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- s .... 8 Old Pur Stun lul 1 ho) elaJ par?. trui clai Frj ru4 WIN GR seasoi Cod c&talq Spanij FAWl 6C04 4: T, II: FAS 4 Dresses f; teed. F T THE PACIFIC Commercial Advertiser X72JLTER G. SMITH, EDITOR MONDAY MARCH 21 FOOTBALL FATALITIES. The yearly crusade against football has been inaugurated again on the mainland. Dr. Geo. R. Simmons, editor f the Medical Journal, has cone to the conclusion . that football doesn't pay and In support of his stand cites statis tics showing thirty-five deaths during the past year, as a result of the sport, While perhaps the figures given are correct, the medical authorities seem to consider that It is only in football that such futilities occur. Any sport that i3 popular, is to some extent dan gerous. It is the element of danger that makes football fascinating alike to the spectator and the participant. If Dr. Simmons would take the trouble to col lect vital statistics for other varieties of sport he would find that the mortal ity percentage Is just as high for coast ing and skating while even baseball and lawn tennis are sometimes attended with serious results. However startling the array of statis tics is, that is brought to bear against football as a sport, it will be a good many years before any impression will be made upon the millions of lovers of the game. Dr. Simmons collected statls tics both of football and Fourth of July celebrations. Commenting on the re suits in the Medical Journal he says: "Almost all our universities and schools now have football teams which engage in a series of matches. Col lege pride and college spirit are de veloped and improved by the game and honest rivalry In manly sports and athletic exercises is encouraged, all of which is to be commended. A little more than twenty years ago the faculty of a university which now has a dis tinguished record In football, called be fore it a student who had been guilty of attempting to introduce to the stu dents the Rugby game, and severely censured him because he was attempt ing to introduce a brutal sport. A pro fessor of another university was widely Quoted not long since as declaring that within the last ten years only twenty three men had died from the direct re sults of football in colleges. If the statement be authentic 1903 was a most unfortunate year for the devotees of the game. The fatalities and injuries of last year, however, were probably not more numerous nor more grave than in re cent years. While we do not wish to be considered as opposing legitimate ath letic sports, we believe that In this par ticular game the human wreckage far outweighs the good resulting from three or four months of athletic exercise and training. "Our statistics show that there oc curred thirty-five deaths during the last year and over 500 severe accidents to players. Besides these . thirty-flve deaths, there were eleven cases of spinal injuries followed by paralysis which in most cases seem to have prov ed permanent, and, consequently worse than death. Sprains, contusions and scalp wounds have not been Included in this list, although reports show that many of these injuries that were at first considered trivial finally resulted seriously. There were 343 fractures, roost of them of the bones of the leg and forearm. There were ninety-one cases of fracture of the clavicle, nine teen, fractures of the femur, and four of the skulL It is, of course, impossible to estimate accurately the number of permanent injuries received in these cases ar many of the fractures were compound, and nineteen of them of the femur, we must believe that in this cJasa alone the percentage of permanent Injuries could not be very low. We can, without exaggeration, say that at least fiifty deaths or permanent total disabil ities resulted from the football games of 1903." JAPANESE FOREIGN TRADE. In a recent report from Kobe, the consul says that Japanese direct foreign . trade has already assumed such pro portions that there Is now no question concerning its future progress. Until the year 1901 the customs re turns showed its extent annually under the titles of "Imports by Japanese Mer chants" and "Exports by Japanese Merchants," but this feature of the for eign trade has now been eliminated from ahat document. During 1900, the last year for which this characteriza tion was furnished, Japanese merchants were shown to have done thirty-eight per cent, of Japan's total trade. This consisted of exports valued at $36,543,254 and imports valued at $56,143,051. The percentages of foreign trade ex ploited by Japanese merchants have been as follows: 1S97 1S9S 1S99 1900 Direct Imports 36 33 41 39 Direct exports 2S 34 36 37 Much of the foreign trade of Japanese merchants is being done with eastern countries, but the returns show they are also making large gains in the West as competitors of the American and European merchants at the open ports. The total trade of native merchants during 1900 amounted to $92.6S7,105, against $72,475,343 In 1S9S, as follows: Exports. . 