The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1902, Page 6

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(long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619.”) NEW ETEPHEN B. SMITH NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: L. €. CARLTON.... NEW YORK > Waldort-Astoria Hotel; Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: | ; P. O, News Co.; Great .lorthern Hotel; | Auditorium Hotel. Ehermarn House Fremont House: WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE. Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES—S2] Montgomery, corner of Clay, open matll $:80 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 h.flq..m‘lfll'.’dflfi. 308 Eleventh, open unmtil 8 c'clock. NW. sormer Twenty-second and Xentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untll § p. m. = THE AMENDMENTS.‘ HE people of this State will vote in November | T upon eight amendments to the State constitu- tion. These amendments are numbered non- consecutively and are designated by the branch of the Legislature in which each originated, as Senate amendments No. 4, No. 18, No. 3, No. 6, No. 14, No. { 20 and Np. 13, and Assembly amendments No. 25 and | No. 28. Preserving the above order, Senate amendment No. ¢ provides for the inclusion of high, normal, evening and technical schools in the public school system; | devotes the school funds exclusively to the support of primary and grammar schools, but authorizes sep- arate taxation for support of the high, normal, even- | ing and technical schools. It is unobjectionable and | should be adopted. { Senate amendment No. 18 divides the State into fish and game districts, and permits a different open season n each. This is a good amendment, for on wccount of the different altitudes and climatic con- ditions of the State a uniform open season is destruc- tive of fish and game at many places at a time when .both should be protected. Senate amendment No. 3, to exempt State and municipal bonds from taxation, is proper and should be adopted: At present our own citizens cannot in- vest in these bonds, which are sold outside the State and the interest goes abroad, constituting a drain on | the State. Taxation of our own' public securities is unscientific and bad public policy. Senate amendment No. 6 confers on all cities ex- ceeding 3500 inhabitants the right to make a charter and have municipal government. This amendment 1s unebjectionable and should be supported. Senate amendment No. 14 provides for the use of a voting machine to facilitate the receiving and count- ing of votes at elections. As the matter is left to local option no harm will be done by the amendment. Senate amendment No. 20 provides for State high- | ways and is unobjecticnable, Senate amendment No. 13 provides that offenses against the law may be prosecuted by information zlone, and shall not require both information and in- dictment. This seems to facilitate the administra- tion of criminal justice and is not objectionable. The foregoing completes the list of Senate amend- ments. There are two Assembly amendments. No. 25 fixes a uniform working day of eight hours on all public work in the State, with exception of emergencies. It thould be adopted. Assembly amendment No. 28 is wholly vicious, It provides z commission of five, each with a salary of $6000, to assume all the functions now discharged by the Railroad, Bank and Insurance Commissioners, end to have charge of and fix rates and contro| all water, gas, electric light and power, telephone, sleeping car and express companies. It is the most vicious proposition -ver submifted to the people. In the first place. no five men in the State can possibly have the varied knowledge and experiénce to prop- erly discharge the widely varying duties of such a vasition. In the second place, no five men could pos- sibly have the time to properly do their duty, no matter how well equipped for it. The amendment would work infinite harm ‘and in the very nature of things cause corruptioi of the most appalling character. It should be unanimously beaten. It has in it harm and only harm, and will 2dd to- whatever vices are in the present system a perfect leprosy. The press of the State should smite it to the death it deserves. The latest novelty with which the British are amusing themselves is an egg»laymg contest among prize hens. The contest is to extend over sixteen weeks, and it is said that betting is lively, although every one knows the game is one of fowl play. An effort is being made in Seattle to identify a suspect s 3 murdersr simply by his voice. This jooks as if the police of Seattle were striving to re- duce the art of detection to its lowest terms of non- sense. Ah Joke, 2 maniac Chinese, ran amuck in Marys- ville the other day, and the residents