The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 25, 1901, Page 6

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Manager Foreign Advertising, uette Bullding, (ong Distance 'reles'»r::‘ “Central 26019.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON. STEPHEN B. SMITH. NEW YORK NEWS STANDE: Walderf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Uniom Square; Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont FHouse: Avditorium Hotel. Grand Opera House—*Fedora." Central—*Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Tivoli—*“The Toy Maker." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville everv afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. JqS5ieenth &nd Folsom streets—Scientific Boxing, Thuraday, uly 4 Sutro Bathe—Swimming. ATUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen & Co.—Monday, July 24, at 12 o'clock, Choice Property, at 14 Montgomery street. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call subscribers contemplating a change of Fesidence during the summer months cam have fhelr paper forwarded by mail to their mew REGISTER AND UNITE. Y the Republican Primary League there has | B been issued an earnest appeal upon the sub- ject of registration. The appeal points out that “all citizens not registered at the last election should register; all who came of age since the last general election also, and all citizens not registered ! who have secured a legal residence in the State and county since the last general election; all foreign-born | citizens naturalized within ninety days next preceding the last gereral election and prior to May 15, 1901; ! all electors who have changed their residence from another county in this State to this county since the | last general election and prior to May 13, 1901, should register. The largest class who must register is where a citizen was registered but has moved out of his precinct. All this class must register in order to vote. All citizens who are on the register and who have made no change of residence since the last general election need not register.” It will be noted that the appeal is not addressed to Republicans only but to all citizens. It is in no sense partisan. Its object is to arouse the voters to a con- sciousness of the importance of primary elections, so that they may register and secure their right to take | part in them. The approaching primary election is to be held on August 13, and registration so far as that election is concerned will close on August 3. Those facts should be impressed upon the minds of business, working and professional men, who are so apt to overlook political duties and neglect the pri- maries. While the league has thus rendered a service to the community as a whole, it has not been neglectful of its mission to advance Republicanism. Called into existence for the purpose of ridding the party of any donger of boss domination, and as far as possible eliminating factions from the party ranks, it has ad- dressed itself to the party as a whole and has invited to its membership all who stand for genuine Republi- canism. The character of the organization is attest- ed by the character of the men chosen to direct its affairs, and by those selected to act as an advisory committee. These gentlemen are known as the ex- emplars of a broad and comprehensive party loyalty. The organization has no particular candidate to sup- port nor any to oppose. It seeks only to bring out the full strength of the rank and file of the party at the primaries so that the delegates elected to the nom- inating convention may be truly representative of the party. A convention made up of such delegates can be relied upon to nominate a ticket that all Republi- cans and independent ci‘izens will be willing to sup- port. To such an organization there can be no objection except on the part of men who have factional in- stincts, or who are desirous of playing the part of leaders in order to gratify an uneasy vanity or to promote the ambitions of some candidate who pre- fers to trust to intrigue rather than to make an open canvass before the party as a whole. Such men are naturally in opposition to the league, for the léague is in opposition to their schemes. It is hardly , THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1901. THE CHINESE GRAB. HE European powers are getting ready for Tfunher and most outrageous exactions from China. Not content with devastating a popu- lous part of the empire, murdering thousands of inno- cent people and leaving hundreds of thousands to die of famine by cutting the grand canal and inundating the country, they demand an indemnity which gro- tesquely exceeds any proper compensation for in- juries complained of, and will oppress an impover- ished people for many generations to come, and upon China’s consent to take the burden they mow pro- pose to add to it the cost of sending their armies of robbers and murderers and maintaining them in China while they looted and slaughtered. It is a grievous spectacle, but in all Christendom there appears no man tall enough above the sordid mass to sting the civilized conscience with the re- morse that should frighten it at contemplation of the” crime. In all justice and common fairness China should be gredited with the millions stolen and destroyed, and if the life of a Christian is appraised at a certain sum, the life of an innocent Chinese murdered wan- tonly by a brutal soldiery should at least partly off- set that sum. An American has the right to feel proud at the moderation of our soldiers and the attitude of our Government. We and Japan present the only bright spot