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v 5 HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY. JUNE 24, 1904 | R 8 | with e wanted Yy 10 feet of is 950 toms. | freeboard and, as her is an exceilent sea boat, ul Hamid is not very likely t ber g ties in that direc- r he has a g out of 1 is built s subdivided into an un- | er of water-tight Bhe is armed, too, k-firing cannon, 2nd dy might be utilized on to the forecastie she is | provided with two large deckhouses, | the & al apartments, Wwhich in-| ciude a sal, dining saloon, | sleeping-room and study, being sit- | uated in the after house. ' Four other | apartments and a saloon have been | provided for the Suiltan’s guests, or| Princes of the royal house, and similar | provision has been made for the im- | perial suite, but no accommodation s | made for any of the Sultan’s many | wives. Turkish etiquette does not per- ;| it even 2 Suitan to take his harem | with m on his pleasure trips and ! probably Abdul Hamid wouldn't do it | if he could. One of the greatest at- | tractions of the yacht. in his estima- | tion, will undoubtedly be the eppor- | tu it will afford him to get clear away from zli the domestic squabbles an@ worries of the much married man. | The prevailing style of treatment In | these fous apartments is the | cightee century Renaissance, which ends admirably to t.he] Oriental love of warmth and ecolor. But these effects have been produced | more by means of richly grained | woods and sober gilding than by | carved ornaments and brilliant color- | ing. The general effect is one of rich- | ness combined with dignity and im- | pressiveness. Anything approaching | barbaric ostentation has been care- | fully avoided, while at the same time there is abundant evidence to discern- ing eyes that a mint of money has been expended. The finest apartments, of course, are those which constitute the imperial quarters, and here artistic taste and Jaxury have been united with the hap- piest resuits. The dining saloon is cased in finely inlaid mahogany, with margins of amboyna wood, and the ceiling is enriched with gilt ornaments | in relief. The sideboards are of in- | laid mahogany, with the Sultan's drawing-room is of inlaid mahogany, with gilt emrichments, the paneling being divided with gilt pilasters, and ; have been expended in maintaining | processfon of the ships in three divi- same wood Adjoining n w farnitare !s 2130 | e upholstery of with goid. TX purpie wood and ° ght, pen in hand, de=- mproving the condi- and checking the Turkey's enemies. is no further from the n blood and addicted any other mazn liv- apart in the Ertl at specles of represents the popular n ease and lu kish room fashionable bazaars and places of tain t of ress upon them up-to-date nd that anybody who tries upon him will get left. The g to Turkish notions, surrounds himseif is ¥ the favored few who are o penetrate behind the curtains Yidiz kiosk. One use which the Sultan will make of his yacht will be keeping his eye on his new navy which he is bent on cre- ating. His former Minister of Marine, Hassan Pasha, now defunct, allowed the Turkish pavy, which once con- tained a fair pumber of good fighting ! ships, to go all to’ pot while he salted away comsiderably over $106,000,000 as his share of the funds that cught to it It is related that on one occasion the corrupt and unscrupulous Hassan com- pletely hoodwinked the Sultan as to the mdition of his navy by getting up a review, the feature of which was the sions past the windows of the Yiidiz. Kiosk, where the Sultan himself was | stationed. There were just enough ves- sels capable of getting up steam to rep- resent ome division, but Hassan made the craft comprising it repeat the evo-! lution twice, and not till long afterward | @14 Abdul Hamid discover how he had | been tricked. Hereafter he will attend | naval reviews in his new yacht, and it will be impossibie to fool him in similar fashion. 5 The first important vessel of this new navy, & fine cruiser of 4000 tons, named | after the Sultan, escorted the Ertho- groal to Comstantinople. Thither had preceded her another but smaljer steam pleasure craft, the Scughulda, aléo built at Elswick, which will serve as the Sul- | tan’s state barge on the Bosphorus. E. LISLE SNELL. Beginnings of Science. Primitive man must, from a very early period, have observed that the sun gives.light and heat. It required but a slight extension of this observa- tion to note that the changing phases of the seasons are associated with the | seeming approach and recession of the sun. This observation, however, could | not have been made unt!l man had mi- grated from the tropical regions and had reached a stage of mechanical de- | velopment enabling him to live in sub- | tropical or temperate zones. Even then | it is conceivable that a long period | must have elapsed before a direct cas- | uzl relation was felt to exist between | the shifting of the sun and the shifting | of the seasons; because, as every one | knows, the