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The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
THE BOAST
OF
THE SWORD
BY A. L. FULLER


Now this great world is mine. 1 build its
No rights has thOughtlsss man but those
Men s5eak OF self and land in boastful tones.
'Tis al my pleasure men or nations live
Since hist'ry's dawn the greedy earth I've fed
To safe with bravest blood. in constant
In rsyIess night upon the land I tread
VIII sorrow's pail enshrOud its bhssfuI
dream
Its cities vast. by toilins millions built.
BY genius crowned with richest works Of art.
Its happy wales. where dwell not crime nor
Are descIatiOn's home ser depart
Men MI the garnsrs from the gen'rOus soil.
they deIve the mines and pIow the restless
They iay I'D stores with ceaseIess. patient toll,
And yet this gathered wealth is all for me-
At my command these stores are opened wide.
This wealth is scattered BY my hammered
To stay its costly pomp. its wastsful tide.
VIII want and sOrrows plea be heard In
But for my strength these crowns were useless
The chieftain's boast were only idle breath.
Nor would his fame be found with shout ard
with ciashing steel and flowing blood and
death.
But for my deeds young Science now were old.
Her helpful gifts had blessed each passing
Earth's thousand wondrous secrets yet uutold
Had long been found learning's brightest
page.
When welcome Truce extends her peaceful
hand,
And l. forsooth. am put away to rust.
Then beaming joy is seen through all the land,
For hope is high and fear aside Is thrust
All, then 1 whisper in Ambitions ear,
~ff fT-Hc and fan
When, To- mankind is blanched with trembling
For soon the startled world is all aaame.
Oh. then I'm King again and while reign.
Beneath my pond rous iron car Of might
/ heed not grOans or piercing CRY of pain
But sternly crush to earth poor. pleading
Right
For mercy. pity. kindness. such weak things.
That make the lion and the tiger tame,
I leave 70 common men. OF easy kings
My glory comes with slaughter, blood and
name
What tongue could count the millions have
Or name the cities have laid in dust;
What thought conceive the grief. the woe. the
That / have brought the innocent and just.
But. oh. far OF. upon the western sky.
1 the porrents OF my final day,
Where bold young Freedoms banner. lifted
with Cheering light illumes the toiIers' way.
Beneath its shining folds. with steadfast will.
mighty host OF truest fresmen stand.
Who only strike against the wrong and i'll.
Then bold and valiant Right has full COM
mand-
Where Justice calls these millions are as one.
They go not forth for glory. fame OF power,
Nor braver men e. er stood beneath the sun;
With them I'm but the servant OF the hour.
Ny subject millions hail the breaking day;
This rising ere long shall light the
world:
Not all my venging power can these dismay,
And soon my bloody banner must be furied.
Then Right, whose deeds have never led TO
strife.
VIII rule in ev'ry land. and cruel Wrong.
Whose hands red with human life,
VIII cease to voice ambitions siren song.
And then my brother spear must prune the
vine.
While I. a king made slave, win turn the
sod
The joyful earth with unknown beauty shine.
And man. made just. shall do the viii OF
God
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
GIRLS, PLEASE DON'T

Say things to the boys which
would not sound well in your
home.
Go about looking as if you
expected men to make slight
ing remarks about you.
Take on airs with the idea
that you thus fix a high social
position.
Carry on a correspondence
with a man without the knowl-
edge of your mother.
Accept attentions of a mark
ed character from a married
man.
Be too liberal in the letters
sent to your girl friends.
Show an objection to as
sociating with people because
they are poor.
Play the cad to women
whose social standing is above
your own.
Try to make others think
you always have had the lux
uries of life.
Be ashamed to confess that
you can't AFFORD to go into ex-
travagant expenditure.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
High Heeled Hosiery.

There is no doubt about the fact
that very high-heeled shoes are being
worn; it is so necessary to show some
thing excessively dainty in shoe leath-
er when the delicate fiimsy summer
skirt is lifted from the ground. 1t
has been rumored, with a certain
amount of likelihood, that boots made
Of cloth with pointed toe-caps of col
ored leather to match the dress will be
bought. and some of the shoemakers
are trying to introduce as a novelty
elastic side boots. which certainly
used to make the feet of those who
wore them look elegant and slender.
A fine opportunity is being afforded
those who like shoes for the display
of lovely stockings inset with lace, and,
Of course. Of color that matches the
gown.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
Sleeves.

