The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1903, Page 30

30 1903, CALL, SUNDAY, JULY HE SAN FRANCISCO ENGINEERING REMAINS ANTEDATING MOSES i " HANKOW BOASTS | | | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. | | BARRIE IS NOW |JORN D. SPRECKELS, Proprctr - - - -+ +- - - -+ - - - Address Commonicatons to W. 5. LEAKE, Wamager| | EMPLOYING HIS GENIUS IN DRAMATIC FIELD .++.Third and Market Streets, S. F. | & < - ND PICTU S CLOTHI CH A PH OF ONE OF THE MOS T INTERESTING SHOWI HO 3UT SPARED HIS LI SPOTS IN LIGHTN = HINA possesses few monuments, but she is 2 monument of past She resembles press tha 1 tality rather than those rchitecture that he more fragile pagodas, which have | whoge broken by the impetuous f the river Han rger stream at this pagoda tence to this fact, ame Indicates—signifying the Ha On the other bank f Hongkong, the tw forming a trio somewhat great cities that have sprung up at the mouth of the Huy e of this locality dates to the days when Yu odel engineer, opened the | nd drained the fields after e of a flood which the Chi- to that of Noah or De = were spent in the task at, although he thrice assed his own door, he never stopped to sleep at home—so absorbed was he by th magnitude of his enterprise! In recom- pense for this achievement he was raised | » the imperial throne I P. D Ciyde of Rand e America went ntain hunting trip la sum- ¢ the party was ascending a p incline a storm cafie up. As he walked into a clearing the eclder ck by lightning. Nearly off : even his shoes were stripped f: feet Hie son Clyde, who was about fifty feet away, was also struck. He rega consciousness side was pa 1d, despite the fact that | lyzed, he managed to | crawl te his father, whom he supposed dead—pulling himself along by.means of he long grass, vsing but one hand and arm. When he reached nis father he folnd th e had mot been killed. For- tuna , the remaining members of the party came up and worked over the un- conecious man for two hours, ceeding in reviving him. The body of Mr. Keim was burned from —————————— finally suc- are prominent | s had burst Keim and for Rand, way, how- in medical to us last wrote clothes wt Milne some concerning the crust and in- \e present time gine the forma- from the stata vol- h's crust is n estab- and siniilar round hquakes ht the it wa medium uality and v ssor Milne, the Jlum the greater is the propagatien of the waves, m 3 kilomete 3 kilome- rs per second, the velocit creasing the nearer the course of the wave to the earth’s cente suming the world to and a half times Professor Milne r crust of approxi- a denser medium five and a half seismological cond ore as this, which would b lighter the spec; 3 10 explain 1 observa- bene a magnetic which du to a he anticipates time to deduce nd chemica 10t matter in with the composition « the interor of we ame certainty that now know the composition of the various bodies of the sc system B op e Fifty years ago last week may almost | be said to have been the birthday of | modern American railroading, for on May York Central Raf and shortly afterwar over the components of the first im- ad consolidation. Prior to | »d the traveler from New York ward worked his way up the Hudson by boat or by the Hudson River Raflroad powerful independent line, and headed for Buffalo via a group of ten little r rated on more or less discorda circum- stance managing to | shuffie passengers acro ate. West of Buffalo the o gres3 ‘'was harder still another and an rlier era in most impossi incomplete and w bound together t} tin Still hard sportation, and it is us now to realize ho ak were the links that interests of the con- is it to realize that it vears later before the rail from New York to Buffalo was un- one coherent management. Even | the wavs of travel were crude; in- | ing car was almost an un- y, and the hapless trav 1- | was fourteen | route der known quan | was shufMed from car to car along his | ¢ in a fashion that would now | If the virtues gf consolida- | are anywhere more conspicudus than | in the promotion of through rallway traf- | fic, we have yet to find the place. To- day travel is ire instead of a bur- | den, and the coa nearer thin was the Misstssippi a eration ago, It is tbe | shrewd and wise enterprise that formed | the New York Central which set the pace | for future development and has enabled the nation to grow without losing co: mon interests, and to develop a homoge- | neous whole. No cne man or raflroad can | clatm all the cred't, but the New York Central has been a road of rare imzor- nee in the national growth. