The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TU ESDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1903 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL «s, . Proprietor JOHN D. SPRECKELS... ADDRESE ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN MCNAUGHT.....0000ecennsasssssns Manager k,AT}ON OFFICE.....cc00.0es THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, BAN FRANCISCO DECEMBER 5, 1905 THE PHILIPPINE TRADE. HE Examiner is solicitous that San Francisco shall control the trade with the Philippines, and that the trade should be enlarged by diverting to the United States a large part of that h now goes to China, Japan and Europe. So say we all. By of illustration the paper quoted cites the control of 95 per tent ie trade of Hawaii by this city, under American occupation and governme lil of the Philippine trade cannot be controlled? The fault They controlled the trade of Hawaii long before American 1. They came into that estate under the kingdom. Their e to invest there, to produce and to factor their unrestricted in the employment of labor conditions of the islands. The reciprocity 1 free entry to our market for the great staple of the right of acquisition and use of property was itations. The annexation of the it has been fairly maintained since. n The only hange in the number and position of the native Hawaiians. , however, has not affected our control of the trade, | remains in our hands and is of satisfactory volume. The merest glance at the foregoing develops the reason why have no appreciable trade with the Philippines and why the to- 1 trade of the United States with those islands is so small that it entirely and not leave an impression on our total.an- ges in commerce. The conditions that ‘would permit was done in Hawaii do not exist, and there is no indi- they ever will. American occupation of the Philippines educating the natives and in protecting them from ex- by the American spirit of commercialism. It is deter- the country shall not be exploited for profit by the COl‘lflXf_\', 1 ck which st loitation ned people of rofit ir experience and carrying their disappointment as well as they y. The important trade of the Philippines remains placed where it was under Spanish rule. The difficulties of production have been increased by rigid re- riction as to the kind of labor that may be employed and the native abor presents the same problem it always did—a problem common the people of all tropical countries. The best part of the trade was in the hands of the English merchants of the Straits Settle- ments, and it is there yet. They take all of the gutta percha and rubber and the commercial gums. England has a monopoly of gutta percha. No ocean telegraph cable can be laid without it, and when our Government lays military cables in Alaskan waters it has to buy of Great Britain the gutta percha raised in our own territory, the Sulu group of the Philippines. This happens through the ear that American merchants will exploit the islands for American profit This statement of the conditions which exclude us from the Philippines, and of the opposite conditions under which we ex- ploited Hawaii in the days of the kingdom and continue to control its trade, is made not to impeach the wisdom that protects the Phil- ippines from American commercialism. It is the simple statement of a fact. The woods and minerals and the products of the soil and of the waters of the Philippines can enter into American commerce in significant volume only when it is made profitable for Americans to handle them, and that, under present conditions, is impossible. This much needs to be said in defense of American commer- cial enterprise in general, and that of San Francisco in particular. No fault is found with anybody. Our Government has mapped out policy in the islands and may not be expected to change it until he time arrives when choice must be made between admitting them States in the Union, or giving them independence, autonomy and f-government under our auspices. When that time comes their ission as States will be found insufferable and the people of this country will prefer anything to that. If they be given autonomy we may get as much chance in their trade as our commercial rivals who are now getting all the chance there is. A paigns is published. It goes as far back as the campaign of 1892, putting the fund used by the Democratic national com- mittee that year at $4,100,000. The amount seems to have reached high water mark that year. In 1896 the Republican fund is put at $3,800,000, in 1900 at $2,800,000 and in 1904 at $1,900,000. The Democratic fund after 1892 is not stated. In 1896, how- ever, the fund at the disposal of Mr. Bryan’s committee was large. He had many millionaire silver miners with him, and men like W. A. Clark and the other silver kings are not “pinchers” in