36,544.054 Imports. $45,055. ISo 56.143.051 Total. $72,475,343 1898 . . 1300 . 92.6S7.105 Cala 9,123,598 ?U,0S7,866 $20,211,762 In the absence of official data, it is thought by well-informed resident for eign merchants that nearly or quite the same ratio of increase has continued since 1300. and this seems evident even by casual observation. Japanese merchants have entered largely into the importation of cotton, wool, sugar, rice, flour, locomotives, rails, iron manufactures, machinery, pulp. etc. The Japanese government itself now imports all the leaf tobacco received into the country, and also han dles all the camphor produced both in Formosa and Japan. As far as the volume of Japanese di rect foreign trade is concerned, the in roads made by native merchants have been les3 noticeable to foreign mer hon bom use of the rapid increase of business at the open ports, and that i not the main feature for consideration as the most unfavorable effects of Jap anese competition are felt by the mini mizing of profits upon the foreign busi ness. . The Japanese are less fortunate in the matter of exports. It is more dimcuu for them to sell to than to buy from foreign countries. In the one case let ters of credit are furnished the Yoko hama Specie Bank in New York to pay for purchases made by their agents there, whereby they are placed on an equal footing with the resident foreign merchants; but in the other case, the matter of exports, the foreign merchant will long have an advantage. The for eigner is here with his money, and al though when making purchases he may be subjected to "squeezes," these will hardly offset the advantage of his home connections. Japanese merchants are extending- their efforts in the manufacture and export of teas, and it is possible tnat this mav be done somewhat in the spirit of rivalry; but it must be con ceded that without the aid of resident foreigners engaged in the tea trade Japanese teas would never have been introduced abroad to any considerable extent; neither would its present for eign export be maintained. The same may be said in the case of mattings and other Japanese exports. The for eign merchant has opened up the for eign trade, and although he may be compelled in future to gradually re linquish -a much larger proportion of his business, the time is not yet at hand when this can be done without much detriment to the interests of Japanese commerce. Japanese teas were far more exten sively introduced into the United States during the first six months of 1903 than during the corresponding months of 1902. The increase of tea exports to all countries during the six months amounted to $1,136,937, while the increase to the United States alone amounted to 51,185,141, showing that more than all the excess of exports has gone there. It is fair to presume that this may be attributed both to im proved quality and to more strenuous effort to hold the market. The total exports of Japanese tea during the six months amounted to $2,887,883, against $1,750,946 . during the 'corresponding period In 1902. Kalauokalani is playing the same old Home Rule game. He wants the Democrats to demonstrate their fitness for association with the Home Rulers by a national victory, before he will consent to join the party. ' While the Territorial officials are straining every nerve to pay the ordin ary expenses of government, Hilo is crying for repairs to thcboulevard that leads to the Volcano. The Maui police, according to the grand Jury report, appear to be enjoy ing some metropolitan perquisites. . f It Is less than three weeks to the Republican primaries. f Savage Girls' Valuable Clothes. Expensive dress is not the exclusive privilege of civilized womanhood. Not infrequently a semi-savage girl has a wardrobe consisting of furs which would be worth from $5,000 to $10,000. Grun- deman. the explorer, relates how one fair Greenlander wore a dress of sealskin with a hood of that costly fur, the silver iox. Ihe garment was lined with fur of the young seal otter, and there was a fringe of wolverine tails. About $700 is probably the average worth of the dress of Indian women on the Columbia and Fraser rivers. . As Bad as Martial Law. ITHACA, N. Y., March 12. An ordi nance has gone into effect here provid ing1 for a curfew signal at 8 o'clock. It was found necessary to quadruple the police force and as the law now applies to adults as well as children. considerable trouble is expected espe- 1 cially with Cornell men, many of whom j seek recreation in town during the evening. i The greatest of all Russians (Cath erine excepted) was Peter Bas, or Peter Michaeloff, or Peter the Great. On his visit to England he wanted to see how criminals were executed. The Old Bailey failing to furnish a victim Peter complained to King William, who re gretted the disappointment, but sail that inasmuch as no person had been condemned he had no right to take a I life. "If that be