The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1902 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL Proprietor JOHXN D. SPRECKELS. . ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO 2 JOHN McNAUGHT. .ccceneee tesesssseas.s Sianager J (;;’VP'IC'E“...‘....... .THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO S “WILL IT BE 1872 OVER AGAIN?" - Judge Parker Views a Picture That Grows Larger as the Campaign Progresses. H | bobessnersbbnen s it s o4 s SNETENSINL S5, 1904 THE NATION’S WORKERS. HE census engaged in ase to of 18280 showed that 21,000,000 of our people were gainful occupations. The census of 1900 shows an 20,073,233- No account is taken in either enumer- and children occupied at home. Yet they are really inc ation of women part of the gain-making population. E een 1880 and 1goo those engaged in commercial pursuits creased 38 per cent; in the professions 108 per cent; domestic and personal service 63 per cent; trade and transportation 150 per cent; anufactures and mechanical pursuits 89 per cent. The number women engaged in gainful occupations increased 100 per cent; men 61 per cent.. Going to special classes, actors and showmen 7 per cent, and architects, designers and draughtsmen This implies an increase in the demand for amuse- and a vast expansion in building and construction. The | iber of clergymen increased 73 per cent, and of dentists 140 per | a In the same period the number engaged in agricultural pursuits | ed cent. This is the only decrease. Yet the output of | ucts increased, keeping pace with the home demand | largest part of our exports from its surplus. This | roduction of labor-aiding machinery on the farms labor less necessary, and it is declining in the in which implementary substitutes displace it. This | 11so to account in part for the increase in city population, | i | ited from the labor that is displaced on the farms. In is lapse is not agreeable to the economist. But the ten- replace manual by mechanical force wherever possible. | trades have undergone that experience and have swung | | e, and agriculture must do the same. In the same twenty population increased 52 per cent and our national wealth | er cer he census returns appear to nullify some popular ideas. It/ as been supposed that the advent of the commercial trusts had de- mpetition and decreased the number engaged in commer-; But the census shows- that commercial travelers in- | r cent, and the number of merchants 73 per €ent. As greater than that of population, the popular idea | an The 10 per cent decrease in farm population | »sorbed in the many expanding occupations to which it | 1il Street railway employes increased 520 per | dily resort. ilway 146. Whether there has been an increase | error. nds and the number of farms is not given| | aturally there is a gain in both. The greatest ‘ aturally in electrical and civil engineering, which in- | 37 per cent. | in individual wealth calling for the products of art n increase in artists of 173 per cent, and in the literary | s of 507 per cent, and in journalists of 144 per cent. This| increase in the reading habits of the people, and the | f art. No like increase in twenty years is known in the | 1y other nation. It could not be foreseen twenty years i it statistical science gives us the accurate data of past| | foresight has a base line from which to measure the I'he nation has not reached the angle of repose. It must go a2 1e impetus is apparently unspent. The task of the seer | in present conditions the points of future expansion. n will be most in demand in the two decades to come? | | m 1s n ease 17 in 18R0 it could have been foreseen that electricity would so cevelop as a dynamic and economic force, the men trained for that | would have commanded the market and their price. In 18801 | electricity was vet in the laboratory stage, for the most part, except | Now it is the agent in illumination, in transmission | . in transportation, and in manufacturing power. In the es to come it will easily appear in domestic economy as a | and will be in the field of antiseptics and therapéutics to a! cater extent than now. j robable that economic chemistry will see the greatest | in the future. The world must have an annual crop to make paper, in the place of the trees now used, which rapidly destroyed by the printing press. Chemistry di- the wood fiber and made paper pulp possible. Will it find COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. found, to my horror, that he hadn't both our maids go to an affalr it at the WHY MRS. FRED WAS OUT SHOPPING “You look sort of haggard to-day, dear.” ua!