The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1906, Page 8

ALL Proprietor THE 7 SAN FRANCISCO G UN D MeNAUGHT N OFFICE D MARKET S1 OCIALISM IN ENGLAND. mme of the Labor party in the British Parliament eir Hardy, the leader, has long socialist, and his policy now in- 1struments of production and dis: socialistic. K ced an ady ribut i this effectively it is necessary to disturb the owner- | It is apparent that | of pubiic utilities. by resort to Mr. George’'s single tax bor party in Parliament cannot do any- ance leadership can casily overthrow a min- 1d resort again to the ballot, with the h. It holds in British politics the ied by the American Free Soil party, under the vand John P. Hale. The Free Soilers stood for very, and persisted until they hampered the Whig ir principles were adopted by the new Re- lences that the Labor-Socialists will be courted by and by Joseph Chamberlain’s faction of the 1ent of parliamentary government in Great develop I s an orderly evolution. Macaulay declared with pride tk he Parliament precedents aged a thousand years could be ble to modern conditions. But the evolution has the maintenance of entail and primogeniture, | Mr. Hardy's programme s0 move on the other side, h_\ taxation of the efi- ed estates s of less than one acre i upward at 321,243, But statis cs puts the owr and the owners of one acre mber of land lowners being 1,173,683. 1 in England and Wales is the property of 10,207 owners. axed in the average and that much is not vance, of which the Socialists will make ise tax vielded £27736,000, the land and 32,000. ., however, by way of the income tax. 3 xation of laud many expedients have hearth and window tax, the extra assess- ics in houses and many other ways have been aising of revenues. But most of these have been nd the me tax, hitting the large landholder. ar desire for the more even ment a n¢ inc 1 of conditions, leavin vely upon all e ~clares, “even to the baking of bread, the government.” will stand in the way of Socialism, but t will not be credited with general rights of property, but will be wrongly chartered privilege. Under such essity becomes the leader of a revo- »gramme. ( tion and destroy the power of the f the British constitution. It or. sice nee the posi Cromwell can destroy it, or in this socialistic struggle: It ee governments of the earth. It occurs ichest by virtue of its more than and by its political conservatism. are intensely socialistic. The doc- yery that everything belongs to every- hed from cart tails in every city in Great a century. Mr. Chamberlain, as Mayor of this sentiment and made himself solid with advocacy of public ownership of public utilities. alliances. The assault is in full swing. The h of the men responsible for starting it will The first session of this Parlia- ng to check it? 10st interesting in British history since the Long THE NANCHANG AFFAIR. D reports from Shanghai have made the Western na- 1 Every lynching in China for some time to come red to as part of a general plot against foreigners. ts were caused by the British member of the extra- t court violating the treaty in sending a Chinese woman the British jail. The murder of six Catholic and four English missionaries at Nanchang was widely reported, at first, as part of a | The last and doubtless correct report is, that the missionaries had started a law suit, and that the Bishop had issued n.appeal for church subscriptions, couched in the form and lan- f an official of the empire. It is, of course, deplorable that s should cause riots and murder, but there are men living this country who remember the anti-Catholic riots in New Eng- land, and the t of Charlestown convent by an American mob, and the burning to death of a nun by the same mob. us be ient with the Chinese, remembering that we were ourselves. The Protestant missionary 'sc and the Roman Catholic Propaganda have it in permanent peace in China. A missionary, despread plot. rans cieties of the wor their power to trusted to ichu, abused the confidence reposed in him by forging into the aty a clause to which China never agreed, by which the French aries were permitted to carry on their work in the Middle that is to say, beyond the treaty ports. Immediately the istians rode into tge Middle Kingdom on the back of and the Americans, English and Germans followed ored nation” clause in the Chinese treaties of their governments. was tricked by a base forgery. Every Christian mis- the Middle Kingdom is there by virtue of a gross crime. ised as a hypocrite on that account by all intelligent I is hated by the lower class. Now the fact of this mis- ery is known and admitted by missionaries themseives. Mission Boards and the College of the Propaganda imme- withdraw every mission that is founded on that forgery, and 1ce to cancel the forged clause. Then let them ask of their spective governments to cancel out of all their Chinese treaties every reference to Christians and Christian missions, and thereafter Christ went, to preach the gospel of peace on earth and good il toward men, with no government behind them except tife king- of heaven. issic don —_—— Mr. Shonts says they will begin to dig dirt in Panama in about two rs and finish the canal in nine years. He doesn’t say how much it will ost or how much the “pickings” will be. Isn’t it nearly time to apologize to De Lesseps*—Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer. —_—— Sepator Patterson is now eating his former words about the President. ught to make him a more earnest advocate of the pure food bill.