The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 190 —_———— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALJL OUR JAPANESE TRADE. HILE its volume does not attract attention, the increase of /\/ our trade with Japan is significant. That increase of course will show great gains when the returns for the last fiscal year are made, for our exports have been enormously increased by the war. It is probable that mearly $20,000,000 of Japanese trade has heen centered in San Francisco in the last year, or has be_en car- ried ghrough here and exported on our Pacific liners. With her natural expansion permitted, the foreign trade of that empire will e greatly enhanced. Especially in foodstuffs we may expect a ge share of the increase. The farm land of Japan is divided into very small holdings, and every square inch is made to produce its utmost. But the population increases faster than the food supply and the ielands in that respect, as in many others, grow to resemble the condition of the British Isles. We offer the best source of a supply and that, as in the case of Great Britain, is a guarantee of amity between the two countries. Japan has done more in the encouragement of agriculture than Great Britain. Only 15 per cent of the land in Japan is arable, or 14,995,272 acres, and 55 per cent of the farmg are of only two acres. Every farmer’s family follows some subsidiary indusry, such as'rearing silk worms and reeling and-spinning silk. The Government aids ‘agriculture by irfigation lamws, the pro-| tection of forests to conserve moisture, the formation of farmers’| guilds or clubs, and improved drainage.” A Government experimental farm with nine branches is maintained, where inspection of seeds, agricaltural chemistry, entomology, vegetable physiology and path- | ology and horticulture are taught. This work has increased the| products of the soil by minimizing the ravages of insects and plant diseases, and by the introduction of new plants. One of the most use- ful aids furnished by the Government is the hypothek banks, which loan capital to the farmfers on low interest and enable them ‘to im- prove their condition by cheap use of their credit. Livestock, espe- | cially ruminating animals, is not an important industry, because of the lack of native forage plants suited to them, and the land is too | valuable to be seeded in exotic forage plants. L | But with all these #irawbacks on agriculture Japan has increased | her foreign trade, and when the exchanges get sufficient to mate- | rially augment her food supply more of her population will be re—J leased from farming to engage in the industries which supply the | foreign demand. In 1902 we exported to Japan $24.000,000 of pro- ducts, against $25,000,000 from Great Britain and $20,000,000 from | China. That is not particularly encouraging. But when we turn | to the increase in our trade the statistics take on 2 more cheerful as- | pect. In 18g0 Japan took of us only $3.000,000, and of Great Britain | £13,000,000. In 1902 she took of us $24,000,000, and of Great Britain ,000,000. So our trade increased in twelve years $21,000,000 and Great Britain’s only $12,000,000. | A French political economist writing on the subject says it may | as well be admitted that the United States, by reason of its ‘geo- | ;:Ta‘;rhica] position, will soon exceed all other nations as an exporter | to japan. ¥ | Turning to a comparison of Japan’s foreign trade with that of | Russia, the results are rather startling. Japan with a population of | 40,000,000 in 1903 had a total import and export tride of $250,970,000, ‘ while Russia with 130,000,000 of people had $675,603,125. The Jap- | anese furnish therefore twice as much foreign trade per capita as | the Russians. In marine tonnage Japan has steamand sail 690,581 | and Russia 800,334, so that Japan has a far greater tonnage per capita, 4 implying greater commercial activity in proportion to her population. The Japanese imports were $146,625,000; the Russian $278,003,125. From this it will be seen that the Japanese trade is worth going after, and #f the French writer is correct as to the advantage of our | geographical situation our command of it is to be sought. We have more surplus of what Japan needs than any other nation, and in the exchanges her products need not all be absorbed by us, as the trade iill make us the factor between Japan and Europe for the distribu- of her surplus. Her production of silk and tea, two world sta- es, is increasing, and will naturally seek an outlet to the world through the United States. These considerations will make our people far from indifferent as to the outcome of the present war. FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE. FRIDAY R | 1ore significant commentary upon the efficacy of the Demo- cratic propaganda for Filipino self-government has become | nifest than that expressed unconsciously in a recent com- n from Governor Wright of the Philippines to President Therein he states that the very fact of the agitation | n autonomous government, which has been set in motion by the | ipino plank of the Democratic platform, has already caused to| appear among the reactionaries and