The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1905. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL| JOHN D. SPRECKELS ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT.. THIED AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLICATION OFFICE.. FRIDAY i NOVEMBER 10, 1905 THE POLITICAL MIXUP. HE year’s elections are over and present 2 kaleidoscopic ap- Chicago, overwhelmingly Democratic at the city | 1 last spring, turns about face and goes overwhelmingly | Ohio, giving a record Republican majority last year, | and gives one of the largest Democratic majorities | r. Pattison, the Governor-elect, is an interesting | pearance. ele Republica turns completely in her history. character. He is the president of the largest and most successful life insurance company west of New York, is a radical prohibitionist. and a churchman. In these days of acute and justifiable suspicion of ‘ the great nsurance companies, he must have extraordinary qual- | ities to mand popular confidence. It was a new departure for | the Ohio Democracy to go to an insurance company and the water | wagon for idate and leader, but the novelty won. | Governor Pattison carries a Democratic Legislature into power | This will not affect either of the Republican Senators | Mr: Foraker’s term does not expire until 1909 and | until 1911. One cause of the reversal seems to have | been a revolt in the Republican party against bosses. This is shown | atic ngajority given in Hamilton County, where Boss r many years, and is not believed to have been very his methods. In Pennsylvania the same cause produced the same result. The Philadelphia under the leadership of Mayor Weaver ate with it, and the Republican party went down under | \ great contributing cause was the fall of the national with the tragedy of its cashier’s suicide, and the | s extended to politicians for speculative purposes. | to Senator Penrose, and sufficed | to the distlosures in Philadelphia comn aca with him State by the Demo: Cox has rule elations got very close 1at weight was necessary verse the State. seems to be completely unhorsed. nt to the State constitution to disfranchise the negroes | v beaten and his entire political machine is smashed into bits. jership in this result was taken by Mr. Bonaparte, Secretary d-nephew of the great Napoleon, who seems to g blood of the Little Corporal, grafted upon | nd Senator Gorman ne horse sense 1 New York City, while Tammany elects McClellan Mayor, the that organization is for the time in eclipse. It lost heavily other branches of the city government. There, too, the re- too much bossing was a factor in the fight, while the | ations of questionable methods in the great insurance compa- | nies helped on. Mr. Hearst was supported by thousands as the | representative of anti-Tammany exasperation. The feud will prob- | ably lead to another split in the New York Democracy, like that be- the ancient Hunkers and Barnburners, and the later schism | Short Hairs and Swallow Tails. The election of Mr.| continue as District Attorney is gratifying to the whole | He was antagonized by Hearst and Tammany, and was | Republican ticket, though the Republican nominee for | hdrew to give him the right of way. He ran alone and | v, and it is a great compliment to his personality that | took pains to find his name and stamp it. t n such a high and mighty time, with a political gale 1 the sand and dust flying, Kentucky had to be in it, and micipal elections in Louisville and other Kentucky town itement enough to have: satisfied Daniel Boone and ka Jack, as a substitute for Indian fighting. State politics was | not affected and the Legislature will elect Senator Blackburn or a| Democratic successor. ignificant indication of something permanent in political | owever, we have to come as far west as Utah. In Salt| e Democratic candidate for Mayor was a Mormon. The | candidate was actively supported by Senator Smoot. The | \merican party, organized by ex-United States Senator Kearns, put a full Gentile ticket in the field on an anti-Mormon platform, pledged to oppose church influence in politics, to drive the church teachings out of the public schools, and to make a stand for the | richt of non-Mormons to live in Utah and enjoy the civil ]iherty' power of tween betweer 1 g Jerome tc the For conditions, h e City th and rights of American citizens. That ticket won out, and its victory is believed to have wrecked Se v Smoot politically. He quarreled with his brother apostle, Penrose, and even the many-wived president of the church had to interfere to restrain his frenzied politics. Senator Kearns seems to have read the signs of the times rightly in Utah, and has not waited | long for vengeance upon his former colleague. The American party | proposes