The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1904. . . : 3 s b v ,Elf{.‘ffm":.N: : ijflfflf‘jocfiw HILL, AS HE PROMISES 70 BE. | HILL, AS HE IS, Wfl%‘flfigfi PUBLICATION OFFICI SEPTEMBER 9, 1904 FRIDAY .. ADMISSION DAY. O-DAY California celebrates, by holiday and ceremony, the an- T niversary of her admission into the Union. The native sons and daughters of the State, with a birthright in its glory an.d honor, lead in this observance. By their grand assemblage and‘ in their local centers, which are all over the commonwealth, they give utterance to their pride in the land of their birt}}, and show forth a local loyalty that is hardly felt in equal degree in any other State of the Union, or any country in the world. 2 But while these birthright Californians properly lead, their sen- timent is shared by the far larger number who are Calxgomlans by choice. This State is peculiar in this, that the population planted here by immigration finds it in all things so satisfying that, after| a brief sojourn, eyery one of that class becomes a thorough Ca}x- fornia They find the burdens of life more easily borne and its ngs brighter and more numerous here than elsewhere in _the , and their loyalty pays tribute to the State in which risicr-| e is better borne and fortune comes by less sacrifice than in the £ ha\'C k“fi\\'ll. | rnia has a brief history, but every line of it is great. Lust-| Russia and by Great Britain, and possessed by Spain as | . world-belting empire of Philip the Second, by the law | gravitation it was probated to the republic. Prior to d been a land of mystery. The pioneer padres had | cross upon its soil and striven for the betterment of its | d the dons, owning the vast grants of land, had | flocks and herds, and led on their domains a | content and without enterprise, and lacking capacities and greater resources of the land. hunting race that under Cortez had overrun | the yellow glister, and had followed Pizarro into he precious treasury of the Incas, here they drowsed te, within arm’s reach of a greater store of gold d had known, unsuspecting its existence. rn part of the United States had its imagination fired ons of Fremont, the Pathfinder, and when gold was i the ier gathered by his reports was touched as by a t was a great confluence of events. The settlement of the the Mexican war, the discovery of gold! Imme- erward one of the great movements of the race. e in wagons, by slow oxen ands fleeter horses; ormy Cape Horn, felt their way through the Strait of 1 braved the pestilence of the isthmian passage. Hun- h smitten by disease, slaughtered by the wild tribes, But the stream flowed steadily on, gathering in California became an American community with an spiration to be an American state. full significance of the event that is celebrated to- t know the depth and strength of that feeling tehood. California had no Territorial novitiate. Riley’s proclamation the convention was elected that met September 1, 1849, and adopted a constitution, which | November 13 of the same year, when a Governor and were elected, and the State, with the government so was admitted to the Union September 9, 1850. Gov- elected before California was a State, served until v was chosen at the State election of 1851. was no appointment of a Territorial Governor from | Californians from the first elected their own govern- eers, met here the lords of a territory without law, n other than military, proceeded of their own mo- | erican government. It is a great history, deserv- | it and to those who made it, on this birthday e in the world. dreds wrecked A MOTH PARASITE. ERETOFORE the pear and apple crop of California has been ly protected against the ravages of the codlin moth frequent, costly and laborious spraying with Paris ving, to be effective, had to be done three times before blooming, when the fruit was set and m end upward, and after it turned down. then a heavy percentage of the crop has been lost by into the fruit of the worm hatched from the eggs of v place in the world where the apple and pear ubject to the attacks of this insect. The apple H rch orct Nebraska were so devastated by it that as a remedy it 1 was propose > destroy >ssive crops in the entire State by taking som s to blast the bloom before setting the fruit. Since the discovery that nature strives to maintain an equilibrium by fur- nishing an insect to prey upon those that destroy crops, it had come to be accepted as a fact that the codlin moth was exempt, and could be fought only by the hand of man. Now, it appears that there is no such exemption, and thanks to that great Californian horticulturist, Mr. Ellwood Cooper, an insect has bee ind that feeds upon the moth, and it is to be introduced here i for next season’s crop. So far the information about it is meager. We are not informed at what stage in the development of the moth it does its work. Presumably, however, it attacks the egg in the bloom or in the blossom end of the young fruit. As California produces the standard and best Bartlett pear in the world, the importance of this discovery cannot be overestimated. Our dried and canned pears have