politics. The steady decline in the amount of the Republican fund is account- ed for by the disappearance of the necessity for large expenditures. The election of President Roosevelt was assured from the moment of his nomination, and money was spent principally for the benefit of the local and Congressional tickets in States that were thought to be close. The result proved, however, that the President would have pulled the local tickcts through without the spending of any money. : The wille publicity that is being given to the amount of cam- n funds and their source is a good thing. It means that both es will still further curtail expenses, will need less money and will be more scrupulous as to its sourcess The civil service law protects the employes of the Government against political assess- ments, With corporations excluded as contributors, the campaign fund of the future will be furnished by partisan enthusiasts, and will be so small as to contradict the statement that the voters are bought. A 1 e CAMPAIGN FUNDS. SEMI-OFFICIAL statement of funds used in national cam- Secretary Wilson told the Agricultural Chemists’ convention that he could stop the import of adulterated foods, but could not cope with the American producers. for President.—Philadeiphia Inquirer. s A S There must be moments in Theodore Jr.’s life when, as he toys with the arnica bottle, he concludes that the possession of a papa with a reputa- tion for strenuousness has its disadvantages after all.—New York Press. WL Gl M gh coal has been found in the Philippines to supply the nation for three centuries. That looks like a scheme of nature to show Mr. Baer that s not the whole works.—Washington Post. The frank admission comes from Springfield, O., that a child has writ- a comic opera. We have suspected for some time that something of his sort was going on.—Chicago Post. % —_—————— It is all right to have a code of honor at the Naval Academy, but it need not embrace prizefighting under Marquis of Queensberry rules.- - Baltimore Sun. : . PRSNGSR We will begin to believe that the Czar really means it when universal suffrage takes the place of universal suffering in his empire.—Cleveland Leader. P - 0 A For a man who a little while ago was declared to be an obsolete quan- tity in affairs, Mr. T. C. Platt is having a great deal to say.—Washington Star. —_— Norway’s choosing 2 King by a big majority, instead of a President, looks like turning the clock of progress backward.—Baltimore Sun, and wants to know why, under the same conditions, | ck of enterprise on the part of our merchants and pro- | islands” found | the lapse of the white American population and | Americans who have gone there expecting | business career retreat as soon as they can, pocketing | NCE a boyhood teacher of John D. | < Rockefeller and Willlam Rockefel- ler now lives in New York, in a little Hgrlem flat in One Hundred and Thirtieth street. That teacher is John Jay Woodward, a hale and hearty man, 78 years old, who recalls wilh pleasure the days when he taught the Rockefellers. It was in 1851, in a little one-room schoolhiouse, located near the line be- | tween the townships of Moravia and -+ Niles, in Cayuga County, on Lake Owasco. “Yes,” says Woodward, *“fifty-four | years ago —nearly fifty-five—I taught those two boys who have since become the twc | wealthiest men in the world. t was my first school, ‘the Henpeck School’ it was called. Why that name |1 can’t say, unless it was run by the women; but I don't recall that such was the case. It was a school noted for its | disorder, I know that. Teacher after | teacher tried and failed to control the | lively pupils. Finally, when I was about |19 years old, the trustees of Henpeck School decided to try ‘Big’ John Wood- | ward: so I was chosen teacher. Of | course, we halX it out, the boys and I; | but I could outwrestle any of them—could down them all in a rough and tumble | tussle. So it soon became an admitted | fact that the new teacher could maintain discipline. I made the boys my friends. I'd play with them at recess and made them have a good time, if only they'd behave during school hours. It was a| | bargain. ‘Hop Scotch’ was one of our | sg—————— favorite games: we'd play it right in the JOHN JAY |'schoolroom, at recess, in the aisles be- | tween the rows of desks. “A rough old frame barn of a house it was, with a great big wood burning cyl- inder stove. “I had about twenty-five lively pupils, girls and boys, and among them were | John D. and Willlam Rockefeller. They | were little fellows, about 9 and 11 years old, respectively—just plain, ordinary nor- WOODWARD. * 3 mal boys with nothing noticeable to dif- ferentiate them from their fellows. I couldn’t guess that they would become the heads of the greatest financial com- bination the world has ever known, that they would revolutionize the methods of