The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1903, Page 8

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open orent © w2200 Fillmore. open until ® p. m. PAN LATIN-AMERICA. ENTRAL and South ‘ into sixteen nations, separate states, between many of which there is mo natural frontier. VJith the exception of Brazil they were all original nies of Spain. The Spanish is the legal and com- mon language and they are all under the domination cs of the Spanish people. Of all these states only Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile [ semblance of civilized government and pub- America are divided of the character i ty. The others have grown steadily worse since they threw off the Spanish yoke. They steadily resist federation and remain politically isolated from each o A glance at the ph the country is very ins The smallest and most disorderly as well as physi- cally the richest of these pestiferous states lie between Mexico and Brazil. The Herald, published in the City of Mexico, responsive to the new life infused into that republic by Diaz and feeling the impulse of great ideals, has pioneered the way to a solution of the Latin-American problem by proposing that Chile, Argentina and Brazil shall absorb Bolivia, Paraguay and Urugua The Herald adds that the small states between Mexico and Venezuela are the odium of the hemisphere; that they lag a century behind, rent by factions and weakened by their internal feuds, and therefore they should be happy in absorption by Mex- ico, which should become one nation, ruling from the Rio Grande to Panama The civilized world secongs the motion. The day of such absorption would be little less significant to the destinies of man than the day of our own inde- pendence. The political union of people speaking the same langiage and living under the same com- mon law, but divided into insignificant political states, is the modern destiny of peoples. What the petty and wretched states of Central America 45 for themselves in staying apart.was done for the German states by their enemy, France, and for Italy by her Austrian enemy. The genius of Bismarck and not the power of the Hohenzollerns effected the unifica- ical and political geography of ructive and very suggestive. tion of Germany, and now a great and glorious em- | pire spreads where petty states did no more than farnish the satire for Offenbach’s opera bouffe. The expulsion of Austria from Italy unified that distracted land. which Bonaparte had helped to carve into giblets With Greater Mexico extended to Panama the ab- sorption of Venezuela would follow, and the isthmus and South America would present to the world the great states, powers among the powers, of Mexico, Rrazil, Argentina and Chile, for Peru could not long resist the unifying tendency and would fall to Chile. This process would meet with encouragement and not obstruction from the United States. Our policy is different from that of England on the continent of Furope. It was long a primary maxim of British statesmanship to prevent any nation holding the bal- ance of power on the Continent. This was the cause of her Napoleonic wars, undertaken not merely to prevent the control of the balance of power by France, but to avert the greater danger of her Conti- pental empire. But when this was accomplished by Leipsic and Waterloo England had no interest in the gonfederation of the small German states nor the uni- fication of Italy. Our policy is entirely different. Our ingerests would be served by the erection of four great nations between the Rio Grande and the straits of Magellan. So vital is this to our interests that if, as is likely, we are compelled to resort to force in vindication of the rights of our nationals, grossly in- vaded as they constantly are by those small piratical “ctates, we would be justified in handing the offender over, bound and gagged, to the keeping of Mexico. 1§ the Mexican conquistadors move southward under the banner of Cortez our people will watch their progress with friendly solicitude and hail their :pnquests with applause. In some of the more strenuous incidents of legal procedure in the United States our European critics have censured us somewhat severely because liti- gants, in an outburst of American frankness, would occasionally shoot one another to death. The Hum- Dbert trial at Paris, however, has reached a climax of THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1903. ONSULAR CLERK H. G. MURPHY has gent from Frankfort a copy of a letter to the Zeitung of that city, written by a correspond- ent in Buenos Ayres, giving an account of the com- petition Germany