The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1895, Page 14

- THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL, SUNDAY. AUGUST 4, 1895. ‘When I Was a Boy. Up in the attic, where Islept V lictle boy— the moonlight crept, a tide of dreams that swept Over a low, red trundle-bed, Bathing the tangled, curly head, While the moonbeams played at hide-and-seek With the dimples on the sunbrowned cheek— was & boy—a little boy! And, oh! the dreams—the dreams 1 dreamed! When I was a boy—a little boy! For the grace that through the lattice streamed Over my folded eyelids seem ed When I was a boy—a little boy ! o sleep where I nsed to sleep en I was a boy—a ¥ the lattice the moon would peep, Bringing her tide of dreams to sweep ‘The crosses and griefs of the years away From the heart that is weary and faint to-day; | give me back again since then— boy—a little boy! p, in Love Songs of Childhood. A Home of Sunshine. “I are got a orphum, a little baby or- phum!” That was the triumphant greeting I re- ceived from Faith Montgomery, aged 4, when I went down to Beulah Park to see about the new orphanage that is waiting, bathed in sunshine, for its furniture and its orphans. Orphans? Well, not necessarily. The fanniest thing about that orphanage is that 1t is for children only, and they are not going to demand of the babies who want or need to come there to live that they bury their papas and mammas first. | i course, there are a lot of dreadful reg- | ulations and things, for if there were not I fear the cozy new cottage would need a miracle like that of the loaves and fishes to make it shelter those who came. But miracles are so easy nowadays! Anditis | s0 easy to get what_you pray for if your | father is a millionaire. | Faith Montgomery i ed for orphans. | sla; | | A pesce I hav When I was EUGENE FIE] She wanted them to play th, and to take care of and to give her playthings to. And now—was it an answer to her prayers ?—she has found a baby that she calls her very own, though she promises to give it back to its mother again ‘fen it gets all growed up.” More than that, a plat of fifteen acres has been set aside for ‘“‘Orphans’ Cot- tages,” and under the very windows of the small Faith’s nursery. And the first of the cottages is finished from garret to cel- | lar, ready to be dedicated as soon as it is furnished. The plan isto have a perfect little village of these separate cottages, after the fashion of the soldiers’ children’s homes in some of the Eastern States. There the cottages are built about an open square, which is made to blossom into a beautiful }r:\rhfl Each cottage holds a “family” of about fortyboys or girls, and there are as many busy, competent and loving mothers as there are families. The i ne in a separate building, the washing ditto, and the sewing 1n a third. Only the mothers mend for their fami- lies, and only think of it! The buttons and patches for forty pairs of active and able-bodied trousers, and the darnings in the stockings that cover 400 awiful little ggling toes! ody but & born mother would ever dream of undertaking such a thing, and one feels sure that the hands that were able to do so much would be strong to pro- tect and patient to serve and soothe. But the home at Beulah is but a found- ling itself as yet, and this one first cottage— there are to be more if the faith of its founders is realized—is complete in all its departments—for one family. It is a wonderful completeness, too, that of this domucile, which ought to be called “the home of sunshine,” after the fashion of this new village with its “home of rest,” “home of peace” and “rescue home.’’ And, speaking of the construction of the home, thereby hangs a tale that is worth the telling. When the plan of building it was only a hope there came to the neighborhood one day a good and thoughtful man whom the Balvation people called “Father Gray,” in token of affection. Father Gray was an English architect who had aone much work in London, in- cluding the planning of that great plat- form in the Crystal Palace, which can seat comfortably 15,000 people. He came here from Victoria—esk some- body some questions, every one of you children, so that you may imbibe some solid information in a harmless Sunday fashion—and he believed that he came to this softer climate for his health’s sake. Arriving, Father Gray found a work waiting for him which brought complete self-forgetfulness. The settlement was sadly in need of a sewage system and that was the first thing to attend to. A plan was adopted from that one which is the pride of Brighton, England, and Father Gray’s system, which is an underground filtering and purifying process, works like a charm. Then there was the Children’s Home to think about. The plan was gone over many times and each detail was brought to perfection with infinite care. From the smooth-running closet drawers that will hold fresh frocks and household linen, and the broad, high tubs, where babes can be scrubbed and rubbed without the bending of a “mother’s” back, to the i;mm attic playroom, with low windows ooking out from four sides of it—Father Gray planned everything with loving pa- tie . Would