The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1905, Page 8

»m THE: SAN NC ISCOMJCALL. . TH THE SANFRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECKEIL 2 ; Ifl'nr;rh‘miri MORMON FINANCE. of - fifty-three years' experience in that | ay "of queries, our remarks on Senator unable to say. except by the indica- tithes are made to serve. To become 2 large number of secular occupations in igaged requires ‘enormous capital, and source from which to derive the money than the e secular business of the church. As to the gs. its temples and other houses of its religious ministrations, all that shou'd n every year it takes one-tenth of all its people we 2 s s tithe nates that some of this is spent for the support s W not take care of themselves. This is no doubt true, iseworthy. The only difference between the Mormon respect is, that others rely on the vol- people, and have not the power to Again, if all other churches owned works, street railroads, sugar factories, res. banks, drug stores, and_other secular profits to be turned into the'church treas- t they would all be in funds and have more the hat. k that such a condition is desirable? Is it - the civil state that churches should en- Is it the ideal social or religious condition business should go into the treasury of ks, “If the Mormons’ are satisfied with ing all contribute, whose business is it rches in that ar utions of ple and ness’ es of sec Our frie the is paid and used for religious purposes, to 1 to administer the charities of the’ rches, T to pay that annual tax for T ness of any one to meddle. Certainly M is no power less than sovereignty that a that no one desires to interfere with eligio idea, so long as it is free of es e polygamy. r it civilization. In such respects sm may be subject only to the antagonism which always herents of the many forms in which the re- s is held mg men. I proselyters are busy among the Gentiles, and Gentile pros S are mg the Mormons. This is a normal condi- N hicl i a right to quarrel. If the Mormons can of the state to interfere. If-the the state cannot be used Within the proper and legal limitations Mormon church has equality of rights, much in its church polity that can be profitably 10t the busi ies can convert Mormons rization the studie organizations. But all this has nothing of that church. If its vast tithes are useil business of Utah, and so monopolizing it at a is practically denied the right to live in that State, and e schools are perverted to the uses of the church and rmonism. then the State has not a republican form t under our constitutional interpretation, and Congress igation, put upon it by the constitution, to guarantee t> ¢ State a republican form of government. ¢ have fio doubt that a theocracy in Utah is entirely satisfac- o the Mormons themselves. They are willing to submit-to the nd of the church to patronize only its stores and other busi- 1 to freeze all non-Mormons out of Utah. Brigham Young f Mormon empire, and through most of his career he ire. His exceedingly astute successors have had what all men would have said tén years ago was non-Mormon then believed that it would be possi- a State, to make a complete conquest there It was not believed that-an ‘American State completely subverted by a church. It 1s one of the history. The remedy is so difficult that it may weil | the statesmanship of the country. The church has become a ess trust, a complete monopoly. ' It may be touched indifferently ough its slight relation to interstate commerce. But who shall say, h became mon church be rarvels of offhand, how it may be reached in its control of the internal secular business of the State? Resort to the State Legislature is vain. The church controls it. No anti-trust or anti-monepoly law of Utah, hitting the church in its secularities, can be either passed or en- forced But numerous as are the difficulties, the nation cannot permit a theocracy to masquerade in the garments and muniments of an American State. Our Mormon friend practically asks us, “What are you going to do about it?” We confess that we do not know. We only know this, that the secular and political interests of the Mormon church in Utah present conditions that are insufferable under our form of government, and that when anything becomes insufferable ways are always found to deal with Tperfnrming for the wayward youth of the community by meaas of the juvenile court, and the day parental school, should be extended by the establishment of the parental boarding school, which measure is being urged upon the Supervisors by the Superintendent of Schoois, the Board of Education, and the California Club, through its civic section. Were the parental boarding school merely an ex- periment the need of it and the promise of its usefulness just from common sense reasoning would strengly argue for our giving it a test: but as such schools are successfully accomplishing their be- nevolent design in various cities, our adoption of the plan would be no more than following a good example. | The Day Parent Echool. on Eighth street, which has been for | seven months doing