The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1906, Page 8

: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 19uv. k. HE bAN FRANCISCO CALL .Proprietor ¢ H\ D. FOIIN McNAUGHT. TION OFFICE.. ]LL-RL"\R\ 24, 1906 PROTECTING THE BIRDS use of wild birds in matural economy is undoubted. They to maintain the natural equilibrium. Without insects and vermin destructive to plants and crops mul- cked y what is needed for the uses of man. “Birds of Killingworth” describes what happened rose up against the birds, because robins took and other birds helped themselves to a dessert They were 2ll killed in the spring, and then: ummer came and all the birds were dead; lays were like hot coals, the very ground burned to ashes; in the.orchards fed {hu]‘l“n’:, and around v and garden beds f devouring insects crawled and found check their march, till they had made land a desert, without leaf or shade. ms, like Herod, was the town, Herod, it had ruthlessly ghtered the innocents.” necessar; and destro; fields Hosts « W ke > protection of birds has been taken up by the in an effort to balance the good done against upon fruit and some other crops by birds, in seek- their diet. The fruit growers were inimical to clared that insectivorous birds were bccommg fruit on was found in a succession of dry summers, scarce. The birds took to a fruit diet in the nd brought up their young on it. The generation the nest instinctively took to it as a natural diet. hange wrought in the New Zealand parrot, naturally But once in a dry time, when there was famine | focd, this bird frequented slaughtering places and fed of sheep. It has now become a pest. Parrots light of sheep and with their bills tear the back open over 1g e ]xm,uJ fat, of course killing the sheep. ish in v aided by ornithologists develops the fact classify birds as insectivorous and do not hesitate to take a mixed diet under the One Surrey fruit grower presented a strong brown thrush for eating his currants and torney for the thrush proved that all the 1gs, worms and grubs, but in the summer currants. The lovely Iture th orge possible \vxhc} hunger. the th to clearly against But strawberries and ¢ es was acquitted on the ground that for the y entitled to pay. The chaffinch was pre- death penalty, because it liked a little turnip in its ly took some newly sprouted cabbage and rad- ved that this bird feeds its young entirely on , the looper caterpillar and the dreaded caterpil- | ond back moth—verdict, not guilty. yut on trial, defended and acquitted were the tomtit, | h, goldfinch, rook, lapwing, starling, jackdaw, mag- by taking for the nal g heat shrike and sparrow. They were all acquitted L t the sparrow, the same English sparrow that is a |- st he ound that this bird drives others away, keeps sts es a great deal of harm and o good, pays nothing | 1 i lodging. In this verdict the United States will | I sparrow is a nuisance and threatens in this | It is a seed eater, and not until within it known 1\\»<?'i\'el\ to vary its diet. Then in many localities near to cities it has infl icted | The birds gather by hundreds in 3 fig‘ fruit behind. The sparrow is an | and has no rural Burlingame. | pest. ad 1 that crop. the ripe a town hou eeps only e, hat fruit. As the fig in this State is in bearing nber, the sparrows have a long season in which Dece ) it. If it dure them to drop. their urban habits and take | the fig :a ers will have a pr(\blem on their hands. | t meeting of the English investigators took up the ! » great thief and is fond of the eggs of other birds. hen. It seemed as if nothing could save his chances of the jay were blue. But it was found destructive cockchafer, wire worm and leather | i T‘ € ’.‘H'..K‘ux, the deed, the uct t of henhouses. owers in California complain of many of these wild with the exception of the English sparrow it is probable they collect in the form of a little fruit is meager e good they do in destroying all sorts of noxious worms 1f the birds of the State were exterminated, the fate orth would be ours. LABOR IN PORTO RICO. KILL in management of labor backed up by capital enough to S buy machinery and do agricultural work with improved meth- ods seems to be much needed in Porto Rico. million people on our newly acquired island, mostly peons, and the men are willing to work for from 23 to 50 cents per day. The labor condition there is of a great body of men looking for jobs, of which there are not enough to go round. Twenty-two per cent of the chil- ren work. The workers often live in leaky shacks. A 5-cent break- satisfies them. The Labor Bureau reports that much of the leged inefficiency of the labor is due to the unintelligent manner h it has been directed. The planters are not skilled agri- urists, American enterprise should there find for itself a great field, not only for making money, but to start improved industrial conditions