The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1906, Page 8

ISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SAN FRANCISCO CAL JOHN D. SPRECKELS JOHN McNAUGHT... Proprietor Manager EDITORIAL ROOMS ARD BUSINESS GFFICE. . . CALL BUILDING Cormer Third and Market Streetx, San ¥rancisce. UFTOWN BFFICE. ... 1651 FILLKORE ST. Phone .. _West 956 GAKLAND OFFICE. .. .. Phone . . . Oaklind 1083 1906 SATURDAY THE MORTGAGE TAX. The Assembly., by a large affirmative vote,. has adopted an amendment to the constituti away with the obligation imposed upon lenders to pay taxes on their mortgage interest in the property pledged. The . the appeal of which is thus attempted, was inserted in the constitution on the theory that it would protect borrowers. It was held that inasmuch as a lender had a real interest pledged property, which took i he his inte n doing ause 1 precedence over all against made to pay the taxes so st appeared. In ap- plication, however, the provision has failed to work The ely added the maximum tax the community in which the pledged pr claims it, should be far as lender has it 1]\- was located to the ruling market rate of in- erest, and the borrower has paid the taxes as 1016 BROAGWAY 'of the packing concerns are not-clean and that’ they should be subjected to a more rigid sanif.ary inspection. Nobody will oppose them in that direc- ‘tion. We cannot be too clean, especially in_the preparation of our food. This is the point where the packers’ case is the weakest, and they say that while they keep conditions as clean as they ean, they will do still better hereafter if possible. To that end they have already made arrangements. The inspectors charge that tainted meat is used |in preparing cauned meats. This the packers flatly deny, and it seems to be a case of veracity between |them, which the public cannot judge without fur- | ther evidence pro and con. We have gone into the matter because it needs | careful consideration. The canned food industry, both in meats and in fruits and vegetables, is one of the greatest in America. Our export of canned | voods of all sorts to foreign countries is enormous eign dollars. This business should, therefore, not be trified with. If the packing concerns are really putting up unfit meat they should be exposed and made to discontinue the practice or be punished in some form orvother. But the Government should look before it leaps, and not raise an uproar with- out being armed with overwhelming and conclu- sive proof of it$ chirges, which candor compels us to say has not yet been made plain to the American lwopi(‘. . interest. Throughout practical this can be seen wherever the tax rates of two neigh-| communities differ. For example, taxes are| in the eities and towns than in the country| the State illustration of| borix higher distriets for the municipal tax is added to the tax If the market rate of intere the State and county tax the equiv 1d the total tax in th municipality the pre ng rate of in- ch d borrowers who pledge munieipal | property will be 9 per cent. while beyond the city| limits the rate will be only 8 per cent. The differ- of State and coun t is 6 per cent, a1 e | lent per ecent 3 per ce | terest REARRANGEMENT OF STREETS. The proposed rearrangement and widening of some of the streets in the wholesale commercial district is stirring up a fight which is being carried to Sacramento, where it threatens to prolong a ssion which everybody hoped and expected would be brief. The merchants generally are opposing any material alteration in their district, chiefly on the ground that it will operate against the immediate leasing of sites for wholesale stores and thus greatly delay the resumption of trade. The Downtown "IN ANSWER TO QUERIES — ——— { WANTS TO KNOW—A. M, City. This |correspondent wants to know where {may be found “a patriotic dramatic se- lection entitled, ‘As the Moon Rose’" Can any reader of this department fur- JU It is not often that one's expectations |are surpassed or even realized, but the |Cafe Chantant at Mrs. C. F. MacDer- |mot’s Thursday night, in Oakland, far |exceeded the dreams of the most optim- |istic. Once the gates had been passed THE SMART SET - ph avenue, an hour If these clever brothers had,Seiby) are living on Telegra g § [not finally called a halt. The local hits| <akiand, heving leased thate |10 the tune of “Mr. Lawson of Boston™ near Dangille. were excellent and timely. Society was present in full force and | a goodly sum must have been netted Selby are soon to O v iss Edith Miss Florence Selby and M