The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1906, Page 8

D. SPRECKELS.. Satessnesssent saseonisisssnees PTOPIPIOR ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO McNAUGHT TION OFFICE... FRIDAY. .THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO viee....JANUARY 26, 1900 THE WORLD’S FOOD SUPPLY. is country we are so accustomed to an ‘abundant food supply own production that it is hard to realize the condition of a hat depends upon importation to feed its people. Eng- ny have both outgrown their food supply. ‘Germany tore the domestic product by drastic tariff and tions, but these have served to bring into plainer view | to get on without importation, especially of /meats. liticians seem to have so far overshot the mark, in meats, that there is a famine of that food, and it is re- it the flesh of dogs and other domestic animals not usually | national food supply has been utilized by the people. ns are meat eaters and feel keenly any deprivation of he people of the British isles are zlso voracious meat - Government takes every means to keep up the sup- ation. < Great Britain imported $900,000,000 in agricultural increase of $6,000,000 over the preceding year. at import increased 6 per cent, or 1,041,143 hundred- pounds. Butter was imported to the value of $100,- hich seems to us an incredible sum. Wheat imports in- iredweights. The food importations include nd eggs, and a long list of articles which we pro- es and in surplus for export. While some of the f Great Britain are supplied by other countries and most are furnished by the United States. the producer and pufveyor of food for the impregnable. Our own population does not at supply. As it increases production increases and In Europe and Eastern Asia the population has food supply and all eyes and appetites turn to for food. This demand fixes our prices and to its | lue of this year’s farm products here, which tural Department at $6,000,000,000. This sin- equal in value to all of our railroads, and the real magnates of the country. Indeed puts the value of their land, which- is- their in excess of any other business plant in the were estimated as other plants are by their out- ens of billions. pect that Europe will outgrow its dependence d upon our surplus for a supply. Our wheat shels is greater than that of any other | f the world’s total there would be a widespread wve 42,842,759 swine, 38,298,783 Sheep and 48.- Ger: %0 h linner pail except by our assistance. 1 ts and statisticians are pleased by the agricultural products. One is compelled to re- a nation like that, which produces sufficient ting to the statesmanship of the country, but | are still adequate to the obtaining of a food | 1 is a great promoter of amity with the United is true of Germany. War, that would make yur markets for food, would mean famine for > we would continue in the enjoyment of an-un- 1pply, made larger for domestic consumption by the | of exports. This is not said with the purpose of making | 1d gain anything by such means, for we would | ment of our market, but we would be in a far 1 any nation that cannot feed itself. the United States, charged with. producing the nations, rises in importance with this showing. ng born every day, but no more land is being | The diversity of our climate and productive re- | than in any other part of the world, and the | an international factor of the first class. ican agriculture California stands at the head in varied | acity. We are especially interested in the trade of | because of the fruit-eating habit of that people. Pros-| the British isles never declines below the capacity to ab- processed fruit, in first-class condition, as we can send s not only used immediately as food, but as raw material | British manufactures to form articles of export. OQur ts are distilled as apricot brandy, or with other of our nd a wide market as jams, jellies and marmalades, in too, they constitute an important part of the diet of the people. he strict observance of the principles of commercial honor i that market against the world, or we can sacrifice it to greed, as the market for American cheese and bujter was lost by adulteration and shatp practice in the dairies of the ) States. It may surprise the dairymen of California to know that butter is actually imported into this State from far Damascus! It is produced on the celebratéd Ager Damascenus, and exported Beyrout. Though we supply so much of the world’s bread and ter to spread it, such an importation should make us wake notice. AN ANARCHIST NEST. we woulc pa on th By t we can ho temporar astery F it be true that officers have found evidence in Pennsylvania of an anarchist plot to assassinate the Governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania and other public and prominent men, swift justice 1wuld overtake the plotters. It is said that the evidence indicates that the er center of anarchism in Paterson, N. J., is again