The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JOHN sressesissses...s Proprietor JOHN McNAUGHT. FUBLICATION OFFICE TRADE STILL LIVELY. HE election has come and gone and trade is running along as briskly as before, under a full head of steam. There are no signs of slackening anywhere. T thought that the current activity was largely fictitious and strained to effect the election now admit that the expansion in business /s genuine. In spite of the election, which gave only five business days last week, the bank clearings of the country showed a gain over last year | of 12.8 per cent, while the failures were only 213, against 283 last year. But it is worthy of note that about half of the more important cities showed a loss in clearings, whereas during the preceding week all but four showed a gain. The aggregate clearings, too, showed a decrease, being $2,329,400,000, against over $2,800,000,000 for the preceding week. \ The feature of the week was the activity in stocks from one end of the country to the other. New York stocks were remarkably active, dealings being the heaviest for several years, and at rising prices as a rule. bonds and dividend-paying stocks. Opinions from recognized finan- cial authorities that prices for stocks had been run up to the divi- dend-paying limit, and in some cases even over it, produced no perceptible effect on the bull movement. The public were in the market as buyers, and they bought right along. Once or twice the daily transactions largely exceeded 2,000,000 shares. This may be aptly compared with the dullness of last spring, when the day’s| dealings several times fell to something like 100,000 shares. Here in San Francisco there was a marked increase in activity on the Stock and Bond Exchange, with prices for sugar and other stocks advancing. Boston had a booming copper market. This stock exchange activity in different parts of the country | was significant. It showed an abundance of money and a general desire to invest, widespread confidence in the future and a boldness only ‘witnessed in seasons of prosperity. If there had been any doubt of the country’s prosperity the public would have let stocks of 2ll kinds alone. While a stock boom is not to be desired and will probably be vigorously checked by the great financial interests if it grows to dangerous proportions, it has not thus far done any harm and has been beneficial in’calling the idle money out of the vaults ! and setting it again into circulation. If it-is placed at a dividend plane of values it will be well invested and will flow back into com- | mercial channels in the form of dividends and interest coupon pay- ments ; but if placed above dividend values it will be tied up and probably produce a reaction toward more reasonable quotations. Some sagacious financiers think that that point has already been reached. If it has not, it is not very far from it. Stocks, however, are not the only line showing increased activity. Many of the staples exhibit an expanded movement. Iron | and steel, coal, hardware, wool and its manufactures, hides and leather, lumber and other building material, groceries, cattle, sheepi and hogs, paints, glass and numerous minor products are found in | the processional activity. The jobbers all over the country are | increasing previous orders more or less. Collections, already good, | are reported even better, especially in the West and South, where the excellent corn and cotton crop prospects impart a general feeling of confidence in another good year. Aside from the diminished | exports of wheat, it may be said that all the important staples show gains over the past few weeks. Provisions are not active, but they are holding their own, and the condition of the provision market is a good barometer to trade. | Ogr. local conditions show no relapse. The Pacific Coast has ! sent in excellent reports for six years and continues to send them in, with no indications of a break. Our coast products, with the exception of raisins and prunes, are moving out of producers’ hands as fast as they are harvested, and are bringing first-class prices. All banks, city and country, report money plentiful at normal rates of interest, and the magnitude of building operations, particularly in San Francisco, is attracting general attention. This is a remarkable era of business activity, and apparently the end is not yet. Omlritime States on this coast, voted on a constitutional amend- ment to exempt American shipping from State, county and lo- cal taxation. The amendment carried in Washington and was beaten, as far as known, in California. The indifference of our peo- ple to & matter of such vast import is inexplicable. San Francisco geve the amendment a small majority, but Oakland and Alameda seemed to enjoy great satisfaction in defeating it by a large ty. | We admire consistency, and Oakland was certainly consistent, | for she had just voted down bonds to increase the size and safety | of her own wharves on her own harbor. But that city is getting | millions out of the Federal Government to make a harbor where nature failed to put one. Along that harbor private