The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 8, 1906, Page 26

' THE SAN FRANCISCO "CALL. SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1906. ALL THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SA. 1900 i ..APRIL 8 THE TUSKEGEE ANNIVERSARY. ! HE twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Tuskegee ln—‘ dustrial School has just been celebrated in a notable manner. resident Booker \Washington and his fourteen hundred stu- passed under the inspection of President Eliot of Harvard, | Andrew Carnegie and a large number of Northern and South- t cators, philanthropists and clergymen. mble beginning, in a made-over barn twenty-five itution has grown into a complete equipment for mechanical trades, and all of the rural industri g of the soil. When one thinks of the needs of tion of about 13,000,000, and of the effort of this one ly them and to lift a race into industrial independence, s hopeless. But Washington has looked only upon is race for the work he has undertaken, and with high | e common sense has toiled at his self-chosen task | intelligence that mark him as one of the foremost T dents te men, 1a very h | | | | , have but slight appreciation of the difficulti beginning, and that multiply as they are over- hern negro is not the negro described in the recent | John Wise. Nor is he the negro of Uncle | He is certainly not the negro of the Civil War, abiding | . plantation while his master fought in the Confed- | the . mortalized in the thrilling description of the ady of Georgia. That negro has passed away with the | very, which gave him discipline and a certain dignit were between him and his master and | severed. That faithful creature who guard- | children of the South while the men went to » history, a pathetic, faithful, dignified and ro-| ern negro of today is not under the spell of the best ry. 1f he know anything about the bondage of hi side of it, conjured by his tropical imagina- the impulse of hatred and ill .will. Thriftless, care- | and unskillful, the negro presents a problem the most appalling and discouraging that the | hard | gton had been present in his adult strcngthi 5 to begin his work on the material furnished | e persuaded that this problem would not | But he, born in slavery, was then in| s boy, whose slave mother, in her | ar V. a fatherles: essness, still saw her duty and did it, her humble | ess child. He had to grow up through and by his | ome all of the hard and sordid conditions which ing to teach his race to overcome. If there be provi ice of the affairs of men, it was upon him, for only onei of a black skin and borne the burdens of a | fiered the b yrepared for the hard task of regenerating his fel- norance and misfortune. He took his diplomas at vard, but the diploma he won in the hard and une and poverty is the one that made him work he has undertaken. could produce such a man deserves an oppor- task to equip it for that opportunity. He| he Iy of so-called social equality, and the worse of the negro looking to"politics for the things need- ndition. Eschewing these he declared that self-respect, y, qualities possible under any skin, were needed | hern negro from stewing to death in his own follies mpart these qualities Tuskegee was founded. Let ored for it. The white people of that State made iment, which in a quarter century has attracted the the admiration of the world. from afar, it seems a small ray of light in a vast a study of its methods and their effect dispels discour- rouses enthusiasm. Its 1400 students go out every iates, to carry its light into the negro communities in the ey go back whence they came, finished and skillful car- bricklayers, blacksmiths, architects and builders, scientific r machinists, plumbers, painters, skilled in the co- of head and hand in breadwinning knowledge. With 1ey have an education, book learning that equips them for ¢ use of their earnings in the trades. Greater than this, ‘ moved upon by the high spirit of their great school- , and determined not to live in a one-roomed hovel, not to lead 1oral lives, not to be thriftless and idle, but to apply their knowi- ge and their practical education to the making of proper homes ving of right lives. -se graduates carry into the darkest Qouth every year hun- hes lighted in the hopeful sunshine of Tuskegee. In way its light and leading are reaching far into the midst of the of negroes. They see the light and follow it to its source. | ar misfort hat is his 1 k 1 fo 1 his ¢ str; he n and 1 _ong may the inspired life of Booker Washington be spared is the yrayer of good men, South and North. Unlike the negro politicians the reconstruction period, he holds up no false lights to lure his His constant cry is, let politics and office hold- His constant teaching is that the white And race to its undoi ng alone, they do no good. an will respect the negro when the negro respects himself. hat seems to be the law and the prophets. SWIMMING AND DRAINAGE. N the same date appear the protest of parents whose children | O attend one of our grammar schools against the lack of drainage | and the filthy condition of the building, and the proposition