The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1901, Page 6

LU oliceman ARND [HIS EAH MAY must look eharp. She will find that there are other tall people—and not so very far away from her height, either. Andriene Babulich is six feet four and 2 half inches tall. Her four and a bhaif inches creep to five and a half, and sometimes add an extra half-inch when &he puts her shoes on. And she is still growing! People who profess to know all about it old you are by no one attains the fuil height until vears old. If that is the then, indeed, may Leah com- mence to think it is time to grow a little re, for Andriane is only In her twenti- 2nd who how teeth claim that tell our case, ne Bakulich has another ad er many Not with standing head and shoulders above them, sne has the audacity to have a pret- women. face She is slender and carries herself to malke the most of every inch. She knows full well what a fright she would be if she dovbled up and tried to conceal that Mother Nature had modeled her after her own pet design. Then Nature, for once, finished her task. She gawe her that soft voice that so many Europeans are proud of, and a decidedly pretty Frenchy man- Sod aa ed, she talks with her hands. If she "t she would be in dire distress all of the time. As it is, it is about even ap. It t because she is stupid, for she can jabber in just about seven languages more t most English people, but she only knows how to say “thank you” and par- don me” in our language. But Mrs. Virgil N. Bakulich has more than her extraordinary height to make > o 2 o Oldest Mummy Found. HE Egyptian gallery at the British Museum has just come into posses- sion of the mummy of 2 man which may well be the oldest krown body of any human being. The facts con- cerning it are briefly summed up in the following particulars: The grave was first seen by a wander- ing Arab; he reported his discovery to a British officlal, who immediately sent a couple of Egyptian soldiers to guard it day and night until it could be safely re- moved. The body is not 2 mummy of the ordinary historic Egyptian period, such as that of Rameses IT, the father of the Pharaoh of the Exodus. It was never bound up in linen or cased in any paint ed coffin, but was merely coated with a preparation of bitumen, the Arab word for which is mumia: hence our word mummy. To reach the perlod when this man hunted along the banks of the Nile it is mecessary to travel backward in time through the modern period since Eliza- beth, through medieval Burope, through the whole history of Rome and Greece, past the time of the earliest mummied king the museum possess: . Dpast even enes, the earliest king to which n records make reference, rding to Marlette, ruled about 514 3, C. Then we are among two prehistorio ome of the conquerors and the other the conquered, out of which sprang the Egyptian race of the earliest dynas is with these remote stocks that this man I# coanected. Considering the conditions in which he was found, it Is evident that he was asso- ciated with a Jate period of the new stone age of Egypt. He was buried in a char. acteristically neolithic grave (the graves of this period are covered with rude slabs of stone), and has meolithic pots and chipped fiint weapons and knlves found in other parts of the world. The fine, knives were perhaps placed in the &-ave as part of a funeral ritual. They should be compared with the Egyptian fints in the prehistoric section of the 3 iseum; they are almost identical with t se found in the grave. There course, ‘no inseription of any ki races, ties =, of nd on the pots, kmives or grave, 21l having been —ade long before the invention of a vritten language. It is curious to note that certain ancient Egyptian documents mention traditions of a race called the rehennu, who d red bhair and biue yes. This man had distinctly auburn bair. He was buried on the western shore, In later times every Egyptian huried on that side of the river. and Egyptian models of the death boats on which the boGy was ferried over the stream may be the Egyptian gallery. — The seea in Sphere. est her interesting, and more than her pretti- ness to talk about. She ha A real, a romance! story in which Cupid. determination and a few kind true lov a man’'s friends figured strongly. About eight months ago Virgil N. Bak- h, known as the tarlest policeman in San Francisco and a brilliant Greek schol- * ar, took it into his head to visit the home of his boyhood days. he dream that he would go d come back two. d, he might have thought twice but as it was he walked a's little snare just ther fellow had done before him, Little did over one If he before lez right into [ ma How could he help it when love and fate led the way? So Virgil met and confabbed with his friends of long ago. It took them some time to get over the marvel of his six feet and about as many Inches and