The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS. .. ADDRESS A JOHN H(‘SAI;GH'VI'.V. . PUBLICATION OFFICE.....c0c0ve0e ONE STRIKE SETTLED. what seem to be sane and reasonable lines. Several times during the pendency of the struggle there appeared. in it the evil t'galur:s that attended 2 similar strike in Chicago, such as interference with funerals and assaults on drivers who took the place of the strikers. There is no doubt that here and elsewhere the interests of law and order 2nd the permanent weliare of union labor have been greatly injured by the use of physical force by mistaken men as means of winning a amb-xk:A This evil feature appears in the butchers’ strike in Chicago. When President Don- nelly appealed to the law against the meat packers in the matter of lodging their employes in the plants he said that would get the new employes out of the plants and the strikers would see that they never got back. Yet the aw to which he had appealed successfully, if enforced, made the streets of Chicago free and safe for the use of the new employes on their way to heir work. His boast_that he had sufficient physical force at his estroy this freedom and safety was a declar@ion that he was T HE hack drivers’ strike, which began in May last, has been settled command to above the law and could safely defy it n of the streets and highways and by putting the property of others in a state f inder conditions that can legitimat @revail only in a state of ar between mational belligerents, a situation is createl that is in- n a country like this. Yet that situation has frequefitly occurred, ¢ has grown up a powerful public sentiment ago..inst yielding to any that are backed up b Jawful force.” rs and owners of progperty must the law ven to the law to secure such obedience. For their obedience they are en- obey because le hostage ngib ed owes them value recei Whenever and wherever they ¢ to the treason he result may he use of their property that sirrender is @arlet testimgy who have failed in its enforcement. », where those who sowed of the wind have been reaping ns power, and power strong enough to deiéxhc law has rance ablishment, strong enough to enjoy the peace es 2 on indifierently at personal as taxpayers and injuries to their property, while in other fielgds me p over the enforcement of a tax on dogs, the community may alarm has been felt and has resulted in opposing with the result that here at least the day » employers and property owners could de compelled to That nizati n, physical ement and proper adjustment of the hack drivers’ strike force An organized community has imposed itself be- nd has declared itself on the side of the law. line is established on which all future settlements of be made, and the organized community will neither permit ther. - The Francisco and order is immeasurable rced than ever, and it is easily s city the correct principle will issue for the guidance and same situations may devel&. m the settlement n for law gher adv: ymmumnities in which tk onable members of those powerful ®rganizations ¢ to others the rights which they claim Therefore v place themselves in criminal opposi- Union has_receded from that form of so it has set a good American example for ity of right on all citizens. Drivers’ aw and by doir Hack amica settled and that g®at.and enduring principles HELL RETIRES. R. DAVID B. HILL, the active manager of Judge Parker’s campaign, ably assisted by Belmont and J. J. Hill, is at pains to announce that re irom politics January 1, 1903 In politics some things are 1ers, and this is one of them. Hill has been in politics and He entered that congenial field as a member of the te lieztenant of Tweed, when the king of grafters ways spoke of him affectionately as “Little Dave,” ut for many years ature and the up Tweed ny Tam Dave segve him in the legislation which gave Tammany New Yark and enabled that gigantic steal of $30.000,000, and punishment of which by Tilden secured his leadership of the Presiden and his nomination { irom politics when Tweed went to jail and his fellow 1s Robinson, was made Governor by Tilden. Robinson and’v ¢ officers in New York City. By that time John Robinson ran for re-election Kelly ran against him g Cornell. ht Hill out of retirement, and he emerged as Mayor then was put on the ticket with Cleveland for Lieutenant Gov- Tammany ba from its wanderings. s elected to the Presidency. In 1888 he was the nominee . and with Tammany again conspired the treaci 'y which m the State, but secured h¥s own election, defeating antagonism of Hill against Cleveland. Aifter became Senator, with Murphy, a Saratoga brewer, ate he fought Cleveland from the start and was of the Southern politicians who at last succeeded the President’s leadership. After his Sena r Governor and was beaten by retired ally ¢ g the party v from 1 ended he ag@in ran an enormous That He recappeared at st gubernatorial election as the champion of socialism in the party plat- s candidate was beaten. Then followed another retirement that lasted until he manipuiated the St. Louis convention for Parker. to feel it mecessary