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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
SANITARY DISTRICTS.

The legislative act providing for the
creation of sanitary districts at the will of
the district voters is having a decidedly
cold reception in various parts of the State.
AS a rule the elections which have been
called for the purpose of establishing such
districts have resulted in an overwhelming
negative vote.
There is possibly more common sense in
these negations than might at first appear.
In view Of many considerations it would
be unfair to compare the obstructionists
with those ignorant hordes of Europe and
Asia who regard cleanliness, vaccination
and sanitation as institutions of the Evil
One. Evidently obstruction in California
is based on knowledge of the fact that the
climate here is the most efficient of all
sanitary agencies, and that in a large
measure it takes the place of necessary
sanitation in other parts of the world.
This is another instance of the fact which
under no circumstances we should over
look, that the traditions and experiences
of other places have proved inappIicable to
California and injurious to its progress.
Wise sanitation is good, but unnecessary
sanitation is bad, because it is expensive
fornia which reduce the necessity for sani-
tation to minimum are these: First, the
constant ocean winds of the coast, which
effect instant aeration and dissemination
of deleterious ef1uvia; second, the great
atmospheric dryness of the summers in the
interior, working against putrefaction and
all bacterial fecundity and inducing desic-
cation, which is the counterpart of sterili-
cation and the enemy of injurious germs.
The remarkable freedom from zymotic
and endemicsd iseases which California en-
joys ought to be a sufficient lesson to those
sanitary reformers who seek to harness US
to the humid conditions of the Eastern
States. California, in spite of the fact that
1t has free commerce with the track of the
pilgrims to Mecca, has had but one cholera
epidemic. That was over forty years ago.
Its victims were the Mexicans and the
Chinese who lived in filth in the Sacra-
mento Valley. The coast proved immune.
Smallpox is the only virulent disease that
San Francisco has ever had reason to
dread, but it has never been so fatal as
diphtheria, and the danger of both passed
almost entirely upon the introduction of
very inadequate sewer system.
Diphtheria still breaks out in sporadic
form not only in San Francisco Though it
has been long time since we had an cpl
demic) but in other cities of the State as
well. Invariably it is traceable to defec-
tive sewerage. Smallpox and cholera may
be left out of consideration altogether.
The conclusion is that in very thickly set
tied communities there should be good
sewers, and that in thinly settled commu-
mites they are unnecessary.
One evil remains, and one only. That is
malaria. 1t does not exist on the coast,
because the constant ocean winds prevent.
1t is found only in communities where the
ordinary facilities for breeding malarial
germs-an abundance of stagnant fresh
water carrying decaying vegetation and
unaccompanied by constant winds-present
all the conditions for its presence. This
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have had that experience. Take Irving, Ellen
Terry, Jefferson, Crane, Robson, Ada Rehan,
John Drew, Warde, james, Barrymore. Some
of these are getting along in years now Booth
and Barrett are gone, and they were made by
the stock-company experience. Yes, the old
way of making actors and actresses was what
developed the great lights of the stage.
"But so many more are specialists now. Yet
the public, on the whole, get better shows. All
the parts of piece put on for long run can
be better filed. Those taking part have
abundant opportunity to thoroughly study up
and make the most of their roles. In the old
stock companies whose pieces were being con-
stantly changed, many of the parts were taken
by actors who had little time for preparation
or were untitled for them. Now, as I said, all
the actors are perfect in their parts, and the
play as whole is better put on and does not
depend on the stars"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
CAMP ROACHE.

