Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 3, 1906, Page 4

INDIANS SUE FOR $10,020 Which They Gave Gus Beau- lieu to Buy Land for Them. St. Paul, May 3.—The supreme court today had pbefore it the case of Ains-Dus-Oke-Shig, MeGe Sus, Ne-Gwa-Ne-Bi, No. 1 and No. 2 respondents, vs. G. H. Beaulien and Wah-We-Cum Ig, appellants, all Indians. The case was submitted on briefs. It involves the posses sion of $10,020 and grew out of the sale by the government of the landed possessions of the Mille Lacs Indians in the north- ern part of the state. The tr ibe realized $40,000 0dd from the sale. From the amount $20,000 was divided among the tribe and the balance deposited to their credit in a Stearns county bank. This amount was in the names of the chiefs who are plaintifis in the case and they turned a check covering it to Gus Beaulieu, a half breed, to buy the tribea tract of land on Mille Lacs lake. Tt is charged that Beaulieu did not buy the land agreed upon. Itis for the possession of this money that the chiefs are now asking, BLACKDUCK TO HAVEK. P. LODGE Members of Local Lodge Will Go Up Line to Initiate Members Tonight. Twenty-two members of the local lodge Knights of Pythias will go to Blackduck this even- ing to assist in instituting alodge in that village. All the parapher- nalia belonging to the Bemidji lodge will be taken to Blackduck and will be used in connection with the initiations. The cere- monies will be in charge’ of Grand Chancellor Bartram of St. Paul and Chancellor Commander T. J. Miller of this city. Andrew E. Anderson Dead. Andrew K. Anderson died at his home over the Bazaar block at 8 o’clock last night after a five weeks’ illness with dropsy. The funeral will be held from the home tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock and will be conducted by Rev. E. M. Peterson of the Nor wegian Lutheran church. Mr, Peterson was 55 years of age and leaves, besides the widow, two sons, Carl and Edwin and two daughters, Olga and Selma. Lumber Company Appeals. The Tower Lumber Co. has appealed to the supreme court from the order of Judge Kelley of the Ramsey county court, overruling a demurrer to the complaint in the suit brought against them by the state game and fish commission. QUEER EASTER CUSTOM, The Way Fillpino Penitents Tor- ture Themselves, One of the many curious customs practiced by sowe persons in the Phil- ippine Islands Is the way lu which they observe the week before Easter. For the Thursday, Friday aund Saturday betore Easter the streets or roads on the outskirts of some villages and sometimes the principal streets of the town Ifselt are tilled with crowds, who have come to see the natives Inflict ®elf torture. The willing victims are stripped to the walst, their faces are covered with & thick cloth and around one hand Is a bheavy hemp rope, with a cluster of from fifteen to twenty smaller hempen cords. To each of these is fastened a #mall piece of hard wood. "The whole thing is just long enough so that when ‘Blung over the shoulder it will not quite reach to the waist. When the penlitents are ready to start out a Filipino, who bas been appointed 88 a sort of overseer, takes the flesh of the back between his thumb and first finger and cuts the skin with a long bolo. This is done all over the back. He then cries, “Alla, sigle” (*Go ahead”). Then the penitent begins to beat his back by lashing his cluster of little "pleces of wood and cords first over one shoulder, then over the other, until the back is so lacerated that it Bomewhat resembles raw beef, All the While the onlookers and victims also are singing, or, rather, chanting, a most dismal, unearthly funereal chant.—New York Tribune. The Declding Faetor, “The leading lady felt that she had right on her side In her quarrel with the other members of the company, but slte decided to let the matter drop.” “Afrald the manager wouldn't take bet part, eh?” “No, but she was afrald her under- study would.” DRAINAGE BILL BEING PUSHED House Committee May Con- sider the Steenerson Measure Today. Washington, D. C, May 3.—If the report of the state auditor of Minnesota, showing what the state and various counties have done toward draining swamp lands is received tomorrow as is expected, Representatives Steen- erson and Volstead will call up the Steenerson drainage bill at the meeting of the heuse com- mittee on public lands. Both Steeneoson and Volstead are now quite confident they will be able to secure a favorable reply by the committee on the bill and have some hopes of securing its passage at this session. Inany event they hope to get it through the house so it can be taken up in the senate the first thing next session, Congressman Bede is conduct- ing an energetic canvass in favor of his resolution authorizing the secretary of war to utilize the dams in the upper Mississippi, primarily for the prevention of floods instead of aids to naviga- tion, “He is receiving consider- able