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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-30
Big Sugar FACTORY Burned.

BERLIN, Aug. .29.-The largest
sugar factory in Germany, named
Kulmsee, near Thorn. West Prussia.
was burned last night, involving a
loss of $3.50, 900.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-30
Ok NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA X
BRANCH OFFICES
OF THE CALL IN
ALAMEDA COUNTY

OAKLAND.
1915 Broadway.
Telephone Main 1888.
BERKELEY.
PAS Center Street
Telephone North ~,
ALAMEDA.
1885 Park Street
Telephone Alameda $50.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
Teachers, Pet.

Eight years Old and goin' on niue,
Teacher says I'm doin' fine.
Git my lessons every day.
Hardly ever have to stay
After school for beln' slow
Amt so very hapy though,
Cause the fellers laugh at me,
All but Johnny Baker he
Takes my side. He knows, an right
/ amt strong enough 20 fight,
Cause 1 hurt myself one day
Fallih of q farmers sleigh,
And the doctor cut my side
Awful deep. and ma she cried.
And since then I'm awful thin
And, gee Whit IL hurts like sin
When I try TO jump and run;
So YOU see 1t ain't no fun
When the fellers laugh and say:
'Fraidy cat you dassent play!"
And my eyes get kinder wet
When they call me Teachers Pet"
Gee! They never talked that way
Tiu ! tumbled OFF the sleigh
Wunst 1 licked three kids so quick
That 1t made 'em good and sick,
And I uster dodge and run
Jes' as fast as anyone.
Now when recess comes along
jes' wait to hear the gong
Call us back and work a lot
Cause that's an the fun I've got
When the kids play zone old cat
I I jes' set aud hold the bat
/ Wishin' ! could cork the ball
Like I uster do last fall
/ Yesterday when Reddy Lee
Seen me sittin' there. says he;
] "Fellers. look at Teachers Pet'
: He's afraid 10 play. you bet,
Cause heknows Ia smash his face
/ All around the whole darn placei"
/ Johnny Baker seen me cry
/ And he blacked old Reddy's eve
I And he made his nose bleed too.
/ Gosh I wisht that I could do
Somethin' good for Johnny: he
/ Alters does so much for me.
/ Maybe 'twont be very long
/ TIN my side gets good and strong.
I If it ever does. / bet
! They won't can me Teachers Pet.
Milwaukee Sentinel
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
CONNOLLY ENDORSED
Eleventh Ward Democrats Meet and
Elect City Committeeman.

Eleventh ward Democrats held a
meeting in the rooms of the Eleventh
Ward Democratic Legion last night
and the following city committeeman
were elected:
First district, Charles Bradford
Second, Anthony Grabowslxi: Third.
Thomas +. Magarity; Fourth. John
Healey; Fifth, William r. Connor. city
Councilman John j. McGovern was
elected delegate TO the hundred con-
vention. William NJ. Connolly was
chairman of the meeting. While there
was Gray sentiment I'm the meeting
III did not manifest itself and William
IT. Connor was endorsed as delegate to
the state convention and will go unin-
structed.
Resolutions endorsing Connolly for
building inspector were adopted unani-
mously.
The Democrats OF the Fifth Repre-
sentative District win meet at the
Weccaeoe Engine House tonight and
elect delegates to the State convention.
The Democrats Of the Second Repre-
sentative District will do the same al
a meeting to be held tonight i'm the
rooms Of the North End Athletic Club.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
MANY WAR RuMoRs.
Greatest Battle Likely to Be Fought at
Liaoyane.

