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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
NEW VIEW OF DEATH
GIVEN BY FRENCH SAVANT
Important Question Raised as to
Personal Immortality

LONDON, June A new view of
death was given by e. E. Fournier
d'Albe In a lecture on "Pre-existence
and Survival" at the salon of the Royal
Society of British Artists.
M. Fournier 'd'Albe said that some
kind of existence previous to the pres
ent life played a part in many myth
ologies, as instanced by the Hindu and
Egyptian doctrines of metempsychosis
on the one hand and by ancient Irish
illusions to reincarnation on the other.
Those beliefs must be regarded as a
crude appreciation Of the fact that our
life was lineally connected with our re-
hottest ancestry. According to the doc
trine of evolution the whole of the liv-
ing universe was a part of our life.
It was impossible to draw sharp
line between organic and inorganic ma
ture and dead" matter whose life was
on too low a scale to be discernible by
us. Our kinship with all life must
therefore be extended also into the
inorganic world, and we had, in a
sense, existed as long as matter had
existed-probably forever.
The organic life of the body was only
partly unconscious. The life of the
(more than a million) cells which
make up the body must be regarded
as part of the submerged conscious
ness of the individual. This raised an
important question with regard to per-
sonal Immortality. If cells could fin
ally die and disintegrate it was diff
cult to maintain individual Immortality.
Many of the cells of the body, notably
those which developed into the red COR
puscles of the blood, disintegratej in
large numbers daily. This was a kind
of daily death.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
MRS. ASTOR GOING
BACK TO London
John Jacobs Wife Viii Doubt
less Do Some Entertaining
During Season
Especial Gable TO The Call

LONDON. June 4.-when Mrs. Ava
yelling Astor found that society's pal
aces for the London season were all
upset, she went to Paris, where she
met Colonel ]. ]. Astor to transact some
business and then she went to Vienna
But now that social affairs give prom
ise OF Frightening. especially as her
dear friend Waldorf Astor has returned
from. New York. Mrs. Ava Astor is
coming back here, and undoubtedly will
do some entertaining at 81 Hill street.
Berkeley square, which she has rented
from Lord Caville.
Recently she and the duchess of
Marlborough were guests of Lord Cur
zon at his place near Basingstoke. and
the former viceroy of India did not
conceal that admiration for the former
wife of John Jacob Astor which gave
rise to rumor that he sought her
hand.
Mrs. Astor's daughter, little Ava
Alice, has been staying at Cliveden,
with the Waldorf Astor children. So
has her son, who came from New York
with his father.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
MEDIEVAL TORTURES
APPLIED TO THIEVES
Decorators of Church Suffer
All Forms of Barbarity

ST. PETERSBURG, June Am in
stance of the medieval barbarity still
practiced by the peasants of the Cauca-
sus region is reported from Ghely, a
remote mountain village.
Thieves had broken into the local
church and stolen two golden crosses
and all the jewels on the sacred i'm
ages. A young man who was suspected
protested his innocence. He was f1ogged
until he confessed" duplicating two
other peasants. These later were
f1ogged and their heels burned. Under
the tortures persuasion they promised
to reveal the place where they had
hidden the loot.
The prisoners led the way under es-
cort to the mountains, but one of them
threw himself down precipice, and
was dashed to pieces. The other tried
to drown himself in river, but was
prevented by his captors.
Meanwhile an accusation had been
made against a very old man who had
charge of the keys Of the church. He
was horsewhipped by the angry mob
and finally his clothes were fired, either
by himself or his prosecutors, and he
was burned to death. But the two
golden crosses were not recovered.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
WRITER in Berlin
ROAS1SA AMERICANS
North German Gazette Gives
Amusing Description of Vis-
itors' Characteristics
Especial Gable to The Call

