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

SCO CALL, THURSDA DECEMBER 190 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHNY D. SPRECKELS........ - .Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COM2 OHN McNAUGHT PUBLICATION FEDERAL IRRIGATION. al Irrigation Association, which seems to be an alias | well, 1 gh of 2 one of the authors and promo- r. Maxwell in his incorporated in a general attack on the ne fervor he used in attack- ( ongres ith the g districts in this State, to prevent their ion plants in the world, which r of a million acres of land. rigation fund now amounts to about $30,000,000. hat it will not come to be considered a companion arrel to the river and harbor bill. It is growing at the rate vear by the sales of the public land. Mr. Maxwell has op this increment by lobbying for repeal of existing r which alone does the irrigation fund get additions L Senator Hansbrough seems to favor not only the gement of the fund, but its conservation, by putting its ex- ler proper official and professional supervision. To do »osed that a supervising engineer be appointed by President, who under direction of the Interior Department shall | supervision and direction of the engineering work re- ¢ the law. s he has prc t present this task is assigned to an employe of the Geological . who has neither the time for the work nor the compensation » justify his giving the attention it needs. It is easy to foresee hat under such circumstances the fund will begin to spring leaks. ernment has a military engineer in chief, who has super- of the large -expenditures made under the engineer corps of 1v. That system deposits authority and responsibility in one ace authority is ample as the responsibility requires, and the effect is to protect the public funds. It is doubtful if authority ty can be found hand in hand anywhere in the Iministration of the Federal irrigation law. FEach work now in ogress seems quite independent of any relation to any other d if there be any connection between them it is through a a of a subordinate of the Interior Department. We submit that a work as great as this, presenting as many plexities, and implying such ultimate risks to the national treas- was never before left as slipshod in respect to oversight and xactness in administration. Government, of necessity, does such ngs wastefully and therefore there are safeguards, audits, coun- 1s and all sorts of riffles established by law to catch things as ow and reduce to the minimum the inevitable waste. To say pendous experiment and enormous expenditure of money 20 on under the normal conditions of Government waste, with- 1t the safeguards proved necessary by experience, is to utter folly e flathead brand. It is not proposed to disturb in any way the present corps of uction engineers, nor to revise or cancel existing contracts, or any way check the progress of work now under way. But it is sroposed to put it all’under the direction of a supervising engineer the highest qualifications, equal to those of the chief engineer of he army, in whose office and under whose eye every plan made, mtract let, dollar expended, shovel of dirt moved and drop of | impounded shall be focused. T'hose who are to occupy the lands irrigated and pay back the penditures of the Government have rights in the matter and the ost at stake. It is already known that the cost of works under way ill be $20 for every acre irrigated. That has to be paid back by he man who occupies the land. When it is known that the cost acre of the irrigation plant in the Modesto and Turlock districts is $10 per acre, the interest of the land holder looms largely. The lodesto and Turlock plant was not a Government enterprise, and | onomy and efficiency went together in its construction. One may asily see that it would be a blessing to the future landholders in! Federal irrigation districts if the burden per acre could be as ww. It may not make any difference to Mr. Maxwell, who is not going to farm any of that land, but will gratify his agricultural heart | by farming the farmers, but it does make a great difference to a iller of the soil whether the Government mortgage on his land is %10 an acre or $20. He has to take the risk of frost and wind and veather, equip his land with buildings, teams and implements, sup- | port his family and pay off a mortgage of $20 an acre in a limited | Farmers read this who have undertaken such jobs and they vince at the recollection. Senator Hansbrough seems to be ac- used of entertaining the malign purpose of making the mortgage as light as possible. Whereupon the National Irrigation Association | s incensed and calls names and is afraid ! | That association in its corporeal form, which preceded its cor- porate form, as the abalone