The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FR SR LONDON, May f the ¢ whose membe: St the “deaf and is widely known n and culti- rare artistic 1d hardly have n had he de- all the en- an existence in » play a silent tion has levote his time ¢ ng the lot of n of poverty 4 that this work happiness in far ould have come s wealth sures no animated and can doubt. he is ably er, Miss Constance e th v smile labor sciations for he deaf with s connected would atalogue. The various 1em are no sinecures. amount of corre- h' traveling. n, ide: suggestion which promises sed educational facili- ‘ties or other advantages for those who dwell in silence receives his prompt at- tention and support if good for any- thing. " Though he cannot talk there are few men in England who *address” more public meetings in various parts of the country, his audiences being like him- self all mutes. With his fingers he can “speak” as rapidly and, judging by the effect on adepts in sign language, quite as eloquently and persuasively as many who have a wide reputation for ora- tory. No important meeting of the deaf is deemed complete without a “speech” from the baronet. His homé in Brighton reveals his many-sided culture. Beautiful pictures hang on the wails. The library is well stocked with books. Many rare works of art and historic mementoes adorn the vari- ous apartments. Travel is one of his passions. He has been all over Eu- rope and has visited the principal cities in the United States. His collection of bric-a-brac is largely the result of these peregrinations. Some of the objects were discovered in slums in Paris, Christiania or New York. A lock of the great Napoleon’s hair, finely framed and accompanied by three autograph documents attesting its genuineness, was bought by Sir Arthur in a mean little back street in Paris for six louis. It stands near to an exquisite vase, a gift from the Emperor William I, who in his old age humiliated the descend- ants of the man who wore that hair. This superb vase, with its artful Cupids upholding a female form, was the Kaiser's present to Sir Arthur's father, who was chairman of the great Man- chester exhibition of 1856 and of the International Exhibition in London in 1862. Another large vase was the gift of the third Napoleon, as well as an exquisite tea service, each piece marked with the imperial cypher and crown. Sir Arthur is now 52 years old. He enjoys vigorous health, which may be attributed to the fact that despite the great amount of hard work he does he finds time to indulge his tastes as a sporteman with the rod and gun. Cycling 18 another form of recreation of which he is very fond: Gambling in Poorhouses. ‘The poorhouse is about the last place in fhe world where one would expect or incre: tral figure was | ssessed of an | tricken, and | ) deaf and dumb. | Any | gambling to be carried on, but it is an astonishing fact, which, however, re- flects no discredit on the authorities. that there are really few workhouses in the country where secret gambling does not obtain in some form or other. Many hundreds of pounds are lost and won by dwellers in the work- houses of this country in the course of every year. Thousands of bets do not exceed a few pence, but some do run to such large figures that paupers dis- miss themselves on the strength of their successes and never enter the poorhouse again. lously extravagant, but such bets, and others bigger, are made in workhouses, thoyeh, of course, comparatively rarely. There is in Brixton a small but profit- | able business run by an elderly couple who stepped into the shop parlor streight from a workhouse. The stock |and goodwill of the business were | bought with money won by the old .| man on simple bets during the time he was “chargeable on the parish”; he boasts of it, though he is careful not | to sav what workhouse he patronized, | 1ess trouble might accrue to himseif. No doubt the majority of workhouse [ gamblers are losers instead of winners, i as their betting is scarcely ever done among themselves, but either with or | through attendants or friends outside; and the racing intelligence which pene- | trates into workhouses is not often suf- ficient to make for success in betting. That attendants should sometimes lend themselves to such secret gam- bling ways is nothing very extraor- | dinary, for they are never so hand- somely paid for their duties as to be raised above the temptation to add to | their incomes. When they discover from a word here and a hint there that their charges are still victims of the gambling passion which they used to indulge when out- | side, 1t is hardly to be wondered that | they consent to make small “books” or to act on commission for bookmak- ers outside the asylum. And the thing once begun keeps roll- ing. The local government board recently had its attention called to a case In | which a workhouse attendant was sus- pended by the guardians for acting as a bookmaker to the pauper inmates. The case would never have been | broached but that a gambler lost his head and “gave