The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1896, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1896. a7 THERES A IHRILL IN My WOVEN STEEL, LIKE A THRILL IN THE LANCE OF LIGHT WHEN IT WAKES THE WORLD Too LoNG ENFURLED IN THE MOCKING DREAMS OF NIGHT: Habs A WAR NOTE STRUCK? AND Must 1 LEap ForTH WITH THE SWORD-KNoOT'S Kiss oF PRIDE, INy THE NAME OF My WEDDED SoutH AND NORTH AND A RIGHTEOUS CLamM DENIED? e FrOM Its DEwWY COVER BURSTS THE RosE Iy A BLUSHFUL MORN OF JUNE, BUT THE LILY'S BREATH HAS A TAINT OF DEATH. WHERE THE W00D LAKES LIE A-SwooN YET THE ROSE BREATHES LOVE AND LovE BRINGS WAR ARD THE LILY SIGHS FOR PEACE, AND THE WoORLD MoOvES ON WITH SCATH, AND SCAR. TILL THE BUGLE SINGS SURCEASE. — WHEN THE WINDS ARISE THE STILL SEA STIRS AND TOSSES A STORMY MANE, | AND THE GOLD-MAILED STARS SALUTE RED Mars FROM THE CRESTS OF THEIR PURPLED PraIN; B > THEY KNow IT IS BUT THE PULSE OF LiFE FOR THE SHORES OF BLOOM AND BALM. THOUGH PEACE 13 SWEET SHALL WE CLASP HER CLOSE TiLL HER SLEEP [ A FETID DREAM{ AND NEVER AWAKE FOR A GREAT TRUTH'S SAKE THOUGH THE BALEFUL DEATH-LIGHTS GLEAM? A# No'—THE DRIFTS OF HER GOLDEN HaIR GORGONIAN WREATHS BECOME WHEN THE WORLD FORGETS THE TRUMPET'S BLARE AND THE CANNON'S LiPS ARE DUMB. THERE 1§ LIFE [N DEATH AND DEATH IN LIFE IN THE CHANGEFUL WEB AND WOOF OF THE MIGHTY LooM JN WHOSE LIGHT AND GLooM Is Our FIBER PuT TO PROOF; AND THE PALMS OF PEACE AND THE PLUMES oF WaR N THE MaRcH oF ‘TIME HAVE PLACED As ADVANCEMENT RoLLS HER RINGING CAR To THE SHINING HEIGHTS OF GRACE. o As THE RED Rost BREaKS ITs CALYX GREEN WHEN THE BIRDS ITS BLOOMING SING. ERE THE CANKER'S MoLD Has MARRED ITs Fotp AND Its DREAM OF LIGHT TAKES WING— FROM ENFOLDING PEACE DOES THE CRIMSON FLow'rR OF 'THE TEMPEST'S BOURG WHEN THE CANNON BOOMS Hour - AND THE STORMY TRUMPETS BLOW. ON GLow iE FATEFUL 4 As THE Dawns, WITH SWIFT AND THRILLING GLEAMS, THE SLUMBERING HILLS APPRISE THAT THE YOUNG DAY WAITS AT THE EASTERN GATES. AND THEIR CRESTS IN PRIDE MusT RIsE, 1 So L. LIKE A QUIVERING MESSENGER b1 il OF LIGHT. FROM THE SHEATH MUST LEAP, M AND WHEN FREEDOM CALLS MUST ANSWER HER § p i) i S0 I, IN THE SICKLY LULL OF YEARS AND THE GLUT OF FouL DESIRE, FOR THE RIGHT MUST PLEAD THROUGH BLOOD THAT HER LEGIONS Do Not SLEEP. —e> ) As THE LIGHTNING'S SWIFT AND VIVID STROKE THE RESOUNDING THUNDER WAKES, }} AND THE SULTRY AIR IN THE CRASH AND GLARE ITs FEVERISH YEARNING SLAKES, WITH A FLICKERING TONGUE OF FIRE ——— IF A CLoup AND TEARS SHOULD FALL ON THE STRIPES AND STAR LESS BANNER'S SHEEN, FROM THE SHEATH I'LL SPRING WITH A STEELY RING, BE THE FOE A SLAVE O IF o WHISPER OFAH THERE'S A S FREE IN THE BATTLES SCAR OLD GLORY'S PERPETUAL YOUTH. [ The Flag at the Capitol Is Often Re- paired, but Never Renewed. question which what becomes of the flags which fly ses- er session over two Houses of The life of a flag exposed at ight to the tat winds naturally cannot be long. Ever ow and then after a storm a great rent is seen in “0ld Glory,” as it proclaims from the housetop that our statesmen are deliberat- | ing. Sometimes a stripe is gone. or per- haps half the stars may be torn away. Then in a day or two it flies a n with all its stripes and its stars, as if it had never suifered by the storm. I asked what became of the old flags. Nobody knew. What do you do with tbem ? Nothing. They are the same flags. are no new ones. mended. Th this. one can answer That is, there The old flags are simply e is a patriotic poem in “0ld Glory’ has a perpetual life; that is, the ““Ola Glory” that presides over th pitol. When a stripe blows away a new one is put in its place, and the same old flag is pulled to the head of the staff. 1f it is the blue field and stars that is gone this is reproduced. If only a rent, it is| darned; if a hole, it is patched. Then another stripe goes, and a new one is added. So on, the old portions are blown away, the newer standing until the new becomes the old in turn and tears away, | and in endless revolution the old flag lives on. Itis always the same flag, but from | year to year its entire texture is changed, | and the small bits are blown away by the | winds, and other small bits take their place.” There is no grayeyard for *Old | slory.” It has perpetual life. No onecan | tell when the flag which floats over the | Senate was bought. It is still a perfect | flag, but no part of what was first drawn to the masthead is now in existence.