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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1903, — ¥ First Volume Promises Well ' For Series in Preparation of . Philippine Official Documents . P = | | o DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR AND STATESMAN WHOSE LIFE OF WIL- X — - - of providing a srmation concern- | of the Philippires | the time of Spanish coloniza- | down to 1803, the Ar- of Cleveland, Onlo, | sblication -of all im- | ) 1493 documents relating to ers are for the most part | from the original | French or Italfan, but in he more notable documents cation will include both the orig- tion. The work is 1o | y-five volumes under | mma Helen Blalr of Historical Society of Wiscon- es A. Robertson s been published excelle jvertisement follow. It is handsomely ge, clear type on good paper ustrative portraits, fac An interesting feature lume is a historical introduction and review by Professor Bourne of Yale. In reviewing the early settlement and conquest of the islands Professor Bourne says In the light of impartial history, raised sbove race prejudice and religious pre- s, after a comparison with the s of Spanish conquest in Amer- ica or with the first generation or two of the English settlements, the conversion and civilization of the Philippines in the 1 the put ear forty wing Legaspi’s arnival | must ed an achievement with- out parallel in history. An examination | of what was accomplished at the very erds of the earth with a few soldiers and a small band ¢f missionaries will, it is belleved, reveal the reasons for this ver- dict The ial documents justify the high clatm s made for the early successes of the fards in the islands. Later documer o reveal why those suc- cesses did not produce more important re- sulis. Professor Bourne says: “Thé contrast between the Spanish pos- sessions and those of other maritime powers became more marked as time went on. The insuperable conservatism of the home government gave little op- portunity for the Gevelopment of a class of energetic and progressive colonial of. Bcials, 1 corruption hon combed the whole colonial civil service. In concluding the subject the reviewer ip by saving: Lave now passed in review the political, ecclesiastical and commercial administration of the Philippines in the olden time and a general survey of some of the most striking results of the sys- tem as a whole may now be made. This is especially necessary on account of the traditional and widely prevalent opinion that the Spanish colonial system was al- ways and everywhere a system of ex- whereas, as a ploitation and oppressio matier of fact, the Spa eystem of laws always i the ef- fectual expl tion of the resources of their colonies, and vas far more humane in its treatment of the natives and de- pendent peoples than either the French or English. * * * The Spanish colonial empire lasted 400 years znd it is simple historical juglice that it should not be judged by 1ts beginnings nor by its col- lapse.” Those statements give a conception of the spirit in which the work is to be car- ried out. The aim is to give the real his- tory of the islands under S-anish rule with impartial fairness, doing full jus- tice to what was good as well as .0 what was dcfective in the Spanish rule. Taken altogether the verforraance of the firet volume of the serfes gives prom- ise that the work as a whole will be of popular interest, as well as of value to special students. In fact, the publishers appear to be fully justified in saying in their prospectus: “Coming before the pub- Jic at this time, when one of the most important questions before 1ie American pecple is that of our retention of the Philippines and our relations with their inhabitants, this work is of vital interest 1o all classes. For the proper solution that question & correct snowledge Fe- garding the character, customs, mode of life, religious beliefs and history of the Filipinos s absolutely necessary; but there are few subjects which are dis- cussed at once so widely and so ignorant- 1. Both the people of the United States and the leghslators whom they choose to | monograph on the “National Defenses,” — CArry out their wishes must study this matter carefully in order to secure wise and just legislation, and the information ite for such study can be found oniy in this work, wherein have been col- lected for the first time the documents which alone truly represent Philippine history.” People who have been waiting fog John Morley’s life of William Ewart Gladstone have bad to exercise not a little patience, for Morley has vet to put the finishing touches to his great work and it will not be out before October. At Montrose the other evening, when Some comment was made in Morley's hearing as to his having completed his task, he at once smilingly dissented and confessed the book was not yet finished. s 9 -» It is generally récognized that mo bet- ter choice of a successor to the late Col- onel Henderson, as official historian of the Boer war, could have been made than in Major General Sir John F. Maurice, who both from the literary and military points of view