The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1906, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL «eeseeeee. . Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS.. ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS 70 MCNAUGHT. . VOHN Manaerr THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO ..FEBRUARY 25, 1906 CATION OFFICE. A REVIVAL OF THE WATER CURE. sleeping quietly in his grave in Grafenberg, g on his ashes will glow with pride. Among and dietetic reformers of the first half of the nine- Alexander Graham’s dyspepsia gave . an article now grossly degenerated because it is 1g bolted flour with bran{ while he made it of natural lour. But Preissnitz included simple diet in the gospel of d various applications of pure water as a curative He had a hard time. It was charged that his cures were by medicating the bath sponges, and he responded by abol- e sponge in favor of the hand and crash towels. water cure had a great vogue for several years. The use rinking and the douche became quite general. In this country the le of hydropathy was Dr. Trall, whose establishment in t only a hospital but a school of the new cure. He arly educated physician and brought his knowledge of logy and pathology to bear in pushing the new treat- e system failed, perhaps through its rejection of every It left behind it, how- used by the regular school. ore. Practitioners of that exclusive rely disappeared. When this total eclipse fell upon the ular profession began the gradual absorption of the 1it. The large cities of the country had to have Rus- ther bathing establishments. in cooling enemas, baths and packs was recog- s was a great step forward, when it is remembered that mily doctor regarded the drinking of water by a fever I, and forbade it. Now the value of lavage, the wash- ntary tract by copious water drinking, is recognized ; 1 as a valuable therapeutic agent, to an extent vathic schools closed. nd o r is recognizec in the system of Preissnitz. rich thermal and medicinal waters. Medical the first class, have long believed that we have waters te in »se of Aix, Vichy, Carlsbad and Bad Nauheim. Such I 1ave been confident that when the use of these waters is administered under proper prescription the results | e wide advertising of our springs, as equal to those rope, which are yearly resorted to by thousands The Call has often heretofore suggested the possi- in these waters, and it is evident that their virtues 's greatest living authority on hydrotherapeutics, r Preissnitz water cure, appeared in California, em- L hern Pacific Railway, to examine the virtues of His conclusions bear out the views of our own medical goes farther than some in exploiting the curative pure water, while agreeing with them upon the s and therapeutic value of our mineral waters. impress upon patients and physicians the absolute 1€ c use and application of all waters, in every they may be used as a curative agent. Not only its operties are to be considered, but its temperature when method of the application. When its application is e best results are obtained in some of the most painful Jright’s dis- scien ow fevers, insomnia and neurasthenia. v not discuss the scientific aspect and technique I Californians are interested in the importance relief of sufferers who cannot go to European lition to the attractions of the State. With nd honey, sugar and fruit furnished by our plains and hing from our mountains, crying out with the voice ers to the sick to come and be healed, the State is more object of interest to the sick and well of the world. POST CHECK MONEY. currency would be so much more completely current our de to have the Government adopt a combination mone ystem acilitate business and the general e hange of services in this [he advocates of this convenience now have a bill be- the Postmaster General has asked for legislation; Congress ; Overstreet, chairman of the postoffice committee of the 1as promised consideration of the bill at an early date. It r those interested in the introduction of the improvement their wishes known. he plan is to have all $1, $2 and $5 bills hereafter issued by the sovernment to contain blank space to permit a change of |1i4yllc)‘ something as eur present postoffice orders are now Supplemental to those bills a fractional post check currency i 10, 25 and 50 cents is proposed. 