The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRAN THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS..... veeesssssessesssess. PrOprictor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO .-‘E‘HIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO NOVEMBER 16, 1903 JOHN McNAUGHT -Manager HURSDAY.......... THE LAW IN CHICAGO. ITTON has been sent to the Mayor of Chicago, asking to enforce the law which orders saloons to be closed on ay. There are wide differences of opinion regarding d “Sunday laws.” One day’s rest in seven was' the and of nafions at the dawn of history, and no doubt races was in force in the long, far and dim ages beyond. The day of rally became the day of religious ceremony and observance. 16 Assyrians kept it. The Egyptians took it‘from the As- it became the common inheritance of all the. races | e territory of the first empires. Christianity took 1 clothed it with more religious authority. 1 by philosophers as among the physical neces- his labors one day in the week. But on as to how far law shall go in dictating e day of rest. The day itself varies with ligious idea. The Mohammedan keeps Friday, of Christians observe Saturday, and others | In this country it is regarded as an v to make one man keep another man’s| has observed his own. In Tennessee members of the “Seventh Day Adventists,” a most reputable prisoned for working on Sunday, after having | ieir own day of rest and religious observance. | ysed them to the same risk, but our Sunday he State has not been observed es of business, under control hat are regarded as harmful, though | g one of them, is marked out for The law says that the saloons of Chicago It is not worth while to discuss the wis is sufficient that it is the law, and all 1 to faithfully enforce the law are nday closing statute. Mayor Dunne e open town on Sunday. When to keep his oath and close the s he made this reply: “In the last campaign Mr. n on the question. We were both in ng open on Sunday. He got 137,000 votes Stewart, the Prohibition candidate, was in on Sunday. He got 3000 votes. That good idea of public sentiment on the que =09 on asking him 162,000. sing th stay open on Sunday, and the law wiil Mayor Dunne was not elected because he prom- | ath and disobey the law. His election was ¢ and Harlan were both demagogues, who | be gained by making 4 vicious and im- the law. It happened that the saloons 1d so this demoralizing pledge was made to them hey influenced. But if another and more harmful] votes, the same pledge would have be¢n | ons i votes a 2 votes t as g the saloons on Sunday is a bad law repeal it, but while it is the law it should be enforced. If it be bad i igid enforcement will‘the” quickest insure its repeal. The \’iolationt of law in this country is too much winked at and let pass as of no consequence. 1f the law protect the humblest or most unpopular man he should have its benefit. We permit Chinese and Japanese to be despoiled and chased out of localities where the supreme law of | the land says they may be, and yet we are fired with indignalionE when the Chinese in China retaliate on Americans or other for-| eigners. | Chicago is the second city in the Union. The country is judged by what is done in its great cities. Anarchy opposes all law, disobeys ail law, and would overthrow all law. Mayor Dunne refuses to enforce one law, though sworn to do it. He is to that extent an | anarchist. When one law is flouted, all laws are weakened. The | American way is to repeal a law, as we repealed the Sunday law in California, when it is obnoxious to public sentiment. The right of | repeal is deposited exclusively with the legislative representatives of the people. It is not by direct vote, nor by indirect vote cast for a | candidate who promises to ignore the law, as Dunne and Harlan did. ! Let Chicago right herself by repealing the law. If the representa- Any other course is anarchy THE RIGHT TO ASPIRE. i A “I consider that the mechanic should have | the right to aspire to being a public servant as well as the | men in the professions.” his quality and fitness seated him among the national lawmaker Senator Perkins was a sailor. His right to aspire made him State Legislator, Governor and United States Senator. President Johnson miner. Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin was a lumberjack. Broderick of California was a stonecutter. General, Governor and Senator Pal- mer of Illinois was a cooper. So the cases run into numbers of men But when they aspired they began to qualify themselves for that toward which they aspired. That is the secret. It is the rule in this country that the aspiring man who while working with his ally accuses his fellow citizens of rejecting him because he is a work- ingman, and this accusation is false. Free institutions can exist only when every man with the legal qualifications may aspire to right of aspiration is denied to any in this country. It is far better to teach, preach and exhort that ambition shall equip and fit itself for the higher duty that attracts it law closi f the mechanic or workingman had | One of our California | ht to aspirg and | s. | tives of the pecple want instruction, let the question be referred to| popular vote at a special election, uncomplicated with any other| issue, and then repeal or affirm the law, in a proper and legal manner. | SPEAKER, addressing a meeting of clergymen in this city{ recently, said: { “Should have” is used as i not that right now. It is a common right. Representatives in Congress was a painter. His ri was a tailor and could neither read nor write until after he was 21. Stephen A. Douglas was a cabinetmaker. Senator McDonald of Indiana was a harnessmaker. Senator Dodge of Jowa was a lead who aspired while mechanics and_workingmen, and when they reached public service they left a permanent impression upon the history of the country. hands trains his head has the sympathy and the support of the American people. It is quite another thing to aspire without qualifi- | cation and fitness. Such an aspirant, when his ambitions fail, usu- enter the public service. Free institutions will perish when class solidarity indorses aspiration without fitness or qualification. An unworthy discontent is promoted by making it appear that the Mr. McCall of the New York Life has been investigated by his own di- rectors and pronounced 2ll right. Mr. McCall felt sure that he would be fully vipdicated if only he could get a fair chance at himself.—Kansas City Journal. RSl ] Under the new disability pension law some millionaires are getting their namés on the pension rolls. Russell Sage must be sorry now that he did not go to the war.—Chicago News. i g B Mr. Fairbanks and Mr. Shaw do not approve the effort to induce Presi- dent Roosevelt to recede from his pledge that he will not take another term.— Birmingham Age-Herald. N NI S A0 e As & good piece of statecraft Count Witte might inoculate those ob- streperous Russian students with the football craze.—Milwaukee Sentinel. | ment of pubiic dues — 5 HEAVIEST TA STATES M not a tax dodger. He enjoys the distinction of being the heaviest taxpayer in the United States, $40,000,000 of his fortune of nearly $200,000,000 being :‘ubject to the Tax Assessor's manipula- on. Mr. Field is a cheerful taxpayer, too. Not that he never questions an assess- ment, for he and the officials have had several disagreements, says the Phila- delphia North American. Mr. Field pays upon a larger propor- | tion of the true value of his holdings than does any other taxpayer in his city, |and his wiews on tax dodging have upon occasions been enunciated with an empha- | sis and sentiment anything but compli- | mentary to those who seek to evade their proper share of the expense of maintain- ing the Govermcent. And yet there have been times when the public-spirited merchant prince and the Board of Appraisers have differed widely in their views as to the tax values of certain of his property, notably his art treasures, upon which he has lavished a fortune. At one time there occurred a over these articles, but the moved by Mr. Field's great blic benefactions and generally cheer- disposition to bear his part of the public burdens, yielded to his contention that his art treasures, while costing a large sum, in reality possessed little as- sessable value for tax purposes. Other multi-millionaires who pay upon assessments of eight figures are: Mrs Anna Weightman ‘Walker, Philadelrhia..$. Willlam Waldorf Astor. John Jacob Astor . Henry C. Frick . . Otto Young, Chicago 4 Of Mr. Field's assessment, $30,000,000 is upon real estate and $10,000,000 upon per- ysonal property. One of the recent conflicts between Mr. Field and the municipality over the pay- was the con- troversy over the payment of rental NAMES AND PLACES. ¢ Rev. B. Hez Swem, pastor of the econd Baptist Church, Fourth street and Virginia avenue, southeast, returned last Friday morning from his vacation, and at $ o'clock last evening preached his first sermon of the present season.—Washing- ton Post. Mr. Hinote lives at Gentry, but he Is not a vocalist.