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30 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1903. .|.______.__._————————__——+ | NEW EDITION OF SKETCH, THE SAN FRANCISCO Svad o SAFE AUTOMOBILE CHAIRS 1 From Works of Thackeray JS"EN D. SPRECKELS, Propsietor - - - - - ... . - Adiress Communicafons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager Propelled by Electricity | SOON TO BE PUBLISHED | s e e — = || TO BE USED AT S8T. LOUIS FAMOUS AUTHOR, ONE GF WHOSE 1841 IS TO A LIMITED EDITION. BE REPUBLISHED BY SKETCHES WHICH APPEARED THE UNIVERSITY —A limited eci- ¢ Thackeray’s m x< soon (o Le | ved by vv» A. Wesse:s Com- was first pub- | in May, 1841, which ches,” which ibution. of Old » Relations ure of the subject mat- nt. Sir James Cricaton Browne and Alexander Carlyle, it is . expect this volume to ciear Thomas Car- | lyle’s memory of the imputations of Ger- sldine Jewsbury eagerly clutched at by | his biographer. Whether Miss Jewsbu Jooked a2 filmsy tatter of a creature, Mrs. Carlyle called her, readers of “The | Nemesis of Froude” will have an oppor- tunity of juiging for themselves from the | portrait which appears as the frontisplece. . | John Lefie’s mysterious manuscript in | & red box, discovered by him, now that the book is publisked, is creating a con- | siderable amount of interest. It was thought the mystery would be solved immediately the book was pub- lished and that the unknown author would be sure then to reveal himself— when the book was found to be a success, | which it undoubtedly is—but no, he re-| mains silent on the subject. | The reason for the curious title of the ! book 15 interesting, t00. Mr. Lane did not | know what to call it. It seems that Mrs. | W. K. Clifford, Henry Harland, W. J. | Locke, Professor Yorke Powell and others | wrote, almost simultaneously, suggesting | that as the manuscript was found In the | publisher’s red box it should be entitied “The Manuscript in the Red Box.” As such it has been published, According to the Dundee Advertiser something has been heard of the author. A certain clergyman belonging to New- | port, Fifeshire, declares the manuscript passed through his hands. He says that | it 1s the work of a scholarly recluse who | resides either in or mear Falmouth, and ————————————————————— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. IT CURED THE DOCTOR. New Scientific Dandruff Treatment Recommended by a Physician. Mrs. Mary C. Crawford, Oakesdale, Wash.: *“Herpicide cured me perfegtly of @andruff and falling hair.” Dr. E. J. Beardsley, Champaign, IIL: “T used Herpicide for dandruff and falling hair, and T am well satisfled with ghe re- sult.” Alf R. Kelly, 218 Devisadero street, San Francisco: “Herpicide put a new growth of hair on my head. Herpicide does more than is claimed.” Herpicide kills the dandruff . “‘De- stroy the cause, you remove the effect” cures dandruff, falling hair and prevents | baldness. Sold lgading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. If Headachy QR4 AP but a it bris lbe um— -nd bov& into h-lfl:y u:n:'n' Used by American Physicians mearly @ years. S0c. and 81, st Druggists or by mail from THE TARRANT CO., 21 Jay Street, New York who, from the retired manner of his life, was not sufficiently acquainted with pub- lishing ways to enable him to put his i work on the literary market in the usual | fashion. He therefore sent the manu- script to his clerical friend, in order that he might consider its merit. . A certain nuthor Iho is more of a| humorist than many would imagine him, has written to the Morning Post telling an amusing story the notion of posing as a young, anxlous | author. H ote to a number of successful write king their advice on how to work, from which it would appear that authors must be a more than usually good natured class of people. Here are some of this joker's gleanings: * writer said: “Avold calling a spade you wish the circulating libraries to fight shy of your work.’ Another said: *“Don’t call it an agrl- | tural implement or the realists will be down on you. ul lady novelist recommended S to make virtue triumphant. sther enjoined him to make his heroes te white and his villains quite black, so that they might be easily distinguished by all who run and read. An oid hand advised plenty of plot, | with snacks of humor by way of refresh- ment. Another sald: “Just get hold of a good advertising title and work up to it.” I of how he conceived | ! Among hints that he recelved he noted | that he was to avoid children, because heroes and heroines with encumbrances ! became unmanageable. to make them happy ever after, He was told to steer clear of incidents and garrulous old folks, cockneys, Amer- ica, kailyard, cranks and Celtic and Gaelic curiosities.” The “woman with a