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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
PHYSICIANS FAIL TO
CURE SICKNESS AT SEA
Medical Journal Advises Aperi=
ent as Preventive

No satisfactory reply has, according
to the British Medical journal, yet been
given to the question of how to treat
seasickness. There is probably no con-
dition, the paper goes on to say, &c
which the We'll worn aphorism, Pre-
vention is better than cure,'' more
wholly applies.
The traveller or possible patient
should be advised to take at a date
which will allow an interval of one
clear day before starting mild aperi-
ent, such as cascara, and afterwards a
bromide mixture Doctor Bastian was
one of the first, some 80 years ago OF
more, to call attention to the efficacy
of bromides, and the practice has been
followed with success by many old
sufferers. If once successful it gives a
degree of confidence for the future
which is very comforting, and probably
has no small effect in insuring the de-
sired result.
Some persons find great comfort from
a broad abdominal belt firmly applied.
The late DR.. Orally Hewitt believed.
and produced some experimental evil
dence in favor of his contention, that
the initial stage of seasickness was
dizziness due to cerebral confusion pro-
duced by the sight of the unwonted
movement of objects around the voy-
ager and that on short voyages sea-
sickness might be STAYED off by keep
ing the eyes closed or fixing them upon
some distant object. There is no doubt
large psychical element in many
cases, and those who make up their
minds before they go on board that
they are going to be seasick are very
difficult to treat.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
All Who
Would Enjoy

good health, with its blessings, must IN
derstand, quite clearly, that it involves the
question of right living VI tn all the term
implies. With proper knowledge Of what
is best, each hour Of recreation, Of enjoy
ment. of contemplation and Of effort msy
be made to contribute to living Alright.
Then the use of medicines may be dis
pensed with to advantage. but under or
dinary conditions in many instances
simple, wholesome remedy may be invalu-
able if taken at the proper time and the
California Fig Syrup Co. holds that n is
alike important to present the subject
truthfully and to supply the one perfect
laxative TO those desiring it.
Consequently. the Company's Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA gives general
satisfaction. To get its beneficial effects
buy the genuine, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co cnly, and for sale
by al leading druggie.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
FORMER SENATOR'S
DAUGHTER TO WE'D
Miss Alice Jones to Become
Bride of Sculptor in
Rome
[SeeeiGl CabIe II The CalTl

PARIS, Jan 24-Frederick MacMOE
nies. a New York sculptor. authorized
The Call correspondent today TO an
nounce his engagement and approach
ing marriage 10 Miss Alice Jones.
daughter of former United states SEN
atOr John p. Jones of Nevada. No dase
has been set for the wedding. but il
probably will take place the last week
in February or the first week in March
at Rome
Mrs. Jones. mother OF the bride elect.
and her sister, Miss Georgina Jones
sailed for Italy on the Carmania TO be
present at the ceremony. The sculptOrs
mother and sister. Mrs. Courant. had
intended also to witness the event, but
after arrival in France the delicate
health of Mrs MacMonnies forced them
to return to Brooklyn
After the honeymoon the couple will
return to the United States to sta
MacMonnies has long cherished the
wish to complete his art career in the
land of his birth. He will leave here
Saturday for Rome In order 10 have
time TO arrange the formalities in
volved in the marriage of foreigners m
Italy. After the wedding the couple
will return here and then go to Giverny.
d resort of artists in Norma ndy, where
they first met Then they will go 20
Italy for brief visit and from there
return to America
They will probably settle in New
York. but that is not decided. Theis
marriage is the outcome of an attach
-ment of several months. to which some
publicity has been given in connection
with the maria ge~ OF the former Mrs.
MacNonnies to VIII IT.. Low, another
artist, early last November. MacMon-
MES and the present Mrs. Low, who was
Mary Fairchild of St. Louis. were di-
vorced in Paris in November. 1905
wholly on ten mperomental grounds They
parted good friends.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
BUREAU MARKS GRAVE
OF ALASKA kLOOCHMAN
Woman Coveted 1t in. Life and
Relatives Bought 1t

