The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1905, Page 26

26 JOHN D. SPRECKEIS... ADL JOHN McNAUGHT PRACTICAL EDUCATION. Idresses and discussions during the recent meeting of the I'eachers’ Association have covered the whole field of edu- ut have left its great problem unsolved. Industry is a mind lepends upon industry. The studious habit and ry not the same. It is claimed by vers that when schooling occupies the time up to the 1stic period for acquiring a trade or bread- tion of brain and hand and are obse "teens the t 1 )ecomes a ma A 1 at twenty-one he should be equip- whether that be an immediate necessity or not. s, if his total nonage has been spent in school, is he so answer is that he is not. The average man must habits thrift and industry before his »ove the average will acquire them afterward. spoke forcibly of the need of discipline, and seemed attendance at school. No discipline, no ics or morals, can overcome the effeet of physical wholesome work, directed to a #Seful end, and is the best safeguard for morals and virtue d. It is the foundation of good citizenship, the ke) I'he Gov- rpose, hool curriculum needs to be unloaded of matter that the time, and should be devoted to sound fundamentals of an education. This should be releasing the pupil in his nonage, to the end 1 ambitions of youth may be devoted to the isition of a calling, trade, vocation, that will yield to independence in cities, where first-class trade or polytech- s are part of the public school system, with attendance 1g as part of the regular grades, nearly all pupils in the regular s careles ep up with their classes, given the option, select Having been in school from the age of five wearied of it and want something to do with I'hey hate the regular course, are dilatory in attend- to the injury of discipline. Now this is *hool officials as contumacy. It has caused the education laws, the appointment of truant 0 occupy served th es know ave powers, public sch s cause suggests the better remedy of the r insight into with 1 handicrafts, and the domestic, household arts. h optional courses, boys are trained to be good ficient book knowledge trained for the grateful duties that make All this can be done by recognizing the fierence and rebellion to discipline of thc as the desire for manual activity, the prompt- and ndf as the result of a vi ous g something,” 0 modestly ¢ ribes himself as.a horticul- ol teachers, and a school teacher when , in his-address to the State Teachers’ Associa- teaching of iculture in the schools, advised the op- g nature study toward agriculture as an ver practicable the schoolhouse garden, where 12ll plat in charge and have under his con- 1. This is not feasible in school lots in cities, school boards can buy or rent ground for such ea within the children’s playgrounds, which are ised wher jav have Mr. Swett, who has supplemented a long and successful career school teacher by an equally successful career as a horticulturist, | e some good advice to farmers, that they give their boys colts to | and their girls an interest in the poultry yard. induces a study of the animals, their keep and , and it develops that property-getting instinct which is an to honest industry. persuaded that if due attention be given to industrial ral results will be more satisfactory than now. that is in each child will have its diverse longings satis- fied, and the country will get the full results that it has the right to expect from the education of its people. Mr. Swett, drawing 1 y experience as a teacher, advised parents to go vi n his lor the school oftener. If farmers would make it 3 point to visit the country school and talk to the children in the plainest way about their work, good results would follow.. So, in cities, if master mechanics ilders, bankers and merchants would go to the schools and what they know about their business, it would aid turn to education. The Call has to suggest that the valuable work of the school be encouraged by the Agricultural Departmert, by the ann distribution of seeds to the schools, instead of wasting seed by the method now followed. Congressmen get the seeds and send them out haphazard. Let every country schoolteacher write to the Congressman for the district for seeds in giving a practical ga ay EXTENT OF NATIONAL IRRIGATION. and then ask the farmers to direct the planting. ECRETARY of the Interior Hitchcock’s report shows a rapid S progress of Government reclamation of arid lands. The ex- tent of the plans which are now approved is so great that the figures will astonish many people. Already projects are sanctioned iich when completed will reclaim 1,303,600 acres and the great sum of $37,000,000 will be spent upon the irrigation works needed for this purpose. In the allotments as now made California holds third place on