of that worthy town are looking for the fellow who gave the coolie his name, An Indiana doctor makes the startling assertion that he can restore the dead to life. Let us hope that be will not seek to experiment on William Jennings Bryan. TzE G. A R / in Washington. City suggested a contrast that is the work of time. Early in the Civil War when la division of the army, composed of the young and active men who were then in the ranks, marched ! through Washington Caleb Cushing stood with a group of public men thoughtiully observing the | marching regiments. One of the company. asked him what he was thinking, and he replied, I am won- dering what subaltern officer now marching before us will rise to be President when the war is over.” From the armies oi that time Grant, Hayes, Gar- field, Harrison and McKinley rose to the Presidency, {and that office was sought by McClellan and Han- cock, so that some part of the people preferred seven of tife soldiers who entered the service as subaltern officers or privates ime the beginning of that heroic struggle. The War of the Revolution made a great impres- sion tipon the public opinion and patrictism of the country, which endured long after it closed in 1783. Washington, Madison and Monroe, from among the military actors in that war, and Jefferson and the two Adamses, who took part in its civil features as phil- osophers and statesmen, achieved the Presidency, and that office was controlled by the traditions and sen- timents originating ir the Revolution for forty-five years. The people have chosen Presidents in line with the sentiments of the Civil War, who saw active service in that time, for twenty-eight years. At the same time the actual participants in the struggle have grown less in number every year. They never were numerous enough to elect a President from their number. The civilians of the country have done that, not, let us declare, as a matter of partisan expediency, but as an expression of public patriot- ism. Our recent military experience has furnished many gallant actions and many gallant inen, but the. imagination of the country will always go back to the tense and passionate and heroic days of the Civil War and to the battles in which the stars and stripes led more men in a single action than composed the whole army at the period of the Spanish war. In fact, there were Civil War battles in which the dead of both sides combined exceeded the number of living that went into camp 2zt the beginning of the last war. Washington has just seen the survivors of the Civil War, probably for the last time that,they will march down the wide streets of the capital. What a contrast to the grand review held there at the close of the war! At that review were Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, the great captains who had command 'to the end. The army corps were intact in their or- ganization, and there flowed through the streets of | Washington a great blue sea of men below the prime | of life, flushed with victory and wild with the sen- timent born of successful effort and the peace it had ?conquered and compelled. The ground trembled un- { der their march, and the air quivered and thrilled as they cheered their commanders. It was an army that could have hopefully marched to the conquest of the world. There was no military hardship it had not survived, no adventure it had not dared, no sacrifice it had not offered. Lithe and sinewy, trained and disciplined, by obedience qualified to command, it kept step to the music that had led it in battle, and | made its last march from war to peace. This week what is left of that blue sea flowed again through the streets of Washington, Grant, Sher- man, Sheridan were only Themories. From below the prime of life the veterans had passed until its verge is in sight. Right manfully they marched, and their broken voices cheered, but they limped lamely and the music thrilled their hearts only, and they quigk- stepped in the spirit rather than in the flesh. The pageant had in it sadness enough. The contrast be- tween this and the grand review was great. But | each told the same story and taught the same lesson, and this last march of the great army had in it a more general lesson to the youth and patrigtism of the country, because the adverse passions of the war have faded, and when Sickles and Longstreet stood side by side, the whole country thrilled to the mem- ory of Gettysburg and the inspiration of its awful carnage which was uttered in Mr. Lincoln’s “high re- solve that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth.” | e —— Some of our exchanges say General Alger has been “vindicated,” while others say he has been “rehabili- tated,” and as the difference in the words may lead to confusion in the public mind it may be well to re- mind the country that nothing has happened to the general except that he has been appointed to the | Senate and given another chance to talk.’ BRITAIN'S 8CHOOL FIGHT, Ministry in- R. CHAMBERLAIN has told a conference M of Liberal-Unionists that the tends to stand by the education bill now be- fore Parliament and that if the bill be beaten ‘the ! Ministry will resign. Thus the choice submitted to | the British electors 1s that of accepting Balfour's measure or taking such a measure as the opposition would be likely to bring in were it to return power. Y For some time past it has been evident that the | fight over the bill would reach the point stated by Mr. Chamberlain. As it now stands the measure is quite different from that which was at first reported. London papers have been making merry over the changes in the bill, and Balfour has been frequently cartooned in an attitude of wonder at the new faces his bill has taken on from time to time. Now he ap- pears to have reached the limit of his concessions, and the fight is on. There is ro denying that the opposition is formid- able. The situation zrises out of the fact that public education in Britain is not wholly secular, as with us. The union of church and state, which perplexes. Brit- ish statesmen in so many ways, makes the develop- ment and extension of public schools a very perplex- ing problem. The established church demands that the Government sustzin or at least assist to sus- tain the church schools, while the various kinds of noneconformists object to taxation for such purposes. The extent to which the opposition goes is shown by the adoption by several large mass-meetings of the following resolution: “Seeing that the education bill now before Parliament destroys school boards, sets aside the constitutional principle that representative control should follow public funds, violates the rights of conscience, hands over three-fifths of the elemen- tary schools to the teachers of doctrines contrary to the Word of God, and excludes from the teaching profession, in state-supported schools, large numbers to || of Free Churchmen, this assembly urges the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches to take im- mediate action for the formation of a league whose members shall pledge themselves to refuse pqyn'eaol ut the educational rate, should the bill pass w | being purged cf its unconsututmnal and unseriptura] | THE SAN FRANCISCO : | THE mecting of the Grand Army of the Republic CALL, SATURDAY ! portions. And this vssembly - am’aoints the followifls Council in carrying out the objects of this resolu- tion.” i When grave and seiious men declare they will not | submit to a law of their Government and will refuse | to1pay taxes to carry out an objectionable measure, | we may be sure public feeling is running high and strong. By all odds this is the most strenuous fight that now engages British politicians. Party leaders on each side are compelled to make concessions and strain difficult points in order to hold their followers together. prefer a strictly secular system of public instruction, but says 2 majority of the people demand religious in- struction in the schocls and the Government must concede it. Doubtless many others take a similar view, but the situation is unquestionably critical, and it is not improbable that Mr. Balfour may soon have occasion to follow his uncle of Salisbury into' retire- ment and close up the ministry of the “Hotel Cecil.” The critics who are saying that Zola will be remem- bered mainly because of his defense of Dreyius have got the thing entirely wrong. Dreyfus will be re- membered solely becavse Zola defended him. It will be a case of Voltaire ard the Calas family over again. g THE IOWA IDEA. OVERNOR CUMMINS in addressing the G_ Marquette Club of Chicago on the “lowa platforme and the tariff” once more pressed upon the public the claims of those Repuhlicaxfi who, looking at the tariff from the standpoint of State in- terests, demand immediate revision. Speaking of the platform. he declared, “In all its length and breadth we meant just what we said,” and he went on to af- firm that upon some important products of Ameri- can industry the protective, duties are too high, and that “it is the mission of the Republican party to re- duce them so that they will again be in harmony with the principle out of which they sprang.” iy No ‘one will question the loyalty of the Republicans of Iowa to the doctrine of protection. Governor Cummins himself emphasized that fact again and again in his speech, so that the Iowa idea of tariff re- form might not be misunderstood. The people of Iowa no more than those of California are willing to intrust tariff revision to the Democratic party with its incompetent leadership and its erratic ideas