So much attached was a certain In
dian woman at Alert bay, in the far
northwest, to a bureau of American
make that when she died it was placed
of the traditional totem pole, says the
Boston Herald. Harlan l. Smith of the
department of anthropology at the
American museum of natural history.
who has just returned from an extend
ed tour of Alaska and British Columbia
in quest of selected totem poles for the
adorning of the Northwest Indian hall
in the institution, saw this strange
memorial and took a picture of it.
The article of furniture is of the
standard type and in it's mirror. which
is exposed with it to all rains that fall
and the winds that blow, are reflected
the graveyard scenery and the picket
fence that surrounds the grave. As
Smith understands it she did not own
the bureau in her lifetime, but would
have liked it. and consequently when
she passed away her family bought it
because she had admired it So and
placed it on her last resting place.
The scientist while travelling through
Alaska was able. to acquire several
totem poles of various periods, and
from Bella Coola he is shortly to have
one sent which has long stood before
the house of a chief. He also found
the sites of several prominent villages
and arranged for the transportation
here of many interesting utensils and
implements used by the Indians.
All these things are beginning to
grow scarcer, for the insidious raw
ages of civilization are everywhere,
and the Indians are SO busy working
in the salmon canning factories that
they find little time to proclaim their
ancestry by means-of the elaborately
carved totem poles or to make them
as headstones of their graves. The
use of a bureau as a monument i'm
pressed upon Mr.. Smith the need of
collecting totem poles while he could,
and these, which he either has bought
or contracted for, are genuine wealth
er beaten antiques.
The scientist was accompanied in
his travels by Walter l.. Taylor, an
artist who went in search of material
for the mural paintings which he is
preparing for the Indian hall. They
are to be placed so that the totem poles
will form a setting for them.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
IMMENSE TELESCOPE
FLOATS IN A TANK

At the Harvard university observs-
tory gigantic telescope floats in a
tank of water. It is one of the largest
in the world. the rejecting mirror being
five feet wide. Mounted on a water
tight cylindrical steel float. the tele-
scope swings in concrete tank full of
water, only slightly larger than the
cylinder. which is designed to fit it
closely and serve as a pivot for the
telescope instead OF having ii mounted
on solid base. Machinery at each side
holds and guides it, The water bears
the weight and the movements of the
telescope are regulated by TRY electric
motors; the gigantic mirror can be
easily removed and resilvered when it
grows dim, although two tons are in
dicated when It is placed on the scales.
Through this telescope stars of the six
teenth and eighteenth magnitude are
revealed, and il seems to penetrate into
the very abysses of the heavens. While
the instrument is mounted in the open
air the image is reflected to an eyeL
piece in an adjoining building, where
the astronomer sits and makes caIcula-
tions In which millions of mics are
dealt with as indifferentlY as the sim
piest sums in ordinary book keeping.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
BIG COLLEGE PLAY
TO OPEN TONIGHT
Professor Napoleon to Make
Initial Bow in Blaze of
Glory at Valencia

The wees of preparation are over at
last-the weeks. of work. of worry, of
practice. of diligent rehearsal and of
unmitigated fun, and tonight Professor
Napoleon" in a golden blaze of glory,
will make his glorious initial bow at
the Valencia theater
Promptly at the curtain will rise.
One minute before the house will be
darened in preparation for the pres
entation OF the beautiful Sagshurst
college scene And from then until IL
o'clock~it will be one vast sea of move
ment. of color and Of life, with pleasing
songs and catchy choruses and one
dance after another of rare beauty and
grace and intricate skill
Already every seat mas been sold in
the big house for this opening night
with the exception of a few in the gal
lery, the committee proving so eager in
their zeal to dispose of the best tickets
that at last they have found themselves
stranded, with standing places only for
their own use. Fifty or more of this
years and last years debutantes have
been enrolled for the work of selling
programs, music and drinks.
As all of the vast cast of 500 young
pCOpiC nave and IflcnOS anu
acquaintances who are anxious to see
and applaud their work there is scarce
ly family Of any prominence in the
city which is not more or less inter-
ested in the show. 1t is estimated that
over $4,000 people in all will witness
the performances.
Early this morning carpenters, dec
orators and electricians will commence
work at the Valencia, putting up seen
cry and stage settings, arranging the
decorations and setting in place the
various novel electric displays, and at
10 o'clock the big augmented orchestra
will meet for a general rehearsal, under
the direction of Heller of the St. Fran
els.
Yesterday afternoon those in the cast
met for the last of their coaching and
the Professors" success now rests en-
tirely in their hands.
If it is to be week of work for the
participants, it will also be a week of
fun. for the chaperons have arranged
innumerable supper parties after each
show, as only the lightest OF collations
are permitted beforehand. Saturday
night it is all scheduled to end with
vast. big spread. the entire 500 TO go in
body to the st. Francis, where a large
farewell banquet viii be given.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
COUNCIL TO SETTLE
STATUS OF STREETS
Asks Opinions as to Whether
Thoroughfares We're Dedi-
Gated to Water Front
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

