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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-04
HORRORS OF THIRST
CD the
AFRICAN DESERT.

TN 1.-THE New Africa" DR.. Schulz de-
scribes the horrors of thirst in the
case of his companion, Hammar,
i who became separated from the
party and wandered all day without
water over the dry, hot sand belt of the
South African desert.
We had been expecting to overtakel
him all day and as night drew on we
became much disturbed at his absence.
We fired the gun, the signal agreed
upon if either of us was lost, but there
was no answer.
In half an hour the gun was again
discharged, and SO on at each half
hour till half past ten. But no answer
from Hammar Then, after the eleven
O'Clock signal CUR joy of joysl We
heard three shots in rapid succession.
about two miles out.
Grasping my gun and singing ont IN
Chiki to bring a big calabash of water
along, I rushed off in the direction of
the shots, and soon was delighted to
see fire blazing in the distance. to
which l hurried as fast as my legs
could go.
There lay Hammar by the fire. pros
trate from exhaustion, so utterly done
that ne could not put one foot before
the other, but still alive. His face
looked like a piece of wood. and was
so pinched and dried up that he would
not nave been recognized by a casual
acquaintance, and it was days before
he regained his usual appearance
he had sat down to rest beneath a
tree at dusk, and had loosened his cart
ridge belt. When he heard our first
signal gun family, he found with dis
may that his belt was missing. 1t was
dark, and he had gone a long distance
from the tree. He turned about and
made his way cautiously back to the
tree in the greatest anxiety lest he
should miss it,
Luckily he found it and the cartridge
belt lying where he had dropped It.
Then he retraced his steps, waiting for
the signal shots which kept him in the
right direction.
Hammar had been on his feet sixteen
hours and as we reckoned 1t, had COW
cred between sixty and seventy miles
without touching drop of water.
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off at top speed in the direction of
Sketty, as if making for the scene of
his recent plumber at Captain Halls
residence.
1t Is well known that at o'clock he
stealthily entered Sketty and rang the
bell at the residence of Mr.. Shenck,
engineer to the Swansea Harbor Trust
The servant answered the call at the
door and afterward Mrs. Shenck went
to see what the stranger wanted. In
piteous tones he asked for something
to eat and Mrs. Shenck, moved by his
beggarly appearance and touching ap-
peal, said to the servant: Let him
have a little breakfast" Thereupon
Riverton was allowed into the house
and straightway conducted to the
kitchen, where a bountiful supply of
food was placed before him. He ate
heartily and appeared extremely thank
full for the generosity of the family.
One distinctive feature about the des-
perado is that all his front teeth are
missing, and this information was we'll
circulated throughout the district by
the police When the prisoners appear
ance was described to Mrs. Shenck she
Immediately recalled the fact that her
early visitor requested to be supple
with soft bread as his Jaws, he said,
were painful to him. I After partaking
of the breakfast Riverton became quit,
at ease, and realizing that he was un
der the roof Of a good Samaritan he
loosely asked to be allowed to wash
his hands and face, a privilege which
was granted. BY this means he was
able to remove the traces left by his
burrowing under the cell. He was un-
convicted. and consequently dressed in
his own clothes, so that after a wash
and brush-up he was able to leave the
premises without attracting any spe-
cial notice.
At Cwndonkin Park Riverton was
noticed by a man who gave informa-
ton to the police. A search was made
at this spot, but only an empty sack
was found. the fugitive having left the
place, we'll knowing that the police
would soon be on his track. He was
now hard pressed, so he concealed him
self under a piece of corrugated iron,
sack being his pillow. Riverton, it
is said, boldly entered the King Arthur
Hotel, where the topic of conversation
throughout the morning was the clev-
erness and ingenuity of the very man
who was so near. Meanwhile he was
closely watched, and 1t was soon seen
that he was Enthusiastically the escaped
prisoner. Police Constable Brown was
quickly alongside the runaway after
| that.
