The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1900, Page 9

WILL ABOLISH DAY UNASSIGNED TEACHERS LIST —— Board of Education Decides on Innovation in the Department. ——— Promotions Have Been > Substitute Positions ce System Will verbal re. to be placed OF OREGON X TEAM HERE w Play f ersity of YOUNG WOMAN NEARLY DIES FROM POISONING Conflicting Stories as to What Caused the Iliness of Miss Edna Stel say ' anythi bers, =ald Miss Stelling <ome wrong medicine GRAPE-NUTS. WELL FED, WELL BRED. nd Makes Brainy Men and ful Women. k what to eat is a problem who find their strength ping up to a proper we must expect our not from drugs. is required at « physician will always t on properly select- care discovered Grape- on the treatment predigest the ). Grape-Nuts, e prin as now made by the Postum Cereal Co., 4m., of Battle Creek, Mich., and sold by cers generally, is a deliclous dainty, suitable arly T the brain worker, as it quickly supplies the parts of food the body needs tc ply the dally loss pro- duced by brain work. Unless the right be furnished and properly digested the individual discovers a gradual failing 4 some form of disease sets up. THE | | ARQUND 11 1 SAN FRANCISCO CALL, DAINTY WAXEN BELLES HOLD COURT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1900. AT WOMEN'S EXCHANGE EXHIBITION Doll Aristocracy of Varied Gomplexion, Garb o TELLER ALVORD 1S KRBAIGHED W of the Embezzler's Method. P NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—Cornelius L. v Jr., th rmer teller of ti Bank is accused 1k's funde he past te een the note teller of nal Bank. He explained s of the note teller and years t N I the dut « . which )00 In Alvord's showed that the that from October ge o The figur ried, and October 13 it was §700.000. Alvord's v now to admit that since became an officer of the ars ago, he had never known bank tu examine the assets tution illiam Reed of the Firs was the next witnes: 1 the | time the bank had an He had report of Moore, settling clerk for th> column of figures on a epared for and sent Lo as having been made explained the details 4 sheets for the clearing- one, he identified »r the banking day s testified that two made up for Octo- - ———————— METAL-WORKERS PLAN AN INTERNATIONAL UNION Important Conference for the Pur- pose Is Now Being Held in Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. An important this city at the e American Federation the 11 representing the Inter- Association of Machinists;: Rob- Kerr, the International Brotherhood Blacksmiths; W. J. Giithorpe, Inter- onal Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders: Martin Fox, the Ironmolders’ T'nfon of North Amerca; L. R . Thomas, the Patternmakers League of North erica; John Mulholland, the ed hanics’ National Asso- tion; E4 J. Lynch and Brass Workers the Metal Polishers’ : International Union; C. E. Sher the Metal Workers' Inter- national TUnfon, and Samuel Gompers, re nting the local metal trade unions, representing in all 30490 metal workers in the United States and Canada. The con- | ference is held with a view to the forma- | tion of an International Metal Trades As- | sociation, composed of the above named trades organizations. The plans outlined at the conference will be presented to the meeting of rep- resentatives of the above n-mefi organi- zations during the convention of tha American Federation of Labor at Louls- | ville, Ky., when the organization will be completed. Another meeting of the con- ference will be held at the federation headquarters to-morro Maud Spencer Bankrupt. Mabel Shuman, “also known as Ma: Spencer,” as she alleges in her petition, a lodging-house keeper in this city, filled a tition in insolvency in the United States fi-tnct Court yesterday. She owes ;;g has r:lho l?(l!. She claims as exempt worth of wearing apparel. Amo: the liabllitles is a natgpheleé b; An:l‘ Users of Grape-Nuts discover that they essist in the digestion of cream and other food, end that a “well fed feeling” fol- lows their use. Jacol for $2156, ich note, the = Holder by means of false representations and wholly without any consideration whatever.” hanged. The figures as his. He did not know changes. It was at the sheet had been in | of Alvord, as it had been | follow:ng participating: | thera were more than 100 entries and by day it is expected that many more dolls I be on exaibition. The rooms where 'w took place were thronged all the ers who gazed at and selected their favori dolls are all of local manufacture doll les UNCLE SAM’S NEW TORPEDO BOAT SCENE AT THE DOLLS' RECEPTION, WHICH IS DRAWING ETY TO THE ROOMS OF THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE TO ADMIRE AND and Sex Form