of the School Board to employ a teacher and four assistants to teach all the school children to swim! When the school facilities of the city are adequate for the' demand upon them; when the drafty movable schoolhouses are replaced by permanent structures; when school- rooms are intelligently ventilated, lighted and heated and the build- ings are properly drained and the grounds properly graced and gar- nished, it may be time to discuss the. propriety of spending the tax- pavers’ money to teach swimming as part of a public school education. The proposition shows how far we are drifting from the proper use of public money to sustain public schools. If the purpose be to overload the system until it breaks down, it is surely being accom- plished. Why not employ teachers to teach children to blow soap bubbles, to climb trees, to ride and drive horses, to skate, to row boats, and the other scores of things, amusing or athletic, from mumblety- peg to crack the whip? With the basements of our grammar schools full of filthy water, and drain pipes rusted and rotten and school yards squalid and nasty, it would seem that money may be better spent in rectifying these: things than in teaching children to swim, or dance, or skip the rope. 1f ‘the purpose be to keep them clean, a shower bath is better than swimming, and needs no teacher. DEVLIN’S LIFE INSURANCE. HE procession moves so rapidly that most of us have forgotten T the disastrous failure of the .First National Bank of Topeka, ' which caused consternation throughout Kansas and Western Migsouri. It was caused by the sudden insolvency of Charles J. Devlin, its president. He was at the head of twenty-eight mining, ‘banking and railroad companies, and interested in a dozen different lines of business, like John R. Walsh of Chicago. In the midst of ‘the ruin of his business schemes Mr: Devlin died. Then it was ng “the Yanks” as heartily as any slaveholder. | | | % 4= servitor who was asked to tell why she had cut away from domestic service. This girl sald: “I just couldn’t stand being fussed with while T was at work. I was on the verge of nervous prostration all the time, and, 1 dare say, was irritable, and that I often answered back and seemed Impertinent. I have to work hard and do things right in the shop. But it's a joy to be let alone while I do the work.” The brief conversation of the women and the statements made by the girl evolve the fact that a capable and intel- ligent girl will not endure petty. dictations of the mistress of the household, since opportunities are plenty for an escape into other work. In times far past, when there was lit- tle work for girls and women to do, for pay, outside domestic service and the making of gowns and other sewing, household servants had to remain in the rut, no matter how capable for other en- turn out as good a result with a piece of wool fabric? i ‘Which is the lesser evil, paying for an extra quart of onions in a week on ac- count of thicker peeling; or getting into a paltry rebellion with a maid who can be depended upon for good service? All these queries may seem foolish as auxiliaries of the huge seriousness of the “servant problem.” Just thé same every one of them counted, along with others similar, in the flight of a capable and in- telligent maid from a quibbling mistress. Now the maid occupies a place in a shop, and with satisfaction to her employer and to herself. The mistress is getting along alternately with incompetent catch- as-catch-can help and taking a hand at her household game. X There are several reasons why the de- terioration of domestic service has be- come a menace to the comfort of the heme. This paltry quibbling and nag- ging is one of the chief reasons. e found that he carried $1,948,500 life insurance. That sum paid all the liabilities of his banks and other business, and left his fan'fily a half million clear money. ‘We cannot congratulate Mr. dead, and it is just a bit rough a clearance in bankruptcy by paying his debts. Devlin on his foresight, for he is on him that he had to die to get But the incident deserves notice and comment, because it has happened in the midst of revelations about life insurance in New York that have broken down confidence in that means of investing to provide for the future. The business of the Equitable Life alone fell off $81,000,000 last year. ance. interest, and time seems to have in life insurance. Now we have no interest in the corporate side of life insur- But a newspaper is affected by all things that are of human vindicated the interest of mankind Not every bank president can insure and die just as his bank But business men passes into the clammy hands of the receiver. can do something to secure the future by taking out life insurance. It may come handy in a pinch, and is a good savings investment. Mr. Devlin is dead, but his twenty-eight banks and mines and rail- roads are running full blast, paying wages to support hundreds of families, and his family is comfortable, because he insured his life. The managers of the New York companies who are in disgrace or exile, or are dead, are not a nice lot of men to have for our coun- trymen. But for that reason let us not lose faith in the business they used for personal advantage. Mr. Devlin alive was am example of enterprise. Dead and well insured he is a sort of tonic to restore public confidence in life insurance. _ One cannot truthfully speak of Brother Dowie’s City of Zion as flowing with milk and honey, though 'Lige certainly milked it—Philadelphia Press. —_— / David B. Hill favors George B. McClellan for President in 1008. This seems to make it unnecessary to bother over McCleflan any more.