The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1903, Page 30

30 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1903 ' AMERICAN AUTHORS FINDING | ENGLISH MARKET A 'RAPIDLY GROWING FIELD. THE CLEVEREST PHRASE MAKERS AMONG WRITERS OF TO-DAY, ONDON, June 27.—Maurice Maet- erlinck, poet, dramatist, mystic is one of the clev- | se makers in this age | ver phrase making. He can emotion into an epigram, a | ntence. Therefore he | most writers would of what our for extracts, and there- | hts from Maeterlinck d arranged by E. S. 8. and pub- lished by Dodd, Mead & Co., is an accept- able perform more 50 that the with judgment and k as mystic kins himself with | eks, the mediaeval school- | h century Novalis, the } Emerson He has | f these, he has translated | has written essays on others. s he has le: acceptance ed from them— or rejection—he | no his own phrase and imbues with | »ersonality. He is, in short, | rge part the creator, of | | | | evals rejected it acquiesce Maeterlinck ac- nces as spiritual ¥ attitude that can the accidents of life, even into divine wisdom. es, is meant for happiness nt for health. But as ases, so the soul has and psychically element for hu- imperfectly realize its 7 to know that tnnse’ rs us his philosophy of ac- present, of hope for the | e realm of sound and | teaches us, to the ahode | very noble, but very rinds the hope ping against hope; j odyne for the pain m but the calm of | eached the shore. E | t booksellers have got their | e up for the last month, it| been a rather fitful | | claim thelr sales p to normal times b =, having alternated with those periods in which - slack. ever, has been espe- the increasingly of inglish market. The | 1g novel has heen fairly prolific, = usual, formed the most im- m of business. most successful of recent is- e have been “The Conflict of “The Hebrew Ty- Clover” and “Park Referring to the new movement for an improvement in the dispersal of litera- ture in this country, the Bookshops' Com- pany_ has now established itself at 34| Norfolk street, Strand. Writing from| theme Frederick Whelen says the new bookshops will endeavor to provide that stimulvs for readers which the German system has proved to be useful in Ger- many.. I a lJecture delivered by William Helnemann before the Associated Book- sellers of Great Britain, he said: “The Jocal hookseller in Germany, particularly in the smaller towns, has an establish- ment which every educated person in the place visits from time to time. On the arrival of the Leipsic parcel he inspects the newest publications and sees them within a few days of their issuing from the publishers. He is thus able to han- @le thom, examine them and select from them.” The founders of the new enter- prise believe there is no reason why the same system should not be successful in England, to the mutual advantage of. gu- thors, readers, and, incidentally, of pub- Ushers. A movement is on foot to found a Pepys Club, after the fashion of sundry other rluls devoted to the memory of literary men. There are, for example, the Omar Khayyam and the Johmson clubs. It fs anderstood that this Pepys Club will be tharacterized by gayety and song. If 80, e 1dea would undoubtedly be popular. | nificance of | “A plays an eight, H. B. Wheatley, who has edited the com- plete editions of Pepys in nine volumes, | is the originator of the project. Satisfactory accounts are to hand the headth of Herbert Spencer. He is more than 83 years of age, and lives in retirement at Brighton It is more than forty years since he began work on his “Synthetic Philosophy,” which he lived to see completed. At one had very bad health and suffered greatly from insomnia, but in recent times there have been better reports of him. His fa- vorite recreation used to be billiards, which he once plaved a great dea! at the Saville Club. He still takes deep interest in the game, but his chief recreation now is watching it. ek The Emerson ~centenary is 3 sing a big boom in Emersonia of va ous descriptio In many nfons, and n publ le hav otherwise, |ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NANCE O'NEIL—E. W., City. “Nance O'Neil” is the stage name of Gertrude Lamson. A HORSE—S,, City. This correspondent its to know the highest price ever aid for a horse in the United States. Can any reader of this department in- form him? BALLOON GAS-Rl E. S, San Jose, Cal. Gas used for inflating balloons is cither hydrogen gas or common coal gas. The former is 14.43 times lighter than air | and the latter th: e times lighter. IMMIGRANTS . R. C, figures for twelve months past, it is thought that the immigration to the United States during the fiscal year end-, ing June 30, 1903, will be about 800,000. 