The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1904, Page 8

ANE - $AR ERAS — RS IN e WORLD | | | { — American Girls’ Triumph. Epecial Correspondence. | BERLIN, - June 19.—Since the suc- cessful invasion of the German grand opera field by an American girl, Miss | | anchorage. Cublay at parting with his generals had impressed upon them the uselessness of massacring the population of a conquered country; “but,” he added, “what madkes me most uneasy is the fear of distracted counsels, Whatever you do, hold to- gether in face of the enemy’s designs.” Cublay’'s disillusionment took place when his miserable generals, with their tails between their legs, came whimpering back to China. It headquarters had been (like those of General Kuropatkin now) at Liaoyang, |and which had coasted safely down to Tki, was summoned to join Fan Wen- hu's grand army at Hirado. Here the | “divided counsels” which Cublay so much dreaded unfortunately took place. Instead of boldly marching together gan bickering and squabbling, until on the first day of the eighth month (Sep- tember) a fearful typhoon suddenly |arose and broke up most of the fleet | lying there at anchor. The only ships not smashed to pieces were those of Geraldine: Farrar of Massechusetts, Chinese captain named Chang Hi, who F —— i sweet-voiced daughters of Uncle Sam | have. found warm weicome here. | The Berlin critics predict an especially | brilliant career for Miss Eleanor Kess- | ter, a Pennsylvania girl, who has been a ehgaged for the widely renowned stage | | of the Stadt Thedter at Luebeck, one of-the famous “‘free cities” of the g I +- 3 Fatherland. | MISS ELEANOR KESSLER, WHO Miss Kessler is a dramatic soprano | | CAPTIVATED GERMAN MU- ‘and’ commands eleven roles, chief| | among them Marguerite In “Faust” |+ — =3 “.and Elsa in “Lohengrin.” She wmj make her gebut in one of these at Lue- | beck-in ‘October. This young woman, | who.hails from the little town of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was ac- corded the-unusual honor of a perma- | nent engagement at the Luebeck opera | without the customary trial, or, as it | _ is calied here, “guest engagement,” ot - six months or miore, her voice having captivated the management at first -hearing. After a course at the School of In- dustrial Arts in Philadelphia and three years as soprario at the West Phila- “delphia- Presbyterian Church, Miss Kessler went to Milan for operatic | study with the célebrated Italian mas- ter,. Lemperti, and for the last two years has pursued her work with Pro- . feskor Catenhusen of Berlin, whose tal- ent as a trainer for the operatic stage is well known ‘in America, where he lived for many years. Miss Kessler ‘- _acquired what few American singers have been able to achieve—a remark- able German diction, which her mas- ters pronounce faultless. She is a tall bfunette of striking grace of carriage and possesses natural dramatic talent. Fellow counirymen and women who " have watched her preliminary work in | Berlin predict triumphs for her, both | os the German stage and in her own country, where- she purposes eventu- ally to.sing and live. Japan Unconquered. Japan is the only large country that has never been conquered. In the thirteenth century (Professor E.'H. Parker recalis in the Monthly Review) the-Mongol Emperor, Cublay Khan,-made a bold but ineffectual at- temrpt to bring it under subjection. Toward the invading force the King of Korea raised 10,000 soldiers, 15,000 seamen, 900 warships and 110,000 cwt. of grain for the expedition, 2nd General Hungtsakiu was pro- wided by him with weapons, Korean coats of mail (wadded), armor, etec. In 1281 General Hungtsakiu and his second in command, Hintu, an Oui- gour Turk, led a total force of 40,000 men “via Kinchou in Korea,” which Professor Parker takes to mean Port Arthur; and they appear to have found their way safely to the island of Iki. Another expedition under Fan Wenhu- of 100,000 men, after one week’s sail, also safely arrived at the Xutsi, or Koche Islands (Masanpho). and at Tsushima. Some shipwrecked Japanese seamen were there caught alone had had the good sense to moor his ships a cable’s length apart. Chang Hi ordered all his horses to be Jjettisoned in order to make room for several thousand soldiers left high and dry on the island of Hirado, and did his very best to try and persuade his cowardly fellow officers to rally the men, live on the country and fight their way inland. But all to no purpose; the das- tardly generals selected for their own use the best of Chang Hi’'s unbroken ships and at once ignominiously fled back to China, leaving over 100,000 men absolutely at the mercy of the Japa- nese. These poor fellows—or such of them as had escaped the storm—lost no time in electing a popular leader of their timber at once, with a view of building boats for their escape. But in less than 2 week the Japanese were upon them in force, and after being taken from place to place the 20,000 or 30,000 who escaped death in the first sanguinary battie were massacred almost to a man on Takashima Island, just outside of Nagasaki Bay. Only the southerners were spared—for slavery. All the Mon- gols, Koreans and Northern Chinese were ruthlessly butchered. Exactly three men of Fan Wenhu's 100,000 ever reached China to tell the tale; but Hungtsakiu and Chang Hi seem to have brought safely back via Korea a good part of the 40,000 men Who had been at Iki and Masanpho. Of all the generals Chang Hi was the only one who escaped punishment at Cublay’s hands.