The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANGISCO CALL . . Proprietor AbDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JORN McNAUGHT...... -3 4as skbEbepUris ssess EROERBRES “PLICATION OFFICE TURDAY.. THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO JANUARY 27, 1905 | 7 ROCKEFELLER, COME INTO COURT! State of Missouri has started a legal proceeding to deter- the right of the Standard Oil Company, or its alias, to do sess in that commonwealth. It is a proper judicial proceed- in which' testimony must be taken and in which the defendant e right of appearance and defense. From the beginning the interests have toiled to obstruct the judicial inquiry. ¢ dodged subpenaes, and when taken into court they have to answer questions that were properly put. Young Mr. in 2 ddress to his Sunday school class, has excused by saying refusal to answer is right because it is an into private business. If the private business is carried on law, no harm can come to it by answering questions t in a perfectly legal inquiry. Mr. Rockefeller should | late the transaction of private business, as well | si public. A man, not a member of a firm even, | ness as a sole trader, is subject to the law. He may | hat which he sells, he may not cheat in weights or 1e may not put false items in his accounts; he may be| f these, and yet be subjected to judicial inquiry u[)on' I he refuse to answer questions, he rests under When the business is done by a firm, a part- | bligations increase. It is then under the law of | is subject to a still broader inquiry into its affairs. siness is done by a corporation, it is under all the legal s of the sole trader and the partner, and in addition is sub- law corporations. If its commerce be interstate, the it there. All of these obligations are upon the Standard Mr. Rockefeller should come into court. are not opposed to the accumulation of wealth. They mulate it themselves. They are opposed to its ac- i unlawful means. If one man gains’ wealth the risk of judicial restitution and of punishment practices. If the Rockefeller weaith. has been fairly ed, without the corruption of Legislatures, the ma- s and the use of unlawful means, the judicial | do him no harm. Rockefeller should come into court. No man liveth ynto If Mr. Rockefeller can keep out of court, evade pro- | ent, it is not because of any personal, individual, of Mr. Rockefellerv. The immunity runs to his > man. This being so, the immunity means that | the strong hand, that makes, has and holds, in n should come into court. He is, in a certain her’s keeper. 1f his property, because of its vast vol- from the law; all property is endangered. If mil- re superior to legal obligation, property in the less | becomes an element of danger, and the argu- not be answered. If large fortunes can which may grow by the law of accu- dangerous. Mr. Rockefeller should come n ca 1 fo unes, termination that the issue between ethods and the law shall be tried out to a finish. edding its illumination upon all business operations. e commerce, transportation and all of its incidents, 1 all of its chartered privileges, are in the focus and | The real issue, the unescapable inguiry, is, Does | ain the elements of danger to human rights? If so,| S ssities must prevail. Mr. Rockefeller | | | »ad a spirit of mmto court. laws that protect the acquisition of property, that encourage ation and therefore promote thrift among the people and tolerable, are at stake. It is society that creates prop- When society said that property in man was right, men were eld as chattel Society made them property. When the | 1 conscience revolted at slavery, man ceased to be a chattel and | i ne society slaves. free. Society creates property for its own sake and protection, society destroys property by the simple declaration that such objects, material things, should not be property. The law t protects property rights in those things passes away, and what perty yesterc is without legal sanction to-morrow, and to be. Mr. Rockefeller should cease to defy society. He hould come into court. Property is at stake. The principle of individual ownership, | he evolution of ages, the foundation of modern civilization and of | , is at stake. In Mr. Rockefeller property is defying | His conduct blasphemes against society, the creator of He should come into court. an with a