The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1901, Page 4

k3 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1901. Che ks Call. MONDAY...0c00ec0issvsssssssssss-JUNE 17, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. MANAGER’'S OFFICE.. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201 EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to Telephone Press Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (ncluding Suncay), one year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months.... DAILY CALL-By Single Month. WEEKLY CALL, One Yesr... All postmasters are nuthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples 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 tosure & prompt and correct compliance With their request. OAKLAND OFFICE 1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGYNESS. Mazager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chiesgo. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.”) 221 Stevenson St. 202. 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Columbia~*"Darcy of the Guards.” Olympia, corper Masén and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo end Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. her's—Vaudeville. Baths—Ewimming. on te Los Gatos—Monday. AUCTION SALES. By G H. Umbsen & Co—Monday, June 24, at 12 o'clock, Choice Property, at 14 Montgomery street. E— s 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. ©Call subscribers contemplating a change of residesce during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail te their mew Sddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. #esoris and is represented by a local ageat im @l towss en the coast. LAST WEEK'S BUSINESS. ETTER weather and brilliant crop conditions B caused a further improvement in both whole- sale and distributive trade last week. The bank clearings showed 2 gain over the corresponding week in 1000 of 66.3 per cent, the gain being especially marked among the ten or dozen largest cities. This was especially the case in New York, which exhibited an increase of 95 per cent, which is particularly sig- nificant in view of the comparative quietness of the stock market. Philudelphia, 2 most conservative city, where trade is cupposed to be legitimate if it is anywhere, showed a gain of 90.6 per cent. These figures indicate that the gain in these clearings is due to an actual increase consumptive trade, and not The failures throughout the country were 188, against 180 for the same week last year. The staples as a rule are showing a2 much better movement than 2 month ago. More demand is re- ported for some kinds of woolens, and some of the cheaper grades are heavily ordered ahead. Shoe shipments from New England centers continue unus- ually large, spite of the fact that the factories are about through with their summer orders. These shipments are now 118,000 cases ahead of the same time last year. The Western leather markets are quoted firm, while hides have lately been tending up- ward. The wholesale dry goods trade is also report- ing an improvement in the distribution. But the iron and steel trade continues to lead all others, and it is remarkable how long the abnormal activity in this industry keeps up. Pig iron is being heavily bought by the great steel combine, while finished products are quoted in enlarged demand. Wire goods, hard- ware and farming implements are in active request, and manufacturers of wire goods are behind in their orders. Railroads report large earnings and the gen- eral commerce of the country is in as good condition as at any time during the past two or three years, as far as surface indications go. Wall street is still lamenting the absence of the dear public, which got its fingers so badly burned during the recent railroad excitement. Conditions there are rather tempting to the public, as the money market is easy, and the fine crop prospects point to large railroad earnings during the coming fall. The situation is rather bullish than otherwise, and the shorts are covering, but the public still holds off. There is no selling pressure, and heavy operators are inclined to hold their stocks, in view of the good outlook just mentioned. Our local conditions show no change worthy of note. The different strikes, which were expected to cause a falling off in trade, have not thus far done 50 to any appreciable extent. The @untry, on which most of the business of the city is based, is looking well. The harvests are now under way and are turning out well as a rule, while prices for orchard and field products are well up to the average at this time of the year. The foreign trade of the coast continues of large volume, money is plentiful, collections are as good as they ever are, and there are no important failures to disturb the outlook. If the last half of 1901 makes as good a showing as the first half, the year will close with as satisfactory a record 2s any of its immediate prede- cessors. to speculation. It is somewhat surprising to learn that a former lieu- tenant in Roosevelt’s Rough Riders has been arrested in Kansas upon a charge of defrauding an Indian. If he had been accused of making a hold-up