The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1904, Page 26

26 THE FRANCISCO CALL, SU VEMBER 13, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL (" _ , T = — _ . | ' ; ; F HUMAN HEART : o~ 2 == | * 1 JOHN D. SPRECKELS. sseonaabsrceneesern . Ruvmeicion| ) ! | S R % 11, COMMUNICATIONS TO | L { | — TR i+ : | SHOWN BY EPIGRAM } THIRD AND MARKET ST A BY MARTHA M i | | TS ge i { cCULLOCH-WILLI g : _...NOVEMBER 13, 1904 | : RTH _H E GMS L : St i = 33 e 14 3 052 2 ARGERY'S eyes danced wick-i for hinf, he let it be seen he meant| “Willing enough—more than will- BY DOROTHY FENIMORE . FEDERAL COURTS AND LYNCHERS. edly, she snuffed battle afar.| henceforth to have his own way.|ing!" Melville retorted. “Only. show — — | Miss Catherwood, waddling | Within a fortnight he had courted me how. I've been here three hours— HEY are not truly happy of | jured up from the murky deeps of his UDGE JONES of the United States Court for the Northern ascatically. from bonih ”.fiififi"{.’.‘l’fiifi,i‘f“‘&‘ :mr::-ye-ua“s:;“:f :\he:l n!;er this I can give pointers to | 66 Ghine’ Bappiness, other (oskiimaxinat!-»n- 1 5 (o Odah rithey of J District of Alabama is a Southern Democrat and an en-| booth at St. Barnabas fair. | tiing it down the fvvmd. » ‘m;"p or man who fell nmongi a0 unavere” iy Pepdnes i: ::x:::; 1\.‘:5:‘ xlhat as pre -r\:n:;‘i“:‘r: lightened jurist. He holds pronounced views upon the duty had stopped short at sight of | “T'll glve you time to find out your | “Melville! For shame! 7 jealous sisters in Walter Pe- | & L e et g ] P . { or shame! What shock. = hood, an a that, by th of the Fed Government to protect its citizens at home as well | ner, ~setting her nose at least|own mind,” he had said. “It my take | ing, irreverénce! Still I am not alto- ters’ version of the old Greek | o' of physical n every word f the Federal ernme p ROMe 28 i B { | a2¢ abroad. He believes that the Federal courts have jurisdiction to an inch higher, and sniffing audibly. two years—but what is that beside | gether astonished,” Mies Catherwood | story, agreeing together to|nat vibrating. ips reaches | Since they were fellow church-workers, | IVinE a whole life without you? interrupted. raising her eyes to the keep the secret of her fortune, | in its ultimate effects (he farthest star. yunish Ivnchers when negroes are their victims, and if his view | the South mobs will be less ready with torch and rope. charge to thes Grand Jury in his court recently he sa_id: as good a test as any other in arriving at a just conclusion vourselves, considéring what was said and done by thrf a white man under the same circumstances, charged particular ofiense upon the same victim, have been at- [ ered by this mob? If you.are fairly satisfied that ot have murdered Maples if he had been a white and justice demands that you ainst the members of the mot n requires that all citizens of the United the constit States have ec protection of the laws of the State where they The oe continued: “Whatever may be said of any other srder or of any offense against a member of the race, there can r doubt when a member of that former slave race is embers oi another race out of the hands of the State e g 10 secure for him the enjoyment of the'right of men under accusation of g of his race to prevent according to the law of the land, that the intent i such an act is to destroy the victim’s en- 1 its laws accord to all th by a mob becau and equality of civil rights ‘because of the race . and sooner or r reduce the negro to the i of a bject race. ! I white race is superior and wields the power of government. 1 no part in it. The laws are made by men preside in the courts. \VWhite men sit on the juries. he danger is not that a .1]1} negro will escape just pun-|,.a cworn champions—even [to the hands of the law, but that in many instances the in- two or three who had tried to be with unjust punishment. The pretext that the [something more. Margery's compell-| | p eive justice ii the law is allowed to take its|INg gavety shed sentiment as a duck's ! 3 ] wing sheds water. Thus she had y wanting. 3 : 7 laughed her would-be swains out of i dge jones has already dealt in his course with one of the sighing into a consciousness of what denying to the negro the equal protection of the the result will be the subjection of the race nsequences o nates ‘ i nullification of the th irteenth amgn(JnunL by which rejoicing on the way to court and abolished. This has already occurred in Alabama, where ! v other girls. e been found. held in actual chattel slavery mow, in de-, Thus, in her own way. she was| = fiance of constitution. The master has been punished upon con- :::‘L‘DJS "":"‘;“l':r‘:;“":';q:i";‘f”j?dc“‘:;' She Tore the Rug Loose and own court. It is 2 s bl its soluti A e bt & n Smothered the Flames at Her own court. It is a vast problem. In its solution Will .o been what she was at the fair.