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The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
SUCCESS OF WAR
DUE TO HOOKWORM
Marse Henry Suggests Statue
to Lazy Bug"

Doctor Stiles says that half of the
population of the south is afflicted with
the "hookworm,' otherwise the lazy
bug, which is also known among the
erudite by Latin name of difficult or
biography and cryptic meaning
If this be true, it is plain that the
hookworm, and not the patriots who
fought beneath the union flag, saved
the union. Historians sin equally with
journalists In the matter of inaccuracy
and narrative warping prejudice. They
disagree upon many points in reporting
the civil war, says the Louisville Cou-
rler-JournaL They agree, however
upon the fact that the north was nu-
merically stronger than the south, and
that the southern soldiers Unsuitable
appetite for debating the question at
issue until the number of perforations
in his anatomy precluded the possibil-
ity of his remaining in the ring caused
a prolongation of the rebellion that
was wholly unlocked for by the north
when its sons girded up their loins and
set about the task of convincing the re-
calcitrants of the error of their posi-
ton and the folly of attempting to
maintain it.
1t would be extremely interesting to
know just how many degrees of heat
would have been added to the affirma-
tive side OF the question Have States
the Right to Secede?" If the hookworm
had not permeated the chivalry of the
south and given 'Massa Linkum's bows"
the tremendous advantage of being un-
handicapped by inertia traceable to the
ravages Of specific micro-oreanism.
Even as matters stood, the discussion
that occurred between Sumter and An
pomattox was characterized by consid-
erable sprightliness. 1t titillates the
imagination to attempt to picture the
I,rfe . s-xl,&
hookworm's supremacy below the Ma
son and Dixon line.
May we venture to suggest that a
niche in statuary hall should be re-
served for heroic statue of the hook
worm and a tablet with his Latin name
and vulgar popular appellations cut
deeply in its face above an acknowl-
edgment in bas relief giving credit
where credit is due for the preservation
of our glorious union and the striking
of the shackles from the hands of
100000 human beings wrongfully en-
shaved
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22

STUDENTS TO HOLD
EVENING PAGEANT
Rev. q. q. EIdredge to Deliver
BaCCalaureate Sermon in
Greek Theater

BERKELEY, April 21.-Jubilee dav
May Il. viii be the red letter dav Of
he celebration at the university this
year in honor of the hftieth anniver-
.sarN Of the founding Of the institution.
Besides the address which President
Arthur Hadley of Yale viii deliver in
the morning there viii be good of
the university. meeting at $50 O'clock
n the afternoon. James X. Mohftt
president Of the graduates, viii preside
at the afternoon meeting. Among the
speakers viii be; Governor GilIett
president Wheeler, John r. Glascock
~ the class of '65, Charles s. Wheeler.
william II. Davis, Russ Avery, Mrs.
Grace Torrey and Max TheIen.
s.. A feature of the evening program
tor jubilee day viii be the pageant of
the classes, in which 1900 costumed
students viii take part, marching
through the campus and Berkeley to
california field. where monster rally
VIII be held.
II was announced today that Rev.
George q. Eldredge. pastor OF st.
'5ehn's Presbyterian church, will de-
liver the baccalaureate sermon before
tAe graduating class in the Greek the
ater May Is at o'clock. The Orpheus
club Of Oakland, under Z. d. CrandaIl.
VIII contribute the musical program
Tor the occasion.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
STUDENTS READY
TO STAGE nero"
English Club of University to
Produce Classic Drama in
Greek Theater Tonight

BERKELEY, April 21-Scenes of the
Roman empire when Nero held sway
and defed the ghosts of his departed
predecessors viii be enacted in the
Greek theater tomorrow night by stu
dents of the English club of the uni
versity. Nero" the classic play, has
occupied the attention of the cast un-
der Coach Garnet Holme for the last
two months, and aside from the spec
tacular end Of the production creditable
acting is expected to be the result of
the constant drilling.
The costuming of the play will be
exceedingly elaborate, as no expense
has been spared by Manager c. L.
Brooks in securing Roman dress and
Roman settings for the play. The
supernumeraries, too, will be a feature,
chief among them being the Prae-
torian guard OF husky football and crew
men, led by D. p Hardy of the varsity
crew. The cast follows:
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
REDUCTION ASKED
FOR SUNDAY TRAVEL
Appeal Made to Railroads to
Curtail Service