—St. James Gazette. Not the Grant Brand. In the current issue of the Outlook George Kennan says that Verestchagin once showed him his painting of the battlefield of Plevna with the remark that the original sketch had shown the hill occupied by the Russian staff all strewn with champagne bottles. A Grand Duke who had seen the drawing insisted that the bottles be painted out, and the artist had complied. It will be remembered that when some tem- perance people protested to Lincoln that Grant was a whisky drinker, the President replied that he wished he knew the brand so that he might send some of the same liquor to his other | generals. But the Russian generals | have not the Grant brand. “Johnnie,” £2id his mother | "some one has taken a big gerbread out of the pantry. Johnnie blushed gutltily. severely, '?l_eo- of gin- .-and forced to draw charts of the coun- wry around. # It ‘was then found that the island of Hirado lay a little to the west of “Oh, Johnmnie!” she exclail B didn’t think it was in you!” e “ "Tisn't—not all of it, " re. plied Johnnie. “‘Part of it's in Elsie!”— “p Dazaifu, an that it afforded the best | Spare Moments. appears that the Korean force, whose | own. They set to work cutting down | THE SAN H JCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1904 RANCISCO CALL |JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propricor v eeeueno. . Address All Communications to JOEN McNAUGHT, Manager | Publication Office ......Third and Market Streets, S. F. DAY .+.JULY 2, 1904 THE SLAUGHTER OF BIRDS. FFICERS of the Audubon Society are making O an energetic attempt to stop the slaughter of | plumage birds to furnish feathers for the hats ladies. We desire to enlist in this praiseworthy work, as far as a newspaper may aid it. We think, Liowever, that the merely ‘sentimental side of the matter i1e depended on too much. The argument made is that the birds and all living things are our fellow creatures, { and that the common Creator of all is dishonored when { man, the head of creation, preys upon birds for com- mercial purposes. of | Following this sentimental line it is pointed out that the birds are useful to man by preying upon insects { that do him harm by consuming for their food that { which he requires for his. Therefore, he should use | the birds as his instruments in destroying still lower forms of life, in order that he may appropriate to his | upon Dazaifu, the rival generals be-| OWn use that which those lower forms require for theirs. In this view the birds are sent by the Creator to be the feathered friends of man and to destroy lesser lives | that issue from the same creative source. This argument defeats itself. How can finite man determine that one form of life is less sacred than another in the eye of a common creator? If the bird | is elevated to an equality of right of possession of the earth with man, what revelation of the creative pur- pose denies that same right of equality to the least living thing? If “the smallest insect stepped upon feels as great a pain as when a giant dies,” what right has a predatory bird to pursue the said insect, seize it, swal- ow it and send it to be ground between the gravel stones in its gizzard? Getting away from the special creation idea, to ac- count for the origin of species, and viewing the whole vast scheme as the issue of nature’s great law of | equilibrium, the practical argument reasonable preservation of birds has greater force than this senti- | mental plea. It is told of a sentimental father that he | called his little son’s attention to the wisdom of God | the creation of the crane. Its long legs fitting it | for wading in the water, and its slim toes pointed so as | to be put noiselessly into the water, and its long neck { and bill so adapted to dart into the water and seize | the fish which it had approached by stcalth, were all | evidences of the divine care for the crane. But the more practical little boy said, “Yes, but isn’t it hard on the fis | k | for Nature makes provision for an equilibrium. All living things prey on living things, animate or inanimate. It is the law of life. If birds so multiply that their insect or other food fail the equilibrium is destroyed and birds perish. Then the