The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1905, Page 6

THE | SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 1905, ONDAY, APRIL THE SANFRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONE TO JOHN McNAUGHT PUBLICATION OFFICE.. D MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO +..-.APRIL 3‘. 1905 MONDAY.. TRADE CONDITIONS MORE UNSETTLED. RADE conditions were more unsettled last week. The monotony Tm’ the past ‘month was broken and reports from the different mercantile, financial and agricultural lines showed considerable irregularity. In this respect the situation was less favorable than it has been of late, though outside of Wall street there were no adverse indications. The clearings of the country exhibited the very large gain of 65.4 per cent over the corresponding week last year and mounted to the high aggregate of $3,154,000,000, but a great deal of this gain was directly assignable to New York, where the sudden excitement and large transactions on the Stock Exchange gave the city an apparent trade gain of 9.3 per cent and aggregate clearings of about $2,100,000,000. Hence these figures, apparently so favor- able, were not indicative of any such increase in trade, or any such volume of legitimate business. But outside of New York the figures made a fine showing. Prac- tically the whole country showed continued expansion in business, the important trade centers rolling up heavy gains, such as 27.6 at Boston, 288 at Philadelphia, 23.7 at Pittsburg, 54.8 at San Fran- cisco, and so on. San Francisco and the Pacific Coast are sending in the very best commercial reports in the country at present, Brad- street’s remarking that the outlook on this coast is without a flaw. Los Angeles reports an increase of 36.7, Spokane 27.8, Seattle 45.4, and There is no stock market speculation at any of these points to artificially inflate the clearings, as at New York, Chicago, Boston and other large Eastern centers, hence they indicate just so much expansion in actual commercial business. The features of the week were the collapse of the great May wheat deal at Chicago and the violent and disagreeable decline in stocks at New York. The former was due to the inability of those who tried to corner May wheat to further struggle under their bur- den, and the latter to half a dozen causes, theoretical or definitely known, such as the court decision in the Northern Securities case, the Equitable Insurance affair, the throwing upon the market of large lines of stocks for purposes of liquidation, the critical naval 2! so on. situation in Asiatic waters, the collapse of the Chicago wheat deal, unloading of American stocks by London, the growing feeling that stocks had soared too high for safety, and the sharp rise in call money from 3 to 6} per cent, though the latter was rather an ef- fect than a cause. These conditions were sufficient to break any stock market. The sitnation was more or less blind, however, so much so that keen operators in Wall street wired out to their corre- spondents all over the country the confession that they really “did not know what was the matter with the market.” Anyhow, it went down, and very sharply. too, and closed Thursday afternoon con- fused and feveri In addition to these two unfavorable features, the weather was cold and very rainy and adverse to trade activity. It was noted that the tendency in prices had taken a downward turn and that some lines, previousi v active, were showing quieter conditions. This was the case with iron and steel, the demand for pig and other n being less pronounced. The manufacturing interests as a rule, however, continued to send in cheerful reports, the textile footwear factories reporting their mills running on full time, labor difficulties. The railroad earnings thus far r April show a gain of 10.2 per cent over last year. The k were 200, against 241 in 1904. The fall de- with no us »orted f lures for the weel nd for general merchandise is much better than anticipated, and | previously good, are improving. Lumber and other| ials are in active demand, as are also agricultural im- | eme The condition of the winter wheat crop, as shown by Government and private reports, is most excellent and considerably above the average of recent years, presaging a very large crop, thmlg"l the cold and ra weather interfered with spring wheat and the B seeding of oats throughout the West. Thus it will be seen that trade conditions are again becoming irregudar. The net showing, however, is good. Parts of the coun- try are unsettled, but taking the situation as a whole it exhibits nothing of a character to create uneasiness. With the Chicago and New York spec ive disorders rectified the whole situation will probably resume that tranquillity which characterized it for many | weeks | i THE FARMER THAT FARMS. meeting of the