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The San Francisco call., 1910-01-10
Former FOrester's Adherents in
Both Houses of Congress Are
Inclined to Take Up Fight
Conservative Element Urges
Moderation, Declaring Peace
of Party Is Paramount
Many Leaders Advocate Re-
stricting Official Inyestiga-
ton as Much as Possible
Question Will Receive Its Next
Attention on the Floor of
the Senate

vVYASHINGTON, Jan. PIN
w chot's summary dismissal IS
" the principal topic in congress
sional circles and speculation is rife
as to the outcome of the controversy.
Pinchot has a large number of PEI
sonal friends in both houses Of con
gress, who are aroused and who
would be inclined to take up his cause
if favorable opportunity should pre-
sent itself, and if they could do so
without endangering the peace of the
party.
Party Harmony Urged
On the other hand, many are saying
that the personal fortunes of Ballin-
ger and Pinchot are of little import
ance compared to party harmony, and
are urging the necessity Of preventing
any sharp conflict in congress on the
differences between the secretary of
the interior and the former chief Of
the forest service
Whether the conservative counsel OF
this element prevails will depend upon
the course of events in congress during
the next few days.
There is no doubt that the investiga-
tioh Of the interior department and OF
the forestry service will proceed along
the lines indicated by the Jones'
Humphrey resolution. but it will be
competent for the Investigating COM
mittee either to broaden or to narrow
the inquiry. If the advice of many lead
ers is followed this inquiry will be re-
stricted as much as possible. especially
as Pinehot is eliminated from the dis
pute as an official factor.
Senate to Consider Matter
The question will receive it's next at
tention on the floor of the senate. The
present situation is this: The house
has adopted the resolution providing
for the appointment OF it's members Of
the committee by the house itself rath-
er than by the speaker. as was origin
ally provided. without awaiting official
notification as to the action OF the
house. the senate committee on public
lands has decided 10 report the resoIu-
tion in such a form as TO authorize the
selection of the house members by the
speaker. Unquestiona5ly this action
was taken wit hthe intention of COM
plimenting the speaker. and it viii be
reported TO the senate
Speaker Cannon. it is said. feels that
it will be impolitic for him to take ad-
vantage of this condition and override
the expressed order OF majority OF the
house. and it is probable therefore that
the senate will steer clear of contro-
versy with the ether chamber.
1t is now said that the speaker would
prefer that the house elect the COM
mittee- In case this course prevails.
the republican members probably will
designate their members in caucus, and
1T is claimed that in that event the in
surgents would participate in the eau
Gus proceedings
Animated Debate Expected
She senate committee on public lands
will report it's resolution tomorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-10
Recalls Threats to Kill

When seen at the central police sta
tion yesterday afternoon, Merrill E.
Smith, a bright, clean cut, straight
forward young man. was not the least
remorseful for his action. He said:
This affair has been due to happen
for a long time past, and, while I am
sorry that it had to occur, at the same
time / could not see my mother abused
any longer. 1 do not care how much
they argue with one another-and both
are fond of that-but when it came to
beating her--wen I simply had to do
something.
Some people think that my mothers
husband has fits of temporary insanity.
but / do not know. l do know that he
is very abusive to mother at times. and
in fact has threatened. on several diff
ferent occasions, to kill both her and
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-10
Cries Summon Police

The cries of the woman brought the
police to the house, and in spite of the
protestations of the wounded step
father Merrill Smith was arrested.
Young Smith is clerk in the employ
of the Western Union telegraph COM
pany at 549 Van Ness avenue Leonard
Smith, the wounded man. is motorman
on the Turk and Eddy streets line. The
police say that he is not a drinking
man, but bets on the races
Mrs. Smith. wife of the wounded man.
showed by blackened eyes and bruised
face that she had Jared badly from the
attacks of her husband. She refused
vesterdav Y 70 discuss her troubles.
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-10
MARINE

Steamship Acapulco delayed by strong gales
coming up coast. Page IS
LABOR
Musicians union applauds reading Of Judge
Iroutfs decision in injunction suit. Pager
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-10

Each of 1.-THE SOCIETY
WOLF" tales is complete i'm if
self. Read Them i'm fhe second
section of The Sunday Call.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05
ENJOYMENT A NATURAL RIGHT
Much Truth in Writer'S Protest
Against the Eternal Somber-
ness of Things.