ages, and become the founders of a new commercial dynasty. [ TEACHER OF THE ROCKEFELLERS TELLS TALES OUT OF SCHOOL THE IMMORTALITY OF ANIMAL LIFE “About John D. I recall that he was fond of apples, and that in those early Years he did not manifest the broad dis- position to charity which bas marked his later career. Yes, John D. loved his ap- ples, and however much he may have | loved his neighbors they needn’t expect | to go partnership on fruit. ‘Gimme bite’ was,a bootless—you might say fruit less—request from John D.’s appleless neighbor, Well, most boys, for that mat- ter, prefer to have a monopoly Of their own apples. I ““Of old Mr. Rockefelier, the father of the two boys, T have some pleasant mem- ories. He was a jolly, hearty, well-to-do farmer, who had a great passion for hunting. He was a rattding good marks- man and delighted in shooting at a tar- get. So much did he enjoy this pastime that he used to hire some unemployed neighbor, for a day at a time—a dollar a day he pald (large wages in those days) to the man who watched the target, while he himself blazed away at the bullseye. % “Mrs. Rockefeller I remember, too, as a pleasant, motherly woman. “My salary at the Henpeck School was 75 cents a day, with my board. I boarded round, district school fashion, you know, among the homes of my pupils. T've always been sorry that the school term broke up before it came my turn with the Rockefeller family. But I've watched witli interest the career of those boys.” Woodward was a teacher for forty- eight years. He has a face and figure that wogld be notable in any erowd. Par- ticularly’ modest he is, and claims no place in the great active world, except in so far that in the years gone by he helped to mold some of the men who to- day are among *the powers in the world of commercé and polities. Thanks to the cherishing affection of one of his distin- guished pupils—not one’of the Rockefel- lers, however—he holds a safe position for life, not a sinecure, indeed, but a position with good pay and little work. R S SRS RS 3 18 To the Editor of The Cail: s the wharves, or other places, Why the declaration of Professor | pains that the work shall be | Howlson to the effect that all animal | neatly and systematically, understand- life is immortal should startle people | ing what is required of them. Horses S0 seems strange, at least to those who | and dogs have been known to die of have read or thought much upon thegrief after their masters have passed taking | that are hard to eradicate in later life. done | Why not teach children that ue In habitants of the spiritual spheres our heaven are the immortal or spiritual part of human beings who have lived upon this or other planets? Teach them that love is the tie that binds the two Secretary Wilson, we believe, does not expect to run j | subject. Stop, for one moment, and | imagine what sort of world it would be without animals, birds, flowers, etc. Education along these lines will re- move the fear of death; the agony of parting. It will banish the black crape, the coleful black carriages, the custom of wearing mourning for those who have passed to the higher life, not died, for there is no such thing as death, It is said that all animals fear death; even insects will try to avoid danger. Such is the truth, because self preservation is the first law of nature. Animals reason. Of course they do. It {s demonstrated every day. Ele- | phants, where used as beasts of burden, show reason and almost human intelli- gence in stacking heavy timbers along |away. Could even a mother show more | aftection for her child? Why should | such love be unworthy of immortality? | The trouble with the people of this planet is the. wrong ideas that have | been implanted in the human breast | through the ages that have gone. The book of nature is wide open if people would only use their God-given right to reason. How few there are who be- lleve that the grand masters, scholars, musicians, philosophers, inventors, humanitarians, receive their inspira- | tion from spirits, or angels, as we term |them. And, by the way, who are the | spirits or angels? They are pictured | for children as persons with wings. To me this appears all wrong, for it is the little child that takes on Impressions T e worlds. Did not Christ say: “In my | father's house are many mansions”? | He did not mean material houses. It stands to reason that people having simply dropped the mortal body must have a spiritual bo to corre- spond with their surroundings as do mortals, The spirit being the man him- self, naturally desires to surround him- self with his friends, his domestic animal friends, as well as human. Let us be both reasonable and candid. If we teach our children plain truths Las we understand them surely that is better for them than shrouding every- thing in mystery. MRS. C. W. LAWSON. Novato, Cal, Dec. 