now, like a prima donna, up-State jo him a die sine n, the form and hi He seems to advertise this as his fare- well toury, : His history brings to the front much interest history in New York polit ng always just in the edge of the shadow that is upon guestionable and dishonest use of public authority. He and Cleveland and Tilden were all bachelors when they were alternately at feud and in alliance. with him w ics, Tilden died a bachelor, Hill has remained an obdurate misogynist, but Cleve- land surrendered, and is probably one of the happiest and most contented family men in the United States. Tt is saie to say that when Hill retires January 1 next at 12 o'clock mid- night. entering his hole, he will omit the precaution to pull the hole in after him. Federal officials have exposed another trick of alleged Chinese “native sons” seeking undesired and uwnwarranted admission at this port. The new subterfuge of the Orientals to secure a landing involves a manipulation and a series of forgeries in the “bones book,” which records the shipment of he bones of dead Chinese to the Far East. The wily Mongol must always be to us in the category of contraband, in the traffic of which white schemers will always be as daring as the coolie is cunning. L I B o Czar Nicholas is showing indisputable evidence that he has transferred hi~ aficctions and his support to that element in his empire known as the canservatives. From them he is seeking advice in the conduct of his foreign afiziro. To people not as intimately concerned in the subject as is the Czar it is difficult to understand how it is possible for him to secure either sailors or soldiers more conservative and backward in action than those now in the field of war, s s We read that Barney Oldfield, the auto scorcher, while endeavoring to drive his machine faster than ever man had traveled on wheels, killed two spectators. The news report further cites that Mr. Oldfield fortunately re- ceived no dangerous injuries, and we may therefore look to see him ready soom to clip that record and add some more notches on his score stick of unfortunate fatalities. 1 such boasts are made and are carried out by denying free use When such power is strong enough | ults and breaches | 1biic authority murder or maim citizens in a | The ‘ should be the labor | heartily congratulatesgall parties that thls | ed his power as Governor to oust from office a | ceed’s war paint, feathers and scalping knife as chief | This revival of Tammany in the over- | He became Governor l Copyright, 1904 By special arrangement with The San Fran o Call and TI York Evening Mail. | 0 [AN] = AN ] P ® on & N S r- N \"J —_— I The sweet, blessed river of charm is| fed many springs. Chief among them are: by A kindly, optimistic disposition. A great desire to piease. A sunny temper. A power of flattery so subtle one must | never suspect its existence. Quick sympathies. A rounded adaptability (so that no corners get in the way of one's pet | prejudices). Heing a good listener. That means being interested and responsive, not si- | lent. Absence of all very strong convic- | tions. This leayes the charmer ready | | to adopt ours. A little dagh of unsuspected insincer- | ity. Sincerity and strength of character | are admirable and most precious for close and continuous association, but i they do not make for charm. Most peo- ! ple (and the stronger the character the | more likely) have the defects of their virtues. Beauty is not essential, but grace of bearing and daintiness in surroundings, with an air of the world going well with one, are. They give a sense of case and restfulness. The charming woman never has | grievances; never lives in a vale of | tears or sits in judgment. She is the | pleader, the consolér. | ‘PFinally she must have writers call “‘a pretty wi And there, madame, is your charm- | ing woman. M. L.H | Rhinebeck, N. Y. H The above is a letter which appeared {in a New York paper in response. to | some request for different ideas of a charming woman, and there are points in it worthy of comment, says a con- | tributor tc the St. Paul Globe. One thing is quite evident, and that is it was written by a thoughtful person who has not formed his opinion impul- sively and knows whereof he speaks. “A great desire to please” might be re- garded 757 evidence of a certain insin- cerity on the part of a woman, but this writer does not think so. Indeed, a great desire to please usually springs from a warm heart and is a much more charming characteristic than an indif- | ference to the opinfon of others and ! not caring whether one is liked or not. Many will disagre with the writer in | thinking that a power of subtle flattery is desirable, but few persons who have come much in contact with others or who know life will disagree. The woman who is charming knows how to flatter with sincerity, if such an ex- pression may be allowed. It is always pleasant to meet this sort of a charm- ing woman because she makes us feel kindly toward ourselves. She- brings out our good points and makes us ap- pear well. That is a secret of many a woman's charm; she knows