The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1903, Page 24

X% 24 i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1903. ' OBSCURE ADVOCATE RISES | BY SINGLE BOUND TO FAME. ¢ o L ZLLYITTAT a7 GISLATOR WHO, ABOLITIC FOR MUNITIES, THE N\ OF THE RELIGIOUS HOUSES AND COM- AS THE "REPORTER"” OF THE ACT ‘\ ACQUIRED SUDDEN FAME. 1 ORDING to a writer in L'Illus- tratio the men mc France to-day is M. 2 member of the Cham “Loiret,” who at the 1 for the of the religious houses and com- of France, drawn by the com- of which he was a leading mem- Without being exactly an *“‘unknown,” M abier was not previo what might be called a “well known” Deputy. Now by one of those strokes of fortune. of whizh French legislative assemblies | sometimes offer examples, he is suddenly promoted to the Bonors of “great motor- oty He is and of the bill a he will rema the “‘reporter ainst the congregations.” Notwithstar g his quality as an ad- vocate M Rabier did not encumber with his personality the Hall of the Pal ais Bourbon and was very discreet in his practice of pariiamentary eloguence. Speaking but little, he made but listle 1alk about himself, but if when he made his report he had no record, the report at once evoked many istoires” of a strong partisan character M. Rabier was born at Beaugency, July 23, 1855; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Orleans, where he settled down to life as an advocate; was made Municipal Counselor and then assistant o the Mayor of that city. In 1888 the electors of the “‘Loiret him to a seat in the Chamber, where they have kept him ever since. In poli- tics M. Rabier is a Radical to the ex treme sent The performance of “looping the 100p,” Plie ot e v Pl e I et I NEW ADVER THE HAIR BRUSH Breeds Dandruff, Which Causes Fall- ing Hair and Finally Baldness. Professor Unna. Hamburg, Germany, Buropean authority on skin disease: eays that dandruff is as contagious as any | other malevolent diseaze, and that one common source of the spread of dandruff is the use of the same hair brush by dif- ferent persons. The way to avoid catci- ing dandruff or any other disease from | @nother’s brush is to insist on the use of Newbro's Herpicide. It not only kills the dandruff germ, but it is also an antiseptic tkat will prevent the catching of any dis- e whatever through contagion of an- other’s brush. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Her- picide Co., Detroit, Mich. Simon’s teilet preparati s hayve made France s the world over. CEBME Best Face Cream POUDEE Best e POUDE Toilet Powder. Best Toilet Soap. first class drug- P stores and hair iressers generally or by mai on receipt of price. PRICES: Creme Simon (3 sives), B0c.. T6c.. $1.00 Poundre Simon, large box white, pink or brunette). . Savou a la Creme Simon, cake. Ge.. box of 3 cakes, $1.35 rapensive imporied samples of these three ar- meiied on an il be t i T e, it bt 3 Sole representative 7. &, GEORGE 3. WALLAD, Ine., 24 Siime ot N, Y, ) PATENTED \ Spheroid Eye-Glasses to edge. Test yours for com. parison. | however novel the sensation may be to most people of the present day, is by no means 2 new shown by thing, as has been lately | republication_or an old pic- | lustration. | al music halls in Paris were con- | tending h each other for the favor of | those desiring to make the experiment | and one of them claimed. with the mo- | nopoly of the exhibit the glory of pro- | ducing the inventor of the system, the only and true one. The other instituted | a process against such unfair competition. L'Hiustration thereupon in its issue of March 21 gave a fac simile of a picture that it had published September 12, 1346, with descriptive text, of a “looping the loop” apparatus in operation at the Fras- cati Garden, Havre at that time. Among those taking part at the opening were M. Thiers and M. Dumon, Minister of Pubiic Works, who signed the | famous ordinance of 1846, chartering rail- roads The track, which was about 258 feet long with a loop sixtcen and a half feet | in diameter at its lowest point just above the ground. started from a platform thir- | ty-eight feet in height and, rising again ended on another platform twenty-four | feet high. Single and double seated four- | wheel cars were used for the run. | The proportions in the construction of | the way were the same employed in those | by the bicyclists at the two L’Olympia and the Casino de | Experiments were made first with sacks | of sand on the cars; then glasses of water | and baskets of egge, after which one of the workmen made the trip, which took eight seconds in all. The constructor, M. Clavieres, admitted that he was not the inventor of the sys tem, but that he haG brought the idea from England, where he had seen a model | in operation. ! | In Ecclesiastics we read that “there is | nothing new under the sun.” | ENIGHTS' AND LADIES | GRAND LODGE MEETING | | Delegates From All the Subordinate | Bodies Will Attend Reception