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The San Francisco call., 1906-07-20
WHY THE TOWN LAUGHS.

HIS scarcely realizes how closely 1t has got PACK 10
first principles all things held except
where they held by the hand An army OF tent
dweers nvades private property and squats The owner
comes along his land The squate will not bulge
initiating monarch Here
The town laughs At another time there would be food Of
angry protest appealing sacred rights of property but
there bond of common has taught ALL the strong
d the l the rich and Door that there something of higher
value property sympathy with suffering
The relief commissioners slough off responsibility Theirs IS
and Struggling commando their kingdom lacks definition;
their than to themselves They
by of two to that
savenger hybrid whose duties partly scientific and partly
political this question of the folk occupation OF the
places be settled by arithmea process dor
arriving truth It is matter in which commissioners noses
don't
Therefore the commissioners declare Not the
passer any trespasse this point do not
desire express opnionthey the individual campers
Sue them This genius Only month IN ONCE and they nave
already caught the official nicely Could dis
for doing nong Let there be no further
question that they their $500 per month per
vulgar and almost forgotten age before the fire. using
nconsdate praseoogy of the street should
declaration OF independence by the
passing the buck" In that dimly remembered period
had excable calling for troops to rpel
this invasion rights property. Now the laughs We
gone through period mans money good We
have learned lesson of charity that is greatest OF all
General Greedy, like elderly cuckoo, deposits his campers
in the place find without saying by your
- I'D y,+c acesses 81 the PTesdo have been flirting
boys khaki General Greely likes not
place caperon although rightly understood that among
important OF modern general since the
"
lovely Out you 60 the shall not enter in
garden and she the bayone propeng and the Govern
mule compelling
old graybeard young and firty yourself
We begin suspect these old fellows who know too much and
although you may be putting up fair imitation OF virtue
there shall be cakes and ale and shall be hot the mouth
in despite Of earthquakes bayonets whiskers.
the garden with General Geey flaming sword
gate the refugees camped the estate of the late James
Strange things have happened since his death to the pile
crapd together with much labor and pains but
strange that any part should be used for
charity BY grace of the United States
the strange bedfellows.
Ts opsyurvy world, good sir and madam There some
thing in although the Government
that pure leaf lard 1t time
frenzed editorial cry Whittier drng? Our
profitable principles given bad spran by the earthquake
nav by the method indicated in the ae
suggestion o. William F. Herrin:
~Wouldnt the winter rains help you out?'
Let put in the rigors of winter.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-20
n YLAND WALLACE lived at
R the Bohemian Club before the
FIRE. Mr.. Wallace Is the son of

n YLAND WALLACE lived at
II the Bohemian Club before the
FIRE. Mr. Wallace is the son of
former Chief Justice of Cali
fornia and is himself the author OF
large but neglected body of iuris-
prudence which should now be the
backbone of California law had not
the Legislature swallowed it all like
an oyster, whereupon the Supreme
Court held that this mass of learning
gobbled at one gulp was too much
for the legislative digestion. In a
word, Mr.. Wallace as code commits
sloncr bit off more than the Legis-
lature could chew.
So much by way of introduction.
On the morning of the FIRE, when
Mr. Wallace saw that the Bohemian
Club must share the fate of less dis
tinguished edifces, he gathered up
his belongings and packed them in
his trunk. Whether he packed his
trunk as we'll as his clothes one is
not informed, but at any rate the
spoil was removed to a place of
safety.
Now it happens that in the cor
ridor outside Mr.. Wailace's door lay
the remains of Rameses II, the cele-
brated mummy on which chiefly
rested the reputation of Jere Lynch
as an Egyptologer Whether this
was the authentic corpse of a real
Pharaoh or merely a highly respect
able imitation it is not necessary to
decide But whether it was the right
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-20
Gossip Of the Smart Set

