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The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02

better in recent years. there still people
who have abiding faith in their existence and
their own capacity to discover them. Among them
is w. H. Small, old salt, hailing from Liverpool
In the of laborious seafaring life he has
amassed money enough to become the owner of
stanch little fishing ketch the Catherine. In this
little craft Captain Small will start across the
Atlantic bound for island in the Caribbean
Sea, where he is sanguine that he will succeed in
enriching himself to the extent of $6,ooo,ooo That
he estimates be the value of hoard of gems bull
lion and specie that there buried by Latrobe the
notorious French pirate time in 1903 or there
abouts. He isn't seeking to form any syndicate to
finance expedition and share in the treasure. He
wants that $o,ooo,ooo all for himself.
He says that the secret of the hiding place
revealed by old sailor his deathbed some
twenty-eght years ago to a ships doctor named
Dawson According to the sailors yarn, as Small
subsequently got hold of it. he serving on
merchant ship which was captured by Latrobe and
to himself from the only other alternative that
offered hin--walking the plank to a watery
grave-he turned pirate himself.
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Actress Edna May to Reform
British Bathing Costume.

Z ONDON, September 1t looks as though Miss
1 Edna May were going to reproach
- under which the British nation has labored
long. Aside from the accent, the popularity which
the French find it hardest to forgive in the English
is fashion in bathing costumes.
Miss Edna May, however, has ordered of spe-
cia design from her dressmaker for use this season
This is probably the first time English dress
maker has received an order to design bathing
suit
The house that has been commissioned to execute
this momentous order is have perfect freedom for
the exercise of its art in the matter, the popular
actress having stipulated for than that the
dress shall be of certain specified length and that
the color shall be pretty pale blue.
Rumor says that popular east coast resort will
be favored this year with sight of Miss Edna May
in this epoch-makng innovation
The probability is that when the Belle of New
York appears the beach in the dainty costume
other ladies who hiding all suggestions of their
own personal charms in baggy -four sacks will, as
possible, rush off to their dressmakers and
order bathing costume.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
Filthy Meat for British Army.

Bearing out Dr. Cooper's statements to canned
goods, every analyst OF London employed to make
special examinations of British timed goods found
conditions prevailing quite bad those existing
in America before the great "house-cleaning' there
AS matter of fact, nearly every London public
analyst just has his hands full making analyses
of canned meats and other canned goods. Special
attention is being given to British produce and
startling revelations have just been made
At the special instance of the Local Government
Board, no less than twentyeght different sections
of London have taken up the Investigations of canned
goods from various English packing houses. In
every public laboratory-and there is one for nearly
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
Another Treasure in Caribbean.

The Xema belongs to Earl Ftzwilam. He pur-
chased her at the time he planning an expedi-
tion to Cocos Island in search of buried piratical
punder Ultimately he decided that he needed a
larger and speedier craft and bought an old Castle
liner, which he rechristened the Veronque The ex-
pedltion, everybody knows, turned disastrous
ly 1t cost the Earl a lot of money and that may
be the reason why he is among the shareholders
Ii this diamond venture, though if successful it
promises a much richer reward than could be OBJ
tanned from the discovery of the pirates treasure.
Though Earl Fitzwilliam and various other Cocos
Island expeditions have failed and other ventures
in search OF hidden piratical hordes have Jared no
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The capital of the syndicate is $z5oooo divided
into twenty-five $4,000 shares. The amount was
oversubscribed. The Xema, which chartered
for the expedition thirty years old and has
no great engine power. That alone furnishes good
reason why her precise destination should be kept
secret even after her departure, for were it dis
covered there would be nothing to prevent rival
expedition being dispatched in haste in swift
steamer which might be off the diamond-strewn
beach before the ancient Xema had doubled the Cape
of Good Hope But though slow old craft she has
been fitted out most luxuriousy for the voyage, so
that whether they succeed fail in their search
the diamond seekers assured of good time The
fact however that the ship carried explosives min
ing apparatus and several miners would seem to in
dcate that they not they will find it such
easy work obtaining the diamonds would be in
ferred from the sailors yarn.
All told, there are forty-sx the Xema. She
is commanded by Captain H. J. Temperley Grey, late
Of the British warship Spartan. Several other Of
her officers are reservists, also of her
crew Among the members of the expedition is
Captain Jackson who took part in the famous Jack
on-Harrnsworth expedition to the north pole in
the old whaler Windward and several aristocratc ad
ventures The shipwrecked mariner not on
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SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.