These big sleeve tops actually cry for
accompanying revers.
For cloth costume there's NOUS
quetaire sleeve in small lego mutton
shape.
With short or semi-short sleeves for
the promenade and resort wear NOUS
quetaire gloves will be necessary.
A lovely draped sleeve caught into
two cuffs is finished with puff and
two ruff1es. and ends. nearer the wrist
than the elbow.
Greater sleeve variety would be hard
to find, as IL ranges from the coat sleeve
of the tailored suit through all sorts of
ballooniness to the evening puff.
Louis Seize sleeves are snug; the ell
bow length is frilled.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07

VOTING-Old Subscriber. Cal. The
article on the right of suffrage in the
constitution OF the State of California
says: NO person who shall not be
able to read the constitution in the
English language and write his name
shall ever exercise the privilege OF an
elector in this State; provided, that the
provisions of this amendment relative
to an educational qualification shall not
apply to any person prevented by a
physical disability from complying with
its acquisitions. nor to any person who
shall be sixty years of age and upward
at the time this amendment shall take
effect" amendment adopted Novem-
her G. 1871
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
Handkerchiefs.

Those colored handkerchiefs which
have white centers, colored borders and
white edges are pretty. The edge is
hemstitched, straight in places and at
others rubbing up into the colored bor-
der in flowers and other fanciful de-
signs. These are the fine and expen-
sive handkerchiefs.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
ANSWERS

BLOOD CALCULATIONS Subscriber,
City The discovery Of the circulation
of the blood. as now understood, was
made by Or. William Harvey. first pub
lished by him. however, in 1928. He was
partially anticipated by Servetus. Real
dus, Columbus and Cassalpinus, and al
most entirely 80 by Paolo Sarpi, whose
claim in this respect has been generally
overlooked. The discovery was com
pleted by the demonstration with the
aid of the microscopy Of the blood cor
puscles and the capillaries between 1858
and 1857 by Swammerdam, MaIpighi
and Leeuwenhoek.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
IN THE REALN OF FASHION

till cold weather comes, and some 9TH
ers have worn kid all summer.
Suede KID is too soft and pretty to be
cast aside, and pastel shades look well
with clothes in dark hues.
The elbow sleeves, which are among
the numerous Louis XVI revivals. pre-
sage any number of elbow length
gloves.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
The Youngsters Play Suits.

In play suits for children there is a
great variety. Jean, holland and other
old-time serviceable materials are en-
ployed for them. They come in quaint
styles, for there are farmer" suits,
Jap clothes, Indian rigs, cowboy out
fits and soldier costumes.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men By TIA
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 230 Cal.
f3ornta street. Telephons Main 1o4A
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07

Finest eyeglasses. 15c to soc. 7s 4th St.
front of Keys Celebrated Oyster House.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07

Townsends California GIace fruits In
artistic fire-etched boxes 715 Market ST.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
Gloves.

Black gloves are worn with all black.
though with a white rig black gloves,
hat and shoes are modish.
Some women viii wear fabric gloves
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07

Welsh Rarebit-Melt one cup Of graf
ed cheese, add one cup OF cream and a
level tablespoon of butter. After the
mixture is hot add a beaten egg, sea-
son with salt and paprika and salt
spoon of mustard. Serve as soon as the
egg is cooked on small slices Of toasted
bread.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07
RECIPES

Beef a la Mode-Take three pounds
of the round Of beef and make Incl
sions in it. Press two small onions and
two small carrots cut in quarters in
the incisions. Put two slices of pork in
the bottom of kettle and brown the
meat in the fat as it fries out. Sprin-
kle with chopped parsley, using about
a tablespoon and a sprig of thyme or
a bit of bay leaf. After the meat is
brown just cover it with boiling water,
cover and simmer slowly for two hours.
Rice CrOquettes-They are dainty
at their best with creamed chicken or
veal Wash and boil one cup OF rice,
salt and drain. Beat with a fork or
egg beater until even and smooth.
Moisten with either milk, broth or to-
mato sauce just before taking from the
fire. Add the beaten yolk of two eggs
and nutmeg and white pepper to taste
Then add two tablespoonIuls of butter
Stir thoroughly so that the eggs will
thicken the mixture. Set over the fire
and stir through it two tablespoonfuls
of grated cheese. When the rice be-
gins to thicken cool and finish as in
other croquettes.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-07

Veterans Home. Cal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
SHIFTING TRADE CHANNELS.

