The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1905, Page 6

THE SANFRAN CISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS.......0c000e ssssssssssscsssessssssss . Proprietor A;D;tm ALL chmm TO JOHN MCNAUGHT.......ccoveenns- PUBLICATION OFFICE.......ses... THIRD AND MARKET ETREETS, SAN FRANCISCO DAY.. ----+APRIL, 3, !'905 MON BRILLIANT SHOWING OF THE FIRST TRADE QUARTER. HE first quarter of 19035 is over and its exhibit is much better than that of the corresponding quarter in 1904, both here and in other parts of the country. At this time last year trade was losing ground everywhere; mnow it is gaining. Thase sanguine financiers, merchants and manufacturers who planned new commit- ments of their capital at the beginning of the year, feeling confident of another year of prosperity, are having their optimistic expecta- tions realized. Here in San Francisco the bank elearings, which were steadily lling behind last year, show a gain for the first quarter of about 50,000,000, which is a fine showing, and when the returns from the other es of the country come in they will probably make an equally brilliant exhibit. The country’s clearings last week were large, being $2,734,006,000, an increase of 52.2 per cent over last with individual gains of 76.8 per cent at New York, 295 at Boston, 29.9 at Philadelphia, 21.2 at Pittsburg, 30.6 at Minne_apohs, There is no room for the croaker before these figures. v good times 5 ntary to this fipe exhibit of the clearings is the im- ing conditions in railroad ‘traffic, the earnings of the first three weeks of March showing a gain of 8.2 per cent over last year, with Iroads complaining of freight congestion, owing to the hca\'_y nents of spring merchandise. The record of failures, however, is as favorable, those for the week being 244, against 208.last year. e crop prospects are brilliant everywhere, and the harvest of the this year bids fair to be immense. This condition is cient to inspire widespread confidence throughout the » $ C vear hole cot tself su « mtry. Bradstreet's has compiled the statistics of edificial and railroad iction and equipment for the quarter just closed. They cover es and towns and show an expenditure for houses, offices, fac- other edifices of $455,000,000 during the present calendar llowances for cities not yet reported would indicate that the expenditures for edifices this year would run well up to .000,000. In addition to this, marked activity in railroad build- savy orders for equipment foreshadow an expenditure of 200,000,000 by the railroads, this all pointing to an aggre- ate expenditure for material and labor of clese t0*$800,000,000. 1 f proving conditions might be expanded, but the icient to show the brilliant condition of trade as determinable at present the country was 1 and commercial condition. in New York during the latter part of the »ym about 3% to 43 per cent on Friday. sected, however, owing to the demlands on the market ment of the regular quarterly dividend and interest ling due April 1, but the rise was nowhere near what )een anticig As it was temporary, its very insignificance further enhanced the buoyancy and confidence in Wall street. and $4 F where »oints 2 Sl yate \nd in this connection a bit of current financial history will not be g the week preceding the April 1 settlements rumors of ¢ between Russia and van suddenly became current all over e and Ame They were not only general in Berlin, Paris, I on and New York, but were specific. It was broadly asserted peace preliminaries were being seriously considered by Russia Japan, the French and American Governments being the two fiums through which they were being arranged. The news- papers then became busy, and their correspondents in all the above rs began nosing around after the facts in the case, but none be found. Ewvery Government official in every capital stated he knew nothing of any peace preliminaries. If there were any wder way it was news to him, etc. Everybody, was as mum as an But the rumors would not down. They kept popping up on sides. The mystery increased. Added to them was a report that Czar ha tempted suicide. A day or two after these peace rumors were sprung there came ip and a wink from the inner circles of Wall street that all eports of peace were circulated by the leaders of “high finance” for the dual object of sustaining the world’s money market pending the Paris settlement of April 1 and the flotation of the $150.000,000 Japanese loan, and that there was positively no other basis for them. This tip was repeated on the following day, but nobody paid any € these r attention to it. Everybody accepted the peace talk and would have no other w Very good. The Japanese loan was floated with great eclat and heavily oversubscribed everywhere. The money s stood up like a stanch yacht under a stiff breeze. But not ty-eight hours after the successful flotation of the loan and all ts were assured mouths previously closed like clams i opened. The Japanese diplomats came out openly and stated without reserve that Japan was positively not considering any peace terms, but would continue to pursue the retreating Russians 10 a The Russians announced that they would follow the the bitter end. | It was a great financial coup. Furthermore, it was a great finan- joke. There must have been many a broad smile in many a cial office over the prettiness of the whole affair. It was 2 thing, however, all around. It hurt nobody and kept things on stable basis. But it shows how easy it is to fool not only a com- nunity but the whole world. As a matter of fact, however, it was all unnecessary. The sup- of cash, both here and in Europe, is 50 vast and accessible that 1y other loans and settlements could have been made without a resort to the circulation of political roorbacks. C mvestigation to impeach the singing little wretch as a destroyer of comfort, a foe of pleasure and the destroyer of the summer's peace sought for in the annual vacation. In this latter capacity the mos- quito has been endured because rebellion against the small blood- cker seemed useless.