The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1904, Page 8

TURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL ICATIONS TO ADDRESS ALL COMMU:! ceccgerscascasssssssse JOHN McNAUGHT. -.... Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE. .THIRD AND MARKET BTREETS. SAN FRANCISCO SEPTEMBER 10, 1904 | SHAW ON FINANCE. ‘ SATURDAY .. HILE all business men feel confident of the safe and sound W condition of the country, it is a further addition to their feeling of security to have it affirmed. by the able Secretary of the Treasury in his political and his non-partisan addresses. In his talk to the business men of all parties who gave him a banquet here on Monday night, he showed that, with the largest volume of circulating currency in the world, the most money per capita of any nation, and every dollar equal to gold, the standard for it all, we | are in a position 18 avoid any business vicissitude by having the resources to meet it and avert it. - The gold standard has so increased our stock of that metal| that we are able to sustain in circulation $300,000,000 of greenbacks, | pure fiat money, with no value except for redemption in’ gold, and | can also carry a silver dollar circulation of $300,000,000 less in its | intrinsic than in its nominal value. Our gold stock is capable of car- rving all this, and the gold standard makes every dollar worth a| hundred cents. But the Secretary appreciates, as do all financiers, the desir-| ability of doing still better in the future, by substituting some other | and better form of currengy\for the fiat paper and the over-valued | silver. It is believed, and there is much financial experience to jus-| tify it, that a gradual elimination of the fiat paper would result in | supplying its place by gold. As the Treasury retains $150,000,000 reserve gold to redeem the fiat money, that sum would be released at once, and it is easily thinkable that gold certificates as a convenient | paper currency would soon take the place of the rest of the fiat notes. Some time this part of the problem must be approached, It with and solved, and when it is, fiat currency will be a thing of the past. Maintenance of the present volume of standard dollars in silver exactly the same as support of fiat paper, because each silver , having one leg to stand on, is only half the burden on a gold sllar that a fiat dollar is. Yet the time will come that standard | ver will disappear from our circulation, largely by conversion into | subsidiary coin, and thus will be realized the*purpose of the coinage | act of 18353, a Democratic measure, the purpose of which was de- clared ‘to be a sufficient supply of subsidiary. silver to serve the blic convenience in small transactions, leaving gold the standard 1d the currency for large transactions. In respect of these two measures the currency question, greatly advanced toward a settlement since 1896, awaits a scientific con- Another feature in our currency system was referred to length in the banquet speech of the Secretary. The Call has been insistent in arguing for a more flexible banking system, that will enlarge the volume of currency in such commercial emergen- cies as the annual movement of the crops, and contract it again when the necessity is past. . Without suggesting it as the only plan, or going to the extent of an official indorsement, the Secretary said: “Suppose the national banks are permitted to issue a cerfain volume of currency, either based upon the capital of the bank, or upon the amount of bond se- ured currency, and are charged not less than 5 per cent interest ng the time this currency is out. Certainly such currency will spring into existence whenever money is scarce, and if the banks are ¢ elled to pay 35 per cent interest théreon, they will retire it as soon as the pinch is over. It can be retired by the deposit of an | equal volume of currency at any of the sub-treasuries. It will not be necessary to redeem each individual bill. The volume would be ntracted as much by the deposit as by the destruction of the bank bills. The interest charged would vastly more than cover any possible loss. 1 desire to go upon record as being opposed to the ssue of any kind of currency the Government does not guarantee, and 1 am equally opposed to the Government guaranteeing bank currency without first being amply secured.” Our California bankers have not been hospitable to the propo- sition for an emergency issue. Perhaps this is because they feel the pinch less than it is felt in the financial center, New York. But the sentiment of one part of the country arising in its local situation should not stand in the way of a geasure for general relief which may safeguard the whole country against a currency pinch that may degenerate into a panic. As we have often pointed out, the problem is not one so much of volume as of distribution of cur- rency. An emergency issue will reinforce distribution, by appear- ing where the necessity is and disappearing when it is over, l stallment of one of the cleverest of the summer’s novels, a story of bohemian life in Paris and London, “Anna the Adventuress,” by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story deals with the fortunes of two sisters, one struggling to gain recognition as an artist, the other a favorite of the Parisian dance halls and a preminent figure in the faster side of Parisian life. The interests of the two sisters, who are very similar in face and form, become strangely interwoven. Anna, with the hope of reforming her wayward sister and with the desire to help her to a profitable marriage, unselfishly shoulders the blame and lives under the stigma of the escapades of her notorious sister. The love interest is especially strong and is sustained with all the power at the command of an experienced novelist who writes of a life that he is thoroughly familiar with. The story will appear in four installments, aptly illustrated. 