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The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04

within the form and substance OF the
belt and that Is what electricity
and all other forces in nature do; always
act on the lines of least resistance within
the form and substance of whatever they
are acting In, and the forces in their op-
erations in nature as we call it. cross
these lines of least resistance and the sci
en- tist has never bsen able to explain their
mechanism. They point out the many
crossed lines in physical geolra-
ply, and the crossing of the nerves as
they pass from the spinal cord 10 the
brain at the medulla oblongata. the motor
optic and nearly all the nerves of the
human and animal body on which flow
the nervous fluid, but they have never
been able to explain the mathe matIcal
and mechanical oper alton of these sys-
TENS OF vibratory energy, and like our
earth, the cyclone, waterspout, the shot
falling from the shot-tower, hail, rain and
many other systems of energy that seem
a puzzle to them-that is what l claim to
be able to explain!
The explanation carries with it no
puzzle or seeming inconsistencies, as there
is in some of Newton's theories. Take
one of his theories that space has three
dimensions. then Just consider a body of
matter like our earth, 5000 miles through,
with all its mountain ranges and Unequal
tiles, with free access 10 this space revolv-
ing upon but one axis, what is there to
keep it from deviating or turning on some
other axis, and if it should what is there
TO stop it or bring it back? Within the
last few years l have read a number of
Pam phlets from different authors wherein
they claim that there is the fourth dimen-
sion to space, and our failure to compre-
hend it is the cause of our ignorance OF
the mechanism of the universe.
Now, l deny that there is any such
thing as dimension to space. What we
call space is condition between forms,
and is not an entity, and has no existence
in fact, and you cannot give dimensions
to non-existing nothing. What seems
to designate 10 US the condition We call
space Is nothing but the principles that
govern the possibilities and impossible
ties of the vibratory energy OF the absolute
of the form, together with the joint prod
uct OF that vibratory energy governed by
all the possibilities and mpossibllities of
the motion of the form itself.
"The reason why. as / claim, that there
is stability apparent in our planet, is that
the motion that we see is the elusive mo-
ton of form, that is, the combined prod
uct of the invisible m athe m atical M echa a n
icaliy organized systems OF the vibratory
energy of the absolute of matter or tie
mathematically arranged units of form.
"In system that / can show is spon-
taneity in nature wherein all the systems
so arranged themselves as in the snow
! flake that the vibratory energy is con-
stantly recurring back to itself or back to
| first primary motion, so that when the
system is once created, like a waterspout
over the ocean, for instance. every system
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bratory energy that could be created with
in the form and substance of the boat by
force have only employed two.
Now | want to say about Newton's ap-
pie that the apple before it fell from the
tree was fulfilling all the posi- bilities of
motion and vibration and was only part
of system the forces of which are so
mechanically and mathematicaliy ar
ranged that the system controls and
utilizes all of the centrifugal and
kinetic energies in such a way as to
recur them back to the system and create
motion and pressure, and when the APP
pie fell it was obeying force and not
law, and that force was product of vibra-
ton and that vibration was within the
substance of the apple and not out side OF
it. Nature never gets outside of itself. If
it could Newton might put his centrifugal
force where nature could not handle it.
IF you are q contractor ard L give you
job to lay a stone sidewalk, about the
first question you will ask is, what shape
do l want the block put down in. l will
tell you that there are but three shapes
that Will fit a superficial area without in
terstices between, and they are the eqni.
lateral triangle, the hexagon and square,
You may make forms all your life and
make untold millions of them, but you
never can make forms that will fit u super
fetal area without leaving interstices be-
tween but the three, but all the millions
that you could make only equal the three,
for the three body all their lines. And
so it is with the solid figures. There are
but five solid figures that can have an
equal mathematical and mechanical divis-
ion with a common center, and they are
called the platonic figures after Pl alto,
who discovered them. Now you may
make untold millions of solid figures, but
you can never make one that can have a
mathematical division with a common
center but the five, and all the millions
thatyou can make will only equal the five,
for they embody all their lines.
