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(Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619."") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON..... Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . ...30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 3 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman Heuse; P. O. News Co.; Grest Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..1406 G S + N. W. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER Call subseribers contemplaiing a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new nddre; = by notifying The Call Business Office. This puper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in on the co: all towns AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—YVaudeville. Grend Opera-house—"‘The Leather Fischer's Theater—*‘Fiddle Dee Dee. Califernia—*Under the Red Robe.” Tivoli—*“The Singing Girl.” Central—*‘Mrs. Partington.” Alcazar—*"When the Heart Was Young.” Columbia—*"When We Were Twenty-one.” New Chutes—Zoo and Theater. Recreation Park—Baseball to-day. AUCTION SALES. Easton, Eldridge & Co.—This day, Furniture, at 717 Fillmore street. Horn—Thursday, May 22, German Government Market street. at 10:30 o'clock, y W. H , at 17 i ——— SENATOR TILLMAN'S LATEST. O ifar from having been abashed by the em- S phatic condemnation recently pronounced upon him by the Senate and by the well nigh universal voice of the American people, Senator Tillman appears to glory in his shame. Not for a single day has he by word or by manner shown any copntrition for the disgraceful attack made upon his colleague, McLaurin, upon the floor of the Senate, s he exhibited any respect for public senti- ment. On the contrary, he seems to find an ignoble pleasure in continuing to offend against the rules of the Senate and the dccencies of discussion. In his reply on Wednesday to Senator McComas of Maryland Tillman became so offensive that we are told most of the Democratic Senators left the chamber, being unwilling to give even a tacit recog- of their party. Nor can they.be blamed for doing so. Surely any one with whom Tillman is associated even remotely has occasion to be ashamed of it. Tillman’s boast is that he is no hypocrite—that he tells the truth. A similar boast might be made by any blackguard who regards- courtesy as hypocrisy and medesty as cowardice. He violates decency, and he calls the violation a display of honesty. He vaunts and brags of infamy as if it were an honor, and chal- lenges the Senate and the nation to silence him. Senator McComas, in reply to an attack of Til- man and Money of Mississippi upon the Philippine policy of the administration, said: “We behold Sen- ators from the two States where there is less popu- lIar liberty than in the.others shouting loudest for constitutional liberty on the other side of the globe.” The statement was a fair hit. That wrong has been done to negroes in Mississippi and South Carolina does not of course justify wrong in the Philippines, but it does furnish good reason-why those whp profit by the wrong should not undertake to pose before the American people as the special champions of jus- tice and make pretense of being the.defenders of liberty against the assaults of better men than them- selves Tillman felt the force of the retort and at once burst forth in his old harangue against the'negro. Once more he told how the negro vote in South Carolina was suppressed and is still held in suppres- sion, and once more he virtually challenged Republi- cans to provide a remedy for the wrong.. He re- peated the story of the shotgun campaign and said the whites had carried the election by 3000 majority and might just as well have made it 30,000. Refer- ring to the so-called “sand cure” practiced by Amer- icans upon recalcitrant Filipinos, he said it is but a mild method and added: “When we get ready to put a nigger’s face in the sand we put his body there, too.” It seems to have been the intention of Tillman in making the speech to convey the impression that the Republican administration is treating the Filipinos worse then the Democrats of South Carolina have treated the negroes. Perhaps it is natural for him to think so. He is himself so bitter and venomous in his hatred of the negro that he cannot believe any white maun has respect for the rights of the colored races. As Senator Burton said in replying to him: A man who upon this floor can defend slavery and government by the shotgun cannot be expected to think very well of Senators who are trying to carry good government into the Philippines. It is astound- ing that/a Senator should make an appeal for hon- est government in one breath and in the next boast of crimes almost unparalleled in history.” It is 2 good sign that Democratic Senators leave the Senate when Tillman speaks. Perhaps the time is not far distant when even