The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1903, Page 13

THE SUNDAY CALL. St BITS s A. Ed OF 1 — | Photo by Taber. J e China, and the men who are, as missionaries brave the terrors of death {n spreading the of ‘Chrisd ity over courtries still less civilized, far more us, than China. The can is ¢ to have its ‘eve a its intel t ts rt fixed on every 1 and ner_in the world ere is strative system on hing like the same atchful anl necessary e. The etwork of the Pa- has a mesh wherever men The Vati in this sense, 2 great many this fs a de- concerned to ergue the question y present purpose 1 isfled if I can persuade them whether deplorable or not, a fact. Civilization has . to all ‘pervading in- ermost glooms of -unclv- n t withdraw - themselves m some gleams of its light “The empire of the Pope s not merely any other empire. It folds empires and all the monarchies. e’ republ n the world. From f view, even If we were to re- r, 1t will be on is that which Pope admin- to nt of every and - mod- are breaking vilized world. Popa careful, beyond decessors; not to let hich: bapcarns. the: all over the to see that where keen eve, not alone t terfal Archbis wel- ortance may -be fact- that the Arch- ed for interviews—a the Pope—from from e he can inent to the s ] rnia. But b E as’ man to se he is unapproach- he has such a tre- f business to transact 11s. ho! office, which precedence over every- cannot give time or much besides. he as Fa er Mulligan is careful be expeditious, if you can d clear there is hope for you. ( will wait in vain for an t a list of questions you want Archbishop,” 1s the wortk them without ir own m s, the rest is easy ed at » the Archt Mary's, ( r g th terview wa buslest, and worked over a huge pile many mi sk f r entered serenely obli before he fir 1 k this as not my first visit r reporters from eading papers between New Y San Fr ght me for writ- 1 on my way reg adie e with the 3 E v grant all, or, in- ent proposes to lssue a decree in favor g cremation optional. In France ry is situated In the far of Parfs, Pere la Chaise, 99 -bodies cremated yearly tn any other country ation Is practically un only crematory in the t al. Moscow a Great City. of Moscow shows a re- d increase. Within the ely short perfod of thirty years e number of inhabftants have just about bled: - At the time of the French in- rban Muscovites num- although - the ‘official In 187 the ‘official he population at' 602,000, -in 8,000, and, according to the ’ ng now complet the " historic contains 1,173,500 Inhabltants, thus ng the tenth. place among the most us. cities - of the world, ~Moscow ar rea f 101 square kilomete: wo kilometers less than that of Area is not, however, by means a general criterion in questions population, as appears from the fact t whereas with the largest n.of any in the world, cov- city jare kilometers; New York, with tion’ iumbering more thun 1,000 n that of ‘the British I area ‘o quare Kil- The population of Moscow s nse than those of St. Petersburg, London, Berlin and Parls, —_— . The Iu.mensity of Siberia. A travéler in Sibéria says that few peo- ple realize the immensity of that coiintry. nk of a single State stretohing metrop- t 120 d s of Jongitude and pos- £ one-ninth of all the land surface of the globe is staggering. The Urited States and all its possessions, and all Eu= rope, -except Russia, could be put' into Siberia, with ' land enough left -over. to NTEREST OUT OF THE A make thirty-five States ke Conrecticut He had thought of it as a conyict seitle ment only, as. most persons do. no doubt. He found.it. a country of nearly- 4000000 people, 97 per: cent: 6f ‘whom.. dre either natives or voluntary immigrants, and- ail living - better and ‘enjoying mure " political and religious libe than people i E ropean” Russia ha Where -he traveled ft 'was like Minnesota, where wheat, rye and vegetables and strawberriés; raspber- ries und -currants -grow, and sheep and hor raze: upsheltered the year round s Rl S e et Weight of the Lrain. The_seights of 1173 ‘human. brains- have been collected by M. Marchand of Mar- bourg, France.. At birth- the ‘average welght i found- to. be.9:8 ounces in-boys and 9.5 ounces In girls; at-the-age of. 1 year, 2 -pound& and-15 _ouunces and- 1 pound 1L.50unces, respectively.:and at the end -of three years the weight has trebled Increase Is- thien glow.. Full growth is at- tained at 19 to 20 years in mén and 1§ to 18 in women, ‘the mesdn adult’ weight be- f1ig 3 pounds 1 ouncé- in- males and 2 pounds 10 ounces in females,. -Loss" by -se- nile atrophy begins in man at about 48 years and in_women at about 70. . Tur geneff, the Russian author, had one of heaviest brains on record, weighing 4.7 pounds, and Gambetta’s, scarcely- 2.6 pounds, was one of the lightest. —_————— Manufacturing Statistics. Troy makes 85 per cent of the linen col- lars and cuffs in the United States; Bal- timore cans 64 per cent of the oysters; Gloversville and its neighbors makes- 54 per cent of the gloves; Connelsville dfs- trict, 48 per cent of the coke; Wilkesbarre, 47 per cent of the brassware; Philadelphia 45 per cent of the carpets; Providence and its vicinity; 45 per cent of the jewelry and 36 per-cent -of .the silverware; Chica- g slaughters 35 per cent of the meat and makes 24 per cent-of the agricultural im- lements; Meridern makes 32 per cent of the plated ware; and Pateérson 24 per cent of the siik. e e e Japan’s Democratic Emperor. There is no barbaric splendor about the court of Japan, nor does the Em- ORDINARY.