The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1904, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL| . Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS ™ DO SR : 1L, s cpoeensnasesss sabnbhThe s ionee snshurs BN _THIRD AND MARKET STREETS. SAN FRANCISCO JOHEN D. PUBLICATION OFFICE. = . SUNDAY .covcacssscncsnsasss eecessess. NOVEMBER 20, 1904 A JAPANESE VIEW. HILE the German Emperor is drawing cartoons of the ‘\'el—f Wluw peril and the Russian Czar is dreaming bad dreams on | the same subject, it is instructive to hear the other side of | the story—Japan’s side. This comes to the Western world in a book | just published by Okakura Kakuzo, a cultivated thinker and student of the problems of his native land. “The Awakening of Japan” hc: calls his work and the relation between Japan and the rest of the | world occupies a large part of its discussion. 1 By tracing the influence wielded by the community of religious | spirit between Japan and China since the dawn of time, the author | of this book lays the premise that a war of aggression is foreign to | the very nature of the philosophic thought obtaining in both coun- tries. During its twenty-one centuries of existence China has| evolved no legendary lore of over-sea crusades, of military expedi- | tions bent on heroic deeds beyond the great wall. Japan has always | lived within itself, seeking neither power nor possessions,beyond the seas surrounding itself. The only great war in the annals of old | Japan was that avaged to repel the incursions of the Tartar Genghis | Khan. It was only because hy threatening the independence of Korea, and thereby endangering the economic stability of the em- pire, China became a menace in 1894 and Russia in 1904, that new Japan took up arms for a war beyond its borders. i “Who speaks of the vellow peril?” queries the writer. “The whole history of Japan's long and voluntary isolation from the rest of the world makes such a cry ridiculous. However changed mod- | ern conditions may be, there is no reason for supposing that either | Japan or China might suddenly develop a nomadic instinct and set iorth on a career of overwhelming devastation.” With keen percep- tion he adds: “This cry of a yellow peril must, indeed, sound ironi- cal to the Chinese, who, through their traditional policy of non- resistance, are even now suffering in the throes of the white dis-| aster.” Indeed., it is not without profit to read what the author has to | say about this “white disaster,” and thereby gather some of the de- tails of the reverse side of the picture. Europe, needing markets for | its militant commercial policy, forces its goods upon the nations of the East, willy-nilly. according to this authority. The individualism of the Oriental method of production and manufacture cannot but fali before the highly organized machine made competitive force of Western trade. The East has become the prize to be fought over by the maritime nations of the world; but in this struggle it is the East that is worsted at every tur: THE STATUE OF FREDERICK. last the statue of Frederick the Great, the personal giit of mperor William to this country, has been unveiled in Wash- gton and now stands among the other carven notables of the capital city. All adverse criticism and protest having been unavail- ing, the nation now stands on record as being duly appreciative of Emperor William’s evidence of good will by the sincerity of its par- ticipation in the ceremonies of acceptance through its representa- tives, President Roosevelt and his Cabinet officers. 1 When first Emperor William announced that he desired to pre- sent this country with a statue of the great Prussian, the cynical sug- gestion was made that we return the compliment with a likeness i President Monroe. Others were open in protest against the in-| lation of a monarch’s effigy in the capital of a republic. Still| others inveighed against our acceptance of the likeness of one who v the embodiment of war and aggrandizement. Hardly a fit per- sonage was Frederick, said they, to associate even in stone with the patriots of a free-born country. ! All this protest is unfair in that it takes no reckoning of the an conception of the immortal Frederick. In choosing his great ancestor to represent the good will of Germany toward the United States, Emperor William had in mind those qualities of the greatest of the Hohenzollerns that give him honor in the eyes of his people and of succeeding generations. For the Germans Frederick stands as the great unifier, the early builder of the present German state. He came to the throne only as a small princeling among other small princelings: when his