— We have been content to frighten him away ith a smudge and in extreme cases have even gone to the extent of smearing with the fat side of bacon rind to keep him off, but now that it is known positively that this insect is guilty of taking our blood and inoculating us at the same time with yellow fever and malaria active resistance is in order. Anti-mosquito associations are forming everywhere. Stagnant pools are being drained, and coal oil is being poured upon the waters troubled by wigglers. Little fish that relish mosquito eggs are be- ing enlisted in the war, and sulphate of copper is in use as a de- structive agent. The mosquito must go. People resort to the mountains in the good old summer time, drink the purest of water, | eat the purest of food, and breathe the purest of air, and come home, ! shaking with malaria, with teeth chattering like castanets and faces blotched like smallpox in eruption from mosquito bites. The in- fernal things are even suspected of squirting typhoid into us with ' their hypodermic syringe, and their character is so bad that they are open to any suspicion. Formerly people could flee to Hawaii, where snakes and mosquitoes were unknown. The snake has never broken into that Eden, but 2 wind-jamming whaler carried wigglers there in its water casks and now the blood-eating nightingale is there, the enemy of r : The California State Board of Health stands ready to help any community that will organize to fight the pest, and will send experts who know every place where this little winged lion has his lair. Let the good work go on till the last mosquito is smothered in oil, poisoned with copperas or swallowed by a minnow April settleme ien TR finish ar to 1 ood THE MOSQUITO MUST GO. IVILIZATION is at war with a winged insect. The revela: tions of science indict the mosquito with high crimes and mis demeanors against the health of man. It needed no scientific P SRl B ISR B N - 2 ISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1905. o 6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 3 1008 oo e - — | FEMININE TARGET, WITH NERVES OF IRON, | - SUCCESSOR to Willlam Tell has at last been found. Colonel Bordeverry occupies that proud position; but instead of utilizing the old-fashioned, out-of-date bow and arrow or crossbow, a rifle serves his purposes. True, Colonel Bordeverry does not shoot an apple from off the top of a boy’s head. He, however, feats still more marvelous, and at the Lyceum when he commenced his first | visit to London with his astounding new turn the audience was held liter- | ally spellbound by his daring feats with rifle and revolver, says the Lon- don Mail. One of his most wonderful perform- ances is to literally shoot a . lady’'s dress off. As seen in our illustration, in the lady assistant's hat, on her shoulders and elbows are various small targets, the “bull” of which is scarcely the size of a three-penny bit. ever, it is quite large enough for Col- onel Bordeverry's purpose. Rifle in hand, he stands at one end of the stage, while his intrepid assistant takes up her stand at the other. In a trice the champion rifie and revolver shot of the world raises his weapon—there is a sharp report and the lady’'s hat is performs | How- | | thereby loosening the fastenings of the | hat. Another sharp report quickly i rings out and one side of the lady’s | dress is seen to fall from her shoul- er, and so the marvelous shooting | continues until the lady's dress is | literally “shot off her back” and she | tands unharmed and calm, garbed in loose, hanging rob That such prec truly marvelous marksmanship is without saying, s {and it demands steady nerves from both the ‘shooter™ and his human target. On one occasion in Germany a gen- tleman in the audience protested that the “colonel’s” feate were not genuine. “Will you kindly step on the stage?” was the quiet reply. “I see you are smoking a cigarette,” said the famous shot, as the dubious member advanced toward the footlights. “Yes, and why not?” came the answer. “‘Oh, well, nev- er mind,” replied Bordeverry; “I'll put it out for vou, as it's against the rules this side of the footlights.” Hardly had he spoken than a shot was heard, and the cigarette flying out of his mouth. It | had been shot in two varts at a dis- ! tance of over twelve yards. | Another marvelous feat the tamous marksman performs is to shoot a plece of sugar from hetween two men’s fore- erstwhile smoker found his | CALMLY FACES A WONDERFUL MARKSMAN, WHO LITERALLY SHOOTS DRESS OFF HER BACK position an ordinary piece of lump sugar. At a distance of seven yards the colonel raises his rifle, and, seem- ing*scarcely to take aim, shoots the sugar away from its human supports. The rapidity with which his feats are performed has justly earned for this marvelous marksman