The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1903, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATJRDAY, DECEMBER 1 1903. 8 - . BY ; | ! | { | — —— Salaries of Magnates. BY (Former Railroa Times and opyright ph B. Bowles.) nes G. Blaine resigned President Benjamin Harrison sent for M. Der and offered him portf of Secretary of 1gh impressed by the high Soon after w compliment paid to him, Mr. Depew de- frer. *“To accept fhis posi- “I will be obliged to sur- annual income of $100,000, afford to do that just cannot president oad, as president of the West Shore 1 he held other lucrative posi- His sal- w York Cen- r annum. Since that has benefited by luding one of s Vanderbilt—and uccessful in other finan- He now holds the of- an of the board of di- the principal® Vanderbilt e receives from that source cial enterprises. f f ch bly a little less t the as president of the Presid William v York Central ailroad companies > an annual salary of . Al eylvania Railr s .-» President Cassatt of the Penn- s now the paid railroad president in America. sal- ary is $60,00 nnum, and his asso- ciates ement of the great ilroad system of which he is the head that ensation would be muct should express a de- sire eased. probably the poor- 1 the busi- dent of the Manhattan Railway Company is $5 per year. The Iroad system in New ¥ rtrolled and oper- ated by the com- pan traction road g the the Manhattancom- to preserve its cor- Gould's salary as i Pacific es to make it. that it is now subway Mr. owne Hin of ident and prin- Great Northern pre: the Railway it is said, draws a salary of 00. This figure also heads the g 1l of Railway Coi President S: ny as the salary of muel Spencer. system, which includes the Jergey Central road, and W. B. Leeds, pres- ident of the Rock Island system, it is understood, each receive a like amount. In most instances the salaries of presidents of important railroads | future a ! charge of the operation of that road, | gets $40,000, and it is a matter of com- | mon report that Vige President Stubbs | of the Southern Pacific, the trafic di- { rector of all of the Harriman lines, was offered $50,000 a year by the Rock Isl- and management, and refused the of- fer because Mr. Harriman made it an object for him to stay in his present position. Jacob Kruttschnitt, assistant | to the president. fourth vice president and general manager of the Southern Pacific Railroad, gets 335,000 a year, which is more than the salary that any Southern Pac Mr. celved. part of the Southern Pacific system. One of the older directors of the South- said the other day that he that “Jake” Kruttschnitt could tell by number the Jocation of every tie on the road. When ¥ m overwork, of the New 1, in charge of operation, he ed $10,000 a year. This was speed- creased to §20,000, and when he ed on account of ill health Wi K. Vanderbilt said to him: who died er Webb, liam am grieved that your physical condi- tion impels you to leave us, but if a 's vacation and a salary of $30.000 is any inducement stick to the ay NewYork Central.” Vice President Paul | Morton of the Atchison is one of the large salaried railroad officials, and he is d to have refused an offer of ITHE SAN FRANCISCO GCALL| | i | ident has ever re- | nitt knows every | ! ization on account of the Presidential campaign. started in as third vice | York Central | JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . « « « « o « . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager .Third and Market Streets, S. F. SATURDANE . oisbd s ittt b RS SR BN 3 1o T S <eveese.....DECEMBER 10, 1003 LABOR STATISTICS. HE statistics of organized labor disclosed at the Tmecting of the American Federation are of very great interest. During the year $75,000 was spent in organization by 68 organizers, who organized l/Z7 new unions, adding 442,100 new members, and bringing the total strength of the Federation up to 1,745,270 individ- wals. The receipts from all sources were $247,802 96, and the expenditures were $106,015 57, leaving $60,- 787 30 cash on hand. The strikes during the year were 1620, costing the unions $2,768,311 98. These statistics make an imposing exhibit of the power, and resources of organization. The socialists proved to be very strong in the Feder- ation, and when the issue was 'made a very significant in- crease in that element was divuiged. President Gompers stated that next year would be a banner year for organ- A fear was felt that the socialists were availing thcmselves_of the opportunity to control labor organizations, by join- ing and massing their vote. The convention voted to give [ the executive committee unlimited authority and money to use in fighting injunctions and defeating all legal pro- ceedings against The law department of the Federation was strengthened for this purpose, and a programme was marked out which implies