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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-02
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-02
Old Rags Wanted.

Clean White Rags suitable for
bandages are wanted for use at the
Bishop Home and the Boys Home, Leper
Settlement, Molokai. Ring up 2S1 Mu-
tual telephone and they will be sentfor or
leave the same at the Office of the Board
of Health or at j. T. Warehouses;,
Queen Street.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-04
JOSEPH {. LAWRENCE.
One Of the Early California
Writers.
HIS GIFTED ASSOCIATES.
Joaquin Miller Tells Ct the Brilliant Coterie
That Once Made the Golden
Era" Famous.
is GIFTED ASSOCIATES.
Written for THE MORNING CALL

Joseph E. Lawrence was the father of
California literature. l saw it deliberately
and positively set down in leading maya
zine lately that Loring Pickering was and
still is the father of California journalism,
and this | reckon is true; but be it never SO
true 1t is very doubtful distinction. for the
father Of California journalism. whoever he
may be, has surely begotten some of the
dirtiest hoOdlumS that ever butchered and
disem boweled their mother English. But
to have been the father of California litera-
ture, with such children as Harte, Twain,
Densmore, COolbrith, Stoddard, George. Gun
ther-but am not writing catalogues-and a
column OF such names. Is surely glory
enough and good enough for any one man.
And vet, mark You this, he only rocked the
cradle; rocked the cradle with his foot as
he sat cross-legged in the Era office.
strOked his graceful flow of beard" as
Plutarch puts it when describing Mark An
tony, and gracefully received his multitu-
dinOus orphans. whom he adopted with out
question and fed with all kindness if not able
to feed with coin. Now bear in mind dis
tinctly, l say that this man was but thu
father, not the mother; he was a sort of
husband, who gathered up and housed
for time the waits and castawsys
out here by the shutdown seas As for the
mother of our literature. that is quite an
other matter; that is California herself:
her color, feryor, room. atmosphere. You
had as we'll undertake to explain why
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Of light In it. l wrote. another novel. NOT
published yet, and never will be. took Il
to a young, red headed editor who had
started a paper called 'The California
Ledger" But at the end of the first page or
so he said he felt sleepy and handed ft
back. This young. red-headed' editor was
Thomas Magee. the present great real estate
man on Montgomery street. =.
Pardon these old Sidetracks. It's hard to.
not: switch off and be young and green,
ana dauntleSs in continually doing and
dong and doing. [ marvel that:I Kept on
at all, for / never knew anything but dis
comhtuTe all these years, or did. | ever
nave nickel Ter my work until after [
went TO London. But here. i go agau-all
aDout myself and nothing about the father
of California letters. ~:
Joe Lawrence always received his satel-
lltes, even the most brilliant of them. as
he sat serenely in his chair, stroking his
tawny beard; with one execution That
single exception was the lady who wrote
his society articles, and referred TO before
as the one who received the golden eagle.
L did not know MS ariStGcratic birth then.
but somehow | saw and noticed closely
that here was gentleman who knew and
recognized lady, that they knew one an
other as Of better sort than tie rest OF
US. and lived in a little world quite above
even the best OF that brilliant Bohemian
crowd -.
How much light a little bit Of quiet
pollteness can throw out. From that year
1orth began to note difference in the sd-.
dress OF men and women, and to try 20 set
my race for gentle speech and action And
however FAR have fallen short-of that gen.
tiemans courteous example, let me admit.
that owe Joe Lawrence very, very much
No more need be said. And maybe too
much has been said by me already, for there
are many living still who knew him so much
better Than L. But they did not love him
better Let this be my excuse for this inn
perfect sketch Of perfect gentleman. L
am thankful that / knew him in his msrid-
ian. A little time later tie sun began to,
settle to the west. The clock strikes. n
only once in the day, and however much We
may wait and hope and pray the sun settles
away to the west, the hours sweep by, and
there is no II O'Clock any more till darkness
and midnight.
Lawrence came to me in New York few
years back leaning on the arm Of Prentice
Muliord. The cOurtly, handsome, heroic
gentleman of the old heroic days was dy-
ing. took them TO the theater, for Law
renee seemed so very sad. His brain was
falling him-sunstr0ke. he said, but he
could not stay out the play. lie arose with
something of his Old-tlme cuurtliness, for
there were ladies in the box. shook hands
gently with us all. And then he and Null
ford went out into the night and-beyOnd
the night, please God. JOAQUIN MILLER.
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bly, belongs TO large family. This family
inhsbits one of those little, hot, matched
huts, and dozen men, women and chill
dren are huddled together within it. They
sleep side by side on one bed which is
usually the top OF the stove, or lie sprawled
close together upon the floor. They wear
abe same clothes day and night, and il there
are cholera germs In any one of the gar
ments of a family these are bound to be
communicated to the others. IL the cholera
is slow in mRnifestiDg itself, the patient
may move around among the other people of
the village. The work of the village is done
in gangs and one man must come in contact
with all the others The result is that the
disease mus: spread. and the only wonder is
that it is not greater than 1t is.
