The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1902, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1902. MONDAY LJANUARY 20, 1002 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Atéress Al Commoniesticens to W. 8. LEAKE, Manars: MANAGER’S OFFICE. .. -Telephone Pres PUBLICATION OFFICE.. .Market and Third, 8. F. Delivered Wy Oarriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Incluling Postage: DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), one year. $6.09 DAILY CALL (including Su-d: ¢ 1 onth: 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 1.50 MAILY CALL—By Single Month.. FUNDAY CALL. One Yem WEEKLY CALL, One Yea: All postmasters nre anthorized to recelve subscriptions. Bemple coples Will be iorwarded when requested. Mafl swbscribers in orfleriiz chanee of sddress should be rerticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o fpsure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE.. €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Tazager Foreige Aévertising, Marguette Building, Chieags. (Long Distance Telephone *Central 2618.”) ..7..1118 Broadway NEW TORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON. ..... seer-2es..Herald Square XEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: : STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Breptano, 31 Uniom Square: Mcrray Hill Hotel el CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: ®hermen Homse: P. O. News Ce.: Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clav, open unts] 9:3 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:3 o'clock. 633 McAllister, cpen until £:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, open until #:80 o'clock. 1841 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1086 Valencia. open wntil § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opea. until 8 o'clock. 2209 Fillmore, open until 9 p, m. e ———— e AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—'‘Don Caesar de Bazan.”” Julius Caesar.” azar— ‘For the White Rose.” lumbia—*‘The Princess Chic.” tes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and TRADE GOOD BUT IRREGULAR. N spite of another decrease in bank clearings last week, general trade was reported ‘better. The decrease in the clearings was slight, being only v/ per cent as compared with the corresponding week in 1901, and New York and Boston were the cnly important cities to show a falling off, that at New York being 17.7 per cent and that at Boston e other large centers exhibited sub- gams, the aggregate falling off being charge- able to the smail places: The {failures were 341, ageinst 340 last year, and were not of national im- portance The general distributive trade ‘of the country was ieported good. Commercial reports expressed it as vy improved.” There was a larger spring 1 cotton and woolen goods, and the North- at in large orders for agricultural goods and The Westi reported an increased spring 1 easy collections. The South- lagged somewhat, to continued dry weather in the winter wheat belt, where complaints l 1 per ceut. dry jobbing dema: good west owing of crop damage are being made, though they do not thus far indicate serious injury and wouid be imme- liscontinued by a good rain. The lack of n California has also been attracting attention 2 factor in wheat prices for a week better movement in textile goods, though the new prices for woolens are rather lower than anticipate The iron and steel trade k 1p its rapid gait, and some lines show still further advances, though there' is a disposition among the more conservative houses in the trade to frown on increased prices at the moment. Sales of pig iron have been heavy, and more or less scarcity of this product is noted. Finished products tend higher, but copper and tin afe lower. Shipments of boots and shoes continue large, and the factories have marked vp their quotations 2V@sc, though the wholesalers have not yet made a corresponding in- crease in prices. Hides are weaker. Against this bullish exhibit, however, there is a general lowering of prices among the leading staples. Bradstreet's calls it “the usual January thaw.” Cer- tainly the plane of values is lower than at the be- ginning of the year. The list of lower commodities includes securities, the minor cereals, pork products, dairy s and coffee and sugar, not to mention copper, tin and hides, specified above. Stocks of provisions in the Wes: are increasing, and the pack- ers are operating with more attention to demand @nd supply than the calls of speculation. The bears cn the New York Coffee Exchange succeeded in brezking the market, being aided by enormous re- ceipts at Brazilian ports and by much larger stocks in American hands, the increase being 150 per cent over the same time last year. The car shortage con- tinues to hamper frade, though the situation seems to be slowly improving. There is room for