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The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08

That the vibration of these atoms is
! constant thing, forever going on, and that
the cause of the vibration is the operation
OF molecular force, or, as is sometimes
called, molecular attraction; the universal
energy.
Within the past few years some astound-
ing discoveries have been made of the
phenomena of vibration. Chiefly these
discoveries have occurred in the field of
electricity. We speak of the character of
an electric current by saying it is of GER
tain voltage and amperage. The term
voltage represents its intensity, just as
we would say stream of water is flowing
swiftly or slowly. The term 'amperage"
represents quantity, corresponding to the
volume of the stream. A current of slec-
triclty consists of a series of undulations,
and the rapidity with which these undu-
lations follow one another determines the
voltage of the current. Therefore. the
higher the voltage the more rapid the vi
brations. We take hold of the handles of
Faradic battery coil, and with a current
OF a few volts we experience a sensation of
NJ uscular contraction that becomes intol-
cradle if the voltage be increased to say
fifty. The trolly wire of the street rail-
way carries a current of thousand volts
coupled with large amperage. The uufor-
tunate being whose ply system forms
a connectin link between the live trolley
wire and the earth suffers a degree of
muscular contraction which renders him
helpless, and frequently death results
from a lesion due to the intense strain put
upon the muscular system by the current,
or from the enormous heating effect of the
great amperage. Yet, Tesla and, since his
experiment, numerous other experiment.
ers, have passed through their bodies an
electric current of million volts and en-
joyed 1t. In these cases the current was
of small am perage.
If we sound at the same time q mum Der
of musical notes, all of exactly the same
pitch, the result is harmonious sound
of greater volume than if but one note
was sounded. If we sound at the same
time two discordant notes. inharmony re-
suits. If we were to sound at the same
time every one of the sixty-three shades
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enun OdFaned Country Of the City Of San Francisco

What other city IN the world the size of
San Francisco can boast OF country road
within its limits, only a short distance
away from the busy marts of trade?
By this is not meant street with rural
appearance but real road, without side
walks or lamp-posts, that winds among
tsee-covered hills, past ranches and gar
dens and pretty homes. with vines and
flowers in the yards, at the same time be-
ing shut out from all sight and sound OF
the busy metropolis. 1t is very likely that
the city by the Golden Gate stands alone
in this respect, as she does in many others.
1t is also likely that comparatively few OF
the residents of this City know OF such
roads existence, although most OF them
have undoubtedly been within few nun
dred feet of one end of it.
' Nevertheless the road exists and is not
at all hard 10 find. 1t is down on the map
OF San Francisco as "the Almshouse
Road, and the end nearest town starts at
Stanyan street, 3 blocks south from the
daightstreet entrance to the Park.
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Your Life May Be indefinitely Prolonged by Scientific Means.

