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The sun., 1903-09-02
Nearby Trade versus Parkway Trade.

While we would say no word that
stimulus to those American merchants
and manufacturers who are seeking
trade in far-away corners OF the world,
we are forced to notice the fact that many
of our people are impressed with an idea
that the far-away trade is the best trade
and the most easily obtained. That
idea is a fallacy. Belief in it is more
than a little encouraged by the att-
tude of the Government in Washington.
The activity Of our officials in striving
to open doors in Manchuria and else
where, and to keep them open, creates
news matter for the press, and by keep
ing the question in the eve Of the public
gives it an importance which is largely
fictitious.
The potential trade OF China with
its hundreds Of millions Of people, is
enormous. There is no way by which
the commerce of developed and mod
ernized China can be estimated. But the
intense struggle for the present trade
Of that country is carried on against
a keen and aggressive competition and
against a strong native opposition.
Our share of this trade for the fiscal
year ended June 80 last, including both
that of China and Hong Kong, amounted
to some s2700O,OOO. We sold as much
as that TO Cuba, with endlessly less of
effort and vastly less of expense. To
double our trade with Cuba, or TO treble
it, will involve infinitely less OF effort
and expenditure than will be involved
in even maintaining orr present COM
merce with China We sold q Mexico
last year s42 227, ,7s8 worth Of our prod
ucts or about sl5,OOOYO00 more than
we sold TO China. What was the COM
parutve cost Of obtaining the Mexican
trade as against the cost of the China
trade? What will be the cost Of increas-
ing the Mexican trade as compared with
the cost Of increasing the China tradeY
How rapidly Mexico 10 progressing in
her wants is shown IN the very interesting
letter from the CITY Of Mexico VIZ print
to-day IN an adjoining column
Another important point appears IN
connection with this matter of nearby
versus far-Away trade About % per
cent. II our sales % china were repre-
scented ny three items, cOtton cloth,
wheat flour and mineral oil These
are important industries, but their ry-
portHtIDB benefits no moro than llInltr!
number oi Our people They concern
only three special Iuss Of industry.
Turn 10 our trDis with our immsilhts
Bsigbbors ard review the list. W.
The sun., 1903-09-02
The Improved Baby.

The chief experts in child study and
infant psychology are men. The amount
OF valuable advice and directions given
to mothers by good, motherly men is
surprising Whenever there is Con-
gress of Mothers, DR.. GRANVILLE STAN
LEY HALL and DR.. HAMILTON WRIGHT
MABIE are sure to unload stores Of mother
lore upon their listeners. Such is the
unfailing wisdom of men. The infants
Of to-day must be old before their time.
Much is expected of babes to whose well
fare 80 many great masculine minds
are contributing.
DIR. H. c. CARPENTER lectured AT a
meeting of Philadelphia mothers the
other day. He told them How to Take
Care Of the Baby" and he showed that
usually the baby is far from we'll taken
care Of Mothers are not serious enough:
Don't play with the baby Nothing could
be more Injurious to the Infants nervous system
than to excite 1t with the customary entertainments
with which fond mothers and admirng friends
bore the helpless victim. II Is a common error
to imag Inc that because the child responds with
wonder look. laugh, or even shrick of apparent
delight. that lt Is being amused. Quite the con-
,rary-l, Is not only being plagued but issustanng.
in nine cases OFT Of ten, an rreparabe Injury"
Why are there not more SHAKES
PEAREs, BACoNs, MABIEs and CAR
PENTERs? Because most babies are
irreparably injured. 'Baby's intel
lectuals are not properly and systematic
ally developed. He may seem to be
enjoying himself when he COOS and
crows and shrieks with apparent de-
light, but he is not. He is panied In
isolation and aloofness he is trying
to study his surroundings and the psy-
chology of his nurse and relations. They
will not let him think. They interfere
with the growth of his mental processes.
They turn him away from his lofty
cogitations by their impertinent and
trivial endearments, They warp his
nature from its solemn bent. They
kill his mind. Let him grow and medi-
tate. He has the floor. Give him the
opportunity to develop himself.
Don't talk baby talk" says DR..
CARPENTER. Certainly not. Why should
a baby understand broken, any better
than whole, English? Why will mothers
use that strange nursery Chinook,
Did um shakum dady" and so on?
The mans vocabulary is shrunken on
account OF this habit. His bump Of
language is hattened Long words
for Little Ones; that $ the talk. John
HENRY, my valued progeny, l shall dis
course to you for few moments on the
subject of the Conservation of Energy
"MARTHY ANN, let me dissuade you
from your fruitless conation to ingurgi-
tate your rattle. The impenetrability
OF matter is one Of the earliest subjects
which should engage your attention
"One should avoid telling young chill
dren such exciting stories as Jack the
Giant Killer" Explain, if you choose,
that it is absurd to suppose that JACK
or anybody else would kill giants. Giants
get large salaries. They are too valuable
to kill Don't tell stories Of any kind,
Read the Gazetteer to Baby. 1t will
calm his nervous system and give him
much statistical and geographical in
formation
The sun., 1903-09-02
That Sacred "Parsifal."

