The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1905, Page 24

THE SA FRANCiSCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 190: — THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL . Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS.....cco0000 **vvocssrscccsscscnccossn, ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT.. Manager THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO _..DECEMBER 10, 1005 DN OFFIC 1sed by the United Railroads under a .permit, it 1ld be understood that San Francisco opposes the over- Market street is now comparatively free of over- he' people look forward to the time when all electric purpose, will be put underground. To permit will simply delay that desirable consummation. \M HETHER a new franchise is required or an-overhead trolley » be more numerous than in any other use of ies ve t I guy wires and conductors form a network over stre I are not only liable but sure to occur, ¢ ng in the street and sending currents over other estroy insulation and cause fires, that are more difficult e of the net of wires that is responsible for necessity as a motor and a means of tele- telegraph communication, but the people pay generously are entitled to its enjoyment under conditions that ce the streets nor render them unsafe. for the representatives of the United Railroads to de- he overhead system is the best for San Francisco. They t thz ch system is the best for the corporation they ibt true. It is the best in that sense be- xpensive than the underground trolley. It can be eaper. But it is for the people and their repre e what is best for the city. A vast majority be ige and not on assumption, by guesswork or rule mderground system is the best for the city. llation, but after it is installed the difference convenience and safety, favors it rather than the unc rights with- It is a mis- Francisco stand by their owh United Railroads in any way. the underground wires from a wish yads. While there is great room for and accommodations, it is undeniable that n has been vastly improved since it fell 1 nagement, and is run by a system es quick and cheap travel between all parts lack of appreciation of what has been done, ne harping over bygone events, there is no the company. can less afford to change this condition than 1ge is risked by insistence upon the overhead 1 should weigh wisely and deliberately what sition of the people implies. It means far 1 cost between the two systems. This is 3 conclusion drawn from the experience of d States that has been the scene of such an <ely to be precipitated here. s may read a useful lesson in the policy 1d systems of the Union. They, too, are mit to a suspension of dividends to devote nts that give the public a better service. sire rC nge in the disp erence 1S i y improved their physical condition, have rves, lowered grades, substituted earthen stles, have put stone-arch bridges in place of e by molecular change, and have begun crossings. These things have been done vol- have not waited to be forced to it by con- s and convenience. They have seen that one with the public they serve. part of wisdom for the United Railroads to profit t that corporation get in line with the aspiration stay on good terms with San Francisco by giving € 1 isfaction for the rights and privileges they have ipon it. Above 2ll, able men as they are should not utter y 1id fill their bellies with the east wind, as they that there are impassable physical obstacles to 1 in the geology and topography of San , Sutter, Sacramento, Market, California street their lines are now operated by cable. It is an svstem. Wherever it can be installed an un- as easy. Of this there is no doubt. Its opera- mical. There is no sorcery required to yund trolley wherever there is an underground cable. s that it desires to standardize its system, on gauge, curvature and motor. The under- ndardize it. Therefore let us have peace, by s accommodating its policy to the wishes of people, and to the best interests of San Francisco, for it will i itted to do anything else. syste 1d as eco PROGRESSIVE SAN JOSE. AN JOSE is the beautiful center of a beautiful and fertile re- It has become one of the show towns and resorts of the Near on one hand it has Stanford University, and on ount Hamilton Observatory. Not far away is the State ark and mearer the great orchards and seed farms that ta Clara County famous. Jose now appreciates the fact that she must live up to her so proposes a bond issue for parks, sewers and school hey are all good. In Alum Rock Park, which is to be im- t city has a scenic asset that is worth millions to her fu- re. Itis proposed to spend on it $100,000 for baths, beautiful stone bridges and roads and paths. That expenditure will be worth five times its cost. The sewer system of the city and its school buildings are to be benefited by the same issue. In