3. + e f—— — Friendship of a Honey Bee for a Lightning Bug. L Tale of a Dentist and Big Man With a Toothache. N — “It beats all,” remarked Israel Har- daker, down at Cory's blacksmith shop, “what odd friendships ~ will spring up ‘tween animals, Now, I've got a cow an’ a hen that are great friends, an’ the hen follers the cow ‘round when she's a-feedin’ an’ ketehes the bugs an’ grasshoppers that the cow scares up. An’ when the cow lays down to chew her cud the hen hops up onto her back or scratches 'round close by. “An’ then once I had a dog that ‘dopted o litter of kittens an’ ~would crawl into their bax an’ lay with 'em for hours, while their mother ' was away huntin’ food. “But the queerest friendship of this sort that ever came to my knowledge was ‘tween a lightnin’ bug an’ a honey bee. The fust I noticed of it was one June arternoon 'long to'rds dusk when I see a black bug, 'bout half 'n inch long, on one of my beehives, which, on lookin’ closer I found to be a lightnin’ bug or firefly, as some folks calls ‘em. *Pretty soon a bee litg®lose by an’ crawled to'rds the bug, as I thought to drive it off, for, you know, bees will pitch into an’ kill any intruder that gits into their hives, even a strange bee. Wall, sir, the bee, instid of try- in’ to drive it off, actcherly rubbed up aginst the bug, kinder caressin’ like, and fin'lly dropped a small® drop of honey, which the bug went to eatin’, and when he's 'et all he wanted they both flew away together. 5 “Wall, of course, I was surprised, an’ I was curious to see what would happen next, so I stood there an’ waited, an’ in a little whileé back they both come, the bee goin’ into the hive an’ the bug lightin' on the outside. Bimeby the bee come out, and off they went agin, an’ when they come back this time it was dark, and I'm dumbed it the lightnin'bug warn't on ahead an’ lightin’ the bee to the hive! ' “Wail, they kept this up for seweral nights, but I noticed that the bee was losin' flesh, an’ in about a week he was nothin’ but skin and bone. So much overtime was téllin’ on him. It was more'n he could stand, an’ one even- in’ he fell to the ground exhausted, an’ in a few minits expired. “The lightnin’ bug took on awfully, an’ crawled 'round an’ round his dead comrade an’ acted almost frantle. Buu after a while the edge of his grief wore off, an’ he flew onto the hive an’ just sot there an’ moped, refus! to eat a mouthful, an’ in a few days he follered his friend. “1 thought some of the time of tryin’ to cross the two insects an’ raise a bee that could work night 'an day, but I didn’t.” An’ I g'pose if anybody tried it now the unions would raise a rumpus, so I guess I won't bother.”. git smart! Cyrus M C reckon that's r city people goes ter * A man six feet high, with one side of his head wrapped in a shawl, went into a dentist's the other day and sank wearily into a chair. In response to the proprie- tor's “What can I do for you?"” the large man said: “I have a toothache that is breaking my heart, and I think I ought to have a fang drawn, but, you see, I haven't been to. a dentist since 1 was a boy, and I want 16 ask you & few questions before you go to work."” %, “Go ahead.” “I want to know whether you prop a man’s jaws apart with an iron wedge and then tell him to ‘look pleasant, please.’ " “Certainly we don't."” “I want to know whether you fasten one hand In the victim's hair and braee a knee against his throat, and then draw his tooth as though you were pulling the cork from a beer bottle with a cork- screw.” “Why, that would be murder; you feel no pain at all.” “That's what the dentist told me when I was a boy. I want to know whether you use a jJimmy to draw a tooth when the pincers fail, and also whether you will replace, free of charge, any sections of the jaw that may be removed during the operation.” ‘e won't hurt you at all.” Then you may go ahead, but I have a friend at the foot of the stairs. He is a larger man than I am, and he can punch & hole through an iron door; and it I Yell once he'is coming up here eight steps at a time to knock down the ceiling with ¥ Do you want to go ahead?” T am ‘afraid not; I think you had bet- ter go up the street to the veterinary sur- geon.”—Chicago Journal. A WOMAN'S LOSS. A Leavenworth man before starting off on a business trip gave his wife a check book ‘and told her to draw freely on his account whenever she needed money. ‘When he got home he found her pale and worrled. “I hate to tell you,” she said in answer to his inquiry, “but I lost that check book. I advertised, but it can't be found.” Her husband burst out laughing, but her worry immediately turned to amazement and indignation. “I don't see how you can laugh over the loss of all that money,” she exclaimed. “But you always were extravagant.’