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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30
HAULING DOWN THE FLAG.

n 7 EWCHWANG is Chinese river port on the Lao.
M 1t is of the ports opened to commerce by
1 late treaty with China and to which a
consul 1t is under Chinese jurisdiction, else could
not make treaty respecting it, Russia has occupied it,
proclaimed martial law and Cossacks have hauled down
American flag consulate the residences
of Americans The has been done with the British
flag.
This was done by the order of Viceroy Aexief and it
is yet known whether the handed proceeding is
Endorsed by his Government When that is
will probably be diplomatic exchanges between our
State Department and Count Cassni The. Count will
dutfuly convey the studied Misrepresentation of his
Government ours, and there the may rest The
another violation of the neutrality and territory
China. Meantime General Ma, the head of Chinese
army the strength and equipment of which unknown
is moving toward North China, and Russia is protesting
Picking that his presence within Chinese sovereignty
with armed force is violation of neutrality and he
be ordered to Withdraw.
The West9rn nations may not choose to in the
matter. But there doubt about what they should
do They should support China in putting Ma and his
army right up the frontier 1t is obvious that
intends continue her China until that
unfortunate empire is compelled resist. IT. that
time Japan have army in the valley of the Lao above
Newchwang and Ma is north of the Kangan Mountains
junction between the forces would be unhappy for
Russia. In view of this she desires occupy any
Chinese position that is strategec and when she
pleases, pull down flags violate treaties and keep the
territory free from the military forces of china which
it belongs.
What she failed to get by the secret treaty into which
she would have forced China had it been discovered
by Minister Conger she takes by brute force and in
bazen defiance of the international rights of the United
States and Great Britain. Maybe such will
win and perhaps The States has no de-
sire to be drawn into the controversy but too many
Cossack attacks flag may such resentment
among people that the Government will go beyond
merely Pretending to believe the diplomatic lies of the
legation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

number of drownngs reported is three" Reports from
Indiana the effect that at Portland two men
were drowned and property damage OF 100000 caused
bv food in that section while from Indianapolis came
story of flood that drove 800 families from their
homes and caused an enormous loss of property From
Battle Creek Mich, there report OF losses from
foods amounting to upward of 100000 dispatch from
Springfield Ohio, says: "The worst flood IN Spring
fields history threw thousand out of employment,
drove twenty families from their homes and COM
netev stopped street car traffic" No estimate of dam
age given.
Since Sunday the reports of each succeeding day have
added heavily the lists of deaths and losses IN the
various States In Northern and Central Indiana the
cord up to Monday night showed eight persons drowned
and property loss estimated at 100000. In Michi-
gan $4,000 people reported to be in distress because
of the foods and reports almost as bad from
rious points in Ohio and Missouri.
The floods thus reported occurred along comparatively
small streams. They but the prelminaries of the
vast floods that will follow when the swollen of
unite swell the greater rivers to food
height 1t rather early yet for the Eastern food
reach its worst but before long shall hear of
all the rivers from New England to Texas overrunnng
their banks and carrying destruction and cities
as well as farm lands.
These heavy floods come TO the entire Eastern section
of the country every year. In comparison with them
worst California floods but trife either
to the of country flooded the amount of
damage done and lives lost Taken at its Calfor-
MIA is much better land for either urban rural life
than any other part of the world We have draw
backs, it is but when review them in COMPARE
with the Tremendous disadvantages of other lands
we can find to complain Be it wet weather
dry weather, this is the best land on earth.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30
EASTERN FLOODS.

w HEN first the stories of the foods caused ~,
Nv the heavy rains in this State were published The
Call directed attention to the fact that while tbe
damage would be severely felt by those upon whom it
fell yet the loss the State whole would be slight
and in comparison with the losses resulting from
springtme floods in the Eastern States almost insipni
hcant That statement is verified by reports just re-
ceived of the and floods sweeping over al
the whole region of country of the Mississpp
The dispatches of single day tell story of damage far
in of the total food losses in California in several
years.
In the reports of Sunday morning. for example a dis
patch from Detroit said of the floods along the
of Grand River: Estimates made at various stations
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30
Panama.


