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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL
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-' •. FQtnn>EJ> DECEMBEB. -1. me. '
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The Pork Barrel System
I Governor Johnson must veto-bills carrying
i i an aggregate appropriation of 5γ,133.9/ 7: He
must strike down approximately one-sixth of the
appropriations made .by the 'legislature in order to |
bring them within the limits of the largest fund this
state has ever had. ,• ;
The tax levy bill will produce approximately j
$29,670,000. The total of the appropriations passed j
at the first bifurcated legislative session -was j
S34i/91.677. •■.:■' That total was more than ,000,(X)0,
in excess of * the state's " total revenue for the.
ensuing biennial period. , '
The full significance of these figures can not |
l>c appreciated without a consideration of the
increase in the state's revenue consequent upon the <
adoption of the segregated gross earnings tax sys- i
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Under- the original rates the segregated . gross i
earnings tax law increased the state's revenue by !
about 57.000.000 for the first biennial period. The j
increased rates adopted this year provide for a fur
ther addition of more than $2,000,000. or a total
revenue of nearly 530.000.000. " v
There is food for uncomfortable reflection in tjie
fact that the legislature, in control of the biggest j
fund this state ever had. attempted to spend more
than 55,000.000 in excess' of . the total of that fund.
Governor Johnson can and must prevent a
theoretical state deficit by killing a;sufrtcient; num
ber of bills to make the revenue and the expendi
tures meet. * ; •
The fact that the chairmen of the finance and
ways and means committees were not able to pre
vent the money spending madness of the legislature
should be sufficient notice to the public that it
needs a radical change both in legislators and legis
lative methods. :■ ; • "
There is only one explanation for the situation :
confronting the governor. Appropriations were
made not with a view to businesslike administra
tion of the state's business, but on a basis of
expediency. ■ ,:. , ■■ "]-•./ wjis^*'*'■'■'''■ ■
The committees in charge of the state's finances
ere compelled to trade x favorable _, reports on
improper bills for yotes/ on measures necessary to
proper conduct the , state's business. "
Senators and assemblymen traded their votes in
favor of their colleagues' bad bills for votes for their
own bad bills. They combined for an" assault on
the pork barrel, with no thought for the credit of
the state or the welfare of the general public. ;; *
>nly the excesses and the , perpetrators of this
particular assault arc new. The system is old. It
fell into the hands of men untrained in the legis
lative finesse of their lrandsjtothe limit an(!
stopping there. ' ... . • '
; The situatiou is embarrassing. If it shall result \
in arousing the public to the necessity of a budget
substitute for the pork barrel system and the selec
tion of otlier than third rate men for legislative
office, its creation will be one of the most valuable
of the last legislature's accomplishments. ;
Senators Face a Crisis
±j The senate is feverishly interested in secur
ing an immediate and favorable report on the
Fletcher bill from the committee on commerce. V-/
The senate majority ■ shares somewhat :" in the
public's concern over the schedules of the Under
wood tariff bill and the terms of the currency meas
ure to be sent over from the White house. ~
Those measures arc important in a way. How
ever, they involve no such burning issue as that
sought to be determined by .the Fletcher bill. : They
may- wait. The\Fletch'cr>bil 1 must be passed : quickly■
if. a . political : ,calam*ify: to be averted. ' -Or .
Its enactment and approval before vjiihvl: will
save scores of good jobs to be . peddled by the
majoriiy members of the senate.;
The last congress passed and President Taft
approved a bill lor the reorganization of the cus
tpins service. It provided for the ' abolition of scores
of collectorships • and the organization of ;■ customs
iistricts. -\ '- !
The offices marked for abolition served no good
public purpose. They are merely taps to the public
purse distributed for the political advantage of sen
ators who have claimed them as their private
patronage perquisites for many years.
The law passed by • the last congress provided,
for a substitution of business for patronage
methods on July 1.
