The San Francisco call. [volume], August 20, 1903, Image 8

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One of the curiosities of modern news was involved
in a recent item which recited that in the existing
bloody disturbances in Bulgaria the terrorized Chris
tians must inevitably depend upon the Turks for pro
tection. It is not difficult to determine what the
character of that protection will be. Death as the
victims of beasts of the forest would be merciful in
comparison. • ;M-
It sometimes happens that at long intervals some
thing in the environment of ardent but impecunious
young swains happens to make the course of true love
run smooth. More than fifty young persons of lov
able natures were poisoned by icecream recently at
Colorado Springs. Every youngster of sparking pro
clivities should paste the item in his hat and argue
that the icecream sold at Colorado Springs is no dif
ferent from that sold everywhere else.
Californians in New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.— Californians in
New York: San Francisco— F. J. Lura.
at Gllsey; Miss M. Owens, Mrs. M. B.
Owens, at Park Avenue; S. L. Bernstein,
at Savoy; S. L. Dolsen, at St. George; F.
E. Forbes, O. S. Wells, at Morton; W. J.
French, at Cosmopolitan; W. Rosenthal,
at Ashland; Miss K. C. Thompson, at
St. Denis.
San Diego— H. A. Geisnoal, at Marlbor
ough.
An examination under United States
Civil Service rules will be held in this
city October 21 for the position of assist
ant examiner in. the patent office; mini
mum age, 20. years. Apply for application
form No. 1312 to the commission at Wash
ington, D. C.,- or to the secretary of the
Consolidated Board of Civil Service Ex
aminers, 301 Jackson Btreet.
Patent Examiner Examination.
Quick Charge Artist.— "Maria," began
Mr. Stubb, "last night I played poker
"Played poker!" interrupted Mrs.
Stubb. "how dare you spend your money
gambling, sir?"
"As I was saying, I played poker and
won enough to buy you a set of furs"
"You did? Oh, John, you are so good!
I knew thqse sharps could not get the
best of you."
"And Just as I was about to quit I
dropped It all and flfty more" — -
"You brute! To think I should have
married a gambler!"— Chicago News.
"Don't mind 'em,' hey?" he rejoined,
cheerfully, shouldering his pack again.
"Well, there's nothing like getting used
to one's afflictions. Oood day, ma'am."—
Chicago Tribune. /;;:, : vv ;'.
"Are you troubled with cockroaches or
other insects about, your premises,
ma'am?" inquired the man with the pack,
who had succeeded in gaining an audi
ence with the mistress of the mansion.
"No, sir!" she said, glaring at him. "We
are NOT troubled by cockroaches or other
Insects!"
"American statesmanship is not what it
used to be," said the persistently gloomy
man.
"I'm glad to be able to agree with you,"
answered the cheery person; "we're
rapidly getting away from, these old-fash
ioned, shoot-Qulck-and-vote-often ideas
in politics."— Washington Star.
. "Do you consider her honest?"
"In view of her opportunities I am in
clined to think she is."
1 "I don't quite understand." .
"I mean that we keep all our valuables
in a safe deposit vault." — Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Do you think that Shakespeare wrote
his own plays?"
"Of course, I do," answered the man
.who is always. positive, however ill-in
formed he may be. "If Shakespeare
didn't write his own plays, whose plays
did he write?"— Washington Star.
A CHANCE TO SMILE.
Only one suit for divorce was filed yes
terday. The plaintiff was Mary Morlock
and the defendant William Morlock. In
fidelity was the charge. Judge Troutt
granted a decree of divorce to Jubellna
Thureson from Carl W. Thureson for
cruelty. •
Mismated Couples in Court.
Townsend's California glace fruits and
candles. 50c a pound, in artistic flre
etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern
friends. 715 Market St.. above Call bldg. •
Special information supplied dally to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 230 Cali
fornia street. Telephone Main 1042.
Members of the Pacific Coast Co-opera
tive Union will hold a convention at the
Academy of Sciences to-day and to-mor
row. Several prominent business and
professional men will deliver addresses
on subjects of particular interest to agri
culturists and merchants. Reports of
work already accomplished and the map
ping out of a campaign for the coming
year will also be features of the conven
tion. • * - ,;•-.-.
