The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 1, 1904, Page 14

f . : ' The Real Crusoe’| sAventures of -Selkirk ... aiffer sil frai’ the stors’ of Crusos i Arnold. Cqlfins, In . St The el Crueoe, ak we' may wak not. sHipwreckad, .biit voluntarily.. “He:was.a and: farided” irenr. an Eng- nque Portg, n Iirtle pefy. 0dd tons Hurdén, cighteen. gums, comrmanded- . Willlam .- Dasmpier, 1704 re the it Pareil,” - by Hackworth, -and D “Novelty,” .by Braithwaite and Bricss r io e on, respectfvely—participated in- the frials that were carried -out in 1830 As SO piariel may ave . be hie'the do- - 18 well known, Stephenson’s -“Roeket’™ it o himself. secured the award of $2500. which was Selkirk ldnd for being the most suitable-en- ned a speed. of twenty-nine yur.* The “Sans Pareil” was with a’s of lwenty-three per hou pvelty™ uf’ months, 'wk the “or * Se y that Wwithdrew fiom the trial owing to the famous Jjoints of the boiler giving way when thie tocomotive had traveled only three e to take pos- T Both the’ “Roe and the Sess gdom he ‘c “Sans Pareil” arée now served * in is the Crusoé the South Kensington Museum, but the X boat from the Clinque ‘“‘Novelty” mysteriously disappeared . to the beach with and was never found again until quite s ches ager . pos- -Tecen It appears that Ericsson was 5 so mortified by the failure of his- cori- s Selkirk ception that he left it with his friend X e is -act begged- Mr. Melling, who possessed enginee his & be taken 1. ck to the ing work located upon a snace ad- : v retuining joining- thé Rainhill Gas and Water 50 t he N oe Company. The “Novelty” was thus lost self -a¥ sight. of, but it has now beeén recog- nized” working as a stationary engine, the wheels having been remodeled for = this- purpose and its identity thus K.« semewhat disguised.. Attempts are to H be made to secure -t third" premier . nd to place it ‘alongside of its two contemporaries in the South ston Museum.—From the Scien- American. Portable Phone disappeared he sean n's chest ng in or ‘many. s . that would be [ 1 . nott h invention that is. portablé telephone. latest Sw g discussed is Tk tack In his own . The specimene that have -been sent words when-I.could &broad haveé elicited unstinted:- pr: 3 long time m trian, Russian,”. Greek and rrkizh experts ‘who have tested them, le large demands and ‘inquiries rits that ‘he His & the i of ‘meals. and - fOF -thé hew. phone e eome- from arse f60d picked up -along “the - ¥France, 'Germany, Italy, Spain, Portu- eact gal d-the ‘United States, th from Britain.have been: even more . . 4 : = Within _thé ¢ilinder of the telephone l Ancient Englne |7+ 1572 émall’dry cell, the whole apparatus : B - (including both*receiver and mouth- * =g : ¥ Disce)-being. small -énough to go in the . ¥eéminis- - pocket. With each instrument is a coil e steam: - of.‘thin copper wire, and it.is reckoned ‘that-a soldler could easily carry 13, \)0’) feet of this wire with him. . covered in - the Liverpool.and spany, the. . The uses suggestéd for the portalile constructed, it wili<-tiiephine “are innumerable, ~military inaugurated -a. coma- - considerations being kept specjally to s -the" front; " Outposts, it is declated, could. by jts aid keep’'in constant com- atter: part of .the tury- for: a.locomiotive; wh on_and other-invent: : manication with the main force, and it ors pa ed. ” Threg -engines—the. is pointéd out that it would furnish a Rocket by Stephensoa; the. *Sans’ vaiuable ‘means of -keeping in’ touch = 2K mfi (@) - S R H<N 0 =) Q - %‘ 25k P - . B8 [¢] -8 - ] - ¥ Prince Pu Lum; the exalted Chinése aristocrat who is now visiting . America, could look upon this picture he would doubtless recognize this costume and the significance of the disguise at a glance. . It is a re- markable garment, and before it was appropriated among other, things by the soldiers of the allied powers during the last Boxer uprising it was one of the most carefully guarded and valued treasures in the “Forbidden City,” that wonderfully mysterious royal residence wher- Prince Lun has spent all his life until his present trip to San Francigco, Washington and 8t. Louis, which is the farthest he has ever been from home. This beauti- ful robe is of cloth of gold, very heavy, very rich and resplendent and of fabulous worth. It was not being worn by.an