The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1903, Page 8

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The conservative adical on election the serious whether or n for personal te for a candidate foredoomed to iefeat when by doing so they will imperil the electin conservative Mayor and grea ears Schmitz and Ruef the Mayor have been repeat- er d are now well understood by in- An wvnscrupulous Mayor holding wo successive terms would have virtual of every administrative board and com the « He would domjnate the great de- ents of ustration, and through the Police m woull have almost arbitrary power aloon-keepers and others who require li- We have bus: how carry on ess. seen great e Ruef has become by two years of exer- se ¢ partial control of the various boards and sufficient to con- that it will be a bad day for San Id he have full control over them all. De and the results are has no more ic party e in the politics of to-day in San Francisco than Whig party in the slavery and anti- ave fight of 1860. This community is face to a movement to establish a class party ipon discontent, representing no avowable principle nor any definite policy, either te or natiomal; having no means of main- other than taining that of stirring up strife between labor and capital or making use of municipal fhices spoils to be distributed among the fac- tional leaders according to their subservience to ght politics on normal lines in peal for a response to such duty runs professional men, business men and and the right response should be gmen ike The Republican ticket is an excellent one in every respect It was nominated by a convention whose delegates we oroughly representative of the city. 1 In he Republican primaries at which the delegates clected more votes were cast than in the Demo- Labor Union primaries combined. It classes of the people, or, as it would be ing any class divisions among them. The the ticket is ome of the foremost business en of the State and his integrity and capacity are disputable.. The candidates for other offices are each and all well fitted for the performance of the duties of the positions to which they aspire. There is every reason, therefore, why the support given them should “include every independent voter and every conservative Democrat; every citizen, in short, who knows the evils of class politics and social dis- sensions, and who seeks to have a egmmunity whose motto will be, “One for all, and all for one.” CE— o The Austrian Count who refuses to honor his notes on the ground that he made their payment conditional upon his marriage to an heiress may not win in court. but he has struck a chord of sympathy in the great communion of fortune-hunters that in- fest the wealth centers of the world. His candid con- fession almost clothes his indecency with dignity. wily The crater of Mokuaweoweo is again active and agitating the people of Hawaii. That name is enough to make anything on earth active or distort it into paralyzed efiort To defeat that scheme and to | ie prime duty of every good citizen at this | srrect to say, it stands for the people without | H , FEDERAL IRRIGATION. HERE was recently published an interview T\\'nh Federal engineers: concerning the use of the waters of Clear Lake in an irrigation scheme in charge of the United States in the Sacra- | mento Valley. The Colusa Sun says that the en- gineers have disavowed this interview, and adds that as the Federal law contemplates the distribution of water to tracts of only 160 acres, its application to | the lands of the Sacramento Valley is impossible. | As the editor of the Sun, ‘General Green, is the pio- | neer irrigation engineer of California, and has knowl- | edge of water laws unusual for a layman, his opinion {is entitled to credit.. The valley lands of this State | have long been in private ownership. It has been' the | popular understanding of the Federal irrigation law |that it applies to lands in public ownership, which lare to be withdrawn from entry until the water is ')mpnlmded and ready for distribution, when the ands are to be opened for entry in tracts not to ex- | ceed 160 acres, to be sold at a price which returns the cost *of irrigation to the Federal treasury as a re- rolving ' fund to be again ‘applied to the building of |irrigation works elsewhere where the conditions are |the same. : Now, if it be true that the limited holding of 160 lacres is applicable to the usé of water impounded and distributed under the Federal law, and that the | present owners of our walley land can. get water for | only that amount &f land, no matter how much more | they may own, the policy of depending at all on the Federal Government is open to doubt and debate. On one hand it may be urged that the effect would I be to break up larger holdings than the limited amount This is desirable. We, like many other States, inherited the system of land-holding in large It impedes the settlement and population of tracts. the Stat dustrious and intelligent tillers of the soil make more on less land than