The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1903, Page 8

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HURD contributes to the Fortnightly Review a paper on the M “Foreign Invasion of Canada.” He declares that the Dominion is being de-Anglicized by foreign We are not interested in his discus- migration to Canada of continental Euro- h is in excess of that from the British hat concerns the United States is the rapid ncrease of migration from this country to the Cana- dian Northwest. immigration. les sees something sinister in this, and e tc apnexation. We do not s view is justifiable. The Americans who are to Canada m te because of features in Cana- H 1 to them and more favorable to In the migration 17,987 ns, and in 1902, down to the 1st of October, ak r the two years 44.087 Ameri- who expatriated themselves and who will be- « citizens of the Dominion. These Ame were repelled from their own ry by the illiberality of our land laws-and pol- toward livestock raising and by the liberality of The Canadian Northw s fine cattle range country on the pub- domair: and has acopted a liberal leasing system for the ranges using the range lease laws of Australia as a model. Nebraska, the Dakotas and our arid West to settle and follow their vocation in Canada. There they are welcome and treated with confidence, while in the United States the range men are treated with illiber- ality and the needs of their vocation are denied to them. If they appeal to Congress for a reclassifica- tion of the public lands and protection of the range by a leaschold they are viciously attacked by the press and by members of the Cabinet, and treated as outlaws who deserve nothing of their Government. No wonder they migrate to Canada, and when natur- zed there become the most earnest opponents of annexation to the United States. vnes than the laws of this country. year 1901 we lost to Canada Americ by ans the laws of Canada in that respect The result is that stock men are leaving These stock men were the final cause of our vast | export trade in beef. They produced it on the range so ecomomically that it could find a profitable mar- ket abroad. Now it is easily possible for them by settlement in Canada to transfer production and the export trade to the Dominion. Unless the laws ai- fecting this industry are liberalized nothing is more certain than its disappearance and that Canada will take the place we have long held as the source of supply. We have four hundred million acres of range land that is useless for other purpose than grazing stock, and are permitting it to be turned into desert, made worthless itself and capable of increasing the aridity and destroying the fertility of the whole region of which it is a part. The mole-eyed policy which does this is expelling American stock men to Canada, where they are hailed as useful citizens and given that living chance for their industry which is denied to them by their own Government. In receiving New Year congratulations from the American Embassador Kaiser Wilhelm said that in sending to this country the promised statue of Fred- erick the Great he would include among the Com- missioners sent over to present the gift descendants of those German officers who served under Washing- ton: so the whole thing promises to be very neat | and appropriate. A nervous statistician directs attention to the fact ihat if the first and last figures of the year 1903 be taken they form 13; that if all the figures be added they make 13; that in the months of February, March and November the 13th will fall on Friday— {or all those reasons he calls upon the world to pre- pare for trouble. Professor Burt G. Wilder of Cornell University has read a paper before the American Association for the Advancement of Science maintaining that the orang- outang is superior to the gorilla and has a right to rank mext to man in the order of nature; and now if the gorilla can talk it is time for him to speak up. Russia, it is said, is greatly irritated over the ac. tion of England in connection with the affairs of Turkey. It is safe to say, however, that the Russian bear will confine his-scratching to his own body. iGOVERNOR PARDEE'S INAUGURAL ; obligations in Paris and strained the New York sit-| CARNE GIE’S GIFT F necessity the Governor's inaugural address ' has to be extended to the volume of a mes- It is different with the inaugural ad- United States. That | i O sage. !dress of a President of the | gress has adjourned sine die, and nine moxvhs before | | its successor meets. The President then need do no more than briefly “do his manners” to the people | who elected him and have come to see him take office, ‘ {and need not say anything about the state of the | Union until the new Congress meets and is ready to ! legislate. | sibilities of power. It is to legislate and levy taxes | | for the first half of his administration. Therefore his | inaugural must be extended and become a message. | So we have practically Governor Pardee’s first mes- { of the State that may be met by legislation. s Two things in government interest the people. | | They never stale nor pall as subjects of thought. In- deed they cause the division of the people into rival parties and