The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECREILS.. e sesecscassassesesssesesss « PROPriCIOR 2 ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN MCNAUGHT. ....ccvoasssnsassssssssesssecsseionans.. .. Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE. ............ THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO ...JULY 18, 1905 SATURDAY... A COMMERCIAL EMERGENCY. HE Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, a pow- Tcn’u! organization corresponding to our State Board of Trade, has addressed to the latter a stirring communication concerning a commercial emergency that is brought into focus by changes in the tariffs of France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy, Switzerland, pain and Portugal. All of these changes, actual and proposed, seem to.be aimed at the United States. The new systems are composed of maximum and minimum rates of duty. The maximium rates are for general application. The minimum rates are given, on the same products, to such countries as enter into reciprocal trade agree- me Of our exports nearly one half go to the countries that are preparing for this tariff war against our trade. More than one half our exports go to Great Britain. 5 The Call has frequently noted the unfriendly attitude of Ger- many toward American trade. For more than twenty years the fiscal authorities of that empire have pursued a singular and subtle policy, at the instigation of the very powerful agrarian party, made up of the strong landgraves. Instead of using the tariff against cts have been shut out by so-called sanitary regula- t products have been condemned and so rigidly ex- at has become a luxury, infrequently indulged in, to t of the German people. After the State Board of Trade made 3 lam remarkable and memorable exhibit of California f 5 forms in which they can be exported, German trade at once took them up, and there began what promised to be a large nmerce with that country in our tinned and dried fruits and bran- dies man Government, perhaps off its guard, or while the g, examined our brandies and imported them for medicinal and military use. : introduction of California fruits did not long escape 1 of the landgraves, and the same policy was applied to They were rejected for sanitary In the preparation of dried fruit too much sulphur was and, no matter how much our driers reduced the sulphur bleach, e German test stations the percentage of sulphur continued the and was sufficient to exclude thé fruit. g no method for destroying commerce that equals this. the total loss of the condemned shipment, and a merchant entirely satisfied with one such experience. Now Ger- many as adopted a maximum .and minimum tariff, as a surer ans of excluding us. It hits at our largest exports, as wheat, corn, rd, beef, etc. The extreme difference between the two It is obvious then that the a 18 our produ Our o The Ger ates on the same articles is 75 per cent. countries which get the benefit of the minimum rate by entering into reciprocity treaties can drive us utterly out of the German mar- ket. The sanitary regulations are left in operation to be used against us if the differential tariff proves insufficient. There is such ewi- dence of the partial administration of those regulations, so as to hit s our competitors, that it appears as if Germany had as- sumed towar a menacing and hostile attitude not consistent with the ties of friendship between the two nations, nor with the fact that this country has given a prosperous and happy asylum to mil- liong of German people. We do not know what view the State Board of Trade may take of the matter. But it seems obvious that our Government should neet the situation by entering into such reciprocity treaties as will t no injury upon our domestic producers, and at the same time t the In due time the policy may be extended to the other differential tariff coun- , where our trade is less important, Hitherto California has not warmly friendly to reciprdeity, and the course of the State will be much influenced by the position taken by the State Board of Irade. . - MOROCCAN CONDITIONS. ON PERDICARIS, he whom the Moroccan brigand Raisuli made l by capturing and holding for ransom, has written for the International Quarterly a paper which attempts to explain the tangle of affairs in the land where he had his experience of being kidnaped. It throws some light on the