possesses all the requisite qualifications for the task he now enters upon. He was winner of the Wellington prize essay competition in 1572, his success in which was all the more creditable, as it was gained against such a formidable competitor as Lord ‘Wolseley, who short- ly afterward made the prize winner his private secretary. He has already writ- ten much about the art of war. Not the least important of his many books is a contributed a few vears ago to Macmil- lan’s English Citizen serfes. $ B w A very remarkable library was that col- lected by the late Dr. John Taylor Brown of Edinburgh. Lately the Iibrary has been selling off at Sotheby’s auction rooms and attracted a great deal of interest. From the day when, as a boy of 10, he appeared before his astonished father carrying a mighty tome, the weight of which taxed his strength, until his death he bought according to his fancy, and, as the general appear- ance of the books on sale testified, they were not merely placed on his shelves to be looked at and occasionally examined by the curious, but were read, criticized and enjoyed by the professor and his friends. One of the rarities was a copy of the “‘editio princeps” of Burns’ poems, printed at Kilmarnock in 178, which was picked up b~ Dr. Brown thirty years ago for holf a crown. It brought at this sale the record price of 54 guineas ($2861), a remarkable contrast to the rebound Hib- bert copy of the same edition, which last year made only £189 ($943). Other books disposed of, notwithstanding thelr quaint- ness, did not fetch high prices. For in- stance, Southey's “Joan of Are,” dated 17%, with coplous notes by Coleridge, made only £19 (3%5), and Lord Brooke's works, dated 1633, similarly annotated only £4 10s (32250). There were 3% lots in all. which fetched a total of only £814 155 ($407375). . Tourists traveling over Europe o be very grateful to Colonel Ne:nh::ah;J:‘z vis and Algernon Bastard for the much needed work which they have just pub- lished through Grant Richards. It is the “Gourmets’ Guide to Europe,” ‘where to eat in many European capitals elsewhere than in one's hotel. The subject is one which Colonel Newnham Davis often heard discussed during nis travels and he set himself to supply the want as he went along with a fellow gourmet. But the book does not deal merely with the poetry of food. The authors have much to tell about the price paid and what you get for it. There is hardly any place n Europe where they have not lunched and dined, and they have collected menus and the bills presented to them and give ex- pert comments to those who may follow them_ so that the book is a valuable guide to the traveler who sets a day’s pleasure on a good meal. Severely practical, too, are the authors of this guide. It is rare for them to find a meal, no matter where, that is pot good. It §= a book that the tourist should put in his bag along with his Baedeker. The China Times of Peking started the new century by ‘ssuinz its paper in seven languages—Chinese, Japanese, Englisn, French, German, Russian and Italian, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. |f JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. : Am.-e‘:;s Communications to W. S. LEAKE, IM: St s sn s MAY 110, 1008 SUNDAY TRDICHEANR " OMBE - ... .. ivooooscrsnis dhsaheastons @ weeeesessesessssess.Third and Market Streets, 8. F. LIBELING THE PRESIDENT. HE country has not forgotten the libels and lampoons of President McKinley, which _for some time preceded his assassination. The Hearst papers led in that campaign of detr.actlon, and on the morning of the day that was blackened by that great crime those papers pictured President McKinley, blacked up as a negro minstrel and singing a coon song expressive of the pleasure he felt in destroying the happiness of the common people and gloating over their misery. The people are quick, under such tragic circumstances, to connect cause and efiect: _ancl then arose such a storm against the offending papers that they ran to cover by trying hypocritically to outmourn the real mourners for the dead President., But public feeling is not long high-keyed,' and with the lapse of time the same papers have taken courage to rehew their tactics, making Presxflent Roosevelt the victim. Not content with unfair statement and false discussion of public questions, the papers which libeled McKinley and which are declared by Mr. Bryan to be the g_reatest organs of Democracy in the country, are attacking President Roosevelt personally, in the vain endeavor to stem the current of popularity which sets so strongly toward him from every part of the .country. The White House has long been used as an executive office and Presidential residence com- bined. As the business of the Government increased, the use of the same structure for bot}1 purposes became embarrassing. Its use as an office unfitted it for residence, and its use as a residence un- fitted it for business. President Cleveland found it necessary to house his family for most 9i the year outside the White House, and under President McKinley the inconveniences arising in the dual use of the building