improve- ment in this direction, for, as already pointed out, the dearth of cars has cut down the movement of produce and merchandise considerably during the Fast reports past year. There not much change in the local market. Prices the main have gone up and down in sym- yathy with the Eastern centers, though fluctuations in this market are always slower and narrower than ir the East and West, where the prices undergo vio- Jent changes almost daily. The weather has been the principal factor for several weeks and will con- tinue so until the crop prospects become more defi- nitely defined. The merchants as a rule report busi- ness active and at profitable figures, collections are s good as they ever are, and the banks, both city and country, bave large iires ofsmoney to loan at easy tates of iuterest. The State was never on a more safisfactory commercial basis than it. is to-day. The reform administration in New. York has got itself into office only to find something like 2 tack in the ofi_ficial chair. Some reformers are clamoring for a strict enforcemept of the Sunday law, while others insist upon what they call a “libera]” enforce- ment; and betweer the two the city government is m}'yir.]g the quiet and retired life that Tammany is s OUR CONSULAR SERVICE. - UR consular service, like every other branch O of governmental adminstration, is marked by extraordinarily good work in séme instances |and by the opposite in others. It abounds with illustrations of the well-known truth ‘that good men will do go(‘)d work -under any system, while worth- less men will never do good work. Foreigners have praised the efficiency of the service and commended it for imitation by their home Governments. On the other hand Americans have frequently found cause for condemning the service and for calling upon Congress for a radical reform in the method of con- ducting it. The irregularity of the service is due partly to the methods by which consuls are selected, and partly to the rules under which they work and are paid. Our consular offices are a part of the spoils of Fed- eral politics. The result is that, while we frequently obtain able men for such positions, we not infre- quently get a man who is merely a party henchman having no idea of what a consul should know or what he should do. Complaints have been made by traveling Americans that many of our consuls whom they meet abroad are not only incompetent, but are not even well educated or wel] bred. . Our merchants and manufacturers have found. too, in many cases, that consuls do not attend to their business as they should, and that our trade with foreign ports is hin- dered by their neglect or worse. Such being the case, there has long been a demand for reform. difference of some Congressmen and by the objec- tion of others to give up any of the remaining spoils of office. The demand, however, has steadily in- no longer be evaded or denied. At the present time Senator Lodge has before Congress a bill which has received the indorsement of many of the most in- fluential and authoritative commercial bodies in the country, and with the support derived from them it appears probable the measure will be enacted into law 4t this session. The biil provides for classifying the service into four grades of consuls general and six grades of con- suls. and'in the highest amounts to $10,000 a year: The | fee system is abolished except in a few cases which are specially provided for. The present consular | officers are to retain their places, but within a year i the classification is to be put into effect. After classi- | fication censuls will be recalled gradually for exam- ination, and those who fail to prove their fitness will be dropped from the service. Promotions are to be by merit and consuls will be transferred from one class to another as the good of the service demands. In brief, the bill aims at retaining all that is efficient under the present system while eliminating incom- petent officials and preventing other incompetents | from entering. It will be remembered that in his message to Con- gress President Roosevelt warmly indorsed the pro- posed reforms. In referring to them he said: “They are based upon the just principle that appointments to the service should be governed by trustworthiness, adaptability and zeal in the performance of duty, and that the tenure of office should be unaffected by par- | tisan considerations.” The guardianship and fostering of our rapidly expanding foreign commerce, the pro-+ tection of American citizens resorting to foreign countries in the lawful pursuit of their affairs and the maintenance of the dignity of the nation abroad combing to make it essential that our consuls should | be men of character, knowledge and enterprise.” | There will be no question of the soundness of the | President’s views. An indorsement of the Lodge bill does not carry with it any wholesale