The Fletcher bill is not a frank repeal of that
law. It provides for the postponement -of its
operation for two years. Postponed for two years,
ihe customs service would provide livings for an
army of partisan job hunters and funds for the
next congressional campaign. • ■
Failure to secure its enactment and approval be
fore July 1 would save hundreds of thousands of
dollars for the public purse. Than that, nothing
could; be niore undesirable from the standpoint of
the patronage patriots who - have been fenced off
from the trough for two arid decades. •
: The senate faces a soul trying crisis. The hopes
of its majority are bound up in the Fletcher bill and
a too deliberate commerce committee. •-*'•-
he Alaskan Railroad
i ;lJw- HluDliull lIGIIIUaU. v;
President Wilson's- statement to Senators
Chamberlain of Oregon , and Jones of
Washington, reported in The Call's "Washington
dispatches, that he is in favor of building a gov
eminent railway in Alaska probably settles the
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qtfeStton that the work of construction ! will be
undertaken during his administration. :£>\
This statement by President Wilson was to
have been expected, in view of Secretary Lane's
■.-. . . ~ ■■ , ;' s *#i'
very strong' position in relation to the subject,
commented upon a tew days ago: as the secretary
probably would not have come "out so strongly as
he did in favor of a government built railroad it.
he had not been aware of the views of his chief. '!
J i President Wilson, as soon as he puts his
currency reform measures through congress,
would ask for authority to utilize the available
tools and machinery used in Panama canal build
ing, the construction of the Alaskan railroad would*
be done at least possible cost. ' -:. •
To the wliblc Pacific coast the government
building of an Alask'an railroad will mean much,
and especially to San Francisco if it improves its
opportunity.
More Street Cleaners Needed
m: I, r-\-*\ ie ,"."■/-«•■ •c ■ ■■, League .of Improvement Clubs
ihe Civic League ot improvement Uubs
, , , .-. *??*®T&®^mj°m
has passed a resolution, filed with the
board of supervisors, asking u«r?_0,000 for addi
tional men and apparatus to be used in street
cleaning, making the statement that the present
apparatus is ■ "ridiculously inefficient." ■
Whether it is apparatus or something "^ else
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that is lacking in the street cleaning department,
the fact is that the streets of San Francisco, "while
tolerable, are > not so clfcn as they ought to be in
a city of this size.
Superintendent Owen is a capable man who
is evidently anxious to do his duty. Among
other things that might be done for the : benefit
the city would be to send yir. Owen on a-trip
to those cities where, streetj cleaning is most effic
iently i and economical]}' done. - Arivofficial may
have the best intentions in the morld, but if he is
not lullv informed he is necessarily not fully
efficient.
• If the city of .Philadelphia can afford to send
its ;; mayor • and ,; other officials *to • the ■•■■University of
\\\ ls-consin vto s learn the latest : ideas in -« municipal
government, among other things, sit would repay
San Francisco many times to spend the few dol
lars needed to wise up a good many of its officials.
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-" i>; But apart from any question of efficiency
among officers l the : fact remains ;; our streets
need more and better cleaning. - .' '-
f< ; There is nothing : which creates a better - im
pression upon a stranger than to arrive in a city
which is spick '-• and span in appearance. On the
other hand, if loose paper ■ blows :in his face, sand
••' : i • ' 'i •i' 'n\t - r I • \ tr
in his eyes, and the dry : filth of the street •in his
mouth, he wants to leave as soon as he can get
away. . -• ; "*.,»'- , ,-1— .^.*-—•-„— ,. . -'"*
:- The Civic league is not too;strong in its use of
words when it says the ; present apparatus is ridic
ulously inefficient. While the supervisors have
demands on 'them : for more, money than-is avail
able," they will makei : a\ nlost" serious 1 niisfake if
they do not allow all of r the $20,000 asked for in
; the new budget. San Francisco caniiotarlord: to
allow its streets to remain uncleaned a single day
longer than it is compelled to do. %v - y> I
Wall Street Complaints
WW "Wall street, meaning the stock brokers,
speculators, and traders who have given
the financial center of the country its bad name, is
complaining that there >is no leader for it to fol
low, and no one who aspires, to be leader. f
.-■• For:the:rcst of the country this is not an un
mixed evil. : So long- as Wall street had a leader,
-whether it was Jim Fisk and Jay Gould, or E. H.