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. “GOOD GROWING WEATEEB."' When the New Scalp Antiseptic Is Used. | A good head Of hair is much = | “crown of glory” for man as it is for | woman, notwithstanding all the poetry | on the subject applied to the female sex exclusively. In the season when flies bite the bald-headed man can sympathize with the Egyptians who were so sorely plagued on account of the children of jsrael. Why not try Newbro's Herpicide? | Others have been benefited and are loud ! in fts praise. It cleanses the scalp, Kills the germ at the root of the hair and by Keeping the scalp sweet, pure and whole- some._ 1he hair is bound to grow as nature intended. regardless of the temperature. Try it and be convinced. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. —— - Sugared Timber. Among new uses to which sugar has re- cently been put is in the preservation of | timber, Much interest has beeen aroused | by the announcement, as the result of a prolonged series of experiments, of a | method of so treating timber as to secure, even from soft wood, a largely increased toughness and hardness. The treatment to which the timber is subjected is, roughly spealéng, that of saturation at boiling point with a solution of sugar, the water being afterward evaporated at a nhigh temperature. The result is to leave the pores and interstices of the wood filled in with solid matter and the timber vulcanized, preserved and seasoned. The nature of moderately soft wood, it is claimed. 12 in this way changed to a tough and hard substance, without brittleness, and also without any tendency to split or | crack.—London Globe. CHINA AT THE FAIR. ALIFORNIA has the greatest interest in Chinese trade. China is to us what all Europe is to the Atlantic seaports of the country. There is nothing for us in India, but little in the Straits Settlements, less in the Dutch East Indies and bare pickings in French Cochin China. Japan is able to supply most of her own wants and is ambitious to do so. Her food supply is ample and will for years to come keep up with the increase of her population. China, with 425.000,000 people, already grown beyond her own food supply, just ready to emerge into con- ditions that imply new wants which we may supply, is our field. Why are we nettled at the lying and intrigue of Russia? The reason is not sentimental. It is commercial. It is selfish. \We know that left alone China will give us the open door in Manchuria; while, put under duress by Russia, our trade will be excluded. In China, England, 'rance and Ger- many all enjoy advantages superior to ours. They own coast points. They have extensive zones of ence. They are on the ground, and though their base of supplies is farther from the demand and consumption than ours, they overcome that by possession of points of advantage. The ukase of the Czar, issued threc vears ago, made it perfectly plain that whenever Russia controlled a Chinese port it would be closed to all except Russian ships and Russian trade. Therefore we are angered at Russia for her Chinese policy, because we want our share of that trade, and California wants it ¢ than any other part of the Union. ) 2 merchants expected great advantages to follow China’s participation in the St. Louis fair. to aid the exhibit. The Chinese colleges and technical schools were interested and were resorted to to secure the skilled workmen and the intelligence required in installing and maintaining the ex- Libit. There is no doubt that it would have been one of the most novel, interesting and useful of all the its. Just now we needed to encourage China in making it. We needed in all ways to show our friendship toward the commercial classes of a country which can easily take all the surplus prod- ucts of California and pay well for it. e <lii But a shadow has fallen upon a prospect in which Califoinia is so vitally interested. Dictated by that mistaken sentiment here which identifies all Chinese with the coolies whose exclusion we desire, the treasury regulations for control of the Chinese who must accompany the exhibit put upon them the brand of ignominy, treat them as prisoners from the moment they land, put them under bonds, under police supervision, confine them to the grounds of the exhibit and brand them with in- feriority and inequality among the nationals of many countries who will be there. The only possible way of changing this is by a representation from the commercial bodies of this State. The few hundred Chinese who must follow the exhibit would make no harmful impres- sion if they should all stay after it is over. But they do not come to stay. They will return. They come as students of our affairs and to study all