has to meet in the markets of South America. It is not gratifying to learn from the letter that the Germans count us as an insignifi- cant factor in the situation as it exists and set our competition aside as a matter of little moment. In the course of his letter the writer points out that there has been a diminution of German trade in some of the more important South American mar- kets, and then adds: “It may be well to explain the cause of the decreased importation from Germany. It is not due to the United States’ competition in South America, as the United States has had very little sticcess there except in the Argentine Repub- lic.” In another connection, reviewing South Amer- ican trade from 1892 to 1902, he says: “Were it not for the increased purchasing power of the Argentine Republic, which has enabled the United States during the period mentioned to increase its exports to this country to the extent of $7,000,000, there would have been not only a relative but an actual decrease in the total value of exports from the United States to outh' America.” That is the way a German commercial expert sums up our trade position in South America. He finds it more interesting to discuss the competition of Great Britain against Germany, for he finds that more formidable and therefote more worthy of study. If we were in any doubt as to the reason why our competition is not feared by our rivals in South American markets we would find light thrown upon the subject by a report of Consul General Patterson of Calcutta, who after giving statistics showing how far the United States lags behind other nations in her exports to India, says: “The only obstacle to the development of trade between the United States and India is the want of a rapid direct steamship line so that goods may be delivered in a reasonable time. * * * Jf importers could rely upon a qifick deliv- ery of goods I believe the trade would increase three- fold within two years.” Trade is governed by the came laws all over the world, and since it is a lack of ships that causes our trade to languish in India it is fair to assume that the lagging in South America is due to the same cause. Great Britain has just given us a striking illustra- tion of the high value she sets upon the maintenance of a British controlled merchant marine. She has entered into an agreement with the International Mercantile Marine Company by which it is provided that the ships of the British companies included in the combine shall not be transferred to a foreign | registry without the consent of the British Govern- i ment, that the vessels shall continue to be officered | by British subjects, carry the same proportion of British seamen as other British ships of a similar clase, and in addition thereto shall be liable to postal, naval and military service whenever the Government requires it. Furthermore, as a means of building up a com- peting line in opposition to the International, the Government has arranged to grant the Cunard | Steamship Company upward of $13,000,000 to be | devoted to the construction of. two steamers, each of which will surpass in magnitude any now afloat. The amount advanced is to be repaid in twenty years on easy terms, but that does not constitute the whole of the aid given to the company, for in addition to the loan there is to be a subsidy which is expected to yield to the company $80,000 the first year over and | above the interest and installments due on the debt. That is the way Britain holds her trade. We have abstained from following the example and we see the consequences. The two Oklahoma outlaws who were killed a few days ago were worth as dead men twelve thousand dollars to their captors. And still this is not too much to pay for the carcasses of gnen who prey upon their fellows. Some men are worth much more dead than alive. | THE MACEDONIAN COMMITTEE. ISPATCHES from Sofia are to the effect’ that D the Macedonian Committeg? is sorely disap- pointed over the attitude of the American press toward their efforts at overthrowing the Turk- ish Government in Macedonia. A certain Christo Tartarcheff, who is described as “one of the presidents of the Central International Macedonian Committee,” is reported to have declared a conviction that the “ American press has been subsidized by Turkish gold and hired to misrepresent and distort the actions of the patriots. The words of the complaining leader have been deemed worthy of fransmission by telegraph all the way from Sofia to this city, and it is added that after charging that American newspapers have been bought by Turkish gold Tartarcheff went on to say: “There seems