The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS.........000 + ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT THIRD AND MARKET STRBETS, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLICATION OFFICE.. cPasesmahssss HUBY MG 1905 THURSDAY....... THE PUBLIC LANDS. Y authority of Congress the President appainted a commission, B consisting of Land Commissioner Richards, Mr. Newell of the Geological Survey and Mr. Gifford Pinchot of the Forestry Hureau, to examine the land laws and report a plan for taking the | est care and making the best use of the remaining public lands. Exclusive of Alaska the total area of the public lands was 1,441,436, | 160 acres, of which one-third, or 473,836,402 acres, is yet public do- nain and subject to some policy to determine its future. | The commission reports that existing land laws do not fit the | conditions of the remaining public lands, and it might have said, | that the laws were a misfit on a large part of the lands that do not remain. For forty years and more, ever since land hunt- | ers crossed the Missouri River, men with knowledge of the situa- tion have said the sa thing, only to be accused of criminal land grabbing intentions by theorists who do not know tillable land from an alkali smi The Government has gone-en, statutorily assuming that the ten desert. d1 ws which fitted the prairie States east of pted to the vast region west of the had timber entry restricted by law to not dodging the fool *killer area of lumber who is knows lle with any profit that forest. ad also desert entry, under such regulations that honest ¢ h m was impossible, and we have refused any furt cation beyond agricultural, mineral, timber and desert have administered them all in the arid region, tic misfit regulations and statutes. of the most valuable potencies of land been nearly destroyed. It a characteristic sther uses of intermingled lands must depend for profit vation. This potency was the capacity of the land for for nothing else. The Government, that wise and properly belonging to it, flinched and »ooby whenever it was pointed out that the grazing lands 1d some provision made for their use in suffi- for that business, and for the protection of the natural forage made them valuable. Travelers through a and the ra traverse hundreds of f bleak desert where no plant roots in the blistered soil, nt meadows. That desert is public domain, 2l wealth by being used in” common, over- the Government let it be so. he question with some spirit. It no more be complied with “After thorough investigation ion is opposed to the imme- ) 1l grazing lands, but recom- be given the President to set aside i Authority should be given the appraise the grazing value such officers as the care of tge and collect a moderate fee for 1 apply appropriate regulations to ect of bringing about the largest actual settlers and home- t one t is h be ¢ ciently large tr. Mexico, on roac once were luxt i of its poter becausec has takep up t 1 laws that . but it reports: C em, your ¢ syste mmiss and occupati by ivances the matter to the classification of grazing lands, ione twenty-five years ago would have saved to the meadow | f that are now the conquest of the desert. We doubt thod of management of the grazing lands pro- | The forage should be preserved, and we can be done under the permit system as well as n of Texas and Australia. ' But it is a be- nment density he subject has been pene- rrow plan proposed by the commission may 1ission. o not believe the leasehold plar The i the rather d by experien needed is a sufficient degree of permanency in exclu- | Gove on t ion by stockmen. This has been the need of the range s of the nomads. In Genesis we read: “And Lot also, 1 Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together, r their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together, i there strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and herdmen of Lot’s cattle”” So one went to the right and the ther to the left, for the land could not bear, that is to say, support, jeir united herds, and they were over-stocking it. ter, respectively principal owner and editor-in-chief of the 1 Daily Review. They believe that journalism has now de- veloped to such a stage that one of its early objects, the complete gathering of all the news, is now practically attained; and the next step up is to learn how to eliminate—to choose out of the great mass of news that which will give a paper character and literary quality. The paper proposes to try several innovations, but this