1t was to be expected that the rellct
Of the great composer, RICHARD WAC
NER, would invoke the aid OF the law TO
prevent the performance of "Parslfal
in this city. No one who has any ac-
quaintance with the strenuous, grasping,
masculine character of this daughter OF
FRANZ LIs2T and the Countess D'AGouLr,
this wife of that extraordinary musi-
cal genius, HANS GUIDO Won BtLow,
supposed that she would permit the mill
of golden dust to be wrested from Bay
reuth by alien hands,
GILBERT RAY HAYES, who has come
home across the Western Ocean armed
with Frau CosniA's authority to clog
the wheels of Mr. CoNRIED's progress,
is mistaken about some things. The
theatre at Bayreuth, built by WAGNER
for the production OF Der Ring des
Nibelungen" in 1876 is not called the
Temple Of Music but the "Festspie.-
haus, or Festival Play House WAC
NER himself called it that with shrewd
mans knowledge of the difference be-
tween temple and a playhouse.
SALMI MoRsE's projected production
of the Passion Play was not prevented
by the courts, but by an outburst Of
public opinion, expressed principally
in interviews in the newspapers with
ministers of the Gospel and other men Of
reverent thought Mr.. MORSE and his
companions rightly measured the power
of the rising tide and fled before it.
"Parsifal,' it is true, was named by its
creator sacred festival play; but it is
not a sacred drama in the sense that the
Passion Play is. 1t Is dramatic version
Of one of the Arthurian legends, which
have been an integral part Of British
and French literature since tho Middle
Ages. There is nothing in the world
to prevent any one who is competent
to do SO from making a now version
of the drama. WAGNER possessed no
exclusive rights in the epics Of WOLFRAM
Won EsCHENBACH or CHRETIEN DE
TRoYEs.
On the other hand, it is beyond dis
pute that the devotional atmosphere
which surrounds the performance at
Bayreuth cannot be reproduced in the
fashionable and frivolous Metropolitan
Opera House, nor is it certain that the
superb artistic ensemble Of the Bavarian
theatre can be duplicated here. Frau
WAGNER does well to object to the rude
overthrow of her husbands ideals
which is contemplated by the new and
busy intendant of our opera house;
but Mr.. HAYES touches the ends Of our
risibles when he breaches solemnly about
the sacredness of "Parsifal' and its
twin brotherhood with tho Passion
Play
AS we have several times noted, if
Frau WAGNER has any rights they are
proprietary, and she and her counsel
will do we'll to abide by them and not
make too great parade Of ethics. And
they should by all means not tell us the
Bayreuth shows do not pay.
The sun., 1903-09-02
JAPANESE REFORMER HERE
lie Is Studying the Americn HospIt al,
and Prisons.

kosuke 1omeoka. instructor n the Gov
ernment Higher School for lolice and
Prison Officials in Toxic, Japan. is in the
city gathering ideas in the loal penal
institutions and hospitals for Use Japar
Mr.. Tomeoka visited Bellevue lospital
yesterday for the purpose OF investigating
the male and female training schods toI
nurses.
Mr.. 1omeoka has spent the greater oar,
of his life in behalf Of prison reform in
japan. He has already spent fourteen
months in Investigations at the Mass
chusetts Reformatory at Concord, and
month in the Elmira Reformatory Ii
recognition of his labors in the Hokkaidc
and Sugamo prison in Japan he was ap-
pointed honorary adviser 10 the Depart
ment of Home Affairs in the matter Of
official charities
He will leave next week to visit the London
hospitals.
The sun., 1903-09-02
NEW LAWS NOW N EFFFcT
One ls the Provision Against Unions E~.p.
Ing Out Miiis.Amen,

The Hughes law, which grew GU, Of the
attempt OF the Schenectady labor union to-
injure a National Guardsman, went into
effect yesterday 1t prohibits employee,
a. Wen as labor unions from discriminate,
against National Guardsmen
Among the other new laws which wen,
into effect yesterday is one which prevents
tradesmen or ohers from using names o,
pictures ol penons for purposes Of tra,i,,
unless they first secure the consent Of the
person whose lame or picture As made,
use Of
The Penal Codt is amended so tina, now
it is a felony for parent or guardian 10
desert child unoer he age of IA years
Und r the old law he age was q. or the
other new laws which apply to children
there is one which Prohibits junkmen from
buying junk from chilCren under 10 ana
another which makes lrovision for the
paroling of children in the custody OF their
parents in cases where tie children have
been arrested for misden>eAors.
The sun., 1903-09-02

