The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1904, Page 8

| | ration Lawyers. | Corp. PRATT. Author of Journal i Wa K Bowles.) £40,000,000 which the United is to pay for the Panama canal -twentieth, or 00,000, will go to Ne nwell, counsel for | ailroad, who negotiated canal to this Govern- | d to be the largest fee » American lawy of professional service to | > 80 large as to reduce | attractions of inde- of political distinc- with notable adviser of cor- | 1 interests, and in hen everything | $ mark be- | H “The | | | son Ci i tions this ¢ nd finan reia »y money—the mme regarded as a ward than even the Donald Sage Mackey,quotes An- | ving that “the | of all trusts is monopolize brains.” by this was that while Rev drew trusts might be able to monopolize raw material, methods of matufacturing e sale, they could not brains that may dis- of raw product, in- f manufacture and ment and sale. this is true. But the cor- far toward establish- of the best brains. they are able to com- ices by the large sala- | which they alone have the gned as coun- | nsit commission of a $10,000 salaried posi- | counsel to the Penn-| [ New York Cit, ion—to become sylvania Railroad at a salary not made borh F but r ed to be in the neigh- »d of §5 That means that the | nsylvania Railroad is able to buy ne of the best brains in the country, | and that the offer it made to Mr. Shep- ard was so tempting that he not only | resigned his piace in the government of the city, but in large measure sacri- ficed his political ambitions. Mr. Shep-' ard is not only an able lawyer, but one of the keenest.political pamphleteers in the United States, and his friends re- gard him as measuring up to Presi-| itial standards, but as counsel for a | railroad corporation his political | ilability is much diminished, | Why did Elihu Root resign from | the Cabinet, aithough he was, accord- ing to President Roosevelt, the great- est man in the service of any Gov- ernment the worid? Because he | could no longer remain as Secretary of War when he could earn as a law- ver serving the great financial inter- ests ever eager to secure the ablest talent in the country at Jeast six timez what the Government paid him as Secretaery of War. His five years' service for the United States must have cost Mr. Root in loss of income what would by most people be consid- ered a large fortune. John W. Griges, in vho made one ‘of the arguments befofe the Supreme Court in behalf of the Northern Se- curities Company, was Attorney Gen- eral in McKinley's Cabinet, but found the emoluments of a corporation law- yer more attractive than the distine- tion of public office. Curiously enough the opposite is true of the present At- torney General, My. Knox, who, al- though a corporation attorney, gave up his practice to enter the Cabinet, and made a very able argument againsi the Northern Securities Com- pany in reply to Mr. Griggs. A great lawyer who has not yet suc- cumbed to the temptation of a rail- road corporation’s fee is United States Circuit Court Judge Grosscup, who has steadfastly resisted every effort to move him from his present position, which he regards as a splendid plat- form from which to address the coun= try on the necessity of corporation re- form by Government regulation and publicity. As a rule the corporations are” bet- ter served than the Government itself, because the former are able to pay more for high-class brains. This is particularly true of the railroads. Such men as Francis L. Stetson, coun- sel for several of the Morgan roads: George R. Peck, ex-Judge Dillon, ex- Senator Wolcott and Dodd and Elliott of .the Standard Oil Company are the kind that naturally find their place in the service of great capitalistic inter- ests. The corporation lawyer does not necessarily make an imposing figure in the courts. His duty, in faet, is more to keep his client out of litigation than to defend him jn it. Two or three years ago James J. Hill, passing’ through the offices of one of his corporations, noticed the general counsel tilted back in his chair placidiy reading a movel. This rather nettied him, for Mr. Hill is business from the soles of his feet to the hair of his head. “How can you find time to zead novels in business hours?” he demand- ed of the lawyer. . “¥ou ought to be glad,” calmly re- sponded the attorney, “that you have a lawyer smart enough to keep you out of litigation so that he has time to read | novels. Mr. Hill instantly saw the point. His [ the | iogic. {ment he stopped just where he was, | later period of life. |men are less ready | ers like them, have made marriage a of educated calculation rather .. % < . | |'is not to be again subjected to the coercion and duress | ! by which Russia tried to force the treaty of which Min- | fact tion and by indicating legal ways of | doing things that were in the highest ! degree