The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1904, Page 8

TH E SAN- FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1904 JOHN McNAUGHT. . 10N OFFICE e ...NOVEMBER 22, 1904 | THE AMERICAN NAVY. ng of our present navy by Secretary Whitney, the service had been the weakest among the | ion In the first administration of President | determined that our seacoast line, longer than | ountry, and the importance of our many seaports lth accumulated in them, made it necessary to have a e to the defense of so much coast and of such important work of building a navy began then and has gone | ut little interruption, until we have the third navy ith France next above ps and Great Britain at the Si Vhitney's day we have had many impressive lessons. ! tween Japan and China was a demonstration of the need f sea power. When our Spanish war was looming above were grave doubts that we could cope with the ersary. On paper it excelled us in many essential whole Atlantic seacoast was in fear. It is not for-| Bosion, especially, there was distress that rose to a the long time that elapsed between the sailing of and news of its position. In the event it proved Spain, not in our naval tonnage and guns so ficiency of our service, but prudent men then re- t might have happened if we had challenged a first- e present war between Japan and Russia is a current com- n the need of sea powet as the first element in the defense e nation. The Japanese statesmen looked far ahead and not only a navy but the training and skill needed to make The result has been that her more bulky adversary has encounter on the water, and has been driven to de rm her own ships to prevent their capture or destruc- ert Japanese. has come to reinforce the skill of our navy officers and in number, tonnage and armament equal to the best | v any other nation. This is not a war but a peace measure. | have often explained, the two nations whose combined navies | ned sea power of the rest of the world can com-| of the planet. It~is not beyond the grasp of the| onal economy that it is cheaper to spend $100,000,- | navy that compels peace than it is to spend $1,000,- | war, as we did in our civil struggle. | Brahmin, one of the great thinkers of India, in this city a few years ago, said that the Hindoos the offensive and defensive arts because they king no preparations for war themselves no one war upon them. This did impress Alexander, who; with eks, penetrated to the Ganges and then concluded that a sidered by its people worth defending was not worth impress his successors, the Mongol conquer- e Brahmin declared that the Indian policy o be a mistake, for they have lived under n | | | s lid n ce proved tc asters for ages. be accepted as a fact that until arbitration is firmly estab- the strong nations accept its results against them and in eak nations the lion and the lamb will sleep together only lamb is inside his bedfellow. Considering our advanced the nations, there is probably no peace measure in gument for it is as powerful, as an American navy that coasts and in a defensive war defy the world. Our ne has been deprecated in Government circles in | Europe, but we notice that our critics have not closed ds nor reduced their fleets. | policy of Secretary Morton is earried out, our long sea- vill be efficiently defended and our navy will command the t of the world. The situation is made plain by the fact that not two years hence will we be able to put into action twelve ety-two ships of all classes. Take down the map and measure housands of miles of seacoast and fancy the small number of our fighting ships told off into squadrons and separated for its de- fense, and one must wonder that we have so long been inattentive to the need of augmenting our sea power. We have been nearly as sentimental as the Hindoos, and it is quite time to be more practical. THE FREE MARKET. T its last session the State Board of Trade prepared a fee | A market campaign by proposing that when the seawall exten- | sion is made proper space be reserved therein for such a mar- | ket. The present water front space is so crowded that the free| market cannot be made as effective as the Legislature intended and the producers of the State desire. The seawall extension will make a very large addition to the space available, anl the State Board of | Trade shows its alert attention to the needs of the State by the | timely