The question of Sunday railway tray
cling is, according to the Christian
World, exercising great consideration
in the north of England. Some people
in and visiting Harrogate recently petit
toned the Northeastern railway to put
on one Sunday train each way between
Harrogate and York, one ostensible
reason being the opportunity it would
give TO attend one service at York
cathedral. The company replied that
even this extension of railway travel
would involve the employment of So
extra men and they refused A me-
mortal has been presented to the Great
Northern directors for the limitation of
Sunday traffic, coming from share hold
ers themselves to the number of 2.629,
Of whom no fewer than 95 are qualified
for dictatorship. Richard Bell, late
member of parliament, put the number
of railway servants required to work
on Sunday at S5h per cent of the total
number required. An earnest appeal is
now being made to religious people to
reduce Sunday travelling in the coming
season.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
Suburban Brevities

LECTURES ON RCULosIs-Alameda.
April 21.-Lectures on tuberculosis, its causes
and prevention, will be given in the public
schools next week by local physicians.
EMMA GOLDMAN TO SPEAK-BerkeIey, April
21.-Enma Goldman. the anarchist, will de-
liver two lectures in this city Saturday In
Armory hall, Addison street. At O'Clock she
will talk on Francisco Ferrer the Modern
Martyr" and at night on 1.-The Modern
Drama DR.. Ben L. Rietman will preside.
CLUBHOUSE COMMITTEE MEETS-AIaneda.
April 21.-The committee that is planning for
the erection OF clubhouse and gymnasium
for Alameda boys met last night, DR.. George
c. Thompson presiding. The chairman is to
name a committee of FIVE TO submit a plan
of action at the next meeting.
WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY-Oakland, April 81
Mrs Mary Nicholson, widow 80 years OF
age, who has been a ward Of the Associated
Charities for several months. died suddenly
this morning at her home, 264 Fourth street
A neighbor, Mrs. A. Katz, found Mrs. NichOl-
son dying on the floor.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
GUM FIXED UP"
WITH WAX AND ROSIN
Prevents the Slabs
From Becoming Sticky

This has been great gum year in
the Maine woods, so everybody saws up
there" said a Bangor man to a New
York Sun reporter. There are two or
three Bangor mercantile houses which
make a speciality of spruce gum in the
rough and buy large quantities of it
from the lumber men and those who
make a regular business of gathering
gum in the forests.
These buyers are supposed to give
the gum a process of refining to make
it fit for the chewing gum trade, but
1t seems to be an open secret that the
refining is really process of adultera-
tfon. The gum, unseparated from the
bark and wood of the tree from which
1t was backed, is thrown into kettle,
where it is boiled until it has been re-
solved into savory but by no means
pleasing looking mass of the consist
ency of molasses. The separated bark
wood and often other foreign SUBJ
stances that rise to the surface are
skinned off. With the gum finally
freed from its natural ingredients. to
the mass are added paraffine and rosin
with sometimes sugar.
The admiXture thickens the hoiling
mass, and after all is well assimilated
by vigorous stirring, the gum is
pounded on a smooth marble slab.
where while it is yet hot 1t is rolled out
In a thin sheet a quarter of an inch
thick, which is separated into inch
cubes by steel die. These are wrapped
In paraffine paper. packed 200 in box
and the famous Maine spruce gum of
commerce is ready.
Not all the spruce gum is treated
in this way, though. Some is put un
unadulterated and with the natural fla
vor OF the spruce intact. In this way.
though, the gum soon becomes sticky in
the chewer's mouth, and so, while alb
solutely pure, 1t isn't as desirable in
an economic sense as the spruce gum
with its reinforcement
The impression that some gum gath
erers seem to want to establish that
gum from certain localities is of better
quality and flavor than that from GER
tain other localities is only sentimental.
The quality of the gum depends on the
sap or the trees-the bigger the tree
the better the gum.
There is sentiment as well as com
mercialism manifest among the Inn
berJacks in the gathering of spruce
gum during their long winter in the
wlloerness, as is well known in Maine.
IN their idle hours or by the campfire
they whittle out of fragrant cedar
docks miniature barrels, boxes. cas-
kets and the like, following them out
ana nlling them with the choicest of
the gum from which they haxe expelled
and expressed every mite of impuritv
Ihese they bring into the settlements
when they return in the sprinp as
gifts for sweethearts, wives, children or
friends. - %
DOCTORS up our way say that the
pure spruce gum is an excellent tooth
preserver and aid to digestion. The
adulterated article is known locally as
patent gum,' and there is always
ready and profitable market for ;+
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
SCHOOL HEADS TO
CONSIDER NEEDS
Principals Summoned to Discuss
Work of Department by SUI
perintendent McClymOnds

