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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21

of its 1900 square miles of super
ficieS lying below the sea level, and
only kept from being drowned out
through foundations of the North Sea and
of rivers by unceasing vigilance in the MAIN
tenance OF dlkes. canals. great lockgates 10
stem out the tides, an array Of windmills
and a re'icuiated system of pumping
stations Only by mans reelaming hand is
the country habitable in any shape, and
only by mans refining and civilized hand is
II made to bloom as garden and prosper as
land endowed richly with all the elements
which assist progressive national life. 1t is
even a country full of charm for the
traveller, whether In summer or winter.
although 1t has not hill higher than its
dunes aud dikes, and even its canals are
elevated highways Of commerce when looked
at from the bottom flats of q polder. Each
TO his country and each to his
trade. A Hollander loves the level ex-
panses of his pastures and gardens, only
broken by the church spires of distant
towns, and the tufts OF pOllarded trees in
mOnOtOnOus rows along the canal banks.
De is an unhappy mortal among the peaks
OF Switzerland, his consuming desire being
TO bore through the mountainous masses
and see what is beyond. There is sublim-
ity IN both aspects of nature and if we look
at the profit 10 mankind all over the globe,
a very short examination will convince us
that we owe Infinite gratitude to the Meth
erlands for arts and industries which have
ItdfcneI sOCldl ltle everywhere, as well as
Tor the noble assertion of liberty which
broke the power of Spain and France
while to Switzerland we may be grateful
for crop OF theological ideas, owing to the
personal freedom enjoyed by the dis
putants.
With its area of 1900 square miles and
nearly 100000 Inhabitants, Holland may
impress Californian as much Overpopu-
lated, but IL one may judge Of the situation
by noting the smiling eontentment every
where conspicuous feature save in some
quarters of the large cities, and particularly
Amsterdam, Holland has by no means
reached Its limit in food production and
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21

see no fences marking of the farms as
You do in America. There are no barns
nor stray haystacks keeping sentinel
watch, as il were, over the fields, and the
lone farmhouse on the western prairies of
America, separated by miles from any
similar nabitation, is absent. You see no
one working alone in the fields without it
be here and there a shepherd or a short
skirted maiden watching tie cattle. The
people work in gangs of from half a dozen
TO hundred, and their life in their villages
and ID the fields is social one. The COM
mon interest which they have in the lands
belonging to the village ties them together
In other ways and they are more closely
associated with one another than any other
people Of the world
! have visited many of these villages with
In the last month. Let me tell you how
they look. Riding through the country on
the railroad you see scattered over the land
scape what in the distance look like two
rows Of low, o5long haystacks running
irregularly for a mile or more in one direc-
ton. Each of these collections of haystacks
Is q Russian village, and when you get
closer to it you see that what you supposed
were haystacks are matched huts and that
the lower part of each stack is made of logs.
sundried bricks or waited twigs. You
now note that the wide road along which
these huts stand is full of half-naked babies,
squalliUg children and all Of The queer char
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all these. aspects are still visible, little
Demished by the fluctuations of centuries
and thus there is charming continuity of
national existence, not spoiled as elsewhere
Dy the suoIugation Of individuality to the
lnsenSate vagarleS of aimlesS fashion. If
Rembrandt were to wake up to-day in
Leyden or Amsterdam he would stare at
steam power on the canals and the docks,
but he would find some of his favorte
walks and haunts much as he left them,
and would have little to jar on his esthetic
vision in the perspective of street architec-
ture. with canals for the real highways.
He would be quite contented to resume life
in his beloved Holland and dream about
the indispensable virtues of Sasha Van
Ulenburgh.
Go into the fish market al Rotterdam and
you will be amazed at the personal identity
OF the sonsy, Swapping well-rOunded forms
OF the fishwives with those that appear in
living fidelity in the Dutch pictures of three
centuries ago. The very fish are there
handled In the same manner Those that
come from fresh waters are kept alive, not
quite as we'll oxygenated as in the canals, and
are scooped out. Quilted and beheaded in
wrigghng protest in the presence of the
purchaser, who has a little pail under the
arm and is comfortably dressed in calico
OF unlmpeachable stainlessness The cells
are hooked out OF water, nicked on the neck
and skinned alive in presence eff the buyer-
cruel process, but no doubt helpful to
tue HaVor OF eel Wnen served at table.
Street ped0lerS sometimes lose by the
activity Of cells. for they wrggle out of tho
baskets into the streets and iudiciously
prefer freedom in the sewers to being
skinned alive. There is no sentimentality
of the anti-vivisectinnist craze among these
Rotterdam fishwiyes, but they have whole
some respect for their own vocation, and as
so many Dutch painters have put them on
canvas with high ideal of their worth, at
least in color and picturesqueness, we must
elevate them a notch or two above the
grimy, Shiny, filth-c0vered saespeope in
the Fulton market. New York. or Billings
gate. London.
Holland has now a wealth OF strange
fower-bulbs and fields of fruits of the berry
order, as near perfection as any flowers or
fruits obtanable in Europe, but in this re-
spect also the distinguished painters. phi
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21
ARIsTocRAcY AND GOOD LOOKS.
The Gods of the Heather Are Ugly, but
Nevertheless Great.