baby heads be threatened by jut- ting corners and sharp angles? They must be rounded away, then, into graceful curves. Would the children feel always bappy and free in the prim rooms where visitors may come and order must reign ? One can imagine that Father Gray’s mem- ory went back to childish revels in'charmed - attics scented with sweet herbsand stored with mysterious treasures. *I bave it!” he must have said. “They shall have an attic of their very own!” And 50 a great room under the eaves, warmed by the sunshine and cooled by breezes that some of the many windows are sure to cateb, is waiting for the children to come and make it gay with play and with singing. Nobody could ever feel cooped up in a room like that, 1t is as big as the whole house in the first place, and then those great windows seem to let you out into the valley. and you have the “freedom of the =, stretching away to the very borders fairy land, for aught I know. When Father Gray bad watched and taught the workmen till the Children’s Home was finished and polished till it stood gleaming in its coat of yellow and white paint, as if it were built every vit of concentrated and condensed sunshine, he went down to one of the homes of peace or of rest,and laid his tired body down upon a couch. And when it went out of doors again it was carried by men who did not complain of their loss, but shouted thanksgivings for a good fight well fought—a good work well done. o Only girls between 3 and 14 years old are supposed to live in the Home of Sunshine. But already those terrible rules seem to have been “infracted” to an alarming ex- tent. First of all there is that baby of Faith’s, which has fairly twined itself about the | hearts of dozens of people, while it awaits the opening of the orphanage doors. Then theve are the twins—the jolliest, | smilingest pair of babies ever seen, and just 3 months old. And those cunning little individuals have already become the | hills and plains, miles and miles of them, | to each other about “pa,” as they loitered | to and from school, I wondered if all the families in_the world who were bringing up their children with the habit of using thsg old-fashioned title had settled in Ala- meda. Later, I was rejoiced to hear in what high esteem all these coming citizens held their paternal relatives. They were al- ways bragging to each other about ‘‘pa.” “Who cut your hair. so slick?” I heard one little chap ask another. “‘Oh, pa,” was the reply. ‘‘Hecan cnt hair bettern any barber 1n town, an’ if you ask him if he’ll do it, he’ll come to the door after school begins, an’ crook his finger at you, an’ you look at the teacher, an’ she’ll nod her head, an’ you go on out, an’ pa’ll take you down in the basement | an’ cut your hair just fine!” From’ speeches like thatI gathered at last that “pa” is a feature or a product of our public school system. And talk about fairy godmothers! Not one of tliem could hold a candle to pa. 1f some scared-to-death little chap comes puffing up to the schoolhouse gate after | they have been locked because it is 9 | o'clock, and the last of the children are | just marching sedately to their place pa is | just sure to be standing ready at the fence corner, and to reach out his strong arms s S w o THE LITTLE GIRL WEO LIKES uxPiIANS, most interesting objects upon earth to a pair of twin boys of my acquaintance, who have been looking almost all their lives for somebody to give their playthings to, and their outgrown beds, and baby carriages, and high chairs and things. You see, there are always two things exactly alike, and it will be so much more fun to hand them down to another pair of twins who will look exactly alike, 100, so that nobody can tell which thing belongs to which twin, nor which is which twin, anyway. I wonder if any of you Carn children were ever so fortunate as to be watching a baby when it discovered its small fist and made a study of it and classified it and be- gan to live in peace with it? If you ever were you can understand just how funny it was when those dear lit- tle twin babies first noticed each other, by the way. They had gone on living side by side in sublime unconsciousness that an thing unusnal had occurred, when sud- denly and almost simultaneously they dis- covered each other and began ‘‘to take notice.” They stared and blinked, and stared and blinked some more. They went to sleep, and when they awoke they began to stare at each other again as if it was a duty they had to perform. At last they seemed to decide to accept the sitnation. Their first smiles were for each other, and they have loved each other and enjoyed each other fv% since in a way that 1s delightful to be- hold. If one of the twin boys fell down and bumped his head the other one used to fall down and try to bump his in the same place * ’cause bruvver did.” And when both of them were stung by bees at the same time and Howard was asked why he made so much more fuss about the hurt than his brother did he stammered out, ‘I isn’t cryin’ ’cause it b-h-hurts. I’se cryin’ ’cause Harold was stinged by a b-b-bigger bee than I was!”’ ““Where are you going to get enough or- phans?” I asked little Miss Faith. “In ee ’treets. In ee’treets of ee city.” “And what do you want orphans for, Faith? “I wants to give ’em all my playsings, and 1 is goin’ to take 'air of ’em.” “You won’t give them all your play- things, will you—the ones you like best?” “Iis goin’ to give them all—ev’ry single, single, single one!” And so the home is waiting and the lit- tle girl and her elders are strong in the faith that means will come to carry on the work and strength to doit well. M. C.J. May His Tribe Increase. There is the very funniest old man in all the world at one of the public schools in Alameda. I don’t know his name, and 1 don’t want to know it, not even what his official position at the school is. 1 mezn to know him forever just as he appears to the little rosy-cheeked boys and girls who love him—just as he appeared to_the very smallest of them. ‘When I'first used to hear them talking {and hit that lad over the fence and half | way up the stairs at one swoo[a. 1f a little lad or lassie gets sick in school, or even gets hurt very badly, as happens sometimes, it isn’t reaily such a dreadful thing after all. Pa is there always, and he just lifts any- | body up in those same great big strong arms and carries 'em right straight home | to their mothers. And then, of course, | you know anybody is all right. And if a boy has to go to school with a tear in his trousers that his mother didn’t have time to see about, and if the boys be- gin to laugh and tease about it, Wh{. a fel- ow can just go over on the side of the yard where pa stays and nobody will say an- other word about it. 1t would take almost a whole newsl)n T to print all the nice things that little ?:l- lows who “will be in the room above the | infant class next year’’ have told me about pa. Ihave never heard just what else he does_besides helping small persons who are in trouble and encouraging boys to treat each other and_other people with de- cency and respect. But for what the man does that I do know about I salute him. And I wish there were at least pas enough to furnish one apiece for all the pubfic schools there are or ever will be. SR Toads in Costumes. Aunt Sue says, apropos of nothing, that if the children ever wet tired of being good they might adopt some of the awful pur- | suits which she and her brothers used to follow in the ‘““gqod old days” when they played more naughty pranks than the good little boys and girls of to-day seem to think about. “For instance,” says candid Aunt Sue, ‘‘we used to catch toads and dress them up in gorgeous costumes. ‘“We used to get scraps of cloth, bright colors preferred, and cut out dresses for some and coats for others. We'd cut out armholes, and cut the coats with lon strips of cloth attached, which we coul tie into bows to hold the garment in place. I remember we used to be very fond of sash effects and tied huge bows that had to be held in place by being ingeniously fastened with strings to what we called their ‘legs and arms.’ “You can imagine that people walking along the street past our house were some- what startled when they beheld whole families of toads promenading about in costumes—though the effect ugon the pub- hl(]: wtas the last thing we children worried about. “We had a sand pile even in those be- nighted days, and we used to fix up cages with bars across them and put the toads inside for a menagerie. +*0f course, the poor beasts were always gone in the morning, and this was a prob- Jem that it took usa long time to solve. When the bars were close together and were not disturbed, how could the toads get away? ‘At last we got up a theory to the effect that the toads were good kind fairies, who came in the daytime to amuse and make us happy. And we thouc{t' that when we hdd gone to bed they changed back to little mSly fairies again and went off to some shady nooks or deils to drink the dewdrops and dance with their friends till morning came again. And, thinking the matter over after all these years,” says Auntie Sue, “T declare I believe that our theory was just about a correct one!” Many CALKINS JOHNSON. CONTRAQTS TO BE CONSOLIDATED Amalgamated Carpenters Object to the Present System of Building. Branch 611 of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners came to an im- portant decision last evening whieh will be of interest to prospective builders of houses. For some time the society has contended that by the present system of segregatiug the various contracts neces- sary to finish an edifice the best interests of both builders and artisans were not be- ing subserved and that the plan should be changed. Carpenters from Alameda, Oakland, San Rafael and other points about the bay were ?resent _to discuss the matter and several hours were spent in arguing the uestion from all points of view, some of those who took part in the discussion be- lieving that it would be difficult to change the present system. It was finally decided to abolish the pres- ent plan of letting contracts and a com- mittee was appointed to draft a notifica- tion to builders that in future contracts for plumbing, ete., must be made through the carpenters to whom the contract for the building is let. ALL