4 ONDON, Sept Since the departure of the
4 steamer Xena from London the other day on
S@ diamond seeking expedition some further par
tculsrs have come TO light which lend additional in
terest to what is undoubtedly one of the most ro-
mantle quests of modern times While her precise
destination is still kept a profound secret it is
known it is somewhere. the African coast-or on
island of the coast-that It is expected the costly
gems will be found
The origin Of the venture is soon told. Not long
ago ship wrecked in d position which is ad-
mitted to be eastward of the Dark Continent. From
this wreck seafarer escaped with his life He was
ultimately brought back to civilization. He car
ried with him some dingy looking pebbles, which
he said he had picked up on the beach where his
ship had been wrecked and had preserved as souve-
Mrs of his perilous adventure. These is said
fonnd on examination to be diamonds and were
estimated to be worth something like $8ooo What
ever they and whatever their value it is Ger
tain that the story the sailor told wildly improbable
as it may seem, OF a beach where diamonds can be
picked up like pebbles and the evidence he brought
forward substantiate it. made such impress
sion on those who heard him that syndicate was
formed to finance an expedition to find the treasure
spot The sailor meanwhile, sworn to secrecy
and spirited away somewhere where nobody could
pet at him TO Dump him.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
Hing Edward Knights a Cartoonist

But working for Punch, Tenniel was never required
to turn out cartoon every day. Sir Francis is far
more prolific He exces in the lightning rapidty
with which he sizes UP situation and the directness
and simplicity of his appeal He always makes his
point clear
Ihe object of CARTOON" he has written, "is to
show at glance, in the simplest and most concrete
form possible, critical view of asituaton. If the
picture be elaborate and complicated one it be-
comes puzzle rather than illustration. The great
essential is that it should appeal swiftly and unmis-
takably to the eye. To aid this there must be no
excuse for hesitation the identity of the puppets
used; the meaning of the cartoon must be patent
almost instantaneously, or half its effect is lost"
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
Distorts Face Of Chamberlain.

American multi millionaire, bought the Pail Mall
Gazette and transformed it into out and out Tory
organ the cartoonist declined to devote his nirnbe
pencil to the service of the arstocracy and betook
himself to the Westminster Gazette, whose politics
concided with his own There he became power.
What design the knight may claim his
arnorial bearings is yet unknown but beyond doubt
his trademark-or perhaps should say his pro-
fessional marks the face of Joseph Chamberlain,
with his features accentuated to the boldest degree
At the time of the Home Rule split, when "Joe"
turned against Gladstone, Sir Francis set the whole
town laughing by a drawing of the statesman
recalcitrant goat on railroad platform, and the
questions beneath it, Where did he come from?
Where's he goin' tor" To which the puzzled porter
replies, "I dunno He's swallowed his ticket"
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.

Z tsas SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL ss
T ONDON. Sept Lord Rosebery once de-
1 scribed Francis Carruthers Gould, the famous
49, caricaturist of the Westminster Gazette as "one
of the remarkable of the Liberal party"
There be no doubt that his clever skits won
votes for his party than were gained by the
speeches of the most brilliant of its 1t
therefore eminently fitting that he should get some
thing when the Kings birthday honors dstri-
buted
Most of the recipients of these dgnities, it is we'll
known, chosen by the Prime Minister. Sir
Henry Campbell Bannerman would have played the
part of rank migrate had he failed include among
his nominees for titles the genial, stout white
bearded little who has done much to place
him the top perch among the seats of the mighty
Sir Francis, as he will be called hereafter now
that he has been knighted and kissed the Kings
hand, has for years been acknowledged to be the
most influential of English caricaturists-the man
whose pictorial satire accomplishes in the way
of moldng public opinion. He has shaped policies
and shaken Governments.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
Assisted by Labouchere.

