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

26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1896 St oner H. F. Emeric | 1s doings more for the cause of science than is comprehended in the scope of his official es. When he is not solving the prob- lem of difference between California sar- res and Puget Sound anchovies, or veen horse mackerel and steelhead kerel, or studying whether or not our h00k salmon industry can be said to vie in importance with our product of oysters, w and shrimps, he is devot- ing himself to the consideration of a new hase of the evolution theory. While essor David Starr Jordan is monkey- with the idea of the missing link, Mr. n is demonstrating the pugzilistic inets of bruin, and is confident that he s on & hitherto untrodden trail of scientific remembers the story of rang fronx the war god's ged at the she wolf’'s one of Macaulay’s famous of Rome’ the singer thus addresses Romulus {ng she wolf knew thee, i ple store, | own flerce milk, ! fesh and gore. | Now the savage instincts which rendered | more dreadiul the warlike nature of Romu- | lus were derived from his foster mother, the wolf. A new question that has srisen is, “Why | may not the pugilistic propensity be a posable derivation from a similar in- | 's blood into one of the very | nts of Noah?” | , the propensity y distributed over vagery is not con- | country or of b Of course, would be pre: the world, j fined to the veople to-day. cuncerning pugilism is quite ¢ resuit of a as that foll 3ruin can st power io put Pe ke a blow of ter Maher to nitesimal second of time a moderate effort, bruin's would crush into shapelessness of ihe hardiest wrestler. Mr. ractical demonstrations in this | line have been made in the course of some rents at his San Pablo ranch. But words of explanation are here neces- | sary. Some years ago an Oregon friend of the Commissioner shipped him down a pres- the shape of a bear-cub. It was | n to San Pablo, and there in I came a pet. made friends creature on the ranch and became almost inseparable companior of a big Newfoundland dog there. Indeed, bear and the dog take frequent runs the fields together. On one of the; it is related, the b usual and sud climbed spe turning from the path nto a tree, expecting the dog to fol The dog never stopped until he reached his kennel. Soon the bear found himself alone. After locking about in vawn for his companion he a dismal how! and this was continued | in, arriving home, caught sight foundland, when he jumped for joy to find his friend safe and sound. The bear divides his rations with this dog and is perfectly unselfish in his treatment | of his canine partner. But this is too much of a digression. So f: ar did the bear eventnally be- come with his owner that he would spring up and show an inclination to embrace | | Mr. Emeric ana even toslap him on the chest or pat him on the back. To gratify the bear’s pleasure in this re- sard the Commissioner purchased a pair 2 outas large as ordinary pillows. The outfit was made complete by a beantiful little muzzle. i arkable,”” declares Mr. Emerie, that bear discovered the real purpose of those gloves and how speedily he manifested a proficiency in what is called the ‘manly art.” He has | got so that he dances about me with a sort of a Jim Corbett sidestep. When he whirls around one is reminded of the La Blanche swing. The iong reach that Fitz- simmons is credited with fades into in- | | other day, Mr. Emeric gave an_exhibition to a couple of his friends. Gloves were strapped on the bear’s fore paws, the an. imal was duly muzzled, and bruin then reared up on his hind feet, flung his head to one side, closed one eye partially, as if the better 10 study his opponent’s ‘intent, and then advanced, at a shuffiing gait, on the husky Commissioner. The exchange of blows, the straight-out shots, counters and cross-counters, upper-cuts and dodging movements were gone through with that dexterity and appreciation seldom wit- nessed outside of a professional boxing club. Suddenly the Commissioner made a John L. Sullivan rush on the bear, which sprang back and then started to clinch. The paws struck the Commis- sioner’s extended arm with such force that one glove was burst and the protruding claws caught Mr. Emeric on the right hand, tearing & considerable furrow along the wrist. The Commissioner, siightly angered, rushed the bear again, determined to ad- minister a knock-down blow. Here again bruin displayed the true pugilist cun- ! ning, for he dropped on all fours with- out delay, just as ring-scrappers of the day get down to avoid punishment and secure the restful benefit of a time allowance. Time was called at this moment, however, and the bear tore the gloves off in haste for the big Newfoundland had loudly signaled to him