The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1906, Page 8

{ 8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKEILS... eevee Sessssese ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT......coceeeesee sesssssesasssssssaesesssss MianARER WEDNESDAY .....,.-c000r8ss-ssssssssasesnshnesinshsdMMTIART B0, SON PUBLICATION OFFICE..... OUR HYDRAULIC POWER. HE statistics of the use of hydraulic power to produce electric Trncrgy show that California leads all the States in the abund- ance and wide distribution of water power for such use, There features in the matter that enhance our good fortune. The ecessity for power in the State of New York has led to a raid on water of Niagara River that threatens to destroy Niagara Falls. Tonawanda to the falls the fall of the river is rapid, and is taken out and plans for taking more are of such extent 1 of the drainage of the Great Lakes which passes through Niagara River to join the St. Lawrence is threatened with absorption. is is a policy destructive of many utilities for the construction of one. It is the destruction of ome of the world’s greatest scemic ractions, for private profit. No wonder that the various outdoor gues and clubs, interested in preserving the beauties and gran- deur of nature’s face undefiled, are roused to action by such a propo- on. In Canada and the United States a roar of protest is heard. t who is to act in the matter? It is a State, national and inter- onal matter. Where is deposited the authority to prevent the tion? While the protest echoes from one side of the continent the other, nobody acts. Neither the State of New York nor the d States nor the Dominion of Canada reaches out the hand wer to snatch the great falls from the hand of greed that has em to destruction. The spoliators are working to install lants, to acquire vested rights and to entrench themselves too long delayed assertion of power that is greater than = lifferent is the situation of Californial Our lofty moun- making us a world rather than a State, for s furnish hydraulic power capable of generating c energy to turn every wheel in the State, run every light every street, and put electric power, at a reasonable h, for light, and the running of machinery. The t that will see the wires carrying power to pump or irrigation from one side of the Sacramento and San Joa- leys to the other, and also to run electric roads as feeders lines, which will leave the average wagon haul of farm 1ort as the average in the States east of the Mississippi, han five miles. On our vast plains the fuel question Invention supplies an electric kitchen stove, in is turned on and heat generated to do all forms without smoke, soot or 2511851 reach by the hydraulic power of our > other part of the world has as much of it Every square foot of the State is accessible wire. Not many years ago tourists went from look at the distribution of power by cables 3 haffhausen, the falls of the Rhine. The 1eans conveyed about 40,000 horsepower six miles, 1 as one of the engineering triumphs of the last n California we exceed it so immeasurably. that it conveying electricity generated by water po;n'er over es, and it is taken as such a matter of course that it Nearly every week our readers see the an- yew power sites acquired for immediate improve- the East finds the field attractive for investment, t means development in manufacturing, mining 1Ice. s is brought wi 1ote the difference: the mountain waters of California ir power, without defilement, diminution or departure iral channel. In many instances the same stream 1 power plants, one above the other, from hest point possible of such use, and then flows valleys below. This is done without marring a y, or defacing nature in any respect. With such e -sources is this State supplied in the form of rgy may be called a2 by-product, to be converted to use 1 enterprise. THE CHINESE INDEMNITY. vernment collected $20,000,000 indemnity from China powers affected by the Boxer rebellion. This to cover the expense of the army and navy, and paid large indemnity to our citizens for losses It is now proposed to use this Government ng the cost of educating Chinese in our universi- g the_same purpose in China. a most laudable enterprise. It will give to the United standing and influence in China greater than can be had penditure of manyfold that amount in aggression. Our of amity with Japan were immeasurably promoted by the of the Shimonoseki indemnity. It is for this country to strate that in dealing with Asiatic nations justice, generosity are weighed at their true worth by Oriental people and The propaganda recently started here to promote ea that the Asiatic mind appreciates only brute force, and is mpenetrable to the gentler sentiments of justice, generosity and ude, is based upon a false conception