The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1899, Page 23

RN D s ST A THE SAN FRANCISCO OALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1899. s 179 (7 == Bl NS\ 72, 7% | THE BRITISH AND AMERIGANS FOUGHT SIDZ BY SIDE IN SAMOA, 1899, American marines slde by side again nstance, as has been by tele- e world irred at moa on i sent a t of ap- the hearts of the t always so. ng ago when was a throat. t from the r republic until rness was ‘‘sponged state of affairs came about of the Pelho River, China, Captain Tatnall uttered rtal words, “Blood is thicker at occurred on this day is t Instance where s have offi- arms against a hisvement of a is not, however, e feeling of 1 of tite two ¥ 8 tions has forth ble actions, gratefully 1 applauded on both sides ubjects the Ameri- aght side by side with t a common their blood flag at Louis- he U'!‘l" but and cers of, ody colli- met mander th and 1 frult in ¢ notable rompt and ef- flag and ss Amerl- cans of caring that Cap- e men captured on hered in 18 protests and and that een b a blow the o slaughter an lives were rds and actions were not Captain Sin “blood an water.’ the and France were endeav- from the Chinese Govern- and of Ad- uth of the er Powhattan, ed the same Ward and t the United wera ex- hstructions » desired anticl h and hopes atfon of an at- rench, had for- making it arrival off the bar a boat to communi- ander of the forts, ex- ire of his mission oval of the obstruc- 1 of the river. This s authori- °re not removed he would re- this condition Ward, leaving started up the cy-wan, a light-draft d for the purpose. When as near the first barrier d on the hidden bank, and was for a time in a critical situation from cxposure to the batterles, and the danger of the fast-falling tide leaving her halt x r the bank. Plover came to her , 2n offer of the privilege of holst- American fiag on her, if necessary ndon the T an, While banging there Captain Tatnall sent his licutenant to the officer in com« mand of the fort to say that the vessel had come for the purpose of going up the river to Peking with the United States Minister, who had been directed to de- liver to the Emperor in person a letter from the President and to ratify the treaty. The reply was that the barriers could not be removed, as they had been placed there to protect the villages from rebels and pirates, and that on any attempt to remove them the forts would open fire. On this the Toey-wan, when fin leased from her perflous position, dropped down the river again to a point near the bar. Receiving no answer to his letter of the 20th, Admiral Hope made his preparations to go ahead anyway. Leaving the larger vessels outslde, he proceeded with the Plover, to which he transferred his flag, and ten other light gunboats, mounting in all twenty-elght guns and carrying some 500 officers and men, across the bar nto the mouth of the river. Seven ed marines were placed on board of ks and anchored near the bar as a reserve force and storming party In case it would be necessary to attack the forts by land Though up to this time everything had Wworn an entirely pacific appearance, some uneasiness was felt from the rum that Russians were on hand to assist the Chi- nese. The advance began early on the morn- ing of the 25th, when the flood tlde was running strong, but owing to the nar- rowness of the channel and the strength eR=g=g--R-F-F-F-F-F-F-2-F-F - 22 2o F-F ot of the breeze movements wers hampered and confused. At 2 o'clock, when the ebb tide was strong, the first barrier having been broken and passed and the Plover, with the Opossum, was attempting to break through the guard, the mask was thrown off. A single gun was fired from the fort and a moment later all the mantlets wers opped and forty heavy pleces of artll- lery opened on the two little vessels at point blank range. Within twenty min- utes the - Plover and Opossum had so many men struck down that their guns were almost silenced. Captain McKenna of the admiral's staff was killed and the admiral himself seriously wounded in the thigh. Tatnall and the other American officers on board the Toey-wan witnessed the whole of the treacherous attack with feel- ings of anger and mortification. Finally, seeing the desperate situation of the British admiral, Tatnall exclaimed “Blood is thicker than water. I'll be —— If I'll stand by and see white mek butchered before my eyes. No, sir! Ole Tatnall isn't that kind, sir. This is the se of humanity. Is that boat ready? Tell the man there is no need of side arms. At thls moment a boat was seen to emerge from the smoke of the battle and pull with desperate energy toward the Americans. She bore a midshipman -with a dispatch for Flag Officer Tatnall. The perusal of this note excited him still more. Sending an officer to Colonel Lemon, commanding the reserve force of marines who were unable to stem the outgoing tide, and get up to the assistance of their brethren, with an offer to-tow them up to the scene of