The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1905, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1905 THE SAN FRANCISCO GALL| JOHN D. SPRECKELS iensns--..Proprietor S ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT THIRD AND MARKET STREETS. S8AN FRANCISCO SUNDAY. .MAY 21, 1905 THE NEEDS OF THE SCHOOLS. 11 soon finish consideration of the budget for | determine the just needs of the various of the city government, and will make the tax levy 1m that is agreed upon as necessary to keep ernment going. departments are in the same position that they last levy was made, except one. They-need only as enables them to respond to the growth of the city, that growth and increase in assessable valua- r, they present no emergencies and are suffering s - be far less than their demands, or they sums asked for. But ope department is excepted Its needs are great and its condition is emer- he school department. It has to respond to increase i b ing school attendance compulsory. cgregate I g ulation makes its first demand upon the schools. departments may not hear from an increased , but the schools hear of it at once in more school room, more teachers and gen- e it is that if no change occur in sls and no revenue is withdrawn, m, of the 100ls are f governn The a large and growing city. for any other purpose, provided the city is growing on is becoming miore dense. t is certain that the city is slowing up. If no increase en the city has stopped in its tracks and is standing ol opriation decline, then it is sure either that parsimony controls backw i i isors had a right, then, to expect a large increase in n, and the people had a right to expect that But an emergency has occurred that intensifies T Legi - State school fund, so as to deprive the schools of this 1 of money annually. We believe that San Fran- s new law will pay more State school tax than it 1e for the maintenance of its schools. he jiscuss this law. It seemed to be taking something from | the large cities to give it to the country counties, and the tempta- tion proved too much perhaps for the sense of justice of the couatry T deplorable conditions upon the San Fran- taxpayers must not only pay their State school 1 addition enough to meet the normal expansion and enough to make good the amount of revenue 100ls by this untimely law. h in the presence of this emergency. The people ut a good many other things in government, wand efficient support of the schools and are willing ucation compulsory. This is now reinforced ? w which penalizes a child for doing any useful 14 vears of age. These two laws, with the truancy 1 to force into the schools all of the population of hey are taken out of the hands of their parents and mes parental authority over them. the increased responsibility which these laws put vartment, let the facts be disclosed. There is ugh to accommodate, under decent and sanitary ol population of this city. There are not teachers each them properly when the compelling hand of the law led m to sehool. The Board of Health has in- y-three schoolhouses in San Francisco and finds in an unsanitary condition and dangerous to and teachers. The Board of Health goes further. unsanitary school buildings are a menace to horhoods where they are located. We appeal ervisors to consider these things. away 1 their parents and compels them to go to school, in forty-eight of seventy-three schoolhouses exposes them to case and dea Such things cannot be without serious moral re- sting somewhere. The people look to the Super- r a remedy and will cheerfully submit to taxation to pay e} 1€ ren = cost. There can be no more serious reproach to a city than such con- i school buildings, intensified as they are by overcrowd- and their parents have a right to expect, yes, to i, not only sanitary conditions in school buildings, but the best opportunity for the teachers to impart and the children to ac- ire knowledge. It is not a bit short of a public crime to deny hese things. Every child that sickens and dies as a result Jf un- sanitary school buildings is murdered by somebody. Again we appeal to the Supervisors to avoid such.an appalling responsibility by making sufficient appropriation for school purposes. The people will applaud economy’in every other branch of the city government, but they will not permit parsimony to trifle with the lives of their children. M is an experiment in paternalism and a novelty in Govern- ment regulation of money. The Government offers to re- ceive silver bars at its mints and to advance 9o per cent of their value and to assume charge of the remittance of the bars and their sale in London. In the final settlement with the depositors 2 1-2 per cent is