of human nature. a has in good carnest entered upon a new career, requiring 1] intercourse with the rest of the world, based upon parlia- tary institutions and the education of her people in modern ways. In this she needs and deserves encouragement, not only for her own sake, but in the best interests of the whole world. What an impress that empire more favorably, or knit its friendship and secure its commercial favor more than such an act of generosity as repayment of this-indemnity in such form as best to promote the new programme of reform? It presents us in an entirely unselfish and most just and humane attitude, that is highly honorable to the United States and as highly useful to China. T'.hc fact that California has a citrus ¢limate more extensive than y other part of the world. The culture of the orange is now so ell established from the Sierras to the Coast Range, from Porter- ville north to Redding, that only advertising enterprise is needed to bring Northern California into gotice for that form of production. Butte County was the pioneer in extensive orange planting, now other counties of the Sacramento Valley are in line. Colusa, the old king of wheat counties, has orchards in bearing that yield a ge revenue from fruit that fears no rivals. If any one had told Dr. Glenn thirty years ago that his 60,000- acre wheat field would be covered with orange orchards in the life- time of his children, that old lord of the harvest would have de- nounced the prophet gs fit for the lunacy commission. But just that has become possible, for Colusa takes her place with the citrus coun- ties. When the Russians came here and left their impress in Rus- sian Hill in this city, and the Russian River in Sonoma County, they saw no value in the land except the fur-bearing animals it supported and as these were not many they abandoned a country that now holds a citrus fair at Cloverdale and fills the horn of plenty full of the yellow fruit, which the Russians probably had mever seen, San Francisco should be in evidence at Cloverdale next month. That part of the State has been made a suburb of this city by railroad facilities, and our interest in it is growing every year. 1 by the rebels. indemnity in pa nments, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ORANGES. HE annual citrus fair will be held in Cloverdale from the 2oth to the 24th of February, and will add its yearly emphasis to Senator Beveridge is not disposed to deny that there is excellent Presi- dential material in Indiana.—Chicago Tribune. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1906. 3 EFRO HAVE AN JHAT MAY JAVE ME. Grateful Mother And the Doctor N eminent physician in P— had A cured a little child of a dangerous illness. The grateful mother turned her steps toward the house of her son’s savior. “Doctor,” she said, ‘“there are some things which cannot be repaild. I really don’t know how to express my gratitude. 1 thought you would, perhaps, be so kind as to accept this purse, embroidered by my own hand.” “Madam,” replied the doctor, coldly, “medicine is no trivial affair, and our visits are to be rewarded only in money. Small presents serve to sustain friend- but they do not sustain our famis “But, doctor,” said the lady, alarmed and wounded, “speak—tell me the fee.” “Two hundred dollars, madam.” The lady opened the embroidered purse, teok out five bank notes of $100 each, gave two to the doctor, put the rémaining three back in the purse, bowed coldly, and took her departure.—Lippincott’s. EXPERIMENTING- “You have a nice office here, Mr. Binks. Do you have many callers while you are working? How do you get rid of bores?” “Tell ’em all about my rheumatism and what I do for it. I've tried everything, you know. Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I—. What, must you be going? So long, old man! Works pretty well, by Jove!”—Cleveland Leader. —————————— IN METHUSELAH'S DAY. Balesman—What size suit does the lit- tle boy wear? Fond Mother—Well, he’s only 68, but he takes usually a 73 year old A LITTLE LESSON IN ADVERSITY —_— T the close of the Mexican war TUlysses 8. Grant resigned from the army of the United States, in which he had performed distinguished service, and settled on & small farm near St. Louis, where he combined farming with a real estate business. For six years he kept at this although every year ccnditions were such that there were positive- ly no profits in the little e n terprise. The venture was not even self-sup- porting. Absolute ceased to worship the cash god, does it not?" Occidental BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. | WORTH THE DOING WELL. HERE'S a simple little maxim which I doubt not that you know; lu ifact, 1 feel no question that you learned it long ago. That is, you learned the patter and the intent of its word; But