South Carolina Democ- racy will turn its back on him, and then the black- guard will cease to disgrace the Senate by his pres- ence as he offends it by his insolence- nor ha nition to him as a representative HEN the present session of Congress be- CURRENCY LEGISLATION. Wgan there was every prospect that a com- prehensive bill dealing with the currency problems of the country ‘would’ be promptly en- acted. Later on Chairman Fowler of the House Committee on Banking and Currency announced that he was sanguine the House would give imme- diate consideration to a measure to that effect re- ported favorably from his committee. Of late, how- ever, the outlook has been by no means so promis- ing. Bad management on the part of some of the leaders of the majority has complicated the situation. At the present time the isthmian canal bill, the mer- chant marine bill and the currency bill are seemingly sidetracked, and unless earnest efforts be made to procure action upon them they may be passed over to the next session. Each of the bills stated is in some respects a measure of urgency, for the conditions of com- merce and industry call for them all. There are, however, special reasons why the currency bill should Be acted upon at this session. It is well known that finance is the most sensitive fiber in the social organism. It is that which is most easily dis- arranged, and when disordered produces the most widespread disturbances. Any change that is to be made in the currency of a country ought to be made in times of prosperity, when industry is on a firm basis, commerce flourishing and every condition of the people so sound and secure that there will be ro danger of a panic or other disaster during the period that the change is being carried out. We are enjoying such a degree of universal pros- perity at the presen: time. There is no mopey stringency in any part of the country and no im- mediate danger of the occurrence of one. As was said by Secretary Gage shortly before his retire- ment: ‘“Looked at from the point of true states- manship it would appear that the present is the most propitious hour in all our history and as favorable as any period we may hope for in the future to enter upon reasonable and judicious measures to eliminate all elements of financial weakness which experience has brought to light and to perfect our now faulty system ‘of currency.” The Fowler bill, now before the House, includes the vital points of the maintenance of the parity of our metallic currency by redeeming silver coin in gold and of providing an ample credit currency by conservative gradual steps. The provisions made in that respect are in keeping with the pledges of the Republican party in the Philadelphia platform, and have met with the approval of financiers in all parts of the country. As the bill provides for the reduc- tion of denominations of silver certificates gold can be paid out for silver without requiring any increase in the gold reserve provided by the law of 1900, and until that machinery is provided and the maintenance of parity secured there will be always more or less money agitation to disturb our financial credit. The bill has received the cordial indorsement of the executive committee of the Indianapolis Mone- tary Convention and represents the best thought of the ablest financial experts of the Union. It offers a substantial improvement in our financial system, and its benefits will- affect all classes of people. A postponement of the measure from this session to the next would expose the bill to the hazard of a still further postponement, for the next session will be short. - Moreover, the question might then be- come involved in the partisan conflicts of the Presi- dential election. It is of course desirable to avoid such contingencies. The people have had experience cnough of the evil effects of making money ques- tions a part of the political issues which divide the people. Prolonged agitations on such matters se- riously interfere with commerce and industry and cause great hardships in many cases. This, then, is the time to deal with the currency problem, and strong pressure should be put upon Congress to have it settled by the adoption of the Fowler bill before adjournment. Mr. Carnegie’s latest statement is that in small communities the library building might be made to serve for music, drama and social entertainments as well. He is right enough, but he should furnish money for bigger buildings than he has been pro- viding in the past. EUROPEAN SCHOOL GARDENS. ITH the coming of spring our Eastern W fellow countrymen, released from the bond- age of a hard winter, are taking a keen de- light in every form of plant that can be made to bud and blossom in their cities. As a part of that delight they are interesting themselves in the establishment of school gardens. It seems altogether probable that as a