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8 THE S FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH & 1905. THE SANFRANCISCOCALL IOHN D. BERBOKEIS: i.,...0m0n0 oriossossiihansissssey mBENItSOr ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT...... Manager _THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO UBLICATION OFFICE. WEDNEEBDAY ...00c00csm00000 T cague. The League was an outgrowth of former political condi- ions in that city. It was found necessary to improve the quality f the local government. The carelessness of political parties in making nominations and the influence of the local push combincd THE OAKLAND TICKET. HE approaching city wres that are S\\.gg('fli\'e and instructive. The leading ) duce a government that was undesirable. After a long trial these methods it was determined to make an organization, ( artisan in its character and membership, that would under- ake the work of a frank and full examination of the quality of can- idates nominated by the various parties and from the material pre- by the party conventions select that which stood the test v when the League found nominated, for the same office, can dates equally objectionable did it name a candidate of its own. The influence of the League immediately became strong enough the whole vote of the best citizens upon the ticket which When this occurred the political parties began to com- each other in making nominations that would command iorsement of the League. In order to do this there was imme- developed on the part of all citizens interested in good gov- re active attention to the party primaries, in order to f the nomination of candidates who could go before the > League's indorsement. process has finally worked out in the two leading parties 1 yminating the same ticket, as was done two 1s been done Therefore the present ticket is lates chosen and nominated by the Municipal League, eved ticket that deserves and will receive the 1 the best citizens of the city. Tt will be observed that process followed is practically that of passing the ticket through The first set, the delegates chosen at ake the first nominations. Its nominees re- e convention. If the convention be careless, anded by the best citizenship, its pal League indorsement and their As candidates want to win, a con- | ted jorsed now. to be two sets of selected electors. party primaries cter of > lower than is d 1 not get the Muni election is impaired at is below grade is likely to find no one on its own plane ke its nominations, in the face of sure defeat. Therefore 2 created by the political push finds itself with nothing unless it choose to rise higher than its source and make nom- 1 . and will command the League indorsement. The League have reached perfection in the League has been impartial in its indorse- are not made public, the propriety of to all thoughtful people. n influence in municipal politics is far rward into a betterment of government and nent of parties, and it secures a city govern- nce only to the best citizenship. It is an in- and superior to party politics, that is exerted by a en who do not form themselves into a political party at position is advisory and admonitory only. seems to have the capacity to reform municipal t anywhere. by reforming and refining all essential party mary on to the ballot-box. As municipal go in our large cities has been written up by all observers as 1 of popular government, any simple and therefore powerful il Of course all organiza- reasons It works fc all es a the p at will effect reform 18 desirable. ; 1atter how elevated its purpose nor how careful its tests embership, is apt to become the instrument of abuses. But such nization as this is far easier purged of the influences which its power and functions than are political parties in large ve+es..MARCH 8, 1905 | election in Oakland presents many | ticket, which will probably win,is that selected by the Municipal | LD Job had objected to his son’s engagement because the girl was college educated, and, therefore, “no account, and opposed the { son’s going to college until the béy, in self defense, had taken matters into his own hands and gone away {without permission to work his own |way. Now old Job was sick, and the farm was under the inadequate care of a hired man, and all the springs and brooks were drying up and the cattle suffering. But the obstinate old spirit was not broken. He now looked | up, snarling. % “A windmill agent, eh? him to go.” “Something’s got to be done, Job. Our man—"" “Yes, yes, I know.” Old Job drew a deep, long breath. But the horses and cattle were needing more water; and whatever else old Job might be, he loved his dumb