Co-operators to Convene.
Simon Levy, a merchant of Visalla, is
here on a short business trip and is reg
istered at the California.
S. H. Babcock, assistant general traffic
manager of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad, Is at the Palace, accompanied
by his wife and two children.
J. T. Whalen, assistant general passen
ger agent of the Mexican Central Rail
road, with headquarters at St. Louis, is
spending a few days in the city.
Duncan Guy, an attorney of New
Zealand, is registered at the New West
ern Hotel.
Dr. W. G. Downing of Sulsun is at the
Lick.
Judge Plrkey of Willows is a guest at
the Lick.
W. W. Campbell of the Lick Observa
tory is at the California.
F. G. Noyes.a banker of Napa, is at the
Palace, accompanied by his wife.
President David Starr Jordan of Stan
ford University Is at the Occidental.
George Scarfe, a mining man of Nevada,
is among the arrivals at the Grand.
. H. von Engellstein, a coffee planter of
Guatemala, is registered at the Palace.
C. L. James, a cattle dealer and capital
ist of Modesto, Is among the arrivals at
the Lick.
JUMPING BEAN— N. O. M-. City. The
Jumping bean, or devil bean, sometimes
called the Mexican bean, is the seed of a
Mexican plant Infested by the larva of a
small moth. The uneasy movement of
the Imprisoned larva when it is warmed
makes the seed roll about on a flat sur
face and sometimes the larva makes the
seed Jump. The larva pupates in Jan
uary and February and th© moth soon
after issues through a hole previously cut
by the larva. The trees bearing the bean
grow wild in but one State In Mexico
and produce a berry containing three
beans, but only one contains a larva.
There is no indication as to how the larva
enters that one bean.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Housekeepers will have to put the kettle on and do
their own canning if this thing go much further.
In canned fruits and vegetables California has to
compete with commercial dishonesty, domestic and
imported. Therefore it should be the aim of the pro
ducers and preservers of this State to strictly observe
the rules of commercial honor. Then a world, tired
of being poisoned in its food, will turn with con
fidence to our products, and they will hold a market
against all competitors.
It has long been known that great quantities of pig
livers are exported in barrels from this country to
Germany. Those who knew it supposed that the Ger
mans had a lasting appetite for pig liver and were
feeding it on the American product But now it seems
that these livers are turned into pate de foie gras, by
the use of dangerous drugs and silk rags! Our im
ported truffles are made of unvulcanized rubber and
leather, and the most innocent of that kind of im
ported delicatessen is made of potatoes, flavored with
ether.
r= If half the world does not know how the other
half lives, it must be that the whole world does not
know what it eat?. Having risen from a high-priced
meal of painted turnip, vaselined fish, lobster made
of cuttlefish, rubber truffles and goose liver pate made
of hog liver and black silk, washed down with im
ported wine made of dried-apple juice and gypsum,
the average American citizen can surely boast of a
bomb-proof stomach if he can manage to live out
half his span.
"Imparting a greenish color to oysters is another
adulteration. An oyster requires about one month
in the beds to acquire the greenish color. As this is
too long a time, the dealers help them along with
an artificial color. The chemists in the Paris munici
pal laboratories have shown that tomato jelly is adul
terated with turnips and powdered pepper contains a
large admixture of powdered hardtack."
"Chopped artificial truffles are made of black rub
ber, si'.k or softened leather, and even whole truffles
are made out of roasted potatoes, which are flavored
by adding ether. They are said to sell well.
•'Fish, spoiled in spite of ice and borax, is treated
with salt of zinc, aluminum and other metals. Rub
bing the fish with vaseline to give it a fresh look and
coloring the gills with fresh blood or eosin — a coal
tar color — is resorted to. The latter is also used to
intensify the red color of inferior crabs.
THE CALL recently published a remarkable dis
covery made by a retail dealer in Pennsylvania.
