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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

pertinent by killing off weaklings by
out Mudooning Muldoon in the rigors
of their gymnastics and by surprising
Stanley Hall in their crusade against
the determination of boys various
individuals have taken up the
problem. Frederick the Great-see-
ing only the physical side of the
problem-scoured Europe for men
of gigantic stature and after kid
mapping them enlisted them in his
Potsdam Guard and kept them in
peonage as breeders of future genera
tions of herculean warriors. And eight
years ago under a provision of the will
of the eccentric Count de Pierrecourt
of Rouen, France, that city commenced
the building of hundred and-sixty'
thousand-dollar institute for the prop
agation of giants, a score or more of
such couples to be housed therein and
their progeny to be under the observa-
ton of anthropologists.
Previously-some sixty years ago-in
our own country, John Humphrey
Moves had scandalized the good
people of New York by estab
fishing in that State a human
stock farm, known as the Oneida
community, where all couples who en-
tered threw off their nuptial ties and
succumbed to Noyes' selection of them
as parents for a superior race of child
rem, later taken from the parental
hearth and cared for in the community
nursery. And now we have a wealthy
Russian, NJ. Raschatnikow of Perm, en-
gagged in such xperiments-under the
protection of the marriage bond, how
ever. From among his many peasants
he selects those ranking highest in
beauty and physique and marries them
off Thus he has formed a colony
destined as forbears of superior race
And that interest in such enterprises
is returning to America is evidenced
by the fact that the American Breeders
Association has lately appointed
committee on eugenics, - which is ''to
suggest methods of im~roving the
heredity of the family, the people or
the race"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

Such are the deep problems that vex
a restless and ambitious world. Such
are the indefatigable geniuses who are
Flooding onward toward their solution
through black nights of Encouragement
against the piercing chill of ridicuie,
as arctic pioneers plodded onward and
onward to the tip top of the earth,
without faltering or turning back. The
world laughs at these plodders today
while they strive. Tomorrow it will
hail with loud acclaim him among them
who succeeds a any of these tasks and
make him its hero. The great discov.
erer eff today IS the visionary crank Of
yesterday.
What next3 The south pole. the miss
ing link, artificial diamonds for com
meree, gold from baser metals. the elixir
of life, communication with the Mar
tians- perpetual motion. artificial rain
the superman, artificial propagation Of
the species or the spirit wireless. What
next, indeed2
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

central Java, the upper skull and two
thigh bones of an extinct creature
which Dubois named "Pithecanthropus
erectus," or erect ape man, and it re-
presents being nearer the naturalist 8
notions of the missing link than any
Of the other remains yet discovered.
But since deformity occasionally pro-
duces very ape-like characteristics in
modern skulls, nothing like universal
satisfaction has yet been aroused
among scientists by any of these finds,
and man must still wait to see the
bones of his grandsire.
The artificial diamond of commerce
blazes with blue fire from above another
goal toward which men of science are
Flooding onward through slough after
slough of despond A little while ago
this prize was viewed by serious minds
as mere ehimera, but now its lure has
set afre the brains of profound savants
and the world must not be surprised
to hear any day of its perfection. AS
matter of fact, artificial diamonds are
already a realty, their chemical and
physical properties being the same as
mined stones, but as yet they are only
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

More daring still is the ambition of
another school of naturalists-to arti-
fcially propagate life, and not merely
to improve it. Already the pioneers in
this branch of experimentation claim to
be able to fertilize eggs of such species
as the sea urchin by purely artificial
chemical solutions and entirely indie
pendent of the male species America
so far claims the honors in this great
work, whose foremost exponent is Prof
Jacques Loeb of the University of Cali
fornia. The research is being extended
to higher forms, while every husband,
brother and son of US must await re-
suits in fear and trembling lest in our
own time the dire day arrive when the
suffra gettes may realize their am bition
TO entirely exterminate the bothersome
sterner sex and leave a race of Amazons
to populate and rule the world without
the help or hindrance of mere man.
Then there are those who are now
harder at work than ever upon TIE
problem that is older than all of these
that of communicating with the spir-
its of the dead. a problem whose final
and favorable solution will rob the
black angel of his terrors. will give a
balm of content to millions of restless
skeptics, will turn the faces of the en-
tire world upward toward the known
goal. Such master British minds as
William T. Stead, Sir Oliver Lodge and
Sir William Crookes declare that thew
have already solved this problem of
problems, and such authorities as Prof.
William James of Harvard and Prof
James II. Hyslop of Columbia give like
testimony. They are all certain that
they have communicated over the earth
to-heaven wireless, and Prof. Hyslcp
has devised an instrument for use in
this long-distance circuit-an instru-
ment which he allowed me to photo
graph while he himself rested his head
IN it after the manner of his trance
mediums, who use it while acting as
has transmitters and receivers of mes
sages between our material plane and
the shadowy realm that lies over and
beyond.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