the case," ?aid the ! Czar, "you may take any of my retinue and cause them to be executed in the English manner." This offer his Britan nic majesty thought proper to decline. WALKER AROUSES LABOR UNIONS WASHINGTON, March 11. Rear-Admiral Walker, chairman of the Isth mian Canal Commission, testified be fore the House Committee on Inter state and Foreign Commerce today that Chinese or Japanese coolies would be required to work on the Panama canal, in his opinion, on account of the inability of American laborers to withstand the rigors of that climate. He said there were not enough West India negroes to be obtained for the work, which would require 30,000 or 40,000 men, before its completion. This statement has already aroused the labor unions ana representatives of organized labor here declare that they will at once begin agitation to prevent the enactment of any legisla tion that will admit Chinese into the Panama zone. They hold that the canal zone is now the territory of the United States and that the exclusion act applies to it as well as to any other possession of the United States. If, however, it should be held that the exclusion act does not apply, the labor unions propose to fight for an exten sion of the act to that zone. There will unquestionably be opposi tion to the . employment of Chinese coolies on the canal work from other than labor organizations on the ground that the proper sanitation of Panama would so ameliorate the dangers of fever that white labor could be em ployed. Admiral Walker, however, clings to his belief that Chinese must be used at least for portions of the work. A meeting of the Canal Com mission will, be held here on March 22d and the Commissioners will leave soon afterward for Panama. CARPENTER IS NOW SECRETARY Frederick S. Carpenter has been ap pointed private secretary to Secretary Taft, succeeding Mr. Merritt O. Chance, who has been appointed chief of the supply division of the Post office Department, a position for which his previous experience in postal affairs has pecuilarly fitted him. Mr. Carpenter is a native of Min nesota and a graduate of the Minne sota University. He was In the em ploy of a legal firm in San Francisco, and the Philippine commission being in need of expert assistants induced him to go to Manila. He soon became private secretary to Governor Taft, and occupied that position until the governor came to the United States to become Secretary of War. Mr. Car penter accompanied his chief and has been acquainting himself with .the business methods of the War Depart ment up to this time. Washington Star. : Ben ting and Boarding. phase of life In New York that Is not common in other cities is ex hibited in the large number of house owners wh. let their homes to other people and live in hotels, apartments or boarding places. Many wives are indifferent housekeepers, or dislike the burdens of a home. They know nothing of managing. They cannot get along with the servants. The hotel is the place for them, or the boarding house. If they desire a small home, the flat's the thing. An ordinary dwelling in a semi-fashionable street will rent for 2,000. That sum will keep a couple in fine style in a boarding house or hotel, with a child or two thrown in, and madame is relieved of all household cares. ' Egyptians the First Suveyors. The art of land surveying owes it origin to the fact that the Egyptians were unable to keep permanent monu ments on land which was overflowed every year by the Nile. Under such circumstances it became necessary to have some means of reidentifying the various pieces of land. The instruments and mathematical methods of astrono my, with suitable modifications, were used by the Egyptians for land survey ing. He Asked Largely. Peculiar requests from rural con stituents occasionally come in the con gressional mails. A very funny one has been received by a representative of one of the Northwestern states. It runs : "Please send to me and a number of my relatives (the names of whom were given) some garden seeds. I also want a gasoline engine of eighteen horse pow er, a wood saw, and a barrel of gasoline. Please send them riejit away." Turkish Minister a Night Worker. The Turkish minister, Chekib Bey, has a cottage at Saville, and when there, it is said, he works nearly all night, only retiring when the other members of the household &re preparing to arise. He then retires and sleeps until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. During his sleeping hours no one can see him, it being an unpardonable act for even any member of the household to disturb his slum bers. From California Orange, Olive, Fig. Everything in Fruit Tree Line. WINE, RAISIN AND TABLE GRAPE VINES. Place orders now for delivery season 1904. Complete illustrated nursery catalogue published in English or Spanish mailed for 5c postagr. Paio-up Capital. $200,000.00 FAKCHER CREEK NURSERIES, Inc. ROCOINC. Paca. & Gin Man. FRESNO. 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