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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-12
Restoration of a Bible.

Colonel Cabaniss, member from Georgia,
received by express from J. f. Zahn OF
Toledo, Ohio, little Bible with history.
On the fly-leaf was written in lead pencil
"T. B. Cabaniss, 1860, " and under this in
ink the following words: "This Bible was
found on the battlefield of Carrick's Ford
by Paul Edwards, major, and afterward
Northumberland OF the Fourteenth OHIO
Volunteer Infantry" 1t was the first
glimpse that Colonel Cabaniss has had of
the Bible in thirty-four years. How it
came in Mr.. Zahn's possession is not
known, but some time ago he adver-
tised for the owner in the Toledo
Blade and received a letter from a
Mr. Cabaniss, living in Mississippi. He
remembered that some one of the same
name resided at Atlanta, Ga. Mr.. Zahn
opened a correspondence with the Atlanta
bearer of the name and was put on the
right track, the gentleman proving to be a
brother of the Representative. Enclosed
within the pages of the little volume was a
l cent postage stamp of an issue antedat-
ing the war. The Bible is as well pre-
served as though it had been recently re-
moved from bookcase, and, in the words
of the delighted owner, sit doesn't look as
if it had been used much before or since
the late unpleasantness." The fight at
Carricks Ford was one of the earlier battles
of the war.-W ashington Post.
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BELFAST-BUILT BOATS.
The Ship Building Industry and tn,
Linen Trade of the City.

The Ship Building Industry and the
Linen Trade of the City.
Besides being known for its linen manu-
facture Belfast is noted as the greatest ship
building port in the world. The largest ships
are made here, and travel to the uttermost
parts of the wor1d-wherever a ship may
sail The tourist who crosses the ocean in
one of the magnificent White Star liners
would do well to stop off day or two in
Belfast and see where the first plank was
laid and the last touch OF polish and paint
put on. Everything pertaining to the ship is
made here. Solid bars of iron and steel are
cut and polished and nodded into shape
huge sheets of steel are punched with holes
and indentations as easily as we would prick
a hole in piece of paper with pin; logs
are sawed into planks, cabin fittings carved
and polished, pulling, steaming engines
and boilers made to propel the accom-
plisbed marvel safely and quickly across
thousands of miles of rolling and treacher-
Gus waters.
/ stood on the dock and gazed on the
huge hulk arising amid its forests Of poles
of the Largest ship yet made" Then
went into the works, where hammers were
sounding. FORCES roaring, anvils changing,
saws cutting, chisels smoothing, molten
metal flowing like water, engines steam
ing and kissing, and where 10000 men
were working in different ways and at diff
ferent objects necessary to the completion
of the great ship. The next time ride on
an ocean steamer everything viii possess a
new interest.
1t takes nine months to build one Of the
large ocean steamers. The Majestic and
the Teutonic are among the latest steamers
built at Belfast.
The principal proprietor of these vast
shipbuilding works. Sir Edward Harland,
worked his way up from the lowest round
of the ladder. He has been Mayor of Bel
fast, has entertained the Prince of Wales,
and has recently been knighted by Queen
Victoria
In studying the best methods for ship
building be observed the motions of the
fish, its long slender figure, its fine
lines and pointed extremities, and Oon-
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A Very Peculiar Kite.

