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TUESDAY
COMMENT AND OPINION
GOVERNOR JOHN SOX reached Sacramento, on his return
from Chicago, Saturday morning, and within five minutes was
mounted on a baggage truck and talking. The governor is an
industrious talker. If he would work at the job to which he was
elected with half the zeal he gives to the job of talking and doing
politics the tax payers might not have to go so deep into their
pockets to pay the state's bills this year and next.
With his usual sonorous phrasing the governor praised himself
and his new party, in which, it appears, are congregated all the
virtues—including Hiram Johnson, in the front row. What positions
Bill Flinn and Dan Hanna occupy in the Angel Band the governor
did not say. But doubtless those eminent pufists will see that no
guilty dollar of the harvester trust's contributions escapes.
Among other things, the governor said :
"The main basis of the campaign will be social and industrial
iustice and the political reforms with which we have become so
familiar in California."
It is pleasing to learn that the governor has been reading The
Call. In making the people familiar with the political reforms of
Messrs. McCabe, Xcy l an, Stetson, Richardson. Pillsbury, Tom Finn
and other dear—not to say expensive—reformers of politics, this
paper has had the governor's own enlightenment in mind quite as
much as the information of the tax payers. A governor who has
been in his office only in the few intervals of constant political cam
paigning during eleven months certainly needs a little information
as to what has been done to the state during his absence.
If he has time, before he goes away from the state again to
campaign for his own election to another office, it is to be hoped
that the governor will look into the affairs of his office. Mr.
McCabe is really overworked in the triple role of deputy governor.
ringmaster and chief clerk of the pie counter.
Besides, Coventor Johnson, there is an increasing number of
plain, hard working folks who can not figure out how it profits them
to elect a reform and retrenchment administration which costs them
hundreds of thousands of dollars more th.an the former administra
tions, whose extravagance you so eloquently denounced from every
stump when you were running for office on pledges of economy
and saving.
These figures, governor, these talking figures, are making a great
impression on the chaps who have to foot the bills.
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MEYER LISSNER has been appointed a member of the national
campaign committee of the bull moose party.
He still retains the chairmanship of the republican state
central committee In California.
He does this in order to betray the organization, the plans and
the campaign strategy of one party to another.
Mr. Lissner, you can talk all the fine talk about pure motives
and clean politics that you want to talk, but you are a political
crook, when all is said.
The sorriest tinhorn gambler would be ashamed of such methods
as you use in politics. They are precisely the tactics of the racetrack
tout. They won't win you anything, Mr. Lissner.
A FEW month? ago Folsom penitentiary needed a supply of
leather, and bids were asked. The contract called for $4,000
worth of leather. The two lowest bidders were a California
fi rm —the Wagner tannery at Stockton—and a Chicago firm. The
Chicago bid was 58.17 lower than the California factory's bid. The
state board of control, under the direction of Governor Johnson's
lackey, J. F. Neylan, awarded the contract to the Chicago firm—
though there were circumstances of quality, home supply and the
like which made the domestic factory's bid really tiie lowest.
Four thousand dollars of the tax payers' money went to Illinois
to stay, in order to make an apparent ridiculous saving of $8.1?.
At the very same time in which the state board of control was
thus showing its zeal for economy the governor of the state was
sending daily and hourly telegrams concerning his private political
affairs, and not in any way connected with the state's official busi
ness, and the same economical state board of control was cheerfully
ordering the cost of these messages to be paid out of state funds.
The pettiness and contemptible meanness of these transactions
are sharply emphasized by contrast.
And this is exactly what was to be expected when, instead of
placing men of business experience and standing in control of the
immense business of the state, the governor paid a political debt by
putting the expenditure of millions of your money, tax payers of
California, in the hands of an employe of the San Francisco Bulletin—
a man with.no business experience at all, and who had neVer before
handled as much as $5,000 at once in his life.
It is for such service as this that you tax payers are fleeced for
salaries and expenses of these incapable job holders, to the amount
of $160,000, when the same work \\»as always done prior to this
reform administration by the governor, the attorney general and
the secretary of state, acting ex officio as a board of examiners
without extra pay.
Neighbor, it may amuse you to hear and to talk about the
present administration's reform and economy, but when you come
to dig down in your pocket to help PAY for it, it's a safe bet that
you are going to stop talking and do some thinking. Those dollars
the tax collector will ask you for come pretty hard, you know.
