The San Francisco call., 1898-03-07
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 This is scarcely place to advertise
 magazines, but having spoken irrever-
 ently once of it's editor I ask permis-
 sion to advise students of tutelage, of
 leprosy and of philology to buy the
 current issue of the Cosmopolitan.
 Those philologically inclined will be
 amused; the others instructed.
 Dr. Jordan of Stanford has had pre-
 sented to him by the editor of this
 magazine a series of somewhat loose
 Jofnted questions all bearing on what
 the editor deems education to be. Dr..
 Jordans replies show how well fitted
 for the position he holds he is. This
 scholar is sensible trainer and devel-
 oper of humankind. This is shown in
 the two last queries and the replies
 which follow:
 IT. Do you hold that time should be obtained for the most important studies
 by emitting those which are least im-
 portant.
 Answer of President Jordan-I hold that each student should be educated for himself in his best way and that any curriculum not involved in the na- ture of the subject is a hindrance and an impertinence.
 "S. Should not all students be com pelled to include, as part of their daily duties, exercise sufficient to develop sound bodies while establishing habits tending to maintain health at maxi mum of efficiency?
 Answer of President Jordan-A stu dent should be led to seek such train ing, but education is largely a train ing of the will. He should seek it for himself, not be obliged to take it.'
 Had the interpellator shown tithe of the sense of the replier I should be inclined to, as a lover of sensible gen. eral cultivation, beg the reproduction of the article in it's entirety. It is worth reading as it is.
 AS to the leprosy: A woman, judge, whose individuality from necessity is latent, has quite interesting article on the subject and one that shows an ability to observe. The history of what the Hawaiian Government has done in it's vain attempts to control or extirpate the plague is fairly told. Credit is gen. erously given where due, but the whole picture is as repulsive a one as can well be painted-yet this writer has done it innocently enough. The com mand of language shown is not great, yet the horrors pointed to could not be faithfully described by a Zola, if for publication. Here are one of two eX- cerpts: Some Qepers) have been dis covered when their limbs were gone and only bloated head and trunk re- mained. Such case as this is at pres ent only a short distance from me. But in the face of this misery nothing can be done to arouse fear of contagion among the natives. They will smoke the pipe of a leper eat poi from his calabash, sleep in his bed and wear his clothes. They become neither dis gusted with his distorted and swollen features nor afraid of becoming in- fected with the disease
 After speaking of the well-known ex- ceeding immortality of the people, and of frightful cruelty to poor leprous child of six the writer says: "A half-caste woman here was married to three for eigners each of whom went to Molokai. After each case she was examined for signs of the disease, but none appearing she went free until suddenly it ap- peared in it's most malignant form and she soon died" Will Senator Davis read this story and believe it? Will Sen ator Morgan be good enough to see what is told in a way that carries with it the inference of truth? The arti- cle is written in a style so clearly inge nuous that it is plain it's author has seen much of the hideousness of lep rosy, which Senator Morgan has not. But having read this pitiful tale will either of these gentlemen seek to make the Hawaiian Islands a county of Cali fornia? Western hospitality is as noted as is that of the South, but if the day has come when, because of generosity we are to be asked by Congress to at tach to this State colony of which five per cent are lepers, the time has come for acting with sense as we'll as with big hearts. It is useless to urge that we shall allow no lepers to come here. As the Cosmopolitan's corre- spondent truly says, All do not appear to be lepers who are so." The West has ever shown devotion to national inter- ests, and proposes to continue so to do, but justice should be meted out to us California wants no lepers and she should not be forced to accept them Those members of a State Legislature who will vote to annex these rotting people have no right whatever to repre- sent healthy and clean populace The Examiners support of this vicious scheme is another instance of it's be- trayal of public that 1t pretends to serve.
 The philologists will find their diver sion in the suggestion of MT. John Bris- ben Walker that an international lan- guage shall be created by their help. He wishes probably an improved Vola- puk. Of course, no language consid- erer of ability will give the scheme a thought. The words uttered in Anglo Saxon do not convey the same