in this bloody picture of murder, greed and re- pacity. The nations prate about trade with China and at the same time propose to burden those people with exactions that will leave them able to supply only the most primitive wants, while what should go into trade to keep pace with their rise to a higher plane of existence, with its wants increasing with the ability to supply them, will go to gorge the greed of the worst band of robbers that ever made the vin- dication of religion a pretext for crimes unspeakable. But turn where one will there seems no spark of humanity or justice to encourage the hope of a more humane policy. Our Government has fought the dip- lomatic fight for justice step by step, but could not prevail alone or with the help of Japan only among the nations. We do not impeach British public opinion nor governmental policy with willing acquiescence in this sordid tragedy, but unfortunately for humanity Eng- land is in no position to aid in the eniorcement of the American and Japanese view. The undoing of the wretched wrong must prob- ably be left to remote time and history. When Europe has reached the period of decay that follows all national excesses, out of Asia may be shot the avenging thunderbolt. The pity of pities in the whole sad business is the harm wrought in Christendom itself by those who rob, murder and oppress in its name. How can peo- ple square what is done and proposed with the spirit of Christianity which cries out to mankind, Return not evil for evil, but overcome evil with goad; love your enemies, and those who despitefully use you; let not the sun go down on your wrath, and let him who is without sin cast the first stone? Who can imagine the founder of Christianity looting in Pe- king and bragging about it in the newspapers, and regretting that he was not able to steal more from those he called his enemies? Then who can imagine | his followers sweeping the' country bare with the vile besom of greed and lust, and making a starving people pay for being robbed? The comscience of the world slumbers. Will the pulpit, silent now while these things be, ever sound a trumpet. that shall rouse it? THE FOREST FIRES. HE commercial instinct was gratified and the TState was startled by the recent report of a cut of nearly 700,000 feet of sugar pine lumber in one week by one mill in the Sierras. It ifmplies the rapid disappearance of our forests of most valuable timber, without any means being provided to secure on the same land another crop. But, after all, it is putting the present crop to economic use, and though future generations will miss it, the present one gets some money out of it. The destruction of our forests by fire has not even the solace of present profit in it. The present and the future are both losers, and of the waste there is no possible repair. The late rains in the mountains this year produced an abundant crop of grass which is now dry and ready to catch from the cigarette or camp fire of the hunter and camper. Already enough timber is burning to obscure the view of the high mountains from the foothills, and before the quench- ing rains of September the destruction of the forests will probably exceed that of any past year. It is the belief of observers familiar with the mountains that the area swept by fires is annually increasing, and the timber destroyed thereby is five times greater than the yearly cut for commercial purposes. The lum- berman has some excuse for hastening to get all his timber into merchantable shape, in the certainty that it will be burned unless he gathers it in. The rapid extirpation of these forests by fire is not creditable to the State. Two sessions of the Legis- lature have passed since the subject of protection of timber was pointedly agitated and called to public attention. Plans for prevention were formulated and discussed fruitlessly. The State has commissions to officially regulate the shaving of a man’s chin and the amputation of his hair. It has a board that regu- lates the men who pull teeth and administer emetics. It has official oversight of architecture provided by law. Commissions, boards and regencies abound, sumptuously endowed with public authority to do everything from pursuit of the white cushiony cotton scale to the damming of slickens. But it has no one charged with the duty of preventing the wicked and wanton destruction of the forests. The Ilast Legislature appropriated $250,000 to buy the redwood forests of the Great Basin. That was proper and praiseworthy. But that limited forest area lying near the coast exerts but little influence upon the cli- mate and fertility of the State compared to the vast credible, however, that any man who possesses a fair | and disappearing forests of the Sierras. If the same amount of political sagacity will advertise himself as Legislature had given a few thousands to secure for- a would-be boss Py setting up 2 faction and trying to | est patrols under the guidance of experienced for- split the party on the very eve of the campaign. esters, with authority to arrest and bring to swift It is now the duty of all Republicans to unite with punishment the criminal and the careless who set fire the league and co-operate in the work of making the | or permit it to escape, the benefit to the State in the primary elections not only fair and honest as the long run would have been much greater. All of this law designs, but a full and clear expression of the work is left to such voluntary effort as can be made will of that great body of good citizens who make up | by the California and Sierra clubs®and the Waters the party strength. There may be here