form the subjeét of endless discussion. Without them to keep alive public interest in civic affairs it is doubtiul whether our government would survive. These two things are the efficiency of gov- | ernment and its cost. The first raises every issue of administration, the second carries with it the absorb- ing question of taxation. The people of California are very alert on that subject. Governor Pardee shows that he shares the general solicitude that the burdens of government shall be light and equally dis- | tributed, but he does not propose that the people | shall be under any illusions about the tax levy that | must support the State government in the first bien- nium of his term. Those who have preceded him in the State government have attempted to make a repu- tation for economy by providing a tax levy below the requirements of the State. The necessary ex- | penses have gone on, and‘ihe surplus in the treasury lhas been drawn on to meet them, until a crisis is at hand. Governor Pardee, after pointing out that the | beginning of the next fiscal year will find the State’s | general fund exhausted, declares that the only re- course of the administration will be to borrow from other funds, in preference to issuing warrants, to the injury of the public credit. The situation is not pleasant and the Governor does | not propose that it shall develop as a surprise next | July. So he gives notice that the next tax levy must | be higher than the last, and gives the reason in this | terse phrase, which has the snap of an epigram: = % This, however regrettable, cannot be | avoided, and will be due not to any extravagance of the present Legislature, but to the policy of its pre- decessor in reducing the revenues more than it re- | duced the expenses.” That is easily remembered by | the taxpayer when he finds his taxes raised, and the Governor is wise in not flinching nor dodging the issue now. This and his well studied declarations on the labor issue are the most impressive part of his first mes-| sage to the people. It will impress thinking people | that he denounces the artificial classification of so- ciety, which many agi(gtors insist upon, aided by | | workers, who never work, but live by working the | | workers, s un-American. It seems a subject that has | been threshed out, but\the Governor finds it easy to| | be original in his tredment of it when he says: | “Labor without capital and intelligence can accom- | plish little; and capital without labor and intelli- | gence is equally helpless. But labor, capital and in- | telligence, all three working together to a common ' That is worth remembering. His discussion of this subject shows that he has no | sympathy with any denial of the common rights of | man by any organization no matter what may be its physical power. The whole message is deserving of discussion and comment, but these two subjects pre- sent themselves as first in interest, and their treat- ment is exceptionally satisfactory. 1end4 can do all things." At a recent banquet of the Association of Ameri- i can Universities in New York the speakers turned { away from higher themes to complain of the over- | crowding of street cars, and the presiding officer is said to have told of a young woman who got on one | of the cars and sat with one hand in her muff. A young | man, sitting beside her, saw that he was protected | from publicity by a row of people hanging on straps, | so he slipped his hand into the vacant side of the! i muff. The owner of the muff looked at him angrily | ! and said, “Sir, I'll give you just fifteen minutes to | take that hand out of there.” | | ! THE WORLD INTERESTED. { much impressed by the amount of interest dis- | i played by the British public in the proposed | | plans for currency reform in this country. A Wash-l | ington report says: “London papers received at the | | treasury office contain extended news of the report | the Secretary of the Treasury sent to Congress at | | the opening of the session. Comparison with a file | of American newspapers shows that one of the Lon- | don dailies gave more space to this document than | | any newspaper published in the United States.” | It is not at all strange that the British public. should take so keen an interest in our monetary ai- fairs. The United States has now become virtually | the banking center of the world. Any disorder to our financial interests would be felt in London almost as severely as in New York. Consequently it is a matter of grave concern to Europe as well as to our- selves that we have a currency system that will give a reasonable assurance against the coming of a finan- cial stringency that might precipitate a panic in the | very midst of abundance and prosperity. It is not to be denied that our present currency leaves us exposed every year to a serious risk of dis- aster. In a recent address on the subject Director Roberts oi the Mint Bureau said: “It is a familiar | fact that the fall of every year brings tight money in| the United States, due to the moving of crops and the activity of trade. There is need of more cur- rency, more instruments of exchange in that part of the year than at any other time, and Qur monetary | system does not respond to such