encouragement- and is in- clined to believe that the resolu- tion stands a fair chance of being favorably reported by the rivers and harbors committee. Should the resolution be passed it might solve the question of protecting Aitkin county from floods and g overflows. QUICKSILVER MINING. An Occupation That Quickly Dooms the Workers, The chief quicksilver mines in Eu- rope are in the Spanish town Almaden, which is an Arabic word, meaning “the mine of quicksilver.”” These mines ‘were formerly worked by the Iberians and after them by the ancient Romans. Between 1645 and 1843 the Spanish government employed galley slaves in them, an occupation that soon ended in death. The fumes of the mercury pro- duce constant salivation, and the sys- tem becomes permeated with the metal. At first the victim is seized with tremblings and then the teeth drop out; pains in the bones follow and then death, The annual yleld of mercury is 1,500,000 pounds, to produce which 4,000 men are engaged in this unhealthy employment, After Almaden, so far as yield of quicksilver is concerned, comes Idria, an Austrian town, twenty-eight miles from Triest. These mines also were once worked by criminals, who, owing to the terrible qualities of the mineral, expired after about two years’ service. There are now nearly 500 miners en- gaged In the work at Idria. They are induced to enter the mines by high pay. A pension is allowed when they are disabled, and provision is made for their widows and children.—Pearson’s. Gunpowder. The explosive nature of gunpowder, ‘which 18 made of charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter, is due to the fact that when fired the charcoal and sulphur are burned at the expense of the oxygen ln the saltpeter, much heat Is devel- oped and large quantities of gas are produced. This ga8 exerts great pres- sure on the sides of the gun; hence 1ts disruptive or propulsive effects. When gunpowder is fired in a gun the explosion is not instantaneous. The expansive force of the gases produced ucts on the shot all the time it is mov- iug along the barrel and gradually in- creases its velocity, If the explosion ‘were 80 sudden as to be practically in- stantaneous the greater ‘part of the rorces would be exerted mainly on the sides of the chamber containing the powder and not, as is nem&lly the-ease: vu the shot. g The Oldest Prescription. The gldest medical presciiption in exs Istence bears date of 4000 B. C. It was discovered in an Egyptian tomb, writ- ten on papyrus, and has. been deci- phered by an English professor. It bears evidence that it was Intended for some baldheaded Egyptian and reads as follows: Parts. Dog’s paw (calloused part). - Dates ... 1 Donkey “hoots voesd Boil the whole in 6il and rub the scalp actively with the mixture. ° Egyptian history does not say wheth- er or not the patient regained his lost hair. Hasheesh. Hasheesh, or the Indian hemp, is a resinous substance produced from the tops of the plant in India. Some au- thorities state that it is gathered by men who dress themselves in leather clothing and run to and fro in the hemp fields, afterward scraping off the resin from their garments, while other authorities .say that It is gathered by rubbing the tops in the hands and aft- erward scraping the hands. Ite nar- eotic properties are well known. 014 Ships In Norway. Norwegians have a primitive way of breaking up old, wornout wooden ships. They take them to exposed rocky parts of the coast and, after an- choring them, leave the breakers of the next storm to smash them to pleces. After the storm the floating fragments are picked up and sold for firewood. Success is like a generous wine which begins by exciting the intellectual fa ulties and ends by plnngk.‘ us & stupld intoxication.—Bougeart. -|'date is Tommonly chosen. STEPHENS PAYS BEMIDJI VISIT Candidate for Governor in the City on Legal Business. Senator A. D. Stephens of Crookston, the north country’s candidate for the republican gubernatorial nomination, is in Bemidii today. Senator Stephens arrived on the 12:30 train and spent the af- ternoon at the courthouse, where he was interested in a legal suit. before Judge Spooner. He has also taken occasion to make a few calls on friends and discuss the political situation in this locality. DIE IN A BURNING HOUSE. An Old Man and a Little Chiid Cre- mated at Grayling, Minn, Aitkin, Minn., May 3.—A man named Priem, living at Grayling, east of here, ‘was burned to death during the night, together with his little grandson, four years of age. & The mother of the little boy lald him on the bed asleep and went over to visit her father-in-law, who lived but a few rods away. When the house was discovered to be on fire the old man rushed over and entered the building to save the boy, but he never came out. The house had been repaired and the door to the bedroom changed, and it is supposed that the old man got con- tused, for he was heard rapping on the partition, and when the body was found it was lying near the place where the door formerly was. Tae boy’s body was found on the bed spring, the blankets, sheets and mat- tress havlnz been burned away, Woman Snhoots purgiar. Kokomo, Ind., May 3.