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lilarriman and Pierpont Morgan, ; stocks were used
; mostly for speculative purposes, and not for in
vestment, or for the protection ..of.= investment,
which are two of the chief functions of 'an ex
change. ■ , .- ..*,-.
v AVhcn Wall street had a leader, even if .- he was
a iuuglcr like the late Jim Kecnc. or a gambler
in stocks like the late John \V. (jates, the poor
moths of speculation \\ere ,coii?tanll\ falling into
the flames. •* ■ •
; . should Wall street have a leader? Lom
iard street never had a leader, in the Wall street
sense; yet Wall street often had to go to London
to be financed. Nor has .there been in the finan
cial history of the French Bourse any great spec
ulator who; dominated French finance. The near
est that France has come to suffering for a leader,
such as Wall street wants, was in the time of the
Emperor Napoleon 111. a : day of wild and crooked
speculation.
The truth probably is that Wall street will
never again have a king of the street, because the
kind of development which permitted of such a
personage is practically ended. In this country
there are no more great virgin wheat fields like
those of the Dak6tas to be opened up.' There
are no more routes available for a new transconti
nental railroad to.erossUhe country from Chicago
to the v Pacific, and go through unsettled new em
pires, as in the days which followed the construc
tion of ; the existing transcontinental lincsV'-.v.lV-Vr
That Wall street has no leader is a good omen.
It points to an end of the days of wild and dis
astrous speculation, and to the beginning of a
new era of sound finance, backed up by a thrifty
people.
The B. R. T. found - a sort of Scotch verdict on the
proposed federal compensation law. They do not favor
it, but will not oppose it.
Captain Mooney turned a clever trick in, pinchiug the
court interpreter who tried to sell the court for $140 in
marked money.
Foolish question No. 00: When is a superintendent of a
j streetcar line also a superintendent of politics? '
FERRY TALES
LINDSAY CAMPBELL
THE system of handling: the bagp
£a«e of traveled k> vogue in this
country is one of the wonders of
the new world to the visitor from Euro
pean where the care travel
ing: impedimenta * 3 a matter the re
r sponeibility fpr TC'iH-h tlte owner must
I take upon his own -shoulders. Looking
* after the baggage, seeing that it is
placed aboafd'tb>Vriht train . and put
off at the proper station, constitutes an
i almost adverituEOUS form of excitement
of travel in some of the Europeani-coun-,
tries. The journeys * svtallyl are short,
but in Merrie England. for instance, a
piece jf of bag;gageean go astray on a
very shoxt trip. ■ ..-./'- ■
All of this is suggested by a letter
from a British tourist who accepted
• ibrassfcheefcefin lieu of his portrnari
teaux, and Wants to know if
things never astray in the .- United
States. ~,.". <■ . 'zW&Mk
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Which hrins:*- us to the mystery
the blue dress: «. truc'tale withfaSmis*-*
ing chapter which J <>v can write to
suit yourself. - ■ - ■• \;-
Mrs. i; K. Fiske of Pasadena is a
commuter-— hi the , ste-nse of being a. fre
quent traevl&r— here and Hon
; olulu. She ; arrived from island tcr.
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ritory a rew ; mootlis ago on one of the
trans-Pacific liners. * A steward neglect;
ed to close the porthole of her ■ state
rooia during a spell of rough weather.
