The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1904, Page 8

FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY AUGUST 26, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL .... Proprietor Manager A CHECK ON IMPURE FOOD. T takes a long time to provide machinery by which Ipumic authority may | guard the purity of a food supply. Congress began it three or .four years g0 by appointing a joint committee to investigate the condition ({x our od supply. This was the outcome of the “embalmed beef” ex- citement that followed the Spanish war. The report of that committee cov- ered meat products, canned goods, beer and other liguors and grain prepa- Tatwons [ domesti { It was guite thorough and furnished evidence.that our people are not yet While considerable adulterations were | tication of food. expert fouad were not of the most noxious kind. When one edible product, | sach a or cotton seed oil or chicory, is used to sophisticate another edi- | Lle product, the cheat is in getting for thé cheaper aduiterant the price of the pure article. It is a cheat, but it is not a poisonous cheat. It is commer- | cial d r to compound such a cheat, but it is not murder. It is the duty ‘ of th 1ent, however, to protect the people against a cheat, as well | s agair a st poison. - is examination of our domestic products, steps were taken to test When that inquiry had progressed in the hands of the al Department, it was soon apparent that in many of our imported we were not only cheated, but were being poisoned as well. lmported 1 was found to be stretched with lard, cotton seed, mustard and pea- | Now all imported olive oil is subjected to examination and i.\ is determined before it is allowed to go into commerce. The pure | California is undersold by the foreign product, but since the for- has been subjected to examination the reason is developed. Th:j I is largely stretched by cheap adulterants. Those who wish to use They must find it in any of the many Aiter oods. food get it. fou to be almost universally impure, and many are aded with harmful adulterants, which must seriously impair k Dr. Wylie, the chemist of the Agricultural De- | there is probably not a barrel of pure Scotch whisky | nited States. It is a creosoted compound. This will be unpleasant the winter and Scotch high Such drinkers could take some corn high wines and heir own Scotch, that would be as satisfactory and as imported article. Imported sausage is found to be an unspeak- and exceedingly dangerous to health. Imported fruits in glass ytl copperas to aniline, and are loaded with active poison says tl indulge in hot Scotch in ing from s of the investigation are such that the Government pro- i} at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New e 2 2 | Orleans, San Francisco and Chicago-to examine sample lots of all importa- | f i beverages, and those that are impure will be denied ad- ntry. to establ horatories At present the expert examinations at this port are But a conveniently located Federal laboratory that work by making it a specialty. When these labora- | i, their use may well be extended. They can examine as imports, and if conducted with the strict integrity which ich work their certificate to the purity of an export e taken by the public authorities of Europe as sufficient testi- te University. v to its character. iaboratories may also be used to establish the character of foods and ntended for domestic consumption, and their work in that line will { tant check upon domestic adulteration. Avarice is the motive in ations, noxious and innocuous, and avarice is the most sinister all the human passions. It can only be met by equal in- | ve all, by the strictest official integrity. We may expect it | in that way by the scientific representatives of the Government. | men are noted for Jack of avarice themselves, so that they are the orruptible class in the public service. POLITICAL CARTOONS. CEPT in the Hearst papers, the campaign cartoons of the year are They lack malice and serve the proper purpose rt. The cartoons of President Roogevelt, while aimed to em- w of him taken by his political opponents, are not belittling 1s, and probably no one is more amused by them than himself. " in a sort, represent him as he is, an independent, self-cen- ered American gentleman, strong of will for what he believes to be right, ideals which he is not ashamed to illustrate in his own life. y humorous. Afte ey nd with hig He is cartooned as full of boyish exuberance and enthusiasm and mature strength and purpose. So Judge Parker is so cartooned as to present the | t situation in which his candidacy places him. He is not caricatured in | features at all, but, like Hancock, appears as an amiable figure, meritorious | in his place, but oddly out of place in his new position as a Presidential candi- date. He says inopportune things and is a bit logy. Now that is exactly as the pu akes him, but without any disparagement of his character as a citizen. One noteworthy result of change of motive appears in thecartoons by Davenport. Of course a cartoonist works in employment, and his pencil executes the will of his employer. While Davenport was with Hearst his art was subservient to the malice of his employer, and Davenport, one of ‘the most amiable and bright hearted of men, had to turn his art to the service of graphic lampooning and libel. Finally, revolting at such degradation of his genius, he quit an uncongenial service and his emancipated pencil is now employed in the service of genuine good humor. Nothing more amusing | nor more telling has ever appeared than his cartoon representing the effect of Judge Parker’s one term proclamation in his speech of acceptance. It does not touch nor tarnish the dignity of Judge Parker’s personality, but in the subsidiary figures represents, truthfully, the amused expression of the whole country. It effervesces humor in every line and is void of malice. The spirit of the campaign cartoons is inspired by the feeling of the peo- ple. In the South, where