—Mrs. Earl Lindsay found a man under her bed here, confronted the intruder with her husband’s shotgun and when he tried to escape shot him in the back. The man was arrested and identified- as James Wilson, said to be wanted in several Indiana towns for burglary. THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS. S0 014 That Its Origin Is Lost In the Mists of Autiquity. Draughts in some shape or form is doubtless a very ancient pastime, In- deed, the safest thing to say about it is that its origin is lost in the mists of an- tiquity. Representations of persons playing at a game resembling draughts are frequently found on ancient Egyp- tlan monuments at least 3,000 years old, The Greeks had a similar game, from whom possibly it passed to the Romans. At least the old Roman game of latrunculi seems to have been a kind of draughts, though it is doubtful if the game as now played is very ancient. ‘The game was popular and well known in France and Spain in the seventeenth century and was probably played there and in England centuries before that. That it was from France the game came Into many of the other countries is evident from the fact that the French name—jeu de dames—passed with it. Dam or damme was once the regular English name for one of the pieces. In €ermany the game s still called dame- spiel, in Holland the board is dambord, and In Scotland dambrod still survives. In the United States the less usual name of chequers, spelled checkers, I8 employed, Polish, Spanish, Italian and Turkish draughts are varieties of the same game. 'Fhe Polish game, which bas several peculiarities, was Intro- duced in Paris in 1723 and was at first played on a board of 100 squares with 40 men.—Chambers’ Journal. Ability to See Everything. A New York surgeon, says the In- ternational Journal of Surgery, occa- sionally takes an applicant for a posi- tion on the bouse staff of the hospital with which he is connected and bids him look out of a window: and describe what he sees. Some men’ practically see nothing at all; others notice but a | few things, not always the most im- portant, while the balance appear to observe everything. It is from among the_latter that the successful candi- It is to the men, who see everything that every art and science is indebted for whatever progress they have wmade, and the sur- geon’s method of gauging the probable value of a young nian’s service has nothing in it that is trivial and unim- portant. The Ideal Camera. The ideal camera for naturalist pur- poses is one of the reflex type, in which the photographer can see his object— the size of it will be reproduced on his plate, the right way up—and can see it until the moment of exposure. Such a camera with a long bellows and a lens which Is intended for a plate at least one size larger ‘than the plate he is using in his camera and also pro- vided with a curtain shutter which works just in front of .the plate, with speeds varying from a time exposure up to one two-thousandth, part of a second, is the kind of Instrument used by most of the naturalist photogra- phers whosé work appears in print— Qutdoors. - A Swindle, An old couple went to a Dublin thea- ter to have a night's amusement. The great Mrs, Siddons was playing “Mrs. Haller,” and the poor bodiéh were kept crying all the evening. At length, at one of the scenes where the great lady came in with her handkerchief again ® her eyes, the old man could stand it no longer and, starting to his feet, cried out, “Ye long nosed thief, ye call this divarshun!” Taming a Rat, A trapped rat may easily be tamed by allowing no water but that offered .In & spoon, for the creature soon learns CAN EARTHQUAKES BE FORETOLD? DR. HAYES, GEOLOGIST, THINKS SO é P 3 : 4 EARTHQUAKE WARNING Dr. C. Willard Hayes Believes Shocks Can Be Predicted. MANY PREMONITORY SYMPTOMS Expert of Geological Survey Says Foretelling Earthgquakes Is Merely - & Question of Observation—Sug- &ests the Establishing of Well Equipped Stations. Dr. G Willard Hnyes, geologist of he United States geological survey, re- cently expressed the opinion that the - time would come when the sclentists would be able to predict an earthquake sufficiently in advance of Its occur- rence to give warning to persons likely to be caught by it, says a Washington speclal to the New York Times. “Of course T do not say that it will come soon,” said Dr. Hayes, “but I see nothing improbable in the idea at all. I think it is largely a matter of having a sufficlent number of properly equip- ped observation stations, with prompt and thorough exchange of observa- tions. Earthquakes are almost invaria- bly preceded by premonitory signs and symptoms. These are now recognized and recorded. But