action it has taken. The purpose of the free market is to bring the producer and the buyer face to face, and make of every consignment a cash transac- | tion. When the market is free to all sellers and to all buyers the natural price as fixed by supply and demand will prevail and the producers will only have themselves to blame if they do not go home every day with the cash price of their produce in their pockets. It is the expectation of the State Board of Trade that when this system is made permanent by being permanently installed on the | new seawall the vending of country produce to the city consumer will become here what it is in'every large city of the country, where such a free market is taken as a matter of ‘course, because it has been so long in existence. It will secure stability of supply and of prices. It will prevent artificial scarcity, which frequently occurs after the producer has parted with his property, causing a rise in price which gives him no benefit. It will also, by stability of sup- ply, increase consumption, and when the erratic fluctuation in prices is prevented it will be the means of yielding the producer a better average return on his season’s crops than he can hope for now. It will also place the consumer in reach of what he desires every day and not compel him to do without part of the time because of high price or disappearance of supply. The Board of Trade has entered into negotiations with the Har- bor Commission to secure reservation of the space required, and | seems to have reached, by its action, a solution of the matter that will be very satisfactory to the producers of the State, who in voting for the seawall prove to have been voting to themselves a priic that has heretofore seemed to be beyond their reach. | THE PRESS OF THE NATION. ! Of course it is only the expected that has happened. It was realized that there must be a landslide If Judge Parker was to be elected, and for such & political phenomenon con- ditions were not ripe, it seems.—Ar- kansas Gazette. election by 1912 every elector in the Tnited States will be a Republican.— | Portland Telegram. Democrats will accept the result with entire complacency and perhaps nerve themselves for the next contest. Four years hence they may be in a better position. Certainly they will if the ad- | A proper spirit of resignation vapids much annoyance the day after election. | great sorrow. IN THE MATTER * OF ELIZABETH By S. T: . HERE were two Ellz’abeth Lang- | “If you please, Judge Newton,” she hams. For fifteen years they had | lived almost side by sidé and neither of them had learned of the other's existence. Three hundred feet ‘of metropolitan space and several hundred thousand dollars separated them socially and completely. The elder Miss Langham resided near the middle of the block in a plutocratic white stone mansion. At the corner of the same street in a mod- est flat house lived the other Elizabeth. Though nejther of them was aware of the circumstance these two possessed 3> — STERN stammered. “Do as I say,” he responded testily. “The court will judge for itself.’” Five minutes later Miss Langham re-entered the courtroom clad in the gown under dispute. Madame Nellie's | expert beamed with satisfaction as she addressed the court. “You can see for yourself, Judge, yer Honor. It fits without a wrinkle.” _ “I should call that an amazingly good fit,” said Judge Newton, frown- ing, adding by the way of judicial con- cession, “and mightily becoming. It fits, doesn't it?” “Y-e-s said Miss Langham, “but. “I should call Lhnt'nn amazing- 1y good fit,” said Judge Newton. L | | & 4 | one link in common. His parents knew | him as James Carruthers. His clients and professional friends cailed him Jim | the Counselor. Miss Langham knew | him as her oldest—and, he hoped, her | best—friend. Elizabeth Langham knew him as her employer. Elizabeth Langham often wondered' that Jim had selected her from two | dozen applicants for the position of | stenographer in his legal establish- | ment. A callow graduate from a busi- ness college, she had hardly hoped to gain acceptance oOver a score of ex- perienced typists. The true reason— her name—she /mever guessed. Still Jim had no reason to regret his choice. | Miss Elizabeth was neat, pretty and bright. Jim dictated to her daily and | she transcribed without an error. Not so Miss Langham, the focus of | fifty bachelor