special demands. | When money*is easy it accumulates in the centers, fosters speculation and becomes more or less en-| gaged there; and then when the fall demand comes on ' there is a wail over its withdrawal, because it forces liquidation and unsettles business.” In addition to that evil, which has been often| pointed out, Mr. Roberts referred to another source of danger to us while we lack an elastic currency—that | of foreign disturbance. He said: ‘fn 1899 the cut- | ting off of the supply of gold from South Africa caused a stringency in London, and the influence of London caused almost a panic in New York. This year cash withdrawals by savings banks depositors in France has forced the liquidation of American | SECRETARY SHAW is reported to have been | | | be admitted that such newspapers are in the minor- | erful public official to protect his transgressions by uation. The ability to let out notes when gold ship- ments were required would furnish a buffer to the business community against foreign influences of this kind.” We have thus to confront a double danger so long | tem. It would seem that Congress, even in the rush of the short session, might find time to provide some relief for the situation. We were very close to a panic last year, and it will be foolish to take that risk again. i Chicago has a new trouble. A young man bought | a box of marshmallows from a prominent confec-' But the Governor comes into office with the Legis- | tioner and sent it for Christmas to his best girl. The | the hoara of library trustees. lature in session. He must share with it the respon- | girl reported that the box was not filled, as seven of . those who attended the ceremonies were the candies were missing from the second layer and{ eight from the third. The youth laid the matter be- | saying: “I consider it pretty tough for a confec-! | sage, giving his views of public’policy and the needs | tioner to take the chances of breaking two loving o hearts. I wish to catch some of them at i. I'll guarantee they will have to pay well, no matter who they are.” 3 THE LAW OF LIBEL. | D —— 1 HE remarks in the final message of Governor | T Gage respecting libel, stripped of their personal | allusions, and the reasons for them which in here in misjudged personal experience, will com- mand approval. The willful attack upon public or | private persons, injurious and without further foun- | dation or excuse than mere malevolence, cannot be too strongly reprehended nor too surely punished. | This is especially true if the attacking party be in | trenched behind wealth and influence, by which pun- | ishment may be evaded and responsibility shirked. | In such case the more helpless the victim the greater | the offense. Adequate response in civil damages need not be expected, for the inequality of the parties bars such remedy. A resort to the criminal law is the only recourse, when the helplessness of the victim | is equalized with the resources of the libeler by the power of the State. The Governor, however, not content with the existing law, recommends changes ' drastic in their nature, by which the offense of libel ! will be taken from the list of misdemeanors and made t a felony, ranking among the infamous crimes. Let us examine briefly this proposition in the ligln§ of the necessary freedom of the press. It has been | necessary, and will continue to be necessary, fér the | press to safeguard the public interest by freedom of | publicity as to the acts—not the policies, or the the- | ories, but the acts—of public officials. This freedom | should be equally unabridged in the case of the ex- | ecutive and.of the lowest ministerial officer. At pres- | ent, while libel is a misdemeanor, a newspaper takes great risk in telling the truth about executive acts be- | cause of the great political power, patronage and in- | fluence of the executive. Increase the risk by making libel a felony, and this risk is probably so increased as to effectually restrzin the press from truthful ex- posure of acts that are injurious to the public and that degrade the character of the executive office. | No matter what may be said in favor of adding to the punishment of alleged libel by increasing the grade of the offense when private persons are the | plaintiffs, nothing can be said in favor of increasing the immunity from criticism of public officials, whose vast power can be invoked to force the press into slavish silence through fear that influence may se-| cure conviction of an infamous crime. ! The law of libel has been through a series of evo-! lutions. . Formerly no one dared to tell the truth| about a private or public person concerning an act | that was injurious to individuals or society. The' law declared “the greater the truth the greater the libel.” Therefore the more infamous the action dis- closed the greater the penalty for its disclosure. After a Jong struggle the plea of justification was permitted, and one accused of libel was permitted to justify by proving his statement to be true. With this change came the real enfranchisement of the press. No intelligent person denies that base news- papers abuse their liberty and ma’ e cowardly use of their privilege and power of publicity. But