Nevertheless Great.
As matter OF fact there is scarcely any
connection between aristocfaey, even demo-
cratic aristoeracy, and good profile, saws
Il. Y. Higginson In Harper's. Bazaar. The
more complete the system of caste the more
absolutely 1t is discovered from anything
relating to external appearance. The social
inferior looks up to the superior as one of
Dickens 'reverental wives" looks I'D 10
her husband, with a reverence not impaired
by any LONELINESS Of features.
Rufus Choate said of Chief Justice Shaw
OF Massachusetts, who was one of the plain
est of men: 81 feel toward him as the South
Sea Islander feels toward his idol; he see
that he is ugly, but he knows that he Is
great" The most striking case perhaps of
this complete reversal of judgment under
the influence of caste IS TO be found In those
two tribes described by the author of 1.-TWO
Happy years in CeyloR," the Rock We'd
dahs and the Rodyas. The Rock Veddahs
are stunted. hideeus and filthy; they live In
secluded caves and holes /; they eat bats and
rats and make their scanty clothing from
the bark OF trees; but the Singhalese regard
them as Of the very highest caste. and 1t
would be no disgrace for woman OF good
social position To marry a Rock Veddah
On the other hand the very greatest dis
grace that could be inflicted on such a
woman would be to marry her to Rodiya.
although these last are race distinguished
for beauty at least In youth, and gentle
and innocent by nature. The Rodiyas can
not enter a temple or a village; they are
forbidden 10 till the soil or draw water
from a well; they cannot build a house or
divide burden into TWO bundles; their
shadow must not fall on stream, lest it be
polluted; NO member OF another caste may
touch them without disgrace; yet any one
may shoot them without blame. All this
is supposed to be in consequence OF the act
Of an ancestor 1000 years ago, who inyei-
gled King into eating human flesh As a
consequence the beautiful race is at the foot
Of the social scale, the ugly and repulsiye
at the top.
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of steel wire that wontbe made into bustles
for the simple reason that bustles are net
worn.
Poor Johnnie" said he. as he worked a.
some of his wire. I'm give the yonngster
protection. See if don't''
So yesterday Mr.. Taylor> went to the
Hubbard house with what appeared to be
an immense hustle This is for Johnnie
said be. as the folks looked at him In won-
der. II will present it to him in person.
Then they showed him up to Johns crib,
and the youngster, who recognized him.
tried to say "Goo," but he couldn't. He
was too weak.
Spare yourself any expression of obliga-
ton. young man." said Mr. Taylor. as he
dropped the hustle over the crib And
there John was amid his white linen, look
ing all the world like a decorated cake
covered with a fly protector. But it is
rat protector. And John seems to like it,
too. There is door in it, aud when ho
wants refreshment or any attention it Is
opened,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21
III Il CLOVER.

