The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, . : THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN McNAUGHT. PUBLICATION OFFICE................THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO secessescessecsssssbesssssosssens-r-+OCTOBHR 35, 1904 MORE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION. HE firing on an English fishing fleet and the murder and maim- | | ing of several of the crew is another act of Russian piracy! which can be accounted for only upon the theory that the Rus- sians are recklessly desirous of destroying the peace of the world, | or that the officers of the Baltic fleet are panic stricken cowards. | Count Cassini, Russian Minister at Washington, calls it a| deplorable accident, due to belief on the part of the fleet admirai| that the fishing boats were a hostile Japanese fleet about to attack. This is not a tenable explanation, for the fishing fleet was swept by | powerful searchlights before the firing began. The crews were all | on deck, cleaning fish, and were plainly discernible from the war- | ships, for the fishermen saw the Russians on the decks of their | ships and held up fish to them to show the peaceful nature of | their occupation. The fishing boats also displayed the regulation ! lights and signals spelling their occupation and defining their char- acter. These signals are in the maritime code and are known readily by the naval officers of all nations and by all sailors. ! The firing upon the defenseless boats -after this exposition of their class and their inspection by means of searchlights was the act of cowards, or it was in pursuance of a deliberate plan to com- mit an act of war. A man-of-war can be guilty of an act of piracy and is not protected by its commission as a warship. In any of its aspects and in any light thrown upon it so far by the Russian Le- gations at Washington and London it was wanton piracy, and a vio- | lation of the British flag. In London the Russian legation explains boats by accident. But night at sea, with no prepared target to shoot at, is a strange time for target practice. If this act were fol- lowed, as is reported, by the boarding of a British merchantman in the Straits of Dover, the complications are increased and the wan- tonness of Russia is intensified. this country if our Gloucester fishing fleet on the banks were at- tacked as were the English fishing boats of Hull in the North Sea. It must be mighty irksome for a wordy man like that g To have to sit in silence when he yearns to cheerily chat. | "Twill surely take a person with a huge, cast-iron will ] T {.To undertake this mighty task of keeping Parker still! the executive for an immediate extra session of Congress to prepare | Of course, ‘twill be a good deal like the squelching of a Unless the most abject apology and punitive reparation were made within forty-eight hours, American spirit would put its commands on for a reprisal that would make teeth chatter on the Neva. | No self-respecting nation can permit such invasion of its rights and contempt of its flag. The British empire may well consider it | as the symptom of the approach of a crisis. been for some time infested by German spies, disguised as work- | men, who are believed to have been noting the conditions of military | defense, the location of supply depots and everything that goes into : the resistance of an invasion. The Kaiser and the Czar have for | some time been suspected of a secret entente, which is reasonable, | in view of the German seizure of Chinese territory on the Gulf of | Pechili, and the desire of the Kaiser to extend his possessions in that quarter. If such entente exist, it would naturally be intended to appear in an open alliance against Great Britain, upon the ap- pearance of war between that empire and Russia. ! The combined navies of Germany and Russia have 696 ships of | © all classes, and a fighting force of 96,415 men. The combined na- vies of Great Britain and Japan have 834 ships, of all classes, and a fighting force of 131,008 men. These figures do not entirely rev the capacity of the forces. Without going to guns and ‘canage, the relative efficiency of the four navies is revealed, to a degree, by the meney spent to maintain them in trim for use. The combined naval | expenditures of Great Britain and Japan per annum are $160,680,000. | The combined expenditures of Russia and Germany for the same | urpose are $7 5,267. These expenditures go not only into the | character of the vessels and their efficiency as ships, but into guns, | men, practice and accumulated munitions of war. As the fight would be a sea war, and whichever commanded the ocean will win, it | is apparent that Russia and her possible ally would have to depend on something more than holy ikons and the promptings of destiny. | PARKER AND PROTECTION. UDGE PARKER has made a speech from the porch at Esopus. { He first listened to six speeches fired at him by six orators of six clubs from New York City, then he rose and uttered him- | self on the tariff. If his speech were printed parallel with the Demo- | cratic speeches of 1892 it would reveal the same arguments and the | same