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The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
THE HEAD Ufn rns WALL

down the line or not / was even not
quite sure 1 had seen the Huguenot at
all. so deeply is my mind influenced by
this latter day skepticism, so l won
dered bit, waited a while. and as
nothing more came OF it put ii down to
hight Of imagination and in time put
the whole thing out of my mind
A few months later, arising in the
night to answer a call to my mothers
room. the same outline in heroic size
confronted me upon my wall. A HUI
guenot of the sixteenth century appear
ing in the glow of an electric light robs
the situation of something of it's ro-
mantle suggestion and all Its terror.
But there he was plainly visible as long
as ] kept my eyes upon him. growing
and fading with the flicker Of the light.
Expecting to see a change for the
worse. | hastened to my mothers bed
side. She was lying peacefully waiting
for me to get her drink OF water.
otherwise as comfortable as usual, so {
went back to bed to think things over.
Not caring to see my murdered an
cestor before me at any time I might
open my eyes at night. hung nay cru
cifix in the middle Of the space where
the Huguenots head had appeared.
feeling that this figure of the blessed
Savior whose blood was shed for the
pardon of all sin must exorcize an un-
friendly spirit
But again. some time later, as we sat
chatting by the softly shaded night
light | looked up from my work and
saw the head upon the wall. Looking
cautiously at my mother TO see IL she.
too had seen it, said:
DO you see anything unusual.
dearie2'
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
BY S. O. Blodgett

lOw big is the battleship feet
which has just visited San Fran
cisco? 1t may be answered In .
variety of ways. in measurements of
known value. and also in statements
of pure "guesswork."
If we take the matter of numbers
and tonnage. it looks pretty large. On
the Pacific coast at the present time
there are % armored crafts battle
ships. eight armored cruisers and three
semiarmored cruisers. dispiacing ass
100 tons.
These craft carry $50 guns of differ
ent calibers from 8 inches to Is inches,
divided as follows:
Thirteen inch. 20; 12 inch. 90: 10 inch.
eight; inch. 1i2; I inch. so: inch.
Sos; inch, IS; inch. 3s4.
The most powerful OF these guns are
the new As caliber pieces on the ver-
mont and sister ships; they are able
to fire a projectile weighing $50 pounds
with muzzle energy of nearly $4,000
foot tons. Let us analyze this gun in
the matter OF horsepower. One horse
power Is 16ta tons raised one foot in
one minute. This would seem TO indi-
cate that the gun had horsepower
OF $4,000 divided by 16A. but--the she'll
is travelling at the rate of 2.700 feet
per second. the barrel of the gun Is
10 feet long, and the shot. therefore.
takes but a sixtieth OF a second in
its passage Working this out gives
the horsepower or. each gun as
eI.4T3,o00.
suppose we do some guesswork as 10
combined neets of Japan and Russia
winch engaged at Tsushima. There
were II battleships and eight armored
cruisers there. From a careful esti-
mate OF TIE guns and protection. speed
ana gunne.y OF the five largest ships
o. the Ain, rican feet. 1t appears thas
these five could have withstood the at
tack of the combined Russian and Jap
anese fleets. heen able TO force a drawn
battle or retirement without de-
structive pursuit.
OR. again measuring against the
efficiency OF our own ships: At SAN
tiago we had four eattleships and two
armored cruisers, besides host OF
gunboats and mosquito craft Had
one OF this Connecticut class OF hat
tleships, with It's present good speed.
guns and protection engaged that
tieet, chance torpedo would have
been the only savior OF the neet from
destruction,
Lei US take the Oregon. = household
name for naval prewess upon th,.
seass and see what comparison shs
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CONES TO
SAN FRANCISCO

