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▲ JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO THB INTERESTS
ON THB PACIFIC
THE BETTERMENT OP HIS CONDITION
VOL. XXII
SAN FRANCISCO, OAKLAND AND LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1916
NO. 15
the consequences, for your figures
would not show it off as mine does,
and it would anger her to see jrou
wear it." And Snowball walked away,
leaving Kit and Puff wondering how
they could regain their standing with
their acquaintances.
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PIGS WILL REPAY ATTENTION
8NOWBALL'8 REVENGE.
Little Georgia Miss Gives Striking
Demonstration of What Careful
Feeding Will Accomplish,
Puff and Kit became very popular
with all the kittens and cats in the
neighborhood after they gave the lec-
ture and very much talked of, and
poor Snowball,- ras not looked upon as
quite their equal.
One day after he had been in the
city with his master he heard a
commotion in the barn, and he thought
Puff and Kit must be giving another
lecture, so he went very quietly to the
barn door and looked in. All the cats
and kittens were sitting around the
barn, drinking tea, and one old Mrs.
Tabby was saying to Puff: "It is a
pity your brother Snowball does not
care for the artistic things in life
as you and Kit do; it must be very-
trying to have him go to town with
his master instead of enjoying this
•brilliant gathering you have here this
afternoon at ycur tea."
"Yes," replied Puff. "Kit and I
often speak of it. but Snowball does
not care for social life at all. He
is of rather a roving disposition, and
he does not care for style, either."
"He seems to be very proud of his
tie and collar," said another Mrs.
Tabby.
"Oh, yes," replied Kit, "so he is,
but he does not wear them with any
style."
"He has not the grace or dignity
which you or Puff possess," said an-
other old Tabby.
Snowball listened with flashing
eyes. "The wretches," he said; "after
all I have done for Kit and Puff to
think they would talk about me like
this. I will show them whether I
have style or not. I saw a dog on the
street today wearing a red sweater.
I'll get one the next time I go to
town, and on Sunday I will wear it. I
will make the old Tabbies and Puff
and Kit sit up and take notice of
me."
The next Sunday morning when all
the kittens and Tabby cats were sit-
ting on their front steps in the warm
sunshine Snowball donned his red
sweater. He stretched his neck to its
full length so that his tie and collar
might show to advantage. He slicked
his coat and pricked up his ears, and
then walked very slowly by the barn
door, where Kit and Puff were dozing
in the sun, but he did not look at
them.
Puff was in the middle of a yawn,
ana he stopped with wide-opened
mouth. Never had he seen anyone
look so stylish as Snowball in his red
sweater. He tapped Kit on the head
and awoke him. and they walked out
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
A Georgia girl has recently given a
striking demonstration of what a lit-
tle care will accomplish in the rais-
ing of pigs. A sow in her neighbor-
hood had eight pigs and could only
nourish seven of them at one time.
The eighth pig was therefore given to
the little girl, who raised it by hand.
She joined her country pig club as a
Ham and Bacon member, and kept a
close record, as the club regulations
provide, of the feed given her pig, and
of its weight. The pig was not a
purebred. At nine months old the
pig was killed. It weighed 225 pounds
net when dressed as meat, and also
yielded a 50-pound can of lard. The
cost of producing this meat was less
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MESSAGES GO FAR
Range of Wireless Aerial Mate-
rially Incrfiased.
Georgia Girl and Her Pig.
than five bushels of corn, as the pig
was also fed on kitchen waste.
At the same time the seven other
pigs which had been left with the
mother were killed. They averaged
only 87 pounds net when dressed as
meat. This is only one of the
many instances in which the members
of the pig clubs throughout the coun-
try are demonstrating to their neigh-
bors how liberally the pig repays those
who provide it with a reasonable
amount of care and feed.
MANY ERRORS IN SPELLING
Successful Experiments Have 8hown
Possibilities That Have Given
Great Encouragement to Those
Undertaking Them.