- peror insist on fantastic. forms 6f hom He is just a plain individual. -Hi glfi(-efls he receives standing, and heé en Lers - freely Inte-.conversation . with -all There is scarcely a subject .that does not fnterest luim. or-one on which ‘he is not well mformed. © A delightful: host, it ‘is his custom to-surround himself with clever: men—1m are the shining light -of . their essions. .ngineers, artists,. musicia writers, -soldlers; sclentists—every class of persons who have won distinction—ire. welcome at the royal table,- Tor: it 18 one ‘af- the charac feristics of the Mikado that in the dis- tribution of his favors. he. is - thoroughly impartial at .- Uncle Sam’s Capitalists. Farmers, so far as actual wealth is con- cerned, ‘are :the, capitalists ‘of the "United States...The census bureau. report on the vajue of farming property of the country edimates that the 7 farms of the United ‘States are worth -§16,674,69),217. -Of this. amount $3,560,198,191, represents the. value of -buldings, and $13;114,492,056, or §7.6 per. cent, the.value of land. and. improvements.. Farm .imple- ments and machinery - are’ worth -$3,07,- 030,041, making the total farming wealth over $20,514,000,000. EENUMETEL I Fish Flour in Norway. A great deal is done In Norway to im- prove and - preserve the provisions pro- duced ‘in. the country and to proeure a market -for ‘them abroad. The fisheries represent one “of Norway's chlef {ndus- tries and ~quantities. of .fish are -sold .at very low “rates, particularly during sum- mer. One-way in which thesa are utilized is by mearis of ar invention which. quick= ly -dries and pulverizes. the: flesh of fresh fish:. - The' resulting :product, called fish flour, 1s’easy to transport from.one place to another and has great nutritive value. ——————— Harcourt’s Ready Retort. A-few years ago a French hérse hap- pened to win the Derby. A Frenchman who was there was so delighted that he exclaimed, “Hurrah, - Waterloo s avenged at last!" Sir William Harcourt, who happened to be standing near, over- hearing the Frerchman, replie "y you ran well on both occasions, or’ 214 per cent,. deed, any of these requests, for i I should write for one paper I should have to write for all, and that was: utterly out of ‘the question. “I have seen his:Holiness twelve times in all now; but though he is in his ninety- third year-his mind is still wonderfully clear and active. Indeed, he is still one of the most -brilliant men in the world, and keeps a -keen grasp on the affairs of mankind In all quarters of the globe. There is no-quarter, however distant, where his interest ‘and bis far-reaching influence do not penetrate. “Naturally, therefore, he was deeply interested in the trial of the Plous fund cese at The Hague and fully alive to all the questions Involved In the settlement 18 thiereof, and It was concerning this that 1 went to Rome. “My- audience, however, was quickly over. It did pot last more than fifteen minutes, but in that brief space of time liis - Holiness fully expressed his graclous coricern for all things Amsrican of -the “Has' he been taking note troubles between the trusts and the working people? There is nothing that.in any way concerns the progress of this na- take full tion that his Holiness does not ' . He coris ot tell you, for- in- stance. who was ed Sheriff of Marin County at the-last ejection, -nor ye# who Police Judges of the San Frar but his ‘mind is particularly with cisco courts, clear and particularly well stored the laws and the affairs of the people the \West. There is no new legislation of y sort that take full od he does mnot count of, al trouble any magnitude that does not make a rect appeal to his understanding and bis sympathy. “Gver ten years ago the Pope gave his famous encyclical ¢ rganized labor to the world as the most masterly &r the ¢ urring troubles between tal and labor that bas been written. It could be reaffirmerd ac the present time with = greater force than ever bef You have It on file at your office. It fully illustrates what a deep interest his Hollness is taking in the industrial conditions in America.” “When wc e Pope in this encyclical a strike it because the hours: of bor are too 10 rikpeople,’” says ave recourse to ¢ la- frequer or the.work too hard or the ‘wages insufficient. The grave incon veriience of this uncommon - o¢ rence could te obviated public rem- edfal measures, for such paralyzing labor: not only . affects the masters :and their’ workpeople alike, but Is_extremely inijurious’ to trade, and to the general interésts of the public. Moreover, such ons ‘violence and disorder are gen occa eral istant 1 ‘thu tre & s that peace is sts every state should ende ss 1 which could fore- sta.l troables by lend- ing influerice ‘and -authority to the in - good time. of the causes lead to conflicts between employ- In all @greements be- workpeople- there is i employed masters. and tween always. 