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IT is indicated in the dispatches from Washington that an attempt
will be made in the conference committee of the two houses
on the tariff to restore the iniquitous advance of 30 per cent
in the duty on cheap cotton stockings. This
provision of the Payne bill was so vicious
that even Aldrich, the high priest of protec
tion, would not stand for it in the bill which
he propounded in the senate. But, of course,
the greedy interests behind the measure will
not give up without a struggle, and if the country should appear
quiescent under the outrage it might easily be slipped through in
the hugger mugger of conference.
Renewal of ike
Raid on
j Stockings
• It is in this view that the women's clubs, which arose in active
opposition to the increased duty when proposed in the house, are
; warned that constant vigilance is the price of safety.
". ' This monstrous duty is not needed for protection. of the knit
. ting industry. Fair minded manufacturers in this business freely
" admit as much, as will appear from the following statement issued
by the Fort Wayne knitting company :
\u25a0• \u25a0 We are opposed to any charige from the present hosiery schedule of the
Dingley bill for the following reasons:
First — An advance is not needed, because all full fashion hosiery manu
facturers in this country, including ourselves, have operated successfully under
the protection afforded v; for the last ten years, excepting the last year,
;\vhen the general depression was felt in our business the same as in all
\u25a0 i<hers, and because an advance is demoralizing from every point of view, is
-unpopular enough to be very inopportune, and is not conducive to the
perpetuation of protective tariff principles. •
Second — The tariff should not be lowered, because no inordinate profits,
with their resultant great expansion, have been made in this business; because
•he healthy foreign competition has been maintained, as is evidenced by
import 5 of foreign hosiery, and also because there are no trusts and no over
tr.pitafized corporations in this industry as the result of overprotection.
.The great vice of this flagrant and unblushing raid as pro
. posed by -the Payne bill lies in the fact that it will fall heaviest
on the poor, who are already suffering from the excessive cost of
living. The women's clubs of America owe it to their poorer sisters
not to cease from their humane agitation.
ONE learns from Tokyo that Ambassador O'Brien has gone
on a vacation of several months to be "spent among his
friends in this country., leaving the American legation in
charge of a clerk. Now, Tokyo, if anywhere,
might be regarded as the diplomatic firing
line where a vigilant outpost for the American
nation mi£ht be needed. Yet affairs between
Japan and the United States are proceeding
I as peacefully as if our interests were guarded
by a full ambassador. One does not know exactly how things, of
international import are going in Venezuela, but recent memory
recalls the period when our interests in that cranky -and obstreper
ous republic were not guarded by so much 4 as a clerk. Yet nobody
seemed to know the difference.
In the meantime the president is said to be disturbed by the
reluctance of important personages to take charge of th,e American
legations in London and Peking. Vice President Fairbanks is the
latest personage to have declined the London post. Doctor Eliot,
late of Harvard university, prefers making up funny lists of
instructive books to ..doing the honors for America at the court of
St. James. Cuba is said to want a new- American ambassador,, but
the right man for the place seems hard to find. There is much
perplexity in exalted circles. :
Nevertheless, international interests do not appear to suffer;
Business proceeds and importations grow. Secretary Knox is not
embarrassed by the lack of means to convey his wishes and his
opinions to foreign governments. Indeed, there is a suspicion that
the whole diplomatic corps is a medieval* survival which has
become wholly superfluous since the installation of 'international
cables. The nations get along quite as well without these polite
but unnecessary intermediaries. Their modern : purpose and func
tion is purely ornamental," and that condition is more arid more
emphasized by tKe prevalent talk about the obligation of an
American ambassador to spend large sums in display, and splurge.
Indeed, the unwillingness of fit men to become figureheads for the
nation abroad proceeds partly from this sentiment and partly from
the sense that an ambassador's duties are mostly trivial. The real
work is done by the secretary ef state.
A Famme
Of
Ambassadors
ANSWERS TO QUERIES
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< » I. '-' Where and wh.at Is the floating island of
Idaho?
