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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
LITIGATION BEGUN OVER
PROPOSED ELECTRIC IINE
City of Palo Alto objects TO Methods
of j. f. Parkinson, the
Protector

SAN JOSE, Feb. 24.-More trouble
and litigation is ahead for ]. f. Par
kinson, the promoter of the Santa
Clara County Interurban Electric Rail-
way, which is to run from Palo Alto
to this city. To-day suit was COM
menced by the town of Palo Alto, In
the name of the people of the State,
against Parkinson, in which he is
asked to show cause why he has as
sumed privileges and franchises for his
proposed railway which have not been
granted. him. An injunction Is also
asked to prevent him from construct
ing and operating the proposed road.
The complaint states that Parkinson
claims the right to construct and oper-
ate an electric railway upon certain
streets in the town of Palo Alto, but
that he has no such right.
1t is the franchise on University
avenue that is being attacked This
proposed route is from the Southern
Pacific depot across the full length of
the town. A short time ago the South
ern Pacific secured a temporary in
junction to prevent Parkinson from
crossing the track at that point with
his road. Parkinson now has the ma
terial on hand to construct this part of
the road, which is the beginning Of a
line to be built to this city.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
Repeats His Assertion That
Men Past Sixty Years of
Age Should Be Retired
LAUGHS AT HIS CRITICS
Scientist Says That His
Reference to ChlorOform-
ing Was Only a Pleasantly
Special Dispatch to Tn. Call

BALTIMORE, Feb. 24.-Dr. William
Osler, who declared that, nothing had
been accomplished for the progress of
the world by men moro than forty
years old, and that all men more than
formed, returned from New York to-
day. much surprised at the storm Of
criticism he had awakened. but adher-
ing to his statements.
This has been a conviction with DR..
Osler for years, and he has for a long
time been engaged upon an essay to be
called "The Crisis Of Forty Years." in
which the statements referred to are
the text, the conclusion and the whole
theme.
DR.. Osler admits that men above for
ty years old have a great place to fill
and are needed in the world, but he
declares that the vitalizing, fundamen-
tai creation in science, literature, art
and elsewhere are by men under forty.
This is the rule, he insists, which
some exceptions only serve to accent
uate.
AS to chloroforming men at sixty-a
plan he designated as admirable-Dr.
Oslar laughed heartily at the severe
criticisms it has brought out.
III lCOu1o Sc SctlQ l1lC QOCLOIs IIdl
was only a pleasantly. I was quoting
from Antony Trollope's story. The
Fixed PERIOD and his story hinged
upon chloroforming of an old fellow
at sixty. / am very sorry my essay is
not ready for publication. 1 think it
will show pretty we'll that the best
work of man is done while he Is un-
der forty years Of age
NEW YORK, Feb 24.-J Pierpont
Morgan, 81 years old, seemed much in
terested when this question was sent
in to him to-day:
Should a man be chloroformed when
he is so, or is he worth preserving alive
for a while longer?"
After a hearty laugh he dictated this
reply:
Mr.. Morgan says he has about
thirty engagements to meet during the
next hour or two, and he would ask to
be excused from saying anything fur
ther than. that he feels as young and
can do as much now as he could be-
fore he was 40.'
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.-President James
B. Angel of the University of Michi-
gan does not subscribe TO the state
ment that men lose their usefulness
when they reach the age of so years.
DIR. Angel, in an address at the annual
banquet of the Chicago Alumni Asso-
citation of the University of Michigan.
said:
. 1 would like to extend the time OF a mans
life instead OF shortening It. The experiment
Africa for centuries. and would suggest to
the distinguished physician that civilization
has not advanced very rapidly there.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
SIMPLON TUNNEL
is CUT THROUGH
Huge Bore Through the Alps
Is Completed in Spite of
Many Unexpected Obstacles
BIG ENGINEERING FEAT
Swiss and italian Govern
mentS Share Cost, Which
VIII Amount to 100000