—Chicago Record-Herald. 5 " WAITING FOR THE LIGHTNING TO HIT. Judge Parker's suggestion that the next Presidential candidate on the Democratic h'c.:ket come from the South has been well received in that part of the country, according to Southern Senators and Representatives,—Washington Dispatch. —CHICAGO INTER OCEAN. * = S —e - ; The Mistress and the Servant. l I Man Who' Always Growled. | p | BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. : BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. i 3 [+ - B IKL3 CANNOT make that girl sweep | deavors. In this age malds may flee to F the weather was foul, or the weather was fair, l from right to left. She'll do it |sliops and factories and into offices. He growled; while T stand beside her. But the | Where. they are given the same chances 5 s : 2 5 moment miy back in-turised shel do’ (E KL ISR Sl sovl ok 6re GOk} Though he journeyed with bliss, or traveled with care, her w men. The toil must be of a good quality, | . He howled. 1}:\ w(;lman said this the other day and | UP lg‘e standard quantity, for a certain He often remarked that the way was rough, hen she sighed, deep and long, over the | number of hours each day, and the 3 2 5 perversity of the mela she cmaptiys 15 | BROGURE must De*Nrat Tate. It thid pro- (URE woccnte Sibng in &yqhanite Bues acoompilah ik snaral Bk gramme 1 chrried out all the:operator That a man must complain were he up to snuff, Another woman who stood by gently re- | has to do is to walk to the pay window He growled. plied: and get the financlal proceeds. If the 3 “Well, what's the odds, if the girl |conditions are not accurately carried. out : 5 3 makes a good job of sweeping the mo,,s:-_,-- the incompetent operator is out of a job. 0= deans “k.e o st e glten The “right-to-left” . conversatlonalist | It'S all a case. of supply and demand, As he_kicked; hesitated, and then said: exactly what is needed in help and pro- From the tree of misfortune over his head, “I want a girl to do my way in my |duct; in industrial and commercial mar- It was picked. housework. I like my own way best.” kets. 3 . i ot o r’;nued: ¥ t h Dl Nieis “tay Soyus Though his ‘days ran along like the notes of a song, “It's the result that counts with me, I¢ | resses are prons to bicker over small He grumbled no less as he wobbled along; a girl satisfies me with the result, and |details In accomplishing work. There was something, he felt, that would some time go wrong, doesn’t sum up more expense than I do| If a mald prefers a certain brand of So he kicked. in reaching it, I don’t care how she gets | 503D or starch in. doing the “family there." wash” why shouldi’t she be humored in - o There's a large and vital significance | Ner Dreference if \He linen comes out The poor chap is dead, is defunct or deceased; | In this little conversation bearing upon | SPick and span and there is no extra wear He has “croaked,” the “servant problem.” It tells a story | o0 the fabric? For Death came along and his bondage released, of the best maids being driven out of do- What domestic virtue is there in a mis- mestic service and into factorles and |tress’ wrangle over peeling potatoes be- : A8 Epokel F A other places of employment where they |fore instead of after boiling if the vege- Straight on to the land of the infinite sun, are not nagged while accomplishing the | table appears on the table well cooked And, if he reached there, I would bet two to one, work. That these maids find a surcease | and in pleasing guise? “'Tis a migh{y poor prize, this heaven I've won,” in an inexorably required quality and| Why should a mistress frritatingly de- quantity of tofl each day was apparent |mand the use of a soft linen cloth in He has croaked. o in an Interview with a former household | cleansing oficloth if the maid prefers to | i+ R GRANT ON THE MOROS. “The Moros are as near barbarians as any tribe in the Philippines,” writes Gen- eral F. D. Grant in Leslie’s Weekly. “They are Mohammedans of the most intense sort. They belleve that death at the ‘hands of a Christian only brings heaven quicker and more beautiful. They would fight any race or set of men, for they are fight- ing for their religion, and we happen to be in their way. They are never con- quered until dead, and the women look upon Christians the same as the men. [ have heard of their women fighting as flercely as the men, and they can wield a kris with quickness and strength. “The Moro is a fighting machine. They do very little manufacturing or manual labor. They live mostly on fish and the native fruits and vegetables. eAbout the only thing they make is a kind of cloth and their