The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1903, Page 6

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(Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2613."") ....1118 Broadway NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: ETEPHEN B. SMITH. . .30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON..... ves...Herald Sq NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentanc, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel: Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman Hou CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Tremont House; Auditorium Hotel; Palmer House. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...14068 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—{27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untfl $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 33 McAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open mntil 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1098 Va- lencia, open until o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open untfl 9 o' clock. 'W. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open | until ® o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. S e TR s R T PROBABLY NICARAGUA. HE wisdom of President McKinley in securing a canal proposition alternative to Nicaragua is now apparent. Colombia has pursued a shifty and ter policy in regard to the Panama canal, un- reported that further negotiation is without t of succes nd negotiations with Nicaragua If this be true they will proceed rap- conclusion, 2nd the work on the actual con- | soon be under w peied | No onc can tell what far-spread influences may have caused what appears to be the folly of Colom- bia. Certainly, as a domestic policy, m’fecun'g what a to be her ent interests, the course of Co- | I a is idle and foolish. So plain is this that one is c pelled to look for a cause consistent with that | 1w is present in some degree in the pol-| 3 i cven the most unstable nations. A search line will probably reveal a very secret and | Ii hidden encouragement of the belief on the part Ce bia that other commercial nations will,| d not governmental sources, take e Panama canal. This.is easily done of the Monroe doctrine, and perfectly natural that the commerce of the ould seek independence of a canal exclu- ly controlied by the United States we must con- at the ren able course of Colombia is due the covert gestion of such a policy: But regardless of this, and in spite of the inexplic- I lombia, the United States w waterway for the world have use, policy in administering the waterway be erized by that liberality to general commerce s the which intention of our people, the necessity | for another canal, on which Colombia doubtless de- pends, will not appear, and that nation will have finally sacrificed an opportunity which was keenly comprehended by Simon Bolivar and was among the darling projects of that great man. Fortunately the Spooner bill gives the President free hand, and he can proceed with the necessary trcaties with Nicaragua and Costa Rica without fur- ther reierence to Congress. The period of debate is over and the time for action is here. | | | A lively and hot oid time has been precipitated in! the Brooklyn Eagle. in bumptious recklessness or East by The paper eithes | with malice afore- thought sent out to upward of o prominent teach- ers and professors a request for a statement of what they understand to be the meaning of the word “education.” Of course there was trouble at once. | It appears that while everybody has education andf good miany practice the teaching of it there is no agreement as to what it means. Professor Dewey of Chicago says “Education is life,” but while the phrase sounds well it cannot be strictly accurate, for while people are born with life they are not born with education. The State Superintendent of Michi- gan says it is “the sum total of the results produced in the life and character of a young man or a young woman by the combined influences of the home, the school, society, the church and the state” Such a definition lcaves no distinction between education and experience. President Hadley of Yale agrees with Webster, and “It includes every exercise of activity which is valued not for its direct results but for its indirect cffects upon the capacity of the man who is engaged therein.” Altogether the ques- tion is something-like a live wire for starting more talk, and people who wish to set educators wrang- ling might get a good circus by springing it at a teachers’ meeting. It seems strange in this twentieth century to read that Russia has taken most drastic measures to stifle the freedom of the press. The Russian authorities must have bad a glimpse“at an American yellow sheet and, mistaking license for liberty, have