is one of its main objects; to find out what to leave unpublished and | yet to give the mind of the reader a true impression of life as it is actually being lived arougd him, and so save him from ignorance of the essentials of history as it is daily being made. The new paper purposes especially to eliminate the sensational and the scandalous. Crimes and other ugly things of life are to be conspicuous by their absence, unless of historic importance of such novel nature as to need study, or of such moment they must be told to prevent ignorance. Objection has been made to such a plan in that it would cause people to live in a fool’s paradise. They would think the world better than it really is. In reply to that it is urged that by giving prominence {0 crime men get a false view of life. They learn more of the evil and unhappiness of 5 per cent of the population than of the g5 per cent of normal folk who make up the world around us. Probably the golden mean of truth in these contentions is that nearly all facts should be published, but due care exercised as to the way they are handled. The public is eatitled to know every important thing that happens, so that men can face life with wide open eyes, know the right attitude betwixt trust and caution, and be helped to mold personal character by noting the experiences of all the world and adding this to self experiences. The right idea is neither an enforced optimism nor an easily accepted pessimism, but the meliorism that experience teaches; and for this it is neces- sary to have very wide knowledge of the facts and to form right conclusions about them. It is good journalism to throw the search- sht everywhere. Taking the world at large there is much more harm done by conceglment than by publicity. was m OMISSION OF NEWS. l MISSION of news, cultivated as an art, is to be one of the | features aimed at by the controllers of a new experiment in journalism undertaken in Chicago by John J. Hamilton and | “Thus,” says Judge Alton B. Parker, “because greed; left to run riot, has produced some bad conditions in cities and in great corporations we are advised to run headlong into municipal or Government ownership and operation. This policy is advocated in spite of the fact that, in other coun- tries and in the surroundings far more favorable for these expetiments than our own, they have uniformly interfered with development~and curbed jni- tiative. In other words, the only alternative thus presented for the curbing of greed is that of rushing wildly into the perils of overgovernment.” If Judge Parker could get votes as he can tell the truth he would have swept the country last year.—Louisville Courier-Journal. A TSR Those old gentlemen who were wont to declare that it is sweet to die for one’s country weren’t working for it in the Panama canal zone.~New York Herald. SR AT - Some of the walking delegates now have automobiles. ege.—Chicago Record-Herald. It's a wonderful | rej is ojus,” | There came a burst of thunder sound, £He'll heed me —_— 'OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS By A. J.W;terhouse. —F ILL knowed it all. B all day Of things you had noticed erlong the way, Of things you had learned and things 'at you knew, Includin’ a few 'at you didn't, tew; Of politics, piety, punkins or pint of cl“"! for distemper or cures fer your sins, Of things ’'at ole Science hes failed to record, Of winkin’ at Mammon gn’ praisin’ the Lord; An’ es sure es you stopped fer tew draw a long breath Bill 'ud allers strike in jes' es certain es death: “T knowed that long ago.” ‘You might talk 1 ain't here to claim that it didn't wear £ome, Fer his tarnal, “I knowed it,” wus try- in b gum! When you told of a thing that had hap- pened to you wearin’ to hear Bill's remark thet new, It he An' you'd feel a dull pain thet continuous growed When William knowed things thet the Lord never knowed. You might say that a strikin' discov'ry displayed Thet the moon wus of lyddite an’' gun cotton made, An’ thet if it wus jarked it 'ud blow. us sky high: Then Bill 'ud remark, with a forebodin® wed that long ago. roung Doc Syphers got pestered vexed, an’ the text, . Bill, did you know thet a donkey,” says he, “Is a bird thet hes wings where its ears orto be, An’ it sings through its mouth, which is hinged like a door, 'Er-haw-er, er-haw-er! I've heered that before,’ An’ there ass Are trottin’ along in the very class.” Well, habit's a critter we all must obey— Says Bill, 'fore he thought what he's go- in’ ter say: “I knowed that long ago.” sn't a doubt thet you and the