period of greatest heat in summer and greatest cold In winter | usually comes some weeks after the | time of the solstice. Yet the fact that | these extremes of temperatures are as- | sociated in some way with the change | in the sun’s place in the heavens must in time have impressed itself upon even a rudimentary intelligence. That the sun, moon and stars move across the heavens must obvicusly have been among the earliest scientific observations. It required a relatively high development of the observing faculties, yet a development which man must have attained ages before the period, to note that the moon { has a secondary motion which leads it candidates for the post of Belgium must have received official approba- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL 'JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietot + » « » » + » » » . Addtess All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager et Streets, 8. P. | UNE 24, 1904 | THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. Chicago platform satisfactorily reviews the blican record and pledges the future action of party. Protection is upheld as a cardinal doc- e, and needed revision of tariff schedules is promised 2 matter of course. The pledge that our merchant e shall be revived is repeated and will be carried people in San Francisco have ever seen this forest park. If it were located anywhere in Europe thousands of touring Amerieans would visit it and tell of its wonders at home. But it is near to us, convenient of access and practically unlnown’and unvisited. The State Board of Trade has put San Francisco and lifornia under many obligations for great service | ! ! ! The Moon Exploded. “The death fn New York by heart|’ | disease of John T. Sullivan, the well | | | known actor, within about a week af- i ter Rose Copghlan obtdined a divorce | well rendered. /But it has done nothing in which this city is more interested than this publicity excursion. We want to let the State first, the United States mext and then 2ll the world know that this city has sucH a2 park within easy reach. Out of this publicity will come It is not omly an ecomomic necegsity, but is a cessary adjurict to the upbuilding of our mavy. With e vast majority of our foreign commerce carried in ms we are at the mercy of events if the | her still even ‘as the curtain was being | rung down,” reminds me of an inci- the funniest I from him,” said a San Francisco or-; i | chestral musician, “and fhe pathetic | | | message he sent to her that he loved | | ch it goes and comes should be at war. our imports would cut off the tariff revenue of the country to the embarrassment of the treasyry. The de on that jabor and capital must alike sub- mit to the law is satisfactory to every orderly citizen and good American. Only those who advocate partial ad- the interest of a class and against the great principles Roosevelt’s declaration, that “no man is he law and no man is below it.” demand that” our nationais must have the pro- tection of their Government everywhere, against the at- tempt of any foreign Govermment to deny to them jus- timely. Even in this hemisphere our pride has rights of Americans by the small spitfire Governments of Latin-America. » The new proposition of the platform will not be novel to readers of The Call, since it responds to demands made in our columns frequently during the last three years. The constitution of the United States requires that when classes of voters are disfranchised for reasons over which they have no control, such as race, color or previous condition of servitude, representation in he House and the electoral w‘eof the State which enacts such disfranchisement shall be decreased in the proportion that the disfranchised class bears to the whole population. When the constitution was adopted cne of its compromises psovided that in the Congres- sional apportionment five slaves should count as three he enumeration of population to determine the ratio representation in Congress. his three-fifths representation of non-voting chattel es grew to be obnoxious to the sense of justice in the free States. Baut it was comstitutional and it stood and was the means of giving the South her supremacy in our national affairs before the Civil War. If the South can now do two-fifths better for herself by count- ing every negro as one in the ratio of representation aad at the same time deprive them of the franchise the Fed- eral constitution will be grossly violated. As the North stood three-fifths slave representation, because it was in the conmstitution, the South must now stand the com- plete elision of the negro race from the ratio of repre- sentation because it is in the constitution. She cannot eat her cake and keep it 2 The negro disfranchisement has been before the Su- preme Court, which decides that it is a political ques- tion ‘for Congress, the political branch of the Govern- ment, to decide. The constitution fixes the penaity for denial of the negro franchise. It is a