Nor shall we overlook perpetual mo
tionists, still risking reputation and rea
son in search of an engine which, with
out any supply of power from without,
can maintain its own motion as long as
its materials last. That certain men
are as skeptical of De La Hire s proof
of the mechanical impossibility of this
proposition made as early as 1878, as
they were when the Marquis of Wor-
cester and the Council Orffyreus sue
ceeded in deceiving many others besides
themselves with alleged devices of the
kind, will become apparent to anyone
who will but interview the patent Office
examiners in charge of the class Of in
ventions to which such schemes natural
ly drift; and it is somewhat of a joke
on Uncle Sam himself that in the old
days he once granted a patent for
perpetual motion hidden in the mazes
of spiral railway, whose car, like Ten
nyson' s brook, was to go on forever,
Independent of power outside the
mechanism. These perpetual motion
lists are almost all laboring under the
impression that they are but reviving
a lost art. And is it as sure as death
itself that it is mechanical impossible
ity2 Yesterday we were revering the
law that matter was composed of indie
structible atoms Today we are being
told that it is builded only of perishable
electrons!
There has been a lull in the activities
of the rain makers, but doubtless this IS
but a calm before another storm.
Twenty years ago our Gen. Dyrenforth
was SCATTERING the window panes and
terrifying the cattle about Washington
by exploding balloons high in the air,
while learned meteorologists watched
their barometers planted in the green
meadows safe below this celestial bonn
bardment. But the heavens refused to
weep upon the generals tall hat. More
lately the weather makers have turned
their aenergies to the diffusion of fogs
in vineyards and the prevention of
frost in other agricultural areas, by ex-
ploding bombs and distributing smoke
all with greater promise of success.
But who can predict that the rain
maker viii not effect another entrance
upon the stage of national endeavor
and make the welkin pop until the
fioodgates of the celestial deep have
been unloosened to make desert wastes
blossom and bloom and bring forth
good fruit2
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

Navhap before the realization of any
of these ambitions thus far mentioned
science viii have seen materiaTzed an
other Of lis long-fostered hopes-that Of
producing the superman. Since the
ancient Spartans commenced this ex-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

Quite as jealous are those men Of
science who are now reaching farther
and farther outward into the yastness
of interplanetary space to snatch from
the heavens the answer to the much
mooted question: Are there not in ali
of this heavenly space other intelligent
creatures into whom nature has breath
ed the breath of life2 Our wealthy
astronomer, Prof. Percival Lowell, from
his observatory high on mesa top at
Flagstaff, Ariz., claims to have seen
through the transparent air above him
irrigation systems on Mars that must
have been laid out by highly enlight-
ened beings, and his brother savant,
Prof. David Todd of Amherst, now
proposes to mount our atmosphere in a
balloon to place above the disturbing
currents of air wherefrom he can get a
more favorable view of Mars than has
yet been afforded man. At the same
time hundreds of thousands of dollars
has been given by a Los Angeles mill
lionaire for the building of giant
telescope, with a reflector 100 inches in
diameter, that would bring the Cap
itol into view upon the moon.
Solemn astronomers, the world over,
who deny the existence of a scintilla
of evidence supporting the belief that
intelligent creatures exist in other
worlds, and who refuse to dignity the
hypothesis by discussing it, neverthe-
less ponder over it of nights while rest
lessly tossing upon their pillows. But
while science lends halfserious ear to
the proposition that inhabitants of
other planets may some day be dis
covered the sheer lines Ranking its in
quisitive nose deepen at the mention
of signaling to these creatures and max
ing them understand any code arbitrari
ly devised by man.
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ated. And many medical men are tax
ing this savant seriously. Indeed, he
is in the forefront of the phalanx of
scientists who are fighting the sable
cloaked and grim-visaged visitor who
comes to us last of all.
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What Next After Pole and Airship?

ually. Otherwise, he would knock the
bottom out of the market and share the
i'll fortune Of the handlers of mined
stones. And perhaps he would keep his
discovery hidden entirely, selling his
product as natural gems, preferring
fortune to fame.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-17

The alchemist s dream of making
gold from baser metals might seem but
little more visionary than this max
ing of diamonds from common graphite.
The alchemists, who were TO the chem
lists what the astrologers were to the
astronomers, held this feat as one of
their two prime ambitions, the other
being the discovery of the elixir of
life. The Egyptians handed the vexed
problem on to the Romans, whose en-
peror, the cruel Caligula, instituted
serious experiments for the production
of gold out of sulphuret of arsenic.
Then the Arabs took up the puzzle and
passed it ON through Spain into the rest
of Europe, and no less a light than
Roger Bacon stewed his brain over it..
Even in our own generation it plaques
men of investigative minds. In the
last decade one American named Briee
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
CITY REAL EsTATE-continued
THOMAS r HAYMAN.