desirable, but which seemed im- possibie. That, in fact. is the main mission of | the corporation lawyer. He may rarely importune a jury and only occasionally’| address a bench of judges. The char- | acter of the legal professton has greatly changed since the days of Daniel Web: ster and Rufus Choate. Little impas sioned oratory is heard nowadays in | the courts. Indeed, there is small need | of oratory of any id. The real argu- | ment is presented in the typewritten ! briefs handed up to the judges. The typewriter has in large measure taken the nlace of the human voice. Read argument of Attorney General Knox in the Northern Securities case. | There is scarcely any. figure of speech or other adornment of language, not an unnecessary adjective—just cold ! When he had finished his argu- | without any rhetorical flourish. He Who Hesitates BY CHARLES FREDERIC (Author of ““The loom of Life,” etc.) (Copyright, 1903, by Joseph B. Bowles.) In all the upper circles of society (measured by wealth and culture) mar- | riages seem to be decreasing in num- ber and to be postponed to a later and | Is Lost. GOSS. D.D. This is a phenomenon that chailenges our investigation, for it is certain to werk some sort of revolution in the social system. The reasons for the fact are not hard to find. Young women-are able to de- | cline © unsatisfactory offers, because their prospects of self-support have i been enormously increased. Young to undertake the maintenance of a family, because the standards of a “good living” are be- ing steadily elevated and the expenses of keeping up an establishment have | risen with them. Both sexes have come to desire and demand more out of life than the earnings of a single sex can procure. It is easier to be a bachelor | or a spinster than a husband or a wife, | and the mere luxuries of the single | estate are more than twice those u!} the double cne. These considerations, and many oth- matter than inherited instinct, and nothing is so fatal to matrimony as calculation. Some people consider this a happy state of affairs, but I do not. 7They think it conduces to the general wel- fare to have fewer marriages and to have them contracted in deliberate pru- dence, a method which I believe to be fatal to "the best interests of so- ciety. People may, of course, marry when they are too young; but the trou- ble is that if they do not marry when they are ycung enough they will not marry at all. And, however reason- able it seems that “calculation” at 30 | or 35 should make more happy mar- | | riages than impulse and instinct at 22 or 20, it has never been shown to-be a Some people are proud of not hav- ing married until they saw their way clearly to a “good living.” But some | of us are equally proud of the fact | that we fell in love like the birds and, like them, mated with as little fear of being abie to find our daily crumbs. | Did not the good God make us to love | and to live? Why should we be afraid to do either? If I did not believe in the right to live and love I should pray for death, for to doubt those two pil- lars of the temple of existence is to | doubt the divinity who dwells within the shrine. Undoubtedly marriage is in a cer-| tain sense a lottery, but it is a hazard | in which the stake is so great that a man who will not resolutely throw the dice is a cowyard or a fool. The “absolute whole” of earthly bliss is to be found in a happy marriage. No| one was ever so happy single but| that millions have been a thousand times happier double. To remain un-| married for fear of risking unneces- sary sorrow is like refusing to live in | order to avoid unnecessary dangers. ' Especially when one realizes that | nine-tenths of all marital unhappiness | is absolutely ‘unnecessary and inex-! cusable, being the fruit of individual unreason and not the inevitable con- comitant of the reiationship itself. By marrying we put ourselves in the v of enjoying life’'s most per- fect friendship—the love of the oppo- site sex; of securing life’'s most pow- | erful incentive to industry, sobriety, | unselfishness—the responsibility of a family; of enjoying life’s most hon- eyed sweetness—the love of little children; of gaining life's most pro- found consolation—the care of our old age by the devotion of offspring. The young people of this age are to be pitled because they breathe an at- mosphere tainted with marital un- happiness. Everywhere they see sel- fish and irrational people chafing un- der the bonds of marriage, simply be- ‘cause they refuse to put a curb upon their passions. On every side the squeaking of the hinges on the di-| vorce gourt doors fills the land with discord. That utterly unsettling ques- tion (the very asking of which is a symptom of weakness and deteriora- tion), “is marriage a failure?” fills them with skepticism and alarm. But if they are to be pitied they are also to be blamed. For they are old enough at a marriageable age to be able to discriminate the essential from the fictitious obstacles to happiness in this heaven ordained , relationship. They ought to be able to see that the obstacles to ,happiness in marriage are no more essential and no more numerous than the obstacles to suc- cess in business or science or art. Patience, wisdom, purpose and love in both the man and woman are practically certain to produce it.