It is in Henrys lake on the dome of
the continent In a depression in the
llocky mountains, called Targees ,
pa£S. A writer has described It as
follows: "The lake has an area of 40
square miles, and all around, it rise.,
snow capped peaks, some" of them be-- '
Ing the highest of the. continent's
backbone. In this lake ; is the floating -
island, 7 about 300 feet in. diameter. It
has for its basis a mat of roots so —
dense that it supports large trees and'
a heavy growth of underbrush. . These -.
roots/are covered with rich soil sev- ;
era.l feet thick.* "The \u25a0 surface is solid
enough to support the weight of a
horse anywhere, and there , are places
where . a _ house could •be t built. " .The :
wind blows the island' about the lake
and it seldom remains 24 hours in any
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that Berlin, Germany, ,i« tho quietest city In Eu
rope? • • -
-It is said to be. Railway, locomo
tives are not permitted ; to : blow whig
ties within the city limits. There is
no loud bawling: hy, hucksters'; and
one who drives a. framing. -wagon Is
subject ; to~a fine. Piano, playing /is
regulated bylaw.'The use of such in
struments; is permitted -^only during
stated, hours. .
-LOST- CITIZENSHIP^-K:.S«n - Diego. Cal!
F^ ,?\u25a0?"\u25a0. *KO.'mt the «jre of 20, aft-bang man
In „ California Trent *to Cape I ColoHyTsoulh Af .
rtca. where the following , j-ear he renounced «l
leplauco to ' the United State*. Iwoame a ; British
subject, entering the \u25a0 colonial railway Berrlce
He now dmlres to return to this country. • How
loos will It take him to regain his former stand
ing as ; an : American citlrcn ? s -\u25a0 \u25a0
Any. Amerrcan- citizen , expatriates
himself when/ he" isTnaturalized ' In any
country in /conformity 7 with Ita laws.
The young.; man, *If he iwishes ; to ; re
turn to American citizenship. /will have
to follow.- the law/ laid "down f or r the
naturalization of aliens.:
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the Palace -hotel.- destroyed by fire'ln "190G, "com
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It was commenced in_ IST2, and was
opened early in October, -1875.
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL
San Francisco's Will Can Not
Be Thwarted by Spring Valley
JUDGE SEAWELL'i, decision denying the petition of the
Spring Valley water company's tax/ payer advances the/city
one more step on the way' to municipal ownership of the
water supply; • -' - — '.'_. \ • ; : \ .
We may expect to encounter other obstacles of like creation
and purpose to obstruct and hamper municipal advancement. The
policy of the Spring Valley company, like that of all the other
public service corporations, with the exception of the telephone
company, is to hold the city in servitude without being at all
particular about the means to that end. . [f. \u25a0: ;
We may expect a continued series of these spurious suits so
long as the ingenuity -of corporation lawyers can be bought.
These suits are not brought in good faith. Like the one decided
by Judge Seawell/they have no legal standing and are backed by
no real cause of action. They only mean that the Spring Valley
water company is ready to degrade the courts by making them
instruments in the campaign for delay and obVtruction.
It is one of the .worst evils of our; judicial* system that the
courts permit themselves to be used for this discreditable process
of obstruction by means of trumped up complaints without merit.
This judicial tolerance puts a powerful weapon in the hands of
unscrupulous corporations and persons with money enough to hire
lawyers. It gives such agencies an indefinite power of obstruction
to defeat the public good. Of course, the courts must remain open
to all complaints, but there should be some limit on the extent
to which substantially similar and pretended causes of action should
command judicial attention.
That is to say, -the law should empower the courts to impose
penalties on -litigants who can be shown to have repealedly used
judicial process for purposes of obstruction.
We can not change these conditions in a moment, and there
lore must be prepared for a continuance of. the dishonest campaign
of litigious obstruction; but the people of San Francisco have made
up xheir minds on this subject and they will go on to completion
of the Hetch Hetchy project, no matter what obstacles created by
Spring Valley may be interposed. .
The decision of Judge Seawell clears away a lot of dead timber
with which it /..was hoped to block the way, .and is testimony to
the wisdom with which the perplexities and difficulties of the legal
tangle have been overcome or avoided. \u25a0
The opinion of the court is a model of "convincing and con
secutive statement that easily brushes away the pettifogging
technicalities invoked by the corporatiori/attorrieys.