and there some notoriety secker or office seeker who will and Forest Society. But all they can do is to urge legislation and goad public opinion into influencing | try to push 'himse!f to the” front, and* who |the law makers, for they have no official authority, will take to himself a high sounding title, parad- |and it would be a waste of money for them to pro- ing as chairman of this or president of that, assuming | vide an unofficial patrol, for wrongdoers would safely to speak for some mythical committee or association defy it. of the party, but he will not seriously disturb the The Sunday Call recently published interviews on harmony that prevails among the rank and file. This | this subject with a number of our most observant is to be a campaign for victory. The way to accom- |and experienced mountaineers. They all agree that plish it has been pointed out by the Republican |the need is pressing, and that the Federal reservations League and is summed up in three words: register |are rapidly preparing for destruction by accumu- lation of drift and dead timber. They point to the | sad example of other timbered regions, by which we should be warned, but they all admit the hopelessness of the situation without the help of State and Federal law. L : When forest destruction has impaired the fertility of the State and made the desert show its white teeth where now the rose charms with its blush, the people who come after us will read that we spent our time over such grave questions as the number of attaches necessary to wait on one member of our Legislature, and let the forests burn and drought and the desert come. We will be known as a generation which made one blade of grass grow where two grew before, and posterity will have little occasion to remember-us with respect. THE IRRIGATION PLAN. EVERAL State engineers and members of Congress met in Cheyenne last week to formu- late some plan for securing funds for irriga- tion. A careful reading of their conclusions discloses the fact that, however unwillingly, they abandon Senator Carter’s position, cease to look for an appropriation in"the river and harbor bill, and turn to the public domain as the source of revenue for the building of irrigation works. The outline of the measure they propose provides that all moneys received from the sale or disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, Ne- vada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington, beginning with the fiscal year 1903, with exceptions covering cost of land ad- ministration, shall be reserved for the benefit of the State or Tex:ritory in which such lands are sold, to be an arid land reclamation fund,‘to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the examination, sur- vey and construction of reservoirs and other irriga- tion works. The sale of lands in the States nmamed will not produce much revenue, and when sold the revenue ceases altogether; but the “disposal” of lands by leasing the stock ranges will produce approximately ten millions of dollars a year, and it will not cease with the first year, but will be continuous and prob- ably increase as the pasture is permitted to recover and the land carries more stock. That meeting of irrigators might as well have used the phrase, “Sale or lease,” for leasing is the only other method of dis- posal of the public domain, and the Government is already leasing the grazing lands in the Indian reser- vations, very beneficially to the lands and to the In- dian funds. Not only does this irrigation plan cover the land leasing, which The Call has so long advo- cated, but it covers the detail of that plan which we have suggested by making it optional with the States and Territories concerned whether they will accept such a law or not. The meeting proposed that any of the States or Territories desiring to avail them- selves of the provisions of the act shall enact laws accepting its provisions and organize and maintain a State engineer’s office, with authority to plan and make estimates for reservoirs, to be paid for out of the reclamation fund. As another important de- tail they propose that such works shall belong to the State and may be sold only to the actual consumers of the water. This is to prevent their alienation to speculators in drought and famine, and properly holds them for the use of the land irrigators and tillers for whose benefit they are built. If so sold the proceeds are to go back into the arid land fund, to be used over again for reclamation purposes. That is an ex- cellent provision, for if honestly administered it creates a revolving fund that may be used over and over again to develop and store water. The junction is now fairly made between the ir- rigators and the stockmen. The purpose .of each class can be forwarded in one bill, and the greatest step taken in the interest of the West since the rail- roads were built can be accomplished. The country will be relieved by this determination of the West to use the public domain as a producing asset to pro- vide irrigation in preference to putting another load on the sinful shoulders of the river and harbor biil. The progress of aridity will be arrested by leasing the stock ranges and making it to the interest of the leaseholders to renew their forage, thereby restoring the vegetable protection to the moisture in the soil. The deep springs that have been dried up by de- struction of the ranges will again become affluent, and the run-off of streams will recover its regularity. So this policy will not only get money for irrigation works, but will also conserve the water to fill them. Lo Chin On, a mandarin who has been