—St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press. A. B. Chapek of Lahoma is arranging to start a new town, which is to be called Zno Jmo. It. would seem that the town w given an insuperable handicap right there in securing settlers, as a man who moved in would necessarily be asked once in a while how to pronounce the town's name.—Lahoma (0. T.) Sun. Mr. Strange and Mr. Gum Heaps are in town.—Washington (nan.) Monitor-Press. Sheets Howdeshell and Cam Stean of Clay County will keep Jales Heek and Tulker Slemp of Pemiscot #from tipping he state over.—Cass County (Mo.) Demo- The punsters are being kept pretty busy just now by toying with the names of Frank Gadabout of Axtell, Emma’ Grumbling of Newton, Ike Kicker of To- peka, John Queer of Alten, John Bache- lor of Belleyille, and Miss Good of Inue- pendence.—Kansas City (Mo.) Star. The voortrekker had a fine sense of the poetry of things. Up in the Transvaal there is a little place which rejoices in the name of Waachteenbeitjebeldebosch- fontein. It is a name wnich speaks of leis- ure; whose gentle invitation to the thirsty traveler to rest a little by the brook be- neath the cool shade of the tree calls up at once the thought of a green oasis in a dry and barren Jand.—Cape Times, Cape Town. Ex-Governor - Willlam Pinkey Whyte, Maryland’s “grand old man,” celebrated eighty-first birthday Wednesday. A biography of him would be a history of Maryland for that period, so closely has his life been bound up with state affairs. —Charleston (8. C.) Post, ALGER’S STORY. Senator Alger of Michigan teils a story about a *‘call-down™ one of his friends received at the hands of a Kansas farmer some years ago. The Senator was speed- ing through Kansas on a return trip from California, where he has immense timber interests. Seated with him was a friend from Michigan and as they passed through Kansas a prosperous farmer came into the car and took a seat just opposite them. ‘The Senator sing the relativ d his friend were discus- value of Michigan and {ansas lands when the former said: “I think that is a mighty good farm,” and he pointed out the window at a typical Sunflower plantation. ~ “It may be good enough,” said Senator Alger's friend, “but I wouldn't take it as a gift." The Kansas farmer, who had been lis- | tening to the conversation, sald, address- ing Alger's companion: “Did I understand you to say you are from Michigan?" “Yes, from Michigan,”” replied the Wol- verine traveler. “Well, I want to remark,” replied the farmer, who had been stung by the slight on Kansas, “that you are the first Michi- gan man I ever saw who wouldn't take everything in sight, gift or no gift.” —————————— TO-NIGHT. Thou canst consoic our sad humanity With dreams of everlasting loveliness, Or cast the shadow of forgetfulness Over the haggard eyes of memory. Thou canst appease of man's infinity The deep, divine unrest; thy stars con- fess g 5 3 The living soul's imprisoned loneliness. And heart finds liberty alone In thee. Thus may we feel how changing avatars Shal! so complete us that, perchance, when we Transcend the throes of spiritual strife And learn the deep tranquillity of stars, The ineffable presence of Eternity Shall find a mansion in the House of/ Life. —Century. — e CONDEMNED. CISCO CALL IS MARSHALL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1905. —_—— XPAYER IN UNITED FIELD, MERCHANT PRINCE OF CHICAGO P i ; " — cently-wedded multi-milifonaire, is | walks surrourding the great Field re- tail store in State street. The store oc- cupies all but one small corner of an en- | tire block, and the space under the broad sidewalks amounts to several thousand square fect, the title to which is claimed by the city, and the area forms a mate- | rial part of the basement store room. Mr. Field objected to paying the rental demanded by the city, although the amount was a mere bagatelle to him. To MARSBALL FIELD, MULTI-MILLIONAIRE OF THE LAKE CI’I‘Y-.‘L & for the spacc under the ~ side-)enforce its demands the city, through Commissioner of Public Works Patterson, ordered work stopped on the skyscraper addition being built to the store, the ex- cavation for the foundation of which ex- tended over the city building line. There were. threats of litigation, injunctions and other writs and processes, but the city insisted, and at last the merchant yielded, | paid the sum demanded, and signed a con- | tract for a term of years to pay rentai for the epace. Life’s Simplifier BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. 