The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1903, Page 6

. THE SUNDAY CALL. — SHRILLING MEOWS OF A KITTY. By Kate Thyson Marr. iy O untd others as you would have your mother-in-law do unto you. * % % When ignorance keeps peace in the family it's folly to tell all you know. v % ¥ A* man never forgives a woman, and she would despise him if he did. * % % A man should always consult his wife. She may not have sense enough to-knosw what he is talking about, but it will flatter her vanity all-the same. * % ¥ When one man hangs around another too closely he is generally trying to make a grindstone of his friend’s nose s own ax . v * The joy of the moment may prove the regret of a life- B - 5 attractive woman can ou tance a brainy one at move. i 1t is better to shun people who cannot be an advantage They will either handicap you or drag you down. « * ® 1i you are enjoying life’s sunshine don't spoil by ng for the moon. it s ace high in life's game. P Love is like a garter snake; you may not notice it coil- ing about you, but when it once gets a hold it's mighty to shake off. * \ woman's personali hard * i is real uncanny. A man who is “so good” % » Hope is sometimés like the charm of a snake—lures but to destroy. - ; he fellow who makes a fool of himself is never lone- * ¥ Love vour neighbor as yourself, but put a barbed wire fence around your wife and your securities. The fool never knows when to welcome either opportun- ity or good fortune. * % % The $ood die young (at spring chicken season). - = When Adam and Eve dined al fresco they had only one apple between them, and yet posterity has been kicking over the check ever since - % * If a lamb wanders too far from home it may return n of its fleece. % % Make the child happy and you win the mother. * % ¥ A fat wallet often covers ¢ I10U's. A nervous tooth or a fidgety digestion can reduce a man to any old thing. - % e green summer apples may fill little Johnnie with ng syrup or bird shot. - * When you get 2 good old case of “papsy lals” take any old thing except the advice of your friends. * * * A leisurely gait gives an air of prosperity. . Never hurry. - * 1f money could buy the opera boxes of heaven million- aires might have a chance. * - % big healthy little have People with little purses generally shriveled hearts have doughnuts. Those with big purses - * * Adam was a fellow to be envied. He never saw a mil- liner's bill nor a dressmaker’s account, and never had to listen to Eve grumbling when she mended his old trousers. « x % A all she possesses. again. woman shows her love for a man when she gives him Sometimes the man never shows up The difference between a poor man and a rich man is that the poor man has both the appetite and the stomach, while the rich man’s appetite is gone when he thinks of his stomach. T B What a pity it is that the mother-in-law cannot be guar- anteed to wear well. - % It’s a toss up which is preferable—too much meekness or too much meanness. * * ® Zzufiering virtue would make the most th kick. _Sad, sweet. tient ass on ¢ pa- - % % It is policy to be so agreeable yourself that others can- not fail to be agreeable fo you. * * You cannot always do as you would like to do, but do as near like 2s you can. - People who roll in money seldom enjoy the chuming process. ( . Some folks think they must talk all the time to keep their tongues from growing rusty. - o o Don’t whine about what other people do, but take care that you do not do worse. . . A little enthusiasm greases one’s «elbows and lubricates the whole mental machinery. * % » It does not do very much good to lock up the jug after a fellow is paralyzed. 3 * * = Never lose your nerve, or you will lose the whole race. Of course a2 woman has too much and many nerves to miss any that run wild. . Don’t get mad; it gives the other fellow the whole ad- vantage. L Don’t make a beggar of your friend. T o» ~ You can estimate a man pretty correctly by the men whom he does not know. v o« When 2 man marries he thinks he has drawn ize. Afterward he’ll be blanked if he did. i o e - * % Gold and glory without peace is “nit” A man would pay almost any price for peace even if he does kick on the alimony clause. & 2t Jolts That Lead to Fortune.s || ORACLE OF By JOHN HAZELTON. g OW many men really owe their suc- cess in life to insult or misfortune. A good, hard gnubbifig has stirred up many a man to a stern resolve to get ahead of the snubber, and many a man in his efforts to retrive his losses has discovered in himself strength and ability far greater than he had ever dreamed himself possessed of, and gone on to greater success than ever. But things much less serious than theSe, things most unldoked for, and trivial things, perhaps, may start a man up, as well. I know, for instance, a man, a most prosper- ous man he is now, in a thriving Western city, who owes his great success in life by being left on a crossing by the motorman'of a troliey car. He was a man earning fair living pay, this Western chap, and well enough satisfied with his lot, and if this thing hadn't happened to stir him up I suppose he would have been working away for wages still; but when he'd been left behind three days in one week