Three score years and ten las been for
the majority of mankind the accepted
term OF human life. Not that all men live
seventy years; far from 1t. Occasionally
an individual is remarked whose span of
earthly existence reaches much beyond
that length of years; but the greater num-
Der OF human beings succumb long before
the centennial year is reached. The gen.
eral sense of the phrase ''three score years
and ten" is that man ought TO live that
length OF time provided he obeyed the
laws of health. AS matter of fact the
man who lives according to the laws of
nature will be in his prime, and long
ways from dissolution on the attainment
OF his SEVENTEEN birthday. The familiar
phrase originated in the early ages of the
present civilization, when sanitation was
an unknown quantity, and the present
knowledge of the conservation of energy
undreamed Of 1t can only apply to the
present by the permissible neglect of those
who do not care for anything better.
Death comes to the human individual
. accidental deaths, and these include such
as result from inherited taints of vital
disease are not considered in the present
mention) as the result of failure OF the
power of assimilation.
Our physical bodies are changing every
moment of our lives. 1t used to be said
that the human body was changed every
seven years. 1t IS constantly changing.
We exist partly by the food we eat and
partly by the appropriation of the invisi-
Bile molecules surrounding US. Deprived
of air we should die, although surrounded
by the most bounteous provision of tempt.
ing viands. 1nsensibly our bodies are feed
ing through a million mouths, and through
million pores of exit are passing off the
waste products. An atom of carbon, an
atom of iron and an atom of this and that
is taken possession of by our bodies and
used by the operation of what is known as
the process of assimilation. Provided this
process goes on with undlminished v1gor
there can be no death. 1t is only when
for some reason, generally lack OF vital
energy, this process becomes feeble, that
seniIe decay is apparent.
Within late years extended researches
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granary, I would that the earth had 1t
that it might yet have chance to quicken
in the dark"
This mandatory consists of small
group of detached buildings. Scrupulous
neatness and order everywhere, flowers in
every window. Even the busiest rooms.
filled with the constant whirr of r,achln-
cry, are bright with light and air. There
was no branch of industry in which Mr..
Morris himself was not personally skilled:
he rediscovered lost methods and in
troduced new ones.
Bibliophiles point with pride to the
n agnifcent volumes issued by the Kelm-
scott Press, perfect in every detail that
goes to the making of book. And still
we question regretfully whether other
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of tone that constitute the complete
octave absolute silence would result.
The fact that the human body is BILE to
entertain an electric current of million
volts, with impunity, whereas it sue
cumbs to disruption under the pressure of
thousand-volt current. has set some
scientific minds to thinking.
Electrical energy is the closest approach
to the universal force, j. e., molecular
force. that our present state OF scientific
attainment permits.
In the exhibition of the million-volt
current we were producing sound closer
in approach to the human. When we
shall know the exact rate (the voltage) OF
an individual human, we shall then be
able to employ upon him current of cor
responding voltage rate, and then supply
to his system force of vibration that will
maintain his assimilative process.
To this end number of careful experi-
ments are now being made to determ inc
the precise means whereby the voltage, or
rate of vibration, of the individual may be
accurately ascertained. Undoubtedly diff
ferent individuals have different rates.
Already it is ascertained that this rate, or
voltage, ie somewhere between one and
three millions.
There is every reason to hope that the
opening of the twentieth century will
witness the accomplishment of the prob
lem. Once the particular voltage of the
individual is known, the proper applica-
ton of current of electric energy of a
corresponding voltage may be applied,
and the vibratory rate of the process of
assimilation maintained with as much
regularity as is now the steam in the
boiler OF an ocean liner by the welltimed
feeding of the furnaces with coal.
F. M. CLOSE, DISC.
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really is, and just over the hill to the
right not much farther than a boy could
throw stone are well laid out streets. all
the modern Improvements that make up
a metropolis.
Although the road really goes up hill it
does so so gradually as to be impercepti-
BILE. Every step taxes one farther and
farther into the depths of nature, and the
canyon becomes almost wild fo- q short
distance. There are big jagged rocks
overhanging the way and seeming ready
to fall at any moment. At this point the
hills on both sides are so high the sea
breeze is kept out and an absolute silence
reigns.
In the vicinity of the Almshouse
the roadway is lined with pretty resi-
dences and numerous ponds and -eser-
voirs add to the country-like effect.
Roosters are growing. cows believing,
dogs barking and hens cackling, mingled
with the sound of the woodsman's ak in
the timber near by.
The prettiest portion Of the whole road
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at this point there is nothing unusual
looking about the road. it having much
the appearance of many of the newly laid
out streets in .he vicinity. 1t starts up a
gradual incline and goes through a cut in
the bill only about block away. A little
has been done in the way OF improvement
here. Wooden curbs have been mt in
