The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 20, 1906, Page 8

. - YN\ARK TWAIN" matters that Bevers believe that v and a His wonderful eves blazed on it for a moment. Then he smiled, and it all cam back to him like M ssippl River sun- shine, with flags g and the band playing. “How in the name of all that is holy— reading my daily Job—but how, I 10ld of that?” ted to him e, I have t in the Bo you happen to the facts we: rdon chapter say. daia r facts are correct. It was my speech and I did not deliver it.” When the steamship St. Paul was to been launched from the Cramps’ in Philadelphia, on March 25, owing out an old custom, 2 ber of prominent perséne were In- ited to be present to participate in t remonies. Ordinarly at these fu tions a luncheon follows the launc and one was arranged for this occasion in the sail loft of the shipbuflding plant, where addresses appropriate to the af- faig were to have beén made. While the crowd was assembled on the stand awaiting the final word that should send the ship shooting into the stream a reporter observed Mark Twain .standing & little apart from the others and asked him if he had prepared anything in the way of & speech for the uncheon. The humorist replied that he had and, to fa- cilitate the work of the reporter, con- sented that he should make a copy-of it in advance, which he did from typewrit- ten sheets handed to him by Clemens. It happened, however, that when the blocks were knocked away from the great hull and the sponsor raised aloft the con- ventional bottle of champagne to break on the bow the big ship refused to budge and no amount of labor could move her She had stuck fast upon the result the launching was a week or two, whed it was successful, but in the meantime Clemens had started on a tour of the world and his speech was never heard. is it: “Day after tomorrow I sall for Eng- land in 2 ship of this line, the Parls, It will be my fourteenth crossing in three vears and & half. Therefore, my pres- « here, as you see, is quite natural, commercial. I am interested In They interest me more now than hotels do. When a new ship is launched 1 feel & desire to go and see if she will be good quarters for me to live in, particu- larly if she belongs to this line, for it is by this line that I have done most of my ferrying. “People wonder -vhy I go so much. ‘Well, I go partly for my health, partly to familiarize myself with the road. I have gone over the same road so many times now that I know all the whales that be- long along the route, and latterly it is an embarrassment to me to meet them, for they do not look glad to see me, but an- noyed, and they seem to say, ‘Here 1s this old derelict again.’ “Earlier in life this would have pained me and made me ashamed, but I am older now, and when I am behaving myself and doing right I do not care for a whale's opinion about me. When we are young THE SAN. FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. we generally estimate an opinion by the we realize that there are times when a e now without :y G aagd . “I do not mean that I care nothing at size of the person that holds it, but later hornet’s opinion disturbs us more than an all for a whale’s opinion, for that would ‘we find that that is an uncertain rule, for emperor’s be'gvins to too great a length. Of course, it is better to have the good opin- fon of a whale than his disapproval, but my position is that i1 you cannot have a whale's good opinien except at some sec- rifice of principle or personal dignity it is better to try to live without it. That 1s my idea about whales. “Yes, I have gone over that same route @0 often that I know my way with- out a compass, just by the waves. Iknow all the large waves and a good many of the small ones. Also the sumsets. I know every sunset and where it belongs just by its color. Neessarily, then, I do not make the passage now for scemery. That is all gone by. “What I prize most is safety first and in the second place swift transit and handiness. These are best furnished by the American line, whose water-tight compartments have no passage through them, mo doors to be left opem, and con- sequently no way for water to get from one of them to another in time of col- Nsion. If you nullify the perfl which col- lision threatens you with you nullify the only very serious peril which attends voyages in. the great liners of cur day and ‘make voyaging safer than staying at home. “When the Parls was half tom to pleces xm- years ago emough of the At- lantie ebbed and flowed through ome end of her during her long agony to sink the k.. of the world if distributed among but she floated In perfect safety and no life was lost. In tim of colllsion the rock of Gibraltar is not safer than the Paris and other great ships of this line. This seams to be the omly great Hne in the worid that takes a passenger from metropolis to metropolis without the Intervention of tugs or barges or bridges; takes him through without breaking bulk, so to speak. “On the English side he lands at & dock; on the dock a special train Is walting; in an hour and three-quarters he is in London. Nothing could be han- dler. If your journey were from a sand- pit on our side to a lighthouse on the other you could make it quicker by other lines, but that is not the case. The jour- ney is from the city of New York to the city of Londof, and no line can do that journey quicker than this one mor any- where near as convenlently and handily. And when the pasenger lands on our side he lands on the American side of the river, not In the provinces. As a very learned man sald on the last vovage—he 1s head quartermaster of the New York ‘and garboard streak of the middle tch ~—When we land a passenger the American side there’s nothing betwix him and his hotel but hell and the hackman.’ “I am glad, with you and teh nation, to welcome the new ship. iae s another pride, another consolation for a great country whose mighty flests have all vanished and which has almost forgotten what it is to fiy its.flag at sea. I am not sure as to which St. Paul she iIs pamed for. Some think it is the one that is on the upper Mississippi. but the head quartermaster told me It was the one that killed Goliath. But it is not im- portant. No matter which it is, let us give her hearty welcome and godspeed.” MANY ODDS AND ENDS FROM FAR AND NEAR Church Exteriors and Ho to Beautify Them. he Treatment of letin of the Re- ation conta! urges Pray, who s t of landscape ture et Harvard University. Mr. paper concerns itself not so much » the treatment of its Immediate sur- undings, with the art of landscape arch- ture s applied to the environments. churches today we have writes Mr. Pray, “and, what is more encouraging, they are mul- fing 2t an ever increasing rate. More tp gs, but generally, alas, with- rresponding attention being given t equa appropriate treatment of the grounds about theém. To design & monumental h edifice an grchitect &s & matter of course, and one ity and taste, is em- comes to the grounds itect, who has mot to fit him for the r worse, an ordinary e now reached in this country 0 n the evolution of our church when more careful nnex::’on !u the s setting, its convenient &p- (:: and L:: beautification of such es it mey haply possess is in or- ng, if not imperative. It is be no longer sufficient that the ould be beautiful and satisfy- r one has entered its portals. The o of its outward appearance be- e world is to be considered. Not nterior and exterior are to be .4 as separate matters, however, y are, and should be, recognized as rts of one whole. The appearance exterior is but another aspect of hole and indeed, in one way, the y gspect, since by its quality it at- =+ the interior or repels from it unrestful appearance of many \ exteriors is attributable in their 2 to some one Or more of the follow- frequent causes: 1. Undue to the highway. 2. Facing in easonable or an inappropriate di- seing neither properly squared the bighway nor distinctly at an angle with it 8. The unpleasant rela- tion in elevation of the top of the foun- dation to the surface of the ground; that is, the first flo through its correspond- ing external indications, may be too high or too low, and this unpleasantness is ept to be emphasized by the disagreeable- ness of the front steps, or the junction of the wertical walls of the bullding with the relatively horizontal surface of the ground is sn ugly one through its bald- ness, and the sharp contrast along an eggressive line between the perfectly for- msl and the more or less natural. One thing, the building, rests on top of an- other thing, the ground, whereas, by fudicious planning, the two may frequent- iy be =0 blended into one whole that the eye passes pleasantly across the line of transition.” TREATING OF APPENDICITIS. A statistical study of cases of appen- dicitis has been made by Dr. Chauvel, the medica! inspector of the French army. By far the most valuable in- formation brought out by this invstiga- tion is the resuit of medical treatment for the disease. Although there is & the- ory that there is no such thing as medi- cal treatment for appendicitis, it is claimed that medical trestment cures 99 out of every 100. In 1902 668 patients suffering from sppendicitis were received in the military hospitals of France. Out of this number 188 were treated according to the sur- gical rite and 480 received purely medi- cal treatment. Of the number operated upon 28 died, while out of the 480 not operated upon there were but three deaths. teenth Corps in Alglers had twice less. The next year these figures were larger, but the difference was exactly the same. Pushing his inquiries still further, Dr. Chauvel found that the French army in Algeria included both Europeans, French and natives. In five years, out of 14,000 men, there were among the French and Europeans 137 cases of appendigitis, while in the same space of time out of 17,000 natives there were but thirteen cases. This shows that the disease is two times more frequent among the French in France than the French in Al- geria and is ten times less frequent among the natives. The difference is too great to be accidental. Dr Chauvel thinks the reason is in the allmentation. The Arabs are a sober people who eat little and are vegetarians. When they eat meat it is cooked to shrds. So it happens that among the Arabs leading thelr ordinary iife the Afsease is elmost unknown. It is seen more frequently emong the suxiliaries. It is because the regime of the latter is no more the regime of the Arab, but more like that of the French trooper. But this does not explain why the Eurepean trans- planted to the eoll of Africa, where his regime hardly differs from that of the metropolis, should likewise be Immune from the disease. Other medical men have testified . to the rarity of appendicitis among people who eat less meat than we. Dr. Snyder, who has been attached to the Persian court for more than ten years, has been treat only five oases ef this y at Teheran, three of which wers Europeans and only two Persians. NEW LIVERPOOL DOCKS. The Mersey Docks and Harbor Board will ask Parllament for a grant of power to make very extensive improvements at the north end of the Liverpool docks. It is estimated the improvement will cost ts are also being made to make extensive improvements at the Birkenhead foreign animals wharf. Six new slaughter houses and meat stores are to be erected, and six additional chill rooms will be bulilt, together with a new refrigerator plant end a covered market