The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1903, Page 30

80 JOAQUIN MILLER’S NEW POEM IS VIVID BUT NOT IDEALISTIC R JOAQUIN MILLER, THE AGED POET OF THE SIERRAS, WHO ES- SAYS PO UPHOLD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S HANDS IN THE PRO- MULGATION OF THE ANTI-RACE SUICIDE THEORY. L OAQUIN MILLER is a poet of sur- That be is 2 poet has been ted even by the Enghsh crit- prises e which his Pegasus nfirmation in the “As It from Robertso! re poet of the Slerrs w crag and mountain tor- against the sociolog- , so vigorously who place nation's » a prefatory note the wat while Roosevelt was g clothes he was cham- has recently lar words from a frank recog- m: ndeavored to clof Was in the Be; to revive in the painfull modern aspect of love e of the which notone of love songs y flat, acces- s the poet finds ry wedded life Joaquin up voice. In mo her. From the piration the poet, like osopher, fulminates upon the huddled pack of degenerate moderns. As a thread whereon to hang his didac- | rances the poet runs a slender of story through his poem. A great, true son of the West, stan, on the s of the Golden Gate, look- ing outward to the stars of opportunity wi beckon him ever farther. In the fiame of his purpose he fails to heed the maiden, his companion, him by her side. arries his idealized hero to . there to fight of nature brings He is nursed to life d learns to love her. man, the man of Rous- Joaquin Miller makes his savage, tempered by c influences of all the world of ught which is our posses- 1 passion of love he would sses of NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A WOMAN'S GRATITUDE. A Mountain Woman Writes in Praise of Newbro’s Herpicide. For several years I have been trou- bled with dandruff, causing me much annoyance, and my hair became very I have used Newbro's Herpicide for a month and the dandruff has en- tirely disappeared and my hair is be- coming much heavier than formerly. New hair is growing where there was none and I am very thankful to you for the benefit I have received from New- bro's Herpicide. Very truly yours, “MRS. C. B. STER, “No. Utah A : Sold by lealing drug; s. Send 10c. in stamps for sample to The Herpjcide Co., Deroit, Mich. Used by American Physicians nearly 6 years. The effervescent * tried by time " cure for Costiveness, Biliousness, Headache, Sick Btomach. Contains no irritants or narcotics. $0c. and $1, at Druggists or by mail from THE TARRANT CO., 21 Jay Street, New York can never anticipate | ts himself in the new | ism the poet inveighs against the mod- ern love, which considers offspring a mis- fortune and motherhood a milistone. He ays God’s pity for the thing of lust | That bears a frail babe to be thrust { her arms to allen thrall, out the light of day, off God's very breath! To love rightly is then the poet’s mes- sage. In some of the passages of the poem where the charms of love are chanted Miller shakes down his hoary locks and waxes Byronic. The poem is aglow with artistic color- ing. The shifting scenes of the Golden ate, the Klondike, Honelulu and Japan give a wide canvas to his brush. In verse | for; which is as a rule metrically hap Miller gives some wonderfully vivid pictures. Poesibly the finest of his portraitures depicts the frozen north In the clutch of winter, where the vividness of the plc- ture needs only the stage green calcium | to compl, that Miller can wander away rras and still please. in the Beginning” is not a | great poem; it is very good one. name will never live for the philosophy it teaches, for that is nothing but old sentiments revamped. But it will be eriy read for the beauty, the riotous or of its verse, . The question of what constitutes value in a rare edition_has been raised ind ctly by Messrs. Methuen, who are pub. 2 an f{llustrated pocket library o nd colored books. The binding is unadorned red, with those paper la- bels [¥hich are always dear to a man who loves his booksl 'he specia of this series t-o:s vl he ns fac simile reproductions of strations which accompanied the matter in the first instance, The rent volume, for instance, is “Handley ” by R. §. Surtees, and with it are found seventeen colored plates and 100 woodcuts by Leech. In many cases Messrs. Methuen have pald very heavy sums indeed for single coples of originals containing the {llustrations which are | to be made familiar to the present gen- | eration. o |, Whatever justification may be founa | for publishing on Japanese paper a lim- ited edition of one hundred coples, at one | guinea each, in which the plates will | represent the utmost that color printing can achieve, the venture is certainly a | bold one, the works selected being bet- | ter known to experts than to the gen- | eral public. One of the big art books of the coming ason will be “The Life of Lady Diana Beauclerk,” by Mrs. Stewart Erskine, | which Fisher Unwin will publish. Lady Diana was the elder daughter of Charles, | second Duke of Marlborough, and was | t married, her first husband being erick, Lord Bolingbroke, and her second Topham Beauclerk, the famous after this second marriage that much of her