The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1904, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL CE) Proprictor JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ....c0000 » ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO 2 JOHN McNAUGHT... cesessses.... sianager .THIRD AND MAREET STREETS. SAN FRANCISCO 5, 1904 .”......SEPTEM'BER 2i THE FINAL STRUGGLE. final assault and the last desperate defense of n within the past forty-cight hours. It is one| ary tragedies of history. The failure of Ku- > rai e sicge, his defeat at Liaoyang, his weary re- Mukden and his final retirement froin that last Russian 1d in Southern Manchuria marked the beginning of the end campaign. Its incidents will close with the fall of Port ise t SC When the war beggn there were military and newspaper critics | and Europe who declared that the vast preponder- 1e an would crush the island empire in the first | The Call then pointed out that the strength »atants was equalized by the remoteness of the field ns from Russia’s base. The trans-Siberian railway was 1ssia, primarily, as a military feature in her intended con- n Asia, the subjugation of China and the destruction | ality. The road served that purpose. It threw | ¢ Russian force that joined the concerted powers | he legations at Peking, and the ending of the Boxer | e rest of the world believed that these ends were all that | v the presence of her armed forces in Manchuria. | was justified by Russia’s solemn agreement with the | to evacuate Chinese territory at a common date. | faith her military railway was ceaselessly used to | in China, and bring the material to fortify her | ised the United States to evacuate and keep her | e as the 8th of October. But when that date came | ved out, but thousands came in to hold and battalion{ e had occupied by craft. | sther October is approaching and will find Kuro- Soongaree and running to cover at Harbin, to| Vladivostok. The military power of Japan will » that evacuation of territory which she prom- 1d be voluntary. The first conclusion of The correct. Japan's command of the Yellow Korea gave her the military primacy im- | se, and for the rest look into her skill and | 1 illusion which made the world a coward. | 1y and resources of Russia have lain like | f of the globe. Japan in oné campaign has t that shadow, and it has disap- | mankind goes out to the defenders of on the fleet, but it has been beaten in ttered ships have run to cover in neutral ypatkin, but the Japanese commander in ics of Caesar at the siege of Alesia, , at the same time maintaining the ge 2 nse army that was marching to raise it. | 1 len the fate that overwhelmed Vercin- | Gaul. { been inattentive to the tactics of Japan, to] rules of war and the desire of her commanders | nts and even the military forces of her enemy. ruce at Port Arthur and safe conduct from that n-combatants before turning the artillery upon it. i for Russia by Stoessel, upon whom is the responsi- > the non-combatants. When the isola- | mplete, when the shells from Japan's land on the decks of Russian warships in the forced to make their last sortie only to be | ed by Togo, the fortress was summoned to| fused. This refusal can be pardoned on the | not on the score of humanity. The sol- Its rules of honor require that re- t into exhaustion. And Stoessel, the free-born | rvant of an iron autocracy, lives up to the bloody code > of the assault and defense stirs the heart of | 1¢e gentle millions who have dreamed of univer- ns of Eastern Asia offered to Europe a prey | that dream a reality. Whether they resisted they fell, peace was put afar off. - The Mus- | nd universal empire is the same pest to man- | was the wisdom that inspired Napoleon. Give to of China and possession of Japan by con-| s to come would see no peace, except in the same i} f d upon continental Europe. OUR NEAR CANADIAN NEIGHBOR. L is in \'P(‘Cint of a cupiyrnfr the Year Book of British t P compiled by R. E. Gosnell, Secretary of the 1 Information. As a complete exposition of esources and civic conditions of our nearest northern provinces this volume of near 400 ness to the enterprise of its promoters in the here in California, unacquainted in great measure British Columbia, surprise must come with the pendium of facts relating thereunto as js set With the exception ofithe districts adjacent -r we are wont to believe British Columbia ns and snow lands with vast woods and entire length. How erroneous is our when we learn of great farms, cities rest’s trees and whole districts spotted ers and ore crushers. within the zone of the railroads land er acre, according to situation, has been stock and fruits to a total gross valu- “the last census year. From. the gold placers ngs $3,661.409 represents the output of the 22—over three-fourths of the total gold production of the n\exclusive of Yukon Territory. In coal $4,192,182 indi- cates output for the same year; copper, $3.446,673. The sum total of product from the fishing activities for the year 1902 aggre- gate 80,824. s ; hus it may be seen that British Columbia, vet the frontier of the Dominion, has