The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1904, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1904. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN McNAUGHT PUBLICATION OFFICE MONDAY. A ROSY TRADE ASPECT. == PTIMISM still characterizes trade all over the country. O There is no depression of any character anywhere. In Wall street stocks, grain and produce markets, manufactures, farm- ing communities and railroad and financial circles the feeling of buoyancy is general. There is a tendency to inflate and magnify | this bullish reaction in Wall street, but elsewhere throughout the | country there is no serious attempt to develop the current improve- ment in business to the magnitude of a boom. 3 The most conclusive sign of the current improvement is found in the pronounced expansion of the country’s bank clearings. Last week they soared up to $2,750,256,000, which is a remarkable leap from the $1,800,000,000 point where they stood so long. Not for many months have these clearings risen so high. The average fig- ures for the past year or two were $2,000,000,000, and for months | they ran $200,000,000 below the two billion point. | Of course much of this remarkable gain in the country’s clear-| ings is due to the great activity on the New York Stock Exchange, where trading in industrial and railroad stocks has of late become surprisingly large, the sales last Friday running up to 1,925,300! shares. This is shown by the 55 per cent increase over the same week last year at New York. But as the gains are common in all the large cities except Pittsburg, Kansas City, New Orleans and Cleveland, and are general all over the country, they show that the increase in the volume of trade is by no means confined to New York. The improvement there is only a part of the whole. Further proof of the expansion is found in the der-e~= i - ures, which were 215 last week, compared with 279 for the corre- sponding week last year. This is the best exhibit made for a year or two. They are all small failures, too. There have been no large failures for weeks, nor any bank collapses. Collections are reported good everywhere, especially in the South, where the indications oi a fine cotton crop, at least 11,000,000 bales, hold out brilliant promises for the coming year. Money is reported plentiful everywhere. Still another proof of the increased activity in general trade is found in the reopening of many idle mills and a steadily growing output of manufactured goods. The revival in the iron and steel industry, predictions of which 2 month or two ago were received with incredulity, is turning out genuine after all, as large orders for railroad and structural material are now being placed, and the gen- eral opinion is that the depression in this industry has run its course. Additional favorable signs are found in an excellent job- bing demand for the leading staples, such as groceries, footwear, hardware, clothing and lumber, the expansion in the latter being chiefly in the West. Still further confirmation is a better demand for spring goods than observed last year at this time. The only indication of recession is the sharp falling off in the demand for wheat and flour throughout the West during the past three or four days. But as this demand was feverish and apparently insatiable for several months, a reaction is to be expected, as the Western millers naturally loaded themselves up with recent phe- nomenal purchases of grain all over the country. The trade revival is all the more remarkable in that it comes | just on the eve of a Presidential election, when by all the rules of precedent business ought to be dull. It is this unusual condition | that stamps it as sterling. | COCKRAN AND SCHURZ. ! OCKRAN and Schurz are on the warpath against Roosevelt. C They are really alarmed about the constitution, which they fear is about to be burned up and the ashes scattered. Mr. ! Cockran is in such alarm that he has made a speech on the subject, a careful reading of which discloses the origin of his severe case of panic. He finds that President Roosevelt has destroyed the consti- tution by his order fixing the pensionable age of veteran soldiers at 62. In his letter of acceptance President Roosevelt discussed that executive order and declared that it was revocable and asked if Judge Parker would revoke it if elected. Upon this Mr. Cockran makes a speech which is being circulated as a ‘Democratic campaign docu- ment. He argues that if the order is revocable that is evidence of its ] unconstitutionality. i Now, first as to the order itself. It is an exact copy of the | pension age order issued by President Cleveland. He fixed the age | limit by executive act alone. He did not consult Congress about it:| he did it as President, and thousands of veterans began drawing | pensions in pursuance of it, and are drawing them yet. It was an| executive order and Mr. Cockran should know that all executive | orders are revocable