same Then the hull of us laffed, an’ we laffed, an' we laffed, An’ Bill twisted some while the rest of us | chaffed. Then Bill he arose, an’ he rose with aj sigh, | An’ he hit young Doc Syphers a belt in | the eye, | An’ Doc he lay down fer ter rest on the floor, v While Bill kicked the rest of us out o’ the | door. | says Bill, ““fer ter make such “I'm &o; a muss, Fer peace is much better than brawlin' an’ fuss, But an ass is a critter, I'm bound ter ex- vlain, With a record fer kickin’ it hes ter main- tain— e 1 knowed that long ago.” = AS LITTLE SUSIE VIEWS LIFE. OYS is men that ain't growed up., but 1 wish they wood hurry, for when tha are growed up tha may be | of sum use. | Mep marry wimmin an’ then the wim- min go to church an’ say, “Lord be mer- syfull to us miserbul ufenders.” Marrej is where a woman prommises to love, oner an obay a man an then duz what she wants 2. Div s is where a woman sez, ‘“‘Mar- so she getts an then marrez anuther man an the last stait of that woman shal bee wurs than the first, an its the same with men. A bachlur girl is 1 that s lookin for the rite man, but hasent found him yit, and if she duz she wishes that it want so. My pa says that graft {s where yu pla the gaim cawshus an then tafk the kitty, but sumtimes a Kkitty has sharp claus | that scrach. Gurls gro uo 2 be wimmin or els tha beecum reeformers an then no hoap is exprest for them. When my ma sees snaiks she skreems an runs, but wuns when my pa sed he saw them she sent for a doktur. This shos ihe difrunce beetwene wimmin an men. Loj is what maiks breth smel so kweer, for wuns when my pa sed he had ben 2 wun my ma sed, “Ide hav noan it by yure breth.” So this is anuff for 1 time. AN OLD BALLAD MODERNIZED. HE Russ stood on the burning deck, ‘Whence all but he had fledski. A bottle that was marked “Col- leck,” He lifted to his headski. The bullets whistled everywhere; It was almighty hotski; He hummed a simple Russian air * “Tooral—I've (hick!) the botsk Torpedovitch denoting, And pieces of that Russ they found O'er ninety leagues a-floating. They found them out, they found them in, They found them north and southski, And when they found the jaw and chin The bot was in his mouthski. ERE is a proposition,” said the philosophical orator, “which cannot be gainsaid: No two identities can occupy precisely the same place in space at the same time, no two moments can claim exactly the same fragment of eternity, there is no such thing as absolute simultaneousness both in place and time, and—" “Say,” cried the man in the gallery, “will you answer one question for me?” “Certainly,” is 1t?" “Did you ever hear of the sentences that Edward J. Smith recelved?” “That question,” the orator replied, fully considered in my renowned lecture entitled, ‘Justice as She Is Did.’ Attend that and you will be enlight- ened.” So the anxious inquirer is waiting for the renowned lecture. E’EN AS A CHILD. 'EN as a child whose tottering feet Have strayed throughout his [{§ busy day Turns home at night, with prattle | * sweet, His head on sweet Love's breast to lay * the orator replied, “what | - | L, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1905 8 THE SAN ANCISCO 1 e — _t 4 Foadi Where Gay Court ~ Once Played at Life and Love ~ By Doroia;— Fenimore DOROTHY FENI/IORE —p VERSAILLES, France, June 2. The park and palace of Versailles have an interest for the student of love as well as for the student of history. Echoes of old love storles linger around the place, and poetry is in the air. As you thread your way through its woodland lanes and its marble corridors you feel that you are in a splendid tomb of past delights, where every shadow hides some sweet but tragic personal memory, and every beauty has some pa- thetic association with a broken human joy. For here kings and queens, the great of the earth, lived and loved, and played a double game of hearts and statecraft. L | Here gallant lords and lovely ladies, frail as fair, heralded Venus as queen of all the gods, and bent the knee to Cupid where he ruled the grove from the cen- ter of a woodland temonle. On every side are sad reminders of that glittering court where love and laughter reigned supreme, while pallid, envious mizery crowded closely against its gilded gates. To-day there is a quaint solemnity about the elaborate palace and the arti- | ficial gardens of Versailles’s Modern folk in modern dress look altogether out of place. The scene offers a suitable back- ground for frivolity and hypocrisy, and all the dainty vanities of elaborate dis- play. It is the proper