A balloon-maker, who uses kites in ex-
perimenting, has made kite which, upon
being tossed into the air, Will scud away
exactly like bird. 1t will fall if string
is attached to it.
Anybody can make this kite if he will
bear in mind the appearance of bird in
the air. 1t consists of q wing-like main
part and paddle-like tail. 1t may be of
any size. The wings should be like two
right-angled triangles. connected at the
base, only the paper must be curved out
same as a birds wing is curved. About
half the length of one wing from this main
portion, a light, flexible piece of wood
should hold the tail-a paper paddle Of, the
area of one of the wings.
Make each wing with little convexity
from the under side, and don't attempt to
fly it with string. Tie string to the leg
of a frightened bird; it will fly to the end
of it, futter a moment, and fall to the
ground. This kite will do the same.
A bird cannot fly backward, neither can
this type of kite. 1t will go with the wind,
and for the same reason that bird goes
forward.
The tendency of the breeze, which will
first strike the tail, will be to throw the
kite down, but as the tail goes down it ele-
Yates the wing portion. The instant the
wings begin to rise to a perpendicular
position to the wind current it presents a
broader surface to the breeze, and is, of
course, pushed onward. By this undu-
latory snake-like wavering, it scuds on
ward and upward. This movement may
be seen in any fluttering flag on breezy
day. Indeed, this discovery was made by
observing the undulatory motion of a flag
on mast.-New York Recorder.
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printed certain of his earlier verses, most
of them written while he was at Bowdoln.
Some OF these boyish verses show the IN
fiuence of Bryant, and others reveal to US
that the young poet had not yet looked at
life for himself, but still saw it through
the stained-glass windows of European
tradition. The same volume contained
also some more recent poems: "The Be
leaguered City" and 1.-The Reaper and the
Flowers" and "The Psalm of Life "-per-
haps the first of his poems to win swift
and abiding popularity. These lyrics tes-
tilted that Longfellow was beginning to
have style of his own. AS Hawthorne
wrote to him, Nothing equal to them
was ever written in this world-thls West
ern world, mean"
Certainly no American author had yet
written any poem of the kind so good as
the best OF those in Longfellow's volume
of Ballads" printed two years later. Bet
ter than any other American poet, Long
fellow had mastered the difficulties OF the
story IN song; and he knew how to COM
bine the swlftness and the picturesqueness
the ballad requires. His ballads have more
OF the old-time magic, more of the early
simplicity, than those of any other modern
English author. Of its kind there is
nothing better in the language than 1.-THE
Skeleton IN Armor," with its splendid lyric
swing, and 1.-THE Village Blacksmith and
1.-THE Wreck OF the Hesperus" are almost
as GOOD as In their humber sphere. Eek
celslor," IN the same volume, voices the
nobler aspirations of youth, and has been
taken to heart by thousands of boys and
glrls.--Professor Brander Matthews in ST..
Nicholas.
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ceived the idea of building his ships in the
same fashion. Old shipmen all foretold
disaster to the long tapering vessel, but
The firm of Harland g. Wolff also intro
duced the Belfast bottom, now generally
in use, which is fat and square of bilge-
shipmen may understand that term, but
do not-and has large carrying capacity.
This same firm also introduced the inno-
vation of having the first-class accommo-
dations amidships, thus avoiding the disa-
greeable and nauseating smells from the
galleys.
in the world. and ropes of the fineness of a
silver cord to the thickness of a mans arm
are manufactured here.-Chicago Record.
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Biggv is beyond my reach l can get even
with him by taking the laundry work from HIM
and by washing my own dirty linen in public.
/ am simply disguised with the un-Democratie
methods adopted by some men claiming to pc
Democrats, concludes the autocrat. Our only
hone is that he will do nothing rash. Remem-
bering the fact that no less than four Presl-
dents of the third French Republic-to wit.
Messieurs Theirs, MaeMahon, Grevy and Cast
mir-Perier-have resigned in disgust during ing
the past twenty-five years, we are fearful lest
the YaIient Superintendent should initiate their
example, ana what would become OF the prize
fighters, bailot-box manipulators and purifiers
with whom he has surrounded himself in the
Fifth-street citadel? In conclusion suffer me
to say that Mr.. Daggetts place is, properly
speaking, in Washington, for a man who can
make and unmake Governors, fight a young
man successfully and do his own washing IN
public viii never thrive in this cireumscrlDed
atmosphere. He ought to go to washington
and become Cabinet Minister Ihat Is ms
proper field, and we shall cheerfully recon-
mend to the President that his sphere OF use
fitness be enlarged. Respectfully yours,
J. SAULMANN.
, San Francisco April 10, 1895.
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SIXTEEN MoRTARs TRIED
Immense Projectiles Sent With
Accuracy an Immense
Distance.
SEEN VERY HIGH IN THE AIR.
Interesting Experiments Also Made
With the Great 12-Inch
CannOnS.

