The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1905, Page 8

8 THE SANFRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ........... ceceesesesssnsssnsnnsess-Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO .«THIRD AND MARKET STREPTS, SAN FRANCISCO SATORDAY, GO #2) oo ¢ orsihoe o sa oo cariis ¢ L2 APRIL 22, 1805 A NOVEL PENSION. EARLY all of the great railway systems of the country have N a pension system. Their employes are retired at a fixed age and receive for the rest of their lives 4 pension, which is a n percentage of the average compensation earned during their service. It is an excellent system. By it men are encouraged in thrift and économy, so that they may have accumulations to add to 1¢ir pensions and increase their independence. On all roads where s system is in operation there is less liability to labor strikes, and he men have 2 sense of stability and résponsibility which is an ele- | ment in the safety and usefulness of the road itself. Now appears a novel projection of the pension policy in a plan adopted by the Rock Island and Frisco systems. Instead of a stated noney pension those roads propose to give each retiring émploye a homestead of 160 acres of land. They have selected lands in Colo- 3 for this new kind of colonization, and the people of that State elping the plan ahead. This means that retired employes will remain in cities, to increase the conggstion of urban population, that instead they will add to the ranks of rural producers. As| policy it is wise, because these producers will by the product | and add to the rail tonnage that has to be carried to market. well conducted railroads strive wisely to increase the settlement production of the country through which they run. [here are in the country 1,000,000 railroad employes. They re- ceive the highest railroad wages paid in the world. They are men vho know something. It is impossible for any man of fair intelli- be in contact with any part of a railway system without g something, acquiring some skill and getting ideas that equip he duties of any calling to which he may resort for a living. I'here is evidence, furnished by the history of many railway employes | lifornia, that such men develop a taste for land and a desire | ts ownership. Train crews run through the country. They see | s changing aspects as the seasons pass. They come in contact ral people and products, and a large percentage of them come pon country life and land with a degree of favor that readily leads them landward, as soon as they are able to follow their own linations. In the San Ramon Valley and other regians around Mount Diablo, in Gontra Costa County, are many fine small plantations owned by retired railroad men. In Tulare County are many pro- ictive farms owned by retired railtoaders and also by men still in, ive service. Their fondness for land has made them economical, by saving their wages they are able to indulge their tastes. One f land near Tulare is owned by a Southern Pacific engineer, still in active service on a passenger locomotive. He has devoted his leisure and his savings to the development of his lands and ranks e first class of farmers in his community. not take advantage of this leaning landward and settle colo- tired railroad men in this State, on land given them instead | ey pension? We believe it will pay our California roads to | p some of the great ranches of the State, subdivide them and the land to employes in lieu of a money pension. While a tract % abres in the climate of Colorado may be accepted as the land cessary for a family, the unit may be much less here. A having industry and intelligence is assured of a good living | 20 acres of California land of good quality. This is not a specu- it ie a fact. In many counties families have acquired a com- ence on 10 and 15 acres, and Yolo County displays its celebrated one-acre farm that has enriched its owner. The great need of this | te is small landholders. To what class may we turn with greater | fidence for the supply than to the railroad men, operating our | extensive lines, to whom we are under obligations for the safety | i comfort of travel? They are men of ideas, desirable citizens, and | ke for the strength of the State. [ We are sure that if their different organizations take up the tter of a land pension, making its acceptance optional, and leaving he money pension for such as prefer it, the officials of the different | T s will be led to consider it. The State is looking for settlers | Where can it find better? A money pension is spent | t is beneficial, but it passes through the