to be no other explanation of the tone of their articles. They are not only unsympathetic toward | the movement, but decidedly inimical to it. It is im- possible that such an attitude could arise from igno- rance of the true state of affairs in a country so in- | telligent as Arferica, and it is also difficult to believe that the impression created by the Miss Stone affair | could have so prejudiced the American press.” That statement is sufficient to prove that when Tartarcheff undertook the work of a member of a campaign committee he struck his talent. Few in- | stances can be cited even in American campaigns of |2 bolder flight of roorback eloquence and sapiency | than that of charging the Sultan’ with the guilt of | bribing a newspaper. The Sultan has been guilty of | many things, but he has no inclination to spend | money on bribery and no money to spend that way | even if he had the desire. Furthermore his method | of regulating the press has been quite different from that of wasting mony on it. He has generally found bowstring sufficient, or a scimeter in the hands of Bashi Bazouk. The most excellent point of the statement of Tar- tarcheff is the suave and gentle expression of a con- | viction that it is difficult to believe that the abduc- tion of Miss Stone would have prejudiced the Ameri- can press. Evidently the patriot Macedonian deems the abduction of a woman to be a matter of no moment in this country. It probably has never oc- curred to him that had the American people been able to get their hands on any of the gang engaged in the abduction they would have lynched the ring- Jeaders quicker than a crowd of Wyoming cowbo,; | would string up a cattle thief. American sympathy with the Macedonian people | would be prompt were it not for the revelations made a | absurdity of which even French justice should be ' concerning the methods of the so-called Macedonian ashamed. | Commuttee. That band of agitators has been engaged ; has been too long the story of modern India. OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE. ‘| for years in an cffort to bring about an insurrection izl among a people who in the main appear to have no sympathy with the conspirators. In the course of their agitation the leaders of the committee have stopped at the commission of no kind of crime. Only recently a dispatch from Salonica said: “Many of the alarming outrages which are alleged to have occurred recently, such as the blowing up of a bank at Adrian- ople and a massacre at Kilkitch, about twenty-five miles south of Salonica, turn out to have been merely parts of the insurgent programme, the carrying out of which was fixed for the 2d. Their execution was pre- maturely announced. Similarly the dynamite affairs at Ekishon, near Monastir, and Bonitza were of quite minor importance. The bridge at Ekishon was only an 11-foot culvert and was immediately repaired, while the damage to the railway storehouse at Bonitza was confined to the watchman’s hut and a number of telegraph poles.” Thus it appears the committee instigates crimes and then charges them to the Turks. When it can- not find men willing to perpetrate serious crimes it engages them to commit small ones and then pro- ceeds to exaggerate them into’reports of slaughter and massacre. Altogether the Macedonian Commit- tee seems to be a bad lot. : | A colony of American defaulters, embezzlers, forgers and offenders generally against the body politic has been formed in a South American wil- derness; a municipal government has been organ- ized; the rascals hold the offices and administer the affairs of their common interest. This govern- ment possesses at/least one advantage over others. No one in it ha/ reason to suspect anybody else of dishonesty, Where all are dishonest there can be no lack of precaution. There is a certainty that carries with it its own safeguard. RUSSIA AND JAPAN. USSIA while renewing her promises to -evac- uate Manchuria has taken further steps toward strengthening her hold in that part of Asia. She has put an end to the system of governing the region from St. Petersburg through a council of three officials and has vested supreme command in a Viceroy, thus centralizing the government and placing the entire Russian force in Northeastern Asia under the control of a single will. The official announcement of the creation of the viceroyalty was accompanied by a statement that the new order of things will not affect the Manchu- rian situation. On the same day, however, there came a report from Moscow to the effect that Russia is pressing the dispatch of additional troops to the Far East. The report goes on