KINDS OF SPORTING Practicing for the Polo Races and Pigeon Shoot at Del Monte. Olympic Club Members Are Anxious to See Willlam Greer Harrison in Harness Again. The Country Club is making very elabo- rate preparations for its annual outing and pigeon shoot at Del Monte. The teams that will be selected from the Burlingame and Riverside clubs are in constant train- ing for the great polo match which will be held on Tuesday, the 27th inst., and the gentlemen who will engage in the steeple- chase on the 29th inst. have been training at Burlingame for some weeks past. It is said that among the riders there are some very expert pigskin stickers and that the race for place will be very warmly con- tested this year. On Friday, the 28th inst., the crack pigeon-shooters of the Country Club will be divided into two squads, which will be known as the ‘“‘reds’ and *blues.” The prevailing topic of conversation at the racuic-Union Club these evenings is relative to the gentlemen who may com- pose the teams. Billy Kittle, who is counted upon as one of the best all-round shots of the club, states that he will not be a competitor this year, as his entire leisure time will be given to looking after the kennels and stables of the club at Olema, The teams, however, will not be selected until the shooters meet at Del Monte. The State Sportsmen’s Association has decided to hold its annual pigeon-shoot- ing tournament at Sacramento during the State Fair. The Fair Association and the citizens of Sacramento have added between $250 and $500 to the purses to be shot for, and inducements of this kind will, no doubt, attract a large gathering of sports- men to the State capital during the meeting. Henry Skinner and Mr. Chase of Santa Cruz le{! this City last evening for a week’s fishing on the Tzuckee River. Everybody interested in angling knows all about Skinner. His fame as an expert has reached almost to the other side of Jordan, Mr. Chase is one of the most expert fiy- casters of the beautiful little city of .Santa Cruz, and it is safe to say that those deft handlers of the rod will more than as- tonish the cunning old denizens of the far- famed Truckee. 1t is said that Crittenden Robinson, the champion wing shot of the coast, would not have the least objection to meeting M. Chick of Los Angeles in a race for the championship medal. The Olympic Club members are in a quandary as to whom they will select for { their next president. Adolph Spreckels, W. Greer Harrison, J. V. Coleman and Henry Crocker have all given reasons why they couid not accept the nomination, and as the time is drawing near for the selec- tion of a nominating commitee, the mem- bers have given up guessing who the prin- cipal officer will be. Tt was rumored yesterday thata com- mittee, consisting of some of tlfe most prominent members of the club, will wait upon Mr. Harrison on Monday and try to induce him to accept the nomination for presiding officer. With few exceptions the old members who formerly opposed Mr. Harrison are now his strongest supporters. After re- peated trials they are convinced that he is the man best fitted to run successfully a large athletic institution. THE COMMERCIAL BANKS. Figures From All This Class of Institu- tions in the State Show Great In- crease of Business. All the banks of the State have reported their standing on June 17 to the Bank Commission in response to the first call under the new law except three National banks. There are 57 savings banks, 173 commercial, 18 private and 31 National. These figures do not include the fifteen banks in liquidation. There is a very favorable comparison in the figures from the commercial banks for J une‘i7 and last January. The total assets and liabilities increased over $3,500,000, and the deposits increased over $2,250,000 in the five and a half months. Following is the comparison by figures: RESOURCES. Jupe17. - January 1. 42,810,167 56 82,800,551 B1 4,484,198 33 8,896,925 37 bonds and warrants.. 5,793,420 89 4,809,503 39 Loans on real estate...19,473,286 67 19,310,497,96 Loansonstocks; bos and warrants. 13,398,128 55 12,558,678 56 I.o?m on other securi- des. . 4,803,158 84 4,952,284 27 Bank premises. Other real-esate. Invested in stocks, Lozns o cerity... 41,234,244 30 42,240,975 88 Money on 18,571,248 42 19,961,763 06 Due from' ban] bankers. 15.583,414 19 13,366,519 77 4,413,367 18 2,296,601 19 LIABILITIES. June 17, January 1. $13,547,699 31 UM!.IDB?:%] 93 v 17,626,818 50 17,975,818 13 56,083,274 24 54,226,108 00 Capital paid uj Reserve, and and 6,803,491 72 7,118,421 66 2,786,127 67 4,002,477 21 1,485,326 13 8,167,318 60 Total assets and ia- bilities. ... $180,514,824 94 $126,917,553 06 TO SAVE THE RANCH, An Injunction Against Interfering With Fair's Yolo Property Issued by Judge Slack. . The special administrators of the James G. Fair estate have obtained an injunction to vrevent S. W. Boyer, Jonn W. Brown- ingand A. H. Rose from tearing away a dam and levee that Senator Fair built ten ears ago to protect his Knight's ranch ands from the overflow of Sycamore Blough. ) The injunction was issued by Judge Slack. Boyer, Browning and Rose are trustees of a reclamation district, and