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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
CONCORDIA CLUB TO
HAVE FINE HOME
Construction Work on Former
Van Ness Avenue Site Will
Begin Soon

BIDS have been invited and construc-
ton work viii begin soon on the beau
Jiful new home OF the C0ncordis club.
one Of Szn F'rancisco-s prominent So
ciaI organizations. at the southeast
corner Of Van Ness and Cedar avenues,
between Hayes and Grove streets The
edIfce, Z plan OF which, as il Viii ap-
pear when completed. Is herewith
shown. viii be an ornate structure OF
brick. faced with cement, three stories
n height II viii occupy q half ot
the s0xI09 foot lot on whcfh the clubs
building was located before the great
IRE Of 1895. The new edifce will have
steel frame and VIII cost about
ss590o Its equipment will be thor
0ughly modern and Up 70 date in every
particular
The first floor win be devoted 10 the
dining room. the kitchen and its ac-
cessories. and the billiard hall On
the second hoor viii be the pariors.
the bridge room bar and Bier Stube."
The third aoor viii be mainly devoted
70 q large assembly hail. with . NOV
able stage. so that the room may
likewise be used for bsnquetlng pur-
poses A portion OF the third floor
viii be given up 10 a few sleeping
rooms and baths The basement viii
De entirely given over TO service and
servants quarters
LansbuFEh x Joseph are the archi-
tects and expect 10 have the new
building ready for occupancy toward
the end OF the year The return OF
the Couco-dis club 10 Van Ness avenue
VIII undoubtedly exert an influence
upon the future destiny OF that broad
thoroughfare. and viii be a subStzn-
tfaI step in the direction OF the perma-
rent rehabilitation OF that section Of
The burned district
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
GRAND OLD OAKS
AMID HOME SITES
Famous indian Burial Ground of
Berkeley Laid Out for
Residences

hEh-hELEE Aprl 30--The india n
a-risl ground. Berkeley's famous old
U-sg grauud. which has been the scene
II many deughtfzI froIics during the
last - years Is noE being offered for
ssle. rs high class residence park
The h-m ~ elI-Hendricks. Inc
las been busily AZ work for the las
-aree months laying out a series OF
ending avenues and automobile roads
rarough the grand old oaks and beet
li1g c-ags thar have so long made
l1s spot famous
Tie Mothers club q Berkeley made
Ere7r cutlery when il learned that
rre old picnic ground watch they lad
sazElt rheir children 70 regard as
tneir cwl was q be subdivided ana
t1reter lost 20 rle city OF Berkeley -
= = public Institution Many OF the
members have become recouc5Ied- how
q. oyer after driving around the street.
.1Qere1 BIZ IL p Thompson Of VAST
ingto1. the famous landscape engi-
1esr
Ngre has been written about this
..ol5 tInd-sl burial ground shan anF
crler district FRI Atauefa county. Dur
1g the ups e. made by Berkeley-s
eat-E citizens for the purchase OF
me BURIAL ground Cor park purposes
.al .-le vel known authorities and
Prominent officials of Berkeley went
on record m r-e daily prints deeisr-
~ tre- .r vas the most beautfful
rste ot ground anywhere II the
reslror1ood ~ Be-keEeT
rhfs natural garden spot has non
.-eE added -le additional attraction
EN- Pac1c electric lines are nov
r.'f'rrE --r-rr r-ffF r-Frns- p
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
REAL MAPLE SUGAR Is
PASSING FROM MARKET
Comparatively Few Orchards
Now Left IN Country

