The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1904, Page 8

e T W cently—thanks to which fact it is pos- sible for the first time to reproduce their likenesses. They also have sat at Windsor and Sandringham to Louis Wain, the great cat artist, who declares them to be about the best and most patient sitters he ever has had. According to the lowest estimate the royal cats now number fifty. Her special pets are always in residence where the Queen is for the time being. They have a groom all to themselves; they have a bath every morning and their toilet is carefully attended to twice a day. On the slightest sign of illness the royal “vet” is summoned, who makes a careful diagnosis and the result is immediately communieated to | her Majesty. There is a specially pre- | pared room called “the cat hospital” | in the stables attached to Buckingham | P e I S e 5 s | Palace and here pussy reclines—when | Tiwe Roya! Cats. | indisposed—in a bed suffictently luxuri- | t ous for the baby of a Marquis. Its; rrespon ! temperature is taken and the stethe- IRS OF THE CALL, 'scope applied as regularly as if the B COVENT | fate of an empire were depending on | GARDEN, LONDON, June 13.—To all the cat's existence. Her Majesty makes | but the red few whe are on inti- ccnstant inquirles as to the prngress; w with Queen Alexandra it of the illness and if one of her pets is| - = +i | | | | B | { i | | 1 { | | | | 1 |1 | | i [ { | r 11 | i | | | | { | | 1! i i 3 N |1 | |1 | | [ ] i | I | { i MEMBERS OF QUEEN ALFXANDRA'S SUMPTUOUS | i H THEIR PAMPER! FELLOWS, THAT 11 GE OF N URSERY RHYME: ~TO LOOK AT A || 2 P00 came as rather a surprise when on her in Ireland while ago the Queen was found arrival a by a pet cat. Heretofore a dog of one breed or another aimost invariably has been pumbered among the Queen's traveling companions, and it was known generally that her Majesty, Yesides being fond of bow-wows, bred them extepsively and was the owner of ‘about tbe most Juxurious kennels in England—but she never has been sus- pected of any special likink for ca 1 learn, however, that the animais have almest entirely supplanted dogs as re- cipients of the Queen’s attention. Her kenmels were the royal lady’s delight, “but when she discovered that all sorts of folk were copying her in this direc- tion she decided to stop breeding dogs and go in for cats instead. True to her customary policy of thoroughness the Queen now has a small army best breeds, and if any of the royal regidences contain 2 mouse the creature must be a veritable Dewet of its kind. The “roval cats” have practically the free run of Buckingham Palace, Wind- wor Castle and Sandringham House, end any of the Queen’s friends who yearn for feline companionship have only to confess as much to Queen Alex- arndra to have their want supplied. The Queen has six particular favor- ites among her cat family, but a val- pable Persian enjoys her special affec- t'on. This is “Sandy”—who is so named because he first saw the light at Sand- vingham. For several months her Majesty has mnever traveled without him and he !s as fondly attached to his royal mistress as the celebrated Irish terrier “Jack” was to the Xing in his most affectionate moments. “Sandy” s privileged to disport him- #elf in the dining apartments, though Lis less fortupate brothers and sisters have to confine their activities to the other rooms in the royai dwellings. Edward VII hates cats and if he had his way “Sandy” would not long have " the privilege—supposedly reserved for his kind—of “looking at a King,” but the liberties that her royal husband de- manded for his “‘Jack"” the Queen now demands for her pet. If the King has no love for “Sandy,” however, the feel- ing seems to be fully reciprocated, for the Queen’s favorite will not come to his. Majesty’s side of the table at any price and generally makes himself scarce when his Majesty is about. “Sandy,” as well as “Monarch” and “Ossy,” the two cats—also Persian— which come next to the favorite in their mistress’ affection, sat for their photographs at Buckingham Palace re- to be accompanied ! of -the | | reported in danger she goes personaily | {to see it. | For her cats, when in health, the | | Queen has prescribed a diet of fish | and milk, and as she is quite unwilling | {to trust the discrimination of the ordi- { nary London milkman as to the qual- | | ity of the latter the royal cats are fed | | on milk which comes fresh from Sand- {ringham every morning, while a flshi dealer of repute is intrusted with the |supply of the fish known to be the {best for feline consumption. When her Mafesty fifst took to cats. she ; knew nothing whatever about their tastes or habits. She was also ignorant of the points of the different breeds, but Louis Wain, whom she had pre- sénted to her for the purpose, w. able to convey so much information | that now the Queen can discuss cats with the greatest expert in Europe. Now that