condemnation of the service as it stands. Every one recognizes that among our consuls are many who are not inferior to | the consuls of any foreign nation. The aim of the bill is simply to provide a means of raising the whole | service to that high standard. e e e ] The report that the Turkish Government is to pay | $7500 indemnity for an American cycler who was killed while riding through the country suggests at | once the expediency of sending all the scorchers to Turkey and allowing the Sultan a discount on a wholesale slaughter. P e — THE EXCEPTIONAL MAN. R.'CARNEGIE, in stating the objects for M which he has founded the new institution at Washington, says it will be one of the pur- poses of the trustees and managers to “discover the exceptional man in every department of study, when- ever and wherever found, and enable him by financial aid to make the work for which he seems specially de- signed his life work.” The intention of the founder is undoubtedly excel- lent, but it is safe to say that if his institution depend for success upon finding the exceptional man it will jaccomplish very little for the money with which he has endowed it. The manager of every important in- dustry in this country is searching for the excep- tional man. Every university is looking for him. Every political party is on his trail. The church wishes him, the banks long for him and literature has been yearning for him for many a year. The ex- ceptional man in facf would not have to apply to y Mr. Carnegie’s institute for financial aid to -enable him to devote his life to the work for which he is best fitted. In fact, whether he bé a Marconi, a Paderewski or a Morgan, the exceptional man who is not ahead of his time, nor behind it, never fails to get bigger pay from the public than any the Carnegie institution will ever be able to offer him; and if he be ahead of his time, it is not easy to see how the very conservative gentlemen who control the insti- tution are ever going to be able to recognize him. There are a large number of universities and insti- tutions in Europe endowed for the purpose of sup- porting men of science and learning. Their chairs are frequently occupied by exceptional men, but as a rule those favored creatures did not receive the fa- vors until they had first won success before the larger audience of the world. Moreover, the chances are that if an exceptional man such as Marconi were provided with an income to devote himself to study, he wotild not be half so eager or so successful in his experiments as Marconi has been under circum- stances that compel him to succeed or starve. . Mr. Carnegie’s institution is going to do a great deal of good.. It is going to afford many a man of fair abilities an opportunity to make better use of them than he could if he were forced to enter into the competitive struggle for a living. It will enable such men to work under conditions so favorable that they will succeed ‘where they would otherwise have failed. Their work, moreover, is going to add in the aggregate an immense sum to the world's stére of knowledge. To humanity itself then, as well as to the recipients of his favors, Mr. Carnegie’s gift is to be beneficial; but it is not going to find the exceptional man nor to help him much when found. That class 1 The demand has been met by the in- | creased in emphasis and force; and it seems it can- The salary of each grade is fixed by the bill | of man can always take care of himself and generally prefers to do so. It is that preference.that makes him the exceptional man. i A Boston steamer which' recently sailed for Africa is said to have carried in'its cargo enough rum to intoXicate 1,700,000 mien, and it is fair to assume the good people of Massachusetts are congratulating themselves on their shrewdness in shipping it out of their country to that of another fellow. SHOCKHEADS TO THE FRONT. ENRY WATTERSON is not a candidate for H the Presidency, and he has declared he will never become a candidate for that office until assured of receiving the electoral vote of Massachu- setts. That vote will never be given to him. Be- tween Watterson and Massachusetts there is a wide gulf. Only a few days ago Josiah Quincy, speaking | for Massachusetts Democracy, said the party must be more careful in making nominations for high office, and that the candidate nominated for the Presidency i shouid be a man of wide scholarship and high culture; but now comes Watterson with an appeal to his party to take as a motto for the next cam- | paign: “Shockheads to the front.” Such differences of opinion as to the comparative merits. of the cultured scholar and. . the = shockhead can never be | reconciled. Colonel Watterson will never get a vote in Massachusetts. The desire of the gifted Kentuckian for shock- heads is due'to a belief on his part that it was by the |aid of such men that Jackson won the victory of New Orleans and twice attzined the Presidency. 