captured every market to which they have been introduced. But the supply for both processes of preservation has been limited by the operations of the codlin moth. This discovery may have a wider significance than arises in the fruit crop. If it be found that this beneficial insect attacks also the gypsy moth, a peril that has long threatened all of our forests may be averted by it. Mr. Cooper has put the whole horticultural world under obligation for his agency in this matter. A Welsh gentleman in Pennsylvania, who deliglits in the na: of Gwffdd Jones, has a contract to furnish a .Frelug-nh manufaecturit:; house with 10,000 rattlesnake pelts, and he is now busy collecting the deadly crotalus. The Squehawken Morning Inteiligencer of Squehawken, Pa., asserts that Mr. Jones decoys his victims as one would decoy ducks, by coiling up on a butternut stump and repeat- ing his given name with metallic iteration. Since this is not made in the form of a sworn statement, however, we are privileged to have our doubts. bt s General Stoessel, mewed up in Port Arthur, has been sending telegrams home urging the Admiralty to get busy with that Baltic fleet. With our knowledge of the general’s command of sulphurous Russian we may now believe that the electrical storms raging over the battlefields in Manchuria were precipitated by the transmission of a few of these wireless messages from the‘beleaguercd com- mander. PR S Recently David B. Hill opened the campaign for his denouncing the President as a fraud in so mangnwords. Ff‘:zsbi{ an earnest of what his methods are to be, Democrats may well con- gratulate themselves upon the imminence of that gentieman’s an- nounced retirement from the political field. An enthusiastic student of heraldry has discovered that the Sage of Esopus enjoys the inherited right to sport a coat of arms. This authority gives us details concerning “vert, a chevron, between three stag’s heads cabossed,” but he says nothing about an interrogation point on 2 “field or.” R R On Thursday night the residents of Redlands invited the “Holy Jumpers” to give an example of their agility, and in uence fifty of them jumped immediately to Oakland. With a little training. fsrom“tl;e.‘ChkhndpeopkMMt' be made to jump over the tate WOMEN'S CLUBS ARE | SPLENDID HELPS T0 THE FOREIGN ARTISTS —_— The coming musical season will bring to the United States the usual number of virtuosos and the pianists and the singers and the violinists will again travel the length and breadth of the land. Perhaps in some former sea- sons there have been more noted art- ists, but there will be plenty of ma- terial to occupy the atteation of the women'’s musical clubs throughout the country. The majority of the artists who come here would never be able to make an American tour but for these women'’s clubs, which show how women can really be useful in advancing the interests of music without endeavoring to compose or do other ereative things of the kind. When an agent visits a city to se- cure an engagement for an artist he goes directly to the presidént of one of these clubs. The pres.dent, after hearing nis proposal, puts the ques- tion before the members of the govern- ing committee, and they decide wheth- er or not they can sfford to pay the price asked for the artist. The sum asked may be $200 or it may be $400. The vomen when they accept a performer try to sell the tickets themselves, giving first choice to the club members anc lctting in the public afterward. Without this guarantee and the in- fluence of the club members. many small towns would never hear the well-known artists. Managers would be afraid to undertake to give con- certs in small cities where the mu- sical taste is not ° ighly cultivated =nd the public is indifferent to high-class music. All over the country these clubs have done a woaderful mission- ary work in bringing to the people of the smaller cities the best of the vir- tuosos. It rarely happens that these organiza- tions are not able out of t'eir own resources to pay the honorariums asked by the great artists, altuough one club in a Western city last year paid to a soprapo $2000 for a song recital, and it was, moreover, given only for the members of the club, the cutside pub- lic not beinc admitted at all. ' Often women's clubs will in the case of famous artists pay a certaln sum toward the receipts of the perform- ance, guaranteeing as much as it can afford and taking the cholce of seats. It rarely happens hat a club can af- ford to pay more than $600 or $700. These clubs have also developed a set of women impresarios, who con- trol certain parts of the country and are able by the skill they use in deal- ing with their own sex to arrange the engagements of artists on much better terms. They will take the singers or players, for instance, to give concerts in half a dozen cities in a certain ter- ritory. Then they will journey from town to town selling the artists to the different clubs. One of the best known of these wom- en Impresarios controls the entire Northwest 1d managers are always eager to do business with her, so cap- able has she proved herself. Her prin- cipal value to the managers comes from the fact that she has the entire confidence of the musical societies, which will always take artists on her recommendation.