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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-12
Natural History Notes.

y
able farmers in Sonora, Mexico. These
are the So called agricultural ants, which
plant fields of grain and regularly harvest
their crops, upon which they depend
wholly for food. In fact, should the
crops fail, they would perish of famine
On the other hand, the cereals that they
grow have been specialized by cultiva-
ton, like the wheat and other grains of
the human husbandman, and would
quietly disappear if the attention of the
insects was withdrawn.
The fields of the former ants cover
scores of square miles In Sonora, large
part of which is quite densely populated
by them. The home of colony is
marked ordinarily by circular clearing
from five to thirty feet in diameter, on
which nothing is permitted to grow.
This serves as sort of parade and ex-
ercise ground. Around the clearing is a
ring of luxuriant grass from three to
twenty feet wide. On the seeds of this
grass the insects subsist, planting it
every spring and garnering the crop in
the autumn. Across the rings which
surround formicaries run turnpikes
few inches wide, connecting farm with
farm for many furlongs.
In the region described there is practi.
cally no vegetation except the grasses
cultivated by these ants. The latter ap-
pear to keep down and exterminate all
other plants, such as cacti. greasewood
and mesquite. The plants naturally
prevailing in that part of the country
are entirely absent from the most
thickly settled farming districts. In
short, these insects have developed an
art Of agriculture peculiar to themselves,
have made conquest of the land for their
needs and have artificiAlized certain
cereals as thoroughly as maize and bar
ley have been artificialiZed by man.
"Thus," says Prof MCGEE, "the rigor-
Gus environment of the desert has de-
veloped one of the most remarkable IN
telligences; and incidentally, an animal
and plant have come to be mutually
dependent upon each other for exist
ence." The favorite cultivated plant of
these ants is the familiar buffalo grass.
Cooperation in Plants.-Although in
some cases it is difficult to distinguish
between true parastism and symbiosis,
says Mr.. George Clayton, in recent
paper on the subject, and to pronounce
definitely that the host plant does not
get some advantage from the parasite
that feeds upon it's 'iuices. yet innumer-
able cases are known in which the two
plants in union mutually benefit each
other, and the term applied to such
unions would be sym biosis. Symbiosis
may then be defined as the associated
existence of two or more plants for pur
poses of nutrition.
Unlike parasites, two symbolic plants
living in union each supplies it's partner
with materials that the partner requires;
a reciprocity system being the rule of
their combined existence. Many of the
forest trees, common shrubs, ETC., have
attached to their roots fungoid partners
which, absorbing from the ground
moisture and mineral matters, hand
these chemicals over to the larger tree,
nko md oil or
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-12
A Coming Industry.

There is perhaps no natural production
in the State says The Florida Farm and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
Association of South San Francisco will be
an outing at Glenwood on June 8.
TRAVEL IN THE MISSION
Mr.. vining Has Some Radical Changes
in View for Monday

Superintendent Vining of the Market
street Railway Company says that he
will put through cars on the branches Of
the Mission-street system about next Mon
day, in compliance with the request of the
Castro-street Improvement Club.
By the proposed arrangement every
fourth car will run out Twenty-second
street to Hoffman avenue, the first and
third cars out of every four running out
Twenty ninth to Noe street, and the sec
ond out Mission street to China avenue.
This will give a two-minute service on
Mission street to Twenty second street, a
four-minute service on Twenty-ninth
to Noe, and an eight-minute service on
Twenty second to Hoffman avenue and on
Mission street to China savenue from 5: 15
to $50 A. NJ. and from until P. NJ.
There is some slight objection among
Castro-street residents to the through SER
vice intended on the ground that an eight
minute through service is not as satisfac-
tory as minute transfer service. The
change, however, says Mr.. Vining, has
been made at the request of a delegation
of the Castro street Club, and an eight
minute through service is the very best he
can arrange for so far as the item of time
is concerned. Transfers will be given to
all the branches for a time.
The different cars will be distinguished
by flags as follows: The Noe Valley cars
will carry ret flags, the China-avenue ex-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16

