The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1902, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open | untfl § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until ® p. m. = NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ORANGES, VERY citizen in this city and every citizen's E guests and the sojourners at the hotels should see the Northern California Citrus Fruit Fair at the Ferry building. The perfection of the oranges grown in this State as far north, nearly, as the latitude of Chicago, is a certificate to the clemency of North- ern California climate that none can dispute, ignore or push aside. The Northern California orange is periect; from skin to pulp. It is a clean orange. The Florida orange has a discolored peel, which has actually been transformed into a trade-mark. But it is caused by 2 minute insect, and its presence there is a disease of the fruit. Elsewhere than in Northern California this discoloration is known to be a disease caused by the presence of a parasite, the fruit is pre- pared for the market by being scoured to cleanse it. The great orange belt of Northern California, prob- ably the most extensive in the world, extending from Tulare County far north, proves the adaptation of its climate to the production of this fruit by the entire absence of the insect scale which elsewhere disfigures the orange where It is worth walking across the city to the fair in the Ferry building to see this demonstrated. Ail of the fruit, irom Tulare, Fresno and so on clear to Shasta County, has the thin rind, the full weight and the clear and lovely vellow peel, unmarred by any parasite. Let this be impressed upon the stranger. It is one of the high evidences of the fitness of the Northern California «itrus belt for producing in perfection a fruit that was first thought impossible outside of China, and was a wonder when it was domesticated in Portugal and from that fact came to be known as Portugalo. Men not old remember when it was believed in the Mediterranean countries that they and the Iberian peninsula had a citrus fruit monopoly. But later it went to Brazil, and then was located in Louisiana in advance of its development in Florida. Then they were all incredulous of its further spread. But it did spread to Southern California, and that section had for years a monopoly of the production on this coast. But now the horticultural adventure and enterprise of Northern California have proved that in this section of the State we have the izrgest continuous and unbroken citrus fruit belt in the world. More than this, the Northern California oranges ripen and go to market at a time when there is not an orange anywhere in the world in competition with them. No other fruit is ready. The Southern California orange is still two months from ripeness; the Florida orange is @s green as alfalfa; Mexico, Cuba and Porto Rico, Brazil and Japan are all looking on their green fruit, while Northern California is picking and packing for Thanksgiving and Christmas market her yellow harvest. Asked for a reason for this, we have none. It is merely a smile indicating nature’s kindness to North- ern Caliiornia. We cannot account for it any more than we can accoun: for the fact that the olive in Northern California bears when three years old and throws a full crop when seven, while in the olive countries of the Meditertanean no olive tree bears under seventeen years of age. We do not account for it any more than we can account for it that a Califor- nia peach ‘tree seems as long lived as the oak, while in the East its fruitfulness ceases and it dies at about seven years. ‘We know the fact and other facts, founded in the individual climatic charatteristics of Califérnia, but we do not pretend to account for any of them. The fact that they exist in Narthern California and that they totally differ from anything else in the wide wdtld is what ‘makes it 8o difficult for this section of the State to be uniderstood. Even now we may expect, as a result of this Northern California citrus fair, that it will be said in the East that we have developed here an orange tree that will stand the climate of - Chicago! - It requires persistent explanation and demonstration to do away with these ideas. But they must be done away with if San Francisco has to dado the two sides of Market street from the ferry to The Call building every November with Northern Cali- fornia citrus fruits. S — Reports fram Europe announce the sudden coming of the winter with great severity. There has been good skating in Berlin for some time past, and St. Petersburg could get up an ice carnival immediately if she wished onee s Now is the time to remember to get your Christ- mas goods early and avoid thg(mh. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1902. PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM. HE argument for and against public ownership, T or, as the English call it, “municipal trading,” is made for and against a proposition that does not express the essence of the question at all. That argument proceeds, with much conflict of statement of facts, upon the question of profit to the city in the operation of street railways, lights and ‘water sup- ply. Granting that a true balance of results shows a profit or a loss, or zero, that issue is, after all, aside irom the main question. The issue naked and entire is socialism. The So- cialists themselves know this. They join in the debate over profit and loss and do their full share in show- ing a financial millennium to follow municipal trading. The leading and the boldest advocate the proposition has is an able clergyman, who is an extreme Socialist. But he, too, talks to the public of the money and the morals_in the scheme. The object of them all is to substitute sociglism’ for individualism. ~It-is to take away entirely, if possible, the spur to individual effort and achievement. True, they say that man relieved of the necessity of taking care of himself, and become merely ‘an atom in the mass of equal atoms, will at once cultivate "his talents, his' genius for invention, his sense of proportion and beauty in art, his eco- nomic. devices,.and that the' progress of the world in all these thereafter will be greater than history has | seen. But there is no record, in history or psychology, that man ever did any of these things without the personal motive and individual incentive. We say this of normal man. Abnormal man, like blind Tom the pianist, has sometimes manifested a high degree | of sensibility to some one thing, while in all others | an idiot. 3 In his able speech to the public ownership meeting recently held in this eity Mr. Reed gave a skillful de- | scription of the modern improvements that were to be introduced in the operation of the Geary-street road under public ownership. But each of these im- provements was devised by individuals, under the incentive of personal advancement. The Government invented nothing.. Socialism, will enjoy the advantage of the progress that individualism has made up to this point. It can employ the experts trained under the system it seeks to supplant; it can use the inventions and devices -with which that system has enriched ‘the medern weorld.. In this way the experiment at its in- ception and- far -upon its course may well -seem - a success: It-would be marvelous if it were otherwise. But ‘gradually the fountain of individualism upon which it draws will be exhausted. The' point of complete exhaustion will be when generations' have been trained without the personal motive—the indi- vidual incentive. The motto of the French Socialists, “Property is robbery,” is the creed of-all socialism. Society can achieve that motto, for nothing is property save by the consent of society. When society assented man was property, and we had chattel slavery. When that system‘became obnoxious to the moral sense society decreed that man should no longer be property, and it was so. Society can say that neither house nor Horse nor land nor anything can be property, and it will be so. Society has recognized and estgblished ownership and the personal right to have property, because the desire to have one’s own, to earn and buy | and possess has been a deeply ‘seated human desire.; | Therein is the origin of all value. The Socialist dream | is that all this shall be reversed, that there shall be no property, and therefore no value to anything. The | human desire that creates value is to be extirpated | from man, and he is, in that respect, to live in a material Nirvana—a state in which the only desire shall be to have no desire. Here and elsewhere, in many places and in many countries, we are taking the first steps that lead to this goal of the Socialist. Grant that out of these steps the common treasury gains, that putrid public morals are made aseptic and that the price paid for it is the removal beyond reach of the personal incentive to human and individual energy, will the loss balance the gain? One may say that the personal incentive has pushed invention znd progress to the ultimate, and that ‘the fruits are so abundant and so. easily within reach that the race should now make them the common property, to be enjoyed by all. But such a policy would mean that the race has passed its adolescence, its middle age, and entered upon the last stage preceding its disappearance. A philosopher does not quarrel—he analyzes. We make no quarrel, but strive to present the issue now a policy no matter which soute we selected and built we must be mindful of the rights of the world’s com- merce, else others might construct the other route and there would be two canals instead of one. It is not surprising that this consideration has occurred to the Central American countries, and in their lucid intervals between revolutions and looting the prop- erty of aliens they may see the (way to accomplish such a policy. e There is, in fact, no more reason why the world’s commerce should be limited to one'isthmian canal than that it should have been limited to