and the center of the road is covered with
crushed stone the same as is used in the
park.
But go up to the cut in the hill and
look beyond. The entire aspect changes
and every bit of suggestion of city street
disappears. The roadbed is simply laid
on the surface of the ground and almost
nothing done in the way of grading. On
both sides there are hills and trees with
vacant lots divided by fences.
About two hundred feet from the end
of the road it makes curve and a descent
at the same time, then a sudden ascent
Here there are few small houses, and by
turning back one can look over the park
and even beyond and see the smoke of the
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little uncouth. and he detested the no.
toriety he could not escape. 1t was re-
lated that an American, great admirer
OF the author of 'The Life and Death of
JASON" desired to make his acquaint tance /;
after being kept waiting for an intermina-
bic time, the unfortunate stranger was re-
celved by the poet, with shout of:
well, sir. what the devil do you want?"
His obstinate nature, his high bat gen.
erous temper, his love of argument, even
of stormy violence. made him difficult
man to associate with; especially as his
views, so firmly maintained, were gener-
ally, at first, utterly impracticabie /;
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Wolfings" and the "Story of Sigurd the
Volsung." His artistic work was in many
directions. 1t was the result OF many ar
guments that had originally turned him
from architecture to poetry, but in his
later work there were always traces of that
precise early training. One of his earliest
friends, Faulkner, bursar of an Oxford
college, himself a strong willed, argu-
mentative man. was generally his host,
in the early sixties, and an Oxford student
of that period, who was invite d to Faulk-
ner's Sunday breakfasts, had an unusual
opportunity to listen to the "sound and
fury" of dialectical battles. In this case
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fishing poems making the desire for
beauty almost moral law. And from
these Sunday breakfasts, where the very
crockery was imperiled by the force of
the arguments, the scheme, so visionary
at first. was practically evolved to found a
business-a firm of decorators and up
holsterers who were to revolutionize Eng
land. The curious and unusual part of it
is that for once the dreamers succeeded
not after struggle and labor, but immedi-
ately. Not university don in Oxford but
owned an esthetic coal scuttle; not one
of the tutors wives but pointed proudly
to a wall covered with a Morrisonian
design of Towering pomegranates.
The firm was called Morris, Marshall,
Faulkner d Co., and their first house was
in Red Lion square. Later they opened
in Oxford street and finally moved to
Merton Abbey, where they still remain.
And the widespread influence Of this firm
of decorators was and is remarkable. He
may be said to have revolutionized Eng
lish taste in decorative art. His idea was
that designs should he at once graceful and
natural, reproduced from natural outdoor
objects; that fabrics should be of substan-
tial worth, whether they be the simplest
cotton stuffs or the most exquisite silks or
satins or brocades; that colors should be
used that would stay fast through shade
and sun.
At present his work has met the inev.
table fate of any success; it has been
initiated and distorted by the manufac-
turers in England and America, less
scrupulous as to the quality and design
it has been cneapened and made common.
place, until it has been made to encourage
the very taste ''for useless ornaments
sham art and stupid bric-a- brac" he was
most anxious 10 destroy. His name be-
ca me falsely associated with that modern
fashion he detested-crowding rooms with
silly trities that, to use his own words,
make our strffy, art-stifling houses more
truly savage than Zulu's kraal or an East
Greenlander's snow hut" He loved frank
colors." pure and solid, and yet, as he
himself said with whimsical despair. ''he
is supposed to have brought into vogue a
dingy, bilious.looking yeilow-green-a
color of which be had q special and per-
sonal hatred" His theories were simple
in the extreme. Nothing can be work
of art which is not useful, that is to saw
which does not minister to the body when
well uuder command of the mind. or
which does not amuse, soothe or elevate
the mind in healthy state. What tons
upon tons of unutterable rubbish, pretend.
ing to be art in some degree, would this
maxim clear out of our houses if it were
understood and acted upon. If you can.
not learn to love real art at least learn TO
hate sham art and reject it. Learn TO do
without-there is virtue in these words
and then from simplicity of life would
rise up the longing for beauty; and we
know that nothing can satisfy that de-
mand but intelligent work, rising grad
ually into IMAGINATIVE work, which will
turn all operators into workmen, into art
lists, into men,"
1t was impossible for man of his tenn
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men could not have been found and would
inevitably have risen with the need for
them, to bring beauty into the wallpapers
and carpets, to remodel the furniture, to
give to kitchen pottery and the things
for everyday use some decora-
tive value above their usefulness;
in short to metamorphose the homes of
this latter half of the nineteenth century.
Whether or no, we wish he had written
more poetry and fewer pamphlets for the
benefit of the working classes. With his
deep enjoyment of beauty and art there
are few poets who could have lived hap
pier life, but his sympathies we're too
large, and set not only upon singing" of
the woes of mankind, but in being act
lively engaged in lessening them. His ec-
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08
Hot Water for Cough.

