the san francisco call (san francisco) 1902-07-23 [p 6] · difficult to defend. the...

Difficult to Defend.

The admlnlstratfon.press" is finding it pecu-liarly difflcult- to

'defend jthe, /action of Gover-nor Gage In bringing

"hlB suit ,against The

Call in a small and remote ;precinct In LosAngeles County.— Woodland Democrat. 5

Governor- Gage has had his San Pedro libelsuit against The Call postponed until Septem-ber

—after the Stats convention. Meantime the

accusation of /rhe Call stands that ,the Gover-nor has stocked' his house with valuable furni-ture made lor"him in.'-San.Quentln Prison. •

Ifthe truth or;.falsity'.' of

'this, accusation is not

to be tested tInt.the,' courts before the conven-

tion, The Call owes' 1C to the 'public to presentIts full .evidence in. the •-newspaper and.~theGovernor 'owes It;to; the ¦' public to make asquare .denial i'or'.a circumstantial admission'and explanation, Qfjthe;facts' charged.

'He has

as yet done neither .'f-^Fresho -Republican.

Sonnre Denial Is Demanded.WRECKS—M. C. H., City. The City of

New York was wrecked on North Head,San Francisco Bay, October 27, 1S93; theRio de Janeiro went down near the Gold-en Gate, February 22, 1901, and the SanRafael went down in the bay December1, 1901. No lives -were lost on the City ofNew York, 122 went down with the Rio,and 3 were drowned by the sinking of theSan Rafael.

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NICARAGUA CANAL—

Subscriber.City. The Nicaragua canal, according" tothe survey, Is to be 170 .miles in length.It has been figured out that the canalwill traverse 121 miles of rivers and lake,22 miles will be in artificial basins. Itwillrequire 27 miles of actual excavationto make the connection between the "At-lantic and Pacific. Ifthe project is car-ried through Melbourne willbe 1350 milesnearer to New York than to Liverpool

Baltimore has undei consideration a plan to riditself of the smoke nuisance by running all its fac-tories with electricity generated by water power, andit is probable all large cities willfollow suit shoulditprove successful. The future of civilizationprom-ises to bs wireless, horseless and smokeless, and per-haps it may eIso be noiseless.

SHINE FROM GARMENTS— A. C. R.,City. There are a number of prepara-tions which are sold for the purpose ofrenovating and taking the shine out ofgarments,, but many of these pro-duce only a temporary renovation. Thebest method is to put the garments inthe hands of a professional cleaner.

PILOT AND CAPTAIN—G. O., City.The captain of a vessel never loses com-mand of his. vessel though a pilot may beon board.. The instructions of the pilotare merely directory. The pilot is not "insupreme command from the time heboards the vessel until he leaves it."

NOT FOR THAT QUARTER-G. K.,Fort Casey, Wash. There is no premiumfor a quarter of 1853 that has arrowheads at the date and rays around theeagle. It is for quarters of that datethat do not have these characteristicsthat a. premium is.offeredv

PAINTERS' CANVAS—C. B., San Ra-fael, Cal. Any dealer in artists' materialswill furnish the kind of size and fillingthat Is used for preparing painter's can-vas. Glue sizing is a preparation of thinglue used for filling1 the canvas so thatit shall present an even surface.

DIVORCE STOPS- IT-Inq., San Jose,Cal. Ifa woman is divorced from a vet-eran who was drawing a pension fromthe United States, the divorce estops herfrom receiving the pension she would havebeen entitled to had she been his widow.

So numerous have the fatalities been this summerthat many of the Eastern papers are warning thepublic against seeking refuge under trees in thecountry, standing near electric wires in the city, or

A single day recently furnished a record of five menkilled in Georgia; one in"Chicago and two.in Syra-cuse by lightning. The Georgia -case is curious. Thefive men were killedby a single stroke of lightning,although two of them at the time were five milesaway from the others. They were engaged in string-ing telephone wires. The electric current passedalong the wire and struck them down at their workacross that distance. ¦ .. .:; .'»-rV:r;".^ <

. Some of the results of the lightning have amountedto real catastrophes. In several instances churcheshave been struck when crowded with people, andmany deaths have followed either from the lightningitself or from the panic that ensued. Those, how-ever, are exceptional cases, and the fatalities result-ing from them have been but a small part of the totallist of deaths due to electric disturbances. Hardly aweek has passed since the beginning of warm weatherwithout bringing from the East one or more reportsof deaths from lightning.- While they do not equalthe number pi fatalities caused by sunstroke, they aresufficiently numerous to show that lightning is to belooked upon as one of the dangers that menace East-ern people at all times during the. summer.

