The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1906, Page 8

tesessssssensasssssssesss . PrOprictor TO “+eseaassaes s Manager _THIRD AND MARKET STREBTS, SAN FRANCISCO JANUARY 13, 1906 JOHN D. SPRECKEILS... - ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS JOHN McNAUGHT.. . - ABOR ON RECLAMATION WORK. contractors have been awarded jobs on the 1tion work, and most of them are now inspecting vers and deploring their losses. They: suffer limit of the work, which seems to be fixed terruption by unseen causes, but they are ge in specifications which makes perform- time limit. So their fines, deductions ve made that class of contracting im- the wses h sacks is the question of labor. Just is under fire and when the execution , matter of getting reliable manual on contractors at home is enlight- tions and disputes about dimension labor question has taught con- enter into a hard and fast contract all the advantage. dra 2 canal 1€ s all Experience also se is served by the general application | or and interfering with the freedom report of the progress of the reclama- | 1 urvey, it is stated that a num- | ses and failed, because of the| iable labor. | g to do with it. When the contrac- 1d tries to meet the difficulty by1 nd by offering very high wages. | the needed la Car loads of laborers to the various works, and every n on the job, but most of them in sight, and those that reach it stay i heir free excursion, have seen | . . | cost the reclamation work, being | er the work goes or not, and the effect | of irrigation to the settlers, who are y take up the reclaimed land. Car-| into the work on the Panama canal, an | ous difficulties which will beset | the troubles of construction. yusands of men to work. They ges and maintenance, and yet they [ 1e we are told of the distress that is | ss of labor, and the lack of work. for which there seems to be no ex- iemand on irrigation work, the d they are transported as easily of I r interest. Being Gov- 1 to the eight-hour day. It was| rest of all kinds of labor on nt is interested. Now it is; an element in the dis- ors or the Government on | ntr: n work is on the hot and dry plains. i he summer, the-sun is three ing on the desert. Work is declining and nearly three hours urs of the day the men are idle, | onable work and perspiring, they listracts their attention from it. g to think about but their discom- It is reported that they pro- 7, but the contractor dare not exceed cupation nothi rforced idleness the laborers seek recrea- Iness has yet succeeded in keeping ¢ decreases their efficiency and in- The best workmen, the most reliable, to work longer hours, the right to earn more be idle only during the needed time for meals evolent law denies to them their rights. The ion it helps to create is increasing the .cost to 50 per cent. This increase works 11 take the land and pay the cost of putting a limit of cost beyond which judicious if this be exceeded the whole irrigation failure. of the laws of the United States be ex- a canal zone. If this is done, stupendous ob- work. The experience of the contractors and reclamation work seems to teach that an in- »or everywhere, on every kind of job and , applying equally to work under widely dif- vs in the interest of the laborer nor NO! . atisfactorily in the mechanical trades, and in them s beneficial to society. But these satisfactory results THE LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION. e stock growers of the country hold their annual con- in Denver, beginning the 29th of this month and ex- 3. Ii should be a largely attended meeting, g to February 3. deferred hope of the range men is about to be realized. began a campaign to show the country that there dred milli of acres of public domain that has no v sight except for grazing. By a long hearing before Committee on Public Lands they made their case and the literature of the subject, which has since been sent all country. The educative campaign has accomplished its The President appointed a commission to consider the a bill is now before Congress which will put a stop to ion of the range by occupancy in common, and will put ent behind the stock ranger to protect his right to a ge able him to carry on his business. When this ay anticipate a renewal of prosperity on the he bloody war long waged for its posses- to e e law i a cessation of t sion, by the strong arm. \ few men have procured this solution of the problem by stick- with but little encouragement from the general live stock THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.} 1ce, and that is all they were out for. | | But the benefits of the coming regulation will flow to all. The Call has always advocated the pelicy of regulation which is now adopted by the Government and so has some right to speak and to The Denver meeting will select the next meeting place. We have to suggest that California make a strong effort to procure the ing for San Francisco. This city, as the export point of Ameri- can meats to all the Pacific countries, has an enormous interest in the live stock industry. The delegates from this State should at once get in consultation with the railroads, and find out what rates they can offer, and our people will do the rest. It is one of the greatest annual conventions of an industry that is held in the Union, and we want it, and it wants what we have to show in hospitality and in objects of interest to live stock growers. se meet Why grow discouraged over trivial delays? The Italian Government has just officially adopted Julius Caesar’s plan for a sea-level canal from the Mediterranean to Rpme.