it must ity, and are differentiated as “yellow journals” from the vast mass of clean and respectable journals which respect the rights of public and private char- | acter. ! A conscientious newspaper man ventures upon that form of criticism and exposure which if false is libel only when convinced that it is true and its exposure serves a proper and commendable purpose. Gov- | ernor Gage sees necessity for a more drastic law of libel in what he chooses to term “millionaire” news- paper men. It is only necessary to say that men of wealth do not always regard themselves as thereby separated from the rest of society and put outside its = pale either to deny or defy their general obligations. | As a rule they as keenly appreciate their responsi bility as do those of moderate fortune. If what he | says about them is justified the change he recom- mends in the law will not affect them, but it will ter- rorize the press that is not backed by wealth, and we would have, if his view be correct, a tendency for all journalism to drift into the control of the class which | he says is strong enough to defy the law. | ‘We think an examination of American journalism will prove that on an average, rich and poor, news- paper men are as upright and conscientious, as mindful of their responsibility and as careful in the use of their power of publicity as public officers are in the use of their official opportunities, and with the plea of justification left unimpaired it is well not to muzzle the press by putting it in the hands of a pow- influencing courts and juries to inflict infamous pun- | ishment upon the press, regardless of its justification. Such.a proposition comes too near turning back to ! the old law, which inflicted infamouas punishment for telling the truth. T - It is hardly true that a delegation oi German doc- tors is coming to this country to discover how it is , that we can eat so much pie-without getting indiges- tion. It is a matter of public knowledge, which the Germans might acquire without crossing the sea, that the only way to eat pie and be sure of digesting it is to do as they do in New England and pass it up to the mouth on a knife. One of Britain’s famous men said the other day that his country, instead of opposing, ought to fight for the Monroe doctrine. One thing is reasonably certain, if Britain won’t fight for that little bit of sentiment she never will so far forget herself as to fight against it. The London women of alleged aristocracy of birth and breeding who appeared at a fancy ball dressed in male attire evidently wished to indicate in their choice of dress a contempt for what they did not choose. The garb of a woman was probably dis- tasteful to them. | cations for library buildings { lations of the Boston TO THE NATION IS ACCEPTED persons of note assembled to-day toat- tend the ceremonies incident to the dedi- | cation of the Washington public librar The ceremonies took place in the audi torium of the new library. The partici- pants in the exercises included the Presi- dent of the United States, Andrew Car- negie, the donor of the building, and the presidents of the building commission and Among members of the Cabinet, Senate and House and persons prominent in civil life | throughout the United States. | fore City Sealer Quinn, and the latter is reported as' The library building is a beautiful white | marble structure, occupying the center of Mount Vernon square, in the very heart { Washington. For its construction Car- i negie gave $350,000. 1 To-day’s ceremonies were merely inci- | building commission to the board of lib- rary trustees, of which Theodore W. Noyes, assistant editor of the Washington Star, is president. Before the formal ex- ercises the orchestra of the Marine band rendered a special musical programme. SPEAKS FOR THE NATION. | The dedication exercises lasted scarcely - an fhour. After the Bishop of Washing- on, Right Rev. Dr. Satterlee, had pro- nounced prayer President Roosevelt was introduced and spoke as follows: | I count myself fortunate in being able to come here to-day, not only for my private in- dividual sake, but as in some sort repre- senting the people of all the country, to ex- press my proiound appreciation of what is em- | lly a gift of wisdom—a gift to do the | u possible benefit to the people of this country from vou, Mr. Carnegie. It seems to me that the man has a right to call himself thrice blessed who combines the power and the purpose 10 use his wealth for the benefit of the people at large in a way that will do | them great benefit; and in no way can more ! benefit be done than through the gift of lbra- ries such as this—a free library, where each | man, each woman, has a chance to get for him or herseif the tralning that he or she has the desire to. Of course, our common school system lies at | the foundation of our educational system, but it is the foundation only. Of those who are to | stand.pre-eminert as the representatives of cui- | ture of the community, the enormous majority must educate themselves. The work done by this library is helpful, because it represents one side of the way in which all healthy work in | this community must be dome. Mr. Carnegle, neither you nor any one else | can