wctive, though the work of murder is given to details at a distance in order to avert suspicion. The assassins of the Empress of Austria, the King of Italy and the President of France were traced to a con- nection with the plotters of Paterson. The active anarchists in this country are immigrants from Europe. They are part of that appalling mass of immigration that we are receiving at the rate of a million a year. It is impossible to keep them out under our present immigration laws. They constitute a vast stream carrying the bacilli of anarchy and murder. If a river used as a potable water supply is known t6 carry the cholera icrobe, we do not try to make it usable by passing resolutions. What is needed is the application of the principle of Chinese exclusion to the nations that send us this tainted immigration. To leave our ports open to it and shut out the Chinese is straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel. Already our old time and wholesome homogeneity of population has been assailed by the importation of foreign ideas of class and caste. We are taking into the national stomach foreign food beyond the power of digestion. It is time to quit tinkerigg with the subject, and put up the sign, “Neither seats nor standing room,” and keep it up until we have chased ouf im- ported anarchy and got back to the old time idea of Americanism. for When Poultney Bigelow stuck his fingers under. the Panama lid he couldn’t have known that “Big Bill” Taft was going to sit on it.—Philadelphia North American. ——— e Henry James has said nothing about our speech which ranks with the sign posted by a bootblack of Territet, Switzerland: “English spoken; THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL)| The |, are quantities that no other nation approaches. | | les independently of all the rest of the world, | o procure the food supply of its people by1 { rtation. Just now there seems to be much industrial distress in| | American understood.”—Elmira Gazette, 4 —_— 1f the anti-pass order is not abrogated there will be a lot of walking ashington Post. Fclcgates in future political conventions.— ——— However, Mrs. Minor Morris ‘will not ’write a book on “Wild Animals 7 Have Met."—Baltimore ‘Sun. R . THE SAN FRANCISCO C. LOVE LOVE 70 STROLL THE SPRI _COPYRIGHT 1905 BY THE NEW YORIK EVENING TELEGRAM (NEW YORI HERALD — RIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1906 - — Welsh Speech - | Won the Jury | B —— HEN Baron Bramwell was once W sitting on the crown side on the South Wales circuit coun- sel for the defense in a certain case asked leave to addréss the jury in Welsh. The case being a simple one, | permission was given without demur. He said but very few words; the Baron also did not think much comment was necessary, but was somewhat startled by a prompt verdict of acquittal. “What was it,” he afterward in- quired, “that Mr. L—— sald to the Jury?” “Oh, he just said, ‘This case, gentle- men, lies in a nutshell. You see your- selves exaetly how it stands. The Judge is an Englishman, the prosecut- ing counsel is an Englishman, the complainant is an Englishman. But you are Welsh, and I am Welsh, and ‘the prisoner is Welsh. Need I say more? I leave it all to you.""” It is scarcely necessary to mention, says the writer of “Some Legal Remi- niscences,” that Baron Bramwell did not allow the experiment to be re- peated of addressing the jury in a lan- guage which he did not understand.— Tit Bits. . ———— WOMEN IN BANKS. Kansas has seventeéén women who hold the position of president or cashier of banks. . > VLT MR Fashion’s Mirror Sy FETCHING LITTLE DUTCH FROCK. 'HIS fetching design, which s variously known as the Dutch frock and the Puri- tan, is made up in a biscult .henrietta, with black velvet for the square yoke collar and the upstanding cuff at the elbow. The crush belt, too, is of this latter material, the black mak- ing a very piquant effect on the light tan shade. The woolen material forms a little blouse waist, caught into the belt, and both blouse and skirt are sewn | to the same belt tape. The skirt has pleats at the band, stitched down for a few inches only and then left to flare.. A deep tuck above the hem makes a qualint finish. = The guimpe is on a false lining, so that the gown may be worn with or without it, as caprice or occasion may dictate. Occidental Accidentals BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. THANKS TO EVE. WISH to ofter thanks to Bve, l That good old dame who, I believe, Had every virtue man to suit, Except she was too fond of fruit; I wish to offer thanks to her— And her descendants must concur— That when the apple played the deuce, She put the fig leaf unto use. For, oh, that primal fig leaf gown Has so reached up, has so stretched down, N It covers potentate and clown, Full many ‘a defect hiding. Milord, who walks with stately strut, Revealing but his occiput; ‘Whose every act announceth loud, “I'm finer than this mortal crowd, We half believe his claim is prove Until the fig leaf is removed, And then—alas! alackaday!