taken by the Government in the form of a stamp tax. This practically puts the executive of Mexico in the position of a commission merchant for the people. In addition to giving the mine owners this ready means of raising money it is intended by the plan to provide facilities for the sale of bars on the best possible qu MEXICAN FINANCE. EXICO’S new financial plan, which recently went into effect, terms, and to this end to make suitable contracts at home and | abroad. Other parts of the financial plan are of great importance, but are not so novel in their nature. To limit the multiplicity of silver dollars and to reach a gold basis is one of the main objects in view. The domestic volume is limited to 100,000,000 of new silver dol- lars, and their value is fixed at 50 cents in gold. Importations of silver dollars of Mexican issue older than April last are prohibited. Thus is transferred into merchandise all the silver of Mexico except the new silver dollars, and these are strictly limited in number to what the Government can, by its gold reserve, keep up to the de- termined value of 50 cents. The plan is an excellent one to prevent wide fluctuations in the worth of what is practically Mexico’s only money, silver dollars. There is no explanation given for the prefer- ence of shipping the silver bars for sale in London instead of coin- ing them into dollars for use in the Far East. It is noticeable that Mexico deliberately calculates that the fluctuations in the price of bar silver will not exceed 10 per cent when she agrees to make un- limited advances of 9o per cent on all deposits. NO SEWAGE IN STREAMS. Tsn-wns are short and sewage discharged into them has but little chance to be rendered innocuous. The Board of Health is recommending to the towns which have sewered into the Saecra- mento other methods for disposing of sewage. It may be run into tanks and filtered, or conducted to land where it serves as a fertilizer. It has become a common and a revolting practice to sewer into streams and bodies of water. London for a long time cor-{just like him, ready to answer : rupted the Thames in that way. Now all London sewage is filtered, ilities are put within reach of every child | lly greater than those of any | the school appropriation should always | If that percentage | the department or that the city is stumbling | ture by law changed the basis of distri- | It is useless | The Supervisors are | The law takes | HE State Board of Health is very properly engaged in stopping | Carnegie presented his diplodocus, in the aud the use of rivers and streams for sewers. Our California |bishop of Canterbury, the successor of Thomas a Becket of tragic “DROP THEM | | | | 9 ! | | i1 i 1 i i NEW YORK WORLD. GUPID. UR 1O DATE. BY HARRIET L. RICE. H Love dear Love'” many times Not a dimpled boy with clouded sight.! 1 hac cried. But a critle, reading his world aright; ' “Pause thou a moment here by Not a hint of a wing, not a2 bow did my side: I note, : | Thy babyish form I fain would admire Save a modish blue tie at his vigorous | And gaze in those eyes which my pity - throat, “B | inspire. ; And our talk was so modern, of golf | |Let me embrace thee with sisterly and bridge whist. grace, Of the people we knew and the play | Smooth thy soft hair, caress thy young that we missed. face, To be sure, now and then my attention | | Pluck one silvery feather and then let was caught thee go.” By a shaft of his wit from the quiver { But , capricious, was never caught of thought, | sc But don't call me dense or regard me | A gay laugh from his covert he'd air- as stupid, { ily filng, % For not knowing at once an up-to-date The flight of an arrow, the flash of a Cupid. i wing, | | And I knew he was off. So, vexed, I The classics dor't warn one, though | { would call: % cad by ti- am, | “I would not waste time on a comrade To beware a love philter in soda ice | S0 small. Teasing boy, you may sport flelds and wood: I would not embrace thee now if I i cream, And L could ‘not know that the soft beams which dart From a pair of blue eyes would injure in the | | | could.” a heart. | . Not being on guard, I could not foretell | At the close of one of those golden All the strength of enchantment which | days. lay in Love's spell: 1 | Love walked with me in the dewy haze, 1 was caught ere his wiles were half | But he was an athlete ‘six feet tall, understood, | Bronzed and stalwart and clever And I cannot escape from them now, if | withal; I would. s L e ~+ | the solid parts are converted into “sludge” for fertilizing, and the | liquids are filtered and disinfected until they may be safely dis- | charged into the river without polluting it. | Tt is scarcely less revolting