sent to New York to study railroads and American commercial methods, is reported to have said that he regards the Boxer uprising as a blessing in disguise, and that good will come out of it in the end. In the mean- time the cheerful optimist will continue to draw his salary in New York and keep away from the place where the disguised blessing is going around with a gun in one hand and a hatchet in the other. It has been noted by political experts that the Re- publican party is now free of factions and feuds for the first time in thirty years; while the eclements of opposition are more hopelessly divided than at any time since 1860. It seems as if the people as a whole have decided to settle down to sound money and protection and let Republican statesmen run the government. Senator Burrows has announced that at the com- ing session of Congress he will propose an amend- ment to the constitution providing that when a vacancy in the Senate shall occur by failure of a State Legislature to elect, it shall be the duty of the Governor to issue a proclamation calling for the elec- tion of a Senator by the people. The proposition is a good one and will doubtless have strofig support. The report that Lord Pauncefote is to hold the office of British Embassador to the United States until the Nicaraguan canal question is settled must be erroneous, or else it is the intention of the British Government to give the old man the place as a per- manency and let him amuse himself with the job for the rest of his life. ) Frederic Harrison has done us something of in- justice in his assertion: “Life in the States is one perpetual whirl of telephones, telesems, phonographs, electric bells, motors, lifts and automatic instru- ments.” No American would accept a “lift” even in a whirl; nothing less than an elevator suits us. At a recent conference the owners of cotton mills in Georgia decided to abolish child labor in their factories, and. thus another important step has been taken in the upward road that is to bring the in- dustries of the South on a level with those of the rest of the Union. The occurrence of so many strikes in this season of prosperity may justify a conclusion that prosper- ity causes strikes, but it remains to be seen how many it can cause before it collapses. CAPTAIN MAHAN, NAVAL EXPERT, IS COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO 0 HE most distinguished of the lay- men who are expected to attend the I triennial convention of the Episco- pal church in the United States, to be held in this ecity in October next. is probably Captain Alfred T. Mahan, who has been elected from the Diocese of Washington, D. C. Captain Mahan, though serving a long and active career in the navy, seems to have lacked oppor- tunity for the performance of those con- spicuous actions which crown the naval hero with enduring fame. His record from the time when he entered the navy as a cadet in 1859, after graduating at An- napolis, until his retirement three years ago, was that of a faithful and studious officer who was held in supreme confi- dence by his superiors. After serving in Brazil until 1861 he was assigned to the frigate Congress and afterward to the steamer Pocahontas, serving with the | blockading squadron until 1862. On Au- gust 31, 1861, he was commissioned as lieu- tenant. In 1863 and 1863 he was assigned to the United States Naval Academy and afterward successively to the steam sloop Seminole, steamers Muscoota and Iro- quois, the last with the Aslatic squadron. In 1869 he was commander of the Aroos- took, then in China waters, and in 1370 and 1871 served at the navy vard, New York. In 1871 he commanded the Worces- ter and received his commission as com- mander in 1872, In 1873 and 1874 he com- PERSONAL MENTION. R. F. Johnson, Mayor of Monterey, i3 at the Grand with his wife. Albert Hanson, the well-known jeweler of Seattle, is staying at the Palace. J. Kullman, a well-known tanner of Benicia, is at the Grand for a few days. Professor S. P. Langley of the Smith- sonian Institution of Washington is at the Palace. A. F. Stoger, an extensive brewer of St. Louis, is a guest at the Palace for a few davs. G. E. Cutter of the Dodd-Mead Publish- ing Company of Chicago arrived here yes- terday and is at the Palace. Dr. K. M. Lundberg, a prominent den- tist of Upper Lake, formerly well-known as a Berkeley athlete, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. W. H. Wallace, accompanied by his wife and family, arrived here yesterday from Eureka for a short visit, and regis- tered at the Lick. Charles Carr, one of the leading real estate agents of Monterey County, is in the city on business and has made the Grand his headquarters. John Edward FHeaton, a prominent young club man of New Haven, Conn., who is touring the coast, returned from Del Monte yesterday and is at the Palace. Edmund F. Flinn, who worked for a number of years as an artist on local papers, arrived here yesterday from New York. He is now cartoonist of the Even- ing World and iIs spending his summer vacation with his parents in this city. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24—The following Californians registered to-day; At the National—E. W. Ehmann, R. G. Lincoln; at the 8t. James—Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Kaufman, John J. Wither; at the | Ebbitt—W. C. Bunner; at the Albany— Hon. E. F. Loud, all from San Francisco. £ ————— A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Why can’t a man’s nose be longer than eleven inches?” * “‘Oh, if it were over twelve it would be a foot.”—Yale Record. Major Crust—So you refuse me, Miss Fondant? Miss F.