— ‘We find Him only common clay! And, oh, milord, full grieved am I To think that you, that fig leaf shy, Would scarcely hold your head so high, 4 Your, pomp _and swell subsiding. Milady, gowned in gay Paree, A luring vision as you'd see; “You do not mean to suggest that he has—has—" “Yes, he has; he got thirty-eight cents worth of ecalico from re on credit, and, although seven months have passed and he has been dunned repeatedly, he has not paid the bill! Ah, it is a cruel, cruel blow, a biter, bitter dose for me to swallow, for our friendship was so much to me, but I am living in the Twentieth Century, and I know what It | demands pf me. Ah, it is hard—hard!” Dionygius I was sorely grieved, but he realized that nothing could be said or done to remedy the matter—for he, too, was Hving in the Twentieth Century. “Do you know the passage of scripture :that gives Mr. Rockefeller the most cheer?” “No; what {s it?” ‘“‘Unto every one that hath shall be given.' ” THE APPLE. You may think that you are beautiful, admire your form and grace; You may deem your mirror shows you that a vision is your face; You may fancy your complexion is of style that’s hard to beat, Had Eve that fig leaf never donned— | And may whisper to your image, “You But, ah, the fancy is beyond My feeble power; I only claim 'Twould make some difference with the And dame, And, lady fair, I urge, with grief, You'd best thank heaven for the leaf. The fig leaf of the primal dame Has 8o matured it covers shame And many e defect I'll not name, For time and space are lacking. Ah yes, unto my grandmamma, Who sprung that leaf on grandpapa, My thanks. With eye obervant of “the style”; At knave and villajin oft we stare, And only see the clothes they wear; And, as I've defects up my Sleeve, I'm grateful to my grandma Eve. I'm grateful to her; yes, I am, For that fig leaf maintains the sham, And oft conceals the dlagram Of errors we are packing: DAMON AND PYTHIAS UP TO DATE, are really very sweet!” Your bonnet may be ultra, or your coat be superfine, % ih the set you honor you may really “cut a shine”; X But I've noticed, as I've journeyed through the thick and through the thin, That a luscious apple sometimes has a very homely skin. I have seen a “common fellow” who was truly short of style, We strut our littls while, | Yet his actions, I have figured, might have made the angels smile; I have seen some woman bearing bur- dens that might load her down, But she bore them as a blessing, and s her children were her crown: I have seen some dimpled darling fail in life’s tumultuous stress, Hands too dainty for the struggle, soul too weak to others ble: So I'set it down as truthful, with a sigh or with a grin, It was the seventeenth reincarnation|mnat a luselous apple sometimes has a of Damon and Pythias, and you will not be surprised to learn that it brought them ‘very homely skin. strictly up to date; that is, up to the pres- | “She received many wedding pres- ent time, which, as everybody knows, is{ ents, did she not?" the anly really up-to-date time that ever was or ever will be. “I don’t know, but I pregume that she did.” It had been a hard day with Damon,| ‘“What makes you presume 807" for thére had been a bargain sale, and the “Why, as both parties to the con- crush of women at his counter had been | tract were wealthy, she dldn’t need something to make the shudderless shud- | any.” der, - He was moodily sitting by his par- lor stove and wondering when the cold snap’ would cease, so that the price of coal would go down, when Dlonysius I, who ran a peanut stand at the corner of Market and some other street, entered. < —————— e JOYOUS LOCALITY. “What am yo' idee of Paradise, Brudder Utterback—dat s, fum a cullud man’s “Well, Dammie,” Dionysius I breezily fl:l'-lldn'ht‘r' remarked, “how are you and Pythias making it?” “It is all off between us,’” glomily responded. *Pythlas is a back number, an n. g., an apology for moth- ing in particular. “Oh, say it not!” Dionysius I urged. “Think of all you were to each 1rfendship n told’ in song—that i, you can the remark for ‘with some evidence of acerbity. yourself, Recollect “It doesn't go!” Damon interrupted, “Pythias ‘Uh-—well, sah, I sh’u’d dess about uui- iy, dat & place whuh de niggers could OVERCOAT. Former Judge Willlam H. Moore, the well-known financler of New York and Chicago, wears the most costly over- . $19,000 is a what-is-It, a missing link, a fiteen | coqt United It was made cents in canceled postage-stamps.” to Q&r% ‘him from selected Russian ‘But remember how you gladly pledged | gaple fur at a cost of $19,000.—New Or- your life for him, h " .| leans Times-Democrat. Damon Inrereuntad. Sbud & fen thousena \ mowrsend's California , a years make a difference. I am now liv- | ohdcnl- o St ":g ing in the Twentieth ¢ , and you :fiu& mme. Mnt.- bet I mmem:mm, "w!m&mmw’ 4 % the erence é 2 ‘!