rivals. debtors their creditors, heirs al
law their nearest of kin until that
chronicle of crime runs red down the
history OF every family in France Jean
lie Brun had done his duty and gloried
in it, After a life of many activities
and much success his part OF the st.
Barthomew massacre was relegated to
the background of his memory until
almost forgotten. Crowned at last with
his years and honors. he returned to the
old home in Paris, which had fallen to
his share, where he might enjoy his
declining years in peace the
friends of his youth and in the compan-
ionship OF his books
In the course of time Jean lie Brun
came TO die. He had made a good con-
sacrament of extreme unetion, his fam
lily stood weeping around his bed and
he composed his limbs in peace when
suddenly pointing to the wall opposite.
his eyes starting out of his head his
face working painfully. -Caspar," he
Shfitheu. MOI Dleu. aHu STRUGGLING.
resisting, pleading. he died.
The horror of this scene and the
agony of Jean lie Bruins last moments
were, of course. repeated under their
breath by the witnesses to the next
generation. But TO avoid exaggeration.
a plain. straightforward statement OF
fact under the lie Brun seal was added
to the family records, otherwise the
repetition from generation to genera
tion would have had 4 whole Huguenot
army out at Jean lie Bruins bedside by
this time.
Although painful TO witness. such a
deathbed seizure of remorse was not un-
common in those days OF violence The
king himself a few years later died a
prey to remorse and the haunting
specters OF the massacred Huguenots.
so the surviving family lie Brun, re-
covering their spirits as time Went on.
came to regard the specter of the mur-
dered Caspar as merely the sick fancy
OF disordered brain. until the next lie
Brun died.
1t was in the Soudan Pierre lie Brun
died on the field OF battle The noti-
fication sent by his commanding officer
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24

Yes" she answered. "the rose In your
hair takes me back to last summer in
the country. l wish you would wear
one always.
Whether this answer brought me re-
lief or terror l cannot tell. To know
the Huguenot had not appeared to my
mother assures me she is not to be
taken from me. but is il I? | have only
just begun TO live. The sisters in the
convent told me l had future before
me In my voice IL / could have the
right instruction and my cousin Jacques
In Paris writes he is coming out to see
me in the spring. Stiil the apparition
of the Huguenot grows more and more
frequent. although IL has not the terror
for me It must have had for the early
lie Bruns when II chilled their hearts
with fear.
The cruoifx | hung on the wall is no
bar TO its appearance. which ! take for
sign that with the advancing liberty
Of religious thought our Huguenot has
lost his prejudice against this sign of
the papacy. else would he cast his re-
hection upon IL? But day after day as
| chat and laugh to keep up my In
valids spirits and know she does not
see the Huguenot's head i thank the
good Lord it is not she who has to ao.
and yet don't know what will become
OF my poor mother II the Huguenot is
coming for me. do not try to explain
what ! see or what / feel. for | come
always to the inevitable conelusion-I
simply do not know. / have given YOU
these facts and the meaning OF the ap-
pearance of the Huguenot's head lies
In your hands IL. within the year, you
Marie Eugene lie Brun, native
of San Francisco. aged 2i
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24
By F. NJ. Gallagher

