The San Francisco call., 1899-04-02

son makes a business of demonstrating
that 81 day is enough for any man to
employ In the rearing of family and
| to strive for more is a. sin. Atkinson,
to get up an appetite for his own elab-
crate dinner, can show in figures that
a 7-cent meal is best adapted 10 the
needs of labor, although his own 1at
was never derived from such diet. II
Carnegie and Atkinson are not palr
of frauds then rotten meat is Whole-
some and Alger is a gentleman and
soldier. Charles Francis Adams is also
on the list. He is a pot-bellied Bos-
tonian who was once permitted to run
the Union Pacific until he ran it into
the ground and all the good officials
out of it's service. The three make up
a precious trio. l suggest that if they
are panied at the treatment the Filio
pinos are getting they go to the islands
and take up arms for their friends.
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In this paper a week ago there was a
portrait and a sketch of Hetty Green,
supposedly the richest woman in Amer
| ica. The face, taken apart from the
| title line and the subject matter, would
be adjudged that of a criminal, in all
likelihood that of a woman who after
an ignoble career was ending her days
in the almshouse. Yet in one sense
Mrs. Green is not criminal. She
prizes a dollar above her soul, but this
| indicates simply a nice appreciation Of
values, for the soul peering from that
face would be dear at 40 cents. There
is nothing feminine in the hard lines of
her countenance, nothing gentle nor
sweet. More attractive mugs" adorn
every rogues' gallery in the land. 1T
| is not strange that this should be so,,
| for never knew Of criminal meaner,
smaller or more contemplate than this
deadbeat millionairess, who declines to
pay her taxes, to dress decently, or to
live after the fashion of the civilized.
| Doubtless divine wisdom knows what
Hetty Green is for, and so it might ac-
count for the existence of snakes, but
| to my humble understanding she cum2
bers the earth. 1 would like to see her
| useless fortune scattered to the four
winds; mayhap a portion. of it would
fall into worthy hands.
An editor at Eureka presented his
salutatory Monday and his vaIedictory
Friday, the latter giving an intimatien
that the interval had been filed with
woe. His discretion is to be commend
ed. The faculty of knowing a good
thing when one does not see it is rare
and valuable.
1t is said that the petrifaction of a
whales head has been. found in Mon
terey County 250O feet above sea level.
To doubt anything is useless. Let us
HE to the coast and discover the petri-
fed imprint made by Jonah when the
whale got tired of Juggling him.
A patient in the Stockton asylum was
sent there for an assault upon wo-
man, his insanity having been indi-
Gated by the act. Since his incarcera-
tion he has displayed violence toward
everybody coming near him. The other
day he murdered a fellow patient, the
episode seeming to him to be a joke
Before his confinement he had been a
worthless, marauding tramp. 1 think
that under a system providing properly
for society the man would in some hu-
name fashion be put to death He is
Of no possible use to himself nor to
anybody else, but danger and an eK-
owe him nothing. They have to sup
port him and he has never done aught
TO merit the consideration l am heart
lily in favor of killing the homieidaI
lunatic whether he be of the sort who:
rends his rainent and yowls at the
moon, or of the worse brand who
stands at the bar of justice and pleads
his mental state as an excuse for crime
This course would be charitable not
alone to sane people, but TO the lunatic,
Life here holds no joy for him, while
in another life the eyes of his soul
might be opened.
VIII Senator Morehouse please take
note that for these many moons 1 have
been signing articles? This was partly
due to the fact that other members OF
the staff declined to be suspected of
responsibility. but in greater measure
to the fact that Morehouse had in his
mind the great idea that he sprung at
Sacramento, of compelling all writer's
to adorn their product with their sig
natures. This was a process scfentifi-
cally known. as telepathy and is simply
q system of telegraphing without wires
The Morehouse measure is unique as
the ,iodo and will cut an equal figure in
the regulation of the race. Neverthe-
less he can see that 1 am with him
A book entitled THE Extinction of
Poverty" is on my desk and will be
read in due time. The extinction of
poverty. is certainly much to be de-.
sired, but as it will be accompanied by
the extinction of the human race 1 am
diffident about coaxing it to hurry.
Notwithstanding, this book, by August
Greth. NJ. D.. is doubtless worthy of
thoughtful consideration
Dana H. Thomas, who found $500 in
the street, returned it to the owner and
refused a modest reward freely ten
dered, writes long letter defending his
act. No defense is necessary. Mr.
Thomas acted within his rights SIS a
strictly honest man, and if he could not
accept the reward and retain = clear
conscience was wise to refuse it. An
editorial in this paper asserted that in
accepting reward he would have done