The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1905, Page 22

22 THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL_E .V('iH N l; s}*lu-:cxm ADDRES! JOHN McNAUGHT cava oo THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLICATION OFFICE .\T{':\'Y‘A Y APRIL 2, 1905 L 2, 19 CIVIC RIGHTEOUSNESS. | | | » terms solely in their secular meaning. That which ' ernment is civic rightness, the righteousness of spirit among th zens of the city. That San Francisco needs to be moved upon by that spirit no longer admits of doubt. There is no need to deal with , for the conditions speak for themselves. Without conte it the government of this city has ever, for a consid- , been kept upon a high plane, it is evident now that its , and perhaps lower than at any former period, ex- iitions that were found to be corrigible only by tee of creditable memory. appy conjunction of circumstances, but sper the Grand Jury and prevent it making and the conduct of officials have left an im- re revelations yet to be made. What has been 1 to justify the awakening of the spirit of civic indictments as have gone ‘to trial before a petit rt have been vindicated by conviction of son to doubt that other indictments « d will be in like manner vindicated. Under was, to speak mildly, most unfortunate that of the city inistration should interfere to prevent tion that had al- ry going d r into a ledge of corrup not yet known. the Police Commis- ch of partis ch a degree that t the city be morally as well as an only be when the char- is upright, desire to make the effort to n. As long as good citizens are in- y of the push against decency will ; e will s nose power, instead_of going e old odor of graft, greed zards. hip to ineffective. The rising of is as powerless as the an men be indifferent to the that is doing its duty and most to their official undoing their dishonesty by striving inquiry into their actions? THE ¥ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1905 IRST WH BUT—KEEP Y TROUBLE. OUR THICK CLOTHIN ISPER re not indifferent, and that g ' will answer the best aspira- | ; ey stand apart, each nursing his THE BRIGHT, SWEET WAY. they can nurse later on, when s et (L vidled ipzenty ah st OR all the storm and the trouble— o nment is partly and unfavorably : known. The “system” has representatives in important places of For all the hope and fear— power and also in the penitentiary. If the united “system” meet a To a rosy land divided people we may expect in the future less difference between Still hand-in-hand, its representatives in _jai nd xl}me in office. l Let us walk the bright way, dear! Obviously what is needed is a center, no matter how small at : first which civic righteousness can rally. Who will plant Over the hills the sunshine - - s . \ < 1 and sound the call to duty? Surely the spirit of the And the sky isending clear; tion that has shown such fine results and is Out of th Teit rd the work that it began under so great difficulties ut o e sirile 3 fined to the members of that excellent organization. It is To a glad, sweet life and moves thousands of voters who need only to know the Let us walk the bright way, dearl to make it effective. It will not do to wait until men who . 3 3 e political aspirations themselves make a move, for such are al-| What is a little SOPAI‘OW, ways looking at the weathercock to see if the wind blows the way And what a falling tear? :h(‘-.\- want rln go. ;I‘he n;lm'; mn:}t] }(\e n}l:;de byb_tm'en twho l;(avfhn_cv: The storms will cease; " political ambitions, but who have that nobler ambition to make their 5 4 government cleaner and of less evil report, and a thing of fear and‘ There .H be Joy aAnd peace awe to evil doers. | Going the bright way, dear! It is quite likely that the agents of the push will be found busy ! —ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, : — S —— in the midst of the reformers, promising a new deal entirely and deprecating the conditions which require it. This will mean that the push intends to shuffle and cut and make the new deal itself, and if honest men are deceived in taking the hands dealt to them by the candidates of the push, they will find that they voted for the same stem” to be run by new fmen. Let us therefore smash the " which can only be done by high and independent union and concerted action. To what quarter will the people turn for the needed organization? INISTERS and lavmen of many of the Philadelphia churches are praying for the conversion of the Mayor of that city, Mr. Weaver, and that he will banish vice from the iQuaker City, says Leslie’'s Weekly. A | great religious revival is said to be sweeping over the town, a manifesta- | tion similar to that which many sec- tions of this country are experiencing. THE DAY OF REST. EST is an art. It is one into which