TO TINS EDnos " lbs Suk-Sg 10 to-day .
SUI there b An sncount OF young won al do
slTiRs " be married according ~ the nlss VI tAe
Episcopal Church, who neDt ~ her frrtyI lhs
siss " the Bishop ASKING " have tLs Sord "Obsy
oniusd from tue marriage ceremony Both clergy
nsD refused
10 recent alteration, 10 ths pfayrf bp1k Dnr
prayer va changed ~ read IlghuI uuf gAI.
Issa Lot uS LOpf tue GrI' rrnrr'l con. ruuuu
may - alter ihlt IJlAgr sSrtI, duIHg Ntbu
~ DAY sOmsD psrIuT iH'iH trlyts aus 'uugIsys
tioDS smIs thAI W may prtrriFr aomc r,ii'H,,
~ uss enlightenment toI sbpb lBry 90 f~nsAuy
pray HASousHiTE DrpOsy La
. EAsb 0AsSassrns, MAAs. Avg. ~
The sun., 1903-09-02

change in the system. 1t is also illegal.
for it gives police officials discretion in
the matter of the identity of bondsmen,
whereas the law only requires the exer-
else of discretion in the matter of their
solvency; and, again, it does not touch
or reach the real cause of an infamous
system which the "station-house bonds
men" did not originate and could not
independently maintain. That cause is
.hiyher IN
The sun., 1903-09-02
NEW POSTAL SUB-STATION.
Van COtt Seeks to Placate the AgEriey I'd
Upper West Side Folks.

Residents of the district bounded bv
Seventy-second and Eighty-third streets
and Columbus avenue and Riverside Drive.
who have complained of lack of postal
facilities in that quarter, will not be in
commoded much longer
The druggist at Eighty-frst street and
Amsterdam avenue, in whose store the
postal sub-station was located, resigned
his charge not long ago, but POSTMASTER
Van Cott has arranged to establish an
Office in another drug store at Columbus
avenue and Eighty-first street.
The sun., 1903-09-02

TO THE FpIroR or THE SUN SIR As Down
Easter can probably enllghtrn Grace aS rera'l-
doughnuts &c The Cruiler OF New YORK an
doughnut of New England are alike In composite.
differing only IN shape The fried cake AN ter
is not used as a rule IN New England. but wheat
or "buckwheat cakes" Is the term used Here a0
further North and West fried cake" applies TO boz
doughnut and cruller
In New York an article called q doughnn' .
made With Yeast and raised Ike bread ana f''
IN hot lard but II is entirely different In taste nn'
composition from either the crl!lcr or New Eng
land douRhnnt MAiN
AMSTERDAM. y y, A.g 80
TO THE EpToR OF THE SIN Su Returning '
town recently, after soioun among the hi tow
OF Little Franklin county IN western NASSAU.
sets, | asked one OF the buNOm glrlS at l-n.
counter IN the Springfield station foT a cup ol oo"'
and one VI those crIllers'- indicating pile
the large hole IN the middle sugar powder
products Of the Ntchens deep FAT -frIne dcpF
menI Them amt Cruls." she sad. "lAr.
do4ghnuts--Or some calls EN- lite pres-rvrr'
then learned that the latter term Is drsrri. "'.
OF their shape and size aud not ~ their vai.r .'
food though thry do say up IN DrcrneId that
aad c." that's coffee and crll,rS jGs' sfter r.rs
and lust before bed time. Will insure luhgeFIf
that Is ~ you don't gtI the hole Of III" crllcrs'
IN your rsupn0r4gu. and 80 ,lOhe W blue '.'
die
Well the 'nir pTeserlrr" lH,idcnt was 'r''
dlscOuTagins to me, Tor duung srNefll day pc
ylOusiy ! had been interviewing. certain Ol.csi
hAblDntS N several of the LNI town o. iu fLt 'f
tlnc,lous and characteristics Uf orJlrf,. doag"N.
and fried cBkos Tnr when Wa q lVy and 4" r
! aEs a grl 0f II Had presented certain minor s..
clrpancies bLt there VIS general agftrmrht n. .
certain seeming essential me snap has lt
peaGed. nothing 10 do WITH the -aar -
may be DaA, a NE prcssrrr asliDD. Of 10 :" .r'
40 may dOughLut. 90 d tried ,aAr h4i Ir 10.
pOsltlYG Is TIC diauHs ulsLiHg ir1i0r 10 l
nrss tLAt determines the Vuhi 10 ~ Ilr 700
CAKE u richest the tIulrr is.a ~. D. and ... iH.'
nut haTll} uut Of the pllinGr's 0f pu''r# p.
IN tHr early days Drsu nIrrr.y Du" tHt ends -
srra dough batch mHdf 'uu Na4. ara Pr"
into hot deep lat sad tr,l Wd J.tn Hs'' f
inward ~ iusTll aG4 puur among WT '..|
the rrullrr "a sp.rrd an1 Hurr 'n.d (. r..
Win suFor rlthrr gran lial'd nt l.trr'ra ..
nUtmrg aud ,ovo p"Nu'l It' 'rr1 'asrI
'lnler uftrn .pu0AinIny rUi, "r pf''Fr'd y.t"
Ju,o Of tLr uloh, lut'ir UGg Of ne gid uu" 10
Is We tnrd pie small ntrfTd pt' .s-.l.s
applr ~ pssrg tried brown 20 dssp idt tAs ~
.SppS p'arb OI, prrrnshaa. harAi"bTdy DO
DsaS Disvi0asly oooH'd wei made - 70 A'i.
Nbv SoMS- AVS - ks
The sun., 1903-09-02