animals, and would do for them what he would not dream ot doing for himself. The windmill | would be a humbug, for there was no | water in the land to feed it; but it seemed the only thing at hand. “Yes, something’s got to be done,” | he repeated you can let the man put in his windmill. It will be good for the birds to build nests on if noth- | ing more. And Hiram will like to look up at it when he comes home. But don’t let it go over two hundred dollars—that's what I offered our neighbor for half his spring,” grimly. “You can let him go right to work. Our hired man will step spryer for seeing it start. He's like Hiram for new-fangled things.” He watched her gather up his al- most untasted breakfast with trembl- ing hands, an expression on her face such as he had not seen for years. At the door he called her back. “Being it's on our own land we ought to be willing to pay more than I cffered that rascal over the fence for his spring,” he said. “I haven’t any idea what windmills cost, but you can tell him he may go to three hun- red and not a cent more. That will satisfy you and Hiram and the hired man, maybe. When I get out I'll sink a well, a hundred feet deep, if need be. | If that don’t bring water I'll sell and clear out.” Maybe you'd rather I'd see about having a well dug instead of getting the windmill,” his wife suggested. "“No,” ungraciously, “I'd rather at- tend to that myself. I don't believe either one will bring water, but the well's the more sensible, I don’t want | folks to say we give up without trying | to do something.” | The next day his wife announced ; that the farm was being looked over for the best place, and the day after that a dry-looking knob at the end of the barn was concluded to offer better | Well, tell prospects for water than anywhere | eise. Old Job listened in grim silence. | The third day he could "hear the| scunds of workmen. Ten days later one.or.two of .these workmen seemed to be busy about the house, and he wondered what they could be doing. But his obstinacy would not let him ask questions. It was nearly two weeks after this when his wife came into the bedroom one day, her eves shining. “It's done, Job,"” she said, her voice quavering a little with the very joy of | HOW OLD JOB WAS SOON WON BY FRANK H. SWEET. | “Maggie Stanwood!” he ex- claimed, - — | nice. Here,” and she laid a roll of money on the bed beside him; it's what there was left, forty-two dol-l lars.” Old Job stared at her. mean they've found water, off there to the end of the barn?” he demanded. “Yes,"” tremulously, “and it's such | nice water, just like a spring. We've | ot it piped in the barn, in places, and into the house. It runs| Iright into my sink. Oh, Job” her | vuice catching in a happy sob at the| thought, “everything's going to be so | eesy for us now. And you said we| could use the three hundred dollars.” | “Yes.” He picked up the little roll | with an odd look on his hard, old face. | “But I don’t quite. understand, Betty. 1 supposed the man would say the windmill came to just three hundred dellars, and that it wouldn't pull up water then. And about all the piping you spoke of? I wasn't meaning to do that. Didn’t it cost a lot? And what did the man charge?” “He—she didn’t charge a cent, Job.” | a little confusedly. “It was one of the neighbors. And the windmill and pip- ing only cost two hundred and forty dcllars, and some extras about twenty more. There was forty-two dollars | left."” 1 6ld Job was silent for some min- | utes. Then he pushed the money to- | ward her. “Put it in some house fixin's, Betty,” he said gruffly. to pay three hundred.” “Then let’s run some pipe to the | upland pasture behind the barn,” she| “I was willing And it won't cost over doliars.” s “Did the windmill man say that? “Yes, and tne bottom meadow on the lower side, that's always wet, could,be drained for a hundred and flfity. It would make a splendid land then.” § “A hundred and fifty—seventy-five, mused Job thoughtfully. _‘'Twould pay big if it could be done.” Then, gruffly, and turning his face abruptly to the wall— “But what am I talk- ing about? Being sick makes a man childish. Just because the windmill happens to turn out all right hn't"any reason why the next thing should. When she went out softly his eyes were closed. But he was not asleep. He was thinking. The next morning when she brought in his breakfast he was up and dressed but trembling with weakness. “Fix me some crutches, Betty,” he said, his voice a little less gruff than usual; “or maybe two stout canes will do. windmill. man to come and tell me his about the bottom meadow and pasture.” ‘When there came a light tap upon his door that afternoon he was in a half doze. To his drowsy “‘Come in,"” instead of a keen, business-looking I want you to send for the ideas the man, as he had expected, there enter- | ed a neatly dressed young woman with bright face and quiet gray eyes. Just now there was something very like laughter in the eyes. Old Job stared. “‘Maggie Stanwood!"” he exclaimed. “Yes, sir. You sent for me.” “I—sent for you?” “About the irrigation and drainage, you know,” she hastened to add. “T've brought some figures and diagrams.” She drew a chair to the bedside and began to unroll some papers. 