nations in their exhibits. We invited them by spe- cial embassy, and it is to make a spectacle of ourselves if we treat them as prisoners when they come. Ihere is no industrial or legal necessity for such treatment. The regulations are in supposed re- sponse to public sentiment here, and the authorities at Washington should be at once undeceived. China acquiesces in our policy of excluding coolies, but if her trade is worth seeking or her people deserving to be our guests at this fair, they will resent the humiliation put upom them by these regulaticns. The people that come to install the Chinese exhibit are entitled to the same freedom of action, the same mobility, as those of the other nations we have invited to be our guests. In that way we may retain the hold we now have on the friendship and trade of China. By unnecessary humiliation we will lose it, and deserve to. Whether we want Chinese trade or want to throw it away will be shown by the action of our merchants and our members of Congress in advising the Government at \Wash- ington n this matier. CONTINUED CALAMITY. ULY is young yet, but seems determined that the months preceding shall not excel it in the sensations produced by natural and artificial causes. Named for the great Julius who shook the world from the Indus to the Scheldt, and so shone in all positions that he assumed and all places that knew his presence that his personality will be embossed upon the world until - the firmament is rolled up like a scroll, this month of July not only has monopolized the anniver- sary of American independence, the fall of the Bastile, the battle of the Boyne, the fall of Vicksburg * but has also and Santiago, and the nativity of the Dominion of Canada, “Our Lady of the Snows in these first days furnished human calamity enough to surfeit the wires. There are July snows in Montana, killing heat and lightning in New York. men and beasts struck dead by the sun in Philadelphia and Washington, people drowned in cloudbursts, in Texas, chilly weather in Chicago, cyclones in Iowa blowing buildings and humanity into giblets, grass- hoppers eating all the grass in Montana that is not under snowdrifts, and floods in the Southern rivers sweeping crops and houses down streams. In California there are forest fires at Guerneville, grain fires at Davisville, Dixon. Stockton and other points. Angels Camp is nearly burned up. A hot wind from the north has thinned our fruit and shelled the standing grain. A miner lit his pipe with his Davy lamp in Wyoming and blew up the mine, killing 200. Since the first of the month there have been three lynchings, and it seems as if the month of Julius, like him, proposes to have no rival in the calendar as an object of human interest. If the rest of it is to keep up the record may the days pass quickly, that we may enter the month of the gentler Augustus, who was not so great a figure but a better politician than his uncle. He was to Julius what Van Buren was to Jackson, and his namesake month partakes of his charac- teristics. Give us, then, August and the dog star, to let us rest after these windy, fiery, watery and snowy July days. THE PREVALENCE OF CREDULITY. L. of the get rich quick concerns get rich quick themselves through the prevalence of cre- dulity, the universality of the gambling spirit and the desire to get something for nothing. Horace Greeley said the saddest moment in a young man’s life was not when he lost his father or his mother, or writhed in the pangs of unrequited love, but was when he took a dollar that he had not earned. All of the bucketshop business of the different produce exchanges; the betting at races on private tips: the losses in stocks lhrougl{ getting a “hunch,” depend upon credulity and the desire to get something for nothing. Somebody gets it. but not the credulous investor. 3 There is recently disclosed a painful case of credulity in which unfortunately the innocent and defenseless suffer with the credulous and the foolish. A pseudo medium in Southern California saw piles of gold in Central, American soil and stone, and a considerable party of men, women and chil- dren packed off in search of the treasure. They were “spiritually guided™ to the midst of a poison tropical forest, twenty miles from the coast in Guatemala, where the only *“color” they found was yellow fever, and where even the natives are a race of mosquito-bitten dnd malaria smitten pariahs. These credulous fortune-seekers had but little when they started out on this fool's errand, and now they are marooned in the tropics with nothing to support them there and nothing to take them away. 2 R 1f only those