capital has planted extensive yards for the building of American ships. But the people vote not to have ships under the American flag by putting upon the a alty, in the shape of heavy local taxation. In| logic end philosophy a tax that can return no benefit to the that pays it is punitive. The Federal Government taxes Butter, not to benefit but to destroy it. The punitive power of taxation is used to destroy. It is exactly like a fine put upon a crim- inal in court. It is for his punishment. With American shipping exempt on Puget Sound, and subjected to punitive taxation here, San Francisco, and her indifferent but ultra | marine sister, Oakland, will not have any American shipping. It will g0 to the Sound, where even wharfage is free, so anxious are our rivals for maritime supremacy. Not necessarily for publication, but to satisfy a justifiable cu- riosity, we would like to know the reason for Oakland’s prejudice against the American flag on a ship. We punish American ships | by high local taxation, but they have to compete with foreign ships | ~annot be taxed at all. The United States wants 13,000,000 feet ber shipped to the Panama canal. The job was let on bids. | merican ships, punished here for flying the Stars and Stripes, seaten in the bids by a German line, and our lumber will bc. » under the flag of the Kaiser. We mention this in order to se Oakland, as that sort of thing is what she voted for, ————————— THE PRESS OF THE NATION. Why should rainbow-chasing be ®o|stubborn antagonists which any army trowned on? Tt fills the hearts of the | can encounter. It reveals a willing- “hasers with & joy keen enough while | Bess literally to conquer or die, which t lasts and it doesn’t fade the colors |1 appalling to officers commanding o0 the rainbow in the least—Baltimore | OPPOSINg forces.—Cleveland Leader. e In contrast to Russia, appea n cont Japan s As if the eye were not a weapon with | # modern nation. The Asiatic empire #hich every young woman is already mnd.- more; TaeDey OB sducation am S, e e o . ere | B rors, e 0 el e save recently been promulgated. It|as many book stores and news :tnn:: seems that the beauty of a woman's|as St. Petersburg. The Japanese live lles mot so much in their shape | under a constitution which gives them color as In the way she uses them. (a definite system of public law and & long list of directions for ro- | which safeguards their personal lip- ating them so that the muscles may | erty. The Government grants religious | s best trained. Man never knows |freedom throughout the empire. In the | vhen he is safe.—Boston Transcript. | War proclamations and utterances of every sort the Japanese have shown According to official Japanese re- | seif-restraint, an absence of honnln: one regiment which went into|and a respect for their enemy which the most desperate assaults|have been noticeably lacking in the defenses of Port Arthur with' pompous pronunciamentoes -of their 2700 effective men lost 2500. THE SHIPPING AMENDMENT. ' N the same day California and Washington, the two leading 1 i o 4| OVEMBER 14, 1904 Those skeptical ones who! Nothing could stem the eager rush to buy standard | FRANCISCO' CALL, MONDA NOVEMB R 14, 1904. SECRET MARRIAGES AND ELOPEMENTS i THINK it would not be amiss for | me to say a word on the subject of elopements and secret marriages. Indeed, I am eager to do this, for I feel that any young girl who ! loves a man without her parents’ sanc- | tion to his suit is like a ship without a | rudder, tossing helpless in a storm. In her perplexities she has no one in whom to confide except her lover—who, naturally, is biased in his own interest | —and possibly an intimate friend, who has no more experience in life than her- | self. There is no other occasion in a wom- an’s life when she needs her own people | about her so much as on her marriage | day. Then she is taking the most de- cisive step in her career, the step by which her happiness and her honor stand or fall. She is entering an estate from which death alone can free her honorably. Divorce, whether justified or not from a woman’s point of view, leaves inva- | rlably a shadow on her name. The fact | that she herself is absolutely free from reproach does not save her from humil- iation. The judgment of the world in regard !to these things still hinges upon a prejudice as hard and narrow as that of the medieval knight of whom Mrs. Browning sings in “The Romaunt of the Page.” The wife who has, as the poet expressed it, “unwomaned herself” out of love for her husband, is doomed to hear the latter say, in verdiot on her conduct: Look up—there is a small, bright cloud Alone amid the skies. So high—so pure—and 50 apast A woman's honor lies. A girl cannot afford to make herself or her love common in any way. She | has too much to lose. Once she is talked about adversely she is at the mercy of every unfavorable breath of criticlsm that blows. She has sacrificed the privilege which other women, more | discreet than herself, enjoy of doing what seems right, fearless of censure. | An elopement or a secret marriage never makes a girl appear to othersasa heroine, in spite of the fact