—Brooklyn Union. “W be stay put?—$Milwaukee Sentinel. —_— 1 the coming man marry?” asks Rev. Dr. Peters. - Sure, But will |* CHURCH AND CAME OUT TO THIS CURSED STATE OF UTAH, JOINED THE THEN MARRIED A MORMON TVE SWORN OFF - BEFORE BUT THIS TME | MEAN 1T, I 41000 By Tne New Vork E-earg Teiegrem (New Vow : Twentieth Century Musings. BY CLAY BURBRIDGE. HE sails of economy should be T trimmed to guit every wind that blows; then, whether the fair breezes of prosperity or the gales of ad- versity surround thee, thy bark wilt'ride with ease. If thou prepare for a storm in dry weather it will save thee much discom- fort and thou mayest also enjoy the storm. Bach day gather up the loose threads of thy life that if thou die without warn- ing the ends may not ravel ‘When the clerical shepherd slips on the path of rectitude the sheep bleat and the wolves howl. Although the world is full of love it is so precious that money cannot purchase it nor begging obtain it. Refrain from parading thy virtues lest thy neighbor parade thy faults. ‘When a man goes to sleep under an ap- ple tree trusting that apples may fall into his mouth it is an evidence of faith that make industry marvel. The field of knowledge covers the uni- verfe, and the grass is always long for those whd would browse therein. If thou wilt record the acts of each day there will be at least one from which thou wilt desire to clip the rough edge. The life song of many is riches, of oth- ers pleasure, power or learning, but the truest notes ever sounded are thé grand chords of justice. ! Be direct. If asked the way to Rome do not point to the moon. Grossness, however bedecked, is gross- ness still, Solitary indeed is he who has no one to think about but himself. To predict the future consult the pres- ent. A WORLD RECIPE. Take one man, & woman and a gar- den. Add an apple and a good fresh snake. Stir gently until the pot be- gifis to boll, then drain off the apple and keep adding children. Simmer on a slow fire, then put on ice. Alternate between the two extremes, giving the whole a good, sound basting when needed, turning slowly in a proper space. Keep adding time until the mass is of a consistency of a mud pie covered with ants. Multiply the inhab- itants and garnish with villages, towns, cities and empires. Now introduce a little theblogy and enough devil sauce to spice. Keep adding battle, murder, sudden death and a good layer of cant. Put plenty of salt in the water and sprinkle with bad soclety. When your world is finished throw it in the fire and begin all over, again.—Leesburg, Ohlo Buckeye. ! The Ligh e NOT A m‘ Employer—Are you a single man? Applicant—De I look Ilike triplets? Mistress — Have you thken something that doesn't agree with you? Maid——Yes, marm—this situa- tion. % ter Side of Life. “Charlotte, you will always ‘ find me an indulgent husband.” “To me or yourself?” 2 —Aw, a fake! 5 .. took de sled he gave me a year, varnished it and put it on . de Christmas tree ag'in dis | —_— AH, YES, IT HURTS! HE total enrollment of students at Stanford University this year was rather more than 1600. Of this num- ber about 500 were females and 1100 males —that is, about 31 per cent of the entire attendance walks with a swish when it has donped its finest petticoat. Now, six- ty-two of these students (alleged) have been dropped for that sort of mental in- feriority which is implied by delinquency in studles. To maintain the proportion some nineteen or twenty of this dull- sickening-thud contingent should have been women. But they were not; on the contrary, the name of but one woman was on that unfortunate list! In addition to those who were suspended seventy-two others were warned that they must brace up their intellectual processes or a similar fate awaited them. Of this latter number about twenty-two or twenty- three should have been women, but only five of them were! Of the total number of 134, to maintain the university propor- tion of sexes, forty-two should have been women, but only six of them nobly re- sponded to their mathematical responsi- bility in the matter. Oh, how such facts shock and pain a man who realizes that intellectual superiority of ‘his sex which man himself constantly has felt himself compelled to admit! Ah, yes, it hurts! Ah, yes, it hurts! The dratted figures seem To say so much that all men know un- true; That man's superiority’s a\dream. And that your sister is as bright as you. Out on such figures! Shove ’em in the stove! ‘Why, e’er since Adam lald the deed to Eve, ‘What time the Lord into his garden hove, ‘We men have known—although it made us grieve— That women were inferior. Falith, 'twas clear, 3 ‘The proof as potent as we could have For when he “threw oft” on his doting dear, If she'd had sense she would have fired her Ad. And get the figures pain! Doggone their les! - Th.;‘:ll" a doubtful feeling in their n, 4 Buggest to man, “You're not so all-fired As in conceit you've ventured to main- tain.” Begone such thoughts! Let dark forebod- ings flee! Bise I'll belleve that when we went to sc! And in our classes sister walloped me, She had the brain, and I