The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1905, Page 6

DAY, JULY 17 19D, JCHN SAN FRANCISCO — Fete of Flowers in ' . By Doro,tfiy Fenimore. Paris THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL| || AND MARKET STREETS. i ....Manager | 1 { .. JULY‘ 17, 1905 CHEERFUL BUSINESS CONDITIONS. i | WEEK was chiefly marked by its lack of distinctive fea- ture. In the whole field of commerce there was nothing new. Business ran along on the lines so frequently delineated of late, which are familiar to.all whose interests lead them to keep in| h with commercial conditions. All current indications continue such as to maintain the optim- jem which has pervaded the country for half a dozen years. - The | outlook continues excellent, and white record-breaking har- t expected, there will be all the grain and’general prod- | crop vests are 1 uce the country can use, with a fair surplus for export. The cotton | tes have been reduced, and a 10,000,000-bale crop is now | whereas a few weeks ago the yield was estimated at con- | over this. Protracted wet and cool weather over the t of the cotton belt has cut down the prospects, sent d and disturbed the cotton industry gemerally. The | rarket shot up on the Government report, but fell back sre or less, and has been vacillating ever since. crop esti siderat great pri - other staples remain about as for some weeks past. Pro- | visions are t in both consumptive and speculative markets.i Wheat and corn have lately been declining at Chicago, carrying | down the other grain markets, including that at San Francisco, with | Sugar Has declined. Wool continues firm at the high prices, | istry is reported«in excellent condition. Hides and | a rule, with a good demand and no accumulation | 1¢ 1n er are firm as of stock, while the footwear factories of New England are reporting a good business. The cruder forms of iron and steel are quiet, but the demand for structural material, per contra, is so brisk that prompt usi deliveries cannot be guaranteed by the mills. The general distribu tive trade of the country is still active, with indications of a brisi fall trade, while the general retail trade exceeds expectations. Building operations all over the land continue large, and the lumber and hardware industries are correspondingly active. There are no indications yet that building is being overdone. Current statistics are still encouraging. Money is plentiful and easy, with a large world's production of gold, and the heavy over-! subscription of the last Japanese loan testifies to the prevailing | plethora of ready cash. Railway earnings, however, appear to be | slowly falling off, being now down to an increase of 5.3 per cent in | July over the corresponding period in 1904, a loss of about 2 per} cent from the increase ruling during the past few months. What | this indicates remains to be seen. The bank clearings make their | usual brilliant exhibit, those last week showing a gain of 32.1 per| cent over 1904, with only five of the fifty-first cities and towns show. ing losses, and those very small, the heaviest being 8.7 per cent, at | St. Paul. Of the greater cities Cincinnati alone reports a decrease of 4.3 per cent, while the aggrgegate clearings for the week amounted to $2,802,936.000. The failures for the week were 223, | against 225 last year. | On this coast the signs are especially promising. We are to| have good crops of almost everything, according to present indica- | tions. The wheat and barley crops are not turning out as heavy as | promised earlier in the season, but the decrease in yield is largely | | | | | 1 | offset by the good prices ruling. The shortage in the apple crop of the East, coupled with light crops of prunes and pears on this coast, point to a lively market for dried fruits this year, and prunes have | already gone up 100 per cent during the past month, and are still gradually rising. Prices for this important product bid fair to be better this year than for five years, while the demand is correspond- ingly increasing, not only in this country, but in Europe. Stocks of | canned fruit are being rapidly taken by the consumptive trade at excellent prices, and the fresh fruits are accordingly stimulated. The hop industry is active, with prices away above cost of production. Beans and dairy products are also bringing prices more than satis- factory to the producer, but cattle and sheep are not«as high as they | were a year or so ago, while the supply of both is apparently fully up to current requirements. The domestic and export trade of the three Pacific States con- tinues brisk, real estate and building operations are very active, and | both city and country banks report money plentiful and easy at moderate rates of interest. The feeling all over the coast is one off confidence in a continuation of the prevailing good times. Tgenerating