by the same President who issues them, or by any of his successors. To illustrate: President Cleveland issued an | executive order for the return of the battle flags, and he revoked it upon discovering that it was in excess of his power. But he issued his pension age order, within his power, and it stood to the end of his administration and through McKinley’s and until President Roosevelt revoked it by substituting for it an order lowering the pension age from 65 years to 62. If this new order in the same matter violates the constitution and justifies Mr. Cockran’s speech of sixteen pages, what must be said of the order which it supersedes? If President Roosevelt’s or- der violates the constitution so did the same order when issued by Mr. Cleveland. If it assassinated the constitution, why did not Mr. Cockran come to the rescue when the crime was, committed by Mr. Cleveland? Of course he knows that neither Cleveland nor Roosevelt vio- lated the constitution by that order. It was a proper executive act, entirely within the power of the President, and the criticism of it is contemptible and hypocritical. Mr. Schurz is alarmed about the constitution. But he served for four years as a2 member of the Cabinet of President Hayes and never blinked. » SOME NEW PLAYS. THE London papers record the wrecking of two new plays in the breakers of public disapproval. One of them was brought out under the management of Mrs. James Brown Potter, who also assumed the leading role. It was one of the pathological plays, deal- ing with unlawful love, and the actress sought to redeem its inanities by emotional dressing. It was howled off the stage at the Savoy, snd Mrs. Potter, prostrated by disappointments, has secluded her- self at her country seat, Bray Lodge, near Windsor, declaring that she has forsaken the stage for this season. The tragic element is supplied by the remarriage of her former husband the same day that she was jeered by her London audience. The other play, condemned in London on its first representation, was written by Pinero, who gave us that indescribable drama of grievous immorality, “Iris.” His last effort was brought out by Frohman and is entitled “The Smileless Wife.” Among its stage accessories was an electric doll, the antics of which were expected to win a smile from the wife, who had entered upon a marriage of convenience. The play and the doll and all of its pathological sug- gestions were voted by the audience not only bad but a bore. These verdicts are hopeful signs of returning good taste and sense in the public respecting the drama. We have a surfeit of mar- ital immorality and the degradation of the domestic relations. Crime and sorrow, belated repentance and the pypishment of selfishness ! are in the actual world around us, and there Ts no evidence that their prevalence is less as the result of any lesson taught by the pernicious plays of Pinero and his imitators. They have an unwholesome in- fluence upon the .t:g.and upon sog:iety. Vice .md transgression are in the world, but e is no merit nor help in dragging them out of concealment, to be the theme of dramas that incite to their imita- tion rather than to their cure, The stage is no doubt a high social hflmmdfibdhaf«&dllmmnmemwdmh for the cleanness of life rather than for adding filth as food for the de mass-meeting in Carnegie Hall COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WITH THE NEW YORK EVENING MAIL. B e — |BUTTONS AT $100 EACH| Extravagance in buttons seems to have disturbed certain minds of late, not, as it might appear, in the number cften used as part of the trimmings of a dress, but in their increasing cost. That a set for a blouse of half a dozen gold buttons mounted with sapphires should have cost $100 each has struck the superficial observer as a proof of most lamentable recklessness in ex- penditure, and is cited to show how greatly prosperous the times must be when money can be thus laid out in accessories of the kind. It is perhaps overlooked, however, says the New York Globe, that a set of buttons of such value is as much a permanent addition to the jewel case as a brooch or a diamond comb. At the present time a particularly popular form for the fastening to take is that of a safety pin brooch, nearly two inches long, at the throat, and set with a little cluster of pearls and tur- quoises, a tiny enamel star or shield, or a like device, while three others similar, but a size smaller, are employed be- neath at intervals. The fashion for buttons of sufficient value to be used again and again be- gan probably with the sets of half a dozen in silver, introduced about three years ago, and very often accompanied by a waist buckle to match. More and more art has been expended upon them meantime, and the jeweler has per- ceived that a set of jeweled buttons is simply the equivalent to the studs which mankind has used in its shirt fronts for a generation. Hence women are not developing a wholly reprehen- eible extravagance if, instead of one big item as a pendant or a brooch, they select half a dozen smaller ornaments under the name of buttons. HATS. Blue and green seem to be as much in evidence as ever in hats. Flatiron toques are still to the fore and chenille hats are being conspicuously shown. A Good Thing. : “‘Two heads are better than one.’” quoted the teacher. “Now, Willle, do you know why?" “Sure, ma’am; 'cause then you could get & job in a dime museum an’ make lots o' money.”