0DILL, Bi-i-i-il. o-o-o-o-oh, Binr
I'D The voice was shrill and strong
and grotesouely modulated. 1t gave
the impression of tremendous reserve
force and was full OF little trills and
falsetto ouavers such as Daisy Foot
lights affects when she is respondin z
10 her NTH encore by screeching. I'll
meet thee tonight in the cleaning"
But the voice was not the voice of
Daisy Footlights 1t was the voice
OF the siren on board the battleship
Louisiana waited with surprising dis
tinctness across the waters of the bay.
wait Bit" remarked a jacky from
the Connecticut. ~You'n hear some
thing worth while in minute"
listened intently. but the only sound
that reached my ears were the cries OF
the ticket venders near the end OF the
ferry building:
See the big battleships. here, only
half q dollar,"
Then. with a suddenness that caused
an involuntary start. the Louisiana $
siren shrieked once more:
Bill. Bi-i-i-il, O-o-o-o-oh. Binv
And like a fash the answer came in
hoarse. mufied tones:
Go to ell, Go to ell Go to 'eilw-
The jacky grinned all over. That's
the Kansas" he explained Them two
always start it that way, Wait tin you
hear the old man call EN- down.
] waited. but not for long. The air
vas cut by blast OF sharp. expostu-
iatory tones:
Tut tut, Tut tut. Tut. tut, Tut. tut.
Tut tut
7 knew it," exclaimed Jacky. his
eyes dancing. That's the Connecti-
cut"
a second or two OF silence and then
came ripple Of rich. shrilL hysterical
giggles:
.-ree-hee: ree-hee. ree-hee, Tee
hee."
The Vermont" said Jack in answer
to my inquhring glance. shes a
laughin at en-
The interval Of silence was longer
this time Then came succession of
sharp, quick Syiiables.
Aren't you one7 inquired the man
from the Connecticut. who seemed TO
be passingiy adept in the idlom OF the
landlubber. That's the Missouri.
Can't you hear what she's a sayin'?~
or course 1 could. There was no
doubt about It. The big battleship
was talking IN character:
SHOW me. Show me. show me, show
.me-e-e-e-e.'
But nobody amt a-goin TO do it,"
chuckied Jack. Now trim your. ears
an yon'll hear some sparkin'"
waited expeo.antly. Sure enough
came the "sparkin' " in low. winsome
tones:
Goo. Coo, coo-oo-oo-oo, Coo. Coo,'
And In response came the gentler
accents OF the other turtle dove:
.Coo-coot Coo-co o oo,"
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24

ssn.' Sslisrs IN in sa'I The testimony t"T Of Of
my eyes.
The only explanation l can offer OF
this experience I am about to give you
an account of is on The ground OF that
passion stronger than love or even
desth-hatred
On the night OF St. Bartholomew's
eve when the Huguenots were masss-
cred and Charles TX stood on the ram
part crying Perish every one of them;
let not one live to reproach me-" mad
with the taste OF blood. many unre-
corded crimes We're committed that
have left foul stains on otherwise fair
escutcheons. When the edict against
the Euguenots went out and the mas
sacre began the house OF lie Brun
echoed the cry OF the king, every drop
OF blood in their veins running red for
the supremacy OF the papacy. Conse-
quently when Caspar lie Brun. eldest
son OF the house. disclosed himself as a
Huguenot. had he displayed cloven
hoofs and breath of fire the discovery
could not have struck deeper terror in
the hearts OF his brothers.
Imagine the scene when Caspar.
aflsme with the injustice and bigotry
OF his brother, whom he caught tortur-
ing a faithful old servant on suspicion
OF being az Huguenot. cried. ror the
love OF Christ. Jean. spare the man. L.
too. am a Huguenot. and I'll stand this
no longer"
On the spot Caspar, eldest son OF the
house OF lie Brun. was stabbed through
the heart by his brother
A few months later Caspar's young
wife died, leaving an infant daughter,
who was carefully brought UP within
the fold OF the church. Thus poor Cas-
psrs life was subtracted from the fam
iiy and his influence lost.
This is as the record goes Jean lie
BrUn put his deed down for virtue.
The church is supreme over everything
ne doubtless argued. even fiiial and fra
ternsl affection. Among the dark deeds
of that awful night private revenge sat
ished itself under the cover of the
reigning terror suitors murdered their
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24

After ali. perhaps the best answer to
tne question is that the fleet is Just as
uls as Us guns and the men behind
whue the offfcial returns will not be
published for some time Il is known
that some of ;he ships OF the fiset Will
make record Of pretty close TO 80 per
cent. IL Is known that OF Is0 shots
nFed oy one ship. iiS. or about 81 per
cent. actually hit the target
AZ tue battle OF Tsushima the Jap
anese heet created record Of nearly 20
per cent OF hits AT Magdalena the rec
ord viii undoubtedly show something
IKE four times that
We may therefore safely conclude
that the iieet. while great in numbers.
tonnage and guns carried. Is really sew
eral times its apparent size. due 10 the
faes that the men behind the guns his
wnere they aim. superior gunnery Of
setting numerical superiority or IN
eresslns the apparent efficiency % our
own rees-
The San Francisco call., 1908-05-24