accusations against the protective policy. These prevailed in 1892 and in due time the Democratic party went at tariff reform. | ‘After months of wrangling, in which it was developed that each statesman of that party wanted protection for the industrial products | of his own district and free trade in the products of the districts of other statesmen, the Wilson bill issued from a Democratic Congress such a distorted and disfigured measure that President Cleveland re- fused to sign it and denounced it as “a record of fraud and dis- honor.” Well, the fraud and dishonor Democratic taritf got in its deacly work on the industries of the country, and workingmen were in- troduced to riotous living in charity souphouses. We had armies of the unempl sved, marching some nowhere and some on Washing- | ton and some into jail. Mills were silent and millions were howling ' for bread. The fall in the consuming power of the country brought ; prices below the cost of production and the distress spread to the | farms, where it was relieved temporarily by that non-porous plaster called a mortgage. With McKinley’s election these conditions disappeared and have not come back. Industry revived. Americans quit a soup diet for meat and charity for self-support. As the consuming power of the country rose prices advanced far enough above the cost of pro- duction to enable farmers to get rid of their non-porous plasters. The farm mortgages have been paid off and carloads of these canceled | instruments have been exhibited at State and county fairs as sou- | venirs of the tariff of fraud and dishonor and exhibits of the pros- | perity that followed 2 return of protection. Now Judge Parker wakes i the echoes of Esopus with the same old arguments as the representa- | tive of the party that tinkered American workmen out of a job, out of 2 home, and into Coxey’s armies and the souphouse. K cently established in Chicago, whose mission is self evident. Its grand officers are represented by the Lord High Optimist and the Master Pessimist. Their duties are “to keep a keen watch over the state of the social amenities and to report respectively upon the symptoms of improvement and decadence in the public and pri- vate manners of the community.” Membership in the society is not restricted by conditions of race or color. 1 The knights and ladies certainly have work cut out for them. Where to begin must be the question demanding immediate execu- tive session. Already we hear the Master Pessimist submitting a report upon the lady who is just “picking up” the piano on the third floor front of the six story flat, upon the fellow who smokes Connec- ticut stogies on the crowded platform of the street. car, upon that consummate bore who stops you on the street to tell you about the ORGANIZED COURTESY. NIGHTS and Ladies of Courtesy is the name of an order re- latest gurgled phrase his baby has enunciated. The Master Pessi- | mist has the habitual borrower spotted, he has blacklisted the hope- less baseball fan, the lady president of the children’s culture society is persona non grata, from his decision against the fierce college youth with the yellow shoes there is no appeal. Where does the Lord High Optimist come in? ES | thin hair; a man, to be admitted, must | sum of £2750. This particular five of , Railroad and the Lackawanna Railroad TUESD. OCTOBER 25, 1904. THE SILENCING OF PARKER. | MISS DEMOCRACY: “No, Alton, I cannot allow you to make speeches. Stay where you are until after election.” L —_— N \‘NflgH 3.' (4 4! Miss Mabel Gunn has decided to go to New York a week or two after Thanksgiving and from there the win- some maid will go to Porto Rico, there to be wed to Dr. Thayer. Miss Gunn will be accompanied by her mother, the two stopping a week or two in Gotham, where they will be extensively entertained. These ar- rangements will bring the nuptials close to New Year’s day. The old Span- ! ish town will be an ideally picturesque spot for a wedding, where the old cus- toms surrounding nuptials yet obtain. The younger set, with whom Miss Gunn has been identified since her de- but, will miss a very clever maid when she forsakes the home of her birth. & w e T Miss Lilly O’Connor was calling yes- | terday in a stunning azure blue gown, with a plumed hat of the same tone. « e e ‘The ladles of Vice President Corral's party will be guests to-day of the Cali- fornia Club. A pleasant afternoon is anticipated in the clubrooms, where a | good brew of tea is always on tap. P It is authoritatively stated that handsome Emily Franks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Franks of this city, \ has broken her engagement to David | Haas of New York. Miss Franks is the only daughter of the household, a maid of striking beau- ty and of much travel. il 1, Pretty Marie Wells is very attractive | At last they’'ve stopped the clamor of that chatty Parker man; On his intense garrulity they've placed a bitter ban. = - They tell him he must cut it out—this endless talkee-talk, We know what would happen in That in the school of silence he must straightly walk the chalk. clam— ;I]le quieting of him who'd like to sit with Uncle Sam! e’s never cracked