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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

HHOLITENESS can be learned only
in a railroad ticket Office" OBJ
served Fred Blanche, sagely.
'.and the beauty of it is that you have
to cultivate so many kinds of polite
ness. Charley Miles was called upon
to pass on the beauty of a bride the
other day. and If he had expressed an
opinion contrary to what the groom
believed there might have been one
passengerman the less along railroad
row.
But that is nothing to what 1 had
to do the other day. woman came
to our office and asked:
Am I in time TO post letter to
catch the Australian MALL?
Now the New York Central has
nothing to do with the mails for Aus
railroadman to help out the public L
ran myself dead tired and got hOarse
in the throat finding out whether her
letter would be in time for the Aus
tralian mail.
"'oh. is that so" she said. Now
give me a stamp.
Then she wrote, and after she fin
ished she looked me all over and
concluded thus:
my dear boy. my veil is tied so
tight that I really cawu't pull il of.
so like a good fellow apply the tip
of your tongue to the corner of the
envelope.
.Oh, apply it hard. like a man, so
the stamp won't come OFF, and she
walked off, without even saying thank
you"
The Chicago. Milwaukee and Puget
Sound railroad has issued a schedule
of its freight trains showing the time
service between Chicago and Seattle
to be slightly less than eight days,
and from st. Paul to Seattle less than
seven days The time from Chicago
to Butte will be under five days, and
four days.
Information from the Seattle head
quarters is to the effect that up to
date the freight trains have been
making from 6 10 20 hours better than
the SCHEDULED This time service is in
sumed by the older lines in the same
territory and for the same distances.
The Sacramento Southern. which Is
being operated now as far as Free
port, promises to be one of the scenic
lines in the state. 1t follows the
Sacramento river. and a splendid view
of the stream can be obtained from
the cars. The future traveller will be
given a most favorable impression of
the state If he enters California by the
ogden or Portland gateways, for after
running through mountains he will
be introduced into a river country
which is unsurpassed for richness, as
the bottom lands of the Sacramento
river support farming of the most
diversified character.
Up to the first of July something
like 1000 tons OF tea had been re-
ceited at Pacific coast ports from the
orient. which was shipped in TO avoid
the raise in duty which was expected
under the tariff revision now going on
Latest reports from Washington indi-
cate that no raise will be made and
The imparter viii have only the extra
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
The lnsider
Grabbed Tobacco of
a Smoker in Street


pack OF higher priced
Francisco woman who IS an
rolls herself IN Seae
Not knowing her after dinner
told the why Then she oeg
against hope tiny bit OF saffron paper and
grains OF
To she went out Tor
walk passed she familiar face II was
OF sporting Of San Francisco The lady DID not
times at home IN the car or
in the she felt hi long lost friend
his hat somewhat puzzled to place
her in his list of acounances whisper Tell
could borrow some tobacco your cigarette
paper in benighted town
Perhaps he had himself time other Anyhow ne
deep pocket brought forth sack Of tobacco and
the familiar papers the lady seized the
bag joyful fed He doesn't know
paragraph she know that her oenecor
another
leans she did seI6shly of his smoke
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
An Agency Selling
"POiSOned News

association organized purpose OF supplying news
loses caste and reputation the moment it gives reason
that OF information or its general policy
are cooed by partisan politics dubious aims of special
The reputation Of IS in fact its chief
capital and should be guarded with the care
With this preface quote dispatch sent out from this city
by the United Press printed Riverside Press and doubt
less IN other papers supplied by the agency:
(By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29eney no longer possibility in the
aes Tor district attorney Of San Francisco result decision
the providing could accept two Nominations at
qualified he must hpe voted for tuo
thirds !, OF the candidates nominated by his party.
fsy o TsE 35s republican last He offered
Geelon prevents him accepting nomination repub
LEANS 5 and It certain tain. he not get that
independent The particularly hard hit by the decision
This SO called news appearing in the guse prophecy
poisoned at its We doubt that
imposed by designing personsn what interest must be
obvious But while according to the United Press
management that little The assumption on which the
positive statement prophecy of dispatch is based is that
without party nomination Heney chance Of election Now
the most elementary knowledge of politics the United
Press that Heney strength before the of San Francisco
variety Men will for Heney against Heney because
they republicans democrats because or is not the
nominee OF party This obviously that the statement
in the dispatch that eney longer possibility the race
for district attorney result of the decision supreme
obviously poisoned whose may easily be inferred
There plenty OF who would be glad
believe that Heney longer possibility and the United
Press explanation its clients question whether
these influences have got of news in this civ
II merely ignorance that thing The dispatch
INDUCES prophecy variety Horace Greeley said that it
difficult enough newspapers the truth about what
had happened and that would attempt TO
prophey what would happen future The United Press is
welcome choose between the alternatives presented
REMARKABLE development municipal politics has arisen
"A hartor
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
Young Woman's Call
Was Purely Personal