4 Other fiction features embrace an article by Marie Corelli, “Accursed Eve,” in which the relations of men and women are dis- cussed with all the keen insight into human motives and actions at the command of one of the most remarkable writers of the day; Jerome K. Jerome contributes a somewhat facetious dissertation, “The New Fad in Literature”; “A Batch of Love Letters,” a new serial, begins, the initial installment of which, “Cupid in Country Quarters,” is from the pen of Sir George Douglas, Bart. Each succeeding installment will be handled by a different writer, all be- ing names familiar to readers of fiction. “Swart Pete’s Wedding at Grizzly Gulch” is a clever California storiette, and there are storiettes by Richard Shelton and Dorothy Douglas. There are as usual many pages of special articles. Madge Moore tells how to make 2 potpourri of roses; Augusta Prescott describes the new shirt waist styles for fall; the physical culture series con- tinues with exercises for the trunk; and there is a full page story with illustrations, showing.the old Aztec methods of mining and beating copper. The puzzle page and the music page are in colors and there are many shorter articles of interest. is not dollar C THE SUNDAY CALL. N the Sunday Call Magazine to-morrow will appear the first in- 1 The Washington genius who was recently arrested by the Fed- eral authorities for sending LL.D. degrees through the ‘mails at $5 and $10 per parchment could probably tell us why every aeronaut calls himself “Professor” and why our cancer doctors have a pom- pous academic handle to their names. —_— Press reports do not say that the Czar is sending any Embassa- dor Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to attend'the coming peace congress at Boston. Nicholas does not see that Hague dove of peace bringing any olive branches to Peterhof at present. An Eastern aeronaut started to sail from St. Louis to Wash- ington via balloon, but after traveling three hundred miles he came down to earth that he might get something to eat. Thus are the flights of genius hemmed about by human limitations. : There is a significant correlation between the present cut rate war in Atlantic transportation and the outbreak of the “Black Hand” disturbances in New York’s Italian quarter. Cause and effect are herein beautifully demonstrated. Ltk S RN The meat war is over and Easterners mayagain turn their e : : % yes | | COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL COVERNMENT INTERESTS WOMEN OF THE COUNTRY IN COLTURE OF SIK| The Government has made it possible for every woman in the country who owns a few mulberry trees to keep her- self in pin money, provided she is will- ing to work for it at the rate of six weeks in the vear, telegraphs the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune. | Silkworms the world over feed on tie leaves of the mulberry, and after an experience of more than two years the Agricultural Department is justified in the belief that America in time will be able to rival the looms of Italy and France. In order to interest the people; | of the country in this new field of work| | the department will send to any appli- cant silkworms enough to start busi- ness, with full instructions how to make the venture a success. When the crop is gathered the department will| | pay for the cocoons on a scale of §1 a pound when dry. It is such simple work and so easily donme that women and even children can engage in it profitably. and if conducted intelli- gently there is no reason why silk cul- ture cannot vield as good results as the raising of chickens or bees, with far less trouble. For instance, a half-dozen mulberry trees will net the culturist about $60 a year. There will be literaliy little or no expense and the care of the worms means a few weeks’ work in the springtime, when it is a positive pleas- ure to be out of doors. In a sunshiny room in the Argicul- tural Department three young women are kept busy every day reeling silk from the cocoons that.are being sent in from nearly every State in the Union, notably Utah and . Alabama. Afterward it is twisted into shining yellow hanks, ready for the mills of Paterson, where it will be woven into native ribbons and silks. As the department pays out $4 for the raw material, to say nothing of the expense of clerk hire, books of instruc- tion, machinery and even mulberry cuttings for those who have no trees, E3 'American Woman " Highly Honored at Heidelberg BAE SHE WILL REMAIN IN GERMANY AND CONDUCT SCHOOL -FOR AMERICAN GIRLS. <+ ISS ALICE H. LUCE, one of the few American women re- ceiving rare. honors from a European university, has re- ,cently decided to - make her permanent home in Germany, and with this end in view has purchased the famous Willard School. for Amer- it wiH be seen that the additional $1|jcan girls-in