'Rarely | { has the colonel been more eloquent than in appealing | to the shockheads of to-day to emulate the deeds of their predecessors. Speaking of the men who fought | at New Orleans, he says: “In dreams we can see the flash of their rifles yet. In dreams we can hear itl:cir wild huzzas. The time was to come when Old Hickory, still riding ahead, the red coats of corrup- tion ‘were to be driven out of office, and the Augean stables cleaned even as Packenham’s horde was driven back from New Orleans and the land cleared of the invader.” Gathering inspiration from such dreams of = the past, Colonel Watterson sees a vision of future vic- tory for the shockhead. He describes it in language that glows like a furnace. A single sentence will suffice to give a taste of its quality. The colonel says: “The time is coming again, when, Old Hick- ory’s spirit still leading the way, brave men are to fight to rescue their Government from the clutches of a body of robber barons, who, already strongly intrenched in positions surrendered to them by a succession of blunders and mischances incident to faulty Democratic leadership, propose to erect a line of robber castles from Havana to Manila, from San Juan, in Porto Rico, to Honolulu, in Hawaii, findjng the law for it in the imprudent pretension that ‘Con- gress can do no wrong.”” With a campaign like that to be undertaken, it is clear that something more is needed than culture and scholarship. The colonel has acted wisely in calling upon the shockheads to come to the front. When it comes to bucking the center of the barons who have erected a line of robber castles from Ha- vana to Manila men will be required who are as shockheaded as football “teams, and who have an equal courage in going up against anything. It will be remethbered that some time ago Mrs. Emmons Blaine agnou ed ghat, she hrad,solyed the servant problem by employing them to work on eight- hour relays; and consequently it is worth noting that a Chicago report states that she has broken up housekeeping and gone to live at a hotel. A COMING SEED BILL. ONGRESS has unofficially before it a bill ‘ which is at. once amusing and instructive. The bill purports to have been introduced by Congressman *‘Squash,” a member of the “Six- | tieth” Congress. It is'marked H. R. 411-44, and purports to be a measure to provide for the absorp- tion by the general Government of all seed firms in the United States, and recites that since the distribu- tion: of free seed now reaches the amount of 47,000,- coo packets and is still insufficient for the demand, the dole shall be increased to 100,000,000 packets at once. For the purpose of enabling the Government to carry out the objects of the bill the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to purchase the stock, good will and fixtures of every seed house in the United States, and should any seedsman decline to sell out, the Secretary is instructed to proceed against him by injunction, forbidding him to carry on his business. The provisions of the bill are not any more ex- travagant than the operations of the free seed di tribution by the Government. Originally the dis- tribution was designed for the purpose of introducing new and better seeds among the farmers of the country. That intention has long since been lost sight of. The seeds now distributed so far' from be- ing better than the farmer could obtain from a country grocery are probably worse. The distribu. tion in fact has become an immense job, and in its operations frauds of various kinds are continually coming to light. Having once started upon the wrong path, the custom has become more and more evil. There is no more reason why the Government should furnish the people with free seeds than with free vegetables. The distribution interferes with a legitimate indus- try and seriously handicaps it. 'Mr. Squash’s bill is a suggestion of what we are coming to if some check is not put upon the increasing evil. If we are going to give anybody free seed we should give everybody free seed, and thus, as Mr. Squash proposes, put an end to the seed industry altogether. It has been noted that in several of the lectures he is now delivering in the East Mr. Bryan has taken pains to speak highly of Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland, and the knowing ones declare he will back Johnson for the Presidential nomination in 1904. The news is not pleasing to the conservative wing, of the party, for in many things Tom is even more radical than William J. P TN Dc.spim the fact that ground for the St. Louis ex- position was broken enly a short time ago, the pro- moters of the enterprise assert positively they will have !hc. vtxpofl'tmn,x_n good shape at the opening next spring. _Vlrtually the whole work is to be ac- comphslzed w:qfln a little over twelve months, and should St. Louis achieve the feat she will