from the outside. “You observe,” said Mr. Emeric in con- clusion, ““that the bear possesses the pugi- listicinstinct. The world is full of wonders, and while our scientists are working up the theory that the human being is evolved from the ape, and while we have before us the instance of Romulus and the she wolf. it seems qui to-date scientists may this new idea and fix take advantage of the apparent rela- THE BEAR GOES DOWN [Sketched by a % TO AVOID PUNISHMENT. Call” artist.] insignificance in comparison with the | reach of this bear. Let us see. Isn’t| ‘brute instinct’ one of the elements of the | | modern pugilist? Very well, this bear | | possesses a refined brute instinct. ‘‘1f we are to believe the Romulus story, why on earth can’t we frame one about the primal ancestor of pugilism? This bear takes to pugilism as a duck takes to water. You've often heard about the fatal efiicacy of the stroke of a bear’s paw. Well, granted that old Father Adam gave bruin a name, it ;ust likewise be admit- ted that bruin ¢ntedated all pugilists, and, therefore, why can’t it be contended that in the early history, or during an early evolution period of the human race, there occurred ‘an infusion of pugilistic bear- nature by the same process as that re- corded in the case of Romulusand the she-wolf. That is something for scientists to ponder over.” n one of his San Pablo farmhouses, the FIRST BLOGD FUR LSketched by a TuE BEAR. “Call” artist.] ;iona'hip between the bear and the pugi- ist.” And the State Fish Commissioner ceased his bear study for the day and went off to test the healing properties of & new brand of liniment. ARMCHAIR GEOGRAPHERS, They Draw Maps of Unexplored Coun- tries With Commendable Accuracy. Occasionally explorers are inclined to laugh at gentlemen whom they call “‘arm- chair geograpiiers.” They mean geog- raphers who do not go into the field, but remaining at home, siit the evidence sup- plied to them by explorers, and draw their own conclusions. Dr. Livingstone once wrote that he had been traveling for weeks over dry land that ought to be deep | water, according to the English geographer | Cooley. | humorous at tue expense of armchair But it is not judicious to be too geographers, for, experienced as many of them are in dealing with all kinds of geographic data, they ofien make very | shrewd deductions, and they have even been known to make discoveries in their | armchairs before they were veritied by explorers in the field. 1t was one of these students, the pains- taking German geographer, Reichard, who frappled in_his study with the prob- lem of the great Niger River years before the worid knew where its waters reach the ocean. Kven the ancient geographers had heard of its upper course, but as late as seventy-five years ago the wildest ideas were advanced as to its destination. Some people thought it became dried up in the Sahara, or flowed into a lake that had no outlet. Others believ. d that Mungo Park’s theory, making the Niger the upper part of the Congo, was quite plausible. But the Ger- man student, poring over his maps and books, sifting all the meager evidence, final- ly put his finger on the mouth of tne Rio Iormoso and said that there the Niger River entered the Gulf of Guinea. It was twenty-eight years iater that Richard and John Lander, floating down the Niger, | reached the ocean through the Rio For- moso, now known as the Num_River, the rgest branch of the ygreat Niger delta. his was a proud feather in the cap of the armchair geographer, and there are not a few instances of such successful specula- tion as to geographic facts. Thisis an example in geographic guess- work or speculation, wEich is always al- iowable and often comes near the truth. He is a great explorer, indeed, who can deduce from what be sces nearly correct noticns of things he does not see. Ca; tain Speke was such an_ explorer. #ave us a fair idea of Victoria Nyanza, the second largest fresh water lake'1n the world, though he saw it only at one place in its southern coast and along a part of its northern shores. His map was based very largely upon native information. Mr. Stanley told the writer once that he b lieved 'if Captain Speke were on one side of a mountain range he could tell from what he saw there and from statements of the natives, conflicting though they might be, very nearly what would be found on the other side of the mountains. The famous geologist, Sir Roderick Murchison, was more fortunate when he speculsted about inner Africa than Dr. sible that some of our up- | Petermann was in his hypothesis of the Polar continent. It was in 1852, before any explorer had revealed the secrets of far inner Afriea, that Murchison told us just about the sort of country that would be found there. A man named Bains had been surveying