. ■
Ah ■: ambitiou/i isea : - projected Itself
thrcßgh th« opening. It caused some
temporary- discomfort and damaged a ,
,4tlue*dress;&a*-n( one. J't had been
worn-only once. -•
When the ship arrived here company
officials were invited to inspect the
They decided -it was damaged;
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that the damage - had been caused
tfhrough the negligence of ; a company
etnploye, and the matter was settled
there and then by the payment of a
sum that '-.was ';tu:eeptcdabylthelowner*
of* the dress as satisfactory. . *'"
0 0 0
;• A ■ few days, tc'r the company re
ceived a lettec fn.-'in , Mrs. Fiske. She
had unpacked her trunks and could not
jfindlthc damaged "■ dress anywhere. Did
the company Know anything about it?
The j missing d.ress was the subject of
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--much correspondence and the i; matter
was still unsettled when, a few days
ago,-M.the!ioQmpaiiy,. ; received a v postal
->■'- - « - -,-_.■*■■'
from a woman in San Mateo to the ef
fect that . she .had just found a blue
dress carefully and tucked
away in a baby boggy that had brpn
shipped from Honolulu on one of the
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sTsteamers; Did the company
know anything about rt?
©/ O ©
There •. m ay:,, not;,, b<* much.. comfort : for
the British tou&st in this story. It
was the missing dress all - right and
everybody concerned is ! happy again,
showing s the |ul4|inateiperfe.btlon .of the
American ';transf<-1 system. An inves
tigation ■; is now in progress to find out : i
how tho dress got fr.em the .trunk to
the b»by buggy, and the company offi
cials hope some daj* they tWll fihdlin ,
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the. answer ieifcher'a clew to a'neTViJttg-1
Kling- trick in th«. system of:
ihanaiing:.DaggageYp|
o o o
■ The; Ancient Mariner, for some rea
sonlthat-he;refuses;to explain, does not
like the United J States |reyenue^cutter;
service.
"It-ou?ht to be abolished." said
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the other morn iris, "as a needless du
plication of < vpen-*. ' There is nothing
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done by the fe revenue cuttorseivicelt
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couldn't be done better by the navy,
and r the navy >could use the men and ,
the i money to much better advantage.
"Here's the revenue cutter service for
' ' * ' •* . ,
you," he said. "I got this story from an
'."»..;■ " - • . -ißaße^isse
old shipmate who was i with me in the
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• navy and is now in the revenue cutter
service. |t He \was|ont the Mohawk iwhen
■■ that ,i cutt .■: was .'■' sent > out from New-
York one. afternoon to look foj- a ! dere
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lict. Early 'nc4(t':: morning— it.wasfstiU:
dark—a sailing vessel was The
Mohawk ran within hailing' distance.
" 'What ship's that?' shouted the cap
tain of the cutter.
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" 'The Jabez Howe,' came back the
answer.
' " 'What- you from?' the cutter captain
asked.
" 'Hongkong; ■""'' hundred an' ■"■■■■■■•* ■*»-' : - -■■
day?. What ship's that."
'"•Revenue cutter Mohawk.'
■' 'Whar from?"
" Xew York."
" "How long y' <jut?' asked the skip
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per of the windjatnmer.
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"'We've been out a-a-11 night, cap
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tain.' "
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But you musn't mind the Ancient
Mariner. His pipe wasn't drawing well
that morning, and: somebody had taken
his favorite roost on the after deck ',
and then, when he did get his pipe
going, a deck hand came along and told
him he ; couldn't smoke, as there was an
automobile on board.
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•_:*■ I he- enforcement of the nonsmoking
rule' on passenger boats a carrying au
tomobiles is stirriag up trouble! for the
transportation .- companies i> and I the. mo
toritts, especially on the Sausalito run,
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where the commuters who stand on the :
deck— automobiles arc
carried—nearly all smoke, and, in addi
tion, are "desperate set" in their habits. <
They have been, consulting lawyers \
and the ■ lawyers have been consulting l
authorities, and the hostilities are about i
to begin. . If theVriimpus leads to the i
installation o-f-a : .'snw>kini«vroornionlth«' ; |
upper deck, some of the victims of the j
rule will be .satisfied, but there are;
others whose desire is not so much to i
be permitted to smoke as to smoke in
that, part of the steamer w*here - Uncle '
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Sam says they must not. The matter
i may.be appealed to-the British consul.
