The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY. MAY 4, 1904 | ley Educational to the effect that only men ploved teachers for s of age has been ar repert from the of New as Association TH . given by these superior -mae for the discarding of the ~women apparently to give positions, is really substantiate his pesition, E. Armstrong of Lon- Educarional report, to admit what few Henry Mosley obliged ir been has men have been willing to do before. To | en are mcapable above the age of child- entire period of her has been man’s slave, ¥ of evelution be in any ect there is no reason to sup- that will recover from the abilities which this has en- r within any period which ‘purposes can regard al as reasonadle.” The conclusion is drawn that women having been the slaves of men all these .- agés are not capable of teaching boys, “but are all right for giris.’ One cannot help wondering how such fiferior mothers can produce such won. 5 rful sons, at least when we take into * consideration the fact tnat sons, as a .. rule, inherit the personal and intel- <4ectual t s of the mother and the ughter those of the father. We understand the traditions that have been thrown around the life and ~ducation of girls has interfered with the full development of their faculties @né until such restrictions are removed it is impossible to judge to what heights - a woman is capable of going, but in- - * stead of cementing this wall of preju- - dice still stronger around the education ~of women, thus preventing their further development, these learned men should lend a helping hand to their sisters and thus encourage them to develop their | God-given faculties unfettered by tra- ditions of the past. “ The Mosley Educational Commfission . agrees that many women are effem- inizing the boys and one of them is _reported as saying: ““We want teach- ers who can give the boys a punch in the head once in & while and teach them 2 The Male Teachers’ . . women) from * to do likewise.” Association of * New York City has a long list of griev- ances. “Women,” they say, “have not only crowded men out of the elemen- tary schools, but are slowly forcing > them out of the high schools.” On ac- count of the “f nization of the teach- ing force” the girls outnumber the boys . in the high school, in some cities 4 1o 1 - These learned men have also decided that the maintenance of “s0 many unmarried women teachers is one, of . the agencies which tends to decrease the number of men and women who marry, “thus prohibiting them (the undertaking their more * patural place in the world’s work.” - “Man appeals to the boy through his . sense of right and justice, but the wo- man appeals to the child through sen- timent.” These wise men would have us un- derstand that women have stolen the profession of teaching from them through their willingness to teach for ‘Jower wages, but they try to prove to s that the “loss to the,boy in seif-re- liance, courage, high purpose and man- ly character far outweighs the less wages paid to women.” I wonder it has never occurred to these- men that the easiest and most efféetual way of ridding themselves of the woman teachers is to put all their foree into securing the passage of a law requiring equal pay for equal work in the public schoois, irrespective of wex, and then if the people preferred to have men teachers over their boys e would not be this barrier of wages, and justice would be done both * the men and women teachers. It would shen be the one best fitted to fill the position, rather than the one who could be obtained for the least money, that would secure the position. T really won- der if these men dare stand upon their own merit with a “fair field and no favor.” The women, I know, would be only too glad to take their chances on this basis. After enumerating almest every evil “imaginable as a result of so many - ‘women teachers, like the loss of social standing for the man when engaged in 2 feminized profession, they conclude wy saying that “it is wrong to give education over to a class.” If this association thinks it wrong to give education over to a class, I would like 1o ask what they think about giv- . greater injustice through having the Government, which they not only help 1o suoport, but whose laws they must obey, given entirely over to a class, and one of the injustices to which they must submit through this injustice teaching in the public schools one-half to two-thirds the 2 man for the same work, but hear & word of protest from Tezchers’ Association justicm If they wish themselves they had best first 2 little of it toward their sister ers. _ Max O'Rell had it about right i | | times more talent than a man, inas-| of | he wrote “Are Men Fair to Women?" He savs: “To begin with, are men fair to women? The laws, which are made by men., the usages—everything is cal- culated to cause. men to reduce to a minimum the qualities, the intelligence and the influence of women. For in- stance, let a womean make a