4 Based upon AVEN—Subscriber, City. The word en in the sense of the abode of the . ¢r the immediate presence of the Lord, is in the New Testament 237 times. It used the greatest number of times, in the Book of Matthew. ROSE JAR—Subscriber, Alame®, Cal. The foliowing is given as the method for preparing a roze “Sun-dry a quantity of the leaves of the black prince, pauline or other fragrant roses. Place them in a fancy jar and add some cloves and cinna- mon and a little alcohpl, just enough to moisten the leaves. Then place the jar for a time in the sun where it may be- come warm, but not hot. The cover must be iept on while in the sun. After that when the cover is removed a most delj- cious cdor is emitted from the jar.” iber, City. “In writes this correspondent, B a seven, A a six and makes a run of three; then B plays he al claim a run of game it does not matter v the cards fail on the table, a run be counted as long as the cards B's claim The play was 3-7-6-8, which 8, and then gives B a run of three with $-6-7, which forms a sequence | of €-7-8. WHITE AND BLACK-K., City. *“Nig- jger' is the wvulgar pronunciation of negro. A mulatto is half black and white; quarteroon or quadroon is the offspring of white or one-quarter black; metos or metif, also octoroon, offgpring of white and quadroon, or one-eighth black; mecamelouc, offspring of white and me- tis, or one-sixth black; demi-meamelouc, offspring of white and meamelouc, or onc-thirty-second black; sang mele, off- spring of white and demi-meamelouc, or one-sixty-fourth black; griffe, offspring of negro and mulatte, wer three-fourths black; marabon, offspring of mulatto apd griffe, or flve-eighths black; sacatra, is- sue of griffe and negro, or seven-eighths black. THE BAROMETER—A. McD., City. Generally speaking a falling bar ter indicates rain; a rising barometer fair weather, and a steady one foretells a con- tinuation of the weather at the time; when low, this is usually broken or bad and when high indicates fair. A sudden fall generally precedes a storm, the vio- lence of which is i proportion to the baiometric gradient. An unsteady ba- rometer shows an unsettled state of the weather; gradual changes, the approach of some permanent condition of it. A reason for the barometer being lower in wet than in dry weather is that the moist air is lighter than dry air; wher- ever, therefore, a large amount of aque- ous vapor bas displaced a part of the dry air, the barometric column will read 2latively low. magazines ition and sig- | | | has | time he | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. | JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . . . - - - - . . Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager SUNDAY +......Third and Market Streets, S. F. IOWA DUMPS BRYAN. HE first political sign visible above the horizon is furnished by the Democratic Convention of Towa. That State went into free silver early and followed Bryan with enthusiasm. There was a time in 1896 when, assuming that all the Jowa Democratic vote would go for the Nebraskan, the accessions of Silver Republicans would have given him a majority. But the Gold Democrats got together after their Indianapolis convention and were strong enough to carry nearly every Democratic county over to McKinley. The silver men have retained control of the or- ga\nization and Mr. Bryan has courted the State very earnestly. In March he visited Des Moines, when he attended a banquet at which members of the State Committee were present, and it was suspected that he procured the indorsement of Hearst which was among the delicatessen of the feast. He also favored the nomination of General Weaver for Governor. As Mr. Bryarn has had everything he asked for from the Silver wing of his party in Iowa, it was supposed that he would get what he wanted now. But the convention broke away from him completely, stampeded, got its tail over the lines and took the political highway in a cloud of dust that eclipsed Bryan, his two platforms and all of his ways and works. Free silver was voted down and the last two national platforms were kicked into the guttef. Bryan's name was not mentioned at all, though a compliment to him as “the gallant standard bearer” would have soothed his vanity. But the Iowa Democracy was not in a complimentary mood. It was mad. After being so long in the frying-pan the fire looked like cold storage to it, and it was ready for anything to take the taste out of its mouth. The convention snubbed Weaver and nominated for Governor Mr. Sullivan, a wealthy lawyer, and then proceeded to slough the party disguises and put on new things in the way of a platform. That document is of interest as being the first effort of the kind made after convalescence from Bryanism. “That tired feeling” is in evidence in every word. The convention declared, “we find much in the domestic affairs of the nation that ought to be changed,” and then proceeds to pitch into the tariff, which it says is “a policy originally adopted for the purpose of raising revenue to meet the enormous burdens of the Civil War.” How that would jar Henry Clay and even ruffle the dust of the members of the Congress of 1789. The Iowa Democracy should read history. The First Congress, one hundred and fourteen years ago, adopted the tariff as a policy of protection. Jefferson