NEW YORK. N. Y, April 11.-Hun-
dreds of people to-day went down to the
proving grounds at Sandy Hook to witness
the testing of the big mortar battery.
At LAS P. NJ. the isxteen mortars were
fred four at time in quick succession,
making but four tremendous reports.
When the smoke cleared away the sixteen
shots could be seen clearly in the air, each
four grouped together as closely as when
they left the mortars. When they began
to drop their speed was too great to admit
of noting their descent from the battery.
The charge used in the first Ere was sixty
pounds of prismatic powder, with pro-
jectile weighing 500 pounds. The mortars
were elevated to 60 deg. and were ranged to
carry 5000 yards.
Almost an hour elapsed before the NOR
tars were discharged a second time. They
were then charged to carry an S00-pound
projectile 1000 yards Twenty-nine pounds
Of black sphero-hexagonal powder was used.
The elevation of the gun was the same as
at first. The second firing was as success
full as the first, with the exception that one
OF the mortars failed to discharge.
The projectiles landed in a space very
little if any larger than the size of a battle
ship. They were imbedded six feet in the
ground, and the corporal in charge at that
point declared that nearly all of them
dropped vertically into the sand.
The officers present pronounced the trials
extremely satisfactory. An exhibition was
given of the ten-inch rife, which is
mounted on the Gordon disappearing
gun-carriage. After the shot was dis
charged break in the machinery. of the
carriage occurred and the tests had to be
discontinued.
The guests were then taken to the top of
the gun-lift battery, where two.aonster 12-
inch guns were mounted. Afterone of the
guns had been run up to the level of the
platform of the battery 1t was given a
range Of five degrees and elevated ten de-
grees. The 1OOO-pound projectile was
backed by 470 rounds of prismatic power.
This piece was only discharged once, the
shot landing far out to sea, directly in
line but much behind white buoy which
had been placed there for a mark.
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Proposition to Cut Through France
From Bordeaux to Narbonne.
The project of canal between Bordeaux
and Narbonne, whereby a waterway would
be afforded between the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean, was already, in the year
1887, at least to some extent, investigated
at the instance of the Government, but
there are, no doubt, very serious obstacles
to be overcome. According to the plan,
the canal is to be some $50 miles long,
close upon $50 feet wide and twenty-five
feet deep. There will have to be thirty
eight locks and the calculated cost
amounts to no less than f67, 600, 0OO.
Even if all the vessels passing Gibraltar
would make use of the canal there can be
no prospects of ever making 1T pay. Stra-
tegic considerations are the most I'M
portant, but in order to adequately serve
strategic purposes a greater depth than
the one mentioned above would be Deces-
sary and heavy fortresses would have to be
erected for the defense of the canal If the
matter Is, therefore, soberly viewed from
its various points of view there is really
nothing to recommend such an enormous
outlay.
There have been several proposals with
reference to an Atlantic Mediterranean
canal; much attention has been given to
the matter DOtl by engineers anu VARIOUS
authorities, but it cannot be said that any
definite result has as yet been arrived at.
In 1880 plan was brought forward about
canal proceeding from Bordeaux and
having its terminus in the vicinity of Mar
bonnie The length would be about 254
miles and the cost was calculated at
922, 900 900, exclusive of the Notifications,
Four years later there was another project,
the Societe d 'Etudes ct Travaux Francois
applying for a concession of ninety-nine
years duration for the construction of
canal, like the one Just referred to between
Bordeaux and Narbonne; its length was
to be few miles less, but the cost was con-
siderably heavier, viz: f29, 100000.
The plan and its various calculations
were carefully gone into, but were not
quite approved of, so in 1886 two commit.
tees we're appointed, one consisting of en-
gineers and one comprising representa-
tives for the navy and commercial inter
ests. The reports of the committees were
ready by November the following year, and
they were both agreed that the financial
basis was very incorrect, and that the'pro-
posed canal would be of comparatively
small use to the country. The report met
with hostile criticism on the part of the
public, and an agitation was started in
favor of the undertaking. This agitation
has since been continued, its outcome being
a renewed examination of the whole ques-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-12
C1inker for Road Pavement.

A new matchmaking material is produced
at Hornsey, suburb of London, by col
lecting and burning the dirt of the district,
which leaves considerable residue in the
shape of clinker. The coarser of this is an
excellent material for road making. The
finer clinker is put in a mortar mill and
mixed with lime or cement and used as
mortar and grouting. There is still great
deal of clinker left, and this is mixed with
a fair quantity of Portland cement, making
excellent paving -stones at about half the
cost of those purchased from the patent
stone makers. A section of Southwood
lane, Highgate. at the entrance to the rail-
way station, has been paved with this ma
terial, and is said to wear exceedingly
well.-Washington Star
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GarfieId as a Book-Reviewer.

Concerning Garfeld's inordinate love for
books new story is told here. When he
first came to Washington his salary was
not sufficient to support his family and to
crafty his taste for literature and it was
his large expenditure for new books, in
fact, which kept him poor and added to
his difficulties. In those days Garfield de-
voured every new book that came from the
press and his mania in this direction led to
an arrangement between himself and the
proprietors of a bookstore here At
the time publishers were IN the
habit of sending two copies of
all new works to dealers for the
purpose of securing reviews in the news
papers, and this firm asked Garfield if he
would not have the new books turned over
to him for review. 81 never saw happier
man than Garfield was when this proposal
was made to him." says the book-dealer.
He fairly Rugged me for Joy. Every night
thereafter for three years he would stop at
the store on his way from the House and
take home with him an armful of new
books. Then he would sit up nearly all
night reading these and writing out notices
for the newspapers, bringing US the copy
the next morning. ] can turn to the files
of the old newspapers and show you col
umns of book notices written by Mr.. Gar
field. Chicago Times-Herald.
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LoNGFELLoW,s FIRST VERSES.
He Was Past Thirty When He Began
Publication.