Un que Display Attract- ing Attention of Numbers of Visitors. PURCHASE. S — ) LOCAL SOCI- <+ and reveal great possibilities in doll gar- ments. They wear every species of garh, opera cloaks, tea gowns, evening dress, taflor mades, all In the latest fashion. The prices range from 320 to $2 50 accord- ing to the dressing. Mrs. J. C. Westcott s the exhibitor and dresser of a family of baby dolls which say “‘papa’” and “mamma” in quite a real- {stic manner. Miss Madeline Anderson’s outfit of doll ciothes excited much atten- tion and was quickly sold. Miss Anderson also has on show some beautifully dressed dolls which are Rmong the feature of the exhibition. Mrs. Eva Braid's worsted dolls in suits of knitted wool also jare an iInteresting feature and occupy a-Zprominent place. A gilant “Yellow Kid"” doll made by Mrs. A. M. Reynolds catches the eve of new- comers as It stands near the door, and is a very clever pi of work. Three rag doll sisters are shown by Mrs. A. M. Reynolds.and are looked on as | revelations In the art of rag doll making. | A few years ago a rag doll was a rag doll | and nothing more, but these dolls wear | confections in creamy lace and silk, and | look just as attractive as their sisters in wax. Mrs, E. L. Covey sends several rag dolls all the way from Los Angeles, which are very pretty and make a pretty exhibit. The show is Intended to be an annual affair and every one concerned is working hard to make it a conspicuous The ladies in charge are: Mrs. L. McKin- istry, Mrs. 8. dlienthal, Mrs. A..T.| Spotts and Miss Grace Unger. —————— ‘Will Improve Winnemucca. Francis Smith, W. W. Montague, Jo- seph M. Quay, Horace Davis and F. W, G. Maehus have incorporated the Winn. mucca Water and Light Company capital stock is $100,000, of which $500 has been subscribed. DESTROYER LAWRENCE LAUNCHED itnesses Explain Details N@amed in Honor of the Famous Captain' of the Chesapeake Who Cried “Don’t Give Up the Ship.” | - —fe \ THE NEW SEAGOING TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER LAWRENCE, NAMED AFTER ONE OF THE HEROES OF SACHUSETTS. | AST BRAINTREE, Mass., Nov. | 8.—The sea-going torpedo-boat ! destroyer Lawrence was launch- ed yesterday at the yard of the Fore River Engine Company. A thousand invited guests were present, but | they made a small crowd in comparison of the river. The Lawrence was lowered Into the water in a cradle and just as the wind- lass allowed her to.move out of the shed | piss Ruth Lawrence of New York | cracked a bottle of champagne over the eraft’s sharp nose and whispered “Law- rence.”” The Lawrence was named in honor of Captain James Lawrence, who was born | in Burlington, N. J.. October 1, 1781, and died of wounds received In the action be- tween the Chesapeake and Shannon, four days after that battle. He entered the navy in 1788 as a midshipman and was made a lleutenant four years later. Law- rence was at one time first lieutenant of the Constitution and afterward, while in command of the Hornet, defeated and with the thousands that lined the bankxl | { THE EARLY AMERICAN NAVY, SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED AT THE FORE RIVER SHIP YARDS IN MAS- sunk the bestowed a gold medal upon Lawrence and a silver gne upon each commissionel officer under his command. 'his success Peacock, for which Congress also secured for him the rank of captain, | with the command of then fitting out in Boston (is13). On tns morning of June 1, 1813, the British ship Shannon appeared off Boston, challens ing the Chesapeake to combat. The two ships were, so far as size and battery were concerned, very equally matched, but Lawrence was badly handicapped by having a disorganized crew and was also short of officers. However, he was willing to accept the odds rather than appear cowardly. The Chesapeake weighed anchor and stood out to sea to meet the Shannon whose crew was thoroughiy discipline{ and had been continually exercised with the expectation of this meeting. The ships maneuvered until they were yardarm to rdarm when the encounter became ter- rific, broadside following broadside, midst of which Lawrence {ell, mortally wounded, The Chesapeake became un- manageable and a raking fire from the Shannon cleaned her upper deck of every commissioned officer. In the midst of such carnage and destructlon Lawrence never faltered, but as he was carried be- the Chesapeakr, | — low gave those celebrated instructions. “Don’t give up the ship.” This encounter had only lasted fifteen minutes, vet the Chesapeake had forty-eight killed and ninety-eight wounded. Her force thus de- pleted she could make no further resist ance and was captured by the Shannon and towed to Halifax. Lawrence