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

THESAN FRANCISCO CALL ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOMN McNAUGHT....,.... : FUBLICATION OFFICE AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO s MARCH 27, 1996 REFORM IN PEKING. HILE our American cities are feeling the thrill of reform 1 gamblers keep one eye on the cards and the other on r, which may be burst in any minute by the officers, is blindness, are also busy with reform. That spirit is confined to our jurisdiction, but is manifested in places nation for Governor may be charged as the motive we Great Britain made war on China to compel the use of the habit of using that drug has come to be treated Chinese vice. Just why that people should be n this country and England as sodden and degraded, be- | use the drug that England compelled them to take, is pair even of the professional cynic. There is no doubt that nent of all reform in China is the extirpation of the opium at drug and its use in China may be taken as the equiv- liquor and the abuse of strong drink here. The Chinese have the poppy to fight, and they are at it, with the | sive of the Government. method used there may be some suggestions useful to the prohibitionists, or to our public authorities who desire to e vices and follies of the people pay a larger part of the costs impose upon the public treasury. Late mails from g information that the Government has taken up the ypression of the use of opium in a very practical way. | which they shop in Peking is compelled to take out a public li-| € ps are divided into four classes, and they are com- . a monthly license of from $1 per “lamp” to 20 cents, | ) their grade. alth Board of Peking has issued a proclamation as fol- | ioking is extremely harmful to the health, and.the smoked are the retreats of loafers. Such places ogether prohibited, so that the people might en- rosperity, and dens of thieves would thus be done away piu ing has hecome such a habit it cannot be | ly and at once. The evil can only be removed grad- 1 the outer city of Peking many opium shops. t the smokers are increasing every day, which is department has taken into consideration the matter, been made for those who will abanden the he opium shops in the outer city have been « sses and are to be taxed after certain regulations egister themselves according to their classes and the mps, for the payment of taxes, so that inspection can lares to make a false declaration or easily be effected. If any one « opens shop without license, or refuses tax, the building will be con- fis and the owners strictly fined. All must respect this order and not disobey.” China seems to have lea from some source that an evil may be regulated by law and taxed out of existence.. There son why the Chinese have the opium habit, while it 1 Japan and Korea. Opium was forced upon 1 as one of the first results of opening that em- and Christianity. Japan and Korea were not 1s of that form of aggression. rt to extirpate the use of opium in China wil! be watched erest by the rest of the world. The authorities have statement in the fewest werds of what they want to do, | how. There is no circumlocution abeut it. They rec- 1 limitations. The habit is bad, the shops are the resort | | thieves, and it ought to be altogether prohibited. But | lespread habit, only to be removed gradually. In all‘that | conservative determination that is ‘commendable. Yet time hina would have been prevented by outside powers from to abridge the use of opium, because it interfered with‘ is done now fearless of such external interference is | change in the attitude and self-consciousness of the | ne re tic and why ognize offic | | e moral effect upon the Chinese will be good. The use of is their besetting sin. But the moral effect does not stop with The rest of the world may learn something about dealing with he use of narcotics that will be of value to it. The Western nations | a greater variety of drugs, some more insidious even than | to deal with, and the medical profession recognizes the need | fective interference by public authority to prevent a destructive increase in their use. A SILENT “FOURTH.” have become accustomed to the horseléss carriage, the | fireless stove and the wireless telegraph, but the noiseless | Fourth of July is a novelty to come. In the high and mighty | of our grandsires, the small and inoffensive Chinese firecracker sufficed to utter the patriotism of the small boy. The records of fire insurance companies do not show that Independence day then was a day of horrors for anybody except the English. The country was E close to the Révolution and the War of 1812, and