have you felt your spirit by its inner meaning stirred? Do you do the work life gives you with a faithful hand and strong, Or do you merely do it so you judge you'll “get along?” In short, in all your living do you heed this maxim’s spell: If a thing is worth the doing it is worth the doing well? I know a host of people who the adage vary thus: Not a thing is worth the dolng If it carries toil for us; And another host of people yet another adage work: If a thing is worth the doing, that's the thing we want to shirk. These are the dolts and dullards, the slovens and the fools, Who whine that Life has set them here with dull and rusty tools. They work their doom in idleness, nor heed what sages tell: It a thing is worth the doing, it 1s worth the doing well, These are the ones who never do their best and truest work, Who find their rule of action in the simple motto, “Shirk.” No second do they toil o’ertime at ope or close of day— They'd leave a task by heaven designed and put their tools away. For, lo! the race of shirk and slouch knows but one rule and plan, And it is aye expressed in this: Do lit- tle as you can. And so they miss the grace of life and still with failures dwell— For a thing that's worth the doing e’er is worth the doing well. The purport of the lesson here, my son, is up to you: Do to your utmost whatsoe'sr gour hand may find to do. Your office reach ahead of time, instead of somewhat late, And 1f it spoils your “beauty nap,” why let your beauty walt. Don’t crawl about with sloven things, the cattle of our kind, But do your work, and do it well, and its reward you'll find; For I tell you o'er and over tbat this maxim bears a spell: If a thing 1s worth the do! worth the doing well. “Dld you notice an assertion in the paper that thousands of Chicagoans are worshiping the sun god under the name of Apollo?” F “Y Such a lapse to paganism is Being Chi- shocking, is 1t not?" “Well, I don’'t know. cagoans—that is—arg you sure it does not indicate a step in the line of progress?”’ “How 807" i “Why, it looks as if they had THE AUTOMOBILE'S TALE. “I don’t know when I have been so utterly discour: > e Automob! this | other day. b- | quired. “How was that? the Landau in- this: T was ing, it 18 1DEA Major and Mrs. John Stafford an- nounce the engagement of their daugh- ter, Pauline, to Lieutenant Stephen Os- den Fuqua of the Twenty-third Infan- try. The bride, who is still very younsg, has been with her father during the past' year at his station with the Twen- tieth Infantry in the Philippines and at that place met the young officer Who has become her flance. Miss Stafford has a wide acqualat- ance with the army people, though was too young to be identified with soclety at the time of her departure from San Francisco. She is with her mother at the Hotel Plymouth awaiting the ar- rival of Major Stafford before the wed- ding will take place. Mrs. Stafford was Miss Gibbs of this city and is a sister of Mrs. Walter G. Holcomb, who also resides at the le:\m:; . To-day's calendar notes ‘he mar- riage of Miss Florence Scatena to Dr. Lawrence Riland Sevier, to take place at 8:30 p. m. in St. Mary's Cathedral, the Very Rev. Vicar General Preader- gast to officiate. A large reception will be held after the ceremony at the Palace Hotel, for {which over 1000 invitations have been issued. « s = Miss Emille Geraldine Reed will be married to Herbert Baldwin at 11 a. m. to-day, the service taking place In the Church of St. Mary the Virgin. « s . The University Club will be the scene of another pretty luncheon to-day, glven by Miss Huntington. Other affairs of importance are the bridge party of Mrs. Jessie Bowie-De- trick, the dinner to Miss Frances Stew- art by Frederick Greenwood and the at home of Mrs. Josiah Crosby Beedy. Mrs. Ella Hotaling is entertaining at a dinner this evening. s s e The eagerly awaited event of Miss Alice Treanor's marriage to Clarence Meigs Oddie was attended last evening by a hundred of San Franclsco's ex- clusives at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Jor- dan, on Pacific avenue. Probably more dainty decoracion has not been seen during the season. for all was couleur de rose, only the pal- est and most ,elicate of flowers being used throughout the rooms and halls. A beautiful bower of fruit blossoms was constructed for the ceremony, which took place at 9 o’clock, Rev. Frederick Clampett of Trinity Church reading. The same flowers with a suggestion of foliage and mingled with pale blue streamers of satin ribbon gave a most beautiful effect to the table ani added were the soft hues of pink shaded can- delabra. The bride wore a robe of white chif- fon cloth with trimming of Valen- ciennes lace and a long tulle vell, a shower bouquet of orchids and lilles of the valley completing the array. She was given into the