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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11
Sweet Young Thing, But
Knows Little of Life
Mrs. Philip Verrill Mighels Criticism of Novel by
Miss Virgi1ia Bogue, Portola Queen
By MARY .ASHE miller

her writing. there was but little more
announcement to give. ~She is a very
young person who knows nothing at
all of the world" she declared; that is
apparent from her writings. This bril-
liant towering is a part of her youth.
1t has sprung up and she has certainly
shown marvellous industry in putting it
on paper. 1 must applaud her indus
try"
DO you think there will be more
books-greater books?' I persisted.
This" said Mrs. Mighels. seems to
me like a 'mononoveT-if 1 may coin
the term. She has simply put herself
and her imaginings as to what love is
into this book"
reminded Mrs Mighels that there
was another book. The Lion of Bra
ganza," which Miss Bogue has written.
~Ah. yes" she said. 1T is said that
her publishers do not like it. 1t is
probably the same thing as this book
under another form. 1t is just herself.
sellers so called best sellers mind
you-they can not be called that until
they have sold well fot Is years.
believe that one should write the thing
that is worthy. few of those eva
nescent kisses here and there are ali
right. but worthiness is the thing
the real thing. Look at George Eliot
and Mrs. Ward. and Mrs. Ward is a
best seller too. She writes worthily
and yet her books sell all the time"
She then spoke of George Moore's
books and of his wonderful knowledge
of women. Il have thought" she said.
when I have finished reading his
books, that there was man who knew
too much Of the true nature of
woman. But I find none of these real
touches in Miss Bogue's writing. 1t is
simply a famboyant outburst."
After a moments thought Mrs.
Mighels continued. Don't think this
girl is evil minded because OF what she
has written. She is only ignorant Of
things as they are. 1t is just as
young girl imagines love is-and she
has certainly put it down boldly.
Il remember such a book by a Cali
fornia girl a great many years ago
it is almost too many to remember
but it is at least 20. 1t was written
by Annie Lake. beautiful. accom-
plished young woman. and was called
ON the Verge. 1t was just such a
book and the girl who wrote it did not
realize anything. It is pure innocence
and ignorance walking on dangerous
ground"
Mrs. Mighels gave a chuckle of
amused remembrance and said:
some of the clubmen nearly col
Iapsed and tainted when they read on
the Verge and would not ret their
families look at it. That was because
they were such old villains and saw
more to it than was intended. / must
say it was a pious tract. however. to
some of the books that are written in
these days"
Mrs Mighels says she will await
with some interest the completed book.
but she has not apparently much hope
of being thrilled by il save in a Peter
Pan like way through the excess of
youth embodied therein. She is anx-
ious to give Miss Bogue her due. how
ever. because she called after me as
left her. "Remember.>I commended her