Toward the end of 1886 he took up his
abode in Cambridge, where he was to re-
side for the rest of his ife--for forty-five
years. He was made to feel at home in
the society of the scholars who clustered
about Harvard, then almost the sole center
of culture in the country. His work for
the college was not so exacting that he had
not time for literature. The impulse to
write poetry returned; yet the next book
he published was the prose, Hyperion, !"
which appeared in 1889 and which, though
it has little plot or action, may be called a
romance. The youthful and poetic hero, a
passionate pilgrim in Europe, was, more or
less, reflection of Longfellow himself.
A few months later, in the same year, he
published his first volume of poetry
Voices Of the Night"-in which he re-
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OFFICIALS ARE RE4ICENT.
Grcshan.'s Message to Willis May Haze
Been stopped En- Route.


WASHINGTON, D. c., April 1.-THE
officials of the State Department were
silent to-day when questioned relative to
the latest Hawaiian news brought by the
Alameda, and refused to make any re-
spouse when questioned as to the cause of
the delay in the report by United States
Minister Willis of his instructions touching
Minister Thurston. IL can be stated posi-
lively that instructions were sent to Mr..
Willis on March last, in ample time to
have caught the China, unless by some
accident they miscarried on the way from
Washington to San Francisco. Whether
they went as far as peremptory demand
for Mr. Thurston's recall or were confined
to direction to Mr.. Willis to intimate
that Mr.. Thurston had been indiscreet in
his public utterances and had thus en-
dangered the cordial relations of the two
countries cannot be learned. 1t is also
suggested that the instructions, though
actually leaving Washington, never
reached Hawaii, but were stopped by tele.
graphic orders at San Francisco or some
intermediate point.
Mr.. Hastings, Charge d'Affaires of the
Hawaiian legation, was shown the forego-
ing dispatch and read it with much inter-
est. He said it was diplomatic question
which he would not discuss if he had any
information, but as a matter of fact the
legation was in possession of no informa-
ton whatever on the subject
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A Barrister's Bureau of information.

The waste of time involved in long and
often fruitless interviews with clients is
one Of the annoyances incident to a law
yer's life. Much of the cost of legal adj
vice arises from this needless expenditure
of valuable time. Another difficulty which
busy lawyer frequently meets is in
volved in sudden call for a legal opinion
on some state of facts submitted by client
at time when other duties occupy the
time of the lawyer. Various methods of
meeting these difficulties have been devised
from time to time. Legal writer's or asso-
Citations have offered for moderate fees to
give to lawyers information on points SUBJ
mitted. A "Barristers' Bureau has re-
Gently been organized in Philadelphia to
assist lawyers IN preparing cases by fur
nishing memoranda of authorities or argu-
ments upon questions of law. The fees
are high for lawyers having clients of mod
crate means, but when engaged in impor-
tant litigations counsel may at times find
it convenientto have such means of Sc
curing the authorities on some question
vThich has suddenly arisen on the trial of
case.-New York Tribune.
Fifteen of the forty-fve pensioners Of the
Of 1919 QUAR- HA0 xyaaro old
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Disappearance of a Musician.

DENVER, Colo, April 11-Dion de
Romandy, a distinguished Hungarian
musician, who has been leader of the or.
chestra at the Taber Opera-house during
the winter, has mysteriously disappeared.
He took a train for the West and it is pre-
sumed he is en- route to San Francisco.
He gave the management of the theater no
notice of his intended departure and so far
as known did not conf1de his plans to any
one
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Ordered a Dividend.

MILWAUKEE,, WIS, April IL Re-
ceiver Fletcher, who had in charge the col
lection of the amounts due from the sew
eral stockholders of the Plankington Bank,
reported to-day to Judge Johnson the pay
ment of amounts aggregating $63, 900,
whereupon the court ordered payment of
5 per cent dividend by the assignee.
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Chief Senreu Resinn..

OMAHA, NEBR., April 11.-Chief of Po-
lice Seavey announced to-day that he would
tender his resignation tomorrow. He was
relieved pending an investigation of al
legged corruption in the force. He was not
reinstated On demand. Seavey has been
police chief eight years. He organized the
National Police Chiefs Association.
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Ochoa the Rerol,sttonist.

Ell PASo, Tex, April 1.-THE trial of
Victor L. Ochoa, charged with melting a
revolutionary movement in Mexico, ended
to-day. The proof seems to be most con-
elusive, and Ochoa viii probably receive a
short sentence
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Erec,tted PrirateI,l.

GAINESVILLE, FLA, April 11.-Grant
Griffin, colored, who murdered William
Tibbs, negro gambler at La Crosse, on
November 6, was hanged privately in the
County Jail here yesterday.
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The word Papua is Portuguese for ''friz-
zled, and the district inhabited by the
Papuans was named in honor of their
much decorated head dresses.