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exclusive diet on ducks have proved
albumen to be the only substance ca
pable of sustaining life for any length
of time. A duck fed exclusively on
butter lived only seven days; one fed
on fat meat about ten days; one fed
on starch two weeks; one fed on lean
meat thirteen days. The duck fed on
albumen showed no signs of dying even
after several months of the diet. The
same experiments on dogs and chick
ems gave about the same proportional
results. OF course, water was freely
given in connection with the exclusive
diets
Should artificial albumen prove all
that is claimed for it there is no rea-
son to believe that man would find it
necessary or desirable to live on 1t ex-
clusively. In fact, his appetite would
most likely object. This is one of the
instances where science cannot over
come nature. But artificial albumen
as an accompaniment of starchy and
sugary foods, together with, little
acid, would be boon to mankind. And
if necessity called for it albumen ex-
clusively would sustain life a long
time. AT least year longer than any
other exclusive food would.
Scientists all over the world are talk
ing of little else besides DR.. Lilienfelds
discovery. All feel that it is possible
10 MAKE dlUuIIleu lTOIH COAL ldT. s.. Anu
when the wonders of "synthetical"
chemistry as considered there is no
need of surprise.
On the subject of chemical synthesis,
the entire chemical world is aroused,
and scores of laboratories in Germany
and elsewhere are actively expert
Inenting, for discoveries along these
lines have enormous commercial posi-
bilities in them. Substances that hith-
erto have been produced only by pro-
cesses of nature are now built up" in
the laboratories with great exactness,
meeting every test. What is more, they
can be made in this way at far less
cost than they can be taken from some
plant, frequently a rare one. The es-
sential element, the extract, instead of
being distilled or yielded to some COM
plicated method Of treatment, is made
up in the reverse way-working back
ward, as 1t were.
What has already been accomplished
in this field would make long story.
Scores of compounds, elements, es-
sences and essential principles under
way are proved scientifically possible;
commercial successes or their secrets
all but wrested by experimenting sci
entists No one outside of the active
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w T HEN the Hawaiian flag ceased to fiutter the
NM prophet of the sea, disappeared from the face
of the waters of the islands.
ut will mores' say the natives.
There Is nothing else to tell Our cup
full to OVERLOOKING Our rulers more monarchy
is no more. The Alolah will be more"
The story of the aloah is than passing strange.
1t is little fish and does appear any
OF the harbors about Hawaii harbnger
national misfortune bereavement Time and again
of mind has it appeared and time and again
lowed in it's wake. 1t has foretod the death Princes,
the passing of Kings revolutions last of
Of the kingdom Just before coming calamity schools
these little red fish the water
Hawaians dread sight and period dread anxiety
always follows their appearance
OF years the aolah has been than
of yore for troubles have multiplied thick
the showers that deuge the queen island of the Pacific
foreigner has been known catch an alolah.
native displays this brilliant
feeling of intense pervades
land What misfortune about suffer-" ask
the fearful natives.
Never the early years Kalakauas reign
did they catch aloah Why? Because the aolah came
up from the deep only when note of warning must
sounded to the Hawaiian people. The aolah a
to the generation of Hawaiians They
troubles had country In their day They
caught brianthued fish of every other variety the
red aolah with it's peculiar markings they
And their fathers pleased for they the
catching of aloah believing they did 1t a
forerunner of impending calamity.
But morning Band of splutterng barefoot abber-
ing children to the palace bearing trophy Of the
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INGENIOUS ESCAPE
Of q Burglar
FROM PRISON.

= r ERE is the story of burglars
clever escape from an English
prison and his subsequent re-
i capture. His patience, GOODNESS
and daring at the time aroused
a good deal of comment in the
English newspapers. The rogue was
taken only after a desperate struggle,
says a London paper. The officer was
assisted by three stalwart men, who
held the runaway on the ground while
the handouts were adjusted. 1t appears
that the rumors in circulation that the
burglar, Riverton by name, carried a
revolver were unfounded, but, having
regard to the character of the fugitive,
it was deemed advisable to exercise the
greatest caution in approaching him.