—New PR 214~ R, The president of a Chicago bank which has failed loaned the family cook $25.000. This is one way of solving the servant problem.—New York Her i power between the Liberals and | st first attack | two-thirds | Mir. Hardy does not | present foundations | sting rights of prop-| a revolution, peacefiil | is not apparent that any less per- | compel its creation | Bannerman has passed him, in haste to secure make the translation of the French treaty of 1860 into| I'VE BOUGHT EVERY THING | NEED, 50, | GUES DRED: 11 OFFEREDI Fo| '.- D AND FIFTY, |_HEAR! THERE IT IST Logk AT 1Y/ LE ONE COULD BUY, ANY ONE. CAN THE SAN FRANCISCO éALL WEDNESDAY, ' FEBRUARY 28, 1906 L SOUND AS A 057 USEFUL Rl F FIETY! SEVEN HUNDRED L/, & DOLLARS | - | { | z NINE HUNDRED FORABRAND NEW W WATER WAGON, GH! STOP AND THINK! YouD PAY. TWiCE THAT FOR A DANGER 0US MOTOR CAR NS D TWHOL MAKE 1T FIVE FIFTY.’%ISNK ‘;1:' H , M BIDY WHY MAD] WHY GET AN AUTOMOBILE, WHEN YoU €AN RIDE THIS AND SPRINKLE THE SAME TIME? K QF Tl SEVEN - K 14 SOME ONE 15 TRYING 0 Ras ?:E IOF i) LU BID Two THouS GET T IF | HAVE | W0 THOUSAND FIVE HUN | HEAR ONCE' TWICE! Tfié’é? 2 JIMES AND HADAMEL 113 Yaugs! W ME To CoN— ER SAW YOU AC 50 FIDGETY, QH SILAS FOR MERCY'S SAKE, BILL! WHAT AlLs YOU? T NEV- T 2 i L 'COPYRIGHT, 1206, BY THE NEW YDRK EVENING TELEGRAM (NEW YORK HERALD COJ 2 OUR FEARFUL FIRE LOSSES. Individual carelessness, criminality, poor, of bulildings, and loose and imperfect fire laws were re- | sponsible for the loss last year in the | United States and Canada of no less | than $175,157,800 by conflagrations of construction all sorts. hile this total is less than that of 1904, when the Baltimore fire occurred, it is with that exception the highest fire loss yet recorded. In this matter of loss by fire. as with the slaughter occasioned by our railroads and by the lynching horror, the United States has a distinction. all its own | among civilized natioms, and one which | can hardly be contemplated with pride | or satistaction. This being the fact, it might be well for us to suspend eur | boasting for a time over our great | prosperity and other material advan- tages, and set ourselves resolutely at | work to the correction of these national | evils. The enormous waste caused by | fire in this country every vear is a re- | sult, in large part, of our hasty, reck- ‘lfiss and absurd way of getting things | done without regard to durability and intrinsic merit, and, in another part, of our lax and imperfect systems of fire supervision. We might profitably study German methods on the latter polnt— methods which have reduced the annual fire losses in Germany to about thirty | per cent of what they are here.—Les- | ie's Weekly. —_—— 1 T00 BUSY 10 GROW. 1 | A small office boy, who had worked in | the same position for two years on a sal- jary of 3% a week, finally plucked up | enough courage to ask for an increase | in wages. | “How much more would you like to | have?” inauired his employer. | “Well," answered the lad, “I don't think | 82 more a week would be too much." | “Well, you seem to me a rather small | boy to be earning $5 a week,” remarked his employer. “I suppose I do. I know I'm small for my age,” the boy exvlained, ‘but to tell you the truth, since I've been hers I haven’t had time to grow.” He got the raise.—St. Nicholas. WARKIKG A REFORMER. “If 1 had my way,” said the reformer, “every grafter would be in the peniten- tlary. “Yes,” answered the chronic objector; | “and you woild have to enter into o many hasty contracts for more peniten- | tiaries that you would open the way for | more graft.’’—Washington Star. HAY AS A JOURNALIST. Few newspaper writers have brought to their task the equipment which Hay pos- sessed when he came to the Tribune in the winter of 1870. After passing through the great period of the Civil War as the private secretary of President Lincoln, he had served successively as Secretary of Legation at Paris, Charge d'Affaires at Vienna, and Secretary of Legation at Madrid. He spoke several of the lan- guages of Europe as fluently as he spoke his own, and he had that minute knowl- edge of thefr art and literature that only a born lover of art and literature can at- tain. One has only to read his “Castilian Days” to realize the full meaning of what I wish to convey when I say this. His conversation was literally a *joy for- ever,” then as always. 