The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1899, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. A Man Seuenty-five in Years and Bhirty in Gepius Jhe Famous Ca » the victory of €am spoke thus to ! g to e However that 72 Devotee fo Mineralogy. Cigars. Philosophy and the Piano. . at & swee ek, Ribot, ple will tell rth a bean real thing was the dearest she lked . i with her De Pach- she is happy. a 1 he re- a good father to spiritual state about philosophy last summer the Catskills Catskills, and hat he needed play- » issing the quall- masters when some one t. Gerome at “Are you seric i 5 VLADIMIR DE PACHMANN COPYRIGHT B AIME DUPeNT at Corot- knew how to he exclalmed, glaring at om under his shaggy brows. “Certainly 1 am serious,” ke replied Imly. I not only admire his trees his e drawing pleases me Infl- hen you are no artist,” exclalmed Gerome hotly It happened, however, that ey o present admired Corot, so that ( ne was quite alo us was none th » In the o oversy, born. A but very ianista Manof Fads De Pachmann Considers M. Labori Mis Very Best F riend. Why? mates now that the little De Pachmanns had departed. So he hobnobbed with the minerals. “They, too, are loriely,” he said. “Come, little mineral, and we will be lonely to- gether. Misery loves company and we shall be happily miserable together." He pulled out two cigars and inadvert- ently offered one to his new acquaintance. When it did not accept he threw the cf away Into the underbrush, for his code of etiquette would not permit him to re- turn it to his pocket. Just then the vo of his piano came to his mental he jumped up murmuring, “Had 1 forgotten you for an instant, my soul's delight?’ The piano purred contentedly when he arrived at the keyboard, and went Into ecstasles as he reassured it of his devotion. “It calls me away from all other pl ures,” he sa “From minerals clgars and Tolstol. It is the great my life. Viadimir de Pachmann f{s play us much music, above all the music of Weber. Weber 1s a god, he says, and this fact is not known. The planist will teach us. He will play the sonata in A flat, and then shall we know all our yearnings which have never occurred to us before. coming to Do not be disconcerted if he should stop in the middle of the sonata and bang his dainty little, naughty hands down on the keys and say that he won't play any more, so there. He now and again does such things, but it is his mood; and when he does play all his idiosyncrasles seem pardonable and delightful. heated discussion took place, being that Gerome stalked room In a great passio his friends were utterly the result of the {Arst principles of art and refusing to lis-/ terbto more of their lectures ; In spit t pular a of his e 3 Gerome 19 well cen ong the art o a recent Sun The occasion was a =ort of dc osls of Gerome and the Duc d’A which the t test stars of tk world ated. Benjamin and ¥ illu partic C; s Durar wintage of the oc ome. Had an happened to this partic art but lite fatal Paris-Chantiily 1 writers, 1" Aumale c of of celebrities is en disappc but that of Gerome is emi- nently satisfactory res are 11, his forehead of ep black eve t lover of bearing maker am sure cord to minu 1 Angelo tem- it outlines and of itself. : his statue by Gerome in some sure a labor of love. He the Due d’Aumale, and, llke every er Frenchman, he loved him well. | doubt that there is a character in the re- cent history of the French republic | whose memory is more sincerely respect- | ed than that of the son of Louis Philippe. Aristocrat and plebelan have joined hands cc ng him, and justly, tor the Duc d’Aumale was in every e a patriot—he loved his country for his cou try's sake. The descendant of Kings, t republic was nevertheless as dear to him | s the monarchy had been. With him | ance was always France, matter | what form of government existed. In 1548 he was Governor of Algeria, adored by the population and the army, when the news reached of the revolution in France and of the downfall of his father from the throne. One word, one gesture from him and 40,00 men would hav gun a march to Paris. With him at the head it is said this num could asily { have been doubled between Toulon and the capital. He knew all of this |as any o He knew revolution was in his »s he was urged to take this measure, | the good of superior to | all personal cor » all personal | ambitl He weil, | and this is the that famous messag be | sent to the provisionary ernment No matter what happens, the devotion of the African army and of its officers | to France will remain unalterable. We will uphold the national flag regardless of what chief may be chosen to commard it. Twenty-two years | r. when on the 4th of September the imperial throne was reversed, the Due d'Aumale presented himself at Paris. He did not come as an | aspirant to the throne, but solely to offer | to his country the service of his sword. But the Government saw In his presence | 2 new menace. In vain he declared his lelllngnc:s to serve France under a re- publican government. His services were The red and he was forced to leave D Here again the Duc d'Aumale is, a an inborn greatness; he bowed tif a dense state by fusion. Picric a s a bright yellow substance eely use in fe peaceful industries for dyeing purpeses. to the woundir It is obtained by the action of nitric acid ments In « rw 3 on phenol or carbolic acld, It burns ver dite sheil bur | violently, and, owing to the treme great » L. Gerome, the French Painter-Sculptor, and Ris Latest Work, the Magnificent Statue of the Famous Dug d’Aumale. his d in obedience to the decree of his Modern art is equally we and although he might b re- and, unlike colle sented the Insult with v le- ver: it ol tr A *“A man ha » his country Ir right to pl strife Throughout h and patrioti in one single Instance did he manifest t desire to render himself s h the eyes of posterit thor died, leaving his magr s at Chantilly to t tha in spite of many no rancor in his heart T e th trymen. On the territ m: to him and to his est the new he » ) yw me. statue from the hand of Gerome now tells 1 for In A man i the story of his patriotism. & e : o il L LYDDITE SHELLS THAT KILL WITHROUT HYTTYNG. What is lyddite? The high expl e T ¥ thus called from the name of the small 1d Kentish town and gunnery center, wi the experiments with it were made, is nothing less than picric acid brought into blast produced by the structive effect of a bursting shell with it is some eleven times greater that of a shell filled with powder. Common shells of steel with lyddite are used wit explosion, the 5 an breech-loading guns 1 with howit so with 4 to 6 inch quick-firing Now, we have none of the first-ment ed for land service proper cision up at the front vet dispatched any of guns of pr neither have we our field howitzer batteries. ~Therefore, the lyddite shells of which Joubert complains must have been fired from the 4 to 6 inch quick iring guns, which the naval opportunely bri around Li day, October must have Boers' first introduction the common shell fired by terles—and up till the enemy I not had te face any other kind of gun are not charged with it, but with powd the' ting witnessed (he to lyddite, for our fleld bat- All lyddite shells are equipped will to be with * percussion nose fuses only; LOon to vo on impact In the following fashion: olive I of which o I The percussion fuse ignites a ple- aken before start ut on a ¢ - ric powder exploder, which in turn » It possible, one ng the ¢ 3 Jitiacta e . cEAvEes of 1iudite, | 1y nJ"rf“x’v‘;”wz that the ofl acts by the detonation of the fuse and of the two explosives inside the-shell being Instanta- ing the stomach, and 80 ke from being absorbed by th