The Camp Roache experiment has been
made. The school of instruction has COM
pleted its work and adjourned. The pro-
fessors, students and casual listeners have
left the groves in the mountains, where
they have been encamped for two weeks,
and the time has come to look back over
the work of the session and see what has
been accomplished for the good of those
present and the general welfare of the
State.
The highest worth of the school must, Of
course, be tested by the amount of infor-
nation which the grangers derived from
it, and this depends, of course, not upon
the teachers only, but upon the grangers
themselves. The course of lectures has
certainly covered fields of wide and varied
Importance, and the instruction has been
given by men well fitted to make it of
value to those to whom it is to be a matter
of practical application. That lectures of
such a scientific nature should be so well
attended gives assurance of the high intel
hgence OF the campers and iuStifes the
belief that they will prove themselves
capable of applying it to advantage as
well as listening to it with understanding
Those who have studied the camp at
close range are sanguine of good results.
Enough has been accomplished to make it
certain that the sessions will be resumed
next year and instruction given on broader
lines. We may now account the school,
therefore, as one of the established educa-
cational forces of the State. The only
danger that confronts it is that it may fall
from its high purpose, and for the sake Of
drawing crowds substitute popular lectures
by noted persons in the place of the scien-
tiic teaching by trained professors of our
universities.
If the tendency toward popularity is
avoided and the future sessions of the
school are devoted, like the one just past,
to the serious study of serious subjects, the
Importance and the value of the enterprise
will grow until it takes rank among the
foremost summer schools of the country
and achieves reputation as wide as the
Nation. The promoters have fixed the
standard high and are sanguine of main
tanning it. They have fortunately an in
telligent constituency to appeal to. The
agriculturists of California, as a rule, are
broadly educated men, with sufficient
knowledge to know that they do not know
everything. They understand the value
of science in the practical affairs of life
and they are aware that it is continually
increasing. They know, therefore, that
they must study to keep abreast of the
times, and in that knowledge they may be
counted on to give cordial support to
those who seek to advance the Changers
School of Instruction to the highest STAN
dards of scientific study of agriculture
and economics.
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evil has been found particularly in swampy
and artificially irrigated districts, and in
the foothill and mountain regions where
natural drainage was lacking. This is the
easiest of all evils to overcome. Drainage
is the solution of the whole problem. No
malarial germ can Withstand the normal
dryness of California summer. If there
are any places in California where the
organization of sanitary districts would
prove beneficial it is those where malaria
exists. AS for the strictly local and artifi-
cial causes which produce diphtheria they
can be easily overcome by free exposure to
the sun of the matter breeding it or fire.
quent admixture of it with freshly turned
earth. The climate will do the rest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

81 have been in the profession over thirty
years" said L. R. Stockwell yesterday at the
Baldwin.
"Are the actors better and more studious
now than they were twenty or thirty years
ago." was asked.
mo; they don't have to be. Since the forma-
ton of the combinations which play very few
pieces, and often only one for year or more,
the actor does not have either the opportunity
or incentive for study as in the old stock COM
panies, where an actor would have to study up
a new part nearly every week. All the great
actors and actresses of to-day are those who
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reform the Lords. The Conservatives pro-
posed to give homes to Englishmen and to
reform industrial conditions. The voters
decided that the latter programme prom
lsed most for them and voted accordingly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
PROMINENT pERsoNAGEs.
he real name OF John Hare, the actor, is

The real name Of John Hare, the actor, is
John Fairs.
John O'Sullivan of Auckland, New Zealand,
is credited with the ripe old age of 149 years.
Marguerite Arlina Hamm declares that
women employed as servants should wear
boomers.
daughter of the poet Longfellow lives in
Washington. Her name is Marion Longfellow
O'Donohue.
Those who ought to know say that the
Crown Princess OF Roumania is the hand
soonest sprig of royalty in Europe.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
CALIFoRNIANs IN SALT LAKE.

Salt Lake, Utah, Aug. 1O.-Mr. and Mrs.
George 7. Clark and Miss Wade arrived from
San Francisco this morning and registered at
the Knutsford. Rev. and Mrs. G. NJ. Fisher of
Los Angeles are at the Walker. w. f. Hitch
cock of San Francisco is at the Cullen.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Perhaps had it not been for the Solid
Eight the Civic Federation's energy would
have lain dormant.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

1t is impossible for any one to be sad
who fills his system with the merry sun
shine OF California.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