to discharge sewage into the ocean lor its bays and estuaries. The salt water disinfects it, but the | solid parts either gradually shoal the water or are carried to the beach by the tide. Modern cities should do better than pollute either streams or the ocean with their waste. There is no mystery about the better way of disposing of it. True, it costs more money, | but it cannot be spent for a better’ purpose. [ The State Board of Health deserves praise and support in its effort to stop the pollution of streams. The Governor, being a med- |ical man himself, is naturally much interested in this work, and if | he succeed in keeping all sewage out of California streams, his ad- ministration will be remembered to be blessed by the people. After the streams are saved, attention should be turned to the ocean and bays of California. Out of these-come our fish food. Tt |is known that typhoid fever is caused by the sewage poison that is | eaten, especially with shell fish and crustaceans. Public sanitation requires that this source of food supply shall be made safe. California can set the pace for other States in this matter. We are appalled by the tales of the filth that is found on the surface | in the large cities of Asia. But, after all, though its presence.there is offensive to the senses, it is less dangerous to man than the filth which our cities discharge into the water. Wremains of the great animals that were upon the earth in geological ages millions of years ago. The old doctrine of the church was that the devil made these fossils and hid them in the | earth where men could find them. The sly Old Scratch was charged with doing this in order to discredit the story of creation as told in Genesis, and especially to rob Admiral Noah of his laurels. If the story about auld Clootie were true, he must have done many a hard day’s work in Wyoming, for there are found the skele- | ‘tons of the great amphibians, one pair of which would have loaded the ark below the Plimsoll line, and also the remains of the species | which followed the amphibians in succeeding ages. The little ani- mal which was the forerunner of the hors¢ was numerous on the ! ancient plains of Wyoming. If it were possible for some wizarding to repeople the Laramie plains with all the generations of living creatures that once lived and roamed there, the species would far outnumber the existing members of the animal kingdom. : One of the most perfect specimens yet found there is the com- plete fossil skeleton of a diplodocus. %his animal had a neck as long as a train of cars, and a tail as long as another train of cars. He is called “a reptile,” but if it were a term of reproach no one would have dared say it to his face, for he was a fearful appearing and formidable brute. Mr. Carnegie has given this skeleton to the CARNEGIE’'S DIPLODOCUS. ; YOMING is the greatest field in the world for finds of fossil Its installation was the zoological event of the year. When Mr, ience sat the memory. He is the primate of the English church. What he thought Mhhmm&d»m&edispf&g&'whem there while the diplodocus gave his testimony in favor of Darwin, and against B'i::ofip Usher. The e of Wyomin, nd by the ton, andflwge 1 Darwin vs. the | consult an oculist, and dis Ilenrutnn | nate display of feminine WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE. EMARKABLE recoverzes occur and p wonderful cures are sometimes ef- | fected in ways unsuspected by med- | ical science and its students. A Pittsburg | man standing high in steel and iron in-| dustries has recently undergone a mar- velous cure for cancer. For some years | what physicians and surgeons pronounced | a cancerous growth had been slowly but surely eating away part of his right| cheek, close to the nose. He had con- sulted eminent surgeons in this country | and Europe, he had visited innumerable baths famcus for the cure of blood dis- eases and at last had been given up to die slowly but surely of the dread dis- 2 During a recent visit to New York | iie consulted a young but promising den- tist regarding a tooth wnich had been bothering him. The troublesome molar was located In the lower jaw and the pain was soon siopped, but the young | dentist begged permission to examine his | new patient’s mouth thoroughly and was | especially interested in the man's calm resignation to death from cancer. At the| corclusion of the operation he offered | as his diagnosis that the disease was not cancer, but trouble with a molar in the | upper jaw. At first the Pittsburger was | inclined to be skeptical, but the dentist | urged that the loss of one molar was small compared with the risk of other operations through which he had passed, and