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The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
A TALE OF SELF-DISCOVERY

quette, our visiting cards with the
corners deftly turned up, our attire
appropriately labeled with the Paris,
Berlin or London label. Every item
of our daily life must be CONNIE II
faut" And our opinions, how are they
acquired? Most of them are born with
us, percoIate In from the family circle,
or are dictated to us by the social en-
vironment We grow adept in the
glib repetition of things we do not
really believe, In the careless fndorse-
ment of views and theories we have
never examined. What would become
of our creeds if each had thought out
a creed for himself. or of our parties
If every member of them had forged
the chains of an allegiance for him
self?
The secret of all this cant of con-
duct and can't of thinking is intellec-
tual sloth. Born to be of the wave
of life. and something of its sea, we
are far too content to be tossed to
and fro spray on the crest or as
foam in the hollow. Social compliances
there are from which we can not and
ought not to escape. But If we are to
be persons in world where the high
est human value is that of personality.
we must cease to be everybody and
become ourselves. If we are to be cap
tains of our fates and masters of our
souls we must learn the lesson which
Edmund Gosse taught to the Hindu
Iprincess.-Boston Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
LOBBY GOSSIP
Straphangers Found Only Here

w. H. Cobb, assistant attorney gen.
eral of California, and Mrs Cobb re-
turned to San Francisco yesterday
States. Mr.. Cobb is convinced that San
Francisco has the worst streetcar serv-
ice of any city in the United States,
if not in the world. With Mrs. Cobb
he visited nearly every large city and
town in the country and Canada, in
Guiding New Orleans. Jacksonville,
Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, New
York. Atlantic City, Albany, Portland,
Me-, Montreal Quebec, Toronto, Niagara
Falls, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Buffalo,
Winnipeg, Victoria. Vancouver, Seattle
and Portland, Or In all of these cities
Mr.. and Mrs. Cobb travelled several
thousand miles on streetcars.
Speaking of their experience Mr..
Cobb said:
Not once during our trip did we
have to stand up In a streetcar, but
we hadn't been back in San Francisco
more than a few minutes before we
Were standing UP and clinging to a
strap in a crowded car. In New York
we were part of a crowd of 10000 that
attended one of the National league
games in the polo grounds. We left
with the rest of the $4,000 and got a
seat in the first train that left the
grounds for downtown. 1t was just
the same in the other places we visited.
The transportation companies every
where except here seemed to have no
difficulty in providing enough cars so
that every passenger had a seat
THE time will come suppose when
San Francisco will get a decent car
service. but we might hasten this a
little by some action
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Cullman County Very Rich

Fritz Wagner, planter of Cullman
the second richest county per capita
in the United States. Mr.. Wagner, who
is at the Union Square, said:
The town of Cullman has popula-
ton of 1900 and every man in it who
is the head of family has a clear title
to his home. There is not a man in
the county of Cullman who does not
own his home. This is the reason Gull
man people are rich and contented.
There are 725 heads of families in Gull
man, and every one has a bank ac-
count. i do not think there Is another
town in the United States that has
such an enviable record.
"Culman county was organized about
40 years ago by Germans and at the
time of the organization the farmers.
all of whom were Germans. formed a
plan of marketing their products. which
probably has been the foundation of
the prosperity that has come. There
is another striking distinction about
Cullman county. Though it is in the
heart of the black belt of Alabama,
there is not a negro in the county nor
colored man in Cullman. There never
has been any effort to keep them out
of the county, but In the beginning the
Germans let 1T be known that they de-
sired Cullman county to be a white
mans county. The people are very
| ~ tf<
auarrels. we have good schools and
plenty of amusements for adults and
children and have no politicians.
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out Of the leading cities of the country-NeW York,
Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Philadelphia may be eliminated at once, tor the
total number OF commuters carried by the Pennsyl-
vana and by the Reading railroads in June last was
949,65o. Chicago its two principal lines, the
Illinois Central and Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, carried 14S3, 500. New York carried on
the Delaware and Lackawanna, the New York
Central and the West Shore roads 2824o56.
San Francisco in last June carried on the South
ern Pacific the Northwestern Pacific and the. Key
Route total of 3,29S,1O2 commuters
This is more than were carried on the main lines
OF Chicago and Philadelphia combined, and nearly
half million more than carried on New
York's chief railroads. -.
The facts seem almost Incredible but they were
developed in official investigation OF the Cali
forna state railroad commission and can not be
doubted. surprising they will be to-those who
have not known them.
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&c pecial interest," McReynolds

