The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL 51’“}Ll\fl§ egecesrevsvosancas . Proprietor -Mannors POIIN MceNAUGHT. .. THIRD AND MARKET STREETS. SAN FRANCISCO ... MARCH 14, 1906 IN ME‘VKORIAM—FREE SEEDS. _IA Sterling Morton, former Sec- zant of matters mundane, there is State Department. Among its ion of rare seeds and plants beneficial Mason, when Commissioner of Patents, 1 it soon became a great crop, supplying it was made on nearly every farm in the iculture was created in 1862, this sioner of Agriculture, who was be able new and valuable geeds n. the value of such of these as may ich as may be worthy of propaga- xcnhu'xsh ” So the garden ong. @ ng be ire and then passed to the Agri- farming was admitted to the Cabinet. Office, increased under the Commi: e colossal in the hands of the Sec- e seeds and plants, members of Congress id crops, common lettuce, radish, cabbage, and tons of other familiar and long i seedsmen Ly contract, duly packeted ections for planting, and sent free onal frank. Many a rural campaign on garden seed, furnished of the system mounted into the cost f dollars. a practical farmer and hated e. So he refused to use the public ceds and plants that were not rare w business to its lawful object. hornet’s nest, Pettigrew, the Populist Sen- the Déemocratic Senator from o 1.;rx~:mcn about to_be deprived of 21 constituency. In their attacks on jons to his oppréssion of the plain garden seeds, and they made it seem ilture would lapse and disappear en could not distribute hollyhock, | seed free. As a result Congress took Morton w. 391 e Wilson, also a practical farmer T Morton, he has intelligently prose- search over the world for rare plants and seeds that can i n of our crops. a result we have | Turkestan and the Valley of the Eu- > date of light, pro'nmng a large in- rts, and the macaroni wheat, pistachio s that are of the greatest interest to At last is, at the public expense. revolted. has been gathered to his fathers ew to his rm'fltuuztfind the House of Representatives t the seed approprialion and free seeds of common kinds more in the land, and it is this that is cauSing more rton is, than the franking of tons of mustard 1ow to*be confined to its proper purpose, the 1d valuable plants and seeds.. The dcpartment d mam d'(lnbui'on with flucf\ Jexpérts in it as seed a 1d pa<= L.ppmpna!mg a modest sum for lifornia is the greatést expectant bene- endowed by the appropriation, our members Marshall’s bill becomes law. It is known now ates of commerce. New and valuable olives can icties already successfully grown here. The g 200 pounds of nuts a year, can be domesti- and the nuts now find a ready market 1 parts of this State, cents a pot ving h lly equip to death the wasteful distribution of seeds that in every seed store in the country, Congress should Agricultural Department for its proper func- us new things of great economic value. now usefu the ing THE DEATH OF MISS ANTHONY. ‘ American is dead. Susan B. Anthony, a Qliaker by ght, as the Friends call it, had in her zood fighting Her brothers had the same warrior sap in them. Two went to Kansas in the time of the border troubles and took inching hand in the game of feud and strife preceding and llowing the proclaiming of the Lecompton constitution. Ome of them, who lived tc a great age in Leavenworth, chased the evils of slavery so far that he got beyond Quaker discipline and never got back to the non-resistance principles of his parents. He was a tiger in a. fight and never ran from one. He had been shot so many times that it became a saying in Leavenworth that whoever opencd his grave would file on the ground for a lead mine. . Susan, dying in her 87th year, left a record of fifty years in - life. She was the world’s leader for woman suffrage. Many rong women have stood ‘beside her, have followed her lead. But permvw they prove that she was exceptional, and that suffrage béing neither a privilege nor a pastime but a responsibility, ‘onlyshé and her equals were born.to bear it. Her coadjutors have beem mostly of the emotional type.. Their advocacy has been on émotional lines; But she was coldly logical. She appeared as a citizen, an individual, leaving out sex and asking nothing as a woman, but all as an.intcl- ligent human being. Admitting: her premise, no one ever. mét her zrgument nor gverthrew her conclusion. She neyer alienated nor antagonized. The Quaker blood in her was manifested to the end iz her dignity and graciousness. Stocked richly with common sense, it was well said of her that she never forgot that her father was a man, and o her ways were different from those of