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The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

s9,25e-Set of new, well built fats in Santa
Fe tract, bringing an income of about
81 $50 year; situated on the sunny
side of Dover ST.; this is good piece Of
income property and cannot afford to be
overlooked.
s14, ,o0o-Set of fats on 11th ST.. within s
minutes walk of the business section Of
Bringing an ur income an Of 81 s9So e9o repaar gear
Call on us In regard to this excellent IN
vestment
s21 ,5oo-A pair Of fats on 10Th st., within 9
minutes walk of the business section Of
town; this property Is bringing good IN
come and also the market value is ad-
vancfng rapidly; be bought for part
cash, balance to be mortgage.
$65, ,000-An excellent piece of business property
on 18th St close to Clay St; size OF lot
4s:11x1oo; this property at present brings
income of $1,000 year; a site for
business block this is an excellent
location.
FRANK E MOTT CO..
Successors to
BREED & BANCROFT,
1860 Broadway, Oakland.
ADAMS POINT
'.HIGHLAND SUBDIVISIONS"
We still have few choice lots left; come
and see US before they are all gone.
]. n. MACDONALD & CO..
1852 Broadway.
So, ,000-Story and half room cottage on 5eth
st. near San Pablo av.; strictly modern
So, 950-An attractive, modern cottage. situated
on Hamilton place; well built, with all
modern conveniences; on high ground; has
good frontage; can be bought on terms
ments.
$5, ,250-Two story 10 room house ON Market vt. :.
well built and in first class repair; within
blocks OF Key Route station; lot 561s
FRANK K. MOTT CO..
Successors to
BREED & BANCROFT
1000 Broadway, Oakland.
BEAUTIFUL home on Summit ST., In the
center of Oakland; on high ground: stories !.
Z large rooms; dining room and living room
have paneled walls and beamed ceiling; this
for Speculation; price cut from Sc 500 10
$3.50 for quick sale
FRANK K. MOTT CO.,
Successors to
BREED & BANCROFT ,
1000 Broadway, Oakland.
FOR sale-Sfodern room house; well buIlt.
hne Garden; block from Fruftvale av car
line. 3Q12 Saunders 1t
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

BUY QUICKi
LOTS IN BAY TREE TRACT, FRONTING
ON OAKLAND AND HAYWARD BOUIE-
WARD. FOR SALE REASONABLE AND ON
EASY TERMS.
J. d. ARMSTRONG,
STREET,
HAYWARD.
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BARGAIN.
5 room new. beautifully finished cottage; lot 5Ox
10; within 1 block Of new Liese av. ear line.
If you are looking for pretty home with
every convenience let me show you this.
Price 81. $50.
A. d. POWERS.
S104 Putnam ST., Fruitvale station.
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OAKLAND REAL ESTATE


OAKLAND REAL ESTATE
OAKLAND REALTY AND INVESTMENT CO..
Real Estate, Loans. Ranches and Investments,
Farms. Renting and Insurance.
91S Broadway, Oakland
Two of the best factory, warehouse sites in
Oakland; all the railroads have made appli-
cation for franchises to come into this neigh
borhood and the Santa Fe has bought the sd-
joining block for their passenger depot;
spur track at your doors; note the size, 200x
$50, facing streets; the other, 152x3S0 and
252 on streets. For full particulars see
OAKLAND REALTY AND INVESTMENT CO.,
Real Estate, Loans, Ranches and Investments,
Farms, Renting and Insurance
s1s BROADWAY, OAKLAND.
W. J. HEATING, Manager.
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UNFINISHED.

FoR RENT
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Castro st. near A, Hayward. Cal. Phone Blk "a
HAYWARD PR1PERTY.
So, 250-6 acres, 2 IN fruit room house, with
bath and pantry; barn. chicken and pigeon
house; farming Implements; water piped
everywhere.
81, ,5o0-12 acres, with 5 room house: barn.
chicken house: 10 acres in apriccts, al
monds and prunes; horse. wagon and farm
ing implements
So. 000-Fine home in town; house of rooms on
/ set out In fruit nuts and berries.
81. o00-Houss of rooms; lot 50x150; near R. R.
station.
$3, 75o-11a acres; room house: barn. chicken
houses set out In fruit: close to R. R
station.
$4.000-3% acres; room house, barn. chicken
houses, brooder house, mill and tank; set
out in fruit trees; horse, / wagon. farm
ing implements; chickens, ducks and furni-
ture
Sc, ,000-1S1a acres, 9 in fruit and vines; good
room house, barn, mill and tank. Call on
or write.
WILBERT BEAM.
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FOR EXCHANGE

