The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 18, 1905, Page 8

ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO McNAUGHT. .... THE NEW PLAN OF TAXATION. HE commission provided by the last Legislature has entered system 1d industriously upon the work of providing a | new and reformed revenue law for California. The commission | nsists of Senators Ward and Curtin, and Assemblymen Treadwell d McCartney, with Professor Plehy of the State University as e expert member. The commission has already trimmed the situation down to its | lan is substantially that reported by the State ! It | cssentials I't Grange, and heretofore explained and supported by The Call. parates the objects of taxation for State revenue entirely from ose subjected to local taxation. This saves the (‘xp(‘nsc.of the ard of Equalization and, incidentally, the considerable expense of | ties and counties in pleading before that body against a raise in heir assessment to meet the needs of the State government. The | State tax under the plan proposed will-be raised from railroad and t corporations, including banks, and by a liquor license. These be exempt from local taxation. > method of putting the railroad tax will cause some diffi- ilty. On ome hand it is proposed that it shall be a percentage on e gross income of the roads. This will be a complication, since it must be only on the gross income of the traffic within the State. . We are not aware that the railroads at present segregate their income on local traffic from that earned on their through business. FEven if re ‘will always be disputes about the correctness of the lisputes occurred over the enforcement of the Thur- provade 2 sinking fund to pay the debt of the Central Pacific to the Federal Government. The made 1 p gs for the political demagogues and railroad busters, from the Pacific to the Missouri River. for a remewal of injurious blatherskiting, which never e people any good, but hinders a better adjustment of ‘their to transportation. At the first look, then, it seems to us »le to base the tax on income gross or net. But it is a issue cause vear good reasons for abandoning this judgment. About the taxation of the visible, tangible, physical property of rajlroads, that y stable and not subject to fluctuation, there would seem to be less difficulty and more certainty. State.license of liquor selling is desirable. It would solve problems which agitate so many communities, but its ent is by no means easy. Cities and counties will want to know how far it deprives them of the power to regulate the num- ber of saloons, or to prohibit them entirely. Sutter County, for ex- ample, re cense any saloons at all. Under the proposed plan will the te have the power to locate and*license saloons in tha or any other county that does not want them? This difficulty is not insaperab "he option may be deposited with cities and counties to reg »ons they will permit, conditioned upen ther license. legitimate objects of taxation and of o matter how highly they are taxed their not seem to be affected. But the State, in search n override the preferences of localities as to ion of liquor selling. As the tax is by means of a license, ect saloons to both State and local k- v are bjected to Federal and municipal license at ne. As far as the banks are concerned it will no doubt reeable them to deal directly withthe State than with’ micig As they will be dealing directly with it will doubtless be found that they will bear a more of the public burden than at present. I'he commission has applied its proposed plan to some of the y that instead of increasing their burden by segre- axation they will gain. In its report to the ure the commission should make this application of its proposed plan to every county in the State, to the end that the people may know exactly where they wyill stand. This is very necessary ar endment to the constitution will be.necessary, and the remains fairl 1ses to bt e bt St ate ytics on by taxation. ot safely feasible es. objects ¢ i1 because peopl intelligently. The commission may well include exemptions in the same amendment. The burden of municipal taxation, without representa- tion of benefit, upon American shipping owned within the State is unjust and bears hard upon several industries. Foreign bottoms and those under our flag owned outside the State do not pay this municipal