insects come again and so multiply | that they invade the food supply of creatures higher in the scale. In the great plan man is apt to get more than his share, but if he does he suffers from lost equilibrium. As a practical proposition it is uneconomic | for man to take a single tooth or claw out of the great predatory scheme mere vanity. When taking them is made necessary to preserve the natural balance, it is according to economic principles to make such profitable use of the prey as may appear. Our fish angd game laws and our statutes protective | of birds are founded, not upon sentiment, but upon practical economics. Many of the plumage birds are not native to this country. Their slaughter will never be stopped by appeals. When the law makes their plumage contraband of commerce, as it v, the temptation to hunt is taken away by destroy- ing its profit, and the “birds of plumage bright” will be as safe as the uninteresting mud turtle or the squat and warty toad. for the purposes of sentimental The Audubon Society should address its -energies in | this practical channel. All imported ji | age, except of the goose and ostric | by a single paragraph i hibitory duty eathers and plum- g. can be shut out the tariff putting on a pro- As for our domestic birds, dealing in f‘lhcxr feathers can be outlawed by the law of every 1Stme. It is a mistake to suppose that the ladies are }‘rc‘ponsih!e for this traffic, and therefore are cold- ! hearted and cruel. They buy what the millinery market | supplies, and finding plumage on sale, take it as they | do silks and ribbons. Let the law forbid it the market | and the ladies will not take their shotguns afield to supply themselves and go A merchant of South Africa has traveled all the way from the scene of his commercial activities to this city to study the character and the habits of the Chines in anticipation of their introduction to his far away land as laborers. Let the visitor take what consolation there may be in the fact that most of us have been here as | students of the Chinese coolie longer than he will prob- ably care to stay with us and we are ready to confess that the men from the East are still enigmas. T the vicinity of the junction of Market, Stockton, Ellis and Fourth streets for constructing at their own expense and presenting to this city the safety station at that point. 2 The suggestion made some time ago to erect a safety station at Kearny and Market streets was obviously a good one, yet the feature being new, it required demonstration to determine its merits. That demon- stration has been made and the mnovation has proven a complete success. With the rapid growth of San Francisco and the consequent congestion of traffic on the principal thoroughfares, there is an augmented danger to pedéstrians attempting to eross them or to reach the streetcars. It is difficult enough for the \young and vigorous to reach a car in a crowded street, but for the old and infirm it is often dangerous. Trav- elers on foot have. a right to all possible protection and teamsters are sometimes careless in rgcognizing that right. With the additional factor of the increasing number of automobiles and the reckless way in which they are often handled, the danger to persons compelled to stand weziting in the middle of the street for a car is made greater. . | While the merchants spoken of have been generous in providing the safety station, the cost of construction should not have been wupon them, but upon the city. The greatest good therefrom is to be derived by the general public and not by the merchants. The cost is not great comparatively, and the improvement is a per- manent and sightly one and an object lesson to strangers of the solicitude this city has for the comfort and wel- fare of its inhabitants. 4 A consideration of all the facts justifies the conclu- sion that safety stations should be placed at all points SAFETY STATIONS. HANKS are due to the enterprising merchants in where necessary and the expense provided for when the annual tax budget is being estimated. There are other good ideas for development in the way of providing for the comfort and health of pedes- trians, such as convenience stations, drinking fountains, resting places, etc., but the safety station is good for a beginning and should be seriously cunsidergg. Fifteen tons of leaflets, pamphlets and books, descrip- tive of the agricultural and horticultural wonders oi California, have been sent by the State Board of Trade to the St. Louis Exposition, and it is a safe wager that even after this mass of matefial has been digésted by an intelligent public not one-half the truth has been told of the good things of the Golden State. Were it not for the admonitory finger of modesty, we could say more. ‘ sacrifice over 4000 lives every year in celebrat- ing the Fourth of July. Most of these are victims of the toy pistol, an