past,” he was ad- | vised, was played out, as was Indla, and the “man with a future must be kept for | boys’ books only.” “Girls of the period” were done to death; young married flirts were stale, flat and unprofitable; the historical rag- out was hashed to rags, name of Elizabeth, he must flee from it as he would from the devil which chaff there is not an inconsiderable amount of truth, . A fourth edition of “Miss Traumerei,” | been | The author has penned a beauti- | by Slbert Morris Bagby, has just issued. ful picture of Franz Liszt, showing in a romantic way the master’s home life and | his association with his ,beloved artist- | pupils. The healthy love story of one of the latter, a talented American girl, in- terwoven with historic old Weimar scenes, forms the setting, and German roses, sun- ehine and music, the atmosphere. The novel will be welcomed by music lovers. | Published by the author, 18 West Thir- ty-fourth street, New York. Price $1 50. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. LANGUAGES—P. E. D, City. It is said that the number of languages spoken in the world, including dialects, 1s 3064. ENGLAND AND WALES--S., City. The area of England is 5,523 square miles and that of Wales 7363,-a total of 58,186. SALARY ROLL—J., Oakland, Cal. The salary roll of those employed by the city government of San Francisco is, in round numbers, monthly $190,000. COURSE OF STUDY-M. D. K., Con- cord, Cal. For the course of study in a High School you should address a letter of inquiry to the principal of the High School of your district, who will furnish you all the information you seek. BLEACHED GRASSES—Miss A., City. Grasses are bleaghed by the fumes of sulphur. A barrel of sufficlent depth, air tight, is used. Across the open top are placed two sticks, from which hang the grasses to be bleached. The lower cnd of the grasses when hanging must hang at least ten inches from the bottom of the barrel. On the bottom is placed a flat stone and on that a plece of red hot iron or a pan of hot charceal and on either is distributed a quantity of powdered sul- phur. The barrel is covgred with the head &nd over that is placed a plece of old carpet to prevent the fumes from escap- ing. The grasses must remain in the bar- rel about twenty-four hours. 1t was impossible | In all of | | which might lead him into melodrama, to shun “facts that are stranger than fic- | tion,” “’stick to monosyllables,” *‘forswear dialects” and “beware of funny children and as for the | WELCOME TO THE GRAND ARMY. ALIFORNIA cannot expect that her welcome to the Grand Army will surpass in spon- taneity, hospitality or fervor the welcome given in any other State where the Grand En- campment has been held. The love felt for the veterans and the honor in which they are held are the outcome of true Americanism and are found among all classes of our people wherever and whenever the veterans assemble. We may exceed other cities in the splendor of our decorations and in’ the extent and variety of entertainments provided, but the welcome itself will be no more nor less than that which is universal in the Union which their valor preserved from dis- ruption. No other army has ever received the popular honors bestowed upon this and no other army ever so well deserved it. The veterans represent the flower of the heroic age of the republic. ~ Al- ready romance and tradition have begun to infuse that period of our history with the bright colors of poetic imagination, and as the years pass it will become more and more the theme of novelists and poets. The deeds of the veterans-will be enhanced by every charm that literature can add to them, and yet nothing that imagination can devise or art accomplish will ever equal the reality of that stirring time when from all the homes in the land the young men hurried forth at their country’s call to fight the great battles that rid the land of slavery and our politics of the doctrines of secession. What is now felt as an enthusiasm was then felt as-a passionate patriotism that amounted to a relig- ion, and the influences of that passion remain with us to-day and will be made manifest in all the popular greetings with which the Grand Army will be received. / While we do not expect to exceed the hospitality of other States in welcoming the veterans, we shall have the satisfactién of receiving them under fairer conditions than are to be found else- where. They have come to the most generous spot in all this chivalrous land; they will find here more geniality of earth and sky, more naturdl beauty, more abundant prosperity and mere general enjoyment than are to be found among the dwellers on any other part of the globe. Here they will feel none of the sweltering heats that make the dog days of the East well nigh