,1a..u C.u J. well known attorney and
ioH"g "o"ia"' ~ cubman received his training
Was Purely Personal the office IF General lin Smith The
stories
Of things that took place building when
recently told by
md i him much as does the general
privilege OF studying law in Smiths
general business
About the
handsome we'll dressed young entered
thee the houran nj Mr. Smith
will
declined
nd of replied
Kierce @and right
called"
Lily S nov General Jim Smith
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
Assuming a
Veto Power
In San Pedro
visions in this regard

visions in this regard
Apparently the corporations have San Pedro
council notwithstanding the loud public outcry against giving
municipal property The council in fact has grant some
OF the franchises but this the corporations struck snag
that quite unexpectedly appears block the
assumed sort OF veto and refused sign grant
an assumption power that is unprecedented in Los Angeles
and before served block grab The
Los Angeles Express says:
Whatever
Pedro board
shameful
And
Angeles primarily
harbor
Angeles had
reasonably
granted by the council
dvor bunko the They
behalf of Of oAn
facilities
played
bafaed f
Mr. Masons action probably quite outside constitution
or the organic law OF his municipality but
honest and has been
which will doubtless tie the grant franchises the
question OF consolidation decided by the popular
supplies example the practical genius people
for dealing with emergency created by dishonest politics
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
Big Profit In
Urban Trans
portation

According by Walter c.
the which showed surplus of $2509O0
The profits amounted S9o3 The
for permanent renewals
leaving the surplus above
There business the world profitable as urban
portation 1t beats banking The Call would much prefer
the lineage plan OF proht sharing to municipal operation but
that plan impossible for the Francisco is better
that the city should hold and immensely valuable road
like that Geary rather than fall the hands of
monopoly which paw reasonable price
for the OF public property In Chicago the traction companies
to the city s. of the earnings the
streets In San francisco the United Railroads pays nothing
all Tor the use OF most thoroughaes the
plan which the Chronicle and Calhoun gutter
extended for the life of franchise Geary street Their
most constant argument that the road under municipal operation
would Yet it that England municipal operation
pays largely and the S. paid Chicago com
portable margin.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
All GeniuSes Do Not
Wear Flowing Locks

M Nof
household Of the Emile Brugueres student
ear Fi0WIn9 LOCKS trouble may
husband
When DR. Bruguiere began making the divorce
his long hair and that his
of that made him a failure in domesicity
brother Emile though he the
locks
He has beenba for many years.
Edward Schneider who has written few good things
al Richard Hotalng millionaire
in Shakespen when he the for
bald would along the whole list
observed there Of
deficiency beneath friendly
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
Nh. t aft
Reconsiders
His Position

explained the following passage message:
Another merit OF the federal
order
all While
substantially all the abuses and all OF the evils which public
now by perfectly legitimate and effective OF taxation
able the
public OF the knowledge OF the real business transactions the
that supervisory control OF corporations which
might have been expected this proposition inspired an
alarming from the interests affected There pretty how
dye do in Wall and learned that the president had
undertaken destroy rights federal
the complete control of all corporations added
that this control of corporations would employment
myriad OF federal seuth number standing
The outcy appears have effect and the
revised provides for only the perunctoy supervision
Of corporation accounts and publicity.
We need quarrel too sharply this result If the
nation desires institute federal supervision of all
corporations that be done directly specifically by
addressed that object and by revenue
regulation Mr. Tafts thought is on the whole wiser
than his first The double back action effective
than the cureals of the quack.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
This WayLie
California s
Future

O men sat down TO dinner his board This the needed
speed the has pows the great acno grant
days Doctor Glenn made striking figure in the business and
political life OF California He for governor
ticket and would probably have been elected had
nered fight diverted part OF his
Then the bottom fell of farming. had
been gathered and the skinned milk aening
the yield OF wheat per fell off figures afforded
living farmer could live his land but
proposition there nothing in
Now the Sacramento Valley irrigation company organized by
lar seeing businessmen from Ptsbug has purchased
the Glenn estate addition other large holdings
fertile recently acquired Water for irrigation be put
the land and will be sold growers and
daymen That the future OF California The 400 pomen
Doctor Glenn marshaed were, than nomads
engaged in SHINING the land They will be replaced by many
that number OF home loving people maintaining their
churches and their steady habits.
California IS fortunate above other lands that
lace soil exhausted by overcroppng with cereals
other OF agriculture that lower
It's OF plant food in brief decade This OF the
ut and the alfalfa farmer who make permanent popua
ton for the state. Good government follows
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
Famous Hill Given
a Letter Too Many

HILL BY Kearny
"nobs7 really why super
huous"K
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

mating transformation concerning the munici-
pal operation of street railways, of whose
activities we had recent example in connec-
ton with the controversy over the Geary
street line. We quote from report OF
municipal operations in Leeds. Eng
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

