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80 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1903. -— | DEMAND OF PUBLIC F OF SCIENCE GROWS READING OR BOOKS - 441 - ND 4 WITHOUT GL READ AUTHOR WHOSE BOOKS CONTINUE TO BE | D WHO AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY-ONE IS | ASSES. | na rs are as ple ss of the six- 3 e now t want er when red together ernoster row, ali over the y districts be- ho. However, attempted, as ached the start book- and existing £ to brace them- mover in the mat- well known laygoers’ Club. e new movement is to make literary centers nd generally to stim- s now foot tc tem booksel in selves up. 1 heme has received support of Sir Conan Doyle, Willlam Archer, Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells. = 8. A book by Messrs to publ world he ce H. Escott, which Fisher & Unwin have undertaken sh. deals in a personal way with s, of which King Edward is nter. ambetta described him when Prince of Wales as the most cos- uropean Princes. Mr. Es- s cosmopolitan note is the acteristic quality of his court, gly, in writing his book, he ed what may be called the in- jonal point of view. There is hard- y a celebrity of statesmanship‘or diplo- macy of whom Mr. Escott has not some- hing to say, often in the form of an- NEW YORK, June 2.—“The Leopard’s Spots,” Thomas A. Dixon’s twentieth cen- ury counterblast to the nineteenth cen- tury *“Uncle Tom's Cabin,” has reached a of 110,000 copies—and the end is not Doubleday, Page & Co. announce next fall they will follow up this vet. ha success with a new book by Mr. Dixon, entitled “The One Woman.” It is a ‘problem” novel. Divorce is the problem. The character and the incidents are taken from life, though the real man here masquerades under the name of the Rev. Frax Gordon. He is described as a mental and physical giant, dreaming of a superb Temple of Man, where his ideal of worship shall be attained. How this lofty umbition and the man's very scorn of tham lead him into the terrible error of, putting away his wife and forming a *uion, after a strange and new fashion, in the | aster springs from he has invented to replace the “outworn institution” of ge, and how, | through ghastiy he comes to a alization that “the one woman” must | | ever remain the only one—these are the | | outlines of the story | | C. H. W. John of Cambridge, has translated and edited P. Putnam’s Sons have | two famous lectures, “‘Babel” (Babylon) “Bible,” which Professor Delitzsch | vered with such reverberating results | | before the members of the Deutsche | rient-Gesellschaft and in the presence of erman Emperor. One is glad to get | ingland, | Me: st published, the | d, and s G. | e professor's lectures in their integrity. is true that their publication may | se pain to the tinately conserva- | tive, who will find some of their i ns | ither we must learn, | deduce, conclude, | will not take such pains, we are time to suffer pain from tian belief perish, with out our ng able to defend it, or even | give it decent obsequies.” H o7 gt iy | Trow's Cops d Business m.i y of New Yo for the cur- v ved. Tn(-rb‘ . which make publication able than ever. | volume contains 47,88 names. (Trow Publishing Company.) | | . il | ! Miss Grace Lathrop Collin, author of | “Putnam Place,” began her literary c reer by writing Sunds school stories, spasm of energy, she wrote | tched them to their destina- | and awaited result. Acceptance af- cceptance arrived, until Miss Collin convinced that she had discovered her true vein. But much to her surprise, no further inspiration of the same nature ever afterward presented itself. She now believes that the overproduction of eleven | saintly narratives at once wrought its own cure. She continues to meet the storles in print, and never expects, or | hopes, e the end of them. | . . “Flodden Field,” the new three-act | tragedy by Aifred Austin, the poet laure- ate, will be produced by Beerbohm Tree | on June 8, at His Majesty’s Theater, Lon- (don. The drama will be published in this country by Harper & Brothers. The opening scehe is at midnight. King James of Scotland emerges on a parapet outside the Royal Palace of Linlithgow, where a revel is in progress. —————— All Wanted the Sovereign. At a certain London church the collec- tion used to be made in nicely embro‘d- ered bags, but, so many old buttons and stale pleces of chocolate being put in, it was decided to try “plate” instead. The first Sunday the usual number of coppers and threepenny pleces were put in, but among them a bright yellow shining piece ‘was observable. On the Monday morning there were more callers than usual at the vestry, some of them with the same application. After a short Interval another came with the same, “Oh, I am so sorry, but I put a sovereign into the plate yesterday by mistake. Could I have it, as I really can- not afford it?” “What!” said the vicar. “You are the fifth that has been to me this morring with the same application, but the church warden has just told me that the sup- posed soverelgn is only a gilded shilling!” —Tit-Bits. _ —_—— Townsend’s California glace fruits and candles, 50c @ pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 et st., above Call bldg.* —_—————— Special information . supplied daily to Press Gfl‘m s l‘m(lxllllc P)enzzyc:hil’ en’s), 4 fornia street. lephone Main 1042. . { nature of this substitute which | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . « + « . « « « . . . Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY. | vosisi i e e o O A N T DURE 4t Prblioation OGS - -2 cxsixssitsssn s binsiasit @ teieveeesessees.....Third and Market Streets, S. F. ' ENFORCING THE LAW. N his address to the Butte miners President Roosevelt said that the law must be equally en- forced against all who violate it, and that none are above the law and none are below it. He declared that the law is already in action against the trusts and combinations of capital which violate it, and that it would also be enforced against those who seek to accomplish purposes of their own by crimes of violeace against person or property rights. That the miners applauded this utterance was creditable to their law-abiding spirit and their Americanism. Under shese cir- cumstances it seems strange that the executive committee of the Western Federation of Miners, at Denver, passes resolutions rebuking the President for enforcing the law against strike violence at Morenci, in Arizona. About three thousand miners in that and neighboring camps, most of them non-English speaking foreigners, seized the property of others, took unlawful possession and ousted the owners, denying to them the right of its protection and control, which is guaranteed by the law. The local officers of the law, finding themselves unable to protect property and maintain order, called on the Federal Government, and it responded by ordering troops sent to the locality to pro- tect the civil authorities in the administration of the law. For doing this, the resolutions of the ex- ecutive committee of miners say: “That as a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, the President by his action has been guilty of treason to the principles of organized labor, and the toilers of the nation will array themselves on the political battle-ground in 1904, and use the fran- chise” of citizenship to overthrow at the ballot-box a system that demands for its maintenance and perpetuation the murderous implements of barbarism.” We. doubt whether the authors of that resolution knew just what they were doing, or ap- preciated the force of the expressions of which they made use. The President is under the obliga- tion of an oath to faithfully execute the law. The law required that he do just what he did in the Territory of Arizona. Therefore the miners say he is a traitor to the principles of organized labor, and therefore they interpret those principles to be opposed to the faithful execution of the law. We doubt whether they intended to say so much. The difference between barbarism and civilization consists solely in the regulation of rights by law. The enforcement of law is not barbarism, but the violation of the law is barbarism. None of our fellow-citizens require’ the equal enforcement of the law more than the wage-workers. The law protects the right of contract, the hours which constitute a day’s labor, the exemption of their tools of trade from execution and in some cases from taxation. 1t guards their health and safety by sanitary regulations and safety appliances to secure both. It provides free education for their chil- dren, protects their deposits in banks and their investment in homes to shelter their families. It stands guard upon all the personal and property rights which single-handed they could not have nor protect. Any blow struck at the supremacy of the law is a blow that reaches them first, and hurts them the worst of any members of the community. Therefore instead of attacking the Presi- dent for enforcing the law and compelling respect for the rights of person and property, they should rather applaud and thank him. 'stem” which they propose to overthrow on the political stem of order The resolutions do not specify the ‘s battle-ground in 1904. By necessary implication, however, it must mean our present s and government under the law. If it is meant to make that issue against the President, the ballots can be counted now. The American people are devoted to that system which it is proposed to over- throw. It is the essence of the national life, the safeguard of individual rights, and when it is de- stroyed the republic totters and falls with it. The purpose of the resolution seems to be socialistic, and a part of that labor union programme which has recently been denounced by Bishop Matz of Denver. But whether so or not, the law and order people of the United States will meet the issue when it is joined, and -will speak in a tone that will terrify those who prepare their own undoing by opposing the equal operation of the law and its equal enforcement. OREGCONS PATUL REVERE. ONGFELLOW has immortalized Paul Revere, who made the mad night ride to Lexing- ton, crying to the farmers a warning of the coming of the armed enenpy. By that midnight cry they were enabled to prepare for the invader, and had it not been for Paul Revere “the embattled farmers” could not have “fired at Lexington the shot heard round the world.” The incident is among the heroic events that are fondly referred to in the literature relating to, and inspired by, our revolution. Every American lad has felt his pulses quicken and his heart beat higher when he has read the story, and there has been born in him the wish that some day, some how, there may come to him the opportunity to imitate Paul Revere. To all such it may be said that opportunities are numerous. The lad who feels his spirit crying out in warning that “bad habits, sloth and evil ways are marching down upon him to tie his hands and weaken his moral purpose and destroy his manly independence has a Paul Revere opportunity. The night rider is within him, crying with the voice of conscience. If he heed he is the warning and the warned, and the decision he may make to arm himself against the insidious enemy and strike for liberty and morality may in kind affect the world as did the shot fired at Lexington. Not onl_v in this self-affecting sense does the Paul Revere spirit find many opportunities, but in the other sense, in