The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1905, Page 6

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.Manager BUT TRADE ADVANCES. WALL STREET HALTS, ature to trade last week it the New York Stock al month decline in t will strike observer. )} declined to $7 kno Wall-street lit ,” has been circulated during the ything is all rj; genera and the ght, that the > O n been stock operat idend-paying oi the gs ler the same week T The bank ¢ cent 31 rease of over aggregate clea 000 over the normal, one of the forty o sho i icago, and nd general d 299 Here crop 1 orchard yrilliant 1 San great strides mmense. ABOUT THE YELLOW PERIL. nations in rms as wil 1 the peninsula and the She was compe 3 to relinquish these fruits of her victory Germany immediately seized the coast and Russia took Port Arthur and the peni inent interference caused the present war. Now re scheming and intriguing to repeat that policy, rpose the Yellow Peril is being exploited. an press falls into lime with the engaged in the business.® The United If it succeed we 71 States st be a party to the scheme. ! expect the partition of China to follow and the division of the empire between our commergial rivals in Europe, to the complete our trade. But justice is higher than the commercial We need to study justice in deafing with Eastern Asia. nfortunate complications over coolie labor have tinged o view of matters Chinese and Japan We are a enti within ¢ national rights when we restrict or entir 3 foreign immigration of any' specified class, but Japan is entirely within her rights -when she demands equality in respect of imn gration with the other powers. We have extended Chinese coolie regulations to the merchants, bankers, students and scholars of China, in denial to them of their rights under the treaty and la enjoy in China ali of their rights under the same treaty. Our Supreme Court denies the right of the writ ¢ corpus to Chinese born here and therefore izens er constitutional rights. Of course, the writ is not issuable to the merchants and excepted classes under the exciusion act, and the is to gravely imperil our trade with China. holding the exclusion act, has repeatedly pointed our It is the classes. ripening in the refusal of Chinese merchants to handle ouyr mer- very chandise. Those merchants care nothing for the coolies, but they do care for justice, and their growing determination to trade else- where than here is treated as part of the Yellow Peril by the sensational press. Common sense is better than uncommon sensa- tionalism. In entering into treaties with China we have conceded international equality to that enfpire. Can we expect to exclude all classes of her people from our soil and still enjoy every privi- lege for all classes of our people upon her soil? To do so would be monstrous, and would put our conduct in the same catalogue as England’s war to force opium upon the Chinese. : It is announced that a railway concession from Canton to Hankow, granted to an American syndicate headed by J. P. Morgan, is about to be withdrawn. As this announcement contes from Berlin, it is to be taken with caution. Here at home Mr. forgan’s gold is considered as something of a yellow peril itself, and the Chinese Government may be acting on what the American press has said about him. But, granting that his concession is to < MARKET STREETE, SAN FRANCISCO JUNE 12, 1905 | " | Their refusal to take our trade is le we do this we insist that our citizens shall, without restric-| habeas | itled to ali The Call, con- | sequences of applving coolie regulations to the excepted | essence of unwisdom, and its fruits are! ~ AMERICAN VERSUS FRENCH GIRL | | The Former Is Interesting, Which Cannot Be Said of the Latter of Same Age and Position. BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. e - loved, was the conclusion of Paul Bourget after study of our country | women zt home and abfoad? W Because she bas not the uua,lluesli h attract love; she is neither ten- | | ror voluptuous. She is merely | Sargent has painted her, lhti i oL idual she is as she seeks to ; . but her individuality ars zlways the mark of nationality. = declares, using an oid politi- | a “deputy of luxury.” mission is to bring . of her land cert American man is anx- but has no time elegance and grace, above all a | 'rHE American woman cannot be ) 2 { aristomracy ! She is a human orchid, =o hé says. 2 | prising masterpiece of a 1y Out of a sav she sprung. through of “this Yankee husband s desperado of yesterday, this would see any woman under tavocabie cireumstances vou | | DOROIHY FENITIGRE her at home. in her natural snment, where is absol *+ £ % | otherwise when she greets the world