believed in it and Clay gave it a place in economic philosophy. The Democrats of 1844 won the Presidential election on the cry of “Polk and Dallas and the tariff of '42.” That tariff was a Whig measure of protection. Things went well un- der it, even as modified by the ad valorem tariff of Walker, but after Buchanan’s election the De- mocracy began to tinker the tariff, and before the corn was out of the way of the frost in 1857 there fell upon the country a panic, from which it had not recovered when the Civil War began and which really did not end until the tariff of 1862 gave stability to American industry. The dazed state of the Towa Democracy on the subject suggests Nast's cartoon, which figured in the campaign of 1880, representing General Hancock, with a look of painful surprise and doubt on his face, and ask- ing, “Who is Tariff, anyway: and why is he for revenue only ?” The second plank of this reformed Democratic platform is devoted to tariff and trusts. Then follow two littie planks, not bigger than battens, opposing government by injunction and favoring election of Senators by direct vote. The fifth unalterably opposes imperialism in Porto Rico and the Philippines and promises that the Iowa Democracy will “without delay” give the people of both those islands “their inalienable right of self-government.” That expression is the beginning of the cam- paign for admitting the islands as States. Then follow three money planks. The first condemns the financial policy of the Republican party and accuses it of “foisting’” and other nas y things. The next protests against the Aldrich bill and the last expresses a mad desire to have the integrity of the money guarded with a zealous care and “safeguarded by careful legislation,” so as to prevent “the gamblers of Wall street” getting hold of it to the injury of the common people. If the wise men of the Iowa Democracy will submit a ground plan and front elevation of legislation that will keep money out of anybody’s hands who has the collateral, we will give it free advertisement. If they meant to indorse an emergency currency, as proposed by the Fowler bill and in another form by the Aldrich bill, it would have been more honest to say so. ‘We suspect that in that plank there was the lost soul of a Gold Democrat imprisoned in the clay of a Bryan silver man, and trying to cry out and not succeeding very well. The “deploring” plank comes next and does it to “the corrupt condition of the postoffi Then there is an “alarming” plank, caused by the tariff and the trusts again, and then a very light shy is taken at the railroads, and the instrument closes with a Socialist declaration, as follows: “When the sources of the supply of any product are in the ownership of those who combine to extort from the people an unreasonable amount of such products, then we believe it is the duty of the Government to take such steps as may be necessary to secure an equitable distribution - thereof, with fair compensation to the owners of the same, so that the design of nature in making provision for the wants of man may not be perverted into means for his oppression.” Translated into English that means that when the owner of a coal mine charges more t! Towa Democracy think he ought to, the Government has a right to take his property tion and to go into the coal business itself. It is a modification of the expropriation year's Democratic platform of New York, and is thinly disguised socialism, as its verl That ends the platform. It is not a strong document, and bears the impress of all merely because®it was necessary to say something. Its significance is in about Bryan and his divine ratio, and what h 1an the by condemna- plank in last biage discloses. being said at what it does not say e will say about it when he gets his breath. THE BAY COALING STATION. Y the action of the Government in establishing a coaling station at California City an addi- tional importance has been given to San Francisco Bay as a place of naval supply. The site selected is an ideal one for the purpose, The waters are deep enough to permit the ap- proach of the largest ships, and are so sectfle]y sheltered from winds that coal can be taken on at’any time without difficulty or inconvenience. The - establishment of this important plant at a point whose advantages were almost unknown to the general public is another evidence of the facilities afforded around the bay for enterprises of all kinds requiring a marine frontage. Up to this time we have made comparatively little use of our advantages of that kind. There remain as yet wnoccupied numerous sites for shipping stations of one kind or another. Sooner or later these will all be occupied and then the entire bay will be a scene of activity of which we can now form but an inadequate conception. The advantages to accrue to the Government from the establishment of the new coaling sta- tion are obvious. The navy will be put into possession of a coaling station at the strategic point of the Pacific