The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1904, Page 8

| | ——— Stmmer Eome in Jerusalem. HEADC RTERS OF THE CALL, HEN TTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN LONDON, 16.—On and plons meditation in an easy chair. A love of adventure and outdoor life, strangely at variance with the de- mands of his chosen profession, dom- Inate him. It was in 1887 that increasing pros- perity enabled him to take a longer respite than he had hitherto allowed himself from the arduous legal work, and he and his wife departed from the beaten track of the Eastern tourist. “In a month of riding and camping,” he says, “we found new health and life, opened a fresh store of happiness and imbibed somewhat of the spirit of the country. And from that time forth we have been drawn by an overpowering force, to which we have now learped gladly to yield ourselves, to devote all the time which we can spare from work-a-day existence to journeying in Syria. “That which has charmed us most was the glimpse which we had gained into the life of the Arab nomad tribes and the silent impreseiveness of the| great solitudes. To see something more of the simple pastoral existence of the famed Mount of Bedouins and to breathe the air of the > TGS SIR JOHN EDWARD GRAY HILL, THE HIS SUMMERS NEAR JERUSALEM, MOUNT OF © BUILT ON THE E E D A VIEW OF THE MANSION HE LIVES, associatic of Christian history, Sir John Edward Gray Hill and his wl- ented wife possess a mansion, whero> they reside for several months of each vear. It is built in the antique Easi- ern style, solid and substantial, severe and austere looking externally, as the picture of it shows, but within It comfortabie, roomy and picturesqus. Amid surroundings so remote from everything that savors of the pursuit of wealth it constitutes an ideal r treat for a busy man from the turmc cares d worries of the workaday world, for Sir John is one of the Kirg's new made "knights who has 1 won his spurs by strenuous la- bor. Rag Abou Kharoub, which means “he height of the father of Khar- oub trees,” is the name of the ele tion on which it ie situated. It is the highest point in the hills about Jeru- salem, being 2700 feet above the sea and nearly 300 feet above the pla form of the Haram, or “Noble Sanc- tuary,” where the temple once stoad and the dome of the rock and mosque of Aska now Htand. The northeast angle of the walls of Jerusalem point direct to the house so that from it the faces of the south and north walls are | equally open to view. Eastward it commands a superb view of the mountains of Moab and the Dead Sea, that mysterious salt lake without an outlet, whose waters are some 1309 feet below those of the Mediterranean, but aimost equally blue and clear. “The dawn, the sunrise, the sunset, the after glow, the moonrise, the star- ry night—all are beautiful from this spot,” seys Lady Hill, describing their | Eastern home, “but joveliest is the dawn. The first faint flush comes over the hills of Moab, and 4hen the sur- fuce of the Dead Sea shows litke ang ‘aqua marina’; Holy C and turning to tke ¥ We can see its domes and minarets stand out in the cold light, ! soon to be irradiated with the first raye of the sun. To the east stretches the wilderness of Judea, solemn and bare; to the west, in the spring sea- son, the young corn and the wild flow- ers and the trees putting forth their leaves seem to make the desert blos- som as the rose.” In his own person Sir John is a fine illustration of the value of the Holy Land and the East, viewed merely as a recreation ground. He is 65 years old, but erect, clear skinned and over- flowing with health and vitality he doesn’t look more than 0. He is a prodigious worker, capable of sixteen hours’ steady grind on a stretch. He has won his way to the top of his pro- fession, that of a shipping lawyer, and incidentally has made a lot of money at it. He is prominently connected with many maritime and legal asso- ciations and is president of the Law Society of the United Kingdom, whose superb new quarters in Chancery Lane, London, were recently opened in the presence of King Edward and a host of notables. But Sir John has not sought the East year after year merely to enjoy quiet and seclusion = ;- wilderness; to sit with Father Abraham under the great tent, and to behold| | Isaac and Jacob in their habits as they | | lived; to watch the flocks and herds go | | forth to feed at dawn and come home Em the protection of the tents by the light of the setting =un; to camp alone in solitary fastnesses or upon boundless piains; to gaze into the starry depths of a Syrian night; to see the great disk of the fuil moon rise across the ‘eastern | desert lone’ until the splendor of its light irrediates the barren gorges and changes the dark and silent surface of the Dead Sea into a luminous floor of | water, was what we most ardently Jonged for. In each succeeding year we | heve found greater and greater delight in the pursuit of our