reputation in art or literature, and men begin to smile and shrug their shoulders. They dispute her talent. “I maintain, without fear of contra- diction, that a woman in ordey to suc- ceed in a profession must have ten | much as a man will have friends and | comrades to help him, and a woman | only difficuities put in her way by man | to surmount. “Mgn receives encouragement from | des. should not women get all ? Simply because man, be- ing both ‘verdict' and ‘execution,” has kept everything for himself.” This association informs®us that it | is for the interest of the women teach- as well as the boys, that fewer omen be employed. | We have always noticed that when | men try to take a thing that belongs to women it is always for the good of | the women. When girls were not al- ;lownd to attend the public schools it | was for the good of the girls. When the {law gave everything a woman pos- | sessed to her husband, who could will { it away from her at his death, it was| for the best interests of the “umem; | Man has protested against every step | in the progress of women, from learn- ling to read to having the bailot, and| then taunts her with having been the | slave of men, and consequently not| | capable of teaching boys. We who realize the struggles through | which she has been obliged to pass in| order to secure her present position in | the world may be pardoned if we look with suspicion upon the action of the Male Teachers’ Association. The Torpedo. The Whitehead automobile torpedo | may be regarded as the parent of al- | most all the automobile torpedoes { which are now in use in the navies of | the worla. | Our own service torpedoes, which | are made at Woolwich, at Por\\und(‘ | and at Leeds: the French service tor- | pedoes, many of which are made at Toulon; the Russian service torpedoes | which are made in Russia: the Ger- man service torpedoes, which are ! made in Germany—all owe their ex- | istence to the original invention of | Mr. Whitehead, an invention now more | than a generation old: and aithough | each national type differs somewhat | from every other, each still bears a | strong cousinly resemblance to the service torpedo which the firm of | Whitehead makes to-day at Fiume, on | the Adriatic, for_such powers as have no torpedo manufacturing plant of | | their own. Among these powers is| | Japan. It is true that the original White- | head was a weapon that traveled on the surface of the water only, while the modern automobile torpedo is es- | sentially a submarine engine. Many | vears, nevertheless, have now elapsed | | since the marvelous weapon, by steady | | evolution, became extraordinarily per- | |fect and formidable, although it is| | but right to add that its improvement | has been continuous from first to last, | and is not yet at a standstill. Strange to say, however, the significance of the ! automobile torpedo as a factor in| | naval warfare is only now beginning i to receive adequate recognition. The weapon has always had its enthusias- | tic champions, of course, although | until quite recently they have been the few, while its detractors have been in the majority. It was admitted that the automobile i 1‘ torpedo had won successes during the | | civil war in Chile, during the revolu- | tionary fighting in Brazil and during | the conflict between Japan and China; | “but,” said the wiseacres, “wait until |one of the leading naval powers is | concerned, and then you will see that although the torpedo may be all very | | well against South Americans or yel- low men, it won't work against civi- lized Europeans.” In spite of this sort of discourage- ment, which reached them from with- in the various services as well as from without, torpedo officers have never ceased to study and develop their fa- vorite weapon. They increased its speed from ten or twelve to upward of thirty miles an hour: they increased its range from three or four hundred to a couple of thousand yards or more; they increased its explosive carrying capacity from thirty to nearly two hundred pounds, and they increased the accuracy of its submarine flight, both lateral and vertical, until, even in a cross-running tideway, its pre- cision could be depended upon. By means of a device which is now being perfected in America the speed of the weapon can be increased to some for- ty miles an hour up to 2000 yards. The process employed is a mere superheat- ing of the compressed air as it is fed from the “flask,” or reservoir, to the driving machinery; and it involves lit- tle additional expense. We kndw now what the Japanese, acting not against careless and ignorant Celestials, but against the finest officers and best ships of a leading European navy, have been able to do with this perfect- ed engine of destruction. No one will ever again decry the power of the tor- I pedo.