The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1905, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL SPRECKELS. . ADD! JOHN D. JOCHN McNAUGHT ABUSE OF HORSES. interest is as wide as the u "erse. ne undertake to keep it all in order he ! rn into a world and’ tinte so out of joint.| ) near and long distance efforts to keep | whole range, from local politics to the | i Therefore let us get the ear of the | riend, the horse. | es with woman the gift of the | 1 th ion does the lady le is down | i o yurro. The ho not alone because he t, 2gile and useful. The bicycle | of putting him down and out, but he | noble face and a bigger price on his g wagon and that satanic in- s pass him on the road, but they can m and friendship. We write en- ch he cannot read of course, but they horse knows that something has hap- | We found colleges in which train doctors to diagnose the dis- | chless patients. ; ) the treatment of domestic animals | ent of the horse aroused his sym- | originated has resulted in the better | including cats and dogs, and has v into the destruction of predatory ani- rinissible to entrap rats and kill them by y the fire: So the brute creation owes a great he started all this by impressing Mr. Berg. tion to the need of greater watchfulness needed in zll large cities, because it is iy can drive 2 horse, and that noble animal is i atte THE SAN FRANCISCO CALI, SUNDAY, MAY 28 1905. — H ' TO THE B - ———— LOVE IN LAND OF LAUGHTER. Ideal of Beauty, Earth Earthy, Not of the Spirit/. BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. : I | | | | | I f | | | 11 —NEW YORK HERALD. It Is of the The » a boy or man who is his inferior in general | g-—— — ject of pulling loads, backing up and the | When an ignorant driver has failed | by his horse, because he lacks horse | ILLUSION_ sen eds to whip the poor beast. The driver will | | = s boots fit and his clothes are comfortable. But|% T Like the French ught to whether the horse millinery fits or not. The | ER eye was bright, her step was light, y through the skin, the collar may gall the Her little laugh was sweet and gay, bt : > 5 = iy And in her face successive smiles < chafe the withers raw, but as long as the driver’s Made everlasting holiday. wrung he will beat the galled jade for wincing. = %3 55 Lt | H y times a day do we see overloaded horses slip and e};ozo:;;flfrhow fi::;m:v:“ne}{" feet! on our streets! Usually this is caused by careless driving. The And when she turned those eyes on me, ~ s%;“::’;;’?::d:"t:':;d," o s gawping around and pays no attention to the kind of foot- | My paradise was then complete. The west wind blows through the or- which he is forcing his team. Falls are frequent on street | She san: ’ chard-dlosd, i e . g, her throat sent out a note, e hite cloud der free: : s because the horses are forced to take the rail length- A double octave sweetly cleared; - e i et 1 Wis s slippery surface furnishes no foothold. Then, as acrule, | Ox\[all tge v\;{vfm‘e"ho? '}'!3 earth, a spring, f 1lt of his own, has slipped, fallen, skinned MOt braul St Bt Andithe gposl begehs beckon me, I ed his ribs, he is brutally beaten by the driver. With smiles precise I fetched her ice, N such a wood I enter the land of ) is happer not go to that driver and ask him how he | Picked up her filmy handkerchief, laughter and of love, the springtime 2 P % 4 { Then held her hand between my two, Yreliard ISR AP iy TFrRned ke to be beatén with a club for falling down with a pack | Saying, “Cupid is a sorry thief. - e PR Nea’sanuy e s 2 if vou d 1 1 - > you if you do this. He will make you SOb. litly swest T e ehtidat wide meadows green, and fields of yel- interest on the street and may offer \‘1olc_nce: Fhit vou will Jove sb—) st vy ; |low mustard bloem entice my willing s dispassionately made and patiently persisted The dearest, fondest, kindest chap Tl foet. an to thinking. That e’er renounced his liberty.” The white-sailed clouds, floating be- 2 E fore the breeze, tempt my thoughts to ecessary to call public attention to the abuse At once she stood, the angry blood #* i airy journeyings. . The talking voices ¢ say that a newspaper may better confine 3 ,Sg.t all_her lovely face at'stnle.' . ’ ‘of the poplar trees, to which I listen S n and his need of improved treatment. %fu"]??; ‘;%‘::“f::;';'r,ls’°“:‘;g:;‘:i“{:.’.’ in the narrow lanes of Montmorency T : 4 e Z s vife. invite me to woodland gossip, nature’s t where dumb beasts are treated best | E. G small talk about life’s inspiration, love. treated best also. Our noble four-footed brother, the | - - &| oOh, France is wonderful in May. She es to our comfort and pleasure in so many ways wonder that certain theosophists and others who | empsychosis d If C eclare that they can remember when | such things have to be, we would greatly prefer | as a horse to being compelled to remember veral kinds of men we have known. If these | t much the more need of kindness to a hful beast that serves us and lunches on barley in | nay have Emerson inside of him, or Tennyson. Treat | ip off his hide that may be the roof over | , P()Pl or statesman. ourself | ve were any of se rue, so OUR STRUCTURAL MATERIALS. construction are -the chief subjec{s of the California Promotion Committee’s mag- California.” While the figures showing the of the industries of putting these on the market grs g, perhaps the most striking effect of the publica- be {o show how much there is for promotion to do in in- ] f wealth of resource the State has in such delayed development alone there is given f what is being lost from want of enter- s estimated that $60,000,000 a year is tableware of china and glass, although 3 ugh to make most of the china used,*and nd of sand to make all the glass. This immense can be closely approximated is but a suggestion that cht follow from the success of pro- es needed forocal consumption. ! le of wh ight be done in other lires is shown aking here. We have been making ifyir but 1 Id. In that time more than 1,000,000,000,- have been made. We always had the clay; the profita- e about from the adoption of improved methods ‘of [hat is a reminder that we have in the idle iron : its utilization is only awaiting in- to inavgurate improved methods per- ¢ accomplishment of human faculty in brick production. s that the ore and the proper fuel e real reason may be that in- sufficiently to find out that some other sort fuel would do by a different method of application. The lesson of the bricks may be only distantly analogous, but by ite sudden development it points to fine possibilities. ,Some of the resources that ar need of further development are granite, mar- ble. .mineral paint, sandstone and concrete gravel, but these are progre ported from other States: in the items of iron, steel and prise the same locality ; i not bestirred g f o e in glass, the ANNUAL FIRE LOSSES. opportunities still await the men IREPROOF building is shown by the terrible figures of last vear's losses to be one of the most needed things to which the attention of the public can be called. The losses by fire have been severe in this country for many years back, but last year the statistics show they footed up such an enormous destruction of property and life that the press would be justified in spreading the news with all the emphasis at its command, as. if some big national firebell rang out an alarm. ; We burn up a million and a half of property every day, and eighteen deaths per day result from these disasters. As a writer in “Public Opinion” has condensed the figures of the experience of past years, we burn up, or seriously damage, every week, three the- aters, three public halls, tyvelve churches, ten schoolhouses, two SR cially speaking, the California brick | ssing in spite of the fact that some of our builders haverim- hospitals, two asylums, two colleges, two jails and twenty-six | hotels. This was an estimate previous to last year, and we can only look upon those figures as an approximation of the average de- struction which is going on now. The sting of this presentation of facts lies in the knowledge that almost all of this waste of wealth and life is preventable. The public should take a keen interest in the matter because they have it in their power to hasten the time of general fireproof construction. It is not a matter for insurance companies, municipal governments and building contractors only; tenants should persistently object to renting inflammable dwellings, apartment-houses and places for their offices, and wherever possible the people should emphasize their preference for living in houses and in neighborhoods where proper fireproofing has been made a feature of construction. Tt has been estimated that the cost of building in a way to be | safe from fire is only 10 per cent more than the risk-taking method, and that the good building deteriorates only one-ninth of 1 per cent per year compared to the 4 per cent of the ordinary build- ing. Such structures rent better, and the banks will lend money on them on better terms. Perhaps even more than the loss of | property the deaths of human beings and their injury deserve con- sideration. A thing worthy of note, too, but difficult to calculate the amount of, is the loss of happiness and content of, mind from | the continual danger to life and property. caused by inflammable buildings. Just a few of the more startling figures show that we throw away by fire $14,000,000 in every ten days; that the total new build- ing done in the twenty-three leading cities of the country for the | whole month of February was only a little over that sum, namely, | W $14.223,907 : that we burned up that month more than we built, and that the property destroyed would have sufficed to make every new building that was built absolutely fireproof. NEW FORMS OF SIN. ICKEDNESS in new forms, far more difficult to detect and punish than-are the old and easily defined sins of individ- ualism, is an accompaniment