one overland rail- way across this continent. If it demanded five Ameri- can overland lines and is now asking for another Canadian line to be built in rivalry to_the Canadian Pacific by the Grand Trunk, surely it is most reason- able to expect that it will demapd two canals, espe- cially when there are two such approved routes as the Panama and Nicaragua. After American enterprise has proved that a work ' of such magnitude can be accomplished there will be 1o trouble about its duplication. = Before there was any overland railway the difficulties seemed so ap- palling that they could be overcome only by Govern- ment assistance. By that means the construction was made. But since then J. J. Hill has built an overland road with no Government help at all, and has made it a leading line and a lucrative property. So it may well be, after this Government has connected the oceans, that private capital will repeat the feat. But | the United States will have to pioneer, whether by | Panama. or Nicaragua; and the sooner we set about it the better in the end. One of the things we ought to take note of in these days is the passing of the power and prestige of the | railroad president. The Philadelphia Public Ledger in commenting on the changed situation says of the railroad president in old days: “His election was a | matter of some formality and his removal was to be ef- fected only through a charige of-management brought about by deliberate votes of a majority of the stock- holders. There are a few such railroad presidents left, but only a few. In general a railroad president is appointed by the ‘magnate’ whose directions he is expected 1o follow, and wheén he ceases to give satis- faction he is dismissed as summarily as the great man would dismiss an unsatisfactory office boy.” S shadow Canada that comparatively little atten- tion is paid to the progress of the Dominion ex- cept by persons directly interested. Our northern neighbors, however, have entered upon what promises PROGRESS OF CANADA. O completely does the United States overs | to be a genuine new era in their history—one in which the tide of migration which has so long been running strongly from Canada to the United States will turn and carry to the Canadian Northwest every year a rumber of American settlers in excess of the Canadi- ans who come to make their homes with us. The improved conditions of Canada have not come by chance. If the country is now attracting immi- grants in competition with our own greater West it | is because, the Canadian statesmen, financiers and rail- | road builders have had the enterprise to go forward 1 and open up for seitlement vast tracts of country that were once supposed to be hardly habitable. Canadian railroad enterprises among the most remarkable of the last fifty years. Not one-tenth of the notice given to the exploitation of the gold mines in South:Africa has been given to the Canadian work, and Yet the latter is worth far more than any results that the most sanguine can reasonably expect from the Rand. In a recent ‘address at Boston the Hon. Clifford Sefton, Canadian Minister of the Interior, presented an array. of figures showing what the Dominion has | accomplished in railroad work during its brief career | as a united confederation. Summing up his state- ment, he said: “At confederation there were in what is now the Dominion of Canada 2087 miles of railway, or about one mile for each 1585 of the population. To-day there are 18,204 miles, or about one mile to each 295 of the population. In the United States the railway mileage is, according to the return of 1900, 193,345 miles, or about one mile to each 390; in Aus- tralia, 12,656 miles, or about one mile to each 344 of population. In order to accompMsh this result the public exchequer has in one way of another, from municipal, provincial or federal resources, contributed a total sum of $228,530,800 in cash, besides the value of many millions more in lands and other conces- sions.” Railway construction has not occupied the whole of Canadian energy nor employed all her capital avail- able for public enterprises. Her canal work is even more notable than her railway work, and Mr. Seiton no doubt felt a little glow of honest pride in'saying for his country: “We have expended on our canal system since its inception $63,688,630, and we have to-day as a result a navigable channel fourteen feet in depth from the head of Lake Superior to the sea- board through Canadian canals, easily the finest sys- tem of inland water transportation in the world.” Canada has reaped a rich reward from her expendi* tures. Over and above all direct profits from her rail- ways and canals she has obtained enormous indirect benefits through the expansion of her agriculture, her industries and her'commerce. As a consequence, she has grown rich, and her banking capital and financial operations have advanced by leaps and bounds. As late as 1890 the bank loans showed a monthly average of but $152,317,486, while the monthly ayerage for the