aspirations, Jim tried | dictation there only once. “Mr. Caruthers,” said Miss Lang- ham coldly, “you are taking a mean advantage of our friendship. You have no right to criticlze my gqther friends. I am proud-to number Judge Newton among my friends.” “But he's fifty if he's a day,” Jim persisted. “So shall you be, Mr. Carruthers— some day. Good night.” There were tears after Jim had taken his departure, but that Jim did not know. He did know, however, that Miss Langham had dismissed him and he sorrowed accordingly. “It's that fellow, Colonel Newton,” Le mused. “Since they've elected him a Judge Elizabeth has been indifferent to me. Mrs. Judge Newton evidently sounds better to her young ears than plain Mrs. Jimmy Carruthers.” So he floundered homeward in the slush of a winter evening and nursed his first Sorrow maketh a sympathizer. Jim- my, blue and hopeless, became human- itarian in a week. One morning when his stenographer, Miss Elizabeth, showed him a court summons which had been served upon her, demanding that she pay the sum of $250 forthwith or suffer the entry of a judgment for that amount, Jimmy simply radiated consolation. ‘“Who is this Mme. Nellie who 1s suing you?” “I never heard of her,” was the re- ;ponse. Jim scanned the papers closely. “Ma- dame Nellie,” he said after he had fin- ished, “seems to be the trade name of a being whose Christian apellation is Michael O’Malley. He says you or- dered one blue dress of the value of $250. He ewears that you have re- fused to accept it and he sues accord- ingly.” “There must be some mistake. I never ordered a dress one-fourth as expensive ag that. Nor have I ever laid eyes on Madame Nellle.” ‘““Where do you live?” he inquired. Her reply astonish him. “Num- ber —— Sixth avenue.” “Is that near Fifty-seventh street?” “It is on the corner. The side street is very fashionable. This summons must be intended for some wealthy woman near by who doesn’t pay her bills.” ‘When Jim saw that the papers were signed in the name of the Hon. Wil- liam Newton, justice, his mind was made up. He told his secretary to have no fear. He was happy to show his appreciation of her faithful and long continued service. He tried the case himself. His rival sat on his bench and glared savagely at him—at least that is Jimmy’'s re- port of the judicial attitude. As it happened, Madame Nellle was not present in the courtroom, having been detained elsewhere on jury duty. In his place he sent two of his as- sistants. One of them took the stand at once—a florid faced lady she was, who confessed amiably that she had been a dressmaker for twenty-one years and was approaching her thir- tieth birthday. “It's this way, Judge, ver Honor,” she testified glibly, “Madame Nellie sent the dress and she sent it back, saying it dldn’t fit. 1 didn’t have nothing to do with it, | but the lady in our house as did has [ and one cup of milk. Madame Nellle says Miss should be compelled to pay.” At this point Jim felt called upon to explain matters. ‘“You see,”” he start- ed to say, “they’ve got the wrong—" Judge Newton waved him aside. “The | It is hardly a tea store souvenir.” . . . . . _“That's all. Judgment for Madame Nellie for the full amount.” . Once more Jim rose from his chair. “Won't you permit me to say a few words? There has been a mistake.” “There has not, Mr. Carruthers; un- less it be your own in endeavoring to defend a case in which the evidence is 80 palpably in favor of the other side.” On the way back to the office Jim consoled his client. He promised to | appeal the case to the highest court in the country. In his heart he knew that the case of Madame Nellie vs. Miss Elizabeth Langham would never be heard in court again. * . . . . . When Miss Elizabeth Langham emerged from her coupe at 6 o’clock that evening she found her household | in an uproar. Mathilde, her maid, was almost breathless. “If you please, | ma’am,” she gasped, ““there’s a man in | the parlor—a Sheriff or something, | and he's been holding the best peach- | blow vase these two hours. I sent for | the police. The police says he can’t | do nothing. He told the man to wait. | There he is now, ma’am, sitting in the best gilt chalr, with the vase in his hand, ma'am.” The intruder advanced as Miss | Langham entered the parlor. Yes, he was a deputy. There was a judgment against Elizabeth Langham in favor of Madame Nellfe. Didn’t she remem ber the dress she ordered