the list in the amount of funds, namely $3,000,000 e Yuma project, which will reclaim 85,000 acres. The biggest 1ised in Arizona, $3,850.000. on the Salt River irriga- on works. Nevada gets for the Truckee-Carson project an equal sum to Yun The second biggest sum goes to Nebraska and Wyoming, on the North Platte, the amount being $3,330,000, and its water is to fertilize 100,000 acres. Although Texas was not included in the terms of the original act, even she is now assured of being benefited by the Government’s general plan. An act of last February gave her some aid, and now is expected that she will get more, as President Roosevelt has it. Recently Secretar Grande reclamation plan for Texas and New Mexico. sion of advised This admis- xas into the benefits completes the nationalization of the reclamation plan, for the Lone Star State was at first shut out because she differed from all the other States in that she owned her public lands and never turned them over to the Federal Gov- ernment when she entered the Union. The work is so far forward that seventy-seven miles of main canals have been constructed, while distributing canals and ditches to the length of 240 miles and three and a half miles of tunnels are done. Though the first work is confined chiefly to where there is extreme aridity of climate, there will be a dozen or more States which will be largely helped by this assistance of the General Gov- ernment. The recent report of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson gave some figures abont the increase in the value of American farms which would seem incredible did they not come from so authorita- ive a source, and now when we try, to think of the addition s great reclamation project is sure to add to the sum of farmers’ thi . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Without that habit, education is of no | majority, for | inattentive | and has created a semi-penal environ- | its complete equipment for learning all of | to fit them for superior | adjuncts to city schools, may be set aside for a| 1ting | for the school garden | Hitchcock has approved the Rio] | FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY., DECEMBER 31. 1905 | SAME NAME- | -SAME GAME. [ ] K B —NEW YORK HERALD. 45 o % o : - ‘ ROOSEVELT IN THE RING l | LIFE'S A GALLOP! | . i | 1T was a bout to decide the light-jawarded to the senior. In the thlmi I BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. weight championship of Harvard. |round the senior endeavored to pursue |z 3 the same tactics, but with less succe The result of this round was a draw land an extra round had to be sparred. Here superior weight and longer reach began to tell, but Roosevelt gamely to the end. Said his antag- ist—now known by the pen name of ‘I can see him now as he fiercely to the attack. But I taking no chances, and I got the deci- l rhe heavy-weight and middle- weight championships had been awarded. The contest for the men un- der 140 pounds was on. Roosevelt, then | had defeated seven men. A senior had as many victories to his credit. They were pitted against each other in the finals. The senior was | quite @ bit taller than Roosevelt, and his reach was longer. He also weighed | more by six pounds, but Roosevelt was ‘ the quicker man on his feet, and knew | a junior, came in kept him off, landing at long reach. sion; but Roosevelt w tifie. defeated me easily.” The defeated man did not forget his conqueror. Many years after, when Mr. Roosevelt was Governor of New York, more .of the science of boxing. The first round was vigorously contested. d in at the very outset. e his bad eyes he realized |the two met on a railroad train. Out that in-fighting gave aim his only [ went Mr. Roosevelt's hand as he greet- "hance to win. Blows were exchanged | ed his old antagonist heartily. After ith lightning rapidity, and they were | the usual inquiries as to health, the ha but At the call of time, however, he got the d blow soon Roosevelt drew first blood, his own Governor suddenly asked: ‘What are you doing for your coun= nose was bleeding. decision for the round. ¥ nior had learned his lesson. reafter he would not permit Roose- velt to close in on him. With his longer |reach and aided by his antagonist's | near-sightedness, he succeeded in land- |ing frequent blow Roosevelt worked | hard, but to no avail. The round was not doing anything,” said “Nib- who had retired from active busi- “I'm a good deal of a loafer.” “It's a shame,” w Mr. Roosevelt's honest verdict. And “Nibjick” says he meant it—From “Theodore Roosevelt: An Outdoor man,” by Henry Beach Needham, in the January McClure's. s <. ““I only wish,” he cried, “that it was a ‘whole bunch of automobiles Regretting that he could not wipe them IR FRANCIS DRAKE was discover- all out the admiral climbed into the rig- ing the