—Philadelphia Press. Micky—8ay, me goll Lis Jimmy—She must way day. The Business Men’s Parker and Davis Association of New York has arranged to hold a The principal speech will be by John G. Carlisle, ex-Secretary of the Treasury—Daily Papers. THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE-SHOUD. CHAIRMAN TAGGART: “Step inside and hear reminiscences of 1893." on October 12. Ex-President Cleveland has consented to preside. - | but says a good many things that are| ! ment of their characters to each other, | the coming of children, etc., says the | " MARGARET SANGSTER GIVES SOME ADVICE 70 MEN WHO LOOK UPON THEIR WIVES AS TUNPADD HIRELINGS. discussing her economy or her la of the same. Men seldom suspect how | deeply ingrained in women's souls is the aversion to being simply licens mendicants. If they did they v in the language of Scripiure, themselves and repent, if hot in and ashes, at least in such wise an entire change of conditions wou | speedily ensue. A good man means to worth remembering, as it follows the it IF not sesgaNbut Thero bride and bridegroom from the altar @ U7 ' (0 TR tamily firm, the through their trials with their rela- |, ,,ng ghould claim and maintain the tives-in-law, the selection and fur-| g, right to disburse the family in- nishing of their home, their adjust- | come, while the wife Is a tolerated pen- | sioner on his bounty. “Only those who have studied the It steers a middle | subject and observed its application in course on the race suicide and do- | many homes, from that of the million- mestic service problems, advocates a |aire to that of the poorest laborer uniform divorce law, and, while point- | know how necessary is a reform in this ing out serious dangers that threaten |one particular,” continues Mrs. Sang- the time honored institution under dis- | ster. “Mistaken domestic flnance cussion, detects elements of hope in|wrecks home happiness. Women live the situation. in palaces, wear rich raiment and fare One chapter, entitled “Bricks With- | sumptuously, yet seldom have any out Straw,” deals with the flnancial | ready money or the least liberty policy of the home and the wife’s right | spend or give away or invest a dollar to a share of the income. | of their own, being treated all their “Despotism never had a more ex-|lives as if they were irresponsibie treme illustration nor was cruelty ever | children. In the event of the death of HE latest contribution on the much discussed institution, the home, is from the pen of Marga- ret Sangster. Her new book on “The Little Kingdom of Home"” ad- vances no revolutionary theories regarding the domestic relations, New York Tribune. DON’TS-—-JUST A DOZEN Don’t worry the children. Don't worry about hem. Guardian angels still exist, even in the twentieth century. Don't lose your temper with the children. Don’t give way when you have decided on any plan for them. Don’t leave them too much with the servants. Don’t repel their little con- fidences. Don’t get impatient at their most unanswerable questions. Don’t indulge them foolishly. Don't forget to encourage them and praise their little ef- forts to please you. Don’t show favoritism, ‘Woman's Life. Don't disagree about them. Their father and mother should always be In unison in their training. Don’t forget that they are God’s children, lent to you for a season. says SMART BLACK FROCK. The black muslins are indeed de- lightful, with their shower groups of white spots. They are built upon chif- fon and are worn with cambric and lace petticoats, £o they look wondrously soft and lovely. White taffeta is smarter than white muslin, a ma- terial the debutantes have allotted to themselves, and for young and mature alike there are muslins of the most ex- quisite floral devices and colorings. Ex- cept for their intrinsic worth, hand painted mousselines are an unnecessary extravagance; the woven ones are so exquisite, The diamond is a hard stone, but it is apt to soften a marble heart. ATTIRE OF THE BRIDE. It is no longer necessary to be mar- ried even In the softest satin or most clinging silk; ordinary muslins, silk | muslins, chiffons, eoliennes, and even voliles with lace let in at intervals are | considered quite appropriate. Whlte: silk and kindred stuffs are embroidered | in open hole work, with orange blo soms, daisies and sprays of dainty for- get-me-nots, and sometimes these em- | broideries are simply charming. If you ! have lovely lace in the family by all | means wear it, otherwise