time law and Treasury Department ordi-
nances, knows foreto' gallant brace from
the signal halyards, can navigate ship
unerringly by dead reckoning, and-'she
is the captains daughter"
Captain II. D. Smith is native of Bos-
ton and nephew of Commodore Smith,
q. s. N, retired. He served with distinc-
ton in the navy through the Civil War,
taking part in many engagements on the
Mississippi River and on the Gulf coast.
He was appointed to lieutenantcy in the
revenue service by Secretary Mccullough
in 1867, taking precedence over several
hundred applicants by reason of meritori-
Gus service in the navy. Lieutenant Smith
was stationed on this coast a number of
years ago, being in command of the tug
Hartley, and afterward was transferred to
the Atlantic.
Captain Smith handles pen as he ham
dies ship-with grace and ease-and the
ern periodicals are publishing his interest
ing articles upon marine topics.
During his naval career he had the
pleasure of chasing Captain Waddell of the
rebel warship Shenandoah, and that officer
while in command of the Inflated Pacific
Mail steamer San Francisco, about twelve
years after was destined to be connected
with an occurrence that came near causing
lifelong bereavement to his old foe. In
the accounts of the loss of the San Fran
cisco on the Central American coast seven
teen years ago, published at the time, it
was stated that a boatload Of passengers
was overturned in the surf, and when the
occupants were with difficulty rescued
from the breakers an infant was missing.
Upon dragging the boat from the water
some time after the accident and righting
her on the beach the baby was found I'M
derneath the craft uninjured, but very wet
and protesting with lusty cries against her
saltwater bath.
That small girl is the young lady of the
cutter Perry, then aged 8 months, en- route
from the East with her mother. Miss
Josephine's early ducking in the sea made
sailor of her, and eventually. the smart
est and prettiest MILDLY In her fathers
vessel.
The Perry found the United States cruiser
Newark at Montevideo a few months ago,
and, during visit to the warship, Miss
Smith met Paymaster Wright the officer
who rescued her from the capsized boat,
and the heroine of the shipwreck was
formally decorated with a Newark cap
ribbon, and the ships band played pima
fore" airs instead of the usual national
music in her honor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
CHARMED By YsAYE.
A Great Audience Hears the yiolinis
at the Baldwin.

A Great Audience Hears the yiolinist
at the Baldwin.
There was another large and brilliant
audience at Ysaye's second concert in the
Baldwin Theater last night. Many of the
people in the house were present at the
yiolinist's first concert on Monday evening,
and it was evident that sincere admira-
ton for his great powers had attracted
them to hear him a second time.
A royal reception was given to Ysayc
when he made his appearance to play Max
Bruch's second concerto in D minor. 1t
would be an exaggeration to say that the
orchestra was sympathetic or particularly
responsive, but it seconded Ysaye's noble
rendering of the violin solo score much more
successfully than IN the Salnt-SaenS concerto
on Monday.
All the music of the Bruch concerto is effec-
tive and dramatic, and particularly did Ysaye
delight his hearers in the finale, allegro motto,
which gave him the opportunity of exhibiting
masteriv staccato, as well as ford execution
and beautiful cantabile passages. He tossed
OFF .the technical difficulties cas- asily as If he
were uuaffing cup OF wine.
Two of the most delightful numbers on the
programme were the Wagner-Wilhelmi "Parsi-
far paraphrase and the prize song from the
PANIED so we'll Ysaye played his Wagner as If
he loved it for his rendering of both themes
breathed the Inspiration. the exalted passion,
which those rev aTllsls WIZ tdil reveal TO tlelr
hearers something of the true inwardness o.
the Bayreuth master put into their interpreta-
ton of his works.
How little Inspiration there seems to be in
the s.Prize Song'' as it is ordinarily sung and
nlayed. but as Ysaye rendered it last night one
could. indeed, imagine the exquisite theme
coming by inspiration to Waiter as he thought
of his love.
The enthusiasm at the end Sof the Wagn er.
Wilhelmi numbers was so great that after re-
peated bows Ysaye good-naturedly played an
encore-a mazourka by Zarzyki. It helped to
aecentuate his versatility, as its brilliant dash
ing character was in marked contrast 70 the
ca1tabile of the Wagner music.
Ysaye,s last number on the programme was
Saint-Saen's ondo-Capriccfoso," as beauti-
full an example of "bel canto'' In Ysaye's
hands as one need wish to hear. There were
moments when it scarcely needed much stretch
of the IMAGINATION to fancy that q finished
prirna-donna of the good old forid Italian
School was warbling an aria full OF vocal en-
broid cries which it is the fashion not TO admire
nowndays-for one reason because there are SO
few singers who can warble them.
But Ysaye's singing OF the ford rondo was
even more perfect than that OF a finished prima
donna. of the old school. that Is so rapidly dis
appearing AS an encore TO the Saint1Saens
number he gave the Sarcastic dance of Monday
evening.
registers 1t is in the very nigh notes that he
PARTICULARLY excels. So frequently violinists'
very high notes, even IL they are perfectly true
are lacking in sweetness-are scarcely music,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
.POTRERO AND THE SOUTH
Spreckels' Sugar Fleet Some
what Delayed, but Now
Coming In.
BRIGANTINE IRWIN ARRIVES.
Keeping "Tab" on the Coast Survey
Tide Gauge at the Union
Iron Works.