that she gets her name in the papers, with her best photograph and a glowing descrip- ¥ By DOROTHY FENIMORE tlon of her charms and her romance. These tributes to her vanity serve mere. ly as an advertisement of her folly. They help to mark her as a woman who has made a mistake. There is no escape from ‘hla conse- quence of her indiscretion. Until old age she will be pointed out as “a wom- an who eloped,” and it will not take many years for this distinction to be- ccme distasteful to her. Furthermore, if her marriage turns out unhappily she will get more than half of the blame, even though she does not deserve it. “What can you expect?” people will say. She lowered herself in her husband's regard at the very beginning of their life together by the clandestine way that she married him. And the saddest part of it all is that there will be at least a grain of truth in this popular opinion. “Love without esteem,” says Dumas fils, “cannot reach far or fly high; it is an angel with but one wing.” If a, couple of young lovers whose marriage is opposed by their elders would only have the patience to wait a little all would turn out well, or at least for the best. Parents are not often un- reasonable. It is natural that a father who un- derstands the temptations of men and the difficulty of making a decent liveli- hood should wish to hedge his daughter about by every safeguard, and should be slow to consent to her marriage with a young fellow who has not yet had a chance to prove himself. It is not strange that a mother who has known the suffering and privations of bringing up a family on a small in- come should hesitate to give up her daughter to' a man whom she has no particular reason to trust. If a young man is not able to see any point of view but his own in his woo- ing, if he urges upon a girl a course of conduct which is doubtful in its expe- diency, one which may later bring her regret, he does not really love her—he loves himself. And if she ylelds to his persuasions he never will love her—as it is her woman- 1y right to be loved. After marriage he will simply go on loving—himself. TIFAMOUS RCTRESS A VICTIM OF NERVES (sl 3 b3 SIGNORA ELEONORA DUSE. T — LEONORA DUSH, the famous Itallan actress, is pecullarly sen- sitive and highly strung. When she is not playing or rehearsing she spends her time In perfect rest and lives in almost nunlike seclusion. She has a companion who arranges her journeys and engages rooms for her at hotels. This woman sees that Duse’s apartments are at the back of the ho- tel and, if possible, overlooking a gar- den, for she cannot bear street sounds | The furnishing of her Everything must and sights. room is important. be scrupulously clean, sévere and quiet, | for her highly wrought sensibilities cannot tolerate the distraction of pic- tures and ornaments. Chicago’s new swing bridge across the Chicago River has a movable part 275 feet long, each leaf of which weighs 2,000,000 pounds. o+ ——— e o o i 0 2 a0 Sk BT SPARE THE ROD. Miss Teachem—I have such unruly boys in my class that I am compelled to chastise them frequently, and many times my right arm aches from the use of the strap. Mr. Smartly—Well, why not switch? ‘Women Fishers. A great deal of the fishing along the French coast is done by women. They are to be seen in groups at all the French watering places, where they contrast oddly with the fashionably dressed summer idlers. These fisher- ‘women usually wear wooden shoes and quaint costumes, consisting of very Showing a smart hat in shades of brown, with cream tips shaded at the point with burnt orange. The French felt and shirred taffeta crown are of light brown, with underfacing and edgefolds of dark autumn brown panne velvet. A cream satin rosette lies on the bando at the left side. -4 THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE " % SURE. Mrs. Henpeck—Do "you think dark- haired men marry first? Mr. Henpeck—No; it's the light-head- ed ones. A kind of vegetable silk is obtained from a tree, growing to the size of an ordinary chestnut tree, which abounds in Paraguay. It can be woven into threads, but the chief use for it at present is that of stuffing quilts and cushions, for which purpose it seems well adapted on account of its extreme lightness. This silk resembles a glossy FOXY SMITH. Irate Landlordi—When I rented you this house you said your three children ‘were in the cemetery. Smith—So they were; spending the day there. they were —_— % THE CON- TIN- UED STORY CHAPTER L Before her proud old father stands The heroine so fair. (A half a page about her hands, A page about her hair.) “You shall not wed this man,” growls he. (We think we quote the text.) “Dare to defy my rule, you'll be"—— (Continued in our next.) CHAPTER IL The villain with his cigarette Now woos the heroine; She wails the day she ever met A man so filled with sin. “Refuse meh, gyurl?’ he coldly sueers, ‘While she stands there, perplexed, “Then you shall be, through all your years’'— (Continued in our next.) CHAPTER IIL The hero meets the villain now; The hero says “Aha!" And wildly mops his furrowed brow; The villain mutters “Bah!” The villain tells the hero he Some money has annexed. The hero swears he soon shall be"—— (Continued in our next.) CHAPTER 1V. Proud father, villain, hero, too, Detectives by the score; Proud father: “Ne'er again must you Be darkening my door!” The villain laughs his scornful sneer ‘Whose tones are circumflexed. The hero: “Wait for me, my dear’—— (Continued in our next.) CHAPTER V. The hero languishes in jail, The villain with a grin, Bays that he'll go the hero’s bail And wed the heroine. But, ho! The hero’s innocence Is proven by a friend; They wed; the villain slouches thence; Proud father melts. (The End.) —Chicago Tribune. Time to Retreat, ““Mabel,” yelled the old man, who read the war news carefully every day, “Is that young man down there yet?” “Yes, father.” ‘““This begins to look a good deal like a decisive engagement.” BT ame s time tor GEORGE BRADFORD'S CONVERSION L By CECILY \ALLEN ZORGE BRADFORD, PurAqu. a woman could learn to be busi- ¥ ” e | ness-like. [ chasing Broker,” read the |REET L Ll o little mirror and—a girl, hesitating before the |, . 'ng some soan in the morning. door. She extracted & tinY |y Bradford, if you don’t mind,” she ' she ol ht.” newspaper clipping from | scid as she left. ood night. her":)ur!e and reread it.| “A mirror!” Bradford sighed. This . .1 A stenographer; male pre-| was anly the beginning. But he was saged; 3 G. B.” | always glad when nine-thirty arrived ferred. 18 Exchange place. © = | and sorry when closing time came With trepidation she opened the | o, ol "ooomed to increase; he sent door and entered a small, UNprepos- | ..\ oo many letters. Miss Henderson | sessing office room. ' l= “Good morning,” said Bradford, ris- ing and then sitting down abruptly. Business was business. 1 “Mr. Bradford?” asked the girl, handing him the clipping. “This is your advertisement, I believe?” “I—I had in mind a young man,” began Bradford, obviously 1ll at ease. | He had never associated with women, | either socially or in business. In the latter capacity he had strongly disap- proved of the sex; in the former— | well, he was determined to make money first and love afterward. “Yes, ‘male preferred’ is stated in your advertisement,” acknowledged the girl, “but I wanted a position, my first one, very much and—well, I've come to see if Fate will be kind.” It was just like a girl to introduce such filmy, uncertain elements as Fate into business! And yet Bradford was not so prejudiced as he had been ten minutes before. He fancied the dingy office was brighter already. Then, there was another consideration; women demanded smaller renumera- tion for their work, and this was still | & matter of moment with Bradford. “This—er, you say is your first po- sition?” ventured Bradford, admit- | ting, unconsciously, that the place was hers already. | The girl saw this, but was too tact- | % ful to give evidence of the fact. “Yes,’ she said. “I have just finished my | course in stenography.” —f | Bradford liked her soft, well-modu- | \'oo quick and often she suggested lit- {lated voice. It would sound Well| o yqeay for featuring goods he was [ to his customers over the 'phone. A | 5 S U T oting. man’s voice would not sound half so | When she asked if she might have o e | @ box of flowers in the narrow window, | “Office work is confining,” he 8ug-| pragrord put his hands in his pockets | gested, by way of discouraging her. | gng gtrode up and down the room. But “I have never approved of women in business.” ol “Yes; but when a woman has to | make her way in the world, she puts on a smile and faces the worst,” she replied, with just a suspicion of an accent on the last word and with an undeniably roguish twinkle in her | eves. | the manner that had been her charm {in the old life. Family fortunes may | take wings and fly, but innate coquetry |is not to be stifled by mere financial depression. Bradford could not deny that her | smile had individuality. He wondered | why the women he had been forced to | meet had never smiled in just that way. | He never knew why, but he suddenly | wished the office were cleaner. He | would certainly speak to the woman who scrubbed and dusted in the build- | ing. “And—about—about salary?” he ask- | ed awkwardly. It was all rot—this woman-in-business idea. They had no | right there. He would have a man. He felt like a cad talking to a woman about salary. What did she know of— of business? “I believe it is the employer's pre- rogative to name the salary,” said the girl simply. Bradford after searching hopelessly in his mind for a combination of words and figures in which to adjust the flnancial end of the transaction named the amount which he had had in mind when inserting the “ad.” “That will do very nicely,” said the girl rising. After all, this business life was not so hard—men were not so heartless. “And your name?” asked Bradford. “Henderson—Marjorie = Henderson,” she said, smiling. “And when will you come?” Brad- ford surprised himseif at the way in which he let her suit her own con- venlence. “That, too, is your prerogative,” she replied, an odd little expression of def- erence in her eyes. “To-morrow? Is that too soon?” He had not expected to