his 350 solid pounds. Then they commenced to ply him vith questions about America and the life that he led out in that far-away place. One fellow said: “Not married yet, are you, Vir? , Vir wasn't married vet. Well, old man, you are getting old enough to commence thinking about it Informed his kind friend. “What kind of girls do you lke?” Then it was that Bakulich settled down and told them that he couldn’t find any one to please him, and furthermore, that he wanted a wife who could look into his eves without standing on a chair. He liked large girls, the larger the better, only they must be pretty. That's where he showed the man {n him. Then everybody commenced to iaugh, and Virgil failed to see the joke. But only for an instant. Several girls were coming toward the group of men, and one girl loomed above her companions head and shoulders. What was. more to the point she was pretty, and from the way she wag smiling appeared to be jolly, too. So that was the first glimpse that Bak- ulich got of his wife, Then he tried to get an introduction to her, for he somehow felt it in his bones that she was the only girl on earth for him. 3usiness kept him away. His relations insisted on giving him dinners, luncheons and every other old thing to keep him busy. His friends took occasion to tease him a little. Everything went wrong for two long, miserable weeks, but Cupid had sent too straight an arrow to be lightly b, COS put aside, and the man kept the old mot- to, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try agaln,” constantly in his memory. Then one gloriously sunny day he gained his point, and has never lost an inch of ground, and, judging from the looks of things at the present time, never will. These two tall Dalmatians seemed mage for each other. As Bakulich sald, “What was the earthly use in waiting for a long time? 1 loved Andriane and she loved me, so why not get married and spend my va- cation together?"” So he insisted, and Insisted and kept right on insisting until Andriane married him “to get rid of him."” Tt took just fifteen days from the start of the courtship to the happy consumma- tion, and Virgil thinks he wasn't so very slow. . Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Y. Baku'ch. Tt wasn't so awfully strange, after all, perhaps. Their parents had been nelgh- bors for years, and Virgil could lie in his bed and see the house that Andriane was born in. This tall bridal couple started out on their wedding trip. They visited various parts of Europe, and wandered aimlessly hither and thither until it was time for Bakulich to report at police headquarters in San Francisco. Then he brought the girl who had only known him for such a brief time across the water. Away from her family, al her friends, and even her country. She certainly proved her love for him when she did that, for it requires strong con- victions and great moral courage to leave behind all that is connected with one’s youth and to tear oneself away from father and mother. She believed as did our friend of long ago, “Whither thou goest, I will go!’ and like her also, went. ‘When they reached New York the policemen had already heard the news and they were brimtul of curiosity. They met Mr. and Mrs. Bakulich and ques- tioned them fast and furiously. Didn” Wasn't—and - Wasn't Didn’t, all over again. Talk about women! Through it all Andriane could on‘fy smile and now -and tW™ resort to her hand language, which, by the way. has im- proved wonderfully since her sojourn in this city. . The fellow officers insisted that an in- terpreter had been employed and that Vir- £l had met his wife in Rome. How could Bakulich get up enough nerve to propose to a girl through another fellow, and stand right beside her at that? To all kinds of vigorous expostulations and indignant “I didn’ts” they deliberate- THE SUNDAY CALL ———— 1y closed and barred their ears. Tt was delightfully romantic to think that one of them had stood in the Parthénon by moonlight and had been so eminently suc- cessful. “Why, the idea of it; it’'s absurd! My wife and I can talk with perfect ease in several languages,” and Bakulich fairly bristles when he even thinks_ about it. They slipped quietly into San Francisco tired and awfully cramped, for six days and nights in a Pullman fsn’t a restora- tive for anybody, let alone seven-footers. Everywhere they went the same curious crowd turned and gazed and made re- marks, and they still continue to do so, by the way. California people are accustomed to large girls and are justly proud of them, but they don’t, as a rule, raise girls who go over the six-foot mark. HE fruit garden comes well within the range of household economics. An acre is none too_mueh for it, yet it may be brought within the con- fines of an ordinary village lot. The tini- est back yard has space for at least a grapevine, varf fruit trce and