electric power threatens to seriously detract from | the features of that great natural wonder. We do not know the process by which the dollar hunters secured permission to destroy scenery for profit. The American side of the falls is a State reserva- tion, and as there will be no falls without water, it would seem reasonable that the State’s power should have prohibitive jurisdic- tion of the rapids above the falls. ‘Canada is as much interested in preserving Niagara, and there ought to be some way to secure.co- operation to prevent taking all the water out of the river between Tonawanda and the falls. It is worth remembering that a proposition to divert the waters of Yosemite and Bridal Veil creeks above the walls of the Yosem- ite Valley caused the Yosemite Commission to initiate the Federal reservation, now known as Yosemite National Park. The proposed diversion of water would have destroyed Bridal Veil and Yosemite falls. Senator Clark has been fighting to save the great Shoshone Falls in Snake River. A power company is at work to divert the water of the river above Shoshone in order to get electric power which it proposes to transmit to Salt Lake City. That city already has abundant power generated in Ogden River, but if no electric power can be had anywhere except by the destruction of rare and imposing natural scenery, let us do without the power, as we did before this new agent was introduced. There are enough ways of grubbing dollars without taking them at the expense of scenery which man has the power to destroy but not to create. DOLLARS AGAINST SCENERY. HE diversion of water above agar.; Falls for the purpose of THE PRESS OF THE NATION. Bad River, in South Dakota, seems to deserve the name which was long ago bestowed upon it. On the Fourth of July a sudden flood swept away half the houses of the village of Pierre, located on the banks of the river with the bad name, and, though no lives were lost, many people are home- The river by any other name would undoubtedly be just as bad, and the name should warn people not to fix their camps on its treacherous margin.—Baltimore American. e e less. “Public education can only hope to prepare children to in time become i ,” said Mayor McClellan at Asbury Park. Professor Lounsbury | specia says there are times when infinitives may be split with discretion. But it was hardly discreet to split one wide open in the presence of 10,000 school- | teachers.—New York World. s According to the woman who filed the bill against the harvester trust, that organization has been sitting up nights to weep because there are but ten commandments to be broken.—Chicago News. [ PRl Despite his latest gift of $10,000,000 there is reason to believe Mr. P PARIS, June 25, N his serial story, “Fair Margarét,” I which began in the June number of an American periodical, F. Marion Crawford describes the springtime face of Paris, “the gay, incredulous, frivol- ous, pretty and Impudent” face of Paris, which alwaye, even beneath the per- soral touch of the literary genius of a Thackeray, a Sala or a De Muarier, re- tains its own peculiar personality of light, imperishable charm. Every great city, he beliéves, wears fts soul upon its face. And this soul is | the spirit of its people. ‘Were composite photographs made of | the inhabitants of the different mighty cities, each one would bear a char- acteristic expression. | An empty square in Derlin, says ! Crawford, suggests a possible regi- mental parade, and in London a mass- meeting; but In Paris “it is a play- ground waliting for the Parisians to come out and enjoy themselves after thelr manner like pretty moths and dragon flies in the sun.” If this is true of a public square in Paris, how much more is it true of the Bois de Boulogne, where joyous Paris loves to while her time away on mornings, afternoons and fete days, especially in early June, when Mother Barth spreads roses undefncath the dancing feet of Love and opens wide | irer goddess arms to lure him in. Whoever would see Paris in the per- | fection of her careless gayety must go to the flower fete in the Bois de Boulogne the first week of June. Then coquetry is queen indeed over the Parisian world of fashionable display. A garland crowns her brow. Love's | gllded chariot she drives, holding for | reins bright ropes of roses, lilacs, lilies, | that breathe their amorous sweetness to the sun. At the fete of flowers we have the license of the carnival poetized, etherealized. The barriers of conven- tionality are down. Stranger laughs back at stranger. Gallantry is per- mitted to pay homage unrestrained at beauty's feet. Youth sips with smiling lips the sparkling nectar cup. Upgand down the avenue parade the carrigges In tireless procession. Some are like floral chariots, where are seated gay creatures who look as if they might be subject to some fairy en- cHantment. Others