The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1904, Page 8

[ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOMN McNAUGHT.... OFFICE .7 ...NOVEMBER 25 , 1904 THE PRESIDENT ON PATRONAGE. Jost important letters written recently by President has strangely escaped general publication and at- Moody, Attorney General in the President’s | v a member of Congress from Massachusetts, He resigned his seat in the House to become y. When Mr. Knox retired from the Depart- be Senator from Pennsylvania, Mr. Moody was | office of Attorney General and Mr. Morton took | ¢ vy Department Mr. Moody was a member of the House he requested nent of Mr. Pinkham as postmaster in his home town President McKinley made the appointment. Mr. | succeeded in Congress by Mr. Gardner. When Mr. m in the Haverhill postoffice approached its end Mr. lives at Hamilton, requested that he be not reap- i named another man for the place. To this Mr. Moody s Mr. Pinkham had made an exceptionally good post-| Whereupor: Mr. Gardner protested against interference by officer in the appointment of postmasters in their home His protest was in the form of a letter to the President, in | “It is not a parallel case in Massachusetts to those | which Senators select postmasters. In Massachusetts it understood that a Congressman shall select postmasters towns and cities in his district.” | This was the statement of the case from the standpoint of a and no doubt Mr. Gardner conceived that he But the President differed, and took occasion on in a letter that may fairly be taken as a declara- | -y during the term to which he was elected imme- an, te published. In this letter the President says: cle any possible misapprehension I would like at the t t Senators do not ‘select’ postmasters in any T 1 I am President. consult them always and in the vast cases act on the recommendation they make, but the is mine, not theirs, and time and again during the three ave been President 1 have positively refused to select in-| gested to me for nomination as postmasters by various I am not satisfied with the character and standing of the 1e is suggested to me, I never nominate him. I un- 'tly that the Senators are part of the appointing that they have the same right to reject that I have to d therefore the appointment must represent an agree- veen them and me, and as the acquaintance of the Senator is much greater than that of the President can pos- v be it is the nmormal and natural thing that I should listen to heir advice as to these appointments, and I generally do so. But ning to it as soon as I find that a Senatqr is advising me So much for my relations with my constitutional ad- visers But the relation of a Representative to these appointments rests not upon law, but upon custom. Some one must be consulted, | rule, the Congressman is the man whose advice is the st apt to be that which can be followed with advantage to the nity and therefore to the party. But this is a2 mere custom, ve never hesitated a moment to deviate from it, whenever circumstances arose that satisfied me it was wise and proper to do In scores of cases I have been obliged to disregard the recom- 1s of Congressmen for all kinds of reasons, usually because believed the>man recommended to me was unfit. Occa- v I have disregarded them because I felt that the man who was in office was so conspicuously fit that he ought to be retained. “] wish also to point out to you that it is also proper to pay heed not only to the wishes of Cabinet officers, but even of Senators of the opposite party, in the case of nominations to office in their towns. In such cases I have sometimes appointed the man recommended by a Democratic Senator, and even when I have not done this I have consulted him about the man I did appoint. That I should consult a member of my own Cabinet in reference to the postmaster in his own city goes without saying.” It is not necessary to add that Mr. Pinkham was reappointed to the Haverhill postoffice. The President’s lctter reads like a declaration of independence, in view of what has been done under some administrations. He proposes to seek all means by which the tness of an applicant for office may be known. This is notice to the unfit to give up hope, even when backed by Senators and Rep- resentatives. It also opens direct approach to the President with all | matters that touch the propriety of any appointment, or any re-| moval from office. In other words, the President proposes to carry | into the selection of officers his ideas about a square deal, and the | people like it. ‘ M overlooked