ALt GOXK ' '/ ■-;
"Is your automobile racing associa
tion going to 1 publriYi , a year book?"
"Ouess not. I do#t think there will
be anybody left to publish it at the end
of a year."— Courier-Jour-
T -' ' iMrd9Sf*Ms ''*-.' ■
There is 0n« things to commend in'
thdse Illustration* epthe extreme
.fashion*. \. " • '• .'' s - , "z- "'
We have never ';». woman who
really looked Hk.*. imjr one of-them—
Cleveland Plaindeales,
"Advertising I Can't Get"
ITOLD AND RETOLD!
) W^iigssjawHi|j»|g : i'>- * • —; ..^^*sa^.Js[
AXL IX THE ', rot-NT OF VIRW
The la|e Frank S. Black, former gov
ernor of 'NeW. York, wan noted for his
humor, illustrated In many :a ' stor jv< as
well as for his eloquence, illustrated in
"The Man on the Barrel Head" and
other speeches. ' ■"' ? '^^^^ ;
SSiDufinsltlieVßolarsd B. Molineaux case
Mr. Bta<k one day had occusion i ; to dep- :
recate the praise of a certain witness.
"Oh, we''can all," said, come
viewpoint or other ■wlierefrom to lavish
superlatives. I was once examining , a
vounjt man who had applied to me for
: the position stenographer. . '
" 'What state are you from?" T asked.
"'l'm from the first , -,'; state I: in the'
union, sir,' he replied.
"'New York state, eh7' .
■" Xor. sir: Alabama.' sir." .. .
" "But. said I. 'Alabama isn't th'efflrat*'
state the union." . "
'* 'Alphabetically speaking, sir; alpha
betically 'i; speaking-," said f||the]lfy risl
man."—New Orleans States. " ','i^tSt
■. . , i)i.m;>oskd the CASK T .
An elderly South Brooklyn doctor,
who was | peppery las a cayenne pod,
was from time to time the butt of
practical jokers. ; ~ ■ ?%gjg\
On one occasion a well dressed young |
fellow called and asked the doctor to
prescribe for a breakingout and rash,
on his l left arm. The doctor examined
the limb, and pronounced it to be a bad
case- of psoriases and eczema.
"I suppose, doctor, ~ you can cure it?",
said the patient. . \T. ' -
"Why, certainly." replied i the doctor.
HSlifit: a bad * case"?"
"Positively the worst I've seen - /'
"Then T will leave it with you and
call for it again -when cured," solemnly
said the patient, slowly unfastening
his arm, which was >. an t artificial one,
and painted for the occasion.—Brook
lyn Times.
TIRX ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY ' • "'
, The goose had been „ carved, , and
k everybody had tasted it. it was ex- j
lellent. The negro minister, who was
the guest of ' honor, could not restrain
his enthusiasm. /, [-A
"Dafs as i fine .a •• goose as ■ T,"e-vahfsee/| j
Bruddah Williams," he said to his host.
"Whar yo" git such a fine goose?"
"Well, now, pahson." replied the
carver of the | goose, ex h1 bi tin gf great '
dignity and reticence, "when you
preaches ■ speshul good sermon, I
; never axes you whar you got it. 1
hopes you will show me de same con
sideration."—Philadelphia Ledger.
THE STATE PRESS |
' "iV,«s»^as«*^e*Af^ais^^se6*d&p*sa¥t»^B!e»fi
#200.000 PORTERVILLE
"Fully $200,000 worth of building has
been done in the city of Porterville
within the la&t year, according to es
timates made by architects in this city
today. Much work is projected I for the
future and it is extremely probable
from indications that the residence
building in the city for the next 12
months will be greater ! than for the
last 12.—V'isalia Delta. -. :
KINGS COUXTV GRAIV. ■
What is one man's joy la another
mans discomfort. While many unirri*
gated localities in the county are com
plaining - on account of the lack of
moisture, the people who took chances
on the borders of Tulare lake this sesa
son are rejoiced |at the prospect of fa 1
grain crop which will mark Kings
county as the banner grain growing
county of California this year of 1913.
