The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 23, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEI;RUARY 23, 1906. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL «eeseesee.. Proprictor JONN D. SPRECKELS............ - ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO FOHEN McNAUGHT CATION OFFICE ..FEBRUARY 23, 1906 BREEDING WHEAT. HEN the State Board of Trade first called attention to of off in our flour export, as not related of wheat produced but to a decline in misfortune of such a condition. It is of con- wheat is by no means confined to California. ussian field the same decline is found, and Eu- i that it was due to primitive and imper- 1. This is proved to be incorrect by the ch wheat. In no country in the world scientifically done as in France. It| ly proper plowing of the soil in preparation foré the grain is sown in drills it means careful cultiva- | 1e rows while the plant is growing. The fertilization carefully attended to and crops are rotated so taken from the soil by one may be restored by wother. - | that care two infirmities have befallen French| e exhaustion of the silicate that glazes and stiffens | the grain lodges or “overturns” as they call rain fall after the straw has reached its normal| weight of 1 ture on the heads and blades is too{ Wt 1s, the harvest is difficult and the grain | HPOSE( n it over se of this began later than that initiated in Califor- | Board of Trade. Experiments in the power of pan- proved many wheats deficient and the deficiency | gluten. The kind found highest was the Gros Blen, on other sorts and its hybrids “A” and rer in gluten than the English wheats. The | nd superiot to the winter varieties, except in lighter. But the use of wheat being for bread, | pon panification, a heavy yield with little | to the grower as. a lighter crop rich in that e g in the State Board of Trade is demon- Wheat gains in gluten when | French in the a shock. The gluten in wheat so treated loses | ts elements called gliadin, but even then is richer than grain 1 ¢ s we harvest fornia. The French experiments are | ex » bring wheat breeding and soil treatment into co-ordina- | f gluten wheat, and therefore are of the | 1 i These experiments are complicated | nd the overturning of the grain. No sugges- | s is made. The §ilicate is the flinty element | de solvent and converted by the plant to its g stalk. How it is to be returned to the soil exp d. If it be a primitive and not a derivative ele- can be no hope in rotation of root crops or legumes as a apparently, will resting the land entirely do any good. in California we have not this silicate complication. s on our grain after heading and it stands firmly after sted. We may learn something about harvest m the French. If our grain were cut before it is hard- v and the juices are all out'of the stalk, and then sweated it is probable that its gluten content would be in- » doubt by changing the harvest methods and breeding heat very strong in gluten we may correct the infirmities The last Legislature under the urgency of the State e appropriated money for enlightening experiments v in progress in the Agricultural Department of the | e University, and these experiences of French investigators will ioubt prove useful as guide THE GRAPE IN GREECE. 5 [ ne leading competitor of the California raisin is the Zante rrant, produced in Greece. It is a small seedless grape, orig- ated at Corinth, and called in Europe “Corinto,” and easily | into currant, which for a long time caused it to be confused | mon currant, the fruit of the shrub “ribes.” Since its| it a grape raisin our tariff has materially lessened its | port, and its place is largely taken by the raisin of our small seed- less grapes, the Sultana and Onstott. In Greece the Corinto vine has been the leading agricultural st. It is planted on 172,000 acres, and the average annual pro- | ct is 250,000,000 pounds. But since the limitation of the export | ) the United States, its place is being taken by wine grapes, and | Greek wines are assuming considerable importance. The wine | yards now exceed the Corinto vineyards, as they occupy 333,000 | acres, and the wine export in 1904 was 457,259 hectolitres. Of the total product 80 per cent is consumed in Greece. The falling off of Corinto culture in that country suggests the domestication of that grape in California. It is already successfully grown in Placer County and in a few other localities. Hardly