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The San Francisco call., 1906-10-14
With a GunbOat
All Their Own,
the Naval Re-
serve of S an
Francisco Ride
the Ocean and
Swear They Are
the Worlds Boss
Volunteers
By Constance lawrence Dean.

~ LN ana greater san FRANCISCO
M with her many reasons for pride
in her sons, has a new and
greater reason. For, four weeks
ago, one hundred and fifteen of them
took United States gunboat through
the Golden Gate and down TO Santa
Cruz. and (what is more importantly
brought her back IN safety, without
the aid of a single regular navy officer
or man. The pIucky and fearless ci-
villains who undertook this feat. un-
precedented in the West were the Cali
fornis naval reserves Of San Francisco
and their experiment marks an epoch
in the history Of the State. That lot
OF clerks. professional men and ma
chinists should be able to man a war
ship from bridge to engine-room and
take her to sea without so much pro-
fessional aid as the guidance of a pilot
means that in time Of war the city Of
the Golden Gate can lock to her own
boys to take their share Of full re-
sponsibility in defending their homes.
For years Captain George Bauer. com
handing the naval reserve. and Ad-
jutant General J. b. Lauck have been
petitioning the Government TO give
their men q property EQUIPPED training
ship. They knew the militiamen were
efBcient and sturdy and they wanted
ship ht TO exhibit their prowess: aud.
when in June they finally Acame into
their own in the shape Of the United
states gunboat Alert, OF modern eouip-
ment and OF 1850 gross tonnage. the
very first opportunity that offered it
self found them eager to prove that
the navy militiamen are not mere
things Of beauty in opera bouffe uni
forms. but practical, able seamen. can
able OF assuming full charge of a real
ship with real guns. real engines and
real sails. When the reserve boys were
invited to act as escort to the Grano
Parlor OF the Native Sons, on Septem-
Der 8 at Santa Cruz, they loftily waved
away suggested railway tickets and
said: II we're coming as naval re-
serve men, we can't navigate in a bag
gage car. Shiver our timbers, IL we'll
appear without the Alert and we can't
take her overland. But we1I be there.
and well bring the good ship into San
IA Cruz harbor under full steam. with
all sails set" And they did.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-14

are on any regular cruiser when first
putting to sea after a long stay in
harbor.
Ovation in Santa Cruz.
Anchor was dropped in Santa Cruz
Bay at on the morning of the 10th.
and sixty men and ten officers with a
shore battery of Colts automatics were
landed to escort the Native Sons.
When the word was passed along
the line that the gallant volun-
teer tars who bore themselves
with such a splendid military air had
brought their ship over seas to the
town unaided, the beholders went wild
with enthusiasm, and from to In
the afternoon, when the marines held
open house, visitors swarmed over the
vessel until there was not a spot of
deck to be seen. At the grand ball
in Santa Cruz that evening the bold
tars from San Francisco were the chief
attraction, and the ball was fairly
turned into an ovation to the invading
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-14
Playing for Results.

1t was the taithfulRess OF officers and
men and their determination to succeed
despite all obstacles that has made
these dauntless Iandsmen able seamen-
From captain to stOkers. they meant to
understand the ocean war game. and
therefore they mastered the problem.
That they have learned their lesson
we'll in spite Of the out-of-date boats
and self-supported instruction courses
is not only exemplided by their sue
cessful cruise on the briny. but the
navy records show that California's
naval reserve stands second in the ma
tion, in numbers and efficiency. the
great State of New York holding first
place and the other twenty-one State
associations of sea volunteers bringing
UP the rear at a respectful distance
The engineers branch of the organiza-
tion in California surpasses that OF
every other State in the Union, accord
ing to washington records. None OF
the other engineering corps has
equa1ed it's achievements. On the last
xovernmentalIy conducted voyage the
the Philadelphia's engines, but put her
whole machinery in order. 1t follows
naturally that three years ago Captain
George Bauer OF the California naval
reserves was elected president OF the
national association Of State naval re-
serves. And it follows equally natur-
ally that the California boys. in defer
ence to their own success, began some
time ago to cIamor loudly for some sort
of proper ship.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-14