all this San Jose is wise in time. She sees her opportunity invites it in. Being now upon an overland line that city gets chop at travel, and does not have to wait for other places to ick and choice. lifornia city, to be up to date and to fulfill the expectations of visitors, must not be content to show its trade balance only, and its tributery acres of orchard and yineyard. San Jose can show all these things and justly claim that in her materialities she far ex- ceeds any Eastern city of like population. Her fame-: as the capital of the widely known Santa Clara Valley has gone far abroad. It attracts enterprise and investment. But men do not live by bread alone, and when they come to California they expect sofncthing more. They want to see an expression of our climatic asset in some- thing besides fields and orchards. They will gét it in the future in ose if her people are wise. They will see there a. beautiful e year round park, in which nature has been assisted by art, t blooms in January and July alike. They will find a city that in its streets, public buildings, sanitation and scenery rises high above Eastern towns of many times its population. There is wealth and wisdom in the proposed policy of San Jose, d we are sure that her enterprising and appreciative people "will to their opportunity and enter into the estate which nature in- SUCCESS IN REFORMING BOYS. _— i tends shall be theirs. UILT upon the good foundation of the Children’s Court, and B carrving further the work by it begun for the reformation of boys, a new system of religious aid to the erring has been carried to remarkable success in greater New York. It is reported by Frances Maule in The Outlook, and the plan was put into prac- m is the most objectionable of all overhead wiring. | ives of that corporation to assume that the | the Pennsylvania and the New York| _— STILL, SE | | | { | | ARCHING. c [ | i ! DIOGENES—I'm beginning to have grave doubts as to the existence of this | | LIFE INSURANCE A. D. 1935 | % 113 ing me with eleven children. Later in life I married a widow with seven children. Of course, all pf these eighteen children had to have positions.” “Certainly.” “Several of these children have married and are raising large familles. All of them must have positions—that 1s, all the youngsters now growing.” “I understand.” “Glad you do. Well, my granddaughter, Bessle, is the sweetest, most generous girl you ever heard of. She has recently adopted an orphan asylum.’” “How noble!"” i “Precisely. There are orphans in the asylum. Bessie does not wish them to be a tax upon the community, or upon her private purse. Hence I am going tq give them clerkships in the company.” “This is sublime of you, sir.” “I know It. But this accounts for the large premiums we require. Are you sat- OU say you wish to take out a $5000 pollcy in our company?”’ smiled the president of the Pre- | vential and Nepotie, as the solid-looking visitor sat down in the big Morris chair. ‘ “Yes? Well, you couldn’t do better.” “I have been told,” said the visitor, tentatively, “that your company Is as strong as—as—" ““As a wind blowing off the stock yards on an August day,” gurgled the jovial president, “My boy, you have come to the right office. We can do you good.” “What will it cost me for a $5000 policy?” “Well, that is a minor consideration. Your first duty is to our families—pardon me, I mean your family. A $5000 policy wil cost you $2500 down, and premiums of $13% per annuin.” “‘So much as that? Why such heavy ex- | penses?” tsfled?” “Well, my friend, Tl outline it all to| . Perfeotly. But—will there be any other expenses?’ you and satisfy your doubting mind most thoroughly.” “All right. Proceed.” ““You know, of course, that a great com- pany like the Prevential and Nepotic must have its officers.” “Naturally.” “Well, to begin with, there's the presi- | dent. That’s myseilf. Then there are three | vice presidents. Six assistant vice presi- ““Well—er—nothing of any consequence. My little grandson, Tommy, wants a con- servatory full of orchids. Each policy will be taxed 58 cents on the dollar to cover the expenditure, and the-orchid gar- dener will be made a fourth assistant di- rector. Quite satisfactory?’ “Entirely, sir. Here's my wallet. Would you mind giving me back the string dents. A treasurer. A secretary. Two |It's tled with?” 5 assistants to each of these officials. The| “T would, but I need it to tie up a bup- directors number twenty-three. Minor | dle of money I'm just shipping to my grandson Jimmy's second cousin's aunt’s coachman. Thanksgiving. is near, you know. Well, good day.” “Good day, sir. I'll have some more money next year, and will bring it in."” “I will be perfectly frank with you. I| “All right. Always glad to hear it. Au married quite young. My wife died, leav- | revoir.”