A series of remarkably successful
and Interesting experiments were con-
ducted by the United States Signal
corps at the recent maneuvers in
Massachusetts in maintaining a wire-
less aerial by means of box kites and
thereby increasing the efficiency of an
ordinary field wireless outfit from 6
to 16 times. The tests were conducted
by Samuel F. Perkins, a maker and
flyer of man-lifting kites.
Favorable strong and steady winds,
says the Scientific American, in re-
porting the experiment, enabled Mr.
Perkins to send up a string of kites to
an altitude of 1,600 feet. Messages
PARIS PROM THE EIFFEL TOWER
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Orthographic Oddities Brought to
Light by Dr. Leonard P. Ayree—
Few Excellent Spellers.
(UP.*
Walked Very Slowly.
of the barn and looked after Snow-
ball's retreating figure.
"Where did he get it?" asked Kit.
"I do not know," said Puff, "but he
will have all the neighborhood talking
about him, and we will be forgotten
again."
They crept along to the gate and
watched Snowball walk down tho
road. Out came the kittens and Tab-
bies and looked admiringly at Snow-
ball, who bowed and purred to each
one he met.
"Snowball's the most stylish cat
around here," said one kitten.
"And his white fur with the red
sweater makes him the handsomest
cat I ever saw," said another. "I must
watch for him when he comes back,'4
said one old Tabby, "and invite him to
dinner, for he will be the rage after
this." "Yes," said another, "he is
far more handsome than Kit or Puff.
They never could carry off that style
of red sweater."
Poor Puff and Kit watched Snow-
ball as he was greeted on all sides, and
finally surrounded by an admiring
crowd. They walked down the road,
but no one noticed them, for all eyes
were on Snowball and his red sweat-
er. Kit and Puff went home and wait-
ed for Snowball to return, but it was
very late before they saw him, for
everybody was anxious to have him
sit on their steps or in their yard,
that they might be able to say that
he had called upon them wearing the
wonderful red sweater.
When Snowball reached homo that
evening Puff said: "You better keep
away from the cow. If she sees that
red coat of yours she will toss you
so high you will never come to earth
again; she does not like red."
"l am not at all afraid," said Snow-
ball, "the cow always admired me,
but if either of you should put this on
and she saw you, I won't answer for
Seven out of every 100 third-grade
public school children in the United
States cannot spell the word "ha3,"
according to a report just compiled
by Dr. Leonard P. Ayres of the Rus-
sell Sage foundation on the special
problems inherent in the teaching of
spelling. Doctor Ayres' study also
brought out many other orthographic
odditlea.
Doctor Ayres selected the 1,000
words that constitute 90 per cent of
the language ordinarily used. This
selection was made from various Eng-
lish authors, from four Sunday news-
papers, and from the business and
family correspondence of more than
2,000 adults.
Co-operating with the school super-
intendents in 84 citiee of the United
States, Doctor Ayres had the 1,000
commonest words tested by an aggre-
gate of 1,400,000 spellings, secured
from 70,000 public school children.
Nine words of moat frequent use,
viz., "the," "in." "bo," "now," "man,"
"ten." "bed," "top," revealed that sec-
ond-grade pupili, on an average,
spelled correct y 84 per cent of these
words. At the other extreme of the
scale of words "judgment," "recom-
mend," and "allege" were found to be
spelled correctly by just BO per cent of
eighth-grade pupils.
Doctor Ayres finds: "There are
very few exceedingly poor spellers,
many medium ones, and very few ex-
cellent ones. Few words do most of
our work when we write. Fifty words
constitute, with their repetitions, one-
half of the words written. The child
who masters the 1,000 words on the
scale given will make no spelling er-
rors in nine-tenths of his writing."—■
New York Times.
ONCE the gay capital of all the
world of frivolity and fash-
ion. Paris has been tremen-
dously sobered by the great
war. But it will still retain its place
in the affections of lovers of the beau-
tiful and the artistic.
Situated at the crossroads of south-
western Europe, at the meeting place
of the great natural highways leading
from the Mediterranean to the Atlan-
tic through the Rhone valley, and from
the Iberian peninsula to the heart of
Europe through western France, Paris
became a toll-taker from the world be-
fore most of the modern cities of Eu-
rope were born, accumulating that
wealth, that culture, that love of the
beautiful, and that wisdom that can
come only when all the world contrib-
utes thereto, says a bulletin of the
National Geographic society.