reached such an acute stage that some change was at last definitely considered. When President Roosevelt, for the first time in the history of the Government, took a large family into the White House its inadequacy was made so apparentthat Congress arrange:d for the temporary accommodation of the executive business elsewhere, and the clearing of the White House for its legitimate use as a Presidential residenfe, and the scene of official functions, social in their na- ture. This was done none too soon, for it was found that floor joists had decayed, the ancient plumbing laid in the walls had leaked, so that in a few years the rotting of the structure fron? that cause would have let,every floor in the building fall into the cellar. Without exterior change in the structure its interior was renewed and rebuilt. The main staircase was so decayed that it must hgve soon fallen, perhaps with a crowd and a tragedy. The building is now suited to its purpose, with- out destroying a single line of its noble heauty and quiet grandeur, externally or internally. These changes serve Congressman Hearst as a text upon which to defame the Prgsificnt. In his New York paper he displays a half-page cartoon, pretending to represent the state dmmg-roor_n in the White House, every line, form, light and shade of which is a graphic lie, and attaches to it explanatory text, every statement in which is also a libel. He represents President R005§\'elt as tear- ing down the walls of the White House, tearing the portraits of Washington and his wife from the panels made for them and sending them to the junk pile, and as tearing down and selling the wa}ls and furniture, and himself chopping down the old oaks—all, as Mr. Hearst avers, to make a White House “in accordance with Mr. Roosevelt’s tastes.” It is unpleasant that such a string of lies should be published about the President of the United States by anybody, and the offense is greater when the offender is a member of Congress and himself a candidate for the Presidency. The only fact stated about the President is that he chops trees. 'Away up on the highlands above Washington city, near Tennallytown, is a forest belonging to the United States. Its preserva- tion required the careful thinning out of the trees. This work was put in charge of Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Government Bureau of Forestry. He invited the President to help him do the thinning, and, needing the exercise, President Roosevelt, who is a skillful axman, as is Mr. Pinchot, has helped in the thinning process, not on the White House grounds, as Congressman Hearst leaves to be in- ferred, but many miles away, and where the chopping is beneficent, and for the good of the forest. The changes in the White House have preserved it, and have not destroyed a single noble and familiar feature. It is the home of an American family of eight—father, mother and children— living there in the bonds of domestic affection, and dispensing the hospitality which the nation re- quires of its official head, and illustrating highly the homely virtues and graces which are the dear endowment of American homes. If the White House is the representative of President Roosevelt’s tastes, they are held in common with the cleanly and decent, the upright and loyal, the wholesome and honest, among his countrymen. THRE TIRED IFEEIL.TNGE BOUT this time of the year a majority of the men and the women of the world become con- scious of a sense of weariness, accompanied by a longing to go off and rest. In former years this condition of the people was attributed to a species of disease known as the spring fever, but of late it has been the custom to look upon it as a strictly psychological phenomenon and to refer to it as “the tired feeling.” This year the feeling is so widespread, and its effects are so notable in all lines of endeavor, that some experts seek its origin in the infinite complexity of civilization. Recently a prominent Democrat predicted a Democratic victory in 19o4, because, as he said, Republican prosperity has made business so active men have no time to sleep and they will vote the opposition ticket next year for the purpose of getting a rest. A London sociologist has taken an even broader view of the matter, and declares that the entire civilized world is fatigued with wars, stratagems, commerce, in- ventions and scientific discoveries, and is disinclined to exert itself for anything. The whole world, he says, desires rest. The theory is ingenious and will go far to account for a good many curious demonstrations on the part of the people. Why, in lthese days of high wages, should so many workingmen go on a strike, if it be not that they are tired and wish to loaf a while? Why should the powers of Europe remain quiet, in the face of disturbances in the Balkans, if it be not that diplomatists wish to rest? Why do the United States, Great Britain and Japan content themselves with idle protests against * Russian aggression in Manchuria, if it be not that they are tired of strife? Why does not the United States Government fulfill its promise and establish that