The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL Proprietor | | JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ..ccoocees covorsnsetsnse soevsvennccss ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO _ .THIRD AND MARKET STREETS. SAN FRANCISCO ‘ | _SEPTEMBER 19, 1904 WTRADE CONDITIONS STILL CHEERFUL. ; FE expansion in general trade observed during the past several | Tx\ eeks still continues. The changed conditions from dullness to increased activity are strongly illustrated by the prox}ounce(l increase in the bank clearings over the corresponding period last | , the gain last week being 18.1 per cent, while the volume of | gs mounted from about $1,750,000,000, where they have been. n The increase at New York| for a month or two, to $2,150,000,000. N A was 31.8 per cent, at Philadelphia 16.4 per cent and at }lmneapohs 26.8 per cent. The failures for the week were 224, against 219 for the corresponding week last year. - Sk - A i t coast the conditions are decidedly bright. As we are s dependent upon our crops for our income, the agricultural the main feature to be considered. The wheat crop of Cali- ow the normal, but the grain is bringing such very good ch brisk demand that the deficiency in the yield ofiset by the enhancement of the returns. The barley aratively light, but it, too, is bringing profitable | llent demand both for local consumption and re unusually high and #ery firm, with a demand 1 the receipts. Wool has been very firm for months, demand, which has taken all the arrivals at good extremely firm at quotations aliost 200 per cent luction, and with the bulk of the 1904 crop already ywers' hands, and it is only the middle of September. t th an advance in salted stock. [ sins and prunes, which are in oversupply s are in active demand and very firm, with s passing out of growers’ hands at a rapid rate. h large, is selling at very good prices, which re- r more than good interest on his landed investment. . industries are yrted in satisfactory condition, merc s in the field wanting to make contracts with ers for five years at profitable rates to the latter. The not behind in the wave of prosperity, and in the on the southern coast buyers are bidding $4 with the growers very firm in their The dairy interests have had a €XC / escription, has consumed all the butter and eggs pro- f very large lines brought in from the Middle s highly prosperous, active and remunera- matter of course, and as a result we export demand for the products of our soil. ty and country banks and in private hands, | country real estate at prices which show an for some years, an equally good move- with building operations during It is safe e as 3 1 town real estate, r than they were several years ago. wditions have been during the past s hat, bright as trade « en now on as sound and encouraging founda- luring this period, though the activity may be han during the preceding two or three A FRANCO-ENGLISH LOVE FEAST. in the corner of a London newspaper there I red the modest news note announcing that the Arm) had determined upon removing from Jersey the regiment of regulars stationed there and local a the dignity of representing the military I'hus for the first time in_years this little which 1i t within cannon shot of France, a sembl rotection. s superficial essence this move on the Army Council carri ith it certain demon- nt spirit of diplomacy between the ancient > the Crimea, when fear away Council es 2 foes Si « <ngland and in active alliance, has a rappr ent een the two powers seemed to embody such as of accord and unanimity of sentiment as that existing at ; t of last year, followed by the sub- s ¢ ies between the two countriés in ! and Sou th of \the enthusias igh spelled war; Sea jurisdiction, led heaping up of diplomati Frenchmen. Six to-day Jersey Isle is left and ti years are now inquiring whether France ssian alliance which has served her s of reconstruction and embrace the idea of a g with England and Italy as the other high con- rtain it is that in the last sad year of Russian lic has > no more than live up to a per- ence to the letter of the alliance, the while turning » the delicate overtures of England. Will a tota! giant of the North bring about a complete realign- owers, with France espoused to the cause of isolated England and the crippled Slav leaning upon a friendly German arm? This is on now buzzing through the star chamber sessions ATTENDANCE AT THE FAIR. ALTFORNIANS who have returned from St. Louis report the ‘ exposition to be the greatest of all the world’s fairs. From this it is apparent that St. Louis has accomplished her pu pose, for she intended to eclipse everything in that line heretofore undertaken