The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1906, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT. THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLICATION OFFICE. ...APRIL 15, 1906 THE BAY A SCENIC ASSET. of travel to San Francisco seems to be permanent. It he-year-around matter. Eastern people that our equable climate offers relief from the rer as well as from the deadly cold of win- t to induce large organized bodies to hold es in San Francisco. A big committee had ‘otes in order to secure a summer meet- f people in this city. But the G. s and general conventions of large ere, and have carried away the fame of ity, and we are on the list. Our facilities dered without further effort on our part. ions prefer this city for a summer meet- their members have been told over and enervating he »een h al o« experiences of er of hearers. In the East it is no longer the old as in Europe,” but “When I was in California.” as been to a great impulse to travel this way, by estors and those who want the comfort that is denied ‘astern climate. This travel is filling our ng to such an extent that large investors see building more first-class hotels. t as important to please each individual in this d sojourners as it is to please in the mass at come for business and pleasure. The that fill our hotels come and see and expense. They expect to pay and do pay in that berality which falls upon all who enter the California £ il o of travelers a; ganized bodies th of travele ur b v their them are inland people. the first t Here falls upon them the spell s for the first time in their lives. In San Fran- he greatest bay in the world. he Great Lakes, it would be shorn of half its charm. n the Atlantic seaboard are flat, and in many by the garbage piled upon them by their tide. , reflecting the mountains that stand guard n written on the bay of Naples. But and if its shores were as flat as i the inner reaches of the bay that makes the harbor e poetic fancy would not have found inspiration in it. t bay, celebrated in song and history, and made familiar to all rid great painters, has all of its charms in the mountains Without Vesuvius, Campanella, Sant Angelo, Po- . Astroni, Vomero and the other stately and wild anch of the Apennines, the bay of Naples would be ) ere \(1112 water. of San Francisco has a setting of the same grandeur. b ws on Tamalpais, and the dreamy tints of far- e peak, and Mount St. Helena, and the ver- d bosky lure of the nearer mountain shores, make our bay a Francisco of the highest value. It should be pay our great hotels to co-operate in some way > that would put upon the bay fine, well equipped n See the bay” excursion, after the fashion street cars, which are so popular with service should have no squalid feature about it. The : vorthy as the stoutest revenue cutters, ele- th the best of upper deck facilities for sight- taste and their curiosity. ne here. ga CiSCO uld ply the bay beyond McNears Point on new electric railway terminal will afford ties if desirable, and should give ample opportunity for the full glory of a scene made up of the tints of the s of the sky, of the sheea of the water and verdure of is upon us. We cannot escape it. San Francisco nothing can check. Cosmopolitan, uttering ma ts of many peoples, the meeting place of the Oc- with the picturesque features of both, this city erature and rising to her inheritance and oppor- ch of our advantages are ready made for us by nature t s the light occupation of showmen. All that we need to do is to direct the crowd to points of interest. e should not permit travelers to go away having seen the bay ferry-boats and car windows, to wonder why there is not or way of seeing all the beauties that torment in the pass- We take the bay as too much a matter of course, a 1g, because it enables ships to bring cargoes to our docks, y al asset of importance. This is all true, but we venture to say that as a scenic asset the bay is worth as much to San Fran- cisco as it is as a commercial facility. Now who will move in a “See the bay” venture? 