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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 2 , 1904 The Thunderer”—t backbone of the the coronation naval retiew at Spit- head. Some contradictory reports had been published on the subject, but it was by no means an official secret. Foreign Governments had been duly notified. In Washington the informa- tion could have been obtained by call- {ing up some official on the telephone. Naturelly 1 imagined that I should have no difficulty in obtaining the in- formation at the Admiralty Office. I was referred to the “Private Secretary | of the Permanent Secretary.” Various written communications passed be- | tween us, but after being kept dang- ling around for more than two hours I was finally informed ‘that there was nobody in that huge department who | could answer my query. What was meant, of course, was that there was nobody present who would assume the responsibility of giving out a mite of information for publication. An American editor would delight in “showing up” things of this sort, but | an English editor of a staid, respecta- ble, -a-rut penny journal would regard such exposure as ‘“rank sensa- tionalism,” quite without the pale of legitimate jourpalism. In recent years interviewing has been xX F THE LONDON T § BEEN F( NGLAND'S MOST Cf ADOPT THE L UP WITH PROGRE SERVATIVE PA- LY AMERICAN — e no longer any doubt | tive Americanization &f | E It all began n of the Napoleon 0(; et, Alfred Harmsworth. He ho first a American | ns to make what | ten readable, and. above all, a morning newspaper for 1 to rea r i nt to the effect, for ex- t the King was about to buy such portentous had been blic in g like thi i le authorit:” (writes a rdent) that his most gracious not unlikely to effect the to the hich kept the item verbiage. ete. can journalism in those days, Mail flourished exceedingly, end in time was followed by the Ex- but the press, sold for a cent, largely written and edited by Amer- jcans, and avowedly modeled on American lines, and furthermore dis- tinguished from ali other English newsp = by printing actual news on the first page—and with headlines on it, too—instead of the usual non-dis- play advertisements. Both papers were, and are, clean and honest :nd compar- atively lively without being scurrilous. The transformations which have thus »t Fleet street agog will have to be llowed sooner or later by other con- temporaries who will find it impossible to sustain dignity and dullness on dwindiing circulations. As the London morning dailies circulate all over Great Britain many provincial papers will undoubtedly be compelled to fol- low their Jead. It marks a new era in British journalism, a general waking up and shaking up in the editorial “sanctum sanctoriums” which have long been consecrated to routine. News that concerns itself with gov- ernmgntal or municipal departments is infinitely harder to obtain here than in America., Officials display much greater zeal in suppressing interesting intelligence than in making it public. Red tape, conservatism and blank stu- pidity oppose all manner of obstacles to the reporter who has recourse’to any department in quest of what in America would be regarded as perfect- Iy legitimate information. A question once arose as to the number of war- ¢hips from each nation represented ibat would be allowed to participate in was considered a 'shocking thing | r. Harmsworth's Mail a | | ation from sources I | me time in the near fu- | extent of | heard a iot about the iniquities | recogrized even by the most conserva- tive British journals as legitimate jour- | nalism, but it is not practiced to any- thing. like the extent that it is in America. British officials high and low have a great horror of it. Mr. Cham- berlain may be interviewed in America, | but never would he submit to it in England. When a reporter seeks in- formaticn of the London County Coun- cil he is given a paper to sign by which | he pledges himself not to use what he leafns in the form of an interview and not to mention the name of his inform- | ant. No official information is ever given to reporters at Scotland Yard or the police stations concerning murders, suicides, burglaries or any crimes of | sufficient magnitude to be of public in- terest. Judicial inquiries are the only recognized source of legitimate official information on such subjects. ‘When a reporter is put on a criminal story, if the facts are not obtainable in any other way, he tackles gome po- liceman -concerned in it and privately offers him a shilling or two to tell what he knows about it. The money is al- ways taken provided the policeman runs no risk of being detected by some superior official, but often the informa- tion is not worth the price paid for it. Frequently it ‘is