from Mad- ame Nellie? “But I sent it back. It did not fit.” “Of course,” said he suavely, “that | may have been the defense. A judg- | ment is a judgment, however. Will you pay up or shall I make a levy?” he adding, casting longing glances at the vase. “This shall not go unpunished. It| is an outrage,” said Miss Langham | | - Dame FASHION'S irror BE ZgFiETR ZRZL ILKS, and especially the broad money-back weaves, are in es- peclal demand for the dressy tailor-mades, and this model shows some novel and clever features. The little coat shows a collar and vest combined in scalloped and embroidered cloth, the broad shoul- der emphasized with a sallor collar, and the waist-line clearly deflned by the fitted ceinture. The skirt has the bias French seam in front and the full- ness is managed with tiny side pleats indignantly. ‘“Walt until I ring up my friend, Judge Newton.” “Your friend?” The deputy laughed. ““You will receive instructions from s | kg 2 h%ve received ‘em already. It was Judge 'Newton that entered the judg- ment against you. Here are the pa- | pers. This is his own writing.” | One glance sdtisfied Miss Langham. She bade Mathilde bring her check book. “I'll pay,” she sald. “In the meantime vou may release that vase. | | | That same evening James Carruthers | sat In his den, ‘reading Dante’s | “Inferno.” He had finished “The Sor- rows of Werther” the dav before. At his elbow, still to be perused, lay “The | Joy of Living.” | The telephone bell jangled twice, but he did not hear. At the third call he rose from his chair. A moment later the volume went speeding on its way across the room. This is Jim’s end of the conversation | that followed. | “Represent vou in the matter? Glad- | ly. Pald it, you say? Tried to take— | oh, my! Newton? Beastly impudence! Called to-night after all that hap- pened? You treated him rightly. Yes, d-e-a-r-f-e. In ten minutes.” The next morning Jim informed his stenographer gleefully that the Mad- ame Nellle matter was settled out of. court, and that she might retain the dress as a gift. Later he called upon the deputy sheriff. “I am sorry, counselor,” said the of- ficlal, “that duty compelled me to go agalnst yvour client. Funny thing how | we collected it. I found the defendant | resided at No. —— Sixth avenue. I| saw it in the court record; she said so. Those are flats and, says I, that judg- ment ain’t no good. Afterward some | one rings this office up and tells me the defendant didn’t live there at all. | Says she was a swell and lived around the corner on Fifty-seventh street. He was right, too. She paid up like a lamb. I wonder who it was that tipped us off? We got the money all right. But, say, a guy that’ll give away a lady like that is as mean as dirt. Eh, Jim?” “Well, that depends,” replied Jim, ‘“‘upon the motive.”—(Copyright, 1904, by 8. T. Stern.) HOME COOKERY —_— Ginger Cakes.—Cream one-half cup of butter: add one cup of sugar and beat agaln. Add two well beaten eggs end ono-quarter level teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a teaspoon of water, in one-half cup of sour milk. Mix with one level teaspoon of ginger sift- ed with one and one-half cups of flour. Bake in well buttered pattypans. Ralsed Cakes.—Cream one-half cup of butter and one cup of sugar and work into two cups of raised bread dough. Add three well beaten eggs, one-half nutmeg grated, one level tea- spoon of cinnamon, one teaspoon of allspice, one'and one-half cups of seeded raisins chopped and two table- spoons of apple jelly. When well mixed turn into a buttered pan, let rise light and bake slowly. Ralsin Cookies.—Cream two-thirds cup of butter, add one and one-half cups of sugar, one well beaten egg, one-half cup of milk, four cups of flour sifted with four level teaspoons of baking powder, one cup of chopped seeded raisins, a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of mixed spices. Drop from a teaspoon on a buttered pan and bake. s Rice Muffins.