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Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 1 year SB.OO DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months $4.00 DAILY CALL — By Single Month • 750 SUNDAY CALL. 1 year • • - » 2 - 50 WEEKLY CALL, 1 year -.•• 1-00 ! Daily ..58.00 Per Year Extra Sunday : 4.15 Per Year Extra \u25a0Weekly ..'.. 1.00 Per Year Extra Entered at the United States Postofflce as Second Class Matter. ALL POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested. Mall subscribers In ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. THE UNMASKING OF COCKLEBURR MURRAY SOME very strange, politics are in process of evolution in Oklahoma in relation to the ratification of a state constitution. There is deep, dark brown mystery about the proceedings, and a certain statesman, locally known as "Cockleburr" Murray, is the villain of the play. It is represented that President Roosevelt is greatly disturbed in mind because he ' can get no authentic copy of the constitution as it. was adopted by the con vention called under the enabling act. It is related— in whispers — that there are only seven copies of this document in existence, and these are all in the -possession or custody of "Cockleburr" Murray, who was chairman of the convention. As the "drama unfolds/ to quote a local plot finder, we learn, by way of damning detail, that Murray "keeps all seven copies in a wooden box" and sleeps. on the box every night. A man so familiar with cockleburrs is capable of much. Whether this drama shall further unfold as comedy or tragedy mo man can say as yet, but the brows of politicians in Wash ington are gloomy. It is represented that President Roosevelt is alarmed lest the proposed constitution be stuffed with incen diary provisions, and accordingly ways and means to circumvent the iniquitous Murray are under consideration. Governor Frantz of the territory, who may be taken to represent the administration ! view, complains that the convention spent five days debating whether the preamble should contain the words "Almighty God" or the "Supreme Ruler of the Universe," and this. discussion cost $10,000. In specific objection lo the constitution Governor Frantz is fur ther quoted: I do not believe that the new state will be admitted into the % union under such a constitution. One of the worst features of this remarkable paper is that which strikes at the very root of the dignity and independence, of -the judiciary. I refer to the provision that no judge can fine a man for con tempt of court except after the defendant be convicted in a trial by jury. - Another deplorable feature is the provision which would throttle the whole educational system. It limits the tax for school purposes to six mills. ; Under the present law 30 mills is the limit, and special provision is more for the maintenance of separate schools for the negroes. The negroes are required to attend separate schools under the constitution, but no special 'provision is allowed for this additional expense. If the constitution is •adopted in its present form it will mean that instead -of the children of the new state receiving eight months of education in the public schools they will only receive about two months. ' .- ~ " On the other hand, the wicked democrats declare that the only reason why the constitution is objectionable in Washington is that their party had complete control of the convention and gerrymandered the state in such complete fashion as to give them a solid delegation in congress for years to come. It is a very dis graceful admission, but, perhaps, if the republicans had had control, they might have done the same thing. On the whole, it begins to look like comedy. THE TWO SIDES OF RECRUITING J IEUTEXANT WALLACE BERTOLF, commanding the I United States steamship Fox, ' recently from a cruise among g j the asparagus fields of San* Joaquin, forwards to The Gall certain official advertising "literature" put forth by the navy department to promote recruiting, and we rejoice to help Uncle Sam, with the understanding that The Call helps those who help themselves. It is announced in Washington that the department desires that enlisted men shall be permitted to enjoy "rational pleasures," but when it comes to specifications it does not appear that this includes beer. There shall be no canteen on Uncle Sam's ships. Now. we fear that the sailorman's notion of rational pleasure is closely concerned with beer. Jr. has been publicly reported (and the