IFrom the Minneapolis Tribune.l
There is talk of building up a great
shipping center at Kansas City to facil-
itate the transfer of products of the
northern belt. particularly wheat and
-four, to the worlds market by way of
the gulf of Mexico. This is a new il
Iustration of the tendency of artificial
routes of traffic to arrange themselves
along the line of natural water routes
and compete with the latter by offering
equal rates and better service.
The Erie canal has determined for
nearly a century the main channel of
traffic between the interior and the
seaboard. The strongest railroad sys-
TENS placed themselves beside it and
contended for its traffic with all the re-
sources of engineering skill, financial
capacity and efficient railroad opera
tion- Their success has delayed for a
long time complete development of the
tendency of great railroad routes to ar
range themselves along the north and
south line of the Mississippi river.
The unremitting effort of public and
private capital and enterprise to make
the Mississippi great channel of world
traffic could not overcome the estab-
lished tendency of trade to move in the
other direction. Southern harbors and
river channels have been improved in
vain for more than a generation. Now
the long delayed development seems TO
have been stimulated by the prospect
of a canal between the oceans and it's
attraction of world traffic in The direc-
ton of the gulf of Mexico. There is
evidence of this in the keen revival of
interest in foreign exports by way of
the Mississippi river and in the alert
ness of the most far-seeing railroad
men to prepare for vigorous action
along the same lines.
The purchase of the Burlington road
by Mr.. Hill begin to bulk even larger
as prophetic inspiration in the "haute
politique" of world commerce. We may
begin to glimpse it. not alone as a link
between the North Pacific and the gulf
country, but a great channel of COM
merce between the whole North Mis-
sissippi and Missouri valley and the
worlds markets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
WIsCONsIN,S PLIGHT.

Wisconsin just now presents an in
structive example of what a state may
be brought TO. when the politicians
whom the people have elected to office
fall out among themselves. The situ-
alton is thus described by the Evening
Wisconsin of Milwaukee:
"State funds. with exception of $500.
are on deposit with banks throughout
Wisconsin.
There is $500 in the safe in the state
treasury.
"Kempf (the state treasurer) has for
hidden banks to pay out funds except
on mis- order.
Governor has forbidden banks to
pay out money on Kempf's order.
THE safe at Madison is locked and
Tom Purtell alone knows the combina-
ton.
Tom Purtell has been fired as assist
ant treasurer and won't tell the com
bination.
Therefore: The state is broke"
Yet there is a popular notion that
state officers are the servants of the
people and are chosen by popular vote
to attend to the peoples business. But
when a condition like that existing in
Wisconsin arises il appears that the
citizens are powerless to help them
selves until there is another election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
LEFT IN A HUFF.
Correspondent First Send Round
Robin to General Olu.

Chefoo. Sept. 2.-Richard Harding Davis
and John Fox lr., American newspaper
the headquarters of the Second japanese
army and will leave for the United States
September s. They say that the foreign
attaches and newspaper correspondents
with the Second army Witnessed the bat
tie of August rs from distance of eight
miles and that this unsatisfa Glory
to them that they united in a round robin
to the Japanese authorities. protestin &
that because of this restriction upon their
movements their usefulness was at an
end.
General Oku replied, saying that in the
future they would be permitted to wit
ness enga gements from a distance of four
miles, whereupon Davis and Fox, together
with Melton Prior and George Lynch,
British correspondents, left the Second
army. Lynch will make an attempt to
reach Port Dalny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
OLD TIMERS TO HELP.
johnson, Walsh and Jones to Aid
Democrat Committee.