finally the sufferer consented and was placed under the influence of ether. The operation was far from simple, last- ing more than an hour, but the result justified the dentist's predictions. With | the tooth came away a tiny blade of steel which had been driven up into the jaw by a careless dentist years before. It had festered and the pus had forced a passage out through the cheek, giving the appearance of a cancerous growtn. After weeks of treatment the cavity healed up perfectly and the Pittsburger has decided that a cancerous death is no longer staring him in the face. A New Yorker who had recently lost his father from cancer of the throat seemed suddenly afflicted with the same disease. His throat bothered him incessantly, his speech became almost unintelligible and he grew haggard and thin from anxiety and pain. Most of all he missed his cigars, for his physiclan at once cut off all smoking. One day he met an old col- lege friend who had developed into a suc- cessful dentist. In the course of their first conversation the patient mentioned that he had been having sore trouble with the plate attached to an upper set of false teeth. A large and complicated bridge was finally inserted and the plate discarded. To the patient's amazement, the throat trouble disappeared along with the plate. A Philadelphia business woman of more than local repute broke down with nerv— ous prostration. Her most unfortunate form of affliction was iIntense pains in the head, which prevented her sleeping night or day. Her physician recommend- ed an ocean voyage, but she landed in London in worse condition than when she left America. She finally confided to a friend traveling with her that she be- lieved she was going insane. During the trip across the Continent to Berlin, where a famous nerve specialist was to be con- sulted, the Philadeiphian became melan- choly and showed every symptom of mental aberration. The specialist studied the case thoroughly, but before rendering a decision he lost his patient most ab- ruptly. She fell while climbing a flight of marble steps and her glasses were shattered. She insisted that they must be replaced without delay, and went to who fitted her with BACHELOR’S FIX. The morning after the ball, which was recently given at the residence of one of the bachelors %ere,‘ to his wmmnu\: dismay, he found a dainty pair the apartment used that it as the ladles’ cloakroom. Such i shocking | rubber, OUR BUTTONS |IT IS FOLLY COME FROM THE | TO FRIGHTEN IVORY PLANT| YOUR CHILDREN CCORDING to an official of the De- | BY ANGELA MORGAN. partment of Commerce and Labor, | almost all the buttons made in the United States, whether called ivory. pearl. | WOMAN in Utah who was in the habit of frightening her children born or bome buitens, are manu- into obedience by “playing suicide” ory plant, says the took strychnine by mistake and Chicago Chrenicle. The cuitivation of | 3ied from its effects. this plan rewards its growers with 8o in-| ¢ js reported that the mother, in or- considerable returns. {der to compel her children, when The best ivory nut for commercial PUF- | naughty, to “be good,” was accustomed poses is found on the banks of the Magda- | 1o mix a dose of sugar and water and lena River, in Colombia, wiere it is called | gyaliow it in their presence, pretending factured from the ivi } tons, yet some fac | the old-time rubber and bone | eutting it is contrived t | switching. | ficer or sailor has to the Tagua paim. The ular head about twice t crantum and weighs from 2 to 3 - | feigned invariably had the effect fruit forms a 8100- | it was poisen. he size of a man's Of course, the illness she afterward of The head forms what might be called & piunging her terrified oftspring Into the cluster of bulbs, containing from 50 to Then [ | depths of penitent grief. seeds. The seeds are allowed to dry and | 1, piynder whereby a real poison was are harvested several times each ¥Year b¥ | rapen by the mother instead the natives. of the 1 usual harmiess petion, and pretense be- The tvory plant also grows in Callfornia, | cumg aread reality. but the nut there fos . quality to the Colombia variety not make up as well into but however, believed that with ¢ the California nut may be made as able as the South .