THE play war now raging about us is irresistibly attractive to
the joke makers, and great is the self-restraint of the paragrapher
who does not sharpen a lead pencil or unlimber a typewriter
with fiendish glee lighting up his cadaverous countenance—to employ
the thrilling style of Old Sleuth, the Three Toed Tracker of the
Tomales Trail.
But play as the war is, these maneuvers are serious enough and
will set some of us to earnest thinking. It has often been said that
San Francisco has more military bolts and bars on her front door
than will ever be needed to keep out an enemy, and that meantime
:he back door stands wide open. These maneuvers are meant to
Snd out whether this is so or not.
If the result of the fighting between the Blue and Red armies
proves that an enemy can disembark a heavy force on this coast and
march upon this city from the rear, capturing it and its fortifications,
that result becomes a matter of the highest import and should engage
the serious thought and the earnest action of sensible men until the
fatal weakness in our line of defense is strengthened to. meet any
attack. *
The nation is at peace and no war cloud in sight. But we have
all seen such a cloud come suddenly to overcast the sky, and not to
be prepared for such a storm is the surest method to invite it.
THE state of California has ceded the control of their water fronts
and tide lands to Oakland. Los Angeles, San Diego and Long
Beach. San Francisco asks a similar cession of its water front.
The request will not be granted while Governor Johnson and Meyer
Lissner of Los Angeles can hinder it.
Do y<m want to know, why?
Head the answer in last Sunday's Call.
The water front here, under the pure and righteous manipula
tions of that apostle of reform, Mr. Tom Finn, just about pays the
expenses of pure politics in campaign seasons. Give Apostle Finn
ihirty days in which to get busy and he can make the water front
the most productive garden for the growth of "voluntary" campaign
contributions known to current history.
Just as long as the Johnson-Lissner machine needs financial oil
to keep its holy wheels running smoothly, just so long will San
PHIL FRANCIS
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL
Francisco ask in vain for possession of its water front. The only
possible chance to get the water front is to smash the Lissner Los
Angeles machine.
CHESTER H. ROWELL on the subject of the t?ull moose
platform:
The first draft was drawn by GifTord Pinchot, William D. Lewis
and myself. * * * There never was a platform which came from such
high sources.
Pecksniff has acquired the most noticeable bull moose charac
teristic—a coy and shrinking modesty.
THE San Diego Tribune very sensibly observes:
A family quarrel may be bitter, but that doe 9 not argue that the
warring factions will take up arms against their household. When
Hiram Johnson was stumping the state on behalf of "progressive reform"
he stated explicitly that his sole object was to "kick the Southern Pacific
out of politics." In no expression or explanation at that time did he
intimate that it wv his ulterior purpose to destroy the party as an organ
ization or to carry it over bodily to an independent party organized
solely to give Theodore Roosevelt a third term in the presidency. If he
had so intimated there wouldn't have been a grease spot left of him. And
as matters now stand there is every indication that the grease spot con
tingency is still imminent.
Every word of that paragraph is true. The Johnson-Lissner
copartnership assumes that the votes given to Johnson in the guber
natorial election were given to him personally—to Hiram Johnson,
instead of to the candidate of the republican party. Lissner expresses
this belief in his refusal to resign the chairmanship of the state
republican committee. It is a cheeky assumption—very much in
line with the colossal egotism characteristic of the bull moose and
his bull calves.
PERSONS IN THE NEWS
CHA2LES 8. LUSK. secretary of tbe bureau of
Catholic Indian minions, la at tiie Palace With
hta son, Rufus S. Lusk. The son has bees 111
the west on one of the Indian reeervatlona for
bis health. Lutsk has a directing influence over
100 Indian missions and 70 schools, which are
attended by mote than 6,000 children. He
makes his home in Washing toe, D. C.
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MB. AMD MBS. F. L. PTTTNAM, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Rau, Mr. and Mr*. L. H. Strauss, Mlas
1,. Jacobs, Isaac Hlumenthal and Mrs. Cath
arine Jarek were among the passengers front
thla city who sailed Saturday from New York
on route to Europe on the Oeofge Washington.
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MAURICE LEON, representative of several French
newt-papora. Is at tbe At. Francil with Mrs.
I.eon. lie has come weat to study Saa Fran
cisco and to write of the exposition. He makes t
his home is New York.