report has never been contradicted)" that officers of the navy are permitted to encourage and witness prize fights between enlisted men. There % is, indeed, a complexity of regulation for the life of an enlisted man, in which our ideas concerning the nature of rational pleasures become confused. Lieutenant Bertolf incloses, among other things, a speech made by President Roosevelt to the crew of trie battleship Louisiana, from which we quote: I hope that every man here, officer and enlisted man alike, will remember K thzt his profession sets him apart from all other men in the country not in the army or navy, by putting upon his shoulders a peculiar responsibility. You enlisted men, if you stay in the service 30 years and have taken reason able advantage of your opportunities during; that time, can then, perhaps at the age of 50 or 55, retire on what is. practically a.p ension.i n the "neigh borhood of $900 a year. Uncle Sam has your interests at heart. You have from our people a measure of hope and belief and affection such as, rightly . enough, is yielded to no others: We know that every American is proud of the navy and its sailormen. They are regarded with affectionas well: as pride,; and we should all take an interest in their well being. Now we are entitled, to ask,, Are the men well treated?. We do riot know, ibiit the long record of desertions looks bad. It is, far worse in the army than the navy. Something of the romance that has been associated with, life on a man of war has been lost. The sailorman no longer blasts his tarry toplights or splices the mainbrace. His whole language and technique' have suffered a sea change. 'He lives, in an: iron kettle and instead of hauling on ropes he does things ' with : "a monkey wrench. In the old days he smelled of. tar, but now he is redolent of axle'grease. These are trifling matters, t perhaps, but they affect , the imagination, which is always a strong? 5 factor in recruiting. v *^ • The writer once visited a United, States ship in ttiis harbor, and in the launch returning- was ayoung American of splendid type,* a native of Iowa; handsome and stalwart. He; -had , just 'eceived his discharge and was asked what he thought of : the EDITORIAL PAGE | Cartoonist^ Js^r's j^e We ir o/ the Week's i^ws navy. "It's a dog's life," he said, bitterly, in "reply. In-the absence of further investigation such evidence should not count for much, but the fact remains that it is in the power of officers to make enlisted men lead a dog's; life. . SOMETHING has been said in these columns about the unex pected movement in Texas to restrict the practice of "carrying a gun." Alabama follows suit, although the practice is there described as "toting a pistol." The glories of the old south wane and even are departed. Its boasted habits, manners and cus toms dwindle, peak and vanish. Only the other , day . the governor of North; Carolina met the governor of South Carolina at the Jamestown fair,.and one of them was a teetotaler, arid the other a prohibitionist. It was | a long time between but neither gov ernor rose to make objection or fulfilL the official tradition. History does not repeat itself. Governor Rollin .Woodruff of . Connecticut tells themelancholyvStory.- He rounded up the southerners and tells how he introduced them, m this wise: <. "Governor Glenn, I want you to'meet the governor of South. Carolina." Upon Governor Glenn's • smiling acquiescence 1 1 turned; to'' the other., man*, and said, "Governor .Heyward, I want to make you acquainted withthe governor i of North Carolina."- . .:'... The high 'admirals of two adjoining ships of state* shook hands with true southern cordiality?; l i was* surprised, and I • guess I" looked it; - There was the governor 'of- South: Carolina and the, governor ~bf -North* Carolina, but where, oh, where was the usual greeting? I coughed/ fidgeted uneasily, and then said:. ".' 'C "I-expectedthe*usual salutation when the governor — " ,• \u25a0': "To be sure," broke in Governor Glenn.; "I should like to oblige you, but ram a prohibitionist and a teetotaler." T , ' -. 