Sir Francis was born 62 years ago at Barnstaple,
In Devon, the town which recently placed his name
on Its CIVIC roll the first of its reemen-a graceful
refutation OF the ancient saying that "the prophet
is not without honor save in his own country" The
son OF an architect of great talent to whom Barn
staple owes some of its finest buildings he was from
his earliest years always in the midst of paper
and pencil what may be called the machinery of
drawing"
1t was Labouchere who gave Sir Francis his first
introduction to the realm of illustrated journalism
by publishing series of his sketches in the Christ
mas number OF Truth. The Pail Mall Gazette next
sought his services. Stead then its editor.
In those days." he says "Mr Gould used to come
to the Office for instructions week. Editor,
proprietor and staff would club their brains in order
10 suggest ideas to Mr. Could who, being essentially
modest man, was always ready to abandon his
own notions aud adopt those of his editorial chief
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MiQht Beat Xema to Diamonds.

ct at him to pump him.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02

He was jewel of an artist. Whatever defects he
might have had in the technique of his drawing
more than compensated for in his loyalty to the
lucas of his chief and in his answering conviction
that in political cartoons the idea is everything"
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
British Cartoonists Rare.

Good caricaturists, men whose style is broad
enough for effective newspaper reproduction are
by no means SO numerous in England as in America.
1t is doubtful If Sir Francis would have attained
foremost rank had his work been done in the United
States. 1t would be easy to name, offhand, half a
dozen caricaturists engaged big dailies there
who far better draughtsmen. There are several
better comic artists here.
AS regards technique, Sir Francis is not to be
mentioned in the same breath with Six John Teuniel
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
Chicago Packing House Scandal Finds Counterpart Large Canning Plants Eng

every district in London-one may see piles OF
canned goods standing waiting for analysis, whiis
specially employed chemists. microscopes ana
psychologists looking assiduousy for evidences
of diseased and deeterious matter in the contents
of the supposedly irreproachable English cannea
goods about which packers have been boasting So
much.
The result of many of these analyses has been
the prosecution and inhction of heavy fines and even
imprisonment many London packers. In one case
where boracic acid found in potted ham, the
had turned black and it testified by experts
that it had been treated with preservatve because
it was unfit for human consumption when packed
The firm whose label this abonlination had
been supplying large quantities of canned meats to
the British army, and had branches IN London,
Dover, Dublin, Aldershot (the principal army corps
camp, Gibraltar and other places
Undoubtedly each year thousands Of tons OF this
deleterious canned stuff supplied to the British
army The magistrates this occasion imposed
fine OF SIS on analysis and $3.50 costs; while
other analyses sent up for further investiga
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
Tons of Food on Market Every Year Found by Inspector
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.

7 ONDON, Sept Guilty American meat pack
may at least rejoice in having companions
- in crime. Examinations just made in England
by various sanitary authorities conclusivey demon
strate that English meat packers and other food
manufacturers quite par with their An1er-
cousins whom they have so loudly denounced.
From every part of London, and indeed from all
the big cities of England come reports from sanitary
authorities the effect that conditions prevailing
in number of canning factories, in meat markets
slaughter-houses and butcher shops could not be
worse"
According to statements made over their own
signatures by many of the prominent public
analysts, meat prepared and put up by English
packers is often in condition not only dangerous
to public health but absolutely poisonous All sorts
of ruses and lodges employed for eoncealing
the real nature of the foodstuffs prepared in this
country
When the first announcements OF the Chicago ex-
posures reached England universal shout went up
from meat packers to the effect that had "home
industries" been patronized, there would have been
cause for alarm. Almost Immediately the impor-
tation of American canned goods dropped off to an
alarming extent; and the American industry received
staggering blow.
Denounce American Products.
No opportunity was lost by British packers them
selves, and the trade" generally, to roast American
products of every kind, and while wrecking the
American market these packers made desperate
attempts to get their own products prominently
before the public. Stores in various parts of London
displayed big signs reading, mo American timed
goods sold here-Brtsh products only" and use
Honest British goods-don't vile American stuff"
But the triumph was not for long. DR.. F. Cooper,
of the best-known medical in London, who
is also member of Parliament and of the London
County Council, rose up bravely to say in public
that English meat packers and sellers as guilty
their American rivals. In statement made to
the writer on this subject, DR.. Cooper said:
THE public has conception of the filthy condi-
tons prevailing in most of the English slaughter
houses, especially the small private Chicagos
worst places could not be any worse than these
Most of the small slaughter-houses in England are
absolutely without any inspection whatever, the
butchers may kill when they like and under whatever
conditions they please The places literally reek
with filth; they never properly cleaned up and
the conditions under which animals are slain make
the meat unfit for human consumption
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
Mysterious Diamond Beach Along African Coast
Lures Treasure Hunters From ENGLAND.

