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The San Francisco call., 1904-06-13
TALK OF THE TOWN
AND 19Rte,sz OF RHE
TIMEG ~
Sning a Prince.

Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia
has just had a judgment issued against
him by the Berlin courts in suit
brought against him by his former
chief of the household, Baron Won
Luck, and has been condemned to pay
the latter a pension of $4,000 year for
the remainder Of his life. This Is the
first occasion, 1 believe, Of Prince OF
the reigning House of Prussia being
brought into court, and of having a
judgment rendered against him, and
the affair has attracted a good deal or
attention on the continent of Europe
Just on that account. 1t would not
have been possible under the old laws.
but has been rendered so by the terms
of the new CODE which is destined TO
prove one of the principal memorials
of the present EmperOr's reign. IL Is
pity, however, that the case was ever
allowed to come into court, for the
Prince is colossally rich and the sum
at stake was a relatively small one
Moreover, Baron Luck had been Tor
many years an old and devoted servant
of the Prince and claimed, when 1orceu
to sever his relations with the Prince,
a pension based on the whole time that
he had spent in the Princes service
whereas Frederick Leopold was only
inclined to rate his pension upon the
relatively brief period that he had
acted as grand master of his house
hold. Emperor William declined to in
terfere, 1t being, however, generally
understood that he sympathized with
the Baron. and thus it is that the
courts have been called upon 10 deter
mine the issue, settling it, as l have
stated above, against the Prince and in
favor of the Baron.-La Marquise de
EOntenOv
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The Rose of Memory.

Once, in a garden of supreme delight,
/ saw it, trimmed with dew;
Sweet-singing to the scented summer
night:
'It is a dream of you'll
"a dream of you. dear-bringing sweet
unrest.
From which I would not part. -
How could it bloom to wtther on my
Sweetheart Sweetheart! Sweetheart
After the years comes love. by memory
led
Where stars forget to gleam;
The garden ruined, and the dear rose
The phantan1 of a dream!
There. with the ghosts of stars that
made heaven bright.
Prophetic of loves pain,
Alone love kneels, and prays the holy
night,
To bring the dream again.
After the years! Life is lit
tie space
The frailest flowers breath.
And lifes one joy to dream OF your dear
Down to the gates of death.
o. sea! dividing lives that loved in
o coral isles ATARI
Darkness and distance, where the storms
complain
From troubled star to star
Read me her dreams. beneath the alien
skies
over the wild sea-foam-
Love is not love that is not sacrifice
And love will lead love home.
Atlanta Constitution.
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Il Toast a la Greenland.

If it is difference Of opinion that
makes horse races. as Mark Twain
AYERS, it certainly is difference in tastes
that makes the art of cuisine. The
palate Of the hardy Greenlander might
be said TO have an almost elemental
power Of distinction, for We read in an
English paper that Mr.. KOr- -KO-Ya.
Greenlander. who has mOnOpOiized the
commerce of East Baffinsland, has a
fleet of fourteen vessels and is worth
E250O. He recently celebrated the for
tieth anniversary of the foundation OF
his business. his employees drinking his
health in cod liver oil.
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MEN analMAaTERS IN
THE FCRN lie WORLD
MC)NE@

