would be neces- sary to know about what particular track the 1nfnrm€uon is desired. The distance is ter by some tracks than by others, and there are so many that this depart- ment cannot give them all. PICKETS—A. R., Nortonville, Cal. It you will take a pair of compas: set the legs half an inch apart and mark off twelve inches on a straight line, then draw a ling in the shape of a hill, com- mercing at the first point made with the compass, and continue the line to the last nt made, and then measure the irregu- ar line by. means of the comy at half-inch space, that will tell you if it requires more pickets set at equal dis- tance to make a fence over a hill than i the pickets were placed om a straight line at the base of the hill, equidistant from the point of starting, to go over the hill to the point of the last picket. —_— Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —_——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_———— ’ Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men b‘ the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, « Russia’s Czarina has organized an as- sociation of Russian women in reduced clreuml‘&nees. who are almost constantiy employd for embrotdery for ecclesiastical purposes or for. court dresses. Tahiti and Marquesas Islands. The steamship Australia, sailing June 2, for Tahitt, will call at Nouka Hiva, Marquesas Islands, both ways. The trip is only nine days from San Francisco. This special voyage o’- fers an unusual opportunity to visit these beautiful islands. About a week's stop will be made in Tahitl, Where ome of the most unique native festivities takes place July M, lasting three days. Tlustrated. pamphlet and programme of events free at 643 Market street. People who Dr. Stegert's Bit- ters in the fall save money on doctors’bills dur~