1s ing into rom se. THE STATE UNIVERSITY. statement, published in the April Out West, of the needs of the University of California. The four pages of his paper give an impression of grandeur of housing and vastness of scope. in investi- gation i instruction for our State’s great educational institution, hich will magnify pride of citizenship in a commonwealth se stead- working toward the accomplishment of the great plans. It may be natural for the man who is at the head of an institu- tion so useful in present work, and so destined to a grander future, to build castles in the air over there on the Berkeley hills. From a site like that it is hard to keep the imagination from soaring; but the president feels he is building expectation on a foundation of the i 1 of California’s growing prosperity. It is inspiring to ision of the coming greatness of our State center of edu- ion through the eyes of the man who gives his whole attention to Atthough the costly buildings, the munificent endowments of professorships and libraries, the many fellowships for continued re- ve as stated by the president a stupendous sound, he con- closes his request to the people for the wherewithal for ful- fillment with the assertion, “The field is large. There is work enotigh to do, but it will be done.” The present income of the university is something over $800,- 000. Of the net receipts 49 per cent comes from the State, and 32 per cent from private gift and income of endowments. As the State is ady expending more than half its income upon education, President Wheeler makes his appeal for the betterment of the uni- vefsity t0 the community at large. He wishes more endowment by gift, so that the institution may come up to its rights as established by s position at the gateway of the West and its relations to the commntinity’s welfare in every form of wealth making. ]"" is a big programme which President Wheeler suggests in his “Chicago kisses are more valuable because of the after effects,” says the Intes Ocean. Pshaw! Nearly everybody uses cloves nowadays!—New York Herzald. e Andrew Carnegie says that millionaires are usually the saddest of men. This will remiind you that you have never seen a sad newspaper man.—At- janta Journal — One small diplomatic triumph at least the Kaiser has won. The Chinese Commissioners now at Berlin say that they prefer beer to cocktails.—Provi dence Journal. ' ness to furnish facilities by the use of | The most of them see | 1f its shores were | be capable of going outside the heads with | ade the confusion of Babel, combining the | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, —_— - -y uf gl BRI N am S Sl e —3 | APRIL 15, 1906. _ “SKIDDOO! "y THE FESTIVAL OF EASTER BY A. J. B. JENNER. | b T e ASTER is a festival of the chureh E held in commemoration of the resur- rection of Jesus Christ from the dead—an event which Christians consider as the crowning point of their religion— the very keystone of the arch of Chris- tianity, The exact day on which tnis most mar- velous event happened Is utterly unm- known; no contemporaneous secular his- torian ever having recorded any such an oceurrence. The Gospel accounts, how- | | ever, would lead us to infer that it hap- pened during a certain “Feast of the Passover,” which was held at a time somewhere near the vernal equinox, or the beginning of spring. It is much to b2 | | regretted that the fathers of the primitive | | church, Instead of quibbling about calen- | |dars and dates, had mot definitely fixed | | upon the Sunday after the first full moon after March 2l—the day of the vernal equinox—as the proper day; by so doing, | |in all probability, they would have been as nearly right as it is possible to get in the absence of a positive date. Besides, Easter would then have been a fixed n- | stead of a movable feast as it Is at pres- ent; and many other ecclesiastical fasts and feasts which are entirely dependant on Easter for their proper dates would also have a permanent place on the cal- endar; whereas, by the Intricate methods now in use for ascertaining what they are pleased to call the correct date, Easter Sunday may fall on any day from March 22 to April 25. an apparent ab- surdity on the face of it. To my mind the fact that neither a Greek nor a Ro- man contemporary historian should have even hinted at such a most marvelous oceurrence is almost if not quite as mi- raculous as the rc..rrection itself. CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER. | * .?.. { | o the latter is that very ancient survival, the notion that particular foods are “good” for particular things or effects. This is an almost direct descendant of the notion, held with greater or less unanimity by nearly all savage and bat- barous tribes, that the flesh or viscera of birds and animals possessing particu- lar qualities will be likely to produce the same qualities in those who eat them. Thus Nero used to banquet on nightin- gales’ tongues in the hope of improving his voice, and the