The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS....... ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO §OHN McNAUGHT TION OFFICE THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS. great public matter to an issue in this country re- e, endurance and persistence. It is history ry great case a President of the United States has defined a policy, in constitutional line with itry, and has forced it Jackson, Polk, Lincoln and Cleveland all had ies with which they are identified in history. clopment of the country and the resulting power of the subjection of wealth to the law. The vill happen if this be not done. He is under ht is as clear as Lincoln’s. When Lincoln could not exist half free and half slave, he ty of all befoge the law. That was the inner country, one constitution, one law, for t filled our armies with heroes. untry that concerns all of the people. rations has given rise to the feeling that money they represent and for the, business jother law for everybody else. This feeling, s the security of all property by a reaction er of the Government itself. The in- has been permitted until it is dangerous. by law has led it into appalling excesses. in the relations between railroad finance and ies. The insurance treasuries have been ave been despoiled by illicit financiering. control of transportation corporations, and and profitable because of their defiance of the carriers. They have been unfaithful to , that American rates are low. But the hese public rates'are not their minimum the public minimum, while a few enjoy the of rebates. The two classes of rate paycrs jov the same rates for the same service. ans the absorption of all the profits of h by the payers of the private rate. »any is an illustration of what this means. joyment of the private rate. Its competi- the public rate, were put out of business, and the most powerful business monopoly in the Company,” in the height of its power in India, with 1 ts service, was a babe and suckling compared npany would never have been had the law rate and of right in transportation. Unless ovided by law, and the law enforced, the combinations, nursed into strength by the it over the country, and the few will ; denied to the many. with one class immune from the law . President Roosevelt is making a new He is making it under circumstances of ler than that of any President not e s task is har r rough a war. Patriotism comes out of its hiding place lds the war President’s hands. His every His leadership is easy. Patriotism sup- rives it out. The spirit of sacrifice is abroad ountry keeps step to the fife and drum. The issues re as grave as those of war, The life of the nation may upon them. But they do not rouse the enthusiasm nt support, like the issues of war. the task of President Roosevelt is the hardest 1 American President. The combined and em- f the country stands against him. It is organ- e people, are not organized. Sclfishness has - direct. It is fighting now, tooth and claw. ple can only express themselves by the ballot. is the only time that they move together. The 1ove and act together every day in the year. Pres- such circumstances are handicapped by fool friends while they are deprived of the immediate and ion of popular support. lent Roosevelt has an inspired conception of the public wishes, and he should have the support of the people ex- v proper and possible way. He stands for American - Jaw. The millions of Mr. Rockefeller have only nt 1 peo lions r Pres \Ir. Rockefeller and the laborer must be equal before > Government is a failure. This issue is j®ined in the ill. The people are watching. They cannot express intil an election comes. If the admonitions of the Presi- are not heeded by Congress those who thwart him will hear ething when the votes are counted SCANDALOUS PITTSBURG. AS a mistake been made about Pittsburg? The country has H assumed that the people of that city were occupied in making 1 i steel, breathing coal smoke and watching the floods Alleghany and Monongahela rivers swell the Ohio. Inci- they were supposed to be busy on the side accepting libra- schools and museums from Mr. Carnegie and recreating irrel Hill. Now all this is chfnged and it is a cold day when scandal does not rise and rave in the courts and shock The smoky air is made lurid by these affairs, and if and Chicago want a lesson in social wickedness they must hool for Scandal in Pittsburg. is the matter with the city christened for Pitt, who in his e was a moral