The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1904, Page 6

T HE/ NCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1904 THE SANFRANCISCOCALL D. JOHN SPRWLS ces ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO 'HIPD AND MARKET mml. EAN mA.\ancu DECEMBER 1 2, 1904 | A SENSATIONAL BUSINESS WEEK. ea I-street stocks. vere not While the leading and conservative in- w it to the overbought condition of the stock market jation occasioned by the President’s recommendation nessage that the Interstate Commerce Commission fix freight - essary, it is undeniable that Lawson was the 1e brea He publicly announced several days hat he would cause 2 commofion in the market and fic days for the disturbance : and as it appeared on time le to believe that he was the arch market-breaker. agreed, however, that the panic was not caused orable conditions in the business of the country, which time during the past five or six years; not last but 2 day and a half and that the Lp\wrd again affirmed this opinion. Since the mg has been much stronger and the speculative and the market is no worse off than before the are and market great 2 tmosphere v sensationzl during that day and a half, twenty-two points in copper, while sugar also 1t steel, which was also menaced by the raiders, y vely light decline, which was an excellent ad- of the improved conditions in this industry, which have 1 ;:.'f:\\mg better for several months. In fact, a year ago all the furnaces and mills of the United States Steel ion ran:m‘ from 18,000 to 23,000 tons daily, whereas it is ess of 60,000 tons da and on one day recently it was s 1spicuous staple at present is cotton. Recently the rt, announcing a crop of over 12,000,000 bales, e 1 the market and demoralized the cotton and yarn milling repc which broke the arted a general selling movement, been showing a % recovery. The crop is the nd while it 1 probably cause lower prices increase the earnings of Southern draw a largely increased revenue also swell the exports and he cotton industry, With the large corn. cotton and hay wthing of the bounteous production of minor products, have an immense line of produce to sell at homc 2 ng the coming year, and this means nothing less than continued prosperity. Secretary Wilson of the Department of 4 ire tells us that our cotton crop will reach a value of our corn crop a value of $1.000.000.000, ouwr wheat and 000,000,000 and all our farm products com- 4.900,000,000, compared with $4.480,000,000 an increase of $420,000,000, or nearly 10 per cent, a ultural products within one year. General ns continue brilliant and full of promise. The current expa business is shown by the continuous increase in the bank hich last week showed a gain of 53.6 per r the k last year, and in this respect the week wa two cities, and these of minor importance— t Lake City—out of the first fifty on the list showed doubtful if the country’s clearings ever before made showing. Some of the gains were extremely large, New York being 738 per cent; Boston 24.7 per cent, Phila- 79.1 per Pittsburg 40.2 per cent, Baltimore 60.7 per cent, Minneapolis 436 per cent, and so on. These figures tell the story of the country’s remarkable prosperity. Of course, the heavy increase in New York was largely due to the immense dealings on the Stock Exchange, but those of the other cities were not, being the legitimate results of a greatly expanded business all over the 12 cent country The abundance of money is shown by the continued low rates in New York. Even at the most “frenzied” moments of the stock panic the rate for call money did not rise over 5 per cent as the extreme top, and the ruling rates of the week were 3 to 4 per cent. This speaks volumes for the country’s unprecedented cash re- sources when it is remembered that at this time of the year call money always goes up in New York, and only several years ago. when there was not the slightest question of the soundness of trade, it soared up on one occasion to 40 per cent. What better evidence of prosperity could be desired? Otherwise there is little to be said. All sections of the country report a fine demand for holiday goods, increasing activity among manufacturing plants and railroad earnings in November .26 per cent larger than for the same month in 1903, with freight blockades at many points. A column could be written in enumerating the lines of trade exhibiting increased activity, but those mentioned here will do. The country was never more prosperous than at present. of interest OUR POSTAL COMMUNICATIONS. L A of San Francisco, such as that for the establishment of pneu- matic tubes, ought to receive the most earnest and the most speegdy consideration. bricant for the- wheels of commercial life, and its need becomes more pressing with every increase of trade. Many European cities already surpass us in the rapidity and ease with which their various sections are placed in touch with one another and San Francisco at Jeast ought to see to it that the position is