The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1906, Page 8

" THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1906. THE JOHN D. SPRECKELS. . STREETS, _APRIL THE FALL OF DOWIE. EDAN scholar has written a biography of the A roj imed. Washington Irving’s life of the 4 T s charming with all of the graces of < the endowment of Macaulay and Froude. s yas brought out the heroic side of the character of hammedan biographer deals with him in nakes his work of special interest. ne toward religion. They which no eye can see, nor When one comes, with self- ing the authority of revelation ies as the necessary equipment Joseph Smith, Ann Lee and followers. Ann and Jemima v virtue of his martyrdom, permanent hold upon the human bhe n had t} ¥ et a religious teacher, this ader and the founder of a state. ribes of Arabia into one fold, he took up authority of the Sheiks, in nce a book of religion and a civil consti- [ Ishmael a fc H layas. yrians and philospphers that if th the to the his by instead of Christian, and the Koran )xford and Cambridge and Yale and Har- and ted Islam in its attention to proy who have v to the airs of this world, while using follower 1e life to come. The most immediate time was Dowie, the third Eli- Christian Catholic church and of Zion City. as an example of what one determined ers, when he brings them under the speil hets ern but made no impressioa here. 1 prom \ble preachers of arthodox ne his missionaries. The 1ito his treasury. He n, founded manufac- millions. But his of the government and business of his a single feature or formality that of his followers. Outsiders es will not forget their stately 1t ion us serv 1 keenly Z men. the sonorous recitation of his ritual and hi rple robes, and his moving and sympathetic o the sober mind for his vast influence over he doubting and unhappy, and the lovers of 1is rise d reign, what follows his fall prom e has been deposed. His wife and son turn n as a charlatan and pretender. His attor- all the property in Zion, amounting to mil d of the churc It is asserted that he had begun 1 h probably accounts for the defection v revelations that will startle the world. of all is that his followers adhere to the ., to the system he created, to the revelations he be overcom t wonder of his physical presence and power Then when he failed to effe was because men ate pork, and he apostles to go into the hog raising country and ers to destroy their hogs. They went preaching the farmers in Iowa and South Dakota actually 1¢ tho 1d burned them in piles. But head of Zion. Now he has fallen. Yet the su- that h 1oned, while voting unanimously and defy him, after listening to denunciation of him by 1 who > him of hypocrisy ‘and insinuate that pose to go on in the path pointed out by his reve- gulate their lives by the light and leading of his » hoping to enter the future life by the portal he n the prime uence. he said it 1 sands 3 ac t no man wonder at the next prophet nor marvel at story of Dowie proves that mankind is alwa be fooled and robbed by any one who will, wi nd pageantry, pretend to know all about that of w anything. viographer of the Prophet Mohammed is y of a new religion is easy as long as the people but it is greater to found a state. dan 1 THE OAKLAND STRIKE. t railroad strike in Oakland has been agreement between the two corporations involved The extension of street and suburban t side of the bay has been a marvel of enterprise. ent it has bankrupted two sets of owners. The third, n, has pursued the policy of extension and trust in new districts to settlement it has been a icrease in the population of Oakland, employes. nen have wondered whether its credit would sustain f extension into unsettled territory. But the result has s courage, and, though the east side of the bay has now he prospect is that rapid settlement will soon overtake of the roads. Under such circumstances a strike on the based clearly upon a sufficient grievance to command ipathy. This element seems to have been lacking in the tie-up, which was called off yesterday morning. Perhap§ an important factor in the colorless terms of settlement, pallid and negative that the people wonder what was the as settled so inconsequentially. ly the system employs a rather high class of men, of whom the public sympathy will be expressed when they to present a sufficient cause. Opinion was influenced be interest in the strike shown by the strikers themselves. few leaders showed a reddening of temper about it, but the rank and file were impassive. The communities concerned are to be congratulated that all danger of a tie-up is over, and they can go on building and improv- | ing, with the assurauce that they will not have to walk. Prohibitionists in considering possible candidates should not over- 3ryan.