i sail for Paris, where and should not be hastily assailed on slight evi-| dence. It gives employmgnt to many thousands of | Americans and briags in annually millions of for-| nish the information? QUOTATION—Subscriber, City. phrase quoted: “No pefit-up Utica contracts your powers, but the whole boundless conti- nent is yours,” is from the pen of Jon- athan M. Sewall, one of America’s very earliest poets, born 1748, died 1808. |a.veritable fairyland was disclosed. A moonlit garden stretching away into far-reaching, dim-shadowed outlines, sirings of gay lanterns defining every flower bed, tiny lights twinkling from the midst of thick-foliaged trees and, | wandering through ell like modern | fairies, men and richly gowned wo- men gave animation-~to the scene. The | “cafe” was in an inclosed corner of the |garden and the large audience faced a small stage perfect in every detail. At the beginning of the programme the lights were not yet in good work- |ing order. Harry Ferry was singing '@'Ardelot's “Dawn,” and just as he sang “behold ‘twas dawn!” the lights went out. The coincidence caused con- |siderable: amysement. The electrieity was soon doing its duty. ; The farce “Shades of Night” was first presented by Miss Blanche Tisdale, Mrs. | Margaret Knox, J. de P. Teller and Wil- llard Barton in gurprisingly clever fashion. George Friend had coached them and his master hand was evident firm or corporation to hire or employ, or |throughout the'programme in the pro- | cause to be hired or employed, any per- | fessional manner of the actors and the | son or persons to engage in er carry on | generally smooth performance. - |the business or occupation or practice| The only real professionals on the of peddling any goods, wares or mer- ' programme were “Kid North and Com- |chandise or any material or artiele or‘!pany." two Ethiopians with a batch of whatsoever kind, for which a license is” good songs. “I Can’t Do that Sum,” |required, unless such person or persons|from “Babes In Toyiand,” was sung by so hired or employed shall have first | Mrs, Gertfude Gould, the other “babes” |taken out or procured such license as|being Misses Mariette Havens, Kittie may be required therefor. |Kutz, Flora MacDermot and Lita There is no ordinance limiting the age Schlessinger, Messrs. Willard Barton, of peddlers. |Rufus Smith, Melvin Jeffries and Du - s e Val Moore. Topical verses were intro- HELL'S HALF ACRE'—E. F. Pu|g, 0q and the @ood little chorus was Gt The place 1o the United Biatenl o Co o il "o agii - TS Jaat known as “Hell's Half Acre™ fs one of | " 00 (B L e the Swing the geyser basins of the Yellowstone / The CLUB MINUTES—F., San Mateo, Cal. The minutes of the secretary of a club sheuld contain in detail all items of money received and an itemized account of meney disbursed, together with the number of the warramt drawn for the | payment of the same. No money should |be paid by the treasurer except upon |the vote of the club members, and the warrant for the same signed by the |presiding officer und recording. secre- | tary. PEDDLERS LICENSE—Subscriber, Clty. The ordinance in San Francisco regulating the employment of any one to peddle, is as follows: “It shall be unlawful for any person, for the relief fund, as Mrs. MacDermot had generously borse the entire ex- | pense of the evening. . e e )} Everything is in readiness for the today, and the outlook for success is most promising. The chairmen of the various committees are as follows: | Miss Marian Everson. candy: Mrs. Os- |car Luning, flowers; Miss Helen Dor- nin, Pandora box; Mrs. Le Grand Tib- bets, doll and skate raffles; Mrs. D. E. Easterbrook. toys; Mrs. R. S. Knight, ice cream; Mrs. E. M. Walsh, tea and coffee; Mrs. W. S. Palmer, cotillon; Mrs. A. Lowndes Scott and Mrs. Grace Gor- |rill Gowing. press committee; Mrs. F. | M. Butler, skating race. o e The wedding of Miss Maude Jack- son and Dr. Homer Craig was a quiet home affair of Thursday afternoon at | the residence of the bride's parents in Alameda. Neither bride nor groom was attend- ed, and only the closest friends wit- nessed the ceremony read by Rev. Ed- | sar Gee of St. John's Episcopal Church. Mrs. Crajg is well known on the east- ern side of the bay and Dr. Craig, son of Homer Craig. the insurance man, has been well established in dentistry in |San Francisco. He will locate for a time in Alameda and after a brief wed- ding trip Dr\ and Mrs. Craig will re- side with Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. - . . Mr. and Mrs. William Ingraham Kip are staying at Berkeley Inn for the summer. P Miss Maude Wellendorf, an active and talented member of the Berkeley Fabiola fete at Idora Park, Oakland.