The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKEIS... ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO :IHHN McNAUGHT ICATION OFFICE FEBRUARY 1, 1906 SCIENCE AND LIFE. ago a party of gentlemen concerned in fraternal in Placerville. A citizen of the locality asked them w they were there for. The gentleman said, to establish a lodge of the Improved Order of Red ve looked the party over and replied: “Well, you're we want here is an improved order of white men.” keen mountaineer may have his wish gratified. ie its readers familiar with the biological experi- Loeb of the University of California. He has yward the creation of the first order of life, by The process is too involved in chemical tech- scientific man to venture upon a derhonstration of e theory of evolution starts in the primordial forms originating in chemical combination of elements in Life once in action, in its lowest terms, undergoing onment, starts on its long march of evolution e highest forms. The spark, once struck, is not bsists, perpetuates itself, progresses, until it w if science can solve the secret of the first man- les t is possible, and many believe that Professor solution. 1 of Leipsic, now lecturing at Columbia Uni- 1 so command the first step in evolution. h his control of vegetable life. He takes ure and hastens its evolution from one so assisted nature in this work that By combination and evolution he pro- and endows them with economic values developed. test biologists in the use of existing forms to g : g e did not make until shown the way. n that y produce the higher forms of brute life, akin a Is. What is beyond that none can say. 1 evolution a rapid march from the proto- 15 of reptile, fish, fowl or quadruped, why not 1 produce man? Ostwald says that out of r of humanity. T'he mysterious and unknown principle which nts the power to produce life when their ill the agent and origin of life. What 1 ele wn remains s Ive one mystery and originate life, another sphinx with e rises in his path. Biology teaches that the forms of as the environment changes. We live and move on the oported the reptilian giants whose fossil remains ment. The physical quality of the earth.and air existence changed, but life subsisted and entered saurians lived. envelope have finished the round of change. gress and we know them not. When they are suffi- ced, brute and human life as we know it and are part ss entirely out of present forms and meet the needs of a ment in others of which we have no conception. Science arrest nor accelerate the inexorable march of change in phy- ie onment. It may require such an exaltation of life in an- individuals will look back upon the present man v ancestor, just as we look upon the monkey as predecessor and biological relative. Ostwald says that a living thing is but a system of a matter of chemistry. The change in environinent, mines the form which life shall take and the organs and s necessary to it, is only a change in chemical proportions. 1t of the atmosphere and substitute another, and ali pon the solid earth must change to meet the new con- vy fathers life in the mud slime and dominates it in piration, what spark of the truth caused it to 2t man was made out of the dust of the earth? He ien the cosmic matter combined in protoplasm. That The n of science are hunting life in the same y be written that they found it in the dust of the THE PACXI‘TIC COMMERCIAL MU>SEUM. ARM UKEW must be the manner in which a portion of the -rests of the coast is treating the organized ef- uild our export trade under the leadership of the rcial Museum. That is the first impression produced t with which it commences the sixth year of its existence. being sustained, but not with the vigor of such s it is entitled to. As the report says, however good e board, the service can be extended and improved f 1 as the membership increases. It is evident from tone of the paper that many members have expected a perform- of benefits beyond the functions of this semi-public institution, 1 at the same time have been blind to the valuable work done h aids them indirectly. n be no question that the museum is founded on a cor- rect principle and that it is admirably officered. It undertook a pio- neer work, and all such undertakings must have time for develop- m So great are the possibilities f export trade from this coast t the museum would be worth while supporting if its present do- were no more than a preparation, and an education of the com- ity for future capacity to grasp to the full the opportunities are surely coming. The dues, which are only $72, cannot be expected to build up for the contributor an individual trade without other effort. Much of direct personal aid has, however, been given, particularly in the matter of assisting in the correspondence that st be conducted by translation of foreign languages. The change of a paragraph, or a phrase ill-advisedly written, might mean all the difference between success and failure. The museum has also done valuable work in a mediatorial way, and these items cannot be