The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ... Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN ICNAUCE“ ------ sosbbenscssssesscos gasssescses ceseses PUELICATION OFFICE........eeees -THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO <D SEPTEMBER 14, 1904 Manager HEARST ON RAISINS. in his Examiner, an appeal in behalf of the declaring that failure to market thousands of hard- R. HEARST prints, raisin-growers of California, their crop would “mean distress to many M working people who have made a garden out of a desert and deserve As they have not issued an address to the American people in behalf of their ig ustry, hg announces that the Hearst papers will do it for them, which they will no doubt duly appreciate. He then proceeds to do it, addressing the American peo- ple as follows: > “We are a community of good American citizens, who have built up a great industry intended to supply you with a cheap and wholesome article of food. A few years ago you had to send to Europe for the raisins you wanted. To-day they are produced abun- dantly by your fellow-citizens, who are selling them at much lower prices than vou had to pay to the importers. But for some reason you are not buying them.” . © Whatever the facts may be about the failure to purchase raisins and consume them in sufficient quantities, the other statements of the Hearst appeal are correct. The domestic raisin is as good.as the imported, or better. Before it was grown here people paid about | three times as much for their raisins, imported from Spain. In order to give the California raisin a chance, the tariff on the imported | raisin was put at 5 cents a pound. The Wilson tariff of 1894 re- duced it to one and a half cents. The Dingley tariff, denounced in | the present Democratic platform, raised it to two and a half cents. | Under this prices have ben satisfactory until now, from some cause, well of their fellow-citizens.” there is a failure fo take the whole output, with injury to prices. Raisin-growing has been a tariff bred industry entirely. The; Democratic press in the ¥ast has denounced a tariff on raisins every | time the subject has been under discussion. The protectionists have | always contended that protection would cheapen the article. When ! the importer had control of our raisin market Mr. Hearst admits that | he charged a higher price than California raisins have sold for at a | profit to their producers. Therefore it is plain that if the market | is again given to the importers and our raisin production ceases, | Americans will soon be paying’ a higher price for their raisins. It is to be regretted that our raisin-growers are not finding a lace for their stock. The cause, we are persuaded, is temporary. | Jut if “theyrobber tariff” were taken off, the foreign product would | first undersell and destroy the California raisin industry, and then | up would go the price again. It was the same with steel rails, tin and a great variety of American industries, which were germinated | here by protection, with the result of lowering the price to the Amer-| | ican consumer. It may be that the present raisin tariff is too low, | and we suggest to Mr. Needham, who represents Fresno_in Congress, | that he look into it, and if necessary get the rate doubled. ! Mr. Hearst, continuing his appeal, assures the people that raisin | seeds do not cause appendicitis, and says: They are better than the foreign, yet in the three years last past| 15,266,887 pounds of raisins were brought into this country and sold | to vou. While that is not a very large importation, it offends Mr. Hearst. But pray how can he stop it without making the “robber tariff” on | raisins higher than it is? Last year we produced 112,000,000 pounds of raisins. If the home market will not take them all, why not ex- | port them to England and sell them so cheaply that the surplus will | be taken there? But to do this with a surplus production is de- nounced by the Democracy, and to Mr. Hearst is indisputable evi- dence that we have a “robber tariff.” We can see no remedy except maintenance of the present robber tariff on raisins, and increasing it, if need be, to shut out the imports of which Mr. Hearst complains. | The whole tariff issue is illustrated in the raisin question, and Mr. Hearst's party says it is all “robbery.” T “Editor Call: Now that our forests are about gone, what | are our able legislators going to do about preserving the stumps? | Respectfully, A FOOL WOMAN.” We are not able to answer that. Perhaps in the distant future | there may arise an association, fashioned on the present Landmarks Society, to be called “The Forest Relic and Stump Savers,” with the object of saving the stumps as evidence that we once had forests. Ii our correspondent rely on legislation to save the stumps, they will | not be saved. Public