1and to hand just as our present money, and when we wished to send hem by mail the fee to the Government to secure their safe delivery to the right parties is to be a two-cent postage stamp (one cent for fractional) pasted on the bill and canceled by the sender. This would save the inconvenience of trips to the postoffice to purchase noney orders. It is true that the bills thus transferred would necessitate the issue of new ones %o replace them; but this would be one of the advantages of the new system, for it would tend to keep in circula- tion a supply of crisp, clean bills, much pleasanter to pay and to re- ceive than that which has been soiled by long use and careless and squalid association. Tainted money in the moral sense may often be difficult to detect, but the physical taint is palpable and often miragrant. So this plan, which will automatically renew the bills, would be esthetic and wholésome as well as exceedingly conven- lent. The post check currency would be a great advantage to con- cerns which do a large mail order business, and no doubt many more yrders would be sent in if this plan is adopted, which will make the sending of the payment so much more convenient. It would be much favored by publishers and their patrons. Convenient as it would be to city people, it would be doubly so to the rural popula- tion. There can hardly be a question that its adoption would augment the whole volume of business transactions very much, as well as increase the postoffice revenues. oY When an old political wolf wants to get popular these days he puts on e suit of reform clothing.—Baltimore Sun. —_—— . Mr. John D. Rockefeller has mysteriously disappeared. Somebody please stand up and make a noise like a dividend—New York Telegram. — The women suffragists in fnm*emion assembled demand a square deal, Some of their more frivolous sisters prefer it cut bias.—Boston Herald. ——— 1, as young Mr. Rockefeller holds, there can be no justification of a ‘alsehood, let him stand up and answer this: “Where is father?”—New York Herald. wn elabc too. ——— The House of Representatives refused to revive the whipping post for Three-quarters of the members are married men!—New York wife-beaters. Herald. npress, the wet sheet pack, hot and cold baths, water | The use of water | in diseases of the liver, heart and genito-urinary | rs and in all efforts to bring them into notice, | present form of money that the effort now being could be made into a postal check by the simple | m of one’s signature is worthy of the support of all who wish | These all to pass current from | ; .021//7-@ Tinad § R e : NHTRTTH@ 7 N —PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. - — o Looking solemn then Susie’s Came to visit wife. Willie pulled a chair away— Sat dotvn, bet your life! Rose in anger; said some things Better not to pen. USIE had a gallant knight, Quite a charming chap; Came on her one day by chance When she'd had a nap. Took one look, departed, broken-hearted now— He'll never come again! Blugger had a mother-'n-law; Friends congratulating Blug— | . She’ll never come again! —A. J. WATERHOUSE. ‘When finger, % we hear the least about. The man who is in the penitentiary quits a whole lot of bad habits. A man who is perfectly satisfactory to himself never suits other people. There are a great many ways of becom- ing unpopular, but one of the surest is to rush in where angels fear to tread. the average man imagination is appalled and un- equal to the task of picturing how he would groan if he had broken it. It is possible for a woman to answer the telephone without waking the baby, but a man at the telephone will arouse a whole family in a house two blocks away. —Atchison, Kan., Globe. O scratches his " NEVER COME AGAIN. ||| Kansas Philosophy. || " GIRLS. H, some may laud the golfing girl A-speeding o'er the green; With dancing eye and flying curl She is an outdoor queen. And some the horsey girl may praise, With her divided skirt; But not for me her mannish ways And mannerisms pert. A gambling girl is fine, some think— On anything she’ll bet; And others like a girl who'll drink Or smoke a cigarette. Now, each of these may be a pearl— I've nothing much to say: T'll merely sing the girlish girl— She's very rare to-day. — SCHEME THAT - . FAILED. —— HE janitor of a large apartment- house on upper Broadway is evi- dently not only a student of human nature but a reader of books, for he re- cently put into practice the Mark Twain story of the boys who struggled for the honor of whitewashing 4 fence, says the New York Herald. The janitor's scheme worked like a charm during one of this winter's snowy days, but that personage sincerely wishes that it hadn’t. The pavement of this janitor's realm was covered with smow and ice. When that personage emerged from the warmth of the furmace rcom he looked at this pros- pective work and sighed. Just then a troop of boys, on their way from school, came straggling along, and with a glance at them the janitor dropped on his kneey in the snow, hunting Intently. Fally, when he had an audience, he picked up a nickel. “Whatcher lookin’ fer, mister?" queried the schoolboys. “You boys go .right away from here, the janitor said, severely. “I want all this money for myself. A crazy man came along here during the smowstorm and scattered about $§10 in nickels and dimes along the length of this pavement and the ice has covered it up. You boys trot along now.” “Oh, mister, we’'ll help you!” chorused the boys. “We'll give you whatever we find—honer bright!” “All right. kids,” answered the janitor, with seeming reluctance. “Here's shovels and hatchets. Half of you break up the jce and the others throw it in the gutter and pick up the money.” The janitor surreptitiously dropped a few pennies on the ice as a sort of bait and then retired