precedes its shell, undertook for a| salary of $30,000 a year paid by the Western railroads to get ap-[ propriations for irrigation direct from the treasury. When Senator | Hansbrough proposed to derive the fund from the sale of the public land the corporeal part of the association fought it. Finding it would pass, the abalone acquired its shell by incorporation, in which form it claimed a caveat on all plans for irrigation. There is a suspicion now that it desires to stop accretions to the irrigation fund | and to use a bungstarter on what is already in the barrel, in order | 10 make good its contract to get direct appropriations. We shall see. N has decided that the interests of his empire cannot be ad- vanced by granting the national constitution and assembly prayed for by the recently adjourned assembly of the Zemstvos! I'hough dispatches from St. Petersburg give assurances that the Czar is contemplating’ granting a programme of reform, it is stated vey at Th The responsibi ry ater me. HOLY RUSSIA. O surprise can be occasioned by the news that Czar Nicholas with positiveness that this programme contains nothing so unheard- | of as the toleration of an assembly of the people or a constitution for | the people. The nature of this munificent comcession which is to be made to the desires of the people can be well guessed at after a reviewi of former beneficent reforms that have sprung from the throne at St. Petersburg. Probably it will provide that in case of bread riots the knout may be supplanted by imprisonment for offenders; that Jews may celebrate the Passover without fear of receiving any more serious harm from local police than the breaking of their windows and the insulting of their rabbis; that army conscription will be waived in the cases of all those bringing testimony to show that no less than ten individuals are dependent upon them for support. It is just possible that students will be allowed to choose their own uni- versity instead of being forced to attend the institution of their dis- trict. Tt is even within the bounds of probability that peasants may have a hand in the disposition of local revenues. § Aside ‘from these hypothetical reforms the wheels of Nicholas' Government will assuredly find no hindrance to their grinding. Mounted police will ever be ready to ride down on the crowd that gathers to give sanction to a popular appeal. Bureaus and bureau- crats, installed in high places, will continues to conspire together. for the maintenance of the close corporation on freedom and liberty inviolate from the touch of the festering common people. The peas- ant remains a peasant; the aristocrat an aristocrat. And still Holy Russia at the behest of her Czar fights the heathen Japanese as the champion of Christendom. Some of the .States of the South have been seeking to attract white jaborers, but with little success. Although many of the immigrants to the i'nited States come from southern countries and the South ought to attract them, yet the better class of them desire educational facflities for their children and the assurance of equal opportunities with natives for getting on in life and becoming citizens, conditions that do not exist in the South to_the degree they do in the North and West. treatment of the negroes and social and political conditions, as they are generally represented in the South, act as a deterrent to industrial settlers in that section.—Omaha Bee, LL:j R It is not to be doubted that the | IN A DAY'S SHOPPING Manager | | BY KEITH GORDON TR HE was young and had lived al- ways in the suburbs where life rolled smilingly under clear sklel.l sweet enough, to be sure, but just | a trifle uninteresting. There were times even when she was that little| girl, when she had craved the tonic of | the world’s uglier moods, burned to see | it at/its f st, as indifferent to hu-| man beings as if they were ants. This n have been mere youth and inexperie or itymay have been be- cause she was surfeited with beauty. Was not her home the most imposing in Farville? Inside the house an ex- q te quiet reigned—a sort of hal- lowed stillness that made her want to shout and whoop in defiance. | Her sisters were “the beautiful King | girls.”” She herself, as a chance re-| mark had informed her, was “the plain one.” At the moment she had felt deeply mortified. She hadn't supposed | it was so bad as all that. From this time her distaste for beauty grew more marked, and in one of those heated | moments that will occur even between | the best of sisters, had sald plainly | that she was “sick and tired of their| everlasting beauty!” With this ob- | servation she had made a rapid but| highly characteristic departure from th room and the family beauties had grinned at each other knowingly. | “She’s a funny iittle sister,” observed | Elaine indulgently, & remark that was | met by Bertha's thoughtful, “I wonder; why she is so litter against beauty? | She's not half bad herself. She's un-| usual, the restless little monkey!