action, Tatnall got into his barge with his flag lleutenant, Trenchard, and hurried off to pay ‘“‘an official visit,” as he expressed it, to the British ad- miral. Making his way to the Plover through a storm of shot, one of which struck his barge and nearly sank it, killed his cock- swain and wounded Lieutenant Trench- ard, Tatnall found the British commander on his quarter-deck, sitting on a camp stool, desperately wounded but still di- recting the fight. Forward thers was an eight-inch gun with only one or two men near, the rest of the crew having been killed or wounded and the reserves ex- hausted. Tatnall ‘exchanged a few words of con- dolence with the admiral and said to his own boat crew: “My good fellows, you might man that gun forward till the boat 1s ready. Just as you would your own ship.” The Yankee tars went to work at once, and with a will, and served the gun ‘for over an hour, when they werq relieved ' by men from the other ships. They declared afterward that every shot they fired hit the mark. As they walked aft after being relleved they were met by Trenchard, who, realizing the neutral position taken by the United States In the matter at issue, assumed a severes tone and asked what they had done. “Oh, nothing, sir,” replied one of the brawny fellows, “‘except lending a hand to them fellers forward.” Returning to the Toey-wan, Tatnall steamed down, took the junks with the reserve marines in tow and brought them up to the scene, where they landed and stormed the forts. The attack was repulsed, and many of the men were cut off and could not reach their boats, but wers left on the bank in full sight of their comrades, powerless to aid them, and exposed to the heavy fire from the forts. Seeing this Commodore Tatnall ran his light-draft Toey-wan close in shore and took the whole party .aboard and out of danger, thus saving many more lives. This action on the part of the Americans was all the more telling because of the 48t thqt & short time previously at H 238 kong the crew of the Highfiyer, Admiral Hope's flagship, had used every occasion to insult and mistreat the men of the Powhattan when they met on shore, and several bloody encounters had resulted. The next winter, after the Peiho affair, however, when the Powhattan went down to Hongkong, it was very different. The Highflyer was there, and as soon as the Amerjcan vessel was recognized as she steamed into the harbor the British tars manned the rigging and greeted her with cheers. Their band struck up “Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot” and fol- lowed with ‘“‘Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,” the whole ship’s company join- ing in. 'ihen the Hlfimyer_ran up the Ameri- can flag and the Powhattan hoisted the British _flag, and salutes were mutually fired. Then the other British vessels in the harbor followed sult, hoisting and sa- luting the stars and stripes. No honor was too great for Tatnall and his Yankee sallors. en the men from the two ships met on shore they were as if they had been shipmates all thelr lives, instead of pound- ing each other’s faces as they had in that very place less than & year before. ———— Christian Scientists declare that by the selves of any disease. We must stmply concentrate our minds on the fact that Wwe are not iil, and, presto! we are well. Sclentists are trying to prove that too much thinking about any particular part or organ may lead to a disease of that or- gan. Dr. Carpenter is believed to be the first to demonstrate by experiment that concentrating the mind on a special part of the body will lead to & local hyperae- [la, with sensations of tingling and itch- ng. It is not difficult to understand that di- recting the mind toward some particular part of the organism may alter the blood supply of that part, and so modify mate- rially its nutrition. If this be possible, it 1s not at all un- likely, according to the London Lancet, that morbid changes may result from, or be predisposed to by, these slight begin- nings. Itis very difficult, however, to find many cases which can be satisfactorily explained only by some such theory. W. H. Bennett, in_a clinical lecture res cently delivered at St. George's Hospital, quotés two cases. In .each of them in= creased growth of a tumor appeared to follow the continued concentration of the patient's attention on the part. It has occasionally happened that a physician or a surgeon who has paid par- ticular attention to the disease of some one organ or region of the body ultimately Sult“.ars from ap 3Teo~on of the same V¢ WaY CUre our pel TATTNALL AND THE BRITISH | ADMIRAL ON TME QUARTER: DECK DURING Thae [/~ ~FiCHT. S WHEN THE AMERIGANS AND BRITISH FOUGHT SIDE BY SIDE IN GHINA, 1859. The English vessels under Admiral Hope were being very hard pressed by the Chinese. Commodore Tatnall, seein, hot and shell to the English vessel. man his ship’s guns. humming s had come to pay an official visit. The elght-inch gun near by just as they ‘‘would on