The child, with his unclouded vision,
unbroken as yet by life and the greed
and the cunning of humanity, has the
Unborn sense of mans right to JOY
What are we here for? Surely not
just tina some malignant being, or
some force of nature, may have the fun
of hammering at us and seeing us
writhe. The truth is, man, born into
mortality, attempts first to make his
own joy and invariably falls The ma
tural attempt is to get joy for our
selves. Whereas, as man grows, he
knows that instead of dragging joy in
to himself he must initiate an entirely
opposite process; he must expand him
self into joy. The natural mortal vi
sion sees joy in material things, in
possessions and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
whereas joy is spiritual, essential, out
going. Joy never leans on what hap
pens, but on what is.
So long as the dull and the ignorant.
the suffering and the diseased, look
up to great possessions. to comforta
BILE surroundings and irresponsibility.
and fancy that joy lives there. and
that if they captured the means they
would capture the prize, SO long poor
exiled joy can do no more than drop
at odd seconds upon a quiescent mind
here and there. 1t cannot come to
earth to dwell, to turn life into Para
disc, until it comes equally to all. 1t
would seem that only spiritual gifts
could be equal. Matter is unmanage-
able. 1t heaps itself up in spots and
draws away in others; 1t is eternal
restless motion; it is the changing.
floating unreality in which for the mo-
ment we are set. But the spirit is
changeless, immovable, permeating all
space. And at odd corners, here and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05
COUNT POLE PLANS
Zeppelin to Use Two Balloons in
Quest.
Prof. n. HerseseII, sNow Visiting In
United States, DivuIges Details
Of Proposed Aerial Trip
to the Arctic.

New York.-Prof. H Hergesell Of
Strasburg, Germany. who arrived here
on the steamship Joachim from Kings
ton. Jamaica, divulged numerous de-
tails in connection with the proposed
journey to the north pole by airship,
planned by Count Zeppelin and him.
self
I'VE intend to explore the entire
arctic circle" said Prof. Hergesell.
Two airships, which will be con-
structed by Count Zeppelin, are to be
used on the expedition. One is to be
left at a relief station in Spitzbergen.
The other is to be used in making the
excursions. We will keep in touch
with the relief station by means of
wireless telegraphy.
I'm few days 1 will start for Ger
many to prepare for the expedition.
Count Zeppelin is to begin work on
the large airship within a year and we
will then begin the trip as soon as con-
ditions permit
From Cross bay, near where sup
ply station is to be established, to the
north pole, over Spitzbergen, is approx
imately 500 miles. With favorable
winds the trip can be made in thirty to
forty hours, or perhaps less time
1.-THE run to the pole will be really
secondary matter. The principal OBJ
ject of the expedition is to gather reli-
able scientific data of the arctic re-
gions. We plan to study meteorologi-
cal conditions, make deep-sea sound
ings and survey the arctic belt, and es-
pecially the regions to the north of
Greenland and Francis Josephs bay, of
which so little is known
Prof. HergeseH says that many diff
culties will have to be overcome If
the expedition is to meet with sue
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05

meled. with the pitilessly pictured
Sapho of an Alphonse Daudet to finish
the encyclopaedia of woman's short
comings as harshly as the Madame
Bovary of F1aubert began it,
The one Englishman wha has dared
parallel the whole Indictment brought
by the French has been Kipling, whose
Vampire seeming to sum up every
thing that could reduce woman to
Ewes original role as the means of
mans ruin, has become internationally
famed with the impressive Burne-
Jones picture of the vampire at work
helping to carry its malign signifi-
canoe around the world.
All the charges against this lovely
creature, woman, can't, of course, be
true; and so they must be classed as
passing strange But stranger than
the prejudice the authors appear to
cherish is the fact that those very
books which most severely arraign her
are the books that are usually most
popular.
And stranger yet is the fact that,
nowadays, most of the readers are
women
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05