manufactured on the spot for purposes of revenue only. The usually phlegmatic British Bobby can develop a very lively imagination when | there is a prospect of earning a few shillings thereby. But the reporter gets his money back. In his weekly ac- count he charges: To obtaining information from the po- Hce ...... So much It is recognized as a thoroughly legi- timate charge. To this extent do Lon- don editors aid and abet in police cor- ruption and bribery. News is gauged by a very different standard from that which prevails in America. The managing editor of a great London daily once handed me a proof with the observation that it con- tained something which might be worth cabling. It stated that two Americans had been arrested at Char- ing Cross for shooting at each other and would be arraigned in Bow-street police court in the morning. No names and no particulars were given. “I suppose you have a reporter out running the story down,” I remarked, being then somewhat green with re- gard to English journalistic methods, “and will get the rest of the story later. he replied, “that is all we shall N publish to-morvow. I don’t suppose we should get any additional details if we tried, and it is not of enough impor- tance to be worth trying. When the case comes up in the police court we shall be able to get all the particulars j without any trouble.” &. LISLE SNELL. —ITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL o Sa iR SlaaT el e e S e T i s e R e i D e e JOEI!D.SPWJ.W..........Add:cssAll('ammlnkaflmstOHN McNAUGHT, Manager wee......Third and Market Streets, S. F. TUESDAY —_—— THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. HE contrast between the Rgpublican National Con- T vention that meets to-day and many of its prede- cessors is not as great as appears to some of the special correspondents. The fact that President Roose- velt is the unanimous choice of the delegates makes it unlike the conventions of 1876 and of 1880 and 1888 and 1896, when the Presidential nomination was an open question. But the convention of 1864 was merely for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the Vice-Presi- dency, as Mr. Lincoln’s renomination was inevitable. The same was true of the conventions of 1872 and 1900. The issues now are the nomination of a Vice?Presi- dent. It is now probable the choice will fall upon Sena- tor Fairbanks of Indiana. He is 52 years of age and a native of Ohio. Born ahd reared on a farm he chose law for his profession and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Ohio in 1874, and removing to Indian- apolis began his professional career there. After achieving great success at the bar his political life started in 1892 when he was chairman of the Indiana State Republican Convention, and was his party’s candidate for the Senate in 1893 in the Democratic Legislature which elected Judge David Turpie. > He is not a stranger in national conventions, having been a delegate at large to that of 1896 and its temporary chairman, and in that of 1900 he was chairman of the committee on resolutions. He was elected to the Senate in 1897 to succeed Mr. Voorhees, and was chairman of the United States High Commissioners in 1898 to settle our boundary and other questions with Canada. His present term in the Senate ends in 1909. He is of tall and commanding presence, dignified and approachable, a speaker of winning power, and in all respects a strong man. His location in the West is favorable and adds to the party strength in the Middle West. The questionof platform will cause very proper divi- sions and'discussion. The party will adhere to the principle of protection and it need not say that the pres- ent tariff schedules are immortal. Every expression by Democratic leaders concedes protection as our national policy. John Sharp Williams, the Democratic leader of the House, has broadly accepted protection and differs only as to its extent. As no one wants an undue de- gree of protection, going no further than is necessary to safeguard our home market and defend the American scale of wages and standard of living, the margin be- tween the Republican and Democratic positions is so nar- row that it is difficult to see how the opposition can make a vote winning issue of the tariff. Free trade is no longer heard of anywhere in the country. This does not mean that there are no free traders, but with both the leading parties committed to protection they have no party through which to make themselves felt. They may be expected to antbush in Democratic declarations about the trusts, using the anti-trust sentiment to as- sault the tariff. But they must work by indirection. The country has great work before it. The Panama canal, a work of peace and mighty in its consequences to the whole world, must