'v* \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0}\u25a0 , "And I," too,: would ibe deeply honored to live up to aHraditio'n," said Governor. Heyward,- bowling ; deeply, -"but* l, like my>^ brother. governor, am a prohibitionist. and- a teetotaler." ,V. " '\u25a0\u25a0'.' ;-With this honored tradition of the south destroyed l _we find Texas and Alabama; legislating against the" practice cojncealed weapons. It 4s proposed; in Alabama; that no man Vmay carry : a, /pistol ; witliout- a ~ permit fr^ old south the probate judge belonged to the ' subsequent; proceed^ ings. Moreover, when^ the "pistol toter" has obtained^ the judicial consent he will ; be : required . to wear \u25a0conspicuously— presumably « in his hat-j-a metal: badge; engraved with. the \u25a0 legend, "Armed,";under penalty (of ; ; going ;on; the rockpile .for :three months; v So shall tKe gun fighter bej labeled and, brassbound: The old south is being reconstructed out of : all knowledge. . " .Vital statistics; fail, to indicate any ; reduction in-the Pullman car berth rate! ',_ \u25a0--'' '^wSSU^'- '- '•--':'\u25a0--'--\u25a0'-"'- .;. ;j ?^p^Sp^^*- !: '-.- : ' ; . The ;5 1^man.wHo.officiated;^^ eyideiitly: decided: that -it- was;a shame: to' take{the; moneys ; - l ~^, PASSING OF THE OLD SOUTH NOTE AND COMMENT Personal Mention George v H. Tilden of Seattle is at th< Fairmont. "S Ira J. Francis of Los Angeles is ai the St.'. Francis. B. D. Knoss of Grangeville, Ala., i! at- the Baltimore. . v-<- J.- F.*Con'don and S. Tonkey of Verd: are at. the Jefferson. - Norman. J. Gould of Seneca Falls N. [ V.; Is at " the,. Savoy. _C. F. : Berry, a" lumberman of Grays Harbor, r : Is : at the Savoy. > --F. G. .Waterhouse, wife and daughtei of Tonopah _are at the Fairmont. J. H. Cobb, a- mining man. froir Juneau, Alaska, is at U»e St. Francis. Honolulu arrivals "at the St. Francis are C. H. Clapp and \u25a0 George P. Thielen •:;* R. J:, Schlacka .of Denver, prominent in v the^ railway- supply business, ft ai the Fairmont. , - . Walter Gadsby, a prominent furni ture man of Portland, Or., and his wlf« are ' at. the . St. Francis. ; - VM. - Bra'sch, manager of the "Whit ney-Marsh company of Honolulu, and his wife are', at the Baltimore. , Charles B. Hopkins of Spokane, whc is . identified ;'"with; ; bußinesß interests lr the northwest,"; la at the Majestic i Attorneys '. Guy ;B. Graff and Charle! G.i Cromwell of : Spokane ; arrived s t ron Baltimore?, yesterday and are.at. th< Fairmont:;:; j \u25a0O. > W. McConnell, a prominent ! attor ney; of Butte, , Mont.; v and his ; bride,' wh< have : been touring the state, are at tht Baltimore. V' 1 \u25a0'\u25a0 ''\u25a0"\u25a0 \u25a0"- In thejoke World /'l'm awfully X frightened . way Zup here,"; said the \ fair; young, thing "in the airship/;.. , ; Jv'...:. _' "Worry " not,': Clarissa,", replied Har vey; Gltrocks ; j"yb ur , fears' are grbund ; less."— Life.;? ,r '; . '\u25a0'-\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0 s •\u25a0"-" r .."- -•"?""' \u25a0*\u25a0 ..' • *' ' • j . " Movln K ? T inquired a , neighbor, as a -furniture .van stopped- in \u25a0 front -of - Ker , feet's -house. .; •.-:\u25a0 -\u25a0 : . •- . . y\"No,^indeed,"'\u25a0:replied .; Kerf ect. "A friend^ wants ; to i borrow ; our .; collection I of souvenir ; postcards."-^Judge. ' '\u25a0 • '," ' .;'\u25a0*'-'.'• "_' • '_-\u0084 . I They had been engaged for. almost lan hour.",: \u25a0:•;•.\u25a0 '-- \u25a0 ."\u25a0'. \u25a0 : '"May..l :iook at the works . ln v your watch?**; she" asked.: : x "I'd ; rather" you ; woiildn' t," \u25a0he * replied L'.'l'mV. afraid Jof t getting j dustbin ; It-"^u | f ' ,'.'Hub !.~j she'exclaimed. >i : "I'll j bet \u25a0 there Is < another woman' in the case."r—Chl icaso'News." '" THE INSIDER Discusses May Irwin, one of America's richest actresses,* who is about to commit matrimony, and stage .stars who own California realty . . „_ . ,, v * ND now It is May Irwin. fair, fat and 54, Actress May Irwin s A who i 3 about to commit matrim ony Fortune Is Large X~l agaliu The last time May was reported about to remarry Hugo Toland was mentioned a3 the prospective bridegroom. But they both laughed it off to the investigators who tried to verify the rumor. The plump little comedienne said that she wasnt thinking just then of adopt ing a boy, for she had two nice big sons of her very own, and as Hugo mar ', ried Gertie' Tidball of this city shortly afterward the rumor was silenced for all time. May Irwin is one of the richest actresses in the United States, and she has made every cent of her fortune herself by her theatrical engagements, man agement of theaters and by lucky investment. She Is without doubt the most popular comedienne on this side of the Atlantic, and her avoirdupois is advertisement to the fact that "a laugh a minute" is excellent as a weighs producer. , . T .V- i - r-~ j Nat Goodwin lately gave vent to a mot. with Nat Goodwin Fond Mrs Langtry who Jg now de Bathe aa of Quips and Jests tte subje ct. "She began as the Jersey Lily," said Nat, "but she is keeping on as tha Jersey Immortelle." Goodwin is fond of quips and jests, and even practical Jokes do not offend him as they do the overfastidious in" the profession. He is so good natured thaft he does not mind being the point aimed at. One day when matters theatrio were rather dull, he met Burr Mclntosh in Broadway. "I had a protege,"" relates the comedian now at the Novelty, "whom I wanted to place some where, so I said to Mclntosh, 'Do you know any manager who needs a callboy?