former insurrectos of the Phil-; ngerous spirit of unrest and arrogant self-assurance. | of this is distinctly injurious,” says the Governor. % To the ignorant and only hali-tamed mind of the average Filipino | there can be no distinction between the present agitation of the rats and the criof the anti-imperialists of the days of mili rule. In the Democratic promise of a freedom untrammeled | and absolute, the lately pacified revolutionary distinguishes naught | but an iteration of the old protest against any domination on the | part of this Government—a protest which did more to prolong the | war in the Philippines than any single other cause. Between the antis of four years ago and the Democrats of ‘to-day the power- | greedy islander makes no distinction ; both strive to give over to his 1 hands the unfamiliar and glittering plaything, sovereignty, and his heart is glad within him. The party which was strongest in its protest against the length | tary of the war in the Philippines—*“the war of aggression against a help- | less peaple”—is now fostering the very troubles which that con- flict put an end to by stirring up again the latent lust of the natives for something to satisfy their reckless vanity. In making an issue of | the Filipino independence question the Democratic party is com- | mitting itself, not to a negative policy alone, but to one absolutely dangerous and destructive. . The flourishing of unrestricted autono- mous government before the eyes of the Filipinos is the deliberate | courting of danger from fires still smolde'ring. A DISGUSTED INVENTOR. HE man who invented a device by which users of telephones might see each other has broken his model into pieces and de- | % stroyed every plan and specification of his invention. His reason | is that he,would be cheated out of it anyway! It is a pity that he had no adviser whom he could trust to secure to him the advantage | of such a discovety. Inventors are seldom good business people, and are usually in necessity because they spend-much unrequited time and effort over their discoveries, and when they make a hit are out of bread and raiment, so that their necessities are taken advantage | of by designing men and they see the profit go to others. Still, the discoverers of such devices as the sewing machine, the telephone, the air brake and many other inventions that are how prime necessities in the business world hid their reward. This! proves that an inventor need not be without hope in the world. ' This | invention for seeing by telephone has great possibilities. The user | of the instrument would gladly look upon the hello girl who is | “sassing” him, and she would like to make a snoot at the man who | is swearing at her. Parties engaged in a long and animated con- versation over the wire would be glad to identify the Paul Prys who take down their phones to listen, and everybody would like to see ! the fellow who uses the instrument to speak abusively to some one whom he dislikes. * _Not long ago a run on a bank in Oakland was started by a vicious person by use of the telephone to alarm depositors by Ties | about the bank’s solvency. The criminel and injurious uses of the | telephone are i ing, and this destroyed invention would i vent or limit them, It is to be that ! better of it and reconstruct his . 'UNPUNCTUAL SEX | unpunctual sex? the London Chronicle, who has been - v T COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE S8AN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. | ——— PARKER (the Esopus Patient)--“Can’t YOU Do Something for Which is the punctual, or at least A correspondent of making studies in the portico of the Royal Academy, arrives at very cer- tain conclusions, and he has given us the benefit of them. The two benches that flank the door are filled each | morning at an even hour, such as 11, with ladies who have arrived any time dvring the preceding fifteen minutes. | Their patient eyes are fixed on Pac- | cadilly. For ten minutes nothing oc- | curs. Then one by one men arrive, and the awaiting woman rises ‘with cheerful alacrity to join her dilatory jord. She offerspo reproaches, and he makes no apologies. ‘“We are both punctual” is the first man’'s compla- cent exclamation to the woman, who came a quarter of an hour early, and smiles, not in irony, but in pleasure, that &er thirty minutes of monotony is relieved by the assured presence of Ler expected man. The last laggard to arrive is half an hour late. “I thought it better to give you a little grace,” he says, benevolently. And she murmurs, “Thanks.” Corset Saves Her. George Woods of Hoboken, after quarreling - with his wife, Ida, about her desire to return to the stage, drew a pistol and fired at her. The woman fell to the floor and Woods, believing that he had killed her, sprang from a rear window and ran away. He has not yet been found. Mrs. Woods was taken to St. Mary's Eon-p!tal,'where the doctors found that her corset had deflected the bullet, which had passed almost entirely | around her body without touching the P skin. Sunshades for Horses. The Berlin Omnibus Company, find- ing that the hats used for horses are unsuitable in the case of pairs, have introduced “sunshades” for their pro- tection from the sun. These “sun- shades™” consist of a wire framework covered with canvas and fasten to the harness. The advantage claimed for this novelty is that, besides protect- ing the animals from the sun, it al- lows a free current of air to pass over their heads. 