1t was at Saratoff that the reports about
the cholera were hrst sent out over the
world. / spent several DAYS in this city Just
before the news of its presence was made
known, and it probably existed at the time
was there. Saratoff is in the southeastern
part of Russia, about 800 miles south of
Mimi \ OygOrod and 200 or 500 niles from
Moscow. Ii lies right on the Volga and it
is surrounded by rolling country. the hills
CT which rise up back OF the city AID on the
top of which there stands q long line of
great windmilS, which swing their arms
against the hot blue sky. There is deep
ravlne running through the city. and divid-
ing IL In three parts and coming to the city
and beautiful. II is a very fair Russian
town, and is better built and better
looking than the average cities of the
Volga. 1t has about 112000 people, has a
good theater and number of fine churches,
none of which belong to the Germans. II
Is one of the centers of the German colonies
of Russia, and you find that nearly every
other man in the town speaks German as
we'll as Russian. The buildings are, as a
rule, OF stucco. The streets are paved with
cobhlest0nes and the town IS lighted with
gas. 1t is, or the whole, mnch cleaner than
any of the other Volga cities that l visited,
and il seems strange Thatthe cholera should
have first broken out here. i understand
that the people are leaving in large numbers
and those that remain are almost frightened
10 death. The town has had considerable
experience with the cholera in the past,
and nearly every great cholera epidemic Of
history has rested during its march through
Russia At Saratoff.
Wuhthe increased facilities for communi-
cation diseases OF this kind spread more
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OF masonry, and the line of the old walls.
with here and there gate and portculAs
groove. is still distinctly fortifcation in the
graveyard. Along the sea front the walls
are twenty feet thick or more and the
people of Berwick have legacy Of prone
nades IN these ancient iampart5. They are
now modestly and much internationally used
AS a battle-ground by the volunteers of the
town, but 1t is all pretty show work. for the
forthcatlons of the past have passed and
smoothbore guns are as useless as cata-
puts, and not the genius of ATehimedes
could make them any better.
Berwick IS an agricultural town, and
although on the north bank Of the Tweed,
1t belongs to England. A little boomerang
OF border track sewers it from Scotland,
where it should belong if rivers were the
sole natural justification for the separate
possession of territory. But as Berwick
was long ago the entrance to Scotland the
English. as the more powerful people, made
their entrance sure. Berwick is governed
by Mayors and Scotland las Provosts
Scotland has the Forbes Mackenzie act to
prevent the consumption of whisky and
ether stomachic cOm5uStibles On Sunday.
Berwick has not. aud is just as sober a
town as any In Scotland on the sacred Sab
bath. But apart from these small differ
ences. as seen in these days OF peace be-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-04
THE qVEBDSIDE BORDER.
Rich Field Of History and
Creative Romance.
DOMAIN OF SCOTT'S NOVELS.
The Boundary Of England and scotland-Fsuds
and stror gholds-Flodden and It's
Associations.
Written for THE MORNING CALL.

Most Observers acquainted with foreign
parts. and perhaps saturated with notion
of their superiority. marvel when they
reach Berwick 0n-Tweed and roam over
Tw eedside, at the beautiful lines which
Scott. the wizard of romance. was able
to write about region so common place. A
tranquil river winds its way placidly from
inland hills 10 the sea and receives numer-
us tributaries on the right and left banks
from the spurs of the hills. Towns have
come to something like the semblence OF
life here and there, both on the Scotch and
the English side, and two or three of them
were famous in the oden days of border
strife. But although the region abounds in
the mound heaps, even of authentic history,
it is not to the foreign observer incompara
BILE in picturesqueness, nor in any kind OF
glory or charm, except such as may be con-
nected with feudal or mOnkish times. In
history it is stirring borderland, with pow
eIful and rich Z ngland on the south
and poor ana proud Scotland on the
north, and both countries 10 perpetual
antag0nism declared or concealed. But
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-04

we should have very exalted conception
OF Its charms. Turner left out what he
liked In bis camera of artistic magnetism,
ana shifted around any monuments OF an
tianity that he thought worth preserving
with altered relation ships. lie never
stlckled about the adornment of truth, but
ne mad the art of making his fictiOns appear
truth and of wedgIDa in accessories OF end
Tess variety to supplement the deficiencies
OF nature from his own point of view.