—Chicago Journal. | * - > — tice by the Men’s Club of the Central Presbyterian Church. An ef- fort is being made to extend the good results attained by forming a chain of men’s clubs recruited from every Protestant church in the city; and this plan connects itself with the greater task that is now being undertaken of the unification of all the Protestant | churches for work among the young people discharged from the | Children’s Court. | The paper is an evidence that the Protestants have learned a | lesson in the power of unity from the work on these lines by the | Jewish and the Catholic communities., These religious organiza- | tions, through their associated charities, keep track of the children | placed under probation. The name and address of every child con- | victed of a delinquency is sent to priest or rabbi, and although | these men are overcrowded with the work, they have managed “to tide many a boy over the critical moment when his natural tendency was to react violently from discipline * * * and relapse into ‘the evil ways that first brought him into court.” Protestants being divided into a hundred sects found it hard to work together and to fix the responsibility for any particular child. The enthusiastic young minister who interviewed fifty Protestant pastors and scores of Protestant laymen in the interest of this work was informed of the above difficulty. “Very well, then,” he said; “if it is necessary |to unify the churches to do this work, we will unify them.” The method of the men’s club plan is that the leader of each branch assigns an individual member to look after each boy whose name he receives. This provides a man for each boy, and gives to each corrected youth a special friend and adviser to help him | stay permanently corrected. The tactful method of approach that is advocated is to try to really be accepted by the boy as a friend— not so much to lecture, preach and reproach, as to be a good friend and comrade, and to give the boy the benefit of the man’s wider knowledge and experience. The parent society made a remarkable officials will foot up fifty-seven. Salaries, of course, vary from $260,000, for me, down to $74 45 for the scrubwomen.’” “I can understand ‘all that, but does that require so much money?” boys befriended by the members of the club, only two fell into the become good citizens. It is not wholly improbable’ that the merciful wisdom of the Children’s Court and the personal friend- ly attention of the members of the men’s clubs the relative propor- tions of these figures might have been reversed. j The new King of Norway will get $200,000 a year. He can now afford to hire Chauncey Depew as his court jester.—Denver Republican. Tt must puzzle many clear-headed citizens to aceount for the astonish- ingly bad appointments that can come from an astonishingly good national administration.—New York Press. St . ——— A howl comes up ‘froym Maine on the discovery. that its prohibition rum is watered, which is the worst blow of all dt the meral yearnings of the community.—Brooklyn Unioo i record by this system of cordial comradeship.” Out of seventy-five | hands of the court the second time. The other seventy-three have ! but iorl honest man. e —PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. | Our World Is What We Make It | BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. | NE little song, if never more, For those who borrow trouble, Who €'er to-day's mishaps deplore, And see to-morrow’s double; For here’s a faith that still is mine, And not a woe shall shake it, If we are glad, or we repine, Qur world is what we make it. I've seen the podr who walked in light, The rich who knew no pleasure; I’ve seen gray Worry work his blight, And Gladness yield his treasure; And still my simple creed doth stand, And naught shall serve to break it ; The wires we pull are in our hand— Our world is what we make it. Some people in time grow almost famous for hearing of things that never happened. 4 The women pay too much attention in their meetings to the evil in a men's club, and not enough to the private mmail box. ‘When a girl uses the word “kid,” in referring to a girl of her own age or a young man, she ought to be taken home and locked up. A woman can't be said to be really old-fashioned unless she has a lot of remedies lying around which are good for something you haven't got. An Atchison woman who never travels and never expects to, recently bought a book of a book agent, entitled, “How to Behave When on a Sleeping Car.” When a wedding is described as ‘“‘simple,” it means there were at least six people in the parade, and that there was an orchestra and a detective to guard the presents. If a woman pulls her husband's hair, yanks him around by the neck and beats him every day before breakfast, there are still those among her kin who will say she is a “worm.” . It is & good idea to train all the children in the way of going to Sunday school every Sunday afternoon. It gives their father.an undisturbed opportun- ity for taking a nap. . —_— Tt is said of a preacher in Coolidge that he devotes one sermon a week to the wickedness at the French ball, though there isn’t a person in Coolidge who ever attended one, or who would be willing to stay up as late as 10 at night walting for anything to begin.