industry now-please be sure and say
that I thought her very industrious
girl to have written all of that"
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little she knows of life" was
the involuntary comment made
by Mrs. Philip verrill Mighels, the au-
thor of The Full Glory of Diantha"
and other novels. when she read the
extracts given in The Call yesterday
from Miss Vergilia Bogue's forthcom-
ing novel. "The Strength to Yield"
1T is the book" she said, -of a very
young person, untried in the ways of
the world. 1t is all imagination. In life
there is love, of course, oceans of tt
tidal waves of it-but only one wave in
seven is the high wave. and we can't
stay on that in love any more than in
the ocean. 1t is too high-we would
be submerged. But she doesn't know
this-she is too young"
When asked her opinion of the Por-
tola queens literary efforts Mrs.
Mighels demurred for moment and
then asked her exact age.
Upon being informed that she was
81 she nodded meditatively and said:
She is at an age when she does not
realize what she is bringing upon her
self-she doesn't seem to care in the
least what is said or thought of her"
1 said thought that Miss Bogue had
the courage of her convictions and
would not be wounded by any honest
criticism and Mrs. MigheIs might say
what she liked without fear of hurting
the young writer's feelings or unduly
elating her.
ut struck me- said Mrs. Mighels
finally, that the book is tense on just
one point-the lady in the arms of her
Iover-and that is all there is to it. OF
course kiss is a beautiful thing. but
it is charming because it is evanescent.
1t should be a sort of touch and go
time is tiresome. A very young person
starting out to write is apt to dwell
on one thing and that becomes both
morbid and unnatural"
The extreme youth of Miss Bogue as
manifested in her book seemed TO i'm
press Mrs. Mighels deeply and she said:
This is the outpouring of a beautiful
young girlhood. A young girl thinks
a kiss is everything. She dreams of it.
Ter marriage she will find that it is
like washing dishes-it is simply CO.
comitant of house keeping. Peace. har-
mony and companionship constitute
the real bliss of married life. but this
girl is too young. too ignorant of the
ways of the world to know this"
1 asked point blank at last if she
considered Miss Bogue talented-if her
ability was marked-but she gracefully
eluded me.
Il think" she said. with charming,
indulgent smile, that, judging from
her pictures, she is very beautiful
much too beautiful to be writer"
I asked if it were not possible for
beauty and literary ability to go cheer
fully hand in hand. and was referred
to George Eliot.
Look at George Eliot" said Dian
tha's glorifier; 'she was the greatest
one of them all and she was no beauty.
certainly She is said to have looked
like a horse"
The point did not seem logically
taken. but Mrs. Mighels was firm and
would become really enthusiastic only
upon the score of Miss Bogue's personal
appearance
possible in the way of development in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11
SONNETS OF 4 PERFORMER
BY EDWARD F.. O,DAY