the title of the “world’s greatest rifle and revolver shot.” It seems as easy to him to lean over backward from the dress circle of a theater and snuff out a row of candles, one by one, with a rifle as it is for the ordinary “shot” to hit a three-foot far- get at a distance of three yards. It should also be mentioned that the colonel is an expert piano player. He, however, scorns to play the piano with his fingers—that is far too easy. has another and much more original way of making music—he shoots the “Cavalleria Rusticana” from the piano with a revolver. makes a target of an ordinary piano. And when it is said, that he can playl several pieces from beginning to end with an ordinary six-chambered re- volver the novel musician can hardly “e termed a beginner, either as a piano nlayer or a revolver shot. — + s il COULONEL BORDEVERRY, THE MODER WILLIAM TELL, AND HIS HUMAN TARGET. + ks The writer had a short chat with the intrepid lady whose dress is shot off in the unceremonious manner described in this article. I never feel the slightest nervousness,” she said, | single occasion since I have taken up | | the novel vrofession of a ‘target’ has | Colonel Bordeverry shot a hair's | breadth away from the center of those : tiny bullseyes”—and she displayed the }dlminutl\‘e “circles” of steel in her He Note by note, he| | aim? “for never on a | Coast Fores:, Bmu this miracle, the tree, i The third day’s miracle, bebold ! Wit stateliness, What majesty, What comeliness, contour, What mold Of 1imb, of leaf, of arms ia air High held in attitnde of prayer. fllfl , and slash and slay God's first born, “pleasant to the sight,” Aud set, ere he laid hand fo clay And fashioned man to burn and blighl. We see o grace at all ; behold We only see the sodden gold. he sweet name Nazareth means wood. THE TREES OF EDEN. BY JORQUIN MILLER. fic ¢ thé Slerras at the opening of the exhibition of the Pact e e Fish and Game Association.) JOIQUIN JHLLERD | Ql" 18 [0 heed how clean, how fall ; | The Christ companioned Wilh the Give us like courage, patience, | [ R * et { | He read their leaves, He understood To front the four winds, streigth to fall | | His alphabet the Dirds and bees- Serene andsatistied, full length { | Give s, ob God, to heed, fo hear, Aud full of years and majesty, o love, o cherish, to revere. As falls thine Eden fashioned tree. | s + ' USE MODERATION IN LOVEMAKING | Man Who Loses His Head With His Heart Pretty | Certain to Lose the Girl. ; By DOROTHY FENIMORE. | - HE following complex subject has been presented to me for discussion: How far should a | young man cultivate the attl- | tude of indifference toward the fair Should moderation in love be his Is not great love incompatible with absolute self-control; and, finally, | would undemonstrative affection sat- | isfy a woman? I cannot begin better than by quot- ing Laurence Sterne’s opinion that “courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as to be misun- derstood.” A genial attitude of indifference, I believe, is both high art and practical method when you are trying to catch the fancy of the girl whom you would gerfously woo. Thus she is not star- tled Into premature retreat, as she ! sex? seen to fall to the ground. The hullet‘ heads. Leaning together, forehead to | lnrg'e picture hat and pretty evening st e i v Lol has penetrated the small bullseye, ' forehead, the two men hold in that| gown. She is the more likely to accept the ® 5 4 favors that you offer, and to imitate - | REIGN OF THESE CHILDREN ARE AWALK 6 OT content with the declaration that man is a dead one at forty and should be chloroformed if he lives to sixty, science now comes forth with the assertion that man is destined to become extinct in the near future—and the near future| to science is but a matter of a few million years—and that in the ages to come the world wifl be dominated by birds. Professor Samuel W. Williston, pa- leontologist of Chicago University, is the mouthpiece of sclence in this case. o BIRDS “THERE W'LL BE ACORNER. ON BIRD SEEOD" Ty L% | Professor Williston's prophecy leaves ! poor man to a mournful contemplation of the future, remarks the Philadel- phia Inquirer. Is man destined to be- come the domestic pet of a woodpecker or mud hen, to perch in a gilt cage and sing and dance for their pleasure? Are the peewee, the guinea hen and the sapsucker going to be the Morgans and Rockefellers of the future and cor- ner the market on birdseed? Perhaps the South American parrot will succeed Chauncey Depew as a . AN EXCITING TIME To the average Philadelphian New York is a great show place, although few are willing to admit it. Mr. Simeon Ford tells the following con- versation he heard recently in Phila- delphia, the truth of which he vouches for on his honor as a humor- ist: She was a quiet domestic type, such as abounds in the City of Broth- erly Love. “Did you have a good time' in New York?" was asked. “Oh, yes,” was the reply. “Such a good time! I was taken all through the Bible House and was measured for a new pair of spectacles.” 