the Queen has gone in for | cats, society, ever eager to follow a |royal lead, is sure to take up the fad | and puss will be in clover for some {time to come. In fashionable circles | there are, however, already many cat | | devotees. Most conspicuous among | them is Lady Marcus Beresford, foun- | |der of the Cat Club. She possesses | what is said to be the finest “cattery” |in the world, in which something like | | 150 cats of the choicest breeds, from | | the tailless Manxman to the bushy- tailed chinchilla, live in a veritable {feline paradise. Many of them reside |in a picturesque, creeper-clad building, | known in the nelghborhood as “Cat Cottage.” Here no expense has been | spared in adapting the rooms to their requirements, and the most elaborate provisions are made for warmth and ventilation. One room is set apart for 2 woman, who is held responsible for the conduct of the establishment. A small kitchen is provided for prepar- ing the meals of the cats. On the walls are racks to hold the white enameled bowls and plates in which their food is served. Variety is con- sidered an essential part of their dietary. One day their principal meal consists of appetizing bowls of fish and rice. On another their fastidious palates are regaled with mincemeat of the choicest quality. In hot weather a good deal of vegetable matter is mixed with their food. For liquid re- freshment they have an abundance of Swiss milk. Some goats, too, are kept on the premises to furnish milk for young and delicate kittens. A medi- cine chest is at hand, which contains everything that is needed for prompt and efficacicus treatment in case any cat becomes sick. . to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manage: _ Third and Market Streets, S. F. N every town in the agricuitural States of the East there are cash buyers of wheat, corn, cats and the staple field crops znd of live stock. The seiler is made aware of the state of the market every day. He knows the freight on his product, and therefore has the means of knowing whether the buyer’s offer is right or not. Under such circumstances the farmers who wish to sell for cash at that day’s ofier dispose of their prop- erty. 1 any wish to hold for a higher price they hold. In such case they become speculators in their product, and may win or lose, like all speculators. The California fruit growers need such a system of marketing. They cannot become speculators by holding, for the product is too perishable. But they need a daily cash market in which they wiil meet the buyers and from which they will take the cash home for that day’s transaction. producer takes undue risk. He must in the nature of things take the risk of wind and weather. He must fight the insects and fungi which attack his crop, and in ad- dition he must take all the risk of shipment. As a shipper his risk is the greatest. The commission man takes pone of it. The producer must pay the freight, the commission, and gake what he can get, for the buyer is 2000 miles away and does as he pleases with the producer’s property when it gets within his reach.” 1t is obvious that if the producer get, throughout the fruit harvest, the lowest average price that pays him a profit at all, he is better off at the end of the sea- son than if he take all the risk and pay all the freight and commissions and stand all the loss, as he is com- pelled to under the present system. As citrus fruit was the first and is the oldest of our orchard industries it is proper that it should lead in this conspiglious reform in the method of marketing our fruit. The effort to merge the whole citrus industry in the control of one organization has resulted in forming the citrus union, which includes the product oi the whole State. We are unable to say, from the facts now made public, whether this organization has been success- ful in including all of the producers. But there is evi- dence that it includes a majority of them, and if its wise- ly laid plans are as wisely carried out it will surely de- serve the allegiance of every grower, and will no doubt get it. Its prospectus has been issued and we repeat this part of it,» which expresses the whole policy by which it intends to be governed: “It will be the policy of the California Citrus Unien to advocate and secure as mauny cash buyers to buy their fruit in California as possible. In order to do this we shall use every effort to adver- tise to the Eastern dealers that they can buy the fruit at a fair price by paying cash in California. It will also be our policy to sell free on board, California, usual terms, which means with privilege of inspection by the buyer at the other end. This was the method operated by the successful shippers during the most prosperous periods, and proved to be the most suceessful method. It was, in fact, the method whicli gave and always will give support 'to all markets, regardless of the plan of selling. “The