Mrs. Stanton and many other ad\ocate\ of woman suffrage. £ It is a mistake to say that Miss Anthony’s greatest work was in the bestowment of limited suffrage on. women in ‘many States and of unlimited suffrage in a few. - Her really great service is but little known. Before her time women suffered under a startling list of disabilities. Their rights of inheritance 4nd devise were hampered. Their control of their own earnings and property was limited. They did not enjoy legal exemptions. that were accorded to men. The 1,\( is too long to gwe, but in its entirety it was.a record of ilie very 1 practice of treating women as incapacitated to take care of them- “J scives, by the work of Miss Anthony. a great American. To the last she was a gracious and lovable old lady. In this country and Europe she was always received with honors and given the first place. That no successor to her headshlp is in sight only ecnfirms the ascription to her of great and exceptional qualities. That is her just claim to having been When the Patent Office was | gfln in the Patent Office, was | listribution by themselves of tons of seeds | and the buzzing | e oases of the Sahara in the growing of thc | All of this elaborate system of statutes was swept away | / | | { TVE WALKED ALL WAY FROM SICK_ UNCLE. WHO LEF ME ALL P! EH! LOOK ouT! [ SEE A GREEN BABOON PEEPING FROM BEHIND YON PIANOLA ND HES GOING T POP GOES THE WEALLE : [ { A m M pown AND OUT! It 30 SHY! { SOME BODY'S SINGING THERE T‘H'E'Y GO ALL N COPYRIGHT. 1905, BY THE'NEW YORK EVENING TELZGRAM (NEW YORK HERALD COY 1OP OF FLPITY HQ (HITE I'M. LAL fAY TIPDY FAL LAT‘ | OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS | ByTA.—]._{Va!erhouse. o WHY NIOBE WEPT. REAT ZEUS, wandering about his G domain one day in order to ascer- tain if it was being properly eul- tivated, chanced to run across Niobe. “What!" he remarked, “you still here?” “Well, what if I am?” snapped Niobe. “I thought that you had turned to stone long ago.” “It's small thanks to you if I haven't!” was the acid response, “and, as far as | tat is concerned, I have turned to stone, | all excépt my tongue.” “What has delayed the petrifaction of | the unruly member?” Zeus inquired. “It hasn't had a chance.” “To be sure—to be sure,” -the majestic god reflectively remarked, “I forgot about your being a woman. But are you still | weeping on account of your children?” “Oh, no; I wept for them the first few hundreds years, but after that I realized that they were quite dead; so it seemed useless.” ' “Then why are you weeping now?"” “I don't know,"” Niobe responded, as she tried to lay her head on Zeus' shoulder, but found that her neck was too stiff: “only, I feel like it.” “You may be mostly stone,” the god philosophized, “but a good deal of the eternal feminine’ lingers in you yet. That is exactly what Mrs. Zeus says when she surprises me by turning on the faucet. I go to the office in the morning in order to run the universe a while, and whén 1 leavé Mrs. Zeus is a beautiful pk:!uf¢ of smiles and contentment, and the memory of her cheerful countenance blesses me throughout the busy day. I retirn at night, find that she has turned on the faucet, and have to swim to her In her poudeir. I am deeply sympathetic by na- ture, and so I soak my hands in tears by is the matter and where it hurts the most. She takes several gulps, emits a large assortment of sobs, and replies: —_ ONCLE BIFF'S OBSERVATIONS [ oc TW‘EB!!B vflt do'n to his pap an’ sez he wishes he wus back in th' country ag’in. Sez he'd like to be able to live once more wiere he could at least kick th' cat twice afore it went over th' line tm b‘“mno- land Plfln attempting to pet her, and inquire what' “‘I don't know why I weep; only, T | feel like 1t." “I give you my divine word,” Zeus con- tinued,” that it jars me. ¥ can’t sabe it. It is too deep for my masculine under- standing.’” “Don’t you dare,” Niobe sobbed, “to compare. me with Mrs. Zeus!” “Why not?" inquired the boss god. “She is & woman, too. If you don't believe it 1 will bring her here some evening when she has turned the fauc—" I don't dispute that she is.a woman,” Niobe brokenly rémarked, “but she—she hasn’t a high pup-pup-purpose in her we- weeping, and I-I have.” ““What is your high purpose?” Zeug in- quired. “To serve as an éxample and pup-pat- tern to my—my sex in all t-times and ages.” “Well, I'm blessed if they need it,” grumbled Zeus and as he Wwent away he was laboriously engaged fn computing how long it would take Niobe's tongue to harden at the rate at which petrifaction theretofore had taken place. GOOD OLD WORLD OF GOD. Oh, for the thrill of