1 — HE American woman is given as 7 much publicity as if she were roy- I alty instead of a little democrat who has no use for kings. But as she is not bored yet by the prominence thrfist upon her, or by the criticisms which her position awakens, perhaps she would like to hear the latest thing that has been said of her in serious print by David Graham Phillips, who is best known by what he writes of men and money. . The American woman, the real daughter of our democracy, it is something of a re- lief to find, is quite a different person from the tyranuical queen of money-bags whom satirists are wont to etch with acid wit upon a hard metallic background. | According to our author, she is, like the American man, a creditable embodiment of the national ideal; her character is de- veloping In harmony with the standards of democracy—democracy which is no dis- criminator either among persons or be- tween sexes; democracy whose special gifts to sons and daughters are freedom. intelligence and tke joy of work. The anti-democratic woman of the ‘American plutocracy, and her imitators in frivolity, are, Mr. Phillips admits, .a unique product of our ceuntry’s weaith and its people’s restless énergy. But she is only one against many. Her influence, waich, though great enough for agitators to wave it before us as a menace to oyr good, as being as dangerous, in its differ- ent way, as is anarehy’s red flag, is weak when comparedy with the influence for democracy which the inereasing class of professional and business women exert in the United States. 1f you are inclined to doubt this, my lady Lily-of-the-Field, take into ac-ount this evidence presented: Ten years ago one-fifth of all the wage and salary earn- ers of the United States were women and girle. To-day about one-third of all the women in the nation, leaving out of cal- tion those on farms, earn their own living outside thelr homes. And these women constitute more than one-fourth of all the persons in the United Siates cn- gaged in gainful occupations other than agriculture. 1 hope that our commentator is justified in thinking that this is not a passing phase of the country's growth, that the change in woman's status is one too close- ly associated with demccracy for either to stand alone, and that if both stand together neither will fall. | “Democracy, work. women; women, work, democracy he halls as the per- manent a8 well as the existing order. It is woman's influence, he says, which is to save our state from the fate of an- cient republics which pessimists have prophezied we shail inevitably imitate. Where in those old states, he asks, do we find women occupying the pre-emin- ence socially and industrially that they hold with so great honor_In our own? Work lIs the great simplifier of life. Whoever works approaches from necessi- ty that ideal of simple living which was originally our seclal basts as a nation of toilers, whose work, in almost every branch, was-ciose to manuni-dabor. - Through cducation and work. and skill in the arts of peace, and u gradual read- Jjustment of occupations until each person shall perform—irrespeetive of sex—that task for which natural talent forms thc qualification: this is the means by which our republic is to be tained and strengthened to withstand the direful fate of earlier republies, . » SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY, It pays to keep the good will of the people. But it is difficuit to keep it. You would think that men would agree tl)ln some simple things; but what are hey? ity It 1s no pleasure to talk to any one who ends up everything he says with a “Don’t jtei” ~ S £ When a man wants to fight, don't hold ::m, let the man he wants to fight hold m. Xt b The average wife suspects that some- thing is wrong about five yeéars before she finds it out, 2 S An Atehison man who women says m-,g,’-fu;n who sults him as to size, her all over every place. r% | LITTLE LAUGHS. Little Willie—You are awful proud of your gran'pop, ain’t you? ttle Bob—You betcha! Why, he used o lick pop reg'lar!—Tom Watson's Maga- zine. Horse Fancier (with enthusiasm)—Isn't Vandersluke's Lodgmia a beauty? His Fair Daughter—Where?. Where? What has she got on? Whose box is she in?—Chicago Tribune. “I can’t se¢ why it is that some men il go in rapturés over a silly woman,” the fair girl to her chum. “Who's been making love to you now, dear?'—Kansas City Independent. “I understand that you are going to marry the widow Jenkins. “It's a mistake. “How's that? “She's golng News. to ‘marry me.”"