The San Francisco call., 1898-08-07

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 One cannot avoid entertaining feel
 ing of admiration for the query editor of the New York Tribune. He is ever | ready to oblige, and his aim Is to please. Recently, however, a question
 was propounded which puzzled him and 1 he appealed to the public for light. Per haps before now he has received it. He
 sets forth his desire for knowledge as 1 follows: Can any one furnish the whole of the poem beginning with God i of our Fathers and ending with Lest
 we forget. lest we forget'?" He explains | that this is especially requested by an ! old subscriber. It is hardly necessary i to say that the poem he wants has a title something like "The Confessional" |" and was composed by Omar Khayyam one day when he happened to be sober. It does not appear in the published
 works of the gentleman because he spoke 1t into phonograph which he had purchased on the installment plan and which the dealer came and swiped with a writ of replevin while the poem was still inside. The cylinder was late ly recovered at a village in Milpitas County, Persia, where housewife was using it as a rolling pin, she explain 1 ing that she had secured 1t from a junk shop. If the Tribune query man ever gets stuck again I hope he will send to me direct
 It Is all very well, of course, now that Financier Hooley is down to give him a passing kick. His habit of paying matter of s10,000 for a mere introduc- tion to somebody with a title was most reprehensible. It was small business Why did he not do things on the mag niflcent American scale? He could have found precedent for paying a mill lion or two and throwing his daughter into the bargain for good measure. Let it not be permitted the Hooleys to de- grade the titles upon which we look with reverence.
 Russell Sage swears that he Is worth s50000. I do not see how he figures this out. His fortune is $50 900, 900, or whereabouts, so the estimate he gives the tax collector must be quite apart from consideration of his wealth; in fact statement of his personal value as discerned by himself There has
  tion more gross. On the basis men toned Sage Is not worth cents, not equal to a canceled revenue stamp. It has always seemed to me grievance that the crazy dynamite thrower who took a toss at Sage succeeded in hit ting the wrong man. It will be re- membered that on that occasion Sage used clerk as a shield, that the clerk was terribly injured and that the s50,- 900 beauty refused to pay him cent to liquidate his doctor bills or so much as send a postal card expressing grat- itude The clerk, crippled and inva- lided for life, brought suit and won. There was appeal after appeal, the clerk being sustained in several courts, but whether the case was finally set tied I do not know. At least 1t was not settled until Sage had shown him self to be the meanest man whose meanness ever got on record Now he has the nerve to swear that he is worth s50000: But if Sage intended to convey the impression that his mate rial possessions were no more than this trifle, of course he is a perjurer, and under a government with laws justly and fearlessly administered would be in the penitentiary or on his way thither.
 It has never been my fortune to meet Robert Sanderson, capitalist, of Oak land, but I have learned of him and take pleasure in introducing him to readers. It was he who caused a wo- man to be evicted for a trif1e of rent, but such things must happen, I sup pose, and in this circumstance alone was not the offending. The constable who served the writ was human wherein he held an advantage over the capitalist. When he saw that the wo- man had a large family. all dependent upon her, he declined to set her into the street, but got another house. paid the rent for month, and moved her into it. Then Sanderson roared. He did not regard an ejectment marked by an absence of cruelty as being the sort he had bargained for. The operation he considered incomplete in that it did not conclude with the woman and her children sitting roofess under the night sky, and so he demurred about hand ing over the fee. I believe he did later make a settlement, although to do so DdlneQ 1lIn. odUueISOU IS lllS SOIl Ol a capitalist whose mission in life Is to make himself as we'll as worthy and decent rich men hated. I hope never to have to mention him again, but would joy in the opportunity to record that the. malovelent disposition he man. ifests had resulted in fatal blood pois- oning.
 It seems that the ministers who once affiliated with the remarkable Edwards Davis have resolved that he can't play in their pulpits any more until he shall have manifested a desire to reform. This is all right so far as 1t goes. They should have said, however, that he must do something more than put on exhibition desire towards reform. He ought to be made to go to the extreme of reforming.
 I believe that St. Louis is regarded as a center of civilization of the Mis-
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