are ordinary car- rtagesydressed up with ribbons and bouquets of flowers. Apd the people vithin these are of many kinds and many nations. / Parisians predominate, Parisians who have purses like that miraculous one of Gl e e DaROTHY FENI/IGRE o =3 Fortunatus. One sees Americans, too, in the crowd, out for @ taste of French frolic. On both sides of the roadway are beautifully dressed people who have come out to watch the parade from the pavement. Over the throng flowers fly like gay butterflies, as they are thrown from carriage to carriage. Sounds of mer- riment fill the air, intermingled with the voices of the flower sellers, who run alongside the carriages trying to persuade the occupants to increase their supply of floral ammunition. On every side is movement and color. | The gay dresses of the ladies, the bright uniforms of the police officers, make a gorgeous picture against the dark green background of the wood- lana foliage. Never was offered a better chance for flirtation. Never was opportunity more joyously improved. A fete of flowers is likewise in Paris a festival of Eros, god of the bright | eyes and the golden bow and quiver. Morocco, the Land of Graft | : % ! I pendence, used to be a piracy as it is now the land of graft. | Then, as now, the hands of the European Powers were tied by mutual jealousy and the worship of that old chimera, the *bal- ance of power.”” Just as Uncle Sam had to break the ice of European cowardice some months ago with his stern demand for *“Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead,” so a little more than a century ago it was Uncle Sam's cannon that stopped the humiliation which all civilized pow- ers endured of paying tribute to measly little barbarian States whose combined naval strength would scarcely equal a battleship of those times, says the Pitts- burg Dispatch. The United States, when it was poor and weak and without a navy, put up with the shame of paying Moorish pirates _“‘let its ships alone, but not for long. \When Americans wearied of that sort of thing they built a navy, went over to the Mediterranean and al- most walloped the life out of Algiers and Tripoli. A few years later England followed our example. Afterward France did the sen- sible thing and conferred a lasting bless- ing upon the world by helping herself to Algeria and Tunis, establishing honest | and stable governments in those coun- tries. If France is balked in doing the same with Morocco it will be because a European dog in the manger is standing between her and civilization. No longer daring to levy tribute upon the outside world, or to sell Americans and Europeans into slavery, by wholesale, | the Moors have taken to preying upon one another. They are said to be a com- paratively law-abiding race, but that Is because they have few laws to abide by. Travelers say that from the Sultan down every Moor is a swindler or an extortion- ist. Talk about alleged police graft in Allegheny, or in Philadelphia, or in New York City—you don't know what graft is | 1f you have not learned how Moors make | their living. All offices are openly bought and sold. There are no salaries—each officeholder is expected to recoup himself.by practic- | ing extortion upon those under him, Jus- tice, too, is something that the judges must be pald for. In criminal trials the death penalty {is practically unknown. 'toe court sentence upon the man found gullty is either a flogging, to be adminis- tered in the presence of the judge, or imprisonment. ‘In the latter case no term is specified, the victim remaining in jail until some friend buys him out. The Sultan is represented as being the greatest grafter of the race. When he travels from one of his capitals to the other he leaves a famine in his wake, since his imperial retinue and an army of escort must be fed at the expense of the country. Robbery under forms of law goes unpunished, but not so plain stealing. For a second offense of that kind the malefactor’s eyeballs are seared blind with a redhot sword and he is then turned loose to starve. ‘The Sultan, Mulai Abdul Aziz, is only 24 years old, having come to the throne in brought up by his mother, a Circassian, and this perhaps accounts for his decided taste for European civilization—a taste not for reform, but for mere toys, like bicycles and automobiles, with which he amuses himself. And it is this fondness for white institutions that is at the bot- tom of all his political troubles. The 1894, when his father died. He was’, HE Barbary nations, of which only | bigoted Moors desperately Moroceo retains its nominal inde- | thing that smacks of the ways of the land of | hated Christian dogs. resist any- The Sultan’s father and predecessor, Mulaji Hassan, died while on a punitive expedition against tribesmen, and his wily Grand Vizier, Si Ahmed Ben Mu- sa, concealed the fact of his death for