the needs of the Sacramento River, and his posi- tion gives some strong assurance that the plans of our mem- bers of Congress for a comprehensive and conclusive river policy in California will have his sympathy and support. The Secretary says that now the river is in a deplorable condition, injurious to naviga- tion, and ‘needful of immediate attention.. Even the removal of snags that obstruct boats is neglected. The report says that at the close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1903, there was not money enough left in the river appropriation to make the necessary repairs to the snag boat. When it is remembered that 75 per cent of all the local tonnage carried in California is affected by water competition, the economic importance of our rivers and harbors is made plain. Because our river navigation as seen on the map is only a few hundred miles it appears of but little importance. The Eastern river lines, thousands of miles long, seem to eclipse it. But it is of vast importance to California. Nowhere else in the United States are there rivers open for navigation every day in the year, flowing between banks that have a daily production of something that profitably uses water transportation. Our rivers flow through a country that produces all kinds of grain, all kinds of deciduous fruit, all kinds of citrus fruit. Their tributary country furnishes canned and dried fruits and vegetables upon which the world has come to depend for its supply. There is scarcely anything produced by the soil as a luxury or a necessary of life that is not brought to the river banks of California for trans- portation. It is for this reason that the people of our wide river region were inspired by great hope when The Call was able to 2nnounce that our members of Congress intend to make the rectifica- tion and navigability of the rivers one’of their first duties, to be persisted in until all available plans are supported by the necessary appropriations. The sympathy of the Secretary of War with their purpose is appreciated by our people and will not be forgotten. mendatic I have al own THE SACRAMENTO. R. TAFT, Secretary of War, in his current report, has not THE PRESS OF THE NATION. | silence, one who had a constitutional | ways. ! ordinary rivers, even the great majestic | wasn’t it would be—there now?” Possibly those “distinguished noble- men,” who, according to the press dis- patches, érossed the ocean with Buf- falo Bill end are with him now, are taking for granted all the stirring ex- perience they have run up against. It is conceivable that théy think they are right in the usual ‘of events in these United States. ng out to hunt for bears and elk, they have come upon a bank robbery and are begs the court to relieve him of matri- mony on the ground that his wife is cruel to him and he cannot bear ft, Murderers at large, hunted by armed sportsmen, and divorce proceedings ac- companying the hunt, suggest the spice that enlivens American life.— Hartford Courant. New York is suffering from a dearth of plasterers. It has been supposed asked to join in & man-hunt, where the reward .is double for the robbers @ead, and as they start off on this expedition they encounter the divorce case of Buffalo Bill himself, who is brave enough to hunt murderers, but that its most urgent need was for ‘whitewashers.—Cleveland Plaindealer, ———————— THE CASG WORD BY KEITH GORDON. § if marriage were the only PR end and aim of a girl’s life!” she threw off scornfully. Her 13 fi companion smoked Iimper- turbably into the night for several seconds before replying. Always he had the air of one loth to break a aversion to the futilities of speech. But she was accustomed to that, even whimsically attached to his deliberate At last he spoke. In the dark- porch, squared his shoulders aggres- sively and demanded: “Would you you loved him?" His listener gasped. This was carry- ing the war into the enemy's country with a vengeance. Propose to a man she loved! Not for rubfes and dia- monds—not for principalities and pow- ers! One might propose to a man one dlfln't love, but to the man—never! ‘No,” came the answer, in a volce grown suddenly small and meek. And she talks about wanting a man’s ness she could see his face only as a[TIBNtS,” he groaned to some invisible pale blur, but there was a suspiclous sweetness in his tone. “All the little rippling, purling brooks,” he said slowly, “and all the streams, ‘wind somewhere to the sea.’, And I'm sure it isn't my fault,” he added, in an injured voice. “Some rivers plunge underground and lose themselves,” she