get a repu- tation to be proud of. Mr. Croker having retired ‘from Tammany ssays: | “To win the Derby has been the one ambition of my life”” Running politics in New York it seems was merely a means of raising money to buy racehorses. The men who have been supporting him all along will doubtless be pleased in learning at last what they . have been working for, gty T mants. E. YOUNG LESSLER WILL BE HEARD IN CONGRESS i MONTAGUE LESSLER, WHO IS NOTED IN NEW YORK AS A REPUB- LICAN SPELLBINDER, AND WHO SUCCEEDED IN BEATING MIL- LIONAIRE BELMONT IN RACE FOR CONGRESSIONAL HONORS. Monly 33 years of age, while his recent rich opponent is 4. He is noted as a Republican spellbinder, and has been much in demand as a speaker 33 in all the recent campaigns, and his friends have no doubt that he will assert himself in the halls of Congress. This was his first run for office. He is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the College of the City of New York and of the Columbia Law School. Belmont, who expected an easy victory over the young Republican candidate, is unique in New York social and political life. As the eldest son of August Bel- mont he inherited a fortune. He has increased it in Wall street. As a young man he was one of the foremost figures of soclety. In his bache- lor days he gave at least three dances a season, and they were always among the smartest functions of society. Many notable dinner parties were. given at the house. Perry Belmont was always fond of dinners and dances. All the time he was going In for politics. He had high ambitions, and was regarded as a very bright young man, and with his wealth was picked out as a winner. He went to the convention and spent his spare time making political acquaintances. He got his first nomination for Congress in 1880. He served four terms, and was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Cleveland made him Minister to Spain in 1889. BRITISH ADMIRALTY IS APPLYING THE OFFICIAL GAG TO NAVAL MEN i g ONTAGUE LESSLER, a young lawyer without a fortune, who defeated Perry Belmont, millionaire and society man, in the race for Congress, is Admiral Sir John Hopkins Is Prevented From Delivering Lectures, and Beresford May Encounter a Check. HE British Admiralty is about to apply the office gag to naval officers who violate section 637 of the navy regulations of 1879, which forbid the publica- tion, directly or indirectly, of any matter or thing relating to the pubiic ser- vice. Admiral Sir John Hopkins is the first officer to incur the disapproval of the Admiralty. He had proposed a certain series of lectures before the United Service Institution, but the journal committee declined to have them deliv- ered, as the Admiralty had intimated in no uncertain language that it did not ap- prove of the proposed lectures. The queer thing about this incident is that Sir John Hopkins was a naval lord himself a:few years ago, and that he is therefore cognizant of the Admiralty being averse to having its shortcomings exposed or criticized, and it is just possible that this|gag applied to Admiral Hopkins is a strong intimation to Rear Admiral Beresford, who. has freely criticized the British navy system, to cease his attacks and comply with the instructions and regula- tions governing the navy. There is some doubt about a drydock being constructed by the British Govern- ment at Simons Town, South Africa, as it has been pointed out that such a work, owing to engineering difficulties, would cost at least $15,000,000. The rock Is unsuit- able for the dock and the material has to be brought from Norway. It is further shown that the place cannot be fortified and that the bay is exposed to southeast- ers, making it unsafe for shipping. Saldhana Bay, in the near vicinity, is indi- cated as a much more suitable and far less expensive dock site. P Three notable cruisers in the French navy are to be stricken off the active Iist after long and eficient service. One is the Duquesne, of 598 tons, and another the Tourville, of 5576 tons, both bulit in 1876. They are iron vessels sheathed witi wood, and have been employed almost constantly on foreign service in preference to later ships, the bottoms of which were not coppered. The Duquesne has been twice in San Francisco harbor—in 1886 and again in 1891—and was twice docked at Mare Island. The ship drew 2 feet 6 inches when she entered the dock and expe- rienced no difficulty in getting up to the navy yard, where it is now asserted that ships of our navy drawing four to five feet less water are unable to navigate. The Dugquesne will be remembered as a stately, handsome and commodious ship, of good and reliable speed and economical steaming.. She was the connecting link between the old and the new navy, and more serviceable than the average mod- ern production with high paper speed. The third vessel, the IpHigenie, also con- structed of iron and wood, is