there are not enough observers engaged In the work to make thelr records and observations of practical benefit in the way I have indicated. “Fifty years ago the idea that it would be possible to predict a storm would have been regarded as prepos- terous. But with the Increase of the number of weather observers and the development of their instruments they bave reached the stage of practical cer- tainty, and the service has become of immense value throughout the world. Of course they have had a great deal more weather to observe than the ge- ologists have had earthquakes, and the scope and thoroughness of.their obser- vatlons have developed more rapidly than in the case of seismic disturb- ences. But I see no reason why, with 8 proper extension of the field of ob- servations and the proper equipment of the observers, there should not re- sult in a comparatively few years sub- stantially the ability to foretell for an appreciable period of ‘timé the ‘occur- rence of serious earthguakes.” In discussing the shocks which dev- astated San Francisco Dr. Hayes said | that the ultimate cause was undoubt- edly “a deep readjustment” of the earth, manifesting itself upon the sur- face by a ‘slip along the line of a fault. ‘These faults occur at various places upon the earth's-crust and are similar to' those found in ore or coal Velns, except'fliat their scale is thou- sands of feet compared to Inches in the mine scale. When for any cause a deep readjustment takes place the sur- face effect usually follows the line of a fault, When somebody asked what caused this deep readjustment Dr. Hayes smiled and replied: “That {8 just what the geologists are asking. ‘Why’ 1s what we want to know. That Is the great problem or one of the great problems that we are studying all the time. We know that certain parts of the earth are slowly going down and other parts are rising. That has been going on” in California. Only yesterday (April 18), speaking ge- ologically, the coast line of California was lifted up to a considerable extent. The traces of the old.beach line are easy to follow, and the fact that the line has been lifted to different heights at different places and that in places it lies at an angle and not horizontally shows that it was lifted and that it was not the receding of the water which left it there. -“There are several clearly defined faults which run near and even through San Francisco,” continued Dr. Hayes. He took a geological map and pointed out four or five. The more ex- tensive run just south of the city, but there are two or three which cross the ground on which the city stood. They all trend northwest and southeast, In the direction in which the earthquake wave ls reported to have traveled. The most proncunced of them passes through Palo Alto, where a violent shock was felt. “It may be,” said Dr. Hayes, “that a sllp occurred somewhere at the upper or northern end -of one of these faults and, following down to the southeast, produced the shock that destroyed San Francisco and wrecked Palo Alto buildings.” Costly Art Treasures Lost. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has lost In the San Francis- co fire nearly all of the paintings be- queathed to it by Collis P. Huntington, says the New York Tribune. The fire that swept over Nob hill early the oth- er morning overwhelmed the old Collis P. Huntington house in California street, "between Mason and Taylor streets. Stored in the old house was the greater part of the art treasures collected by the railroad man. In ad- dition to the pictures comprising the Metropolitan < legacy were nearly a hundied others of lesser note. Mr. Huntington spent years In acquiring this collection. When he died the best pietures in his collection were willed to ‘Metropolitan museum. A condition the will, however, left them In the lives of Mrs, Huntington M. Huntington, and not death could they be hung in the mu- Some pictures in the and her house at form only a lloctlbn left by Mr. Huntington, and the museum represented by the’ ffitmyed ‘paintings. wlll lmo\un to many thou- wands. ' CAUSE OF EARTHQUAKE. Great Disaster’a Origin mxnl-l-ed by & Sclentint, The following Is the opinion of a not- ed American sclentist on the cause of the San Francisco earthquake: Dr. G. F. Becker, chief of the divi- sion of physical researches of the United States geological survey, who lived many years In Californla and who has made a speclal study of seis- mological disturbances for the govern- ment, says the earthquake in Califor- nla has no relation to the recent erup- tions of Vesuvius. He ascribes the “shake” to an unusually acute develop- ment In the process of ‘“faulting,” which has been going on along the Pa- cific coast for thousands of yeats, says a Washington special to the New York Tribune. This process cousists in a re- adjustment of the rocks forming the crust of the earth. “The people of California,” said Dr. Becker, “have not been