some sing OF the lily and daisy and rose.
Ana the pansies and pinks that the summer time
throws
In the green, grassy lap of the medder that lays
BItnkln up at the skies Though the sunShiny
days;
But what is the lily and al the rest
OF the fowers TO a man with heart in his breast
that has dipped brimmin' fun of the honey and
dew
OF the sweet clover bi ossoms his boyhood knew
i never set heavy on clover field now.
or TOOL round stable, or climb ia the NOW.
But my childhood comes back Just as clear aud as
plain
AS the smell OF the clover I'm snifin' again;
And wander away in a barefooted dream,
Where l tangled my toes In tue blossoms that
CLEAN
With the dew of the dawn of the morning OF love
Ere wept Ger the graves that am weeping above.
And so love cloyer-it seems like part
" the sacredest sorrows and Joys OF my heart;
Ana wherever IL blossoms on. there let me bow
Ana thank the good God as am thankn him now;
Aud pray TO him stil for the stTeugth when die,
i go In the clover and tell 1t yood-by.
And lovingly nestle my face in It's bloom
While my soul slips away on a breath OF perfume.
JAMES WHITCoMB RILEY.
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PROTECTION FROM RATS.
A Connecticut Baby That Is Now Fully
Protected From Danger.

N DhDy Anhb rs NOW ulIy
Protected From Danger.
New York World.
John Ludeling Hubbard is a fine, healthy
young fellow and lives at Sea Side Park,
near Bridgeport. Conn. His home is one of
the hands0mest in the locality and is ele-
gantly furnished, for Johns parents are
very we'll to do. John is scarcely year
old, but that doesn't detract from his i'm
portauce.
His mother is Mrs Sherman II. Hubbard.
formerly Miss Ludeling of Louisiana, who
is one of the leading society women at
Bridgeport. She is young and pretty, and
when John grows to be big man he will
probably have all her determination and
courage.
Little John is watched as carefully as a
young king, and what is more, he has his
especial doctor right In the house in the
person of his grandfather. DR.. Robert Hub.
bard, who attended the late Phiueas L.
Barnum.
A few days ago big water rat attacked
John and bit him very severely as he lay in
his cradle.
Now when Thomas P. Taylor heard of
the affair next morning his inventive genius
shook hands with itself and smiled. Mr..
Taylor, who is the next door neigh Dor,
thinks little John is one Of the finest young
sters in the world. The most of Mr.. Tay-
lOr'S life has been given to catering TO the
vanity of women. He was bustIe-maker,
and lie is yet in possession of several miles
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21

II give this straw thatch to the starving
cattle and horses. / saw in the famine
districts many huts which were covered
with bare poles, and in which the peope
are sheltered today only by The board cell
ing which runs across these walls of logs
forming the floor of the loft of the huts.
The average Russian hut has one door and
two little windows al the front, with some
times a second window in the rear. The
front door is much like n rude stable door,
such as is sometimes knocked UP by our
farmers, and it leads not into the living
room of the hut but into little stOre-room
or sort of yestibule which forms one end of
the cabin.
This room is usually without any flooring
but that of the ground. You may see the
chickens or other animals belonging to the
family in il, and some OF the farming tools
of the establishment STAND about its walls.
In the center of one side OF il is a door
reached by Que or two low steps. and lead
ing into the house proper and forming the
entrance 10 the room that Is in fact the
only room in the cabin, and which may be
called the Russian peasants home. In it
the f4miy sleep, eat. cook and live. and
when IL is remembered that fully half of
the year in Russia is made up of bitter win
ter when the days are short and the
nights long, il will be seen that the
greater part of the peasants existence
Is passed here Let me describe for you
a liviDg-roOm of this kind which | visited
In village near Petr0ffskoi, in the midst of
the great black plain of Russia, where the
land is as rich as the valley of the Nile and
where the farmer should live as well as
anywhere in the world. for he is working
on the worlds richest lands. This hut of
which | speak is that of a well-tO-dO peas
ant. 1t is, If anything, better than the
average. Its liying-room was not more than
10 by ~ feet in size. and one fourth of this
space was taken up by the great chimney,
which formed the oven. the cooking stove
nrxn NhA D.. I..@
This chimney was fully feet wide and
about 8 feet long. and its front, in which
were holes for fuel aud an oven, rose from
the floor to the ceiling.
In the side facing the room. leaving about
two feet for the chimney. there was cut out
under the ceiling ledge about three feet
high and of the depth of the stove. This
was In fact the top OF the stove, and it
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21