of 3431 tons, was built in 1381 and has been used con- stantly as a training ship. These three ships are to be utilized as colliers, and as such are capable of serving for another quarter of a century, as the hulls are of unusually strong material and well put together. Two torpedo-boats in the Franch navy, the Siroco and Mistral, built by Nor- mand, have armored decks over the engine and bofler compartments. The flat deck is .3 of an inch in'thickness, and the inclined part, extending ten inches be- low the water line, is .9¢ of an inch thick. As a further strength to the boat, and to obviate the danger of buckling, there is an inner keel, or, properly, keel- son, thirteen inches in depth, extending through half the length of the vessels. The weight of the armor, which is of nickel steel. and the keelson is twenty-four tons, or nearly one-sixth of the total displacement. . e+ = Germany is pushing her shipbuilding programme with such vigor as to com- plete it four years hence, instead of in 1916, as originally intended. Unless this activity is suddenly checked the German fleet will consist in 1906 of thirty-eight battleships, of which thirty-one are bullt; fourteen armored cruisers, Including twelve built, building or authorized, and thirty-eight smaller cruisers, of which thirty-three are built, completing or authorized. Fifteen of the above named classes of ships are under construction, and new ships are provided for in tha budget for 1902. The expenditures on new ships and armament are estimated at $18,791,500. Simultaneous with the increase of ships is the addition to the person- nel, viz., one vice admiral, thirteen captains, * eight commanders, six lieutenant commanders, twenty-eight lieutenants and eighteen ensigns—a total increase of seventy-six commissioned deck officers, and a proportionate addition of staff, war- rant officers, cadets and general cTew, g Japan established a new naval station, named Maiguru, on the west coast of Nippon on October 1 last. Vice Admiral Togo is commandant of the station, with five rear admirals, 700 officers and civil officials and the requisite number of work. men. Maizuru is the fourth naval station, and will be equal in importance with that of Sasebo. Battleships and first-class cruisers in the Japanese nayy are hereafter to be painted black, including outside of hull, masts, spars, smokepipes and suns pro- jecting from ship's side. The smokepipes of such vessels of the two classes which resemble each other are to have white bands painted about three feet in ‘width, in order to distinguish the ships at first glance, . s oa The navy of Venezuela consists of one gunboat, the Restaurador, of 509 tons and fifteen knots (formerly Gould's yacht Atalanta); two torpedo gunboats, Boli- var of 571 tons and 18.6 knots, and Miranda of 200 tons, both bought from Spain. In addition there are five revenue vessels—Mariscall Ayacucho, 140 tons: (iemera] Crespo, 142 tons; Vencedor, 228 tons; Libertador and Augusta. 0 s ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Seeegl A MILE SQUARE—Subscriber, Hay- fork, Cal. There is no difference between a mile square and a square mile. One square mile contains 640 acres. HUGUENOT SOCIETY—S. G. F., City. The, Huguenot Soclety ‘of America was [ ] _AGAINST MARRIAGE. According to a dispatch from Bin, ’ ton, N. Y., the soclety young ladl?:‘::f Waverly have organized an anti-matri- severe submission to the appeals of cua " 277 The members are young, angq j the prettiest maidens of leerly.msll";g; k from les re; organized April 12, 1883, and it has its of- | 7@ Presenting leading fice at 105 Bast Twenty-second street, New :‘;’f“m":r-_ physicians, bankers and the York City. TUXEDO COAT—A. O. 8., City. As a Tuxedo coat is recognized as fashionable at functions there is no reason why it should be out of place if worn by a gentleman while accompanying a lady to a theater. PROBLEMS—J. P. B, City. As this de- it does not encourage problems or questions in arithmetic it cannot print your solution of lapsed time between the beginning of the Christian era and the close of 1902. —_—— _ HOTEL DEL CORONADO, choicest Winter Resort in the world, offers h-:’g.ufi-, climate, g §. Babeock. manager. Coronado, Cal. % The object of the'ciub, as constitution, is short, mfi.flm ut:; one sentence: ‘“The object of this club pound of chocolate creams; for al a young man, creams; for allowing a young man kiss JoU. ole. wisk. towaid ax e two m mar] necessary. for ex- pulsion; for getting marri and a banquet. o emlsian The amount of lation in the Bank of tons. 80ld coin in actual b world_ia estimated by o England officlals to be about tWo pounds of chocolate | 'GOSSIR /| be utilized for the ‘| trical leneraflnf the | 65 P:FROM J LONDON, WORLD OF LETTERS The event of the literary weelc has un- doubtedly been the publication of Kip- ling's new “battle rally,” as it has been called. “The