—Washington Star. The lock Mr. | He ace as the founder of a new form of the | such work is the casiest in which man | an enduring force, no matter | -e that made conquest of of Tours, all Europe and America | flourished for a| ence, success and wealth. | rtunes of such prophets, aided | the use of pageantry and im- | The chanting of sacred songs | ortation facilities adequate for the needs of five times its| Sia) BUOOK WELL -THIS BOOK'S A BEM- 1T HAS TALGHT ME HOw TO MYRITE ATVERTIZE- MENTS 18 A SHORT TIME . | | | | | | | | TAUVGHT KINS! SVANT j: [ER GIRL - 'lLL ATVERTIZE FOR ONE - MY ABILITY AQS TO WRITE STAND ME IN 00X SERV| HOW TMOES STRIKE i) SERVAN T a LONG TIME - 7 1LL MAIL L THIS RIGHT CE - ,T’H\‘ |+ e - LESSON FOR CHARLIE. OW, then, Charlie, if you will be N a good boy and pay close atten- tion, we will have a MNttie lesson in physical and moral dynamics. I no- ticed you, out in the schoolyard, a few minutes ago, engaged in pushing and shoving and generally betraying an in- clination to have your own way quite re- | gardless of the desires and rights of the others. However, this fact may have | nothing to do with the lesson in hand, and so we will get right down to busi- ness. You notice these bricks, do you, Charlie? Quite nice looking bricks, are they not?; | Now we will set them up on end in a row, and fairly close to one another. Fine | appearing row, is it not? And it will | stand in that way .ndefinitely if— | That “if” breeds the trouble, my boy. Here. near the end, is a selfish, ungov: ernable brick who says that the others are crowding him. Watch him kick tand shove. Now he has hit the fellow next to him. That fellow naturally resents such conduct, and he passes it on to the | next; by the second brick it is passed | on to the third, and so it goes clear | down the line, until all the bricks have fallen. The row does not look nearly as pretty as it did, does it? And all be- | cause one selfish, ugly brute of a brick | would not get along without kicking | and shoving! So there is your lesson in physical | dynamics, my boy. It may be expressed | briefly by saying that just one unruly brick can raise thunder with the row. And the lesson in moral dynamics is ike unto it. For it so chances that the | mighty mason, in building the structure | of humanity, uses men as his bricks and | places them in such sightly rows as he | wills. The row, as he builds it, is good | to look upon; there is no question about |it. But, here or there in the long rank, | is a selfish and foolish brick who claims that his neighbors are in his way, and The —— Oncle Biff's Observations. | pushes and shoves accordingly. * 1 | | 1T STONER driv over from Five Mile holler with some hogs 'tother day. When he found out they was only payin' 7 cents. he reckoned he'd haul ‘em back an’ wait a month 'till they riz a half a cent!—Cleveland Plain Dealer. £ TR others, being buman and unwise, resent his action ‘and pass it along, and, before you know it—down goes the row! All be- cause one vicious brick fell to kicking and striking! So there is vour deuble lesson, Charlie, and it differs from some lessons in that there is not a word other than truth ia it. And now, If you will remember the lesson and be good, you may go out and play. N. B.—This little lesson was intended strictly for Charlie. Probabiy there is not a one of you who needs it, and, in that event, you will do well to skip it. WHEN THE MEADOW LARKS COME. ‘When the meadow larks come and the spring Is here, When the trecs In pink are budding; ‘When the winter iles on his stately bier, And the sunshine vales is flooding, ‘Why, then is the time when the soul is glad And npothing but blies shall meet us, For we know rot the way to be stern and sad, ‘When the meadow larks come to greet us. ‘When the mead.w larks come—I eang this song In the world of coldness yonder, But P've journeyed since, with a happy throng, Where nature is fair and fonder. Ah, winter and summer are here but one, Or scarce may vou know they