that would uplift this nearly million population out of poverty and illiteracy. In poverty they certainly are, and yet the information of con- there furnishes a curious illustration of how people can be n one way and yet wealthy in another. The marriage fee in Porto Rico is one dollar only, but a very large proportion of the men and women there enter into relationships that are extramarital for the simple reason that they have not saved up a dollar with which to pay the license, little as it is. Many of these parties have no desire to avoid making the union permanent—they dispense with the marriage ceremony merely because they haven’t the necssary dollar to buy its permission. Such an utterly uncapitalized enterprise is not considered im- provident, nor reckless as to the fate of resultant children. So ex- uberant is the land in providing food that the prospective parents count upon sustenance for their offspring as sqmething almost as zssured as the free air of heaven until they are old enough to work for themselves. So that while the lack of the one legitimating dol- lar seems appalling poverty, the Porto Rican condition is" wealth in a way ——especxallv seen to be so when we compare it with many ilized communities where the average industrious man is nearly rtv vears old before he can provide sustenance sufficient to begin mily home. » W. J. Bryan announces as on~ of the discoveries in his tour around the yrld that Japan is the home of the earthquake. And Bill he knows an rthquake when he meets one.—Kansas City ‘Weérld. : 7 SR AR S New Jersey is talking of killing the trusts exactly as though infanticide were not a crime.—Charleston News and Courlen, 1g figs it goes into the country on regular | = i he was acquitted with the admonition of the court | The Legislature has been asked to | There are a : WELL, SWEE P HEART, PET. | MUST GO. 'YaUR PAPA 1) WINDING THE Ctock. SO GOOD NIGH‘U' UMMMMM! WHY PAPA! You ARE $0 IMPATIENT! I'M HERE' COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY JHE NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM (NEW YORK HERALD COJ ™ | OLD MAIDS ARE DOING WELL BY DOROTHY FENIMORE GAIN the troubles of the Ameri- A can wife and her titled hubsand are wafting over seas and mate- rializing in lavishly printed reports in the newspapers. Occasion is being taken to supple- ment these reports with dissertations regarding the appearance of the Amer- fcan woman in alien countries in transient and permanent capacities. In native publications she is scolded and ridiculed and admonished for tak- ing chances at happiness as a presid- ing genfus of domestic realms outside the boundaries of her own country. In foreign publications she is taken to task for rebelling against long-estab- lished marital confditions. She 1s condemned for not subverting her native expectations of conjugal equality to the independence of the lord of the manor, in accord with the customs of the country in which she lives. In unstinted measure she is ac- cused of - stirring up other domestic discords. than her own by her precepts and example. Quotations from “The Deleterious Effects of Americanization Upon Wo- cadow S is or i 1 meadow lark. It is one of the most beautiful of our e by H B, Marriott) Watson in e ng birds, in ynumage and note, and deserves only ‘OiNmememn Centurd, are now cropping have good said of it. Some kill it for food, but the men who will | out in certain current literature as be- eat a meadow lark or a robin would swallow a flute to destroy its | ing apropos to the latest turmoil in the melody. American-European family. For in- R stance: “As to the American woman, the flower of this plutocracy, we have had many opportunities of studying her, for she has undertaken to annex as much |‘of Europe as practicable, and has suc- ceeded very fairly. It is absurd to ig- | nore the obvious bargain upon which such matches are made. On the one side money and on the other side In- fluence and position. It is considered by the taste of today quite a creditable thing that some pork packer's dollars from Chicago should buy a coronet in | Mayfair. | “The character of the American wo- man, like that of the man, is the prod- uct of this rankly commercial age. Not only mentally and morally, but chiefly | physically, does she embody this la- mentable ‘retrogression from the sav- age' from whom, after all, the dynamic force of a race is derfved.” Mr. Watson deduces opinions from other critics and agrees that: “American women are deliberately turn- ing their backs on natural sentiment, and not alons in the moneyed classes. Even among factory girls there is a constantly increasing coldness and commercialism of temperament. The American woman is restless, dissatisfled. Social attainments, material achievements, alike in high classes and low, have drawn her toward a destiny that is not moral.” Then Mr. Watson