by the pretense that through the agen-
cy of spirits he could secure for them a
concealed treasure. <nen he disap-
peared.
He was soon depicting the pockets OF
the people in several of the Southern
States by similar means. Under the
name of William Rice. With two con-
federates. he reaped a rich harvest by
operating various schemes in Adams
County. Pennsylvania. making off with
a considerable sum yielded by his con-
fding dupes.
It was soon after this. about 1900,
that he went to Exeter. bearing his true
name Of Rainsford Rogers, which had
not acquired so bad an odor in Eastern
New England as in some other quar-
tiers.
In a short time he formed the ac-
quaintance of a number of men of sub
stance in the town, who were found
sufficiently credulous TO put entire faith
in him To a dozen or more he con-
hdsd his belief that a subterranean
treasure of great value existed in the
neighborhood which by his skill he
could discover and appropriate to their
common benefit.
lie repeatedly conducted them on
dark nights 10 out of the way places to
dig in the swamps with spades and
other implements. and frequently kept
them at work for hours delving for the
hidden prize. On these expeditions he
Insisted that ali must wear white caps,
q circumstance that afterward gave
The name 10 the company.
on one Of these night excursions there
appeared before the eyes of the awe
stricken diggers a figure all in white,
representing a spirit. which uttered
some words that none could under
stand one "whitecap," anxious to
lose nothing, said: "A little louder. Mr..
Ghost: I'm rather hard of hearing.
But the diligent diggers found no
treasure. and soon Rogers disclosed the
reason for their want Of success. The
golden deposit was there, beyond a
doubt. but they needed one thing more
TO enable them to find it. That was a
particular kind of divining rod. 1t
must be made of costly materials, but
it would be infallible. II could not be
obtained this side Of Philadelphia, and
would cost several hundred dollars
So infatuated were the deluded COM
pauy that they quickly raised the nee
essary amount and delivered it TO Rog-
ers. who mounted his horse, and, with
a saddle and bride borrowed from one
Of his dupes rode off to parts unknown,
never to return.
The 'whitecaps" had been watched,
in their clandestine meetings, however,
and soon they were the laughing stock
of the town, and the deaf man who
asked the ghost TO speak little loud
er" never heard the last of his speech.
The whole company fell under the de-
Or sea, dividing lives that loved in
which was the first heard of the name.
Boston Herald
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GUARDING ST. PETERSBURG.

THE latest of significance is to the effect
that, with tire imminent fall of Port Arthur to
1 them to feverish activity Russian military coun-
have directed their attention the defense OF their
capital News dispatches from St Petersburg state
that the Notifications guarding the waterway the
Czars imperial city the Gulf of Riga and at the
of the Gulf of Finland being strengthened by
the addition OF and high guns, that the
approaches to Cronstad being mined and that the
fortress of that has been made the for
chain of batteries stretching along either shore of
the Gulf of Finland St. Petersburg is being made i'm
.pregnable.
This carries with it weight OF vital significance
disproportionate to the record of the
of the protecting fortresses Nobody believes that the
capital of Russia in immediate danger of being be-
leaguered, nor, indeed, that direct attack upon by
Japanese forces is probability. Japanese fleet
in European waters would be with great storm
of protest from non-combatng powers own fly
ing squadron in the Spanish had carried into
execution the threat of direct attack upon Spanish
ports The in this situation for the diplomats and
straegsts digest is this that Russia has awakened
the fact that she being whipped numerically in this
struggle with little Japan and the fear that the
wounded has made her show her teeth the rest of
the European pack which stands in eager anticipation
about her borders
These few months of fighting in the Far East has
brought great surprise to the world surprise
to Russia Even those who gave of their sympathies
the brown men from the hrst dared hope only Tor an
break in the shares of victory between the two
antagonists; others who bound by fear favor
to the giant of the north could in the hoslities
ahead nothing but series of heavy srmishes in which
Russian force would annhilate the upsars from the
Mikados land Followed disaster after disaster to the
Russian navy the occupation of Korea without strug
gle the landing of Japanese troops upon the shores of
Manchura Still the proRussians urged that the world
should Just wait until the Russian soldier got into action
He has done has been terribly beaten the Yalu
and the Laoung peninsula, and the Russian strong
hold in the East is about to fall from his hands
All this has struck home to the Gar and his people.
All vaunted might and terrible strength conjured up by
fear about the grim shadow of the great Sav empire is
being shredded away by the bayone strokes of the Jap
Russia her eyes her ally, France; France
leans the Dover cliffs than to the Nevas
banks. To Germany Russia looks; Kaiser Wilhelm
raises his eyes from his knitting great fear
strikes home to the Russian heart The road St.
Petersburg, like the road Moscow nearly a hundred
years ago. is hedged with defenses.
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Origin of the H1hitecaPs.

The term "whitecaps" has come to
be synonymous with bands OF men
united by secret ties FOR the purpose Of
committing unlawful acts or for the
purpose of taking the law into their
own hands and administering justice 10
offenders against public morals who
cannot be reached in the regular way.
But New EnEland's earliest white
caps and the first bearers OF the name
were organized for a different purpose.
Their origin dated back to the days Of
Rainsford Rogers. an impostor and
vagabond. whose villainies outdid all
the. efforts Of Henry Tufts.
Rogers was a sharper Of the keenest
penetration. and his plan was to take
advantage OF the credUlity of the unso-
phisticated New Englanders by the
most daring and original OF bunko
games. Though ilIiterate. he was once
a schoolteacher. He pretended a deep
knowledge OF chemistry, and claimed
that he possesscS the power TO raise
or 10 lay spirits, good and evil, at his
pleasure.
lie began his career Of operating on
the representations belief of people al
Morrlstown. y. J.. in 17SS. where he sue
ceeded IN defrauding a large number OF
followers out of large sum Of money
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4 Prince of Saunders.