~ And these same qualities in even one (if carried up to their very high- est power) stand many good chances of reproducing themselves in the other during the long and educative years of married life, and so securing what seemed to be a fugitive bliss. Do not let calculation stifle instinct. It is the fatal weakness of “calcula- tion"-—that while it is able to thwart the marrying impulse in youth, it is !impotent to reanimate that impulse | in maturity. If you do not marry when you want general counsel had saved the company | to you will not marry when you wish millions of dollars by preventing litiga- ! to. R | be quite | triumvirate | that could have spread the war would have been dis- | 1 can were suddenly startled by the ‘their number that “l‘hml a M:Mw overboard FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 1 THE SAN EFERANCISCO CALL 1904. )oxmn.<mcms Propriefor « « . « + . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager rfubnc:uon Office @ ‘eteieeseesae....Third and Market Streets, S. F. FRIDAY MR. HAY'S DIPLOMACY. USSIA announces inability to understand Secre- tary Hay's diplomacy, and declares that but for him Europe would be in fine accord and in sub- | stantial agreement on the Eastern question. Americans are not surprised that Russia fails to comprehend | American diplomacy. It is because the crooked cannut’ understand the straight. Mr. Hay's policy consists in doing the right thing at the right time. It is so ob- viously right that no_other nation dare take the risk of disagreeing with him. His foresight was better than that of others when he addressed his open door note to Europe and got the powers to agree that all have an equal right to Chinese trade. Impliedly that is one of his acts complained of by | Russia. Yet she assented to it. It will be seen that, by whoever proposed, that policy was so right that no com- mercial nation dared to dissent, though they each might have been sorry for the chance to agree. Each may have cherished secret hopes of exclusive advantages, as it is sure Russia and Germany did, but when directly asked by Mr. Hay if that was what they were thinking about each declared that it was thinking about something else, and with unwilling alacrity subscribed to the open door. It was a hard thing to do, but it had to be done. Re- fusal would have been confession of the intention to close | China against everybody else, and this Russia even did | not dare to disclose. There is no doubt that after that experience with Mr. Hay any nation that intended doing wrong in the East kept uneasily looking back to see if Mr. Hay was in sight anywhere on the track. Germany and Russia would like to jein hands in bring- ing China to the block, and France is probably not averse to getting across the Yangtsekiang to enlarge her Indo-Chinese possessions. Their plans would dovetail finely, and against such a combination England would ineffective. She could not even consult the of interested nations, because she has an Asiatic empire exposed to attack. No other nation ex- | cept the United States could ask Europe if it thought of | cutting China in convenient pieces. When Mr. Hay suggested the inquiry they all hastened to hide their | carving sets and to agree with him that Chinese neu- | trality and territorial integrity must be respected. | His phrasing of the condition made Russia uneasy, for it required that the “administrative entity” of China be respected. That means that the Chinese Government | ister Conger gave notice to our Government. At least | Russia so interprets the diplomatic phrase, though th;\tl‘ is not her only interpretation. If the authority and ad- ministrative entity of China are not safeguarded Rus-; sia would have in Peking a fertile field for intrigue. She | could practically usurp the administrative functions of China by compelling the granting of privileges of the | highest value in her contest with Japan. Of course it | would be pretended that this was the free act of China. Russia would like to do at Peking just what Japan has | done at Seoul, but that is impossible since Mr. Hay’s | note. In sending that note he simply followed his open door policy. The sélf respect of our Government would have been shamed if he had kept silent. Now it is vin- dicated, and only those who have been restrained from wrongdoing are affronted. The Russian criticism of Mr. Hay is no doubt official, for it