$50 to with the principles of vibration
and life that run this universe. There are
millions of conditions of vibration, as
many as there are forms in it. or as many
as all the forms you can create, but there
is but one condition, or system of viDra-
ton, and life. wherein the vibration re.
ours back to first cause. or primary mo-
ton; but all the millions of conditions of
vibration that you can create only equal
the one, for the one embodies all the
Others. Nature mover gets outside Of
itself. And this recurrence of the vital
force of life back to the system OF life, as 1
can show, Is what caused the thud or
pulse in the human and animal system or
body, and that ever-present pulse can be
detected in every and all forms or organ
lied life, even back to the protoplasm !;
and not only in organized life, but in or
ganized force or energy, as in the gall
vanic battery, the waterspout. thund er
cloud or storm, and even in the lines of
force in the stationary magnet. The ever
present pulse can be detected, and so 1t is
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04
RWEW WITH PRESIDENT KRUGER AT HIS HOME AT PRETORIA

man, whom had seen last in 1881, when
he was addressing the Boer forces en-
camped over Laing's NeE, after the pre-
liminaries of peace and the independence
of the Transvaal had been arranged with
the British. At that time Kruger was
playing second fiddle, General Joubert
being the man of the hour.
One afternoon l had the honor of call
ing upon President Kruger, accompanied
by Mr.. Weinthal, editor of the official
Press of Pretoria, who courteously offered
to introduce NE. Situated a few yards
back from the fence bordering the side
walk, the Presidents dwelling is a low
built house of the ordinary South African
type, shaded by trees and shrubs, growing
close up to the veranda. At the little
white gateposts lounged two policemen,
booted, spurred, armed with magazine
rifles ana bandoliers, the uniform very
similar to that of the Cape Mounted Rifles.
One of these men, facetiously imitat-
ing "Mr. Punch's" squeak, accosted
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make note OF that fact under nv draw
ing; but my small joke failed to reach the
humorous sense either of Kruger or his
relatives, who evidently make proper
distinction between a Presidential joke
and that of "kooinek.' Then the old
m an meditativeIy spat in TO the spittoon and
sat slowly back again. Not being 'sTaal''
scholar, for Mr.. Kruger only spoke in
Dutch, L could not follow the details OF the
conversation between him and Mr. Vein
thal.that ensued, but the latter enlightened
me now and then when the Presiden.
said anything mportant-once he turn ed
to me and said, "Do you hear that? Do
you understand? The President says that
treaties with Germany only exist in the
newspapers The President once grew
very eloquent when Mr.. Weinthal almost
brought on a violent discussion by re-
marking that the Roman Catholic
Church of these times Is not what
it was in the days of prosecutions,
for to put the case mildly Mr.. Kruger is
religious fanatic with a great admiration
expressed for Moses, the great leader OF
the Israelites. Behind him on a pedestal
is small copy of Michael Angeles cele-
brated figure of Moses. but between that
conception OF the ancient prophet and his
modern admirer it was difficult to find
points of outer resemblance.
Once reference was made to DR.. Jane
son. and the news that he was ill was re-
ceived with incredulity by the relatives
who, in the course of conversation, never
let any sense of courtesy prevent them
from making a liberal use of the offensive
term ''Rooinek" when speaking of the
British in the presence OF a British visitor.
Mr.. Weinthal was still talking, and l, in
tent on noting down details in my sketch.
book when Government official was an
nounced and we withdrew with prompti-
tude. again shook hands with the Presi-
dent. who sat like a sphinx, without
word in reply to my farewell sentence,
and. turning round, had to penetrate
barricade of chairs left by the flight
OF the relatives, and so made my
way to the stoop, where l almost
ran against a pleasant-looking young
fellow who was introduced as a son OF
the President. The impression made
upon me by this interview was that our
Charge d Affalres, Conyngham Greene,
has indeed difficult task before him, net
lessened at the outset by the unwise action
of q portion of the British community
that desired him to receive an address,
worded in such a way that the acceptance
of it would have implied that our diplo-
matte representative came with hostile in
tentions to Pretoria. when there was really
st rong eidence that our Government was
still anxious to pursue conciliatory
policy in order to overcome the unfrien endly
attitude of the Transvaal Government,
which alone has been at the bottom of all
the recent troubles.