1 have heard many good talkers in my day, thank God! but never a better one than John Hay. Scarcely less enjoyable than his talk was his writing. He wrote mainly upon foreign affairs, political; social and liter- ary; and whatever he wrote, intellectual men everywhere, who read it, talked about. Into whatever he did, then and throughout his life, he put his full pow- He was pre-eminently a good work- ers. man; he wonld do nothing except his best. But while he always did his best, he never made the mistake of taking journalistic work too serfously. He had the saving grace of humor, without which no journalist can hope to attain the larg- est measure of power and usefulness.— The Century. PATTI'S FIRST OPERA APPEARANCE. The season of 1859 was remarkable for the first appearance in opera of Adelina Patti. This new and youthful prima donna, the youngest daughter of Catalina Barili, under the direction of her kinsman and master, Maurice Strakosch, came forward at the New York Academy of Music. on November 24, in the title role of “Lucia di Lam- mermoor.” She was then but sixteen years old, but had already learned to manage her voice, a flutelike, flexible soprano, with extraordinary skill and taste, and capable critics at once recog- nized in the debutante “one of those rare singers who appear at long inter- vals on the musical horizon,.to revive not only the hopes of managers but the enthusiasm of the puwblic.” This pre- diction had quick fulfillment. After a short initial engagement in Philadel- phia, Mlle. Patti,” piloted by Strakosch, embarked on a concert tour which end- ed at New Orieans, whence she sailed for London, where she may be sald to have fairly begun a career which, like = : OUT OF HER SPHERE The Trained Nurse—Yes, sir, * my name is Rebecca. Haven't i you ever heard that name be- fore? The Patient—Yes, but T have always ass ted Rebecca with __the well, péver with the Il DEPENDED ON PA. Billyuns—No, sir, T'll never consent to your i rioge to my daughter. You have-no pros- pects, have you T3 nes . Orville Seedie—Well, sir, 1t that's the Felvhs teel t it - i TWELYE MINUTES TO WRITE A SOXG. Every one who saw Raymond Hitch- cock'"In’ “Basy Dawson” has hummed or whistled that catchy song, “And the World Goes on.” The way in which it was written is truly remarkable. Its author Is Jean Lenox, a young lady of Charleston, S. C. She was occupled one day with the tedious duty of combing her hair, when, suddenly, the telephone bell rang. “Well,” sald Miss Lenox. “Who is this? Oh, Harry Sutten! Yes. Good morning, Mr. Sutton.” “Henry W. Savage wants a song for Mr. Hitchcock. Wants it bad. Doesn't care about the theme. Anything that will go. Can you write some verses for get to music?” ow." ‘When shall 1 send for them?" “Start your boy. By the time he gets here they will be written.” “Thank you." “Good-by.’ “Good-hy.” Miss Lenox resumed the combing of her hair, and out of the vast vaccum came the following: “It 1s sad fo contemplate And it's sadder to relate,” (striving to unravel some knotty prob- lem in her hair,) “How this good old world forgets you when you're broke.” Then, completing the arrangement of her hair, she muttered to herself the chorus: “And the world goes on just the same, And the problem is to find out who is to blame. For there ain’'t no sense in whining ‘When you're forced to give up dining— And the world goes on.” Then came the last stanza, scribbled on an envelope from her morning’s mail, and the telephone bell rang again. Well?” “There’s a boy here from a music publishing house.” > “8énd him ul Just twelve minutes after the first telephone message the words were on their way to the composer, Mr. Sut- ton, who completed his part of the con- ;tct with like dispateh.—Success. —% her art, must long remain uniqu' in lyric annals. Thereafter for upward of forty years she held first place, and during the greater part of that time she was not only a sweeter but a bet- ter singer than any other woman In the world. Her name lends a golden end- ing to any record of the early days of opera in America.—Lippincott’ A DOMESTIC TREASURE. / §ir Squire Bancraft, in proposing the health of the Bishop of London, told a | him.” / story-in his inimitable way, says the London Mail. A charming young dam- .| sel came to London-to visit an aunt, who probably came originally from ‘Scotland, for when the young lady was leaving the cab for an evening party him more than 1 shilling; it's his legal fare.” young lady sprang out, handed cabby 1 shilling and bounded up the steps of | serlous mistake.” the house. %3 e “'Ere, I say, miss,” called cabby; “kin I ask you a question?” % “Yes, you may. “Well, are you married?” N “No,” she indignanty, “I'm not.” “Well, well, somebody’s a-goin’ to git treasure, for I never seen a gal as coyld make a bob £ Bob b fueher: of - & ' she said: “Now, mind, don't you pay | lence in the churches'™ Arrived at her destination the |a | saving tomorrow. born worldly-wise, and when a nickel gets Occidental Accidentals ;_v ‘“‘ BY AyJ. WATERHOUSE : > -+ CONCERNING SAVING MONEY. F you wish to save money, my boy or | l girl, the best way to do so doubtléss | is to—save it. . This sounds easy, does it not; but try it on, and, unless you were born to save, you will find out a thing or two. I know a very bright man who, all his life long, knew how to save, and he always was going to do it, too—but he didn’t. You see, there were so many things that he wanted to buy; so he bought them today and promised himself that he would begin Unfortunately, how- | ever, his tomorrow was like many others; it never came. When it got here it was today, and there were several things that could be bought. So all his friends say of this man, “He is a good fellow, and bright, bui he never will be worth_a whoop,” and probably they are right. Of course, as I have suggested, there are some fel'ows who are born to save, in‘o their little tin bank it bids a long tarewsH to the world. Generally speaks | ing, these fellows are not as pleasant, not as companionable, not as big-hearted and big-souled, and far more pettily selfish, than you are, but they are ‘prominent eitizens'—though still small and gelfish— while you are wondering how you will pay nest week's board and lodging; and this fact must be rather consoling to them. Again, my boy or girl, the way to save s to—save; and it is a mightily good thing to do., Pinch the nickels, provided | you are certain that you do not pinch vaur immortal soul at the ‘same time. | There really is such a thing as paylng too much for a nickel. e WITH SOME REBATES. [“Show me a man who has not been success— ful in business, and I wii show you a man | who has not lived the way he should.”—John D. Rockefeller Jr.] That's right, dear John: the thing to do, If any man would sure succeed, Is but to live the way we should, Then gather what no doubt's deereed. The man who lives just as he should Wil e'er defy the gloomy fates; That Is, for this is understood— With some rebates. An hoaest life—why, that's the thing; A manly life—that's understood; A life to dull sad error's sting; In short, & life lived as we should. That sort of life i3 sure to win, It balks the fallure that awaits; We know it by Its loads of “tin"— And its rebates. I'm With you, John; you bet I am! The man who ‘alls is always wrong; You preach the doctrine in your church, And I prociaim it to the throng. He should have had a richer pa To make him sure that heaven's gates Would cpen to him wide and far— With some rebates. REVISED MAXIMS. There is nothing new under the sun— | but there are some imitations that do | almost as well. ] He who laughs last laughs best—par- | ticularly if he delfvered the witticism | himseif. Procrastination is the thief of time— but the man who is “doing time” never seems to get any of the benefit of the felony. Consistency is a jewel—but, like other jewels, 1t is worn by many of us only on extraordinary occasions. Truth crushed to earth will rise again— but frequently it carries a very black eye for some time thereafter. AUNT ELVIRA'S MISSION. My aunt Elvira Allen bad a ‘‘mission,” she opined, To save the erring heathen from their lost | and fallen state, To turn them from their idols to a better | state of mind, | And point them to the refuge of the straight | and narrow gate; And she glso had a notion, which, of course, we must approve, That to save these foreign sinners, leave the devil In the Jurch, We must show the bad offenders they had better get a move, And join, without an hour's delay, the Bapresodist church. And my aunt, too, had a notion, which she | made excesding plain, That the beathen all are dwellers in the darkened lands afar: She could scent a shocking heathen clear across the bounding main, But she could not spot the heathen who sat next her in the car. So she sent some hundred Bibles, and of hymn books quite a few, To the sinful allen heathen, who, she hoped, would learn to read. And she also sent some bookdets—'twas the proper thing to do— Explaining convolutions in the creed. Bapresodist Now my aunt had seven children whom she « loved exceedinz. well, But, In heeding allen sinners, she rather let them run: So, while she was knitting tidles for the heathen, it befell That her boys and girls were straying and were having lots of fun; And, although I am not certain that the foretgn heathens know How my aunt for them fs striving, that thetr feet no more may roam, And although I'm somewhat fearing that they much neglect thelr show, Still, shé has one consolation—she has raised a crop at home, Ok, people who are better than myself, as well I know, Deem not that I have jeers and fleers for what you mean to be. Perchance yow're right, and I am wrong, and 2o we'll let it go— And yet some heathen I have met on this side of the sea. In fact, they're somewhat common here; our Jalls their host supolies, And some are out who should be there, my word to you I give; And T've formed a half-suspicion that our foremost duty lies In the heathen who is dwelling next doer to where we live. “Biggs is in financial trouble again.” “Can’t pay his creditors?” “Nop—can't get his debtors to pay “Young Sawneigh has