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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 1, 1898. 23 THE OR’the. sake”of two- minu of rated mmon to all find out exs which is and that is the ‘corona the" sun atmas- to, the astron- as .to other its .formh and viewed. * during: a " total - eclips the 'sun,. whic curs’ about” ‘every iwo years and. lasts from. “one .to. two minutes:. Therefore in’. a hundred’ years there 1s-in‘all about @i hoiir..when “the corond can be seen. The eclipges have ail’- béen cpmputed to -the 600, 60 'that sc know - -Just -~ when and ‘where- the 'to- tal eclipses’ can.be viewed. Professor nphetl of garvatory and Professor Burckhalter of tists HE unfortunate milian’ of Me: shot March 19, 1866, in accordance with an eéict which he himself had is- sued the previous year. Among his most devoted followers was Quar- termaster Edward S. Xerr, who, through the adverse fortunes of war, wag driven to seek a refuge in this city.- He has lived here for more than thirty wears, but his most exciting life’s adventures were while he was trying to get out of Mexico after the death of his leader, Maximilian, and the scat- tering of the Austrian soldiers. Mr. Kerr, soldierly in appearance evea at this day, is'a man of good birth and education, who was born at Trieste, Austria, in 18 Though at the present time much broken by age Emperor Maxi- 0. W vicissitudes of a life which early prom- P sperity, clearness for a man of 71 years the va- rious events w h led to the tragic death’ of his beloved Emperor, as well ised great ‘as the details concerning his own share | in that part of history which treats of the sojourn of the Austrian army in Mexico: “The “people - there never showed proper respect for the Emperor,” Mr. Kerr remarke \dignantly, in his broken English. “They never accorded hinr his royal title, but spoke of him al- i Maximilian,” the Austrian. “They algo ridiculed his plain man- ner of living and dress; for both him- self and the s ordinarily wore the simple, inexpe e costume of mid- dle-class citizens, and the Empress also labored faithfully in the schools which she organized for s, teaching them herself with untiring patience day after day.: “No, I was not with the Emperor at the time of his final capture. At the time I was a prisoner of war.” Mr. Kerr ‘was not with his beloved Emperor at’ the time of his execution by the Méxicans. He was on an expe- dition designed to release a party of Austrian soldiers- who were penned up by the victorious Mexicans in Oaxaca. he Lick Ob- | and the | he recalls with | OF THE DISTRICT:'’AND THE PATILS OF THE ViL- EXAMINING THE ASTRONOMER'S CAMP. abot Observatory are the two ome: who traveled to distart India 2nd risked so much for the sake of photographing the corona. The the” C 1 were the onl American astronome; who -ventured, many others being de- | térred . by the fact that the path of wide and that part of totality was about fifty mi situated in the jungle | India known as the Deccan, the heart | of the plague and ne district. | The path of tetality of e previous to the last one was in Jap | and astronomers the world over | on the spot to photograph - the | But the expedition ple ure owing fo the cloudy v | “But members of this last "trv India have brought hom: nd marvelously clear pla ve! ts believe that when th 1 ! have-had time to make deductions from them many knotty points will be settled. Professor mpbell and Professor not go to, India as ame expedition. Pro- is sent by 'the I lens for the occas Burckhalter members of the ampbell W atory, the g be ated by the late Colonel | Crocker. ckhalter of the | Chabot OB able to under- | ta the e pedition through the generosity of M. Pierson of this ¢ who paid all the expenses. an astrono- h delighted D | Mr. Pierson is somewhat of i mer himself and is very mu at the suc of the expedition. ? | Pardee of Oakland donated an extra lens, a precaution that was deemed | necessary in_event of the other lens being injured. Professor Burckhalter's | contained in addition a novel |'never before used. This device was | his own- invention and one upon w apparatus feature of 00000000000 000000 o oo 000000 The plan was to rescue these men, Join |all the scattered Austrians in one |body and with Maximilian at their | head fight their way to the coast and liberty. So it was that Mr. Kerr joined the 500 Austrians who dgtermined to free | their countrymen penned up in Oaxaca. The Mexicans, however, discovered the | movement, and President Juarez man- | aged to surround the little band with 110,000 troops. Over 200 of the 500 were killed before they would surrender. The s were marched off to captiv- Mr. Kerr. was | ity, and among them | an his dreadful experience as | a priscner in a Mexican fortification | Mr. Kerr tells the stor:” as follows: After our defeat the Me n <ol- die: brgan plundering the living as | well as the dead, and in this way I lost many mementoes whi: money could I was also forced, by | never replace. the soldiers who took immediate ~0s- session of me, to change my uniform i | for whatever articles of clothing they | chose to discard; and so, instead of the | dress of an_Austrian officer, 1 found | myself wearing a pair of slashed leath- | er breeches, a pair of broken shoes, a wide sombrero with several dangling ornaments and a greasy, badly fitting | Jacket. “When -we reached our destination our complaints reached President Jaurez, whom every one acknowledges | to have been a just, kind-hearted man, and he commanded the regiment that effected our capture to bring all arti- i cles taken to a certain place, where he | assured us we should claim our . be- longings “I declared my willingness to give up everything but my precious album; they were welcome to keep all the rest | it that wak restored, for it was like | piercing my heart to lose it, filled with photographs of my dear comrades. I could easily have identified the man f\vho took my property, but he did not appear among the rest, and so nothing of mine was ever recovered. “As prisoners we were allowed but one real a day for our food, and were | compelled to work hard at shoveling | | | in the fact t | ruin the apparatus. 0000000000000 0000C0O00O0Q TH MAXIMILIAN IN HIS LAST STRUGGLE 00000000000000000000000000000000000000 he has spent years of labor. It proved satisfactory beyond his most sanguine hopes and as a result he has the only plates which give a distinct photograph of the inside details of an eclipse and the outside corona at the same time. He took a great many pictures while in India and gathered a great deal of interesting information about its in- habitants. “I left San Francisco on October 3! he said, -“and arrived at Bombay De- cember Before I left I had written to the Secretary of State requesting him to use his power in getting the | Indian Government to pass my instru- | ments without unpacking them. The American Consul at Bombay informed me on my arrival that the Government d resolutions permitting the ts and personal baggage of s to pass through undis- and in addition would furnish with tents. turbed them “Professor Campbell’s camp was four which is about 240 miles from Jeur, miles from Bombay. I located two miles further, near the village of Wangi. There are dozens of villages in each district and the Mamiadar, who ally the cz of his district, = rival. “I had brought with me a package of seeds, ineluding almost every variety of vegetable. Through the native cook that I had brought with me from Bom- bay and who spoke a little English, I made ciear to the Mamladar the natur of the seeds. He thanked me fusely for the gift and s one variety would grow in that famine- stricken district it would be better than a present of a hundred thousand dol- lars. examined my instruments curjously and was especially interested the ‘little box on legs’ I could make a likeness of himself. took his thereby winning his friendship. je summoned the two chief men of village, called patils, one of whom has the civil and the other the criminal author! He instructed them to visit that I lacked nothing. great deal of difficulty in fixing up my camp. The native help is practically useless and all the hard work devolved on me. Wood is very ce and is sold by the pound. suffered from the intense heat, but % : Aespite that fact every minute of the twenty-seven days before the eclipse hed to be used getting ready for the event. The only pleasant incidents were the daily visits of Mrs. Campbell and Miss Beans, who accompanied Pro- fessor Campbell and made his camp, two miles away, seem like the oasis in the desert. “The natives of the little village saw the pictures of the patils, and every upon me on the day of my ar- | photograph and gave it to | /zoz‘oyrap/zlhy the Coron | | id that if even | | | day they came begging to have their | own picture taken. I made a number of | blue prints and gave them away. med disappointed They | when I had the | interpreter explain that there was no | magic connected with the taking of a | In their ignorance and super- | cture. stition they regard most ordinary events as magical manifestations. “Owin o0 the number of natives daily vi: ng the camp I was afraid that somethitig would be carried oft that would handicap or perhaps even I determined to hire watchmen and consulted with the patils. They gravely informed me that the only desirable watchmen were those of the ‘robber caste.’ Bei rob- bers themselves, none others of their -asteattemptto filch from places where | their brethren are employed. Odd as it may seem to us, during the dull sea- n the Indian robbers make valuable watchmen. “I employed two of this caste who lived up to their occupation as watch- men by sleeping most of the time. While it is hot all through the day, the weather changes every hour during the hich | night, and the covering must be con- | Mr. a (n India o By the Chabot aésemaialj Sxpedition. gOOOQO0000000000000000000 IN THE PATH OF THE SHADOW. HE only American astronomical expeditions corona during the last total eclipse were that went to India to photograph the sun’s furnished by the Chabot and the Lick Observa- tories—both Californian. , The totality of the eclipse lasts from one to two minutes and the data gathered in that brief time is of the utmost importance 0000000000000 00Cc000000CC0000 000000000000 0000000Q0000 CAMP OF THE ASTRONOMERS OF THE CHABOT OBSERVATORY IN INDIA, JANUARY, 1898. FROM A PHOTO(‘RAPH. stantly altered to suit the atmospheric | changes. The heat radiates rapidly, and at 6 o'clock in the morning two weeks before the ecl e the thermome- ter stood at 40 degrees, and at noon it was 96 degrees in the shade. During the daytime I had to have a native constantly hold an umbrella over me, otherwise I would have succumbed to the heat and plague. “Not being willing to trust to the na- tive help on the day of the eclipse, I wrote to that effect to the American Consul at Bomba He secured for me the voluntary services of Major Hark- and Captain Duban, of H. M. Royal Artiller; They arrived from Bombay the day before the eclipse, and with them were Mr. Hussey and rholson of the Great Indian They likewise prof- fered their assistance, and the entire day was spent rehearsing the pro- gramme and becoming liar with the work to be done du the two minutes of totality Pen “We had after-dark rehearsals, so that all could become accustomed to doing their work without any lig! Major Harkness was an expert phb- tographer and Captain Duhan an ama- teur electrician, so that their services on the night of the eclipse were inval- uable. “Headmen of the village were the only ones allowed in our camp on the entire village following me until the Mamladar drove them back. He him- self, accompanied by the headmen, in- sisted on seeing me the entire six miles which 112,000 were infantry. But it is to | talions and 10 rifle regiments of infantry, be remembered that Spain looks to her | {in all 124,000 men; 28 regiments of cavalry, ntain regiments | reserves largely for home protection, with ns, | hundreds of thousands of her active of | troops out of .the country, and, further, 119.600; 14" fielq and 3 to the railway station. with | that the campaigns of the last two years “Our ems more heavenly | the pontoon and the | must have drawn upon the forces which than ever compared to that famine- |signal corps, and we have i more | Von Lobell gives as then in the Iberian stricken district. The people are ca- ' making the combatant force 195389, | peninsula. TIt.is certain, also, that the Saverous and emaciated. Owing to |Suppleme v pen in the admin- | patriots of Cuba will give all the Spanish their weakened conditicn they die off | ' foroes [roFceshaeicalt be Spasgl fox ((He i th el S g in March, | more than they can do in the’ effort to from the lightest dises he Crops | strong, of | conquer it.