died dur- | ing the voyage and was buried by the British_in Halifax with military honors, The Lawrence is 242 feet 3 inches in length, 23 feet 3 inches extreme beam and has a draft of 6 feet 21 inches on a dis- placement of 400 tons. It 1s fitted wi'h twin screw vertical inverted triple ex- | lation was German and Polish, and num- pansion engines and water tube ilers, | bered somewhat less than 1,000,000. estimated to give a speed of 30 knots on | Strategically his share, although the 8400 indicated horsepower. The normal coal supply is thirty-four tons, but tha vessel has a bunker capacity for 115 tons. The torpedo equipment consists of (wo long 18-inch Whitehead torpedo guns, one aft of the after conning tower and one amidship, but both on the center line of the ship. The battery consists of (wo 14- | pounder rapid-fire guns and five 6-pounder rapid-fire guns. The complement consists of four officers and sixty-nine men, for whom_there are provid three 20-foot whaleboats and one 18-foot folding boat located in chocks and on davit® along the elde of the vessel. POLICEMAN FOTTER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED While Running for a Car His Revol- Policeman Henry N. Potter met with a serious accident Wednesday night. He lives on Twenty-sixth street near Guer- rero, and about 11:45 o’clock, while on his way to report for duty ut the Beventeenth street station, he ran to catch a car at Twenty-sixth and Mission streets. While running his revolver fell out of his pocker and was discharged, the bullet striking his left leg near the shinbone. He was taken to the Rallroad Hospital at Four- teenth and Mission streets and Dr. Ogden, who attended him, said it would be five or six months before he would be able to report for duty again. Accidents of this kind are not uncom- mon among policemen. About two TS5 ago Policeman L‘can was running to catch a car and his revolver fell of his pocket, the bullet lodging in his les. He is not’ yet fully recovered from the effects of t{ne wound, l]thollflh on duty. Policeman Lyons, while running after a Chinaman in Chinatown some months ago, met with a similar accident. The Evil That Men Do. Rev. Dr, Voorsanger will deliver the second of his series of “Plain Talks to Plain People” this evening at Temple Emanu-El, taking as his subject, “The Evil That Men Do.” HH+4 444444444444 440 + + Ed. Borein will have some- 4 + thing to say about The Great + { Indian Hunt in next Sunday’s $ 4 Call—and best of all the story 4 will be illustrated by himself. 4 The artist draws + subjects of this kind better + ¢tlun any other man in tha: + United States. His work is 4 unique. + + + O+++++ 4444444444434 0 & + + + PRUSSIA’S STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. WAR GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE. Iv. To the student of general history the epoch-making aspects of the Seven Years’ ‘War (1756-63) are to be sought outside of | | Europe, in India and in America, in the | | triumph of England and the ruin of | France, as a colonizing and maritime | power. In this wider fleld the war marks | one of the great stages of modern history. | In Europe it was a struggle for existencs | for Prussia and ended in the preservation | of existence with added welght but not | | with added territory. Hostilities began on the sea and in America, but their extension to the Con- tinent was only a question of time, and | when that took place the aggressive action of Frederick in striking the first | blow facilitated the completion of a com- bination against him which was a revolu- | | tion In traditional diplomacy. For tweo centuries France and the House of Aus- | tria had looked upon each other as natu- ral enemies, but the rise of Prussia had | introduced a new and unlooked for factor | in_diplomacy and the penetrating Kau- | nitz convinced Maria Theresa that it was Prussia and not France which was the | | natural enemy of Austria. To win the help of France in crushing Frederick was | a slow process, but the eariler events of | the war crowned the effort with success. | The Empress of Russia, who saw in the | expansion of Prussia eastward an ad- | vancing bulwark to block the approach of | | Russia westward, was ready for the com- | bination with thée design of conquering | East Prussia for Poland and receiving for it Polish territory bordering on Russia. By 1757 the alignment of forces was com- | pleted and Frederick supported by Eng- land found himeelf confronted by an alil- | | ance of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden | and Saxony to undo the work of a cen- ! tury of Prussian growth. Not only his | own conquest of Silesia, but all