California Citrus Union will establish in every Eastern market a personal representative of experience to look after the interests of our growers. These agents will be constantly soliciting the buyers to pur- chase the fruit free on board, California, for cash, or iree on board, California, usual terms. They will be able to make inspection and report upon the arrival of all cars, thereby doing away with the probability of the buyer making unjust rejections.” That seems to us to efficiently safeguard the interests of the producer. The California citrus crop has estab- lished its market in the t. The consumers there re- quire it and must seek it of the Eastern dealers. These naturally try to get possession of it at the lowest possi- ble rate, and they do this often by means that are very unfavorable to the interests of the producer. When the whole crop, is kept in hand by the agencies of the pro- ducer l\nl’l? the buyer presents ihmself, the margin heretofore left for the tricks of the trade disappears, and a market is made solely on the merits of the product. When the buyer finds that he must face the agent of the producer, and that tricks of inspection are no longer possible, and that the price he must pay includes the cost of the system by which the producer safeguards his interests, there appears at once an inducement for the buyer to economize by meeting the producer face to face in California, and paying him cash in hand for his property. When that syStem appears the California citrus grower will be in the same position enjoyed by the stern farmer. When this system is installed in the citrus industry, it will necessarily follow in the case of otir deciduous fruits. When the season opens the buyers will meet the producers and the fruit planter will get his cash for cach day's shipment and there his risk ceases. The | buyér is the middleman between the producer and the consumer. At present the middleman takes no risk. The producer takes it all. This does not mean only the natural risk of transportation, but the risk of chicane and dishonesty in the distant inspection and the method of selling. In his shipment there may naturally be a bad box that has “whiskered” in transit. It is known to be a fact that all the rest of a lot entirely sound and ex- cellent is rated with the one bad box, and the middle- man, who by a third party as agent is perhaps the actual buyer, gets the whole lot practically for nothing, because inspection stopped at the one damaged box, and the producer pays him his seven per cent commis- sion and the freight. The beginning of reform will be the formation of a deciduous fruit union on the lines of the citrus union, with an inspector at each Eastern terminal, who will make this inspection fraud impossible. As soon as the middlemen are thereby compelled to adopt legitimate methods it will be to their interest to buy and pay cash in California, and then his undue risks will be lifted off the producer. The whole fruit interest will hope for the success of the citrus union. LIBERALISM IN UNIVERSITIES. HE news comes from Princeton University that a radical change has been intréduced in the s.tudy requirements of that institution which makes for wider freedom in the choice of a curriculurh and a greater opportunity for more thorough digestion of the courses selected. By changing the requirements for gdmissiun into the several colleges of arts, science and letters, Princeton even heightens ‘the reputation _she Under the present commission system the | now holds for being a college for study on liberal lines; the reduction of the number of units required for the term'’s work strengthens the stand she has made for a full four-year course. The zlterations that Princeton has made in entrance requirements and in the grouping of studies given in her various colleges has significance to the educational world, for it shows that' the very liberal spirit born in the Western colleges and State universities has begun to take root?/fl\/e“older and more conservative institu- tions of estabilished prestige. The break from the iron- clad rule’ of classicism in college education came not from the oldest of our universities, but was the inspira- tion of growing colleges in the Middle West and on our own Pacific Coast. When first it began to be recog- nized that a university had a place for the study of bridge construction as well as the scansion of the bu- colies ' of Virgil the revolt against the rigid adherence to the stendards of the English universities was vig- orously fought out aill along the line until now the new idea has triumphed almost completely and the erst- while adherents to the old are themselves setting the pace for progress. It is a fortunate thing that Princeton has emphasized its position in the matter of the four-year course and has not been led into the extremely radical position taken by Chicago University. A three-year course— : or