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HVEDNESDAY The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS Proprietor CHARLES W. HORNICK General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON Managing Editor \u25a0 Addrf.l AU Communication* to THE SAX FRAXCISCO CALL. Telephone "KEABNY Sfr — A » k ' or Tbe CclX Tnf OP erator WHI Connect * Yon' With tbe Department You Wl»h BUSINESS OFFICE and EDITORIAL ROOMS Market and Third Streets . Open Until 11 o'clock Every Night Jn the Year MAIN CITY BRANCH ICS" Fillmore Street Near Post • ; . JTel. Sunset — Oakland 1083 OAKLAND OFFICEr-46S 11th St. (Bacon Block) . \ Telephone Horne — A 2375 ALAMEDA OFFICE: — 1435 Park Street Telephone Alameda 559, BERKELEY OFFICE: — SW. Cor. Center and Oxford. . .Telephone Berkeley 77 CHICAGO OFFICE— I6^4 Marquette Bid*. .C. Geo. Krogness. Advertising: Afft . NEW. YORK OFFICE — 805 Brunswick Bldg;. . J. C. Wilberding. Advertising Agt "WASHINGTON NEWS BUREAU— Post Bldg Ira E. Bennett, Correspondent NEXT YORK NEWS BUREAU — 516 Tribune Bldg..C. C. Carlton. 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Fundav $4.15 Per Year Extra POSTAGE ( -weekly *1.00 Per Year Extra Entered at th* United States Postofflce as P<°eon<l Clnss Matter ALL POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Panip> Ot>i«»s Will B*» Forwarded "Wlipti Requested Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NETV and OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct .'• compliance tvith their request. • \ ,X 7HEX congress at the instance of the agricultural depart \u25a0:.:.'y y. ment enacted the law permitting the manufacture of .. . : . : denatured alcohol without payment of duty it was supposed that a profitable way had been provided to use the waste products of the farm. But the promoters of the law reckoned without knowl edge of the methods of bureaucracy and the passion for red tape. It was soon found that v iio. farmer, could comply with the minute and exacting restrictions . required by the internal revenue department without going into the : business on a great scale, and this discovery ended the pretty .; theories of the agricultural department about every farmer being : liis own distiller. n>!^v;Galifornia : is especially rich in waste products of t : he farm that .jihight.be converted into alcohol of the sort required for use in .; the 'arts.. But we know, of only one distillery operating in this 'State under .the denatured alcohol law.. This is near Agnew and /jias capacity of 2,500 gallons a day. made from molasses. l^'ilT^cv-dl^atAes^teirfof an effort being, made at Stockton to V^^pifaUzc|iL^iistillc^Hor)rdcna&rcd alcohol. to utilize the refuse -potatoes which are unsalable in the vegetable market, and the' ; ;;«S?qclcton Record gives these, particulars : i^^V& ; TM*i^;^^'-^*^.^? : '?{*?' I*c^'1 * c^' the. Stockton, chamber of commerce took .: -steps some time: ago to have launched here. It is figured that fortunes .;•\u25a0""\u25a0 are allowed to go to waste, each year on the island district by the rotting .',of potato culls! \u25a0 .. • \u25a0 • • • :*'. The plant in view would require a site of about three acres available .. .to water and rail transportation. About $100,000 would be necessary to ;. .buy the site and construct the factory, .which would have an output of :.-2..000: .-2..000 gallons daily. ' • r r . The man who is promoting the enterprise explains why it 'costs so much: "\u25a0 • • \u25a0 . \u25a0• .".. In this country, until two years ago, the government imposed a tax : , \u25a0• of $2:20 per gallon on all alcohol. Then the tax on denatured alcohol was .removed, but the government, in order t^> foster the industry and at the . sanie time guard against fraud, attends to the process of denaturing. /X- ; You understand all alcohol when it comes Wrom the still looks alike to • " Uncle Sam. We. must construct. a large- cistern into which the alcohol ; from pur stills is. run.. "The go\'ernment takes charge of the cistern and >; -keeps, it . under lock and key. It denatures the alcohol by adding an •/-' ing/edient which makes it nauseous : and unfit for consumption by nian. .'/..'• "In order to foster the industry*' is delicious. In Germany the ; farmers make their own alcohol and use it to generate power to run the machinery of the farm, but apparently they are not" so hard ridden by bureaucracy nor so badly handicapped by red tape. Farmers Hard Ridden by Bureaucracy rTTMiE Los Angeles Mining Review urges that active steps should S' be. taken, to ascertain the government's rights in relation to • oil lands held ; under color of title by the Southern Pacific ~~~\ company as part of the land grant, notwith T standing the fact that minerals lands were .". expressly reserved in the patent. The usual tactics are already in operation to confuse the * public mind and distract opinion which other vise would compel the administration to act. The Review describes the method: "'.