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the Academy of the Sacred Heart in
Washington street. The affair will be
in honor of the archbishop's- silver
jubilee and in the course of the after
noon he will be presented with a set
of silver vestments. Those who will
assist the religious in receiving are:
Mrs Abby NJ. Parrott Mrs. Andrew welch
Mrs. Robert Y. Hayne Mrs Eugene Lent
Mrs. Eleanor Martin AIme- de Gazette
Mrs. Michael J. OCep- Mrs. W G. Hitcheock
nor Mrs. Edward Eyre
Mrs. ]. NJ. Driscoll Mrs. NJ. A. Tobin
Mrs NJ. III. de Young and her daugh-
ters, Miss Helen. Miss Constance. Miss
Kathleen and Miss Phyllis. who have
been abroad for six months. will arrive
in San Francisco today or tomorrow
and will spend a few weeks in their
San Rafael home before opening the
California street house for the winter
George Cameron will take place next
month and will be followed in a few
weeks by the marriage of Miss Con-
stance de Young to Joseph oliver Tobin
Mrs. B. f. Norris has given up her
apartment in Pacific avenue and will
spend the winter at the Granada hotel.
Mrs. George Oulton has leased her
Berkeley house for the winter and will
spend the next six months on this side
of the bay.
Mrs. George Grant and Spencer Grant,
who spent the SUMMER in San Rafael,
have returned to town and will spend
the winter months at Broadway and
Fillmore streets.
Miss Edith Sullivan of Alameda will
leave early in November for Italy.
where she will join her cousin. Miss
Ellen O'Sullivan. for six months tour
of the continent.
Mrs. James Nee and Miss Nee are
spending a fortnight at the Normandie
hotel. in this city. They will return
next week to their own home in San
Rafael
Mrs Herbert Moffitt was hostess at
luncheon yesterday. the affair taking
place in the st. Francis hotel Among
her guests were Mrs Walter Martin.
Miss Jennie Crocker. Miss Jolliffe. Miss
Gertrude Jolliffe and Mrs. Will Magee.
One of the largest dinners of the
week was given last night at the Fair
mont hotel by Mr.. and Mrs. James VIII
cox of New York, who are in San Fran
cisco as the guests of kinspeople. the
Fl. E Griffiths of Sacramento street
The table for last nights affair was
elaborately decorated with pink roses
and the guests enjoyed a delicious
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NOISY CLOCKS

recently London firm of clock max
discovered that a rival German
cSaas company was doing large business in
Af~ie. Is on the west coast OF south
ti,'c tloeAs tney determined to give the ma
49, I've peter article than the C.arnosn
vns. ,',s ana relt sure OF success. The sales
Gle went Off freely. At Eesf ne 49, n,,1sir
,a 49, explained The new clocks were
100 quiet Those supplied BY the Ger
tseL nao particularly aggressive
S1 noise The noiseless clock was a
SSe..eL umepleee, but the savaxes vvo,,IeI
thfs nase nor, none OF Il. At the next shipment
sound and the German product becsn,e
u1u< on the market.-London Globe.
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re morse must also receive attention.
men possible the services of a COM
pe'ent veterinarian should be consulted
as soon as the disease appears.
oLD SoNG-Reader. City Where can
! ooealn the words of the old time song,
Jeanette and Jeanot'?
some dealer In music. The song
was pupiished by the Ditsons 80 years
Blue BOOK-F W.. Santa Rosa,
.af- Where can copy of the Caiifor-
ma biue Book be secured?
write to Secretary OF state G. r.
Curry, Sacramento, Cal,
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The Smart Set