reversed. postal authorities, for example, undertake to deliver a written com- munication to any address in the city within a very few minutes, 4 and at a very small charge, and this incalculable convenience : maintained by means of pneumatic tubes. Why should not San Francisco do the same? THE PRESS OF THE NATION From the nature of things Canada cannot long resist the invitations of | commerce from other sources than England. The spirit of commercial expan- wsion once instilled into her people and with her great fertile plains, extensive forests and rich mineral deposits as yet unsurveyed, there is an alluring national future for her, So far as her alleglance to Great Britain is concerned it is almost purely sentimental, fos Canada is practically independent. Her people look to England as children look to a parent. But there must come a time when even children grow up and strike out for themselves. Commer- cially Canada is still a child, albeit a very lusty and promising one.—Kansas City Journal. Nobody contends that the GCovernment of Cuba by Cubans is an ideal Covernment. Nobody expected it would be. But it is doing very well, and it will do better if the efforts of interested busybodies are tp)n.lned at thelr true value.—Philadelphia North American. At 2 New York Chamber af Commerce banquet, there were 409 guests present, representing a weailth, in round numbers, of $2,000,000,000. Yet they were unable to eat a bit more than 409 men whose combined capital was $2.— Columbia (8. C.) State. Governor-elect Douglas of Massachusetts has sworn, as is required by law, to the expenditure of $34,000 for his campaign. Advertising costs money, but it is bound to bring M‘raurn-.-—Au.nu Constitution. The unanimity with which the newspapers are referring to Pension Com- missioner Ware’s prospective “return to purgatory” cannot be otherwise than highly pleasing to Kansas.—Chicago Tribune. Young John D. Rockefeller says that entrance into heaven cannot be bought with money. Well, that is something we never thought of trying.— Albany Times-Union. Several explanations of the Cphu of Missouri h:ve been made, but to Aate nobody has suggested that it was due to the influence of Frank James.— Elmira Gagette. ture in !n.:mr« !act week was the sensational break in | ng to admit that Thomas Lawson of copper ! v was the prime cause of the momentary panic and | the ! ce then, however, a firmer feeling has developed, and 7 NY suggestion for the improvement of the postal conveniences | Facility of communication is an essential lu-: The Paris | = RO PNESE Or THORPE BY T. BLAIR EATON. had done theft and on either e trees flaunted | 3 - | i Thorpe smiled guardedly. “I intend, with your ass announced, “to drive to Paradiss. “What?” she gasped. Thorpe’s emile broadened. ™ scarlet. “It may be far; i y ¥ i = t may be near,” he As Thorpe, with his hands | said, musingly. “But that it lies some- thrust deep into his trousers ponkfl"“he" along this road I am foolishiy | and a briar pipe of honorable age be- ’ confident.” tween his teeth, strode aiong the road | “What on in the mellow sunshine of early after- noon, he huymmed arias and | thanked his sfars that ho was alive. He laughed boy when a startled chipmunk scampered nimbly across his | path, and, from the saZe seclusion of a HE early work thorough side of th= road gorgeous habiliments of gold and stance,” he earth are ydu talking 1 | 1 iy friendly maple, berated the imruder; { *roundly in a shrill chatter; he took an imaginary shot at a partridge which rose abruptly from a clump of bushes; he sent a mocking challenge ' to a flock of honking geese Winging ; their way southward. Presently he came upon a fallen tree lying invitingly by the roadside. | Thorpe accepted the tacit invitation, and, seating himself upon the log, had become engrossed in a friendly quarrel between two belated biackbirds, when | | he heard the clatter of hoofs and the rattle of wheels coming down the road. He peered cautiously around a bar- berry bush which obstructed his range of vieion, end beheid a trap approach- ing smartly. On the elovated driving geat was a girl, correct in every detail of her “park form,” and beside her, | looking decidedly stunted by reason | his much was a trim, faultless and impassive groom Thorpe 'hw‘k delightediy. By George said, rising and sneaking behind barberry bush. ! By George! i When the turnout reached his re- treat Thorpe sprang from the bushes and caught the horse by the bridle. “Stand and deliver!” he eried, wav- | ing the ancient briar menacingly. The onslaught was so sudden the “Stand cried. and L= i 4 that | abuut?” she asked in amazement. the girl gave a little squeal of alarm,| “It has long .been conceded by which she instantly tried to cover with | thoughtfui theologians,” =aid Thorpe, | a nervoug laugh, while the groom en-| vracular “that Paradise is a state deavcred to atone for the momentary | Tather than a place 1 expect to Pn[erl unfolding of his arme by a magnificent | that felicitous state hen you say | outward caim and an intent scrutiny | ¥ouw'll marry me, Nan. and I expect! of the distant landscape. | You to furnish me with admission | “Oh, so it's only you, 2fter all,” said | somewhére aiong road. Am et” wrong in being ot The girl surveyed the flaming autumn the girl, smiling down at him com; posedly from the elevated seat. “Only me!" he exclaimed. 