resolved all hazards to fight for protection. | i : | LEven President Roosevelt ought to be satisfied with the strenuous life involved in his self-determined bat- tie with the trusts. These monsters of modern com- mercialism know. neither nationality nor patriotism, and they may be made to succumb to both. 5 All the cities of the country are congratulating cne another on the low death rate of last year. scems that prosperity is healthy. | Mediterranean. There is, of course, a good deal of please children. i and mankind had a sort of reverence for it; Itl DIPLOMATIC LANGUAGE. EPLYING to the protest made by Great R Britain against the passage of the Darda- nelles by certain Russian torpedo boat ge- stroyers the Russian Government is said to have made | answer that no such boats were sent through !hei straits. Investigation discloses the fact that the] Russians are right. When. the boats made the trip they had no armament and flew the commercial flag. They could not at that time have destroyed any- thing, much less a torpedo, and were as harmless as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. We are told that European diplomats are now busily engaged in trying to determine when a tor- pedo destroyer is not a torpedo destroyer. It appears 2 given boat may be a warship in the Black Sea, a merchan: vessel on her way through the Turkish waters, and a warship again when she gets into the danger in that kind of definition, and naturally di- plomacy would like to have a better understanding on the subject. This is the second lesson Russia has given Europe of the flexibility of diplomatic language within a year. The first lesson occurred in connection with the settlement of the Chinese question. At that time Russia promised to evacuate her posts in ‘Manchuria. Weeks became months and the promise remained‘ seemingly unfulfilled. Russian troops continued to | be conspicuously notable at every strategic point of | the province, and at last Germany and Great Britain made a joint request for explanations. They were promptiy forthcoming. Russia assured the powers that she had evacuated her posts in Manchyria ac- | cording to her promise, but that owing to the dis- order prevailing in the province she had been com- | pelled to occupy certain new posts for the sake of protecting life and property. Russia is not the only nation that finds diplomatic language an excellent means for concealing thought. It is only a short while ago that Germany and Great Britain had all diplomatists studying to find out what is meant by “a peaceful blockade.” It appears the peaceful nature of the blockade of the Venezuelan | ports did not prevent the smashing of several Ven- ezuelan warships, nor the bombardment of Venezu- | clan forts. The difference between that kind of thing and real war is very subtle, but fortunately while the world was trying to study it out the whole controversy was referred to arbitration, so that a determination of the exact meaning of a peaceful blockade ceased to be of practical value. | A little further back there was a still more striking | | | | | | | illustration of the amazing neatness of diplomatic | phraseology. Nearly all the great powers of Eu-, rope, in combination with the United States, sent fleets to Chinese waters and armies to invade the countr There was a complete “demonstration in | force.” Forts were bombarded, battles were fought, | soldiers were killed, 2 wide region of country was | 2 | devastated, the capital of China was taken, its wealth | plundered and its private houses looted. Still tha[} | was not war. Diplomacy said so, and in all the world | there was no power big enough to dispute the saying. | When is a war not a war? When is a blockade by force a peaceful blockade? Under what circum- | stances can a nation be said to have evacuated a| province while still retaining military control over | it? When is a battleship not a battleship? Those are not wholly idle conundrums, got up to At present the discussion upon them is purely academic, but some day there may be needed a satisfactory answer to every one of them.| Suppose a European power should establish military posts on the soil of some South American country | and asked under the Monroe doctrine to| evacuate should move the army of occupation from cne set of posts to another, set in the same country, when | would not the plain American citizen have some dii- culty in understanding the delicacy of the situation? Might there not be a ruction over the meaning of | the word? | Diplomacy is evidently a very pretty game to play In old times it was a secret and o ult myster; but of | late the newspapers are making known the inner workings of the cult and it shows up veby much like a confidence game. Evidently the promises of dip- lomacy can be relied upon only when there is a power strong enough