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they reach the consumers; the packers,
the shippers. the train hands. the men
that load and unload the cars. the job
bers and the fruit sellers on street cor
ners. all making their living more or
less out of the raising of fruits. The
same may be said of every application
Of labor. which scatters benefits far
and wide. But it may be asked: What
is to prevent Over-productiOn?"
reproduction seems to be the bug
bear of some people. Can there ever
be a superfuity of good things? Only
some years ago the fruits of Cali
fornia could only be found on the ia
bles of the rich. while tons of the most
delicious kinds rotted under the trees
for lack of transportation facilities.
Now the prices of California fruits are
within the reach of all. Is not this a
blessing.
By all means let the good work go
on. Let labor produce as much as
possible without let or hindrance- Then
all the comforts and conveniences of
life viii be within the reach of not
only the rich but also Of the general
mass of people. We are all consumers.
We cannot have too many of the good
things of life. I am sure that even the
working men Of this country, who are
intelligent, if they study the question
dispassiOnately and carefully. viii see
that instead of harm only good comes
to them from abundance.
In any case it will be found that the
I presence of Chinese labOrerS is not
detrimental to the interests of this
country If. however, it be considered
advisable to legislate against the
coming of laborers to this country. let
such a law be made applicable to all
AsiatiCs and Europeans as well as Chi
| nese. The aim of the American gov
/ eminent at first was only to regulate
/ limit and suspend the coming Of Chi
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If he come into the world blind, if ne
be nd by nature, his blindness is 81
born. If a son be naturally smaller
than his father, then his inferiOrity Of
size is Unborn; but if his growth be
stunted by i'll health o. lack Of nOur-
ishment or exercise, his inferiOrity IS
acquired
Lamarck held, as people in all ages
have held, that characters acquired by
parents are also transmissible to some
extent. and that evolution results from
their accenmation during succeeding
generations LamarCk'S theory is re-
jected totally by the modern followers
If Darwin. They deny that acquire
ments are ever transmitted FROM
parent to offspring and assign quite
a different cause for evolution.
Even at the cost Of some repetition,
it is worth our while to dwell a little
on this point When it is understood.
the rest of this essay viii present few
difficulties.
If. as Lamarck alleged, child inner
its his fathers requirement, it must
follow that he differs from his father
in that he has Unborn the popularity
which the parent acquired. He differs
at birth from what his father was at
birth. He therefore makes a different
start in life Suppose, for instance, an
athlete developed his muscles to an alb
normal degree by taking more than a
normal amount Of exercise. Then, II
the child Of this man inherited his ia
Tiers muscular requirement, he would
develop the abnormal muscles without
taking the more than normal exercise.
When child differs innatcly from
his parent. the difference is termed by
biologists a variation. Lamarck, then.
believed that variations arise through
the transmission Of parental acquire
ments to the child. and that evolution
results from the repetition of this pro-
cess during succeeding generations.
But. even if Lamarck were right
even if the transmission of acquire
ments be admitted it is still certain
that all Unborn differences between
parent and child cannot be attributed
to this cause. For instance, child
may be born with peculiarites of
which the parent had never a trace:
for example, a mole on the face.
The child OF q natural athlete who
has trained himself to the point Of
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der to produce good results. such laws
should be general in their scope. They
should not single out any one people
for exclusion or make invidiOus dis
tinction between nations or countries
Criminals, paupers. illiterates and
those Who are liable to become a pub
lie charge ought not to be allowed to
land, Irrespective Of race and national
ity In this connection, I cannot help
touching upon a subject which concerns
the welfare of my COuntrymen. You
know. of course, that I refer to the eX
cIusion of Chinese from this country.
Their exclusion as brought about, you
are probably aware, by special. ana
not by general. laws. It is a discrim-
ination against the people Of a partic-
Uiar country.
It has often been cOntended, for ex-
ample, that if the bars Of exclusion
were to be let down. this country would
be flooded with millions upon millions
of China's surplus population
Let US examine the real facts OF the
case. The population of the whole en-
pire of China is commonly supposed TO
be in round numbers 400. 600, 600. but
conservative estimates by foreigners
who have been residing in China make
it considerably smaller, not more than
30C. coo Goo Tt should be remembered
that China is q country which occupies
an immense territory and is fully able
to support this immense population.