has the Janus face of Muscovite officialdom. Say- | ing that “every chancellory in Europe was working to | avert a general catastrophe by preventing the entangle- ment of an outside power in this war when Mr. Hay's note almost defeated them,” this Russian cri declares that they are all on the qui-vive for his next c move. What was every chancellory in Europc doing to lo- | calize the war that was held up by Mr. Hay’s note? The | statement is a falsehood on its face. The only thing | respect for the administrative entity of China, If the | chancellories were doing what this Russian says they were they should all be thankful for the help Mr. Hay gave them, for his note was exactiy what they lacked to make sure the policy they are said to have been seek- ing. How, then, did his note come near defeating them? It could defeat only an agreement to violate Chi- nese neutrality and territory, and if that is what the chanceliories were talking about it caught them in con- spiracy and defeated it. 53 The whole criticism is complimentary to Mr. Hay and to the American diplomatic school of which he is the leading exponent. He need be no mystery to the chancellories of Europe, provided they are not so mor- ally blunted that they cannot distinguish between right and wrong. All they have to do to avoid nervous shock or international hysterics is to remember that in all the affairs of the world in which the United States has a legitimate interest Mr. Hay may be counted on to do the right thing at the right time. With such a plain under- standing Americans hope the several Chancellors will be | able to rest nights and not jump nervously every time a cablegram is announced With a gravity fitting the event it was announced in reference to a recent lynching of a negro by a Spring- | ficld mob that the lynchers were in particularly good humor, orderly and gay to the limit of jest and joke during their hideous work. Is it possible to conceive of a sterner arraignment of a community than this brutally frank recital of an appalling crime that should be for- eign even to imagination in a people bound by the crudest laws of civilization? AN OREGON HERO. N all times and in all climes, from centuries before the Christian era to the present, and from ancient Greece to fair California, the tensest string in the gamut of human emotions has been the one attuned to vibrate to the deeds of a hero. In the hurry and scurry of life it may sometimes seem as though selfishness - were the dominant passion and that self-sacrifice were dead in the world; that the feeling the Greeks had in venerating their heroes, even to the point of regarding them as demi-gods, is old-fashioned and vanished from the world. But the age'of heroes has not passed away, and at times we are reminded of that fact by the brave deed of some hero still among us. ‘There is no man or woman who will not feel the blood pulse quicker upon reading of the death of the yoting athlete, Sumner Smith, near Portland, Or., on last Tues- day afternoon. The passengers of the steamer Ameri- from one of | manhood freely dies that a helpless girl may live. | shells into the Retvizan every time he takes an excur- ! tc have ‘lost at once their courage and their cunning in and I can’t swim.” Quick came the answer from young Smith, “I can,” and forthwith he leaped into the Wil- lamette River, where Oza Brown, a 12-year-old girl, was struggling for her life. Smith held the girl aloft until she was saved, but before the rescuers could reach him he was caught by the treacherous cramp and gave | his life in sacrifice to duty. The call to him was tragic and sudden, but gallantly he met it, counting not the cost, and was baptized a hero in the murky waters of the Willamette. None among us can be more noble or make a greater sacrifice than that made by one who in the first flush of athletic The name that the steamer bore, American, to uphold which so many heroes have nobly died, will be honored by none | more worthy than this young Oregonian, and though from the pitiless tide, swollen by spring freshets, Sum- ner Smith’s body may never be recovered, all will pause in honest admiration at the thought that he gave up his life that anothér might live. When we take into consideration leading events in the Far Eastern situation, Admiral Togo's insistence in firing sion past Port Arthur seems to be particularly unkind. | The Russians haven't done anything to the distinguished sailor and don’t seem inclined to do so. As fighters the , Czar's warriors appear to be the most peace-loving fel- lows on earth. “Yellow peril” refers not to the possible invasion DEMOCRACY’S YELLOW PERIL. O the mind of the conservative Democrat the term | TALK Of THE TOWN The “Dead Line.” It's no fun being a conviet at the | State penitentiary at Folsom since the big break last summer. Reform is the order of the day, and