The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS.......0.0.. sssssessassssasssensssss, Froprictos ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO PUBLICATION OFFICE. <eceecie-.- THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCIECO ..... .....FE?RUARY 3; 1906 JRDAY......... 2 e 80 SOON FORGOTTEN! E who had the good fortune to see Jefferson in Rip Van le will always remember the pathos and desolation in his ation: “Are we so soon forgotten when we are dead!” strong . and thoroughly equipped man sent to the es Senate by the Democracy of California since Gwin Broderick was Stephen M. White of Los Angeles. He was t only a sound lawyer, but a man of affairs and of statesmanlike le took leadership of his party when it was torn by the 15 and feuds generated in the Stockton comvention, and a despairing minority. It lacked consecutive purpose and co- | and was incoherent and wayward. Its management had ) ands of self-seekers and pretenders. Nowhere in it the light of a high purpose. It was a company of elites, every man’s hand being against every other. to represent any great principle, and was merely a the “ins” because they were in and it was out. .Its ght the railroad in the open, for effect, and went into by the back door for subventions in the form of campaign utions, convertible to personal use. Naturally the remedies 1 for the corrigible errors of the railroad were vain and s hold on public opinicn had slipped down until it gripped personal spites and prejudices of the envious and unreason- ces by tt he head of such a demoralized and discredited party-ap- hen M. White, with the genius of leadership and an wer and charm of statément. His presence acted like k and ruck of an unwholesome swamp. The h aims of the party evaporated. Self-seekers The highest of human motives were put fore- trained minds gathered around him. He engaged 1 high debate upon elevated public questions, and e of his party lighted by intelligence and set toward lership was ideal, It inspired theantellect of his follow- 1 1 their quality of citizenship, But all of this was t the opposition of those whom he supplanted. ‘The tween him and them was too great. They resorted to f detraction and every extreme of vilification to break a party: that they had regarded as a personal asset, to sold, borrowed and loaned, for gain. -When it became he was the choice of the intellectual men in his party the opposition from within became formidable, and his » that high preferment was beset by every difficulty that s could ‘invent. But his splendid personality, the of his speech, the tolerant quality of his expo- f party principles, won their way, and at the age of forty or Hoar of Massachusetts, chairman of the judi- In economics he was the peer of Sherman, who had been f the Treasury and became Secretary of State.. Not by except sheer ability did he make his way fo.a Senatorial as definite as his popular leadership at home.” His s es on international law, in the great controversy over the de- tion of powers between the Senate and the President, are text- t will survive in our parliamentary history. He com- ied the respect and confidence of lawyers like Choate, Carlisle 1 He ranked at the head of the Senate. In the adjustment | issues his energy and genius equaled his knowledge and f the theoretical and the ethical. The debt of the ailroads to the Government had been long in-contention. n had badly bungled it.. Others had nursed it as a popular , that answered the purpose of politicians who wanted of- settled it. He secured for the Government every mill of and interest and restored to the railroads -their. inde- and pendence He was loved by men of all parties in California and was idolized his ho s e, Los Ang He was identified with the rise of that adobe village to a metropolis. His colossal figure bore n its shoulders and lifted it into national fame. His great as accomplished in a few years, and he died before his prime, passed a shadow fell upon his State. A light was dimmed. 