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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05
Special Attractions Offered This Week by
San FranciscO's Leading Retail Merchants

MOFFATT & CO.. Post
street near Kearny. Four important
semiannual sales is the announce
ment on another page of this paper.
Semiannual reduction sales of suits,
coats, costumes and skirts at re-
markable reductions; $50, S22.50, $50
suits reduced to SO; $3.50, SIS,
$22.50 suits reduced to $15; $35 suits
at $3.50; $40 suits at $50; a specially
attractive assortment of $50, $47.50
and $45 suits reduced to $25. and in
the higher priced garments $40, $65
and $50 suits reduced to $35. An alb
solute clearance sale of every
trimmed hat in their stock at half,
less than half and at one-third of
original prices; at $3.50 hats formerly
priced to s4; at $3.50 hats up to $3.50;
at $3.50 hats up to SIS; at $3.50 hats
formerly priced to S35. This millin-
cry sale includes Gainsboroughs,
mushrooms, toques, turbans and bon
nets; lingerie hats. hats for chill,
dren and misses and a splendid line
of mourning hats. A June clearance
sale of silks includes all broken lines,
odd lengths, broken color assort-
ments and odds and ends of the sea-
sons selling of the most fashionable
silk weaves. Many of the most de-
sirable silk fabrics are reduced to
half and less than half, and the en-
tire range of materials and prices is
most attractive. And last a special
June sale OF imported alpacas and
mohairs at very attractive prices.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05

PRAGERS, Market and Jones streets.
Announcement is made of a special
sale of women's wash suits Monday
at 1915 and $5.93. A very special Sc
lection of womens suits and dresses
also at 1855, STATS, and a line of
girls suits at So. Thousands of yards
of fashionable silk fabrics at 25c a
yard, a very special bargain offering.
new purchase of lace curtains Is
offered Monday at 81 a pair. They
are three yards long by one and a
half wide.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-05

THE OWL DRUG CO., IT'S Market, 719
Market street, Post and Grant, Six
teenth and Mission, 943 Kearny. Spe
Gals Monday. Tuesday and Wednes
day. 10c Dutch cleaner, &c; 10c home
opathic medicines, 7c; Elwood Lees
absorbent cotton, 23c; packages
Sen Sen, SC; Palmo tablets, 32c; Syrup
OF Figs, 29c, and Owl theatrical cold
cream. 43c Many other prices great
ly reduced are drug sundries, liquors
and household articles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
FARMER AND HIGH PRICES.