better known artistic work was done. She decorated rooms, | designed for Wedgwood and drew for Bartolozzi. The volume will contain re- | productions of many of her pictures. Lady Dilke will contribute to an illus- trated work ‘about to be published by Messrs. Goupil dealing with the objets d@'art at Hertford House. That volume | will be a handsome production, as may be umed from the subscription price | ot There will be very fine illustra- | tions of the fvory and wood carvings, of the Limoges enamels, of the bronzes, the Sevres porcelain and the decorative French furniture of the seventeenth and | eighteenth centuries. The main portion | of the text wil be written by M. Emile | Moliner, honorary keeper of the National Museum of France. Nearly two hundred women met at the ‘Women Writers' dinner on Monday even- ing at the Criterion. Mrs. J. R. Green, who occupied the chair, made an amus- ing speech, in which she contrasted the old and new women. Lady Jehangir, who spoke for the East, said the Oriental view of the duties and position of women might be summed up in the reply of a little girl who, when asked what she would like to be, replied, “A mamma.” Among the women writers present were Mrs. Clifford, Mrs. L. T. Meade, Miss Violet Hunt, Mrs. Andrew Lang, Miss Alma Tadema, Miss Wordsworth, M. Belloc-Lowndes and Mme. Belloc. —_——— Reason for Extra Charge. The winter has been unusually severe, and the lake from which the ice com- pany gathered its crop was frozen tc a much greater depth than usual. *I sup- pose, colonel,” remarked a citizen to the president of the company ohe cold morn- ing, “that you won't charge us so much for our ice next summer as ycu did last. You're getting a tremendous crop.” “We may have to charge more,” stiffly re- plied the president. “Think of the trouble and expense involyed in cutting ice three feet thick!"—Youth’s Companion. e the effect. The scenes of the | ts in the fact that | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor - - - « « -.. . .. . . . Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager resas JULY - 12 1908 SUNDAY- ..... Publication OFCe .o.oveuriess tuniniensesies GRS .oovonvessesees oo Third and Market Streets, S. ¥. EFFECT AND CAUSE. HE prevalence of the divorce is a subject of increasing discussion. The frivolous reasons for divorce which have been made good in law have been the means of multiplying the legal cutting of the marriage tie. The rising percentage of divorces to marriage is causing alarm among those who study the social structure and the means for maintaining its equilib- rium. The growing objection to divorce threatens a reaction which will cause much human distress by making divorce so difficult that it will be practically impossible in cases where it should be granted. No woman should be compelled to live with a brutal man, who by drunkenness en- dangers future generations, risking blemishes both physical and moral in their nature, or with one whose infidelities humiliate her. Nor should she remain in legal contract with a man who re- fuses to contribute to her support. These causes for divorce were recognized as legitimate in the beginning of the judicial sep- aration of the married. Their rise and overshadowing of the married relation were not inconsistent with the entrance upon that greatest of all contracts from the most proper motives; for say what the practical people may, romance and conjugal affection only can sanction marriage. Without these, no matter how many sacraments may supplement the civil contract, nothing can hallow it in the high court of nature. If divorce were given only to those who married with right motives, \with affection and romance playing their part in the relation, divorce would be less of a scandal than now. One needs only to read the court reports of trial of divorce cases to realize that a majority of them are for the dissolution of contracts that should never have been entered into. An astonish- ing number of marriages are contracted through fear. We have called attention frequently to the number of women who are slain by erotic lunatics. Those tragedies represent the resistance to the threats of the wretches who cause them. But threats often compel compliance and women marry through fear to find that death would have beeti preferable. The erotic lunatic or fool never can make a good husband, and rapidly progresses to brutality and neglect. Such marriages should never be permitted. The man who threatens to murder 2 woman unless she marry him is unfit to live, and there should be some way to remove him, legally or otherwise, and women should know that there is efficient protection for them against such beasts. Fraud vitiates all contracts anid the marriage contract is too frequently entered into by fraud. In a recent case the woman advertised for a husband, representing herself to be worth a quarter of a million. A sucker took the bait, to find himself in the claws of a cat who proceeded to make life as miserable as a man deserves it who will make such a contract for mercenary motives. He whnts a divorce, but the law should compel him to