setting for French poetry—not for' English prose. It offers an appropriate stage for ;egmedy light 1omance, and not for somber trag- edy. One cannot help but feel, beholding it, how strangely incongruous must have looked that mad Parisian mob of men and women of the ‘market place who stormed its doors in Louls XVIL'S reign, and drove the monarch from out its regal shelter to the Tuillerfes. You are impressed by that strange qual- ity of French nature which expresses ft- self ‘on the one hand in art and beauty, on the other in cruelty or even in a fury of rage. When vou enter the woods ‘of Ver- sailles, however, you leave behind such terrible associations and come into the sentiment and romance which linger yet in these historic groves where a gay, de- generate court played at life and love like woodland nymphs, or like shepherds of Arcadia, where beautiful women held sway to whom Nature had given every priceless gift except a conscience. The ripple of running waters, the talk- ing voices of the poplar trees, each has its story to recount. When you hear the breezes whispering in the leafy bowers of the shaded grove you almost belleve ‘tis the ghosts of dead loves and lost joys that you hear sighing softly to them- selves as they wander disconsolate among the scenes of their remembered happi- ness. Overhead the lovenote of the night- ingale calls clearly, forming the only liv- ing word of love that breaks the sum- mer hush of the cool, fragrant air. It is with Versailles as it is with Rome —her foundations are so much a part of her that without them she would not be Versailles. It is only when they play, therefore, that you see her a princess, in her coronet and robe of state, in the full beauty of her queenly grace—that you can conjure eplendid pageants of long ago. IN TEXAS. She said that she couldn’t climb fences, But that was a city girl's yarn; When she met the old cow she just hol- lered “Wow!"” And they found her astride of the barn. ~—Houston (Tex.) Post. Astride of a barn! Now what was her plan? ‘We can't form the slighest con- Jecture; We wish you'd enlighten us, please, if you can, On the style of that girl's architec- ture. —Milwaukee Sentinel. And there be crooned to slumber deep, wml;l sweet Love still her ward doth eD; % So would I turn—for worn am I, And rugged was the way I pressed— In His great arms of love ta lie And sink to sleep upon His breast, ,Knovnn; full well His watch He'll keep And es the child at morn awakes, 2 By sleep refreshed, by rest reborn To meet the petty joys and That follow in the Yet mumaamhmm Sweet Love So would 1 wake when ‘Would wake to know,, To understand wh: And why some And, of all, i <« NEARLY OUT. ‘Hike—Is Miss Antique still in the matrinfonial ? Dike—Yes, but'she's remnant counter. ‘on the and /| p with full success the | {THE FLAG THAT 1 1ISGOOD ENOUGH — % (Admiral Lord Charles Berestord of the Brit- feh navy, speaking of the close friendship and common ‘aims of Great Britain and the United Etates, suggests that the time has come fto adopt a flag that_will In future be common to both countries.—Press Dispatch.) One flag for both? All right, my boy —and here’s our hand to you. By the crimson dawn and the white of stars and sheen of the clear sky's blue; By the blood-stained snows of Valley Forge, by the sufferings of our sires; By the works they wrought in the days gone by to kindle our altar fires— We pledge our friendship, strong and true, hands clasped across the sea; The past forgot in the work ahead, true brothers for aye we'll be, No matter what flag floats high in air, we'll cheer till we burst our pipes, For any old flag is good enough—just so it's the Stars and Stripes. Blood of our blood and flesh of our flesh, why longer remain apart? We scrapped, 'tis true, in the days gone by, but Time has healed each smart. Let's head the march of the world's progress, keep step on the world's highway, “God Save the King” and “America,” two tunes our bands can play. And when the banner we both shall bear is kissed by the rising sun Let us clasp hands with a right good will and boast of the good deeds done. One flag for both? That strikes us right! Let's cheer till we burst our pipes, For any old flag is good enough—just 8o it's the Stars and Stripes. By the green-grassed lanes of Lexing- ton, by the banks of the Brandy- wine; By the plains of Monmouth bleak and drear, where the ghostly camp fires shine; By the reeking swamps of the sunny South where the “Swamp Fox™ rode and fought; By the brave old sires of Seventy-six, and all of the works