desire, and al- though the fascinations of travel have brought some anxious experiences and | involved some serious risks we still look | forward with all the pleasure of hope | to again and again revisiting that strangely attractive land.” On one occasion the desire of Sir John and his wife “to see something more of the simple pastoral existence of the | Bedouins” came mnear costing them their lives. They fell in with a pack of those desert rovers who after breaking | | bread and eating salt with them \'lo-’ {lated ail the tradition of Arab hospi- | juggle in the shadows. | tality by making prisoners of them {and demanding a substantial sum of | | money for their release. They refused | to believe that a man of Sir John's im- | portance and imposing appearance had | not that much with him, and when it | was not forthcoming they drew their| | knives and sundry other - dangerous | | weapons and made it clear that so far | | as they were concerned it was a case of | backsheesh or blood. But Sir Jokn had | not undergone a lawyer's training forl nothing. He kept a tight grip on his temper, and incidentally on his re-| | volver, determined to make sure of potting their leader if things came to i the worst, and by exercise of his per- | suasive powers succeeded in inducing | them to postpone their murderous de- | signs for a few days while he dis- | patched a “holy man” to Jerusalem | for the money. During the absence of | his messenger relations were \'eryi much strained between Sir John's little | party and the Bedouins. Among the! latter were some who, fearing that they | would not get any share of the ransom money, were bent on looting whatever they could lay thelr hands or, and sev- | eral times a shindy was narrowly | averted. But the “holy man” proved honest as well as devout and returned in due time with the cash, and Sir John | considered that he and his wife got, i 1 | rid of the marauders very cheaply for | something less than $1000. They were bound for the famed rock city of Petra | when this adventure upset their plans. Sir John has not repeated the attempt vet, but he fully expects to reach it | some day, and Lady Hill declares that she will accompany him. Lady Hill is a clever artist And has painted many charming pictures of Eastern scenery. Several of these lat-| ter adorn the walls of the Law So- ciety’s building. 2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1904 THE SAN FRANUISCO CAILL SRy I S SR S R e Sl s i T T R W G N JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . .+ + « « « - « Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager -..Third and Market Streets, S. F. ROOSEVELT'S NOTIFICATION. HE formal notification of the President of his nomination has occurred under pleasant circum- stances at his private residence. The speech of Speaker Cannon stated the reasons which actuated the convention in its work and put forward the time- honored principles and approved policies of the party by it intrusted to the President for honest application to the affairs of his country and the interests of the whole people. The President’s reply was in his best mood. It states the facts of the political situation so fairly that his opponents, while confused by the analysis, cannot deny its truthfulness. Well could he say and truthfully, “We have made the deed square with the word,” for every pledge of the party has been redeemed, every one of its principles has been applied and all of its policies have been carried out. The results are before the country. If the people like those results, if every man feel that he has had value received for the 2 cents a day taxes the Federal Government has cost him, let him say so next November by continuing in power the party and the President whose acts have made him content. 1f he feel otherwise, let him express himself adversely. The President said: “We are more fortunate than our opponents, who now appeal for confidence on the ground which some express and some seek to have con- fidentially understood, that if triumphant they can be trusted to prove false to every principle which in the last eight years they have laid down as vital and to leave undisturbed those very acts of the administration be- cause of which they ask that the administration itself be driven from power.” That is severely keen because it is severely true. No one else has put it in such plain statement. The President tears off the mask of pre- tense and holds the mirror up to nature, so that no one can deny the truthfulness of the image. Antithetically he put the position of his own party: “We make our appeal in a wholly different spirit. We are not constrained to keep silent on any vital ques- tion; we are divided on no vital question; our policy is continuous, and is the same for all sections and locali- ties. There is nothing experimental about the Govern- ment we ask the people to continue in power. Our opponents either openly or secretly, according to their several