A sudden and wearing attack of cough.
ing often needs immediate attention, es-
pecially in consumptiyes and those chron-
ically ill. In an emergency, that ever
useful remedy, not water. will often prove
very effective. 1t is much better than the
ordinary cough mixtures, which disorder
the digestion and spoil the appetite.
Water almost boiling should be slipped
when the paroxysms come on. A cough
resulting from irritation is relieved by hot
water through the promotion of secretion,
which moistens the irritaied surfaces.
Hot water also promotes expectoration,
and so relieves the dry cough.
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founded on the quick enthusiasm of ma
ture at once idealistic and inclined to
pessimism. He had the eyes and the ex-
preston of a dreamer, absentminded and
meditatlve, in strong contrast to the
rugged modelling of his great brow and
nose and chin.
The poet left us the inheritance of 1.-THE
Lille and Death of JASON" "The Earthly
Paradise, "The Defense of Guenevere,
and in later years "The House of the
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08

In the death of William Morris-roet,
artist, manufacturer and philanthropist-
England has lost one of the most interest
ing personalities of the last half century.
II his wonderful versatility almost pre-
cluded absolute supremacy in any one
direction, it gave infinite opportunity for
broader development, wider influence
for good, humane and never-failing in
terest in every subject that could affect
, the artisan, the artist or the man of ele-
CANT leisure.
He belonged to that remarkable circle
called at first in scorn the pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood-Ford MADDOX Brown, John
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08

A Belgian inventor mas devised an i'm
mense lamp, such as has probably never
been seen before. The lamp is composed
of 5000 pieces. 1t is six feet high and
measures three feet ten in ches in diam
eter. 1t is fed with lard oil. and the con-
sumption is very small its light being so
powerful that one may read by it at a
distance of 900 feet.
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road is that it can be followed for about
two miles and suggest nothing but the
country, but after that distance it makes
curve toward the City, and in mile
more comes back to the streets of San
Francisco not many blocks from where 1t
started
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08
THE WORKSHOP AT MERTON ABBEY.

Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and later
Burne-Jones. His personal appearance
was striking and among facetious Oxford
men he was called "The Lion" not only
for the leon inc character of his head, but
for his habit of roaring, when annoyed, in
stentoriaD tones.
He had massive forehead with great
thatch of unruly, shaggy hair; big
beard hid mis- rather grim mouth and
chin. His manners were abrupt, at times
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centricity knew no bounds, nor his eager
ness for the success of any venture in
which he was interested. He has been ac-
cused of many things. how justly or un-
justly it is not necessary to inquire. His
poetry has streak of fatalism that gives
it touch of weakness. In reality he vas
lone who never turned his back, but
marched breast forward"
VAN DYcK BROWN.
London, October "a, 1885,
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they We're productive of unusual results.
A hobbyhorse Morris could always ride
was the hideousness of ordinary surround
ings. He could demolish in a rage OF con-
tempt the conservative manufacturers who
turned out year after year abomina-
tlons in the way of wallpaper and carpets,
furniture and ornaments. 1t was time
when Pater was first publishing his deli
cately elaborate essays, when Rossetti and
Swinburne and Morris himself were pub.
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A lock of Napoleon's hair, cut when the
Emperor was on board the Bellerophon at
Plymouth in August, 1915, and sent with
letter to CapeI Loft of Troston, Suffolk.
was sold at Sotheby's in London the other
afternoon for $50
Evening star., 1896-10-03
Movements of Troops.

