The San Francisco call., 1906-12-28

Warm sunshine after rain always
causes the grass and other forms OF
vegetation TO grow and dormant seeds
10 sprout. Yesterdays CLEAN of sun
shine. after several days Of rain and
storm. had pretty much the same erect
on The Calls gold prize contest as on
the vegetable kingdom hereabouts. 1t
revived the dropping scores of some of
the contestants and caused new ones
10 bud and put forth their first
leaves. Great oaks from little acorns
grow. and it is altogether probable
that some Of the small acorns planted
bv contestants for the gold prizes
will bear golden fruit in very short
time.
The fine growing weather of the
next few weeks viii not only bring
riches to the farmers of California,
but to all popular and energetic con-
testants for tne gold coin The Call
will give away. The gold crop must
be cultivated and harvested, though,
the same as any other crop, and the
contestants who permit the grass to
grow under their heels and moss
upon their backs are not very likely
to harvest very much gold when the
sold prize crop is ripe.
Yesterday was the livehest day yet
in the contest, the number Of sub
scriptions cashed in by various con-
testants and the number of votes re-
corded being almost equal to the vol
un1e of business transacted in any
previous two days Of the contest. If
the weather remains good during the
next two weeks there is every rea-
son to believe that there will be the
liveliest kind of a contest for the
$4,000 in gold coi-- that viii be award
ed to the twenty-five leading con-
ar the nd ~ first
test period. which will close on
Saturday night. January u. But it is
not the fair weather workers alone
that will win the largest purses The
big money is most likely to go to
those who keep pegging away in sun
shine and in rain. for the time is
short and nobody yet has a cinch on
the big prizes, the largest of which for
the first series is $500. and the small
est Of the twenty-five to be awarded
$50.
RACE FOR THE $500.
Sacred Heart College and Mrs.
Mary c. Deasy are still in a class by
themselves for first honors and the
$500 prize to be awarded to the win
ner of the first heat of the race
Brother Lewis, president of Sacred
campaign being made to win the big
money for the replenishment of the
college library has many lieutenants
TO help him in the contest work, as
every student is expected to do his
best TO help the college to get the
money for the library. Both present
and past students Of Sacred Heart
tuition, and all are bent on seeing
their alma mater win the money for
the library fund.
MRS. DEASY UNDISMAYED
Mrs. Deasy Of Napa realizes that she
has powerful aggregation to COM
pete with, but she is not dismayed.
1t makes no difference whether there
are dozens or one to work against"
says the pluclxy young woman. Il
have vowed TO make a name for myself
and I am going to do it. There is
nothing that viii hold me back.
have had a great many misfortunes
but have always pulled through and
come out clear. When I started in the
contest ] did not know how many
friends I really had. I find people
much more willing to help me than 1
had anticipated. / never ask any of
my friends for a subscription but
they give il TO me. Even though they
can give me but a small one they
neLor hesitate to help me. The Napa
Valley is a small valley, but the in
] cannot depend alone on nv home
town to pull me through, but 1 am
getting help from up the valley and
Vallejo, San Francisco and other
places"
A naval officer formerly stationed at
Vallejo has sent Mrs. Deasy a sub
scription all the way from Bremerton
Navy Yard, on Puget Sound, and prom
ised TO get her more help from the
same quarter. She has received invi-
tations to visit San Jose, Stockton and
Los Angeles, friends in all those places
Offering to assist her if she will can
rass for votes there. Mrs. Deasy is. in
fact, receiving help from one end of
The Pacific Coast to the other, and a
number of copies of The Call paid for
in her favor are going clear across the
continent
The newspapers in the Napa Valley
are also espousing her cause, the fol-
lowing item from the Weekly Calls
togian, under the caption, "A Popular
Lady" being a sample of what they
say of her:
Mrs Mary c. Deasy Of Napa, form
merly Mary Bohringer Of Calistoga. is
one OF the leading contestants for the
gold prizes offered by the San Fran
cisco Call She occupied first place for