elsewhere in the Union. We have !the best field for intensive farming, for the ceaseless production of high-priced crops of all kinds, and, over most of our tillable area, for the making of sev- eral crops instead of only one a year. So we pre- sent advantages to the small land-holder that he does not elsewhere enjoy. But our people have the pride of possession. They like to own much land, and some stubbornly maintain their large holdings though thieir profits from-them may be small or even though they keep them at a loss. Those who have this spirit strongly developed are usually the older settlers of the State, who remem- ber the past profits of stock ranging or wheat grow- ing on their large pastures or plantations and look upon intensive farming of smaller tracts as a modern innovation which they are not inclined to favor. So it is probable that they would be disinclined to ac- cept’ Federal irrigation if within their reach, and the law does not compel them to accept the use of the water. But the availability of such water would- make their lands tpo valuable to lie idle, and business sense would compel them finally to cut up their es- tates and sell small tracts to holders who desire to put the land to its best use by irrigation. There is a demand for irrigated land in the West that promises to increase rather than diminish. In the valley of the Snake River, in Idaho, from Idaho Falls far up beyond St. Anthony, irrigated land sells readily for $40 to $60 per acre, and the trains from the East are filled with buyers at that price. Yet that land was primitively a sagebrush desert, not even producing wild grass, until it was made fertile by irrigation. The desert entrymen combined and by co-opera built- canals, taking the water of the and though the first settlements were made only fifteen years ago the region now is a pic- ture of rural abundance and resembles the old farm- ing regions of the Middle West. is high, the season is short and the land yields but one crop a year, except in alfalfa, which may be cut twice. It seems reasonable that if such land on those high plateaus commands that price, all irri- € n Snake Rive: gated land in California, with our long season, the | absence of winter and the capacity to produce a great variety of crops, is actually worth twice or thrice as much, if it be equipped with equal facilities for irrigation As to that equipment, its possibilities are every- | where present, but are not always used. General Green is of the opinion that the district system, which is co-operative, will again come in vogue, be- cause the land will bear the expense of any irriga- tion works which its owners choose to adopt. But ‘lhc problem is, haw to get them to act. The Butte | Canal Company has just been compelled to abang {don its project to take water from Feather Rivel? in a canal to cost $200,000, carrying it down the west | side of that stream, and furnishing’ it at $1 50 per acre for (hc.first ten years and $1 per acre thereaiter in perpetuity. That is cheaper than in any of the plans so far proposed by the Federal Government, rand yet the projectors could get contracts covering only 4000 acres of land. Twelve years ago, when the same system was proposed by other parties, the | contracts covered 12,000 acres. There should be some means. of ascertaining why the popularity of irrigation in that fine region has de- clined by two-thirds when measured by the acreage willing to accept it. If it be found that in the mean- {time individual irrigation by wells and pumping has | tzken the place of canal supply by gravity, that will | account for it. TIf not, the present situation implies | retrogression. We are of the opinion that if the land-holders of California could witness the rush of buyers to the irrigated deserts of Idaho and Montana we would see such a revival of irrigation enterprise |in this State as would not leave out a single acre | that could receive water. e r— Now that our Canadian friends have discovered | that we won more than they thought we did in the | Alaskan boundary dispute and that our peaceful, 'ijudicial triumph is complete, it is up to them as ;Imnest. sportsmanlike antagonists to take off their | hats and admit that the job was well done. A good | loser is one of -the cherished hallucinations of all gamesters. THE SAN LUIS OBISFO SCHOOL. | HE CALL recently commended the new State T Polytechnic School at San Luis Obispo. The Tribune of that city singularly misreads or | misconstrues our skatement, for it says: “The article, | however, seems to us to betray a curious and serious | misconception of the purposes and objects of the in- | stitution. The school appears to the writer of the { editorial as being on the whole a fairly good alterna- ':tive for a reform school, ‘semi-penal’ concern for the irescue of the wild and reckless hoodlum, incapable of restraint and hopeless of development into a good ‘and law-abiding citizen except by stringent and coercive methods. It is hardly necessary to Our climatic conditions are such that in- | But