BERLIN, June Am amusing de-
scription of the manners and customs
of American visitors to Berlin is con-
tanned in the official North German
Gazette. which says:
Modern fashion enables one to recog-
nize male Americans at a distance by
their clean shaven faces and their mUch
too wide suits, which give even slim
men broad, stubby appearance and
make skimpy shouldered men appear
heavy set
You can also recognize Americans at
parade by their vast field glasses. some
times even by regular telescopes. They
are grateful spectators and always ap-
plaud vigorously. sometimes enthusiast
tically, after a parade.
They dash back to the Linden ard
greet the kaiser returning with the
princes and many cheer for him. min
gled with German hochs. For the rest
of the day they seem to prefer to sit in
comfortable easy chairs OF the hotel
lobbies with whisky and soda at their
sides or a glass of iced water IL they
happen to be what Germans consider
somewhat unsoIdierly. namely teeto-
talers.
Having read this criticism a young
American girl was asked what she
thought of the German men and replied
that their clothes were all too narrow
and their beer drinking temperaments
all too stolid-"
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
THRILLING STORY OF
WRECK OF STEAMSHIP
Japanese Liner Driven Ashore
During a Hurricane

VICTORIA, B. c., June 4.-The hur-
ricane of May II, which wrecked the
Osaka Shosen Kaisha liner Wakayama
Maru at the entrance to Susami harbor,
Japan, with loss of 53 lives. blew three
steamers and a schooner ashore. dam
aged two Japanese destroyers and
caused the destruction of the steamer
Shimato Maru by fire. The Osaka liner
Tairei Maru was wrecked the same day
off Sakhalin.
Survivors of the Wakayama tell
wreckage. The steamship anchored be-
hind Inazuma islands, but the hurri-
cane parted its cables and seas flooded
it. IT drove ashore while most of the
passengers and crew were manning the
pumps. Many were washed overheard
and others jumped overheard
The chief engineer floated on a hatch
cover for several hours before being
picked up by fishermen. The chief
mate was washed overheard Just be-
fore the steamships lights were ex-
tinguished. Awful scenes took place
among the panic stricken passengers,
who fought for places In rope ladders
lowered to assist them to reach the
deck. The captain and officers sought
to get the passengers into boats, but
these were all wrecked alongside the
vessel or carried away.
Numbers of persons were picked IN
from wreckage after floating all night.
One survivor was swept away in a
boat alone. Two stokers afterward
got into it. Together they tried to
drag people from the water into the
boat, but saved one only, being COM
PEELED to relinquish their hold upon
others, who sank before their eyes.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
CHINA AND JAPAN IN
FUSS OVER FISHERMEN
Nations Can Not Agree on Their
Rights in Gulf of Pc Chill

VICTORIA, B. c., June 4.-China and
Japan have dispatched war vessels to
the Gulf of Pc Chilli because of a dis
agreement between the nations over
the control of the several hundred fish
ing vessels from the Gulf of Pc Chilli,
according to news received by the
steamer Empress of India today. Six
hundred fishing junks and schooners
are operated by Chinese, about half
sailing from South Manchuria ports,
and China insists on collecting taxes
from these vessels, regarding the Gulf
Of Pc Chill as territorial waters.
Japan insists that China can not in
terfere with the fishermen, holding that
the Gulf of Pc Chilli is high seas"
The Manchurian viceroy has taken
a strong attitude on the question
against Japan. China sent, on May IL,
two gunboats and several converted
cruisers to seize those vessels whose
owners refused to pay taxes, and FIVE
were fired upon and their crews ar
rested. Japanese men of war and tor
pedo boats were promptly dispatched
to protect the fishermen against the
Chinese warships and the incident
seemed likely to involve both govern
ments in serious complications.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
SPEEDING UP" RESENTED
BY PHONE OPERATORS
Thirty Girls Collapse Under the
Stress of Overwork