result of the enthusiasm on the subject every progressive city in the East will in a com- paratively short time have well managed gardens of that kind. \ By way of contributing information on the subject the Boston Transcript has begun the publication of a serfes of articles on the school gardens of Europe and America. It appears that such gardens were es- tablished in Europe fully a hundred years ago, but were originally directed and maintained by the own- ers of large estates, who wished to teach their ten- ants how to make the highest profit out of their small bits of ground. When the benefits of the sys- tem were proven the Governments took up the work, and now in every European country except Great Britain there are extensive systems of school gar- dens, not only in the rural districts, but in the cities as well. France, which by reason of her soil and her cli- mate is the ideal land of gardens, leads the van with more than 30,000 school gardens in operation. Semi- barbarous Russia has upward of 10,000 village school gardens. Cold and bleak Sweden has more than 5000, and hardly a rural school in that king- dom is without one. Switzerland does nearly as well as Sweden, and it is estimated that throughout Europe there are at this time more than 100,000 such gardens, not counting kindergartens. In the cities, of course, the gardens are small. In some cases they do not exceed 'one-tenth of an acre, but in such cases the cities provide larger central gar- dens from which specimens of plants are distributed to the schools and which are frequently visited by the pupils. Thus in Berlin there is a central garden of ten acres, ‘while at Breslau there is a/combincd gar- den and forest of 12,000 acres for school use. Intensive gardening enables skillful teachers to perform marvels with the small plats of ground at their disposal. Trees as well as shrubs and small plants are grown in the narrowest grounds, and the writer for the Transcript says: “They are often grown in stocks and are dwarf, both roots and branches having severe prining every year. . Some- ! times the teacher owns the trecs and carries them lwith him when appointed to a new school; « ‘Some- : / times the produce of the garden helps to maintain the teacher.” Of the benefits of the gardens the educational au- thorities of Europe speak in high terms. Professor Wilsdorf of Dresden is quoted as saying: “An inti- mate knowledge and intercourse with nature has a refining infiuence upon children; it promotes the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, which is of great importance to the maintenance and welfare of,the nation; it educates boys beyond a tendency to pilfer fruit and flowers in orchards and gardens and to maliciously injure young trees; -it instills into chil- dren a fondness for rural life and it educates children to work.” There has been more or less school gardening in California for some time past, but we are still far short of what is'done in Europe by even such coun- tries as Sweden and Switzerland. This ought to be the greatest gardening country in the wosld, exceed- ing evén France, that is now in the lead of the na- tions. It is therefore worth while for us to give more attention to this phase of public school exten- sion. The time ought not to be far distant when it can be said of ‘California that it has no school with- out its garden and no garden without its competent teacher. A prize contest has been instituted in the East to procure a néw tune for “America” that shall be genuinely original, popular and have intrinsic musi- cal merit. Some one may get the prize, but it is a fairly safe prediction that no one will fill the bill of specifications. S the pure food bill now before Congress pre- sented a new array of facts obtained by Gov- ernment experts showing the extent to which food adulterations, imitations and misbranding are prac- ticed by unscrupulous dealers. They reveal also the difficulty that the producers of honest foods have in finding a market for their products in the face of such illegitimate competition, and as a conse- quence are matters of concern to growers and to le~ gitimate manufacturers as well as to consumers. It appears from the facts cited by the Senator that even the cheapest foods are subject to fraud. Dried codfish is not a costly article, and yet a still cheaper fish is put up like it, labgled “choice codfish” and sold in the market as the genuine article. Some- times the frauds are ingenious. Thus the market is full of genuine vanilla beans from \\:hich all the vanilla has been extracted, and the oil of nutmegs is extracted by a clever process, the punctures filled with lime solution and the nutmegs pat upon the market again. Apple cores and peeling are used to make strawberry jelly because apples are cheaper than strawberries, but the apple does not escape, for as pumpkins are cheaper