The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 30, 1905, Page 8

' THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL OHN D. SPRECKELS.. e, " ADDRESS McNAUGHT. +eevee... Proprietor JOHN HIRD AND MARKET STREETS. OFFICE. PUBLICATIO! FRIDAY... T THE RUSSIAN CRISIS. HE crew of a warship has ere this refused to fight in order to | punish a cruel commander, but the seizure of a man-of-war by the crew and the turning of its guns against its (}m'crnmgm d until now. The capture of the Kniaz Potemkine .ck Sea and using its guns to defy the Russian Govern- ng siege to Odessa have startled the world. I_t fur- explanation of the poor showing made by the ships of ky. Those cre were no doubt affected by the same | ny that is said to be rife on the whole Black Sea fleet. | ght in the official rottenness of Russia. Graft f intended for the equipment of armies is bad food and bad ammunition, and starva- g the demands of discipline. answered every petition for better condi- | g death.” In Poland, in Bessarabia and in cruelty and murder, degradation and denial of human been the response of the Government to protest and however m and respectful. The liberties of the Grand were destroyed in violation of a solemn treaty. gion of the people have been treated d nds of Finlanc nd the language and re as crimes, and to speak the one or enjoy the other in secret has been punished with appalling severity. The Jews of Bessarabia have been denied the rights that man elsewhere freely gives to| four-footed beasts. The empire has been treated as the private prop- | erty of the Grand Dukes, headed by the Czar. The orthodox church has sternly repressed freedom of conscience, denied the rights of | reason and of private judgment to the people, for the sake of their | souls, Such has been “Holy Russia.” Now the bonds of superstition | are breaking. The people observe that under cover of solicitude for their state in the next world their condition in this has become in-] tolerable. Excepting the Cossacks, descendants of the savage Scyth- ians, the troops of the line and the reservists have discovered that vate Dukes, that their pri | larged and that their system of slavery, called government, may be | extended over the millions of Eastern Asia. Man, everywhere, no | matter how sodden and sordid his condition, has in him the samei spark of sentiment and feeling. The knout and Cossack whip have not beaten this spark out of | the soul of the Russian. Blindly, badly led, ignorantly moved, per- haps they know not by what, the people, Jew and Gentile, student, mujik, soldier and sailor, Pole and I'inn, 2ll over the wide empire are in revoit against cruelty and inisery. The Czar kisses the shin bone of St. Serafin and listens to ghost stories about Makaroff, standing in a halo on his sunken ship under the waters of Pechili Bay, prophesying victory, and prays. The Grand Dukes cower in their palaces, while the roar of revolt rumbles from the Gulf of Bothnia to the Black Sea. If Russia had the form of a Government, though bad, its awful | plight would invoke the pity of the world. But it is not a govern- ment in any proper sense. It is a private procession, the personal estate of the Grand Dukes. They have mismanaged it. They have | scourged the people to the task of making bricks without straw. They have demanded of their soldiers miracles of valor on rotten | bread and sawdust ammunition. The burden has proved too great | and human nature has rebelled. Some apologetic observers assert | that the freedom of a constitutional Government is not suited to the present condition of ignorance in which the Russians wallow. But these apologists will, we suppose, admit that human beings deserve 2 better Government than the Russians have. When the intelli- gence of Russian professors and students is joined with the ig- norance of the masses, in a demand for something better, why not prune the autocracy and give popular power to the intelligent Rus- sians who demand it, with progressive participancy in the Govern- ment held out as the reward of progressive intelligence? Why not endeavor to replace fear as a military motive by a genuine pa- triotism among the people? It is a grim and awful spectacle, Odessa under the guns of a warship, manned by mutineers, with a dead sailor, killed for pro- testing, lying stark on the dock. It should cause even the Procura- tor of the Holy Synod to question the cruel and unfeeling policy that he has urged upon the Czar in the name of religion. It should cause absolutism everywhere to awaken to a sense of the power of instinctive manhood, surviving misery and oppression. No one may now grasp the full significance of events. But in the future, when history is written, the world will be impressed that Japan, fighting a defensive war for self-preservation, fought