4 2 \gi‘““v ’””//’//h,g = wly Me, Dr. Gorman?” | | | | * — THEY DO SUCH THINGS AND THEY SAY SUCH THINGS---IN OLD LONDON Art Dealers Sell for Fancy Prices Pictures Like Those Given Away by The Call, and Say ‘“You Can’t Get Anything Better for That Money.” - Special Correspondence. ONDON, Sept. 2—At the Direct Art Company’s shop in the Strand, £ prominently displayed in the window and framed, I.saw to-day a picture precisely similar to that which was given away with the Sunday edition of The San Francisco Call some months ago. It was the product of an American color print firm, and was entitled “The Passing Storm.” Pretty enough it looked to hang ‘up anywhere and, being curious to ascertain how such works of art are valued here, I in- quired the price. “Cnly four shillings and sixpence,” replied the proprietor, “and T as- sure you, sir, it is cheap at the price.” In American money that is equal to $112. “What is the price of it unframed?” I asked. “We have none left unframed,” he answered. “The picture is such a favorite that we are sold out—all except that one in the window. But we have some of the same serfés unframed at ninepence (13 cents) each, and I assure you, sir, you can’'t get anything better for that money in London.” He showed me several pictures with which the generosity of The Call has made its readers familiar. Still recalling on what terms those highly privileged persons had obtained them I showed no eagerness to buy. “You will find these same pictures selling in Regent-street shops for one shilling and one and sixpence each,” said the proprietor, anxious to convince me that he was offering me genuine bargains. ‘“You can go and see for yourself, and if you find that I haven't told you the truth I'll make you a prgsent of them.” Having had some experience of Regent-street prices I did not doubt his word. But I wondered if he would belleve me If I also treated him to a bit of truth. It was a hazardous experiment, but I resolved to make it.” “In San Francisco,” I said to him, looking him square in the eyes, “there is published a newspaper called The San Francisco Call. On Sun- days it prints a paper treble the size of any printed in London and con- taining vastly more interesting reading matter. That is sold for § cents —twopence halfpenny in your money—and with each paper is given ..one of these pictures that you sell for ninepence.” He looked at me compassionately, and said: “I suppose it is catching over there, and you can’t help it, but if you will excuse me for saying so, sir, I think Americans ought to keep their stiff yarns for home consumption. e can get along very well with what we turn out‘ourselves in our comic papers.” ®\rs. Binkeyheim—Oh! Binkey, there’s a burglar—how'd he get In? : Mr. Binkeyheim (haif asleep)—With skeleton key, m’ dear. ¥ Mrs. B.—Oh! heavens! Tell him to gty | SHE SCRIBBLED | There shoul@ be no excuse for illeg- ible handwriting, vet there is much of | it. A certain Columbus club woman, | having a friend who was an indiffer- ent scribe, attempted to break her of | the habit'in a very novel manner. Re- | cejving a note from her friend one day, which was exceptionally hard to de-| cipher, she conceived the idea of pre- | tending it was an invitation to dine, and accordingly wrote this reply: “I shall take great pleasure in accepting your invitation to dinner to-morrow | evening.” A short time after this note | had been delivered the telephone rang, and on answering it she recognized | the voice of her friend at the other enq | of the wire. “Hello,” it said, “you; were mistaken in my note. I asked you if you would subscribe to the| ‘homse’ fund.” *Oh, was that it?” an-| swered the woman. “I couldn’t make | out your note and I wanted to answer something.” Female Nimrod of Kansas. Recently the Jewell Republican told of the skill of Miss Bertha Cheney | with a gun. The story invited a let- ter from Mrs. J. H. Crandall, formerly ‘ a Jewell County girl, but now living on a farm near Stockton. “I believe,” says Mrs. Crandall, | “that I have done better than Miss Cheney, for I have killed five jack- rabbits and twenty-six cottontails since June 1, and I used a ' .