the morning Whet the sun ktrikes through the mist, And the dewdrops-shine on blossom and vine Like faces that love has Kissed; When the birds are stuging In sladness, Halt mad with the joy of life, And the soul knows a rune which is set to a tune That banishes care and strife, It is, oh. to be living, living In the gooddold world today! With the sunlight’s cheer to gladden us here, The storm king beaten and cowed to fear, "Tis & good old world, I say. Ob. for the carpet of velvet Now &pread over mountain and wold In this land of ours, with myriad flowers, Where neither is winter nor cold: The dlamonds of dewdrops a-sparkle, The silver of brooklets that run Over meadow and lea to the great mother-sea, Where they merge all their glories in one. It is. oh, to be living, living Over the carpeted sod! A part of the bilss that we would not miss, Deeming no life were sweeter than this, In the good old world of God. “They say that he sits in the lap of luxury.” . “Well, when you think of the sort of fellow he Is, doesn’t it strike you that Luxury ought to be ashamed of herselt?” e . see that John D. Rockefeller Jr. as- serts that Joseph did a noble thing working up a corner in wheat.” “Yes, he feels that, when the restrict- ing clreumstances are taken into con- slderation,, Jogephi did the best he could under those circumstances.” “To what restricting ecircumstances do you refer?’ + “Why, to the well-known fact that there was no coal oil in which to werk up a corner at time:” The young girl was weeping bitterly. “What is the matter, Wfl!&‘r‘ in- ‘quired her anxious mamma. ‘That hot-horrid Chawles lnook-"' wn.! the broken w!wer. “Tell: me at once what he did ‘Edythe,” demanded the mamma. “He—he called me Edith!” sertions, is she not?”, ‘She ‘wasn't that way with me.” | benefit wou “She is very positive in her asser- | Why She Left. Aunt Emeline was the best loved woman in Baymouth, for her charity is alike of hand and heart. Like many other excellent persons, Aunt Emeline is noy a’church member, but she is a regular attendant at the village chutch, which i8 so near her cottage as to seem under the same roof. ‘When, at the close of a recent ser- mon, the minister requested all those resent who had never united with the church to retire at the end of the ser- vice, everybolly was surprised to see Aunt Emeline start down the aisie. “Aunt Emeline,” the minister called, goftly, “that does not.apply to you.” “That isn't why I'm going” Aunt Emeline responded serenely, “I smell my dinner burning up."—Youth's Com- panion. CHINESE TROUBLES. To the Editor of The Call: 1 was much impressed with your able editorial of this date regarding the Chinese question. A few days ago I crossed the bay with several ex-police- men from Shanghai, China. They were not Chinése, but Mohammedans (Sikhs) from India. Such being the case, it is easily understood why riots occur so frequently in that part of China. They can converse in the Chinese language and may use it to gaod advantage. If they came from India théifr sympathies may be with the powers that control their native country. Why should China De policed by foreigners? Haven't they a right te control their own country?. Who is responsible for all these troubles? What right have mission- aries to cfeate trouble between nations, bring on war and sacrifice thousands of lives? Did Christ teach such things? England sends her missionaries with the Bible and follows with the sword and conquest of territory. Study past events and see how true it is. The Chi- nese follow the teachings of Confucius more closely than we do Christ. Con- fuelus lived. 1500 B. C. and those who- study him will soon learn of his great worth to mankind. If we pass laws for- bidding Chinamen from becoming citi- zeéns of the United Statés they are jus- tified in forbidding missionaries to en- ter their country. We make a great fuss over our missionaries. They go to spread messages of peace, but instead create discord and bring on war. What war do? Onlg create hatred which would take generations to ovemm It would cost us hundreds of millions in eommerce. All of this to uuuy a few missfonartes in China and some political demagogues in America. E. R. DEMING. i Alameda, March 11. BITS OF FUN. T've put my favorite sin away, _ For I am penitent, _ 2 replied her . nnufipnumm ‘that's tznt enough. You weren’t a chicken, were !mfl" . “No, I was a goose.” @ @ THE SMART SET ¥ & By Sally Sharp. On Monday night, the 21st, the great Kubelik will be tendered a reception by the Sequula Club in fts *‘comfy’ club=| rooms on Sutter street. The function to be given in honor of this most distinguished