}d thi taller of the two sympathetically. “Didn’t you sleep well last night? club right after dinner and I knew he meant to stay y}retty late, bzca-x:s; he told me so carefully that he expected to meet a Western man wit sarily mentioned the fact that I shculd have the prettiest new fall gown in Néw York if he succeeded.” “M’hm! Well, as it happened, I was going out myself. It was tl';: evening of my card club and I didn't really mind his going, too, though, “Yes. Well?” “I reached home at 12:30 and and- e o “But I thought he had told you never to do that. sides, I knew that even if he found out that I had done it he would only scold a little, while if I refused to let Jane go she would probably leave “Oh, I never thought of that!” ; “No, dear, they don’t seem to teach girls how to be wives and house- awfully frightened. Grace and Jack brought me home, but they were o anxious to get off and begin to quarrel about the way she trumped his soon as my key turned in the lock. And there I was, alone in that big house at nearly 1 o'clock, and my lawful protector at his club playing “It certainly was not a very pleasant experience.” “It was not at all pleasant, and I waited an hour and a half, getting proaches with the story of the Western man and the promise of the new fall gown.” “My dear, I meant to get the gown anyhow. A man can't let his wife ‘wear rags. t 2:30 I heard him coming up the street with that horrid the gas and slipped into the little closet under the stairs where we keep the coats. Then I waited, with the door opened about an inch, to hear promised to love and cherish probably robbed and murdered.” “What did he do?” asked the other, breathlessly. Nobson, who had stopped to light a cigar: ‘I say, old man, I'm in luck: she isn’t home ye! Let’s go back to the club for an hour, and Il tell took a stroll through the park to pass the time.’ And then the two of them walked away laughing.” breakfast table this morning, anyhow,” suggested her friends. “Yes, I had; and that's why I am out shopping now,” Mrs. Fred sald GHEY met at the remnant counter in one of the big dry goods shops. “Um—no,” was the reply. “I—well, you see, Fred went to his whom he hoped to do a nice little stroke of business. He also unneces- “Oh!” of course; I told him not to stay late.” come yet. The truth is that I had let “He did. But a man’s place is at home with his wife, anyhow. Be- and coax Alma to give warning, too.” keepers at Vassar. When I found that Fred hadn't returned yet I was ace and how he frowned at her publicly for it that they slipped away as poker!” madder all the time. The worst of it was that I knew he'd meet my re- “Well, didn’t you want a new—— Mr. Nobson, and I just deteremined to give him a fright. I turned down what he would say when he found the house empty and the woman he had “He hunted =11 over the house, then he went out and called to Mr. her I got home at 11:30 and the house was so lonely without her that I “Well, you had the satisfaction of telling Him all about grimly.—New York Pres. | ! ! | | ‘ \ : { | | \ i annual crop and digest its stems and silicates, and make of it | If so, a transfer of an industry will occur that will | force of men in production and transmutation. | pv % larger PROTECTION AN—D—THE WAGE EARNER. | Special Correspondence of The Call. ONDON, Sept. 5—Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) is rather RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has said: “The standard of liv- our wage earners is higher than that of any other country | it cannot so remain unless we have a protective tariff which | vays keep as a minimum a rate of duty sufficient to cover | rence between the labor cost here and abroad. Those who, | > our opponents, ‘denounce protection as a robbery’ thereby ex- | y commit #hemselves to the proposition that if they were to! the tariff no heed would be paid to the necessity of meeting rence between the standards of living for wage earners here and in other countries.” | These words of Roosevelt, set forth in his delineation of cam- | paign issues at the time of his acceptance of the nomination, define | one of the principles upon which protection rests its case. The | Republican policy of a protective tariff can point for its justification to the recasd of wages alone in the general manifestations of our | eight years of fatness. The census of 1900 revealed the fact that | the total of wages paid that year amounted to $2,330,578,010, nearly one-sixth of the total value of the product of manufacture. In no | previous cefisus year has the amount of the wage throughout the | country in any degree approximated that of 1900, nor has it been in ! so high a ratio to the net results of manufacture. The British Tariff Commission now endeavoring to get at the root of the distress of labor in Great Britain has found that in the | steel and iron industries free trade has wrought so disastrously in | competition with American and German protection that those ar-| tisans in the mills who have been fortunate enough not to be dis-| charged through lack of work are, many of them, working on re- | duced time, with 2 wage corresponding. - As opposed to this state of affairs,“in one industry only, where free trade strikes a direct blow at the wage earner, the record of protection in our own coun- try offers itsclf—a proof made manifest without argument. The value of our domestic exports for 1896, the last year of the four of free trade, was $863,200,487 ; we imported goods to the total value of $779,724,674. For the first year of protective tariff, 1897, the following figures speak: Exports, $1,032,007,603 ; imports, $764,730,- 412.. For the year just ended with June 30 last the world stands in our debt to the amount of over $444,000,000, our exports passing by that sum the value of imports and registering $1,438,151,285 to the credit of the protective system. Of the value of our exports for the last year $450,000,000 represents the output of factories, where ! the