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o 6 : TH SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 3 <5 .FRENCH SAVANT IS SEEKING A SERUM FOR INOCULATION TO PREVENT SENILE DECAY PARISIAN SCIENTIST WHO AINST THE MICROBES THAT AND PASTEUR INS ITUTE LA BORATORY WI LIEVES INOCULATION | PRODUCE OLD AGE IS POS! RE HE WORF rd-Herald ikoff, the disc from . which e taken of much rer of Be' Tol-1 in Man's Professor Metchnikoff r death shall be- shrink from deatt full of trial and died | | lays. | a common hard, heal wounds. A i other the soldie ni heir story 1 merit > Ur koff shows, they lements out of place.” and the rs, the police servants of ghe bc ended here the pha all the honors due ppil as Professor to vet- etchni- they soldiers who cannot the opporfinity to pillage when it In time they revoit against their nd cat them! aten up the place e eater undergo rrogressive " says Pro Metchnikoft eclerosis, or hardening, ot old age is lik that of certain chronic maladies in w the conjunctive ues take the place more and mor the cellular elements which compose our or does it come r our be myriads of sendent cells, ca of moving about, endowed with a kind of sense of | taste or smell and ¢ of choice. Ceaselessly they devour all sorts of soli substances Hence lled ‘pha- gocytes,' or voraclous cells. They are our protectors against microbes, with which they fight terrible battles in the most in- | timate recesses of our organism. They reabsorb blood | -| { 7 nd the the brain, kidneys and lver are poisoned . particula by alcohol, lead, mercury and the virus e Moses and Aaron t | of certain diseases. What. then, is the | » espectively, because th poison-cause In the seemingly causeless r waters of Meribah-Ka- | Sclerosis of old age? Evidently the in- his eve was not dim nor | PUMmerable masses of microbes that vated, Moses was told | swarm in our great intestine. According % = s " | to the late re 3 - > tain and die. e L ftear it trassburg: mysterious fullness of | ~ .5 2™ c £ 009 per da etchnikoff declares it/ Hav 1 not heard that some of those been the now lost “Instinct of which man ought to but has rare. cause of certain dishar- hie nature inherited from his al ancestor, who was the freak n anthropoid ape. it man s all wrong—being | principally the victim of his great intes- ye. This is the first thing learned from Professor Metchnikoff. Ome day, ages ago, he says, the anthropoid ape gave birth to her extraordinary child. By a mere freak of n uch as broug nto existence the “calculating boy,” | inaudi—his brain developed abnormal | powers. He had gifted children and the | race pf man began, brusquely, unpre- | pared? The vermiform appendix (which we eproduce exactly from the anthropoid | ape) is a mortal disharmony for whose | sceful existence we must go back to rerb-e tures like the rabhit—in which it fulfills & notable function in the digesting of raw vegetable matter. 1In | 1an it is mothing but a death trap, one | Paris hospital in five years having treat- | cd ‘443 cases of appendicitis, exeluding in. | its, more subject to it than adults! As for the great intestine clares Professor Metchnikoff, universal - victim—in infancy, maturity | and still more in old age. From the di- | zestive point of view it plays no roie at | all. Even for the reabsorption of the | products of digestion, its value is quite secondary. it has been ablated again and again, and the subjects not only lived, but en. joyed a great advantage. In man’s herb- | eating ancestors (as in the horse and | cow) the great intestine, swarming with microbes capable of digesting cellu- was essential. ing ¢ “Fhe stomaeh 1is another organ we | could do well without. While not so ut- terly useless and harmful as the great in- testine (because it serves principally to | digest albumenocids), it could yet be re- | placed for that function by the small in- iestines. In numerous cases of the com- plete cutting out of cancerous stomachs the patients survived and digested their food with the small intestines and the pancreas “The whole system seems to be wrong,” «as suggested. The professor went on to say that the | is shown by | and the bioca | not In 1man it is a mor- | dangerous waste basket | microbes are useful?” “The uselessne: 1 asked of this micronian flora tribution. digestive parts of the tube free of it. Both Mme. Metchnikoff and Professor Nuttall have raised newborn guinea pigs other e from microbes. Finally, atients who have had their great intestine cut out have lived ve well without the aid of its microbes. mass of them remain in the in- s0 that our organism regularly them: but their soluble n easily pass into the lymph Here are the slow pois- ons capable of weakening our higher cells and provoking the phenomena of senility. “What iz to be done?” Pasteur Institute professor. testine triumphs over products “Man_ can- it for Lis great intestine to dfsap- pear in the course of ages. “It might be cut out?” “Perhaps in a far-off future that will be -accomplished in spite of the im- mense progress o rRETY we cannot at present dream of thus relieving each citi- zen. - No, the rational course is to fight the great intestine’s mass of microbe: For this latter purpose the prof or recommended buttermilk, because the lac- tic microbes therein are the only ones that fight the microbes of putrefaction. He also warned against the use of any | and all uncooked products of the microbe infested earth, such as salads, artichokes, melons, strawberries, onions, celery, rad- ishes, 2nd the like. In regard to his great discovery. the active remedy