The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1905, Page 8

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CAL SATURDAY, FEBR JARY 18, 1905. THE SANFRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. THE PRESIDENT AND MONROEISM. EADERS of The Call who read also the President’s Santo Do- R mingo message will observe that at last this Government is face to face with an issue which we long ago foretold. At the time hen Adams and Monroe concerted .with Canning the Monroe doc- t ccasion was not grounded in any question of spoliation ationals or financial irresponsibility. Spain, through Alliance, was seeking the assistance of part of continental the recovery of her American empire. Her colonies had from her by successful revolution and each had been i by the United States and Great Britain as a free and 1t nation. e Holy Alliance proposed their reconquest and subjectfon in was then interested in breaking the power - United States in keeping Europe from gaining any The purpose of each by the same policy, afid so we declared that any fur- { ropean monarchical institutions in this hemisphere 1dly to the United States. the new republics were left in peace to ns and to strengthen their position in the history that most of them have made bad Opf They have been torn by internal dissen- e never developed financial stability and are republics in 1 Their people are.poor because property is acquired it has judicial protection. In their poverty they must ies necessary to community life. These are manufactures, production, commerce and banks. As e governments that curse them are essentially predatory wn citizens when they have anything worth stealing, rises drift into the hands of foreigners, who rely on n of their home governments. It took these so-called o learn that it was safe also to rob the er countries. 1 it dawned upon them that, under the Monroe doc- were safe against any European invasion of their sove- r seizure of their territory, they proceeded to make up for 'he first ruler among them to revel in robbing his own d foreigners with strict impartiality was Guzman Blanco, r of Venezuela. Since his day he has had imitators countries. The robbery of foreigners has gone on ome the governmental scandal and odium of the ropear Great dr ong time t maintain the Monroe doctrine Europe is powerless. y blockade ports as the concerted powers block- ‘enezuela, but that accomplishes nothing. They ilitary force, with our consent, and administer a to a Latin-American republic, but the finality of nsists solely in the subjugation of sovereignty and ry, is forbidden by the Monroe doctrine, so punishment would be useless, and indeed, in- as we hold the attitude of protector of their soil those countries can safely violate every principle nesty and international integrity. f thi v upon them is very bad. It increases and their sense of irresponsibility. Their ustrated by that monkey of the Andes, Castro lated all of his promises and the arbi- blockade of .his ports. The United le and he requites us by despoiling [inister. not on forever. If the Monroe ed States any function, it is that ot and territory of the other nations of ion is used by them to rob other 1e decencies of international protectorate to its logical con- behave themselves, or we must abandon unishment they have earned. The latter uest by Great Britain, France, Ger- governments they have insulted and ve robbed. If we feel ourselves strong enough n rchies as neighbors and rivals in onr Monree doctrine and leave those territ ary g immun ) reignty ar prote 1l of t other ration of national deeency and honor torate to compel them to pay their Every one of them would to-day be eople and would have a full exchequer decent government. By permitting a' con- courses we are doing them a wrqpg. As long el perfectly irresponsible for anything they the worst instead of the best government. The President has put it plainly in his 1p to the Senate to vitalize the Monroe doctrine fi ing e is a disposition to antagonize the President, > will not be projected into this matter. The other 1e world have been taught to obey and observe their obligations by being made responsible for their vio- these Latin-American republics are riotous, reckless 11 the B orld. 1t they have not, because under the Monroe doctrine they feel no responsibility. As we deny to Europe the right to d them to responsibility, unless we do it ourselves we are in the position of the officer of the law who protects its violation. ~ No sane man believes otherwise than that they will speedily reform, acquire stable governments and thrive, from the time that the United States tells them they must or we will make them. We have