wage earner feels directly the fluctuations in the balance of trade. Ten years ago, under the administration of Grover Cleveland, the export of manufactured products was $184,000,000, 21 per cent of the entire export; for the last year our manufactured material shipped abroad aggregated 33 per cent of our entire foreign sales. Truly does President Roosevelt strike the right note when he says that continued protective tariff makes for continued high wages. With the products of our mills and forges yearly forming one-third of the total export, and ‘with the balance of trade comfortably on our side, four more years of protection would not seem to be the ter- rible catastrophe that the builders of Democratic cyclone cellars predict. Unlike old Rip Van Winkle, Oakland awakened from its long sleep, only to drop off again into'a trance on the day of the bond election, been going the rounds as to the appointments of her literary workshop at St. Lawrence. According to the story the authoress’ studio was lit by electric lights placed inside human skulls, but Mrs. Craigie says this is absolutely untrue. She writes some- what sarcastically: “It may be difficult sometimes to feel any respect for the to the dead, and the employment of human remains as a house. decoration seems to me a most distressing form of bad taste.” Mrs. Craigie is now in the Isle of Wight. Anthony Hope, now a proud father, says that “we” haven't decided yet what name his baby daughter shall be glven, and he only smiied wisely when “Dolly,” “Flavia” and *“Osra” were suggested. Miss Hawkins was born at the house in Bedford Square into which the novelist moved with his American wife, soon after their mar- riage. For years before getting into “double harness” Mr. Hawkins had bachelor chambers in the Savoy man- sions, just off the Strand, in which he was often to be encountered. Bedford Square, which is in Bloomsbury, close Editor of the Weekly Boomlet—Yes, 1 phoned you, Doc. I've been very low- spirited lately. is the cause? Doctor Wiseguye—Poor circulation, I should say. - 3 ‘What do you suppose distressed about a report that has| living, but reverence is certainly due | | to the British Museum; is a favorite | place of residence with actors, Anthony Hope's neighbors there including Forbes Robertson and his American wife, Gertrude Elliott; Weedon Gros- smith, Florence St. John and Seymour Hicks. Alfred Austin, the poet laureate, of late, has gone to Switzerland, where Mrs. Austin is’ staying. 3 The coming dinner in London to the memory of Cervantes promises to be a literary event of unusual interest. | The tercentenary of the publication of “‘Don Quixote”—to be celebrated in Ma- drid with so much eclat—takes place in January, 1905, and the London gath- ering will be held during that month. John Morley is to take the chair at | the dinner, at which speeches will be made by the leading Cervantists in Ergland, who include Major Martin Hume, Frederick Harrison, Fitzmaurice Kelly and Cunningham Graham. Those who remember Baring Gould’s novel “Mehalah” may be interested to hear that the original of its heroine's father, an old ferryman named Willlam Baker, has just died at Brightlingsea. Baker lived in a barge, which was known as Noah's Ark, because of the number of animals he kept on board. His wife, who was the original of Mrs. ‘Witting in the same novel, died on the barge four Years ago. Miss Beatrice Harraden was among the guests at the luncheon given at + Katherine souls. w0 Kidder—Oh! I don’ — Corporations - have - no who has been paying visits in Ireland | know, how about s e Human Remains Decorate Her Studio? . Oh! No, Emphaticatly Says Mrs. Craigie| Miss Constance Smedley—in honor of | | Miss Laura Gill, dean of Barnard Col- | lege; Miss Willcox of Brynmawr, and | Miss Hazard, president of Wellesley the Chicago Journal, be interested in them. | . There is a difference between inter- | est and curiosity. Never be curious. Interest asks nothing, but is glad of others’ joys and sorry for others’ mis- i fortunes. Curiosity seeks to find more than is written on the surface, Seeks it for the purpose of distribution, for innocent slander. One’s friends like one to be inter- ested. They detest one who is curi- ous. g To be interested in those one meets needs but to wish them well. To see the best of those about us will cause us to wish them well. To our well wishers we pour out our joys and sorrows. They are interested. They understand. The Exchange Habit. He—Would you have me as a wed- ding present. ¢ She—I'm afraid I couldn't exchange you.—Providence Telegr'n. A RS R Miss Wellsly—Yes, I was graduated last fall, and do you know, when I said good-by to my old college chums I was awfully affected. Miss Vassar—I'm sure you must have been. You, always ENOWD e LN the Ladies Lycedm Club—founded by | is unable to swim. This is on account = of its long neck. Every other animal were, don’t you | can, if put to it, manage to keep i afloat. :4« TEACH YOUR CHILD TO BE HONEST F you're licked at school, you'll catch it at home!™ I “If your grades are highest in the class I'll pay you for it.” These are a few of the parting words that parents give their chil- dren on their first day at school. Do the parents realize what these part- ing words may mean to the child? asks a writer in the Pittsburg Press. How many times is the child told, “Be honest.” “Do your own work.” “Don’t ask the other scholars to help you!