The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1898, Page 6

: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1898. : ) wronged when it is thought of them 20, 0808 Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Street “ Telephone Main 1874. THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers (n this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents @ week. By mall 36 per year: per montb 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL.... ....One year, by mall. $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE.........Rcom 188, World Building | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (B. C.) OFFICE.... Rigge House | €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ‘ CHICAGO OFFICE.... Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. ..908 Broadway | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 41 Mission street, open until I0 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'cleck. 1505 Polk street, apen untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets, open until 9 e'clock, | 3 z | Magiclan. * Monday evening. | | Streets, Specialties, orrow. | tano Recital. Tuesday evening, N ng in December, AUCTION SALES, r 21, at 7:30 Market street. , at 11 o'clock, | CONSTITUTIONAL INCIVISM. NE of the most interesting features of the late | the extreme indiffer- ence with which the people seemed to regard dments. Seven of these prop- election in this city w O the constitutional a ositions wére placed before them for ratification or rejection, besides an interrogation as to whether or not it is advisable to call a convention for the re- vision of the constitution. All the questions were of transcendent importance and were entitled to the full- est consideration. Yet the vote cast upon each and every one of them was very little more than half that Gov for Governor and 600 citizens voted ailroad Commissioner. The vote on con- stitutional amendment No. 1 was 29,000; on No. 26,400; on No. 4, 24,000; on No. 6, 14,000; on No. 7 d on the question of revising the consti- | There is no apparent reason for the Amendment No. 50,000 for Ri . 26,000, ion 19,900. v in interest here displayed ieparity 6, on which 14,000 votes were polled, defines grammar | schools, while No. 1, on which 29,000 were recorded, | exempts certain indebtedness in this city and Vallejo from provisions of the constitution with reference to inco and revenue. To the casual observer it would seem that the former should have aroused‘more ivterest than the latter. The returns, however, indi- cate that the reverse was the case. Nor is there z »arent reason for the circum- s who voted for Go stance that 3000 vernor did not vote for Railroad Commissioner, unless it is found in the the latter office is useless and should be aboli Somc one has remarked that candidates on the tail ends of Australian ballots re- semble the superfluous letters of English words, which | Horne Tooke observed were like soldiers—in the long marches of time of them are’ left behind. It seems that a candidate on a long ballot suffers just in proportion to the distance he is away from the top. Constitutional amendments being last are gen- eraily left—one half the voters paying no attention to them. | g con- One fault of the present system of submit stitutional amendments, it may be noted, consists in subordinating them to the claims of the office- | seekers. Their importance demands that they be placed at the head of the ballot, that fuller explana- tions of them be attached, and that the newspapers should more thoroughly discuss them. It is evident that thousands refrain from voting on the various propositions mainly because they do not understand them. It is a strange circumstance that a State exhibiting so many evidences of civilization as Tennessee should tolerate the presence of the banded murd€rers known | as whitecaps. These prowling thugs have just com- | mitted another characteristic crime, the victim being | an inoffensive negro. There were twenty-three in the | lot, and there ought to be twenty-three limbs in the | vicinity, each decorated with a reformed whitecap. | —_— Suicide committed by a girl of 16 is extr;mrdinmryi enough to excite inquiry. The case occurred in Berkeley. It appears that the girl had a habit of | reading flashy literature, Just what the term "fiashy‘ literature” implies is not certain. If it means yellow journalism there is nothing surprising in the effort of | the girl to get away from it. Italy is said to be considering the feasibility of in- | terfering between Spain and the United States. So | long as she does not get beyond the mere stage of | considering there will be no harm done. There won’t be much if she gets beyond this point, but all of it will fall upon her. Grant’s father-in-law was a Senator from Colo- rado, but in those wicked days Senatorships were purchased. Of course things are so different now that Grant is out of the competition. Health among the troops at Manila seems to be bet- | ter than it was, but the prospect of going against.the | insurgents is considerably better, too. : el | | An announcement that