groom’s keeping by her mother, Mrs. Jordan, O gain control of the voluntary thoughts should be the chief alm of Accidentals. ' every intelligent human being. There is no achlevement that can rank with this in importance. There Is no demand more imperative. Bvery day I live I become more firmly convinced of this. The more 1 see of human beings, and realize their strug- gles, their disappointments, their =or- rows, their temptations to do rash and desperate acts, the more forcibly It is borne in upon me that only when man learns to control his voluntary mind will he obtain release from the terrors that torment him now. When I read the daily accounts of for- geries, murders, suicides, and all the re- maining list of crimes, horrors and trage- dies, 1 am moved to the fervent hope that before long humanity will have learned how to apply the great law of suggestion to the overcoming of its Hlis. For it is by this law the ills are created, and it Is by this law they are vanquished. The psychology of to-day makes clear that not only has every human being & voluntary mind—which means the same as the consclous or objective mind—but he possesses as well an involuntary, sub- conscious or subjective mind, which may be controlled by the former and ordered to dn its bidding. - This psychology teaches also that unless the voluntary mind does exercise its pre- rogative as ruler, the involuntary mind usurps that authority and the person finds himself at the mercy of his invol- untary thoughts; is impelled to do their bidding instead of his own. ‘When one realizes that in the involun- tary .or subconscious mind is stored the accumulated impressions of a lifetime up to the present; that all the things he has ever read or heard or thought about are recorded here, just as songs and speeches are recorded upon the cylinder of the phonograph; and when one re- members that the fears, the terrors and horrors of life probably make the most vivid impressions, it is not difficult to real- ize what is lable to take place when one is at the mercy of his involuntary mind. “After that the Chauffeur was ar- rested. I do not know why, for he merely did as his Master said. But that appears to be the law, and I suppose it really would be very embarrassing to place under vulgar arrest the Owner of an Automobile. Well, the Chauffeur was haled into court and there he swore that I was traveling but ten or pos- sibly twelve miles an hour when the accident took place. 1 do not know when I have been so surprised, shocked and mortified. I really had supposed that I was doing a pretty good stunt, but, of course, the Chauffeur knew, However, I was completely discouraged, and I may as well admit it. I demon- strated the fact thereafter.” “How did you do it?” the Landau asked. “Easy. The Owner of Me was taking a friend out to show him my paces. We came to a smooth stretch of road and the Owner remarked, T'll show you how easy she does fifty miles an hour.’ * ‘Fifty miles an hour! I said to my- self. ‘Five times as fast as I was go- ing when the accident took place! It's unreasonable ‘to ask it of any living Automobile!’ Then I took the bit be- tween my teeth, ran over an embank- ment and broke three ribs for the Owner. I hated to do it, but I realized that he was asking the impossible of me in proposing that I should go five times as swift as I'did the other day. “You did exactly righ the Landau remarked, and, thus encouraged, the Automobile felt better. “I never saw a more equal division of labor than that which characterizes Smivkins and his wife.” “How do they are arrange it?" “Why, he earns the money and she spends it.” THE ETERNAL WHY. Do the wise men know why the south winds blow, Bringing the rain of blessing? Does the sage know why we llve and . dle, Dust with our dust caressing? Ah no, and ah no! But they maunder still / Of “thus it has been, and thus it will"; But their knowledge of why for aye is distress, or grief, or worry; when he indulges anger, jealousy, fear, terror or any other acute emotion, the volun- tary mind loses its grip and the invol- untary thoughts rush to the front and control partiglly, if not wholly, the un- fortunate one. For this reason, unless one has the mastery of himself, he does not know at what time some wild, reckless im- pulse from the involuntary.mind will seek to dominate him. It is according to this principle that psychologists explain ¢ nil, p . And valn is their pohmn guessing. The winds blow in and the winds blow out, And the rains fall east or west, And the faith is best which feels no doubt That all for us all is blest. 