- _offense and all others. A brilliant avent for to-day will be the large reception to be held at the St. Francis by Mrs. David Montgomery Crabtree (Eugenie Hawes). The affair, originally named for Jan- uary 12, was fated for postponement by reason of Mrs. Crabtree's indisposition, and to-day's gathering will bring the young hostess many greetings. In the receiving party wili be Mrs. Robert Armstrong Deane, Mrs. Malcolm Henry Mrs. William Ford Nichols, Mrs. Charles M. Fickert, Mrs. Edward Mau, Miss Mary Marriner and Mijss Merritt Reid. . LA Mr. and Mrs. George Englehardt (Lysbeth Painter), who returned a few days ago from their wedding trip, will be at home to-day with Mrs. Yemans at a large reception held at the Yemans home on Franklin street from 4 to & p. m. s sie Among those who will hold at homes” to-day are Mrs. Edgar Peixottd, Mrs. Willlam Denman, Mrs. Edward B. Young and Mrs. Harry Somers Young, Mrs. Kirkham Wright with the Misses ‘Wright. 2 > e Mr. and Mrs. Peter Martin, who are soon to-leave San Francisco for their home in New York, were the guests of honor last evening at a dinner given by Mrs. Eleanor Martin. ooe T Miss Emily Chickering was the hon- ored guest at a very delightful lun- cheon yesterday given by Miss Mabel Hogg at her home on Sacramento street. Several Ookland malds were bidden for the occasion, which was one of the jolliest of the many events held for Miss Chickering, who has been feted more widely than any of the brides- elect. Miss Hogg included in her guest list Miss Chickering, Miss Josephine Lind- ley, Miss Elsie Everson, Miss Edna Middleton, Miss Maybelle Toy, Miss Theo Parr of Alameda, Miss Florence Cole, Mrs. Alanson Weeks, Mrs. Harry Bates, Mrs. Willlam Penn Humphreys and Mrs. Vincent de Laveaga. e & An elaboarate bridge event was held at the home of Mrs. Arthur Maxwell Sharp yesterday, over fifty guests en- joying the alluring game which pro- voked the bestowal of many handsome prizes. Mrs. Sharp filled the rooms of her Vallejo-street home with the varied flowers and greens of the season, ob- BY SALLY SHARP. taining a charming effect, while the players who delved into the game's in- tricacies included Mrs. Douglas Wat- son, Mrs. Heber Tilden. Mrs. Thomas Benton Darragh, Mrs. Samuel Wood, Mrs. Frank Sumner, Mrs. James Steelc Reid, Mrs. Albert Sutton, Mrs. John Sutton., Mrs. John Medaun, Mrs. Brad- ford Leavitt. Mrs. Willlam Penn Humphreys, Mrs. .Frederick Kellam Mrs. George Alexander, Mrs. Gustavus Browne, Mrs. A. S. Baldwin, Miss Vir- ginia Brastow, Miss Edith Bull, Miss Alpheus Bull, Miss Edith Youns, Miss Ruth Gedney, Miss Clare Sweigert, Miss Gertrude Palmer. Miss Jeannette Deal, Miss Margaret Foster, Miss Kate Hall and Miss Amy Gunn. r %3k TR Miss Marion and Miss Jeannette Wright entertained fifty young guests at an Infofmal dance at their home on Scott street last evening. P TR S Yesterday's ‘Informal affairs included a delightful tea given by Miss Maisie Langhorne to Miss Sara Cunningham, nearly fifty maids assembling at the Langhorne home to chat of all the say current events. & e The Mariposa, which arrived yester- day from Tahiti, brought home Dr. J. Wilson Shiels and Mr. and Mrs. Ar- thur B. Cornwall. The steamer laid over one trip at the island, allowing the visitors a month’s sojourn, which was full of delightful incidents. . - . Mr. and Mrs. Ernest F. Witsee are enjoying all the gay delights of New York society and are continually be- ing éntertained. Within a shert time they are expected to return te this coast. e . Miss Ruth Foster left for her homse in Los Angeles last evening and Miss Jane Wilshire, who came to town on the same pleasant mission—to attend the Oddie-Treanor wedding—will re- main for several d:xy:. L . Among the hostessés of the near fu- ture who will give charming enter- tajnments are Miss Elsa Draper and Mrs. Edward Barron. Miss Draper in- tends having a second dance with a ghanged guest list, while Mrs. Barron will entertain at a luncheon. . . . Mrs. Willlam Hinckley Taylor, who has been the guest for some weeks of Mr. and Mrs. William Tevis at their country place near Bakersfleld, re- turned to town several days ago. e ANSWERS TO QUERIES.| TIME-T. B. N. City. In round fig- ures the difference in time between San Francisco and Manila is sixteen hours, in other words Iif it is 12 o'clock noon in San Francisco, Sunday, it Is 4 a. m. Monday in Manila. EXCHANGE SYSTEM-—Folsom street, City.) The difference between the ordinary telephone system agd the exchange sys- tem is that the ordinary system is that which any person uses in office or home, while the exchange system is one that requires knowledge to manipulate a switchboard by which a number of of- fices, homes and phone stations are cen- tralized at one point, and from there connections made with different points. BOYS AND GIRLS —Old Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. This department is of the opinion that “a dispute I have