tulle is much | prettier. Let it be soft and volumin- ous, cut square; it is prettier not to! have any hem or applique work round; | take care that it does not rest too flatly | on the head; an orange blossom wreath, | ‘white violets, or lilies of the valley may | hold the pleats in place, or jewels. ‘Wreaths of orange blossoms have come back to us from twenty years ago, and they look admirable with the lace veils. The ehoes are either worked in silver or with orange blossom. A handful of Annunciation lilies is now the favorite | bridal bouquet. It is held in the left hand, and the wedding gown is often embroidered with the same flowers. Talking Through His Hat. The members of the Manchester Fire Brigade are experimenting with a new helmet meant for use by men who may i be sent into the interior of a burning structure, where they could not venture under ordinary circumstances. This headgear is fitted with an electric light by means of which the surroundings are {lluminated, a constant supply of fresh air is passed through the helmet =o that the fireman will not be strangled by the impure atmosphere in which he is work- ing, and besides this a telephone is rigged up inside the helmet so that while he is engaged in fighting the: flames he may be in constant communi- cation with those outside and may give suggestions and information which it might be desirable for those outside to know. Devices of this character are not un- common, but there is none which seems to be quite so complete as this one. The manner in which the telephone is placed inside the helmet makes it pos- sible for the fireman to have the use o his hands at all times and yet to be in constant touch with those outside of the burning buflding. i It is & good deal better to live in a glass house and take your chances on stones than to have no windows at all. more refined,” says Mrs. Sangster, “than when the ancient Egyptians in- sisted that their workmen should do unpaid plecework, but refused to sup- | ply them with materials for the job. Yet in thousands and tens of thou- sands of modern homes a similar in- justice is perpetrated, not on slaves, but on loved ones, and it is new every morning and fresh every evening. Adoring husbands do not hesitate to inflict upon their beloved wives a need- less humiliation, amounting in the ex- perfence of supersensitive women to | suffering which is almost torture. The | woman does not live who enjoys ask- ing her husband for money and render- | ing to him an account of the way in which she spends what he gives her, whether he pours it generously into her lap or -doles it grudgingly from his pocket, openly wondering why her purse is so often empty, and openly R OME along, littls boy, come to THE TRAIN FOR ue; . Cn always stops at mamma’'s k nee When the weary day is through. ‘When the sandman sprinkles his sand so free The train is coming for you, Crowded with tads who shout for glee And you'll be one of them, too. Choo-0-0-0! Hedr the whistle blow, All aboard! IlTyou want th go. All aboarad! ‘he gates are dwwt; Throu‘}"o night train for Sluml Wi Recipes and Hints For the Household ORANGE FLOAT.—Put one quart of water over the fire; rub six level tablespoonfuls of corn starch in a lit- tle cold water; then stir this into the boiling water and cook slowly for ten minutes, stirring constantly; take from the fire; add one cup of sugar, juice] and pulp of two lemons; cut five sweet oranges in small pieces, remove the seeds and pour the boiling corn starch over them; stand in a cool place; serve cold with sugar and cream; this will serve eight or nine persons. FILLING FOR CAKBE.—Melt five tablespoons of grated chocolate with cream enough to make & smooth mass. Add one cup of sugar and one beaten egg. Cook untll thick and smooth; add one teaspoon of vanilla flavoring | and spread between cakes. DEVILED HAM.—Take the trim- mings of boiled ham, both fat and lean, and grind or chop very fine. Pound to a paste, seasoning high with cayenne, mustard and salt, if need- ed. Turn into a baking dish and set in g slow oven for half an hour. Press the meat into small jars and cover with melted butter or dripping which is almost cool and will harden over the top without mixing with the meat. Acids should never be employed to clean tinware, because they attack the metal and remove it from the iron of which it forms a thin coat. We re- fer to articles made of tin plate, which consists of iron covered with tin. Rub the article first with rotten-stone and sweet oil, then finish with whiting and a plece of soft leather. Articles made wholly of tin should be cleaned in the same manner. In a dry atmos- phere planished tinware will remain bright for a long period, but will soon become tarnished in moist air. To prevent thread from knotting al- ways thread your needle at the end of the cotton as you undo it from the reel, and make the knot at the end that is cut off. If this is done your thread will er knot. To remove iron