"Oh, doctor, how do you dor You look Kill
ing this evening"" "Thenk you, but I'm not;
Pm off duty, you know. brooklyn Life.
Tripper-That love affair of Toms has ended
in smoke, Ell? Flipper-I guess so. He was
burning her letters last night-Comic Weekly.
Prisoner-I want to get out of here bad.
Jailer-That is the way you came in. What we
want is for you to go out of here good.-Norris-
town Herald.
sit isn't what We do" remarked Clarence Fitz
Hautbeau, ''that always counts in determining
mans prosperity" "No,'' replied Reginald
de Bumme, ''it's who ye do more'n what we do
dat signifies Exchange.
Minnie-Then you do really think Jack cares
for me? Maggie-Pm sure of it. His eyes fol-
lowed your every movement last night Min
ME talarmed)-Gracious! Do you really think
he saw all ate at supper?-Tit-Bits.
"Why, SIR" exclaimed an enthusiastic mem
Der of regimental band, ''we can play the
most intricate airs at sight" az should like to
hear you play the airs the drum major puts
on,'' remarked an unbeEeving hstener.-Lon-
don Answers.
ait seems to me-" said the manager, "thst
you do that part of receiving money from the
chief villain in a most awkward manner"
"Mebbe do" admitted the actor; sit has been
SO long since 1 had any chance to rehearse with
the real stuff."-Cincinnati Tribune.
$50 there will be nothing to conceal after we
are married, dearest, Imay as well tell you that
1 smoke cigarettes, play poker, drink, and am
rarely home before 1 O'Clock in the morning"
81 glad to hear you say so. was afraid we
wouldn't be perfect companions Life.
Manager-We must put a greal deal of real
ism in this wood scene. Can you get some one
to growl SO as to resemble bear?
Assistant think so. There are six or seven
chorus girls who haven't received their wages
for ten weeks. I'll call them.-Norristown
Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Much of the literature in THE CALL this
morning deserves to be called classic.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
FROM THE LOWEST LEVEL, /"
A STORY OF MINING LIFE IN
CALIFORNIA.
BY THE Rev. j. H. WYTHE JR.

THE CALL has secured the right to pub.
lish this charming story in serial form, and
the first part appeared Saturday, Aug. II.
Readers of THE CALL declare the story to
be one of unusual interest The next in
stallment will be printed next Saturday.
Aug. IL. 1t is customary to publish such
contributions in the Sunday edition of The
CALL. but the author has conscientious
seruples against having any of his produce
tons published in the Sunday edition OF
any paper ana in Difference to his eonvic-
tons The CALL has agreed to print this
story In the Saturday issues only
The CALL devotes great deal of attention
to excellent articles on Western Themes by
Western men and Western women.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The missionary in China seems to need
a six-shooter as well as Bible and a gum
boat as well as a chapel.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The fair season viii open wide enough
this week to give everybody a show.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

If the Grand Jury will press the button
OF an indictment against the Solid Eight,
the people will do the rest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

There are as many ways of being happy
in California as there are seductive allure
ments in the glance of the sun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The most successful rose-growers here
about are the girls, and their prowess is
merely matter of cheek.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The forest fires in the Puget Sound coun-
try are warning to California to look out.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The Camp Roache experiment has justi-
fed itself and it will meet next summer as
an established institution.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

SUBSCRIBE for "The Delineator," that I'M
equaled fashion magazine 81 year. Septem-
Der number now ready. The Butterick Publish
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The proposed census every five years
would be crowding the limit. At the
present time it requires five years to take
the census.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

We must have winning exhibit at At
fanta.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11
UP-To-DATE JOKES.

"Oh, doctor, how do you do? You look kill
ing this evening" ''Thenk you, but I'm not;
I'm off duty, you w''-Brooklyn Life.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The only reformer nowadays who can
dare to face the modern sheer is he with
the commanding brains and character to
overWhelm it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The Miners Association seems to be
keeping an alert eye on the Southern Pa
cifc weaknesses which some of its men,
bers are in danger of betraying.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Customer-Why, this is a new shade of red.
Assistant-Yes, madam. That is the anarch-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

CLEANSE the vitiated blood whenever you find
| its impurities bursting through your skin in the
! form Of pimples, eruptions and sores. Hoods
| Sarsaparila is the best blood purifier
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Doctor-Put out your tongue. (Meanwhile
he writes out prescription.) There, that
will do
Patient-But, doctor, you did not even look
at my tongue.
Doctor-No, 1 only wanted you to keep quiet
while wrote the prescription.-Geillust
Stulversblad
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Every district has show.
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Cleveland will not be allowed to fish in
peace until he has named the man to fill
the vacancy on the Supreme bench, but he
may possibly catch few suckers in doing it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

BACON Printing Company, sos Clay street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Customer How did it come to get that
name?
Assistant-It won't wash-LouisYille Post.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Police Commissioner Grant of New York
is probably appalled, by the Tammany
ghost which his opposition to Roosevelt's
reform movement has raised.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

In his serio US illness Governor Budd has
the sympathy of the whole State and even
the otice-seekers will probably consent to
give him a rest.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Tripper-That love affair of Toms has ended
in smoke, Ell? Flipper-I guess so. He was
burning her letters last night.-Comic Weekly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Study the literary features of THE CALL
this morning and see what Western writers
can do to make Western paper for all the
world to read.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

