The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1901, Page 2

" THE SUNDAY CALL. Wiagne amos., Whke Ys Living Y e of Rbrakham Linceln. =] A boasts a Baltimore, wasg brought up in' Ohip and mag ed in Ka years. In tis s atter s sent him : -« ' to the served_his comstituents wel ) Helsa an educatior rtually 1f-made, 1 resting career. He is . )ld and the photograph here- ’ - an excellent likepess, s on des ? the r. Amos is wr a history of | w an Bernardino Cow . One of the odd fe s about Mr. W Amos’ resemblance to Lincoln is the fact s that it has become a rent within the st decade and is more marked every 3 if such a thing be possible. Prior m 1o ten vears ago nobody saw a pecoliarity N either his countenance or carriage, but - 1en the likeness be pear it came v grea y. Now he amiiiarly called Stooping, “Uncle Abe" d whepever there Is; a 1dly but public meeting of a-political_or patriotia . 3 ever mely. That wWas nature, and Amos is within eh, he is f Lar 1 Mr. Amos feels jniroduced, always amid a whirlwind of way about it applause that almost ises the roof,” y PEArance s, to speak. This hearty” greetiug is the emangpator of probably partly in_honer of the..dead There is b in his make- President, whom he ‘brings so forcibly to the same 1s inveterate mind, and partly becguse he is a =plendid . r t T talker, frank and pofnted, and the people r fond of a practical ljke him for himself. ke a embodiment of good nature In a Grapd Army meeting“Mr. Amos is onditions. He 1 't -always ~ur‘ to make. the hit of the day. awky his mer, yet he The old veterans are .almost.willing . to = 1 that he forget who he is—and in their enthusiasm end his great some of them actually do—and take him € Imost irresistibly . as their great chieftain of the bloody war of Lincoln’s inability t0 gdays, returned to life to guide them again steamer berth, and 1 he herculean task of saving the Unlon. to.the ship's car- _ Asa citizen Mr. Amos holds a high place er, Wk out the parti. In the estimation of all his nelghbors and aas Rt aout the partl- hose who comedn comtact with him. . (By ~ : S il those who know him best he is looked stemd. Mr yuld be capable Upon a8 Sutiresy worthy ot tod Al - funny s one under stmilar strange compliment which mature has cumstances chosen to bestow upon him in-the such distinctive Strange to rel Mr. ring Idncoln’s ad- ©f cline ness that, home the same as be u Lonly S Am L o "“f "~ skin deep, and représented so much in the men e Treas Depart- pelove u after whom he seems Lo have 2 e is & native of been patterned. QIS OFF T#i gl = apd that's what, T & were falking abou b Wm ha g5 DasshE Intot i the Cat wokeyan 1 the nen's lap and Jeoked I Be cves. He stroked ler o her ' Za d she waid by every that g fn” The soul of his o at 1 1id Mr & vour ive pa to the ¥ ee what' you e i experfment, by inute | 1 ge tt olish sk \ shame-faced way If the cat happens to. repre i fricnd of yours, it will You can.get lots of nemigration; as well as e and yeowling around on es. Tell me all about®t when 1 he had departed Mr. Bowser to jump. up intora chair, in another and looked eyes. He was seek- The cat half purred, and ‘for a be sure whether he soul before in any other en, as she opehed *her cmed to be as big as tea 1d drew one down in a sort of a sudden flood of-memery swept m. The soul of a red-headed boy ed to next door to him when 1t down in the r ollection: and til they s g i he was A 1ad° had passed into Mpreayar, ‘thats rddibeaded Him around and nggesy It ANl 10 €AMe bach L4 .the ¥ ‘cat weli as 1o Mr. Howker. 4id she ghve a veow! and a #p¥t and ‘made for a safe usylum on the toy floir- “By ‘thundef, but I've struok 1t Mr. Bowder fan o ek ook the cat hoy used te -all him all sorts ot ha fn an ingtant as whis- \ walked around Nuhis face. “Yes, the soul of that young Tim Sulitvan #kd Into otf old ‘et and V'l give her a allopng to-morrow gn' lve got th doctine a and Mrs. an't say a word. He w trembli when the cook tramp at 'tk did ) wanted a was a g him rig atd Bowser. I a chance tu il:e other end of ( dyeirine. Who knows but that the squl of Shakespeare or Miitor s wandering about befifnd thte Jacket of this tra The ¥amp came wup. He said if it hjdn't been for the low fever, the up of . the yel- nd the blo never by and Mr, Chicago Spar a the M. e he'd obliged to ask for public charity, 1 Bowser kindly replied: ipulations. NS I CFA TNV / /T MVTO 77 A’OU@AD stme great man was retorn at my birth I've got the feeling and can't get r T often find myself thinking what, ligve, Napoleon used (o think “By James—by James! I only Bowser was here to hear you thinks I'm a fool about transmigration, but here ving., breathing vidence. Yes, you may be carrying the soul of Na- poleon about closely, I'm Mr cltutched him by Come to look at you more arked The tramp = T see u m Bowser stopped the throat and laid on the floor and compressed his wir i1l he was black neatly and quietly and when the by the front him face. was dona stranger d out Jnmr he carriel Mr. Bowser's gold watch nd sdhare Y He had transmigrated him: 1 mile away when Mrs, Bowser ente house to find against the wall eves and the cat sittifg 1 “Well, what's asked He pointed to Mr. with Bow: hapger > a hair mattress a rag and soms liniment for p to bed and turn while T get your throa X-rays b e been. subjected to & novel WAas supposed