Although the story Of the prisoner
having removed a slab or flooring stone
in his cell in order to escape through
a fue has caused great interest and
Wonderment in police circles, yet the
true version of his daring and remark
able escape has only just come to light
The prisoner first gained possession of
an instrument wherewith to raise the
stone In his cell. This he accomplished
by unscrewing from the wall the cleo
trio communication and breaking off a
piece of iron about foot long. He then
set to work and raised two slabs near
the heating apparatus grating, and got
into very narrow flue, through which
he forced himself along until he event.
ually found himself in the heating
room. From here he got into an
other flue, forty one feet long,
and crawled through this to a fit
ting room, where he found tools, which
he used in taking out and breaking off
the screws of the door, which was
locked from the outside. He also OBJ
tanned a plank and piece of rope.
BY tying piece of rope to plank and
throwing it he scaled wall and drop
ped into the garden of the chief warder
of the jail
It was now daylight, and there was
still a wall Between him and liberty.
However, he managed TO get over, and
coolly walked out In front of the ward
era' residenceb. 1t seems that he went
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going to the Klondike can be carried
in small market basket. For short
trip into the desert man can carry
his food in his pocket. There will be
no danger of it spelling nor causing
excessive thirst, as all sailed meats do.
This prepared albumen is the ideal
food, suited for all times and all con-
ditions, and not at all likely to cause
such diseases as scurvy
Naturally one asks how albumen can
be made from coal tar and why it is so
nourishing and acceptable to the stom-
ach.
Both questions are questions of
atomic chemistry
The components of albumen and coal
tar are almost the same, except that
they exist in different proportions in
the two substances
Albumen is composed of carbon, hy-
drogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur.
These are all of the principal elements
OF nature. Coal tar contains the same
elements, but more carbon and oxy-
gen. The atoms are all then in coal
tar, and If the chemist can isolate them
and then combine them in the proper
proportions there is no chemical rea-
son why albumen should not be the re-
suit.
The method DR.. Lilienfeld followed
to produce his artificial albumen has
not been made public, but it is under
stood that the chemical combination Is
phenol, amydo-acet acid and phos-
pho-chloric oxide. He demonstrated
its identity with natural albunnen by
several of the well known reaction
tests.
Albumen agrees with the stomach be-
cause 1t contains so many of the ele-
ments that the secretions are not ex-
hausted in converting it into tissue
cells
1t is this quality that makes it pos
sible to eat albumen day after day for
months without causing distress to the
stomach.
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REQUIRES DOG SLeDS AND MANY
PACKS TO CARRY ENOUGH PROW-
SlONS INTO THE MONDIkE TO LAST
ONE MAN THROUGH THE SEASON.

field of chemistry knows what strides
have been made and what the future
seems to have in prospect.
1t is along coal tar lines that the
most has been done. Drugs and colors
that formerly were only to be extracted
from plant life at great cost are now
in great part compounded from the
products of coal tar, and the artificial
completes successfully in open market
with the natural. Great fortunes have
already been accumulated by the lucky
investors and capitalists. This has en-
couraged others to enter the field.
Wide awake, modern chemists find
large sums at their beck and call for
this sort of work, and visions of big
royalties are dangled before them
Thus Fischer, the German professor
and chemist, is said to have made over
1000 in single year on one coal tar
patent, and others have gained reve-
nues scarcely less. That indigo has for
a long time been made successfully by
artificial means Is an old story. There
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This astonishing report comes
from Vienna, and DR.. Lilienfeld
is the man to whom the credit of dis
covery is given. He went through the
operation of producing albumen from
coal tar before an assembly of physi-
clans and scientists, and no one of the
company had the least doubt that
the result was all that was claimed
for it.
The raw product was a dark brown
powder, with a taste almost identical
to egg albumen.
The Importance of this discovery is
almost beyond estimate. Artificial al
bumen at low cost will most surely
revolutionize the method of food pro-
duction for the entire world and render
possible many things that are now i'm
possible.
An ounce of pure albumen has about
twenty times the nourishing power Of
meat. 1t will nearly equal a peck of
potatoes, and has. besides, the quality
of not interfering with the digestive
apparatus, even though eaten exclu-
sively for months at time. 1t is the
active principle of all animal food and
the developing energy Of all embry-
onic life.
At present albumen is expensive, ex-
cept for g short part of each year. In
meat it costs over Is cents a pound. In
hen eggs the cost varies from Is cents
a pound to 60 cents a pound. And II
the meat and eggs are not fresh the
nourishing quality of the albun1en is
greatly lessened.