Warden Archi- bald Yell has not ‘been a bit squeamish in the vigorous methods he has adopted to. keep his 900 desperate wards in line. Guards have learned to shoot, to shoot straight and to shoot quickly. Dead- lines mean warning of death nowadays to the disobedient stripe wearers. For example: In the prison yard where the out- break occurred the deaa lines have been closely drawn. To step over the mark means something serious. One Sunday afternoon recently convicts were playing baseball in the yard. A batted ball rolled over the danger line. A convict ran thoughtlessly and wes in the bullet zone before he realized. From the overlooking guard post came a sharp order: “Back inside the line or I will shoot.” The cenvict jumped as if he felt the bullet. The game continued. A sec- ond time the ball sped across the line. Heed!¥psly a player ran. As he bent _duwn to pick up the sphere crack! sounded a rifle shot. The bullet pinged and struck the ball, | smashing it cut of the convict’s hands as he was stooping. The shot was that of a skilled marksman. It was not to kill, but to impress the convicts that dead iines mean something now at Fol- som. Compulsory Education. T of Europe by Asiatic races, but to the probable tri- | umph of the representatives of yellow journalism and | vellow politics at the coming Democratic Pres:dennal convention. The home yellow is far more portentous | to men of this day and generation than is the mrclgnx yellow, and to the Democratic camp the portent is very | i threatening indeed. . Yellow politics is of course an inevitable outcome of | yellow journalism. As soon as men perceived that ap- | | peals to envy and ignorance, vice and silliness couid be | made profitable in the conduct of a low class of news- | { paper it was but naturai the lesson should be learned‘ by demagogues and similar appeals be made to the same | classes for their votes. The aim of yellow politics is to | inflame the unsuccessful against the successful, and in that way to divide the American people into classes, in i | which the fortunate shall be on one side and the unfor- tunate on the other. For the further purpose of| strengthening their hold on the masses the leaders of | the movement incessantly preach the doctrine that every | American workingman is an “unfortunate” who has been | robbed by the predatory rich, while every capitalist and | every employer is denounced as one of the robber class. It has taken a long campaign of educatioy to convince ; any considerable number of Americans that they are| | the victims of an oppressor who is robbing them of | their just dues, but incessant repetition of the falsehood, accompanied by every form of slander and libel that | cunning can devise and malice make use of, has had its | effect in the larger cities of the Union and in some of the strongholds of Northern Democracy. As a consequence the yellow peril shows itself in politics this year with a force which appears to hawve been sufficient to frighten conservative Democracy out of its wits. - i Up to this time the plans of the conservitives seem to have been utterly ifutile. They have held many din- | ers, at which distinguished leaders have first feasted and | then made speeches, but as yet there has been no agree- 1 ment among them as to a platform or a candidate. Gorman, Hill, Olney, Parker, Gray and the rest appear 4 | the face of the peril, and as far as the public can see they are making no effort whatever to save themselves and their party from the fate that impends. It looks, | therefore, as if the chiei feature of this Presidential campaign will be the appearance in national politics of a yellow candidate on a yellow. platform preaching a hatred of wealth and promising fouwr years of anarchy. That is the true, “yellow peril” of the time so far as this country is concerned. A Missouri murderer awaiting execution a few days since relieved the monotony of the situation by over- powering and binding the death watch, imprisoning the | jailer and escaping to freedom. It is evident that this diverting outlaw had in mind the admonition of the Missourian, “Show me.” If there be any law-abiding members of the community left they should show that death watch a few more uncertainties in the game of life. —_— The Southern Pacific Company is soon to work one of its miracles of modern engineering by which the towns from San Francisco to San Jose will be carried nearer to us, to become what naturally they were intended to | be—suburbs of the metropolis. When these pretty and thriving towns are given transportation facilities now enjoyed by Alameda County San Frarcisco will receive its normal expansion and the peninsula will quicken to the spur of enterprise and prosperity. VPR AR Whatever else may be said of the civilizing agencies now in the vigorous swing of youth in San Francisco, no one will