1 S ANSWERS TO QUERIES MEDICAL—C., San Jose, Cal. As- sembly bill No. 267, relating to grad- uates of medical colleges, was read for the third time on Mafch 7 and refused passage. —— GRAPE FRUIT — Subscriber, City. i Grape fruit should be prepared for the | table’in the following manner: Cut the \fruit across, remove the pith in the AND MASHING WiLL STl BE A PROBLEM FOR THE POLICE OLD MAID PARROTS PAR.ADISE WHEN MAN IS EXTINCT. ISNT SHE A DR Stork OF THE BivbS EYE NOSPITAL GHY BE THE ) Wikt WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED SHOULD PROFESSOR WILLISTON’S THEORY COME TO PASS. much-sought-after post-prandial ora- tor and will furnish selections from Joe Miller's joke book—only the volume will be compounded by some unborn chicken of the coming race. Truly a'cause for lugubrious thought it true, but the scientists are apt to look upon Protu‘or ‘Williston's predic- tion as nebulous. Professor Edwin Grant Conklin, of the zoological department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, said to an In- quirer man: It has been seriously asserted by many people that we are naturally lighter after a meal, and they have even gone the length of explaining this by the amount of gas that is developed | from the food. Average observations, however, show that we lose three pounds six ounces between night and — center, then flll the space that was oc- cupied by the pith with powdered or granulated sugar, cover with a piece of paper and allow to stand over night in a cool place. The slightly bitter TOTHE BARGAIN COUNTERS W - /M THEY STILL STk “I think Professor Williston was try- ing to be facetious. I don't* think he meant seriously what he is quoted as saying. There is, however, a logical reason for his assertion, but it hardly seems likely to be verified. As hé says, all of the animal kingdoms have dom- inated the world at some time or other, with the exception of the birds, and on this basis it is not an impossible pre- diction. I hardly think that there is any reason to fear the immediate en- croachment of the bird kingdom on man’s rights.” ~ o O T e RO R T WEIGHT OF A DINNER morning; that we gain one pound twelve ounces by kfast; that we again lose about fourteen ounces be- fore lunch; that lunch puts on an average of one pound; that we again lose during the afternoon an average of ten ounces, but that an ordinary dinner to healthy persons adds two pounds two ounces to their weight. taste which is the peculiarit; ot fruit cannot be entirely cnluc’ned.m. SULLIVAN John L. Boston, Oliver Twist by timidly asking for more. If she has gone through the high school. she knows a thing or two already about love letters and flim- flam, and she understands how easily the masculine heart may be made to palpitate. You can’'t make her bite at a wiggling worm on a plain hook. But you may make her snap at a fly. In the life of nearly every girl there are several men whom she has almost loved. A change in ideals has rescued her at the eleventh hour. Once, per- haps, she was attracted and mystified by the melancholy of a dyspeptic suitor, who always looked as if he heard the haunting sadness of requiem music, or the sound of autumn sighing through the lonely hills. Once she just doted on the kind of beau whose bean- tiful eyes grew soft, and whose plead- ing voice was wonderfully sweet as he overworked the hortative subjunctive. Her pulses may have fluttered over the hysterical hero of romance who has a noisy way of erying out’in a punctu- ated agony of despair: “Why are you trembling, my heart's desire? Merci- ful heaven!!!! Have I said anything to terrify this gentle heart?” She may have thought that it would be real nice to hear some ome propose to her thusly: “Oh, fairest angel! Pray give me life, or bid me go away and dle.” She may even in some extravagant day dream have imagined that an automo- bile trip to the marriage license bureau would mean greater joy than would one thither on an ordinary trolley car. But when she is old enough to marry she gets all over this. Or, rather, un- til she gets all over this she is net old enough to marry. She can't heip find- ing out as time goes on that she is not an angel, or a goddess—even of the plaster of paris kind. She becomes satisfied to be just plain human. She has sense enough to esteem cold deeds higher than burning words, and to pre- fer the quiet but tender affection which she sees in the not-bad-looking eyes of the man she loves to any hot flame of love on anybody else’s aristo- cratic countenance. There is poetry in moderation. There is power in self-control. If you are going to be master of any situation you mu- -t be master of yourself. The man who loses his head when he loves his heart is pretty certain to lose the girl also. . THE APRIL PANDEX. Editor Street of The Pandex of the Press has given his readers a better publication for April than any of the previous issues. The Pandex is high- ly interesting from cover to cover. The April number contains a number of commendatory letters, one of which from Albert S. Cook, professor of English language and literature at Yale, says that Mr. Street is “doing a real service to busy people.” Con- gressman Kahn writes: “You are supplying a magazine that should be on the desk of every busy man.” IN A DRUG STORE ‘The following dialogue was overheard in a drug store: Druggist (to little girl customer)— Did you say pills, miss? Little Girl—Yes, sir, please. - Druggist—Antibilious? Little Girl—No, sir; but uncle is.— | Harper's Weekly. i l Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits. in ar~ tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearny st * —_——— 10 to 3 p. m ey°glasses, specs, gold plated and filled. $1 Fourth st.. front of Rest. * Townsend's Cal. G Fruits and Choice Candies will start h store at 767 Market 1905. » | street on April 20,