—London Mail. ¢ Spearing a W hale. When between Malta and Gibraltar, on her way home to pay off, . M. 8. Diana struck a large whale some sixty feet in length. The impact was not felt, but the officer of the watch no- ticed, on taking bearings of an island which the ship was passing, that she was not making the headway which was to be expected, and he then dis- covered that a large whale was im- paied on the ship’s ram and was just appearing above water. The ship was stopped and the engines were reversed, as she went astern the whale A similar occurrence was'| Daily Graphic in 1890, Immortalite ran into a coast of Portugal while and. On that de- ion the collision bet: the ship and the whale was felt. . o og 1 | the Briti THE SAN FRANCISCD CALL Btk Fu. 70 ORISR TSN T N & SRR ANE 'OEN D. SPRECKELS, Propriefor . ... ... ... Address All Communications to JOEN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office ... = ...Third and Market Streets, S. F. o e SRt e e S R R SN S CMAY: 4 1084 JAPAN IN MANCHURIA. HE sea victories of Japan have been followed now by a significant but not decisive victory for her land forces. While the reports are meager, it is evident that the action on the Yalu is of great importance to the islanders, aside from their capture of many guns and much army stores and plunder. European military critics have deprecated a Japanese advance into Man- churia. But the Japanese military strategists seem to look upon that province as the Russian®base, in which view it is important that it be seized. Japan insisted, be- tore war began, upon the recognition of Chinese sover- cignty in Manchuria. In her behalf it must be urged that this was simply insisting that Europe, and especially Russia, keep faith. In 1901 our State Department, in a note, admonished China against making separate arrangements with any single power respecting Manchuria. This seems to have been caused by a knowledge of Russia’s design to take advantage of her breach of faith in regard to evacuation of the disputed province. Our diplomatic note left no room for mistaking its purpose, which was the guarantee of the integrity of China. It was made the subject of inquiry at St. Petersburg, and Count Lamsdorff assured sh Minister. that ‘gQe Czar had no intention of departing in any way fyom the assurance he had publicly given that Manchuria would be entirely restored to its former condition in the Chinese empire as soon as cir- cumstances admitted.” Thereafter Russia was left to judge independently of the time when circumstances would admit of such action. She did so judge and fixed dates repeatedly for the evac- uation she had promised. The last promise made to the United States was that Manchuria should be evacuated last October. This, iike every Russian promise, was broken. Meantime, while these promises were pending, and in defiance of our note, Russia sought to force China into a separate treaty as to Manchuria. When our Minister at Peking detected this intrigue it was promptly denied by Lamsdorff, and by his order the denial was made offi- cially at Washington by Count Cassini. This impeached our Minister, who later furnished absolute proof, supplied by the Tsung-li Yamen in the form of the text of the treaty, that he had not misinformed his Government. Russia then unblushingly admitted the attempt, but at- tempted to palliate her infamous conduct by arguing that the treaty would not mean what its text stood for! There followed the Russian seizure of Newchwang, a treaty port, and this was followed by more promises to get out of Manchuria, every one of which was broken. To crown her dishonor, after breaking her last promise, Russig announced that she was “disposed to recognize treaties by other states with China up to the time of the Russian occupation of Manchuria in 1900.” But she is only disposed to recognize treaties concluded since then on condition that existing treaties between Russia and China and Russian interests in Manchuria shall be un- prejudiced thereby. This "applies to our commercial treaty with China concluded last July, opening new ports in Manchuria. The exasperating fact about that treaty is that our State Department took pains to communicate its terms to Russia before the exchange of ratifigations, and Cas- sini, by order of his Government, on the 28th of last June, conveyed Russian assent to that treaty, and imme- diately thereafter Russig attempted, by threats made at Peking, to prevent the ratification by China! Since the treaty was ratified Russia has assumed to control the ports which it opened to the trade of the world, and has L4 | excluded from them our Consuls appointed in accordance with the treaty! 