TX
NV ELL, one week more and then the thing is done
w One week, but such week! I'd rather stay
A year in hades (amost), where they say
The company is good than try to run
A campaigns closing days for any one
Never again! Why, that's what made me gray
Long years ago. when any decent pay
Was tempting and this game was all nv fun
That was the time when candidates were PLAYED
Like pawns across chessboard, and the wesk
Before election found all afraid
OF backing dead ones. Every day we'd sneak
Up to the boss room to ask for grace
For some poor sucker had in the race
X
HEY tell me it's quite different since thew passed
The new law that we'll test week from now.
1t may be, but you've got to show me how
Mankind is any better since the last
Election. Tell me, will the votes be cast
By blessed angels this time? Can't the brow
Sell his vote this time for shot of gowgs
Just reason sensibly-don't go too fast;
I've seen reformers once twice before
Alter the statutes, but the same old bunch
Kept right working. Will this latest law
Discourage them1 Perhaps; but here's my bunch.
Changing the style OF voting won't amount
To much unless you also change the count.
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these records, and on another
page of this issue repeats them in more
extended form.
Five of those on the businessmen s
ticket" for supervisors were adherents of
Abe Ruef In the times of San Francisco's
deepest shame. They were avowedly and
VIGOROUSLY Ruef's men, holding or hunting
office under his infamous regime, serving
him, supporting him, defending him, aid
ing him. None of them has ever renowned
that allegiance They not only were Ruef's
men, but they are Ruef's men now. One
of the five belonged to Phil Crimmins be-
fore he saw larger opportunities under
Ruef
Two of those on the 'businessmens
ticket for supervisors were and still are
doors of "push" politics in their own
neighborhoods, working for any interest
dominant in those neighborhoods against
anything savoring of clean government.
Another of the businessmen eighteen
is and long has been not only notorious
push . politician of low degree, but, with
and under ''Tim" Sullivan, he has done the
bidding of the gas company, which has wal
lowed in the depths of the pool of civic
corruption.
Another of the delectable eighteen is
just plain Crimmins-is owned bv Grim
minis as to his political body and soul
and another is just plain de Young An
other is just plain Herrin, stabbed for the
moment with DAILY, the milknan Two
are the vassals, chattels or appurtenances
or whatever you please of P. H. Mccarthy.
Only one other such combination as this
businessmen's ticket" for supervisors
has ever been offered to the voters of San
Francisco. The other was Ruef's group of
"paint eaters, as the sardonic little boodler
called them. One waggish person has
Calleu ZIG tdlHIcU olS1JooH d. Connection OF
contemplated felonies," and another has
labeled them "a bunch of negotiable in
struments. These are amusing designa-
tions, and they are also accurate. What
the businessmen S ticket" would do. If
elected, with public office, public trust, pub
lie money, is not hard to forecast. Remem-
Der the paint eaters,'' and reflect that
compared with the businessmen ticketo
for supervisors, they were only amateurs.
So The Call warns the republicans Of
San Francisco against this ticket for sr-
pervisors. 1t is tainted tainted with
fraud and shame and all iniquity. To rec
ommend it to the voters was to insult the
party S intelligence. To nominate it would
mean the party's ruin. To elect it would be
to turn the legislative department of the
city s government over to hands even less fit
than those of Ruef' s wretched bride takers.
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the people d0Jhelf own JudS- -
ing. That conspicuous eXcep-
ton was in the case of David J. Grammar.
AS matter of duty to the public this news
paper exposed the personal beastliness OF
Grammar One blast was enough. A few
days later he took himself and his indie
cency out of the situation, comforting upor;
another candidate the dubious benefit of
his Endorsement.
Here, now, is another exception to The
Calls policy, compelled by another indie
cency The exception is as to the so called
businessmen ticket" of supervisors.
The indecency that compels denunciation
of it is not personal but political, and yet
it is an indecency even more offensive than
the vileness of Grammar and more danger
GUS to the civic health. The Call is only
doing its duty by the people when it warns
them against this supervisorial ticket that
has been Endorsed and recommended by the
businessmen committee, and when it
declares to the republicans of the city that
this ticket is tainted The nomination of
these men as candidates for supervisors
would be shame, needlessly and wantonly
put upon the party. Their election would
be calamity to San Francisco
The records of such aspirants on the
businessmen s" supervisorial ticket as
have heretofore appeared in politics or
public life show them to be politically dis
reputable, unfit to make the city's laws or
to direct the expenditure of its money
Such as have no political records are no
bodies-mostly untried men discovered in
voluntary association with men VIGOROUSLY
the creatures and tools of political crook
edness.
There have been sinister intimations,
and even direct charges, that other citizens
approached as to or seeking the indorse-
Iment worn by these eighteen on the tainted
ticket, were asked to pledge themselves
against the public interest and for the in
terest of predatory public service corpora
tons. 1t has been declared that these
pledges contemplated the surrender of the
peoples rights to the United Railroads at
all point of conflict, to the gas company as
to rates, and to the Spring Valley company
in the killing of the Hetch Hetchy project.
If these intimations, charges and declara-
tions are true as to men approaching or
approached by the indorsing power then it
would be logical inference that those who
got on the ticket did so only after taking
pledges of the same kind and to the same
iniouitous end. Such an inference, based
on proof, would be quite enough to damn
the businessmen s ticket" for supervi-
sors, and would make it unnecessary to 90
| into the records of the candidates. But there
NoTE AND COMMENT Unpopular Unpopular S Mith &
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