Mexico was also a large buyer Of food
products This is an item which Mexico
should and doubtless will correct. She
has the soil and the climate for a supply
Of practically all the food she needs In all
its varieties, yet last year we sold her $780,
600 worth of fruit, 81 200 900 worth Of cereals
and cereal products. $4,000 worth Of
bacon, lard and hams, and $3.50 worth
of butter, cheese and oleomargarine. Among
other items Of interest and importance,
Amador ledger., 1903-05-22

Bank clearances for several months
past show marked decline COM
pared with the corresponding months
last year. These clearances are an
infallible index to the business of the
country. In New York the decrease e
has been heavy, and this point more
than any other, is the barometer for
trade conditions throughout the
nation. Nearly one-half of the sum
total is represented by the volume
of New York transactions. A
material falling off at this center
means a shrinkage IN business gen
orally. That prosperous conditions
prevail yet, there is no disputing;
but financiers begin to think that
the flood tide has been reached, and
the reaction has commenced. We
have experienced boom times, not
merely at isolated points, but in all
parts of the United States for a
number of consecutive years. 1t
could hardly be expected that such
flush conditions would continue in
definitely. The effect of high prices
and rush of business, is to increase
production, to enhance wages, to
create friction between EMPLOYERS
and employees. The country has
had, and is still having, a surfeit of
labor troubles. And the tendency
of such troubles is to depress busi-
ness, by curtailing enterprise, and
placing the foreign manufacturer in
better position to compete in the
home market with the home pro-
ducer. 1t is right for the laborer to
take steps to secure a share in the
general prosperity, not merely in
full employment, but also a fair in
crease of wages to meet the upward
tendency in the price of all articles
that he consumes. He can unite
with his fellow laborers to this end.
The danger lies in pressing the Or
ganization idea, and the power which
it places within his reach, to un-
reasonable extremes. The working
man will sooner or later realize that
he cannot permanently advance his
own cause by Unjust interference
with the rights of others.
Amador ledger., 1903-05-22
WISE COUNSEL.

In Mariposa county the super
visors have fallen into the same IL
legal methods in regard to road
matters that have prevailed in Anna
dor county for number of years
namely, each supervisor presen ting
a lump bill for road work done in his
district, and distributing the m oney
to the actual workers himself. This
system has been the cause of much
adverse comment in that county, as
it has been in this, and will be in
every county where the same
example is followed. The grand
jury of Mariposa took the matter in
hand, and recommended the discon-
tinuance of this way of doing bust
ness, but the board disregarded the
advice, and persists in the same old
course. The New Era has the fol-
lowing article on the subject;
Last November the grand jury, then
in session, among other matters, ten
dered the board of supervisors some
very wholesome advice, as follows:
I'VE recommend that the board of
supervisors in having published its
proceedings of all money disbursed
for road work, report the name of
each person, amount allowed and
paid, and also the purpose for which
such allowance or payment was made
on each voucher, thus making up the
total amount allowed each road COM
missioner.
Well meant and wholesome as this
advice is the board did not take kindly
to it, for it has been following the same
old and unsatisfactory system of put
ting in lump bills for road work, with
out designating to whom or for what
service the money is paid. Not only
has the board refused to act upon the
recommendation of this representative
body of the taxpayers, but it has not
even condescended to tell why it would
not be guided by the advice of the
grand jury.
While we know that the members of
the board of supervisors are honest and
conscientious gentlemen - men who
would scOrn to take dishonest dollar,
we must emphatically say that we do
not approve of their method of putting
in lump bills" If man does work
on the road, let the commissioner of
the road district issue voucher on the
county for the amount due him. If a
merchant furnish supplies or materials,
let the commissioner give him a
voucher for the same, designating in
the voucher material or "supplies, {"
as the case may be. This would sim
plify and tighten the labors of the road
commissioners, as they would have no
accounts to keep nor bills to make out,
and would be far more satisfactory to
the taxpayers, the ones that have now
to pay $3.50 on the 500 to pay these
bills. The board of supervisors know,
and every business man knows, that a
lump bill'' would not be accepted bv
an individual, and the people should be
treated with the same consideration.
Therefore we say let the road COM
mlssloners in future issue vouchers for
labor performed so that American citi-
zens who do the work for the county
can collect their own money.
Amador ledger., 1903-05-22
CHANGE IN ROAD LAW.