opinion, the press, clubs and associations have dinned for a quarter of @ century for legislation to save the forests from fire without interfering with their commercial use. After being | cut for lumber the forests would renew themselves, if some simple | and inexpensive precautions were taken to keep them from burning. | But 41l appeals have been met with indifference and the destruction | increases every year. Not long ago The Call congratulated the State that the sum- mer had passed in California with no destructive forest fires. Since | then conflagrations have attacked and marred or destroyed some of the finest forests in the Coast Range, and nearly invaded to obliterate the State Redwood Park, in the Big Basin. That primitive forest was reached by a road that was delightful in every mile. Now that highway lies blistering through a blackened waste, from which all beauty has been burned. “A Fool Woman” is no fool at all, judged by the standard of | sense on this subject as fixed by public opinion. But judged by the ‘ standard of official-indifference to forest preservation, she,is, and so are we all, fools and blind. { . THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONGRESS. AN INQUIRY. HE CALL is in receipt of the following letter from San Jose: HE International Peace Congress will hold its thirteenth ses- sion in Boston during the first week of October. Thither dele- tes from a majority of the civilized countries of the world are to betake themselves in unselfish humanitarian devotion to the cause of the mations’ good. Though the unlucky number of their con- wvention seems to be signalized by a war the bloodiest of the genera- tion, these devotees to the fostering of universal peace will, by thei very fact of their convocation, give earnest of the growth of better ideals in the world’s councils. - The work of this peace congress and of like international arbi- tration associations must be one of long and arduous education, fraught with many rebuffs and great discouragements. Theirs is a vision which has been before the eyes of idealists through long years of battling and turmoil and has yet refused to down. In the early years of the last century the Holy Alliance gave at first high promise of the fulfillment of the longed-for wish, but proved to be nothing but an engine of tyranny under the artful hand of Metternich. At the end of the century came the establishment of The Hague tri- bunal, a definite triumph at last for the cause of peace, though one {ailing of some of the hoped-for results. This is at least a substantial mile post in the progress of the campaign of peace. With the spirit of militarism still strong among the nations and the prospect of universal peace yet in the far horizon, the inter- national congress may, nevertheless, find work to do in alleviating I:e horrors of war. Out of the h;:resent Far E:fstem conflict there ve arisen ions touching the inhumanity of some modern en- ines of Aem.vlndt ?ill probably find hearing before The gines Hague Court when the noise of conflict has ceased. Strong utter- ances upon these subjects on the of the International Peace Congress would mrely_ be given respectful audience there. When the Russian traffic destroyer Lena sailed into the harbor Sunday it took the Merchants’ Exchange volapuk. r 4 % ——ee for a world “Buy California raisins. | | | man with his hand out for a tip. When _| fair not to give it." %mnm i COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL i : : _ “SLURF" IS THE NAME Social success in Arizona no longer depends on one’s ability to play draw or stud poker. From Prescott to Bis- bee it is sluff, morning, noon and night, says the Prescott correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ‘Where the game came from, who in- troduced it and what its antecedents were no one seemed to remember. For two years sluff has been growing in popularity every day, and the man who cannot play it leads a lonely life. Sluft is cheaper for the stranger than poker, for, as a rule, it is not played for money. Drinks for .the crowd is the usual penalty for losing a game, and strangers are supposed to buy the drinks, in any event. Like all dard games which attain sudden popu- larity, sluff is easily explained and quickly learned. In spite of its sim- plicity great skill can be developed and Arizona holds crackerjack players. Ordinarily a game takes about fif- teen minutes. In Pearce, where it is now the fashion to drink whisky with beer chasers, four drinks an hour are regarded as none too many. i When experts get at the cards sluff | is liable to be a long drawn out propo- sition. At Tucson they have a record | of a game which lasted seven hours. One must not think, however, that the players waited that long for a round of drinks. Every fifteen min- utes or so they cut the cards and the low man bought. | It is not possible to lay hands on a written or printed set of rules of the game, but half the men in the Terri- tory can tell one how to play. The . 