—New York Sun. in that district were a total failure, and as it is purely an agricultural dis- trict there is nothing for the people to dc ve no work spend the seed, upon which ubsist. A v of six who picked seed just outside my camp for an en- 11 had just two gob- s a reward for their day’s nd with which to sustain ife—or rather, a lingering death. The the astronomical parties little money left in that district was a godsend to the people. “It will probably be onths be- fore any definite con n can be drawn from the material that has been obtained by the different astr who photographed the coror e RMY. army we have re- From an off 2 ceived military stre THE CORONA DURING TOTALITY. From a photograph taken in India by Professor Burckhalter and now published for the first time. | night of the eclipse, policemen keeping | others out and preventing them from building fires tc interfere ‘dragon swallowing the moon,” which is their explanation for an eclipse. Several thousand people came from Bombay to view the eclipse, but they remained at the railway station, six miles away. “The sky was unusually bright for a total eclipse, probably due to dust in the atmosphere, high winds having pre- vailed for several days previcus. “Everything went off without a hitch and 1 am satisfied with the results. “ left the day after the eclipse, the AN away the earthworks which had been raised during a previous fight. No dis- tinction was made; all had to work alike. Ah! How my hands bled with that shoveling! “Apart from the hard work, we were in a continual state of anxiety, for we never knew at what moment we might be led out and shot down like curs, with no chance, in our unarmed condi- tion, for resistance. Our dread of this fate was not without reason, for a threatening mob was continually about our place of confinement at night, and made a show of numerous great blood- hounds to teach us the uselessness of attempting escape. “After our imprisonment that much- discussed promise was made Maximil- jan of 6,000,000 pesetas and the sup- port of several thousand men it he would relinquish his intention of de- parture, and so he was induced to re- turn, only to find that neither money nor army awaited him. Instead he w s confronted by the Liberal general, Escobedo of the Carreto, against whose army he had made the brave defense at Queretaro. 4 “He would have reached Vera.Cruz with the remainder of his body guard even after his defeat had he not been betrayed.” Kerr continued: “Ah, the arch traitor. His name was Lopez. The man whose debts the Emperor had paid, whom he had raised from the po- sition of a common officer of low rank to a generalship in the body guard of the Empress. The man he had loaded with honors and who repaid him by treachery and consigned him to death! “The news of Emperor Maximilian’s death added to the uncertainty of our fate, but after nine months’ imprison- ment we were released with the pro- viso that we were to leave Mexico in something less than two months. “Though freedom was welcome it brought new troubles and difficulties; for we had been without communica- tion with our friends and were. with- out money or sufficient clothing in a country where we were looked upon by the majority as objectionable char- acters. Finally I succeeded in obtain- 00000000000DO0O0O0 o o o | o 000000000 ing employment, which, though not to my liking, gave me food and a few extra pesos, which I carefully laid away for my journey to the coast. My grief at the loss of my cherished valu- ables and a considerable sum of money was not much greater than that I felt when some one discovered my little hoard and mercilessly robbed me. “This misfortune delayed me and by the time I had again accumulated suf- ficient for my journey all my compan- ions but one had taken their departure. “I purchased a sorry horse, for which | I paid twelve pesos, and a few neces- sary articles of clothing. With these and a few pesetas started for Acapulco, which it took me just one month to reach. “That was a dreadful journey,” he went on, shuddering. “In the barrancas the heat was sometimes intense. In the forests there were poisonous snakes and wild beasts, as well as brilliant paroquets and harmless monkeys. There were precipitous mountains to climb and dangerous rivers to cross. “The last of these rivers crossed came near ending my journey. It was wide, deep and swift, and the banks on the opposite shore rose almost perpendicu- lar, with the exception of the spot which served as a landing-place. “The Indians had put forth their best efforts and we were nearing the shore, when an alligator, of which there were numbers in all the streams, and which was sunning itself upon the level spot for which we were making, plunged suddenly into the water. My horse was swimming in advance of my com- panions, and, snorting with terror as usual at sight of one of the creatures, fioundered and turned from his course, pressing against his companion and in the struggle striking the Indian with his hoof, forcing him to dive for safety. The raft was almost swamped and was far below