last fiscal year was $300,066,608. At present the total assets of Canadien, banks exceed $600,000,000. Along with the development of the Dominion and the increase of wealth and commerce there has been an increased national and imperial spirit. The Canadi- ans are beginning to believe that they also have a “manifest destiny,” and are striving to live up to it. In short, our northern neighbors are progressing and prospering as we ourselves, and, what is more, they have deserved their success by their enterprise and their thrift. Carrie Nation, inspired probably by the thought that several fashionabie women of New York should .show a little less of their shoulders and a little more of their wit, shrieked to the startled females that they should take off their offending clothes. News re- ports indicate, however, that the proprieties were ob- / served. — Baron_von Thielmann, Secretary of the German’ uppermost in the city as it is, and not as it is clouded by arguments and exhibits upon matters remotely collateral. The issue is socialism, pure and simple, angd the purpose to treat property as robbery. P — | It is announced that Lond®n is to be fortified, so it seems that the British are longer satisfied with the protection given by the fleet. A fortified Lon- don, however, will be a decided novelty and will fur- nish a new proof that the twentieth century is by no means the sort of era that the people of the nineteenth century thought it would be. T — THE CANAL TREATY, HE revolution in Colombia has not in any way T hindered the negotiation of the Panama canal treaty. Indeed, the revolutionists were as anxious as the Government that the treaty be made. It was expected that the concessions asked of Colom- bia by the United States would be paid for in the sum of $7,000,000 or $8,000,000, and that caused the con- tinuance of the revolt, as, if it succeeded, the revolu- t‘isnists and not the Government party would receive and have the handling of that cash. But it is now 'given out that through the act of Colombia the nego- tiations have stopped, and that the President and Secretary may now turn to Nicaragua and Costa Rica again. Of course, there is a chance that Minister Concha of Colombia has made a shrewd move. His Govern- ment has the revolutionists well jn hand now, and the revolt is about over. It would materially assist in quieting the disorderly element to have it just now understood that the canal negotiation is off and no money is in sight. This would throw the revolu- tionary leaders back upon patriotism as their sole capital, and there is not enough of it to load another gun. After they have all surrendered and been shot Concha could resume and conclude the negotiation speedily. We suspect this to be his real motive, though another is given out. It is said that Colombia has more ambitious schemes, and that she intends to let the present franchise to the Panama Canal Com- pany lapse, invalidate its extension to 1910 and then put the property on the market, i When The Call, first among American newspa- pers, announced that our Government would probably get both Panama and Nicaragua in hand so as to have an alternative route and be able to proceed free of all international accommodations _except with the { isthmian ‘governments, we suggested that under such | Treasury, has suggested a tax on beer and tobacco as a means to increase the imperial revenues. The Baron might read a little English history to the ad- vantage and mending of his ways. He should not | that of itseif ought to bar him from the office. | Jority of my appointments in every State have have, in fact, heeni PRESIDENT WILL NOT DRAW THE COLOR LINE ‘WASHINTON, Nov. 27.~The President has sent the following communication to a prominent citizen of Charleston, S. C.: (Personal.) WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, My Dear Sir: 1 am in receipt of your letter of November 10 and of one from Mr. — under date of November 11 in reference to the ap. pointment of Dr. Crum as Collector of the port of_Charleston. In your. letter you make certain specific charges against Dr. Crum tending to show his unfit- ness in several respects for the office sought. These charges are entitled to the utmost eon- sideration from me, and 1 shall go over them carefully before taking any action.” After mak- ing these charges you add, as further reason for opposition to him, that he is a colored man, and after reciting the misdeeds that followed carpet-bag rule and ‘domination in South Carolina you say that, ““We have sworn never again to submit to the rule of the African, and such an appointment as that of Dr. Crum to any such office forces us to protest unanimously against this ipsult to the white blood,” and you add that you understopd me t0 say that I Wwould never force g negro on such & community as yours, Mr. puts the objection of color first; saying that first, he is a colored man and CONCERNED AND PAINED. In view of these last statements I think I ought to make it clear to you why 1 am