CONDO, Switzerland, Feb. A-Pierc-
ing of the Simplon Tunnel through the
Alps was completed at 7:2O o'clock this
morning. The work was commenced in
1898.
The meeting of the boring parties
CSwiss and Italian) was signaled
throughout Switzerland by ringing of
church bells and saIutes by cannon.
Many unexpected obstacles were en-
countered, the most serious being hot
springs. which threatened to wreck the
whole enterprise, and a temperature
which at one time rose to 13l degrees
Fahrenheit, making a continuance Of
the work impossible until the engineers
found means Of cooling the atmosphere.
Now that the borers have met it will
enable the water accumulated in the
north gallery to be drawn of.
The work Of preparing the tunnel for
a permanent railway will be rushed as
rapidly as possible and il is hoped to
inaugurate the tunnel about March 20.
The piercing of the Simplon is re-
garded as being one of the engineering
achievements of the age. Many diff
culties were encountered and overcome.
The length Of the tunnel from Briga, in
Switzerland, TO Izelle, on the Italian
side Of the mountain, is about twelve
miles. Work was begun more than
seven years ago and, according to con-
tract, the tunnel must be ready for
traffic on May Is next. The Swiss and
Italian Governments jointly financed
the undertaking, share and share alike,
at the cost Of SIS, ,000, 900. AS soon as the
boring is thoroughly completed and the
track laid a smaller tunnel is to be
constructed, parallel to the large one,
which viii be increased in size, so as to
permit of traffic both ways at the same
time.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
DOES NOT WANT
NEGRO LYNCHED
Mississippi's Governor Is
Making Fight to Prevent
Mob Acting in Jackson

JACKSON, Miss, Feb. 24.-The ex-
citement over the assault on Miss
Mamie Marsh by negro continued to-
day, its effect being heightened by the
burning of a negro church. The flames
are believed to have been of an in
cendiary origin. A negro with blood
On his clothing and scratches on his
face has been arrested and the police
believe they have the right man. The
negro has been put in the city Jail,
which is surrounded by the local COM
pany of militia, called out by Governor
Eardaman.
When the news of the crime reached
him the Governor sent his friends all
over the town as emissaries of law and
order, telling them to, plead with ev-
cry man they met to allow the law
to take it's course.
paign. Charging up and down the main
street, he expostulated with every
group of men on the corners and used
every argument at his command to in
duce them to disperse. The Governor
soon saw his efforts were likely to
prove unavailing, and finally went with
the rapidly increasing mob to the
Courthouse, where, according to ru-
mors, the young woman's assailant was
under guard.
The reports were unfounded, but the
mob refused to believe the Sheriff and
began making threatening demonstra-
tions. Governor Vardaman. after in
structing the Sheriff and his deputies
to defend the prisoner to the last if
he should be brought to them, mount
ed the steps and began an impassioned
address. He declared the law provided
fit and proper punishment for the crime
in question, assured the citizens Of
Jackson that there would be no delay
in carrying it into effect and pleaded
with them to 'allow the law to take
it's course"
Miss Mamie Marsh was going home
from the State House. when she was
seized by negro and dragged into the
yard of a residence. She was beaten
into insensibility and may die from her
injuries.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
MEET IN THE INTERESTS
OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Coast Counties League Adopts Reso-
luton in Favor of Free
Text Books

PACIFIC GROVE, Feb. 24.-The ses-
sion of the Central Coast Counties I'm
provement Association began to-day.
The address of welcome was made by
w. C. Buck, president of the Board of
Trade of Pacific Grove. The rollcall of
delegates showed thirty-two present.
good financial balance was shown to
be on hand.
The committee on the "Pinnacles'
reported that the matter of making
the "Pinnacles' a Government park is
now before Congress.
A resolution in favor of a free school
book law was brought up and dis
cussed. 1t was adopted and will be
sent to the Legislature.
After the session adjourned for the
evening a banquet was rendered the
delegates. The session tomorrow will
be devoted to ways to keep homeseek-
ers in the coast counties and to State
promotion work.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS.