"HE news of the wedding of Miss
Margaret Sheehan and Forbes T.
Hennessey, an event to be quietly
celebrated in New York tonight
comes as a great surprise to the many
friends of the bride in this city. Though
many suspected the attachment exist
ing between them, no formal announce
!, ment of the engagement has ever been
made John r. Sheehan, the father of
the bride; her two brothers. John r.
and Albert Sheehan, and about a5 in
innate friends will be present at the
ceremony that will take place at 8
O'Clock The young couple will leave
shortly on a honeymoon trip to Eu-
rope and later will tour the world. re-
turning to New York by way of San
francisco. Miss Sheehan was a great
social favorite here. She is 4 sister
or Mrs. Shorb and Of Miss Irene Shee-
ham Mr.. Hennessey is assistant dis
trict attorney of New York city.
Miss Olga Atherton. who has been
the guest of her aunt. Mrs Edward
Eyre at Fair Oaks, returned to her
nome here Monday. Mrs. Eyre will
shortly reopen her beautiful home In
Sacramento street for the winter.
Miss Agnes Tobin is spending few
weeks at the yendome hotel in san
Jose. Saturday, the 31st of this month.
she VIII deliver a lecture on saThe
Celtic Renaissance" at the vendome II
promises to be very interesting. as Miss
Tobin is an unusually gifted woman.
She is not only a very well road
woman. but she has travelled extensive-
1y and is an excellent linguist. she
has written two or three books of
merit and her TRANSACTIONS of "Pe-
trarch'' are famous.
Mrs Edwards Beales and her little
daughter Katherine. will sail TODAY
on the Curacao for Mexico. Mrs. Beales
is the daughter of Attorney Emmett
Rfxford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory winship and
Miss Patricia Cosgrave left yesterday
for New York. They will spend a
fortnight there and then go to Macon.
Ca, where they will be the guests Of
Mr. Winshfp's relatives for the win
ter.
Mrs Ashton and her daughters. Miss
Helen and Miss Bessie. have finished
touring Holland and are now In Mn
MICH They continue TO write enthu-
sfastically of their travels and have
about decided to remain abroad another
year.
Mrs. Andrew Welch closed her home
In San Mateo Monday. She will be the
guest of Mr.. Welch's mother, Mrs B. l..
Welch. for the winter at her home in
Eddy street.
Mrs. William p. Fuller left this
morning for two months stay in New
York. She was accompanied by Miss
Lucy King, who will be her guest for
the trip.
The wedding of Miss Marjorie DEM
ing Smith and Laurence NJ. Chapman
will be quietly celebrated in this citv
this afternoon. Miss Smith is fhe
daughter of Mrs. j. Earsman and a
granddaughter of Mrs. E. O. Dening
She is great favorfte not only here
but in Los Angeles, the home of Mr.
Chapman. Mr.. Chapman is a son of the
late Judge Chapman. He has built a
pretty home in Los Angeles for his
bride.
Thursday afternoon a large reception
will be given Archbishop Riordan at
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SPRING VALLEY UNcovERs

a4 Spring Valley company has smoked ont
and hnay announces its purpose to fight the Hec Hetclv
project by all means fair and foul There nothing espe-
claly new IN this for the corporation has been doing the
same thing all along under of the Chronicle sue
gesve fact that all the difficulties objections raised by the
corporations letter the supervisors been
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How long known about
About five years" replied Orr
Well Ned IF hadse
and
could would public you
Knowing how take advantage of the knowledge"
One the
days There pententa
under spiritual influence
when of the outbreak, with
and the called subdu
the reporter, who discovered in saloo
BY the Ned have money!" asked reporter
Townsend produced $50 Half the hadg
the and he did He hired the
his friends rivalEn
would write
the
The foreman had opinion of the fellows ability
string OF profane phs houted And do
stuff that YOU ype?'
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menu. Those present, besides the bo..
and hostess, were: must
Mr. aud Mrs. H ElDr and A.
utA1h,h sherman
1lu slfs- Nihaml W. +. Berry
NJ Dosfn s Miss Elizabeth Ashe
anu Sirs- arthur Miss Alice Griffith i,
.t ose Miss Eyre
"l,a anu MIS-. NormanlJ- E. Thurston
T. B. Berry N'enaei
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Author Goes In
for Serious Politics

dispatch about Townsend his home Mont
cair ~ J. Well he called himself gutton
published
season He said he and the
habit His
tow" when he worked daily did literary besides lie
then director and president
the Press club did neglect daily the Olympic Ned
wasn't Californian Ohio engineer
1t about 10 that he New York. and he has stayed
there reading with
his 'Chmne Fadden storFes
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WORK As .REPORTER PRAISED BY EMIL ZOLA

one the best things e did the line when the
Lexow committee New Yok municipal corruption
Don't remember Emil Z and These
being of
exhibitions of which
dened for daring himself published his
incidents
duced those
reports which Zoa referred o of them
Many old recall Townsend
City, when he d
well and paid his bills
others said there good fellow had
learned that Ned could of little
the
instance of Townsends that old the nvasback
He had tasted the
all Johnny
San Francios diad
Call had column by "Aajb Max all about the California
vasback
canvasback
Townsend what
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PUBLISHER SURPRISED BY Story IN PAPER

udou expenditure persuaded that it might he we'll
Next from its bar
umber
hunbly who
While thew
land
There the big full and illustrated with
diagrams made printers rules Turning and
"Dn time there's piece of going get drunk and give
the foreman a chance
loyal and gave credit where
himself THE reoo IS ~
leading of Nevada
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The Insiider
Recalls some incidents In early life OF Ned
Townsend when he was doing newspaper
work in San Francisco and Virginia City