with a rifle the offense would not have seemed strange, but one does not expect the border boys to work confidence games. C This paper will also be on sale at all summer | FARM TRAINING FOR BOYS. RESIDENT CROWLEY of the Youths’ Di- rectory has formulated a plan for training boys in farm work and fitting them for obtaining in manhood an independence by the cultivation of the soil instead of joining the ranks of wage earners in the city. The plan of course is not a2 new one.. Many a time has the philanthropy of the world sought to save youth from the dangers and competitions of city life by carrying them back to the land. That, how- ever, is no objection to the plan. It is on the other hand a proof of its merit, for it is an assurance that it is based upon conservative wisdom drawn from the experience of the world in matters of that kind. Of course the plan proposed by President Crowley is not exactly like any other. That was not to be ex- pected nor desired. Every earnest and original teacher has his own way of working out the prob- lems of education, and such a teacher is he whose work in the Youths' Directory has achieved so much of benefit, not only for the boys who have been under his instruction but for the community at large. We have then a plan submitted to the consideration of our people of means which merits their support. It is not a fantastic plan, nor is it proposed by a theoretical reformer, or visionary philanthropist. It is a practical, common-sense measure, and if supported by adequate donations is to be carried out under the supervision of men who have had experience in teach- ing and managing boys, and whose work already accomplished attests their fitness for the new work they purpose to undertake. To carry out the plan there is needed something like 300 acres of fertile farm land and an endowment of about $75,000. To supply those things will impose no great strain upon the liberality or the wealth of Cali- fornia. The training to be given at the farm would furnish the State with a number of young men able to undertake the skilled work of farming, horticulture and viticulture, who would be useful in the promotion and advancement of those great industries. Thus California would not only have the benefit of con- serving in the ranks of useful citizens many youths who might otherwise be forced to augment the crowd of the unemployed and discontented, but it would also materially strengthen its rural industries. It is to be borne in mind that according to the plans | of President Crowley the institution would be non- sectarian. It is designed jto help the youth of the State who need help, and not to inculcate any par- | ticular creed or dogma. It is therefore one which merits the support of the liberal of all churches or of no church, and it is to be hoped the support will be promptly given. One dispatch from Paris says the recent grand re- ception of the Castellanes was attended by but 350 | guests, “all of them of the highest aristocracy”; but another says there were 2000 present and Eulalie of Spain was the only distinguished guest. Evidently the Castellanes should keep a press bureau and send out corrected returns. PREPARE FOR THE PRIMARIES. ONSIDERABLE gratification will be felt by all good citizens in the report that the organ- ization of the Republican Primary League has already promoted activity among the people in pre- paring for the coming primaries. Voters who believe | in honest politics and are opposed to boss rule have | been aroused to the importance of the issue, and dis- trict clubs are being organized for the purpose of | bringing out the rank and file of the party at the elections, so that the delegates chosen will be rep- resentative of genuine Republicanism, and not the | tools of a boss who calls himself a Republican solely | for political effect. | It is to be borne in mind the league has been or- | ganized mainly for the purpose of interesting Repub- | licans in primary elections and thereby enabling the party to profit by the primary election law. It goes | without saying the law cannot enforce itself, and un- less the better elements of the party attend the pri- maries the bosses will elect delegates enough to con- | trol the nominating convention. The league has no | candidates of its own, nor does it favor those of any faction. It seeks the support of all good Republicans, ;but promises to none any benefit other than what all | will gain from the conduct of honest elections at | which every Republican will have an equal voice in the selection of delegates from his district. The date of holding the primaries is not so far off but every good citizen should begin to give attention to the duties imposed upon him by his citi- zenship. When all the faults of the bosses have been enumerated, the fact remains that the chief weakness and defect of municipal government in America has been the neglect of municipal politics by the better elements of the people. In times past there has been some excuse for the neglect, since honest men have 1 had but little chance of electing delegates in a boss- ruled primary. Now, however, the law gives all a fair showing. It remains with the