hands | are h Wh lation ; >ce1ved. receive it. It has a tendency to keep its recipients in cities, | they aré not needed, and when it is gone, it is gone. It is| d to the male head of the family and ceases when he dies, and | haps leaves some helpless members of a family behind him. | But if it be in land, a home is built up, a permanent property is | created, the producing forces of the State are recruited, and when | the head of the family passes away the means of a good living | remain for his family. Now is the time to consider this beneficial y. Many great land holdings are ready to dissolve into smaller | units. They can be bought in a body at a wholesale price. Turned | into tracts of suitable size each family homestead will cost less than | a quarter section in Colorado. The land is easier reduced to tillage. | It brings a erop quicker and may be subjected to a greater variety of uses. It can be made to produce something for sale every month in the year, and is not under hard winter conditions. The railway | employes of California should give immediaté attention to the sub- | ject and they may find it of the greatest value to themselves and | their families and their employers. T!hings to drink. Of all the liqueurs, that green and syrupy fluid | called creme de menthe has been supposed to be the most inno- | cent of all evil designs. Its flavor recalls the mint julep of our old | Kentucky home, and its color reflects the vernal landscape where the mint crop grows. Now it turns out that it is made of everything except mint, and that its lovely green is due to aniline dyes made | from repulsive and ill-smelling coal tar! Our French friends in Bordeaux make this mixture and put it on the American market, and with it we paint our interior green and produce a gentle after dinner exhilaration. Hereafter if an American wants mint in his lHquor, let him take the aromatic plant itself, bruise it, bathe it in spirits and drink it, innocent of coal tar and other things that are not intended to be drunk, chewed or sniffed. If these revelations end in driving all sorts of colored mixtures out of the market it will probably be better for the public health. If an alcoholic beverage is to be used at all it is better to take it naked and unadorned, for the imbiber will at least know what he is swallowing. The public habit of taking these foreign mixtures has led to the development of great ingenuity in the Continental adulterations. One way to stop it is to reject these aniline mixtures entirely. It is a fact that a lot of stuff is made in France that has no market anywhere except in this country. We are sup- posed to be such guys that we will take anything. The prese can suppress this sort of thing by exposing it. The nationial authorities should add their power to that of local health boards, and make the extermination complete. An American stom- ach is too valuable to be destroyed by these foreign sophisticators. We need it in our business and it is entitled to protection. There are a score of varieties of these alcoholic mixtures that come in fancy hottles, illuminated by titles in various languages, and all justly ob- jects of suspicion. Let them be anathema, and also be spilled. vhere f N OUR ANILINE BEVERAGES. HE Board of Health is rapidly destroying our confidence in If the Motroccan sensation has caysed satisfaction in Russia, ¥t is plain that the dual alliance is on its last légs and that a realignment of the powers is impending. The bond between England and France will doubtiess be strengthened by the Kaiser's diplomatic coup, and as Russia has never liked thet deveiopment her feelings toward the French may undergo a decided change —Chicago Record-Herald. - R The German colonies are crowing because they raised 200,000 pounds of cotton. That would keep the Sotithern mills running about twénty minutes.— Baltimore Sun. —_— The only Sunday amusement in many Russian towns where there is no Raines law is throwing bombs.