reduction of repre- sentation. The Republican party does not propose to force negro suffrage upon the South. It does not pro- pose to strike down the constitutions of the Southern States, which by the “grandfather” clause and other de- vices rob the negro of the ballet. It does not propose to any way plant a footprint inside the boundary of State rj; . But it does propose that the constitutional penaity shall be enforced, and that the South shall not tzke away the negro ballot and at the same time enjoy titational excess of votes in the House and the electoral college. To thls policy no reasonable man in the South can object. . If the South have sixty mem- bers of the House and sixty electoral votes in violation of the constitution pride and self-respect should dictate to her leaders the policy of surrendering them that she may be purged of the offense. It is well here to quote the exact language of the con- stitution, found in the second section of the fourteenth amendment: “Representatives , shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President, Representatives in Con- gress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be re- duced in the proportion which the number of such male n an gipcons | citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens, 21 years of age, in such State.” A close examination and strict comstruction of that section, tzken in connection with the preceding section that grants negro suffrage, make it plain that the authors of the fourteenth amendment contemplated the denial of suffrage to the negro, and were aware that the Federal Government could not coerce a State in the mattey and that its power ceased when the penalty of reduced representation was enforced. The South has incutred that penalty by negro disfranchisement and should take its medicine. The free States did by enduring three- fifths slave representation from 1789 to 1864. Oriental war is silenced to listen. We know that the men of the quill are still in the land of the living, for they have filed 2 protest, futile, of course, against the rigorous censorship of the Japanese. When the boys come home we may expect a genaissance of romance and of fiction. TO THE BIG BASIN. That is the finest forest park in the world. where else is there such an expanse of virgin forest, cmweddmuhta’sfi-‘a-dml,md_ for the redwoods. The beauty and park are not to have justice done them tion. Yet we are safe in saying that not % i . ! ministration 6f the law or its complete submersion in | en. too often shamed by unpunished invasion of the i dent that was about I improvement in facilities for getting there, and then the | pave seen in my theatrical experience | | park will be the resort of thousands who seek rest, ;and also of a pathetic coincldence | ! pleasure and health. It will also attract botanmists and '133}'::!’1 :: s’x'zon t‘n::lmm;k”“ wl! dendrologists and scientific foresters who want to study the orschestnl 'ot the Aleazar Theater. : nature. {John T. Sullivan was leading man. | | The park should be mapped; its trees and plants | The play culminated in s mchhz -:oe::‘ } | catalogued and described; its climate, streams, fauna and :a:u:;;kem‘“;’;: ‘;‘h‘::“;: ldnovrn — all that relates to it put in a volume that will make onme | upon & river. The leading man meets spring has come again. It is even pos- of the most attractive advertisements of San Francisco | hig wife and liftle girl, from whon‘a" x | :lhle that :me Y;:rj‘ze genius will S i i ill | has been separated, and pleads wi nvent an Incubator for ant egss and the State that hzs ever 'been issued. _{.n of this '111 { 'uenm - o T bl St G e grow out of the wisely planned publicity excursion e b g m‘“‘“m mm. umsh: child | sity of bfin&;: the quees amt from which will be conducted by the State Board of Trade. |, 1 oo tneir hands in hers and draws Guatemala to this country; the eggs When the park becomes known an impetus will be given | them together. Then reconciliation mf:; :-: importsd and the incubator & z {and rtain | wor o the rest. 5 p.:rk :xmhtznsgon g forest go 2 ot haxicm “The_play ran smoothly for several| The wisdom of the ant has p get in no er way. | nights, when suddenly one night dur- Into a proverb, and the observations e e Tt 3 I Sullivin's most earnest pleading ' of those who have watched the ac- Many of the milkmen of San Francisco have written yt:: lz:bon exploded. It was made of | tivities of this useful insect have jus- their own indictment and have supplied the testimony t0 | a bunch of white incandescent globes, lh;med it A wise cmz‘ure up;chl!y !: justi i : { i re - | the special variety of ant Mr. Cool justify the serious charges made against them by the | which went off like a lot of firecrack Board of Health. These dairymen file vigorous protest | 7% and left the players in darkuess has discovered. Its foraging opera- : . . < = - { The house caught the humeor of the lions are carried on with deliberate- against the regulations designed to improve the sanita- | situation