be constructed as speedily as physical conditions will permit. It is of more impor- tance than anything likely to be taken in hand by any foreign power. Other nations may make wafr, engage in schemes of selfish aggrandizement and dynastic ambi- tion, but their benefits to mankind are imperceptible in the presence of this undertaking of the United States. Not only will we build the canal, but in building and administering it our presence and example on the ! isthmus will regenerate civics in Central and South America and induce freedom and stability in those Gov- ernments where disorders have for nearly a hundred years restricted progress and threatened the peace of the world. President Roosevelt made this stupendous con- struction and all of its beneficial consequences possible, and that fact alone invests the National Convention of his party with unsurpassed dignity. What the convention does will be ratified by the coun- try in November, because it will represent the aspira- tions and the hopes of the American people. The con- vention does not have to reverse any policy of the party or snub any of its record. In it there is no contention between reorganizers and regulars. All elements are regular and there is nothing needful of reorganization. Since its return to power in 1897 the party has adopted the gold standard, liberalized our banking policy, made currency panics less possible, and has so safeguarded our trade and finances as to make it unlikely that any hard times can ever reach the distressing proportions that made men desperate in the awful years between 1893 and 1806. We are likely to see the South again in the position it occupied in the campaign of 1900, when it supported Bryan for policy and prayed for his defeat for pros- perity. When the speakers at the recent annual meet- ing of the Confederate Veterans suspended their threnody long enough to felicitate their section upon a prosperity greater than the South ever knew before they furnished Republican campaign argument of the greatest value. It proved that the prosperity brought about by sound money and protection was not exclusively for the manufacturing and commercial North, but is for the ag- ricultural South as well Russian authorities ask us to believe that the battle of Vafangow and the attack on Japanese transports were part of a great strategical movement that bristles with potentialities of woe to the Japanese. The information is a glad acquisition to our knowledge of the Czar's fight- ing men. We were gradually reaching the impression that the Russian heroes either can’t fight or won't. G resign as commander of the Dominion regulars and militia. He criticized the parsimony of the Government in the matter of military equipment and had 1o resign or be dismissed. Dundonald is a fighting Scotchman, but likes to have something to fight with. ‘When he found the transportation facilities of the Cana- dian army reduced to eleven pack saddles he concluded it was time to let “Our Lady of the Snows"” know that she was in danger, and now some other great captain will command the militia while Dundonald commands his own tongue in action against the Government. He is unduly excited about the United States and de- clares that Canada owes the integrity of her territory to the forbearance of others, meaning the United States. He may calm his ruffied nerves. This country has no warlike designs upon Canndg. We have some people who talk annexation and Canada has some. But we doubt whether the people of the United States would take Canada if it could be done by passing a resolution. We would not look passively upon the conquest of Cana- da by any Continental power, If General Dundonald will OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS. ENERAL DUNDONALD has been compelled to consult the Monroe doctrine and its history he will learn that it was the joint work of Canning and Monroe and that it includes Canada in the Monroe hemisphere. We would certainly not permit Germany nor Russia to take Canada if either party were at war with Great Britain. We prefer Great Britain to either for a neighbor. This position of the United States is so well under- stood that Germany has desisted from attempts to ac- quire the Danish West Indies. As far as the European powers are concerned, we propose to pick our neigh- bors. In the unlikely event of a war between us and Great Britain, using Canada as a base against us, of course we would have to take Canada. But no defen- sive preparations on Canada’s part could prevent that Eleven pack saddles would be just as good as the most improved military transportation. Canada should join hands with us in procuring the proposed arbitration treaty with Great Britain. With that accomplished, war will be so remote a probability