in this country and Europe. All of thé great manufac- turing and commercial nations have special commissions there, ! making a careful study of all the exhibits and noting the progress | made in products and processes. This is the educational purpose of | the exposition, which makes it pay the countries that have made the exhibit. Its spectacular function is quite another matter. As a show, interesting to the superficial observer who merely wishes to look at things without making them the object of profound study, the exposition is also unsurpassed by any previous eflort. | But such visitors are far below the number expected. The Eastern | patronage falls much below expectations. Some of the most meritori- | ous special exhibits, attractively housed and displayed and having the benefit of every means of attracting attention, report a registered attendance of only 1400 people per week. At Paris the California exhibit made by the State Board of Trade often had 10,000 visitors per day. The fall months may improve the attendance at St. Louis, but the gain must be enormous to repair the existing deficit of visi- tors and make a record of attendance and receipts that will enable the exposition to be a success in that respect. Distance and popula- tion considered California has made a better attendance record than the densely populated States near at hand. | It is probable that the East is satiated with these great exposi- tions. The Columbian at Chicago, the International at Buffalo and this at St. Louis have not been far enough apart to permit attention and curiosity to revive and satiety to disappear. These causes will not apply to the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland next year. The population to which it will appeal is not blase and can afford a patronage amply sufficient to make it a suc- cess. | | | | | 1t is sincerely to be hoped that Oakland’s bond issue for the improvement of the city’s public works and the enhancing of its natural attractions will be carried. No city in the State has more beautiful surroundings and no city has taken so little advantage of the opportunities offered by nature as Oakland. ! ¥rancisco does . HAUAN 4 .,Ju‘,m W m oy 2. A CAMPAIGN SCENE AT ESOPUS. ’ COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. | MU B0l WAt 7T Clever and Pretty Things Found Be- twixt Its Covers. long been an article of faith >ve in {he “charm” of West- ven as in Kentucky, ern women where men swear by their women’s beauty instead of tneir Bible’s truth. But as charm is a mystical thing— neither brains nor beauty, but some- thing of both—'tis a new thing. and a welcome thing to find t of Western women proclaimed to the world. And Club of San e credit belong for the on! And if you don’t believe it—it's hard to believe anything clever that's home-made—just get a copy c#*Presit, a Book of Toasts,” sent forth from Paul Elder’s last week. And if your heart's right, and your diges- tion, you'll agree that that little gray book of good feliowship is a trump. Now, those Sninumers, of whom there are about forty and five wise and witty women, put their pretty heads together and concluced that there was a deadly dearth of tasty toasts in Bohemia and its suburbs, and 'twould be a philan- thropic thing to gls-anl some good old ones and to write some good new ones and present them to a rather prosy old world twixt covers. PRESIDENT'S IDEA, From the club’s clever president, Mrs. W. R. Wheeler, came the first sugges- tion. With the usual discouragements and encouragements that envelop a new idea the suggestion grew till—be- hold, to-day “Prosit, a Book of Toasts,” is on the bookshelves about town, beck- oning to every lover of the stein and wine and thé good fellowship they stand for, to buy and imbibe. Ah! ye who love not the clink of the glass know not what music sings from out the pages of “Prosit.” Herewith jare a few of the singers who toast: Omar, the Persian; Horace, Anacreon, Milton, Shakespeare, Thackeray, Gold- smith, Tom Moore, Byron, Bobby IB\]H‘II. Madame de Stael and others of ! that immertal company clinking glasses side by side with our own mor- | tal company. Here are Ambrose Bierce, ‘Wallace Irwin, Howard V. Sutherland, Gelett Burgess, George Sterling, Anna | Strunsky, Jack London, James D. Phe- 1‘ lan, Ednah Robinson, Ernest Sylvester Simpson and a hest of others who say to the Sbdinners’ proud proclamat SIC SINGS FROM A CHARMING (o | i I {1 i | | | + | | | SUGGESTED A WORK LIKE “PROSIT.” WOMEN LOST NO TIME IN ADOPTING THE CLEVER SUGGESTION. THE CLUR'S WISE AND MRS. W R. WHEELER, PRESIDENT OF THE SPINNERS' CLUB, WHO FIRST L) WITTY Afper 3 some mighty clever things, and some exquisitely pretty