AMUSED memory brings back the excited: criticism that ran
riot' in the east at the time" when the round the world cruise
of the American fleet wasr first proposed and the long, catalogue
of imaginative that surely impended
as the necessary consequence of the. under
taking is not forgotten. The fleet might
be unanimously wrecked and the national
treasury .would; assuredly be; left in a condi-
— — . tion of ruin.. None of these things, or the
worse things that were forecasted have; happened, and it. is even
now admitted in the east that the cruise supplied a useful, neces
sary training for the personnel. In fact,. there is a cordial disposition
to brag about Hhe affair, : as thie following editorial summary of
Secretary Meyers' report made bytheKew -York /Tribune will- show':
A creditable and gratifying epilogue to the recent world encircling
cruise is containedin the report of the assistant secretary of the navy con
cerning the cost of the repairs which, were made .necessary !by. the wear, and
tear of nearly 50,000 miles of voyaging in all seas and zones -'and climates: "It
will be recalled that critics. of that cruise, apart from the political and.diplo
matic aspects of it, which thej r asserted were mischievous and dangerous in
the extreme, dwelt with mournful insistence upon the injury which would be
done to the vessels themselves. ...... -. -\ \ .; : .. \u25a0-\u25a0-. ;. ;
The 16 ships represented a value or a cost of nearly- $140,000,000, and
there was danger- that a number of them would be lost outright, .while it
was certain that all which got home from the cruise would get here in a
crippled condition and would have to be put out of commission for a year
or more while they we're being largely rebuilt at enormous cost. -..
The fact is that while the ships have been home" only a few months
they are now all in .perfect condition again,' with every repair completed,
and the total cost of all the repairs has been only $50,280 for )3 of the
ships. That is about $3,800 for each ship. It is onl}' a little more than a
dollar a mile .for the sixteen for a year's cruising. It would scarcely be
possible for predictions of disaster Ho. be' more completely refuted or for. the"
skill of our ship builders, engineers and navigators to.be more finely vindi
cated. •/, ... ,:,' „ -..-.
That is very pretty. The voyage of the fleet was easily worth
the money it cost and would'haye been worth a great deal more
if only for 'the demonstration of efficiency that it supplied. The
men and the material came out equally well under that test, and
the lesson has been recognized for its full worth the world over.
Demonstration
Of Naval
Efficiency
Gossip of Railwaymen
IT was some years agro, before Edwin:
Hawley became a great railroad
man, and when he was working for
the Southern Pacific as assistant gen
er.al traffic manager, that a conference
was held in New_ York over the south-
western situation.' Some of the Texas .
lines" had been ; absorbed by C. P. Hunt
ingtoh • arid the eastern men,; not -fa
miliar with the ; railroads \u25a0-' in " Texas,^
were puzzled at the flberal use of in
itials.
"Now, will yoif kindly. 'tell me," asked
one of "them, "what does G. H. and S.
A. stand for?' . *
"Give Hawley- and.Stubbs All," was
the prompt answer.
This name clung, to, the G. H. and S.
A. for many > years, and though C. K.
Dunlap," the- traffic manager, made
many - remonstrances, it . was unavail
ing. \u25a0 -.: V ; - : -"w '*\u25a0':'-" ,- •'\u25a0 ,"-"\u25a0-, : \u25a0\u25a0:
There is one nickname to which Dun
lap - objects 'violently,; when -mentioned
in his presence. ft" One of his >lines is the
Houston, ! East;ajid '.West Texas, and
some'bright mind dubbed it:
"H-^-^-l, Either Way You Take It."
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The lines east of Chicago have here
tofore never given stopovers on , round
tripitickets sold; from, the ' Pacific coast
to New ;, York and ; eastern- destinations/
except: at certain? points. '; The Pennsyl
vania lines haye 1 issued ;a; circular , au
thorizing, stopovers at any; \u25a0„ point on
t'heir v system .west of /iPlttsburg-- on
nlnefmonths'^and. special occasion: and
round 'trip tickets within >' the final
limit D.either, going, or.- returning.; -East
of Pittsbiirg stopover>6f.: 10 days -is
permitted ? -at "Washington, ; Baltimore
and "?• Philadelphia, t; 1 -This "± vfill" --'enable
California*; travelers *to round,
trip » tickets ) to • New'- York; : where ; in ; a
great-many;' cases heretofore ith^yj have
had to Y purchase^ to , • Chicago and 'i re
turn^ only, and buy j locally^ east of^Chi
cago.Tmakingc'the:cost'of jthe-frip con
siderably „ higher/ thanYat present. i
The Pacific, navigation, compariyAis
the ',name of a /new 'corporation which
has/been" granted i a 'concession ? by/ the
Mexican ''federal :- government "^ for '\u25a0 the
opening ; of aY, branch^ steamerjllrie \u25a0 vbe
tweenjSan;Diego"in this/state/aridiMaz
atlan,^stoppinglbqth?ways:atsSanfJoso
de 1? Ca bo; ;, M a gda 1 enaT. ba y ;* Sa n'l Qui ntl n,"
SantoVDomingoTand' EhsenadaASr As |the
company has ; theY privilege*- to .^extend
this ' branch^ to/iManzanillo,':^ Luis f'A."