any cther grape vine has played as great a part in history. Its fruit was one of the prized commercial articles in the trade of Venice. When the Turks controlled Greece ifs cultivation was entirely extirpated T from the main land, but it was planted on the island of Zante, and became known as the Zanti-Corinto. When it was restored to Greece it went back under that name. If it is preferred to our other seedless grapes, it can no doubt be successfully grown here. Our climate enables its drying and preparation by methods more accepta- to American taste than those followed in Greece. In that country is dried on beds of cow manure, because the moist climate re- quires the heat of fermentation in the substance on which it is spread to complete the drying process. Here no such revolting and unclean method is necessary AUDUBON AND THE @IRDS. O to wear with absolutely clear conscience according to the fiat of the Nation2! Association of Audubon Societies. That is unless they will consent to adorn themselves with anything so tame as the plumage of domestic fowls. Aigrettes, best loved of all plume ornament by the fair, are by the banded bird lovers most strictly tabooed of all. To continue wearing them means the total extinction of the white heron, and if we let that happen it will be poetic justice if in comsequence we lose some. important part of the blessing of the great gift of bird life to humanity. The time of the singing of birds is almost fully come, and the president is betimes in sending out the report he made to the members of the National Association at its first annual meeting as an incorporated body. That the Audubon decrees are not to be despised or even treated with a feathery lightness is evidenced by tthictory tone of the report. In two years its financial support has™uade a gain of 250 per cent. Contributors last year sent the society over $12,000. In that one year its model law was adopted in five States, including our own. With the single exception of Alabama, the Audubon legislation now controls every coast State in the Union, thus making its pro- tection of ‘sea birds practically complete.” So many of the interior States have passed the law fathered by the society that the Audubon decrees promise soon to have the scope of national legislation. Some of the large millinery establishments of the country act in conformity to its decisions about the ethics of feathers without waiting to be forced by legislative acts. In the past year they have been helped by the making of four new reservations for birds, by executive order of President Roosevelt. STRICH are the only fine feathers that the ladies are allowed loss of gluten, it was supposed by many that | t as well as encouragement to California wheat | at our experience is not singular and that loss | | English warehouses, so it was with the | 5000 mile longer voyage | —_——————————— GREAT CANALS AS PANIC CAUSERS. “The effect of opening the Suez ca- nal,” writes Willlam R. Stewart in the March Technical World Magazine, “was so marked in the first confusion which it introduced into the business world that it constituted one of the prime causes of the universal commer=- clal and industrial panic of 1873. “By transferring the distributing points for trade from England to the Mediterranean ports of Southern Eu- rope, it terminated the vast warehouse distribution system of the former country and led to the disappearance of the class of merchant princes who hitherto had monopolized the Bastern traffic. As it was with the owners of owners of hundreds of sailing vessels and the dealers in six months' bills. For the Suez canal, by bringing steam- ers into use in place of the salling vessels which had been making the around the Cape, enabled a cargo to be sold and delivered within a month after the order had been sent, and business men without capital were able to borrow money at a low rate and supplant the old established houses in the Eastern trade.” SAVE YOUR STRENGTH. To do things, then, in the easiest pos- sible manner, with the least outlay, the greatest economy of strength, is the prime secret of endurance. But this of itself is an art. Most people are so accustomed to a prodigal expenditureof force in the ordinary acts of every-day life that in walking, standing, shaking hands, hand- ling knife and fork and similar acts they use up an amount of energy which, by sctual measurement, I have found to be from three to twenty times more than necessary. Think of the result upon the health, power, endurance and general efficiency of the man who can save from tworthirds to nineteen-twentleths of the energy he habitually expends!