Miss Ethel Hager returned yester-
day from an automobile trip through
Napa County. Miss Hager is staying
at present at her house on Cough
street, in town, and will probably not
return to San Rafael save for brief
visits, before her marriage TO Lansing
Kellogg, which is to be celebrated in
the near future.
Among the many summer dwellers
at Menlo are Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Breeze, who have been there since
early in the season.
Captain Louis Brechemin Jr., United
States army, and Mrs. Brechemin, who
have been on a riding trip through
Marin and Sonoma counties on their
honeymoon journey, are now on their
way home, their stay having been cut
short by Captain Brechemin re-
ceiving orders to go to American
Lake, WASH with the Twentieth In
fantry, United States army early in
August. Mrs. Brechemin will prob
ably accompany him, as the Tacoma
Country Club grounds have been
placed at the disposal of the officers
and their families. Tents are to be
erected amid the picturesque sur
roundings for the use of the families
who accompany the officers.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wright, who
have been staying al the country place
of Judge and Mrs. ]. M. Allen since
the fire, have returned to the city and
are at their home on Washington
street.
Il TIT NJ Il
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-20

the of his experience the Police Commission
~ Mayor Schmitz John A. Drnkhouse that an honest
is fool go into politics. Is this fragrant
"disloyaly the administration both? Mr. Drink
house adds that since his retirement he has been receiving
gaulations of the better element Ihey admire spun
Good Spunk valuable quality but pertinent
qe where and when this admirable spun manifested Until
that IS done it might seem that admiration premature
When Mr. Drinkhouse speaks OF honest man. presumably
he refers himself We have dispute the
assumption but it right point that the
ton make full disclosure of the dubious
istration relation police he dary hints
Until he fulfls that obligation be forgiven CHASING
spunk as punk.
The daily tell us that Abe Rue bought city block
south Of the park last week The greater rising
left
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-20

California glace fruits and choice can
dies Full stock. Townsend's residence
and factory, 1920 Valencia st. and the
Emporium, Post st. and Van Ness ave.
Order by phone, Special 37S.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-20

CHICAGO FIRE-A. o. s.. CITY. The
great fire in Chicago was during Octo-
per and 3, 1871. The flames laid
waste 2l24 square acres and destroyed
1880 buildings.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-20
Answers to Queries

NATIONAL DEBT-R. w. G.. CITY.
The debt of the United States when the
civil War broke out in 1861 was
$267,654,155.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-20


REGISTRATION-A Subscriber. CITY.
Those who desire to register in order
to vote in San Francisco must register
in the Girls High School at Dolores
and Eighteenth streets, or at the dis
trlct registration points announced in
The Call July 49,
PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS B. N,
Santa Cruz, City. This department does
not advertise any private business or
concerns. consequently cannot publish
In the Query Column the location of
family hotels, rooming houses or per-
sons engaged in the grocery business
BASQUE LANGUAGE d MIR
phys, Cal In the Basque provinces
tnere are several mutually unintel-
ligiDle dialects. Such cannot be cIassed
with any Aryan or Semitic tongues. but
nave points In common with MongoI.
American and African languages. AS
you do not state In what part Of the
provinces the letter you have received
was written, 1T is impossible to advise
you about the proper person to send
the letter to for translation. There is
no one In the query department who
can translate the dialects Of that coun-
try.
LEGION OF HONOR-Call Reader,
City. The cross OF the Legion of Honor
OF France, which it is expected will be
conferred upon Major Dreyfus as part
reparatfon for the injustice done him,
is an order Of merit Instituted under
the French republic in 1902 by Napo-
leon, the First Consul, as recompense
for military and civil services 1t was
ostensibly founded for the protection OF
republican principles and the laws sof
equality, and for the abolition of rank
in society, every social grade being
equally eligible; but It's real aim
doubtless. was, by popularizing the idea
of personal distinction, to pave the way
for the establishment OF the empire and
of more exclusive titles Of nobility that
were to accompany 1t. The proposal
for its institution was at first violently
opposed by the legislative body and the
tribunate, on democratic grounds, but
was carried eventually by a small ma
jority. The vast number of this order
and the insignificance of many of the
persons upon whom 1t has been con-
ferred have detracted much from its
value.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29
ROADS NND THEIR USEFULNESS

