The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS........cos sossessseeszassssssess... . Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATJONS TO __THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO ANOTHER VIEW OF CANAL WORK. = UST now there is a market for accusation in this country. J Marvel hunters and the discoverers of ‘popular grievances are filling rush orders on the magazines. Their articles create an phere of despair of the republic. They go further than this man as a despicable creature deserving the vengeance is, but there is no evidence.that these prosecuting attor- ty have the ripe judgment, the capacity for honest in- high purpose for the-public good to qualify them ce of censor to which they elect themselves. have selectéd the-Panama canal as a fruitful 1 which attracts public attention. None,of them knowledge of such construction work. They have such job, nor been bossed in its execution. They | constitutes a fair day’s work in moving earth or| They “have no knowledge of the diet required for! t effectiveness of the different kinds of people employed | } ey have high and mighty notions, or pretend to| y of the Government to morally police the isth-| wn there, stay a-few hours only, so as to be able ve been on the ground, and then launch their »ns and wise conclusions by the medium of a ten-| ne, and look around for more ev to conquer. he country needs is the conclusion of practical men lone on the canal and the methods of its administra- | 1 or_the ny ment of a first-class boss on railroad work who | hing about fine writing is better than that of| e of critics that have been making the tropics | g engineers and administrators on the| E. Linehan of Dubuque, a Democrat who once | ngress against the late Speaker Henderson. He knows what earth is from a shovel full to 1d a dump car full. He made a long sojourn on 1 r ago and has just returned from an- 1e, lasting six months. Comparing conditions | it with those found now, he finds| g the line. Not being a fine writer, | to a magazine in which to tell what y long experienced in the engineering and ion, only knows what a fair day’s work 1d doctoring crews of workmen that | observer has given his views of the work. | | | is a , whe a 1 observation and experience. rk progressing on the great Culebra cut, with ck, fifty locomotives and hundreds of steel dump | half miles long. If we make a sca| eepen the 140 feet cut made by the| requiring the excavation of 10,000,000 id storie. In this cut are working fifteen five- | hovels, moving 10,000 cubic yards of earth a day the cut 3700 men are employed, and accommo- | ided for 3000 more. When this cut is com- | t the ca is built, since the rest of the | ght 2 nished at the amount of work done, and | it is worth what it cost. He says. the great and the great ‘'obstruction-to progress is the* cteen hours’ leisure-in hurtful { eig emplay the s s king otherwise inc itating themselwes for effi- ci F cs are needed and are scarce, notwithstand- | ing Many men have obtained employment who | 2 se things happen in the initial stage of ail| cons r. chan says that one reason why more qom” n t obtained to take care of the 200 locomotives and | othe is the false and florid and readable reports published | he rs about the insufficient accommodations furnished he ( ment. He says that if the men knew the rcally ex- ce I le for them first-class mechanics would g;;ladl_v The poor mechanics are the dissatisfied class to They fail to make good, their bungling , and they supply the injurious gossip that g by the magazine critics. ichan’s statement is reassuring. It bears| made by an honest and practical man who | ng about, but it will not reach the great mass ke their information from the magazines, whose circulation, and that on the columns an publish from the professional accusers. FRESNO AN EXAMPLE. v Sunset Magazine of what a wonder- no has become during the last thirty- there is a’statement that the inception and growth of system make of Fresno an object lesson for all time. n example that should inspire California and all the ist in the enterprise of reclaiming dederts and in- fuliress of the earth. The reclamation service, in t largely new and unproved work, figures on. what can be done, and to the farmer is mostly a matter of promises and pos- bilities, while Fresno is an actuality of wonderful achievement in It is such a concrete example as will encourage a prac- farmer to stake his time, energy and money in an effort to e on irrigable lands. ’ ng up before the country the splendid success which s been achieved in the now nationally famous raisin and