thousand comes into court. So does the man 1 on. So must the man with hundreds of millions. If they do not, then the'man with hundreds of millions will be stripped, and e man with a million and the man with housand. It is the social | Mr. Rockefeller should come into court. its cre tor. his wealth The m w GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY. law. ROM the northern waters comes support of The Call’'s demand F for safeguards against shipwreck at the entrance of the Strait of San Juan de Fuca. Fifty-six shipwrecks there in forty years | id shame the Dominion and the United States into action. Near scene of those appalling disasters there is no life-saving station, no proper beacon nor fog signal, no wire by which to call speedy belp. Had these been provided nearly all of the people on the Valencia would have been saved. is horrible that no woman nor child survived the tragedy. It quieting that so many of the crew escaped. It is heroic that Captain Johnson refused to save himself, and died with his ship. A 1g crew, by the use of the steamer Topeka, a gun and a life line, could have saved nearly a hundred people who were clinging to the wreck thirty hours after the ship struck. A lightship near the change of course at the entrance of the strait would have pre- vented the wreck. All of the commerce of Puget Sound has to pass that way. Will the Governments concerned still neglect to safe- guard that commerce? The States of Washington, Oregon and Cali- fovnia bave interests at stake. Life and property are at stake. If the yroper safeguards are not immediately provided the two Govern- ts will be undeserying of allegiance. That is putting it strong, but it is justified by the facts. The people pf this coast demand and have the right to demand immediate investigation of the needs of mariners in respect to land lights, buoys, lightships and life-saving stations from San Diego to the waters of the northern sound. Our members of Congress have long sought to have this done. Let them renew the effort and persist to the neglect of everything else. The dying women on the Valencia and the little-children, perishing pitifully, cry out to them from the waters that rage over them, that this be done. It is a spectacle that shocks humanity~—great Governments’ bickering over budgets and the distribution of offices, while their indifference to the essentials of government lets weak women and helpless children go down to dreadful death. Let us have action, immediate, effective. It cannot bring back the dead, but it may save the living. —_— The imagination is powerless to conceive what would happen if Mae Wond should call at the White House and insist on seeing Mr. Loeb.— Anaconda Standard. ‘ —————— . In addition to an elastic currency the country would be glad to have a system of compressible prices for use in buying household supplies.—Chicago Tribune. 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1906. 3 -+ - | | ; = He’s Comiortable There | - <+ H, home sweet home!# No wonder Its charms and its delights, there one may Safely_within its sacred precincts filng A#ide the chires and troubles of the day, Forget the little things that fret and tease, v And taste at last the joys of ‘slippered ease. for And, unreproved, unbuttoned at the vest; In an old, ragged coat, from forms ex- » empt, And ’gainst that freedom none will dare protest. If smoke offends, no one wid make a fuss, For well they know you do not care a cuss. Your elbows on the table you may plant, And no one will remark it but your wife. There's no occasion to be elegant; Eat, if you will, your victuals with your knife; Drink from your saucer, wish, And sop the meaty gravy from the dish. if it be your Ana if things do not go to s.it you quite You can express yourself and need not pick Your words at all or try to be polite; At home a man has got a right to kick. Yes, it is true—wherever we may roam There is no place, we find, like home, sweet home. —Chicago News. WRONG INPERENCE. Professor Barrett Wendell of Harvard lightened with an anecdote an English lecture, “There was a certain fnstructor,” he said, “who was always impressing upon his students the need of perspicuity. “A young man came to him one day to g:‘; back an essay that had been submit- ted. “‘A very good essay,’ said the instruc- tor, as he returned the paper, ‘but, Mr. Smith, you should write always so that the most ignorant person can understand every word you say.' “The young man looked up anxiously. “ “What part of my essay was not cledr to you, professor? he asked.”