Ojibwa cut out and de- voured the heart of the bear, the liver of |the buffalo, etc., believing that the | strength and courage of those animals would thereby be transferred to himsefl. It is probable that the most grewsome of ancestral rites—cannibalism—was largely due to the same belief, although, of course, In Neanderthal days, primitive man would have no more hesitancy about eating his enemy after he had killed him than he would in devouring a bear or a deer. In fact, the early converts of the missionaries in the South Sea islands | referred to their favorite dish as *long pig.” Every known race has at some time been nnibal. There certainly was a childlike logical- ity and naivete about the conception of the Maori warrior who rounded and com- pleted his conquest of his enemy by eat- ing him afterward and thus acquiring all * f\he vigor and energy which had been wont to oppose him. The story told of the old Maori chief who, upon his deathbed, when urged by the missionary and his | favorite wife to a deathbed repentance, and told that in order to do so he must first forgive his enemies, proudly lifted his dying head and exclaimed, *‘I have no enemies; I have eaten them all,” ap- peals to a slumbering chord in us even yet. While certain most intelligent people | today would indignantly resent the accu- sation of reverting to such days’ and ideas, they will vigorously denounce the eating of pork as an unholy thing, on the ground that ““he who eats pork thinks pork,” and the more orthodox of them will even declare that while Scripture records that the devils entered the swine, we have no assurance that they ever came out of them. And the And blood of the mortals by mortals was spilt, , And drear was the voice of woe; ‘And Rome sat high on her seven hills, Nor read in the stars her doom, life of man was a life of ills, For Love was in his tomb. ‘And ever the people ran here and there, While hope, like a specter, fled, ‘And they cried with the voice of a sore despair, “Our Love, sweet Love, is dead P B UT ¢’en while the world yet swung in night And shrank at a tyrant's nod, There were some who looked to the breaking light, For, lo! they had walked with God. But their hearts were stricken beside that tomb Which seemed to the blackness wed, ""And they cried, while the city was lost in gloom, “Is it true that our Love is dead?” For the soul of man doth with doubt abide, And its voice is ever a sigh; It must touch the wound in the riven side, Or it fears that Love will die. 1 T HE morning was fair as an angel’s dream When one walked sorrowing where That tomb was lit by the sun’s first beam; In her heart was a dire despair; : 'And then Love came, from the tomb he came, And walked by her side in the day, ‘And he whispered low: “I am still the same. Fear not, for I live alway.” Oh, it ever hath been, and it ever shall be, That Doubt to our soils doth lie, Yet we need but look to our God to see That Love, he can never die. s WAITING HIS TURN. A lady in a small Alabama town had oc- casion to call at the cabin of her washer- woman, Aunt Betsy. While waiting for the article she sought to be found, she observed a woolly head which appeared from under the edge of the bed, and DOGS SMUGGLE LACES. Some clever ruses to outwit customs au- thorities along the French frontier have been revealed by the capture of a dog, says the Brussels correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. Before making use of this dog as a lace-carrier the smuggler asked: “Is that one of your children, Aunt |Srossed the border often with him, so tRat Betsy?” the customs officers might know the ani- “Deed an’ ‘tis, honey,” was the reply. [ M4l Then he clipped the dog’s coat close, wrapped around his body yards “What is its name?” “Dat chile ain’t got no name yet, Miss Rosa,” Aunt Betty said, y: “Why, it must be five or six years old; surely it ought to have a name at that age,” the lady said. Aunt Betsy nodded. “Dat done worried me a whole Ilot, honey, hit sho’ has’” she said “But whut Ah gwine do? My ole man, he done | used up all de good names on de dawgs, an’ now dat chile des hatter wait twell one ob dem die, so he can git his name.” —Success Magazine. HER VALUATION. Aunt Evelyn took little Anna to the French church and gave her a nickel to put in the alms basin. Anna looked at the coin with evident satisfaction, and then, nestling close to her aunt, she whispered, “How much are you going to give?” Her aunt opening her hand, displayed a quarter of a dollar. “Oh!” exclaimed the child excitedly, “don't do it, it isn’t worth it.”