live with the Xantippe he married in the hope that she was a female Croesus, and she should have the assistance of the town Constable in turning him up and spanking him with a wet paddle once a week. There should be more safeguards thrown around the making of the marriage contract, as a means of curtailing divorce. Fear and avarice, as the motives for such contract, should be for- bidden, and the state, being concerned vitally in the families that compose it, should be satisfied that the contract is based on the only motive that hallows it, romance and affection. Nature cries out against undue disparities in age, and the state being concerned in the future generations that are to compose it, may well interfere to prevent those revolting sacrifices which have cupidity as their motive. Divorce will never be less, nor the scandal of it be limited, nor the injury to the state pre- vented, until the cause is dealt with at the origin of the contract which divorce dissolves. NEW USE FOR MUSIC. OME TIME ago a London scientist discovered by accident that a long-continued mechanical vibration would cause the death of microbes even in an environment that was otherwise highly favorfible to their propagation. Now comes an American scientist announcing that a musical vibration of the right pitch will kill mosquitoes. Evidently we are on the verge of great things in the way of dealing out life or death by vibratory methods, and perhaps in the end we shall have vibrations of bne intensity used as a medicine, and those of another used as a means of executing condemned criminals. - There is nothing in the way of a joke in either of the two reports. The London scientist was doing his best to cultivate certain disease germs in a laboratory near a large factory. He noted that the most carefully tended of his pets perished when the jarring of the machinery made itself felt, and experiments demonstrated that the death was due to the jarring. The American discoverer of the deadly effects of music on mosquitoes has also succeeded in demonstrating the validity of his statements, and in Massachusetts steps have been taken to put the method into practice. The Boston Transcript, in describing the'discovery, says: “The new system has been given practical application, and it has been discovered that a certain musical note, raised to a great num- ber of vibrations per second, will cause the mosquito to experience sudden and complete paralysis; and not only does this intensified note arrest the insect in flight or hurl it from ceiling or wall, bu® also because of a strange construction of the mosquito’s auditory system it causes it to plunge un- deviatingly toward the spot whence the music issues. It has been found that the practical application has been effected by raising to a great number of vibrations per second the particular note to which the mosquito is most sensitively attuned. This intensified note was produced by sudden electrical im- pulse upon a musical instrument, whereupon it was noticed that every mosquito in the room had plunged headlong to the instrument: and that when the windows were opened the room was soon filled. Again the amplified note was sounded and instantly in a cloud the mosquitoes, apparently life- less, were precipitated against the apparatus.” These demonstrations of the effect of vibrations upon living organisms tend to confirm the theory now so widely accepted among scientists as well as among philosophers that what we call “substance” is but a manifestation of energy, and that all life can be reduced to one elemental force which science may some day discover. That phase of the subject will. however, not be so interesting to the public as the promise that in the near future it may be found possible to strike out tones that will summon flies, fleas and all other abominations of the insect world to their destruction as po- tently as that which hurries the mosquito to his doom CURRENCY LEGISLATION. HE Republican party needs to guard against losing an issue to the opposition. Fortunately for it Mr. Bryan compelled the gold standard to be a Republican measure, and the immense influence and benefits that have come to the Republican party as a result may not be esti- mated. But the adoption of the gold standard by no means exhausted the money issue. It assured the equality of all currency, and made every dollar worth a hundred cents, but there is left the question of equal distribution of that sound currency which is necessary to the economical use of credit. The Towa Democratic Convention, in a cowardly way, it is true, but still in a way, recog- nized the need of more equal distribution and the equalizing of interest rates. The conventions in the Southern States will probably be more honest and outspoken in the same direction, and Republi- can hesitation may make a gift of an issue to the Democracy, which is about the only one in sight that can secure for it the confidence of the business classes of the country. Mr. Cannon, who is to be Speaker of the next House, is in the field against such legislation, and makes humor of it by calling it a “rubber