was but the fool. . And deuce take facts! For facts are gris- 1y things > m;nofimm‘mmlhwhnldun- 1bid deflance to their smarting stings, And ch’im that man’s superfor—wouldn't & you' Thats what I Cleim @ust print it with Ana':l:tv:lud yet—those Mm figures Innlz‘a has claimed—but lflll—oh.’ can The did have a joker up its sleeve? Man's muscle’s stronger; ergo, so’s his There's loglc for you, masculine and And yet these £ girls won't see their duty 4 THE SMART SET BY SALLY SHARP. Expectancy runs high concerning the dance at sn{unmo this evening. The yacht club house will be filled with a merry throng from every side of the bay and as hostesses Mrs. Gaston-Ashe, Miss Constance Borrowe and Miss Mabel Watkins will accomplish every detail in the requirement of pleasure. v . s Mrs. N. P. Cole Jr. will be hostess to- day at a theater party at tne Columbia in honor of Mrs. Ellis Parrish. PR The new studio of Mr. and Mrs. May- nard Dixon will be filled to-day with guests, who wiil pass a delightfully informal afternoon at tea. The Pine-street atelier is cozy and artistic and many pieces of workman- ship from the Dixons' recent Arizona -| tour will be viewed among the other pleasures. . A very pleasant event of to-day will be a luncheon given in honor of a Zrng Eastern visitor who has recently ived. Arthur Griffen Duncan has bidden half a dozen guests to meet his nlece, Miss Ethel Duncan of Indianapolis, who will spend the winter and spring In California. The Claremont Country Club has been chosen for Mr. Duncan’s hospitality and those to greet the young guest will be Mrs. Eugene Freeman, Miss Maud Payne, Miss Bessle Dunsmuir, Wesley Clawson, J. Maillard Cline and Edward A. Davis. . . The engagement of Miss Bessie Mor- g.n, youngest daughter of John Mor- gan, the well-known banker of Nevada City, to John H. Fuller, son of Colonel Jesse B. Fuller, United States Pension Agent of this city, was announced at a party tendered the young lady at her home In Nevada City last Friday even- ing. v Miss Marion Huntington will be a hostess to-day In her home, presiding at a large tea in honor of Miss Louise Redington, who is preparing for a European trip. A hundred cards for the affair have been issued for callers from 4 to 6, in- cluding only all the young people of the unmarried set, and Miss Reding- ton will receive the heartiest of good wishes upon her contemplated journey. ® Moy The engagement of Miss Grace Baldwin to Russell Selfridge is one provoking gen- eral delight among the friends of both young people. The general impression has gone forth that these two are pecu- | liarly suited, and that is always a motif for double felicitation. Miss Baldwin is the daughter of Mrs. Lloyd Baldwin and sister of Lloyd Baldwin, the favored so- _clety beau, Mr. Selfridge being a univer- sity graduate and man of sclence and travel. . e Mrs. Gerritt Livingston Lansing will en- tertain a large number of guests at bridge in her apartments at St. Dunstan's om Monday, January 29. s . . The music gection of the California Club will present a fine programme next i Occidental Accidentals. BY A J. WATERHOUSE. ples he ate and ate until he had grown very portly. Now it so chanced that a consider- able number of these fine, red apples which Corporation ate so freely . be- longed to another boy named The Pub- lic, and when Public saw that he was not getting the apples he said, “TI will attend to this case, not personally, but by delegating my power in the matter to another boy whom I know, named Legislator.” And he did so, first in- structing Legislator to look carefully after those apples. But Corporation was no slouch; in fact, he was wise. So he went to Leg- islator, and he sald: “Now, see here! These apples that I am eating have a very fine core—frequently known as A Pass—which you would enjoy, and I love you so much that I will give you these cores if you will—mum’s the word! See?” ‘And Legislator saw, the word. But after a time Corporation said to himself, “It seems to me that I am just wasting these fine cores”; and so he refused to give any more to Legislator. And then you should have heard the row, the fracas and the threats of get- ting even! (No, no, dear boy, I have not said anything about the situation in Penn- sylvania, or anywhere else; I am mere- 1y working up to the—) Moral and query: Would The Public boy get any fatter if the Corporation boy ate the apple and the Legislator boy ate the core than he would If the Corporation boy ate both of them? and and mum was the— Mora! and answer Apparently he would not. The Merchant—What can he do? Proud Father (who is seeking a clerk- ship for his son)—He readsh Latin with great facility. “What else can he do?" graduated, and—" “If I were conducting a store in dn- cient Rome I presume that I should jump at this opportunity, but, as it is, I fear that you are a little matter of twenty centuries too late.” “Bloviatus tells everybody that he is a self-made men.” “I know it, and I often have won- dered at it.” “Why?