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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1899
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RELIGION IN SCHOOLS.
I \ MERICANS may naturally be astonished at
, \ the missionary protest against the prohibit
*■ seel riai teaching in the public
■ Japan. Such teaching is not allowed in our
gioi re is l< ft as a matter <>:'
itruction. The schools are for the imparting
ufely Secular learning. The common schools,
. confined to 1 | function, are for the j
instruction of youth in the branches that may be
common to all. In them the right reading, speaking
• ■ ■■• - ( the English language is to be taught,
with arithmetic, the foundation of all mathematical
knowledge, and such history and geography a> are
the key to t tr< ures of knowledge in those
All thi~ is secular and necessary to the
future physical welfare of American citizen*. It is
itizenship that the state educates the young. If
it begin teaching them religion it goes outside its
on and steps off secular ground.
We are aware that much has been said about god
's, and that many religious bodies on either
side of the line of faith and practice which divides the
Christian world have sought to introduce religious
instruction. But it is the business of the state to
teach the known, not the unknown. It is strange,
therefore, that American missionaries should rage
because Japan pursues the same policy. ' She has a
ion, in Buddhism, which is agreeable to the
genius of her people. It is a religion of compassion
that docs not give the human race a monopoly of
pity, but embraces within its philosophy all living
things. Christians may treat it with polite respect
without in any way compromising their own beliefs.
If a plan of salvation which lifts man alone in its
arms be good, a philosophy that includes al! that
shares with man the gift and mystery of life cannot
be stigmatized as bad. If this religion of compas
sion, with help and pity and protection for all life, is
willing, in a country that it has satisfied for centuries,
to leave the schools free of its influence and occu
pied only with secular instruction, Christianity should
not object to stand upon a level with it in that re
spect.
It is the devout belief of Christian missionaries that
they carry a revealed message from on high, and in
the presence of that belief we all stand in awe. But,
armed with a commission bearing a divine seal, why
should they invoke the fleshly arm of human govern
ment? After reading the delivery of Dr. Lynnti
Abbott in favor of plowing the missionary field with
-.vord. enriching it with human blood, and sow
ing it with human bones and the marrow of the in
nocent as a preparation for a harvest of faith, one
may not be accused of irreverence for saying that
Christian missionarie^ ought to be sent to the Chris
tian missionaries I -hat they withdraw their
protest against secular schools and come home and
study Christianity.
It is to be hoped that the demand for diplomatic
pressure by our Government on Japan in this matter
will be resisted and refused. If our Government ap
pear abroad as the champion of ecclesinsticism in the
ie schools of another nation we don't know why
it should refuse to enforce the same rule at home. If
that come to pass there will be an end of our honor
able policy of religious toleration. Such toleration
: :< its best sense has never existed except where edu
•? is purely secular.
The two soldiers who poisoned sixty of their com
rades at the Presidio as a huge joke ought to be made
to feel how funny it is to be locked in an Alcatraz
dungeon. Their sense of humor is altogether too far
developed to permit them to remain at large.
After the cruel way in which the Governor trifled
with the feelings of Colonel Chadbourne the gallant
hero of dress parades ought tc have good grounds
for a suit against Gage for breach of promise. ■
The latest bulletin from the sickroom of Vice-
President Hobart says he takes milk with his meals
and milk punches between meals. "What's the mat
ter with Hobart? He's all right." •
We seem to be able to take everything in the Phil
fppines except Aguinaldo or a rest.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, ISrOVEMJJEII 15, 1899.
NEXT YEAR'S ELECTION.
THE Republicans of California have before them
an issue of prime importance, which will domi
nate the election in this State next year unless
it is sooner settled by the party itself. When we say
settled we mean adjusted in line with public opinion
and upright public sentiment.
A vacancy in the United Stales Senate is to be filled.
An effort to till it was prolonged through last win
ter's <essiu:i and tailed. It tailed because the rank
and tile of the party determined that the vacancy
tld be filled properly by a man fit for the place
or-not at all. It was this determination, adhered to
inflexibly by the people, that made tiie session in that
respect fruitless of results.
I'nless the seat is filled by one fit before the next
Ci mpaign the Senatorial is>ue goes into next year'
fight as an element of Republican weakness that may
not be overcome.