they wrought, We are ready now to join with you in all that s right and fair And march 'neath a single banner, too, as free as our mountain air. One flag for both? That suits our taste —we'll cheer till we burst our pipes, For any old flag is good enough—just so it's the Stars and Stripes. { We boast of our Anglo-Saxon blood— the blood of a brave old strain— From Hampton Heath and from Runny- mede the pride of our strength we gain. But we, too, have blood from another source—German and Norse and Celt; And their earnest worth in the land we | love in the years gone by we've | felt: They'vé heélped to make this broad freé land the grandest place on earth. And here in the West a proud new race —American—had its birth. Americans all we stand to-day, the best of the nation’s types, And any old flag will do for us—just so it's the Stars and Stripes. —Chicago Review. e MAKING GOOD USE OF A “BAD BOY” = = To the Editor of the San Francisco Call-Dear Sir: A boy is a natural irri- tant, as much so in his way as mustard plaster applied medicinally. He that can S0 control himself, that he is master of the moods, plots and schemes of the troublesome boy has had valuable’ disci- pline for which he can thank the boy. The boy rightly handled may become a valuable educator along ethical and spiritual lines. When severely tried by his perverseness, think of the seventy times seven pardons you have recetved from the Heavenly Parent for shortcom- ings. When your temper is invulnerable to assaults from the boy, then are you able to control him, command his re- spect and reform him. Renounce the total depravity theory. No boy is all bad. Work the good points into evidence, magnify them, stimulate them. {you would \a problem in mathematics. | Work the boy along congenial lines until industry becomes a habit. A boy will try to merit leniency, and in the long run will respect wise efforts, made to up- lift him. A boy's downfall begins, many times, not on the street nor in the saloon, but in the home, where lack of consideration for youthful impulsiveness exists. Harsh- ness and punishment angrily inflicted have started many a boy on the down grade. A rollicking, happy boy shoul make a pleasant place of home. A ho‘g should at least be treated with the con- sideration given to chance acquaintances. The boy may be naturally officious. Give him a hand in your affairs. Make him feel that he is a valuable agent in JUST A | advancing your interests and indispen- sable to the household. Cultivate his self-respect. Remember his birthday by a better type of book c.an those of the secretly read blood and thunder style. Make your boy your constant companion. A RUN. neA‘muMan going to call my W m! com: “An Eight- Day Cloow o4 5 Composer—Why such a title? “Author — So that when it starts it will be sure of a week's run at least. : B —— Study the boy as diligently as | 'HOW THE FAKER DRAWSACROWD — The average New Yorker spends many hours in the course of a year in watehing the doings of the street fa- kers. Few of them, however, know that fakers practice some nll@hm‘d' schemes to attract the New Yorker's attention. y An old-time fakir known by the. so- for the New York World what those schemes are revealed —some curious facts about the faker’'s art. i “One would suppose,” said “Big Bill, “that to attract the attention of such a hustling, busy man as the New Yorker is, one would have to do some wonder- ful, startling feat. Well, that's far from being the case. I've traveled around all over the United States, but T've found New York the easiest place of all to draw a crowd. Why the aver- age New Yorker is so curious that he will stop off to watch anything from a cook baking cake in a restaurant win- dow to a man gazing at a skyscraper. “And because the New Yorker is curlous Is why we fakers don't have to use any startling scheme to catch his eve. In fact the schemes we use are rather simple. I take up my station on some corner along ‘Fakers’ Row.’ “What, you never heard of that neighborhood? Well, it's along Broad- way, Bowery, 'Fourteenth and Twenty- third streets where the large crowds pass which we fellows eall Row. Well, as I sald before. I stand on one of those corners. 