temperaments, now ask the people to trust their present promises in consideration of the fact that they intend to treat all their past promises as null and void. But we know our own minds, and have kept of the same mind long enough to give our policy coherence and sanity.” That is a magnificent appeal to honesty and common sense, and again it puts the lancet into the vitals of the opposition. Continuing he said: “We have placed the finances of the nation upon a sound gold basis. We have done this with the aid of many who were formerly our oppo- nents, but who would neither openly support nor silently acquiesce in the heresy of unsound finance; and we have done it against the continued and violent opposition of the mass of our present opponents who still refuse to recant the unsound opinions which for the moment they think it inexpedient to assert. We know what we mean when we speak of a sound and stable currency. We mean the same thing from year to year. We do not have to avoid a definite and conclusive committal on the most important issue which has recently been before the people, and which at any time in the near future may be before them again. So long as the Republican party is in power the gnlr'l standard is settled, not as a matter of temporary political expediency, not because of shifting conditions in the production of gold in cer- tain mining centers, but in what we regard as the fundamental principles of national morality and wis- dom.” The address then covers the trust and labor prob- lems, all frankly and fearlessly, and the domestic and external issues of interest to the people. Its clarity of statement is remarkable. Every man who reads it com- prehends every word and has only to appeal to the history of his country to verify it all. The President has not found it necessary to sit inside of himself and It is all in open day, ail easy of comprehension, and appeals with matchless power to his countrymen’s sense of fair play. Judge Parker sees in it a hewing to the line. When he takes his broadax in hand let us see where his chips fly. A proposed municipal ordinance submitted in a com- mendable spirit of optimism to the Board of Supervisors makes provision that barbers must wash their hands before using them with customary recklessness on patrons. This is a step in the right direction. It gives promise of a glad era to the slaves of the razor and flashes a beacon of hope to those of us that had almost given up in despair to one of the apparently necessary evils of the day. GLUTEN IN OUR WHEAT. O the rooms of the California State Board of Trade a conference between flour millers, wheat grow- ers and agricultural experts, which will have significant bearing upon one of the State’s greatest industries. Answering the call of a special committee of the State Joard of Trade, these representatives of the producers and manufacturers will gather to take counsel upon the subject of the deficiency in the gluten of California grain and to seek an efficient remedy for the same. Indicating the widespread interest manifested in this subject by the farmers of the State, The Call has pub- lished within the past two weeks several communica- tions upon the topic from various sections of the grain- growing district. It is becoming manifest that California is in danger of losing her position among the grain- producing States to ecither the Dakotas or Kansas un- less there can be instilled into the golden kernels a little more fatness. We have the grain right enough, more sturdy, more prolific than that of any other land, but of late years the complaint has come from the millers that the falling percentage of gluten in the local product has diminished its value appreciably. Agricultural ex- perts have it that this lacking admits of remedy, hence the conference of next Wednesday. Some of the foremost experts art disposed to follow N Wednesday, August 3, there will be held at | the belief of one of our correspondents and attribute the falling off in the gluten constituent to the modern meth- ods of harvesting. From field to warehouse in a day is now the scheme of the combined harvester. The grain is caught just at the full flush of maturity, cut and sacked without the intervention of the old style of stacking | and drying. Whether or not the full quota of gluten is stored up in this hurriedly harvested wheat is a matter to determined by experimental investigation. Professor Hilgard, the dean of agricultural science on this coast, has promised to be a party to the council of ) wheat men. To bring to bear all the knowledge ac- quirable upon the subject, the secretary of the Board of Trade has addressed a circular letter to all of the wheat growers of the State, seeking that an expression of their views may be forwarded to assist the deliberations of those who are to convene. From such a gathering there should come an authoritative statement upon the cause of the falling in our wheat’s value and measures for