Sacramento Valley Improvement Asso- | . its policy was declared to be the encouragement of stries, and the avoidance of inducing any one to ia upon false pretenses. The Call’s views upon smali 2 and the encouragement of the farmer who farms were a speech made by Mr. Walton of Sutter County, who t a colony from Dakota located on ten-and twelve acre tracts his county in 1892, and had prospered exceedingly. At Gridley people went into small dairyving and soon a creamery had to be built e thei and they are prospering. He believed in en- aging the small farmer, smajl fruit grower and small dairvman. t is the right policy. “Many a little makes a mickle” is the old Scotch saying. This State needs families settled on such hold- ng of good land as they can take care of, who will attend to their own rk i their own business, do variety farming and have something to sell every month in the year. When this comes about, he proof will appear that a forty-acre farm in California produces ore income than a quarter section farm in the Eastern States. That is thé demonstration Californid needs. We have had the day of big things and they were good in their time. But we want no more 50.000-acre wheat fields. We want in- stead 50,000 small farms, from 20 acres to 80. That is enough to keep one family busy and to earn a good living and produce an an- surpius of cash. Among the achievements of the Sacramento ey Improvement Association it is able to boast, with justifiable pride, the negotiation of a contract for subdivision and sale of the Glenn ranch, the largest wheat farm on earth. It comprised o inally 60,000 acres, and now is being cut up into small farmsfib variety farming. Let the association go on in good work of that kind and the Sacramento Valley will soon be the most densely popu- lated part of the State. THE PRESS OF THE NATION. indorsed in said product T Special schools for instruction in the care and operation of automobiles are the latest institutions in Europe and ought to suggest the need of similar educational facilities in this country.—Buffalo Courier. ———— Now inquisitive people may begin to inquire whether reckless persons like Tom Lawson said anything worse about the big insurance managers than they are saying about each other.——Pittsburg Dispatch. PRECS SRS With Secretary Taft “sitting on the 1id” it is understood Santo Domingo | will hardly hope to be able to push it up and sneak out while the President ie absent.—Birmingham News. — “There can be no great success.” says Mr. Carnegie, “without the esteem of one's fellow men.” Is he also going to take a dig at Mr. Rockefeller 7— New York World. B Another last survivor of the Merrimac-Monitor fight in Hampton Roads ds dead. The others ought to get together and pass resolutions.—Atlanta Journal. e President Roosévelt saye he “feels like a schoolboy” over his vacation. But he doesn’t care (o have the Senate treat him like one—Milwaukee Sentinel. ————— The Mormons would not be such a power in politics in half a dozen States if they were addicted to “race suicide.”—New York Evening Star., , ; o The faft that the Japs are approximately vegetarians and addicted to cigarettes staggers one’s faith ip some things.—Milwaukee Sentinel. —— The Asphalt Trust having gharged Castro with being a rascal, he will reply that it psved the way.—Chattanooga Times. L | % % THE M RAREBIT FIEND % & | NS, You LATE YOU MUST 03! BITE THE DUST! COME TO ME:' WAT T 13 700 A ; 1THIS DASTARDLY b IRIZK. YONDER 15 |} ME FAITHFUL PAL _ /) OR NOTHING PAPA MAMA: | WAS DREAM-| ING AND FELL OUT.OF, BED THATS ALL Nu7, > HURT. | IT W :VOICES OF AMERICAN WOMEN AS ONLY A DREAM —CHICAGO JOURNAL. BY WALLACE PICE. — OTHING adds more to womanly c! both low and sweet. Shakespeare verse, but it had been said before him | continue to be said as long as woma man’s idezl. Yet it is world. It is not entirely their fault. the north of England, where that sort the only too solemn fact that American | women have almost the most disagreeable voices in the Our ancestors from 4 thing that strikes them on their return to thetr native land is the strident accent of their fellow-Americans. thair mothers, their wives, their sisters. What a welcome to give a weary sojourner, turn- ing to his native land as the spot that shelters all his ideals! And from the mouths of women, tdo, they who have been the dispensers of hospitality from time imme- morial! A sensitive ear would prefer rebuke from a swest- harm than a voice put the fact into and it will n continues to be of voice also pre- ! vails, are responsible {or it. and the climate hereabouts, especially in the North, has something to do with it. Nevertheless, few days pass in which a sensative per- son does not meet some woman, either in a public place or as a private acquaintance, whose mode of speech re- minds him of nothing so much as that old German