to organize for the State fight, and, if it concentrate the} Gentile vote, with the assistance of excommunicated Mormons like former Senator Frank Cannon, it will give the church a run for its money. It is somewhat difficult out of all this confusion to get a line on future national issues. If we take indications from New York City, the Hearst faction will be expected to join socialism to the National Democracy. But in Ohio the platform on which Governor dattison was elected rejected public ownership and other socialistic features. These things indicate a fierce contest in the Democratic party-over the platform of 19o8. L raising of wages, namely, the proper adjustment between the rate of wages and the cost of living. There has been a long, hard struggle, especially in tHe last ten years, by the workers to lift up the scale of wages. They succeeded admirably. To accom- plish this took energy, self-denial, brains, the rare gifts of ability to combine and co-operate and a world of patience and persistence. This combination of high qualifications, great as it is, can be called only a little thing compared to the brains, energy and persistence it is going to take to secure such an adjustment between wages and the expense of existence that the workers will really reap an ad- vantage from that rise in wages which they have so laboriously brought about. A glance at those stubborn things, statistics, will show that to be true. Looking at the figures of wages as isolated from other | tables, the earners seem to have gone forward in strides that might | be measured in feet and yards; but when we compare with this the cost of living we find that their progress in ten or fifteen years ‘is just a crawling up by fractions of an inch. It is not a subject for despair, though, for even a plodding progress is reason for con- gratulations, and the latest bulletin of the Bureau of Labor shows that we do creep slowly toward easier earned and better livings. The point to be noted is that the lifting of the prices of labor js a mere detail in social improvement; for, unless other items of a comprehensive plan go hand in hand with bigger wages, the total . effect will be just as the seesaw progress of children on the two ends of a plank, who could toil at their game for ten years and never average higher from the ground than when they began to alternately rise skyward. . 1, when the workers boost the wage scale, the prqducers come right along with a boost of what they have to buy, where are they as net result? They might just as well have been sitting down composedly and waiting for the strategy and tactics of the greater sociologists to get in their work of elevating the whole of humanity instead of seesawing one class against apother class. For example, consider this one item: A table shows that wages for 1904, as com- pared with the average for the ten-year period of 1890 to 1899, had increased, measured by earnings per hour, as high as 17 per cent; but the wages of one hour would purchase only 4.7 per cent more food. : e 4 WAGES AND FOOD. ABOR has a much more serious problem before it than the STRANGE MISFO | THE MAN WHO KICK RTUNES THAT BEFELL ED A DOG. | e ILLIAM EBERTS of Lynchburg, Ohio., will never W kick a dog again. . This is not entirely due to the fact that he has lost both legs, which makes it a physical impossi- tility for him to kick a dog, but because he isnow convinced that misfortune and trouble are certain to follow upon the trail of the man who aims his pedal extremity toward a canine, says the Chicago Tribune. Eberts, or Bill, s he was known, was the owner of a farm out toward Allentown from Lynchburg, in the Turtle Creek Valley, as nice and rich a piece of land as there was in all Highland County. His father had left him the farm frec of Incumbrance, and it was well stocked, had good buildings, a comfortable farmhouse, and Eberts had a con- | tract with the distillery in Lynchburg to take care of a | certaln number of cattle eacR year. ENGAGED TO A ETTY GIRL. He was engaged to marry Nettie Weiman, one of the prettiest young women in the Dodsbnville district, whose father was a wealthy farmer, and, on the summer that he first kicked a dog, she had returned from Harcourt Place Seminary at Gambier, Ohio, where she was finishing her education. Eberts was a handsome, well-proportioned young man, jolly®happy, and, although a hard bargainer and a good business marn, he was known as a good fellow. His sister Molly kept house for him at the Turtle Creek farm, with the aid of a housekeeper and a servant, and everything might have been well but for the fact that +George Tatum, who was in love with Molly and afraid to tell her so, sent her a little, white, woolly poodle. Eberts did not like Tatum, alt.ough he said that