superfervid expression and torrid oratory are ;t:il preferred to the noble rhetoric of understatement, there are not a few ex- . amples of old-time rampanting in denunciation of President Rooseveit. But in the States that have a decisive voice in the result his election is accepted as certain, and his supporters treat his opponent with respect, that is in a Jarge measure reciprocated. In 2 Spanish town recently a woman, much married but still hopeful, Jed to the aitar her eighth husband. The other seven had submitted to the | exceptional fortune of sudden death, and now the insurance companies, more | conservative than lovely woman, refuse to insure the life of spouse No. 8. The fear of the companies should deepen the affection of the couple, stand 2s another illustration of the power of the fair sex over suspicious man, and insure to this eighth interest in matrimonial uncertainty a long continuance. —_— General Stoessel, who is defending Port Arthur with the splendid cour- age of the lion no less than with the ponderous persistency of the bear, is said to have given expression to wonderful profanity when he was informed of the Japanese offer to him to surrender tRe fortress which has been so valiantly defended. Perhaps the brave soldier was simply calling his lieu- tenants by name and some careless hearer thought he was exercising the uni- versal privilege of man when in trouble, —_— The University of Chicago has recently been enriched by the accession of a splendid library devoted exclusively to the history and philosophical dis- cussion of matrimony. - While the subject is of unquestioned fascination, the vouthful minds that approach it should do so with the warning that the shadows of suggestion it throws are for the study of the past, not for the guidance of the future. Matrimony never has been and probably never will be one of the exact sciences. —_— The “support” that William Jennings Bryan is giving to Judge Parker should clothe Bryanism wjth a new meaning. Punic faith has been worn to the veriest commonplace by the use of countless generations. Let Bryan- jsm take its place in the category of warning and of contempt. Let the word suggest to Americans, who love a fair fight, sincere pity for the candidate who must submit to this unwelcome condition as one of the penalties of his g She Lives as a Man for Years. Bpecial Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, Aug. 13.—It is doubted here if any woman masquer- ading as a man ever had a more ex- traordinary career than Catherine Coome. She it is whose arrest the other day brought out the fact that for the last fifty years she has worn man’s clothing, done man's work and everywhere passed as'a man. She is devoted to her pipe, too, in which she smokes the strongest kind of tobacco. Strangest of all, however, Catherine Coome has been twice married as a member of the sterner sex. Three times in all has she entered the bonds of wedlock, but on the first occasion, 8s a mald of fifteen, she wedded a man. That marriage turned out un- happlly and she resolved never to re- peat the experiment. The second time in the role of a man she married a woman and was rewarded with four years of. domestic bliss. The third time she again married a woman and | for twenty-two years this strange but happy matrimonial partnership was maintained until the death of her “wife” made her once more—should one say a “widow” or “widower?” Only once before her recent arrest, sghe declares, was her sex detected. She has been a ‘eaptain’s clerk and in that capacity and subsequently as a painter and decorator on the P. & O. Company's steamers has sailed over many seas and seen much of the world. On shore she maintained her- self and the partners of her joys and sorrows for many years as a.house painter. And finally as a fitting cli- max to her career she has elicited from a magistrate the statement that there is no law in England under which a woman can be restricted from donning masculine attire. She comes of a good family. Her father was a man of some means and a well known member of the Somerset and Devon Hunt., She was educated at a “young ladies’ seminary” in Chel- tenham and before she was 16 she married her first cousin, Percival Coome. He was 22 years older than caught her and made her suffer for it. It was after one of these experi- ences that she hit upon the idea of disguising herself in male attire that she might the better hide from him. Shg was 18 then and the change of costume made her look like a bright and handsome lad. It was before the days of pursers and she readily ob- tained a position as captain’s clerk, a billet which insured her safety from her husband's pursuit. For three and a half years she held this position on the same ship and no one suspected her secret. The only embarrassment she suffered, she says, was from the attention of feminine passengers, who persisted in falling in love with her. One of them, an actress, and a famous one in her time, actually, she declares, besought her on bended knee to be- come her husband. “My legs were then scarcely used to trousers,” she says, “and I was so worried and ashamed that I told her I was only a girl. Her love then changed to friend- ship and my stanch friend she re- mained until she died.” On her last voyage on the shin, ac- cording to her story, a girl fell so des- perately ‘in love with her that when port was reached she refused to go home. By this time Catherine had Brown accustomed to her man role and such a trifling matter as the love of a maid no longer upset her. She got rid of the girl by sending a telegram to her father, a country rector, asking him to take his too susceptible daughter home. A Great Edition. “Inaugural Bdition St. Louls Star, Dedicated to Greater St. Louid, the Gateway to Transcontinental Com- merce”—this is the title of a publica- tion which has just reached us. It is in the form of a large follo, with illuminated backs and contains 128 pages of illustrations and printed matter, divided into seventeen sections, treating of the various features of the Exposition City, shown with a mar- velous wealth of illustration and de- scribed in a most attractive manner. The heavy calendered white paper on which the edition is printed has given the artists and the printers good ep- herself and according to her descrip- | portunity to display their abilities and tion of him a thorough-going seamp. He cruelly ill used her, kept her un- der lock and key and-even cut off her hair and sold it. She vowed after that she would never let it grow long participation in political life. again, nor did she. Several times she izan away from him, but he alwavs they have made the most of it. The whole thing is indeed a marvel in con- ception and execution. It was got out on March 13 of this year in honor of the State’s tak- ing possession of its splendid new building at Twelfth and Olive streets. 