—Lippin- of costly lace and covered the whole with fur like the dog’s coat. For five years this dog carried Brabant lace without awakening suspicion. Then a “friend” of the smuggler notified the authorities, who shot the faithful ani- mal. It leaked out that dogs are used for this purpose all along the frontler. Pigeons are also used for smuggling, ‘Women's watches are sent from Lugano, In Switzerland, into Italy tied to the feet of homing pigeons. HIS LITTLE BLUFF. £he was such a pretty girl That I wondered why the churl Didn't pay More attention to the maid— There he sat and nothing said ‘While the crowded Pullman sped On its way. 1 pronounced him king of chumps To sit silent in the dumps With a queen Dainty, winsome, natty, neat, Dancing-eved, attractive, sweet There beside him on the seat cott’s. All serene. % But when they arose to go DO YOU KNOW HIM? Then I undersiood, you_ know, J—— a trice ‘Why he had been such a bore; For I saw upon the floor, What T hadn’t seen Grains of rice! Loutsville “How does it happen that you have no extra chairs in your office?” “I had to take them out; people came in and bothered me so I could not work.” “Oh, good scheme; now go right on with your work as if I was not here; I'll perch up here on the corner of your desk and read your morning paper.”’—Houston Post. COMPARING NOTES. “] was married to that man once,” said the first Chicago woman. Courfer-Journal. AMPLY QUALIFIED. The attorney was trying to ascertain the qualifications of the man In the chair for jury service. “Let me ask you, Mr. Pankey,” said, “if you know anything—" - “No sir!” interrupted the man in the ‘To Mr. Fikkle? The idea! W! R s, was 1" rep:ed the other. 5 b, 80| cnasr, tired of being questioned. “You don’'t say? Were you before or | “We'll take him, your Honor,” said aftar ma?" dthe attorney.-—Chicago Tribune. he OUR LANGUAGE. Georgie, age 10, in rendering an ac- count to his father of sundry purchases, made out his statement in this wise: $1.50 I had. 5 cents for carfare. 10 cents for candy. 25 cents for hair cut. 6 cents for ferry. 30 cents for clambs. 76 cents I spent. 74 cents I have left. His father called him up. “George,” he thundered, “where did you learn to spell clams? What is that ‘D’ doing there?” “I don’t know,” replied the youngster. “This English spelling gets me always mixed up. I have to spell lams with a ‘b’ Then there are ‘clams,’ ‘Sams,’ ‘slams,” ‘balms,’ ‘jams,’ ‘jambs,’ ‘dams,’ ‘damns,’ ‘palms,’ ‘qualms,’ ‘rams,’ ‘hams,’ ‘shams,’ ‘psalm,’ ‘lamm,’ and, oh, papa, I can't tell how many more jokes there are.” “Georgie, you are for- given.”—New York Press. WOULD HAVE TO. “And what are you doing in the cap- ital?” sald the Washington citizen to a friend from the West. ““Oh, I came to see Congress make a few laws."” “Indeed? Then you intend to reside here for a number of years?'—Cleve- land Leader. UNPROFESSIONAL. “Say,” growled the sporting editor, “what do you mean by saying the light- ‘weight boxer weighed 122 pounds?” “Well, that’s what he weighed,” pro- tested the new reporter, “He didn’t do anything of the kind,” re- torted the S. E. “He tipped the scales.” —Chicago News. A ROUND ROBIN. Johnson—Did you regain your health completely on your tropical tour? Thomson—7Yes; completely. Johnson—What was the nature of your illness? . Thomson—Why, I reduced myself to 2 nervous wreck making money enough to take the trip.—Detroit Free Press. \ R L P SERIAETE R S But Easter has also a secular sig- | ‘ ki + nificance; and from a very remote period \ D D l ] ' has always been a season of great fes- let €lusions. % I_] I % tivity, altogether irrespective of its con- = o neetion with Christianity. The word it- l se'f is derived from Eastre, another name OME diet delusions are of most for Astarte, the goddess of reproduction, S modern date, like the fad which is BY A. J. WATERHOUSE: e was warth-wide: el vl | now devastating our ‘broakiast ta-| 3 <* | der a variety of names, altars were raised 2 » ¢ Pty o t . Special L‘Ir:lsm‘;\fl}zi\]e :.T;f: ngo;;um;?tc‘:;izc;,fl b,lx. : N oW the. world was lost in the fog of guilt, ::s‘:]‘!l;;x:les' benyy ;:!::; - ::ir — | M., M. D., is the April McClure’'s. Among And its people ran to and fro, honor at the vernal equinox in recogni- tion of the sun's return to warm the earth, and awaken it from the death- like sleep of winter. In some places these testivities were held in conjunction with those held in honor of Baal, the sun god; Astarte representing the reproductive ele- ment and Baal the