OAKLAND, Jan. 24.-The city council
City Attorney Stetson tonight to pre-
pare at once opinions as TO whether
the streets from Tenth to Thirty fourth.
running east and west, were dedicated
to the western water front. This move
pertains to the bond Improvement, the
city plans calling for the extension of
several streets from the present endings
TO the edge of the wharves to be con-
structed on the western water front.
The Oakland traction company repre-
sentatives informed the council that
contracts have been let for widening
the space between the tracks in Broad
way, but that the materials could not be
obtained before April 1. The council
gave its consent for the work being de-
lRyed until that date
Protests against granting the penin-
sular railway franchise in Eighteenth
street west from Franklin were con-
tinued until Thursday evening for con-
sideration.
An ordinance appropriating $4,000
out of next years budget for new
pound was sent to the finance commit
tee.
Deputy City Attorney Koford filed a
report -on the proposed Washington
street opening. His opinion was that
the city could not take the park prop
erty for street proposes and assess a
district. He advised that the street be
left when the new city hall is built,
just as plans call for, but not declared
open for traffic until after legislation
can be obtained at Sacramento author
izing the district assessment plan.
A protest from Edison F. Adams and
John Charles Adams against the open
ing of Fourteenth street from Alice to
Fallon street was overruled.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25

RESERVATIONS HIT
UNIVERSITY HARD
Departure of Prof. Jacques Loeb
Crowns Series of Notable
Losses to Faculty

BERKELEY, Jan. 24-The resigna-
tion of Prof Jacques Loeb as head OF
the department. of biology and phys
iology has caused the faculty of the
University. OF California to sit up and
take notice of the surprisingly large
CURED in the ranks of the faculty OF
the institution during the last year
By death retirement or resignation, no
less than seven university departments
are now without heads, and that Doc
tor Wheeler has a task on his hands
to fill the gap thus created is conceded
on all sides.
The loss of Professor Loeb overshad-
ows the other faculty changes, and
seems to be regarded as the heaviest
blow yet to fall. Professor Loeb is a
man of the highest standing in the
scientific world, and his absence will
be keenly regretted.
Only few months ago Prof. w. j.
V. Osterhout of the department of bot
any left for Harvard, and his depart
ure followed the resignation of another
notable educator.
This was Professor Pliny Goddard,
head of the department of anthropol-
ogy, and considered one of the fore
most men in his line in the west His
position has not as get been filed.
Shortly before Professor Goddard
announced his retirement from the fac
ulty to take UP other work Prof. B. +.
Dresslar of the department of educa-
tion went to the University of Alabama
to accept the southern chair of educa-
ton.
Prof W. A. Nitze, chosen head of the
after it was vacant for more than four
years, was faculty member only six
months. leaving for the University of
Chicago and a higher salary last Au-
gust.
The department of irrigation seems
to be without a head. Prof Elwood
Mead formerly in charge of the de-
partment, is now in Australia, where he
is employed by the government in a
big water project, and although his
name appears in the students cata-
logue, il is an open secret on the cam
pus that his signature TO five years
contract year ago precludes all pos
slbility of his rejoining the faculty of
the university.
The retirement of Professor How
ison, venerable head Of the department
of philosophy, after powerful service to
the university for a decade, has left a
vacancy which can not be easily filled.
The sad death of Frof. Irving String
sam. dean of the faculties. and for 81
years head of the department of math-
ematics. left vacant chair in the fac
ulty.
Among other notable losses that the
university has felt in the last year are
that of Prof. Isaac Flagg, Greek au-
thority, and Prof Robert Dupoeuy of
the French department.
Within the next year or two large
number of the educators who have
been identified with the upbuilding of
the university from the beginning will
be retired on account of the age limit.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
LETTERS OF EGYPTIANS
REGISTERED AGES Ago
Record of Postoffice Found in
Tomb

