The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1904, Page 8

i | ' | | | | B ISR SR e, = The Sublime Porte. Special ondence. CONSTANTIN May 2. Whenever Tt figures in the news disturbing ele- constantly W '!enle. and they find the weapons so convenient and effective that no proof that they are false weapons will make | them desist from using them. I have had to rebut the charge of materialism times tco numerous to mention, and I have now given the matter up. It is impossible to give more emphatic denial or assign more conclusive proof than I have repeatedly | done, as you know. My antagonists | must continue to vility me as they | please—1 cannct prevent them. Prac- | tically they say: “It is convenlent to |us to call you a materialist, and you | shall be a materialist whether you like | | it or not.” | In my earlier days I constantly made | | the foolish supposition that conclusive | | proofs wculd change beliefs, but ex- has long since dissipated my “mm in men’s rationajity. o7 | September 7, 1891. Dear Mr. Janes: I see they have been carrying on a discussion in the Open Court concerning my agnostic views, | considered as either materialistic or - 3 Q== AR S TRONS =, she does ‘Sublime It spondence occurs re- the ny Suitan’s readers that imagine s form one of the titles of the “Sick Man of the East Others may know that it is the name bestowed on the Turkish Forey artm But few are sware nce it is derived. As a mat- ter of fs ‘Sublime Porte” is the main e t aglio, and fali » t, shown in th C photo- graph now m her pic- turesqu d gate lime unless it be its eviden hoarsy 0 The Sublir Port known to t Turke as mayun, was buil #s @ princip ance to the old Se raglio to the end of the | second Mah was the' gre palace of the ans—the Yildiz Kiosk of those days Within were three great full of beautiful trees and by the council chamber and official buildings of the Government. Although much t was interesting was destroyed by ire which swept the palace in 1863, some of the an- “cient glories r n inside the gate- way. The council chamber, though in e#n advanced state of ‘decay, still | stands. Then there are the mint, the celebrated treasury els, gold where uncut jew- embroidered clothing and wonderfully mounted arms are stored | in enormous quantitics, the armory, which once was the church of St Irene, and a museum. About the sad- 1¥ negleeted gardens are scattered sev-- eral small kiosks, one containing the imperial library, another some espe- cially fine tiles, and still another the prison cells, in which the former Sul- tans shut up for life the princes who disturbed the roval peace of mind. From these gardens one may have 2 wonderful view of the Bosphorous, the Asiatic shore and the Sea of Mar- mora across the narrow jutting of land known as Seraglio Point. Spencer on His Atheism. In two heretofore unpublished letters of Herbert Spencer, which The Inde- pendent is publishing, the late philos- opher confides to an American friend his privage views concerning the charges of agnosticism and materiai- §sm brought agaiust him by the op- ponents of his scheme of philosophy. To Dr. Janes he thus writes: May 4, 1891 Dear Dr. Javes: In old times perse- cuting priesthoods were content if the so-called heretic would recant and say anti-materialistic. I do not propose to | !take any notice of the matter myself, | nor do 1 suggest that you should do so | to any considerable extent, but it might | e amiss to quote at length a| »m the close of one of the di- | visions of the “Psychology”’—I think the division entitled *“Physical Synthe- sis”"—which puts more fully and clearly | than any other passage the view I take and disposes more completely of the i misinterpretations. I have not the book with me here, but you may, I think, ! easily identify the passage. It begins { with a kind of apostrophe to the spir- tualis owing how crude and coarse is his conception and how much more | ref] d is the conception which affiliates spirit not upon any form of matter, but {upon a form of motion. And then the passage goes on to point out that not en this refinement is the one concept- - me. The passage contintes by :g algebraic symbols) that | it ie impossible either to interpret matter in terms of spirit or spirit in terms of matter, but that the problem is to the human intelligence insoluble 80 long as there exists the antithesis of subject and object, and that the ulti- mate power underlying both cannot be presented under either form. The passage is a long one, but it might not be amiss to quote it in full and to point what ie the cause of the confusion in the minds of my oppo- | nents; at the same time that I assert! that matter and motion as they exist in themselves cannot be matter and | motion as we know them, they persist |in importing into their own and into my thought the ordinary conceptions | of matter, and thus showing how ab- | surd is the incongruity when conscious- ness is supposed to emerge from them. ! If they would keep ever before them | the fact which I perpetually assert— that matter and motion as existing in themselves ecannot be matter and mo- tion as we think them—they would then see that no such incongruity exists as they suppose. But they will constantly import their own gross idea of matter {and motion into the midst of my view and then debit me with the incon-| gruity. | 1 think a letter quoting the passages | explanation may be useful. P. 8.