much work for the courts and much employment for lawyers. Of coutse the general sentiment was for the closed shop and the control of all labor by the organization, with sueh limitation of apprenticeship as to give the unions. $25,000 a year to go to the Rock| Federation a very firm control of the whole labor situa- Island. Future of Pacific Trade. EILL SHERIDAN. pondent New d.) (Copyright, 1963, by Joseph B. Bowles.) The Pacific is the ocean of the fu- ture. tined to grow up, within the present century, the world’s greatest com- merce, and the nation that holds the key to the Pacific will become the world’s greatest commercial nation. Men who see far have seen this for a long time p; The lands that border the Atlantic are old lands, destined to slow owth, while the Pacific lands are r , with their natural resources hardly yet touched, or old lands only just beginning to feel the awakening touch of modern' commercial progress. The Pacific Ocean is the ocean of the d the key of the Pacific is Isthmus of Panama. S TS ~ As the trade of the world stands now and has stood since the decline of Venice, England occupies precisely the best business stand on earth. Ma- cauley once said something like that, without the added truth that nations change, and the routes of commerce change with changing conditions. With reference to the commerce of the fu- ture, the United States holds the key of the Pacific and occupies in addition the 'best stands for business on both sides of the world’s coming trade high-, way. Fallowing the Great route from the Isthmus of Panama to Hongkong and Manila, it will be found that the United States, starting at one end of the route and ending at the other, has a position of such vantage as no other nation can hope to equal. The only possible rival,’ in fact, is Japan, and the Japanese, contrary to BY SOLOMON (Philippine War York the | f Upon its waters there is des- | tion. It is apparent that non-union labor has a strenuous future before ity in the face of this widespread and pow- erful Federation, determined that men shall work only under its license and conditions. = Much less attention than was expected was given to the principles laid down by the arbitrators of the hard coal strike, and the Federa- tion evidently feels strong enough to proceed indepen- dently of those principles. This is the most formidable organization of labor ever known, though its membership is still a minority of the total labor of the country. During the past year great | progress was made in unionizing farm labor, especially in the upper Mississippi valley, where the same principles and methods are applied as have become familiar in manufacturing and mercantile lines. Farmers were gen- erally found easy to control, when they discovered that if their crop were characterized as unfair it was likely to rot on their hands because of the impossibility of breaking through the several and powerful obstructions placed between it and the market. The power of organi- zation was found to increase with the perishability of the crop and the growers of fruit and root crops and | truck vegetables were more easily subjected than the { | | | { | | i 1 | grain and livestock men. The sentiment of the convention was against any re- duction of wages to meet a possible tightening of the times. This followed Mr. Gompers’ counsel that wages should remain the same, and it implies trouble in the im- mediate future, since the high price of raw cotton and the falling off in demand in the metal trade are already causing a reduction in wages. It is a grave question whether labor will not be more benefited by keeping the i same number of men at work, though at a reduced wage, Circle trade | than by compelling the employers to meet the commer- cial situation by giving employment to a far less number at the existing high wage. There is no power that can compel a man to continue in business or run it-at a loss in order to give employment to labor. Is it not better | to tide over tight times by keeping all labor employed the generally accepted notion, are not | a maritime people. been boatmen, but they are boatmen, George F. | merely, fishermen and not sailors. The | Baer, president of the great Reading’|Quly line of Japanese ships trading | across the Pacific to-day is officered by Englishmen, and the Japanese do not | make the best sailors even under for- | eign command. They are inferior to | the Chinese, and not to be compared | i the stagnation of business and harder times. | to the Manila men. In fact, it is an | aphorism among sea captains along The Japanese live | the Southern | ©n islands, it is true, and have always | range from $25,000 to $30,000. It is|the Asiatic coast, that when a Japan- a topic of Wall street gossip that the | ese steamer comes along it behooves New York, New Haven and Hartford, everybody else in the neighborhood to in order to induce Charles S. Mellen, | get out of the way, for the Japanese the executive head of the Northern | skipper needs all the sea room there Pacific, to accept the presidency of 1 is—and some more. A nation of bad the New England system, offered him | sailors never becomes really commer- an increase of $7500 above his salary | cially great. Note, in this connection, as president of the Northern Pacific. | the difference between the French and This would make his present salary the English. . . $32,500. Marvin Hughitt, president of the Chicago and Northwestern, draws a salary of $40,000, and Hor- ace G. Burt, president of the Union Pacific, is supposed to get the same amount. .o E. H. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, receives merely a nominal salary. He fixes the amount himself, it is asserted, so that it will cover his actual expenses | . | Apparently the commerce of the Pa- cific has been of slow growth. In fact, | it has seemed to become of great im- | portance only since the Spanish War. | But far-seeing men the world over did not need the sound of Dewey’s guns to awaken them to a perception of the | future trend of trade. The Spanish War resulted in putting the United States in the most advantageous possi- | ble position with reference to the com- in his semi-annual inspections of the. merce of the Pacific, and with the key road. This was Collis P. Hunting- ton’s policy. One year Mr. Hunting- ton gave up his salary entirely when unfavorable business conditions im- pelled him to retrench and cut down the salaries of all other officers and employes of the road. When James J. Hill became interested in the Erie Railroad he desired to have F. D. Un- derwood take the presidency. Mr. Underwood was comfortably situated as vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio, and he had no wish to make any change. He was tempted, as com- mon report has it, to go to the Erie at a salary of $30,000. Melville E. Ingalls desired to relinquish the presi- dency of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (Big Four) Raliroad a few years ago for the rea- son that he yearned for a prolonged sojourn in Europe and a permanent residence in New York. His success as a business getter so impressed Wil- liam K. Vanderbilt and J. Pierpont Morgan, who control this road, that they added to their personal solicita- tions 2 suggesetion that he name- his own salary. Mr. Ingalls has declined to say what figure he marked, but close friends of his say that he eg- pressed content with $35,01 Sam- uel Sloan served for several years as president of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Railrdad for $10,- 000 per annum, His successor, Wil- liam H. Truesdale, is said to receive $25,000. o~ B ® Vice presidents receive in some in-|ing distance between the Pacific stances as large salaries presidents. For e dent Warren of the Chicago, Rock Isl- and and Pacificc who is actually in E {in possession of this country. it is not difficult to see that this commerce will fall more and more into American con- trol as the years go on. It has not been so many years since one small steamship line from San Francisco to the colonies of Australia and New Zea- land, and another to Asia,. with a coastwise line to Panama and smaller coastwise lines along the western part of this country, sufficed for the bulk of the carfying trade on the Pacific, al- though, of course, there was in addition to this the island sugar fleet and the {big wind jammers carrying the Cali- fornia wheat crop from San Francisco to Liverpool. On the Asiatic side a fleet of slow junks crept up and down along the Chinese coast, running their noses far up into the rivers, but count- ing for nothing in the commerce of the world. The Chinese are abandoning the junks now for iron freighting tanks; three splendid 6000-ton steamers hard- ly suffice for the trade between San Francisco and the colonies, helped as for as Honolulu by a smaller vessel to take off some of the burden of the ex- clusive island trade; not less than six great lines carry freight and passen- gers between America and Asia, run- ning some of the largest vessels on the sea; steamships carry freight and pas- sengers direct from San Francisco to and new lines are projected from the Pacific Coast of North Amer- ica to Viadivostok and Port Arthur. plerced, cutting off 10,000 miles of sail- poits of America and the great co: centers of the world, a tremendous im- petus will be given to the g | ported that the season lthe members of the i and earning, even at reduced wage, than to disemploy 4 large part of it in order to pay high wages to the rest? The ing#nuity of man has devised no better system to keep the capital of the country moving than by paying wages to labor. The wage roll of the United States re- quires to pay it the