the three boys railroaded to | the penitentiary had been pardoned out and sent | home would be cheerfully received. T We may yet learn from the yellow press that the Cuban campaign was so baaly conducted that we got licked. Having killed an American soldier, the Filipinos have no reason to regard the incident as closed. The best game bagged since the opening of the hunting season was the Santa Fe train-robber. | e | i Admiral Dewey seems to be equally at home in the sinking and the raising oi a Spanish ship. A — A | largely affected by the character of the chief execu- | prevails now. With McKinley there has come in an | crant and kindly nature of the President has had its | scemed in danger of becoming a nation of malcon- | and we were but scantly grateful even when the turkey | elections. and be glad. as a fly into the ointment. directing the movements of a great navy? Would it not be apt to force the people of every land, at the da THANKSGIVING SPIRIT. 1O better use can be made of the leisure of this N day .of rest than that of cultivating a proper spirit for the enjoyment of Thanksgiving weelk. The occasion is one which justifies a more than or- dinary outburst of national rejoicing. It is also one which will celebrate an unusual degree of individual prosperity. It should be made, therefore, a Thanks- giving season of so notable-a nature as to remain memorable in the lives of all. The moods and tempers of a people are very tive who presides over their affairs. When Cleveland was President we were all of us more or less aggres- sive in politics. Partisanship was extreme and fac- tional divisions were deeply drawn. = A different mood era of good feeling. The sympathetic, broadly tol- effect upon the whole people. ~We are, therefore, freer from irritating disagreements among ourselves than we have been for some years past, and that in itself is a matter for no little rejoicing. Moreover, for a long series of years there has been a considerable tendency among the American people toward discontent with everything from crops to politics. As results of that tendency there arose among us a numerous class of agitators who from declamations became known as In all parts of the Union there sentiment We | the tone of their calamity howlers. was something like a widespread public more or less in harmony with these howlers. tents, kers and complainers. In that temper our Thanksgivings were largely perfunctory ceremonies, was most savory and the pumpkin pie most delicious. A different temper prevails this year. We have be- come so cheerful and so hopeful a people that the voice of the calamity howler has ceased to be heard among us. The factions of discontent have vanished from the haunts of business and of social life, anc even in politics they made but a small showing at the Pessimism has given way to optimism. The people have recovered their natural buoyancy and once more look with unjaundiced eyes upon the bright and brightening prospects of their families, their communities and their country. In addition to these changes in the mood of the peaple there have been equally notable changes in the environment of the nation to make an e> ptionally glad Thanksgiving. We have fought a war for the czuse of liberty and humanity which has brought vic- tery to our flag and added dominion to our territory. Tt has increased our prestige among the nations of the earth and adorned the annals of history with other illustrations of the heroism of our soldiers and sailors. When to thoughts of these things consideration is given to the abounding prosperity of the year for almost all the industries of the people, when the superb financial condition of the nation is recalled, when its high influence among the powers of the earth is regarded, it will be perceived that Thanks- giving week this year ought to be made more univer- sally and more deeply felt than ever. It has been for a prosperous, proud .and glorious year, and our oicing should be in a corresponding measure. [ e A PERSONALLY CONDUCTED NAVY. HE world has been cheered by the announce- ment that the **Examiner’s big navy is in sight.” s the Examiner itself was the medium for conveying this intelligence, there can be no doubt as to the authenticity of it. Therefore et us rejoice But conjectures arise as to dire possibilities; a foreboding of ill projects itself into the situation even Is the Examiner fitted for | muzzle of 13-inch guns, to subscribe for its puzzle pictures? We would regret to see a comparatively well satisfied universe thus enshrouded in gloom. | Nor would it be fair to employ a navy to carry Ex- aminers out to sea and there dump them, saving the cost of their incineration at the garbage crematory, for incineration is a worthy home industry. However, there is no utility in being pessimistic. Perhaps the Examiner intends in time of need to permit the Government to employ its navy, subject of course to the direction of the author and editor of the battleship, the monitor and the cruiser. Such a navy would be as impressive as though owned by Uncle Sam, while at the same time he would be re- lieved of a load of