900 Ned Townsend has gone in for
-, serious politics" said one OF his
- Bohemian club friends, reading the
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-07

{ Thursday afternoon large reception
will be given Archbishop Riordan at
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-07

Mrs. James Nee and Miss Nee are
spending fortnight at the Normandie
hotel. in this city They will return
next week to their own home In San
Rafael.
The San Francisco call., 1908-10-07

THE news of the wedding of Miss
Margaret Sheehan and Forbes J.
Hennessey, an event to be quietly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-10

are supposed to devolve upon the
state 1t can not be denied that there Is
danger that the interests Of the few
may be served at the expense of the
many. and there are observers who are
convinced that even gross mfsman-
agement by the latter would be prefer
able to the innovation, provided popu-
lar government Is not to be abandoned
in the near future.
If 1t is urged that in the last
analysis the people are not without a
remedy, inasmuch as they may con-
troll their legislature. 1t may be re-
piled that 1t too much to expect that
any aggregation Of voters that has yet
to be fully aroused to the importance
OF correcting abuses which vitality
AFFECT its welfare will be quick to in
terfere to protect and preserve its con-
stitutional rights. That a reaction
against the present drift of legislation
is possible is admitted, of course. but
1t should not be necessary and it would
not be necessary but for the activity
of alleged reformery, prompted, it is
suspected. by motives of political ex-
pedfency rather than by any consider
alton for the common good.
Be that as it may, there is certainly
little to indicate that the struggle
against special privilege will succeed
so long as special privilege can make
an effeetual appeal to independent and
more or less irresponsible authority.
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former citizen OF Augusta, Mt
Leon Locke, has been nominated for
the legislature in Louisiana. Being a
Democrat means election there.
A lecturer at Larned the other night
spoke particularly to the boys and girls
who are the coming men. Formerly
this distinction was enjoyed by the
boys alone.
Columbus is about to supersede
! man-brain with dog-brain in the
apprehension OF criminals. Two blood
hounds have been ordered by the po-
lice department.
This obituary poem was printed last
week in Kansas weekly paper: I'VE
are lonesome, William Henry, since our
darling went away; and our tears are
flowing down our faces every day."
In speaking Of the case Of the wo-
man whose celluloid comb exploded and
destroyed her hair, the Winfield Cour-
Ter tells of local woman who lost her
hair by an explosion of another wo-
man. The man ran. 20 ''-.
Homer Hoch is bidding for fame
along the Coburn route. He says if all
the hogs produced in Kansas last
year were made into one big hog, the
animal could dig the Panama canal In
two roots and half.
There is q whole lot moro money"
observes Deacon B. P. Walker '.fn be-
ing able to plant a straight row of
corn IMAM LQero Is IN making q draw
shot in billiards, but you can't make
| a lot of fellows believe it,
After Kansas papers had touted Mr.
Stilwell, builder Of the Orient railroad,
| as the one big railroad man who stays
| out of Wall street. the Wichita Eagle
| dolefully announces that even he will
make his home in New York in the
! future.
! Wichita's proposal to raise money
| for an art gallery brings forth this
| observation from Charles Blakesley
art has been on the bum in Wichita
| ever since 1901, when Mrs. Nation
smashed the oil painting of Cleopatra
in the Carey bar"
| The Chapman Advertiser tells of a
man who stopped his paper because it
| did not print such news as the big
dailies and the Advertiser is now run
| ming a. guessing contest as to how many
| Of the big papers will print the irate
| subscribers obituary when he turns up
| his toes.
Twenty stockho lders in a Stafford
county bank published a two column
card of thanks in the Macksville
| Enterprise last week in which they
say: I'VE desire to express our sincere
more especially to our depositors, for
their confidence in us. and also in
helping to make it possible for US to
keep our bank open and pay our
checks in full when demanded
| through the money panic, which we
are glad to state is much better"
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EXPERIMENTAL GOVERNMENT.