Molly's love affairs were her own lookout—and still less did he like the poodle that Tatum sent to Molly, but, as she lav- ished a fund of affection upon it and kissed its pink nose and talked baby talk to it, Eberts merely sniffed with dis- gust and went out to pet his horses. WHY HE KICKED THE POODLE. The poodle remained in the house several weeks. Then one night Eberts came home from -Westboro, where he had been to look at a bunch of young steers, tired and disappointed over the deal, and retired to his room. Half an hour later he was awakened by something warm licking his face, and he made a vicious slap at it, cuffing the poodle off the bed and ordering it from the room. He fell asleep again and was awakened by the poodle whining. Angry, he jumped out of bed and started to hunt the poodle, which fled whining around the room. Eberts, feeling his way through the @ense darkness, with both hands outstretched before him, walked straight against the door, which came between his outstretched hands and broke his nose. With a cry of pain and anger, he leaped In pursuit of the dog, to take vengeance, and, when he thought he had it cornered, he launched out a kick and broke his great toe against the door jamb. ¥ Dr. Shrofe was called and set both the nose and the toe, and thereafter Eberts declared vengeance against all dogs. DOGS MAKE HIM MUCH TROUBLE. And, odd as it may seem, every dog in that community seemed at once to take an instinctive dislike to Eberts. Before that they had r:ussed him by without notice, but after he had declared fhimself an enemy to all dogs they seemed to walt for an opportunity to bite him. Before his broken toe healed John Orebaugh's black setter ran out and barked at Eberts' spirited horse, causing it to bolt and wreck his new three-quarters side-bar buggy, and he narrowly escaped death. Two months later—as soon as his face was presentable— Eberts went over to call on Miss Weiman. She received him as lovingly as ever, and he related to her his experi- ences, she being properly sympathetic. That evening, as he was bidding her a fond farewell, her pet dog came leap- ing around them, and Eberts, letting loose of Miss Weiman's land, launched a vigorous kick at the dog. The kick landed where it did the most good and Fido fled howling around the house. There was a quarrel—Miss Weiman was angry and hurt —and at the end of the quarrel she handed back his ring and went inside the house. FEUD RESULTS IN TWO BLACK EYES. That only served to intensify Eberts’ anger at dogs in general and the one in sight in particular. Only a week later he kicked Pony Dumenil's dog In- front of the Miller House in Lynchburg, and the fight that followed Is his- toric in that town, Eberts losing and departing for home with both eves blackened. For nearly a year Eberts went on kicking every dog that came within kicking distance of him, trying to get even for the harm they had done him. Last January he went out to his horse barn early in the evening to examine a horse that had been sick. and h:wvut the lantern down on the barn floor near the stall hile he was working around the horse he heard a suspicious sniff, and saw Frank Davidson’s’ mongrel cur at his heels. He aimed a wild kick at the dog, which put its tail between its legs and fled howling down the floor, knocking over the lantern. Eberts jumped for the lantern, but before he could reach it burning oil had reached the hay In the manger near by, and five minutes later the barn was burning furiously, and it was with difficulty that he rescued nine of his horses, two perishing in the fiames. The fire spread to the big corn crib near by and only desperate efforts by the hired men and the neighbors saved the other buildings. LOSES SUIT FOR DAMAGES. Instead of learning a lesson of kindness from this, Eb- erts vowed he would kill every dog he could reach, and the following week, after kicking Colonel Payson Max- well's dog, that blooded animal turned upon him and gave fight, whereupon Eberts drew a revolver and killed the dog. Colonel Maxwell brought suit and recovered damages, Lesides forcing Eberts to pay a heavy fine in the criminal action that he started. About that time it came to be talked about all through Dodson Township that Bill Eberts’ bad Juck all came from kicking a dog, and the dogs in that township that man- aged to elude Eberts had an easy time,.for no one else ever dared kick one for fear of bringing bad luck down upon his head. % But Eberts himself grew only more and more bitter against dogs. He declared that the man who Kept a dog was a criminal and that the Legislature ought to pass a bill making it a criminal offense for any person to own a dog. ¢ A few weeks ago the climax of the strange series of misfortunes that followed Eberts’ act in