incendiary and infernal machine for making noise and causing lockjaw. There is a gen- eral fnovement to outlaw this weapon as a means,of manifesting patriotic fervor. No doubt it will be effectually suppressed, but that will not end the slaugh- ter on the Fourth, There are other deadly contrivances, such as cannon crackers, bombs and other fire vomiting, noise belching devices called volcanoes and by other names that imply destruction that will fill the void made by the destruc- tive pistol. The law, hand in hand with common sense, should follow up the work of abolishing these disturb- ers of the peace and destroyers of life, until the anni- versary of our independence ceases to be a time of terror and apprehension and becomes a pleasant, patri- otic day of national enjoyment, as it ought to be. Americans have run away with the fireworks idea by degenerating it to the service of mere noise. In this we imitate the Chinese in all but their conservatism. They celebrate New Year's or bring a new dragon to town with much ceremony and firecrackering. but they know how to produce the glad popping of powder without taking life or setting fire to buildings. We do both and feel that we have had a halcyon and vociferous THE PATRIOTIC PISTOL. AREFULLY collected statistics show that we time only when we have 'scared, nervous people into | convulsions, killed a number of small boys, set fire to ladies’ skirts by throwing cannon crackers at their feet, put out many eyes by powder explosions and burned a number of buildings on the altar of liberty. As the movement against the toy pistol is general all over the country, we will await the statistics of casual- ties with interest to see if it has diminished the slaugh- ter of the day. The Spanish war was in culmination on the gth of July. We were before Santiago, and beset that stronghold of the empire of Philip 1I on inde- pendence day. But we killed more people celebrating than were killed on both sides in all that war. We did it having fun, as some people call it. We should learn to have fun without giving so much employment to surgeons, undertakers and grave diggers. —_— The distinguished gentleman who will represent the diplomatic interests of Panama in the United States lias arrived at Washington and has been received with every demonstration of consideration and national cour- tesy. It is sincerely to be hoped that his people last our and ours will continie to live on terms of friendship and good will and that never in an existence so auspiciously either of us find commenced will the arbitrament ot { arms a necessity. THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. HE Sunday Call magazine to-morrow will contain T many features pertinent to the spirit of the Fourth. “Patriot's Battle Hymn,” a stirring martial anthem by Eleanor E. Hoeft, set off by a striking poster effect “The July Calendar Girl,” a full page hali-tone, makes an at- tractive and useful reference page for the month. “The Fourth of July in Bunnyville,” by Jessie Juliet Knox, illustrated characteristically by Bronstrup, is an amusing Fourth story which will be enjoyed by the old as well as by the young. The concluding installment of “The Fugitive,” Ezra S. Brudno's powerful novel, will appear. On July 10 wiil be published the first install- ment of Miriam Michelson’s story, “In the Bishop’s Car- riage,” one of the very best novels of the day. Among the special articles are “New Fads of the New York Girl,” in which among other things, are given some hints as to the proper way to give an up-to-date Fourth of July veranda luncheon; “Hints for Hostesses on the Glorious Fourth”; “The Evolution of the San Francisco Yacht,” a story that will interest yacht:men, in view of the approaching races, and “A Ringing Warning to the American People,” by Bishop Henry C. Potter. This is the first time that this distinguished divine has ever expressed himself so fully and so deliberately upon the vices that are now threatening American civilization. Madge Moore contributes a timely page upon “Ths Handkerchief Kimona” and Jerome K. Jerome adds to hi; series a sympathetic study of the Hollanders in “The Little Land of the Happy Dutch.” “The Ruling Passion,” by Edwin J. Webster, is the leading story upon the storiette page, which also con- tains stories by Keith Gordon and John Barton Oxford. On the Puzzle Page will be found as usuval the names of the winners in the last contest and material for an ad- ditional week’s guessing. “The Boy Who Would a Wizard Be” is a catchy bit of music upon the music page, which is in three colors. in red, white and blue, will occupy the front page. The miscreant whose act of vandalism at St. Louis has robbed Santos-Dumont of his opportunity to com- pete in the airship contest on the day set for the great event should be dealt with as severely as the law will permit. The authorities should