It is in no spirit of personal rancor or wish to in
crease friction, or cause anywhere a feeling of per
sonal humiliation, but with the purpose only of serv
ing the State and the party, that we say the party
cannot prevail next year either if Colonel Burns is
appointed by the Governor, or is elected by an extra
session, or is left to the decision of the voters next
November. I:' appointed by the Governor and seated
by the Senate the issue becomes rank and unquench
able. The appointment will hold only until the meet
ing of the Legislature in 1001. and the place must be
filled for the full term by that body. Not even the
strongest friend lei Burns is bold enough to
say that, as an open candidate, a Legislature can be
elected that will choose him. Xor can any one say
that if he is elected for six years at a special session
of the present Legislature the party can rally in 1900
from the effect of an act so disappointing to its rank
and file. Considering the effect of leaving the place
open, with neither appointment nor election, to be
filled by the next Legislature, it will be impossible to
eliminate Colonel Burns from the contest. He may
protest that he is not a candidate, but the protest
will be in vain. The Democrats will make him the
Republican candidate. The assault upon the Repub
lican party will be in the form of an assault upon his
personality, and it will not be possible for flesh and
blood to resist the temptation to defend him that will
be upon his personal friend-.
Let all Republicans study the situation and be
warned and be wise.
Since the election in this city the limitation to local
affairs and the anti-partisanship by which Mr. Phelan
secured the Republican votes which elected him have
evaporated. The country Democratic press, true to
the in>tinct> of sunflower partisan journalism, has felt
in the heightened light and heat that a new sun has
ris ( n, and has almost without exception turned to
Phelan a- the party's choice for Senator. If the seat
in the Senate be open next year he will be nominated
for it in the Democratic convention. lie will go be
fore the people in the honeymoon of his prestisje,
panoplied in the strength of his three successes in this
city, and who will stand against him? If Colonel
P>;:rn~ be on the scene it will be in vain that Repub
lican candidate^ for the Legislature declare they arc
not for him; the people will vote for Phelan, the man
in sight, for tear of the man in ambush.
In 1892 Stephen M. White was an avowed Demo
cratic candidate for the United States Senate. It was
known that any State convention of his party since
1886 would have chosen him had the issue been
pushed. True, the Examiner fought him and had a
candidate against him, but its candidate had not a
vote in the Legislature that would stick. White was
the only open, avowed, frank candidate. The Repub
licans had no candidate m right, but their campaign
was adumbrated by the suspected ambition of Mr.
M. 11. de Young. The Democrats made him the Re
publican candidate. Republican nominees for the
Legislature frantically disowned him. but not one
of them was able to tell the people whom he proposed
t<> support for the Senate. From the moment that
situation developed the end was in sight. White
won, and carried the electoral ticket under the wire
with him.
If the Republicans permit a like situation next year.
with Phelan in White's place, let them consider now
the result It i<= believed that if the Governor appoint
a Senator it will be Colonel Burns. This is based on
a sentiment of personal loyalty, we are told, which
in some situations would not be open to criticism.
Put that sentiment k misused when its satisfaction in
volves the overthrow of the Governor's party and
the loss of California to the Republican column next
year.
The Legislature is not dominated by any such sen
timent. It is in touch with the masses of the party.
If it listen to the voice of reason and bow to the
promptings of party loyalty and look forward to the
battles yet to be won or lost it has it in its power to
flank the Democratic situation completely and take
from that party the only issue upon which it can hope
to carry the State next year.
A USELESS OFFICE
REPORTS of the convalescence of Vice Presi
dent Hobart are doubtless received with grati
fication by all who notice them, but it is ques
tionable whether any considerable number of people
do so. In fact, a good many arc hardly aware the
Vice President is sick, and not* a few have forgotten
that the incumbent of the office is named Hobart.
The office is one in which the people have but
little interest Old John Adams, who was the first
man in the republic to occupy it, declared it to be
"the most insignificant office that ever the mind of
man contrived, or his imagination conceived." The
judgment thus pronounced at the beginning of the
Government has been confirmed by the experience of
later years, and Colonel Ingersoll once described the
Vice President as "an official who is paid a hand
some salary to stand round and wait for a funeral."
It is because of its uselessness that the people pay
but little attention to the incumbent of the office so
long as the President continues healthy and active.