1 So, when the Japanese stormed and carried the Rus- sian entrenchments on the Yalu, slaughtered the Cos- sacks, captured artillery, took prisoners and set the Rus- sian army on the run, every genuine American approved and applauded. Japan stands for international faith and fairness, and her diplomatic history is not stained by a by a single truth or the keeping of a single promise. None can foresee the fortunes of war, but if the struggle | in Eastern Asia continue as it has begun, the most brutal | and backward power now on earth will meet the very E ultimate of humiliation at the hands of enlightened and | civilized Japan, standing as the avenger of the nations that have been deceived, lied to and ViC!i‘liZEd by Musco- vite trickery and deception. i Congress has ‘adjourned and the politician has been swept from Washington and has been thrown broadcast ameng us to continue the Presidential campaign that has been so poorly concealed under the guise of proposed legislation for months. The rubbish from the national capital, however, will not affect the public mind or blind it to the real issues involved in f.hc great political battle. T San Francisco for 1903 has just been issued and contains a full and interesting explanation of the year’s work. The total receipts for the year amounted to $10,551 88, and the expenditures to $5911 50, leaving a balance on hand at the first of this year of $4640 38, The actual income, however, for the year from donations and subscriptions was $3730, and the expenses $5911, so that there would have been a deficit were it not for the Miranda W. Lux bequest of $4623 91 received in June. The report states that while there is much reason for congratulation over the success of the year’s work, the expenses which must be incurred during the present year will amount to over $7000, or almost twice the in- come from subscriptions and donations in 1903. That will necessitate $3500 additional from new subscriptions and donations if the work contemplated is to be carried out. The increase is desired more particularly to pro- vide a “Children’s Department,” to deal better with pov- erty and crime in its inception, in the belief that the hos- pital and reformatory are preferable to the prison md‘ asylum. The report shows the number of subscribers for 1903 to have been 575, as against 245 for 1902, and that in the three years of the association’s existence 3003 cases have been investigated. The plan of having a central agency like the Associated Charities, with a corps of experienced assistants acting as an investigating committee for the various eo-operat- ing charitable bodies of the city, obviates unsystematic and purposeless giving by a number of different associa- tions and individuals working independently and without organization. After all, the only real charity is that which discriminates, for much of the almsgiving not based on a knowledge of the particular case tends to de- grade rather than to uplift.‘ 3 The Associated Charities has an “Application and In- ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. HE annual report of the Associated Charities of | single lie, while that of Russia is not relieved or redeemed | century child vestigation Bureau,” to investigate the merits of cases reported by those societies co-operating with it, and a “Registration Bureau,” for recording all applicatfons for help. It is thus possible to prevent duplications and to distinguish between the chronic pauper and one really in need. A somewhat new and excellent feature is the “Endorsement Committee,” which issues credentials to those organizations that are worthy, thus enabling the members of the Merchants’ Association,’with which it acts, to discriminate in their giving. The work of the Associated Charities in lending a strengthening hand to the weak and unfortunate, there- by assisting such persons to help themselves, often pre- vents their becoming a State charge. From that view- point money paid in subscription is something more than charity; it is an investment for relieving the burden upon the taxpayer, and eliminating motives purely hu- manitarian. The request of the organization for addi- tional subscribers on that ground alone is surely a valid one. A Chinese revolutionist was landed recentlg at this port and is now agitating his opinions of change and upheaval among his countrymen in their communities in the United States. If the Oriental iconoclast will sug- gest a revolution in everything his fellows among us ‘mve his coming may be accepted as an unmixed blessing. Any change in the manners and methods of resident coolies will be an improvement. T Lake Tulare once afforded a home for fish and fowl, so says the Hanford Sentinel. The hunter and the fisherman have vanished from the locality and farmers with agricultural implements have succeeded the fishermen with their nets and lines and the hunters with their guns. Wheat grows on the spot across which in the memory of many living Californians a steamboat plied. The grain crop on the old lake bed is estimated to be worth $1,000,000. This is a complete transforma- tion worthy indeed to be recorded as it signifies the gen- eral movement in California of which it is a symptom. The country around Los Angeles was once largely a desert, and this is true of the thousands of orchard bear- ing acres, rich fn'oranges and other semi-tropical fruits, that make gratefifl the present