The truth is that all the Chinese
that are in the United States come
from only one single province in China,
nay. from a few districts Of that
province Who has ever met a Chi
neSe i'm this country, outside of the
consular and diplomatic service, who
halls from any other province than
the province Of Kwantung2 This prov
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able to improve his stock unless he
breeds with care, unless he exercises
stringent selection. Race horses, for
example. could not have been evolved
bv the occasional elimination of an in
ferior animal All or most inferior an
imals had to be eliminated.
1t follows that q breeder cannot at
one and the same time improve a spe-
cies in every or even in many direc-
tons; he must be content with i'm
provement in a very few particulars
only
If he sought improvement in many
directions in size, in strength, in
speed. in endurance and. hardness, in
beauty Of color and form, in sight. in
scent. in hearing, and so forth. so few
animals would be excellent at once in
all these particulars that if he at
tempted selection in all, he would ex-
terminate rather than improve mis-
stock.
He, therefore, deals with few char
acters only, and as regards all other
characters eliminates only such ami
mails as are plainly inferior to the av
erage. If the -Darwinian doctrine
be true. the same thing must occur
ia nature. In that case wild plants and
animals could not undergo evolution in
many directions at the same time.
1t may be argued that the higher
plants and animals are very complex
and that all their thousand parts must
all have undergone evolution. This is
true: they have certainly all under
gone evOlution but not all at the
same time For thousands of years
the eyes. the ears the hands. the feet.
and very many of the other characters
of man, for instance have undergone
no appreciate evolution. They were
evolved during different but overlap
ping periods of a long. extended past
] have said that no sane man can
doubt the reality of evolution. We may
now go further and declare that it is
not possible for any sane man TO
withhold a limited adherence to Oar
wins explanation of it, The proofs
furnished by breeders are too con-
elusive
It is quite beyond dispute that off
spring differ innately from their par
ents; that these innate differences
these variations" are transmissible tO
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nese Iaborers. For this purpose three
high commissioners were sent to China
to negotiate a treaty with China.
The Chinese government was very
unwilling to make such a treaty. and
only consented after a great deal OF
persuasion. The treaty thus concluded
expressly states that "the limitation
shall be reasonable, and shall apply
only to Chinese who may come to the
United States as labOrers. other classes
not being included in the limitation"
These are the words Of the solemn
treaty agreed to by the governments Of
the United States and China in 1880
What has happened since2 We find
that laws have been enacted one after
another. each being more severe than
the one before, not only against Chi
nese labOreTs, but other classes Of Chi
nese also. 1t must be conceded that
the existing law works not only hard
ships to the persons concerned. but it
is injurious to the commercial inter
ests of this country also. IL is to be
hoped that some steps wiz be taken to
remedy this unsatisfactory state of
things.
I am sure that with the intelligence
Of the American people and their sense
Of fair play they viii not enact any
measure in guarding their supposed
interests for the purpose Of depressing
a people who are not in a position to
retaliate. I feel confident they viii
conscientiously do what is right. The
best principle TO follow in government
and legislation is TO put ones self in
the position of another. In other words,
it is the golden rule that ought to
govern the action of legislators and
statesmen. If this principle Of action
Is adopted in all cases, the American
people viii have not only good gov
eminent but the best government IN
! the world.
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90 49, &c who Had no %
to Watch Her.

YOUNG Couple sat and looked
devOuTingly at each other for
the first six months of the
sE Lie Sentence and finally it
became rather trying
H s on the Eyes. Therefore
he was glad to be called away for
couple OF Days it was his first NaCa-
lion since leasing the Flat. and he sent
WORD to some of his former Running
Mates TO meet him at the Train. as ne
would remove his Bride and begin TO
burn Holes in the Track.