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SHERMAN J. HEDGES and Mrs. Hedges of Loa
Angeles. George 11. Bisbee of Foreat Hill, A.
L, Cowell of Modesto atod Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
McNamara of Bakersfleid arc gueats at tbe
Mans.
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t. C. DRKBCHER, a wholesale grocer of Sacra
mento, Is at the Palace with Mrs. Drescher.
W. K. KlelnsorgCs, Mrs. Klelnsorges and Miss
Richardson.
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0. GIROUX, a wholesale grocer of MShtrcal, la
at the Union Square With his sou. T&ejr are on
their way borne after a trip through the south
ern states.
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C, GEORGE KROGHSSS, an adtertlslag man of
Chicago. Is at the Palace, lie came west to
witness tbe jinks in Bohemian grove.
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JESSE YOtTITDBTONS, a mining man of Grimes,
ia At the Stewart With Mrs. roundstone, Miss
Rose and George Poundatone.
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WILLIAM T. JETER, former lieutenant governor.
la at the Palace. He is engaged in th* bank
ing business at Santa Crur.
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THURLOW M. GORDON, special assistant of the
attorney geyral. is at tbe Palace. He It hers
on a vacation trip.
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S. N. rSLDHEIM, proprietor of the Union hotel
in OrOTilie, Is at the Bellevue, accompanied Xff
Mrs. Feldheim. #
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E. L. GAUDETTE of the South Bend Lumber
company. South Bend, Wash., ia at the Belle
vue.
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X. H. RE WIN, A merchant of ModettO, asd fta
lly are among the recent arrivals at the Turpiu.
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DR. FRANK W. SAWYER, director of the
springs In Paso ftoblea ia at the St. Presets.
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W. D. WILSON, an oil operator of Los Angeles,
la among th* recent arrivals at the Palace.
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W. CLAYTON, manager of the Sprockets Iftter
esta in San Diego, Is at the St. Francis.
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DR. AND MBS. t. 0. MctWAf* Of YUslts ar
rived yesterday at the Union Square.
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HENRY 8. VAN DYKE, a prominent attorney of
Loa Angeles, is at the Palace.
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HENRY WIXDSTINE and wife et Batten, Mesa,
are registered at the Cosrt.
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J. H. HAMLYIf and Barry, Pratt of Bntte, Most.,
are registered st the Sutter.
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A. ft. JACRaON, a banker Ot CetuM, Is at tM
Stewart with Mrs. Jackson ♦-»_—.
His Choice
J. P. BLACK, a confectioner and caterer of Santa
Maria; P. T. Murray, a dealer In agricultural
implements in Merced; T. L. Flnrh, a jeweler
of Covlna; o, M. Churchill, a dry fooda man
of Livermore, and W. H. Sampson, a prominent
merchant of Corning, make up a group of re
cent arrival's at the Argonaut. '
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T. W. PATE, a freight agent of Los Angeles; J.
H. Keeney, a freight agent of La Grande; A.
A. Nickel of the Southern Pacific at Albany
aud W. Merriman, secretary of the Freight
Agents' association, are guests at the Stewart.
They are here to attend the annual convention.
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THOMAS E. NEWLIN. vice president of the
Farmers' and Merchants' National bank of Lbs
Angelea, ia at the Palace with Mrs. Newlln,
Miss Helen Newlln and Miss Mary Burnham.
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GEORGE KAYS, who was formerly associated
With th* Fairmont hotel, is down from bla
ranch at N'ovato and is at the Manx. He la
accompanied by hta family.
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WALTER M. CATLZN, purchasing agent of the
Santa Fe in Lot Angelea, la at the Palace with
bla family.
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MR. AND MRS. B. E. SANFORD. H. N. Sanford
and R. Kaylor of Portland, Ore., arc at the
Bellevue.
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WILLIAM M, GARLAND, a well known real es
tate operator of Loa Angelea, is at the St.
Francia.
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«. H, BRADLEY, * manufacturing agent of thla
city, and wife returned recently from a trip to
Europe.
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*• *• JftftMMft, a real estate operator of Loo
Angeies, ia at the St. Francia with Mrs. Jcr
fi&a.
CAPTAIN WARWICK BYMONDSO* ot Loa All
ele* la at the St. Francla with Mra. Symond
•ao.