—New York Sun. MILADY'S "KERCHIEF. In days gone by a lady’s handker- chief was a much sought favor by her admirers and was often carried into battle or was the reward of a deed of bravery. Those times are past, al- though no doubt many a lover now- adays has a dainty handkerchief /! W J,/ % 7/ /) COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL AND THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY A QUEEN WILL ILLUSTRATE HER OWN BOOK — WHO HAS WRITTEN A NEW VOLUME, . THE RHINE ON THE DANUBE,” WHICH WILL CONTAIN PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY HER ROYAL SELF. [ N——— ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF RO! i ENTITLED, “THE DAUGHTER HE London correspondent of The Call sends the following: Queen “Car- men Sylva" seldom misses an opportunity at bookmaking—in the lit- erary sense, of course. She accompanied the King of Roumania on his recent trip on the Danube, and now a volume from her pen is almost ready, entitled, “The Daughter of the Rhine on the Danube.” This will be illustrated with photographs taken by the Queen herself and drawings made by the Crown Princess of Roumania. HOT WEATHER HINTS THAT YOU SHQULD THESE DAYS PASTE IN YOUR HAT SENORITAS FROM PORTO RICO COME T0 WORK IN AMERICAN FACTORIES ——e The rec&nt sailing of twenty-three | Porto Rican girls, bound for St. Louis, where they will be employed in facto- ries, is a remarkable indication of the changes which this land has under- gone with the advefit of the American Government. It marks an epoch in the history of the country. | Prior to the American occupation {the women in the island lacked inde- | pendence. The deportment of the | young women, governed by the social ethics of Spain, was guarded by some female of the family or a relative, who acted as sponsor. The young girls and married women spent most of their time in their houses, attending to domestic duties or sewing. Attending church and | shopping was always done with some elderly or married person, or perhaps a male member of the family. Earn- ing a livelihood, except as a seam- stress or in some vocation common only to women, was rare, while the invasion of any field of labor presided over by men was beyond thought. Americanization, however, has made jgreat strides in this respect. It is common to see the girls go alone to church, shopping or making calls. There are now female telegraph oper- ators, who have been taught in a school established by the Government. There are schools of stenography, from which girls will soon graduate and be ready to take positions. A few are holding Government positions. Another instance is the school teachers, who In many cases are teaching in towns far from their homes. The Normal School in Rio Piedras, the only one in the island, is attended by female students from all over the island and they have proved that a chaperon is superfluous. Now a precedent has been set which shatters all ideals. Twenty- three girls go to the United States from various parts of the island; a majority are unknown to one another, Their stay in St. Louis is optional with them. The company has pre- scribed no time for the expiration of the contract. So long as they wish to remaip the company will furnish work. The company has entered upon this enterprise with a confidence that Porto Ricans have a natural fitness _- - e e s |for that kind of work. The venture is Don't talk about the hot weather. It's such a common subject. Find something “new under the sun.” 5 Eat with moderation. To-morrow is another day. Leave salt meats alone. They are not good on a hot day, even a “fresh” individual. - Eat sparingly of meats. Give the fish man a chance. ‘Don't drink when overheated. It will that you are a mere tank. ‘ Too many drinks containing ice are dangerous. Don't make the ice- man feel like J. Pierpont Morgan. g Don’t be impatient. Everything comes in time. Even cooler weather. make you feel for the nonce Don't get excited. You may not get another chance. Don’t irritate yourself. It creates too many warm waves. And, above all don’t ask, “Is it only makes the other “hot in the % saying to himseif: “Idiot No. 46. Who's next?”’ 4 for you?” It experimental, but if it proves satisfac- tory more Porto Ricans will be en- gaged. . Under all circumstances the under- king will bring benefits to the girls. It will tend to awaken a spirit of self- reliance and independence; it will be conducive to their education; they will have had an oppertunity in com- ing in contact with American working girls. COLORED KERCHIEFS THE VOGUE. _ Many colored handkerchiefs are seen, and are said to be the vogue, but if they are to be carried take care to choose those with only the border colored, and that in the most delicate tints; if possible have them corre- spond to the shade of the gown to be worn on the same occasion. —_——— Lemon Juice for Pastry. A little lemon juice added %o the ‘water for mixing pastry improves the flavor and helps to make it light. AND A BIG WHALE An important