use of the entire stock of money in the country many times over every year. When em- ployment ceases the volume of money is the same, but it is not circulated by the payment of wages, and the result A panic may be averted by keeping all labor employed at a living wage, but it is made surer and harder by the cessation of wages. In the best days of English labor unions very philo- sophical attention was given to the household economies of the laboring people. By co-operation in the purchase of domestic supplies of the necessaries of life the pur- chasing power of wages was enlarged to equal the differ- ence between wholesale and retail prices, and it became the custom to buy wholesale. The power of labor or- ganization in this country may be used some time to direct attention to such economies, which will leave labor in a less dependent condition in the presence of hard times. growing prosperity of San Mateo by the commencement of work on the railroad which will equip her with needed Pacific Company will realize soon, perhaps, that San Mateo is a natural suburb of San Francisco and de- been given to the various bay cities. Or perhaps some other company may teach the Southern Pacific this PRODUCERS COME TOGETHER. THE producers of California are coming together There are associations of large size representative of the interests of the growers of citrus fruits, deciduous terest of the California growers is necessarily strong in the progress of co-operation as applied to the marketing Recently The Call has published signed articles from men officially connected with the citrus fruit shippers northern and central countiés. Therein the methods that are in vogue were fully described. Much informa- those most intimately connected with ‘co-operation in marketing orchard products. 2 together in at least one portion of the-State during the past season. Reports that have been submitted seem to of joint action. A meeting of the Almond Growers’ As- sociation of the Davisville district 'was held last week Another inspiratidn has been given to the rapidly transportation facilities from bay to ocean. The Southern serves the same concessions in train service which have costly lesson. more and more for mutual benefit and proteétion. fruits, raisins, dried fruits and other products. The- in- of the output of orchards, vineyards and farms. of the south and the California’ fruit distributers of the tion of value was given to the people of the State by The almond growers have been successfully working indicate that advantage has been reaped as the result at Davisville. An account of the proceedings is pub- lished by the Woodland Democrat. President La Rue and J. W. Anderson, just closed was | St M. tele Y satisfactory to and sentenced to keep in his apartments for three days. the output and to all others with whom the association did business. This movement will attract attention because it is comparatively new. The figures submitted in reports show that the shipments of the season amounted to 2350 tons of almonds in the shell and four tons of shelled nuts. The total bulk does not compare with the magni- tude of the deciduous fruit shipments from the same section, but the plans of the association are to enlarge its scope. - The crop marketed from the Davisville district brought in $50,000 in round figures to the owners of almond groves. The members of the Davisviile association,l so says the Democrat, received 1 cent per pound more for their almonds than did any of their competitors in the same line. 3 England and Holland, who have been quick to present | enormous claims against Panama, seem to see in the ' planting her own in its stead. At first y | for about a year they used to come new republic another fat and easy bird to pluck. The; will probably reform their first opinion when they eagle and is not yet able to take care of itself. Sam certainly is not in the busincss of making republics | lantic friends. for the profit of his trans CHRISTMAS CHARITY. A the people of San Francisco for assistance to the charitable institutions of the city. That these ap- peals are numerous is not a matter for complaint, but for just pride and congratulations. They stand as convinc- ing evidence of the broad and generous humanity of the community. pality, some by churches, some by fraternal or benevo- lent associations, and some by the voluntary contributions of men and women of all classes, organizations and creeds. By whatever means they are ostensibly sup- ported, however, their deep foundation is the charitable | cpyp has just issued in elaborate form, spirit of the people as a whole. By the zeal of the sup- porters of one of the institutions those of another are encouraged and ¥hus all work together, though in diverse ways, for the care and comforting of all the unfortunate among us. Without a single exception the