Among other foodstuffs he was a purveyor of
canned tomatoes. Upon examining his stock he found
the contents of his cans to be a mixture of green
tomatoes, turnips and potatoes, dyed to a proper ripe
tomato complexion with red paint. This mixture is
another added to the many proofs of the recklessness
and ingenuity of the American adulterator of foods.
But that is not the worst of it. Americans, hearing
much about the paternalism and autocratic methods of
foreign Governments, jump to the conclusion that peo
ple so well raised and disciplined as they must be un
der such Governments arc incapable of like injurious
sophistication of food, and so purchase at a high price
and consume with childlike trust the preserved pro
ducts which are imported.
This confidence gets a rude jolt by a report just
made to the State Department by our Consul General
to Germany, in which he. says: "An ordinary liver
patty is made into "Strassburger* pate de foie gras, a
goose liver patty, by means of borax or salicylic acid
and of finely chopped and cleverly distributed pieces
of black silk, representing {ruffles. Cosmos, a Ger
man paper, guarantees the fact that under the label of
canned lobsters the soft parts of the cuttlefish and
crabs are sold.
"'In Paris snails are popular, and the adulterators
mix them with lungs of cattle and^ horses. Even en
tirely artificial snails are manufactured. The shells,
recoated with fat and slime, are filled with lungs and
then sold as 'Burgundy' snails. Lovers of fresh
rooster combs are imposed upon by a substitute cut
out of hogs' intestines.
SOME DELICATESSEN.
LAKE TAHOE— M. A. R.. Los Angeles.
Cal. What is now known as Lake Tahoe
was at one time called Lake Blgler. The
lake Is in two States. California and Ne
vada. When it was first discovered it
was supposed to be- wholly In California
and was named Blgler for its one time
Governor. When the boundary line was
drawn it was discovered that the lake
was a part of the State of Nevada. The
people of that State objected to the name
Blgter, and after a number of confer
ences between California and Nevada rep
resentatives the name was changed to
the Indian one, Tahoe.
OUTSIDE of Paris itself, the recent terrible dis
aster on. the Metropolitan Electric Railway
has nowhere more powerfully affected the
public mind than in New York. In that city the
calamity is looked upon as a lesson of warning and
there is every reason to believe it will be heeded.
While it is not certain what caused the accident,
enough is known to confirm the belief that electric
lines operating in tunnels are always dangerous and
that extra care must at all times be exercised to gua»d
against fire.
In the discussion now going on in New York over
the equipment and operation of subway electric lines
in that city it is recalled that more than a year and
a half ago George Westinghouse wrote to the New
York Times a letter, in which he said: "It should be
borne in mind that the electric energy required to
operate a heavy train is sufficient to melt a consider
able bar of iron, or to start a dangerous fire if any
thing goes wrong upon a car of ordinary combustible
construction. The destruction of a car upon a street
or upon a level is one thing, but such an occurrence
upon an elevated railway or in a tunnel can have
consequences the contemplation of which should lead
to wise regulations governing the construction and
use of electrically propelled trains, and. thereby insure
to the public the rapid development of electric, trac
tion. In Liverpool, during the past month, an elec
tric train, while running in a short tunnel, Was set
afire by the electric current and totally destroyed,
with considerable loss of life."
The warning contained in the letter was not much
heeded, but the disaster at Paris is too appalling to be
overlooked or ignored and already a searching in
quiry is being made concerning the nature of the pre
cautions provided by American electric lines that
operate in tunnels or subways. The result of the in
vestigations has not been altogether satisfactory. The
Philadelphia Public Ledger in reviewing them says:
"It was announced a few days ago that the Pennsyl
vania Railroad would construct fireproof cars for its
tunnels in New York City. The cars under construc
tion for the New York City subway, it is said, are
not to be absolutely fireproof; they are to be sheathed
with metal only as far as the window sills on the 6*ut
side. The New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad is sheathing its passenger cars completely."
The agitation of the question will, of course, com
pel the various subway lines to - adopt better safe
guards than they would otherwise have done, even if
they do not make them thoroughly effective. To that
extent then American cities will profit by the calamity
of Paris and they will have to thank the press for in
sisting that the warning be heeded by electric com
panies.
WARNING PROM PARIS.