After weeks OF persistence Congressman
Tulius Kahn of this state has succeeded IN
getting the acknowledgements incident the
floor of the house of representatives and into the
Congressional Record matter of political
history
Congressman Kahn voiced the truth when he
said McNab did the country signal service when
he refused to be party to a program that would
have given yerisimilitude to the statement that
Diggs- Caminetti and the Western Fuel company
being rich politically powerful could secure delay
and thus possibly defeat justice
SO far as Mr.. McNab was concerned that was
all there was to the matter. He knew then that
there was danger that the governments officers
might be smirched if there were delay. The result
has proved that Mr.. McNab was correct.
Neither Mr. McNab nor any else has sug-
gested ntmated or believed that Attorney General
McReynods was or is dishonest corrupt. There
are some actions which are nearly as discredtable
as either and the delay in the now historic cases
was such an action. No matter what his friends
say Mr. McReynolds has dscredited himself and
the complete purity OF his motive in the eyes of the
public
Chairman Claytons attempted defense of the
attorney general, saying that special interests
were instigating the attacks on the attorney
general because of his fearless prosecution OF all
offenders, high and low is all poppycock in view of
the known facts.
Mr.. Clayton knows that the only special in
terest in the Diggs Caminetti case was the secre-
tary of labor, Mr.. Wilson, who asked Attorney
General McReynolds to delay the cases in the
interest OF immigration Commissioner General
Canlnett to whose interest delay would have
been advantageous beyond question.
The democratic attempt in congress to make it
appear that the agitation of the McNab-Me Reynolds
incident either the work of partisan politics.
OF special interests or Of muckrakers is ridiculous
in view of the facts and mere pretext to avoid
acknowledgment of the truth, which is that Mr.
McReynolds did wrong.
The letter OF President Wilson himself to Attor-
ney General McReynods ordering him to do what
District Attorney McNab asked, to proceed at once
with the cases, gives fat contradiction to such
pretentious buncomb as that of Congressman
Clayton Guilty, but don't do it again was the
presidents verdict
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Feared the Climate

A Scotchman landed in Canada not
long ago. The very first morning he
walked abroad he met a coal black
negro. 1t happened that the negro had
been born in the Highland district of
Scotland and had spent the greater
part Of his life there. Naturally. he
had a burr on his tongue.
Hey, mamie said the pink Scotch
man, .can We no tell me wheer Ill find
the kirk?''
The darky took him by the arm and
led him to the corner. Go RIGHT up
to yon wee hoose and turn to ye're
RIGHT. and gang up the hill,' said he.
The fresh importation from Scotland
looked up at him In horror. And ARE
We from Scotland mon?' he asked.
"Richt ye are said the darky.
"Aberdeens ma hame."
And hoo lang have We been here?'
About twa year" said the darky.
Lord save us and keep u.s." said the
new arrival .Whaur can / get the
boat for Edinboro?s o?s--Cineinnati Times
Star.
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ANSWERS TO QUERIES