Bohemian of his time promises to be a smart and a Hve affair and without a programmic stilt. ot course, things may mppen. but the even- ing is forecasted to be what a reception should be—a chance to chat and to meet people. Jan Kubelik, who is hul 2, has not seén years enough to make him blase, ang.is safd to be the prinee of good fel- luln when abroad. rs. Laura Bride Powers. will be hostess of the night, the following club members assisting in recciving: Mrs. Albert Ger- berding, Mrs. Gertrude Norris, Mrs. C. W. Béhinett, Mrs. John MeNaught, Mrs. Reginald ‘Knight Smith, Mrs. Linda Bryan, Mrs. Adolph E. Graupner, Mrs. Thomas Morffew, Miss Grace Llewel- Iyn = Jones, M\s. W.. C. Morrow, Miss Blanche Partingten, Mrs. Louis H. Long, Mrs. Eugene E. Lee. Besides Jan Kubelik his friend and man- ager, Hugo Gorlitz, will be a guest, like- wise ‘Ludwig Schwab and Miss Agnes Gardner Eyre. . The .new Francesca Club will open its doors today for the first time, the mem- bers to be privileged hereafter daily, ex- cept Sunday, from 9 to 6. Nine beautifully furnished rooms on the fifth floor of the Shreve building will cater to every creature comfort for the mem- bers, who are composed of our wealthiest and most exclusive society women. A buffet luncheon will be served from 12:30 to 2 each day, with tea all through the afternocon. Two maids will be In at- tendance, and a custodian of the club, Miss Allcia Morgan, has been appointed. Mrs. J. Downey Harvey is the founder of this club, which promises to be an intellectial and recreative boon to the membership. To Mrs. Henry T. Scott, Mrs. William Babcock and Mrs. Mount- ford S. Wilson is due the success and at- trdetiveness of the appointments. The ' .. officers comprig . J. Downey Har- vey, president; ¥rs. Henry T. Scott, first vice president; ¥rs. Horace Hill, second vice president; ¥rs. Frank S. Johnson, treasurer; Mrs. Garret McEnerney, fecord- ing secretary; Mrs Horace Pillsbur: responding secraary. Directol 3 Mountford 8. Wison, Mrs. Wal L. Dean, Mrs, Samuel Knight, Mrs. Joseph D. Grant, Mrs. Willam Mayo Newhall, Mrs. Walter ‘S. Mertin, Mrs. William Babcock, Mrs. Johs F. Boyd and Mrs. Joseph Crockett. After a brief interm a circulating i- brary will add to the club’s pleasure. The charter has closed with 250 members. P Several maids and matrons from this de will attend the at home to be g today by Miss Eilsa Schilling in Oakland. Thig will be a farewell affair and a large guest list has been issued by Miss Schill- ing and Miss Beatricé Simpson, both of whom will take leave next week with Mr. and Mrs. August Schiling for a two years’ absence in Europe. . .. Thornhill Mullally of New York is stay- ing at the Palace Hotel, and the fact that he will remain for some time in San Francisco is being reeeived gladly. Satisfaction is especially rit> among the smart set at the acquisition of so impor- tant an eligible. S5 . . Miss Florence Ives is at home again from a trip to Los Angeles and Paso Robles. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schoonmaker (Jean Howard) have been residing temporarily at the Colonial since returning from their wedding trip. In April they will g0 to Sausalito, where Mr. Schoonmaker has fitted an attractive cottage for permanent residence. Miss Alice Hueter sailed last week from New York for Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Griffin Duncan have returned from their wedding trip and will reside temporarily with Mr. and Mrs. Hannigan. e Tennys Death Arouses a Mother to Protest Against Brutal “ To the Editor of The Call: There is an evil among us today that is assuming vast proportions, spread- tng in all Qirections throughout our State, traveling with the rapidity and devastation of a pralrie fire. Its insa- tiate greed hungers for the best phys- ical specimen of young manhood in our homes. Mothers, if you have a son meeting with such physical perfectiont, guard him well, for there is a specie of vul- ture hovering around waiting for an opportunity to claim its prey. And. like the vultures of old, who waited to claim the victim hung in echains, patient, alert, watchful for the last gasping breith to leave the body marked for their cruel talons, to tear and rend and gloat over until no sem- blance of a human body was left. so this class waits, and at the earllest op- portunity approaches with much cau- tien and flattery, telling your boy of his “fine robust health and physical de- velopment.” The boy is much flattered and assumes a new importance. He never doubts the sincerity of the flat- terer. He is questioned regarding his strength and endurance and courage, and here