the silence since his name appeared in print sprint; D e — WORRY LINE ON FOREHEAD. | It is not always age that makes those disagreeable furrows across our ‘fore- heads and round our eyes. There are some grandmothers whose faces have hardly a wrinkle, and some grand- | as they might be at sixty, says the The British isles have | As that of one who yearned to mdke a Presidential town; still. talk slight— EXTREME FASHIONS. All women of good taste, no matter whether they be heiresses or work to hicago Journal. !pool‘ taste. Time is not responsible for these vex- ‘ lfilproved by the cutting of the bodice support themselves, never adopt the | extreme of any fashion. The long front of the bodice, so becoming to stout daughters whose brows are as seamed | women, would still be in favor if it had not been overdone by women of The lines of the figure are ing little lines. A good many of them |4 trifle long and lifting the skirt band may be charged up against worry. If!g trifie in the back. The extreme style, everything one thinks likely to go! wrong, the record upon one's face will | be as plain as print. Bad temper makes a mark which is hard to erasé, and is far uglier than the lines the happy years bring. Age cannot wrinkle the heart. Even when the face is criss-crossed with the | tracery of a long lifetime, the spirit may | be as young as ever. But fretfulness | and {1l temper make wrinkles within as well as without. The little im-| patient line, hardly noticeable on a smooth forehead, means that a deep furrow has been plowed in the heart. CLUB CF BALDHEADS. America is usually considered to be the land of eccentric clubs, but Bel- gium is trying to equal it, says the London Sketch. In Brussels a Bald- headed Club has been founded, the en- trance to which is very strictly guard- ed. It is not sufficient to have a bald | patch on the top of the head, or very be absolutely and completely bald. Expensive Playing Cards. At a recent sale at Christie’s famous rooms, London, a playing card, the five of diamonds, brought the enormous diamonds held on its back a circular miniature in gouache, by Hans Hol- bein, of Frances Howard, Duchess of Norfolk. A pair of oval miniatures of children, in the same medium, name of author not given, brought £1000 at the same sale. Punishment in Connecticut. A Connecticut man who robbed a bank of $70,000 has been sent to prison for five years, while his neighbor, who stole a horse, drew an eight-year prison term. They would probably hang a chicken thief.—Washington Post. Copper Plated Cars. The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg have recently given érders to have all their steel cars treated with the copper process of metal preservative. Y - THEN HE SAID GOOD NIGHT. Miss Cutting Hintz—I don’t think you would make a wife happy. ' Mr. Staylate—Why not? Miss Cutting Hintz—You don’t seem to like your home. cal one gets in the way of fretting over | powever, is in decldedly bad taste. everything that has gone wrong, and | < COULDN'T HELP IT. She—How could you feel it in your bones that there was a burglar under your bed? He—I stuck my foot out of bed and he grabbed it. P —— REFLEC(IONS UF A BACHELOR | from hearsay; | about | finger. The Poenans are reported to be Women are awfully nice to each other when they are not friendly. A man can make a lot of money by not being a candidate for public office. A woman gets very suspicious of her husband if he is always content te kiss her in the same place. The way a woman acts when she goes to get on a bicycle you would think she was climbing over a barbed wire fence. It makes a woman feel terribly bash- ful to forget to be confused when a man catches her sewing some of her queer clothes.—New York Press. WOULDN'T THIS CHEER YOU? At the outset of this paragraph, says a writer in the Appleton Post, the pen falters at the task of describing so much sweetness. Imagine, if you can, a bride of statuesque pose, gowned in dreamy white chiffon, through the filmy mystery of whose veil glowed a mass of pale gold hair like a sun- kissed cloud at morning. It was no wonder that the guests crowded each other and craned their necks to look. Borneo People With Tails. A German traveler claims to have discovered in the forests of Borneo a people who still wear the tail of our primitive ancestors. He does not write he has seen the tall, says the London Chronicle. It be- longed to a child about six years old, sprung from the tribe of Poenans. As nobody could speak the Poenan tongue the youngster could not be questioned, but there was his tall, sure enough, not very long, but fiexible, hairless and the thickness of one's little very simplé people, honest folk with a childlike system of barter. They de- posit in public places the goods they ‘| wish to exchange and in a few days later they will find there the equiva- lents they desire. Nobody dreams of stealing. This is almest as remarkable as the vestige of the ancestral tail. Never Danced in London. 5 The report that London society will glve up do2-ing is not important. They | my anyhow. Star. never da' in Lo They dawnced.