still they are used in making apple butter. ; Some interesting recipes are given for making fine liquors. Thus if brandy be desired the recipe says: “To forty gallons of colored French spirits add two ounces of brandy oil, mix well and add one quart of white syrup or glycerine. To imitate any particular brand add a small quantity of the kind to be imitated. About three gallons to forty will an- swer the purpose.” A recipe for Rhine wine says: “Mix one pound of essence in three gallons of proof spirits and add to thirty-seven .gallons of rectified cider; then dissolve a ‘pound of tartaric acid in a hali-gallon of hot water and add to suit taste.”” The country is full of the kind of brandy made by that recipe, and it is said the wine recipe shows us how is made “about one-half the Rhine wine that is used in the United States.” Some interesting facts were gathered by Dr. Bige- low of the Bureau of Chemistry concerning the mis- branding of olive oils. In his testimony before the committee the doctor said: “The oils marked olive that are brought into this country are very fre- quently adulterated with peanut and sesame oils. They are also said to add in foreign countries sun- flower and mustard oils, but we have not found them. We have found only peanut and sesame oils in our investigations of those ‘olive oils.” Here is a label which recalls a very interesting interview I had with a clerk in Buffalo. They had two brands of ‘olive oil,” as they were marked. One was American, they said. The other was imported, They looked very much alike. I asked the clerk if he could give me a quart bottle of the imported oil. He said he could bottle me one. I asked if his firm bottled it them- selves. He said yes, and finally admitted ‘that those two supplies of oil were bottled from the same bar- rel and that they were both cottonseed oil. The bot- tle he sold me was labeled ‘Olive oil put up by Freres du Peaux, Bordeaux, France.’” After that statement Dr. Bigelow made anothier which is of special interest to Californians: “It is not generally known, I think, that it is possible to import European oils into this country, ship them across the country by rail and put them on the mar- ket at San Francisco at a lower price than that for which the first grade of California olive oils can be made.” The Agricultural Department estimates that up- ward of 15 per cent of all the foodstuffs consumed in this country are adulterated or mislabeled, and that fully 2 per cent of the frauds are injurious to health. Since American ingeauity has been cfever enough to devise such frauds, American law should be equal to the task of preventing them, FRAUDS IN FOODSTUFFS. ENATOR McCUMBER in a recent speech on A French paper, “Progres Spirite,” has just pub- lished a letter from Victor Hugo in which he says: “Having no longer my earthly pen I have been obliged to resort to a medium in order to pen these lines. I am taking long journeys through starry im- mensities and have but little time to give to things of your'earth. There are no flames in' the beyond. Above all no eternal flames.” Clearly the informa- tion given by the poet is to be classed among the things which are “important if true.” The London County Council has under considera- tion a plan to tax poster advertising as is done in France, and the discussion over it has brought to light the fact that King Edward derives a small rev- enue from poster advertising by leasing fog that pur- pose the walls of some of the crown property. Not- withstanding that fact, however, it is believed the Council will impose the tax. It seems to be con- ceded that it is the only effective way of regulating the poster nuisance. . Now that Republican Senators have yielded to Democratic insistence and begun to debate the Phil- ippine situation the insistent fellows have begun to wish they had been less brash. They are getting the worst of the argument. . One of the oddities of the time is a ruction in 'Arkipsas_ over a statement that a public official has been accused of being too fond of red liquor, EL RENO MAN SECURES [ — T HE EE A L Bk ok o "“‘%fi?fl;s warEo, VIR e v 6B Ve B WP Ty s b4y K TEETH ROBE| LOND 0. L. RICHARDS OF OKLAHOMA HAS PURCHASED FOR $1600 THE FAM- OUS CHEYENNE DRESS OF ROMANCES AND TRAGEDIES WHICH IS ORNAMENTED WITH 102¢ ELK TEETH. / of— — L. RICHARDS of El Reno, Okla., has what is, perhaps, the most valu- able Indian curio in existence and one which cannot be duplicated in any collection of relics of the red men. Richards has just purchased this garment from Mary Roman Nose, It is an elk teeth dress. nee Bent, granddaughter of the famous Colonel Bent and wife of a fam- ous Cheyenne brave. It is the most cherished heirloom of the Cheyenne tribe and has long been the envy of curio hunters in this country and abroad. For more than a century it has been in the possession of the tribe to which