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SAN FRANCISCO; SEPTEMBER 7. 1900. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE EXAMINER W. HEARST. i Slla Wweler WIVES, NiVK BE- ff COME Y.CTIMS OP.

JJ i i 1 MONEY MANIA, AN AMERICAN PAPER FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Wilcox Says: tx (t it Old Rothschild, the wily Meyer Amschel "fmr YOUNG woman of twen-ty-one who marked a 1 I man of forty asks me If It is her duty to go out to work by the day as ber busband wishes. of Frankfort, who founded the greatest fortune in the world, left behind him something almost as valuable as money, namely, good advice. Some of this advice, presented in condensed form by the More Advice From Old Rothschild. late Alphonse Rothschild, was published here a day or two ago, as follows: Carefully examine every detail of your business.

Be prompt In everything. Take time to consider, but decide positively, Dare to go forward. He earns $25 a week. They live in one furnished room. She wants a borne and thinki the care of it would be a pleasure The busband prefers to hoard hit money and thinks bis wife should work by the day to aid him in accumulating a fortune.

Such a woman is a victim to money mania. He could easily become a miser if allowed to go on in this line of thought. His fortune would never do him or others any good while he lived. He is the type of man who would delight in wearing old clothes and living on cheap food-the older and the cheaper as his fortune augmented. No woman should encourage such a spirit in a husband.

Money is only good for the comfort and happiress it brings. It the duty of a wife to be prudent and wise in the use of her husband's earnings, but it is her right to be provided with a home. 1 hp man who earns $25 a week can afford give a wife a better abiding place than one room. The above four wise utterances ought to be useful to anybody. Here are some more from the same source: Bear troubles patiently.

As you have noticed, the man who is unable to bear his troubles with patience always has an extraordinary collection of them. In business the ability to bear trouble is as important as is the ability to stand hard knocks in the prie-fighting profession. Many a man can fight well, hit hard and do damage. He would be a great success in the ring, but for the fact that he can't bear to have the other man hit him. If you want to succeed as your own boss you must learn to stand trouble.

Many a man makes an admirable employee who can never be the head of a business. There is a limit to the troubles of the employee; there is none to the troubles of the chief. A very good method, by the way, of preparing for your independent career and of training yourself to "bear troubles" is to endure patiently as an employee the hard work In her chosen sphere, if she possesses any BklU or management, sne can provide her husband and herself with comfort, and lay aside a little sum every month for future needs. This Is a better use of life and money than live in discomfort and discontent and to accumulate a hoarded store of dollars. The tendency of the American man of to-day In every walk of life Is to accumulate much more money than he knows how to use with taste or wisdom.

He can acquire, lut te can rarely enjoy what he acquires. is the duty of every wife, mother and to teach American men the art of taking comfort in life and the first step toward that goal is in the establishment of a home, however humble. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. and other annoyances to which you may be subjected. are: To honesty Mr.

Rothschild devotes three paragraphs. Here they A WOMAN MAS rPrnf. iSPrtu'sA HELPED. TO DETHRONE 1 THE ATOM. 4 -iy i i -i Maintain your Integrity aa sacred thing.

Merer tell business lies. Pay your debts promptly. This advice about honesty you do not need to get from a newspaper or even from a Rothschild. You got it from your father and mother, and if you haven't learned it by now, talking about it here won't change you. But be sure of this Honesty is just as essential to getting on in business as it is to getting into heaven.

IT is rare for a woman to make a great name in science. Astronomy has furnished several such exam ples. In two thousand years, but one must search in tne recoras of other branches of science very Make no useless acquaintances. carefully to discover any names of women illuminating them. The Thousands of young men waste their lives talking to those who can nineteenth century closes, never theless, with one of Its brightest stars of soience bearing a feminine appellation.

Mme. Curie "Uncle Mark, why am do Republican ticket like a rattlesnake?" 0 1 Tj "I don't know, William. Why IS the Republican ticket like a rattlesnake?" t4 "Because de tail am de noisiest part." I Oil Trust will now sing the beautiful ballad entitled 'We Never Can Get It has made the Gallic nation proud of her, and an admiring world of savants gallantly lifts its hat in honor of the great female physicist. It is true that M. Curie has assisted Mme in her researches.

do them no good, but who can do them great harm. A useless acquaintance is one who encourages you to waste time, whose inferior mind encourages your egotism and self-conceit, whose lack of talent and success reconciles you to your own failure and stagnation. A man who makes you think or talk earnestly, or reason closely, is a useful acquaintance, though he should borrow your money or your bicycle and be absolutely unable ever to repay you. A very useful acquaintance is a woman who will frankly tell you how little you amount to, and make you understand that you have got to do something worth while before you can interest a woman who is worth while. That piece of advice about "useless acquaintances" is one that you ought not to forget.

THE POOR CRIPPLE- but what does a husband count for in such a case 7 Moreover, the work that Mme. Curie is engaged in Is in some respeots the most wonderful product of modern science. It is opening a new field of knowledge which not only lies beyond anything hitherto explored, but which apparently offers contradictions to principles supposed to be as firmly based as the granite hills. The time is rather to be reckoned by months than years since the world wajL flcnuainted with the so-called radio-active substances which in opposition (T nil nrecedent. seem to bo striving to tear themselves to pieces.

It was M. BecquereT rn-hn hpean this series of discoveries four years ago, when he found that the rare metal uranium and its compounds possess the property of. emitting rays differing from the celebrated X-rays of Professor Roentgen, but capaDie, line tnem, or im pressing a photographic plate. The marvel about these rays was tnat.tney neeaea no excitement in order to manliest tnemseives. it mi ueueasargr biijii; an electric current or to have an apparatus of any wna; simpiy put tne pnotograpmo plate near the uranium and the thing was done.