responsible were suffering the case would not be so bad, but among them are a number of small children, who were dragged into the forest to perish. The spiritual guidance has ceased and its victims will mostly cease, too, béfore they can get back. The press should give as wide circulation to this great folly as possible, but the lesson will be lost upon the kind of people who have furnished it. The seers and revelators of hidden treasure will find material upon which to ply their trade as long as there are in the world people looking for the quick fortune and willing to touch the dollar unearned. A There is a thief in Oakland whose luek would be immune to the combined power of a horseshoe and a mascot. He stole 2 clock from a store and just as he was leaving with it in his pocket the alarni went off. 'When the policeman tagged him he said he was only taking time by the forelock, but the copper said he would be doing it shortly. They don’t know whether to charge him with petty larceny or procrastination. 3 ho R I Referrhlg to an explosion which was a part of the Fourth of July exercises held by a San Francisco boy in- the cellar of his house, the news report says, “His family left home, as it is dan- gerous to enter the house, as some of the rafters were probably loosened and the house might col- lapse.” The only way that boy will ever be killed is to shoot him. - third play calls attention to the | extent to which he has deserted | literature for the drama. Mr Barrie's first essay in dramatic | composition was in 1561, but his first suc | cess was attained in the production by M little skit on Tbsen. In the last twelve vears Mr. Barrie has pub- the Toole of a four books, whereas in ears he published Seven | lishea only | preceding four ; Since 1890, on the other hand, he has | written four plays | Charles Marriott. whose name became familiar with his successful novel of “The ! Column,” is on a visit to London. Fie has { finished a new story., “The He e on the | Sands,” and Mr. Lane Is to publish it in | the autumn. The background of the story 71is laid in Cornwall, but of the plot #nd | ¢characters Mr. Marriott is silent for the | present. | w | (85350 { day a the extraordinary sum Messrs. Sotheby seld on Th series of twenty-nine autograph letters, etc., by Keats. The bidding be- gan at £250 ($1250) and it was not till af- ter a spirited and determined contest that the well known dealer, Mr. Quaritch, be- | came the possessor at the big price named. It may be of Interest go record | that the original manuseript of Keats “Cap and Bells,” which wanted twenty- one stanzas and a half, fell to a bid of at Hodgson's auction rooms . and that in 192 the “Hymn to and another poem brought £69 (3345) and brief letter to Fanny Brawne sold for £42 10s. ($212 50 | Other noteworthy lots at the sale on { Thursday inecluded an interesting letter | trom Charles Lamb to Robert Southey, | dated August 10, 1825, which fetched £43 | ($215). and the original pocket notebook ! carried by Wordsworth while he was “Ecclesiastical Sonnets,” ($130) | composing the which brought Sir Lewis Morris, a new edition of | whose poe: is now coming out, is an- other instance of the close assoclation of | literature and law. of which the history of letters offers so many examples. Sir Tewis pacticed for a number of at the Chancery~ Bar, chiefly ‘as a convey- ancing counsel. The drafting or perusing of documents of title is not usually es- teemed a very exhiiarating ocupation, though it is recorded of one old convey ancer that he occasionally came across a brilliant deed. Uninteresting though conveyancing may in general be, it did not prevent Sir Lewis Morris cultivating the poetic muse with much success. P iz This is the latest and also the freshest and most unique of Laurence Hutton's anecdotal historfes of famous literary centers. If we are to take Mr. Hutton's | word for it. there is no place which will | find 1t fresher and more unique than Ox-| ford itse!f. “Oxford’s ignorarce of Oxford,” he.com- plains, “is in many respects phenomenal and startling: and a book might easily be written about ‘what Oxford does not know about Oxford.” In too many trying. exasperating instances, the only difference between the authorities and the local per- sonally conducted guldes is the fact that the authorities know less, at no pecuniary expense to the Inquirer, than do the guldes know for the regulation fees. But while the authorities are generally and frankly uncertain, the guides are almost universally incorrect. The authorities rarely assert. The guides invariably in- vent.” ;;r. Hutton, by forsaking the authori- ties and the