kicking his sis- ter's poodle was reached. He went to Cincinnati with a load of horses, intending to dispese of them in the Fifth- strect market. He sold his horses at good prices, and, feel- ing well satisfied with the day's work, he walked down Fountain square and stopped at the edge of the esplanade, hoping to meet somesacauaintances from up in his part of the country who had come down on a $1 excursion and | who, he knew, during the day. BOTH OF HIS LEGS TAKEN OFF. Rain had been falling and the esplanade was slippery. As Eberts stood there he felt a touch on his trousers’ les, and, turning, he saw a small, black-and-tan terrier snif- fing at his trousers. Wild with rage, he turned and kicked viciously at the little beast. He missed. His foqt slipped on the wet stones of the esplanade. he fell, slid off the esplanade and shot, feet first, under an onrushing Covington car. He was taken from underneath the c¢ar with both legs crushed and the surgeons at the City Hospital amputated both just below the knee. . While unconsclous and all during the operation Eberts raved about dogs, declaring they had ruined his life and cast an evil spell upor him. No one knew what he meant until the news of his terrible accldent reached Lynchburg. Tt is declared among the superstitious in that locality that Eberts has been punished for kicking dogs, and, al- though many persons there deny they are superstitious, it is safe to say that Lynchburg and Dodson Township— and all that valley of the east fork—Is the safest place for dogs in all the world. would be around the fountain some time ] S LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID — g— JHEN over the fair fame of friend or foe The shadow of disgrace shall fall; instead ! Of words of blame, or proof of thus and so, Let something good be said. “Forget not that no fellow being ye‘t May fall so low but love may lift his head; Even the cheek of shame with tears is wet, 1f something good be said. No generous heart may vainly turn aside In ways of sympathy : no soul so dead But may weaken strong and glorified If something good be said. And so I charge ye, by the thorny crown, And by the cross on which the Savior bled, And by your own soul’s hope of fair renown, Let something good be said. + — By Dorothy Fenimore SRR e i OR peace nor ease the heart can know Which, like the needle true. Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles, t00,” was part of an English poet’s prayer for indifference some hundred years ago. And 1 feel sometimes, noticing how many people there are who wear themselves out so com- pletely over the troubles of others that they have no strength left to meet.their own, that this subject might prove profitable as an evening meditator for many of us. Indifference, at which we are wont to look askance. has its noble and human side. It is not always an evi- dence of a callous nature; sometimes it is the calmness of cool judgment and qulet nerves. What seems to be n lack of sympathy may be the per- fect balance of a well-poised mind that measures affairs by wisdom'’s universal vardstick. What passes for sympathy is often but a kind of spend- thrift generosity which furnishes security on which ac- quaintances may borrow trouble. With a sympathizing friend for a backer you can accumulate twice as large a liability of woe as you can if you are obliged to stand alone. What trivialities one worries over in the name of sym- athy! ” Yfiu are ready to pity your neighbor because her income is just enough for her to live one. Yet you know, if you stop to think, that more money brings need of more money; that usually the man who has more is just as poor—for him—as that other who has less. You fret because you can not afford expensive furniture for your parlor, but must put up with a simply serviceable product. Why not be a philistine in art, &nd be cheerful, convinced that any chair is "an honest chair” provided it stands securely on four legs and cost no more than it is really worth? % ‘Are you troubled because you find your daughter, who is newly wed, lamenting her husband’s lack of interest in her perplexities of household management? Nonsense. A good man of ordinary chivalry is ready to fight all the battles of the woman. whom he loves, except those which she' has with the cook and the dressmaker. There is a laugh for somebody or other beneath the husk. of most worries. Consider two exaggerated cases, which serve as types for every-day solicitude: There is at least a smile in the story about the anxious mother who was so exceedingly careful of her invalid daughter that she would not open the bureau drawer when the latter was in the room for fear of making a draught. And there are certainly two smiles in that narrative of Gargantua, Rabelais’ hero, who