the altitude | say that a ‘tragle school’ upon such lines and devoted in the way suggested to the reclaiming of the vicious {and stupid would not be eagerly sought by the youth | of a different character.” ? We did not so classify the San Luis Obispo school, nor in any way suggest a semi-penal character, which it surely has not. Time was that two polytechnic schools—one in Troy, N. Y. and one in Boston— supplied the entire demand of the country for train- ing in higher mechanics. But that was in the days | of the open shop and unlimited privilege of appren- ticeship. In that periéd of our history the semi- penal State reform school was also practically ug- known. But the open shop has disappeared. The enormous immigration ‘to this country has closed the shops to our native-born youth, and the privilege of apprenticeship is denied and abridged, so that it is worthless. The result is idleness of our youth, with its vices finally crystallizing into crime, making necessary the semi-penal institutions for the re- straint of incorrigible youth. # : (é\’:! of this condition, caused by the closed shop, comes the opportunity that -the open shop formerly furnished, but which now is had in the excellent polytechnic schools, of which the one at San Luis Obispo is the third in California. We wish it all success. Swvch schools will finally obsolete the ne- cessity for reform schools entirely—God speed the day. | have less cause to worry about OCTOBER 23, 1903 FORMER CABINET OFFICIALS VISIT SAN FRANCISCO General Russell A. Alger, newly elécted | United States Senator from Michigan and | former Secretary of War, accompanied by ex-Secretary of the Interior Cornelius N. Bliss of New York, R. A. Alger Jr. and Charles Alger, son and nephew respect- | ively of the Senator, Henry Standart of Detrolt and Major George H. formed a distinguished party that arrived | from Southern California vesterday and | registered at the Palace Hotel. ‘General Alger’s prime purpose in com- ing West at this time was to inspect his mining properties in Arizona. « This he has already done and he is now bound for the Northwest to look over his timber holdings in that section. It was his oris- inal intention to spend several weeks on the coast and most of it in this State, but the recent call for a speclal session of Congress has caused him to shorten his visit. He was not inclined yesterday to enter into a discuseion of politics, but he remarked that everything In the East suggested that that section of the United States Is solid for Roosevelt, and he sald that he confidently expected that a re- nomination would be secured without op- position. Referring to the canal proposi-. tion, the General said: “I am in favor of a canal and will at all times. As to a route, I persondlly have no choice except one that will prove the most feastble. If 1 had my way the | Government would set about bullding a canal at once. Thd cost'of construction l:(l’ould be a matter of second copsidera- tion.” Mr. Bliss is much impressed with what he saw of California journeying from the south, and said that the residents of the. State have good reason to be proud of the vast territory of rich lands that they con- trol. Of the country in general he sald: “Prosperity shows itself everywhere you go. We have more money than we really need and this great surplus is a splendid guaranty against the develop- ment of a panic. Wall street flurries mean nothing to the country as a whole. Through the efforts of speculators artifi- clal values have been given to some of our market securities, but these have finally been foreed to a normal basis of legitimate business and hergafter we will infla- Hopkins | tions.” General Alger and his party will pro- ceed morth to-morrow, going direct to Portland. ————— RELATIVE, FAR REMOVED, CONTESTS DYER'S WILL Claims That When Testament Was | Made Mind of the Deceased ‘Was Unsound. Stricken by conscience, a Wyoming man who par- ticipated as among those present at a recent lynching has confessed to the authorities -and has implicated thirty-five otherwise reputable people of the State {in the crime. His self-satisfaction, conscience in- spired, is' somewhat clouded by the uncomfortable | fact that every one of the other thirty-five fellows is possessed by an animated desire to murder him. N —— BRYAN, PHILANTHROPIST. N the land of steady habits and wooden nutmegs I lived Mr. Bennett, an admirer of William J. Bryan. Mr. Bennett by keen industry had made |a fortune, and advised Mr. Bryan by letter that he proposed to leave of the same the sum of $50,000 to him. Bennett is now gathered fo his hard-fisted | fathers and Mr. Bryan is in court in New Haven | claiming the legacy. Its payment is resisted by the !widow, and during the hearing of the case Mr. Bryan, | who seems to appear in court as his own attorney, has, in substantiation of his claim, read a large num- ber of letters from the testator, from which it ap- pears that during his lifetime he was a liberal do- nator to Mr. Bryan's funds. One donation of $3500 |is