The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1905, Page 8

w FRANCISCO CALL, RIDAY THE SANFRANCISCO CALL ADDI(‘ISS ALL -OOI‘IUN!CA'HON! ™ JOHN McNAUGHT.. ] __THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO CATION OFFICE... PUB MARCH 81, 1905 FRIDAY..... OUR FRIEND THE HEN. yolk and all, containing all of the chemical elements of the genuine article. This inventor should not cackle too soon nor loudly, for his manufactured egg will not hatch, at least not til he gets the biologist, Professor Loeb, to put into it sonie mys- medicine that will give it the life germ, and even then what ance is there that.it will hatch a chicken? We think that cooks and egg-eaters will continue, in spite of his invention, to depend on our friend the hen and that she cannot e put out of business by a chemical compound of alkali, albumen is hardly any subject of greater economic interest to than the hen and her products. The current annual re- the State Board of Trade calls attention to the increasing ortation of poultry and eggs from the East. There are ‘special ken cars on the overland routes that brings tens of thousands of s here to supply a demand that is not met by local production. me by the million every year. No capons are produced in 3 for that delicacy we depend entirely upon a Missou- ian near Kansas City, who sends the frozen birds to our local order to understand the affluence of the Eastern poultry and efforts to make the local supply equal to the demand are exclusive chicken ranches, where nothing else is raised, tation of the subject every year leads mistaken people to exclusive poultry raising, and their ventures are almost v failures and end in losses, except at Petaluma, where ing is a profitable art. ‘ast chicken farming, as an exclusive occupation, is al- nown. The business is a side issue on every farm in Ne- Iowa, from which States most of our supply is drawn. considering everything of human interest to be a proper t for editorial inquiry, has been at pains to make a study of hods by which is produced that great importation of alien and eggs. On the farms of Jowa and Nebraska the busi- ss does itself, so to speak. The fowls need but little attention. freely range the farms, picking up a living and supplying res with a varied diet conducive to their health and happi- owls and eggs are a cash product. The agents of the ship- either visit the farms and pay.cash for them, or they are bar- he country stores, from which they are collected and pre- to California. ‘What they bring is usually the " wives and daughters, and many a blushing eve belle is married in a handsome gown that was laid by the It owls keep down grasshoppers, slugs, cutworms and nd ke themselves generally useful. =Incubators are 3 1 lays her own eggs, sets on them and clucks od. They roost in trees and on fences, scratch around stacks and barnyards, are seldom given any food except forage for, and are independent, self-supporting fowls, from those that are fed on slaughter-house offal and 1 rais chipmen , we find that it is partly because of the uncer- While the farmers of Towa and Nebraska are ornia cash for their poultry and eggs, California ranch- precariot re So they either buy their poultry and eggs, or produce none exXCcess ( o be with he d loses the profit on a valuable by-product. >d not the founding of more exclusive poultry their fight against pip and vermin, but a system of € n and cash payment that will encourage every farmer to keep as a by-product, as can scratch a good-living on neec any chickens, Vhen relieved of the uncertainties of sale by commission and i good cash return, our farmers will consider it worth der chickens a proper part of their livestock. cows are kept, pigs and chickens should be also, for to consi where s said that a Frenchman has invented an artificial egg, white, | v it is necessary to know the conditions of its production. to the reason why poultry is not made a stde issue | irn on shipments made to be sold on com-| 1 often find themselves in debt for the freight and com- | f the supply for their own use, and the State imports to | What | On every | BY MAKTHA ILLY WHARTON'S coming did not surprise Joe in the least. She | had known something out of the common was going to happen ever since Saturday, when she had seen the new moon clear, had a black cat follow her home, and then dreamed of getting safe across a clear running stream. All these were omens of good luck. It was the best sort of luck to have a boarder in the big front room upstairs, a gentleman, evident- ly, eraving qulet, solitude, and country fare. ‘Mrs. Greer, Joe's stepmother, | had been set against boarders; she would have none of them even yet but | for that dreadful doctor’s bill. She had | been at death’s door last wirnter, her first real illness. Though the doctor Was in no hurgy for ‘his fees, her in- dependence chifed mightily against having him wait. Therefore, Joe had had no netv sum- mer frocks. - Therefore, also, she was not going to picnics and parties and; things—anywhere, indeed, but to church, where. the wearing of old clothes might