The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 12, 1901, Page 6

THE S/ N FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1901. Che ZEoe @all ..JULY 12, 1901 FRIDAY SPRECKELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. Adéress All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Managsr MANAGER'S OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS +..217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mnail, Incinding FPostage: DATLY CALL (including Sunday), one year... DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months DAILY CALL ¢ncluding Sunday), 3 month: DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY (ALL. One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to reccive subsecriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. .$6.00 3.00 1.50 . & Mefl eubscribers In orderiag change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadwsay €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marguetts Building. Ohieago (Long Distance Telephone *“‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON........ ++s+...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B, SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO' NEWS STAND! Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1408 G St. N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. C. C BRANCH OFFICES—s2 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:3 o'clock. 200 Hayes, open untfl 9:30 o'clock, 633 MeAllister, open untfl 9:3) o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1796 Valencia, open untfl 9 c'clock. 106 Eleventh, cpen untll § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*Under Two Flags.” Alcazar—*“The School for Scandal. Grand Opera-house—*‘Secret Service.” Central—*‘Held by the Enemy.” Tivoli—*Babes in the Wood.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Pischer’'s—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. T.ecreation Park—Baseball, Sundey, at 10:30 a. m. Chutes. Zoo and Theater—French National Celebration, Sunday, July 14 Sutro Baths—Swimming. > 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subseribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new sddresres by motifying The Cail Business Office. This puper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent im =11 towns on the coast. F ments of the Republican party have rallied to the support of the Primary League, good omens can be drawn to cheer the party in the campaign that is to come. In fact since the organization of clubs in the various Assembly districts it may be said that victory is in sight. Nothing now remains but to continue the work. Ii that be done with enthusiasm and vigor all will be well. VICTORY IN SIGHT. ROM the readiness with which the better ele- In taking that sanguine view of the situation, The | Call does not overlook the menace of bossism that still threatens municipal politics. The professional politi- cians with their gangs are well aware of the advantage which an honest primary election law gives the better elements of the party, but they are not discouraged. 1t is their belief that many good citizens will rely upon the law and neglect to go to the polls, and actordingly | they are arranging tc make a fight wherever they think they have a chance to win. Their hopes are not altogether vain. It is certain that any falling off in the earnestness of the better elements of the party would in some cases be followed by victory for the bosses. The Call, however, does not believe there will be any diminution in the activity of the league clubs, and consequently it counts the defeat of the gangs as a foregone conclusion. The one issue before genuine Republicans at this time is to make ready for the struggle at the primaries. To that end every member of the party should see to it that he is properly registered, and then unite with the league club in his Assembly district. In that way he will keep in touch whth the general movement of the party and be well advised for what candidates to vote at the primaries. That is a public duty to which all Republicans should attend. Tt can hardly be mecessary to point out the im- portance of the primary elections. From them are to emanate the delegates who are to make the party nominations for the offices that are to be filled at the coming municipal election. In times past when pri- maries were dominated by bosses, it frequently hap- pened that the party conventions nominated men whom honest Republicans would not support. The primary election law affords honest Republicans a means of defeating that sort of work and assuring an honest convention. It can no longer be said that the primaries will be controlled by force or fraud, and consequently there can be no longer a good excuse for staying away from them. The issue is now fairly up to the better elements of the party. It is for them to determine what the result will be. It was for the purpose of rousing the better elements of all parties to a realization of the advantages con- ferred upon them by the primary law that the Repub- lican Primary League was organized. One of its chief objects is to get all citizens to take part in the pri- maries and to suppori and maintain