also the battle of the oppressed in Russia. Delivering herself from danger, if she also deliver the Russian- people from tyranny and hunger, from superstition and misery, from ignorance and despair, she will be held as the emancipator among nations. The revolution of 1848, in which Germans were shot down in the streets of Berlin, was the final cause of constitutional Gov- ernment and parliamentary institutions in all of Continental Eu-| rope except Russia and Turkey. If Oyama, Nogi, Kuroki and Togo | on land and sea inspire the Russian people to revolt against rags | and misery, to attain a constitution and a parliament, to them will run the credit and theirs will be the honor. Tmembers of his class and his old professors. Then he gave | the university a man’s talk. His address glistened with good points, with appeals for real democracy in life and in Government, for the plain and substantial virtues, for the foundations of char- acter. His balancing of things in this statement may well be studied, pondered and heeded: “The very rich man who conducts his bus:- ness as if he believed that he is a law unto himself thereby im- mensely increases the task of upholding order when disorder is a menace to property. When the community feels that rich men dis- regard the law when it affects themselves, then the community is apt to assume the dangerous and unwholesome attitude of condon- ing crimes of violence against the interests which in the popular mind these rich men represent. This last attitude is wholly evil, but so is the attitude which produces it. Tt is far more important that they conduct their business affairs decently than that they should spend the surplus of their fortunes in philanithropy.” In analysis this has a meaning that should not be lost sight of. If the men under criticism subject themselves to the restraints of law and morals, the field to which they devote their surplus wealth nr a THE PRESIDENT AT HARVARD. HE President had a regular “boy’s time” at Harvard with the e they are not fighting Japan for their country, but for the Grand | | property in national territory may be en- | | & //:/ ' WHEN NICK HUSTLES FOR THAT INDEMNITY TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING | —PITTSBURG PRESS. R be of still greater service there. nothing except have a good time. The younger Ballwood had all the good time there was On a sudden he found himself at the for a series of years. end of his rope in his Eastern home. and he was equally without money and the means of mak- ing anv. But there was good blood in the young man and it did not take him long to make up his mind when he fcund he He was offered a chance to begin work in a huge Chicago manufactory, with the promise that his advance- ment should be as rapid as his merits permitted. Robert was in full possession of his faculties, incind- ing a good opinion of himself, and he had always had an admirable social position. It chanced that the family which employed him was filled with the social ambition and longed for a chance to spend a share of a very large for- tune in entertaining those who had already arrived swelldom, but had never gone very far in gratifying it. In particular they were anxious to be on friendly terms with the lady who shall be called Mrs, Charming, since she was reaily the social dictator of the city, through age, beauty, intellect and tact. And that was as far as the Searle fam- had to. ily had gone—they wers still anxious. Young Ballwood had found no trouble in taking up social life where he had left it in the his diminished means and greatly occupied time permitted. He had a host of friends and acquaintances whom he had known when rejoicing himself in busy idleness, and many of them were indebted to him for favors which they were glad to repay. It was the @ay before the night of the one great social function of the year, when everybody that was anybody was to shine in full view of the rest who wished to be somebody and were nobody in particular, when one of his Eastern friends telephoned out to the factory to inform him that he was to dine that evening with a party at Mrs, AT T OLISH up the red-cross emblem, And unwind the fuzzy lint; Get the healing drug and bandage, And the poultice, probe and splint; For the patriotic fires That have smoldered for a yesr Shall ere long be burning bLrightly— For the time will soon %e here. There will be “first ald,”” and solace, For the fingers that have gone; And besinged and blackened faces, From beginning of the dawn; And alas, the tiny cannon, ‘With its innocent discharge! And the gun that “isn’t loaded,” And the crackers, small and large. - HARD TO GET AT. An English barrister, arguing before the Criminal Court, says Answers, re- marked with much solemnity to the presiding Justice: z “My Lord, there. is honor among | thieves.” The Justice looked at him*severely. “There is gold in sea water,” he re- plied. “But it cannot be extracted in profitable quantities. Go on, sir.” OBERT BALLWOOD was the son of a distinguished Eastern lawyer who began his career at the bar many years ago, gulning an enviable reputation as a counsel- or and orator—so that the large interests he had been rep- reaenting &t their Western end took him te headquarters to There he died, fuil of years and honors, and left an estate of some size to the hero of this embarrassing story, whom he had brought up to do HE HOSPITAL., : By George H. Richardson. Charming’s and go to the function afterward. Mrs. Charm- ing would be only too glad to see him, though she did not know him personzlly. As a matter of course he accepted. There was littie chance for the hostess and this single guest to talk before or during the dinner, but as soon as it was over and the men had rejoined the ladies in the drawing-room, Mrs. Charmer discovered by an adroit ques- tion or two who Baliwogd really was, and then she wel- comed him anew. “Why, Robert,” she caid, “your father used to live in our house before I was mairied, and he and my father were the dearest friends. I am rejoiced to meet you here, and you must make this house your home while you are in the city just as your father did before you.” Robert refiected upon his going to work at 6 o'clock every morning and decided not to accept the hospitality so freely offered. But he couid not escape going with Mrs. Charming to the function in her own carriage and sitting in her box, which was the focus of attention from every one present, whether in or out of the charmed circle. And among those present were sure to be found Mr. and Mrs. and the Misses Searle. Now it is not wise for a young employe in a rather bumble position to vaunt himself greatly in social matters above & soclaily ambitious employer and his feminine rel- atives, and young Mr. Ballwood was not in the least happy if'a position which almost every one present was prepared to envy him greatly, He withdrew into the inner recesses of the box in spite of Mrs. Charming’'s almost direct com- mand to seat himself by her side, and when the reporters came ‘for information he was ready to throw a more or less involved fit. ~ Fortunately for him, his withdrawal to the rear of the box placed him nearest the point of approach and he him- seif gave the information required. So far as his own name was concerned he Invented one. Later, when the party went to its carriages, he was asked by several other report- ers for similar information, and imparted it in a similar manner. That is why no two of the accounts given in the dally papers of Mrs. Charming’s party agreed ut its members and why there was always one name that was recognized by no one as entitled to that honor. j But Robert Ballwood holds his position, undohu even been promated. g — PIONEERS NEED HELP To the Editor of The Call: About a year ago I came from Pittsburg | to (California on account of my health. I found in the foothills of the Sierras, in the Mother Lode district, the climate and surroundings I needed. I am in the m.dst of the Bret Harte country. Hundreds of “‘49-ers” are living in little cabins scat- tered over these hills, and I have become very much interested in these brave, fear- less pioneers. It is my aim to know them better, and to preserve some of their stories as incentives for future genera- tions of Americans. But, in studying them, I have found out that not only do future generations need their help, but that many of them need help from the present generation. Under present condi- | tions, some of these isolated heroes are suffering hunger and cold. I found one | several days ago who has been sick for weeks, and but for the help of a fellow prospector, almost equally poor, I would have found his starved and lifeless body in the cabin. During the past winter several cases of death from negleet and exposurc have come to my notice. I wish He was nearing 3¢ in East, as far as ‘Who shall trace the missing eyebrows, ‘When their owners blow the light, To apply it to the powder Of the rocket, for its flight? Who shall reconstruct the rooftree With its joys of home, and view, ‘When the fire-brands have fallen? Ah! the echo answers: ‘“Who?"' It will be the same old story, Told in much the same old way, Of the “Fourth,” when counting noses, Skinned and damaged in the fray. 8o, we'll patch the mangled victims, And record an oath on high That we'll have no more such slaughter, And we won't—till next July! e BOOK WRITTEN BEFORE DINNER. Chancellor d'Aguesseau, observing that | trom bodily hunger. his wife always delayed ten or twelve minutes before she came down to dinner, and reluctant to lose so much time daily, began the composition of a work which he