generative power. These festivities were always attended with the most exuberant expressions of joyfulness; and while they lasted all the people gave themselves up entirely to hi- larity and jollity, and pleasures of every kind. The fathers of the early church were not slow to observe these things; indeed. they made it an undeviating rule to give a Christian significance to all important heathen festivities and espe- cially to such as were held in the highest esteem by the people. In the present in- stance their task was a comparatively easy ome. Both festivals being held at about the same time, much effort on their part was not needed to convinee the peo- ple that the benmefits to be derived from the worship of the “Sun of Righteous- ness” far exceeded those which wers merely the effects of the natural sun: especially as the latter was created by the former. It was by just such means as these that many converts were made in the early stages of the Christian church; and it is a very notable fact that - most of the church festivals derive theit origin from heathen prototypes. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. WILD FLOWERS—E. S. G, near Mid- way, Cal. If you will send a seif-ad- dressed and stamped envelope to the query department the names of the flowers sent for examination will be sént to you by mail. LONG DISTANCE—E. C.. City. The Krag-Jorgensen rifle used in the Danish army can be sighted to shoot at an ob- ject 29% yards away. If the object be a man, and the bullet strikes a vital spot, it is likely that it would kill. None of the other rifles used by armies can be : sighted farther. PROFESSOR—A. B. E, City. One en- titled to the title of professor is an officer in a university or college whose duty it is to instruct students or read lectures on particular branches of learning. In a loose way the term is applied to any one who publicly teaches or exercises an art or occupation for pdy, as a professor of dancing, phrenclogy, jugsgling, acrobatio feats, music, boxing and the like. STANLEY'S EXPEDITION—W., City. Henry M. Stanley’s first expedition into Africa was in 1867, when he accompa- nied the English troops sent against King Theodore of Abyssinia, as corre~ spondent of the New York Herald. It was two years after that date that the same paper sent him into the heart of the Dark Continent to search for Dr. David Livingstone, but it was not until February, 1871, that he started with his expedition in quest of the doctor. He found him at Ujijl in November of that year. COFFINS—A. S, San Jose, Cal. This Gepartment has not been able to dis- cover the date when cofins were first used for the interment of human bodies, but a research shows that the Athen- fans buried bodies in coffins of ce- dar; coffins of marble and stone were used by the Romans; Alexander is said to have been buried in a coffin of gold; glass cof- LAYMAN'S ANSWER. On one occasion when ex-Congressman John R. Thayer was counsel for the ae- fense in the central district court he was cross-examining a witness in the case of the Worcester and Suburban street raflway ticket forgery. The witness, who was a conductor on the road, had been arrested for forging tickets. A man named Jensen was employed in the car barn of the road. He was not particularly bright, either in appearance or speech, and the conductor had attempt- ed to show that Jensen was the origina- tor of the scheme for forging the tickets. Thayer asked the witness, by way of ridicule, if he did not believe Jensen showed lack of capacity for putting up such a job on the road, and closed his cross-examination by saying: ‘Doesn't he look like a bright man?” The conductor’s reply, “He must be; he hired a bright lawyer,” convulsed the attorneys and court so that Thayer did not pursue the examination further.— Baston Herald, TOO WILLING. A darky wanted very much to propose to his lady-love but, strange to say, he hadn’t the nerve. Some one suggested he resort to the telephone, so he called her up. *“Dat yoo, Dinah?" “Yaas,” was the reply_ -“Say, Dinah, I want ter ask yer some- thin'."” “Yaas,” again. “Dinah, will yer marry me?” “Yaas, who Is it, please?’—Lippincott’s. i gt PLEASANT SURPRISE. “Yes, he's living in that wild Western mining town now and he says he's de- a wooden coffin was the burial ix 542 of King Arthur in the entire trunk of a hollowed oak. Patent coffins were in- vented in England in 1796, lighted. ““The idea! I can't imagine anybody be- ing delighted over living in that town.” “You don’t understand. He means he’s