hand relinquished the scepter he left Prussia in the forefront of the nations of Europe. “I am the servant of my people.” said Frederick, and he served the people for | the best whether they would or not. ! This, then, is why the present war lord of the German state! hite upon Frederick the Great to typify the essence of German pa- triotism. To sit in judgment.upon the shortcomings of one whose likeness has been presented us as a gift is at best ungrateinl and discourteous. Thavc been meager. California is flattered by the .selection of | Governor Pardee as president of the congress, for he is a practical man, has made a study of irrigation, and does not let| imagination take the place of facts. The location of the next ses-! 1 at Portland is a proper concession to the wishes of Oregon for securing attention to the Lewis ‘and Clark Exposition of next year. | Had it not been for this'the session should have been held in éomc‘ place convenient to the Federal irrigation works that are now under way, and will begin to make a show of their capacity to effect the | cbject desired in the next year. Gerr THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. ‘ HE press reports from the Irrigation Congress at Ll Paso| si | blinked” HE trend of the shore lay hard and black and ragged in the moonlight. Long even swells lift- ed the yacht like a cork cn their glant bosoms, poised her there for a moment, and then went sliding landward. Far away on a tiny dot of an island a sleepy little lighthouse with lazy regularity—now white, now red. In the cabin the piano tinkled mer- rily, and snatches of ragtime and ex- cerpts from the latest musical farce were greeted with much laughter and | noisy applause. . | There was not even a catspaw ol’l wind. The yacht lay becalmed, riding over the swells like a great white sea- bird with folded wings. In two chairs near the wheel sat a man and a girl. The girl was dressed in white; her face was hard and set; | her eyes were fixed on the distant point where the breaking waves outlined the shore in frothing white. - The man’s eyes were regarding the girl gravely. His mouth was set tightly—so tightly | that harsh lines appeared and gave his usual careless, jovial face a new and far less attractive expression. But presently the harsh lines relaxed some- what and the man smiled—a rather ar- tificial smile and fraught with much cyniciem. He leaned toward the girl® “At least,” he said slowly, “I have been thoroughly honest for once.” The girl did not move and for some time she did not speak. When she did it was one questioning word in a col- orless voice. “Why The man laughed as if he were ill at ease. “Why?" he repeated her question. “I'm sure I don't know. Believe me, I seldom am guilty of the weakness of telling the truth—the whole truth. You are the only one who has ever heard it from my lips, although"—his voice hardened—‘current gossip would give you the story, somewhat ampli- fled and with a host of harrowing de- tails.” “1—I thought—" the girl began. “That I really was possessed of the | money my appearance and bearing seem to indicate?” he finished quickly. “They ail think that. It has been amusing—generally. Well, the fact is, 1 haven’t a sou. I'm a punctured bal- loon: a social confidence man; a rank 1 | | NCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, + WHERE LOVE MAY BE BY JOHN BARTON OXFORD. —pardon the phraseology—four-flush- VEMBER o b 1904. er; but, please heaven, with you I am honest.” The girl turned her eyes and looked at him steadily. In the moonlight her beauty made him faint and sick at heart with hopelessness. “Why?” she asked again, simply. “Because—because,” he stammered, ‘“there was something about you dif- ferent from the rest of womankind— something that touched my respect and | pride and—and—" He looked at her and smiled. girl bit her lips. The m— “God Help Me, How I Love You!" He Cried. P “I wanted you to know what manner | “I had | of man I was,” he went on. to tell you, even at the imminent risk of losing—oh, everything,” he ended vaguely. “Is poverty such a disgrace?” she asked. “Yes,” he said, slowly. “It is blight- ing, belittling, mean.” “Is poverty never anything but ig- — ‘ GIRLS HAVE AR noble?” she persisted. “Never!” he replied. “And you say you've told me the! whole truth?” she still questioned. He nodded. The girl rose; her eyes flashed. | “You haven't,” she said, with spirit. “You haven't said a word about why you are poor. You haven't mentioned to me that it was because you shoul- dered your father's obligations, which you might quite as well have evaded, had you been so minded.” S there any sign or signs by which one may know If a girl