is just where the spider gets in bis deadly work: Where s the boy who will not over- exert, throw prudence to the winds, suffer any torture that will enable him to come up to the standard of his ad- mirers? He is finally approached and asked “why he does not go in training for the prize ring.” Thére is money to be made in it—"good money.” The boy thinks only of the “good money” to be made, easily, quickly and as his ad- visers are well groomed, well fed, flush with money and apparently living a life of ease, the boy decides just as quickly. He does not stop to question why his advisers have not chosen this manly (?) art themselves. But he questions how he is to accomplish this great game that will bring him se much good money. “Oh, we will back you, never fear,” they say. So the chains are riveted on the vic- tim. Perhaps at this stage of the game the boy takes his parents into his confidence. He expects opposition from them, but he has been well tutored, and is amazingly well prepared to beat down, by argument, every obstacle that may be suggested. No, he cannot lose any money, nor does he have to ad- vance any—his backers have amply ar- ranged for that. And, no fear, he can- not get hurt: his backers will look out for that, too. And won't it be glorious to travel, perhaps, all over the world, have oceans of money and, perhaps, some day wear a champion belt? Whe could ask for greater honmor? If we would seek to learn the result of one boy's ambition we have only to read The Call, dated March 2. contain- ing the néws of how Harry Tenny died. It is not necessary to repeat in detail any of the pathetic incidents of this most shocking affailr. Those who are leéft to mourn an Iirreparable loss do not need to be told in detail. We can do mnothing for them beyond offering our deepest lmlthy. But we can appeal to every right- thinking citizen in the State of Call- tornta, who loves right for right's sake, who cherishes the unblemished honor of this State and who does not fear to uphold the principles that eatitle our people to be classed among Christians to rise en masse and protest agdinst a so-called “manly art” that is considered | | i | l f .| enter this contest are beaten to an un- | recognizable mass or not. only so they a sport, an amusement for the people and a money-making scheme for the vultures, who feed and grow fat, car- ing not whether the young men who bring in the prize monéy to the Shy- locks. - ‘We-often say we are tired of old-fash- e e et e e e S P Sport' it to our children. They will have need for it in every walk in Mfe, particuiarly in their amusements, for fear of the spirit of fun being carried a Httle too far, and an accident might happen that is called by an ugly name—murder. To the men whe make the laws in our State, we, who take no part in law mak- ing, but who are expected to be governed by your laws, we say, teach your children the moral lessons of life. Instill in their minds the necessity of obeying those laws. We beseech you to make an effort toward making a law, and enforcing the same, that will prohibit any athietic game where money is put up. Any healthy young man in our State can find a luerative position to flll with- out entering the prize ring. Now, moth- ers, join with me in voleing your protest against this brutal practice. We all want our sons to come up to the highest stand- - ard in deeds of valor orf heroism. We also have ambitions for a noble and use- ful life for them to il We look forward to them to comfort our declining years. So let us hope that the death of Harry Tenny may be the last of its kind that will ever staln the pages of history of our Golden State. MRS. ERNEST M. WOODMAN. Oroville, March 12. HE KNEW WOMEN. Teacher—“Tommy, is this sentence cor- ‘She'll go whether she wants to or “No, ma'am." Teacher—“Why not?” Tommy—“Because she won't go if sha don’t want to."—Denver Post. — . — Townsend's California :lu- fruits and choicest candles in artistic fire~ etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * —_—e—————— mcm information supplied dxny ta ess houses and public men by PreuCl ipping Bureau (Allen’s). ncm. fornia street. Telephone Main 1 Flax of Erin Boxes. The flag of ‘ri.n, the Irish harp and the shamrock decorate our St. Patrick candy boxes. Haas' Cai Stores, Phe« lan bldg. and Jameés Fl bldg. .b_—.—— MIRROR OF FASHION EFFECTIVE USE OF TUCKS. IMPLE house and home din- ner frocks are nowadays flul!- a factor in the aver- age woman's wardrobe These and bodice are separate, permits of the use of 't guimpes o1 T A g e g three graduated tucks in the bodice which drapes easily over the feather-boned t