A fine room home in San Francisco, situated
in desirable residence section. We want
which is offered below the market value. What
have you to offer and what is it worth? Com
municate with US at once.
BERKELEY's BEST AND SAFEST INVEST
$1s.5oo cash will handle the finest investment
proposition in Berkeley today. The party is
obliged to sell to meet pressing debts. The
property is on Shattuck av. near Berkeley's main
cross St, University av. 1t is safe, first. be-
it is near University av. Any property on either
OF these two streets can't decrease In value un-
less the bottom falls out of Berkeley and II
the bottom falls out Of Berkeley the bottom will
fall out Of Alameda county. Such a thought is
an absurdity. Call on us for further particulars
as this is the opportunity for the man with
$ls.50o cash. REMEMBER, THE PROPERTY
IS FAR BELOW MARKET VALUE AND MUST
BE SOLD AT ONCE.
FERRIER-BRocK COMPANY. INC,
2i21 sHATTUcK Av.,
"AT KEY ROUTE TERMINUS
BERKELEY. CAL.
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HAYWARD REAL ESTATE
RAMAGB & STANTON,
HAYWARD
Just few more acre lots for sale In
STANTON TRACT No. q
Terms $50 down, balance easy monthly payments
NO INTERESTING TAXES.
We also have few splendid bargains In
small improved places. Send for our list
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

HELP build apartment house in Berkeley.
they are turning away people and paying -
per cent; you pay nothing until construction
begins; any amount over 500 Considered.
Look into this. Box SOC, Berkeley.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

LAYMANCE REAL ESTATE CO.,
460-462 sth ST., Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

RENT for June and July newly furnished
house OF rooms; rent $65 per month: owner
will retain room and rent for $685. responsi-
bic parties only.
GEORGE SCHMIDT REALTY CO.
227S Shattuck av.. Berkeley.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02

Here is q completely furnished room house
in a good district, near station, for $50 per
month.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-02
YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A HOME

for the summer months and probably longer.
you are looking for a home to buy and have
place TO call your own, and
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paid her check and turned to go. then she
saw the two directly in her path-the FASH
ionable woman she had learned to dread
and the child brave in its flnery OF silken
coat and noddng plumes. =,
For one wild moment she considered q
second flight, but something, perhaps q
guilty consciousness that ahe~had after all
but poorly repaid and acknowledged the
disinterested kindness Of the lady who stood
before her, prompted her to wait and STAN
mer in apology:
II coodent do no different. Look at me.
mann. and look at her. Why, Of course,
1t Good never be!''
For answer Mrs. Seymour-Loftis reached
down and united the child's gay bonnet
strings; she loosened the fastenings of the
pretty wrap, and all in moment the child
stood stripped of her fnery, like modern
Cinderella.
Mrs. Mcintyre stared at the forlorn little
creature and then sudden light of under
standing shone in her eyes
The other woman spoke with feeling.
Mrs. Mcintyre she said, II am very
foolish woman, and l see 1 have made a
great mistake When | bought the child
you and make her more attractive in your
eyes. l know now l had no right to do for
her and spoil your pleasure and your plans.
But I've brought her to you again this
morning-the real baby as she really is.
Here's the money that you sent me and
you can start quite fresh; so all she has in
this world she will owe only to you. I am
sorry l have been so clumsy, but, believe
me, l did not know"
Then Mrs. Bill Mcintyre of GAINESVILLE
reached over and patted Mrs. Seymour
Lofts soothingly upon the shoulder as that
lady wiped her eyes. There was no famil-
iarity in the action, only sweet and full
understanding.
There now, neighbor, don't you cry" she
said simply; I'VE, both of us, have made
mistakes"
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doors, warm gloves and ALL and 1t is I'M
derstood that no heat will be turned on
Watch the youngster that it does not get
chilled, the same precaution that you
would take II you had 1t out OF doors, and
If you can let 1t play every day and all
day in the sun. with the window open
even when the sun is hidden, you will have
baby 90 per cent stronger than it was.
1t must never be forgotten that the door
must be kept closed so that there shall be
no draught
A robust, hardy childhood. secured by
plenty of outdoor life. even in cold weather,
simple nourishing food at regular hours,
without meat cake. pastry or sweets;
clothing that permits of perfect freedom
in the making of mud pies and other child
ish delights are essential to health.
A certain amount of sweets are needed
by a child. but 1t is not necessary to say
this to American mothers. Almost with
out exception they give too many. A
couple of pieces of barley sugar, a lump
of white sugar. a little honey or some
other simple thing after each meal is ex-
cellent. But the sweet list should be short
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THE MISTAKE OF
MRS. SEYMOUR-LOFTIS
BY LORRAINE CATLIN BROWER.
un