ONCE IX A LIFETIME— Subscriber.
Alameda, Cal. The saying, "every one
has on© chance in life," is attributed to
Cardinal Imperial!. Montesquieu, a French
writer (1683-1755). in "Pensees Dl
verses," wrote that of which the following
Is a translation: "I have heard Cardinal
Imperiall say: There is no man whom
fortune does not visit once in his life;
but when she does not find him ready to
receive her she walks in at the door and
flies out of the window.* "
Ex-President Cleveland has received many and seri
ous setbacks in the campaign which his friends have
been making to place him, for the third time, in the
President's chair. The worst, most malicious attack
made upon him, however, comes in the report that the
Tammany Society of New York will support him. It
is the very refinement of cruelty to punish our
enemies with our own faults.
NEWSPAPERS— B., Elmhurst, Cal. The
principal papers devoted particularly to
agriculture and live stock in California
are: The California Cultivator. Los An
geles; Pet Stock Tribune. Los Angeles:
Butchers* and Stock Growers' Journal.
San Francisco: San Joaquln Valley Farm
er, Fresno; Rural Calif ornlan. Los An
geles, and Sonoma County Farmer, Santa
Rosa.
TANKS— R., Oroville. Cal. In circular
tanks every foot of depth five feet in
diameter gives 4*i barrels of 31 gallons
each; six feet in diameter. 6% barrels:
seven feet in diameter, 9 barrels; eight
feet In diameter, 12 barrels; nine feet In
diameter. 15 barrels, and ten feet In diam
eter, 18%, barrels.
POSTOFFICE POSITION'S-M.. Seneca.
Cal. Postofflce employes obtain their ap
pointment through the civil service sys
tem. Examinations are generally held In
the spring and fall of the year. Due no
tice of such examinations Is given to the
applicants and is also announced in the
dally newspapers.
CORPORATION-B.. City. Lnder the
laws of California a corporation must
elect a board of directors from among
the stockholders, and the directors must
elect from among their number a presi
dent, secretary and treasurer.
THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1903
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INDIAN TEACHERS-M.. Seneca. Cal.
Teachers in Indian schools are paid vari
ous salaries. A superintendent receives
J1700. and then the salaries are graded
down to evening teachers, who are paid
130 a month.
JUDGMENT-C. R-. City. In California
a Judgment may be renewed at the expi
ration of five years upon a proper motion
being made In court.
Miss Margaret Murphy and Harry Ma
hony were the principals at a wedding at
Sacred Heart Church last evening. Rev.
Father Lagan officiating. The bride was
attended by Miss Alma McCormick and
Miss Rose Garrity, bridesmaids. Joseph
Mahony was best man and Messrs.
O'Brien, Donegan, Cooney and Conlin
ushers. Eighty guests were entertained
at the home of the bride after the cere
mony. Mr. and Mrs. Mahony will keep
house at Fell and Scott streets upon their
return from a wedding trip to Southern
California. The bride is a daughter of D.
B. Murphy and the groom a son of Jere
miah Mahony, well known in this city.
Mrs. J. W. Phillips of 2004 Gough street
will return home to-day from a two
months' stay at Tahoe and other moun
tain resorts.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Home (nee
McClung) were tendered a breakfast on
the U. S. S. Alert by Commander and
Mrs. W. W. Klmball a few days ago. The
young couple are being entertained Quite
informally by their many friends.
Mrs. Parker Whitney (nee Parrott) has
been ill for the past few days at a hos
pital in this city. Her mother is In at
tendance upon her.
General and Mrs. MacArthur expect to
make a trip to Southern California at
the end of the present month.
Mrs. McNear and Miss Susie McNear
are at Deer Park Inn.
Miss Reina Maiilard, who has been 111
in Philadelphia, is on her way to the
coast with her father and aunt, Miss
Maiilard. The Maillards will proceed at
once, to their country home in Marln
County.
William Tevis has returned from Tahoe.
Miss Pearl Landers and Mrs. Landers
have returned from Del Monte.
Miss Kohl of Burlingame is the guest
of Miss Maye Colburn for a few days.