with s0 generous a spirit as she does. yet with sueh dainty feminine grace. It is part of her complexity that she has her world side ane her home side, jand that the finer = more carefu cdoes she guard from {the vulgar e nspiration of her private life. ons are as inti- mate a seif-expression as her religion she does not make her daily con- expression of | sciousness, whe a spontaneous her daily thoug Yet there is no more attractive figure i the baeckground of Paris, sc- , than the what is | at her best is the forces of Sincerity is the her, she is un- | basis of her creed. Yet she is a devotee s some- | of not love truthfully { 50 much, as the beauty and holiness of French giri of ! positicn. vond question, loving. She touches ma nature on its higher side and finds her surest hap- piness therein. Paris, May 19. sn Bourget's It could not be de: - then to be visited by physicians and wom- en health ors. who will instruct her as to the best methods of feeding, wash- ing and clothing the child, while in addi- tion detailed instructions are to be pre- town of Huddersfield, England, which stands in front rank of the cities that have adopted the plan ablic util = owned and controlied ipal authorities, has recently ther step and provided for under official direction Realizing that a large part of the death : among the poor was of infants un- year of age, owing to insufficient elligent care and nourishment, ity offered 2 bogus of in one of the dis- ouid attain the age of tweive tien. The health officers wi examine the homes of the mothers and factories and other places where women are em- ployed. and cases where deaths of chil dren under one year have occurred wiil be Investigated. Furthermore, a year's experiment will be undertakem with a éay nursery, where children will be cared zur, and sterilized milk will be supplied for th: babies. Huddersfield is a manufacturing town, jocal health au.do ‘ties 1o and the authorities consider that its pres- i r steps couid pot be taken ‘ent strength can best be preserved toward saving the lives of infa ihrough maintaining its pative labor. | decided to offer a re- ing to the first person 'm the medical officer of chi hin forty-eight ence. Tne mother is = . = + Accordingly g mortaiity is redteed to a minimum a large majority of t.e childrengwonid grow hood and womanhood. The experi- interceting.—Harper's Weekly. birth of a hours of its écc be canceled, why should it not be? He depends for his rights in the premises upon the same treaty that is relied upon by the Chinese merchants and other classes who wamt to do business in this country, but arc treated as coc There is nothing specially sacred about Mr. Morgan and his con- inese business men. We cannot cat ovr cake and keep it. ot deny to the excepted classes of Chinese every one of their treaty rights and make China pay indemnities for doing the same thing to Americans. Now, the Yeliow Peril that is keeping continental Europe awake nights consists in the fact that Japan has fought her way ! [to the hegemony of Eastern Asia and has the power to enforce cquality of treatment by the Western naticrs. That is all. men who talk about an aggressive military movement against the Occidental world know that their- talk is foolish. the shallow and thoughtless, but men cf sense know that the road doing justice and in kegping our treaty covenams. When the Boxer revolution put treaty keeping out of the power of China, the concerted nations invaded that empire with fire and sword. Dut every one of them violates { punity, because the Chinese have no remedy but passive resistance. passive resistance, and i we continue to apply ceclie regulations darins and bankers, we have no rj ment is passively resented. Bt to complain if such treat- The business ‘men of San Irancisco have an enormous, stake | the matter, and should not remain passive while misapplication of the exclusion act i trade in the Orient. robbing them Secret Shaw says no one is authorized to say that he is a raniidat:3 | for the Presidency. Still the Secretary ought to know that this is the silly | season in politics.—New York Herald. { | SN SRR Here's hoping the Japanese don't want the Philippines before we arc through with fhem. We could keep 'em, of course, but it would be some trouble.—Elmira Cazette. . - R — If Botanist Burbauk wishes to confer a real boon on humanity he should set to work to improve the strawberry at the bottom of the box.— Chicago News. LTI 2 Instead of a constitution the Czar appears to base the Government of ia on the Dream Book—Baltimore Sun. . ——————— Hindu rejoicing over Japanese victories will hardly be- conduci i Britich peace of mind.