house. Then that lady, with a quiZzcal lit
tie smile, dropped the money In her purse
and telephoned the bureau to send the little
girl to her home at once.
The baby appeared in a Bingham apron,
stout shoes and a plain straw hat. Her
hair, which was scarcely long enough to
braid, was caught in two tiny little platts
on either side of well-Shaped head with
some red tape for ribbons to tie 1t at the
ends. Her cheeks were rosy and her hands
were dimpled and Mrs. Seymour-Loftis
eyed her with pleasant interest and under
took the mission of making her reel SCOT
ible' at once. Since Ko-ko died his mis-
tress had never been so pleasantly en-
ployed she shopped indefatgably and
added many dollars to Mrs. Mclntyre's five
Although she planned to leave for Europe
the evening of the day on which her James,
vile guest was to depart, she left her own
preparations entirely to the servants, while
she herself selected hair ribbons and TOOK
the child to try on shoes.
The eventful day arrived and with IT MIS-
Mcintyre, carrying a bunch of dahllas IN
her hand for Identification. She had IN
tended them, also, as an offering OF ap-
probation for her hostess, but when Mrs
Seymour-Lofts bore down upon her at the
station by aid of that gold lorgnette the
lady from GAINESVILLE only stammered
timid greeting and furtively tucked her
flowers out of sight as she was whirled
away in the smart brougham behind Two
handsome horses. She was further embar-
raised when, on alighting beneath the smell
tering porte-cochere of the Michigan ave-
nue. mansion, pompous butler grabbed her
shabby little grip and carried 1T upstairs
for her announcing dinner for Z o'clock.
She wondered how she would ever find her
way down to the dining room through the
maze of dim corridors and halls
But Mrs. Seymour-Loftis relieved her OF
such difficulty. While her guest stood gin
gerly wipng the dust and CRIME of travel
from her face with monogramed towel
there was a tap at the door and the hostess
delightedly led in the little child.
Mrs. Mcintyre almost gasped.
She certainly beheld that for which she
had written so specifcally-a girl two years
old and pretty, but the dainty little fairy
who danced In on two pink legs threw a
frozen terror .on her soul.
Mrs. Seymour-Loftis broke the embarrass-
ing silence. .
This Is your mamma, dearie, she said
primly Run and give her a kiss
But the child, catching perhaps the lack
of invitation in her prospective parent S
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The Girl Who Isn't Engaged.

Don't be aggressive about it and insist
that you never yet met a man you would
dream of marrying Even If this is true,
your vigorous assertion will leave the OPP
posite impression on the minds of your
hearers
Don't on the other hand. magnify some
childish sweethearting into an early aft
fair" which holds you true to its memory.
And don't, above all things. invent a sus-
piciously ideal lover who has gone abroad.
Don't belittle your present male sc-
quaintances by building day dreams with
a Decentralization of all the virtues as hero
Don't drop vague hints about a secret
engagement which time alone will divulge.
Don't pretend that you think married life
a bore; no one will believe YOU says Wom-
ans Life.
Don't pretend you don't believe in love:
no one viii believe this. either
Don't remark that since many maria ges
are unhappy, you don't care to risk such a
step. Such reasons are worse than none.
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NOISE.
Lessons Human Efficiency and Short
ems Span of Life.