causes of the grave disa- greement now threatening between France and Germany in regard to that country. The heart of the matter seems to be that the Ger- nperor is right in his intervention, because the French are de- ned to reserve for themselves all government concessions with- adequately assuming the corresponding obligations, namely to ntain order in that lawlessly inclined land. This report speaks he inability of the French to even protect the coast towns from ression. From the point of view of Perdicaris, England and France are 3 to keep special advantages for which they have hardly the shadow of a right. French influence began by making the Sultan a tempting loan of 50,000,000 francs secured upon the customs at various ports, and there French inspectors were established. Eng- land was made acquiescent to French predominance in Moroccan affairs by France's consent to the British having a freer hand in Egypt. An additional concession made to France was that the French holders of Egyptian securities got an extension of time in which to draw 5 per cent interest, although these could have been converted into 3 per cents. The financial trick was so accomplished that the Egyptians, and not the English, foot the bill of this failure to make economical change in the funds. The kiduaping of Perdicaris was not so much a mere accident as an evidence of the general lawlessness that prevails in the Moorish Sultanate in spite of its being left chiefly under.the wing of France’s prctection by the other powers. This lack of protection is not wholly the fault of the French Foreign Office. The Socialist party is playing quite 2 hand in this the most recent international game. | They prevented Delcasse from obtaining the vote of the necessary funds for France to enforce authority over the turbulent descend- ants of the Moroccan pirates. France makes the claim that she is not selfishly holding any unfair advantage because there are no discriminations against the trade of other nations in the way of duties. It is pointed out that this at the present time amounts to little; the big items-being Gov- ernment concessions for the country’s development; railways, ports, harbors, artillery, naval vessels, bridges and electric appliances. It seems that it is about this the Kaiser wants a divide up, and the right of the various nations to demand this if they so choose exists in the agreements of the Madrid conference of 1880, of which the United States was one of the signers. THE PRESS OF THE NATION. There are about 300 real Daughters of the Revolution living now. Two years ago there were about 500. It will not be many years before the last living link between the beginning of the union and the present day has passed away.—Boston Globe. ——— When one reflects on the fact that three billions of taxes were sworn off this year one realizes that the author of “How This World Is Given to Lying” wrote better than he knew.—New York Herald. R Rt el R Charles W. Chestnut of Ohio in a speech at Boston advocated intermar- riage between blacks and whites and race amalgamation. The only way that kind of a chestnut is good is after he has been well roasted.—Baltimore Sun. ] ————— Tom Johnson is said to be a candidate for President, and if this be so Simpson of Kansas is an ideal running mate. “Tom and Jerry” would be a strong combination.—New York Herald. S ———————. While he does not say so in so many words, Mlior Weaver intimates that the more he sees of Philadelphia politicians the more respect he has for highwaymen.—Washington Post. { J ONDON Punch has published a set | of verses about Miss Rosamond Dixey, of Boston's exclusive set, under the title of “Wake Up, Eng- land,” because Miss Dixey is touring the world with her pet white pig sitting be- side her in an automobile, says the Bos- ton correspondent of the Philadelphia North American. Miss Dixey is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Dixey of Boston. Her mother was a Miss Tappen, a member of a wealthy old Boston family, and her father is a well-known patron of music. ‘The Dixeys have a beautiful country seat fu Stockbridge, called ‘‘Tanglewood,” from Hawthorne's tales, the author hav- ing lived there and wrote his tales in a little red house which stood on a part of the Dixey estate. It was at Tanglewood, last September, that Miss Dixey introduced her little porker to society at a gymkhama, given | by the