protected revolution, thriftlessness and dishonesty among them to our shame. Now it is time for a change. The President selects the worst of them to begin on, and if the Senate carry out the will of the American people by indorsing the President’s pro- posed course in that country, we will proceed with Venezuela, Guatemala and the other half barbarous and wholly dishonest gov- ernments, and by compelling them to respect the r'ights of the rest of the world will make them respect themselves. ———————— T aroused the keenest interest in literary circles in England, and a work which will undoubtedly take rank as one of the greatest of posthumous literary fragments. Tt is published just as Disraeli left in the midst of an unfinished paragraph after he had made a beginning on his tenth chapter. The prize story for the week is by Louis J. Stellman of Los Angeles and is entitled “Wilfred Jansen, Private.” Tt is a cleverly told story of campaigning against the Tagalos in the Philippines, and is the best of the many Philippine stories that have been sub- mitted in the contest. Charles Dryden in “On and Off the Bread Wagon” brings his widely traveled and widely abused hero to San Francisco, where he sojourns for a few days, subsisting chiefly upon one dozen pears purchased from a street vender, a class that seems to have been as prevalent a decade ago as it is now. In “Chimmie Fadden,” the Bowery philosopher discourses upon the life of foreign Embassadors and reveals certain grave secrets of diplomacy. Opie Read continues his series, “The Jottings of Old Lim Jucklin,” with ' a discussion on war and prayer. £ There are two pages for ‘women. Augusta Prescott writes a ho THE SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. O-MORROW The Sunday Call will publish the second and concluding installment of the unfinished novel by the late ev are made so by the Monroe doctrine. | e sound financial systems, based on the currency of | Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, a work which has| ILLIAN RUSSHLL, interviewed in the Theater Magazine for Feb- ruary, says she has often won- dered what it would be to be without beauty. She said in part: “One would miss beauty, I suppose; but the tragedy would be to have some dreadful accident, to lose a leg, for instance, and never be able to go about or to work again. I often think of that. If that happened to me I should kill myself. But why specu- |1ate?” she added. And with this the secret of the smooth brow, the child- |like mouth, the beautiful, nerveless body, the eternal youth, was revealed. “I never think of yesterday nor of ito-mcrrow. To-day is enough. I | don’t make any plans for the future. I never have. Perhaps I am some- thing of a fatalist. I always think, ‘If I make such a plan and it doesn’t | work out well I shall be disappointed, so I won't make it.’ Itis much better, | I think, to be governed by present | conditions and do what at the time | seems best. Is it not written: ‘Do not | worry about the future. You will | meet it if need be with the same rea- |son that you now employ in your | present affairs.”” | “Marcus Aurelius?” queried the in- rviewer. Miss Russell nodded. | “He is my constant companion,” ! she said. “I have all of the twelve | little books in my room.” | “And Epictetus?” The diva pursed her lips as a schoolgirl does when her task is hard- ly tolerable. | “Not so much,” she said. “Epicte- | tus was lame and poor and unfortun- | ate, and what he wrote reflected those | conditions. But Marcus Aurelius was | noble, and that nobleness seemed only the natural unfolding of his life. He looked upon everything that happened as a part of the development that we call life.” And she quoted further from the Roman Emperor philosopher: | “Accept the gifts of fortune without pride and part with them without re- luctance.” “I think,” said Miss Russell, “that I | could lose whatever I have to-morrow { and not grieve for it. It would seem to | me to be the working out of natural {law.” And again she quoted the Btoic phil- osopher. The words were strangely in- congruous upon the lips of this vital beauty, but she pointed an earnest, convineing finger as she spoke: “Act, speak and think as one who knows that he can at any time depart from life.” The [te | subject of economy Wwas broached. Miss Russell is understood to be an advocate of economy. She was putting on a big, black velvet hat, a somber frame for a perfect face, | while she talked. “Yes, girls should save money,” she said. “The girl who earns $25 a week should save $10. When she earns $50, | she should save $25.” She put her hat | on as French women do, drawing it up | from the back of the head first, poising it daintily