ALIEN WOMAN-S. S. B.. Livermore. An unmar-
ried alien woman who desires TO become a citizen
of the United States must make declaration Of
Intention, and after she has resided continuously
for five years in the United States she can apply
for certificate of naturalization. She must con-
form to the procedure prescribed for male aliens
PROPERTY-Curosity. Lodi. Your question
in regard TO the disposition Of property is one
that calls for legal advice and should be sub
mitted to an attorney. This department does
not give legal advice.
ALTRUIsM-E. H. c., City. Altruisn is the
state of being regardful Of the interest and good
Of others; the carrying out Of the golden rule:
opposed to egoism and selfshness
SKERRETT MURDER-A. 0. T.. City The
killing of Nicholas skerrett. real estate dealer
of this city, by Wright Leroy was on August
49, 1883.
GERMANY-E. NJ. r.. The title of the head
of the royal family of Germany is William II,
German emperor and king of Prussia.
SHERIFF OF MARlN-H. f.. Oakland Henry
Harrison sheriff of Marin county during 1sos
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EARRINGS-W. T. X, Cucamonga. The Gus
tom Of women wearing earrings, and In some
cases men, dates back to remotest historical
antiquity. The earliest notice of earrings is
found In Genesis xxxv-4, i,132 B. c.. when
mention is made OF such being worn by members
of Jacobs family. The piercing Of the ears for
rings. which produces temporary inflammation
was believed act counter irritant for
eyes, and this has been given reason
for putting rings in the ears.
woSIAN'S CITIZENSHIP. H., City. A
woman Of alien birth who has resided in Califcr
mia for 40 years and is married 10 citizen Of
the United States does not have to be naturalixed
in order to vote in this state, in any state
where the women have the right of suffrage
When an alien woman marries an American citi-
zen she takes the citizenship OF her husband.
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BOOMERANG-R. F., Nevada City. The
boomerang used By the natives of Australia and
some parts Of India Is parabolic in shape. One
side is fat and the other rounded, but 1T Is not
in the shape of wooden hoop.
Y
NAME OF OLD GLORY-Subscriber. City. The
poem entitled The Name of Old Glory is by
James Whitcomb Riley.
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The Twin Peaks Tunnel

City Engineer O'ShaugfneSSyS report on the
cost of the proposed Twin peaks tunnel places
it at very little less than 100000. This IS, as
in the case OF the Fillmore street tunnel much less
than opponents of the plan have maintained could
be estimated within reason.
The greater part of the cost, IS per cent accord
inc 10 theocitv engineer, is to be assessed on the
property on the farther side OF the peaks This
is not an unfair proportion as that section IS the
one which will be most benefited, and will receive
the benefit sooner than the section this side OF
Seventeenth street
The assessment averages less than two cents a
square foot which not excessive, considering the
great benefit which that section OF the city VIII
receive by reason of speedy access on the level
The tunnel itself will be about 1900 feet long,
its grade will not exceed per cent, and it is eS-
pected that cars will run through in less than 10
minutes. 1t is calculated that the tunnel can be
built in 900 davs If these expectations all
realized it will mean that in less than two years
a new section of the city, covering some 5000
acres of good residence property, will be brought
nearer to the business section than any of the
cities across the bay.
The city engineers plan is complete and thor
ough The total expense involved is not unreason-
able in view of the results to be obtained. Among
these are not only the great development OF that
section but the unifying Of the city itself
The bonus which it is proposed to offer the
contractors as in the case of the Geary street muni
cipa railroad should hasten the completion of the
tunnel very materially.
Construction of the tunnel itself should proceed
as rapidly as possible and will greatly please the
people OF the city.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31
Saint Helena's S Festival

st. Helena must put her best foot
forward in caring for all visitors who
come to the vintage festival. Every
citizen must take pride in our town
and in the festival There should be
convenient places for people to obtain.
free Of charge, fresh, cool drinking
water, and there must be rest rooms
for both women and men-Saint Hell
ena Star.
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The Commuters Paradise
Enr 111anNr 1raars

Tor many yeafs Stock subject for the Jokes
OF the New York comic papers, like Puck.
Judge Life and the rest, has been the life of the
commuter
Any one who has ridden on one OF the
commuters club trains running to South Orange.
East Orange or any other of the New Jersey
Oranges, to Newark, or to Norwak knows that the
average eastern commuter thinks he is the real
thing and all there is to it.
1t is pity to shock the natives and to disturb
the provincial New Workers. fondest belief but after
all the real paradise of the commuter is around
San Francisco.
The complaint Of the East Oakland Protective
league has developed interesting and not
generally known facts as to the commuters trains
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THE STATE PRESS
Mt. View Board of Trade