and became almost hysteri- ' ness and sagacity, and with & full ai- tion of their dairies and to énhance the value of their | cal, but Sullivan, struggling d-per; | 2:‘:‘:\1& of np:«l):mmty to every indi- product, and they threaten to double the price of milk. | ately with his lines, finally obtained to get an l 2 2 s - the attention of the audience and con- | When the ants make their sortie | Either the milk being sold flO"l! x'mt ‘rorfh thAelp'nce | tiumed moontess to, the Snish |from the ant hill, In the cool dawn charged and the Health Board is right in its eriticism, | = .p was thinking of the real drama | of the morning, they scatter eagerly or the price threatened as an exaction is an imposition | he has just acted and how If there |over the surrounding fields, a few ants on the public. | had been a little child to draw their !0 each stalk of cotton. They seem | hands fogether in the darkness one of | to realize quite well that if they con- CUT RATE IMMIGRATION. them would have been found willing cCentrate in any one place there will GAIN the trans-Atlantic steamship lines are en- gaged in a bitter rate war and as a comsequence the scum of Europe is flowing into New York in ever-increasing volume. Ten dollars will carry the English pauper from Southampton or Liverpool to the Ellis Island immigrant burean in New York harbor. | house is to have on hand a large sup- | Active agents are scouring the poorhouses and the pur- lieus of Whitechapel and Shoreditch with ready bland- immigrants of the pauper class were dumped upon the : til he was struck by a couple of live | officials at the New York immigration office like so much coarse coal for the screening. Of three thousand immigrants who come to America on these cut rates it is safe to say that not three hun- | dred are qualified to become good citizens of the land | of their adoption. It is rarely the honmest laborer who takes advantage of the low passage to fulfill the cher- | ished ambition of a removal to the land of opportuni- | ties; it is too commonly the hopelessly poor, the hope- lessly degraded who sees in the opportunity offered a chance for a change that certainly will not leave him in and thag possibly the ending might have Deen different” Firecracker Alarms. A good way to prevent yourseif from being burmed to death in your own | not be food enocugh to go around, and itormumnnmeymr.fldom {Lying perda on the leaves of the | plant, they await the advent of the |boll weevil, and when that unfortu- | nate animal makes “his appearance | pounce upon him. There is a swift leap through the air, a vicious thrust, 2 shake—and then the weevl is { ply of dynamite firecrackers. THAL I8 | 00009 up bodily and earried away o | the theory of Chief Horton of the Bal- | the ant hill. The willing worker de- : | timore Fire Department, who directed | posits his burden in the family larder ishments for the ears of the submerged tenth of the | ., 4w o of the Baltimore firemen | 2nd returns to the cotton field to re- great English metropolis. On one day three thousand | during the Fepruary conflagration un- | peat the operation wires and rendered unconscious. Com- menting upon this theory, Chief Hor- ton says: ° “About the best fire detectives are large dynamite crackers. I have these One of the amiable gqualities of the jant of Guatemala—and it is reputed {to possess many—is that it does {injure the cotton plant In any w | Neither is it especially hostile to = having none of | crackers distributed all over my house, | 9f S0 many of its rel { and have advised any number of per- | has an®effective weapon in its sons to use them. “The idea is decidedly practicable. One of the crackers Is attached to a length of wire, and it is then suspended from some place where it is likely to be useful “T have these crackers hanging from a2 worse state than was his first. Scraping together | the Toof of the cellar, from the ceilings £ the stairways, fro der the pad- ba_rely monghAmo.ucy. to cross the 'palm of the stnm-lged - = “‘:—;e lm bies, e | ship agent this immigrant la.nd.qv in New York sans|every place whers they can m.g scrip and sans ambition. He swells the souring lump | lently be put and are likely to be of it is able to de | weevil, whenever necessary, ant does not use the sting £ suffering upon its acguaintances of the | buman race. | | Russia in Palestine. According to a recent Russian consu- lar report, six years ago 9900 children attended the Russian schools in Syria. The number is now 20,000. of unwashed humanity in New York’s tenements that so | USe- persistently resists leavening. With the pressure of this immobile mass of paupers | i “The idea is simply this: If a fire breaks out it can’t make much head- way before it reaches one of the crack- constantly increasing in the centers of population along | ers, and the explosion gives the alarm. the Atlantic coast it is to be expected that there must be | The idea came fo me some years ago. a giving way some place. the poorer artisans