unbearable, nor will “ they have to undergo any of the discomforts that harass large assemblies in Eastern cities during any of the summer months. The exhilaration of the ocean breeze will help us to make our reception thoroughly erjoyable to afll who come, while the profusion of fruits and flowers will go far toward giving our hospitality a charm that can be found nowhere else. It will be worth while for even the busiest of the visitors to give some time during the en- campment to a study of the resources and industries of the State. It is through their valor that Cal- ifornia is a part of a republic extending from ocean to ocean, and however great may be the demands of the encampment upon them, not one of them should return home without having learned much of the wonderful State to whieh they have come. Thanks to the work done by the California Promo- tion Committee ample information is available to all who desire it, and it can bé obtained under con- ditions that make its acquirement not a task, but a pleasure. California’s population is composed in well nigh equal parts of men from every section of the country east of the Mississippi. Men from east and west and north and south have made their homes here and helped in the upbuilding of the State. Our population is therefore more compre- hensively American than that of any other single State; no sectional feelings exist among us; it is as an American people that we welcome the army and extend to the veterans the best that we have of hospitality, love and honor. The wearing away of the strength of the organization, the diminution of its numbers, has now become a familiag thought_in the public mind, and the sentiment of patriotic regard is mingled with that arising from the consciousness that within a few years the veterans wili be no longer strong enough to make journeys across the continent and hold grapd encampments on the Pacific Coast. So it is with a deep and tender feeling of love, as well as of patriotic loyalty, that we welcome them now and offer them all that is ours. PATTEFUL UNTO DEATE. UCH is written about the deterioration of the foundation of the sentiments of life by the progress of the artificial in civilization. But much that is written is wrong. As long as life and death and human affection are in the world the sentiment which counts something better than honors and wealth and society will endure and be among the master motives of men. When all the sleepers in a Pullman were kept awake by a crying child, which its father vainly {Tied to soothe by carrying it in his arms, and a rich man, accustoméd to have his way and long for- getful of the gentler sentiments, angrily asked, “\Where is the mother of that brat and why doesn't she take care of it?” the father answered, “Its mother is dead and her body is in the express car.” Then the surly rich man clothed himself and left his berth, with tears running down his face, and said, “Forgn-e' me, if you can, but let me care for the child and you get some rest.” A moment be- fore he would have scorned the suggestion tha\an_\-thing could have pierced the asbestos of selfish- ness with which years of indifference to others had armored his sentiment. But one touch of nature had shattered it-and the proud man took upon him the service of another. Given the occasion and no wall of formality can resist the simple power of those ineffable sentiments which endure. Not long ago Mrs. John G. Carlisle was driving in her carriage in the crowded streets of New York, when one of her horses was knocked down and fatally injured. The great lady, who had been by the side of her husband when he was Spcaker, Senator and head of the Presulem s Cabinet, left her carriage, and sitting in the street took’ the head of the wounded horse in the lap of her silk dress, cleaned the blood and grime from its eyes and soothed it as best she could. Nature and the softer sentiment that is with the common tie of fate and life, which make us mindful even of the sufferings of the beasts that perish, instead of heing destroyed by civilization or replaced by the artificial and frivolous, are as strong and imperative as ever. Recently a father in New York had flashed to him the message that his young daughter had sought the restorative climate of California too late td cure her illness and that death was near. In a special train he began the long race with death across the continent that he might see his child once more alive. Every track, train and yard man on the railroads he used knew the cause of his rapid Journev and each was at his post Iest time lost in switching or coupling might prevent that last meet- ing of father and child, and as his train flew by the plainest people, gentle and simple, all raised their hats or bowed their heads in