to compel the keeping of the prom- es. We were strong enough to make the blockadc‘ of the Venezuelan ports a comparatively peaceful af- fair, but is any one strong enough to compel Rus- sia to build her warships in such a manner that they at \ [ will remain warships when seeking to pass through the Dardanelles? | l | It is uniortunate that the soldiers who returned on;w the Logan and were saved from gambling away their | savings by command of the officers cannot be pro- | tected from the pitfalls of San Francisco. And in| these days of strenucus night life in this city sol- diers without money are not good to contemplate. TALKING AGAINST TIME. “PORTS from Washington are to the effect| R that the opponents of the omnibus statehood | bill have resolved to defeat it, even' if they have to resort to the policy of talking it to death. Upward of thirty Senators are said to have given their names to Senator Beveridge, the leader of the oppo- sition, and asked to be allowed time to speak on the measure. It is estimated that if all those speeches be made they will occupy about every hour of the time of the Senate that is not required for the passage | ¢ the regular appropriation bills. Consequently if the | opposition find that it has not enough votes to de- | feat the bill squarely it will talk and talk until the | session closes. | The country is accustomed to such tactics on the | part of Senators. Many a good measure has been | talked into oblivion in that body of endless babblers. | There are Senators whose capacity for talk has not vet been fully measured. Never has their loquacity been pumped out. When the flow of words has ceased from their lips it has been only because there was no | occasion for any more. The reservoirs of language ‘and buncombe were not exhausted, and the people ! have again and again been asked to look with ad- miration \upon some Senator who, after talking for two hours a day for a » eek or more, sat down at last in the proud conseiosness of victory achieved and the supply of ammunition still plentiful in the slack of his jaw. % Whether or no the country will bear with patience the defeat of the statehood bill by that sort -of tac- | tics remains to be seen. Of course nothing can be | done to prevent it, for the Senate is sole arbiter of its own rules and processes of doing public business, | Still the frequent repetition of the scandal of defeating ' important measures by loquacious minorities will strengthen the demand for the election of Senators | agitations to help out their own plans, and should the | been for years. | to get an advertisement for their goods there is no | to the business of the country, and when it fails to do so a resolute public opinion ought to bé able to find some way of reaching the offenders and retiring them from public life. The Macedonian chiefs have announced, with all the formality of a state edict, that it is their purpose to revolt from Bulgaria on April 1. Perhaps these bumptious chiefs have just discovered that they should play a part in the world's nonsense on All Fools' day. POVERTY IN LONDON. °* ONDON dispatches announce that the daily L parade of the unemployed through the streets has given rise to a good deal of uneasiness and alarm. Up to this time the demonstrations have been orderly, and as the number of men in any one parade has not exceeded 2000 the policé have easily man- aged to preyent any of the turbulent elements of the city from using them as a means of making a dis- turbance. Still the shopkegper remembers that in| former yéars other demonstrations of the kind began with small numbers and with good ordet, but ended | in riots and the breaking of shop windows. « The fear is that unless something be done to check the; paraders history may repeat itself and that some day¢ there will gather a crowd too large and too turbu-| lent to be held in restraint either by labor leaders; ! or by the police. The danger can hardly be deemed one of imagina- | tion only. In London there is a large element of hoodlums, thieves, roughs and other more or less lawless kind of men, 'who are eveér eager to get a chance to make mischief. They have no sympathy with labor, but they are quite willing to use labor parades of the unemployed become sufficiently ex- citable for the turbulent ones to precipitate a riot-or any serious kind of disturbance they would unques- tionably do their worst to profit by the opportunity. A parade of 2000 men in a city of the size of Lon- don is but a little thing, but there is no telling when that number may swell to 20,000. The industries of | the country are undergoing a period of depression, | and the number of unemployed is larger than it has Not long ago Kier Hardie, the rep- resentative in Parliament of the labor unions, wrote to the Times that as early as October the returns of | twenty-two trades unions showed that 3 per cent of | their members were uneniployed as compared with less than 4 per cent in the previous October. He then added: “Those figures relate to skilled artisans | and take no cognizance of the unskilled occupations, where in the very nature of things the proportion out of work must always be greater. It is no rash assumption to argue that out of the 14,000,000 wage- earners in Great Britain 10,000,000 are'engaged in occupations which will yield an average of 5 per cent unemployed, thus giving us as a minimum 300,000 workers out of work through no fault of their own.” | Referring in greater detail to some of the working- men'’s districts in London M£. Hardie shows that the proportion of unemployed in the city is far in excess of that for the country as a whole. He also directs attention to the fact that beneath the workers there is the submerged class.‘ who are always more or less unemployed. He estimates that class at not less than 1,000,000, and says: “This vast army of misery can have no reserves to- fall back upon, and a week’s want of work means for them actual destitution.” It will be scen then that London has good reason for uneasiness at the parade of the unemployed even if the persons taking part in them are not numer- ous and the demonstrations are orderly. There is too much inflammable material of that kind in the city for the authorities to afford to play with fire. There is danger in the situation, and a very fearful danger at that. | | a A Syracuse banker, unmarried, who is enjoying life healthfully in his eighty-second year, has invited one hundred widows to help him celebrate his birth- day. He evidently wishes each lady to consider her- seli a hundred to one chance in the matrimopial game for antiques. BANK ROBBERIES/ —r ROM the New York Sun we learn that the | F Pinkerton detective agency in that city has a. record of fiity-six bank robberies committed in various parts of the country from September 15, 1902, to January 6—that is within a time of less than four months. Evidently the burglar business is booming, and there is great activity among the more enterpris- ing members of the profession. The crimes have been committed in small towns only, but the number is the ladgest on record in so short a time. The chief seat of the activity of the burglars is the Mississippi Valley, but several robber- ies have occurred in New York, in Pennsylva\nia and in New England. The one farthest West occurred in Utah, not a single one being reported for the entire Pacific Coast. In the South there were a few, sceattered from South Carolina to Texas, but the . great majority were grouped around Chicago as a, storm center. { | It appears that of Tecent years the banks of large* cities have become virtually secure from attacks of this kind. The bank robber of to-day has learned that the safety appliances and the gareful watching that guard the banks of a city are more than he can overcome. Consequently he turns to' the country | towns and works for such booty as he can find there. Concerning that phase of the subject the Sun tells curious story of an attempt at burglary in a prom- inent Western bank, which was carried out in such a manner that “the detectives who investigated it were | more than suspicious that it was undertaken in the interest of a company which makes an unusually hardi kind of steel for the manufacture of safes.” If there be any justification for such suspicions we have a new danger to fear, for if the manufacturers of safes | begin to make a show of attempts at burglary just telling what we may come to. Furthermore, it is up to Chicago to explain why these things are thick- est where her influence is strongest. Emperor William of Germany announced a few days ago that he is eager to have and to retain the friendship of the United States. Some of his advisers might suggest to him that there are means of at- taining his eminently desirable end much more direct than those involved in his conduct in connection with Venezuelan affairs, : Europe has finally decided that her stock of gener- osity is exhausted, as far as any demands on China! are concerned. And Europe is not yet through pick- ing her teeth in grim satisfaction at the feast in which China supplied the repast. | are not mere directors’ | pany will resume work on Quartz Hill | and will increase the capital stock from | $500,000 to $700,000. ! six months last year the shaft reached | feet and drifts amounting to 483 feet have | The machinery is said ‘tn be in a# fine condi- N FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1903. : by popular vote. Congress was designed to attend | QUARTZ MlNlNG l GOOD RE SULTS~ GOSSIP FROM IS INCREASING IN CAL_IFORNIA The second era of quartz mining in Cali- fornia has arrived. The proceeds from | the quartz