THOMAS T.. HAY MAN
Suite 1000, First National Bank Bldg-
Montgomery and Post Telephone kearny l'oS
BARGAINS. BARGAINS. BARGAINS
AND BARGAINS.
$4,000 cash-BusinesS property McAilister anu
Filmorp lot 39x1376: stores ana u
rooms. leased at 5000 per month; cash
security: released $3.50 per month; pal
$500 remain; ground worth
$4,000; forced sale
5000 cash-High class 10 and rooms mars
Scott and Fulton: 2T:6x13t;6; price re-
duced to $4,000; owner leaving city;
worth $13 900.
s6,1o0-2 choice 6 and fats; 18th and
Church; snap
S6,100-2 and rooms Hats; Cole anu
Frederick; 25x137:6.
50, ,250-IIalf cash; 3 excellent room mats;
Fulton and Frederick; rented low at
$1,000 per annum.
SS.J00-One-half cash; high class D anu .
fats: near Laguna and Sutter.
$1,000 casIl-4 new room fats; lot 81 front;
rented at 81 260 per annum; balance
$3.50; near Laguna and Union; snap.
SIS, ,500-One-half cash; high class and room
flats: Broadway and Hyde
50 250-One block Market and 5th: new
room flats: rents low, 500 month
s., $50 cash-Fuli price only Sl0,2a0; > or the
best room fats in Panhandle district:
1000 cash--Near Clay and Spruce; north SIDE
of street; . nesrly new room mats; 2ox
100; reduced price $1,000; bargains.
SIS. .000--3 high class room flats; washington
!. and Hyde; cheapest of its kind in city:
81, 200 Broadway and kearny; new and .
room fats rents $1,000 year.
So 500 cash. new q flats; north side
of street; east of Fillmore: rented low at
81 200 per annum mortgage $4,000
Sc. 300 and room fats Broadway and
Larkin; snap.
$40 75o-One-haIf cash: three finest and room
Oats Page; reduced from $1,000.
So, ,200-Two of the finest built . ana . room
fats; near I'd and Folsom rented $500 per
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
PRoposALs AND BIDS
NOTICE no CONTRACTORS.

Office of the Board of State Harbor Commits
sioners, Union Depot and Ferry House, San
Sealed proposals or bids Will be received at
this office at or prior TO IL o'clock a. m. on
THURSDAY June 10, 1909, for furnishing ma
terials and constructing section 9 OF the sea-
wall on the water front of the city and county
of San Francisco, in accordance with the plans
and specifications prepared therefor by the AS
sstant State Engineer of the Board and adopted
by the Board April %, 1902 aud on file in this
Office to which special reference is hereby made.
The materials to be used In the work consist OF
the requisite quantities or fresh cut, close
grained Douglass yellow fir piles, creosoted piles
merchantable yellow hr lumber, slaves for evil
inders sheet piling, band iron, portland cement
sand crushed rock embankment rock rein.
forcing materials, castings, structural steel
springs and steel rails and fastenings. ETC., all
to be of the best quality specified and subject
to rigid examination. No bid Will be received
unless it is made on a blank form furnished
from this office and is accompanied by a certi.
fed check for five 90 per cent of the amount
of the bid, payable TO the order of the Secretary
OF the Board, as a guarantee on the part of the
successful bidder that he will within six (6l
5ars oftar the acceptance of the hid enter into
!. written contract TO do said work according
10 the plans and specifications prepared therefor
and win also execute and file with this Board
a bond in such sum as the Board may deem
a6eouate with q surety company to be approved
by the Board of State Harhor Commissioners
and conditioned for the faithful performance of
such contract. nor Will said bid be considered
Inv this Board unless delivered to the Secretary
or 10 the Assistant Secretary at the office of
tta Secretary at or prior TO IL O'Clock a m on
THURSDAY, June TO- 1909. at which time and
place the bids will be opened.
The Board reserves the right TO reject any or
all bids if deemed for the best interests OF the
State.
JAMES N. GILLETT.
Governor Of the State of California ex offcio
member OF the Board of State Hsrbor Com
missoners.
EDWARD r. TAYLOR
Msyor of the City and County of San Francisco.
ex offcio member of the Board of State
Harbor Commissioners.
w. V. STAFFORD.
w. f, DENNISON
p. S. TELLER
Board of State Harbor Commissioners
RALPH BARKER,
Assistant State Engineer.
W. Z. THORPE, Secretary.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25