Martinez, the /president' arid the'iarg
est stock holder of the steamship
company, says that no doubt it will
come, still 'farther north and run ves
sels from San Pedro, 'Cal.v to Manza
nillo, touching at all the intermediate
ports. \u2666 - \u25a0"'.-•st*:
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.Surveyors in the service of the Ore
gon Short Line and.the projected Gil
more and Pittsburgh are said Uo be in -i
race to reach the Salmon river pass be
low Salmon, Idaho. When 'last v lieard
from the Gilmore and Pittsburgh par
ties were . about two days ahead/ The
Salmon river canyon . is" the only pas
sage out of : the Salmon'district toward
• the- coast, and. but one -roadbed, can
F.-Dumont Smith," /a well known
writer, : has written^: book entitled
"Book of. a Hundred Bears," whichhas
been ; : publish ed at the ; expense <? of ;' the
Union. Pacific and the ? Oregon v Short
Line. It described life InHhe^Yellow
stone park and '• the ' numerous stories 7
. about; bears make* iti one v of .the? most
• interesting :Of recent publications. —
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; were laid; through the Beck
.wourth f tunnel last Monday/; thus i •/con
;nectlng the llnesof the-Western"Pa
cific -with : :» their, twoV: big 1 tunnels/ the
Beckwourth <\ and the-- Spring - Garden:
; There yet remains 230 : more miles to be
built in. three v gaps. 'The X first gapj is
ifrora the 'second- "crossing 'of >the
i Feather river ;to;; to ;. Spring-Garden, 50
miles. The -J gap is f from v) the
; Beckwourth tunnel j to? iAntelope* 136
miles^ and ; the -last ; gap "is i from' Winne^
Imucca toward Battle ' Bountain.% :44
Jmiles. . .•-\u25a0\u25a0-\u25a0 ; -.\ \u25a0-. ..-. : -
'\u25a0' . ' % - - '.- •] • ' \u25a0 • \u25a0 - .-- • -
If Fred W. 'Blanche; of •',the New .York"
Central line i has returned \u25a0 from Seattle,'
iwhere. he ; had ; been "i on ' business con
nected^with the company. :.-,.--;-
D. L. Ewing, in the office.of the third
vice president"' of < the ? Rock ' Island-
Frisco lines,- is in ;the city. : •; ;/V?; /V? \u25a0
George w: Colby 6f the Great North
ern has, returned from a business trip
to the northwest. '
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;*s Lincoln", Godfrey, . a£ director' v of. .the
; .Pennsylvania-; lines,-? is! in -thV* city..-! v
. '".?\u25a0-\u25a0 \u25a0' '\u25a0'\u25a0-' ' ' '"J- .\u25a0\u25a0 '*\u25a0\u25a0'.' *('\u25a0\u25a0 '\u25a0-- '*'-''. -\u25a0;\u25a0'"-"\u25a0"\u25a0- .5 "'\u25a0-. ;"t; "t
V W. HJ "/. SnedakeK ; agent - of
the;lllinois£Central, has;. returned -from
the north on a business 'trip^ "\u25a0'\u25a0'
ELIOT'S LIST OF
BOOKS PRAISED
Omission of Shakespeare and
Bible Accounted for by
Saying They're in
-GeheralUse
EDITOR CALL: Would It not be well
fdr those entering the "Dr./ Eliot"
controversy to pause long enough
to consider what they are so blindly
attacking?' HiSlI
.-A writer in a recent issue of The
Call speaks of" Dr. Eliot's "astonishing
list'of the 'best books.* " Nothing could
be further from Dr. Eliot's Intention.
His is not a .list of "best books/"not
the /\u25a0 list^ for a desert island existence^
but merely a/Hst" for furnishing the
essence of "a liberal education." There
la , a vast difference. A thousand Hst3
similar to Dr. Eliot's "might furnish the
same essentials. Dr. Eliot does "not
affirm that his is the only ' list, but
simply, one such list.