secured a place in a State institution,” - “renitentiary, or home for the feebl minded?” B “Paul wrote, ‘Let your women keep si- ‘“Yes; that was so as to give the parson - “But Paul was wise; he didn’t make one { vice beneath a | of Education | noon in an informal talk upon S S - The Smart Set | BY SALLY SHARP iehetrs | The marriage of Miss Afice Sprague and Percy Willlams, taking place quietly at 4 o'clock yesterday, was extremely attractive in all its appointments, those present at the cerrmony having never witnessed a prettier scene. In a gown of soft white sajin, with bertha and flounces of old peint, the bride looked well, her costume being completed with a long tulle veil and shower boucmet of lilies of the valley. The surrormdings were artistic and in keeping with the season. fruit blossoms of the varied tint& prevailing. The bride was served by Mrs. Frank Griffin as matron of hcnor, Mr. Williams being supported by Frank Stringham. Archbishop Montgomery réad the ser- lovely floral bower, the bride being given away by her brother, Benjamin Sprague. Mr. and Mrs. Willlams are on their wedding journey, but will return to. this city, where they will reside at the Ply- mouth. The wedding of Miss Edna Hannigan and Arthur Grifin Duncan took place very quietly at the home of the bride's parents on Van Ness avenue yesterday afternoon. Only a few days ago the announcement of their engagement created a flutter of surprise, which has been seconded by the quietly arranged wedding. Rev. John Hemphill officiated at 4 o'clock in the presence of the relatives and a very few close friends. Miss Josephine Hannigan was maid of honor. Maitland Cline serve ing the groom. The bride wore her going-away gown of pale gray cloth, with hat to match, the room in which the service was read being made attrac< tive with quartities of Roosevelt carna~ tions. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan will spend three weeks in Los Angeles, Catalina and | Seattle, returning to town before making an Eastern trip, within a few months. el e Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden was host« ess at a very pleasant bridge party yes- terday, the motif of the affair being Miss Maus of Erle, Pa., who will spend some time in San Francisco. Nearly fifty play- ers were entertained, and next Wednesday an equal number will again enjoy the hospitality of Mrs. Breeden. . s Among the bridge entertainers of Mon- day was Mrs. Charles Josselyn. who s giving a series of the game, and this af- fair gave pleasure to nearly forty guests. Mrs. Marshall Wotkyns will entertain today at a tea in her apartments at the Cordova. e Mrs. Franklin Bache Harwood (Marga- ret Wilson) was the guest of honor a few days ago at a lun n given by her cousin, Mr: hn H. Saunders, who en- tertained M ace Llewellyn Jeones, Miss Marian Runtington, Miss Elizabeth Allen, Miss Ruth Miss Sheldon Borden of Los ! Miss Jessie and | Wright. P Clubwomen interested in the study of English literature will welcome the ap- pearance of Frederick Warde i four Shakespearean lectures azd recitals at Steinway Hall the coming week, . Mr. Warde's lectures diffef from thé stilted and stereotyped methods of the average platform speaker. He .delivers his re- marks with a simple and direct, yet dra- matic and impressive force, frequently il- lustrating his points with quotations from the various plays. Katherine Heath An- gelo, an active clubwoman, who is man- aging Mr. Warde in his San Franeisco engagement, has arranged with the Board to present him to high school students at the audicorium of the | Girls' High School next Wednesday after- “Shake- speare and His Play: R The departures eastward for the spring and summer months are already becom- ing very noticeable, with several flitting onward to Europe. Among those leaving this week are Mrs. Reginald Brooke, who has spent several months in town with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Holla~ day. Mrs. Brooke goes Saturday to New York, thence on to her home in London. gt Mrs. Abraham Lincoln Browne has re- turned after an absence of many menths in Europe. P S R R FASHION'S MIRROR. LITTLE GIRL'S SAILOR SUIT. HE metropolitan lilliputian | bazaars are showing prettiest little sailor n:l:: for the small maid built. much on the lines of those for the small boy. The skirts are short, reaching barely to the knee, this being a very marked feature of all the new models in children's wear. Any of the heavier wash materials may be used, #nd even the lightwelgh! ‘Woolen fabrics, like Mfl.!l:‘ and mohair (these in light eol- o;s) :‘u‘ l:ell. % ed skirt is joined to a plaim body with buttons up the back, the vest of a different material and usually of a different color, - perfectly white, attac! this. The little ‘acket e ‘“What was that?" “Refuse to let the women contribute the supvort of the churches.” - —_—— Townsend's California glace fruits in_artistic fire- and choicest candies etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. » Special information supplied —~