be regarded as a sign of piety rather than poverty. The board money would change all that. In fancy Joe saw herself brave in new winter finery, holding up her head with the best. Her head had not really dropped,” for she was by nature spirited and full of fun. But the step- | mother was a little morbid on the point -of Joe's lacks, in. fear it might be 'said she neglected the girl, whom, it -was well known, she (Jid not love. Still they had got on falrly together until the époch of Ransom Farley. . He was Mrs. Greer’s nephew- an prospective heir, hence it seemed to him but right and ndtural that he should marry Joe, who held a mort- gage on the farm. Mrs. Greer had fetched her husband and his-daughter home with her to live, and the Greer estate had been turned into cash and used to free the homestead from sun-| dry incumbrances. Thus common in- terest had kept the two women to- gether after Squire Greer died. Ran- som thought it beautifully fit that they should go on living together and let- ting him take care of them. At least that was his way of saying it. Joe snapped that the care-taking would be all the other way. She had hated Ransom as a pink-and-white curly- haired model child, She did not hate him Jess now that, although his curis were cropped and his complexion was somewhat tanned, he still held him- self to the model standard. Joe wias slim and dusky—lithe as a sapling, with floss-like hair and eyes outflashing black diamonds. Wild roses blushed in her olive cheeks, her lips were cherry red, her voice full of | flute notes. Billy Wharton had a| weakness for pret: irls; he madelove to all Fate threw in his way. Natur- ally he made love to Joe. Naturally, | also, he made her love him. He was the man of her dreams, in every way | the opposite of Ransom, and very un- like any of the farmer lads or callow city youngsters with whom she had 1 been brought in contact. But because she loved Billy with heart and soul and strength, she flouted him, laugh- ed.at him, made a pretense of quar- reling and so kept him puzzled as to her frame of mind. Puzzling over a very pretty girl is bad for the affec- tions if the puzzler wishes to escape free. But Billy did not know that in | time. He tried all a mah might to/ | read this maiden riddle. He had been! quite’ fair, he thought—had told her| in the outset he couldn't afford to! marry until he was gray and bald. “I've nothing in the world now but myself,” he had said. “And though ! space rates give a decentish living for ! one, it's little short of criminal un-| dertaking to make them fuinish ra- ! | tions for two.” Then straightway he had made Joe guide him to the deep- est pool of the trout brook and stay with him at the stream side all through a summer morning. In course ake use of milk its As variety _ of the talk there she had somehow * f the milk and prevent its waste.. As variéty farm- gathered that a long time ahead, g er >s here and with the introduction of a proper system of when certain lives and leases lapsed, | poultry and eggs, making them cash at the farmer’s -door, | get a supply €qual to the demand and not before, for ken ranching as an exclusive business will never catch up with consumption. Let us be good to our friend, the hen, and give her a chance 1 she will supply us completely and save money to the State. e startling results, which show economic waste that the cou State the milky mother of the herd. THE REMAINS OF FORESTS. E Cleveland Plain Dealer says that this Government is making v belated effort to preserve the remains of American for- This is true of the forests in the East, Middle West The hardwood forests 6f many States have been wasted and have left but few remains to be preserved, and this renewal is for the benefit of remote generations because of their slow growth. t is aleo largely true of the fine coniferous forests in all parts of the rv where the conditions of the soil and climate make their growth an affair of many lifetimes. In our mountain and Pacific Coast regions, however, the matter of forestry takes on a different aspect. -Here are forests yet virgin, » be preserved and cared for, while at the same time supplying tim- ber for all needful economic uses. When there are remains of for- sts to be preserved in all this region, the process is more promising f results on account of ‘the possibility of rapid renewal, provided fire is kept out. Tt is a fact that the coniferous forests of this coast an be so managed as to extend their area over all of its former field and beyvond, and to supply all of the future demand of the whole ountry for timber and lumber. This view should inspire the owners of timber land to seek the assistance and instruction of scientific oresters in harvesting their timber and taking care of the coming rop The possibilities include such a rise in the value of timber as 10 make forest land the most valuable soil that men can own. ests and South. n can leave to his heirs no more certain and valuable possessions than a2 permanent forest. There is nothing uncertain about the fu- ture of such property. The experience of Europe in careful forestry discloses a progressive increase in the number of trees, in the size of those harvested and in the volume and value of the output. Euro- rean forests that were weak a century ago are now more extensive grow better timber and more of it, and have increased in value be-’ 1ond even usurious interest on money. ‘Government preservation of \merican forests is not too late for the Pacific Coast to become the permanent source of the timber supply for the whole country. From Senator Mofgan's remarks concerning Santo Domingo affai would judge that Denmark is not the only State in which Ak rotten.—Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun. SIS e ooy R It becomes more and more apparent that if Mr. Roosevel separate any Panama Canal Commissioner from his job he will ha‘v;“t‘:ng]'lom oform him first —Baltimore Sun. it ———— The Senate spends $90,000,000 an hour for nearly four s doesn't Carnegie make that body his fiscal agent and realize huh:.::;iuo:‘g die poor?—Chicago Journal. —_— The number of Democrats who favor raising the President's salary indi- eates that the party has high expéctations for 1908.—Elmira Gagette, are also looking into the matter of imported dairy products,; h | not stand if it were not the richest part of the earth, | and we will have something to say about man’s other humble friend, | A Billy would have a snug ma|n(enance.|‘ = NOW OR NEVER M. WILLIAMS. i — weight. Possibly also it went over her head. Certainly, when in the sixth week of Billy's stay at the farmhouse Ransom was pleased to grow furious- ly jealous of him Joe decided some- thing must be done—and did it. “Did you know there was a wed- ding coming off Sunday?” she asked Billy Thursday at noon. Billy pulled out pencil and note book, putting on his most professional air as he asked: “Will you give me the names of the victims, please, Miss Greer?—also any other particulars of interest?” “No! Go ask the preacher,” Joe said, smiling mysteriously. "« Billy went, but came back more than ever mystified. ‘The wedding is a fact,” he said, “but a solitary fact. Brother Jones knows no more than | we do—only that he has been asked, to hold himself in readiness at_the close of the morning ser Fur- thermore, he says you asked him. Confess, young lady. You are getting up a fine hoax.” “See if 1 am,” Joe retorted, her head | higher than common. sShe ran off al- most instantly and was almost unap- proachable throughout the next two days. But Saturday evening she walked with Billy all up and down the vard, the moon shedding silver flecks upon them, the roses in the garden filling all the air with perfume As they walked Billy held her hand, and insensibly it seemed she drooped to- ward him. Neither said very ®much. As the clock struck 10 Joe drew away from him with a litile shudder, say- ing very low, “Maybe this is our last walk together.” But Billy, quite beyond prudence flung his arms about her and kissed her full on the mouth, saying thickly, “It shall not be—1 want you—always.” He slept little that night. but fell jnto a heavy doze at daylight. It lasted until it was almost time for church. The sight of her set his heart beating madly. She was all in white, | bride-like indeed, with a knot of pale roses nodding on her breast. By their rising and falling he knew she was | strangely stirred, yet when she mo- tioned him to follow and sit beside her he obeyed, although Ransom Farley, whom he cordially disliked, was at her other elbow. All through the service she sat statue-still, notwithstanding he felt the tension of her mood in- crease. After the praver, the closing hymn, there was a general stir.of peo- Possibly - the information had its' ple half rising or craning their necks & e K| . | THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE + + = 2 + s T ] um%_ 1 kL) | INVENTION OF THE BRAIN. | Assistant Librarian—How shall I cat- alogue Ruyter's “A Hunter's Adven- tures.” Librarian—Classify it among inven- tions and fiction. “Our last month’s gas bill was a bird,” Said Carrye to her beau; ‘The young man rose, for he was wise; And turned the gas down low, THERE ARE OTHERS. Mrs. Noowed—What did you say wheén Mr. Srhithe told you he didn't think there was a woman living who knew less about cooking than his wife aid? Noowed—I asked him to dine with us. Mrs. Booze—How do you know' Mr. Booze—When T ¢ame inat 2 a. m. MARCH 3 Food Adulterents i and Digestion Many methods of ascertaining the ef- fects of adulterants upon the health and digestion of substances added to faod have been practiced. Artificial di- gestion can be made in the laboratory from the digestive ferments secured from the stomachs and pancreatic | glands of animals. The rapidity and | extent of digestion of this kind may be modified by the addition of preserva- | | tives and coloring matters. This form , of experiment has been carried on very exhaustively with almost all the sub- | stances which have been proposed as additions to foods. A second kind of experimental evi- dence is obtained by feeding experi- |ments upon the lower animals. The gulnea pig, the rabbit and the dog| have been