Oriental potentate when this picture was made, which is the reason you do not see the face. No Chinese wowid dare don such a garment and let his identity be known. It is tco sacred, even after having been ‘captured as the spoils of war. However, it has been returned to the “Forbidden City” by the flaf of the powers, ‘Buren, 8 1 with headquafters for police’ and fire brigades. - For. use. between railway. coaches Gni a moving train, for en- gineers at work underground -or on great public works, for steamers, - for cyclisisand in many other fields it .would be most desirable. — New York Cn\mmert ial. : 1 { New Ice Machine-| | * : ) In a recent report Harold 'S. Van United States Consul at Nice, Fr;uwe says that a new ice:making - produce tissue, - the body. 'Effects of Alcohol - 3 Alcohol contaitns no nitrogen. It therefors can hever and, does never Its food value de- pends exclusively on its production of energy, and the first indisputable fact is that alcohol can be burned within It may, therefore, be a food, and in fevers it is probably the most valuable food that can be given to a patient, for in fever one cannot digest and alcohol needs no digestion. It is; so to speak, a predigested food and passes unchanged to the tissues, there at on e to be utilized. What are the facts ‘n health? It has been experimentally proved, not once but. often, not in one country or continent, but in physiological labo- ratories all ‘over the world, that in health only about one and a half ounces of absoiute alcohol can be burned within the body each day, this only obtaining when the: substance is - taken in sufficient dilution and at suf- ficiently numerous ‘intervais. half an ounce, well diluted, "~ confirm.—London - Mail. “Approx- imately three ounces of whisky or brandy taken in four-hourly doses of is all that the n\erage man 6f normal terpera-’ which the cold.. clqck “entirely fails to Tl Lt L [ - 'L'i.q_uid Fuel - ] The voyage of the oil-burning Amer- fcan steamship Nebraskan from . San ‘Diego,.Cal., to New York is remarkable’ for' the continuous distance steamed and " for the good average speed and the great economy in fuel consump- tion and .in the fixed charges of han- dling the hoiler power:. In a little more than fifty-one days the vessel covered tiearly thitteen thousand miles and made only one port of call, and this was not for.the purpose of renewing her fuel ssupply. Three stokers- per- formed all the duties that in similar ships using coal require not less than twelve men, -and it is tlaimed and seems probable that the fuel éxpended * was one-half that demanded by coal- burning ships of like tonnage engaged in a passage of equal length. . This success must increase the in- terest already aroused in the subject of liquid fuel and spur maritime gov- ernments to renewed experiments. Our Navy Department has takén up the question with much energy and it is regretted that the pressure for officers’ has compelied a temporary cessation of inquiries which, it is reported, are unequaled in extent.and character. A number of foreign mercantile compa- nies have. installed’ the system with success and the Russian Government has been narticularly keen in testmg - its possibilities. Excluding vessels in the Black Sea. a numbper of Russian warships in the Far-East are fitted to use oil fuel-—such as the battleships Pobieda and Peres- viet and the cruiser Pallada, at Port Arthur, and the armored ¢ruisers Gro- mobof and Rossiya of the Vladlvoatuk e : SACRED EDOLS FROM Tha, TARTARS ) HEN the fierce Tartars of the north swooped down upon China ages and ages ago to conquer and hold it in subjection ever their prayers. since they brought with them curiously wrought idols to whem they made These shown in the photograph were found in the imverial city of the cruel Empress Dowager of China and are said by those who ought to know to have been heirlooms of that ancient dynasty, and for that reason of priceless value and sacred usage. Just what gods they repregent it wculd be hard for even.a Chinese scholar to state with any degree of accuracy, but that they are considered potential -and honorable may be gathered frome the tremendous furor that was created by their disappearance from the “Forbidden City” after the combined assault of the allied powers during the Boxer troubles, and