‘\im‘:ri‘ch.gn. The nuts exporte are shipped by way of the Pacific and thenece across the continent to the bi is of an fnferior e and will | tons. It is, ultivation valu- United States | This unfortuaate woman represents a much larger class of mothers than we in this advanced age would wish to ad- mit. It seems almost incredible that in | a land that boasts such emlightenment we have thouwsands of mothers who ac- tually belleve they are “training’ their C%ig | children when they are simply scaring | them into submission. button factories, from which they COMS| pp, wonger is not that ignorant, stu- forth in every conceivable design. color, g button. grade and elassificetion of Although the ivory p!anr.llslund:'lmow:t Sive 'rrmemn.nuuure 4 , 5t torjes use it for the The put has not, superseded buttons in ¢ it admits making of poker chips. t snould be added, entirely vogue for so many years. Bu ke and more varied treatment fo - S nich it is used than bstance, and, further- the purposes for W any other known sul more, is easily worked it is said, consumes mo! the world's product o nine-tenths of the vege! buttons. Upon reaching cut into three slabs. re than one-balf of f ivory nuts and table is made into hat the button be he thread aoles s il t partially shaped TOc ¥ and the but- ar€ drilled and countersuni ton is forwarded to the polisher, who tl turns it out smooth and clean for the de- ressing The latter runs in into & P! e sirn les of the pattern machine fitted with d | desired. SHIP TE\E’HONES. e telephone has not 7! 1y th Until recently board for been adopted for use on ship » the reason that the great amount O vibration encountered in the boats un- der headway has mitigated against its Successtul operation. It is thought that these difficulties have been over- come in' one way or another and two very elaborate lelvpnono_synems were instalied on the steamship Dakota re- cently constructed for the Great Sur:l:: ern Compdny. One is an =% ange of the ordinary private plan pe, which places the occgpanl_of each in communication with 150 other different parts of the boat, . ty) room stations in and the other is an intercommunicat- ing system which is made use of in the t's administration. The officers, in ::’a.‘king use of the latter, do their own It will largely supplant the goug and jingle systems and tie marine telegraph. It extends between the navi- gating and engine-room stations. The stations are the bridge, bridge, crow’'s nest, port and starboard engine spaces, wheelhouse, chlef engi- neer's room, chief electrician’s room, . The United States, the factory the nut is In this process of| the after- | pid women employ such methods, but that mothers of supposed inteliigence |and education resort to them—mothers who know better, but who from sheer ‘selflshness or laziness, or lack of will | power, fail to put forth the right sort of effort in rearing their progeny. When a mother follows the line of least resistance In governing her child, she is unquestionably exhibiting selfish- ness, laziness or lack of will power. How can she hope to command obedi- ence or respect from her children when she has not the strength of character | to govern herself? | Any woman who cannot cultivate the patience, the self-control and the poise to be firm, honest and persistent in the training of her children is not fit to be a mother. . Yet there are many such among us. I have frequently been shocked and amazed to hear the threats made by such parents in their attempts to quiet children or make them “mind.” It is not only heathenish, but cruel, to tell a sensitive, imaginative child that If it isn’'t good some horrible fate —which the parent knews is impossible —will overtake it. Childish imaginations are lively enough and their tendency is to exag- gerate the pictures presented to them. What right has any parent to fill the mind of a child with hideous, distorted shapes of bogy men, devils and mythi- cal monsters? What right has any parent, by any method whatsoever, to terrify a child into obedience? How can any mother be so shortsighted that she cammot see the futility of such a course and her own folly in pursuing it? Sooner or later she must lose the confidence of her children. When they learn the emp- tiness of her threats and see for them- selves her weakness of will, can they have anything but contempt for her, hard as they may try to respect her? It is useless for any mother to at- tempt to evade the responsibility that rests upon her in goverming her chil- d;!n It is useless for her to believe | she can train them he can - g e if she cannot govern | And when any niother control her ck m by terrifying ther nto submissic e is makin; - ?;;’: confession of a deficient character. | | | | | attemptes to central electric lighting station and the | dynamo shelf. The six exposed stations have water- | proof instruments. The holding case is of copper. part are connected, so that all the of- do is to put the receiver to his ear. A great deal of ingenuity has been exercised in the construction of the instruments in such a manner as to exclude the water and moisture of the alr. Under the new order of things, when | the lookout, high up in the erow’s nest, sights an object at sea, instead of rais- ing the cry, as he did formerly, he will simply open a copper telephone box and transmit the intelligence over the wire.