| | Feet. at be reversed Miss Catherwood was the fair's mov- l.x._ e I'h beiore the South is to prove to the country that theing spiri If she had dared she ; & gro « be deprived of the ballot and retain his freedom. If hé [Would have ignored Margery. Since |d0zen of the biggest and hairiest, & = STAL ok bolici & i s law | She did not dare she wisely resolved |Please, Miss Lane. Change: Out- s e deprived of allot, but is regarded as an outlaw | " oy " " nost possible out of | FAREous! Who ever heard of change at i n under the same circumstances of crime and guilt ' her enemy. Consequently Margery | fir?” : rotected is right of a jury trial and legal sentence, it is diffi- |'had the stall which dispensed impar-| "I don’t want flowers. Keep your} his One section | tially candy, cut flowers and literature, | money. Or if you needs must svend it, ! ! constitut pse into slavery is to be prevented. 3 violated as another. casily The security cgro’s freedom is no greater than the security of his citizen- ing of her lovers, actual, possible and | meant for a withering glance at Mar- ship add his right of seli-government by his own ballot. imposible. Major Warwick put him- | gery, who smiled amiably. This in to Judge Jones, and it is evidently his desire !self at the head of the impossible, [ ‘Do take him away, dear Miss Cath- to put up the judicial safeguards of the Federal courts, to preveut < p the ju )‘\1?]' . (glh e ll f“e 1 fP e | indeed. when the girl he had brought a return of chattel slavery, by making the negro equal before the | up specially for hmself was whisked law which white men make and administer. We are not yet in re-jaway from him all in a wink by his ceipt of the opinions of the Southern press, if indeed they have ex- *'(3‘9950«‘1' of a nephew. pressed any upon this attitude of the court. We are sure, however, | Melville Warwick, the nephew, had ) - att . . been Miss Catherwood’s protege since that it will immediately interest the thoughtful element of that sec- | he was in short trocks, this in spite ot tion who do not believe that the riotous and violent minds of Till-'his own smoldering rebellion. His man and Vardaman should be taken by the North as expressive of mother, a gentle half invalid, was de- Southern sentiment. \‘;:;‘\r][”;'vn”f am"la]”' flther\mod. al:"l hern se e S 3 : i | MV ever willfully crossed his \Iuch may be counted on from the influence of Judge Jones, Who ather in' anything. He had worn is 2 leading citizen of his State, and served a number of terms as its Governor. The Southern leaders who are philosophical in their view of the race problem deplore the effect upon the whites of the con- dition of the negroes, and, above all things, desire to avoid the ener- vating cffects upon their own race of the civil and tmdustrial sub- jection of the other. Judge Jones has raised a new issue and brought in sight a new remedy. How will the South take it? A the heathen as a Christian missionary, has invited correspond- ence on the question of foreign missions, pro-and con. This i3 an excellent plan for disclosing the lay idea of the missionary effort among the millions who hold the religious idea in a different form. There has always been a difference of opinion on the subject, and the adverse opinion has been increasing during the last fifty years. The heathen themselves have some very positive and enlightened ideas about it. We say enlightened, because very many of the Asiatic proponents of Buddhism, Shintoism and Confucianism have received the Occidental education, in the great universities of Europe and the United States, and bring to bear upon the question of compara- tive religions the rules of logic and investigation which the Christian philosophers use upon them. These educated believers in the re- ligions of Asia naturally resent being classified with-the fetich wor- shipers of Africa and the bushmen of Australia, and therein seems to be the key to the missionary situation. They desire to be judged by the effect of the religious idea upon the common, daily life and conduct of the people. They claim the right to be judged by the effect of their religion upon the best FOREIGN MISSIONARIES. DEVOTED gentleman in Oakland, who proposes to go among of them and not the worst. They visit this country and find in the | slums of our great cities conditions that are not outdone in squalor ! and vice by the slums of Canton or Calcutta. On the other hand they | find here in a different social grade the same graces of life, the same | consideration for the weak, the same charity and gentleness that are | among the Parsees of Bombay, the Brahmins of Agra, the Bud-| dhists of Ceylon, and the followers of Confucius in China and the Shintoists of Japan. While we may differ from their conclusions, we | cannot dispute their right to conclude that their forms of religion and ours are excellent, if they are lived, or made the guide of moral | conduct. If our missionaries could show throughout Christendom | the universal influence of their religion, carried into the conduct of all the people and into the policy of all governments nominally Chris- | tian, they would have all the argument on their side. | It seems plain then that before dealing with these enlightened | professors of religions older than ours, which rest upon the same claim of revelation, miracle and supernaturalism, it is necessary to | convert all Christendom first to Christianity. It is necessary to in-| duce every Christian to love his neighbor as himself, to love his enemies and not hate them, and do good to those who do him il | When this work is accomplished we may move upon the works of the other and older religions with every prospect of success. We desire the foreign missionaries to observe that this state- ment of the case is not inimical to foreign missions. It is friendly to them. It means that the most effective foreign missionary work is to be done at home, in preparing Christendom for acceptance as | the model and example which the world can safely follow. When' that is done the world will follow it willingly. Man is so consti- ' tuted that he inclines to religion in some form, and as long as that inclination is unchecked he will do precisely as he does in material things. He will seek the best that he can find. By their works ye shall know them applies to the nations of Christendom as well as to the rest of the world. 1f the missionaries think there is no work to be done at home to make Christendom a fit example to the world, let them read the newspapers published in this country, and by the information gained | | Now he leaned upon the flower counter so ostentatiously rapt in the choice of a rose that Miss Catherwood {1t would not do to say Miss Catherwood | hated Margery, but ever since young: Warwick had fallen under Margery’s|had to speak twice before he o spell, the elder lady had shown herself | swered. ! ““What is it, Aunt Pam? You want spiteful beyond words. All Eppington laughed at her—of | ? rose? Let me beg you choose in- course, ‘( overtly. Sh | stead some of those choice chrysan- ) J In @ Wa¥|ihemums. You see everybody wants its great lady, owning the biggest| oses—and all the flowers ought to go | house, the handsomest grounds, and| _ine chrysanthemums swamp any nearly the biggest bank account in|woman less majestic than yourself. A the village. Young Warwick’s uncle, ‘the Major, had a thought more ready o money, but since he lived modestly, never subscribed to anything—in pub- lic—and gave away by stealth more than half his income, he was no such personage as Miss Catherwood. whose joy in life was to write her name in front of a good round sum, at the head and forefront of every important list. Margery said audaciously that it was Miss Catherwood’s habit to let both hands know all that even her little finger did. Possibly it was that speech, with the necessar: accretions from mouth to mouth, which first made Ep- pington’s Lady Bountiful, so high and haughty toward its prettiest girl. Margery Lane was easily that—and ;much more. There was sweet soul at the bottom of her velvet eyes, wit | and spirit a-plenty under her mop of floss-silk curl All the finest young fellows of the village were her chums was she persisted in calling their mistakes. When she had fully persuaded them to take her own saen view she sent them come to some of the sensible tables,’ The girl's chums had behaved nobly Miss Catherwood said with what she in the matter of buying, to say noth- erwood!"” she murmured. “T have done | my best to get rid of him this last hour. If he stays longer all the rest will hate me—you are an angel to de- liver me from such a dreadful fate. “You mean I am an angel—angels are all masculine. I leave it to the vowing things were at a pretty pass, } and_dull, and bricky-red everybody has i she breathed them once she was lost. | celling. *Now, if you please, we Will | and weaving the plot which ends in | be going. Miss Lane, sell my chrysan- i themums over again—and don't forget to add what they fetch to the amount | of my original.donation.” i “Unless you: buy them