the form of Paul's own action as affecting others, there are many occasions upon which his brave initiative may be repeated. When the wall of water fell upon Heppner, the hapless Oregon town, and gentle Willow Creek, transformed into a torrent, rose to be the dreadful agent of death and injury to the sleeping people, Leslie Matlock found within his ribs the spirit of Paul Revere. Far down the canyon was the Oregon town of Lexington, where five hundred people slept, unconscious of danger. Matlock sprang upon his horse and put spur to outride the flood, and save five hundred lives, nine miles away. Behind rose the pursuing wall of water. It gathered wreckage as it ran, and bore upon its crest the floating timbers that made it more dangerous and deadly. The road was dark and stony, and his horse leaped bowlders and ruts, urged forward by the young Revere of Oregon. Ahead hun- dreds slept in the path of death. Behind howled the flood as over the rough road he spurred. If he could not outrun the destroyer and save others, he was doomed, for his safety, like theirs, lay in the horse’s speed and sureness of foot. No more pitiless enemy ever urged forward a deliverer, and no soldier was ever chased by surer death, if his beast tripped or failed. At last he dashed into the single street of Lexington, crying “to the hills!” and the roused people fled to safety, and not a life was lost, though in a few minutes only two houses were left of all the homes in which five hundred slept when the deliverer came. But this Paul Revere of Oregon did not stop at the res- cue of five hundred. Remembering that still farther down the canyon the hamlet of Tone stood in the road that death was riding that night, before the waters came upon him he found a tele- phone and warned the sleepers below. That night Leslie Matlock saved seven hundred lives. To him came a Paul Revere opportunity, and, thoughtful of duty and thoughtless of himself, he grasped it and won like a hero. When cotton went booming the Southern people thought everything was coming their way, but it now appears the price is so high that many of the Southefn mills have had to shut down be- cause they cannot make a profit on their goods. Thus while the speculators are getting rich the man- ufacturers and their workingmen are taking a holiday and waiting for the bears to cinch the bulls. AP s It begins to look as if the Democrats in the flooded States would try to hold the administra- tion responsible for the rising waters, while in New England it is to be accused of sending the drouth. The search for issues has been a hard one.and a long one, and the party is ready to take anything that comes in the shape of disaster as canipaign ammunition. PRSP, Y At a recent performance at Symphony Hall in Boston the students of the Institute of Tech- nology cheered so frequently with their college yell that the leader of the orchestra, a foreigner, got frightened and fled the. scene, refusing to return until the students assured hirh they would yell no more. e e The Connecticut Legislature has voted $300 each to the newspaper reporters who attended its sessions, and now the press of the State is trying to figure it out whether the money is to be classed as loot or a reward of virtue. e NIRERE LS t a The impression seems to be growing in London that Chamberlain has gone so far in his dif- ferences with Balfour that he cannot stop in the Cabinet but must “go to.” Meantime Birmingham asserts that if he goes he will come again. . kA A large bottle factory has decided to make at the St. Louis Exposition an exhibit of bottles each of which will hold forty-five gallons, and now we have a basis for calculating what an East- ern summer thirst is like. ; LICK OBSERVATORY RECORDS OF RECENT EARTHQUAKE MOTION ek onsERVATORY PASIPh T Artalr S x RECORDS OF RECENT EARTHQUAKE MADE BY SEISMOGRAPHS AT | LICK OBSERVATORY, THE ONE ON A SMOKED PLATE AND THE OTHER ON A DISC MOVED BY CLOCKWORK. o B ICK OBSERVATORY, Mount Hamilton, June 20.—The earth- quake of Thursday morning, June 11, was perhaps the most severe one felt on Mount Ham- fiton in the past thirteen years; though no damage was done the safety limit must have been nearly reached. The accompanying illustrations are copies of the records traced on the smoked-glass plates of our two seismo- graphs on that occasion. The smaller one was made by an instrument constructed on a very simple plan. A massive weight is suspended from the top of the seismo- graph by means of a slender wire. At- tached to the weight is a multiplying lever carrying a pin point, which rests upon a smoked-glass plate. The frame of the instrument, the fulcrum of the mul(i-: plying lever, and the smoxed-glass plate are rigidly connected and are secured to | the top of a massive brick pier running down through the floor of the observa- tory to the solid rock of the mountain. Motions of the earth are communicated to | all parts of the instrument except the massive weight, which tends to remain fixed. The relative motion of the frame- work of the instrument and of the welght is a direct measure of ‘the earth’s dis- placement. To make the record more leginle the lever carrying the point which traces tne curve is designed to multiply the earth’s displacement by 4%. 