having their usual monthly ‘shakes’ recently, and so this time they got them In a lump. The case might be likened to that of a !man suffering with fever, whose regu- lar attack of chills in a mild form had perhaps been postpoi for a long thme and-then the disease shook him all at once in aggravated form. “The coast line of the Pacific has been rising for a thousand years. This is shown by the geologic formation on the coast, old beaches being found high upon the cliffs where the sea evi- dently at one time washed. There is & pecullar geologic mark to be noted also In the traces of a fish known popularly as the ‘date fish,’ which bur- rows into.the beaches. The holes made by these fish are found high up on the cliffs, showing that the const has grad- ually risen above the sea. Along the coast of California, at a relatively short distauce from the shore, the shoal water suddenly becomes very deep and from a depth of a few fathoms changes abruptly to a depth of perhaps thousands of fathoms. This great submarine cliff extends all the way to Chile, the same geological for- mation being noted generally. Con- tinuing the examinations still more, we find that this same general forma- tion extends to Japan. Actually it may be described as a great line of uplift in the earth’s surface extending all the way from Singapore around to Valparaiso. “It would not be surprising if we heard- of severe shakes along the fis- sure extending from California to South America, which 1 have describ- ed, and possibly we will hear reports of a disturbance in Chile similar to !that in San Francisco, but it would be due to the same chauge In elevation. 1 would like to add that I do not think : there is any danger of a recurrence of a severe earthquake of this kind In California for a very long period .of time. Of course there may be mild shakes for some time, but the read- Jjustment of the eartl’s crust In this disturbance was probably so complete that there will be no change In the igeological formation for many years. The people of San Francisco should be encouraged to go ahead and build up their city greater than ever, because they may feel confident that the worst 1s over.” OTHER BIG EARTHQUAKES. Charleston Disaster Recalled—Thou- sands Killed In Japan. The last great earthguake in the Unlted States was that of Charleston, 8. C, In 1886, says the New York Tribune. This earthquake was preced- ed by minor tremors, to which little attention was paid. The principal shock occupled about one minute, and other shocks followed at intervals with gradually diiainishing violeuce. At the end of four weeks they had ceased to be -destructive, but tremors were oc- casionally observed for several months longer. In Charleston the movements were less violent than at the center of the disturbances, a point fifteen miles west of the city. A large number of houses In the city were thrown down, and nearly all the buildings in the city were more or less damaged. The dam- age was computed at $8,000,000. Twen- ty-seven persens were killed outright and others died afterward from in- Juries received, Following is a list of the most de- structive earthquakes of the last two centuries: Number killed. 1708 Yeddo, Japan .. 1716 Alglers, Algeria . 1726 Palermo, Italy . 1781 Peking, China . 174 Lima, Peru . (754 Cairo, Egypt 175 Lisbon, Portugs (713 Guatemala, Centr: 197 Quito, Ecuador 1822 Aleppo, Turkey . 1861 Mendoza, Argentina . 1868 Arica, Chile ...... 180 Manlle, Philippine 1883 Ischia, Italy . Seemed to Affect the Rata. Perhaps the news of the San Fran- clsco earthquake was telegraphed across the continent in some strange way to the animals, says the New York Times. Several New Yorkers saw rats, apparently driven from their holes by some disturbance and, dazed with fear, playing on the streets the day after the earthquake, The animals ran around and frolicked as if they had no fear of dogs or of persons who came near them. The same phenome- non, if it can be called that, was ob- served in Washington and other cities at the time of the Charleston earth- quake of 1886, ‘What Professor Pickering Says. . Professor Pickering of Harvard, ac- cording to a Boston dispatch, says the Ban Francisco earthquake was not due to voleanic sction and had uo relation to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It was due to lllpph\g eart)t falling into a B - BRIGHTEST OF CITIES Tribute to San Francisco as Davenport Knew It. WIDEST AWAKE OF ALL IN UNION First City the Cartoonist Saw as a Boy Made an Indelible Impression on His Mind—Its Citizens Happy In Rain or Sunshine—Says No New City Can Equsl the Old. San Fraucisco as Homer Davenport knew it Is thus graphically described by the cartoonist in the New York Mail: The first city a boy sees, though he may be grown and awkward, still the impression that city leaves on.your mind always remains the sweetest, es- pecially if the city that you first saw was the brightest, the