for senile decay, he said: “I ought to warn you that the problem is not solved for immediate use, but its solution has nothing impossible about it. The thing to do is to strengthen the blood globules, the nerve, hepatic and renal cells, the musqular fiber of the heart and others.” “The task is facilitated by the discov- ery of serums acting specifically on the different elements. The principlé~of the preparation of these serums remains al- w. ihe same (as at first announced). ake the red blood globules. We inject ihe cell element into an animal of a dif- ferent species. After a few such‘injec- tions ihe serum of this animal becomes . “comparative study of the facts fully confirms the pothesis that our abundant intestinal flora, usecless to digestion, serves | only to shorten our existence through its microbian poisons, which weaken our bigher elements.” This led to the reasons for the occur- rence of senile decay before man has lived long enough to @evelop the *“in- #tinct of death,” which Professor Metech- nikoff affirms to lie in a potential form in the depths of human nature. “Path- oiogical old age—the wrong kind of old egc—is distinguished,” he sald, “by a gen- of the former species of animal, -while little doses of it (in analogy with digitalis and other poisons) strengthen the specific elements instead of killing or dissolving them. So they are called cytotoxic se- rums, Since their discovery by J. Bordet of the Pasteur Institute they have been studied and confirmed by scientists all over the world, the latest publication be- ing that of Belonovsky at St. Petersburg. Here is the rational way to strengthen the higher elements of the human body and prevent it growihg ‘old,’ as.it does now, at 60, 70 and 8 years of age.” The great | 1 our waste-basket in- | continued the | fic polzon for the red blood globules | SUNDAY " o.... THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL: Address Communlcations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager .MAY 31, 1903 OKN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Pablication’ /OMMos.... .viooaeosesssbpaits B L X @ veveeeceneensenns.. Third and Market Streets, S. F. WHY RUSSIA HATES JEWS. £ have gone to the original sources of information to explain to our readers a condi- tion in Russia that is worse than the mob massacre of the Jews. In human affairs nothing is worse than inhumanity in the policy of a government. When a nation de- iberately plans to dehumanize a part of its people there is present a perversion of the power of government that is the most appalling of spectacles. The government that deliberately impairs, abridges and denies the common rights of humanity to any of its people is an anachronism that does not deserve to exist. Such a Government is Russia in respect to its policy toward its Jew- ish people. the case of many of them their ancestors were on the scene of their persecution be- fore Russia was, before Christendom, before any present nation in the world existed. They were there before the Maccabees revived the glory of Israel, and before the house of David had given to man the greatest of the prophets, destined to be called the Savior of the world. Compared to the Mongoloid Russian the Jews were the autochthons of the land which is now the land of their sorrows. Then it may well be thml. Why does the Rus3ian hate the Jew? Aside from the evil element of religious bigotry, the Jew is hated not for his vices, but for his virtues. Thrift is a virtue, and the Jew has it. Love of home and family is a virtue, and the Jew has it. In- genuity and skill and foresight and economy are all virtues, and the Jew has them, and it is-for all’ these that he is hated by the Russians. While the Russian mujik keeps himself sodden and stupid with vodka, the Jew is sober, “at himself” and at work in any line that the law leaves open to him. ans hate him. n His sobriety is a virtue, and because he pryfits by it the Ru None of this is new in history. The Jew underwent it all in Southern Europe, in Spain, Italy and France. For ages he was denied the right to own real estate, to practice a handicraft, to follow a profession. But he withstood it all by reason of the virtues of thrift, economy and tem- perance, for which he is hated in holy Russia. He was forbidden to be a manufacturer, or artisan, or professional man, so by following humble and often repulsive lines of toil he saved a little money and made it make him a little more. In Judea he had been a mountaineer, a farmer, a soldier and a prince. Persecution made him a pawnbroker, rag-picker and usurer. Robbed at every turn, he quired subtlety, To him we owe the invention of the draft and bill of exchange, which he devised as a safe means of transmitting his money from town to town. Otherwise he would have it taken from him in transit, without recourse. To put his means in as concentrated form as possible he invested them in precious stones, and from this we get our word “jewelry.” The progr where except in Russia. In Germany of the world has made the Jew a free man where he uSed to be a slave, every- Jews were bought and sold by the town. Frankfort owned the Jews of the Ghetto, and in the Judenstrasse of that city may yet be seen an old house with a red shield over the door in which lived the ancestor of the Rothschilds. But his descendants are no longer the chattels of the town. Instead of being owned by Frankfort the descendants of the Jews of the Ghetto own Frankfort, and its literature, manufactures, charities and all of its humanities are enriched by them. Long oppressed