which will hold twice as much as one of our
tablespoons in his hands, and with this he
dips out the soup from the common dish and
carries it TO his mouth
There are no knives and forks to be seen
on the table and plates and cups and
saucers are missing. | went with the
Countess rolstOi through one of her vii
lagos on the Tolstoi estate at Yasnia Pol.
yana and in one of the houses which We
visited we found the family at dinner The
Countess told me that this was one of the
richest families of peasants she had on her
estate. and what do y0u think was their
menu? /; was cabbage soup and ryeibread.
The family were sitting around the table and
there were about 10 of them in ALL Each had
one OF these wooden spoons and they were
sc0oplng out the soup at a great rate. They
had no butter and no meat and the Russian
peasants see but little CT either. They are
happy If they get bit of meat once week,
and their chief diet is cabbage SOUP and
rye bread. with sort Of buck heat mush
as a change. They have milk from their
cows and eggs from their hens, and their
favorite drink is a sort of beer which they
make from black bread called kvaS. They
are very rigid as to fast days and they eat
now and then a bit of dry fish, which is
cheap in Russia. They are fond of sour
cabbage and cucumbers raw with the
skins on. But they have no idea
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21

The match is ignited. and as the disk COM
pletes It's revolution the match projects
through the aperture and igntes the
fash-l light powder. All this occurs in a
small fraction of seconds time, and
as soon as the circuit is opened the shut
ter Is opened and closed and the image
formed on the sensitive plate is proven ted
from being further acted upon. To secure
the closing of the shutter. the current which
lets of the igniting mechanism Is taken
through fusibie wire OR strip of thin
fusible foil located in the flash light cham
Der. When the fash light powder burns,
the wire or foil is melted, the electric cir
cult Is broken. and the shutter is released
so as to close automatically. The effective
ness OF the apparatus Is clearly proved by
the work it has done. 1t would seem that
such apparatus might be concealed in
banks, jewelry stores. and in other places
where valuables are :kept, and used as an
auxiliary TO the other means employed for
the safety OF valuable property
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21
Chicago Water.
Detroit Free Press.

He was tramp, In Chicago for the first
time, having arrived from the East only
that afternoon. and it was with some trepi-
dation that he knocked at the kitchen door
OF an elegant Prairle-avenue residence.
Can l get something to eat here?" he in
CURED of the cook.
Certainly" was the generous reply, "Pll
give you glass of water"
but want something to eat," he i'm
plored.
well" responded the cook, didn't say
I'd give you glass of waterp"
II can't eat that, can I?'' he asked plead
ingly.
II don't know whether You can or not, I"
she said kindly. "Its pretty bad, but I'll
give you knife and fork with 1t, aud may
be you can handle 1t. I'm positively certain
you can't drink it,"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21
AN ELECTRICAL DETECTIVE.
Photography Utilized for the Purpose of
Catching Thieves.
Scientific American.

Photography has been employed in MANY
ways in identifying and capturing crimi-
mails. but the incident which we illustrate
is the nrst Of the kind in which the thieves
are made 10 set in operation the apparatus
which is the means of their Identification
and capture.
Mr.. Triquet of Toledo. Ohio, had for some
time missed cigars, which were taken from
his showcase by some clever tibet, and de-
tectives who had watched the place for
several days failed TO detect the thieves or
to discover their mode OF operation. AS
last resort the proprietor applied to w. III.
Harbeck. the patentee of the fiash-light
Photographic apparatus, which we Illus
trate. with the hope of securing photographs
which would lead to the Identification Of
the perpetrators Of the thefts.
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The apparatus was set up and arranged
In working order. and left to do its work.
Early one morning to boys entered the
place, opened the show case, and in so doing
set In operation the apparatus. which made
permanent record Of their deed and fur
nished the evidence which sent them to
prison. The two lads, In the act of opening
released the camera shutter and at the same
instant operated the fash-light apparatus.
which photographed the bows In the act of
removing cigars from the case.
The hrst picture Is correct reproduction
OF this photograph; in the second picture
the sides and end OF the camera and the
covering OF the a paratus are removed to
admit of showing the working parts more
clearly. The camera is placed in box
which is provided with shutter operated
by the spring seen at the front of the bcx.
The shutter is furnished with an escape
ment which is let off by an eIecir o-magnet
On the top OF the box is arranged another
electro magnet, vertical spindle carrying
at the top roughened disk, the electro
magnet being connected with a detent
which engages an arm on the vertical spin
die. In spring-nressed holder Is placed
match. which rests against the roughened
disk. and above the disk is supported a
1ash-light. Wires lead To the shutter-ease,
and switch is provided So that as the
showcase door is opened they close the cir
cut. The shutter of the camera is first
opened by the action Of the magnet con-
nected with the escapement, and simulta-
neously with the operation Of this magnet
the detent magnet at the top Of the box
Is operated, releasing the deteut and allow
Ing the vertical spindle to revolve, the
power Tor this purpose being stored in
Volute spring connected with the spindle.
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A FLEET OF IRONCLADS.
A Mile of the LevIathans I'm Chatham
Docks.
London Spectator.