Of course the public is sorry that Mr. Hobart is
sick, but the sorrow is due solely to the sympathy
with himself personally. They are sorry for the man,
but not for the Vice President. Indeed if the office
were to sicken itself to annihilation and pass out of
existence there would he little or no regret.
At no time was the office ever important except
that it provided a successor to the Presidency, but
since the adoption of the new law of succession it is
hardly of any importance at all. Under the old law
the succession was first to the Vice President and
then to the president pro tern, of the Senate. That
meant a possibility that the succession might go to
a man of a different party, for the presiding officer
of the Senate is not always a supporter of the ad
ministration. Under the new law it passes from the
Vice President to the Secretary of State, and from
him to the Secretary of the Treastiry, and so on
through the Cabinet. Thus there is no longer any
danger of a member of the opposi^jon succeeding to
the" Presidency, and therefore no importance at
tached to the Vice Presidency. If the Vice President
die there will be regret that a good man is dead,
but no regret whatever that we have no longer a
Vice President. In fact, under the new succession act
I there is no feason why there should be a Vice Presi
! dent, or why any one should be paid a salary to stand
; round and wait for a funeral.
REFORMS IN THE NAVY.
PRESS criticism upon those portions of the re
port of Rear Admiral Crowninshield which re
llectcd upon Congress and upon Admiral
Dewey have had the effect, it is said, of causing a
revision of the report, and when it is officially issued
it will be found to have been so altered that there will
be little or nothing in it to which any one can
rightly object.
The rear admiral has acted wisely in profiting by
the comments upon his work, and it is probable the
naval service will derive benefit from the wisdom,
for now that the objectionable features of the report
are eliminated more attention will be given to those
recommendations which are of genuine merit
Among the tilings to which the attention of Con
gress is directed by the report is the wastefulness and
inadequacy of the receiving-ship system, and the ad
vantages which would result if our warships out of
active service were manned by a skeleton crew and
kept in good repair, available for immediate service
in case of an emergency, instead of being laid up and
cared for only by watchmen. It is pointed out that
with our expanding commerce and our increasing
interests in all parts of the world it will no longer be
expedient to leave great battle-ships or cruisers
lying idle in port. There should be in the navy a
force sufficient to keep them all fairly well manned
and ready for use. To that end it has been recom
mended that the receiving-ship system be supplanted
by a policy of maintaining permanent barracks at the
larger naval stations at which accommodations could
be provided for the crews of the vessels held in re
serve and for the new recruits and apprentices
needed in the naval service.
The report made by Assistant Secretary Allen
relative to the naval militia contains recommenda
tions in line with those of the rear admiral. In sub
stance that officer says that as the personnel act has
made the term of service of enlisted men in the navy
four years, the same periods should be fixed for the
: enrollment in the naval reserve, and the reserve offi
cer should be promoted in war time with the regular
officer with whom he holds the same date of com
mission. It is also recommended that steps be taken
!<>r the organization of a permanent coast signal sys
tem from the retired list of the navy and the employes
of the lighthouse and life-saving service. There are sev
eral thousand of these men, and with a small appro
priation and an annual drill for a few days each year
they would be competent, the report says, to take up
their duties immediately upon the outbreak of war.
With a retired naval officer in charge of each light
house district, and an officer in charge at the Navy
Department and the necessary paraphernalia at the
nearest navy-yard ready for use, this necessary adjunct
of war could be put in working order in twenty-four
j hours.
It will be seen that the object of these recommenda
tions is to obtain an increase in the naval force of
the nation. Congress, while liberal enough in provid
ing for the construction of warships of various kinds,
has not been equally liberal in providing for the
maintenance of the number of men and officers neces
sary for manning the ships. The most important
naval work before this Congress, therefore, will be
that of making due provision for the care, mainte
nance and navigation of the fleets we have con
structed, and the reports of the two officers we have
quoted suggest the means by which it may be best
i accomplished.
THE ADUL TERATED FOOD PROBLEM.
AFTER a long rest the Senate Committee en
gaged in an : nvestigation of the extent to
which food a; . icles on sale in this country are
j either adulterated or wholly compounded of some
thing quite different from the articles they purport to
be has resumed its hearings, and we are once more
receiving information which will increase the demand
for the enactment of a pure food law. It is gratifying
to have the subject brought back to public attention
at this time, for Congress will soon assemble, and
efforts should be made throughout the country to
bring about the enactment of the desired law at this
; session.