con- cerned and pained by vour making them, and - what my attitude [, as regards all such ap- | pointments. How any one could have gained ! the idea that I had said I°would not appoint Teputable and upright colored men to otfice, when objection was made to-them selely on their color, 1 contess 1 am unable to under- Btand. At'the time of my visit to Charleston last spring 1 had made and since that time I have made a number of such appointments from several States in which there 1s a. considerable colored population, For example, I made one such appointment in Mississippi and another in Alabama shortly before* my visit to Charleston. I had at that time appointed two colored men as judicial magistrates in the Distgict gf Colum- bia. 1 have recently announced another such appolntment for. Naw Orleans and have just made one from Pennsylvania. The great ma- been of white men. North and South alike, it has been my sedulous endeavor to appoint only men of high character and good capacity, whether white or black. ~But it is and shouid be my consistent policy In eyvery State where their numbers warrant it, to‘recognize colored men of good repute and standing in making ap- pointments to office. These appointments of colored men have in no State made more than a small proportion of the total number of appoint- ments. 1 am unable to see how I can legiti- mately be asked to make an exception for South Carolina. In South Carolina to the four most important positions in the State I have ap- pointed threa men and continued in office a fourth, all of them white men, three of them originally Gold Democrats—two of them, as I am informed, the sons of Confederate soldiers. 1 have been informed by the citizens of Charles- ton whom I have met that these four men rep- resent a high grade of public service. UNFIT MEN NOT CHOSEN. 1 do mot intend to appoint any unfit men to office. So far as I legitimately can, I shall always endeavor to pay regard to the wishes and feelings of ‘the peopld of each locality, but T cannot consent to take the pesition that the door of hope, the door of opportunity, is to be shut upon any gocod men, no matter how. worthy, purely upon the inds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according, to my_convictions, be fundamentally wrong. 1If, as you hold, the great bulk of the colored peo- ple are not yet fit in point of character and influence to hold such positions, it seems to me that it is worth while putting premium upon the effort-among them to achieve the character and standing which will fit them. The question of negro domination does not enter into the matter at all. .It might as well be asserted that when I was Governor of New York I sought to bring about negro domination in that State because I appointed two colored men of good character and, standing to respon- sible positions, one of. them to a position pay- ing & salary twice as large as that paid in the office under consideration; one of them as a director of the Buffalo Exposition. The ques- tlon raised by you and Mr. in the state- ments to which 1 refer Is simply whether-it is to be declared that under no circumstances shall any man of color, no matter how ' up- right and honest, no matter how good a citizen, no matter how fair in his dealings with all his fellows, be permitted to hold any office under our Government. I certainly cannot assume such an attitude, and. y say that in my View it Js should assume, whether he looks at it from the standpoint of the true interest of the white man of the South or of the colored man of he South—not to speak of any other section of the Unjon. It seems to me that it is a good thing from every standpoint to {et. the colored man know that if he shows {n a marked degree the qualities of good citizenship—the qualities in which a white man we feel are entitled to re- ward—then he will not be cut off from all hepe of similar reward. ‘Without any regard as to what my decision may be on the merits of this particular apj cant for this particular place, I feel that I ought to let you know clearly my attitude on | the far broader question ralsed by you and | Mr., ; an attitude from which I havé not | varled during my_ term of office. Faithtully yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Hor. Charleston, S ——————— PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. A. Devlin of Vallejo is at the Grand. x i F. G. Noyes, a capitalist of Napa, Is at the Palace. Isaac Minor, a lumber man of Arcata, is| at the Lick. 7 Dr. W. H. Wallace of Eureka is a guest at the Lick. A. H. Ashley, an attorney of Stockton, is at the Lick. E. A. Warren, a commission man of | Chico, is at the Lick. ; | T. D. Petch, an-attorney of Eureka, is a guest at the Grand. Judge D. K. Trask of Los Angeles reg- istered at the Palace yesterday. C. L. Crane,’a mining man of Reno, is ameng the arrivals at the Grand. Julius Paul Smith, a well known vine- yardist of Livermore, is at the Palace. D. F. McRae, a well-known lumber man of Mariposa, is among the arrivals at the Grand. ‘The Crown Prince of Siam, accompanied by his suite, left last evening for Oregon on a special train. The Crown Prince spent yesterday afternoon at the Ingle- side race track and in the evening at- tended a local theater. _——— Congressman Hall Will Resign. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2I.—Representa- tive James K. Hall of Pennsylvania to-day announced that on December 1 he would hand to Speaker Henderson his resigna- tion as a member of the present House. He is a Democrat and was not a candi- | date for re-election fo the next House, his district having been changed so as to be Republican by a large majority. He ran for the State Senate of Pennsylvania. however, and was elected, his salary for the State office beginning December 1. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A DOUBTING THOMAS. Had His Fall; "Hair Stopped, and Dandruff Cured, Without Faith. H. B. Fletcher, Butte, Mont., October 20, 1899, says: ‘‘Like many other people, I| have been troubled for years with dan- druff, and within the last few months my hair came out sd badly that I was compelled to have what I had left clipped very close. A friend recommended New- bro’s Herpicide. I confess that I doubted his story; but I gave Herpicide a trial. Now my hair is as thick as ever and en- tirely free from dandruff.” ‘“Destroy the cause, you remove the effect.” At drug- gists, $1.00. Herpicide is a delightful hair dressing for regular use. Sold at leading drug stores. Send 10 cents in stamps for ;;.ml]‘;le to The Herpiclde Co., Detroit, ich. £ REGULAR STEAMER SERVI.E —From— NEW YORK to SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE, TACOMA and PORTLAND. —Extra Sailing— The Magnificent New Twin-Screw Express Steamehip 3 SIBERIA. Length, 580 feet. Epéed, 20 knots. Forty-Five Day Pasage. touch the necessities of life with heavy hand. Several thousand German students, rising in the dignity of cowardice, have declared the pistol to be | bareie! a most unholy weapon in duels, preference being | wiriiana b given to the sword. Is this another disguised tribute to the ®rv of American methods of civilization? = | PE . _Sailing from New York about Decem! 0 irom Company's Covered BIer: Forty-seeom street, South Brookiyn, N. Y. . For rates of freight, reservations and «ther lars apply -to the Company or lts QUARANTINE ON " LIVESTOCK OF NEW ENGLAND ——— WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to-day {issued a sweeping order directed to the managers and agents of railroads and transporta- tion companies of the United States, stockmen and others notifying them of the establishment of a quarantine on cat- tle, sheep and other ruminants and swine in the New England States, and prohibit- ing the exportation of such animals from the port of Boston until further orders. Recent investigations in the Department of Agriculture disclosed the fact that what:is known as' foot and mouth disease exists to an alarming extént in’Connecti- cut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Ver- mont. The expert of the department, Dr. Mohler; Dr. Leonard Pearson of the Uni- versity of Penngylvanla and Dr. James Law of Cornell investigated the infected districts and united in a recommendation that in order to prevent the spread of the disease a quarantine should imme- diately be established. Secretary Wilson said that this is the most serious matter the department has had to handle for some time, but that all the resources of the department would be | employed in stamping out the disease. He declared that if it should spread west of the Hudson River it would be nothing short of a national calamity. The orders, which are dated to-day and numbered 9 and 190, respectively, are as follows: To_the Manggers and Agents of Railroads and Transportation Lines of the United States, Stockmen and Others: In aceordance with section 7 of the act of Congress approved May 29, 1884, entitled “‘An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and to provide means -for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumoénia and other contagious dis- eases among domestic animals,”” and with the act of Congress approved June 3, 1902, making appropriations for the Department of Agri- culture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, you are hereby notified that the com- tagious. disease known as foot and mouth dis- ease exists among animals in the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont, and that the caitle, sheep and other ruminants and swine of said States have been exposed to the contagion of said diseases; therefore, It hereby ordered that to prevent the spread of the said disease from the States of Conneticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Vermont into other States or foreign coun- tries and to aid in its eradication, no_cattle, sheep or other ruminants, or swine, shall be moved or be permitted to move from or across the territory of any onme of the States named into any other State or fo country. Any person, company