—1 do not send any part of the above o be quoted. I have not been | careful about the wording of it. I leave | it simply In the form of a remark for you to be present in your own way. I do not wish to appear in the contro- versy even indirectly. (Copyrighted in Great Britain and the United States.) Barbarous Shoes. _ Addressing the co-eds of the North- western University the other day, Pro- fessor J. Scott Clark said: “Of all the barbarous, senseless, idi- otic customs that of wearing high- heeled shoes is the worst. We think it ' is horrible for the Chinese to bind the ' feet of baby girls, but that custom is not so barbarous as is the custom ' practiced by many American women | of wearing shoes with lofty heels. The ‘Chinese custom is uncomfortable. High heels are nobtmon'l: un:::rmnble and barbarous, ey n injuriously affect the health for life.” T | accomplishment of what is thought impossible. | that !ing to do with national or racial sympathy. W I have indicated and making this final - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY. MAY 14, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor . . «+ e+ oo Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUG! , Manager - Publication Offico .......cccce @ eteeseessseseess. Third and Market Streets, S. F. SATURDAY .. MAY 14, 1904 AN ASIATIC MOSCOW. HE great explosions heard by the Japanese and by them supposed to be in Pert Arthur and its harbor prove to have been at Dalny and were caused by the destruction of the great docks and parts of the city itself by the Russians. They preferred to destroy many millions of dollars in their property rather than defend it. This is a repetition of Moscow. But the circumstances are different. Bonaparte was caught far from his base, and by destroying their own city and desolating their own country the Russians handed their campaign over to be fought against the orsican by famine and winter. Now Russia is far from Ler base and her enemy is in close tauch with s, The destruction of Dalny is a Russian loss, with no compensating advantage in embarrassment of the enemy. It is an impressive evidence of military weakness. Dalny had been expensively created to be for Russian Asia all that Hongkong is to Great Britain in China, and Calcéutta and Bombay in India. Millions were lav- ished to create a great commercial port that was to be the seat of Russian trade and her Asiatic capital and stronghold. The loss of sea power to Japan put it in peril in front, and the losses on land left its rear defense in® doubt. Rather than defend it the city is destroyed. it is the same policy that preferred to dismantle a war- ship in a. Chinese harbor rather than steam out and fight. It will be remembered that- ‘the first sign of weakness in Spain, in our recent war with that power, was an order to maval commanders to sink their own ships. Of course, the opinion of military experts as to the final outcome of the present war has been affected by the vastly superior power of -Russia. It has been con- ceded that such superiority would finally wear out Japan. But that is by no means certain. Japan and Russia are in much the same relation to each other that Great Britain and Spain were in the time of Philip II. Spain was then a world empire. It held a large part of Italy, the Low Countries, Central and South America and islands in every sea. Philip made the boast: “I am the richest baptized man on earth. The sun never sets on my dominion.” Great Britain was small and weak, but her insular people were patriotic and her sailors were brave and skillful. Military experts, however, taking into consideratoff the dfference between her and Spain in population and resources were sure that in the long run she would be worn out. “But she was not. The “Invincible Armada” an power, but it went to the bottom and the ships of Drake sailed over its bones. History may be repeated in the experience of Russig. The Japanese generals display some of the tactics of their celerity of movement and their On the Yalu they won by dragging guns up heights supposed to was expression of Bonaparte in :;hc impossible, and planting and serving them in posi- tions that commanded the Russian forces, who, finding them inaccessible, were