tale of the selfish sister from whose mouth toads leaped when- ever she spoke. If a woman is not remarkably fair to look upon. it ig certainly seemly that she should be fair to listen to: if she is good to look at, what a double pity | that her tongue and your ears should give the lie to your eys and her face! j voiced woman to praise from one of her sisters if the sister Squawked. Think, then, what it means if the kind- est thing one of the shrill sisterhood can say sounds worse in & man’s ears than the reproof of the woman who thinks her voice was given her to make the best—not the worst —of! For no one was born yet who could not improve her manner of speaking if there is room for improvement. It is said of a Chicago mistress of elocution that when her husband propesed to her she replied: *“Won't vou please say that again—and say it a little deeper from the diaphragm!" Think, then, of the man to whose ears your “yes” may sound so sweet to-day, but, once he knows The first thing that strikes Americans traveling in foreign parts is the prettiness of foreign speech; the first better, would have wished it “no."” Why should any woman squawk? o+ $50,000 FEATHER. On the apex of the Prince of Wales' crown, which he wears on special oc- casions, is a curious feather, or rather a tuft of periwak feathers, the top of which is adorned with a gold thread. This feather is said to be worth $50,000, and has the distinction of be- ing the only one of its kind in the world. It took twenty years to pro- cure it, and it caused the death of more than a dozen hunters. The rea- son the pursuit of the periwak is so dangerous is because it inhabits the jungles and other haunts of tigers. i & HIS RECORD. Table d'Hote—He holds Italian record? A ord? Table d’'Hote—He ate a mile of the la Carte—What Italian rec- spaghetti in three minutes and a half. A BACHELOR SAYS- One way to find out how nice a girl isn’t, is to marry her. The way to get a girl to marry you is to make love to her best friend. The deévil's job is so easy he would rather work overtime than get a day off. There is a great deal of difference between loving a woman and being married to her. Gossip is what oné woman tries to say about another before the other gets a chance to say it about her.— New York Press. et "LOVE,” NOT ‘“OBEY.” ‘Women have scored a great victory in France. writes Lady Violet Greville in the Londen Graphic. A committee has been revising the civil marriage ode, on which, curiously enough, sat not only grave and reverend barris- ters, full of the letter of the law. but alsa such advanced thinkers and men of the world as Messrs. Hervieu and Marcel Prevost, two of the most subtle analyzers of the feminine tempera- ment. They have decided to erase the word obey from the marriage promise on the part of the woman, and also to insert the word love on the ters, and the other fellow's | FAILURE IS NOT | PREDESTINED. Take a New Mental Attitude and Tell Yourself Daily You Are Cut Out for Success. BY ANGELA MORGAN. WISH you would tell me how to get away from failure,” writes a dis- ‘heartened young man. “Nothing ever comes of my struggle for business suecess. It isn't because I don’t try. I am continually making an effort, but it doesn’t seem to count. I am always hoping for the best and trv ing to believe conditions will change. But things remain just the same, vear ‘ne‘l"l));;le:s who I am sure don’t work any harder than I do, seem somehow to draw suecess. I don’t understand it. | What is the secret? It has always been— | my idea that some people are cut out for success and others for failure. I begin to think my own experience justifies the belief.” You have the cart before the horse. - young man. Your experience does not justify your belief, but your be.ef has resulted in your experience. The sécret of your failure lies in the very attitude of mind you confess to have held all your life—that some peo- ple are cut out for success and others are not. The fear that you were cut on the failure pattern has made its im- press upon your mind, whethér you were conscious of it or not. This fear. this uncertainty, has entered into the very fiber of your thinking until it has become a patt of you. No man who does not definitely and heartily believe success is for him can hope to win success. Prosperity does not respond to any but an absolutely dauntless demand. “If things would only chapge.” is the cry of the soul unacquainted with its God-given birthright to rule its ownge o kingdom. You as a living. thinking being end~wed with intelligence from your Creator, are placed in this world to rule, not to be ruled. Conditions will never change for you until you have changed your con- cept _of yourself—until you realize that you have power to shape circum- stances, When you have once gained this idea of yourself, when you have put yourself right