the acqui- sitions of his predecessors since the peace of Westphalia were to be stripped from | him and divided among the ~spoilers. | Austrfa was to have Silesla_and Glatz, Pomerania was allotted to S8weden, and Magdeburg, Halle and Halberstadt to Saxony, the provinces on the Rhine to the ish waters, and upon the restoration of Moldavia, Wallachia and other Russian conquests to respect the religious rights of their inhabitants. This and some similar articles proved the _enterins wedge, to be followed by a claim of a right of protection over xie Christians in Turkey. Thus Catherine, a sympathetic spirit with Peter the Great, carried on his policy in the South. few years later another step in the vance of Russia Is made when Cath- erine intervenes in the last contest be- tween Frederick and Austria. The ex- tinction of the direct line of the electors of Bavaria offered the versatile and am- bitious Emperor Joseph an opportunity to imitate Frederick's policy in regard to Silesia. The tables, however, were turn- ed and Frederick appears in' the solemn role of a defender of the peace of the em- pire and of the minor states, and in par- ticular the supporter of the clalm of a collateral lin Forces were m: both sides, but before blows w Catherine intervened. pla German politics of R ceding ury N completely establish R great powers of Europe arbitration between Prussia Joseph had to content B nexing only a small section of Bavar the “quarter of the inn,” comprising about 20 square miles and 60,000 peopla (719 and the residuary claim of Prus- sia to Anspach and Baireuth was recos- nized Catherine’s attention now turns south ward again, and in 1734 she annexed Crimea. Ne in conjunction with Emperor Joseph, she attempted th: pyision of the Tirk trom Europe (1753 er ultimate design was the restorati of a Greek Christian empire, with her s ond grandson on the throne: her actua achievement the conquest of tory lying between the Dnies Bug. Joseph had joined in th terpr on condition that he should have Ser 0 vina. Moldavia and Wal- lachia and Dalmatia. One cannot that the success of project would have been a ble: people of Turkey and have saved Europe much wrangling and bloodshed for the next century and more Under the Inspiration of the enligh philosophy of the eighteenth century 1 | i i | i POLAND’S POSITION IN EUROPE. - | elector Palatine, while France was to con- | | tent herself for vast expenditures for the | cause of Austria with two harbors in The | | Netherlands | But as the efforts to parcel out the pos- sessions of Spain and_Austria had_fafled. | so this project to dismember Prussia | came to naught. | The treaties at its close left the territor- | ial boundaries undisturbed and Frederick | emerged from this life and death struggle | one of the greatest figures in history. For | the next hundred years Prussia is the | equal rival of Austria for the leadership | of the German people. A moment’s glance may be given to the | 1ast territorfal acquisition made by France | | under the old monarchy, interesting for the double reason that it made Napoleon | Bonaparte a French citizen and because | of the analogy to our annexation of the | Philippines. The republic of Genoa, en- gaged In a hopeless effort to reduce the Corsicans, who were struggling for inde- | pendence under their heroic leader, Paoli, | invited the aid of France. For a time the French held the coast towns while Paoll | controlled the interior. Finally, despair- ing of suppressing the insurrection, the | Genoese, preferring to see Corsica ab- sorbed by another power than indepen- | dent, urged France to take over the island (1768). Although Choiseul, the French | Minister, had advised Genoa to grant the island independence, he would not refuse an offer so advantageous to France. At first unwilling to pay for the privilege of | putting down an insurrection, he finally | agreed, out of pity for the Genoese, to | make them an annual grant for ten years | amounting in all to the equivalent of per- | haps cne million dollars. The Corsicans, | resenting ‘“‘to be sold like sheep,” made a herole but hopeless struggle for indepen- dence against the power of France. Before the entrance of Russia into Buro- ean politics the balence of power had | Peen adjusted by using the minor states of Italy and Germany as make-weights, but the steady encroachment of Russml toward the west and south imperatively raised the question of the fate of Turkey | and Poland, in which Prussia and Aus tria were vitally concerned Unity of race (the Slavic) would facilitate Russian absorptior. of Poland, and unity of beth race ond religion would make the Czar the champion and incorporaticn