respectful salute to that father in whose love for his child all the world . had been forgotten. In Chicago ten days ago the body of a drowned man washed ashore and was recognized by \S&ohce as that of a burglar. His f’nm]y in the East'was wired to know if he should be Buried in field or would they receive his dust. They refused. Then a woman, certified as of good cl\'\racter, came forward, simply saying, “I knew him. I loved him. I did not know he was a burglar. He was good to me. I will bury him.” The stain on his life, the tragedy of his death, counted for naught against nature and sentiment. “He was good to me. T will bury him”; though it carried for her suspicions, unenviable notoriety and a train of consequences from which even men shrink, all was brushed away. Nature had touched the afffuent fountain of human sentiment. The silerit tondue could not thank her. The water-worn body knew not the cerements that clothed it, nor the carth in which it rested. But it had reverent sepulture, and the pleadings of a faithful spirit that the sins agd errors.might be forgiven and the distorted life be tran:formcd where all tears are wiped away. One of the pugilists who recently exhibited in this city—the defeated one, by the way—said before the exhibition that he would give his two arms to win. If he lost both his arms and retained the power of a wagging tongue he would have saved to himself the only essential resource of his trade. ’ ~ A Brooklyn preacher found it upon himself to speak a few days ago, and in all the majesty of simple eloquence declared that American lynchers are murderers. and peculiar light upon a subject which h2s been seriously agitating the /imerican people. % — > The governments of civilized nations are now receiving the «iff and formal reports of the Kishenev massacre, those post-mortem recitals of a horror. Enough red tape has been sufficiently unwound to let the warld know officially of the national crime which shocked civilized society. Meanwhile Russia considers the incident as closed. t - SHSE SNt In the State and Federal courts in this city recently we have had several striking exhibitions of that disease of criminals known as the “convenient memory.” In its prevalcnce and strongly marked characteristics, however, it is workmg its own cure, as most jurors recogmze its meaning in- stantly and translate it into a thinly disguised plea of guilty. \ | ever. This scems to throw a distinct +* YEAR AT ST. LOUIS. ONE OF THE THREE-MILE-AN-HOUR AUTOMOBILE CHAIRS WHICH WILL MAKE EASY WORK OF SEEING THE WORLD'S FAIR NEXT e UTOMOBILE chalrs propelled by electricity will be used at the World's Fair at St. Louls next year. A concession was recently granted by the exposition to a St. Louls company, giving them the right to overate the new style chairs within the World's Fair grouhds. The chair is the invention of Semple S. Scott and is the result of nearly three years' experi- menting and designing. It is sald that the machine has a uni- form speed of three miles an hour, which is exactly the same running up or down a steep grade or on a level. The occu- pant has no control over this speed what- The simplicity of operation is such that anv one can readify run it. The most desirable feature is the fact that the machine is provided with a sensitive guard rall. The latter is deemed the most valuable invention on the machine. If the machine collides with any object or person a pressure of only a few ounces pushes this guard rail back and causes the wheels to become locked, thus bring- ing the chalir to a dead standstill before the machine itself strfl(es the object or person. Each chair will carry two passengers, one of whom may operate the machine, or, if desired, an opgrator will be fur- nished, who will nofonly run the ma- chine but will also serve as a guide to explain all the points of interest. The operator sits on a detachable seat at the rear of the chair, from which point he controls the machine, the controller and steering bar being removed from the front and attached to sockets In the rear. The report for 1902 to the United States Geological Survey on tne production of platinum in 1%z now in press, is in two parts, the first being the report proper. by Dr. Joseoh Struthers, and the second a paper by Professor J. F. Kemp on plat- inum in the Rambler mine, Wyoming. The production of platinum from do- mestic ores in the United States decreased from 1408 ounces, valued at $27,526, in 1901 —the largest output recorded by the Geo- logical Survey since 1880—to 94 ounces, valued at $1S14, the smallest production since 1893. In conmection with the plati- num there were also obtained from the ores 20 fine ounces of iridium; as against 253 ounces in ¥Pl. The domestic supply of platinum in recent years has