the animals chiefly used for these purposes. The results of such ex- periments are more valuable than those | of the first kind because they deal with | | the actual processes of digestion, lnd; | not with their imitations. If the digestive conditions of the | human animal were the same as those' j of the animals above noted it would be necessary to carry the experimental re- search any further. It is well known, has its own peculiarities respecting the digestive processes. Hence, while gen- eral principles may be deduced from | | the experimental data obtained on the larly applied to man. {in such cases, therefore, m | tained by experiment -upon i There are many advantages and many | | disadvantages attending the experi- | | mental conduct of investigations of | | this kind upon man. In the first place | he must volunteer for the ordeal, and | this requires a great deal of self-denial {and self-control. In the second place, the mental attitude which the subject | has toward the expériments is of con- | siderable importance and must always | be taken into consideration. In the | ! third plece, the final determinations of | - the effects which are produced in theI feeding of lower animals are deter-’ | mined by an examination of the organs | | themselves, and this crucial test cannot | | be applied to man—H. W. Wiley, in | ‘; Pearson’s. 3 LIFE AS IT IS. | | 1 | i | however, that every species of animal e Tl i st i ey THE SMART SET = BY SALLY SHARP. Mrs. Otto Bendix entertained forty guests last evening at a fancy dress party at her home on Buchanan street. While no masks were worn, many of the characters were S0 well assumed as to defy Instantaneous iden- tity. The house was an absolute gar- den, so profuse were flowers, roses predominating in all their varied hues. and sizes. The affair was most artis- tic and delightful. . Dr. Harry Tevis was host last even- ing at a Mi-Careme ball. The guests assembled in the beautiful ballroom of the William Tevis residence, so re- cently the gala scene of a mardl gru, celebration. . . . Mrs. Joseph M. Masten and Miss Adele Martel will entertain at cards at the home of Mrs. Masten, on Wash- ington street, Thursday, April 6. ? . . . > The engagement announcement of { Miss Edith Hemming and Frederick Healy-has aroused a géod bit of inter- est. Miss Hemming, though a resident of Colorado Springs, has been jn this State. for .many - months, - the guest of Dr. and Mrs, Crawford. Mr. Healy is {.well: known here, his many friends ex- -| tending to him very sincere congratula- good fortune. o e fons upon his new .. Johri A. McCall of New York is a guest at the St. Francis. A luncheon was given in his honor on Tuesday. . Mrs. J. E. Bermingham, who has re- turned from her trip abroad, will be given a large reception by the Papyrus Club Thursday afternoon, Apr' 13, it the club rooms. A programme will b | prepared for the occasion, which is ‘to be a welcome by the club to the trav- eler. A full attendance Is expected though no guests will be bidden. . Miss Pearl Seeley, who recently re- turned to her home in Los Angeles, s entertaining Miss Mary Small of this city. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mills, with th two daughters, Miss FElizabeth and Miss Ardella, will spend part of the summer at San Rafael, having leased the Lafavre home. . Miss Gertrude Jolliffe, who has been at ‘the Jolliffe country home for a week or two, is In town again. T e e Mr..and Mrs. Sheppard and Miss Georgie Sheppard will leave soon for Sausalito to spend a few weeRkw, after which they will go to Castle Crag for the summer. - The wedding of Miss Leila Mann and Stanley Welch took place on Wednes- day evening at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Frederick Porter Mann, on Webster street. . Mrs. Gerritt Livingston Lansing was the honored guest at a dinner given on Wednesday evening by Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Boyer. . The marriage of Misa Carris Cohen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Cohen of Alameda, and Louis 8. Haas of San Francisco will take place on April 9 at the California Hotel. The wedding will be quietly celebrated. HOW MEN CHOOSE WIVES--ACCORDING TO A LONDON 'PROFESSOR. EW theories of unconscious se- lection on the part of man and wife—like mating with like— as opposed to Darwin's idea that men and women depend | upon their perceptive and intellectual The man of grand impulses sheds | faculties in choosing each other, were a luster on all around him. | propounded by Professor Karl Pearson When a woman says she is of little | consequence she does not expect she‘, will be taken at her word. A man usually estimates his value | according to a scale of his own making. i Me: :speak of women's vanity as| something which is part of every woman's make-up. The kiss of love lingers long in the memory of a woman. When a man undertakes to prove his importance he is inclined to over- | step the mark. Flvery woman feels she knows just | how far to go in the matter of as-| | sisting nature with her face and figure. Many commanding men are easily controlled by