People ID rhis latitude are nov
closely upon the sunny days and frosty
rights E1tcl Characterize maple sugar
H-=aSher- and which cause activity n
-e sugar bush But there viii ~
ID practical appreciation N this local
5-r OF the movement OF maple sap un-
der rhe inspiration of returning spring
because -here are now comparatively
'few sugar naples where they were
cf.ce numerous. and these are 50
Eu-e5 t1s- tLey can not be econ0nl-
sally tapped for the sugar process
.[o1Litious are more favorable IN
Vermont and other eastern states
where maple sugar making has
amounted 70 an iudusrry btst even II
these localities where the sugar maple
has persisted simply because Il has
e,.Sen spared a change is toreshsdowed
r.sr hints At the time when The chem
Yer, VIII - the handspring Of the maple
:. :-7fz posro1 Trsnsc-fpt refers TO this
-: ..-riou W-Ll the remark thaL spec1-
elsr.rU as 20 rIe tine W1sn resE rna Z z
E.E VIII be negligible quantity
sfEouE the national staples must give
rs tause The price Of maple lumber
3 Is -6Lsrsnced the price OF maple sugar
j. an ascending scale OF value with
...s result that the sugar Ousa A@s
Retrieved As tie Transcript says ?
EooT sugar orchard must De the result
hr = half century OF growth ana 2
Ion ger time srill further improves at y
re r-ees remain healthy
.rv II were not for the skin aud de-
.ra-.rcr of the ma kers and FenQers o.
---sr1rs sugar there would not be enough
~G- 20 around even al the present Iiille-
TIE manufacturers have pleced 80
p . a-rreT harvest with brown sugar,
and row The chemist mas taken = -
81 49, business 20 make the CIV lnciln :
s-s-rTv last IS long as posstnte "
..-.5-ze The pure food law VIII opeIate
~ --a-err complete deception IN tllr
ft-rf and from being content VIZ
-.--rl SMEAR pfls cane sugar Iue con :
ser u-iII be Led 10 serenity Win eel-
- Rus = small amount OF tn1p-e
E- md eventually 20 complete aap-
= Tess in the consurnp tion q eaEe e g
f--zarr7 VITA = chemically procured Ii :
49, - --z-fe sugar Then the maple
ear harvest VIII no longer os lps,ll..
---,-- rha alchemy Of spring ana nap
49, ~ -rffs crslred all the y ear
--,'7---7 -Nrfr vraukee Wisconsin
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

c, H. Pausoa. othee I'll. one year lease. reuE
Jesse D. Hannah to C. H Hasey, loft 1t 124
Sansems street 10 years lease. total rent
So eco
Baird estate eompsny Re Dr.. Francis Sprasue,
building 25Is Washington street eBe year lease
total REM 81 2SH-
Bab--ts CARR 70 J. Foge and H wfllers. store
2sal Folsoa street three years lease toSzl
rent s.
j. n. fIassen 10 NJ Dahl. store 3s0 Sanchez
street. sAree years lease- fetal rent $40
J. II ClzsSen 70 y. SckEsitrer- store north
east eoraeE SeFeHFseath and Sauckez Strse-ss
two yesrs lease fetal rsut $40.
Annie u. ReSsH % EgkeI Burnett. stare To-
Powell street I've FearS EeaSs. toraf Sfss-5-
Goldman Kramer te VI Msnsdeld bsilc-
inz en16 Buchanan street. three EeaFS lease
totzf rent $3.50
san Dysenterv to Miss n Ohdor apartment
building a. southeast corner q Pacific and Hyde
streets, I've years lease. total reut s2s,0e
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
poRINSON CRUSOE STILL
REPRESENTED THERE
Town of Largo Not Yet Berefi
of All SeIkirks

B~ the death Of Andrew seikirk q
rsrz6 the links binding the Co..
r-issesfre town with the shipNree -
liner and the poet who spent nis
.-,.. In ~hvrlfng and praying o. - -
49, - re Ouse are not broken %
.-..-5-.- f-ruzoe-' s. stIIl Represented
- - lie family and IN tne co - -,
---..--,-.-- there can be read NJ 5e41
i--7,5- rsz-ine engineer. Largo ca
- II ---s7IfreI 70 ma tze the 4sSo-
$3.50 fsrn4uIere- and that IS tnzL -
+, -sse- Seikfrk n CoWde7oe<lt IA
--oafr moEe and practice N --<t
r-auG1n Globe
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

specimen of an adder II measures
from head 10 tail l foot 10 inches.
and is one OF the largest ever caught
IN the MOss=the site OF a former lake
II IL also very much darker in color
than those seen during the summer
months. when they are common IL IS
well known that these creatures
hibernate iIrerEwined and why this
one should have left IFS close com
paniOns 20 wander solitary IN cold
world. II Is difficult TO determine
London Globe.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
AUSTRALIAN HAS NOVEL
USE FOR MOTORCYCLE
Farmer Winnows Wheat With
Wheel Then Rides ii Home

A south Australian farmer CUTIE 0'-e
,.---.s- rss used q 81 horsepower mo-
TOR bicycle 70 winnoW MS "s@t
-,-,.5s, s,4stralasian explains that II
--f-r the v-fuuower BY z uni
- zlrsff the motor being Eousea II
...--rIrav- which Is easily UoEao.s 49, -
1900 IS place When knoSAol- -
----= - = disconnected IN doolt -
----~es md is ridden home one gar
IN "a petrol cleans loo bags q ne. !;
--r7-f costs with oil used aboul :
rrr naE.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