to say: “Ten troop trains a day are passing through the trans-Baikal ter- ritory and it is believed that 100,000 men will be shortly collected there and will be held in readiness to proceed over the Manchurian Railway to the coast.” Naturally enough Japan watches these movements of troops and changes of administrative systems with close attention. Russian authorities are well aware of the jealousy of Japan, and while doing all in their power to allay it by promises are also preparing for war at any moment. A St. Petersburg estimate of the situation is thus given: “If Japan makes this a pretext for war Russia cannot prevent her; but Russia is prepared. Under the most favorable circumstances the force which Japan will be able to put into the field cannot exceed 400,000 men. But the quality of her army compen- sates in a considerable degree for the smallness of the number. The Japanese fleet, indeed, is far superior to the Russian, but, none the less, Japan will have to reckon with the fact that she cannot withdraw all her soldiers from Japan; a certain number must needs remain to protect her seaboard. In order to throw upon the Asiatic continent the number of troops required by a war with Russia and to place them in Korea Japan would require under the most favorable circumstances from four to six weeks. Russia has at present about 110,000 men on the western side of Lake Baikal and 100,000 more whom she could with- draw from European Russia and throw into Western Siberia in the space of a month.” oA From the start the Manchurian problem has been an interesting illustration of the advantage which a man with a definite purpose has over a dozen rivals who have no definite object in view. Russia has confronted the powers on the Manchurian question with a clear idea of what she wishes and of the methods by which she expects to attain it. On the other hand the powers have had no clearness of vis- jon. Thus Russia has won every move in the game. She has completed her railways, she has fortified her posts and strengthened her garrisons. She is now about ready to meet any foe that comes and her posi- tion will be made stronger witli every succeeding month. — o —— A saloon-keeper of San Francisco has gone into insolvency. This is one of the signs of the times that bodes well for the city. If a few more saloon-keepers would follow his example and his case might be taken as a straw that tells the direction of the wind the people of the city would have genuine cause for congratulation. . 4 S— THE POOR OLD PARTY. M Urbana conference, when he told the Buck- eye Democrats that their party played a con- fidence game upon the country by giving it a bunko- steerer for President. Without stopping to consider such a characterization of a President of the United States the country will gravely consider the preten- sions of a party that is declared by its foremost leader to be capable of such an offense. It is asking for a renewal of confidence after its leader declares it to be a confidence operator. The fact that Bryan's con- fession was loudly cheered, the demonstration rising to what the reporters call “an ovation,” is significant. ‘Were his hearers exulting over their success in im- position and expressing the wish to do it again? The mutual confessions being made by prominent Democrats, put together and studied, make that party out to be the’most remarkablé organization that ever attempted to control the destinies of any nation. No party is immaculate, but the Democracy is put in a position from which it can clear itself only by Mr. Cleveland turning his salary into the conscience fund of the treasury and by Mr. Brya~ advising his coun- trymen not to tryst it again. R. BRYAN was at his vituperative best at the T — Reports from India indicate beyond power of con- tradiction that this year’s crops there will be ade- quate to the demand of the people. Perhaps no more significant fact could be announced if we measure significance by the saving of human lives. Famine SAYS THE CITY GAVE: FRANCHISE MEDICAL MEN HONOR MEMORY EDUCATIONAL METHODS IN THE BY IMPLICATION| OF DR. GARDNER| MIKADO’S REALM —_— ‘The question of the right of the South- ern Pacific Railroad Company to main- tain its tracks on streets in the Mission district was argued in Judge Seawell's court yesterday. It came up on an amend- ed complaint for an injunction restraining the Board of Public Works from remov- ing the company's tracks on Harrison street, from Seventeenth to Twenty-sec- ond. Attorney Peter F. Dunne represent- ed the railroad company and George W. Lane, Assistant City Attorney, represent- ed the Board of Works. Dunne’s