the new law by demonstrating its usefulness in actual operation. In addition to that general work, the league aims at pro- moting the election of thoroughly representative men to the Republican nominating convention, so that a ticket may be nominated worthy of the support of all Republicans and of all independent voters. With those objects every genuine ‘Republican can sym- pathize and can co-operate for their attainment. That is the appeal which is now being made to the better clements of the party, and fortunately all evidences point to the conclusion that the appeal is being gen- erally heeded. A New York lad who failed recently to-reach a re- quired standard in his studies shot himself to death. He possibly felt that he ought to save some one else the trouble later in life. OREGONIAN ANTICS. E seem to have offended the Portland Ore- W gonian, and it has become pustular in its | temper toward The Call and all things Cali- fornian. We were not aware that the Oregonian con- sidered Oregon such a wallflower among the States that she gets green-eyed when the beau of the ball dances with California. Mr. Scott, who edits, owns, inspires, guides and tashions the Oregonian, should not bite his thumb at California, nor say bad things about The Call because we think well of this State. He should not let his | temper go off in a way to disturb the cordial relations | between the two States. If we are not all he could vish us to be let him remember that all things are accomplished by growth, and by what is to-day none can judge of what may be to-morrow. When Mr. Scott was spending ail he had in live stock over in Clackamas County, he could not look forward with prophetic vision and see himseli now, the | Tycoon oi Oregon, and censor morum' of the Pacific Coast. His personality has suppressed the Oregon as a figure, and the familiar lines of the great threnody are now read: . Where rolls the Oregonian And hears no sound, Save its own gnashings. Journalistic peace has been broken, and grim-vis- aged war has taken its place, because we said the Grecian climate of California would produce here the Greek gerius. To this Mr. Scott objects. Why? | Does he expect an Attic development on the Willam ette? While the future legend and vignette of Cali- fornia may be Venus rising froM the sea, that of { Oregon may be a duck sitting under an umbrella. “Even now Editor Scott is dampened to his marrow by the clammy moisture which prevents the Attic salt from getting through the holes in the shaker. His editorial utterances have come to closely resemble the angry hiss of an old gander guarding his brood of { green goslings. Why does he object to Greeks and Greek art in California? No one down here is in an agony of | jealousy because of any of the gifts and graces of 1 Oregon. From the dusty banks of the Malheur to the ;moldy borders of the Columbia, where the air smells | of a mixture of sage brush and alkali and the contents | of the dustpan are used to make saleratus biscuit, there 1is much picturesque misery in Oregon. But rising | above the plain of wet distress towers the form of Editor Scott, like Rooster Rock above the surging ]Columbia, or the tri-faced figure of Satan over the | thick ice of the ninth circle of the tenth hell in Dante’s Inferno; and like that diabolical image, chewing an offender in each of its mouths. Just now he has California in each of his three jaws and the champing is like the noise in Governor Pen- noyer’s sawmill. The scene is attractive to the Greek intellect of California merely as an artistic suggestion. Heére where “the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, in color though varied, in beauty may vie,” it is a | relief sometimes to turn for the pleasures of contrast | to such a scene of terror and of tribulation. But re- cently this Oregon Wallapus was fanging President | McKinley for devotion to his sick wife, and now is tapering off on The Cail and California. May the gods | of Olympus get him and Charon cool him off in the , Styx by towing his inflamed ghost astern of his ferry- | boat. o ———————— Some comment has been made over the fact that the Board of Public Works has committed a serious mis- take,in its estimates of proposed city work. This seems to be unfair criticism. Comment would have been warranted if the Board of Public Works had not made a mistake. A COLORADO DECISION. recently decided that “any enactment relative to the sale of liguor whereby a woman is pro- hibited from purchasing liquors under the same cir- cumstances that a man is, is in violation of her rights under the equal suffrage constitutional provision, and is in violation of the right given a saloon-keeper to sell to a woman as well as to a man. By that last act, the last vestige of inequalities between man and woman under the laws of the State of Colorado was swept away.” It will be remembered that whenever woman suffrage is a subject of discussion the advocates of the measure invariably assert that it would promote the cause of temperance, because women would be sure to vote against the saloons. It is therefore worth noting that if the decision of this Colorado Judge be sound | the effect=of female suffrage in that State has