DR. HALLS RETNVFGO-
RATOR stops AL losses AMI
unnatural discharges in -
hours You feel an improve
men- from the Srsr dose. We
nave 50 much condolences IN
our treatment that We OTsr
Five Hundred reward fo-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

az 80 W EaU not CIEe- MS 8erTaT
remedy cures lost power. nightly ennis
Si01S. wasted organs yaricOcele eject
structures. kidneys. failing memoir
drains in the urine gOnOrrhea. diseases
OF the prostate glands and al Other
terrible effects OF self-abuse or *
cesses. which lead 20 cons umption and
death Positively cures the WORST cases
IN old or young o. that uOrtffytng con
dftion qCfcknezs OF Discharge sent
sea led. 81 Per bottle, 3 bottles IS Guar
anteed 10 cure any disease
Call or address orders HALLS MEDI-
Cal. INSTITUTE SIS Broadway Oak
land. Cal Also for sale at 387s 18th St.
= F. send for free book
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
ENGLISH BOYS AT PLAY
CAPTURE LARGE ADDER
Reptile Wandered loo Soon
From alternating Retreat

The other day. while much snow
was still on the ground. some school
boys playing near burn in Gordon
Moss. BerEickshire. caught fine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01

Guilty of accomplishing this lies in the
fact that there is a limit to human
| endurance when it comes to farm
work, Just the same as there is in all
work. And it is safe to say that most
OF the farmers in the great agricul-
tural sections of the country are work
ing right up to their limits in this re-
spect now and are cultivating as much
land as it is possible for them to do
with such help as they are able to
hire
Undoubtedly these farmers would
like nothing better than to increase
the size of their farms and their pro-
ductiveness because it would mean
much larger returns in the way of
money to them, even if the prices of
grain and other farm products should
drop to normal levels. But the trou-
bic is that they can not find the help
to increase largely the number of
acres they have under cultivation or
to work their present cultivated acre
age in such a way as to make it. yield
larger crops.
This is serious dilemma and it
means far more to the rank and file
of the people of the country the con-
sumers of limited means, than it does
to the farmers. The prices that must
now be paid for foodstuffs and other
necessities of life have reached figures
that are almost prohibitive. A proper
reduction of tariff schedules, which
the present session of congress does
not seem inclined to grant, would help
out wonderfully. But larger crop
yields would help out more This is
being pointed out by economists and
publicists on every hand. The, dis
turbing question is as to how to bring
this about. How are the strong and
men in the big cities of
the country who have hard work to
make a living for themselves and
families going to be attracted to farm
work? It seems repugnant to them,
for some reason or another, although
the money now paid to capable farm
hands in this section of the country,
added to their living and lodging
which is thrown in, is far better than
the wages which are given to laborers
in the large centers of population.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01
THE wORID,s RAIIRoADs.

1T is interesting to note that in
three years, 1904 to 1907, the United
States increased it's railway mileage
by IA per cent, an average of "a per
cent per year" says the Iron Trade
Review editorially in its current is
sue. 1.-THE world, as already noted,
increased by 81 per cent in three
years or at the rate of 2.6 per cent
per year. Thus the United States has
not increased altogether as rapidly as
the world at large. In the early days
of railroading the United States
gained much more rapidly than the
rest of the world, but naturally a
point must be reached with any coun-
try when the territory is fairly well
served and mileage does not need to
be increased largely. With a mile of
road for every Is square miles of area
1t would naturally be supposed that
this country has done the heavy end
of it's work, in the building of new
road, and the statistics show that the
rest of the world has passed it in per-
centage of annual increase.
LAS suggestion relative to the
amount of iron and steel involved in
railroads. it may be said that. roughly
speaking, there are about 100000
of the United States about 100000
tons Of iron and steel in cars and To-
comotives and perhaps 10000, 900 tons
more in bridges, viaducts and build
ings, a grand total of something like
100000 tons for 22S,OO0 miles of
road, about $50 tons per mile. These
figures are naturally only rough ap-
proxin.ations, but they are indicative.
OF a
half times as great a railroad mileage
as the United States, and doubtless
twice as much iron and steel in use,
so that the world has something like
15O,O00,OOO tons of iron and steel en-
gagged in steam railroad transporta-
ton At the rate of increase in the
worlds railroad mileage shown in the
past three years, it would require q
years to double the mileage"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IRON the Chicago News.1