citizens to maintain the law, and to make use of it. Let us hope the duty and the opportunity will be neither overlooked nor ignored. It is stated that Conger has decided that he would rather go back to China than to take chances of get- ting the Republican nomination for Governor of Towa; so it would seem the story about the yearn- ing for Conger among the politicians of Iowa must have been exaggerated. FRUIT AS FOOD. G testing against the action of the police com- mittee of the Board of Supervisors in de- clining to sign demands for fresh fruit for their use, and I P. Kincaid, commissary for the jails, in sup- porting the protest has written to the board a com- munication, in which he says: . Some pecple might consider that fruit is a luxury, but I am of the opinion that in California it is not classed in that category, as it may be seen on the tables of the commonest boarding-houses practically during the whole year, and I therefore see no reason why the guards should not have it. Whether or not the guards should be furnished with fresh fruit is a matter upon which The Call has no opinion to express. It cannot undertake to draw up a menu for county institutions of any kind. Upon the general question, however, whether in California fruit is to be regarded as a luxury or as a staple food, The Call has a decided opinion. Mr. Kincaid is right. Fruit in this State is so abundant and any one who has lived here for any length of time has become so much accustomed to it in one form or another at meals, that it can no longer be regarded as a luxury. It is a part of the ordinary food of the California people. The conception of it as a luxury is a survival of ideas brought from the East or from Europe, where fruit is for the rich alone. Not only is fruit a staple food with us, but in this climate it might be fairly called a necessary of life. ‘We are within the temperate zone, but there is a tinge of the tropics in our climate. Were it not so we UARDS at some of the county jails are pro- could not profitably grow so many subtropical fruits. Our people therefore require something of a fruit diet almost as imperatively as do the people of the tropics. The use of it is healthful and beneficial and saves many a doctor’s bill. It may not be advisable to furnish it to the guards of the jails, but if so the rejection of it from the list of food supplies should be put upon some other ground than that of its be- ing a luxury. That objection cannot be urged suc- cessfully in any part of California. THE HAGUE COURT. ERLIN dispatches announce that a member of B the “International Court of Arbitration” agreed upon at The Hague peace conference and appointed by the great powers of the world has stated in a recent interview that all of the fifty-five Tepresentatives of the nations have been duly ap- pointed, that the court has been organized and that several international questions are already before it. He is reported to have added, however, that the Transvaal question is not one within the scope of the court, since the peace conference decided that the Boer states were not sovereign; and furthermore that the Chinese indemnity question is not among those the court is considering. It appears that despite its high sounding name and the majesty of the powers it represents, the High | Court of Nations, as it is generally called, is begin- ning modestly. It evidently believes in the day of small things to start with. It would be interesting to know what international questions it has under con- sideration, but no information on that point was given. With the great issues of the time ignored, it is safe to suppose the dignitaries of the court are wrangling over some such mighty problem as that involved in the question whether it be permissible in | war for an invader to burn a barn. There are some men who see no objection whatever to the destruction of the independence of a state, but who would be greatly grieved if in the course of the destruction a farm building were burned and a cow slaughtered. | While the early activities of the High Court are | thus disappointing, there is still something of en- couragement in the very fact that it has been created. The Berlin authority is quoted as saying, “The Hague agreement is something like the Magna Charter, a convention around which future international law will | crystallize.” Tt is stated that the German Empéror {and his Goyernment are now more favorably inclined i’to the court than ever before, and other governments | are believed to be similarly disposed. Of course it is disappointing that the Chinese ques- | tion is not to be taken up, for it is one which ought to be passed upon by just such an international body; | but too much should not be expected at first. The court has been created and public sentiment in every | civilized country is working in its favor. Moreover | the enormous burdens of taxation rendered necessary | by the military and naval armaments of the nations tend to hasten the coming of the time when the court :will be useful in great as well as in little issues. At | | the present time there would be no way of enforcing | éthe decisions of the court upon a great nation. Even