—New York Commercial. | of us,” THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL ENTHUSIASM BRINGS SUCCESS BY ANGELA MORGAN. — AUNT MARY AND THE CONCERT “What?” she asked. HE first telegram that came to Mrs. Barton last Friday morning read: “Mother is {lL ger, but wants you to come at once. “FATHER.” Mrs. Barton was too perturbed to No serious dan- remember that her husband’s only aunt, Miss Wendell, was due to arrive at the Union depot at 4:30 that after- noon. This circumstance was brought to her mind by the coming of a second telegram that she opened with trem- bling fingers, fearing that her moth- er’s condition would be worse. She did not know whether she was relieved or more troubled to read: “Will reach Chicago to-day at 1:15 instead of 4:30. Union station. “MARY WENDELL.” Barton was on a business trip up in Michigan and would not arrive home until 6 o’clock that evening. Mrs. Bar- ton’s train left Chicago at 11:45. What was to be done with Aunt Mary? Mrs. Barton had not much time in | which to think of what courses of ac- tion lay open to her. She snatched at the only thought that came {nto her head. “I have tickets for the orches- tra concert this afternoon for the two she thought. “Now, I have never met Aunt Mary, but I am sure that she will enjoy the concert’—Mrs. Barton has a happy- way of judging the rest of the world by own pref- erences—"‘and I shall sel the tickets down to her at the train. Katie will take them. I can trust to her for find- ing the old lady.” Mrs. Barton took her own train. leaving Katie in the station with a note for Miss Wendell that was quite lengthy under the circumstances. Con- trary to the way of stories, Katie found Miss Wendell without the least difficul- ty and delivered the note to her. Miss ‘Wendell smiled at her and asked the way over to Orchestra Hall. - Katie was delighted to be the guide. Miss Wen- dell asked her timidly to remain with her. Katie had had other plans for the afternoon, but she was a most agree- able maid and expressed a willingness to remain, Mrs. Barton had procured excellent sedts for the occasion. Katle hoved that Mis§ Wendell was enjoving the programme. For her own part she would have preferred a ragtime con- cert. But she was the custodian o* the guest and she held to her post. She piloted the guest out to the Barton flat and made her comfortable until Mr. Barton arrived just in time for dinner. He was surprised to find the note from his wife, and still more sur- prised to find his aunt. “What time did she get in?" asked her. “What?” she asked. “What time did you gét in?” he que- ried again. “Oh, 11:45." “And what did you do all afternoon?” “Pardon me." He repeated the query. “I went to the concert.” “Did you enjoy it?" He had to ask her three times. “They iooked nice,” said Aunt Marv. Barton went out on the back porch to laugh. He wonders if he ever told his wife that Aunt Mary was deaf. he SUFFICIENT REASON. Rosalind — Aren't you :hE you say you mter’o n.! r to the chair? g T o o tial chair! . 2, 1905, NTHUSIASM is one of the prime essentlals of success. The impor- tance of this heart and soul faculty as & business qualificaton is recognized by employers to-day as never before. In these times of sharp competition in the ¢ommercial world the men and women who are counted of greatest valué by business firms are thosé who exhibit an ardent interest in the work given them to do. No matter how expert you are in your chosén line, no matter how thoroughly familfar you may be with the details of your occupation, if you fail to mag- netize it with your personality, you are sure to fall short of the success you desire. . If you would make yourself invalu- able to your employer, cultivate this necessary quality of enthusiasm. Ledarn to infuse vitality and Interest into whatever you are doing, even if your | vocation be not less prosaic than un-‘ ing neckties, fitting gloves, making hats or soliciting for an insurance com- pany. - If you have enthuslasm—if you can maké others feel that the thing you are { selling or demonstrating is a good | thing, so good that it rejoices you to be its representative—you have the quality most eagerly sought 4in the business world at the present time. The other day, in a large department store, I watched a young woman demonstrating soap. She did it with such manifest joy and Interest that it was & delight to observe her. She was a pretty girl, but it was not her looks attracted me so much as her radiant manner of exhibiting the article she was commissioned to ad- vertise. It was fascinating to witness her happiness in detailing the merits of the soap. She did it with all the ardor of a young girl displaying her engagement ring. That was the beauty of it—the per- sonal delight she seemed to take in her occupation. As I stood watching her I marveled at her apparently inexhaust- ible enthusiasm. No matter how often she repeated her explanation, she seemed to lose not one bit of joy or buoyancy. Her last argument was still just as full of color as her first. Her atmosphere of joy was contagi- ous. Her interest so positive, so vital, that it communicated itself to others and roused a corresponding interest in them. 1 heard afterward that it was through this