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tgUfttftS DOftCHlft of Brooklyn la at the Fair
mont with Mra. borcber.
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PRESTON MORRIS, an attorney of Los Angelea,
la a guest at the Court.
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0. K. UENNING of Dickinsoo.N .V„ is regis
tered at the Yon Dora.
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MRS. F. EVANS and daughter of Denver, Colo.,
are at the Columbia.
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T. F. HOWELL, a broker »f Omaha, la regis
tered at th* Tufpin.
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MISS C. M. DOUGLAS of Vancouver, B. C. ia
at the Arlington.
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S. 0. McDELL of Battle Mountain, Nev. is at
the Columbia.
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ft. H. BURTON, a banker of Colusa, Is regiatered
ht the Sutter,
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W. H. M4ELROY, a realty ntab rf M«reed, la at
the Sunford.
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1. 4. ftOND of Portland. Ora,, IB a t««*t at the
Yon Dorn.
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P. P. XftftftOtTßH of Bishop la registered at the
StaAfttfl.
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ft. t. FISHER of iureka tod §**•* •* the Ar
linfctoo.
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ft. 9. ouner of sea Diego la at the Baldwin.
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H. D, MELON! of IkUh Ik at the Setter, j
GEORGE FITCH
AstMr «ff "At G4M* Old Blwash"
ORATORY is th* art of talking
with the hands, feet, shoulders
and mouth and sometimes with
the brain—all at once.
Oratory was first made famous by
Demosthenes, a Greek boy who lived
many years before Chauncey Depew's
stories were first Invented. Demos
thenes became an orator by filling his
mouth full of pebbles, thus compelling
himself to be brief on pain of choking
to death. This plan has fallen into
disuse, however.
Oratory is as hard to learn as avia
tion. The speaker must get astride of
his theme In a low resonant voice and
then glide rapidly up into a loud
shriek, pausing only for breath and
water. Me must feed his remarks with
similes, metaphors, apoetrophtes, word
paintings, aphorisms and epigrams
while so shrieking and the orator who
stopped while In full cYy to claw for
an adjective would meet as disastrous
a fate as the aviator who let go of
the steering wheel two miles from
land to arrange his necktie. Cautious
Orators therefor* make up a full
stock of ngurts of speech and keep
them ready for instant use so that
when they are surprised by a personal
friend at a public meeting with a de
mand for a speech, they can go on the
platform totally unprepared and ran
rise 7,000 feet In a few hoarse vwhoops,
coming down afterward from patriot
ism to peanuts in a beautiful spiral
glide.
A talented orator is also a great
athlete and can use both arms vio
lently for hours at a time. Swimming
is a good preliminary training for ora
tors. If a man can swim a mile he
can expect to go through a long and
eloquent oration without getting weak
in the shoulders.
A fine orator has a wonderful effect
en an audience and can make it be
lieve whatever he wants to tell it
about the tariff or Andrew Jackson.
Webster was one of our greatest ora
tors. He could begin a talk in a low
dispassionate voice as if tired of life
and in ten minute* could yank hta au
ditnce up on its chairs and make it
yet as it it were calling for the life
bolt. Hypnotists do the same thing.
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ANSWERS TO QUERIES
„ PLiYINo CAftns—a. 8. When ana where
did nhylfig cards originate?
It Is known that playing; cards are
of eastern origin, but when or by whom
first'introduced has never been ascer-
It 18, however, tolerably cer
tain that they originated In Arabia
and vere brought into Europe during
the drueadea. In an ancient "History
ot thi Oarter" there ia an extract from
a waMfobe account ot Edward 1. dates
1377, in which a game called "four
kings 4la mentioned. As Edward, be
fore rite accession to the throne, re
sided tor some years in Syria, he may
have learned to play cards in that
countrj. they were Introduced in Eu
rope in the fourteenth century, and it
is said that they were brought to
Viterba by the Saracens In 1579.
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DECiftKKS tit HKAT—Reader. City. Oh May
ai. lftta. read on the weather bureau chart In
Lnton aqnre that the temperature waa SO degree*
plus, while In the newspaper* on the following
day the Nports of the weather bureau ahowed
the hifMst to he 87 degrees. Why thla differ
eoeet
Thlh, because Of the difference in the
location of thermometers; that at Union
square being near the ground, where
It is Warmer, and the other on the top
of the Merchants' Exchange building;,
where it is cooler. The figures fur
nished th* newspapers are from the in
strument at the Merchants' Exchange
building.