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MxMlR. H. D. HOUGHAN of Oakland
HXHS thinks that he has discovered the
1T\cAs mechanical why" for gravitation;
The why whose existence Sir Isaac New
ton conceded and at the same time con-
fessed that he could not find it.
Mr.. Houghan has been working over the
problem for forty years, and he now be-
lieves that he has solved it and that sue
cess has finally crowned his labors.
The scientist was visited in his home
across the BAY by a SUNDAY CALL reporter,
to whom he talked most Interestingly con-
cerning his supposed discovery OF new
principle in mechanical science.
After forty years of expe ting and
study" said Mr.. Houghan, II claim to
have discovered the mechanical and
mathematical principles in which elec-
tricity, hear and other forces of matter,
both materialized and etherealized, operate
TO produce many of the phenomena that
we see in nature as We call il. but as l be-
lieve there is an economic value in my
discovery 1 can only give you some OF the
cardinal points leading up TO it at present.
when Newton picked out the Latin
words, centrum peto and centrum fueo,'
out Of which he coined the TWO English
WOfuS CbHlTl Dtldl anu anu u p
pied them as names to the two motions
or forces which he claimed to have dis
covered and explained that always exist
in a body revolving on an axis, he as
sumed at once that our earth was endowed
with the same condition of force and mo-
tion, and as he found that the centrifuga al
force was rom the center at a right angle
from q radia o. that center, he found that
force not to be in harmony with world
building and then claimed to have dis
covered what he called the law of gravi-
tation TO counteract his other force
that is, law that clothes matter with
the power of acting at a distance. although
= he admitted that he believed that there
was a mechanical why for gravitation,
but he could not find it and only claimed
the credit OF discovering the m athem atical
why The mechanical why is what
claim to have discovered, and l do not
claim it theory alone.
Il would not give fig for any mans
theory or cent for my own if l had one
if l did not have something tangible De-
hind it. l claim in describing it l can
materially demonstrate, mechanically
: illustrate and mathematicallv prove il.
Ii should go into my mill to put in
some additional machinery and / should
find that some of the old puIleys were
running the wrong way to suit the new
pulleys, what would 1 do2 Reverse the
engine and shafjingP By no means. l
would cross the belt and the new pulley
would run the right way. Now, that is
just what nature does. She crosses her
belts. But one may say that there is no
such thing as a visible tangible pet in the
nebular hypothesis. grant it; but what
is the operation of a visible tangible
belt? Nothing but force operating g
upon the lines of least resistance
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movable thing name gives us no addi-
tionaI knowledge of what it is.
''I see that lamppost there, and why do
see it? l see it because there is an in
tervenipg medium between me and the
post and the form of that post is vibrating
through that medium on to the retina of
my eye, thence across the optic nerve to
my brain and makes me cogniZant of the
fact that the post is there; but if you
could take away the intervening medium
and create an absolute void between me
and the post l never would know that the
post was there. How many intervening
mediums exist between our senses and
forms we do not know. Between the hard
est steel and the X ray there are many.
How many beyond the x ray no man can
answer
What claim is that there is the last
intervening medium, the absolute of form
or what we call matter; the absolute re-
ality of this universe can act as an inter-
vening medium between all the forms it
creates and the human mind, but there is
nothing to act as an intervening medium
between itself and the human mind. Any
gross substance cannot act, and q more
etherealized or spiritual substance there is
none. claim that no human being will
ever know what the absolute reality is;
that there always will be an empty void
between them, but what it does and how
it does it is a problem that can be solved
by the human mind.
You ask me what it IS? I answer it has
no is. What is it like2 1t has 20 like.
But when you ask me what it does, say
it does nothing only through form and in
form. That is what claim to be able to
explain; that when it acts in form and
through form it acts mechanically and
mathematically, and in no other way"
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of-viDratory energy EN- mbodies within itself
both cause and effect. for the kinetc en-
ergy of each system is so utilized by cross.
ing the lines of least resistance, that ali
the generative forces in the form are
turned in upon itself, and create pres
sure toward common center. / can show
that that system is in harmony with world
building without the inventlon of any law
of gravitation or any other law separate
from matter or force, for law is nothing
and does nothing.