New York. Sept. Announcement
was made at the national Democratic
headquarters today that former Sen
ator James K. Jones of Arkansas, who
was chairman of the national commits
tee during the past eight years will be
connected with the committee in an ad :
visory capacity.
Charles A. Walsh, of Iowa, who waA
secretary of the old committee and ].
q. johnson, of Kansas, who was chair
man of the executive committee during
the last campaign have been placed in
charge of departments at nationalhead
quarters. The statement is made that
these gentlemen have come here at the
requests of Chairman Taggart
Messrs. Jones, johnson and Walsh
were the active managers of the cam
paign of 1900 and Mr.. Bryan had no
warmer supporters in the party than
they. Among those who were adherents
of Bryan at st. Louis, none were more
prominent than johnson and Walsh. 1t
was stated by an official at headquar-
tiers today that the members of the ex-
ecutive committee decided to bring the
old campaign manage into active ser
vice because there had been criticism
among Bryan men that the whole man
agement of the campaign had been
turned over to the gold Democrats or
those who had not supported the pres
identtn1 nominee in two electiona
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02

he will get out some day and give to the
employee to read.
Those who wait till the frost has ripen-
ed the hazelnuts will find that the boys
nave gathered them. Boys get to every
thing that grows before it is ripe in order
to get their share.
Considering that the honeymoon is
made up largely of stir new towels to
wipe on, new shoes to break in. a nav
stove to smoke of and smell, and new
frying pans to make the victuals taste,
there can't be so very much in it.
II want to feel that have left nothing
undone, said an Atchison woman recent
~, speaking of her husband who was
dying, so she added the tenth mustard
plaster to his body, and sent for the sixth
doctor to attend him.
Piano players have at last decided that
to obtain the best results from piano,
one should do his practising in the woods
where Nature will inspire him. If all the
piano players will take to the woods it
will be a great thing.
couple came to Atchison recently and
were married. The next morning at the
hotel the bride couldn't eat her breakfast
for crying. This incident is not told to
frighten girls. If a. bear came down and
carried brides off girls wouldn't be
scared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
STARVING IN PARK,
Woman Found Subsisting on Scraps
Left by Picnickers.

New York. Sept. 2.-The arrest of
Harriet Barnes in Central park has
developed a peculiar case of destitu-
ton. The woman is 50 years old, a
stenographer, and says her parents
reside in Toledo. Ohio. Three weeks
ago she ran out of funds and since
then has lived in the park, subsisting
on scraps thrown away by picnickers.
When arrested for vagrancy, she was
almost famished and slightly out of
her mind from exposure.
Miss Barnes said she came here a
year ago and worked steadily until
April, when she lost her position. I'm
able to procure another, her furniture
was soon seized for debt and finally
she found herself homeless and pen
niless. Too proud to seek the as
sistance of friends, she wandered
about Central park and finally was
driven by hunger to pick up remnants
of lunches from the ground. During
the three weeks she spent in this man.
ner, the woman slept in out-of-the-
way places and washed her clothing
in the lakes at night The mosquitoes
bit her in a frightful manner and
when she was received at the hospital
the doctors said the insects had caused
serious injury by their poison.
Soon as her plight became known
friends came to her aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02

be useful If all the restless reformers
and all of their more conservative fell
low citizens were to realize the abso-
! Lutte futility of attempts to change the
plan of government under which we
all live. the results might be infelici-
tous. The plain truth is that since the
original constitution was completed by
the first ten amendments, submitted by
the First congress in 1889, no change as
to which there was a possibility of seri-
Gus objection has been made in the text
of that instrument except the three war
amendments.
But all this does not deter good
wide-awake, public-spirited citizens
from coming forward every presidential
year with amendatory propositions. A
number of them have already come to
our attention, and ION the outward
walls, the cry is still, They comet"
They cover not only the manner of
electing, but time of election and length
of term. 1t is also proposed to make a
president ineligible for more than one
term. If one could look a century be-
yond the veil with which Heaven from
all creatures hides the book of fate"
we have no doubt he would see in the
newspapers of a. d. 1904 an augment
ed lot of these propositions and argu-
ments in favor of their adoption. He
might find, also, in the acceptance
speeches of candidates discussions of
the evils incident to a presidents eligi-
bility for reelection. And, if he could
extend his gaze little further ahead,
say to Inauguration day, zoos, might he
not read in a presidents inaugural
well written one term argument? Posi-
bly,, if that investigator could plunge
his vision into 2O0S and 2O12, he would
see that one term advocate still on the
track.
But it's little remarkable, after all,
that agitation for amendments to a
practically unamendable constitution is
this republics standard diversion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02