i | in this hemisphere we are witnessing the ease with | ;which a small nation like Chile can stop a plan for | pan-American arbitration simply by refusing to sub- | mit to it. 3 | San Francisco can look with pride upon the rapid | rise in the Philippines of her native son, James F. | Smith. First a colonel, then a brigadier general, | then Collector of Customs at Manila, and now Justice of the Supreme Court of the islands. Funston of Kansas has done well, but he is a long way behind | Smith. KING EDWARD'’S REFORMS. ! ING EDWARD of England has not been able K to mark his acfession to the throne by any » acts so startling as those by which Kaiser Wil- liam began his imperial career. He has not had the | power to drop Salisbury as Bismarck was dropped, | or to adopt a foreign and a domestic policy radically different from that which prevailed under the former | sovereign. Being a constitutional ruler Edward has | had to confine his reforms to narrow limits. Most ’of them indeed appear so small and trifling as to pro- | voke a smile at first thought, but they are not with- | out value and will doubtless prove beneficial to his | people. | One of these common-sense reforms was his decree ! , that the royal birthday shall be celebrated on the | anniversary of the birth of the late Queen, the 24th | of May, instead of on the actual anniversary of his | birth, which occurred in November. It may seem | to the unreflecting to be a little thing to hold a holi- i day in May instead of in the cold month of November, | but thoughtful men will take a different view of it. It is not always safe to attend open air festivals in the bleak months of the year, as something more than temporary discomforts may result. The late Henry Grady of Georgia died in his youth | and all the promise of his genius and his patriotism | was lost to his country simply because he attended a Plymouth Rock celebration in Massachusetts on a cold. windy day and followed the custom of taking off his hat and standing with bare head during a por- tion of the celebration ceremonies. From that use- less exposure he caught cold, which turned into pneu- monia, and he died. That is but one of the many deaths that have resulted from the practice which men have of taking off their hats on any solemn occasion in the open air. King Edward cannot prevent his people from taking off thelr hats at certain times upon the celebration of the royal birthday, but he can and has prevented that celebration from taking place at a season when the practice might entail serious illness, if not deatl » With a similar display of common sense and disre- gard for old conventions he has given orders that hereafter at royal receptions the ancient practice of kissing the royal hand shall be made a mere matter of form. His hand is not to be kissed. The gentle- man presented is to go through the form in due de- corum. He is to take the royal hand and bend over it; but if there be any kissing, the kiss is to be placed on the thumb of the kisser, and not on the royal hand. The decree is not a foolish one. The custom of our courts require that any person taking an oath shall kiss a Bible, but there are few who actually kiss it. The ceremony is the survival of an old ritual which has long since lost its significance. By and by it will be eliminated from court proceedings; and so by and by the kissing of the royal hand will be elim- inated from the customs of the court of St. James. King Edward evidently has a good fund of sound sense in his head and it would probably be well for his empire if he were allowed a flarger liberty of using it. e ——rcr) Now that Whitney’s horse has made a winning run for the Derby, perhaps the Democrats would like the owner to make a race for the Presidency. Percentage charity is an Eastern luxury that comes high, but fortunately we don’t have to have it. PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. Conditions in Favor of the Youth of the United States as Viewed by a Statesman. XVIIL—OPPORTUNITIES OF TO-DAY. By the Hon. George F. Hoar, United States Sepator From Massachusetts. COPYRIGHT, 1901 I have been asked to say something as to the opportunity of an American young man and woman in our day, as compared with that of the youth of other countries, or of former times. To deal with this subject adequately would demand a good deal of thought and an examination of statistics. But there are a few consider- ations which may be worth stating which occur to one at once when the subject is considered. Most of them are quite com- monplace. But they may have some value if they are grouped together. First—The steady and unchecked tide of immigration which comes to our shores is the strongest possible testimony to the advantage enjoyed here. The reason of men and women is a guide at least as unerring as the Instinct of birds. They know where they are best off. As in the old fable of the “Lion's Den,” although for a far different reason, the footsteps are all one way. It is belleved that the United States is the only country on earth which has had to make laws to repress or check the tide of immigration. Second—A curious but very significant fact is disclosed by