—W. R. C. Latson, M. D., in “The Secret of En- durance” in the Outing Magazine for February. 1 R FAILURE. “Very frequently,” says a New York lawyer, “there is an element of un- consclous humor in the findings of a jury. To my mind, the best I ever heard in this connection was the verdict brought in by a Coroner’s jury in’ Michigan, who were called upon to pass upon the case of the sudden death of a merchant in Lansing. “The finding was as follows: ‘We, the jury, find from the physiclan’s statement that the deceased came to his death from heart failure, superinduced by business failure, which was caused by specula- tion failure, which was the result of failure to see far enough ahead.’ ”—Har- per's Weekly. THE USUAL DIVISION. A day or two before the recent gub- ernatorial election in Ohio, a number of politicians in Washington were dis- cussing the probable results, when some one asked Representative John ‘Willlams, leader of the minority in the House, how the situation appeared to him. “Well,” sald Willlams, with a smile, “it seems to me that there Is the usual division—those pledged to the Herrick faction, those pledged to the adminls- tration’s choice, those pledged to the Democracy and those pledged to all three."—Success Magazine. LIMITED SERVICE. Bishop Brewster of Connecticut, while visiting some friends not long ago, tucked his napkin in his collar to avold the juice of the grape-fruit at breakfast. He laughed as he did it, and said it reminded him of a man he once knew who rushed into a restau- rant and, seating himself at a table, proceeded to tuck his napkin under his chin. He then called a walter and said, “Can I get lunch here?” “Yes,” responded the walter in a dig- nified manner, “but not a shampoo.”— Lippincott's. SADNESS IS HER LOT. SCIENTIFICALLY FED | cows MILKED By MACHINERY ————— «“Why are you grieved, my pretty maid?” «“My occupation is gone,” she said. N0 WAITERS, NO TIPS, NO DELAYS. In the March issue of The Techni- cal World Magazine Fritz Morris de- scribes the ingenious automatic res- taurants which have recently been in- troduced in Berlin. “Cabinets with glass fronts line the walls,” Mr. Morris writes, “and through these glass fronts are to be seen rows and rows of little elevators, with the slots and mechanism for working them. On one side of the res- taurant is fitted an ‘automat’ bar, where, by dropping the indicated price into the proper slot, the wished-for drink comes to the walting customer, Shelves all around, on the little eleva- tors, bring up hot soup, hot roasts, cold meats, ples, sandwiches, tea, coffee— in fact, whatever 1s on the menu, and that is changed daily. All the cus- tomer has to do {s to decidewwhat he ‘wants, drop his coin in the little open- ing and await results. In less than a minute up comes his meal, raised by electricity from the kitchen in the basement, and it comes either steaming hot or ice cold, just as ordered, and clean, fresh and sweet, with no dirty handed waiter, with black cuffs and greasy napkin, to take your appetite away while handing it to you.” THE ESCAPE. She awakes from a deep sleep to find the flames roaring and crackling all about her. “Merciful heavens! am I lost?” she cries. No; on the contrary. The fire, in point of fact, has heated her curling tongs to such a degree that she can make ready to effect her escape without the loss of a precious moment. “How little we know!” she murmurs, when at last she i{s borne down the lad- der, looking too sweet.—Puck. CHAHPION HANDSHAKER. To his many other distinctions Presi- dent Roosevelt has recently added that of being the champion handshaker of the United States and probably of the world. At the New Year's reception of 1906 in the White House the President, in three hours and forty-four minutes, shook hands with 9052 persons, or at the rate of forty per minute. This surpasses even the high record he made last year, and, as practice makes perfect, he will doubt- less do still better on January 1, 1807.— Leslie's Weekly. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR: A girl would almost as lief write a novel as have curly hair. ; There {s more money in not spending what you make than in trying to make it to spend. It's 2 good deal of fun to surprise a girl into thinking you aren’t going to kiss her and then doing it. There is no time when a baby really seems to enjoy a long cry the way he does at 3 o'clock in the morning. ‘When a man can't sleep because he ate lobster salad for supper, he thinks it is a great idea whirling in his brain.—New York Press, s A i —CHICAGO INTER OCEAN. A REYERSAL. “I once attended some legal proceed- ings In Nevada,” says a Philadelphia lawyer, ‘“which were unconventional, to say the least. The Judge presiding made up what he lacked In legal lore by a certain entertaining joviality. The case before him was windy and long drawn out, and it was plainly to be seen that he was tired and unin- terested. To one of his decisions coun- sel for the defendant promptly took exception and his Honor nodded care- lessly and settled down in his ample chair. For a moment or two he quietly dropped off to sleep, his chalr tilted back against the wall. Suddenly he fell over backward, and, scrambling to his dignity and his seat, he sought to cloak his mishap by exclaiming ab- ruptly and irrelevantly, ‘No, counselor, I must adhere to my decision of a mo- ment ago.” “Counsel for the defense arose and with a serlous bow sald, ‘Ah, but your Honor has just reversed himself most conclusively.’ "—Harper's Weekly. ANSWERS T0 QUERIES, GOLDSMITH MAID—Subscriber, City. Goldsmith Maid made her best time, 2:14, at Mystic Park, Boston, Mass., in 1874. A GENTLEMAN-B. 8., City. For such information as you desire in regard to Mark Twain's “How to Be a Gentleman” Yyou had better direct a letter of inquiry to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Bridgeport, Conn., as the information is not obtainable in this city. GENERAL CANBY—S. 8. C, City. General E. R. 8. Canby, while in charge of the Department of the Columbia, was treacherously shot and killed by “Chief” Jack April 11, 1873, while trying to arrange for the removal of the Modoc Indians from Northern Cali- fornia. GOLDEN GATE—Subscriber, City, The Apnals of San Francisco, published in 1854, gives the following as the origin of the name “Golden Gate,” applied to the straits that are the entrance to the bay of San Francisco: “The mid entrance to the bay of San Francisco lies in latitude 37 degrees 48 minutes north, and longitude 122 degrees 30 minutes west from Green- wich. This is a straft, running nearly northeast, called Chrysopaloe, or the Golden Gate, about five mlles land and of an average width of one and a half or two miles. The name ‘Golden Gate' first appears in the ‘Geographical Memolr of California,’ and relative map published by Colonel Fremont in the spring of 1848. The term was descriptive, not of the literal golden region within, then as yet undiscovered, but merely of the rich and fertile country which surrounded the shores of the bay, and of the wealth which the commerce of the Pacific, passing through the strait, would certainly give to the future great city of the place. The name was probably suggested by the Golden Horn of Constan- tinople. Since the discovery of the aurif- erous character of the country, the title has become of a still more happy nature; and its bestower must surely have had a prophetic soul, though he himself knew it not.” —_— SHARP WORDS OF THE FAIR ONES. He—Yes, Blinker always sings at his work, - - She—How he must hate it. He (after an ui te remark) —You must have thought it queer of me to have made that remark. fio—flo, I thought it quite nat- ural. Occidental ' Accidentals BY A.J. WATERHOUSE. SRR E STORY OF THE DEAR LITTLE GIRL. NCE upon a time there was a Dear Little Girl whose Fond Parents ma adored her the hardest, for her Papa occasionally saw .a’few frills which he thought off to be taken off and proceeded to take them off—which pained the Dear Little Girl and made her very smart, “Now, Henry," said the Mamma of the Dear Little Girl to the Papa, “our Eve-| Iyn is so very bright—she is just like her ma—that I feel we should give her Every Opportunity”; and the Papa said they would do so if the Family Exchequer made good. So it came to pass, as time kept right on fugiting, that the Dear Little Girl se- cured a Very Superior Education. She | was way up in Mathematics, and her Latin would surprise an ancient Roman | if he ever suspected it, and she could | read German so that a German would think it was French, and French so that a Frenchman would think it was Gerran, | and she was so philosophical that she could ftell you how