long-desired wireless telegraph system be- tween San Francisco and the Farallones? Surely, if a mighty nation cannot perform a little work like that, it must verily be that it wants a rest. Recently Professor Simon Newcomb forecasted the end of the world and described the condi- tion of mankind at the time the catastrophe would come. He calculated that by that time every sci- entific discovery will have been made, every canal and railway need for human communication will have been completed ; medicine will have eliminated disease; good laws will have put an end to social disturbances; a parliament of man will have abolished war; impfoved machinery will furnish ample food, clothing and homes for every human being, and thorough education will have developed every faculty of the mind and every energy of the body to its fullest extent. There will then remain nothing for men to do. The professor foresees a time when the newspaper will be laid ,on a man’s breakfast table bearing on an otherwise blank page this simple announcement: “Nothing worthy of note has happened since our last issue.” Thus the world will end when there is nothing to do. By parity of reasoning we may argue that whenever there is nothing doing the world will come to an end. That dread possibility should rouse us from our lethargy, even in the glow of the spring fever and the first languors of the tired feeling. Let us be strenuous. We may not drive the Russians out of Manchuria, but we may at least take enough interest in life to keep the Democrats from carrying the country in 1904. By way of getting rid of the discordant jangling of streef-car bells and gongs, the ‘Atlanta railways recently provided their cars with what are called “musical whistles,” but now the Constitu- tion complains that the whistles will never give satisfaction unless the company can devise some means of suppressing the musical temperament of the motormen. * When Adams, the convicted policy king of New York, was registered at Sing Sing prison the ' other day he gave his occupation as “gentleman,” and it is recalled that Reginald Vanderbilt gave the same description of himself when he took out his marriage license. New York is now trying to define the word and fix its limitations. In the case of Vanderbilt it meant a man who has never worked, and in the case of Adams a man who worked everything and everybody. So there you are. Louisiana has a law requiring every applicant for a pardon or for executive clemency of any kind to advertise the fact in a newspaper, and now if applicants for office were required to do the same a Louisiana newspaper would soon be able to buy out the steel trust. There has been so much boodling in Eastern Legislatures during the past winter from Ver- mont to Delaware that people are talking of it as an epidemic. of Dalny, Read 100,000 Inha Russians Build the Model City y Now to House bitants,inaYear | e — < NOR \OF o D. = AL NN N the eastern side of the “Re- gents Sword,” the lower part of the Liaotung Peninsula and for- ty-five miles northeast of Rus- sia’s great military and naval stronghold, Port Arthur, stands a very unique city. It is Dalny, new, modern and complete, ready now to accommodate 100,000 inhabi- tants. Already it has a large population and others are flocking thither. Dalny is what may be called the “‘ukase city.” The Czar of all the Russias said, “Build Dalny, on Talienwan Bay,” and Dalny came into being, the name signify- ing “far away.” The imperial ukase to which it owes its existence was issued in the latter part of 1899, after the settlement of the trou- bles arising from the Boxer outbreak and the completion of arrangements between the Czar’s Ministers and the Chinese Gov- ernment for an outlet for the Trans- Siberian Railway on the Yellow Sea. Tallenwan Bay possessed advantages as a harbor enjoyed by no other on all the North China or Manchurian coast. It re- mains free from ice and open to mari- time commerce all the year round. This and other advantages determined its choice as the principal commercial ter- minus of the great Trans-Siberian Rall- way. The original terminus of the main line of this transcontinental road, it will be remembered, was at Vladivostok, where the present Czar, the then Czarovitch, in 1891 laid the first stone of its construc- tion. The course of events, however, brought opportunities for changes most desirable and advantageous for Russia, and she made the most of them. Instead of being oviiged to follow the north bank of the Amur River to Kha- borovski and there meet the road run- ning north from Viadivostok, she got from China a concession of a route from Onon, Siberia, directly across Manchuria via Tsitsahar, Harbin and Ningauta to Vladivostok. From Harbin, on the Sun- gaei River, a branch road descends via Kirin and Mukden to Port Arthur, at the extremity of the “Regents Sword,” with short lines therefrom to Newchwang, at the head of the Gulf of Liaotung, and to Dalny. This latter is really the main terminus on the Pacific Coast of the Trans-Sibe- rian system and will soon be the entre- pot for the vast trade which must soon flow In and out of