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QOVtftNMs*? LAND—A. H. t.. City. Mow
shall I g» a »ut obtaining Information as to gov
ernment lan that may be taken up?
If you Will advise this department
what pari of the country you would
like to lolate in, you will be advised
as to whoa to apply.
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DOG MCSS.B— c. B. 0„ City, Wga (he last
etSlnance rejAive to the mnaalfng of dogs with
basket musftld signed by Mayor Ttelph? if ad.
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- Mayor Wiph approved and signed
that ordina cc Inly I. 1912. {
Popularity
the,PgET PHILOSOPHER
ty tE all desire the world's applause
U/lttd for fit strive and strain; It's
* * labor in a worthy cause, but often
done in vain. Reverses come and come
again, and kindred bitter pills; you
can not win the love of men,
unless you pay your bilis. One fellow
cultivates his voice and sings like
golden lyre, and hopes to make the
World rejoice or set the same on fire;
"and," say the worldly rubbernecks,
"he'd fill our hearts with thrills, and
be a credit to his sex, if he would
pay his bills." One follows up Demos
thenes and binds us with a spell, and
much he hopes the world to please,
and please it passing well; but man
kind hears this guy orate, and says,
In tone that chills: "He'd be the glory
of his state, if he would pay his bills!"
No matter to what heights you go, or
how you conquer fame, the story of
the scads you owe will cling around
your name. And so it's better far to
Climb th* low and humble hills, and
leave the shining heights sublime
until you've paid your bills.
mmmtmSiavm MUM
An Experienced Hand
"So you think you would make a sat
isfactory valet for an old human wreck
like myself, do you?" said the old sol
dier to the applicant for the position
of body servant. "You know I have
a glass eye, a wax arm and a wooden
leg that need to be looked after, not
to mention my false teeth."
"Oh, that's all right, colonel," said
the applicant, cheerfully. "I worked
five year* in the assembling depart
ment of the Squeegee Motor Car
works, and there isn't a machine on
the market that I can't take apart and
put together again with my eyes shut."
—Harper's Weekly.
In Boston
Talkative Shopper—Don't you find
that having to wait on so many fussy,
disagreeable people has at least one
compensation—that of making you for
get your other troubles?
Cultured Saleslady—Oh, yes—it acts
as a counter irritaht.—Judge.
ORATORY
"A fen> deft calliope-like remarks"
but they use their arms more quietly
and do not melt so many collars.
A skillful orator can talk magnifi
cently on any subject, using the same
words, shuffled up a little. Bob Inger-
SOll had two great orations, one on Im
mortality and the other on his old cob
pipe,' the latter being, if anything, the
more beautiful.
Oratory is the most profitable of all
gifts. Men have orated themselves
into thrones and into presidential
chairs. Starting with nothing but a
strong flexible pair of arms and a
deep, durable voice and acquiring noth
ing else on the way, a young man can
even now talk himself into congress
and if some one leaves the gate open
a little can leap into a national con
vention and transform it Into a shriek
ing mob of frenzied admirers with a
few deft, calliope like remarks. Ora
tory acts on an audience as whisky
does on a man. It takes away its
brains for the time being. But it does
not leave a headache the next morning,
which accounts for the fact that it is
still regarded with favor.
For many years America hired ora
tors to do Hi its public business. Then
it began to find that when a man is
orating he is never working and is
seldom thinking. So now the orating
and the thinking are done by separate
departments of government and neither
i 8 allowed to interfere with the other,
•orjce Matthe* Adams)
URNKRAL MAI'S—C. 8., Oakland. When and
trherp wan General Marion P. Mans, U. S. A.,
born? Is he still in the amy?
GenerAl Marion Parry Maus was born
in burnt Mills, Montgomery county,
Md., August 26, ISSO. He is still in the
army with the rank of brigadier gen
eral, but is slated for retirement
August 85, 1914,
Abe Martin
I'm afraid Govnor Wilson won't be
able to Save much in four years With
three daughters. O' all th* four flushers
th' feller that crosses hie legs in some
buddy else's tourin* car is th* worst.
] AUGUST 13* W?j #
Ferry Tales
WHEN Henry
Kunz left
his home
across the bay the
other morning his
wife spoke to him,
for the third time
in three days,
about the ham he had forgotten to
order.