gainsay our reputation that in the theory and practice of the fine art of burglary we have few equals among the cities of the Union. It is time, however, to offer a suggestion to the thieving rascals that are prey- ing on the town. Let them rob a few policemen, easy and submissive game, and the rest of us may get some protection in neglect., The Committee on Postoffices and Postroads of the House of Representatives appears to have expended a vast amount of useless labor in its report, in which was Willie Moran is a typical street gam- {in. He is only about 12 years of age, but as bright and shrewd as a boy many years his senior. He is naturally a good boy, but he will not go to school. It was_ his hatred for everything | that looks like a book that caused ! him to be haled before Judge Murasky a few weeks ago during a session of the juvenile court. The Judge had a long talk with him and his mother, and then | called a truant officer to him, gave h:m‘ some whispered Instructions and dis- missed Willie. Out in the corridor Willie met a num- ber of his chums. “Say, Willle,” they | asked him, “what did der Judge do ter | )('r" Did he send you to der home?"” “Naw,” answered the gamin, with a| {look of disgust. “Worse dan dat. He told der big cop wot arrested me to call at me mother’s house every morning to take me to school.” Homeopathic Homilies. Love is always far sighted. Faith is the secret of firmness. Pleasure is but a weed, joy a fruit. Talents are tools and not merchan | dise. Meekness is simply the silence of | might. The gain of love is lost by the love of gain. Secrecy is the best soil for the worst sins. The hypersensitive whoily selfish. There is no merit in sacrifice devoid f service. Kindness is born of our sense of kin- ship " to all. The trifling man never attends to the great trifles. The heart’s protest against death .s the promise of life. Your criticism of another is your ver- are apt to be ‘dh‘t on yourself. The great lives have all loved some- thing greater than life. Disappointment is not a sufficient reason for discouragement. Righteousness is®he only recommen- dation that goes in heaven. Sin is always a greater wrong to the sinner than to any other. There is more in being won.h! of a great place than there is in winning it. Holiness is the reaching after rather than the arriving at perfection. The man who is afraid of burning up his wick need not hope to brighten the world. When a man sets popularity before his eyes he is likely to let principle out of his heart.—Chicago Tribune. Thanks. Thanks to you, sun and moon and star, And you, blue level with no cloud— Thanks to you, splepdors from afar, For a high heart; a neck un! Thanks to you, wind, sent to and fro, To you, light, pouring from the dawn; Thanks for the breath and glory-flow The steadfast soul can feed upon. Thanks to you, pain and want and care, And you. joys, cunning to deceive, And you, baiked phantoms of despalir; 1 battle on, and I belleve. Thanks to you, ministers benign, In whatsoever guise you come; Under this fig tree and this vine, Here I am master, and at home. —Atlantic Monthly. Ewolution of Cities. All cities, with few exceptions, trace the origin of their plan to the inclosed camp, and many still show marked features of primitive fortifications. In all early schemes for defense the in- closed square was cons‘dered the best. From the time when wagons “were merely parked on the plain to the time when buildings were constructed with blank walls to the enemy, and their facade to the open square, this plan has been universally adopted:; and many of the, great squares or market places of famous cities still show undeniable evidences of these precautions for defense. In the old city of Brussels, the square upon made a highly sensational contribution to the postal | which faces its wonderful City Hall, scandal. In exposing a mest of special privileges, shady |is approached by streets so narrow influences, political corruption and dubious alliances the committee would have saved time, labor and expense by telling who, of our national dignitaries, were not con- cerned in the frauds. Our Board of Health, for reasons sufficiently clear,. has that they must surely have been con- structed with the idea of defense in mind. Were it possible lo forecast the rapid development of cities or to pre- dict which of our many cities is teo become’ a 'metropolis, the might not be such a difficult o deserted the practical field of watchful activity in mat- | such, unfortunately, is not lhe ters of health and sanitary reform and has entered with | Even the most vivid alarming confidence into the dangerous domain of liter- ary suggestion in affairs that concern our ‘Physical well- imm would scarcely have been able to pre- dict the enormous increase of popula- tion and the consequent architectural being. What a blessing it would be if we could only se-, dmmmt of modern cities. The cure a governmental bureau with sufficient faith in its |Tapid growth mm»m-m:namumm of American cities is 11 known, but few realize that the older cities of Europe have had a sim- Har experience. The recent increase in | * Berlin has exceeded that of Chicago, and what is true of Chicago is true of many other European centers. It is then not surprising to note that in Hanover, Hamburg, Nuremburg, Lelp- sie, Leignitz, St. Johann a Saar and Magdeburg, modern municipal build- ings of great importance have recently been or are now being constructed.