to Be Tendered. | The next session of the Grand Lodge of | California of the Knights and Ladies of | Henor will be held in Pythian Castle next Tuesdny Wednesday and from the re- turns received from the various lodges | | there will be present a full representation | | of delegates from each lodge. The grand | | body will have considerable to legislate | | upon and it is expected that it will be the | most important session held in a number | | of wears. | The grand officers are Z T. Whitten, | past grand protector; L. G. Wolfe, grand | protector: Frances J. Willlams, grand | vice protector: H. W. Quitzow, grand sec- | | retary: A. Gompertz, grand treasurer | Ellen Fitzgerald, grand chaplain; Jennie | Dinklage, grand guide; Miss M. A. M- | | Dorald. grand guardian; Mrs. M. G, Pervy, grand sentinel; Anna Brigham and | . Anderson, grand trustees, and 1. | Cummings, alternate supreme repre. | | sentative. | To-morrow evening the members and officers of Aurora Lodge No. 202 will ten- der a reception to the grand officers and | delegates in their lodgeroom in Union Square Hall. | ———— Puts Teacher on Pension. The Public School Teachers' Annuity and Retirement Fund Commission, coms | sisting of Mavor Schmitz, Superintend- ent of Schools Langdon and City Treas- urer McDougald, met yesterday and placed Mrs. Bertha Fenton, a former teacher in the department, on the retired list. Warrants were ordered drawn ag- gregating $2774 10 in favor of thirty-three annuitants, one, Mrs. E. M. Baumgard- | ner, having died during the last quarter, ————— ) | | Townsend’s Cal. glace fruits, 715 Mrkt.* ————— Townsend's California glace frult and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. lace Hotel building to 715 Market st., two doors above Call building.* ———— information supplied daily to men_hy the Press (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOEN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communicatlons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY . SUNDAY, APRIL rq. 1903 ..Third and Market Streets, S. F. GRAIN CORNERS. T is to be hoped that the report is true that the Chicago Produce Exchange will hereafter dis- courage the extensive grain corners, which are manipulated by millionaires for speculative pur- poses. Such corners do not regard the natural price, fixed by supply and demand, and the rates, which they force up or down, are not in the interest of the producer or the consumer. On the other hand, the prices fixed in Mark Lane are based on the natural conditions of the mar- ket, and are taken, confidently, as the basis for fixing grain values all over the world. Chicago, by reason of her relation to the vast fields of production of wheat and corn, and her control of transportation facilities by rail and water, is in a position to be the grain marketing center of the worid. If her *‘Produce Exchange use the same methods as Mark Lane, her schedule, being formed nearest the center of production, could easily become the reliable guide to the markets of every country. But, for years, the Chicago price, influenced by speculation only, has been of no value to the gencrai market, and her grain trade has been made the means of gambling, the object of speculation, and as uncertain as a skin game at faro or roulette. The grain market of that city, indeed, hs become a sort of American Monte Carlo, which millionaires play for profit, and to break the bank. The speculative fever, engendered by these methods, extends through all the and tho s of people are ruined by indulging the hope that they may get the head gamblers. T'he Armours, Leiter, John W. Gates, “Old Hutch™ and many others have been respo: for these corners, in which they stand to win, not by legitimate ownership of a commercial article and by wise foresight as to a natural advance in its price, but to win what others lose by sitting in the game with them. When they win they deserve no credit; and when they lose they. deserve no sympathy. When Deacon White of Brookiyn.organized a corn corner in Chicago and had to let go. lose his fortune and go bankrupt, C. P. Huntington said: “I never monkey with food products. It hurts the producer and consumer and is against nature. White deserves what he got.” That is the calm conclusion of common-sense. The members of the Chicago l{.