have his sten- ographer until the following week. but, after all, no doubt the sooner he | had one, the sooner his business let- | ters would commence to bring good re- | sults. “Very well, to-morrow. And at what hour?” This man had not told her anything of his demands upon his em- ployes. She had fancied herself de- parting with a list of rules a paze long, to all of which she must adhere rigidly. “Oh, about 9:30,” he said. He had decided when he had Inserted the | advertisement that he would get to| business earlier and have his stenog- rapher there with him. But—oh, well, women should not have to get down | too soon; it was hard on them. | “I will be there at that hour, Mr. | Eradford, thank you.” And she closed | the door. She could not quite cast aside | | she had her way, and soon a box of blooming nasturtiums gave the dingy | room a cheerful aspect. Every morn- | ing before he was ready to give her his | letters she watered them with a ridie- | ulous little red watering pot. Oftentimes after Miss Henderson had left in the evening Bradford stood over the tiny flower bed and soliloquized. | How different the office seemed! How | bright and clean his desk always looked! How much the mirror added and the clean towel—and these flowers! | They grew and biocomed happily under her care. What would not? “Miss Henderson,” began Bradford one afternoon when she was leaving early, “I am glad I added the word ‘preferred’ to my advertisement for a stenographer three months ago.” The girl looked surprised, but she was not. “Yes?” “If 1 had simply said ‘male’ you would never have ventured to apply.” He twisted his penwiper—one she had made him—into an unsightly string. “Yes? have never approved of women in business.” She put her hatpins in carefully, slowly. “No?” she intimated by an ele- vation of her brows. “Nor—nor anywhere,” he confessed. “I've always argued to the contrary.” “But argument does not prevail in anything which matters seriously,” ad- mitted the girl “And this matters, seriously, Marjo- rie,” he said, moving wwu.rdyh-r. “It matters awfully—I have to have one, in business and—and everywhere. Wil you let me have her? I know it isn't business-like, but—I love you.” Marjorie’ Henderson looked at him, Squarely in the eyes. “And I prefer a partnership to a salaried position. You ccme to the house to-night, and we'll talk it over with mother. It need not be all business then.” Bradford has a little “want” adver- tisement framed above the desk in his private office to-day, right over her photograph. For the business has grown and there are many clerks—but all “male preferred.” Copyright, 1904, by K. A. Whitehead BOOK OF RECIPES “High Living, Recipes from South- ern Climes,” is the title of a little book just published in attractive form by Paul Elder & Co. It is the work of Mrs. L. L. McLaren and is published | for the benefit of the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Association, which is composed of young women who have | done so much good for the women Alone, Bradford lit a cigar and leaned back in his desk chair. What had he done? He had engaged a woman, a girl, as a stenographer! She would always be in the office; he could not swear—Ne wandered if he should smoke—neither could he take off his | coat and put his feet on his desk when he wanted to think things out and | bring an unruly customer to time. But the next morning found him eagerly waiting for 9:30. He could not tell why, but the appearance of a trim little tailor-clad figure in the doorway made him glad. J “I—I may put my hat on your desk?” she asked, laying a neat felt hat on the top of his desk. She had only a flat table. “Oh—oh, no,” he said. “Let me—I say, we will have to have a hook over there above the wash bowl. Yes, put it there.” were he tried to convince himself. woman's hat on a man’s desk! An atmosphere of strangeness, of embarrassment and awkwardness filled the tiny office all day, and vet Brad- ford did not lok at the dirty, dingy elevated road for light as he had been A accustomed; it was brighter in the of- | artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 fice. He dictated his letters and was pleased to note their faultless pages, their neat arrangement, their work- man-like appearance. Perhaps. after | ifornia ‘What a nuisance women | and children living on the big hill They are in need of money to carry on their good work, and one of their ways of raising money is the sale of Mrs. McLaren's book. It contains a splendid collection of recipes that every housewife should possess. ANSWERS AFFECT-C. 8. O, Qity. The sen- tence, “His tratsfer to another depart- ment will not affect this department,” is correct. y FRANKLIN TUNNEL—W. O. H., City. The length of the Franklin tunnel on the line of the Santa Fe, between Stockton and Point - mond, is 1300 feet. % 3 IN FULL CHARGE—J]. S., City. | The master of a vessel is always in | full charge when there is a pilot on board except as to the matter of Smii- ing the vessel to a safe anchorage. The master has the power to dis- charge the pilot at any time. ———— Townsend's. 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