responsibility. We f{elicitate our contemporary not only as to its enterprise in creating a naval power, but in the mod- esty of its announcement. It may be true that others have spoken of the necessity of having a few boats handy, but clearly they got their inspiration at the fount where the only genuine inspiration is on tap. They had heard the noise of the Examiner and the | shouting. Tt is hardly fair that now a Secretary of the Navy, a mere hireling, should assert interest in a scheme which only concerns him indirectly; that | naval boards should make recommendation. The Examiner has not asked for any assistance, and this governmental interference must be annoying. Let Long keep in the background and take his orders the same as other members of the staff. An Arizona man killed two Mexicans, explaining that he did so because they had stolen two burros from him, and that he considered the animals of greater value than the thieves. Yet the court sent him to prison for life! Probably the court had never had any burros stolen. et Reports are current that ex-President Harrison has received a $100,000 retainer. It is only to be regretted for him that a lawyer’s fee and the salary of an actor l}‘\'c in common the trait of being about 50 per cent imagination. A French paper predicts that within a decade the United States will demand Canada from England. The startling feature of the announcement is that it indicates the dotage of another Parisian editor. e An evening paper remarks that the costly foolish- ness of ocean racing should be discouraged. Per- haps the wreck of the Atalanta may be fairly regarded as having a tendency in this direction. It is not clear why anybody should go to the trouble to attempt the murder of ex-King Milan. He really isn’t worth the powder to blow him to any place. John Brisben Walker of New York says Croker is not worthy of trust. Doubtless Croker i ready to affirm as much concerning Mr. Walker. Mr& Craven’s demand for $5000 a month from the Fair estate will be recognized as particularly modest. The estate yields considerable more than this sum. fhal,of any gentleman, it may be remarked that certain THE COLONIES @ND OUR MARKETS. HE Home Market Club of Boston has tackled Tthc expansion question and lines up against the policy unless it can be so carried out as to pre- vent extension of our revenue laws to those new pos- sessions. The list of reasons for this brings the club around to the same statement as that made by The Call against taking tropical colonies at all. Ii we take them and extend our protective system to them, they stand on exact equality iu that respect with our own people. The commerce of the Philip- pines is in the hands of Chinese merchants. They will rise to an equality with our own. Tropical labor is very cheap. It has always been cheap and will al- ways be. White men cannot perform it. No races except those' now there can labor there. Their scale of living is low, as has always been the case in the tropics. It is low because their wants are few, and these are incapable of increase. If we admit -the products of this cheap labor, sugar, tobacco and rice, we admit a competition against which American la- bor cannot stand. The beet sugar of California and the cane sugar of Louisiana must be obsoleted. The rice fields of Carolina, Georgia, the Louisiana low lands and Eastern Texas must return to swamp. The tobacco fields of North Carolina and Virginia must go back to scrub pine, and those of the Housatonic Valley in Connecticut and around the dalles of the Wisconsin River must be abandoned. American agriculture must undergo the agony and bloody sweat of destruction of three of its important objects of profit without any compensating extension | of a market for what crops it has leit. The tropics, especially the Philippines, don’t want wheat. Their cereal food is rice. They are not large customers for pork products. It is unsuited to their climate. If we are to expand and carry our protective system along we must pay the cost in the destruction of these industries at home. As our boundaries expand our | Lome opportunities will contract. We have given all | these reasons against the imperial policy, and the Home Market Club agrees with us. But at the same time that club bows to Mammon by proposing that we may expand and at the same time keep our protective system for ourselves, by setting up the same tariff against our own colonies that we oppose to the rest of the world. The club then proposes to justify expansion by the is BRUBIBRLRURIREES BR8N A Visalia writer, whose fame it has been my pleasure to spread abroad, expresses sorrow that this department should have been expelled from the editorial page and placed in “an ob- scure corner.”” While sympathy is sweet, and a scant share of it comes my way, I must remark that the gentleman is mistaken. The Call has many things, but it has no obscure corners. & ek A man named Erickson has expended $100 in a vain effort to collect from a needy cripple a debt of $7. I hope Erickson will not be discouraged. About the only good a man of his stamp can do in a community is through keeping his money in circula- tion. . Three times has Dawson City suf- ferdd seriously from fire caused by the mania of a quick-tempered woman for throwing lighted lamps. Her feminine instinet recognizes the value of a mis- sile which is certain to do damage whether or not it reaches the thing at which it is thrown. However, if with- out appearing to be lacking in defer- ence, a policeman or some brave citizen could induce’ the lady to hurl the com- paratively innocuous and non-explosive brickbat when she desires to express disapprobation, Dawson property would be regarded as a better insurance risk. o o+ % Christian Science is severely scored every time anybody has the misfortune to die under its tender ministrations. 