Dixeys, assisted by members of the British Embassy and Sir Mortimer Durand, In aid of a convalescencents’ hospital. Miss Dixey entered her white pig in an | animal race, and drove the squealing pig |in a harness of pink ribbons. Miss Nora Iasigi of Boston drove a black pig from her mother’s Clovercroft farm, and goats, cats, turkeys and geese were run in the race. The geese proved the fastest, and the race was won by Miss Helen Alex- | andre’s white goose. s At the gymkhana Miss Dixey attracted notice with her pig, but after the Dixeys | left Stockbridge nothing was heard of |the pig until Motoring Illustrated, an | | | English automobile magazine, printed the statement that Miss Dixey, who is now abroad, Invariably has her pet, ‘a fat whits pig, sitting up beside her in front | of a motor car, so Punch's poet seized the opportunity and in three semi-satiri- | cal verses called on the ladies of England | to “wake up,” lest they lose their repu- | tation for being up to date. Punch said: | “PBritish lady motor drivers,” says Mot- oring Illustrated, “must look to their laurels. Miss Rosamond Dixey of Bos- ton, U. 8. A., invariably has her sweet, pet, fat white pig sitting up beside her in front of her motor car.” Then fol- lowed these verses: WAKE UP—ENGLAND: We are losing our great reputation, Our women are not up to date: For a younger, more go-ahead nation Has besten us badly of late. Is_there nowhere .some fair Englishwoman Who'd think it not too infra dig To be seen with (and treat it as human) A sweet—fat—white—Dig? There is no need to copy our cousins, 3 A Visit or two to the %00 Will convince you there must be some dozens Of animal.pets that would do. With a *‘grizzly”’ perched up in your motor SOCIETY GIRL TOURS WORLD WITH A PET PORKER. .L_:uss DIXEY AND HER PET rm-L Just think how people| would atare, ying; ‘Is that a man in a coat or A big—gray—tame—he—bear?"” Think how chic it would look in the paper (Society's doings, we'll say), rs, So and So drove with her Tapir And_daughter (The Tapir's) to-day. re. Thingummy, too, and sister Drove out for an hour and a halt And beside them (the image of Mr.), A dear—wee—pink—pet—calf. - -+ WOMAN WINS AS MECHANIC WHERE MEN WOULD FAIL. SR = with having little taste or knowl- edge in mechanics. Where an in- dividual occasionally demonstrates | that she has this taste and knowledge in unusual degree, some man rises up to remark upon her “masculinity,” or to that effect, saye Maude Winifred Rog- ers, in the Chicago Tribune. But neither statement is true as af- fecting women in contrast with men. A woman may be mechanical, just as a man may not be, and the proportions are as likely to hold true as are any other of like kind. Miss Helen J. Clark, employed in installing typesetting machines and in- structing operatidns all over the coun- try, frequently has been sent to demon- strate a machine's work where some | gan has failed out of his “superior” | Mechanical ability. Compared with her | fellow operators, she has beaten the est records of men, having set and jus- tified 2500 ems of movable twelve-point | type each hour for the eight-hour day. |She makes a salary of $130 a month, with expenses; sees her own country better than most women. At the same time she is interested especially in her chosen line of work. With this type- setting machine Miss Clark’s record for |a day is as much as five expert com- | positors can accomplish with the old | stick and rule. Miss Clark denies that | she is handicapped by her sex in any | possible way. “My mind has a mechanical bent,” | she said. “Machinery is a magnet. I could not resist it. Dirty as it is, I like the work, It always has some- thing new, for in this particular line of mechanics there is a mental develop- ment because of the copy that passes through one's fingers. Things that make the greatest furore in the world are first seen by the compositor ag she sets the copy, word for word and line for line. I realized that occupation i which combines the development of the mind with the training of the hand to be the ideal one. “I have observed that to be an expert operator one must have steadiness of ac- tion, n grip on the nerves, and the faculty of dealing with details easily. Some one has smartly philosophized that ‘the man ‘who never does any more than he is pald for never gets paid for any more than he | does.” This is true of a woman, too, There is a