with Rus- | sla the goal of the oppressed population of European 3y Consequently, bencefcrth the balance of power in East- ern Europe will be adjusted at the ex- | pense of Poland and Turkey. This new phase of European state growth was | brought into a glaring light by the delib- | erate and cold-blooded partition of over one-third of Poland among Russia, Aus- tria and Prussia in 1772. The immediate occasicn was the Russian conquest of Moldavia and Wallachia in the war with Turkey, which excited the apprehensions of Austria and seemed likely to precipi- tate war between Austria and Russia. To avoid this issue, which would Inevitably fnvolve Prussia, Frederick urged the Em- ress Catherine to take a section of Po- fana instead; he in turn, in compensation for his subsidies to Russia, would take the ortion lying north of Silesia and between | | Pomerania and Prussia (so-called West | | Prussia), and they both would secure the acquiescence of Maria Theresa by approv- ing the appropriation by her of a third sectlon. aria Theresa consented with compunctions of conscience and after vain suggestions of alternatives. Frederick obtained West Prussia, which filled up the gap between Pomerania and East Prussia, and made that outlying ossession more defensible. The popu- smallest, was the most valuable. The share of Austria comprised Red Russia, Lodomeria, part of Podolia, etc., with a jpulation not far from 2,000,000, mainly g?»lluh. From an economic point of view it was the most valuable of the three sec- | tions. Russia put up with the region east | of the Dwina and the Dnieper, 5gsvulnuefl! by Russians to the number of 1,500,000. Po- | land was strawed of about one-third of Its | resist. The Western powers looked on un- easily, but without effective protest. A micre flagrant violation of public right had never been seen in modern times. A precedent for the conquests of revolu- tionary France and of Napoleon had been established. Frederick’s view was com- pletely divested of moral considerations and he mercilessly ridiculed Maria Theresa's compunctions of conscience and with characteristic cynicism commented on this union in_plunder: “She wept and she took. The Empress Catherine and I were highway robbers, but the pious Em- press Queen, how did she nrnnfi. the matter with her confessor?” “It will unite,” he wrote Prince Henry, “the three religions—Greek, Catholic Calvinistic (. e, R , Austria, Prussia)—for we e of the communion of the same sac tal body—that is, Poland—and if ramen’ it is not for the good of our souls it will nly be extremely good for our staf€s. But, notwhhlunmq, the diversi the blow to Poland, rkey aid n:tn.?lg her escape. e Sultan was com- Wt A P 1 (17T74) _to acknowled; the 1 Do as pleasant ....5 :,l—annxtm Ale ‘%&' fls the Blac .'lu-:!lh‘nn“. as " e Btout. Any dealer anywhere %ill supply you. » ocu:"mon.mmnunmm«nm | divided amon, Polish nobles and middle classes began the introduction of political reforms which should strengthen the powers of the King and rid the country of the old anar But the self-regeneration of Po- land the last thing that Catherine as y wanted and under her instigation a party of obstruction was formed which invited her intervention. The King of Prussia saw the long-wished-for opportunity to secure Danzig and Thorn, and while the hands of Austria were tiéd by war with France joined Catherine in the second partition of Poland (1792-83). At the | sword’s point the Polish diet had to ratify | this dismemberment of their country just as the dawn of a better day appeared. Russia took a north and south slice about 250 miles wide, with a population of about 3,000,000, mainly Russians and Lithuan- fans. 'The share of Prussf Danzig and Thorn and a trian sec- tion extending northeast from Silesia as a base and lying south of the annexation of It comprised about 20,000 square miles and a population of a million and a haif, mainly Poles. Two more years and the end came. The Polish rising under Kosciusko was crush- ed and the remainder of the kingdom was Russia, Austria and Prus- sia. Again Russia extends her bounda- ries westward, this time about 150 miles, and getting a large stretch of the Baltic coast. The boundaries of Prussia proper (old East Prussia) were pushed east and south about seventy miles, taking in War- saw, while Austria secured West Galicla. In this extinction of Poland Russia was the final gainer, for into her hands in less than a generation came the shares of Austria and Prussia in the third pard- tion and all but a small part of Prussia’'s in the second partition. EDWARD G. BOURNE. Yale Unive y. ENTHUSIASTIC CONVERTS. 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