model among British statesmen? What is there iron and ste¢l and coal and coke that dislodges the founda- tions of morality and is making the reputation of that city more han its atmosphere? The list of transgressors is longer than 1 law which they defy. Ordinary divorce is out of fashion Its incidents, elsewhere veiled by a reserve that is com- estic country. New York there. mendable, are thére spréad wider before the public than a Pharisee’s Charges and counter charges that would make a brute h are ‘bandied back-and forth between husbands and wives. minent citizens are elected co-responderfts and court proceedings hylactery. i I b h 1 the cases are unfit for the use of the mails. Morality seems to ave fled to the Blue Ridge or hidden in the tunnel above Altoona. It is time to begin fumigating Pittsburg society. Divorce colonists from there are settled all the way from Sioux Falls to Reno, and the ation of domestic morality and happiness makes the place smell like the burning ghauts of Benares. Mr. Carnegie should found in the smoky city a school of do- estic morality, in which conjugal decency and devotion and duty 1y be taught by competent professors, imported of course. Secretary Taft is a great traveler, but he has one advantage, be easy for him to close his trunk, so that he packed—Somerville Journal. It must can lor.'k it after he has got it —_— Kentucky announces that it is out of debt, and this ought to increase the demand for “through tickets” on the water wagon.—~New York Herald. S S S Americans are said to yearn for a new sensation. Paying railroad fare gives this to sofite of them.—Philadelphia Ledger. —_———— Wouldn't it be awful if President Roosevelt got lost in the woods some time!—New York Commercial. s 3 into focus in Congress. | Now it | ity of law and of right must apply to the | In war the martial spirit | i THINK 1L TAKE A DRINK VA 1 ALL RIGHT - ALL R\GHT. 506, BY TME NGW. YORK EVENING TELFRRAN (NEW YPOY WM A CX0aa 1 e A business man was in one of our large cities when he heard that Mr. Moneyboy, his partner, was in the same city, sq he rang up his hotel on the telephone. “Is Mr. Moneyboy there?” he inquired. “No, he is not,” came the response. “Well, has he engaged rooms?” “No; we don’t reserve rooms here. iirst come first served ig our rule,” came the sharp and somewhat airy reply. He was rather taken aback at the lofty independence they seemed to revel in. “Can you tell me,” he asked, *“if he will stay with you when he reaches the ; Wrong Place. town?" 5 “Tt's possible he may, but we can’t say.” “Look here,” roared the irate man, “you're the most impudent jack-in-office | that ever spollt his master's business. Go away, and tell some one who knows more about the business of the hotel to come and speak to me.” . There was a chuckle at the other end of the wire. “This isn't a hotel; it's the jail,” said the voice. . The eonfused gentleman rang off.—Chi- cago Journal. DEPECTIYE LIFE BELTS. | To the Editor of The Call: Some time since, if my memory serves me rightly, the life belts on steamers were examined and those made of tule were condemned and ordered replaced with cork. The wrecked Valencla proves hcw beautifully those orders have been obeyed. A few daye ago I took passage to Peta- luma, leaving here at 10 a. m. On the re- | turn the boat left Petaluma at 11 p. m. The night was, indeed, very dark, «nd | having before me the fate of the wrecked f steamer Valencia, I took occasion to place a life belt where I could quickly gt the same in case I should need it. On exam- thation I found it made of tules or reeds. | Sooner or later there will be a disaster on one of these boats. Some one will get drowned for the want of better life belta. C. H. JENKINS. San Francisco, Feb. 5. LB e eay Lul IRON HEELS OF FATE Here is a unique memorial notice from a Georgia exchange: “Once he was nearly swallowed by an earthquake, and shortly afterward was blown nearly a quarter of a mile by a hurricane; but he triumphed over all these afflictions, only to be kicked out of life by a mule had a mortgage..on it and was blind in one eye'—Atlanta Constitution. | ¢ > b 3 THE PENNY-WISE GIRL BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. O YOU know the penny-wise girl? D She ltves next door to you. does she not? Or perhaps she works in the same office? You have watched her serimping and saving with an envy accompanied by a slight wonder why you could not economize as she does. And you have seen that pyrotechnic display