that even the eleven pack saddles may be sold as junk. This country, rejoices in the progress and prosperity of Canada, andiwe are envious of her only because she is getting all the good immigration from Europe, white we are getting all the bad. If she will win our lasting friendship she has only to show us the trick of shutting out the diseases of Europe and admitting only its health in her stream of immigration. Men and women of Tuolumne who reached the famous old mining grounds in ’49 held a reunion in Golden Gate Park the other day and revived memories | made sacred by half a century of change. What a store of reminiscences and comparisons these old people must have to cheer the declining and closing years of their evengful lives. TPhilippincs having been completed by the United States Government, the results of the first Ameri- can census for the islands, that of 1903, are embodied in part in a pamphlet that has just been received from the Federal Department of Commerce and Labor. The re- lations that San Francisco and ‘the entire Pacific Coast will have with the Philippines supply obvious reasons why official conclusions concerning the islanders should have local interest. The census was taken on March 2, 1903. There are in the Philippines archipelago 3141 isl- ands and 1slets that extend irom latitude 4 degrees 40 minutes to 21 degrees 10 minutes north and from east longitude 116 degrees 40 minutes to 126 degrees 34 minutes. Within an area of 832,068 square miles of land water there dwell 7,635.226 human beings, of whom 6,987,426 are classed by the census takers as civilized, or partly so, and 647,740 as wild. The aborigines of the Philippines are supposed to be the Negritos, and o these 23,000 remain. They are found in many but not all the provinces. They live in a primitive state. They are black. Their hair is woolly and bushy: Their toes THE PHILIPPINES CENSUS. HE rating and regis(erigof the population of the and are remarkably prehensile, and they can use toes almost | as well as they can their fingers. They wear no clothing except a gee string. They live on such food as they can find, have no fixed habitations or occupations, wander about the forests and have little contact with other peo- ple except when trading. The women, as is usual with uncivilized peoples, do all the work. The men are skill- ful in the use of the bow, in throwing stones and making a fire. which they do by rubbing together two pieces of dry bamboo. These facts, recounted by the | census officers, may be generally in the public mind, but, as the Negritos are considered the progenitors of a very numerous population, some few general facts of this sort may well be recalled for the proper understanding of several interesting questions. How the civilized or partly civilized and the wild Philippine islanders are distributed among the prov- inces is all made clear by statistical tables that are sup- plied in abundance in the census report. It is of less in- terest to the general reader to find out about that than it is to learn of some more general characteristics from official sources of the people whose interests are now bound up with thosé of thé United States to a certain extent. The civilized Filipinos are classified by the census in cight tribes—tlie Bicol, Cagayan, Ilocano, Pampangan, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Visayan and Zambalan. Since the discovery of the Philippines by Magellan in 1521 the population has multiplied fifteen timtes. While the peo- ple of Mindanao are largely head hunters, they are not classed by the census as savages, because they raise maize, mountain rice, taro and a fine quality of hemp. The Moros live in villages, generally along the seashore or by some lake. They are famous boat-builders and also manufacture their arms and some cannon, weave a large amount of cloth, gather considerable quantities ‘of gutta- percha annually, and those living in the Sulu group are expert pearl divers. They have no political organi- in | The Man Who Laughs. As he sat on the bench in Ports- mouth Sauare he looked the personifi- cation of happiness. There was a merry twinkle in his blue eyes, and about the corners of his mouth were evidences that he was very much pleased with the condition of affairs, both as regards himself and the world at large. Soon these evidences de- veloped into a faint smile; then came a grin; a grin that would do credit to an end man in a minstrel show or a darky preparing for the first water- melon of the season. Then he slapped his thighs several | times, and gave other evidence that he was tickled most to death. Finally he laughed. And such a laugh as it was. It would be worth a fortune as a phonographic production of the laughing song. It attracted every one's attention, it