we should serenely let our- selves be borne by obeying the command, “Thou shalt rest.” Sunday is specially the day on which grace should be let develop that art in us as gently as does nature expand and unfold the flowers. On those days we toil not, nor spin; yet will grace array us with that glory which comes of quietness and assurance if we yield ourselves to the spirit of rest. From its very nature the art of resting differs from other arts of life in this, that it must be accepted as a gift. To rouse ourselves tc win it as we win other prizes would even in the act of strenuousness take out of it that which is its essence. Yet to possess it fully would enable us to practice the strenuous life more wisely. Life in mod- ern times is becoming so busy, so swiftly moving, so multiplex in its duties, that to really rest on Sundays will to many workers seem im- ' possible without neglect of other duty, but the art of resting may be so perfected that the necessary work of the Sunday may be done in a restful mood that will itself obey the spirit of the command. The advantage of .doing the necessary Sunday work in a restfui | spirit would not be for that day only, but wotld help to form the habit of putting somewhat of repose into the more strenuous work of the week, so that whatsoever there is of power in it may go into the doings of the other six days. It is not so much work itself that tires as the worries of work. The vexations that we let come, the impatiences and the lack of system, wear more than the toil. The friction of the mechanical machine soon wears it out unless oil be | provided. With the human machine the mood of repose is the oil | which prevents this friction. In the art of combining rest with work there is a suggestion in the skill with which the bird’s wings bear it through the air. There | are times when the efforts are, and must be, most strenuous, and at others the flight combines accomplishment with a repose of wing that | seems almost complete rest. The bird is using the force of the law of | gravity its wings had gained by toiling to a height, and then augment- | ing that stored energy with the power of the wind to bear it where | the bird wills. So there are many'opportunities in which stored-up | power may be used in restful ways which yet will be effective work. | It is, of course, a Sunday thought that this work done in restful’ mood will be closer to thoroughly right work; and as Isaiah tells us such work shall be peace, and “the effect righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.” “So shall we dwell in peaceful habitation, and in quiet resting places.” f Four Senatorship deadlocks within ten years, all caused by the same man, is the record in the United States—and a record that Delaware has no reason to be proud of.—Boston Globe. —— A physifian declares that a $20 bill will accumulate 73,000 microbes in a month. Never having been able to keep one a month, we will have to take his word for it.—Chicago Journal. S S S The North Sea fishermen would be obliged if Rojestvensky would take the trouble to give notice when he is coming back.—Washington Post. et P So terrible is this war that even the money-lenders are falling back.— Nonptreal Star. We have no desire to discourage the prayers of the righteoug, for they are still of much avail, but we hope we will not be regarded as intrusive or skep- tical when we ask the good men and women of Philadelphia, who are now VOTE AS YOU PRAY. | election day, when he was swept into power by a great plurality. Is there not a time to work as well as to pray? Had the ministers and the members of the churches, men and women, of the city of Philadelphia pledged themselves before the election of Mayor Weaver to vote against him or any one else who would fail to purify the city, and had they gone a step further and named one of their own supporters for the of- fice, could they not have elected him? | We doubt if such a combination in any | eity of the country could be overcome at a municipal election. It is not too late for the good people of Philadelphia to redeem the fame of their fair city, G'ON, UNLESS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME GOOD S They Are All New and Are Worth Telling to Your Friends. BOTH KEPT AWAKE IN CHURCH. COUNTRY minister in Scotland, A who was much annoyed by two members of his congregation, Macpherson and Mackintosh, sleeping during the sermon, hit upon a way to put 4n end to this state of matters. Calling on Mackintosh, he said: “By the way, Mr. Mackintosh, have you ever noticed Mr. Macpherson sleeping during the sermon?’ “Many a time,” replied Mackintosh, virtuously. “Well, next Sunday you might sit beside Mac- pherson and try to keep him awake.” “I'll do that, sir,” said Mackintosh. Then the minister went to Macpherson and went through the same programme concerning Mackintosh. Next Sunday it was highly amusing to anybody in the secret to see Mackintosh and Mac- pherson sitting next to each other other, both perfectly wide awake. QUAIL WAS NOT A BIRD THERE T a London dinner party the res- taurant waiter was being dis- cussed, and Gerald Lowther, the new English Minister to Mexico, said: “You should see the woolly waiter of 100 American mining towns. “The woolly waiter serves you in his shirtsleeves, with a cigar in his mouth. OF ,SPRING. #igs 1 LOVE IS HEIR OF ALL_AGES. = | | By Dorothy Fenimore. ! To the glory that was Greece i And the grandeur that was Rome. | OW. many of thqse who quote | these stately lines, which ring ap- I parently with Byreaice inspiration, know that they were written to a pretty girl by our melancholy Poe— that it was the classic beauty of a | modern Helen which caused the poet thus to dream nis way down the splen- did arcades of the noble past? Put to many uses as they are, the verses as they stand in their original | connection meam much to the litera- | ture of love. For they suggest several { ~ illuminative ideas, that poetry makes all ages orne, that womanly loveliness binds the history of the world into a single mighty volume of romance, and that man enriches his affection by all he does and knows and is. Often in my university days I have ! “sat quiet with wonder, listening 1 some schelar conjure up the long-agc and with Promethean power, endow its figures with the vital flame. Under such a spell 1 have wandered v blind Homer through the Grecian I have lingered happily with Helen where she plied her goiden distaff filled with | « wool of violet blue. And I have stood | | by Dante when.the maiden passed by, | 'and have seen the shadows of his face | transfigured with a reverential light. 1 have watched the changing moods of | Petrarch as in the full glare of Avig- | | mon he worshiped Laura of the child- like brow, and have marveled at the | | deep thought in his eyes as he burned | | the night away bending over the manu- | script of some old Latin master. | But, touched by these words which | Poe wrote to' a maid of my own day | and country, my eyelMs opened to a | clearer vision of love. I knew that the beauty of yesterday and to-day are | one and the same, that the girdle of Venus encircles the world. I under- | stood that it is the lover who is heir of all th ages, who hands down the immortal fire from one generation to another, who draws the veil from na- | ture’s mystery, who makes the history | of mankind a long, sweet story. All this I learned, and more. It came to me that wp-never grasp the real value of a thing until we see its rela- | tion with the rest of the whole of | which it forms a part. And, as the | painter puts into his pictures all the | books that he has read and all the music that has charmed him with Or- phean magic: as a musician expresses in his music the sum of all the knowl- edge he has gained; as the writer | plucks from the wide plains of the uni- | verse the flower of his thought; as the poet uses alike his sleeping vision and his waking dream—just so the lover puts his whole self in his love. | Al that he has learned of men and ? things, of art and melody, of the glories of the past, of nature’s promise of the future, enriches his love with flne as- sociatlons. ANSWERS THE DEAD SEA—A. S, City. The Mediterranean Sea is 1312 feet higher than the Dead Sea. < - 252 11 Y i U I i\ —PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. HORT STORIES. ! ewy man from the western part of the State gave the boaster a thrust that sent him sprawling on the floor. Like Owen Wister’s famous nameless ihero. this Virginian had a sense of | humor, and a$ he slowly picked himself up he turned to the group and drawled: “Gentlemen, I'm ready to acknowledge that I kivered too much territory.” CASE OF EXTREME CAUTION. GOLDSMITH MAID—R. B. D, City. Goldsmith Maid. the racing mare, was E. BUERMEYER, the president of the Amateur Skating Associa- “tion, tells the Baltimore Herald a story of extreme caution as illus trated by an old Boston man in the tavern: “This Rostonian sat one evening in al tavern drinking beer with three com- panions of his own age. The others | drank their beer slowly—a sip or two | every five minutes. But the old Bos- | tonian, the moment a full glass was set | before him, drained it down in a jiffy. “The friend on his right noticed his queer conduct. ‘I say, Alexander,’ he said, ‘why do you always swallow your drink in one | mouthful?” . | *“‘Once,’ the other answered, ‘I had my glass knocked over." " WHEN KIPLING VISITED QUAY. One day an Englishman ordered quail of such a person. “‘Quall?’ said the waiter. ‘All right, triend, quail it is. Quail goes.’ 