is really in love? Certainly this question was put to me by a masculine reader, though the note which brought it gave no reliable clew to its writer’s sex. For the very fact that a girl does mnot usually know her own mind would be enough to convince her that she can read the rest of womankind as easily “The cause is immaterial; it is the as she can an open book. effect that counts,” said he. { 1 embark upon my answer with a “You shall not say that,” she said, | feeling that I am venturing upon hotly. | treacherous waters. On the one side For a moment he was tempted to|is Scylla, on the other Charybdis. How take her in his arms and tell her that| am I to be loyal to my own sex and nothing should matter, nor height nor!' instructive to the other? Probably IGHT TO KEEP THEIR LOVE CONCEALED UNTIL ADMIRERS MAKE AN AVOWAL | P SR PR Rt s dales SOS L PE I SR S U Ty et e | fellows. Consequently a man feels fres to show his love as he will. He has no | need to hide it. Every ene is willing to concede that it does him credit But with a girl the case is different. Disappointment in love, if known, is a blot on her 'scutcheon. It hurts her | name, and it affects adversely her mat- rimonial chance. No wonder that she hides her love. Unless it is wanted by | the man who has awakened it, it gives | her cause to blush before the scrutiny of other men who have reason to sus- The strength of | peet its existence. | | | depth, nor powers nor principalities. | He was a starving wanderer and here was food. Then cool, calm judgment, returned. “Exit vour pictured hero,” he said, | evenly. “Slow curtain, red slide on the calcium light, creepy music. You have overdrawn him somewhat.” i They stood facing each other. The moonlight glinted on the polished brass | work of the rail and binnacle. The | sleepy little lighthouse blinked its red and white with stoic regularity. The tinkling piano wes accompanied by voices raised in gay snatches of song. | The girl's fingers worked nervously. The tears overflowed her eyes and ran ! unheeded down her face. The man stared helplessly. In the cabin the song came to an end amid much laugh- | ter and clapping of hands. The man came close to the girl. He intended to relieve the tension of the situation by a bit of felicitous chaff. Instead he found her hand in his and ! his eyes very close to hers. It was | something like a groan that escaped him. “God help me, how I love you!” h2 cried, all his pent up emotion in the words. . s Tom Van Remsen came up from the cabin some time later. He approached the pair by the wheel with a little de- precating cough of warning. “Come on down and join the fun in the cabin, you two mooners,” he said. The girl sprang up with a happy laugh. “Tommy, dear,” she chided, “please don't speak so disrespectfully of my friends!" | (Copyright, 1904, by T. C. McClure.) -+ | — + | =~ THE "HA-HA"™ CLIRE HE latest novelty in the fash-| ionable world is a doctor of ex- pression. That is to say, the ugly woman can be taught to smile like a benign Mona Lisa, to quirk her head to one side and look at vou out of large, mournful eyes like a Beatrice Cenci, or have the upward penitent gaze of a sorrowing Mary, and no one save those in the secret know that this is an acquired art, says a writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch. On first sight this seems folly, but if na- ture has not endowed one with a shapely head, a determined chin, a soft, beautifully formed hand, why not ¢ to cultivate them? Vothing Interests me so much n traveling,” says a man who has been around the world twice, “as to note the different faces I meet. Each tells a story. The attitude of the body, we ! handshake, movements of the feet, ail | are significant to the character reader ! who utilizes his knowledge in giving | an opinion of a person’s attributes. I have sat in a car and noted the women ! pass in and out. Different nationali- | ties have different features and a mix- ture of blood is often revealed. H “If you were to ask me what charm is most potent about women I should say the ability to laugh, and so the expression doctor s doing good whether he knows it or not. Of all| charms which the Creator has be-! stowed upon women surely the gift of laughter is most to be desired. Just notice that girl over there who is leughing. You see she has drawn 41l to her. As friend, sweetheart or wife she is a tonic on those who love her and her fund of amusement drives away care and lightens the heaviest Holding the session in Portland will help spread abroad the transactions of the congress. General information in that respect depends more upon the reports published daily in the newspapers where the