a strawberry barrel. Sect the vine so it may be {rained over a light trellis shading the back door. Dig out a hole for it at least ce feet square and board the hole all und with rough lumber painted with This will last a long time and keep the vine roots from damaging drains or cellar wa if, every fall, when the ap i& well down, the roots are cut along board line with an ax or sharp-edged de. Such root pruning’ properly done an aid to health and fruitfulness. coal tar. ST In the corner from the vine set the tree. The strawberry barrel needs all the light and sunshine possible. It must be stout and well hooped, otherwise it is not worth while. Begin by taking out one head, then bore the sides full of two-inch holes and bottom full of half-inch ones. Bury it half way, fill with very rich earth, set some sort of drain in the middle and let the earth slope lightly toward the drain. Plant a strong vine in every hole and a row all around the top. A barrel prepared in May or June and well tended, especlally if planted with pot-grown vines, ought to bear next season. The main troublé is to keep it well watered. In warm weather water it twice a day, before sunrise and late In the afternoon. Once a week give a coplous watering of liquid manure. Pick out all weeds and semi-cccasionally lighten the earth with a garden trowel. Protect through the winter with boughs of cornstalks. In spring, as soon as the buds swell, water plentifully, and, until the berries are with- in a fortnight of ripening, give liquid ma- hure twice a week. When the earliest fruit begins turning white stop the ma- nure water, but .douhle the supply of ° fresh. By renewing earth and vines ev- ery second year, after bearing time, the barrel may be kept indefinitely in com- mission, A plat of 9 by 50 feet may be made to vleld an astonishing supply of fruit. Given such dimension in the brick shape un- luckily so common, run narrow paths down each side next the fences and plant in them grape vines with roots projecting inward. For six inches around the stems the earth should be kept light and loose and in winter the whole root spread needs a good coat of coarse manure. Train the vines up against the fence or on wires stretched inside it. Keep the canes well shortencd and summer prune from June forward, rubbing off all but two or three new shoots. In the fall cut back these new canes to sound, fully ripened wood. All along beside the end fence dig a trench four feet wide and five feet deep, the whole plot breadth. Board up the 2 SUccessful Erli sides stoutly with well-tarred boards, then fll in the first with a foot of stones, brickbats, old shoes, bones and general coarse litter. Upon top of that put six inches of rotted manure, and cover with rich earth to within a foot of the top. Thus, in spite of the boarding which will keep in the roots, the trees will be in no danger of starving. Plant thres dwarf fruit treeds in the ditch, spreading out their roots well, then filling in the remaining foot with the fin- est, lightest earth. Tramp and pack firm- 1y, heaping the earth a little, then mulch the whole trench surface thickly so as to keep down the weeds. Once fn six months or so rake off the mulch, dig up the whole space, using a three-tined fork, and never prying out the roots, replace the mulch, thickening it as necessary, and water whenever there is even a hint of drought. Fruit trees will always be the better for a coplous sunset watering, also at mid- day or 1 o'clock, if the leaves droop per- { Garden centibly. A good tree selection is a pear, a peach, & pium, or a cherry. Choose a very early pear and a very late peach. Very early peaches seldom bear fruit enough to be worth while. A medium early sort will give more satisfaction. Keep down all suckers. Dwarf trees being grafted upon other than their own roots, if alien shoots come up, the budded trunk will dle. Sum- mer prune, which means pinch back all shoots to a compact, symmetrical .head, flattish rather than round, with no branch extending beyond the trench. Every spring dig away the earth around the trunks down to the crown of the root, ex- amine for borers, and, if found, dig them out and burn. Wash the trunks well with strong soap suds the first warm day. If insects attack the foliage either cover them, a tree at time, with a sheet or burn half a pound of sulphur under- neath it, or spray well with some insecti- cide. + ; Some Very Eccentric Disposals of Property ¢HEN Benjamin Franklin di \}{'// in 17%, he left a small sum of m y which was not to be until the twentieth cen- used gift is at mou! been at compound interec: The trustees of the Franklin fund have decided to use the money for the erection last available, and to §375,000, having st. invested of a Franklin institute in Franklin square, Boston. Curious provisions made by will are more common than ‘one would suppose. Within