The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1904, Page 13

v THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. — and in to eivilized human energ have Lnenced ed with an old T r, and ree iron wi ™ masts and spars complished is at the se G- vernment, esting. In 1866, re- six under the mander— d to mat- English tudious, [ 1 gift of ac- Q rs pon their arrival, nd the Japamese [’ knowledge of gs t Several self-called s i, despite this fact, t selves the title of i g had never been 4 ge—the “Skeegee College”— 4 s and cadets, was founded at thirty and forty seniors, ranging from z 4 ze, were enrolled. e guage afforded no - . 2 € arranged 1T st The classes £ daily in the s0 great an . at the embryo g e out of hours in s s for the discus- . 4 glis subjects outside the Japanese were much s on their shores of insure the rs the “Skeegee secret a guard it it was not until Ber that they y went ¢ llowed by us ace- and a more gen- Its refined air and e on might well be ated in capitals of Though Em- n or Russia: se really opens singe the Neva, six s a ceremonial of ance and social demon- e improvised pavilion ment of the river appear 1t ropolitan with the hier- the splen- 1 plum Chevalier Guards at rest, tens of thou- sands of respectful spectators just be- vond the lines. and all the court look- ing from the windows of the Winter Palace. 1 have the Czar standing for twenty minut: with bared head in a temperature of zero while, vhere the thick ice had been cut away for the purpose, the blessing of the waters in token of baptism proceeded.—Satr- day Evenmg Post. Glass Cure P - AR S =Y A crusade against consumption is be- ing carried on with greater impetus than ever the world over. Fresh air is the chief feature of the treatment of the disease. In London, where it is a long way to the fresh air of the mount- ains, some of the hospitals have estab- lished “‘consumption houses” where they manufacture pure air for the spe- cial treatment of consumption The rooms for the patients are made of glass and wood, six feet six inches long, and four feet wide and six feet high, stand nine inches from the floor blocks. Here the patient spends two- thirds of his time breathing the dry, pu refled air pumped in from the ., ¥ out The is first filtered thro of cotton to remove the p. dust and soot and it is then dried b being passed through perforated trays ith chl de of calcium he air is ozonized by means of an Andriolis tube which is called into action eve five minutes by an automatic cloc The ventilating shaft leading from the outside is equipped with an ex- haust fan which drives out air slightly the partially of the se of the difficu damn air outsids reathing the ti The AV cubicles of 1 been used W berculos: eves that ution of curing the sorers of London #r cities.—New Yor »r minutes the moose had be pleasantly occupied, when sudde ot re apprehension stirred in brain. He stopped feeding, lifted. his head and stood motionless. Only big ears moved, turning their wary interrogations toward every noint of the compass, and his big nostrils sus- piciously tested every current of air. Neither nose nor ear, the most alert Ancient Indla Observatory s photographic he observatory at Jey- dia, appears in the Popu- nomy, having been fur- s Etta Moulton, a rieton College, Minn., in India. Facts re- bservatory, as obtained are given in the fol- Astr Jeypore was bullt 1 astronomer, Jey Jey Sing was chosen by Mahammad Shah to reform the calendar. From his astronomical observations tables were constructed which were more cor- rect than those of De la Hire. One instrument in the picture is the mural quadrant. It is a wall 11 feet high and 9 feet 1% inches broad, in the piane of the meridian. By this means are ascertained the sun's altitude and zenith distance and its greatest decli- nation and the latitude of the place. There are two large circles—one o under cover. The in- allowed to get d many of them q it being impos- o ven to guess what purpose they e wonderfully accurate ob- d calculations of their in- dials, gnomons, quadrants, remain of great interest to been uildings were erected by Jey Rajah of Jeypore, in 1127 A. H., o A. D. He was an engineer, athe tician and an astronomer. He structed on his own plan conserva- tories at Jeypore, Benares, Ujjain, Tielhi and Muttra, stone and the other of cement—and a stone square, used perhaps for ascer- taining the shadow of the gnomon and the measurement of the azimuth. Next the Yantracament will be seen, the wall of which is 38 feet jong and 4% feet broad, and is set in the lene of the meridian. One end is 6 feet 4% inches high and the other 22 feet 3} inches in high, and it