meeting is held. The volume of proceedings of each meet- ing is not issued until some time after adjournment, when the sub- ject has grown cold and lost its value as news. The Portland press | | burdens. Viewed in about every light } the woman who laughs is to be en- vied.” “I am glad to hear you say this,” replied a well-known woman, “for I am taking the ‘laugh cure’ What dces it consist of? Oh, it is simple can do the matter full justice. { delegates have never seen such wor ! ! It is to be hoped that utility only | will control the location of the session of 1906. It should be in the | arid region, in contact with irrigation work. A majority of the rks of great magnifude, and to be in contact with them will serve to revive the waning usefulness of the congress. Heretofore its consideration of the subject has been too aca-|myseif for doing it. It is noticed in the several admirable addresses of Governor | am good-tempered for all day. demic. Pardee irrigation is not treated from an academic but a practical point of view. The irrigation experts of the Agricultural Department have also enlarged much practical information respecting soils, serv ice of water and nature of crops. The Agricultural Department deals | in the practice and not the poetry of irrigation, and it is fortunate | ™¥ for the arid region that it has this steadying influence, to offset the pyrotechnic treatment of the question, THE PRESS OF 'THE NATION. A singular feature of the result and one that is a feather in the cap of ever— American voter is that the mud- slinging recently induiged in concern ing Chafrman Cortelyou and the at. tack upon the personal integrity of the President made by the leaders of the party and indorsed by Parker acted as a boomerang. Its effects are especially noticeable in States like New York, where the calumny was pushed to the utmost.—St. Louis Star. A campaign which turned on men rather than issues has ended in one of the most emphatic indorsements ever received by a Presidential can- diagte in American history. President Roosevelt is now something more than the inheritor of McKinley poli- cies.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. t *We have po reason to be cast down or discoura; The thing to be done is to ge into training at once for the next contest. Until it comes, our principal role must be that of an ac- tive, vigilant, intelligent opposition. If it is denied to us to govern the coun- iry, we can commend ourselves to its conservatism and good judgment, while losing no opportunity to incul- cate our principles by holding the party in power in chcek.—Cincinnatl Enquirer. Judge Parker can now resume his character of human oyster without exciting the wrath of members of his party who had been educated by W. J. Bryan to believe that a Presidential candidate must do a continuous stunt of vocalization.—Milwaukee Sentinel. enough and was suggested to me by the expression doctor. Every morn- ing when I arise I stand erect, smile {and then ‘ha! ha!’ out loud. It is not ! sc difficult as one would think. After I have forced myself into doing this '1 feel that the third or fourth ‘ha! ha!’ comes very naturally, for I laugh at The result? I ir 1 get up with a fit of the blues I feel 1 have banished them simply by the { mechanical art of the ‘ha! ha!’ IfI am feeling good-natured I have inten- sified the emotion. The expression of face is changing, my temper is | getting better and my digestion is im- | proved. Isn’t that worth going to an expression doctor to learn?” The expression doctor himself con- firms all this. “There is no doubt that the woman who cuitivates her sense of humer has a valuable asset, both as a wife and entertainer,” re- marked one of the most successful of these practitioners, whose office Is lthronged by wealthy women. “There is nothing more tiresome than a woman without a sense of humor, who takes everything seriously, and is so intense that she misses half the pleasures of life. As a rule, intensity | and lack of humor ate forerunners of narrowness of lif€ and they make tire- some people. Of- course, there are smiles and smiles. There is the dis- trustful, the cynical, the silly school- girl giggle. 