been ob- tained as a secondary product chiefly from gold placer deposits in Trinity and Shasta countfes, California. It is reported that the metal occurs, though not in commer- claily rich depost in many other gold placers—af California, as well as in Wash- ington, Oregon. Idaho, Montana, Colo- rado and Alaska. The Rambler mine, Wyoming, continues to attragt attention, and during the vear a considerable quan- tity cf tne metal was collected, but not marketed, by the Warasah Minerals Com- pany at Kerby, near Grants Pass, Jose- phine County, Oregon. The Russian sources of platinum sup- ply, which furnish about %0 per cent of the’ total consumption of the world, are comparatively lmited. The platinum bearing ores extend along the eastern watershed of the UraMountains in East- ern Perm and along the watershed far- ther south. The imports of platinum into the United States during 1902 were v ued at $1,987,98, as compared with § 895 in 1901 Professor Kemp's paper contgins a brief description of the situation, topography and geology of the Rambler.mine, which is in Albany County, Wyoming, about forty-five miles southwest of Laramie near the headwaters of Douglas Creek in the Medicine Bow Mountains: a de scription of the Rambler dike and an count of the ore body itself. Great in- | terest was excited lata in 191 and early in 1%2 by the finding of the platinum group of metals in the copper ore of the mine and by the separation from the ore of sperrylite dlarsenide of platinum The metal has not yet been extracted on the commercial scale. A German inventor has designed a foot cycle of improved construction, in which | the springs for raising the foot usually found in such devices are avolded. The support s thus- steady and solid, even when the person is at rest. The driving wheel is located under the center of pres- sure of the wearer's foot, and this en- ables the person to move in smaller cir- cles than with the usual construction. The details of this cycle may be readily understood from the illustration. Two spring pawls are secured to an ex- tension from the footplate, and are adapt. ed when pressed downward to engage pro- jections formed on an .endless chain, but to slide by the same when drawn upward. The chain is thus driven forward posi- tively at every downward stroke of the foot, and its motion is communicated through Intermediate gearing to the driv- ing wheel. A brake is situated on the forward end of the device, which may be operated by downward pressure at the toe to frictionally engage the driving ‘wheel. A CHANCE. TO SMILE. Tess—Some men are awfully slow, aren't they? Jess—Yes, and they're go aggravating. ‘There was one sat alongside of me com- ing down In tRe car this morning. Tess—You rn’t trying to fiirt with him? Jess—Gracious! no; but he was reading a novel, and he was mever ready to turn the page when I was.—Philadeiphia Press. ’ “‘Oh, I saw you in church last Sunday.” said Mrs. Oldcastle. “How do you Iliks | our new edifice?” “I think it's just grand,” replied Mrs. Packinham, “but Josiah didn't seem to think its acrostics were good. He couldn’t hardly hear what the preacher said half the time.”—New York Herald. [ Srbintuihs s ot Townsends California xh:o fruits and candles, 80c & pound, artistle fire- iched Dense A Ao p‘rmt for Eastern friends, 715 Market st.. above Call bldg. * —_—————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 230 C:n. fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ADVERTISEMENTS. GOOD NEW UPRIGHT PIANO FOR $147. ND WE HAVE 50 OF THEM AS GOOD AS ANY YOU CAN BUY FOR $325 ELSB- where, fully guaranteed for ten years, with privilege of exchanging at any time within one year for a Gabler, Krell, Steger, exchange for. These planos were States from Koing into the. Sherifr's last while this lot of plancs lax Among our bargains are. T Chickering, and §213; 3 Heine, $235 to $395; Comver" 1 Mason ‘& Hamlih, Wal., new, ats used, $165: 3 piano players, slightly 512 up; 25 1 Krell, used, $90 s allowed on_ purchase: S2E%we wii Dold any plend for nepscion” 7 ou an, H BIANG Con Lh--xufla: fact inry Ym:al from ts for '&m;‘l: a great opportgnity tu--r-.lh.run. Call and / Heine Hall, 235- Geary and MA" extllll:v!whhno establishment M-Zh. otice.—Nex —Som of the planos ‘wreck Southern Pacific "I 2 saia Helne or any other of our agencies you may wish to vought td help keep one of the largest manufacturers in the United account of over produce, and these prices will $185; l ‘Emerson, "&2 to_$165; 2 Stflum $185. al., new, $285; new, $295. (Small size, Mahg., new. $295; to §205; 3 Mason & Hamiin ors mn'fz'u‘h"y squares from slo up and 100 others. We have many -eco’:\:: |n-u.um¢nulr up; pl-'nnnhymhwnm Cash can’t come in ring up Main 5744 st. On the square. Largest wholesale "lnit"-lflm