slopes gradually up, so as to puint to the north poles. There are also a double mural quadrant, an equa- torial circle of stome, a chakroyantra, between two walls (used in finding the declination of a planet or star), and a digansayantra, to find the azimuth of & planet or star. of his sentinels, gave any report of danger, ing unusual, Among the wild kindreds, man can judge, there are occ tuitions that’ seem to work be; scope of the senses. It is not ordin- arily o, else would all hunting, on the part of man or of the hunting beasts, be idle. But once in a while, as if by some unwilling telepathic. communica- tion from hunter to hunted, or élse by an obscure and only half delivered mes- sage from’the powers that preside over the wild kindreds,"a warning of peril is conveved to a pasturing creature while yet the peril is far off and un- revealed. The great moose found his appetite all gone. He backed off the sapling and let its top spring up again He looked about, saw noth- and fell again to feeding. as far as Kirkland, a Canadian colller, who dreamed he saw the cage of coal fall to the bottom of the shaft, and saw the men in it thrown out and killed. He described his dream to his wife and she persuaded Him to remain at home that day. Within an hour after work had started the cage crashed down the shaft, killing all its occupants in the exact manner he had dreamed. Tourists’ Woes l B Uncle Sam, to make things as easy as can be for the departing tourist, hands him on the eve of his departure a neat little envelope, bearing the official seal of the United States. It is labeled, “¥mportant Communication. Read Carefully.” The passenger list of each departing line is required to be furnished the Collector of the Port on the day of sailing. The circulars, compiled from this list, are handed to each passenger. They efplain the rules as to collection of duty on baggage and tell just what is dutiable and what assessable, All persons on their arrival in the United States are required to make a declira- tion under oath of all dutiable articles obtained by them abroad. This dec- “lJaration is verified on the pler by ex- amination on the part of inspectors. Passengers are warned to answer all free of duty, if used abroad for not less than a year. The law expressly forbids the impor- tation into the United States of gar- ments made in whole or in part of the skins of prohibited fur seals, and unless the owner is able to establish by com- petent evidence that the garment was purchased prior to December 29, 1897, or that the animal from which the skin was taken was captured elsewhere than in prohibited waters, entry vill not be allowed. ‘ourists who desire to take sealskin garments abroad should have them registered with the Collector before leaving. e l Czar’s ‘Palace S PR MR e e L The public structures of St. Peters- burg are diversified—some of them im- pressive and some of them suggesting an earlier and eruder period. The Win- ter Palace, taken altogether, is the finest in Europe. There are two or three great halls, like the throne room and St. Andrew’s hall, in the Kremlin at Moscow, which are unequaled, and the bewildering riches of jewels and robes, arms and carriages, in the treas- ury of the old capital, the lavish gifts of Tartar and Oriental Princes, are un- matched. But in its completeness the Winter Palace is unrivaled. Its spa- clous proportions have at times housed many thousands, and its ample walls are covered with paintings portraying the history of the empire and with the gold plate on which many municipali- ties have conveved bread lnd salt to various monarchs. The Hermitage, which ll a modern edifice of stately staircases and grand corridors, follows closely after the chief galleries of art in Europe. It is natur- ally strong in examples of Russian art, and most of the schools are well repre- sented. It has the finest collection of Murillos outside of Spain and of Rem- brandts outside of Holland. The cathe- dral of St. Isaac, with its malachite ¥+ WOMAN'S WONDERFUL LEAP ## | E who live in the land of perpetual_sunshine can have but little concention of the exciting sports of those who live in a land of almost per- petual ice and snow, though during the past winter it has been the fash- ion among both h and American men and women of wealth and deisurg to vigit the Engad alth resorts Switzerland we- ine h witness if petition indulged in there. One of the most popular courses was the famous “battledoor and shut- tlecock,” a long, winding, exception- ally steep course, with abrupt turns and a chasm at the end over which both the toboggan and its rider leaped like a stone from a catapult. It