out o. their own pocr<eIs, ror neither
state nor nation provides for such in
struction- This training Of the officers
vas supplemented by practical work
on the navy tug Fortune. first under
Lieutenant Arthur Macarthur. u. s. N.
and later under Ensign Wood. u. $. N.
who taught them to find their posi-
tion at sea. and to use the sextant and
other instruments OF the navy. To be-
come an officer it is necessary TO pass
an examination before a board OF three
officers OF the organization who have
been furnished with set Of questions
by the Government naval authorities.
identical with those used by the Gov
ernment In examination for similar
grade In the regular service. Indicative
OF the severity of the board IS the fact
that In the pest three months three
applicants have failed. while those who
have passed have submitted papers that
would be credit to Annapolis gradu-
ates
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-14

are on any regular cruiser when first
putting to sea after a long stay in
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-08-29
THOU ART JOINTHEIR WITH ONE NAMED
CHRISTI
BIBLE READING.
BY MILDRED CABELL WATKINS.
A BIBLE READING.

1t just little poem by Helen Hunt Jackson
MY Inheritance which struck my fancy, because
of some quantness in its conception 1t pictures the
receiver of the unexpected
"They told | heir; turned in haste and
to seek my treasure"
wildly vanly trying to discover where what
this hitherto mheard of, undreamt of inheritance
could be:
"At last cried. whose face 1 could not
AS through the miss He hasted
Poor child, what evil ones love hndered thee
Till this whole day is wasted?
Hath no one told thee that thou art joint-heir
With named Christ, who wants the goods to
share'?'
The eager searcher had become real to 1 read;
felt provoked with her for her stupidity in rushing
to person after another with her questions con-
corning Christ; questions unanswered,
For they who named Him most gave sign
To find Him by prove the heirship mine"
instead of going directly to the Bible, "to Christs
own will and testament in which alone the exact
truth be found the conditions of heirshp the paricu
lars concerning the inheritance.
Thus thought | to myself, complacently of my
ability to the benefits which do flow to
believers, the assurance of Gods love- peace of
science JOY in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace and
perseverance unto the end" these being the share
delivered to them in this world, and Gin the
world to come, life everlasting
The author of the poem, her days having been full
OF sorrow upon sorrow, saw not so Inuch the Joy
obtainable here the suffering that fits for
Joy hereafter; for though she beautifully describes
the meeting Christ and receiving from Him her share
of the inheritance, / doubt whether a young person
could feel she does:
My share The right like Him to know all pain
Which hearts made for knowing;
rhe right to find in loss the surest gain;
To reap my joy from sowing
I'm bitterness; the right with Him to keep
A watch by day and night with all who weep.
My shared To-day call it grief and death; .
see the Joy and life tomorrow.
/ thank my Father with my every breath
For this inheritance of
And through my tears ! call to each joint heir
With Christ make haste to ask Him for thy share"
1t was wonderful this exultation in suffering with
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-08-29
SEA VENTURES.

stood and watched my ships 90 out,
Each one by one, unmooring free.
What time the quiet harbor filled
With flood tide from the sea.
The first that sailed, her name was JOY;
She spread smooth, white, ample sail;
And Eastward drove with bending spars
Before the signing gale
Another sailed, her name was Hope,
No cargo in her hold she bore;
Thinking to find in Western lands
OF merchandise store
The next that sailed her name was Love,
She showed a red flag at her mast
a flag red as blood she showed,
And she sped South right fast
The last that sailed, her name was Faith;
Slowly she took her passage forth;
Tackled and lay to: at last she steered
straight course for the North.
My gallant ships they sailed away,
Over the shimmering summer sea,
l stood at watch for many a day
But one came back to me.
For Joy was caught by Pirate Pain
Hope ran upon hidden reef
And Love took fire and foundered fast
In whelming seas of Grief.
She recompensed me all my loss;
For as a cargo safe she brought
crown linked to a cross.-Sel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10