Perhaps they are not all great books,
but do our colleges offer only great
, books to "those seeking an education?
Glance over the announcement of
courses of any university. A student
might take them alii if he had'time, and
then be unfamiliar with some, of the
very greatest books. The object of a
liberal education is to give, up a knowl
edge of what has been thought and said
in the world— to let us see v the world
from many sides— to let us talk with
the slave Eplctetus^or converse with
the Emperor Aurellus, to learn from
Plato, a foreigner and an ancient, or
to heed Emerson,' a fellow citizen and
a modern; to know the orthodoxy of
St. Augustine or the newer theology of
Darwin; to wink at the world with
Beaumont and Fletcher or to frown at
it with Bunyan.
Will the critics deny "that a perusal
of these books will broaden the mind
and givV one an insight into various
thoughts and times and customs?
The Bible and Shakespeare are not
included? Every one Is supposed to be
familiar with these. One would not
have to go to college to know them and
hence not to the "Harvard classics."
Such books are not on the five . foot
shelf, but on the parlor table:
Mr. Cahill says in scorn: "His brief
book shelf would make weary work for
aspiring youth." We might remark that
youths had better not aspire to any
thing—even a liberal education — if they
don't expect "weary work.". Good books
can not be lightly skipped through— the
author who offers light vaudeville has
no claim as a dispenser of liberal edu
cation/
' C. N. H., University of California.
Perm's Brok Admired
Editor Call: .Professor -Xewcomer!s
comments on Dr. Eliot's list of book 3
calls attention to one not often seen —
Perm's/ "Fruits of Solitude." In the
edition I have is an introduction by
Goas'e from which I copy the following:
"The publication of T Robert Louis
Stevenson's 'Letters' has revealed the
fact that he was a warm admirer of
the 'Fruits of Solitude/* "He met with
the little book, at a critical moment of
his own career in December, 1579, while
he was wandering disconsolately In
the streets of San Francisco/ con
valescent after a very dangerous ill
ness,/ yet 'still somewhat of a mossy
ruin' and doubtful in what spirit to
face the world, again. To- the exile,
with his hopes re-excited, his spirit
grown buoyant, his moral fibers tight
ened by hardship and fear; the small
book of Perm's maxims came wHh what
seemed a direct message from heaven.
Stevenson was singularly moved by
the 'Fruits of Solitude/ which he
picked up in San Francisco. Two years
afterward he gave that particular copy
of the book to Horatio F. Brown,
with these words:
" 'lf ever in all my '"human conduct"
I have done a better thing to any
fellow creature than handing on to you
this sweet, dignified and wholesome
book -I. know 'l. shall hear of" It on the
last day. To write a book like this
were impossible;' at least one can hand
it on, with a wrench, one to another.
My wife cries out and my own heart
misgives me, but still— here it Is.'
"And in a later letter to the same
friend: :: ' • '*
" 'I . hope, if you get thus far, you
will kn6w what an Invaluable present
I-have made you. ;. Even the copy .'was
dear, to me, printed in the colony that
Penii ; established, and carried in my
pocket all .', about " the San Francisco
streets, read . in streetcars and ferry
boats/ when I was sick unto death, and
found in iair times and places a peace
ful and sweet companion. But I hope,
when you shall have reached this note,
my gift >will\ not have been in i vain;
for while,' Just\ now,' we are so busy
and Intelligent^ there is not the man
living— no, . nor recently/ dead— that
could : put, ; with ' so v lovely a spirit, so
much honest, kind wisdom into words.'
' "Stevenson had intended to" make
this book and its author the subject ot
i one: of his critical .'essays; but he never
found opportunity to discourse: to
| us'about the/book/ he .loved so much.
j But it t has left an indelible =. stamp on
| the tenor of his moral writings. The
| philosophy -of; Robert Louis Stevenson;
I as revealed, to us from\lß79 onward, is
; tinctured through and through with the
! honest, shrewd and -genial maxims of
! Pe'nnl Courage and common sense, a de
! termination to win an honorable . dis-
I charge/ In the bankrupt business of
I human life, a cheerfulness facing
rresponsibility^-thcse were -qualities
'\u25a0 which Stevenson possessed already, but
| in/which he was marvelouslystrength-
I ened -by, 'Fruits of .^Solitude.*, / Soithe
I little Quakerish /volume lias ;a; double
claim. upon us— for itself, so- clean T and
sensible.' and- manly.- a^ treatise, and for
its"' illusfribus/ student /and: 'sedulous
ape. 1 /'our^admiratne - Robert Louis
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"". , J- A. : SAN'FORD.