newspapers of the city have opened thewr columns freely to these appeals. The Call has gladly borne its share in this work and to-day renews its urging that each and all of the fortunate ones of the city should in proportion to his means give lib- erally, promptly and cordially to the maintenance of such of these institwtions as most appeal to his sympathies or to his judgment of what is most needed at this time in the way of charitable work among us. No one who has prospered in life has any right to look upon these Christmas appeals for liberal giving as an im- position or an importunity. As a matter of fact those who make the appeals have given of their time, their energies and their money through the year far more than they ask of others. name of women, whose labors in behalf of the suffering poor and unfortunaté are sufficiently great to justly en- title them to the highest reverence for their self-sacri- ficing devotion to the cause of humanity. Every one Some are directly sustained by the munici- 1anmher.s fowers awi Most of the appeals come in the | % 2 2 | they come only monthly. One comes on realize that Panama is of the brood of the American |the 1st and the other on the 15th of Uncle | each month, with a clock-like regular- e | sort_of a fellow who lived a dual life, T this season of the year there.are many appeals to ! giving each woman to understand that | Newspaper Men's Fun. { In a souvenir programme of their ! many an hour both for those who, are i { | should deem it an honor to be associated with them in their work if it be only for a day. Let it be borne in mind then by all who read these Christmas appeals in the name of Charity that the cause is a noble one and the workers are worthy. Our city is prosperous, opulent and in many ways prodigal. We have made for ourselves a name for liberality and gen- erosity that is renowned throughout the world. Let us | now live up to it in our dealings with our own needy | ones. It is the season of love and of charity; it is the time when the common brotherhood of humanity is more keenly felt than at any other period of the year, and no man should allow it to pass without doing some- thing to prove his sympathy with all that is being done among us to minister to the distressed and to the or- | phans, so that even the weakest and the poorest may have some-share in that abundance of the good things of life which has been vouchsafed to our city, our State and our country. . A sigh of relief like the murmur of myriad voices in thanksgiving passed over the country the other day when the wires flashed the message that the Maine had made the voyage from Colon to New York without a single mishap. No one had been killed, no one was even injured, and the cruiser steamed proudly into the harbor to have her engines repaired. Let our foreign friends scoff no more at our fighting ships. A SUBSTANTIAL BIRTHDAY GIFT. NY ONE doubting the loyalty to alma mater re- A puted to exist in the heart of every college-bred man will find a hard argument to overcome in the projected centennial gift of $1,000,000 to be made to the old University of Vermont by her loyal sons upon the occasion of her one hundredth birthday, which oc- curs next year. Already one-tenth of that sum has been subscribed by two of her alumni, and by the time that the centennial celebration ceremonies are due it is ex- pected the enormous endowment will be handed over to the trustees of the university complete. » Though not included among the greater universities ‘of the country, the university of the Green Mountain State has a roll of graduates of which it may be justly proud. A Vice President of the United States, a Cabi- net member, over twenty members of Congress and many names high in the roster of the army and navy have been among its graduates. During the war of 1812 its graduation class was reduced to two members, and again in the Civil War the total number for the four years was less than twenty, but the stanch old col- | { layman. | Empress of Russia gave birth { morning to a daughter, named Marie. iyenr-o!d boy of Mountain i i | | accident may occur to her an auto- Widows' Strife. “Take a good look at this woman and see if you know her.” These were the words of one of the grave caretakers !in Laurel Hill Cemetery a few days ago as a woman was approaching with a bunch of flowers in her hand. “There’s quite a mystery about that woman,” he continued. “Just seven years ago John Blank was buried up there,” pointing in the direction in which the woman was going, “and from that time to this two women who claim to be his widows come regularly every month and each one plants a bouquet on his grave. In each case on their ar- rival the one will pick up the bouquet that the other one leaves on the grave and throw it as far away as she can, | regularly every week, but of late years ity. With