For several days not sugar ship had
arrived at the Western Sugar Refinery,
having been probably detained by calm
weather or head winds. The steamer
Australia and the brigantine w. G. Irwin
arrived yesterday, however, the latter from
Kahului. The John G. North, Golden
Shore, Andrew WEIGH, Weatherwax, H.
c. Wright and H. F. Glade are expected to
come in almost any time now.
The two big boilers which ]. D. spreckels
& Bros schooner Anna brought up from
the ship Crown of England, wrecked some
time ago on reef at Santa Rosa Island
will be utilized by the Union Iron Works
for the oil ship now being built for the
Payta (Peru) trade. They are valued al
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
THE CAPTAINS DAUGHTER,
Miss Josephine F. Smith Sails
in the Revenue Cutter
Perry.
A Leaf From the Log of the Steamer
San Francisco, Wrecked
Years Ago.

Miss Josephine Fredericks Smith. the
eighteen-year-old daughter of Captain H.
D. Smith of the revenue cutter Perry,
which sailed yesterday for Port Town
send en- route to Boring Sea, is a sailor
lassie and true daughter of the service.
She was her fathers shipmate and sole
messmate during the cutters long Is 600
mile voyage from New York to San Fran
cisco, sailing from the former port Decem-
Der 20, 1894, and arriving here the 18th OF
last month.
The fair revenue mariner is a brown
haired, brown-eyed, vivacious girl OF
medium height, perfect Portia in mari
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16

in fact-but Ysaye's highest notes, taken
pienissimo, are sweet and clear
That excellent pianist, Lachaume WAS
warmly welcomed yesterday evening. He
was at his best in Lists second Hungarian
ae nmhe ar
piano alone" The unbracketed name of
'sLiszt' conveyed that Information. How.
ever, Lachaume played the rhapsodie we'll
and worked up the climax well. His render
ing of Chopin was marked by more
yirilfty than was consistent with q
thorough appreciation of the melancholy
Pole, who never penned a s's eherzo" in so fierce
mood that 1t was necessary to break string
in performing il, as Mr.. Lachaume apparently
did last nj hi. However, when he moderated
his ardor his touch was playful and graceful.
In orchestra, under the direction of August
Hinrichs, he played several numbers that were
applauded
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
CLOSED THE SEASON.
The Centennial Club Gives Its Last
EntertaiIame