argument was that though the city had never given the company a fran- chise to lay the tracks In the district, authority to do so had been given by im- plication, He said the city had practically recognized the right of the company to maintain’ the tracks by its adoption for the last forty years or more of offictal maps on which were delineated the pre- scribed route of the road. Lane argued that the tracks were a nuisance, and that therefore the city had the power to remove them. Two years ago Judge Seawell rendered a decislon on the original complaint ad- verse to the rallroad company. The pres- ent proceedings are on an amended com- plaint, leave to file which was granted at that time. Sl WILL PAY PERCENTAGE OF GROSS RECEIPTS United Railroads to Turn Over | $18,846 38 to the City Treasury. * Expert Willlams flled a report yester- day with the Supervisors’. Finance Com- mittee showing that there is due from the United Rallroads $18,84638 as collec- tions under the franchises of several branches for a payment of a percentage of gross receipts amounting to $933,64 27 during the year ending December 31, 1902. The proposed amended ordinance pro- | viding that the expenses of the public pound shall not exceed the amount set aside by the budget was laid over penpd- ing a meetmg with the Police Commis- sion. The clerk was directed to communi- cate With other cities to see If the pound is in the hands of the Police Department. The committee reported in faver of the creation of the position of Morgue keep- er in the Coroner's office, in accordance with the recommendation of the Mayor. The "claims of the Society for the Pre- venticn of Cruelty to Animals for cer- tain fines collected were rejected because the soclety had taken no part in the prosecution of the cases, as the charter provides. The claims of Commissioner of Works Schmitz for $250, City Treasurer Mc- Dougald for $50 and Justice's Clerk Me- Comb for $30, paid as premiums on official bonds, were refected. —_———————— WILL CELEBRATE ITS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY Birthday of the Pilgrim Sunday- School Will Be Observed With Impressive Ceremony. The Pilgrim Sunday-school, connected | with the First Unitarian Church, -at| Franklin and Geary streets, will complete the fiftieth anniversary of its career with great pomp and ceremony next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. There will be no services at the church on that day, as the exereises at the school will be held instead. . Many of the most prominent clergymen | from all over the city and State will be present. All the members of the school and many who have attended it in years gone by will participate in the exercises. Rev. Bradford Leavitt, pastor of the church, will deliver the address, and sev- her fal didn't understand that the groom ted him to pay for them."— ‘Here the eminent statesman who was dictating particulars _of his early Im!flmmmu«lmr‘»‘ ment. “This will be the place, I think," | he “to insert the statement that I don't like to talk about myself, and that eral other prominent clergymen will also speak. The following teachers and of- ficers of the school will be in charge: Superintendents, Rev. Bradford Leavitt and Charles A. Murdock; chairman executive com- mittee, Miss Emily I. Wade cretary, Ewald Grunsky; treasurer, Cyrus F. O'Nell; librarian, Eugene Grunsky; assistant librarian, Hans Lisser; chairman junior church, Miss Evelyn Doughty; piamists, Mrs. Leavitt and Miss Bon- nell; teachers—Franklin C. Smith, Miss Fdith Bonnell, Miss Elsie Burr, Miss Elizabeth A. Crane, Mrs. W. W. Erskine, Miss Maud Fol- som, Miss Margery Gibbons, Mrs. C. E. Grun- | sky, Miss Lily Hohfeld, Miss Mary McEwen, Miss Emma Seaman, Miss Henrietta Stadtmul- ler, Miss Mabel Symmes, Miss Dora Wisland, Miss Ruth Campbell, Miss Emma de Boom, Miss Camilla de Boom. —————————— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Ned—Yes, I've resolved to give up bet- ting and drinking and all— Fred—Huh! You'll never keep that res- olution. Ned—T'll bet you the drinks I do.—Phil- adelphia Ledger. Bridesmaid—You poor, frightened dar- | ling. You looked scared to death at the | altar. Bride—Yes, George trembled so I was dreadfully afraid he’d lose courage and run away.—New York Weekly. | Biggs—Some scoundrel on the west side | passed himself off as me and swindled a grocer out of $10. i Diggs—Passed himself off as you? Why, | the villain must have been lost to all sense of shame.—Chicago Daily News. | Morrell—Nature has its compénsations | for all. Lightning, you know, never strikes twice in the same place. | ‘Worrell—That's small comfort for the man who is struck in the first place.