currency,” which is witty but not wise. We desire to war) the party that this currency reform is a Republican issue, made so by the declarations of McKinley and Roosevelt and the pledge of many platforms. If Mr. Cannon can blow that issue out of the party by one shot, the party will haveleisure in which to repent. Tt will be worth remembering that the mumber of deaths and injuries caused by the celebra- tion of the recent Fourth of July exceeded those resulting from all the battles and skirmishes of the Spanish War. Either we must make our wars more sanguinary or our celebmtions safer, for the thing doesn’t look right as it stands. o AT g Tt is asserted that the establishment of cordial relations between Great Britain and France has changed the European political situation, but as a little tiff would swing Europe back to the old situation, the change is not accounted as of much more importance than a slight alteration in the weather. o S e Yachting experts are now estimating that Shamrock IIT will have a good chance of winning if the breeze be light, so it is up to the Weather Bureau to furnish a supply of strong wind in the vicinity of New York on the racing days. It would be too bad to lose the cup when a little vig- orous blowing would have saved it. l SCHEME FOR-RELIEF OF THE CONGESTION OF CROWDED CITIES | T \ \ \ \ N N N N \ N \ \ \ \ N \ \ \ \ \ N N N N N N \ N N \ A\ N N N ENDLESS STREET CARFOR TRom PopyLar mecmamics- AND CHICAGO o NEwW v THBE ENDLESS STREET CAR OR MOVING SIDEWALK WITH SEATS WHICH 18 EXPECTED TO SOLVE A TROUBLESOME PROBLEM OF TRANSPORTATION IN THICKLY POPULATED CENTERS. — ——— N endless street car, or a moving sidewalk with seats on it, is pro- posed as the solution of the trans- portation problem In the con- gested districts In New York and Chicago. Chicago has decided to let New York try the venture first, and If it works successtully there to adopt it in the West- ern metropolls. In New York It is pro- posed to use the system In connecting the Manhattan terminals of three great bridges over the East River with one an- other, and with the subwafPand elevated raliroads as well as with the leading sur- face lines running north and south. The method, it is said, will relieve the conges- tion of the Brooklyn bridge an® make the Willlamsburg bridge now approaching completion, and the Manhattan bridge, which is well under way, do their share of the work. The moving seats are sim- ply an improvement on the moving side- walks and continuous trains, which were in operation at the Chicago and I’aris ex- positions, and which carried miliions of people along at a good rate of speed and in absolute comfort without accident. The method of operating these platforms is well known. There are two so-called “stepping” platforms running alongside the train platform. The passenger steps on one platform moving at the rate of three miles an hour. He then steps on one moving at six miles an hour. From that he steps on the continuous car mov- ing at nine miles an hour and takes his seat. The seats will hold three persons and will be three feet apart. To alight | from the “continuous car,” the passenger | simply steps from one platform to an- other of diminishing speed, and finally gets off at his station. on e The New Orleans floating drydock has the greatest lifting capacity of any dock of its type. In workmanship, equipment and machinery, as well as In facility of operation, it is considered superior to any floating dock yet bullt. Since the docking of the Illinois a nat- ural scour has set in under the dock, and the continuous flow of water under the structure has carried away all of the soft material, leaving a splendid foundation of clay at even a greater depth than Is necessary for the extreme sinking of the dock even at the lowest stages of the tide. Beveral months’ observation Indicate that the scouring under the dock Is perma- nent, and that no future trouble may be anticipated from lack of required depth for sinking the dock sufficient to enter | any battleship that we possess. The whole dock is operated from a cen- tral station-house on each side wall. In these stations levers are placed by means of which the valves are operated. Signals are arranged by means of which the posi- tion of every valve can be known at a glance. Each station iIs in direct commu. nication with those in charge of the en- gine and fire rooms by means of speaking tubes, and thus the dockmaster has com- plete control of every”pump and valve. The docking of the ship can thus be manipulated without the dockmaster leaving his central station. The dock is moored by four stud link chain cables, to each of which are attached mushroom anchors. These anchors are handled by capstans connected to winches which are installed on the upper deck of the side walls. The dock is also connected to shore steel columns by two steel lattice booms, which are free to move in all di- rections to accommodate for the rise and fall in the river, which is subject to great fluctuations. These connections also per- mit the dock to be swung in toward the shore so that the structure need not be