the last few meonths there have pe several examples of eccentric dis- als of property. To one young woman been left $25,000 by her brother undger express conditions the marries nor becomes a nun. Gitions are not fulfiiled the money 15 to If the con- that she neither— be distributed among other relatives. To his three daughters an Ttalian who recently died left $500 a year each if they remained single and $2500 each a year if they married. A late member of the English Parlla- ment left by will to his two daughters 720,000, with the provision that the money is only to be payable if they attain the age of thirty-five without marrying either a citizen of the United States or a He- brew. More singular even than these odd be- quests was Lord Bute's wish, expressed just before his death, that his heart should be taken to the Holy Land and buried on Mount Olivet, which was ac- cordingly done. Even more eccentric than these strange bequests was Lord Southey’s cool ar- rangement .for sulcide by means of a guillotine. He had a magnificent one erected in the drawing-room of his house in the Rue de Luxembourg at Paris. The machine was of ebony, inlaid with gold and silver, the framework carved with artistic skill. The knife, sharp as a razor, was of polished and ornamental steel. Preparing for death, his Lordship had his hair cut close, and, clothed in a robe of white silk, he kneeled upon the platform under the knife before a mirror and vressed the spring which should release the knife, but the spring failed to act, and the would-be suicide decided to give the guillotine to a museum instead of making a second attempt to end his life. It is said he made an annual pilgrimage to see the guillotine until the end of his life. —_—————————— On the banks of the Purus, in South America, dwells a peculiar tribe of people who are spotted in a queer manner. Ail members of the tribe are similar in this respect, women and children being mot- tled black and white. Y Telegraph Wires Are Good Weather Prophets CCORDING to Dr. Eydam, a Ger- A man physiclan, there are no more reliable weather prophets than tel- egraph wires. This novel discovery was made by him in the following man- ner: As be was waiting for a train at a country. station he heard a shrill sound, which was made by the wind as it passed through a network of nearby wires. At once ‘the doctor remembered that he had frequently heard a similar sound either immediately before or after a stormyor a heavy fall of rain or snow, and it natur- ally occurred to him to try and ascertain ‘whether there was any connection be- tween the sound and such changes in the ‘weather. As a heavy shower of rain fell within forty-eight hours after he had heard the sound at the railroad station, he conclud- ed that there was such a connection, and he then determined to Investigate the matter thoroughly. As a result he now maintains, first, that any unusual disturb- ance in the telegraph wires is an infallible indicator of bad weather, and, second, that the nature of the changes In the at. mosphere may be learned-from the sound which the wind makes when passing through the wires. Thus a deep sound, he says, which is ot considerable or medium strength indicates that there will be slight showers of rain with moderate winds within from thirty to forty-eight hours, and, on the other hand, a sharp, shrill sound {s the sure token of a heavy storm, which will be ac- companied by much rain or snow. —_————— " The ratio of paupers in Minnesota in 1900 ‘was 4980 for each million of population, After a while they settled down in a cozy flat on Taylor street and spent their ttme In getting furniture large enough to be comfortable. No ordinary sized room wou'd do for them. Wel the bed is In itself over eight feet long and takes up a goodly the other way. Everything In their house space on the extension plan. Imagine ¢ them sttting on a tiny chair! 4t might fall down in the first place. and, secondly, thefr knees would be in their faces all the time, and last. but not least. that pc o {sn't at ali graceful But though the path of thelr love was not strewn with thorns, it wasn't exactly covered with roses either. When Virgil is difficulty, but the at "home there is no minute he goes out about his duties trou- ble is sure to brew. B-r-r-r goes the doorbell. “Got any rags, bottles, sacks to-day?” or “Strawberries, strawberries: 10 cents a box. Want to see them, lady A dozen times a day Andridne goes to the door, and a dozen times a day she falls utterly to comprehend what the caller wants unless he pokes his wares under her nose. Think of being in a strange country with abselutely no friends and not being able to understand a word that is spoken to you! Think of the thousand and ons vexatious things that are always and for- ever bobbing up to annoy vou, when are not fully able to give tit for tat. agine