yourself, no- body wiil,” Margery sald with a smile | of infantile malice. “They are so big ' the young bride’s looking, to her sor- row, upen the face of her adored, buf unknown, husband Eros, with whom. lived, though she has never seen him. The epigram which I have quoted reveals a weakness of the human uiffed “at them—indeed, Mr. Satmire | heart; the one which I am about to told me when he fetched them in, Write expresses a phase. of spiritual ‘Pamela Catherwood is your one! strength- They are not so miserable as chance for theset” | they might be who are able to keep “Indeed!” Miss Catherwood was so their own counsel about any unhappi- near apoplexy she could not get be- | ness in love. For they are still free | vond the word. “T'll give you a dollar | agents, in" a position to follow any course of conduct they please, unbound by ill-considered statements made, un- chalienged by the criticisms of others in whom they have confided. Let a person with whom you are speaking talk all he will, but when it is your turn be careful what you say-— this is recognized as an excellent max- im in business. It is equally good in personal affairs. If you can carry it out consistently, your battle, whatever its character, is won. apiece for them.” she said, “and vou can send them straight to the Home of thé Homeless.” Then with a hiss- ! ing ‘shriek, “Giri! where is my purse? 1 had it a moment back—and laid it right there under your hand!” “Yes, T saw it,”” Margery said, hur- riedly turning about masges of blos- somy green. Miss Catherwood watch- ed her suspiciously, crying jerkily all the while. My purse! Gold-mounted —the clasp set with diamonds—and a hundred dollars! - What have you done with it?” “‘Hush!” young Warwick said peratively, making to lead her aw People were gathering, staring, ing. craning necks to see, all about. of your secret soul; the walls are forti- fied, and the portcullis down. You are not at the mercy of the many who, like Sneer in Sheridan’s “Critic,” have just we all have confidence in Margery let fall her hands, siying Of course, quietiy, It is not here.” our friends. We would trust them with The words took away Miss Cather- | our last dollar, and all that. We know | wood's last vestige of composure. that they would never intentionally breathe a word which we might con- fide to them. But words which have left one's lips With 2 piunging lurch she ove + the flower table. clutched Margery LY both shculders and shook ner hard, hissirx out, “You! You licti> bold- ' bave an extraordinary vitality for liv- faced thef.” ing, going on—and for growing ab- Stunned silence for a breath —thén normally, whether they are by nature ba'el brcke loose. Suddenly some heaven bern or of titantic brood. one cried. “Miss Catherwood, there's Do you recall “Fama” or “Ru- rurse, tangled up in the lace ! mor.” whom the Aeneid described for you in high-school days? She it was on your hanging stee through the magic of Olympus, she has | You are still in absolute possessicn | | enough wit to make them mischievous. | Public d=feat of any kind is humili |ing. But to a sensi woman, who ! has hopeless aspirations for happi in 2 home which the man she bit- might make for her, it is far me ter to have the story of her unrequited affection get abroad than “rowing up Salt River” could be to any man with a man’s ambitions. She is wise if she guards her lips to a Memnonian silence, remembering that she turn her romance into history, greater sati | can with | | herself, by putting it into worthy deeds | than by throwing it to the four winds of heaven in fruitless words. | Of course, sympathy is helpful. It is | a balm to the wound that rankles inour | sensibilties. The world is not 6 lonely | a place when there is some one in it who shares our sorrows. Friendship | makes up the larger half of that posi- tion of “the glory and the dream” that Catherwood raised o massy Who wrought fond Dido's ruin after the | remains with us when childhood’s arm There, true enough, the Luuble | Carthagenian queen’s public confes- | trustful days are over. But in love gleumed. With one gasping look =t sion of her love, and brought the clas- | affairs one's own self is one’s very Margery's ‘set, white face, sh= feil all sic romance to its tragic end. 