re- ed rare courage and a steady o avoid a bad soill on the way ‘nd a stout heart and good rlok to make the lean at the end, sailing through the air for that great distance before landing againin a great snow bank. And yet it is said that the women tourists, particularly the American, became almost as daring and skillful as the men. The accompanying pho- tograph of a fair tobogganist snap- shotted while in midair gives some faint idea of the excitement and dan- ger of the sport as well as of the terrifia velocity with which she made : nok which, in the case of a daring Ameri- the long leap at the end of the tually take part in the coasting €om- can, was sixty feet. Just think of course. — 4 - 3 toward the empty ,blue. He looked questions frankly in order to avoid sus- and lapis-lazuli, its wonderful figured back nervously o his trail, sniffed picion, bronze doors, its colossal monolithic the air, waved his inquiringly. The original receipts for goods columns of Finnish granite, surmount- The more he found not g to warrant bought abroad should be saved as far ed by the golden dome which gleams his uneasiness the more his uneasinegs as possible. Bach person is entitled to Jike the sun over the city and sur- grew. It was as If death, following far bring in fifty cigars or three hundred roundings, is eyceedingly impressive in off but relentlessly, had sent a grim menace zalong the windings of the trail. Something like a panic came into the dilating eyes of the big bull. He turned toward the fir forest, at a walk which presently broke into a shambling, rapid trot; and presently he disappeared among tke somber and shadowy col- onnades.—Metropolitan Magazine. o True Dreams | 58 % Here is a case for the psychologists, An English woman's dream has led to the recovery by Cardiff chief constable of the hody of a man missing since last December. The case had puzzled de- tectives and they were willing to take up with any clew even though it hung on so frail a thread as a dream. They remembered the recorded case of Wheeler, who last summer dreamed that he saw a man drowning at the Crystal Palace. So-impressed was he chat in the morning wh.:> talking the matter over with his wife he made a rough sketch of the scene he had pic- tured. While at breakfast he was summoned to the palace to drag the lake for the body of a man who had fallen in and been drowned. He brought his sketch and the body was found In the exact spot designated. A dream saved the life of Mathew —_— DIVINE CHILD WITH THE ST. JOSEPH LILIES ‘Watch for the Beautiful Colored Art Photo- graphic Supplement —A Genuine Ton- nessen — free — with the Next Sunday Call Easter Edi- tion. cigarettes for his own use. All cigars and cigarettes in excess of this num- ber and less than 3000 are liable to seiz- ure. Failure to declare articles will render them lable to confiscation and the tourist to criminal prosecution. In case passcngers are dissatisfled with the values-placed upon dutiable goods, they may demand a re-examination. Government officials are forbidden by law to accept anything but currency in payment of duties. It is unlawful for customs officers to receive any tip or gratuity, and to offer the same is a violation of law. A returning citizen is entitled to bring with him, free of duty, all the personal effects taken abroad with him, and in addition arti- cles purchaged abroad not exceeding in value $100. Such articles must be for the use of the person bringing them in, and not for sale. To prevent the use of this privilege as a cloak for smuggling, customs officials are instructed to in- quire in regard to the actual ownership of the goods. Either the presence of an unusual amount of any class of highly dutiable merchandise, or fre- quent and hasty journeys, is sufficient to raise the presumption of bad faith, Such cases will be subject to most careful scrutiny and prosecution. Household effects may be brought in %- |__The Fighters | This machine, which has just been built for experimental purposes for the British army, is fully armored and comes to a point at each end. It is armed with rapid-fire guns and can joaxry 8 dozen men. A its simple grandeur. Its striking equestrian statue of Peter the Great rearing over the serpent on the rough bowlder, the more ornate and less ef- fective pededtal of Nicholas, the ma- Jestic Alexander shaft facing the Win- ter Palace on the one hand and the buildings of the general staff on the other, all add to the picturesque fea- tures of the capital.