set down on the tabulation of services. has acted effectively as a medium by which foreign con- suls are brought into closer relations with the growth of our foreign commerce. When we reflect that our foreign commerce does' not amount to as much as one week’s domestic commerce we can ap- preciate what is quoted of Secretary Shaw, that our export trade in manufactures “is the coming economic issue before the American people,” and of Secretary Metcalf to the effect that our domestic consumption no longer suffices for the absorption of our production, and new markets must be sdught and developed in South and Central America, the Orient, and the islands of the Pacific. Tq go about this we must have a system, and the methods and means for this are best provided by the museum. Let its membership be added to and its work be given more vigorous support. propor Also e ee——— . Having answered one question, Mr. Rogers is doubtless listening for the huzzas of an astonished and admiring public—New York World. P St \ Mr. Rogers says that publicity annoys him. Many persons interrupted e a result of horseback riding Secretary Taft has Jost twenty-nine Jias any one weighed the horse?—New York Herald pounds. iddle is read. If i5 coming to be the opinion of | selieves that science is able to produce a piece { Beyond We call him a great horticulturist. | vald,-starting at the work of Loeb as a datum line, | ence will so hasten the evolutionary | But it will come like the old | re fitted the earth for man, and he flourishes | 3ut there is no evidence that the | Na-| ience and her changes are so slow that even now | the police have experienced a similar emotion of disgust.—Philadelphia |- OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PRESENT. T I | | {wonber wHo SENT réws;g[:i"m R 1T WAS WILLIE . SwO’:‘GEE! REAL ALLIGATOR SKIN. OH , ISNT. | | M AND THANK HIM FOR THIS PRECIOUS GIFT. | WONDER IF HE WILL EVER PROPOSE TO ME. IF HE | DoEs fLL SAY TYES® SO QUICK 1T | WiLL MAKE HIS HEADWSWIM, OH! | IM SO LOVESICK, I'M ‘SO CRAZY 8OUT : | | s QOPTRIGHT. IS AR YES THERE's Mis CARD "FROM YOUR LTTLE WiLLE® |SN'T HE SO GOOD To REMEMBER ME ? WHLIE, HAS SUCH A LARGE HEART ANTWAY [T5 JUST You- QH! YOU HORRID M WHAT_ HOW- DID YOU- WHERE BY THE NEW. YORK EVENING TELEGRAM (NEWXNORI-HERALD 1 WISH HE WAS HERE HOW, | WOy HUG AND KISS HIM, YOM YUM urt! HES A JEWEL. OH! WILUE COME, COME TO_MY ARMS. You ARE SO KIND AND TRUE. | WONDER HE IS NOW. | DUGHT TO PHONE +* + = | MARKET-NOTES | | IN PITTSBURG| | - | ECONCILIATIONS opened at { R $1,000,000 to-day and advanced brisk- | ly, under pressure of divorce pro- | ceedings, till the top price, $1,260,775 45, was reached at noon. A Bear rald, by the Steel Group of defendants, knocked the | price down later to $500,000, the figure at | elosing hour. i The arrival at New York of a cargo of | English show girls and Parisian ballet | dancers almost caused a panic in Co- | respondent Securities this morning. The 1foreign stock was instantly thrown on | the market and the American properties, | Chorus Girl Common, U. S. Vaudeville | and Serfo-Comic Preferred, went tumbling. { It was a busy day for the Steel Magnates, | for in order to protect their enormous | holdings, many of them having large | blocks of all three, they were obliged to |buy In at a loss all the C. G. Common, | U. 8. V. and 8. C. Pret. that was offered. | Even the Bond market was affected, Fe- madle Baritone 4's, usually steady, break- ing sharply K | The past week witnessed a rapld rise |in the rates for call alimony. Monday th rate was only 8 per cent, but by Wednesday it had increased to 14, and Thursday brought an additional jump to | 2. The local market exhibited a marked | tendency toward nervousness in conse- quence of the rise and rumors of-several new divorce suits had by no means a quieting influence. If the tightness con- tinues, Secretary Shaw will be asked to come to the market's rescue, but very few belleve that he will do so. The Gov- | ernment Divorce Report is awalted with anxiety.—Puck. \ Chappeigh—You're never going out in that suit. You'll make a spectacle of yourself, Cholly—Come with me, old chap, und we'll be a pair of spectacles. Kid—Paper, s Uncle Si—No, I'guess not. We'll git all them news up to Pumpkin- vilie Inside of er fortnight, any- way. I'll be hum by then. 5 " OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS | BY A J. WATERHOUSE, TRADING STAMPS IN HEAVEN. (A St. Louis clergyman has introduced trad- ing stamps Into his church as & meansi of en- couraging and increasing attendance at re- ligious exercises.) 