014 Job had half risen in bed. Now he sank down, his mouth opening and closing. But he was beginning to mill and the rest?” he demanded. ““Yes, sir, I've seen a good deal of such work done, and studied into it some. I believed I could do this job three | as well as a professional, and it would | save vou the expense.” “Does Hiram know ?" “‘Certainly not. Hiram's away at college.” Old Job’s mouth continued to open | seventy-five | Then we'll go out and look at the ' FEXN | The Mardi Gras luncheon given yes- | terday at the St. Francis by Mrs. Fer- | nando Pfingst and Mrs. John T. Porter | was the most elaborate affair of its kind given in town for several years. The carnival spirit prevafled in every | detail, favors and decoration uniquely | carrying ‘out the Mardi Gras intent. A minjature procession of toys repre- senting many grotesque creatures wa: the feature of the center table, caus- ing much merriment. One hundred and fifty guests were dispersed about eleven tables under a beautiful trellis of bam- boo and smilax, from which were sus- rended red and yellow flowers, masques | and souvenirs. Each table, at which pre- sided a hostess, was ornate with spring flowers and crystal candlesticks, whose colored shades were partly covered by | tiny black masques, giving a unique {and fascinating effect. The hostesses, | by honor, assisting Mrs. Porter and | Mrs. Pfingst, were: Mrs. Thomas Por- | ter Bishop, Mrs. A. S. Baldwin, Mrs. Edward Houghton, Mrs. E. C. Wright, Mrs. George Bates, Mrs. Harry Bates, | Mrs. Philip Galpin, Mrs. Linda Bryan, | Miss Laura Kimber. Mrs. Porter wore a handsome gown of black chiffon silk jand point. Mrs. Pfingst presented a | stunning appearance in a rich gray silk {lace over violet silk, with knots of { violet velvet about the bodice. Her | hat, wide brimmed gray, was covered | with violets and violet plumes. . Mrs. Gertrude Atherton was the ! guest of honor at a reception held yes- | térday by Mrs. Edward Selburn Eyre ! in her home on Sacramento street. In the drawing-room were quantities of fruit blossoms and spring flowers. Re- | ceiving with Mrs. Eyre were Mrs. | Atherton, Mrs. Percy Selby, Mrs. Per- cy Moore, Mrs. Perry Eyre, Mrs. Rich- |ard B. Girvin, Mrs. Willis Polk, Mrs. | Willam B. Tubbs, Mrs. Wiliam B. “You don't | comprehend. “You planned the wind- | Brown, Mrs. Carter Pitkin Pomeroy, | Miss Christine Pomeroy, Miss Anita [+ THE SMART SET BY SALLY SHARP. : i .F‘ i | Selby, Miss Carmelita Selby and Miss | Rose Barreda. | Mrs. Charles Josselyn was hostess at a bridge party yesterday. Seven tables were occupied by enthusiastic players, who passed a most congenial l@fternoon. Cut flowers were profuse- 1y distributed about the rooms without attempt at special decoration. 2 Among the many dinner hostesses last evening preceding the Mardi Gras ball wag Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones. o Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, Mrs. Regin~ ald Brooke, James D. Phelan and Dr. Bruce Foulkes have been guests at a house party during the past few days %t the Morrison home at San Jose. .. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Pillsbury were among the dinner givers last evening. - - . Mrs. Godey and Mrs. C. Frederick Kohl have returned from Del Monte, where they have spent the past fort- night. Mrs. H. E. Huntington and Miss Elizabeth Huntington are returned from Southern California. « - Miss Carolyn Quinan, who was so ex- tensively entertained durmng her visit in San Francisco last summer, was married in Paris on February 20 ‘o William Mott Shaw. After remaining in Europe some months for sight- seeing Mr. and Mrs. Shaw will resids in Boston. e Mrs. H. M. A. Miller entertained several guests at dinner last evening, after which all attended the Mardi Gras. & Mr. and Mfs. I. B. Rosencrants an- nounce the engagement of their daughter Myra to Herman Lederer. A reception will be held at 2271 Califor- nia street Sunday, March 19, from 2 to § o'clock. | To the Editor of The Call: Just now is the gréat question of the ?"