lugubriously adds: “The factories are full of old malds, The colleges are full of old malds. The ballrooms in the worldly centers are full of old maids. For natural obligations are substituted the fictitious duties of ¢lubs, committees or organizations, professivns, a thousand unwomanly occupations. The education she regelves tends to Tender own peculiar forces and their natural ex- pression. The new era of woman as rep- resented in the United States certainly affects me, personally, with distaste and misgivings.” Chicago is named as the center of the “deleterious effect,” and the “effect” is designated a contaglous disease that spreads over the United States and crosses the sea and onu-un-u- the women of Europe. AL thig Is satin; wew mlm her indifferent to or contemptuous of her | of a howling lonesomeness Isn't it? Especially so in the brain of H. B. Mar- riott Watson, who doesn’t hesitate in his belief that— “Whereas, the savage woman acted as a beast of burden to her lard, the Ameri- can man works like a beast of burden be- side his triumphing lady."” The troubles of the American-European family aside, in behalf of which the Wat- ! son wail is being quoted, conditions are adjusting themselves to a sort of tit-for- tat supremacy. It seems that in the mod-. ern age woman is getting recompense for the tyranny piled on the “savage” of her sex decades ago. Clearly, the long road has turned. No wonder European political econo- mists and social scientists are wondering if a right of way will be conceded to this road in their respective countries. . Meantime the old maid, especially ram- pant in the United States, seems to be getting along comfortably—and has no row on with anybody but herseif. HOW T0 CHANGE YOUR LUCK. It is told of Schlemann, the ex- humer of buried cities of the ancient world, that he was pursued by ill luck in his earlier undertakings. Mention- ing the fact to a friend the latter asked him which leg and arm he first inserted in trousers and coat. Schlie- mann said he habitually Inserted the right. “That {s the cause of your mis- | fortunes,” said his frijend. “You have offended the left-hand fairies and they take out their vengeance on you. Re- verse your habit and see’ “And,” sald Schliemann, in telling the inci- dent in his later and prosperous years, “you see how it changed luck.” This we contribute in refutation of the dictum of The Sun that “the left is inauspicious and the rightarmand leg have the right and the best of it."—St. Paul Dispatch. JUST CURIOUS. — Tourist—What's that crowd down at the Courthouse? Native—Oh, they're tryin’ the case o' Sam Johnson, suh. ! Tourist—Sam Johnson? Why, that was the man that was lynched yester- day, wasn’t it? Native—Yaas, suh, but to-day some o' the boys got to feelin’ cur'ous to know whethah he was innocent or guilty, suh.—Philadelphia Press. ALL HE PROMISED. “Good morning,” said the office- seeker. “I suppose you—er—remem- ber me? I saw you before the election and you—er—' for man. “Well?" interrupted the political boss, curtly. “Well, you—er—promised to keep me in mind—" “Well, I'm keeping keeping you thl ou there, sir. '—Philadelphia EASY PREY. Tess—I think Mies Passay expects to be married pretty soon. Jess—Oh, impossible! - Tess—Fact. She tells me there's a simple-minded young fellow calling at their house now who {s under financial obligation to her nmr—.rnum-l»‘fl' i PRSI A She Saved Her Fare, Anyway HE beautiful woman in the Per- T sian lamb coat stopped at the foot of the bridge station stairway and put up her volce in fervent appeal to anybody who happened to be within hearing distance. “‘Oh, dear,” she wailed, “I forgot.” “Forgot what?" asked a sympathetic woman who stood nearby. “Oh—nothing. But maybe I can get it yet,” said the fur-clad sufferer. An instant later she pounced upon a subway employe stationed on the platform. “Do they keep newspapers down here?” she asked. “No,” said he, “they're upstairs.” “Can 1 go up and get one and come down again without paying another fare?” “No,” he replied again, “if you pass through the gate you'll have to pay.” “Isn’t that a shame?” sighed the Per- sian lamb woman. “I can’t do that. This old road gets enough of my money, anyway, without my deliberate- 1y throwing money into its pocketbook. Still, I do want a paper so badly.” “What paper do you want, ma'am?”’ said the employe. “I'll go up and get you one.” “Will you?” exclaimed the beauty. “Oh, how sweet of you. I hate to put you to all that trouble, but I must have a paper and I simply can’t afford to pay an extra fare.” She gave him a cent and in less than a minute he was back with a paper. “Oh, thank you,” said she eweetly. Then she opened her purse, took out a coin and dropped it into the employe's palm. “For goodness sake,” said the woman who stood nearby. “Did you tip him?” “Yes, of course,” said the hervine. “I gave him a dime. I couldn’t let him wait on me for nothing, could I?"