with which she at last opens her purse- strings and lavishes those savings upon herself. She goes without her lunches for three days; then she spends the money she saved by this most foolish of all the ways of saving upon a box of choc- olates, which bring on an attack of indigestion. She goes without gloves for weeks, declaring that she really hates to wear Oncle Biff’s Observations OC TWEEZER, up in Cleveland, took Lem Ren- nels to one o' them picter exhibishun doin’s, where they hed a lot o™ old paintin’s by some o' them big artists. Doc showed him some pleters he called Van Dykes an’ Rem- nants an’ then asked Lem what he thought o' th’ Ru- bens. Lem sez he dida’t see ‘any rubens anywhere. They all looked like eity folks. to him, b’gosh!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. SERRER N isn’t 1t2? s Just a Minute With the Busy Funmakers them, that they are a bother to a mod- ern girl, and that she finds comfort in them only when the thermometer reg- isers low; then she pays $5 for a pair of white evening gloves that she will wear twice or thrice during the winter. She decides that her old hat that she has worn for three winters will be good enough to wear this winter: she knows that it looks rather shabby, but she consoles herself with the belief that it will do to wear downtown. Then the $8-a-week clerk of whose life she aspires to be the bright particular star invites her to the horse show, and she orders a $20 confection from a fashion- able milliner. It is a pale pink crea- tion that she may possibly wear once again during the year. She looks doubtfully at her shoes and reflects with a sigh that the cruel fact that shoes have a habit of wearing out is staring her in the face; she assures herself that she cannot afford another pair; the rain comes, bringing her coughs and colds as the reward of her penury; and then there comes some morning an invitation to the next darcing party, and she forthwith spends her savings on spangled dancing slippers. She wears her short spring jacket. If you dare to remonstrate with her she will tell you that she does not feel the cold. and that the amount of cloth- ing worn by the people of this climate reminds her of nothing more than the habillments of the Eskimo: but one day she sees'a magnificent opera coat that she can no longer live without, and she borrows the money with which to make it her own. She counts up a hundred and one of her necessities: then she stands in line for forty minutes to buy a ticket for the latest theatrical attraction. Of course she regrets it ten minutes later when the necessities force themselves upon her attention. But she would do it all over again to-morrow. Poor penny-wise girl! Just because she has really convinced herself that she is the most economical person in town, no one can ever point out to her the folly of her ways. She forgets the extravagances, while she remembers the sacrifices. The theater and the horse show and the dancing slippers are things of the past. The long white gloves are set away In lavender. She recalls the in- digestion, but she is of the opinion that the poor food that she has had to eat gave her that woe, But she still wears the light coat and the old hat,’ and she still refuses to wear gloves. And she thinks that she is a martyr, though a very saving one. AT - Papa—Myrtilla, I think it's about th ‘that gas was, turned down a little. L ; thought , the same thing for the last two hours, but did not have the nerve to do it. e —F Occidental Accidentals | | BY A. J. WATERHOUE | - - WHEN UNCLE EZRY SKATED. { HEN Unele Ezry learned to skate | W upon these wheels that run He watched the skaters fer a while, an’ says: “That mast be fun! I wonder if—I've half a mind—it's easy, I kin see— I'll rent some waggins fer my feet ef you 'll glide with me, Fer, oh, that glidin’ looks so neat!” Ii am a child of sin, An’ so I told him that I jedged a gudin’ prize he'd win; An’ then I hitched the waggins on. My Uncle Ezry's spare, An’ 'tis his legs that make him rise so high up in the air, | Fer when the One that made us all buflt | uncle es a gem | He merely made a palr of legs an’ hitched | him onto them. A solemn hush fell o’er the scene when uncle s ed out, An' some spectators held their breath, expressin’ fear an’ doubt; An' Sister Boggs an' Sister Banks an’ Misses Dobbs an’ Dee, Which same wus standin’ in the aisle, they shuddered, “Oh, dear me!" But uncle started gay, though ca'm, | while I held to his hand, An’ says, “These