The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1899, Page 24

THE SUNDAY CALL. In the University of California Sxtension Course San ation of Ca that 1t lan- This idea. ert- 1 upon the disconc BY FRANK SOMMERS. E were talking about 3 us—up In 1t was—were in evening having been to the It was the recounting of glories of and tier that had start- ed the conves “I never see all those women in dla- g like that, without won- and whether a5t as good sther words, ng that is not glitters just as here's no doubt, T suppose,” sald Ho- man, “that it takes an expert to tell a genuine stone from an imitation. And if at’s the case all the money spent on is spent simply to satisfy the es,”” sald Dudley, “but it doesn’t take much practice to make an expert in that 1 much less practice than you might t k, even for diamonds. When you come to rubies and emeralds you only need to see two or three good specimens to tell real from imitation at & ou have any eyes.” sald Homan. “All the same, I believe I bave seen an imitation dia- Old @a i LU an ou Speak Chinese? Tby Don’t Wou Learn? o (e 0 <&@ Ji Eaf S =X . W < %8 () Lu0R v (D) Letter of Recommendation From Consul General Ho Yow ness of articulation but a good linguists h study of Chin spent 1n the ef insatisfactory s will be however, has proved the widely entertained be- trated that it is i ge year, for e of ordi education and a real to learn to obt a practical g knowledze of ( tonese—the al and st gen ialect of the Flowe T 1versational irdner has made a study of China r dialects, litera- methods. As official Custom House Chin- U B <Rk By A e ¢ AT & SN TP RN SR SWE S E X Prondie b Aot Bt o 3 Judva & 9 ni : A ) % el ese Bureau he has been tact with nearly all th ent clz and conditions represented by China’s wandering sons, and from his own ex- perience he has been able to evolve a syster simple and yet s0 rich rit the high- brought in con- er s - five interested and btful persons gathered in the ture room of the Hopkins Art In: one evening and listened to Dr. Gard- as he gave a brief outline of the n which he propc After that 1 sed rapidly until tw ) met other night during the regular coll te s and devoted ur and a half to listening and while their 1ctor pr most original but emi- nently effective method, to impress up- on their minds the evident peculiarities and the less evident but no less real simplicity of the language which they were intent upon learning. In this class there were six ladies, FFiRK's “You have, eh?” said Dud! must have been a Gar: “And what in thunder is a C - mond?” 1 asked Homan, knowing full a story was coming. a dlamond—an imitation dia- made by Adolph Garrie; Where of, Ho- »u see the one you speak ‘A pawnbroker of remarkable honesty showed it me,” said Homan. “And when 1 asked him how much he would take for it he laughed and said it was not worth more than $50. I would have thought it easily worth $500. He told me it came from Parls, that was all, except that he said thére were no more made like it now. at's | said Dudley. T have no doubt it was one of old_Adolphe’s pro- ductions. The old fool! He might have made an enormous fortune if his heart hadn't been 50 soft, and two enormous fortunes if he hadn’t been so superhu- manly honest.” “Where did you hear about htm?’ I asked Dudley. “Hear about him? Why, I knew the man as well as 1 know you, for a short time, at least. Probably no one else in this part of the world can tell you the secret of Garrier’s stopping his manu- facture of diamonds. I'll tell it you now, if you like. It Isn't a long story. “T didn’t make the old fellow’s acquain- tance Paris, but in London. Jt was when first returned from Ceylon. I bad a bag of sapphires that I had pick- ed up at bargains in the bazaars out thers, and wanted to find out whether e Teate= A oy 13 i 5235 R 5 8 2N | 2KRTahy o4 Bk B O o 3ok ) F e Ny e R SR ek B ! to H. J. Rosencrantz. two of them medical students who see a promising future before them as prac- titloners among the Chinese womer and of the twenty-five than eleven received cer- graduation at the end on the 27th of last June. v one of these fortunate eleven i able {0 converse intelligibly with alm any Chinese whom he or she is like to meet in the ordinary course of events either here or in China. While many other dialects beside the Cantonese are in use within the borders of the Chine empir 1 who understands this one ell can manage to com- municate v with those who speak the others, and for reason of ouk-like quality the Can- especially in favor with all wish to use acquaintance with Mongol and script purely in a business n graduates Mr. Hilliard encrantz stood highest, for he not v received the regular diploma of the University of California as a