T "T 7HILEthe people of California are enjoying\A/ about the most delightful summer weather

» V the memory of the oldest inhabitant,those of the East are suffering from a season thatseems to be perverse and fretful as a spoiled brat.When it is not afflicting them with one kind of badweather it smites them' with something worse. Thespring was unusually late and cold, and then summercame down with a blast of hot air that witheredeverything. There were floods and there were hail-storms. There were cyclones and there were hotwaves. Now last, but not least in destructiveness,there has fallen upon that section of the country aseries of electric

"storms resulting in numerous

fatalities.

Ifthe Governor has been wrongfullyaccused,his first aim should be to disprove the charge,leaving the punishment of his calumniators toa later date. By personally conducting or di-recting a.Justice's Court case he has detractedgreatly from his own dignity. Not to put toofine a point upon it,he has made an ass of him-self, and for the hundredth time.

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No libel suit Is needed to disprove The Call'sstatement in this particular. A straightforwardand explicit denial from the Governor himself,coupled with any explanation that may be nec-essary, "would throw the burden of proof uponthe accuser at the bar of public opinion.

The only point of.Interest for the -public Inthe matter Is this: Did the Governor get costly

furniture from- San -Queritln prison-for hia pri-vate home in Southern California, and. if so,

did the State get proper compensation? Even

in the latter case. It appears, there is involveda violation of law, as, the State has forbiddenthe Use of convict labor in.such manufacturing.

The Governor has certainly suffered in pub-lic estimation by hiBvdest>erate efforts to forcethe trial of Spreckels 'and Leake.' before a pettyJustice's Court In an" obscure little seaside vil-

lage south of LosVAngeles.^ /In this" he hasgiven a new illustration of 'the extraordinary

narrowness and vlndlctiveness that are his chiefcharacteristics. . vi.¦;•¦.- ,:.'-:

Petty and Spiteful "Gagre.

Governor Gage's prosecution of his' charges

of criminal libel is. petty and spiteful to the

last degree. His disposition to make troublefor Spreckels and Leake. rather than to gain avindication for himself in the eyes of the pub-lic, should be manifest to everybody. The.pro-ceedings, as was expected, have developednothing but a maze of legal technicalities andqulbbltngs, In which the original accusationsagainst Gage have become obscured.

LIGHTNING ROD LAND.

PRODUCTS OF CALIFORNIA-S.. SanPablo, Cal. Olives, raisins, «navel orangesand quicksilver are among the productsof California that are produced in com-mercial quantities which are not pro-duced in States east of the State line.

A number of enterprising Western gentlemen areengaged in organizing a new party. for Bryan to leadin 1004, but what Bryan needs most is not somethingto lead, but somebody to lead him.

ELECTION BOARD CLERKS—

S..City. Clerks of election boards are ap-pointed by the Board of Election Com-missioners. The qualifications for suchclerkship is ability to read and write andto be quick and accurate.

LADY BELL—A. R., Petaluma. Cal.The name of Lady Bell Copper Companyof Del Norte County does' not appear onthe list of mines on the market at thistime. . . c

TRACY'S CRIME-E. L.,Berkeley, Cal.Harry Tracy, the fugitive from justice,¦was serving a term of twenty years forrobbery at the time he made his escape.

Experimenting upon human beings is as a rule, aTisky business, but in this case there seems no rea-son to fear any serious result to;the' subjects. Thefoods they are to try are such as are sold every dayin the open market, and no food whose adulterationsor sophistications are known to be injurious will begiven them. When the results are made known thediscussion of pure food -regulation will be muchclearer than it is now. Moreover, the publication ofthe results willitself be ab'out as effective as astatut^.'When. once s the public is made aware that certainfood articles are preserved or colored with dangerouschemicals the demand for those articles will. ecaseto be sufficient to render their manufacture profitable.

In commenting upon the work about to be under-taken Dr. Wiley is reported to have said: "Hereto-fore, unfortunately, most of the investigation: which'has been undertaken in this direction has been at theinstance of the manufacturer or.¦.other.-interested.par-ties, so that the natural bias peculiar to the humanmind has had to be taken into consideration in'ac-cepting the result. Through the liberality of Con-gress chemistry has for the first time been enabledto take up the study of this subject in a thoroughand systematic manner, and willbe enabled to sup-plement the investigations which have heretoforebeen made upon the subject of food adulteration.The results which willfinallybe obtained willbe use-ful to our lawmakers, who will be able to form thestatutes so as to secure the necessary precautions inthe preservation of foods, while at the same time theywill exclude positively' injurious substances."