the correction of the fault. : Enterprising speculators in New York have organized a company to insure owners of horses protection against the operation of thieves on the public thor- oughfares. To most of us this danger is now com- paratively remote. If anybody wants to prove himself a benefactor to the species let him organize a company to insure horse owners against the insistent hazard of automobiles. F twelve months ending June 30, 1904. Thirty-nine of the number were members of the Society of California Pioneers. On July 1, 1904, there were on the CALIFORNIA PIONEERS. ORTY-ONE California pioneers died during the membership roll of the Society of California Pioneers | the names of 806 persons who are entitled to the honor of membership. Of these but 426 are original pioneers. The others are junior members-to the number of 380, | the juniors, therefore, nearly equaling numerically their seniors. These figures are derived from the annual re- port of the Society of California Pioneers just pub- lished and are entirely reliable. They tell their own story. If the succeeding twelve months shall bring as many losses by death to the original pioneers, which it is hoped may not be the case, the semiors at the end of | the period will have a bare majority of but four. In two years, at the farthest, the juniors in the society will | outnumber the gray-haired members who helped to found the State of California. The younger generation in California, to whom so many benefits have come through the action of the Pioneers, may well pause a moment thoughfully at this point to bestow_the tribute of gratitude. The Pioneers, gazing not less forward than backward, may see more clearly every year what great things are in store and realize the significance of what they have done. Included in the annual report of the society are several statements that are of more than passing interest. During the year eighteen were made members. There are seven honorary members, swelling the total mem- bership to 813. poses of its organization—namely, “to give pecuniary aid to aged and unfortunate members, who may be in need of such assistance.” The relief committee in twelve months expended $i0,026. The receipts of a year from all sources were $06,652 The expenditures caused a deficit of $3268 25. Concerning this President de Haven reported that it was due to temporary loss of revenue ! while improvements were in progress, and for the pur- | chase of property that wiil add to the revenue of the society. and of railway bonds to the amount of $22,035. Of the members who have died within a year three were between 85 and 0o years of age, thirteen were 8o to 85 years, twenty-two were 60 to 70 years. The deaths in San Francisco nymbered nineteen and in other cities- and towns twenty-one. One died in a foreign land. William L. Duncan, the marshal of the sotiety, reported that the deaths were twenty-one less than dur- ing the preceding twelve months. The number of in- valids has also been reduced. There are many suffering from illness and debility, mostly from age. President Roosevelt intends to pay the St. Louis Ex- position a visit in October. Let us be sure that no mur- derous crank, incited by his own disordered mind or by the .diabolism of mischief-makers, may have opportunity | to repeat the dreadful crime that so recently robbed the nation of its chief magistrate and threw the American people into gloom. T Congress will soon move in such a matter. tion of Cabinet departments is a deliberate process, and a long time is apt to elapsé between events. The Inte- rior Departmnet was created about 1845, and Thomas Ewing was its first Secretary. No addition was made to the Cabinet after that until 1889, when a Secretary of Agriculture was provided and Mr. Coleman of St. Louis was appointed. Then there was a skip until 1903, when Mr. Cortelyou became Secretary of the new Department of Commerce. ‘We would advise the miners to be mindful of the law of evolution as applied to the Cabinet departments. The Interior Department sprouted out of the Patent Office. The Department of Agriculture sprang from the Bureau of Agriculture in the Interior Department. The Depart- ment of Commerce issued from several strong bureaus that had risen under the auspices of the treasury. The miners should go on talking about and urging a Depart- ment of Mines, but they should see to it that a strong Bureau of Mines is at once attached to the Department of Commerce. The growth of such a bureau, if it grow, will demonstrate the need of a department quicker than all the speeches and petitions on the subject. The West should organize now for such a bureau. A SECRETARY OF MINES. HE miners of the West are moving again for a min- ing officer in the Cabinet—a Department of Mines with a Secretary at its head. It is doubted whether The war horse with its halo of romance and charm of traditional glories is doomed. France has decided that the Bucephalus of modern armies