Phillip III decreed the penalty of death
for any one who should propose cutting
a canal through the isthmus.]
Here the oceans twain have waited
All the ages to be mated
Waited long and waited vainly.
Though the script was written plainly
This, the portal of the sea,
Opes for him who holds the key;
Here the empire of the earth
Waits in patience for it's BIRTH"
But the Spanish monarch, dimly
Seeing little. answered grimly:
North and South the land is SPANS;
AS God gave it. it remains.
He who seeks to break the tie,
BY mine honor, he shall die!"
So the centuries rolled on,
And the gift of great Colon.
Like spendthTift'S heritage,
Dwindled slowly, age by age,
Till the flag of red and gold
Fell from hands unnerved and old,
And the granite-pillared gate
Waited still the key of fate.
Who shall hold that magic key
But the child of destiny,
In whose veins has mingled long
All the best blood of the strong2
He who takes his place by grace
of no single tribe or race,
But by many rich bequest
From the bravest and the best.
Sentinel of duty. here
Must he guard hemisphere.
Let the old world keep its ways:
Naught to him it's blame or praise:
Naught it's greed, or hate, or fear:
For all swords be sheathed here.
Yea. the gateway shall be free
Unto all, from sea to sea:
And no fratricidal slaughter
Shall defile it's sacred water:
But-the hand that oped the gate sha1
forever hold the key
James jeffrey Roche in Apr
Scribner's.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30
4 Compromise.

In Friesland there is a custom that
the news Of a birth or death is an
nOunced verbally by a man who calls
at every house in the village for that
purpose. If he brings the news Of
birth he wears white gloves; If of a
death they are black. Some days back
a. child was born dead in Tristan viii
lage 1t was necessary that the usual
announcement should be made, but in
what colored gloves? The harbinger
was a man of resource. He went his
rounds wearing one white glove and
one black one.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

To students of the history of political shbboeths the
fact is not without interest that the followers of For
aker in Ohio known by their opponents Filipnos
This indicate that whatever our opinion of the
little fellows of the South Sea Islands may be are
likely day to be forced in simple fair play de-
fend them against prejudices in the creation of which
they had nothing to do. The conduct of Foraker par
tisan is a reflection on the Filipino.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30
By ANICE TERHENE.
fSo-- ETritzr.D

-CCopyught. I9O. ~ Joseph 3. BoWles)
There are a number Of mechanical
inventions intended to be used as aids
10 the student in pursuit Of piano
strength. some Of them AZ excellent
and OF great benefit to The pupil While
Others arc Iess so. All, however are
quite expensive, and The purchase OF
such things stems an extravaganza TO
? a person of email income, even though
he may Do. most anxious to learn TO
play The piano well.
knowing Of the. longing for addi-
t5onal strength that comes TO every
earnest student as he advances 1 am
going TO give you an exercise which
will make i possible for our pupil to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

Berkeley educator. skilled in the gentle art of
teaching the young idea how shoot has unburdened
himself of the opinion that have uniformity in
the of study in public schools While form
is unquestonaby of primary value in the premises is
wise also to pay necessary attention to matter?
There methods in vogue in the San Francisco
schools that are uniformly dangerous.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

Russian officer is authority for the statement that
the world will know until the Eastern war is
over it knows then how many Japanese fighting ships
have been crippled destroyed by the guns of the
Gar. If to accept true what Russian atf-
thortes think they at Port Arthur would believe
that every time Japanese ship hit it exploded into
dozen more, each better qualified to fight than that
from which it sprang
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

Major General Wood has scored another glorious vic
tory his vigorous campaign against the Moros Yet
it is highly improbable that General Wood all his
military will register triumph comparable
that which achieved for him in his absence in
committee-room of the United States Senate
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

When the murderer of girl stood in court
recently to receive of life Imprisonment for
his crime his lawyer declared that the defendant had
nothing say 1t is improbable that he felt as did
every else that knew the story of his deed
that the gift of his life he receiving worthless
favor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

Carnegie has given five million dollars more to advance
the interests of another American public institution The
steel king has left doubt of his purpose prove that
it possible for least in the world properly
conditioned by wealth, cultivate phian-
thropy as habit. 1t is habit, however that not
many will find it difficult to direct or break.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30
Ans1pers to Queries.