demand for operators, and at the beginning T was not confronted with a small salary, but still I had the deter- | mination to command more money as I | increased in proficiency. “My idea of the best manner in which | to achieve success was to master all the | working parts of the machine rather than g IORDINAR(LY women are credited operator to find herself a thousand miles from the main office with a force of pro- Kind Lady—You say you are a ‘war correspondent? Tramp—Yes, mum. My father was shot in the Civil War and 1 had a lot of writing wid de Gov- ernment about his pension. | to acquire speed, for it is no joke for an | the death of Dr. J. E. Dutton, in the WAR CORRESPONDENT PUNCTUATION tessional machinists and anfunruly mech- arism refusing to obey orders. On the other hand, many a time a machinist will travel miles and miles on a ‘hurry-up' call from some operator to find the ma- chine needing nothing more than the tightening of a belt or pulley. “The field of the succcssful machine operator Is uniimited. In the larger cities there may not be the same chance for women unless, as in everything else, she happens to be the one weman' who can step -ahead. But in- the smaller towns, where she unreservedly competes with men, she easily holds her own.” The applied. sciences do not ask of any women any unusual endowments.. The same good judgment that assists the good cook to build a cake and the good seam- stress to cut a garment, or which gives the ncat housewife the mathematical pre- cision with which to place a centerpiece in the middle of her dining room table, will enable her to work successfully along mechanical lines. g The one question for the mechanical woman to declde is whether she have qualifications in this fleld that are at a premium because of their merit. If she heve these, all the rest will become easy for her. Her womanliness is no longer a ban upon her genius. SKIRT PAYS HER FARE. A beautiful silk petticoat changed own- ers in the waiting room of the Union Station at Pittsburg the other day, says the Philadelphia Record. A pretty blonde young woman got off the early train for New York evidently much worried. She said she had lost her purse and was in a hurry to get to her home in Columbus. Ohlo. She singled out a prosperous look- ing woman, who sat in the station, ana sitting down opposite her, began to talk earnestly, displaying the least bit of a beautiful silk ruffled underskirt. The elderly woman seemed interested in the ruffle and soon the pair rose and walked into a retiring room. A few minutes later both emerged, but she with the blonde hair had the pretty silk petticoat no more. It hung shimmering over the arm of the woman she had found in the station, who, it appeared :ter. had bought it from the stranded rl. In the meantime the former owner of the silk underskirt walked over to the ticket window, lald down a bill and called for a ticket to Columbus. “It's no one's business,” she snapped to one who would have had speech with her. “I simply got stranded here and sold my underskirt to get money to take me home. No, T won't tell my name.” sy . News has been received in England of Congo, while engaged in the investigation of trypanosomiasis. . | Occidental { Accidentals By A, J. Waterhouse | C RN < ¥ (A summer school for the inculeation of “New Thought” is to be established near Glenwood, in this State.) WENT intc that summer school— I ’twas in a dream, ‘tls true— And a recipe they gave me for the style of Thought termed New: Take a page of Epictetus and a Plato paragraph; Shake them briskly till the mixture makes the gentle scoffers Add a slight Socratic flavor, not In ex- cess of a dram, And a weak solutio. formed of Persian epigram. Mix a bit from old Confucius and from Buddha several drops; Add Egyptian lore found in the pyramid of great Cheops. Now some truths rot h‘lr remembered and some others half forgot— Boil the mixture, boil it briskly, till.it simmers in the pot; And—Lord bless you now, my brother, and the skeptics all beshrew— you see that you're approaching to the Thought that's labeled New? Yet the spice is wholly lacking. and as it is needed, tov, Mix a flavor of the occult in the mighty, bubbling stew. Add some aurae, silver-plated, or if you bhave gold to spare, Let them all be richly gilded, floating round us in the air, Or, still better, have them painted white or yellow, blue or red; Say with eyes in