dairy i Ifa hay country, valuable help can be given to sustain the work begun by the reclamation act. The most vital feature e reclamation scheme is the revolving fund, which makes the self-sustaining and automatically augments the scope of the “he volume of the revolving fund is greatly dependent the confidence the multitude of farmers have in the produc- f irrigated lands. To tell them of Fresno is to help forward ence. Fresno mow has a thousand miles of main canals on, and five thousand miles of distributing ditches. With 2 population of 50,000 the annual output exceeds $20,000,000. Where once were tracts of what was thought nearly worthless desert land re now wonderfully productive orchards and dairies. t to per ts . ore work enterprise A new disease has developed in civilization. It is the loss of memory ised by undiscovered microbes in the witness chair.. The disease, how- ever, is not incurable with proper treatment and prompt reméval of the —Baltimore American. —————— The postoffice people at Kent, Ohio, have a letter for Stefan Brescz- transkuperczakmantzansky. Perhaps he has changed his name by permission of the courts and forgotten what it originally was.~New York Evening Sun. irritating cause “It’s a poor boy’s country,” says Senator Dolliver. Not an exact state- ment. It is any boy’s cousitry, rich or poor, who does not waive his birth- right. Opportunity is democratic—New York World, —— The next time somebody says woman has never accomplished anything in diplomatic circles you can shut him up by pointing to Bellamy Storer.— Memphis News Scimitar. —_— The Chicago ali-night bank might secure the services of John R. Walsh for president. He never slept while there was anything in sight.—Minneapolis Journal. [ ISAW HIM. | THINK rLL GO HOME AND LIE DOWNY BED, I'M SO WEAK 1 (AN SCARCELY WALK, ™ SEEMS S0 QUEER THA 1SHOULD BE SPOTTED/. OUT SO QUICK B /ENTERPRISING BUSIN o AT GOT IS THE MosTY MAN | EVER SAW. WEL HE CANT BOTHER ME IN "(THERE HE 13! THATS g«sfisms GENT, T1L NG FOR A SERVANT. GG 70 PIECES PIECES il | \X N «® ® THE SMART SET ~# By Sall “ The engagement is announced of l'm llen Bendix and W. S. Howard. ‘wedding will take place very quietly next Wednesday, April 18, at 11 a. m., in Trinity Church. Rey. Dr. Clampett will officlate in the presence of only the immediate rela- tives. % - Fe The Van Ness Seminary Alumnae are preparing to give a musicale very soon after Easter, the affair to be held In the home of Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann on Washington street. A large num- ber of soclety malds and matrons are graduates of the Van Ness Seminary, among the number being included Mrs. William R. Cluness, Mrs. Malcolm Henry, Mrs. Livingston Jenks, Mrs. Mil- ton Pray, Mrs. Fredrick Stolp, Mrs. Heber C. Tilden, Mrs. W. W. Van Ars- dale, Mrs. Winslow Anderson, Mrs. David, Erskine Allison, Mrs. John Charles Adams, Miss Julla Mau, Miss Jessie Moore, Miss Fanny Pray, Miss Henrietta Stadtmuller, Miss Ida Voor- man and Miss Belle Williams. ¢ s » Mr. and Mrs. Harry Melggs (Edith Merry), who expect to leave very soon for their home in Costa Rica, will be the honored guests at a dinner next Thursday evening given by Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Stephenson. « o e Mrs. Elizabeth Downing, whese mar- riage to Lieutenant Albert E. Truby will take place on April 26, will be the honored guest on Monday at a luncheon given by Miss Ruth Kales at her home in Oakland. Miss Johanna Volkmann will also be among theé guests going from this side. e s . Miss Florence Elizabeth Buri, whose engagement was anmounced some time ago to Daniel Frank Craig, Twenty- sixth Battery Field Artillery, U. 8. A., will sail for Manila on.the United States Government transport Sheridan next Monday. Lieutenant Craig intended to return to the United States next July, when the wedding would take place, but the unsettled conditions connected with military affairs in the Orlent have somewhat changed his plans and they have decided to be married in Manila. | i Sharp ‘ J The wedding will be celebral in the Episcopal church, the Right Rev. Bishop Brent officiating. Arriving in Manila, Miss Burt will be a guest of Captain and Mrs. Fisk. Fine Captain E. B. P. Jervey Jr, U. 8 A, left last evening for Oklahoma, where he is to be stationed. Mrs. Jervey pre- ceded the captain several weeks ago, but he was detained by illness and has been in the general hospital at the Pre- sidio. Captain and Mrs. Lawrence B. Sim- onds, U. 8. A., have returned from Fort Leavenworth and have taken apart- ments at the Hotel Melville on Van Ness avenue. Captain Simonds was one of the recruits to the army cooking school at Fort Leavenworth. xe Mr. and Mrs. John Dickenson Sher- wood left Wednesday evening for their home in Spokane. 