sever, And here, in the glint of the kindly sun, The meadow larks linger ever. ““I feel that we have conquered the rev- olution,” said the Czar. “So do 1" remarked De Witte. “Yet my nights still are shorn of rest, and I am harassed by terrible doubts.” “Why so, sire?” “Rumor has it that the Standard Oil Company has designs on Russia.” DAYS OF LONG AGO. Oh, the dgys of long aga! Oh, the days of lorg ago! Ere our feet had sought the vaMey where we wander to and fro: When the suh. a matchless dlamond, shone upon the morning’s crest. And the thrill of childish laughter was the sung we loved the best. Ab, though time and we grow older and the eve approacheth fast, Btill the mem'ry, ceascless dreamer, fondly lin- gers on the past, . For the shadows of the evening, as they long and longer grow, E'er ar: pointing, jointing backward, to the days of long ago, A rearward track stlll leadeth back to days of long ago, And sowetimes we may find It ere the twilight sinketh low. We see the river, ob, so great! that later grew so small; We view the faces that we loved ere mists ¢ngulfed them all, Faint yoices from the changeless past come . ringing through the years, And now we hear them with a smile, and now with rain of tears; For, as the shadows backward point, We know, and ever know, still we Jjourney farther from the days of long ago. Tha Oh, the days of long ago! Oh, the days of . long ago! A mother's fond caresses and her face with love aglow; [ Py The laughter, lost in silence deep that only ringeth clear When mem'ry. broodin sound doth hear. Oh, the vale from whieh we wandered! the path that we have lost! Oh, the paliry earthly prizes that we won at such a cost! ! u For I degm that e'en the ransomed, in the heavenland they know, g Still may sigh at thought of glories of the days of long ago.. ] i ?':’e“.r cll‘:zmn glace fruits T cholrest ea m B - etched boxes. Ne: :::rc. 'mfi?'g s!mw information supplied daily to ness. houses and public men by the u (Allen’s), 30 Cali- & evermore, a soundless Oh, b %fl- ipping Burea fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS ||| Scooped a Composer | By A. J. Waterhouse. e IGNOR LEONCAVALLO, the suc- S cessful composer of ,‘‘Pagliacci,” both music and libretto, once had a -eurious adventure. During a journey through Italy he stopped at Forli, where he was quite unknown. As he saw by a poster that a performance of *‘Pagliacel” was to take place the same evening, he ldeterm(ned to witness the play in order ito ‘see how it was performed. And so. without making himself known, he pur- chased a seat in the stalls, and duly at- tended the performance. While the audience was enthusiastically applauding, Leoncavallo remained silent. On his right was a lady who applauded vigorously, and who suddenly turned to him and said: “And you, sir—why don’t you applaud? Don't you like the play?” “Ne,"” was the composer’s reply. “I don’t like it at all. I consider it the work of a debutant, if not worse." “Then you don’t understand anything about musie,” replied the lady. “‘On the contrary, I understand a great deal about music,” continued Leoncavallo. And, in order to prove it, he began to analyze the work most minutely. “You see, this passage is stolen from Liszt," he said; “this one from Beetnoven.” And so he continued the whole evening. At the close of the performance the lady, in conclusion, asked: *“This, then, is your opinion about ‘Pag- liacei’?” “Yrs, deeidedly!” The lady then quitted the theater. The next morning, in reading the local papers, Leoneavallo was stupefled to see a long article, with the heading: ‘“Maestro Leon- cavallo's Opinion About ‘Pagliaccl’,” and to find faithfully reproduced all that he had said the previous evening to his fair neighbor—a lady reporter—who had recog- nized him.