already made rapid advances in the develop- ment of its resources. Hnmes are rapidly being built in the interior rness, mnn_ufaclor:es are springiug' up in the ports, railroad lities are being extended wherever new fields offer. Yet the Government officials assure us through their Year Book that British Columbia has only started in the fulfiliment of her destiny. mps of the fc the To English tacticians and war leaders the lessons of the Far Eastern struggle come home with painful emphasis. When they read of the Japanese driving Russians out of entrenchments at the point of the bayonet,-memories of that disastrous affair of the Brit- ish at Modder River take on no golden hue, > codeit S The young man in Missouri who wagered his life against a woman'’s and, losing, paid the penalty is not deserving of great sym- pathy. A life held so cheaply that it may be staked on the turn of a card is really not worth as much to the winner as a stack of chips might be. e —_—— “Our departure from Liaoyang was unavoidable,” wired Kuro- patkin to Nicholas. This leaves no leeway for a subsequent “I re- gret to report,” and proves Kuropatkin a humorist of the first order. James Jefiries, champion bruiser, is preparing to appea: th stage as Davy Crockett. May it be permitted tgo the gfid: Z? th:. eriginal Davy to be a near witness of this, his fina] glorification. | feather SR “COME ON, ALTON, I'M READY.” o] BELIEVE THAT THE GREAT MAJOR]TY OF MEN WHO p TOR BRYAN ARE OF CONVICTIONS I HOPE THEY WILL ZE THAT I AM E%FII‘}ING THEIR BATTLE NOW ” rrosas E. WATSGN. R T s | I | i Hats of Feathers. Nowadays ore need not be com'ent with a single feather in the hat, since P entire chapeaux are made of feathers. ; There are many novelties in these hats. been in turban sizes. Now one may have one of them in anything from a tiny toque to a big brimmed sailor with a modish roll. It must be admitted, though, that it is prettiest in the me- dium sizes. Perhaps because we dre ac- customed to seeing feathers of the same dort on small, duck-built birds. This is undoubtedly turban seems more CI‘P\'EF than the large hat made solidly of feathers. One feather sailor is lovely, however. It is of richly deep blue plumage, with a roll arcund the crown of some plum- age in a brownish castor. This is as rich as it is smart and it would require no more than a knot of velvet to make it ready for wear. Even this might be dispensed with were its fair owner in a hurry. A charming feather turban—a tor- pedo as to shape—is in gray. It is dainty and demure and will be charm- ing for the fair one who has an idea of dressing in gray. Or it wculd be ef- fective if trimmed with a contrasting color in harmony with whatever dress was to be worn with it. A number of colors are good with gray, especially black and white, or emerald green, or the tritoma colors. A paradise in these shades is stunning on a fine gray. One of the most graceful feather hats is a good sized turbam all in olive. This lovely color, which bids fair to be a full fledged revival, is of a particularly lovely shade in this case. In adidtion to being covered all over with the olive-hued plumage there is at the left a tendency to longer feathers until, at thg very back a little cascade of coque feathers falls | over the hair. Tulle and velvet might be draped around this hat to advan- tage, and without doubt the tritoma colors would be superb on it. A clever new rolling brim sailor is made entirely of dark blue feathers. Tt is as simple as possible of construc- tion, though it looks elaborate. To put it plainly, it is trimmed with a shaded plume made of plaited rib- bon. The piaitings, which overlap, are made of plaited taffeta and the plume, which is composed of them, starts at the left back, being caught by a buckle of cut steel. At this point the plaited plume is of a blue as dark as the hat. With every row it grows a shade lighter, until at the back again it has grown almost white. In this case it has shaded ‘through the cornflower shades and is particularly crisp and feaching.—Philadelphia Record. Don't Bolt Food. Many serious maladies are due to bolting food. This bad habit not only leads to difficulty of digestion, but it favors excessive eating. Each morsel of food should be chewed until its fla- vor is no longer perceptible, when it will be almost automatically swallowed and digested quickly and comfortably. The morbid craving for food, which ijs a common symptom, is often dis- pelled by leisurely and elaborate mas- tication. > —_————— -Almost the entire output of radium is now obtained CromA.meflelnorF. park,” mmmw why the feather | Heretofore they have [ 5 Former Princess de Chimay to Be Seen in Vaudeville o < CLARA WARD. THE BEAUTIFUL SOCIETY GIRL OF DETROIT WHO BECAME THE PRINCESS DE CHIMAY, AND WHOSE MANY ESCAPADES TOOK AWAY THE BREATH OF THE PEOPLE OF TWO CONTINENTS. = HE American va.udev\llle stage will soon have Clara Ward, erstwhile Princess de Chimay, heroine of numerous marital escapades and once a reigning beauty of Detroit, in its midst. According to Adolph Marks, a lawyer, who has just arrived from Eu- rope, the erratic Clara is to return to make a fight against the persons who had her pronounced insane by_Mlchigan courts and to try to regain posses- sion of her share of her father’s fortune, tied up in the courts. Incidentally she will make her appearance on the vaudeville stage, a con- tract having been signed. & T R The Brighter Side of Life. | +——-————' . . policeman, ‘‘ynless they can attain a > Secure. Billy—What became of Petey de porch | rate of at least five miles an hour."