tax and therefore it works to discourage the owning of ships here. This is an unjust restraint upon California enterprise, that we are sure the people will' cancel when they #hderstand its importance to our productive and commercial interests, While we are about it, it will be well to make a clean up of all these questions, simplify our revenue system and remove unjust and unrequited taxation that is a restraint upon trade and enterprise. ‘ is a process which Jacob H. Schiff, speaking at the annual meeting of the Educational Alliance in New York, said would result in making the greatest Jew that ever existed—the American Jewt !t may be remarked that this is right in line with the opinions of Luther Burbank as to the power of crossing of races in America THE AMERICAN JEW. ROSSING among the various classes of Jews in this country to produce the finest human stock—almost the superman, it seems.§ Schiff was talking about the terrible persecutions and massacres of Jews in Russia, and predicted it would mean an immense migration to this country on the part of the race to which the Russians are so unfriendly. He said we should keep our doors wide open in wel- come to them, and gave as one reason for it this expected high de- velopment of the Jew under the untrammeled freedom of American institutions and the mingling here of the bloods of the five or six principal Jewish races. It will be remembered that the Jews are very soon to have a great national celebration of the anniversary of their arrival in this eountry and reception of citizenship. One of the objects of that celebration is to make more generally known, by reiteration in speech and literature, the importance and good standing of ]ewish‘\ citizenship in our great composite of many races and religions. Among the books of the special series sent out by the Jewish Publi- cation Society of America is one called “Jews and Judaism in the Nineteenth Century,” by Gustav Karpeles; translated from the Ger- man. It is a resume of many big subjects in relation to the Jews. It tells of the birth'and growth of anti-Semitism on the Continent; of the essence of the Zionist movement; of the effects of Napoleon’s great Jewish Sanhedrim; of the Jews in America, of the seemingly marvelous preservation of Jewish characteristics through the cen- turies; and above all, of course, the highest mission of the Jews, the thing that is pre-eminently their world-work—the leavening of all peoples with the elements of the loftiest ideals in religion. “Heat, O Israel, therelis one God.” “In thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” Karpeles states that Israel is still what it always was, a religions brotherhood. “Herein lies its peculiarity, its individuality.” From remote antiquity it conceived its task to be to bring salvation unto the ends of the earth. It is on that truth Karpeles bases his strong objection to Zionism. He' says that were Judaism to revive the national sentiment in its adherents it would commit suicide. “The lowest stage of a religious development is the primitive stage of a national religion, the highest the stage of a world religion. * * * Zionism would have us return to the primitive stage of a natiohal religion.” : It is proposed to make the retail liquor license in Washington $10,000, And Congressmen’s salaries are only $5000.—Kansas City Journal. X California does not want to pro- | at has two sides, and when the obverse is disclosed there | e will want all the enlightenment they can get in order to vote | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 with that plant? | l Where Continued Ignorance Would Have Been Bliss. | MOTHER—Whatever have you children been doing THE FIRST-BORN—Uncle satd it was an indiarubber plant, and we tried to make it bounce. —THE SKETCH. [Private H | Wken a fashionable man or woman goes into a private hospital of the present day type it does not mean that they must put the things of their own world behind | them. There is little of the ordinary sim- plicity of furnishing that one associates | with the word hospital in these Instftu- | tions, nor is there a prevalence of white walls and the odor of iodoform. Nor do the doctors and house surgeons dress in the uniforms or the ordinary garb of the |average interme, says the New York Press. | A first visit to one of the best known | private hospitals in this ciy must