The mysterious radiation was in cessant, although invisibl. It was capaoie oi traversing wav.K mm Mu ttons of metal. It was more inexplicable than the X-rays, because it seemed to arias J- Never appear more than you are. This may seem strange advice in a world where men so often take each other at each other's own valuation. But the advice is very sound if you aim at really big success; the time wasted in pretense, the money squandered in trying to keep up appearances, the mental deterioration caused by "white lies," will hurt you in the end more than enough to counterbalance the apparent temporary benefit of giving others a false idea of your importance.

without a cause. At this oolnt Mme. Curie andr her husband took up the investigation, and tney -WHO TURNED OUT TO BE A FAKE OR RATHER TWO OF THEM. soon discovered that there were substances, whose existence had never been sus pected, which possessed the same strange activity, but a hundred thousand fold greater than in the case of uranium! One of tnese suDstances, extraoiea irom pitch' ble-nde, they called, "polonium." Another received the name of. "radium," THE EXAMINER'S" PRIVATE A8YLUM.

and a third that of "actinium." These substances, wnicn exist extremely smau We This is not yet the end of the wise old Rothschild's advice, shall finish it in a third editorial. quantities mixed with various minerals, all emit invisible rays of surpassing pho- toeraohle and penetrative power. No energy has to be employed to develop them. If they were luminous they might light our cities without expense, provided that ji 1 i a a a ah 1 A aKIii Ined a sufficient quantity oi rauium, juuuiuui, eu, wuw no Now what are these mysterious rays? A complete answer to that question is what Mme. Curie and her associates for many are now working along the same 11ns are striving to obtain, and when it is obtained it is likely that some of the present bases of science will have to be reconstructed.

Consider one marvelous Get four Name on the Register. How's four Chance. The Election Commissioners have arranged for registration in the precincts. If you don't have time to go to the City Hall, be sure and drop around to the booth that will be opened in your precinct next Saturday. Precinct registration will last three rlav property of these rays.

Tney can oe drawn asiae oy magueiiu they were composed of a stream of material particle. la one instance a stream oi rays was turned round by a magnet until it had described a complete circle. Then, their velocity is prodigious probably as great as one-tnira or tne velocity oi iignt. which is able to come to the earth from tne sun in eignx minutes: iuo natural conclusion seems to, be that the rays really do consist of flying particles, and many savants have already adopted that conclusion. But then anothewnystery arises.

Whence come these particles and what sets and keeps them going with such tremendous Clearly they must be particles of the substance that gives them off, yet the most delicate test falls to deteot any diminution of the weight of that substance. The only way to account for this Is by supposing that they are almost Infinitely minute, perhaps thousands of times smaller than that time-honored Infinitesimal of science, the atom. The atom has Saturday, September 8th; Saturday, September 15th, and Saturday, September 23d. City Hall registration closes September 26th. Now don't neglect this duty.

Get your name on the register. You can't vote unless you do, and it won't be there' unless you go to the registration officers and have it put there. The Registrar reports that the rolls are more than 25,000 names short. There should be 75,000 voters on the roll, and less than 50,000 are there to-day. A good many citizens are going to lose their votes if they don't hurry up.

Don't be one of the self-disfranchised citizens. seen its day. It no longer reisns as the ultimate unit, it is auogetner too dir. ins electric corpuscle has usurped Its place. And what causes these mysterious radiant substances, which seem to be dls-f' tributed through ordinary matter, to cast off tneir particles in ceaseless and thus slowlv dissipate themselves? There lies the deepest mystery of all.

Is self-destruction also a law of nature? One thinks of those marvelous flying stars that are liable to be found here and there in the heavens, moving so swiftly In apparently straight lines that the theory of gravitation dan give no account of them, pusiuuu luiu -wiutu inc uomey General has been forced in the Botkin and one wonders if they are a grander illustration of a similar principle, applied in tne scattering asunder of the starry universe. Can't This Trap For Justice Be Demolished. case shows the difficulties that arise from ex-post-facto law-making of the sort that was seen, in the Hoff case. The Supreme Court concluded to change the law Jinx Hello! What's the matter this morning? Thlnx Nothing. Why? Jinx You're wearing a very mournful expression.

Thlnx Oh! I'm Just assuming that. It's part of my system of mnemonics. My wife commissioned me to buy her some sadirons i in regard to circumstantial eviHentV nnrl They sat on the rustic seat. He held her hand. This reminds me of playing he giggled, "In what way?" she Inquired.

"Holding a big hand." He was only joking, but the neighbors will tell you that she takes those delightfml in doing so nas given a new trial not only to Hoff but also to Mrs. Botkin, and probably to Brandcs. As the witnesses in the Hoff and Botkin cases have disappeared, the result is to free two persons convicted of cruel and revolting crimes! It must be admitted that the system has its Hi moonlight rambles wh another fellow. 71 (1.) No, I never let him go in bathing. I (2.) Keep away from that dog, Henry.

(3.) Come, love, it's It TI His health is so delicate. -He might have hydrophobia. time for you to go home. 74 I I II Jhe ide of "tl that wet sand. You'll catch (5.) But they didn't put his wife in the fl jT yourdearn.

asylum with him, so he is comparatively jl A 1 mere a remeay ior ltf In the many recent reversals in murder cases the trouble has come '4 mm mm irom the judge charge. The Supreme Court has thought that the wrong instruction was given or the right instruction refused. In fact the judge's charge has come to be more of a danger than an assistance in getting a proper verdict. Perhaps it wouldn't be right to abolish it, but it would be well to have forms of instruction to the Jury made a part of the codes at least for murder cases. Under the California Constitution the judge's charge deals with the law alone not with the facts.

Put the law down in black and white, and then justice can't be tripped up because the trial judge doesn't know what it is..