prosecute their investi- gation as a matter of deep personal concern. Foreigners at the fair should be guaranteed that protection and courtesy vouchsafed to strangers within the gates wherever in the world civilization holds sway. The suave, plausible, diplomatic and flattering stran- ger with schemes of wealth in dubious investments has invaded our municipal territory again, and, as usual, several susceptible and unsuspecting women are in the role of financial victims. Experience cert: ly is no teacher in this peculiar field of clever swindling. It will do no harm, however, to warn women with money and no established precedents indicating good common sense to beware of fascinating strangers. | TALK OF THE TOWN ¥ Dk, Bill's Luck. A number of old-time printers were gathered about a table in a Third street resort a few evenings ago. They were emptying steins and telling stories of the kind that printers seem to have & monopoly of. One of the crowd, a : white-headed, bent old fellow, who had { Played the part of listener for some time, finally cleared his throat and said: “You all remember old Bill Johns, who died here a few years ago. He was a good man in his day, was Bill, and until he let drink get the best of him was one of the best ‘prints’ on the coast. The sgtory of his downfall, though a sad one, has its humorous side. It happened in this wise. “Bill was a lottery fiend. He would buy from $10 to $40 worth of tickets every month. He never won even an approximation prize, but always De- lieved that some day he would win a capital. We were working together on a morning paper at the time, and one morning Bill, as was his custom, hung about the galley boy until a proof of i Z { < 7 ke R ulation belongs to these asseclations the German physicians, 30,000 In number, have necessarily beén com- pelled to assume the treatment of The insufficient re- muneration—in many instances only 15 pfennige per call 3% cents)—has animated most physicians to. decline the appointments. Wheréver an.at- tempt was made, however; to better these conditions the associations ap= pointed certain physicians who served also as lodge officers. The conditions gréew. gradually worse and conferences between phys sicians and lodges failed utterly. The medical men finally formed .a union for the preservation of their p(l)l_!.- sional interests, the so-called “Leip- ziger Verband,” under the leaderghip many such cases. of the indomitable Dr. Hartmann. This association, by continuous agita- tion, has succeeded in having adopted at the last annual meeting ~of. the Union of German Medical Societies a resolution whereby the members of these lodges are permitted to choose their physicians individually. This affords the patient the opportunity to consult whomever he desires and also prevents the lodge officials displacing older and experienced ‘men by others without cause. ; It still remained to put this prinei= ple into practice, and as the lodges would not entertain ftiendly éveriures recourse was had to a “strike.” - The physicians’ union organized branches in every German. city, which dealt with the individual lodges and endeav- ored to dissuade other doctors from l+ - + | | i | || | | i | | | \ | | 1 i | | 1 | { | | | | | | | (| [ i/ | { || f 5 o | | ONE QUICK GLANCE AT THE | ' || PROOF—THEN BILL GAVE A | | 1! YELL, | e —_ -3 | the winning numbers was pulled. One | auick glance at the proof Bill took and | | then gave a yell. Off came his apron, | he searched the shop for the foreman | {and told him to do what he pleased | | with ‘his blanked old job. Then he| dashed out of the place. The proof re- vealed to us that Bill had won $15,000, | and we overlooked his crazy actions. “That morning, in this very place, we all grabbed a paper and commenced to talk about Bill's luck. In the midst of | | it Bill walked in. He was as fuddled | as a lord and big tears were streaming | down his cheeks. ‘ “Surprised, we demanded to know | why he cried. He told us, and we did | not blame him. The proof he saw was | an uncorrected one. A mistake had | been made in putting the filgures in type which was not discovered until Bill had disappeared. “From that day to the day of his| death Bill was a slave of drink. His| disappointment proved too much for | him. | In Praise of Lobsters. ! [The following estimate of the lobster- | raising experiments of the commission | | emanates from a London newspaper.] | Nature grim, in remorseless mood. | Undees the work that she has done, ! And out of every lobster brood ays ninety-nine and keeps but one. | Art stretches o'er the horrid scene Her skillful and remedial sway— And when I speak of “Art” I mean The Fish Commission, U. S. A. It takes the tender lobsterlet. And gives him food and kind advice; Changes his boots if they are wet Brushes his hair and makes him nice. And lo. this baby of the sea In gratitude begins to thrive: Where