Choice satire is rather rare these
days. A fine specimen of it appeared
the other day in the editorial columns
of the Boston Advertiser. In conte1n-
plating the efforts Of the meat packers
and others to hold the farmer entirely
responsible for the high prices of meats
and other foodstuffs the Advertiser
said:
LAS for the farmer, whom no man hath
until now pursued, every one knows
that he dimes almost every day, usually
on the fat of the COW that was too lean
to sell even for bologna. There he sits,
in his careless, impudent ease of foot
clothing and luxury Of hirsute growth,
basking in the light Of an oil lamp
(thus attesting his support OF the
gigantic oil monopoly and toasting his
shins, which are but scantily clad. be-
fore the fire of logs or defunct barrels,
thereby showing his callousness to the
labor situation in the coal fields, while
the poor meat packer submits to meat
inspection and senatorial inquisition.
"Also, he dictates prices He pays the
hired man what he wants to pay him,
or does the work himself. Sometimes
both. He pays what he wants for
supplies or raises them or makes them
or goes without them. When it comes
to selling he also dictates, in rank de-
fiance of the principles by which the
semieleemosynary and highly social
association of meat packers hopes fur
Their to furnish the tawdry and poverty
stricken flats in which it and it's mem-
bers drag out a vegetarian existence
He says: "I will sell you this steer for
so much" He does not have to sell it
for a cent less He can take it back
home, or 81. by the roadside and eat 1t
raw 1t was high time that the shame
less farmer had his measure taken.
The meat packers have barred the truth
stripped it and almost layed it
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viii Palmer has noticed that the
man who goes into marriage like a lion
often comes out like a lamb.
The Ottawa Herald wants the cor
respondence schools to bid on the
next job of paving in that town.
Kiowa has apparently captured all
the medals in the slogan line with the
following: "Katch Kiowa if you
KAN
There is many a man, thinks the
Hlll CITY New Era, who, if he would
give his wife half the care he gives
his auto or horse, would have happy
home.
States, like individuals, look back
with establishment at the conditions
and follies of their youth, says John
Macdonald. An explanation or two
is in order.
Sam" Woolard confesses he has
not received as many prize poems on
Rather as he thought he would, for
that charming little symposium he is
getting up. Still, he does not admit
that he is disappointed or without
hope, and thinks the mueh-abused
and long suffering Dad will yet get
his just dues. He is much pleased,
Mr.. Woolard is, with the fact that the
big eastern magazines have warmly
commended his enterprise and senti-
ment in trying to do something for
the members of a family who gets
less glory than any other member
makes a little more sacrifices than
any. Mr.. Woolard will not print his
book on Father before summer
Garden City Telegram.
Things are surely beginning to
come the way of Crosby, the we'll
known Smith county correspondent
of the Downs News. Not only has
he won his fight to have his stuff
it, but he is being substantially re-
membered by friends. That he is
grateful to a degree is indicated by
these paragraphs from his pen which
appeared in the News recently: Glad
tidingS from Lebanon, Illinois. We
are in receipt of $3.50 from John H.
Harms of Lebanon, ILL.,, box So, in
structing us to enter his name on the
great subscription list of the now ia
nous Downs News, on which paper
we have the honor of being one of
its contributors. Mr.. Harms, thank
you, and herewith acknowledge to
you that you have, of your own free
will, paid me a compliment which I
can never outlive. Wonders
will never cease. Yesterday, March
10, 1910. We received in our mail
short letter from our good old friend
and neighbor boy of some years ago,
A, III. Poppen. now of Steamboat,
Colo, saying, there is my check, Mr..
Crosby, you will please send me The
Downs News a year. Here is BOY
we have known intimately ever since
he was born. and I am especially glad
to note the fact that Albert H. Pop
pen is making good. We notice by
the letter head that he is now presi--
dent of the First National Bank OF
Steamboat Springs, and vice president
and director of the Commercial club
of that city. viz, Steamboat Springs.
Colo, and is now a candidate for city
treasurer out there. Well, Albert,
consider your remittance to me, IN
ouiring for The News. compliment,
and I thank you ever so much"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
\ RECoUNT NEEDED.

An official recount of the ballots in
the school board contest in the Fourth
ward would appear TO be in order.
Ever since the counting of the votes
on primary night it has been conceded
that John @. Royce, the "insurgent"
candidate, had won out over his OPP
ponent, Judge Carver, with a COM
Portable majority. In a most unex-
pected fashion Mr.. Titus, the election
commissioner, casjts his eye over the
returns two full days after the votes
had been counted, and finds that a
mistake had been made in adding up
the count whereby Judge Carver was
deprived of an even 200 votes, or just
enough to take the nomination away
from Mr.. Royce by a handful of votes.
OF course, no one believes that Mr.
Titus, or Mr.. Carver, or any of the
1atter's friendsswould be guilty of tam
pering with the election returns for
the purpose of giving any advantage
to Judge Carver. But, at the same
time, the divergence between the pres
emit two versions of the returns from
the school board contest in the Fourth
ward is such as to leave the matter
one for dispute. The best way to set
tie it would be by a recount of the bal
lots. which could be made on an order
from the district court. Such a re-
count would not take more than few
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
POINTED pAKAGItnI,ns.
[From the chicago News.l

[From the chicago News.l
Many q iong-whiskered candidate has
q close shave.
Give a woman a fighting chance and
she will do the rest.
A girls broken heart is usually a case
of wounded pride.
Religion may make men, but some
men want to make their religion.
Our idea of a truly good man is one
who has lived up to his obituary.
Fools ard grafters are men who were
unable to dodge the muck rake.
It's too bad the average man is un-
able to see both sides to a question.
The oftcner a man has occasion 10
visit a dentist the more patience he
has with a barber.
The man who waits for something to
turn UP is usually fast asleep when ii
does come along.
The something you get for nothing
seldom justihes YOU in hiring an ex-
pressman to haul T. hoIle.
A man who says he wants to take his
wife along when he goes on a pleasure
trip is one kind of hypocrite.
1t is said there is no accounting Tor
tastes, but one can always account for
the darkbrown taste he has next morn
ing.
The wise man puts his trust in Prov
idence but he doesn't meander along
the street hunting holes for Providence
to pull him out of.
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A mMEI.Ess LAND.