the show’/awa be- cause he had not been paid the £5 he considered he had won over a bet on the Derby. The disclosure will arouse the poor-law authorities all over the country, no doubt, but it is not easy to perceive what steps they | can take to stop gambling in work- houses. | Moreover, betting on races is not by any means the only form of gam- bling paupers enjov: it is the favorite where it can be indulged, but where paupers cannot make use of their at- tendants and friends for the pugpose |of “backing their fancy,” they can generally find some other means, | though tamer, of investing their hum- drum lives with a little ekcitement. During his walks abroad in search of “copy,” the writer has met a num- ber of persons who have been ‘cer- tified paupers,” and has discussed with | some of them this secret feature of workhouse life, with the result of com- | ing to the conclusion that the poor- house inmate who does not gamble in some way when he can procure the wherewithal is the exception rather than the rule. With many paupers nothing is too trifiing or uncertain to excite bets be- tween themselves: the change of diet, the weather, somebody’s chances of taking dismissal from the workhouse | and other trivial things all are fair “ game. The idea of a pauper laying four or| five pounds on a race sounds ridicu-| { in public matters. | cultivation. | Pence and small silver are laid on | and against any possible event,’ generally paid by friends of the loser trust. such people and their friends treat “debts of honor” could not be im- proved on by the richest members of the aristocracy. Paupers have dismissed themselves in order to go and seek work in order to earn money with which to pay such debts, and others have dismissed themselves in order to go and enjoy the fruits of their gambling. Some of the latter have established themselves in trades, -to the reduc- tion of the rates, on money thus ac- quired. Nevertheless, not one guardian of the poor in a hundred even suspects gambling goes on in the Union he helps to control.—Pearson's Weekly. Machine Guns. The first machine gun of agy hote was the Gatling. The original Gatling had ten barrels placed in a circle, with a breech mechanism so arranged that by turning a crank these barrels were successively fired, the cartridges being placed in a small hopper situated on the top of the gun. The Hotchkiss was a similar gun, having a similar ar- rangement of barrels, but a totally different form of mechanism. The Hotchkiss system, however, was used for a larger type of ammunition than the Gatling. The French mitrailleuse had thirty barrels. They all were load- ed at the same time and all fired sim- ultaneously. The recoil was so great that it had to be mounted in the same manner as a field piece, on a heavy carriage requiring six horses. The ap- paratus was clumsy, difficult to oper- ate and had a comparatively slow rate of fire. The Nordenfeldt gun consists of a series of barrels arranged side by side, like organ pipes. The Nordenfeldt gun generally has five barrels and the mechanism is worked by a lever, the cartridges falling down from a hopper on the top of the arm into position, the mechanism thrusts them into the barrel, fires them and extracts the empty case. This gun is of great sim- plicity and for a time went into exten- sive use. to friends of the winner, to be held in | And the exactitude with which | and | ! | form? He regarded them as “the panders of vice” and the ISCO CALL, TUESDAY. MAY . 24, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL - i e S L Rt L e el S JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Pmprktor..........AddressAllCnmmunkzfionstoJOHN lcNAUGHT.Imgu Publication Office R PR S e R 1 o T & T S S R R P o R o bt oo S Kt Kb MAY 24, 1904 JEFFERSON AND: HEARST. TUESDAY T is unusual when a campaign is coming on to hear a l great deal of Democratic talk about Mr. Jefferson. The further away from his ideas a so-called Demo- crat gets the more he invokes the founder of his party as he claims. In fact there is but little in common be- | tween Jefferson and the modern Democratic party. He founded what he called the Republican party, laid on lines that, were rational in his day and from{his point of view. But he would not now be found in the Democratic party, for it advocates a style of socialism and commun- ism entirely at variance with his principles. As the California Democracy have put Hearst and Jef- ferson on the samg pedestal, a sort of Castor and Pollux to lead the hosts in battle, it would be interesting if the two could discuss public questions in the hearing of their admirers. Mr. Hearst advocates a political party ! made up of a distinct labor class. He wants the ar- tificers to go by themselves and make a party that will advocate government ownership of all utilities, govern- ment regulation of hours and wages, and an extensive programme of socialism carried out by a self-constituted ivery record left by Jefferson commits him against such a policy. He abhorred classes and class solidarity He opposed