two days, giving himself time to pro- claim the boy Abdul as monarch. Even the bearers of the imperial palanquin supposed they were carrying their living King instead of his corpse. A revolt led by an elder brother of the boy Bultan was quickly suppressed. ‘When his friend and Regent, the Grand Vizler, dled a few years later, the youth coolly helped him- self to all the dead man's possessions and took the relns of government into his own hands. Since then Abdul's throne has been menaced by various rev- olutions, which he has quelled more by bribery than by force of arms. The Sultan is usually hidden away in the palace of one of his two capitals, Fez and Marakesh, accessible from the coast by mere tracks only, and Impassable in winter. Foreign ministers and envoys are never admitted into his palace. On reception they wait patiently outside the walls bareheaded in the broiling sun until the monarch emerges on horseback, a gorgeous umbrella held over his head by a retainer, surrounded by courtiers and preceded by officers of state. The proces- sion passes in review before the humbled envoys and then marches back into the palace. Rural Moorish life is almost exactly like that of ancient Canaan in the days of ‘Abraham, except that the favorite popular amusement is pig-sticking. The port of Tangler is the point of contact between Morocco and <Europe, yet there is very little about the city that is Eu- ropean. There are not more than half a dozen wheeled vehicles in the city. In- deed, the crevices of streets are too narrow for any wider conveyance than a mule’s back; and if you chance to meet a mule you will have to walk back to the first cross-street and walt around .the corner until the animal passes. There are no telegraphs or roads in the coun- | try. “The Cup of Ls,ife. 5 We drink the cup of life; while yet Our eyes are bandaged tightly, The golden brim with tears is wet, With tear drops sparkles brightly. But when the bandage falls from eyes As Death appears before us, Then all the sweet enchantment flies That held dominion o'er us. Then we perceive the golden cup Was empty—empty ever; That Fancy filled the goblet up. And ours the draught was—never. —From the Russian of Lemontof. —_———————————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telenhone Main 1042. * L ————————— Townsend's Cala. Glace Frults, in ar- tistic fire-etched hoxes. New store now open, 767 Market street. . —————— A William and Mary copper farthing, dated 1692, \Intrinsic value half a cent, was sold the other day at auction in London for $35. Rockefeller has laid away enough in a safe spot sp he will not suffer during his old age.—Detroit Free Press. RN S E a3, Now they say that Charles J. Bonaparte once voted for Grover Cleve- land. Some new evidence of that man’s fitness for his job crops out almost every day.—Atlanta Journal. ———— % Mr. Depew has not yet offered any sprightly and amusing comment on the curtailment of his Equitable income.—Washington Star. —_— % Philadelphia doesn't dare to take a census since the reform,—New York Commercial. 3 g - xmhldy—tou'll have to pay in advance. Your e. 2 Boarder—Impressionable! pressionab! Prospective Landlady—Eastly moved. - WISE LANDLADY. — trunk 1s too Im- ‘What do you mean? here | and there the figure of a soldier, all| e R OCCIDENTAL | ACCIDENTALS By A. J. Waterhouse. Y BRI UT of Sonora a little way, Haply a mile, or haply two, lay Where a brook of the hills ran babbling through; And the bed of that brooklet is torn and rent By the hands of miners who toil no more, And the town is a corse with its lifeblood . spent, Or the dreary ghost of a dream of yore. Yet in and out, and gut and in, Through the street deserted, a phantom way, Alone and remote din, The tottering fget of Berner stray; And often he starts, for laughter shrill Seems echoing down the shadowy vale, ‘lrnm the mad world's As the laughter dies in an eerie wail; { Yet he patiently waits while his heart grows old— | But here is the tale that a miner told. 1 You might pile the riches of Georgetown high, Nugget of gold orf nugget piled, But its treasure of treasures, as none deny, Was a prattling babe, Tom Berner's child. Her little feet were with sunlight shod, Bidding the weariest heart rejoice, that God Spoke to the camp in her shrilling voice. So she wandered to and she flitted fro, Till a sad day dawned when she came not back; Then the boys turned out, and high and low They vainly sought for a tiny track. They- sought full high on the mountain The long dead city of Georgetown And again he sighs and his dim eyes fill| And the boys all said that'they knew | side, In the untrod dells that the trees hang o'er | And in canyons deep where the shadows ! | bide; | But they sought in vain, for she came | no more. iThenhBerner's brain went wrong. Quoth | e: | “I will walit till my darling comes to me.”” The years have