landscape about a score or more of thriving southern communities. Ounce the Sacramento Valley was, thought to be valuable only as a great wheat area. It is now deyoted to the production of so many sorts of vegetation that a mere enumeration would be cause for the people of less favored lands to wonder. The same is true of the San Joaquin Valley. There the raisin industry has taken on large propor- tions and is world famous. Oranges grow successfully, from the commercial point of view, in several degrees of latitude in California. The dry and parched lands have been transformed. Their merits have been discov- ered. Vineyards wave th:ir_grecn foliage in the breezes; olives, cereals and deciduous fruits guarantee comfort and opulence. San Francisco may be less regarded by the present generation as the scene of the most wonderful transfor- mation of all, but such it is. What the sand dunes are that lie south of Point Lobos and between that broad avenue and Golden Gate Park, what the vast accumula- tions of sand in many parts of the city west of First LAND OF TRANSFORMATIONS. HERE are 30,000 acres of waving grain where old avenue are, show the exact appearance of a great part of | San Francisco within the memory of the pioneers. Golden Gate Park was made possible by the planting of bunch grass and the subsequent plantations of trees that would thrive with comparatively little water in sandy ‘wastes. - Parks and avenues that were daily clouded with great volumes of flying dust have been oiled and the road- beds are thereby bound down, just as’securely as the fieeting spnds that used to scud before the stiff summer breezes from the Pacific Ocean have been anchored by | bunch grass and by windbreaks formed of trees and mis- The great Western Addition was made of sand very largely. Where there are stately mansions the boys used to chase jackrabbits and eat wild blackberries that thrived on sunny exposures amid the sandhills. Death Valley has become the seat of a great borax industry. Mines that produce gold abundantly have been developed on the Mojave and Colorado deserts. The greatest productive oil field in California, that which is known as the Kern River field, takes the place of former sand wastes, and busy industry there delves for wealth and revolutionizes the manufactures of a State with cheap fuel that is extracted from beneath the sands. Man has torn down high hills and even mountains with the hydraulic mining process, and the topography of cer- tain sections has been completely metamorphosed. Along the Feather and Yuba rivers the modern gold- dredging machine has become a great producer of wealth. The deposits of the precious metal that have been swept down by floods for thousands of years have been dis- covered. Where orcharded areas have succeeded the yearly wheat fields by the river banks dredgers for gold have come to effect another transformation. The or- chards have been pulled up and destroyed. The land in which they stood’and thrived has been turned over, and again the topography of a country has been changed markedly. The topography of San Francisco suffered a great change. In the early days Montgomery street was the water front. Long wharves were extended into the bay to facilitate landing. The sandhills were thrown down to fill up the spaces between the wharves, and the city gradually advanced to the present line of the seawall, where it will permanently stop. These are but a few of the transformations. Wher- ever there has been constructed an irrigation sy'stem the character of the products and not 'ess of the population has changed: Los Angeles crowns its hills ‘with homes and orchards and then finds oil, and lo! an army of der- ricks and an industrial transformation. These are but a few instances. Truly this is a wonderful land. cellaneous vegetation. / believes Works can be conducted for the next fiscal year for Auditor Baehr that the Board of Public one-half the sum that this strenuous bureau of the municipality thinks it requires. To the ordinary layman the primary question is not what the Board of Public Works needs, but what the city will get after the bureau has finished its manipulations of what it receives. Two boys of Chicago fought recently over whit the news reports are pleased to call the love of a girl. Mur- der was done and three families were sent reeling into dishonor. Tt is sincerely to be hoped that the tragic in- cident will not be accepted as an illustration of twentieth life in the Windy City. : Asleep in the Decp. Some queer yarns are told about the men who wear the uniform of a sailor in the service of Uncle Sam. Probably the queerest is the one told of Gun- ner’s Mate Johnson, a strapping big Swede at present serving out an en- listment on board a ship of war that frequently visits San Francisco. Johnson, it appears, is a most con- vivial soul and fond of his grog. He is also a good sailor, but shines as a diver. A short time ago, while his ship was anchored near Mare