[ Stockton, June 2S. HI
The Smart :Set j
TPHERE are three weddings today as
j a port of ' farewell compliment,
• perhaps, to the "month; of June,
which has had; the historic and usual
succession of these Events. A' wedding
of social Interest is that of Miss Alyce
Sullivan and Frederick Lawrence Mur
phy, which* will take place at noon in
St. Brigid's church, and will be wit
nessed by/ "several hundred guests.
The ceremony, will be : performed by
Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan. but the
nuptial mass, which will follow the
ceremony. will be celebrated by
Father Kenna. S.-J.;" assisted by Father
Cottle. Father Doran and several
others. The ' wedding" Is to be cele
brated with- all tho pomp "of the Ro
man Catholic church on such occasions.
"The maid of , honor will be Miss
Gladys Sullivan, slsfer of the bride, and
the bridesmaids will be Miss Florence
Murphy. Miss Marguerite Murphy, Mi-«s
Ashleiph Turner, Miss Grace Sheridan.
Miss Helen Bowie and Miss Alice
Dunne. The bridegroom will be 'at
tended by his brother, George E. Mur
phy. as best man, and the bridal party
will have,. the following ushers: " Dr.
Milton B. Lennon, Martin V. Metie. Al
fred J. -deary, Koel R. Sullivan, Duval
Dunne and Theodore P. Murphy.
A'- wedding breakfast will be held at
the home -of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Francis J. Sullivan, in Clay street.
The wedding, of Miss Carolyn Willis
Williams and Lieutenant Eugene Bon
flls Walker. U. S. A., will take place
this evening in the chapel, at the
; Presidio,- "and the officiating- clergy
man will 'be Rev.- Edward Mor
gan of St. Luke's Episcopal church.
The ceremony will be an . import
ant event Jn, army circles and the
guests will come from all the .. posts
about the bay to attend the reception
after, the wedding at the 'home of the
bride's brother. Lieutenant J.. S.
Walker. The bride will.be given fn
marriage by "her brother, -and the best
man at the pretty .ceremony will be
Captain J. P. Robinson, while the maid
of honor will be Miss Henrietta
Walker. SEES
The couple are going away \u25a0 for a
brief .honeymoon trip/but will return
to live at the Presidio until their de
parture for the Philippines in the late
summer.
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-Another wedding of the day, or, more ]
properly speaking, of the evening, will
be that of Miss Katherine H. Carpen
ter and Wlllhm G. Rawles. which will
take place at the home of General J. B.
Rawles In Green street. * The home
ceremony will be attended by the rela
tives and close friends of the couple,
but the occasion Is to be marked by
the greatest simplicity.- The officiating
.clergyman, however, will the Rt.
Rev/ William Ford Nichols. The bride
will be attended by Miss Ethel Rawles.
as maid. of honor, while the best man
will be Thomas H. Means, who comes
from Fallon, New, where he Is asso
ciated with the bridegroom in the rec
lamation servi<re for. the government.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Frances "L. Carpenter of Washington,
D. C, and has many friends here. The
young couple Will 'live in Nevada.
Letters from Miss Louise and Evadne
Brickell prove that these -girls are
enjoying their trip through Ireland.
The -Misses Brickell passed - some time
In New. York, but the place of greatest
anticipation .was Dublin. and the other
interesting cities of Erin, and the latest
news from them tells of delightful days
passed on the lakes of Killarney and.
the " picturesque country around the
famous waters.
Dr. Harry Tjvis has been entertain
ing at a series of house parties given
this season at his country home near
Los Gatos. Among the recent visitors
were Mrs. William S. Tevis and her four
sons, who have been visiting at the
William Crocker home since their re
turn f com 'the. Tevis place, and Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Mendel!.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Pickering,
with their daughter, Rhoda. have been
at D«l Monte for the weekend with
many other people from town. Among
those who are at Del Monte for a longer
stay are Lieutenant and Mrs. John M.