—Washingion He's made as little noise as a piece of thistle down Alighting on a mullein He's never said a dozen words—egad, he never will! But yet it's nice to be assured they're bound to keep him The oyster's noisy noise annoys the public just as much As Parker’s; so it tickles us to beat the very Dutch To have them gravely tell us they've advised him not to ! In order that he may prevent Ted's winning in a walk! But yet, when all Is said and done, the stunt is not so | To stop the Judge's talking will require a man of might; The task is quite a puzzling one—this truth cannot be hid: To stop a person’s doing what that person never did! R el | these soft October days in a mauve cloth gown, with black toque. - e Mrs. Don M. Gedge and Miss Viv- ienne V. Gedge are now in Paris, whose sights they are greatly enjoying. W e To-morrow is the glad wedding day of Miss Charlotte Elene Moulder and Charles Carter Nicholls. The cere- mony will take place at half-past 2 at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Andrew Jackson Moulder, at Clay and Gough streets, Archbishop Riordan of- ficlating. Mrs. J. H. Covode, sister of the bride, will be matron of honor. . s e Miss Margaret Postlethwaite will en- tertain at 4 o'clock tea to-morrow, & | leaf four lonesome miles from —Baltimore American. THE SMART SET BY SALLY SHARP. Winship, Mrs. Reginald Smith and Dr. Smith were the guests of Mrs. Irving Scott one evening last week. ey e Miss Estelle Miller of Belvedere en- tertained the Fortnightly Club in a charming manner last week. The guests were given a launching party about the bay, followed by a delight- ful house party in Miss Miller's pleas- ant cottage. o LTy Miss Caroline Inman was the hon- ored guest at a tea given by Miss Grace Baldwin a few days ago. Miss Ethel Patton assisted In receiving. PN T e “Dotswood,” the pretty country homs of Dr. and Mrs. Russell Cool, has been harboring a congenial party for the last two or three d. In honor of Major Dunning, U. S. and Mrs. Matlle Griffith who have recently announced their engagement, a few friends were asked to this rustic spot and the gath- ering proved delightful. Those who en- joyed the hospitality of Dr. and Mrs. Cool were: Miss Mattle Griffith, Miss Ruth Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam B. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson, Major Dunning, Rothwell Hyde. T Mrs. John Francis Merrill is In Brooklyn, where she will visit with the Charles Merrills before returning home. o Lt Dr. and Mrs. Redmond Payne will spend the winter with Mr. and Mrs. John L Sabin at their home on Cali- fornia street. . e eRe Mrs. W. P. Buckingham will give her first costume recital of “Macbeth” this evening in Lyric Hall. Much interest is being taken In the event, which marks Mrs. Buckingham's debut as a professional reader. The patronesses are Mrs. Eleanor Martin, Mrs. Marcus Gerstle, Mrs. John F. Merrill, Mrs. J. C. Martel, Mrs. Ira Plerce, Mrs. W. R. ‘Wheeler, Mrs. Julius Kahn. D hs T Dr. J. Henry Barbat and family have returned from their Eastern trip. . * . The members of the Entre Nous Cotillon will open their fifteenth sea- son with an assembly and german on next Friday evening, October 28, in the baving for her guests of honor, Miss Rogers and Miss O’Brien. e e Miss Daisy Burns will be quletly wedded to Jason Gould to-morrow aft- ernoon at her home, 1506 Washing- HOW TO ECONOMIZE. Get the mates sible. rials as good as pos- Choose conservative styles. ton street. Don’t run after marked fashions, el ¢ because they soon pass away. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Scott will be Clothes that attract the eye are a|kome in December. They are now in mistake. St. Louls, after a tour of the East. Choose gloves. shoes and petticoats | Mrs. Scott is a prominent club woman, wisely. &3 If possible adopt a certain style Of} Miss Elizabeth Burt, sister of Mrs. your own and modify it according to | (. J. Wilder, has returned from an ex- the dictates of fashion. tended trip through the Orient. ¥OR THE BRIDE ooy 1 Miss Marie Voorhies, Miss Katherine ballroom of the Palace Hotel. ¢ R Dr. Margaret Mahony will entertain at her home on Saturday next in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Denis Mahony. Y R Simon Wolf and his charming wife of Washington, D. C., who are sojourn- ing at the Palace Hotel, were entertain- ed at luncheon yesterday at the Palm Garden, by Jullus Platshek. Beside the honored guests, the following sat at the round table, which was artisti- cally embellished: Rev. Jacob Voor- sanger and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Kahn, Jullus Platshek, M. J. Platshek, Miss Mamie Voorsanger, Dr. Willlam Voorsanger and Mr. and Mrs. Greene- HER BIRTHDAY. - —October Men and Women. Dillon, Captain Young, Lieutenant baum. Married in white ;i You have chosen guite right. Married in green | Of his heart you are queen. | Married in gray Your path lies far away. Married in black This Is the day thou wert born, dear, ‘Wish your maidenhood back. Created by heav’n for me. “Y‘:.’