1 loneliness fell upon the places that had known him: e was a vast vacancy left in our.public life. A weorthy was ned throughout California. Are we so soon forgotten when we are dead! Through all his leadership and his shining career he was pursued, smitten, iced, vilified and belittled by Mr. Hearst and his newspapers. ans respected Stephen M. White and were proud of him Californian. Hearst hated and hunted him, fought his indorse- or Senator at San Jose, fought him into.the caucus of the in the Legislature, and followed him with abuse into the it convention that elected him. Hearst camped on his path in he Senate, and by the use of every resource of wealth and publicity epresented and vilified him. Are we so soon forgotten when we are dead! Now, in White’s of Los Angeles, the party men who were the beneficiaries of adership and the recipients of his confidence, and the citi- s of the city upon which he bestowed honor, have made their the scene of an occasion in Hearst’s honor, of unmeasured flat- udation of the traducer of Stephen M. White! This might n done without exciting comment, .in ‘Stockton, or Fresno, nto-or San Francisco; but that it-was done in Los Angeles pass - without calling attention to the fickleness and forget- that came jocund to the task of indorsing Hearst’s vilifica- Stephen M. White. " In-all that company, where men racked reir brains and robbed the language of all its-terts of gdulation to fatten the vainglory of Hearst; né lip whispered an ascription to the dead Senator. - The Vizier Jaffar, dead by a doom unjust, had one d in:Bagdad, the brave Mondeer. In Los Angeles, White, dead rely,; with all his deserved honors upon him, had no Mondeer. THE ADVERTISERS. e’s | m.-the eighteenth century discloses the haphazard nature dvertising of that time. . This.chance and accident method well into-the nineteenth century, and until advertising as a means of giving attractive publicity to commercial enterprise be- 1e a specialty. -It is now fairly a branch of literature. The com- position of advertising is an art, a great specialty, and a necessity in 1SIness. ) Longfellow did not intend ‘to write an advertisement when he acknowledged a gift of Catawba wine from Nicholas Longworth of incinnati in his poem.: " i ’ “Catawba wine has a taste more divine, More dulcet, delicious and dreamy,” ut his poem. was the first great advertisement of American wines, he set the pace in the composition of advertisements. An ad- rtisement now must be of such form as to attract, as a piece of interesting reading. Its composition is in the hands of specialists, The matter when written must be put in attractive typography, that will charm the eye. In this city “The Advertising Club” is composed of the com- posers and artists, to whom newspapers and their readers are in- debted for the style of advertising, that makes the pages it occupies as interesting as any other part of the paper. This club has just held its monthly banquet, noticed unobtrusively in the news col- I NSPECTION of the newspapers-published in the.éitics of this countr 3 f th umns. But, though* attends to business quietly, it is one of our commercial forces, Wi a usefulness greater than many that make more stir. l Same Result —_———— 3 WELL-KNOWN Bishop .of Ten- nessee was taking his customary stroll through the park the other morning. He happensd to sit down on ene of the benches there. Now the [ Bishop is a very great man, not only in the Methodist church, but in embon- point as well. His welght proved too much for the bench, which collapsed, spilling him on the ground. About this time a little girl, rolling a hoop along, saw the reverend gentleman prostrate and offered her assistance. “But, my iittle girl,” said the Bishop, “do you think you could help such a great heavy man to his feet?” “0h, yes,” replied the little girl. “I've helped grandpa lots of times when he's been even drunker than you are'— Lippincott’s. Answers to Queries. HOME WEDDING—M. R. L., City. This department does not know of any rule pr law that will prevent a woman wha is “married in pearl gray to wear a white bat at a home wedding." Asas rule a bride at 8 home wedding does not wear-a hat during the ceremony. WIRELESS—W. E, D., City. There is mo doubt about the practicability of wireless telegraphy. The papers of the day have in the past two years been replete with accounts of the success of such means of communication. It is no longer an experiment. 