been, not to close saloons to men, but to open them to women. The result may be put down as another | illustration of the truth of the old saying that it is always the unexpected that happens; but that will not alter the effectiveness of it as a refutation of the tem- perance argument of the suffragists. , Of course it is not likely that any considerable num- ber of women in Colorado will take advantage of the rights and pri‘-’ilegs':s of saloon drinking which the Judge says are theirs under the constitution. There is a social law mightiéer than constitutions, and Mrs. | Grundy has a way of enforcing her decrees no matter what courts may say. Still the situation is an interest- ! JUDGE in a Colorado court is reported to have | of the country if Mrs. Carrie Nation’s attention were drawn to it. A young wife in New York is suing for divorce be- cause her husband took a most pronounced dislike to her ancestors and turned her mother’s picture to the wall. The determination of this suit should settle once for all the great and splendid problem involved in the mother-in-law. A MISTAKEN PHILOSOPHER. 5 HILE the tremendous hot wave which has | Wragcd over the East for so long a time has | beer: the direct or indirect cause of many | hundreds of deaths, the most illustrious victim thds ! far has been Professor John Fiske, whose death is at- | tributed, according to the reports, to “heart trouble | and heat prostration.” He died at the age of 59, when, i according to those who knew him well, he should | have lived well on toward the century mark, for he possessed an abnormally strong constitution and was noted for physical as well as mental vigor. A little more than a year ago an eccentric million- | aire in Chicago gave to the world an account of a sys- | tem of living by which he believed men could live for a hundred years. jand over-workingy-and against sudden changes of tem- | perature in the atmosphere. The publication came at | a dull season of the year, and the subject was made a | matter of general discussion. Professor Fiske, whose abounding health and vigor were envied by less for- tunate mortals, took part in the discussion and fur- ; nished to 2 friend an account of ‘his method of living. ing one, and it might add to the midsummer gayety | It included among its specifications | | the exercise of care against over-eating, over-drinking | It was made public at the time and was widely com- mented on, because of its marked variance from the rules which are ordinarily supposed to be conducive to health and long life. 3 "Since his death the account given by Mr. Fiske has been republished and makes interesting reading. It runs this: “Always sit in a draft when I find one, wear the thinnest clothes I can find, winter and sum- mer, catch cold once in three and four years*but not severely, and prefer to work in a cold room, 55 to 60 degrees. Work the larger part of each twenty-four hours, and by day or night indifferently. Scarcely cver change a word cnce written, eat when hungry, rarely taste coffee or wine or smoke a cigar, but drink | two or three quarts of beer each day and smoke a pipe all the time when at work. Never experienced the feeling of disinclination for work, and, therefore, never had to force work. If I feel dull when at work, a half hour at the piano restores normal mental condition, which is one more argument for the hygienic and re- cuperative effects of music.” A life of that kind could be lived only by persons endowed like Mr. Fiske with exfraordinary vigor, and | we now perceive that even for such men it is not safe. Many a man much weaker than the great philosopher will live longer than he simply by living more wisely. | Doubtless Mr. Fiske and his friends would have laughed in scorn had any one suggested that the Chi- cago pork packer was a wiser philosopher than Mr. Fiske, and had a clearer brain for the understanding of life problems, but such seems to have been the fact. It | will not profit any man to over eat, or over drink, or over work or take liberties with the conditions of the atmosphere. e o areen— A statistician figures it up that the gifts to Ameri- can universities announced during the recent com- mencements reached a total of $12817,000. If that sort of thing keeps on the universities will eventually own the country, and be rich enough to hire the Morgans and Rockefellers to work for them. DESTRUCTION OF WILD FLOWERS IVILIZATION, while it is doing so much to ‘ preserve and multiply-everything that is directly useful to it, is tremendously wasteful and de- structive of many of nature's gifts. Even in this coun- try, where civilized man has carried on his work and his waste for but a comparatively short time, we have seen the virtual extermination of the buffalo and the extinction of many a noble forest. We have also per- ceived the danger of an extinction of many of our birds of beautiful plumage. It will therefore be a matter of no great surprise to intelligent men to learn that in Great Britain the naturalists are complaining of the destruction of many of the wild flowers for which rural England has been noted from immemorial time and of which so many of her most famous poets have sung. It appears that since