Liaoyang,
London, May 25.-Rumor is unceas-
ingly busy with the war, but little Gre
dence is placed in the varying state
ments in the absence of official confir-
nation.
The Daily Mails correspondent at
Shimonoseki, Japan, cabling under date
of May "a, asserts that active prepara.
tons are in progress for the reduction
of Port Arthur and that these prepara-
tions will be intrusted to a carefully
chosen force of veterans forming part
of the third army. Very heavy artil-
lery, the correspondent says, is being
landed on the Liaotung peninsula.
Dispatches to the Daily Telegraph
show that on May 10 the japanese
headquarters were still at Fengwang
eheng. This the correspondents attrlb-
ute TO the necessity for joint action
with the japanese army which has
landed at PitsewO. They explain that
communication has not yet been es-
tabllshed between the two Japanese
armies, but that it is expected TO be
effected within a few days. The dis
patches say that the telegraph lines
between Fengwangcheng and the
south have been cut by Russians dis
guised as Chinese. A Russian trans
port is moving from Liaoyang in the
direction of Mukden, but 1t is not
known whether this means a retire
ment Of the army or merely the re.
moval Of winter clothing, which is no
longer needed. The movements OF war
correspondents, the dispatches say, are
limited to a radius Of a mile and a half
from Fengwangcheng.
The Daily Telegraph's Newchwang
correspondent declares that General
Kuropatkin is determined to check the
Japanese at Liaoyang, where probably
the greatest battle Of the war will be
fought He adds that the Japanese
land operations against Port Arthur
are meeting with little success and
that Lieutenant General Stoessel and
Major General Fock continue to make
well directed but desperate sorties
against the advance of the Japanese,
who are fighting with stubborn de-
termination almost unknown in his
tory Several hundred japanese have
been killed during the past few days
Japanese re-enforcements are arriving
daily from Pitsewo and Polandien, ac-
cording TO this correspondent.
The Seoul correspondent Of the Daily
Telegraph says that Kanchau is being
besieged by the Japanese, and its sur
render Is momentarily expected.
The Standards Tientsin correspond
ent asserts that the Chinese govern.
ment is still levying heavy military
contributions from the provinces, and
he thinks that this accumulation of sill
yer at Peking foreshadOws some fool
hardy action by the Chinese.
1t is reported from Brussels that the
Russian government is making great
efforts TO buy thirty large steamers
from Belgium and Holland TO accom-
pany the Baltic fleet as colliers.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
HOURS
FIGHT REPORTED
Japanese Slowly Closing In on
Port Arthur.
HEAVY LOSSES IN ALL DAY BATTLE

Russians Make an Attempt to Dislodss
the Enemy From the Hills, but In
stead They Are Forced Still Further
Back.
Shanhaikwan, May 25.-There was
severe fighting on Monday on the pla-
teaus north of Port Arthur and south
Of Kinchow. detachments of the Rus
sian garrison from the fortress assist
ing in contesting the advance of the
Japnnese across the slopes south of
Jinehau. The fighting lasted all day
and for several hours was an artillery
duel, the Russians attempting to dis
lodge the japanese from the hills
gained on last Friday after a four
hours battle on that afternoon.
Guns had been moved north by the
Russians from Yingchentz. Japanese
cruisers south Of Kinchow bay assisted
the land forces in the attack on the
Russian guns. The reports In here say
that 1900 to 1000 infantry were also
Engaged on both sides east and west Of
the line OF hills sloping southerly from
Jinchau.
At night the Japanese had advanced
half a mile from their position in the
morning and were in command Of
three hills from which their artillery
will be able to control and eventually
put out of use the Russian fortified
positions leading to Port Arthur west
Of Talienwan bay.
Chinese Saw Fierce Encounter.
The Chinese in here from the other
side of the gulf observed the battle
from Wedge head, but of course were
unable to estimate the losses, which
they believe We're greatest on the Japa
nese side. They describe the japanese
infantry IN scaling the heights east of
Jinchau in the face Of a murderous fire
from Russian sharpshooters and from
rapid fire guns planted on the hills to
the south, but all agree that toward
dark the japanese advance had been
material. They also report that the
Japanese soldiers are still landing in
all the inlets from Kinchow bay north
to Hulushan and that there are now
not fewer than 10000 investing the
lower end of the Liaotung peninsula.
Japanese gunboats are bringing
heavy artillery, which has been land
ed on floats, and the siege Of the for.
tress practically has begun. Some esti-
mate OF Mondays series of engage
ments puts the loss Of the Japanese at
800 killed and 500 wounded. The Rus
sian loss is not known.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
A VALUABLE PUBLICATION.
The Pennsylvania Railroad 1904 Sum
mer Excursion Route Book.

on June the Passenger Department Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company viii
publish The 1904 edition OF the Summer Ex-
cursion Route Book. This work Is de-
signed to provide the public with descrip-
tive notes of the principal Summer re-
sorts Of Eastern America, with the best
routes for reaching them. and the rates
of fare. II contains all the principal sea-
shore and mountain resorts of the East.
and over seventeen hundred different
routes or combinations of routes. The
book has beer compiled with the greatest
care, ana altogether Is the most complete
and comprehensive handbook Of summer
travel ever offered TO the public.
The cover Is handsome and striking.
printed iu colors and the book contains
several maps presenting the exact routes
over which tickets arc sold The book Is
profusely Illustrated with fine haif-tone
cuts of scenery at the various resorts
and along the lines Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad
on and after June this very interest
ins book may be procured at any pennsyl-
vania Railroad ticket office at the nomi-
nal price Of ten cents, or upon appllca-
ton to Geo. w. Boyd, General Passenger
Agent Broad Street Station Philadelphia.
Pa, by mail Tor twenty cents
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
ABOUT sNoBs.