— Philadelphia Press. “Are you going to take a vacation this summer?”’ “I suppose I'll have to,” answered Mr. Cumrox, “although I must say I'd like to | put in one summer simply attending to business and resting up.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. . “Did you read that article on ‘Why Men Don’t Propose’?"” The girl blushed. me,” she sald. “No?"”" “No. You see, I know one man who does.”’—Chicago Evening Post. “It doesn’t interest “Ef dey's milk in Paradise dey mus’ have cows dar,” said Brother Williams, “en ef dey got honey dar they sho mus’ | have bees, en whar bees is dey’'s blos- soms, an’ whar blossoms is dey’s always ‘watermillions in season—bless de Lawad!” —Atlanta Constitution. “I am fixing up a surprise for John, but 1 am afraid that if he stays around the house he will discover me.” “That's all right. You just tie a towel around your head and ask him If he can't stay at home to-day and help you take up the carpets.”—Baltimore News. “Naw,” sald the head waiter, “that man that jest went out airn't worth much.” “How do you know?” inquired the fa- vorite customer. - “Oh! it's easy for us waiters to take a Il:‘l;;! measure.” “I suppose you measure from tip to eh?”—Philadelphia Press. B k] “Didn’t they start at once on their wed- = ding journey?’ “No. There was a mis- take about the railway tickets.” “What gort of a mistake?” *“Why, it seems that —_— In memory of the late Dr. Matthewy Gardner and out of the high respect they bear him, the San Francisco County Med- ical Society passed resolutions of regret at his untimely end.. At a meeting held Tuesday a committee, headed by Dr. W. B. Coffee, presented a resolution which was unanimously adopted and spread upon the minutes of the soclety, com- posed of 400 regular physicians and sur- geons of the county. gard and confidence the society held for | the late Southern Pacific physician are expressed in the following words: With bowed heads and sad hearts we de- plore his sudden and untimely demise. h the inception of his professional ca- Teer Was as an obscure and comparatively un- The profound re- | seemed with all these qualities. When we see a person ambitious, indus- | trious, able, frank, firm, self-reliant and con- | fident we camnot refrain from admiring him; | but there was ome phase of Dr. Gardner's character that particularly commends him to | the warmest esteem, and that was his in- | dulgent consideration for and kindly forbear- ance with and toward young members of his | profession. When meeting an oider man who | has gained professional character and distine- tion the youthful medico is perforce timid | and awed, and frequently loses that nerve so | Decessary to success, but with Dr. Gardner he was immediately made to feel at ease. He had ever present before him his own early struggles, Experience had taught him that with youth the world is skeptical of abil- ity, and with those !deas uppermost In mind he pever falled to encourage and reassure the young man,_ and always consuited and advised | with and deferred to his opinion and judg- ment with as much alacrity and consideration as he would with 6lder and presumably more learned doctors, Viewed as a whole, his life be exerplified in the words, ** €004 and faithful servant. When we are called to answer the last summons which shall bid us to take our place in the siient hally of eternity, let us hope | that when the reckoning shall be made we will | be found like him, in the ranks of falthful | service, and then, as may be sald of him. so | will it be said of us that our lives were good; that in our departing moments e may be sustained and soothed by a consclousness that in passing unto death we have fulfilled uur! allotted portion and duty in life. PERSONAL.MENTION. F. G. Shepard, general superintendent of the Santa Fe road, arrived from the south yesterday. Edward B. Duffy, northwestern freight agent for the Rio Grande system at Port- land, is in the city. F. E. Shellaburger, passenger agent of the Santa Fe Company at Pittsburg, ar- rived here yesterday. R. H. Ingram, superintendent of the Los Angeles division of the Southern Pacific Company, and Dr. Bryant, surgeon of the railroad hospital In that city, arrived here yesterday and are registered at the Palace. Among the several parties of Los An- geles residents which journeyed north vesterday to attend the big fight was one | composed of the following admirers of Jeffries: Reese and John Liewellyn, P. B, McCabe, Carl Leonard, J. P. McEwen and J. D. Duke. All are registered at the Pal- ace. and career can ‘Well dome, thou | o T S Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Californians in New York: San Francisco—T. R. Pitch, at the Vendome; T. Butler and Miss M. Butler, at the New Amsterdam; E. Peck, at the Metropolitan; H. Price and wife, at the Holland; J. F. Spranger, at the Earl- ington; C. C. Van Antwerp, at the Hoff- man; M. F. Bird, at the Cosmopolitan; A. B. Bowers, at the Imperial; J. T. Good- man, at the Kensington; B. 1. Lasalle, at the Normandie, and C. D. Slocum, at the Grand Union. flLlos Angeles—E. 8. Tanner, at the Impe- al. Santa Rosa—H. Pohlman, @t the Astor. ———— State Floral Associaiton. The California State Floral Association held a montnly meeting yesterday after- noon at 223 Sutter street. Previous to lne meeting a special session of the ex- ecutive committee wae< held. Forty new applications for membership were read ond acted upon. Some very beautiful cut flowers were placed on exhibition. —_—— Sermon by Rabbi Moskowitz. Rabbi M. Moskowitz of Las Vegas, N. M., will occupy the pulpit at the Geary- street Synagogue in place of Rabbi Levy at the services this morning. Rabbl Mos- kowitz will preach on “Modern Idolatry.” The public is invited. —_— The extraordinary facilities for elemen- tary, secondary “and university Instruc- tion now offered In Japan will be found described in the latest annual report pub< lished at Tokio by the minister of educa- tion. The signer of the report, Baron Ki- kuchi Dairoku, not only graduated some thirty years ago at the University ot Cambridge, England, but took a high placé In the wranglers’ list. After his re- turn to his native country he became pro- fessor of mathematics at the University of Tokio, and is regarded as the highest Japanese authority in educational affairs. The facts set forth in his report are likely to surprise many persons un- famillar with the efforts that have long been made to extinguish {lliteracy in the Mikado's empire. It appears that in Japan, during the school year just ended, the percentage of children of school age receiving the pre- scribed course of elementary instruction was 90.35 for boys and 7175 for girls. The total number of elementary schools was nearly 27000. The number of teachers fell but a little short of 93,000, and the total number of children in the schools ex- ceeded 4,683,000 The percentage of the enrolled pupils who attended daily was 84.61 per cent. These are remarkable fig- ures, and it is no less noteworthy that the training of both male and female teachers for the elementary schools re- ceives careful attention, and that the ap- pliances and hygienic conditions of the school buildings are undergoing continual improvement. SPECIAL SCHOOLS. As regards the next higher grade of in- struction, there are now seven secondary schools, in different parts of Japan, which are intended as preparatory for the uni- versities. There are also a number of spe- clal schools in which the direct practical applications of the subjects studled are kept In view. Thus in the Toklo Foreign Languages School the following eight lan- guages are taught: English, French, Ger- man, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Korean. The Tokio Fine Arts School provides five courses of study, Inciuding painting, designing, sculpture, architec ture and Industrial fine arts. The Tokio Academy of Music furnishes complete in- struction in both Japanese and foreign music. There are technical schools in- tended to prepare men to take charge of industrial operations. Thus the agricul- tural school at Supporo i3’ designed to train agriculturists for the Island of Yezo, which is to Japan what Alaska is to the United States. The Tokio Technical School trains managers and foremen of factories, and a similiar Institution, al- ready fully equipped, has been started in Osaka. Even the commercial aspect of education is not overlooked: the higher commercial school in Tokio has fifty-three instructors and 666 puplls. UNIVERSITIES IN JAPAN. There are in Japan two universities, namely, the Imperial University of Tokio and the Imperial University of Kyoto. The former comprises a university hall and six colleges of law, medicine, engi- neering, literature, science and agricul- ture. The College of Engineering offers nine courses, to wit: Civil engineering. mechanical engineering, electrical engi- neering, naval architecture, technology of arms, civil architecture, applied chemis- try technclogy of explosives and mining and metallurgy. The total number resident instructors is 222, and there are thirty-five assistant professors now study- ing in foreign countries. The students number 2880, and include eleven foreigners, one of them a native