to reclaim some overflowed lands ti\ey proposed to cut through the dam that was built at .herent power in matter and Knights ranch. KINETIC STABILITY. BY ROBERT STEVENSON, FIRST PAPER. Having discovered some time ago a prin- ciple in nature which had apparently been overlooked by scientists, I have been read- ing papers and delivering lectures to try to persuade professional scientists to study and discuss the subject, and more espe- cially to interest the faculty at Berkeley and Palo Alto in carrying out the neces- sary experiments, to satisfy thosé who would not be convinced by mathematical reasoning. T had hoped that the scientific enthusi- asm of these prominent, well-endowed and well-equipped universities would have caused them to take the matter up promptly, and settle it in a way which would eitner redound to the credit of Cali- fornia or show that I was mistaken in the interpretation of the natural action which the experiments indicate. Having brought the matter before the Technical Society with that object in view, and having Professor Soule’s promise that the matter would be attended to at Berke- ley, and owing to my being engaged in other business, I allowed the matter to rest on that expectation for the last eight ornine months; but as no attempt was being made, o far as I could learn, to com- plete the discussion started by the Techni- cal Society on the subject, and as numer- ous inquiries were coming to me from other States and from Europe, asking for information on the subject, I concluded to give my ideas in a pamphlet, which I have just published, entitled “‘Elasticity a Mode of Motion,” copies of which I sent to the leading scientists in this and other States; and as Tue CaLL was the only newspaper in this City which noticed it, and seemed to have any intelligent idea of the nature of the scientific principle which had been discovered, I naturally con- cluded that it must be the only paper which has a scientific department. Y ‘When I published the pamphlet makin the matter as clear and simple and void of mathematical formule as possible, I hoped it would explain all the difficulties which naturally surround a new subject, but I find the inquiries that come to me still ask for more simplification. The question is what is “Kinetic Sta- bility 2" Now as the discovery is of a purely scien- tific character it is not one that can be sold like an invention for a money con- sideration, and consequently it 'is to nobody’s interest to subsidize newspapers to boom it; and as we have no scientilic associations here like they have in London to spread the knowledge of scientific and uncommercial discoveries, it has devolved on me single-handed to plant the banner of truth on the battlements of what has hith- erto been considered an impregnable fortress. If my discovery is correct it means not merely the addition of one more truth to science, but it means the removal of a foundation stone on which the whole of astronomical physics has hitherto rested | for its' mathematical treatment. The master mathematician who laid that | stone was no léss than the illustrious phi- | losopher, Sir Isaac Newton, who declared the discovery of the law of gravity more than two centuries ago; a law which has vroven so correct that all the motions of | the solar system have been determined | with a precision and completeness which is next to perfection itself. Now, Newton was not unlf a mathema- tician, but also a great natural philosopher, and_ speculated on causes as well as laws. | And -although he was often wrong in his | speculations his theory of the cause of gravi- tation has, like hislaw of gravity, remained invincible against all arguments and ex- periments which either theologians or sci- entists have hitherto produced. His theory, as every one knows, is that matter has in itself a power to attract other matter how- ever distant the pieces of matter be from one another. This inherent power or property of mat- ter constitutes an ultima thule to all scien- | tific progress, and is the fin de siecle fad of anmaterialists. It is believed by many to be the God of the universe, arguing that | without such attractive power there could | be no order in the universe; that every | mass or planet in motion would continue | to move in straight lines foreverif the sun, by virtue of its attractive power, did not constantly pull them toward himself; and it not only requires the sun to pull the | planets, but the planets must also pull the sun, so as to conform to the laws of action and reaction. Perhaps some people may be astonished to know that many of the most intellectual scientists 1 the world durine the last hun- dred years were believers in this power of attraction as the only god in nature. And at the present time such great scientists as Hankel, Jordan and others confess pub- licly that they areignorant of the existence of any power beyond the inherent specific properties of attraction in matter and the inherent specific property or power of evo- lution in organism. Now, if it can be proven that there is no such inherent properties or power in matter or organisms, it will prove a dread- ful calamity to