The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1903, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDA JUNE 14, 1908. LIFE OF BELOVED SCIENTIST, PROFESSOR JOSEPH LE CONTE, . ' RELATED IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 'JOHN D. Sm,hopficm. “+ s eee oo .. .Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. INDAY ....... 1l | | I = AND BELOVED T EACHER IN TH NIVERSITY OF A OF A WHOSE AUTOBIO APHY. EDITED BY PROFESSOR AM D. ARMES, HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED. n desired I the tenderness o i ¥ with animal life returns in . : Jonger take the least alo: sh r or in seeing shoot za more ke press the Pro- o has amil wi des the re to preserye nal to re- * But thi compreh. aptn PARENTAL INFLUENCE. an t how much 1 owe w much of character may be fol of age the utmost ? My mother wa rt and espectal how much he impressed m " My father's other hand were mainly To this double owe my cqual fondness for before ;my have nature? 1 the influences ter and tastes, the person father was by far the me: Next in importance to this, un- the freedom of my baby- intry abounding in game is developed a passionate or nature in all departm S, w older this love of nature First in the study and later in camping trip: n partly in the spirit of and partly for the geological of the mountains.” There is little of “self making” in these simple potent doubted s of heart is well shown of my carliest triumphs was that of bringing down a gray squir- rel from the top of @ tall tree. But my triumph was quickly changed to remorse when ] saw it convulsed and dying at my feet, I was taught by my father and im- pelied by my own nature never to de- stroy life for mere spofl. This was in ®oyhood; ¢ in my cid age with decline *“One inheritance 1 | determin- | ing m who may read | 1 am an| Undoubtediy ight to b tter. ¥ with Jife be uni Of his father 1 could o me that - that of y father's possibl terrc I simply ng T coui And now d had come wandered in deatt <im- | t made 1 never seen nan before. I had seen en negroes and had with the lowest table white to me g hag a drunken white was aw-| VICE NOT TEMPTING. touched cards u ample injures | ly upon inheritance For myself, T never felt the least temptation to join in vicious | irses, nor have I ever been enticed by | ors join in such urses,”” and fu ‘instead of sowlng any wild oa forming afterward, 1 have steadi and more liberal in m> 1 feelings about such things elieve, it to be.” ph 1 Conte was of Huguenot | on one side and Puritan on the but he says, “I care little for de- | ominational gifferences.” When in his | jun during a religious the church. This he de erisiz in his life. “1r there eve a sudden, almost mirac ulous conversion mine was one. I pass: through all the stage ribed in s | cases, § a period « ot dis | earnest prayer. of exercize of f: of acceptance. intense, cestatic deliveranc id trust and lové | sense of the father- | T (God and brotherhood of man was | and full of de took on a | and ignificance, * ¢ * Bu | t ehange was & sense of | cc from the bondage and the | death, which under the spell of | thodo: always in thought- | oppressed me. My spirit was T was now the child of God and 1cr of Jesus. 1 had now a reall ject in life—an ideal to be sought Vil 10 be fought against. This T have er Tost. It has been the most powerful ent in the fdrmation of character and determination of conduct. How uch T may have changed, my opin- ion as to the miraculousnese of the pro- ss, this change of relation toward the | spiritual world has remained as an eter- | mal heritage. Deiusion! some will say. | No, it was the old fear that was the de. lusion. The change was not the estab. lishment of a new relation, but the estab. lishment of the true relation which al- ready existed.” The above incident of his life and his | comments thereon-are given as (hln“1n§ | 1ight on his later interest in the religiovs bearing of the theory of evolution. and his determined efforts to find a solution for the apparent conflict between seience and religion. Of these efforts und his ma- { tured views on the subjects he speaks at length in other parts of his story. Every page of the book Is full of inter- esting incident and instruction, and writ- ten by the guileless, good and gifted old {man.in the most charming way. All the | stages and relations of his life are shown —boyhocd, youth. student, lover, husband, | father, teacher, investigator, writer—to a i glery-crewned end. real permene the old ¢ | fu1 mon i frec [ the brog | noble an PROFIT SHARING. N N incident of the threajened strike on the United Railroads of this city will cause wide- spread discussion. All of the issues between the company and its employes seem to be ad- justed or adjustable except the basis upon which wages are to be fixed. This is in arbitra- tion, and the two arbitrators not agreeing, a third is to Be chosen umpire. All this is simply preliminary to the trial of the question, The issue made by the attorney of the em%lo,\‘es is that wages are not to be adjusted in accord- ance with the price of living, the service rendered, or conditions elsewhere in similar employment, or even by such conditions here. Supply and demand are mnot to ‘figure, but the books of the com- pany «re to be opened to the employes, who are themselves to decide what part they will take