—New York Press. WERT UP IN THE AIR. An old patriarch and his wife from the hills of Indian Territory were rid- ing on a rallroad train in the Choctaw Natlon for the first time In their lives. They were very much interested in the scenery and the novelty of their ex- perience when the train suddenly ran upon a long trestle. Looking out of the window the old people saw the ground recede from beneath them and they held their breath In abject terror. ‘When the train finally reached the dirt roadbed again the old woman looked at her husband with a sigh of relief and said: “Thank the Lord. Silas, we've 1it!"—Detroit News. JURORS PLEADED GUILTY. - A young man was on frial in Inde- pendence, Kans. for stealing water- melons. When the jury had retired the foreman asked all those who had never stolen melons to stand up and be counted. Not a juror moved and a verdict of not gullty, was returned.—. Kansas City Star. B THEDD B Visitor (from Upcreek)—Don't rou people get tired of flu‘nflrmc of the automobile horns? cmun—'rm don’t say “toot” to me. They say "—Chicago Tribune. Townsend's California glace fruits holcest candies it .éfiud ‘boxes, New -tanfim" prs- Ml information mlld daily to and “‘U'fi RREeh ticipating. A general prevalence of wigs 2 2 The Smart Set%%l BY " SALLY SHARP —+ +* Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Maurer have issued . cards for a studio tea next Saturday afternoon, March 2, at their studio on Sutter street. SEE ey * Mrs. William Mayo Newhall will enter- tain at a tea tomorrow afterncon in her home at Scott and Green streets. .y Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Knight enter- tained thirty guests at an elaborate din- ner last evening, the marble room of the Palace being chosen. 0 large round tables bearing a lovely burden of rich yellow jonquils seated the guests, who afterward with their host and hostess at- tended the Greenway ball. o ey The Saturday Night Cotillon Club will glve a dance this evening in Cotillon Hall, though not the last for the season, the final dance to be held after Lent, on April 2L ‘ . . The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Call- fornia will entertain today at their an- nual breakfast. It will be held in Cen- tury Club Hall. . o The colonial @ance at the Sequoia Club Thursday evening provoked general ad- miration from the lookers-on, besides proving an evening of delignt to all par- and powdered coiffures preserved the air of olden times, a few costumes adding pretty emphasis. Two score of dancers passed several hours in gayety. . . . The marriage of Miss Edna Hannigan and Arthur Griffin Duncan has been set for an early date. Those receiving with Miss Hannigan at her announcement tea on Thursday were Miss Maybelle Toy, Miss Floride Hunt, Miss Norma Castle, Miss Marcia Warren, Miss Brent Wat- kins, Miss Ethel Shorb, Miss Ruth Mer- rill, Miss Gertrude Palmer, Mrs. Thomas Bentcn Darragh and Mrs. Paul Bancroft. ArE . Mrs. Willlam Weir entertained at a large bridge party yesterday afternqon. & Gt A large tea was given yesterday after- noon by Mrs. Stanley Stillman, who en- tertained manv callers in honor of Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain (Elizabeth Stillman), who is on the eve of departure for Eu- rope, to be gone several months. . T Mrs. Henry L. Dodge was hostess at bridge vesterday, nearly sixty guests be- ing delightfully entertained. The affair was given in honor of Mrs. Bigelow and Mrs. Hodgson, who are visiting Mrs. Dodge. . . A musicale was given a few days ago by Mrs. Emil Pohli at her new home on Ashbury Heights, those contributing to the programme being Miss Louvia Rog- ers, Miss Ethel Cooper, Frederick Maurer Jr. and Otto Kunitz. Ameong the guests who enjoyed the afternoon were Mrs. John D. Sibley, Mrs. Charles Stetson Wheeler, Mrs. -Roy V. Whiting, Mrs. William Boericke, Mrs. John Harold Philip, Mrs. Ryan Lane, Mrs. Charles W. Reed, Miss Ruth Pow- ers and Miss Bishop. o Mrs, Charles S. Middleton has issued cards for a large reception to be held o ach . . - Miss Mattle Livermore will leave next month for the East en route for Europe, sailing by way of the Mediterranean. She will accompany Mrs. Clement, and within the year will be joined by her mother and sister, Mrs. Horatio Putnam Livermore and Miss Elizabeth Livermore, . Occidental Accidentals BY A. J. WATERHOUSE S RIS RAETE MAN WHO WAS TRULY GOOD. NCE upon a time there was a man O who was Truly Good. I write the words with hesitancy, for I have met several men in my time; but as all those who were nearest to him were agreed that he was Truly Good, and as his wife and children, who were nearest of all to him, were perfectly assured that heewas Just the Dearest and Best Mag, it is not for me to gainsay their opinfon, To be sure, the Boys held a different theory concerning him, but, then, the