—Wash- ington Evening Star. — . o1a Hickory. Some very good stories, not recently in print, if ever, were brought out at several of the celebrations on the 8th of January. Among these is this one, showing the in- domitable will of Andrew Jackson: Just after his death a Whig friend of his met an old family servant and began ask- | him a few questions about his late . l Do you think,” I | has gone to heaven?” Deed, T dunno, sah; dat jis' depen’s.” 1ds on what? depen’s, sah, on ef de gin’al ited to go, sah, er not,’”’ said the old darky, Wwith supreme contidence in the general. “Ef he wanted to g0, sah, he am dah, sho’; an’ ef he didn’ in’ g New Kort foa: ie didn’t, he ain’t, sah.- ——— . The chief port of ex ort of the Argen- tine Republic is l:oaar;:o. In Febru%u’y. 1895, there were 145 steamers and ui]ingl said, *‘that the gen- vessels in Rosario either ch; 8! Hes iy chartered or scek. SHORT LESSONS IN HORSE GUIDANCE. STOPPING. There is as much science in knowing when and how to stop as there is in knowine w; your horse through the intricate ma Never let your horse stop of hi stand that vou are conducting your es of a crowded city. own if you have any doubt concerning his temper and suspect that he may reins and say “whoa’’ emphatically. the animal’s foot. The horse | be diverted from the idea he entertained of balking. Never say “whoa,”’ command. ord. Pull him up, even at his own stable door. The animal should at ious expeditions together. The first time he shows an inclination to stop of his own notion, have an infention of balking, pull up promptly on the It may be well to get out and eJamine the harness, pretend to adjust a strap, or look at a curious brain, that can only boid one idea at atime, and his attention may often in this manner the use of the word has spoiled more than one horse, and cost more thar one driver his life. Never pull up suddenly in a_crowded street. N Y \\ e A SCENE ON £ I saw a man do this recently vehicles, pedestrians and an electric-car were thrown into confusion. Never stop your horse on an up-grade unless you have a brake on your vehicle or can turn so as to take the strain off the hen and how to start, or how to guide all times under- | as some drivers do, when you only want the animal to slacken speed. This is your supreme word of The horse should understand that it is at all times to be obeyed promptly. Neglect of this lésson or carelessness in to speak to a passing friend, and a long line of COST OF ENGLAND'S WARS. ‘What the British Have Had to Pay for Their Fighting of Two Centuries. In the wars of the present and of the previous century England has expended $5.000,000,000. Aimost incessantly since 1700 England has been prosecuting war and paying the cost of it, either in alliance with other European nations or against barbarous or semi-civilized nations single- handed. The first of the wars in which England engaged in the eighteenth century was against the French, England having as its allies Holland, Prussia, Hanover and Portugal. It culminated in the treaty of | Utrecnt in 1713, after an exvenditure (rel- KEARNY STREET — RESULT OF PULLING UP SUDDENLY. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] atively much larger in those days) of $900,- The English war against the Canadian colonists, who were favorable to the French, but who were without adequate resources to withstand the power of the English, followed, at a cost of $300,000,000, and then follwed the waragainst the Ameri- can patriot colonists south of the Canadian border-line—the Revolutionary War. The cost to England of the Revolutionary War is given in the official figures of the Eng- lish War Office at $600,000,000. ‘The closing years of the eighteenth cen- tury and the early years of the nineteenth century were years of strife and war in which England took an active part, but never single handed. Her first alliance was with Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, Portu- gal, Itiay and the minor German States against France. That was in 1793. Tlhe next alliance, six years later, included the same countries, with Turkey, Naples, the Barbary States and Austria in addition as