—Los An- geles Times. -+ | ONGLE BIFF'S OBSERVATIONS H' Townshep Trustees hev met to consider th’ question o' rebates an’ free passes. Ab Toner sez there's no deadheads ridin’ on his line. Ab drives th’ mail wagon ev'ry day over to th’' railroad at five mile crossin’, b’'gosh.—Cleve- " land Plain Dealer, 3 | to The elderly lady - Live a Balanced Life BY ANGELR MORGAN —_— IFE would be a much happier, L keener, nobler experience than it is if we human beings would live more at the center and less at the cir- cumference. We are so active on the surface of existence that we miss the glow and the beauty that live beneath. We let the surface life absorb us and fail to go within to be,reinforced and revital- ized. Hence it is we grow tired, indif- ferent and our lives lose meaning. If we would live the balanced life, it is just as necessary that we should be active at the center as at the circum- ference. The outer life demands our attention, exacts our labor. But the inner de- mands of us quite as much. When we realize this in its fullness and act ac- cordingly, life will reach a significance far greater than we can at present con- celve. At the center—in the interior world of mental and spiritual realities—lies the storehouse of power, beauty and splendor. In this interior region is stored all that really makes life worth living. ‘When life drags and our landscape refuses to kindle into color, it is be- cause we are not consciously in touch with this reservoir of power. We are not alive at the core. We are letting the surface life absorb us. We have wandered far from our storehouse of good. ; In our ignorance we are always look- ing to some external change to bring back the magic. We seek here and there to find a remedy for our callous, dreary experience. But to no avail, for the magic lies in ourselves, and it is we who must discover it for ourselves. 80 many of us spend needless gray days of heaviness when we might know days of gold. All that is needed is a rousing of the being at the center, an awakening of the interior man. We all know, how wonderful life is at those times of enthusiasm and exal- tation when a great experience or a supreme undertaking rouses the entire being into glowing activity. At such times we are consclous of interior forces and joys. We are in touch with our storehouse of good, conscious of an abundant energy and happiness. If we could live always in such con- sciousness, existence would never lose its magic. We should never be moved to say or to think that life is hardly worth the living. The deeply active life; the life of mental and spirftual enthusiasm; the life that draws largely on the interior bounty, is the life that is never heavy nor indifferent. The trouble with most of the bored, unhappy mortals on this planet is that they live too much on the surface. Their lives need to be set aglow by an interior change. The do not give mind and soul enough of the beautiful, of the ideal, of the eternally real, to feed upon. It was never intended that we should g0 on plodding all our days inan un- limited path. Common duties are given to us, jt is true, and we must be just to the demands of the external. But We must not fall into the error of be- lieving the surface life the only life. ‘We must remember that existence is twosfold; that we are polsed, as it were, between two realms, the visible and the invisible, the material and the spiritual. We should be as active in one realm ag In the other if we expect 1ife to continue ,lnutanlnti beautiful, noble and whally worth while, i u:hva‘ -toammuarm 'll!a z;. cheated “of 2 TY happiness it sgeks. O:Jy‘thfl’ balanced life, recognizing e full the interior as well, as the "exterior good, mm radi- ance and vower. - ‘ S . NATURALLY. ‘who was “looking - . T Character in_ Solitaire BY WALLACE RICE L T was remarked long ago that any l form of table gambling affords an excellent means for judging aright the chardcters of the players. By their manner of taking their losses or gains, by the size and relation of their bets, by & thousand tricks of hand and eye they betray their real selves. From the older games this comment came to apply more particularly