much government, in- sisted that government had no business to be in busi- ness and that its functions were confined to its legitimate police powers, leaving men free.as possible to pursue happinéss and fortune, - When he heard his fellow statue advocate the classification of society, appeal to malice and envy as the sole motives of political action and pro- pose that one class only shall have a voice in government, the author of the Declaration of Independence would yell for the step ladder that he might climb down off a perch with such an uncongenial companion. We would like to see these partisans who think that they are disciples of Jefferson give their followers the benefit of a free quotation of some of his opinions. For instance, he wrote John Jay, in 1785, this opinion of la- boring mechanics: “Were we perfectly free to decide this question I should reason as follows: We have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their Cultivators of the earth are the most valu- able citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most in- dependent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line T would not convert them into mariners, artisans or anything else. But our citizens will find employment in this line till their numbers become too great, as will their productions, for the demand both internal and foreign. This is not yet the case and proba- bly will not be for a considerable time. As soon as it is the surplus of hands must be turned to something else. d then, per he sea in ce to manufactures, because, comparing the char- acters of the two classes, I find the former the most valuable citizens, I consider the class of artificers as the panders of vice and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are overturned.” May we venture to suggest that this opinion J=fferson held about the artificers, the mechanics and skilled labor- ers would make interesting reading in a Democratic plat- aps, wish to turn them to destroyers of liberty. So we have the two figures in the Democratic hall of heroes and of statuary, Jefferson and Hearst, already at war in their diverse and irreconcila- ble opinions about labor. The debate waxes hot and Mr. Jefferson accuses Mr. Hearst of trying to use the pan- ders of vice to destroy the institutions of liberty. Call out the police and perhaps the fire department, for there's a riot on the Democratic pedestal. Leading educators in the public schools of California have selected a permanent committee of representative men among them to watch the Legislature while in ses- sion and to direct, if possible, the energies of our Sacra- mento solons toward the best interests of our public school system. It is surprising that our educators, ac-| customed as they are to difficult and dangerous tasks, care to assume so stupendous a burden upon their ac- tivities. AWAKENING FOR INYO. ORDERING on Mono at the north, San Bernar- B dino at the south, and Fresno and Tulare counties on the west, lies the great county of Inyo. Asa sec- tion rich in minerals it has long been widely known. Mil- licns of doliars have been taken from its mines of pre- cious metals. Death Valley, incalculably rich in borax and presumably rivaling Chile in nitrates, is within its wide- spreading border lines. For an eastern neighbor it has Nevada. =% It is the point of departure for Mount Whitney for many tourists and mountaineers. In addition to these endowments the county is rarely picturesque and has a geographical position that qualifies it to become a sure and reliable supply point for many products of the soil to Nevada and to a wide range of -country. For many years it has been know ‘lhat Inyo County, by reason of its elevation above th&sea level, in ‘some sections is admirably adapted to the phdu‘filon of ap- ples. The county area embraces every conceivable vari- ety of temperature, from the coolness of the high Sierra to the heat of Death Valley. The chief desideratum has been the construction of a system to distribute the water that runs through the county, but is of comparatively little avail for agricul- tural uses under existing circumstances. Light in this direction has begun to dawn upon Inyo and the people of the county are correspondingly pleased. The systematic researches of the departments of the ¥ederal Government’s service known as the irrigation investigation and the geological survey have, during the past few years, proceeded far in the determination of the amounts of water that are available for irrigation in this and other States west of the Rocky Mountains and also in the ascertainment of available reservoir sites, the de- tails of construction work necessary for the founding of irrigation upon an enduring basis and the calculation of irrigable areas, together with crop probabilities and re- lated tgpics of first importance. Now a report has been filed bzp Chief Hydrographer Lippincott of the Geological Survey concerning Inyo County. The essential point in this is that it is estimated there is enough water flowing through Owens Valley to