allies of England. The combination of European nations of which England was atpart, in 1805, included England, Russia, AKustria, Sweden and Naples. [n 1809 Eng’ land and Austria combined against France, and in 1813 all the great powers of Europe and_most of the minor ones combined against Napoleon in what was known afterward as ‘‘the seventh coalition.” While these wars were in progress in Europe England carried on other wars, particularly against the United States (the war of 1812), and in India, and during this period, beginning in 1793 and closing in traces. To stand for a minute holding a vehicle on one of our City hills w amount of reasonable driving can do. Never, when you can avoid it, stop the animal suddenly when going at speed. The strain of this sort of thing, which is very | common on our streeis, tells, in time, op the stoutest shoulders and knees. stand any length of tinie with his feet in water. It is dangerous to stop close behind another vehicle when going uphill. The breaking of a trace or backing of the horse may precipitate an accident. Do not unnecessarily leave vour horse, even when stoutly tied, where he is likely to be frightened. The animal’s nervous organization is very fine, and he can often, thus, sustain a shock that will permanently lower his value. Do not tie at the same rail or post with a saddle-horse. Do not tie where the horse must face the wind. Do not tie near a barbed-wire fence. Never leave your horse untied. You may feel sure that the animal is perfectly reliable, but you cannot predicate what some other horse may do, or what accidents may happen. him with a good turn and full hitch. Tie him with a long enough rope. Don’t leave him too long. ie him with a good, stout neck halter, passed through the bitring. ill strain and weaken a horse’s quarters more than any st s] s s. If you can help it do not stop where your horse must This, in our climate, is a prolific source of rheumatism among horses. 1f you cannot pass keep a safe distance in the rear. 1815, the total sum expended by England for war and naval purposes was $4,000,000,- | 000. Such was the debt of En{glnnd at the close of the last war with the United States, but it has been greatiy reduced since. The Crimean war, in which Engiand en- gaged against Russia with France, Turkey and Sardinia as its allies, cost England $350,000,000, and subsequent wars and en- counters in India, in Southern Africa, where the Boers proved a sturdy foe, in Egypt and elsewhere have entailed con- aifiemble cost upon the English treasury. but very much less than the expense. of fighting with civilized soldiers 1 well- equipped armies. The present debt of England, exclusive of the debt of English dependencies, which is $2,000,000,000, is $3,300,000,000.—New York Sun, PERSONS WH YW, ©, The case of the young woman who pre- Isented herself at the Receiving Hospital in this City recently and announced that she had lost her identity, having no recol- lection of her name, family, home or friends, was by no means singular, though none the less remarkable. - There have been many other such cases, and the idea has been employed to great advantage in fiction. That a calamity so terrible may befall the strongest of us at any momentis with a peculiar interest and a special dread. A few years ago such a catastrophe over- took an estimable resident of San Fran- cisco. The account of it which I shall here give was furnished by the physician who had charge of the case—a man of ex- cellent skill in his profession,whom, for ob- vious reasons, I shall call Dr. Blank and his patient Mr. Smith. I do not think the case ever found its way into the newspa- pers, and as 1t has been some time since the account was given to me I may be at fault in the minor details; but I am sure of the main points, One 'forenoon Dr. Blank, whose office was in a downtown building, was hastily summoned to a neighboring drugstore. In the back room he found a man strug- gling in a convulsion. The attack had all the indications of ordinary epilepsy. The' physician was informed that the man had fallen in a fit on the sidewalk and had been brought into the shop. Dr. Blank applied the usual means of amelioration, and soon the man was conscious again. He had the violent headache, cola feet and other