most inspiring, the widest awake of all the cities in the Union. To me no other city in the world could ever take the place of San Francisco. I went there in 1889. Held spell- bound by the awe of that beautiful busy throug, I rode up and down Mar- ket street, even fur out on Valencia, trying to find a place to alight. The town was too blg for me, and after ‘wandering around a few weeks, though fascinated by Its beauties, perhaps more still by Its historic poiuts and buildings, 1 was compelled to go back to the farm for shelter. But the memories of what I had seen gave me no rest, no peace of mind. So in 1892 I returned again. On this sec- ond visit 1 got really acquainted with the San Francisco people. They are unlike any other people in the world. In a few months 1 felt that 1 was as much a part of San KFrancisco as all other San Franciscans were. Every- body on Market street and Kearney had a speaking acquaintance with one another. It seemed that we wmissed each other If one of us was absent from the nightly parades that took place on those two historic thorough- fares, Those thoroughfares were crowded all the time with distinguished law- yers, great actors and actresses and famous athletes. The brightest news- paper men in the world walked arm in arm with the few remaining pioneers, many of whom wore the picturesque attire of the days of 1849. People of California and more especially in San Francisco If they had offices and stu- dlos and places of business seldom re- mained in them. They were too fond of outdoors. The very air of the city seemed to be full of inspiration and success. In later years, when skyscrapers arose, a tall building would stand ma- Jestically by a little old wooden build- ing that had perhaps been famous when gold dust was weighed out on the main streets in exchange for mer- chandise. Both buildings seemed to look as though they were proud of each other. At the old Lick House, when Sena- tor Fair was alive, In the main lobby of that hotel were many of his asso- clates in mining days.” After his death one could generally see several charac- ters walking down Montgomery street of the same type as the sheriff now playing In “The Girl of the Golden West.” Those were notexaggerations. Around Cape Horn and up through the Golden Gate ploneers were brought that were men of higher stamp than to be sway- ed by the fashion plates that changed from year to year. They were char- acters and proud of the fact without belng offensive. Crocker, Hearst, Flood, Fair, Mackay and Stanford were men who left a great influence on the community in which they lived. And 8an Francisco In a way looked like those men. San Francisco, above all citles in the United States, was the artistie place. It had many little nooks, celebrated little cafes, historic clubs, quaint little shops and was naturally made up of people capable of main- taining and appreciating them. If you know any one well you either like him very well or else not at all. It was on that basis that 1 knew San Francisco, and as a result of that ac- qualntance I falrly loved every build- ing In the place, even to the little open corners of almost every block. The #owers around Lottie’s fountain smell- e sweeter than any other flower, and the English lavender sold by an old peddler on Kearney street perfumed that whole part of the town till you came to Chinatown, which made up in Its picturesque.way for what it lacked in other respects. Whether it rained or whether it shone San Francisco was happy. The only time that Its people ever seemed alarmed was now and then when some slight quiver was felt from beneath the earth’s surface that caused the evening papers to sell like hot cakes. But the laughing, beautiful women for which the city was justly famed soon smiled the seriousness away, and San Francisco resumed a gala life again. At clubg the wittiest speakers joked off any serious attempt to get fright- ened over the rumbling sounds and the unsteady buildings. In a few years the slight terror caused by the feeble earthquakes bad been forgotten, peo- ple were charmed and captivated by the plcturesque trees and most exqui- site color of green that covered the landscape just out of San Francisco, and thousands upon thousands were content to call existence In San Fran- cisco supreme success and existence In another city in the world a failure in life. To a lover of San Francisco it's an awfal task to read of what seems to be it total destruction. After the loss of life the financial loss in property deean’t appeal to one as mach as the | destruction of the buildings so inti- mately associated with its historic past and so typical of It—buildings that were built by the pioneers and the wiping out of that first beautiful plc- ture that impresses itself like mother’s cooking, never to be replaced by any others quite as good. Once gone, always gone. A new city may grow, but it will be built with the memory of awful