™ “Be honest.” If every child were sent away from home with those two words ringing in his ears many of the rough places wonld be smoothed for both mother, child and teacher. “If you're licked at school—! What will be the effect of such a parting? If the child is punished he will conceal it from the parents, fearing a repetition of the punishment. So his own parents have taught him to deceive. If he is asked at home if he has been punished, nine chances out of ten he will tell a lie about it. His own parents have thus taught him to He. Consider the other warnings as the child steps from the home door: “T'll pay you if your grades are high.” 'y Nothing the parent could say would so inspire a child with a false idea of what he goes to school for. The child is sent to school to learn, not to get high grades. The grades are the effect’ rather than the cause. What is the result of paying a child for high grades? If he dpesn’t know what to say when examination time comes he will be so eager to get the high grade that he will be tempted to peep on some one’s paper or to open a book. His own parent may be making him a cheat. The habits formed in the child are the strongest habits of life. are the hardest to bregk and the most far-reaching in their results. Teach a child to lie—teach the man to lie. i Teach a child to deceive—teach the man or woman to deceive. Teach the child to cheat—teach the man to cheat. “Be honest.” There is no better word of parting. There is nothing more conducive to straight, clean school life than the thought in the child that mother be- lieves he is honest, mother wants him to be honest above all things, even above grades themselves. So when the little one leaves the home for the school life, call after him, “Be honest.” That is enough. FASHIONS AND HOUSEHOLD HINTS They is + Cellege. = ~ e 1 Rn THE NEW FURS. i | Curiosity and Interest. Brown Is to be the color in furs this season—old fashioned reddish | If you would have friends, advisesi brown. The new fur, yeda (unborn calf) is talked much of. Jackets and entire suits are to be made of this. Then there is a revival of mink—the small Eastern mink, which is almost as rich as sable and nearly as costly. Sable in its darkest tones is again to come to the fore. Ermine will be used in combination withr those dark furs and the furriers tell us mole will be in favor. PLAID SILKS FOR WAISTS. Very pretty things are to be found in plaid silks for winter walists. There are different combinations of blue and green, with lines of red and yellow running through them, as well as red plalds. There is the greatest variety in the taffeta, but there are also pretty designs in the louisines, which are softer and more serviceable for a walst for general wear. LATEST CONCERNING HATS. A pretty hat in the colors of the season is a toque or turban, deep brown, with the edge formed of rosettes of orange velvet set into other rosettes of brown silk. Olive is rivaling many newer colors. Coque pompons are good on all shapes. Narrow ribbon quillings are often massed. One whole hat is formed of petals made of ribbon. Many call the warm cinnamon brown olgnon brule. Mushroom brims support some hats with high crowns. Broad silk ruches match the hat, being lined with another color. Fine tangerine chenille adorns a tmlle toque in cream and gold. Many a black hat is simply trimmed with a stunning white plume. GOLD BEADS IN FAVOR. Gold beads have acquired a great popularity among young girls, and black velvet neck bands are deemed an essential finish for all slightly decollete bodices. The black emphasizes the slenderness, grace and whiteness of a throat and even the sunburned young woman thinks it adds to her feminine charms—certainly it doesn’t detract from them if she has any kind of a throat. SANDWICHES OF CREME DE MENTHE. These are a fine accompaniment for cold lamb. Steep two table- spoonfuls of mint leaves in a little cold water, strain and add the in- fusion to one pint of whipped cream; season with salt and pepper and add half an ounce of gelatine softened in a tablespoonful of cold wa- ter and dissolved over hot water. Cool In a square mold and when solid cut in thin slices and place between similar sized pieces of rye bread. SUGAR AND BUTTER POINTERS. Granulated sugar is better than powdered sugar for cake. Ii is purer and makes a lighter cake. Even though the best materials are used a cake can easily be spoiled if 'the butter and sugar are not beaten to a light, even cream. If the bowl is a little warm and the but- ter is reduced to a soft, even consistency the work is lightened, but on no account should the butter be melted. ‘When baking a cake there should be a strong body of fire, but the heat should be turned off enough to make the oven only moderately hot. The cake should rise to the top of the pan before it browns and care must be taken that it does net fall, as it will if the oven door is suddenly opened so that a draft reaches it. Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_————— Special information dally te Ttaelt | Prass clipping Bureaw (Allen ) 253 Con ifornia street. Telephone Maln 1043, * Giraffe No Swimmer. The giraffe is the only animal which