One of last .season's most popular deb
utantes, Miss Florence Bailey, left yester
day for the East, where she will spend
two or three months with friends and rel
atives. A few days ago Miss Bailey was
tendered a farewell tea by Mrs. Edwards
at Belvedere. The affair was quite infor
mal, only a dozen of Miss Bailey's friends
being invited.
Society will wend its way to San Mateo
on Saturday, when Mrs. William L. Spen
cer, formerly Alice Hasten, will give a
christening and tea, .The hostess will intro
duce her new baby to her. friends, who
are . eager to make the littlo stranger's
acquaintance, and after the christening
Mrs. Spencer will entertain her friends at
tea informally during the remainder of
the afternoon. The artistic home of Mrs.
Yuill, Mrs. Spencer's sister, will be the
scene of the happy event.
The directors of the San Francisco Sym
phony Society have been compelled to
change the date of the next concert to
Tuesday. August 25, at the Grand Opera
house. Thi3 was owing to some unfore
seen circumstances that were unavoid
able. The sale of seats for the Tuesday
concert will take place to-morrow morn-
Ing at Sherman, Clay & Co/s at 9 o'clock.
Dr. ' Alexander J. Mclvor-Tyndall's
Sunday evenings have become a* fa
vorite place of amusement among those
who like to unite Instruction with their
pastime. The subject for the psychologi
cal lecture on Sunday next wllL be "What
is Thought?" • -
Hodges and Launchmere, the clever
colored couple, the Campbell brothers,
club Jugglers, and other clever specialty
people are pleasing large audiences at the
Cnutes. To-night, after the regular per
formace, the amateurs will appear.
Not since ,the first "Weber & Field's
burlesque was put on at Fischer's Thea
ter have there been so many people
turned away from the house as the past
week with the double bill of "Quo Vass
Iss" and "The Big Little Princess." Both
plays have taken Immensely.
The phenomenal run of "The Highway
man" at the Tivoll with Camllle D'Arville
in the leading soprano part will un
doubtedly be continued during the com
ing week in response to hundreds of re
quests, both from city people and from
out of town folks who intend to visit here
during the G. A. R. celebration.
"The Dairy Farm" is Jamming the
Alcazar with the biggest and most
enthusiastic audiences of recent years.
The demand for seats is so gTeat
that it has been necessary to ar
range an extra matinee next Sunday af
ternoon in addition to the regular mati
nees this afternoon and Saturday.
"In Harvard" Is still the bill at the
Grand Opera-house. It has more than
n-ade good so far and is considered th<?
best production In the musical comedy
line ever put on at the Grand.
Heeley and Meely, "the most peculiar
couple before the public"; Rosle Rendel,
the graceful and versatile English trans
formation dancer; John LeClair, the re
flned comedy Juggler, and Seeley and
West, comedians .and Instrumentalists,
the newcomers at the Orpheum. have all
made hits.
¦ ;-.',_¦¦ • • ;..y • ¦
Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin, sup
ported by a superb company, are attract
ing a deal of attention at the Columbia
Theater In their latest success, "The
Devil's Disciple."
Owing to the enormous success of
"Shenandoah" at the California this week
an extra farewell performance of the
stirring war play will be given on Sunday
night!
Packed houses are the rule at the Cen
tral Theater this week and hundreds. of
visiting veterans nightly take part in the
enthusiasm created by the thrillingscenes
of the war drama, "Cumberland '61."
YOSEMITE VALLEY— A. B. C. Bishop.
Cal. Yosemite Valley was set apart a 9 a
National Park In 1S64.
DESPITE the gameness shown by Sir Thomas
Lipton in his struggles for the America's cup,
and the general keenness of men in all sorts
of contests between well matched competitors, there
is unquestionably much less popular interest in the
races this year than in former years. The decline in
excitement may be due somewhat to Lipton's good
nature,' for when the challenger takes the issue blandly
the defenders are very apt to be equally good-natured
about it. When Dunraven came over with his fight
ing blood at fever heat we were all about as eager as
himself, but this year it is not at all uncommon to
hear even yachting men say they would not be sorry
if the cup were taken by the challenger for once, be
cause it would give more interest to the sport here
after.