The recent hearings have added nothing of any
particular value to the information already made
j public. In fact, the agitation for protection to the
j producers of pure foods against the ruinous compet
ing of the manufacturers of fraudulent articles has
been carried on so extensively that all who take any
interest in the matter at all are fairly familiar with the
subject. It is very well known that almost every ar
ticle of food in the market has a fraudulent article
competing with it, and that the frauds are so in
geniously devised that while in many cases injurious
to health they cannot be detected by either sight,
taste or smell.
The evil of the fraudulent trade is not due to adul
terations only. In many cases harm is clone by sell
ing unadulterated foods under labels representing
them as something different from what they are. For
example, the dairymen of New York, by careful su
pervision of the cheese product of that State, made
New York cheese a standard article of trade, won for
it a high reputation and gained a profitable market in
London. No sooner was the repute of the New York
cheese known, however, than fraudulent cheese :
makers in other States put the New York label upon
inferior cheese and sent it abroad. The result was
the ruin of the market which the New York men had
built up. In that fraud there was no adulteration. It
was simply a case of false labeling.
Many similar wrongs are done in the same way.
Some time ago in reviewing the fruit-packing trade
in that city the Philadelphia Record noted that some
enterprising firms there have been buying up dried
plums in districts where they are cheap and putting
them on the market labeled "California prunes." The
Philadelphia men are not the only packers who put
California labels on worthless or inferior fruits.
There is a great corporation in New York that grinds
tip apple-cores and apple-peelings and refuse apples
that are unfit for drying, and out of the stuff com
pounds jellies, jams, preserves of all kinds, and by
flavoring it in various ways makes it serve for apri
cot, peach, plum, orange, currant or any other kind
of fruit conserve there may be a demand for.
It is hardly worth while to gather further informa
tion on the subject. The people are aware that almost
every article in the market from luxuries to medi
cines is either adulterated or imitated. What is
needed is not more knowledge on that subject but a
clearer idea of the most efficient remedy. Up to this
time the best that has been proposed is a national
label law requiring every article to bear upon its label
conspicuously a true statement of what the article is
and where, when and by whom it was packed. Right
labeling will go a long way toward solving the diffi
culty of the problem, and an act requiring it is clearly
within the power of Congress to provide
CHEERED THEIR SOLDIERS
AGAINST THE BOERS
YOUTHFUL ENGLISH PATRIOTS.
This picture, reproduced from the London Graphic, represents an Inci
dent which occurred as a body of troops were on the march to Southamp
ton to take a ship for the Cape to light against the Boers. The youngsters
stood on the garden wall, waved their flags as the smiling soldiers passed
and shouted with enthusiasm. The throngs of people lining the sidewalks
became almost as much interested In the excited youngsters as they were in.
the departing soldiers.
THE LAST METEORIC SHOWER.
Mrs. W. J. Sloppy of St. Paul has kind
ly forwarded to Notes and Queries the
following clipping from a Philadelphia
newspaper of Thursday, November 18,
1833. which was rut from the paper and
preserved in a Ft-rapbook by her mother,
the late Mrs. 1,. G. Steep. It is certainly
a most rare and interesting paragraph, to
be thus reproduced at this date. This is
the description of the extraordinary scone
as given by an eye-witness on the day
of its occurrence: "The meteoric shower
of the 13th was a rare phenomenon. At |
4:30 o'clock in the morning I first observed
it, and continued to notice it until its ter
mination at 6 o'clock, two hours later.
From a point in the heavens about fifteen
degrees southeasterly from our zenith the j
meteors darted to the horizon in every j
point of the compass. These paths were
described in curved lines, similar to those I
of the parallels of longitude on an arti
ficial globe. They were generally short j
in their course, resembling much an in
terrupted line. They ceased to appear
when within about ten degrees of the hor- j
izon. I did not see a single meteor pass ;
the meteoric pole which I have described, j
nor one pass in a horizontal direction, j
Several of them afforded as much light as j
faint lightning. One of them in the north
east was heard to explode with a sound
like that of the rush of a distant sky
rocket. The time from the explosion was j
about twenty seconds, which gives a dis
tance of about five miles. It left a ser- j
AROUND THE
CORRIDORS
D. McKay of Sacramento is a guest at
the Palace.