by oneparticular motorman, who didn’t seem to care whether anybody liked it or not, but just scooted past and left the people there, why, this young man, to whom the action of the motor- man nroved a very sharp spur indeed, made up his mind he was going to do something. The motorman was a heap bigger than he was, so he couldn’t lick him, but what he did make up his mind to do was to buy the railroad, and so get the power to kick this motorman out, figuratively as to the kick, but literally as to the result. Nor was this scheme by any means so visionary as it might seem. The stock of this road at that time was sell- ing for nothing, or next to it; the road paid no dividends and nobody wanted it. There really wasn’t a very great amount of money, comparatively speaking, required, and the voung man set to work earning it. He worked harder and he worked longer than he had ever done before, and his zeal and energy and ability mong got him better and more profitable work to do. so that he began to earn double the money he h?d been earniqg. and it wasn't very long before he reveled in the possession of his first hundred shares of the stock of the road whose in- different motorman had started him up to work for i The motorman, by the way, still on the road, still oc- casionally gave my friend 2 chance to wait for the mext car, all unknowing, of course, as he shot past him, of what he was doing. And every time that that did happen, of course, the young man’s resolve was strengthened, his purpose made firmer than ever. And now. omitting the details and coming right down to the facts. in something less than five years he had a majority of the stock of the road and elected himself pres- ident, That was making pretty quick work of it, you think? Well. I don’t know; that's the way fortune comes to people who really work hard enough to deserve it. And then, you suppose, he promptly fired the offending motorman? * No, he didn’t exactly do that; but he did put him in the car barn for a while cleaning cars, but before long he let him have his old job back—there was nothing mean or vindictive about the new prisidcnt—and the mo- torman didn’t run past anybody after that, for he had sense enough to profit by the good, gard jolt he had had in that experience, and in the course of time he went higher on the road, thanks, again, to the man whq owed his great good fortune. primarily, to the comparatively trivial cir- cumstance of being left behind by this motorman on a crossing. You say you would like to know of some thriving West- ern town like that, where trolley roads could be bought cheap, and where you could go and stand on a crossing and have some motorman run past you and make you so mad yow'd go and buy the road, and so forth? Well, you might not find any roads just like that around now, in the year 1023, perhaps, but there’s just as good other opportunities lying around everywhere, waiting for somebody to grasp them. ¥ In fact. there are, now as ever, more opportunities than seekers: for—to sav something of those prompted by just plain ambition—many as are those who, by one odd cause and another, great or trifling, are, happily, spurred on to fortune, there are many more whom nothing can stir. who are satisfied to plod along just as they are, who will never get out of the same old rut, no matter how hard or in what manner you spur ’em. — By James Forth, through the rayless, vast abyss, Sounds a deep, distant moan Such as, from wounded earth, procecds When bleeding nations groan. And far on high that scourgeful wail Creeps on the midnight air. It deepens yet. All heaven’s seas The dire vibrations bear. Aaas J O+ +I+IH P OI0000 0409004009 0000-0+0+9000000000009 But, hark! Amid the raven gloom, What accents, double shrill, . Like trumpet tones from Hope's fair realm, Come shricking stronger still? “To arms!” ’Tis Liberty's appeal Rings from her mountain throne. “To arms!” The stern and fearful notes Float through the shadowy zone. “To arms!” ’Tis Justice’s bugle blasts Echo the thrilling cry; Her battle clariow’s silvery peals Soar to the ebon sky. “To arms!” Again the undying strains Wake the rock turrets grim. The darksome depths, surceasing sighs, Re-chord the tmmortal hymn. Great Giver ofy a Hampden’s heart, To Theekt calls; to Thee “ver anon its pleading swells— Creator of the free. R e R S No, not in vain their martial prayer; Divine behests Mars hears. Impetuous on his fiery car The dreadful God appears. 