guides has succeeded in gath- erfg together an agreeable cento of anec- dotes from investigations, personally con- ducted, through hundreds of volumes of local history, biography. autoblography, correspondence and reminiscence. Here is a letter that mignt have been written in this century and in this coun- try by President Wilson of Princeton: President Ellot of Harvard, or by Presi- dent Hadley of Yale. Tn point of fact it was written early in the seventeenth cen- tury by Archbishop Abbott of Oxford, England. It is addressed to the under- uates of All Souls’, and it says: “The feast of Christmas drawing now to an end doth put onc in mind of the great outrage which, as 1 was informed, was last year committed in your college, where, although matters had formerly been conducted with some distemper, yet men did never before break into such in- tolerable liberty as to tear down doors and gates and disquict their neighbors, as if it had been a camp or a town in war.” We all know that Arthur Penryhn Stan- ley was the original Tom Brown's great- est friend, Arthur. We all know that Tom Brown was 'Tom Hughes himself. Therefore Mr. Hutton springs a surprise upon us when he quotes from a letter written by Dean Stanley, in 1860: % ‘} - | | POPULAR AUTHOR, WHO HAS ENTIRELY ABANDONED | ! THE WRITING OF BOOKS F } BUILDING OF PLAYS, IN | : WHICH, SO FAR, HE HAS HAD BRILLIANT SUCCESS. ! 11 1 SO - -— * HE news that J. M. Barrle is to | “At the coming commemoration I ex i be represented in London by a [pect T. Hughes and his wife. Have you ? 1 hardly knew him be- appeared.” seen him of late fore “Tom Brown Matthew Arnol as one of the most popular and success undergraduates that Oxford has eve known. Professor | Max Muller, who knew him at Baliol, re- membered that “he was beautiful as a young man trong and manly, full of dreams and schemes ners began even at Oxford; there was no | harm in them: they were natural, not pus n. The sound of his volce and the wave of his #rm were Jovelike.” His Olympian man- | The very antithesis of Matthew Arnold was Walter Savage Landor, of whom M Wells, author of “Oxford and Its ( leges." s quaintly said that neither her nor anywhere else was he “a sweetl able persan. Landor entered retired a year later. ford literally with a bang. Trinity in 1798 ar he e went out of-Ox An undergfnd | uate of his college whom Landor did not like had rooms opposite Landor's, where he had the bad taste ome day to giwe other men who were equally dis Landor. What was the natural consequence is here set down in Landor's n words “All the time T was only a spectator for 1 should have blushed to have ha any cofiversation with them, particularty out of a window. But my gun was lying on a table in the room and I had In a back closet some little shot. I proposed, as they had closed the casements and as the shutters were on the outside, to fire a volley. It thought a good trick and accordingly I went into my bedroom and fired.” Who thought it a good trick the Imag- inary Conversatlonalist does not say The recipients of the shot did not like the trick and authorities objected to it and Landor was forced to go elsewhere uns. he most familiar and one of the guished figures in Oxford of & and for many years, was that | of Benjamin Jowett. He was student, was to fire his One of fellow, tutor, professor and master of Baliol. Entering with a scholarship from St. Paul 1536, he was intimately as- | soctated with Oxford until he died, in 139 His fellow students, his pupils and his coworkers were his devoted friends. “He had a genius for friendship,” wrote one. | “He was the best man I have ever wrote another he was respected, he was gently satirized. One >pular and possibly one of crypal of the stories that m was to this effect known.” He was admired he of the most | | was loved, | | the most A certain irreverent and waggish under- | graduate was o showing visitors around Baliol College. | “There is the Wbrary,” “there | the chapel; there is the buttery; thers is the master's lodge, and there”—throwing | a stone through the window of the lodge, "a: which the surprised and indignant | Jowett at once appeared—“and there is | the master himself.” ————— Townsend's Californta glace frults and candies, 0c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for East, friends. 715 Market st.. above Call bld.;-‘ —_———— Special information supplied dally ts business houses and public en by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 230 Cali. fornia street. Telephone Main 1043 ACVERTISEMENTS. | 3000 SACKS BEST | GRANULATED SUGAR 2 Ibs 21 s i 'G.T. JONES & CO. 2 and 4 CALIFORNIA ST., l San Francisco, gD