Manchuria and East- ern Siberia. This makes Dalny a place of great im- portance to the shipping and commercial interests of San . rancisco, as well as the agricultural and lumbering industries of the State, and some detalls and descrip- tion of the new city may be found of in- terest. On the issuance of the order of the Czar, M. de Witte, the Russian Minister of Finance, With a corps of engineers, architects, etc., proceeded to Tallenwan Bay and there, like the founders of Ephesus, Babylon, Tyre and other great citles, choosing the most suitable site, laid out the plan of the place at their will, without hindrance or obstacle. At the expenditure of 10,000,000,000 rubles they built up in a little over a year's time a complete city, provided with all the edifices necessary for the service of the Imperial Government and the muni- clpal administration and residences of various sizes, sufficient in number to ac- commodate a large population. Ample room is left for expansion on the same lines. A fine large park ornaments the city and the residences are provided with yards and gardens all 1ald out with an eye for the beautiful. The buildings are as little after the Russian style as has been possible under the circumstances. Some of the houses resemble English cottages, and others the little villas in the environs of Paris. Still others, parts of a quiet little Dutch town, while the palace of the Governor with its veranda and Its pointed towers reminds one of some hotel about the Bois de Boulogne. All the houses are roofed with tiles, and ceramics appear largely in their con- struction on account of the scarcity of 1bullding stone. The whole aspect of the — - - | HOME BUILT FOR THE GOVERNOR AND A VIEW OF A PUBLIC GAR- DEN IN THE CITY OF DALNY, BUILT BY THE RUSSIANS IN A SINGLE YEAR. \ — = new city is most pleasing to the eye. The most marked feature of Dalny, however, is found in the ornamental balustrades which enclose the gardens, border the roads and run along the boulevards; very coquettish with their little pointed pilas- ters at regular intervals. The engineers and architects left out nothing essential to a modern city. Dalny is lighted by electricity and a network of electric tramways run all over the town and its environs. An expert landscape gardener was charged with the ornamen- tation of the promenades and there was establishdd a nursery which furnishes for this purpose, and to private parties, all the trees and plants needed. The Chinese, who furnish all the manual labor for the work of the city, are relegated to a special quarter outside the city proper, and there it is proposed to keep them. Many freeholds have already been privately purchased in Dalny by foreign- ers of various nationalities, and leases taken for terms of years, and the authori- ties are now about to give to the public at large notice of the terms and condi- tions on which lots and improvements will be sold or leased. In her facilities for handling the wvast traffic which is sure to follow scon the opening of this port, Dalny 1s fully equip- Ped according to the latest standards. She has elaborate dock and jetty systems, with the rallroad running right alongside the vessels and the very best devices for loading and discharging cargoes. She has also one drydock, 375 feet in length, about completed, and another begun which will be able to accommodate the largest ocean-going ships. Altogether Dalny" is up-to-date and Iit- tle money has been wasted In making her so. The city was built with the expectation that, being the ocean terminus of over 7000 miles of raliroad, running largely through a virgin country as it were, an extensive trafic would be drawn thereto. This ex- pectation is being already realized. Sev- eral of the great steamship lines from Europe to the Far East have taken steps to secure permanent terminals there, as has the Canadian Pacific Company for its steamers. The big American lines, the great Hill steamers; the Pacific Maill and the Occidental and Oriental steamers from San Francisco, as well as the minor freight carriers from this coast, must soon follow and Dalny will be brought into close touch with us, and much to our profit. Townsend's Cal. glace fruits, 715 Mrkt.* —_——— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping_Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, » —_—————— Townsend’'s California glace fruit and candles, 0c a pound, In artistic fire-stched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. Moved from Palace Hotel bullding to 715 Market st., two doors above Call bullding.* ——————— Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who has just passed his seventy-ninth birthday anniversary, is preparing a_se- ries of elght lectures to be delivered in the Lowell Institute course next year on “American Literature in the Nineteenth Century.” _—— ADVERTISEMENTS. READY APRIL 30TH. ANGELO, THE MUSICIAN By Harrict Bartneit. AN EXCEPTIONA' NOVEL BY & NEW W#IT'R WH » TELLS A LUVE _ STORY FROM THS 14RST TO THE LAST | CHAPTER. i | Frontispiec: in Photogravare, I e Cloth. S1 35, GODFRE¢ A. S. WIENERS. At the Sign of the Lark, New York.