by government, the emancipated Jew when called to authority governs well. Disraeli wrought for the honor and glory of Great Britain as Prime Minister, and wherever the free Jew has governed he has governed well. Is it hopeless to expect that Russia has the virtue and intelligence to imitate the other nations, which have recognized the Jew as a human being and have given him human rights, to receive back from him in benefits many fold the value of his emancipation? AMERICA AND WOMEN. I’ late there have been published quite a number of attacks upon America on the score ofy | its treatment of women. One of the most notable of them emanated from an American woman resident abroad and was designed to explain why so many American heiresses marry foreigners. Her argument was that in-Europe, and especially in Great Britain, a woman of wealth finds a much wider field of activity open to her than in this country. Several sim- ilar pleas have followed the original one, and now one woman a little more enterprising than the others has published a book on the subject. The new work, which has been abundantly reviewed by the press throughout the country, is entitled “Republic vs. Woman.” It maintains the doctrine that the inevitable result of republican gov- ernments and institutions is an unjust subordination of women to men. In a monarchy. says the writer, some women always have hereditary rights which raise them above the level of the masses of men; 1ey have honors and privileges ranging from the occupancy of a throne down to the smallest local ignity, which command respect from a majority of males. Through them a respect for womanhood is inculcated in the community, and no one ever learns to look upon government and rank as matters to which men are exclusively entitled. While every republic is thus charged with offending against women, the United States is asserted to be the worst of all. Our Government is described as “a masculine monopoly One of the charges made against us is that while in Europe the wife shares the title of her husband, the American wife gets no share in any dignity or rank to which the husband may attain. Thus if Mr. Brown in England should gain an earldom his wife would become a countess, but if Mr. Brown in the United States become a Senator or a Governor his wife remains the same old Mrs. Brown she was before. Finally, the author quotes Li Hung Chang “1 found it as far below that of her sex in Christian All T had heard about the ‘queenship’ of the American woman inquiry proved to be the merest pre- tense and humbug. Her crown is tinsel, her throne is nil. The republic has increased and aug- mented the rights and privileges of its men over its women to a degree that is not tolerated by a monarchy, and the difference in condition of the two sexes is vastly greater in the republic than in a monarchy. A thorough investigation has since convinced me that there is no government which is necessarily so antagonistic to all women as a republic—no one in which the entire female sex may logically hope for so little.” When reduced to their last analysis the various charges amount to a complaint that the United States grants fo its women no prestige of rank and distinction, but similar charges might be made on behalf of men. Our Government confers rank, titles and hereditary privileges upon nobody. Titles go only with offices and are strictly official. Those given to men who are not in office are matters of courtedy only. Very often they are not cven expressions of courtesy, but are used solely for convenience of address. Many a man is called Colonel, General, Judge or Gov- érnor merely because his friends do not like to take the trouble to call him by his name. 1f Ameri- cann women wish titles they have as much right to take them as men. If a set of men can dub one of their number “General” when he is not a General, nor has ever been one, so can a set of women if they feel like it call one of their number “countess.” This is a free country, and between the sexes honors are easy. When we turn from questions of privilege and title to the serious rights of women, America can with safety challenge comparison with any other land in the world. A tree is to be judged by its fruit and American treatment of women is to be judged by the kind of women it produces. On that score argument is unnecessas The American woman enjoys the freedom of a genuine democ- racy. and there is many an aristocratic dame and not a few royal ones who would gladly cxchangb their titles and rank for a share of that freedom. as saying of woman's position in America: monarchies as I had expected to find it above. It_is reported that Edison was recently induced to promise to lecture on electricity before a girls’ seminary. He took with him a man named Adams to operate the apparatus in making experi- ments intended to illustrate his talk. When the time came for him to make the address, however, he became so frightened that all he could say was, “Young ladies, Mr. Adams will now talk to you about electricity while T work the appajatus and demonstrate what he has to say.” That does not sound like much of a speech, but no doubt the effect was electrical, especially upon Mr. Adams. People who have memories good enough to recall the Burdick murder mystery in Buffalo with the accompanying death of the Pennells may be interested to learn that a reformer in that city has announced a belief that the cause of the whole thing was the habit which women have acquired of joining clubs. It is a remarkable theory, but then the murder was a remarkable affair, and perhaps the inventor of the theory is also remarkable, or hopes to become so. "On one day last week 5800 immigrants wefe waiting permission to land at New York, 2728 of them being on a single ship. A good-sized town could have been formed from that day’s arrivals alone, and within the year we will receive enough newcomers to make a good-sized State. PUBLISHERS OF LONDON '| REGRET UNTIMELY PASSING | ' OF THREE-VOLUME NOVEL | | FUL SHI HOLM > LAST ADVE POPULAR AUTHOR WHO PROMISES TO RESURRECT TI 3 PLAIN § ND GIVE HIM NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER. L MASTER- AWAY M OF HIS | May 30.