To the Editor: All civilized people
build roads All, save our own coun-
try. have some established system for
building and maintaining pubilc
roads. under the direction of skilled
and competent men. Here politics
alone rules supreme and political ta-
\oritiSm elect the officials.
Our people are enthused with throb-
bing life and vigor. doubling our
wealth and progress every decade by
rapid strides of triumph over nature
mind over matter: betting with steel
and lightning wires over our Whole
space with succession of the wonders
of human thought, vet utterly ignor-
ing the subject of permanent country
roads and their systematic care and
maintenance.
The total value of the products of
the farms last year was estimated at
six and one-half billion dollars. The
value of the cotton crop of the south
for the last five years was S4oc,ooo,-
OG0 every OOund of which for a
greater or less haul must be moved
over our impassable roads. Why. |
may ask, do those engaged in aSrl-
cultural pursuits quietly submit to this
imposition? Why not exercise the
ballot in Sc!f-defence3
Can the reader name q manufacture
CT. a contractors merchant me-
ThaniI' Il PROFESSIONAL 1ltll " l'
resides in town or city with welt
paved streets. who does not want GOOD
roads to reach his country custom
All these know and feel the necessity
Of good roads and are constantly ieel-
ing the expense and. depression OIL
trade for want OF them.
Within the past few years several
wavS and means have been expert
mented with in this state on the sub
iect of good. permanent roads With
cut any positively satisfactory results.
and until there be some unitOrm SES-
tenn adopted and made mandatory by
statute bad roads Will be the rule
North Carolina by adding gocd
roads to all her other attractions and
advantages will place in her crown its
most attractive blossom to those VINO
are seeking investment Of capital or
pleasure And what is SO applicable
TO the state is doubly SO to Wake
county lust so soon as its county road
! building is eliminated from politics
w. c. McMACkIN.
paIpiob y G
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29
RALEIGH. n. c.. Tt ESDAY. MAY % 1906.
Talks with Farmers
Prof. W. r Massey. Practical Farmcr1

cxhaustible that manure was a nuis-
ancc To be gotten rid of. and would
never be needed. why" said farm
cr in st. Charles Co. Mo. I'VE can
grow here - bushels Of wheat per
acre, while in the East the farmers
make 10 to - or less" And the boz
nanza farms in the Red River Valley
of the North went on growing wheat
only. as did also the farmers Of the
Grand Divide, ana last year. in Mis-
souri,, the farmers paid two million
dollars for commercial fertilizers. for
these ineXhaustible Western lands had
gotten down to ID bushels or less per
acre, while in the Wheat-groWing
counties of Northern ana Eastern
Maryland the farmers had gotten up
to 40 bushels Of wheat per acre The
difference was that the Maryland
farmers years ago realized that to
grow wheat at a profit they must farm
better, while the Western farmers con-
tinued to rob their soil with the no
ton that the deposit of fertility was
ineXhaustibIe. The result was that the
old lands advanced in productiVcnesS.
while the virgin soils of the West went
dOWnWardS. The Minnesota Station
has long ago shown to the Minnesota
farmers the Importance there of a crop
rotation and the abandonment of the
one-crop practice if the wheat lands
are to be restored to their former
production. The study Of the soil a>>l
its needs has engaged the attention of
the experts in the Illinois station, and
the depletion of the hill lands in that
State has shown the importance Of
good farming for their restoration.
While there is still q vast area Of
land in the Central West of virgin
fertility, the old notion of its totally
ineXhauStible character has been
abandoned. and all over the Mississippi
Valley farmers are studying improved
farming as they never did in the early
days. and phosphates, potash and lime
are being valued there fOr the pro
duction of legume crops. as they have
long been among the best farmers of
the East, and an era of good farming
is gradually setting in. so that some
/ time in the future the optimistic idea
of Secretary Wilson, that we have al
ready reached the time when there
will be no crop failures, may be
reached finally
Mr.. II. c. Van Pelt has been ap-
pointed Assistant Professor of Animal
HuSbandry and Superinlendent of the
Dairy at the Iowa Agricultural Col
lege. Mr. Van Pcit is q graduate of
the college. who worked his way to
graduation hv his own labor on the
farm, and has since made Il reputation
by hard work in various lines of
commercial live stock industry, and
finally as manager of the Jersey exhibit
at St. Louis. where he cleared up
prizes in abundance. His account of
the method of feeding at st. Louis has
been widely published.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29
ZONES FOL; SIMMONS. THOMAS.
h.o for Hon. o. IL. Guion for Judge
and Hon L. l. Moore for solicitor.