worth 10,000 ¥ sacreted it owing it. Expert mporarily secrate small n in the throat. It i= and the thieves s 1 training in order to ren- der them proficlent in the art. The plan s sim A small plecs 5 at- tached a read, and this the neo- t wallows, then by the action of his t n the lead to th N “That's all r my friend. I'm gc to give you quarter, but I'm gong to NE po'NT /\ ask you if you have never felt that vou ED = were some onc : TO THE CAT CZQW “I"have,” =aid 'hf man. “Y E thera X have been; times when 1 felt that I used i (\WYV“V‘J to' be Napoleon or Geirge Washington . “By ‘James, but wpat a ceoineidence— what corroboration!” whispered Mr. Bow- . ser. “You-—you have heard of transmi- gratfon? “I'have, and T belleve that the sul of 1 1 Speed of Bn—ds Has Been . Overeatimated HF you consult the usually accepted au- thorities on the specd: of birds in the.r flight you are likely an exaggeration of from 100 to 300 per cent. This is because figures have beea glven on hearsay, avpearance and very superficial observation. But recently American, English and French observers have been comparing notes and are prac. tically agreed, after mos* careful calcu tion, on the speed of the best knewn bird They started with the carrier plgeon and have made him a base of comp@rison. He has heretofore been credited with one hundred and ten miles an hour, but it i now agreed that he Is entitled to fifty. A quite recent long distance, carefully con- ducted test of five hundred and ninety- two miles, from the Shetland Islands o /London, showed that “the most rapid '| pigeons made thirty-seven miles an hour. On shorter distances none madermore than Because frigate birds have been seen far from land and have been supposed not to fly by night or to rest on the watex, they have been credited .with-a speed of from one hum]red and fifty to two hun- dred ‘miles ‘an hour. if they did fly at that speed they would have to overcoms an atmospheric pressure of from one hu dred and twelve to one hundred and thirty pounds to the square foot of.flying sur- face. Therg is no certainty that they fiy | more rapldly than a passenger pigeon or | that ‘they do not fly at night or do not | sleep on the water. The swallow, that is indeed a rapid fiyer, has been credited with a hundred and eighty miles an hour, but he must be to 'be misled oy cut down to sixty-five mil ten is five benind hin thorities have placed 'he teal ¢ the mar nough au- ad » from a miles hundred : miles a The mallard is five mules slower and flles the same as the canvasback. while both of these are five miles an hour ahead of the wild goose and eider duck The pheasant makes thirty-eight m an’ hour, which is three miles ahead «* the prairie chicken and quall. thoug N latter anpears to fly much fakte 1 count of.his temvorarv bursts. el that seldom exceed two hundred f Th érow flles twenty-five miles an hour. Small birds appear to fiy more ranidiy than the large ones and have 1 many obser =. The hummin not:fly as fast as maay awkwa 1 in@. very much larger, slow 1 The most satisfa have been made on level land, watches st extended where timekeeners nd on lines at given apart and time the birds as they pass from other. snadows of the flying one iine to an- —————— Certificates of death are not documents where one usually seeks for humor, but there 1s frequently to be found in them much of the unconscious variety. Here, for« instance, Is- how the cavse of death is stated in the case of a laborer: “Died from injuries recelved through a bull as- cidentally - kneeling on his chest.” The constderation shown for the feelings of the: bull s a fine touch, and suggests grave queitions on the moral responstbil- ity of the lower animals. Again, a man is stated to have “dled from the effec s of injuries recéived after being run over by a raflway train In motion, owing to a misunderstanding befween the deceased and a ine driver. This description of 'a rather ordinary rallway casualty is excellent. ¢ Mang Ries That a Small Fly Ras K <\;/ TOE ks the male the - \")\ / verior animal finds no rest for the WY svie of his foot In the contempla- tion of what we, In the sublimity f our self-conceit, call the “lower ani- 53 .o neral ignorance of the isefly we do not know just how foolish and ne-account the male is, but we m sonably infer that he is as ing that his eyes ars 1 gence. The fiy has two sorts of eves, the big compound one, 400d in a binch on each sides of ‘the 1 for knocking about AdayMgl 1 ree simple eyes on the to of the head for use In a poor light, s and fine print. Before going Inte ecstacies of admiration over the creature that has 4000 eyes on each side of its head, it might be well to remember that they are not of much aceount. In case of old files kept over winter the compound and get broken, yet the fiy along and find food. One kind varnished over the simole and piucked off the wings of some flies. FHe found that he hold a candle close enough to bu. yund eyes of the fiy hefore it had a suspicion that snything eyes cave in seems to get ger eves tlema out of the common was going on. In day- light he took a knitting needle and brought it up in froiit 6f the fly close enough to touch its antennae before it dodged It the knitting needle was brought up on one side, Mr. Fly picked up his sticking plasters quite lively.—Alns- lee's Magazine.