board their own ers serving the gun. Engl sel.” The admiral was wounded his plight, roared out “Blood is thicker than water,” and ordered out a boat's everal of his men were killed in the passage. man smiled grimly at the American The Yankee s He mounted the quarterdeck ilors jumped into the fight with a che CUUOCCOT OO SOOI 00 000000 00 00 0 08 0000 08 00 300 300 308 300 108 308 10308 508 308 308 300 108 0% 308 308 300 308 X0 30 30 408 30 308 08 308 08 30% YO 0% 0% 308 308 S0 0% 306 308 53¢ 1% b= UNCLE SAM PREPARING FOR A BIG PEACE JUBILEE. WASHINGTC D, O festival n tion's clty of festivals has ever been attempted upon a scale ap- proaching in splendor or novelty that drranged for the tional Peace Jubilea to occur here dur- ing three days and three nights of next fon will be the tribu t of a city, to the who have won its re- cent victorfe: he national review he at the close of the Civil war, though ut- terly different from what is now being a ranged for, event in our hi tory with whi be compared Long the hour the military a parade on day, May g day of t month. h of t soldiers and e only h it before 2 o'clock d na tival, hundreds of peopl hay ered in the strip of avenue s White House from Lafay Squa which will have been converted into a court of honor constructed after designs - purely original great page: through t co it will g three 1 arches, ¢ 14 proposed, will cons A al muskets sixty feet high, reg nted with bayonets fixed and belts thrown on Midway in the space the President will vlew the procession from a stand which, unless present expectations fall, 1s to be a fac simile of the prow of a vessel of war, cxtending from the fence of the ex- ecutive park outward to the curb of the ide pavement fronting it. To add real- istic effect a turret and fighting top will tower from the rear of the deck, made spacious enough for the chairs of a large party. On efther side of the President’s stand it is the plan to provide generous spaces for distinguished raviewing officials, such s the diplomatic corps and the members of Congress. cec g to the plan these two stands will be in the form of high ter- ich to represent the re ired off Army camp: ng upon the main evenue » of the commanding genc Tents will form the back- ore them will e and a few bra ther proposed to lin Lafayette Square stands representing s of fig amp ehains non. It is eourt along with tall revie th tie rted into comforta’ 1 guests. 'he night features of this first day of 3 jubil will be a public reception by he ‘President, band concerts upon the south portico of the Treasury Department overlooking Pennsylvania avenue, and upon the terrace o; illumination of Penn vania avenue, La- fayette Square, F, Seventh, Ninth and other streets, of all Government buildings and of the monument, and finally a grand fireworks display in the monument grounds, On the second jubilee day the ceremo- nies will commence at 10 o’clock in the morning with a parade of school children from all the public the Capitol, a grand private and sectarian schools of the city, bearing banners, flags and garlands, e little ones will form their line in the Smithsonian grounds or Judiclary Square, parade Pennsylvania avenue, countermarch, pass in review of the President and retire to the grounds of the White House, where the old-time May day exercises will be repeated with May poles, ribbons, wreaths and garlands. At 2 o'clock the ‘spectators will resume their places to view a second parade of flower-decorated private equipages of all kinds gnd cycles, which will pass in re- view of judges elected to award prize rib- bons or medals. Following this will come a long parade of clvic organizations, also in competition for prizes. The second jubi- lee day will end with a change in music for the band concerts, the bands exchang- and a second display of fire- the ing places work: The third and al, will crowning event of f t of the entire f historical pageant, requir- of soldier sailors and sentation, in the great war v. The tableaus are y of well-trained men, moving ct enced in mil floats devoted to will appear Re . bear- f their period. cc Tread on Me, “Liberty or Death,” the Bunker Hill flag, the Royal Savage and others General Washington and his Revolu- tionary staff, mounted, will be followed by Morgan riflemen in their green hunting ackets, brown breeches, leggings, ging- am shirts, powder horns, flintlocks and wigs. There will also be in line detach- ments of Revolutionary infantry, artil- lery and saiflors, A conspicuous feature of this epoch’s display will be a moving reproduction of the celebrated picture, e Spirit of '7,” showing an old man in knickefbockers and bandaged head play- ing a fife between two drummer boys. The Revolutionary period will be concluded by a large float representing Washington crossing the Delaware. . The second war with Great Britain will be illustrated first by Andrew Jackson and staff, mounted, followed by appro- priate soldiers and sailors of the perfod; and lastly