1t has been several days since Hawaiian
'flibusters" were breathing sulphur and
birthstone hereabout, and this makes US
fear that enterprising journalism is losing
its grin.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Joseph H. Choate has been making the
people of Illinois unhappy by telling them
that while England with 100000 of
people maintains only thirty-two Judges
illinois makes her people support 17S.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The alterations which are being made in
the Safe Deposit building will serve as a hint
to the owners of all the old, and almost
abandoned but really well-built houses
between Montgomery street and the bay.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

RENTS collected. Ashton, AL Montgomery
GEO. W. MoNTE1TH, law offices, Croker bldg,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Bland of Missouri likes silver, but he
says he would not take the Democratic
Presidential nomination next year even if
it were offered him on silver platform
and a silver platter
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

There is a pleasure in contemplating critic
when we see him hoisted on the horns OF
another critic. A highly gratifying instance is
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

over the world the great regulator of the d.
gestive organs.
IF afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

The captain of the steamer Mexico has
made wholesome departure from dis
graceful practice by refusing to perform
the marriage ceremony for two clipping
minors from Los Angeles.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

ALMOND hard nougats, Townsend's.
E. b. BLACK, painter, 12o Eddy street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Henry Watterson's statement that who
ever says Cleveland is one of the greatest
statesmen of this country " is either fool
or craven tool Z" shows that the distin-
guished Kentuckian has had lucid in
1prval
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

1t would seem that the south side, of al
parts of the City, should have the least
reason for supporting the Southern Pacific
in its determination to hold possession of
its spur track franchise to the park.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Prisoner-I want to get out of here bad
is the way you came in. What we
want is for you to go out of here good.-Norris-
town Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

cit isn't what ye do,' remarked Clarence Fitz
Hautbeau, "that always counts in determining
3 mans prosperity" ''No,'' replied Reginald
lie Bumme, "it's who ye do more'n what We do
lat signifies "-Exehange.
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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

Now for the fairs.
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1t is said by the critics in their own defense
that they object to minor poets, popular songs.
lesser artists and all the homely common
things of life, because they wish to raise rs
through divine discomfort with such Meas
ures. to reach out after the higher art and
achieve true culture founded on the irnror.
tai classics. 1t is specious argument and
sounds like politician talking morality. It is
not always, however, from the greatest books
that we derive the greatest profit; not always
the greatest bards whose songs are most in har
mony with our moods and best fitted to lift us
to pure joys and serene thoughts. Sometimes
it is better to lie in the valley and look mn tn
the mountain than to climb the mountain and
look down at the valley. Not long ago went
TO the park for the express purpose of climbing
Strawberry Hill and gazing from that height
on all the glory Of park and City, hills and
valleys, the far-stretching ocean and the in
mite SKY On my way to the hill along the
ieVel ROAD saw vista opening through the
PARK 10 wide expanse of sand, beyond which
rose the hills on the other side of the bay
rms scene ct ordinary times may be of little
note, put at that hour of that day ii was as
gorgeous as dream of fairyland. The nearer
sands were white like silver but as they re-
ceoed they assumed yellow hue, and in the
distance were as masses of dull gold; while be-
hind them the hills swathed in mists were as
walls OF azure, draped in transparent fabrics
woven OF sunlight and cloud; the whole form
Ing such combination of color as would have
been even to q Titan at once an admiration
and despair. From the summit of the hill
saw picturesque view of earth. but no such
miracle beauty as was caught in that vista
from the path below.
There is pleasure in contemplating critic
when we see him hoisted on the horns OF
another critic. A highly gratifying instance is
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-11

Yesterdays issue of James H. Barry's
Star contained the following: Every
worker for the single tax in this City
should subscribe for THE CALL, the only
daily that gives the movement prominence
nits columns" In publishing informa-
ton. regarding the single tax movement
THE CALL is following the course that it
has laid out in regard to all public mat
tiers. Where earnest, thoughtful citizens
are joined together for the discussion of
topics relating to the affairs of life the SUBJ
iects are given respectful treatment in the
news columns OF the paper.
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The signs of reform are probably causing
the Solid Eight to indulge in an amused
speculation as to whether their future
emulators will be influenced more by
fear of the penitentiary than by loyalty to
the sack.
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