The Centennial Club Gives Its Last
EntertaiLme
Twice a year the Centennial Club holds
social entertainme the first late in the
fall and the last in the spring, just before
society hocks to the country.
Last evening the club held its CLOSING
of the season" in National Hall on Ellis
street, near Polk. The attendance was
very large. The entertainment consisted
of comical farce, entitled, 1.-The Two
Bonnycastles, in which r. c. Altsehul,
Walter II. Taisen, D. W. Brice, Miss Lille
Barron, Miss Bertha Barron and Miss M.
Calligan took part.
After the entertainment there was dane
ing until a late hour.
The affair was under the direction of the
following:
Committee of arrangements-R c. Altschul
tchairman), George Appel, Jesse A. Platt, S. ].
Lazarus, Jacob S. Meyer, A. Meyer.
Floor eommittee-A. Meyer chairman Clar-
ence L. Badt, Jncob s. Meyer.
Floor manager, George Appel.
Assistant floor manager, Leon Leszynsky.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16

tension yellow flags, and the Mission or
mainline cars green flags.
through the courtesy of the Mission
Journal the CALL is informed that party
OF young men went from the Mission dis
trict 10 Alaska yesterday, leaving on the
bark Marion, among them being Charles
Meyer, Edward A. Born, Charles WegTier
and Albert G. Mauerhan. Their destina-
ton is $50 miles up Cooks Inlet. a full
stoc.- of provisions to last one year, ammu-
milton in abundance, tools for placer min
ing medicines and small boat complete
the outfit, the cost of which was 500 per
man.
Thirty young men altogether went by the
same vessel. Eighteen of these are from
Selma, and their preparations are as COM
plete as those of our own boys.
The trip north will occupy nearly a
month to Kodiak. From that point the
boys will ascend Cooks Inlet and try their
fortune prospecting.
A farewell meeting was held last Sunday
nlghtln the Emmanuel Evangelical Church
on Twelfth street, where three OF the Young
men belong. Short addresses were given
by DR.. Cordes and DIR. John A. Born, wish
ing them godspeed and full measure OF
prosperity.
Taussig & Eisenbach will Immediately
begin the construction of four three-story
frame buildings on the north side of Six
teenth street, between Valencia and Guer-
zero. The first stories will be fitted up for
stores, with. neat front, and the upper
stories for flats. House-movers are already
beginning to take away the old dilapidated
buildings there.
Work on the fill in the Mission road a,
ocean Nlew IS progressing nicely. The
high bank at the Five-mile House has beer
| leveled.
Folsom street, between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth, and Nineteenth, betweer
Shotwell and Folsom, are being bitumin.
lied.
On Folsom street, between Twentieth
and Twenty first, two fine three-story
buildings are going up.
Choirmaster MacLachlan of the Lebanon
Presbyterian Church, corner of SANCHEZ
singers.
Between Eighteenth and Nineteentt
streets, Stevenson lnow called Lexington
avenue) is being torn up for pavement O.
bitumen which is to be laid on.
DR.. Clinton will build three cottages or
Mission street, below Plymouth avenue.
Teams from the House of Correction
have been filling in holes along the Sar
Jose road.
Messrs. Poole. Peithop and Reichenbacb
have been appointed committee by the
Holly Park improvement Club to ascer.
tain whether the Spring Valley Company
will supply Holly Park with water from
the Clarendon Heights reservoir.
Holly Park people are about to petition
for fire engine.
Brick foundations have been laid for ,
new store on Twenty-sixth street, aboy,
Church.
The Douglas school, Nineteenth and Col
lingwood streets, is being plastered.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
A NIGHT IN VENICE.
Be1vedere to Reproduce the Social Sue
cess of Last Year.

cess of Last Year.
The people of Belvedere, in Marin
County, have decided to reproduce their
great success of last summer, "a night in
Venice, and the production will be upon
a much more extensive and grander scale
than the one held in 1894
The date has not yet been fixed for this
novel water entertainment, but it is ex-
pected to be held some time in the first
part of the month of July. Newer and
finer features are promised and the land
decorations will far excel anything here
tofore attempted by the people of Bel
vedere peninsula.
The inhabitants of the arks which are
moored in the storm-sheltered waters
about the peninsula are fully alive to the
occasion and they also are determined to
surpass their efforts of last summer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
THE FREE LIBRARY.
Number of Books Called For During the
Month of April.