rev'rence lifted, *'Tis thy spirit fragrance shed.'” by Add a dash of any ism that may give & taste to suit, Glad at last if men shall whisper, ‘“it's a lulul It's a beaut! Stir the mixture, stir it briskly, with the paddle handed you. Now dispense it unto sinners, for 'tis Thought that's la.eled New. Can't “It ls thought,” I said with rev'rence, much of which is very true, But, if I do not displease you, what in thunder makes it new? Came the answer: “Lo, poor skeptic, hear the truth and doubt no more; Such a mixture’s mixiul mixing never has been mixed before.” THE OBJECTION TO THE PLAN. € g READ last evening,” said the Un- I wise Sage, "that one Dr. Ella K. Dearborn had recommended to the Oregon Homeopathic Medical Society that all physical and mental weaklings be chioroformed unto death. I still was thinking of her suggestion when I dropped into a nap and had a dream. “ln my dream 1 saw that the people o¢ the earth ran madly to and fro, und in the hands of each‘one of them all was a large bottle labeled 'Chioroform.” And whenever two of the people met they grappled and each tried to administer the narcotic unto the other, “‘Held! 1 cried. 'Why would you do this deed? “‘He is a weakling! they shouted in chorus. “‘What of it?” I urged. ‘Perhaps a weakling may desire to live as much as the strongest. “‘Had you not heard,’ they said to me, ‘that the peoples of the earth had held a great assembly and had declded that the recommendation of Dr. Ella K. Dearborn that weaklings be chiloro- formed was philosophically souna? Cummere, you wobbly-minded son of a gun, and take your medicine! “I fled to a safe distance, and they fell upon one another again. Of course I was greatly perturbed, and soén I shouted back to them: “‘Here! This mad work must cease, Why don't you do something to termi- nate it7" “‘What can we do?. one cried to me. ‘The world's decision must be heeded.’ ““You might,’ I replied, ‘you might— er—hah! Now I have it. You mignt get Ella to decide who are the weaklings.’ “‘We can’t,’ was the answer. “‘Why not? I asked. “‘She was one of the first that were chloroformed.” “Then I awaked. thing in dreams?” s‘Sometimes there seems to be,” was the answer. HE NEEDED RECREATION. E needed recreation, wfl‘o he went, th his charming wife and baby And a tent, ‘Where the rural peace was utter, And his bliss he couldn't stutter, And queer critters In the butter Think there’s any- " Ployer—No, sir; ! staken. adve ¢ 1 of us Made a dent. He needed recreation, For the morn Found him somewhat weak and wobbly And forlorn; So he took a hook and line, And the fish he cought were fine, Splendid as this lle of mine— In & horn! Says he thinks that he'll recover From the shock Born of feeling bugs and ants Reconnoitering in his pants— This {s of vacation chants, Not a knock. —_— AN’S vaunted bravery is a curious thing. There are men who would march up to a loaded cannon without hesitation, yet who, if they feit the necessity of having a tooth pulled would take eight drinks of whisky to nerve them to the desperate deed and then—would go home with the tooth in thelr head. Watch such a man at the one time and you would say that he was a hero; watch him at the other time and you would pronounce him a coward. And probably you would be right in each instance: The man is a hero concerning cannon, a coward con- cerning teeth. Of course as a man I dislike to admit it, but “facts are stub- born things” and—isn’t it a fact? The facts seem antagonistic, they? Of course they . do. Dealing with man, what else could they be? For ever and always man's nature is the most Irreconcilably antagonistic thing that touches this planet. Brave and ‘cowardly, strong and weak, loyal and disloyal, flendish and divine—this in some degree Is every last mother's son of us. Man Is the anomaly of ano- malies, the incongruity of incongrui- And this being the case let the wo- ‘men alone pursue the subject—the rest may as well drop it. ———— i + ABOVE SUSPICION. “What & fine thing a reputation ‘scrupulous honesty is!™ i * *““Apropos of what?' “I was. thinking of Dr. mm g daily to the 5y 20 g S THE event of the week was in the Palm Huntingten in Green, the flancee By Sally Sharp. 1 extent that hopes are entertained of his permanent residence in San Francisco. .. . General and Mrs. Willlam E. Dough- erty leave to-morrow for their Alaskan trip, stopping for a short time at Port- land. . . Mr. and Mrs. Henry Butters, who ars spending the summer at St. Helena, en- tertain many guests from week to week and among those at the present time are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bray. . . Among them h,_.’ M ‘Walter Starr, Pes s, Bdwsrd M. Shinkle, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Newman will arrive in town soon, to be guests at the Palace. At their mountain home in Amador County, Mr. and Mrs. Newman entertai a great deal, a.recent guest having bee | Mrs. Joseph Bumiller of Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Squires of Los Angeles are also mountain neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Newman. . . Palmer. . s . The Honorable Charlemagne Tower and Mrs. Tower recently entertained ~ Mrs. George D. Toy and Miss Mabel Toy at a dinner at the American Embassy in Ber- ln. Mrs. Tower was Charlotte Smith of Oakland, whose father was at ope time ex well-to-do, the old' Smith home at Castro and Eighth streets hav- ing been the scene of regal emtertain- ment in past .dny-.. i Miss Anna B. Shaw, Miss Lucy An- thony, a niece of Miss Susan B. Anthony, | and Miss Elizabeth Hauser are guests for several days o!.l(m 'Auuln Sperry. . Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Weich, formerly of Sacramento, but who have resided in San Franciseo for the last two years, are moving to Los Angeles to make their home there. Mr. Welch will be associated with the Los Angeles’ Rallway under the super- vision of Howard Huntm.non. . . Harry Mestayer, who became such a favorite in the women's clube last winter by his intelligent readings, is to present “Ghosts” next week. This news will be pleasantly received by many. for Mr. Mestayer’s explanation of the play will tend toward much Interest Inm fts pro- duction. Mrs. Grace More! Dickman is a guest at the St. Francis. Mrs. Dickman has been ‘contralto scloist during Clarence Eddy’s organ tour and her many friends in San Franclsco are glad to know of her arrival at home. . Mr. and Mrs. Byron Mauzy have re- turned from an Eastern trip, covering much territory. They spent some time In New York and visited Yellowstone Park and the Portland fair. Mrs. Mauzy 's with her children at Aetna Springs. i Dr. and Mrs. A. K. Harshall, who are in New York, will sall in August for Europe, where they will tour the con- tinent in their automobile through the fall months. Dr. Alice Goss Is spending three weeks at Lake Tahoe, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Reid of Belmont. . ... Mrs. ‘M. H. Richardson 1Is visiting through Southern California, spending the greater part of a month in San Diego and Los A.nxele.u. Lo Miss McLoney, city librarian in®Des Moines, Iowa, is the guest of Miss Sue Lombard in thie dt.r‘ 1 . William Sanborn, president of the Holluschickis Club, is making an extend- ed tour of the Grand C.anyon. ¢ o Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dean O'Brien are visiting Southern California*and will re- turn in August to be the guests for a time of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. O'Brien. . e Mr. and Mrs. W. A, Bissell of Alameda and their son, Daniel Bissell, are spending the summer at Lake Tahoe. . s F. P. Fish of Boston was host at a din- ner Thursday evening at the St. Francis in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John I Sabin. The green room was the scene of the affair, at which were present Mr. and Mrs, John 1. Sabin, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Zimmer, Mr. and Mrs. Stein, Miss Pearl Sabin, Miss Irene Sabin, Miss Gladys Livermore and Mr. Alston. Mr. and Mrs. Francis McComas (Marle Louise Parrott), who are in British Co- lumbia, will go from there to Mexico and on to England, settling in the latter place permanently. e . Edgar Saltus’ visit within our gates is prolonging itself indefinitely and to the MIRROR OF DAME FASHION tm—:fa -m-mm-vnmm'r 3 : thou not read thy answer in my looks 7 ad ONE OF THE NEW COAT SUITS. umummmmmummmmmm;uam are those who order their latest gowns made this way, for it 1s a style that will last through more than one season. ‘l!n. coat fol- lows the Louls mode, the silk being shirred at pleced on the bias, so that the velvet lines form a V in the center. The skirt 18 one of the pleated models, the pleats stitehed flat for an h;dt..h or '.vlo“?dm. belt, :nl then free to the feet. A band o e vel posed above mnudmwm-t:npmm‘bnnd. -mmmnm LS .