Berlin." The school has a a pound given by the mills does not|record, having had a numbers of begin to cover the cost of the under-|prominent American girls on its roster taking. The Government - does mind a small thing like that, however, [ It was at the-Willard School that Mrs. if the outcome proves successful, and | Grover Cleveland spent two years be- the department has pledged -itself to|fére her marriage. ' Miss Luce is a buy all cocoons gent in until such time | graduate of Wellesley College and as the output encourages the erection of | among other honors has received the silk mills throughout the country,|degree of doctor of philosophy from when the market will be general, as in | Heidelberg University. . She goes to the case of other staple products. her new duties with the recommenda- Commercial silk culture requires a |tions of many well-known_people, both smaller outlay of capital than almost|here and abroad, among them Presi- any other industry,:-and the net gain|dent Seelye of Smith College; Dr. the first year may pay for an outfit | George Herbert Palmer, professor. of which will last for many years. One |philosophy, of Harvard; the Right girl of 15 made enough money this year | Rev. Bishops Leonard of Ohio and with her cocoons to send herself to col- | Lawrence of Massachusetts; President lege for the coming scholastic term.|Hazard' of Wellesley, Lady Somerset Another, in the same. neighborhood, | of 'London and the Hon. Andrew D. failed to get returns enough to pay for | White, ex-Embassador of the. Units her outfit—which serves as an illustra- | States, Berlin, Germany. R tion that silk culture, like everything THE. INTEREERING - OUTSIDER. else, depends upon the way you go about it. Family peace is often marred by the interfering outsider. Almost always, The University of Edinburgh has con- ferred the degree of -doctor of laws on Hannis Taylor, the. former United States Minister to Spain. The same honor was conferred some time ago by the University of Dublin. Mr. Tay- lor will receive the degree at Dublin the last of June and at nburgh ear- ly in July. ‘the flame of a quarrel, husband and wife will adjust a transient difference. A cousin, aunt or indiscreet mother who takes sides and makes injudicious remarks will stir up strife where do- In 1902 there were 8588 persons killed in this country by the railroads and 64,- LEADER OF A UNITED AND PROSPEROUS COUNTRY. not | during its eighteen years of existence. i delicate " surgical operation recently of each ‘had excluded the sight. i AND THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. POLITICAL WOMAN IN AUSTRAJ,IA IS BLESSED WITH MANY PRIVILEGES| Australia is the most experimental | of all countries and is the proving| gmound for all the advanced ideas re- | specting the arbitration of labor dis- putes, state ownership or control of | public utilities and the ballot, says a contributor of the Philadelphia Led- ger. Whether these experiments suc- ceed or fail in practice, Australia is doing the rest of the world service as an object lesson. A contribution to | the current number of the Nineteenth Century and After, by a Melbourne | woman, on “The Political Woman in | Australia,” presents an interesting resume of the progress made in the | political emancipation of woman un- der the most favorable circumstances. The writer rejoices in the fact that her country has granted her sex ab-| solute political equality with men and | has thereby reached “a position unique in the world’s history.” The | Australian constitution is peculiar in| that it has no sex limitations. The | women enjoy the right to vote equally with men, may become members of the Legislature and hold other of- fices. It required about twenty years to persuade the Australian woman to | ask for the franchise; but it finally be- came her possession and had a| marked influence upon the recent Federal elections, when the women voted in as large numbers proportion- ately as the men in most of the con- stituencies. : The writer notes that the women as a rule voted for the candidates who stood for economy in public expendi- tures and for careful pational house- | keeping. To the assertion commonly | heard wherever woman suffrage is| urged that women will vote as the| men desire the writer replies that the | | elections showed that the women, on | the whole, voted with independence; at any rate, that they did not vote a straight or “‘machine” ticket as faith- fully -as the men did. “Voting means responsibility, re- sponsibility means power and' power commands respect,” is her epigram- matic answer to the charge that by the extension of the franchise to woman she will lose the ‘‘chivalrqus attention” of the men. She previods- ly held that women who would lose the respect of men by voting were the | most assiduous in courting the wom- en’s votes, The Sir Walter Raleighs and/De Lorges are thick as leaves in Valombrosa at election time. The writer herself was a candidate for the Senate of Victoria and was de- feated, but there were eighteen can- didates in the field and she. finds en- couragement in the returns, which gave her 51,497 votes, when 85,387 were sufficient to elect. She regards her vete as a great triumph, obtained “in spite of the opposition of power- ful daily papers and the prejudice that a pioneer always encounters.” She thinks that full enfranchisement for women in England must