OAKLAND, April 21.-Superintendent
McClymonds has called a meeting of
the principals of the public schools for
tomorrow morning, after the Grand
Army parade. The pedagogues will
gather at the common school assembly
hall. Eleventh and Grove streets, for
discussion of the needs of the depart
ment.
McClymonds has also instructed the
principals to send data for a school
census to his office. The age, full name
and date of the beginning of present
grade work of each pupil is wanted.
A sacred concert will be held at the
Fremont high school, FruitvaIe, Sunday
afternoon, April "a. Principals and
teachers are invited to attend.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
FAMOUS PAINTING AGAIN
ADORNS CHURCH WALL
Vandyck Stolen From Notre
Dame at COurtrai Recovered

1t Is just two years ago that the art
world was aroused by the theft of one
OF Vandyks most celebrated pictures.
fhe Elevation of the Cross" from the
church of Notre Dame at Courtrai. II
was found some time later undar c,ri
Gus circumstances, says the London
Globe. The canvas had been damaged
to such an extent that IT was neces-
sary to send 1t to distinguished artist
at Antwerp to be restored. The work
has been completed. and the picture is
once more re, IN It's old place in the ancient
church. There were Thanks giving servS
ices in honor of the event. and tbe
famed picture is now, so we learn from
a Paris contemporary, attracting more
attention than ever among the tourists
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
MONEY HIDDEN IN JAR
TO SURPRISE CHILDREN
Widow Divides Coin Among
Members of Mans Family

The finding of nearly $4,000 in shin-
ing gold coins, hidden away in hole
in the cellar floor of their dead fathers
home south of Union City, Mich, came
as a pleasant surprise to the children of
ID. b. Disbro, who died a few weeks
ago. The disclosure came about in
this way:
They, with the members of their
own families-for they are all men and
women grown, were invited to eat
dinner at the old Disbro homestead by
their stepmother. who has been such
for nearly a quarter of a century
After bountiful meal, the elder Mrs.
Disbro invited the guests to accom-
pany her to the cellar, says the New
York Herald. Then, in their presence
she raised small stone from the floor
and took from hole beneath a glass
jar in which could be seen many gold
coins. Pouring them out into her lap
she divided the precious store into nine
equal parts and presented each of the
children share, for there are just
nine children in the Disbro family.
Explanations followed, and it was
found that when the first Mrs Disbro
died 25 years ago Disbro found in her
pocketbook several hundred dollars in
gold coin, with the written request to
Disbro that he add to the store as he
felt able, and some day present the
whole to their children. He faithfully
followed the request, with the result
that there was more than $4,000 when
he died.
He confided the secret to his second
wife and after his death she carried
out his wishes and divided the money
among his children. AS she had been
amply provided for in Disbros will
she refused any portion of the hoard,
but t he children insisted upon her
accepting a few of the coins as a token
of their esteem.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
MONEY GIVEN TO BABY
TO STOP HIS SCREAMS
"Nice Man" Comes Along and
Takes 500 in Roll

Mrs. Dulsan Galuisan of 1907 Race
street, Cincinnati, rushed breathlessly
into police headquarters and told a
story to Detective Chief Crawford that
reminded him much of the homage
paid by the "Newlyweds' to their baby
Mrs. Galuisan went to a butchers
shop to pay 20 cent meat bill, says
the New York Herald. She gave the
butcher a $100 bill and received 80 81
bills and 80 cents in change. The
butcher wrapped the roll with a rub
ber band. When Mrs. Galuisan arrived
home her IS months old baby caught
sight of the roll of new green bills
and set up cry for them.
To hush him she gave the tot the roll
to play with, she says, and then for
got it. King Baby" grabbed his new
found plaything and toddled out to the
street with it. Ten minutes later the
mother missed him, and, running out
to the street. came across the child
playing on the sidewalk minus the roll.
Nice man, mamma" he chuckled
when she asked what he did with the
money. The police are looking for the
nice man.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
STABBED IN NECK
DURING QUARREL
Assailant Sent to Jail and Vic
tim to Hospital

OAKLAND, April 21.-Stanley Bur-
CESS, living at "A Fourth street, San
Francisco, was stabbed in the neck
this evening with a pocket knife by
Joe Whateley, also of San Francisco,
The men quarreled at the Seventh
street Southern PACIFIC station. Whate-
ley was arrested. Burgess wound,
which extended from the ear to neck,
was dressed at the receiving hospital.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
BEATEN SENSELESS;
THREE RIBS BROKEN
Four Arrested as ASsaiIants of
Railway Foreman