PROPOSALS FOR HOSPITAL SUPPLIES.
Bids wanted Sealed proposals will be received
by the Board OF Directors OF the Veterans Home
of California. at the Veterans Home. Napa
county California. up to IL O'Clock a. m, Sat
urdny, June s. 1909, and opened Immediately
thereafter in the presence of bidders, for fur
nishing and delivering sterilizers, ambulance,
hospital appliances and instruments for the hos
pital
The Board reserves the right TO reject any or
all bids Lists and specifications can be Sc
cured at fhe headquarters of the Veterans
Home room SOC Macdonough building, 3S3
Kearny st. San Francisco, California.
b. T. SCoVIBLE, Assistant Secretary
By order of the Board of Directors.
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MINES AND MINING

II you are looking for mine investment call
on u.s. We bring buyer and seller together
direct We get no commission from either
Our only charge is our small office fee il
YOU deal with our clients. Any information
pertaining to mining guaranteed reliable.
Money refunded If not satisfactory.
Western information Bureau of Mines and Land
Room 3o1. Chronicle Building.
GOLD amaIgam rich bought; cash; assay
ing soc Pioneer Assay Co., 131 5th ST., mr.
Howard.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
COUNTRY PROPERTY.

COUNTRY PROPERTY
A beautiful country home within 80 minutes
OF San Francisco: rooms BATH electric lights:
lot "a by 107 feet: situated In Burlingame;
minutes walk from S. 7. station 3 minutes
from San Mateo electric road; will net 10 per
cent as an Investment; strictly cash; So. 500.
Box 1885, Call office.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
LEGAL NOTICES

NOTICE is hereby given that l intend to ap-
pIy to the State Board of Prison Directors TO
be paroled from San Quentin prison. accord
ing to law. EMIL LEONARD. No. 1872.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
STOCKS AND noNps FoR SALE

ARE you buying or selling stocks or bonds? ?
Call on PETTIS BuRBECk, 333 First Ma
tionaI Bank bldg, Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
CITY REAL ESTATE


BALDWIN & STETSON, 147 Sutter st.
Sf2 25O-Rent 81, 800; fats in Hayes near Ba-
ker; 4-6-S rooms: 25x137:6; offer wanted.
S975o-Hayes near Cole; swell fats GO
rooms: upper fat baths, arranged on
plan Of residence; mortgage S5, 600.
SI5 0Oo-Haight st. business property; rent
81 260; only partly improved; 2Sx137:6
$465o-Rent $3.50; 2 flats, rooms and bath
each besides finished attic and basement /:
McAllister st. near list av.; 25x137:6
81 50o-Buchanan near Sutter; residence 10
rooms and bath 25x137:6; offer wanted
s4.75o-Baker near Bush; cottage, ) rooms
s11 .ooomCorner, ooxs2e one of the best renting
locations for apartments or flats: faces
public park; grand view.
81 600--Cottage, rooms; 25x100; 1l2 Congo
ST., Sunnyside.
81 1oO-corner. 25x72 and improvements: PAYS
interest on $1,000; stores and fat Of S
rooms and bath; not far from the Risdop
iron works and the Southern Pacific
shons. must be sold.
81 1OO-Mortgage $1,000: store and rooms
and tiat above of rooms and bath: 25x
ia; rent $40; 18th ST. bet. Sanchez and
Noe.
ENTIRE block, sth & 9th avs. A 6 sts.
BEING BUILT UPON WITH
room cottages. $4,000.
room III story cottages. $4,000.
& room story dwellings. $4,000.
room ? story dwellings. $1,000.
All on very easy terms.
Apnlv ON premises to +. NELSON, builder
Streets bitumlnized.
Turk and Eddy ST. cars pass the block
McAlIister, Geary, 9th av. and Clement ST.
cars within blocks
DEFERRED $4,000; cost $4,000: days work; will
take IS 500 cash or terms; modern room
house. new; seven closets In inch white ce-
dsr: high basement, cemented 13p 2d av near
Lake st. Apply FERGUSoN-BREUNER CO.,
251 Montgomery 81.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
OAKLAND ROOMS AND BOARD