7% \ A ¥ Wi 4 AT v o P A LA A YN il ! 20 (COPYRIGHT, 1904, /s THE DEMOCRATIC CHOIR g 41 g"‘:fi" i BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL AND THE NEW YORK MAIL) i His Proofs Tolerate No Gainsaying o+ g l “GOVERNMENT IS IT? T'VE HAD iT FOR FORTY YEARS AN’ MORE."” SURE! . L Out near the Presidio lives an old Irishman who in years gone by wore the blue of Uncle Sam. He now draws a pension and by doing a little cob- bling he manages to supply his few wants, His name is Paddy MecCarthy. Among Paddy’s most cherished pos- segsions is an old army blanket. Few can see the blanket, for a short time ago Paddy was told that if it were known that he possessed any article bearing the initlals “U. S.” it would —_— Odd Cornersin Kings' H ouses. No monarch in the world excels the Czar of Kussiz in the splendor of Lis palaces. - Tsarskoye, near St. Peters- burg, where the Emperor has been staying recently, has a park around it which is eighteen miles in circumfer- ence. One room of the palace has walls of lapis lazuli and a floor of ebony in- laid with mother-of-pearl. Another has walls of amber curiously carved and | the walls of a third are laid thick with | In the throne room of the pal- | gold. ace of the Shah of Persia there is a carpet so thickly sown with pearls that the texture of the cloth can hardly be | seen. Near itis the throne of carved | wood, studded with jewels valued at $5,000,000. Near the throne stands a huge 'silver vase set with pearls and | turquoises, but, strange to say, along- side of it stands a cheap European | painted urn, such as can be bought | anywhere for a dollar. The Shah has curious ideas about the value of things and on the walls of one room a painting by one of the old masters hangs side by side with a gaudy poster advertising a dealer In fish hooks. In one room, where are kept many curious articles of gold and sliver, heavy with gems, there is said to be an ordinarv toothbrush, which the Shah regards as one of the great- | est curiosities. And everywhere about | the palace are cats. The Shah has a specimen of every kind of cat of which he has ever heard and there is hardly a country which is not represented in the feline army which it is the pleasure | of the Persian ruler to maintain. If he hears of any sort of a cat which Is new to him he immediately gives or- ders that it be bought, no matter what the price is, and it is possible that some ordinary American tabby may be at this moment luxuriating at the Shah's expense. To take care of this as- semblage of cats there is a corps of well-paid officials. The palace of the dEmperor of Abyssinia is a large build- ing, built like a Swiss chalet, with a red-tiled roof and whitewashed walls. It 1s a very ordinary affair and is sur- rounded by huts and other inferior buildings. There is nothing splendid about the palace or its furnishings, and, indeed, it would be considered as quite lacking in everything except size as a residence for an American of moderate means. But it is the palace of an Emperor, nevertheless, and of a powerful one.—Chicago Chronicle. _ — s be taken from him by the Presidio au- thorities. This frightened Paddy, so he promptly hid the blanket. A wag- gish patron of the old cobbler dropped in for a short chat not long since. “Paddy,” he said, “I hear you have the blanket you used in the Civil,War. I'd like to see it.” “Psch,” hissed the old cobbler. “They say the officers at the Presidio will take it from me, because it has letters on it. I'd not lose it for the world.” Upon being assured that the visitor would not tell of the existence of the blanket Paddy consented to show it, and he walked into the little room in back of the shop. absent a sergeant walked in. riedly ‘the visitor told him to Paddy he came for the blanket. When Paddy ‘reappeared with. the worn gray blanket the sergeant promptly stepped forward and claimed it as Government property. The old man almost fell to the floor, but he grabbed at the blanket and refused to let go. “Government, is it,” he cried. “Sure I've had it for forty years and more, begorrar”; and the old fellow took a firmer hold on the blanket. “Me name is on It.” Hur- tell While he was | ou're name,” said the sergeant. There is nething on it but ‘U. 8.* * “Well, then, said * the ‘cobbler, “what more do yez want? Isn't 1t ‘U” stands for Paddy and ‘S' for Me- Carthy.” Answers to Queries. VOLUNTEERS — Subscriber, City. Among the United States volunteers who went to the Philippines during the Spanish-American war there was an organization known as Light Battery Battallon, Wyoming Volunteers. PORT ARTHUR-T. Q. City. Just previous to the breaking out of the | Russo-Japanese war the population of | Port Arthur, Manchuria, was 10,000. | There is no means of knowing what it is at this time, as those in authority have something else to look after than a census of the population. —— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_—— Finest eyeglasses, 15¢ to 50c. 79 4th st front of Key's Celebrated Oyster House.* — e Special Information supplied dafly to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 330 Cal+ fornia street. Telephone Main 1043, *