couldn’'t make up his mind whether he ought to sorrow at the death of his wife, or be glad over the birth of his son; and whose feelings got mixed while he was worrying about theé matter so that he | cnded by béing glad for the death of his wife and sorry for the birth of his son. - To just such follies does worry commit us eyery day, | a8 often as better becomes — HER BUSY DAY. — Mrs. Tungay—You can't imagine how e R i By Wallace Rice TUCH of this conversation about the simple life is exceedingly irksome. Anybody whe really means it his life in the Orient. Go there and be simple thenceforth—they know how to do things simply there; But in twentleth-century America what earthly oppor- tunity is there to be simple? One long step toward it would of the world. Then all the tables we should need would not stand more than six inches or a foot high, chairs and housekeeping. But who wants to sit and sleep on the floor? And who would dare to, if he wanted to? household necessity, such as the telephone has come to be for many of us, and observe the entirely new elements intercourse with an army of persons who would never have crossed our path otherwise; the agent who induced for it, the array of voung women who answer.our call— and shame us by their politeness—and the still greater know us, that contrive to be at the other end of the wire from day to day. ‘sible before possible now; it gets us up in the morning and in the middle of the night. It introduces a long series of It brings along a directory, with another series of new uses for that. and so on. Simplicity, bah! phone. We, just now, are living in a time before some other household pet that will add just as much to the com- it and cannot realize it, which is another of the reasons why we go on living—it is a wise beneficence that denies difference if you don't have a telephone; they’d be calling you down to the corner drug store if you didn’t. tramp, who escapes most of the disagreeable things of civilization, escapes complexity. The simplicity of a deci- than overcome by the increasing difficulty of getting any of it, for example. whether the affair is our own or An{‘),ml:’l‘ 3 ‘When in tragic mood we cry: “Oh, if we could but know doubt!” Why do we not reflect that experience has shown us over and over again that bad changes to better quite JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY IN THE READER. * - Fdea e e can save up enough to support him for the rest of they have to know, or they would starve to death. come if we learned to sit and sleep on the floor, like most beds would dlsappear, and with them most of the cares of Every new invention complicates things more. Take a it introduces into the family affairs. It brings-us into us to put the machine in, the man who collects the money array of people whom we do not know, and who do not * It makes all sorts of engagements that were never pos- new phrases and new thoughts into our heads and mouths. There are these who remember back before the tele- plexity of things as the telephone has. We do not know us knowledge of the future. And it doésn’'t make any Everything complicates life In America. Not even the mal currency in comparison with that of England is more T ST I TR M R T e e e the worst! Anything would be better than this agony of worse? THE FATAL GESTURE.| AFTER ELECTION. _ x just to learn the time “"Twas simply | Jack the Giant. Killer explained convenient 1 find it to have a telephone Ill!z‘pp‘flgatmet‘lnn.'_ seven-league boots. . 5 don’t consi crime, £ e s in the house. I don't see how we ever % der that a | “It was merely a natural step for me T Occidental ‘ Accidentals | By A. J. Waterhouse L THE SMI;(;mR OF THE JEWS. OOLS who kill for the lust of F blood, fiends of the slaughter- pen, Who wreak red malice on women and babes and gray and defenseless men; in religion’s name, Dare the work of the ghoul to do, and crawl in your bestial shame— This in the name of religion! Why, fools who are less than clod, From the Jew you borrowed your al- tar, from the Jew you filched your God. His was the great Jehovah whom your churchly rites attest, g And his was the wondrous Bible that shone on your darkened West. His David still is singing. Your souls oppressed to -thrill, And Sinai's veice is ringing: “Thou shalt not, shalt not kil Murderers! thugs! assassins! sodden and ingrate crew! Most of the best ye now disdain was learped of the hated Jew. In temples of desecration his psalms ye have mouthed to-day: ;- Then turned from the hollow praises i to slaughter and kill and slay; | Ye have mourned with his Jeremiah, as great was your need to do, But if mourning fostered brute alone small was the gain to you. should ye be stricken more?" lsaiah moaneth still, But all that ye learn from the broken words is kill—and kill——and kill! And Rachel still is mourning that her children are no more, While your hearts are mad with mal- ice and your hands are red with gore. Still rolls the awful thunder O'er Sinai's darkened hill. While still—oh, deed of wonder!