They knew Just what would appeal To
2 quiet Home Body $50 miles from his
own FtresiGe. They took him IN Tow
and gave him a Square Neal every Hour
Bath and turned the whole Wine card
on him. He played Golf Pool until he
was Chalked all over and then he PLAYED
Poker dItil he had to feel to see IF the
Ante was there. The Clerk at the Hotel
saw him tWice-Once when he Registered
and once when when he came to gel his
Baggage He fell into Sleeper and
told the Porter 70 make up Berths until
ordered TO stop. In the morning when
he aWOke with a Head of Seven Gables
aud reached for his BrOmO, he realized
that he had Enjoyed himself
= lille he was away, working a COM
blne OF Business and Recreation. the
Wife went on a regular Lark. She
called on former ChJm and they sailed
out an their Circus Gowns and ordered
up Pine Apple Soda regardless and took
I'm a Matinee where the Leading Man
looked right at them occasionally and
then they ate MarshmallOws all the wa
Home They put on Old Wrappers and
cooked something in a Chatting Dish, and
the Wife brought out some of her Pre-
served Letters and read them and then
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Blu 6. Archibald Reid.

mission of requirements it too big and
too abstruse TO be treated adequately
here. Two arguments more I may use.
however, partly because they have not
been developed, to my knowledge. by
other writer's, and partly because they
seem to me weH-nigh decisive. The
more than normal development Of the
blacksmith's arm Is rightfully called
an acquired trait, since it arises from
exercise. from use, not from geTminaf
conditions. But no infants arm de-
velops into an ordinary adult arm
without exercise similar IN kind to that
which develops the blacksmith's arm,
though less in degree.
When nothing is acquired no acquire
ment can be transmitted. The same
arguments apply to mind. At birth
the infants mind is a blank. His sub
sequent mental requirements are i'm
mense.
Every single thing contained within
the memory of man, every single word
Of a language, for instance, is an ac-
quirement But when are the con-
tents of a parents mind transmitted
to the child?
Again. a man is capable Of becom-
ing a parent at any time between ex-
IRENE youth and extreme old age; a
woman from the age of 13 to IA till
nearly so. Between the birth of the
first child and the last such an indi-
vidual changes vastly.
Under stress and fear Of circum-
stances. under the sings and arrows
Of outrageous fortune, all sorts Of ac-
quirements are made. The body be-
comes vigorous, and then feeble; the
mind grows mature. and then senile.
He or she grows Wrinkled and bowed.
and perhaps very wise, or perhaps
much the reverse. Yet no one viewing
a baby show, a children's party, or an
/ assembly of adults, of whom ne has no
+ previous knowledge, can say which is
/ the child of the youthful and which Of
/ aged parents.
Apparently. therefore, the whole of
/ the parents requirements have no eff
/ feet on the child. Surely no evidence
/ could be stronger.
/ Alcoholism: a Study in HeTedity,"
/ by G. Archibald Reid, F. B.. C. NJ,
/ +. r. S. E. T. Fisher Irwin, London.
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The Congressman Who Was Out to
Improve the Service.

n nee there was Vacancy in the
1 | Diplomatic Service and certain
Congressman recommended a friend
for the Place Another Statesman
Of about the same Calibre came to him
and said. You have made an oft-side
Play Your Candidate for the job used
TO be I'm the Saloon Business"
Replied the Congressman: That is
exactly why 7 am plugging for him. He
has been tried out. I claim that no one
out a Diplomat of the First Water can
be successful Barkeep. Think Of it,
He has to discuss Politics Religion,
PugfIism. Race Horses, the Drama, Med
ical Science. Seven Up, the Weather. the
Isthmian Canal. Reciprocity and other
Topics with dozens of Customers every
day, holding up his end of the Converse
ton but antagoniZing no mans Views.
He must pour Oil on the troubled
Waters decide Bets. pacify the jag who
is looking to be insulted. and reconcile
Old Friends VINO are getting ready 70
Clinch He must look Pleasant when
the Slot Machine sticks the House for
twenty-five Cigars. When an aH-night
Souse with his Hat on one Ear comes IN
and beats on the Bar and announces that
he is a Gentleman. the Barkeep must adj
nit that such is the Case. He must listen
bv the Hour to the yammering Talk on
the gabbv Iightweights who are full Of
Balloon Essence and stand ready to cor
roborate any Statement made by a Reg
ular Patron If he is asked to mark
something on the Ice until the Next Time
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descendants. and that. if advantage be
taken Of them by selecting for breed
ing purposes the superior individuals,
while the rest are eliminated, eyOlu-
ton viii result.