is founded upon the political
records of these unfit candi-
dates and upon their pre-
vious affiliations, rather than
upon the manner of their
getting before the public on
this occasion. Their charac-
ter, however, throws d
strong light upon the mo
tives that inspired their Sc
lection, and their character
may be judged from their
records. The Call has already
given briefly something of
these records, and on another
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11
The
Income T ak


the leading OF campaign and popular sentiment in
favor OF adoption is not doubtful.
Some doubt expressed the operation of the
existing constitutional provisions governing the submission Of
amendments. The New York Globe the situation
appear of limitations against
amendment i
the different
eleventh
the fourteenth and the fifteenth
held that having withdraw
dsapprova and subsequently approve Thus though beaten the
attack But the
established In 1868 Secretary Seward
fourteenth amendment and congress passed resolution
had legally adopted
ding had Tescnded their favorable prior to the
1870 New York
the fifteenth amendment Secretary Fish his
department
have rnded but did not allow the legality of The
canb change of attitude affirmative act noccurs
The and precedents in this regard somewhat obscure
and unsettled and failure to raty the first may
of litigation OF the ultimate adoption of the amendment
there doubt because the overwhelming need of the
country this of may easily any moment
refuse this the government like tying one hand
OF the nation behind its back
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

The rapidity with which the resi-
dents of Russian hill got action upon
their petition to have the wireless
station removed confirms the fact that
the distress signal c Q d entails an
answer p. d. q
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11
NOTE AND COMMENT

No doubt those jokers> in the tariff
bill were introduced for fear that the
document otherwise might make dry
reading.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11
The Disbursements" Candidates for Supervisors
Are an Insult and a Menace to San Francisco

" T has been the plan and policy of The
1 Call in the present primary campaign
to inform the voters rather than to adj
wise or exhort them. knowing the records
of the aspirants, their views, their affilia-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

tons, and by whom and for
what they were put into the
race, the voters ought to be,
and they unquestionably are,
able to do the rest-to sort
out the good from the bad,
and put up as nominees
whichever kind they want.
Proceeding on this theory,
The Call has, with one con
spicuous exception, confined
itself to telling the facts
about the candidates, letting
the people do their own judg
ing. That conspicuous eXcep-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

is, as yet, no proof that such pledges were
sought to be exacted-there is only intima~
ton, charge and declaration.
Therefore The Calls denunciation of
the businessmen s ticket" for supervisors
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

IS natural that there should be wide speculation and conjec
the working of tariff law, and this applies
especially novel and untred provisions like those comprised
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

IN TIC administrative features OF the AIuTlCn
tariff
1t is argued that the law places
excessive power in the hands OF the general
appraisers, who being empowered to fix
valuations. can thereby raise or lower
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

Then he can take her to his castles
in the air.
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not out OF the woods yet, and the country
will not know how things are going until the
pocket borough states come into action
Notwithstanding reports to the contrary
we need not fear that California will not vote
for the amendment. because il will be made
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

A Los Angeles bachelor who thinks
he has invented an aeroplane an
nounces that he is willing to marry
any girl who will supply him with the
requisite $l,s00 to build it. How nice!
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

Secretary Ballinger, is proving highly
unpopular with the public interior, as
evidenced by what is being spoken at
Spokane.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

He state legislatures already beginning consider tn
income tax amendment the constitution and SO ia
action has been favorable adoption But the matter
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11

The watereure, as. administered b,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-11
THE "BusINEssMENs' cAND1.
DATES FOR SUPERVISORS

GUsTAvE W. BAYREUTHER
GEORGE w. BELL
P. A. BERGERoT
LOUIS H. BERNHARD
JAMES C. BRIDE
EDGAR W. BRIGGS
JOHN B. CARSON
WILLIAM M. CROWLEY
J. z. JEWELL
THEODORE LUNsTEDT
GUS B. RIsso
H. FRED sUHR JR.
F. L. HANSEN
THOMAS P. CALVIN
FRITZ GERCKE
AUGUST MARTIN wALLEN
FRANK J. WEISS
MORRIS J. WINTER
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H. young her writing there was but
little she knows to give
"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-20
ENTERTAINED BY GREAT
MAHARAJAH OF GWAuOR

Mrs. Hugh Anderson and daughter
Miss Mary Louise Anderson, of Salt
Lake City, through passengers on the
China, were entertained yesterday
while in Honolulu by Mrs. Captain
Falls, an old friend. Mrs. Anderson
and Miss Anderson are making their
first world tour, although they have
been travelling before in Egypt, India
and Europe. They were so delighted
with their view of Honolulu, and so
pleased with the climate, that they may
return here during the coming winter
for few months instead of going to
the Nile.
While in Camboda, they were enter.
tanned by the ruler of that interesting
country, known to the public better,
perhaps, through a famous song, and
while in India were entertained by
the Maharajah of Gwalior His High.
ness, who lives in great splendor, said
he was quite anxious to visit America,
and hoped to do so in the near future.
AS he had dear friend there who
made automobiles. The Maharaiah
had eighteen machines at his command
and is anxious to see how and where
they are made.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-20
PROPER TREATMENT FOR DYsEN.
Terry AND DIARRHoEA.