1t will be seen from the illustration that the movement of the earth on Thursday | morning was very complex and in all di- rections. For some reason the east and | west components seem to have inflicted the most effective shocks, as one of our fine astronomical clocks, whose pendulum swings in the east and west, lost ten sec- onds of time, whereas:the other four deli- cate astronomical clocks, with pendulums swinging in the north and south, were not affected. The larger record is made by a more complex instrument. In outline it is de- signed as follows: The framework of the instrument, resting firmly upon the top of the brick pier, carries three suspended ve weights, so mounted that one of th can be moved only up and down with reference to the framework of the instrument; a second can be moved only in the east and west, and a third can be | moved only in the north and south. Thus the first moves horizontally with the earth, and if the earth’s motion has a vertical component the weight remains fixed, and its motion relatively to the framework is a measure of the vertical strength of the earthquake. Similarly for the other two weights affected, respec- tively, by the east and west and by the north and south components. To these weights are attached levers carrying pin- points resting upon a ecircular smoked plate. At the beginning of a disturbance the sudden movements of the pier and frame- work start a clock. The attendant’s note- book has a record of the reading of the clock face prior to the earthquake, and, therefore, at the instance of the disturb- ance. A subsequent comparison of the running clock with the standard observa- tory clocks supplies data for computing the time of the beginning of the shock. A second clock is started in the same manner. Its purpose is to rotate the smoked glass disc at a uniform rate, one complete rotation consuming about three minutes. If the plate were rotating at a time when there was no earthaquake the three pens carried by the massive welghts would describe three circles on the smoke film. The effect of the earth movement is to move the glass disc with reference to the three weights, and the relative mo- tions are indicated by irregularities in the curves described by the pinpoints, the magnitude of the irregulanities depend- ing upon the violence of the disturbance. By noting the forms and dimensions at related points in the three curves it is possible to determine the magnitude and direction of the earth’s movement at the corresponding times. The maximum dis- placement indicated by the present record is one-fifth of an inch. The first clock described ticks off, on the edge of the rotating disc, seconds of time in such a way that the duration of the disturbance, the times of maximum disturbance, etc., can easily be ascer- tained. The more refined study of earthq-ake disturbances is not undertaken at the Lick Observatory. Our instruments are intended simply to record the more severe shocks. It has happened on three occa- sions, however, that extremely interesting observations of slight disturbances have been made by Professor Tucker in the course of his regular work with the dell- cate meridian circle. For a few minutes during each night's work the telescope of this instrument is pointed directly down- ward to a small basin of mercury, resting on a firm brick pier. On looking through the eyepiece the reflected images of the spider lines in the eyepiece of the tele- scope are observed. If short and sudden earth disturbances occur the reflected images should be invisible through blur- ring, and If long and slow earth waves occur the reflected images should swing slowly back and forth. Oscillations of the latter kind were observed by Profes- sor Tucker on January 19, 1900, on the oc- casion of the very severe disturbance at Colima, Mexico; the earth waves, after traveling 1500 miles, were sufficlently strong to be noticeable here for more than fortv minutes. At 10 o'clock Wednesday night, June 10, disturbances of the former kind were de- tected by Professor Tucker in the same manner. They were probably related and preliminary to the severe shock following seven hours later. An observation of this kind, made a few years ago, was followed an hour later by a shock easily per- ceptible. There is little doubt that con- tinuous observations of images reflected from mercury mirrors would lead to most interesting results. W. W. CAMPBELL, Director. —_——— British Antarctic Expedition. The London Times publishes the fol- lowing summary of the results of the Na- tional Antarctic | expedition, contributed by a member of the scientific staff: First—The discovery of extensive land at the east extr-mity of the great ice barrier. Second—The discovery that MecMurdo Bay is not a “bay,”-but a strait and that Mounts Erebus and Terror iorm part of a comparatively small island. Third—The discovery of good winter quarters in a high latitude—viz., 77 de- grees 50 minutes south, 166 degrees 42 min- utes east—with land clbse by suitable for the erection of magnetic observations. etc. The lowest temperature experienced was 92 degrees of frost Fahrenheit. Fourth—An immense amount of sci- entific work over twelve months in winter quarters, principally physical and bilalogi- cal. Fifth—Numerous and extensive sledge journeys in the spring and summer, cover- ing a good many thousand miles, of which the principal is Captain Scott’s journey. upon waich a latitude of 82 degrees 17 minutes south was attained, and an im- mense tract of new_ land discovered and charted as far as 88 degrees 30 minutes south, with peaks and ranges of meun- tains as high as 14,000 feet. Sixth—The great continental inland ice reached westward at a considerable dis- tance from the coast, at an altitude of 9000 feet. Seventh—A considerable amount of mag- netic work at sea, also soundings, deep sea dredging. etc. —_—————— Professor Wood of Johns Hopkins has made a screen which does not admit heat rays and bars all light rays except the ultra-violet. For thirty years sciem- tists have sought for such a screen. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Parasites Cause All Hair Troubles. 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