The Mountain View board of trade
has taken a vacation until September.
For all the interest that most of our
people take in the work of the board it
might as well take vacation until after
the dawn of the millennium. 1t certain
ly is discouraging to try to keep up a
civic organization in this town. We un-
derstand, however. that in that regard
Mountain View is not particularly diff
ferent from other towns in this part OF
the state.-Mountain View Register and
Leader.
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Couldn't Overlook That Chance

Il hope / shall die before / get DID,"
she said.
'Oh," her dearest enemy replied, q
should think you'd want to live on for
year or two yet, anyhow. Chicago
Record Herald.
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F ERR Y + ALES
By LINDSAY CAMPBELL

According to the old prOverb, the
members of the shoe makers family
must wear old shoes and the tailor's
son raiment made from material that
father can't sell. william A. Ridings,
California streets star amateur fisher
man. will tell you that the rule holds
good in the realm OF his favorite sport
and that catching a lot of fish does
not always mean fresh fish for the
fisherman's own eating.
Ridings wrought great havoc this year
among the smelt.s He made.his headquar-
tiers at a a.nearby seaside resort and by
his industry with his rod kept the hotel
table nlentifully and constantly. sup
piled. The day he made his banner
sun and had stayed with the fishing
for at least an hour later than usual.
He returned with the biggest basket
of the season and the keenest appetite
/ that ever sauced an evening meal
BY way of putting "a real razor edge
swim in the breakers before dinner,
which was in progress when he en-
tered the dining room.
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The air of the ref1ectory was heavy
with the aroma Of fried smelt From
the tables around him he could hear
comments on the size and delicacy of
the toothsome fsh--his fish,
Never mind the SOUP he told the
dark eyed waitress, I'll make my din
ner on fish And he added. I'm hun
cry"
For three days Ridings had been
bringing in smelt. A new boy had been
hired in the kitchen. This boy had
been brought up. in thrifty ways and,
as it developed later, was unfamiliar
with the perishable nature of dead fish.
Each day Rulings had brought in more
fish than the hotel could use, and each
day. after dinner, the new boy had been
directed to throw out the unused fish.
They looked too good to him for such
wasteful disposition and instead of
throwing them away he had carefully
placed them in a. nice warm closet
near the stove.
The waitress delivered Ridings' or
der in the kitchen.
Get me four nice, big smelt," said
the cook to the new boy.
The boy remembered that there were
some unusually big fish among those
he had saved The cook was too
busy to notice where the fish came
from. There were other and more
wholesome odors arising from the stove
to disguise any warning that might
have issued from the four three day
old smelt which he took from the boys
hand and dropped into the frying pam
In due time they reached Ridings.
g e e
That's about all. He didn't eat the
fish. In. fact. he took no dinner at
all that night. Rfdings is gentle
man and it would be possible. with
perfect propriety, to repeat everything
he said to everybody connected with
that hotel that evening, and he over
looked nobody. Ridings is Britisher,
but the British lions loudest roar
would be a mild purr compared with
the roar emitted by that gentle fish,
erman when he opened out the first big
smelt and received that awful message
from the dead.
This story is respectfully submitted
to students of etymology for such light
as it may throw on the origin of the
name of this particular family of fish.
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Offended Her Artistic T aste

How is the maid you engaged last
week doing, Mrs. Thurlow?"
"She left me day before yesterday"
That's too bad. What was the
strouble?"
'She objected to the color of my
husbands necktie.' e.'-Chicago Record
Herald.
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Points of View

In the last analysis" said the anna
teur philosopher, life is nothing but
a continuous fight for existence
No replied the fat man, you're
wrong. Life is a continuous struggle
tc keep your collar dry.-Chicago
Record Herald.
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LITTLE MOVIES
The Progress of Conversation

How old is that young woman
asked the inquisitives person.
"Oh, Is or 19, 1 suppose" replied
Miss Cayenne
How do you knew?"
"She declines to converse on any
but the most abstruse metaphysical
subjects. We don't usually begin to
talk about plays and novels till few
years later, and it takes more than a
decade to bring us around to a
sprightly discussion of the latest
dances" ashington Star.
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jealousy

rs young Mrs. Nudge very jealous?'
Il should say 50. She will hardly
let her husband use the telephone be-
cause she thinks Hello, Central. sounds
50 offhand and familiar" Washington
Star.
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Latest Variety