for the display of meat to purchasers. The visitor to the Tower of London the vaults of the King’s bankers, their places being taken by cleverly executed counterfeits in paste. The Koh-i-noor is never on exhibition, and some of the other stones are represented by proxy, though the famous ruby wern in his hel- met by Henry when he invaded France and which now biazes in the center of the Maltese cross in the crown made for Queen Victoria is shown. It was the early custom to provide an ornate but inexpensive crown for the Queen Comsort, and though ‘these. circlets blaze with jewels none of them are real. When Victoria was to be crowned Queen Regnant it was realized that it would never do to offer her paste, and a new crown was provided, for which stones were taken from the earlier masculine crowns. ‘With the exception of the Queen’s crown and some few stones in other badges of royalty the entire is of paste and yet shows the original stones, even the imperial crown never having boasted real jewels. 0ddly enough, most of these paste Jewels attract more appreciative comment than the few crowns set with geniune stones, perament eler's store will display ten times the number of real precious stones, Intrinsically the entire display is not ‘worth more than & quarter of a million. INCREASE USE OF CEMENT. has no applications Cement probably abroad which are not familiar to Ameri- can although in some classes of 3 . ] g s M SCREENS OF HUMAN HAIR. During last winter some most artistic fire " screens '~-t. beauty and utility to country #nl - 1 ban homes. They were fine creatio) s metal and enamel, but it is safe to say that for oddity none sur- a screen owned by a New Yerker voluntarily surrendered by the owners thereof. They unwillingly fell victims to the head hunters of Dutch Borneo. The artisan whose cunning fingers shaped it was formerly engaged in the bloodthirsty pursuit, but now, devoting himself tc the peaceful calling of commerce, disposes of these “fire screens made entirely of hu- man hair.” Nor is he behind his more civilized brother in enterprise, for, realiz- ing the value of advertising, he posed be- fore the camera with one of his bizarre contrivances. KLOEPPEL LACE IN SAXONY. The Saxony government is giving con- siderable attention to the maintenance of schools for the training of workers in making lace by hand. This movement has been taken up after considering the matter of reducing the schools, as the output of hand made laces has diminished in competition with the lace factories. art among the public by paying particular attention to the rarer and flner varieties of Kloeppel lace, which the factories can-- not well produce. ROME TO RATIFY DECREES. It is expected that the decrees of the last Provincial Synod of Maynooth will =oon be ratified by Rome and published. A few misprints in the first draft of the decrees sent to Rome have caused the delay. According to the new ecclesiastical legislation In Ireland parish priests will be appointed in future by concursus. CENSUS OF NICE. Census returns have just been pub- leshed for the town of Nice. These show what a populous place the Queen of the Riviera has become. On March 4 the total number of inhabitants was. 149,448 and the total number of houses was 7987. Among the residents was one centenarian. A RICH EYE “WASH.” In the eye socket of the skuil of a huge mastodon unearthed in the Forty-three Gold Run claim, near Dawson, last month, wal.;.tflmdmvcl that washed $1600 in 0] USING THE NATURAL FLOWER. A firm of London florists employs a cording to the value of the blossoms used. TULIP EMBLEM OF HATRED. The tulip is the emblem of Hungarian and anti-Austrian sentiment. A Tulip League has been formed in Hungary to beycott ewerything Austrian. The mem- bers wear a badge of a tul’y in the Hun- garian colors—red, white and green. Latest Results of Tests With Sanosin Cure. Berlin is giving a thoreugh trial to & new cure for pulmonary phthisis. Cer- tainly this is a promising fleld for the work, for the climate of that city is par- ticularly trylng to sufferers from that disease, or any throat or lung trouble. The mortality there from these diseases is ten & day. Our Consul vestigation in this country. At one of the famous clinics only those who brought certificates from the Royal Hospital with the diagnosis of progres- fited that they were able ttend” to their dally occupations for a part of the g ® encouraged porary stimulation of the patients may be inferred from the work of Dr. Engell, the expert who is charged with keeping the sputum of the patients under constant examination: He reports that the change in its character is rapid and sustained in the steady dimiinution and final disap- pearance of the bacilli and the elastic the inhalations act with great promptness and thoroughness in correcting the cat- arrhal conditiofs which accompany pul- monary phthisis. The changed character and final disappearance of the expectora- tions illustrate this action. This gives rellef from the troublesome and irritating cough, allowing restful sleep, which is so mecessary to the physical upbullding and The appetite is stimulated, and increased assimilation of food ports of Dr. Danelius and Professor Som- merfield a number of the cured patients of the Sanosin clinic were present for examination. These persons had been certified as incurable by the Royal Hospi- tal staff, and in not one of them could any of the typical symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis be found. EGGS 700 YEARS OLD. at & depth of thirty-five feet. It is sup- posed that the eggs were deposited in the basket in the early part of the twelfth coloring matter, and one might conclude that the lodine or other matter which zi i f ¢ : f :;i’ LH i it i i i ¥ ; - 4 [ R l .