LONDON, June 4.-Telephone opera
tors throughout the city are up in
arms against the management of the
postof6ce exchanges, and at a recent
mass meeting registered a protest
against the treatment they were re-
ceiving.
It was alleged that the system of
speeding up" now in vogue, and the
hustling methods of supervision neces-
sary to maintain the pressure were
detrimental to the health of the staff
and directly opposed to true interests
of the service.
It was stated that at one exchange
recently, 80 girls out of a staff of 36
collapsed in two consecutive days.
Mysteries were of daily occurrence. and
on one day, at another exchange, no
fewer than 40 girls Of the 240 en-
ployed there were on the sick list.
A strongly worded resolution was
adopted unanimously by the meeting.
which called the attention Of the post
master geaeral and the public to the
serious state of things.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
WIFE'S SKELETON KEPT
BY DEVOTED HUSBAND
Bones Closeted Near Bedroom
for Ten Years

instance of a husbands devotion to his
wife's memory has just been revealed
at Bucharest.
An inventory of property left by
Mikios Denner, merchant, was being
made, when the skeleton of woman
was discovered locked up in Gun
board. It was at first thought that
a murder had been committed. but in
quiry showed that the skeleton was
that of Denners wife, who died a
natural death 10 years ago, and was
buried in the ordinary way.
The husband was inconsolable till he
secretly exhumed his wifes remains.
and hid the skeleton in the Cupboard
which always stood in his bedroom.
The skeleton is to be reinterred.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
KING IN Fight % np @ @ ' Pa @ |ERR Afa Sag @ cHs @ fn FOREIGN NEWS
Foreigners IN
China in DANGER
Fanines May Lead Natives to
Attempt to Massacre All
Outsiders

VICTORIA, B. c., June 4.-Serious
fan1fnes in several parts of China
threaten to cause large loss of life, ac-
cording to news received by the EN-
press OF India. In northern Kinsu
there is much uneasiness over the petit
tion of proclamations melting the peo-
pie to rise against foreigners. There
are large foreign Touring mills at
suchin. kiangsu, and the proclamations
urge that these be burned and the for
eigners killed.
Women in the United States who
purchase switches of black hair will
be interested to learn that a crusade
has been begun by the Chinese govern
nent against Chinese who supply
human hair for shipment to America.
1t seems that charitable Institution
of Canton, which buries large numbers
>of paupers whose relatives are unable
to provide collins, found the hair deal
erS eXhuming corpSes to recover hair,
and when this was reported to the au-
thorities action was taken against the
dealers. Instances have also been re-
ported of the hair exporters cutting
hair in crowds. and the officials are
prosecuting all sapprehended.
The Japanese ministry is endeavor-
ing to persuade the naval authorities
to postpone their proposed scheme for
building a number of battleships, owin g
to the lack of national funds. The
Tokyo Nippon says the safety of the
Katsura government will be endan-
gered if the naval authorities rush for
ward their plans for naval increment.
The Empress of India, which arrived
here today. brought 101 saloon passen-
gers and 463 Chinese, of whom 101 will
pay $4,000 In head taxes. The cargo
included silk worth $750,000.
A Chinese fireman on the Empress
was suffocated by a fall of coal when
the steamship was two~days from Vic
tOria
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
LAST TRAIN CALL is
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
Wreckers Go to Work on Goth
ANS Grand Central Station

NEW YORK, June 4.-The last train
call will be heard in the Grand Central
statioiNhere today. The main section
of the famous old structure will close
with the departure of a midnight ex-
press for Boston. Next week the
wreckers will begin their work.
+ The station was built in 1871 and
remode1ed 10 years ago. The altered
building must now disappear to make
room for a greater terminal work on
which was begun several years ago.
So gradual has been the excavation
and building that it is expected that
the tearing down can be accomplished
without the slightest inconvenience to
the public.
When completed the new terminal
with its share of the expenses for cleo
irritation, will represent an invest
ment of $500 900.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05