TRINITY STEEPLE - subscrfber.
City. The height Of the steepIe OF Trim
ity Church, in New York City. Is 2S4
feet. not so high as the top OF The Call
building in San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

NINE. NORCROSSE-M., Brooklyn.
n. Y. This correspondent wishes to
know the address of Nine. Norcrosse,
an opera singer, soprano, who went on
the lyric stage from California
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

OAK FINISH. A. B., Oakland.
Cal. Any first-class dealer IN paints
and oil in your city or in San Fran
cisco will furnish preparations ready
fo- use to produce 'weathered oak
or golden oak finish"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

TYPEWRITER COPY-C. A D..
City. Any kind Of white paper will
answer for typewriting copy for publ
cation If the copy is to be used on
linotype the most acceptable size Is
SII by IL inches.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

Special information supplied daily TO
business houses and public men Oy the
Press Clipping Bureau (Alen' -. ESQ CaI-
tfornia street. Telephone Main 1042.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30

Townsend's California GIace fruits and
choice candles. in artistic e-etched
boxes y nice present for Eastern friends.
us Market street above Cali building. .
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-03-30


STREET CARS-A. s., City. There
are fifty-three street car lines in the
city of New York. which includes the
Manhattan and Bronx boroughs- All
car lines are required by ordinance to
run cars between midnight and
o'clock in the morning at intervals OF
twenty minutes. After in the morning
until midnight all cars run at intervals
of three to ten minutes.
BOYS OF AMERICA-w. H. s., Cam
asiIlo, Ventura County, Cal No account
has been published of late of the status
of the subscriptions taken up to build
a battleship to be called The Boys Of
America If you were a subscriber to
that fund you have a right to write to
those who had charge of it and ascer-
tain what the present conditions are.
NOT DUE. w. S.. Suffer- Creek.
Cal If a firm way back East offered
to send you certain things to sell, you
to pay for them after you had sold
them" and the firm did not send you
the goods. you do not owe them any
thing and it cannot collect anything
from YOU The threat that the firm
makes that it will sue you if you do
not send it 50 ought not to trouble
you, as-you are not required to pay
for that which you did not receive.
You would better refer the matter to
the police authorities of the place in
which the firm is located. 1t is prob
ably one Of those concerns that is adj
vertising with the purpose of trapping
the unwary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
GETS A BONE LOST IN '64.
Civil War Veteran Receivers Missing
Part of Anatomy.

Uniontown, Pa. Jan. Platter near
" forty years, Jacob S. Miller, an old
soldier of this city, has just received
a piece of bone taken from his left
shoulder by the late DIR. Norman s.
Teal, of Kendallville, Ind, on July 81
1864. at the battle of Peach Tree creek,
Atlanta. Ga, when Mr.. Miller was
wounded. The piece of bone is about
three inches long.
Although a terrific wind storm was
raging at the time. the surgeon oDer-
ated in the open air at night by torch
light DR.. Teal was much gratif1ed over
his success. and after the war, when he
lectured on surgery, he frequently ex-
hibited the piece Of bone before stu
dents.
Nearly thirty years ago Mr.. Miller
asked DR.. Teal for the piece of bone.
but the doctor would not part with it.
DR.. Teal died about five years ago, and
recently his son, DR.. George A. Teal.
consented to return the bone to Mr..
Miller.
Mr.. Miller was a corporal in company
D, Seventy-n ninth Pennsylvania regi-
ment, and is now GA years of age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
MRS. THORPE STILL BUSY.
Destitute Poor Receiving Large Share
of Her Attention.