Boys are but hopeless skeptics, at best. So the Truly Good Man lived and was held in Highest Honor and Esteem by all who knew him—except the Boys—and when he died he had a Magnificent Fu- | neral, which must have flattered him greatly, if he had known anything about it After the Truly Good Man was non est— which is the Latin for played out, or grabbed his last nickel—he wended his way to the Pearly Gate, for although he was nct much of a walker, the cars were not running in that direction and he de- sired to get there, and it always had been a rule with him to “get there” whenever it was possikle. “Hold!"" cried the Guardian of the Pearly Gate, “I will have to look up yoyr record before you enter—and then per- haps you cannot.” “Do you keep a record of all a man's deeds?” the Truly Good Man inquired. “Indeed I do; and of his thoughts as well,” was the answer. The Truly Good Man paused, as in painful thought, for a few moments; then— “Is this record open to the inspection of everybody?’ he anxiously asked. “Necessarily,” was the reply; “it could not be otherwise.” “And will my wife and children see it?"” “Probably they will.”” The Truly Good Man again pondered ; then he once more spoke. he sald, “if you will accidental- ly—just accidentally, you understand— smear and blot that page in your book so that it certainly can be read by no- body, you may send me down stairs with- out another bit of investigation, and I never will make a complaint.” But, of course, the Guardian of the Pearly Gate had to comply with his reg- ular formula, and so the Truly Good Man got left. Moral—I cannot concfivo ‘why the Truly Good Man acted in this manner, but don't you suppose that there may be others of his kind who would be glad to act in the same way? “He is a patriot, is he not?” “No, he is a politician.” “Well, what is the difference?” *“Why, one does all he can for his coun- try, and the other does his country all he can.” “Have you any assurance that he will do 17" “Well, he pledged me his honor that he would.” “Yes, but did he put up anything that he would miss if he lost 1t?” “She is a sweet young thing, isn't she?” “I suppose so—but you ought to hear her brother describe that sweetness!” —— AT THE OTHER END OF THE RAINBOW. At the other end the rainbow—so, at least, T have been told— If a man could only find it Zold; Gold to jingle through your fingers with & merry, merry chime, Gold whose fascination lingers like a half-for~ gotten rhyme; And, In faith, I have been seeking gold through all my years, Seeking it with smiles of hoping, or with rain of doubting tears; But wherever I might seck it, by what g tate inclined, Still, that other end the rainbow I could mever, never find. is a regal pot of for that of I bave seen the rainbow glimmer just beyond the Vale of Hope. And I noted well, and heeded, where its end was on the slope, But whene'er I strove to find it, with a lopging ltke a prayer, I could find the slope, I grant you, but the rainbow was rot there! Haply you have fared much better, and your quest success has crowned, if so, in kindness tell me where the rainbow meets the ground, For I've sought, ay, I have sought it, have very oft repined, Yet the other end the rainbow I could never, never find. But, nor AS THE CARDS ARE DEALT. As the cards are dealt in the game of life By the mighty dealer bebind the scene, We play with pleasure or play with strife, And winnings are fat or winnings are leang And one gets aces, another treys, And fortunes are made as fortunes melt, For so runs the game in its divers ways, As the cards are dealt. As the cards are dealt, one player cries: ““You're luck is phenomenal, wondrous etill; You would draw to a deuce and win the prize.” Cries the other player, “It all is skill.” And I judge that the dealer, whoe'er he be, in mystery seen and felt, m-mm-uhnom » As the cards are dealt, = As the cards are dealt, you may hear one cry, Than to whine tiil the players And the cards are dealt. “Is he honest?” “Oh, yes, he is hm-gum,ut‘ the world goed™ “What do you mean by that?* “Why, T never heard of his doing a dish honest thing, if he thought.there was any danger of being caught at it.” “She Is g0 good that she stays at home nearly all the time.” “Why should she do that?” “Fears that her skirts might come in contact with those of some sister wha would contal ker, you know. Ap- lw-nuylh.luchuunnheo.- tagious.” T QR ST S5 20 i SRR NG TR R IR NG P 3o S R TS T ks, o ANSWERS TO VARIOUS QUERIES | SOUTHERN PACIFIC — Subscriber, City. The total rail mileage of the Southern Pacific on June 30, 1905, was 8383.30. SCOTLAND—J. H., City. The qualifica- tion for a voter in Scotland is holding of an estate or of land in land tenure or lease of land for at least a sixty-year Woodworth was a printer day with a group of typos he dropped into Mallory's, on Franklin street, for the Ehi } f I i : i | i :