come by the action of the labor party, through which woman suffrage has been made a question of practical politics in Aus- tralia, instead of remaining, as in othér countries, “the suffrage States in America excepted,” a purely aca- demic question. | { | | they pulled a deadly weapon on him Washington Star. | negro Methodist circuit preacher whose STYLE OF AMERICAN LABOR DELEGATES OPENS EYES OF BRITISH COLLEAGUES | — Spscial Correspondence. y LONDON, Aug. %4—English labor | leaders are astonished at the style| American delegates are able to main- | tain when they arrive on this side. | They put up at the most luxurious hotels and it is estimated that their expenses during this sojourn here run | int¢ a higher figure than the total of the emoluments received in twelve | months by any of the English labor | leaders. The annual International Trades’ Congress takes place in Leeds the first week in September and it is stated that a greater number of American dele- gates will be present than has ever been seen at the English congress be- fore. John Mitchell has been here for | some weeks and Messrs. Ryan and | Driscoll have just arrived. They are all | stayin at the Hotel Russell, which ranks in the same class with such lux- urious caravansaries as the Cecil, Carl- ton or Savoy hotels. Mitchell will rep- resent the American miners and Ryan and Driscoll the National Federation of Labor. Several other labor repre- sentatives will reach London in the| course of the next week or two. Hitherto the United States has been satisfled with sending two delegates only. The trouble with the coal miners in beth countries and the meat strike in America are said to be responsible for the increase in the representation. Workers in the meat trade in England have never yet been organized and it is believed to be the intention of the American delegates to bring them into line with the American workers on this particular trade. If they succeed it is probable the combination will cause a crisis in the meat trade between Eng- land and America that will require very careful handling. It would be difficult to replace the present workers in the meat trade in England by free or non-union labor if the former de- cided to go on strike. They are usually recruited from the very roughest sec- tion of the working classes and once aroused it would require the whole of the police in London to keep them in check. There have been a few efforts to organize the meat workers during the last week or two in consequence of excitement produced by the Ameri- can trouble, but it was decided at a meeting held privately on Saturday evening last in the neighborhood of Smithfleld market to postpone further action pending the arrival of repre- sentative meat workers from America. — HUMOR OF THE DAY, Lofty Language: Bystander—I expected to see you shoq§ that Boston man when he gave | you the lie. Georgian—He didn't give me the lie. He only said that in his judgment I was habitually untruthful.—Somer- ville Journal. Perfidity. She—Jack played an awfully heart- less trick on Flossie. He—How's that? She—Why, they were engaged, you know, and last night at the bal masque Jack made up so that Flossie didn’t know him. He proposed and was ac- cepted again!—Puck. The Black Hand. | “Charley had a dreadful time last night,” said young Mrs. Torkins. “He says he was a victim of the ‘Black Hand."” “You don't say so!” exclaimed the | caller. “Yes. He came home wifhout a cent. I don't quite understand the particulars as he explained them. But that is known as a club flush."— Fixed. Sir Conan Doyle recently told a story | ©of an English officer who was badly | wounded in South Africa and the mili- tary surgeon had to shave off that | portion of his brains which protruded | from his skull. The officer got well and later on in London the surgeon asked whether he knew that a portion | of his brains was in a glass bottle in| a laboratory. | “QOh, that does not matter now,” re- plied the soldier, “I've got a permanent position in the War Office.” iston on Valor. General Funston, at a dinner party, complimented the valor of the Jap- | anese. “Their valor,” he said, “is not like that of a certain captain of the past. “This captain was about to lead his cempany into battie. He drew his sword and waved it. “‘Now, my brave fellows,’ he shouted to his men, ‘you have a tough struggle before you. Fight like heroes until your ammunition is gone, then | run like antelopes. I'm a little lame, | so I'll start now."” One Masonic Secret. | If it becomes known by his lodge | that a certain prominent Mason of this | city has recently given away one of | their secrets to his wife grave trouble | awaits him. His spouse for years had | been continually exhorting him to tell | | her just one of the secrets of the fra- ternity. But he remained inflexible. She was persistent, and he at ‘last, with a resigned look, said that owing | to her eternal pestering -he would tell | her just one secret twenty days from date. | Bright and early on the twentieth | day she asked: | “Now, John, what is the secret?” ‘With a solemn face he whispered: “H-sh! The goat died!"