of the United States The University of Kyoto, though founded much later than that of Tokio, Includes besides the university hall, colleges law, medicine and of science and engi- neering. The College of Sclence and En- gineering provides courses in mathemat- ics, physics, pure chemistry, chemical technology, civil, mechanical and elec- trical engineering and mining and metal- Jurgy. There are already‘twenty-flve pro- fessors and 186 students. When we add that there are laboratories for special purposes and man: public li- braries, we are in a position to appreciate the astonishing progress in education made by Japan within thirty years. —e————— Townsend’s California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 715 Market st., above Call bidg. * —————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Caill- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 —_——————— The fire-flies are so large and of suck vnusual candle power this summer tha( it is dangerous to squeeze hands out of doors. B e —————— I teers speak volumes for the dangers hands and lc-ing care. « boys buried in graves marked spair of that fierce conflict must be War from beginning to end. It is this fact that has enabled modern newspaper, Beginning with notable pictures ever reproduced on “The Battle of Shiloh.,” “Chattn offer. wi Then there is “A Girl of the South,’ and “Trying Him Out.” which latter And in a different years after. har fair- next { HALF A HUNDRED WOMEN ON FAMOUS RATTLEFIELDS F the complete story could be told of the devotion and suffering, of the privations and heroic sacrifices of all the brave women who nursed the wounded and the dying on both sides in the bloody conflict be- tween the North and South it would be one of the grandest, sublime narratives ever penned. Even when recorded in brief their ca- “Oh, what breaking hearts many mothers are still carrying for their ‘Unknown,”” ton, one of these fifty-eight fair veterans of that bloody conflict who have written two full pages of personal anecdotes of their service in the hos- pital, the bivouac and the battlefield. She not only consecrated her life to nursing the wounded throughout the entire war, but gave two brothers to the cause at Fredericksburg and a brother-in-law at Gettys- burg, and the anecdote of which those few lines are the prelude is one of the most dramatically thrilling ever penned. These fifty-eight women saw the awful struggle with their own < es—and it is war—actual war— that each and every one of them has written of from her own peculiar point of view. Those two pages alone will enthrall you. To the veterans whose names make up the roll of hon f Grand Army of the Republic that stupendous struggle m:sto:v:r b:he vivid reality, but to those of the younger generation the hope and de- the writer and the painter alone. It is a remarkable fact that some of the best battle scenes ever painted are those depicting our great Civil G. A. R. Edition next Sunday to present its readers with the best pic- torial panorama of fiercest battles of the war that can be offered by a Donelson, these pictures carry you through the entire war to its spec- tacular close with the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox, w:-:h scene alone, replete as it is with historical characters, is one of the most “Sherman’s March to the S "n“ol'hgoga:’ka“‘rl:eofSiGenyme b s March to the Sea” “ tt L ¥ Y Career From West Point to Appomattox,” etc. A, e And in the line of fiction the greatest popularity has been gi to tales of love and war. Just think ;_hhat lhcm:gsm il e sentiment. too. ere is “Forty Years After” i next Sunday Call. for instance. It is a story of the wavering til;efl::( battle at Vicksburg, with a thffllm;lyu Flhefic denouement in this city. al memories to any one who knows anything about war. way, how many know anything about the that created that awful slaughter. There are two pages i :!oquence that will simply amaze you who read them g And last but not least there is that magnificent Supplement—t. sentiment crystallized into color—“The 01‘:’!II Army Chest.” wher:;::d': warrior of the rebellion is showing his treasures to his beaatiful -haired daughter. Just register a deep-voiced complaint with your carrier if you do not get this picture*with your G. A. R. Edition of the 1 e most they braved to minister with gentle says Mrs. Mary J. Bos- seen through the eyes of the artist, The Sunday Call in its special General Grant’s victory at Fort a modern color press. There is of Vicksburg,” the Civil War Had € te's Pence,” “A War Vision” will bring back the mosrl st‘i:‘r(i):z fow. so many cesees cecereee oo B e e S