From the report OF Librarian Clark of the
Free Library for the month Of April, it APP
pears that during that period the number
of books used outside of the building was
5,793, while that inside was Is, 415, making
total of 29.20s. The average daily de-
livery was 1919 volumes. The percentage
of fiction called for was 81, or just a
room was opened on the sth OF the month,
and until the end OF the month it had been
visited by 1857 visitors, and the number of
volumes consulted was 731. No account
was kept of the use of current periodicals
in this ROOM The number of cards issued
during the month was 754, making the
total mum Der IL .410. The Mission, Potrero.
Point Lobos and North Beach branches
were well patronized. In these the demand
for fiction was respectively 6S, IS, 81 and 81.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
Mcguire, the American Plimsoll,

From our London contemporary, the Sea.
mems Chronicle, we learn that the National
Sailors and Firemen's Union of Great Britain
and Ireland, at meeting of the Tidal Basin
Nondon) branch, neid April 20. adopted a
guire s.for his loyal and successful advocacy OF
the cause of the seamen." The meeting was a
very large and enthusiastic Siie and was sd.
dressed by J. H. Wilson, VI. p. and others. The
resolution 10 Judge Mcguire was proposed by
l.. NJ. johnson. editor of the Seamen's Chroni-
Gle, and carried unanimously with three cheers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
The Water Carnival.

The new features introduced this week
at the water carnival are meeting with
much approval by the frequenters of this
unique entertainment. The new floats are
especially pretty, and the tableaux which
have been introduced are making hit.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
The Aloazar.

"Arrah Ma Pogue" played to a good
house for the last time last evening, at the
Alcazar Theater. 1t seemed to have
struck the popular fancy. It gives place
tonight to Finn McCoo,' Dion Bouci-
caultss latest American military play.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
The Tivoli.

Heart and Hand" keeps up its first
night houses at the Tivoli. and will proba-
bly, make good long run. Ferris Hart
man is changing his jokes each night, so
the royal humor will not grow familiar to
Tivoli habitues. The singing is somewhat
improved as the people grow more used to
their parts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16

The Lilliputians arrived here yesterday
in readiness for their production of
"Humpty Dumpty Up to Date" at the
Baldwin Theater next Monday.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
The City,s Debta.

The City by its attorneys, Rhodes & Rhodes
and McKinstry & McKinstry, has interposed a
demurrer TO the. suit brought against it by
Wallace Bradford for an injunction in the mat
ter of civic debts
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
The Fire Patrol. -

Morosco's patrons are greatly taken with
the Fire PATROL" and each evening the
house is well filed. The great scene and
climax in the fourth act, where the patrol,
drawn by real horses, dashes in and the
patrolmen batter down door with real
axes is always greeted with tremendous
applause and great enthusiasm. 1t will
have good run
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16

THERE is an article on this market seldom
eaualed and never excedled-Jesse Moore Whis-
Ky Moore, Hunt Co. guarantee its purity. =
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16

MONEY makes the mare go and buys the AL.
mighty-dollarCigar
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16

CATARRH cured and no pay until cured
Treatment at Office free. 925 Howardstreet
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
The 0rpheum.

George H. Wood, the comedian, after
an illness which prevented his ap-
pearance on the Orpheum boards on
Monday night, has made his bow
and has met with success. He was
one of the new attractions billed for this
week, and he will prove to be drawing
card. Felix and Cain, acrobats, comedians
and vocalists, are making big hit, as are
also Perry and Tenbrooke.
1.-THE Undert akers' Social" with which
the bill closes, is not thought much of,
however, and it might be omitted without
damaging the programme in the least.
Next week the big attraction will be Jules
Levy, the great cornet-player.