SUNNY connecting and single rooms. with run
ming water for gentlemen couple; table
board; references: telephone. etc; bet Tele-
graph av and Grove St $40 Jones St, Oak
land
. NEWLY furnished sunny front rooms. suitable
for 2 gentlemen or married couple; nrst class
board; with every convenience; minutes
from city hall. us 10th ST., Oakland Phone
Oakland a3O2
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
MATRIMONIAL


GENTLEMAN 80 years of age. holding iucra-
tive and responsible position. is desirous of
forming the acquaintance of 4 lady with
means; object matrimony. Address box 252l,
Call office.
YOUNG man, German. wishes 10 make the ae-
quaintance Of young lady who under
stands the English language: object matri-
mony. Address box 1851. Call office.
GENTLEMAN. IS. wishes TO meet young lady:
CONFIDENTIAL object marriage. Address Z.
HERINGER. general delivery. Oakland.
Do not be deceived; the only reliable matri-
monial bureau you will find at MRS. A. VOL
TIERS 1852 Geary St: established in 1900
WILL Mrs r. w. kindly communicate with
J. h Address box pal. Gall Oakland.
HEALTH MOVEMENT
.'VIAVI SCIENCE OF HEALTH" natural, non
surgical; cloth bound 400 page book, free. Ap-
ply by mail $50 Pine st. Lecture for women
Thursday at 2:30 p m. Oakland Viavi Co.,
324 Central Bank building.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
FRUITvALE REAL ESTATE

S16 00O-Large suburban home, rooms and bath;
all late improvements; barn o1tbuidlngs, ETC.;
on { = acres. most in choice fruit and
mental trees; can soon be sold in lots at double
the price. ROTHERMEIs & CO, 247 Russ bldg.
MUST sell AT once, room cottage. Call Sunday.
after IL. any night after 8 o'clock. 31l6
Elmwood av., Fruityale.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
s15-PER AcRE-sl5

Terms. &c cash. balance easy installments; pat
ented lands in 40 tracts; title perfect
rich. level land in proven artesian belt near
Western Pacific railroad. This land viii pro-
duse Franquette walnuts. finest ia avored
apples the hest of alfalfa In the state of
California. PACIFIC LAND CO., 110 bacon
block Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25

FOR sale-Modern 6 room Queen Anne house,
modern, good location. near Key Route and
cariine: easy terms. See owner, $50 36th St.,
Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25

WANTED-Furniture snd merchandise Of all de-
scriptfons II money talks. have IT.. Sill
YER BROS & WARNER, 9S7-9S9 Mis5eon ST.
Phcae Douglas 22lI.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
PALo ALTo REAL EsTATE

NORTH Los ALTOS-Electric ear service to
stanford university. Palo Alto and San Fran
cisco will be established. Buy now. Large
lots low prices. superb view. ideal climate.
The University Realty Co.. PalO Alto. agents
IDEAL country home; must be seen to be ap-
precisted: price $50. 500. Boy 23l9. COLL
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25

BIDS WANTED-Notice is hereby given that
sealed proposals win he received by the Board
of Directors OF the Veterans Home of Califor-
MIA at the Veterans Home, Napa county Cali
fornia, up TO II O'Clock a. M.
SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH. 1909,
And opened immediately thereafter in the pres
ence OF bidders. for furnishing and delivering
quarternaster and commssary supplies. etc. for
the Veterans Home, Napa county, California.
(. o. b. cars. steam electric r. r. Or. r.
station, Yountville or Veterans Home) for one
year, commencing July 1909 and ending June
Both. 1910. Schedules with information and in-
structions for submitting bids viii be furnished
will carefully follow the conditions of the sched-
ules, and no bid will be considered unless 1t is
in accordance with such schedules. Bids must
be made on samples submitted whenever called
for in the schedule. Each bidder must accom-
pany his bid with n certified check upon some
well known and responsible banking house for at
least 10 per cent OF the amount of his bid, pay
able to c. de Comesnil Treasurer. conditioned
that the bidder will enter into a good and valid
contract upon notice of acceptance, as required
by law The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids and to order any quantity over
or under the amount specified.
Preference will be given to goods manufactured
or produced In this state, price. fitness and quail
ity being equal. under the provisions of Section
3247 of the Political Code
Address John +. Sheehan. Secretary of the
Board of Directors of the Veterans Home of
California, Veterans Home (P o.. California
By order of the Board of Directors
JOHN F. SHEEHAN. Secretary