For the purpose of giving the foods a thoroughtest it is desired to try them upon human beings aswell as upon animals. An effort is being made toget a number of young men to submit themselves tothe tests. The plan is to get the subject in a goodnormal condition by the use. of proper food, and thengive him a food containing one of the disputed pre-servatives, such as boric acid, for instance, and notethe effect.' Every chemical preservative or coloringmaterial whose effects are now disputed willthus beput through athorough test", and it.will then be pos-sible for the Government officials to report positivelywhether its use" should be permitted. ,

WITH the results obtained by the Govern-ment chemists in the examination of va-rious kinds of preserved foodstuffs offered

in the market the reading public is fairly familiar. ItIs known that a large number of such products aretreated with chemical preparations either for thepurpose of preserving them or for giving them an at-tractive appearance. Some of the chemicals used, areknown to be injurious to the consumer. Some areknown to be harmless. The effects of others are indoubt, and in order to avoid giving them a namewhich in itself would imply that they are injuriousit has become the custom to refer to them as "so-phisticated foods." ,Concerning them there has beena long controversy, and to bring it to a conclusionexperiments under the direction of Dr. Wiley arenow to be undertaken at Washington.

NEW YORK, July 22.—The following

Californians have .. arrived: San Fran-cisco—A. D. Lewis, W. B. Peck, A. K.P.Harmon, at the Manhattan; H. O. Fallen,

at the Albert; A. S. Ashland,- at the Mur-ray Hill;Mrs. C. H. Connin, Miss I.Con-nln; S. Jensen, at the Netherlands; J. A.Cussen, V. E.-Yates, at the Navarre; I.A. Irving,at the Astor; H. W. Maass, at

the Cadillac; F. C. Price, at the West-minster; A. Rothschild, at the Gerard;

C. S. Tredway, A. J. Wheeler and wife,

at the Grand Union; H. R. Vail,A. Alls-ton at the Vendome; J. W. Burnham andwife, at the St. Denis; G. P. Griffin, atthe Imperial; W. S. Mantine, at the Hol-land. :•••

Los Angeles— Mrs. Fletcher, at the Cad-illac; C. J. Kubach and wife, the MissesKubach, at the Imperial: Mrs. N. M.Jones, M. M. Potter, Miss N. Potter, atthe Park Avenue. . •

' ;.Sacramento

—J. Hygersina, G. Weinkel-

man, at the Union Square.

Californians in*New York.MORE FOOD EXPERIMENTS. SPANISH COINS—C. S., Agnew, Cal.

No premium is offered for Spanish one-half, one, two, four and eight reals,

even if such are 200 years old.

NOT GOOD ENGLISH-J. A. JI...CIty."It is them" and "itis they" are expres-sions that are not good English . andought not to be used.

WIND AND BAROMETER—R. S:,City. The highest wind recorded in SanFrancisco is sixty miles an hour. Thelowest, barometer 29.12.

WIDTH OF STREETS— J. T. M.,City.

The official*width of Market street is 120feet. Van Ness avenue 125 feet andDolores street 120 feet.

. CONFIRMED-W. T., San Diego, Cal.The new Commissioner of Pensions,Eugene F. Ware, has been confirmed bythe Senate. „ .-...; ;. ._..

SALT—G. B. R.. Saratoga, Cal. Theannual product of salt In California isfrom ninety to one htmdred thousandtons. t

PRIVATE DETECTIVE—X. Y. Z., City.

There is no license exacted in San Fran-cisco of private detectives.

F. I. Whitney, general passenger agentof the Great Northern, with headquarters

in St. Paul, and A. B. C. Dennison, gen-

eral "Western passenger agent, with head-quarters in Seattle/are at the Palace.

James A. Yerington, president of theMcKinley mine at Tonopah, is here fora few days from Carson City. He is atthe Palace. , .

Dr. Albert J. Atkins, a well-known phy-sician of this city, has returned from atwo weeks' outing in the Shasta region.

Dr. D. Braden" Kyle of,Philadelphia,who is touring the coast with his family,

Is among the arrivals at the Palace.

John McKinney, representing Kelly's

Directories (Limited), London, England,

is staying at the Brooklyn;Hotel.. . -..