John Bull got his slats rattled in orations that had in them more sulphur than the snappy little crackers. Science has developed pyrotechny since then, until the noise- ng instrumentalities have become a menace to life and limb, and the approach of the patriotic holiday is no more pleasant than a threat that enemies are to lay siege to the city. Not only is the noise nerve racking and infernal, but “the day we celebrate” leaves lockjaw, eyes and ears blown out, fingers blown to pieces, houses | in ashes and hospitals full of torn and bruised victims of a fool cus- The Chinese at their New Year’s make much noise, but they | cause no fires and hurt nobody, because they use their little old fire- crackers and explode them singly, or in bunches and bushels, and we are credibly informed that the devil runs from these innocent de- tonations just as fast as he does fromi the bombs, voleanoes and other infernal devices that we use on the Fourth of July. In San Francisco a movement is started to make life endurable on that holiday. May it succeed. We know not how it can come about, but if we have one Fourth decently free from the usuzl nuis- ance and safe from the grave dangers that make the day dreadful, it is safe to say that we will never go back to pandemonium again. Perhaps it may be feasible to create, somewhere in the State,.a res- ervation for all who wish to risk their eyes, get lockjaw and blow their hands off, equip it with the necessary hospital, officia! under- taker and a few coroners, and then give them free tickets to the in- ferno and let them have it out, while the rest of usstay home in peace. a Since the recent wisit of the stork to the Gould home it would not be astonishing to hear that Mr. Gould has been taken into the Cabinet.—New York World —_— Owing to recent investigations there is no longer much disposition to measure 2 man’s success in life by the salary he is rec:iving,—W}ishington Star i e i Strangely enough, the Kaiser has réceived no silver wedding present from the eminent globe trotter, William Jennings Bryan.—New York Mail. ——— e —— Attorney Cromwell says that he has more money than he needs. To be in 2 class all by oneself like that must be lonesome.—Philadelphia Ledger. —_— Denver has taken for its motto, “Look Up, Lift Up.” be, “Hold Up.”"—Pittsburg Gazette. SR eyt Mark Twain is still the biggest drawing card in the whole pack.—Bos/ ton Herald. i Chicago’s should 7 ,A«'&m:un;.— = -~ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TLiESDAY MARCH 27, 1906. 5 By A. J. Waterhouse POGGS AND THE CAT. RS. POGGS has. a cat, to which she M is deeply deveted. I never could see why, for the cat is'not hand- some, nor sweet as to disposition, nor use- ful, nor anything that is creditable. Its temper is morose or irritable. It would run from a mouse, and when it gets out on the back fence and strikes high C the neighbors say things that were better left unsaid. Yet Mrs. Poggs loves this ecat— loves it so devotedly that she allows it to remain in the house nights when it does not wish to go out and sing. Poggs has objected to this latter development. “It is not, my dear,”” he said, “that I s0 greatly object to the presence of a cat in the house nights, although it does somewhat disturb me when it precipitates some article of bric-a-brac to the floor and you insist that I get out and search for absent burglars—mo, I could calmly and philosophically endure the presence of a cat, but what 1 fear is that you may form a habit which will grow. At present you are satisfied with a cat in the house. After a while, perhaps, as the baleful habit fastens itself upon you, you may yearn for and secure a dog; a lamb or a | kid may follow, and at last—who knows? —I may return from a meeting of the board of directors some evening and fall over a cow or a horse stabled in the front hall. Turn ye, my darling, oh, turn ye! while still there is time.” But Mrs. Poggs merely sniffed and told Mr. Poggs that he never was so disgust- ing as when he tried to be funny. It may not greatly surprise you to learn that the cat still remained in the house nights. One night in the wee sma’ hours Poggs awaked from sleep to realize that he was dry—probably because he had drunk noth- ing the previous evening—and carefully crept out of bed so as not to disturb Mrs. Poggs. Slowly and cautiously he took a step; slowly and cautiously he took an- other; slowly and cautiously he took a third and—landed on the cat. That animal immediately burjed its talons in his right calf and let out a warwhoop. which would have been the envy of an Apache war- rior. At once Mrs. Poggs awoke and yelled “Burgiars!” while Poggs nursed