4 . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sedgwick Atken will leave in June for their country home at Howell Mountain, Napa County. . Mrs. M. A. Wilcox and Mrs. Long- street have arrived from Los Angeles and are at the St. Francis, where they will remain until after the opera séa- son. Miss Ruth Foster of Los Angeles will arrive soon in San Francisco to spend a few weeks as the guest of her sev- eral friends. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Umbsen, who have taken the Poniatowskl summer home at Burlingame, left a day or two ago for their new abode, to be away several months. . Miss Helen Woolworth, who has apartments at the St. Francis, will spend only a few days In town, being on the eve of departure for Europe. Py Al Miss Ethel Thomas of Seattle and Miss Leila Shelby of Kentueky, who | have spent the winter in San Francisco, are being entertained this week at Mare Island, where they are enjoying much of the military soclal pléasures. — dia A “\ECOPYRIGHT. 1908. BY THE NEW YORE FVENNG TELEGRAM (NEW YORK HERALD COJ o ok = | “ITis Enster tomorrow,” she sorrowdully sighed, A poor but a beautiful maid, “And I've nothing to wearbut a jacket threadbare, And a bonnet all crumpled and frayed.” But she went to the garret, and under the caves, Where a spider was weaving a veil, Great-grandmother’s best she uncarthed from a chest That was new when the Mayflower set sail. THE dsintiest figure that ever stepped forth From a miniature studded with pearls, Wasaslender young maid inthe Easter parade, With a “coal-scuttle” hat on her curls, For the deep Tuscan brim, with its lining of pink, Wias a frame to face like a rose, Andthe silver.brocaded silk ‘gown, though ‘twas faded, ; Gave a glimpse of & breast ke the snows. A MAN who was handsome and wealthy and proud, And crowned with the laurels of fame, Beheld her arrayed in the ancient brocade, Like a picture stepped out of a frame. b, theve o 2 o] itk Aeulsbive Claiher; Who ‘would shine in her beauty amid The queens in their crowns and their ermine-lined gowns! I will make her my wife,” and he did. LESLIE'S WEEKLY, Smile Up. “Smile up” is about the best, most dur- able, wearable and stylish resolution to make. Good nature is a fine thing to have on hand and never becomes vulgarly common. After a time, when you be- come skilliful in smiling, you can grin away a toothache—almost. At least you can bear jt and not issue momentary bul- letins to the family.—New York Globe. —_——— Knocker’s Fate. Don’t be a knocker, says A. Q. Miller. Did you ever notice that the hammer used by a blacksmith always wears out before the anvil? That 18 the fate of a knocker.-—Kansas City Journal g o5 it F SR Oncle Biff’s Observations. NDY JIMPSON sez they pump ‘the dust out o % havses un in Cleveland by machinery. Sez he don't see how they do it, but if it's any- tning like his woman when she gets to house cleanin’ ae recR- ons he don’t keer much ’bout d knowin’! — Cleveland n Dealer. \ 54 An Easter Wooing| || : sy SR UL e A Little Lesson in Adversity. l S of battlefield and war. tlefields, and ;his first combats were town of Western Ohio against a force that has killed more men than war—poverty. Sheridan was 12 years old when work in a country store. His wages 50 cents a week. He was industrious and he was How the boy ever managed to live on capable. such a stipend is cause for wonder. home, but the family was correspondingly poor. Nearly two years afterward Sheridan was receiv- ing $1.50 a week, and at the age of 17 he was acting as bookkeeper and manager at the munifi- cent salary of $2 weekly. He had cherished ambitions of soldier. ~ gress fof appointment to West Point. sentative was pleased with Sheridan determination and the power he had hibited of conquering obstacles, and, He now applied to a member of Con- 's. ambition, of the places in the Military Academy were given to sons of veteraus of the Mexican War, cured the appointment for the young man. Sheridan realized keenly his need of wider knowledge, and would often hang blankets in the | windows of his roomdp order to be able to study oo after the signal had sounded for lights out. history. But that it was won by the same determination that overcame the narrow environments and petty opportunities of a little village and carved success for himself is evident to all who read his story. ——t O accustomed are we to think of General PHillp Sheridan entively as a military hero that adversity naturally suggests to mind the