Pacific. ging and watched the battle. G — | + |S “What a beautiful, calm place to float bonds!” he cried. Little realizing that Wall street would be invented afterward, he thought he had a good thing. Elijah went up in his chariot of fire. “I guess something happened to the sparker,” he said as he flew by. | The Chinese were inventing gunpowder. “It is sad to think,” they sighed, “that ‘we cannot put a bunch of it under a couple of New York Senators.” Perceiving the futility of their wish they went out and performed hara-kiri, Jack Sprat could eat no fat and his wife could not tolerate the lean. “How did you ever get along?” inquired a friend. “We asked Mr. they replied. ‘Whereupon the friend wrote to the great man and wanted to know what will take off warts.—New York World. — | wealth it will almost be as if each returning daylight brings a | record of progress that in our grandfathers’ times took a decade to | pile up. Roosevelt's advice,” { Faragut approached Mobile with enthu- | slasm. ‘ |+ - NEW YORK'S MONEY MARKET. | | HE recent flurry in New York, which sent call money up above iTwo per cent, was not caused by any lack of money, for legiti- | mate daily business. The demand was caused by the necessi- ties of speculation. It was a bull market for stocks, in anticipation }of the January dividends, and margins had to be covered, even if | the money cost above 100 per cent. Such a condition of the market | has been almost always associated with a panic that became general. | That this is not the case now is due to the soundness of our finances |and the stability of legitimate or non-speculative business. Some papers have criticized the Secretary of the Treasury for not coming to the rescue by releasing treasury funds. Secretary | Shaw is an experienced banker. He knows the difference between speculative distress and the stress of the regular business of the | country, and so sees no necessity of opening the Federal Treasury to pay margins on stocks. Unless the matter spread, to the peril of the regular business of the country, the Secretary will let the spec- [u]étors take care of themselves. The money that will be released | by the semi-annual dividend day, next week, will put the market in | its normal condition again. i An interesting incident of the flurry was furnished by Russell | Sage. He is in his g1st year, and had been for some time housed at home by illness. But when the market went kiting he could not resist the temptation to turn an honest penny. Leaving his bed he | went to his downtown office and remained three hours, and during that time loaned $30,000,000 at over 100 per cent. The history of | finance furnishes no parallel to this. The old man, with every business faculty alert as ever, was not fatigued at all by the little | job of lending on good collateral the trifie of $30,000,000, but said | that the experience did him good and he felt better. No doubt he |'materially relieved the street and at the same time helped himself. E Outside of New York the money market is in a normal condition ' and the business outlook is clear of clouds. 1 i ‘ 5 ‘ 1f there were no marriages until every intending henedict\ had a salary Fof at least $1000 race suicide would be a regular cyclone.—Chicago Post. e USSR ST & | The Pennsylvania Society of Nc\_-{ York has celebrated the Benjamin Franklin anniversary a ‘month in advance. There’s nothing slow about Pennsylvania this year.—Boston Transcript. Bt boxed | s far more scien- | Given good eyes he would have | | { IFE’s a gallop! 1 3 \ He Life’s a gallop! Have no time to Other chap ¢ Gets where, sonny? Cannot halt, E'en’to rub your shins; 1f you do, why, you're at fault; Other fellow wins! i Life’s a gallop in a groove. See the shadows flit. you duffer! Get a move! Life’s a gallop! Git! Let ’er zip! spare; If we pause the reins to grip, ts there! I don’t know, Nor do you, a bit. Clutch the reins, and let er go! Life’'s a gallop! Git! Life’s a gallop! What's the prize? Don’t know that I've heard; Life's a gallop! But you bet the charger flies! | “Hustle!” is the word. Got to hurry, or we'll lose Something fine, to wit— Diff'rent men have diff'rent views— Git! Life’s a merry, merry chase! If you doubt the same, Just step out and leave the race— \ You can’t win the same. Only know one fact besides; Here I mention it: (fil-cn fools the fastest ride— ife’s a gallop! Git! T "MAKING MARRIED LIFE HAPP | — To the Editor of The Call Angela Morgan says in The Call un- der date of December 26 that a husband protests that she is not fair to the men in laying upon them the blame for lack of romance in married life. I agree with the husband to a certain extent. I speak from experience and observation, but we must go farther back than married life. Most of the unhappiness in married life might be averted if the courtship is