at last on top of her head and turning slowly before the tripli- cate mirror to see that it was so placed CHARMING LILLIAN RUSSELL IN A NEW ROLE, THAT OF A PHILOSOPHER. | + LATEST PORTRAIT OF LILLIAN RUSSELL. “She should, but I am sure she won't,” she charming inconsequence. $50 I saved I spent for a watch. It wasn't a very good watch. It was afraid of working too hard, and would only go part of the time. But it was a watch. ~Then' I began saving again, and this time I bought a sealskin sacque. My third pile of savings went added with “The first reasonably | —_— “What should a girl do with her sav- ings? Live on it during the summer when she is not earning anything. | When she has saved enough, she would do well to invest in real estate in town. New York real estate isn’'t bad. I have never lost money in that. But I never made a cent on Wall street, nor on the races. I have won, but I have lost, too, and at the end of the season the I am not that it was equally becoming at all|for a pair of turquoise earrings, set|story is always the same; angles. with diamonds, ahead a dollar.” . - - 'BANK'S CARE OF CENTS. A simple illustration will show the care that is taken of cents by the First National Bank of Chicago. Stamped postal cards are not used, and not one | of the thousands of routine letters that | are written every day is stamped or gealed until the whole routine mail of the day is assembled in the afternoon. Then all the cards and letters to one correspondent are put in a single en- velope and—except for letters from the officers and the like—the bank comes as near as possible to getting its en- tire mail carried at two cents an ounce, or a cent for every postal card, instead ! of often paying 2 cents for a quarter of an ounce, as it would have to do if | every communication were sealed and { stamped separately. This little matter of getting full value out of a 2-cent stamp makes a saving of from $25 to $320 a day.—The World's Work. Case of Lese Majeste? There is great indignation in court circles of Berlin because the Bur- gomaster of Lubeck—one of the free cities of Germany—has submitted a | communication from his City Council which says that, “owing to several large building projects on hand, the city does not care to set aside any place for a monument to Emperor Wil- liam L” | | STILL IN PUBLIC EYE. Wiggs—That lecturer used to be a page upon “Tea Gowns and Negligees,” and Madge Moore has a page upon “Silk Underwear.” prize fighter, ‘Waggs—Now he’s an ex-pounder. the | LISTENING TO MUSIC. People often get intensely excited in listening to music—letting their emo- tions run rampant and suffering in consequence a painful reaction of fa- tigue. If they would learn to vield so that the music could pass over their nerves as it passes over the strings of a musical instrument, and then, with the new life and vigor derived from the enjoyment, would turn to some useful work, they would find a great expan- slon in the enjoyment of the music as well as ‘a new pleasure in their work. If we enjoy gocd music and gloat over our personal pleasure in it, so to speak; it takes the life out of us. If we let the music carry us along instead of | trying, in our excitement, to carry the music, it brings new life to us.—Annie Payson Call, in Leslie’s Monthly. The Humming of Wires. Herr Bock, of Babenhausen, Ger- many, has been carrying on observa- tions of the humming, both of tele- | graph and telephone wires. The hum- ming of wires running east and west is said to presage a fall of tempera- ture, often 10 or more hours in ad- vance of the thermometer; the hum- ming of wires north and south advises a rise in temperature, almost always several hours in advance of the ther- mometer. FULL OF RUBBER. ‘Wiggs—Send for a doctor. pains me terribly. ‘Waggs—Don’t send for a doctor; get He's a gardener and my friend Potts. an expert on rubber plants. i My neck POINT OF VIEW. Senator Penrose says that a friend flf‘ his residing in Wilkesbarre recently en- gaged as nurse a Scotch girl just come to this country. It appears that one Sunday the lady induced the nurse, who is the strictest sort of Presbyterian, to attend a beau- tiful church just erected in Wilkes- barre. ‘When the girl returned her mistress asked her if she had not found the church a fine one. “Yes, ma'am,” responded the girl, “it is very beautiful.” “And the singing,” “wasn’t that lovely?” “Oh, yes,” replied the nurse, “it was very lovely, ma'am, but don't you think it's an awful way to spend the Sabbath?’