of free trade and free silver. Nothing, therefore, in the Iowa platform nor in the address of Governor Cummins is to be understood as showing any weakening of Re- publicah loyalty in the State, nor any inclination on the part of JTowa Republicans to wander off mto the paths of Bryanism. When due allowance is made, however, for all those qualifications there remains an element of dan- ger and of mischief in the proposed scheme of reduc- ing the tariff for the purpose of remedying such evils as are supposed to result from trusts. Protection is a prineiple of national economy and cannot be made the subject of temporary expediency, to be shifted and changed from year to year as may appear suitable to special interests in certain localities. The weakness of the Towa proposition is shown in the statement of Governor Cummins that “ambitious spirits are able to establish and maintain monopolies in some important products of industry, and with re- spect to these things it is self-evident that tariff du- ties are in some measure a shelter because they de- prive us of the opportunity to invite eompemlon from other lands.” The fallacy of that view has been exposed again and again, among others by President Roosevelt himseli. Tariff reduction would hardly hurt a poweriul trust, but it would kill competing in- dustries. : The mischief contained in the Iowa doctrine of tariff reyision was clearly stated to the Republican convention in Massachusetts by Senator Lodge when an effort was made to put a revision plank in that platform. The advocates of revision said, “Massa- chusetts wants free wcol, free hides, free leather, free iron and free coal.” Senator Lodge replied: “There is nothing I would not do to make 4 tariff that should be in the interests oi Massachusetts, I have fought for her in this matter in no less than four tariff re- visions, but I recognize certain facts. I recognize that we are one State in forty-five, I recognize that our fellow-Americans have the same rights as we have. I recognize that we have only fourteen mem- bers in the House of Representatives of 386. I rec- ognize that we have only two Senators in a Senate of ninety members, and I realize that we cannot im- pose our will on the rest of the country.. We can get advantages for Massachusetts by acting with our fellow-Americans from all 6ver the Union, and not by attempting to dictate to them. If there is anything in the world that the Republican party is, it is a national rarty, and sectionalism cannot begin here.” The Senator reminded the revisionists that .. Democrats for years have been crying for free wool, and when they came into power they put wool on the free list; “but,” added the Senator, “they made you pay the price. They cut down the duty on every piece of wool and flannel that has come into the country, and if you will ask any woolen maker in the State of Massachusetts if he wants to go back to the days of free wool and low protection on his products I think you will get a very plain answer. Now those are the practical points.” When the vote was taken the convention voted down by an overwhelming majority the advacates of the demand for tariff revision in the interests of a single State or a single industry, Instead of per- sisting in their advocacy of tariff revision to kill the trusts the Iowa leaders would do well to revise their own ideas in the light of the facts stated by Senator Lodge. We cannot have a tariff made in the inter- ests of a single Statz. It must be national. Nor would it be wise to reduce protective duties for the purpose of permitting a foreign trust to enter the American market to'compete with an American trust, for the result of their battle would be the wreck of e\'ery competitor among our home industries. One of the funny things about the Congressional campaign this year is that astute leaders of each’ party declare a eonviction that it would be better to let the other side carry the House. There appears to be a firm-fixed conviction that the House is sure to blun- der and the oppnsmon will pmfit by it. Now that Mr. Carlule, ex-Speaker and ex-Secre- tary of the Treasury, has taken part in the New York Democratic State convention, the political forecasters are estimating how long it will be before Tom Reed bobs up in a Republican convention = as a N-w Yorker. The_ silence of Democratic or;to:s and organs in California concerning Bryan and his platform may be truly called “golden” Even the cloud in which lhey ebscufl their lgrmer leader hasn't a silver lining. seven pcrsons to co,op\ute with the” Free Church Mr. Chamberlain himself declares he would | OCTOBER 11, 1902 POSSIBILITIES OF TRADE WITH THE FAR EAST —————— A letter telling of trade conditions in the countries of the Far East was received by President Newhall