There are, however, other factors in the problem
that have contributed to the decline in popular interest
in the matches. One of these is the growing convic
tion that after all it is not so much an international
contest as a mere racing event between the New York
Yacht Club and a British club. When the Boston
yachtsmen were excluded from the competition for
the cup two years ago it was everywhere recognized
that America as a nation was out of it, and that the
cup in its present hands is not open for general com
petition. The impression created by the exclusion of
the Boston yacht was distinctly adverse to the New
York club, and at the time there were a good many
persons who expressed a wish that Lipton would win
in order that the cup might once more be placed as
a trophy to be competed for not by two yachts only,
but by as many as chose to enter the contest.
Another cause of declining interest is the abandon
ment on each side of a distinctive national type of
yacht. The present competitors are neither of them
distinctively British nor American. Even in the case
of the crews and the captains, there is no longer a
strictly national distinction. Each side has sought the
best it could get in the way of hull, masts, sails, crews
and skippers. That, of course, is all right in a contest
between rival clubs, but it diminishes the national
issue and correspondingly lessens popular interest.
Concerning the comparative points of similarity be
tween the rival yachts, experts differ. Some assert
they are strictly of the same type, while others,
conceding that they do not present rival national
types, maintain that they do present distinct types of
yachts common to both nations. On the one side the
New York Sun says: "The two models are now as
much alike as any two peas that ever were shelled.
Both are fairly deep and fairly, wide. Both have a
minimum of underbody and a maximum of overhang.
Both carry an abundance of outside ballast. Both
have enormous sail plans, with high lower masts and
tall topmasts. Both have club topsails, whose yards
stand straight up alongside the topmasts and act as
prolongations of those spars. Both are built as light
and easy of hull as engineering skill can make them
in view of the tremendous strains to be withstood.
Both have standing bowsprits and set their jibs on
jibstays. Each has a mainsail with the foot laced
to the boom. Neither one carries a sprit topsail to be
hoisted from the deck. Both steer with a wheel."
On the other side the Boston Herald says: "Even
to the ordinary observer we think there would be
quite a marked difference between the appearance of
the Reliance and the Shamrock III were both ex
posed at the same time in drydock. True, both are
keel craft of the fin variety, with an immense amount
of lead on the outside to give them the necessary
stability to carry their enormous sail spread, but the
lines of the hulls are far from being similar, and this
is particularly true in the forward sections of the two
sloops. The race is not to be a test between an
American shoal center-board sloop and a deep Eng
lish keel craft, but it will, nevertheless, be a test of
types, and types which any yachtsman will recognize
as being quite widely different in many essentials."
Where experts on the spot differ it is not for judges
on this side of the continent to decide. There is a
further cause of complaint. It is said that in perfect
ing the racing machine the builders have departed
from what is called the true j r achf type, and that the
construction of these machines does not in any way
advance the art of yacht building, nor suggest any im
provement that would be of advantage to a man de
siring a pleasure craft. Such complaints have been
both frequent and loud ever since the Shamrock III
reached American waters, and it is not improbable
that there will never be another challenger of this
kind, as the holder of the cup may, in deference to
what seems to be the prevailing opinion of yachts
men, so fix the terms of future competitions that
racing machines will be barred and none but genuine
yachts permitted to compete.
Be that as it may, the Shamrock III represents the
best that British money can obtain in the way of a
racing machine constructed in a British shipyard and
the Reliance represents the best that has yet been
produced in America. That in 'itself will be sufficient
to arouse the sporting spirit of our people* and while
there has been a great deal of indifference so far, the
actual Tacing will unquestionably have the effect of
awakening interest. It matters not whether they be
: true yachts or not, or truly national or not; now that
the day has come to match them, and one flies the
American flag, while the other displays the Union
Jack, there will surely be big crowds in every city in
the United States and Great Britain waiting for the
bulletins, ready to cheer the victor.
THE YACHT RACES
FRIENDS WILL
PAY HOMAGE TO
SPENCER HEIR
THEATERGOERS
ARE CROWDING
PLAYHOUSES
them. The first step having been taken in the direc
tion of a good prison system, it is reasonable to ex
pect that other steps will follow in due season.