Albert Hanford, who conducts a retailgrocery business at Sacramento, is at theCalifornia.

Dr. J. J. Murphy of the United StatesCoast Survey is among the arrivals at theCalifornia. ,

C. J. Hammes, a Sacramento merchant,

is at the California,

A.S. Burpee, a dealerln seeds at Phila-delphia, is at the Palace.

Herman Moss, a cigar manufacturer ofLancaster, Pa., is at the Palace.

D. W. Johnson, an oil man of.Bakers-fleld, is registered at the California.

"Isee that Pierpont Morgan has* pre-sented King Edward with a piece of ta-pestry valued -at $300,000." ".

""What's the good of it?""Why,Is'pose Eddard and the Queen

can walk up the porch steps on it trhenthey so to get their crowns fitted."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

¦*'' ' • .Gage Refclme of Cruelty.

The resignation of Dr. Lawlor from the man-agement of the Home for Feeble-minded onlyprecluded hia removal. Thus another of Mac-kenzie's schemes has miscarried. Dr. A. E.Osborne, .whose removal was unjustified In theslightest degree, has been vindicated, if. In-deed, any vindication was necessary. "We thinkIt was not. So do the people of the State. H*founded the institution and 'for many yearsconducted It on' broad philanthropic principle*and itwas free from political Influences. X>ur-irg- the administration of Governor Budd an at-tempt was made to Injure Dr. Osborne, but. beit said to the credit of Budd. he would allowno Interference with the management of thehome in any particular. Is this the case wltliGovernor Gage? No! He could have preventedthe unwarranted removal of the only man inthe State of California adequately qualified toconduct the home. But he permitted the mostunscrupulous of politicians to destroy- the workof years and Inaugurate a regime of crueltyand misrule that will require years to eradi-cate. This is a formidable accusation and willbe one of the greatest influences against Gas*inhis hope of re-election.

—Santa Clara News.

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Cage's Shyster Practice.witha treat display of wounded honor and

purpose to punish Messrs. Spreckels and Leaksof the San Francisco Call for criminal libel.Governor Gage has not given much evidence ofa desire to push the suit he has commenced: orperhaps more truly he has shown little, ifany,desire to have the evidence produced that wouldeither prove him Innocent or guilty. .

Commencing the suit against Spreckels andLeake at San Pedro* 600 miles away from theofficial records and the witnesses necessary inthe case, bears a close resemblance to shysterpractice.

Governor Gage's law practice has Includedmuch of the criminal kind and probably in-volved efforts to defeat as well as to admin-ister Justice, and he must have known fullwellthat'Spreckels and Leake would use every aVaJi.able means todefeat the effort to force them totrialat San Pedro, iffor no other reason thaato defeat what has all the appearance of shy-ster practice against them. They now have thecase on appeal to the Supreme Court of theUnited States, where it willnot be heard tillafter the election^It seems to us that If Governor Gage feelssure that the official records and pertinent tes-

timony would vindicate -him and convictSpreckels and Leake he would have made It aseasy as possible to produce the evidence andencouraged its early production in court. Thishe has not done and voters will draw theirown. conclusions.— Pomona Times.

and Japan and 2400 miles nearer to Phila-delphia than to London. '.-•-;-

PENSIONS-A. D., Veterans' Home.Cal. Congress at its last held session didnot pass a billauthorizing the payment ofpensions to soldiers who fought in theConfederate army during the Civil "War,but did pass a law to allow a pensionto such individuals who became disabledin the service, who at one time wereforced into the Confederat service, butafterward took the oath of alleglancj andserved in the Union army.

Prunes stuffed with aprlcuta. Townsend's. 1

Townsend's California Glace fruit andcandies. 60c a pound, inartistic fire-etchedbcxes. A nice present for Eastern friends.(39 Market St., Palace Hotel building. •

Special information supplied* daily tobusiness houses and public men br Ut«Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). Z2Q Call-iornla street. Telephone Mala IMi. •

Playwright—From the nature of myplay you see itought to close idth someline or significant act from the hero inperfect accord with the feelings of theaudience.

Critic—Why not let him heave a sigh ofrelief, then?— Tit-Bits.

"Say, itmight be suggested to Author-ess Mary McLane that the evil one shespeks has his front door invitinglyopen."

•'Where?"—"In

-the 'crater of-MonfPeTee."

—Clev*-*

land Plain Dealer.

Mrs. Wederly— Well, my dear, it all de-pends on which one the mind belongs to.—Chicago News.