Hanford Sentinel. . . 'X&UA
OFFICIAtSiSTIJDYIifGIMJBTBOOSe
Several California police chiefs are
; n e'M aae't fat the public expense to
study the methods of the metrepoli-*
tan departments". There ought ? not to
be any mystery about the police busi
ness. If . police > commissioners, chiefs
and patrolmen would only enforce
every law. as they are sworn and paid ;
to do. both iawj" and policemen would
stand considerably higher In public re
spect.—Stockton :t Record.
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RKDDIXG ACCOMMODATIONS"
For a city of its size Redding: is un
usually well supplied with hotel ac
, commodations f for trans vieltorej
It* lfr hotel* have a. total of eoi guest
rdoms. Experience I show* that hotels
rarely accommodate more < than an
'average of three persons to e\'ery two
rooms. By that rule Redding"s hotel*
can house practically 900 persons any
one night.—Bedding Searchlight.
v I - Queries Answered
LBOBKD OF ATM.VTIS V. M.. I-ns<Gatos*
There is nothing in the war of proof of 1 .theVeVv
Istene* of "Atlantis, called the sunken to»tr>.
According to ancient tradition tUat wns the
namf of a large island or eoatine(}t|whTe!if ex-
M@SM"»Sf't* l,^2 period ' ; in tin Atlantic
ocean and eventually snnU beneath (be vrar<v*.
tivst account of It is given in!the^T\-rltings
! of Plato, whose statement is that in tlio Atlantic
ocean there w,i<; once an island larger than' Asia'
and | ? Af ri'.-a.- combined,'anil ' f hcar? it lay * othof*;lil£
ands through which then- was a . pae.<age to^'a,
|[laixe)cratiDent:bVTond.V'-NMnK:tbouVand'Vfa'Ve\i>Ct;
/ore Plato's time, earn tradition, the lsUnri yt
Atlantis was thickly * populaiFrl the tnhabi
{ tante were rery powerful, holding sway over
Africa as far as Egypt and over a Urge part .
Kurope. but their advanec as a conquering power
was checked by the (ireeks. At last, «
TloTent earth"nur.Uc' ; lasting » day and • night'
and accompanied by inundatioiis of the ocean,
fthe iiflanil whs .Trboll.T'tiubmcrKoil by ■ tho , waves.
Some modern investigators an<l; writers , h'ar^esj
l>ressed the belief tl.a* tl>c ln«t Atom's vihs n
part of the American t continfntfanj/that » largr
tract of land eaut of this continent, wlirro arc
now he* guir ofjMcxlco'"and the Went . iadlea, w.-is
; at some remote period * submerged ; itj* Water, I tj"
highest point* of the land-cbastituting: tiic -West
"India aud Bahama lal«m!«.
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PALM HOXKY—Subscriber, (iiy. Talm
honey ~is obtained from th« beautiful , Chilean
palm known as the eoquito. ; . It is-ofihr <anif
tribe with the !cocoanut,: rlVing" with h nakeil
•tern to a height of fiom 40' to SO r«*t ami
bearing a criTrn of witic . spresciinp pinnatcii
lesvp*.' }Jr cutting off (lie <-r.,ivu. there, :Ik':' ob
j t»inc*l fur; several niontht 91 flow >if whicb.
Then boiled flown to the consistric of. treacle,
Vermes a Tery sweet syrup ami roriiii. under tb*>
name n;icl de palma, (palm honey i article
of great Importance in tUo domestic cyoiioniv
ot; the Chileans. . ;; - "' ".