\u25a0•. But the orders have gone, forth, and the first to take the field with a' cunningly worded \u25a0warning is, of course. Judge Frank Short of Fresno, among the' best equipped in his line in the state, who is generally . • regarded as a good fellow, who is attorney for some" of the most important spawn of "special privilege," and who travels from one end ; of -the country to the other earning a retainer of $20,000 as the legal ' : representative of the water power and other great financial interests of the state. Mr. Short adds nothing to the question but mud; yet it is & entirely possible that even he ma^v stir up sufficient of that commodity lto befog, the issue and befuddle the man who is vitally interested' in the Of course, the burden of Mr. Short's song is the sorrows of the "innocent purchaser." He knows quite .well that there are no inno cent purchasers in this relation, because the}- all took with full notice of the reservation in the patents. Moreover these so called innocent purchasers are almost exclusively dummy corporations in the sense that they are all .owned by Southern Pacific interests. Any developments they may have effected were made with full knowl edge of the condition of title and at their own risk. Confusing the Oil Land Situation MR. TAFT is' at work to. effect such economies of the postal service- as will finally make possible the institution of a one cent" letter postage rate.' Such a consummation would be a great and important boon to the commer cial interests' of the" country. The project is by. no means impossible, for the reason that certain grave abuses of the .system are easily possible of correction. mere is, xor exampje, the abuse of the franking system by congress men, which- has grown* to vast proportions. This privilege has become a form "of extensive graft for which there is no excuse, nor justification. It will not be readily reformed, because congressmen cling to it as a. personal perquisite. They will resist the' proposition to limit it or cut it off altogether, and only by the concentration of an overwhelming public opinion can they be driven from this posi tion. -It is ah abase that grows year by yeajr until in every cam paign the mails are loaded do.wn with tons of political literature that nobody wants: It is a gross waste of public money. In a^ similar line of economy Mr. Taft proposes to make the advertising matter attached to the magazines pay a reasonable rate. Most of the magazines' carry more advertising than reading matter and the result is an enormous tonnage of mail matter carried at a nominal rate. As the average haul of a magazine in the mails^is 1,100 miles, the cost of carrying this immense volume of matter may be understood. v It is a higHly remunerative form, of commerce and can to pay a reasonable -rate. Reforming ;"." ] Abuses of the Postal System EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL W. R. Hearst, Calhoun and Mud Will Not Get Votes for Bell THE disreputable campaign of mud slinging and abuse waged in behalf of the democratic candidate, for governor does not even possess the merit of courage.. It 'is modeled on the plan of the shyster lawyer, who asks a. witness on the stand: "Have. you stopped beating your wife yet?" It is a campaign of mean spirited and shabby innuendo. It is not important except as a measure of the cowardly temper and spirit of the men by whom it is waged. These methods of innuendo and insinuation are quite familiar to the people of San Francisco, who have not forgotten how W. R. Hearst employed them to discredit, as far as he could, the graft prosecutions. It is the same method that the gutter weeklies and the organs in the pay of Patrick Calhoun used for the like purpose. Hearst and Calhoun are once more .joined in congenial association, and with an identical purpose. It is a homely adage, but true and forcible, that- tells Mr. Bell that "if he* lies down with the dogs he In his Tulare speech the other day Mr. Bell declared that "Hearst is not an issue in this campaign." Four years ago he thought differently when he asserted that "Hearst is a traitor. Never j again can William R. Hearst cross the threshold