‘:chn"gc are re- ported to appreciate the fact that these corners arc destroying the city as a grain market. A vast number of small dealers in grain are driven out of business by them. Credits are ursafe. A legiti- mate buyer and seller is afraid to be caught with property the price of which may be artificially fluctuated by speculation, and the business is being deserted and handed over to the gamblers. There is no Security for contracts. The carefully organized system of crop reports made by the Govern- ment, through the Agricultural Department, is of no use. The gamblers deal in grain that has no ex- istence. Their game is played like poker by a skillful “bluffer,” who does not look at his cards, and could play as well without them. Not only are the ill effects felt in Chicago. They affect the grain markets all over the country. When the gamblers force prices up, producers. infected by the fever of speculation. hold for a further rise. When prices are forced down holders rush their grain on the market in the hope to save themselves, with the result.of sending prices lower than they ought to be. No producer can afford to speculate in the price of his product. When it is ready for market it should go to mar- ket, and the producer should get its natural price in cash. He may make, one year. by holding. but in the long run the tempting memory of the profits of that one year’s speculation will lure him to his ruin. In this way thousands of farmers in the gr: belt have heen compelled to mortgage their lands and many have been ruined outright. It is immoral to gamble in the food products of the worid. If Chicago can put a stop to it by the firm action of her Produce Exchange her course will meet the approval of all men who desire to do the legitimate factoring of the farm staples of the country. country, imitat A COLD SPRING. ALIFORNIA is not alone in having a backward season. Here it has taken the form of a prolongation of March winds far into April. No appreciable damage has been done to any crop. Lven the snow, which fell in Southern California within a few days, did no harm. The principal effect is the discomfort inflicted upon people who suffer from the unusual winds. In the East blizzards and cyclones chase each other over the country, destroying property and life. But as the people there take these things as a matter of course, but little complaint is made. Here anything slightly out of the usual is resented because our people are accustomed to a clement and equable climate. Nothing resulting from a backward spring is as serious in this country as the effects in Europe. In France the spring was unusually carly and warm. All vegetation was forced in advance of its natural time. The fruit trees and vines were far advanced. The warm weather has been followed by extreme cold. In the red wine and champagne districts two-thirds of the vines are killed by frost. Snow has fallen in Southern J‘"l':ynce. and Paris is as bleak as Boston in November. The wine crop. which last year was very large, will be shortened more than one-half, and the hay and field crops are badly damaged. Snow has fallen in the British isles, and even Italy is suffering from the unusual cold. ‘Upon the whole California may boast that while she is windy she is warmer than the rest of the world, and her climatic characteristics hold good and her reputation is not damaged. Small grain is not injured by the winds and the cool weather is harmless to it. Fortunately we had no spell of hot weather to force the fruit bloom, and its appearance has been normal all over the State. We are already shipping fresh asparagus in large quantities to New York and Boston, and Eastern people will soon be feeding generally upon the luxuries we produce for them, and they will realize that we have the only greatest climate on earth. Frost has cut off the early vegetable supply from Florida and the South, and what the East gets must be supplied by California. Fortunately noth- ing has happened here to cut off the crop, and the market, though distant, will be well furnished, and every shipment is an advertisement of the State and its year round capacity. DR. GARDNER-IN MEMORIAM. }“ili death of Dr. Matthew Gardner. coming so suddenly, and so quickly ending his intense professional and personal activity, is a tragedy. £ By force of his own natural quality he went steadily forward from his beginning as a student, until death came untimely, when he had mightily achieved and held a foremost place among the surgeons and medical men of the world. As an organizer and administrator of the most emergent form of hospital service, with its capital and conservative surgery, he had no superior. To manage such a service, to meet its daily emergencies, on a great railway system, requires all the qualities and skill of an army surgeon in time of battle, and with him it was a continuous battle. pa Day and night alike called for his skill and his judgment. It was a contitffuous service. Those who were the objects and beneficiaries of his skill and patience are legion, and to them his death comes as a personal bereavement. But, great as it was, his professional life, and the gallant and de- voted spirit in which its responsibilities were met, was far from being all. He was a friend in whom was mingled every qualit'_v that endears that relation dmong .men. The ineffable charm of his manner, compact of firmness and amiability, will nev#r pass from the memory of those who came within its spell. He knew no higher tie than that human bond which unites men to their friends, and