by a float bearing an animate copy of the great painting, “The Battle of Lake Erle,” whieh hangs in the Capi- tol, General Zachary Taylor and staff, mounted; soldiers, sailors and a magn ficent tableau float, depicting Taylor re- fusing Santa Ana’s demand for surren- der, will be shown. An effort is to be made to persuade Representative George B. Mc- Clellan of New York to ride at the head of the portion devoted to the Civil War, uniformed, wigged and painted, to repre- sent his father, “Little Mac,” it having been decided that McClellan and staff wili head that division, which will conclude with a float showing “North and South United.” Interspersed with actual war heroes will follow three magnificent floats {m- turing the principal events in the last war chapter of our history. “War"” will bé depicted upop a float bearing In the foreground a tangled reproduc wreck of the Maine. Standing as a peninsula of our country, C appear with sword in right hand, her left resting upon the crouching, half-clad and distressed form of a Cuban woman. In the background soldiers and sailors with guns at a_charge will await the bugler, who stands with- his instrument to his if about to give the command ar Following this picture will come bodies of soldiers equin‘ped Just as they were when marching dway to war. The sec- ond tableau, “Victory,” wii: represent the capture of the Spanish blockhouse on San Juan Hill, with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt represented in the foreground urging his men on. Following this will come a detail of regulars and volunteers in the uniforms and equipments worn and in the same dilapidated appearance pre- sented when they left their transports for a march home. The concluding tableau float, ‘“‘Peace,” will show the peaceful fireside of a one- armed veteran relating the details of his late war experiences to his famMy, while the ‘Angel of Peace, standing upon his threshold proclaims ' “Peace on earth, good will to men.” 3 At the conclusion of the historical pa- geant patriotic addresses upon non-par- tisan toplcs suggested by the war will be delivered by .the most distinguished orators who can be here at the time. Among those to be invited are Colonel William J. Bryan, Senator Depew, Gener- al dloseph ‘Wheeler and Henry Cabot ge. After the usual display of fireworks and band concerts the great three days' festi- it R R e RN R MR e i e R i e v R e =R R o R - -8 =3 - -8 o3 -3 -3 -3 - -F =3 -3 -3 -3 - -F-F-3-3-F-F-F-F-2-3-F-3-F-F-3-3-F-3-3-F-F-F-3-3-3 -3 -F-F-3-F-3-3.F .1 g el o o HEN we look about among we cannot help wishing for th cards and make a new deal. ELLA WHEEIER WIECOX éo00000000C'O0OUOC‘.fifi35CU:UJflfiflufififlCU:UZUJC()&fiflc&fidbfifii}fififi)2(9:0:(fifififihfifififififidflfifififlfififififln! our married friends and acquaintances he power to shuffle them like a pack of If we could palr off the good husbands we know with the good wives death we would f 2] we had done the wc d leave the worthless * relics” to worry one another orld a service. to Yet, undoubtedly, there is a wiser hand than ours. directing the game of marriage, and all the mismated people lesson by their sufferings. we encounter are learning some needed There is the agreeable, sensible, cultured, kind man married to the frivo- lous fool with the brain of a butterfly and the instinots of a wanton. A lovely home, & devoted husband and blessings which life can bestow, are onl lects the home, nags the husband and sweet children—the three cholcest y a source of Irritation to her. She neg- is indifferent to the children. She wants excitement, and craves attention and admiration from the outside the charming domestic woman with all traits which keep this old world worthy of the Creator's attention, world. Just across the street, perhaps, lives the love! and she is mated to a monster of infidelity and vice. Through the open windows of a summer cotti whose {nmates I knew .I age heard a selfish, pettv-souled woman scolding one of the best men who ever fell to a woman's lot as husband. An hour later in a public conveyance, a disagreeabls husband nagged the sweetest of wives in the presence of a dozen strangers. One could not_help thinking that it would be a comfort to readjust those four families and to let the viclous pair and the scolding palr drive each other to swift Testruction, while the four amiable and moral people enjoyed that Eden on earth—a happy home, where love and harmony preside. One can understand why & woman marries a disagreeable or worthless an, but it is hard to understand why a man chooses a worthless woman for his life mate. 2 A man {s always in a position to Jearn more of the possible for the woman to learn of the man who woos rl he woos than it is er. The lover sees his sweetheart in her home and among her friends, and ought to be able to form a falr estimate of her disposition and character makes her his wife. before he Yet many a sensible, critical, cautious man might have selected his