-caliber target rifle. I live on a stock farm and my husband is away'most of the time. I milk thirteen cows by myself, and when I go after the cows I always take my rifle with me.” New Photographic Wonder. One of the Ilatest photographic wonders is a machine capable of re- ceiving impressions at the rate of 2000 a second—thirty or forty times as fast asg the ordinary cinematograph. It is hoped that with it insects’ wings in motion may be photographed and the problem of flight solved. Glimpse Into Mythology. Bacchus had fallen off the cart. “I just couldn’t help it,” he admitted. “I got tangled up with a Kentucky ed- itor.” Gulping down another highball he tacked across the street. +- Mrs. Justwed—You said were go- ! i Fashion News nd a Household Hints —_—————— % Velvet Again. Velvet will play an important role In winter modes and loose sack and plait- ed coats of this material with small sieeves and braided epaulets are to be seen in an atelier where advanced mod- els are in evidence for buyers, says a Parls correspondent. Black taffeta will be popular for autumn and winter hcuse gowns, but for the present shot green and black, rose and gray taffe- tas are very chic. A pretty and at- tractive model of green and black taf- feta costume of the coat and skirt per- suasion has a jacket of the bolero cut collariess, as are all these little apolo- gles of wraps. It is cut in panels, which are trimmed with brald and edged with the same soutache. The skirt {s made in panels to match the bolero and also adorned with braid. The sleeves are slashed to the elbow, braided and finished with three-inch rufiies of Alencon lace over plalted white chiffon. E i s | l | Shirt Waists Still Worn. As 18 customary at the beginning of every season, the positive announce- ment 1s made that shirt walsts’are no longer fashionable, and that every skirt must have a walst to match; yet, strange to say, the shops are full of the most fascinating designs for shirt waists, and seamstresses and dress- makers alike are busy making blouses. The truth of the matter is that the shirt waist is an absolutely essential garment, and can no more be dis- pensed with than a coat or shirt. In a handsome costume it is not so fash- fonable to have a waist of different material from the skirt; but, none the less, with the coat and skirt there are many occasicns when a cloth walst— in fact, one of any material except- ing lace or linen, silk or satin—Is most uncomfortable to wear under the coat, and when the smart sepa- | rate walst is the only correct style. Some Good Recipes. CREAMED EGGS.—Melt a level tablespoonful of butter in a chafing | dish, add one-half cup of cream and | a dust of salt and pepper. Drop one egg at a time Into the dish and poach, | basting all the time with the hot cream. APPLE AND CELERY SALAD.— Pare sour apples and cut into dice. Slice stalks of celery crosswise into quarter-inch pleces. Make a French dressing with six tablespoons of oil, three tablespoons of lemon julce, a saltspoon of salt and as much papri- ka as liked. Mix the apple and celery ! | and pour the dressing over about fif- teen minutes before serving. GINGERBREAD.—Put three level tablespoonfuls of butter into two cups | of molasses, add one level tablespoon of ginger, a quarter level teaspoon of salt. Sift one level teaspoon of soda with four and one-half cups of flour twice, then add to the ather ingredi- ents with one cup of sweet milk. Bake in large shallow pan and cut in squares. RYE BREAKFAST CAKES—Beat one egg well, add one-half cup of su- gar, two cups of milk, a saltspoon of salt, one and one-half cups of rye meal, one and one-half cups of flour and three level teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in gem pans that have been heated and greased. Election Frauds. Editor of The Call: Regarding pri- mary election frauds you say: “Evi- dence of crime is abundant, but clews to perpetrators are wholly lacking.” One preventive measure to stop these frauds is to have enforced strict- Iy the law which says election officers must be chosen from the precincts in which they reside. It is the custom to flagrantly violate this provision and the “bobtail and ragtag™ element from | the slums is in evidence all over town. Election officers should consist of clerks, etc., who have been employed in the Registrar’s office and on the precinct registration boards. They may not remember all the voters in their precincts, but they can easily jdentify Wymans and frauds and crooks as being other than those they claim to be when they approach the voting booths. AN EX-ELECTION OFFICER. Art. A sculptor sculped away for years And oft his hopes were high, And often he was cursed with fears, And oft his bread was dry. At last his group was done, at last The vell was drawn aside; The women looked and hurried past; “The shameful thing!” they cried. The sculptor, hollow-eyed and wan, Heard and held up his head; “Thank God! Be gone, my doubts, be e! It must be art!” he said. —Chicago Record-Herald. Answers to Queries. BORN AT SEA—P. S, City. The na- tivity of a man who was born at sea is that of the flag flown by the vessel on which he was born. GODFATHER—G. R., Melones, Cal. None of the published accounts, do- mestic or foreign, name the godfather of the child recently born to the Em- peror and Empress of Russia. WINE—G. S. B., Fresno, Cal. This department has not the space to tell “how to make a barrel of wine with ordinary ranch conveniences.” Any bookseller can, at small cost, procure for you a book on wine making that will give you the information you de- sire. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN—W. J. R., Stockton, Cal. Madison Squcre Garden, New York City, occupies the entire block bounded by Madison and Fourth avenues and Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets. Madison Square Theater, in the same city, is on Twenty-fourth street, mear Broadway.