— Architects’ and Builders’ Magazine. St. Louis Notes. The Texas bullding at the World's Fair will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies March 30.. Governor Lan- ham and other State officlals and a large number of prominent Texans wiil attend, A typleal log camp will be a feature of New York's exhibit in the forestry, fish and game building at the World's Fair. The camp will be set up at Old Forge and then taken apart and re- erected at the exposition. A clam 19% inches in circumference was recently taken from the water near Pismo, Cal. The capture was made by Mrs. Dennis, and the monster will ba added to California’s fish exhibit at | the World's Fair. ! Progress is being made on Siam's national pavilion at the World's Fair. The building, a reproduction of the Siamese temple at Bangkok, is 125 feet It adjoins the Mexican build- | square. | ing. Cannecticut's entire State exhibit is | ready for shipment to the World's Fair | A meeting of the State commission will be held April 29 in the Connecticut building when it will have been.com- pletely furnished. The Goulds and Rockefellers will have a mining exhibit in the mines and metallurgy palace at the World's Fair. The exhibit will show the fla- ished products of the great plant at Pueblo, Colo., where $75,000,000 is in- vested. Answers to Queries. AGE LIMIT—Subscriber, Del Mon- | te. Cal. The age limit for admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point is between 17 and 22 years; at the Naval Academy at An- napolis the age limit is from 16 to 20 years. FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS—J. B., City. The order of Founders and Pa- triots of America is a patriotic and his- torical association which was organ- ized in 1896. Edgar A. Turrell, 76 Wil- liam street, New York City, is the sec- retary general, and will, if communi- cated with, give all information in re- lation thereto. THE LAW—A. B. C, City. If a voung man who has just graduated from a law college, but is without in- fluential friends and wishes to start out in his cheosen profession, he had better act as clerk or assistant in the office of some prominent attorney and make friends. These will in time help him along when he wants to start in for himself. NAVAL ACADEMY — Subscriber, City. There are private tutors who will give instructions to any one who wishes to prepare himseif for the Naval Academy at Annapolls, but this de- partment cannot advertise such. If the correspondent will send a self-ad- dressed and stamped envelope the in- formation he desires will be sent him by mail. APPRENTICES—A Reader, Byron. Cal. The requirements for enlistment of a boy as an apprentice in the United States navy are that he must be be- tween the age of 15 and 17 years, of robust frame, intelligent and perfectly sound and healthy. At the age of 15 he must be not less than 4 feet 11 inches in height, weigh not less than 30 pounds and have a chest measurement of 27 inches; at 16 the figures are 5 feet 1 inch, 90 pounds and 28 inches chest measurements. He may be enlisted with the consent of parents or guard- jan. CHINESE LANGUAGE—A. B City. The printed or written Chinese language is intelligible to educated Chinese an over the empira, Just as the numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, §, etc., are understood all over the Continent of Europe and of the world generally, but the spoken language has manv dialects, often differing widely from each other, so that mén liviag in dif- ferent prefectures of the same prov- ince are oftentimes ynable to under- stand each other, unless they have made their dialects a particular study. Besides the number of dialects many of the characters have several differ- ent meanings, according to the breath- ing or tone with which they are pro- nounced or the connection in which they are written or spoken. In order to make the knowledge of the Chinese valuable to a commercial agent in China he should learn all the dialects. The written language is made up of 80,000 characters and each must be by sound. In the Cyclopedia Brittanica, to be seen in the reference room of the free public library, there is a leng and interesting article on this language under the head of China. T e m and m fire- R ;.-F.%'&..._-'-'i'&?-