From the New York Tribune.
The siIencing of the steam whistles
along the river front is a vindication Of
the public's right to its nerves. Some
British scientists are trying in a learned
way to standa rdize noise-to contrive
some delicate instrument which will tell
us when there is an unreasonable degree
Of clangor in our sonorous cities, as the
thermometer tells us when there is ex-
cessive heat and danger of summer pros
trations. Why not make the man with
nerves the standard? He is a delicate in
strument and may be depended upon TO
detect the slightest painful excess. He
gains a right to public respect through
the decision of the authorities that the
man who can sleep with a steam siren
exploding within hundred yards of his
bed chamber Is not our standard man.
The man with nerves is no longer joke;
he is stern reality.
How contemptuously must the hearty
sailormen who go Down to the sea in
their egotistical craft with the dimen.
sionS of q rowb boat and the voice of q
battleship regard the landsman with his
nerves! They can sleep within inches of
the prodigiouS din of their whistles; the
landsman must be a degenerate and
weakling to have his distant slumbers
disturbed by the same noise. This COM
mon attitude makes noise The most ire
preSsible of modern nusances. Every
body feels that his own noise is a slight
thing against which only a crank should
protest. Noise seems to be regarded as
an inalienable right the abridgment of
which in the interests of society is a
revolutionary procedure In thousand
forms it assails humanity and except for
this stopping of the steam whistles little
has ever been done to relieve throbbing
ears. Physicians assert that at night it
keeps us on the troubled borderland Of
sleep barring us from entering into the
undisturbed rest where nature repairs
the damage of the day. They warn US
that the sick die from it; that human
efficiency is lessened by It, that it short
ems our days; that the bacilli which haunt
the air are not worse enemies than the
sound waves that culver in the air and
beat in upon our brains. There are be-
nign bacflli but there are no benign
noises. Perhaps when the scientists have
invented an instrument which will tell
us just what degree of noise humanity
can endure unframed and what degree a
city like New York is suffering from
we shall go to work wisely and sys-
tematically to suppress unnecessary and
noXious clatter.
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Mrs. Mcintyre greeted the suggestion with
such evident panied surprise that her host
ess had YEARLY shaken her head; but now
when this maid later on had attended the
lady from GAINESVILLE to her room and had
left her unaccustomed and embarrassed to
the solitary possession of the satin-caponied
bed the poor woman felt that perhaps,
after all, the chld's presence might not
have been so intolerable as this great 81
lence which she was left to suffer, in state,
alone.
1t more fearfully when she remembered the
ordeal of breakfast to come-the butler
again with his terrifying administration of
different plates, the baby in fresh finery
and the hostess in another bewildering dis
play of perfumed silks and laces-no! She
could mott
The dawn found her firm in mighty re-
solve. She dressed hurriedly and the dainty
little escritoire, which stood in the light of
the lace-draped baywindow, yielded pencil
and paper to her feverish investigation. She
wrote this note and pinned 1t to the cush-
ion on the dressing table:
Dear friend: l am leaving on the first
train for home. l coodent take this Child
nohow. Bill and me are just plane people
which l was ashame to say and the baby is
q prinsess coodent do nothin for her We
live most to our kichin, and amt got no fine
things We can't ask SO grand babby to
eat and sleep with folks like us it amt fifteen.
L am sorry so forgive me all.
With guilty caution the woman, carrying
her little grip, then slipped through the
halls No one was stirring. She wondered
wildly how she might manage to unbar
strange door in that heavy silence without
alarming the sleeping household; but her
unwilling host had conferred unconsciously
upon his guest a most appreciated and I'M
looked-for favor. His own night run had
put him In a state of most careless indiffer-
ence to locks and bolts, and entering his
home in the early morning hours, he had
left the entrance door aJari
Mrs. Mcintyre breathed fervent thanks
to heaven the blessed rush of cold out
door air enveloped her feverish body and
stimulated her in the long walk to the sta
ton, which she finally reached, exhausted
but relieved, through the kind direction of
the early milkmen whom she met upon their
routes.
In the meantime the maid, in making her
round of morning calls at the bed rooms
received no answer from the guests room
to her persistent knock, and entering. she
found the room empty and the note of eX-
PLANTATION on the cushion.
She read the nervous scrawl and shifted,
then she took it to her friend, the parlor
maid and they both shifted In unison
They decided that their mistress now in all
probability would keep the child herself,
and they both agreed to give prompt notice
IL she did Having thus settled this weighty
consideration in the new turn of affairs, the
girl then carried the note to her mistress,
whom she found dressing lazily in her
pink boudoir.
Mrs. seymour-Loftis read the contents
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were surprise and reproach in his bearing
as he carried them away and then rendered
her two others in their places.
Mrs Mcintyre recognized with an in
creased respect that all this magnificence
was only everyday detail with her hostess,
who easily and Familiarity Unanswered
through her meal. Even the baby seemed
to be entirely at home and noisily pounded
her silver plate and spoon together with ir-
reverent unconcern. Mrs. Mcintyre felt
herself the only discordant element. How
she longed for the sheltering comfort of her
own little home, where she and Bill ate to-
gether over q bright red cloth, untrammeled
by the presence of a servant and needing
only a single fork apiece
But at last 1t all ended and the ladies
left the dining room, one almost as hungry
as when she entered
Later on it developed that Mr.. Seymour
Lofts, though lacking Mr.. Mc1ntyre's ex-
cuse of running on the road, was also a
gentleman given to being out over night
and he did not appear through the long
hours which followed. while his worthy
wife YEARLY brought forth albums of Euro
pean views in a vain endeavor to amuse
her guest till bedtime
will the baby sleep with it's ma to-
night?" the maid asked when she came to
bear the child away after dinner, but poor
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Lines of Automobile Buses in Paris
From the Scientific American.