arms. Lately the Chinamen have been selling them krises better and cheaper than they could make them, and these come from New Jersey. “In that country there are no great dis- tinguishing features in dress between the sexes, and a soldier fighting for his life is not apt to hold his fire to determine which are men and which are women. If he did, it would mean an army funeral. When the boys climbed up that wall of the crater on Mount Dajo and looked down, all they saw was a mob of fanatics armed with rifles, spears and krises. There was no chance to choose a mark. A Moro never surrenders; he must be overpow- ered.” it FOl\fiD MEMORIES. A hard-headed old Pittsburg manufac- turer who made his fortune, as he ex- presses it, “with his coat off,” was In- duced by his daughters to accompany them to a Wagner concert, the first he had ever attended. The next day he hap- pened to meet an acquaintance who had seen him the night before, who asked: “I suppose you enjoyed the concert last night, Mr, Brown?" 4 “Yes; it took me back to the days of my youth,” the old man said, with a remi- niscent sigh. “Ah, summer days in the country, girl uccess Magazine. 'FARMER'S ACUMEN. “I see here,” said Farmer Kornkob, wlm ‘was reading the Weekly Screech, “that a man was arrested because he took too ‘many - highballs.” “What does that mean, Hiram?" asked i LRI e e : m"'l‘:‘x:'t sure, but I reckon _he was A man dropped fifty feet from the top story of a Cincinnati building | ¢2ught stealln’ 'em off'n flag poles.”— lhif week and was not hurt in the least. They were pickled pigs’ feet.— ikl Seniels v Atlanta Journal. 3 ; ¥ WL i MAN OF LEARN]NG. — e ~ Judge Parker thinks the Democratic nominee should come from the South. At last the Judge and Tom Watson are in lgreemenf on something. —Chicago News. AR s ¢ g 'UP OR DOWN. On Mount Tom, in Massachusetts, there is a traction system operating two cars on a cable. As one car goes up the other comes down. The grade is an extraordi- narily steep one, a fact that frequently calls forth anxious inquiries relative to jthe safety of the system from nervous tourists. One afternoon a lady from Boston seat- ed herself in the rear of the car that was about to make its ascent of the mountain, and it was at once observed by several that she was extremely anx- i fous as to the outcome of her temerity. “Is this car perfectly safe?’ asked she of the conductor. “It is considered to be, madam,” was the reply. ‘““Have there never been any accidents?" “None to speak of, madam—that is, no serious ones.” ‘The lady sighed uneasily. “I was won- dering,” observed she, “what would be- come of me if the cable should break when we, were just reaching the top of the mountain.” “That would depend upon how you had spent your past life, madam,” quietly re- plied the conductor.—Harper's Weekly. RIGHT TO THE LETTER. A New Yorker was once referring to the stolidity and literal-mindedness of the British shopkeeper, when he was re- minded of an amusing experience of a friend in London. The American had been making several purchases in a Jjewelry establishment, among others a silver set, and finding that he had with him Insufficient funds to defray the entire cost, he desired the clerk to send the set to his hotel, marked “C. 0. D.” Due note was made by the clerk; but when the articles arrived at the hotet the purchaser was surprised to find that no charges had been collected. Opening the package the American was dum- founded to discover that each plece cf silver had been carefully engraved, in a beautiful monogram, “C. O. D."—Success Magazine. b BOTTLED GRAPES. Vine growers in France market fresh outdoor grapes all winter by a new and curious method. Bunches of grapes when LAYS HAM AND EGG - PROFESSOR cf chemistry in Co- A lumbia College, who is a friend of the writer and whose modesty pre- vents his allowing his name to be pub- lished until later on, has for some time been experimenting with fowls, somewhat on the line, howexer, of hypnotism, as is“dene on human beings by Professor Quackenbush, says the New York Tri- bune. Every farmer's boy knows that hens are very susceptible to hypnotic in- fluences, and it Is quite commen in the country for boys to held a hen firmly in their hands #nd looking cross-eyed at it the fowl will soon begin to look cross- eyed and go about for days in that condl- tion. The first experiment made by the Co- lumbia professor was in feeding to hens pepper and salt mixed and hanging be- fore hen< salt and pepper boxes, so that they could be plainly seen, and in a few days the eggs produced were all sea- soned ready for use. Going still further in the matter he fed the hem on com- minuted ham and the next day the hen produced an egg which, on being cooked, could not be distinguished from the or- dinary ham and eggs as served in res- taurants, except that it was all together, like a pancake, and it then occurred to him that possibly by applying the direct rays of the sun to the hen it might pro- duce a cooked cgg. and after experi- menting by putting the hen fn a glass box and exposing it to the sun the hea produced a cooked egg. and, although these things may seem remarkable to