—Dallas Peckem—I have been asked to join the “Married Men's Club,” my dear Mrs. Peckem—Indeed! And what do married men want a club for, pray? Peckem—WHhy, misery loves company, you know.—Chicago News. Tom—Why are you worrigd so because | Julia has taken your picture out of her | watch? She' does. that every time she gets a little miffed! Dick—Yes, but this time she’'s got an- other fellow's picture in my place.—De- troit Free Press. - “Uncle John, should I be justified in writing to a Young man who has never written to me?” “Only on very important business, my dear.” “Well, this is important business. I want him to-marry me!"—Illustrated Bits. “I guess,” sald Mrs. Miggleham, “it must be true that dreams go by con- traries.” “WHy?" her husband asked. “Last night when you were talking in your sleep you said: ‘No good. I've got kings full’ But 1 couldn’t seem to find a cent in your clothes.”—Chicago Record- Herald. “Mike,”’ said Plodding Pete. as he climbed into a freight car, “I'm glad de Government doesn't own de railroads.” “Why?" “Because when we takes a free ride now de worst dat happens is to be put off. But if de Government was runnin’ de lines we'd be arrested fer graftin’, sure.”"—Washington Star. —e—————— THE WORD “CsAUFFEUR.” “Every time 1 pick up a newspaper,” said Colone! Remsen Montague to a Brooklyn Eagle man, I see something about a chauffeur. ‘A chauffeur has run his ¢ at the rate of ninety miles an ho A chauffeur nearly ran over Kaiser Wiihelm,” ‘A chauffeur has been fined for overspeeding,’ and so on. Now, [ will wager a large 10-cent Flor dJe Swergas cigar that not one person in a thousand who reads those articles or the man that writes them Khows the real meaning of the word chauffeur. It is an old provin- cial French word und was originally ap- plied to robbers who weit about the coun- try entering farmhouses and torturing farmers to tell where they had hidden | their money. . It was used as a derisive appeilation by the French to the drivers of the first smoke wagons and now it has come into general use, The French also use 1t to designate a fireman or sfoker and in English chemistry it denotes a small stove for meiting metals. It.is en- tirely out of place when used for the driver of a1 motor car and he should be called a motorist or samething like that.” ————————— Health Bulletins. Our correspondcnt at Bexumont, reports an ofl well. Two cases of fever and seven of whisky are renorted at Muddville, La. Bayouville reports: Our beloved pastor was taken down yesterday. A collecs tien was laken up. Henry Johnson of Chenevert lost ‘his wife Saturday morning. The court grant- €d her application for divorce.~New Or- learns Times-Democrat, IN THE HOSPITAL ‘ Tex., 'F——‘._ Occidental Accidentals BY . J. WATERHOUSE. GOLDILOCK AND DIMPLECHEEK. OLDILOCK and Dimpiecheek G Daily seek me as I write, Come with chatter and with shriek That the brooding silence smite. “Here!” 1 say, “how do you dare Thus my sanctum to invade?” Straight they vow they do not care— “Jess' is oo; us ain’t afraid.” Ne'er they heed my wrath or pique, Goldilock and Dimplecheek. Goldilock and Dimplecheek In my sanctum work a blight, Tip my ink and let it leak, Pause to ask, “W’y don't oo w'iteg” Scatter papers all around, And the floor with letters strew, And if I object, as bound, Sagely say, “Um's helpin’ 00.” Naught they care though peace I seek, Goldilock and Dimplecheek. Goldilock and Dimplecheek Are but tiny, well I ken. Yet for peace I valnly seek When they thus invade my “den.” Faith, I cannot hold my sway— Though the fact I vainly rue— For they often pause to say, “G’ad us isn’t ‘sturbin’ ee.” Ah, impertinence they reek, Goldilock 2nd Dimplecheek. Goldilock and Dimplecheek— How can I a tyrant be, When they tell me, with a shriek, “Us is tum to help, oo see?’ So my papers strew the floor, All the room’s destruction-fraught, Chaos grows forevermore, And my writing comes to naught. Ah, the strong may bow to weak, Goldilock and Dimplecheek. Goldilock and Dimplecheek, Shall I mind destruction’s blast, When for you I'll vainly seek In a day that cometh fast? not all my art E'er shall Jure them to my den— So I say, when they depart, 1 “Will you kindly eall again?” Still to hold you I would seek, | Goldilock and Dimplecheek. | | | INNOCENT LITTLE BOY'S DIARY. (The following is just one day’s ex- | tract from the diary of an Innocent, hap- | py-hearted little boy. The little boy's | fond mqther sald she feared he would | aie young and go to heaven, because he was so preternaturally good; but his | father and the neighbors all kept silence | when the fond mother said it.) August steenth—Ma cal.ed me this morn- ing at half past seven, but I lald low | and pretended to be sasleep. T:40—-Ma called me again. I still mc‘ | 47—Ma called me again. I laid even lower. 