\ principle / do not believe In
ghosts. but cannot choose but
believe in the testimony of
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
TWO A[RSHIP RECORDS
WILBUR WRIGHT SOARS
800 FEET.
Strong Wind Blo1cing - Remains
Nearly T1co Hours in dir in
Morning Flight.

JA Mans Dec 1S-Wilbur Wright broke aero
plane records for both height and distance to-
dav hying this afternoon $50 feet above the
ground in a strong wind, and winning the
sarthe Aero Clubs prize. At first 1t was
thought that the violence of the breeze would
compel Mr.. Wright TO postpone his effort. but.
undaunted he launched his machine and cir
cled around the field. When soaring at ninety
feet a sudden gust of wind caught the aero
plane sidewise. causing it to plunge violently
backward The spectators were terrified. but
Mr.. Wright was unperturbed and soon righted
his craft
Al the end Of ten minutes the wind moder-
ated and the aeroplane scared upward and
passed high over a line of captive balloons
marking distance of three hundred feet Then
it descended, and after again encircling the
field. was brought to earth. landing in front
of the door of the shed in which it Is housed.
The Aero Club tonight gave dinner TO Mr.
Wright to celebrate his double victory to-day,
which began this morning by the establishment
of a new worlds record for heavier-than air
machines while trying for the Micheln
Cup remaining in the air l hour, 33 minutes
and 80 seconds The best previous record is
l hour, 81 minutes and 81 seconds. which MI
Wright made on September 21-
The aeronaut attained an average height OF
"a feet to-day. and the distance was officially
measured as 611z miles, which does not include
the wide sweeps and turns made during the
flight He descended only because the oil
feeder got out of order The flight was made
in A light breeze, occasionally broken by puns
of twenty miles an hour The Michelin Cup Is
10 be awarded to the aviator who makes the
longest aeroplane flight before December 81
Paris Dec. 1S.-A motion was presented in the
Senate tonight requesting the government 10
award some special national mark of recognition
TO all Frenchmen and foreigners who have as
sisted theoretically practically, in the re-
narkable advance in the science of aviation.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
SILK Halted ROBBERS.
Rob T7co Banks and Escape in AUTO
mobile after Fight

Gibbon. Neb Dec. 1S.-Six robbers. wearing
dress suits and silk hats. after dynamitlng the
safes of the Farmers State Bank. OF keene'
twenty-eight miles south of Gibbon, and the
Commercial Bank of Gibbon, engaged in a
pitched fight here with number of citizens
early to-day and escaped In an automobile with
S5 800 One of the robbers is believed TO have
been wounded
The Keene bank was first entered The rob
hers got So 600 climbed into an automobile and
started south An hour later they reached Glib
bon. and while four of their number began work
inside the Commercial Bank two others kept
guard outside. The explosion attracted num-
ber of citizens to the scene, among them G. I.
Holloway president of the bank. While posse
was gathering the robbers inside the bank kept
steadily at work. the guards outside keeping up
a steady fire on the citizens. Finally the latter
partly surrounded the building, and for fifteen
minutes fusiliade of shots was exchanged
Then the robbers made their escape through a
rear door.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
SOLDIERS POISONED.
EIeCen Dead and Thirteen Seriously
III az, a Philippine Camp.