Translations recently published of
some of the latest papyri found in
Egypt lead us, according to the Cor
riere della Sera, precisely into an office
where letters were registered more
than 1000 years ago..
Among other things found was a
statement of account later used in
wrapping a mummy belonging to the
time of Pto1emaeus Philadelphus. On
the back of this papyrus, the front be-
ing occupied by entries made by the
book keeper of a great estate in rela-
tion to receipts and distribution of
wheat and barley, this statement is fol-
lowed by a postal diary, which certain
ly was kept quite irregularly.
The diary begins with the 10th and
ends with the 23d of a month not
named and mentions the arrival and a
further travel of letters forwarded
from local postofice. An entry says.
"On the 21st day of the month, at the
fifth hour. the postal rider escorting
the mail from the south delivered to
the postal clerk. Phanias, at this sta
tion, two letters. These letters were
later delivered by Assistant Postmaster
Horos to the postal rider Nikodemos,
who departed with them for the north
This papyrus relates also that the
chief officials of the local postofice,
which was perhaps in the neighborhood
of Ptolemais, where resided the two
brothers Phoenix, who were known
also under the sobriquet of hundred
acre men; that IS. they were colonists
of the really prosperous class. The
service they were rendering in the
postoffice was an Office of honor that
had been conferred on them.
That a salary was allotted TO Pha-
nais. the postal clerk. is one of the
entries of the diary. but the amount of
1T is not mentioned; and that the diary
was written on papyrus, OF which the
far greater part had already been
used, shows that the brothers had pro-
posed to conduct their Office economic
ally
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
ATTORNEYS CLASH
OVER EVER ESTATE
Charles E. NayIor and j. AIya
Watt HurI Charges at
Each Other

OAKLAND, Jan. PA clash between
lawyers took place this morning in
Judge Wells court over the disposi-
tion of the estate of the late Warren
B. Ever, in which James Alva Watt
and Charles f. Naylor figured. The
latter spoke OF the action of Watt as
that of designing person. while
Watt asked the court TO depose Naylor
as trustee of $4,000 fund on the
ground that as executor he had shown
that he was not to be trusted with the
handling of this fund. Judge Wells
was compelled to call the warning at
torneys to time.
Ever died in 1906. leaving an estate
OF SCI 900 Naylor was named execu-
tor and also trustee Of the fund de-
signed TO produce a revenue for Eliza
B. Ever of Nspa county, who is not
OF sound mind. The first sign of
trouble was the fling of a petition by
Watt, representing Miss Ever. alleg-
ing that Naylor had mismanaged the
estate to her loss. 1t was this petition
that came up for hearing today before
Judge Wells.
Naylor demanded that Miss Ever
herself should be brought into court,
and he said that sne probably did not
know what she was doing when she
signed the petition. but had been inf1u-
enced by some designing person.
Judge Wells held that she would have
TO be represented in court by a guard :
ian, and continued the hearing one
week until guardianship proceedings
now pending in Napa county have ter
minated
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
BOAT is STEERED BY
WIRELESS TELEGR Apply
Successful Experiments Made
by Nuremburg Firm

According to the Frankfort Gazette
some successful experiments were car
ried on recently at Nuremburg by the
firm of Wirth, Beck & Knauss in steer
ing a motor boat by means of wireless
telegraphy.
At the lighthouse on the lake they
erected the antennae, and on the bridge
they installed the transmitting ap-
paratus. On the boat the wire was
stretched between two masts, 13 feet
in height and 13 feet apart. The re-
ceiving apparatus was fitted in the
fore part of the boat and in the stern
was the switch and electric steering
gear. In the course of the trials the
boat was made to describe curves to
the right or left and TO turn sharply
in either direction.
The object of the tests was to prove
that 1t was possible to transmit signals
to an intermediate point. and then, as
directed by a shore station, to control
the steering gear on board a vessel.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
RECENTLY DISCOVERED
PEAKS IN HIMALAYAS
Teram Kangri Towers 26,61O
Feet Into the Skies