* " 'Why, no,' returned Mclntosh, "why, are you looking for a job?* " c c • a Lotta, Langtry, Modjeska and Nat Goodwla Stage Earnings Are are not the only stage stars wno liked Cali . Invested In State f orn i a sufficiently well to invest some of their dollars in real estate within its boundaries. Paplnta, the fascinating danseuse. owns a chicken ranch not many miles from Oakland. She bought the acres with the first big money she made from her stage appearances. At that timo her idea was to have a fine stock farm, and for some time she carried out that scheme. Her husband, who died a year or so before the quake, was a turfmna of experience and during his lifetime the stock farm managed pay expenses. But a lone widow didn't feel equal to running a ranch devoted to blooded horses, and Papinta substituted chickens for the equines. . She is a clever little woman, full of energy and ambition, and her aim. Is to go abroad and conquer Europe through the music hall medium and then j return here with the fortune to live a quiet life on her ranch. Paplnta, by the way, ; was the originator of the mirror dance, which she produced at the Orpheum long before any one else thought of it. She also did the fire dance before Loie Fuller danced it, but\he latter exploited it later in her repertoire and is generally accredited as Its creator. s P^ollfflvHflcill..r)i Apropos the dispatch informing the reading canamaynasmucn^ worW that priof to hef ma^ iage with young tO Learn as COOK Lewisohn Edna May is to become a Jewess, and will in consequence have to learn how to prepare kosher dishes, how many people know what a kosher dish is? I remember a restaurant in Pins street near Montgomery where the proprietor used to make a specialty of -*a called kosher dishes and one used to meet bankers and brokers there in the noon hour. I once persuaded the chef to tell me how to prepare some of ilia dishes that tltfese epicures enjoyed, and here are the recipes he gave me: Cold salmon with raisin sauce — Leave the salmon whole or cut in slices, boil, tlien drain and lay on dish. : For sauce brown a piece of butter, in fryins paii, with a chopped onion and a little sugar. Soak a bit of honey caks in a cup of sour claret and add to the other Ingredients in saucepan, with pepper, salt and a little ground ginger; also two slices of lemon, half a cup of raisins and a bay leaf. Cook slowly and then pour over the fish. Serve cold. Stuffed milt — There are two veins inside the milt that must be taken out and then It is scraped. To the inside add soaked bread, egg, onion, chopped parsley and seasoning to taste. Mix together and sew up. Place in boilins soup for half an hour, take out and brown, when it Is ready to serve. Sour lung (served with potato pancake) — Prepare lung by first thoroughly, cleaning, then boil until soft. Throw away the water and cut lung in small; squares. Put fat in saucep^n^ and brown an onion, add- flour a tablespoonful of sugar and two of vinegar. Make smooth by adding one cup of meat stock, and season with ginger, pepper, salt, a bay leaf and chopped parsley. Place lung In pan and cook all slowly for 20 minutes. Some other Jewish dishes that the charming actress must learn to cook for her millionaire bridegroom are wiener schnitzel, filled magen or stuffed milt and sauerkraut, lungennuss with egg, German fricadells with mushrooms, koenigsburger klops with caper sauce and wiener meat roll with sauerkraut. In Railway Circles y»->j OLDPIELD and Tonopah may now I be said to have practically two \: T overland roads and freight can be T^ sent from this city into the min ing districts of Nevada both from the' north and from the south. Since the completion of the Clark line to Beatty, which is a private enterprise and not connected with. the Salt Lake line, freight can'be sent from San Francisco to Beatty and then by using the Bullfrog: and Goldfleld road into Tonopah and