— Chicago Tribune. climber? Rt Jimmy—Oh, he was caught in bed. Waiting for Him. “Is your husband up yet?” inquired Billy—Did he put up a struggle? d Jimmy—He couldn’t. It was a folding | . 4 bed.—Chicago Daily News. e early morning caller. Joyous Freedom. Poor Henpeck wrote this epitaph On his departed better haph: “Here lies my wife, . To save my life 2 I cannot weep. It is to laph. —Catholic Standard and Times. i Signs of Progress. E “What is the speed limit here for automobiles?” asked the stranger. “We allow no automobiles in this looking woman. “I'd like to say a few words to him.” “So would I. He hasn't come home yet.”—Catholic Standard and Times. Sporting Item. Mrs. Game—See here, Mr. G, I thought you sald you had been duck hunting. But these ducks you brought home are tame ducks. % _.“Y-e-s, m'dear; I tamed 'em after I (hic) shot ’em.”—Cincinnati Commer- cial-Tribune. 3 | in gloves, | make them appear much larger, since | tie “I guess he is,” replied the stern-! . ..iure, “F e Glovelerssfl Hands. Not without regret is the fashion of going gloveless to be observed. The thin end of this sartorial wedge was inserted some time since at the the-| aters and now the mode has been! | pushed further and one finds women who at one time would never have ventured out of doors ungloved now appearing in public places both night | and day with bare hands. It has been urged that gloves and rings do not agree. Better, it is argued, to show | well kept, manicured fingers spark-" ling with gems than to encase them which must necessarily | it is an open secret that gloves at least one size larger must be worn by wom- en who wear rings as compared with | those who do not. Again, it is plead- ed that in hot weather women suffer | much discomfort from gloves, whereas | man is freed from it. But all such | arguments are weak. The glove is. one of the daintiest adjuncts of a| woman’s toilet. It possesses roman-| associations, it is always charae- | teristic of its wearer, it has an un- doubted air of refinement about it, | and, moreover, it is cleanly and hy- | gienic. To say that without ijt a| woman does not look finished, that she appears less dainty and less dig- nified, is perhaps a trifle exaggerated, but at least it is a fact that inatten- tion to such trifles as gloves marks de- terioration in a woman. Anything that has this effect is to be sternly discouraged. And for this reason the fashion of discarding gloves whenever possible is not one which can be viewed with equanimity.—Ladies' Pictorial. Johnny Learns. Since little Johnny went to school And studied under modern rule, He's learned to hem and darn and knit, And has a pretty sewing kit. He's learned to paint a yellow rose And how to ornament his clothes, How to make pretty moonlight scenes By splashing ink on little screens. And Johnny has a little book Which tells the dear child how to cook; You might not think it. but it's true, He's graduated in beef stew. You ought to hear how Johnny sings Those lovely, noisy, Wagner things. He sings all cla: music grand, ¢ Those tuneless things none understand. When Pa comes home from work at night He teaches Johnny how to write, And how to cipher and to spell, But what Pa says—I shall not tell. —Buffalo Commercial. Music- at the Park. The following programme will be ren- dered by the Golden Gate Park band this afternoon: March, Overture, ‘‘Raymond Waltz, ‘‘Weiner Burger' Solo for saxophone. s Grand fantasia, “‘Pagliaccl’ PART IL let_suite, “Le Ci Bt March of the toys from “Habes in Toyland'” Herbert (b) Panamericana—Characteristi Reverie, “The Roses’ Honeymoon Descriptive fantasia, Cavalry A‘ good book and a good woman are excelient things for those who know how to appreciate their value. There are men, however, who judge of both by the bcauty of the covering.—Dr. Johnson. | be adopted. | stories were inspired by fnim. |and a quarter hours. | ccmpletely recovered. Devils of All i Sorts Succumb to This Pastor e Spectal Correspondence of The Call LONDON, Sept. 7.