with your environment, you will find that you are no longer the child of circimstance, a puppet of fate. You will be the governing fac tor and “things” will fall into line. will “come your way” in obedience to vour decree. You have been in a thought atmosphere of failure so long that vou have begun to believe yourself a born failure. Others think so, too, don't they?” Of course. How could they help it. when you are carrying that comscious- ness about with you all the time? Do you know that people can feel your thoughts just as distinctly they can perceive the kind of clothes you wearfand the type of features possess? The trained man of business to whom you apply for a position can detect instantly your mental valuation of yourself. You cannot deceive He may not know why he turns vou away, but the faculty he calls his judz- ment warns him that you have not the qualities demanded. No man who in his heart believes himself to be a failure can hove others will think him anything else. Thought, like murder, will out. It is what vou carry about with you in your mind that influences people for or against vou All your effort on the physical plane will avail little unless backed bv the dynamic for¢e of your belief in success for yourself. Your mind, must be charged with this electric certainty. if you would compel the interest others. To make things come your way. break off definitely and forever from the old thought currents of failure. Take a brand new mental attitude. Tell your- self daily that you are cut out for success, that you expect success and mean to have it. Then go to work. Keep on making efforts. “Faith without E3 as and body. It takes the two kinds of effort to make Success. If you are doing something vou feel you are not fitted to 8o, leave it and make a new start in somethinz more congenial. But first get the right idea about yourself as a success magnet. Cenditions are plastic to your thought. Decree prosperity first and then go in to win. And remember. you are ruler of your own world. _—_ e SAME OLD TOWN. IKE a lonesome stork, I have come The same old fountains bathe the lawn, of late The same old whistles wake at dawn, To the same old town in the same | The same old train goes whizzing old State, through, Where I used to walk when the day | The deacon holds the same old pew; was bright, The same old preacher, unperplexed, ‘Where I used to stroll in the pale star- | Gives out anew the same old text. light. The same old soldiers sit astride I say I've come to the same ald town, | The soap box on the groe'ry side, works is dead,” you know. Be zlad vou have a chance to exercise both mind \ With its way-up folk and its folk way down, And stand once more in the same old street, And walk again on the same old beat That leads away tc a quiet dell Where, 'mid the wreaths and rings of smoke, One hears again the same old joke. And thus I find the town once more, And make my way to the same old And a grassy bank I once knew well. door, In the same old house, on the same old "Tis the same old town, but older spot, grown, In the same old street, on the same oid And sights and sounds at first un- lot. known My heart leaps up with the same old Return again to their wonted track, | bound; And all seem glad that I've come back. | The door bell rings with the same old The same old trees fling out their sound; shade; | The door swings wide and a careworn The same old man and the same old | face maid, Appears once more in the same old The first too blind and the last too shy | place; An old-time smile is the smile I see. Still worry on, but still they stay, ‘While the same old mother kisses me. The same as when I went away. FLOYD D. RAZE in Washington Star —_ part of both. Thus a man must now Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, n ar protect, aid and love his wife. tistic fire-etched boxes. 10 Kearay st This is a great step, in a country so | and new store now open, 767 Market st. * conservative in its usages, toward the emancipation of woman. To speak to me as I pass by, ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 30 Ca. fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. In Formosa a man must have a li- cense before he is allowed to smoke Virtue is victory. opium, ++ ONE HUNDRED AND TWEN HAS A CORNER. Father (severely)—You seem to have no saving ability at all. Son (cheerfully)—No; Russell Sage has a corner in it. —_-— ———_ - —_—,——,——_— “IT'S A WISE CHILD.” Gushy elderly individuai— ‘What a sweet youngster! Whose little boy are you, sir? Sweet youngster—I shall have to refer ,your inquiry to the di- vorce court records, sir. TRAGIC. “I wrote her a poem on my i new typewriter. It began ‘How DISCOURAGING GENIUS Visitor—I am a poet; I— Editor—I bave troubles of my | own. ! lfikeY a flower your face is'!™ “The cursed machine wrote it, ‘How like flour your face is’!"