mentioned. Mr. Bennett seems to have been impressed with the divine ratio of 16 to 1 and with Mr. Bryan as its :cxpounder, hence this effort to get $50,000 as evi- | dence of that impression. Mr. Bryan stated in court that he would not make personal use of the money, funless the widow consents thereto, but proposes, if the court gave it to him in spite of the widow’s re- !s‘islance, to devote it to charitable and educational | purposes. Nothing is easier than to be philan- ' | thropic with the money of another. But people who | have wholesome ideas of propriety will conclude |that if Mr. Bennett's money is to be invested in | ! philanthropy his widow, the wife who wrought by | his side in the acquisition of that wealth, is its proper { almoner, and not a stranger. It is revealed in the hearing of the case that Mr. | Bryan consulted with Bennett about this bequest and suggested means of forfifying it and making it sure. Had he rendered service to the testator de- serving such a recognition his present eager pur- suit of the money would have a better appearance. But there was no such personal service, so that the affair has a sordid appearance not creditable to Mr. | Bryan. The revelation of Mr. Bennett as a cheerful giver to Bryan during his lifetime suggests that the peerless orator may have hypothecated his figures of |speech to many others during his scintillant and me- "teonc career. Two police officers are under suspension here on the serious charge of having accepted bribes from keepers cf saloons. And the most serious aspect of the affair seems to be that the saloons involved were not among the hundreds that openly conduct a gam- bling attachment. Perhaps in the police code it isn't bribery to accept money from them M clubs of Oakland to assist him in building up public institutions and in making his admin- istration more successful than it could be without | such co-operation has been heard clear across the jcontinent. From far-off Boston comes a response | through the medium of the Woman's Journal of that city. It commends the appeal of the Mayor and heartily indorses the adoption of a policy of co- operation of women’s clubs with municipal govern- ments for good purposes all over the Union, The Boston authority, however, does not believe. |there can be an effective and full use of woman's energy in the advancement of municipal life without conferring upon women the right to vote. It says: “When the women's clubs of any State try to im- prove the civic conditions of towns and cities in which they have their homes, as they are beginning to do, they will soon become alive to their need of the suffrage as the thing required and indispensable in order to make our efforts effective. And when these organizations have thus been convinced they will | | soon unite with the suffragists in a demand for the | municipal ballot, and the joint demand will be heeded by the Legislature. This was strikingly evidenced here in Massachusetts two years ago by the success of our bill making mothers equal guardians with fathers of their minor children. It was introduced by the Suffrage Association and supported by the women’s clubs. The combination proved irre- sistible.” Thus whatever effect Mayor Olney’s call to the women may have had in Oakland, its result on the other side of the continent has been that of reviv- ing the suffrage question. Doubtless it-will be of ad- vantage to the Bostonians to v-atch the Oakland ex- periment and learn what can. be achieved by women of brains, energy and beauty without the use of the ballot. In fact, Boston will learn much by studying Oakland and her people at all times, and now that the study has begun it should continue steadily. | WOMAN’S CiVIC WORK. AYOR OLNEY'S appeal to the women’s ‘Whatever may be said by way of discouragement in reference to the security and stability of our posi- tion in the Far East, we have now indubitable evi- dence that with both Russia and China we are im- pregnable. This testimony of our complete safety was home a few days ago by an observer who. watched the unloading of a cargo of American beer at Port Arthur, 5 | tate, which is sald to be worth between 1 420,000 and $25,000. | based the contest. | therefore abie to sign his name. ! Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. M. Jomes, W. S. Marin ard wife, Mrs. Hr M. A. Liller, H. 8. | nets in Suisun Bay Wednesday. A contest of the will of John B. Dyer, who died on the 2d inst., was brought | vesterday by James Dyer, first cousin of | the mother of the deceased. He claims | that when Dyer made his will in Decem- | ber, 1897, while he was ill at St. Mary’s | Hospital, he was unduly influenced. The will is a written document. It was | made by H. J. Stafford at Dyer's request, | and bequeaths to Mary Jane Dyer, sister- | in-law of the deceased, the testator's es- | Instead of Dyer's sig- | nature the will is sizned with a cross | made by Stafford, and upon this fact is The contestant claims that Dyer was a man of education and ———————— PERSONAL MENTION. | Dr. William