argued stub- bornly. “I said ‘ordinary rivers.’” This with laconic patience from the gloom. A quick, flashing smile touched her lips and vanished, as if frightened to find itself in the dark. She wondered— well, a number of things; as, for in- stance, what he was thinking of at that very instant, whether he had ever been really in love, and if so what she was like—how deeply love would stir him, whether— She made a little impatient movement to brush away the thoughts which buzzed through her mind like gnats, but still they hovered about, scattered but not dispersed. He was one of the men a woman simply had to think about—broad of shoulder and exasper- atingly masculine—a sort of unex- plored country of mannishness that forever challenged. She drew a sharp, piqued sigh. However much the femi- nine mind paid tribute, he apparently preserved a Jove-like calm. Ruthlessly she prodded him again. “But why hasn't a girl just as good a right to contemplate the joys of bach- elorhood as a man?”’ she demanded. “A man marries if he wants to, when he | wants and, above all, because he wants to; while a girl—well, she gets the idea that matrimony is a refuge from the wrath to come. If she doesn’t m&rqu she knows that her best friends will re- fer to her behind her back as an ‘old maid,” and think of her as one of life's failures. It isn’t fair! Why hasn’t she just as much of a right to her single- as a man?”’ he dark mass in the opposite chair seemed to be considering the question. There was a movement, and the point of light that marked his cigar shifted. “She has,” he said with calm convic- tion, “‘only one expects her to have too much taste to exercise the right.” There was a pause, and then he elaborated: “Being a woman, you see, dear girl, is just a trifle like being caught in a net. It is by no means the same thing as be- ing a man, and all the emancipation in the world can’t really free her. She is an entirely different being, and I'm rather glad she is.” The girl was holding her breath, she scarcely knew why. Sprites, hand in hand, seemed to be dancing along her nerves and singing in tiny, threadlike voices, that only she could hear, ‘“And I'm glad, too; and I'm glad, too!” It took her several moments to study the sudden joy. Then she pursued the ar- gument calmly. “But no—surely you're not in earnest —surely you're not of the antiquated school that believes, for instance, that a woman's brain is of a different—and, of course, inferlor—caliber to man’s?” There was a fine disdain in her tone, notwithstanding the fact that her heart was beating impatiently. The man chuckled softly, for truth to tell he was that very sort of a creature. Never had he been able to take the or- gan under discussion seriously. He ad- mitted it now without reserve, with a fine, large, indulgent masculine assur- ance. “It’'s a wonderful little contrivance, the feminine brain,” he concluded, “but certainly it is different.” Again in the darkness the mouselike smile flashed out and back again, ac- companied this time by an audible sound that started as a snicker, but was deftly turned into a sniff of scorn. It was the latter that the man recog- nized and greeted with an amused laugh. “Ever hear about the little butercup that pined to be a daisy—or the rose that swore it was a potato, and iIf it in- quired the man with bland curiosity. Again the point of light shifted. He had replaced the cigar In his mouth and settled a little more luxuriously in his @halr, as If in mere sybaritic enjoyment of his extraordinary luck in having been born as he was. “Your {llustrations are beside the facts,” she retorted at last, with dig- nity. “I was not asserting that girls wish to be men!” “Well, then”—his tone implied an amiable desire to please—‘“ever hear of the little buttercup that insisted that it was a daisy, In spite of appearances and the testimony of its yellow petals? ‘Well, that's like the foolish little girls who want toe be judged by man's standard.” Two slender hands were clapped noise- lessly, but their owner enunciated with some heat: “How would you llke to be a woman yourself and be put upon, and—and snubbed and forever taunted with the fact of your inferfority? Oh, not in so many words,” she went on hurriedly, lest he should Interrupt her speech. “Not that, of course; but by be- ing told that you couldn’t understand, being patronized, baving allowances made—‘Oh, well, she’s only & woman!" Just tell me, honor bright, how would you like 1t?” The man chuckled. The vision of him- self in the predicament suggested was not without its humorous