1 take out an ordinary pocket handkerchief and stop a passing small boy. I ask him to hold one end of the handkerchief, while I hold the other. I then with a flourish of my hand place a silver dollar in the center of .the handkerchief. BY this time the sidewalk begins to get impassable with interested New York- | ers. Then I roll the coin up slowly in the handkerchief, place both In my pocket and start in to show my goods. “Some men in the crowd often look disappointed. [ suppose they 2xpected me to do some clever trick with the coin. But I bad not promised to do that. During the time I had handled the coin I had not said a word. *A good faker who understands his business does no talking while he is working his scheme. 'Tisn't necessary. “As a rule, each faker has his own original scheme, which no other faker will copy. There's a silent understand- ing among them not to do that, be- cause the public would see it so many times it would become too well ac- quainted with the same scheme and would ignore it. So every chap invents his own schemelet. A fellow I know who ‘fakes’ shirt sleeve catchers has his goods strung in a row on a strip of cloth about a yard long and perhaps six inches wide. He spreads a hand- kerchief on the sidewalk. rolls up the strip of cloth tightly and places it on the handkerchief. The rolled cloth glistens on all sides with the shiny shirt-sleeve catchers. he fellow then starts in to fan it w'th his hat. Does he attract a crowd? Ycu bet! And in only about three min- utes, too. Another man uses a small bottle filled with ground chalk. “He spills a little of the chalk on the sidewalk, very slowly strikes a match and places it to the chalk. What happens, then, did you say? Why, the match goes out, the fellow kicks ths chalk into the gutter, opens up his satchel and shows his ‘geods,’ " and “Big BilI" smiled. “There’'s many more schemes I could tell you, all on the same plan. But I guess the ones I've mentioned ought to give you a good idea of what we fakers do to draw the crowds.” e BUTCHER MAKES STRONG PROTEST -_---— Editor of The San Francisco Call— | Dear Sir: By reading the articles pub- lished in some of the city morning papers of July 18, 1905, one would nat- urally think that the butchers of San Francisco are using preservatives in all the meats they sell. I would say for the benefit of the few who have been made a special target by un- scrupulous representatives of the press, that we, the retall butchers of San | Francisco, do not have to use preserv- | atives only in the shape of salt and | saltpetre, Neither do I belleve that any ! of the retail butchers are using any | preservatives since it has been made known to them last May that it was | injurious to health. The statement | made that we, the accused men, would | rather not make a statement so far as | butchers are concerned, is an infernal lie, as I have tried several times to have the truth printed. It seems that we are to remain at the mercy of the liar. Respectfully yours, H. C. FLAGEOLLET, 883 Valencia street. San Francisco, July 18. 1905. — concerts and entertainments of an up- lifting tendency. Let him drink' deeply | of nature's lore. Serve your boy wisely and he will serve you. And some time, somewhere the “bad SARAH BOYLE, 1301 Park street, Alameda, California. July 19, 1905. e ———— Milk Chocolate Creams. Another new, dainty confection— . Stores, Phelan | Flood bullding. i Specfal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Cali- | fornl\ltne'. Telephone Main 1042. * MINUTE WITH 'THE BUSY FUN-MAKERS . UP TO DATE INDIAN. She (on the reservation)— tnxaasuaumk.mpi“.. of peace with ? He—No. I-”‘C-l y smokes e briquet of “Big BilL" in telling & writer | so | Fakers’ | Make him your escort to church, lectures, ! boy” will “rise up and call you blessed.” ! | Milk Chocolate Creams, at Haas’ Candy | building and James ' . THE SMART SET By Safiy—Sharp. The marriage of Miss May O'Donnell and J. Campbell Shorb was very quletly celebrated at noom yesterday im St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Mont- gomery reading the service. The bride was attended only by he: sister, Miss Marguerite O'Donnell. None save the immediate families were present d the bride’s gown was a going-away | | suit of gray, very becoming to her beauty, which is of the pronounced blonde type. Mr. and Mrs. Shorb are making a short wedding trip throughout the South, after which they will reside at Union and Broderick streets. . ( . . Among the several San Franciscans so- journing at the Hotel Rowardennan are Dr. and Mrs. J. Wilson Shiels, and their | dramatic talent, which is so well known to society, was called Inte play last week. The hotel was the scene of a clever vaudeville performance, givem under the direction of Dr. Shiels, and this was fol- lowed by a farce written by Lloyd Ack- erman and Dr. Shiels. Mr. Ackerman is a graduate of the '04 class of Yale. A most