Discussing the frequent tendency to
mud singing in political campaigns the
New York World says: Both Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Judge Parker are
men of unimpeachable integrity. They
are honest from skin to marrow. There
is not a blemish on the private life of
either. and their characters will stand
the test of the most searching inquisi-
ton Their antithetical temperaments
are legitimate issues in the campaign,
as are their public acts and their po-
litical records; but it is not necessary
TO denounce one as a fraud or to per-
init anybody to insinuate that the other
has been the knowing beneficiary of
election frauds The American people
are in no mood for a mud-slinging
campaign. They won't tolerate it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02

Professor Charles B. Atwell, of North
western university, has been making a
study of marriage among college grad
yates of both sexes. His conclusions
from the data he has accumulated are
that while the higher education tends
TO diminish the number of marriages
among women graduates. as compared
with women not college trained, it
does not lead to celibacy among male
graduates A larger percentage of men
graduates than of women graduates
marry. Professor Atwell also finds
that men graduates have larger fam
lilies than college bred women. Where
classmates have married the families
have averaged only two children to d
household, compared with four in nom
classmate marriages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IF'rom the Chicago News.]
Many a man fails to get there because
he has dizzy feet.
Some men lead double lives because
they are driven to il.
Most people eat their sorrows and drink
their diSappointments.
Duty is a thin disguise assumed to
hide a mans meanness.
In We ancient times Lots wife was con-
sidered the salt of the earth.
More people would dance if they could
escape the demands of the fiddler.
Girls waste kisses on each other be-
cause they know where to get plenty
more.
An Ohio genius has worked himself to
death trying to invent a labor-saving
machine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison

IRON the AtchtSon Globe.
What has become of the old fashioned
vases that always appeared in pairs?
A woman doesn't look half as bad in
Scrubblng dress as a man looks in base
ball clothes.
Give girl child of ten a pretty picture
and she Will regard it as so much to some
day go to housekeeping with.
The present summer was not only very
peasant pnt II was very short. This is
true of everything that is brief.
1t is easier for a girl to take part in
a play than boy for the reason that a
girl naturally thinks she is something she
is not
There are lots of things to be done
around the house that should be cIassed
under the name of Athletics. to make
them popular.
If guest is very polite she begins the
day after she arrives to talk of going
home, in order that her hostess may coax
her to stay.
IL a man wastes time. an employer soon
finds it out. His employer may not saw
anything. but he is keeping a set of books
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-02
JNYHAWKER lots

Chicken thieves are thicker than hops at
Pawnee Rock.
On old settlers day one stand at Jewell
City sold % bushels of peanuts
A Winfield girl has found new use for
with.
Apples are ripening at Detonia. At least
one little girl has a broken arm by a fall
from tree.
The plate that George Washington ate a
wedding feast from is on display at an
Allen county home.
The sole objection Conner T. Davies, so
far, has found to electric lights, is that
ne can't start his cigar with one.
Hiawatha was blessed all in the same
one-legged tramp taking up collections.
The proprietor of a CORTLAND boarding
mouse Is raising prune crop. He says
fruit 10
A Chanute citizen is the owner of a
gun carried in the Revolutionary war. He
thinks II is loaded, but fears to investi-
gate.
A little Dickinson county girl. unbe-
known to her folks, drank some I've. But
when questioned. she told the truth
about il.
A Jewell county man is so considerable of
his customers that he cuts all the worms
from the apples before turning them into
the cider mill
A small package cost 81 40 at Kansas
City and the express on the same to Ell
Dorado was $40 This Editor Murdoch
styles robbery.
A musk melon in Barber county was
large enough to satisfy a Sunday school
convention. and then some. The fruit
weighed "a pounds.
Out in Pawnee Rock a pet donkey fol-
lows its owner wherever he goes. upstairs,
down the cellar or to the dinner table
The line is drawn only on the bed
Phillipsburg woman tried to dye her
raven locks "A taffy yellow and woke up
shutter green Now when company calls
she's out.