—Chicago Journal, —————— ANSWERS TO QUERIES. “CHICKEN SKIN"—A. 8, City. The medical books and dictionaries do not mention any such disease as ‘‘chicken skin.” DEATH—Subscriber, City. It was Dr. ‘Willlam Hunter, a famous anatomist (1718-1783), who said as he ~vas dying, “If I had strength to hold a pen I would write down "how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die.” VINE DISEASE—Subscriber, Alameda, Cal. The phylloxera vastatrix, the insect that destroys grape vines, first made its appearance in the vineyards of Southern France in 1865. The insect is only one- thirty-eighth of an inch long, yellow in summer, turning brown in the latter part of autumn, N Ignorance and Bliss. | THE SMA RT SET By Saliy Sharp. | Mrs. Patrick Calhoun left for New York on Monday. En route she will stop at Cleveland, Ohio, for a brief visit, and upon arriving in New York will sail almost immediately for Eu- rope. Miss Calhoun, who is being édu- cated abroad, will 'return with her mother within a few weeks. M Calhoun is still in town. but “expects to meet his family about the time of their arrival in New York. - . . Mrs. Howard Hamilton Hart was hostess at a dinner at the St. Francis last evening. At table, which was most attractively dressed in a variety of spring flora, were Mr. and Mrs. V. Carus Driffield, Mr. and Mrs. Alexan- der Spinks and Mr. and Mrs. E. O.) Burns. p Mrs. Hart, who has been elected delegate from the California Club the St. Louis convention, will leave for the East early in May. " a to . Mr. and Mrs. Curran Clark have is- sued Invitations for a luncheon on Saturday of this week. The affair will include eight guests and will take place in the Palm Garden at 1 o'clock. . . . Knox Maddox will be a dinner host tomorrow evening, having bidden a dozen guests to dine in the Palm Garden. . . . Fairfax Whelan entertained at a luncheon on Monday at the University Club in honor of Professor Mitehell Carroll of the George Washington University, Washington, D. C. Among | the guests to meet Professor Carroll were Dr. A. L. Kroeber, Frank Sims, W. 8. Wright and M. Calhoun. . . . Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Raisch will en tertain at a large dinnér in the Palm | Garden Monday evening, April 30,/ with covers lald for thirty guests. Ty Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann will re- ceive today at her home, 3414 Wash- ington street. . Austin Lewis will lecture today at the California Club upon Oscar Wilde's “Salome.” . . Mp! and Mrs. George Pinckard and Eyre Pinckard leave this week for their sum- mer home at San Rafael. o Wi Mr. and Mrs. C. Raoul-Duval, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Stratton, Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Beylard and Miss Garber are amo the prominent bay folk Who are sojourn ing at Del Monte. . Mrs. California Newton is spending few days in town at the Palace Hotel. ¥ v Mrs. M. A. Wilcox and Mrs. Longstre of Los Angeles. who usually spend their summers in San Francisco, will arriv next week, probably to occupy apartme at the St. Francis. . Miss Elizabeth Cole, who has spent winter in the Philippines, will arrive ho the last of this month, having sailed Monday from Manil . ot e a. 9 an prese Laurel Hall €lub will hold meeting today in Century Hall, ing a play, “The Reformers’ League, Mrs. I. Lowenberg and Mrs. Ella M. Sex ton. . . An exhibition of ceramics by several San Francisco's best craftsmen will be held at the Daingerfield studio, 246 Sutts street, beginning April 19 and continuing through April 18, from 10:30 to 6 o'clock The following arrivals have registersl at Byron Springs during the last week From San Franciseo—W. W. Shannon an wife, J. B. Wieder, 8. Goldsmith, Mrs. S Goldsmith, D Lawlor, A. 8. Price, Mrs. ¥ G. Gantner, A. Hanselman, George . Moore and wife, 8. J. Clavering, O. P. Chedran, W. M. Evans, M, T. Beck and wife, J. T. O'Malley and wife, Mr. an Mrs. J. H. Wilgon, F. G. Gant Bertha Berner, Mrs. John MeLaren, ank R Hogan. Miss Alto Davis. Mrs F. H. Ste vens, F. J. O’Nelll, William Thomas and Mrs. F. R. Guentherodh; Oakland—G. Kern and wife and T. P. Emigh; Berke- ! ley—F. C. McClearn, B. Speed and Mrs. E. J. R. Frank; Seattle—George Y, Hel- loway and John Rosene; Fresno—John W. Gilkeyson and wife and I M. Des- { mond; Stanford—J. D. McGilvray and wife and Miss Maritia MeGilvray; Stockton—Philip Cohn, Fillmore C. Marks. Miss Maude Mishaw of Houston, Tex. and Thomas Campbell West of this eity were quietly married last evening. The ceremony took place at § o'clock at the Hotel St. Nicholas, Bishop Nichels off- ciating. After a brief wedding tour Mr and Mrs. West will reside in San Fran- cisco, where the groom is a well-known attorney. = HOW DO YOU FEEL? — | Say You Arein Splendid Heal'h Whether You | Are or Not; It’ll Make You Be ter. \ By Angela Morgan. | SRS . 