? shut, though gll it sald was “U'm! | mygstery of the sun spots. As I have huh! But in the unconscious ejacu- | lation much that had seemed ingrained | taken up the study of them for my in his lite went out, and much—Ilook- | Private personal satisfaction, I think I ing into the friendly gray eyes before have a solution that will also please him—that had not been there came in. His grim face softened. b ("u think the work can be done for at you said?” “I am sure of it."” There was something in her face cumulations of winter ice are at the| that made him add: “And you think there are plenty more things on the farm that could be done?" “Yes,” plenty of them,” again smiling. “Well,” with a long breath, “I guess you can write and tell Hiram. that you and I are running up against a whole lot of snags on the farm and pulling them out. And—and you can add that I've took back all T said about vyou being u set-up college girl and no ac- count. If you two have anything to fix up I won't say another word.” Then he held out his big, hornv hand her eves | the public. | Allow me to briefly explain: The jearth is hollow, and a mild light | spreads throughout the finterior. Ac- north pole, at which is an opening to | the earth's center, a necessary opening for keeping the light inside. These immense overflows of snow or ice fall jdown into or above said light. They ' melt and ascend in vapor, which being illumined below by the light gives us A NEW SUN SPOT THEORY. the aurora borealis. The sun spot is an extra large mass that falls by its weight below the light or on one sids of it, by such act, getting between said light and the sun outside the lower southern pole opening, casting on the sun an ellipse shape of the large mass in its struggle with the light.” This light always conquers, meiting and sending the mass all up again as vapor or down out of the south opening. The light is a candle for warming the | earth in temperate heat. Electric ac- | tion I believe to be the motor power to |turn the earth around and there is |also a center magnet in the inside to | magnetize all objects on the earth's surfaee. MRS. ANNA ADOLPH. Hanford, Cal. March 5. | | —_— - | ; THE NERVO There was but one hoteél in the town urged eagerly. “You know it's always | and closed it around her small browi and there was but one vacant room in been too dry to croo. But If it's irri-| gated it'll be one of the best fields. one. (Copyright, 1905, by Frank H. Sweet.) T RS e . : the news, and it's all come out so cities. As long as it limits its function strictly to securing character and fitness in the personnel of a city ticket, its influencé will survive, unweakened, the occasional accident of a mistake. It is apparent that its method is a shorter road to a proper city | ernment than the nomination, by bodies that gct in the first in- d nominate citizens’ tickets, or bolting tickets, or other ckets, for such action cannot possibly have in it the calm- nd deliberation and unprejudiced examination of the fitness didates, that can be had in a permanent body of disinterested always organized, alert and bent upon one purpose only. Another consideration must not be forgotten. Such an organi- zation as Oakland’s Municipal League has above it the power that invoked it into existence, the best citizenship of the city, composed of voters who are seeking good government only and not office for themselves. Small in numbers, the Municipal League is in effect a permanent committee representing that class of citizens. If there appear in h a committee evidences of self-seeking and a tendency ) graft, s promptly admonished by a popular reversal of its action brought about by the power that is above it. It is immediately jarred into position again by such admonition, when a political party is not. The party politician and voter who takes his cue from the old 1" <ono: stance kinds o ness a mer T: ppecanoe campai “Vote for Harrison therefore \VWithout 2 why or wherefore,” is beneath To him “regularity” is the only seal re- quired on a candidate. After one is regtilarly nominated, fitness has massed out of focus and has no consideration at all. A beat of civic ambition will rejoice to know that the new building for the Public Library has come closer to realization by the selection of a site, and that site a very wisely chosen one. That act goes a long way toward the consummation of the purpose to have a bigger and better home for the library, the completion of which should, and no deubt will, mark the beginning of a new era in the intellectual advance of the community. Useful as the Public Library has been in its present housing, there can be no hesitation in predicting for it a swift expansion of its power to help in all things intellectual so soon as it possesses a