F. M. Swasey, a leading business man
of Reading, is registered at the Grand.
P. J. MeCormlck, a wealthy contractor
■from Los Angeles, is a guest at the
Lick.
Henry Doyle, a mining and business
man of Vancouver, B. C, is a guest at the
Palace.
Judge C. C. Bush, a prominent jurist of
Redding, is among the recent arrivals at
the Grand.
W. H. Stacey. a capitalist of San Jose.
Is among the arrivals of yesterday at the
Occidental.
J. H. Barbour has come up from San
Diego and is registered at the Palace for
a short etay.
Dr. E. S. O'Brien, one of the principal
physicians of Merced, is at the Lick on a
short vacation.
Francis Cutting, a well known and pop
ular attorney of Stockton, Is among the
late arrivals at the Lick.
Herbert A. Kidder, a prominent and in
fluential politician from Sacramento, is
registered for a short stay at the Cali
fornia.
Captnin F. Tucker, a lucky mining man
from the Cape Nome district, is at the
Palace, where he arrived yesterday from
Seattle.
Charles Teague, a wealthy land-owner
and heavy oil speculator of Fresno, is a
guest at the Grand on a limited business
trip to the city.
Dr. D. P. Durst, one of the best-known
medical men of Wheatland, is at the
Grand, where he arrived yesterday on a
short visit to the city.
C. H. Clspp, a wealthy coffee planter
of Honolulu, is on his way to his island
home after an extended visit to New
York. He Is staying at the Lick.
T. C, Harbison, formerly a well-known
newspaper man of this city and now
editor of :i Snn Bernardino paper, is up
to attend the Water Storage Convention
as a delegate.
C. B. Booth, Charles E. Richards, T. E.
Gibbon and C. A. Edson, four delegates
from Los Ar.geles to the Flood-water
Storage Convention, arrived in the city
yesterday and registered at the Palace.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.— M. A. Roths
child of San Francisco is at the Holland;
Thomas Derby of San Francisco is at the
Hoffman; J. W. Chisholm of San Fran
cisco is at the Manhattan; J. J. Gottlob
of San Francisco Is at the Herald Square.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
RANK OF COMMODORE-B. & D..
Marysvllle. Cal. I'nder the provisions of
the personnel bill, the rank of commodore
in the United States navy was abolished.
THE COMSTOCK-S., City. There is no
"underground tide which ebbs and flows
In the Comstock during each twenty-four
hours of the day."
A WEDDING GlFT— Subscriber, City.
In Answers to Correspondents, October
15, 1599, there is given the answer asked
for in relation to the engraving of a wed
ding gift to a bride.
OLIVE OIL MACHINERY— H., Vaca
ville. Cal. If you desire to make olive oil
pentine cloud of a bright glowing color,
which remained visible for fifteen or
twenty minutes. Millions of these me
teors must have been darted in this show
er. I was not able to remark a single one
whose proximity to me was greater than
any other, by being interrupted between
my vision and any distant object, such as
trees, houses or the high shore of New
Jersey west of me. The singularity of
this meteoric shower consisted in the
countless numbers of the celestial rock
ets, and more especially in their constant
ly uniform divergence from the point fif
teen degrees southeasterly from the zen
ith." The writer closes his description
with the following explanation of the phe
nomenon: "These meteors are supposed
to bo gaseous, and when inflamed by some
cause not explained appear darting
through the heavens, generally in various
directions." The following editorial re
marks on the same subject appear in a
Philadelphia newspaper: "The remarka
ble display of meteors on Wednesday
morning continues to form the subject of
conversation in every circle, and our ex
changes come to us decked out with
graphic descriptions and Illustrations of
the strange visitation. A gentleman from
Boston describes the scene in that city in
much the same language as is used by
those who saw the wonder in Philadel
phia, and as far south and west as we
have heard from the shower of fire was
as incessant as it was in this city."
for your own family, you should use a
small cider press. Olive oil machinery is
expensive.
DECOCTIONS— D. L. 8., Berkeley, Cal.
A decoction of boiled herbs or barks will
keep if placed in bottles tightly corked so
as to prevent the admission of air.