Oh, give me land in the bye and bye.
Where no sun-dialed rays are swinging,
Where no whistle clear cracks the sleep
ing
And no bells from on high are ringing.
I would dwell in a spot where the dawn
was told
By no nerve-racking, shril1 vibration
In beautiful cline where the march of
time
Is determined by inclination.
I would camp on the shore where no hour
is known
BY a second or minute measure;
Where the night and day come and go
away
At our bidding and at our pleasure.
In this restful place of my hearts desire
Not care would my spirit borrow,
For the, days delight need not know a
night
Pray give me a place on that silent strand
A land to my tired hearts liking;
Where each watch. unwound, gives no
ticking sound,
And the clocks are no longer striking!
-Lurana w. Sheldon, in the New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
CONFUSION PROSPECTS.

From among the eight candidates
who have been nominated for the
commissionerships it ought to be pos
sible for the voters of the city to Sc
i lect four men, who with a mayor, will
make up a commission of five that
should be able to establish the new
system of municipal rule in an excel
lent manner. Careful discernment
and judgment will be necessary to
make such selection, but the people
of this city have shown themselves
to have just such qualities in times
past, and there is no reason to believe
| that they will cast them aside now.
In the list of candidates chosen last
Monday are several men who have
had a valuable experience in the con-
duct of city affairs. They are familiar
with the workings of all of the city
departments and some of them have
proved themselves to be hustlers of
the right sort and capable public SER
wants. Out of this class of candidates,
one or even two of them would fit in
nicely on the new commission. Among
the other candidates in a couple of
notable instances are men whose
business training and experience
would make them admirable incum-
bents for the discharge of the duties
of two of the important commission
erships. In fact, it should not be a
difficult job for the voters to choose
combination of four men which will
go to make up as near as ideal COM
mission as could we'll be selected.
Considerable talk is going the
rounds that a concerted effort will
be made on election day by the 'liber-
all element in the city for the selec-
ton of mayor and a majority OF the
commissioners who would be inclined
to look with tolerance on an evasion
of prohibitory enforcement in this
community. Perhaps it is true that
among the candidates are men who
hold to these liberal views. But
even if they were elected to office it
is not likely that they would have
much luck in promulgating their
ideas along these lines even if they
had desires to do so. In this particular,
something like the famous two-edged
sword of Damocles will be hanging
over their heads and it won't be sus-
pended by anything stronger than the
proverbial hair. On the one hand
there is a state administration which
has the habit of making it mighty I'M
comfortable for city officials who
wink at violations of the prohibitory
law. On the other is the same old
county administration which has been
such a terror to thoss who look on
prohibition lightly. and which has
been responsible in the main for the
excellent enforcement of the prohibit
tory law that has prevailed in this To-
cality during the past three years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.

