The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1899, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1899. atest }'Itt'en‘ipt Ever Made | s p l- | received here. France Has dJust Started a Large Inst tution on an Ent'roly New Line, s leads to the main en- i which -in no res D that of the old prisons. of tufa, rough-coated with ros tory of ‘the w principal on: kitchen, bakery, ) ommon to the entire <), cell bulldings for will do when hospital building prisoners will get the entrance of the its arrival it created its remarkable m the day o a big stir by »ath is the lat- 1 about town s of different pl the electric light . it consists of a escent electric ELECTRIC LIGHT BATH IN OPERATION. At Prison Reform depends on himself. He has every ne- cessity of life and bodily comfort. But there is no one to talk to. Before him gome simple work is laid out. He can do it or leave it. Experience ' has shown that men in solitary confinement are generally glad to do anything to vary the e- -rlasting monoton Should | tle prisoner do the work within a cer- see how a person is | rison, and iet u As soon as the hea iron barred door closes upon the prisoner he 'is 11ed to a waiting room, a sort of cage, whence he passes to a hall of inquiry and mensuration. Note is here taken, also, of hi ical condition. After these pre barber shop. The barber of the estab- lishment cuts the hair of the prisoners ;and shaves them at the rate of forty an hour. In the searching room the con- relieved of every object that he possesses, and after being stripped as naked as a pew-born babe, is covered with soft soap and submitted to a ! shower bath, which cleans him as thor. s as it is vossible. .nsable operation, f the conviet is sent dc to the disinfecting hall oured and to the cell assigned. > prisoner’s futur CCOOO000QCCCO00000CO0OC000000020000020CL00C000000000Q00000N NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT BATH THAT 1S JUST COME TO TOWN A bee: ient sits in among them and absorbsQ o t and electricity, and ing ed di 1 that th deep claim effect benefit than the sun’s rays, and that sick people quickly recover under th radiant warmth At one time the electric light bath | promised to become a fad in New York. any women got into the habit of tak- ing a daily exposure, and could not be induced to stop til it became only too sparent to some of them that they were rapidly losing in weight. Of the. actual benefit of the electric | light bath the of opinion. M it is all bosl » is still a big difference uy physicians claim that and that the only bene- from the neat and a little of the treatment point ‘cures” and also the indi fact that lves to the p weight. h to be absolutely harml what the patient’s condition. all this as it may, there is no g the fact that a man feels dif- ferent after an electr! he ever feit befor heat t perme: no matter tes the body is not ¥ is while a patient is being treated would stantly scald off alt the skin. It is nly reasonable to suppose that such am atmosphere must have a strong ab- sorbative quality and should draw some, if not all, impurities out of the body. “It won't hurt you at all,” said the | | physician in charge of one of these elec- | trie light baths, “and it may do you a great deal of good. If there is any diseased part in your body it will be | located in a very few moments after | you get into the cabinet. That spot will feel a little warmer than the rest | of your body.” The apparatus in front of me looked a | good deal like one of the old fashioned wardrobes that stood in our grand- | mother’s room. There was a good deal | of carved, polished woodwork, a good |-deal of glass and a little brass finish. “How do I get it?” I asked. “I'l show you,” answered the doc- I'tor.. “Just take off your clothes and put, on this thin linen gown." I did as requested. The doctor then opened one side of the cabinat and pointed to a chair on the Inside. When 1 was seated he put a screen | with a hole in it, to let my head go |-through, over my shoulders. This touched all four sides of the cabinet and wag in reality a sort of diaphragm, in- {tended to separate two different tem- peratures, | Up to this moment the cabinet was } almost in darkness and felt a little cold. | When the doctor closed the door and I Ohold any commun ) e5 dresintere light bath than | in his life. The dry | and practicable by any other | Water heated to the same tem- | ature as the interior of the cabinet | {heard the lock ‘“click” it felt colder | tain allotted time he is permitted to obtain books from the prison library. If he conducts himself to suit the direc- tors of the prison he is given a little to- bacco and other luxuries and his sen- tence is also cut down in accordance. The better the prisoner behaves the better is he treated and the sooner he gets out. Exercise is aiso an indulgence to be gained by good behavior., Under the regulations each prisoner is permitted one hour in the little plat in front of his tight iron door, but this may be in- creased if the convict so