'HEN Rudyard Kipling was in this couhtry he was commis- sioned to write impressions | 18 years old when she made her best time, 2:14, at Mystic Park, Boston, Mass. ALASKA—W. S. J., Oakland, Cal. The area of the Territory of Alaska is 577,390 square miles. It is 350 miles long with an average width of twenty-five miles. ECLIPSE—S., Portland, Or. The eclipse of the moon, night of Septem- ber 3 and morning of the 4th, 1895, was a total one and was a return of the one of August 25, 1887. TRAVELING — Constant Reader, City. Before this department can answer what you want to know about traveling East and the rising of the sun and the setting thereof, the ques- fions will have to be stated more’ clearly than they are in the letter sent. EXEMPTION—Subseriber, Stockton, Cal. The fact that a man holds & ma- rine license does not exempt him in the State of California from the payment of poll tax. The only exemptions are: down on their knees for the conversion | put they must get out of the &kirmish of the Mayor, what they were doing on | line and into the thick of the battle. e L e GO, ASTOR AND THE POET. OHN JACOB ASTOR and his son | one of his wealth. The two men be- came rigidly attended to business in the same office—a little building in Prince street, just east of Broadway, writes Burton J. Hendrick, in the April McClure's, Their constant companion there was Fitzgreene Hal- leck—Marco Bozzaris Halleck. Halleck became a clerk for Astor in 1832, and worked seventeen years. The employ- ment, he himself said, was not “profit- able, but permanent.” Astor warned him when he began not to talk to any- | one-story great friends. Halleck spent months with his patron.at his country seat and became one of the trustees of the Astor Library. The poet frequently rallied the old man on his wealth, “Why, Mr. Astor,” he would say, “if I had $200 a year and was sure of it I Wwould be content.” The great land owner took him at his word, and in his will, much to the amusement of Bohe- mian New York, left Halleck an annu- ity of $200. b ™, b S o v s o o e L St INVISIBLE EYEGLASSES. Invisible eyeglasses, sometimes used by actors, are not so numerous as the idea would suggest, according to a theatrical man, and they can only be had to order and in certain shops. Richard Mansfield is credited with having invented them, or at least of having first worn them, for roles in which the eyeglasses would make the impersonator of the character look ridiculous. As a matter of fact, an actor’s eyes have to be very far gone to prevent him from going through his work without glasses. Invisible glasses are simply very small and made to fit in as close to the eye as possible. The eve lashes touch them so constantly as to make them re- quire cleaning after every act. The nose plece and clamps which hold them on are also as small as possible, and sometimes flesh colored. Even at that they are not really invisible, because when the light strikes them at a cer- tain angle they are sure to give off a reflection which ‘reveals them. In a great business there is nothing so fatal as cunning management.— Junius, SOCIETY MANNERS. She was plainly irrftated about some- thing and sat pouting as she ate in a downtown restaurant, and not saying a “And he disappeared in the kitchen, and in a moment returned with a dish of pigs’ feet. “ “What's this?' said the Englishman. ‘I ordered quail.’ “‘Well,' said the waiter, ‘ye've got quail.’ * ‘But quail’s a bird,’ the Englishman exclaimed. “The barrel of the waiter's revolver gleamed as he said in a low, tense voice: “‘Not here."” ENGLISHMAN'S SENSE OF HUMOR. A\I instance of the density of the average Englishman’'s sense of humor is related by an American who has just returned from a tour of several months in ‘the British Isles, says the Baitimore Sun. The Amer- ican was walking along a street in a small English town early one morn- ing holding in his hand a letter which he desired to mail. “Pardon me,” said the American to a dignified gentleman whom he met, ‘“but do you know where the postoffice 182" “Yes,” replleq the Englishman, pass- ing by. - The Yankee laughed, and the Eng- lishman, turning, asked apologetically: word to the man with her, evidently her husband. Before the luncheon was fin- ished another man came in. The hus- band knew him and called him over to their table and introduced him. The Wwoman was then all smirks and smiles, Her anger disappeared completely, and she even included her husband in her sunny views of life. “That's gociety manners all right,” said a girl at another table; “but did Yyou ever see anything so foolish. It's a good guess she wants a hat or money to buy something of the sort from her husband and s going to pout till she gets it, but what a contrast her manner is to the man she's never seen before and isn't likely to see again! It must. look as absurd to the husband as it does to us. If ever I have a husband T'll not set about it that way when I want to get something out of him.”’