things, among the latter “To the Woman That's Good.” Now, these gleanings were selected by a cammittee of Spinners composed of Mrs. Henry St. Goar, chairman; Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones and Mrs. Alice Prescott Smith, with the clever aid of Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, who occupied the chair while Mrs. Wheeler was ab- sent in the East, To Mrs. St. Goar is much of the liberal credit due for the success of the club’s first public ven- ture. And to the club, congratulations! CHEERING DEDICATION. Thus runs the dedication—James Russell Lowell's: 3 Let jo. crown; ‘We'll bung_ Misfortune’'s scowly «ye And knock Foreboding down! Now, isn’'t that cheering? Really, | B — “Prosit” would be a capital prescrip- tion for the nerve specialist’s service. No blues in “Prosit.” Then there is the invocation by Ir- nest S. Simpson, where, among other things, he sings: To the eyes that glow and brighten As they watch the bubbles swim; To the lips that curl for laughing As they kiss the let's rim; To the fay that's in the wine cup And the magic of her spell; To our banished cares and Get ye gone and fare ye well. Now, doesn’t that lift your heart up 2 few pegs? To be sure, the classics herein are all classic. So are some that are mnot ciassics. [ Here's an effusion of Bierce: “Here's to woman! Ah, that we might fall into her arms without falling into her ‘hands.” One of Byron's: | OUT THE PAGES OF "PROSIT,” 'BOOK OF TOASTS BY SPINNERS' CLUB Nary a Bit of Blues in a Book Worth Possessing. Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. 'Tis evident that Byron knew not the solace of the bromo-seltzer. PHELAN'S “TO BOHEMIA.” James D. Phelan's toast “To Bo- hemia” is unquestionably one of the cleverest things of local production— likewise has it value, since it tears from a blessed name the lascivious drapings that dull and lowish minds have thrust over it: “To a land without a flag, without ‘fleets and armies, whose decrees, eman- ating from a free forum, are self- executing, and where the best rule; a land of tranquil peace, whose love is triumphant over death; a land limited to no language and bound, by no bar- riers, encompassing all who would en- ter and equal to all the demands of labor; a land without tariffs, of un- restricted intercourse with the uni- verse, whose raw materikl is ‘airy nothing,' and yet whose productiveness is proverbial; a land whose pepulation : is joined together by affection and com- mon pursuits, and whose progeny is the children of the brain. “Located for from the Empire of Si- lence and close to the settlement of Utopia, embracing in its suburbs the Republic of Letters, dustry is the expression of thousht; and the freedom of its people is the condition of their existence; their in- centive is fame, their guerdon is glory, and their happiness springs from en- nobling employment and consciousness of creative worth; and this land is called Bohemia.” Maids, attention! “Here's to a good girl—not too good, for the good die young. And we don't like a dead one.” And thus along they run—the sublime its principal in-} 'Dr. Max Nordau ' Writes @ Volume | of Fa_llu Stories Speclal Correspondence of The Call LONDON, Sept. 1.—Dr. Max Nordau, the author of “Degeneration,” is about the last man in the world one would | expect to find busying himself with | fairy stories in the midst of a life Ecrowded to the uttermost with science, literature and Zionism, not to mention political correspondence. Yet I re- | ceived a letter from the versatile doc- | tor yesterday in which he says: “I am | finishing now a book which is to stand alone in my life work, namely, a vol- |ume of fairy stories, mostly humor- ! ous, but some also pathetic, as I told {them to my little daughter, Maxa, from her fourth to her seventh year, ! which she accomplished in 1904.” The doctor writes from the island ! of Jersey, whither he has gone from his Paris home in the Rue Leonie for a bit of “vacation,” which he is enjoy- ing in the fashion prescribed by the | good ol@ proverb, “A change of work is rest.” Since “Degeneration” made so much talk In the United States, Dr. Nordau has written no other book of this sort, turning his hand indeed to | the writing of novels, of which the | translation of the latest, “Morganati- cally,” is about to be published in Eng- land and the United States. But it can be stated here on the | strength of the doctor's own clear-cut, nervous handwriting—in the inevitable | purple ink, without which I suspect he would consider himself quite helpless— | that he is about to begin writing a big* | sociolological work, on which he has | been meditating for the last six years. | It may