or_corporation- violating this order will be proceeded against as provided for by the act of Congress above referred to. It is hoped that all transportation com- panies, cattle shippers and others interested in the welfare of our animal industry will co- operate with the Department of Agriculture in enforcing this order to the end that the re- striction on traffic may have the desired eéf- fect and be removed in the shortest possible time. MES WILSON, Secretary. ‘Whereas, A highly contagious disease, known as foot and mouth disease, exists among cat- tle in the State of Massachusetts and the Toutes of transportation possibly - may have been contaminated, and in order-to protect the export trade in live animals by preventing the exportation of animals which are diseased or which have been exposed to disease, it is here- by ordered that no cattle, sheep or other rumi- nants or swine shall be permitted to be ex- ed from the port of Boston until further ers. JAMES WILSON, Secretary, e Morgan Explains the Circular. LONDON, Nov. 27.—J. Plerpont Morgan Jr. sald to-day: “The circular issued by the International Mercantile Marine Com- pany, offering 4% per cent mortgage bcnds in lieu of cash payment to the stcekholders of the White Star Line, was merely issued in response to the inquirfes of shareholders who wish for the imme- diate Investment of the proceeds of the sale of their shares. By arrangement with the syndicate managers in New York the shareholders can be paid in bonds if they wigh, but every one desiring gold payment of their holdings can get it at tius office.” ore GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS The trouble caused by the recent strike of bookbindgrs is not being got over so easily as the publishers seemed to expect a, week ago. From inquirfes I have made 1 learn that many of them have decided to leave over the publication of certaln important works, with the approval of the authors of course, till the spring, or even later, till what is usually called the dead season. Indeed, some publishers are finding it wisest to publish some books in what is commonly called the dead season. People do not want books only in the spring and autumn. It is now a mere superstition of the trade. < As the year draws to a close and one looks back to the work of the publishing world one cannot help being struck with the prevalence of fashion in matters literary as well as in the more material aftairs of dress and custom. Romancy begets romance and realism begets real- fem. If any one were asked to characterize the fashion of the year 192 from the literary point of view "he would say It has been the year of anonymous litera- ture. “An English Woman's Love Lat- ters” no doubt-has began it, yet it was only by accident that Murray was led to believe that Clarence Hausman’s effort of magination was an authentic work/ How- ever that may be, the anonymllly a.n;l ll'.up- posed “bona fides” of the love letters made fl:’: success of the book. It was not what could be called a genuine suc- cess, for it is obvious that what would be interesting if true is not necessarily in- teresting If invented, and the love letters were invented as much as Chatterton’s “Rowley.” Since their appearance {ibe number of anonymous books has bulked largely. q‘x‘ecopy.of’the first known English book- plate, which is a treasure in the llt!rary. history of England, will appear in thc saleroom next week. It is the bookplute of Sir Nicholas Bacon, the learned father of the more famous Franels Bacon. Only two or three coples are kmown to exist, one of these being in the British museum. Sidney- Lee, who is the president of the Elizabethan Society, is, 1 believe, likely to emulate other successful English authors by undertaking a lecturing tour in the Uhnited States. This rather surprises one who knows Lee, for he has rather a thin volce, not what one wguld, call eminently adapted for declaimin® blank verse, and to lecture of Shakespeare without iltus- trative passages is hardly conceivable. He also suffers from a s'milar trouble to which Barrie confessed in a recent speech in connection with the Louis Stevenson memorial at Edinburgh, when he sald he did not know what to do with his hands, but despite these platform defects Lee ought to have a warm welcome In America because of his wide reputation as a Shakespearean scholar, and what- | ever his lectures may lack in manner, the matter will undoubtedly be good. Siam Adopts the Gold Standard. BANGKOK, Siam, Nov. 27.—The gold standard scheme for Siam has become a law and the mints have been closed to the free coirage of silver. If success attends the new departure the profits arising from the minting of tyeals (a Siamese silver coin worth 50 cents) will be set aside as a special gold reserve fund for the purpose of establishing a gold currency. —_—————————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.” ———————— Townsend's Cllsonlll glace &"b‘::: dies, 50c L in a3 -e ;::-. 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