rather the option of a three-year course such as ob- ! tains at the institutiop by the lake—is, in the minds of | most educators, putting a coliege course on too busi ness-like a footing. That a young man, by denying himself vacations and exerting himself to his utmost, should be able to race through a college curriculum is surely too hard and materialistic a thing to be termed an academjc training. That smacks too much of the rapid correspondence school method of education. Freedom in the selection of studies and great latitude in the choice of a general trend of academic endeavor probably has no better illustration of its practicability and sound principle than in our own two universities, California and Stanford. In the latter especially does the Jatitude allowed ‘in these matters reach the high plane of liberalism. In both institutions the beneficial influence of this enlightened order of things is making yearly stronger justification for its adoption. After fourteen years of incalculable service to Cali- fornia as quarantine officer against insect pests Alex- ander Craw has decided to leave us to accept an equally congenial pursuit of his high profession in Hawaii at twice the salary this State seems able to afford. It faintly within the realm of probability that some day our lawmakers will pay public servants what they are worth. When this is done the saving in useless expendi- ture will release vast sums for labor that are vital to the prosperity of the State. is WHERE CO-OPERATION WINS. OR a long time past co-operative societies in Great Britain have commanded mists and of sociologists by reason of the rapidity of their growth, the ircreasing magnitude of business the attention of econo- doue and the almost uniform success attained by them year after year. The most sanguine hopes of the found- crs of the first associations of the kind have been more than fulfilled, and reports submitted at the recent annual congress of the Co-operative Union show that the movement has by no means reached its limit, but is still | going forward with the same c){traordinary vigor that marked its early stages. in his review of the progress achieved by the va- . rious organizations composing the union the president | said the growth of the movement as a whole amounted | “almost to a social miracle.” Even the most adverse conditions of industry and of politics have never checked the steady progress of the societies. Statistics given showing that the business of the last fiscal year, for which full returns were in, reached a total of 80,216,223 pounds sterling. It was added that the so- cieties are to-day transacting a far larger yearly turn- cver than the wholé export trade of Great Britain amounted to when the movement commenced. They had now 2,116,127 members regigtered im 1701 societies, and probably each member represented in most cases a family. A notable feature of the work of the societies is the amount of money devoted annually to education and to charity. associations aimed at mutual helpfulness in every direc- tion, and from the first adopted rules devoting 214 per cent of all profits to educational and charitable uses. These rules have been maintained unbroken, and as a consequence were sterling to education-and 45,649 pounds sterling to charity. At the present time there are about 800 cen- ters where co-operative educational funds are being administered by committees numbering altogether about 10,000 persons. Concerning the programme of future work the presi- dent said: “With all that had been done the co- operators were only at the beginning of their work. They had,to house their members in places jworthy of the name of home; to carry co-operation to the reach of the very poorest; to adapt it to the needs of depressed agriculture; to bring the rural laborer back ta hope; to conquer the heart of London, where only one in 250 people were co-operators; to introduce art into their work; to wipe out all stain of corruption of their em- ployes by their tempters; to reverse the policy which shut out capital from flowing into their movement with full measure; to get labor back to the land, and to give their people city gardens and garden cities. The admirable work of their women's guilds had to be fur- ther: developed, and the links which bound them to co- operators in other lands had to be strengthened.” That is certainly an ambitious platform, but the great successes of the past justify the hopes of those who expect greater things in the future. Certainly there is nothing impracticable in the plans outlined, and al- most the whole programme may be carried out in a comparatively few years by the force which seems to be inherent in earnest co-operative endeavor. Official inquiry into the horror of the destruction of the excursiop steamer General Slocum has revealed a terrible condition of affairs to the American people. Reckless and criminal disregard for the