the fiction of the dif- ferent countries, although unconsciously, to its authors. The fiction, whether in prose or poetry, of the countries to the south of Europe is quite apt to end un- happily. From the time of the great dramas of Greece and Rome through the time of the awful tragedy of Dante's “Inferno” down to our own the fiction of southern countries is tragic. On the other hand, the fiction of peoples of Anglo-Sax- on descent ends happily. The latter re- gard a tragic representation of ordinary human life as something unusual and un- natural, and as an affront to a benevolent Providence. Yet even in England, or Ger- many or France the story often turns on the difficulties of poor iovers who cannot marry because of want of property which will enable them to support themselves and their families in married life. The interest of the story turns on the difficulty of the hero or the heroine to find a sup- port, and in tke end a rich relative, or some half a dozen relatives who stand between the hero or the heroine and a title or an estate, die off, 6r some wealthy relative comes out of the clouds and they marry and live happy ever after. The same thing is found in many English me- moirs: Tennyson's marriage was delayed for years because he could not afford to marry. Now, in this country if there were a pair of lovers found in fiction or in real life who had health and strenglh who could not get married if one had a sixpence and the other a shililng. the thing would be regarded as an absurdity in fiction and a disgrace to the parties if it were to happen in reality. Boys Who Seek New Careers. Take another quite obvious considera- tion. The condition of the farmer all over the country fifty or one hundred years ago was considered one of the most enviable which the law of humanity would admit. The farmer and the farmer's wife and the farmer’'s boys worked from dawn to even- ing twilight summer and winter. They had many privations. They practiced strict economy. They had plenty to eat. a shelter and good fires, a freeman’s share in the Government, a healthful and happy life. Yet that life, then regarded as the most fortunate on the face of the eartn, does not content the farmer’s boy to-day If you go through any Northern State, or any Western State more than fifty years old, and as you pass the older dweilings ask what has become of the sons of the men who had dwelt on those lands for generations. you will find the boys are gone to take places in the professions, in manufacturing, in the management of great railroads or great commercial es- tablishments, or in public life. We are reminded of the great mass of misery and of poverty that exists, espe- cially in our large cities. But we ought to inquire what would be the condition of the same people in any other country or in any preceding generation. distress is among our fareign population. Yet would many of the [rish consent to £0 back to Ireland? Or the Swedes to g0 back to Sweden and take the places held by their grandparents at home? Would the negro go back to slavery again? Would he go back to Africa again? The great educational institutions, and the application of the sciences to practical life, to which last large numbers of our American youth owe the opportunity for honorable and useful lives, and the chance in many cases of acquiring vast fortunes, are all the creations of one or two genera- tions. There are great professions, em- ploying immense numbers of active and well-paid servants, which were unknown when I was born.” The number of com- mercial travelers in this country was esti- mated thirty years ago to exceed 100,000. 1 suppose it is many times that number now. The number of skilled electricians must be nearly or quite as lagge. The railroads support more than five million persons. The polytechnic institutions the country, and the other mercantile and | scientific schools, with their vast number of pupils, I believe without an exception are younger than the Lawrence Scientific school at Harvard, which was founded by Abbott Lawrence about 1846 or "47. Condition of the Wage-Workers. Labor in its lowest form now gets a compensation, whether measured, by the amount or the purchasing power of the wages, largely in excess of any other country, or of any cther previous genera- tion here. In 1844, when I was about 18 years old, the Fitcburg Railroad was in process of construction. It was built by Irishmen who had come lately to the country, who got 60 cents a day for a hard day's work with the shovel. They worked from early dawn to late at night, I suppose at least fourteen hours a day, for a great part of the year. What able- bodied man now will work ten hours a day for five days of the week, and half that time on Saturday, for €0 cents a day? Yet the 60 cents will go a good deal fur- ther now than it would in 1844, I suppose every manufacturing commu- nity in the country contains hundreds of men, skilled workmen, capable manufac- turers, who came to this country from England, or Scotland, or Sweden, or Nor- way, or Germany, wher® they were glad to get as skilled laborers a wage of $5 or 36 a week, who in a very short time after they got here received $2 