moisten suffimently for agri- cultural purposes practically every acre in the valley. This comprehends, of course, the impounding of the sur- plus water at certain times for. economical use at others. A canal, so finds Mr. Lippincott, would be capable of providing water for brmzm. into use a I;rge area that is now vacant, surrounding the towns in the southern end | of the valley and large tracts forth and northeast of Bishop could be profitably devoted to agriculture. Every town in the valley would be benefited. In the valley are improved tracts open to settlement, so that there is | 4 present demonstration of the possibilities under proper conditions. The Inyo Register unquestionably voices the belief of the people of the county when it says, “If the irrigation canal enterprise is decided upon and finished Inyo wiil have such a boom as it never has had.” —_— A female, generously characterized as a woman, cre- ated a sensation in a local court recently by seeking to kiss a man who was accused of an atrocious murder and on trial for his life. This is very clearly an indication that the time has come when men facing the desperate emergency of a jury's decision need and should receive the protection of the police. No man should be punished antil his guilt is established. l n the hope that the Japanese will attempt to follow, if the Japanese content themselves to free Man- churia of the Russian forces and restore it intact to Chinese administration Russia will doubtless wait until it is safe to assume the aggressive and again move into that province. But the world wants peace and stability in Eastern Asia. Japan, content with the control of Korea, may call upon the nations for a guarantee against further turmoil that would be caused by another advance upon Man- chrria. ' We are unable now to see why such a call to the world should not be heeded. China is placing herself in the right attitude by going beyond her treaties and de- | claring ports open to all nations as fast as Russian in- fluence is withdrawn. We think it is the right conclu- | sion of all who wisely observe events and soundly fore- cast the future that it is best that China preserve her territorial integrity. When the Empress Dowager dies there will be a for- ward movement in China. The spirit of progress is a ferment among the people. The large number of Chinese who have been educated in the United States and Great Britain see the reforms that are needed. Prince Pu Lun, who is now in this country, will probably be Emperor of China in a short time. He is an .en- lightened man who knows the world and appreciates the importance of conforming to its standards. With him as | ruler at Peking we will not have a China like India un- der the Moguls, or the Khanates under Russia. But we will have a country awakened as Japan is. Not with am- bitions directed against other nations, but confined to in- ternal progress and development. 7 Such a China will build railroads and distribute its con- gested population tp a more roomy field. It will have more wants, demand more exchanges with other nations | and will put the physical force of four hundred millions of people into self-elevation and civilization. The yel- | low peril will be made a myth by equality of wants and | standards with the rest of the world. With such a transformation in prospect the apparent Russian plan of catpaign will result in undisputed Chinese sovereignty of Manchuria by command of the world. BACK TO SIBERIA. T is evidently the Russian policy to retire to Siberia By official decree the women of Prague will no longer be permitted to wear in public places gowns that trail upon the streets. This measure recommends itself for a double virtue. It will not only force the gentler sex of Prague to be more artistic in their apparel, but it will take from them their extremely dangerous capacity as disseminators of germ disease. In this golden age of the microbe life is precarious enough without multiplying the dangers of infection. h T THE PLATFORM. HE platform adopted by the Republican State Con- vention may well be taken as a model by th¢ Na- tional Convention. It is all said in less than 500 words. Yet it is a complete statement of the party’s principles, policy and achievements. It is conceived in the belief that such a statement is sufficient reason for a continuance of power, and that any indictment of the Democracy is unnecessary. Therefore there is no “view- ing with alarm” for ringing accusations, such as make up the body of the Democratic platform. The hopeful view of the future and the sane analysis of the reasons for that vicw widely diflerentiate the two parties. The Republican platform represents the constructive purpose of the party. It recites, using the noble rhetoric | ——e e —————— TALK Of THE TOWN The Joker Joked. It has been said that no man should perpetrate a joke who would not be willing to take a joke in return. An instance brought to memory by the story that appeared in The Call a few days since, telling how Alexander Bad- lam secreted lead under