A* feature of note in the agitation which led the
Legislature to act so promptly is the work done by
a country editor, a woman at that, Mrs. Myrick of
Americus, v/ho. not only demanded reform through
her paper, but went to the State Capitol and de
manded it of the Legislature when she found she
could not get it from the Prison Commissioners. It
appears that when she went to the prison officials
about the matter she met with scant welcome and was
told with brutal frankness that the clamor against the
whipping of women was silly. She is quoted as say
ing: "Warden Moore told me that Mamie de Cris was
not the first white woman to be lashed at the State
farm; that other women had received much worse
punishment and that the woman did not get half
what she deserved. 'Jake' Moore said that other
white women had been whipped and the people did
not raise such a howl, and he was unable to under
stand why so much noise had been made about this
affair, when Allagood and Dr. Adams were doing
only their duty."
The Commissioners were a little more courteous
and less frank than their subordinates, but even they
would promise nothing. Mrs. Myrick says they de
clared they would not let the newspapers "bulldoze
them into condemning the whipping." Well, the
whipping has been condemned by the Legislature.
The women and the newspapers have won their fight,
and among other good results it is probable the
Prison Commissioners and wardens will be a little
more respectful when a country editor calls upon
them. At least they will if the editor happens to
have the vim and vigor of Mrs. Myrick.
SOME ANSWERS
TO QUERIES BY
CALL READERS
"* _ _.,»_
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1903.
A dissatisfied husband and wife from Missouri have
matie San Francisco the scene of their prospective
Ftrujrglc for divorce, the wife asking for the decree.
This is evidently one of those cases when the gentle
man had to show her and couldn't Or perhaps his
career on the sea of matrimony was altogether too
spectacular for the lady. .
OUT of the suffering of the unfortunate woman
who was whipped on a convict farm a few
days ago, or rather out of the intense indig
nation aroused by the report of it, Georgia is to get
something in the way of prison reform that will be
beneficial to her convicts and creditable to herself.
It happens that the Legislature is in session, and in
response to the cry of the women of the State it has
promptly enacted a law forbidding the use of the lash
upon any woman convict, whether white or black, and
furthermore has passed a convict bill which will go
far toward mitigating the evils of the convict lease
system by requiring that all convicts sentenced to five
years or more shall be set to work on public roads
instead of being leased out to private parties.
The reform measures fall far short of what they
should be and Georgia will have to go far before she
reaches the American level in the matter of treating
prisoners, but it is nevertheless gratifying to note that
the Legislature has done something to protect con
victs against the greed of those who lease them and
the barbarity of those .who are put in authority over
GEORGIA AND HER CONVICTS.
It is consoling that while every endeavor is being
made by the people of the city to welcome the heroes
of forty years ago as they deserve and to show them
what manner of men we are in our products, the
police are herding that other product of our civiliza
tion, the pickpocket, and in his unwelcome variety are
locking him behind bars to keep others out of his
harm's way.
Thousands. of Croatian peasants are reported to be
in revolt and have expressed their rebellion by an
insult to the, Hungarian flag. This is the necessary
prelude to what will probably be a material reduction
in the population of Croatia. Perhaps the relation of
supply and demand in Croatian peasants has been dis
turbed and can be restored only by cannon shot.
President Castro, free from rebellion, immune from
the assaults of foreign victims, national and indi
vidual, is now amusing himself by imprisoning mer
chants upon pretexts so absurd as to appear only to
ridicule. He is probably trying to illustrate the char
acter of the. Governments which the United States is
pleased to tolerate as republics.
Charles M. Schwab, late of steel trust fame, has
denied emphatically that he is interested in the or
ganization of a proposed gigantic combination of
tailors. For all of which we should give thanks. With
nine such tailors as Mr. Schwab would be the
proverbial man in their making would be a grotesque
wonder.
8
f~y AN you make word pictures? Ever tried? Without a doubt, for
f i' this is an age when everybody thinks he can write. Some very
V/p quickly discover their error. Others never do. Result— over-
\^ crowded book Shelves with "literature" which nobody ever reads.