— Ye kill—and kill—and kill! Fools who are less than brutish, ranny’'s pestilent ecrew, A beast may spring on his master— and ye do murder the Jew. “Why any ty- When their their your forebears sat in frozen dens and mumbled rotten bones From Palestine echoed northward the great Jehovah's tones. The God of the Jew had spoken, and your ancestor heard and knew, And his first dim knowledge of truth and right he TYearned of the hated Jew. more! From Nazareth came day the Man who is.thine mine, And he set in the soul of the brutish man the germ of a thought di- vine, And the germ took root in the soul of man, and ever it bloomed and grew, And the Christ whom your erimsoned hands do flout was a Jew and the son of a Jew. His heart for the sad world bleeding, He loved and forgave us still; And yet, that lesson unheeding, Ye kill—and kill—and kill! Fools who are less than tyranny's pestilent crew, that the world holds dearest slaughtered in him—the Jew. Ay, one and brutish, | All is THE GOOD MAN WHO FORGAVE. The good man had been thinking about it for some time. He had thought about it earnestly, conscientiously, even prayerfully, and at last’ he saw clearly what he felt it was his duty to do. To be sure, he realized keenly that the other man had wronged him griev- ously, and that not in a little but a reat matter; still he now saw his duty plainly and he must act in ac- cordance with it. So, acting upon the truth revealed in this inward vision, wrote a letter to the man who had wronged him, and we are permitted to read a brief quotation from it. “I know,” he wrote, “that yeu have done me a great wrong, but as I hope for forgiveness for wrongs that 1 have done, so must I forgive. At last I see my duty and you are forgiven—for- given freely and fully. You have not asked for this forgiveness, but not the less it is yours.” The good man sat back in his chair and looked thoughtfully at the letter for some time. Then he spoke lowly unto himself. “It will make the cuss feel mean and small,” he said, “to g letter.” Then, as he rose from his chair, a glad, triumphant smile shone upon his placid countenance—such a smile, you know, as we always wear when we have shown a forgiving spirit. (N. B. Don't begin to puff yourself up with self-conceit, Rehoboam. The man was not so lonely in his style of forgiveness as you might suppose.) ighty 3 that LIFE INSURANCE PHILOSOPHY. “While yet the lamp holds out’ to burn the vilest sinner may return.” Even the president of a life insurance company might reform and lead a bet- ter life—although it is not generally expected of them. Some men seem to have no luck at all, while others marry relatives of life insurance officials. Honesty is the best policy, but the life insurance company I am in is not issuing that kind nowadays. Life insurance companies used to take risks, but now it is the policy- holders that do it A quasi-public office is an easi-private snap .The public is an Easy Mark—let's keep our guns turned on it. “Since the meat irust mdgnates have in- dicated their defense against the charges filed against them I realize where our re- cent Senatorial boodlers made their mis- “What was it?” ““Why, they should have had Commis- sioner Garfield guarantee them against prosecution if they told the truth, or any part of it.” “Don’t you think son is a good man “Well, perhaps. “He must be. that Thomas W. Law- b ‘Why, in order to do the ing the money of his getting, even.” - “I think you are correct with the ex- ception of one little word.” “What word is that? “The word ‘of.” He is freely the money ‘in’ his getting even.” other day that she was mightily about paying for them.”, HIS BLUNDER. Knkhr—eo, Jones got mixed in his ex- cuses? - Bocker—Yes. He told his wife that he had been up all night with the baby, and his em] that he was detained at the office on —Harper’s Bazar. . ~ HIS STORY. ‘Murderers, thugs. assassins, who, e'en he sat down and | thing he deems right he is freely spend- | Naturalized citizens owes ‘She. _“Yes, but Dr Peignleys told me the | study i L T — The Smart Set By Sally Sharp. ‘ Mr. and Mrs, Charles Parfal will entertain: at a ball at the P tel this evening to formally their Qaughter, Miss Dorothy | society. Mrs, Edward Houghton will entertain | at bridge to-day in honor of Miss Gruce | Mellus of Los Angeles, who will spend | the winter in town. *Mrs. Jobn T. Harmes and Mrs. Alanson Weeks will be at home to-day at the ncw home of Dr. and Mrs. Weeks on Spruce | street. | Among to-day's bridge hostesses will | be Mrs. Henry