how to make her friends appear at their best. what the old - SBEES - GRANDDAUGHTER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S SECRETARY OF NAVY N Young Woman Of Hart- ford Who Has Been Chosen By the Governor Of Con- necticut For the Honor of Christen- ing The New Battleship Nan)ed After That State o +. The announcement has. been made by Governor Chamberlain that the honor of christening the battleship Connecticut will fall on a former Hartford girl, Miss Alice Brainard Welles, only granddaughter of the late Gideon Welles, famous Connecticu t politician and Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. Miss Welles is the daughter of Edgar T. Welles, who maintains his residence at Hartford, although spe: rding most of his time elsewhere, and she was born there twemty-four vears ago next November. Mr. Welles is the only survivi rg son of the War Secretary and the choice of the Governor has met with favor, honoring as it does the fam- ily, the city and the State. Mr. We! lles is vice president of the Wabash Railroad and president of the Consolidated Coal Company of St. Louis, and his New York home is at 247 Fifth avenue. Mrs. Welles died about three years ago and was buried in Hartford, and since them Miss Welles has been about much with her father. She is named after her mother, Alice Brainard, the daughter of the late Charles H. Brainard of that city. — “A little dash of unsuspected insin- cerity” will be frowned upon by the righteous; it is hard to explain ju what it means. Indeed, there is much in the enumeration of the good points of a charming woman which will not appeal to the average person, but in this letter there is an insight into hu- man, feminine nature quite remarkable. Remember, the writer is only trying to elucidate the qualities which go to make up the woman whom it is a pleasure to meet. And some of the best and sincerest women in the world might not be at all pleasant. to en- counter. ' A charming woman may fall in with one's views a little too readily to presuppose any very strong convic- tions on her part, but, after all, this ig certainly more agreeable than the strident-voiced woman who insists dis- agreeably upon her own opinions and fails to see anything save from her own point of view. The broad-minded woman fs always making allowances; constantly think- ing of different points of view, of vari- ous environments and considerations which influence the forming of opinions. She is tolerant. The dharming woman is always tolerant and always ready to listen to the other side. It is because of this tolerance she is often regarded as insincere and double-faced. There is ever some one ready to say this of a charming woman. There are persons who: desire you to swear to it if you make a simple remark about the - + Comment op- er Best Qualities L ~+ weather, and these obtuse creatures never can undersiand that harmless insincerities are demanded everywhere vage state. Absolute sin- cerity is only possible to a hermit in a wilderness. it is that when one meets an entirely honest man or woman, who tells the unvarnished truth —as he. or she conceives it—on every occasion, one turns about and goes the other way. Charm and absolute frank- ness are strangers to each other. One person who speaks the truth in a com- munity of others who do not is like a bull in a china shop; if all said exactly what they meant, then it would be pos- sible. Wives, a Bit of Advice That Will Help You to When the writer was about to marry, the wife of a well-known Judge gave her this advice: “My dear, a woman needs the wis- dom of Solohon, the patience of Job and the meeckness of a dove to get along with the best man that ever when they fret, hold their tongue, and always remember that it takes two to make a quarrel.” In writing the dear old lady after some years of experience at the head- quarters of an army, where I was sur- occasion to say: “The more I see of men the bet ter I like them, and as to gquarreling, you are quite right. I should like to add that your admirable advice might perhaps be supplemented by adding: will win nine times out of ten where open hostility and aggressiveness | fails.” The response was: “You are right; we are improving with each generation.”—Kate Tannatt Woods, in National Magazine. Juvenile Smoking in England. A bill to prevent juvenile smoking has been introduced in the British Parliament. It forbids, under penalty, all smoking by persons under the age of ¥6 and the sale of tobacco in any form to persons under that age. third conviction of the latter offense is to result in the permanent forfei- ture of the seller's license to deal in tobacco. Tiny Tree 152 Years Oid. The Marquis of Anglesey had a large and costly collection of Japanese dwarfed trees. They have been sold at auction. One tree, a few inches high, but 152 years old, brought only $17 50, : Rule Your Husbands | lived. I have my third husband, all geod men, but all cranky at times. When they are cranky, keep still; | rounded by some 30,000 men, I took | ‘Exercise tact, and spell it large.” Tact | SOME SENSE | and NONSENSE — New Field Gun, The Danes have a ., flela g, which can fire 200 a m’"u;‘ weighs less than fifteq, has great range. Ever | alry regiment has a now. Ome man carries a leather case attached to another carries amm: horse is loaded with a res | A Giveaway. | Luschman—My wife wanted 1o | all about what I had been doing .