in contact in his horse-trading and rtune-teIng,
Settle down and prosper we'll as far as his ABILITY
is concerned; and sometimes he does, but not for
long. 1t is universal in the Rom, this restless
yearning to be ever on the move 1t is in his blood,
and when it takes possession of him he will sacrifice
prosperity present and future to crafty the longing
know a successful hveryman in large manu-
featuring town of Connecticut He has a we'll
stocked stable. and is reputed wealthy, and nobody
suspects that he is Gypsy, though he does know
horsefesh and is not to be beaten at bargain. His
neighbors admire and envy him as shrewd man of
business; but-they shake their heads and cannot
understand Just as comes
around, one of them once said to me, when he
ought to be sticking to business Cts the lively
season, you know, he'll drop in some morning at the
stable and tell of the boys look after things
for a week or two; he has important business out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
By GEORGE N. OLCOTT

this mystery is set at rest Their language
betrays their origin and contains in itself record
of their wanderngs since the ninth century It's
basis is north Hindu dialect; just which has not
been absolutely determined; but many wild, no
madic, Gipsy-like tribes may still be found the
lower slopes of the Himalayas and the plains below.
From some such tribe the Gipsies of Europe and
America, that number a million, are
sprung; and thus they belong to our own Indo
European race. A Hindu of the Panjab or the
Guggerat could hold conversation with Gypsy
without much difficulty. And, strange as it may
seem, have myself, in reading the ancient Sanskrit
Mahabharata, found more inspiration on the lips of
aged Gypsy witch in her tent under the trees by
the Harlem River than in all the abstruse pages of
the Sanskrit dictionary. To her the words that
puzzled me had familiar sound and her comments
and explanations, while unframed and often 1udi-
crous, not seldom gave clue to the truth
On this stock of Hindu words and idioms have
been grated others, drawn from all the countries
through which the R6mdni have wandered-Ar-
menian, Persian, and Turkish in Asia Slavic, Greek
Hungarian, German, French, Spanish and English.
And yet this hodgePodge produces, where still
spoken in its perfection, compact, lucid and
sonorous tongue. The Anglo-American Gipsies
have lost most of it. Their dialect is reduced to
jargon of Gypsy words with English grammar, that
serves no other end than to conceal their meaning
in the hearing of the ganjOs (non-Gipsies).
But if the mystery OF their origin and language
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acter of a whole race, of one that has
wandered the earth for centuries mng1ing with
Others yet holding aloof from them, strangely dis
tinct marvelously tenacious of the little heritage
and withal having no papable bond of union except
tradition and the habit of rowing fe-then it takes
hold of our fancy, fascinates and enthrals us.
So it is with the Gipsies. They are among us, now
here there. We have caught glmpses of them
even in chdhood-the strange encampment by the
roadside-and perhaps nurse has often reduced
youthful wilfulneSS to submission with dire pres
montions that they would carry far away. As
boys and girls, too have ventured to the edge of
their settlement, just to peep in and what they
were like. And again, grown up, perhaps have
stopped way in country lane, and gazed
upon the strange folk who live among but are not
of our kind-why? how?
We are accustomed to immigrants from every
country of the earth They come to us strange and
outlandsh often; but that is because they are not
used to ways or ignorant, perverse; but at
least they people like ourselves, and most of
them are soon assimilated. But the Gipsies! We
do not, cannot understand them. We despise them
as worthless vagabonds and they despise us too
even as they us, and fool sometimes. Go
where will, in America, in Europe in farthest
Turkey, Syria, Egypt still find the Gipsies
the same race, despised and wondered at unknown
and mysterious, even to those very peasants them
selves that come here with strange foreign languages
habits and dress to make home among In the
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IS d1spelled, not so the
greater mystery of their
rowing instinct-and per-
haps it never will be solved.
A Gypsy cannot explain it;
he just feels it, and takes it
for granted as the most
natural thing in the world.
Indeed, he cannot bring
himself to understand the
rest of us-all slaves to
town and farm. There are
many other nomadic tribes
in various parts of the
world; but if we examine
their condition we find
that they have either de-
veloped a low degree of
civilization, or else inhabit
a barren country that can
not support a fixed popula-
ton. But the Gypsy, |
venture to say, is the ply
steal and intellectual equal
of the gdnjos of a like social
Grade with whom 11a cor,oac
