The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-19

coming back as veterans, but even
those who love them most and VINO are
bound by ties of kindred, would not
wish to see them until they could bring
with them the record of duty COM
pletely performed and every honor of
war All that can be asked in reason
is that as the Californians were first to
sail away in due and proper course
they be the first to sail back. But not
while needed at Manila to uphold the
honor of their country They are
Americans as we'll as Californians and
neither towards nor children.
For many years Evangelist Moody
has been garnering human souls and
has done very we'll He is now in this
neighborhood and l hope will meet with
his usual success. But with all his en-
thusiasm, his ardor which seems little
less than an inspiration, Mr.. Moody can
afford to talk sense. He spoke the other
night about the Bible and said: "Ac-
cept it all or reject every line" To ac-
cept every line of the Bible literally Is
! impossible to the normal intelligence
of many worthy people. In parts of 1T
the Creator of the universe, it seems
| to them, is portrayed as a monster.
cruel, vindictive and small; subject to
| the passions of anger, aVarlce ana
vanity. With a reverence for God, the
maker of worlds, l am glad not to be
able to believe'this of the Infinite. Nor
do I think as Mr.. Moody implies, that
the salvation of any soul hinges on in
dorsement of the tale that Jonah was
three days in the belly of a whale, that
| blowing on transforms ever Knocked
down a wall, or that at the bidding OF
! Joshua the sun stood still. Let Mr.
Moody teach the beautiful morality of
! the sermon on the mount and no scotter
can rise up to condemn. But his die
tum of literal acceptance is a demand
that people turn not wholly to better
| life, but that in great measure they
turn to heathenism, ignorance and SUI
| perstition. 1 would not offend Mr.
Moody. He is not only a gentleman,
| but one of the most astuteI advertisers
of modern times.
There are a few things about the op-
| era season that tend to make one cyni-
cal. One is the pretense of a lot of
cheap people that they know more con-
| corning music than a COW does of skat-
ing. They went to see Media, not to
hear her; and they went as they would
| have gone to observe the fat lady or
| the ossified gentleman. While in the
opera house they sized up the costume
of their neighbors, speculated as to the
cost of a dress, the value of certain dia-
monds on display, and wondered how
| the exhibitors ever got the price The
criticisms of the dramatic writer of The
Call have been as far above their heads
| h. site 7 RI haIi1 - fro,
and the people who rave over Melba
are frauds as often as sincere. She is
a glorious singer, but they do not know
it. They have no way of knowing it.
They have nothing to know with.
| 1t is with no feeling of personal ami
mostly I express the wish that James
Treadwell might be sent to San Quen-
tin for a long term. The young man
| has considerable money, but with it he
has the never failing faculty of being
ruff1an. He attempted at San Jose to
kill a woman of the half-World, who
with all her faults is his superior. With
wanton and bestial cruelty, for which
there can be no excuse, he assaulted
and MANNED her. Now his friends are
at work endeavoring to gloss over his
| offense, and I hope they will not sue
l. coed. The court to exculpate him would
| have to be corrupt, and the society to
condone his outrage rotten to the core.
| If there is such a court, and If there
| is such society, Treadwell is all right.
| If people are decent and honest, he is
a low-lived law breaker. 1t seems to
me pity that a man without brains,
| honor or ambition should have money
| and license to be reprobate.
Perhaps it is merely a coincidence,
and yet it struck me as strange that
only three weeks after the proprietors
of the Ingleside track had placarded
the town with announcements that they
did not advertise in The Call they had
nothing but lot of busted hopes to
| advertise. I do not particularly care
about the advertising in this paper
Some way salary day comes around
every week. Nevertheless there is sat-
isfaction in seeing a lot of full-grown
men, who have tried to deport them
selves after the manner. of asses, made
to realize that they are exactly that
which they proclaimed themselves to
be.
Judge Kerrigan recently would have
been arrested for fast driving except
that he made his identity clear to
park policeman. I would like to know
what figure his identity cut. 1t is as
pleasant to be run down by one reck-
less driver as another.
The pastor of the church which Rus
sell Sage attends and from a pew of
which his prayers and praises ascend
has resigned because the institution is
in debt. 1 respectfully call old Sage's
attention to the injunction of the Mas
ter to sell all earthly possessions and
give the proceeds to the poor
Most of the vetoes of Governor Gage
have been admirable, but 1 wish he
could have seen his way to assisting
the State to make reparation to an in
dividual who had been wronged beyond
the power of word to express. This