everything was and why nothing was, and she had a Real University Diploma. Oh, I tell you she | was highly Educated, and she had to let out her laces In order to hold her learn- ing; and her education had cost her Papa and Mamma Thousands of Dollars. About this time along came a Wooden- headed Chump of Limited Capacity, with the mere frazzle-ends of an education, and the Dear Little Girl, now a Beauti- ful and Accomplished Young Lady, fell Dead in Love with him; and so they were married. \ Drop the curtain, dear boy, preliminary to another act. Ten years have passed, and the Dear Little Girl still is trotting with the Wooden-headed Chump. But, ah, what a change! The Dear Little Girl wouldn't know Higher Mathematics from Paleontology if she were suddenly intro- duced to both of them; her Music and El- ocution—I did not mention them, but they were on the programme—are lald away in the Garret for Unused Things, and she could not play “The Maiden's Dream’ or recite “Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night,” with which productions she used to with- er her audiences; the printipal thing she knows about Latin is that it is not found in any cook book. Oh, you bet there has been a change! The Beautiful and Ae- complished Young Lady non est comeati- bus; in her place s a combined cooking, sewing and washing machine. You ask why this should be, dear boy? I give it up. In fact, I don’t think it should be, but alas and alas! sometimes it is. And what can be done about it? Not a blessed thing, my boy; not a blessed thing! If Beautiful and Accom- plished Young Ladies wish to assert their privilege of falling in love with Wooden- headed Chumps, they will assert it, and may you and I go whistle to the winds! But, at the same time, I do think it is hard on the Doting Papas and Mammas who blow in their Cash on the Glrls; yes, I really do. But probably I am mistaken in this idea. Do you think so, dear boy? And what doés your Sweet Sister think? THE GOSPEL OF LAUGHTER. Here's to the gospel of laughter, no matter by whom it is preached, And here’s to the cheer that {llumines this sphere wherever that gospel has reached. Pulpit or office or counter, kitchen or laundry or ‘pews: Little we mind where the preachers stand or what are the texts they choose, For over and over, the wide world round, and over and under, indeed, The gospel of laughter fs still the same, and a smile in the heart is its creed. And it's hey for the hey! And it's bha for the ha! And it's ho for the ho, ho, ho! For the doctrine of blliss Forever is this: Just smile, and your troubles will go. Ohb, there's many a formula, many a creed, to gladden the soul that's oppressed, And haply they minister unto our need, but the gospel of laughter i Dest. ‘ Oh, the birds sing a song in the heart of the wood, and sweet i3 their singing for aye; And the listening brooks that have half under- stood e'er murmur a drowsy reply; On the harp of the trees the fingers of wind are playing a mythical tune, A thousand wee volces the chorus maintain and join In the marvelous rune. AD, sweet is the orchestra Nature doth lead, its players e'er heeding her call, But the music that rings in a laugh of good cheer is sweeter and better than all. 8o it's hey for the hey! i And it's ha for the ha! And it's ho for the ho, ho, hol For the doctrine of joy Forever, my boy, s, Smile, and your troubles will gd. 2 1 O, the deuce take the droning and mumbling of those who'd measure us all by thelr test, For the gospel of laughter, wherever 'tis found, forever and ever is best. “was it not Willlam H. Seward who said, “There is a higher law than the Constitution?” “Yes. “Almost seems like a prophecy, doesn’t it, when one recollects that the Standard Oll Company was not in existence at that time?” “What is an antonym?” “It is the opposite of synonym." “Then, what is a synonym?" “Well, it is the—the—why, it Is the op- posite of antonym, you know.” “My son had a good mind, I think, He—I fell down the steps last night and was knocked senseless. She—When do you expect to re- gain consclousness? perfectly adored her; but her Mam- | where he landed. | The Smart Set. "BY SALLY SHARP. B — Great delight prevails among /the pat- ronesses of the Assembly, who have been able through the influence of Mrs. Bow- man McCalla to obtain most beautiful and rare decorations for the Mardi Gras next Tuesday evening. By courtesy of i the Sécretary of the Navy at Washing- n ob j ton