113 OW do you feel today?" H “Qh, 1 domjt feel at all well lately. I seem to have such 2 terrible cold and such a heayiness and dullness in my head. No, I don't feel a bit weil. I can't sleep nowadays, some- how, and 1 get depressed and tired. .m nervous, too—terribly mervous. I'm sure I don’t know what can be the mat- 1 suppose I'm run down.” ter. “Dear, dear! Too bad. A change is t you need.” i And “Yes, 1 suppose so (heavy sigh). how are you feeking yourself lately “Qh, just fairly well. You know I have never quite recovered from the last at- tack I had"—and so on, ad infinitum. The above dialogue uas a sound only too familiar to us all. Every day we hear such statements made repeatedly on all sides of us. Every day, perhaps, we take part in such conversation ourselves. It has grown to be such a habit with most of us that we do it unwittingly. The mere utterance of the words, “How do you feel?’ or “How do you do?" h..s come to be the signal for an outpouring of complaints and woes; a free and ready exchange of intelligence between friends or acquaintances concerning personal feel- ings and ailments, both physical and mental. This saiutation, which we certainly have reason to believe was designed as a means of communicating cheer and blessedness, is ruthlessly misused as an opportunity to air one's ills and distresses. “How do you feel?” is. the signal which only tea frequently opens a veritable Pandora’s box of mysteries. This, surely, is all wrong. We commit a grieyous offense against ourselves, our friends and society gt large when we in- dulge the habit making known our “feelings” if they are calculated to em- phasize impressions of ill health, discom- fort and gloom. A great deal is said today about the ne- cessity of protecting ourselves against disease germs. Not enough is said about the danger there is in thinking and talk- ing disease. Human beings, by repeated- ly dwelling upon adverse physical condl- tlons; by’ describing these conditions to others and listening to similar accounts, are daily and hourly assisting in the spread of disease. Talking about ill health produces men- tal impressions of ill health just as defi- nite as the impressions recorded on the cylinder of a phonographs We intensify and multiply our ills when we talk about them to others. Now, if this is true,. how about the re- verse side of the proposition? If talking diseasc @isseminates disease, why may not talking health promote health? I sin- cerely belleve it does, I have not one particle of doubt that it we asserted our health with the same dynamic energy we employ in complain- ing of our miseries, the improvement in our physicdl condition would be aston- ishing. Why don't we go about telling our friends how well we are; how happy we feel; how vigorous and young and buoy- ant we are growing day by day?" ' “But," ebjects somebody, “how can we say we feel well when we don’t? How can we say we're happy when we feel blue and despondent? We can't deny our feef ings.” Feelings! That's what's the matter with us all. Feelings! It is man's province to dictate to his feelings, not to let them ‘The moament we pause to consult our “feelings” we abdicate the authority that is given to us as gelf-conscious beings. Easter G Apnflmfllu” mt:h ‘uu h!:u spirit o; CHover East Voxes at Hare m_!‘fm“ah% Banding 5 Say you feel well and happy, whether you do or not. Why? Onme reason: It is quite as great a discourtesy, quite as serious an offense against others, te talk of your poor health as it would be to exhibit temper or curiesity or rudgpess. T world is rapidly becoming enlightensd enough to see this. Another reason: When you say you feel well, even though you are not at the mo- ment conscious of feeling so, you inereas: your chances of health. Every time you say, “I am feeling well! “I am splendid health!” you bring the condition closer; help to make it a reality. 1 know a man who has persistently fought ill health in this way until now is showing in his physique the definite re- sults of his statements. “How are you~ hix friends would ask, and even when he was miserable enough to give up the strus- gle he would respond with energy: Tm feeling fine, thank you! Never felt so hopeful. Health’'s improving every day."” ‘What a blessed thing it will be when the habit of declaring health and happi ness becomes a universal custom! I each one of us begin now to hasten day. “I am in splendid health. I am happy I am strong.” Let us say it just as many times a day as we can. — *Dame Fashion’s Mirror. > i af the chailis con- 1388 I i) in s a