of its profits. It goes without saying that if this measure of wages be adopted in such employment, it will soon ¢xtend to all classes of employment, so, in considering it, we may as well treat it as a demand for a peculiar partnership between the investor and the employe. in which the former takes all the risk and stands all the losses, and the latter shares all the profits. { On that rock such partscishins have always split. In the average every business has its ups and downs. The investor counts on an accumulation of profits that will sustain him in dull times, and by keeping business moving furnish employinent to his labor. The cases are exceptional in which profits reach such a volume as to pass beyoiid the point at which their accumulation can do more than this. The cases are still less irequent in which profit sharing so appeals to the employes as to induce an accumulation of their share that will do anything to keep business moving in duil years. In other words, when business is bad and panic is upon it, the issue from such conditions depends not upon the employes, whether they have shared past profits or not, but upon the investor - whose enterprise organizes business and whose spirit of active adventure dares to take the risk. When the adjustment of wages is left to the conditions of supply and demand, of cost of liv- ing and an equality of social conditions, there is a universal basis upon which investors may esti- mate before assuming the risks of busine: But when wages are to be fixed by the profits of each individual employer, cquality disappears. An old-established business may be earning high profits, and therefore be paying high wages. In the same city a new business, in the same line, is making no profit at all, but is being sustained through its waiting period by the capital which its owner can bor- row. What rate of wages shall he pay? He is working for nothing for himself. His capital is in- vested upon expectation and is also working for nothing. Will the proponents of the plan of ad- justing wages by the profits of the business say that his employes shall also work for nothing until profit appears? That is the logical converse of the proposition. Therefore it will be seen that to adopt such a plan either bars effectually the beginning of a new business, or compels labor to share risk and loss with the investor. Again, the proportion of profits in established businesses of the same kind, in the same locality, is not equal, and we would have a variorum wage scale productive of great in- equalities of condition. The plan has its attractive and seductive side, but to everything there is more than one side, and such an issue should go to judgment before a tribunal that is able to sec all sides. CHICAGOS TROUBLE. e e L Y the extension of the strike of the cooks, chambermaids, waiters and miscellaneous help in Chicago to the big hotels of that city. the issue becomes one of national importance, for the whole traveling public is interested in the Ifotels. Chicago is the greatest stopover way station in this country, and the interruption of the hotel service is going to be felt toa orcater or less extent by everybody who rides along the rail. > Other cities in the Zast have their troubles. New York even now is lamenting a strike in the building trades that has put a stop to work in which many millions are interested. According to an estimate of the New York Sun the first thirty days of the strike cost contractors a loss in the aggre- gate of upward of $8,000,000. The workingmen of the many trades affected are supposed to have lost $13,000,000, making a total of $21,000,000 for those two classes aldne. That is ‘bad, but it is not \4)“7?1'] as the strike in Chicago. Many people can live wifhout new houses, but no one can live long without a new dinner. Time was when the people of Chicago looked upon their hotels not only with pride but with v. When the housewife found herself without coa’;lc or waiter she merrily donned her dinner gown and went forth with her family to dine sumptuously and comfortably at a hotel or a restaurant, but now if the home cook strike there is nothing for it but starvation. No restaurant is open, no hotel lhas an invitation to its hospitable dining-room. The greatest hostelries are in despair; their pro- prietors are clamoring for help and offering arbitration, but in vain. It is picnic time with the cooks, waiters and general help; and the hotel public must live on sandwiches and be thankful when they get them. It is not possible at this distance from the scene of action to determine which side is right and which is wrong. Nearly everything that happens in Chicago happens confusedly. so that the outside public finds difficulty in understanding it, but in this case the confusion is worse con- founded. M1 that we know is that the strike is a hard one, and reports say that in many cases the walkout of the employes was dramatic. That lifts the affair above the level of a cakewalk, but whether it be a melodrama or an opera bouffe is not clear. Meantime, it is consoling to remember that Chicago is the sausage manufacturing center of the universe. The wayside wanderer who ar- rives during the strike can get at least a.sausage and a beer and thus manage to sustain life until he can make his way to some less tempestuous and cookless land. HUMOR IN MURDER HE Servian murders at Belgrade have a ghastly humor among their incidents. One of the assassins was shot down while at his red-handed work, and the new Government speaks of liim as having “fallen on the field of honor, in defense of the fatherland.” Among the as- sassins was a relative of the Queen, who assisted in her murder. At law he is the heir of her large fortune, all the other heirs having been murdered at the same time. This is regarded in Belgrade as the subject of congratulation, and the desperado who probated a fortune to himself with ax and pistol is marked for preferment by the new rulers. 