1 avoid all these and show my patrons how to laugh so that contour is rounded out, wrinkles are smoothed and the countenance is transfigured. _ “Besides, not only is the complexion improved, but laughter gives my pa- tients the suggestion of that quiet mind that Stevenson prayed for. Then | there are plenty of physiological rea- sons for teaching a person how to lzugh. A hearty laugh acts upon the digestive organs, the excretory system and the viscera.” The doctor exemplified this by ask- ing his class of a dozen women to stand erect, toes out and to “ha-ha, ha-ha'" all together. The result was instantaneous and genuine smiles soon took the place of the artificial ones, with which the lesson began. “Half the troubles of the world are imaginary trcubles,” went on the professor as he dismissed his class with a bow. “No man or woman is perfect. If every deed prints an impression on the brain. why is it not reasonable to suppose that thought being evolved oy surgestion should not effect the ex- | other | tcrior form of the body? In words, 1 can get a woman to take the Beatrice Cenci pose, the ingenue type. the sorrowful look gf the penitent, just by suggesting Yo her how she ought to feel. My classes increase daily and 1 have every reason to think that I am not only teaching people to be beautiful but am suggesting suc- cess, and that attitude of mind that Jaughter always brings. In fact I look for great things in healing and beauty tirough proper exercise of laughter. If the man who travels and is inter- csted in reading character my classes after they have had six menths' practice he will make up his mind. that he cannof tell offhand about a person’s character, so many expressions are acquired. There is this much to be considered. An ac- quired expression becomes natural after a time®and may change a per- son’s whole habits of life.” Proverbs Heard in Mexico. It is better to go around than to fall down. Expressing the fact that it is often better to avoid a difficulty than to try to overcome it. The, devil is not astute because he is the dévil, but because he is old. Used to express the value of experience. When it rains we all get wet. The Mexican Wy of saying, ~Misfortunes never come singly.” ‘When bread is cut crumbs are left. Expressing the fact that we ail have a share in our neighbors’ good fortune. After the child is drowned cover up the well. The Mexican way of saying, “After the horse is stolen lock the stable.” With one hand wash the other and with both the face. The Mexican way of saying, “You tickle me and I'll tickle you.” The noise is more than the powder. The Mexican way of saying it is “hot air.” Fertilg Cuba. The soil of Cuba is extremely fruitful. Cabbages there are so large that heads weighing twenty pounds each are com- mon. All vegetables do well. Radishes may be eaten from fourteen to eighteen days after sowing, lettuce in five weeks after sowing, while corn produces three crops per year- Sweet potatoes grow all the vear. Marries a Tiger. A curious custom dbtains among the Coorgs. When one of them Kkills a tiger or a panther he is married to the dead animal, regardless of its sex. Propped upon a framework on wood or bamboo the aminal is carried in pro- cession and the marriage ritual is strictly observed, while lavish hospital- ity is dispensed. will study | when T am through I shall feel like| that cook did who marked half of her| | cided to ask her to marry him. ' their hearts upon their sleeves. deed, only those who are very young | | hearts at "all. who bestows them than of any espec pies T. M. for “'Tis mince,” and the | other half of them T. M. for “ 'Taint mince.” But maybe, anyway, it will all serve as food for reflection. Personally, I think that a man has I no right to know what a girl thinks of him sentimentally, unless he has de- The privilege of keeping her own counsel beiongs to a woman as her lawful com- pensation for the lack of initiative in love affairs which circumstances force upon her. Ruskin has expressed my idea very nicely for me: “When a young man is fully in love with a girl and feels that he is wise in loving her, he should ‘at once tell her so plainly and take his | chance bravely with other suitors.” “No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once,” he goes on to say, “nor should any girl have the cruelty without seven reasons.” Nowada ] In- either in years or in sentimental expe- rience parade the fact that they have The sex has grown too worldly wise for promiscuous confes- sions. Who taught them this wisdom? Why, the men of course—the men, | and sorrow. There is not the slightest reason why a girl should.take any man se- riously until he has proposed and spoken to her father. The world is full of trifiers of many kinds of plumage. Compliments mean nothing: and per- sonal attentions are more often a mat- ter of vanity on the part of the « regard for the one to whom they are | offered. HIGH LIFE THIEVERY. “Kleptomania’” is becoming a source of great annoyance at the social func-| tions of the women's ciubs in New | York City. For the last two winters | women who frequent these gatherings have suffered losses, and now