waggins fer the feet is reely somethin’ grand!" “Do you suppose,” I says to him, “you now alone could shine?” “Well, I should smile!"” he then remarked, “I've got this thing down fine.” “Then go!” I says, an’ dropped his hand some sooner than he meant, An’ it is only just to him to say that uncle went. His arms shot out like flyin' things, his legs jest spread an’ spread. “Whoa! Dummit all! Whea! Stop me, boy!” wus what my uncle said. An’ still Hke lightnin’ he flew on until he reached the row ! Of them falr women that hed come to | look upon the show. | The tenpins that a ball has struck! a barnyard cyclone-plowed! These ain't a patch to what took place when uncle hit that crowd. A-wavin’ mass of arms an’ legs of al- most every kind; | Some things to make you want to laugh, | an' some to strike you blind; An’ through that maze of things revealed | I heard my uncle’s shout: “Say, dern it all! You'll smother me! | Oh, won't you let me out?” 1 ‘We dpyg my uncle from that grave of petticoated pain. A corset-steel was in his ear, and lin- gerie on his brain. And all the women wailed and moaned, | “The brute! This is too crool! “I ain’t a brute,” my uncle moaned, on'y jest a fool.” | Fer six long months my uncle pined in | \ bitter shame an’ grief, | An’ jest to tell his state of mind would reely pass belief. At last he took my hand an’ says, “An- other life begins, ‘Where there ain't no bowlin’ alley, with fair women fer the pins.” A sigh. We felt that he was gone, an’ hoped to rapture sweet; Yet stil! ko gasped his final words, waggins—fer—the feet.” m “No “First he hired a girl to answer the telephone, and now he is thinking of hir- ing a man.” ‘“Why does he need a man?” “To answer the girl.” THE SMIRCHED GARMENT. Once upon a time there was a wo- man whose outer garment was spotted and smirched by sin; and I wish partic- ularly, my heloved, to call your aften- tion to the fact that this was a woman, for, as everybody realizes, that makes all the difference in the world. If she had been a man a spotted garment more or less would have counted little, but belng a woman—ah, let us shud- der! ‘Well, the outer garment of this wo- man, as I have said, was spotted and smirched by sin, and so all the woten whose garments were not spotted by that particular kind of dirt, because the circumstances of their life had been [TThe s | Brookman will serve the groom, | ing musical numbers: BY SALLY SHARP. The largest tea of the new year was given yesterday by Mrs. George Law Smith and Miss Maud Smith at their spacious home on Jackson street. From 4 to § five hundred guests-called to pregent théir congratulations te the charming Miss Smith upon her Dbe- trothal—announced a day or two ago to Charles Cushing® Hoag—and to Miss Susan M. Burkhardt of Santa Monica, likewise a to-be bride. The guests were received by the fol- lowing: Miss Hughes, Mrs. W. B. Carr, Mrs. Hovey, Mrs. H. J. Raisch, Mra& J D. McKee, Mrs. George Winchester, Mrs. John L. Bradbury, Mrs. H W. Deane, Mrs. F. G. Sanborn, Mrs. A. W. Cornwall, Mrs. J. W. Hoyt, Miss Nellie Vance, Miss Elsa Everding, Miss Bessie Gray, Miss Mabel Gray. Miss Lilla Boole, Miss Rachael Hovey, Miss Tillle Feldman, Miss Kathleen Booth. Miss Ida Stealey, Miss Henrietta Stadtmul- | ler, Mrs. Linda Bryan, Miss Lalla Wen-~ zelburger and Miss Grace Sanborn. Mrs. George Law Smith, acknowl- edged to be ‘one of the handsomest women In San Francisco —a city of beautiful women — wore a stunaing white satin robe trimmed with rose point lace. Miss Maud, her equally charming daughter, was likewise in white, as was the guest of honor—Miss Burk- hardt, complementing hér dark beauty by bearing a bunch of brilliant red roses. After the tea the recelving party, with an equal number of men, was en- tertained at dinner—where the brides- to-be and the lucky chaps who won them were toasted in merry fashion. ¥ e To-day’s schedule embraces a variety of events, among which the most imper- tant is the dinner dance to be given by Mrs. C. Frederick Kohl. The affalr will honor the charming young debutante, Miss Genevieve Harvey, and a large oum- ber of guests have been bidden to the Van Ness avenue home of the Kohls. .. The marriage of Miss Cornelia Camp- bell and Harry Akin Yeazell will take place at Sausalito. The wedding is of interest to many San Francisco people. The service will take place at noon In the presence of a large number of guests. Phe bride has chosen for her attend- ants her sister, Mrs. Emmet Rixford, who will