Things that move may be moved without
exciting comment, and the examination of
a town by the ordinary observer is super
hciai. so impractical in the engineering
sense that 1t may be whirled around by the
sKilllul artist and yet made 10 suggest and
giorify what is. The spirit Is there the
PHOTOGRAPHIC form is not. 1t is thus with
Turner's Berwick or Tweed. He made his
famous drawing. accompanying SCOTS
poems, In the pre-railrOad era. aud what
good use he made OF that old bridge of
irregular arches, which for centuries has
wlthstood storm and flood and is to-day
hrm highway for traffic! Across that
bridge Scotch and English armies have
tramped again and again. Had the phono-
graph been beneath and around the arches
what record there would have been, valu
able at least for dialects But Turner not
only brought in the bridge into his drawing,
Dut also the spirit of the old castle. with
walls around and running down to the
but still n stalwart spirit. glistenlDg in the
border light of strife. The town of peace
ful folk glimmers below, with fishing YES
sci and salmon meters, and along the
southern points of Northumberland you
may almost see Holy Island and Bam-
borough loom into sight. Turner was
masterul in composition. Match him, if
YOU can, for this OF Berwick on-Tw eed.
Run the artistic lines of the infinite from
MS dominating choice of center and see
whether YOU. can improve upon them and
make great picture from any other. Per-
maps Turner could, but it was his custom TO
selzs one strong impression and weave it
into a paroxysm of perfection. concealing
witnal the methods.
Nobody going to Berwick to-day would
think that Turner had caught up the i'm
agery from the towns present appearance.
The denudatOn of civilization has leveled
much that was presentable TO the intel
lectual mind clinging TO vista. But the old
castle is still there in washed out thickn ess
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-04
WAS 1T A SHARK2
What Kind OF Fish Was 1t That Swat
lowed Jonah?
Outv

me culver
There Is no argument valid upon premise
of inherent impossbility. 1t used to be con-
cluded beyond question that there were no
black swans. because il is impossible TO con-
ceive black swan. But one harmless and
unconscious black swan from the Antipodes
put all the ingenious thinkers to rout. Hume
argued from his conception of true induc-
ton that the major premise must include all
possible cases. This he thought conclusive
against great deal OF popular belief But
what test have we OF the possblep 1t is
harder to believe that we have.explored and
classified the whole field of knowledge than
that a rayenous fi,h-with no higher and
no lower thought in its m8ager brain than
plentiful dinneT-sbould have swallowed
and then disgorged a man. Besides we
are not without evidence that such piscine
conduct WAS at least possible. Jonah was
sailing in the Mediterranean-riGht along
Its whole ength-fr0m Joppa in Palestine to
Tarshish in Spain; and 1t is 10 this very
sea that even at the present day huge fish.
the white shark, Is found; aud not only
this but the bones of much larger species
now extinct. For the word used in the BIZ
BILE is a general term for large fish, and 1t
includes in various writer's sharks, tunnies.
whales, dolphins aud seals. This white
has been known to weight four tons
and half. One that was exhibited last
century over Europe weighed nearly two
tons, and very nearly re-enacted the part
Of Jonah's fish. A British war-vessel was
sailing in the Mediterranean when man
fell overheard. A huge shark instantly rose
and the unlucky seaman disappeared within
its mouth. The captain fired gun ut IL
from the deck. and as the shot struck upon
its back 1t cast the man out again and ne
was rescued by his companions. They forth
with harpooned the fish. dried him and pre-
anfad him IN nic m tandpA yipfino
In the beginning Of this century shark
was taken at Surnam, and in it was dis
covered the body of woman excepting the
head. Instances are recorded upon good
authority of specimens being found in the
same sea; one with q sea-calf In Its stom-
ach as big as an OK, another with whole
horse, and another with two tunnies and
| man. That a man could live there for
considerable time seems by no means I'M
| possible.
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tween shaking nations. Berwick is
very Scotch. but not fercely uu-Eng-
lisb. How could 1t be otherwise? These
dividing lines of the geographers on the
maps are not expressions of positive boun-
dairy walls. The people of Northumber-
land are much the same as the people OF
Berwickshire or Roxburgh shire, and always
have been. They cannot show the differ
ences widely separated between Aberdeen
and DevOnshire, Inverness and Hampshire.
The man who told the mob at Carlisle that
he would hang them all at the price" hav-
ing just finished off Southron on the gal
lows. was doubtless Highlander. accus-
toned to sheep-droving and possibly sheep
stealing.
Berwick was famous seaport long ago.
The vessels long ago had small draught and
small tonnage. aud thus it was possible for
place endowed with nothing but small
estuary to acquire reputation for shipping.
A schooner OF few hundred tons has to be
careful In entering Berwick har5Or to-day.
although long pier OF solid masonry juts
out into the sea and gives protection for
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assassination of a Russian general whose
death was full of romance. and a third pro-
hibits the saving of anything about the
church schools. The church and the
Government, in fact, control the press in
Russia, and the censor is a bigger man than
the editor.