The destitute poor are still coming to
Mrs. Thorpe, police matron, for aid
They are also calling on Poor Commits
sion Hale in large numbers. "A correc-
ton should be made" said Mrs. Thorpe
this morning, lin the impression that
colored people receive the greater share
OF what is given me to distribute. The
facts are that owing to a rule 1 estab-
lished some time ago. I am troubled
very little by colored people I made a
rule that every one receiving clothing
or anything else at my hands should
render some service in return. The COL
Ored people do not take kindly to this
scheme, and very few of them ask me
for anything. They go to the poor COM
missioner. I help the very old colored
people, and others who are willing to
workout as for organizing colored in
dustrial clubs-I have tried it faithfully
and consider it an inpossibility."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
WON'TTHANK CARNEGIE.
Ministers Table Motion Acknowledge
ing Gift of Organs.

Germantown, Pa, Jan. 27.-Andrew
Carnegie's liberality in aiding churches
to procure organs is not considered
great enough by Protestant Episcopal
ministers of the Germantown convoca-
ton to warrant their sending him the
thanks OF the entire body for his beneti-
cence to two Of their churches
This was shown at the regular quar-
terly meeting of the convocation in St
Georges chapel, when the Rev. Joseph
T. Wright, of the Grace church, in
HulrneviIle, made a motion that a let
ter be sent TO Mr.. Carnegie expressing
the gratitude of the cOnvocation for his
having given $1,000 to st. Andrews
mission. in Coopersville, and $120 to st.
Andrews church. in Yardley.
Such action was disapprOved by many
of the ministers, on the grounds that,
while Mr.. Carnegie had aided these two
churches. he had also refused other
pleas for help, and that those who had
made such pleas would have to vote
against such a motion.
The Pew. A. ]. Arkin was one of the
foremost in the opposition IF such a
motion is carried" he said, II shall
have to offer another motion. that the
convocation censure Mr.. Carnegie for
having refused other pleas"
The motion was laid on the table.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT.

The Lewis Morrison announcements of
positively the last appearance in your
Patti They have been made annually
for several years. Mr.. Morrison was here
Faust
Mr. Morrison has tried for years to df-
voree himself from the role of 'Mephis-
production of Frederick The Great but
the people would not go to see him in
such numbers as went to Faust Mr.
Morrison is tired of playing his satanic
majesty. but he can not stop no more
than Joseph Jefferson can abandon rip
VanWinlle." But now Mr.. Morrison SAYS
positively he will not appear after this
season in Faust This is debatable
Faust last night was the same as
ever. Probably everyone in the audience
had seen it before and knew Just what to
expect. Topeka people refused to go to
see it last night. The story is growing
too old to be interesting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
QUIT COFFEE


It disaDDoints some people to be told
that coffee causes the disease. But it is
best to look squarely at facts anil set
the face towards health, for that's more
fun than anything else anyhow. A Gin
cinnati man consulted a Berlin phvsi-
clan on nervous diseases and saws:
-Four years ago I was an habituaI
coffee drinker, having used it for IS
years, and being naturally of a nervous
temperament I became almost a nerv-
Gus wreck. greatly suffering from in
somnia, almost constantly constipated
and weighing only 12S pounds.
IT consulted physicians and took
medicine all the time, but had no relief
About three years and a half ago I
went abroad, and while in Berlin heard
frequently of great physician, Prof
Mendel. an authority on nervous
trouble, so resolved to consult him.
Prof. Mendel surprised me very
much by asking at once if I was
coffee drinker. and on my telling him
l used it two or three times a day, he
said, IT is poison After carefully ex-
aiming me he told me there was moth
ing the matter with me whatever but
what could be entirely cured in thirty
days by letting coffee and other stimu-
lants alone and dieting.
I had hard time following his adj
vice. I did not know what to do until
I came home and told my wife, who
got some Postum. We tried it but at
first did not like it; then we went over
the directions on the package together
and found VIZ had not boiled it long
enough. That WIS the beginning of the
end of my trouble for the Postum was
delicious after that and I drank it reg
ularly and it helped from the start.
IN a very short time began to feel
much better and in the last three years
I haven't been absent from business
one hour on account of i'll health for
my health is fine now. I have a good
appetite. sleep well and weigh IT'S
pounds Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek. Mich.
Any nervous person who drinks
coffee viii feel better from ten DAYS
use of Postum in place of coffee Trial
easily proves this. There's a reason.
Look in each package for a copy of
the famous little book, 1.-The Road to
WellviIle.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
CRASH IN A FOG.
One st. Louis Street Car TeIe.
scopes Another.
Twenty Persons Injured, One
Probably Fatally.
A PANIC FOLLOWED.
Women and Children Crushed
and Trampled Upon.
Accident Was Due to a Quarrel
Over q Fare.