Coast front of the continent. Ample fuel supplies will be maintained there for immediate use in either peace or war, and thus the efiiciency of the navy in this part of the globe will be increased. ’ ; It is finally to be noted that the undertaking of the enterprise on the part of the Government is another proof of the recognition at Washington of the growing importance of American interests in the Pacific. It will be remembered that during his recent visit to the coast President Roosevelt, in, his Watsonville speech, spoke of the coming of American supremacy in the Pacific and_of the of our commerce on its waters. It is evident he is now acting in accord with that declaration. making our port stronger than ever and providing naval depots of the world. value { He is for the time when it will be one of the greatest The State University Summer School at Berkelgy seems to have been ushered in with even more enthusiasm this year than last. A proof of its popularity lies in the fact that most of the students are teachers who spend their summer vacation in this manner, laying up stores of knowl- edge. The summer school is @ welcome addition to the educational facilities of California, and it is gratifying to note its immediate success. L —— A resident of Farmersville has just received a shock from the Supreme Court that will prob- ably act as a bar to his “seeing things” that are not purely of the earth earthy. He dreamed things about a neighbor that were not complimentary -and published them. The neighbor believed him a false prophet and sued him for libel, to the end that the dreamer will serve six months in the county jail. 2 IR R T A X - ~With “Bill” Devery announcing himself as candidate for Mayor and William Randolph Hearst announcing daily that he is out for the Presiden , it is evident that the silly season is raging in New York this summer with unusual severity. L} THAT CRATER HAS REMARKABLE BEAUTY. GOVERNMENT SURVEYOR SAYS LAKE [ Seowns wiaeeo RATER LAKE, in Klamath County, Or., about seventy-five miles northeast of Grants Pass on the Shasta Route from San | Francisco to Portland, is one of { the most attractive geological flelds in the world and equally inviting to those | in search of great natural wonders, ac- | cording to J. S. Diller of the United | States Geological Survey, who for some time past has been engaged with a party urveying that region. » survey has been finished and a complete topographical map of Crater Lake and the vicinity has just been issued | by Government, with description and balftone illustrations, two of which with | excerpts from the texts we here repro- | duce: “Lying in the summit of the Cascade Rang bout midway bétween Mount | nd Mount Hood, Crater Lake s | rkable for its position and size, but | more especlally on account of its beauty, | | its depth, the grandeur of its encircling | | cliffs and its histor “It is approximately circular and aver- | ages a little more than five miles in diam- eter. It is reputed to be the deepest body jof fresh water in America, having the | remarkable depth of 2000 feet. | he color of the Water is ultramarine, | bordered with turquoise along the shores. | | Set in majestic cliffs it is a natural jewel of great value to the State. | | “Beautiful and attractive as the lake is, | | it serves but to conceal in large part the | { greater wonder, the stupendous pit or | basin, the caldera, in which it is contained | and from which the lake has taken its | name. Although there are thousands of | craters in this country, there is but one great caldera, and that contains Crater Lake. “The average diameter at the top of the caldera is 5.7 miles, and its depth is | | 4000 feet. Nearly one-third of its bottom | is over 100 feet below the level of Klam- ath Marsh, at the eastern foot of the | Cascade Range. Where the lake is deepest soundings shaw the bottom to be approximately a platn several miles In extent. To the west it rises irregularly, culminating in two or more peaks, one of | | which reaches above the water and forms Wizard Island. “The rim of the lake is the base of a truncated conical mountain hollowed to a shell. Upon the outside it slopes away at a comparatively small angle in all di- | rections to the surreunding platform, but | Inside the descent of the lake is pre- cipitous. “The lake is completely girdled by a lofty escarpment ranging from 50 to 2200 feet in height, forming a picture which in beauty and grandeur is rarely equaled. ““Although the steepslopes of the escarp- ment are in some places well wooded, they are generally either cliffs or talus descending to the lake and plunging into dcep water. There are but few points where the lake can be easily approached, and sandy beaches on its shores are few and small. “‘Wizard Island, near the western border | of the lake, is an excellent example of a small volcano. The cinder cone is sym- metrical, composed chiefly of red lapilli, and in its top is a crater 150 feet deep. “It is possible thut the whole of the great pile