roads in Cape Colony, picking up’ a little book knowledge of geology in his leisure Lours, and collecting specimens of the various kinds of rock he saw. - He sent his collection to England, and 8ir Roderick compared_the informa- tion supplied by Bains with what was known of the regions along the other coasts. Then he gave out bis brilliant hy- pothesis that most of inner Africa was com- posed of depressed basins once filled with Freag lakes and bordered by eruptive rocks orming ranges of hills or mountains; that some of the lakes had been drained by rivers that had cut through these ranges of hills: that other rivers had found no way to the sea and were lost in marshes; that ther= were no great mountain ranges in these basins, but there might be some short ranges or jsolated summits of erup- tive origin. All this was true, and after Dr. Livingstone had crossed the continent he dedicated his book, describing the jour- ney, to the creat geologist, in recognition of his “striking hypothesis respecting the physical conformation of the African con- tinent, verified three years afterward by the author of these travels.”’—Providence Journal. ——————— AUDIBLE BLOOK SYSTEMS. ‘What the Railroads Are Striving For, but Have Not as Yet Attained. An audible block signal, according to the opinion of a superintendent who spoke in a recent discussion before the Buffalo Asso- ciation of Railroad Superintendents, “‘is a good thing,” and, adopting the logic now vrevalent in the slang of the street, it is every one'sduty to ‘‘push it along”—to promote its adoption. But practical rail- road men have hitherto pushed that class of signals away from them with persistent unanimity, and it is therefore of consider- able interest to know what kind of a de- vice the Buffalo gentleman refers to. All of the audible signals that we have | éver seen have been subject to_the one great drawback that the engineman’s gnal to proceed was the absence of a sound. So long as this is so the apparatus violates the principle, fundamental in block signaling, that any failure of men or of apparatus shail reveal itself by giving a stop signal, or at least reveal itself in some 3 We have encouraged inventors of audible signals as far as seemed prudent, and they have made many ingenious ap- plications of electrical and mechanical principles, but we have yet to see a busi- nesslike and substantial application that | conforms to correct principles. We do not believe it impossible to solve the problem in the right way, and that is the reason why we have encouraged inventors. As the frequency ot trains on busy lines | increases, somcthing other than the ordi- nary visual signal becomes not merely de- sirable, but a pressing necessity. This is sufficiently evidenced by the experience and the practice of railroads in and around London, which have elaborate and expen- sive arrangements for tue use of audible signals during the prevalence of their in- credibly black fogs.” The English method of torpedo signaling partially or wholly complies with the principle we have just mentioned, that the engineman must have some positive assurance that tie road is clear, so that he shall not be compelied to run mile after mile haunted by a suspicion that possibly some signal set” to stop him did not properly act, or that some signal actually given may have escaped his at- tention. When American inventors devise an automatic apparatus which shall satisfy the engineman as well as the shouting fog- man satisfies the English runners they will have made great advance on all the ‘“‘patents’’ now before the railroad public. One trouble with an audible signal is that noise will diffuse itself about as it pleases, and the effort to devise a thor- oughly safe signal ‘o use in dark tunnels (after the Fourth-avenue collision in 1891) led to a sudden shiiting of the problem and audible devices gave way to electric lights. The lights were never putup in the Fourth-avenue tunnel, but an experi- mental plant was tried in the Wehawken tunnel.—Railroad Gazette. WOODEN INDIANS. ¥or Cigar-Store Purposes They Hold Their Own. A Center-street carver of wooden statues that do duty as cigar-store signs said to a New York World reporter: ‘“All efforts to supplant the good old Indian have proved failures. There have been repeated at- tempts to popularize Turks, girls of the veriod, baseball players, jockeys, jack tars, soldiers, Captain Jinkses, negroes, bicy- clists, Hunkidoris, Punches, Colum- bias, Uncle Sams and Indian maid- ens with short skirts, but the old- fashioned red, blue’ and vellow Indian., with feather headdress, and with a tomahawk in one hand and a bunch | ofcigars or a ‘hank’ of tobacco in the other, | bas more than held his own. “This busi- ness has been conducted in this place for | more than