or $3 a day, and then became foremen, then agents, and then got large establishments of their own in which were employed hundreds of workmen, every one of whom receives three or four times what the employer had received in his own country. How Woman’s Position Has Improved Now, take the improvement in the con- dition of women. When I was born the married woman had no property she could call her own and no rights against her _ husband, ex- cept that he was bound to sup- port her and she was exempt, If the law was enforced, from cruel personal vio- lence. The husband, according to the law, might correct her Wwith a rod no bigger than his thumb. All her personal prop- erty became absolutely his upon marria; and-her real estate became his for HE: On the other hand, if she survied him, she had no right whatever in his property, except that if he invested it in real estate which was improved, but not including woodland, she had the rents and profits of one-third of it for her life. Everything else he could take away from her by con- veyance in his lifetime, or by will. In- stances were known of men who have married women with large fortunes, lived on their wives' fortunes all their days, and then by will left to the wife a small ana insufficient pittance to be “'so long as she remains my widow.” On the other hand the woman could not make a will 2t all. Her personal services and eainings were the absolute property of her husband. She had no right or control in the children. Their education was ab- soiutely controlled by the father, and Much of this | their services as well as hers were as ab- selutely his property as that of a slave. Now, compare this condition, which is still the condition of woman in many countries calling themselves civilized. with that of the American wife of to-day. It is not unusual at this moment on the Continent of Europe to see women yoked to the same cart with large dogs, -and sometimes with heifers and steers, draw- ing heavy loads, or working in the fleld with shovel or hoe. She is often practi- caily nothing but a beast of burder still. The American wife and the American mother, as a general rule, is the most ex- alted being on the face of the earth. The law protects her in her personal-property and civil rights. But she finds a better and surer protection than the law in the chivalrous worship of son and father and hustand and brother. The Rich and Their Fortunes. Prophets of ill are plenty now, as al- ways; not, I think, so r;vlemy now as for- merly. They tell us of the vast fortunes that are accumulated in the hands of single men. The millionaire rides in his palace car while the poor man walks in storm of winter. I admit that these great ger. safety of the republic. He deprives pub- lic office of what should be its chief re- ward; he deprives government of its pur- ity; he is a danger to the republic itself. But these great fortunes are not an un- mixed evil. large numbers make their millions also by other enterprises and employments which but for him would not exist at all. Leland Stanford and his associates made their millions building a railroad across the continent. But the building of the railroad and the railroad when it was built enriched hundreds of thousands of men and created the prosperity of large States, which without what these men did never would have existed at all. And under our institutions where the prop- erty is divided among all the children and cannot be tied up very well in a single generation, these great fortunes are dis- tributed as rapidly as they are made. Where Do the Fortunes Go? In a vast number of instances these great accumulations are in but another form of socialism. The man who gets it cannot take it away with him when he dies. He gives it to the public by the en dowment of colleges and schools and u versities and museums and libraries and hespitals and parks. He does voluntarily what the socialist wants to do by law. But if it were done by law, as the so- cialist wants it to be done, all individual enterprise and stimulation to energy or invention or thrift would be lacking. What has become of a large part of the wealth of Mr. Rockefeller? What has become of the wealth of Leland Stanford? What has become of the wealth of Mr. Hearst? And | what is to become of the wealth of Mr. {Carnegie? In my own city there have been two vast fortunes made within the last few years. The owner of one of them died the other day, leaving the whole of it to a university. The owner of the other still lives, now having reached mature life without wife or children or near kin- dred. He has held his vast fortune as a trustee for his fellow citizens, managing it for them without pay with an ability {and a public spirit which no hired ma: agers or no public officials could furnish. ! Do not be in a hurry, my socialistic friend. If this thing goes on for another generation the poor man in his right of citizenship will confront the rich man, himself the richer of the two. Now what are the qualities which bring | success to the individual youth? The first and great essential to success is charac- ter. Honesty is better than genius for the man who desires to get on even in this