equal regularity the flowers on the grave are thrown away and a rival bunch left.” “Who was the man?” “He was John Blank, a well-to-do she was his wife. When he died both women went into deep mourning over him and have kept it up ever since. They seem to realize that they must | not meet, for a fight would outrage the sanctity of the graveyard, but they | content themselves by throwing one night at Fischer’s which the Press there is enough material to lighten the unitiated The programme, which ap- proaches magazine proportions in its enterprise, is replete with short stories by well-known newspaper men, poems and clever drawings by some of our local newspaper artists. For those whose ways lead them into the “tel graph room” and to the “copy desk,” an article upon the trials of a telegraph editor will furnish fun for a week. Here is an extract from the author’s memo- randa: ST. PETERSBURG, slaves of the pen and 26.—The this June SAN JOSE, Oct. 22.—An unknown wo- man, accompanied by a poodle dog wearing a black cashmere dress, black velvet cape trimmed with beads and standing about 5 feet 3 inches in height, committed suicide in St. James Park to-night. SACRAMENTO, July 16.—The body of an unknown man was found to-day in the Sacramento River with a wooden leg nine miles below Freeport. MARYSVILLE, Aug. 1.—With an old blunderbuss loaded with No. 2 shot and a couple of dogs George Brown, a 16- Meadow succeeded yesterday in killing a 350- pound bear. ALAMEDA, May 16.—While Dr. Tom Carpenter, the city veterinary, was doctoring a cow yesterday the jealous calf came along and stepped . on the physician’s face, dislocating it. After driving the calf away he had to get an- other doctor to put it in bandages. Unsinkable Ship. The long sought goal of naval archi- tects, an unsinkable ship. has been reached in the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11, officials of the North German Lloyd line declare. They say the vessel is so constructed that noc matter what matic device makes it practically im- possible for her to flll and sink,-and ‘absolutely safeguards the lives of her passengers. This is accomplished by a number of water-tight bulkheads, which can be closed by the officer on the bridge of the vessel in thirty sec- onds, The ship is first protected with a double bettom, but she has besides six- teen transverse bulkheads, and a longi- tudinal one separating the engine- rooms, which are so planned that even if two adjoining ones should be flooded the vessel would float. Wherever the + . agree that business has been slow for such a long time that they must get money, and therefore they are raising the prices. “Business has not heen affected by the weather, but shares the depression which is ascribed mostly to the Stock Exchange and.the prolonged effects of the war in South Africa. The head of a Regent street department store said: ‘The Stock Exchange is the best barom- eter we have. When money is tight the people spend less in luxuries. There is a scarcity of money, and the people are economizing all they can.” “The railways to all the holiday re- sorts report that the year has been a bad one for passenger traffic. The Brighton line, which is about the most popular, shows a shripkage of over £5000 a week in the receipts as com- pared with those of a year ago.” Diplomat's Discomfort. Dr. White entertained a party of pro- fessors and students at his home the other evening with a delightful talk based upen his diplomatic experiences in Europe, says the Ithaca Journal. The party was composed of members of the faculty of department of history and political science and about a dozen students, who are specializing in the depariment. Dr. White discussed life in St. Peters- burg and Berlin from the diplomat's point of view, and the great issues that turn upon seemingly trivial inei- dents or motives. He dwelt upon the disadvantage at which the American Embassadors are placed by reason of the fact that the United States does not provide residences for its emvoys. He related several interesting imei- dents. When he arrvived in Berlin as Embassador to Germany he found it customary for newly appointed envoys to give three great receptions to the diplomatic corps and influential offi- cials, and thesc functions must be held in a private apartment, never in a ho- tel. He was lucky enough to find a suitable apartment, though this was by no means certain beforehand, but when he came to furnish the house his difficulties began. The shops of Germany keep only small stocks of furniture, manufactur- ing mostly from samples. Consequent- ly he was compelled to go from Berlin to Dresden, and finally to Paris and London, before he finished the furnish- ing of his residence. The needed re- pairs and rearrangement consumed some time, and the day of the first re- ception arrived without the completion