ordi- nary sequele of an epileptic attack. He was a well-dressed and prosperous-looking man of about 44, and had the manners of a gentleman. The extraordinary complexities of his case were very soon developed,and had it not been for the tact and quickness of perception of Dr. Blank (who was al- ways on the alert for surprising develop- ments in epileptic cases), the complica- tionsin which the unfortunate sufferer was at once plunged might have had a disas- trous effect. As the patient was too weak and was suffering too much to make his own way home at once, Dr. Blank asked him where he lived, that he might send him home in a hack. The man promptly gave a street and number that the doctor had never heard of in San Francisco, but he knew that the name of the street was thatof a famous thoroughfare in an Eastern city. Without saying anything he consulted a directory and found that there was no such street here. name. It was given freely and was easily found in the directory. adroiuy put developed the fact that th stranger, who was down in the director: s an accountant for a certain large whole- sale establishment, was a lawyer and not an account of the house with which his name was connected. Dr. Blank, holding the patient under the pretext of his being too ill to leave, sent a .| messenger hastily to the wholesale house and one of the proprietors The physician explained to arrived that he thought possibly a hiatus had occurrea in Smith’s memory, and that he desired the merchant should not claim an acquaintance, but merely give Smith an opportunity to recognize him. Smith failed utterly to do so. From the m: chant Dr. Blank lea i married and had two children, and that he lived at a certain street and number in RSan Francisco. Dr. Blank immediately summoned the wife, and directed her to bring the children. responded. address given by Smith as being likely that of a place in'an Eastern city, and in the course of a few hours received an answer which will be set forth in this narration. Pending the arrival of the patient’s family and news from the East Dr. Blank ingeniously plied Smith with more ques- tions. The substance of the answers was this: Smith said that he was 40, when he was evidently older; that he was a lawyer and bad a very good practice; that he was a bachelor and lived in a certain well-known club in a-large kastern city. He was zently led to discuss politics, whereupon Dr. Blank discovered that the sufferer thought thata President who had been out of office three years was still the in- cumbent. Then, when the physician turned the talk another way he found that Smith supposed himself to be still in the Eastern city, that he had heard of San Francisco and had often wanted to live there, and intended to move thither before long, and that he believed the day of his lying there in the back room of the chem- ist’s was a day four years past. In short, it was evident that the man had been wholly another individual dur- ing four years, had lived an entirely dis- tinct life during that time, bad last his old profession and acquired a new one, had married and become the father of two children, and now had suddenly emerged to the one which he had held for forty years, retaining not the slightest recollec- tion of anything that had happened in the four years’ interval. Dr. Blank had hoved that a visit from the wife and children might recall the man to his recent life, but as there was some delay in their arrival the news from the East preceded them. It was corroborative of all that Smith had said concerning hislife there, and added this: ‘‘One day about four years ago he had an epileptic fit. That night he disappeared, and nothing has been heard of him since.” In recounting the affair afterward Dr. Blank said: *The situation was exceedingly complex and pitiful. In the higher and proper sense Mrs. Smith’s husband was dead—as completely removed from the earth as though he had undergone the ordinary process of dying. I had learned from his employer that he was most tenderly de- voted to his wife and babies, and thatthey were equally attached to him. How could it be possible for this poor woman and these children to understand, when they saw him again in the flesh, speaking with his old familiar voice, that he was not