President Roosevelt yesterday IN his
speech at the Groton school paid his
compliments TO snobs. He thinks that
there is no place for that class Of
parasites in our social scheme.
Mr. Roosevelt might himself have
been a snob had he not possessed a
rugged, honest and a fund OF common
sense. He belongs TO an arlstocratic
family; he was reared in an atmos-
phere Of culture nnd reserve: and had
he decided early in iifo to withdraw
from that sphere OF activity whore he
must come In close contact with men
of an sorts and conditions, II might
have been deemed natural
But on coming from college he went
into politics and was elected 10 the
Legislature. During his vacations he
mingled With the cowboys OF Mon
mna; in fact became ono OF them.
since that lime ne has been IN posl-
tons where his associations have in
cluded every type to be found IN
America; and he has learned to esti-
mate deeds and not 70 put "a premium
on the accidents Of birth and environ
ment.
President Roosevelt does not like IN,
srob. Who does2 Since the foundation
Of the world the only thing that tru,
men have held to be valuable is char.
acter; and the snob trades not on nj,
aown value but on that Of some ances.
tor. But yet there is something wors,
than 4 snob---his imitation.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
rHE PArcHEs PATcHEp.

There are enough questions involv-
Ing the finances Of our municipality
during year TO keep staff Of law
yers busy ana TO necessitate the es-
tahllshment OF special court to try
the cases. There are so many funds
and the directions for their disposition
are so voluminous that nobody seems
TO know at any given time where we
are at"
Many persons have questioned
whether there Is legal surplus in the
hands OF the Water Commission. Then
they have been In doubt whether this
surplus, II II exists should be turned
over to Council orsapplied by the Water
Commission to the payment of water
bonds. The lnwyers seem to be divided
in their opinions, and for us to attempt
a solution means too great exertlon this
hot weather.
But 1t is pertinent to remark that
the time has come to replace our pres
ent cumbersome charter with one that
is more modern and a little less in
volved. IL IL like a piece OF crazy
patchwork now, and If few more
Legislatures get a chance at IL, It win
come to have its patches patched.
We need a charter, and every man
who cares only for good government
wants it. But politics stands in the
way. There comes proposition from
70 faction 10 the effect that we can
have new charter in exchange for
support for Addicks. The price Is too
high, and It is asked by those Who do
not own the goods.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
CAUGHT ATRANDOM

JenlSins-Wonder why the De swells
always go TO the mountains Instead o.
the seashore IN summer?
Simpkns-They think the mountains
have the advantage OF higher life.
Sunday School Teacher-When man
smltes ybu ON the right cheek, turn
to him the left.
Little Johnny Excuse me, teacher
but dat ain't de kind of reciprocity
plank da's in my platform.
If man is mild-mannered he is soft;
if he is stern and harsh he is . crank,
so what's the use?
First Jag-Shay ole fellah. watsch
yer think the weathersch goin' to be?
Second Jag--Conshiderable wind
bout the time 1 get home followed
by squall and general disturbances in
the morning.
DR.. Rebecca Lee Dorsey. who claims
! llneal descent from Robert Bruce, is
practising medicine ia Los Angeles
Cal.
Miss Maisie Whiting. of Franklin,
Pa, wrote the best poem i'm the senior
prize poem contest at the Boston Uni
versity
Chief Master-at-arms Timothy Muir
ray, the only one Of the $4,000 partici-
pants I'm the battle OF Mobile Bay still
In active service In the navy, has APP
piled for retirement
Professor w. j. Kennedy. chief Of
the Department OF Animal Tusbandry
at the Iowa State College of Agricul-
ture, has just received am important
commission from the United States
Department OF Agriculture. He is to
spend a year I'm Europe to investigate
the conditions that make its livestock
industry so profitable.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
TO ATTACK cUREALLS.
9ostoffiee Department Begins War on
Medical Humbuas.