how dreadfully handicapped would be in every respect, and how terri- bly lonely and stupld it would be. Tt would take an American girl just about a month to get good and sick of It and to pack her little trunk and go home to mother. Perhaps Dalmatians train their children better than most Americans do, for An- driane has been over here between thres and four months and she i3 decidedly cheerful yet and delightfully hospitabls when she gets a chance. When I called at their flat the maid ehanced to answer the bell. Yes; Mrs. Ba- kulich was at home, but she couldn’t un- derstand a word of English. Should she call her? Then the mistress of the house appeared, and I wondered whether I should better take to my heels and run while T had a chance, for she looked like a glantess who had just stexsed out of a fairy book. After fizzeen minutes’ talk we camse to the corclusion that “Bakuilch—Mr. Baku lic”” was the only thing that both of us were ecertain of, excepting that we had succeeded most beautifully in waking up the lord and master of the house, Then 1 waited for Virgil and while I sat walting a dainty table was placed before me, and coffes, rolls and fruit were served me by his wife. Then it was that Bakulich said all sorts of bad things about himself for bringing his wife to_a new country, but wound up with the question, “What else could I do?" Verily, what else would any other man do? “Andriane gets lonely and it is hard on her becaure she can't understand people. She appears at poor advantage, too. Oh, we are used at people staring now. They always do,” and Bakulich chuckled as he recalled the rubbernecks. Mrs. B. with girlish pride showed me her wedding frocks. Just for fun I tried one on and I looked like a baby n long clothes and was almost as helpless. When the skirt was fastened a la Mother Hub- bard fashion it was too long to comfort- ably walk in. The only consolation that Mrs. Virgil N. Bakulich has for being called a freak and for being a stranger in a strange land Is that she is still horribly Interested in her own husband. They both agree that Cupild had a fin- ger In their ple, and maybe two. you Tm- you About Meerschaum Pipes. OLORING a meerschaum Is & long and delicate process, and unless a man likes to do a difficult feat there is no reason why he should set himself to the task of putting a beautiful shade on his costly pipe. That is a business In itself, and an experi- enced smoker knows, or can learn the location of establishments to which he can take his pipe and have it smoked until the desired color is obtained. Such an enterprise exists in the outskirts of London and makes a flne competence for its proprietor, an Austrian. It is a large house that used to be the country seat of an English gentleman. Hither come every day a score of young men who are the experienced employes of the house. They pass upstairs to the business room in the rear of the house, seat themselves in arm chairs and forthwith begin their o+ day's work of smoking meerschaum pipes. Each one knows the art of smok- ing steadily, neither too fast nor too slow. The tobacco they use is a special blerd of the proprietor’s, for he knows it is only rarely that the right kind of to- baceco is used for this purpose. The bowls of the pipes which these young men smoke are covered with wash leather so that they cannot by any chance be harmed or improperly stained. The highly accomplished among these young fellows can get away with four ounces of tobacco a day. They are paid weli, and they have their regular holi- days. Some of them have been with their employer for five years. But it isn’t a business In which one may stay a- lfetime, for, though they appear able to smoke for years, night and day, with- out hurting them, when they get to be old men their occupation has made them too nervous to be useful. The proprietor himself smokes not at all, ¢xcept when he is teaching an apprentice how tu go about it. The new hand receives a cheap pipe, and after being told how to go ahead is left to himself to show what he can do. There are prize competitions, and these thirty newly arrived young men who are on an upper floor, when they become proficient are graduated to take their seats with the notables on the sec- ond floor, back. This kind of work as a rule takes all the time and attention of the men, but pome of them are so perfect that they can devote themselves to designing shapes and figures for new pipes, special attention being given to the possibility of producing quaint effects in the eoloring. The best meerschaums, it is said, come from Turkey, and the designs are worked out and cut uvon the meerschaum in Vi- enna. Probably the class who are the best buyers of these colored-to-order meer- schaums is colleglans, who want to show fine pipes, but who have neither the pa- tience nor the skill to produce the effect themselves.