The first of the autombile omnibus lines
commenced running in Paris not long ago.
Experiments had been made for a long time
past and the public became accustomed to
seeing the omnibuses pass along the streets,
but the system was not put in actual opera
ton until the first week in June when the
line known as the Montmartre-St. German
des Pres was started and the eleven auto
mobiles were used to replace eighteen of
the old form of omnibuses requiring 1874
horses in all. The time which is needed
to make the trip across town, which was
about forty-five minutes, is now reduced to
twenty-five minutes.
The Omnibus Company of Paris~has now
ordered as many as ninety new cars, which
are to be used upon six lines in the city
to replace the horse vehicles. These lines
will be put In service from month to month.
SO that they will all be in operation at the
end of this year. 1t Is proposed to start
up soon the second line, running from the
city hall to the Neuilly gate. All the cars
are built after the general lines of the
company's standard double-decked omni-
bus.
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eyes, held back, and when Mrs. Seymour
Lofts would have projected her bodily into
the other woman's arms the little girl chung
tightly with her tiny manicured hands to
the skirts of her companion and walled lus-
tily, whereat maid came in hurriedly with
some pretty toys and aided her mistress in
hushng the child.
Mrs. Mcintyre, now thoroughly wretched
and i'll at ease, would gladly have mingled
her tears with the baby's; and while the
others were earnestly engaged with the new
playthngs she stood aloof, trying to mas
ter her own feelings.
Soon the little girl, urged by the other
women brought her a handsome doll to
kiss, and affairs were beginning to assume
a more friendly attitude when the ponder
Gus butler announced dinner.
The meal proved one long agony for Mrs.
Mcintyre Her first cursory glance at the
table assured her that. at least, she was to
be spared the company of her host Covers
were laid for only two with a babys high
chair between her and her hostess, the lat
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twice then looked up suddenly and caught
the sneer on her servants face.
Leave the room," she said sharply, and
the maid obeyed. wonderingly conscious
that the voice of her self-contained mistress
was choked with some emotion other than
a sudden wrath.
The butler very shortly brought her an
order below stairs to give the child its
breakfast and dress 1t without delay In the
same clothes which IT had worn from the
asylum The mistress wished these details
exactly carried out, even to the under
clothes and the braiding of the hair. Also
the entire force of servants that curiously
enough, by this time had account of the
whole story of the night guest and her
flight. He said their mistress was now at
hasty BREAKFAST and the carriage had been
ordered, but for what destination he knew
not. 1t seemed to him she might take
things more peaceable and not be in such
a foolish hurry to pack the child back
where 1t came from, at once.
When the maid appeared with the forlorn-
ly dressed baby before Mrs. Seymour
Lofts she carried the child's new handsome
coat and bonnet upon one arm.
beg pardon, ma am, but the morning Is
cold,' she said, alphabetically. THE child
came without wrap and her old straw
hats been thrown away and can't be found.
Would these things do for her to wear
out?"
Her mistress smiled curiously
Put them on her; we are going at once.
I shall not need you with me-" was all she
said.
carefully consulted time table had re-
vealed the fact that she had full hour be-
fore that first train left for GAINESVILLE. Ar
irving at the station, she led the child into
the large and almost empty waiting room
and she easily sighted Mrs. Mcintyre at
once That unsuspecting lady. her back
turned to the door, was seated on a high
stool beside the refreshment counter, busily
fortifying her shattered nerves with a slim
ulating cup Of coffee.
Mrs. Seymour-Loftis drew near, and with
the child upon her knees, sat waiting.
Mrs. Mcintyre finished her repast. She
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mother. who guessed its clothes were none
too good? So she sent So In her letter that
Mrs Seymour-Loftis might fix the little
one up at once reel sootible for travel"
She set the date for her arrival and was
"obligged very TRULY" until then.
Mrs Seymour-Loftis graciously respond
ed and invited Mrs. Mcintyre to visit her
I'm town. She herself would meet the train
from GAINESVILLE. and her guest would find
the child all ready and waiting at her