Major General Ruger commanding the de-
partment of the east, has ordered The fol-
lowing movements of troops to take place
from the 18th to the 18th instant:
First Artillery-Lieutenant Colonel Marcus
p. Miller, headquarters, staff and band, from
Fort Hamilton. n. Y; Battery c HIuoJell's)
from Fort Wadsworth, n. Y, and Battery
NJ Wan NessD from Fort Slocum, y. Y, to
ST. Francis barracks. Fla.
Major William l.. HaSkin, Battery ID Rus-
sells) from Fort Wadsworth, y. ", and
Battery G QngallsO from Fort Hamilton, n.
Y. H., to Jackson barracks La.
Major John III. Calef and Battery CIer-
rilTs) from Fort Slocum, n. Y, and Battery
A (Andruss) from Fort Hamilton, v. " to
Key West barracks, Fla.
Battery II (Cotton's) from Fort Slocum
N. Y, and Battery l. (MacMurray's) from
Fort Wadsworth, n. Y, to Fort Bsrrancas,
Fla.
Battery / Patterson's) from Fort Hamil-
ton, n. Y, to Fort Monroe. Va.
Third Artllery-Staff, band and Batteries
e PrattS and III (O'Hara's) from st.
Francis barracks, Fla. under comm and of
the colonel, and Batteries A (Chesters) and
G CBurbanks) from Fort Barrancas, Fla,
under command Of the lieutenant colonel;
Batteries ID (Humphrey's) and l. QIessD
from Jackson barracks, La, under COM
mand Of Major Ramsey, Sd Artillery, X
(Smith's) from Key West barracks, Fla,
under command OF the battery commander.
to San Francisco. Cal. to take Station at
the posts assigned to them oy the COM
| manding general. department of California,
as follows: Z Pratts), G Burbank 3D. H
(OHara's), DanesD, and K iSmithso to
| the Preside: d Humphrey's) and j. Qiess')
to Alcatraz Island; A (Chester's) to Fort
Mason.
Battery I OanesD will remain at Key
West barracks until the arrival of battery
| of the LIST Artillery, when II will proceed to
| its station in the department OF California.
| Battery NJ (kobbes) from Fort Monroe,
Va, to Fort Candy. in the department of
| the Columbia. Major JoER-sa. Myrick from
Key West barracks to Fort Can5y, Wash
| ington.
Fifth Artillery-This regiment on it's ar
rival in the department Of the east will take
! station follows: Col. YIN. Graham,
| Major q. H. Kinzie. staff, band ana Eat
teries A RobertsD, H (Crabbs) and Hilrs)
| at Fort Hamilton; Lieutenant Colonel VIM.
| Sinclair. Major ]. A. Darling and batteries
| Z Vodge's). X (MorrisO and (McClel,an's)
| at Fort Wadsworth. Major Tully McCrea
| and Batteries B Qomia's), c CWood's) and
M days. at Fort Slocum.
Evening star., 1896-10-03
Blair Lee at Gaithersburg.

Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
GAITHERSBURG, Nd, October 2. 1898.
The silver forces Of this district held sway
at the opera house Thursday night. 1t was
a large assemblage of local voters, irrespec-
tive Of party, and many brought their wives
with them. Mr.. Blair Lee, democratic can
didate for Congress. arrived on the o'clock
train from Silver Spring and was accom-
panied by a large party of followers from
Rockville, Forest Glen and other points.
Mr.. VIM. H. Talbot called the meeting to
order and introduced Mr.. w. w. Wright
the Washington banker, as the first speaker,
who proceeded to discuss the money ques-
ton, which he said was the main Issue Of
this campaign. He advocated the free COIN
age of silver.
Mr. Blair Lee was continuously cheered
when he began to speak, and his arguments
were upon the planks of the Chicago plat
FORM which in his opinion is one of genu-
inc Jeffersonian democracy. Federal inter
ference with railroads was denounced and
Mr.. Bryan lauded for his stand In Congress
for human life as against the expenditure
of money for automatic car couplers,
whereby thousands Of lives might be saved
annually. International bimetallism was
traced since 1860, leading to shortage of
s125 O00, ,NW annual interest on the national
debt, while doing more business with the
world. Mr.. Lee predicted change and
asked where the liberties of the people are
to be found if there was not a change.
Mr.. A A. Lipscomb was the last speaker.