—Cleveland Leader. Y b ine i Rus Don’t overlook the fact that Mayor “eme; has won a sirinor} almost as notable as Togo's.—Boston Gilobe. 2 Apparentiy there never can be peace in the Far East until the hpe | sink Count Cassini—New York Press. i 3 Togo is right up to date. He has converted n‘mst of the Czar’s | ships into submarines.—Baltimore Sun. 3 However, the Czar might feel worse. whooping cough?>—Kansas" City Star. No matter what pitcher the Russians put in him out of the box.—Baltimore Sun. % McGinty will be pretty well supplied with vodka % SO pared and printéd for general distribu- ' They therefors believe that if the infant | es when they make the effort. ion, and he has no treaty rights that do not also belong to | We | The | It may excite | peaceful expansion of our commerce with Eastern Asia lies in! its treaties with China. with im-! to Chinese merchants, man- | /] CITY MAN TELLS | ABODT HIS QUIET - NIGHT IN COUNTRY ' ¢6] WANT to teil you about my night iz H | the country,” said a Kansas City man who seldom leaves town. | “There'd been sickness at home for two weeks, the baby was iil, so that nome of | us got much sieep, and usually I had | gone to the office worn out and duil. My | wife, with her mother to reiieve her, | could steal a few hours’ nap during the gay, but not L “With these things in your mind you 'fln imagine my feclings when an order ! came for me to go to a little town down in the country to see ome of our old cus- | tomers. At last | was io have a rest amid the beauties of nature. -Actually I feit young again. | “1 pe s a busy day with the customer and it was 10 o'c.ock when I reached the hotel, my mind rioting with iscughts of |{a long, iong sieep in the morning undis- | turbed by street cars, hucksters, fire en- | | gines and the hundrad and one sounds that make up the noise of the cuy. I inquired of tne hot-! man: can I get breakfast: “'Oh,’ he drawied, ‘about half-past 5.’ -1 neariy fell out of my chair. | got the wrong end of it,” [ gasped. “How iate—jate—net how eariy—can I get break- fast?” |. ' “Weil, you meedn't to hurry now,’ said | the proprietor. ‘You can get it for an | hour after that *‘Hub,’ thought catch up en sieep cven by i me to my bed’ { “Some time n the night I was awak- ened by the plaintive bawiing of a calf | for its mother. Did you ever hear a calf bawl when #t's being wean<d? | I heard a door siari and a moment later | the poor iittle calf zave a grunt just like }a man would if you kicked him on the | watch charm and then all was still exespt ll'n.t the door slammed again and some one went back to bed iater a fool rooster saw the gieam of the hostier's iantern as the boy moved | through the stable and at once began to L, 4 [ burry I may Arnd so crow, fully believing, I suppose, that the | n had risen. and then, just as [ “was dogzing, a bell began to ring, a loud-mouthed, iron bell 1 went te the window and looked out There just below me stood a boy puiling a bell rope, the beli on a post, the post within six fect of my room. ‘What the blankety blank—. I“began.” ! “Breakfas! lied the Doy, his face red with exertion. “sweli,” I exclaimed. ‘vou needn’t awazken all the State for your old break- fast.’ ““Ten minutes later a knock came on my door and another voice said: ‘Hay, mis- ter. git up, breakfast® “* ‘Ha: { cried. ‘I don’t want any hay 1 want cleep. But 1 dresscd and wen | down. 1 looked at the clock. “Last pight.” the Kansas ciudet, -1 went to sieep at 9 o'clock with strect cars clanging past the house. The | firemen went by our place iwice in the night. my wife -avs. but I slept through it ail. peacefully. The Tountry quiet is a deiusion.” —Kans: City Star. UNIMPORTANT. A Princeton man teils of a conversation that took place between the ceach of a foctball <leven and one of the piayefs. An important game. Ww. soon fo be payed: and the coach was, of course, most anxious that every player should be in t best of physical conditic But 20 his disgust one of the men, upon whom a great deal depended if the great game were to be won, seemed to be in “bad form.” Taking him aside, tue coach had the following “hear: to heart taik” with the recaleitrant: “See here youre r ~ looking so good: Musc es flabby and wind bad—awful bad What's the matter? Beep drinking any- thing?" “Not a drop.” Then vou must be smoking.” “Haven't touched a pipe. cigar, or cigar- ette since the trefning began.” “Studying?” “Well, yes—a little.” Whereupon the coach gave vent to a snort of disgust. “Ses here! You've got to stop that: Do you want us 1o .03 the game? —Harper's Weekly. . —_——e—————— "SUNBEAM." It iz dangerous to give a child a pet name, for it will stick to it throush life There lives in Coolidgze a woman whe | seolds her family all day and