Washington. May 25. ~ A vigorous
crusade Of almost gigantic proportions
and calculated to eliminate from
among American advertised industries
one Of the most extensive frauds ever
practiced has been undertaken by the
postofiice department.
With the assistance Of government
scientists the department seeks to bar
from the use of the mails the host Of
patent medicine concerns and exploit.
ers of proprietary medicines and nos.
trums which chemical analyses show
are incapable Of performing the won.
derful cures claimed for them.
Although this work is still in the ini.
tiatory stage, sufficient evidence has al.
ready been discovered to warrant the
conclusion that many Of the widely
advertised patent remedies, "favorite
prescriptions" vegetable compounds,
kidney cures, stomach bitters, etc, are
rank frauds, which cannot be of any
benefit whatever, too often relying on
alcohol to produce temporary exhilara.
tion and likely to lead eventually to
chronic alcoholism.
Government control OF the mails
makes the postofiice department abso
lutte master of the situation. with pow.
er to exclude from the use Of the postal
service every letter addressed to and
every circular sent out by a concern
which, In the opinion Of the postmaster
general, is conducting a fraudulent
business and to go even further and
exclude from passage through the
mails every newspaper or other publ.
cation which, once a fraud order has
been issued, persists in carrying the
advertisement Of the concern so ex.
cluded
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
official FLAG For Exposition.

Portland, Ore, May 25.-An Official
flag for the Lewis and Clark exposition
has been adopted. The design is in
four colors-red, white, blue and yel.
low - symbolical of England. France,
Russia and Spain, the countries which
first sent exploring expeditions to the
great northwest. The yellow also
brings out the oriental feature Of the
exposition. The large field is Of bright
yellow crossed by red bars, with the
official symbol of the exposition, SAGA.
java leading Lewis and Clark on to
the west in the center. The small field
is of blue. In the center is a spray Of
oregon grape, the state flower Of Ore.
gon. Around this are FIVE stars, repre-.
senting Oregon, Washington. Idaho,
Wyoming and Montant, the states of
old Oregon.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
EDITORIAL OPINION
Who Made the Best soldIers7


From the Hartford Courant.
"who made the best soldiers2" in
quired a Hartford man Of Senator
Hawley
''Who make the best soldiers?" re-
peated General Hawley. rehectively.
you mean what kind OF men make
the best soldiers. / suppose. IL was
my experience that the best soldiers
came from all the walks of life, and
were of an kinds and conditions. When
was captain, 1 had great towering
private that was "a swearing, frenzied
creature in battle, absolutely fearless
and I had another soldier. a little fell
low not more than 17 years old. who
looked like "a girl, and the little chap
was as calm and brave soldier as
ever went into an engagement.
He WAS wounded in one battle, and
/ saw him drag himself and his gun
down TO q stream. There he washed
his wounded leg, bound 1t up with
bandages made from his shirt and he
came back proudly to the firing line
where he stayed all day. There were
many men Of special bravery In every
company and those who were cowardly
were very few .us my experience In the
late war taught me-"
Evening journal., 1904-05-25

all branches Of life would lead us into
absolute unbelief.
Others stay at home because they are
worn out with their six days Of toll.
They prefer to relax. and to literally
rest on the seventh day" They feel
that this rest does them more good
than a church service.
Then there are dozen minor rea-
sons. such as the contribution basket,
the lack or suitable clothing and the
feeling OF inferioriiy. But all these
many be summed up in one great rea-
son. The interest Of men in spiritual
things is not sufficiently profound to
send them in search Of counsel and
direction such as they need and family
desire, and which sends pilgrims over
mountains and deserts to visit a sacred
shrine. Given this interest, all men
would attend the churches we have. OF
build new oaos.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1904
A NOBLE WORK.

The hospitals Of Wilmington which
are daily doing their humanitarian
work have undertaken nothing that Is
more worthy Of praise than the estab-
nshment OF training schools for nurses.
The benencsnt results Of this work are
just beginning 70 be felt.
Last night the Training School for
Nurses Of the Homeopathic Hospital
held its commencement and the Della
ware Hospital win soon graduate a
class Of nurses. 1t is a satisfaction TO
know that these two schools provide
courses that are so comprehensive and
thorough that their graduates rank
with the best in the profession.
The professional nurse is a modern
product. The age which has built battle
ships 70 huri shells ten miles; that has
invented torpedoes, mines and subma.
rlne boats and brought the science Of
human destruction to 80 high a plane
has also. paradoxlcaliy. made equally
rapid Advancement In the prevention
Of disease and the cure Of human all
ments
1t has placed the nurse in the sick
room as a lieutenant to the doctor, that
the science Of medicine may be exem-
plined every hour Under this system
the doctor knows that his orders are
being carried out, and that neither the
whims OF the sick nor the sympathy OF
friends and relatives can interfere for
a moment with the treatment which
science has mapped out.
Wilmington owes her physicians
much our people have long been inn
pressed with the self-sacrlfce which
impels the busiest Of them TO devote a
part Of their time and all OF their skill
to the unfortunate in our hospitals.
But they should realize that in addi-
tion 70 this. they are spending their
time and their energy IN training eff
cient nurses and sending them out into
the world on their benehcent mission.
Not all professional life is selfish.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
Aacur cAuRch .ocINn.