3 HERE; was doubt in bright heaven. l The-angels flew, - Questioning, wondering, to and -fro, = And ever the saints' perplexity. grew, K And what they should do they were puz- zled to know; i And Peter, who sat by the great white gate, ‘Wept bitterly, bitterly, bliss to rout, As he sadly sighed, “I am-free to state This latest contrivance has knocked me out. There's the little green stamp, And the little pink stamp, Angd the little blue stamp, I trow, . But what bothers ‘me, | ~As wou all must see, Is whether they piety show.” A messenger came tg Saint Peter amain, And he whispered, “Now what is the row?” And Peter replied: plain, But here are the facts, anyhow. A soul has come here bearing bushels of stamps, e Each one by his pastor vised, And he offers, you know—and it's giving me cramps— The stack for glad heaven to trade. “I may not make it There's the little green stamp,* And the lttle pink stamp, And the cute little stamp in blue; And what's placing me In the state that you see Is what in—ahem!—I should do.” BUSINESS. New Clerk—Good morning, I'm ready to go to work. What would you like me to do first? Stockson Bonds—The first fellow that calls. sir. HE WAS. Goodhynge — Sponger borrowed another ten dollars from me to- doy. I wonder if he thinks I am well to do? - ‘ynicus—No; easy. R They puzzied six nights, and they puzzled six days, ‘While souls gathered still at the door, And the sight of those souls was a thing to amage, For trading stamps plastered them o'er. But the problem was solved, I'm delighted to say, By a method approval to win, For they bullt a large wing on the Lan of the Day, . To kéep all the trading stamps in. 5o the little green stamp, And the little pink stamp, And the little blue stamp I adore, Are all right if they Bear the pastor's vise, For they let you right in at the door. Full humbly I trust that no one will say My “sacrilege” shocketh him sore, For though I am blind and my stuff be of clay, I know there is Higher and More; But the One whom the churches com- memorate still, Contending that they are His fruit, Never thought, I owne. that heaven’s high hill [ Is gained by the trading-stamp route. So the little green stamp, And the little pink stamp, And the little biue stamp that we bore— I fancy we'll find That the pavement is 1i ‘With them, on this side of the door. IF— ‘The names and deeds of a few hundred or thousand men were removed from the history of the world, the condition to whieh we give the name of civilization would not exist. ‘We fancy that we have the capacity for thinking, let us consider the foregoing fact, and guess again. The record of your life were laid bare to ail men and women, don't you sup- pose that some very smug airs and graces would be laid away in the attic as rather unusable? Each one of us all was to be judged by merit rather than by pretense, would- 't some of us shudder a little at the prospect? You do not love 'your fellow men and act accordingly, about how loud should your hallelujahs be, do you think, in order to offset the fact in the records kept above? A CHAT WITH ANDROMACHUS, You are a bright young man, Andro- machus, as I need not inform you, for you have noticed the fact yourself. You now have received a beautiful diploma— which proves something, anything, or nothing—and {t is your present intention to break out on the world like an erup- tion, so that everybody will scratch him- self and say, "I wonder what alls me,” until he sees you—then he will under- stand. I do not wish to jar your bright dream, Andromachus, for I once had a bright dream myself, and I buried it with many sighs; but it ever occurred to you that several bright young men received their diplomas last year, and the year before that, and before that, and before— with hives on their account; it acts very it did not know that they " _fear and trembling I suggest, Andromachus, that there may be a pos- sibility—just a remote possibility, you un- the ranks ‘ments at a hotel. THE SMART Triends of the Holladay family WE'S immeasurably shocked and grieved lb 5 baseless story published yesterday by local paper concerning thelr fairs. & In the whole story, told with an & m:pt :t dramatic effect, n.henmlle:un;t of truth, save, ;‘;.Mm Brooke and her sister, m‘:‘l: jan Messer, took up temporary ap misstatement of facts 18 apparent from the assertion that Mrs. Durke Holladay, nee Huntington, has been persona non grata with her d:!u': in-law since her marriage. The fact that Mrs. Burke Holladay and her hus- band’s sisters have always fraternized together upon the very best of terms, and the reception given by ;?u. Holladay to Mrs, Brooke and Mrs. Messer last win- ter 18 still a pleasant memory. Besides. the most cordial relations are known to exist, now as always, between the elder Mrs. Holladay and her daughter-in-law, whose exemplary character and attain- ments are a :,um of great pride to the gray-hatred lady. As to the taking of the father—the brilliant ploneer lawyer—to the Burke Holladay home, it was planned for his pleasure and entirely with his consent, and with his wife's. Phis exploitation of a very simple and temporary rearrangement of a household is regrettable, and has caused great an- noyance to the family and much regret to its friends. Mrs. Brooke has gone south on an auto trip, one of the guests of James D. Phe- lan, as Mr. Hollady Sr. is not so {ll as is reported. . o Mrs. Gustavus A. Boyer entertained at five tables of bridge yesterday afternoon in her pretty home on Octavia street, the rooms being made more attractive by clusters