5 { When the butchery was complete the assassins in possession of the Government issued a proclamation announcing: “The King and Queen have been shot. ' In this sad and fateful hour the people are invoked to stand by the fatherland.” This has not been equaled in grim humer except by the fellow who murdered his parents and invoked the mercy of the court because he was a poor orphan. : Servia is a member of the family of nations, and according to international usage the death of a ruler is a calamity that calls for diplomatic condolence. Therefore the other nations must send notes to the red-handed assassins. deploring the death of their victims and begging them to bear the sorrows of the providential calamity. d 1f heathendom were not having such a hard time with Christendom right at home, it would grin broadly at the incidents of this atrocity which has occurred right in the heart of Chris- tian liurope. - Slowly it may be, but none the less surely, the Filipinos are learning American ways, for ac- cording to a recent report a young woman for the first time in the history of the Philippines has brought snit against a wealthy man for breach of promise of marriage. That may nof be the best way of advancing toward civilization, but it shows that the natives are catching on. : Marion Butler of North Carolina is abont the last survivor of the Populist party, but he in- sists that the party is still living and will put a straight ticket in the field next year no matter what happens. However he does not predict that the ticket will carry even so much as a single Congres- sional district, and consequently he cannot be suspected of being in his dotage. kit e A 1i the venerable “Uncle Joe Cannon” really leads the House into a fight against the aggres- sions of the Senate he will make a reputation worthy of his name and produce a boom that may put him in the Presidential ciass. Z PR 1. s _ Neatly every paragraph writer east of the Rockies is engaged in concocting a libretto for a comic opera, which is much the same as saying that the stage of the immediate future will be illum- inated by firecrackers. ..Third and Market Streets, S. F. ~ | 1 | | | | i | | | | ana | for { Zhanical and aerlal englneer, was man- { many times, maki | baudy and a number o ! from Rome, whither | Campagna,’ NEWEST OF FLYING MACHINES, BUILT FOR LEBAUDY BROTHERS, BREAKS ALL AERIAL RECORDS. — o FISit WITH TELFSCOPIC EVES. TWO VIEWS OF THE RECENT RECORD-BREAKING FLIGHT OF THE | LEBAUDY AIRSHIP, AND A SKETCH OF THE TELESCOPIC EYES ¥ OF A DEEP SEA FISH. its issue of May 16, L’[llustration glves an account of the remarkabl achicvement in aerfal navigation the dirigible balloon “Lebaudy,” May 8. The records for specd and sinuosity the cou passed over previously he by the “France” of Commandant Renaed the ntos-Dumont” have been Broken and a new date made in the his- tory of aerial navigation. The “Lebaudy,” which was constructed the two gentlemen of that name nder the supervision of M. Julliot, me- aged by M. Juchmes, acronaut, assisted by. Machinist Rey, and covered a distance of 37 kilometers (about 23 miles) in an hour and thirty- minutes. X The itine: which had been fised beforchand an comprised mal and doublings, was follow ctly spite of 4 wind of some twenty-two miles per hour. The Seine was crossed four times on the voyage and when above the | town of Mantes, which lay in the course, the *“Lebaudy’ looped and circled around ng a complete encircle- ment of the Cathedral at an altitude of about €0 feet. When over the park at Rosny It performed a number of difficult | evolutions before the windows of the| Chateau for the benefit of Messrs. Le- ¢ guests previously invited to witness the performance. A | number of illustrations were given, two of which are here reproduced. e &L ‘ith reference to an item of news in vt he Electrical World, | cable dispatch of be of interest: our last issue, = the,_following specfal ca Ma¥ 16 from London w n M amiker Heaton, M. P., England’s lead- Ing Dostal reformer, has just returned om he accompanied his friend, Marconl. He told the WWorld correspondent to-day of the latest Sclenific wonder which he saw there— tho taking of photographs at a distance Eotrom twenty to twenty-five miles. ‘I Olsited ome of Marcont’s radiograph sta- tions three miles outside of Rome, in the he said, ‘and was shown photographs of a large size ns and sclentists from 1 the mountains intimate there perfect taken by elevt;ld? Lo ation of Vviews ::ae:u;'-.