be said in a general way that | it will deal with modern tendencies of | markind as manifested in the unrest of our time. Dr. Nordau's work is generally writ- |ten in German, although he seems equally at home in English and French. His latest novel, which I understand has an American hero, was translated by Miss Elizabeth Lee, sister of Sid- ney Lee, the Shakespearean scholar. Dr. Emil Reich, whose industry, ver- satflity and fiery zeal reminds ome of Dr. Nordau, is also spending his vaca- tion—in his favorite Contrexaville, France—working as hard as when hs stays Gt home. He has in hand a huge | scheme to bring his native Hungary more prominently before the world at | large; is editing a series of readers on philogophy, theology, nathral science and political economy for a new Lon- don publishing house; is putting some finishing touches on his “Universal History,” and amusing himself be- tween whiles with magazine on- slaughts on the critics of his latest book, “Success Among Nations.” The doctor stands manfully to his guns in what was considered by some of the | American papers as an attack on American woman. He says it is ab- surd to interpret his appreciative com- ments as an attack. But he has a def- ! Inite impr jion that there are lines along American womanhood could develop to greater usefulness, and at last accounts he was setting down these impressions with his usual vigor and enthusiasm for immediate publication in the United States. Meet Me, Mother. I am coming., mother, dearest, Await me at the door; You are ever to me nearest Each day I feel it more. I've been lonely, my dear mother, This cloudy, gloomy week. And sighed for you as no other To whom my heart doth speak. The same fond love for you, mother, Proves constant. ever true, Was there ever such a lover, Oh, tell me, that you knew? I'll place my hand in yours, mother, | And look into your eyes { Full of affection beaming there i For which my heart oft sighs. i I want to join you all teo-day, " I sigh for home and thee, No longer can I stay away From loved ones near to me. | Then await me at the door, mother. | "Twill fill my heart with joy | 'To know you are thinking of | Your ever-constant boy. | A mother and a son’s fond love, | The sweetest earthly tle, | So like the one in that fair land Where never comes a sigh. —Mary A. Jones, in Philadelphia Record. Answers. A CHICAGO PARK-—A. S, City. Jackson (East) Park in Chicago has an acreage of 586 acres. TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR—E. S, City. Governors of United States ter- ritories are appointed by the President. CORBETT-YANGER—J. S., Bakers- field, Cal. Young Corbett and Benny Yanger met in the ring April 12 and November 27, 1900 MUSICAL CONDUCTOR—Subsecrib- er, City. A full dress suit, or Tuxedo, would be the proper dress for a di- rector of a symphony orchestra dur- ing an afterncon concert. Such a di- | rector or conductor might, on such an occasion, wear a Prince Albert, but he would ‘not find it comfortable. THEI SHRINERS—L. L. R., City. | The Anctient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine is not a | regular Masonic body, but its mem- bership is composed strictly of Ma- |sons who have reached the Thirty- second degree, A. A. S. Rite (eight- eenth degree in England), or Knights Templars in good standing. There are ' 89 temoles in the United States and a | total membership of about 90,000. HOLIDAY—E. B, city. Congress and the ridiculous, but ever clever, un- | has not declared Labor day, the first der the following captions: To wine, to | Monday in September, a national hol- woman, to men, to sentiment, to good : iday. It is a legal holiday in all the féllowshin, to theé various States, to | States and Territories (and District nations, to the army and navy, to the | of .Columbla) except Arizona. Missis- arts, to annlversaries and the omni- | sippi, Nevada and North Daketa. In present miscellanea. And, friend, If you ' Jouisiana it is observed as a legal hol- can't find what you want herein, pray | jqay in Orleans Parish. In the Dis- write of your quest to the m“"" trict of Columbia it is a legal holiday have the clever Spinners, they - by an act of the second session of the given the lie to him who says, “Women, Fifty-third Congress. alas! are devoid of wit.” Likewise to —_— e—— our well-beloved Holmes, who stupid- Townsend's California Glace frults in Iy says, “We love the heart-woman, | artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* rather than the brain-woman,” it never S —— having occurred to him that women could be both—as are the Spinners—and others. ¥ yuttoeas Nouacy and DU meaby the ‘men Press Clipping Bureau . 230 Cal- ifornia street. wu g