."ifi’.,‘if? 1f dead. | Sad 1 should be and forlorn, dear, et i B $ Had he not fashioned thee. Know your lover is true. If wishes were gold in truth, dear, Married in pearl The riches of Ind would be thine. Speni zom: Mfe L, I'd give thee perpetual youth, dear, i‘:‘:rvi so': ’;;‘elo:m“ i And the skies should be all sunshine. i’a;l?:d in brown 1 On this, thy sweet natal day, dear, up hill and down. Married in pink I greet thee with fondest love. He's as good as you think. For thee | ask and | pray, dear, Married in tan God’s blessings from above. Arniie fov. % mao, May each return of the time, dear, Red Tape in Germany. More closely our lives unite. Red tape as made in Germany seems And may ever our hearts so chime, dear, to be a very choice article. A German | That our world shall be always bright! woman sends London Truth the fol-| lowing anecdote: A female teacher in | a school in Westphalla had to make an , % official communication to the Minister of Education. She used for the pur- pose what is called “eagle paper,” hav- ing the roval eagle upon it as a water mark, and duly dispatched it to Ber- lin through the School Board of Es- sen. After a few days the letter came back, with an intimation that it must’ be rewritten, as the eagle appeared | upon it head downward. COLD3 AND THEIR CURE. Characterizing Chicago as “a city of coughs and colds,” Dr. Richard H. Brown of the University of Illinois | told the members of the Woman's | Club of Settlement House how to avoid catching cold and what to do after colds are caught, says the Chi- cago Tribune. His subject was “Coughs.” Dr. Brown laid down the foilowing rules for the prevention of coughs and colds: Avold spitters. Sleep with the winddéws open. Make yourself an oak instead of an orchid. Keep the air indoors as pure as the air outdoors. Do not let the temperature of your room get above 70 degrees. Do not wear too much clothing, but just enough to keep warm. Take a cold sponge bath every morning to harden the system against cold. Avoid dust; make Chicago get rid of it and keep it out of your houses; do not sweep “dry.” Do not overeat—as a nation we eat too much and foods that are too strong; drink more water. After you get a cough: Stay in bed and you will save time in the end. Put on a camphorated oil jacket or flannel wrapping. Avoid ‘“‘dopers” parading “M. D.” after their names. Don’t close up the room and polson yourself with impure air. - Don't neglect a single, simple cold, but get a good physician. Don’t overeat and don’t starve your- self—strike a happy medium. Dr. Brown declared that although Chicago is the healthiest of the big cities of the world, it is distinctly a catarrhal city. He said pneumonia is the “death king” in Chicago. —_—— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-étched boxes. 715 Market st. On November 1, 1904. will be advanced 10c per Ib. Holiday received - that date at presont price g o Trolley Lunch Room. The Transit Company of St. Louls has been obliged to face a number of | difficulties in connection with the heavy | traffic and unusual demand of the ex- position public. Car crews had diffi- culty in getting lunches, very often having to eat them during trips. A | lunchroom in a car has overccme most of the trouble and proved a great suc- cess. A HOT ONE. Applicant for chorus girl's position— Have you anything to remark about —_———— SOME 600D RECIPES, Soft Gingerbread—Put one cup of molasses, one level tablespoon of but- ter, two cups of milk, two cups of flour and a level teaspoon of soda dis- solved in one-third cup of boiling water into a bowl. Beat thoroughly and baks in a shallow buttered pan in a moder- ate oven. Spaghett! With Cheese—Have two' quarts of water boiling rapidly. Take one-third pound of spaghett! In long strips and put one end into the water. As the spaghett! softens cofl it round in the kettle and cook twenty min- utes. Make a cream sauce with one cup of cream, a rounding tablespoon each of butter and flour and season with half a level teaspoon of salt and a few dashes of pepper. Cook six min- utes. Cut the spaghetti jnto inch pieces and heat In the cream sauce. Turn into the serving dish and sprinkle with finely grated cheese. Sponge Cream Cake—Break two eggs in a cup and fill the cup with sweet, thick cream. Turn all into a bowl; add a cup of sugar, a pinch of salt and one and one-half cups of flour sifted with two level teaspoons of baking powder, also one-half teaspoon of flav- oring. Beat all smooth and continue beating for five minutes, then pour intc a pan and bake in a square pan, not too deep. ANSWERS 10 QUERIES. THE PALACE—W. B., City. Work on the Palace Hotel was commenced In 1872, the hotel was opened in Oc- tober, 1875. On the site of the hote! there were on Market street the Roman Catholic Asylam, the Buckey* Lodging-house, a livery stable, and on the Jessie-street side there , were a number of old buildings occupied a3 dwellings principally. FELONY—F. E. B., Petaluma, Cal. In the State of California in cases of fel- ony the statute of limitation bars an action or prosecution unless the sam? Is brought within three years from th° date of the commission of the crime except In capital cases, in which ther? ? is no bar.. But if a complaint is flled o7 an indictment i{s presented within zh"’i years the action may be prosecuted & time that the accused is arrested-