'Twas a | best friend, as well as one's worst in u mcaning heap at the feet of the . horrid, a terrible figure that Virgil con- | enemy. gir. che had accused, in her fai £ - ing- ¢ wn a big lantern and overtur . ing it amid the rubbishy de:yraiion Instantly there was a threatening | A I'_” N flate—the flames ran leaping venge- ully toward the groveling woman. If ll Margery stood over her, her slight fig- | ure outlined against a heavy rich-hued rug. Before another hand could be ! raised her arms went up, she tore the | rug loose and holding it banner-wise around and above her, dropped and | smothered with it the flare at her feet. | An hour later Dr. Archer was saying | as he patted Margery's burned fingers, | “Little girl, it was a heap more than a life for a life. You thought only of Catherwood leading strings with what grace he might up to the day he was sent away to college. When he came back from it to find tomboy Margery a creatur= of infinite and tricky charm, highest authorities if that is not true,” Melville said, standing stock-still, his folded arms vropped upon the flower table. Margery looked at him re- proachfully. *“You are blocking the way of trade,” she said. “I have some- what of a conscience, howsoever you may be lacking in it—these flowers have got to be turned into flannels, and soup and shoes for poor folks— are you willing to pay in advange for your enemy, but you saved your friend as well. If the fire had gained head- way every home in Eppington might | be.in mourning.” “I'm not trying to pay. you, gery—money cannot do that,” Catherwood supplemented, from the depths of her easy chalr: “But—you shall be my heire*s—to prove you truly forgive me—and you shall marry Mel- ville Warwick—to show riches mak: Mar- | Miss | withal the one woman in the world all I don't sell?” no difference in a true woman's love. 3 | in that way measure their duty. Let any daily paper published in our great cities be used for the purpose of keeping the statistics of juve- nile crime and transgression. Let the revelations of a year be col- lected for the purpose of study. A gentleman who has kept such statistics for six months finds them to reveal such conditions among the youth of this country as to cause a most pessimistic feeling about the future, for in all our large cities it has been found necessary to have a special judicial court to deal with the crimes and offenses of youth. Now upon the children of the nations depend the kingdgm of this world as well as the kingdom of heaven, and it seems a pity that so much Christian zeal should be exported in the form of mis- sionaries to deal with far problems that are already in the hands of just as zealous men, while this vast field at home is needful of workers. Let us not think that these conditions escape the attention of the peoples to whom our missionaries go. They are observed and com- mented upon and remembered. There are many laymen who believe that all the money and effort put into foreign missions should be spent upon the reform of conditions at home. There are good and | earnest Christians who think that some man who towers above his fellows should raise a banner of light inscribed with the legend “Christianize Christendom” as the first and most needed preparation for the christianizing of the world. We think this states the case of the laymen who fail to be enthusiastic over foreign missions, and it may deserve the attention of churchme Tretary, couplea with persistent rumors from London and Paris, makes it evident that intervention in favor of arbitration on the part of two or three of the powers is about to become a factor in the Far Eastern struggle. The Foreign Secretary made broad implica- tion in his address that it lay with the United States and Great Britain, and with France if she would consent to the pact, to offer direct to the belligerent nations their good offices in the direction of bringing to an end the distressing conflict in Manchuria. Though the Russian Minister at Washington has repeated with emphasis the assertion that his master the Czar would listen to no talk of foreign intervention until Russian prestige had been .vindi- cated, it becomes more and more evident that the despot at St. Pe- tersburg is only awaiting a good excuse to accept the inevitable with honor. Nicholas stands between two fires; his professed regard for the interests of the Hague arbitration court, of which he was in a sense the father, and the care he must exercise for the honor, the stability even, of his throne. He knows that Russia is beaten and hz is desirous only of taking as small a dose of the corrective medicine as he can circumspectly submit to. In this offer of intervention the United States through Presi- dent Roosevelt is almost the controlling factor. England and France are mutually checked and balanced by their respective alliances with | the warring powers, but our country has the virtue of absolute disin- I 'terestedness. The President’s recent call for the reassembling ofl The Hague tribunal is indicative of the free