cannot exist on the same field with automobiles, and the march of the choo-choo car seems irresistible. The horse, therefore, must go and our modern poets must sing the praises of the devil wagons to excite the patriotism of men of peace. - A Portland woman became the bride of a wealthy Chinese hop grower the other day, and another curious incident of Occidental and Oriental association was added to the store of observing sociologists. The Pacific Coast, however, cannot reasonably be held responsible for the peculiar tastes of some of its fair inhabitants. Local dairymen, after protest upon protest and a long series of arguments against rules designed for the proper sanitation of dairies, have called a halt and are willing to accept the conditions presented by the health author- ities. - The time has certainly come for the public to keep a sharp eye on its milk supply. President " hn J. de Haven reported | that the financial condition of the society is good and | | such as to enable it to carry out one of the great pur- | The property that has been acquired consists | of two lots on Jessie street for whiech $i6,113 was paid, The addi- | F Pure “Blind Luck.” “Ef you don’t think some men was born lucky, listen to this yarn about Rattlesnake Pete's big strike over 1: the Blue Gap country,” said “Quartz Billings, with a “thank you, stranger. T'll take whisky.” “But to resume, as old John Sher- man used to say. Rattlesnake was down-hearted that day and he con- cluded he would warm up a bit. When he headed for Jake's we knew what was comin’ and you bet we kept out o sight. . “Long about sundown Pete W rearin’, boilin' drunk, and so bad did | he get that he began to see things. | | After it was all' over he told us that | & dozen old-time Fourth of July pro- | cessions of ‘horribles’ wasn’t a patchin’ | on what he run up against that night. | | But that hain’t the story. Rattlesnake | | mosied out the gulch road and lost' ! hisself in the canyon. Then the things, Wyt world, but for all the ships likely ever to put in to Samoa. The nding en- trance shuts out all surf from the south come over him and up on the side hill | | he starts to kill 'em. With both his/ | pistols goin’ full blast he shot hisself | +* | f | | 3§ COME OV STARTS KILLI {out of ammunition and then he lays| down and falls asleep. “In the morning Rattlesnake comes to his senses just enough to spy the reck outcropping near his feet, where a wild builet had knocked a chip ofen | the quartz. Pete could spot a smell of ore as far as an eagle can see, and, half maudlin that he was, Rattlesnake sees the prospect. It sobered him up and he goes to work. “Mind you, now, after two days’ work ol’ Rattlesnake strikes a pocket | land he pulls $5000 before it gives out. That's why I say some men Is | born lucky. “Don't care ef I do, stranger.” | Brief and to the Point. i ) Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: After Itwen!y-slx years in the iabor move- | ment of San Francisco, organizer of | the Sailors’ Union, the Captains’ and | Pllots’ Association and a dozen others, { I think I am entitled to give some ad- ! SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. | | vice. I give it anyhow. { The trusts, the millionaires, the grafters, the corporations are for | | Parker. They will have milllons to | Iback his fight. Now, under the circumstances, I am | for Roosevelt, and I urge all of my cid friends and comrades, who love liberty and justice, to assist and work for his election. BURNETTE ¢. HASKELL. | Fair Tuiwla. Far in the south seas lies Tutuila. | Four thousand miles to the southwest | of the Golden Gate of California, “the ! second place to the left as you leave | | San Francisco,” to borrow Stevenson’s | | droll definition, Honolulu lying mid- i way—there you will find the green is- lands of Samoa. Volcanoes make the mountains and gorges and solid land of these islands; two hundred inches |of rain a year and an ardent tropic | sun make fits wonderful forest and bush and graceful palms; the “coral insect” makes its white shoreline and | cruel reefs, while copra makes its en- | during smell and its shifting civiliza- tion. And about it all is the abiding presence of the ocean. From every vantage point one sees the blue water meet the blue sky; ever in one’s ears is the low growl of the repulsed waters breaking on the guarding reef; in| every direction is it ocean-wide away to the world! Tutuila is primarily a crater, which has built with the lava it has ejected. This crater of Pago Pago is fringed about with steep walls from 1000 to 2500 teell high, almost vertical on the inner edge after the fashion of craters, sloping away on the outside as the lava flows, two points in its rim, the mountains of Matafao and Peoa much higher than the rest, and with a break half a mile wide on the south, letting in the sea. The harbor of Pago Pago, thus formed within the crgter of Peoa, is nearly two miles deep and a mile wide. This size