why people don't 60 to church" is a
theme which has been causing much
discussion recently. There seems to be
a general complaint, and It IS not con-
fined TO one denomination. Some lay
Il to the lack Of interesting sermons
and 10 unattractive services while
others attribute to indifference and
laziness on the part Of the laity.
But we shall not solve the problem
by contenting ourselves with one solu-
tion. There are as many reasons ais
there are absentoes, and IN most cases
the reasons are mixed. Suppose we
give few Of these excuses. not to
show their validity but I'm order that
whatever remedies .hcre are at hand
may be applied.
Some stay away because they do not
expect 10 be interested. It may not
be the minister's fault since there
are persons who can be entertained
only by dog-nght or boxing ex-
hibit Many stay away because they
regard the exposition Of religious doe
trnes and the expression OF spiriua
truth as so much hypocrisy and cant
They have nothing in their nature thai
responds. and. therefore. they canno
be interested.
Some stay at home because the,
have the mistaken notion that al
ciergymcn are hypocrites and that al
religious teaching is hypocrisy. The.
have the erroneous impression tha
since certain ministers show faults am
faiInks. the whole system is fraud
OF course such reasoning II applied Il
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
SUBMITTED ITEMlzED BILL
Mr.. Horrisan Will Give Levy Court an
Account Of Good Roads
Convention,

At the afternoon session Of Levy Court
yesterday, Road Commissioner Horrigan
submitted an itemized bill amounting to
$50 for his expenses to ST. Louis where
he attended the rational good roads con-
ventlon. At the next meeting he Will
have a detailed account Of the proceedings
TO report.
Mr.. Wdlits wanted the highway COM
missioner to make out n report of all the
work ne had under his supervision during
the past year. Mr.. Hofrigan stated that
that was included in his biennial report.
but Il the court desired he would make
out the two reports.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
LEPRosY CURED.

There is no more touching incident
in history than that which pictures the
lepers Of Palestine standing on the
slopes Of the hills and shouting to the
passer-by: "Uncleanl unclean!" Lew
Wallace made the most Of the incident
ia Ben Hur, but the cleansing Of the
afflicted was wrought by miracle and
that miracle performed by the Master.
How many OF us have read James
Lane Aliens touching story Of sister
Dolorosa and have been thrilled with
the tale of her sacrifice in far Molokail
And who has not read OF the splendid
sacrifice in the same leper colony Of
Father Damien who, 20 use his own
language, FOR ten years toiled up his
Golgotha"?
II has been reserved for this CEN
tury to offer a ray Of hope to the leper
and the promise is in the modern
miracle-worker, science.
The Louisiana Lepers Home has
just dlscarged as cured a youth, who,
when he became an inmate, was far
advanced in the disease. Now every
symptom Of the loathsome maiady has
disappeared. The physicians In charge
state that a number Of other patients
are far on the road to recovery and VIII
soon be discharged.
Hope FOR those without hopei The
disease which is as ancient as history
and whose fatality was as certain as
the sunrise is yielding to modern
science. Truly it is good TO live in
such an epoch.
Evening journal., 1904-05-25
How Simon Cameron Read Newspaper.

FROM the Lancaster Examiner.
More than once we have quoted what
General Simon Cameron once remarked
that he paid little or no attention to
the news in a paper but read every
editorial on the ground that n the news
was not worth comment it. was not
profitable TO read t. This was going
to an extreme, and yet his words con-
tain n vast amount OF truth. The true
function OF the editorial page is 20 in
terpret the leading emotions and ten
denotes of the hour, in the realms OF
religion, politics, morals. science and
literature. and so it becomes the teach
ing part OF the paper. The news is
read to be forgotten. but the impress
sions daily CLEANED from the editorial
page made permanent opinion. I'm
consciously readers take their views
from their favorite paper especially II
often iterated and reiterated News
frequently has no meaning tin inter
preted. and speeches have no point TIN
analysed. Il is the function OF the
editorial to give coherency TO the story
Of the passing show and make it logic
ally understood.