compelied to retreat. The Japanese facility of movement and capacity to march and fight, scale mountains and fight, ford rivers and fight, renew the military traditions of the career of the Little Corporal. It may be said, in response to this, Bonaparte met his Waterloo. But that was the result of his dream of a continental empire and mastery Japan has no such dreanb Her opera- tions are defensive only. She is fighting not for Asiatic empire, but for her own independence. If she overcome Russia, as likely she will, and then imitate Bonaparte in his decree of Berlin, it will be time to predict her Waterlco. That she now has the good will of the world is proved by the state of her eredit. The Japanese loan has been heavily over-subscribed in New York and the subscrip- tion in London is twenty times over the amount to be placed there. Money is not sentimental. It has noth- These over-subscriptions are expressive of confidence in the military and physical resources of Japan and of the conviction that her present advantage in the war means her final victory. Investors in the war bomds of a nation are moved by the same considerations that influence them in taking the bonds of industrial enterprises. These are, the strength and safety of the security. Japan's security seems so good that her loan is over-subscribed in the two money centers of the western world. This means that a similar loan, many times larger, would be taken. The confidence of financiers will be increased by Rus- sia’s course in destroying Dalny rather than defend it. It is entirely likely that her hinterland city—Harbin— may follow Dalny in committing suicide. of thé world. Seventeen American soldiers were killed and five were wounded the other day by savage Moros. And here we have been nursing ouraclves in the false confidence that Major General Leonard Wood had attended to this little affair of the Moros.with distinguished credit to American arms and the infliction of wholesale chastisement to the South Sea Island heathens. . T};IE CALIFORNIA YEAR BOOK. HEN General Chipman, president of the State Board of Trade. made 'his annual report in March, we extracted much of the valuable information it gives concerning the State and its re- sources. This report is now published, as the Year Book of the State. It 1s typographically attractive and is the most valuable of the many publications designed to ad- vertise California. This is so because its statistical information is not available in any other form. As w. look to the Mining Bureau for complete, exact and reliable information about that industry, because it is not to be found anywhere eise, so we must look to this Year Book of the State Board of Trade for the exact facts _concerniing the horticulture and agriculture and other industries that occupy our people and yield their wealth. This Year Book is made attractive by a splendid map of the State, a birdseye view of the bay and San Fran. cisco and a large number of halftones that illustrate scenery and rural industries. The book is complete, It describes the school and governmental systems of the State, its ‘transportation facilities, its moral agencies and industrial activities. We are so accustemed to give attention to c'opr fruit product that we overlook some other things. This Year Book surprises even Californians in its chapter on the beet sugar product. There are eleven beet sugar States in the Union. The people of the United States consume annually 3.000,000 long tons of sugar. The eleven beet sugar Stafes produce 200,000 tons, of which California supplies one-third. The report of the Union Sugar Company shows that beet land in San Luis Obispo Spanish. County produces four and a half tons of sugar per acre. ‘According to this we kave an acreage of beet land in this State capable of yielding the supply for the entire American consuniption, if it were devoted to that use. This Year Book is practically official in its character, and this character is sustained by its judicial and ju cious tone. It is not a boom document, designed to sell land anywhere or to promote the interests of any special industry. Tts text and figures as truthfully represent industrial facts as its illustrations do the scenic and physical features with which they deal. We cannot over-estimate the value of such a publi- cation as an influence upon intelligent people, who are looking hitherward for homes and opportunities. They are repelled by rhetorical orgies and strained effects. We hope the State Board of Trade will take measures to have the volume distributed at St. Louis, for it de- scriptively supplements the exhibit there, and answers every question about Czlifornia that a wisely practical person can ask. It seems that the dispute between Peru and Brazil over Acre is actnally to be settled satisfactorily to both sides