side. The fig- i ure of speech he had used a few mi utes earlier came back to him with ll new force. It was like being caught under a net, though the meshes were ellken. “Well?” she demanded, with a ring of triumph In her voice. “I don’t suppose I should like it,” he admitted between puffs. “But that doesn’t prove anything, you know,” he went on hastily. “That's because I'm a man.” Then, as an afterthought, “When you're once used to being a woman—er —TI should think you might get used to it—grow to like it. Man’s good angel, you know, and all that!"” ‘“But what if one wearies of the role of good angel—what if one longs to be just one’s self? For my part I don't !see why man shouldn’t be woman’s person. “And she hasn’t the nerve to do a .llll't_le thing like that. My, oh, my!” T'm afraid you’ll have to stay in the “Would you propose to a man if—er—you loved him?” d good angel business awhile yet—until, for instance, you can stand up and tell a man you love him. other way.” There was a pause, in which he wait- ed for her to speak, but she said noth- ing. Then he leaned forward, and in the gloom she could see the shining of his eyes. He, too, must have seen some secret thing in her face, for with a laugh—soft, exultant—he took her hands in his and pressed them fervent- Iy to his lips. “You are such funny, helpless, ridicu- lously superior creatures,” were her last words upon the subject, a little later, “that I suppose it will have to be—yes."” —(Copyright, 1904, by T. C. McClure.) I don’t see any TRUE LOVE THE ONLY SOLUTION OF THE GREAT DIVORCE PROBLEM BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. HE crusade against divorce which the Methodist and Episcopal clergy have proposed is not a movement peculiar to our times. As long ago as the reign of Bdward VI the English churchmen were similarly roused to holy zeal in wedlock's cause. The problem existed long before that day. It is probably as old as marriage laws. “Marriage is never an answer; it is always a question,” observes Fantana lightly in the musical comedy of the same name which is now regaling the Chicago public. In real life it is what Agnes Reppelier defined it in an essay recently published, a problem which presents the “contrast of manhood and womanhood, of human creatures whose hearts and tastes and instincts are rad- ically unlike, who differ in all essen- tials from the foundations of their be- ing.” Divorce is an answer to the mat- rimonial question which appears, from statistics and the daily press, to be gaining in popularity. I belleve with all my heart that sometimes it is a good answer, the only answer. When- ever, from the conditions of the family life, the welfare of the coming genera- tion is jeopardized, divorce is ethical; unfortunate it still is, but it is a neces- sary evil. No woman, for example, has a right to give to children an inheri- tance of drunkenness, disease or imbe- cility. Divorce sought for purely selfish mo- tives, however, cannot be anything but a degradation to the individual who seeks it, and to the soclety which lends it countenance. The trouble is not so much with the divorce laws; any law which protects the weak, the help- less, and the dependent members of a community is a good law. It is the ap- plication of the laws which is at fauilt. good angel for a while—he’s so strong |- and brave and, above all, superior!” Her voice was deceptively mocking. Being only a man, and a man in the dark at that, he had no way of know- ing that her eyes were dancing mis- chievously, and she was wondering if he were horribly shocked. What he did know, however, was that the voice, with its youthful, almost boyish, treble, was the sweetest in the world to him— be .mocked and than flattered by ad a to Katherine—Fat men are seldom criminals. Kidder—I guess that's because it is difficult for them to stoop to anything low. % propose to a man if—er— | “Now, A SEA SHELL GAML. LOBSTER one eve heard a mer- A maid grieve In a coral cave of the ocean; She was wailing her fate at a terrible rate Because of a faithless devotion. come, pretty sweet,” said the lob- ster effete, “Such eyes were not made for crying: Come, shed no more tears; allay all thy fears And stop thy violent sighing.” “Ah ha! my good sir; from your words I| infer ‘You know naught of love nor affection; But perhaps you may learn if yourself you concern In the art of making confection. “My heart has been cheated, my hopes all defeated, By that wretched mollusca, the clam; He shamefully used me and quite abused me— The brute, the stingy old sham.” “Oh, the dastardly fool! But