of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday from John Bar- rett, formerly United States Minister to Slam, recently delegate from the United States to the Congress of American States in the City of Mexico end now commis- sioner general to Asia, Australia and the Philippines of the Louisiana Purchase Ex- position. Mr, Barrett writes also of trade possibilities and makes suggestions of value to commercial men. The commu- nication follows: Remembering the- invitation of yourself and other members of the Chamber of Commlerce, kiven me at tre time I had the honor of ué- dressing your body.in April before sett an my mission o the Oeient for. the Werld's Fair, (fhat T ehould communlcnehcwlth you rom time to time with regard to the commier- clal situation in the Far ng(. 1 Dex sub- mit a obseryations thereon. -\In Jjust completed an extended tour through Korea and Chiua, where I came Into ot Bot only with bigh native officials. but Wad- inx merchants of all three couniries, it may be. possible for me to tell you something vf passing Interest. 1. American merchants and exporters must Dot make the mistake of overstimating the Im- gcmnc' of the new tariff agreemeént which a8 JuSt been signed in S| ghal. ‘This Is nol @ permanent tarifl. It Is mply a provisional 2ne Drovided for by the protacol signed LY China and the powers soon after the Boxer outbreak. It is {o continue in force only until another permanent tariff is adopted to form a Part of the new commercial treaties which must be pressntly negotlated. The temporary tariff, whilé it contains few radical changes or_reductions from the one preceding It, 15, however, much more practical. It -will heip In a measure to develop trade, esvecially be- tween the Pacific Coast and the Far East, and act as the basis for the permanent eaty t-rlfl. DISCUSSES LIKIN TAX. 2. The real oppogtunities for the expansion of American commerce and the exact co tions under which fi must strive for de Opment cunnot possibly be definitely outll until flle auesticn of likin is settied. Mer- chants of Francisco or elsewhere who [ making estimates of future trade with Chi must take this into consideration or they will find that their calculations will presently go wrong. If the dikin is abolished it wiil be absolutely necessary for the lmport tax to be from the present 5 per cent rate Lo 10 SET2 per ent: 1y order to defray_the simple running expenses of the Chinese Government, the interest on its bonds already floated and to provide for the indemnity placed upon her affer the Boxer trouble, There is no question that the abalition of the lkin, which Is nothing more than an interior oF barrier tax placed upon goods coming from the trealy ports, would prove a keen incentiva to the upbullding of forelgn commerce, but the ULited States Government will, of course, consider carefully whether the assurances of the Chinese Government that it would be ac- tually abolishel can be depended upon. He- cently Sheng Kung-Pao, who is one of the Chinese tarift commissioners &t Shanghai and a leading man of the empire, asked me in the course of an interview 1 with him in r gard to the St. Louis werld's fair to state pub- lecly to the American people that he and the Viceroys of China would guarantee to the American Government and the American com- mercial interests that the likin would be strictly done away with if the United States would sign_the new treaty with that under- standing. This s a significant utterance eom- ing from one of the most influential men of the cmpire and should at least be given considera- GIVES SHERRETTS' VIEWS, Ou the other hand, General T. S. Sharretts, Wwho is undoubtedly one of the best American authorities on tariff questions, and who has re- cently returned to the United States, hobls that the United States should not. favor the abolition " of the liiin, and that there is no probability that the Chinese Government would Ty out its promise In that regard. Ameri- can merchgnts In the Far East s:em to be divided on the point of the advisability of likin abolition. They are unanimous in hoid- ing that it would be a good thing if actually accomplished, but many contend that the Chi- nese Government after securing a horizontal increase in the tariff, would still permit the iikin, ta be collected. ‘While it is not for me in this communica- tion to make an guthoritative statement, I am inclined to believe that the time has arrived ‘when we should give China the opportunity of showing whether she ean earry out her promi- ises. If the abalition of the ‘likin is mot posi- tively enforced by her we can certainly return to the former status. For the successtul solu- tion of tke lfkin problem the Government at ‘ashington, 1 believe, can be implicitly trust- ed. Secretary Hay has the situation well ln hand. -!. One feature of the Chinese eammemkl situation - cannot be too strangly impressed upon our peovle at home, and that is, under no circumstances is there going to be a tre- mendous immediate expansion of Chinese suj ply and demand American me figuring or. making great fortunes in Chinese trade within a few years will be overwhelm- ingly disappointed. Larze profits and results will be attained only through persistent, ardu- ous mastery of the field. Recently the follow- ing jtem. of telegraphic news was published in sl the papers of the Far East: “LONDON, 2.