With artificial albumen man will no
longer be dependent upon living ami
mails for meat foods, but Will produce
them in the laboratory.
A years meat supply for one man
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reported a LIienfed
making abumen arfcialy
products He of
and that by of it
quantity life expenditure
1t in the form
. bling abumen-Rtaical Record
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WHEN ALBUMEN FOOD Is MANUfAC-
TURED A MAN MAY EASILY CARRY
ENOUGH OF 1T IN A SMALL BAS-
KET TO LAST HIM THROUGH 4
LONG SEASON.


is hardly another color, however, that
cannot be built up by chemical means.
A fast, dead black is the single tint
that has evaded the chemist thus far.
The essences, too, have yielded to
chemical sciences. These are still ex-
tracted in the old-time way, but the
most of them are made
1t would seem as If the secrets Of
chemistry were being more and more
laid bare. The scientists have not
stopped at these inventions. The new
coal-tar drugs-some with such names
as alinit, europhen, ferro-somatoso,
protargol, salophen and tannopine-
have come largely into use, and act
lively compete with the old-time vege-
table and plant products. The aka
loids, formerly extracted, are now fur
nished drug stores in their pure state,
made in the laboratories. Oil of win
tergreen is likewise made, and car
bolic acid is artificially produced. Sci
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-11
OTHERS DlSFRANCHISED.
Suffrage Qualifications in Some of the
Northern states.

Tho New York mass meeting OF sympa-
thizcrs witt Editor Manly. Of Norm
Carolina suggested that If the latter
state un ~rtakcs 90 disfranchise part
Of her population by an educational or
other qualification Congress shall reduce
the representation from that state. y
was propoged % include Mississippi ana
South Carolina IN the Same class HoW
about other states that limit the rieht 81
suffrage to- their citizens? Massaci"-
soue connecticut. California, Louisiana
and wyoming disfranchise ignorant ciu-
zens. In Delaware. Masaachu setlS'
Maine. Missouri New Hampshire. New
Jersey Rhode Island. and West virginia
paupers are denied the r-ht 10 vote
Indiana and Illinois exclude United states
soldiers. sailors. and marines. In YER
mont the right Of citizen 10 cast vote
Is subject 10 the approval Of the board
Of civil authority Of the town or precinct
iu which he lives. These dcnials Of the
privilege Of voting IN Northern states are
inspired by the same motives that act
uate the people Of the state I'm the South
that have restricted suffrage The idea
IS that intelligent people DO not care 10
he governed by ignorant persons. Tn the
Northern states named there VIII DE
some NEGROES 90 come under the ban of
tho law restricting suffrage. Had these
States as many colored citizens ass the
same number of Southern states have
large proportion of the negro population
would be barred from Che polls. In Wow
OF these and other facts 10 Us not sur
prising that the tone OF tho Northern
press is CLEANSING. a marked conserVa-
tsm is noted compared with the prevail
emit tone Of former years.-GalVeston
News
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the afliuent and the beautiful Is pictured
and incidentally MIR. Taylor scores the
custom OF prize-hehting after a descrip-
ton Of fight II ask how Il Is says
hc. that prize nghiinx IL allowed in a
woll-regulated city like San Francisco.
and why FOR the benefit ~ the children 8
hospiiel2 ! ON told that fighting
Is permitted BY law. on condition that
certain portion Of the proceeds Is de-
voted 70 charity IN this case the amount
set apart for tho hospital IS from go
to 500. So the government closes its
eyes to one of the most brutal enter
tainments Of the age
With regard 20 the girls and women Of
Japan Mr., Taylor writes some Of bis
m'@st interesting pages. lie refers to
them as exceptionally modest and notes
that as travellers they are more circum-
spoct than tho average American girl
Throughout he pays his attention to tho
natural beauty OF the country lie re-
fers TO the fact that I'm many districts
both mon and women 20 perfectly naked
but that the modesty or simplicity OF
both are the qualities OF a primitive IN
noeence-the innocence OF our first par
onts. The literature Of travel, when II
IS tho work Of genuine culture ana talent
as well as a studiOus and keen observa-
ton is among tho most valuable OF an
literature. for the traveller may prac-
ticallv carry with him on his journey
hundreds who may never make II other
wise. And hundreds who are as fully
capable as he Of enjoying II Is a happy
influence therefore, which directs tai
ent and experience into such course,
an especially happy one i'm the case OF
Mr.. TAYLOR. for both his talent and his
opportunity are exceptional Therefore
he places an unusually large number of
readers I'm a most pleasant debt. and MS
book will. we think. engage the interest
OF many thoughtful and discriminating
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ScbsduIa in FMAck

JUNE ~, 1855.