which resulted in an international court that-caused much of the soldiers’ loot to be returned post haste, these idvls -among them, where they will doubtless repose for many emore centuries to come. machine, constructed entirely of metal, consisting of two parts which are very simple and compact, has been intro- duced there. Ome of the -parts is hermetically closed, .containihg the mechanism, and the other is the ice producer. He states that the device can be made of any dimensions de- sired. The smallest size made in Nice is 12x20 inches. This size can pro- duce two kilograms (4.4 pounds) per hour and can be either worked by a motor of one-eighth horsepower or by hand. The ice is produced in blocks, the first’ block being produced in a very short time after the operation is commencéd. The chief feature of the machine is that the ice is produced without the aid of ingredients or prep- aratives of any kind. Whatever is nec- essary for its production is supplied during :its manufacture., The cost in Nh.e of. manufacturing the small size before mentioned is about $20, but this is just about three times the amount they could be manufactured for in this country. This system of making ice has been compared with a number of other well-known similar apparatus and experts are said to have unanimously declared this one to ex- cel with insaperable advantages.— Philadelphia Record. - ture can utilize. 3 How does it come about that so many of us take alcobol to keep out the cold? Simply because the nerves “of our sense of temperature end in the skin, Be our skin weil supplied with waim blood we say we are warm, and vice versa. = Furthermore, we normally lose heat and keep our temperature at the proper’ level by radiation from the skin. Any drug that dilates the blood vessels of the skin will, therefore, tend to make us feel warmer and be colder. Infinitely more important than all these considerattons. is the action of alcohol on the nervous system. I have no business_at this moment with the records of insanity or crime, but it is worth while té dispel another popular fallacy as fo the influence of alcohol on the mental processes. Numberless tests have been carried out with such processes as adding up a column of figutes, writing an ac- count of a simple. occurrence, discrim- inating between colors, and so forth. And the singular ° result, well estab- lished and confirmed, is that alcohol delays the rapidity and impairs the accuracy of these processes while pro- ducing the most convincing: illusion of ease and rapidity. The calculator has a subjective impression of facility division. In some instances oil is used normally, but as a rule it is considered an auxiliary to the coal, and-the sys- tem of burners and of supply is such as to afford safety in handling and a. quick substitution of either fuel. o Odd Surgeiy P Experiments have recently been made at the London Hospital with new splints which enable a person with -a broken leg or thigh to go_ about his business within a few days .of his acci- . derit, says the London Hospital Ga- zette. The invention hails from the Continent, where it has been in use for some years. ture is fastened a hardened leather case, which fits the leg closely everywhere and prevents any movement of the ~ fractured bones. -The weight of the body is then carried by jointed steel rods attached to another case fastened above or below the knee, according to the place of the fracture. . With this appliance the patient is enabled to walk before the broken bone is joined and there is none of that after trouble with stiff joints which comes when a limb_has been held rigidly for weeks. A = - . ITH klingle, klangle, klin- gle, Way down the dusty dingle, The cows are coming home; Now sweet and clear, and faint -and low, The airy twinklings come and go, Like ‘ chimings from -some far-off tower, Or pattering of an April shower That’ makes the daisies grow; Ko-ling, ko-ling, kolinglelingle, Way down the darkening dingle, The cows come slowly home; 2 (And- old-time friends, and twilight plays, And starry nights and sunny days, Come trooping up the misty ways, ‘When the cows come home.) ‘With jingle, jangle, jingle, Soft tones that sweetly mingle, The cowe are coming home; Malvine, and Pearl, and Florimel, De Kamp, Redrose and Gretchen