forty years, and and my | father before me "have turned out an | average of 200 cigar-store signs each year. Out of the total of 8000 I venture to say | that 6000 were of Indian warriors, 1000 were what we call ‘Hiawathas,’ or Indian female figures, while the remaining 1000 covered all other varieties. “The wooden figure business 18 not what it used to be, however, and there are not half a dozen people engaged in | it in the United States. The decline is mainly on account of the falling away of the ship-building industry. In the good old days of American bottoms there was a steady demand for figure-heads to place on the bows of ships. They have i gone out of fashion of late years. But few wooden images are made nowadays for churches. Iron and composition plaster have driven wood out of that branch of the business. The Indian is still with us, and he will stay because he is cheap and durabie.” ———————— SWALLOWS POISON AS A BUSINESS The Ingredients of a Remarkable Feats Indulged In by a Freak. A mild-looking young man with a thin mustache and scraggy side-whiskers, who gave his name as Captain Vetrio, de- liberately swallowed a larze dose of “Rough on Rats” in one of the parlors of the Continental Hotel recently. Then, be- fore assistance could reach him, he seized alump of coal, bit a huge chunk out of it ravenously, masticated it thoroughly, and swallowed it on top of the poison. Then he smiled a hl:m(ll smile, and asked for suggestions as to what ke should tackle next. This human ostrich, through his man- ager, for of course he doesn’t do this sort { of thing for fun, had invited a number of newspaper men and physicians to witness his gastronomic feats. He swallowed the most deadly poisons, much to the amaze- ment of Dr. Oryille Horwitz and Dr. | Thomas J. Morton, who were present with George P. Conner, the well-known apothe- cary and chemist. Mr. Conner examined the chemicals closely and pronounced them genuine, while the physicians at- tested the fact that they were powerful enough to exterminate a whole roomful of men. There could be no doubt that the man really swallowed the ingredients which constituted his rernarkable feast. After the “Rough on Rats” and coal, Vetrio requested Mr. Conner to mix a fatal dose of permanganate of potash in a glass of water. This he swallowed with evident relish, following it up with a dose of blue vitriol, over which he actually smacked his lips. Then he ate a sawdust stew. Pouring a quantity of sawdust into a pie plate, he filled it up with kerosene and ignited it with a match. He ate this red hot mess with a spoon, and called for a glass of beer. Before drinking the beer, however, he allowed two boxes of sulphur matches to soak in it for several minutes, to give it proper flavor. He next turned his attention to a dose of Paris green, which Mr. Conner declared contained five parts of verdigris and four parts of arsenic, followed that up with a cake of indigo, and began munchingata clay flower got, which he swallowed with- out effort. For desert ne had a big cnunk of pure phosphorus, one-hundredth of & grain of which is an ordinary dose. The captain was also prepared to swallow a granite paving stone, a hottie of printer's ink, several dinner plates and a tallow can- dle, but didn’t want to spoil his dinner. It is understood that he will be at the;Dime Museum next week.—Philadelphia Record. GEORGE WASHINGTON ON RECORD Letter Written by the Leading Jingo of His Day. In the manuscript department of the British Museum in London there are stowed away hundreds of autographic let- ters of men famous in modern ana ancient history. While in London last summer 0. 0. Stealy of Louisville found among these old letters an autograph letter from George Washington, written from Phila- delphia, April 22, 1793, to the Earl of Buchan. A part of the letter refers to for- €lgn complications and furnishes an inter- esting chapter at this time. In tue letter was the following note written by tne Earl of Buchan, brother of Lora Ers ine: M“On the 18th of January, 1793, I wrote to r. Washington on the huppy prospects America might entertain if by any means it could abstain from mingling in Euro- pean politics. 