was so hearty, and soon those in sound of his haw, haw, haw joined him. They could not help it. The happy man’s laugh was contagious. Two police officers happened along when the various “haws” were hearti- est. They too probably would have joined in the chorus, but they had | | HE__ WAS MOST _TO ! " DEATH — E UGH WAS | WORTH A FORTUNE. + o each been fined $10 by the Police Com- missioners the night before and did not feel like it. So they did the next best thing. They determined to arrest the happiest man in the bunch. They collared the man on the bench, and before that in- dividual could stop laughing they had him booked at the Hall of Justice for disturbing the peace. While the book- ing process was going on the man laughed, and he laughed when he was placed in the cell “Crazy,” remarked the turnkey as he turned the key in the lock. Instantly the laugh ceased, and the happy man's face took on a look of concern. . “You're right,” he said, “but they discharged me out at the Insane Hos- pital, and I was laughing because I had fooled them.” The Grand Scheme. High aloft, like a swallow's thatched in the wall, Is my home on the cliffs by the west- -h ern xg:lblue. a ere the ancing waves drum aglaz; dream call, ? ‘Where the winds frolic past with a hail and adieu, nest zations, but obey some datto or petty chieftain. In the report Taft, Governor when the census was taken, is quoted as saying: “Contrast the Filipinos with other Malays and the oriental peoples, and I ask you to name a people offering more opportunities for development along the lines which American ideals re- quire than the people of these islands.” Director San- ger adds his own personal opinion, which is that “the Filipinos are generally subordinate to lawful authority, that under competent officers they make excellent sol- diers, and in the course of time will make good citizens. The ephemeral tribe distinctions that now exist will gradually disappear, and the Filipinos will become a numerous and homogeneous race, exceeding in intelli- gence and capacity any other people of the tropics.” No attempt is made in the pamphlet referring to the population to give statistics regarding Philippine indus- tries. Facts of that sort will be published in detail by the Census Bureau. It is of some interest to learn that in a general outline of physical conditions the Census Bureau estimates at this time that there are about 12,- 000,000 acres of private lands and 61,000,000 acres of pub- fic lands. Of the latter 40,000,000 or more acres are forest, leaving about 21,000,000 acres available for agri- culture and capable of producing all kinds of tropical fruits and vegetables and many of those usual in the temperate zone. The forest lands are estimated to be worth $2,000,000,000. \ A colored man was arrested the other day for obtain- ing money under the false pretense that in dreams he could see and foretell the winners of horseraces recently run to the profit of professional gamblers in this city. The defendant appears to have an excellent case. If everybody who dreamed he could pick a winner and in. spired his friends with the delusion were to be arrested half the male population of the town would be in jail. ‘Where the deepening night vaunts the | lishman.” | sailor, but how colossal is the work already done! Over one hundred steamboats and tugs, and many barges, are afloat on the Upper Congo, whera Stanley, twenty-seven years ago, ran the gant- let of cannibal tribes. The Cape to Cairo raflroad will reach Zambesi this summer. There are now over fifteen thousand miles of raflroad tracks in Africa, and the end of this decade will see twenty-five thousand miles. Gold fields are opening from the Transvaal to Katanga, north of the Zambesi. Col- onial governments are exPerimenting with all crops that give promise of success. Faith In Africa is inspiring the wonderful work, and the natives themselves will be among the chief beneficlaries when their continent comes more fully into the light— From “What Stanley Lived to See Ac- complished in " by Cyrus C. Adams, in the American Monthly Re- view of Reviews for June. Makaroff. Since the catastrophe at Port Arthur in which Admiral Makaroff and the officers and men of the Russian battle- ship Petropavliovsk were lost, English journals, in speaking of him with ap- preciative admiration, introduce vari- ous anecdotes illustrative of the char- acteristics of the man which show that beneath a stern and impressive ex- terior were hidden very human and likable qualities. He spoke English with accuracy, and because of this his intense activity and his liking for outdoor sports, Emperor Alexander nicknamed him “The Eng- Even when past middle age he devoted two hours each day to physical exercise. A favorite sport was swimming. When