Can photography be classified as art !?
Now, before you say unholy things.
go out to Vickery, Torrey & Atkins
and make fair and honest study of
DR.. Arnold Genthe's photographs
those that he brought over with him
from Europe. And if you're honest,
and on speaking terms with the prin-
ciples that underlie art, you will have
to admit that some photography can
be art, and that DIR. Genthe's is.
+. True. the medium of these wonderful
Spanish and Moroccan scenes is me-
chanical. The camera in a few seconds
caught the picture in its entirety-that
would have taken months to produce
with brush. But what of the Infinite
taste, understanding and instinct that
suggested the bits of landscape or the
types of people in the manner of their
presentation? Could such an aggrega-
ton of splendid results ensue from ac-
cident? Or was it a keen sense of val
ues, an instructive knowledge of COM
position that wrought such sensitive
things from the cameras eye?
Nearly all the pictures were gathered
while DR.. Genthe was wandering about
in Spain and in Morocco and it is evil
dent that the romance and glamor of
the country soon enthralled him, even
as it did Washington Irving, who c, n
fessed to have found himself enthralled
by the atmosphere CT old Granada. 1t
is this intensity of@sympathy and feel
ing, quite as much as his sense of COM
position that lifts DR.. Genthe's work
iato the domain of art. And the truth
TO tell, these photographs show a in
finitely vaster sympathy and under
standing than some paintings. have
known.
As to the methods of their produc-
ton, here is mastery of the mechanics
Of photography. Take, for instance,
THE Cathedral of Cordoya," outlined
against cloudy sky, high up from the
banks of a shinmering river Night
has almost fallen, and the great black
pile of domes and turrets throws it's
spectral shadow In the waters below.
But to impart the sense of illusion and
of distance,y DR.. Genthe has caught the
nearby bank.inr the view. black with
the falling shadows.
This picture is, to my humble mind
one of the most subtle and thoroughly
artistic things in the collection. Then.
for delicacy Of detail. mechanically, and
Market Day in Granada" is perhaps
one Of the best, just as. The Gypsy
Girl" is one of%the fetchingest figure
pictures. This daredevil of q Romany
child threw a lot of spirit into that
picture, whichs DR.. Genthe was not
slow, TO catch. And herein again lies
the artistic instinct, the quick percep-
ton as manifested in the ready eye
and the dextrous hand. ------
If, after having seen the collection
(Which runs until March y you refuse
to admit that photography may be
art-aud sometimes is-then is your
mind Theoretically sealed.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
TURKISH SOLDIERS MUTTNy
ON BOARD GREEK STEAMER
Seize and Imprison Their Of1cers and
Compel Return of Transport
EpfrOs to Suez.

battalion of ESQ Turkish troops while
on the way to reinforce the garrison
of Yemen, Arabia, mutinied on board
the Greek steamer Epiros, seized and
their officers and compelled
back to Suez. The mutineers demand
that they be sent back to their homes.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25

Try. the United States Laundry. 1904
Market street. Telephone South 42o.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
CRASHES THROUGH THE ZOE.

Mr.. Triplett confined to his bed with
pneumonia, owing to an unexpected
plunge I'm the lake. 1t was thought at
first that his own weight was respon-
sible for. the ice breaking, but an In
vestigaton OF the matter disclosed the
fact that his small 1ephews had pur-
posely weakened a Certain portion of
the pond and then decoyed their un-
suspecting uncle to the spot Realistic
views can be seen I'm next Sundays
comic.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
Injured While vaultine.

MARYSvILLE, Feb. 24.-Gordon
Hawkins, a student at the Marysville
High School. lies at the point of death
at a hospital in Sacramento as the re-
suit of an accident while practicing
the pole vault for the high school field
day. He is the son of DR.. Hawkins of
Biggs.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
Final Revision. of Catechis,n.