the days of Shakespeare the flora of England has been considerably diminished, many fine species have become exceedingly scarce, while others have disappeared altogether. The Westminster Gazette in reviewing the subject says: “Several species, such as the lizard orchis, the coral- root, the lady’s slipper, the leafless Epipogum and the Fen orchis, may soon have to be reckoned among our extinct species. The sweet-scented sea stock is ex- tinct on the cliffs at Hastings, and is now only to be found in the Isle of Wight. The little Trichonema exists only in one locality in South Devon. In former years the rugged heights of Portland were clothed with the tree-mallow, which also ‘grew at Hurst Castle. In both these localities, and indeed along the whole of the southern coast except in Devon and Cornwall, this splendid plant will now be sought for in vain. From the Isle of Wight many flowers seem to have gone, and concerning many other parts of the country the same story has to be told.” The destruction of the wild flowers is due primarily to the improved facilities of transportation which enable thousands of city people to get out into the country on frequent holidays. To these dwellers a2mong streets of brick and mortar, where flowers are | luxuries for the rich, the temptation to gather wild flowers when they go to the country is irresistible. They pull them by the thousands and drag up many by tihe roots in the hope of being able to grow them in pots at home. The loveliest flowers very naturally are the first to be destroyed. It is said that even the | golden daffodil and wild snowdrop that were for- merly so profuse are now in danger of extinction. Many a year will pass before the wild flowers of California are in danger of extinction, but nevertheless this new proof of the waste of civilization is worth noting. It recalls the rapidity with which our forests are being wasted, and helps to impress the lesson of forest preservation while we have yet a great for- est domain to preserve. e L ——— This is the kind of thing that happens in Phila- delphia: A stranger in the city was called upon at his hotel by a young woman, who told him that she had seen him on the street, was pleased with his looks and | would like to marry him. The stranger saw her father, found out that she has in her own right $40,000, and married her. The whole romance from proposal to marriage occupied less than three days, and yet there are people who say that Philadelphia is slow. _By way of cheering up the people of New York the Sun of that city on one of the hottest days of the torrid season published an account of the great bliz- zard of 189, when many people perished in the streets, and closed by saying, “Oh, what wouldn’t we have given then for a breath of this present weather?” Geronimo, the aged Apache chief who has been many years a prisoner of Uncle Sam, became gay on Independence day, exploded some cannon crackers and nearly created a riot. The old fellow probably wanted just one more suggestion of the old “rough house” which he used to enjoy. After duly studying the effects of the hot spell upon the people of the East, the Springfield Republican says if 100 degrees in the shade were the normal tem- perature, American civilization would disappear like butter on a hot griddle. —_— The manager of a Pennsylvania tin plate manufac- tory has announced that no male employe of the com- pany may have a vacation unless it is to take a bridal tour. Phere must be some very homely girls in that vicinity. —_— Six of the more active woman’s clubs in Chicago have combined to organize a college of domestic arts and sciences, and to show how liberal they are they are going to let young men take some of the courses if they wish. —_— A Massachusetts man has filed a claim for Chicago property worth $250,000,000. He has either taken the W | ing/ pay for prlntlng n GATHERS IN $750,000 IN PACIFIC STOCKS YOUNG ACTRESS WHO HAS WON A FORTUNE IN WALL STREET, NEW YORK. ol \ HILE the exceptional actress in England gathers coronets, her sister on this side of the Atlan- tic gathers that which procures coronets. . That, at all events, is the experience of Miss Mary Wilson, one of the six pretty maidens in a com- pany playing “Florodora” in this country. PERSONAL MENTION. M. Hirsch, a Ukiah merchant, is at the Lick. Dr. E. M. Shipp of the navy is at the Occidental. B. H. Burton, a banker of Willows, is at the Lick. i A. J. Bledsoe of Ukiah, an attorney, is at the Grand. S. Bert Cohen, a Carson merchant, is at the California. W. W. Porter, an attorney of Couiter- ville, is at the Lick. T. B. Harding, a merchant of Bakers- fleld, is at the Lick. A. B. Hill, a well known resident of Pet- aluma, is at the Lick. 7. H. Borland, a mining man from Grass Valley, is at the Grand. Sam Parker of Honolulu registered at the Occidental yesterday. J. H. Gardiner, a capitalist of Rio Vista, is registered at the Grand. Hervey Lindley is down from Klam- athon. He is at the Palace. . Maurice Kahn, an advertising man of Philadelphia, is at the Palace. A. M. Brown, a mining man from Grizzly Flat, Cal., is at the Lick. E. S. Babcock, manager of Hotel Coro- nado, is in the city for a short visit. W. Dixon Gibbs, a well known hotel man of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Joseph Wile, who is interested in distil- leries in Owensborough, Ky., is at the Palace. James F. Farraher, who is prominent in Democratic politics in Yreka, is at the | Palace. R. H. Beamer, a member of the State Board of Equalization, is in town. He is registered at the.Lick from Woodland. Alexander Vogelsang has returned to the city from a fishing trip, which took him as far as Tahoe and the surrounding streams. —_—————————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 11.