BERK ELEY, April 21.-Because he
discharged William Papadakos, a sec
tion hand, from his employ. Peter Shon,
a Southern Pacific foreman, was at
tackled last night at Posen station by
four men and beaten into insensibility.
At the Roosevelt hospital, where he was
removed for treatment, three ribs were
found fractured. He has had Joseph
Kunes and the three Papadakos broth
ers, William, Joe and John, arrested as
his assailants.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
SERIOUSLY INJURED
BY KEY ROUTE TRAIN
Run Down While Driving His
Cows Across Railway Track

OAKLAND, April 21.-Joseph Pach-
REQ, living at 251 Louisa street, was run
down by a west bound Key route train
at A street station this evening while
he was driving cows across the tracks.
Two ribs on the left side were broken
and his head was hurt, how seriously
not being known. He may not recover.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22

Bishop Green of Ballarat complains
that there is too much praying for the
king. while Anglicans are loyal, we
do not want to pray for his majesty
five times in the course of one service" :"
says he. 1t hardly seems loyal to imply
that King Edward needs so much pray
ing for
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22

Small upright piano cheap for cash
at II. Schellhaas, Eleventh street at
Franklin, Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22

Take the family for Sunday outing
on the ocean Shore Railway. Miles Of
superb scenery.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22

The efforts made by the United States
government to establish a wireless
communication between Japan and San
Francisco, by way of Hawaii, have been
in the main unsuccessful, although
messages have been successfully for
warded,
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
newport Arrives From Ancon

The Pacific Mail steamship Newport
arrived last night % days hours 80
minutes from Ancon, and days Z
hours 30 minutes from Mazatlan. 1t
brought 20 cabin passengers and II in
the steerage. 1t also had on S7S tons
of general merchandise, $53.770 in
treasure and eight bags of mail Cap
was excellent all the way UP the coast
until two days before they reached
this port. when they ran into stiff
northwest breeze.
PASTOR CHANGES FIELD-Petaluma, April 21.
Rev. j. Irion, who for the last six years has
been pastor of the local German Evangelical
church. left today for Pomona, where be viii
the duties Of pastor of the German
church of that city.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22
Marriage Licenses

licenses were issued today:
Richard 7. Stone, 80, and Lulu NJ Bryan. 20.
both of Oakland.
Peter G. Petersen 80, Oakland, and Sonbie M
Lehman, 2S, Hayward -
Joseph d. Silva Jr., 27. and Mary Santos. 10
both of Newark. -
James Rice, 27, and Ida Mcchase, 81, both Of
Oakland. "
De Forrest s, Griffths. 2s, Los Angeles. and
Grace Sweetland, %, Carson City New
both OF Oakland. -
10. both of Oakland
Joseph z; Short, SO, San Francisco and Lena
Schwartz, 27, Oakland
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22

c. w. Ayers, who recently purchased
4 Knox tonneauette and started for his
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22

Following the announcement that the
United States motor company would
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-22

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selling OrganIza-
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-17
RAVENOUS EATERS.
Gluttony Of Soliman and the Appetite
of Louis XIV.


of Louis XIV.
Touching the matter of eating, the
stories told by the old chroniclers and
historians of the abnormal appetites Of
certain Roman and oriental men of
note fairly stagger belief.
Gibbon tells Of Soliman, caliph in
the eighth century, who died of acute
indigestion in his camp near Chalcis,
In Syria, just as he was about to lead
an army of Arabs against Constantine
pie. He had emptied two baskets of
eggs and figs, which he swallowed
alternately, and the repast was finish
ed with marrow and sugar. In pill
grimage to Mecca the same caliph had
eaten with impunity at single meal
seventy pomegranates, a kid. six fowls
and huge quantity of the grapes of
Tayef
Such statement would defy belief
were not others of similar character
well avouched. Louis XIV. could hard
ly boast Of an appetite as ravenous as
Soliman's, but he would eat at sit
ting four platefuls of different soups,
whole pheasant. partridge. a plate
full of salad, mutton hashed with gar
lie, two good sized slices Of ham,
dish Of pastry and finish this ample
repast with fruit and sweetmeats.-
London Saturday Review.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-17
THEIR FATHERS.
All Three Were Trimmers, but One
Was a Star.