Although we have still to wait for
the full details of DR.. Longstaffe's re-
cent Himalayan expedition, some
knowledge of his interesting discov<
cries has leaked through; and it would
appear that a new group of very lofty
peaks has been found which has hith-
efto been unmarked upon the maps, OBJ
serves the London Globe. One in par
ticular Teram- Kangri, reaches the
enormous height of 27.610 feet-an alti-
tude which is only exceeded by Everest,
the still unconquered giant among the
earth's mountains, by X 2, by Kinchin-
junga and by Makalu. And it would
appear that a good many other changes
will have to be made by geographers
in. their maps of the district, which has
hitherto been little known.
1t is hardly likely that this part of
the world will ever become a popular
hunting ground for tourists; the ter
rife peaks of the Himalayas are no
place for the casual grobe trotter. But
they possess considerable interest for
the adventurous explorer; and, since
DR.. Longstaffes expedition can hardly
have exhausted the greatest of the
earth's great ranges, there are still op-
portunities enough for geographers to
distinguish themselves in our shrink
ing world
We shall look forward with interest
TO full account of the results of this
latest expedition early in the new year.
1t does not seem probable that any
higher mountains yet remain to be dis
covered. for the greater part of the
world is now pretty we'll known; and
even to the north of India few months
now go by without something being
added to our knowledge.
DR. Sven Hedin has recently pub
lished an important work on the trans
Himaiaya district, which furnishes US
with more information than We have
ever had Of that mysterious district;
and both his work and that of DR..
Longstaffe will have to be incorporated
In rAcrr.a aralni los,
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
NEGRO SERVANT SUES
ESTATE FOR SI4,325
j. V. Scott Declares Late Mrs.
Cahill Broke Promise

James V. Scott. nPgro servant. has
filed suit for s14.325 payment OF seven
years confidential service performed
for the late Mrs. Julia Ann Cabill
widow of Edward Cahill. miping man.
Edward Cahill died in January. 1903
and. Scott says, he was about to go into
other employment when Mrs. Cahui
begged him to remain. stating that
when she died she would leave him
by her win more than he could pos
sibiy earn elsewhere. So he stayed, he
says, and received no salary When
the will was opened he was disap-
pointed to learn that only $1,000 had
been left TO him. Mrs. CahilFs estate
is worth s60.00e.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
COLLEGE ROMANCE
LEADS TO ALTAR
Prominent Student Thespians
of 1909 Class viii Be
Married in April

BERKELEY, Jan. 24.-Fraternity and
sorority circles in this city are inter
ested in>the announcement of the we'd
ding in April of Miss Alice Southworth
and Joseph Gagier Moodey, both mem
bers of the class of 1909.
Miss Southworth was well known in
dramatics on the campus and took part
in many Of -+he student productions
She is a member of the Gamma Phi
Beta society The wedding will be SOL
emnized in her home in Sanger.
Moodey. who is a member of the Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity. is a graduate
of the college of architecture. He, too,
was a prominent student thespian, and
il was before the footlights that the ro-
nance was begun.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
EMPEROR NAPOLEON
WAS LOVER OF MUSIC

Napoleon's countenanee, with its cold.
calculating gaze, Indicative OF the mas
terry of intellect over emotion. would
naturally lead one to the belief that
here was man to whom music was
little or nothing. Nevertheless. his
connection with the art. says writer
in Great Thoughts. was not unim-
portant and certainly was not unin-
teresting. 1t is now a matter OF his
tory how the great soldier and Cheru-
bini came together several times, and
how although at first on familiar terms
they gradually became estranged This
was in great measure due-to Napo1eon's
criticisms of the composers music.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-25
WIRELESS APPARATUS
TO DESTROY TORPEDOES
Priest Interests Scientists by
Remarkable Invention

devoted interested attention to an in
vention of Mgr. Cerebotani, whereby
Herzian waves are employed on new
principle in destroying mines or torpe-
does at practically any distance, says
the London Globe. 1t is claimed that
the effective range of the apparatus is
limited only by the amount of initial
power employed, but the invention has
not yet been perfected. AS previously
stated, Mgr Cerebotani is a domestic
prelate to the pope and nuncio at Mu-
Mich. He is an electrician of profound
erudition and renown and has been de-
scribed as the Italian Edison. He is
said to have invented pocket wireless
telegraphic apparatus no bigger than
an old fashioned chronometer.