scarcely an entertainment of such a character takes place that some article of value is not missing. Jeweled hatpins, purses and chatelaine bags have been pur- loined. At the recent breakfast of the Women's Republican Association at| Delmonico’s a sable muff was lost, and | at the federation meeting at the Hotel Astor an expensive feather boa was | taken. The women are thinking of having a detective to protect them from these annoving thefts. KAISER’S POEM. Emperor William wrote a poem once, ! which he submitted to a great literary | man who dined at the castle for that purpose particularly. The critic read | it and found his dual duties in con-i flict. He had to advise an amateur poet | with an exceptional power of resent-i | 1 | ing a hostile comment. He yielded only a very little to the exigencies of the sit- uation. “This verse, your Majesty,” he began, “seemis to require alteration in certain respects.” The author took the | manuscript and conned it thoughtfully. Then his brow cleared. “Why,” he | cried, as one seeing a sudden light. “I have actually not signed the poem. Give me a pen. And the only fault he saw in the work was forthwith rem- FOR EXERCISE. Senator Cockrell of Missouri went fishing with a friend not long ago. A stone tied to a rope held the boat at the place where the two decided to try their luck. The fish did not bite, so i | | The reputation of having survived | an unhappy love affair makes a man ! appear as a hero in the eves of his to refuse at once, | - | s only foolish women wear | | woman's love is in its reserve power, not in the force of its expression. The complicated conditions of our civilization are largely to blame for | woman's subterfuges and deceits in love. If youths could marry their first | loves we might perhaps have a golden age of sincerity. But boys are not able our strenuous days of competition to earn a living. Why, their best ef- forts could not manage even to furnish married love with pocket money. This stern reality, however, does not | ineculate young love against the wish t» be loved in return. And so it goes o crriously, eagerly, plucking the petals | off daisies. s MRS. GILBER The following epilogue is taken from Mrs. Gilbert’s part in the play in which the aged actress is TS FRREWELL. “Granay." now appearing and which will be her curtain must not fall s that I've got of you! * of the lot of you! last: EAR friends in front—the D Until a gratefel woman says good-by to all. JL_J 3ust_think of ail the kindn I'd like to be the “Granny’ 01d age “» bear becomes a happy load When | @ and friendship line the lengthening road. And as I've lived long years in this dear land, I've never lacked the pressure of your hand, Nor missed your smile the times I tried to jest, Nor wanted for a tear when tears were best. So when the curtain’'s down, the footlights out, Once and for all for me, I'll turn about And in my memories live again each day Tour hands and hearts made glad for me my way. When with Augustin Daly I acted many parts! And Jimmy Lewis, bless him, played with me at hearts! And Ada Rehan, the dear creature, won her brilliant spur: And John Drew, cheeky darling, stole my heart-and hers, And charming Annile Russell, and more than I can name— But I'll keep them in my memory, every one the same! | your readers much needed information Dear days, so many too, red lettered on and gold! The curtain falls on ail of them—I'm e y-three years old! Good-by, old friends, new friends, my children every one of youl Listen, for it's true, I love each mother's son of you! For wealth! for fame! my goodness! [ don’t care a filbert! If only in vour hearts you'll keep old Mrs. Gilbert. SCHAFFLE ON SOCIALISM| ANSWERS TO QUERIES. In view of your ed- WORLD'S FAIR—A. Call 1| For such statist . O. S, City. S as are desired about the World’s Fair in St. Louis address a letter of inquiry to the secretary of et e DY putiishin (he; the fair, St. Louis. following excerpt from Dr. Schaffe’s| MORTGAGE—D. C. W., Millbras, work, “The Impossibility of Social-|Cal. In California a mortgage, which ism (1892): |is an obligation in writing, rums for “One cannot be too*careful to avold | four years if executed in the State, and calling any and every development "‘l two years if executed outside of the the public management of industrinl.sm!e' Editor The Call itorial in to-day's issue of The believe you would be giving many of 3 ': in other after an hour or two the Senator and | O~ social functions ‘socialism’: in words, confusing socialism with sys- his friend returned, the former rowing. | tems of national or municipal manage- He noticed that the boat seemed to be | ment. The collectivism of