—February Lippincott's. said’ the lady, Smallest Union Company. Levi M. Poor of Augusta, Me., was in command of the smallest company for the longest time of any officer in the Civil War. He was in Company D of the Nineteenth Maine and for forty- three days had only one man—John White of Belfast—all the others being absent by sickness, death, wounds or removals. Ex-Governor Connor of Maine, who was then in command of the regiment, made him acting leu- tenant of the company. THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE =0 A DIFFERENCE. Mrs. Newwed—When we eloped we flew in an automobile. Mrs. Oldwed — How about | your father? Mrs. Newwed—Oh. papa flew In a passion. i The next dance of the Galety Club will take place on March 1, in Century Hall, on which occasion Miss Isabel Kittle will be hostess. & L David Bispham will sing before the St. Francis Musical Art Society next Wednesday evening, when the great barytone will draw out many personal triends besides the music loving com- munity. o Miss Katherine MeCann and Miss May Deering, after several weeks' visit in San Francisco, left yesterday for their home in New York. Miss Con- stance Crimmins, who arrived at the sgame time, will remain in town a few weeks longer, the guest of Miss Anita Harvey. Mrs. T. B. Brown, who with her daughter, Miss Adelaide Brown, Is spending several months in San Fran- cisco, has returned from a brief visit to her home in Los Angeles. P Mrs. Reginald Brooke was the hon- ored guest at a luncheon given by Mrs. Henry Butters on Thursday in her Piedmont home. N Mrs. Henry Payot was hostess yes- terday at another charming card party at the Palace, euchre leading in favor this time, seven tables being actively employed throughout the afternoon. Tea was served later, many other guests dropping in and enjoying Mrs. Payot's delightful hospitality. « . The tea given yesterday by Mrs. Chester Le Roy Hovey and Miss Rachael Hovey was one of the prettiest of the season. The arrangemen: of flowers in the several handsoms= rooms was especially effective and dain'y. Both hostesses were charmingly gowned. 4 S The home of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Davis on Scott street was a scene of fascinating brightness last evening. Mrs. Davis entertained a number of young guests in honor of their daugh- | CRIVENER rounded the corner | and made his way leisurely through the afternoon crowd | that thronged the sidewalk on | the sunny side of the street. Some | yards ahead he caught sight of a blue hat with a distinctive feather. He quickened his steps with a mind singly bent on overtaking it. But the blue bat was in a hurry; it dodged this way and that with amazing dexterity and npt until the pursuit had progressed several blocks was he able to lay a detaining hand on Molly Stanton’s shoulder. | “Oh, I say,” he protested. | She turned. “Oh, it's you, Mr. Scrivener,” she said with a smile that | was ample recompense for the chase. “I should keep in training for such emergencies as these,” Scrivener panted. She laughed. “I was making pretty | good time,” she admitted, “but you | see, I'm weighed down with responsi- bility, and I want to free myself of the load as soon as possible.” “Yes?” said Serivener questioningly. 'm appointed by Donald a com- | mittee of one to select a valentine. { He has a terrible affair of the heart. | It's the little girl next door.” “Dear, dear,” said Scrivener grave- ly. “This is a serious matter. Any | restrictions imposed on the selection?” “It mustn’t cost more than 18 cents —he made that amount yesterday run- nirg errands for the cook—and it must have a heart on it,” she explained. “Ha! The -difficulties multiply,” | said Scrivener darkly. “T'd like your help in the matter, {if you're not too busy,” she said. ‘“Were you going anywhere in par- ular 2" “I was going up to the club for lunch,” he said. “I wasn't really cer- tain I wanted lunch. Now I'm sdre 1 don’t.” | _“We’ll make it a committee of two, | then, if you don't mind,” she re- | marked. | “Delighted,” he said heartily. | _They made a merry round in of the requisite valentine. In the first shop they entered Scriv- ener pointed out the fact that all the | decent valentines cost more than 18 cents; in the u:zt?d. those that came quest | within the stipulated price were deck- ed with hearts far too inconspicuous, and in the third, the hearts were much ’to; large and of the wrong shade of red. Scrivener suggested they try a lit- tle place well uptown, where he feit certain they could find what they wanted; so they took a car uptown, only to find the little nhop quite sold out. This—to Scrivener's’ unbounded satisfaction—meant they must take the long car ride downtown % “I think you must want that lunch by this time,” she said as they took the downtown car. “If I thought of lunch at such a critical moment as this, I should con- sider myself false to Donald’s inter- ests,” he replied ingenuously. Finally they found a valentine that ccst 17 cents, and, as Miss Stanton. said with an uneasy glance at her ‘watch, “would pass muster.” Scrivener expressed his doubts on this point, and suggested that they lcok farther, but even he had to admit that the heart, pasted gorgeously in nnle corner, was of the right size and color. When they came on to the street again it was growing dark. Miss Stanton held out her hand. “I'm awfully sorry to have delayed your lunch in this fashion, but I think it will taste all the better because of the good deeds you have done this afternoon,” she said. Scrivener looked at fully. 