says. Instead, he was very apt to
stick closely to his palace and at one
period almost two years elapsed before
he graced any public occasion with
his presence
Then there was some formality in
the cathedral of his capital town which
he could not well avoid. It appears
that some of the cadet corps, made up
Of sons Of the good Nicaraguan fam
lilies, conceived the idea that this
would be a good time to abolish Ze-
laya. They formed a plan that GER
tain Of them who would be present in
the cathedral should load their rifles
with ball cartridges and on a signal
should pepper the president
This plan was not carried through
very well. The secret got out just
about at the last moment and the ball
cartridges were removed from the
rifles. A few Of the cadets In their
turn discovered this fact and they re-
loaded their rifles with ball cartridges.
When the signal was given the devot-
ed group arose and fired. The shoot
ing was Central American and bad,
and Zelaya's wound was one in the
shoulder
The punishment was prompt, accord
ing to the surgeons story. The 800 or
SO cadets of the corps were lined up
on the parade ground and one of Ze-
laya's trusted men simply told OF
every fifth boy in the ranks. Those
checked of were shot,
A story is told too OF another pa
triot who hired a room near the plaza
In which the palace stands. The house
in which the patriot was had the
advantage of having the only available
window that gave clear sight of any
of the windows in the palace. The
patriot watched at his window OFF and
on for about six months, until one day
he got a view of the president passing
by the palace window on which he
was spying. He fired quickly and
again Zelaya was slightly wounded
in the shoulder They got that patriot
and shot him too.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05

wrote that immensely popular drama,
Leah Kleschna.' Leah was just a
plain, out-and-out thief-a lady burg
lar, who starts the dramatic ball roll
ing by attempting a burglary. and is
prevented from accomplishing it by be-
ing caught in the act.
Leah's noble nature comes out
strong through all the complications
that ensue, and she ends as the bride
of the philanthropist who caught her
stealing; but she, above any popular
heroine of recent years, has a past
that may be called record breaking.
There was one woman in English
romance, however. whose past was
worse than hers, because it is fixed
principle of morals in English litera-
ture that burglary and the other
crimes of the calendar are merely
peccadilloes in comparison with that
one woman's sin as to which all
Britain virtuously refuses ever to
speak-and has been most ardently
reading for the past generation.
Thomas Hardy's "Tess.v
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the dur
bervilles' had committed that offense.
Respectfully proffered the saving
hand in marriage, and Tess, believing
she had cleared her conscience by
confession, took the happiness that
was hers, and Tess herself had the
elemental passions which doomed her
to be her evil destiny's toy.
She ended very badly-and there
was another woman indicted and con-
vfcted by an author who, thus far.
hasn't shown the smallest prejudices
against women in his private life. nor
has ever been accused. like Watson.
of regarding the whole adorable sex
as being composed of any but perfect
ladies'
The forbidden theme-and that at
time when the forbidding meant
something-was the whole motive of
WiIkie Collins most human novel. II
not. perhaps. his most complicated
one. His New Magdalen" took the
vilest figure to be found in great
city's scourings, and exalted the true.
womanly soul that lived under the
hideousness of her manner of life
Evil Characters interest.
His readers, then and now, have
always been free to admit that Collins.
in that one story. at any rate, did
succeed in creating woman who
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05

