The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01
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wherever within reach of Spanish in suit. It is a matter for surprise that some Americans are exhibiting a spirit fully up to the Don's standard of meanness. I refer particularly to the forced resignation of Carlos Sobrino, who had been engaged as pianist to tour with certain fiddler, a foreigner whose love for this country is meas ured by the dollars he can WOO through the mystic melody of vibrant catgut, and who faithfully takes his winnings back to Belgium. I have known So- primo for a dozen years. It is true he is native of Spain, but America is the home of his choice and his affection. He is skilled musician, Lis standing being shown by his touring Europe re- gently as the companion of Sarasate. He is of a gentle and extremely sensi- tive nature, a gentleman in the com plete sense, and to be missed off the stage because of his Castilian blood was an affront which must have been a bitter blow. Sobrino is married to charming woman whose voice was delight to the public in the old days when the Boston Ideals were in their prime. She happens to be a native of Germany, but has become as thorough ly American as her husband. The pi- anist is an unusually handsome man. His picture, which the Sobrinos to- gether did me, the honor to present in seasons past, attracts the admiration of all who chance to see it. It is es- sentially the face of the artist, the man whose world is the world of music and
 
 a whip. I feel disgust for the narrow minded hoodlums of either sex who thought they were expressing patriot ism when they hooted off the stage a gentleman whose offense was that he had been born in Spain. They should be ashamed of themselves.
 
 After having determined once to say no more about the poetry fired at me, but to stack it in the corner with a view to its ultimate sale by the cord I am induced to recant. In the presence of the war song of the esteemed Exam finer, admiration sweeps stern resolve away and the heart beats to the lyric strain like the drum of a Salvation corps. It is not permitted me to know
 
 it was Mir Thomas Garrett, who had never been suspected of inclination to ''bust into werse.' At least he has been the war editor of the Examiners bulletins, a position in which he has covered himself with glory, and this poem constituted one of the bulletins. If he were not the architect and build CT of it, he recognized it's merits and a portion of the fame shall ever be his. The real poet must in fairness snatch a few leaves from his own crown of bay and decorate herewith the brow of Garrett. I cannot refrain from repro ducing here the last stanza of the inn mortal five:
 The Mangrove caught the Panama.
 Helena caught the lover;
 We'll have the entire Spanish fleet
 Before the war is over
 So there now! It was only last week I expressed a hope that some one would arise to voice the sentiment stir ring the country. Apparently he has ariz. Far be it from me to refuse to recognize merit, even though it's habi- tat be the camp of the enemy.
 
 with the Beardsley school of freak art and went out on a tide of derision. But the bright blue horse is with us. A glance at some of the current war pie lures not infrequently discovers a cav alryman bestride a beast of this de scription, the hoofs of the steed lost in a carpet of red grass, a pink stream babbling merrily alongside, yellow trees nodding in the breeze, and over all rich green sky.
 There is no particular reason for commenting at length on the death of pugilist from a blow received in the ring. If to hurt a man is good, to kill him is better.
 A little spitfire named Emma Gold man, by the laxness of law and the for bearance of Providence permitted to be out of jail, has been shrilling her nonsense hereabouts and has attracted more attention than deserved. Some have gone so far as to speak of her re- spectfully. Even deference to her sex would not permit me to do this. I have. for the Goldman creature all the ven eration due a snake. Of this unlovely entity she has every quality, aggra-. vated because she possesses an intelli- gence denied the serpent. To attempt to combat her absurd theories, to class fly her various iniquities, would be to pay her undue attention. It is enough to say that any one who could be mis- led by her venomous drool would be a scoundrel and certain to reach the penitentiary or the gallows through the natural process of evolution, so she is incapable of acute harm. The woman, to express her worth mildly, has all the clements of the assassin, save the single one of bravery. She is despicable as the villain who applies the torch, who outrages innocence, or thrusts a dagger into the back of the unsuspecting. She is unfit to live ia a civilized country, and there is only one such country in the world which would tolerate her unrestrained presence. She is unfit to live among savages, because they know and practice a form of jus tice The beasts of the field are above her. She is an accessory to all crime, a teacher of immortality and treason, an insult to decency, travesty on