ordinary pre- cautions brought the boat to disaster and hundreds of human beings to their death. Surely it is high time that these post-mortem 'investigations give way to measures that will protect the living while avenging the death of men and women murdered by carelessness or worse. It appears that the founders of the original | the union devoted last year 78,409 pounds | | Bird of Freedoni. The lifelong friendship xisting bf« |tween Captain of Detectives. Martin and Election Commissioner Leffing- well has been sundered. It was all the result of a deplorable mistake. While on an outing at California City re- cently the Commissioner scaled a peak at the imminent peril of his life and captured what he believed to be a magnificent specimen of the Ameri- can eagle. The local scientists who patrol the beach at California City un- hesitatingly pronounced it the finest specimen of the American liberty bird they had ever seen. & Leffingwell brought his prize in tri- umph to the city and in a neat speech presented it to Captain Martin. After mature consideration Martin decided to donate his newiy acquired pet to the aerie of Eagles to which he bé- longs and a committee was appolnug to receive the national bird. “Jack Mitchell and Wharfinger Ed Buckley were appointed to serve on the com- mittee, but after viewing the feath- ered biped their suspicions were aroused. They consulted with a bird expert and were adVised that instead -+ o LL _BROUGHT _ HIS AND PRESENTED IT TO 1 | | = e of the bird being an American eagle it was a very large specimen of the common barn owl. The committee | was exceedingly wroth and indignant- | Iy returned the “phony.’ eagle to Cap- | tain Martin. Martin still has the bird | in charge of a keeper. It has become much attached to him and is now very PRIZE CAPTAIN MARTIN. roll the hoop, play dead and even eat out of the captain's hand, but it won't { turn into an eagle. On Leaving Y osemite. I pause upon the rim of thy demesne, For one last look upon thy mighty walls— I hear the far-off thunder of thy falls Proclaiming to the world that thou art queen. | What Ti(aln! fought where now lie ows green? me | What gods waged warfare in thy gran- | ite halls? | Who were the victors?—who became H the thralls? | What awful sum of ages hast thou seen? O, let me gaze again—Yosemite!'— | A yearning and a sadness flls my i soul— | 1 see thy stream of mercy onward roll, { And hear the chanting of its threnody. | So Adam and his mate, with shaded eyes, | Turned one last, yearning look on para- dise. —George N. Lowe. | ; A Pacific Elysiun. Far out in the sea about midway between Cape Horn and the Cape of | Good Hope there is a little island called Tristan da Cunha. Almost en- i tirely parated from the external world, the annual visit of an English | warship, which conveys the news from the rest of civilization, is the greatest | event during the year in the life of | the inhabitants. The Tristaneans, whe i number some seventy-five souls, are | descendants of an English non-com- | missioned officer, Glass by name, who, | when the island was depopulated of !its native dwellers some eighty years ago, received permission to remain. | Lately an English officer was ordered by his Government to make a propo- |sition to the Tristaneans to emigrate i to the Capeland, where they would re- | ceive 3 much larger area of land. The | official has now received their answer, in which they state that while they i are deeply grateful to the Government for its kindly interest in their well be- ing, they feel obliged to deecline the their days in Tristan da Cunha. They i fear that a changé of environment would mean a change in their mode of living, which amounts to declaring !that life on Tristan da Cunha is, in | their estimation, about as pleasant as !learth has to offer. And they respeet- fully decline to part with it until the kind Providence which put them there calls them away again. And persons who acquaint themsetves with the de- lights of life which they enjoy do but admire their decision. In the first place, the people them- i selves are all honest, sober and peace- | ful, with a very slight tendency to in- dolence. Vice and crime of all kinds are entirely unknown. Money, the root of all evil, does not exist, for they have nothing to buy. There are, in consequence, no bills to pay. News- papers are also unknown, for nothing ever happens that is unfit to be writ- ten about. Similarly churches and schools, shops and stores, courts and lawyers, whi and blue laws have {no existence. The Tristaneans aec- | cordingly enjoy all the advantages of civilization without its incumbrances and are at liberty to live and die as they see fit. In their view of life they are, therefore, philosephical anarch- ists of an ideal type, though in their tame and docile and will jump rope, | offer, as they prefer to spend and end | ! 