— Philadelphia Record. Wflmfly‘m —Thomas Cariyle. “I beg your pardon, but did you want to malil your letter?” - “No,” said the American controlling his desire to laugh outright. The Englishman looked relieved and bowed a good-morning. TOOK IN TOO- MUCH TERRITORY. ORMER Congressman H. St. George Tucker of Virginia during a recent visit to Baltimore, the Sun says, a story of a Virginian who ‘had been indulging too freely in the flowing bowl and who had become over- confident of his own greatness. Look- ing around at his companions, the Vir- ginlan boasted: “Gentlemen, I can lick any man in Richmond.” Nobody took up the challenge, and the Virginian returned to the charge. “Gentlemen,” he said, “I can lick any man in the whole State of Virginia.” ‘The words were hardly uttered, the about the chief political boss of the | United States, Senator Quay. Klpnng' went to Beaver and called on the Sena- Male inhabitants under 21 and over 80 years of age, paupers, idiots, insane persons and Indians not taxed. tor, whom he found, as was usual, in his library. The talk was about books, In a short time, so it seemed to the British writer, Mrs. Quay came in, and, after Mr. Kipling had been presented, | she urged him to stay to tea. Kipling stayed, and after tea he and the Sena- tor returned to the library, which was such a one as he did not expect to find in any home in America. More talk ANSWERS—MARCH 24— SAN FRANCISCO—R. H. M., Mare Island, Cal. The southern boundary v | line of the city and county of San Francisco runs along the county about seven miles from the seawall. Any bookseller can furnish you a first- class map of the city and county. There is a race track within the limits of the city and county—Ingleside. ENVELOPES—J. M. K., City. The letters X, XX, XXX on envelope boxes indicate that the standard reams of paper, twenty-four by thirty-six inches, from which they are made, are re- r‘-meuvnly forty, fifty and sixty pound paper. The terms light, medium and heavy are also applied. The figures on such boxes indicate the size in inches of the envelopes, but nothing to do with the weight, OLD-TIME CRIMES—Subscriber, City.. James Dobson, a sporting man, was shot and killed by J. S. Tyler, another sporting man, in San Fran- cisco July 30, 1870. He was acquitted December 20 of the same year. Ed- ward J. Murphy was shot and killed by a man named Gunn December 31, | 1870. John N. Massey, also a sport- ing man, was shot and killed by Ham- blin April 1, 1882. TONOPAH—N. N. and T. City. Tonopah, meaning “water near the sur- face,” is in Nye County, Nev. Gold- fleld is in the same State, in Ssme- ralda County, twenty-five miles from for figures and the jaded business man Tonopah. The route from San Fran- who has, much adding to do, & NeW | cigco to Gordfield is by rall to Remo {invention from Germany, soon to be | 244 miles, then by rail to Soda Ville placed on the British market, should | 137 miles, thence by rail to Butler §0 ! prove a great boon, says the London | miles, thence by wagon 25 miles. imr’eu. The railroad companies "tlj] m.:m The invention is an adding machine, | &1l information as to rates, time : made of steel and aluminum. It 1g| 204 so forth. There is telegraphic tion with Tonopah. about six inches long and can be communication about books followed, until, to Kip- ling’s amazement, the clock struck 11. Then, mindful of his commission, he made arrangements to call again the | next day. Going to the telegraph office | Kipling wired his publishers something like this: “Unable to find the boss politiclan. But if you want it will write impressions about the best liter- ary critic in America.” i CHEAFER BOARD FOR CANNON. PEAKER CANNON is a great lover of green corn. He boards at the Arlington, and one day took one of his Illinois farmer constituents to dinner with him. Cannon made his dinner on green corn, eating seven ears. The farmer asked him how much he paid for board at the Arlington, and Cannon replied, “Six dollars a day.” “Well,” saild the farmer constituent, “Joe, don't you think it would be cheaper for ‘you to board at a livery stable?” An Automatic Calculator. To the housewife with a poor head ed in its neat leather case in th Townsend's Cala. Glace Frults. n ar- flm pocket. ' tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st * ————— There is a keyboard of nine figures and an’extra spring to register the tens and hundreds. Long-columns can be added up merely by pressing the keys and the result is shown on a small dial. The machine will add up to an un- limited amount. z 5 ‘s Cal. Glace Fruits and Chotce Il start a branch store at 76 oreet on April 20, 1908, o e woiecs e puRe e ke, Broan Toriaa Birad Al . 1 to N