Why? Because not one writer in a hundred knows a good story when
he sees it. It takes something more than a grammar, a speller and a dic-
tionary to make "word pictures." It is the ability to compress a human
comedy into a "thumbnail sketch" or put a tragedy into a nutshell that
makes "literary genius." Better than all else, it's the only quality that
sells books. Just take a peep at this little extract from a book that the
whole country is talking about and you'll realize, perhaps for the first
time, what a tremendous lot can be said in 250 words:
"At 3 o'clock the elevator made another trip to the top floor and
Zllis rushed over to the unfriendly doorbell. This time there was stub-
aorn determination in his face. The singing ceased and a roar of laughter
followed the hush of a moment or two.
" 'Come in!' called a hearty voice, and Ellis strode firmly into the
studio.
"'You are just in time for a 'nightcap,' Ellis,' cried Harrison, rush-
ing to the footman's side. Ellis, stolidly facing the young man, lifted
his hand. .' " "*#'
" 'No* thank you, sir,' he said respectfully. 'Mr. Montgomery, if
you'll excuse me for breaking in, I'd like to give you three messages
I've brought here to-night.'
"You're a faithful old chap," said Subway Smith, thickly. 'Hanged
if I'd do A. D. T. work till 3 a. m. for anybody.' . >~"
" 'I came at 10, Mr. Montgomery, with a message from Mr. Brew-
ster, wishing you many happy returns of the day and with a check from
him for $1000. Here's the check, sir. I'll give my messages in the or-
der I received them, sir, if you please. At 12:30 o'clock I came with a
message from Dr. Gower. sir, who had been called in '
" 'Called in?' gasped Montgomery, turning white.
" 'Yes, sir, Mr. Brewster had a sudden heart attack at half-past
eleven, sir. The doctor sent word by me, sir, that he was at the point
of death. My last message '
"'Good Lord!" . '^. ,
" 'This -time I bring a message from Rawles. the butler, asking you to
come to Mr. Brewster's house at once— if you can, sir— I mean if you
will, sir,' Ellis interjected, apologetically. Then with his gaze directed
steadily over the heads of the subdued 'Little Sons of the Rich' he added,
impressively: '/ ,/-
" 'Mr.. Brewster is dead, sir.'" .^v:
Can you imagine anything more graphic? The suspense is so keen
that it hurts. And yet that is only the closing incident of the first chap-
ter of "Brewster's Millions." which begins in the next Sunday Call. In
point of fact, "Brewster's Millions" is absolutely unlike anything that
has ever beerr written before, for In it a perfectly adorable youne fellow
,ias to spend a million a year, get his money's worth and yet have abso-
lutely nothing to show for it at the end of that time inorder that he may
inherit six million more.- Sounds fascinating, doesn't it? Well, it is
more than that.
But the popular craze for literature of the bright, snappy, uo-to-date
sort goes even further than this. Never before was there such a tre-
mendous demand for short stories of the best sort. And what better
reading could you get? A eood short story is a complete novel in con-
densed form, and it is iust such excellent reading as this that is pro-
vided in the Sunday Call's new "Half Hour Storiettes, of which, next
Sunday, you will Ret two full pa^es. Here are so*"*, ,«£ th^ titles:
"Mysterious Leofric." "In the Flash of Striped Death. The Secret of
the Jamaica Sink Hole." "The Beautiful Miss Marnam Fables for
the Foolish." "Shorty Mahan's Passing." "Love's Golden Tether.'
"While the Train Waited." "What Tiny Peter Did.' etc Best of
all there is a new short story by A. Cnnan Doyle. The. Sshadow Be-
fore"; "Millions in His Dreams." by Mark Twain: Me-ows of a Kitty,
by Kate Thyson Marr: "The Oracle of Mulberry Center, by S. E. Riser,
etc.. etc. „ , u
And, besides all this there is the regular Sunday Magazine section,
giving you the Tery latest in everythintr that is coins: on in the world
to-day. The Sunday Call can't b* beat.
Can You MaKe
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