is, however, much reduced by the barrier reef which occupies half the strait at the entrance and which forms an unbroken rim about the shore with- in. But with all this there is room enough, not for all the navies of the huge voleanic up the island’ | neighborhood |a | solved | able sensation and the great walls on ever other side make the harbor se- curely landlocked, whatever the hurricane without. It is, in brief, the one good harbor® in all the south seas and for that reason it is of high value to a great nation with ex- pansive commercial aspirations. In any case it is now ours and is likely to ce- main so, a mere dock and coaling sta- tion in the eyes of our American ad- | ministrators, but to its people the col- ony of Tutuila of the United States of America, a position in their eyes far sobler than to be an independent king- dom.—President David Starr Jordan in the August Atlantic Modern Witcheraft. A correspondent of the London Ex- press sends the following weird story of spells and witcheraft from Florence, Italy: “The cab drivers of Leghorn who nightly stable their horses in a large courtyard situated in the suburb of San Jacopo have been perturbed by | mysterious noises proceeding from an old well near by. “The well, they maintained, was be- witched, notwithstanding that the po- explained that the ed by escaping carbonie gas. “To reassure the men, however, it was decided to make an investigation. Recently the well was emptied and to the astonishment of those present a number of very curious articles were discovered. “Among them were a heart-shaped leather cushion, inside which was a lamb's heart pierced with fifty needles. lice noises were | The heart was wrapped in a stamped addressed envelope, upon which the address of % young girl living in the was written “Further they found a fragment of marble tombstone, bearing the scription, ‘Here repose the ashes,” and a small glass cylinder, with a parch- ment stopper, and containing a dead toad, which was alse pierced with fifty needles, the toad being tied with a lock of woman's hair. “To all appearances the matter re- itself into an old-fashioned method of witcheraft employed against the girl whose name appeared on the envelope. “A curious point about the affair is that two days before the discovery was made the girl's relatives received a let- ter from San Francisco, whither the girl had recently emigrated, stating she was on her deathbed. A jilted lover of the girl is sus- | pected of being the originator of the affair, which has created a consid the neighborhoo: in Answers to Queries. ELECTRIC ROAD—R. 8§, City. The | cost of building an up-to-date railway track in San Franecisco, including the repairing of the space within the track and two feet of the street on each side of the track, as required by law, $15,000 per mile. ANNOUNCEMENT OF MARRIAGE —A Reader, Oakland, Cal. The send- ing out of an announcement of a mar- riage to others not immediate rela- tives of the contracting parties is a custom construed by many as a gentle hint that a wedding present would not be rejected. The proper way to an- is swer such an announcement is to send a letter of congratulation, or simply a card bearing the name of the senc with the word congratulations wr ten across the face of it. Thig depends upon the degree of intimacy between the sender and the receiver. POKER HANDS-Su riber, City. The following is the order of hands in poker: Bobtail flush (four of one suit and one of any other), one pair, two pairs, triplets, a straight (a sequence of five cards not of the same suit), flush (five cards of the same suit, but not in sequence), full hand (a triplet and a pair), feurs (four of the same denomination accompanied by any other card), a straight or royal flush. which is the highest of all hands. It must consist of a sequence of five cards all of the same suit. The value is de- termined by the cards, the highest card or cards winning. THE CHINESE—C. W. MeC., City The origin of the Chinese as a nation is a mystery. The early anmnals of China belomg rather teo mythology than to history. It is held that be- ginning with Pank-Ku, the first of all beings, the country was ruled over, first by gods. and then personages de- scended from gods. who revealed to men the essential arts of life. Of these mythical rules the most famous is Fohi. The historical period may be said to commence with the Hia period or dynasty, begun by Yu the Great about 2200 B. C., though a great in- fusion of the fabulous still continues in this period. Some date the real history of China frem the Tchow dynasty, which began with Wu Wang, 1100 B. C. It was during the reign of Ling Wang, 544-571 B. C., one of this dynasty, that Confucius was born. ——— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_————— Special information supplied daily ‘o business houses and public men the Press Clipning Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cal~ ifornia street. Telephone Main 1043, *