Manila Dec 18.-Eleven deaths have occurred
and thirteen men are seriously i'll at Keithley
Camp. Mindanao Island. a result of the men
Of the 18th Infantry drinking calumbic acid. a
vegetable compound extracted from the calumoa
root An official investigation is now being
made by the military authorities. but no details
have been given out
Headquarters in this city say that the details
Of the wholesale poisoning have not been re-
ceived. and that the names of the dead and Sc
riousIv i'll will be withheld until an official report
has been sent 10 Washington. The beverage. It
IS learned. was served as vino" native drink
at a resort near the camp on December 10 Inc
last death occurred on December Il.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
SHIPS CARRY 50, 900, 900.
Great Flood Of Christmas Money
Orders Back to Old Countries.

Foreign countries win have no basis On
christmas morning for believing any reports
which may have reached them that the United
states had recently suffered from business de-
preston when the S5OO000o in money orders
Issued at the General fostof1ce for Christmas
presents nave been duly distributed.
Postmaster Morgan figured yesterday that
between December and 16. 332S15 interna-
uonal postal money orders, aggregatisg S504O-
20 p were issued and shipped to foreign
lands. The liner Lusitania. the last of the
Christmas money ships TO leave this port.
sailed on Wednesday with 116,022 foreign
money orders for S1.526, I19 "a
Comparison OF number and value of money
orders issued at the postofflce from December
= TO H. 1905. against the same period last
year, shows an increase Of 1896 money or
ders. amounting to S1O3,5J6 81.
Great Britain, with SSSS, 40S g., leads, with
Italy close second with S7SS.303 ii Sweden
comes third. with S34O364 u, France bringing
up the with SAG. 102 A
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
LIBERTY DAWN STRIKE
Three Thousand Cab Dr1Uers and
Chdufeurs to 90 ont TO-ddJ.

4 vote for q general strike involving three
thousand cab drivers and chauffeurs, TO begin
early this morning, taken last night at an
all night session of the executive committee
OF the Liberty Dawn Association.
Edwin Gould chairman of the Greater New
York District Council OF the United Teamsters
of America and a member of the executive com
r,ittee Of the Liberty Dawn Association, issued
= statement at th- headquarters Of the asso-
citation. in Grolrs Hall. SD street and LeXing-
ton avenue saying the strike was due to the
failure of the representatives, Of the Liberty
I,av-n Association TO come to an agreement with
rre employers at the Hotel Imperial.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
AUTO CROSSES GREENSBORO BRIDGE
Machine Has Honor of Being First Vehicle
Over New Structure

An automobile containing four men dashed on
to the Long Island City approach OF the new
oueensboro Bridge yesterday afternoon and made
the trip 10 Manhattan. thus achieving the dstinc-
ton Of being the first vehicle to the structure
can we get the bridge?" inquired the
spokesman of the party
Sure" replied the Irish foreman at the ap-
uroach. with a wink to his fellow workers.
While he was laughing over his joke the auto
shot ahead. and the trip 10 Manhattan under
way No one on the bridge knew the men in the
Sure" said the foreman, them fellows meant
business / wonder how they got without
being stopped Anyhow. they have the honor Of
heinz, the first to cross in machine of any kind"
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
DROPS DEAD AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Charles c. Mackay Expires When Boarding
Bay Ridge Train.

Charles Cochrane Mackay secretary of the
American Linoeum Company, died suddenly last
evening as he was boarding a Bay Ridge train on
the Manhattan END OF the Brooklyn Bridge. In
MI Mackay's pockets were found a number OF
valuable securities 800 in cash and several clip
nines which led his Identification. His brother,
Henr,, Nackav of No f75 Clinton avenue Brook
lyn, took charge of the body
Mr. Nackay was siXty-nine years old. Two years
ay,, be oarried Miss Jessie Kidd. daughter of Mrs
Rachel Kidd of Glasgow. His home. at 95th street
and the Shore Road. Bay Ridge, Is show place
tr ,t. district NIr Mackay's real estate holding
IN Pav Ridge are valued At 100000 lie was
member of the Crescent Athletic and Arkwright
clubs.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
DEATH ENDS BOUT.
JureniIe Borer, Widozc's Only Sup
mort. Killed in Club Match