properly carried on. Mothers are responsible for nearly all of the tears and heartburn- ings of their daughters after marriage. A sensible mother generally rears sen- sible daughters and will bring up her girls to work—that is, to understand thoroughly the ins and outs of house- keeping, and those duties must be per- formed and Yearned by actual experi- ence. It is too common a custom of to-day for a mother to do the washing, ironing, cooking and every Kkind housework that is absolutely neces- sary to make a happy home. A man may admire his wife for her beauty, her accomplishments. her taste in dress and all that, but if she is not a good cook and housekeeper there will be dissatisfaction. . * It is commonly said that one must reach a man’s heart through his stom- ach. There is more truth than poetry in that assertion,. but it is not because men are fonder of good things to eat than women. But we will take, for in- stance, a clerk in the city or a farmer in the country, or any man that works ifor a living. He marries and settles down. His main object in life is to provide for the home he has estab- lished. The young wife’s main object jis to please. She loves to hear his | fooistep on entering the home, and if she has had the right bringing up hev house will be neat, tidy and com- fortable. Sha will be promp* with meals and the food will be well cooked, the dishes nice- Iy served, a smiling \face, a pat on the shoulder and an ‘‘Ah, this is what T call genuine home comfort; who wouldn't be a married man?’ from her husband should be more of a compliment to a wife than ali the honeved expressions of ad- miration that he bestowed upon her in their courtship. It shows that she is all and more than he expected she could be to him. As I have said, mothers are responsible, Young people seldom see each other as they are In real life, 1.~ when the young man is expected the mother too often says, “Now daughter, fix yourself up, 1 will do the work, I don't want you to look shabby.” When John comes he never sees his dressed up and looking her After they are married, of course, a woman cannot always be looking so sweet and dainty. But the young man notices the change; whereas, if the girl had gone on with her work she would have been just as much admired and they would have been better acquainted. Another thing responsible for family Jjars is the money question. To my mind, it is absurd to hear a woman say: “I have to ask my husband for every cent I need.” Now imagine two men going into partnership and one asking the other for money, There is nothing that will make a woman more economical and saving than for her husband to have implicit confi- dence in her judgment as to what they can afford to spend. She appreciates the trust he places in her and will strive to save and thereby win his love and ap- proval. A man has more respect for a woman that encourages his efforts and prettiest. schools herself to understand the prob- | lem of making a living, considering her- self his equal in all matters. It man’s place to provide, but it is woman’'s place to care for the home and see to it that nothing is wasted. It is woman's nature to wish to be admired and loved and that is as it should be, but if the husband does neglect sometimes to say sweet nothings let it pass. When a hus- band says he has never seen a woman that can make a house look so sweet and cozy as you do and he is always more pleased to come home than to go any- where else, he is satisfied he is paying Yyou the greatest compliment that a man can pay. A sullen, fretful face will drive a man to the saloon sometimes. Culti- vate cheerfulness if you desire a happy home. MRS. C. W. LAWSON. Novato, Cal., December 27. ONE T00 MANY. “You've been up against too many bars to-day, my man,” said the kind- hearted Judge to the man charged with lauor. “Yes, your Honor,” was the reply, “but you must remember I didn’t come to this one of my .own frer will."— Yonkers Statesman. AS T0 FAIRIES. I wonder if the fairies sit On toadstools when they rest, And if, when they would sleep a bit, They like a mushroom best? —8t. Nicholas, R— etheart except when she is | is | FOREIGNERS & IN THE LAND OF THECZAR | |+ N RELATING an interview with a lRussiun official, in his article “Russian Peasant Riots,” in the January Everybody’s, Ernest FPoole | say 'he Chancellor smiled. | Vot long age, he replied, “a gen- tleman came here with just such a | letter. But meanwhile the Governor | had received different orders from | some one else in Petersburg. The | gentleman did not see the peasants. «'Let's get out of this,’ I said, speak- ing low in English. ‘Let's hire a slaish and just begin looking as we did in those other villages. least we can see something before we get expelled.’ “Unfortu caught my ““If you try the peasants by vourselves,’ ‘you will not only be watched by the police, but some at least of the peasants to whom you talk will be our spies. We have telephones to every village and in two hours ar latest we shall know not only whom u have seen, but also what urselves have said. Meanwhile you will have been seized and thrown into a village jail, awaiting our orders. the Chancellor He smiled grimly ‘Our village police i rough fellows. They would doubt- flog you both in jail before we could inform fhem who you were. Of | course, we should be sorry for this {and should reprimand them. But in the meantime you see you would have | been fAogged. § i) 1 HOPE OF AMERICA. | An‘editorial in the January Century suggests that we are deteriorating in our demagogues, but peints out grounds of hope for America’s future: It is to be feared that in the future the dangers from the demagogues in American politics is perhaps greater than | ever. It sometimes looks as if we were detevigrating as to the character of ou demagogues, as if some even of our de- cent citizens were willing to advance the fortunes of politicians of more disreputa- ble record, of more vindictiveness in their methods, of more loathsome cant and hypoerisy and of more evil influence, tha have hitherto been able to make good men their dupes. In every community there is erying need of men, young and old, who wiil take a hand in civic o cerns, not for the graft that is In them, | not merely for the glory that is in them, | but in a pure and patriotic spirit and with | the love of and the reward of legitimate | fame. Our institutions are making such | men; two bright examples are now living | and “greatly honored among us—inspira- tions to all. Ome of these men has been | the President of our country, and one is | now its President. The country that has | found and used and honored such men is capable of producing more of the sam. fiber—and, in fact, is doing so before our eyes. In this is the hope of Ameriea. LONGEVITY AND LIOUOR. | Tt has come to be generally recognized as a fact that the alcoho! habit is one of the mam factors in determining length | of life. Figures furnished by insurance | companies in England show that the aver. |age life of the total abwainer is nine years longer than that of the drinker, and | one of our ewn concerns in the same of busingss, the Equitable, has published a statement to the effect that the death rate among “moderate consumers of ! liquor is 23 per cent higher than amomn teetotalers. Some of the companies both sides of the water, indeed, put ab- | stainers in a separate ciass among their | poliey-holders, making them a special al- lowance of 5 per cent or more om pre- miums.—Pearson’s Magazine. ‘ HONEST ENGINEER. “Texas is on2 of the most moral States in the * sald Opie Read, the lec- turer. Now don’t laugh. An old Kan- as man now living there told me so. No | swearing there at all. Why, the onmly swearing I heard there was myself talk- ing about railroad trains, and that wasn't real cussing—just justifiable criticism. | Great train service they have in Texas' Cotton belt train came in on time in a little town on the line, and the Commer- | clal Club was so pleased it raised a purse | for the engineer. Honest man, he was, | though, and he said, ‘T can’t take this yesterday's | JUST A COMMOY LITTLE BOY. | Just a common little boy! | Like to other boys, mayhap; | Comes and cuddles at the sleep hour, | In my lap. | Yet I own, witk arms around him, All the wealth of mother-joys; Like to mothess of all common Little boys. Tom Watson's Magazine, ‘ PICKINGS FROM PUCK. The Ardent Elephant—Your beauty is skin deep, darling. Miss Hippo—Oh, you wicked flat- terer! A dead town, in the American sense. is a town where the streets are not al the' time being torn up. We read that civilization is killing lart in Japan, but we don't believe a | word of it. We know art. She is one of those skeery females who will yell “Murder!” if a dish falls. Madge—Why do you think she has passed the age of 307 Millicent — Because she invariably | says “us girls. We'd think a good deal better of | some people if they didn't think so well of themselves as to make it unopeces- sary. ANSWERS T0 QUERIES. POKER—H. V. W., City. In the same of poker, a straight always beats (riplets or three of a kind. ot S— EL PASO—A. O. 8., City. This depart- ment has po information as to whether “Ben Thompson was Marshal of Texas. Suggest that you send a letter of inquiry to the office of the Governor of the Terri- tory of Arizona. CLAIM—O. S, City. If vou have a claim against the @overnment of Co- lombla, South America, and are citizen of Denmark, you would better L the matter before the Consul of Den- mark, who will give you advice as t the proper course to follow. FIVE HUNDRED—M. W. H, Berke ley, Cal. 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