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STREET STATION.
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rive Norfolk IL 10 A. Nj. Stops
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tickets not accepted on this
train. ..,,,-,
800 A. III. the Chicago EArhbSo.
for Lynchburg, Roanoke, Co
iumbus and Chicago. fullnan
Sleeper Roanoke 10 Columbus;
also for Bristol, Knoxville
and Chattanooga.
7.ao p NJ For Suffolk, Norfolk. and In
termediate stations; arrives at
Norfolk at 1850 r. NJ.
ti.4O y NJ For LynchDurg and Roanoke.
Connects at Noanoke with
WASHINGTON and Chattanooga
Limited. Pullman SIeepers
Roanoke to Memphis and New
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occupancy at 900 =. NJ Also
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Trains arrive Richmond from ny
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The Pope has written poem, 10 be
set 10 music by Dubois. OF Paris and
20 bs performed in Rheims during the
festivities In celebration of King Clovis
conversion to Christianity. ihe poem
is called "Vivat Christus qui digit
Frances The musical part Of the poem
Is cantata for the orchestra, chorus,
tenor and baritone. II Is divided in three
narts. "ClovIs' baptism" Christian
heroism." and "Christs Triumph"
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Richmond, Fredericksburg ana
Potomac Railroad.

SCHEDULE ~ Err - S ~ ~ lo's'
i,lIAI h. BlRD STREET oIAIlON.
3.33 \. Nj. Ddny lOl " @o4'l,o enlv an
poiAls North. olops VhlJ a.
MILFORD and treasriSAsDaIe.
luuiAan slcepeIa 10 Ne"
son A NJ. sunday only. for Washington
and points North. stops al
ElOa, Glen Allen, Ashland.
YaylOrsVllle, DOsWeil, hulhcr
Glen, PenOld, Milford, W oods-
lane, Guinea, Summit, treder-
icksours, Brooke and WIDE
water. Pullman car.
s'fo a. ~ Wasning ION and points Sorth.
stops al ElDa. Ashland, Tay-
lorsyllle, boswell, nufLer
Glen. Penola. Milford. Woods
Zane. Guinea, summit. treder-
icksburg, Brooke and Wioe-
water Pullman car.
...oo AZ Daily. except Sunday, for
i|'" A. Washington and points North.
STOPS at EiOd. Glen Allen,
Ashland, boswell Milford,
FREDERICKSBURG, Brooke, and
Wiaewater ?arlor Car; also,
connects with Congressional
Limited at Washington.
7:lo P. NJ. Dsy N tor "@ siaps an al Eioa
Ashland. boswell. Milford,
fredericksburg, Brooke and
Underwater and other stations
sunday. sleeper Richmond TO
.,p,vE f sYRp STREET STATION.
NAM. stops AT Whitewater,
o'" "a Brooke, fredericksburg, MI.
ford boswell, Ashland. and
El6a, aud other stations SUM-
Gays. sleeper New York to
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o'oo at Whitewater. Brooke, Fred
ericksburg, summit, Guinea.
Woodsane, Milford. PeDoll,
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land. Glen Allen and Elba.
Parlor car from Washington.
Tin NJ. Daily Stops only at Fred
80" ericksburg, boswell, Ashland
and Elba, Pullman cars from
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o." Brooke. fredericksburg, Sum-
NIT Guinea. Woodsla ie, Mil
ford PenOla. Ruther Glen,
boswell Tayiorsville, Ashland
Glen Allen. and Elba. Sleeping
car
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daily Except Sunday
400 p Nj. Leave Byrd Street station.
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ASHLAND TRAINS.
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GAG A. NJ Leaves Elba.
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