of the democratic That was a different Bell, at least in seeming, from the man who, in the hope of office, has now made a pitiful surrender to Hearst and welcomes back the sometime traitor to good standing because he has paid Bell's price. Now, since Mr. Bell prefers the question method, we ask: "What price has he paid on his side* for Hearst's support? What price has he paid for Calhoun's backing?" It is not perhaps a new thing for Mr. Bell to find himself on Calhoun's side of the fence, because four years ago, at the time he was cursing Hearst out v of the demo cratic party, he was conspicuously silent with regard to the graft prosecutions. Somebody had told him it was not good policy to speak out on that subject, and he had no opinion to offer. It was the same line of cowardly politics that characterizes his campaign today. -. In the same speech at Tulare last Tuesday Mr. Bell, in .his cus tomary method of silly cross examination, asked the, question of Johnson: "What proof have you that either Ruef or Calhoun is working for Bell?" That question' might 'serve to mislead Tulare, where the gutter weeklies of San Francisco and Mr. Calhoun's kept rag, the Post, are not known, but in this city the question will not be asked, because it answers itself. These are the influences behind Bell's campaign, and the demo cratic candidate would be bound to pay the price of their support should be ever have the power to do so. Hearst- and Calhoun, Calhoun and Hearst, would be the power behind the governor's chair were Bell elected, and from this patent fact there is no escape. -Mr. Bell, with the assistance and co-operation of his allies, has converted this" campaign into a stream of mud and personal vilifica tion. He will get his answer from the people next Tuesday. :' ' ANSWERS TO QUERIES LAND MEASUREMENT— H. P. G.. Vallejo. Please inform me' as to the proper method of numbering sections In a township and explain the meaning of "range" when used as section" 2 of township 3, range 2. etc.? "Range" in the public land system of the United States is a- row or line of townships lying between two suc cessive meridian lines six miles apart. A township is. 36 sections, each a mile square. A section is 640 acres. A quar ter section, half a mile square, is 160 acres.. An eighth section, half a njlle long, north and south, -and' 1 , a quarter of a mile wide, is 80 acres. A sixteenth section, a quarter of a mile square, is 40' acres. The sections are all. numbered 1 to 36, cbmmencing at northeast corner, thus: ' •:'.:-• \u25a0 * ' .'. ' . The sections are all divided In quar ters, which are named by the cardinal points, as in section 1. The quarters are divided in the same way. The description of a 40 acre lot would read: The south half of the west half of the southwest quarter of section 1 In town ship 21 north of* range 7 west, or: as the case might be, and sometimes will fall short, and sometimes overrun .the number of acres it is supposed to con tain. '.'•'\u25a07i ••" • WHITE POT— Subscriber. City. Read in an article. "As he was a good diner he would have enjoyed a white pot of long ago." What Is a w/ilte pot? Dr. King in "The Art of Cookery" wrote; White pot — A bread . pudding glorified, a con fection of slab cream' and eggs jnst laid and moist brown suear and fine wheaten bread, above all a pot to bake In. a-nd bake it slow and with a *erfno mlffd. "-• Cornwall squab pie and Devon white pot brings. And Llecester beans and bacon, food-.for kings. . NATURALIZATION ; PAPERS— M. V. D.. San Mlgnel. How can I recover my father's natural ization papers, which I placed In the posseosinn of an attorney, who, I believe, sent them to Oakland and from there they were sent td Washington, V: ... C.l If the attorney is lax and will not return them you may* have to; consult another attorney whom you can trust. \u25a0 • . "•"\u25a0.\u25a0•\u25a0- A POEM — W." E.. City.— Where can I obtain a copy of Van Wyck's poem, entitled "God In the Open Air?" . . .-... .The poem you want* is Van Dyke's "God. of the Open Air" to be~found' in the Century magazine, volume 46, page 865. • .. •': • • ". - AS MOTHER DID— R. E. M.. City. Can you tell me In what book I ran find verses entitled ."Just as mother use. to do." ) This does not "appear, in: the common authorologles. Possibly some reader of this department can assist the corre spondent. -^ * ' \u2666 .. - • - TRAINED NURSE— S. F. 8.. City. What steps should a girl take who wishes to become a trained nurse at one of the local hospitals?;- Apply to the; head- nurse of the hos pital .for/ information as to qualifica tions required. ; v r; °; i> \u25a0 \u25a0 ' * * * • "SJ&ffi BfSIXESS— A. W. S.. Woodland. Is there any book that glTes an account- of all branches of business or trade? : ; *; Booksellers can furnish you business manuals and other books of that char acter. \u25a0 V ' "'\u25a0 • * ; .