Miss Singleton—

How lovely it-must bewhen husband and wife are of one m'nd.

"Indade an* Oi called thim lverythins;Oi cud think of, but they wouldn't gitup."—Brooklyn Life.

"Bridget, did you call the boys?"

Now it Is love in a cottage with mod-ern improvements.— Exchange.

'¦'. After such assertions one would expect Mr. Vilasto urge the Democratic party to take the fieldagainst trusts and imperialism. It is thereforesomewhat surprising to note that he does nothing ofthe kind. "We cannot undertake to redress all thesewrongs at. once," says he, and so he advises thattrusts and imperialism be permitted to go unassailedfor a time. The first fight is to be for free trade.Everything is to be subordinated to the struggle tooverthrow the protective system. That is the adviceof the retired Cabinet Secretary of the Clevelandregime. Evidently the old tariff tinkers are joined totheir idols, and since the Bryan revolution in theparty has run its course they are fondly dreamingthey can return and worship once more at the oldshrine.

Vilas watches the development of trusts withanxiety, and over the Philippines he mourns. Hesays that by reason of the first "liberty in the pursuitof a livelihood has well nigh disappeared." Of thesecond he asserts ''the shame must yet be wiped, offby future treatment of the unhappy Filipinos ac-cording to the principles we have inherited, or sosurely as justice rules the world America willbitterly

atone for itin resulting sufferings of her own."

Itis difficult to understand the mental make-up ofa man who after the experiment of this country withthe Democratic tariff can deliberately and sincerelywrite such stuff as that. Vilas wishes his party tobreak away from past issues, but by past issues hemeans the silver question. Surely Bryan might re-tort that free trade is as dead as silver. Itis hardlylikely the men of this generation willvote for anotherfree trade administration any more than they wouldvote for free coinage of the white metal.

Passing from that general declaration Vilas goeson to point out three evils in the country. The firstis protection, the second is the trust movement, andthe third is imperialism. On each of those issuesthe retired statesman has some bitter words to say.Of the first he asserts: "Under the false and deceit-ful name of protection to industry there has arisensuch a system of combining devices of legislationwith devices of business management to obtain mas-tery of the people 'as was never before seen in thisor any other land, the iniquity of which it would behard to find any parallel for, unless inoriental coun-tries."

Vilas is stili a Democrat. He declares: "What-ever the alignments on past issues, the Democraticparty remains to-day the hope of the people of thisland." The man who could write such a declarationin the face of prevailing prosperity among the peo-ple, established upon legislation to which Democ-racy has been always opposed, must be a very con-firmed Democrat indeed. Even Bryan could hardlyobject to that statement, notwithstanding it comes

from one of the Cleveland school of Democracy, andto the old conservative stalwarts of the party itmustsound like the wisdom of the ancients.

WILLIAMF. VILAS, whom some may re-member as at one time a statesman in of-fice, a member of Cleveland's Cabinet, has

been asked by his fellow Democrats of Wisconsin to

tell them what the party should do to be saved. Hehas responded to the request, but instead of the breadof comfort they doubtless hoped for he has given

them something like a stone. His counsel is aboutas heavy and as indigestible as any yet given sincethe reorganizes of the party set about the task offormulating a platform of harmony and getting aleader to stand on it.

MR. VILAS' SUGGESTIONS.

A CHANCE TO SMILE.

" _WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 1902

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What more could the young leader of cotillons de-sire? An olive drab swallowtail with brass buttonsand shoulder straps willbe sufficient to flutter therosebuds of any ballroom.

So much for the battle side of the "subject. Peacehas another tale to tell.: For society and state pur-poses the new uniform willbe gayer than the old.The report says: "General and staff officers are tohave full dress trousers,, with gold lace as a stripe,officers of the line wearing:the present stripeJo. desig-nate the service.. Breeches are provided for all of-ficers and men, whether mounted or dismounted, al-though trousers may- be worn ? when in- barracks.* *- *

A full dress coat for officers for eveningwear has been provided, cut swalloAVtail, but other-wise much like the other full dress coat. 'The olddress coat for enlisted men has been abandoned andthe dress blouse substituted. The chevrons on the.non-commissioned officers are to be worn points up."