An important change was made
by the last legislature in regard to
the expenditure of road money.
Under the law as it now stands, a
radical change must be made in the
method of working the public roads
which has been in vogue in this
county for many years. 1t is now
imperative upon the supervisors to
advertise for bids for all road work
involving an expenditure of $500 or
over. Road commissioners are not
permitted to have the work done by
day labor, as it has been done for
years past in Amador county. They
can supervise the work in their dis
tricts, but they cannot take it upon
themselves to order the work done,
and select of their own notion the
men to do it. The law went into
effect immediately upon its passage.
1t is now the law on the subject,
The change to which we refer is
embodied in an act to amend section
2643 of the Political Code. Section
Ii of the act as amended reads as
follows:
Sect. 11-Whenever it shall be de-
termined that any grading, graveling,
macadamizing, ditchiDg, sprinkling or
other work upon highways is necessary,
and is to be done, and where the esti-
mate cost of such work amounts to
$500, the board of supervisors must, by
proper order, direct the county sur
veyOr to make definite surveys of the
proposed work, and to prepare profles
and cross sections thereof, and to sub
NIT the same with the estimate of the
amount or amounts of work to be done,
and cost thereof, and with specifica-
tions thereof. Said report shall be
prepared in duplicates, one copy to be
filed in the surveyors Office and the
other to be filed with the clerk of the
board of supervisors. The board upon
receipt of such report must advertise
for bids for the performance of the
work specified. Such advertisement
must be published for two weeks in two
newspapers, one published at the coun-
ty seat and the other at the point near
est to the proposed work ..... The
board must award the contract to the
lowest bidder, unless it shall appear to
the board that the bids are too high,
and the work can be done more cheap
ly by day labor, in which case the bids
must be rejected, and the work ordered
done by the road commissioner or COM
missioners in whose district or districts
the work may be situated.
Amador ledger., 1903-05-22
The Wastes of the Body.

Every seven days the blood, muscles
and bones of man of average size
lose two pounds of worn out tissue.
This waste cannot be replenished and
the health and strength kept up with
out perfect digestion. When the
stomach and digestive organs fai. to
perform their functions, the strength
let's down and health gives way, and
disease sets up, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
enables the stomach and digestive Or
gans to digest and assimilate all over
the wholesome food that may be eaten
into the kind of blood and strength of
the mind and body. Kodol cures In
digestion, Dyspepsia and all stomach
troubles. 1t is an ideal spring tonic.
Sold by City Pharmacy.
Amador ledger., 1903-05-22
Delinquent Notice.
Alma Gold Mining Company.


Location of principal place of business, San
Francisco, Cal. Location of works. Jackson,
Amador county, Cal.
OTICE.-There are delinquent upon the
In following described stock, on account of
Assessment No. 10. levied on the 18th day of
March, 1908, the several amounts set opposite
the names of the respective shareholders as
follows:
No. No
Name. Certificate Shares Amount
W. F. Detert ............ 764 100 S15 90
Anna E. Pederman. Sis 500 75 90
And in accordance with law and an order of
the board of directors made on the 18th day of
March, 1903, SO many shares of each parcel of
such stock as may be necessary will be sold at
public auction at the office of the company, $50
Sansome street. San Francisco, California on
Monday, the 18th day of May, 1903, at the hour
of Il O'Clock NJ, of said day, to pay delinquent
assessments thereon, together with costs of
advertising and expenses of sale.
HENRY H. PAULSEN, Secretary
0fice-S3O Sansome street, San Francisco
Cal. my1-3