the husband and father of their hearthstone? A particularly distressing feature of the case was my inference, from his long-sustained condition of bachelorhood, that in his original state, to which he had now re- turned, he was not a marrying man, though I had received no definite informa- tion concerning his regard for women; that he had outlived the natural and nor- mal desire to have a wife, and that he could not bring himself to love the ones who had come into & life which was not now a part of him. ‘‘Beyond that imminent danger, how- ever much he might try to avert it by the exercise of the genilemanliness and man- liness that were evidently part of him in any condition, there was a moral consid- eration. Imust confess that, as a man of science, this concerned me only in a sec- ondary sense. who, I learned, was an exceptionally in- telligent woman, and Smith himself, whom I knew to be a man of the highest integrity, should either of them imagine that they were not morally husband and wife, however legally, Well, that is a digression.”’ Pending the arrival of Mrs. Smith and the children, Dr. Blank realized that a tremendous and dreadful task confronted him, and, being a man of superior char- acter and courage, he set himself to dis- chargeit. His intention had been to confront the consideration that invests the subject | Suspecting something | wrong, he next asked the man for his | Further questions | , and that he knew nothing | im when he | At the same time he telegraphed to the | from that individuality and had returned | Suppose that the wife, | REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF 0 LOSE THEMSEL VES, MORROW. | Smith and his family, on the desperate chance that the deeply grounded affection | which belongs to the nature of such a | husband and father would recall the man | who had just stepped out of the world, | but a moment’s reflection convinced him | of the danger of the experiment—there is | never any foreseeing of results in the case of an epileptic. So the patient having re- covered sufficiently to walk, the physician | made arrangements for the detention of | tke wife and children until he should | return, and then began the painful prepa- ration for taking the suiferer upon the street. A necessary preliminary to this was in- | formation of the calamity which had over- taken the patient. Dr. Blank, despite all | his tact and adroitness, expected incredu- | lity and suspicion, and perhaps violent | resentment. But he went about his duty | with the courage of a man and told the | amazed patient all except the chapter re- lating to his family. As be had expected, Smith at first won- dered, then became credulous, then sus- icious of a trick, then angry and defiant. r. Blank’s coolness was unfailing. His | next move was to offer the patienta mir- jror. Smith looked 1nto it and started back aghast. . **God " he exclaimed; ‘“‘that is not I. I am not 8o old as that. I have nota beard. You have poisoned me, you fiend, or I am insane,” But Dr. Blank was patient. “Remember,” said he, ‘‘you have lost those four years,” and then he gently told him more about the mysteries of the dis- ease. Smith sat helpless and staring. Dr. Biank tried a new tack. “Do you know any lawyers in San Fran- cisco?”’ *“Not by sight, but I have had corre- spondence with some.” ‘‘Then let us go and find them.” Wary and guarded, Smith left the shop with the physician’ and as soon as he stepped upon the street he looked about bewildered and wonaering. ““Where am 1?” he asked. Dr, Blank assured him again that he was in San Francisco, but the man shook his head and looked suspicious. Then the physician, baving ascertained that Smith had dropped out of his life in the middle of winter, and knowing that the weather in the Eastern city where that had hap- pened was very severe, called Smith’s at- tention to the soft and genile weather. Sn\(’;lh started, drew a deep breath and said: *“I have mnever breathed this air before. Iam lost and helpless,” Presently turning a corner they came in view of the Palace Hotel. Smith stopped and exclaimed : “I recognize that. I have seen pictures of it. Itis the Palace Hotel in San Fran- cisco. I have studied maps and pictures of the town. Isee. Thisis Market street. Those are the Twin Peaks. I