reward for Most all ‘silk of them were of any w. knew, had what they in them. any, Well, a diamond merchant of my ac- quaintance, to whom 1 went with my s, told me he wanted to intro- me to a queer character, and in that I met old Garrler in my friend’s office. the _acquaint- rd T improved 1 was in Paris. It turned out that Garrier was a very remarkable chemist, He would tell me a great many things that I didn't know, say there mysteries about science in 3 ept one. When 1 asked him what that one mystery was, he said it was the mystery by which he’ could make diamonds at little more cost than the cost of making glass buttons. ““*And don’t you intend to profit by 1t?" 1 asked him, ““He chuckled and said that he intended to make himself rich and many thousands of rich people poor. But he wouldn’t tell me how he was going to do it, and there was one corner of his laboratory that he always kept screened off and wouldn't let me enter. “I had made up my mind that old Gar- rier was a visionary. But one day he met me, quite by accident, as it happened, at a cafe, and that was when he convinced me that there was a great deal in what he sald. He pulled out of his pocket what I took to be a superb chain of diamonds about fifteen Inches long, each stone out as big as the top of a pencil. ‘What is that? he asked me, with a n. st ‘A very fine dlamond necklace,’ I sald. * ¥es, my friend, sald Garrler, ‘but Diamond MIll . diamonds made by art, not by nature— and at a cost of 200 francs and some odd centimes.’ “I tried as hard as I could not to offend the old man, but my astonishment nearly ot the bettér of me. The idea of making at an average cost of 4 apiece! The setting must have cost a good deal more than the stones themselves at that rate. “In order to convince me, which he seemed to want to do, Garrier took me next morning,to a jeweler in the Palais al. He asked for the expert of the establishment, paid a fee of 5 francs and got the opinion of the expert—one of the recognized xperts of Paris—that the stones were real. ‘“ ‘They are not all perfectly matched, the expert safd. ‘Some are of a blulsh tint and some are straw diamonds. But they have a fine luster.’ hen Garrier laughed and asked what would be the value of the whole plece. ““ “About 18,00 r 20,000 francs.’ ‘Monsicur Garrier,” I said, ‘do you really mean that you made those stones yourself? ‘I mean it he said. ‘And in another year the diamonds of the British crown, the Russian crown and all the crowns in the world will have fallen off in value at least 80 per cent. Also, my friend, the great South African mines will not be worth the trouble to work them.” ““As a further proof he took me with him to a pawnbroker's and there flung his necklace on the counter, asking what the man would give for them if they were sold outright. The pawnbroker sald the Government rules would not al- low him to buy diamonds outright; but he was quite willing, after examining the Francisco Has the On{y Practical Class in Cantonese in KU the United States. A SHORT COUKSE aF LECTOKES THAT HAS RCCOMFLISH THE MOST SEACTOKY ESULES. but the Most Honorable ) Yow, dent Chi- the t 0 person- elf as to his acquira- ttested thereto in his er his own of- s well to say here, value of that rantz possessed him- 1ch comparative ease, that this fortunate student I SAT his profic which Mr. self of with next and reco e opportunities whi are there ng those who shrewd enough to see and take advan- tage of ther Dr. Gardner’s plan of Instruction in- cludes no textbooks whatever. The pupils are requested simply to bring larly, since each lesson is a = the ladder up which they are trying to ss of e one mak very e th ndivided in f the doct blackbo: h the climb, and the 1 d progre to impart id vocabulary in primarily a cter being a “onventi inese langua each ct ain obje S arert cor 3 analyzing the rs, res ng them into S s and then showing the wh wherefores of their many cor ions. characters an and em- Ten or twelve word phrases s bedded each les solid knowlec which make tempered and therefore mutually ¢ Chinese sound like 1 exc : e to pi n as n as its at every word in the Chinese language has four tomes c three series each—upper, midc and lower—and that these are all very ea 1ly learned by conversation and by con- text. is case with all other lan- classroom instruction in the would- daily practice— sible—every scrap dealt out to hir the of know SA In order to the language of an RerHC NTZ coun and well one must s mingle with the people and talk with 1y on the ordinary affairs To the fact them familia = that Mr. s soon as he had learned enough \\w-msland };hrases convince a Chinese at e was UN[VERSI'FYLOF CALIFORNIA nvince a Chinese tha to ng to learn his pecullar