TFron the Atchison Globe.]
Ever know ''jokey'' man who
amounted to much?
Nothing tires a man more than to be
grateful all the time.
What a husband wants from his wife
is not criticism, but applause.
When you're old, you're old, and
YOU can do nothing for it.
A man will promise women and
babies anything, to keep them quiet.
at have but one really sensible habit:
1 never argue."-Parson Irvine.
Before a sick man dies there are
usually half a dozen false rumors as
to his death.
A woman should. at least, be CRATE
full for one thing; she is never asked to
be a pall-bearer.
ST have remarked that the older
become, the more people yawn- when
I talk Drake Watson.
A good many men, and all motor
cycles, make too much noise for the
size of the load they carry.
The old women may know more
about medicine than the doctors, but
you would not like to bet on it.
No wonder women believe in men
marrying for love: they know that few
women can be married for money.
In hot weather it is as much work
as any man should be required to do
to carry an umbrella, and take off his
nat " MOAAS'l
The reason a widow succeeds so
much better than a girl, is that girl
depends upon love, while a widow de-
ponds upon schemes.
Men hate a bachelor who makes a
specially of married women You new
er knew such a man who was popular
with other men.
A man rarely thinks he is good look
ling; but he always thinks that when
people come to know him well, they
md there is a good deal to him.
When we approach a man for ad-
vertising, there is always one argument
that knocks us: when he says: Il have
more business than I can attend to. .
If there is anything more depressing
than rain falling on an overturned
tombstone, or the sight of dining
room table covered with dirty dishes
what is it?
There is man in Atchison who is
known as "a great taIker.' When he
grabs us, and we can't get away, we
never pretend to listen to what he
says: we let him talk as long as we can
stand it, and then make a big effort
to escape.
1t was SAID of an Atchison woman
for many years that she was dying OF
a broken heart, because her husband
did not love her. Her husband has
been dead several years, and it is now
said she is dying of a broken heart
because he is dead
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Fashionable novels are generally no
more than just that.
X y "
In days of old it was never necessary
to teach children how to play.
X
Practice doesn't always make perfect,
especially with many would-be must
clans.
X X X
Professional secrets have a faculty
OF leaking out just like the more or
binary kind.
A learned philosopher says: '@rhe
only thing worth while in life is trying
to do something you can't-and do
ing it,
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FRON OTHER PENS
THE HATPIN PERIL

This is the age of regulation. Moth
ing escapes. Sometimes the regulators
get on precarious ground, as in Chi
cago, where a proposed city ordinance
limiting the length of hatpins, as the
length of gentlemen's rapiers was linn
tied by peaceful King James, has
stirred UP great strife and acrimony.
This is a question where, as Sancho
PanZa said, There is much to say on
both Sides" The merits Of the hatpin
as a defensive weapon have been
shown. We noted recent case in this
city, and warmly Endorsed the long
hatpin as a capital recourse for dam
sells in distress. Perhaps some reser-
vations should have been made. for a
cloud Of SCARED Chicago witnesses
have made out a pretty strong case on
the other side.
Certainly ladies whose coiffures are
as cheveaux de frise of protecting
pixies and bayonets constitute men
ace to innocent bystanders in crowded
places. Inoffensive men in street cars
have had their cheeks lacerated and
one lugubrious complainant presented
himself to the council minus an eye.
OF course the ordinance would be diff
well quail at the prospect of haling
countless ladies under suspicion to the
station houses to have their hatpins
measured .--Milwaukee Sentinel.
OLD AGE PENSIONS IN FRANCE.
The French senate. a moderately
progressive body. has just unanimously
approved pension bill which it has
had under consideration for two years.
The bill, already passed by the cham
Der, will affect about 100000 per-
sons. it is estimated, and will apply to
wageworkers of both sexes. including
agricultural laborers and small tenant
farmers. Railroad men. miners and
seamen are the great classes excludes
from it's benefits, but only because
they are otherwise provided for.
English papers strongly commend
the French scheme and declare it to be
fairer and more statesmanlike than
the British. 1t provides for contribu-
lions to the pension fund by employ
ers, employees and the state. respec-
lively. The states contribution is equal
to the sum of the other two contribu-
tons. The full pension is limited to
those who reach the age of IS. If they
have paid for 80 years, but at SIS a
smaller pension, to which the state
contributes nothing. may be claimed.
The annual pension under the system
cannot exceed $500 under the most
favorable circumstances, but in France
this will be sufficient TO. avert pauper-
ism and misery in old age.-Chicago
Record-Herald.
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hair was unutterable. If only the
commons would have sense enough 20
leave well enough alone"
They drifted off then to town talk
and friends of the city. The artist
said. IT wonder If the Incompatible
Lucia could ind amusement here p
And the other answ cred She al
ways makes her own amuselnents, and
what surrounds her is invariably
beautiful. An" between long drawn
puffs of contentment, There's avon
AM"
worthy even of youi"
There was deep silence, save for
the mad beating OF a girls heart IN
the shadows. then there was a firm
step upon the gravel
The girl flew like n hurt thing down
the crunching length of pathway ana
into the wide open arms Of her lover
in the darkness. Dave" she sobbed
against the sheltering strength OF
firm set shoulder, Dave, boy how
love you!"-(Copyright 1910 by Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[Fro.n the philadelphia Recor,