—I am very sorry, Ma- Jor Crust, but your son just proposed to me, and I accepted him. Major C.—Good gracious! You don’t mean to say the boy has been such a fool!—Tit-Bits. This is the way he wrote to her: “Molly: I has not had a line from you in three weeks. Has you throwed me over?” . And this is the way she answered Liim: ‘“John: Hain't you hearn tell that T am on a sick bed, where I am slowly a- dyin’, an’ can't write a line to save my life, you fool, you?’'—Atlanta Constitu~ tion. “I'm afrald I can't interest -my fiv year-old Elsie in fairy tales any longer. “And why not?” “I was telling her about the ‘Forty Thieves,’ and when I got to the forty oil jars with a thief in each jar, what do you suppose she sald?”’ “T give it up.” “She eald, ‘Wouldn’t that jar you? »— Plain Dealer. He—There, dear, after toiling and plan- ning for years, we have at last been able to buy this beautiful home, and you ought to be perfectly happy. She—But I'm not. He—What's the matter? & She—I know we shall never be able to sell it.—Harper's Bazaar. “~ AN ARTLESS DODGER. Citizen—I want a perfectly noiséless lawn mower. Dealer—You are a very considerate per- son. Citizen—Yes, I have to be. If I can't get up early and cut grass without the neigh- bors hearing me I'll have to lend that lawn mower seven times before I get to use it again myself.—Record Herald. -+ TATTAL o g CAPTAIN MAHAN, THE GREAT AUTHORITY ON NAVAL TOP- gty [ ¢ 1 k3 - manded the Wasp during a voyage to South America. For two successive years he was stationed at the Boston navy yard, and until 1883 passed his time first at the United States Naval Academy and after- ward at the New York navy yard. From 1883 to 1885 he commanded the Wachusett, .%PHH—H*!—H—I-F%H'FH-I%H-%H—WHH‘R—H—H-. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ASSAYS-J. 8. F. w., Austin, N University of California will ass: and tell what it contains, but will not glve the percentage. There are a nunb of assay offices in San Francisco that w. furnish results in detail. The cost of sucl assays Is from $20 up. OIL WELLS-J. S. W. F., Austin, Nev. It is fmposstble to tell how much it would cost ta bore an oil well, or what machin- ery would be requisite without knowledge of the character of ground. To tell the cost of boring and the kind of machirery that Is requisite for each particular kird of ground would occupy from two to three columns of space. ev. The ay rock IN CASE OF POISONING—Subscriber, City. In case of poisoning the following rules are laid down: First, send for a physician at once. In the meantime in- duce vomiting by tickling the throat with either a finger or feather. Make the par- ty who took the poison swallow hot water or strong water and mustard; also sweet oll or the whites of eggs. Acids are anti- dotes for alkalies, and vice versa. OLD-TIME ACTOR—C. L., City. There was an old-time actor named Ed. N. Thayer who played with McCullough at the old California Theater. He was a member of the stock company. This de- partment does not know of any Thomas Thayer who plaved with MecCullough at that theater. If there was such a. person he must have taken very insignificant parts. as his name does’ not appear in the list of those who were prominent on the boards of the California. THERMOMETER—L D. T., City. To convert Fahrenheit to centrigrade sub- tract 32 and multiply by 100-180, or 3-9. Vice versa. To pass from centigrade to Fahrenheit multiply by 9-5 and add 32. In the Fahrenheit scale the freezing peint is 32 degrees and the boiling point is 212-degrees, so that the space between these is divided into 21232, or 180 equal parts or degrees. In the centigrade scale the freezing point is the zero, but the boiling point is 100. Tt is easy to reduce from one scale to another. To ascertain the centigrade reading for 77 Fahrenheit: The numbers in the Fahrenheit scale are all too great by 32, because 32 and not 0 etands for the freezing point. Subtract 32 fronr 77 and 45 remains. Hence the re. quired number of centigrade degrees must bear the same ratio to the 100 from freez- ing to boiling point in that scale that the 45 bears to the 180 degrees between the same Hmits in Fahrenheit; the requisite number therefore is 43-180 100, equals 25 centigrade. MARE ISLAND—M. L. Port Costa Cal. Nearly every position in the navy- yard at Mare Island is under civi] service rule. Soldiers and sailors are preferreq claimants for positions. Persons who served in the military or naval service of the United States and ‘were discharged by reason of disabilities resulting from wounds or sickness incur- red in the line of duty are, under the civil service rules, given certain preferw ences. They are released from al] maxi- age limuations, are eligible for ap- pointment at a grade of 6, while all others are obliged to obtain a grade of 70, ang are certified to appointing officers before all others. Subject to the other condi- tions of the rules, any person who served in the military or naval service of the United States in the War of the Rebellion or Spanish-Amerfcan war and was hon- orably discharged therefrom, or the wiq. ow of any such person, or any a nurse of sald war, may be reinstated without regard to the length of time he m; she has been separated from the ser- vice. If you were appointed under the service rules and were discharged for of funds and that now there is an o] tunity to go to work again and yor refused reinstatement you should your complaint to the Civil mission at Washington, civil lack Ppor- u are make Service - D.C Com. then stationed on the Pacific, and was promoted captain In the latter year. Transferred to Annapolis, he served as professor until 188 