| Park. Song, “How'd You Like to Spoon with Piano Club, will leave within a short they will travel with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Taft, Miss Chrissie Taft and Miss Sevilla Hayden, who have been abroad for several months. Since the fire the Misses Selby have been visiting in New York. o | . |\ Miss Estelle Kleeman will leave n her touring car tomerrow for a rum through the Santa Clara Valley. 3 & e Dr. Arnold Genthe Is residing om Laurel street when in town, though much of his time is being spent at Carmel-by-the-Sea, where, in his ar- tistic bungalow, he has established & studio. Miss Susan Folette Hildreth, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Hildreth of Alameda and a Mills College girl, became Mrs. Robert H. Brotherton Friday at a noonday wedding cele- brated in Christ Episcopal Church, Alameda. The interior of the church had been attractively decorated by friends of the bride. The marriage service was read by the Rev. W. N. Guthrie. Mrs, Slosson was matron of henor and the bride’s only attendant. Mr. Brotherton is a San Franeisco business man, being the segretary of the Jupiter Steel Company. Miss Emma H. Meserole and Willlam J. Talbet. were married Wednesday evening at the home of the bride’'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Meserole, on College avenue, Alameda. The Rev. L. Potter Hitchcock of the First Congregational Church officiated. One hundred friends of the twain witness- ed the union. The groom is the som of Mrs. Mary J. Talbot, a resident of Oakland and prominent in the affairs of the Ebeil Club. ence is the difference in the tax charge of the two|Property Owners’ Association say, in a resolution It is a piece of low land about | nil OV SOl K dered by the Ume for Europe. where she will re- communities, N “4 While the mortgage tax clause in our State con-| stitution has failed in its purpose, imasmuch as it = the taxes on that p ba i mously to 1 does mnot lieve the berrower of the necessity of pay ‘ sented the mor rest, it ided enor- the labor and expense of assessing prop- Under the system, the f mortgaged | property the amount of the mortgage interest, and | the tax charge must be made against both mort- gagee mortgagor. The Collector must | make two collections against the same piece of and collecting taxes Assessor must deduct from each piece o a and ing close attention to a mass of detail which in the total makes a large amount of | work and accompanying cost to the taxpayers. property, Then, too, the system leads to confusion and un- | wherever and whenever they can lay their hands | equal assessments that in the end often prove cost- | upon it, and we cannot, in justice to ourselves, let ty of country it slip though our fingers. It took too long to build saving of the State Capitol from de- Iy to the borrower. In the majc forwarded to the Legislature, that ‘‘the property classes of this city are opposed to any contemplated changes in the avenues and streets of the business distriet. It will prevent the quick rebuilding of of his property repre- | this city and the rehabilitation of San Francisco’s| commercial supremacy. This act ties our hands in every direction and all commercial and manufae- turing enterprises.’’ There is a good deal of truth in this. However widely opinion as to the advisability of widening and otherwise rearranging certain downtown streets may differ, there is no question that it is essential that the city should re-establish its trade as soon as possible if it does not want to lose a large slice of it. We have commereial competitors |five acres in extent, on which there are some forty hot sulphur springs, which| |are seething and bubbling 2ll the time. | | The ait is always filled with the fumes of sulphur. The name has bee changed to Egeria Springs. Egeria, in legend, is the Nymph or Camena, from whom King Numa of Rome received the ritual of wublic worship which he es- tablished in that country. The soil an| |around the springs is burning hot, and | |in some spots seems to cover the scald- ing springs below the surface with a! crust so thin that it is dangerous to| walk over it. AR e S GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATORS FIGHT FIRE IN CAPITOL | | |north of us who will not be slow to grasp that trade|Seuisiabn Qmichuy tn NISAC, Clathey Assist the Department at Baton Rogue. BATON ROGUE, La, June 8.