CINCINNATI. O., Feb. 24.-The
union catechism committee of the
Methodist Episcopal church. North and
South, met here to-day. This COM
mission, year ago, adopted a primary
catechism. The purpose of the meet
ing at this time is the final revision Of
the principal, or large, catechism. A
ritual that is agreeable to both
churches will be reviewed by the COM
mission.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
Cuba Honors Marti,s Memory.

HAVANA, Feb. 24.-The anniver-
sary Of the uprising in 1895 in SAM
tiago, always a national holiday, was
celebrated to-day with unusual sig
nificance by the unveiling of a mag
nificent statue of Jose Marti, the
Washington of Cuba, the foremost
figure in stirring UP and organizing
the last revolution.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
Crystal Ever Brings $4,000.

LONDON, Feb. 24.-At an auction
at Christie's to-day an Elizabethan
ever of rock crystal mounted on silver
only 6l inches high. belonging to the
Marquis of Anglesey, was sold to a
London dealer for $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-25
Home Burned Near Modesto.

MODESTO, Feb. 24.-The ranch
house of John M. Breyles, near Mo-
desto, was burned last evening. The
loss will reach $4,000.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24

Pascal, who Disraeli called the
greatest of Frenchmen, from birth
till death suffered from nervous
troubles. At one year of age he fell
into a languor, during which he
could not see water without mani
Testing great outbursts of passion,
and, still more peculiar, he could
not bear to see his father and moth
er near each other. In 1927 he had
paralysis from his waist down, so
that he could not walk without
crutches. This condition continued
three months. During his last hours
he was taken with terrible convul-
sions, in which he died. The autop-
sy showed peculiarities. His crani-
UNI appeared to have no suture I'M
less perhaps the lambdoid or sagit-
tai A large quantity of the brain
substance was very much condensed.
Opposite the ventricles there were
two impressions as Of a finger in
wax. These cavities were full of
clotted and decayed blood, and there
was, it is said, gangrenous condi-
ton of the dura mater.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24

been tempted to steal kisses from
Dixie's tenderly curved lips, but he
had always refrained, because he
felt that it would not please her.
81 like my friends to be friends
and not play at being lovers" she
had said once to Tom Darling when
he had made feeble feint at flirta-
ton. Jack remembered how once.
when the red wine at studio dinner
a daux with Dixie had warmed him
to sentimentalism, he had said:
Eve might get married, Dixie"
He had not been sufficiently seri-
Gus In his mood at the time to pay
much attention to her testing reply,
but he now recalled that she had not
answered directly. She had looked
at him curiously, he remembered
now, but her merry answer had come
quickly enough after that:
"Oh, three days would put an end
to the romance" she had said.
Was Edith right? Did Dixie love
him? How crisscross everything
went in this world! He wished
Edith had not read those letters.
He wished he had not been so care
less in leaving them about.
1t was too late now-too late for
more than regret.
Your loyal chum, Dixie" the
words repeated themselves in his
brain. He had not been so loyal to
her. Would she have left his letters
about where he who finds may read !?
Edith's voice interrupted the
trend of his thoughts.
you're ages fixing your tie" she
said. Breakfast has been ready a
half hour. Town Talk.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24
Whv Ne p...n.t

"Why don't l marry ?" said a con-
tirmed bachelor in reply to a ques-
TONER. IL will tell you of the little
incident which cured me of nv lean
ings toward matrimony.
Il was working my way through a
crowd in a shop, and / stepped upon
the hem of lady's skirt. She turn
ed quickly round, with a furious
look, and was evidently about to adj
dress some fierce remark to me when
change came over her face sudden
y.
oh, beg your pardon she
said. 1 was going to get very an
CRY. You see, thought it was my
husband
81 smiled family as 1 walked off,
saying to myself, IF wives get angry
so much more quickly with their
husbands than they do with other
men. what is the use of being hus-
band p"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24
POTOMAC RIVER RourE