1 silence for a time. see here, 1 imagined I was a very she =aid at iength, "(h::tl terrifying personality in my Claude | s wrong?” | Thorpe brought the cob to a stop. Duval role. I'm disappointed. You've hurt my feelings by not displaying| *I1 shall get out and walk to—well, proper alarm.’ rot Paradise,” he said. The girl laughed. The girl said nothing, and Thorpe ! “Well, sir, kindly notice I'm stand-| moved uneasily. ing. Now, what would you have me! “Shali I wa'k?” he said. | deliver?” she asked. “You'd—you'd better keep to the Thorpe dropped the bridle and came | original quest, it secms to me,” she | round to the side of the trap. said in low tones. “I think I'll be satisfied with a ride Thorpe passed her the reins and |’ back to town,” he & luughed lightheartedly. The girl raised her eyebrows. “Drive anywhere you wish,” he said “1 don't see where we can stow | generously. : you,” she objected. Paradise now. Visraier Hor” maier ‘Y think Haskins needs exercise.” | (Copyright, 1904, by T. C. McClure,) | morais: F said Thorpe, eyeing the groom critical- Iy and favoring that worthy with a meaning wink. “He's beginning to show flesh. Now, a walk back o0 town this afternon would be the very Campaign Comparisons, ‘When Lincoin was re-elected in 1864 only about $200,000 was spent by the national committee in the Presidential thing for him. Eh, Haskins, don't you think so?” campaign. The natiohal committees Thorpe thrust his hand into his|this year, it is estimated, have dis- pocket in a manner whose meaging | bursed a total of $5,000,000 in electing a could not be mistaken, whereat the| President. Comparisons are prover- grinning Haskins sprang out with | bfally odious, but these figures are so alacrity. | widely apart that the analytical mind “Yes, sir. Quite likely, sir,”” he said| cannot help carrying the comparison as he began with much ostentation to | further and noting the difference he- tighten a girth. tween candidates also. If a Lincoln e Thorpe slipped a coin into the| cost the country a couple of hundred | groom’s hand and climbed into the| thousand and a Parker or 2 Roosevelt | eart. five millions, what will be the cost of | “Drive on,” he commanded the girl| the chief execcutive of 19447 For the sake of Uncle Sam’s pocket it is to be hoped that there will be 2 slump in the Presidential market by that time. Deepest Gold Mine. The deevest gold mine in the vorl] is said to be at Bendigo, Australia. Jt is called the New Chum Mine, and iis main shaft is sunk to a denth of three thousand nine hundred feet, or only sixty feet short of three-quarters of a the|mile. The most difficult problem of whrking a mine of such a depth Is how to keep the tunnels and general work- ings cool enough for the miners to work. The temperature is usually about in stentorian tones. “You certainly are a bold highway- man,” she said. “I suppose I must obe: "My temper it uncertain,” he rem‘nd- ed her. | The giri flicked the cob lightly with | the whip and they sped down the | road. Thorpe suddenly gathered the reins into hi=s own hands and headed the cob in the opposite direction. “That isn’t the way to town,” girl observed. “I know it,” Thorpe returned calm- ly. “Had you any idea'l wanted to re- turn to town at once?” ! “You said you wanted a ride back | 108 degrees, and this is, of course, ter- | town,” she reminded him. ribly enervating. To make it possible | 1 did, T'll admit,” said he. “but 1I|for the men to work at all a spray of | | ! didn’t say I desired to take the direct | cold water is let down from above and rcad there.” kept continnally playing on their “Well, where are you going?”. she|bodies. They are naked from the waist ! agked. up. {really are, but as our own experience ; | may look like midnight revelry. | oniy i like reading a nove what is it that you gain? of | ali { him who wrote them it is beyond your power even to knov | fore? | other’s acts and motives, you have dug | tions. | ping in the wind, | ress. | ence of her own personality in the pow- ! her right—the gift alike of instinct and | some szimple HORE INTERESTING THAN A NOVEL THE STUDY OF HUMAN LIVES. By Daroth Fenimore. ARK you those kindling eyes | | 66 with lovelight| brave— ! The buoyant step, =and : flash of laughter gay?