The only point we have yet to prove
is that nature, like the breeder, eXer-
cises the necessary selection. At first
sight LaTmarck's doctrine also seems
true. Thus it appears only reasonable
to suppose that the children of man
fallen i'll will be the weaker in cOnse-
quence of his acquired feebleness. or
that the children of man made hard
and strong by exercise will be the
stronger for his improved health.
The Lamarckian school is rapidly be
coming extinct in the scientific world
1t iourishes, however, among the gen.
eral public. who. though they may
never have heard Of Lamarck, give to
his theory unquestiOning adherence
Probably many Of my neurological
readers are now thinking of instances
within their knowledge which they be-
lieve prove the transmission of &C
quired characters.
This is not the place in which to
discuss the physiological bearings of
the question, but, in fact, there is no
transmitted. Did transmissiOns occur,
it would be magical act transcending
everything we know of nature.
All these cases of alleged transmits
sion, of which readers are perhaps
thinking, are, I venture to believe, mere
condolences. Thus. for instance, if
they are thinking of some man they
have heard OF who broke a finger and
afterward had a son with crooked
finger
: Ten thousand men might break their
/ fingers. yet among their offspring not
( one might have a crooked finger. Con
slider on the other hand for how many
+ generations women have. bored their
+ ears and nose in India. Yet when is a
! girl born with ears and nose already
pierced For how many generations
= have we amputated the tails of ter
/ riers. and yet their tails are No
/ shorter. 1t viii then be perceived how
/ overwhelming is the case against tbs
doctrine of the transmission Of ae-
/ quirements.
The general question Of the trans.
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Cravat and you are addressing me while
in your Shirt Sleeves. Your Hair IS
parted on the wrong side. Your Vest IS
three years to the way-bdck, and 20 look
at the Bag in your Trousers one would
think that you We're getting ready TO
make a Jump. You ought TO wear Link
Cuffs instead of the kind you have on,
ans, for mercy. goodness sake, get your
self a pair of Button Shoes instead of
those Scows. And if you expect to meet
any Of my Friends who are coming TO
see me during the Holidays you viii
have to ring a few Changes on your
Grammar, Pronunciation and Accent
When you saw me just now, you should
have said. 'Matilde, 7 am indeed de
lighted to welcome you Home. I trust
that YOU are enjoying good Health
Brace up, Papa. Your Execution is very
Lumpy.
"MatildeI' he repeated -Matilde!"
She had bunkOed the Family Bible and
brought home a new Name
MORAL: The change may be erected
in from six to nine Weeks
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I look frowning and careworn il I had
to remember all these combinations Of
figures"
That was an impression. Now, when
I look at the same men, I say to my
self so many men who do not know
whether they viii be ruined or will be
millionaires today at 4 o'clock"
And by the side of all those preOc-
cupied faces see pass, as before,
cheerful. smiling smart women. reg
ular Parisiennes in gait and elegance,
wearing all the latest fashions of
beautiful Paris, handsome. well made,
supple, with eyes dazzling with intel
ligenee, beautifully corseted. gloved
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American The Land of the Colossal

interests me now as much as it did for
merly. The novelty has worn off a bit.
am beginning to see things Amerl-
can with eyes almost American. in
stead Of seeing them with those of the
intelligent foreigner" I no longer
want to be guided, and I no longer run
the risk of being guyed.
During my first visits I received
light Impressions. which amused me
and Interested me, and which also
seemed to entertain the Americans
who were kind enough to allow me
tc communicate them to them. Today
/ have opinions. and a fairly good
knowledge Of the country; and the
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Show. The Bunch advised him to back
of the Dump. When "A Y oung Lady with
Glasses tackled -Stabat Mater on the
Violin. they broke her up with Cat-Calls
and told her TO tear of some RaE-Ilme-
They bleated al the Amateur ElocutiOnist
and acted Rowdv when Stout Woman
got up TO read Fairy Tale from Hans
Christian Andersen. Then they began
to veil fer MulHgan and Hicks to come
on and save the Show. WhereuDOn two
pug-faced Kids came forward and did "a
HottentOt Song and Dance with q Buck
and Wing finish and killed them dead
MORAL: The Waits cannot be eX-
pected to lift themselves many Notches
above the Public Taste
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when a species undergoes a
progressive and adaptive
change, as, for exam
pie, when, during the course of gener-
ations. the wings of a species of bird
grow stronger, larger and better adapt
ed for flight
During the process it is plain that
succeeding generations must in sue
cession. become superior to those which
preceded them. The whole problem of
evolution hinges on the question, IN
what way is this Improvement effectedE
BY what method?