Mary Roman Nose belongs. In fact, it was originally owned by her great-grand- father, who counted it among his treasures. o It took Richards many months to induce her to close the bargain with him, which left him $1600 poorer and Mary Roman Nose minus the famous dress. This robe is ornamented with 1024 elk teeth, mostly gifts from great chiefs. Joseph, the great Nez Perces chief; the famous Black Kettle, Chief Red Moon, White Shield, Stone Calf, Little Raven and a host of other red men who gained fame for their.tribes on the warpath and in the hunt are represented in this garment. Each one of these teeth has the chief’s mark on it. When it is remembered that elks’ teeth now bring from $1 to $10, and that they are very scarce even at the latter figure, and that to the Indians they represented so much wealth, the value of this curious costume can be thoroughly appreciated. ‘Many-romances and a few tragedies are connected with this dress. Forty In- dian maidens, robed in the dress, have sworn allegiance to swarthy braves. Itis held by the Indians that a maiden who Becomes a squaw robed in it may feel sure of holding forever the affection of the Lrave she weds. o e e e e ) ANSWERS TO QUERIES. RENT—M. C., City. How rent shall be paid, whether in advance or at the end of the mon(h,Ts a matter of contract be- tween the landlord and the tenant. The custom in this State is that the rent is paid in adVance. TROUT FISHING—T7, City. There are a number of streams in Marin County to which a person can go early in the morn< ing, fish for trout for a few hours, and return to San Francisco the same day. The agents of the railroads in that county will advise you where to go. FOREIGN COINS—J. H., City. There are a number of brokers on the principal streets of San Francisco who purchase foreign coins, but this department cannot advertise such places. Inquiries of this character should bé accompanied with a self-addressed and stamped envelope. HEN AND CHICKEN—A. 8. F., Ar- mona, Kings County, Cal. A chicken is the young of fowl, particularly of the do- mestic hen. Hen is the female of any kind of fowl, but particularly of the do- mestic fowl, or, as it is sometimes cnlled: the barnyard fowl. One two years old can hardly be considered a chicken. DEBATES-J. M. E., City. This depart- ment has on a number of occasions an- nounced that it does not furnish reasons to be used on either side of a debate. The idea of a debate is that the party who takes part in it shall furnish his own reasons for the position he takes, and not to advance the ideas of others. HARRY MAYNARD-=Subscriber, Mon- terey, Cal. Harry Maynard, the Loxer, popularly known in the past as “And- some Arry,” was not dead on the 2d of April. He was in this city. This depart- ment has not been able to find any ac- count of “a row he had with a certain hodcartier on the public street.” Possibly some of the readers of this department may he able to furnish the deswred in- formaticn. CENTERS OF POPULATION—A. S. R., Sacramento, Cal. The center of pop- ulation in the United States in 1850 was twenty-three miles southeast of Parkers- burg, in the present State of West Vir- ginia; in 1860 twenty miles south of Chil- licothe, Ohlo; 1870 forty-eight miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio; 1880 eight miles west by south of Cincinnati, Ohio; 18%0 twenty miles east of Columbus, Ind.; 1900 six miles southeast of Columbus, Ind. INSECTS ON PLANTS—H. L. 8., City. The following is given as a method to destroy green lice and other insects on rose bushes and other plants without in- jury to the plants: “Take of quassia chips 3% ‘ounces, larkspur seed 5 drams; boil these together in 7 pints of water till the decoction Is reduced to 5 pints. When the liquid is cooled it is to be strained and used with a watering pot or bulb syringe, | as may be most convenient, preferably the latter, as by its use all affected parts can be reached.” SOLDIERS’ HOME—A. A., City. The following are the requirements for admis- sion to the Soldiers’ Natlonal Home, in- cluding the one at Santa Monica, Los An- geles County, in this State: 1. An honorable discharge from the United States service. 2. Disability which prevents the applicant from earning his living by labor. 3. Applicants for admission will be required to stipulate and agree to abide by all the rules and regulations made by the board of mana- gers, or by its order; to perform all duties re- quired of them, and to obey all the lawful or- ders of the officers of the home. Attention is called to the fact, that by the law establish- ing the home the members are made subject to the rules and articles of war, and will be governed thereby In the same manner as if they were in the army of the United States. 