VIII be held early next month, and in the
meantime the railroad corporations are work
ing the San Pedro city scouncil to secure
valuable franchises before the blanket of con
solidation closes the way by extension Of the
Los Angeles charter and its stringent nro=
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

has been said in these columns about the past
effort of Goldheld patriots to restore the major
to his former place of dignity and distinction
by making him an important feature in the
Flag day celebration in that town 1t was our
sorroWfu task TO describe the h11nni1iatinne
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
Mascot Mule
Out Of a
Job

reception which the aspiring beast given by unpoetc editor
Of the Carson Appeal whose patriotism inflammation
from the ustrous antecedens OF Mr. Byans political mule Yet
further degradation the unhappy learn from
the Goldheld Tribune
democratic mule and from
farm has descended to the field OF usefulness by dragging
the mule, which had accustomed to a life o
Fallen from his high Mr. Bryan accomplished mule
like his former compelled work for living while Mr.
Taf mooey grazes peacefully White House lawn
Yet who shall that dragging beer wagon nober occ
patton than circus poltics5
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

ME further adventures, they be dignhed by name
OF Major Annemascot Mr. Bryans mule are related in
prosaic vein bw the Godfed Nev Tribune Sometime
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

work as perfected by tlle~cabinet in consulta-
ton with Senator Aldrich and his merry men.
When the tax was first mooted we remarked
on the curious confusion of moral purpose
with the machinery for raising revenue whidh
the measure exemplfed That nurhose WAS
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

ME moral political purpose of Mr. Tahs plan for t
on corporation dividends propounded in his message
congress appears have been eliminated from the reris
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

SIGNIFICANT passage of consular reports issued
by the federal department of and labor will not
be quoted by the active press bureau engaged IN dissent
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

example OF past period in the evolution OF
this commonwealth and its industrial pro-
cesses, is an important part OF the history of
California
When Dr. Hugh J. Glenn farmed its
spreading acres in the heart of the Sacramento
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

significant transaction OF business
occurred than the sale of the great Glenn rancho the county
OF that The Glenn rancho the striking
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

REMARKABLE development of municipal politics has arisen
~ the OF the agitation
OF San Pedro Los Angeles election for that n1nnse
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07
Tells of the rbulations cigarette smokers in Seattle au
how a San Francisco found herself wIthout tne
"makngs" and unable buy begged from stranger

smokers OF either sex
find themselves hopelessly homesick
- in Seattle, You can't buy sack OF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

NO RELATI0N-A s.. city. What relation
is man to his sister in laws husband7
Mona
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Clement Bennett passed
the holidays at Highland Springs. and
another guest from town for the last
few days at the same place was Mrs.
C. o. Scott. In the earlier days of the
season the Clement BENEFITS were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Prentiss Cobb
Hale at the country home of the latter
near Shasta Springs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-29
Greatest Holiday Showing i'm Honolulu

others expended their proportion of
the money in furnishing proper diet to
patients.
The 1909 Christmas stamps of the
American Red Cross will be printed in
red and green. They will be sold by
the branch Red Cross societies through
out the country, as well as by anti
tuberculosis and charitable organiza-
tions in hundreds Of cities.
The design used this year is one Sc
lected by a committee of artists from
over twelve hundred designs submitted
in a prize competition held by the Red
Cross last May. The federal author
tiles have granted the Red Cross the
privilege of selling its stamps in the
corridors of the p0stofices throughout
the country again this year.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-29
NOT OPPOSED To
CONSERVATION
Secretary BaIIinger Defends the
Cancellation of the Garfield
Withdrawal.

WASHINGTON, November S.-"My
cancellation of the Garfield withdraw
al of million and a half acres and
the substitution therefor of a with
drawal order Withholding from settle
ment, location or entry three hundred
thousand acres was wholly promotive-
not subversiye-of the conservation
policy. 1t was the next logical step
in the prosecution Of the policy of con
serving the water power on the feder.
al domain and one which Secretary
Garfield must have taken mad he re-
manned in office. The first order was
a blanket withdrawal, issued TO meet
an emergency, and without taking time
to ascertain just where the power sites
We're located. Intelligent prosecution
of the policy demanded that as soon
as possible thereafter these sites be
located and the lands not needed to
protect them be restored to entry
This statement was made today by
Judge Ballinger, secretary of the in
terror, when asked for an explanation
of his widely-discussed revocation of
the Garfield order
"That the Garfield withdrawal was
a tentative and emergency order is OBJ
vious from some Of the facts connect
ed with it, continued the secretary.
Z" For example, there were a number of
instances where land thirty and thirty
six miles from the streams was with
drawn from settlement under that or
der. Again, portions of the streams
were not withdrawn al all. Take the
case of the Owyhee River in Oregon;
forty miles Of it was skipped entirely,
while another thirty miles. where the
stream Is almost level and no water
power could be developed. was includ-
ed. Then, again, many thousands Of
acres which had been patented-that
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-29
WHAT GOVERNMENT
IS SPENDING To ND
THE FARMER