\u25a0\u25a0•\u25a0. "•". • . MOUNTAlNS— Subscriber.' City. What is the height of Mount Lowe and' Mount ;Wll«on? _\u25a0\u25a0 : Lowe, -6,100 feet; Wilson, s,Bß6 ? feet. f GOLD FISH— A. Y. H.. City. Is it r possible to k*ep gold flsh for any length of time? Have tried many ways, but hare been unable to keep them allre for more than a month or two, al though I have given them every attention. Perhaps you have killed your flsh with too much kindness. Many persons Introduce so called flsh- food into re ceptacles in which . goldfish are kept, in the first place none of these is good for the fish, and in the second place the fish do not need them, as the water, if kept fresh, will furnish them with sufficient sustenance; last and bestrna scm of all, anything which consumes the oxygen In the water— and these artificial foods do — Injures the fish. Change the water in your fish globe every, day; wipe the inside of the globe every time the water is changed. The water should: be as clean as possible, but not too hard. Green leaves or liv ing plants in the water 'are -good, for they ahsorb the carbonic gas exhaled by the fish, and, besides, give off oxy gen./ . - • . r \u25a0'\u25a0:\u25a0 ••/.- *-. ••*."\u25a0- - - :. ..>\u25a0 QUOITS— B. M. A., San Jose. What ia the distance for pitching quoits? -How is<the came played? . The playing is as : follows: Two pins, called "hobs"~are driven into the ground v-l8.*to: 24 yards apart, -ac cording to terms agreed upon by the players^ These divide themselves into two parties.; stand at one hob and in regular succession throw, their., quoits, each player having two,' as near to the hob as they can. To facilitate the sticking of the quoits at the point where they strike the ground a clay end or flat circle of . clay 2 inches thick and 18 inches In diameter is placed round each hob. This is kept moist and is strewn with" sawdust, ~ \u25a0 - ' ' \u25a0 . •'»-• \u25a0; . BRASS AND COPPER— M. C. M., Uklah. How may darJrfcpots on lacquered brass be re -moved? What is used to keep copper bright for some time? ". \u25a0 ...-, The only way to remove such spots is to have the lacquer taken off and replaced with a new coat. There are several preparations to poljsh copper, , but In order to keep bright the article needs rubbing occasionally with whit ing in powder applied- with a cham ois. .If necessary use a soft brush to remove any whitening that may're main in creases.. . ' • • • • • • < * r, 9A9 A 2 A J JJ * TOW '— H - M. S.. city. .Did' thr United States have to pay r toll for the. passage of the Atlantlo fleet through; the Sne« canal on its cruise around the world ? If so, how. much ? The • question was submitted to the navy department, at Washington, D. C.v and the following reply has-been re ceived: "The total cost of the passage of the United States Atlantic ; fleet through the Suez canal when voyaging around the .world 16,' 1907, to Feb ruary 22, 1909) was $134,751.32." " • ; \u0084•-. \u25a0, :>; : ,--V^--» iiZ ARRAH KA POGUE— WVR., BconviUe. What Is the meaning of "Arrah Na Po^ne," the title of n play byil)lon ; Bouclcault? \u25a0 . It means Arrah of the kiss. Arrah Meelish is ;the leading woman's char acter in, the fplay.; ;Arrah, in addition to being a given name* for a woman, is used as an exclamation of surprise and .Is frequently used in accosting a per son or calling attentjon to ; : something. --\u25a0•,- : . - ' '\u25a0' * '"' -*' • \u25a0 ; '...•'; '"\u25a0'\u25a0> ' V .'.;\u25a0 ' \u25a0 , r <c ; ' i,* >_ LAW— A.. W. S.. Woodland. Is there- any book published that gives a general reference to all points : of law? ~ \u0084. ,. . .• .- \u0084 ! Possibly what yoM, v want isa law 'dic tionary. IThis :in a "- general .way • tells of mostl things that come' within the category of. law. \u25a0*• .-\u25a0 -V-" • '\u25a0' t-; • . *'""- \u25a0•*". \u25a0'\u25a0'• ' b 4 v MAGISTRATES— J. VW. R., No-ato. What Is the salary; of "city magistrates In the city .ef New York?; » ;\u25a0 .: : .' ?7,000 a year .\u25a0/\u25a0\u25a0•> •';-: •.: ['•\u25a0_>; .'.- ... • *.'.. ' •; ; SEA Lr— W. 'S. T.; San Jose. Is it.i t . in "good taste for a man. In sending letters to friends, to put his seal on the back ol envelopes? ' Yes. " - '; . " *.\u25a0'." :':-\'.. ' V^7 iV.