world. Integrity multiplies by ten every other capacity of man. The world almost | always attributes to the honest man of ability an intellectual ability which it would not ascribe to him without it. The man who decides to do what is right in | every emergency, what is right and hon- | est, acts, according to the universal ex- | perience ‘of mankind, wiseiy as well as rishteously. So he forms a habit of right judgment in great emergencies which saves him not only from doing what is morally wrong, but from mistakes if he look merely at his worldly interest. I re- peat, integrity multiplies every capacity of the human intellect by ten. Using the Spare Moments. I have in my time known many famous in war, in statesmanship, in science, in the professions and in business. If I were asked to declare the secret of their suc- cess I should attribute it in general not to any superiority of natural genius, but to the use they made in youth, after the ordinary day’'s work was over, of the hours which other men throw away or devote to idleness or rest. or society. There | are doubtless many dull men, there are | doubtless men of rare and brilliant genius. {in this world have not in general been | done by men of rare genius, and dull men very Jargely to what has been done for mankind. The great things in_this world have been done by men of ordinary nat- ural capacity, who have done their best. They have done their best by never wast- ing their time. It has been said that the great fortunes in this country have been | accumulated not by men with a genius for | making money, but with a genius for | money-keeping: that it is not the size of the brook, but tb: strength and tightness of the dam which-makes the great pond. | That is as true of the result of a life's i work in getting honor or power or fame or in storing mental capacity or doing pub- lic_service as it is In money-getting. If half the hours of your day run to waste there will be but half as much to show for your life when it is over. I canmot overstate this matter. “It is what we sow,” says the great preacher of the Eng- lish’ church, Jeremy Taylor. “It is what we sow in the minutes and spare portions of a few years that grows up to crowns and scepters.” ANSWERS TO QUERIES. LADYSMITH—Subscriber, Mill Valley, Cal. It was on the 6th of Jam Y tnat the Boers were repulse e at- tack on Ladysmith. D s i EMPEROR OF GERMANY-§. J. B., City. The only compensation that Wij- helm of Germany receives i: him as King of Prussta.. =~ (oot allowed OLD CALIFORNIAN—Subscriber, City. One of the old California ten-dollar gold pleces coined in 1849 by Moffat & Co., a private assay office, iS worth what any one wishing to be possessed of it would Syl b sy’ Fioman S ns offer to sell s ces v: o fis 50, P arying from Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* I Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.* I ST Best eyeglasses. specs., 10¢ to 40e. Look out front of barbér and grocery, §1 4th, + —_— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, —_—— In Hungary there are thousand: s lages and hundreds of small xovn:no:u'(g. out a doctor within ten miles, the ont- . lort, entertainment and health. café Was a wonder, the fshiug the heat of the summer sun or faces the | fortunes are in some respects a great dan- | When the millionaire undertakes to | purchase political power of office he com- | mits the most dangerous crime to the| They are not made commonly | at the expense of poorer men. For every million that the rich man makes poorer men will in| | But the great things that have been done | who have done their best have contributed | WORLD’S NAVAL NEWS. The Navy Department has decided to put Niclausse boilers in the Pennsylvania and Colorado, armored cruisers recently contracted for. The British crulsers Medea and Medusa are to be fitted with water-tube boilers, the first named to have boilers of the Durr type, the other to receive Yarrow boilers. e The Nembo, one four thirty-knot de- stroyers building at Naples, has just been launched. The vessel is of 350 tons dis- placement, with eighty tons coal. 600 horsepower and will have a battery of one twelve-pounder and five six-pounders. & o The British battleship Bulwark has made its thirty hours’ coal consumption trial under four-fifths power with these results: Horsepower, 11,755; steam in boil- ers, 257 pounds; revolutions, 101; speed, 16.8 knots; coal consumption. 13 pounds per unit of horsepower. CE X Three officers of a Russian volunteer fleet steamer, who were recently arrested while in the act of drawing a map of Nagasaki harbor, have been sentenced to six months’ severe imprisonment by a Japanese court. As the three officers left the country while the case was pending the sentence s inoperative unless they should venture to return to Japan. S g The cost of the new royal yacht Victo- ria and Albert is likely to exceed double the original estimate, which was $1.768,155 A second revised estimate, made one § ago, raised tha sum to $2,360,170. and va- rious additional improvements recom- mended by the civillan expert to make the yacht seaworthy have been in pro- gress since the revised estimate was made. % Russia has ordered the comstruction of four high speed cruisers of the Bogatyr type, an Iimprovement on the Variag. They will be built at Russian yards, namely, at Windan, Liban, Nikalieff and Sebastopol. Their tonnage displacement is 6750 tons, with 20,000 horsepower and twenty-three knots speed. The plans and many of the patterns have been furnished which the | from the German yard at Bogatyr was built._ . The Iwate, Japanese armored cruiser of 9606 tons,, arrived at Yokosuko on May 17 | from England. She is the last of six armored cruisers built in Europe during ! the past six years for the navy of Japan. | The ship was built by the Armstrong | firm at Elswick, her keel was laid July 19. 