—The distriets, for example, assessments are not usually |up to be lightly left to shift for itself now. Trade struction by fire last night was ac- greater than 50 the property. will loan money considerably in excess of ‘half the| property’s market value. A man with a piece of]| per cent of the actual value of|drifts into new fields very easily and when once|complished But it often happens that lenders diverted is difficult to regain and often is never| regained. There are scores of business streets awaiting the in a spectacular manner with Governor Blanchard, assisted by many Louisiana legislators dressed in their night clothes and by hundreds of citizens, supplementing the fire de- property worth $3000 can bogrow $2000 on it. but return of their former tenants. Of these scores it partment. The fire started from a uninecumbered the assessment would not be more | than $1500. There can be, however, no sealing of the mortgage interest, and the property is actually assessed for %2000, the amount of the mortgage.! The borrower pays this tax. as has been shown. He thus pays taxes on $500 more than, as other prop- erty of the district is assessed, it is just that he should pay. . | In spite of the failure of the system to work to| the benefit of the borrower, the effect of the pro-| vision at the money centers of the East has been to ereate the impression that the mortgage laws of California are unjust to the lender. While this may not have worked to the serious djsadvantage of the State in the past, now that she must become a bor-| rower on a large scale:it seems time to do away | with a misleading, labor-¢reating and ineffective | provision of the constitution. Those who are en-| gaged in meeting conditions growing out of the disaster of modern times should not be| forced to go to their work needlessly handicapped. | greatest GOVERNMENT AND THE PACKERS. With all due respeet to President Roosevelt and | full commendation of his efforts to clear the| American financial and commercial atmosphere of | corporate abuses, it really seems, after a cool and| careful perusal of his message to Congress regard- ing the meat packers, that he has not made out much of a! ease against them. To be sure, he has raised an uproar all over the country, but men are like sheep| and apt to follow their leader blindly and without| reflection, with a tremendous hue and ery, without knowing exactly what it is all about. The President makes sweeping charges of un- cleanness and carelessness im the packing of canned meats, but does not give specific details sufficient| to warrant these charges. The packers have an-| swered the report of the Government inspectors and have obviously thus far made the best showing. The -inspectors adduce ‘the discovery of two or three dead animals in one day. The packers Tetort | that copsidering that some 50,000 or 60,000 head of live stock are daily received at Chieago, it would be surprising if there were not some dead among them after their demoralizing railroad transit from the peaceful farm or lonely range to the bustle and noise of a great city. They state that there are more or less dead cattle, sheep and hogs among | the receipts every day. The same may be seen every day in San Francisco, for that matter, by any one who ecares to go to Butchertown. 1t ean hardly be otherwise. The inspectors say that the preliminary stages of the preparation of canned meats are revolting. i course they are. The slaughter of animals is always revolting, except to the butchers who are, used to the daily spectacle. A shambles is a shocking place at best. If peogle who like their juiey steaks and chops were to see the slaughter of { reprehensible practices of the Chicago | these steers and sheep in the abattoirs they would | is proposed to rearrange two or three. This minor- ity is too small to be permitted to retard the progress of the great majority. Let us go ahead and get back our business on the fifty stree which nobody thinks of rearranging and leave the lonesome two or three whose rearrangement has been proposed to the future. Take care of the present and the future will take care of itself. Insurance companies are learning that there are exceptions to the rule that it does not do to set a Wolf to guard sheep. Extraordinary as it may seem to certain insur- ance companies, policy-holders seeking settlement are not asking alms. Dr. Erastns Holt of Maine, by a series of con- vincing tables, demonstrates scientifically that the best of first-class men are worth to society only 429,344 68. The estimate will come as a positive shock to many first-class men. The Pennsylvania Railroad has discharged the employe who admitted before the Interstate Com- merce (Commission that he had eollected bribes from those dealing with his company. It may be that the poor fellow’s defense will be that he thought bribes a species of rebates. Coal stock seems to have been a medium of exchange | between mine owners and railroad transportation officials. —Baltimore Sun. * * . " All the world loves a lover entirely too much to sym- pathize with any Carlist plots against Alfonso of Spain at the present time.