those who have made that roperty or power the foundation of their Eeliel in that as a first cause. Although in a free field truth will event- ually frevail, yet under such a combina- tion of interests as exist in the scientific world at present, it becomes uphill work to overcome the settled convictions of the intellectual giants of this scientific age. ‘When we consider with how much ease such men as Huxley and Le Conte could put to flight many of the defenders of revealed religion, by dressing up a scarecrow in the shape of & god, and calling it evolution; when we consider how easy it was for Voltaire in the last century to destroy the faith of millions by exhibiting the great Newtonian theory as a power within mat- ter to produce order and stability out of chaos, we have good reasons for asserting that any truth which appearsto be antago- nistic to the established doctrine of in- inherent forces in evolution cannot have a fair and open field for consideration. 8till there is one satisfactory gleam of hope in the knowledge that all scientists are virtually fighting for truth, although many times detending error, the result being due either to the want of potential energy or to that latent defect common to all humanity which is generally called “‘mistaken 1dentity.”” To mistaken identity was due the Ptole- maic theory of the universe, whose advo- cates and defenders were protected by an apparently invulnerable fortress of mathe- matical curves, cycles and epicycles, which for 2000 years was the admiration and terror of a deluded world. To mistiken identity was due the theory of the “Fuga Vacui,” which from time im- memorial was the accepted doctrine of hilosophy until Torricelli, Pascal and f{obert Boyle, by their experiments and their influence, established the fact of its being a mistaken identity, and, thanks to the Royal Society (then in its infancy), the glorligms truth was spread throughout the world. Then again the corpuscular theory of light and the caloric theory of heat had to be demonstrated by such scientists as Rumford, Davy and Young before the light of the great truth could dissipate the mists of benighted ages. £ 8till the battle rages round the specific inherent qualities of bodies, and although it has been proven that a vacuum has no inherent specific power to raise water, that the eye has no inherent power to produce vision, that heat, light and_electricity are not innate or inherent qualities in matter, yet attraction as a specific inherent quality in matter is the universally accepted be- lief of the scientific world at the present accepted as a proyen trath in biological sciences. So long as such errors continue as a menace to progress, so long will there con- tinue to be such revolutionary leaders as Copernicus, Bruno, Gallileo, Newton, Boyle, Davy, Faraday and Darwin, and a host of others who may well be designated the pioneers and pathfinders of science, as Columbus, Cook, Livingstone and oth- ers were the discoverers and pathfinders of unknown regions and continents. And so long as mistaken identity exists there will always be found a force of intelligence to discover the error and develop the truth. Thanks tq the freedom of the press and the throbbing intelligence which perme- ates it, publicity has become a universal agent in the diffusion of truth and the dis- persion of egror. 2 Al!bougl?.he professors of technical science think the public are unable to com- prehend the mysteries of their craft, and to add to the digiculty have invented sys- tems of symbolical language, which none but & trained expert can follow, yet I think it can be shown that the English language is comprehensive and definite enough to give correct ideas of all that science can teach; and that the readers of a daily news- paper will not only understand but appre- ciate the effort to communicate such intel- ligence in aform which they can relish and digest. A Since publishing the pamphlet explain- ingin popular language what I conceive to%)e the true and proximate cause of gravi- tation, as 1 before remarked, I have had many inquiries for a further simplification and elucidation of the subject. To do that requires considerable space, as we have to begin with the alphabet of motion, explaining and defining the cor- rect ideas which certain words and expres- sions convey to the mind and so building up the facts with the definitions and the demonstrations until we reach that place in the great temple of science where the discovery fits, and where we hope it will continue to remain through all ages, Now although “kinetic stability” is a well known and old established term in mechanical science, yet its function as an active agent in natural phenomena was only discovered as the result of an almost exhaustive analysis by the higher mathe- matics, and so mych beyond the compre- hension of the ordinary student that even Thomson and Tait in their great standard work on natural philosophy only mention it as something requiring for its explica~ tion such complicated symbolical expres- sions as make it difficult for the mind of man to follow. On the other hand mi discovery places the kinetic stability of the