ledges surpass those derived | from any other branch of the mining in- dustry. While the gold and silver mines of California in 191 produced 818,218,400, the sum of $14,264,369 came from quartz alone. This general aspect of mining is made the subject of a review by the Pa- cific Coast Miner, in the course of which the following appears: : The first era was practically a failure. Men ‘who had been placer mining went into quarta mining with little or no knowledge of the business, built mills before they developed any ore to amount to much, worked under a top- heavy system of manarement, commiited all sorts of extravagances and then quit. For a number of years quarts mining had a ‘‘black eve" n this State.; Abandoned claims could be seen on all sides, many of them equipped With expensive machinery. Along the mother lode recion, now our m rous quartz this was partl igeable, but ) 08t Drospe: cularly not the cessation of quartz mining was confined ) no one locality, being quite general. Then about ten years or so ago there began shown signs of a revival in this indus- 't rtles and rs started try. y o reopen old prope make a profit in running them. Othe: in on prospects and brought them to a pro- ducing stage. Capital began to be again in- terested and the success of a few good prop- erties attracted attention to many other possi- bilities in the same lina. This resulted in the searching out and opening of new sections.. More quartz mincs are being operated in California_than ever before and it is easfec to get capital interested in this direction than in any other form of gold mining carried on in the State. Fconomical management, im- provements in mining and milling machinery, better metallurgical methods and new pro- cesses, Improved means of transportation and & better knowledge of the business as a whoie. have brought about these changes. It is no possible to work ores at a profit which a decade since would have brought a mine in debt. It is found that a good-sized ledge of what is termed low-grade ore is better than & small ledge of richer vre. &It iy known that With extens‘ve milling facilities mines can be made to ray which would run behind with small mills. “ And many other things have been | found out that the early-day quartz miner did not recognize, or if he did, failed to utilize properly. There is no big office force and high- salaried superintendent, and men now in charge favorites, but those skilled in their profession and able to carry on and direct any branch of it. In other ass2d the a4 as is any other legitimate business enterprise, with skill, economy and thorough knowledge of de- tails, worde, quartz mining has long since SALES AND BONDS. The Redding Searchlight says that the original Quartz Hill Gold Mining Com- E. F. Burrill of Berkeley has secured an option to purchase for $30,000 the Sen- ger & Hughes placer property in the vi- cinity of Blue Gulch in the Weaver Basin in Trinity County. Superintendent B. C. Voorheis of the Lincoln ‘Gold Mine Development Com- pany has submitted a report to the stock- holders of the company which shows that the total cost per foot of running drifts and crosscuts on the 1950-foot level was $5376. The total disbursements of the com- pany from the beginning of work have amounted to $197,%106. During the first the depth of 2000 feet. A station was es- tablished at the 1950-foot level, and from this a crosscut has been run westerly 642 been run cn the fissure. The Bay State mine in Amador County, north of Plymouth, has begun to sink its shaft 800 feet deeper on the shaft, which is now down 800 feet. | Mining has been resumed at the Bea- | trice mine at Murphys, Calaveras County. | P. Clark of Spokane has taken a bond on | the Albright ‘mine in Del Norte County. " The lronclad mining property in the | Rough and Ready district, Nevada Coun- | ty, has been sold to the Grear-Ironclad Company. The original shaft of the Guadalupe quicksiiver mine in Santa Clara County has been reopened after twenty vears of disuse. Rich ore is reported to have been found on the 200-foot level. The Rose and Harold placer mines in Sierra County, near Poker Flat, will be | developed with outside capital. | Ninety acres of mining land near Co- lumbia have been sold by the Altadena syndicate to W. L. Homes of Detroit. Last year there were filed in El Dorado County 333 location notices and 249 certifi- cates of labor. In Tuolumne County there were filed 448 locations of quartz claims, seventy-one placer and gravel locations, fifty-six water rights, seventeen mill sites and seven rescrvoir sites. | The Alice fraction quartz mine, in Flat | Creek District, Shasta County, has been | suld by C. F. Nourse. The New York mine, in Indian Valley, Plumas County, has been reopened by W. Whitney. PRICES AT TONOPAH. A correspondent of the Mining and Scientific