queen mother. Queen Alexandra has
the tenacious vitality of the long lived
race from which she springs-the late
king and queen of Denmark, as every
body knows, lived to patriarchal ages
but it is vitality tenacious rather than
robust.
NEW QUEEN NO KILL JOY
The new queen, on the other hand,
has the physique of the same stock as
that of the late king. She is fair haired.
blue eyed, rosy checked and of a full
figure. Her mother, the late duchess
of Teck, resembled her cousin, King
Edward, both mentally and physically
like him, enjoyed routs and hustle
and ceremonies and. like him, had a
robust appetite and inexhaustible spir-
its and strength.
The new queen has the reputation of
exercising great influence over her hus-
band. and the new court therefore,
may be somewhat inclined to prudery,
though, Of course, it is impossible that
1t ever should be so extreme in that
respect as the court of Queen Victoria.
The new queen, though domesticated,
is not gloomy, lachrymose or killjoy.
She said of herself that she was a very
naughty child. She dances we'll and
loves dancing. Therefore, one may
expect court that is at once gay and
particular.
She has the reputation also of taking
her duties and position seriously, and
though I don't know how far this is
well founded-she is said to have a
considerable leaning toward Irish peo-
pie.
So far as the tendencies of the new
king in politics are concerned, there
used to be an idea that he was a strong
tory. He has been seen more fire.
quently in the house of commons than
his father ever was, and he keeps in
touch with the leading men of all
political parties. Among his intimates
are, 1 happen to know, some very
strong liberals, who, though courtiers,
are of strong popular opinions.
LIMITATIONS TO POWER
And the great outstanding fact of all
English royalties is that they all real
ize that they are above all things con-
stitutional sovereigns, limited and
bound by the traditions of that fact.
The first item in the constitutional gos-
pei is that the king must shelter his
own opinions and personality behind
his ministers; that they, not he, are
responsible for the political action of
the country. And 1 have heard already
that the ministers who have been
brought into personal contact with the
king find that he fully realizes all this.
If Balfour will undertake to assume
Office iny the present house of commons
it is possible that the king will re-
fuse the immediate guarantees to the
liberals. But Balfour may refuse, not
being anxious for Office and, above all,
to assume Office in a house of commons
where he would be in a minority.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
KIPLING SCORED
BY BERNARD SHAW
Critic Says Ode to Late King
Might Have Contained
More Absurdity
Especial Gable to The Call

LONDON. June 4.-George Bernard
Shaw severely scores Kipling for his
banal ode on the kings death. He says:
"If Kipling had added another verse
praising King Edward for his kind
thought in providing the comet for the
consolation of his people after his
funeral that verse would not have been
a whit more absurd than the rest of
the poem.
"Kipling knows as well as I do that
the king no more governed England
and disposed of his subjects lives at
his pleasure than Kipling himself, and
that since King Canute and his fiatter-
ers passed away only foolish creatures
who try to assassinate monarchs have
any such delusion.
Indeed. Kipling's own power is 90
times greater than that of any king,
because he can speak to the people,
whereas even the kaiser, for all his
mailed fist and ancestors. was no longer
allowed to utter a word to his loyal
subjects. He must publicly take writ
ten words from the hands of his min
listers and repeat them obediently.'
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
ROYAL STANDARDS
OVER TWO HOUSES
Queen Mother Not Inclined to
. Vacate Buckingham Palace
[SpeeioI Gable 10 The Call

LOPcSfOt AdDte 10 ne 4 all
LONDON, June 4-Royal standards
are flying at present over both Buck
ingham palace and Marlborough house
an unprecedented and irregular con-
dition of things which has excited
much gossip. The royal standard
should float only over the actual resi-
dence of the sovereign. He is still
staying at Marlborough house because
Queen Alexandra shows no disposition
to vacate the royal apartments at
Buckingham palace. The royal stand
ard flies over buckingham palace by
her order, though she has no right to
that distinction. The queen mother
apparently can not bring herself to
surrender her privileges as. queen con-
sort. Her retirement to Sandringham
has already been twice postponed.
Meantime her ladies in waiting and
maids of honor are in an anomalous
position. Their appointments formally
lapsed with the change of kings, but
Queen Alexandria maintains exactly the
same state as she did when. she was
queen consort and keeps them IN at
tendance as before.
She ignores the existence of the new
queen, who shows great patience,
though this state of conditions can
not continue much longer.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
.REID'S SON IN LAW
TO GET COURT JOB
King and Queen Visit John
Wards Mother at Her Rich
mOnd Residence
Especial Gable TO The Call