™ | And, Indeed, this view of her appear- ance was shared by a man who had on more than one occasion allowed him- self to look at her the second time, though she was unconsclous of his | very existence. Her trips to New York invariably led her to one destination, | and there he hsd come to watch for her. The mother ard the beautiful sisters never knew, any more than they knew ber keen interest in the gloomy in- teriors visible from the elevated trains, | that their youngest was in the habit of rushing through her shopping at the high-class stores, where they had eredit, and then betaking herself pell- | mell to a great Sixth-avenue depart- ment store, where, as she passed through the revolving doors, she felt with a ghiver of delight that she plunged into the stream of life. The jostling and crowding, the teeming exhibits that overran counters and were forever falling to the fleor, the near-silk, near-silver and near- gold commodities that filled the place so lavishly, far from offending her taste, stirred her fancy oddly, and she sauntered up and down the long aisles, | alive with that suppressed excitement that is one of the keenest emotions life had to offer and indifferent to the | buffetings of the crowd which seemed | to her delightfully good-natured, if a | ittle lacking in form. But the spot that she loved best of all was the broad landing of the marble stairaces that swirled grandly upward from the center of the first floor with a magnificence that was dazzling even for a department store. This landing formed a balcony, rich with Oriental rugs and upholstered furniture, and, most desirable of all, it commanded a panoramic view of the floor beneath. e, for Here ‘““the youngest” often sat her an hour or so at g time, with chin resting on the railing and her’| eves fixed greedily on the scene be- low, a fascinated| spectator of one of the best theatrical productions’ that the big, round world has to offer. The man—he was an artist and he haunted the balcony on the lookout for types—had noticed that she usual- i1y came out of her absorbed contem- plation of the scene below her with a start, glanced in a dazed way at the bold-faced clock near by and then fair-} ly scampered down the flowing marble stairs and melted away in the crowd. Not being a mind-reader he could not | know that she was wondering if there was any chance of catching the 3:50 or how on earth she should explain Now his watching became eager, intense. ] : her absence since 9:30 by the pur- chase of six yards of Val lace? But the studies of her face and head | in his small sketchbook multiplied jand the oftener he drew her the more : dissatisfled he became. Always he just missed catching the spirit of her, the youth, the interest, the ardor and the innocence of her glance, of every | line and movement, for it seemed to his artist's eye that she was a very marvel of expression. It was about this time that the pub- lishers for whom he did more or less work sent him a book for {llustration, and as he read the manuscript it seemed the very girl of the balcony who had wandered into its pages. By some strange fate the lines that he selected as the pictorial points told a tale. “She stood looking down at the throng below her, breathless, ab- sorbed,” was one; “Malvern, watch- Longings. The kiddies long for Santa Claus And for the pack he brings, And Pa’s face, too, is very long (For Pa, he buys the things). New York Sun. Two Abbreviations. “Mamma, what does ‘hon’ mean? It says here ‘Hon.’ Tom Watson. What is ‘hon.?" " “Oh, that’s only an abbrevation. ‘Hon." means honorable" ““Well, mamma, who is the Honorable Tomerable Watson, anyway?'—New York Herald. Off and On. Pretty Girl—-How d'ye do, Mr. Dob- son? I'm surprised to see you a sales- man. The last time I saw you you were an actor. What took you off? Philosophic Salesman — Eggs — bad ones! But you—I hear you're a great WITH THE MERRYMA?ERS success on the boards. What took you on? Pretty Girl—Legs—good ones!—Town Toples. All Depends. “A man is apt to sympathize with the under dog in a fight,” remarked the Observer of Events and Things, “un- less, perhaps, he happens to own the dog on top.”—Yonkers Statesman. Posting Him. The New Waiter—Don’t the patrons complain about the food? Tips—Naw! They spend 80 much breath kicking on the service that they are ready for anything.