thought But Sheridan’s first fights were not won on bat- in a little he went to amounted to He lived at becoming a The Repre- already ex- though most he se- PHILIP SHERIDAN. | His later career is a matter of e “Skilled Labor”—In Mexico. The inefficiency of Mexican labor was under discussion by a group of mining promoters, says the Philadelphia Rec- ord. “On my last trip to México,” sald one, “while our train halted at Jimulco, a ‘dinner station on the Mexican Central, I alighted and watched the mechanic who went from car to car sounding the wheels with a hammer. presumably to test their condition. He was a fair type of the native ‘skilled workman.' Just to draw him out a little I in- quired: “‘Why do you rap the wheels? “Setting down his torch, he stared at me in amazement. ‘Because.the master mechanic tells me to,” he replied. ‘But why? I persisted. ‘What good does it do? ‘I do not know, senor,’ sald he. The master mechanic tells me to strike each wheel, and I do so. That is enough for me.' M “‘How long have you been working at this job? I asked. “‘Two years,’ he replied. For two years he had been going through the form of sounding the car wheels with- out the slightest knowledge of the ob- Ject of tie test or the slightest curi- osity concerning it.” —_————— Eye for Business. “I don’t want to do any advertising,” growls the merchant when the solicitor approaches hfm. “But I am sure you will soon see the advantage of having your name and firm mentioned in our paper,” argues the so- licitor. “Let us show you our last circu- lation statement, and—="" < “Now, look here, young man! Can’t you take nodor an answer? First thing you know T'll Iose my temper and—" “If you do, sir,” suggested the cour- teous_ solicitor, “try our lost and found columns. Youre sure to get quick re- sults.”—Magazine of Fun. Hospitality. “Alas,” sighed the tramp, “I'm hungry and 1s there 1o ong to pity my plght?” - ‘'On, yes,” ‘the dog, as he sharpened his “Come in and T'll give you a bite.” “—Baltimore — lJudicial Privilege. In a Southern court one day, says a well-known attorney, one of the counsel paused in his argument, remarking to the Judge: “I observe that your Honor shakes his head at that statement. I desire to re- affirm it, although your Honor dissents.” “I am not aware,” coldly responded the Judge, “that I have intimated how I shall construe the evidence, nor what my de- cision will be in the premises. Your re- mark is, therefore, entirely uncalled for.” “Your Honor shook his head.” ““True,” said the Judge; “there was a fly on my ear. And I'll'have you know, sir, that I reserve the right to remove a fly in whatever manner pleases me."'—Har- per’s ‘Weekly. -Attitude Toward Life. There Is everything in holding the right attitude toward life. People can tell whether there is victory or defeat in your face and your bearing, whether you have conquered or failed, whether you have winning or losing material in you. If you wear the air of the vanquished in life, no employer will want you. There must be victory in your bearing.—Success Maga- zine. 2 R e Don’t Be Alarmed. Softly the wind sighs, Blue is the sky: Sweetly the birds sing Their lullaby. Do not be alarmed, We are not yet Going to sing a song To spring, you bet! —Birmingham Age-Herald. Take a Bottle or Two. Rimer—Have you read any of those ver- sified advertisements I'm writing for “Phissick’'s Pink Panacea”? Crittick—Yes, and they make me sick. Rimer—Good. That's the effect 1 want them to have. It helps the sale of “Pana- cea.’—Philadelphia Ledger. : —_——————— - _“Say, father, what is a nobody?” “A nobody, my 8$on, is a prominent woman’s husband.”—Ram's Horn. . OCCIDENTAL SOME BRIEF FABLES. (To which anybody is privileged to ap- pend his own morals, if he has any.) JOVE AND REPRESENTATIVE CITI- ZEN. ACCIDENTALS By A. J. Waterhouse feeling that he considers himself a brighter and better man than L” “He doesn’t say anything of the sert, does he?” “No, but his manner appears to indi- cate that he would like to hear me A certain man appeared before great | venture to deny It.” Jove and complained bitterly. “What is the matter?” Jove inquired. “Alas!” the man responded, “the men EVERY STAR IS BUT A PAGE. When the Lord who made us mortals gave to ue the germ of thought that thou hast made, they are a scrub | Which makes the boundless difference twixt lot. They deceive and beat one another in trade, and call it business; they pre- | He might have said: semething and a naught, “I'll let man Wve for- ever on the earth, tend to worship thee, but they really WO | wyis suns purn into nothingness and other ship a glittering god called Cash; they do suns have birth. things which they do not rhention in thelr {TH tie him to yon littls sphers while aeons advertisements, and they oftentimes are unnice. I pray thee, great Jove, tha pass and fade, t | And he shall know the light of it, aad Be shall know its shade.’ thou wilt improve the stock, if such & | pBgt well He knew the soul He made would thing be possible.” “Who art thou?” Jove asked. “I am well known as a Representative Citizen.” “You are a Representative Citizen “You bet I am! Everybody recognizes the fact.” “This being the case,” Jove remarked, seeking, seeking go, And so He said. “Tt shall pass out, my uni- verse to kmow." And so we die, and pass from here Where other planets roll, For knowledge of one little sphére Shall ne'er content the soul. Who'd be content with lore ‘walking here below, we gain while after some deliberation, “I do not see | When there are paths, as yet untrod, the soul much hope for humanity.” So the Representative Citizen sadly de- parted. . MAN AND THE OTHER ANIMALS. “It fills me with regret,” remarked a thoughtful traveler to his companion, “that the lower animal creation does not appear to love man, not withstanding his may surely know? Who would be satisfled to guess, when knowl- edge waits us where The stare, God's lamps, are swinging in their far-off room of air? And so He takes us from the care or bilsses ot cur day, To learn the wisdom earth doth lack in clofsters far away. thus the soul of man shall grow to higher might and grace, And great kindness of heart and undeniable | Until some day, all lessons learned, we lock tenderness of nature. The birds fly at his approach, and the brutes hasten to flee from him. It is sad, Is it not?” “Indeed it is’. % “Yes; we lose many a good shot in that way. It also is strange. Don't you think so? “It certainly Is. By the way, what is that implement you carry om your shoulder?” “It is a gun, a remarkably fine one, too.” #And what is the thing you carry in your belt? “It is a knife. You see, I wish to im- prove my marksmanship, and I also de- sire to be prepared to defend myself in the event that I am attacked by a bird or a rabbit, or some wild creature of that sort. It is an unspeakable pity, is it not. that the lower creation will not submit jtself to -the humanizing and uplifting in- fluence of man?” $ The other traveler said that It was. THE ACTIVE REFORMER. A man stood in the center of a field ‘where everybody could see and hear him, and yelled, shouted, halloced and whoop~ ed, at the same time vigorously and stirring up a dense cloud of very opaque dust. “Who are you?” a passer inquired. “I am a Reformer,” was the awe-in- spired response. “What -are you doirig now?" “Getting ready to reform things.” “Ar® things reformed in that way?" “Well, not exactly, 1 admit, but, ds “How so?” “Well, lots of the people think things are reformed in this way, and so If I yell loud enough they elect me to office, 1“1 always leave and then you can bet that the need for reformation of which I am shouting will be no dream.” “ see,” said the passer; “but why do you kick up the dust?” 2 “That is to blind the eyes of the peo- ple.” Ry “Does it work?" “Quite generally.” So, as the passer felt the need of an office, he, too, stirred up a cloud of dust and was hidden by it, while his whoops and halloos left no room for silence in that neighborhoed. —_— “Do you know the high place which ies in history?” 3 Cinderella so. What is it?" “i don’t . “Hers is the first insf o6t a young lady who tr for a title.” ! e on record Mc_-lo Pompus with a far as I am concerned, it amounts to about the same thing.” l upon His face. For every star Is but a page In tooks that we shall read, As still our way we onward wage Through the eternal screed. ——e— Townsend's California glace fruits and chaicest candies in artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * —————— information supplied daily to usiness houses and public men by the & Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Cali~ street. Telephone Main 1042, ess tornia FOR THE VERY LITTLE GIRL. HOSE dainty little fr T’hq white materials ::dk: :: simple lines are far more he- coming to the small maid than a riot of frills. The few trim- mings that are used are in the form of fine handrun tucks and insértions of narrow laces or ies. Here the Mother ea 18 carried out by numerous dainty tucks in elus- ters of four forming the yoke. The neck is cut fille@ in with valeénclennes in- sertion, edged with a narrow frill of the same lace. Three tucks of half-inch width are lr.ni,hnd :bnlv'mlm al- owing for the lengthen! the Iittle skirt. The full bisney