WASHINGTON, November 13.-.Sec-
retarv Wilson has issued statement
pointing out that the United States
government is spending in the neigh
borhood of $lS.000,000 a year on ex-
detrimental work in increasing the
Weld and efficiency of the farms of the
country. The statement was inspired
by the charge made by William G,
Brown, president of the New York Cen
trail lines. at a dinner in New York
this week. that the Nation could bet
ter afford to invest the cost of one
J-attleship in agricultural experiment
work than to expend it in the increase
IF the navy. \ battleship costs APP
proximately 100000. Secretary vii
son declares that the government is ex-
rending each wear exactly twice as
much as two frst-class hattleships cost,
and the money Is being used in pre-
nisalv the manner recommended by
President Brown. The assistance given
the farmers of the United States, the
secretary declared, is not confined to
any locality. As an instance of the
sid the department renders. Secretary
Wilson recited the case Of a farmer
who was raising only twelve bushels
of potatoes to the acre and who, dis
satisfied. appealed to the department
for assistance and advice. Both were
given him promptly, and. Mr.. Wilson
saws. he now is raising $50 bushels 10
the acre on the same land as a result
of using the seed and the information
given him by the government.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-29
RED X STAMPS
BY THE MILLION
LARGE Amounts Raised Through
out the Country by
Their Sale.

The half million red cross stamps,
which the local branch of the Red Cross
Society will start out to sell this morn
ing. are only small part of the entire
number which the American Red Cross
Society hopes to dispose of between
now and Christmas. The Washington
Star has the following:
The American Red Cross has made ar
rangements looking to the equipping OF
its army with thirty million Red Cross
Christmas stamps. This order will prob
ably be followed in rapid succession by
others.
As far back as 1862 stamps were sold
as means for raising funds for eharl-
table purposes. In that year great num-
hers of these stamps, known as "san-
itarv fair stamps were sold at falr
or festival held in Boston, the proceeds
from the sale of which were to be
,,sed in the care of the wounded from
the Civil War.
Two surh fairs were held in Brook
lyn. one of which, in 1864. Melted the
tidy sum of 100000, In the same year,
from April to June, the great central
fair was held in New York City, at
which the u. s. sanitary eommis-
SION stamps were sold. Tins 1alr
netted the sum of $1,200,o0O.
Various organizations and agencies IN
several foreign countries fell into line
and issued many such stamps of differ
cent styles
Therefore. in looking around for
means of raising funds to assist the or
.panizations devoted to the fight against
tuberculosis the Red Cross rediseovere.,
this little sticker. The price is SO smah
that every one, no matter what STATION
in life he may occupy, may ana II ne
will
The 1905 Red Cross Christmas stamp
Melted. in round numbers, Sl4o'ooV'
which was used entirely in antltHoef-
.eulosis work throughout the country.
With this money some of the organiza-
lions carried on educational campaigns;
some EMPLOYED visiting nurses to go
among the tuberculous poor; others con,
structed and maintained day camps
where persons suffering from tunereu,
aosis could enjoy the fresh air, resi- ana
receive the proper nourishmenf, anu
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-29
POLICE RAID On
GARDEN ISLAND
NETS % GAMBLERS

Garden Island.-Hearing that extern
sive gambling operations among the
Chinese in Hanalei were going on under
the eyes of the HanaIei officials, the
county sheriff has been conducting in
vestigations in that district for some
weeks which eliminated in the arrest,
last Sunday, of a gang Of forty-four
Chinese and one Korean, who were
canght redhanded while running a 1our-
ishIng Monte Carlo in the vicinity OF
the Mau Sing Wal rice plantation, a
mile or so above the Hanalei bridge.
The five officers who were commits
stoned to undertake the capture, and
who performed their duties so success
fully, were Deputy Sheriff Ellis, Cap
tain of Police Lowell and Officers haiel
Montgomery and Iokepa |, all of Lihue
district, and Officer Joseph Huddy OF
kalihiwai, assisted by William PuaoI,
the Chauffeur of the automobile which
carried them over. There were over d
hundred gamblers IN the building when
they first arrived, but half OF them
escaped before the house could be sur
rounded.
The officers arrived at noon, in broad
daylight, and the only reason they
caught so many was that there were
no guards out, as there generally are
around buildings where there is gam
bling going on Appearances indicated
that the gamblers telt no fear Of Pc
lice interference from HanaIei, al any
rate, Running up to the building, the
officers arrived in time to intercept
more than half Of the gamesters and
to ind on the tables, inside, the cards
dice and mHney which proved the Kind
OF playing that was going on.