New Bern y. G.. May 6.-Ihe Dem
ocratic County Convention OF Jones
c0Intv was held at noon today at
Trenton. Delegates were appointed To
the state. Congressional, Judicial and
Senatorial Conventions.
The appointed delegates were IN
structed to cast their votes for Hon.
F. NJ Simmons for United states Sen
ate Hon. G.. r. Thomas for ION
Hon @. H. Guon for Judge ana hoh'
L. T. Moore for Solicitor. the S!dte
Senator and Corporation oolililil9S'ioli-
ers were left open.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29
AND BUTLER,
DRUMMER BOY AND FOX
Apprecatve and Biographical of Two Bravos Now Con
tending for Command of Pirate Craft.

e"h~rifo ty trick aaI feaaI 4rur
tn" jurisdiction ta UaSe tie Wak fof
me collection ~ tho mas II e1YruHs
hfednesS contracted bS tho IN
famous legislature on which his osta
success hsd been patte- ned Nh3I. h.
WAS .set holding his seat IA ia. son
ate aS PopUli~t 81. mad. uo bones
OF the fact that he had ouf-Ived his
usefulness to that principle af govern
mcnt. Constantly hc voted with th,
Republicans ana for every measure
which as a PopulisI he had denpuuccd.
mat vas 4 defail ~ tire Butter perIiI&.
II was expected that nr would cm.l-.,
from the Senate slick and prosperous
lie did not diSappoint tho popular .N-
pectation. He was interested IN ''liquiI
air. He became the receiver uf ihc
bubble he had induced others L. blow.
= poor boy from Sampson county
ne hats launched into great enterprise
II oil wells and gold mines Butler
must smile if his peculiar genius 1tfu
permit him the Indulgence If humour
IT what ne MAS wont to say about the
crime Of '13, OF his advocacy of tho
Sub-Treasury scheme. of his dcnuncia-
tion Of railroads and trusts Rutlcr
has arrived in sight of his ambition.
There is a corruption fund IL he OBJ
tanned. He is a settled Republican.
he wears his monopoliSm With an air.
his coat shakes prosperity as ne walks.
OF the needs which he felt in the early
ninetics when he became the cham
pion Of the people" only remains his
insatiate greed for more
Three times 4 traitor. 10 party. to
people, to all the people as the Statc.
Butler stands at last in the open salts
fed With the result-first choice 70.
leader,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29
r.. Spencer. Gladiator.

E. Spencer Blackburn is a different
type He is still little more than 4
very precOcious and very well do
veloped child Of unscrupulous ten
dcncy. There is franknese
about Blackburn which IL
not unattractiVe He has neither
Hhe n'ains, nor yet the power of
Butler. He knows very little about
making false tracks and his methods
are Of direct character Essentially
he is a poseur. but not without a
crude and uncultiVated strength In
his district he has been 4 dangerous
man. Where Butler sits back and
touches corruption with the tips Of
gloved fingers Blackburn goes down
among the boys Around him is the
odor Of a still house, insepara BILE from
his successes. AS the revenue part
nership With the business of Illicit dis
tillng has WaXed or Waned, SO has
Blackburn'S position been assured or
imperilled Blackburn is less dangerous;
simply because he is less accomplished.
His tools are of d crudcr sort than
Buffers and his imagination halts at
smaller stakes. Up to within the last
year, Blackburn has been content to
dream Of the patronage Of the Eighth
district and the control IF the crowd
that lived by cutting up the same
still three and four several times Il
year. Within that time the prosecution
Of the revenucrs. the adjustment of
Illicit distilleries run by steam in
Wilkes county and the glory Of having
been acquitted of crime by jury
CONTINUED on Page Five.)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29

... worst enemy to alfalfa is dod-
. yellow tWining parasite that
uu alfalfa and clover ana rapidly
.uEa them. The seeds are small and
... and most Of the alfalfa seeds
Ihc West are infested with dod-
The New York Station says that
.udder seeds can be removed by
n. tNo seed through Il sieve hav-
.1 mcshes to the inch. Careful
m.u viii sift the seeds, but farm
uould be on them guard against
mun seeds that may be on the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29

'|.r Of our Tennessee friends re-
..g wrote that he found that the
u.e about shallow cultivation is al
.,.g and that it will not do there in
.u. but good ploWing must be kept
with shovel pIOWs. The trouble
.ilh the treatment that the soil
bad. If he would get more humus
his clay soil by the use of COW
.- aud clover, making it more mel
. 9nd less liable to bake and get
.E me- would find shallow cultivation
right He has. as DIR. Thorne has
m sid, only the skeleton of a soil,
# il needs humus to put flesh and
. into it.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29