the landing before the In- dians could in get it righted. As they could not ‘push it against the cur- rent, which was strong as a millrace, we were carried down stream, the planks of the raft became lovsened in my pocket, I| last, 201000 troops were reported to be in C and Porto Rico, 000 in_ the Philippines. Since then reinforcements, a few thousand strong, have gone to Cuba, but tl have doubtless been far more than al. s in General Bl tor Proctor 1t which ies, the tistics furnished us go back to the pre ing year, being those of Von Lobell's t on military progress and chan carfous countries. This shows a zation in the Iberian peninsula, ic and Canary Islands and A, 56 second and 56 third bat- which through striking a sharp rock cut one of the binding thon and I momentarily expected the fra plat- form to fall apart, when drowning would be inevitable. “When a landing-place was discover- ed the exhausted Indians made one su- preme effort and at last reached shore, but we found ourselves a mile and a half below the starting point. “Although I had little money, I never begrudged the amount given to com- pensate the faithful Indians for their hn;d work, performed at such great risk. “Having no money to spare for pis- tols, we were.traveling unarmed and were entirely at-their mercy when they demanded our few possessions. Just as we were preparing for resistance a party of travelers swept around a curve of the path and the rufiians took | to their heels. | “The head of the narty proved to be a countryman of mine, a civilian, who | had engaged in mercantile pursuits in Oaxaca. He inquired into my plans and insisted upon hearing my story. Though sympathizing with me, he doubtless felt that to be seen travel- ing on friendly terms with two Ameri- cans who had been prohibited the coun- try might in a way affect his po- sition unfavorably upon his return. So telling me where he could be found lat Acapulco, and charging me to seek him there, he rode on and left us once more alone. “That proved to be a fortunate meet- ing, for we reached the seaport foot- sore, ill and penniless, and for three weeks I lay helpless with fever; and throughout that time this chance ac- quaintance cared for me as for a brother. “One day after I began to recover he said tb me: ‘There’s a man here named Hoffman who knows you. He is pre- paring to leave for San Francisco. You had better see him.’ “Any friend was welcomed with joy in those days after my imprisonment; and mine was not diminished when Captain Hoftman—he had been at one time an officer in our army, but had re- signed, married a Spanish wife, and gone into mercantile pursuits—offered to advance money for me to accom- pany him to San Francisco, where he was going on a visit. “I accepted his offer gladly, and this is how I came to be here instead of re- turning to Austria. - |Lord? Here am I CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Continued from Page Twenty. } noneuntil T was at a stand | had mone for food. I had no money to engage halls for meetings, and halls are not gifts. 1 had no money to pay for publishing the teachings of science or carrying-on the work. And that s what drove me first to it. But if you remember, Christ himself first sent his disciples out with nothing. After- ard he bade them take scrip, saying: “The laborer is worthy of his hire.’ “If I had taken one-tenth part of | what Christian Scientists would have | still. I hardly | Among the prominent leaders of the rine who are said to be “mental as- assing” of M Eddy is Mrs. Josephine Woodbury. Mrs. Woodbury was among the first pupils of Mrs. Eddy. She and her husband live in a handsome resi- dence on’ Commonwealth avenue, in the Back Bay District in Boston, sur- rounded by every evidence of refine- ment and wealth. In the directory she appears as:.an ‘“authoress.” A New York publishing house brought out last year a very handsome book of. her poems illu: Eric Pape and his wife. M 0 is well known in Ne K is a personal friend of Mrs. Woodt “Any. one who pting to injur given me I should have been more than | rich. not- wish it. But I haven’t. For myself, I do I do not want the element worship to enter 1 distinctly But every reli societ ury. ys 1 am_guilty of Mrs. Eddy is eir- atte | to spread it, and our people are | aulating & criminal Hbel.” she saids “T !m_‘;‘}gg‘"‘(‘.'