desires. The school chapel, which is arraneed | like an amphitheater, contains 250 cells placed side by side in pairs, and in such a way that the convicts cannot see | | each other either in entering or leaving, | it. And thereby hangs a tale. From a Photograph : > to perceive on or the instructor. The punishment cell ;5 like those of a stable. occupant may receive more or or be immersed in com~lete £ ace ng to his behavior. walis of t cell are covered with paint and the sole furniture that ontains © a’~amp cot sealed to the ice the convict m with one an- xt whatever, the isolated r, under any hing dishes. novel prison, a anxi all who have any the betterment of the cri nal cla of the electric light rays are of Lzru:n-o 00CO0000o000000C000 jevery creature.” “And lo, I am with you alway, | world.” The promise of his presence is | on condi | the work of car | sion. and I began to wonder how 1 could get out, But at that moment there was n glare all around me. It w ght and startling it seemed to 1 here had been an ex- bout me. There g E ric lights fixed to the walls of the cabinet and just in front of me w a mirror reflected them all ¢ After a moment they began to m around and I felt a dizzv feeling creep over me Then T began to get m, and it was such a delightful rmth. Not the moist, clammy heat of a summer day, but just the we of the electric light bath. The is inothing like it. It permeatea every part | h; of my body. My hands were warm and drv. but T felt no impr put them onto the iron ar A perfect equilibrium w. felt if I could sta sion “hair. in the cabi- net forever. T seemed to be swaying back and forth. The electric lights got | brighter and brighter and I was per- fectly happy. Then t} doctor opened the door. I stepped out, and, strange to say. felt no sensation of cold. This was, of course, due tn 't that my skin was perfectly dr Then I put on my -clothes and we out feeling as if I were walking on air. ———— The icebergs of the two hemispheres are entirely different in shape. The Arctic bergs are irregular in form, with lofty pinnacles and glittering domes, while the Antarctic bergs are flat topped and solid looking. If lakes have no overflow to the sea the water always becomes salty, partic- ularly if there is small rainfall and much evaporation. The Caspian Sea is properly a salt lake. So Is the Dead Sea. There are several lakes of consid- erable size in Canada which have no visible inlets, being ted entirely from subterranean sources. " The first attempt at scientific fore- casting of the weather was the result of a storm which, during the Crimean war, November 4, 1854, almost destroyed the fleets of ¥France and England. As a great storm had raged several days earlier in France, Valiant, the French Minister of War, directed that investi- gations be made to see if the two storms were the same, and if the prog- ress of the disturbances could have been foretold. It was then demonstrat- €d that the two were in reality one storm, and that its path could have been ascertained and the fleet fore- warned in gmple time to reach safety. | paper, some newspaper, any old news. | wood make a member of the aristo- cratic house of Astor mad? Ah, that's! of the largest block: | | sawed and shipped, and naturally at-| the keeper | the tem- | drudger repa vegetablesgy the world over have® ress of this@ results will hFc, rimi-© [ | tain the p when T | lichts went out and the | he | Millionaire Astor Explains About J-IE“ Famous R.edwood ILLIAM WALDORF AS—'BFOug}Zt ]t F'Fom Gahfor’nia to London TOR is going about London ‘with fire in his eye. All of his attorneys have | been called in consultation, and he has decided to make an example of a new paper. And it is all on account of a piece of our California redwood tree. How could a piece of California red- Cut of Redwood, 15x4 Feet, Sent From Vance’s Wood, Humboldt County. to London, England. Mr. Astor is not at all particular as to | which paper he makes an example of, but the trouble is that he will have to decide before his attorne can get to work. And then it will be shifted f-om one paper to another until it comes to the one that first published the item that went the rounds of the C000000000000000000000000000000C0000 re not allowed tog) ordered a | alifornia redwood | tion of block of a monster C to ornament his grounds at Cliveden, sion was given over a hipping firm who pro- | piece of wood and It was one | of redwood ever |ago to a certain s the giganti | transported it to >ted considerable Everybody wanted to know what Mr, | repeal of the new The captain was to transport Horn and acros Whether he intended it a annot be stated, but he told the to England was asked, | 5 4 joke on Mr. as an Object of Interest. to decide a wager of had laid this amount that he tould find a tree, a Cross sec- ch would be large egough to table for fifty guests. bet by bringing a piece vitin t1 n of the ship who carried ngland is e ;T San Franci nted t s‘ory and ga e immense section ¢ [ In time the San { reached Ne and pi picture | having