come and the years have fled, And the miners’ town is a town no more; And the most of them walk with countless dead, ‘While a few yet dream of the days of yore. But still by his cabin Tom Berner sits, Old and wrinkled and worn and gray, And the sunshine glimmers and dances and flits ‘While he waits for the babe who passed that day. And sometimes he starts, for his dulling ears Hear a phantom step on a spectral sod, And his hands reach out g'er the gulf of years X To the babe asleep in the arms of God. And he says at eve as the sun swings low, For his heart is true though his brain be numb: “She has wandered to-day where I do not know, But to-morrow—to-morrow she'll surely come.” 5 And I know right well what my heart hath shown, s That the baby lips yet shall press his own. LORE OF THE FEMME DE CHAMBRE. F marriages are made in heaven it's surprisin’ how frequent and imme- diate the other place takes a hand in the subsequent proceedings. If the dood that said beauty unadorned is adorped the most had my place he'd notice a few things that would doubtless surprise him. It's true that circumstances alter cases. Many a stocking that is good enough for ordinary never would do on a windy or rainy day. The chap that is going to marry my young lady because her voice is so swect is due to receive a shock. A lady may dress for a ball, and she may dress for the seashore, but if she should try to dress for both at the same time she would be arrested. It's a wise girl that knows when to keep mum. You get more tips that way. T don’t know who 'twas said it, but he was a wise guy that remarked that a tip |in the hand is worth two in anybody’s pocketbook. Some folks say that us girls talk too much. If they knew the things we don’t tell they’d wonder that we talk so little. the WO men started to journey down the Highway of Life together. “If T could find an opportunity,” said one, “T should do great things. { But he never found the. obportunity. | There appeared to be none lying around loose. “I find no opportunity,” said the other man, “so I think I will make one.” Then he made his opportunity, and he carried it with him to the summit called Success. “Ah me!” sighed his fellow traveler, “if only I could have found such a perfectly splendid opportunity as my companion alar’ | "And his moans rent the atmosphere even unto the end of his vain journey. TO THE “FREAK” BRETHREN. ‘Why are musiclans not respected? e ¢+ ¢ T will tell you. * * * They have peculiarities that could be avoided and should be. Into such gross extravagnce de these eccentricities sometimes go that the perpetrators lose, in part at least, the respect of that world in which we live."— From the Berkeley address of Professor Albert Stanley.) S a very lowly brother of the quite A ertstic gang ‘Who part their hair amidships, let their tresses hang; ‘Who think a giddy necktie or the cos- tume of an ass Proves they are duly trotting in the great artistic class— or cl As a very lowly brother, though I vary ‘;ms‘ I trust, I say amen to Stanley’s words and claim that they are just; For a garb that yells “Attention! It for which you seek,” Doesn't prove that you're an artist, but it surely proves you freak. The “art” that finds expression in a mane your back to hump ‘Would be genuine without it, and it ‘wouldn’t prove you chump. The ‘“rare, etherial nature” that scoffs at custom’s way May prove that you're a genius, ot 1 wait to hear it bray. True talent needs no label, and it need not strut and swell— At that a peacock beats you, though you do It very well. the costumes that are Perchance men A mayhap they chuckle, “Fool!” smdmfitmgfi'fim For Instance, it is of the early bird caught T ! | that! sheer woolens—are fashioned as a finishing touch to the toilet only just beginning to make their water. The sleeve is unusually full The skirt is in finish. | between the puffs. plied beneath the heading of lace ders and extending in points to the frill finishes this all around. and ribbon make a sash in the back. GOWN OF HENRIETTA, WITH PELERINE TO MATCH. VAST pumber of the summer frocks—and especlally the soft and serve as a wrap when occasion requires; but really worn rather vellows that are so extremely fashionable in France. and which are There is a simple little blouse, slightly in front, and an empiecement of embroidery serves as a smart and falling in soft folds to the ankle, shape, very full, and with shawi-shaped pieces, broad over the, shoul- with a third piece, this intended to . The material is one of the new appearance on this side of the collarless, the throat cut out and puffy, with lace flounces spaced a circular cut, smooth over the hips where a circular flounce is ap«f and tucks. The pelerine is in cape center back and front. A ribbon a big loose bow and long ends of = P A Screen Door Episode & HE young man with the straw hat and the girl in the white