/ wish / could show you one Of the papers
which have been stamped by the censor.
They look as though an ink-roler h ad been
run over them and it Is impossible to read a
word Of that which has been stamped out.
They use an indelble stamp. and they have
changed the quality of their ink lately. A
lady whom | met in East Russia told me she
used TO be able to get the ink off by washing
it with turpentine and that the print won Id
then be readable, but that within the past
year she found the ink of different charac-
ter and she could do nothing with it. The
uncertainty of matter passing the censOrS
makes all printed matter unsafe in the Rus
sian mails. The censors are said to
often keep the papers and lend them to
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-04
LINCOLN AS A WRESTLER.
An Incident in the Life of the Rail-
splitter OF Illinois.
TIE Century for SentemhAr

The Century for September.
At the time the Lincolns settled at Goose
Nest Dan Needham was the champion wrest-
Ter in Cumberland County. This county
joins Coles, the one in which the Lincolns
lived. Needham had often been told that
he would find his match in Tom Lincoln's
boy Abe, but he would boast that he could
fling him three best out Of four any day he
lived" at last they met. 1t was at house
raising on the Ambraw River. "Raisin's"
at that time brought "ncighbors" from
many miles around. aud l am told that at
this one they came from as far south as
Crawford County, more than forty miles
away. Thomas Lincoln came. aud with
him his boy Abe. After the work of the
day, in which Abe aud Dan matched hand
spikes many times, a "rassle" was sug-
gested. AT first Abe was unwilling to meas
ure arms with Dan, who was six feet four
and agile as a panther; but when Thomas
Lincoln said. ABE. rassle 'im," Abe flung
off his coat, aud the two stood face to face.
-Four times they wrestled, and each time
Needham was thrown.
At the close of the fourth round the COM
batants again stood face to face, 4 be flushed
but smiling. Dan trem bling with anger.
However. one glance at the honest, good
natured face Of his opponent cooled his
rage, and extending his rough PALM he said,
well, pll be p Ever after this they
were warm friends Neeiham survived
Lincoln many years, and though he was a
strong Democrat, he had nothing but good
words for Abe. Several of his boys still
live near the old homestead in Spring Point
Township, Cumberland County, Ill. One
daughter, the wife of w. p. Davis, a
brother OF the writer, resides on farm
near Roseland, Neb. Uncle Dan. as we
called him. now sleeps in a quiet church
yard hidden away in a deep forest. A
drawer heart never beat; and though his life
was humble, | am sure that he did not lack
for welcome into the eternal city.
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was the half-fnished cloth that the woman
had been weaving when she was taken SICK,
lay a rude bench, and on this young
mother Of 30 stone dead. Hanging from the
rafters. In one of those Russian cradles. was
q little baby, whose bald head peeped out OF
the clothes ia which she wac wrapped. and
whose bright eyes, | was told, twinkIed as
the picture was taken.
One Of the most offensive smells along the
VOlga is that Of putrid fish. Nearly every
other wharf has great crates Of this packed
away, and you see peasants walking about
the streets peddliag dried fish, which they
have upon strings and which they carry
about swung over their shoulders. The
must OF these fish come from Astrakhan,
which is at the mouth of the Noga. and
In which Is one of the greatest fish markets
of the world. 1t is here that the greater
part OF the eaviare of the world is made
IL comes from the roe OF the sturgeon, and
millions Of dollars worth OF ii are shipped
from this point every year. Millions more
are made Ia the dried fish which are sent
over Russia, and the people at Astrakhan
live on little else than FISH. The poorer Of
them ca. the refuse. and this has aggravated
the cholera there and the cases are rapidly
Increasing. The fish which are shipped
from Astrakhan are often not more than
half cured, and they are in bad condition
when they are sold to the peasants.
They are eaten half cooked and as little
about as indigestible article OF diet as can
be found. The better class bread used by
the peasants OF Russia would ruin the
stomach Of an ordinary man, and It's rough
ness is such that it cannot be but Injurious
TO patient who has a tendency toward
cholera. 1t is as heavy as Boston brown
bread and it looks not unlike It, 1t is made
IN lOaves of twenty-one pounds each and
the average loaf Of bread eaten along the
Volga is as big as a ten-mOn ths-0ld baby.
Living on bread, cabbage soup. cucumbers
and dried fish, with now and then bit of
cheap meat, the people have not enough
STRENGTHENING food to ward of the cholera.
Their systems are already run down by the
famine and the sun Is willing the life out OF
them. They know nothing of the use of
medicines and their home life is such that
IL is almost impossible TO keep the cholera
from spreading.
] can easily see how one cholera case
spreads the disease throughout VILLAGE.
The man who first gets the disease proba-