Laws do not execute themselves. 1t
takes force to create motion.
"To show how easily Newtc4 might
have been deceived l will illustrate. l will
place you in a boat with a man rowing
you due west. You know the boat is
going west; you see the man rowing you
west at the same time that a wind is
blowing you due north. You know
the boat is going north. You feel the
wind blowing you north. Now your
judgment and understanding, governed by
your reasoning faculties, tell you that the
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able for drawing on account of the bad
light, but most favorable for studying his
manners and gestures as he entered into
conversation with Mr.. Weinthal. His ia
vorite attitude was that already described
when we entered the room. but when he
spoke a great change in his voice and
manner took place; he sat forward, some
times roaring rather than speaking when
apparently excited, and hourisLing his
arms vigorousy-more especially his left,
for in the right hand he usually held a
handsome pipe. Part of the time he was
smoking and would sit silent. Sometimes
he would make humorous remark, his
face lighting up under the pleasing in
fuence.
Once in peculiarly abrupt manner. as
be puffed out tobacco smoke, he remarked
to me that "however much he was drawn
he was always the old Kruger" the sally
being received with much hilarity by the
relatives and, of course, by myself, who
in the same spirit asked whether should
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my companion with an impudent
familiarity hard to relish. and not par
uiculariy edifying on the august threshold
of the Presidents dwelling. Several
Dutchmen Stood or sat about the steps
and seemed much amused at the mounte-
bank sentry. some of them proving ac-
quaintances af Mr.. Weinthal, who intro
duced me as the representative of the
Daily Graphic, and we exchanged hand
shakes all round. One of the younger men
received my greeting coldly and suspicious.
ly. though bis elders were hearty in their
salutations, especially q Mr.. Malen, a
pleasant type OF the South African Dutch
man, who invited me to take seat on the
bench near him and entered into CONVEX
sation with my companion and myself
until the President was at liberty to re-
ceive us, which. however, was no. very
long, and We soon found ourselves in a
long room, comfortably furnished but
dark, owing to the inadequate size of the
windows.
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gGE1ITH the roar and thunder of ma
HfEJ2 chinery at work in and around
Va as:H Johannesburg almost echoing
in ones ears, and still bearing with
one a vivid impression of the enter
prise and capacity everywhere in evil
dence there, 1t is almost startling 10 be
suddenly transferred to the paratively
village-like capital of the South African
Republic, distant only thirty-two miles by
road. The string Of little iron boxes on
wheels which the Netherlands Railway
Company calls train is run mp to the
platform OF the neat but not striking build
ings OF the railway station at Pretoria.
Outside the beloved bullock ck-wagons stand
or slowly creak along thu road, which, at
the time OF my arrival, happened to be
deep in mud and pools of water due to
some heavy rainfalls. The hotel omnibus
rolled and swayed as it carried us down a
tree -bordered road, passing good many
cheap villas in course of erection, and
then between some low verandahed shops
and dwellings, above the ignoble roofs of
which there rose into view the mass of the
new Government buildings, OF no archi-
tectural merit, but of i'm posing d linen sions,
surmounted by figure said to represent
Liberty.
The pretentious Government buildings
are curiously out OF harmony with the
character of the town, though there are
several substantial buildings i'll the vicin-
ity. The square in 'front.' where stands
the Reformed Dutch Church-an edifce
in plasterers' and carpe nters' Gothic-is
not paved or macad amized, and presents
an uneven muddy surface after rain,
sample of tram pied veldt There is one
s;reet-Kerk s'rect-with some good shops
and stores. generally with English names,
and goods displayed with English descrip-
tions. and l was struck by the amount of
English / heard spok n there. The other
streets are put partially if at all con-
structed, preserving a rural appearance
which sometimes affords pretty glimpses
The departure of the President from the
Government buildings in the afternoon is
the occasion for a mild military dis
play. There are always policemen
AIMED with rifles doing sentry go'
around the building bu. when the
hour approaches for the President 10
leave little batch of mounted and armed
policemen is drawn up outside the rather
stunted portico which is stuck on to the
front of The building, where a brougham
driven by man in livery is IN attend.
ance. AS the clock strikes the hour his
Honor makes his appearance from the en-
trance attired in a tall hat and long black
coat. As soon he is seated the
brougham starts, and the little knot of at
tenoant horsemen scatter suddenly around
the vehicle. where sits the President with
ms chin resting on his chest and his
hands folded over the handle of his stick.