-< •\u25a0 .... *-• . • % • \:"-/:\ \u25a0 RELIGION— M. ; S. T.I Merced. To what re ligious denomination '\u25a0' does " Marie , Corelli,- . the authoress,- belong? ..• • > . .: <_;•< We do not know. . .'.;•}\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0.':, IS CONVICTION MERE MENTALITY Theory That Belief Makes Wrong -Right and Vice' Versa Disputed JEROME S. RICARD, S. J. A few years ago. a brilliant scientist startled the world — of course, that means only a few dozen souls, more, or less—^t>y proclaiming - himself the in ventor of mentality. In our simplicity we .' had always thought mentality was the common heritage of our. race, and^we were all familiar, at least to a certain extent, with that. commodity. But lo and be hold! we were rather rudely awakened from our time honored dream, when, some indefinite time ago,** gentleman we met on the road vouchsafed the in formation that "howsoever at variance any two parties might be on any topic, yet both of them were'rlght, because, forsooth, they had different minds." "Whence the inference was plain that either one of the two parties saw one thing and the other another in the same thing; or one"of them saw well and the f other dimly; or one of them saw simply'and ' the other not at all, In which case the latter pronounced judgment, and so both of them were right because they had a different per ceptive faculty. At all events, the im pression remained "with .us thdt men tality was a sort of mathematical prob lem awaiting a scientific solution, ana the aforementioned scientist had been fortunate enough to hit upon it — the so lution "amounting to the effect that "mentality was a sort of by-product, or, rather, an efflorescence, mo to May, of ionized Infinitesimal atoms vibrating with a Quasi infinite velocity." We have no desire now to delay upon this oid bit of new information, so let it stand in all the fresh beauty of its new garb. We simply* notice, en passant, the flood of light it throws upon the heterodox looking proposition above enunciated. If the vibratory movement is next to infinite, the men tal machine understands well; if the movement slackens, not so well; if It is comparatively sluggish, it Is dolt ishness; if 'it" stops, it is brutish stu pidity. In any case, so, long as move ment is movement and mentality is movement, it and its result must be all right, and, therefore, different minds thinking different things about the same thing must all of them be right. \ S ;•:';, It may be so subjectively, whether as mere activity or result in Itself. But what about the objection side of "the question? Some . one whispers the answer. That "different minds" means only "different degrees of mentality," and the point in question is only one of more or less and not of disagreement. Another suggests . that the object is complex; that one party' takes one point of view and the other another. So it happens with the spectrum when you can confine your attention to the ultra-red and I to the ultra-violet. But the trouble is when, say, a dozen persons would confine their attention to the ultra-red and one would see. nothing, the other blue, the next not blue* or green, the next black, and so on. -\u25a0 Allowing for the vagaries of color bliniflriess, one can say this is impos r sible; yet it is a most faftHtul picture of this very real world in which we live. On the hypothesis that difference in -mind is only one of gradation, a good showing can be made out, thus: I see a triangle, so do you; you see in it more than I do, for it brings to your mind the trigonometric functions which I know nothing about. Another will see even more, namely; the expansions -of sines and cosines into Infinite -series, which is all a mystery to you and me. Why, the geodetic- and coast survey of the United States sees even more; we mean those processes of triangulation by which they map out the whole coun try and measure arcs of meridians and parallels of latitude.' If this is notywhat is meant by the phrase "different minds," we must con tess our utter inability to understand the point at issue. For all cognitive faculties are meant "by nature to estab lish an equation between the represent ation and the thing represented. If this is not true, the whole process of cognition is nothing but a delusion and a snare, and man the perpetual victim of phantasmagoria. All mind is made for truth and in the nature of things can not but be made for truth, and if truth is worth anything, it consists in an equation, and that equation can be understood more or less; but what is certain Is that