nec- essarily be something In the nature of a shock to one who only knows the big public institutions of this kind. In place of wide, empty, sun-lighted halis, with | hardwood floors,the visitor will see such |a dimly lighted interior as he might ex- pect to find in a smart dwelling house. There are costly rugs gn the floor, hand- some grilles and silken portieres in the | doorways. The reception room is also | furnished with beautiful rugs, attractive | easy chairs and tables on which is a lit- ter of beautifully bound books of all sorts, to say nothing of a profusion of the latest novels. | No dog-eared back numbers of cheap | magazines or uninteresting technical monthlies are in sight. Waiting is made as agreeable as possible, so far as'the eye |1s concerned, by the harmonious hang- ings on the walls and the rare bits of porcelain and pottery that are placed | about on convenient shelves and recesses. | Across the hall from the reception room | the visitor may catch a glimpse of the | dinng-room of the staff of house sur- geons—a perfect gem of an apartment { from the masculine point of view. In- | deed, it is that characteristic touch of the man in all these decorations that | somehow gives to these interlors a savor | = ospitals of the Present Day — of being a stage setting. It is such an in- terior as you might see at the Empire Theater during the run of a modern say ciety play. A further comforting touch of the cor- rect soclal atmosphere {s furnished to smart inmates of this hospital by the head house surgegn, who' invariably makes his round of calls after 6 o'clock in evening dress. He dogs not shirk his re- sponsibilities. in this line by slipping into a dinner jacket. He'goes to the extreme of a white waistcoat with his claw ham- mer, and as he is a degidedly handsome man the whole effect. of his presence is | extremely soothing to his feminine pa- | tients. Of course, all these things get into the | patient’s bills, though they are not item- |ized. A young New York woman who had to go to this private hospital for five weeks receiyed a bill for that time of $546 35. When she got it she looked it over and remarked: “The $i46 is bad enough, but that 35 cents is positively cruel.” - COINCIDENGE OF SECOND:. “King Edward, it has been ascertained, was crowned at the second second of the second minute of the second hour of the second day of the second week of the second month of the second half of the second year of the twentieth century.— Kansas City Journal. SWINDLED. “Thought you said that auto you sold me was a twenty harsepower?” “So 1t is."” “Well, it isn't; the first horse I ran over put it out of business.”—Houston Post. Hix—I bought a pair of $ shoes yesterday, wore them ta the aut ile races, and when 1 got home they were completely Tuined. " - Dix—Whenever you go to the races you ghould at least hold DIDN'T PROPOSE. Edith—That men I introduced you to last mnight is a big gun. Ethel—Well, he isn't a pop-gun. - A_ MISUNDERSTANDING. “I guess -that fellow ~fs color- hat mi you think so?": that:-I would like to position. in black and white, and he showed me a blue- print. ¢ ; 1905. OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS BY A. J. WATERHOUSE 15 JUPITER AND THE PEASANT. NCE upon a time there was a cer- O tain peasant who besought Ju- piter with piteous pleadings and moanings and beating of the breast. At last Juno observed the solicitude of the poor mortal. and called Jupiter's | attention unto him, for she was get- ting tired of her lord's transparent flir- tation with Venus. “Well, what is it?” Jupiter inquired of the peasant, at the same time blithe- Iy chucking Venus under the chin. . “Oh, Jove, great Jove,” the peasant responded, “the ground is a-thirst, its | milllen lips are parched and my crops tare dying for want of moisture. Let !thu abundant and beneficent rains fall : upen the earth, 1 pray thee!" “Say," Jupiter remarked, with a hu- morous, sidelong glance at Venus, “who in thunder do you think is run- ning this Weather Department, any- way?’ { "I know not, great Jove,” the poor E peasant responded, “but I would hambly | suggest that it appears to be running it | seus, and making a mighty poor job of | it. Would that I might lave the run- ning of the department for a few weeKs—several changes would be no- ticed.” = “Audacious mortal!” Jupiter replied —while, on hearing the tone in which | he spoke, Juno went into the Olympian kitchen, while Venus hastened to put | on her bonnet preparatory to going— | “audacious mortal, have, then, thy wish, {and I wish thee joy of it!” Se the poor peasant departed, and | hastened to infofm all his neighbors | that he now was at the head of the | Weather Department, wher=at his neighbors first comgratulated him and then hastened to suy to one another that it beat the deuee how such a crit- | ter as he could get such a position, for they were of the same mortal brand as the rest of us. Then the poor peasant ordered some rain, and it came. He rather overdid it at Tirst, being new at the business, but he did fairly well, all things con- sidered. The next day the trouble began. The poor peasant’s nearest neighbor | called, and sald to him, “You leather- headed Siwash, you ordered rain when my hay was down, and now it has all been spoyjed.” Then did the nearest mneighbor of the poor peasant fall upon him and beat him full sore. Then did a delegation call upen him, | and its members said to him, “You in- cipient vermiform appendix, you or- dered rain when the Immemorial Order | of Cachinnatory Chumps was having a | plcnic, and as a consequence our sum- mer clothing is soaked and ruined.” nd when the delegation got dbne with he poor peasant barely enough of. him was left to emit moans. After that 894 people called to re-| monstrate with the poor peasant, and it took three docters eight weeks to| heal his wounds. When the poor peasant had partly re- coveréd he crawled to the altar erect- ‘ed ‘unto Jupiter, and agaln addressed him. “Great Jove,” he pleaded, “will you kindly run. the Weather Department yourself? If you will not,” he—vontin- ued, “it will have to run itself, for I will be dummed if T will!” Then the poor peasant notified his neighbors that he had resigned his office, and peace again dwelt in his bosom. | Moral—It is a mighty good thing that the weather is run by no human belng—particularly for the human be- ing. — TALE OF THE HEROIC MAN. There was a man, a gallant man, A brave, heroic, valiant wight, Who never shrank and never ran (Tl here remark I know I'm right, For he himself admitted it. Sald though the world was danger- rife, He feared its perils not a bit: He sald all this—unto his wife.) .| This brave, heroic, valiant cuss | One day discerned his tooth did ache, | And, oh, he made an awful fuss, And moaned and groaned your heart to break: And when a dentist leave did crave To look at it. he sald: “Ouch! Oh! Oh dear! Ch my!" (But he was brave— He oft admitted it, you know.) | I'm writing this brief paean here, My praise to give unto the chap | ‘Who never knew the ghost of fear | At any danger or mishap. (But still 1 sometimes wonder much— And haply vou can tell me why— He groaned at eé’en the dentist's touch, And wildly shrieked, “Ouch! Oh!| on my!") | “Do you belleve that perpetual | motion is attainable?” “Well, did you ever notice my Hen- rietta‘'s tongue?”’ a religious man, is he not?” ; I've heard him say so.” “Have you any cause to doubt it?™ “No, I guess not; but I've noticed that he never allows his religion to warp his business any.” “He is “y, It's wiser far to be ourselves than some | man’s looking-glass: ‘We'd better be our little best than be turned out to grass, For- heré's a fact we all might con, to help our mixed estate: We'd better be a Here-you-are than a Has-been out of date. Never mind what your neighbor thinks it is your duty to do. You will find it is no soft snap to attend to your duty as you see it. ALFALFA PHILOSOPHY. Don’t try to make a lawyer of your boy ef he wus meant fer a farmer. I never Seen a settin' hen that wus wuth a dern fer layin'. One thing’s ’bout all most men’ll do. W'en I sge a feller 'at's a good hand at chawin’ terbacco I don't 'spect much else of him. Fve noticed 'at a girl 'at’s brought up fer nothin' but marriage frequently ain’t wuth a dum at that. I've knowed girls 'at wus mighty home- ly at firs’ sight 'at seemed 'bout es han'- some creechers es I ever saw on better 'quaintance, ¥ Likewlise, I've saw girls 'at wus middlin’ fascinatin’ till I'd had sev'ral ;looks at ‘em. Don't be too sure of your importance. A rooster has the same idee, but they's things ‘ll this world that's more vallyble, — “Did she reject you?” “Well, not directly; but I don't feel much hope.” “What did she say when you pro- posed to her?” “She said, ‘Great heavens! What have I done? " ~ Time toexpress Townsend's Cal. Glace Fruits East for Thanksgiving. 