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
If all the worlds a stage, the bar
Der figures in many parts.
The orator climbs the ladder OF fame
on rounds of applause.
A clock with cathedral chimes nat
Urally gives tone to a room.
The man who says he doesn't know
the meaning of fear is either a brave
man or a liar.
Wigg-"Closefist is a man of rare
gifts" Wagg-"YeS he once gave me a
cigar about Is years ago"
Nothing pleases the average man more
than to find a button off when his wife
hasn't time to sew II on.
Nell-''Chollie claims that his family
represents good stock" BELIEVES.
the family fortune was made in canned
soup"
Blobbs-"I never saw such a re-
senblance as between Guzzler and his
Daughter" Slohbs-"I'hat's right.
proposed to her last night and She said
I don't care If I do
Muggins-"That boy of yours seems
very industrious. He always has some
thing to do" Buggins-"Oh, you al
ways happen to be here Just about
when it's time for him to go to bed
1--WE generally go from bad to
worse" says the Manayunk Philos-
opher 1.-THE girl who kicks about her
brother smoking a pipe in the house
usually marries fellow who smokes
cigarettes.
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Prison Work in sweden.

Within a few years the laws of
Sweden relative to prison labor have
been modified. Industries like bask-
etry, brush making, and similar work,
that the blind. the lame and the halt
can do have been taken from the
prisons which now manufacture things
that can be used by the state railroads.
the postoff1ce, the telegraph service,
and the armv and the navy. The
work is done mostly in the cells. If
the cell is not large enough. the con-
vict lives in one and works in another.
After the third year of Imprisonment
convicts may work together in open
shops; but the number serving long
terms is small. only 155 in all. Three
prisons have 200 inmates each. while
43 others contain from 80 uD to
100. Different prisons follow different
ployments-tailoring leather work,
cabinet work. harness making, weav-
ing, the making of mail sacks. &c.
Skilled Industrial superintendentst teach
these trades. and the men are fitted
to earn an honest living on release. In
1904, before the reorganization of the
prison industries, the sum total of rev.
enue from prison work was more than
$150,00O. Sweden also finds work for
her tramps. from a 80 days order up
to 8 years, according to circumstances.
New York Evening Post.
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responsible for the high prices of meat.
The meat packers have done the same
thing. Now come the cattle raisers
and they are doing likewise. All
OF which is reminiscent of a coIloquy
participated in by Topsy of Uncle
Toms Cabin fame. Topsy had been
asked as to the place of her birth or
he parentage or something of that
sort and she replied: 81 never was
born: I>iust groWed.'s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IRON the New York Press.l

Iron the New York Press.1
The danger to cir. of being pretty
is she thinks she's prettier.
Money doesn't give a person virtues,
but it makes people act as IL he had
them all.
A man might be able to spend some
of his own money on himself If he had
no family.
The kind of popularity man buys
by spending money on people he
couldn't sell for one cent on the dol
lar.
A woman IS an exceptionally good
card player when she deals her part
ner q poor hand and doesn't blame him
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Colony of Drunkards.

Senate bill No. PSF. introduced by
Mr.. Grady at Albany, represents an
elaborate attempt to regulate through
charter provisions the treatment of
fnebriates in this city.
This bill which has the indorsem ent
of the State Charities Aid Association,
provides for a board of inebriety. a
hospital and industrial colony for in
ebriates, and regular system of COM
mitments and paroles 1t proposes, in
short to put habitual drunkards upon
g. particular basis as public offenders,
and to substitute a regular course Of
often expensive, lack of discriminate
ing system.
Careful thought has been given to
this bill. An important feature is the
differentiation of purely alcoholic
cases, calling for treatment in isola-
ton, from cases in which criminal
tendencies are added to excessive in
dulgences in drink. Forming a general
argument for the measure on the
economic side are the figures on al
coholic ''repeaters'' at Bellevue and
other public institutions recently col
lected by charities aid agents, showing
the wastefulness of the routine pro-
cess of sending a continuous line of
"drunks" through the police courts,
hospitals, and warehouses.
Perhaps no public problem has
been dealt with more variously, even
frivo1ously, in public official hands
than this of chronic drunkenness. 1t
Is a long and may be helpful step from
the 1910 or ten days" convention to
the serious andexpert consideration in
vited by the Grady biII-New York
World.