Island, it became necessary to send Johnson down into the depths to take off some of the growth from the hull. His | first dive lasted about an hour. When he came up he told the executive offi- | cer it would/ take about a week to | make the ship’s bottom clean. He was given the task and: every day at 9 o'clock, clad in rubber suit and hel- met, he slipped over the ship's side. At “mess gear” (meal time) he came up, had his meal, and at 1:30 went down again, remaining down until ‘‘mess gear” sounded again. | For five days Johnson kept this up and then the chief gunner grew a lit- | tle bit suspicious. About 3 o'clock one afternoon he ordered a second diwer's suit “broken out.” This he donned and went overboard. He came up in about 10 minutes and so did Johnson. When the cumbersome suits were re- moved the gunmer ordered Johnson “to the mast.” At this ship’s tribunal Johnson faced the captain. What the skipper said to him could not be heard, but ]az the close of the interview Johnson meekly saluted and walked forward. The explanation came next day | when the gunner confided to a fellow officer that Johnson, who had been i given every night ashore, spent them roystering about, then came aboard ship, donned the helmet and suit and slipped over the side of the ship, os- tensibly to clean the ship’s bottom, but really to sleep. His shipmates were in on it of course. The gunner's suspicions had been aroused when he noticed that the air bubbles that always appear on the surface directly over a diver did not vary a foot during all the time John- son was down. When he investigated ; he found Johnson hanging like a huge barnacle~to the side of the ship. His arms were dangling about in the water and his reclining pesition was maintained by the aid of his signal lines, one of which he had passed around his shoulders and the other about his feet. No Fence Needed. A certain rich man who recently de- parted. this sphere was a merchant in Sonora in the early days, and although possessed even at that time of con- siderable of the world's goods he was not noted for his charitable deeds. Mr. Blank. was always averse to sub- scribing for the public improvements that had been projected in the town, and whenever any such plan was set on foot Blank was approached with | considerable misgiving on the part of his more progressive fellow citizens. One dav some of the aforesaid eit- izens deemed it advisable to put a fence around the city cemetery. A com- mittee waited on Blank in the hope that he would contribute for the dead where he would not do so for the liv- ing. The chairman of the committee ex- plained its errand, stating that it was desired to ornament the town's burial | ground, and incidentally asked Blank for a subscription. “Well, for my part I think it a very foolish idea,” said Blank. “Certainly no one wants to break into the cém- etery: ‘it's a sure thing that no one can break out; so what's the use of putting a fence around the place?” W hippoorwill Time. Let down the bars; drive in the cows; The west is dyed with burning rose; Unhiteh the horses from the ploughs, And from the cart the ox that lows, And light the lamp within the house. ‘The whippogrwill is calling, i “Whip-| r-will, whip-poor-will,” Where the locust blooms are falling On the hill: The sunset’s rose is dying, And _the whippoorwill is crying, i “Whip-poor-will, whm»roor-wfll"x Soft, now shrill, The whippoorwill is erying ““Whip-poor-will."” The cows are milked: the cattle fed; The last far streaks of evening fade; The farm-hand whistles in the shed, And in the house the table's laid; The lamp streams on the garden-bed. The whip-poor-will is calling, “Whip-poor-will, whip-poor-will,” ‘Where the dogwood blooms are falling On the hill: The afterglow is waning, And the whippoorwill's complaining, Wild and shrill, The whippoorwill's complaining, “Whip-poor-will.” ‘The moon blooms out, a great white rose; The stars wheel onward toward the west; The barnyard cock wakes once and crows; The farm is wrapped in peaceful rest; The cricket chirps; the firefly glows. The whippoorwill is calling, . “Whip-poor-will, whip-poor-will,” Where the bramble-blooms are falling On the rill: The moon her watch is keeping, And the whippoorwill is weeping. “Whip-poor-will, whip-poor-will The whippoerwill ia weept e whippoorwiil is weeping; "wmp-poor-wfil.