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WRITIXO ON' GT.ASS--J, W. >r.,.ciij. tN
near write on glass witn a piece French
or crayons ; prepared . r for ' the procurable
; tread dealers in art materials, or eren with n
common pen lieltf perprmHi mKil.*. , ' Iml.a ink. or
«h<\i the g!a«s will bf> >>\i>ose.l to d»mi). <6ellac
Tarnish rhicken"il . wiili r. Httlt' TPr.uiliri c.w
liropWick fo- reel w blnek . oloi. Hi.' l.o^l
;.'(itr' t ' , J f*t tfee Ciimtii-i;! i.ik'ifi^^jl
suffieknilv.'o'.aquV, "-- .
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DISPUkCRMEXT— V. ]... riH.vwaril. The
word "displacement" as applied t<- «f«r*hi|M is
th<» quantity ,of water di*plae«d br tlic repel.
Tlie weight of the displaced water equals tii«
weight of the floating body. Th« battleship
Arkansas has a displacement of 20.000, tous. but
i her tonnage is considerably los«. A warship's i
capacity is less than Its displacement, while it
is the other way with passenger
I THEY'RE SAYING |
j^STHEJFOSSIEspi'AMyEXTI
Dppew is out in lament about the
"lost art of conversation." Another
old fossil laments "the lost art of let
i ter writing." Ther# \ has probably i never
been a time when | some old gossip,
noting the failure of neighbor* to
appreciate his l>ol f>&o;neness, - didn't
lament something or another of this
sort. But those old olmrnps should
cheer up; it is nothing that the world
has lost; it .is what they themselves
have lost. —Salt 1-ake Tribune* .
REAL HARD LICK
Speaking of hard luck, think of the
poor chap v locked in a freight car at
Jacksonville. Fla.. and shipped to
mington, Del., with nothing to eat for
four* days but a cargo of potatoes —
and this the strawberry season!—Bo.s
ton Transcript. . \ : v • :
' -WAXB r HIM METHISALEH r .
"I believe there will be no war while
I am secretary of state, and I 'believe
there will be 'no war so long as I live,"
said Mr. Bryan. May this eloquent op
timist live to be than a hun
dred!— Philadelphia Ledger. , '
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-IMO |BIAS|TH£RIJ I
The new mayor ot Tyro. Kan., is a
woman and three of the five council
men are women. When they want to
amend a bill will they have a tuok in
it or just let out a hem? The majority
of council will see to it that the minor
ity does no political work that is cut
on the bias.—Savannan News.
HORSERADISH IS
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"Horseradish far not a vegetable" is
the reported declaration of an agrk-ul*
turist. It ougrht not to be. nor ani
mal or mineral, but those who
havepartaken'of it hay* powerful evi
dence t&at it exists.—Pittsburg Dis
patch.
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|| HOTEL NEWS )
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* •J:K. Nash of ■ Los-Angeles Is at ; the
Stanford. ."" ' ', '"
: Jack-.'Fleury of New York is staying
at>the";Co!or.ial. -'■.'"-'' '• <••
;' Mrs/iA^E. McCann of New is -a.
ffuest r at;the}Baldwin. • '
H. I,C Chandler, lumberman of Vaca- '
'v'illc," is at tlio Suttcr.
Richard Bennett, -'a v rancher *'. from
Merced, Iβ at the Dtile.
'■'■■■■ P. I. .Lo wney.Tsugar'planter of Hono
.lulu. is at the Bellevue. .
. Mr. and : Mrs. J. ; H. Begg of Chicago
are at the Hotel AritlersA f'* *~?f--S£
■ " W. F. George, an attorney lof ; S'ac'r» '
mento. is at the Stewart. : ;-;.:.» <* r
,;i M. J. Devalanee, a real estate man of
i Sacfamerito/iis at the Dale. "',*'. -
i Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wilson of Chicago
! are R-uests at the Fairmont. \ ■ :' ~jX*'
■ \Y. Krohn, a : mining , man of : Rqches
■ ter. Xcv.. is at the Argonaut. .■.-->.■ ? ' ; "
■VvDr. and Mr*. J. Q. Wrenn of Placer
ville are at the Union Square. :: .-: 4
i rt.\Tr.-.-'_ah"iJj Mrs. C. M. Harwood of New
j York city nreat the Fairmont.- >
I Mrs. Bile :V. Morgan is a guest at the
Hotel Antlers from Los Angeles. •
K^ F.. K. Bynes and Mrs. Bynes bf Wood
iand are;staying-;at;the;Baldwin...:. - -'.
| i iiTKonias*M.fCoane^a i banker of
! delphia, is at - the Bellevue with ! Mrs.