radiant quality she won her pres- ent position. She had been emnloyed at a small saldry in another retail house. It was there her present em- ployer was attracted by her ability to interest him in an article he did not want. She succeeded in making the sale, though at first e had no thought of purchasing. He concluded that her gift would be of value to him in his own enterprise. Enthusiasm can be cultivated. It is a mistake to suppose that some per- —_— CAT CAME BACK. After having been imprisoned un- derground for twenty-two days, a cat owned by Levi Poff of York Township still lives and seems none the worse for her experience, says the York (Pa.) correspondent of the New York Sun. The cat disappeared and a search by the family failed to reveal the animal. On the premises there is a summer cellar which is a sort of cave walled up, with a door at the top. Yesterday faint cries coming up from the cellar ceused Poff to open the door. Out| crawled the cat, staggering in be- wilderment but giving no other evi- dénce of having suffered from im- prisonment for almost & month. There was not a drop of water in the cellar nor a morsel there to eat. The cellar had@ been covered with a heavy snowdrift during most of the period of the cat’s confinement. _PTOMAINE POISON. The term ‘“ptomaine poison” is in everybody’'s mouth, but few know what it really is. It develops, says “What to Eat,” through the action of acid on tin. That is why every can of meat or vegetables or fruits should be turned out into an earthen bowl or crock immediately upon opening, and that is why mayonnaise should never be put into tin receptacles. Only recently several women were made serlously ill by eating salad that the mayonnaise, in which was cbrisiderable lemon juice, had been al- lowed to stand all day in a tin pail. According to the physicians, enough to kill forty women eaten the the poison was generated men, and had the at a reception. Investigation showed mayonnaise from the bottom of pail it would have been fatal to them. sons are capable of it and that others &re not. It is all 4 question of getting the right attitude—mentally—and then practicing daily until {t bBecomes the natural thing to be interested in one's work. Make up your mind, to begin with, that the work you aré assigned to do i8 worthy your very best efforts. If you are compelled to stand behind a counter and sell merchandise instead of standing before the footlights &nd en- tertaining audiences—as, indeed. you may be fitted to do—don’t despise the immedtate work which is yours. It is Just as necessary that charnt and mag- netism should be employed in pleasing customers a8 in pleasing audiences. Nothing 18 more refreshing. more gratifying, and more altogether de- lightful to a customer than to find a saleswoman or salesman who really enjoys trying to give satisfaction. Nothing is more depressing to a cus- tomer than the colorless, don't-care at- titude of some clerks. It never pays to be listless or Indif- ferent or ashamed of one’s occupation. The very fact that a certaln work is assigned you should give it dignity in your eyes. Be happy in your vocation. Love vour work and it will love you. Enthusiasm creates enthusfasm. If you face your customers with a wide- | awake, cheerful interest, they will re- spond to your mood and give back vi- brations in kind. Thus you will add daily to your own store of havoy zeal. Begin now to practice enthusiasm. You | need it if you intend to succeed. < TH Haster week will open most auspi- clously. The events will rival in num- ber and importance those of any pre- ceding> week during the season. Char- ity is the standard bearer, five affairs to receive the shelter of *her mantle. Then comes a rich harvest of Cupid's sowing, the weddings of Miss Eugenie Hawes and Rev. David Crabtres, Miss Susan Le Count and Rev. David BEv- ans, Miss Mary Turnbull and George Murphy, Miss Isabel Kittle and Ben- jamin - Harrison Dibblee, Miss Olive Hamilton and Winslow Béedy. all to be celebrated within the coming seven days. Several luncheons, teas and a cotil- lon are also on the tapis, so Easter indeed heralds forth a giad bursting from Lenten b:mda.