here in America to the national game of poker. Indeed, the game is character. A certain, forceful, self-contained, re- lentless, cgol-headed type of man, easily recognized\ as not uncommon in this country, is the successful player; while the easily moved, sentimental, gener- ous, theoretical style of person |is usually unsuccessful. It is a strenuous game for strenuous players in a strenu- ous land, and ng others need expect success. Now that bridge is in general favor, with its singularly balanced qualities of skill and luck, the same comment is being passed upon it. It is said to re- veal character admirably and inevit- ably. But it is a more soclable game, with more conversation and less de- termination in it than poker, and this affords more chance for concealing characteristics than the other. One game, hitherto lost sight of in this connection, goes quite as far toward disclosing the real man as any game of them all, ill-adapted as it may seem for the purpose. This is the milé- mannered pastime known as solitaire, or patience. Watch the next man or woman you see playing it through an evening and you will be surprised at the strange Iidiosyncracies that will crop out from time to time. I knew a business man of the best reputation for honesty in every walk of life who could not play a difficult game of solitaire without breaking the rules. Strangely enough, he always showed a guilty conscience by glancing around to see if anybody noted his cheating— himself, for no one else played, of course. I know another,who changes the rules to make them easier when his game will not work out more than half the time. I know still another player who never plays any set games, but invents them for the occasion, a new one at each sitting. He takes pains to make the rules lax enough so that he, too, has an even chance of winning— or even a better chance than that. It shows an odd lack of force in character to he unable to withstand loss at solitaire. PADEREWSKI AT HOME. It is, indeed, a remarkable household that M. Paderewski introduced me to. It includes dozens of dogs and scores of canaries and cockatoos. The servants are few, but wonderfully discreet, unobtru- sive and “restful” to have about one in_ this great and silent menage of flowers and fountains and luxury. Another monstrous St. Bernard crouched Cerberus-like at the chauteau's gate. Sud- denly Paderewski, as a flash of thought, decided madame must accom- pany us. We strolled back to the house. He was silent. I was p:ndefln; the words of the postman onmy former visit: “Mon- sleur—yes—he is adored. Madame—yes—a good lady—Kkeeps all things In order. Very energetic—yes, brusque, even. But what would you? wears the trousers!" Anyhow, it were better so. A creature so frall, so ethereal, so exquisite as Ignace aderewskl should not come in contact with the angles of the world. ‘We entered the vast drawing-room on the ground floor and there found her. Very Russian and imperious is Paderew- ski's wife—a lady of dominant spirit, with a touch of frigid hauteur.—Harper's Ba- zar. the dealer; “I shot that crocodile my- sel “It looks rather sofled,” observed his customer. . $ lean; A ground madame,” explained the “that is where it struck the . P OCCIDENTAL 4 ACCIDENTALS * BY A. J. WATERHOUSE ANOPHER LIFE SAVED. 144 ID you properly compound D tHat prescription?” inquired the saplent young.physician. the proficient “Sure!” responded “Get in the aqua pura all right?” “You bet!"" “An@ the sodium chloride—also i pura?” i “That's what I did!™ | “Then the patient’s life - will be saved,” remarked the sapient young physician. “It Jooks that way,” responded the proficient pharmacist. Then the saplent young physician be- stowed a long, slow, solemn wink upon the proficient pharmacist, and the lat- ter gentleman responded with another long, slow, solemn wink. For if it were not for Latin and lit- tle frills of that nature. what would become of the reputation of the profes- sions for profundity and super-earthly | lore? WISDOM OF A SOLEMN 'UN. 1 The world has an idea that the pos- | session of a sense of humor proves that | something is lacking in its owner: So | if you suspect that you are an ass and wish to be accounted wise. look sol emn at all times and under all circum: stances, and if you make the little game work you will not be the first man who has done so. The doting parent who fondly imag- | ines that he can educate a fool Into | wisdom will ascertain, sooner or later, | that he has made a mistake. The Presidency of this nation never | yet has been directly bought, but have | you not noticed that the fact does not | prove that there can be no person with an unwavering trust that it may be?