1 laid before him the vanity and folly of preferring the indulgence of National pride, vanity and resentment to the slow but certain benefits to be perma- nently obtained by peace and internal prosperity. I ventured also to recom- mend as great objects to the Executive of America peace and union with the red natives and attention to National educa- tion. To these sentiments the President answered in the following letter.” The first part of the letter related to pri- vate aifairs and indicates that General ‘Washington and Lord Buchan were oid and intimate friends. Then the letter pro- ceeds to the subject-matter as follows: The favorable wishes which your lordship has expressed for the prosperity of this young aud rising country cannot but be gratefully received by all its’ citizens, and every lover of 1t—oue means to the contribution waich, and its happiness, is very judiciously portrayed in Lhe foliowing words of your letter—to e little heurd of 1u tie great world of politics.” These words, L can essure your lgrdship, are expres- sive of my seuliments on this nead: And I belleve it is the sincere wish of united America to lLave nothing to do with the political iutrigues or- the squabbles of European nations; but, on e coulrary, 1o exchange commodities and live in peace and unity with the inhabitants of the carih, and ihis, I am persuaded, they will do if rightiully it can-be done. To admin- Ister justice 10 aud receive it from every power with Whom they are connected will, I hope, be always found the most prominent’ feature in the administration o1 this country; and I flat- ter myself that nothing short of imperious Decessily can occasion a breach with any of them. Under such a system, if we are allowed to pursue it, agriculture und the mechanical Arts, the wealth and population of these States, Wil increase wita that degree of rapid.ty as to battle all calculations and must surps ¥ idea your lordship can hitherto have enter- ned on the occasion. To eviuce tuat our views (whether realized Or not) are expanded, I take the liberty of sending you the plan of a new city, situated about the center of tho union of these Stutes, waich is designed for the permanent seut of the Government, and weareat this moment deeply engaged and far advanced in extenaing ihe inlund navigation by tne river (Fotomic) on whaicn it stands aud the branches thereof through a truct of as rich country for hundreds of miles a3 any in the world. Nor is thisa soh- tary instance of the attempts of the kind, al- though it 1s the only oue which is near completton, and in pariial use. Several other important ones are commenced and liitls doube 1s entertained that in e years, if left undisturbed, we shall open & communication by water with all the lakes northward and westward of us with which we have territorial connections, and an inland navigation in afew years more irom Rhode Island to Georgia inclusively, partly by cuts between the great bays and sounds and partly between islauds and sandbauks and the main from Albemarle Sound to the River St. Marys, To tuese may be also added the erection of bridges over considerable rivers and the com- mencement of turnpike roads as further indi- cation of the improvements ia hand. With great esteem and respect, I have the honor to be your lordsnip's most obedient, honorable servant. G. WASHINGTON. Mr. Stealy took a copy of the letter and it is not believed that it printed in this country. respondence of Cuicago SPECIAL STAMPS FOR OITIES, Bill to Permit Big Cities to Have Post- age Stamps of Special Designs. Representative Pugh of Kentucky has prepared-a bill to permit cativs of 100,000 or more inhabitants to obtain postage stamps of special designs. His bill provides that any number of inhabitants of any city of the United States containing a population of 100,000 or more, as shown by the United States census of 1890, or as shown by any future United States census, as may desire, may unite in petition for the issu- ance of postage -stamps of special designs commemorating the history of said city or the memory of inbabitants thereof now deceased, but no such special postage stamp shall be designed, made or used to advertise the business of any individual, firm, corporation or society. The petition asking for these special stamps must be delivered to the Postmas- ter of their city, and by him forwarded to the Postmaster-General at Washington, who shall report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter, upon find- ing that the provisions of this act have been complied with, shall furnish postage stamps of special design to the Postmaster of that city for the use of the people upon the same terms and conditions that Post- masters are now supplied. Representative Pugh says there is con- siderable sentiment throughout the coun- try in favor of stamps of special desigus, and he hopes to receive a favorable report of the bill at an early day. Mr. Pugh in his bill provides against any fraud or de- ception being practicel on the Govern- ment, and that the cost of engraving and printing these stamps will fall'on the peo- ple of the city and not the taxpayers of the country.