4 “If it wasn't so late,” he L lli.euto ask a favor of you.” s Ny “It's never too late to as| wvors,” she commented gayly. !k - “I'm intending to send a valentine myself,” he said. “I'd be very grate- ful if you'd help me choose it—give me a few tips about it, you know.” “If you've made your 18 ce: won't Insist on having a htl.l:“fll‘n,: .THE SMART SET BY SALLY SHARP. her thought- | ®VeS: ter, Miss Edna Pavis, a bud of this season. An attractive arrangement of flowers, plants and greens added beauty to the brightness of eyes and pretty gowns, the maids and men enjoying with en- thusiasm a delightful dance. Mr: and Mrs. Willard Wayman wiil entertain at dinner next Thursday evening. - . . Mrs. Robert Oxnard was hostess last evening at a dinner in honor of Miss Lily Spreckels and Harry Holbrook. « s The new home of Mr. and Mrs. George Almer Newhall on Paciflc a nue was the scene yesterday of a la tea, the first event in the revised dom cile that is so handsome in all its a pointments. Carnations and spring flowers were the preferred decoration which profusely adorned ‘the rich rooms. In the receiving party with Mrs. Newhall were: Mrs. William H. Taylor, Mrs. Augustus Taylor, Mrs William Taylor Jr., Mrs. George Pope. Mrs, Edwin Taylor, Mrs. Frederick McNear, Miss Margaret Newhall. « . - The benefit for the Japanese Red Cross Society is attracting a large number of auditors, and to-night the Alhambra will be filled with society and philanthropists who are keenly in- terested in the cause of the “little brown men.” s . On March 25 Madame Caro Roma will be tendered a farewell concert by her friends at Steinway Hall and it prom- ises to be a veritable feast of melody After enjoying a vacation in Sai Francisco for two years the dashing prima donna, writer and composer goes to New York to resume her work and latterly to Eurvpe. Having lent her splendid talents t« kindly causes while visiting among us hundreds of club and society womer have decided upon the testimonial con- cert as a fit acknowledgment of the love and appreciation they bear her. — THE COMMITTEE = OF SELECTION BY HARRISON SMITH. “Would she lk l o elt.doyoul perhaps I will,” she laughed. “My rword on it,” he said. “Have you decided what sort of a valentine it shall be?”" she asked. “I did think of one I'd like to send her,” he said. “But to be candid with you, I'm a trifle afraid of the lady I have my doubts whether or not she’d like it. Shall we have a look at it? It's in a window down the street.” By all means?” she sald. Perhaps I'd better send something else. How would a box of candy do’ It needn’t be a heart-shaped box.” "Sh.‘ll probably have pounds y. “Or flowers—Princess W - i, of Wales vio {‘Too conventional,” she vetoed. “M:d. ingenuity ends there,” he com- “Perhaps your first selection will be M' the thing,” she said hopefully. “I wish it might be,” he returned fervently. “Here we are,” sald he a moment later. They stopped befors a big window which glittered and glinted with many tokens of a cunning craft. “This one,” he said, “down in the corner. The fellow in the moroceo case!™ It was a splendid diamond in'a Ti- fany setting. “Would she like it, do you think?” he asked. She looked at him quickly. There was no mistaking the meaning in his e ot yes. L) “It—it depends, of course, whether o:e;ot she—er—likes you,” she falt- e “It's just that that troubles me,” he said. “I'm not sure whether she does or not.” Her eyes met his deflantly. “Well,” she sald grimly, “if T were Yyou I'd find out.” “Does she llke—" he began bravely and ended lamely—‘the—the valen- tine?* She was silent. Her eyes were fixed on the little morocco case. “Hang it!” he said penitently. “T forgot. There's a heart about it after all, isn't there?” She answered without raising her “She’ll overlook that fault. And, anyway, the heart is the right size— B.rryi"—(covyfllht. 1905, by T. C. Me- Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st. * ——re——e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Clipping Bureau ' Cali~ Tornia GRS Teolepnons Mate Teia. o8