LONDON, June 4.--Georgina, countess
of Dudley, is the only private person
King George and Queen Mary have Wis
tied since their accession to the throne
They went by automobile to her Rich
mond park residence last Thursday aft
ernoon, took tea and remained two
hours.
The countess had her son, John Ward
and his wife, Amba ssador Reid's daugh-
ter, meet the king and queen. So 1t is
now believed that Ward will get po-
sition in the new royal household. II
not as an equerry, then as an extra
secretary.
The secretaryship would be a more
onerous post, but a more important
one, as he would be in line of promotion
to the principal secretaryship, one OF
the most coveted posts at court.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
CLEVER CROOKS ROB
DENTIST OF VALUARLES
Beautiful Woman's Appeal for
Rescue Just a Ruse

VIENNA, June 4.-Francis Evans. a
dentist of Philadelphia. has been visit
ing the hunting. exhibitions at Vienna.
While walking In a lonely spot in the
exhibition grounds the other evening
he heard a loud cry. A beautiful
woman, elegantly dressed, ran up and
impIored him to defend her.
A moment later two suspicious men
came in sight. but quickly disappeared
when they saw him.
The girl hung heavily on the arm
of the doctor, who helped her to a
car. Then he missed his gold watch
and chain, diamond scarfpin and q
pocketbook containing $500.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
WINE OF FIFTH CENTURY
VINTAGE EXHIBITED
Bottle Discovered in Ancient
Graveyard Near Bordeaux

PARIS, June 4.-Wine of a fifth CEN
tury vintage was exhibited by Pro-
fessor Julian at a meeting of one Of
the learned societies here.
The ultramatured wine, 1900 years
in bottle, was discovered in the GAL
lo-Roman cemetery of st. Seurim, near
Bordeaux, where excavations have been
going on.
It's antiquity was judged by the
shape of the bottle as well as BY the
place of its discovery. 1t is not re-
corded whether any one has had the
temerity to taste the ancient beverage.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
MISSIONARIES DROWNED
WHILE BATHING IN SEA
Miss M. Williams and Howard
Bishop Lose Their Lives

BOMBAY, June 4.-Miss Mary E.
Williams and Howard Bishop, mission
aries. were drowned while sea bathing
in the gulf Of Cambay, at Bulsar, north
of this city. Bishop lost his life in at
tempting TO save his companion. The
bodies were recovered
Miss williams and Bishop were sent
to India by the Methodist Episcopal
church. Bishop was from Webster,
Ia. and Miss Williams from Grove
City, Pa
Bishop was the head of the Nadiad
Industrial and engineering institute.
He was born in webster in 1880. and
was graduated from the Iowa state coll
lege in 1904 with the degree of me-
chanicai engineer. He was married to
Miss Mary Dawson, and in the year of
his graduation went to Nadiad.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
AMERICAN PRISONERS
MEMORIAL UNVEILED
Church on Bleak Dartmoor
Honors Heroes of 1872

LONDON, June 4.--The window placed
in the village church at Princetown as
a memorial for American prisoners OF
the war of 1872 was unveiled today.
The church stands in Dartmoor, a
bleak stretch of tableland in the south
part of Avonshire. and near the his
toric Dartmoor prison, where the
American sailors were confined.
1t was recently restored by Ameri-
cans, who also purchased the memorial
window.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
GEORGE OF GREECE
is BUSY. INCOGNITO
Travels to Rome to Confer Re.
garding Cretan Situation

ROME, June 4.-King George of
Greece arrived here today in the strict
est incognito to confer with King
Victor Emmanuel, regarding the Cretan
situation. and to urge that Italy, as
one of the four protecting powers of
the island. assist in the realization OF
the Cretan ideals.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
AMERICAN SAILORS
RECEIVED BY POPE
Pontiff Advises Religion, Brav.
cry and Loyalty to Country

ROME, June 1.-THE pope received
in private audience today Monsignor
Kennedy, rector of the American college
in Rome, who presented to his holiness
a group of American sailors from the
United States cruiser New York, which
is anchored in the bay of Naples. The
pontiff urged the men of the navy to
observe discipline and serve their coun-
try Loyalty, being brave as well as re-
ligious.