board when the vessel sailed from London He will
be up at port en-
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Tons Found to Be Impure.

The public analyst, who has done more work
foodstuffs than any other London health officer
is DR.. D. l. Thomas, Medical Officer of Health for
the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. 1t is in DR..
Thomas district that many of the largest London
docks are situated Here arrive daily shipments
from all the world and it is from this district
that large shipments of British canned goods are
sent abroad. j
DR.. Thomas was found by the writer in his labo-
ratory, surrounded by huge piles of English and
American canned goods, the contents of which were
undergoing various processes OF analysis. Some sam
pies in platinum dishes placed spirit lamps
and undergoing incineration; others being
weighed on delicate analytical balances; while the
doctor himself busy with the microscope looking
for active organisms"
1--WE examine in this district" said Dr. Thomas,
"foodstuffs from all parts of the world. We have
fruits and pulps from Tasmania; rabbits fruit and
meat from Australia; meats, salmon and fruits from
Canada and some fruit from California. We have
practically no canned goods from the American Beef
Trust in our district Most of stuff is British.
therefore; and results point conclusively the
fact that British goods better than these
from America; and, in many cases, much worse.
For instance, to give some interesting figures,
in 1901, no tons of impure food were destroyed;
in 1902, AGO tons of bad food were destroyed; in
1908, 48S tons of bad food were destroyed, while
in 1904 there were 73s tons of British food which
had to be condemned"
Confirming the opinions of DR.. Thomas, the
opinions of nearly all other London analysts. Some
have found conditions than DR.. Thomas
In fact the Medical Officer for Bethnal Grcen-in
the East End of London-found can Of Drawn, a
species of hog's-head cheese much used as food
in London which was literally reeking with living
organisms This than anything found in
American other meat examined
AS matter of fact the reports of the London
analysts with reference to American canned goods
have been decidedly favorable; it having been proved
that there preservative. large deposits of
tin, and more unsound meat in British canned foods
than in the goods coming from American packing
houses.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-31
CUBAN fight
is IMMINENT
AValOS and Pine Guerra
in Battle Array Rebels Loot
SabaIO Stores.

HAVANA, Aug. 31.-The rattle of
machine guns has become a familiar
sound on the sea front of Havana,
where Major Clews' corps We're trying
their weapons and drilling for theiI
new duties, Part of the corps went to
the front today, but its destination has
not been divulged.
General Avalos and Pine Guerra are
close to each other in the vicinity OF
GuAAes, to which point General Avalos
with 1000 cavalry, mounted infantry
rural guards and recruits. has marched
from the little village of Sabalo.
The story of the plundering of Gala
fire. by Guerra's men has been dupli
Gated on a. larger scale at Sabalo
When the government troops reached
that place they found the general store
in a state of indescribable ruin. Ever!
kind of merchandise, liquid or solid
clothing, dry goods and everything thu
insurgents did not want was piled to
gether in stacks.
GuerTa's men on their arrival there
had crowded into the store and begun
taking what they chose. Guerra and
some of his officers, who strenuously
tried to prevent them, finally drew
their machetes and wounded several
men who We're searching the store fol-
money. The t~ownspeople assert that
there were evidences of considerable
bloodshed. Guerra utterly failed to
prevail oVer his men,
The opposing forces are now so close
that a battle is expected shortly.
The only fight of consequence report
ed lately was a three hours conflict at
Calabazar, Havana province, between
fifty insurgents and fifteen rural
guards. with the result that the latter
retreated.
An insurgent band estimated to mum
ber 300 was attacked by government
troops near Campo Florida. twenty
miles east of Havana. An American
who witnessed the fighting snys the
firing was continuous but scattering
and that there was no v%olleying. After
two hours of this fighting the com
batants came closer together, and final
iy the rural guards and volunteers
made Il fine charge up a hill, routing
the insurgents, who scattered and dis
appeared
At least twelve insurgents were kill
ed, and many more We're wounded.
Tho situation in the vicinity of Glen
fitegos is threatening. Parties of in
surgents wander at will near the city.
1t is reported that 5000 insurgents are
out in that vicinity.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-31