—Atchison (Kans.) Globe. e _ Answers to Queries. —_—- DE VRIES—G. F. P, City. Marion separate from its solution, and float on de Vries of Stockton, Cal., was ap- |the surface, from which it is removed ! pointed a member of the United States | and put on a cotton cloth to drain. It is Board of General Appraisers at a sal-|then dried under pressure, and looks ary of $7000 a year. His office is at 641 | lik» tough pieces of parchment. It is ‘Washington street, New York City. ‘kept in this dry form, or may be dissolved in sugar of milk or In acidulated water for medical purposes. DESTROYED BY SILENCE — Sub- scriber, City. An old Latin poem alludes to Amyclae, the town which ‘“perished by sllence,” and the legend concerning it is given in Greek mythology as follows: Amyclae was an anclent town in Laconia, STOCKING STREAMS—A Subscriber, | Daunt, Cal. For information relative to the stocking of streams in Cali- fornia with fish address a letter of in- quiry to the California Fish Commis- ston, San Francisco. AUTHOR WANTED—W. 8. C, Ala- Imeda, Cal. The books of reference Imake no mention of the following formed by the Lacedemonian King Amy- lines: | clae. It was an independent city for many vears, but was finally conquered by the Spartans. The legend runs that the city had been so often alarmed by false ru- mors of a projected Spartan invasion that at last, weary of living in a state of terror, the authorities decreed that it should be made a public offense to report .| the approach of an enemy. So when the Spartans at last appeared no one dared to warn the city officials of their ap- proach, and the enemy were able to take the town with scarcely an effort. There is, it must be admitted, another legendary Amyclae, which is said to have been founded by the emigrants from the Greek city. The “silence” myth concerning this is given by Servius. It is that the in- habitants were Pythagoreans, forbidden by the laws of their order to speak for five years, and for some unknown rea- son to ‘offer any violence to serpents. The resuit was that the “serpent snakes’ from the hills sought their friendship eagerly, and swarmed into the town in such numbers that the inhabitants were themselyes retire and their How soon we are forgotten ‘When we rest beneath the sod, ‘When our feet no longer wander ] O’er the paths we oft have trod. Can any of the readers of this de- partment furnish the name of the au- t{or for the correspondent? l PEPSIN—Subscriber, City. Pepsin is a | pecullar substance found in the gastric Jjuice which gives it the power of con- ! verting the albuminoid constituents of ! the food into soluble peptones. The pep- sin of medicine is prepared from the mucous membrane lining of the fresh and healthy stomachs of the pig, sheep or calf. Several processes of prepara- tions are used. The membrane is first gently washed in pure water, and is then macerated in wine, or in water, or in n'zlurhun acid. The acid solution may then treated with varlous reagents to obtain solid pepsin. By one process strong brine is added tw acidulal solution. The ‘action of salt ca the pepsin to S5d £ — Sunflower Philosophy. | 5 CERTRENC T ’i Some Advice | for Husbands || BY ANGELA MORGAN | - ¥ ! WIFE asks me to discuss that ever i A old, ever new, a > pked | vive the interest of a husband who has settled into that presaic state which herea of love. | means biight to the “My husband T | tical. deadening ° ht the car’ attitt which so many women find they must submit to after marriage, and which takes so much from the al ha iness and blessedne of life. Of course, he | thinks T am unreasonable to complain. He says the most substantial proof of love a man can offer his wife is to provide well for her. But I am not happy. He neglects so many of the little attentions— and ours is not the companionship I dreamed it would be.” | No doubt there are many pra ensible”” people who will disagree with sympathize heartily tical, me when I say I with the writer. I think it is the most natural thing in the world that a wife should resent the fact that her husband, because he Is “sure” of her love, fails take the trouble to keep It A great deal is sald about the nevcesslly of woman's making efforts to keep & man'’s love after she has won it. Quite as | many arguments might be advanced to show how great is the necessity of man's exerting himseif to keep alive the high | affection he has kindled In a woman's ‘ soul. to Unfortunately, man’s activities have compelled him to live so