| | Bright burn the bonfires of a| human heart, | To hold tie wolves of memory at bay.” How little we know of the people about us. We see them, not as they fits us to see them. To untried youth | the night-watch of a sorro It is despair which teaches one the value of a laugh, the futility of tears. The act of observing the people about you with the view of penetrat- et romance of their lives i pects tifan the obvious one, When you read Do the er’s words, and | but that is meant to| | iman document. | book, what | a book yop get the fullness thought? You have s what they mean to you: you have. What they Just so with the ‘When you have closed thi have you that you did neot have be- Have you the facts cf anoth- Yes, possiply yvou have the do not life? ¥ stitute the truth about the one whom | studying. The oply | have gained is that| ur interpretation of an- vou have besn that you in ut of your own soul. This is the resson why we womeX judge a man by his capacity for lov- ing. Love is our natural life, and de- ermines, therefore, our standard of value. In our eyes the man who, by word or aci, refuses to recognize the power of iove, dwarfs his own propor- We feel that his inherent egot- ism, which was certainly meant by his | Creatfr to carry him toward the goal of his desires, is like 2 loose sail flap retarding his prog- instead of nelping him onward. Of course, in taking this view of! | things we are not reading men; we are | reading ourselves. Whv men are thus| and so it is beyond a woman's power | to fathom. She can see in the men about her qualities that she herself pos- | sesses. She can interpret their acts by | he effect that they have uvon her whn life. She can perceive the influ- er that she has for good or evil. It is of logic—to believe in a masculine| strength, which is the complement of | her feminine weakness. Beyond this , point she cannot go by any arts of divination which heaven has given her. | A reader of these articles has written to me that he thinks that I am gen-| eréus to men. I trust that no one of | you will think that I am ungenerous | to women when I say that I think the | | responsibilities of the world they live in | from forty to sixty minutes, according | o¢ trumye S out of | T€StS Mainlv on their shoulders. . They | 0 thickness, or if preferred bake in '“0‘ counts ten points.” oW can’t take me out Of | i tne fashion in love as well as in|Smaller vane. of the failings ot} {men the women have only themselves|UP @ chicken and boil it until tender; to blame. They have heen too wasteful of their heritage and too careless of their privileges. It is as the English moralist declares | —the buckling on of a knight's arm by hiz lady’s hand in days of old mu:nSl more to us than a mere caprice of ro-| mantic fashion. of an eternal truth—'"that the soul's armor is never well set to the heart| uniess a woman's hand has braced it; and it is only when she braces it ioose- 1y that the hopor of manhood fails.” Rather it is the type| t 1 A Real Hatpin, It is claimecd that at last a hat pin has been invented. The so called hat pins are mere anchors that are drag- ged off when ihe wind blows, and it is at that time that they are needed. This hat pin is said to be one that will actually hold a hat cn a woman's head. It is made in such a way that a sort of safety pin is pinned inside | the hat; through this run three blunt prongs, resembling hair pins. These prongs are run through pins placed at each side of the hat. They are fast- ened through the hat by a pin with an crnamental head. a pearl, a flower or design. <4 The pins hold the hat secureiy, so it is =aid, and do not make unsightly holes in the braid or hat material. A man invented this wonderful af- fair. She—You told me when we were married that you were well off. He——I was, but T didn’t know it.— Chicago News. * ing soul | | | stity whioped whites of four eggs ahd | | of dark brown sugar, add one- | cupfut | four eggs well beaten and a pinch of | cream and cook slowly until the maca- | roni —_— | MIRROR OF DAME FASHION JR a chapeau that will be plain encugh for wear with the morning shirt- waist suit or the severe wooltex tailor-made, and still hold its own in the afternoon parade this smartly simple shape in shirred taffetas fers an excellent model. The crown is the new diamond shape, point back and front, and spreading out to a further poin er The becoming effect of velvet over the face is observed in the broad edge o velvet that makes the brim, and the crown is encircled with velvet ribbon cleverly tucked into loops that agcentuate each point of the dlamond-shaped crown, a splashing jet buckle adorning the front. A very shallow ban is tucked into the head size, which gives the shape a dashing tilt, group of Prince of Wales ostrich tips are posed as a finish beneath the on the left side. HOME COOKERY. | Marble Cake—For the light batter cream one-half cupful of butter with one of powdered sughr until very Add a pinch of salt, the ong si on S ANSWERS. STREET NUMBERS—Subserib City. Under the general orders and dinances for San Francisco the fol ing rule regulates the numbering houses: “One number shall be allowed for each one-fiftieth of the frontage in one-half of a teaspoonful of vanilla.