—A corporation has been organized in’ iitornin. Bavine: & cavital ot 1,000,000 (g0ld) for the purpose of promoting rade with China, in consequence of the con- clusion of the tariff treaty.” The forming of such a combination with so extensive a capital is undoubtedly a good thing, vrovided its promotors and stockholders are not carried away with too roseate a view of the possibilities before them. This concern will earn a fair diyidend only as it exploits the Asiatic market just as it would undertake to make itself successful In some city or sec- tfon of the United States where competition is rife and competitive firms are backed with encrmcus caital. CONDITIONS NEED STUDY. This statement is not made to discourage in any way this enterprise, but rather to heip it, because It would be unfortunate for its own welfare and for the general extension of Amer- ican trade if such a corporation undertook to do business without a clear realization of the difficulties as well as the advantages. Unless a man has thoroughly studied the Orient he cannot appreciate how frmly established al- ready are the great wealthy commercial houscs of Europe in the Far East. They are prepared for a long fight with new- comers and will submit to a_ considerable re- duction of their profits In order to retala the mastery of the situation. Moreover, new Euro- pean firms, with large money backing, are RESTAURANT OYSTER Boys Sell a Six Hundred Dollar Gem from French Gulch made a lucky find last night while eating in a local restau- rant. cne of the bivalves Ed Wolf found a per- fect pearl that is valued at $600 by the jeweler who purchased {t. the gem and considers he has a rare bar- gain. told his companion he tcoth. An inspection of the broken tooth revealed the value Wolf took it to a jeweler and made a ready bargain with the dealer for the disposal of his find for §5. The pearl is one of rare beauty, needs but little polish- ing and in it is the perfect representation recent war ot a small black boot. president and D. D. MeLaren of Stock- received from State Controller Colgan showing that of the original $300,000 ap- proprigted for the improvement of the rivers $21,036 69 remained unexpended. A report was received from Commissioner of Public Works Ryan recommending the construction of a road between the Tis- dale weir and the Sacramento River. #Che old board referred to the new tie matter of cutting a canal through tha ridge of the Yolo basin below Clarksburg. of the play which the members of the Spanish Club will give at Wednesday night. rerformance is to be in Spanish, even the programme being unintelligible to the or- dinary student. colcr to give interest to the play, which is the tale of Jack Jones, Stanford, who becomes the rival of Lorenzo for tne heart of Clarita, ‘Waldemar Young, '04, will take the part of Jack Jones; F. H. Fowler, renzo, and Miss Chita Kraft, '03, will play Clarita. The contracts for the erection of an ad- dition to the Memorial Church have been let. work, and the ‘George Goodman Company will put in the foundations. ing will be in the shape of a circle and finished in sandstone, as is the rest of the quad. It will be used as a private study and office of .the new rectors. L e e Y been my privilege as Commissioner General for the Loufsiana Purchase Exposition to hold with them, have convinced me that they intend to take advantage of this show to America and their resources and products. Aslatic exhibit st St. Louis should be a direct means for the commerce and trade, modified to some extent my. views on the pes- sibilities of Oriental trade, I beg to add itat a careiul inspection of the many reports and ad- dresses made by me during the last ten years, or ever since I began the discussion of this sub- Ject, will reveal that which I have invariably | pointed out, though not in extense, the difficul- ties akead and the compstition to well as the general opportunities and advan- tages. critieal and veactical benefit, .