1t is in daily use on the military line in Alaskd, and recently Captain Wildman, U. 8. A, chief signal officer on this coast, .who superintended its construction, said it had never since ‘its installation’ made a mistake in transmission. .80 many sta- tions have been installed that théy mno longer create surprise.- 5 FREE TRADE—H. J., Stockton,. Cal. Free (rade is the doctrine of political économy maintained by those who.hold that trade should be unrestricted by Gov- ernmental regulations or interference. The term is generally used with. refer- ence to Governmental exactions on im- portations. - Theoretically ~ free . traders hold that our commerce with other na- tians should be as unrestricted as com- merce between thé various States of the Union, but practically they admit that duties on impofts are a convenient way of raising a revenue, so that as the'term is generally used in the United States, a fre¢ trader 1s one who. belleves in so reg- ulating the- tariff.as to raiSe the heces- sary revenue with the least restrictions on forelgn commerce, and with absolutely no attempt to protect home industries. 1f a vessel with a cargo from a forelgn port _could come to the United States and discharge a cargo without paying duty, that would be free trade in_the fultest sense. 3 e . .CHEATING—Subscriber, City. Cheat- ing in law is an offense which in - Amer- jcan law is defined as “deceitful prac- tices in defrauding or endeavoring to defraud another of his known right by some willful device contrary to the plain " rules of common honesty.” Bouvier says: “In order to constitute a cheat or indictable fraud there must be a prejudice received or such injury must affect the public welfare or have a tendency to do s0." In com- mon law the fraud must be of a kind which could not be guarded against by ordinary prudence.- The instrument of the cheat must not be mere words, but a sign or token of some kinds, as a false brand on ‘articles sold, false weights and measures, or loaded dice or marked cards in games of chance. In statute law cheating is known as false pretenses, L. e, false representa- tions with intent to defraud, by words or deeds concerning facts or events, passed or present. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. AND IT CAME 70 PASS— ST.. PETER—What's your name and occupation ? SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1906. . SPIRIT OF ROGERS—I refuse to answer on advice of counsel. — L'A Little Lesson in Adversi & ty. I W insisted that he be allowed cal edutation. at once to the capital with him. let him go immediately. upon the bed. ‘The boy became a street musician, joining a band One night they went to serenade the leader of the opera. At a pause in the music the window ‘was opened and a head appeared. ““Who is playing that music?’ a volce demanded. of street players. *Joseph Haydn."” . *“Who wrote i7" “1 &, sir.” It was at his home that Haydn met the chapelmaster - Church of Vienna, who was so impressed by the bird-like quality of the boy’s voice and by his sym- | pathetic understanding of music that he took him When the boy was about 16 years old his voice changed. Because it became harsh and deep the chapelmaster ho longer could find usé for him, and One cold winter night the boy left Bt.Stephen’s Church and wandered through the streets of Vienna without a friend and without a home. He had no food and no money with which to procure it. A barber who knew him slightly digcov- ered his piight and.took him to his own home. room in the attic which was given to him was small and poorly furnished. The wind and the: rain| came through the cracks and the snow sifted down! The leader of the opere opened his house to the —_— players, and at once explained to Haydn that he FOOETH (HATIN. | wented him to compose the music for an opera which he had written. The dawn of prosperity had begun for the musician. e HEN Joseph Haydn was but § years old the beauty of his voice and his wonderful sense of rhythm attracted the attentiog of a cousin of his father who happened to be visiting in the little Austrian village. o take the boy with him, as he was the chapelmaster in a neighboring town, and would be able to give the boy a musi- He of St. Stephen’s The, — i e A self “Impecunious” writes