"I'm sorry, Henry," she told hint,
"but you've put oft Ordering that ham
so long I am afraid I must ask you to
bring one home with you tonight."
Sure, Henry would. He tied a string
on his finger, wrote tne word "ham" on
his shirt cuff, drew a sketch of a ham
on his commutation ticket, and then
put little slips of paper with "remem- *
ber to get ham" written on each one
in every pocket.
Having taken every possible precau
tion, he dismissed the matter from his
mind and never thought ham again
until he found himself that evening
on the 6:45 boat, homeward bound—
and hamless! V
He was collaborating with hi*
science in designing a suitable name
for himself when he spied Phil Teller,
and (blessed sight!) under Teller's arm
was a package that, from the shape,
could be nothing but a ham. Kunz lost
not a minute.
"Hello, Phil!" he Said. "That's a
dandy ham you have there."
"Who told you it was a ham?"
queried the former harbor commis
sioner.
"That's easy." Kunz saw the end of
his troubles. "What's ham worth now,
Phil?"
Teller told him.
"How much does that one under your
arm weigh?"
"Look here, Henry," and Teller held
the package so that Kunz could see it
plainly, "you're such a good little
guesser today, suppose you guess the
weight."
"Tell you what I'll do." Kunz was
not going to be sidetracked into any
guessing contest "I'll give $3 for it."
The bargain was closed on those
terms. Teller took the money and put
it in his pocket and Kunz became the
owner of two small wild geese, part of
a kill that Teller's partner had been
trying to give away for two days.
"It wouldn't have bad," said
Kunz next morning after telling his
troubles on the train, "If George Mas
tick hadn't telephoned to my wife be
fore I got home and told her that I
had traded a ham for some wild game.''
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"When does the next boat leave for
San Rafael?" - " J^,
She was a tall, dark woman, and
as she asked the Question she patted
nervously on the windowsill of the
ferry ticket office.
"Two forty-five," and the clerk
reached over to his ticket rack.
"How long will it take to get there?"
"Fifty minutes."
"Will the marriage license bureau Re
open when we get there?"
"Don't know, ma'am!"
"Well, I'm going to find out before
I buy a ticket. Something seems to
go wrong every time I get married,
and I'm just determined that there
won't be no hitch this time."
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Two small boys were comparing rela
tives as they leaned over the rail of a
Key Route steamer.
"Gee!" said one of them, "but my
brother's a dandy watch maker. Father
forgot his watch when he went to New
York. Bud took it to pieces. And,
say! He got It all back 'cept two
wheels!" .id'lJMftljfl
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She's the daintiest little matron in
all Marin county. If you know her
you'll recognize her by this descrip
tion. When she decided that she
Wanted a tailor made suit she also de
cided that it would have to be made
by a tailor, and in due course she was
making frequent trips across the bay
to keep-appointments for the numer
ous "fittings" that- are part of the price
a woman has to pay for simplicity in
dress. The tmUot fixed the time for
these appointments and always set the
hour St 5:30 p. m.
"I'm afraid," she told him ons da*,
"that you will have to give me sofnT*
other hour. I find 5:30 very incon
venient."
"I'm very sorry, Miss," the tailor re
plied, "but I've been making it late
to suit you. I thought that would just
about give you time to get here after
school."
The tailor smiled incredulously when
She stamped a dainty foot, frowned a
most matronly frown and said:
"School! Well. I want you to know
that I've been married four years:
School, indeed!"
* * *
It pays even a transportation com
pany to be polite. W r hen the Southern
Pacific made its recent unfortunate and
short lived attempt to limit the irtter
changeability of its commutation
ticketß by marking those sold to men
•male," and the other kind "female,"
it was not so much what it did that
angered its patrons as the way the
thing was done.
For proof of this let us turn to the
commutation tickets iaaued by the
Northwestern Pacifc. The ticket agent
gives a man a perfectly plain ticket.
There Are bands of color across the
face of the commutation tickets sold
to women, m small and unobtrusive
type on the plain tickets Is the inser
tion, "gentleman's ticket," and %
atriped tickets bear the legend, "ladVs
The "males'' and "females'' are nro
testing yet.
The "ladies" a n d "gentlemen" have
never said a Word. O. L. C