of our highly organized sociai development. To analyze it and to wisely deal with it will make { much harder problems for ethical and religious teachers than were those of old times when most of the wrongdoing was readily fixed upon special persons. Professor E. A. Ross of the University of Nebraska, in\his study of modern sociology, shows us the trend of these new social crimes, and how elusive they are to the ethical reformer who wishes to correct them. In a contribution to the Atlantic Monthly he says the “tropical belt of sin we are sweeping into is largely impersonal,” and points out that while we perhaps improve in individual honesty, men do as directors of large cor- porations what they would scorn to do in individual affairs. These new forms of collective sin in which the feeling of direct personal responsibility tends to become a vanishing quantity have the danger of betraying semi-innocent or self-considered innocertt people into robbing and oppressing in such subtle and indirect ways that they fail to recognize their unrighteousness. One of the perils of co-operative sinfulness which Profdssor Ross strongly emphasizes is that the would-be saviors of sotiety are unable to recognize pre- cisely what the new sins are. Most of the old, personal sins are made repulsive by the speedy appearance of results that make the public recoil from them, and denounce and punish them; but the moral offenses which he says take their charaeter from “the mu- tualization of our time” are not superficially apparent, they do not brand particular persons, and it is not ‘easy to trace them to the exact victims they hit. As-in the case of slightly adulterated foods that might injure or kill a child, the guilt is great, but the respon- sibility for it is so scattered through the actions and the uninten- tions of collective business greed, and the tacit permissions of inat- tentive society at large, that we fail to denounce and punish it as surely as we would murder done with an ax. ' R is like a lovely . lady, wearing her fas- cinations delicately, yet regally. One stops to marvel at her beauty, and one stays to love and praise. Her atmos- phere is full of joy, the careless rap- tuye of a happy heart that knows no tear, but treads its roval road in all the freedom of unshaken power. To-day we'll go together, you and I, not in the city streets, where love has fallen from its heavenly heritage, but through this countryside of Montmo- rency, beneath old trees green-clothed in moss, among bright gardens where # R tulips blaze and sunny daffodils, where sober pansies and honey-sweet, and every flower speaks its mother lanm- | guage of innocent simplicity. Just to be happy is to love, I be- lieve. The mood of pure joy which | ‘Wordsworth tells of. that rare exalta- | tion that comes of momentary Sympa- | thetic {nsight into the secret.of nature | and divine love, is that “love which spirits feel,” to whem the world of sense must be reality and the material | side of experience the passing show. Certainly there Is no_ other way that we can love so simply as just by being | happy. And though there are other | ways by which perhaps we can love equally well, I doubt if there are any by which we can love better. For when we are truly happy we are at our best. I cannot pretend for a moment that this mood of mine, which seems to me all made of love—a white fire of en- thusiasm that makes all humankind my brethren and the earth a fair re- flection of that Paradise which we call heaven—has anything about it that is French. It is too pure a passion. It| is too wholly of the spirit. And French love, llke the French ideal of beauty, is of the earth earthy. Its face is the face of a siren, and not that of an an- gel in whose sweet eyes the mistiness of dreamland dwells. But France has called it forth, an® to her I dedicate it with the naive con- ] tent we feel in laying at the feet of one beloved a gift which we believe to be a treasure. Montmorency, France, May 8. g first letter. tenor as the letter. THE FIRST LETTER. HE CALL presents to its readers to-day as an art supvlement a fine reproduction of the work of the great Italian artist, Arturo Nocl. In thls picture the artist has shown rare skill in transferring to canvas aninteresting phase of the old, old story. eautiful young woman engaged in e : wfiich was accompanled by a bouquet of flowers, whose language, when interpreted, doubtless carries a message of the same The beawtiful coloring, the graceful figure, the faithfulness to de- tail, as well as the expression of intense interest and delight in what she reads, exemplify the artistic skill of the painter. — He shows us a rapturously reading her lover's | | | | — ! ROOSEVELT AND CHILDREN — HE President's fondness for chil- I dren has more opportunity to assert itself when he plays than when he works. It was prominent many times during the tour of Texas. At one small town one of the local committeemen sat on a horse near the