—Kansas City Journal. e ey . g gt TR THE WORD “GRAFT.” The word “graft” is 250 years old, ac- cording to the Kansas City Journal, but, it adds, “it never really got down to busine until within the last twelve months or so." ’ . o il Her Unfortunate Bargain With the Drummer. A few days ago Mme. Lariviere, who lives on a farm not far from here, was surprised by a well-dressed man, who came to the door with an eager request for a rifle, says the Blue Sea Lake (Que- bec) correspondent of the New York Sun. As it happens, the only firearm her hu- band possesses is an anclent, wire-bround, muzzle-loading shotgun. This and the accompanying powder horn and cap box the excited visitor quickly seized. A large charge of powder was rammed kome, a rifle cartridge lying as ¢ curiosity upon the little mantelplece supDlied the buliet, and the gun wag care- fully sighted and fired, to the great alarm of the lonely housekeeper. What in the world the man with the store clothes and the impressive golden chains was doing she could not fathom. The shot was evidently satisfactory, for the man replaced the gun, threw a whole silver quarter upon the table, and, with a smiling face, darted from the cabin.. From the window she saw him run to the little barnyard, there pick up what she took to be the body of a dead dog and drag it down the road to where, below the hill, a horse and buggy were standing. Leon Lariviere came home late that night in a state of exhilaration. He had had a coup or two of whisky blanc at the village, and a traveling drummer had paid ;mn a dollar for skinning a superb black oX. l My faith, but it was a beauty,” he ex- claimed. ‘‘Nice little white hair peeping through the black fur. Why, blood of my soul, that drummer will sell it for maybe $500! Funny how all the luck goes to some people!” “What was he like, asked the housewife, truth coming into her brain. clothe: d two big chains to his vest,” her man answered. swearing at his wife for selling his fox, killed on his land, killed with his gun, fl;rown up over-her face was sobbing as she ‘would” buyr TERRIBLE MISTAKE. —_— i TOCCIDENTAL ACCTDENTALS By A. J. Waterhouse. THE BRUTE ARGUMENT. HIS fightin® speerit.” Silds sald, “is baound ter rule the earth, Fer man's a contumashus cuss thet finds in blows delight. An' he's allers been a-warrin' sence thet cussed Cain bed birth, An’ [ s’pose he'd fit before that ‘cept he wusn't there ter fight. 3 e He's fit fer land, he's fit fer gold, he's‘ warred fer wrong an’ right, ‘An’ once he battled fer some kegs es sure as you are born, An’ I hain't no sign of patience with the most enreasonin’ wight Thet claims he won't be fightin’ w'en ole Gabr'el toots his horn.” But Uncle Hi, He heaved a sigh, An’ says, “Waal, I don’t know, But scems ter me It's plain ter see Thet even fools "Il grow.” “W’y, dern it all, man!” Silas said, “T'd think thet yew c¢'d see Thet ever'thing fer fightin’ an’ fer kill- in" hes a craze. The birds that poets praises with the worms is dretful free, cats is eatin’ up the birds hushin’ of thelr lays; An’ w'en the cat hes nipped the bird the dog 'Il nip the cat, An' end poor pussy’s evenin’' song, the caroi of his love An' an’ Ar’ then the b'ar digests the dog an’ adds | him tew his fat, An’ so the bigger critters all the littler critters shove.” ‘Al right,” says HI, I won't deny Thet all yer argyment I see, But I'm no cat, Ner dog, ner rat; Sc haow does it apply ter me?” “You make me weary!" Silas said. “Ef all men shouldn't fight, Why is the lesson taught to us by con- duc’ of the brute? 2 Wen the Lord made all creation, hé says, ‘Let there be light, Because,’ he said, ‘the man I make "Il have ter see to shoot.” Thet ain’'t writ in the Bible, but I claim it's writ in things Thet meets our observation w'ile we're shootin’ of life’s chutes, An’ ef yew seem ter doubt it, all I've got ter say, b’ jings!’ Is I wish yew'd cast your optics on the conduc’ of the brutes.” ‘“Waal, I'll agree,” Says Hi, says he, “The brute the brutish suits, But God made me A man, you see, Some higher than the brutes!” A TALK WITH MABYL. You have now, my dear Mabyl, attained that perfod in your youthful career—a pe- ricd strangely coinciding with the time when you shed the “‘e” in your name and substituted a “y” for it—when you sadly realize how very commonplace and ple- beian your doting mamma is and how much more you know than she does. The time has now arrived when you compre- hend that that mamma’'s appropriate place is in the kitchen, and if you are compelled to introduce her to your per- fectly lovely young man you afterward say to him, “Mamma s queer, but so good!” whereupon he sympathizingly says, “I know; yes, I know, dear,” and kisses away your pain and humiliation. At last the time has come when you pathetically realize that your mamma does not know a syllogism from a pork roast, except as she sometimes suspects that the former is not Intended to eat. Ah, what a hard and cruel day it was