In population Paris ranks third
among the cities of the earth, with
more people than Washington, Mexico
City, Rio, Buenos Aires and Santiago
together. It is the world's capital in
many respects—its art treasures sur-
pass those of any other city; its fash-
ions dominate the civilized world and
even influence the uncivilized; its lan-
guage is the court tongue of the earth;
its history is a panorama of the story
of civilization from the days of the
Goth and the Vandal down to the pres-
ent.
Priceless Art Treasures.
In the heart of the city stands one
of the world's most noted of buildings,
the palace of the Louvre. It is the
priceless art museum of France; and
there are contained within its three
departments—sculpture, paintings and
antiquities—examples of the highest
expression of human genius. The col-
lections of the Louvre, were they of-
fered for sale, would bring a total
price so stupendous as to be unbeliev-
able. For example, in the gallery of
Apollo, among other treasures, rest
the diamond-hilted sword of Bona-
parte, valued at $400,000, the famous
Regent diamond, valued at $3,000,000,
the gems of many famous queens of
France, and the swords and spurs of
Charlemagne.
A lifetime might be spent in study
here, and libraries might be written
upon the treasures which the Louvre
houses. In the hall of sculpture
stands the peerless Venus of Melos, a
thing more ravishing than any other
vision ever hewn from a stone. In
this hall there are many pieces, of an-
tiquity and more modern times, the
loss of any one of which would be
irreparable. Yet the strange people
of this city, fired with enthusiasm for
a communistic theory, once mined the
Louvre, poured petroleum over it and
prepared to destroy with gunpowder
what it liad taken the world more than
twenty-five hundred years to produce.
City of Strong Contrasts.
Paris is overrich in the possession
of the beautiful, the impressive and
the magnificent. Its famous buildings
make an almost unending list. Rich-
est among the world's theaters is the
Paris home of opera, without an ar-
chitectural delight, within a faspinat-
ing inspiration in snow-white marble,
onyx, jasper, malachite and bronze.
Its famed grand stairway is a fitting
prelude to the highest moods that can
be produced by the music on Its stage.
And there is not wanting a strong
element of gruesome and terrifying re-
miniscence in this glorious city. The
traveler stands amidst the wide sweep
of the Place dels. Cc-icorde, "Place of
Peace," and he thinks that here before
an assembled bestial mob the razor
blade of the guillotine rose and fell
untiring, while head after head, 'mid
bitter jest and song, rolled from the
gory machine into the great common
basket, and the quivering trunks were
corded at its side. Age and youth and
loveliness were sacrificed to fierce pas-
sion on this now serene square in a
way that only Rome had equaled.
Every contrast is found in Paris,
and all varieties of excellence. Here
is the world's highest structure, the
Eiffel tower. This huge shaft of steel
is one of the most overpowering
things within the city. Forty drafts-
men worked two years on the 15,000
different designs necessary for its
15,000 sections. Restaurants, shops
and a theater are housed upon its
steps and within its corridors. Ten
thousand people can gather here at
one time. *
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The Wireless May Be Sent to Great
Altitudes With Kites.
transmitted from the set of field wire-
less attached to this kite-supported
aerial were received 150 miles away
with distinctness, although the ordi-
nary range of the set was only 25
miles. One thing that aided materially
in obtaining this result was the fact
that the kites flew so steadily that the
aerial was always maintained jit a
constant altitude.
Quite as remarkable as the sending
power of the wireless was its receiv-
ing quality. Messages were received
with distinctness from the battleship
Georgia while off Newport and from
the government station at Arlington,
Va., and Bermuda.
These experiments were but the
first of a long series that will be con-
ducted, and it is the belief of those
who are interested in the matter that
they will lead to a system by which
the range of the ordinary field wire-
less will be materially increased. Unit-
ed States government and Marconi
officials are following the experiments
closely.
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CHURCH or THE. M ADE.I_E.ltSE
LIGHT FOR OPERATING ROOM
Eminent British Surgeon Believes
Green to Be Better Color Than
White, at Present Used.