ST. Louis, Jan. 27.-More than 20 per-
tally, when two cars on the Broadway
line colIded today.
INJURED.
John harrington, badly crushed, in
ternal injuries; probably fatal
Walter Scvernteritt, internal injuries,
serious.
Frank Grill, employe of the city water
department, scalp cut. nose broken.
J. H. HObelman, serious.
William Miller, serious.
Thomas -AIcGoven. ankles broken,
serious.
George Decker, feet crushed, chest
crushed.
Frank Alter, slight.
Alfred Koepfer, slight.
Joseph Zerny, slight.
George Baker, slight.
Christopher Juergin, motorman of
front car, perhaps fatally.
Walter Jansen, slight.
William Merry, slight.
Clara Book slight.
George Clews, slight.
n. Caffner, slight.
B. Schener, slight.
Miss Ida Knaus, slight.
Lizzie Clifton, slight.
Miss Julia c. Doerner, slight.
Both cars were northbound and trav-
cling in a dense fog. The accident oc-
CURED while the front car was station
airy, owing to quarrel between the con-
ductor and a passenger over fare The
second car was coming at high speed.
When less than 100 feet away. the front
car doomed up through the fog but 1t
was useless to try to avoid crash
None of the 100 passengers on the two
cars knew that the accident was i'm
pending until the crash came The sec
ond car crushed its way through the
rear of the front car until it reached
almost the middle of it.
The dozen or more passengers on the
rear platform of the front car were
TANNED tightly under the rear car,
The second for half its distance was
crushed and the passengers inside were
thrown about while showers of broken
glass fell upon them.
A panic ensued. The less seriously
hurt began to fight to escape. Children
and women were tramDled on and the
weaker ones were beaten against the
wreckaSe.
The collision took place within two
blocks of the street car barns and en-
ployes there hurried to the scene, re-
moving the injured as quickly as pos
sible in the confusion resulting from the
cries of the victims and the dense fog
The most seriously hurt were removed
to the car barn where they were cared
for by physicians and later taken to
bOSpitalS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
MARRIED BY THE MAYOR.
Two Members of Baltimore Fashion
able Society EIope.

Philadelphia, Pa, Jan. 27.-Moncure
Robinson and Sarah Sisson Abel, mem
bers of two of Baltimore's richest and
most fashionable families, have eloped
to Chester, Pa. where they We're mar
ried by Mayor Houston. They came to
Chester, where Robinson's brother-in-
law has a country home, and the we'd
ding had been arranged to take place
from a church OF which the bride is
member, when a telegram from the
higher ecclesiastics in Baltimore put
stop to the ceremony. The police also
appeared with kilograms commanding
them to stop the wedding. But the
party appeared before the mayor and
satisfied him that the license was reg
ular. The brides mother appeared
few minutes too late, Differences of
religion led to the Interference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
Defense Makes a Print

Eldora. Ia, Jan. 27-The defense in
the case of E. s. Blydenburgh. charged
with poisoning his third wife. scored a
point today in the evidence of DR.. lib
son. of Chicago. the expert who tssti-
fed in the famous Luetgert case. the
Chicago sausage manufacturer charged
with numbering his wife. DR.. Gibson
analysed the embalming fluid used BIZ
the undertaken in preparing Mrs. Bly,
denburgh's body, and testified that Il
contained large percentage of arsenic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
Builds saloon on Lee Field.

Menominee. Mich. Jan. PA novel
saloon is to be established by Henry
Meyer, of Sawyer, Door county. Wis
consin. who has applied for a govern
ment license authorizing him to dis
pense liquors on the ice on Green Bay.
Meyers place Will be located on the
route of the stage line between Green
Bay and Sturgeon Bay. and so far as
known = will be the first place of its
kind. The proprietor expects a pros
porous patronage from travellers and
fishermen