more commodious and beautiful center from which to radiate the literary influences which will be gathered there in “the best that has been thought and said in the world.” Not only will its new home call more readers, but by its impressive bodying forth of civic power it will inspire those readers with more ambition to profit by its benefits and by their conduct and influence help build up that ten- dency of civic power to provide wide open opportunity for all r.oble ambition. Moreover, on the personnel of the library corps. what an inspiration a fine building will be to them—to be diligent in wisely aiding the seekers after intellectual gold, to be careful, quick- admonition. LIBRARY SITE CHOSEN. LI San Franciscans who feel in their being the strong pulse thoughted, courteous, accurate, and, perhaps above all, impertur-| bable, in their service of the very varied public. The South, too, is affording the colored people opportunity to secure employment in many lines of industry. The time has not yet come, how- ever, when the South will invest the negro with the power to levy taxes and to decide how those taxes shall be expended. The disastrous experiments of the past are still too vividly recalled. It is fully in accord with the tempera- | ment of the President to find him sympathizing always with the man who is handicapped and struggling, and he has the courage to make his convictions | known. He views the problem sentimentally; the South must regard it from the standpoint of contiguity and experience. tion of the colored man in the South is constantly improving. If he wHl do as much for himself &s is being done for him, he will have no occasion to complain.—Washington Post, @ vt DRI Kansas is the home of the brave, and when it gets out of the Standard 01l Company’s clutches it will be the land of the free.—Kansas City Times, w — The dignity of the Senate will bend, but it will not;- bre’x.—-Ne' York As a matter of fact, the condi- W I heard a little urchin to BE WHAT MOTHER THINKS YOU ARE.|O HILST walking down a crowded city street the other day a comrade turn and say, | “Say, Chimmy, lemme tell youse I'd be happy as a clam { If T only wuz de feller dat me mudder t'inks I am.” | | “She t'inks I am a wonder an’ she \ Could never mix wit' nuttin’ dat i knows her little lad wuz ugly, mean or bad. 4 Oh, lots o' times I sit an’ t'ink how nice 'twould be, gee whiz! If a feller wuz de feller dat his mudder t'inks he is.” 1 My friend, be yours a life of toil You still can learn a lesson from this small, unlettered boy. | Don’t aim to be an earthly saint, Just try to be the fellow that your —Will 8. Adkin in Houston Chronicle. P One of the most famous of the Quartier Latin clubs in Paris is the | one which is called “The Sub Rosa,” | and the most famous of its members is | the great actor Coquelin, pere, but the i story of his election has not yet been told in print, says Warwick James Price in Success Magazine. He was present, one night, at the club’s late supper, a weekly feast, and. having heard that there was a vacancy in the roll, applied for membership. | Now the only rules of the “Sub Rosa” men are: ‘““Think much. Write little. Be as silent as you can.” The presid- ing officer, with this last rule in mind, answered the applicant by placing be- | fore hifn a tumbler filled so full of wa- | ter _that another drop would have | caused it to run over. Coquelin under- | stood. He had evidently been misin- formed about a vacaney, the club membership was obviously full. { - COQUELIN'S WIT or undiluted joy, ! with eves fixed on a star, mother thinks vou are. WON THE DAY. Over the table was suspended a rose, the club emblem. While the glass still stood before him Coquelin broke a petal from the flower, and laid it so gently on the water that not a singie drop escaped. A silent man could join and make no trouble. Around the table ran a ripple of smiles and little handclaps and nods of approval, and then, as if of one accord, all began making bread-balls. Then a cup was passed from hand to hand, and each deposited his “ballot” in it and all were found to be round; not one had been pressed flat in sign of disapproval. So Coquelin joined the Sub Rosa Club. Following the abolition of the lock- step and the cropped head in New York State prisons has come the doing away with the stripes on convicts’ clothing and 3000 suits minus the stripes are be- ing made. = - LD MORMON ASKS FEW QUESTIONS. To the Editor of The Call: After reading your comment on Senator Kearns' speech about Mor- {mons I feel like asking you a few ! guestions. Do you know what uses all the money that is paid in tithing by the Mormons is put to? I guess you ! do