—The trade al-| ways looks upon the months be- ster and the summer proper he best selling time for | books. Usually, also, it is the| briskest publishing time, but this spring | { season, which began early with an over-| | low from the Christmas season. has | dragged on without much spirit. Already | publishers are thinking about putting up | shutters for a long rest. Nothing remark- | There has been little ! | able has happened. ! { to confer distinction on the season so far. The tide of fiction rolls on, but few novels | of any mark are Issuing from the press. | | O1d favorites are producing representativey | work, but the masters are silent and | there are no n mers to welcome with | | acclamation. | "1t is pretty well understood that the | | death of the three volume novel is regret- ! ted by the publishers. Its demise was ef- ‘ | fected by Mudie’s in a fit of indignation, | but, as a matter of fact. it satisfied the | libraries, the publishers and the authors | With_its departure there departed also out of the literary world a group of writers whe were unequal to the rough | and tumble of competition at baser prices. However, the publishers shake their | heads with a melancholy air when asked | if there is any chance of the revival of the three-decker. It is dead beyond hope | of resurrection. One of the features of the day is that | it seems always possible to find a public | for an edition de luxe, and it appears as | though cheap uniform editions of popular | authors are also bound to pay Cheap editions are coming out in| greater numbers almost every week of 0ld favorites, including Kipling, Meredith, | Hardy, Black and others i Literature seems getting a footing again in the House of Commons. Mr. &oxall published a novel recently, and next week | Claude Lowther's play, “The Knot,” is to be produced by Mr. | His Majesty's Theater. | . e e | Lady Helen Forbes, who is at Kinnaird | Castle staying for a time with Lady | Southesk, has been very busy with lite- | rary work lately. She has already fin- hed a number of short storles, as well as some rather clever articles. Lady | Hiclen Forbes, who is the only sister of | | Lord Craven, is not in very good health, | and was unable to accompany her hus- | band to Aldershot when he was obliged to go. there on military duties. | Pett Ridge must be delighted to increase | his influence as a novelist. He has e: dently joined the ranks of those amons whom were Dickens, Charles Reade and Besant, whése fiction influences. The fact seems that the Poor Law Guardians ! of Wigan have been debating the best way of bringing up pauper children. Hav- | ing purchased a large estate for the pur- | pose of building homes of one sort or an- other, they decideg to send a deputation of inspection round the country. Then | arose the solicitor to the union with the | remark that he had recently read a novel | by Pett Ridge bearing on the subject and would shave much pleasure in presenting | each of the forty members of the board | with a copy of “The Son of the State.” . . | | | i Conan Doyle has ceased to harden his | heart. We are after all to have, it is now definitely stated, some more Sherlock Holmes stories. What Is more, T am told that notwithstanding appearances, the | great Sherlock did escape from the awful struggle on the Reichenbach Fall. The manner of the escape will be told in one of the stories to be published in the Strand Magazine. . . . A Manchester bookseiler has just had a rare stroke of Tuck. A Welsh laborer from the neighborhood of Lianarth took a sackful of old books and pamphlets to a second hand dealer at Lempeter, who bought the lot for 10 shillings. Two of | the books were sold for half a soverelgn to a buyer, who afterward sold them to a Manchester firm for £4. This firm has just sold one of the books for £400 (32000), it having been discovered to be a copy of a Latin prayer book of 1516, Now the book is advertised for sale at £1000 ($5000). WERAR Albert Lavignac, professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatory, has written a work called “Musical Education” that will be gladly welcomed by all students of music. It covers a very wide range of in- formation and, while containing the fruit of many years of valuable experience in teaching, it has alse the virtue of being written in a particularly charming liter- ary style. There is a keen dissection of the various peculiarities of the different Puments, as well as ning; also muc formation of interest to tudents rela to the conservateries of A America. M plan of stud seems to augur sv \ Company. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. LOCOMOTIVE ymotives used at this ta Fe line JOHN HAY-C. Joh 1 was Embassador to England in 1897-98 and was appointed Secretary of State in 1898 JUDGE DAY B., City. Judge W liam R. Day was appointed Secretary of State by the late President McKinley in 1897, SHIPPT ., City. 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