Schell, Queen Bess and Sylph, and spangled Sue, Across the flelds I hear her “l00-00,” And clang het silver bell; Go-ling, go-lang, golinglelingle, ‘With faint, far sounds that mingle, The cows come slowly home; (And mother songs’ of long-gone years, And baby joys and childish fears, And youthful hopes and youthful tears, ‘When the cows come home.) When the Cows Come Home By Agnes E. Mitchell. (This famous poem, which is a favorite of “Uncle” George Brom- ley and which he recites with such charming effect, has created so much talk since the occasion of his last birthday banquet at the Bohemian Club that the Sunday Call takes pleasure in reprinting it entire.) TR i R R AR T T ‘With ringle, rangle, ringle, By twos and threes and single, The cows are coming home; Through violet air we see the town, And the summer sun a slipping down, And the maple in the hazel glade Throws down the path a longer shade, And the hills are growing brown. To-ring, to-rang; taringleringle, By threes and fours and single, The cows come slowly home; (The same sweet sound of ~wordless - psalm, The same sweet June day. rest lnd a.lm, The same sweet scent of bud -and Mlm, 5 — ‘When the cows come home.) ‘With ‘tinkle, tankle, tinkle, Through fern and periwinkle, The cows are coming home; A loitering in the checkered stream ‘Where the sun-rays glance and gleam, Clarine, Peachbloom and Pheebe Phil- lis, 2 Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies; In a drowsy dream, To-link, to-lank, tolinklelinkle, O'er banks with buttercups The cows come slowly home; . (And up through memory’s dim ravine Come the brook’s old song and its old- time sheen, . And the crescent of the silver queen, ‘When the cows come home). ‘With klingle, klangle, klingle, ‘With 100-00 and moo-00 and jingle, The cows are coming home; And over there on Merlin Hill Hear the plaintive cry of the whip~ poor-will, And the dew-drops lie on the tangled vines, And over the poplars Venus shines, And over the silent mill; Ko-ling, ko-lang, kolinglelingle, | ‘With a ting-a-ling and jingle, The cows come slowly home; (Let down the bars; let in the train Of long-gone songs, and flowers and rain, For dear old times come back again, _ ‘ When the cows come home). _Cuban ba 3 will shortly come under the considera-. .tion of the Edinburgh Court of Sessior * of the second child, & . to his A given him a bad time during-his life, - -form-of inquiry into the p: . .signed. * furnishing fresh proofs of the -ries us back to 5000 B. C. — The principle of the ~ splint is that round the seat of the frac- * is to first take a cast in plaster of the. broken 1imb. from the plaster casing. to make a model of the leg, and upon”’ this to build up, in leather, strength-. ened with steel bands, a cdse which exactly fits the limb. Along each side are clamped strong and adjustable steel supports, which carry the weight of the body from the leather casing to the ground. Around the ankle and foot are placed a-steel sole- pitce and anklets, which recetve ‘the other end .of the jointed support. Thus a man. who has- had the mis- fortune to break his l°g may in a few days be -out and about his business, since tite apnliance is concealed by hi clothing. The only indications -that anything was wrong would be stiffness in walking and the necessity-of using a stick. % Eccentric Wills ' — many will-makers * There have been more e ntric than Mr. ket whosa last testament instructions in'_his will that gigantic statues of himsell, his brothers gnd sisters, a round dozen in all, should be placed on the summit of a great tower he had commenced to build on Battety Hill, near Ohan—- each statue to cost not less than £1000. Mr. MacCaig left A much more whimsical testator was a Mr. Sanborn, who left £1000 to Professor Agassiz to have his skin converted into f{wo drumheads and two of his bones into drumsticks, and the balan: of ~ his _fortune to his friend, Mr. mpson, on condition that on every 17th of June he should re- pair .to the foot of Bunker Hill, and, as the sun rose, “beat on the drum the spirit-stirring strain of, ‘Yankee Doodle." ™ A Mr. Stow.left a sum of money to an eminent K. C. “wherewith to - chase 4 cture of a viper st " as a. perpetual.warning st the sin of ingratitude. was a rich brewer who be- queathed £30,000 to his'daughter « condition. that