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and diarrhoea is due to lack of proper
treatment at the first stages Or The
disense. Chambcrain's Cole, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy Is reliable aud
effective medicine, aud when given In
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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-20
JURY FINDS
A VERDICT
Continued from Page 6.)

every material fact in the complaint
must be proved. What do we mean
by proof II isn't our duty to prove
that we are not guilty, as they do in
France. The accused is presumed to be
innocent. until he is proved to be gull
ty. The prosecution must prove his
guilt. You may say when you get
in the jury room, 1 wonder why that
fellow Lightfoot didn I put on this evil
dence or that evidence, why he didn {
90 more into the riot case, why he
didn t put Maxine on the stand7' The
reason in this case is that the defend
ants would testify to the same thing
Kinney interrupted to give notice
that if counsel took that line of argu
ment. he himself would 90 into it, which
he hadn t done before. There was an
exchange of legal amenities before
Lightfoot went on with his argument.
"You re not going to try their case
on what Mr.. Kinney imagines may be
the case. Why, his imaginings may
be no more reliable than those of DR..
Atcherlev. You re not going to try
the case on what Mr.. Kinney believes.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-20
MOTT SMITHS REPORT

President Mott Smith, Of the Board
Of Health, was yesterday afternoon
putting The finishing touches 10 his
report 10 tho Governor lie says that
the report was originally seventy hys
pnRes long bnl be- has enc IL down 90
four pages
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-20

corporation and had absolutely no
connection with the Higher Wage AS
ISOLATION. 1t was a newspaper publish
ing its own articles and following out
its own policy.
"But the books of the Jill, taken
by the police officers while the right.
full custodian was in Jail, showed that
Mr.. Negoro was paid $50 month.
What of iti Why, some lawyers-not
all, thank God--would write out the
account of the proceedings in this court
and have it published in the Evening
Bulletin. Would that make the lawyer
responsible for everything that might
appear afterward in that paper' Why,
it s absurd.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-08-20
A $4,000 Word.

"Now, they say there was this Ho-
nolulu Higher Wage Kisei Association.
That word 'Kisei' is worth two thou
sand dollars. But is there throughout
their testimony a particle of evidence
of any connection between the associa.
tons of Eva, Waipahu, Kahuku and
that of Honolulu OF course, the pros
ecution imagined there was; and it is
on that imagination this complaint was
brought. 1t is true that the associa-
lions had the same objects, the secur-
ing of higher wages, and they mutual
~ assisted one another with food, lodg-
ing, medical attendance. And it is also
true they were in sense bound to-
gether by common object. But the
outside associations had their own Off
GERS; they made no reports to the Ho.
nolulu association and were not rep.
resented in the Honolulu association.
They were absolutely independent.
The object of the prosecution in say
ing they were branch organizations
was to prove to you that they were
carrying out the conspiracy which the
prosecution dreams was concocted in
Honolulu. But there is no evidence
that they were branch organizations,
and there is abundant evidence that
they were independent and separate
The prosecution has absolutely fallen
down, absolutely failed to show that
there was any connection.
"Now, they say, the Higher Wage
Association had an organ, the Nippu
Jipi,-that is to say, it was a part of
the conspiracy. You see the object.
That would make the association re.
sponslble for everything the Nippu Jiii
said or did, They said they would
show you the Jill was the organ of the
Higher Wage Association. Have theyl
There Il evidence 10 prove that Mr.. Ne.
goro and Mr. Maxine had nothing 10 do
with debating the policy Of tho paper,
The Bleat Of tho Calf
"Does the fact thnt thoy were urging
rho same benefit 10 the japanese make
them the Same as the othersl We
VIII suppose that the Evening bulletin
N fANofing The eide " tho prosecution.
Does that make the Evening bulletin
and me Attorney Generals onico part
noul
at d true tho Nippu Jiii sometimes
received The mail Tor tho Higher Wage
Association, hooHurs Tho writer's knew
the address " The lii Tho Jiil Vas