'the condition; -expiessed or- un- derstood, that'there should be proper rest for: soul ‘and ‘body: “We -now," Pope Leo declares, “ap- proach a subject of great and urgent im- portance, and-one in Tespect of which,. it extremes -are to- be-avoided, right -prin- ciples are absolutely necessary. Wages as we are told are regulated by free con- sent, “and theréfore the employer when he pays what was agreed upon has 8one his part and seemingly is not call- ed upen to do anything beyond.. But this mode . of reasoning cannot be con- vinclng ‘to. any fair-minded man, for there are important considerations which it leaves altogéther out of account. “Let it be taken for granted that work- man and employer. should, as a rule, make free arrangements and in particu- lar should agree as to wages; nevertheless there underlies a dictate of nature more imperious- and more ancient than any bargain between man and man—namely, that the remuneration. must be sufficlent to support the wage edrner in reasonable and frugal comfert. If through necessity or fear of a worse gvil the workman ac- cept harder conditions because an em- wages, of as, for exam t different t and sanitary pre- fa ries and > superse e t of the s e, tyme and th = widely hat ciats s 3 f guard- nterests wage earners, the ate being appealed t should recum- for its sanction and pro- yers and worl selves effect much by means of ganizations as wha are In- distr of all'ars workingmen's urlons, for t Include all the rest. “But let ‘thé state watch over these soct s of citizens, banded together for the exercise of thelr rights, but let it not thrust: itself Into. thelr pecullar concerns and their orga for things that move and I e spirit thspiring them may. be k e rough grasp of & hand. from wi The Pope's Iidea expressed more than ten years ago that ate should in- tervene in. cases of serious trouble be- tween employer and workman has just been exemplified in President Roosevelt's good offices In bringing about the prac- tical ending the coal s But even more clearly than this is the Pope's breadth of mind as well as his spirit of toleration {illustrated by Arch. bishop Riorda Just at the present time In New York City Hall Caine’s new religious play, “The Eternal dramatized from his own novel of the same nam wherein the Pope is made one of the leading charac- ters on the stage, has been creating a big sensation and no end of crit of ism. the interdict of the ch auth enforced ag the Passi P Canada a few months ago, been wondering and ope what the Pope thinks of tion and what the Ca do about it. The same qu ed of Archbishop Riordan. He smiled indulgently as he answered “His Holiness takes no ever £ such things and they turb aim:_in the least really vital - questions s thought. and 1 to what Is done ¢ if he has e hea t : u speak af. Somiethinig of the Archbishop's own taste in- a literary way was z when his G view. was over and the reperter rose to depart. “What is that book you are rea he asked, referring to a v ) by. the repurter, “Kipling's re “Ah, Inde v lig 1 ing T have ho doubt” he s s again, the same in sm 1 day." HOW GRANT GAVEORDERS Although - ( shows in his “Memolrs” that he co s ° bad to say and sim N ¢ & man of words. Rather was at. all times a_man of action, who coul t the actions of rs, and even w s orders ‘called for the performance most difficult task, he gave them as the duty were-the si thing . world. A man who was ( s bor during his Missour! far a ¥ ed telling s story of G & and practical Mr. Dent, his father- AW 1 a fine Durham b al ke through -every about him, and the f d suffered from ruine A as- tated garden patches One day, after a.night in which the old fellow had been espec y annoying, we sent over to the Dent plice for aid. The bull was racing about t fie rroriz- rhood. -G ing the neight or three que told some. one to “Now,” he ing a simple task, tie this in his mouth, bit-fash If any one else had made tion he would have been Grant's advice was taken as a ¢ He took no part in the procced turned his horse about and rod The men went caught the gagged him, and turned him loose again. After a few days without food he was completely broken of his bad habit. said, the bull catch