Worst Habit of Boys.
One of the very worst habits in
boyhood is the cigarette habit. This
j has long been recognized by all the
I judges of the courts who deal with
i young criminals, and especially by
Judges of police courts, before whom
pass thousands of men every year who
are addicted to intemperate habits.
These judges know that in nearly ev
j ery case the drunken sots who appear
j before them, a disgrace to their pa-
| rents, themselves and the state, be-
j gan as boys smoking cigarettes. One
\ bad habit led to another. The nico-
I tine and poison in the cigarette ere*
! ated an appetite for alcoholic drink.
A Live One.
Visitor—Willie, which would you
rather be, George Washington or your
Sunday school teacher?
Little Willie—My Sunday school
j teacher.
Visitor—Why?
Little Willie—'Cause he ain't deal
yet
The "immaculate white" of an oper-
ating room and everything in it has
long been a byword, but it is more
than likely that this will soon change
to a "verdant green," or some other
shade of nature's favorite color. Brit-
ish physicians, who have lately had
an amplitude of practice in operating
rooms, are finding that white is too
wearisome to the eye and causes fa-
tigue. It also detracts from the value
of light on and within the wound.
Light is now being focused on the
wound, not around it, with much bet-
ter results.
One eminent surgeon of Leeds has
fitted up an operating room entirely
of green and it is likely his example
will soon be followed by many others.
Gjeen is a restful color, offers no
sharp contract tcr the colors of the
wound surfaces, and allows ligatures
and sutures to be clearly seen against
it. After painting the walls, ceiling
and floor of his operating room green,
the physician was so pleased with the
results obtained that he has now in-
stalled for exclusive use green towels
ami sheets.
Has Odd Hobby.
An old man who perhaps hasn't re-
ceived a letter in years had an odd
hobby. Every time he sees in the
newspaper the list of advertised mail
sent out from time to time by the
general post office in New York, he
turns at once to the initial letter un-
der which his name comes and runs
carefully through the list. He never
yet has found any letter that might
be supposed to be for him, and fur-
thermore hasn't found any that might
be for any of his relatives. He takes
an odd pleasure in doing it, however,
something with the eagerness which
impels a man to grub through a pack-
et of old letters in hopes that he may
come upon some rare variety of stamp.
Really, if ever he found his name in
the lisT. it probably would kill his en-
joyment if the hunt forever there-
after.
Oakland Bank of Savings
THE OLDEST AND LARGEST BAN K
IN ALAMEDA COUNTV
Resources over - - - - ft27,000,000.00
SAVINGS. COMMERCIAL AND TRUST
Safe Deposit Vaults
4% Interest Paid on Savings Accounts
Broadway and Twelfth St., Oakland
OaKland Branch —1*226 Seventh Street
BerKeley Branch—CorlShattuch Av»! and Center St|
Tremendous Waste of Energy.
With reference to the immense loss
In wealth occasioned by the war,
Theodore H. Price in World's Work
says:
"There is hardly a man who works
up to the limit of his capacity. There
are millions who try to do as little
work as possible. The waste even in
the most scientfically conducted In-
dustries is enormous, and there Is an
immense amount of energy generated
that is not utilized at all.
"It has been jokingly said that the
collective energy of the baby's cry
would run the railroads of New York
state if it could be conserved, and
when we consider that only 15 per
cent of the energy of coal is utilized,
that the unharnessed water power of
the United States represents millions
of horse power going to waste, and
that probably less than 5 per cent of
tho available human energy in the
world is productively employed, we
must admit that a very slight in-
crease in Industry or efficiency will
recover an enormous loss of wealth."
Central National Bank of Oakland
[Largest National Bank in Alameda Countyj
and
Central Savings Bank of Oakland
[Affiliated Institutions.]
Capital, Surplus &. Undivided Profits $2,227,000.00
Deposits, over 13,000,000.oo
Total Resources, over 16,000,000.oo
Accounts of banks, firms and individuals solicited and received
on the most favorable terms consistent with prudent banking.
The largest aud finest safe deposit vaults in Oaklaud.