—Chicago News. The Winner. Some girls run madly after men, And tangle them in talk, Demureness tries a slower gait, And wins out in a walk. —Cincinnati Commercial Tribuns. MAKING THE A i ! ' ! e FIT THE CRIME. PUNISHMENT A London paper whic of persons thinks the recki suggesting future states for various classes automobilist ought to go to a place where imps would tie him down to stakes and then run auto cars at high speed on each side of his prostrate form, just “shaving” him as they ' 80 by. j method were not too blatant—if | ing her, recognized that of the thou- | sands she was the one,” was another, | and the pictures composed themselves in his brain with a precision that| could not be gainsaid. } He had watched for her before with | dreamy pleasure. Now his watching | became eager, intense. His fingers { itched to tell the story—tell it, as he! knew he could, as he had never told | a story before. Once, indeed, she had glanced toward him with a niute in- terrogation that went from his book , !and pencil to his face. But he had quickly feigned an absorption that must have convinced her, for she turned away and glanced toward him | no more. 2.t It was not until after the pictures had gone from him, not until the ab- sorbing work of weeks was ended, | leaving his mind temporarily as blank | as a room denuded of its furniture, | that any doubt of what he had done ! assailed him. Then, with some con- sternation he realized that the world is very full of people, a fact that for the past weeks had escaped him en- | tirely. He had thought of it as peo- ! pled exclusively like the Garden of | gden—simply herself and him. Now | a'sudden consciousness that his story lay in an open book, for others as well as-her to read, made him trem~1 ble. It had seemed the only way to bring her out of the vague atmos- | phere and into the circle of known things. Now, he wondered if his it would not make her shrink farther | | civilians. A benefit for the Naval Club "+THE SMART SET= BY SALLY SHARP. ‘An interesting event will take place ‘i{‘.:‘::i,?;i,“j‘lr"; £ o in January attracting the attention of | pretty apa hes 2 8 society in the circles of soldiers and The marriage i$ announce 'I.—‘,lhm Lockweod 4 >oll Alexander Po house at Vallejo, under the auspices of General and Mrs. McCalla, Wwill be | 4 piq. polloek of this city. T given at the Columbia Theater. The_ ding oceurred on December presentation of Henry Arthur Jones' | . . ¢ty after which Mr The Liars” is now in preparation, the | L oo oey for their = following well-known people to be injj . .. the cast: Mrs. J. Wilson Shiels, Miss Frances Jolliffe, Mrs. Mark Gerstle, Mrs, Frank Mathieu, Mrs. H. McD. Spencer, Dr. J. Wilson Shiels, Lloyd Lowndes, H. McD. Spencer, Norman Fastland, Willlam Smith, R. M. Hotal- ing, Royden Williamson. o The wedding of Miss Jessie Burns and Horatio F. Stoll \will take place on Thursday, January 12, at $:30 p. m. in Calvary Preshyterian Church. The bride’s attendants are to be: Miss Florence Rochat, maid of honor; Miss Elizabeth Duffey, Miss Florence Boyd, Miss Ellen Page, Miss Emily Rochat, Miss Alice Brady, Miss Marthe Chevret, bridesmaids. The groom will be served by Dr. Robert Burns, the ushers to be Dr. Frederick Fritchi, Dr. Paul Burns, James Firth, Ernest Rochat. Fdgar Jones, John Beatty. After the ceremony, performed by Rev. John Hemphill, a reception will Mr. and Mrs. Emile Brugu returned from New York spend the holidays at their hor Monterey. and « . Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield honor their niece, Miss Hele by giving a dance on December their home. The younger s sively is to be asked and delight? formality will characterize the affair. p Migs Maisie Langhorne wiil guest of homor to-day at a lunch given by Mrs. Hyde-Smith. .. e E Mrs. Frederick Kohl entertained a dozen guests at dinner on Monday sve- ning, the occasion being in honor of Rev. Father Sessnow of Washingtor D. C. | patience he awaited the appearancei | beauties. | ence. back into the crowded outer circle, | he held in the California Hotel. . Miss and with a sort of miserable, hopeless | Byrns is an accomplished planist, is well known among professional musi- cians and is a member of the San Francisco Musical Club. Dr. Stoll has been for several years city editor of the Argonaut. of the book. “Who is the girl?"” Kendry, an artist friend, was look- | ing at the proofs and he scowled and narrowed his eyes in an effort to re- call the face in the picture before him. Then a light dawned and his | brow smoothed. “I say, it's uncommonly like that | little King girl—the sister of the I didn't know that you knew them."” The maker of the pictures shook e Dr. Alice M. Goss, who has been vis- iting the leading hospitals of New York, Boston and Chicago for the past several months, has returned to San Francisco. Her many friends are ex- Commander and Mrs. C. B. T. Moors sall to-day for Samoa, where mander Moore will fill the Governor ship at Tutulla, the position