March 9th, 1904. Anursoay'
steamer Will leave Pier Q Light Stree.
nari, baltimore. every Tuesday. ThnrsS.vys
points: ANi INC iouoWinR
Miilers, Bromes. Porto Bello. Gra,o,.
iLeMlsetts, Brfar. Bundicks, Walnut Point'
EG9Marts, Coan. Lynchs Point BOND point'
nnilnsale. Mundys Point, Lodge adorns'
nlney Point, Leonardtown, AbeII. Stonos'
howafds, Cobrums, Lancasters. BnshwnnJ'
~ nN ,ys GlSmont, Alexandria. Arrivin1,
saturday mornings. Suay anu
WIEN hhet9ernrlng, steamer will leave 9TH Street
, ~ naLi, Nashington, ID. C., every Snndsy
n I,1suay anu thursday at p. M, weather per
mitilng, stopping at landings as foIlows. Poi-
AieAancria, Glymont, Riverside. Blsbwood
IIancasters,CoD1ums, Towards Stones AhoIIs'
M MSUnaardtow9. Piney Point, Adams. Iodge
mnunuy Point, kfnsale, bond Point Tvnnbvs,
ppoiint, Soan, Bundicks, Cowarts w alnut Ps,snts
pp rn, k,eswisetta, Grasons, Porto Relic
DTroues, Millers. Arriving in Baltimore 60 ~,
1 Eroiy. thursday and Saturday morninTs.
NJ, nIelEht received daily. All river freish,
WILLARD THOMSON. Genera, Mars,o
l. hDoCH, Gen'l Fri. and Pass. At
STFpuFSco>r nno baltimore, Nd.
"lh' =. hEARDON, AEt.. alexandria. Va
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24
Slams Fiuhtinu Fish.

Fish fighting is a most popular
sport in Siam. The two fish, train
ed from the age of six months to
fight, are placed in large glass bot
tie. 1t is most curious to note each
fsh's attitude when it becomes
aware of its adversary's presence in
the bottle. Swelling with rage and
pride, they sail around the narrow
space, pretending not to notice each
other, until suddenly one fish makes
a savage dart at its unwelcome'com-
psnion, biting its fixs and bod 2.
The fight continues until the refe, e
sees that the issue is no longer n
doubt, when the contest is stoppe
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24

Evangelism as reflected in the
letters of our ancestors was pecu-
liarly icy and of kind to freeze up
the high spirits of young people.
In 1850 a devoted mother wrote
to her boy, after he had gone to a
preparatory school "to fit for col
lege," and said:
Il am glad you are reading Plato
and Herodotus. Communing with
the dead, you will learn how to die"
That was the worldliest sentiment
in this letter to boy of fifteen, ex-
cept an injunction not to squander
his monthly allowance of 50 Gin
foolish purchases of sweets and
trivial knickknacks.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24

The baobab tree, which has been
transplanted FROM Africa to Asia and
America, has fruit whose pulp
monkey bread"-is eaten by negroes
and seeds that are priced by natives OF
Madagascar for the oil that Is abstract
ed by crushing and boiling In water. A
French chemist has been investigating.
he fnds that the round seeds grow to
a diameter OF three-fourths OF an inch,
that their kernels contain % per cent
OF oil, with much nitrogesous matter,
and that the Madagascar oil Is a whit
fish solid which begins to melt at about
20 degrees centigrade. The odor re-
calls Tinisian olive oil. The oil does
not become rancid and is suggested
as valuable product in place OF CO.
coanut oil and In fine soaps and un-
guents.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24
Very Dear NJ sh. prin.