1898, launched March 29, 1900, and com- | pleted March 18 last. The perfod of con- | struction (928 days), while not a record | breaker in shipbuilding, is much better than that of the New York and Brooklyn | of the United States navy, which took 11496 ana 2151 days, respectively, between | laying of keel and placing the ships in | commission. SR The British Admiralty is seriously con- | sidering antidotes to submarines. the | problem of which has been narrowed rdown to three methods. The first is to ! fire shells filled' with high explosives, | which, bursting in the water near the boat, will beat it in. The second plan is to utilize the old plan of spar torpe- | does, and the third is by deliberate un- | der-water attack. The success of the first | method depends upon accuracy of gun- nery and the certainty that the shell will | burst at just the right moment. The sec- |ond means proposed presupposes that { there will be several boats armed with | spar torpedoes awaiting the appearance of the submarine on the surface, in which | event the latter’s annihilation is pretty | certain. The third method simply means a fight under water between the attack- ! ing and defending submarines. | ook U | Three large armored cruisers are about | to be built for the French navy. A com- parison between this class of vessels built or building in France, Great Britain and | the United States is shown in the ap- pended table: DIMENSIONS | Gam- | Colo- | AND DATA. | betta. | Drake. | rado. | Displacement (tons) 2480 1,10 13,400 Length (feet) 500/ 502 Breadth (feet) . Draught (feet) | 6.5 | 3 | Main armor belt | Secondary turre | | Guns, No., caliber. | | Propellers (number). 2 Engines (horsepowr)| 000 Coal (toms, normal).. 200 | Coal ¢tons, capacity)| 2000 | Speed (knots) o ! ! 23 Cost " (estimate: -- 135,349,700 |35, 046,360 36, 000, 000} | No. each type to buil 3 o ] KT A reclassification of vessels of the United States navy has ‘been ordered by the President. Under the new system, which went into effect on June 7, there will be four rates, based on their tonnage alone, divided as follows, for vessels of war: First rate, 3000 tons and over: sec- ond rate, 4000 tons and under S0 tons;: third rate, 1000 to 4000 tons: fourth rate, all other vessels. Auxiliary vessels of 6000 tons and over, except collfers, hos- pital ships and other special class vessels, are to be of the second rate, the excep- tions going into the third rate. Commands are assigned as follows: Admiral, to com- mand a fleet; rear admiral, to fleet or squadron: captains, .te division or ships of the first or second rate; commanders, to division or thips of the second or third rate; lieutenant commanders, to third or fourth rates; lleutenants. to fourth rates, a destroyer, torpedo-boat, tug or tender; lieutenants, junior grade, to torpedo-boat, tug or tender; ensign, to torpedo-boat or tug. PERSONAL MENTION. C. M. Scott of San Jose is at the Call- fornia. Dr. H. M. Kier of Woodland is regis- tered at the Grand. L. S. Alexander of Watsonville is a guest at the Occidental. A. H. Ashley, an attorney of Stockton, is a recent arrival at the Lick. Railroad Commissioner Blackstock registered at the Grand from Ventfura. J. Harvey McCarthy, cngaged in the oil business at Los Angeles, is at the Cali- fornia. Sydney Josephson, a business mar of Sydney, N. S. W., is one of the guests at the Occidental. C. A. Storke, ex-Mayor and a promi- nent attorney of Santa Barbara, is at the Grand for a brief stay. George Michel, who owns an extensive copper mine in Sonora, Mexico, is regis- tered at the Palace with his wife. Henry D. Marcus, connected with the Massachusetts Technical Institute of Bos- fon, is one of the arrivals at thé Palace. R. H. McClelland, general freight agent of the Georgia Ratlroad, with headquar- ters at Nashville, Tenn., is at the Grand. Congressman J. F. Stewart of Pater- son, N. J., returned yesterday from a trip to Yosemite and is staying at the Palace. Mrs. L. B. Kenyon of Salt Lake has taken apartments at the Occidental in company with her two sons and a daugh- ter. Dr. Gustave Hoze of Vienna, who is touring the world, returned yesterday from a trip to Monterey and is at the Palace. Chauncey Olcott, the Irish singing cem- edian, arrived yesterday from New York City with his wife to play a local engage- ment, and registered at the Palace. A l’i.hlhinul‘:: nu'eunhy resident of Min- neapolis, » is‘at the accom- panied by his wife. m.m.'lnmbnn to visit his brother, Dr. George Martin.