, Coane. • . . " .
■ • .■John»Fiiinell, who i« a wealthy
iOwner, of Red Bluff, •- is staying )at the
.Suttcr. - '
A. If. Woodward, president of a cash
register company of Chicago, is at the
Palace. ■
K. Sehreiber. proprietor of s.a* restau
ran in * Nevada City, is a guest rat the
Argonaut. \ 1. . -
.• A. W. Shattuck. an automobile man of
Chicago, and • Mrs. Shattuck • are at the
St. Francis.
- W. A. Fair-burn, anVofficl'al'of.'aiinatch,
company of ' New York city, is a ■ guest
st the Palace. . ■ <
;; Mrs. S. T. Howell and '•: her daughter.
Miss Frances Howell, are at the Hotel
Antlers from Mercod. _ .
<'. ~K. Wantland, land agrent of thp.
; South*erm'iPac-_irif'"at Los Angeles, Is
stayinfT.«t tlio St. Francis.
:. Mr. and ?Mfs. A. :K. '■' Bdwards and Mr.
anrl-'Mrs* i:r P. Harwood. residents of
Santa; Barbara. ; who motored up here,
are at the St. Francis/,
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Harry Lindstroin. a-New York busi
ness man, who has been spendingrl th<«
winter in San said yesterday at
the St. Francis that San Diego had ac
complished much in getting ready for
its 1915 exposition. . V^*
"From all plans . now, the r PanarrfsHr;'-
California exposition at San Diego will .
be a great affair," he continued. "Cali
fornia is a very big state, big enough
in size and spirit to permit of the hold
ing of two large expositions. In\San
Diego all are working to adver
tise their own fair. They are sending
out all sorts of literature. The big ex
position In San Francisco in 1915 is ': re
ferred to in this San Diego advertising.
Industry4jcommerce,iart and agriculture '■
will represented in the exhibits at
the San Diegoexposition." , • *'•'"■" . • ■■:,•
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Edwin T. Wilson, a mining man of
Mexico, who is at the Manx, says that
there is a-grcat B opportunity in Mexico
for Americans and American capital.
v "Of course." these arc troubled times
in Mexico, but despite this business is
going on much better than would WeS
imagined." he said. "There are many •
Americans in" Mexico now wllo hay«
made fortunes, but , there arc additional
opportunities for active -men from our
country. It is a wonder to me that en
terprising capitalists not investi
gate the possibilities of another rail
road to tap the timber, mining-, and
agricultural states and connect with
the Panama canal. '
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James C. Weaver, a large ranch .
; owner of Kings county, who is at the
bt; ram:is, says many£of|theTdairymen
of northern California are beginning to
give up dairying for cattle raising.
■The labor question is the most serU
ous one" that confronts the dairyman
today,- he continued. "l- ; have 5,000 ->
acresjof|g:ood-!?raxing land, but T « ant
get men to milk my cows. I hire them
fast enough, but as s soon;as they.:have a
i few months' pay they leave. I am cell
ing my milch cows ;asjf astjai'l; can and
am s going into the .stock business. it
dpesn'tjrequire nearly as many men .to
handle a bunch or cattle a« it
take (arc ot miieh herds, f have a uTd ' "
enough to feed S»©0« head of rattle thf. .
year round. F h&Ve t<. hire a man for
every ■:.■> cowe\np3^aojr3:qutcanfeiielly
scr« what dairymen VaVe',..p J a«aini,t
whtn laUor ifc scarce."