Only two theories of evolution are
POSSIBLE. or even thinkable9 Lamarck,
because he first formally enunciated It,
gave his uame to the one theory; Oar
win. for the same reason, gave his TO
the other
The two theories can be explained best
by illustrations drawn from Sc animal
world but it is necessary to define Two
important terms All the characters OF
a living being, every physical struc-
ture and every mental trait, may "c
pIaced in one Of two categOries
Either they are Unborn or they are
ACQUIRED. An Unborn or innate charac-
fer is one which. IN common parlance,
arises Tn the Individual by nature
Thus arms. legs, eyes. ears, head, etc.
are all Unborn characters. The child
inherits them from his parent. But, If
during its development, or after the
completion Of the development any one
OF the Unborn characters Of an lndiVid-
uaI is modified by some occurrences. the
change thus produced is known as an
acquired character, or, shortly, as an
acquir
Thus all the effects of exercise are ac-
ouirements, for example, the enlarge
ment which exercise causes IN muscles
The effects of Jack of exercise are also
requirements, for example. the wasting
Of a disUsed muscle.
The effects of injury are acquire
ments. for example the changes in a
diseased lung or injured arm. Ever y
modification of the mind is also an ac-
0uirement. for example, everything
stored within the memory.
II a man be blinded by accident or
disease, his blindness is acquired. But
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he must decide at once whether he IS TO
saw Cert or else run for the Settler. he
must cultivate a knowledge Of human
Nature. so that he can tell at Glance
whether the fuzzy Bat who cuts GIIGle
before he gets to the Rail, is a Hobo
or a Respected Citizen who is out on
Periodical For him, Life is series
of perplexing Problems, delicate man
ipuiation of Alcoholic Fancies, a constant
Effort to keep square with both Poiltlctl
Parties the PoIsse and the Wine Agents.
For any man who can swing sucn com
DIicated Propositions, the ordinary
Duties of a Diplomat would be as SIM
Dle as Jack Straws. What we need IN
the Diplomatic Service is, fewer country
Politicians and more Barkeeps.
MORAL: 1t is useless to contradict a
Congressman who has studied Subject
for NearS.
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and sixteen stories: today / find some
in New York with thirty and thirty
two. If they so a little higher up
still, the Americans viii have only
step to walk into the sojourn Of the
Seraphim. For that matter all things
are explained.
New York is built on a narrow island
having the shape Of a tongue from
south to north. It is impossible to
get extension toward the east or west.
so in the business quarters they spread
in the only region of space which Is
disengaged-that is, toward the frma-
ment
Of course 1 cannot say that America
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Bu Max O'ReN

and shod. the whole crowned with
magnificent hats. proudly planted on
the top of the most beautiful heads IN
the world.
Was 1t not only the other day that
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie gave S1O.00O,O90
to found scholarships in the four uni-
versities of Scotland2 This great AM
erican millionaire philanthropists hob
by is to found free libraries. He es-
tablishes them everywhere, ia Amer
lea and especially in his dear native
land Of Scotland
II have S259. 900 O00 yet to distribute
before my death. ne said only the
other day. He evidently intends TO
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opinions of foreigner on the nations
he visits have much less value than
those of the natives. Impressions and
opinions are very different things.
The impressions of a fair-minded and
fairly intelligent foreigner are always
interesting. and the fresher they are
the more piouant they read.
When, fourteen years ago, I was be
holding men walking in Broadway,
fFowning, carew0rn. tired looking.
remember that I exclaimed: Poor dew
lis, they are on a round of calls on
friends who live 53S East 125th street.
S92 West 13Sth street. and, maybe. 2,354
West lend street. BY George, SO would