LFrom the Chicago News.J
Hope is the dream a man has when
awake.
much next year.
The tattooed man las a moving pic
ture show of his own.
1t is seldom safe to judge a man by
his own op Mon of himself.
Wearing of boomers will not bring a
society bud out any sooner.
It is pleasanter to rush the GROWER
than to be chased by a dog.
Experience is a great teaeher-and the
cost OF tuition is likewise great.
A man seldom gets what he is look
ing for until he has ceased to expect it.
A man whose relations gush over him
seldom has cause to gush over them.
After the COW jumped over the moon
she probably meandered down the
milky way
The chorus girl goes to extremes in
the matter of clothes she wears on and
off the stage
Malaria begins with a chill and ends
with a fever. love begins with q fever
and ends with chill
If your neighbors are unsatisfactory
i. may be owing to the fact that you
are an unsatisfactory neighbor-
A woman would gladly work q hours
a day if she was sure it would give her
satisfactory complexion
If women and rivers could only keep
their mouths clos ed-but they can't. so
there's no use in stirring up a fuss
about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01
LAYHA WKER JOTS

1t is the idea of the Howard Cour-
ant that when a new man comes to
town and advertises that he is here
TO stay you should make him pay
cash for all you sell him.,
The Clay Center Times announces
that there is no truth to the saying
that whisky will get the best men
down: The Times has observed that
the best men do not have anything
to do with whisky"
The Holton Signal busted itself re-
Gently by taking a straw vote on the
First congressional district situation.
and it resulted: Anthony, $50; Nc
Neal, 1853; doubtful, III. DoubtfuPs
chance does not appear to be half
bad.
Evidently the Medicine Lodge Index
has been asleep for some time. It
says: The anti-cigarette law which
was passed by the legislature seems to
be joke. To date no attempt has
been made to enforce it in any part
of the state.
Clarence White went to Kansas City
Monday with the doohickity in his
automobile to have it fixed. The
bozegee of the, pinwee had become
enmeshed in the carbureter and the
fan had blown through the whiskers
of the slow speed until the whang-
doodle could not be reversed. There
is nothing wrong with Clarence, how
ever-Couneil Grove Guard.
Lazarus Tyres latest eHuSion IN
the Wilson County Citizen goes:1
about 400 years B. c.. the Grecian
town, Academy, acquired renown, and
to it's groves chautauqua students
came in droves; they had the wisdom
of the Iand-illustrious Plato led the
band. 1t surely was a goodly bunch,
when Aristotle got a bunch (while
scratching chiggers meath these
trees) about the wise old Socrates;
plain tales of Africa were told, and
legends of Chaldea old; the greatest
teacher in the land was there when
Plato led the band. Time flies. In
Nineteen Misunderstanding to culture
still our thoughts incline; We hear of
Africa, Japan, the Milky Way and
Yucatan: the singers sing, the play
ers play the pictures move, the
preachers pray while there We sit on
pleasure bent, a-soaking- wisdom in a
tent; and no chautauqua in the land
omits the music by the band"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01

not bring anything she said. Il coule
MOTTO you"
Something in her voice lent sudden
flexIbility 10 his most inelastic hope.
would make of Haywood his ideal
church
Come with me a moment" he said.
leading her to the deserted window
dreams when came here. Barbara,
he went on. Il have learned to love
the church and the people. "If 1 go
away now my work will be wasted. But
up tAink I shall go when my year is
..where?" she asked quickly.
Anywhere-to any church that pays
a salary" desperately. THAT collec-
months. 1t is not enough, Barbara.
You said that no one may attend a
donation party without a present. 1
am waiting for yours. If you want me
The deacons and elders have looked
after the material man. You must
provide for his spiritual nature"
s., She played with the widows best
would not ask me again." she re-
minded.
'I have not. You did we'll to say
no" bitterly. IF my work is worth
in forgetting me as quickly as possible.
haywood can keep its donation.
shall leave at once"
A change flashed across her pretty
face. The mischief vanished, and in
its place stole a tender blush. Don't
be hasty, James, she whispered, with
a furtive glance over her shoulder.
Perhaps with my donation. we can
use the rest. When will the parson-
age be empty?"
I'm give the tenant notice tomor-
row." he answered, happily. Then, I'M
der cover of the widows voluminous
curtains, with the church looking on
in solemn witness, he accepted her do
nation with a kiss.-(Copyrigh 1903.
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01