mathematician in a new and simpler form, and shows it to be not only one of the simplest-but also one of the most important of all the latent forces of the universe. It is the proximate source of the *‘con- servation of energy,’” the foundation of “the potential,” the producer of universal stability, and the cause of ggavity. On it depend for their correct solution such roblems as the molecular constitution of odies, the production of planetary sys- tems and all the actions and reactions among the molecules of matter which gen- erate and convey heat, light and electricity in the material world; while in organized bodies the same principle acts by means of the survival of the most stable forms in producing that rate of vital progress which is designated by the name ‘‘Evolution.” So evolution in the organic world bears the same relation to vital or kinetic stabil- ity which acceleration in the mechanical world bears to kinetic stability. They simply express the law of its action. Evolution, then, expresses the rate of change in organism, a portion of whose kinetic stability has been converted into potential energy. i The acceleration of motion in natural henomena is the rate of change of velocity ue to the potential of a mass which had kinetic stability. That law the spiritual world which corresponds with those two great laws in the natural world has yet to be found and established on a scientilic basis, but there are reasons to believe that the Christ of the Scriptures knew of that law when he told his disciples that if they had it to the extent of a grain of mustard seed they could remove mountains. In the transla- tion it is called “faith,” but it evidentl must be a different faith from that whic doubt can destroy; it meant a poten- tial power in the soul, whose method of doing work and producing spiritual phe- nomena will some day be reduced to a law of action as unswerving in its results and as capable of being understood and utilized by the human race as either of those other two great laws on which depends ail our power of controlling and directing the material and vital forces of nature. In the papers to follow on “Kinetic Stability,” we will try by analogy to rediscover and enunciate that important law in the spir- itual world, to estabiish the truth of which the Son of God became man and mani- fested himself to the world. ROBERT STEVENSON, 2607 Fillmore street, San Francisco. A NAVAL MAN'S ESTATE. Dr. John Mills Browne Left $9079 31 in California Property. An authentic copy of the will of Dr. John Mills Browne, a medical director in the United States navy, wasfiled in the County Clerk’s office fieslerday. Dr. Browne, formerly resided here and at Va- llejo, but for several years “prior to his death, on December 7 of last year, he re- sided at Washington. All the property is bequeathed to the widow, Mrs. Alice Keif Browne. ‘There is no statement of the value of the entire estate, but the California portion of it is appraised as follows: San Francisco real estate, unimproved...81,500 00 Stock in Sap Francisco corporations.. 1140 2279 81 Money in San Francisco banks. Vallejo real estate, unimproved. ....... ....89,079 31 Mrs. Browne, the widow, is the execu- trix of the will. MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION. It Is Sadly in Need of Money for Street- Sweeping. The Merchants’ Association is placed in a peculiar position by the Board of Super- visors failing to act upon the matter of awarding the street-sweeping contract be- fore taking their midsummer vacation. There being no funds available, and as the Merchants’ Association is not an in- corporated company, and as such cannot borrow any money, the only remedy which will enable them to continue the work is for the Supervisors to hold one more meet- ugfibcfore adjourning and pass the July bill as well as to let the new contrac. Possibly Auditor Broderick can straighten out the matter by making a voucher for the associations July bill without waiting for the second meeting of the Supervisors. In that case the association can raise money on the voucher at the banks. “I have a dear little babe, and am # well. Ithank Mrs. Pinkham for this, and so could other motherless women. I was a victim of Fe- male troubles. Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound cured me.” — §~;MM. Geo. C. 4 KIRCHNER, y 351 Snediker day. And that evolution is a specific in~ herent quality in organisms is generally Ave., Brook- Iyn, N. Y. | NEW TO-DAY. All Tan $3.50 Shoes Reduced $2.50 $4.00 Tan Shoes ARE NOW $3.30. $2.50 Tan Princess Elastic Sides ARE NOW $1.50. $3.00 Tan Oxfords 2 Buttons on Instep ARE NOW $2.25. $1.50 Tan South- ern Ties Cloth Tops, Razor Toes, ARE NOW $1.25. 75c Shoes fir Babies Soft and Light ARE NOW 45¢c Kast's 738=740 Market Street RECORD- BREAKING PRICES! GAZE ON THEM! Ladies’ Shirt Waists af 25¢ Ladies’ Double Capes at. 950 Ladies’ Triple Capes at. 1.30 Children’s Double-breasted Ree: ers at....... 1.25 Ladies’ Double-breasted Box Jack- ets af For Ladies o 00e . 495 Ladies’ Bwell Tailor-made Suits at 7.75 A5~ These are GREAT BARGAINS and won’t last long. 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