| Yes? Well, I have noticed It. too. | There is excellent authority for the the- ory that ‘“one may smile and smile and be a villain,” but I don't know but I should just as soon take my chances on living with such a one as with the one who frowns and frowns, and prattles of his religion between frowns. Speaking of marrying in haste to repent at leisure, did you never know of a case of marrying deliberately to repent in a hurry? Show me how a man lives, and I will tell you what his religion is, but I will be | able to form no cenception of what his creed may be. ‘When a man asks me to vote for him I find it difficult to avoid the implication | that he is precisely the man for whom 1 should not vote. At any rate, no finer and better fibered man would ask such a thing. “Snooks calls his daughter David."” “That is a queer pet name for a young lady. Why does he give it to her?” “I don’t know, but I suppose it is be- cause she is like the Psalmist—‘fearfully and wonderfully made." " “They laY\hn( she suffers intensely.” “Yes, poor girl! You see, she rode In her automobile a great deal, and, sitting | down so much—well, she is afflicted as Job was.” “I see. Biles?" “Yes—automo-biles. YOU HAVE ToO USE THE BAIT. You may fish until you're weary, fish for sturgeon or for bass, For perch, or trout, or bullheads, or the others that may pass; You may have a pole that's gorgeous and | a line that's superfine, ‘Which have cost you several dollars, as you frequently opine; You may know that you are fishing where | the finny legions lie, And may see them break the water as they're lightly swimming by; You may be an Izaak Walton, safe enough to state That you'll never catch the fishes if you do not use a bait. yet it's This world, as I have noticed, is a sort of fishes’ school, | And we are but the anglers who are fish- | ing in its pool; And some of us are angling for the fish that's known as gold, ‘While others yet are fishing for the fame we'd like to hold; But if we fish for this or that to place upon our dish, > Work is the bait that we must use if we would catch the fish; The loafer’s string is nothing, though he angles long and late, For he’ll never catch the fishes if he does not use the bait. “He 1is like a sore finger.” “Because he is always on hand, I sup- se?"” “Partly that, and partly because you cannot help wishing that he was not.” ANSWERS T0 QUERIES. SHANGHAIED-J. O. D., Suisun, Cal An individual “shanghaled” on board of a vessel certainly has grounds for an ac- tion against those who placed him on the vessel against his will. 5 DANDRUFF—Subscriber, City. There are a number of preparations that will re- move dandruff, but as this is not an ad- vertising department it cannot tell you what they are. Suggest that you call on any firét-class and reputable druggist. VETERANS —J. M., Yountville, Cal. The first general law permitting veterans of the Civil War to peudle goods without license was the one passed by the Legis- lature at its last held session. Previous to that county authorities granted free licenses to old soldiers in individual cases. FORETELLING WEATHER—Subscrib- er, Oakland, Cal. The follewing are given as the rules for foretelling the weather and are the ones adopted by the Seawan- haka-Corinthian Yacht Club of New York, and presumably they will apply in all parts of the country where climatic con- ditions are about the same as New York, adapted for use with aneroid barometers: A rising barometer—A rapid rise indi- cates unsettled weather. A gradual rise indicates settled weather. A rise with pharmacist. | | Sallie Maynard, | gramme ‘combining fine S ot THE SMART SE BY SALLY SHARF ’ The large reception-rooms on the mez- zanine floor of the St. Francis were filled yesterday afternoon with an assemblage of San Francisco’s handsome women, who were bidden from 4 to § o'clock by Mrs. David Montgomery Crabtree. This is the first affair held by the young matron since her marriage last spring, and sev- eral hundred callers passed in and out during the afternoon. Graceful branches