exposed to the strongest current of the river. The side walls are provided with flying gangways, which are placed at the bow end of the dock, hinged so as to swing together. The side walls are fitted with platform and protecting hand rails to provide a means of pessing from one sec- tion to the'other. Convenient ladders and stairways are placed on the inside of the side walls to reach the upper decks from the pontoon deck. Light swinging hand cranes are provided on each gang- way deck for handling material. There are also provided fair-leads and other ap- pliances for handling the necessary lines required for docking the vessels. The original cost of the New Orleans dock was $810,000, but since it was built many costly and important improvements have been made, adding greatly to its ef- ficlency. . . Twelve insects will cost the United States $330,00,000 this vear. The chinch- bug will draw $100,000,000 of this amount. the grasshopper will take $90,000,000 and the hessian fly will call for at least $50,- 000,000 more. Three worms that attack the cotton plant will assess the farmers for a total of $60,000,000 and the potato bug will eat $8,000,000 worth of its favorite kind of garden produce. Ten millions of dol- lars is a moderate estimate of the injury that will be done by the apple worm, and the caterpillar that makes cabbages its speclalty wil destroy $5,000,000 worth of crisp green heads. The estimate, which is conservative ana under the mark, is as follows: Chinchbug. $100,000,000; grasshopper, $9,- 000,000; Hesslan fly, $50,000,000; potato bug, $8,000,000; San Jose scale, $10.000,000; grain Weevil, $10,000.000; apple worm, $10,000,000; army worm, $15,000,000; cabbage worm, $5,. 000,000; boll weevil (cotton), $20,000,000; boll worm (cotton), $25,000,000: cotton worm, $15,000,000; total, $358,000,000. How absurd it seems that the United States Government, with an army of 6,- 000 men, 254 warships and more money in the treasury than any nation has ever be- fore possessed, should be helpless in a fight against twelve objectionable bugs! Yet such Is the fact. The individual bug is small, but its “strong hold” is its tremendous power of reproduction. What is to be done in conflict with an adver- sary which is capable of having a billion descendants in a summer? In conflict with such an enemy Uncle Sam finds himself in much the same situation as that of Gulliver when he discovered that he was | at the mercy of the Liliputians. “ . 9 The first practical use to which radium has been put since its discovery by the Curles is announced from Paris. Profes- sor Curie some time ago found that a dia- mond would phosphoresce beautifully in the presence of radium, but that the cleverest imitation of the dfamond failed to emit the light waves. Parisian dia- mond experts are now employing it for | this purpese. No critical examination is | necessary for the operation, as formerly. | Al that s required is a small, dark | room, Into which the expert steps with | the stone to be examined. Placing it be- | fore the tube of radium, he is made awars at a glance if the object he holds Is gen- uine or a base imitation. The price of radfum is being gradually reduced, and the price, which was recently announced to be $900,000 per pound. is new fixed at a sum considerably less. Another im- | portant feature is that this rare product of the earth is being produced in this | country by a Buffalo firm, which states | that it will soon be prepared to furnish it in quantities, but at the rate of $78,000 | per pound. In Utah there are large deposits of | ragio-active uranium ores and compounds | that are abbut to be opened up, and by sis it has been shown that the radium contents of these ores are about | one gram for each ton of ore. The de- | talls for the chemical reduction | ores are being perfected, when metallic uranifum will be produced and radium as a by-product at a very slight increase in | the first cost of reduction. | some such a process as this Is | available, or a new substance found in which radium abounds in larger quanti- | ties than in pitchblend, the exact amount of radfum required to produce results | equal to an X-ray machine of standard size will be necessary to fix the commer- cial value of the product. It is believed | that #adium-barium of the highest activ- | ity can be produced at the rate of $200 per gram, or $100,000 for 500 grams, which | equals one and three-twentieths pounds. —_—————————— “I don’t know,” confessed the puzzled | wife, “whether to have the house repa- | pered to match my old dresses, or to buy new dresses to match the paper we now have.” “I fancy,” suggested the husband, who | was a quick thinker and a lightning cal- l culator, “that we had better repaper the Rouse.”—Exchange. ——— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg.® —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cail- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, - A son was born a few days ago to Mr, and Mrs. Cormac McCallis of Hasleton, Pa., being the twenty-third child born to the couple. 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