767 Mkt.* ——— ‘a truts Spectal information supplied daily to busizess hou and pubjlc men by ihe Hroveia .&"-flim» Shin 1048 . In the churchyard of Grimston, Norfolk, an anvil may be seen at the head of the grave of a local bla | Sunday afternoon, November 25; Wednes- | | The Call from the Napa and Sonoma’ |ist daes mot hesitate to jeopardize the Mrs. Mark Gerstle entertained an III-' teresting gathering at her home last even- | ing, for the preparation of a magnificent | production of “The Merchant of Venice.” This event is to be under the direction of Richard Hotaling for the benefit of the Doctor's Daughters and presumably will be produced at the Majestic. i The amateur histrionic talent of San ! Francisco is well known, but this pres- entation will undoubtedly be the flnest‘ ever given, no pains being spared for an elaborate affair. Mr. Hotaling will impersonate Shylock; Mrs. Gerstle, Jessica; Miss Hilda Clough, | Portia; the character of Nerissa yet to| be apportioned. The play is dated for the last part of Pec:mbtr The opening of the argists’ exhibit at Sequeia Club will take place next Thurs- day evening in the club rooms and a de- lightful reception will be held for the| members and gueésts, those in the receiv- ing party to be Mrs. Albert Gerberding. Mrs. Fremont Older, Mrs. Louis H.| ng, Mrs. Florence Porter Pfingst, Mrs. James Coker Sims, Mrs. L. Eugene Lee, Mrs. R. V. Whiting, Mrs. Gertrude Nor- ris, Mrs. J. C. Mersfelder, Mrs. Laura Bride Powers, Miss Valesca Schorcht and Miss Griswold. The club’s artist members will preshnt paintings and craftsman work to be on view Saturday afternoon, November 25; day afternoon and evening, November 29, | {and Sunday afternoon, December 3. The musical programme of last Thurs- day evening is still meeting with pralse, the numbers by Miss Schorcht, violinist; Miss Elizabeth Ames, 'cellist, and Mrs. Anderson Maxwe]l, pianist, being of ex- ceptional artistic value, embracing works of Elgar, Widor and Gotterman. S Lieutenant Corbiisier, on the Buford next Tuesday. He will then go with his regi- ment, the Fourteenth Cavalry, to Mon- terey to be stationed for three years. o P Miss Edna Montgomery will be one of to-morrow's tea hostesses in homor of Miss Lizabeth Painter. Miss Amelia D. Smith was the recipient of much attentlon at a tea yesterday given by her cousin, Miss Florence Smith, at her Vallejo-street home. Amid a pretty setting of chrysanthe- mums and greens, the flitting to and fro of guests made a charming picture, the callers passing a happy afternconm with the young hostess and her guest. In the recelving party were Mrs. BEd- ward Clarence Smith, Mrs. Grayson Dut- ton, Mrs. Donald R. Smith, Mrs. Chester Smith, Mrs. Thomas Benton Darragh, Mrs. Edward Houghton, Miss Katherine Powers, Miss Gertrude Palmer, Miss Rawles, Miss de Noon, Mss Maud Woods and Miss Lottie Woods. Mrs, Samuel Mountford Wilson enter- tatned a score of guests at bridge yes- terday afternoon in her apartments at the Nordhoff. Miss Edna Davis entertained a small number of friends yesterday at her par- ents’ home, Pacific avenue and Scott street, in honer of Miss Marguerite Bar- ron, who recently made her debut. As- sisting Miss Davis in receiving were Miss Barron, Miss Janet Coleman, Miss Ber- nice Wilson, Miss Sara Cunningham, Miss Helen Thomas, Miss Margaret Hyde- Smith, Miss Alice Sullivan and Miss Sid- ney Davis. &5 L0 i Mrs. C. F. Andrews and Miss Edith Henriel entertained informally at & tea yesterday at Fort Masom. The wedding of Miss Elise Gregory andr Miss Ruth Clarke, who will become the Dr. Richardson-of the Marine Hospital Corps at Angel Island will take place the | last week in January. 1 Mrs, Gaillard Stoney entertained yester- day ot an informal reception in henor of Mrs. Philip W, Corbusier, who will be in town until the arrival of her husband, - bride of Frank Southack on November 29, was the gvest of honmer at a large card party given in Oakland yesterday by Miss Mabel Reed. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Scott will sail for Tahiti on the Mariposa, leaving this port the 22d. g e WIRE MEN DENY ADULTERATION. ! ANSWERS TO QUERIES. The following open. letter to the Health | MARSEILLAISE—I. S, Camanche, Officer of this city has been received by Wine Company: Dr. D. F. Ragan, Health Officer, City of San Francisco— | Dear Sir: In the seventh report made | by your City Chemist on dry wines as/| on file in your office and as partly pub- | lished in this morning's paper, it is| stated that one of our wines, No. 73| Sauterne, contains an excess of sulphuric | acid, total amount of 364 m. g. per liter. | Report pertaining to this item reads, ' “Of the samples examined nine were found to be preserved with salicylic acid, | two Wiwi benzolc ac.., and two with gn excessive amount of sulphites.” | A casual reader of this sentence must | be led to the conclusion that the sul- phuric acid contained in the wine has| been added to the same with the same purpose as the other ingredients, such| as salicylic acid and benzoic acid men-| tioned above, while as a matter of fact | the existence of sulphuric acid cannot| be prevented, having been created in the | wine in course of handling and aging | the same. The standard for the quantity of sul- phuric acid permissible in wine as es- tablished by the French Government is 85 m. g. per liter and in some wine as high as 40 m. & per liter. It should | stand to reason that in a country where the wine industry has been existing for| the last thousand years the Government Knows its business thoroughly in connec- tion with exercising the proper sanitary | control over the same. But your chem-| reputation of a firm known for the purity of its output by allowing Its name to ap- pear in print as handling an article al- leged adulterated on account of the ex- istence of a necessary ingredient in the wine less in quantity than other Govern- ments have permitted to be found in the wines of their country. The blueprint report on file in the an- alysis shown thereon under no heading shows a statement as to the percentage Cal. La Marseillaise is pronounced as if written la mar se yaz. It means the hymn of the people of Marseilles. OPEN SEASON—A. A. 8., Oakland. Cal. In California the open season for game and fish is shorter in some counties than under the State law, but it cannot be longer than under that law. For information on the subjeet relative to the several coun- ties, send a letter of inquiry to the Coun- ty Clerk or the District Attorney of the particular county about which such in- formation is desired. J IN SAN FRANCISCO—A. O. 8., City. Those places that are designated as suburbs-and named “Sunnyside,” “Rich- mond” “Carville,”” etc, are in . the city and county eof San Francisco, Everything from the water front on the east to the ocean front on the west and from the water front on the morth to the county line on the south, which is the north line of San Mateo County, is in San Francisco. By the comsolida- tion act of many years ago, the entire county was made part of the city. 4 < of this constituent of the wine, nor does the same appear in the last column, which is headed “Coloring matter and preser- vatives.” Still in his letter to you he clearly ex- presses that the sulphuric acid in the wine comes under the heading of preser- vatives and which accordingly would be contrary to law. In justice to ourseilves and knowing full well that we are to be given fair treat- ment by your board, I request from your good self a thorough imvestigation and, if the standpoint we have taken is dorrect, a refutation of the charges as they appear in your chemist's report. Yours respeettully, NAPA & SONOMA WINE CO.. L. Jockers, Manager. City. November 17. s HOUSE GOWN IN OMEWHAT elaborate Interpretations of the shirt-waist style are popular this season for house dresses. They are naturally in the the semi-weight fabrics. Such a one s illus- trated in cream white mohair, the skirt of the new circular cut with three tiny box pleats forming a front panel, these stitched down flat quite to the knee. The waist Is of the easy blouse order, with the bib-shaped chemisette of fine net outline, with an embroidered band, the edges of which are of brown velvet ribbon. The embroidery is the work of the fair wearer and sh pinks and greenms, a charming contrast with- the brown velvet. The same embroidery and velvet finish over the full sleeves, and the elbo The deep feather-bone girdle is of panne velvet. light shades and MIRRQR OF DAME FASHION. I CREAM MOHAIR. s a fine pompadour rose In the cape-like collar that droops euffs are likewise embroidered.