his calf and said things that would burn any paper on which they were printed. Poggs' first connected observation was in the nature of a declaration of war. “I am going to put out thie dameat!” said he. “You shall not!"” said Mrs. Poggs. , T will!” said he. “You shall not!” said Mrs. Poggs. Under these circumstances it must fill the bosom of any man with the pride and enthusiasm of his sex to be informed that Poggs actually did put the cat out. Yes, he braved all the dangers of internecine strife and put the blasted critter out. Grasping it firmly by the neck, so that its wildly waving paws could but occasionally give him a mark of appreciation, he put the cat out, and he not only put it out, but he put it oyer the back fence. Nobody who has closely obseryed the in- congrulties of fortune will be much sur- prised to learn that this was the time se- lected by the door for blowing shut. Now, the door fastened with a spring lock, and Poggs’ nightshirt, the only garment he wore, did not have a pocket in it, and if it had hagd it probably would not have had the nightkey in it. . The night was chilly—oh, you bet it was chilly! The reader may not have realized this fact, but Poggs did; he certainly did. He had left his wife in a silence broken only by her sobs, and he hated to interrupt her weeping, but it seemed necessary. “C-e-c-clara,” he chattered through the keyhole, “I-l-l-let me in. It's c-c-c-eold out here and I'm ab-leb-bout to f-f-f-f-f—"" His chattering teeth did net permit him to conclude the sentence, and it will be an eternal reflection upon all womankind that before Mrs. Poggs would let him in, she compelied him to promise through the keyhole that he would thereafter let the cat sleep in the house, that he would buy her a new spring bonnet to make Mrs. Smythe simply turn green with envy, and—oh, more things than I can remember. After, on top of all the rest, he had promised to be good, and never smoke any more, Poggs was admitted, and tremblingly sought his bed, where he thawed out after two or three hours. I don't know whether he kept his promises or not, but I hope not. In some way lovely woman should be taught that there is such a thing as obtaining a contract under dures! SURPRISING FACTS, The man who took the longest way round—didn’t get home first. He who looked before he leaped— never got across ‘he chasm. He whe never' sald die—died, just the same. He who was aware that there are just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught—didn’t catch any of them. He whose love laughed at locksmths —shuddered when he thought abeut the goldsmith. S—— ¥ “Blinks made a particularly good rec- ord at the party last evening.” “How did he do it?" “By not saying a word.” + ARTISTIC A RTIE'S ANTICS Turn Him Upside Down and See His ART AND SCIENCE MET. Once upon a time Art and Science met, as they rarely do, and the lat- ter showed that he was deeply dis- gusted by the mere appearance of the former. “Go away, base impostor!” he said; “you make me tired!” . “What's eating you?” Art languidly inquired. “You are a mere guesser,” Science re- plied. “That which men value most in the work of painters, sculptors and poets is mere guesswork. As for me, I em proud to say that I know things.” “I am very glad to meet you,” Art responded, “for there are three ques- tlons which have puszled me much, as the chief questions of life, and doubt- less you, who know so much, can an- swer them.” “Fire away!” marked. “First,” said Art, “why is man here?” “I—I—my > books don't say,” said Science. “Very well; pass that. did he come from?" . “We are grappling with that subject, but haven't decided it as yet.” “Very well; pass that, too. where is man going?” “I—well, the authorities differ, and I should not wish 'to express an opinion.” “Yes?’ said Art, “Well, I don't know but guesswork born of the prompting of the invisible spirit is as good as ab- solute ignorance.” So the two parted and they never have met since that time. Science proudly re- Second, where Third, WHEN THE BUDS CREEP OUT, ‘When the buds creep out, as if to inquire If thie world is still asleep; When the trees are dreaming of green attire That summer for them doth keep; When the sunbeams chase the rains, and kiss clouds to a merry rout, Why, then is the time when life js a bliss— When the wee little buds creep out. i ‘When the buds creep out, then the soul grows young And sings of the long ago, When it journeyed the jovs of life among, And never a care did know. Oh, there s no reom for clamor or strife, And neyer a worry's about, % When the world responds to the call of life, And the wee little buds creep out. +1 shouldn't mind the money I lent him