in command at Cronstadt, “Old Bluebeard"—so named because of the huge whiskers and mus- tache—was rowed out from the gov- ernment quay for his darfly morning plunge and swim. It seems the very irony of fate that so skilled a swim- mer should have perished of drowning. He had a kindly heart for the poor and the unfortunate, and his morning outings found him surroundsd by the waiting halt and blind, among whom his copecks were liberally distributed. Nor was he always discriminative in his charities. “Makaroff’s mendicant,” for example, was a well known char- acter in Cronstadt. This was a de- crepit and not at all reputhbl old the object of Makaroff's fre- quent charitable regards, who were a placard on his breast on which was in- scribed, “I am under the patronage of our Governor.” This, when the saflor was arrested for drunkenness, he was wont to display to the magistrate, much to the amusement of the court officers and visitors. As is well known, Makaroff had a decided genius for mechanical and en- gineering invention. He drew and copied the designs of his inventions, and he occasionally painted from naturs in water colors. It is told of him that once while thus engaged, during a trip to Finland, he was approached by two young naval cadets, who saw in him only an elderly and carelessly dressed man. They criticized his sketch with frank disapproval of his artistic ef- forts, when Makaroff, turning to look at them, quietly said, “I think I know ¥Qu, gentlemen.” “We don’t know you,” said ome of the youngsters, “but you and ‘Old Blue- beard’ are as like as two eggs!™ The incident ended by Makaroff in- viting them to luncheon. When he dismissed them, he smilingly but sig- nificantly said, “Remember that even elderly artists deserve proper respect from naval aristocrats.”—The Youth's Companion. Answers to Queries. THE DENTAL LAW-—F. T, Corn- day's flowing view Till the skyway and sea melt and min- gle in one, And where never obtains logic's clamor- ing mew: ‘We must work, we must work till our lifework is done. Naught of weighing and gauging” to spur and appall, Only heaven and ocean to drowsily woo; Sunlit sky, sunlit sea till the night's curtains fall And the moon takes sweep of the hal- cyon alew; Spaced with days of turmoil that cloud- banners brew, Starred with nights when the breaker- fires hissingly run, Nor a sign in them all ever ushers this cue: o: ‘We must work, we must work till our lifework is done. Py Safely set on the steeps is this bonnie home-stall. Facing pageants of color the happy day through, ing, Cal. The last passed act of the Califor Legislature, commoniy known as “the dental law,” has not been declared unconstitutional. TOM WILLIAMS—J. L., San Jose, Cal—Tom Williams, the well kKnown horseman, was married twice. His first wife was Miss McMullen, and after being a widower, he married a Miss Steele of Oakland. COST OF BIG GUNS—S. P. B, City A twelve-inch breech-loading rifle, carriage, etc., in barbette, such as are furnished to the United States, costs on an average $61,500—325,000 for the carriage and 336,500 for the gun. The cost of a disappearing twelve-inch breech-loader is on an average $89,- 000—$32,500 for the carriage, and $36,000 for the gun. BARBER POLES—§. C., City. Inan- And the night softly spread in a rap- turous thrall, til day Set to murmurous musie comes anew, Speeding winds! shiftnig sands! glad- = lfteg nn{l l;u:h! eating heart of e sea! loyal clasp of the sun! = Do they say, as the whirl of the world " they! Pur‘;le: e e must work, we Tework 15 domec o Tk U our L'ENVOL O glittering host! O slumber] ;wu:‘ e :_ula in a mmelnull:.y'mm To keep_ th o‘v e:::k:t:. tr:nd scheme from going e must work, w e uf;{work s do:,:lult ‘work till our ~—Mary H. tes, in o - Con\ the Boston Tran Present Africa. It m-y‘ tike ;Etury to even lay the foundations for Africa’s future— cient times barbers performed minor operations in surgéry, and when bleed- ing was in vogue it was the barber who did the cupping and bleeding. To assist in this operation there was a pols or staff which was grasped by the pa- tient and to this there was also at- tached a strip of bandage or fillet to tie up the patient's wound after opera- tion. When these were not in use they were hung at the door as a sign. This was replaced by a red pole with a white strip painted around it in imitation of a bandage wound arouna it, and after cupping and bleeding was discontinued as a method of treating the sick the striped pole was retained as a barber's sign. —_———— Townsend's California Glace fruits 'n artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.® ————— Special information supplied to business houses and public n-n.n,nn Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 230 Cale flflrh street. Telephone Main 1043. *