rust, saturate the spots with lemon juice; have water in the teakettle boiling briskly, hold the spots with lemon juice; have water in soon disappear. Keep old kid gloves for ironing day. Bew a pad of kid from the left glove in the palm of the right one. This will do much to keep the ironer’s hands from becoming calloused. ‘Whenever a jar is empty wash it well in cold water, dry it thoroughly, and put it in a @ry place. If you wash the jars in hot water it will crack their glazed surface and make them porous, which spolls them for use, as pickles and preserves require to have the air kept from them. Miss Peek-a-Boo. You'll find your judgment much mis- placed. e Cholly, the militia of the State or of the States or Territories, or of the District of Columbia, as he may deem necessary | the husband or father, such women are often at the mercy of unscrupulous ad- visers, who find them an easy prey because of their inexperience. “It is not an unheard of thing for the wife of a rich man, permitted to have running accounts at stores and to ac- cumulate bills which her husband ex- | amines and pays, to lack small change | for carfares and tips to the drivers of | cabs and handsoms. In reality, the women most favorably situated for their own ease and contentment are | the wives of mechanics and day labor- ers and factory operators, to whom the | week’s wages are regularly brought, | minus the small sum the man keeps for his own purposes. The custom of this class is based on a larger justice than the other custom, which makes the husband the undisputed lord of the lexchequvr. A wife is a partner in business, not an unpaid hireling.” SLUMBER TOWN. Far up in the sky the engine steams— No train ever ran so th; The silver rails are white moon- beams, The lantern, a firefly. The pilot light is a star that fleanu Straight up in the misty sky; Your baggage to-night is a bundle of dreams Tossed on when you're passing by. Choo-o-0-0! Hear the whistle blow, All aboard! if you want to go, All aboard! The gates are down— Through night train for Slumber ‘own. —New York Press. In Answer to Queries By The Call Readers ‘WHY CALLED “SHE"—A. M. R.. Vallejo, Cal. This correspondent wants to know why a ship is called “she,” particularly when a vessel bears a masculine name. Can any of the readers of this department emlighten him? | SALT LAKE FIGHT—E. L, Oity. In the fight between “Spider” Waeich and “Battling” Nelson at Salt Lake City recently the police interfered in the sev- enteenth round on account of the sart- cus condition in which Weich was at that time. PRAYER CROSS—A. Q, City. The large cross in Golden Gate Park was donated to San Francisco by the late George W. Childs of Philadeiphia, and it was erected “to commemorate the first Christian service in the English tongue on our coast and the first use of the book of common prayer.” It is “a memorial of the service held on the shore of Drakes Bay, Marin County, Cal, about June 24, St. Johm's day, 1579, by Francis Fletcher, priest of the Church of England, chaplain of Sir Francis Drake.” MORMONS_T. P, City. The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a religious sect, commeonly known as the Mormons, was founded by Joseph Smith April 6, 1330, at Fayette, Seneca County, N. Y., and for many years has had headquarters at Salt Lake City, Utah. A Mormon is a follower of Joseph Smith and 4 be- liever In his mission and in the com- munications of the so-called angel Moroni, son of Mormon. You can ob- tain much information in regard to the Mormons in “The Book of Mor- mon,” “Book of Doctrine and Cove- nants,” consisting of select revela- tions given to Joseph Smith. “The Mormons or Latter Day Saints, With Memoirs of the Life of Joseph Smith™ and “An English Woman in Utah,” by Mzs. Stenhouse, a convert from Mor- monism. THE DICK BILL—N. W., Clty. The United States militia law of 1903, com- monly known as the “Dick bill,"™ pro- vides that “whenever the United States is involved, or in danger of invasion from any foreign nation, or of rebel- lion against the authority of the Unit- ed States, or the President is unable. with the other forces at his command, to execute the laws of the Union in any part thereof, it shall be fawful for the President to call forth, for a period not exceeding nine months, such number of to repel such invasiom, suppress such rebellion or enable him to execute such laws, and to issue “ '~ orders for that purpose to such officers of the militia as he may think proper.” This applies to members of the militla, in some States called the National Guard, the members of which must be not less than 18 nor more than 45 years of age at the time of enlistment, —_——— g Finest eyeglasses. 15c to 50c. 79 4th st., front of Key’'s Celebrated Oyster House. —_——— Townsend’s California Glace fruits n artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st On November 1, 1904, will be advanced 10c per 1b. 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