the unscientific mind, the professor went still further and reasoned out that hens could as well produce two eggs per day as one. He therefore fed the hem on sulphur and Mme, and also contrived a box with a spring bottom, so that when the first egg was laid it was dropped to a cushion below and then the hen, as usual turning around to see the g% which she had laid, and it not being vis- ible, in less than an hour produced an- other complete egg, but it Is only fair to say that it was of the common Va- riety, and not auite large as usual, but the professor thinks within a rea- sonable time he will produce an educated hen that will lay cooked eggs with ham or other materfal, and all ready for use. We may say that arrangements are being made to patent the process, and that a company will be formed which would seem to have great possibilities. LINCOLN'S FAIRNESS. Lincoln not only spoke a language which jurors could understand, but he also took them into his confidence and made them feel, as one of his contemporaries says. that he and they were trying the case to- gether, writes Frederick Trevor HIill on “Lincoln the Lawyer” in the April Cen- tury. He was likewise continually the friend of the court, who thought it “would be only fair” to let in this, or “ nly right that that should be conceded,” and who “reckoned he must be wrong” when the court overruled him, but who, neverthe- less, took a quiet and tactful exception whenever the occasion required it. “Now, about the time he had practiced through three-quarters of the case in this way,” observes Leonard Swett, “his ad- versary would wake up to find himself beaten. He was as wise as a serpent in the trial of the case, and what he so blandly gave away was only what he couldn’t get and keep.” Of course, these comments Were merely intended to emphasize the fact that Lin- coln did not try both sides of his cases, as some of his eulogists would have us be- lieve; but, unfortunately, they have been distorted into an implication that he in- dulged in tricks of the trade and that his apparent fairness was nothing better than a device by which he lured the unwary to destruction. B. M. Prince, who is now living in Bloomington, Ill., and who heard Lincoln try over a hundred cases of all sorts, is & competent authority on any question of this kind, and his testimony is direct and convincing. “The truth is,” Prince re- marked while talking with the writer, “that Lincoln had a genius for seeing the real point in a case at once, and aiming steadily at it from the beginning of a trial to the end. The issue in most cases lies in verr narrow compass, and the really great lawyer disregards everything not di- rectly tending to that issue. The mediocre advocate is apt to miss the crucial point in his case and is easily diverted with minor matters, and when his eyes are opened he is usually angry and always surprised. Lincoln instinctively saw the kernel of every case at the outset, never lost sight of it and never let it escape the jury. That was the only trick I ever saw him play.” But the best possible proof that Mr. Lin- coln was an unusually fair practitioner and generous opponent is the fact that he ‘made no enemies in the ranks of his pro- fession during all his active and varied career. Forbearance is often mistaken for timidity, and tact for weakness, and it not infrequently happened that Lin- coln’s professional opponents misin- terpreted his attitude toward them; but they were always spesdily dislllusioned. Mr. Swett remarked that “any one who took Lincoln for a simple-minded man (in ihe courtroom) would very soon wake up on his back in a ditch™; and although he seldom resorted to tongue-lashing, and rarely displayed anger, there Is abundant evidence that no one evef attacked him with impunity. WHY BROKERS INSURE. Large policles are common among the big brokers of Wall street, says the April World's Work. One of them who carries $580,000 life insurance when asked why he carried such a large sum, sald: “It is very easily answered. My business is very uncertain. One year I am rich, the next I am not. I have these large poli- cies to insure my family in case I should die in one of my bad years. I can't pos- sibly touch the money I have invested n premiums. If it were elsewhere I would be tempted to speculate with it.”" ¥ ripe are cut so that a plece of the vine five or six inches long remains attached. A large number of wide-necked bottles filled with water are placed in horizontal rows in raeks in a cellar and the stem of | the grapes is placed in the mouth of the bottle, while the grapes outside. The grapes do not touch the water, but are supplied with water through the stem, The low ' temperature of the cel- uniform’ “| 1ar is favorable to the preservation of the fruit and water is supplied daily to the | e /THEN HE WENT. “No, I have no business.” said the cheerful idiot. “I just dropped in to kiil a little time.” “Well, thank you,” sald the busy man, really, I haven't a bit I want killed today."—Cleveland Leader. . g Townsend's California glace fruits choicest candies in_artistic boxes. New m'u-. 767 mfiS A —_—— Information supplied daily ¥ v