hand and the guiding in- fluence which he, as representative of the nation, enjoys. That act | drew fipon him the reliance of England in the matter of the initiative for the arbitration movement. It is to be hoped that President Roosevelt can see his way clear to assuming the lead in this act of pre-eminent humanitarianism, s A MOVE FOR ARBITRATION. HE Guildhall speech of Lord Lansdowne, British Foreign Sec- J SHE-HELD FORT. For part of two days and nights Mrs. Folra Neth, wife of John Neth, a farmer, held the fort in the Congre- gational church at ‘Woodville, Conn., where she took refuge in a fit of in- sanity, defying the villagers and Sheriffs and bombarding all who came within a short distance of the church with hymn books and church furnish- ings. A H Mrs. Neth came from her home, a mile and a half from the village, in the afternoon and got the church keys. | At nightfall she did not leave the | church, and the neighbors heard | scunds of loud singing and exhorting ; in- the edifice and they hastened thither. ! Mrs. Neth had locked herself in and | shouted: “This is'the house of God, | my only. home. You_cannot come in ! unless you read meé the password and | recite a chapter of the Revelation.” | She was finally removed to the Con- | necticut Hospital for the Insane at Middletown. A Modish and Serviceable Rai | n Ulster of Cravenette in Dark ALONE. She left me here in the vast calm Of nature's glowing handicraft, And I—my senses robbed by my grief— I cursed the fates and wildly laughed. Oh, sore at heart and tired am I, Yet I must tread the weary road That leads—I care not one small jot. I reap the harvest that I sowed. Perchance the wildérness will lead Me to her presence once again, If I might call her by her name 'Twould easé my feet of all their pain. How like a graceful fawn was she! How beautiful and fearless, too! Her eyés—their dépths were dark and clear, Her heart was always good and true. But she could never bear the whip, And when to-day in shéer delight, O’er woodland paths through which we sped, o e As cool and fresh as autumn's night, I struck the mare a little blow, She leaped, and I came tumbling down, ‘While she tore up the road like mad. It's 'steen miles to the next town. ~—Kenneth F. Lockwood, in New York Herald. E ‘ Big Flower Vasés. * For flower pots tHe erstwhile popular Gray. It Is Shirred to Fit the Waist, and Shirring Is Also at the Cuffs. A Silk Cable Cord in Dark Gray | _ Knots About the Waist Below the Shirring. : fg o Sineg “NOTHING IN EAST EXCELS THE CALL” FROM THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL. An Eastern exchange says of The San Francisco Call: ““The issue of Sunday, September 4, consists of forty-six pages, much of it devoted to the Knights Templar conclave. The two sections are printed in colors. It surely 18 a metropolitan paper, there being nothing in the East that excels it.” e — —p Birthplace of Petroleum. | Criminality of Professions. It is difficult to believe that petro- | A Frdnch nrofessor has been inquir- leum, which, with its bi-products, has ing into the comparative criminality of imlde the fortunes of so many and the professions. He finds that the con- been the cause of such great commer- victions per 100,000 of each are as fol- cial strife, should have been first dis- lows: Lawyers, 100; artists, 33; doc- covered In the tiny village of Rid- tors, 25; lay teachers, 18 clerical ‘teach- | dings, Derbyshire. The entire put of ers, 7; Catholic clergy, 4. | this little stream did not aggregate 300 gallons. An uncommercl?l scientist | poihted cut to a carpenter in the town | what might be the possibility of that | 11quid and the carpenter, James Young, L Alligator (‘m"lflbn. Alligator catchers at certain points along the extreme southern coast of | made himself a millionaire by taking the hint. His lead was followed | America, Russia and elsewhere and t day Rockefeller sells his wares in streets of Riddings itself, the cradle of the oll industry, the greatest the world has ever known. The town still has | two relics of this wonderful discovery —the stumps of two candles, which n manner— | were the first made from petroleum, at a cost of a soverelgn apiece. jardiniére of fancy pottéry is decidedly old style r co::ned with the enor- mous bowl-s] vdses of terra-cotta now in l?he porous quality makes them mirable for the health of the plant. m quite plain for comparatively b Those Florida have formed a union to pro- tect their industry from amateurs and others who shoot the animals for sport. Townsend's California Glace fruits tm artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), Cal- Hornia street. Telephone Main 1043, *