philadelphia. Dec 1S-James Curren. eighteen
wears old was killed in a boxing bout with
BENJAMIN Barnet. seventeen years old, at the
Broadway Athletic Club here to-day
There had been nine bouts, when Curren who
was the sole support of his widowed mother,
asked permission to go on. He was matched
against Barnet. The boys boxed evenly in the
first round. but in the second Barnet, VINO mas
never boxed in public before knocked Curren
down with hard blow the chin. After aris-
ing C,,rren c llapsed He died the way to
the hospital
The police arrested Barnet. and Bert Drace
and John Haggerty, the boys who acted as
seconds to Curren. The seconds for Barnet
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
TRADE VAR INETIT4BLE.
frbjfrotiOn VII Be COincident 7Cith
millennium. Says General Bel.
lBy Telegraph to The Tribune, J

Baltimore Dec. 1S.-MaJor GeheraI j. frahh
lin Bell, chief OF staff OF the army III d Spee'ii
% n o.,r,,eI dinner of the North Carolina
Socfa,,,. bara tonight asserted his belief that
= t,.,de war was inevitable in the future OF the
country.
General Bell declared that the millennium ana
the substitution Of arbitration for war "ouid
be coincident He thought that the latter "oulu
put a block upon the wheels OF human prog
ress He said that since the war win SPAN
this has ceased to be an isolated hatloh' anu
urged American statesmen to give due consul
Grafton our external AFFAIRS Ihsy Siou'"
see to it, he asserted that future generations
shall find themselves well protected in the mat
ter of national defence and prepared for the
coming for trade.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
SELECTION NEWS TO MR.. sTEARN.
Boston Engineer Says So Far as He Knows
Plan Is Without Foundation
LRv telegraph 70 The Tribnne.1

Boston. Dec. 18.-Frederck p. Stearns civil en-
gineer and a member of the Metropolitan Water
Board of Boston said to-day that the report that
he to accompany President elect Taft to Pan
news to him. Mr. Stearns returned from
New York two days ago but he refused to discuss
the report that he had met Mr. Taft and consulted
with him regarding the canal.
That is something do not to discuss I
know Mr. Taft. and there is reason why any
visit might haze made might not have been of
a purely social nature" ,e said LAS for my going
to Panama that is TO So far / know
now any such plan is without foundation"
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
BILL TO LOCK UP OFFENDING AUTOS
Intended to Give Injured Persons Liens Until
Owners Settle.
fBy Telegraph q The Tribune.

Boston Dec. 1S-The first novelty in legislation
to create a stir Beacon Hill this fall is bill
to lock UP for thirty days an automobile that has
upset the righteous but unwary citizen.
The machine that does that is deemed conclusive
~ to be guilty OF assault and battery. and gets
thirty DAYS without a trial Under legal analysis
the bill is wild as II seems. II is intended
to give an injured person lien, and when the
owner of the machine settles the automobile can
be released.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
FELT 1T DUTY TO ACCEPT.
Mr. KnO.r Says He U'W LeaCe the
Senate 7cith Great Regret.

Washington. Dec. iS.-Senator Philander G
Knox OF Pennsylvania. former Attorney Cen
eral Of the United states. who viii be Secretary
Of state in President Taft's Cabinet. discussed
his selection tonight
1T is true as Mr. Taft has announced" he
said that have accepted his invitation 20 en-
ter his Cabinet as Secretary Of state. have
New-York tribune., 1908-12-19
sruI coNsioERlNe PROSECUTIONS.

Washington Dec. lS.-After to-day s Cabinet meet
ing and a conference with the President. Attorney
General Bonaparte said that the Department OF
1ustice still had under consideration the question
~ ,rosecuting those persons whom the President
considers guilty of criminal libel in connection with
,,hUcations regarding the Panama Canal purchase