The blue uniform has been' associated with Ameri-can history since ever this was a nation. So long aswar permitted the soldier to. adorn himself in"colorsof pride and glory it was a uniform to be proud of.Times have changed and wars have changed withthem. The old uniform must go. To wear it uponthe field of battle wo.uld be not so much an act ofheroism as of folly. Clear, and distinqt . the bluewould stand out against the brown earth or the greentrees, and the marksmen of the foe would have a tar-get too conspicuous to be missed. So the blue is to beset aside. War has become prosaic. "Olive drab"is the only wear.

For the ragged coat of blue.

y Now we shall, haveito- find a new rhyme and singof knowing the patriotic brave • when the'' robe, ofwhite is given for the coat of .olive drab. Moreover,the fine old poem of .the "Blue, and the Gray" be-comes obsolete, for there is to be neither a blue nor a

gray. Those colors are to pass into American tradi-tion, romance; and history even as the old distinctionof red- rose and white has passed into the ancientryof England. • •

We'll know.youj we'll know' youAmong the good and true,.When the "robe 6f-white is given

Thus the ofblue gives way to the uniformof olive drab. \Once upon a time the whole country

was singing the.chorus: ->, .''.'..

In giving^an account of the new-,uniform the re-port says: "A new dress uniform is;provided, c.on-sisting of a sack coat of woolen or cotton, material ofan- olive drab color, with'trousers to.match. It isintended to provide' suits which can be worn in coldweather that are almost a. duplicate -of-the presentkhaiki.uniforms '"worn in warm arid in thetropics. A^new design, for the overcoat is adoptedand is the only overcoat allowed. It is, a., double-,breasted ulster of olive drab woolen material. .Thisovercoat is to replace the old dark-blue overcoat nowworn." '•''fe' . *•

REPORTS from Washington / announce thatwhile Secretary Root was at Oyster Bay re-cently the President approved the report of

the army uniform board, and accordingly the neworder of things willgo into effect with the beginningof next- year. -The change is designed to adapt thearmy uniform to the conditions of modern war. Bluehas been found to be-too conspicuous, and will no-longer be used".- The .sentimentalists have cause tomourn/ Hereafter 'when we hear of "boys in blue"we shall know that reference is'rnade.to the veteransof .the past. ;We shall have another, name •. for ..thesoldier of the future.

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FAREWELL TO THE BLUE.

PERSONAL IMENT4ON.

Satisfactory progress is reported onsome of the battleships and armoredcruisers building at Eastern yards, no-

Anarmored cruiser of3995 tons has beendesigned for the Swedish navy and a sumof SI,750,000 has been allowed for its con-struction. The ship will be- 377 feet 3inches in length, 48 feet 10 inches breadthand 16 feet 1 inch draught. Itwill haveengines of 12,000»horsepower, calculated togive a speed of 21^ knots. The armor, allof which is to be of Krupp steel, willbe3.94 inches for the waterline belt and case-mates, decks 1.97 to 1.46 inches and con-ning tower 4.91 to 1.97 inches. The arma-ment consist of eigh:six-Inch, fourteensix-pounders and two torpedo tubes. Fur-

ther details are wantihg, but the utilityofthe vessel as a cruiser must be exceeding-iy limited, as the weight of the armorwillnecessarily encroach upon the allow-ance for coal and limit the service of thevessel to coast guard duty solely.

Engine-room artificers and stokers inthe British navy are at last receivingmore favorable consideration from theAdmiralty. Warrant artificer engineers

have been, increased from 120 to 200 andare to receive from $2 12 to $2 62 a dayand the entire number, of warrant, • pettyand ordinary artificers has been increasedfrom 2401' to 2546. The. stoker class hasalso been increased, from 21,963 to 22,927at a pay varying from 40 cents to $1 24 perdiem. • ¦

iThe armored 'cruiser Bedford of 9800tons, 22,000 horsepower, and calculatedspeed of twenty-thre^e .knots, completedher thirty,hours' trial under, four-fifthspower on June 20. With 246 pounds ofsteam and eighty-eight revolutions the en-gines', developed 16,005 -horsepower; givinga speed; of 21.2 knots. From this result itdoes not appear probable that the shipwill reach a. bona fide speed^of twenty-three knots under, fullpower. Nine moreof the Bedford type are in course of con-struction. ,

The battleship Exmouth, 14,000 tons, con-cluded her thirty hours' trial under four-fifths power.on June 16. With 113 revolu-tions' 13,774 ¦ horsepower, was developed,giving a speed of eighteen knots. .The coalqonsumption was 1.95. per.unit of horse-power. With118,000 horsepower the cal-culated speed is nineteen knots. :•:

The loss by the recent fire in the moldloft building at Chatham is estimated at$<o,000. The' draughting rooms, employing150 draughtsmen, contained a vast numberof ship's plans, which were destroyed.

proceed at the rate of about 100miles a day and reach Bermuda duringthe latter end of July. The cost of thedock was about $1,000,000.