4 understand said one Wall street
man. that our friend with the aliases
has squealed.
That wasn't squeaI, replied the
lobbyist. that was q Mulholler. -
Washington Star.
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The Sights

Did you see the sights at the sea-
shore?" asked one girl.
No. answered the other. Il went
into the water. / was one of them.''-
Washington Star
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so that when placed. now, upon
the line at the salon with the eye
below the picture, the figure appears
to be slipping off the bed
The nude is a voluptuous type of
woman, with thick masses of red hair
Her extraordinary abandoned attitude
permits no part of the body complete
her arm is thrown over her head
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A SALON GOLD MEDALIST

AT the Paris salon a gold medal has
been given this year for the first time
in many years to an American. The
winner is Lawton Parker of Chicago,
and the picture a representation of a
nude lying upon bed with some ac-
cessories of chintz draperies and light
altering through a curtained window
The picture has been painted looking
down at the model from an elevation
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rints Full Editions
"Has Jack ever kissed YOU 2"

Has Jack ever kissed your
Never once
Il know that. Jack isn't given to
taking single kisses. Boston Tram
script.
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Mo Harm Done

n The learned Prof Chester H. Rowell OF the
Fresno Daily Republican that was, pro-
gressve that IS, seems undulv alarmed because one
OF the Saturday Evening Blythes Cobbs, the
professional funny men of the Philadelphia weekly
which crculates six Cor is it eleven million papers
week, has become mixed his points of the
compass and has put Mount Shasta in the rear of
San Diego, has Miller & Lux ranch in Monterey
bay, the residents of Carmel dwelling at Point
Iona, the Eureka redwoods in Death valley or
words to that effect. 1t doesn't make much differ
ence which or where.
Professor Rowels feelings really appear to be
hurt. He says 1--WE of central and northern Cali
fornla resent the compacent manner in which the
southern California boosters calmly annexed all our
sights and resources, and calmly prefix the word
southern to California in all its possible connec-
tions. When we use the word California we use
it without prefix and include in California with
without the consent OF their inhabitants even the
sacred counties south of the Tahachapi
Tut, tut Professor Rowell, if we NAV profane
the sacred words of Professor, we mean President
Woodrow Wilson Why so peeved about trihe ,
Hast not read any of Will Irwins delicious stories
of the southern California real estate boomer. !.
Nay, more, have you never under his spell
and boughta five acre orange grove and an assured
income Of S10,OO0,a year the top Of San Pana-
mint, which was represented to you being
located at the back door of the Los Angeles Out
look office.
After all, why get excited over the antics of a
professional humorist. You protest until you
are black in the face but you can't stop the chem
ically pure Angeleno from claiming not only Shasta
and the San Joaquin valley, but also
THE glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome
That's the answer to your question, Why south
ern' 1t spleases them, and really can't hurt the
wonders that Fresnos S.
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Cause of Suspicion

Inat currency bill may be all right.
even though 1t has incurred the sup
port OF Andrew Carnegie.-Chicag
News.
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He Has No PARTY

senator Works wants to abolish
patronage His party is not in power.
Philadelphia Ledger,
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There 10000 Jews if the Roumanian army that
crossed the Danube and seized Sstria, yet Roumania
does not grant them citizenship
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If Mr.. Bryan had made his $4,000 year speech in
1896 instead of this year, it would have changed the
whole history of the United States.
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Insects billion dollars worth OF farm products
year, says agricultural report and this does not
incltde the people eaten up by mosquitoes
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Feels Urban

With s2.S0o,000 to expend on good
roads within the next two years, Illi-
nois begins to get rid of that back
woods feeling.-Chicago News.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-31

Tacoma police spent several days hunting for a man
who was in the city JAIL He probably there Tor
safety.
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SHARP POINTS
The Fly's Part

Avoid the fly as you would viper"
says a health authority. That sounds
all right. but the fly won't let US
Cleveland Leader
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Peaceovitch

What kind of a Packitch is IT that
servia has handed Bulgaria o-Deseret
News.