one mind can not de clare it an equation and another mind a nonequation, for the thing in' itself (das ding an sich) is either an equation or a nonequation, and there is no middle term. If it is an equation and one. mind says yes and the other mind no, one must be right and the other wrong. , > < The identity of contradictories is the ultimate step of mental derangement and the solid common sense of man kind has never been able to see in it anything „ except a .dream of dreams and a -vanity .of vanities. There are those who have declared being is not being and not being is being, which can be understood In a certain way. For instance, .being in general is not being in-particular and vice versa." But the affirmation that a being in general is not that being in general, say that a rose. ls not; a rose, can h only be ex plained ,on the supposition' that the afflrmer can be suffered to be at large only if he is harmless In other respects. \u25a0. The proposition that different minds can vthlnk different things about the same thing \u25a0at the same time : and from the same point of view, '-otherwise understood than\as we have- pointed out,- is x as full of practical mischief as any the grossest error or tha wildest passion. Take two men who disagree about something, say. the owner of the •Los- Angeles Times and the dynamiter. According to the above theory, both of them V; are - right; because they have different ininqs. If^so, why should the country "sympathize with the "one and seek, vengeance; on the: other? If both of them are righj,' I. c;, the peaceful ownership ~ and preservation of the- Times building is the truth of the case, and its violent destruction is also the truth of the case, why should we» dis criminate between truth and truth? If we •' are in the truth how - can we persecute, "prosecute V and ; punish ', the truth? Does-truth oppose truth? ' I- think .a man: innocent; you think him guilty. Both of us are certainly < right; because we ha,ve^ different minds. What i#. to be; done? ' You are stronger than he," so you rob him of his belong ings 'and jj'ou 1 send ,him adrift. -But I think him right and therefore am right. But I : am stronger than you. so I violent ly dispossess you of what you took from him-«ndsend->you adrift. I can not be blamed: because -I . was rlght.'i nor - can you be blamed because, you were Tight. Hence • the above \u25a0 proposition translates itself>i*toHhis 'other— ."might is right" and "right is .might"— the only prere quisite being the , easy ; persuasion that one . is , right ;\u25a0 because he thinks so. But the governments 'under which both you and I live 'will take; cognizance of the caae and fine both - <jf us, forsooth, on the ground' that ithe law- thinks other wise * than we, and \u25a0 the', law Is - certainly right, because it thinks : it is right, and the ': law makers were rlght.n because they; had different; minds from ' yours and • mine. > But; hold.Hwhat right has the ; \u25a0' government ; '\u25a0\u25a0 to .persecute and punish V: The :'; sole . hypothesis • of . our being wrong - can Justify: any govern ment for the punishment ? of both :you andme. Any other, view, of punishment is- arbitrary.and crimlnal.-.r The • sole difference between :a- just-government and a tyrannical : one hangs, on this dis tinction.'* r" '\u25a0 ••\u25a0'.-: -.'\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0. -." - ;At f. all - events , the : government will seize and -punish' both; of- us J for: our ; unmanly *- immoral * conduct.* - 1 But.- by hypothesis; iboth -of us'were right and so we are subjected to* a penalty for Uncle Walt Th ePoet Phil o s o pher I'd fain be so successful that people, when .1 pass, will say: "He's worth a million — he puts up We of grass!'' The men whore worth a million find people bow ing low, and there are smiles ancl greeting wherever they may go. I'd fain be worth a million, and so I'll do my best, to help along the luckless, and comfort the distressed : some por tion of my income I'll hand out to the poor, and. keep the wolf from howling at some old woman's door. „ I'll utter no complainings, or moans or use less whines, but pack around the village a mug that fairly shines. I'll stand up strong for virtue— the good old rugged sort ; I don't believe in making an angel of a sport ; I" don't believe in virtue so horribly severe it frowns on all the follies of this old dizzy sphere. I'll boost my native village until my senses reel: I'll keep' my shoulders ready to put them to tfie wheel; 111 knock all day on knocking, and kick the kickers down, and try to be. an asset in this three cornered town. And then I'll hear a murmur from 'preciative folk: "That man is 'worth a million, although. he's going broke ! ' ; o*7**l%. uw, *y /a* fty\ - WORTH A MILLION The Morning Chit-Chat! THERE is a certain spot very near home for all of us, to which an occasional, say a weekly or at least" a monthly, visit would be invaluable.