of huckleberry were disposed about the rooms, and great clusters of carmations added life to the floral effect. Mrs. Crab- tree, in a handsome white gown. was as- sisted in the reception of her guests by Mrs. Robert Armstrong Deane, Mrs. Charles Fickert, Mrs. William Ford Nich- ois, Mrs. Malcolm Henry, Mrs. Edward Mau, Miss Janet Coleman, Miss Mary Marriner and Miss Merritt Reid. e The Sequoia Club allowed Thursday evening to go by unfilled, but its energies will not admit of long dormancy, and a very happy gathering will convene in the clubrooms to-morrow afternoon. This i not for the entertainment of celebrity nor favored personage, but merely for mutual pleasure of all members, ‘.d | judging from to-day's chat several will a merge their steps upon Sequoia ground for an hour or two of tea and conversa- tion. L Mrs. Dunne and Miss Al Boston are the guests of ce Dunne of Mrs. Francis | Sullivan, in town to remain some weeks. Next Sunday Miss Dunne will be the guest of homor at a tea in<the Sullivar home, when she will be greeted by friends of Miss Alyce Sullivan. A very interesting event is named fow February 6, to take place at the Califor- nia Club, when some of the very superior amateur talent in which this city abounds will present three comedies, “A Cage for Conviction,” *“In Honor | Bound”® and “Aunt Jane.” The Episcopal mission at Ocean View will be the beneficiary of this affair, which is being managed by a large number of prominent society wom- en and will call out a full attendance in the imterest of the cause and the players. The patronesses who are lending their aid are: Mrs. William Ford Nichols, Mrs. Carter Pomroy, Mrs, W. B, Bowen, Mrs. Norman McLaren, Mrs. JThomas P. Bish- op, Mrs. George Gibbs, Miss Sophia Cole- man, Mrs. Horace Hill, Mrs. James Potter Langhorne, Mrs. Philip Lansdale, Misa Mrs. Frederick Tallent, Mrs. Ynez Shorb White, Mrs. Laurence Poole, Mre. H. E. Huntington, Miss Alice Griftith, Mrs. James L. Cunningham, Mrs. Dixweil Hewitt, M Horatio P. Liver- more, Mrs. George Newhall, Mrs. Walter McGavin, Mrs. Joseph Sadoc Tobin, Mrs. Willlam Peyton, Mrs. Alfred Hunter Mrs. Sidney V. Smith, Mrs. | Daniel Higbee Kane, Mrs. W. F. McNutt, Mrs. R. D. Gervin, Mrs. Harry Mrs, George Moore, Mrs. Willlam Taylor, Mrs. Evans S. Pillsbury, Mrs. George Pinkert, Mrs. William B. Collfer, Mrs. James Eilis Tucker, Mrs. Edward Brey- fogle, Mrs. A. Chesebrough, Mrs. Henry L. Dedge. Mme, Inez Fabbri-Mueller was give ‘* mausical benefit last evening in Lyric Hall, commemorative of her 75th birthday, and also in celebration of the 150th anniver- sary of the great Moszart's birth. A pro- classics, chief among which were the Mozart composi- tions, entertained a large audience, Mme. Mueller being most affectionately regard- ed in this city by those who know and appreciate her ploneer path in things mu- sical. The numbers were as follows: Overture, “Magic Flute” (Mozart); aria, “Don Glovanni” (Mozart), F. Huber; | arfa, flute obligato (magic flute), Miss Mar- guerite McMahan and M. M. Caruth- ers; arfa, “Who Treads the Path of Duty™ (“Marriage of Figaro™), Walter Campbell; arfa, “Titus,” Mrs. J. E. Bir- mingham; minuet from “Don Gilovanni™; “Roses,” a play in one act: recitative and aria, “Linda de Chamounix™ (Doni- zetti), Miss Mabel Kohrman; mad scene from “Lucia,” Signor Albany. . The Girls' High School Sororitg Deita Iota Chi, known as the “Di gave a handsome ball at the Palace Ho- tel last evening. There were about 350 present. The patronesses of the occasion were: Mrs. Thomas C. Arnoid, Mrs. James Agler, Mrs. Edward Gowan. Mrs. Otto H. Hund, Mrs. John Leibert and Mrs. George H. Pippy. ey Mr. ané Mrs. F. W. Dohrmann, with M:s. B. W. Paulsen, are on the Riviera, where they will remain until the first of February, returning then to Germany for an indefinite peried. 4 Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candies In artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. » Special information supplied daily ta business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Call~ fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, * —_— MIRROR OF FASHION rain hag fallen, better weather may be ex- pected. A rise with moist air and a low temperature indicates wind and rain from the n jward. A rise with southerly winds es fine weather. \ A st barometer with dry air and g § Hiis i [ ok~