Smith of Hanford is at the | Lick. Judge B. C. Hart of Sacramento is at| the Grand. Dr. J. W. Stitt and wife of Vacaville are at the Palace. i E. H. Cox, banker and lumberman of | Madera, is at the Palace. i A. J. King, a mining man of Camp del | Rey, Mexico, and wife are at the Palace, | P. P. Van Vleet, a_wealthy resident of Memphis, is among the latest arrivals at the Palace. Samuel H. Brooks, ex-Treasurer of San Francisco, has just returned from a trig| to Nome and is registered at the Lick. T. W. Heintzelman, master mechanic of the Southern Pacific Company, is down from Sacramento and is staying at the Grand. Albert G. Weiland, the local capitalist who has been abroad for several months, returned yesterday and is registered at the Lick. Gail Borden, a well-known Eastern | manwfacturer, is registered at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Buck of Vaca- ville leave to-day on the steamship Sibe- ria for China. M. T. Donovan, United States Deputy | Marshal at Tucson, who has been a terror | to the criminal classes of Arizona for| nearly a quarter of a century, is spending | a few days In this city on business and | is a guest at the Palace. g Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 22—The following Scott and Mrs. J. Somers, at the Holland; | Mrs. S. Steele ahd Miss M. Steele, at the | Gilsey; J. C. Astudo, at the Grand Union; | A. Goldberg and wife, at the Herald | Square; J. W. Van Praag, at the Bar-; tholdi; G. A. Merrill, at the Marlborough; | L. Storm, at the Grand, From Les Angeles—A. M. Alexander, at the St. Denis; W. B. Burrow, at the Imperial. SIS el T Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—The following Californians are at the hotels: At the| Natioral—A. J. Van Drake and wife of San Francisco; at the New Wiilard—John | M. Vance and wife, Miss Vance, Miss Etta Vance and Miss Carlotta Vance. —_——————— Fish Commission at Work. Justice 'of the Peace Beers of Arcata fined A. A. Foultz $25 yesterday for vio- | lating the duck law. Deputy Fish Com- | missioner J. H. Davis seized four bass The val- | ue of the tackle is about $1200. The .own- | ers have not put in a claim for their | property as yet. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FALSE THEORIES Lead to Worthless or Harmful Reme- dies. Stimulating the scalp may allay the itching of the dandruff, but that does not cure the scalp. The disease won't yleld to quinine or capsicum nor alcohol, because it is caused by a germ or para- site. To cure dandruff the germ must be destroyed. Until recently there was no hair preparation, or dandruff cure, or hair restorer on the market that would kill that insidious germ that dries up the scalp in little scales called dandruff, and absorbs the vitality of the hair, causing falling hair, and finally baldness. New- bro’s Herpicide is the only really scien- tific preparation to cure dandruff, pre- vent falling hair and baldness. ' Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps fun{c-l::mple to The Herpicide Co., Detroit CASTORIA For Infants and Children. | the BRIGGS SEEKS THE AID OF THE FRUIT-GROWERS Individual fruit growers are writing to the State Board of Trade commending asolution adopted by the board to provias for an investigation relative to the returns that California farmers re- ceive for their products in the markets. Lowell C. Jones, a prominent fruit | grower of Tulare County, has sent a let- ter to President Chipman of the State Board of Trade, which is as follows: n account of resolutions of the State ‘Bo:n?glu'rmde with reference to the manner of sales of Californla fruit. As one of the members of the numerous army of fruit- growers I wish personally to express my ap- preciation to members of the board for thelr thoughtful interest in our behalf. In —my Recently 1 v o m opinion there has never been a fmovement in benefits for 5o many the State so filled with S carried out. rotest from so high and so. fmportant & bod Dt citizens. and I am delighted to krow the movement has begun. The poor fruit-grower has seemed for years to be the legitimate prey of sharks, and it looks as though his day of deliverance had its dawn in sight. I think rhaps we need protection more from our Pprofessed friends than. from our best known enemies. Therefore 1 hopeseuffictent latitude Will be given the investigators, that they may be to the core. P inds will be needed to carry on this work of course, and 1 feel sure of prompt fAnancial and moral support coming from the growers when an appeal is made to them along this line, for 1 hear much favorable comment on the reform movement. Any seryice I can be to wour honorable body will be most cheerfully rendered. Manager Briggs of the State Board of Trade has prepared a letter to be sent to growers and organizations throughout the State, asking them to co-operate, and suggesting ways In whieh they can ren- der invaluable assistance. Work is also being done- in preparation for a system- atic investigation of the subject, both in this State and in the Eastermwmarket, 1o get at the causes of