1t is noteworthy that for several
years past the police in various Euro
pean capitals have been seeking a
man who has swindled various people
out of thousands of pounds on the pre-
text that he was possessed of the plans
of German fortresses, for which the
French Government were prepared TO
pay him huge sums of money.
This mysterious individual was de-
scribed as the Prince of Swindlers.
He has lived in the most expensive
hotels upon the money obtained from
his victims and his society was much
sought after owing to his charming
manners.
Morgan" Ferguson" and Baron
Won Schena" are a few of the names
under which he is alleged TO nave
made the acquaintance of many peO-
ple in fashionable hotels and to have
swindIed them out of sums of money
varying in amount from rev nun
dred pounds to thousands.
His system of obtaining money was
ingenious and bold. but it varied IN
details according to circumstances. II
was, in fact, a brilliant elaboration OF
the confidence trick. Posing under one
Of his aliases, he would confide in per-
sons who believed in him that he was
in communication with a German Of
ficer, who was prepared to sell him
the plans of the Notifications of Metz
or Strasburg, or both. Also that for
these documents a Marquis, acting for
the French Minister of War, was pre-
pared to pay a very large sum of
money-some times as much as tSZO,-
600. He would induce his victim to
secretly meet the Marquis who
would offer large sums for the plans,
but not so much as the Baron de-
sired and negotiations would hang hre.
In the meantime the mythical Ger
man officer would insist on drawing
some money, which the victim was
induced to hand over to the Baron
This would go ON until the credulity
or the funds of the '.gob| tween" were
exhausted. and then the Baron
would fade into space and the French
Marquis would disappear as mystic
riously as he had appeared.
Five years ago the English police
held a warrant for the arrest of a
man believed to be the swindler in
question for practicing the same sort
of fraud upon an Austrian. Nearly
three years ago an English gentleman
complained of having been robbed in
a precisely similar fashion by Baron
Won Schelia." Every effort was made
to discover this man. Hotels were
watched. but the Baron" was living
in affluence abroad and Scotland Yard
could do nothing.
AS regards the arrest in the present
case, Mr.. Harris and his friend, Mr..
Birkbeck, working in collusion with
the Scotland Yard detectives, pretend
ed to carry on the negotiations for
Mr. Birkbeck to meet Ferguson" and
the Marquis de Manneville" at the
Hotel Moderne, Orleans, to hand over
sum of money. All kept the ap-
pointment, and so did the police.
The hotel was surrounded and a mo-
tor car was in readiness to be used for
purposes of pursuit If necessary. The
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.4sfor TcrsnS Fishermen
special Co-respondenee-

special CORES 4pondencc-
HEADOUARTERS or THE CALL.
{ HENRIETTA STREET. coVENT
GARDEN. LONDON. May @O.-Fishins
rights IN the upper reaches Of the
river Thames. close to CIiveden. have
been for tho last tao years the source
q. much heated controversy between
tbe Thames conscrv3ncy and William
NgalGorf Astor The body which con-
t.ols tho river stock it yearly with
spawn with the aim Of providing rec
? siion fo- a number Of persons who
choose 10 spend their Sundays and
4 hdays az faithful disciples Of lsaak
Walton In former years Mr. Astor
ashJle prohibiting fishermen from cast
irg their rods from that part Of the
4,.er bank which adjoins the CliVeden
estate. graciously allowed them TO fish
flom boats in the river itself This
concession gave but scant satisfaction
70 the innocent spOrtsmen and this
year the Thames cOnservancy has been
: again appealed 10. a deputation
waited upon the lord Of CHveden a few
days ago only TO find out that he had
UFrlQeQ 10 HADSE LllE l4N NEA 81 am t----
bank-against all but his personal
friends. As the law stands he is per
fectly within his right in doing 50, but
the Thames conservancy. in spite Of the
fact that il is an absolutely fossilized
and conservative body. can get its
back up at times. and it is believed
that Mr. Astor has prodded it into do
ing so. II all other means fail to move
Mr.. Astor the conservancy will apply
10 Parliament TO make new laws for
the government Of the river Thames.
II is somewhat significant that
Queen Alexandra and Princess Vic
toria. who used 10 be frequent visitors
10 that part Of the river. have not
been seen there since it became known
that Mr.. Astor had excluded ordinary
fishing folk.
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In audience With Ed7odrd
Special Correspondence.


HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL,
HENRIETTA STREET. COVENT
GARDEN. LONDON. May 3O.-As pri-
vate audiences with King Edward are
generally granted only TO distinguished
men either in the diplomatic or consular
services. the recent reception of Jacob
II. Schiff OF the New York banking
house Of Kuhn. Loeb & Co. caused
much discussion in society circles. Mr..
Schif. on getting home, seems to have
had but little to say regarding his
audience with his Majesty, but learn
privately that it was secured through
the influence Of Sir Ernest Cassel, the
Jewish Baronet. who is on terms OF
personal intimacy with the King. and
that the whole affair was arranged at
the last Newmarket race meeting,
where Mr. Schiff came into personal
contact with King Edward for the hrst
time. Mr. Schiff is also said TO have
contributed a good round sum to char
ifies in which the Jewish community
here is interested. The alien emigra-
ton act is causing the Jews much
anxiety and they are doing all they
can 10 save their coreligionists from
repatriation. Mr.. Schiff went alone
into the Whitechapel slums and there
Investigated for himself the conditions
under which the poor Jews live. He
was the guest OF the Rothschilds dur
sng a portion Of the time he spent in
London and with Lord Rothschild he
went closely into the methods that gov
ern and regulate the Jewish Board OF
Guardians. He also visited the Alex
sndra Trust, which was founded by Sir
Thomas Upton and in which her Maj
esty the Queen is so personally in
terested. He saw the work people OF
the district enjoy their midday meal
there and he expressed astonishment
at the cheapness and good quality OF
the food supplied. He wondered why
q similar institution could not be es-
tablished In Whitechapel for the bene-
~ OF working Jews. II IS understood
that Sir Ernest Cassel Is considering
d scheme OF the kind.
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BerliH'S $ Marine Bride.

The Marine Bride" one Of the best
known characters in the streets of
Berlin, is dead. She was usually to be
seen on Inter den Linden, between
Friedrichstrasse and the Brandenbur-
ger Thor She was a worn looking
woman, about hfty-five, shabbily
dressed, although of good family, and
always carried a heavy bag. Every
Berliner knew her. and no one molest-
ed the poor, demented creature. Her
story is tragic. Many years age she
was betrothed to a navy surgeon, and
shortly after her engagement she re-
ceived news that he was drowned at
sea. Her mind became unhinged, and
since the day Of the fatal news she has
wandered along Inter den Linden, be-
lieving that her betrothed would return
to Berlin, driving through the Bran
denburger Thor. In the heavy bag she
carried what she belived was a suit of
Clothes, for which her lover would ex-
change his sea-stained garments
London Daily Telegraph.
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precautions were not taken without
need. for Ferguson" did succeed in
escaping in a cab. and was not cap
tured until he had reached the SercOt
railroad station-fOur miles away. He
was about to go away by train when
the police motor car dashed UP TO the
station. He had %, 1000 francs in his
possession, but the Marquis" who
was to pay eS2O.OOO for the bogus plans
in Mr. Harris possession, had no more
than II francs in his pocket. On learn
ing Of the arrest Mr.. Harris crossed
to Paris to join Mr.. Birkbeck n assist
ing the police in bringing Ferguson"
to justice.
Between two and three years ago
Baron Won Schelia" ruined London
doctor by inducing him to part with
G150O-the whole of his fortune. Sche-
liza, who then lived at a private hotel in
Bayswater. where the doctor with his
wife also resided. produced to him the
secret plans" of Metz. Strasburg and
Breslau, and the drawings Of a new
German gun.
These. of course, were fictitious. but
he persuaded the doctor that he was TO
receive 100000 francs for them from
the French Government, and promised
him G6OOO as his share.
Another gentleman living in the same
hotel was also victimized. The doctor
was taken to Holland and introduced
to Count de Beville." who agreed on
behalf Of the French Government to
pay 100000 francs for the plans.
A final meeting was arranged TO take
place at the Lord Warden Hotel.
Dover. but the doctor, having parted
with all his money. waited in vain for
the Count and BarOn.-LOndOn Mail.
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Evidence has been submitted under oath to the proper
Federal authorities that when the great ship Colon was
drifting the reefs and destruction eight of the
officers on board drunk. 1t is difficult con-
ceive of ofense atrocious than where human
lives placed at the mercy of irresponsible drink
crazed men, and punishment should follow swift and
sure
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THE BALDWIN HOTELS. City.
The Baldwin Hotel in San Francisco
that was destroyed by fire in 1SSS was
a six-story building that contained 4s5
rooms. 1t was what is known among
builders as frame building within a
brick shell. The top of the dome was
16S feet above the line of the sidewalk.
1t had frontage of 1S5 feet on Market
street. 25 on Eddy. 275 on Powell and
1s5 or Ellis These are the dimensions
OF the new Flood building. ground
rneasurement
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-13