#\‘rg miles away. How thif¥harvel was _accomplished s their Se':rc'l_ Whetper it was done by some new ways of utilizing the Hertslan waves or an en- tirely new discovery, [ am unable to say. The photographs were clear, bringing out in sharp definition the outline of houses and the figures of men and women as though taken only ten or twenty-yards off. They appear able to extend or na row the fleld at will. One of the oper: tors told me that in 2 short time they hope to be abie to take photographs of objects and places two hundred miles dis- tant and enable you to see the person vou are tclegraphing to at that rang No one s permitted to enter the radis graph station, and, so far, the secret has been admirably kept.” " ;s | The deep sea cxplorations of the last| few years have exploded the motion that the depths of the sea are in total dark- ness, as earlier explorations disposed of the assumption that they are devoid of life. Says Umschau, In an article on this ect: !‘{-bl"; is true that not a ray of sunlight fllumines the gloom that reigns at great depths in the sea; but the denizens of ihe deep, or some of them, make their own light by phosphorescence. 1t is a very feeble light, to be sure, and therefore the deep sea fishes are provided with eyes of a pecullar sort. They are called tele- scopic evge: not because they are much like a telescope, optically, but because they are so arranged In many cases that they closely resemble an opera-glass. They are more or less projecting tubes, eylindrical or conical, and have very large pupils and lenses. They are not placed on each side of the head as in other fishes, but are close together and point upward or forward, so that they have the power of binocular vision, as in man. There is a great difference in lhel appearance of these telescople eyes in different deep sea fishes. Some project but slightly, while others are placed at the ends of long stalks. But In all cases the eye itself is much elongated, not spherical like most eyes. These varia- tions can be followed in the embryo, whenee it appears that these peculiar fishes have been gradually evolved from ordinary_types and have acquired organs | other for the | ieen <ight and Which are al | And to life in their gloom. dwel necessa. divided into th his singular form of eye two parts, ene for o purpose of v ray of t tha side. There are al cullar arrangements which _give to birds catel may strike from o some oth similar to their remark so found whales. In short, the telescopic eye pupil of which is always wide open, constructed with the view of utilizing the feebl st glimmer of light.” TR That the strong ed living creatures may s emitted by many play a protectiv role in their lives has been often sug gested. A writer in the Revue Scienti flque takes up this point. and concludes that, although this is the case with some animal odors, others have different functions. Says this writer, as translated for the Literary Digest _ A conslderable number of animals, as is well OWN, emit strong odors, which are generally unpleasant, at least to man naturalists have often considered these odors as playing an fmportant p: in the biology of the animal; the odor P tects it and serves to drive away possibl enemies. It is certain, for example, tha the skunk—whose disagreeable odor is strong that it remains from autumn to spring in a place where one of the crea- tures has been killed—is very generally respected by carnivorous animals. But some other odors are hardly protective. It is true that they them play anothesr part. They constitute a secondary sex characteristic, often limited to one sex. b which the males and females find each other out at the mating season, and which disappears when this is over. There are some moths that exhale an odor o musk; only the males have it, and thes only at the mating season. An Austra- Man ;mol; emits a marked odor, which i restricted t. 8 e rbage .r) :hc male and is strongest in “But with many animals there are strong odors that scem to have no sexual character and to confer no particular pro- tection agalnst other animals. In addi- tion, it would seem that certain odors at- tract enemies. Crows seem to have a spe- cial liking for insects with a strong odor Certain birds have a taste for thoss myriapods that exhale a marked odor of prussic acid. Perhaps we must conclyds from these factd that the tastes of ani- mals, so far as shcils are concerned. @it fer sensibly from ours. There are ajso marked differences of taste between the difterent races of men. Many savages Iika odors tuat civilized man regards as re. pulsive. The odor of a dead crocodile s delectable to the nostri's of the Kreos the Korgans regale themselves with kmichi (turnips, pimento, dried fish and vinegar., mixed and fermented), and a thousdnd such examples could be cited Even civilized persons like, or at least tolerate, the odor of ‘high’ game and of cheese. On the other hand, animals sometimes show strange dislikes, * * + e conger ecl will cat fish soaked v tur- ntine, lodoform or camphor. but he will refuse cooked meat. This shows that it Is with odors as with tastes and colors— there is no disputing about them.” ————— Townsend's California glace fruits and c;nhdl‘e’s,bowc lAml;nd. in artistic fire- etched boxes. nice present for East: friends. 715 Market st., above Call bld:": —_——— information supplied daily to % Spectal - usiness houses and public men by the Press Clipping _Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fcinia street. Telephone Main 102 ¥ ADVERTISEMENTS. 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