—Philadel- phia Ledger. Second-Hand Sermons. | Cyrus Townsend Brady, when in the West as a young clergyman, met a district also covered a vast expanse of territory, and who, In consequence, was able to use a sermon a long time, so many different communities did he visit on his rounds. He had gone about three-fourths of the way 'round on one occasion when, coming from his church after the service, he encountered an old regro, who, hat in hand, ap- proached and said: “Dat’s mighty fine sermon, sah, of yoh's. Ah likes it ebery time Ah hear it. Seems we cross each other’s track putty of'n, sah, fo' to-day makes the seventh bles’'t time Ahse heard yo’ preach it. Ah'm a bit uv a preacher myse’f, sah; an’ Ah wants ter say when yo’ gits fru’ wid dat sermon, Ah's ready ter buy it, sah. Ought ter last a-long time yet, sah; it am such good stuff. 'Deed, sah, Ahse willin’ ter gib yo' fo' bits now, jes to bin’ th’ bahg’in, sah.”—New York Times. BRAVE AT 80. Matthew Armer, an octogenarian, was recently warmly complimented by the Garstang Justices of London on a piucky deed. When Mrs. Catherine Taylor jumped into the Lancaster canal at Myerscough Armer promptly I HIS LAST EFFORT. He read the war news eagerly, The fearsome funny man; Then reaching for his stock of puns The punishment began. “ “To Russian y to the front The wily Jap to beat, Will show my skill,’ the Czar declared, ‘And prove the Russian fleet.’ “And yet, how could the Russian bear To leave his home and wife To rush across Siberian snows And risk his precious life? “Yet never did the Russian flag Through obstacles like these, He vowed he'd bring those awful Japs Upon their Japan knees. 3 “The Japs had eyed Manchuris And said in manner cool Since now we rule upon the seas— Let's seize upon the rule. ? “Into a Russian harbor then They sailed with conscience clear, Those Japs feared not a harbor And they harbored not a fear. “They found the ememy asleep. h ~ They aimed their shots as well ¢ As Dewey at Manila when He gave the Spanish shell. nd if you ask how goes the fight As it has gone thus far, And who Is being bested now, I think the Russianszar.” And having thus expressed himself The punster dropped his head And fixed in space a glassy stare. They shook him. He was dead. Kansas City Star. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. AN OLD DATE—S., City. The 9%h of September, 1866, fell on a Sunday. PUMPKINS—A Subscriber, City. For information as to the methods used to increase the size of pumpkins address a letter of inquiry to State Board of | Horticulture, Sacramento, Cal. BRITISH NAVY—Subscriber, Cal. In order to know how many of the British battleships have exceeled the contract rate ol speed on trial trip you heve to write to the British Navy Department, London, England. HOME FOR ADULT BLIND-H. H., City. John P. Irish, Warren Olney, G. E. Randolph and H. M. Sanborn, all of Oakland, are directors of the Indus- trial Home of Mechanical Trades for lthe Adult Blind, located in Oakland. POBETRY—W. J., City. The Call does not index poetry that has been pub- lished in its columns by its first Hne, but by title, and unless the title is given it is impossble to give the date of publication of any poem that has appeared. ASPHALTUM—E. M. G, Jamul, San Dies County, Cal. For Informa- tion in regard to any kind of asphaltum for street pavement address a letter of inquiry to the Board of Public Works, San Francisco, Cal. State plainly what you want to know. POSTMISTRESS—B., Alameda, Cal, If an unmarried woman is commis- sioned a' postmistress and then mar- rles she must notify the Fourth As- sistant Postmaster at Washington, D. C., make application to be reappointed and must furnish a new bond. FLEA{—M. S, Mt. Eden, Cal. The best method recommended for the ban- ishment of fleas from a dog is to rub the animal with a decoction of the herb of pennyroyal and if the herd is not handy then use the oil of penny- royal. This will not injur: the halr of the dog. CASEY'S DOINGS — Saubscriber, Felix, Calaveras County, Cal. About the time that Casey of the San Fran- cisco Board of Public Works dismissed an engineer at the City Hall without cause, simply to appoint some favorite, several of the city papers published criticisms on the matter, but unless you designate the particular paper this department cannot give you the date of publication of such matter. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR — Subscriber, City. The Knights Templar owe their organization to seven French Knights, together with Hugues de Paganes and Goeffrey de St. Omer, who, in the tweifth century, founded the order in Jerusalem for the protection of pil- grims to the Holy Sepulcher. Gov- ernors were appointed in every country and known as masters of the temple, and by degrees the ranks, which at first were filled by wealthy laymen, were thrown open to “spiritual persons not bound by previous vows,” and finally laymen of humble birth werse admitted as serving brothers. Knights dived in after her and brought her out unconscious. Some passing cyclists applied artificial respiration #¥h suc- mkn;n.lna:.mflnum'm- Je- mina McCoy, an instance of eyesighi w:flnmubflnflom lh: | McCoy, 59 years old, and blind from her now sees as the result of a back Returns of the receipts on the French railvays during the first six ._me. firc-etched boxes. 715 months of the year show a general de- cline compared with 1903. The loss of the principal companies is from 2 to 3 per cent. Templar is the designation given in Freemasonry to the commanderies which are the representatives of the ancient Knights Templar. —_————— fruits Market ste Special information PEEEEES S