platform and held his baby in front of him. After a time the baby commenced to cry, and the President stopped his speech long enough to say, ‘“Poor little chap; I suppose he’s tired and sleepy.” At Austin during the drive from the station to the State Capl- tol the carrifages were halted for a mo- ment and Mr. Roosevelt noticed a very small boy who, from his mother’s arms in the midst of the crowd that lined the street, was shyly waving. a greeting. ““No isn't that cute,” said the Presi- dent; “bring him right over here and let me shake hands with him.”” It is perhaps superfluous to say that the President now has no more ardent admirers than o that child and its mother, in the face of the fact, as afterward developed, that up to a short time before the arrival of the | party the woman had declared she would | not even leave her home to see the Presi- dent as he passed. During the long drive at San Antonio | the President’s attention was attracted | by a boy who threw him several bou- | quets. The first of these was the small chap’s own property, but the others were taken from other children who were too difident to present their offerings in per- son. So impressed did the President be- come that he directed the secret service agents to put the little fellow in one of the carriages, where he remained, almost delirious with joy, until the party reached the place where Mr. Roosevelt delivered his address. Before he com- menced to speak the President, with great delight, told thbse closest to him all about the incident.—C. Arthur Wil- liams, in The World To-day. N HINOLOGY, or the sceience of nose reading, is the latest fad, for no '\ dignity is more easily conferred upon the race than that imparted by a -handsome nose, and it is a well-known fact that there is no disfigurement equal |te a false nose. When the play “Cyrano | de Bergerac” was all the rage no actor took the part without such a study of the meaning conveyed in noses as would astound the casual theatergoer. In fact, all actors know that the physical classi- fication of noses with certain mental traits is niable, and often historical engravings are consulted to see what type of nose a certain character pos- sessed. . Sung Nothing has ever regarding the nose and little written, yet this much abused part of 's anatomy 15 worthy of extended notice, in spite of the fact that a really learned disquisition jo upon the nose does not exist. The novel- raves over his heroine’s eyes, hair, SCIENCE OF NOSE READING. language compares her nose to the “Tow- er of Lebanon which looks toward Da- mascus.” There is, however, more in the nose than the owner of the appendage seems aware of. » The classic Gredk nose has been re- garded as the ideal shape, though there are Roman, Caucasian, Mongolian and Ethiopian noses, each indicating a pecu- liar type of mental tralt. Generally ‘speaking, thick and flat noses denote ma- terial instincts, and turned up noses be- speak varity. Wide nostrils are a sign at strength, while small nogieils indicate | weakness. Napoleon's edge of hu- man nature made him select generals with large noses, for this betokens intel- ligence, just as the eagle nose shows a firm, strong will. Possibly speaks louder for itself than the al ¢ nose, and it is as much to be feared as the inted nose and chin, which in conjunc- tion proclaims general wickedness. Cer- tainly the most interesting nose is the cogftative, for it expands with thought, which comes, according to rhinology, or reflec- | i | out, and it was a corker. | are the common red, cow grass, | Cal : - THE MEN WHo 'RUIN GOOD STORIES. HANNING POLLOCK says t Cbe everf goes t9 the Legislatu first bill he introduces will be ¢ suppresston of whe spotl goc . by “butting in" with questions that are what the lawyers call “incompetent, relevant and immaterial.” “I've just had a seance with Mr. ter.” said Pollock the other day, New York Press man, “and if I b left just when I .did there might been trouble. *“Butter is a dear friend, whose faylt is the ‘bDutt in' habit. ‘He doesn: do it intentionally—he simply cam't heip it. but he hag spoiled more good stort But- to a ha than a dozen train wrecks when ¢ drummers have foregathered In smoker. “I was all primed with the latest story There was 2 Itttle gatherjps of us down in Tom's pi and when a favorable oppertunity sented itself I prepared to launch it is how I succeeded: * ‘Heard a good one on Branscombe to- day.’ I began by way of intreduction. He was on his way up here and—' ‘** ‘What Branscombe is that? asked the Butter. *“ ‘Billy Branscombe. ten on the train—' * ‘Do you know if he's from the South? asked Butter. *“‘No, I couldn’t say. Well, he was just about to sit down when the conductor—* “ “There was a family of Branscombes lived near me in Virginia,’ said t Butter solemnly. ‘I think one of the boys was named Billy. Do you know how he spells his name?" “‘No, and I don’t care’ I snapped. ‘Well, Branscombe had just taken his seat when the conductor came along and said—' *‘These Brancombes I speak of came up North and for some reason dropped “b™ from their name,” continued Butter. ‘I thought perhaps the one you speak of might be of the same bunch. That's why I asked about the spelling. “The boys were nearly choking with Ho He had just got- | suppressed laughter at my disecomfiturs by this time, and one or two left crowd to discuss other matters. I desperate and started in again. * “Well, the conductor, he said to Brans. combe: “This isn't your train, sir. We go only to Crofton.” But Billy had seen a mighty pretty girl—' ‘“ “‘Must have been the same Billy Brans- combe,” put in Butter. ‘He always was a great fellow after the girls. I remember on one occasion—" “Here two more of the party left and my audience had dwindled down to three. But I was determined to tell that story, so I resumed: “Well, the sight of the pretty face de- cided him and Billy, looking at his ticket, said with assumed surprise: ‘Why, I wanted to go to Crofton. The ticket agent must have made a mistake. I—' “ ‘What Crofton is that? Mississippi or Arkansas? interpolated Butter. And be- the felt | fore I could answer he driveled on ‘Crof- ton, Miss., is a swagger sort of place, while the Arkansas Crofton is little bet- ter than a swamp. Thers was a man who came from Croften, Ark—" “By a strong effort I kept my hands in my pockets and watched another au- ditor fade away, and ignoring the inter- ruption continued hastily: ** ‘So Billy paid a second fare and & nice little sum it cost him, for Crofton was a good distance away.” ‘“*Whese di@ he get ‘on”'the train?" asked -Butter mildly. ‘They don’t charge much on those Southern trains. I re- member once I was going from—' “Human endurance was not equal to it. ‘The: remaining two auditors left, and 1t was up to me to either insult my friend or disappear also. I chose the latter course and here I am.” “But what was the story, Pollock?” in- quired the man to whom the playwright told his woes. “T'll tell you when I get cooled aown,” he replied. ANSWERS | PAINTING—R. M., City. Twenty-eight pounds of white lead, two pints of tur- | pentine, six pints of linseed oil and one pound of litharge will produce enough to peint a surface of ten square yards. CLOVER—R. M., City. Any seed store in the city can furnish you the seed of the various kinds of clover that are cul- tivated. The kinds most generally sown tch white, yellow and alsike. WHITE AND NEGRO-J. V. B, City. The marriage of white and negro is pro- | hibited by law in the State of California. | A County Clerk is not authorized to is- sue a license for the marriage of a white and a negro, and it perchance & license for such a marriage should be issuwed no one authorized to solemnize a marriage would do so on account of the legal pro- hibition. TO POLISH SHELLS—M., Monterey, In order to polish sea shells the surface of the shells should first be cleansed b¥ rubbing with a rag dipped in hydrochloric acid until the outer dull covering of the shells is removed. It must then be washed In warm water. dried in hot sawdust and polished with chamois leather. Those shélls which are destitute of a natural polished sur- face may be either varnished or rubbed with a mixture of tripoli powder and turpentine applied by means of a piece of wash leather, after which fine tripolt should be used, then a little olive oil rubbed in well and finally the surface well rubbed with a chamois leather. The hands must be protected from con- tact with the hydrochloric aeid. TO TAN SKINS—S. O.. Fish Roek, Cal. The following is given as an ex- cellent method for tanning any kind of skins with the fur om: “After having cut off the useless. parts and seftemed the skin by soaking. remeve the fatty matter from the inside and soak it in warm water for an hour. Next mi equal parts of borax, salpeter and glaff- ber salts (sulphate of soda) in the pro- portion of about half an ounce of each for each skin, with sufficient water to make a thin paste; spread this with a brush over the inside of the skin. ap- plying more on the thicker parts than on the thinner; double the skin to- gether, flesh side inward, and place n a cool place. After standing twenty-four hours wash the skin clean and apply in the same manner as before & mixture of one ounce of salsoda, one-half ounce of borax and two oumces of hard white soap, melted slowly together without being allowed to boll; fold together again and put away in a warm place for twenty-four hours, After this dis- solve four ounces of alum. eight ounces of salt and two ounces of saleratus in sufficient hot water to gaturafe the skin: when cool enough not to scald the hands, soak the skin in it for twelve hours; then rillg out and hang it out to dry. When dry repeat this soaking and drying twe or three times, till the skin is sufclently soft. ' Lastly, smooth the inside with fine sandpaper and pumice stone o’ —_——— es. at. and new store now open. ”xf’u“ r daily to men by the Sa Makn ol &