without a resort to arms. What has come over the spirit of our South American friends that such a preg- nant cause as this for a row is overlooked? We have fallen indeed upon evil times when we cannot have the pleasure of a South American war with its farce comedy | elements of buncombe and blustér S finished. Again there are other stories that are sc powerful in the strength and sweep of the scenes SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. TORIES there arc a-plenty that are read and for- and characters they depict that they make an indelible | impress upon the mind of the reader, to be recalled with startling viyidness long years afterward. They are the essence of truth and human experience, good and evil. They are of the life we live in our inner conscience, each unto himself. by Norman Duncan, which will be published complete in the Sunday Call to-morrow. From every word contained therein there is gathered the mystery and the fascination of the story that has gone before. They hint of how tremendous is the sub- ject he has chosen and how impressively he has handled it, even though they do not tell of the characters them- selves, of the terrors of Quid Nunc, of Stride’s ten thou- sand hazards with Fate off the tickle rocks of the Mull, of the riddle of the Seven Thunders and the pathetic | fantasy of the ship of glass with the seven stars in the rigging, nor of the inexorable struggle that has gone on in the human breast since the beginning of time. All of this makes up one of the most powerful stories ever published exclusively in the Sunday Call. But the Sunday Call contains other matter of equal | interest to everyone, There is, for instance, “Siclone Clark,” by Frank H. Spearman, which is one of the oddest stories in the stories. Again there is “Company E’s Green Bird of Freedom,” by Albert Sonnichsen, which, though it has a whole series of his new semi- humorous title, is in reality a creation of unusual dra- | matic strength. But for genuine humor, for mirth provoking word pictures combined with perfect diction, there is a quaint- ly illustrated article by Jerome K. Jerome, the “Mark Twain of England,” which he has called by the compre- hensive and highly attractive title, “Men, Women and | Carnivals.” As a good foil for the above article there is a “Fable for the Foolish,” by Nicholas Nemo, entitled “How to Succeed, Though a Lamefitable Failure,” which will pro- voke much more than a passing smile even while giving food far serious thought Add to all this the second installment of Headon Hill" story of the dreaded “Third Section,” and how it safe- guards the life of the Czar from the web of plot and counterplot that is being constantly woven in and it will not be hard to realize why, Breadth” has already attracted such w tion 'Equally impressive and instructive is Archer Butler Hulbert's article on the “Korean Emperor’s Yankee Ad- viser,” which will give more, than one suggestion of what America is likely to do, and more, what America may have to do when the present war between Russia and Japan has reached its climax. It shows that Amer- Russia, “By a Hair's espread atten- ica’s gloved hand is not so velvety in foreign affairs as | it may seem. In a lighter vein, but most beautifully presented in a pictorial way, is the “Laughing Girl and her Teeth” on the page of “What Women Want to Know,” the “Most Popular Gown of the Season” on the fashion page de- voted to the very latest styles, the “Automobile Picnics | That Are Now the Fad,” the “Tragedy of the Rainy Day,” ‘the saucy full-page painting of Ida Romer Shawhan, entitled “What Did You Say?” and “Congo Bongo,” an- other of the musical novelties which are innovations of the Sunday Call’s color printing. A street loafer, of whom there are far too many in this city, pleaded in extenuation the other day when he had been arrested for insulting young women on a public thoroughfare that he was intoxicated and.thought his of- fense was only a joke. He seems essentially fitted for residence where he will not be permitted to get drunk and where his sense of the serious responsibilities of life will make joking on any subject foreign to his disposi- tion. - . — Dunsmuir is reveling in the sensation of a woman placed under arrest on a charge of aiding several des- perate and murderous train robbers in their designs and of then harboring and protecting them from the conse- quences of their crime. When will lovely woman show discretion in the choice of her associates or even hér companions? Or must we assume that the Dunsmuir woman’s association was logical? .. A Texan went on the warpath recently and in- fancied satisfaction of some family row killed two of his relatives. There is always one enduring gratification in connection with these diverting incidents of the social life of Texas. ‘When a