so much if I only eould dun him.” “Well, why can't you?” “I never have a chance. He duns him- self just as soon as we meet.” “She has taken lessons in eloeytion.” ““Well, she is young, and perhaps her | parents urged her on. \ 5 “Scenes de Ta Vie Sequoifa—An Imper- | tinence—by Barnett Franklin,” redd the miniature bill posters for next Thurs- day night’s proceedings. And further- more, a “galaxy. of stars”—AMan Duan, Joseph Greenbaum, Maynard Dixen, C. P. Neilson, L. Eugene Lee, Will Sparfks, Theodore Keane, A. E Graupner, Oliver M. Gale, and Barnett Franklin are named for entertaimers, with May- nard Dixon introducing a few extra originalities. At 8:30 the performance starts, and every good Sequoian should be in his place with promptitude, otherwise he'll miss something and disturb the others. The coming event will take preee- dence over ail bits of nonsense yet pre- sented by this club of prolific gray mat- ter—an affair truly not to be missed. - s odee (W The Phifomath Club, of which Mrs. Helen Hecht is president, paid pretty obsisance to spring yesterday afterpoon by holding a spring festival in the elub rooms on Sutter street. Garlands adorned the walls, and every weman looked hegy loveliest in a bewitching frock with dainty rosebuds or a minia- ture coronet in her coiffure. , All songs and papers alluded to spring’s awakening, thes programme closing with a classic invocation by the Goddess of Spring—a sprightly, attrac- tive conceit, set to musie from Gluck’'s “Orpheus,” Fred Maurer at the piano. The stage held an altar heayily bur- dened with the season’s flora,.to which was offered by each handmaiden a branch or bough of green. Miss Alice Coleman fulfilled the picture of spring’s presiding deity, singing with dramatic finish the beautiful ode and giving a Greek dance with charming grace. A prettier scene has not been given by our club®, the appreciation being most enthusiastic from both members and their lueky guests. In full the pro- gramme. offered: Paper, “The Gladness of Spring,” Mrs. Samuel Bauer; Spring song, Mendelssohn; “The Witchery of Spring” (Arthur Whiting), Mrs. Wil- liam S. Hochstadter; lyrics from Keats and Wordsworth, Miss Mabel N. Wise; bumorous paper on spring, Mrs. Max C. Sloss; spring song, Mrs. Joseph Eman- uel; classic invocatiog: Goddess of Spring, Miss Alice Colman; handmald- ens—Mrs. Clarence R. Walter, Mrs. Manfred Brandenstein, Mrs. Leon S. Greenebaum, Mrs. Simon Kohn, Mrs. Isidor W. Cahen, Miss Esberg, Miss Nickelsburg, Miss Newman. B . . Laurel Hall Club will held an open meeting in Century Hall on Thursday, ’ T THE SMART SET ' By Sally Sharp o4 April 5, at 3 o'clock. On this occasion a “very attractive programme will he presented, a play. “The Reformers League,” by Mrs. L. Loweuherg and Mrs. Ella M. Sevton, to be the chef d'oeuvre of the day. Mr. and Mrs. Laurance Irving Scott will entertain at a luncheon in their Burlingame home on Friday in honor o¢ Mr: and Mrs. Patrick Calhoun. . . . My. and Mrs. Everton Judsen Peabo ly of 198 Angeles announce the emgags- ment of the'r daughter Kathryn > Arthur R. Traphager. alse of that city Miss Peabody is a member of the Los Angeles smart set, while Mr. Traphager has many acquaintances In the coas ecities, being a graduate of the Univer- sity of California and a member of ths Psi Upsilon fratemmity. The wedding will take place at the bride’s home in June. . . Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Calhoun will be the guests on Thursday of Professor and Mrs. Gayley at the symphony con- cert in the Greek Amphitheater, Berke- ley. . . Captain and Mrs. Wade L. Jolly of Mare Island safled on the transport Thomas yesterday for Manila, whi Captain Jolly is to be stationed for the next two year . Mrs. A. V. Hunter of Leadville, Colo., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. T;l-'lg on Broadway. Mrs. Hunter, who Bhas - breught her own touring car, will sqen leave with a party of friends for a tour through the State. . Mrs. J. Sleat Fassett of Washington, D. C., is entertaining as her house guest Mrs. Bender of this city. Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann enters tained a bex party Sumday afterneon at the Kubelik concert at the Tiveli. . . * Miss Gladys Sherwood, whese en- gagement was receptly announced, is the flancee of Frank H. Davis, and not of George T. Davis, as was erreneously stated. Both men are connected with the firm of Hooker & Lent. . . . Miss Stella King closed her series of reeitals at Century Club Hall yesterday morning, the final topic dealing with “Authors of Yesterday and Today,” te which were added some bright meno- logues. Miss King has met with much success, her delineations being particu- larly clear and attractive. ot MOTHER'S CHIEF TRIAL o By Angela Morgan NE of the severest hurts a moth- O er can know comes to her when she sees her children grow up to take from otfers the good counsel and high principles. ofdife: they refused or neglected to ae her. Doubtless thei few mothers who have not at some period in tbeir lives realized in a small dégree st téast what this experience is. Certainly, of all the pitter trials that fall to the lot of the parent, this one seems hardest to bear. There is something - about it .that strikes the mother as being cruel and unjusi. She feels that in apite of her struggles to train the minds and souls of those given inte her care, in spite of her consclentious striving to set an ex- ample worthy of her precepts, her ef- forts have gone for naught.. Fate, and even God, seem to have rebuked her for her pains. She is left bewlldered and siek at heart, wondering in a deso- late way why these children were ever given to her if it was not intended she should succeed in directing them. I have known so many instances of this sort that I bave come to look at the question with mueh sympathy for the mother's point of view. Yet I can see the otiier side, as well, and while my heart aches for the disappointed parent, I believe she should regard the matter in its larger aspect, and be glad instead of disheartened. There are good reasons for this ten- dency of so many children to grasp truth more readily from outside sources than from home. It seems to be a fall- ing of human nature that it does not fully appreciate those blessings which are most famillar and easy to appro- priate. The human mind is prone to rever- ence those things it cannot reach and to seek for a philesophy of life beyond its everyday teachings. Then, too,\ it must be remembered that a child’s perception may not be open to truth as presented through one medium, whereas it may «be fully awakened to the same ideas as revealed through a different means. - The child, of course, should not be blamed for this. The very prigeiples his mother laboreéd to imstill into his mind may be meaningless as she pre- sents them; whereas, set forth by an- other individual with a different point of view, they may make an irresistible appeal. I know a mother who has been par- ticularly unfortunate in experiences of this kind. Her own example has been a model for any child to copy, but her children have failed to see the beauty of it. They have gore thelr different ways, followed their own standards, re- gardless of her precepts. And now, after the seeming failure of the years, those children, one by one, are coming to see that the truths their mother taught them were right. From other sources they are receiving the ideas they rejected when she presented them. One daughter, with great enthusiasu., ‘was recently telling this mother of the change in her ideas, naming & woman friend as the teacher who had revealed ihe real principles of life to her. “I mever heard sueh beautiful ideas before!” cried the daughter. “I had never dreamed existence could mean so much to me. This friend has opened my eyes.” pi - Professor. The mother strove to keep back the tears as she said: “Why, daughter, those are the same truths I begged you to accept fifteen years ago!” [ But the daughter could not ynder- stand. It seems thit here a mother ig called upon to exercise the unselfish- ness which is part of her reason for being. g After all, what does it matier how the child comes to know wisdom, %o long as he does attaim it? What matter if the revelation comes % # - to him through strangers, if -the reve- lation comes? A mother should be unselfish in this as in all things concerning her child: should eliminate entirely the personal sense of proprietorship that would have the child see truth through her eyes or not at all. The fact that he has at last suceceed- ed in grasping the principles she strug- gled unsuccessfully to impart should be an occasion not for pain, but for gen- uine rejoicing. Her prayer may not be answered in just the way she had hoped, but it is answered, nevertheless. She has her reward. She should give thanks. ———— - Small Son—Mamma, please den't geo to Mrs. Bloodlud's. I think she is a cannibal. Mamma—Gracious! mean? Small Son—Why, ] heard her say she wanted you for dinner—Pittsburg Bul~ letin. What do you ‘Townsend's Californiay glace fruits and choicest candies in_ artistic fire- etcned boxes. New store, 767 Market * —_——— Special! information supplied daily to usiness houses and public men Press Clipping Buuulp (Al ot fornia street. 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