of flowers, pink carnations and violets used in the drawing-room. while the hall held large jars of the fluffy yel- low acacia. The players were Miss Agnes Buchan- an, Miss Georgle Spleker, Miss Belle La- throp, Miss Susie McNab, Miss Allce Cowdery, Mrs. Frederic Spencer Palmer, Mrs. Willlam Watt, lMrs. Joseph Ander- son Chanslor, Mrs. Frederic Wilson Kimble, Mrs. L. G. Morrow, Mrs. W. H. Morrow, Mrs. Frederick Henshaw, Mrs. Erwin G. Rodolph, Mrs. J. Wilson Shiels, Mrs. Gerrit Livingston Lansing, Mrs. Thomas Benton Darragh, Mrs, Charles Deering, Mrs. Richard Davis, Mrs. Lou- ise Allender of Oakland, Mrs. Charles Jo- seph Meyerstein and Mrs. Frederick Ja- cobs. Following the game ‘several guests came for tea, among whom were Mrs. Frank J. Kerrigan, Mrs. Linda H. Bryan, Mrs. Robert Hanford, Mrs. Noble Eaton, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Ellicott and Mrs. Dean. The wholesale Mrs. Ernest Albert Stent entertained at an elaborate luncheon yesterday in her attractive Broadway home, the honored guest of the affair being Mrs. Haldimand Putnam Young. Covers were laid for fifteen and the table made a dainty pie- ture with its great drooping centerplece of pink carnations and Bridesmaid roses gracefully mingled with maidenhair fe Mrs. Young, whose visit in San Fran- PR ANSWERS T0 QUERIES. BURNS HANDICAP—Subscriber, City. The names of all the winners’ in the Burns handicap were published in The Call, Sunday, Jgnuary 28, 1906, page 44, column 1. N DIVORCE—-M. H., Lodi, Cal. In Cally fornia the grounds for divorce are adul- tery, cruelty, desertion one year, neglect one year, habitual drunkenness one year and conviction for felony. There s noth- ing in an interlocutory decree of divorce that would prevent elther party to the action keeping company with some one else, but such decree is to the effect that neither party to the action shall again marry until a year after sueh decree, when final decree is entered. The law of Californta does not prescribe that either party to an actlon for divorce shall re- main unmarried for any length of time after the final decree has been signed. | SET | B saily smw \ ¢isco has been filled with the attention of her old friends, was greeted yesterday Mrs. Bleanor Martin, Mrs. Henry Edwards Huntington, Mrs. Robert Greer, Mrs. Jessie Bowie-Detrick, Mrs. Christian Rets, Mrs: George Whittell, Mrs. Willlam Robinson of Philadelphia, Mrs. Walter Magee, Mrs. Eugene Lent. Mrs. Francis Sullivan, Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton, Mrs. John Brice and Mrs. Dunne of Boston. 2 Miss Alyce Sullivan, with her cousin, Miss Allce Dunne of Boston, and Mrs. Benjamin Jones Edger Are to be the hon- ored guests at a luncheon given by Mrs. Murray Orrick. The affair is dated for Thursday, February S, to take place at Mrs. Orrick’s home in Eauz Oakland. = I. W. Hellman was hnn!ehss at a ncheon yesterday at her home on s nndyli‘n.ukun streets. Thlr;y uests were bidden and following the l‘uncheon a delightful musical programme was offered. Mrs. Hellman decorated her rooms most artistically in beather with and roses. spring blouom' e o ki Mrs. Joseph C. Shinn (Florence l(lu‘yrh::f were the honored guests at a reception held by Mrs. H. A Mayh;_w last Saturday at her home in Niles. This was the first occasion upon which the granted a greeting of Mr. Mrs. large Sacramento ocoms were fillled with guests, over 150 having been bidden, and most attractive appearance was given ;y the tasteful and profuse arrange- ment of flowefs and and From 2 to 5 the = Miss Fannle Danforth was ons of yes- terday’s hostesses, entertaining several luncheont .uuh.. Miss Reme Kelly. sister, will receive at 2 -tmrhmomm'.-fmm . “at home™ will an The Mills Club give ey Y on Tuesday, February 13, from 1620 California lt:flE * | Lieutenant and Mrs. Willls Grandy ‘Peace Dorothy Dustan ars ssiling to-day on the transport Meade for their new homge in the Philippines. They will hold a veritable reception at the dock, whers a large number of friends will gather to see the departure of the young people. Lieutenant Peace will be stationed at Lieutenant and Mrs. David Tressl (Bernadetts Robinson) will leave San Francisco February 1§ for Boston, from which port they will set sail for thelr home In Florence. Passage bas been en- gaged on the steamer (:‘;noplc. . . Miss Vergilia Bogue {is convalescent from her serlous injury recently sus- tained at the Skating Club and is able to recetve in her apartments at the St. Francis. Miss Bogue is the daughter of Virgil Bogue, vice president and man- ager of the Western Pacific Raillroad. .——” SCHOOLMASTER'S SENTIMENTS. - ‘When in doubt take your wife along. If a man is not as brave as his convie- tions, what good are his convictions? Every German carries a soldier on his back, and every American keeps a poli- tician. B A man with his heels run down feels it in his brain. Your selfish man is the center of an admiring crowd—and he’'s the crowd, Don’t bother with the man who says the world is growing worse. 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