Press glves an account of some conditions existing at Ponopah that are reminiscent of the old times in Califor- nia, so far as the prices are concerned. Some extracts are given: While nature has been prodigal of her min- eral wealth in the veins thus far exploited, she has underwritten an antithesis of this in her niggardly provision for fuel Vood sells for $15 ger cord. It has to be hauled from twelve to twenty miles. Stulls, six to elght inches diameter and seven teet long, sell as high as $1 each. Fortunately, however, the ground is almost all self-sustaining, and the veins and courtry being very ary, there is no swelling. All sawed material is shipped 200 miles by railroad, thence by wagon sixty miles, costing, laid down, §$50 to $70 per 1000 feet. With the exception of about seventy-five horsepower enerated by steam, the remainder of the power of the camp, aggregating about 1000 horsepower, is produced by gasoline. Gasoline, it is understood, costs 40 cents per gailon. On an_estimated consumption of one-tenth of a gallon ‘per horsepower hour, each horsepower will nggregate about $300 per annum for fuel alone on a twenty-four-hour basis. 1f cost of attendance, oll, waste, repairs, depreciatis and interest charges be added, power Is cost- ing by reason of the small units In operation || not far from $300 per power per annum. The power thus far consumed is used almos: ex- | clusively for hoisting. There are a few small | compressors actuating as many “‘chippy” drills. Miners' wages are $4 per shift. Board and lodging costs from $1 50 to §2 50 per day. Wagon freight on ore to the railroad is $10 | per_ton, while incoming freight runs from $20 | to $28 per ton, according to class. The cost of | all freight and treatment charges aggregates | about $40 per ton—shipments going largely ko Salt Lake and Selby smelters. OPENING OLD MINE. The San Diego Union of January 11 Colonel S. H. Lucas of Los Angeles is in this city on his way to the Cuyamaca grant to take charge of the Stonewall mine, which has been recently purchased by a Boston bank cor mpany. Colonel Lucas has been dickering a long time, and only recently closed the deal, the consideration being $200,000. He comes here with full authority to take sole charge of the mine, which {s sald to one: of the best in the State, although it has been shut down for six or seven ycars. Colonel Lucas says the owners wish him to lose no time in get. ting to work and thinks inside of thirty days he. ‘v‘vm be able to have a hundred men at W ork. That the mine Is rich is unquestionable, During the time it was owned by Governor | ‘Waterman it produced over $2,000,000, and was onlv closed down on account of the disastrous collapse of the Californta National Bank of this city, and its machinery has been Idle ever since. The mortgage has been held by the Sather Banking Company of San Fiunetsco. The mine is situated, as has been said, in the Cuyamaca grant, covering clghteen acres, and is only about eight miles from Julian. tion as could be ex stamp miil. The ol wever, has been unused for so long that it is full of water. Colonel Lucas states that no attempt will ba made to pump it out, but a new shaft will be sunk. The Mining and Scientific Press re- views the comparative figures of produc- tion of precious metals in this country for a series of years, taking as a basis the preliminary figures of the year 1902, as published by the director of the Unit- ed States Mint. The following showing is made: mparative study of 1roduction for the | of the American FOLLOW WORK OF PROlV\OTlON The California Promotion Committee has received a letter from the Stockton Chamber of Commerce signed by Calvin B. Brown, secretary, in which the state- ment is made that owing to the ndvecru‘a‘v ing in the East of the resources of Cali- fornia by the Promotion Committee Euhl- ern parties to the numble;"uo( 452 since, the 1st day of December, 1902, 3 t sxo:kton for coples of the Gnlegn_& Magazine, which is devoted to explol‘ ng the resources of San Joaquin County. The Promotion Committee regularly supplied postoffice addressess to the Stockton Chamber of Commerce t! ters from the East addressed to th motion Committee. _Secretary Brown writes that the lists have been of great value to the Stockton Chamber of Com- merce. All those who sent for the Gate- way Magazine evinced their interest in California by writing and sending post- age. Secretary Brown says that this evi- dence of interest m each case indicates that a prospective settler in this State has been brought into view. Secretary Brown's letter is in part as follo 2 receiving these names and eddresses we have had no less than a score of people come Into o peo, and state to us that the: e e Gate- ton on account of having receive: way Magazine. They would not have ceived this mnw}ne h dresses not been furn