with a polite belief in her respectable.
ity.
When such heavy guns as Ibsen un.
timber for action against that dainty
butterfly, woman, the general effect
comes pretty close to apparent ami
hilation.
That is what happens to unhappy
Hedda Gabler, who managed, with
every advantage of beauty and posi-
ton in her own modest circle, to ruin
the men who loved her, drive genius
to its death and end in nothingness
herself, all through her Unsuitable pride,
temper, jealousy and selfishness. A
heavy Indictment indeed, but one
which the ponderous and thunderous
Ibsen found plenty of other butter
flies to aim it at.
Merciiess Dramatist.
Woman and her weakness furnish a
dramatist so thoroughly up-to-date as
Arthur Wing Pinero with his most
effective topics, and the characters
in his Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith" are
only selections from what seems to be
an fnexhaustible repertoire of observa-
lions, of which but a few, in the way
of saving graces, are creditable to
womankind.
When, occasionally, an American
playwright succeeds in making his
female lead" worth worrying over
from across the footlights, he finds it
very, very hard to go further along the
line of approval by emphasizing the
saving graces.
There was c. NJ 8. Mcclellan, who
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cess. One of the main problems is tc
replenish the airship with gas. Several
stations for that purpose will be es
tablished. The almost continuous
foggy Weather in the arctic belt offers
serious obstacle to the explorers
Another problem is to make accurate
observations as to directions, as the
ordinary instruments are useless in the
vicinity of the pole.
I'VE fear nothing" said the profes
sor. I'VE are confident of complete
success, providing the development OF
airships goes forward as fast as we
anticipate. 1t is essential that i'm.
provements be made in the dirigible
although it is not impossible that Yep
pelin ILL.,, as the counts latest airship
is known, could make the trip.
The airship which is to sail over
the pole will be about $50 feet long,
with aluminium frame, 80 to 35 gas
chambers, and carrying a capacity OF
So persons Prof. Hergesell says
that probably IL men will go.
Commander Peary has not been in
vited to accompany the expedition
The German government, it is ex-
pected, will finance the expedition.
Kaiser Wilhelm is taking a personal
interest in the proposed trip and the
German nation is looking on the enter
prise with spirit of national pride
Prince Albert OF Monaco, the multi
millionaire ruler of that principality,
famed as the seat of the Monte Carlo
gambling palace, is to be one of the
arctic argonauts. He has for years
taken an interest in scientific explora-
tions and is close friend of the
kaiser.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05
in him only peculiarly callous genius
with an eve to business


in him only a peculiarly callous genius
with an eye to business.
Literature has seldom, if ever, made
a shining success with the perfectly
good woman, they say; and it is des-
tined, ultimately, to match Mark
Twain's monument to Adam with
another to Eve, in gratitude for the
frailties which make her descendants
good material.
In their expert opinion, as in the
observation of the critics generally,
the good woman is too tame for art;
and the fine frenzy of the poetic Wat
son, whether inspired by his pro-Boer
sympathies, as he alleges, or by chag-
rim, over failure to achieve knight
hood, as averred by the Asquiths, went
straight to the oldest and the most
interesting topic literature can handle
the frailties of a woman
In the universal literary diatribe
against lovely woman, Watson is so
far from singing solo that his, al
though the latest, shrek of contumely
is only part of the chorus.
What in the world can the other
authors of our time have against wo-
man?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05
When Wives Were Sold

When the war between Britain and
France ended in 1915 many of the
English soldiers found that their
wives had married again in the belief
that they were widows. The formal
selling of the wife was regarded
among the ignorant as legal solution
of the problem thus presented. and 1t
is said that the authorities of the day
deemed it best to shut their eyes at
the proceeding. A certain amount OF
formality had to be observed. however,
before the sale was considered legal,
even by the most ignorant
A Yorkshire writer mentions two
conditions which must be carried out
to make satisfactory sale. The price
of the wife must not be less than one
shilling GA cents), and she must be
delivered to her purchaser with a new
halter around her neck
The same writer records the case
of the woman who ssealously preserved
he receipt for herself as a proof OF
speciality
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05

the bearing down I recommended it
to some friends and two of them have
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MAE MCKNIGHT, Oronogo, Mo.
Another Grateful Woman.
ST. Louis, MOI was bothered
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pound regularly and used the Sanative
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Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done You no good.
do not continue to suffer without
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Compound trial 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as in
termination, liberation. displacements..
hbroid tumors, irregularities, periodic
pains, backache. that bearing down
feeling. Indigestion, dizziness. and ner-
vous prostration. 1t costs but a tribe
to try it, and the result is worth mil
lions to many suffering women
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-02-05