1t does not seem to me that this is fair, since people do die with learned doctors holding consuitations at the bedside. They die with their systems so full of drugs as to practically be embalmed in advance. They die while the surgeon is wiping the ready knife with which he has been carving their mortal parts. In fact, people have a habit of dying, and whether they reach the end un- aided, or boosted along by potions or prayer, really matters little. I do not wish to be understood as indorsing Christian Science, nor as condemning it. True, according to my present light, it seems to me the most palpable nonsense. People who recover after submitting to it I believe have simply permitted nature to take a course un- hampered, to have benefited by the ex- ercise of their own wills, or to have imagined their ills in the first place. But if such persons die, they at least have the satisfaction of departing in peace, and there is no assurance that they would have lived longer had their hours of sickness been made miserable by dosing. . . has been dis- . A rabbi of this city cussine the intermarriage of Jew and Gentile and expres disapproval of such unions. While the matter is per- haps a delicate one, among people of sense, it may be considered without of- . | fense. The rabbis of this city are scholarly and erudite. In the world of | intellect they have high standing. Many of them are broad men. They good we will do in elevating, educating and energiz- ing those tropical people under the aegis of American But it is the first letter in our protective creed that a protective tariff is necessary to the elevation of la- bor by assuring to it good wages. Are we going on ing the gospel of the cause behind us? The Home Market Club composed of the apostles of protection. hey insist that without it Yet they propose to lift up tropical labor by a display of the flag and a lecture on the constitution. It is better to be logical and fight expansion per se. as Senator Morgan proposes and the Home Market Club suggests. The flag must stand for absolute | equality wherever it floats, and therefore it should | ceive or appreciate our birthright of equality. s ————rE BALLOTING MACHINES. l of attention was given to reports from various | cities where experiments had been made with | balloting machines. As a rule these reports were tem predicted that such machines would soon be in | use in all progressive parts of the Union. | This year, however, there has been comparatively | It would appear | that most of the communities that made’ the experi- ment in 1896 returned to the old way of voting in the regarded as sufficiently interesting to justify discus- | sions concerning the results. From the cily of Rochester, N. Y., however, | from the use of a balloting machine at the polling places there. Commenting upon the working of the apparatus the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle flashed over the wires last night long before the ballots were counted in other cities, and the figures were doubtless accepted as a fair indication of the vertisement for the machine, and it is a fair assump- tion that it will be in general use before the end of another year. Voting by machinery is unquestionably tofore employed, and, aside from the celerity and accuracy with which the vote is registered, must com- mend itself to every citizen.” machine method of voting, but with the general pub- lic the absence of reports from other localities that tried the machines two years ago will be regarded as of their use. If the machines had been as satisfactory as was at first reported in 1896 it is not likely they would have been abandoned this year. of voting is cumbersome and easily exposed to the operation of fraud. A machine that would automatic- ally record and count votes would be a great advan- Nor is it to be doubted that American mechanical skill will eventually construct such a machine. The only question is whether any machine now in existence which it is to be put. : It is worth noting that the Rochester machine is an improvement on the one tested in that city two years were fairly good, and that those of this year have been perfectly satisfactory. On the showing made it might be worth while to have the machine investigated with voting that will hasten the count of the result and at the same time put an end to any possibility of tam- pering with the returns would certainly be a valuable