‘ . CITY WORKSHOP MAY SOON BE ESTABLISHED PRI G The Board of Educatien recei;ed a; communication yesterday from the Bn.lrd’ of Public Works, denying its request that machinery valued at $4090 now located in | the Fire Department corplration yard OB’ Ridley street, near Fillmore, be turned OVer to the School Department for use | in the manual training department of the, Polytechnic High Scheol. A report or, Superintendent of Buildings Barnett ac- companied the communication and con- veyed the information that a city work- shop in which all- mechanics in its mu- nicipal employ wiil be gathered will soon be established. Barrett also gives rea- sons why the machinery should not be given to the School Board. The report conetudes: | This machinery is sufficient for a first-class lumber mill and if all the mechanics now Working for the Board uf Public Works Were Contracted in one municipal workshop, as is contemplated, it could be used to good ad- vantage. Better work would be accomplisaed and a great saving effected, as many thousands of dollars of this kind of work is used every year in the various municipal buldings. m of the opinlon that it would be a great e for the Board of Public Works to give the machinery to the Board of Education, as it will some day become very useful and ab- solutely necessary In case of an emergency, such as @& strike. The machinery would re- quire a large amount of cxpensive lumber to Tun it for even one week and the product of the mill could-not be used by us withous causing complications with our mechanics. I Would therefore suggest that the request of the Board of Education be not granted. —_— S YIELDS A FINE PEARL to a Jeweler for Five Dollars. REDDING, Oct. 10.—Two visiting boys They partook of oysters and in He paid $ for Wolf stogped suddenly in his eating and had broken a pearl. Not knowing its New Auditing Board Meets. SACRAMENTO, Oct. 10.—The newly ap- pointed auditing board to the Commis-~ sioner of Public Works met with the old | board this afternoon and organized by the election of J, J. Campbell of Galt as ton as secretary. A communication was AN - Sy Students in a Spanish Play. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 10.— “Calderon contra Ramsey” fs the name Roble next Everything about the There is plenty of local "02, valnx in old Spain. '04, of Lo- e New Structure at Stanford. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 10.— J. D., McGilvray. will do the stone The build- unrivaled opportunily to the world just waat are Therefore a great development of our trans-Facifie, Lest some one should contend that i have to be met as | I am as stanch an advocate as ever of the American-Asiatic trade, but the present situation demands’ special treatment e striven to handle it in frankness for GOSSIP FROM | LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS Nobody is sacred to the modern pubd- lisher, rot even royalty itself. The Pflmfi of Wales has been approached by a We known publisher to write his remm.l;; cences, ipcluding his personal views a ; the cpinions he formed on his voyag round the werld. The sum offered ;:g.i very large indeed, but so far there'd e been no iesponmse. If tie Prince car p do so he should be ablek»D write an e% | ceedingly interesting bool The n\’l[cmobfl. has at last got into ‘l novel and beecome almost its Pr‘lnclpfi character. ~ “The Lightning Londncltorb. by Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Willlamson, oMc- published almost immediately by - thuen, s a romance om nutomcbmsmtn travel. Willlamsen Is ap. éxpert 2au o; mobilist, who has driven his own h?zl across the Continent, and the book. W! :éh is the first of its kind, deals largely ana the delights and difficulties of am.pmo‘he touring. The Hon. John “m'hwn'hero- hero, gets himself engaged as the s ine’s chauffeur and from this' inciden complications. ”(;‘nne‘nt Mll:dcn s leading critics has be 'h. gently chiding Henry Arthur Jonel'd - dramatist, for wearing out his brain 3 l:m by writing too much. As the eritic comes from a writer whose articles carr‘y much weight in literary and d_tamav.c circles, Jones is rather surprised. wb)!; said Jones to me when I asked him the other day what his next werk was to be, “I take abeut twe years to wrl;; '):r“ lays. Now, taking an average ,000 &Didl for a play. ‘my average is about eighty words a day, including Sunlh); That isn't too hard work, is it?”" Jones one of the most methodieal workers in his profession. He does all his work in the morning, sitting at his desk about thres hours, only not by any means every day. His afternoons are given to horseback riding, his favorite recre;:uun. then comes dinner and a quiet evening. It :s only by his writings now that the famous writer of sea stories, Clark Rus- sell, is known nowadays. This is \lnl;: . tunately owing to his ailment, which nies him the use of his limbs and keeps him yery much indoors. His home is at Bath, but traveling in the country the other day I had the pleasure of meeting the genial old man and found him l; bright and cheerful and