serve as matron of honor, and Miss Emma Grimwood and Miss Frances Reed, who will be bridesmalds. Rev. Donald while Covington Pringle and Dr. Shadwell Beasley will be ushers. A reception will follow at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Henry C. Camp- bell, in Sausalito. e TR Mrs. Bertody Wilder Stome will enter- tain to-day at bridge. . . The California Club house will hold a large audience this evening in Qe inter- est of the Episcopal Mission at Ocean View. Three comedies will be cleveriy presented, interspersed with the follow- Erwachen, Al ‘meine Herzgedanken, Frublingsifed (Ar- no Kieffel): In the Carriage (Von Figlita), Chanson d'Automne, L'Alle est sans fin, Paysage triste, La Bonne Chanson (Rey- naldo Halm). All of the foregoing songs will be given by Edgar Mills. PR gy Mrs. Haldimand Putnam Young, who will leave February 15 for her home at the Schuylkill Arsenal, has been the re- cipient of much attention during the past week, and on Sunday was the honored guest of Mrs. Christian Reis. The affair was a dinner to which wers bidden besides Mrs. Young, Mrs. Jessie Bowie-Detrick, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Al- bert Stent. Colonel Simpson, U. 8. A., Christian Reis Jr. and Ferdinand Rets Jr. SE e A delightful affair of Sunday was the luncheon given at San Mateo by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark, who entertained sev- eral guests from town, among them bdeing Miss Maud Bourn, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam H. Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Magee and Mr. and Mrs. James Tucker. PR Miss Lalla Wenzelburger, one of Sunday’s hostesses, entertained a score or more of her friends informally at a tea, whicn chiefly included the men and younger maids of soclety. Assisting Mlss Wenzel- burger were Miss Heler» Robson, Miss more fortunate, drew their garments to one side as they passed this wo- man; and those who had thought of giving their garments just a spot or so, but had concluded not to do so, drew their garments ‘even farther to one side, and said: “How shocking!"” and those who carefully concealed a spot of which they knew drew their garments the farthest away of all and murmured, “Isn’t it awful! So it came to pass that a Taboo was set upon the woman of the smirched robe, and, as all except the wisk real- ize, a Taboo is the most dreadful thing on earth; and no one dared to say a word In the poor woman's behalf ex- cept an oceasional man, and he did not dare to say It If his wife were present. Time th us all to ome destina- died and went unto that gate where I gate. “Her robe is much spotted and stained,” the Accuser reported. “Has she endeavered to wash out the spota?” the Volee inquired. tears of regret,” was the reply. you first will hear charges against her from them whose robes are spotless.” 8o the Accuser again approached gate and cried, “Hear ye! Hear ye! I will first hear charges ut- tered by ohe whose rebe is spotless.” | Allee Roosev: Then did the spirit that stood nearest to the Accuser back away and en- deavor to hide a certaln part of his garment, and the one that stood next to him did likewise, and so it was that all stood silent and shrinking be- fore the gate; and the Accuser reported that it was even so. . “Look again upon the woman’s gar- | lan bldg. and James Flood ment,” said the Volce. The Accuser looked, and, Io, the robe was spotless, for the woman's tears | stched boxes. had washed away its stains. _So the woman passed through the :n.:ummumm;m en 3 - > “Speak to them and tell them that | next Monday. the en route for her home In Washington, Hear ye! | S+ Edith Cutter, Mrs. Linda H. Bryan and a score of guests. place February 15 at the Hotel Colonial. . . . Miss Jane Sandman will be the nonored guest on Thursday at a luncheon given by Mrs. John Chace at her home on street. H A _box party was given a few ago by Miss Edith and Miss Helen brough, who entertained Miss Drown, Miss Dorothy Eells, Wharton Thurston, John Little, Wilberforce Wil- liams and Sidney Salis . . il tion, and €0, at last, the poor woman | Mrs: Joseph Vincent de Laveaga will be at home from 3 to § o'clock Wedn-sday, hvommv-mmwm February 14, at her residence om Scott The Sorosis Club held a tes yesterday street. “On, often and often—with bitter | Mrs, George C. Carr held her first at where she will arrive in time (o at tend the wedding Miss Kathleen Mr. and Mrs. Sewall trip to the Orient, for theart. Haas' Candy Stores, Phe- 1