Boxes for rent—$4.00 per year and up.
FOURTEENTH AND BROADWAY.
LOS
Answered Call of World.
Emile Verhasren, the Belgian poet,
might have been a priest, but decided
that his wild nature could not be
clamped within cloister walls. As a
| youth he attended the Jesuit college of
j Sainte-Barbe at Ghent. There he met
Maeterlinck. The fathers would have
saved their young pupils from the
| world by making them priests, and
endeavored to inspire in them a pro-
j found respect for the past, with a
hatred of all innovation. After the
school at Sainte-Barbe, Verhaeren
studied law at Louvain. Admitted to
the bar at Brussels, he Joined a coterie
of young artists, and, like Gautler, he
won a name for shocking the bour-
geois by fantastic freaks of dress and
conduct. The muse called, and the
law was deserted.
Modern Refaction.
"Do you believe that things general-
ly come in cycles?"
"Well, I've seen some awful things
come on motor-cycles."
The Main Thing.
"That young actress has the face of
a seraph."
"That's all right, but has she the
backing of an angel?"
Power in Japan.
The great dictator in the legal ad-
ministration of Japan is nt5t the min-
ister of Justice or the chief judge of
the court of cassation, but the chief
general public prosecutor of the su-
preme court, Kichiro Hiranuma,
Hogaku-hakushi. Doctor Hiranuma
Is the strength and embodiment of
the.. procuratorial system as it works
in Japan today. He <s a man of fifty,
has been an official of the department
of justice since 1888, and in 1912 was
appointed chief procurator. No man's
wcrd carries greater weign*. In th^
courts of Japan.
Quickest Service
Shortest Routes
VIA
Coast Line or San Joaquin Valley Lines
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
The Exposition Line 1915 First in Safety
SAFETY FIRST-EAT AT
MOODY'S DAIRY CAFE
" Mother's Cooking"
No more Stomach Trouble
Meals at all hours.
1614 West Seventh Street, OAKLAND
J. Bernard Moody
Phoue, Oakland 4073
J. E. Henderson
Undertaking; and Embalming
Parlors
Prompt attentiou given day cr night
i.ady attendant
Phone, Oakland 1878
Cor. Telegraph ave and 23d st
Se Habla Kepanoi l'hone Douglas 3648
O8CAR HUDSON
attorney at-law
372-374 Monad nock Building
681 Market Street, S. F.
THE STRAND!
FURNISHEO ROOMS
Strictly lirst-cfass up-to-date accommo-
dations
1936-38 Bush Street, near Laguna,
SAN FRANCISCO
Mrs. Will Lashley, prop
Phono, Wo at 4-819
CHARLES BESTHORN
Importer and Jobbet
Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco, and
Smokers' Articles
9ro Frankliu Street, Oakland
2695 Mission street, San Francisco
Phones, Oakland 2745 Home A 3824
OSCAR TITSWOBTH
Dealer in
GROCERIES, VEGETABLES
TINWARE. FEED. ETC.
4759 East Fourteenth Street.
Phone Elmhurst 376
7 he Elite Cafe
(formerly Pnrcell's)
520 PACIFIC ST., - S. F.
High-Class Entertainers
a Specialty Orchestra of
Six Pieces.
LESTER MAPP, Proprietor
A. E. SHAVERS. Manager
phono, Kearny 5863
C. A. ANDERSON
Funeral Director
1381 VALENCIA ST., at 25th, S.F.
Phone Mission 151
Imperial Dancing Academy
FRANKLIN HALL
1881 Fillmore St., San Francisco
The best conducted social dance
in the city. Come ont and meet
our visitors, and enjoy a pleasant
evening. Our orchestra is featuring
the latest musical selections.
Dancing from 8:30 to 12 p. m.
Every-Tuesday Evening
Admission: Ladies, 15c; Gents, 25c
Jack Miller and Harry Piersou
Minagers
Phono, Oakland 14&3
DR. T. R. WALKER
"DENTAL SURGEON
Bridge work a specialty. Hours
9 12, 1-5. Sunday by appointment
926 Chester St, Oakland
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