Surely one of the worst outrages
that has ever been forced on a large
portion of the people of this country,
the tobacco consumers in this in
stance, is the situation that practically
compeIs them to keep on paying each
year the special tax which was levied
on tobacco during the Spanish-Amer-
lean war. This money does not go to
the federal government. No, indeed
It finds it's way into the Golfers of the
tobacco trust and it is estimated that
the grab of this octopus in this par
ticular nets it no less than $21, 000,0 600
a year.
When it became necessary. during
the Spanish-American war for the
country to speedily increase its reve-
nues a special tax on each package
of tobacco sold was among the reve-
nue. measures decided upon. In order
to make the tobacco consumers pay
this tax without increasing the price
of the packages of tobacco most
popularity sold, the tobacco trust got
permission from the government to
reduce the contents of the tobacco
packages. In other words, they were
permitted to sell an ounce and three
quarters of tobacco of the popular
grades for anicke1 where two ounces
were previously sold, and the regular
two ounce tax was levied on the ounce
and three-quarters package. This
made the consumers of tobacco really
pay the special tax. Now when the
war taxes were abolished, the pro-
vision of law permitting the tobacco
trust to sell an ounce and three-quar-
tiers of tobacco for two ounces was not
abrogated. And for the many years
now since the war taxes were repeal
ed, the tobacco trust has been selling
its tobacco to the consumers in this
way and pocketing the extra profits
which during the war times went to
the government for taxes.
Senator Beverage of Indiana has
exposed this piece of righteousness in
the United States senate on numerous
occasions during the past couple of
months He has insisted that if it is
deemed wise to continue to tax the
tobacco users in this way, the revenue
from that tax should go to the federal
government and not to the tobacco
magnates. If it is not thought desir-
able to keep on making the people pay
this tax, then congress should wipe
out the permission given to the tobac-
co dealers to sell an ounce and three
quarters of tobacco for two ounces.
But his plea for nothing except jus
tice in this regard has fallen on deaf
ears. Let the tobacco trust go ahead
and muIct the people, has been the
in effect of Mr.. Aldrich and
his friends who seemingly control all
of the national legislation. 1t is not to
be presumed. or hoped, however, that
the people of the land will put Up for
ever with the outlandish protection of
the tobacco and other trusts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01
FARMERS AND Foop PRICES.

Secretary Wilson of the federal de-
partment of agriculture expresses the
opinion that the high prices of food
stuffs are due in no small measure to
the lack of farm hands. This opinion
would appear to be well founded. As
Mr.. Wilson says there are thousands
of acres of valuable and fertile lands
in this western section Of the country
which are lying idle because their
owners can not hire labor to work and
develop them.
There is not the slightest doubt in
the world that the prices of foodstuns
would drop materially and to reason
able figures for the consumers with
ordinary sized purses if the crop
Yields of the nation could be greatly
increased. There is untold land for
this purpose; and careful and scien-
tific farming, with a proper rotation
of crops for the conservation of the
soil would greatly increase the pres
ent crop yields from the same acreage
now under cultivation. But the diff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the AtehIson GIobe.l


The best missionary work a girl can
do is to help her mother.
There are more varieties of bad luck
than of any other one thing in the
world.
If a woman does not occasionally
send her neighbor jelly or soup, she
doesn't like her.
of getting up a big dinner. it is too bad
to disappoint her
A man will fall in love with any
clever woman who will treat him as
though he were abused.
There are so many lodges in Atchison
that a man can get out into the street
and make almost any kind Of a mo-
ton, and get response.
There is a good deal of talk about
women not getting their rights; but
who sit at home in cool room these
hot Afternoons in Mother Hubbards,
with Ice water handy? Is it the men?
Mothers should examine the sleeves
in their daughters dresses. II they are
smashed fat, it indicates that the
young man in the case is a hugger,
and the girl should have a chaperon.
The Lancaster Literary society will
meet in special session soon to debate
the following: When a mans family
consists of two himself and wife, and
ne buys a four-passenger automobile
does that indicate desire to be kind to
the neighbors. or to escape being bored
BY riding alone with his wife?"
'sOne reason why some men do not
get along better in this world is be-
cause they have net the proper stimu-
liant in their home,'' says a High Fore
head What" snorted. Mrs. l. H J..
constitutes a proper stirnaiant? I tel
my husband every day We must have
money for tbs, and money for that
and if 49, isn't a stimulant for him to
get out and earn more, I'd like to know
what Is"