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And the stable goes rotten for three four weeks and
loses money Then some fine day, he drops in look
ing if he had been hoeing potatoes for living.
He glances the books and the stock sees just
how things have been going; but does he sco1d and
swear? Not bit of it Acts if he didn't care.
From that day on, though the boys have to toe the
mark, | tell you'll"
But | know where the wel1-to-do 1iveryman goes
when the spirit moves him, and he will not object
to my telling now although that evening when he
that | recognized him in his natural surround
ings, he certainly not pleased. 1t happened by
accident, in this way. Walking late one summer
afternoon along country road, met my old friend
Cynthia she was driving back from the village
where she had been making purchases and probably
telling fortunes Cynthia is fine type of the old
fashioned Gypsy Queen well versed in the occult lore
of her race which is all too fast disappearing She
remembers having seen George Borrow as a child
(she calls him Borus ~ and has been my professor
of "Gipsology" for many year. l gladly ac-
cepted her invitation to get up and ride beside her.
and together went off to the grassy lane hidden
from the road, where her people were encamped.
There, leaning against the big Gypsy van, pipe in
mouth surprised my lveryman, lazily watching
the women, who were squatting on the grass about
the fire over which hung the big kettle on its iron
hook. His first instinct to slip away into the
tent, then to swear; but Cynthia, who as l after
ward learned, was his aunt, assured him that l was
sor tacho (all right, So he gripped my hand with
{
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and follows the tribe in all its wanderings The
Gipsy does not leave his people.
Some years ago pretty Malindi Evans eoped with
a farner-lad. The whole Evans clan was plunged
into the deepest distress and shame Did they disown
6 or exPel herr Never The attachment a,1 Of
child will come back some day said Ho1 Evans to
with tears in his eyes. She can't live with the
ganjoS and the clan moved to other camping
grounds. Sure enough, Malindi drifted into camp
again three months later was received with open
and wild demonstrations of joy, and the
gdujo's name was never mentioned afterward.
Didakdi children too, notwithstanding their half
gdnjo blood grow up with all the instincts of Gipsies
and know several dfddkdi clans that would more
think of settling down than the deepest of the deep
R6tnd3tI
l remember well talk with old Fene1la Lee under
the trees the Gutenberg race-track. She
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midst But the Gipsies be followed back one
may say Tor ten centuries from America across
still as they in the beginning.
Now, everything connected with the Gipsies has
excited the imagination of since their first
picturesque appearance in Western Europe centuries
ago, led by their dukes" and counts of Little
Egypt" gorgeously mounted on caparisoned steeds,
bedecked with coins and clad in all the colors of the
rainbow. Who were they? What was their origin?
What language did they speak? This was the first
mystery that absorbed the attention of scholars and
the curious alike; and numberless the theories
expressed They called themselves Egyptians
whence our word "Gipsy"; but some would see in
them the remnants of the lost tribes of Israel and
the ingenious detected traces of Hebrew, of Coptc,
Persian, Armenian in their language.
OF the volumes written on this subject, need not
stop to speak. 1t is enough to say that all doubt
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WlOle DIOdQ human ldIilll}
there is nothing that
rivals the Gypsy mystery.
No wonder that it has
given rise to a great lib
rary of works, descriptive,
imaginative, scientific
No wonder the Gypsy has
a permanent place in the
worlds literature, from
Maggie Tulliver's adven-
ture and Meg Merrilies to
Carmen herself!-just to
mention the more familiar
instances. No wonder, |
say, because the mystery
of the Gypsy race-instinct
is an unsolved riddle.
Take a tribe of Bedouin
Arabs and set them down
in the Western States; in
ten years they will be busy
tilling the soil, or perhaps
running electric cars. And
within a generation they
will disappear in our
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llCdlI oLH StIdFI, pau
glad to see you, brother).
We all sat around the
campfire in the twilight,
and in as good Gypsy jargon
as | have ever heard he
told me the real story of his
life. How his ganjo friends
in Connecticut would
stare! He laughed heartily
himself at the thought.
Gipsies not infrequently
marry outside their race,
though this is thoroughly
disapproved by the true
blooded R6mdnt-chdL.
They apply the deprecia-
tory word dfddkdi to the
offspring of mixed mar
riages. 1t is, however, a
further evidence of the
tenacity of the Gypsy in
stinct, that the non-Gipsy
who marries a Rom, be it
man or woman, accepts
the Gypsy life and customs
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-07-12