h fornla Promiotion Committep. The Stockton Chamber of Commerce fecls that by receiv v;‘l these names and addresses it ha= received the full benefit of all of by the California Promotion ) valve of $1000 per month, which is. stand, the amount of the cost of the ad done. 1t is very evident that no community of the ur headquarters Committee to the necessary to carry the advertisements that the Premotion Committee i# carrying. "o evidént that without advertising there would be Do names and add: “Which 0 the literature Issued mmunity. first got next to the man who wants to come to California. It must then send him litera- ture. The great expens him. This the California Promotion Commit- tee does, and we feel that it has been worth | to.San Joaquin County the full amount it has | expended in advertisi g - i During the year 1902 there were J00 more transfers of real estate than there were in 1901 There has been an enormous increase in bank deposits during the year last past, and the same is true In the matter of the postoffice receipts. It is safe to say that close to half a million dollars of new capital has come to San Joaquin County during the past year. We Delieve that this is in a very due to the literature that has been mailed by the Stockton Chamber of Commerce. We also believe that these results would net have ac- crued had not the names and addresses to which this literature had been mailed been fusnished by the Califorais Progpution Com- mittee. A Study in Criminology. The annual report of Pinkerton's Na- tional Detective Agency for 1002, made to the American Bankers' Association, has ust been published. The report will prove interesting to those interested in criminal statistics. It demonstrates conclusively that one of the most effective preventions of crime is the certainty of punishment, | by showing the comparative immunity from depredation enjoyed by the members ankers' Assoclation. During the yea® ending . September 15, 1202, burglars entered seventy-three “‘non- member” banks, securing $129,438 77, while ten banks of the assication lost $23,539 5. Unsuccessful attempts were made on for- t t en banks of the association. The revort claims that the old-time pro- fessional bank burglar has practically | left the fleld, and that operations are now conducted almost entirely by tramp hurglars, country and Canada are confronted by 2 problem difficult to solve. The report also deals with the crimes, arrest and conviction of forgers at whose | hands the banks have suffered. Thirty- two of this class of criminals were ar- rested, convicted and sentenced to an ag- gregate of eighty-one years and months’ imprisonment. Among these was the Farrell-Morris gang, the most dan- gerous in the field since the breaking up of the Becker-Cregan band in 1596. ————— Entertain Chinese Consul. James R. Dunne, inspector of Chinese inimigration, together with the staff of the immigration bureau and the Chinese Consul General, were the guests of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at its rew detention shed on the Mail dock yes- teréay afternoon. Refreshments were served by the steamship officials, and fe- | licitations passed between the immigra- tion officers and the Chinese official. undoubtedly helped to red the output by many Fundreds of thousands of doliars. Al- though the output of Alaska in 1902 exceeded that of 1901 by $119,000, it <till lacked about $345,000 of reaching the output of 1900. Colo- rado, in 1900, produced 325,829 400, and in 1901 statistics showed a production of $2.,000.- 000. year 1902 shows $28,820.400, or a 170,600. _California shows a_substan- loss of | tial gan—$1,308,741 over 1900 and $1.204,041 over 1901. Arizona shows a slight gain over the two previous vears. Nevada shows a gain of $500,000 in gold, and S-uth Dakota sains 257 in gold production. ~ All ucing States show some cpange, but a{:fl above mentioned are the mokt important arnd notice- able. Official and exact.rcports will soon be issued, but no considerable change can be anticipated from the figures above giver. Can you tell why Weary Willie won’t go inside the gate? .To-mor- | row’s Call. have written | hat came in let-g e Pro-| v had come to Stock- | ad their names nndme | jshed to us by the Call- | the advertising being done | 1 under- | vertising | siza of Stockton could stand the large expenss | 1t is also | send | it a | Y d | community engages in promotion work It must is getting mext to | large measure | two ‘“‘non-member” banks, and on fif-| , and therefore the police of this | two | LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS With regard to English literature the | past year has certainly been a :t;_nl\nz‘ { one. The two premier novelists of Eng land have been silent with a silence that is none the easier to bear for being famil- jar. On the other hand, Henry James has given to the world a book that car- ried to the furthest point of excellence his characteristic meghods. While both Kipling and Barrie have published ::-;r::; ing books whose fate is to rank wi - old nursery classics, several other novei- ists, such as Philipotts, Hichens, Miss Cholmondeley, Jerome and others too nu- merous to mention, have increased their reputation by new novels, while in Miss Violet Jacob we have a very welcome ad- dition to the band of capabie rustic gov- elists. 