of lava, over 2500 feet in height,which renders the western portion of the lake so much shallower than the eastern, has escaped from this volcano. Soundings in- dicate two other cinder cones beneath the surface of the lake. “‘As has been already remarked, the rim of the caldera is the trunk of a mountain cone. That this mountain was once com- plete is demonstrated by the altitude of the sheets of lava and ejected volcanic material which form the rim. They all incline away from the lake, indicating a common source from a crater that sur- mounted a high volcano high up in the air over the place now occupied by the lake. ‘At that time, of course, neither caldera nor lake existed. The original mountain which occupied this portion had been called Mount Mazama. The same topo- graphic relations are indicated by the drainage. The canyons of Sand and Sun creeks do not.end with the streams, but continue directly through the rim of the caldera to the cliffs overlooking the lake, forming notches. These canyons were carved into their present shape by the streams of ice and water descending from Mount Mazama. * % * * * + & & & » “As to the height of this mountain we may get a suggestion by compari; Mount Shasta and the rim oyt Crater L':kné are of equal diameter at an altitude of 8000 feet, and being composed. of essential. ly the same lavas and formed In the same way, it is probable that they would rise to nearly equal elevations. Some erosional features, however, suggest that Mount Mazama was the larger and prob. ably in its day the greatest peak, of the Cascade range. * * * ‘““The problem arises: How was this vast mountain, nearly six miles in diameter and vossibly 5000 feet or more in height ESTERN S0 OF CAATER Lark | gulfed Prope | L | | VIEWS OF THE CRATER LAKE, | OREGON'S GREAT NATURAL | WONDER. | RSl K ! above the present rim of the lake, re- { moved, and the stupendous caldera nocv occupied by Crater Lake produced? Did it go up or down? * ¢ * “Mount Mazama collapsed and was en- and the great caldera was pro- duced by subsidence. This view is singu- latly corroborated by an inflowing lava at the head of Cleetwood Cove—on the north side of the lake. It was still soft when Mount Mazama sank away and flowed down the inner slope, producing Rugged Crest. “Afterward the engulfing eruptions be- gan on the floor of the caldera and buflt up Wizard Island. “The freshness of the lava of Wizard Isl- and and the absence of all traces of ero- sion indicate that its volcano was active in comparatively recent geological time. The presence of so large a growth of forest trees, however, suggests that the eruption must have occurred csnturies ago. “Crater Lake has no visible outlet. Its surplus water escapes by, percolation and; in part at least, reappears again in the great springs about Fort Klamath. The temperature of the water at the sur- face of the lake varies, but from a depth of 200 feet to the bottom it is uniformly about 39 degrees Fahrenheit.” A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Dis is a purty 'bligin’ oI’ worl’,” said Uncle Eben, “an’ if you let's it git ginre’ly known dat you's looking foh trouble, it's mighty li'ble to ‘commodate you.”"—Wash- ington Star. Mr. Quarles—Well, I see old Goldman is dead and leaves upward of three million. Wouldn't you like to be his widow? Mrs. Quarles (sweetly)—No, dear, noth- ing could possibly delight me more than just to be yours.—Philadelphta Pubilc Ledger. “Why don’t you deliver a speech de- nouncing the trusts?” “Well,” answered Senator Sorghum, “that was all right when there were so few trusts that you could make personal explanations. But now some of them are liable to think you said it in earmest."— ‘Washington Star. At Topeka a colored men’s undertaking establishment advertises that “we will spare no time and money to make it pleasant for all our customers.” And it is a great thought, for ? this careless world so little is done in tle way of pleas- ure for the corpses and mourners.—Kan- sas City Journal. “Chawlie has one of these new bell- shaped sack coats.” “Has he? And how.does he appeah in nee “Really, don't you know, that when I met him yesterday and heard him say, ‘Oh, fudge! donm’t you know, he seemed quite too girlish for anything.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. bo"‘rhey say the Shamrock is a Scowl at.” “Hoot, mon, the Scotch wouldn't bull an Irish boat.” “Ah, wouldn't they? They’'d build any- thing for the price?" “Except one thing.” “What's that?” “A cup winner."—Cleveland Plain Deal- er. “Yes, poor old sport, when he had money he had a good time, but he went broke.™ “Then starved?” “I should say not. He secured a spien- did position in a swell boarding-house.” ““What doing?"” - “Just has to sit around in the boarding- house parlor posing as the star boarder, meanwhile complaining loudly Speclal _information m&nfld dally to business houses and public men by the Prees Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main —_———— Townsend's DanA friends. 715 Mar! H