When Governor Hughes OF New
York declares that the battle for free
institutions is a struggle against spe-
cial privilege and that it is not to be
won merely by the creation Of new
forms Of government. there is reason
to believe that without violating the
truth he might go further and insist
that progress in the direction indicated
is impeded by the creation of new
forms of government. OF late there
has been a noticeable tendency to de-
vote more time and attention to the
effect of unsatisfactory government
than to the cause. with results in
many instances, at least that are any
thing but reassuring.
Instead of a determined effort to
improve the administration of the gov
eminent that has been established,
there has been a temptation. apparent
ly too strong to be overcome, to ex~
pertinent along untried lines. And if it
has been the object as explained, to
guard against making government tho
instrument of selfish purposes, it may
be feared that the object has not been
attained. If it were conceded that ma
Jortty rule is impracticable. that the
people can not be trusted to attend to
their own affairs or to choose their
representatives to transact public
business, the problem would be sim
plihed.
In any event, there would be less
objection. surely, to the departure in
question because 1t would no longer be
necessary to reconcile democracy with
a concentration OF power which, in the
nature of things, is violently opposed
to the fundamental principle of free
institutions When, without the con-
sent or knowledge of the governed,
radical changes are instituted by de-
Lucrative bodies which fail to distin-
guish between duties that were for
merry clearly defined and those which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
fFrom the Chicago News

fF'rom the Chicago News.1
Men grow wiser with age ana sc,,,e.
times less foolish.
usually enjoys it most
You may think you are a super,or
mortal, but keep it to yourself.
You can lead woman to talk. but
you cannot make her think.
An affectation of simplicity on ths
part OF q woman sets q man Ruessinr
He's a wise fool who can induce tha
world to laugh with him instead Of at
him. a.
A man has outlived his usefulness
when he is no longer capable of giyine
advice.
Although the woman behind the
broom doesn't draw q large safary shs
raises q lot Of dust e'ss
If woman can't find anytime al.
to worry about she gets busy and Svori<s
up case OF Jealousy.
When two women go ehoppfnr 10
gether they are apt to buy thines -
show each other that they have monas
If a woman dosn't mind being car.t.
IN shower it's a pretty good indiess
ton that she hasn't q drugstore efs,,,-
plexion- ee1la-
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
tFrom the Philadelphia. Record

tF'rom the Philadelphia Record
No bluff is so good that it can't he
called by a better one
It's poor policy to be so entertaining
that you haven't any time to be enter
tanned.
1t doesn't necessarily follow that the
fellow who Is always up in the air lives
high.
Turning the clock back won't obut-
crate time any more than forgetting
your birthday
Wigg-"Old Baldpate is very sensitive
about his hair Wagg-"Impossible !
He hasn't any,
The world has plenty of sympathy
for the unfortunate, except for those
who are unhappily married.
If a woman is really interested in
her husbands affairs she needn't resort
to dun1b-bells for exercise.
The difference between a burglar and
a promoter of high finance Is that a
burglar would hesitate to rob the widow
and orphan.
wigwag-"The bride certainly isn't
very attractive. What makes you think
he will be happy with herr" Henpeckke
I-"She's tongue-tied."
Heok-"The cost Of living is terri
BILE. I don't believe beef was ever as
high" Nye-'It must have been when
the cow jumped over the moon"
Detective Sleuthpup-1 remember.
your face, sir but your name has es-
capped me-" Casual Acquaintance
Naturally. since you are a detective %
Biobbs-"It din't cost me anything
to see the show. The manager gave me
pass" Slobbs-.And I suppose Won
took him out to supper and blew him
to bottle of wine" Blobbs-'WelI. I
Or. Slobbs = Which simply
proves that a pass by any other name
would cost as much,'s
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almost reached the end of the aisle
then she ran after him, catching up
with him Just as he reached the ves-
Thule.
rs that all you wanted to say?"
she asked. as she swayed lightly to-
ward him.
Not all I wanted to say" he rec
Piled. but all that was permitted to
say
Tho rezt is permitted and the ans
wer ~ yes this time was the Inn
puisive reply. "I'n marry yor even
IL Auntte Merrivats does wait lac to-"
And Crasau'e eyer s.itiled compre-
nenoinEiy a. he bsrt and kissed the
rosy lips. Fze was not apprsciative
OF matchmakers himsesf.-(Copy-
righted 1908 by NJ. M. Cunningham.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-10
HUA0R CT THE DAY