toask “Is ‘poverty a curse or a blessing® Andrew Carnegie, in -his address to the Mechanics' and Trades- men’s Society of New York, declared with emphasis that poverty is.a bless- ing. . : But it is a mitigated blessing, and sometimes one thoroughly disguised. else, is a relative one, and the blessings positive. - R 5 Sheer bitter poverty, the inability to get, keep or ‘earn money, the belrg re- duced to a state where the best pos- sible will not provide food or shelter or clothing adequate fér mere tomfort, is no blessing In any sepse of the word, but a dreadful curse. < That sadly convinéing book on pov- erty by Robert Hunter shows that there are no fewer than ten millions of men, women and children in Amer- fca in the best times who are either supported by public charities as defectives and delinquents or are never able to give themselves food enough, clothing enough or housing enough. And the number of women and children at work is steadily increasing, showing that it is hardér to make a living—the cdrollary of that statement being that livings are not as good, when they are made. 1 This sort of poverty is a curse to those who suffer under it. It is a tre- mendous curse and threat combined to the decent poor, the thrifty wage earn- ers.who are making just enough for health and comfort. For the person stricken by dire poverty, the shiftless and uncertain worker, the man of bad hablts not yet wholly debased, all combine to keep wages and earnings down for the whole working class. Such poverty is a fearful menace to the entire community, and a huge expense to it. Congressman’s Little Joke. * of Philadelphia, better known as “Bertie,” and more or less of a national Sigure by virtue of his advo- cacy of the whipping post for District of Columbia wife-beaters, was telling this one on himself in Washington the other day, says the Chicago Journal: “In my Philadelphia office I have two telephones,” he said, “there being two telephone comparnies in the city, I hired a new office boy recently and it's his duty to answer the ) calls. Th other day one of the b CONGREM ROBERT ADAMS ‘wanted at the telephone by my wife, - “‘Which one? I quickly inquired, ! thinking of the two telephones, of “ ‘Please, sir, boy, ‘T can’t tell you. I don’t know how many boy appeared to inform me that I was it cenfers are alss relative rather than Poverty as a Blessing. BY WALLACE RICE. CORRESPONDENT calling him-| It we knew enough, indeed, tr:: money such folk cost the whole mass of the _people year by year could be saved in part by the application of pre- ventives. They continually tend to de- base the American standard and ideal. For them and for mankind poverty is not a blessing. but a curse, It is not that kind .of poverty that | Mr. -Carnegie and other - enormously The term of poverty, llke everything|rich men mean when they refer to the beautles and advantages .of paverty. Thelr praises are for those who are poor to them in comparison, but really | rich to those who are very poor. Those who know this latter very poor class well are Inclined to doubt i those in-an economical state above it can be called truly poor at all. - They- are rathér in.that favored condition | which ‘knows neither peverty . nor| riches,” both conditions ‘loaded with temptations. - Getting at the Facts. |: The census-taker rapped at the door of the little farmhouse and-opened his long book. A plump girl of about 18 came to the door and bliniked at him stupidly. g T et T “How many people live here?" he be- gan, )3 Al ¥ “Nobody lives here. - We are only staylng through the hot season.” *“Well, how many people are here?"’ “I'm here. Father's in the woodshed, and Bill fs—" " ““See here, my girl, I want to know how mahy inmates are in this house, How many -people slept here night?” J e “Nobody slept here, sir. I had the toothache dreadful and my lttle broth- er had the stomach ache and the new hand that's helping us got sunburned 80 on his back that he hds blisters the size of eggs, gnd we all took on 0 that nobody slept a wink all night long."—Youths’ Companion. The following story is told of the former Governors of Gem:om < He was out walking one morning, a few ‘days prior to his election, when he | met an old negro. thlofloflngm.