it's always the rule ‘With clams and all their relations. T'll buy thee a pearl, my dear little 'gir], | For I'm one of your lusty crusta- ceans.” So he purchased a pearl for the dear lit- tle girl, While she played at the game she was playing; She no longer could cry, ¢'en though she ‘would try, For she worked him with little essay- ing. “I thank you, good man, a8 much as I can; You're charming beyond all expres- sion; But now I must go, for surely you know You've relieved my erstwhile depres- sion.” Bo off, sir, she swam to her husband, the | clam, { And the lobster was left very pallid. He caught such a ocold that he died, I am told, And his carcass was chopped up for salad. —New York Press. SIT STILL CLUB. The Sit Still Club has just been organized at Lincoln Neb., by well- known business and professional men. The object of the club is the improve- ment of street car facilities. ! The members say that the street car company is not operating enough cars and they propose to compel an improvement in the service by declin- ing to surrender their sets to women when the cars are crowded. They maintain that the company will never improve the service until women agi- tate the question and demand an im- provement, and they believe that women will take vigorous action when they find that men will not surrender thelr seats to them. Judges do not always use sufficient dis- cretion in the exercise of judicial power. The idea of the sanctity of the mar- ried relation has come to be held so lightly both here and abroad that peo- ple in general are amused instead of shocked by a suggestion like that satir- ical one of Meredith’s, that marriage be limited to a definite term. A distin- guished cartoonist of our city put the real situation in a nutshell by pointing the questions: To whom under such a regime would belong the responsibility of the children—and what would be- come ultimately of dischrded wives who were unable to make new marital contracts because youth and beauty had faded? It is to the .interest of women and children that marriage be upheld as a sacred institution, not to be profaned or violated. Love is the only key to this great matrimonial puzzle of our own and preceding centurfes. By love I do not | mean that blatant folly which leads a man to proclaim loudly that he is ready to dle for the object of his passion or that weakness of head and heart which permits woman to hold her honor cheap. I mean the steadfast affection which makes a man or a woman willing to love and love, to do the right thing and to suffer, if need be—the kind of love to which George Eliot referred when she sald: “It is not true that love makes all things easy—it makes us choose what is difficult.” People should not expect the impos- sible of marriage. A marriage license is not a magic tallsman. A clerical benediction is not the “presto change!"” of a magician. Neither has power to work a miracle. Nor can both together | tended wedding journey through the by a single stroke weld into one human Instrument two natures absolutely dif- ferent in kind. Only a real and endur- ing love can work the charm. Mickey (the captain)—Hi ketch yer talkin’ to dat bunch ;?'rw: when yer ought to be out practicing. If we lose to-day’s game I'm goin’ to smash yer in yer left eye. immy (the pitcher)—And if we THE SMART SET BY SALLY SHARP. . Many house parties resulted from the opening of the California Polo and | Polo Pony Association at Burlingame yesterday. Society, which attended in generous numbers, was well entertained. Among the hosts and hostesses were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hobart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Wal- ter Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cole- man and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scott. . e = Miss Newell Drown will be hostess at the Galety Club dance this evening in Century Hall. A large bridge party will be given by Mrs. Henry Clarence Breedon on De- | cember 8. P A The art exhibit given by Matteo San- dona will take place to-morrow from 2 to 6 in his studio, corner Larkin and | Union streets. The event is under the patronage of several of our best-known society people, Including Mrs. Emma Shafter-Howard, General Shafter and | James D. Phelan. | Ofls and sketches will be on view, and | two extremely fine portraits, Miss Grace Lilewellyn-Jones and Miss Ger- trude Jolliffe. The recetving party will be composed of several well-known society matrons | and maids. | . home at Van Ness avenue and Clay street. Mr. and Mrs. D. Blo tt of Oak- lend