could hold the interest TO the end
Thackeray, it is notorious, achieved
his most conspicuous success with the
most evil of his womanly characters.
Becky Sharpe. There, If anywhere,
was ample evidence that the author
who paints an evil woman does 1t for
sheer love of the job
The great Thackeray could Judge
and condemn the shrewd, conscience
less, calculating Becky as mercilessly
as though he were on the bench and
she a criminal at the bar before him.
Yet he loved in his capacity OF artist
as a scientist might love a rare and
perfect speciment Of species-type; and
every stroke and shading he put into
his portrayal of the inimitable Becky
Sharpe was done with almost loving
kindness
Both he and Dickens must ever re-
main monumental examples support
ing the theory that the good woman IL
too tame for art rather than that the
authors are INDUCING any prejudice
against the sex. Both made repeated
attempts to depict the perfectly good.
lovable girl and woman; and it has re-
manned that both scored repeated fall
ures by presenting milk-and-water fig
ures that had no more saliency and
genuine life to them than so many
marionettes.
Reade and Stevenson.
Even Charles Reade, of whom a wo-
man critic declared he made all his
women cats, left figures in his stories
that seem to be alive, and did it purely
because of their faults, not of their
virtues
Of ha 20 n
mans artistic futility, as many admir-
ers of the late Robert Louis Steven
son believe, witch so long debarred
him from introducing her in his ro-
mances, save as he could linn her in
the faintest sketchings.
1t was hard for Stevenson to believe,
and harder for him to say, that every
woman on earth failed to fill the spec
ifications of a. full-fedged angel, fit
only for sinful and fallible man to wor-
ship. 1t was equally hard for him, as
the born artist, to put his pen to any
literary adventure whose ample pic
turesqueness of action threatened to
be doubtful.
Between the Unborn chivalry of the
man and the acute perceptions of the
artist Stevenson had to reach matu-
rity before he could even dare attempt
the drawing of a woman; and, when
all is said and done with him, his sue
cesses have been exclusively with
that are male.
Frenchmen Are Unfettered.
The English-writing author general
ly hampered by an almost imperious
tradition bidding him regenerate his
women if he doesn't keep them quite
within the dead line of responsibility.
seems to feel always some measure of
the sense of futility that weighed upon
Stevenson But the Frenchman, and
the continental author at large, can be
as merciless in analysing her as a
with frog. And often
times he creates an artistic triumph
that is imposing in its repellant real
ism. The example of the august Bal
FAC, which has so profoundly infiu-
enced all modern literature and that
Of France in particular. served to leave
the authorial scalpel entirely untram-
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ly crazy.

" crazy.
Watson himself has been trying to
prove he was neither
The general public has been wonder
ing whether he isn't both, and then
some, largely along the lines of in
gratitude and petty meanness.
But the Authors guild, of which his
venomous effusion proved him so dan
gerous member, being versed in the
history of literature. has been seeing
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II which any indictment can
NJ III bring to the bar; and the
MA3 authors of woman's own
tl lllli sex are no whit behind the
others In that fatal ac-
cusation. In modern literature, at
least, Caesars wife cannot be wholly
above suspicion and interesting at the
same time-certainly not upon the
grand scale that makes a novel the
book of the year"
One of those books of the year.
was Mrs. Humphry Wards Awaken
ing of Helena Ritchie,'' in which the
wilful Helena was very much indeed
open to suspicion; the immortal Jul
ius, for hundreth part of her indis-
cretions, would have surely drawn his
gladius and chased her all the way to
the Temple of Janus. And some other
thrilling novels of the same august
English romancer depended for their
thrills upon the self same theme
In the United States, one of the
strongest novels of recent years was
Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, %
where all American society was drawn
upon for types of vain and ambitious,
greedy and intriguing women, with
Lily Bart. the heroine. weakest and
most intriguing of them all, her virtue
assailed and withheld from destruction
only at the extreme verge, and death
depicted as the only fitting close for
the vacillating, greedy, Inundated self
she carries about through the conclud-
ing chapters of the novel
The most severe comment current
literature, which embraces its criti-
cisms, made upon woman was in the
critical sequels to Mrs. Wharton's
startling story. for the general verdict
was as much in Endorsement of her
social facts as of her artistic SKILL
Criticism, joining forces with romance,
left the modern society woman only
patches of character. supplemented