THE CENTURY— H. 8., City. The next
century will commence with the Ist day
of January, 1901. See answer to another
correspondent in Answers to Correspond
ents, October 22, 18P9.
AT PEACE WITH THE WORLD-A
and B, City. By the expression "at peace
with the world" is meant that the indi
vidual or nation has no quarrel with any
individual or nation or people. At this
time the T'nited States cannot be said to
be "at peace with the world." for they
have an armed contention with Aguinaldo
and his people.
RAISING A HAT— B. J. E., City.
"Should a young man who is a clerk for
a larpe corporation raise his hat when one
of the directors bows to him on the
street?" asks this, correspondent. He Is
Informed that no one can afford to be
rude to another, no matter how high or
how low the other is. If the director
thinks enough of the clerk to recognize
him on the street with a bow the clerk
should think enough of the director to be
polite to the extent of raising his hat in
recognition of the salutation. Civility
does not cost anything and always creates
a good impression.
UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE—
Subscriber, City. T'nited States Civil Ser
vice examinations are held in San Fran
cisco generally in April and in Novem
ber. The dates are arranged by the Civil
Service Commission at Washington to
ward the close of each year. It is Impos
sible to tell, at this time, when the first
examination will be held hen- in 1900.
To obtain an application blank the can
didate for examination should address a
communication to the department in
which he or she seeks to be examined.
Those who apply for special pension ex
aminer, departmental service, ar exam
ined in spelling, arithmetic, letter writing,
penmanship, copying from plain copy,
copying from rough draft, law and pen
sion law. For such positions the appli
cant must, as in all other branches of the
civil service, undergo an examination and
take his chance of being one of the eligi
bles. when a vacancy occurs. There is no
telling when a vacancy will occur in that
department in this city.
WIDE-TIRE LAW— C. E. W., Nicasio,
Marin County, Cal. The following is the
law of California relating to wide tires in
California, passed by the Legislature of
1897:
The width of tires for wheels upon
wagons or other vehicles to be used
upon the public highways of the State
of California shall be for the following
styles of wagons as follows:
Two and three-quarter inch steel or
thimble-skein axle. 176-inch tubular
steel or iron axle, not less than 3-inch
tire; Hi-inch steel or iron axle, 2Vs
inch tubular or iron axle, not less than
3*i-in.ch tire; 3-lncn steel or thimble
skein. 1%-inch steel or iron. 2%-lnch
tubular steel or iron axle, not less than
4-inch tire; 3'i-lnch steel or thimble
skein,l% or 1?4 steel or iron. 2% tubular
steel or iron axle, not less than 4^
inch tire; 3%-inch steel or thimble
skein, 2-inch steel or iron, 27^-inch
tubular steel or iron axle, not less
than 3-inch tire; 3-Vineh steel or thim
hle-skein, 2 1 4-inch steel or iron, 3 or
3% inch tubular steel or iron axle, not
less than s^-inch tire; 4-inch and larg
er steel or thimble-skein. 2 1 i-Inch and
larger steel or iron, 3Vi-inch and larger
tubular steel or iron axle, not less than
6-inch tire.
Other styles of axles must have tires of
the same width as those of equal carry
ing capacity above enumerated. All in
termediate axles must have tires of the
same width as the next larger size above
specified.
WEBSTER'S PLAN
IS CRITICIZED BY
HIS CO-WORKERS
Do Not Indorse New
Curriculum.
Superintendent of Schools Webster is
not to be permitted to inaugurate in the
city's schools the new curriculum which
he announced two weeks ago without the
criticism and even condemnation of many
of his co-educators, Although all of the
teachers and principals in the department
and all of the School Directors save those
of the board who are known to be agents
of the book ring an- with him. it has
come to his ears during the past week
that many of the big i,'uns outside this
county, and particularly thuse of the In
stitute, are preparing for a concerted at
tack upon him and his radical policy.
On October 23 Superintendent AVebster
issued a circular in which was embodied
the essence of all the experience he ha
had as head of the biggest municipal
school department in the West. By re
ports from the teachers in the department
and by his own el.>so observation he haa
become convinced that pupils in the local
schools would be better fitted for practi
cal life and advanced to a greater state
of preparedness for university work if
more time was given them for the study
of the essentials, and less attention di
rected to the frills that have been intro
duced into school work during the past
few years. He based his circular upon
that conviction, and ordered that such
subjects as "nature study," "humane ed
ucation," music, drawing and other the
orist innovations be either eliminated or
relegated to the luxury list, to be In
dulged in but once a week. The time
thus saved he divided between the essen
tials — grammar, arithmetic, spelling, com
position and the like.