full of bfiy‘lld spirits as ever he was. He looks an talks as if he had long years of life be- fore him. He is always busy on some new work, which he dictates to one of his pretty, devoted daughters, but he, like many others, has felt the effects of the and other troubles '-hl(;h ed the publication of many books in :;l‘;pgandl Dfplhfl publishers. He told me laughingly he had three novels in the hands of publishers upon which he had been paid good sums in advance of royal- es, but when they would be published he had not the remotest notion. People will be surprised if they all come out om top of each other. rare thing for a first novel et L in three lan- r taneously :I’Aa::r-e;et 'is the good fortune which is attending | e story by Mme. Tosti, he wife nl well known composer. ‘She has written in French “The Heart of Ruby,” as her story is entitled, and the English rendering of it, which Messrs. Chapman will publish, has been made by Miss Violet Hunt. Then Mme. Mathilde Seras, the Italian novelist, has transiated the story into the language of her coun- try. Cunninghame Graham has written a new novel, entitled “Success,” which, coupled with one’s knowledge of the author's point of view, promises good reading. e Stanford Glee Club’s Tour. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Oct. 10.— The university glee and mandolin clubs will give a series of concerts in the north this year, instead of going south, as they did last year. The men will leave the uni- versity about the middle of December and be gone about three weeks. Twenty- eight regular men will be carried, while it i= possible that W. Young, '04; Bush, ’05; Byrme, '05; Bonnell, '05, and Tracey, '06, will be taken along to do speciailties. The first stop will be at Sacramento, and Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Vietoria, Salem, Tacoma and other towns will be visited. 'W. L. Morrison, ‘87, will act ag aavance agent. —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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Hindercorns, the best curé for corns. 1Scts. ovening branches all the time, while European: Governments are subsidizing many of which are running at a loss, to help their agents in the Far FEas wiil be room, however, for this new San Fran- cleco combination, and for a dozen other such companies, if they will only be satisfiad with the payment of expenses at first, small profits | for & few years and inoreased dividends as the | yelll ‘sTthough China may have 400,000,000 peo- yle spread ovcr an area of square it is easy with a small rate per $6 (against our own home rate of per capita), to estimate Chinese for- eign trade some day ‘at $2,400,000,000 per an- num, no such grand total will he reached for several decades yet, or until China is gricironed with railways. cnnu WANTS RAILWAYS, great necessity for the material de- clopmeqn of chln., aside from veform in her &mernmem. is the construction of rallways from her principal treaty ports and from navi- gable rivers back in the interior provinces (o the population centers and througn the dis- triets where are the large deposits of coal, iron, gold, silver, copper, lead and tin. The minute fllm railway systems are inaugurated (here will begin a new commercial era In Chisa that will in due time astonish the world. Then wiil come, and only then, a progress that will cor- respond to the wonderful achievement of Juyun, It must be remembered that it has taken the | Mikado's realm tIFty years. n.nmg Just abcut Where China is now, ta reach her present status of foreign trade, Ih that time It increased from 0,000,000 per annum to 066 pe anmum Der cent. Such a caleulation y‘:d ta China ‘would miake ber foren maas ultimately over §3,000,000,000 annudly, but It must not he overlooked that this means mlrty v 032—when' many of us will haye passed off m the present scene. Just as raii- frave have heen The great influence in the ma- terial development of the United States. they will have a corresponding effect in China. 1 lhun. they are lbnulqtely essential, 5. in conclusion, permit me do emphasizs a o MRS et iaee e for th> ad- it of American Interests in the Hast; there never Was & time in the hiscors oF nhflvnl with Japan, China, K ‘and I| when the American Gnvemmenl und n!tj:."lly mlnlh!l! H’m ey fiom us Il 3 hes i I been my privilexe 4 of . ln"tt'hn last mfl. ln vuu -n lhc w..fi. e of | Eastern Asia many mn. + my travels, emm in . N etnial - a private pacity, have I lnx rest in the Unitea States’ which to-“d ed by both offi- clals and merchants 91 TAXKE INTEREST IN AMERICA. They look to the United States Governme: ment g i § t»'\n”. whuse blmlrv x‘fl‘n};‘ ::I‘ l‘u;‘uiul !v.l yunn (hln. because it daes not ve territorial aggracdizement. 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