As witnessed this little bit of ceremony
: Tor the first time it was easy to perceive
that time had left its mark on the old
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boat cannot go north and west at the
same time in separate paths; that the
two systems of vibratory energy, created
within the form and substance of the
boat by the two forces, the man and the
the wind, impel the boat TO form a re-
sultant motion, and grant, for this illus
traton, that the force of the wind was
equal to the force OF the man, that re-
sultant motion would be due northwest.
Now suppose you could not see the
man nor feel the wind and the existence
of those two separate and distinct causes
were unknown to you and could not be
recognized by any of yonr senses or modes
of observation, what would you say was
the cause of the motion of the boat north
west which you could see Would you
say, as Newton did about that apple. that
there was something in the northwest that
attracted it?
You see in this illustration out of the
many possible motions of the form of the
boat l have only employed two, and out
of the possible mum ber of systems OF vi
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At round table with colored cover,
whereon stood conspicuously among other
things a handsome silver amounted to-
bacco box. sat President Kruger in COM
Portable padded chair with a massive
metal spittoon at his feet. He sat well
back, with his hands folded over his chest
The light from the nearest window
touched pcturesquely on one side of his
large face, the features of which were
rather dimly discernible In the existing
semi-obscurity. Three or four men, rela-
tives. looking like decent farmers or
tradesmen, sat nearly opposite to the
President, who, after 1 had been intro
duced by Mr.. Weinthal, offered me a
hand to snake, and i'm mediately
asked some question regarding my knowl-
edge OF Mr.. Rhodes, which elected a
laugh from the admiring relative with
whom l also exchanged handshakes. Mr..
Kruger making no objection produced my
sketch book and set to work to study his
features in circumstances rather unfavor-
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04
Babies Who IRE
Regular Soldiers

The oldest Juvenile sight or series of
spectacles may be found. not, IS some
might suppose, in the more densely popu-
lated portions OF San Francisco, but at
the Presidio. For there are sawed-off
sergeant majors, singuIariy abbreviated
copies OF the men who march with glitter
ing batons at the heads of bands, SER
geants and corporals of the three branches
of the service-artillery, cavalry and in
fantry.
1t is well-known fact that the United
States does not pay munifcent salaries to
any of the military non-commlssioned
or private subordinates. On the contrary,
glory apart, they appear to be serving
more for their health than many other
classes who depend upon stated stipends
to meet their current expenses. Never
theess cupid finds them {. fair mark and
love burns as warmly and brightly in the
barracks as elsewhere.
After time the men who are favored
by the officers may bring their wives aud
progeny to ''soapsuds row." which is the
locality where the married privates and
non-commissioned officers reside when at
an army post After a time the boys
grow up to wear trousers and coat and
vest. 1ASu IL is IAdI tilo RlOIy VI
dress, stripes and possible chevrons, also,
de scend from sire to son with speed.
The fathers trousers have to be cut
down; ditto coats. and so on. The
stripes on the trousers cannot well be
removed, for if they were there would bs
revealed under the stripes bright-colored
cloth which, would contrast with that
which has not been covered from the fad
ing effect of the suns hot rays.
So the boys of the Presid 10 find them
selves involuntariiy cavalrymen, artil-
lerymen and infantry, according to the
branch of the service in which their fa-
theirs serve. Very tender children some-
times may be seen panoplied in the re-
gala OF war.
"Shoot de cavalry!'' says one. "Ah,
gwan, shoot the artillery" says another.
They are the most unmilitary acting
little fellows of any one who wears army
cloth in Uncle Sans broad dominion.
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