compietely the | objective life. the surface life t his | ideals—even his ideals of love—are ex- | ceedingly material as compared with wo- | man’s. Few men, if any, have the slightset | conception of the me suffering men endure as a result of man's failure of love’s spiritual to recognize the needs side. The average man takes the pu jective view of love ar ot ob- ern it is In bimself with the subj | the subjective a woman | nourishment. When o | merely on the material ed, finer wants are ign plant would suffer whose roots were lected. Love has a two-fold ‘environm physical and the spiritual. The ne the spiritual are quite as Iim > those of the physical. Woman is ¥ keenly consclous of this than man, when that side of her n life for her loses its magic. rative . bit- her w into the humdrum against 5 : terly fighting against the seeming inev- itable. 1 do not think any Wife should be ridt culed or rebuked for resenting an a ° on her husband’s part which implies in- difference to her finest, highest needs. The et eal, the magic is not too good for every day, and t s true im love perhaps mere t n hing else. Life, being two-fold, must partake of | two-fold nourishment to be complete 1 was asked to give advice to wives, | but am turning this article rather mnto a | talk to husbands. This is because I think | the remedy les more with the men than with the wome! Husbands, do n wives when they dema | real side of love have | The greatest mista | to expect a woman to be « with the “substantial practical pr love. Be willing to forget your sid | at the woman's side. You have small con- | ception of the terrible lack s . the higher, finer side of lov Don't ridicule. Don't t Help your wives to keep alive | and the beautiful in love the ideal As he went down the narrow staircase, covered with its dingy and threadbare | i | Lostin a London Fog. | i carpet, he found the house so full of | dirty yellow haze that he realized that | the fog must be of the extra ary ones which are remembered in after years as abnormal specimens of their kind. He re- | called that there had been one of the sort | three vears before, and that traffic and business had been almost entirely stopped by it, that accfdents had happened in the streets, and that people having lost their way had wandered about turning corners | until they found themselves far from intended destinations and obliged to take refuge in hotels or the houses of hospita- ble strangers. Curious imcidents had oc- curred and odd stories were told by those who had felt themselves obliged by eir- cumstances to go out Into the baffling gloom. He guessed that something of a like nature had fallen upon the town again. The gaslight on the landings and in the melancholy hall burned feebly—so feebly that one got but a vague view of the rickéty hatstand and the shabby over- coats and headgear banging upon it. It was well for him that he had but a cor- ner or so to turn before he reached the payshop in whose window he had seen the pistol he intended to buy. ‘When he opened the street door he saw that the fog was, upon the whole per- haps, even heavier and more obscuring. it possible, than the one so weil remem- bered. He could not see anything three feet before him, he could not see with distinctness anything two feet ahead. The sensation of stepping forward was certaln and mysterious enough to be most appalling. A man not sufficiently cautious might have fallen into any open hole in his path. Antony Dart kept as closely as possible to the sides of the houses. It would have been easy to walk off the pavement into the middle of the street but for the edges of the curb and the step downward from its level Trafic had almost absolutely ceased, though in the more important streets link-boys were making efforts to gulde men or four-wheelers slowly along. The blind feeling of the thing was rather awful.—From *“The Dawn ofa To-Mor- row,” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, in the December Scribner’ College Honors. «Dear father,” writes a college som, “I'm working day and night: Have taken the first place in Greek ‘And passed exams all right. Allowance seems a lttle small, Was pretty short last week.” The sire’s reply is brief and terse: wyou don't need cash for Greek." Again he writes: “Dear father, I ‘Am chosen in debate “Twixt Yale and Harvard, you can bet 1 feel 'tis something great. T'm hard up. would be much obliged 1t something down you'd chalk.” Father’s renly again is brief: “You don't need cash to talle.' The latest letter reads: “Dear dad, I'm on the football team. Am quarterback, must hustle though, And don’t have time to dream. 1 need spot cash.” The dad renlies: “Inclosed check bears my name, Just fill it in: your ma and I ‘Will come up to the game.” s —Brooklyn Life. and cholcest candies in arti: etched boxes. 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