to the cozy comfort of the furnace room. Occasionally to his ears came a shout ‘of trtumph as one of the coppers would be discovered. Finally there was a scurry of feet and then silence, “Aha!” quoth the wily janitor as he sauntered out to the pavement. ““The kids have finished up the job and then beaten it with those three pennies.” The job was almost finished and the smiling janitor asked a small boy if the snow shovelers had found the $§10. “More than that, mister,” said the small | boy. “They came across a lady’'s pocket- | book and it had $14.25 in 1t!" LANGUAGE OF CARDS. “My Queen!” cried the swain, pressing her to his heart. “Jack, my own Jack!” murmured the maiden. “One, two, three,” chimed the clock. “Diamonds are lusterless beside your eyes,” whispered the lover. “They are all yours, my King enraptured —MINY EAPOLIS TRIBUNE. " BARLOW'S SACRIFICE. " AMUSEMENTS OF ROYALTY. -+ i -+ UDDENLY the enlisted man turned to the officer and sald in a voice that vas choked from the clutching of hand at his throat, “Lieutenant, 1 was afraid that we might be tempted to drink this long ago, so I saved it for the | extremity. Licutenant, I have one good drink of water left for each of us in my canteen.” Barlow shook the canteen and Tracy | heard the splash of water within. ‘ “Drink, Iur;nw,” sald Tracy, “drink. [ You saved it and it should be yours. | Drink it, I say. It may give you strength Fto go on. If you get back, boy, and the | men strike water, ask them to come after | my body.” | Tracy was reeling. His brain was | awhirl and his whole system was on fire. “Lieutenant,” sald Barlow, “I had more in my canteen than you had in yours when we started. Men In an extremity | like this should share and share alike. I'll {"take my cup and we'll divide the water.” “Is there enough for the two and tojdo any good?” asked Tracy. “Yes,” answered Barlow, | @rink for each.” “Drink first,” sald Tracy. “I'll not drink until my command Is served.” “All right, sir,” sald Barlow. S “one good The lieutenant turned away for a mo- ment. He heard the gurgle of water. Would it never come his turn to drink. Barlow spoke: “Lieutenant, rm afraid I took more than half. Here's what's left.” He poured the water from the canteen into the cup. There was a good round drink. “Take it, lleutenant,” said Barlow; “I had more than that.”” Tracy seized the cup and drained it. Onh, the joy of it. New life went surging through him. His eyes cleared. He looked at Barlow. There was no new life in the man’s eyes. His lip was drooping. “Barlow,” sald Tracy, almost fiercely, “you deceived me. You never drank a arop.” Something like a smile came into the soldier's face. “Forgive me, lieutenant,” he said, “but there was only enough for one.” Then he staggered and fell forward. In an hour there was only one living soldier in the desert, but before the soul of Barlow bad fled he whispered to his lientenant: “I allowed your younger brother to go to prison for a crime I com- mitted. The proofs are in my Qox at the fort, I am glad to have made even indi- ation.” crifice was not In vain. Tracy and the story Is a trooper’s tale unto this day.—Chicago Post. + OTHING is so tiresome as routine, N and royalty's daily routine of cere- monies palls. There is ofttimes no pleasure In recreation, for even recrea- tions are conducted with pomp and re- straint. Kings and queens have their hobbies, and these ‘hobbies are out of the ordinary, as witness the following: The Grand Duke of Hesse is happy when he can snatch a moment from af- alrs to devote to embroidery. He Iis skillful with the needle and his work is said to be beautiful. He 1s particularly clever in the arrangement of colors. He is also devoted to music, dancing and acting. The Czar of Russia has a passion for collecting caricatures of himself, and he is having a room papered with pictures in which he is the victim of the carica- turist's peneil. “I can sing as well as any of them,” says the Czar of Russia, who has a fine tenor voice, which it is his chief pleasure to use. “My enemles say many harsh and unkind things about me,” he once sald when in gay spirits he had been en- tertaining a party, “and accuse me of being destitute of any accomplishments, but I defy them to say that I cannot sin as well as the best of them.” » Wholly unmusical was the late King of Italy, on the other hand, and a story was once told regarding his lack of ear and voice for music by the then Prince Vie- tor. King Humbert disliked to be re- minded in any way that the Queen was growing old, and he had a particular an- tipathy to seeing her wear glasses. The Prince described one of the domestic scenes thus: “When papa saw the glasses going up | to mamma’s eyes he cried: ‘Margherita, put down those glasses!” Mamma did not obey. ‘Margherita, if you don’t take off those glasses I shall sing.” And mamma had such a dread of papa’s false notes that she obeved at once to save herself from torment.” All the caricatures published in Paris and London of the German Emperor are collected and pasted in a book for his in- spection, as well as everything