The San Francisco call., 1913-08-21

| ~ ROWTH, In language, Is ON evil
dence of life and vigor, and for
- this reason the welcome sign Is
Ideas. The really new word Is com
paratively rare, and this is why some
of the old words are so often called
| upon to do new duty. This overlooking
of a word with meanings has It's dis
| advantages. An illustration of this
was furnished the other day, when
Chief Quarantine Off1cer Glover, IN
| specting the health certificates from
different ports of call on the Japanese
liner Shinyo Maru. came across one
that read as follows:
This certifies that I have inspected
three chickens booked for passage to
San Francisco on the steamship Shinyo
Maru"
| 1t was signed by the representative
| of the United States public health serv-
| ice at Kobe.
| How carelessw said Doctor Glover;
''he has omitted their names. This
chicken business is pretty raw, too.
Who are they?" he inquired from the
| purser.
| who are who?" the purser queried.
| He read the certificate and then ex-
planned to the doctor that some chick
ems are really fowls and that this par
ticular trio happened to be bantam
| roosters of high degree.
| Then why didn't he say fowls on
| the certificate?" growIed Quarantine
officer A. D. Drew, for the comfort of
his chief.
Which, it seems to me, shows ruth
less disregard of the rights of the
| barnyard.
| The word chicken" however, still
calls up visions of Peta1uma to those
of us who live the simple life. Peta-
luna, at this particular moment. sug-
| gests that nothing has been told of the
adventures there last Sunday of that
| famous nimrod, Frank Bond.
/ Frank Bond, as all readers of this
column ought to know, is the crack
shot Of the Ingomar Gun club He
| can shoot closer to a duck without
| hurting it than any other member of
| the club. He went to Petaluma, Sun
| day, with the avowed intention of get
| ting a basket of striped bass from the
waters of the creek. This is to explain
to his friends why they didn't get any
fish.
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Frank provided himself with all the
needful fishing gear. and the boat In
which he and the young woman who
accompanied him embarked on the
waters of Petaluma creek was pro-
visioned for an all day excursion.
| He caught the biggest fish of the sea-
son three times. but each time 1t got
aboard the boat.
Let me try" suggested the young
lady.
She was more successful in hooking
the fish securely, but was unable to
land it.
Give me the rod. I'll show you how
| to do it." said Bond, standing up in
"The main thing" he said, excitedly,
''is to keep perfectly COOL You brace
yourself like this and then jerk him
| out before he has q chance to spit up
| the hook. Watch me!s
| He gave a splendid jerk, but the
| faithless fish had let go, and Frank
and fishing rod toppled overheard. In
his efforts to get back aboard the boat
| he capsized the skiff. The water was
| IL feet deep and the young woman
could not swim. but with the aid OF
| the overturned Skin and the Australian
! crawl, he succeeded In getting her
| safely ashore.
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His friends got no fish and the young
woman, overlooking his heroism In
| saving her life. thinks that he shouldn't
have stood up in the skin. I've told
you all this SO that you viii under
stand why Frank was 80 curt when you
asked him about the striped bass he
promised you for MONDAYS dinner.