- r l~ -_ \u0084 And yet some 61 us go there hot more than once or twice a year, some of us once or twice in a lifetime, and some of us never. . . And that spot is simply the bottom of our hearts. How often do you go down into the very bottom of your heart? - • • \u25a0\u25a0 ' \u25a0 A little friend of- mine was trying" to make up her mind about something. ' "• "In the bottom of your heart," I asked, "don't you know that you don't care for. him?" ••;..• She sat thinking intently for a moment or two. "Yes," she acknowledged slowly; "in the bottom of my heart I guess I. do know it. I don't know as I ever went there to find out before."- \u25a0' . T;\ : -v/ ; ." . \u25a0 • •" . \u25a0 \u25a0'. \ : ,. That's the way with most of us. " . • /..^ \u25a0;-> We have some important question to decide and we. argue with ourselves , and range the\lisadvantages and advantages against each other in pitched, battle and get needlessly confused and embroiled, while down in the bottom of our hearts,, clearand'distinct as the .pebbles at the bottom of a crystal well, the true answer lies waiting" iof us. to come and look for it. To 10 men who are honest with other men I don't believe there is more than one .who is thoroughly hohest with himself. •. \u25a0..\u25a0"\u25a0 We try, self-conceitedly, to judge- of other people's motives, but wise ii the man who knows even his- own motives, I think. - . I remember the first .time I had a check book. " As soon as I got it I wrote out a check for a certain charity, I started to. be pleased with myself at my virtuous action, and then I took a. trip to .the bottom of ray heart and Vondered, "Am I doing this wholly for sweet charity's sake or partly for -the pleasure of using my new check book?" I think the best time to go down to the bottom of your heart rs in the morning,' just after you wake up, Or rather just after you have completely swept away the cobwebs of sleep by your morning bath, ... The well is clearest then." At night the sunset glow of the emotionalisrh, • .* [ which is so much stronger in most of us at that time, is reflected in it and . makes it less crystalline, and the breeze of mental excitement and enthusiasm, whiclvis usually most lively then,ripples and quivers its surface. But is the morning, the. clear, cool, unemotional morning, the will of your inmost self awaits your scrutiny, clear as a crystal* unruffled as a mirror Ha.ye you any problems, to decide? . - •.->• Have you any subject that demands your very sanest consideration? ..;.; v If "you "have, why not. see what suggestion lies; at the bottom of your " heart? ." "\u25a0/; - - . * ." •' ..- : Why not visit that neglected' spot tomorrow morning as you dress? .. You may not find anything different there from what you know already. And then again you may find truth itself, undiluted and undisguised. But maybe you don't care mugh for truth that way. . . , ..: Few people do. . .1^ -*- • >> • \u25a0\u25a0::\u25a0\u25a0 being right. But right and wrong are contraries. .Both can not stand at the same time. Hence either the govern ment is wrong and' should withhold its Interference (if so, both of us were, right and yet we are lighting and the stronger, will fight the weaker to death and there is not helping it), or the gov ernment was right and both of us were wrong, even though both of us'thought we were right, I think, with Voltaire, lying Is all right; you think It's all wrong. I lie to you and you catch me In flagrante delictu and you punish me physically, and I graciously return the compli ment. tVho is going to arbitrate be tween us? He who does so must think both of us to be in the wrong and he is sure to be right, because he thinks so, and nature has blessed him with a different mind. So, if he thinks he is the stronger, he will do by us what he thinks fit and. no government dare Interfere because the three- of us are right and it is not right to contra vene right, i . ' \u25a0 The United States settled the friar question In the Philippines by limiting their ownership of land and buying the surplus. On the hypothesis upder dis cussion, our government was certainly right, because they thought so.. But the French government has time and again expelled a legion of Its best citi zens and confiscated their property to the benefit of the state. The same has been lately done by the new republic, of "Portugal, which, they say. Is mod eled on that of the United States. It may be assumed they were right and so undoubtedly they were,, because they, thought so and had different minds. ' ... ' But can diametric opposites be both rigßtt Is white black and black white? But the parties expelled vrere a cohort of criminals!