Tiberty. a mission of industrial elevation to the tropics, leav- American labor would be as abject as that of Asia. We want no such hash and mincemeat government not float over people who by natural law cannot re- OLLOWING the elections of 1896 a good deal | favorable, and some sanguine advocates of the sys- | little attention given to the subject. | recent election, or else that the subject is no longcrt‘ there come glowing reports of the success resulting says: “The result of the election in Rochester was trend in other localities. That in itself was a fine ad- a vast improvement upon any of the, methods here- This report will encourage the advocates of the significant of some overpowering difficulty in the way There can be no question that our present system tage, if it could be made to work accurately and safely. is able to meet all the requirements of the use to ago. It is claimed that the results of the first trial a view to its possible use in-California. A system of addition to our labor-saving machinery. None of the gentlemen who are piling up testimony designed to injure Shaiter will go so far as to claim that the Cuban campaign did not culminate in bril- liant victory. And, after all, a general will be judged by results. N AT, Without the slightest desire to asperse the motives members of the Board of Education are not in office for their health. 'One reason for celebrating Thanksgiving this year will be that by the arrival of the day the Corbett- Sharkey conversation will have subsided. ‘Doubtless Supervisor Delany is ready to bet that his expressions of horror at the sin of gambling are sincers Aguinaldo will either cease hanging his banner on | question. are active in thé shaping of affairs and their counsel is sought. The Jews are nt in local business circles, they promine: in time of war they are given office, | enlist. Many are teachers in the public schools. In fact, save for a clannish- ness instituted a1 1 preserved by them- selves, they are as other American citi- zens. The objection urged against in- termarriage is in effect that it will im- pair the integrity of this clannishness. True, but why should not the racial dis- tinction disappear? Of what value is it? What has it profited the race? I ask in respect’ 1l ignorance. To me it appears that the dividing line has been a mistake and a detriment. There are countries in \.hich the Jew does not have the freedom here given without In Russia he is treated worse than a serf. In France, boasting of its advanced civilization, which is, by the way, a state of social rottenness, the Jew is baited and badgered. Because of the blood in his veins Dreyfus is an exile, chained. disgraced, the cruelty of his treatment a reproach to the world. Since the Jew has no country of his own there follows the privilege of becoming a citizen of, for instance, such a country as the United States. The Scandinavian comes here and his ~randchildren only realize from study of geography that %1‘9 northern penin- sula exists. So with the German, the Swiss, with representatives of other nations. These do not remain in classes nor seek to do so, and yet they speak different languages for a time, have diverse customrs for a generation. At the last they are amalgamated. The Jews, even thcugh born here, refuse to amalgamate, have always done so and perhaps always will. To this char- acteristic mav be ascribed the treat- ment to which they have been sub- jected abroad, and it keeps alive here a division for which, as one having no prejudice, I fail to perceive excuse. In the fullness of time the elements brought by immigration must coalesce, ultimately, to be described as Ameri- cans. Why should onetelement, com- paratively few in number, its interests common with the interests of all the others, be among us, daily associates, friends, and still refuse to be of us? It might be thought that the circumstance of being welcome, held equal before the law, unharassed, would lead to a de- sire for complete assimilation by the nation, almost the only one, which has treated this element in accordance with justice and right. D aEe Dr. Clifford is quoted in an Oakland prohibition paper as saying that no man has a right to go into the liquor business so long as he can make an honest living by stealing. I have no sympathy with the liquor business nor the pleasure of Dr. Gifford’'s acquaint- ance, but I wonder why he cannot talk sense. E * . i There was an old cry, “The Chinese must go.” It fell into disrepute be- cause of the character of those bold enough to give it utterance. I would not repeat it save in the modified form, “The Chinese ought to go0.” Residents | of the East do not realize the menace constituted by the presence of these people. I do not refer to the economical side of the question, the fact that they drive white men to idleness and that the fruits of their labors go to their na- tive land. The exclamatory allegation can be sustained on moral grounds. To judge the Chinese race by the riff-raff here would clearly be wrong. But what the Chinese race may be matters noth- ing to us who have to deal with its off- scourings, its