no service in that behalf was too great jor his unfailing energy in the interest of all who were united to him by its obligations. His very manner was medicine to the sick, hope to those in weakness and despair. As he lived so he died—alert, thoughtful, unselfish and self-sacrificing. > Newly crowned with honor as president of the State Board of Health, and fresh from the greatest service ever rendered to the State by a member of his profession, conscious of the end and fearless, he died a martyr to the constant service of bruised and broken men, and passed to the mystery no eye hath seen. a herg and a gentleman. A New York confidence man glibly told a Judge the other day that he would rather be known as a thief than as a pauper, and the Judge promptly saved him from either alternative by sending him where he will be known as a convict. ; The steamer Teutonic qn her recent arrival in New York brought 327,270 letters and other mail packages in proportion; so it will be seen our European cousins are fond of writing to us as a pastime. . . . & HE LEN KELLER TELLS RE MARKABLE | OF HER LIFE. STORY 1 |2 i REMARKABLE GIRL, WHO, THOUGH DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND, HAS BECOME FAMOUS BY FORCE OF HER BRILLIANT INTEL- LECT, AND THE TEACHER WHO AWAKENED HER F CULTIES. | | 9 N some respects the most important | book of the year is the volume which | contains Helen Keller's story | life, suppiemented by numerous | written by hegat various periods and ar- rged so as to show the progress of her {'mind toward an understanding of what she calls “the world beautiful.”” Of * this remarkable personality vorid has been hearing for several years enopgh to give an eager desire for more | so that the full story now published will doubtless have a wide ecircle of readers | and become a permanent and ever inter- | esting contribution to the - literature of [ education Helen Keller 1580, and in her second year was attacked ! by an illness which deprived her of sight | and hearing. voung at the time of her illness to have acquired much much knowledge letters the command of speech or of what the world of sight and sound 11s, so that her case was virtually that { of a child deaf and blind from birth. Bv; o ing unable to hear sounds, she was course, unable to learn to speak and w therefore dumb as well as biind and deaf. The inherent vigor of hér mind, however, showed itsell even at that early age and | under such adverse conditions, and she | soon manifested an irrepressible desire for utterance. The utmost she could do. how- ever, was to make uge of a few primitive signs. She early acquired a habit of plac- ing her hand on the faces of persons | whom she loved, and in that way learned of the movement of lips. Sometimes th movements irritated her, for she coul make nothing of them, and in her pas- sion she would try to hold the lips of her mother to prevent the Such attempts were but a part of the manifestations of the intensity and irri- tability of her disposition. She says: “Sometimes 1 stood between two per- sons who were conversing and touched their 1ips. was vexed. 1 moved my lips and gestic- wlated frantically without result. This made me so angry at times that I kicked and screamed until I was exhausted.” When Helen was about 7 years old a teacher was procured for her, and, for- tunately, the person chosen was in every way worthy of the (ask she had under- taken. In fact, there would hardly have been the really briliiant Helen Keller we know had it not been for the patience and the skiil of her teacher, Miss Anne Man Id Sullivan. Deseribing'-the com- ing of her teacher Helen says: “Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me for | weeks, and a deep languor had succeede: this passionate struggle. Have you .ever becen at sea in a dense fog, when seemed as if a tangible white darkpess shut you in, and the great ship, tense and arxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding line, and you waited with beating heart for | something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only was without compass or sounding and had no way of knowing how near the harbor was. ‘Light; give me light,’ was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me at that very | hcur.” The morning of her arrival Miss Sulli- van gave her little el ge a doll, and after she bad played with it for a whiie | the teacher slowly spelled into her hand | by the alphabet of the blind the word d-o-I-1. Helen was at once interested in the finger play and began to imitate the movements. She soon learned to spell | several words in that way, but did not recognize them as words nor have any realization of their relation to external objects or to thought. ment for her when the first consciousness came that every object has a name and that the name is represented by the fin- ger play that Miss Sullivan was teacling her. The knowledge came to her one day when Miss Sullivan