The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08

things that "the appalling increase Of So
called insanity Of late is oontemporaneous
with the advent of the larger modern
psycolical influences at work secretly
behind all public meetings of an indis-
criminate character, especially in old Ele-
mental Saturated halls during fits of un-
due mental excitement or other local
sources of sapping of nerve power by the
grosser IN the audience drawing away by
induction the magnetic or life forces
from finer sensitive subjects (uneducated
Psychics). who are always more or less
present in mixed meetings, in partial
state of embodiment, and so become
thereby so extremely nervous (polarizeD
that they can too easily be seized upon by
some of the many earthbound 'unclean
or sick spirits as of old: also who be
foretime were disobedient' and so un-
fedged Psychics still continue to supply
the genuine reason for the ever swelling
criminal calendar the alleged moral lep-
rosy, and most notably adding to the al
ready too long list of obsessed people
through ignorance of psychic law
1t must not be supposed l have given all
of that sentence. There was some of It
preceding where 1 began, and some that
goes on beyond where l broke off The
portion given serves as a sample. The
writer in a note says, II am in a position
to say that the second coming,
t. e., the spiritual knowledge will
be greatly aided if you do JUS
tice and give space to this article,
one of many to follow" Alas! that the
second coming should be delayed by my
injustice, but it must be so. "Nemo's''
article is more than a thousand words
long and there are but three periods In 1t.
To give space to it and the more to follow
would be to hasten the spiritual illumlna-
ton so rapidly there would be danger of
something stopping over,
The campaigns of off years are ALWAYS
duIi and those of this particular one are
duiler than ordinarily by reason of the
tact that the parties having no distinct
issue to fight over are skirmishing for
positions in a fog and are moving eau
tiously. All the more credit is therefore
due to Governor Stephens OF Missouri
VINO, not being able to give US an issue.
mas furnished our oratory with a new
phrase. lie recently addressed a Missouri
audience as "Sapient sons of sainted
sires and reminded them, THE eyes of
your country are upon you to-day" What
form of address could be better than
that?
When Tom Reed in his farewell letter
to his constituents wrote, "I have never
trimmed a sail to catch the passing
breeze he knew it sounded well and
ooubtless thought it meant well, but
landsman should ever be wary of nauti-
cal metaphors. There are many seafaring
men in Maine and they have been great
ly disturbed by the expression Some of
them have rushed into print to declare
that he who trims no sail to catch what
ever breeze may blow Is a very poor sea
man; and they wish Mr.. Reed to furnish
diagram to explain what ne r-eant II
is now incumbent upon the retired states
man to inform them that when in noli.
tics he went ahead like a steamer with a
screw propeller driven by the force OF
circumstances
Admiral Dewey is a most excellent adj
miral, an honor to his country an idaal
popular hero and an ornament to the
Dewey FAMILY; but the way in which he
is not acting on political issues with the
Vlgor he showed in war is a caution IN
statesmen. Whenever any one has said
anything to him about Presidential possi-
bilities he has smiled and put the ones
tion by. When told the other day that
the politicians are planning to nominate
him, he replied, ''They don't know mo -
10 another questioner who asked him If
ne were Democrat he said "I am going
to whisper a great secret-I don't thinl,
anybody knows my politics."
All OF which may mean nothing. In the
meantime it is to be remembered that in
the early days of the republic I.angdor
Cheves said, THE Presidency of the
United States is an office which no citizen
has right TO seek or to refuse" Admiral
Dewey is about to undertake a tour of the
country. We may be sure he is not maxi
ing 1t solely for the sake of receiving ova-
uons and getting his hand shaken. II
looks as If the hero had his ear to the
ground.
When lynching has ceased in the United
States and the history of it is to be writ
ten, here is an item from a paper in Ar
kansas that will merit a record:
The lynchers had forgotten to bring q
rope with them, but the victim had 4f
cents In his pocket and that was lust
enough to purchase a good, strong rope
which was soon produced from a store
near by. The money, however, was con-
sldered as loan, and was returned to
the victims family after the ceremonies
were over"
An invention likely to prove of value to
the musical world is reported from Berlin.
where 1t is said a certain DR. Moser has
devised sounding board for the piano
which will improve with age like the body
of violin and be better after a hundred
years than when first put together.
The story as 1t comes from one who
was present at a test of the resonance
piano, as the inventor calls it, is interest
ing. In the course of his narrative he
says:
What is the first thing a master
teaches you to-day?' asked the genial
doctor. 1T is touch. Without touch you
might as we'll play the xylophone. The
first time that you put a finger on my
piano you will recognize that 1t is not the
touch but the instrument that does the
work. You can put your foot on the key
board, and beautifully round, full tone
will ensue. Listen! The doctor struck
the middle c smartly with his whole
hand, held like a hatchet, and it may be
confessed at once that all present We're
surprised, to use no stronger expression,
at the strength and beauty of the tone.
The doctor folded his arms and looked on
triumphantly, while it's tones reverberat-
ed through the room as if they would
never stop and all the time the overtones
were clearly and easily distinguished from