criminals and thugs. Chi- natown, picturesque, made almost fas- the outer wall, or be deprived of the joy of having a banner. = cinating by its oddities, is a sore. In- its secret recesses are the germs of A saéusssssssufius WITH ENTIRE FRANK By HENRY JAMES. P EmsunnsrERNERESSsINSENERIsRRERRES S B8 NESS. = b3 e @ 8 death. In its dens contamination Iurks. There cannot be a sharp dividing line. The malign influence of Chinatown passes any imaginary bound which may be fixed. Its brothels do not tempt alone the people of that race, but the poison of them spreads. A fight among the tongs, so long as the hatchet men shoot straight, is not lamentable. Let them kill each other as freely as they like. The real calamity is that the: form a source of corruption and dis- ease. The presence of the Chinese has been productive of no good, but of much ill. Even the convert, so called, is an arrant fraud, and if there is any Chinese above another undeserving of confidence it is the one who pretends to have become a Christian, for he never reaches a stage beyond that of making love to his Sunday school teacher, and when a fantan game is raided, there he is, proclaiming himself a regenerated and saved spgcimen of the race. The Chinese defy the police, the courts, the laws of decency. The better ones among them are murdered, and all the rest will swear to an alibi. It is notorious that the oath of a Chi- nese is worthless, and yet it must be accepted in court. There is no way to control the Chinese. They are as far beyond the reach of statute as is the sewer rat. They cannot become a part of civilization. They do not wish to do so. Civilization, having respect for it- self, does not wish them to do so. They constitute a problem beyond solution. They ought to go. . S The presence of the father of young Rosser is a pathetic incident. Rosser will be remembered as the Tennessee soldier who, while maddened by liquor, killed 2 worthy and inoffensive man. The father is here merely to comfort the boy during the trial. The murder was wholly unprovoked. There was an absence of malice. Rosser might have killed any other citizen as well as the one whom his irrational passion select- ed as a victim. It seems to me such cases as his are the most difficult with which the law has to deal. For the de- liberate assassin I have no sympathy, and would shorten his path to the gal- lows. But here is a boy who under the stimulus of whisky committed a deed which, whatever the outcome, must forever darken his life. He is to be pitied. So is to be pitied the widow of the man he slew. But can the severity of the courts in any measure lessen the burden of her sorrow? W e A lady whose intentions evidently are amicable sends a letter to be delivered to the “contributor who signs his or her name Henry James.” Naturally the letter reached me. As to the ques- tion of sex, there is no public concern, vet since the subject has been brought up I will say that as a husband and tather I have strongly suspected myself of being masculine. R There is an institution known as the Sabbatarian League. Its members think it is for a good purpose, but it is not. They think thev are doing some- thing to -make the world better, but they are not. It is their idea that on a certain day of the week the human race has no right to do anything but listen to a salarted gentleman expound a text of scripture concerning which he has nothing new to say, and wouldn’t dare say it if he had; but it has. Of all the cranks I ever met per- sonally or through the mails, the acute Sabbatarian is the most distressing and offensive. He has the spirit of a snail, the intelligence of a fossil toad. Re- cently there has been a series of Sun- day concerts begun in Boston for the benefit of poor people to whom no other time offers available leisure. TUprises the Sabbatarian and threatens to sus out an injunction. New England was marked by a similar tone years ago, when it reverently burned the witch, or, with solemn eyes turned to an ap- proving heaven, bored the tongue of a Quaker. Let this particularly pestifer- ous form of crank attend to the busi- ness of saving his own soul, if he think it worth the trouble, and not interfere with those whom a benign providence has blessed with better sense and a broader humanity. . » Miser Berberich has died. To give him credit for this good act would be pleasing, but there is reason to believe that he could have died long ago if he had really wanted to. . Compliments to Georee A. Alexander, and can the young man present any reason why he should not be despised | of all who love decency in one sex and | purity in the other? I do not know Alexander nor wish to but I know his kind. They cumber the earth with their unclean presence. The man who will take advantage of the love and confidence of a girl and then desert her in her trouble constitutes as low a type as is to be found among moral de- generates. When he tries then to blacken a character that had been con- taminated only bv contact with his own, he reaches a degraded depth to which no words at my command can follow him. Miss Durie Heithier, be- trayed, miserable, despairing, attempt- ed