wife blindfolded and succeeded in suiting his needs quite as well as he has done by his deliberate choice. Belfish, frivolous, irri le gir] any moré then & sinner ooms SRty B R A g Writes About ; Mismated Husbands and Wives. bad bed e bad require a foundation of character tqo result in happiness. A man of most excellent intellect and good sense once asked a married lady to advise him regarding his domestic life, which was in ruins through the friv- olous folly of his silly wife. ‘“How came you to marry her?” asked the lady, The man looked at her helplessly and before offering any advice. answered, “I don’t know.” - 1t more men knew why. they chose thelr wives thore would be fewer divorces. The man who Is “‘unhappily married and who goes about demanding sym- pathy and favors of women on this account is a very cheap sort of personage; yet we find women ready to set high value by him. It Is a threadbare role for men to pla: talking to vold space or to the animal population of his unha{ap( c in Old and worn as the role is we meet y. I have no doubt Adam went about life with Eve sense and after she took to extravagance in dress, and brought Olée:nfxn fig leaves. women of s ngly 800 morals who take these men serfously and waste sympathy and attention upon them. Romantic young women and sentimental widows are easy prey for the sym- pathy seeking benedict. They grieve over his hard lot and listen to his tale of marital lntellcllx. and allow him to monopolize their time and attention in a man- e ner which grati s_his self-love and concelt. ‘When criticized for their indiscretlon th are always indignant and most eloquent In their defense of the “poor fellow who gets no love or sympathy at e e. But to be the confidant and adviser of position for any respectable wom: such & man is a dangerous and ignoble an. There is always something contemptible about the married man who goes about posing as a martyr. It Indicates a weakness in chatacter same criticisms can be husband’s faults and failings. object than a weak woman. arried people have no right from the standpoint of common decency to i E’h id settle l:‘l:elr misunderstandings withous cize each other to outsiders. the intervention of a third ‘When a husband finds i thetic women a story of domestic ey shoul o M and a lack of dignity and pride. The assed_upon the wife who complains to other men of her. But a weak man is always a more contemptible t1- necess: to pour into the listening ears of l{mpb— :gavuncu it 18 man down as a cad and an egotist, if not a fool or a vil Pretty safe to set tha: ain. The maa who really is a martyr to a loveless home or a heartless wife does not talk about it. The wound lies too dee] No woman who respects her sex sho her Dresence& kA stingin s far r for ImMn of Wiloox 1n New York Bve to be shown to the world. d allow & man to talk against his wife in suc] gola&:hu misplaced *symoathydt- val will be concluded by what known as the jubilee revelri. vention Hal], one of the la floor spaces in the world. > un- masked and not dressed in fancy or gro- tesque costume will be allowed upon the floor. The “k the jubilee, pre- will viously chosen, appear now for the first fime, mounted upon a lofty throne and surrounded by a court of gorgeously clad nobles. Afte guests have been presented to his Majesty he will descend and mi on_herd, the floor being cleared for a great mask ball. The king of the jubiles and many of the principal characters in the historical pa- geant are to be either distingulshed men or those who have purchased the privi- leges by generous contributions to the Jubilee fund Floor privileges for the great ball will be sold at a high figure, while spectators alone will probably have to pay as much as $ for admittanca. The pleasantry at such a time. Then Tatnall orc and had er and s ; men enough left to taken through Hope that he crew to man an the exhausted British- id to Admiral red his boat's er and relieve 308 308 308 30 308 108 108 308 30F 308 308 306 0K 06 XX X 06 0 jubilee_committee expects to exzpend at least $50,000 for the success of the festi- val, while the civic organizations and other outside participants will probably, do the same A distinguished honor has just been con- ferred upon a woman by Emperor Fran- cis Joseph of Aust The reciplent is the “well-known £ Ebrier- Eschenbach, ¢ which of This is an fore been cor aus knew that ranked second to none among the famous writers of the day. Her novels and aphor- take high rank among modern lit- works, and it is the general opinion ustrians and Hungarians that she is r greatest living poet. Her best known works are “Village and Castle Tales,” “Bozena” and “Lottle, the Watchmaker.” The authoress is now in her sixty-eighth year, and her friends say. that sheé {s as vigorous and bright as she ever was. Gommodore dJosiah Tatnall, tcux,x;mndouh '.r?emu o R i hopedl ap ‘etho River, 1839, o the hist %%gnzgu Hope apd his shi orical saying, “Blood {s thicker thfia du o attle ;xu e Chinese tha