''u we We're young we were en-
.. IN railroad surveys from Min
." 10 Texas. The great Mime
.,. 'r1tory was just opening and
h"nanza wheat farms were being
''" IN Minnesota and what was
r... z" be the Dakotas on the Grand
~ Eastern Missouri. where we
+. H' mes of the North Missouri
rh. me settlers We're just turning
f...,.. -'H sod on the rolling prairies
"R"re, from Minnesota to the
+t, W" heard the same story that
western lands were entirely in
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29

n spite of the protests of the entire
|''.s "f the whole country, of the
'..ng" and other farmers organiza-
"''l' and of the SeedSmen of the COun-
~. whose business is interfered with
nn other legitimate business is in
'' iHod with and damaged in this
country by the government, the House
' representatives restored to the ag-
''N.tuT1l bill the iniQuitOus practice
| sending over the country little 10
''N' packages of common garden
.'d~. which the entire intelligent class
' farmers do not want There is no
I'j nor moral excuse for the prac-
.. |nd it IS simply a petty graft,
.i'rn, as one of its advocates in Con
'-+ declared was one in which they
"| h"d share. But the inherent
."whuGgcrN of the whole thing has
"'n ventilated before the country as
.'E"r before. and while even the Sen
"' may not rise to the point of check
~ ih" fraud. it is evident that the
"''"l sense Of the people has been
".'I@rd and that the free seed graft
..r' ijnaIly go the way of other CRAFTS.
rs not question as to whether the
'''r are good or bad: make them the
r' in the land which they are faE'
'" being, yet the principle of the
.'.''Ft use of the public money re-
.+'@. and the seed distribution is the
iNIpn of the money of the whole
-" tor the imaginary benefit of q
i1dNldualS, and the electiOneerinG
"'w"S of congressman who are seek
..- votes
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29

y circular from Prof A. Nj. Soule,
"tr.rtor of the Virginia Experiment
~'HjoU. states that the third annual
"."riUS of the Virginia state Farmers
Institute will be held at the Casino i'll
t"HuukC. on July 10. II and u mex.
" is expected that the railroads will
mt rate Of one fare and Il third.
Assurances have been given that q
Hr~jHl train will be available to carry
i"r delegates to the Experiment Sta
."H ht BlaCkSbJrG. where they VIII
'.'N" am opportunity to examine the
work going on there, free of cost. Any
NWoI in the State is eligible to MEM
"I+hip on paying 81 a year The edi-
'"r of The Practical Farmer has been
'"NH"d to deliver Il lecture there on
'H. Improvement of Soils and the
N+'ntouance of Fertility" and we Will
' glad to meet there as many of our
&luia readers as can be present. II
at them come, there will be great
crowd in Roanoke.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29

m recent number of the Ohio
banner. Or. ThOrne, Director of the
rtUfu Experiment Station, sums up the
consideration of the value of humuS
r tGo soil thus: "The humuS Of the
-u. is. therefore, the great storage bat
uUH Of its elements Of fertility min
,al aS we'll as nitrogenouS. 1t is in
This store, chiefly or altogether that
oUr crops find their sustenance. When
This Store is exhausted they starve and
m proportion as it is reduced they
suffer hunger. : = Sand and clay
srr but the skeleton or the soil; humus
rs Us life And just to the extent
that n farmer is Il legume farmer will
hr 'ta able to keep this life in his
-uIi
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29
Throws Over she ..Pops -

These conditions couid not last and
Butler knew It. Already he was paw
lng the way. While Yet a Senator he
eonSpired with Butler to prevent the
compromise Of the South Dakota bonds
issued hy the State IL the time Of re-
construction III order that he might
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-05-29

We have for years been trying to
impress on the minds of the farmers
hat for amy ordinary grain farming
There should never be any need for the
purchase of nitrogen in any form if
inu farmer farms right and uses n
SHORT rotation in which legumeS come
m frequently to get him the nitrogen
uom The air and to increase the humuS
content in his soill The wheat farmers
f Eastern Maryland have long since
@ned this, and few of them now buy
"npIete fertilizers. 1T was recently
stated by a fertilizer manufactures of
Fillmore that over so per cent. of
the fertilizers sold in that headquar
"rs .lf the fertilizer trade consist only
81. phosphOriC acid and potash with
ont nitrogen. If the farmers in all
PARTS of the country could but realize
Ibis fact and use lcgumes, aided by
'Hr mineral fertilizers for their in
0roa.cd production, there would be an
Wn"USe saving in expense and the
ogUmcs would make the sale crops
H 70 smaller cost and enable them to
f""H more stock and at the same time
feed their soil.