flags of every nation have be | tained in quantity and will adorn the { large ballroom at the Palace. No small j importance attaches to this favor, while | satisfaction falls upon more than one head, the “jackies” at Mare Islad hav- ing also been instrumental in obtaining the flags, doing so gladly for Mrs. Me- Calla, who is kind to them at all times. e e General and Mrs. Charles Austin Coolidge held a delightful reception in their home yesterday in honor of Cparles Woodruff, son of General Wood- ruff, who has recently arrived from the Naval Academy at Annapelis to join the Chicago. Mr. Woodruff is a passed midshipman. Mrs. Coolidge was as- sisted in the reception of her guests by Miss Febiger, nearly thirty being bidden to meet the young naval man. . s . Several hundred callers responded yesterday afternoon to cards semt out by Mrs. William Harrison Mills, Miss Ardella Mills and Miss Elizabeth Mills to meet Miss Elizabeth Huntington, whose marriage is a nearby event. The new Mills home on Pacific avenue was attractively adorned with flowers, while a receiving party of thirty assisted the hostesses. gk JEire Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Knight will en- tertain at a dinner this evening prios to attending the Greenway ball. > L s Mrs. Stanley Stillman will entertain at a tea to-day in homor of Mrs, Joseph Chamberlain. & ok Among today’s bridge hostesses will be Mrs. Willilam Weir and Mrs. Henry L Dodge, the latter entertaining for her guests Mrs. Hodgson and Mrs. Bigelow. e e Mrs. Henry Payot will be at home today in the old Payot home, 922 Ellis street. Mrs. Willlam Winder Was hostess at a luncheon in the Palm Garden yesterday, honoring Mrs. ,Charles Plummer Perkins, the guests including Mrs. Ynez Shorb ‘White, Mrs. Maleolm Henry, Mrs. Milton Pray, Miss Fannie Pray and Miss Leila Shelby. r e TR Mrs. Ryland Wallace entertained a score of guests at bridge yesterday. 0 Mrs. Haldimand Putnam Young will leave on Sunday for her home at the Schuylkill arsenal, after spending six weeks as the guest of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Hunter Voorhles, SR A A farewell luncheon was given in honor of Mrs. Young on Wednesday by M John F. Swift at her home on Valenc! street, those bidden for the affair inc! ing Mrs. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Mrs. Horace Davis, Mrs. Edwin W. Newhall, Mrs. Ernest Sylvester Simpson, Mrs. Cur- ran Clark. Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray, Mrs. Charles W. Slack, Mrs. F. G. San- born, Miss Anna Beaver and Miss Hughes. Another engagement surprise is that of Miss Edna Hannigan and Arthur Griffiin Duncan, announced yesterday afternoon at a tea given by Miss Hannigan. The young flancee is extremely pretty and in type Hke her sister, Miss Josephine, who, though not formally out. has attended several of this season’s society funetions. Mr. Duncan is an Eastern man, though well acquainted in town, where he has resided for a year or two. The wedding will probably be an event of the near future. and I thought of having him go into one of the learned professions, but [ was very desirous that he should make at least enough money to insure him and his a comfortable living in this world, so I finally changed my mind." “What did you make of him? “A pugilist.” S1 BUTTED IN. Whatever wus doin’, ef S1 wus eround, He butted right in; No matter who laughed an’ no matter whe f ‘rowned, Or sald "twas a sin; He jest took a hand in whatever wus done, A’ lLikeways tock a share fn whatever wua won. It wan't any use ter scatter or rum, ‘When Si butted . The women one time hed a charity fair, An’ St butted in; An showed ‘em jest how, ef managed with care, "Twas sartin to win. Waal, they's money that's made in that kind That Si took the proceeds an’ they took the fame, ‘When Si butted in. Ole Death come a-lookin® fer some one ter git, An’ Si butted In: An’' Death merely whispered, “I jedge you are It™ The same with a grin; An’ T'd like to bet somethin’ that in = fromt row Ot"heaven SU's halo is makin' & show, While Peter is wond'rin’ what happened, you know, ‘When St butted in. Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candies in_artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Mu-:u. - ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali- forria street. Telephone Main 1042, Freda—Yes, Flossy, a scandal is | like 2 mat. | Ph-vh‘l'h' is that? i Freda— it be o lD.. may be lald at any ’ [N