2t ot Jhe N immense change has come over theology and religion in their attitude toward nature. John Calvin, the man who has had so powerful an influence over certain branches of the church, lived in the midst of the most beauti- ful scenery of Switzerland. Yet one finds few evidences in the ponderous volumes he wrote that he was respoh- sive to or appreciative of the glories of the snow- capped Alps or the limpid loveliness of Lake Ge- neva. Apparently visions of natural beauty which now draw pilgrims from all parts of the world had little charm for him. Had his mood been more sym- pathetic his theology might have been more humane. Even in much later times an eminent New England preacher evinced in a striking way his disapprobation of the pres- ence of flowers in the Lord’s house. He found on enter- ing the pulpit one fair summer morning a pretty bouquet. With a frown he seized the innocent flowers and crushed them. To his mind they had no connection with the thought he was about to expound. He even looked upon them as intruders into the sanctuaty to be ejected. Happily that day and that attitude are now long gone by, as the interior of many a church in summer time testi- fies.” We are in the midst of an era when the revelation of the divine through nature is honored and studied. Think 4 2 RETRIBUTION & .2 | Hrhott Jr. 4Aroused, his myriad legions, rise, The Nemesis of wrong. The combat chorus shakes the spheres, The shout, the battle song. And crowned with hungry bayonet And carnage-thirsty lance, Borne on Despair’s dark driving storms, See millions armed advance. " ‘Along athousand foamy hills The adverse squadrons shine; Thence downward, on the seething plain, Embattled hosts combine. Above the crew where Perfidy And Treachery unite, Black Anarchy, with brand aflame, Wings round his dragon flight. To Liberty, pretender base! Destruction courts thy hand; Yet thousands, at the fateful hour, Obey the Fiend’s command. 3 The conflict breaks; Hell's en/gc'mry, Red, roars for Sataw’s might. On high to Great Jehovah call The thrice-armed sons of right. Corruption’s death shot rattles; far It gleams from cloud to cloud. Redemption’s cannon thunders roll Through ether’s misty shroud. .m4W0%0+H0+0+MW—0—0. Lo! where yon lurid lightning speaks, See heaven’s first armor nod. Swift on the blazing bolt it'rides. He comes! .’Tis Freedom’s God. orld Beautiful st 2 By “THE PARSON.” of the increasing number of books which aid us in ascer- taining the haunts and the habits of the birds and of other animal life. A literature has also sprung up relating to the wild flowers and the ferns, and forest growths. Children. as never before in the world’s history, are taught to be ob- servant, But some of us are too old to do as the children do. and most of us are too busy to become amateur natural scien- tists. But_there isone"thing we all can do and should do. and that is throw wide the windows of our souls to the many influences of the world beautiful. There are some months in the year when we get almost no help from nature for our better lives. But there is something wrong about the man who lives through the peerless days of the late spring and early summer in our northern latitudes without being touched by_the bloom and fragrance and richness of nature about him. He is as truly in God’s temple as when he goes to the building set apart for the formal worship of God. He is in the later perhaps but once a week, while he is in the former from Suiday morning to Sunday morning again. ‘Dull of soul indeed is he if there is no appeal to his better self in the robin’s carol, in the lavish sunshine and in the operation of those silent mighty forces which work such miracles on shrubs and tree and meadow. It is a good time to get out of doors and to stay there until the fresh breezes from-heaven have swept the foolish notions and the vain imaginations out of your mind and purified and fresh- ened the inmost chambers of your soul. MULBERRY CENTER By S. E. Kiser. ULBERRY CENTER, June o—We held our county convention last week and it was one of the liveliest we've had here for a good many years. Sen- ator Duke Botts, the favorite son of this township, had a friend he want- ed to get appointed in the Postoffice Department last winter, but they give the place to a colored man from Ten- nessee who couldn’t get a white girl to make his bed in Indianapolis to save his life, and Botts ruther went back on the admin- instration. “Here,” says he, “I've been supportin’ the Gover'ment right along, standin’ up for its foreign policies and approv- in’ of everything it done, and now when I ask for the re- wards of merit they turn me down.” “But,” I says to him, “why should you want to get a friend in there among all them temptations, mebby ta fall himself and bring disgrace on you?” “It’s not that,” says he, “it’s the principle of the thing, and why should they go stirrin’ up all this fuss, anyway? What's the use of a gover'ment by the people and for the people if the people can’t get anything out of it? Why should we blame them boys who made a little extry on the side as long as they didn’t take it out of the money drawers belongin’ to the public? When a man goes in business he expects to make all he can and nobodv blames him for it. Yet when a patriot goes to Washington to* serve his native land they think he ought to hold public office just for the honor of it and die a poor man. These people they are forcin’ out and arrestin’ probably had a high and honorable motive. ~They wanted to get ahead so they could retire and give others a chance to sacrifice their private affairs for the public weal. It's a shame that a man who is willin’. to devote the best years of his life tryin’ to get an appointment has to ring up every nickel like a street car conductor when they finally let him in. It makes my ~atriotic blood boil to think of the ingratitude of republics, and it looks to me as if:the