WHEAT-As a result of liquidation, fine
orthwe weather and easy cables wheat
declined sc. to nc; September. 7S 1S-16Q
7SNc.; December, SlAMS12sc.
HA,Y-Dull; shipping, 65a75c.; good to
choice, soc. a$.
STRAW-Steady; long rye, 55Q65c.
RUTTER - Creamery, extras, 24d241hc.
hrsts, 22a2S1sc. seconds, 2Oa21c.|; eastern,
dairy, choice, 22lsQ2Sc.; ~firsts. 2G21hc.
renovated, extras, PIC; factory, ffrsts
iSc.. packing stock, No. l. lSc.
CHEESE-State, full cream, large and
small, best, l2Nc, fair to good, large
best, large. SAC; small, 9AQ10c.; part
skins, prime, Sl2a9c.
EGGS-Fresh gathered, extra, per doz-
en-, 24c.; nearby, fresh gathered, irsts tc
MiLK-The price of milk is s1.A pei
forty quart can.
P0TATOES-Firm and higher; Jersey
prime, per barrel, $l,5Od1.9 80; do, culls, pei
barrel, 75c. M$1.
LIVE POULTRY-Steady and In fail
demand fowls, 13i2M14c. old ROSTERS, &c.
spring chickens, lSu15c. ducks, 11412c.
DRESSED POULTRY = Firm and II
good demand; fowls, choice, .141sc do.
fair to good, lac. broilers, nearby, 15Q19c.
do, western, 14m17c.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-31
DOOM OF
GAR NICHOLAS
Premier StOIypin Fears the En-
perOr Will be AsSaSSinated
Sooner or Later.

ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 31.-It is
asserted that Premier Stolypin and
his colleagues are employing the news
papers which they control to fight the
court camarilla. This, it is added, is
the secret of the Novoe Vremya's con
slant reference during the last few
days to the necessity for protecting
the cabinet from the interference of
peInicious court influences.
Stolypin in conversation with friends
is said to have asserted that he is con-
tinually subjected to embarrassment,
adding that he was convinced that the
task which he set himself was impos-
sible unless the emperor gave him an
absolutely free hand-in other words,
conferred upon the cabinet q practical
Dictatorship.
An intimation comes from a high
source that the premier preached the
subject at the first audience which he
had with his majesty since the tragedy
of Aug. 25, when the explosion of Il
bomb at thespremier's residence caus-
ed the loss ofaover thirty lives.
Inathe aforementioned conversation
with friends sthe premier is alleged to
have said that history seemed to be
repeating itself, the situation closely
resembling the closing days of the
reign of Alexander H., who was assas-
sinated. The reactionary spirit was
growing rapidly. Nevertheless he con
sidered it vital that tlG government
should not take Il reactionary path.
In spite OF the earlier diagnosis of
the hopelessness of her case Premier
Z Stolypin's daughter. who was badly
injured Dy the bomb explosion in her
fathers apartments Aug. %. is still
alive, and there are hopes of her re-
covery. The others wounded are i'm
proving except the student Duleyitch
and the carriage driver Bernarsky.
+. Both the earlier suspects have now
been cleared. Among the unknown
dead have been recognized the body of
Princess Eudoxia Cantacuzene, Nine.
Istomia. a member Of Il noble family,
and her ei~ght-year-old son. Five
corpses have not been identified.
AT Warsaw extraordinary precau-
tions to prevent disturbances or dem
onstrations marked the funeral of Gen
eral Vonliarliarski. the acting military
governor and commander of the Fifth
army corps. who was shot and killed
while out driving Aug. 81.