Queen Caroline, the wife of
George IL, seriously thinking of
closing st. James park, in London,
and turning it into a garden for the
palace, asked Sir Robert Walpole
what it would cost to do so. GA tri-
tle, madam; only trife," replied
the minister. CA triAe?" rejoined
her majesty. II know it must be
pretty expensive, but can't you tell
me as nearly as you can guess ?" To
which Sir Robert answered, ''Why,
madam, / believe the whole thing
will cost but three crowns" The
queen had sense enough to see Wal
poles allusion to the crowns of Eng
lang, Scotland and Ireland and said
at once that she would abandon the
notion.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24
SEAT LOST By TELEGRAPH.
Why Representative Wallace Was Kot
Returned to Congress.

Returned to Congress.
after Morse had invented the
telegraph" said General Lew Wal
lace when he told the story, che
wanted congress to appropriate $780,
600 to build an experimental line
from Washington to Baltimore. The
matter created great deal of dis
eussion. Morse was sneered at and
leered at, and many thought him in
sane. My father was a member of
congress at that time, and he was
one of the committee to which the
question of the appropriation was
referred.
When the committee met, nv
father was watching the experiment
of telegraphing from the house to
the senate. Wires had been stretched
and the inventors were operating
the instruments. My father saw
them work. He sent messages and
received replies. Then he went to
his committee room and found the
committee in session. They had Just
voted on the appropriation, and
their vote was tie. He cast his
vote in its favor, and this caused
the appropriation to go through,
The result was the first telegraph
line in the world.
Strange to say, that vote lost
my father his seat in congress-" con-
tinued General Wallace. 'Thirty
thousand dollars was then a big
sum, and this vote became one Of
the issues of the next congressional
campaign. Father was charged with
wasting the peoples money, and his
opponent ridiculed him on the
stump by referring to his magnet
leo, electrico, telegraphic appropria-
ton which no one could explain
Ne even asked father to explain it,
but at that time he could not do so,
although he said it would be of
great benefit to the country. The
people thought differently, and the
result was his defeat" -Harper's.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-03-24
"YORK RIyER I.INEe,
RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG &
POTOMAC X. r.

Schedule an effect January 9tA, 1905.
LEAVE FREDERICKSBURG NoRrHw.pn
s. su nd daily Stops on signal at occoquan
,S 3 - - a. m daily. Stops at Alexandria.
i nicooEHe BE-: A9nia, Wide Water. Reid, Onans
Soqnan, LortOn. AccotinS FranSco,.tS
, a., seminary and Alexandria.
=" H IN. GARY except Sunday. Stops at
Sop M. daily. Stops on signal 8, p,oo,..
- 90 Wide Water, Quantico and AIeysnSEoike
~ vi y: ~. daiiy. stops at Alexandria Sfons
ssn"i al occoquan Sunday only. -
LEAVE SOUTHWARK.
0o a. acc m; dsiiy except Sunday: Richmond
II a: m. daily. Atlantic Coast Line Ups
stops on signal at Wide Water Summi1'
TTuin,ea, Moodslane. Penola, Ruther0Ian'
on aiy'or st and Glen Allen sundsys
O "a Dosweii and Ashland daily.
~ q: III: uaily except Sunday. Makes Local
= stops on signal. AoS iocal
- p pm 6aily 'Seaboard Airline train. stops
On s'ghaI at Lorton and Occoouan S,,p
Gays only and daily at A Iexaniria n SUI
z DC Hco' mliiorc, boswell and Ashland 80
=" p. m. daily, A. 9. l.. train. Stops az 1ie~-
& 10 a. 1n M ds boswell and Ashland.
10 p. IN. 0alIy, =. A. l.. train. Sfops a sin'
andrla, boswell and Ashland Aux
accommodation train leaves Riehnnonas
burg 80 u. m. Nreuericks-
NOTE:-Time of arrivals and denartnr.s a,,
connections not guaranteed. anu
G. G. cox, Agent.
~ luke C.W.CULP, w.P.TAYLoR.
Gen. Man. Ass'tGen. Man. Traf. Man.