on the birth of her t child she should forfeit £2000 to a specified hospital, £4000 on .the birth so on n until arithmetical progm £30,000 was exhauvs Mr. Sydney Dic widow, who - ted. nson appears to £60,000 have left on condition that she should vd two hours a day at his gravegide company with her sister, ‘whom I e loathes worse than she does ‘Westminster Gazette. sp Antiquity is not avery So far as the question of tims cohcerned, it deserves notice that merely geology, but almost 1 . throws limits usually- as- farther back the is continu an ty of civilization. Professor FI. Petrie_expounded at Owens Collegs, Manchester, England, a few da &0 at Egypt, for instance, the. results of recent exploratons. Abydos, in. Upper Egypt, from which one it appears that thesruins at.tha spot tell a continuous story ll'pl Abydos was the first canital of Egypt and .re: The- method of. applying” the splint’ MacCalg, the g “in _ th - have. to wear dynasty. A part of a large glazed pottery case of Mena, the first King of the first dyhasty, abont 4700, B. C.. “showed “that ‘even .then.-they were ‘making glaze ¢n a :'mfl ierable scale, and’ aJso-. Inlaying - it wifii a-°second color.- The ivory (-ux'vhx was_aston- ishingly fine, u figure of a’King show- ‘ing a subtlely and power of expression ;n good as any work of later age g an-1vory state- 0 B. C. the builder of the great pyramid, was- foud. the only known portrait of him. Making evely - the . marvelous possible allowance for rapidity of drt dev: many thousands of nt, mu: have re over between the dwellers the Nile Valley and me carved. ivory statue s and T tyred- glazed work inlaid with second - colors? "It is a long, long march from flint fmplements to the solemn tem- ple ivory statuettes and- human por- traits.—London Telegraph. — N - s |*Franklin’s 'Codq ! - Temperance not- to “fullness; drink net to Silerice — Sp * others but what may yourself; .avold k not or conversation. I} your things have their Jet each part of your business s time. Qrder—Let > to perform what without fail what you resolv Sught Make no expense, but do of yourself; that Iis, . be always iseful;’ cut off deeeit; and if doing in- tting the benefits that are >s; forbear nliness sturbed about or - un- Bachelorisms ) e’ feathers admire TS A gidl is iilling.to admit she always- fat if she doesn't more than pounds, W 1an ly can't help having vho notices wirten she A woman wmakes trouble for herseif having children, but it keeps her. out of lots of other.troube A man can have almost as much en- joyment hard .swear as.a al: woinan praise, it deal about- a of .ribbons she rs arrd whe! It makes a g amed te t to be warm and healthy THe! no use.iry fo saye mopey by stopping drinkinig because of the Smok- ing it makes von do, It's worth th dream of an “ide: nearer to:a and a about.that a man’s state than a neve: oat, a pipe mained for forty-five centuries the re- - What a wo lgious eenter, the Canterbury of the account at the at If he land; and there the Egyptian exolura-. should forge g »r some tion fund has unearthed thé remains thing she gets it wouldn't be her fault of ten successive temples, one over thi Most every man thin he is smar! other. From the age of the first tej- epough to tackle any job 'till he runs ple a group of about 200 objecis has -up against the problem of ding the been faund, which throws suprising front lawn so all the rain won’t rur light' on the civilization 6f tha first ‘into the cellar. - - » — Nippur 7000 Y Ago | | Nippur ears Ago | | - o 3 | o o 4 J T’_-‘eeml nothing short of marvelous that we shéuld have ady records of civilization 7000 yedrs ago, but ¢ the scientists who are now making such vast ~x¢avations in Nippur have brought t¢ light what is per- haps the most interesting and'remarkable evidence of “city life” of that period. It is an immense well or drain and in this photograph, showing the present state of the éxcavations, the influx of curious natives to exam- ine the novel source of water supply arranged by their ancient "ancestors, spans the ages and makes the scene-quite what it must have been centu- ries on centuries ne. Indeed, the scientists claim that there has been * little change in efther the appearance or customs of the natives of Nip- pur si that time, so that they come very naturully into their “6wn