those who seem to be other than commanding. The woman who thinks she can manage her husband’'s affairs never makes known how she would do it. - -5 to see who might be going up to the ai- tar. “I'm going to marry—somebody. Which shall it be?” Joe breathed,, rather than whispered in Billy's ear, | glancing alternately at him and at| Farley. He understvod. With almost a bound he was up, and in the aisle, | holding her hand tight, and almost dragging her forward. And then be- fore he knew what was happening he heard the solemn, “I pronounce you | man and wife.” | The church buzzed like a hive, but | through the buzzing Billy heard Ran- | : som Farley shrieking hysterically. “T'll ! make you sorry for this, sir, before you | 'are much older” Joe looked up at him, flushing a lovely scarlet. “It was the only way, she said. “I had to marry you now —you never would have come back.” . (Copyright, 1905, by Martha MecCulloch- | Williams.) ! PROVED IT. It ‘waa Friday afternoon and the | editorial staff were hard at work. Suddenly the pen of the chief sub- editor ceased i “I say,” he queried, “is it more cor- | réct to refer to a man who goes up | in a balloon as an aeronaut or a bal- loonist 2 its inky scamper. “Balloonist,” growled the special commissioner. | “Call him .a balloonatic,” smirked | the storyette editor, with a timid glance at the fighting editor. “Aeronaut’s the word,” chimed in | the aristocrat who compiles personal | pars, “and I can prove it.” “You can't,” chorused the staff In} one voice. “I «-n. You see, it's this way. ‘When a man goes up in a balloor he goes up into the air.” “Well?"” 2 ““And, as a matter of fact, he doesn’t know whether he’ll remain in . the air or not, does he?” ! When the curtain fell the fighting editor was furtively looking for his new club.—Tit-Bits. GIGANTIC IDOL. Two miles from Kamakura and about twenty from Yokohama, in ‘Japan, on a terrace near the tfimple‘. sity the most gigantic idol in the world. It {8 the brazen image of a deity, and dates from the reign of Emperor Shomu, who died A. D. 748. The dimensions of this idol are col- pessal. Its height, from the base of the lotus flower upgn which it sits to the top of its head, is 633 feet. The face is 16 feet in length and 91¢ feet wide; : the eyes are 8 feet 9 inches from cor- ! ner to corner: the evebrows 51 feet, and the ears 83 feet. The chest is 20 feet In depth, and the middle finger is exactly § feet long. Townsend's Cala. Glace tistic fre-etehed boxes, 10 Kemrmy = & -~ - Townsend's Cal. Glace Fruits and Cho, Candies will start a branch =t 3 Market street on April 20, 1905, 4°" —— e ‘Special Information supplied daily to " having blue eves. | of University College, London, at the Royal the London Mail. He maintained that man has an un- Institution, says | conscious tendency to select a wife of | his own height, with eyes of his own color, a proportionate span from fore- finger to forefinger, a forearm corre- sponding to his own, and a constitution ¢f like physical vigor. These theories he expounded by means of tables and diagrams. Among every 1000 men the color of the cyes is divided as follow: Blue .. 363 Green . . 312 Hazel . . 127 Brown . 4 The eyes of women are generally cdarker, only 286 of them in every 1000 It these biue-eyed people married at random the result would be that they would mate at the rate of 104 per 1000; but he had dis- covered tkat the actual number of marriages per 1000 of blue-eyed per- sons was 1i0, or 36 above the random average, thus proving that the blue- | eved man and blue-eyed woman are unconsciously attracted another. In the same way men with greenish- toward one o adds:to the effectiveness of the rim the jacket. gray or hasel eves tend to marry wo- men with eyes of the same color. The average height of a man he gave as from 67 inches to 68 inches; that of a woman as 62% inches; and he con- tended that the average tall man has a tall wife and the short man a short wife. “One could hardly imagine a man choosing a wife by measuring her from forefinger to forefinger,” said the pro- fessor; yet his diagrams demonstrated that as the span of one increased iso ; did that of the other. A like resuit was produced in the measurément of thousands of forearms, his figures showing that there was a distinct ten- dency on the part of men with long forearms to marry wives with propor- tionately long forearms. { ARTIFICIAL RUBIES. A German paper states that artifi- cial rubies have been produced In France by reducing smajl natural rubies into a very fine powder, which is melted in an electric furnace, cooled rapidly and crystallized. The product obtained, from what was of little worth on account of minuteness, pos- desses a comparatively high value. The main difficulty encountered is to prevent cavities and fissures in the crystals. The new process cannot be employed with emeralds and sapphires, as they become discolored by the ac- tion of the heat. MIRROR OF DAME FASHION | A smart green velveteen two-piece street suit for late winter and early spring. A vest of cream cloth, with large bone buttons, costume. Bands of green silk