prominent citizen of the Lone Star State starts ont to do murder he attends to the task conscientiously and finishes the job with neatness and dispatch. In less than four years San Diego has added 10,000 men, women and children to its population. The increase has deep significance, since it represents an accession of active, progressive, prosperous citizens, who seek the advantage and well being of their new home in striving to accomplish their own welfare, " gotten almost in the same moment they are | Such a story is “The Fruits of Toil,” | On Guard. “Say, you may talk of cranks,” sald the night watchman, who keeps guard on the wealth lying in the vaults of the Hibernia Bank during the lonely hours when honest men and women are in their beds, “but there is one who comes here every night at 10 o'clock sharp and walks around the building, taking note of the situation. At first I kept my eye on him as I had reason to believe he was a bank buster sizing up the weak points in the bank with the object of trying to make an entry and a haul. Feeling it unsafe to have such a nightly visitor, at last I approached him and inquired the rea- son for his nightly visits. “‘I don't mind telling ycu,” he whis- pered, ‘seeing that you look like an hon- | est man, but I have $300 in that there building, and I worked hard shearing sheep to save that money; it is all I have in the world and to lose that would leave me a pauper. Therefore, when I look over the bagk during the night I am satisfled that everything &e s 4 railroad | ? ND TELLING YOU I | HAVE 0 IN THAT THERE | BUILDING. B e s — |is O. K. and then I can go to sleep in | peace.’ | *I assured him his wealth was quite | safe while I am around. He seemed happy at this assurance and left, but | the nightly visits continued for some time until at last they ceased. The crank must either be ¢ead or he has | gone back to the sheep shearing busi- { ness.” Diplomatic McClure. fame, vaid a visit to this coast. One of the first persons he call- ed upon after arriving in this city was W. H. Irwin, a clever writer of short | stories connected with the local press. He made himself known and, of course, Irwin set about making the great pub- lisher at home. He insisted that the publisher should make the Bohemian { Club his headquarters during his visit, and in order to make him thoroughly at home, wglked to the clubrcoms with him. - On the way to the Post street | home of the Bohemians, McClure asked Irwin to step into a bookstore with him. He did so and saw the publisher | pull a little beok from his inside pock- ‘e(, rapidly turn over the leaves and ‘then ask for a copy of a well known | Californian author’s latest novel. Ir- win saw that the book consulted by | McClure contained the names of every literary perscn in San Francisco, the titles of their best efforts in the liter- | ary line and other data connected with | them. | When they arrived at the Bohemian Club the first person they met there was Porter Garnett, one of the best i of California’s shert story writers. Ir- and surprised to notice | that the publisher did not appear very !cordl‘l to Garnett, more than one of | whose stories had appeared in the Mec- | Clure magazines. The coolness was | very apparent both to Irwin and to Garnett, and it was with a sigh of re- | lief that they heard McClure ask to be excused for a few moments while he retired to another room on a hasty ex- cuse. McClure was gone about five nsin- utes. When he came back the change in his demeanor toward Garnett was remarkable. He insisted upon shaking hands with him again, placed his hand in a very friendly way upon th¢ writ- er’s shoulder, asked him how his health was and made several very pleasing comments on the stories published under the name c¢f Garnett. He even asked him about a pain In the back the writer had suffered from for some time. Then Irwin's eyes opened. In his brief absence McClure had consulted his little book. recently { win introduced him te McClure was considerably Embryo Lion Tamers. The New York Times prints a ludi- crous story which illustrates some of the joys of a civil service examiner. Some of the men who applied for the position of keeper in the Bronx Zoo- logical Gardens made some queer an- swers recently to the questions put to them in the civil service examina- tion. One said he had been employed as an undertaker’'s assistant for ten years and was not afraid of anything. In answer to one question he wrote: “Some animals, such as goats, digest newspapers and tin cans.” In answer to another question he wrote: “Car- nivorous animals live on islands and exist by the skin of their teeth.” Zhere were nineteen applicants ex- Colonel Robert McClure, of magazine | il amined for two positions vacant. Among the applicants were old-time eircus men, railroad conductors, print- ers, house