The San Francisco call., 1898-12-11

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 footfall of the throng After quoting l briefly, this queer creature comments:
 '1 am surprised that MT. James dis
 plays so much feeling in discussing
 this subject. After reading some of his criticisms I had been led to believe
 he was devoid of sentiment. Is it possible I have been mistaken" Yes, | it is possible. You were never any thing else. Because a man in passing Judgment on daily discharge of verse so crude that 1t might be the work of a pupil in a school for feeble minded fails to discover beauty there, for the sufficient reason that no beauty is there, no sense nor rhythm, reason nor excuse, is not ground for supposing him | lacking in sentiment. 1t may be that l he is merely refraining from being a | fool. I confess to feeling of senti- ment toward the ordinary dead, but not toward the Muser. Where he shall l be buried, or when, makes not a par | ticle of difference.
 | Tesla has now so far perfected a mys- | terious boat, designed to sweep annoy | ing navies from the sea, as to sell ac- counts of it at space rates. Nearly as | may be judged by a public devoid of prejudice, but rather liking a faker, | this is the advance stage of any of | Tesla's schemes.
 W. A. Brandes, the father accused of the murder of his little daughter, has only been in jail few days, and yet he has professed religion. The fervor with which he prays is said to be caution to sinners. Far be it from me to decry religion, which has taken a | strong hold upon humanity and lifted | many mortal to new life, a better ambition and a sacred hope. But it seems to me the good there is in it is | sadly weighted by the readiness with | which Brandes reaches to it for a comfort he does not deserve, and a solace merited only by the upright, the pure in heart and the penitent. With out any desire to prejudice a prospec tive juryman, am obliged to hold the opinion that Brandes beat his daugh- ter to death, and holding it, can with clear conscience, express it. If he did so, what he needs is not the attitude of humility, the voice of regret, but hanging. Leaving out the fact that his | own blood was in the veins of the vic- tim, the man who will maltreat a child is not fit to live. There was a case in Colorado some years ago wherein a girl was beaten and abused to death by man and a woman. When the people ascertained the truth, they took the pair and lynched them. AS a citizen of Colorado then I thought they did exact 1V the thinor nd 1,t the State do not remember that there was voice of dissent
 With feeling of regret at being hu- man, quote from the account of re- cent prize fight: "rBecker's face was smashed to jelly. Blood rained down his face and filled his eyes. Some of the spectators turned away their faces to hide the sight" It may be added that Becker at the time of the writing was expected to die. So this is sport. It seems to me comment would be superfluous, and if such as to fittingly characterize the brutes within the ring and outside, unprintable.
 When will the East arise to reali- zation of the fact that the Chinese are undesirable? It is nothing in New York, or Boston or Philadelphia that the Chinese of San Francisco live in defiance of moral law or written code. that they are beyond the reach of au- thority. The Chinese here maintain a system of slavery Under it women are bought, sold, held as chattels. In maintenance of this iniquitous system money is freely spent, conscienceless lawyers retained, perjury committed, murder done. Courts seem to be power- less. This is large country, with room for many people, but were it hundred times as large, there would be no more room for the Chinese than for leprosy.
 Shanahan was not exactly elected to the Governorship, but in Nevada County he got one vote, and in some other counties he did even better.
 
 The society editor has a grievance. She calls for sympathy. and not in vain. It seems that she has at hand list of adjectives which 1t is her pleasing wont to apply to brides. They are lovely or charming or chic. They have eyes dark as night or blue and bright as the heavens By judicious selection among these adjectives she had been enabled in the past to give each bride a proper send-off. She had come to regard the qualifying words as her own and once deprived of them could no more write up a wedding than legless man could sprint. The griev- ance is that the everyday reporter, the man who portrays murders and makes a speciality of the homicidal young woman, has coolly swiped these adjec- tives. His petticoated assassin is in appearance the things bride ought to be, and that a bride would be if left to the society artist. I suggest that the style might be changed. For instance it might be: "The bride had the air of a woman just about to commit murder and in her eyes cerIIlean fotIor,1o..