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—A. F. Coffin, at Imperial; L. Glass, at Holland; A. Martin and wife, at Astor; J. M. Schmitz, at Cosmopolitan; B. M. Strauss, at Astor; J. Burnstein, F. C. West, at Holland; A. Alper, at Herald Square; A. L. E. Myer, at Manhattan. From Los Angeles—W. 8. Collins, at Im- perial; B4 Moore, at Gerard; R. A. Thomas, at Park Avenue; H. G. R. Philip, at St. Denis. From San Diego—L. politan. E. Coff, at Cosmo- —_—e—————— Cholce candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_——————————— Best eyeglases, specs, 10 to 40c. Look out for 81 Fourth, front of barber & grocery.* — L e—— Special infoymaiion supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_— ce———— A Pittsburg paper criticlzes certain re- ligious papers for demanding and receiv- an appeal for the famine sufferers of India last year. sscleriai i et oviaddd Grand €anyon Excursion, On July 224 a speclal excursion rate of $40 for the round trip, San Franchco to the Grand Canyon of Artzona, will be made. Leaving San Francisco at 8§ p. m. on the 22d, you reach the Canyon for supper the 23d. No other sight is comparable to this, the grandest of nature's marvels. Ask at 641 Market street, the Santa Fe office, about it. S e Best Way to the Yosemite. The Santa Fe to Merced and stage thence via Merced Falis, Coulterviile, Hazel Green, Merced Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Vel Falls, arriving at Sentinel Hotel at 5 the next afternoon. This is the most popular route and the rates are the lowest. Ask at 641 Mar- ket st. for particulars and folder. e U v R A Chicago and Return $72.50. On sale July 20 and 21, the Unton Pacific Rallroad will sell round trip tickets to Chi- road to an insane asylum or has conceived some very definite hopes that he ought to‘own the earth i cago, good for 60 days, at rate of $7250. D. W. Hitchcock, General Agent, 1 Montgomery st., San Francisco, Y <+ It all came, of course, out of the recent mad speculation which resulted so disas- trously in the panic. For Miss Wilson, however, it has meant a fortune to the tune of over $750,000. The remarkable thing is that it was all made out of her savings of $2000, that sum invested in Union Pacific having been the starting point of a_fortune of two-thirds the amount, or $500,000, while a subsequent in- vestment of $10,00 in Southern Pacific stock brought her $250,000. @ i R O ANSWERS TO QUERIES ALASKA PAPERS-J. W. M., Upper Lake, Cal. The leading papers in Alaska are the Dispatch, published at Juneau, the News at Skaguay, the News at Doug- lass City and the Chronicle at Cape Nome. FROM THE SAME CANTEEN—M., City. The quotation asked about is from ‘The Canteen,” written by Private Miles O'Reilly and is from the first verse, which is as follows: There are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours; Tetters of friendship and ties of flowers, And true lovers' knots, I ween; The girl and the boy are bound by a kiss, But there's never a bond, old friend, like this— We have drank from the same canteen. QGEMENT TO MEND GLASS—F. E. E,, City. The following is given as the com- ponents used in making cement for re- pairing glassware: Two drachms of cut isinglass are placed in two ounces water for twenty-four hours, then boiled down to one ounce, after which an ounce of spirits of wine is added and the mix- ‘thre strained through linen. This while hot is mixed with a solution of one drachm of mastic in one ounce of rectified spirits and then triturated thoroughly with one-half drachm powdered gum am- moniac. You will find it much cheaper and less trouble to go to a store and pur- chase a vial of such cement. B — Smash the Propcsed Amendment. Colusa Sun. The San Francisco Call has already be- gun the attack on the amendment to the constituion proposed by the last Legisla- ture creating a boss commission; a com- mission that is to succeed all other com- missions and is to control everything. It cannot be hit too often or too hard. It will get the votes of some few political bosses and thgt.is all. — e SUMMER RATES ft Hotel del Corona Coronado Beach, Cal.. effective after April 15, $60 for round trip, inciuding 15 days at hotel Pacific Coast S. S. Co., 4 New Montgomery st. | manner of society peopie | for a subject. | Mall, going from house to hous | ing with the people | shrunk from | persorages. | London since the terrible | of that time. of GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS The event of the week in the literary world has undoubtedly been the appear- ance of the Tattler. It is hardly to be wondered at, for its editer, Clement Shorter, has proved himself something of