present conditions and particularly to provide a remedy. ————————— ‘WIDOW BECOMES INSANE FROM CARE AND WORRY Sad Plight of Mrs. Kate 0’Donnell, the Mother of Three Small Children. Mrs. Kate O'Donnell, 476 Eighth street, a widow and the mother of three small children, became suddenly insane yester- day afternoon. The woman's condition was noticed by several of the neighbors, who sent word to the Southern Police sta- tion. Patrolmen Hennessy and Moriarity went to the home of the unfortunate woman and removed her to the detention ward of the Emergency Hospital. The case of Mrs. O.Donnell is a pitiful one. About a year ago her husband dled, leaving her with three children, all under 12 years of age. Since that time Mrs. O'Donnell has had a hard time to sup- port herself and her little ones. The fam- ily has been in destltul? circumstances of late and the unfortunafe woman found it impossible to administer to the wants of her children. Mrs. O’'Donnell brooded aver her troubles for a long time and of late her mind has been wandering. She never showed any signs of violent insanity, however, till yesterday afternoon. The three children have been placed in charge of the matron at the Emergency Hospital till a home can be found for them. ———— Commercial Travelers’ Benefit. The regular annual benefit of the San | Francisco Commercial Travelers’ Assocla- tion will be held at the Grand Opera- house Thursday evening, October 29. E. Dunn, H. H. Becker, C. E. Torres, C. C. Muller, W. T. Roucel, G. W. Morehouse, K. M. Bowman, N. M. Marisch, J. Blan- ton, F. McGeeney, W. H. Holling and P. Lang will have charge of the affair. SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS ELLA WILCOX—L., Santa Clara Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born in J ton Center, Wis., in 1865. She was oo cated at the University of Wisconsi married Robert M. Wilcox, and r at the Bungalow, Short Beach, Con: CEORGE FLEMING-M. A. F Julia Constance Fletcher, who unce nom de plume of George Fleming w “Kismet” (Boston, 1877, was born in Riy a1 Janeiro, Brazil, in 1853. She was the daughter of James Cooley Fletcher, a missionary. GAME IN ALASKA—Hunter, City. The killing of earibou on the Kenai Peninsuia or on the Alaska Peninsula, west of Lake Ilaimna (except for scientific pur- poses under special permit from the De- partment of Agriculture), is prohibited prior to September 8, 1¥S. Hunting of deer, moose or caribou with hounds or other dogs in any part of Alaska is strict- Iy prohibited by the act of Congress. SNAKE BLINDNESS-Z., Petaluma, Cal, Snakes become partially biind sev- eral times a year, at the time they shed the skin. The skin is always thrown off by reversing it, so that the transparent covering of the eyes and that of the scales are always found concave in the exuviae. Previously the whole cuticle be- comes somewhat opacue, the eyes are dim and the animal is evidently blin also becoming more or less inactive. FASCINATION BY SERPENTS-Z. Petaluma, Cal. The power aseribed to serpents to be able to fascinate the small animals on which they prey had been often ridiculed, but it is supported by & great deal of evidence and has been fully accepted by a number of sclentific ob- servers. Numerous instances of fascina- tion are given in the works of Kalm, Le Valliant, Dr. Andrew Smith and Eil's, noted scientific writers. Snakes do not tascinate human beings. DIVINING .ROD—W. W., Watsenville, Cal. No good reason has yet been given why a divining rod, usually a forked willow or hazel branch, uséd to locate water or minerals, will turn in the hands of some people and not in the hands of others. Not long since nine gentlemen went to Santa Clara County searching for water on a tract of land by means of the divining rod. In the hands of eight different men, at various s on the tract, the rod turned and was vio- lently agitated, while in fhe hands of the ninth, the same rod on the same spots was always inactive. SNAKE BITES — Z., Pétaluma, Cal. Treatment In case of snake bites must be promptly applied. If possible, the wound should be sucked vigorously to, withdraw the poison, and eirculation in ‘the region of the wotnd be shut off by means of bandages applied with a tourniquet. Any- thing that will neutralize the polson may be applied to the wound, but in all cases large and frequent drinks of brandy or whisky, together with the free applica- tion of coal oil to the wound, is the most effectual remedy. The wound should be bandaged with some material, such as flannel, that will hold the ofl, and the patient given all the liquor he can drink, which 1s all that can be dome untfl a physiclan arrives to take charge of the case. —— e —— Townsend’s Californja glace fruits and candles, 50c a pound, in arfistic fire- | etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern | friends. 715 Market st., above Call bidg. * L ———————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ® { | ONE OF BRYSON REHEARSING. INTERESTED. ALL NEWSDEALERS AND TRAIN NEWS AGENTS SELL THE SUNDAY CALL. 'S BALLET GIRLS X\ R L] *