important that is said about him in the foreign press, be it pleasant or unpleasant, polite or cynical. In this respect he is something like William I, who made a careful collec- tion of the most ridiculous caricatures of himself printed in France from 1366 on- ward. The present German Emperor has a positive craze for posing for the camera. A fad at present with him is the bie- graph, cat escaped from his home in Iowa and tvandered into a saloon. He walked up to a handsome mirror and saw his re- flection in the glass. He immediate'y bristled up. So did the reflection. He | snarled. The reflection apparently snarlcd back. He made a cautious advance. The reflection also took a step in his direc- tion. He retreated. The reflection re- treatcd. Then he gave a mad plunge to | scize his adversary. In the ensulng scrim- mage the mirror was smashed and in ad- ditlon $100 worth of cut glasses and dishes on the saloon sideboard was broken. The saloon-keeper was so mad that he would not be appeased by the traveling man settlir g the bill, but swore he would kil the cal. The traveling man was afrald he would carry out the threat, so he brought the cat to Kansas, where they have nc saloons with mirrors to break, and jresented it to Mr, Doolittle.—Kansas City Jcurnal. PROOF. “Did Mrs. Oglamug’s husband leave her well provided for?” “He left her fabulously rich.” “How do you know?" “I see by the latest soclety news she is to be married again.”"—Houston Post. OATHS. Juliet had just begged Romeo not to swear by the inconstant moon. “Well,” he sneered, “do you want me to swear by Constant Reader?” Herewith - only Shakespeare’'s tact averted a lover's quarrel.—Puck. IN SOCEETY. . Hostess—This is a very select party. I've invited only the very best people. Host—But who are those two men in the corner? Hostess—Detectives, to see that nothing |15 stolen.—Cleveland Leade I vention, which closed in Baltimore recently, has revealed some Interest- ing facts: New York is the stronghold of suffrag- ists, having twice as many members as any other State, Massachusetts is second, California third, Nebraska fourth and Towa fifth. Pennsylvania has the largest suffrage soclety extant—that in = Philadelphia, which has the largest membership of any, over 500. 4 ‘When it comes to giving money to help women get the ballot Pennsylvania leads all the States. The total amount of funds handled by the Natlonal Woman Suffrage Assocla- tion last year was $28,333.92. The national suffrage soclety receives now about $1000 a month for its work. Twenty-eight thousand general articles, exploiting the cause of woman's enfran- chisement, have been sent out through the press during the past year. Over 5000 papers use suffrage articles. Grover Cleveland's article on club wo- men created a great boom {n woman suf- frage literature and kept the printers busy issuing contradictions and replies. Seventeen national organizations, in- cluuing the American Federation of Labor and the National Council of Women, now indorse the woman's vote. In the suffrage States women teachers recélve the same pay as men for the same work. In Michigan woman suffrage delegates are given seats in the labor sessions and the label of the labor unions is used on suffrage stationery. 53 secured over 15,000 names of those who favor suffrage toward the grand total of one millfon which it Is hoped to enroll before the next Presldential election. Pennsylvania reported 985.—Philadelphia. Record. ' IDENTIFIED. The car was crowded and there being two or three polite men left in Indian- apolis one of the two or three gave her a seat in the forward end of the car. He remained on the platform to finish a cigar. She always lets him do that. ‘When the conductor came along the smoker presented two tickets. “Who 1s this for?"” “The lady up in front.” “Yes, but there are several up there.” “Oh, well let's see! I'm paying far the one under Eat-'em-Quick Biscuits.” —Indianapolis News. NO WOMEN THERE. From Culican, Mexico, it is reported that because a woman entered the Jesus Maria y Annexae mines several hundred miners went on strike and re- fused to return to work until the par- ish priest went into the mines and sprinkled all shafts and tunnels with consecrated water. It is an old super- stition among Mexican miners that if a ‘woman enters a mine a catastrophe will follow.—Milwaukee Sentinel. EMPHATIC ANSWER. They are telling of an Atchison girl who recelved a proposal of marriage by telegraph. She went to the telegraph office and asked the clerk How many words she could send for a quarter: He said ten, and her answer was: “Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yves, yes, ves, yes."