—Washington Post. The Fastnet Light. The first glimpse of Great Britain that the American tourist gets on his European tour is that of the Fastnet lighthouse. It stands on a rugged and solitary rock, situated nine miles south of Crookhaven, at the extreme southwest corner of Ire- land, and is, perhaps, more storm-beaten than any other around our coast. The rock is 80 feet in height, and the light- house towers another 70 feet above, yet, in winter gales, the Aulantic billows literally bombard the massive structure and have even smashed in a portion of the lantern at the summit of the erection, the seas irequently sweeping over the rock with tremendous force. Some two or three years azo the stormy weather then pre- vailing prevented "all communication with the rock for many weeks, so that the store of food was consumed, witn the exception of some flour. At last a schooner managed to approach sufficiently near to enable a smail quantity of food to be dragged through the sea by the hungry men, and, fortunately, the next day the sea moderated and ‘the stores were once more fully replenished. Except in very calm weather the Fastnet is surrounded by a fringe of foam, and the only means of landing is by the aid of a “jib”" fifty-eight feet in length, so placed on the rock that, in moderate weather, its end reaches outside the surf. When a visitor wishes to land (an unusual occur- rence) he is rowed in a small boat as near as the waves will permit, and the light- keepers throw out a smalil buoy, attached to a rope, which is secured by the man in the boat. The jib is then swung out and the visitor, placing one foot in the loo and catching tight hold of the rope, is hoisted about forty feet vertically, and then the jib, being pivoted at its foot, swings him horizontally about 100 feet onto a safe landing.—London Sketch. Eskiminzin, an Apache chief, who has been a notable mischief-maker and con- spicuous in many of the Apache outbreaks, died at San Carlos, Ariz., last week. Some time ago he was exiled to Florida, but was permitted to return to bis home. He died of old age. NEW TO-DAY. NOT A : N OF OPPRESSION B i P15 i 17 - Studded with photographs of psople who were once sick, but are now cured through the skill and treatment of 8 T2 -J“ ((\ =z d (») ) DOCTOR SWEANY NOBLE WORK OF A SUCCESSFUL PHYSICIAN. There is no work allotted to man so noble, so exalted and so worthy of praise as the work of the physician who devotes his time, his energies and his labors to alleviate human suffering and spread sunshine and happiness in the hearts of his fellow- men. Such a man is DOCTOR SWEANY, and to-day he stands as a physician withouta peer on the whole Pacific Coast. Suc- cess has crowned his every effort; diseases haveyielded to his skill and treatment which had stubbornly resisted the most radical and rigid treatment of other physicians of acknowl- edged ability. His crown is not a heritage, handed down through generations of ancestors, but the crown of success, earned through his unceasing labors and unbounded interest In his profession. It is not studded with rare and costly jewels, but itis a precious diadem of photographs of human beings who were once sick with disease and lost to all the enjoyments and pleasures of life, but to-day, through his skill, are restored to healith, and their hearts are filled with joy, gladness and gratitude. Those photographs are the pictures of men of intelligence, wealth and high social standing who have written testimonial letters to DOCTOR SWEANY, expressing their deep heartfelt gratitude for his successful work in their cases, and their let- ters are now on file in his private office, together with thou- sands of others of the same kind, where they are held sacredly confidential, only to be seen or read by those who desire to be- come his patients. DOCTOR SWEANY SUCCESSFULLY TREATS ALL CHRONIC DISEASES OF THE HEAD, THROAT, LUNGS, HEART, STOMACH, LIVER AND LUNGS, KIDNEY TROUBLES, DISEASES OF THE BLADDER AND URINARY ORGANS, RUP- TURE, PILES, VARICOCELE, HYDROCELE AND SWELLING OF THE GLANDS, LOSS OR PARTIAL LOSS OF SEXUAL POWER AND VIGOR IN EITHER MEN OR WOMEN, EMIS- SIONS, SLEEPLESSNESS, MENTAL WORRY, BASHFULNESS, FAILING MEMORY AND ALL THE DISTRESSING ILLS RE- SULTING FROM NERVOUS DEBILITY POSITIVELY AND PER- MANENTLY CURED. GONORRHOEA, GLEET, STRICTURE and that terrible and loathsome disease SYPHILIS thoroughly and fogever cured. The FOOR who call at his offices on Friday afternoons are welcome to his treatment free of charge. - WRITE Your troubles if living away from the city and advice will be given you free of charge. DOCTOR SWEANY has studied in the leading hospitals of Europe and is conversant in all mod- ern languages. Letters are answered in ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH, SWEDISH, NORWEGIAN and DANISH. Office Hours: 9 to 12 A. M., 2to 5and 7 to 8 P. .- Sundays : 10 to 12 A. M. Only. ( s~ ADDRESS F. L. SWEANY, M.D. 737 Market Street OPPOSITE EXAMINER OFFICE, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.