52—Pa called me. I got up. | 0—Ate a hearty breakfast. | 8:31—Happened to think this was a school day. Was taken violentiy sick, | ps In my stomach. | 8:3—Cramps much worse. Ma said she | was sure I was going to die, but pa said | ““Oh, rats! Fathers never have enough | in their sons. crying. Fu says, “Oh, we im stay home from schoo! then! | It | it wasn't for mothers boys would have friend. | $:3%—Cramps some better, but still toe | | serious to permit going to school. i §:11—Cramps have disappeared. Just | | happened to think that swimming's good | now, Pa's gove to the ofiice, and I'll | wait till ma’'s looking the other way. | | 11:35—She locked the other way. Gt to | dry my hair so it won't show 'fore I go | home. Billy Briggs is here. He had | crampe, too. i 12:05—~We're all dressed. Billy and I} | have talked 'bout it and consider that we'd better not go home now. Our hair ain’t dry. and, 'sides, when boys are sick | they don’t care much for lunch. Going | in swimming again. | 1:3—Been in swimming. We're getting some hLungry, which shows that our sick- ness is getting better. r 2.43—Been in swimming again. Awful hungry. Guess we must be 'bout well. 3.50—Deacon Starkweather’s melons is | good, but they ain't very filling. The deagon almost catched us. Got to g0 home 'fore long. So has Billy. 4:58—T've got home. Ma looked queer, and I had an awful attack of cramps again. I could see that it worrled her. 5:02-Ma says she'll have to apply a| mustard plaster and give me some medi- | | cine unless I get better. The cramps are | soing away fast. | | "5:20-Pa’s home. He says a man told | him that he saw me in swimming to-day. | 1 told him the man was mistaken. Pa | didn’t believe me. Fathers never have enough confidence in their little boys. 5:46—Gee! I'm smarting yet: I don’t see what satisfaction there could have been to pa in acting that gvay. §:55—Writing this in bed. Ma kissed me and said, “My blessed little boy!" Pa said “Shucks!” Fathers are trying, | but I suppose they are necessary. Blamed near ‘orgot to say my prayers. Wonder what would have happened if I had, Prob- ably I'd, have been sick again to-morrow | to pay for it | Mr. Housoe—Yes, my dear, 1 am a be- | liever in refncarnation. I distinctly re- member three lives that I have lived be- fore this ome. Mrs. Housoe—Was I your wife in each existence? “No: [ had a different wife each time.” “Then I still can live in hope of a bless- | ed hereafter.” | “Do you believe that the lower animals have souls?" *“Well, as I believe that all men have, I don’t dare to think anything else.”” Once there was a good, pure and noble professional politiclan who— That's enough! Such an outburst of rude laughter would prevent any man | from telling a story: so I shall not con- | tinue. SR i “He bought a transiation of Plato and read it carefully.” “1 should not bave suspected it if you had not told me." “But he was keenly disappointed.” How 50" 'Why, somebody had told him it de- | scribed how to plate nickel to make it pass for silver, and when he had read half through the book he a mistake.” WASTED ADVICE. If you have a dollar spend it found it was I The Smart Set | number of cailers greeted Miss Sandma | wedded yesterday in Los Angeles to M | Barron, | flowers, | ces MeKinstry. Mrs. -H Like a king: Get_the best there is to end it, For o dottar iy buy or a r may o Or may purchase Wfim’; ; Get the best there is, my boy— | 7 Thats the thing! “I honestly bel sell his soul to v ot % not?" “I fancy that Satan is a smooth financier not to be defraunded in sain.” Time to express Townsend's Cal. Glade Fruits East for Thanksgiving. 767 Mkt.* el p lieve that Pettiegh would Satan for a dollar.” enough BY SALLY SHARP. Miss Genevieve Harvey will formally entér upon the world of soclety to-day, being presented by her mother, Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, at a large tea from 4. to 7 at the Harvey home on Webster street. e Mrs. Florence Land May will hostess a musicale this evening at her home in Broadway, and those upon the guest list will be well entertained by a delightful progragmme. - e The soloists will comprise Miss Ruth Powers, Mrs. Ziepha Ruggles Jenkins, Wallace Sabin, Fredefick Biggerstaf, Baron von Horst and Hother Wismer, o Mrs. J. Parker Currier will enfertain informally to-day at St. Dunsian’s in mhmord her daughter, Mrs. Grego~ Grant Mrs. Charles D. n wili hold a