* “Well, I should think that he would want to conceal the fact just as far as possible.” WHEN THOU ART NEAR. Last night my soul was weary, and I moaned; “Ahey! Ahey! But it is vain to live! Though ludd of hope and rust we sSow to-day, _Full mel; doth the morrow reaping givel!” Just then a little bird outside my door Shrilled out in some such dream as ee birds see, And straight the tiny mate dfd comfort give: “Fear nof, my dear, for I am near to thee.” Oh, sweet my love, forgive my foolish heart * That sometimes it doth start in fear and pain, Forgetting in wild dreams that where thou art, All loss is buried in diviner gain. Mad a do come, grim dreams to shake the soul, ot dfo\xbt, suspense, and mystery, and . And all is well while thou, sweet- heart, art near. ¢ “Jones complains that the way.he is %!”lt is o « ¥, he put m"‘. | ‘Wednesday afterncon under the direction of Mrs. J. L. Taylor. tn Among yesterday’s hostesses was Mra. Dunean MacLaren, who entertained in- formally at a tea in henmor of Mrs. Wik liam Raymond of Pertland. | _Of those who held t home were { Mirs. Emma Shafter Mrs. Benja- Kirkham min Jenss Edger M Jeannette and Wright, with the Misses Marlan Wright. . Miss Beatrice Fife, Miss Elsa Draper, Miss Susan and Miss Mary Ertz were ameng the maids who went from this side last ewening to Oakland to attend the Friday Night Dancing Club. . s ' Mr. and Mrs. Willlam H. Jordan are entertaining as house guests Miss Ruth Foster and Miss Jane Wilshire, who have come from Los Angeles to be bridal at- tendants at the wedding of Miss Alice Treanor and Clarence Oddie next Tuesday evening. The inclemency of the weather caused a postponement of yesterday's reception in honpr of Miss Amelia Gardner at the Palace. The patronesses, representing several of San Francisco's leading clubs, decided at a late hour to defer the affair, but will soon notify the bidden guests of a new date. ANSWERS TO QUERIES BERLIN—College, Berkeley, Cal. The cost of living in Berlin, Germany, 18 as vartable as it is in any other city. In that city the cost of living is regulated by the ability of the in- dividual to pay. BORN AT SEA—Country Subscriber, San Mateo, Cal. The nationality of a child born on a_vessel flying the British flag in American waters Is that of the flag under which it was born, conse- quently in this case British. TREASURY—Subscriber, City. The United States Treasury is at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue in the city of Washington, P, C. There is a branch of the Treasury im this and in other eities. The one in San Francisco is located on Commercial street, near Montgomery. GATE OF TEARS—Subscriber, City. The Straits of Babelmandeb, the pas- sage from the Persian Gulf into the Red Sea, are by the Arabs called the “Gate of Tears,” because of the many shipwrecks that have occurred there. The channel, which is about twenty miles wide, Is very rocky and extreme- 1y ‘dangerous in rough weather. FIRE DEPARTMENT—A. W, City. The Volunteer Fire Department of San Francisco . was organized in 1849 and was succeeded by the paid department under an act of the Legislature in 1866. For such information as you de- sire relative to the Fire Department of Los Angeles, address a letter of Inquiry to the chief engineer of the department in that eity, enclosing a self-addressed and stamped envelope for reply. TRADE MARKS-—-Subscriber, Oakland. Cal. New labels, not previously used and containing some artistic or novel charac- ter of design, may be copyrighted In the United States Patent Office, and will be protected for - thirty years. But labels ‘Wwhich merely describe an article, or only Indicate size, number or weight or are only the result of the application of the typesetter’s art, are refused copyright en- try. The fee for examining and register- ing a trade mark, which includes certifi- cate, is $25. TIDES—P. A. W., City. The earth's motion and the attraction of the moon are not the only causes of the phenomena of the tides. The sun is also an important factor in such. Though the sun Is so very much farther from the earth than the moon, its mass is so enormous that it has considerable tide-producing influence. The force which the sun exerts is the same on\-both sides of the earth at the same time. The tide-producing force of the sun is four-tenths that of the moon. At new and full moon the wave spheroids due to these two bodies have their own axes al- most coincident, therefore their forces are united and the ebb and flow exceeds the average, so that we have spring tides. ‘When the moon is in her first or her third quarter the aXes are nearly at right an- gles, the two forces act against each oth- er, the ebb and flow are less than the average and we have the neap tide. —_———— Townsend's California glace fruits and chofcest candies In artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * ——————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, * — Fashion’s Mirror GRAY griffonetts cloth, one of the new waterproof fabrics of the season, is developed into a misses’ coat of empire persuasion. This cloth is an extremely fins woolen fabrie, which has been sub- mitted to a waterproofing pro- Bgme of s orighnal body s e o body and fine finish. The yoke of this garment ends an inch or so be- neath the armhole, the yoke and narrow front portion eut in one and double-breasted to the - neck, which has a narrow roll- over collar. A wide stitched passes around the bhody at Joining of the skirt and and ends in points either of the double-breasted The skirt of this coat is & deep inverted pleat the back, a walt seam the joining of the skirt the front portion. The sleeve regulation coat pattern, the pointed end stiiched Cuff matches the stitched belt. 351