lambasis them in her dreams, says the Atchison (Kans.) Globe. She is envious of the good fortune of others; she is always finding troubie beczuse she looks for nothing else. and h.r face Is so sour that it will sto; | laughter in any roem. The woman led Sunbeam. that being a pet name given her by her parents before she was old enough to talk. MADDENING. Mary had a little cold, A common you know. Aud everywheré that Mary went A cure was sure to go. —Harper's Bazur. S e e Townsend's Cala. Glace Fruits, m ar- tistic fire-etehiad boxes. New store now open. 167 Market street . ————————— Epecial information suppiied daily to business houses and public men by the | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 30 Cali- foruia sireet. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ e The sorrow of to-day is often but | the shadow of to-morrow’s shiaing. ‘How late “You've | Presently | A few minutes | “The rooster at length quieted down | in [ .I________———————‘——_'—\P MIRROR OF DAME FASHION. | | ! ! - ) S AN . PR pe i 1 SILK AND CLOTH COMBINED. Combinations of clotk and velvet that marked the winter season have their followers in combinations of silk and cloth wesves (this A polkadot in cream ground, with a spot the size of a dime summer. in soft brown, is here combined effectively with henristta and touches of brown satin. The cloth part is arranged In the form of a shaped the shaped flounces still hold thelr own In | fiounce—and, by the way, | | every change of fas A yoke efect is outlined on the siirt. with | cordings of the satin. The bodice is draped surplicewise fromt and | ! back. showing a V of brown lace over cream outlined with strap- | | pings of the cloth embroidered in cream. The sleeves are the fasa- | jonable eibow length, completed with a transparent lace cuff. A cun- ning littla touch is given them by a band of ribbon velvet tied around | the outsidée braceletwlse at the wrist and shed with a tight little | bow. i YOUNGS’IERS REVEL IN ATROCIOUS LANGUAGE | AT THE PARK BALL GROUNDS. | An_ Chbserver Calfs the Attention of the Authorities and Parents to a Deplorable Evil | 1 | { of the ruffian is looked upon as a ment necessary before the little ie to take part e y the example is set © , pese as exemplars years. Seme of To the Edjtor of The Call: 1 believe the attention of the Goiden Gate Park authorities should be called to the ! language in vegue on that portion of the children's playground reserved for base- bail grounds for youngsiers. Ome can not tarry there for even a lew minutes to wateh the boys at play without suffer- | ing a shock to his ears from the most atrocious ubscenity, which grates the | more harshly, coming, as it does, from | piov.q in their shrill bickerings. tise lips of mere babes. Women who have | The license that is permitted our stopped there once do not make @ mis- | (and the men, as well, for that mat fake of doing so again, but throughout | on the streets, where their mdulgence | each afterncon scores of strangers are | profanity passes apparently unmoticed by attracted to the spot, only to be sent | those whose duty It is to correct such away with a blush on thelr cheeks. evils, is deplorable emough: but out in T am not exaggerating when I say that | San Francisco's great playground. where s babl - fewer fathers and mothers who permit t& tn ere they to come upon the lads w awares and learn the vocabulary em- Ed atmosphere of the infantile ball | the little ones are sent to build up health at play; in fact, I bave come to believe | daily course of instruction In biackguard- (1 frequently have to pass that way) |ism. EDMUND REVOTS. ——— I Though ills shall prick you mere and move, i Don’t get sour; And don't get sour. As through this busy life you 59, Don't get sour; In moments of the worst defeat. No matter what the years may bring. ] Don't get sour; Don't get sour; i Go onward, never think retreat, nds Is stantly polluted by cursing | and strength, unwatched and unhampered, Fhd vicious vulgarity while the boys are | they should be safeguarded against a tkat ability to use the coarse language ' City, June IL | HOUGH poverty shall press you sore. Den’t get sour; Press forward and with eager feet: Remember and keep sweet, keep sweet, Don't get sour; In sun or shade, in joy or woe, Remember and keep sweet, keep sweet, And don't get sour. i How doleful be the songs they sing. 1 Remember and keep sweet, keep sweet, i - And don't get sour. —Chieago Chremicle. _;_ i * THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE —_—— Mis CHANCE. Mrs. Manveck—1'm & woman of lnwnwnrdu. r. Henpeck—But you work those few for all nu?n worth. ‘ % ]

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