- "Wiell and goods but those poor criminals had different minds and \*oeyond" all shade of doubt were right. a^-By what right then were they expelled and their belongings taken from them? We are again, land ed into the pure region of mechanics — PERSONS -I "N THE- NEWS H. W. CANNON, president of tbe.PaclSc com \u25a0 pany, which owns the. Pacific Coast steamship company," "ls at the Palace with, his soa. J. C. Ford, .president of the racific'Coast'steam sblp company, is also at the Palace. '••\u25a0\u25a0" *' \u25a0 * \u25a0 ALEXANDER BEOWN, : president of the «tate" ; board of equalization,' Is at the Stewart," regis tered from Stockton. \u25a0 » " • \u25a0 .-•*\u25a0'.'\u25a0 * W. &. SANDER of ten Ancelen and W. G. Newell of ' Chicago are among t tie recent ar rivals at the Manx/ \u25a0 ' • '.-.. \u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0"\u25a0<\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0-.•\u25a0,''*\u25a0" \u25a0\u25a0 •..•'-'\u25a0•-• \u25a0" • Una. and ' MRS. GERHA&D VrEKPE returned from \u25a0 Europe ; yesterday . and . took' apartments at the Fairmont. E. R. CAREY of the California Oil World fs np from BaVersfleld and is «taylng at the St. Francis. • \ \u25a0 ' . \u25a0 • \u25a0 • \u25a0 • THEODORE B. WIL.COX. a Cour merchant of Portland, is at the Palace with Mrs. Wllcqx. . '\u25a0 "•'\u25a0'• * WALTER McCBEERY returned from EnsUnd yesterday and is staying at the St. Francis. '-.'•. - • \u25a0 • A. ALBRECHT, a businessman of Fresno, Is registered at the Stewart. . < - • . \u25a0 . • '- . • W.: A. OTIS of Seattle is resist ered at the IRVING STEVlirs of New 5 York is at the Stan-' : v.. .;£ NOVEMBER 3, 1910 SUTB CAME2ON mere brutal foree — the very negation of mentality. y... v Thus it is evident that wherever we take> the theoretical or the practical point *of view, the new 1 mentality theory can not stand examination and can only be the frult-of morbid Imagi nation. The only apology "we can flnd for that new f angled idea is in the domain of purely subjective morality. Herein, a man's conscience-rhis ultimate prac tical Judgment I concerning his proxi mate . conduct— may be clamorously wrong;" and- yet. because he has "no inkling whatever about ita being so and he honestly thinks he is'right. he is not merely, entitled to act but may at times, according to. the nature of the case, be strictly bound to act. But cases of. such Invincible Ignorance are exceedingly rare and seem to be evi dences of initial mental derangement for which -society in genei^l or the state will provide. > > \u25a0 Santa Clara College. The Idiot Again The turkey was not a very largs one. and Mrs. Pedagog's boarders began to be a little anxtcus on the - subject of. it., going around. Finally the last bit was distributed and the Wlot. glancing at his portion, observed that he had .'drawn the neck and the pope's- nose. ".* "Ah. Mrs. Pedagog." said he. with a genial smlje % "you are a wonder at making both ends meat!" — Lippln cott's. So. Sew I said to the tailor, "Hello! i ' , HoWs business, old fellow, quite slo-w? ' Or does it Just go so -'You might call It so-so ?*\u2666 "Not so-so," he answered, but se-w!" *'- r . \ — Puck. • HI7GO.V. PEDEBSEJJ, an artist who ia fbertly tp «i T e an exhibition o* his pictures, is U p from Monterey and l 3l 3 staying at the St • Francis: • . _>; - W. 3. LOC^£ t the EnsHsh norcllst. and VLntzft B. Jewftt. a ' pabTisber ' ol No.t YorV ara guestsat the St. Ftancia: JAKES r. rAaiAHEa.*an' i'*tara«T of Ear**, . . Is a guest at' the falice. '..».. i •• C, E, BHXB, a leather merchant of Philadel phia, is at th« Coloalar. TKAKK FREEMAN, an attorney of Wffloir- t. . staying at'the Palace. > - MS. and Mrs. R. J. SPBOX7T of Vaneoarer, B*. C, «re at the Turpix • ' \u25a0• • • . DS. T. W. TATTBE of Zacatecas, Mex4«>, u,° . guest at the Palace. \u25a0 a • • ' * *" R» J. BTO3TE. a mlate? man. t)f JohnsTtDe. Cai 'Is at the Stewart. " " £?-' . ..-.-. . . .' \u25a0 GEOHOE HEXDEBSO2I aai wif e of g- aata -^ are at the Ttoptn. I» W. £QOD, a bßslaesamao of Pleasanton. la WALT MASO2J