II thought your SON was going in q
lawyers Office to study 2" mo; he
mas decided to practice the Unwritten
Law; 1t Is the least expensive course"
Baltimore America
"Gracious!" exclaimed the kind ola
lady to the beggar. ARE they the best
shoes you've got?" why, lady" re-
piled the candid beggar, could yer
imagine better ones fur dis bizness?
an dimes ter me."-Philadelphia
Press.
Three months after facing the par
son together they were seated at the
tea table. do you love me stilf?"
queried the young wife, after the man
ner of her kind. "Of course. I love
you STILL" he answered. "Now keep
quiet while I read the paper."-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Noticing that the days are getting
shorter, q little Germantown boy re-
marked that it gets late very early
now-Philadelphia Record.
Hes distant relative of yours by
eloped with my wife, and he hasn't
spoken to me since.
Leader.
yes. Brown is always getting the
cart before the horse!" MY, dear boy
don't be archaic; nowadays we say
getting the smell before the automo-
bile."-Life.
Marriages." quoted the dear girl.
"are made in heaven" THAT being
the case" rejofned the wise bache-
1or. It'll wait till get to headquar-
ters for mine."-Chicago Daily News.
"who was simply dotty about a bur-
led treasure; couldn't talk of any
thing else" THAT reminds me of my
wife," said Peckham- "why, does she
talk of a buried treasure Almost
constantly. I'm her second husband.
you know."-Philadelph Press
You must have a good appetite" re-
marked the thin man, enviously. what
do you take for it?" I'm all my expert
ence." replied the plump one, 81 have
found nothing more suitable than
food. Public Ledger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
A dull man is generally a smooth
bore.
When a husband disappears, is the
wife really surprised?
On windy days, we never see a good
natured woman on the streets. -
There is little hope for the Young
lady who consents to be called "Puss."
When a woman admits she doesn't
know much, 1t is to add that at least
she knows more than her husband
If a woman can make her husband
believe she is q great sufferer, she
doesn't care If she has doctor or not.
Before a wife thanks her husband
for a gift he has made her, she scolds
out.
It is getting to be so that IL a mans
mind is as pure as it should be, he can't
make out half that he reads these days.
We don't care how far we swing back
to old customs, SO long as we don't
catch up with the girl who entertained
by bringing out the family photograph
album.
Tell girl before marriage that she is
going to throw herself away, and you
insult her; tell her after marriage that
she might have done better. and you
f1atter her.
When a man leaves a town in which
he was raised hating 1t, and every one
in 1t, you may be sure he will not be
any more fond Of his new home than he
was of his old.
The salad is the waste basket OF the
pantry. II woman has a few cur
rants left, a scrap of cheese, an apple
or two, boiled egg. half q potato, ETC..
she mixes them together, pours mayon-
naise over the mess, and then sends out
invitations to q party. The women
make the same kinds of cakes. party
after party, but there Is always a varf-
alton in the salad because no two wo-
men have the same scraps left to work
with.
The FUNNIEST thing in the world to
man is a girl friendship. They meet
one day, and are in love with each
other the next. They play duets to-
gether, they dress alike, they read and
study from the same book, they ex-
change secrets; on days when they do
not meet they write each other notes
They take turns about staying at each
others houses at night. They sing each
others praises, fall in love with the
same boy, and like women of an older
growth, the same boy becomes the rock
upon which their friendship founders
They quarrel; tho quarrel IS as hot as
their love was, and the family of each
girl, that has become tired of hearing
the praises of the other girl sung. at
last, has long rest, and one more chap
ter in a girls friendship closes.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many of the advertised stage beau
ties are like stage money.
- =
It's anomalous to say that an old
topper drinks like fish. Fishes drink
water.
One good thing can be said of
chicken soup. It is always tender.
X X
The success of novel does not de-
pend so much on a cleverly worked
out plot as it does on the condemna-
ton it receives.
X X
Maybe it is a good thing that some
automo bilists do not turn back after
they have run over person. They
might run over him a second time.
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started an agitation for the women
shoppers to do their trading early in
the afternoon and get out of the shop
ping district by o'clock. Then the
tired working girl and the toiling
man could get seats in the street cars
on their way home. II this well mean
ing man can stablish such a reform
great will be his name even If his re-
ward is small
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-10

A great career in public life seems
assured for John Q. Royce, the state
bank commissioner. His friends have
dug UP the fact that he started life as
a peanut butcher ON an Illinois rail-
road. These humble beginnings are what
are needed for the accomplishments
OF successes. Particularly unfortunate,
as a general thing, are the chaps whose
folks were able to provide them with
an expensive education before setting
them adrift in the world.