4. A soldier or saflor must forward with his application for admission his discharge paper, and when he is a pensioner, his pension certifi- cate, and if he has been a member of a State home, his discharge from that home, before his application will be considered; which papers will be retained at the branch to which the applicant is admitted, to be kept there for him, and returned to him when he is dis- charged. This rule is adopted to prevent the loss of such papers and certificates, and to hinder fraudulent practices; and no applica: tion will be considered unless these papers are sent with it. If the original discharge does not exist, a copy of discharge, certified by the War or Navy Department, or by the Adjutant General of the State, must accompany the ap- plication. Soldiers or sallors whose pensions exceced $16 a month are not eligible to the home unless the reasons are pecullar, and are explained t¢ the manager and are satisfactory to him. Those who have been members of # i ER PERSONAL MENTION. Judge A. Hull of Napa is at the Lick. Jesse D. Carr of Salinas is at the Lick. J. Channing, a well known mining man of New York, is at the Palace. Spiro Uncosaveliench left this evening for an extended tour of the Hast. W. W. Corey, a railroad contractor of Ogden, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Lewis E. Aubrey, connected with the department of the State Mineralogist, is at the Lick. —————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, May 8.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—C. H. Wybro, H. Merrifield and C. H. Zacharias, at the Herald Square; Miss Hanon and Mrs. H. W. Seale, at the Kensington; A. J. Howell, at the Broadway Central; Mrs. A. Knox, Miss Knox, G. R. Taylor and wife and A. Frankel, at the Grand Un- ion; D. 8. Ward, at the Astor; Miss Mills and Miss J. Polhemus, at the Manhattan; B. K. Roberts, at the Grand, and W. Walsh, at the Imperial. From Los Angeles—G. W. Grimes, at the Herald Square; C. G. Swift, at the Grand Union, and A. Parkenberg, at the Cadillac. From San Jose—S. Kocher, Broadway Central. at the A CHANCE TO SMILE. “I shall never marry!” declared Miss Elderly, in a tone meant to be firm. “Don’t say that” answered her best friend, Florence. ‘‘Women older than you have had proposals.” “Suppose,” sald the man with the mor- bid imagination, “that the trusts make everything so expensive that the public can’t afford to buy; what then?” “Now, what's the use of talking non- sense?” answered the business man. “All the fun a tfust has is taking people’s money from them. When they get all the money, they’ll simply have to give a lot of it out again or stop the wholé amuse- ment.”—Washington Star. The Hard Working Farmer—I used to think that all farmers were overworked until I went to the county fair. *“And what did you see there?* “They had chairs covered with old pos- tage stamps, and lace crosses cut out of perforated cardboard, and one woman had a quilt with five thousand pieces in it. Needn’t tell me people like that are overworked, unless it is from choice.”"— ‘Washington Times. Brown—In my estimation, most pills and other remedles advertised to-day are an imposition. Green—Yes. d if Bunyan were living there would likely be a transposition. He would call it the Pill's Grim Progress.— Advertising Progress. “Funny about young Spenditt, wasn't it?” said the Observing Man. “Was it7"" asked the Man of an Inquir- ing Mind. “Yes; he lost his money raising Cain in Eurcpe, and then made another fortune | raising cane in Loulsiana.”’—Baltimore American. “Madam,” sald the man at the back docr, “my name is Rhodes—Weary Waik- er Rhodes.” “I thought you were dead,” said the housewife. “Thank you, kindly,” replied the polite stranger, “but I dfdn’t eat the ple you gave me last week."” As she had taken two courses of lessons at the cocking school, she couldn’t think for a moment what he meant.—Springfield (Mass.) Union. £ Must Know So Much.—Patience—Really, half the time he doesn’t know which end he’s standing on. Patrice—Oh, nonsense! His feet cer- tainly can’t seem as light as his head!— Yonkers Statesman. S A ol o those homes at least six months before they can be admitted to a branch of the National . Home, except by a vote of the board of man- agers. Applicants are requested to conform strictly to the above requirements. There are State homes for disabled .volunteer soldiers provided by the States of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinols, Tn- diana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Ore- gon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dako- ta, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wy- GOSSIP FROM ON WORLD OF LETTERS Assuredly one of the men of the moment in Hterature is H. G. Wells. Glancing through some of the publishers’ lists this morning I see no fewer than four recent books of his mentioned. These are “An- ticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life,” “Thoughts on Certain Personal Matters,” “The Discovery