the work expected of it, reaches effectively to some, but not to all cases where the State must.step-in to.fully pro- vide the child with its educational rights when the family is failing to prepare him for good citizenship. The parenta! boarding school would save a large majority of those children who, because of vicious or grossly neglectful parents, are exposed to all the evil influences of the streets and of dwelling places which are a mackery of the name of home. Fducation that has not moral training interwoven all through its texture is more of 2 menace than a benefit to the community, for its conferring would but increase the power of an evil nature to retard and prey upon society. The proposed school would furnish to those of our unfortunate youth who have not the safeguards of good home life all the advantages of such surroundings as would tend to mold them into useful citizens. To neglect the opportunity of starting them right in their youth would be but to invite the later evils of | suffering from and punishing the crimes they would naturally drift into committing. i There are three principal factors which go to the molding of character, namely, heredity, environment and the will. Which of these is the strongest determining force may be still an open ques- tion; but it cannot be questioned that the most practical way in which organized society can influence the moral character of its in- dividual members is by wisely using its power of control over en- vironment. This being true, and also true that statement, which President Harper of the University of Chicago is authority for, that the best work we do is the work we do with children, the desirability of such a school is obvious and we should have it. Pl sonibd s ik d v “Américan women do not know how to walk,” says a Frenc‘h writer, ' Well, most of them do not bave to walk.— PARENTAL BOARDING SCHOOL. HERE are good reasons why the work the city is successfully game,” replied the A HUMAN IS LOVE APPETITE | I Never Dominate Us BY DOROTHY FENIMORE R = d 1 I | i | | | | | | | | Derorrry FENI?TORE | - ) ERE is a question which I have H been asked to answ “Is the | love which sacrifices honor | greater than other loves?” I prefer to meet this with a query ! of my own: Is the man.or woman who | sacrifices honor graater than other men or women who would not do so? Whatever you are yourself “decides the character of the love which you feel and express, This 1 have said before, and presumably I shall have occasion to say the same again, for there ap- pears to exist in the popular mind a constant confusion between the idea | of the love divine which rules the uni- | verse, and the idea of mortal love—a ! . reflection of that other love—which we know as a human need. Love, as we experience it, is not an | exterior force, acting upon us, moving | us about at will as if we were pawns | upon a chesshoard. Nor is it a big hand, which, coming up behind us, { think we should be more exacting in grabs us by the nape of the neck and takes us away from our mothers, as if we were kittens. It is a human ap- petite, as hunger is, or thirst, but greater than these in that it is spiritual and mental as well as physical; and it is one which is less to be calculated on than they are since we do not know in advance what will be the food at sight of which we shall be tempted. Like other anpetites it is to a certain extent subject to our control. If we govern it wisely it will never dominate us. In love particularly is it true that “he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a city.” Theréfore the greatest love in the world is—like the greatest man—the one that has heen most thoroughly dis- ciplined and tested. Who can believe for a moment that a love which would sacrifice honer could be greater than a love which is built on a self-respect that is above price? If it were true, do you suppose that this famous cry of Lovelace would have echoed down the years to us: “I would not love thee, dear, so well, Loved 1 not honor more”? There are as many ways of loving as there are people, in spite of the fact that, for the sake of convenience, we like to classify love stories by their re- lation to a few conspicuous types. Some love is best measured by its quality, some by its quantity, and some by its lineal dimensions. This does not aiter the fact that the one who loves is bound to stamp his love with his distinctive character. There is a great deal of nonsense written about “superb passion,” which | is supposed to be a rainbow-hued frenzy, a genteel kind of berserker rage. »W, no man flies off the handle that way from love unless there is a screw loose somewhere. Why, then, should we judge his love by more lenient standards than those by which | we would judge himself? Indeed, I| our requirements. For love is an up- ward tendency of human nature. It is dignifying, ennobling; and for that reason it imposes upon individuals who experience it new obligations. AUTHOR OF “CANDIDA™" CARED LITTLE FOR A BANK ACCOUNT. o= .l | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. o i N entertaining letter written