7N * - metaphysics they are worse than the Hegelians, since time and space do no exist even in their imagination. And {yet, In spite of all, they are said be an intelligent people, and withal of strong, muscular build, notwithsta ing that they have always intermar ried. In short, the casual caller at this island finds that the Tristaneans more senses than one stand as lvir testimonies against the superior t ories and practices of a wretched « ilization. The only things that ¢ turb their equanimity and mar blissfulness of their earthly parac are the rats, with whom the poor peo- ple are engaged in continual warfare. Primitive War Machine. Strolling through the Fifth avenus wing of the Metropolitan Museum, in Central Park, one comes upon a sma inrer gallery where a chariot of bronze occuples a great glass box all to itself This is a grand prize in the lottery of the excavator, just such a prize as the Louvre or the British Museum wo like to draw, since neither in their mar- velous collections, nor at Berlin, nor in the many museums of Italy, is its equa to be found. Twenty-five, perhaps thir- ty, centuries has this specimen of a long-forgotten fashion in war lain be neath the soil of Umbria, the wooden parts under the bronze rotting slowly away, the weight of the earth above gradually crushing in the shell, and | only the protective layer of oxidation | on the surface of the bronze prevent- ing a total disintegration of car bedy, wheeis and pole. Near it lie two curv- ing sheets of metal, all that remains of the wooden yoke with bronze cov- ering plates, and in a dish a shimmer- | ing mass of ivory flakes hints of a rail | that graced the curving front. In sych a car, so small, yet so lavish- ly embellished with hammered and deftly fitted bronze reliefs, may Lars Porsena of Clusium have celebrated many a triumph which the narrow pride of Roman historians has sup- pressed. With the exception of a frag- | mentary bronze car at Perugia, this is the only example known of the war chariots of the mysterious people who civilized and gave kings to Rome. The relic was found last year in a forgotten burial ground near the mod- ern Norcia (ancient Nursia), crumpled up, broken and disfigured. The wheels were best preserved by their sheathing of bronze, but elsewhere the wooden flcor and sides had disintegrated, and the fronts and side wings of thin | bronze, the wheel tires and pole had | become caked with earthly deposits. | The owner of the land is said to have 5 informed the proper authorities and ob- | tained the necessary permit for ex- | port. That may be. Certain it is that the news reached Italy of a | when | bronze chariot from Italian soil which | was offered in Paris, sent to New York {and bought by the Metropolitan Mu- | seum, the failure to secure it for a | national museum was mooted in Par- | lament and the inspector responsibie for its export was dismissed.—The | Century. Answers to Queries. PRINCE OF NOVELISTS—S., City | Henry Fielding was called the “Prince of Novelists™ from his skill in depic characters in fiction. A VARA—W. F.. Knights Landing Cal. A vara, an old-time land measure | in California, still used in Mexico, New | Mexico and Arizona, is 33'% inches 1900.8 varas make a mile. ? GAMES—A. B, Ross Valley. Ca | Your questiom in relation to games is {a simple one in percentage. This de partment has a number of times an nounced that it does not answer qu tlons in arithmetic, nor seolve prob- lems. WEIGHTS—W, F., Knights Landing, Cal. The following explains the differ- ence in weights: Apothecaries’ weight: 20 grains equals scruple, 3 scruples equal 1 dram, § drams equal 1 ounce. 12 ounces equal 1 pound. Avoirdupols weight (short tom): 27 11-32 grains equal 1 dram; 16 drams equal 1 ounce 16 ounces equal 1 pound, ¥ pounds equal | | quafter, 4 quarters equal 1 ewt.. 20 cwt. equa n. | ~ Avoirdupols weight _(long grains 1 dram, 16 drams equal 1 ¢ 16 ounces equal 1 pound, 112 pounds eq: | owt. cwt. equal 1 tom. § AN eight: 24 gralns equal 1 penny weight, 20 pennyweights equal 1 odnee, 12 ounces equal 1 pound. tom) : BLACKHEADS—F. Y. C., Alameda, Cal. “Blackheads,” or acne, is a d's- ease of the sebaceous glands. The mouth of these glands become stopped up, so that the material that is secreted lIn the little sa¢ cannot escape. The popular belief is that this is a worm in the fiesh, but it is not. The treat- ment of acne is one that is often puz- zling to physicians until they can dis- cover the cause that produces the ef- fect. The compression of the unsight- 1y blackhead with the fingers is a com- mon method of removing the same, but pressing too many of them qut at one time produces redness and irrita- tion which often times is more annoy- ing than the blackheads. The best ac- tion to take in a case of blackheads is to consult a reputable physician and then follow his advice. ‘Townsend’s California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* public .-on’ the ffornla street. Telephons Mois ioed o