mustbe in San Francisco.” After that the sailing was easier. A policeman gave him the day, month and vear, and the lawyer whom they visited | identified himself, and the people at the | mercantile house where he bad worked were evidently responsible men ana they | Tecognized him and were glad to see him. In this way he gradually became con- | vinced. But it was curious to observe that he was no longer the expert account- | ant he had been, and that he had become | a lawyer again, although his knowledge | of law had been aead for four years. The most difficult and delicate thing remained to be done. His wife and chi dren were anxiously awaiting him at chemist’s. As Dr. Blank led his patient | thither he delicately told him that story. | Smith gasped and staggered when he heard it, and it was necessary to take him to a quiet hotel and put him to bed. He was very weak. Hishead ached terribly. But stimulants and restoratives were given him. Presently, his wife and children having been summoned, were standing outside his door, waiting to be admitted. “‘There is only one thing I can advise,” said Dr. Blank to the suffering man. *That i3, welcome them as though you knew and loved them. All will be right |in the end. I will say a word or two to her as a preparation for anything unusual she may detect in your conduct.”” The suffering man, his face hageard and his fingers tightly clutching the coverlet, said firmly “Doctor, 1 am deeply grateful to you. Kindly admit them and leave us alone.” The church of St. Mary, in Kilburn, a suburb in the northeastern part of Lon- | don, has had an unknown benefactor for over nineteen years. On a certain Decem- ber day every year an envelope is found in | the coilection-box containing $500. It was | found there as usual a while ago. No | effort is made to discover the benefactor, for fear that the discovery might result in the loss of the annual gift. | | | 'A DYING SPARK [Stop Right Now! Dom't Light A | other! Youre Burning | Your Brains. NEW TO-DAY. |WRECKS ALOYG THE STREETSIDE. Ofttimes tobacco’s vic- ims look at the dying spark in the cigar stump, or at the big masticated ‘chaw” of tobacco just expectorated, and with nerves nicotinized with tobacco, mentally re- solve, *‘Now, that'is my last. I will never use it again. jow that it is injuring me physically and financially and my nerves are becoming so irritated that I can’t | stend the least annoyance.” Whatis the result? These good resolutions are gen- | erally made while the effect of the use of | tobacco practically paralyzes the cravings of millions of irritated nerve centers and just as soon as the effects commence to pass away these good resolutions weaken, showing conclusively that the use of to- bacco is not a habit but a disease of the nervous system caused by the education of the nerves to crave for the nicotine poisoning. What, then, is the easy, per- manent, natural way to relieve yourseif of the use of tobacco? Certainly tot by dis- continuing it and suffering the nervous reaction and vprostrating effects and mental degeneracy sure to follow the long and continued use of tobacco. Does it not suggest itself to you that the natural thing to do 15 to take a remedy that is specifically prepared to eradicate the effects of the nicotine in the system and to overcome the nerve-craving effects and | restore the tobacco-irritated nerves to a normat and healthy condition? To this, we all say “Yes, where is the remedy?” You will find it in No-To-Bac. This is easily said and we all naturally ask for proof. Certainly. If No-To-Bac fails to | cure, The Sterling Remedy Company, of | New York, Montreal and Chicago have so | much faith in their remedy, that they | positively guarantee to reinnd the money, and the concern being owned and oper- ated by some of the most reputable bus:- ness men of the East and West, is abso- lutely reliable and, we are glad to say, able in every way to live up to its guar- antee. The sale of No-To-Bac within the past few years has assumed enormous propor- tions, almost entirely developed upon its merits and the recommendations of the cured. So great is the sale that it 1s hardly possible to go into any leading drugstore without finding it on’sale, and the druggist has nothing but words of Ppraise to give it.