‘ versation took place: “Morning, Marse John." *“Good morning, uncle.” _ *You all is looking mighty fine.” “Yes, I feel prétty good.” “Do you know what you look like, Marse John?" %] “No. What do I look Itke?” “You looks as if you had a dollah in | youh pocket and was runnin’ foah Gov- ernor.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger. —_———— and choicest candies i L es in artistic fire- store, 767 Market. ~ The Woman's Auxillary of the Cali- fnmhflmwfl!holfl‘luflt't- to-day In their clubrooms, recelving a large number of visitors who are anxlous- ly awalting the event, historically com- memorative. Mrs. Henry Wetherbee and Mrs. John J. Brice will preside, alded by a committes of whom are Mrs Eleanor Martin, Mrs. Fernando Pfingst, Mrs. Christian Rels, Mrs. Samuel W. Holladay, Mrs, Edward Lacy Brayton, Mrs. George W. ucr.{m. Mrs. Franclg Sullivan, Mrs. Louls’ Al- drich, Mrs. Luther Wagoner, Mrs, Peer Tiffany, Mrs. James Martel, Mrs. Mans- fleld Lovell, Mrs. Milan Soule, Mrs. John Gallwey, Mrs. Joseph M. Masten, Mrs. Margaret Deane, Mrs. John M. Burnett, Mrs. Charles H. Harrison, Miss Mar- garet O'Callaghan, Mrs. C. J. Deering, Mrs, Henry Clay Miller and Mrs. Jerome Madden, ' 3 : « s s Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann will enter- tain this evening at an elaborate dinner, having issued invitations for over a score | of guests. Mrs. Mann is an adept at planning delightful surprises, and to- pight’s affalr will prove mo exception. Additionally there will be a fine muslc- al programme, several artists to take part, including Mr. Mann, who Is a- cul- tured musician, and will contribute great- 1y to the pleasure by playing his fine Amatl. . i 4 Mrs. Emory Winship entertained yester- day’ at bridge, recelving fifty guests at her home on Californfa and Gough streets. Next Friday Mrs. Winship will entertain again, receiving older members of the soclety, yesterday's game being for the indulgence of debutantes . and young .matrons. i R Falr Lt X A dozen bridge. pliyers enjoyed a de- lightful afternoon at the game yesterday, hostessed by Mrs. Pelham Ames. + s . Mrs. Willlam Fawdcett Perkins enter- tajned -a score of bridge giests at her Laguna street home yesterday. in honer of Mrs, Jane Ewell . s s Georgs Palmer entertained ten at an attractive luncheon on Mrs. guests B T A S ok N S Sl @ ® The Smart Set # BY SALLY SHARP.- ' Thursday, the decorative scheme being carried out with quantities of red roses. Those attending were: Mrs. W. H. Mills, Mrs, John F. Merrill, Mrs. Frank Vail, Mrs. James Suydam, Mrs. Luther Wago- ner, Mrs. Frank Norwood, Mrs. Clarence Martin Manm, Mrs. George M. Gibbs and Mrs. O. D: Baldwin. 5 .. - lé iy Mrs. Frapk Kerrigan received a large number of callers at bér new home on Clay street -yesterday, ' greeting many’ friends for the first time since her mar-, rlage. Mrs. Kerfigan has named next Friday for her gecond “at home.” . R One of Thursday's very delightful af- taifs was the luncheon given by Mrs. Thomas Benton Darragh at the .Hotel Colonial. - Twenty guests enjoyed the hos- pitality of Mrs. Darragh, who bade these to attend: Mrs. Charles Krauthoff, Mrs. Henry Lund Jr., Mrs. Frederick McLeod Fenwick, Mrs. Fremont Older, Mrs. Gerrit Livingston Lansing, Mrs. ‘Jane. Ewell, Mrs. Frank P. Deering, Mrs. Gustatus Browne, Mrs, - J. Parker Currier, Mrs. Frederick Spencer Palmer, Mrs. Gayson Dutton, Mrs. Paul Bancroft, Mrs. Josiah Rawland Howell, Mrs. Marguerite Han- ford, Mrs. Fernando Pfingst and Mrs, Harry Willlar. . Miss . Lalla Wenzelburger will entertain several guests at an Informal tea to-mor- row afternooh. ST . Among to-day’s tea ‘hostesses will be ‘Mrs, H. R."Muzzy at her home on Pacifio avenue, and Miss Rene Kelley, who has bidden geveral guests to ler home on De- visadero street. . . Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Meigs Oddis (Alice Treanor) safl to-day from New York for Europe. (] ol Mrs, Willlam G. Henshaw, with Miss Alla and Miss Florence Henshaw, are preparing to leave for an Eastern trip about the middle of this month. . - . Miss Jane Wilshire will leave for Los Angeles to-day, after spending the .past fortnight in town. Occidental Accidentals. BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. HE FALTERED NOT. s Captain O. M. Johnson of the ill-fate -le[un‘:nln Valencia refused to leave the doomed vessel or In ang way to seek his own safety. My God, send relief to my o were i among the last words that any survivor of this great tragedy of the sea heard him utter.] H, cold sea waves, and mad sea That clutched and rent and tore, Till six score found their watery graves Off that bleak northern shore, Your rage Is spent; the deed is done, And corses swing and sway ‘Where all the dancing ripples run To greet the smile of day. Then soothe them, as they rest, To calm delight, And rock them on your breast, As mothers might; And deal full tenderly with him Who shared the common lot, Who looked on Death, and knew him grim, Yet faltered not. l In caverns ceep they lie, asleep. Clasped in their mothers’ arms, E'en babes have solved Death's problem deep, And smile at its alarms. Oh, stalwart manhood, weary age, Together, dreaming, lle; Then, soothe the maddened waters' rage, | And chant a lullaby; A lullaby o sweet That hearts grown chill, Although no more they beat, Shall feel its thrill; And gently, lowly, wail a dirge ‘Within that hidden grot ‘Where, resteth he who trod Death’s verge, | "And faltered not. Ah, few the heroes time doth bring To bless the race of men, And few the'deeds that we may sing, . Of'godlike scope and ken; 2 But he was one of these, dur high, ‘Our noble and our gréat, . Who heeded not though Death drew nigh, Nor stooped to low estate. - 3 . 8o gently lave his grave, ‘Where'er it e, ‘Who scorned himself to save - ‘While some must die; ‘And let the tale be told, z X And be forgotten mot, “- . sty How, where the mad waves rolled, - .He falteréd not. 3 5 “Young Poeticus says he is sure he has drunk from the Fount of Geniug” “Do you suppose that he is right?"* “Well, I don’t know, but I notice that the Font of Genius has not run dry.” “She says that she never opens. her. mouth but she puts her foot in it.” ““Well, having seen Rer mouth, I shouid not doubt the assertion were it not that I have seen her foot, teo.” I wish right here to mention, In a casual " sort of way, R That I've done a heap of fishing in my spotted earthly day; 5 And fishing’s ‘really like my lfe—and much like your’s, I'll bet— For the biggest fish I evér got was the one I didn't get. POET'S MAGAZINE VER: “I am now engaged,” said the Poet, “in writing poetry for the magazines.” “Good!” the Patient Listener ob- served. “Yes. I have been quite successful in placing it,” the Poet continued. “Better!” was the response. gleam— A gleam from darkness sans And this is life. “Great, isn't {t?* inquited the Poet. “Immense!" the Patient Listener re- sponded, but In a tone which indicated that he had a pain. “See how perfectly it conforms to the magazine conditions — no thought; meter to give to the poor. Alliteration occasionally works well, too, I find, if one is careful not to mix an idea with it. Here's my latest little gem of that kind: “Sad, sighing sounds that softly surge Down summer seas that, sobbing, steal Bweet songs that sirens’ souls sub- merge In sunset streams that sonnets seal The soughing sobs of soulful squabs That serely seek a seethful seam Where rloughing sl—" ~ “One moment—just one moment!” the Patient Listener interrupted. “Do you expect to sell that stuff to a magazine?” “Sure!” sald the Poet. “I may have to obliterate the soulful squabs, but otherwise it is all right.” “He used to inveigh bitterly agaipst lying.” . “Doesn’t he do so any more™ “Not with much eclat. You see, he i had to explain to his correspondents why he did not answer their letters sooner, and so he changed his mind.” “He assérts that heaven is his home.” “Well, why should any one doubt it “Probably no one does, but his ac- quaintances are almost unanimous in ‘wishing that he would go home.” N “The physician whom I consulted told me. that there was just one remedy for [ seasickness- for a person who was sub- fect to that malady and 1 disliked to take that." “What was it . “Death at some time prior to the voy- age” ““The good Bishop Is getting rather old, but you don't think he is at all in his | dotage, do you?” “N,t»ycu—only in his sacerdotage, so to speak.” » ¢ : of Fashion. | Mirror narrowing forming 13 ; £ X