large reception at her home on Jackson street to-day in honor of Mrs. Thomas London—she Cunningham of who™ was Hilda Castle. « oy General Sumner, commander Paci Coast division of the United States army entertained at an elaborate dinmer on Tuesday evening at the St. Franels in honor of Admiral Geodrich, comimanding the Pacific Coast squadron of the Unitcl States navy. - o oa - ® A very pretty. luncheon with eolor scheme of vellow was that given yester- day by Miss Kathleen Flnnegan at her home in Broadway to Miss Edith Down- ing, whose marriage to Dr. Edger will be an event of the Zst. Covers were laid for nine, the guests in- cluding the bridal attendants of Miss Downing. In all .there were Miss Down- ing, Miss Bonnie Downing, Miss Helene Robson, Miss Lucretia Burnham, Miss Ruth Kales, Miss Clarice Knowles, Miss Evelyn Ellis and Miss Elleen Johnson. .- . Miss Jane Sandman was the honered guest at a large tea given yesterday by Mrs. Barclay Henley and Miss Gwinette Henley at their home on Green street. The house was beautiful in its bright decoration of holly berries, and & gre: whose coming marrfage with Barclay Heuley Jr. will be ome of the important events in seciety's calendar. - A Dr. Walter Gibbons of this city was Hazel Noonan, the ceremony taking pk very quietly at noon in St. John's Chur Miss Kathleen Noonan attended her si ter as maid of homer, Dr. E. C. Seward of this clty serving as best man. Only the relatives were present at the service, though a large number of guests attended the reception immediately fol- lowing. Dr. and Mrs. Gibbons will make a brief trip through the State before arriving in San Francisco. Mrs. Edward Barron issued several hun- dred eards for a tea given in her home on California street yesterday in honor of her young daughter, Miss Marguerite whose formal bow to society was made. The hous: was filled with bright-hued chrysanthemums oceupying a conspicuous portion of the decoration. Through the afternoon until a late hour the cailers passed to and fro, the little mald receiving the most cordial greetings from all. sRecaiving were Mrs. Barron, Miss Bar- ron, Miss Gertrude Hyde-Smith, Miss Margaret Hyde-Smith, Miss Alyce Sul- livan, Miss Laura McKinstry, Miss Fran- Mrs. Jessie Bowie-Dietrich and Mrs. Keeney. e Miss Jessie McNab was the recipient of a “kitchen shower” from her intimate friends, the hostesses being Mrs. Harry Gray and Mrs. Frank M. Ames. The a fair was thoroughly informal and de- lightful. . Mrs. William Willls and Mrs. J. E. Freeman were among the luncheon host- esses at the St. Francis yesterday. . Miss Ruth Clarke, to be a bride this month, was guest of honor at a tea yes- terday given by Mrs. Charles Edward Hoppe. . . Prince and Princess Andre Poniatowski (Beth Sperry) leave to-day for their home in Paris. ® e Miss Sarah Cunningham will make her formal debut info society on Novem- ber % at a large tea to be given by her mother, Mrs. James Cunningham, at her home on B'n:ad:ay,- . Du Val Moore leaves to-day for sev- eral weeks in New York and other parts of the East. = . . Mrs. Charles H. Abbott and her daugh- ter, Miss Helen Davis, salled yesterday for the Orient for a six months’ tour. ARSWERS 10 QUERIES. POPULAR VOTE—W. Novate, Cal The popular vote for Willlam McKinley in 1896 was 7,104,779 and that for Wil- lam J. Bryan, 6502.925. STRONGEST MAN—S, City. Sport- ing men say that at this time there is no one whe lays claim to the title of “strongest man in the world.” PRESIDENT OF FRANCE—Enq. City. The annual allowance to the President of the French rpeublic is 600,000 francs, with a like allowance for personal expenses yearly. —_— TREE PLANTING— Scratcher, Brooks, Cal. Communicate with either the Btate Board of Trade or the FPro- motion Committee, both offices locatéd jn San Francisco, for such information as you desire about tree planting. COURSING, D, City. In coursing killing a hare counts two points; each turn counts a point; a bye is caused by a dog running when another s with- drawn; the scors is the number of points made by each dog in the cou- test. —_— TO TAHITI—Subscriber, City. The: are two distances for vessels from San Francisco to Tahiti. The direct line is 3658 miles and the line from San Fran- cslco via Honolulu is 489 miles. For the rate of fare, accommodations, etc. apply to any of the transportation com —_— DIVISION OF WORDS—A. C. B, City. There is no absolute rule for the divi- words either in writing or 3 of dividing on syllables, ob- ains in this country. But the division on the syllablé is the mode ”wfly’mmdlnmm& States.