‘e. > Miss BEugenie Hawes, who is to wed Rev. David Crabtree, has changed the plans for her wedding next Tuesday. Miss Elena Robinson was to have been the only attendant, but now the pret- ty bride will have a matron of honor, Mrs. Charles Fickert, and four brides- maids, Miss Jessie McNab, Miss Elsa Draper, Miss Elsie Wieland and Miss Claudine Cotton. . The alumnae of Van Ness Seminary (Miss Hamlin’s School) will give a luncheon in the Red Room of the St. Francis next Tuesday. The hostesses MIRROR OF DAME FASHION | Fine chiffon broadcloths, of dull rather than a high finish, are devel- shape, with square chemisette, is a novelty. It is shaped with shirrings under the arm, and the arrangement of similar shirrings in the skirt is a notable feature. Reseda green cloth, cream lace and bands of black lat- oped in charming semi-tailored effects. tice work braid dre used in this model. The bolero, in double-breasted # HERE YOU WILL FIND SOME SPRING JOKE S, JUST OUT « E SMART SET - BY SALLY SHARP. ’ are to be the officers of the alumnae, who are Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann, Mrs. Livingston Jenks, Mrs. David Erskine Ajlison Jr., Mrs. Malecoim Henry, Mrs. Frederick Stolp of Oak- land, Mrs. John Charles Adams of Oakiand, Miss Henrietta Stadtmuller. The schoolmates are looking forward to a very happy reunion. - A The California branch of the Asso- ciation of Collegiate Alumnae will give.the annual reception to the senior women of the University of California and of Stanford University on Satur- day, April 29, from 3 to 6, at Century Club Hall, 1215 Sutter street. Special attention is called to the fact that this reception will take place iIn Century Hall and not at the Sorosis Club rooms as heretofore. The local branch of the Council of Women will give a club jinks next Friday afternoon at the Majestic The- ater. An interesting programme will be presented, including the following numbers: Musie, Ebell Club; Dutch dance in costume, Papyrus Club; violin solo, Mrs. Gwynn of the California Club; “Every Woman,” a clever trav- esty written by Frank Mandall, Phil- omath Club; song and reading, Miss Lilhan Swale of the Oakland Club. The Council of Jewish Women and the Pacific Coast Women’s Press Associa- tion will also contribute features of entertainment. The council takes this means to raise funds to complete, print and distribute its reports on the so- clalization of the schoolhouse. e o The garden of the Sacred Heart Pres- entation Convent will present a beau- ful sight next Wednesday evening with its brilllant illumination and pretty booths. A “high tea™ will be In progress for the benefit of the convent bazaar, over which Miss Fitzvatrick presides. & g Mrs. Charles Werthelmer and Miss Frances Wertheimer are occupying their mew home at 3145 Washington street. - The Entre Nous Cotillon Club will give its last assembly for the seagon next Thursday evening, April 27. in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel ANSWERS TO QUERIES. BINGER—Reader, City. Herman Binger of Oregon was appointed by President McKinley Commissioner of the General Land Office and his ap- pointment was confirmed March 27, 1897. He resigned the office February 1, 1903, having held the office longer than any of his predecessors, except two, who served in the early part of the nineteenth century. THE SEEDLESS ORANGE—A. R, City. The seedless orange is a native of Brazil and other parts of South America- A number of years ago a lady from the United States traveling through the southern half of the Amer- ican continent saw a number of seed- less oranges growing and securing a number of shoots of the trees sent them to the authorities in Washington, who In turn ‘distributed them to vari- ous orange-growing sections of the Union. Those that were sent to River- side thrived, but those sent to other places did not. CIVIL WAR VOLUNTEERS—J. B, Stockton. There was no third regiment of calvary (volunteers) during the Civil | War. The record of California men for the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1867, compiled by Brigadier General R. H. Orton, Adjutant General of the State, published in 1890, shows that the State furnished two full regiments of cavalry, one battalion of npative California | cavalry, eight full regiments of In- fantry and one battalion of mountain- eer (infantry), five companies wers mustered in the State for the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, and eight com- panies were recruited in his State for the First Regiment of Washington Ter- ritory. ——————— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, n ar~ tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny and new store now open, 767 Market st. * ——— Baker's Celebrated Chocolats used in ing our Easter Efi at Townsend" ::vgur‘ny st. and 767 et st. i —_——— ‘Baster Candies In fire-etched boxes at Townsend's, 767 Market st. and 10 Kear- ny st. " Special Information supplied daily to houses and public men by ths Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 * | | | ) | | |