—Beat the yolk of one egg, add one cup of cold boiled rice Beat and add with two level teaspoons of baking powder and the white of the egg beat- en dry. Fill buttered gem pans two- thirds full and bake in a quick oven. Potato Straws—Pare and slice cold { pressed flat over issue in this case s simple. Does the | potatoes and let stand i t Tl ik to P! s n cold water If you are wise, just accept success or defeat with very little demonstration. Don’t crow over the defeated candi- date nor get mad because you didn’t win. There are other elections coming. —Des Moines News. Americans are becoming of one mind on political questions, it appears. If the Republicans continue winning over Democratic voters as they did in this ministration to be does not prove satis- factory to the American people. If the Roosevelt administration should be all that the best interests of the country could demand, then there will not be much reason to regret the result of the election. It is better for Democrats to accept the result philosophically and allow the Republicans all the enjoy- ment of all the glory they can extract from it.—San Antonio Express. gown fit? That is all ask Miss Langham a question or two. Take the stand, Miss.” Miss' Langham did so. “What is your name?” “Blizabeth Langham. “Where do you live? “No. Sixth avenue.” “You may retire to my private chambers and don the dress. The plaintiff’s experts will accompany you.” Miss Langham commenced to weep. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. * ! fornia street, Telephone for an hour. Cut in slices, then in the” hips, rows of stitching in weavy pattern holding them in place. Above the hem is a bouillonne band, and the hem itself is faced with black velveteen and finished with countless rows of the oscillating stitch of the sewing machine. The sleeve Is patterned on the old-time leg- of-mutton design, but with the greater fullness draped at the elbow. The cuff repeats the pretty band of pleating that edges the broad sallor collar, a rope of covered cord being used with excellent effect. SMILES CRUSHED AGAIN. The Great Tragedlan—Years ago I was a stage hand. The Comedian—I heard that in your early life you began to shift for yourself. A POLITICAL JOKE. First Politiclan—Did you put that assured me that it fitted to perfection. | one and one-half cups of flour sifted | 5heme of yours through? Second Politiclan—Didn’t need to. First Politiclan—Why so? Second Politician—It fell through. e e An English farmer has been fined for tying firecrackers to pigeons. He ex- plained to the court that letting off »THE SMART SET= BY SALLY SHARP. Miss Charlotte Wilson was enter- tained at dinner last evening by Mrs. Charles Josselyn in her Pacific-avenue home. | Twenty covers were laid, and table decorations in red jwere very | effective, American Beauty roses, red | candelabra and name cards of the same shade lending an attractive | glow. The guests were: Miss Charlotte ‘Wilson, Miss Emily Wilson, Miss Maud Bourn, Miss Anita Harvey, Miss Mar- jorie ‘Josselyn, Miss Gertrude Josselyn, George Cadwallader, Gerard Rathe bone, Will Page, Joseph Tobin, Oscar Cooper, Wilberforce Williams and Frank King. . * . One of those delightful innovations, the “telephone tea,” happened yester- day at the home of Miss Gertrude Hyde-Smith, on Green street. Among the group of bright, chat- tering maids were Miss Newell Drown, Miss Maude Stone, Miss Marjorie Jos- selyn, Miss Margaret Newhall, Miss Elizabeth Livermore, Miss Emily Wil- son, Miss Charlotte Wilson, Miss Anita Harvey and Miss Margaret Hyde-Smith. Mrs. Findley B. Dray and Miss Dray will be “at home” to-morrow, 1715 Broadway, receiving on second and fourth Wednesdays through the sea- son. . The informal tea given yesterday by Mrs. Willilam J. Gunn was a very pleasant affair and brought many friends, for on Thursday Mrs. Gunn and Miss Mabel leave for New York. There they remain a few days, then continue the journey to Porto Rico, where Miss Gunn and Dr. Thayer will be married in January. The bride-to-be is leaving a large circle of friends, who are wishing every happiness for her in the far- away new home. Miss Gunn attended school in Phila- delphia and there met Dr. Thayer. . - . Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones was the guest of honor at a dinner last even- ing given by Mrs. James M. Goewey. Other guests were Mrs. Llewellyn Jones, Mrs. George McAneny, Paul Kosakevitch, the Russian Consul, and Captain Howland, U. S. A. . . . Mrs. Edgar F. Preston will be hostess at a large bridge party to-morrow | atternoon at her home on Broadway. * . e The first affair in honor of Miss Marie Wells' engagement to Selby Hanna will be given by Mrs. Pedar Brugulere on next Tuesday. The event, a dinner, is to be marked by new features—importations from Newport, where Mrs. Brugulere OES true love ever dle? This question has just been pro- pounded to me by a reader of these columns. True love—what does the phrase mean, anyway? Is it a catch-word, caught up out of the dream of a poet who lived when the world was young, and repeated ever afterward for the sake of effect? Or is it an entity, one of life’s great won- ders? “What love is we do not know; whence it comes, or whither it goes we know not,” the wise men say. The problem has puzzled philosophers and moralists for ages. On the ons hand the poets, and on the other the sclen- tists, have taxed their ingenuity to dis- cover and define its essence. Doctors have pronounced it a mal- ady of the mind, which, like other forms of mental disease, impairs the bedy’s health. A couple of years Bzgo a Chicago physician tried to explain it by using medical jargon of the day and calling it “a microbe.” Yet, after all is said upon the sub- ject which man is capable of saying, where have we arrived? We stand where stood others, wiser than we to begin with, who declared: “What love is we do not know; whence it comes or whither it goes we know not.” But one truth at least is yours and mine to grasp—'tis only those that do the | | been so extensively entertained by the leading lights through the introduc- tion of M Bruguiere Sr Covers for fourteen are to be laid. . Mrs. Horatio Stebbins and Miss Lucy Stebbins will be given a recep | morrow evening by the C | iliary in the parlors of the ¥ N . tarian Church from $:30 to 10 | In the wedding of Miss Margaret | Scphia Simpson and Rev. William { James Cuthbert, which takes place to morrow, there is an added element of interest. Miss Agnes Simpson married | Bishop Partridge of Kloto, Japan, three years ago, and while visiting her sis- ter in that place Miss Margaret met Rev. Mr. Cuthbert, who is likewise stationed in Kioto. Their marriage will take place at noon in St. Luke's Church, after which the young coupls will visit in the Simpson home for a few weeks. Soon after the holidays they sail for Kioto. . Mrs. A. 8. Baldwin and Miss Amy Porter will entertain at tea to-day from 4 to 6. The affair has been es- pecially planned for Miss Gertrude Dutton, who is soon to wed Josiah Howell. Mrs. Baldwin's home on Bu- chanan street will hold a merry throng of guests this afternoon. Miss Elsa Draper is doing consid- erable informal entertaining and her Sunday afternoon teas are very popu- lar. The past Sunday saw Miss Draper hostess at one of these.delightful af- fairs, her favored guest being Miss Ursula Stone. The young hostess al- ready has a reputation for efficiency and poise—traits admirable for soctal success. - Miss Anita Harvey will be the hon- ored guest to-day at a luncheon given by Miss Eleanor Morgdn and to-mor- row evening James D. Phelan will gtve a dinner in honor of Miss Harvey at hemian Club. the Bohem g The Woman’s Exchange benefit takes place to-night at the Tivoll. Every- thing poliits toward success, for the seats have sold well and many theater parties have been arranged. Society will be very much in evidence, the charity being one that meets with marked approval in the smart set. 8 . e Mrs. Ella Hotaling, with her two children, arrived last Friday from trip abroad. a The second assembly and german of the Entre Nous Cotillon Club will be given next Friday evening, November 35, in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel. not love who ask what love is; the rest simply love and are satisfled. Paradoxical as it seems, it is easier to form an opinion of what true love is than it is to comprehend the char- acter of love itself. The quality of truth which is Involved gives one a foothold; at once we have reality to deal with. To most of us, however, there is more than mere reality implied. The phrase “true love” carries with it an idea of permanency, in the gense of an um- alterable devotion toward a single ob- ject, and it is out of this confusion in regard to the significance of the word Editor The Call—I notice in your is- sue of the 16th the account of Governor Pardee’s speech at the Irrigation Con- gress at El Paso, wherein the Governor 1s quoted as saying “Fresno County Is the largest raisin center in the United States, sending out in 1803 over 600 carloads of raisins and over 1000 car- loads of fruits of all kinds.” It is to be regretted that there is an error in some way connected with this quotation, and I am inclined to believe that the same is