1-^HE Bermuda floating dock leftPortsmouth June 16 In tow of twotugs for her destination in the WestIndies. ItIs calculated that she will

• • •At. the annual examination at the Na-

val Academy such cadets as succeed inobtaining 85 per cent of a possible 100 ofthe aggregate of studies and deportmentare designated as star graduates andtheir names are printed in prominentblack type. It Is an honor difficult toattain, and the star graduate is un-doubtedly well equipped for hi3 naval ca-reer after a four years' term at Annapo-lis. Up to within a few years ago thtrewere two distinctive graduating classesat the Naval Academy, namely, those forthe line and a smaller class of engineers.Of the upward of 1300 graduates duringthe past thirty years from May, 1872. toMay, 1901, only about 10 per cent havegraduated as stars, and the followingtable shows from what States and Terri-tories these few and exceptionally brightyoung men were appointed:

Of the above star graduates credited toCalifornia, N. T. James graduated May,1872, and resigned in 1874, since which hehas resided in San Francisco. F. H.Holmes graduated May, 1874. followed byJ. H. Glennon. May, 1873. Both of thelatter are still in the navy, and it isabout time that a California representa-tive should be among the stars of theNaval Academy.

Russian ships are in a higher state ofefficiency than those of any other navy.

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In the Russian navy the ships have tomake annual full speed trials in order toascertain their condition in this .essen-tial efficiency. Recent reports of six ves-sels indicate but a slight falling off inactual service from the trial speeds. TheNavariri> built in 1891, made. 15.8 knot3against 16 knots at her acceptance trial;the Sissoi Valiky, 15.6 knots against 15knots in 1895; Dmitri Dousky, 14.5 knotsagainst 16.5 in 1885; but the Edlnburgski,built in 1875, with a speed of 15.2 knots,

has now come down to 11.75 knots. TheAdmiral Korniloff, a cruiser of 5000 tons,built in 1887 and extensively overhauledin 1895, still maintains her original speedof 17.5 knots, while the old Krelsser, acorvette built in 1875, has deterioratedfrom 13 to 11.87 knots. Considering thelong service of these vessels the latesttrials do not show so great a falling offin speed as might be expected, and it isevident that their long and continuedcommissions have been less hurtful totheir efficiency than short commissionsand long inactivity when laid up. Iftheabove figures are to be relied upon the

tably at Cramp's. Since January 1. We,

the Maine has advanced from 78 to SIper cent of completion and the armoredcruisers Pennsylvania and Colorado from13 to 27 and 15 to 30 per cent respectively.The Newport News, notwithstanding itsfacilities, is lagging behind, the Vorginlastanding at 2 per cent and the Maryland

and West Virginia-at 23 and 23 per cent.At the Union Iron Works the Ohio hasadvanced from 43 to 60 per cent cinceJanuary last, and the California andSouth Dakota, begun in February, areonly 6 per cent completed.

The battleship to be built at the New

York navy yard is to be named Connecti-cut, and will be the third vessel bearing

that name in the United States navy. Tiefirst was a paddle steamer of 1800 ton3,

purchased during the Civil.War and soldin 1865. The second was a screw sloop of4450 tons, begun at the Charleston (Bos-

ton) yard in 1863 and originally namtiPompanoosuc, which was changed to

Connecticut in May, 1869. The vessel wasnever launched, and was broken up onthe stocks in 1883. There had been ex-pended $535,565 on the hull and $617,991 onthe machinery, and only $825 92 was real-ized from the sale of the wood. Thevalue of the material saved amounted to$1814 76 after deducting the cost of laborin breaking up the ship; leaving a netreturn to the Government of $2640 68 onthe original outlay of $1,153,556. The mon-itor building at Bath, Me., was originally

named Connecticut, but upon a strongprotest being made by the citizens of thatState against having so insignificant avessel bearing the name of an importantseaboard State it was changed to Ne-vada. ,. * .

Itis a process that, once started, proceeds until thesoil is destroyed. Palestine, to-day a desert, at thedate of the Exodus was a moist and fertile land.Spain is arid, where in the time of Hannibal therewas" abundant moisture and fertility. Such mis-sionaries as Dr. Fernow have no time to lose ifthiscontinent is to be saved from the fate that has over-taken vast regions in the Old World.