not. Without trying to explain in full, T will ask, Do the Mormons have good church buildings, good appoint- ments of every kind, whén you attend their meetings? Do they pass the hat? Do you hear anything about poorly paid parsons? Do you hear anything about church fairs and beg- ging committees trying to raise funds to send the gospel to foreign lands? Did you ever hear of a poor Mormon mother and children freezing or starv- ing to death, or even suffering? Did you ever hear of a Mormon tramp? Are not the Mormons acknowledged to be an average well to do people? Now this is the age of finance, an if the Mormons are satisfied with their manner of financing, making all cof- tribute, whose business is it to med- dle? D. W. JONES, A 53-year-old Mormon. Sacramento, March 6. —_———— Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits. n ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st. * _—— The doctriné of hatred only against the person who uses it. If you hate you wlll be hated and less con- tented with yourself. ————— Speeial information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Burcau (Allen's). 4 Tornia SRL® Teicyhons Matn N0ty 2t % JUST A FEW SMILES #% g SR i B S e I | & Sl SR 70 75 HER Man of the House—] ho was in the Y ate as deep | _Blox—Is his interest in bil native h.;‘flrfltkwfi!’ _thing. He's got a turns | | that hotel. | The belated traveler came in with 'a bustle and a bang. and when he {slammed his grip on the counter the i sedate elerk lcoked troubled. “We have but one vacant room,” he said, “and that is not desirable, for the apartment adjoining it is occupied by a woman who is very nervous—almost ! hysterically so—and she might become as annoying to you as you are likely US WOMAN I'll promise not to disturb the afMicted one.™ By the time he had surveyed the room he had forgotten nis nervous neighbor, and. taking off his shoe, he dropped it with a thud. The noise awakened him to his promise and the remainder of his denudation was ac- complished without a sound. A half hour passed ana forgetfulness entire was stealing over the man, when he was startied by a pounding on ths wall. He listened and heard, in a volce that betokened a high tension of mental excitement, “Say, how soon ar> you going to drop that other shoe?’'— te become to her if you take that room.” i “Oh, that’s all right. Show me up.' Boston Herald. e b X e He that hath ears let him hear, and i he that is deaf can now hear by tele- i phone, and has no excuse for stay- !ing away from church. A clergyman in Stratford, Conn., has a number of deaf persons in his congregation. He | found that, curiously enough, they jcould understand what was said to ' them by telephone. So he set up a tele- | phone apparatus on his pulpit-desk and Eran wires to a pew near the front of RE e —— PREACHING TO THE DEAF. the church, There sit the deaf, hoid- ing receivers with a light handle liks that of a lorgnette. This deaf pew, however, is not necessary. Telephone connection will be made between the pulpit and any pew. A great hoon to the really deaf, but rather vexatious, perhaps, to the persons who are so deaf that they can hear all the jokes at a thaater perfectly well, but cannot follow the sermon.—Eve: A - 5 e rybody’s Maga Teacher—Now, Harry, here is an ex- ampie in mental arithmetic. How old would a person be who was born in 187527 Harry—It depends on whether the person is a man or woman. “How old are you, my dear?” asked a caller of a bright little girl. “I'm old enough to know better than to answer such an Impertinent ques- tion,” replied the small but diplomatie miss. of the group in Lake Erie. It is six miles north of the group in Put-in Bay and belongs to Canada. It meas- ures nife by four miles and its area !is 13,000 acres. JOHN SMITH—H. F., Sacramento, Cal. This department does not know anything more of “John Smith, an old man of Tacoma, who died, carrying into the grave the secret of the loca- tion of a fabulously rich mine,”” than { what appeared in the dispatch from that place published February 6, 1905. MANCHESTER UNITY — T, | There are a number of lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Manchester Unity) in the California. There | inot clter May 1, 1905, Mamma—I gave you a nickel to ba! what do you call it ANSWERS TO QUERIES. — % WITH THE LITTLE 'UNS. good yesterday, and to-d4ay you ars evidently trying to show how bad you can be. Johnny—Yes, mamma; I want to prove to you that you got your money 3 worth yesterday.’ See? Willile—Well, when he's sick of stay- ing at home and wants to go skating, s ! "ét ?5?5?? L] ¥ H & § i : 8 i i § i ! a ggifi | H | : 5 i i a il ; i 4] 3 : gs i “fl 1 55@*;5 fhi fo h | ¥ ¢ H K E i i 5if -