socialism very sluggish in responding to the oars, | means the centralization of all produc- but had no idea of the reason until tRe| tion on a common footing. with the from whom they rented the boat said: “Jedge, you don’t look drunk and you haven’t the smell of liquor on you, but | this is the first time I ever saw two sober men pull a boat for three miles with the anchor dragging.” “I paid for the boat, didn’t 17" replied the Sen- ' ator testily, not caring to admit his for- | Rgetfulness. ‘““Well, then it's none of | your business if we wanted to get a lit- tle extra exercise.” WEALTHY SECRETARY. Miss Isabel Hagner, private secretary of Mrs. Roosevelt, has a fortune ample for all the frivolities of Newport and Tuxedo or for division of her life be- tween Fifth avenue and Belgrave square, but she prefers to follow the useful career she mapped out for her- self when, with a thinner purse, she entered semi-public life. When Miss Hagner came into a handsome inheri- tance recently she gave no sign of in- tention to leave her present -post. LONDON REAL ESTATE. The highest priced real estate in| London is near the Bank of England. Land sells there at the rate of $375 per square foot—$16,250,000 an acre. From this center the price diminishes in a receding tide, rising again in the Strand to a price of from $60 to $100 a square foot. In Bond street, in the ‘West End, a still higher price of $175 per square foot, or more than $7,500,000 an acre, has been reached. | landing was reached. Then the man} | | | authoritative guidance | ism; not even if such collective man- i the question: object of attempting to attain an equal or at least a proportionate share of la- bor and enjoyment for all: this system to be adopted exclusively, univer- sally and simultaneously everywhere. all trace of the wage system having disappeared. The development of col- lective management with the obiect of best realizing certain definite common ends under a sufficiently stable and is not social- agement be established by states, by parishes or by municipalties for iso- lated branches of production. Such col- lective management stands directly op- posed to pure socialism.” For the lat- ter means the entire abolition of money (as we know it) and of private owner- ship in all the means of production. Dr. Schaffle continues: “Scientific criticism can only prove that the en- during realization of the socialistic state of the future is entirely out of it cannot disprove the possibility of a successful attemot be- ing made to start an experiment in it through some violent upheaval of the proletariat.” W. R. THIRWELL. San Francisco, Nov. 15. Loss of Sleep. The length of time it is possible t» keep awake is surprising. A Philadel- phia physician names a medical man who went without sleep for eight days and nights, and another who did not gu to bed for eighteen days, but got a"l the sleep he had while on horseback. A third did not sleep for fifteen days and nights, but permanently injured his health. _THE IRISH FLAG—A Subscriber. City. This department has not been able to discover that at any time was “the Irish flag raised on the flagstaff over the City Hall in San Francisco.” Such a flag was once raised over the City Hall in New York City. THE PRESIDENCY—A. O. 8. and others, City. If President Roosevelt .s!muld die at this time, there being no Vice President, the law of succession {of 1386 would prevail. This drovides | that in case of the death of the Presi- dfnt of the United States and of the { Vice President or in case of removal or inability to act of either of these officers, the succession should next pass to the Secretary of State, then to the Secretary of the Treasury, then suec- cessively to the Secretary of War the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmaster General, the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General. MEASURING MOTU NTAINS—F. Santa Cruz, Cal. There are . three principal methods of measuring the height of mountains. The first, -:ld to be the most accurate, depends on the :er:re:;yd:l:‘l:;lrds when at rest to pre- ace at the direction of sravity r ‘t‘hhe! s:::r:e:d: 52?:;. ml‘ the angular measure of ele- M combination of the known :l;rldlnlc: (ohf !h; object and having re- e effect :l‘:u" method depends on the law of e decrease of pressure of the atmos- ;I;ere With an increase of altitude. e first method employs the leveling instrument. the secon and the third the !‘mr::‘neluh: o —————— Townsend's California Gla artistic fire-etched boxes. nscll.n. "l‘:?u: ————— Special information supplied business houses and o i tae T public men by t - ipping Bu: 1 reau- (Allen’ o street. Telephone Mate 1048, 3