ST. Louis clergyman, rising in the dignity of pro-
fessional privilege has denounced the ve-room fiat with
its oppressive and enervating compactness
the progress prosperity and expansion of society Is
possible that somebody in ST Louis has copied the
plan of one of our apartment houses and renamed it
structure of flats?
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Oakland, Cal.
This department has on several occa-
siOns announced that in the United
States there is no national holiday. not
even the Fourth of July. as Congress
has never declared a national holiday
for the Union.
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CHEAT. F., Napa, Cal. Cheat"
is a volunteer growth that sometimes
appears in wheat and oats. It mani
tests itself in lowlands and is a result
of ground that is too moist. For addi-
tiOnal information on this subject ad-
dress communication to the expert
mental station, University of Cali
fOrnia, Berkeley.
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4AnS7rcrs TO Queries.

SANTA ROSA-S. A. Duncans Mil.
Cal Santa Rosa, SOnOma County. Cal
ifornia, is at an elevation of 1872 feet
above the level of the sea.
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A PERPLEXED HERDER.

the chairman of the Democratic Congress COM
~ mttee is named Cowherd. it is fair to that
L one of his ancestors quite successful
herder The distinguished gentleman from Missouri.
however, is having much harder time herder than
ever his had. Evidently it is much diff
cult herd political than herd cows, for in his
efforts herd his party into kind of orderly group
ing and making them keep to the road the Mssouran
is having at all.
A report from Washington announces that Mr..
Cowherd has opened the campaign headquarters of his
committee but is in great perpexty to what to do
next According to the report Mr.. Cowherd says the
committee is receiving great number Of applications
for speeches this and that subject OF political
interest, but especially the tariff He thinks this is
going be another campaign of education like that of
1906 whether free silver will be plank
the PLATFORM whether advanced tariff doctrines will
be expounded by the parys declaration of principles
what attitude will be taken in regard to the and
other matters
Under the circumstances the perpexed campaign man
ager does not know what kind of literature send
At present he going slow. Perhaps in the end he may
decide abandon politics and take to herding cows.
Such course would not only enable him be true
to the traditions of his name but would lead him into
paths both pleasanter and more profitable.
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TO NAGASAKI-A. o. r.. City. The
distance from San Francisco to Naga-
saki via Yokohama is 553S miles and
via Honolulu is 6184 miles.
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PRINCE OF wALES-S.. City. The
Prince of Wales is the eldest son of the
reigning sovereign. After the present
sovereign Of England became King Ed
ward VII the title Of Prince of Wales
fell to his eldest son, George Frederick
Ernest Albert, Duke of York. who was
born June 3. 1865. The King had an
elder son, Albert Victor. Duke OF Clar-
enee. who was born in 1864 and died in
1892
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-13

CASINO-Subscriber City. In the
game of Casino unless it has been
agreed that on the last deal. points
made shall count as made. the count
is cards first.
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RINCON HILL-Subscribe city.
'Rincon" is Spanish for inside cor
ner." That section of land on which
now stands the Sailors Home. once
the United States Marine Hospital.
was in the early days Of San Francisco
called "Punta del rineon," or point OF
the inside corner. The hill. which at
one time was the fashionable resi-
dence district of San Francisco. de-
rived it's name from the "punta del
rincon"
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Two children in this city pills recently that had
been thrown as samples on doorsteps and death in ter
ribe agony soon followed Nothing has been done to
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-13

This week gen. eyeglasses. 15c-5Oc 70
4th ST.. front Keys Gel. Oyster House.
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Occasionally a girl marries a man
just to keen him from hanging around
the house evenings.
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