—Atchison Globe. P i Gt e s . Ll @ | CARRIE NATION CAT. [+— 5 ~ <1 EVERYBODY WORKIN | w SHE'LL HAVE A VOTE YET | W. A. Doolittle of Sabetha has a regu- l ; . Hes Luggins Is baling some turnip tops | lar Carrie Nation cat. It is a big Angora. | 4 = —. ~j | for goat feed, and will ship em horse It was formerly owned by a traveling A back k. Turn man ViVl st Des Molhs us sy the HE Natlonal Woman Suffrage Con- | Massachusetts and New York nave each | Pack next week. Turnip tops are almost g0od enough for_people to eat, and Hes says a goat knows himself when he goes up against a good feed of 'em. Junk Everson et a hen Sunday that weighed ten pounds. The new preacher tended to a part of the big fowl, and his Jfamily took a few whacks at it. They et all but the big bones. Etelle Growe is almost frantic of corns on her left toes all night. She uses lots of carbolic acid and wears her pa's log- ging shoes. Cad Nippins is gethering Shad Misker's persimmons on the Shears. Cad says he will get about four bushels, and when he gets them sweetened with sorghum and dried, the gals will get a treat In good eatings. Nub Swinkse's dog performied the holy calm at church Tuesday evening.—Cy- press, Ford Cor. Shepherdsville (Ky.) News. ———— MATCH THE BRAINS. A West Philadelphla small boy saved up money enough to build a wooden wa- ter-wheel and then asked his father to help him In its construction. “All rigat,” said_the father, “we’ll form a partner- ship. You furnish ‘the capital and I'll supply the brains.” The youngster fish- ed 28 cents out of his pocket and count- ed out 2. “I guess 20 cents will be enough for that,” he sald, and he was entirely innocent of any attempt to get off a )oke.—mhgelphh Record. LIBEL ON MAY. “May Irwin is fillilng McVicker's The- ater.”—Stage note, O blithesome May, so gay, they say You fill McVicker's—horrid way To speak of a lady so petite, So statuesque, svelte, willowy, neat; ‘We don’t belfeve it when they say You fill McVicker's—don't believe it, May. A imoa, —Boston Post. ot e | the cooing response. | “Four!” said a bass voice on the floor : above. | A flush crimsoned the maiden’s cheek | as, “six, seven, eight, nine, ten,” she | counted the kisses straight. | “I wish I had a club,” voice on the stairs. “The deuce!” cried the lover as the par- lor door opened. And as he cleared the garden gate old Tray, following his lead, came within an ace of his calf.—New York Pre: | FIRST FORKS. The Greeks and Romans, with all thelr luxury, ate with their fingers. They had large forks for hay and for taking meats from kettles, but they never dreamed of | having small ones for table use. These | are the only forms of forks kmown to have been In use before the fifteenth cen- tury. Sometime during that epoch the | Itallans began the practice. now common to all civilized people among the Western | nattons, of eating with forks.—8t. Nicho- | 1as. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. BRITT-NELSON—G. W. I, City. In the articles of agreement between Bri said the bass was on December 20, 1904, the weight was | fixed at 132 pound: OLD-TIME FIRE—Folsom street, City. The fire that occurred in the St. Ignatius bullding on Market street, the present sits of the Parrott building, was on the night of December 27, 1889, the alarm being sounded at 10:20 o'clock. THE NEW ROAD-S. T. T. C., City. The new electric road that Is to run from San | Francisco to Santa Cruz will be in touch with Halfmoon Bay. There are a num- ber of persons at this time who expect to | make that place a summer and winter resort, but as these persons are engaged in private enterprises to advance the place named this department cannot advertise them. CITIZENSHIP—N. N,, City, and L R, City. The conditions for citizenship ia all the States and Territories of the Unit- ed States are: “If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court to which the allen has applied that he has made a declaration to become a citién two years before applying for final papers and has resided continuousiy within the United States for at least five years and within the State or Territory where such court is at the time held ons year at least, and that during that time ‘he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United Statds, and well disposed to the good order and hap- piness of the same,” he will be admitted to citizenship. If the applicant has borne any hereditary title or order of nobility he must make an express renunciation of the same at the time of his application.” In eleven of the States an dlien who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States is permitted to vots before he obtains his final papers. Application for citizenship can be made by an allen, who “must declare upon oath before a Circuit of District court of the United States or a District or Supreme court of the Territoriés or a court, of record of any of the States having com- mon law jurisdiction and a seal and clerk two years at least prior to his admission, that it is, bona fide, his intention to bde- come a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiafce and fidelity to any foreign prince.or state. and particularly to the one of which he may be at the time a citizen or subject.” —_——— -~ cam" B\ and Nelson for their first match, whic! 4 Townsend's California glace mu!" Siched boxes. New store. 767 Marker * — Special information suppiled daily o busineas houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s) Calt~ fornia street. mu’io’& ¢ R M X et .