painters and drug clerks. The subjects in which they were exam- | ined included arithmetie, spelling and the conduct and disposition of all man- ner of animals likely to come under their care. Philip Weinheimer of 1996 Webb ave- nue, who was coachman for an actress for ten years, took the examination because he believed a man who could drive an actress ought to be able to drive a lion. One of the German applicants in de- scribing the habits of certain animals wrote the following: “Elephants travel in vast flocks, but lions flock by themselves in the moun- tains of wild Africa. The habits of tigers are to chase himself around his cage, while some shake their head from side to side. Monkeys are funny, but bears can hug a man to death afore he knows it. The wolf is noted for his courage, but the cat and dog is mentally tame.” An applicant telling what he knew about animals wrote: “The hoofed ani- mals of North America are the descendants from other types.” Then he added: “Elephants are found on the ice cliffs of the Siberian coast and have skulls different from rabbits and squirrels.” A wood carver who was anxious to become a keeper of the menagerie stated that his experience in carving | ions and tigers for caroussels had | “made him familiar with wild ani- Ancther applicant stated that s infaney he had fallen into a dog pit where a fight was In progress and | didn't even cry. His father had taken | him to witness the dog fight. In the Meado: s. ows, smilin’ 'way off, s of us Invite ny day off an’ the light! To take a In the li You see them blossoms fallin’ Where winds are sweet with song' You hear that river callin’: “Come along! Come along Each meadow-rill's a ripple— The daisy's primpin’ up Aw’' the brown bee takes a tipple From the lily’s brimmin’ cup An’ the thrush is singin’ 'way off In the dim woods, out o' sight, An’ we're goin’ to take a day off In the llies an’ the light! —Atlanta Constitution. Electric Light on Flowers. Some of the queer things which hap- | pen to flowers when they are exposed to the’ electric light are deseribed by | the Washington Post: Violets are | doubled and tripled in size. A race of | pansies has been raised up to measure two inches across their faces. Red | roses have been turned into purple and | black, and white ones into all the colors of the rainbow. Rose bushes have been converted into trees and vines, ‘bearing flowers in clusters, like grapes. Chrys- anthemums have been made to bloom like sunflowers, and lilies and tulips | have been raised in darkness and light so that their original characteristics were almost totally obliterated. In a modern plant experimental la- boratory the electric light arc creates transformations that astonish the most | hardened investigator. Night and day the bright light stimulates the plants in their growth, while all sunshine is cut out from the building. The delicate violet grows rapidly, maturing its flow- ers in a few weeks. The rose flowers, with mest brilliant colors, months ahead of its regular season. The reds are intensified in brightness, but they fade quickly. Bern in a day and night. their period of usefulness is measured by the same short span of existence. ‘When brought to the light of day they grow sickly and fade rapidly. Answers to Queries. SHIRT AND SOCK—G. 8., City. This department does not answer problems, catch, or fool questions. THE NATIONAL COLORS—The national colors of Germany are black, white and red; of Austria-Hungary, red, white and red; of Italy, gree white and red, aypd of Spain, red, yel- low and red. PERCH AND PORGY—Subscriber, City. Your question 1 relation to perch and porgy bearing fish alive was submitted to Professor David Starr Jordan, the well known authority on fish, and he makes the following an- swer: “The answer to the questionm is yes. There is on the coast of California a peculiar family of fish properly known as surf fish, Embiotocidae, in which the young are hatched within the body of the female and borne after the fashion of higher animal These fishes re- semble the perch cf the southern riv-* ers. They also resemble the porgies of the Atlantic Coast apd so people call them ‘perch’ and ‘pd¥gy." There are twenty-two different Xinds of fish here bearing their young of a length of about two inches in the early sum- mer. There are two specles from Japan, evidently having crossed the ocean from California. but no other fishes of the kind are found in any part of the world.” —_—————— Genuine eyeglasses. specs, 20c¢ to §0c. §1 4th st., front Key West Oys. House. * ——————————— Townsend's California Glace fruits artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st —_————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and publie -cn,b'y the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Caj- ifornia strest. Telephone Main 1044 *