part of the cargo of the tank steamship Paraguay which was not down on the manifest con- sisted of a story of a duel between & whale and a swordfish, says the Phila- delphia North American. It was feared that the tale had met with some misfortune this year and would not appear, but when the Para- guay came into port from Sabine Pass with a cargo of fuel oil it soon became known that the day had been saved at the eleventh hour. “Jt was on Tuesday morning,” said Captain Mowatt, “when the Paraguay was approaching Hatteras Lightship, that my attention was attracted to a commotion in the water about half a mile away. I ran the ship a littie closer and then I saw that a big whale was in mortal combat with a little swordfish. “The sword was buried in the whale's vitals, but it was probably about four feet long.” “Possibly ten?” suggested the re- porter. “No, probably four,” sald the cap- tain. “For fully half an hour we watched the battle, which ended when both combatants sank together, the swordfish held a prisoner in the car- cass of his enemy.” A PORTRAIT. He's nothing much to look at when you see him here in town. His coat's not in the fashion—it's & but- ternutty brown: His trousers bag unseemly ready-made were bought; He doesn’'t wear a necktie, as all well- dressed people ought; His hair is somewhat jagged in the mat- ter of its trim, Anad wild, barbaric whiskers are good enough for him. I know you would not think it; it is hard to understand, But back in Jimson County he's a power and they in the land. To see him in the city almost any one would say That he, in common pariance, was = typical old jay, They'd jeer at his umbrella and his old wool, wide-brimmed hat; The carpet bag he carries, they would have their fling at that. His speech would quite amuse them with its funny rural twang: They'd smile to see him “rubber,” as they call it in their slang. The trouble is he's treading on an un- familiar ground. Vut back in Jimsen County, why, he makes them stand around. Yes, 'way back there in Jimson you'd ap- preciate his rank; He owns the elevator; his judgment runs the bank. He's chairman of the County Board, and when they celebrate The Fourth, or almest anything, speech is simply great. A citizen of prominence, he's always in the lead. They don’t laugh at his whiskers there in Jimson—no, indeed. He's not much in the city, where he looks a trifie green. But bakk in Jimson County he runs the whole machine. —Chicago News. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PATENT — Subscriber, Sacramento, Cal. A patent, which is personal prop- erty, is not mentioned as exempt from execution, in case 2" attachment Is issued. FLAGSHIP—J. O., City. None of the published accounts give the name of Admiral Uriu's flagship at the time the Japanese fleet attacked Russian war vessels ai Chemulpo last Feb- ruary. THE McCULLOCH—New Yorker, St. Helena, Cal. The revenue cutter Mc- Culloch, U. 8. N., was named for Hugh McCulloch, who was Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinets of Lincoln and Johnson, 1865, 1369. DIPLOMATS—A. and M., City. It is impossible to say that any one country produced better diplomats than an- other. France, Germany, England and the United States have each produced great diplomats and statesmen, but the greatness of sych has arisen only upon occasion. FANNY KEMBLE — A Constant Reader, City. Fanny Kemble, the actress, who died in London January 16, 1893, married Pierce Butler, a Georgia planter, but the system of slavery not meeting her approval, she and her husband did not agree and a divorce in 1348 was the result. Neither the biographical sketches of Mrs. Kem- ble nor the notices of her death make any mention of her children or family. LETTER WRITING — Subscriber, City. A young lady should be very careful in writing letters to men. The acquaintance with a man running over & period of only four days, and such acquaintance having been formed at a public camp, without introduction, does not warrant a young lady In writing to him and addressing him in her let- ter as “Dear Mr. —," and closing the letter with “sincerely yours.” The man may have been “apparently well edu- cated and a perfect gentleman in his deportment,” yet a young lady should know to whom she is writing and at ail times should be guarded in letter writ- ing. This department refers you to any of the modern dictlonaries for the definition of “friend” and “acquain- g . “BEAUTIFUL BERKELEY.” The second edition of a charming little booklet, called “Beautiful Berke- ley,” has just been issued for gratuit- ous distribution by Youngs & Barry of the college town. The work is {llus- trated with good half-tones and map® and furnishes interesting data that will serve as a profitable guide teo home-seekers. The recent marvelous growth of Berkeley, along both sub- stantial end artistic lines, is well shown in the work, together with the natural advantages and those earned by the energy of her residents. ————— Old-fashioned molasses candy. Town< send’s. T15 Market street. - ———— Townsend's California Glace fruits im artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* ———— e —— ErnaiEnE his