pleasurable evening was spent, ! the onlooking guests sincerely enjoying and appreciating the efforts of tfie enter- tainers. Among those taking part were Dr. and Mrs. J. Wilson Shiels, Mrs. A. Starr Keel- er, Mrs. A. E. Hutchjns, Mrs. Florence | May, Miss Katherine Kutz, Miss Clarisse Lohse, 'Miss Margaret Koshiand, Miss ! Mary May, Miss Margery May, Lloyd Ackerman, Malcolm Bogue and Daniel Koshland. . . Mr. and Mrs. Walter returned from a most | throughout Southern California, €. Campbell hi delighttul trip where they were guests at several of the most beautiful country homes. In Santa Ynez | valley, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were en- tertained by C. P. Robinson and also at | the Hacienda of Learnado de la Questa, one of the oldest Castilian families, | whose hospitality is, of its kind, so rare as to seem like that of legendary nature. From the haclenda El, Essolle, the Plerce ranch was visited, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell receiving most delightful en- tertainment. They proceeded to Santa Barbara, where hospitality was again lavish. The completion of this itinerary clos- ed a vacation that proved ideal, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell recalling happlily a trip filled with original features. CERE Miss Leslle Greén was the guest of honor yesterday at a small affair given by Mirs. Leon J. Richardson at her home in Berkeley. . . . Dr. George Loius Painter will be hest on an automobile tour starting this week for Lower California and Mexico. Among his guests will be Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Kellogg and Miss Rose O'Rourke of Oak- land. e e - Miss Susan B. Anthony, who arrived in town Tuesday evening, was given an ovation at the home of Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent, where a large delegation from the suffrage “board met Miss Anthony, overwhelming her with flowers. Miss Anthony, with her sister, Miss Mary Anthony; Mrs. Bertha Marguerite Rice of San Jose and Mrs. Gross are house guests of Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent, who is the honorary president of the State Equal Suffrage Board. gy iy Christian de Guigne with Vicompte and Vicomptess de Tristan of Paris are visit- ors at Del Monte. Miss Eva Withrow has been spending a fortnight at San Jose. . . Theodore Wores is spending a pleasant holiday at Hotel Potter, Sunta Barbara. . . - Mr. and Mrs. Alexander T. Stewart are | among the week's visitors at the Ven- | dome. Others are Knox Maddox and E. ‘W. Runyon. - - Those who are spending the week at the Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Crus, inciude Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Cluness Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Hill, Dr. and Mrs. Frank E. Rodolph, Charles Webb How- ard and'A W. Foster Jr. . . . Miss Luddington, who has been the guest of Mrs. Kittle in Ross Valley for | some months, will leave for her Eastern home in the early part of <August. —_—— ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CUSTOM-HOUSE—A. S, City. The | United States Custom-house in San Fran- | cisco 1s under the control of the United States Treasury Departmeént. CREUX-A. 8, Ci Creux is French, and means hollow. In sculpture it means engraved or sculptured by excavation or hollowing out—the reverse of relief. EXAMINATION—E. E. G., Lodi, Cal When there is to be an examination un- { der civil service rules for stemographers for the, Philippine Islands the same will be “announced in the local news depart- imenl of The Call SURVEYING—A. R, City. A person Q@esiring to enter the fleld of practical surveying had better make application to some surveyor. One highly educated | would undoubtedly find such education of | benefit in surveyin; TWO ARMIES—G. F., City. The total !loss to the Union army from all causes , during the Civil War was 359,528. There have never been exact figures as to losses from all causes on the Confederate side but the estimate is that such aggregated 300,000./ The total loss in the French army { during the Franco-Prussian war is givea as 230,000 and in the German army, 38.- 257, killed and dled of wounds. Deaths | from other causes during the war are not mentioned in reports of that war. Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- | tistic fire-etched boxes. New store now | open, 767 Market street. e HE WAS WISE Mr. Smithson (in department store)—Have you any kind of & machine to sew on buttons? Floor Walker—Yes, sir; take the elevator. The matrimonial agency is on the third floor.