—Saturday Evening Post. — Speed of Storks No living thing, not even a scared jackrabbit, can travel with the speed displayed by such birds as the stork and the northern bluethroat, says the New York Sun. Not only do these birds fly with a speed that can hardly be concelved, but they keep up their rapid flight for one or two thousand miles at a stretch without apparently tiring. Evidence has been collected recently which shows that the bluethroat files from Central Africa to the shores of the North Sea, a distance of 1600 miles, in less than a day and a night, and making i, moreover, in one uninter- rupted flight. The storks, which spend their Sum- mers In Austria-Hungary and their winters in India and Central Africa, are also marvelous travelers, and make — “AN EASTER OFFERING.” A Beautiful Colored Art Photograph by Tonnes- sen—One of His Best Creations—Will Be given — free — with the Next HAT are the princi- pal products of the United States? Historical novels and health foods. What other neces- sities of life - are raised? Kentucky rye and Scotch high balls. ‘Where is the Corn Belt located? It extends from the Chicago Ex- change to Trinity Church in Wall street. Does the climate vary much in differ- ent parts of the Union? Yes. ‘What is'the mean temperature? ‘Where Uncle Russell Sage happens to be. ‘What is considered to be the hottest region in the country? Zion City. And the coldest? John D. Rockefeller's safe deposit vault. What common product is raised in the same proportions all over thé country? Bables. Are there any exceptions to this? Yes. Newport and South Dakota. What are these babies used for? In the South, to run the factories. In the North, to furnish new educa- tional systems. What are the principal industries of the inhabitants of the United States? They grow trusts, buy stocks on mar- gin, and manufacture South American revolutions. How is the trust crop grown? By magnates and the commion people. What is a magnate? Almost any dishonest man who has money enough to keep out of jail. And when the common people have sathered the trust crop, how are they paid? In common stock. Does this yield anything? Oh, yes. When squeezed, it ylelds water enough to make good ecireus lemonade. What are the principal trades of the United States? Operating for appendicitis, writing advertisement poetry, and going out on strike. According to the last census, was the total population? About seventy millions. And how are these divided? Into thirty-four million females and the rest Presidential candidates. What is the colc ? It is an imaginary line drawn from the Tuscaloosa Institute to the White House dining-room.—Life what - il s -5 thelr journeys twice a year in un- nice; she s so witty and good- broken flight each time. humored, and she enjoys life so thor- Erom Budapest, in Hungary, to La- oughly. In short, had I to decide, like hore, in India, is about 2400 miles in an Paris, between the rival ¢ ms of a air line, and the storks make the jour- bevy of modern beauties, I think an ney in twenty-four hours, thus travel- ing at the rate of 100 miles an hour for the whole distance. The storks which spend the summer in Central Europe and the winter in Central Af- rica travel with the same rapidity. Slatin Pasha, an Austrian in the ser- vice of the Khedive, and now Governor of the Central African Province of Darfur, was for many years a captive in the hands of the Mahdi and the Khalifa when the dervishes killed Gor- don and established their empire, now overthrown, in the Soudan. One day, at Omdurman, he saw a stork with a metal band attached to one of its legs. He caught the bird, and found en- graved upon the band the name of an old friend in Austria. He wrote a note to his friends and tied it to the metal band. When the stork returned to Austria for the sum- mer the friend saw the letter, cayght the stork and read the message, which was the first certain assurance that the outside world received that Slatin was still alive. ' This stork, as was proved by the dates, made the journey from Omdur- man to the Austrian country place, a distance of nearly 3000 miles, at a speed of more than 100 miles an hour. American Girls — ettt The prevailing tendency seems to be to eulogize this young lsdy with a fervor calculated to create jealousy among her British sisters. At any rate, my own feeling is that the American girl deserves all she gets. T have a good deal of her not only in Eng‘end, but on the Continent. She varies, like the offspring of all nationalities, and it may te said of her, as of the little girl in the nursery rhyme, that “when she is bad she is horrid.” But at her best she seems to me to eclipse the damsels of all other nations. I don't quite know how she does it, and, not being a poet, I could not describe the process if I did. It is not that she is exceptionally beautiful. But she has such an irresistible way with her; she is such an adept in the art of looking American girl would probably take the apple. Consequently I rather envy the British peers—whether or not person- ally repulsive—who are able not only to find American brides, but handsome dowries thrown in.