times. New San Francisco will never look like the old one. Mark Twalin, Joaguin Miller, Joe Goodman and Ned Hamilton looked llke San Francisco. The George Knights, the Reuben Lloyds, the Louis Strausses and John P. Irish were char- mcters in keeping with San Francisco and the Golden Gate. I am fearful that when the new San Francisco ap- pears It won't harmounize with the low cut velvet waistcoats and the wateh chains that circle around the neck; that the bobemian clubs, though Uncle George Bramley may continue to re- cite “When the Cows Come Home,” will never be quite the same. Nob hill will never appear as it is in my memory. The landmarks of time are gone. They couldn’t Lave been bought by man and can’t be reproduced by mau. While the homeless gather on the warm sand hills of Golden Gate park, peering through wet, glazed eyes upon the harbor called Golden Gate, that ad. mitted their ancestors In better d; they will realize that all the associa- tions with those golden days have gone ~have been wiped out by the same destiny that made their landscape and thelr people so beautitul. MEMORIES OF FRISCO. Mark Twain’s Description of Earth- quake He Saw In Stricken City. Samuel L. Clemeuns (Mark Twaln), after his recent lecture at the Carnegie ball, in New York, for the benefit of the Robert Fulton Memorial associa- tion’ fund, spoke as follows about the earthquake stricken city of San Fran- cisco: “The poor, smitten city. I have uo close friends there at present, although I have some at Alameda. [ see that all of the district around Montgomery street Is destroyed. The place where I lived while there and the place where I boarded is gone. 1 knew the dis trict very well, as 1 was a reporter on the Call and so of course got around pretty well. 1 worked first as a re- porter on the Virginia City Enterprise and In September or October, 1862, went to San Francisco, 1 was on the Call until 1866. = “I was there when they had oue healthy earthguake, however. It was the worst 1 ever heard of. It was one Sunday afternoon, hot and close. 1 was walkiug along the street when I was jiggled. I did not know what had happened. I thought there had been a quarrel or something between the houses. brick house fall across the street and form a bridge. 1 sprung up against the wall. But, say, that was the only house In town that did such a thing. I don’t know how it happeued. No one else saw it but me. I never told any one about it. “The last time I was there, I think, was in 1868. The town then had 118,- 000 people—that is, 18,000 Chinese and 100,000 people. 1 was there In 1868 and wrote ‘Roughing It' In sixty days. It would take me six months now. The town has grown from what It was when I was there to what It was two days ago since I left. There were no big bulldings there then.” After his address at Carnegle hall he made an appeal to the audience to remember (n their hearts and with thelr purses the people In “San Fran- cisco, the smitten city.” CHICAGO MIGHT HAVE ONE. Geological Expert Says an Earth- quake There Is Not Impossible. There are slight indicatious that Chi- cago may experience an earthquake within a few years, according to Pro- fessor J. Paul Goode of the Unlversity of Chieago geology faculty. The pres- ence of certaln species of rock In the earth inside or near the city limits, he believes, Is an Indication of a condition that might result in the dismantling of a portion of the city, says a Chicago dispatch. “There is no absolute geological proof that Chicago may have au earth- quake in the next few years,” Profess- or Goode declared. “Oume can detect slight symptoms, however. Certain for- mations of certain kinds of rock under- neath Chicago might be taken as an in- dication. An earthquake is as simple as the breaking of a timber. “1 believe that the seat of the dis- turbance at San Francisco was about seven miles below the surface of the earth. It was quite probably a slipping of the crust of the earth. Geuerally one block of the crust slips up while the other slips down. The focus of the disturbance may be noted by the direc- tion of the cracks in the wrecked build- ings.” A Pathetic Ineident. The meaning of the San Francisco disaster to thousands throughout the United States was brought out the oth- er afternoon by a little incident in the New York Times office. A young wo- man asked there for the latest Infor- mation from San Francisco. A map of the city was shown to her and the zone of danger pointed out. Her home was only a few blocks away. In vain she ‘was assured that the fire had not reached so far. She saw for herself and began to tremble as she looked, then burst into tears. Her father and mother and two brothers are in San Francisco, and she could get no word of them. Her father Is elghty-five years old and almost helpless. The young woman sald she believed she ‘would never see them again and might 'vever even have word of their end. I saw the frout of a six story °