Goldfleld. The conges tion of freight on the northern route has blocked traffic, but now merchants are using the Santa Fe to route their freight. ' The Santa Fe line carries goods as. far as Daggett and then the Salt -Lake line is used from Las Vegas to Beatty and then the Bullfrog and Tonopah carries freight, to Goldfield and'- Tonopah. This is regarded by the shippers as little short of a blessing. After -the fire: some of the business slipped away \u25a0 from San Francisco and went to, Salt Lake,- but,, lately the Tonopah and Goldfleld merchants have been sending their orders to this city, but the . great congestion of freight on the^Tonopah Una has put them to some Inconvenience. They see in this, new route, however, a means' to get in their freightr and it 'is being patronized liberally. MifiWMUHlfi j "Will: you .kindly sign your name here?" 'said the polite railway clerk to the purchaser of a ticket.' g^Sgg :.': .'- "Not .'much," was the .answer; "you sign all you want to. I don't sign nothing." v \u25a0';';\u25a0 , • "Have you a deep rooted - objection to slgnlng7"- ',, ,'-'You bet I have." "May I ask the reason," pursued the cIerk.'pCHBBBHBBHBBCBBpnBBBi "Look here, young. man, I don't sign nothing. " The dearest friend ,I , have is doing time in Joliet just because he was "too. handy:with' the pen and 'you hear this > chicken, cackle. He ain't agoing to run'no risks.** \ The^Harriman lines do not live.alto gether,-in.! that harmony, which, might be* expected .of them, and ; perhaps > they are ; living *up \u25a0to -. the statements made by_ J. C. .Stubbs that "competition does exist between .-. the Union Pacific and ; the j. Southern \u25a0 Pacific. • The aver age .merchant ; in San Francisco certain ly : believes ;. that (competition does exist as : far as excuses 'are .concerned, for when. he, complains to a Union Pacific man y that • his . freight is overdue' by several months he shrugs his shoulders and says it is, all the -fault;, of .the Southern \u25a0. Pacific. . Then ;. when \ he ', goes to jfthef Southern Pacific Jones mildly suggests ' thar."this /end is -not running the Union | Pacific ' and ', they ; cannot ; de MAY 26, 1907 liver car 3 when not handed over t» them." This- brings a retort from th* Union Pacific people that there are 1,000 cars now in the Sparks yards which the Southern Pacific cannot move owing to a lack of motive power. •• \u25a0 • George G. Fraaer has called a meet ing of the younger railroad men, such as C. C. Crane, for next WednestJay evening to have an informal dinner, and while they are eating- he will-place, before them his project of forming a baseball nine. Fraser Is confident that In so great an aggregation of knockers there will surely be some who will b* able to make a basehlt. • • • D. XL Swobe. traffic manager of the McCloud River railroad, is expected to return to this city today from a. trip through the eastern states. *j^ &PH • • • i A. W. Noyes, traveling general.pas senger agent of the Chicago Great "Western, with headquarters in ; Chi - , cago, is on a business trip to tha coast. •• , • The executive committee of th« Cali fornia association of traffic agents will meet next Wednesday evening to elect about 20 new members. • \u25a0;•"\u25a0'• • W. F. Herrin has gone on a trip to EL. J. Bouchard has been appointed. superintendent of the Sierra Valley railway.* • • • "A book could b© written." observed H. AL McCartney, assistant chief en gineer of the TVestern Pacific, "on the humor of stenographers. We know that th 9 telephone young lady has caused many am Ixup. but recommend me. to the stenographer. Why, one day I wrote a firm for prices of blowoff valves for a 72 inch wood stave pipe for water transmission for the power lines of the Ogden Canyon power com pany, and I received an answer for specifications for a 7.2 inch wooden stove pipe. No, I will not say what my answer was." "Stenographer's mistake. indeed, 1 * spoke up a blonde manipulator of a machine with an- indignant toss of th« head. "It was probably the mistake ot the -man who was, dictating. He had I suppose, a big chunk of,, tobacco in his mouth, and what with chewing and dictating he got mixed up and then the stenographer. was- blamed. . If a book is to" be written about the humor of stenographers.' lt would need a stenog rapher to write it, and then there would be;some explaining, you bet your life " and then the fair typewritist reached for a looking glass and began to ar range" a vagrant curl whica swept her ; brow. '