—American Syren and Shipping. HYGIENIC LUNCHEONS. The hygienic luncheon is the thing. It used to be that the pretty society girl or the tired-out shopper went to the restaurants to order chocolate eclairs and cherry sundaes, but now | The | there is a different tale to tell cult of the hygienic is flourishing. An interested spectator watched the wom- en who came to a fashionable lunch place the other day and counted seven | in fifteen minutes who ordered raw eggs beaten up in glasses of milk. The up-to-date girl takes her eggs and milk with a few dry crackers and needs no other nourishment. In many of the first-class restau- rants the proprietors make a special point of serving hygienic luncheons. They are prepared with a considera- tion of the digestive organs, and not the palate. Things that are cooked without the aid of fats, vegetable roasts, strange-looking cereals and fruit in every shape and form are set forth. Americans are accused of an inordinate love of rich foods, but the tide is turning, and the votaries of the hygienic are growing in number. WOMAN'S FOCKET. The smart girl has concelved the idea of having a pocket on her sleeve. At any rate, that’s where a small pocket —a& buttoned-over patch pocket—is now to be found. It is seen on both cloth apd velvet coats, and is sometimes placed near the shoulder, or quite as often just above the cuff. Its special use is for holdi and it also carefully hides from view a bit of a powder puff and a safety pin or two. A kid pocket looks very smart on a cloth jacket, but when the pocket makes its appearance on a velvet coat it is in best taste to have it of the same material as the coat, though the lap may fasten over with'a jeweled but- ton—Woman’s Home Companion. THEIR FEARS, Entering the house he clasps the young girl in his arms and bestows rapturous kiss upon her lips. “How dare you, sir!” § | - SIGN OF [INSANITY. The talking and listening | i PUBLISHING OF THE BANNS The custom of publishing the banns of marriage dates back to the primi- tive church, for Tertullian, who died A}.dl);i 240, says that warning of in- tended marriages was giv early Christians. e It appears that the publication of | banns was habitual in many places | long befcre there was any general law on the subject, since Gregory IV (1198-1216) speaks of the banns being given out in church, according to cus- tom. The practice was introduced into irn;x;g: about tzhe ninth century, and {in 1176 was enforced in the dlocese i ey e al of The earliest enactment of t Ject in England was an order l::d.: :: the synod of Westminster in 1200 to the effect that no marriage should be celebrated till the banns had been pub- lished in the church on three several Sundays or feast days. This rule was made obiigatory throughout the church by the fourth Lateran C | Rome in 1215. AL il 1 ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SANTA CLARA COUNTY—Subscriber, City. The territorial area of Santa lara County, California, is 1355 square iles. i HILLS OF ROME—Inquirer, Ala- meda, Cal. The ajtitude of the seven hills upon which Rome is built is 150 fet above the Tiber River. SECRETARY OF STATE—Reader, City. B. B. Redding was elected Sec- retary of State of California on Sep- tember 2, 1363, and served a term of four years. He died in San Francisco, August §, 1882, LEGISLATURE—A. O. R, Sausalito, Cal. The disastrous flood in Sacramente was in December, 1851, commencing on the 9th of that month. The Legislature met in the flooded ecity in thirteenth session January 6, 1362, but adjourned to San Francisco and on the 24th of that month met in the Merchants' Ex- | change on the northeast corner of Bat- | tery and Washington streets. It re- mained in session there until May 15. CONFEDERATE LOSSES—O. 8., City. | There are no absolute certain figures }ot losses by the Contfederates during [the Civil War, but the following are approximate and sald to be about as correct as can be otbained: Died of | wounds or disease, 131,643; Killed in ac- | tion, 49,482; taken prisoners, including the final surrender of all the armies at the close of the war, 476,169, died in prison, 26,774 BLACK RACE—J. G. M, Pleasanton, Cal. The negroes are not the only black or dark-skiuned people. The Nu= bians and the Hottentots are darker than some of the negroes who inhabit the elevated plateaus of Central Africa. term in this country, it may be said that the negro race is as old as history. Although apparently unknown to the