administration needed a good, hard bump to bring it to its senses. o e o “There was my friend Ed Hanford, who got a job four years ago in the Sixth Assistant Postmaster General’s office. Look at the way they treated him. He expected whin he went there to have all the stamps he wanted for nothin’ and have a private office where he could lock up his ‘desk for a month or two whenever he felt like it, with no questions ast, and live at one of the big hotels through the winter months, but spendin” 'the sumigners in the moun- tains somewhere or in a cottage by ‘the sea. When he got there they put him to work like a common hired hand, ex- gccnn' him to put in regular hours and makin’ him pay is own railroad fare when he come home to vote for Sher- iff. He told me about it with' tears in his eyes, and would of resigned on the spot if he hadn’t felt so blamed proud and been afraid that the confinement of keepin’ books or clerkin’ somewhere might be bad for his health. “‘Why. Botts,’ says he, ‘I might as well be workin’ for some lumber firm back here, with nothin’ to look forward to but a raise once in two or three years when [ got a chance to go somewhere else for more money. The diplo- mats don’t call on us and we have to pay the same price for groceries_a things that people who ain’t servin’ their country dg..«T| “E’I‘efi'&dent hasn’t invited us to a solitary state functign..€ithe: ) “Can youshtame " so he caniréfise? s ike that for wantin’ to get ahead t they kick up a'row and want to put himyin¥jail en they find out that he's a little bit ambitious and ain't just peggin’ along there satisfied to live on a salary all his days. I tell you this republic is totterin’ on its hind legs and the administration must. be rebuked.” . "Rt o e e T have to admit that holdin’ office has its dfawbacks. but there still seems td be a large num?er‘of public spirited citizens in these parts who would. be¥ willig? to sacrifice themselves on the altar of patriotism: and' take almost .any kind of a job the Gover'ment had*layin’ around logsé . Botts went into the convention intendin’ to give the ad- ministration a setback by not lettin’ it get indorsed anid he got up on the stage to make .a:speech against the policy of bearin’ down too hard, on-the trusts and hurtin’ the business interests -of thec o Tas “Fellow citizens,” he said, “it is my painful duty as I stand before you to-day to pfotest against the way a few demagogs are tryin’ to overthrow.our prosperity by putti obstacles in front of the enterprisin’ corporations thatare trying to build up the industries of the country.” Along about that time nearly everybody in the hall got up and hollered to put ‘him out and cheered for Teddy with all their might. But Botts held 7up his hands and looked as though it 'made him sad.to think that he could of got misunderstood. “My fellow countrymen,” he said; when they gave him a chance to talk some more,* “I need not tell you that we should point with pride to the noble‘course the adminis- tration has taken in favor of the downtrodden masses and preserving the glorious traditions of the party we repre- sent, in spite of the pressure that has been 'brought to bear on the other side. I gtand here before you to-day for the purpose of urging you to pass a resolution givin’ the Gov- er'ment your hearty indorsement. We owe this much to ourselves, and I want to plead with all the earnestness in my soul that _you will not neglect this opportunity to up- hold the administration in the noble course it has pursued.” He went on talkin’ for nearly: an hour, with the dele- gaits cheerin’ every little while, and ‘wound up -by offerin® a_resolution praisin’ the Gover'ment. When it was :go%t_cd younanjmously he sent a message to the President yin @ “After a hard but noble struggle, I have swung Mul- berry County into line for you for 1904, and will send you the convention’s resolution of indorsement in my own writin’. The postoffice at Goose Creek ought to be put in better hands right away, and I recommend John Quincy Adams Brink for the plafe, hopin’ to hear from you soon.” . . Whenever 1.go to a convention I can’t help thinkin’ of 2 poem that I cut out of a paper one time, which as near as I can remember it was about like this: 'l‘lur; is deftness in the movements of the three-card monts sharp, L And the bunko steerer’s handy at the little game he plays; The get-rich-easy Anllt seems to lack but wings and harp To be thoroughly angellc, so seductive are his ways. The gentle-voiced philanthropist who sells the gilded brick Has a manner that enables him to dazzle and enthrall, But, candidly and plainly, when it comes to being slick, The wily politiclan takes the banner from them all. "Good Baint Peter, who is guarding at the golden gats up there, > 5 May halt the bunko steerer and compel him to 8° back; Though the glib promoter’s speech may be convincing, he wm ' share e f The card sharp’s fate and mournfull; ot ¥y pursue . the dmm: The good saint may be trusted to be ready to insert 'n:c' :flu that shall bar out the ones who bear the scars of sin, But, candidly and plainly, he will ha If the wily politiclan doesn’t ma: Yours in good faith, JEF to be alert to get in.” RSON DOBBS.