of the Future” and “The First Men in the Moon.” But this is not to have done with Wells, for in a publication entitled “Men’'s Wear’ I find this pronouncement of that writer on the tailors’ and outfitters’ industry: “How delightful it would be to find a tailor wide-minded enough to talk about medieval and classical costume in rela- tion to the social condition in which it was evolved.”” Yet in another quarter there is another trade taken in hand by this versatile au- thor. He contributes to the “Grocers’ As- sistants’ Year Book” an expression of sympathy with shop assistants. “It is no abstract sympathy. I was in the net,my- self for two years, the most miserable years of my life. I was behind the coun- ter in a draper’s shop. Had I not been able to believe there was a way out of the systematized drudgery I would quite deliberately have got out of the world that could misuse me so.” g E. F. Benson, whose “Scarlet’and Hys- sop” has been one of the prineipal suc- cesses for years past, has shaken the dust of London from his feet, forsaking so- ciety, whose vices he has so mercilessly attacked, and has settled at Winchester for the summer. Benscn is a very keen athlete and at Winchester finds plenty of opportunities for cricket and golf. Inci- dentally, heis editing with Eustace Miles a new series of sporting handbooks which Hurst. & Blackett are to publish under the general title of “The Imperial Books of Sport.” They will have the distinction of being largely written by professionals, The first three volumes will deal with training, which will be partly written by ‘Benson himself; cricket, to which Abel, Hirst and Mead are contributing, and golf, the chapters of which are being writ- ten by well-known professional players. With regard to his novels, Benson ad- mits that the characters are very often a reproduction of people in real Iife, only the features being altered. His next novel is to be called “A Book of Months.” It will be an autobiographical story of a man’s life for a year, told in a series of monthly sections. He has already writ- ten the story for three months, but it is unlikely that the book will be published Ftill the spring of next year. Meanwhile it is probable that either during the sum- mer or early in the autumn Benson’s first play will be produced by Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Its motive is a version of Browning’s poem, “A Light Woman.” A woman, to save her niece from what she considers a worthless man, steps between them, draws the man away and falls in love with him herself. Mrs. Annie Besant, who in the course of her strenuous life, has been a very busy writer of books, has now left India for England, though I hear she means to return thither in the autumn. Mrs. Be- sant has been living more or less continu- ously at Benares for the last seven years. | She kas been very gravely ill from the fever that hangs around that most un- sanitary neighborhood, but she is now almest completely recovered. INIALATION OF DUST CAUSES LUNG DISEASE Instructive Statistics as to Fatal Effects of Various Occu- pations. Dust as a cause of pulmonary tubercu- losis, according to the report of the Im- perial Health Office at Berlin, is clearly shown in the statistics of the patients treated at the sixty institutions of the empire for the cure of tuberculosis. n 1095 cases, or more than half of the 2i61 perséns under consideration, the origin of the disease was alleged to be due to the continuous inhalation of dust involved by their employment, as follows: Four hundred and thirty-one cases from the effect of “dust” without more exact designation; 182 cases from the effect of metal dust; 129 cases from the effect of stene, coal or glass dust; 116 cases from the effect of wood dust; 111 cases from the effect of wool dust; 126 cases from the effect of various kinds of dust. These facts suggest to hygienists and inventors the necessity of devising dust- consumers and dust preventors for facto- ries, workshops, etc. This is a fact that legislators should bear in mind.—Phila« delphia Medical Journal. ————————e New Plan of Classifying Warships. After many futile efforts to devise a method of classifying warships by nu- merical figures or value an approach to success has been made. The strong point in favor of the system proposed is that the values assigned to a considerable number of vessels under the rule laid down correspond almost exactly with the values given by the foremost naval ex- perts. The new method is difficult of non- technical explanation, but some of the results established by it are easily under- stood. The highest figure of merit is that of the New Jersey class, with a figure of 116. Next come the British King Edward and the Itallan Benedetto Brin with 104, the French Republique with 94 Russian Prince Potemkine with 8. 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