The teachers in the department quit
talking about back salaries for at
a week, and parents hailed the new pro
gramme as the dawn of a new era in
local education. Not so, however, those
pedagogues who are fond of hemstitched
arithmetic and point laoe geography.
Many of them the last few years have
risen to fame and fat salary by their
ability to make the simplest study in the
ordinary curriculum look like a gaudy
piece of patchwork, and they object to
any one occupying as prominent a posi
tion in the educational world as does
Webster attempting to revolutionize the
ideas and experiments that have proved
profitable to them.
Oakland was first to raise a howl, al
though it was not a loud one and was
merely preliminary to the chorus that is
about due to be heard. The institute is to
come next, and it is known that a num
ber of prominent lecturers in that organi
zation are preparing condemnatory ;
to be read at the next meeting. M< an
whlle Webster, with parents, teachers and
the School Board back of him. is rapidly
getting his plan into smooth running or
der and gathering matter with which to
answer the arguments to come. Which
j ever way the present clash of opinions
turns out, the inevitable bandying of ar
guments, pro and con, promises much of
value td those addicted to pedagogy.
Lecture for Charitable Work.
The first of a series of free lectures to
be conducted at the Good Samaritan Mis
sion, 246 Second street, will be given this
evening by Mayor Phelan, Whose subject
will bo "Civil Government." Succeeding
lectures will be given by President D. S.
Jordan of Stanford, Professor Le Conte,
I. M. Scott, President Wheeler of Berke
ley and others.
Cal. glace fruit 50c per lb at Townsend's.*
Look out for 81 Fourth st. Nr. 5c barber
or grocer. Best eyeglasses lOc and 40c. ♦
Special information supplied dally to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. •
Captain Henry's Death.
Coroner Hill announced yesterday that
he would take possession of the body of
Captain Henry of the Cyrus Wakefield as
soon as she lays up at the dock and hold
an Inquest as to the cause of death. Tho
fact that the body is in this county gives
the Coroner jurisdiction of the case.
"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"
Has been used for nrty years by millions of
mothers for their children •while Teething with
perfect success. It soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colic, regu
lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or
other causes. For sale by druggists in every
part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup, 25c a bottle.
Tourist Excursions.
PERSONALLY conducted Tourist Excursions,
with latest Improved Pullman Vestlbuled Sleep
ing Cars, through from California to St. Paul,
St. Louis, Chicago and Boston, every Sunday,
Wednesday and Friday. Get full information at
62S Market st.
HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage
of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by
steamship, including fifteen days 1 board at ho
tel; longer stay, 12 50 per day. Apply at 4 New-
Montgomery street, San Francisco.
California Limited.
SANTA FE ROUTE— Connecting train leaves
at 3 p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sat
urday, giving passengers ample time to see Los
Angeles and Pasadena. Finest equipped train
and best track of any line to the East. Get
handsome folder and full particulars at 6C3
Market street.
Remove the causes that make your hair life
less and gray with Parker's Hair Balsam.
Hindercorns. the best cure '■■ r corns. 15 cts.
Sutro Property to Be Sold.
Judge Coffey has made an order grant
ing the executors of the estate of the
late Adolph Sutro the right to sell prop
erty belonging to the estate in Fruitvale.
ADVEBTISEMENTS.
Young Girls
How easy it is for young
girls to go into the ' 'decline. ' '
They eat less and less, become
paler and paler and can
narldy drag through the day.
They are on the steady down-
ward course. Iron does them
no good; strychnine and bit-
ters all fail. They need a food
that will nourish them better,
and a medicine that will cor-
rect their disease.
Scott's Emulsion
U both of these, elegantly and per-
manently combined. The Cod-Liver
Oil makes the blood richer, and
this gives better color to the face.
The hypophosphites of lime and
soda act as a strong tonic to the
nerves. Soon the weight increases,
1 the digestion improves and health
! returns.
At all drogpists ; 50c. and $1.00.
' SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.