make man ¥ise or cultivated. All you can | do is to give a chance to add to his own wis- | dom, or to his own cultivation. That is all you can do in any kind of philanthropic work. The only philanthropic work that counts in the long | Tun is the work that helps a man to help him self. (Applause.) This is true socially, socio- logically and in every way. The man who will | submit or demand to be carried is not worth | Ccarrying and if you make the effort it helps neither him ner you. GIVES OPPORTUNITY TO MAN. But every man of us needs help—needs more and more to be given the chance to show for | himself the stuff that is-in him, and thus the free library is doing in the world of cultivation, | the world of scholarship, what it should be our aim to do In the great world—political and so- cial developmen ing to the men themsel are able to take advantage of them. the kind of gIft that steers the happy middle course between the Charybdis of failuré to show public spirit on the one hand, and on the Other the Seylla of showing that public spirit in a way that will demoralize and pauperize those who take advantage of it. To quote an expression that I am fond of—this is _equally far from the two prime vices of cur civilization | —hardness of heart and softness of head. 1 am not here to make a speech. 1 unfor- tunately have to leave at once, as the Presi- dent has several duties to perform. I have come because 1 feel that the movement for curing better facilities for self-training, better facilities for education in its widest and broad- €t and deepest sense. i3 one of such prime im- portance that the President of the United States bould nowhere more agpropriately come than to this building, Mr. Carnegie, at this time, to thank you for the gift that you have made to the people of the national caplital. | When the applause had subsided Presi-| dent Roosevelt left the auditorium, the| audience rising as he passed out and the Marine band playing “‘America.’ CARNEGIE MAKES REPLY. In a brief address H. D. F. MacFar-| land, one of the commissioners of the District of Columbia, turned the building over to the board of library trustees, President Noyes responding on behalf of | the board. Noyes' speech was an elo—i quent tribute to the liberality of Mr. Car- | negie. He referred to him as a, “Santa Carnegie, the patron saint of public libraries, who transforms by word or touch of the pen, a crampled, crowd- ed makeshift of a library building into the marble palace in which we are as- sembled to-day.” | Carnegle next was introduced. He was| given an ovation by the great audience. He said in part: The free library, maintained by all the peo- ple, for all the people, knows neither rank nor birth - within its walls. Even he who honors us to-day by his august presence, the honor of the highest position upon earth, the elect of the majority of the English- | Ebeaking race, a position compared with which | | all_inherited positions sink into insignificance, | within these walls has no privileges which is not the right of his poorest and humblest fel- | low citizens. | Free libraries maintained by the people are cradles of democracy and their spread can never fall to extend and strengthen the dem- ocratic idea, the equality of the citigen, the royalty of men. They are émphaticaliy fruits | of the true American ideal. But while even the President thus stands on the common level as the President, we cannot fail to remem- | ber that in the free library the man has a place denied to the official as a prince in the republic of letters, for in the ranks of thuse who constitute the chief glory of the nation, | its authors. a place was won long cince by | Theodore Rooseveit, the author. Before he | was President he had, Caesar-like, not only | caused his fellows to mark him and write his speeches in their books, but had made books for himself. 1 doubt not that of the books taken from this library his will rank high in | the list. We hall him to-day, therciore, in the dual capacity of President and author, | positions unsurpassed In their several spheres, rare and wonderful in combination, | Carnegie said that he had given, chiefly | within the past two years, 730 libraries. | During the month of July last 276 appli- | were re- | ceived by him from all parts of the Eng- | lish-speaking world. When he arrived at | New York last month from Europe he, found awaiting him applications for 60 additional buildings. To-day he had on band 385 new applications, making in ail under consideration now more than 500, “the great majority of which,” he said, | “will no doubt be g ) A CHANCE TO SMILE. | “I see it is preposed to have street car | conductors call all women passengers who | have reached mature age ‘madam’ in- stead of ‘lady.’ " “Yes, but what's the mature age limit?" —Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Philadelphia’s telephone company is going to establish an information bureau which will answer all questions free of | charge for subscribers, with a fee of 10 conts for outsiders.” “Eay, it ought to“be worth 10 cents to | find out when the poor old town is to be frged from that outrageous political ring.” —&leveland Plain Dealer. | e s e e KEW ADVERTISEMENTS. BOS'.I“)N’S BARBER REGULATIONS | Board of Health Orders Sterilization of All That Barbers Use on Customers. A special dispatch from Boston, May 5, to the N. Sun gives as néw regu- oard of Health as ' to barber shops: ‘*Mugs, shaving brushes and razors shall be sterilized after each separate use thereof. A separate, clean towel shall be used for each person. Ma- terfal to stop the flow of blood shall be used only in powdered form and appiied on _a towel. Powder puffs are prohib- ited.” Wherever Newbro's “‘Herpicide” is gised_for face or scalp after shaving or hair cutting there is no danger, as it is antiseptic and kills the dandruff germ. T ks, for Saussts "to" The Herpicids | amps for sample e e Co., Detroit, Mich. ' ¥ " | Feathers.’ | TH! 1793." | Press Clipping_Bureau (Allen’s). 230 Caii- 1042, GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS official comes to his office a few hours after one Con- | a5 we continue our present hephazard currency sys-| WASHINGTON, Jan. T—A throng of | People here would like to know, and no doubt you on your side feel equally inter- ested to know, what the Kaiser Wilhelm thinks of Rudyard Kipling’s anti-German effusion in the light of the telegram which his Majesty hastened to address to the wife of “‘the Banjo Bard of Empire” when he was lying dangerously ill in New York in the spring of 189, a few months before the outbreak of that Boer war | which was to cause the “open foes” of Great Britain to pray ““to see us drown.” The imperial telegram ran: “As an en- thusiastic admirer of the unrivaled books of your husband, I am most anxious for news about his health. God grant he may be spared to you and to all who are thankful to him for the soul-stirring way in which he has sung about the deeds of our common race.—William.” Is it not strange that the common deeds of our “‘common race’ should now have filled the | dental to the trausfer of the title of the | ghject of that sympathetic telegram with such aversion toward the subjeets of its sender? The ‘penultimate sale of 192 at Sothe- by’s salerooms the other day was a tri- umph for the admirers of Thackeray. Never before probably have equally high | sums been paid for autograph letters, pencil sketches and other productions | frem his hands. The examples which camé under the hammer belonged origin- ally to Miss Kate Perry and her sister, Mrs. Elliott, formerly Jane Perry, in- timate ‘friends of Thackeray, and when these ladies died the relies passed into the possession of the seller. In the total about £1150 (35750) was realized for twenty-seven lots. I think the following call for special men- ticn: Kate Perry's album, beginning with an unpublished poem, “The Pen and the Album,” and containing mueh interesting matter, £500 (32950); three verses, each of four lines, beginning “1 am Miss Perry's faithful Phil.” sent with a small gold | brooch having the head of a lady’s Skye | terrier enameled in colors, £50 (3250); a small full-length pencil drawing of the novellst lecturing, £78 ($3%); drawings, £149 10s (5747 50); Prayer, written by Thackeray on a piece | of paper the size of a 3-penny plece, and the same by Gorson on another plece th ize of a sixpence, £25 ($125); Miss Perry s | soup kitchen account book, with a sketch of her on the title page by Thackeray, in- scribed “Suffer and Forbid Them Not,” 32 guineas ($168). As I was talking this morning to one of London’s leading publishers he asked me the question, “What do you consider | has been the most successful book of the year?” As I dld not know, I replied with the question, “What do you say?” He | rather surprised me by telling me that undoubtedly the most successful book in England was Merriman's story “The Vul- tures.” It had come pretty near the top. “It is at once,” he added, “‘the deepest , and most interesting book Merriman has | yet written. Next undoubtedly comes, so far as the English reader’s fiction is con- cerned, A. E. W. Mason's story ‘The Four The general opinion seems to be that nothing more touching has been | written for many years than the scene where the girl hands back three white feathers to her lover and adds a white | feather from herself.” A book which takes thirty-six years to appear is surely rather unusual. This is the case with a work begun by the late | Professor Thorold Rogers in the '60's, the final volume of which is just ready. Two volumes came out in 1866, two in 1882, two more in 1857 and now comes the seventh, edited by his son. The whole work is Pro- fessor Thorold Rogers’ “‘History of Agri- culture and Prices in England From 120 | At the first date England was holding the Oxford Parliament: at the second the long continental war was beginning. The book has mvolved vast | research. 1 am glad to be able to say George R. | Sims is making good recovery from ill- | ness, which nearly deprived Londoners | ol their “Mustard and Cress” in their | Sunday breakfast as served up in the Referee. The best evidence of his recov- | ery reaches me in the form of a Christ- mas card a foot long in which Mr. and Mrs. Sims are depicted backed by dogs | and fronted by ducks, so notoriously op- | posite. Sims bears an enormous plum | pudding on a charger. There is snow on | the ground and ice on a pond. Sims wears the lightest of overcoats. If he can stand about thus with the thermome- ter below the freezing point, as shown in the picture, there cannot be much the matter with him. —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —————— | Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the fornia street. Telephone Main | chael and Lucifer.”™ ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A $28,000 STATUE With naught for consolation but the recollection of a time when it creuedhl worldwide sensation in art circles, Le beautiful figure of “St. Michael and Lu- cifer” droops dismally in the w_arerwm of a Boston dealer in antiques, houpml of Beacon street. Once this huge marble statue was sold for §28,000 to a purchaser, who took it proudly to New York, vvhhere; he was the envy and the admiration u-l every art lover in the country. Dl\estci of its giory as the story of the ltaluch. origin faded from the minds of men, the fine ngure was put up for auction in H.:— ton recently and, to the disgust of ;m:: auctioneer, attracted a bid of only $100, and had eventually to be knuc!(ml |{uwn for the absurdly small sum of . From $25,000 1o §7%0! No wonder the figure seems to shrink and mope in the Boston ware- 0c th such a story attaching to i " Couia ak, it would be able Could the statue s to tell of t sei ion it caused in Rome when, in 1869, it was placed on exhibition before being delivered to its purchaser. Many distinguished persons in Rome went to see the figure, and among them the Pope. After admiring its beauty for some tme and noting the whiteness r:-[ the marble, his Holiness jocosely marked to his companions, in Italian: “The devil is not so black as he has been painted.” It was in 1865 that Gardner Brewer of Boston, a wealthy merchant who loved beautiful works of art, especiaily sculp- tures, asked Tadolini to model an alle- gorical figure of St. Michael and Lucife: | Atter long study by the sculptor of the subject, the model was completed, and then the work of reproducing it in mar- ble was begun. A block of the finest stone was procured and skilled carvers went to work. In the meantime Tadolini modeled the pedestal, hardly less important in this case than the huge figure which sur- mounted it. In three years the whole ere- ation was completed and then before be- ing shipped to America it was placed on | exhibition in Rome, where Tadolint lived and worked, to win/ the applause of all who saw it. Professor F. Franzoni, the eminent It- | alian eritic, thus described the work: “This statue unites in itself all the qual- ities which constitute a complete speci- men of the sculptor's art, namely: A profound philosophy in the intensely dia- bolical expression which he has given to satan, and which properly belongs to the enemy of God and man; and the consum- mate knowledge of nature displayed in the Wwppropriateness of the arrangement and the charming passagio of the sep- arate parts. His execution is at once skilfully elaborate, delicate and clear. We think it may be said with strict truth that the spirit of the pit never could be better expressed than in this work of Tadolini.” Upon the arrival of the figure in Boston |1t was placed in the great hall of the Gardner Brewer mansion, where it stood until sold recently and was carted away by the new owner. Gardner Brewer so loved to see statuary about him that he filled his beautiful home with fine ex- amples of it and gave generously of b€ wealth to the city of Boston for!the adornment of its parks and squares.;’ The magnificent fountain in the Publls’ Gar- den was his gift, and all about the city are drinking fountains for men and ani- mals, built from a fund which he gave to the city for that purpose. In the later years of Brewer's life com- paratively few people saw the “St. Mi- Brewer wrote a will bequeathing it to the State, but was too weak to sign the document. Thus it came that the existence of the work was al- most forgotten, and when it became nec- essary to dispose of the Brewer treasures to settle up the estate only three bidders for the figure appeared, ‘every ome a dealer in antiques, ]ANSWERS TO QUERIES. MARIE CORELLI-P. S., City. The address of Marfe Corelll, the authoress, is Stratford-on-Avon, England. LONG AND SHORT—A Subscriber, City. The longest day of the year is June 21, and the shortest December 21. CITIZENSHIP—Subsecriber, City. Under the provisions fo an act passed February 16, 1855, “any woman who is now or may be hereafter married to a citizen of the United States, and who might herself be lawfully naturalized, shall be deemed a citizen of the United States.” SKINNER—A. C. A, Benicia, Cal Henrjetta Dana Skinner, authoress, daughter of Richard Henry Dana Jr., was married to Henry Whipple Skinner, June 25, 1882. She resides at 360 Jefferson ave- nue, Detroit, Mich. This department does not know what religion the lady pro- fesses. Grealest Love Story of the Age See Next Sunday Call CLEVER woman epigrammatist once said: “Love is either a dark lantern or a searchlight.” In the modern up-to-date “romantic” novel it is both or the dear fun-loving public who buys its books for its thrills—a thrill to every page—will have none of it. 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