due to a mistake in *| telegraphic communication. Governor Pardee is thoroughly conversant with the resources of this State, and I have no idea that he made any such state- ment at the Irrigation Congress. There is no doubt in anybody’s mind_that the fifst clause—to the effect that Fresno strips and fry in hot, deep fat. Season | Pigeons with live crackers attached to County is the largest shipping raisin with salt and serve as a border to |thelr legs was a common way of train- | center in the United States—is true, brouedg:hopu. ‘Wedding Invitations. forms and engrave visiting cards, wed- ding invitations and announcements cor- rectly and reasonably. Monograms, crests and address dies made to order. ~ ing them for shooting purposes. ———— O ———— Townsend’'s Californila Glace fruits in e ‘poc!a.l information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau ( en'l)“l'fi. Cali~ since this county produces at least 75 per cent of all the raisins produced in the State of California, and California ‘We give special attention to prevailing | artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* | produces the bulk of the raisins grown in the United States. Our raisin export for 1903 was be- tween 5000 and 6000 cars, instead of 600, Several original figures have been pre- has' pared. CAN TRUE LOVE DIE? By DOROTHY FENIMORE “true” that the question arises, can true love die? It would be hard to find a lover who would be willing to concede that the love which actuated him might possibly be not true love at all, but a cheaper substitute. A lover’s emotion seems a very real thing to its possessor. At the time it appears to him to be all there is of hope and happiness—even of life itself. But one day, maybe, he wakes to find that for some reason, either tangible or unintslligible, his love has burned out. Then, becoming cymical, he begins to doubt the trustworthiness of the universal passion. Suddenly once more it holds him spellbound, and, surprised, gratified, he swears alleglance to comstancy as earnestly as befors. But after this second passion has ended, llke the earlier one, he becomes philosophical, ready to belleve in that part of Talstol's creed, which claima, “There is to love in the future; love is only an activity in the present.” Now he Is ready ta answer with an affirmative the ques- tion, can true love dle? Yet the fact remains that we do see now and then instances of a love which ltves as long as the one whom it in- gpires. Such a love is best exemplified in married life. The secrst heart of single blessedness 1is closely hidden from either curious or sympeathetio eyes. It is no argument for constancy that a man or woman does not masry because of disappointment in love; this may mean true love, or it may be due to complete disillusionment. What Jean Paul Richter sald is generally applio- able: “Love without marriage is llke a bird of passage who seats himseif upon a mast which itself moves along.” There -really does exist, I fully be- leve, “a love large as life, deep and changeless as death.” Wa do not see it often because of the prevalence of human frailty. Such a love must be able to be faithful to its high ideals until the end. It is rare indeed, but it is possible. FRESNO COUNTY’S BIG RAISIN PRODUCTION. were shipped to all parts of the world, and I will add that the production of 1904 had it not been for early rains would have been just as large. Seventy million pounds in round numbers is a conservative estimate for the produc- tion of raisins for this county annu- ally. This year some unpleasant conditlons obtained with relation to prices, but this is not due, as many contend, to overproduction, but to the mere fact that these goods are not widely adver- tised. Were we Californians to use the same diligence as the breakfast food companies practice there is little doubt that there would be a greater demand for more raisins In the raisin belt and prunes in the prune district than these districts could supply if they raised ten times their present production. I would thank you to correct the statement with reference to Governor Pardee's speech if you see fit to do so, and knowing your interest in the wel- fare of this glorious State I feel as- sured that you will lénd every assist- ance to further her advancement. A. FRANK NEATB, Secretary Fresno Chamber of Com- merce. @s given In this acoount. These raisins! Fresno, Now 18.