|each block between two faain streets Beat in alterpately one-half of a cup-| but in no case shall a number be al- ful of milk and' three cupfuls of flour,; Jowed for less than eight feet of front- cunful light. then mix in last one teaspoonful of | 3% baking powder. | ¥Fomt IVE—N., San Pablo, Cal For the dark batter cream one-half | In the game f five the five of a cupful of butter with one cupful | first, kave the second in order whe half of a | trumps and the ace of hearts is always | trump and ranks as the third best card The hoider of the five or (Mave has the privilege of revoking when it suits o of molasses, the yolks-of the sait. Add alternately three cupfuls of | o v 5 rim to do so—that is. he may retain | flour and one-half of & cunful of sour| . ." g "o T O o8 oL el e milk, to which one-half of a teaspoon- Teind e s Pagec: y ol plenre ful of soda dissoived in a few drops of | or @TRHER T sk gy warm water has been added; beat in Peivilége of Tivellag B porthy ey one scant teaspoonful of ground mixed bu spice and three teaspoonfuls of cocoa in all ot but the five or knave; the players = follow the and beat fiard. Put the two batters in| yu:t wren trumps are led under pen- alternate lavers and streaks in a large o). ¢ forfeiting the game. The rules loaf pan and bake in a moderate oven ¢ .p. game Ge not say that “if the five not played the best trump Itallan Chicken and )Xa(urnnl%u( BALLOON—M. G. H., Oakland, Cai. The Donaldson balloon ascension took while the chicken is cooking dip out & | p1ace in Chicago July 15, 1875. Professor | pint of the chicken broth into another | ponaigson, who had made a number of stewpan and put with it a small onion | gir voyages from St. Louis and else- sliced, one tablespoon butter and quar-| where, started at Chicago on another | ter pound macaroni broken into ineh| voyage, having as a companion Newton piéces; cook until the water has al-| S, Grimwood, a reporter for the Chi- ready boiled away, then add one cup of | cago Evening Journal. The last that was seen of the voyagers was when the has absorbed the milk; sprinkle | balloon was about twelve miles out over grated cheese over it; boil the chicken | the lake. A windstorm arose and it is liquor till reduced to one pint, remove ' supposed that the balloon witHbits voy- the fat, thicken slightly with flour wet | agers was lost. Subsequently human in" cold water, cook ten minutes, add | remains were found on the shore of salt and pepper, pour the macaroni| Lake Michigan between Montague and over the chicken and the sauce over Stony Creek, and aithough it was im- the whole. | possible to identify them it was sup- | posed that they were those of Grim- First Class Travel wood. No trace was ever discovered of The old saying that “only lords, | Donaldson. Americans and fools travel first class in England” KNIGHTS TEMPLAR—J. R. C., Los dinner in New York recently. Israel |Gatos, Cal. The Knights Templar owe Zengwill, the well-known author, was | the origin of their organization to a re- one of the party. “I always travel | liglous and military order, founded at third class,” said Mr. Zangwill. | Jerusilem in the beginning of the SRS amae ek iak “Because | tWelfth century by Hugues de Pagnes. there is no fourth class.” | Geoffrey de St. Omar and seven othe | French Knights for the protection | the hely sepuicher, and of pilgrims re- A recent mechanical wonder is a tele- | SOTting thither. Governors e ap- graphic instrument that sends 1000 | Pointed in every country, known as words a minuts 1000 miles in length. | Iasters of the temple. By degrees the A human operator can transmit fifty | F2nks. which at first were filled by SOG4 e wealthy laymen, were thrown open (o ‘spiritual perso not bound by pre- Townsend’s California Glace fruits in | Y10US Vow Sily " Nawen ot artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st | humble birth were admitted as serving and Wekelee's Drug Store. + | members. Knights Templar Is a desig- nation given in_Free Masonry to the “commanderies,” which are the repre- sentatives of the ancient Knights Tem- | plar. was being discussed at a ———— One Thousand Words a Minute, ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (allexn 30 Cal fornia street. Telephone Main % BITS OF EARLY MORN G MERR ENT ~ —_— POOR Ci! Mandy—Now, Ci, when yoc git to Noo York, den be keerful an’ don't let any of them there thieves git a hold HE KNEW. His Mamma—Georgie, you must use Lo -+ CERTAINLY. 3 ‘TO PAY THOSE BILLS. your right hand. I don’'t want you to become left-handed. Georgie—Why, mamma, some of the best pitchers on the diamond are left- handed. of ye. Jes' go right straight to. Mr. Goldbrick an’ do your bizniss and come right hum. Ci—Thet is jes' what I mean ter do, Mandy. ‘Wigson—How are you making out| Mrs, Byonne Koyne—I told her you ‘Wendel—We can hardly get anything to eat at our boarding-house. with that new automobile l!um of | were steadfast and true. That I could yours? ‘Wagson—Great; people are just dy- ing to ride in it. | always bank on you. Mr. Koyne—I always suspected that you thought I was a bank. Katie—Why? Kidder—We've got a Japanese cook and the wailter is a Russian sympa- thizer.