3 In poetry the chief nchlgvement as been Willlam Watson's coronation ode, while in the critical branches of literature we have had a book of essays from Street, a miscellaneous book from Beeche- ing and a book great both in promise and performance fram Chesterton. Then Hen- ley has given a new volume of essays oa matters artistic, and Yeats has issued an enlarged edition of his “Celtle Twilight and a little play in prose. Courthey has published a charmingly poetical drama. and there has been a notabie book of | pcems from Miss Emily Lawless, while in the weightier branches of literature there have been a second volume of An- drew Lang's “Scotland” and Podmore's admirable “History of Modern Spiritual- ism.” In theology there has not been much of note. The Oxford Library of Practical Theology continues to issue its singularly useful series of handbooks. “Contentlo Veritatis” has hardly achieved or deserved the success and notoriety of previous collections of essays, such as “Lux Mundi.” Canon Henson gained the attention of the religious public for a while by his not very practical proposals for reunion in “Godly Union and Con- coxd.” he Messrs. Treherde are beginning with the new year a fresh enterprise that should be very successful. They intend to issue a series to be called “Poets of the Renaissance”” and will thus cover English poetry between Surrey and Her- rick. The first volume will contain selec- tions from Surrey, Wyatt and Sackvlille. Benjamin Swift, who is himself a nov- elist of reputation, has been contributing | somewhat pessimistic views on the “de- | cay of the novel” to a weekly paper. | Swift, whese real name is Paterson, con- | siders the spread of popular education | has more or less swamped literature with imitations, just as there is imitation jew- elry put on the market against real jew- | elry. People nowadays, he thinks, go to | the bookstall as they go to a buffet, and | it i3 not surprising that the great reading villas re- [ i | | ! i | { public who rejoice in jerry built jolce also In jerry built novels. I On this interesting pronodncement sev- eral novelists -offer criticism. Thomas | Hardy, for example, approves Swift's statement that the “immoral” book is the bcok which hides the truth and creates a “fool's paradise” and a mirage that mis- leads. H. G. Welis stoutly denles there is any decay. Whiteing agrees there is, but is not therefore disheartened, and W. E. Norris thin@s the novel is going through a state of transition at the mo- ment, but adds he is afraid the public taste is not very likely to improve. Nor- ris doubts whether shams have much more power for evil than they have for good. Heinemann will before long, T believe, issue a book entitled “Penal Servitude,™ the author of which conceals his identity undér initials. He is, however, I under- stand, no other than Lord Willlam Nevill, who was sentenced, it will be re- membered, some . Lora William three years and nine months, mainly in Parkhurst prison. His book describes faithfully what he saw and underwenc there. The story is likely to prove a very lively account of his experiences. He has something to say with regard to Judge and counsel which promises not to be at 2li conventional. A distinguished soldier who was recent- !y knighted, General Sir Alexander Bruce | Tulloch, has written his reminiscences. They are to be published by Messrs. Elackwood under the title of “Recollec- tions of Forty Years of Service.” It was Sir Alexander who was requested by the King of the Belgians to undertake Gor- don’s work In Central Africa when Gor- don was shut up in Khartoum, but this was not sanctioned. He has seen much active service. The Duke of Argyll and General Baden- Powell are contributors to a book which Messrs.. Jack are about to issue. It has the title “South Africa and Tts Future™ and is edited by Louls Creswicke. The idea of the volume is treating broadiy and with full knowledge South African subjects and problems. Thus, General Baden-Powell writes of the future of the South African constabulary, the force which he commands. Another of the con- tributors is the Hon. A. Wilmott. —_——— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsead's." ———— Townsend's California glace candies, 60c a pound. in artistic fl'rr:-"e‘ug: bexes. 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