0 OF VERY LATEST GAME | cards and a widow of three eleven The deal passes after each cards. kand. The player to the right of the dealer has the say, and may frog, solo, solo grande or pass. If he frogs, hearts are trump; the widow is shown and taken to hand by the maker. If he solos the trump must be dia- monds, clubs or spades, and the widow is not looked at until the conclusion of the hand, when the maker adds any counters it may contain in his hand. It he solo grandes he has the privi- lege of calling the trump. If the player to the left of the dealer frogs the others may solo over him. The original maker then solo srandes or passes. At the beginning of the game each player receives chips worth 120 points, usyally. eleven blues and ten whites. When one player loses his stack the game ends and the penalty of buying a round of drinks is exacted. The maker must win sixty points to make good. For all under that he must pay; for all over sixty he is paid by each of his opponents. If four are playing and the maker loses he has to pay the dealer as well, but if the maker makes good the dealer does not pay. In a frog each point pays ome; in sclo, two; in solo grande, three. Any card of any suit may be led. One must follow suit if possible. If out of suit a trump is required. If out of trumps one should sluff it playing third in hand, and one's part- ner holds the tricks. Sluffing means rules differ in minor particulars in dif- ferent camps, but this is the way it is | generally played: Sluff calls for a deck of thirty-six | cards, the cards from deuce to five spot, inclusive, being thrown out. There are 120 points in the game. Aces count 11, tens 10, kings 4, queens 3 and jacks 2. Two, three or four may play, but in any case only three full hands are dealt. The dealer remains out when four play. The cards are dealt one at a time in four hands until after twelve are so "l dealt; after to three hands to the end of the deck. This gives three hands of | BRATIFUL GINIS | I overheard the other day ome of America’s pretty giris remark that she “never drank tea because she thought | it was very indigestible and that it was ibad for the complexion,” writes Mrs. AND THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. e RS L ot oon | CERMAN PRINCES TIPPING IN EUROPE Lydia K. Commander, in the Ameri- can Federationist, says: “I have just returned from a trip through KEurope where I naturally made frequent comparisons between the status of the foreign worker and that of his American brother. “‘One of the most noticeable differ- ences is the constant presence of the * | . SENTT0 FAR BAST you leave the steamer fully ten people expect to be ‘remembered.” Of these fully half consider $2 or less an open insult, to be resented by marked in- solence of manner and only a $5 bill can move them to thanks, “At every hotel from eight to a dozen tip-hunters shadow the departing guest and he is expected to go the rounds. “Nor is this all. If you hire a car- riage you are expected to tip the driver. If you ask' the street car con- ductor a question or request him to call your street you must give him a /OUR SEWING MACHINES OF ROYAL BLOOD l ! quarters and report operations from the | fee. When you take a boat ride you pay for your ticket and pay the man who takes it from you. If you inqujre vour way of a passerby you dip your hand in your pocket as you do so. You tip the clerk in the store, the man who delivers your goods, the postman, the policeman and, for aught I know to the contrary, the doctor, the lawyer and the preacher. I heard it said that ‘every one in Europe will take a tip except the crowned heads’ but I am not at all prepared to admit the ex- ceptlon. . “When you remonstrate against this continual tax you are met with the argument, ‘The poor things get very little and they must live. You are really paying them wages and it is un- “If you ask, 'Why® do they receive such small pay?* the reply is, ‘The employer knows they will get the tips and counts on it and again you are assured that tips are wages and should not be withheld. “But a few minutes’ consideration shows that not only are tips not wages, but they destroy wages. Wages are a definite sum® agreed upon by employer and worker. To pay them is an obli- gation, to receive them is a right. A tip is a favor, a charity. It can be glven or withheld at will. Its be- stower swears with self-satisfled benev- olence. Its receiver, a true flunky, graduates his thanks to match the amount of the gratuity. A tip is not wages, for no man has aeright to de- mand it. He can only cringe and kow- tow in the hope of not missing it. “Nor does the amount gained offer any atonement for the sacri- ficed in the getting. The steamer stewards are more favored and more arrogant than the man beyond seas. | In Germany you may give your street car conductor a small coin worth one and a fourth cepts; in France a cent will be accepted and the haughty Britisher only stands out for ‘tup- pence.’ Of course the tips run from these trifles up, and sometimes high up —and ‘that’s the way the money goes.’ “But it was, after all, the small tips that shocked me most. To think that men, full grown, white, civilized, free men—not children nor Filipings nor savages nor slaves—would take a one- cent charity and say ‘Thank you' ERLIN, Aug. 25.—Kaiser Wilhelm lieves that royalty should be useful as well as ornamental and in accordance with that favorite doctrine of his he has Jjust ordered two princes of the royal Prussian fam- for it. R ily to go to Manchuria as military ob- “It made me heartsick and ashamed | servers on behalf of the army. to see it. I blushed to think that they | pe -| Russian capital he will stop to pay known and favorite character in Berlin, | Hart Davis in the Chicago Journal | Now, this is a great mistake that most jof the American womeén make. The | best way to show the fallacy is to draw PUPHLAR IN TURKEY | attention to some of the prettiest and most beautiful girls in the world, who T are found in Ireland, where they drink American methods of doing business | teq nearly all day long and have the have helped to flood Constantinople | most peachlike complexions of any with sewing machines. They cost more | girls known. Again, if you go to Eng- than those sent from other countries, {land, Scotland or Wales eyerywhere but they are considered better and are | You Will see fresh, rosy-cheeked girls, d it would be quite an ¢xception to sold on the easy payment plan. Consul | 2™ o R General Dickinson, in a recent Teport, | b & St T O BE e O Pering says that more than two-thirds of the | from some ‘dire. disease. Vet all lhes: 10,000 machines sold in Constantinople | . g N 5 100K wore oF : American ‘make, : one- girls drink large quantities of tea every fourth were German and the rest| dey. y divided between England, Austria- In Russia, where the giris have very rosy cheeks, as you doubtless are Hungary and France. 2 aware, large quantities of tea are con- The American company sells on. > credit, being satisfied with a minimum | Sumed by all those who can afford to To proceed to the Orient, the weekly installment of 40 cents. | buy it. P | Indian and Ceylon nautch and other ~* | girls, although dark in complexion, join General head- . Kuropatkin’'s Russian side. Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, a first cousin of the Kaiser, has been commissioned to at- tach himself to Field Marshal Oyama's to play one’s highest cdunting card. As a rule, when one against the maker has the game In hand and takes a trick second in hand, he thrown his card on the table as though he desired to break it, and calls, “Now, ydu, slaft!™ When a player is out of suit that suit is called his dink. When one of the players can force the'maker to trump a suit is called “having his dink."” Arizona people take the game seri- ously and play as carefully as if the stakes were high. It is thought bad form to be garrulous during the play, but after the hand is played the plays are carefully analyzed. BIG TEA DRINKERS have as a rule very pretty and delicate skins, which are free from any spot or blemish. To take the medicinal properties of tea, they are in a great measure bene- ficial, aspecially as a stimulant, with- out being harmful, as coffee and alco- | hol are. Tea is undoubtedly a food. | and if it is properly made and is taken with milk it has only the most benefi- cial effects on the drinker. It may not be generally known that people who imagine they canot drink tea have been surprised to find that they can when they use milk, instead of drinking it, as is customary in this | country, either without milk or with a | slice of lemon floating in the tea. Tea | is goodgfor the throat. It is an antidote | for malaria and is found beneficial in | cases of extreme fatigue. The Egyptian campaign under General Lord Kitch- ener was a teetotal one, tea only being carried in the water bottles of the sol- {diers. In South Africa the war was fought on tea. To-day both the Rus- sians and the Japanese are during the hot weather using tea as their only | drink, a sustaining and quickly resus- * citating one. staft and observe events from the Jap- anese ranks. Prince Karl Anton, al-| At a banquet last season Thomas though only 36 years old, has already | Jefferson told of a clergyman who attained the rank of major-general and | went fishing. He was perched in a is an active member of the German | precarious positionn when he got a general staff. | bite, and in his excitement he fell into Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia the stream. ok o e AT ThE s very much| He velled lustily for help, and a izgainst Lhis will, according to the Ber- | it = in newspapers. He is a leisure-loving 4 scion of royalty and had settled down B }:ow ::d you. soie. Yo Sell for a comfortable summer at his mag- | © oo o0 T remsan fall in,” 1i nificent country estate at Klein Glien- L IOt Sombic . 