to kill herself. At this writing the success of her effort is in doubt. Had the man who worked her ruin had in him the first instinct of nobility he. would at least have shielded her with his name. He had declared his affec- tion, won her heart, conquered her scrupies afid cast her off. For crimes of this sort transgressors do not pay a sufficient penalty. If I can add aught to that to be meted out to Alexander it is cheerfully contributed. "I regard him as worse than a murderer, for the victim of an assassin may die unblem- ished. Yet this butcher of a reputation and slayer of a soul dares insinuate that he was led into such error as he may be guilty of by the very one to whom his presence was dishonor, possi- bly death. There is no excuse for him, and thé more he tries to squirm out of the mire of disgrace into which he has fallen the deeper he sinks, the more abominable and unforgivable becomes his oflend?d By his own words is he condemned. He deserves ever to be haunted by a pallid face and to have ringing in his ears the wail of his prey. As a rule the suicide is a coward. An exception can be made in favor of the young woman whose life has been blighted as was the life of Miss Heithier. According to the narrow and unreasoning prejudice which governs the human misunderstanding the woman who erre is damned, while the man who made her to err gets the reputation of having innocently sowed wild oats. The harvest of sorrow is all hers. I wish to enter a protest and to declare as a man that men are that they would screen so base and heartless a cux as Alexander has proved himself to be. The girl would have been justifiable in shooting him. Iam sorry that she did not do so. She was foolish, romantic, trustful. He pre- sumed upon her youth to abuse the trust. If there is not a sense of chiv- alry sufficient to protect the fatherless maid, decency should veil its face for shame. Alexander does not deserve to escape punishment, but in all prob- ability he will. There Is no big brother to wreak vengeance, and he seems to have no conscience to annoy. But at least in reflecting as to what people think of his villainy he may be induced to sneak into oblivion and cease to dis- turb the senses. And the others like him, scoundrels, parasites, gross in- triguers, defiling the social fabric, may discern a lesson in the manner in which the achievements of Alexander have been received. Once the hero of an escapade, he finds himself abhorred as a branded seducer and poltroon. . e The following has been anonymously submitted. I take it to be in the nature of a warning to Actor Hastings, who is said to be in receipt of tender mis- sives supposed to come from an un- known Pauline. FEvidently the man who wrote it knew what he was writ- ing about better than he knew how to write. However, his purpose seems to be lofty, and the lines are presented for what they are worth: There was a worthy journalist, a man of famlilee, As staid and sover Benedick as one could wish to see; Upon a giddy woman he was never known to smile, While to avoid a chance to flirt he'd sprint an up-hill mile. This staid and sober journalist recetved & note one day Wherein “Pauline” did vaunt herself as one so blithe and gay That if he only would consent to bear her companee They'd go them forth around the town to see what they could see. She wanted for to view the Cliff and hear the wet seals bark, : To take a quiet lunch somewhere and stay out after dark. “And lest,” she said, *“you doubt my word- my picture I inclose “So you can know that I'm about the smoothest thing that goes.” The journalist he thought awhile, then wrote all curt and mean Three little words and posted them. These were, “Nay, nay, Pauline.” But still he wondered who she was and hired him a sleuth To slyly nose and ascertain at any cost the truth. “For,” reasoned he, “this foolish girl needs some good man’s advice; T'll have to tell her writing notes to strangers isn’t nice.” “I've found Pauline,” the sleuth an- nounced in making his report, “And if my judgment isn't cracked, your Paulle is a sport. He's up on Market street just now a- leanin' 'gin a bar A-shoutin’ out for cocktails and a-smokin® a cigar. The picter that he sent you was a measly fake, of course And looks less like the fellow than the fellow like a horse.” Then up arose the journalist and hied him to the place ‘Where “Pauline” stood a-throwin’ sun- dry cocktails in his face. * ¢ * The poem ends abruptly and leaves the reader in doubt as to what hap- pened next. I hope that Pauline got a little grace thumped into his system, but doubt it, for there are indications that he is up to his old tricks. s Rich men who come here from Cen- tral Ameri develop speedily into “good things. They are certain to have swarming about them a lot of sycophants paying compliments, but never paying any bar bills, of which there is invariably a notable lot. The coffee planters and sugar potentates of the South make much money, and luckily for them. If they did not they would return home in the steerage. HIS POINT OF RECKONING. 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