now oc cupied by Commander Underwood . ‘om- R The California Club will celebrat Founders’ day next Tuesday by giving a breakfast at Ploneer Hall. This is an annual event looked forward to with much interest by the members of this club, whose welfare Is an importar feature In their thoughts. his head with well assumed indiffer- ‘‘Never heard of them, Where do they live?” His voice didn’t sound natural to | himself, but Kendry was absorbed in | the pictures and apparently did not| notice. | “Farville,” he answered absently, | and the other took courage. “That’s a mere face in the crowd he tossed off airily. “Found it in a Sixth-avenue department store.” Ken-, dry showed his disbelief. “If they have that sort in depart- ment stores,” he observed, “I think I'll go to one of them to get me a { wife.” To which his listener had the temerity to answer: “Do you know, | | the same thought has crossed my | mind.” { The next post carried an advance copy of the book to Miss Katherine | | King, Farville, N. J. As she glanced | | at the pictures she tingled with de- | | light. The great, swirling river of life | had caught-her up at last, no longer | passing her by as If she were but a | part of its smiling shore. She swept | into her mother’s room without cere- mony. ‘‘Mamma,” she said breathlessly, must, I really must go to town to morrow for a day’'s shopping.” Something told her he would be waiting! (Copyright, 1904, by T. C. McClure.) | <+ | $5000 BUTTERFLY | Schoolboys and children of larger | growth were much excited recently at | the news that Lord Rothschild had | paid no less than $5000 for a butter- fly. Collections hitherto regarded as worth a few marbles or a top suddenly assumed a value hitherto unknown. Inquiry at the entomological branch jof the British Museum considerably | dampened the prospects of a boom in butterflies. “It is extremely unlikely,” said the superintendent to our representative. “The highest price ever yet given for {a butterfly was £16. That was paid | by the Hon. Walter Rothschild and | was thought to be very high. Of/ course, Lord Rothschild may have given £1000 for the whole expenses of the expedition to get this specimen, but I should say it was highly im- probable.”—London Daily News. IN ADVERSITY I In adversity emulate the iron endur- ance of the fox, who would be skinned | alive rather than cry out. I think. “ HEAD OF STATE Dear Sir: ‘borhoods in which they e L Keep a stiff upper lip. Never com- plain except to those who you know | will help you. In other words, never | complain. When you need help (and thers come such times to the best of us) go last of all to those whom you have had occasion to assist. Go prepared with eau de cologne in case you should receive the shock of the unexpected. It sometimes happens that you re- celve assistance from the most unex- pected sources.—New rk Times. CHILD WEDDINGS The custom of marrying girls when they are mere children of 9 or 10 years Is increasing rather than decreasing in Bengal and other parts of India. The resulting racial degeneration 1s! becoming so obvious that laws have been passed in several regions for- bidding the marriage of girls under 14, ANSWERS EXPOSITION—A. N. L., City. The Pan-American Exposition held in Buf- falo, N. Y., was opened May 1, and closed November 2, 1901. JENNY LIND—W. F., Pleasanton, Cal. Jenny Lind Goldsmith, the fa. mous singer known as the Swedish ‘Nightingale, died November 2, 1887, AGAIN AND BEEN—Subscriber, Newman, Cal. Again, according to thy best authorities, 1s pronounced a-gen or a-gane with the sound of a as in | fate, name or date. Been is pronounced 'ué:tl‘nwbeno with the sound of e as in m choice selection of roses, cheap chromos, or more or less useless trinkets. The innovation is to be highly commended. Flowering plants improve and beautify the neigh- terially to the brightest and best side of the lives of those who learn to cultivate and love them. I trust that The Call will extend its floral dis- tributing field to other classes of flowers. ‘ With best wishes for the success of your cru- sade in behalf of culture and beauty, I am, Yours very truly, EMORY E. SMITH, President California State Floral Society. PRAISES THE CALL FLORAL SOCIETY SPEAKS HIGHLY OF “CRUSADE IN BEHALF OF CULTURE % AND BEAUTY.” CALIFORNIA STATE FLORAL SOCIETY. San Francisco, December 21, 1904. Editor The San Francisco Call, San Francisco. I have noticed that The San Francisco Call is offering as an inducement for new subscribers a ‘ instead of the regulation | J are planted and add ma- | | | | MIRROR OF DAME FASHION | A Modish House Dress of Light Brown Etamine Trimmed in Bands of Ecru Broadcloth and Ecru Lace. A Folded Broad Girdle of Brown Pamne Velvet Confines the Waist. The Bodicé Closes Intvisibly in the Back.