28 o S od the dripping preacher. I came to icke, near Potsdam. He has the repu- fish."—Boston Post. tation of shunning military dutwas far | % - as possible, although he comes from | high-class martial stock, his father, the late Prince Frederick Karl, known auring the Franco-German war as the “Red Prince,” ori account of his fero- cious blond beard, having been one of the most dashing of leaders on the vic- torious German side. Prince Frederick Karl is an ardent automobilist and | equestrian and the palace grounds at Klein Glienicke are fitted up with pri- | vate driving paths and automobile tracks, where his royal highness ! amuses himself in almost hermit-like style. The Kaiser's summons to pack up and hustie to the sun-broiled firing ine in Manchuria came as a complete surprise and the atmosphere at Klein Glienicke is said in consequence to have been surcharged with strong language when the imperial command, which, of course, brooks no declination, reached the premises. That Prince Frederick Leopold intends to travel and work with as much luxury as possible, nev- ertheless, is apparent from the an- nouncement that his suite for Man- churia will consist of eight servants and four specially chosen horses. His Reyal Highness will leave Berlin for Manchuria, via St. Petersburg and the Trans-Siberian railway, soon. At the in?" A WONDERFUL NEEDLE. Simeon Ford was showing a hotel | keeper from up the State some of the | beauties of Central Park. “What's that monument over there?” inquired the stranger, point- ing to the obelisk. “That is Cleopatra's plied Mr. Ford. The rural boniface gazed at it long and thoughtfully. Finally he re- marked: | “Well, if she could sew with that |thing I don’t wonder Antony fell in Jove with her. With a needle like that a stitch in time would save a mil- | lion!"—Philadelphia Ledger. THE NEGRO VOTE. Senator Clapp of Minnesota is by reason of his personal appearance fre- Needle,” re- — THE BRIDAL OF THE SEAS feast is spreadnig A nuptial MOn Panama's far shore, ‘With such a show of bounty As ne'er has been before. The bright and fair Pacific The bonny bride will be - 'Who weds the proud Atlantic, v The restless, Eastern sea. I + the r’s compliments to the Czar. The ce is 39 years old. 2 | He's coming on to claim her; Prince Karl Anton, who will keep his m'rha wedding garment’s spun eye -on Japanese tactics and strategy, | is every inch a soldier and his appoint- ent for active service as military at- | ,, VIl be the S Hak tache i the Far Bast}d salito ba wel. | Aoy food il sea-rorns paie. comed by him heartily. He is regarded as one of Germany's most promising young officers. He is married to Prin- cess Josephine of Belgium, a niece of A shore of snowy whiteness wmh&::.fimpdumm- hung with orchids frail, The wind, who loves the ‘The W where he is often seen walking or driv- farmer came along and pulled him | (| A VN MINUTES WITH THE STORY TELLERS | quently mistaken for a Southerner. He tells of an amusing incident that occurred on a train on which he was a passenger. The Senator observed that the por- ter eyed him narrowly several times, evidently taking the statesman for a Confederate brigadier. ; Thinking to have a little fun with | the darky the Senator asked: “What are your politics, Tom?” |, ‘Dere is some fool niggers, sah™ | Tom replied, “in dis company who is | Republicans, but I'll tell you, boss, [ a;s't no fool nigger.”—New York Her- | ald. | HOLLERS IN DIFFERENT PLACES. | Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the | executive committee of the steel trust, used to live in the Illinois town of | Wheaton. “One day, in Wheaton,” Judge Gary isald recently, “I took dinner with a clergyman and his family. The clergy- man had an eight-year-old son called Joe, and Joe was a very bright boy. *“ ‘Look here, Joe,” I said during the course of the dinner. ‘T have a ques- tion to ask you about your father.' “Joe looked gravely at me. “*‘All right; I'll answer your ques- tion,” he said. ““Well,’-said I, ‘T want to know if your father doesn't preach the same germon twice sometimes." “‘Yes,.I think he does,’ said Joe, “‘but the second time he always hol- lers in different places from what he did the first time.” "—Boston Post. N T e A S A S S + - | ANSWERS 70 QUERIES —_— KEEPETH NOT MY WORDS— Subscriber, Lower Lake, Cal. “He that loveth me not, keepeth not my words,” is from the New Testame: John xiv:24. o NORTHWEST PASSAGE—Subserib- er, Oakland, Cal. 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