announce the engagement of their daughter, Daisy, to Lester D. Schoen- feld of this city. A reception will be held on Sunday, November 27, from 2 to 5, at the resi- dence of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schoen- feld, of 2071 Bush street. . - The marriage of Miss Lydia Dorothy Stiller of San Francisco and Claude R Smythe of Los Angeles was solemn- ized yesterday at the St. Franeis. The ceremony took place at 2 p. m,, the Rev. Burr Weeden officiating. The wedding was a quiet affatr, only a few friends being present. Mr. and Mrs. Smythe have gone to Coronado on a wedding trip, after which they will make their home in Los Angeles. Mrs. Samuel Newhouse of New York is staying at the St. Francis. Mrs Newhouse Is a striking and fashion- ably attired woman, whose gowns are creating comment of admiration. SR The Crocker Old Ladies’ Home will be recipient of a benefit next Tuesday evening in the Alhambra Theater. This home is too worthy and too Many affairs are being planned in| honor of Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Laughlin, who are at home from their wedding trip. Mrs. Laughlin was Miss Emma Mofrat, the marriage taking place a+ few weeks ago, and, though quiet, the wedding was an important society | event. Near the date of the Laughlin- | Moffat nuptials were those of Miss Helen Pettigrew and Willlam Lemman. Mr. and Mrs. Lemman left for an ex- East, and may include Hurope before their return. - - . | Lieutenant and Mrs. Frederick Kel- lond leave to-day for their new home at Vancouver Barracks. Mrs. Willa Grunwald of St. Peters- burg is at the Occidental. She will| remain in San Francisco through the | winter. . ‘Willlam H. McKittrick, who has been in town on a business trip, has re- turned to Bakersfield. P Miss Paula Wolff will entertain to- day informally at tea. The engagement is announced of Miss Gladys Fisher and Winslow Kel- logg Harnden, both of Honolulu. - e Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Kohl leaving to-day for Monterey, they will make & brief visit. N, T ‘Mr. and Mrs. Elmer F. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Mason, all of San Fran- cisco, have arrived in London and are at the Hotel Cecil. are where The wedding of Miss Genevieve L. Smith and Robert Jackson Graham will take place on November 30, in St. Paul’s Episcopal church. Both young people belong to old Cal- ifornia familles, and Mr. Graham has an honorable war record in the Phil- ippines. A wedding journey will be made through the State, after which Mr. and Mrs. Graham will occupy their own | Francisca and | well known to urge the public to com- ply with its needs. The Orpheus Club of Oakland will take a prominent part in the musical programme that has been prepared, and some of our best soloists will also offer their talent. 0 R The engagement is announced of Miss Lansdale of Baltimore to Edward Howard, son of Willlam Howard of San Mateo. . o~ ® The reception to-morrow afternoon in honor of Mme. Fannie Francisca, Miss Marle Withrow and Miss Eva Withrow will be a notable event. Given by the Papyrus Club, of which Mrs. Mason Kinne is president, Mrs. W. S. Leake and Miss Ella V. Me- Closky vice presidents, the affair will be attended by our society people, who expect much pleasure In meeting Mme. in_giving welcome to the Misses Withrow, who have been abroad so long in the interest of their respective branches of art. A music programme has been pre- pared, which will add much to the general pleasure. The reception will be from 3 to 6 o'clock. This will not interfere with Mme, Francisca's ene gagement at the Tivoll PO The engagement is announced of Miss Adele Marion Boyken and Wal- ter Hastings White. Miss Boyken is a niece of Willlam Boyken, the well known pharmacist. . The dinner for Miss Marie Wells and Selby Hanna, which was to have been given next Tuesday by Mrs. Pedar Brugulere, is postponed until the return of Miss Wells from Bakersfield, where she goes this week to spend some time with Mrs. Truxtun Beale. ‘858 Announcement is made of the con- firmation of Harold Newman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Newman, to take place to-morrow morning in the Geary street temple. A reception will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newman on Sunday, November 27, from 8 to § o'clock, 417 Central avenue, MIRROR OF DAME FASHION | Feather, Is Worn. A Smart Street Two-Piece Suit of Mixed Gray Velveteen, With a White Satin Vest, Figured With Green. The Lapels and Collar of the Coat Are Faced Back With White Satin. A Dark Gray Velvet Hat, With Green Fancy .