—New York Tribune. B S . That college professor who suggested that after March 4, 1909, Mr. Roosevelt should retire to private .life - evi- dently doesn’'t know M‘r. Rgosevelt.—Atlanta Journal. . Efghty indictments in Nashville, Tenn., by the Federal Grand Jury yesterday against the Fertilizer Trust seem to be another' victory for the muck rakers.—Kansas City Star. . . . Some men are so suspicious that if they went into the organ grinding business they would compel the monkeys to carry littie cash rel"i!ter —=8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. - . Edward Weston, 70 years old, walked !rom‘Phlladel- phia to New York in less than twenty-four hours. Such speed would be foolish if he were headed away from any other city.—Buffalo ?xpre.ss. . A Carnegie medal should go to the railroad official who succeeded in barricading his house so that designing men were not able to leave any coal mine stock on the parlor table—Washington Post. L e T S 3 GRABBING AND HOLDING. 3 Human nature in a Jap is very much like human na- ture in an Englishman or an American or any other Caucasian—he gets what he can, and he keeps what he gets. Japan has just emerged frem a victorious war and has no intention to surrender the stake. It is true that China put up the purse for which Russia and Japan fought and was promised by both a return of it as soon as the fight was finished, but China is used to that sort of thing. Japan is in Manchuria, and there is every reason to believe she is there as England is in Egypt- there to stay. It is remarked im scripture that a strong man armed keepeth his goods in i« stronge comes, overthrows him, takes from him his not feel like eating any more beef or mutton for a week. The inspectors say that the s . in ke trusted and divides the spoil. in Egypt and Japan in Manch Washington Posts until a stronger |defective wiring near the roof of the | Senate chamber, destroying the Capi- |tol's eastern wing above the first floor. |The loss was between $50,000 and 18100,000. Among the valuables in the Senate {chamber, where the roof fell in, was {the famous painting “The Battle of New Orleans,” valued at $40,000. Governor Blanchard directed work of saving valuable papers. The Capitol is an imposing piece of architecture on the bank of the Miss- issippl. It was first built in 1847 and was destroyed by fire during the Civi} War. The present structure was| |erected in 1880, the Lol o SR T TALENTED JAPANESE STUDENT NEAR DEATH IN ILLINOIS Suffering From Quick Comsumption After Making Remarkable Record at Northwestern University CHICAGO, June 8.—After completing the equivalent of five years' work in three years and his diploma almost in his hands, Rikinosuke Hojo, a Japanese student in the Northwestern Univer- sity, is dying of quick consumption in the Evanston Hospital. His physicians declare that he cannot live more than three weeks. Commencement exer- cises that are to mark the completion of his college course are but two weeks distant, and it is a question if he will live to receive the diploma that will be taken to his beside if he is alive to accept it. Mr. Hojo, with a sister, went to the Northwestern University from Nagasaki, Japan, at the opening of the second year of President James' ad- ministration in 1903, and became a protege of the president. He spoké no English, but in the Japanese universi- ties he had mastered the German lan- guage, in which he soon was able to converse with hig instructors. T et e WANTS THE SALARIES OF CITY EMPLOYES REDUCED | To the Editor of The Call: Cutting down of city expenses is con- sidered necessary—some talk of dis- charging firemen, policemen, park em- ployes, etc. Not one of them should be laid off or discharged, not even for a day. But a 10 per cent cut in all sala- ries of _every city employe, old and young, male and female, should be made, commencing with the Mayor, Supervisors and every one down to the lowest employe—10 off this year, 5 per cent off next year, 21 per cent off the third year, after which the old and regular salaries, M. MERIGAN. San Francisco, June 7. Los Angeles Limited Is Derailed. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 8.—The Los Angeles limited on the Union Pacific was derailed last night east of Pine Bluffs. The engine, tourist car and dl‘ne;' left the tracks, as did one of the trucks of a Pullman, but no one was ‘seriously injured. A wrecking train from Cheyenne cleared the road in a same singers with the exception of Mr. | Moore and Miss Kutz, “Moon Dear,” by Mrs. Frank wh’lche!-i ter and Willard Barton, was a pretty bit of work. J “A Few Minutes with Milton and Colman Schwartz,” that the programme mentioned, would have extended into ALL THAT SAVED THEM. 1 Trembling violently, the souls of | the author and the publisher stood in | the presence of the Accusing Angel. “So you don’t want to go to the Brimstone Annéx?” the latter re- marked. The souls admitted that they felt some disinclination. “Do you think you deserve anything better?” was the next query. The souls looked doubtingly at each other, but said that they ventured to entertain a hope. “See here,” the Accusing Angel con- | tinued, “were vou not’the author and the publisher of a weird and fantastic book concerning the San Francisco ca- tastrophe entitled, ‘The Grizzliest Hor- ror of All, or, Inked to Death After She Was Hit?"” The souls nearly trembled them- selves into annihilation as they ad- mitted that they were. “I have that, book before me,” the angel observed. “Permit me to handle it with tongs and read a few of its passages to you. I select almost at random, for the smell. is about equally bad in any case. Here is the first glittering gem: “‘While the groans of the dead and the moans of the obliterated yet re- sounded on every hand the people who had gathered in that section of the city knowrm as Sausalite were startled into a renewed agony of fear by seeing the Cliff House first totter on its foun- | BY LOUISE A little girl in San Jose tried to kill herself the other day because her father objected to her being on the stage. Why her parent opposed her wish of trying to be actress I do not know. Prob- ably he just did not approve of it. And probably he is just like a great num- ber of other loving, tender parents. They disapprove of the aspirations, am- bitions or desires of their children— and that is all there is about it. To some parents—and they are many in number and generally the kindest and most solicitous—their children never grow up. They reach the age of manhood and womanhood, but they are always children to them. They want to reason for them, think for them, plan for them. That is their duty as they conceive it. And i< is a duty that is largely prompted by love. Their parental affection is so deep, so tender, that, metaphorically speaking, they want to have their arms about their children all the time. They want to shield them from the rough winds, pro- tect them and lead them so they will not stumble into the many snares and pitfalls that are spread for the unwary. They want to be their eyes, their very ears. Many of these parents who possess this extended idea of parental duty and parental authority are men and women of decided characters. They are men and women who have thought and are still thinking. for themselves; men and women who have acted for themselves and probably carved out their own lives . e achieved any- [y PEOPLE AND THINGS main for a long course study. of musical & e e Mrs. Margaret Cameron Lewis is making a short tour abroad with her | husband and will return to her home in New York in July. sl e’ o Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Olney (Coralie P OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. dations and then fall into the bay, | crushing in its downward sweep the ferry building and Lotta’s fountain. B.—The accompanying picture of | the scene thus graphically described was taken at the time and on the | Spot by our photographer, whom, with unprecedented enterprise, we had sent | to San Francisco to represent us dur= ing the catastrophe.)’ | “Are you guilty or not guilty?” the Accusing Angel inquired. They had to admit it. “I might continue ad libitum et ad nauseam,” the angel observed, ‘“but one more flower culled from such a bouquet ought to do almost anybody | for all summer. Here it is: “‘The City Hall, which cost the tax- | payers $6,000,000 and was worth fully | a third of that sum, had heretofore stood unmoved, but now it suddenly toppled forward and outward, bury- ing the people of the Alameda dis- | trict and the statue of Junipero Serro | in its ruins. A great cry went up from | the people of Milpitas who witnessed | the disaster. (Again we call atten- tion to the accompanying picture, | which our indefatigable photographer took without a moment's hesitation.)" | “Do you deny that you are guilty?” They couldn't. “You really ought to go to the| Annex,” the Accusing Angel began, but his first assistant interrupted him. “Satan has sent word that he doesn't | want them down there,” the latter re- | | VEILLER. things, having experienced these things, would they deny their loved children the rights they themselves de- manded? Bone of their bone as the child is, still it frequently happens that no peo- ple are more unlike than parents and children. Strangers many times are not more unlike than the members of the same family. There may be a dozen children in a family, and yet no two exactly allke. How can parents then hope to do exactly alike for each one? How can parents then hope to have these totally different creatures act, think and reason as they do? The reason we have so many indif- ferent doctors, lawyers, clergymen and various business men, I believe, is be- cause SO many parents insist upon choosing their children's eareers. The child has no say in the matter. The parents decide he is to be a doctor or a lawyer or a clergyman or a business man, as the case may be. Parental wish reigns supreme. The child’s individual taste is t aside. What if the loved one’s futlre is dwarfed, spoiled?. The parental ambition is gratified. The mother refers to “my son, the doctor.” The father speaks of “my sen, the law- yer.” And if a good writer or an artist or an actor was speiled in the making of ‘the poor doctor or lawyer, who is to blame, and what of it? s S _ That children will not profit by the experience of the parents is natural. But that pargnts will not profit by ‘own experiences or the experiences of other parents is unfortunate. cles. It is the o Miss Ada Bertha Hornbrook was made the bride of James A. McDougall | at the couple’s future home, 1439 Sher- man street, Alameda, Wednesday evening. Pink carnations, with pink geraniums and ropes of ivy; were util- ized in the house decorations. The Rev. Willsie M. Martin of the First Methodist Churcl}, Alameda, officiated. marked. “He says they would be sure to bring out a beok that would queer his winter resort before a single sea- son had passed.” “You ought to know by this time,™ the Accusing Angel responded, “that Satan has lost his pull up here.” Then, addressing the trembling souls, he continued: “There is but ome thing that tends to save you,” he said: “a merciful Providence has ordained that when & particularly glittering ass is born inte the world he may be spared some part of the consequences of his folly. As a result of this fiat you will not be sent to the Annex. but neither can we permit you to enter here. You will have to fool around on the outside.” So the poor souls still are fooling around somewhere betwixt and be- tween. “I thought that my seven labors amounted to something” remarked the shade of Hercules, “but I find that they did not.” “How $07?” inquired the shade of his friend. “I lived too soon to take any par€ in rebuilding a city from its ashes.” JES' KEEP GRINNIN', GRINNIN'. Knowed I was hit wid er plexus blow, But I jes’ ken' grinnin’, grinnin’; Seemed dat mah bref hit were gwine ter go, An’ de end ob hit all beginnin’; But I jes’ grin on lak de libely sort, Dough hit's grejus hard w'en yo' bref fun short, An’ 1 let ole Forchen rabe an’ snort, i Es I jes’ kep' grinnin’, grinnin’. t Dah ain’ no beatin’ er man, I knows, Dat'll jes' keep grinnin’, grinnin’, Foh outen de dooces dat Forchem t'rows He is boun’ fol§ ter make er winnin’. So brace up, honey, an’ keep yo" nerb; Dah ain’ no blow dat’ll much disturb Ef de guarjeen angels still obserb Dat yo' jes” keeps grinnin’, grinni: I can preach unto the others of the sine fulness of sighs; 1 can e'er insist the groaner hardly ever wins the prize, But it's only fair to mention when I felt that I was hit That a long-drawn sigh has sometimes seemed to ease the pain a bit. _—_— Jected to professional careers for members of their familles, and parents objected to stage people in their fami- lies. And in spite of it all we have had great writers, great artists, great professional men and great actors. And objecting parents have been changed inte admiring parents. They have admitted that they made mis- takes as «their children, but parents of other children % s persistenly ‘While parental ebjection is fre-