a wheelbar- row, exemplifies this truth. Badlam in his day was one always ready to joke with his acquaintances, but strange to say could not accept a Joke when the tables were turned on himself. At the time he was Assessor it was his habit to drive his horse and buggy into the basement of the City Hall and hitch the animal up until it | was time to drive home. At that day there was a poor, little hunchback ele- vator boy attending to the crude rope elevator in the hall. This little erip- ple conceived the idea one day of hitching Badlam's horse and reversing him in the buggy, placing his head toward the seat and In that position fastly securing him. By using the har- ness and some ropes which he found in the building he made a good job of the operation. Then he gave the tip |to the City Hall employes to be on | hand to witness Badlam’s discomfiture when he appeared on the scene. The gang was on hand and lost no time in enjoying the joke. Not so with the man at whose expense it was played. The Assessor got good L s o o i? il hl Vil £ ‘\n\l il I ..lm'u‘l‘nhmfl\.\ ‘» '"'h + 1 ®THE ASSESSOR USED LANGUAGE NOT PRINTED IN SABBATH- | scHooL PUBLICATIONS. + - and mad, using language not generally printed in Sabbath-school publica- tions. He eventually found out who the person was that had perpetrated the joke, and, strange to say, insisted on- his dismissal from the city's ser- vice. No amount of influence could ever get him to forgive the poor little hunchba®k's act. Pure Food. “Talk about fraud in foods,” said a traveling man. “I heard a good story the other day on a Fresno fig grower. He wanted to get rid of his crop in one sale, so he came to the city and hunted up a hous2 that ad- vertises a preparation of figs. “The Fresno man explained his er- rand, but strange to say, his hearer, the manager of the concern, didn’t become very enthusiastic. “ “Honestly I'll have to tell you ‘hat I don’t believe we can use your figs,’ said the manager. ‘To tell you the truth we haven't any use for figs.” “‘But,’ he added consolingiy, ‘if you’'ll go down to Blank's, the straw- berry jam manufacturer's, you won't have any trouble selling your crop, I'm sure.” Donald Davy. of understatement, the work done in the past and the steps taken to advance us to the position of the world’s creditor nation, by giving us sound money and a creative power that makes the world our debtor. No guarantee of the future is offered except the purpose to continue therein the constructive work of the past. Let a patriotic Democrat read that platform and say whether he can object to any part of it. It speaks for the protective policy; so does the Democratic platform. That difference is eliminated. It declares for an Amer- jcan merchant marine. So does the Democratic plat- form. 1t wants a sufficient navy, the Panama ecanal, Chipese exclusion, protection of American citizens at home and abroad, the preservation of forests and the reclamation of our arid domain. Does any Democrat object to any of these things? Does any doubt that, in view of its capacity for action, the Republican party will work for their accomplishment? New duties are upon us as a nation. The prejudice against the Republican party held by Democrats inheres in history and relates to anti-slavery, the Civil War and the reconstruction period. But those issues are all past and accomplished. The party must be judged by its present aspects and tried by its relation to things of the _present and the future. So judged, what reason, outside of prejudice, is there for refusing to support it? A Michigan burglar, who seems to have neglected the lessons of many years devoted to his thieving craft, was sentenced the other day to serve the remainder of his life in a penitentiary for stealing three dollars and two hats. It is highly probable that all self-respecting members of the fraternity of burglars will accept the court’s decree as just retribution for an idiocy so palpable as that ex- hibited by the offender in being caught for so small a matter, —_— ‘Investigators have made the interesting discovery that underneath London and its millions of people there is a great lake of pure water. Can’t somebody suggest a | means by which Ql‘il body of water may be made to find an outlet in Whitechapel? -4 Donald Davy, do you know Where my heart has been to-day? In the house of long ago Where we used to read and play. Blazing hearth and boy-worn rug, Apples and brown jelly-tarts, And the books we oft would hug Tight against our beating hearts; Back to these I went again, Lay before the fire and read, Ate the tarts and apples,. then Laughed with you and sighed for bed. Felt your fingers close in mine, And your whisper in my ear, Lest another should divine ‘What was but for me to hear. Told the stories as of old, Planned the things that were to be, Listened while you did* unfold . All your secret thoughts to me. Donald Davy—what a name! Still as dear and still as true; Better than all- wealth and fame— Donald Davy, heré's to you! —The Reader Magazine. Sunken Treasure. A Madrid dispatch