sted all his spare time to ng or trying to talk to every in- ——— am Yup man that s way, is due his present sur- GERTIFICATE OF REGORD. ing command of the Cantonese dla- (exTension covrse ) future most excellent busi- % Cts. e s which has begun to study under Dr. Gardner this year numbers persons, who gather every Monday, Wednesday and Friday even- ing in the Art Institute at 7 o’clock and devote every moment of the time as- signed them to the serious and intent study of the queer characters which k so fantastically meaningless to most of us, but, like many other things, convey so much of real value to those who understand. s the only class in Cantonese in ctical operation in the United States, gathering of earnest and ambitious possesses far more than a local interest. Ttns st cettyfy that 4/ | bas % ompleted ] ——————0 " Jfre Extension Courss oz order of the Facultees. /y MEeEMoOrRANDUM, In my, opinson, the Course ndicaled above is equsvalent 7@_ : bours (;ursg Jfor: - Doted at Berkelzy, Lne P a lerm. Dated ot Berkelzy, kind and another. When this Brazilian stones closely, to lend as much as 5000 “To tell the truth, I ¢ old francs on th count died he left his wife and her two Garrier ma gt T t that Garrier laughed aloud, very daughters nothing but her dowry and an would b T ey much to the disgust of the n_behind uncommonly fine collection of ~precious He for making mon the counter. He plainly told the men stones, mostly diamonds. If she had w! ;i for was science, and ower it gave him. that the stones were manufactured, and had more business sense she would have the men as plainly ref used to believe it. d the whole collection of diamonds at the Count “You see, if old Garrier d not been the outset and invested the money. 1t 1 of arti honest, he could then and there she had done that the price of diamonds The odd & profit of at least $30 on his diamonds. need not have troubled her. But, woman- seiected the Cc But he would not sell—or pawn—them like, she must lock up her diamonds in sent_that wonderful diam under any false pretenses. He was a bank—all except a few which she sold, lace to. He gave Me {wo Stomee one ip termined to do the whole business fairly. to put her daughter: a hionable i set in the GEheE 1o 2 He was so very fair and open about convent school—and wait until the sirls 1 also had the satis the whole business that it very soon be- should be marriageable before she would him dismantle the o 8an to be talked about among the jewel- realize on the bulk of the je in order apparatus which he called hi; ers. The thing became a nine “days' to provide them with dowries. In the il wonder in‘ Paris. And that was what meantime she had been living on her own W did you do with the tw brought Garrier's enterprise to an end— dowry. And now her banker, or Some. he gave vou?" Heman all through his kindness of heart, body had warned her 0f the ‘rumor of ' “One I gave to a lady,” s “One day a card was sent up to him in his laborato; the card of a count- eaa. (]}adr‘ner_ was not accustomed to re- ive ladies in his sanctum, so he w: li!l{:y{iuslered. Bl v en the countess entered she in some distress. Good old (I:Irrlers‘izfigg hcf whn{] he could idfl for her, and her only reply was: ‘You are i mn!lx‘shleur.?h ruining me, “Then she told him her tale of wi and he recognized it as genuine, for the name on her card was very well known in Paris. ‘‘She was a widow; herself, but the widow of had lost all his lands by Garrfer's discovery. She fully that, if this old magiclan could turn out realized . tell you about 'that The other I have hera. day. He went to a drawer and, after rum- maging about for some time, produced a artificial diamonds A trifling cost, and so good that experts could not tell them from the real thing, her fortune would soon_cease to be worth mentioning. ‘“Well, I believe the Countess wept over old Garrier, and he, being a ft-hearted simple old bachelor, was overcome by he )< s. He hadn’t even the sense to think of doing what I suggested to him when he told me about it—promise the Countess not to sell any artificial stones until she had had a yvear to dispose of her real ones. What he did was to solemnly prom- ise her never to sell any diamonds of his own mn.klns. leather case In which was a large di mond collar button. And you mean to say that isn’t a real ond?’ I asked him. t Is not a natural diamond t is the work of old Garrier's —made in his diamond mill. If it not for the association of it and the city of Garrier's masterpieces in days, I would s But, you see, n di. these vou that button for $10. or_old Garrier died not long after he raised that little sensation i Paris, and the secret died with him.” & Frenchwoman 2 Brazilian who gambling of one b