and operatives, American born, who cannot compete with the starvation labor of the foreign element. They consequently move West and the Eastern States lose a valuable prop in the economic and ! in the house. T social foundation of their being. Even in the West lands are being taken up so quickly that for some there re- main only the opportunities offered by the virgin terri- tory of the western provinces of Canadas Even with the constantly increasing stringency of our immigration restrictions and the rigor with which they are enforced the swelling tide of pauper immigration seems to be only skimmed, not checked. While we are taking into our borders all sorts and conditions of \new citizens our neighbor in the north is gaining her fresh blood by a severe conservatism of selection which in- sures good citizens. No man enters a Canadian port who does not carry a recommendation from a trusted land agent in the Old World or a sufficiently convincing title of financial and moral integrity. Congress has done much to stem the flood of immi- gration. Because by its laws Anarchist Turner was de- ported there came a howl agaigst “the subversion of constitutional liberties,” but until we have restrictions approximating, at least, those of Canada in the fineneds of their mesh the migration of the unfit from Europe will continue to flood us with a horde of people whom it will be hard for us to assimilate. The Filipino guests of the American Government, now- on tour among the great cities of the Union, are imbibing impressions of us that will be of more value to them and to us than a century of war. Whether the little men of the south seas are to be our wards or are civilization will be of incalculable advantage to them. Some surprise was expressed the other day that a This yielding comes fram, and was suggested by afire in a groc- ery store. “The fire had got considerable head- way, and it was discovered by the ex- piosion of some canned goods, which attracted the attention of the people decided that if canned vegetables made a good fire detective, crackers would be just as good. "“There is absolutely no danger, as some would imagine, from the dynam- ite cracker. uniess the fire is there; and when a dynamite cracker—the kind I use is about two inches long—explodes it throws itself right out with the force of the explosion. It is a good pilan to keep a couple of them in a wardrobe where there are a numbe® of garments. The probabilities are that if a fire should take place the force of the de- tective cracker in going off would ex- tinguish the blaze. “I have fixed up hundreds of these crackers for various persoms, and cer- tainly do advise their use, especially in houses in the suburbs, where there are not likely to be people passing and where a fire is, therefore, likely to get considerable headway before it is dis- covered.”—New York Sun. y Upon its face. Unto your own "‘.T Sweet mouth prone ' tenderness; Ty -1 S You might let slip - The secret word, Wln: fragrant kiss The dream of bliss The rose would bring. | | Last spring a Russian squadrom un- | der Rear Admiral Krieger paid a visit to Jaffa, from which point his men vis- |ited by rail Jerusalem. They found | there that among ail the forsign Chris- | tian communities Russia had taken ths |lead throughout the Holy Land, and | especially in Jerusalem, tn buying land |and In building and estadiishing mis- | sions, schools, hospitals and monas- teries. The Russian “New Jerusalem ™ with its fine modern buildings, forms a |little town of itself—a fortress that | commands Jerusalem. Russia bas | bought ove-third of the Mount of | Olives and inclosed it and the Gethse- mane chwreh by a wall, while from {mdm:flummh- lofty Russian tower built em mit of the mount, and Church of the Ascension. Palestine Society has existed quarter of a century, it very important part as toei of Slavism In Syria and Palestine. I president is the Grand Duke Serge, and among its members are the powerful leaders of the Pan-Slav movement. § Vv i | if task of educating the native children: thus, the leading scholars attending the | schools for natives are sent to Russia, | where they remain for two or three years in a seminary; then as & rule Russian wife is found for them, J ence in Syria and Palestine increases daily. Answers to Queries. e BURNS HANDICAP—S, City. The horse that first won the Burns Handi- | cap was Hawthorne, in 2:17. The win- | ner in 1904 was Modicum, in 2:08 3-4 GUARDIAN—P. D., Steamer Pensa- | cola, Cal. A minor over 14 years of a~» | has a right to express a preferemce as | to who shall be his guardian. : BY DIRECT VOTE—Subseriber, Oak- land, Cal. The States that have aske lfol"n- to call a convention to | sider an amendment to the Federa! con- stitution providing for direet popular vote for United States Semators are Oregon, California, Minnesota, Texas. Dakota,, Kentueky, Utak. Montana, Idaho and Kansas, PUBLIC LANDS—R. G. City. For lar, each office will furnish you a plat ywing land that is opem to settle-