a’ploneer in the production of illustrated journalism. Every review Is full of praise for the new Tatler. All are unanimous as to the value of the weekly paper. %r: Shorter has kept his promise well. ) photographs and personal- details of all and theatrical and musical celebrities are the main fea- ture. A novel idea is the taking of a street On_this oc n it is_Pall and talk- side it. It is notable that the only people who seem to have publtel 2 two literary “Neither of us."” writes Lau- s sister in f r photographs, . of being made known to_the public by the means you suggest.” . Marion Crawford ha: n paying a fiying visit to London—a c he has not years. It seems he is one few literary Americans who has not hitherto felt the glamor of London, even after living in it for years. He has preferred to spend his life chiefly at his { villa in beautifully situated Sorremto, on the bay, opposite Naples. Mr.. Crawford now says, however, that the glamor of London at last in this short visit has entered into his soul, so that thoy banks of the Thames may yet prove a rival to the picturesque Italian village where he has lived so long. He is returning to London in September, when his play, “In the Palace of the King,” already successful in the United | States, will, it is expected, be produced ins and Miss er acted in murder of Wil in London by Arthur Coll Jessie’ Miliward, who has has been engaged on the s famous grandfather for many years. The work is now in the press and in the autumn in two y John Murray. It is entitled and Times of George Joachim sher and Printer, of Leip- 1 “The Life Goschen, Py zig, 1752-1529.” The contents will include extracts from | nis correspondence with Goethe. Schiller, | Klopstock, W other leading and many n cf letters nd, Korn uthors and Another of Mr. Murray's autumn_publi- cations will be a new e sir Edwin_ Arnold entitled '‘The Voyage of Ithobal.” This is dedicated to Lady Ar- nold, and deals first w circumnav= ¢ the Phoenicians, al- The poem is_di~ s. corresponding ing which I igation of Africa b luded to by Herodo vided into seven with seven day Tyre relates his adv thobal of lore unknown countrie: ea. an African princess, to whom the mys- tical secret of the “Dark Continent” is known, and having built three ships at Suez sets out on his exploration, accom- panied by the princess. Ithobal enjoyed many adventures by land and sea, and not the least exciting was the mutiny of his men. SINGLE TAX ARGUMENT. The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions dublished in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communicaticns of general interest. beyond the Red In the market at Tyre he purchases Editor Call: In your editorial column to- day, under the head of “That Tribute to Realty,” you attempt to demolish the single tax theory. As a single taxer and a subscriber to your paper for many years, and particularly as I am honestly devoted to the single tax, will you kindly give me a little space in your valuable paper to show if L can where you are mistaken? I will assume that your statement re- garding the great fortune of Andrew Car< negle is correct. Three hundred millions in stocks, you say, not money, but stocks. These stocks are supported and held up by a monopoly of natural opportunities— land. The trusts which ha issued the stocks held by Mr. Carne; own im- mense quantities of land. Some of this land is used from which to produce wealth, but the greater part of the land is held idie—out of use. To have a monopoly of the lands which produce coal and iron is absol y necessary to create such a fortune as is represented by the stocks held by Mr. Carnegle. Mr. Carnegie’s stocks are neither money nor wealth and depend altogether upon the continuance of the monopoly of lands i whick created them for their value, there- fore if the moropoly of the land was de- stroyed, which would be done by the ap- plication of the single tax, the value of Mr. Carnegle's stocks would disappear al- together. ~Mr. Carnegie evidently under- stands what would happen to his stocks, or he would take your view, Mr. Editor, and would have all the burdens of taxa~ tion placed upon land values. But Mr, Carnegle knows better; he knows that if the stocks are taxed can shift the tax the consumer of the goods produced he trust whose stock he holds and that if the land value alone is taxed monopoly will disappear and he will have no stocks worth taxing. You caanrot fool Mr. Car- negie. It is strange indeed tkat the men who, as you intimate, would be advantaged by the single tax, should =il without excep- tion be bitterly opposed to the single tax. Probably we can attribute it to their great patriotism. WALTER GALLAGHER. San Francisco, July 10, 1901 = S P —— MNEXT 'SUNDAY’ CALL e e s 000000000000000000Q0000000000000000060080 0000000000000000009d00000000C00000000004, ARE THE JADPANESE LOSING THEIR DERSONALITY? ©000000000000000000000000060600606060000 0000000 000000¢ co o of 00 0000 0000 oo 200 SAN FRANCISCO'S TALLEST POLICEMAN AND HIS ROMANCE. ©0000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000C00000000003000 EASY LESSONS SWIMMING. Qy Alice Cav.ll. THE LATEST FAD IN SHOES. 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