—Henry Labouchere in London Truth. [ Horses in Vogue The demand for saddle-hor reached a point little dreamed of i East and South. Kentucky is endeav- oring to supply this demand. The automobile is taking a back seat in the race and the bicycle is too dead to be mentioned in the same breath with the saddle-horse Good horses for the saddle are bring- ing from $300 to $3000 in the East and nearly as much in Kentuck ot course, the top flgure named generally paid, but it is surprising the number of millionair who want horses for saddle purposes and willing- ly offer that amount. Good horses are hardly to be had at all, to say nothing of the number that could be sold Prices range 25 per cent higher than obtained one r ago and the verdict of the leisure class has been rendered. It is that nothing can compare with the pleasure to be derived from a blooded saddle-horse for recreation. Old Cigar MaKer - L C As the people of Urbana daily meet and pass Edward Hunt on the streets of that city as he goes to and from his work at a cigar factory, few know that he is the oldest cigar-maker in the United States. He has sat at tho bench fifty-four years. He Is. now past 70 years and has worked at the trade since he was 16. He has turned out over 1,350,000 cigars in one factory in Uubana In his twenty-three years connection. He was apprenticed to a cigar-maker in Trenton, N. J. and still has the indenture, a curious document on parchment, naming his wages as $25 per annum and his board. -+ f Giant War Automobiles ’ MERICA, England, France, Ger- many, Italy and Russfa, the last five particularly. have been making recent and extensive tests with automobiles for war pur- poses, with interesting results. Germany, for instance, has developed one of the automobile wonders of the age. It is a hundred horsepower ma- chine, the immensity and strength of which may be guessed, even by the layman, when it is realized that the usual pleasure motor vehicle only averages from ten to twenty horse- power. During recent French maneuvers au- tomobiles bave been extensively used, which has agreed to allow the members 7 50 per day when on service. In time of war they will be expected to placs themselves and their cars, fully equipped. for home duty as couriers patrols, etc. Rudyard Kipling and a number of other notables are included in the corps. Russia renewed its experiments at its last army maneuvers With the Bel- gian express motor of six horsepower, using benzine as fuel, and having an average speed of thirteen miles per hour. The roads were very bad the ground unfavorable, the chauffeur being often obliged to take to uncul- tivated flelds. Notwithstanding these conditions, which caused twenty-eight breakdowns, the machine covered abcut / eupecially for courier, searchlight and freight service. Staff officers collecting reports have traveled 100 miles in a day. In another instance an auto train transported ten toms of forage fifty miles in a single day, saving two days’ time over similar work by thirty-six horses. In time of war the mllitary authorities look to requisitioning au- tomobfiles, and an officer of rank says: “The state has the greatest interest in the rational development of mechan- fcal traction on ordinary roads, and should devige means to persuade manu- facturers to build, and citizens to pos- sess, vehicles not only suitable for commercial needs, but also able to ren- der good military service.” uommmholth.lduhthe‘u— tomobile Volunteer Corps, organized in 1802 in Great Britain. It has received the sanction of the British War Offjce, six hundred and forty miles days. The fortunate condition of the United States as regards draft animals ren- ders automobilism a matter that can be safely deferred as a standard equip- ment until commercigl needs have de- veloped automobiles simpler in form, more reliable in action, and more econ- omical in use than they are at present. Nevertheless, there should be timely provision along the lines followed by the German army, for it should be re- membered that military transportation is done by the wholesale in Germany. In the 1901 maneuvers there were mov. ed over one railroad in two days with- out materially interfering With the reg- ular passenger traffic, 56,000 men, 5200 horses, 228 wagons and 590 tons of bag- gage. Much of this will be done by lm-oblkl hereafter. 4 in ten