};:’;-rn:‘]'l':“,, s the Bible | was one of Mi dy’s pupils. So [teaches, o were sband and my’ daughter. I have not found out how to prilong | ghe u o send me all over the %oun- life. but I sm_constantly learni truths by study,” began Mrs. “I do not know why I w. so great a work. I have given everything to pose. I have giv I was excommunicated Mather Church four years for what reason I have never known. But I still: love Mrs. Eddy, and teach riow just what I learned from her. When I w xéommunicated my pupils w refused seatings in the Mother Church, and I had to take care of them. At my husbanhd’'s request I hold services every Sunday for about 150 of my .pupil I have been won- derfully su¢cessful in healing.” “Mrs, Woodbury,.if .you can direct good to heal, why can’t you direct evil for destruction . “But that iwrong,” was her reply. i i wicked to attempt to possession of another person's mind or will. I could not injure the woman who taught me, even if I would. No matter what I have had to endure, I am still true and believe in the teach- ings of Christian s ce. A few years ago, when Mrs. Eddy sent out orders when my cousin, | that no one should teach, I gave it up also and sent applicants for instruction and ed them to unite as peaki the from up y out the Lord’s pur- | n'up society, and have never had time or room for devotion to anything but work. two lives. 2ven when I was a child my life was different. There were strange things in it; strange things happpened to my | mother before my birth. Once a mir ister, a good old soul, held me to his side ‘and told my mother she ought to rate me to God. One cannot lead | little I used to v called me. They | spoke my name, ‘Mary! I used to go to my mother and say: ‘Mother, did you c at do you want?' and she ‘No, chfld, I didn't call you’ Then I'd go away to pla but the voices would call again d tinctly. “There was a da~ whom I dearly loved, was pla me when she, too, heard the voic | to her advis said: our mother's calling you, | S0on as possible . with the Mother Mary,” and when I didn't go I could | Church.” hear them again. But I knew that it| _Mrs.. Woodbury, who is a tall, slen- der woman eof the regular Near Eng- land type, pointed to her own gray hair, saying: “If T were able to af- fect the signs of age, don’t you sup- pose I would use that power to pres vent the.encroachments of age? You see I have not been able to stay time's | hand on myself. How, then, could I produce its effects on another?” Hanging in' the hall of her house is the picture of a beautiful boy. “My voungest child,” said Mrs. Woodbury, pausing before i Nine years ago, when this last child was born, Mrs. Woodbury claimed for it'an immacu- late conception, and, quoting from one wasn’t mother. My cousin didn’t know | to make of my behavior, beca always an obedient child. ‘W she repeated, ‘what do you mean by not going?" “When she heard it again we to my mother and my ‘Didn’t you call Mar 1if T had heard vof did. Then she asked my cousin if | and when she | I she had heard them, said ‘yes’ my mother cried. She talked to me that night and told me when I| heard them again—no matter where 1 ‘What wouldst Thou, That is what Sam- was—to_ s | uel said, you know, when the Lord|of her books, the child was named called him. . | Prince, because he was a ‘“harbinger of She told me not to be afraid, but| peace.” He known now as “The surely answer. | Prince of Peace “The next day T heard voices In a brochure - called “War in Heaven,” Mrs. Woodbury has described her relations with the Christian sciencs movement, her’ excommunication from the Mother Church, her subsequent acts and denied the persion of hypnotism attached to my name.” She has frees | 1y discussed the question of a succes- “When the voice came again I was in | sor to Mrs. Eddy, stating that no suc- bed. I answered as quickly as could, | cessor could be necessary to a discov- as she had told me to dc, and when I erer of anything. had spoken a curious light came over | In this brochure she also states that me. I remember it so well. It seemed | the death of Dr. Asa G. Eddy, husbana to me I was being lifted out of my little | of the founder of Christian sciencs, bed, and I put out my hands and| “was by some attributed to inimicaf caught its sides.” | mental influences.” but I was too frightened to speal felt badly. Mother noticed it asked me if T had heard the call aga When T said I was too frightencd to | say what she had told me to she talked with me and told me that next time I| must surely answer and not fear. PROFESSOR BURCKHALTER PREPARING THE INSTRUMENTS FOR THE ECLIPSE. / From a Photogranh.