‘;‘M | I got home last night Klubman—Why didn't you off? Luschman—I did, but my put her on.—Philadelphia Press Cover the Ground. “Between the two, Jones and his visa | cover a great deal of ground “How s0?" “Well, he makes a good after dinner speech, and she makes a good be breakfast ene.”"—Detroit Free Press Two Yests. “Darum is an awful coward.” “What makes you think so? “Why, he's afraid of his wife. “Well, of course. But I saw h stop a runaway horse last nigh Cleveland Plain Dealer. Counterfeit Crosses. Counterfeit Victoria crosses are num. erous in English curiogity shops real cross is worth about $300 as curio, though its intrinsic value is 30 cents. | British Sclence Guild. 8ir Norman Lockyer has been elects. president of a new soclety for the popularizing of science called British Science Guild. New Seed Potato. A new seed potato, called the Pea is being sold in England at the rae of $39,440 a ton. | Big Snakeskin Order. Guffyd Jones, the “reptile king,” | ing at Analomink, Pa., has just ceived an order from Europe for 10,0 snakeskins. at her | | | | | How To Protect i Beautiful Forests | of Golden State Editor The Call—In your issue of the 26th you mention the arrival of William | C. Hodge, an expert of the United tates Bureau of Forestry, who is in charge of the co-operative forestry in | vestigations being carried on by | State and Federal governments. Being a lover and worshiper of for ests, I am always glad to, know that any effort is being made that will tend to protect our wonderful forests. Mr. Hodge says that E. A. Sterling | will make a study of the forest fire their causes and effects, and recom mendations for their comtrol. With the prevemtion of férest fires the whole problem of forestry is solv together with winter floods, summer droughts and: referesting the already { denuded districts over which devas tating fires have passed. An effectual system of preserving the forests should be established and indorsed in all na- | tional parks and forest reserves. Having been familiar with the forests ! of the Sierras for fifty-five years,I know of no way of preventing fires but by preventing the accumulation of great quantities of fuel for fire, such as dead | trees (fallen and standing), dead brush pine needles, pine burrs and dry grass and weeds. These should be burned each year under the supervision of competent foresters. This practice has | been successfully followed in the Ma: posa Big Tree grove of sequoias, nea Wawona, which was some tem years ago threatened with being extinguished from the great accumulagion of debris then upon the ground. It seems that a part of the dutles of this commission is to map out the for- ests with a view of their withdrawal for forest reserves. Would it not seem a wise policy to protect the reserves already withdrawn? With all the science and knowledze of the present time I can see no prac- tical and sure method of preventing forest fires but by returning to the practice of the Indians in burning the accumulation of debris each year. These Indians burned over the ground so that they could more easily hunt their game. When 1 first traveled in the moun- tains they were a beautiful park, with ery little undergrowth and brush, and by returning to the habit of the Indians the mountains will again be a love park, in place of thickets of under- growth. H. J. OSTRANDER. Merced, Aug. 27. the ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY READERS OF THE CALL TRANSLATION — A Reader, City The poems of Hafiz, the Persian poet, have been translated by H. Wilbertorce | Clark; also by Walter Leaf, into the | English. AMARANTH—Subscriber, city. The word amaranth is from the Greek and means everlasting. The plant is so | called because its flowers .pever fade like other flowers, but retain to the last their deep blood-red color. CHILDREN OF THE QUEEN— K. | L. E, Folsom, Cal. The children | Queen Victoria of England and those they married are: Victoria, married Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia; | Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, now ! King Bdward VII, married Princess Alexandra, eldest daughter of the King of Denmark;" Aljee Maud Mary, | married Louis iV, Duke of Hesse; Al- fred Ernest, Duke of Edinburgh, mar- ried the Grand Duchess Marie of Rus- sia; Helena Augvsta, married Prince Frederick Christian of Schieswig-Hol- stelng Arthur, Duke of Connaught, { married Princess Louise Margaret, daughter of Frederick Charles of Prus- sia; Leopold, Duke of Albany, married Princess Helen, daughter of Prince George of Waldeck; Beatrice, married Prince Henry of Pattenberg. of Townsend's California Glace fruits in ' artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* H fal information supplied daily to ess houses and public men the *ornie strects Teleptone Main iotg, =