Foster Dutton. i Miss Jessie McNab will be the honored | guest at a luncheon to-day given by Mrs. Arthur Kelly (Charlotte Lally) in her rew home in Piedmont Miss Helene Robson honored Mise Edith Downing at a large luncheon yes- Palm Garden, eighteen | terday in the guests being bidden to greet the bride, whose wedding with Dr. Edger will be | an important society event on Novem- | ber 21. A large round table heid the as- semblage, quantities of Bridesmaid roses being employed in decoration, making an artistic effect. Mrs. Frederfe Beaver received a large number of guests yesterday ag her home ¢n Steiner street in homor of her miece, | Miss Ruth Casey, whose formal intro- | duction to soclety it was. | The debutante is an attractive maid and | received the congratulations of all whe | called. The house was massed With beau- | tiful flowers of many varieties sent in | compliment to the young guest. |~ With Mrs. Beaver and Miss Casey there were receiving Miss Helen Thomas, Mise Marguerite Barron, Miss Emily Marvin, Miss Marie Brewer. . Mrs. John Harold Phillips will present her niece, Miss Adelene Johnson, at & tea on November 2L ot | _Miss_Alice Treanor, Clarence Oddie, | Miss Emily Chickering of Oakland and John Trumbull Overbury were guests of | honor at a dinner Wednesday evening given by Miss Elizabeth Mills in her home on California street. | Covers were laid for twelve, the guests includi Miss Edith Treanor, Misg Flor- ence Cole, Miss Ardella Mills, Bruce Cornwall, Spencer Cone and Roy Somers. R g Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden enter- | tained thirty gyests at bridge yesterday. her home on Broadway being attractively prepared for the occasion. . Mrs. Charles Mortimer Belshaw enter- | tained over fifty guests yesterday at an | elaborate -card party at the St. Franels. Tables for five hundred were scattered | about the red room, which was adornmed | with chrysanthemums, autumn leaves |and vines being used in the apartments where refreshments were served. S The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Stillman and Joseph Chamberlain was quietly cel- ebrated last evening at the home of the bride’s father on Franklin stseet. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Chamberiain will reside at the bome of the bride’s aunt, Mrs. E. H. Da- venport., on)Pacific avenue. R R Mrs. Lehman Blum announces the mar- riage of her daughter, Mabel, to Meyer Blum of Germantown, Glenn County, the ceremony having taken place Novem- | ber 5. - B4 The definite announcement is made of Misg Stella Fortmann's marriage to Dr. Bailly, the ceremony to take place next Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The affair will be very quiet, with only | the relatives present at the service. Mrs W. E. Stevens. a sister of the bride, is matron of homor, the groom to stand alone. | The bride will be gowned in white chif- fon cloth, with a large white picture hat, while Mrs. Stevens will wear pink crepe de chine. Immediately after the ceremony Dr. Bailly will take his bride East, though their exact route is not determined. ? R SR Almost simultaneously with the engage- | ment of Miss Marie McKenna to Daven- | port Brown comes the announcement of the betrothal of her sister Miss Hildegarde McKenna, to John Leggett Pults of New York. Miss Hildegarde is the youngest daughter of Justice McKenna, Mr. Pults belonging to an old New York family. being the son of John T. Pulta. The wedding will be an event of the spring. 'ANSWERS. POEM — Subscriber, City. The lne ‘“Who rocks the little billows of the deep” is from ‘“The Sea at Noon" a poem by Maurice Egan, which was published in Lippincott's. CHILDREN.—A. O. 8. The question, “Are children of legal age exempt from inheritance tax or not?’ is too vague to admit of an answer. It does not convey what information the writer wants. ENGLAND—H. M., City. If you will 0 to the Free Public you will d much in Periodical Literature will enlighten you on the subject of England and will enable you to form an opinion as to whether that country is rising or falling. MARRIAGE.—N. 8., Reno, Nev. There is no law requiring the marriage of people to be published, but such must be recorded. When in a place, desiring to get married, apply to the party authorized to issue they answer certain questions, not required to have any one Introduce them to the party issuing the license MILITARY SERVICE—W. K. L., City. Ttaly holds to the indissolubility of H does not exempt from conscription military service. If a native who has not dome military the country of his birth United States, is naturalized to his native land, in the army and the U not interfere in a 2 i - i i & i g g g his mother country which liquidate before becoming citizen. | JOURNALISM—A Y. R., City. 1t THH itk ‘2 A