by George Bernard Shaw is printed in the “Books and Bookmen” department of Har- per's Weekly. It was written some years ago to Shaw's American agent, Miss Marbury, in response to an apolo- getic note from her accompanying a meager remittance for royalties re- ceived from the production of one of Shaw's plays in the days before “Can- dida” made him popular. “Rapacious Elisabeth Marbury (it ran): What do you want me io make a fortune for? Don’t you know that the draft you sent me will permit me to live and preach Socialism for six months? The next time you have so large an amount to remit please send it to me by installments, or you will put me to the inconvenience of having account. What do you mean ¥ ing me advice about writing a piay with a view to the box-office re- ceipts? I shall continue writing just as I do now for the next ten years, After that we cgen wallow in the gold poured at our feet by a dramatically regenerated public.” - - - + o SR FICKINGS FROM PUCK. |NEW THEORY OF SLEEP. ¥ B A ROMANCE Actions &peak louder than words, An interesting and novel theory of but they do not unduly inflict their |sleep has recently heen put forward by . conversation en those who do not|Dr. Claparede, a French scientist, who BUTTONHOLE with mournful voice want to listen to it. holds that sleep is a positive fundtion Bswailed' his empty li e; or an instinet designed t est func- f 2 Publishers naturally look for the |iioning Dr. Clapsrede makes the as. | | A Putlon just-across the way '\my:\k‘ \\'hi({h lu\'nr)i'l};od,\' (;\'ill read l:nd | sertion that we sleep not because we He wanted for a wife. which nobody. will read more than|ar, intoxicated or exhausted, but in i once. order to avoid such conditions. Not| | He loved her préit - nolding had, Kings are useful &0 name epochs [ONIY are there various kinds and de- Her never-ending charms, after. They have absolutely mothing |ST¢es of sleep, but it does not always| | Apd when by happy chance they met to do with making epochs and thus sz;Hml exhaustion. Furthermore it is He held her in his arm: which may be used without arousing!! : = = J i Wi v % |it may be either total or partial, In| | But lifs hung only by & hre.d, ’ = measuring the profoundness of sleep She went despite his pains, Sir Thomas Lipton says he will chal- | various conditions are encountered | | 'Tywas months ago—the buttonhole lenge again in 1806 and this time. with | which are not cuspectible of explana- A widower ins. a4 “freak” yacht. What was Tom’s|tion on the toxic theory, but which K s idea of the others? agree perfectly with the hypothesis| —Lippinoott's that It is a positive nervous function. | The ketchup h""::v “'"hh which ?:e The definition of sleep, according to |t T % Yale student struck anpther on thelihis new theory, is a reaction produced | o ’» head, might be called, we presume, a |hy varjous excitants, and is an inhibi- ‘LL LUUK PLE‘S‘”T- college eating club. tion which manifests itself subjectively by a lack of interest in exterior things. Mexican photographers have hit Should the craze for college drama continue we may possibly hear argu- ments for open play and more punt- ing in stage football. Opera audience infected by chill from stage, says a newspaper head- line. Turn about is fair play. Fre- quently those on the stage are infect- ed by a chill from the audience. WEALTH OF ETHiGPIA. There are gems and gold in Ethiopia, writes Robert P. Skinner, in the Feb- ruary World's Work. The gems we saw were found scattered over the desert wastes, washed down from the mountains above. Gold is hidden away in the mountains in quantities which can be estimated by no existing data. Even now the annual preduction of gold by methods as old as Moses amounts probably to $500,000. As for copper, iron and the ordinary metals, ! their extraction is merely a question of | finding facilities for shipment and, | probably more important still, a mar- | ket capable of absorbing them. Pe-| troleum has been discovered in large ' quantities, but the Emperor is cur- | rently believed to regard as the most important of Abyssinian activities the cultivation of his fertile table lands. WASHINGTON SOCIETY. The much discussed article on ‘Washington society, contributed to a recent number of Harper's Weekly by ! Captain Algernon Sartoris, has called for, among others, a letter of protest from one of the Weekly’s readers. He does not agree with Captain Sartoris | that Washington s deteriorating so- cially. “Fashion is fashion, whether one finds it in London or in Bogota.” And as to the "low ebb of morals,” | Waslington, he says, compared with European capitals and with some other American cities, “is singularly | free from scandal.” % GRANT LOVING CUP. Has the “limit been reached” in the construction of loving cups? The Den- ver friends of a Western railroad president have givén him a llttle' souvenir in the form of a silver lov-, ing cup that holds seventy-five pints. | They do things in a great way in the ' generous West, and it breeds ¢r im- i i ports robust races; but a seventy-five- pint 16ving cup seems t60 large for hu- man nature’s daily drink.