for you, Mabyl, when first this shameful truth dawned upon your developing mind, and how eagerly you have attempted to con- ceal the bitter realization within your gentle, stricken breast! And yet—if you will permit me, Mabyl— some things may be said in favor of the “old lady.” She loved you and cared for you when I, as a mere outsider, would hardly have considered you worth the chloroform to end it all. On many a cold, cold night she got up and walked the floor with you when your warwhoop inti- mated that you had a pain in that little inside, which your perfectly lovely young man never mentions. You mentioned it then without any coy hesitation; but, of course, that was different. She did a thousand and one menial things for you which ¥ou never will realize until after you and the perfectly lovely young man have been made one and you are doing something of the kind for a wee stranger within your gates. Perhaps this love, which was lavished like water, this perpetual sacrifice which heeded not itself, should not be counted now, my dear girl, but I think that they should. Indeed, when I contemplate the love of that poor, commonplace mother, as well as the sacrifices that she meas- ured: not, it seems to me that that care- worn woman is worth about ten thou- sand of your foolish and trivial self. You may not believe it, Mabyl, and neither this drummer?” | goes the : perfectly lovely young man; but a suspicion of the | guch is my honest thought, nevertheless. And {f you can drop the butterfly for a “Oh, fine, big man, with brown store |jjttle time and seriously think of the matter just as it stands, are you quite sure, Mabyl, that you will not agree with In a few moments Leon was tearfully | me? “I will give this dollar to the poor,” for 25 cents, while madam with Rer apron | he said. Then he dropped the dollar into his ought of all the fine things $300 | own pocket. For he knew a DPOOr man when he. came across him. “No,* said Elizabeth, the virgin Queen, “I do not agree with the mon- “No,” sald Ragson Tatters, “I don't|arch who offered his kingdom f like dis here slang. I had a fierce 'sper- | horse, but—" g {ence on account of it, onct.” asked Weary Willie.: auite some years ago. One day & man asked me if I didn't want some soap. O’ course, I sez ‘No!" an’ de werry nex’ day I learns dat ‘soap’ wuz a new slang ‘word fur ‘money.’ "—Philadelphia Press. TWO LETTERS. ‘Yaleton Jr.—S8ay, dad, did you receive my letter telling you I ‘was quarterback on the 'varsi- ty football team? ' Yaleton Sr.— Yes, and I re- cel’ one from the faculty tell me you were three- quarters back in your studies! wM!Q.‘(‘fa' ‘fi “But what, my liege lady?” the first lady in waiting inquired. “But I sometimes think I should be willing to give mine for—" . Again she hesitated, and the first lady in waiting ventured to say, “For what?" “For just the right sort of a man,” ‘was the low-spoken answer. “I had to send him below,” Sain Peter remarked. : “Why?" his first assistant inquired. “Why, he was a life insurance pres- ident while in the flesh.” “Well, what of it?” “Why, he weorked out all of his soft snap while on the earth.,” 3 “He says he knows he has been re- incarnated seventeen times.” “Well, if this is the best he can do in that number of times it seems al. most llke wasted effort.” THE ORIOLE WHISTLES. The oriole sits in a tree out there, And whistles—just whistles, And he makes me think of a man, I swear, A ‘Who whistles—just whistles. But the difference between them long and wide, 3 For the oriole works through time e is a failure at all be- As he whistles—just whistles. Townsend's Cahfornia glace fruits and el candies in artistic etched Mm""l-u.tr: a daily 2D by the Calt- ! cuses and }lTHESMARTSET | By sally sharp. | The Gaiety Club, of which Miss Helen | Percy Chesebrough is president, has an- | nounced the dates for its dances through | the season. The club consists of tnirty- five members, from among whom is chosen a hostess for each dance, the first to be given Thursday, December M, the others to fall upon Wednesday, January $; Friday, January 26, and PFriday, Feb- | ruary 16. The membership includes Miss | Newell Drown, Miss Christine Pomeroy, Miss Natalie Coffin, Miss Elsie Tallant, Miss Maud Bourne, Miss Dorothy Beils, Miss Margaret Newhall, Miss Gertrude Josselyn, Miss Elizabeth Livermore, Miss Emily Carolan, Miss Cora Smedbers, Miss Genevieve King. Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss Linda Cadwallader, Miss Lucille Coleman, Miss Elizabeth Allen and Miss Helen Chesebrough. Pl To-day’s chief event will be the wedding of Miss Beatrice Splivalo and Francis | Rawls Shoemaker, to take place at noon in the Empire room of the Palace Hotel. « s Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray, who is giv- ing a series of bridge parties, will enter- taln at the second affair to-day. . e Miss Morcia Warren will entertain to- day at a bridge party in homor of Miss Mary Marriner. . . Miss Merritt Reid will be a tea hostess of to-day, entertaining in honor of the debutantes of the season. R The Sequoia Club art exhibit has been attended with complete success, and on Sunday afterncon the enthusiasm gave | the affair a gala aspect. There was a large assemblage of well-gowned women, and the masculine contingent was largely represented. A more delightful reception has mnot been seen within Sequoia’s walls, and this is saying much, for the last three months have been productive of the greatest bonhomie and happiness. A late hour | chimed before the dispersing on Sun- | day. In the gathering were noticed Mr. | and Mrs. Adolohus Graupmer, Mr. and | Mrs. William T. Bagsett, Colonel and Mrs. Isaae Trumbo, Mr. and Mrs. Cun- ningham, Mr. and Mrs. L. Eugene Lee, Mrs. W. C. Morrow, Mrs. Linda Bryan, Mrs. Thomas Morffew, Mrs. Fernando Pfingst, Mrs. Willlam Deering, Mrs. Katherine Brogan, Miss Lalla Wenzel- burger, Miss Genevieve Peel, Miss Nell Rose Baggétt, Miss Martha Rose, Miss Tobin, Miss Lillie V. O'Ryan, Miss O’Cal- laghan, R. Masson Smith, Sherril Shell, C. P. Neflsea and Willlam Wright. .« v The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Shea and Dr. James Murphy took place very quietly on Saturday. & Mrs. John L. Bradbury was hostess at a charming dinner Sunday evening at her home on Pacific avenue, entertaining half a dozen guests informally. Within a fortnight Mrs. Bradbury will entertain at a tea, and still later in the winter the pleasure of a dance will be forthcoming from the hospitable home of Mrs. Brad- g Tty Mrs. Edward Xavier Rolker will be hostess at a musicale in her home on Sutter strept on Thursday evening. e e Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walton Tully are leaving New York to-day for California, and will arrive in town within a fort- night. Mrs. Tully expects to visit her father in Shasta County for some weeks, though a large part of the three months” stay will be passed by Mr. and Mrs. Tully in this flclmlm. 2 ‘Mrs. Philip Corbusier left Saturday for Monterey to join her-husband, Lieuten- ant Corbusier, recently returned from the Philippines to be statloned at Ord Bar- racks. 9 wte Dr. Louis C. Deane left yesterday, en route to Europe, and will stop at New Orleans and New York before sailing. Dr. Deane will be away several months, visiting all the principal hospitals. B Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Borel, with Miss Sophie and Miss Alice Borel and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bovet left Sunday for their chateau in Switzerland, to be away sev- eral months. Upon their return the Borel home will be the scene of two impertant weddings. Miss Sophie w..l plight her troth to Aylett Cotton Jr., and a few weeks later Miss Alice will wed with Jobn Lewis. e . Mrs. Rifhard Bayne left yesterday for New York to enjoy a visit of six weeks. ... The Deutscher Club will entertain at a musicale under the direction of Paul Steindorff Thursday evening in the club- rooms. e ANSWERS TO QUERIES. THE LADY OF THE LAKE-—Reader, City. In answer to the question, “Are the plot and characters of Scott's ‘Lady of the Lake’ real or imaginary?”’ the answer is that the only incident of fact on which the poem is founded is that of the fond- ness of King James V of Scotland of go- ing about incognito among his subjects. THE MACHINE—Subsecriber, City. The first use of “the machine” as used in politics, has been traced to Aaren Burr, who is credited with having first used the expression “The machinery of a party.” Hence, when the organization of a party falls into the hands of pro- fessional politicians, who use it corruptly to serve their own or their pelitical pur- poses, it is commonly known as the machine. CALIFORNIA'S CONGRESSMEN—M. B., McNear, Cal. The following named are the representatives in Congress from California in the order of the dis- trict they represent: James N. Gillett, Eureka; D. E. McKinlay, Santa Rosa Joseph R. Knowland, Alameda; Jullus Kahn, San Francisco; Everis A. Hayes, San Jose; James C. Needham, San Jose; James McLachlan, Pasadena, and 8. C. Smith, Bakersfleld. TELEGRAPH IN CHINA-C. N. 8, City. The first telegraph in China was Ministers trom foreign countries in Peking insisted upon the fulfillment of the contract with the telegraph company, the line was fin- ished. There was considerable opposi- tion on the part of the people because of a helief that it was *“a devil on sticks,” but this was gradually dispeiled. and now the telegraph is in common in the empire. b b g THANKSGIVING—A. I S. Oakiand, Cal. Thanksgiving day In the United States is regarded In the light of a na- law of On the date of this festival all went to Jerusalem and for seven days lived in booths made of ranches of trees and made thank of-