prosecuted only while thus kept walt- ing. At the end of fifteen years a book in three quarto volumes was completed, which ran through three editions and was held in high repute. will be less needful of philanthropy. Men who produce evils which they assuage by use of the means which caused it are entitled to no credit for philanthropy. The President is not content to limit his speech to laudations of learning, but goes far beyond by impressing his hearers with the sober responsibility of the learned to society, whose institutions have enabled the acquisition of knowledge. The learned ‘man with- out high purpose is like a tool without an edge, potential of use, but latent and useless. If the young men and women go from the many college com- mencements of the year full of the high purpose which the Presi- dent inspires, the country will receive an accession to its moral and economic forces that is impossible if education be considered an end and not a means to an end. : At a London auction not long ago a letter written by Mary Stuart bronght $6500, 2 price that beats the record for costly letters, ing a few that have found their way into the divorce courts—Newark (N. J.), Ad- | weruser. T to appeal to you, and, through you, to the readers of your paper, for help. Can- not a fund be raised which might be used to supply the needs of these brave old pathfinders? Should not the State, which has profited so much by their struggles, at least make their dying days free from hunger and cold? I shall be glad to give you any informa- nothing, Attorney—You heard . and it was dark, you say? Then " THE SMART SET. By Sally Sharp. 4 ——— The engagement of Miss Beatrice Spli- valo to Lieutenant Shoemaker was for- mally announced at a luncheon given yes- terday by her mother, Mrs. C. R. Spli- valo, at her beautiful home in Beimont. The spacious residence was gorgeously decked with exquisite flowers. The guests arrived at Belmont station shortly after 12 o'clock, where they found the smart Splivalo traps awaiting to convey them to the house. Among those biuden for this happy oceasion were: Mrs. Howard Morrow, Mrs. David Crabtree, Miss Flor- ence Cornell, Miss Hazel Marston, Miss Genevieve Dowsett, Miss Laura Farns- worth, Mrs. Robert A. Dean, Mrs. H. Wingate Lake, Mrs. Willlam Lange, Miss Belle O'Connor, Miss Ethel Laumelster, Miss Gertrude Huntington, Mrs. J. Toker Sims, Mrs. L. T. Jones, Miss Willie, Miss Blythe. McDonald, Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Smith, Miss Patrick. Foliowing the lunch- eon tca was served on the tennis court. Here a large number of friends and resi- dents called to extend their goed wishes. The groom-elect is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Shoemaker or Philadelphia, and nephew of Captain Suoemaker, re-| tired, of the United States revenue cutter service. “ o . Mrs. Parker Syms announces the mar- riage of her cousin, Miss Nina Otis El- dred, and Philip Bancroft, to take place at noon to-day at Coronado. A more beau- tiful spot could scarcely be chosen for the exchange of wedding vows, a weaith of flora in tropic variety to surround the altar of Christ’s Chureh. A heneymoon of four or five weeks will conclude in San Francisco, where Mr. and Mrs. Ban- eroft will be located at St. Dunstan’s. . . . Mrs. David Bixler will entertain at a tea to-day at her home on Plerce street in honor of her niece, Miss Helon Hyde, who has just returned from Japan. Miss Hyde will be warmly greeted, as her gbsence has been over two years and in that time she has added much to her study of art and has many new evi- dences of her skill. Mrs. Willlam H. Irwin and Mrs. Edwin F. Gillette, sisters of Miss Hyde, will be among to-day's guests, and as all oc- cupy homes widely separated, this will I be a very happy occasicn of reunion. . . . The engagement of Miss May Strauss of Baltimore and Dr. Arthur D. Hirsch- felder, announced in these columns a few weeks ago, culmlinated in a wedding on June 26 at the bride’s home. Dr. Hirschfelder is weil known in San Francisco, being the son of Dr. Joseph Hirschfelder, and baving been in charge of the City and County Hospital after graduating from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Hirschfelder took his first medical course at Cooper's in this city and is an ardent lover of his profession. Dr. and Mrs, Hirschfeldes are at the Holland, New York, and will travel a month or more before arriving in San Francisco, where they will make their home. B4 . - The wedding of Miss Jean Montgom- | ery Duncan ana William Knowles was quietly celebrated last evening at the home of the bride’s parents. . A . Truxtun Beale is the guest of h::"plrentu. Mr. and Mrs. Oge, at San | Ratael. st Miss Jean Pedlar is at Santa Cruz. | Among other visitors to the popular resort are Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Tay- lor, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam H. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick .W. MecNear, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Murphy, BE s Pillsbury and Edgar P:irner. e o Rear Admiral and Mrs. Trilley have been among the week's visitors to Santa Cruz, where they are stopping at the Sea Beach }lote.l. . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barle Reld, who are in New York, will sail for London July 11 on the Caronia. & W :» Miss Dufficy of San Rafael is visit- ing the Sharboros at their beautiful country home at Astl. . . » Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hobart will spend part of the summer at Capitola. The fishing Is & great attraction at this resort, several San Franciscans dally indulging In their love of the - - . - Major and Mrs. Willlamson of Chicago are salling to-day on the Logan for Ma- nila, where Major Williamson has been newly statloned. . . . | Mrs. Charles Minor Cooper is In towm | after a pleasant cuting in Sonoma. « s o Mr. and Mrs. Everett Gummer of San Jose will sall from New York to-morrow cn the steamer .Cun.pnn:‘ for Londom. Mrs. Clara Foits, who has been making |a visit fn Southern Cailfornia, returned 2 day or two ago. > o-@ Professor Cos, & member of the facuity | of the Nortawestern University, wi'k nis wife, Mrs. Saldes Knowland Coe, has | joined Congressman Knowland's party at | Deer Park Inn, where they will spend some time. C | Mrs. Alice B. Chittenden, Willlam Ro- | meine and Benjamin Romaine, who were | among the members of a driving party | leaving here a few weeks ago for Yosem- ite, have returmed to towm. . s e Miss Alice Schroth and Miss Florenos Schroth are visitors at Del Bosnte. FASHION'S MIRROR. HE flat plateau shapes have taken a new lease of fashionable favor, partly, no doubt, because ‘ they demand a certaln amount of chie and style to their best development, de- manding both a clever de- signer and a cleverer trim- mer. The one of the picture is a combination of straw and embroideréd linen, the crown being of the latter, all hand-worked, with a border of straw in a dull faded rose tint that harmonizes well with the yellowish tint of the linen batiste that is em- ployed. Quaint-looking little roses are deftly tucked in be- tween the two rows of straw that edge the brim, and the back is folded over in en- velope fashion, this edging motif. twice repeated here. There is a bandeau in the back that extends in a nar- nowing line to the front and gives the flat shape that fas- cinating tilt down over the forehead. The back is well built up and covered with a perfect conservatory of the faded little roses, pert little I NEW PLATEAU SHAPE.I —_— knots of velvet ribbon being tucked in here and there with the happiest effect. tion and any assistance in my power. So far as I can learn I am not only the sole pastor, but the sole resident friend of many of these people in the southern half of Tuolumne and the northern half of Mariposa counties. 1 might add, in closing, that many of these lonely men suffer almost as much from book hunger and lack of reading matter, such as magazines and storles, ana even scientific journals, as they do I shall be glad to distribute -nyb.mp: i d odicals which may sen Rup e e A. F. McGARRAH, Pastor Presbyterian Church. Big Oak Flat, Cal., June 3. v ——e——————— 81 4th (front barber), best eyeglasses, specs, 20c-50c; other stores, $234-$3%. * Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, in ar- tistic fire-etched boxes. New store now open, 767 Market street. . —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Call- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. | ml BUY YOUR OWN PAPER A man who was too economical to sub- scribe for his home paper sent his lt- tle boy to borrow the copy taken by his neighbor. In his haste the boy ran over a $4 stand of bees and In ten minutes locked like a warty summer squash. His cries reached his father, who ran to his assistance, and falling to notice a barbed- wire fence, ran into it, breaking it down, cutting a handful of flesh from his anat- omy and ruining a $§ pair of pants. The old cow took advantage of the gap In the fence and got Into the cornfleld and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket the wife ran, upset a four-gallon churn of rich cream into & basket of kittens, drowning the whole lot. In her hurry she dropped a 325 set of false teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled through the spilled cream and into the parlor, ruining a $30 carpet. During the excitement the oldest daughter ran away with the hired man. The dog broke up eleven setting hens and the calves got out and chewed the talls off four fine shirts.—Kansas City Journal. TWO MINUTES WITH THE BUSY FUN-MAKERS.