poured a little water on her hand and then spelled out the word into her palm. Of that experience Helen writes: “T knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the won- my soul, gave it light, hope, joy; set it free. There were barriers still, it is true, but the barriers could be swept away.” From that day Helen's progress was rapid and she soon developed one of the most precocious intellects of the age. She rapidly mastered the art of reading and | writing and went on to -acquire a fair ! of her | was born in Alabama in | movement. | 1 could not understand, and | it ] It was a great mo- | deyful cool something that was flowing ' in‘my hand. That living word awakened | knowledge of Greek, Latin, French and German. So marked was her suc that at an early age she became famc in a way and attracted the attention of some of the most eminent persons of the time. In that she made the ac- ‘(vualntan(n of Whittier, Holmes, Bishop ;Br‘mks, rk Twaln and many other ‘nhled ¥ onages, all of whom took ‘kefln interest in her progress and did what they could to assist her. Becoming ambitious, she decided to en | ter Radcliffe College, the famous Har vard annex, and by hard study and perse- verance succeeded in passing her exami- | nations and advancing with her class | She is now one of the star students of the college and is evidently destined to a career of great usefulness, for her | book proves that she is something more | than a precocious child. Mark Twain is reported to have said: “The two most re- | markable persons of the nineteenth cen- tury are Napoleon Bonaparte and Helen | Keller,” and the indomitable will of the | great conqueror is not without its coun- | terpart in the will which has enabled this blind and deaf girl to acquire such a knowledge of the best things that make { up this world in which she sees no sight and hears no sound. | An odd feature of the story is the free- dom with which Miss Keller writes of seeing and hearing what Is going on | around her. It is explained by Miss Sul- livan by saying that Helen is sensitive to the infirmities that separate her from | the rest of mankind and likes to speak as other people do. FHelen herself says ‘People who think that all sensations reach us through the eye and the ear | have expressed surprise that I should notice any difference, except possibly in the absence of pavements, between walk- ing in the city streets and in country | roads. They forget that my whole body | is altve to the conditions about me. The rumble and roar of the city smite the nerves of my face and I feel the cease- less tramp of the unseen multitude.” | The woarld of the intellect is not the | only ome in which this remarkable girl has shown activity. She can swim. ride a horse or a bicycle, row a boat and take long tramps without guide or assistance. She is also fond of the theater and, | though she can see nothing and hear noth- | ing, vet she finds at the theater some- | thing she cannot obtain by reading = drama. She is very fond of visiting mu- seums and art galleries, and says: “I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more | sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than | the eve. I should think the wonderful | rhythmical flow of lines and curves would be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart throbs of the ancient Greeks in | their marble gods and goddesses.™ Her beok closes thus: “Is it not true | then, that my life with all its limitations touches at many world beautiful? ders, even darkne: hing has its won- and silence, and I Jearn whatever state I may be in therein to be content. Somectimes, it i a sense of isolation enfolds me Il mist as I sit alone and wait at life | gate. Beyond there is light and music and sweet companionship, but [ may not enter. Fate, silent and pitiless, bars the way. Fain would I question his imperious | decree, for my heart is still undisciplined | and passionate; but my tongue will not | utter the bitter, futile words that rise to | my lips and they fall back into my heart | like unshed tears. Silence immense sits | upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘There is joy in seif- forgetfulness.” So I try to make the light of others’ eves my sun, the music in others’ ears my symphony. the smile on |.others’ lips my happiness.” Life.” by Helen Keller y account of her education, y._Published by Lvuble w York. Price, $1 50 net. All the facts and figures of necessary interest to advertisers concerning the newspapers, magazines and periodicals of the United States, Canada, Cuba, the Philippines, etc., are contained In the Pocket Directory of the American Press for 1908, just issued by Lord & Thomas, the well known advertising agents of Chi- cago and New York. This handsome little volume is of pig- eon-hale size, but is a veritable encyclo- pedia in the amount of information con- tained. It is the most convenient book of ref- erence of its kind. |