“ —Madison Cawein, in May Atlantic. When the End Comes. distribution in the solar system have led Professor George Darwin to pre- dict that the moon will ultimately re- turn to the earth, which gave her sud- den birth so many ages ago; and it may further be prophesied that the planets and their satellites must ulti- mately yield to the gravitational influ- ence of our dying sun and must return to the bosom of their parent. We must conceive of the solar system of to-day, then, as gathered into one central mass closely aggregated around that point which from the beginning has consti- tuted its center of gravity. And what ‘Wwill be the stage of this shrunken ob- Ject? It will be a dark The alterations now occurring in the | hot horseshoes in England and saying “this is the total number.” This dark« to-be will therefore be just such an- other as millions more. There will be no life upon it. We cannot conceive the terror of its cold, for the nebula has been dissipating energy in the form of light and heat Into the chilly depths of intersidereal space ever since tha first hour of its longaeval shrinkage. ‘What is the destiny of this dead sun, among whose constituent atoms, ree member, will be those in the printer's ink before your eyes and those in the eyes themselves? Are they forever— “stable in desolation,” as Stevenson hasg it—to be' borne onward through infinite space? 'No; this shriveled globe, tha common tomb of sun and earth and Mars and of the bodies of the great that once breathed thereon, may live again. Give it but the consuming em- brace of such another voyage and in & moment a new nebula will be born. The force of their impact will suffice to evaporate their substance into anothee cloud, which will repeat the history of the old. The path of the two dead suns will determine the position of the “principal plane” which will form the ground plan of the new system.—C. W, Saleeby, in Harper's Magazine for May., Another Rosalind. A romantic story of the war, with a very tragic ending, has reached Paris | from Russia, says the London Tele-' graph. Among the men belonging to a Siberian regiment stationed at Port Ar- thur was a soldier named Liatnikoff, who was popular with his comrades, but was often chaffed about his effemi- nate appearance. He had been selecied as servant by a voung officer, at whose quarters he lodged. One unlucky day while he was on an errand he fell and broke a leg. Liatnikoff expressed a very strong wish not to be taken to the hospital, and as he was being conveyed thither he took a penknife out of his pocket and deliberately severed an artery in his left arm. As the soldier on his ar- rival there was being undressed to be put to bed the surgeons, to their amazement, perceived that he was not what he had represented himself ta be. Liatnikoff, in fact, was a beautiful girl, barely 18 years of age. Blood peisoning supervened, and the patient had oniy been three days in the hospital when all hope of recovery had to be aban- dened. The young woman sent for the officer in whose service she had been and implored him to marry her, re- minding him that it wag her devotion to him which had led her to pass her- self off as a man in order that she might follow him to the Far East. His brother officers are also said to hava pleaded her cause, but for some unex- plained reason he would not listen to them. As ‘'soon, however, as he had heard of the death of the poor girl who had loved him so well he returned ta his quarters and blew out his brains. ‘Answers to Queries. OREGON PAPER—Subseriber, City, The first newspaper published in Ore< gon was the Spectator, issued in Ore< gon City in 1846, INDIVIDUAL—Subscriber, City. Tha i word individual can properly be applied to a single person, animal or thing of any kind, but it is especially used in relation to a human being. UNIVERSITIES—E. E. Oakland, Cal. The University of Washington is located in Seattle, Thomas F. Kane is at the head of the institution; the Uni- versity of Oregon at Eugene City, P. L. Campbell; the University of Nevada at Reno, J. E. Stubbs; the University of Arizona at Tucson, H. C. Babcock; the University of Montana at Missoula. Oscar J. Craig, and the University of Southern California at Leos Angeles, George H. Bovard. NAVIES—J. B, City. On the 1st of January, current year, the three na- tions having the greatest mumber of men and officers were: Great Brit- ain, 97,734; Russia, 62,715; France, 55.677. The three having the Wreatest number of vessels for effective service were: Russia, 383; Great Britain, 336, and Italy, 346. “Which are the three greatest naval nations in the world”" is a question that cannot be answered until after each nation has been put to the test. The present war in the Far East proves that a nation with a small navy is worrying a much larger one to a considerable extent. TN ROME—Subscriber, City. Tt is asserted that the phrase, “In Rome do as Rome does,” arose from the followr ing incident given in one of St. Au- | gustine’s epistles: “Augustine was in lthe habit of dining upon Saturday as upon Sunday, but, being puzzled with the different practices then prevailing (for they had begun to fast at Rome on Saturday), he consulted St. Am- brose, the Bishop of Milan, on the subject and the answer of the Milan saint was: ‘When I am here I do not fast on Saturday; when I am at Rome 1 do fast on Sal ay.’” Burton, in his “Anatomy of Melanchely,” says of those persons who are always swayed in mind and action by their surround- ings: “When they are at Rome they do as they see done.” — ‘Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.*