34 For after it all, when all is e, unwarranted acts of dishonor, Though the wise men and the | and horror performed by persons whose run, environment has been of the sort to sages The Eternal Why finds answer none— | encourage the noblest living; persons And the faith of the child s best. whose lives have been exemplary up e B to the time of the fatal deed. His. ot mrere. sanet sntoremmmer T Y T e LY ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Why so?” ORUGON POPULISTS—Subscriber, City. “Well, his mother sung him to sleep all through his childhood.” “But why should you consider an unfortunate cirocumstance? I think it almost sacredly sweet.” “Yes, but I guess you never heard his mother sing, did you?" When any one gives way to poignant | ; --&- THE SMART SET-&-& | BY SALLY SHARP. A All the bridal attendants, Wip were seven in number, were go' dalnty piak, wearing short pink veils, miking a most attractive setying for the hajdsome tride. They were Miss Edith Tieanor, maid of honor: Miss Emily Chickering, Miss Ruth Foster, Miss Elizabeth Mills, Miss Jane Wilshire, Miss Florenc Cole and Miss Edith Cutter. T. L. Oddie served his brother, John Overbury, Jerome Landfleld, Harry Chick- ering, Nelson Poe, Willlam Hougi and Charles Brady acting as ushers. A receotion followed the ceremony, after which Mr. and Mrs. Oddie lft to go immediately to Europe, where they will remain six months. Upon returning to the coast, the new home will be made in Tonopah. 53 Yesterday embraced 2 number of charming affairs, notable among which were the luncheon at the University Club given in Mrs. W. P. Redington’s onor by Mrs. Henry Edwards Huntington, and the tea to Miss Ballard at the home of Miss Elizabeth Livermore on Vallejo street. Mrs. George Newhall gathered a score of bridge players at her home on Pacific avenue, while Mrs. Bernard Breeden and her sister, Miss Helen Biiss Sullivan, en- tertained sixty guests at a delightful card party in Wheeler's Auditorium. A very pretty arrangement of daffodils and violets made the rooms doubly at- tractive, the guests dividing their atten- tion between flve bundred and bridge. . e Two affalrs to interest soclety will be the tea given to Miss Ruth Foster by Miss Josephine Hannigan on January 23, and the dinner hostéssed by Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann on Februx.ry 3 a9 Mrs. Ryland Wallace entertained sev- eral guests at bridge iast evening. o e The announcement that the Assembly will convert its last party Into a minia- ture Mardi Gras is meeting with great approbation, for society deplores the foregoing of the annual festivity at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute. Mrs. Voor= hies has given ample notice of her intent, and all the Assembly maids and men will begin at once to plan impersonation with handsome costuming, and the Palace ballroom will present a merry throng of makers on the evening of February 7. i Two forthcoming events of much in- terest are the large bridge party to be given by Mrs. Joseph Trilley on the 25th, and the djnner for Miss Grace Baldwin and her flance, Russell J. Selfridge, at which Mr. and Mrs. Frank Deering will entertain on January 29. PR SR Sequoia is expanding and will ada to its already large list of attractions that of a whist section, the first game to be played Thursday evening. Mrs. Fernando Pfingst and Mrs. Thomas Morffew will he hostesses and a merry evening will follow. Hereafter the card contingent will meet on Tuesday evenings. Try Auto-Suggestion. BY ANGELA MORGAN. To contend tfat these persons were evil at heart during all the preceding period; that they were deliberate de- celvers, “whited sepulchers,” would be not only uncalled for, but illogical. These unfortunates are weaker than others in that they lose control of their voluntary thoughts and all uncon- selously put themselves in the power of the inveluntary mind. Dr. Herbert A. Parkyn makes this very lucid in his writings on auto- suggestion and points qut clearly how every man may gain the mastery of his life’'s conditions by first galning control of the involuntary through the voluntary mind. He says: “Learn to influence the involuntary mind and you can influence yourself mentally and physically as you desire, but the involuntary mind must be reached through the voluntary mind. Beek then to control the voluntary thoughts.” Now 1is the time to establish this control. In the smaller habits of life use control; exereise your will. Per- mit no suggestion of evil to take up & residence in your mind. Cast out any such that attempt to intrude. No suggestion can reach your sub- conscious mind except through the portal of your consclous mind. Then be on guard. Exercise your authority. You are the ruler, the dic- tator. It is for you to decide what your life and what your actions shall be. FASHION'S MIRROR THE SCHOCLGIRL'S FROCK. IMPLICITY is the keynote of the frocks Intended for hd by the schoolgirl. Bodices must be well cut,and of ample proportions to aMow for the growing figure, there must be in all e g