of the work. He stood over the arti- sans with his watch in his hand, and only ordered the rooms cleared five minutes before the first installment of guests arrived. Later the entire house, of which he had only an apartment, was bought out from under him by the country of Baden for its representative in Berlin, though the latter, as Dr. White put it, “was so far below the American Em- bassador in diplomatic rank that an opera glass would have been necessary to distinguish him.” Senators’ Baggage. The Senators know how to live. They see to it that their deliberations are carried on unvexed by the absence of anything that could contribute to their happiness and comfort. They have been taking the regular account of stock, and from the articles in the Sen- ate’s committee rooms and warehouses a good sized department store might be stocked. operation of the-vessel makes necessary doors in the bulkheads, as at the coal bunkers, doors are arranged, geared to a water main, so that at a touch from the officer in charge of the ship they can be instantly shut by hydraulie pressure. The water main, which is filled with a non-freezable compound, is kept at a pressure of 800 pounds to the square inch and the force which closes the doors is so great that it will drive them shut through the coal or other matter which sometimes blocks them. The doors can also be operated by hand from the deck above, although the tanks and engines which control them are placed out of danger of any possible injury. The system is known as the Stone-Lloyd, and has been put on all the passenger ships of the com- pany.—New York Tribune. Pi ippine Facts. The Philippine Islands have a gen- eral coast line of about 11,444 statute miles, or double that of the main of the T"nited States, while the total area is 115,026 square miles, or less than lege has survived each shock with renewed spirit, and | that of New Mexico. There is a mile with the centennial endowment in its coffers it may | of coast line to every ten miles of area, enter upon a new and broader career. Japan, it is said, inten Russia to a crisis and to take a determined stand in reference to what she deems her rights in the +Eastern | no point in any island is ‘while in the United States the propor- tion is 1 to 555. There are nearly 1700 islands having names and it is possi- now to bring her affairs with | Ple to count 3000 islands and islets on the charts. Even the larger land masses are so elongated in figure that than question. It is high time that she should do so. She |sixty miles distant from some part of has played fast and Joose with Korea long enough to suggest to her statesmen that playing with fire is a dangerous thing unless there are some sure and high stakes in the balance. ; 5 3 —— The Crown Prince of Germany, disobeying the orders of his father, who was concerned in his demands solely for the welfare of the youngster, has been disciplined What more splendid illustration of right of a man to govern a nation can there be the coast.—National Geographic Maga- zine. Crow for London. ‘England had its Boer war and is now paying the piper. The New York Sun prints a dispatch from London which indicates that crow will be the Christ- mas bird there. It says: “Families which are now searching the great stores in the West End of London for Christmas presents find Among these aids to legislation are forty-four bottles of cologne, a lemon squeezer, a bottle of tonic, seventy-two funeral regalias, seven burned out elec- tric fans, 101 small glasses (probably for lemonade), eight dath brushes, two air cushions, two cakes of shaving soap, three coalhods, seventy-two cases of hygienic soap, a pair of white blan- kets, a half gallon copper measure, twenty-three tincups, a formaldehyde generator, a “suit case” five bottles of salts, and violet, white rose, Jockes Club and other fancy soaps. Chaining Lightnings Professor Hans Molisch of Prague has reported to the Vienna Academy of Sciences the discovery of a lamp lighted by means of bacteria, which he claims will give a powerful light and be free from danger, thus being valuable for work in mines and powder magazines. The lamp consists of a glass jar in which a lining of saltpeter and gela- tine, inoculated with bacteria, is placed. Two days after inoculation the jar be- comes illuminated with a wonderful bluish-green light, caused by the In- numerable bacteria which have devel- oped in the time. The light will burn brilliantly for from two to three weeks, afterward diminishing in brightness. Tt renders faces recognizable at a distance of two yards and large type is easily legible by it. Professor Molisch asserts that the lamp ylelds a cold light, which is entirely safe. Fruits East for Christmas now. . ——————— Wml:.mmhu letter and card cases, books, cigar cases and manicure sets for Christmas. ttered free. m%:fltc.. 2 .