one per cent it used to be, Fifty, all fat, remain alive. O, noble work. heroic, grand. That saves in scientific ways These little lisping lobsters, and Keeps them for me and mayonnaise. Laugh and Bc_HmIth_\'. It is good to laugh. There is prob- ably, savs Health, not the remotest corner of the little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the body that does | not feel some wavelet from the great convulsion produced by hearty laugh- ter shaking the central man. The blood moves more rapidly—probably its chemical, electric or vital condi- tion is distinctly modified—it conveys a different impression to all the organs of the body as it visits them on that particular mystic journey, when the man is laughing, from what it does at other times. The time may come when physicians shall prescribe to a torpid patient, “So many peals of laughter, to be undergone at such and such a time.” The Doctors’ Strike. An interesting movement is now gaining ground in the social and po- litical life of German physicians, as manifested in the outcome of the “strike’”” of doctors in Leipsic. In accordance with the imperial statutes every Government employe with an annual income of less than 2000 marks must join an association whose membership consists of per- sons following a certain occupation, or those who live in a particular dis- trict, etc. These select their own of- ficers and attending physicians, who are nominally responsible to the Gov- ernment. As a large part of the pop- | bor alone. settling in this "particular locality to take the place of their strikirig c¢ol- leagues. In conmsequence of this.agl- tation a more satisfactory basis oOf ré- muneration has been_ established and the choice of the physician is lefi to - the patient. This much has been’ ac- complished in Cologne and Muni¢h and the fight is being carried on in sixty-seven other cities.—The Medical Record. Invented the Liicifer. The first really efficient - lucifer match must be put to the credit of John Walker of Stockton-on:-Tees, England, who in 1837 placed them on the name of “com=" greves,” in compliment to Sir Wil- liam Congreve, the inventor of ‘the war rocket. These matches were sold . for a shilling a box, whivh contained,. besides a few dozen of the matches, & little of folded sandpaper. through which each splint of wood the market under piece had to be drawn before it could be made to inflame. - An original tin- bex,. stamped” with thé royal arms and bearing the word “Congreve.” served as a cariosity in ore London museums. - 3 As in the case of all other indus- tries, this was initiated by hand la- The splints of wood' were no doubt originally dipped in the ig- niting compesition one. by ome; but subsequently they were ' tied up .in bundles and dipped en bloe, the work- man giving each bundle a twist with his hands so that the end ‘of each is pre- of the | splint would be free to move to'a cer- ° tain extent and absorb a little more of the compound than it would if kept quite still. The next advance waa to’ fix the splints in a frame so that each was separated from its neighbor, @nd this frame containing ~about 1500 matches, would be brought down.on a marble slab upon which the compo- . sition was spread. The tipped matches. still in their frame, would then be dried in air for a few hours and terward placed in a heated .chamber to complete their desiceation. Man- . ual labor is now almost whoily -dis- pensed with in the manufacture of matches. The employment of yeliqw phosphorus for the charging of matches made the industry a very un- healthy one, and the workpeople, if .~ not in the best of health, ran the rigk of contracting a _terrible disease known as necrosis of the jawbone, the - vulgar name for which wae “phossy jaw.” With improvements in manu- facture this evil has now been elim- inated.—Chambers’ Journal. - Answers to Querics. SPANISH NAME-L. M. D, P. M. D., Sebastopol, Cal. Lakeside is ex- pressed in Spanish by lado del lago, and abbreviated it is lago lado. . DISTANCE—M. W. T., City. The @is-. . tance in an air line from the Clift House to the life-saving station at the end of Golden Gate Park is 3000 feet. BILLS—A. B. C., City. Your ques- tion about percentage of bills collected is one in arithmetic—one of.the class that this department does net answer. NEVADA MINT—A. O. 8., City. Coin- age at the United States Mint n Car- ° son City, Nev., was discontinued in.1885. The institution is now equipped as an assay office. . 2 LILY LANGTRY-—Inquisitive, ° City. Lily Langtry, the actress, was born at St. Heliers, on the island of Jersey, in 1852. She became a citizen of the Uniteg States by naturalization in 1867 ——— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* [ S, e itk s Special information supplied daily business houses and pubiic men tl'- Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), ifornia street. Telephone Maln