True, who was Miss Elizabeth Getty.
Mr. and Mrs. True are passing their
honeymoon at Del Monte, but will make
their . home at Vancouver barrack?,
where Lieutenant True is stationed. Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Thornton Lally have
been at Del Monte' on a motor trip,
as also have Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rlsdon
Mead. Mr. and Mrs. Llvlugston Dunn.
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Cameron. Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin Weed.
Many people will be at. Del Monte
over the-holtday. and there will be the
usual display of . fireworks at night and
a' Spanish luncheon served : al, fresco,
with a real Spanish cook and all the
accessories of a Spanish. banquet. This
luncheon Is to. be held at Pebble Beach
lodge.
Mr.and Mrs. Irving Scott are antici
pating a visit from Mrs. Scott's mother.
Mra. Waterman, . and Miss Waterman,
who will pass the. summer in Berkeley,
but will be, frequent visitors on this
side of the bay, where they have many
friends. Mrs. Waterman ' and her
daughter are now in New York, but will
arrive here * shortly for an extended
stay.
Mrs. Ramon Corral, wife of the vice
president- of Mexico, 'with her daughter,
MTss Carmellta, and the younger mem
bers of her family, is enjoying a visit
with friends about the* bay and will
remain : here for a -few weeks longer.
Miss Corral Is a Y graduate from the
convent at San Jose and has many per
sonal friends here.
Dr., Raymond Russ has returned after
a pleasant vrslt with friends v Jn' New
York and Philadelphia. ' /
Alfred Cogswell has . gone to "" - the
Yosemite **nd will pass several weeks
of the summer In the picturesque val
/jSGBHS
j Gemiari Scientific Forestry |
•>-— — — — '——-,, — -*
/The German empire/ has - nearly 35,
000,000. acres -of forest, of "which »31.9
per cent belongs to the "state. - German
forestry is | remarkable' in \u25a0 three \u25a0ways— -
it has always led in scientific thorough
ness and-now It is/workingout : results
with an exactness almost equal to that
of /the.- laboratory ;'; It has r applied * this
scientific knowledge with ; the greatest
technical success; and it has solved the
problem of, securing through a long se
ries of years j an • increasing forest ; out
put and . Increasing profits at the same
time.^HSSSHHMHBB
What has'beenthe result of the prac
tice:of -forestry. in^Germany? Starting
with forests which were in as bad shape
as • many of ; our; own. cutover areas. lt r
raised* the 'average yield of wood "per
acre /from 20 /cubic 'feet in" 183 dto 65
cubic feet In 190 4.
r 'Durlng;the same period it; trebled the
proportion .of ; saw. timber^ secured from
the average; cut,'; which; means, in' other,
words, that through the practice of for
estry^ the "timber ; lands of jGermany are
of three/times quality today than
whenV no; system; was -used. "And :In ' g 54
years 1 1^ increased . . the money * returns
f ro.m fan \u25a0 average .- acre , of * forest ' seven
fold, y^t today^the forests are In better
condition ttxan ev"er ; before.
JUINE 30, 19O^
WHAT THEY SAY
OF MR. CALHOUN
Comments of Newspapers AH
; Over Nation on Mistrial
Of Rich Trolley
Magnate
rLLOWING are some excerpts from
newspapers ia every part of the
United States on the triaTof Pat
rick Calhoiyi. that emle'd in a disagree
-raw CAX DOUBT Cfll-T
OK I.\DICTED GRAKTERS"_ ,
Buffalo Courier
The conclusion must be disappoint
ing in the extreme to -those who bay*
sincerely . desired to see punishment
meted to the men who brought San
Francisco so low In municipal disgrace,
while it will be pleasing to those who
have questioned the motives of the
prosecutors, and have maintained 'that
the city's return to pro«p«rlty was re- .
tarded by the seemingly interminable
proceedings against citizens of big af
fairs and Influence. San Francisco, in
deed, is divided against itself in this
matter of the graft prosecutions, pas
sion has been greatly excited, an«l
business interest has opposed pußlfc
spirit. Few can doubt that most of
the persons who have been lndtcte<t
are guilty, but the outlook. that many.
If any. of them will be sent to prison
Is poor.
DECEXCV MUST IIA.VG
HOD I.V SAX FRA.VCISCO
Portland Ttlegram
There seems to have been great r»
grard entertained for the honor of men
who knew not honesty, who condoned
kidnaping and jury flxinff. ..and wTio
would have shown but hypocritical
sorrow had murder been committed.