Islanders” is a satire upon England's carelessness about the war ani devotion to sports. After gathering all the various opinfons together in the press and elsewnere ihe indignation against Kipling appears to be pretty strong. While the satirist must always exag- gerate a little, even the mildest critics consider that Kipling here and there goes too far. For exampie, the taunt that the colonial rides and shoots better than tae islander hit hard and brought many re- plies. It is pointed out that In Australia and Canada a horse costs less than a bicyele, and running game is plentiful, while in England deer shooting and hunt- ing are for the rich ogly. As to the “flanneled fools” and “‘mud- dled oafs,” the private soldier is even meore furious than the officer, who indeci expresses himself with more contempt than anger. Football and cricket, it is pointed out cn all sides, are in a way al- most as much mimetic warfare as volun=- teering, and certainly produce men of finer physique. While waiting for war a nation can do many worse things than play cricket and football. Flood of Ping-Pong Literature It may sound rather alarming but is nevertheless true that we are being launched into a sea of ping-pong litera- ture. Several publishers told me they are considering or had promised the publicationjof books on the game by cer- tain players. In fact, my inquiries as to what is likely to be the first book on a new Mst in several cases was in a word ping-pong. Fisher Unwin means to be the first to get out a handbook. It is by Arnold Par- ker, the winner in the recent tournament at Queen’'s Hall. The book will contain 1l there is at present to be told about the game, which is quite in its infancy, - { from the way to hold the racket to the manner of commanding the -ball in order to make it deceive your adversary . by twisting in all manner of unexpected di- rections. The book will be illustrated with rumerous diagrams. As yct ping-pong can hardly be said to kave a history, but it does not lack his- torians. Even the poets have got hold of ping-pong, for there is a poem in its hon- or in this week's Onlooker. Mrs. Craigie (“John Oliver Hobbes"”) is at present engaged on a new comedy. She says she is much faseinated with writing for the stage, though she feels a novel gives an author far more freedom than one possibly can have when bound by the conventions which exist in the theate: both on account of the essential limita- tions of the drama and also through the idiosyncrasies of various managers. Four Years on a Novel. Mrs. Craigie’s method of work is to keep three or four books going at once. She conceives her plot, then thinks and rethinks it out until she is quite certain that so far as her knowledge extends 1t is true in fact and in theory. After she has once come to this conclu- sion nothing shakes her belief in it. The operation, however, is a very long one. Few of her books are finally ready for publication to the world under four years from the time when she has first con- ceived the plot and characters. W. Edmund Idle, after an unbroken ser- vice as librarfan at Mudie’s, has retired. To an interviewer the other day he sald that Mudie’s library consisted of 1000 vol- umes in a small shop in Upper King street when he first joined it. It now comprises over a million, and its subserib- ers number over 23.000. The daily issue of books averages 10,000. The publication of volumes three and four of Macaulay's “‘History of England” was a sreat day for Mudie’s. The volumes were soid at a high price, but Mudie bought 2500 sets, and it was this spirited action that lifted the library into fame. PERSONAL MENTION. Fred Sutton, a mining man of Sonora, is at the Lick. J. Klein, a merchant of Lompoe, is stay- ing at the Lick. A. McPike, a Seattle capitalist, is regis- tered at the Russ. John W. Mitchell, an attorney .of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. F. W. Cummins, a merchant of Dia- mond, Or., is at the Russ. F. A. Cressey, a banker of Modesto, is among the arrivals at the Lick. C. D. Bibbins, an extensive mine owner of Spokane, is at the Occidental. L. Grothwell, a real estate dealer of Stockton, is registered at the California. George S. BEdwards, a well-known resi- dent of Santa Barbara, Is at the Oecci- dental. A. E. D. King, an owner of ofl wells in the vicinity of Hanford, is at the Palace. 8. Mitchell, a landowner and rancher of Visalia, is among the arrivals at the Cal- ifornia. A. M. Bradlock, with the firm of Hale Bros. of Sacramento, is a guest at the Occidental. J. R. Houghton, a capitalist of Chico, returned yesterday from a pleasure trip through Mexico. I. N. Van Nuys, the well-known land- owner of Los Angeles, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. George E. Gallagher. a popular young salesman of H. Liebes & Co., is conva- lescing from a severe illness. 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