Nothing seems harder than to get the attention ofman to these subjects, which affect his very.existence.Dr. Fernow says, truly, a large part of the world'sarea that was fertile at the beginning of the Christianera is now barren, desert and unproductive, as a re-sult of man's destruction of the natural means of con-serving moisture. That process -is going on rapidlyin this country. In the arid regions west of the onehundredth meridian it is officially reported that thedesert is spreading at the rate of five million acres ayear. The prairie States are becoming dry. Centraland Western New York and other States formerlycovered by timber now complain that agriculturesuffers from drought.

Dr. Fernow deals with the function of forests -inconserving the water supply. He should be followedby the hydrographers and agrostologists, who 1 ob-serve and deal with the same office.performed, byreservoirs and vegetation.

water to destroy the soil which nature intendedshould be preserved and made fruitful by it.

So it appears that the equilibrium of nature isequally disturbed by destroying forests, marshes andforage on the surface of the ground, and man causes

On the plains, in the arid regions, where there areno forests nor swamps and marshes, the moisturewas conserved by the low grasses and annual plants.These held the soil in place, prevented evaporationand their roots made the ground porous, so that thelittle rain penetrated it and supplied the streams andsprings with a steady flow. The extirpation of thisvegetation by over-grazing of sheep and cattle hasmade the country more arid, dried up the springs,and now the rains wash the surface soil into thestreams. The steady flow of these is lost, and they

are alternately torrential and dry.

When erratic changes of temperature cause a pre-cipitation of moisture from the Great Lakes overthat region it causes destructive floods, such as re-cently destroyed many millions in crops and otherproperty in Iowa and Illinois. The reservoirs areno longer there to hold back the water, nor the nat-

ural sod to conduct it into the ground, and the rain-fall that under natural conditions would be,benefi-

cent becomes destructive. After this flood has passedit willbe found that the great rainfall has not pene-trated the soil nor moistened the earth's crust.

summer crops,

Cultivation has destroyed the natural grass and itssod, and man's greed for land has drained the ponds,sloughs and marshes. When these retained the wateritevaporated, saturated the air and supplied the mois-ture for the summer rains, which distributed it to thecrust of the earth for the support of vegetation andthe production of crops: Now that the reservoirsare drained and dry, the local summer showers areless frequent and the crust of the earth is drying out.The clay subsoil is no longer wet, and capillary at-traction no longer brings up its moisture for ttie

The moisture for a great part of that region comesfrom the Great Lakes. When precipitated it*ran intothe sloughs and marshes, ponds and small lakes, andmuch of it penetrated the soil through the sod ofthe natural grasses and made affluent the manysprings which existed there in early times.

Forests are soil makers and preservers. Theiragency inpreventing the flow of water upon the sur-face by leading it to penetrate the soil regulates thesteady flow of streams and preserves the supply ofsprings. Their action is that of a reservoir for theconservation of water. But nature has not left man

to depend upon forests alone as the instrument in theconservation of water. In the prairie States of theUpper Mississippi Valley this function was performedby the sloughs, ponds, marshes and small lakes whichonce abounded. They were supplemented by thenatural grasses, which formed a turf and covered thesoil. ••.'•';

DR.FERNOW, the forester, and head of the

department of forestry in Cornell University,is spreading much needed information about

forests and the necessity of their preservation... In a

recent address in the Academy of Sciences in thiscity he stated clearly the relation between the soiland water and their prime importance to man.

BRITAIN'S FLOATING DOC£ BERMUDABEING TOWED TO THE WEST INDIES

even standing in doorways or at windows to watchthe lightning as the electric storm is in progress." Infact, dodging lightning seems to' be one "of the sum-mer activities of the Eastern man. The practice prob-ably helps to keep him nimble and wary,but it can-not assure him safety. His only way to attain abso-lute security from such dangers is to come West:

SOIL AND WATER.

THE SAIST FEA2STCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1902.

A New York humane society has distributed freemore than a thousand straw sunshades for horses, andlias been commended for the good deed, but wouldthat society give a poor man a Panama hat?

The career of the merry May Yohe is about at anend, for when the men begin to leave while she is«tiilwilling to dance it is time to drop the curtain.

One by one the reports come in of members of theSalisbury Ministry who are not willing to se-ve un-'der Balfour, and it may be King Edward will yet

have to send for Chamberlain ifhe wishes to maintaina Conservative Government.

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