—Every- bedy's Magazine. —_— A “Seelng is believing,"” remarked the Wise Guy. “Yes, especially Simple —Harper's Weekly. | experience might be had with most of Mug ; ONE EXCEPTION. His heart was,in the right place, They said from North to South, Excepting when he went to war; Then it was in his mouth! —New Orleans Times-Democrat. LEARN THE WORDS. Every boy can whistle ‘‘Yankee Doodle,” but how many can repeat the | words that go with the tune? A schoolmaster who lately asked his| pupils to do it found them all deficient on that score. . Quite likely the same their e|de'.—Bosmn Herald. H Belgium’s Public Houses, Belgium, where public libraries are al- most unknown, enjoys 190,000 public houses. That means one public house for thirty-six inhabitants, or one pub- lic house for twelve men above 17 yeurs of age. During the last fifty years the population has increased 50 per cent; the number of public houses 258 per | cent. i e T RTTINTT % A Mwnute With the Merry-Makers % NOT MUCH, AT THAT. Mistress (down dqumb waiter) —Mary, is the policeman on the beat still da e : Mary—No'm. h his own, now, mum. on a way to make their subjects “look pleasant.” After pesring through the apparatus and emerging from under the black cloth the photographer says: “By the way, would you like a drink?” “Well, 1 don’t mind,” says the man, with a pleased smile. “What have you got?” “Beer, whisky and wine,” says the photographer, and then, before the man can say which he’ll have, the camera does its duty. The “expression” of his photograph is always ‘Tifelike.” —New York Tribune. The Land of Gold. The Yukon territcry, which prior to 1898 formed a part of the northwest territory, has an area of 196,976 square miles, 196,527 being land and 648 water. The population is estimated at 12,000 of whom 7200 are Americans. It is purely a mineral country, and has pro- | was unduplicated in all the evening's | speaks his mind with a candor that, duced since 1385, when the output of gold- was first recorded, to the end of 1903, $97,063,500 in gold. Dawson, the capital of the Yukon Territory and the % THE SMART SET % BY SALL Y SHARP The passing of the Mardi Gras of 1905 leaves in its wake many pleasant memories of sight and incident. In the brilliant throng many char- acters were noticeable and long to be admired for originality or conciseness of delineation. For absolute perfec- tion of make-up none was so perfect as Mrs. Frank H. Powers, whose de- piction of a Chinese woman was ab- solutely finished in its minutest detail. Though wearing a mask, Mrs. Powers might worthily have dispensed with it, for hair, coloring and expression were so enforced as to establish perfection of the Mongolian features, disguising every vestige of her own personality. The rich texture of Oriental fabric completed ‘a characterization that gay pageant. Among the dinners forerunning the Mardi Gras was that given by Mr. and Mrs. Truxtun Beale at the University Club in honor of Mrs. Augustus Spreckels. The affair was charming in all its appointments. In the party were Mrs. Augustus Spreckels, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Martin, Miss Lurline Spreckels, Miss Christine Pomeroy, Miss Anita Harvey, James D. Phelan, Dr. Harry Tevis, Harry Stetson and Alfred Wilcox. All attended the Mar- di Gras, occupying Mr. Phelan’s box. . s = A musicale will be give;\ next Tues- day by Mrs. L. Lowenberg and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Brown at the Pal- ace Hotel CY R W Miss Péarl Sabin and Miss Irens Sabin are expected home within the next few days. They have been en- joying a delightful visit with Captain and Mrs. T. A. Pearce at Fort Snelling. Minn., for several weeks. Miss Alic> Wilkins, who has been in Washington. D. C., will accompany the Misses Sabin. . . Mrs. Thomas Darragh entertained several guests at tea yesterday after- noon. SRR Society is much interested in the forthcoming concert of Mme. Caro Roma, who will give a programme of operatic songs and ballads on March 23 in Steinway Hall. 9 P8 o8 Mr. *and Mrs. William H. Wright announce the engagement of their daughter, Winifred. to Guillo Minetti. . . - Miss Elizabeth Smith and Miss Kath- erine Smith of Stirling, Scotland, ars | the guests of thelr sister, Mrs. Georgs Louis Fish, at the Palace Hotel - . - At the home of Mrs. Joseph M. Mas- ten, next Saturday, Miss Adele Martel will be a luncheon hostess for sixteen guests. S S Dr. and Mrs. Willlam M. Tryon have returned from their wedding trip and will reside at 1043 Bush street. e e e QUEENDRAGA’S JEWELS The London papers give full particu- lars of the recent sale at an auction rcom in London of the jewels and cos- tumes of Draga, the murdered Queen of Servia. The prices paid were not high, considering the circumstances. Thus the brilllant tiara worn by the Queen at her wedding brought only $6000. For a cabochon emerald and brilliant bracelet, a gift from the Czar of Russia, $240 was paid. For the small sum of $575 there was sold an article which has never been known to be offered for sale before—the Per- sian Order of the Sun, a star and badge set in diamonds. This was pre- sented to-Queen Draga by the Shah of Persia on the occasion of his visit to Belgrade in 1900. The order is of the greatest rarity, being only represented by sovereign ladies. The only others known to be in existence are those held by the German Empress, the Czarina and Queen Margherita of Italy. H The Turkish Order of Mercy brought $750. The total sum realized by the sale was $11,675.