But. with all that, we have heaVd but
little about the tarnished honor of the
city; about the educational value of
the apparent impossibility to condemn
corrupt wealth. San Francisco may
never see fit to punish the men who
have brought moral shame upon her,
but; so long as they go unpunished, de
cency In that city must hang its head,
and- there . must follow the admission
that the wonderful story of the last
three years, written In stone and
bricks and steel. Is not the whole story.
CALHOLW WIL.I, >OT
DARE BRIM; ÜBEL SUIT
Tnl*r» Sefitter
If the papers Jiave criminally libeled
Mr. Calhoun he can set a lot of news
papermen to picking jute or breaking
rock. Will he try it? Never. And
why? Because Mr. Calhoun would then
be compelled to go on the witness
stand and he would have to show what
became of that $200,000. Patrick Cal
houn will not bring any libel suits
against newspapers for that particular
statement that he furnished $200,000
for the purchase Of Abe liuef and his
board of supervisor*.
MERELY EXAMPLE
OF JURY SYSTEM FAILURE
CleT»laai Pliia 3»»!-r
.The trial of Patrick Calhoun,. result--
Ing In* a jury disagreement, must he
a. serious disappointment to the people
of San Francisco. The jury can not be
criticised. Undoubtedly each member
took the stand he thought justified by
the evidence presented for, considera
tion. That ten stood for one verdict
and two for another Is no proof that
the two deserve condemnation. The
result is but one mor* example of the
failure of the jury system.
IXADEQUACY OP SYSTEM
SHOWX BY MISTRIAL
WitsonTillfl Register
The cumbersomeness and inadequacy
of the present system of criminal pro
cedure are again made apparent by the
result of the Calhoun trial. Many
months of time and a vast sum of
money have been spent in a vain .at
tempt to even secure a verdict.
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j Letters From trie People
COXDEMX 10 OF CALHOU.V JURORS
Editor of The Call— ln common with
many citizens In this section I am not
only pained but puzzled at the outcome •
of the late trial of Patrick Callioun.
or rather, at the attitude of the solid
ten .who voted for his acquittal. I rfo
not seekito usurp the role of the said
ten. or like to^ sit In judgment upon
them. In ;fac't. but for their pub
lished utterances I should say noth
ing, but' assume that on the evidence,
which can not be followed closely at
this distance, they were justified in
their verdict. *.*
But their own words provoke doubt
and wonder. P^or they adrait there
was plenty of evidence to convict Yet
they would not accept it because of
their contempt for the former super
visors who testified. Why the con
tempt? Clearly~l>ecause the former
supervisors, were confessed bribe tak
ers. But does not a bribe taker Imply
a bribe giver? And does any religion
or code of ethics hold the tempter less
guilty - than the tempted? • Turning
"state's evidence" in all other coun
tries is held, to benefit the state: in
fact, to be its only possible method of
punishing crimes of this sort..
In : every case of bribery the briber*
and the bribed are the only parties
present. Other evidence than they
offer must be Indirect and circum
stantial. Where.' then, is the logic or
justice of this- and other recent jurie3
of San Francisco in absoluting ignor
ing the evidence offered by many of
the culprits? *
A Couple of years ago when these
supervisors* confessions were pub
lished people in. as well as out of San
Francisco were everywhere saying,
"This means conviction of all the
guilty and an end for a time to bribery
of officials." Nearly .every one felt
then that the evidence was sufficient
legally— as it certainly has been
morally. And morally, . at all events
despite the self-satisfied ten. the evi
dence was sufficient; In fact, • ample
and morally Mr. Calhoun ia a convicted
man. Why. . then. Uo some of the ten
express regret that the verdict 'was not
an acquittal, so they might "shake Mr
Calhoun : by the hand"? Do they like
to shake the bands of a morally con
victed man? Tastes differ. o( course.
but .that Is^not .the kind of hand iV
sboold; wish to shake, though I may'l
be squeamish.
-Ten'; of the late/ Calhoun Jury have '
voted not -to condemn Mr;- Calhoun.
Well, out of their own months L as
one or the great body ' of ; the outsida
jury. -vote to condemn, the ten. *
* ' CHARLES N; JOHNSOit'
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