with & friend” as to the number of boys and of girls in the world will have to remain unsettled_until such time as you can se- cure all the census reports of the world and collate from each tHe figures that show the number of minors in each place where a census is taken. This depart- ment has not the time to take this mat- ter up. THE FITTEST—Reader of Query Col- umn, City. The expression “survival of the fittest” originated with Herbert Spencer. In one of his works he has the following: ““The survival of the fitteat, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Dar- win has called natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.” Darwin in “The Origin of Man” says: ‘“The expression so often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the sur- vival of the fittest is more accurate and s sometimes equally convenient.” FISH AND GAME — Subscriber, City. The following is the close season for fish and game in California: Fish—January 1-June 1—Close season for black bass. April 1-September 10; October 16-Fsbru- ary 1—Open season for taking steelhead in tidewater. September 10-October 18—Close season in tidewater for steelhead. September 10 - October 16—Close season for catching salmon. September 15 - April 1—Open season for Tobsters and erawfish. October 16 - November 15—Close season for taking salmon above tidewater. November 1-April 1—Trout season closed. November 1- April 1-Close season for taking steelhead above the water, November 1-September 1—Open season for crabs. . November 15-September 10—Season open for taking salmon above tide water. Game—July 1-February e season open. September 1-February 15—Open season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. October 15-February 15—Open season for quail, ducks, ete. ' October 15-April 1—Open season for Eng- lish snipe. October 15-August 1—Deer season closed. It is unlawful at any time to kill meadow larks or any other wild birds except bluejays, English sparrows, sharp shinned hawks, Coopers’ hawks, | duck hawks, great horned owls or Cali- fornia linnets. It is unlawful to kill at any time what are known as song birds. * A Little Lesson in Adversity. WHAT TO EAT. Germany is eating horse. course dinner of Algerian lion was served/by a Parisian Tartarin, who basely bought instead of shooting the game. Monkey is said to be excellent, with a faraway flavor of rabbit, but many diameters more savory. Still, monkey-eating is cannibalism, if our ancestors really were arboreal in their habits. An English traveler and game- bagger in Africa swore that baked elephant’s foot was a dainty dish to eet before a King—not an African woolly monarch, hut even Edward VII himself, who knows something of the refinements of artistic cookery and has an experienced palate. Another Eng- lishman—why is it always an English- man to whem these original and cour- ageous tastes are attributed”—an Eng- lishman averred that boa comstrictor, properly cooked, was better than the best veal. And yet the boa coastrictor has no mercy on the calf. To conclude. man can and does eat most anything, and in drink his courage ‘s still greater.—Everybody’s Maguzine. ————— YOUNGEST SCHOOLTEACHER. Jose Romualdo is supposed to be the youngest school teacher in the world. He is 13 years old and has a school of sixty- five children at Carrabanchel, Svain. A ten- — Oncle Biff’s Observations D HOOPER'S wife told Rin. dy Smith thet she jes couldn’t sleep on anything but one o' them big brass beds since she moved to Cleveland, 'n’ that she wasn't quite decid- ed whether she’s have ad mor- tem fidells or ex libris on her new book plate. I don’t know nothin’ 'bout the last two bits o' furniture, but, b'gosh, T ree- ollect when th' hull fambly slept In th’ same room.—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. little education that Andrew Jackson ever received was in an “old field school” In the fromtier land of South Carolina, prior to the wasr of the revolution. vim and vigor. Jackson’s schooling was the rudimeats of the three Rs,and scanty enough at that. He never learned to write English correctly; hard school of the frontier he I and dauntlessness, and under his mother's tute- lage he learned honor and honesty. It was in the revolutionary war oner by the British and nearly starved to death, as well as brutally treated. At theend of the war the boy, then alone in the world, was apprenticed to a saddler. But his ambitions were for public life. of entrance was. the practice of law. At the although of 18 he entered a'law” office, and never had a really legal mind, he sion. Nearly the whole course was breaking down of barriers one that his moth- mastered necessary knowledge and started in his of Jackson's of His father had died. leaving the mother and the young ‘boys to do the rough work of the ploneer coun- try. But they were of sturdy, hardy Scotch- Irish stock, and they rose to their work with in the courage entirely ‘The gate £g8 n?} kina