—Of the making of books there is no end, but of the mak- ing of bad books there may be an end if Pastor Howton's theory as the source of their aut and his method of tr Mr. Howton, to who held holy orders in the Church of Eng- land, but long ago set up a religious once establishment on his own account, kolds that bad books, from the erotic novel in yellow covers to the maudlin romance in drab binding, are all alike irspired by demons, and that he has been invested with divine powers to cast out the evil spirits and rid an afllicted world of the products of their malignant pens. At Glossop, a stony streeted, prosalc little town in Derbyshire, he conducts an institution for the cure of the de- mon-possessed, where he makes a specialty of treating those obsessed by literary devils, and by exorcising the noxious spirits, fits therr victims to become useful members of society as clerks, blacksmiths, housemaids—or for whatever occupation their natural tal- ents qualify them. He keeps a case beok in which he records some of his most successful exorcisms and at the head of the list he proudly points to this entry: HIS SUCCESSES. *“Case No. 1—Lady novelist; possessed by a very malicious demon. All her I wres- tled with and succeeded in casting out demon. Lady fell in a dead faint, one Revived, and Has never been able to write stqries since, power hav- ing completely gone.” When asked what was wrong with | her stories Mr. Howton admitted that they were not so bad as many books that were foisted on the British pub- lic, but they showed unmistakable signs of the cloven hoof and possessed that subtle quality, in common with all demon inspired works, of render- | ing their readers easily accessible to devil and trans- writers of trashy the same species of forming them into | fiction, or worse. The next entry records another con- quest over the evil one of which he is almost equally proud. It reads: “Case 2—Miss Very highly con- nected. Brother a canon, uncle a gen- eral in the British army. Possessed by a fallen angel, which I cast out. Lady has since painted pastoral scenes, which hang on my wall, and is now my private sec y. Her own testi- mony is, ° e just like a bird let 1 1 | locse. ANY SORT. e his attention to n angels. At'd.l CASTS OUT He does not cor literary devils or fa times he is open to an engagement to cast out any sort of devil that has taken up a human habitation. One of the egtries in his case bouk tells of'a triumph over one of the old-fashioned, hot and hissing fire and brimstone sort. | This is how he has recorded it: “Pastor Greening of Leeds—Possess- ed, when a lad, of most horrible demon. Came to the home, where I fought with demon, which eventually came hissing from patient’s mouth, like a fierce ser- pent. In casting this devil out the room and everything in it shook and the chairs danced about.” He began to tackle devils twenty years ago, renting a small house at Glossop for the purpose at something under thirty-five cents a week. He has prospered in his work; has built a mission chapel at a cost of $8500, where the faithful gather and bear testimony to his victories over evil spirits, and is now building a large house where, with ample accommodation for his patients, he will be able to carry on his voca- tion as a demon specialist on a big scale. For, strange as it may seem in this materialistic age of millionaires and motor cars, with many the faith in demons abides as strongly as it did in the old days of broomsticks and witches and out of their patronage Pas- tor Howton makes a'very comfortable iving. FASTS AND PRAYS. He is not at all the type of man one associates with the ascetics of old, who were reputed to possess power over evil spirits. | He is a big man with a big voice, réddish hair, sandy mustache, a great double chin and ‘a waist whose tremendous girth constitutes an atro- cicus libel on the claim he makes that he finds in fasting one of the chief sources of his spiritual power. At his home plush-bottom chairs, comfortable couckes and soft carpets take the place of the stone floors, wooden benches and slab of rock with which the old-fash- joned demon exorcisers were content. As to his methods of treatment he does not go much into details. When asked how he casts out the devils he replied: “By prayer and fasting. I spend nights and nights in prayer. Then there suddenly comes to me a wonder- ful power, and I go for the demon right off. It's either him or me then. Once or twice it has been nearly me, but I won in the end, praise the Lord!™ ‘Each of his patients is supplied with a separate room, where, if need be, a nurse locks after him while the pastor is working up the power that will en- able him to fight it out with his partic- ular demon. Whenever it comes to him, at whatever hour of the night, he makes a dash for the room that holds the patient, and proceeds to exorcise. One of his greatest victories over a demon, he says, was achieved when he was clad only in a nightshirt and a pair of bedroom slippers. ‘What damageé is done to the demons or where they go after the pastor has finished with them is an open question. But they leave no traces of brimstone or sulphur about the house. He adapts his charge to the purses of his pa- tients. He once, cast out a poor woman's demon for a trifling consider- ation that in American money would be something under 75 cents, He pro- Tesses to cure all sorts of sickness and disease in the same miraculous fashion and on the same terms, ———ec - Townsend's California Glace fruits In artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ————— Finest eyeg'asses, 15¢ to 500, ™9 4th at., front of Key's Celebrated Oyster House,* ———————— Spectal information supplied daily to Press Clipping ’in‘:n":&- - ifornia street. Tclephone Maln 0