London Spectator
1t would seem an obvious and necessary
sequence OF the valuation of our feet that
some idea should be given Of the capital
value and productive power Of the nations
dockyards, which in time OF war will be ex-
pected to contribute the main share toward
the supply aud the maintenance of the ma
tons feet, and, before the next naval esti-
mates are presented, 1t Is not too much to
hope that some such calculations may be
ready for submission to the House OF
Commons.
At present most people are aware that a
great naval vote has been granted; that
ironclads and cruisers have been built with
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copious perspiration continued for some
time. and this result is attained by the
Russian bath. These people boil them
selves at least once week in steam 10 bring
about this result, and if they Cannot get the
steam they crawl into their ovens and sweat
1t out. Nearly every village has a steam
bath-h0use and the whole population turns
out every Saturday and before every
holy communion, confession or fast day
and for the time becomes bodily clean.
am told that in the villages both sexes 20
into the bath at the same time and that the
men and women, boys and girls all battle
together. 1t is said that no other person
but Russian could stand the experience of
/ one OF these vapor baths such MS are taken
in the sam oven In which the family bakes
Its bread, and 1 am sure no other person
would care To utilize the bakeoven for this
purpose. hear that in the winter the
peasants sometimes rush naked out from
the hot bath and roll i'm the snow, and this
l can conceive to be possible, for in the
country villages of Japan man will come
from the hot hath into the cold winter air
and walk home with his clothes under his
arm.
OF course villages of this nature have no
sanitary arrangements whatever. There
are.no street lamps or water works. and the
wcmen of the family draw the water from
the well OF the town or carry ii from the
nearest stream. No Russian girl of such
peasant village ever sees washboard or
has any ideas of washing machines or pat
ent wrngers. She does not even know
what washtub is, and the clothes of the
family are carried by her to the nearest
stream, and standing in her bare
legs in the water she pounds the
dirt out of them with club. The
culinary arrangements are quite as
primitive, and cooking has not the terror
for the Russian woman that it has for the
American. In the first place there is little to
cook, and the methods of cooking are very
few. There are practically no dishes to
wash, and as to table linen and napkins
they are unheard of and unknown. The
dining table is easily set for dinner. The
main dish is soup, and this is furnished in a
wooden bowl as big around as tin wash
basin and about the length of finger in
depth. The family sit around on benches
and chairs. each with a big wooden spoon
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Universal Pidgin English.
Mjnneapolis Tribune

Many persons do not know aud many may
be interested in learning that for hundred
years pidgin English has been the recog-
nized language of trade and commerce for
about 500.000,000 Asiatics and Africans in
all their dealings with foreigners of all other
nationalities. The English. Americans,
French, Italians, Russians, Germans and
Dutch must all use pidgIn English in order
TO transact business with the natives.
Pidgin English is more nearly a universal
language than any other in the world, and
if our alphabet could DO made "fonetik"
would likely soon become a special lam
guage for all nations, especially IL aided by
the 100 GEO. 600 speaking regular English and
its dialects. What is Volapuk alongside Of
pidgin English7