the paper may think we are a
asleep. We are very much awake and
alive, however. ls
Miss Josephine Burke, Of Thief
River Falls, closed a very successful
term OF school in District No. 101 on
Wednesday.
a. K. Dicken came up from Radi-
UNI last Sunday but returned on
Tn lrsday. ..5
Ole G. Brenna and Ole Underdahl
and Miss Olga Brenna spent the 4th
at Strathcona. sls$. 4
S. o. Syyerson is busy these days
breaking.
Charley Wolhaupt came up from
Raium the 4th, on business we pre-
sumo.
Carl Fredrickson is building large
barn ,36x6O, and for all we know may
be thinking Of getting himselfa wife,
too.
Mr.. and Mrs Carl Syverson return
ed last Friday from Ulen, Clay
county, where they had been making
an extended visit with relatives and
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole @. Brenna visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Reiersgaard
last Sunday. .&@. 3s
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cisco and the new. Heretofore paper
morey in that city has been used only
at the banks and hotels In the or
binary channels Of circulation there
was none of it. The wage-earner re-
ceitad his pay in coin; with it paid
his living expenses and so seldom
Ra.i bank note that he hardly real
lied the existence OF such a medium;
white the small shopkeeper refused
paper money when rendered by a
stranger on the plea that he was 50
unfamiliar witL it that he could not
tell the real from counterfeit.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-07-12
KANSAS F { RAILS
ATTORNEY GENERAL RULES
OUT COOPERATIVE PLAN.
Mutual Burial Associations Provid-
ing for Cheap Funerals Are
L.~ Given Severe Set =
Back. "

Topeka, Kan.-1f the attorney gen
eral of Kansas has his way about it
the poor folks of this state will be
forced to forego the pleasure of be-
ing buried in style.
About five years ago an ingenious
jayhawker invented scheme known
as a mutual burial association, copy
righted it and has been living in
clover ever since. The association is
sues policies to all who can show a
certificate of good health, guaranteeing
to furnish the holder upon death with
a tirst-class funeral, not to exceed $100
in cost. '' ~
The organizer established state
headquarters and a state association,
with local chapters. In each town he
went to the leading undertaken and
made him the agent.
For every policy that is issued the
Inventors gets small fee and when a
member dies an assessment is levied
upon the other members. This is cal
culated to amount to 500 for leach
burial, but in some cases the under
taker, who gets all the assessment,
rakes in more than that sum.
A good coffin at least four carriages,
a fine hearse and some flowers are
guaranteed to all members when their
time comes to be put under the sod.
If a man lapses in his payments to
the associations he forfeits practically
all that he has paid In
! This fact is what has led to the
troubles of the association. The at
torney general INSISTS that this pro
vision makes the associations. insur-
ances companies, and as such they
must incorporate and become subject
to the supervision OF the insurance
commissioner The fees and taxes
which this would entail are such that
most of the associations will be forced
to quit business.
For number of years the burial as
sociatfons have prospered. The plan
As modelled upon the Chinese system
of guaranteeing to take back to China
eign country
ne insurance commissioners is pre-.
pairing to serve notices upon the com.
panies that unless they comply with
the ruling Of the attorney general they
will be prosecuted and all solicitors
will be arrested for doing business
without license. II has been charged
that there has been a lot of graft il
connection with the conduct of some
Iof the associations, and as under thu
insurance law their books and papers
will be open to inspection the de
partment will be able to find out i
they are being honestly conducted.
AS nearly as can be learned ther,
are about Is associations doing bust
ness and each will have to pay sundel
the new ruling about $3.50 4 year to TIL
state.
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Wonderful Feat Performed by Hon.
olulu Half Breed to Save
Himself.

Honolulu Through the capsizi1g
of boat occupied by Edward De-
yauchelle. half-White, and three ma
tive companions, off Maui islands one
morning lately three natives were
drowned. Devauchelle saved his life
by extraordinary efforts. After swim
ming for II hours, Devauchelle Sc.
cured temporary footing on a rock,
on which he slept all day Wednesday.
On Thursday he took a further swim
of two miles and landed at Molokai.
One Of the natives accompanied
sDevauchelle for the first 16 hours fol-
lowing the capsiZing of the boat and
then sank exhausted. It is estimated
that the former swan 80 miles, in
Guiding the distance he was carried
by tie currents. n 35 81.