All Three Were Trimmers, but One
Was Star.
The story, long since familiar, of the
little boy whose boast that his father
had put a cupola on his house was
capped by his playmate, who remark
ed proudly that his father had just
put a mortgage on theirs, is brought
to mind by an occurrence which was
told the other day by prominent poll
tician
The small son Of a man who was in
politics for revenue only on moving
into a new district went out and
struck up an acquaintance with two
other kids Of the same age who lived
in the neighborhood. They were in
terested in the newcomer and began
to try him out as to what his parents
amounted to anyhow.
"My father is a window trimmer and
an awfully big man," said the first
kid.
'Ah, that's nothin'v' said the second.
"My fathers dump trimmer, and
he's twice as big as yours
1t was plainly up to the stranger to
make good. And he did it with much
gusto.
my father is politician" he said,
''but heard a man tell him last night
that he was the biggest trimmer in
this ward"
And it was apparent to any one that
the new kid had made strong i'm
preston upon the Observation-Disclosures
York Herald.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-17
WALDWICK.

To the Iowa County Democrat
Mrs. Newton Cockings was visiting al
Mrs. Clara Buckingham Friday.
Mrs. Ooley is improving at the
present writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ostrander Of Min
eral Point took dinner with Mrs. Clara
Buckingham last Friday.
Mrs. Chandler Heath is on the sick
list this week.
John Ostrander was out to Eddie
Davis on business Friday.
Miss Ida Shepard, who has been
teaching at Equal Rights, returned tc
her home at Mineral Point last Friday
for q months vacation.
Frank Van Metre and wife of Jones
dale spent Saturday and Sunday with
Jesse league and family.
Eddie Davis attended the telephone
meeting at Mineral Point, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Harris and
daughter Lucille of Jonesdale spent
Saturday night and Sunday with John
Harris.
The Woodmen contest ended Saturday
night, the winners being five hundred
and seventy five points ahead. The
supper will be held Wednesday night,
March 90.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-17
IN RE THE BALLOT.

"All we have of freedom-all we use or know. 80
Some advocates of woman suffrage
are raising the cry, No vote, no taxation
This cry is catchy, rather than sound.
After struggle throughout thousand
generations we have manhood suffrage
regardless of property qualifications
If the demand for woman suffrage is.
right and righteous altogether it can
not be made more right, nor more
righteous, by either pocket book or
property.
Even here, in free America, some
wrong thinking people will say, now
and then, that only property owners, or
tax payers, ought to vote on bond issues
or kindred questions. The same kind of
reasoning over across the water, in
merry old England, sustains plural vot-
ing, by which a privileged person may
cast a vote for residence in London,
another vote for a manor house in Dur
ham, another vote for shooting park
in Scotland, and so on wherever he
holds property. But the whole thought
of property in connection with the right
Of suffrage is wrong, -altogether wrong.
John d. Rockefeller with his millionsi
no more entitled to vote than if he were
without dollar.
To the Democrat it seems that per-
haps the strongest of all arguments for
woman suffrage may be found in the
case of the working woman. A boy or
man can do almost any kind of honest
labor for wages without losing caste.
But this is not true to the same extent
in case of a girl or woman. The path
of progress is easier for the boy who
goes to work in neighbours barn than
it is for the girl who goes to work in a
neighbours kitchen. Is man kinder to
his brother man than woman is to her
sister woman? or does the right of suf-
frage make the difference? If it can be
shown that the cause for this difference
lies in the ballot, then woman ought to
cast the ballot. But the right to vote
should be accorded to her because of her
womanhood, and not because of the
payment of taxes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-03-17
Victorian Gods.

If Thackeray. with brain weighing
fifty-eight and one-half ounces. had
the biggest head among Victorian writ
ers who had the best features? The
choice would seem to lie between Ten
nyson and Henry Taylor. THAT man
must be poet" remarked one Of his
Cambridge contemporaries when he
first saw Tennyson come into the hall
at Trinity. and another friend de-
scribes him in his undergraduate days
as six feet high. broad chested, strong
limbed. his face Shakespearean. with
deep eyelids; his forehead ample.
crowned with dark wavy hair; his
head finely poised. his hand the admi-
ration of sculptors. But time dealt
none too gently with Tennyson. where
as Henry Taylor. always a distin-
guished looking man. seems to have
grown singulariy majestic with years,
Grant Duff, meeting him when he was
over eighty, notes that Taylor looks
more like Jupiter than ever" and con-
temporary memoirs are full of refer
ences to his Jove-like appearance
London Standard.