to the London Ex- press states that the attempt to raise the silver-laden Spanish galleons which in 1702 were scuttled in Vigo Bay to avoid capture by the British and Dutch appears likely to succeed’just as the ef- forts are being most heartily ridiculed. The machinery which is being used by the Italian concessionaire recently suddenly brought to light a complete, well-preserved galleon. Unfortunately the chains which were being used to raise the vessel broke, n.nd the galleon sank again. An anchor and a ‘were, however, recovered, — | the galleon in the course of a few days. The success already obtained has caused great excitement. Some astonishment is expressed that the galleon should have been found in- tact, as In many previous attempts that have been made by treasure hunt- ers dynamite has been used, and it was feared much damage was done. TheEznch Duel. Recent legal actions growing out of a fatal duel in Paris between Charles Ebelot and Henri Lautier show Now dueling is regarded by the French law Ebelot, the survivor, was charged with “having by blows and wounds caused death unintentionally.” Judging from the wording of the indictment, the law | does not take duelists seriously, or it would not admit the supposition that they do not enter into the encounter | with any deadly intention. In this case | proof was forthcoming that the affair had been carried out fairly, according | to the recognized rules of the duello, | and the prisoner was acquitted. The | family of the deceased took mo part in the eriminal prosecution, but obtained, in the civil action, one franc damages and costs. Goethe and Panama. In view of the formal taking over by the United States of the Panama canal works, it may be worth recall- ing, as an instance of the political pre- science of Goethe, that, so long ago as 1827, in the course of a conversation with Eckermann, he declared it to be | |indispensable that the United States should have such a passage between | the Mexican Gulf and the Pacific, and he was sure they would execute it, al- though he would not live to see its ac- complishment. On the same occasion the poet also expressed the wish that he might see the Danube and the Rhine linked together by a waterway, and, thirdly, the English in posesssion of a canal from Suez. To see the reali- zation of these three great projects would, he declared, be worth living fifty years longer.—Westminster Ga= zette. The Long Bow. “In certain parts of the Himalaya Mountains the native women have a singular way of putting their children to sleep in the middle of the day. The child is put near a stream of water, and by means of a paim leaf or tin scoop the water is deflected so as to run over the back of the child's head. The water pouring on the child’s head apparently sends it to slep and keeps it so, while the mother proceeds with her work in the field. No one seems ever to fear that the baby may be drowned.” The Chicago Journal says this, but like the man from Missouri, it will have “to show us.” Answers to Queries. PEDRO—E. T. N, City. In the game of pedro points on the last play are de- termined in the, following order: High, low, jack, game and pedro. PUBLIC SCHOOLS—Constant Read- er, City. The public schools of San Francisco will close for the summer vacation June 10, and remain closed for six weeks. PINOCLE—Player, City. The rule in the game of pinocle is that if a player looks over his tricks, further than the last trick, he shall lose all scores for cards. " MARQUISE—Subseriber, City. Mar- quise is the French name for the wife of a Marquis. In the French language it is pronounced as if written mar-keys, with “mar” sounded as in March. NO FLOWERS—Subscriber, Alame- da, Cal. The poem entitled “There wera No Flowers When the First Child Died” is to be found in a volume of poems, by the author, Maurice Francis Egan. CURIOS—Subscriber, City. If you have a number of curfos that you wish to dispose of, the best way to bring them to the notice of such as might desire them is to advertise them in The Call. - CHINESE—Subscriber, City. C!:h:e-o cannot be naturalized in the United States under the laws thereof, but chil- dren born to Chinese parents in the United States are citizens thereof by reason of birth, and as such, on attain- ing the proper age, are eligible to any political office. AN AUTHOR WANTED—A Sub< scriber, Alameda, Cal. This correspon- dent would like the name of the author of a poem In which occur the follow- ing lines. Can any of the readgrs of this department furnish the desired in- formation? But whether she came as a sweet perfume, Or as a spirit In stole of white, I feel as I leave the darkened room, She has been with my soul to-night. DEPARTMENT HORSES — Citizen, City. The horses of the San Francisca Fire Department are trained befors Mml-inodtommlu. —_————— tric submarine t!!ltb used | artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market shows the posil of the ship quite il d'e;rhly. . wm::‘- o to concessionaire is absolutely con- | business houses pul men the Muuw.‘u.mmm“cma Caae