—Leslie's Weekly. A FRIEND'S PRIVILEGE. An eminent army officer has a man servant who has been with him a num- ber of years and who occasionally as he imagines, is warranted by his long service. W friend of the officer, | who overheard the servitor's frank- ness, asked why such familiarity was permitted. “Well,” said the officer, “I hardly lcok upon James as a valet, but rather | as a friend, and, as you know, it is a friend's privilege to tell you things about yourself that you hardly like to think about yourself."—Success Maga- zine. Stenographer’s Invention. W. Marvin Zehrung. a stenographer in the office of the division engineer of the O., R.’and N. a! the Union depot, is the inventor of a “midget” tabulat- ing device, according to the Portiand Oregonian, for use sn any standard typewriter, which is not only simple, but. cheap. The tsbulators now sold by the various companies cost in some cases as high as $20 or more and can- not be brought by every one who needs them. The invention perfected by Mr. Zehrung costs just one-half the sum of 100 cents. It is simple in consiruc- tiou, consisting of a set of little nivkel- ptated clips attached to the scale in front of the machine. Mr. Zehrung has apnlied for a patent and will prepare te manufacture them. Museum of Peace and War. A strange museum has been founded at Lucerne. It is entitled the Museum of Peace and War, and 1s intended as a complete history of war from the earliest times. The contents are war- like arms of all ages, and nations, MILES AND THE BEAR. It is told that when the prinetpal guest of the Gridiron, a famous dinner club in Washington, was a President of the United States, who but a few days before had occasion to speak with spirit and peint to the commanding general of the army, two bears entered the banquet chamber. One of them was | a real bear; the other was an imitation | bear with a man inside of it. The pair rolled into the middle of the hall and stood up and faced the toastmaster. “Where did you come from?" asked them. “We've been over to the White House | to see the President,” said the smaller | bear dolorously. It was then obs rved | that his fur was much disarranged. one | of his ears was nearly severed from his head, and that he was in an ap- parently much enfeebled condition. “You do notllook very well,” observed the chairman. “Don’t I?" answered the small bear. “Don’t I? Gee, but you ought to have seen Miles!"—Everybody's Magazine. | ANSWERS TO QUERIES. TEACHERS—Sub., City. - The first contingent of scheol teachers for the | Philippines left San Francisco June 2, | 1901. hs STREET CAR STRIKE-J. B, City. The strike by the men in the employ of the Sutter Street Railroad Company in San Francisco commenced December 3, 1886, and terminated May 1, 1837 The strike was for an increase of wages and shorter hours. HALF-HOLIDAYS—F. I D., City. Saturday half-holidays are not a re- cent idea. Such has been traced back to King Edgar of England, who In 983 ordained that there shouid be “a ces- sation of laber from Saturday noon until daylight on Monday."” THANKSGIVING DAY—J. J, City. It is a matter of diseretion with the President of the United States when he shall call for the observance of Thanksgiving day. It is generally on the fourth Thursday in November, but when there are five Thursdays in the month the last has been selected. TRIPLETS—A. O. S, City. Accord~ ing to the rule of poker triplets, some- times called “threes” or three of & kind, are three cards of the same de- nomination, and naturally of different suits, accompanied by two cards of different denominations, but not nec~ essarily of the same suit. The highes§ triplets win, and triplets beat two pairs, WAR TOKEN—A. C. R, Cal. The copper piece which you have books, prints representing the horrors of war in their most realistic aspect, and everything that can thfow a can- did light upcn a grim subject. The the place of small change. The par- ticvlar one you have is of no special value. Cne like that and ninety-nine others, all different, can be purchased residential and commercial center of | founder of the museum is M. Jean de | r,r 33 5o, what is commonly known as the Klon- dike, has a population cf 3500 persons | of various nationalities, the Americans, | with- 2450, forming 70 per cent of the total. \ “Bloch, a wealthy Pole, who is philan- thropic, and perhaps a little eccentrie, site as being the place most likely to attract the largest number of cosmo- politan visitors. ARAFAT—F. H_ Y., Sonors, Cal Ao= Arafat, or Jebel-er’-rahme (Mountain of Mercy), a granite hill, about fifteen miles southeast of Mecca, is the where the angel Gabriel Adam, to again meet punitive % i i ] i i i it § + if ; £ i i ot on it iz A i H