The morning call., 1894-01-16

carrying all cargoes of silk ana tea off as
promptly as landed, and depriving our
merchants Of all the privileges 1t can as
distributors. 1t is not SO much San Fran
cisco that is considered as the value of the
maui. Probably the canal would not
bolster up the long haul. That is why all
the railways would like to annihilate the
canal. and are doing all they can TO hinder
It's progress. CALIFORNIA; Orient trade is
OF small Importance compared with its
commerce up and down the coast and with
the East. The canal would eventually
make this port almost as important as that
on New York. 1t would break forever
the letters of railroad oppression. open up
eew markets. quicken transportation IN
every direction and tend TO bring popula-
tlon to State visibly advancing In
prosperity.
Count Tolstoi, the novelist and philan-
thropist. recently told an interviewer OF
the London Chronicie that he is now able
TO i've on five copecks. or two cents, per
day. When he ate meat the daily cost was
81 90. but now that he is vegetarian his
wants of the stomach are abundantly sup
piled at one-seventy- fifth of his former ex-
traVagance. This was q very literal ex-
planation of his objection 10 the principle
OF what is termed the living wage. one
man can i've on next to nothing. and an
other must have many luxurles that the
other dispenses with and is quite as
healthy. There must be soHe test apart
from food of what a mans labor Is worth.
some statistics were presented the other
day 10 show that in San Francisco fami-
lies can barely get food and fre and light
on dollar n day and have no remainder
Tor rent aud clothes. The items OF ex-
penditure were given and there were cer-
tainly no Injuries, But a great deal de-
pends upon management Iolstors diet
OF beans. bread and garden stuH Is not the
robust food needed for hard, daily labor.
and assuredly would not build up young
people.
During the storm she weathered In the
Bay OF Blscey the big 14.000-ton British
bsttle-ship Resolution had the waves fre-
quently higher than the fore bridge, which
Is thirty-seven feet above the fiotatlon line.
The rollers were over forty feet from
trough TO crest. OF Cape Horn or the
Care of Good Hope we'll TO the south they
are sometimes sixty feet high. IL was n OF
possible TO tgrn the Resolution without
imminent danger of going down. Her
maximum angle of stability is SO degrees
and she rolled AZ degrees. At one time
there was five feet of water in the engine
hold. Another gale like that might make
'be hesolutlOh CONN,
Parental discipline is faulty In some
direction TO explain the deed of a seven
year-old youth in public school in Wash
ington. This boy produced a pistol in the
classroom and made the startling remark
that he was going to shoot some one. Per-
hapS this was no more than the echo OF an
observation too commonly made in jest by
adults. But the youth had peculiar lido
syncTasv for showing himself off, and in
stead OF shooting ut a feilOw-pupil he
turned the pistol TO his own head, pulled
the trigger and fell dead. 1t can hardly
be that tie intended to die, but what sort
OF training prompted the act?
The yalorous British Coumbians who
are organizing military force in Victoria
TO take service under ex-Queen Liliuoka-
lani in Hawaii may encounter many OBJ
stacles to their martial ambitions. Presi-
dent Dole, who has had the courage to be
so outspOken and plain to President Cleve-
land, is lot likely TO mince his language
or be sparing in orders should these Brit
lsh volunteers attempt 10 form in line
when they land at Honolulu. His Excel
lency is entitled to say that lie Is strong
enough to take care of all Interests on the
islands. including those of the abdicated
monarch.
Mr.. Gladstone has hied him away from
the fogs of London 10 the clear atmosphere
and bracing breezes OF Biarritz, and there
will lay in a stock of recuperaiion for the
Iabors OF the spring. Mr.. Chauncey De-
pew said about him recently that he is not
in stronger physical vigor than Pope Leo,
who, he thinks, may wear even longer.
Perhaps the British Premier will do no
more tree-cutting, but he is still DimbIe
and upright in walk. carries his head
well back and is an extraordinary example
of physical health in his eighty-fifth year