erowd | sort | Astc | and [ flui pic proposing papers tures of g papers nd there the stories » improved upon. .One »f redwood as giass’ an rast toCalifornia. e piclure w printed r did not when he neys an of things. ; really done t was to take the letter to the London ‘Times t it i ditor of th | only one thi | following Sir: ‘Wil you ur columns a that h 2 tion of Cal- | ifornia redwood recently brought to | Cliveden? The section ed to has | been placed on the ground as at | 5 | | of interest, but it h. tended to use it as a ha table. nor the num- be seated repeating th ng to gi s any bet heen of persor round it. The , and purpc count of a ba mischievous ation. I | instructions to leitor, | Lev to nence proceedings | against the news -r which has pub- lished the tion. Yours faith “WILLIAM W | “Cliveden. October 2 In the meantime the noble California tree h: perma- nently located in Mr. garden, where thousands have gone to look at it and marvel at its enormous size. 1f th a been kept migh The captain of sponsible for the story that has pained Mr. Astor is taking a vacatlon—but Just where s not known. ques- section of the Belgium's Gas Bill The Belgians are a frugal race. If you doubt it here is the proof. A few days & the Government re- | solved to introduce a uniform standard of time. In the western part of t | country the clocks were put back twen- ty minutes to conform with the facts, ves to bed at er the new, at 9 p. m, by p. m., sat up before and er—that is, time style he went to be | the clock, which was old style bv actual sun time. But si up twenty minutes later involved arger imption of gas and the nation’s bill increased $1,000,000 eat delight of the which had. se- i tly lobbied for the new time stand- ard. The peasant soon found out that the time standard raised his gas bill He could not change his hour of going to bed, that was a family habit that had been in force for gener- ations, so he began to agitate for the o | 1t was shown du campaign that the new plan co: 0,000 in gas annually and had no r meaning n it whatever. There was never any doubt as to its fate aft the frugal peasant went on the warpath for its alp, and it has been repealed. 0000000000000 0000 WHAT FOREIGN MISSIONS ARE DOING ACCORDING TO PRESIDENT MOON pel “is the power of God | unto salvation to every one that believeth. To the church the Savior said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to HE G even unto the end of the n that his people engage in ng out the commis- So long as more than half the people of the world have never heard the | Gospel, the church cannot be excused for inactivity. Nor can it expect to re- sence of Christ and spiritual power while it goes on in neglect of the commission cdnferred on it by the head of the church. Never before in the his- tory of the world were conditions so favorable to the preaching of the Gos- pel to every creature as now. Turn al- most where you will—to continent, na- tion or island—the gates are open, and the truth may be given to the millions of earth’s inhabitants. It is little won- der that the church is shorn of power, when under these circumstances nine-tenths of all the contributions for foreign missions are given by one-tenth of the church membership, and, fur- ther, the members of the evangellcal churches in the United States contrib- ute for the conversion of a thousand million heathens less than one penny a week each. and 98 per cent of all the contributions of the church for relig- ious purposes is spent at home, and | only 2 per cent is devoted to the foreign | mission field. It is estimated that if evangelical | church members would devote a tithe | of their increase of wealth to the work | of foreign missions it would amount to the sum of $4,347,900 annually, whereas | the contributions to foreign work amount to less than one-thirty-second | of one per cent on the valuation of the property held by them at the present time. | There is no lack of means in the | hands of the church. If this was con- | secrated, the Gospel could be given to the heathen quickly; but if held, even to be devoted to the home field, on which so much labor has been' be- | | | e stowed, the church certainly can not | expect God's approval. | 1t is evident from such Seriptures as Revelation, xiv:6, and Matthew, xxiv:14, that the heathens are to have the Gospel. The Lord has waited for the ! church to use the means he has placed within its reach, and it has not as yet accepted the blessing in store for the faithful. Will he continue to wait tor me and for you? or will he find other agencies and means to accomplish his | work? Tt will be done. If a man is lucky he never speaks of | the proverbial luck of fools. i JF ] The attitude of the earth as rej sents a million: the two lone white squares, ilized lands 140,000,000 nominal Diagram Showing the Proportion of Heathens to the Followers of Great Religions gards Christianity. Each small sc those who are in the darkness o has been done toward their convers lans. re repre- paganism; on. In cive