and as president until 1889, when he was appointed on a com- mission to select a navy yard in the Northwest. It was during those quiet years that he served as lecturer at Annapolls that the germs of those wonderful works on naval topics were conceived. Captain Mahan's lectures to the students of the academy became celebrated. Luminous, judicial, profound and faultless in style, they in- terested an audience far beyond the con- fines of the institution in which they were originally delivered. Encouraged by pub- lic apprecidtion, Captain Mahan ventursd to give wider circulation to his pavers in the magazines and reviews and subse- quently to publish that wonderful work on “Influence of Sea Power on History,” which came as a revelation to every gov- ernment in the world, stimulating the im- perial idea and encouraging the grasp for colonial extension and vaster navies. In the opinion of Englishmen of affairs this work of Captain Mahan's was epochal and the greatest book of the nineteenth century. Captain Mahan's “Life of Nel- son” has never been equaled, and all other, books that he has written have been translated into every civilized language. During the war with Spain Captain Mahan was a member of the Naval Board of Strategy and performed signal service. In the opinion of naval authoritles Cap- tajn Mahan's literary works have never been appreached by writers living or dead. GOVERNMENT SEARCHING FOR HARDY ORANGE A large crop of paper bags seems to be the yield of a little tree which stands in the grounds of the Department of Agri- culture at Washington says the New York Sun. There are about fifty of these bags, each with the neck tied firmly, as close inspection discloses, about one of the terminal twigs. The effect is rather grotesque. The tree is the particular charge of Pro- fessor Herbert J. Webber, who, with his assistant, s responsible for its bagging. It is a specles of orange tree, the variety having been brought to the United States from China about ten years ago with the idea of using it for hedges. It is ever- green, grows about fhirty feet high and has sharp thorns. The fruit is small and runty, and quite unfit for foed. But the fact that it flourishes as far north as Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana and Mis- souri gives it a great value to the scien- tists, who are experimenting with a view to securing a more hardy breed of orange. Ard this is the explanation of the crop of paper bags. The blossoms of the tree have just been crossed with the St. Michaels and Saguina oranges, which are the standard varieties of sweet Flor- ida fruit. Professor Webber is trying to secure a hybrid which will retain the edible qualities of the sweet Florida cr- ange, and at ths same time preserve the hardiness of the Chinese mother tree. One plant. with these characteristics would be worth more than a bonanza gold mine. It would serve as the parent stock for thousands of ' plants which would be grown throughout the Guilf States, revolutionizing the agricultural in- dustries there and ylelding millions to the growers. Experiments with this end In view be- gan several years ago. At the present time tte department has about 300 hybrid seediings. It is expected that some of these will bear their first fruit this fall, though the majority of them will not bear much befors next year. The 300 hybrid seedlings which Profes- sor Webber has secured represent a deal of patient labor. To cross varieties which are closely related is a comparatively sim- ple matter, but the: Chinese orange and the Florida variety have been so long separated, and have grown in such differ- ent environments, that they have almost forgotten that they belong to the same genus, and they do not take kindly to each other. Consequently not more than one blosom out of a hundred fertilized with the foreign pollen bears fruit; and then not more than seven out of fifteen seeds In that fruit will germinate and pro- duce a plant. The paper bags are used to protect the flower which has been fertilized with the pollen of the sweet orange. The first step in the operation of cross-fertilization 1s the removal of the pollen-bearing stamen from the blossom. This is done with small scissors and pincers. The petals are also removed, leaving the stigma ex- posed. This is all done before the blos- soms are fully opened: for by that time there is danger that bees or other insects might have carried the pollen from some open blossom and deposited it on the stigsma. When the stamen has been completely remcved pollen is gathered from the blos- soms of the trees in the Government greenhouses and shaken lightly upon the prepared flower. Then the bag is tied tightiy in place to make sure that no pollen from the same tree becomes mingled with that already used. After the fruit has had time to begin forming the bags are removed and the twig is marked with a tag giving the name of the other parent. As soon as the seedlings bud they are sent to different parts of the country to be grafted on plants which have already been started. Thus it is soon discovered whether the plant is sufficiently hardy, and the only remaining question is as to the quality of the frui: Chofce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® —_———— Cal. glace fruit 59 per 1b at Townsend's.® —_————— Special Information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * —_—_——— Quickest Way to Yosemite. “The Santa Fe to Merced and stage thence via Merced Falls, Coulterville, Hazel Green, Merced, Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Veil Falls to Sentinel Hotel. 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