summer gown have been saying good night for the last half hour. She clev- erly managed to let the screep door, which has been swinging to and fro as they stand there, swing shut. The young man finds himself suddenly on one side of the barrier, the girl on-the other. She (very sweetly)—Really, Dick, you must go home. Why don’t you? He (indignant at the situation)—I like Such a tender, thoughtful nature Come on back out here on What | as you have! the porch—I've a lot to say yet! on earth did yvou do that for? She (innocently)—Do what? He—Shut the door in my face. She—But you can talk just as well— your voice carries beautifully through the screen. He—I can't talk at long range. (Tries the door). She (dimpling)—Oh, I latched fit. can’t open it. He—Now, Mame, that is hntah‘:{ you! How can I talk in this ridicuk posi- tion? She—Seems to me you are doing very well. ‘What is it you have to talk about that is so awfully important? He—As though you didn't know! Tve been trying to tell you all evening. I be- Heve you are nothing more or less than a flirt, or you wouldn't torment me this way. Why don't you give me some sort of an answer? You know I love you— oh, hang it all, a man can’t say things like that through a screen door! She (calmly)—Oh, you are going to say things like that? ~ He (artfully)—1f you'd come out here on the porch you'd be more certain of the fact. Come on! She—It's rather fun not to be sure—to to be in a little doubt, you know. You see I can't be really sure back of this screen door—maybe the wires change the tone of your voice or even twist your words —one can't tell. He—T'd like to get hold of you for You Answers to Various Queries. Bl about two minutes! You're having lots of fun, agen’t you? She—Yol'll get your nose all black if you lean against the screen door! He—What was that? Say it Hang my nose! She (Judicially)—You have an excitable disposition, haven't you? Aren't you getting tired standing there? He—Decidedly I am! I'd go and sit dcwn if you'd come out, but you see the chairs are too far away for me to carry on a conversation with you under the present circumstances. I donm’t see why you don’t like me a little. She (deliberately)—Why, I do—a great deal. More than you can imagine! He (bitterly)~You wouldn't dream of suying that if you weren't back of that door! You don't mean it and you know 1! She (softly)—Yes I do, truly, Dick! dHe—You darling! I—oh, confound that loor! She (struggling with an Irresistible laugh)—Oh. but isn’t this funny! He—I'm glad you think so! I confess I don't see the joke. See here, Mame, are you coming out where I am or aren’t you? Because if you are not I shall be forced to remove the screen from a par~ lor window and come in that way! She—You can’t! They Besides you should be so overwhelmed with my saying what I did that you' be content to go right home and good night, He (bitterly)-T'd lilke to know how I'm to tell you good night through & screen door! You haven’t any heart! d I want to have you tell me seriously that you care for me. Do you really mean it? She (retreating farther into the room) —You know I do, Dick! He—At least come up again! you knew it. If you aren’t the That's right—I'd laugh if I were youlw Chicago News. e POPULATION—M. & P, City. Ae- cording to the census of 1900 the popu- lation of the United States was 76,303,- 387, of which 10,460,085 were of foreign birth. CORN—F. P. B, City. The five States producing the greatest amount of corn, in bushels, during . 1904 were: Illinols, 344,123, Iowa, 303,039,266; Nebraska, 260,- 942,335; Missouri, 151,522,643; Indlana, 143,- 396,852. MOROCCO QUESTION—A. O. 8., City. This department refers you to the files of The Call for the past tyo months for details of the Morocco troubles. The file may be seen in the reference-room of the Free Public Library. « CRIME—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. According to the United States census of 1850 the proportion of inmates of State prisons to each milllon of in- habitants was 292; in 1860 the number was 610, In 1870 it was 875, In 1830 WHY HE LEF Housewife—How long were you in your last plac Wi years. did you leave then? S—— - it was 1180 and in 1890 it was 115& The figures of the census of 1300 have not yet been given out INSURANCE COMPANY-M. 8 P, City. If you will go to the reference room of the Free Public Lidbrary and consult the file of The Call to be found there, you will be informed as to the in- surance company named and its trouble. This department cannot republish that ‘which has been such an attractive piece of news in the past few weeks. A FLAT—Anxious Subscriber, City. If a landlord rents a flat and gives a lease and subsequently he sells the p the new landlord is bound by the ti of the lease, but if it Is a month t month rental, the original or.the subse- guent landlord may change the terms of the lease, but if he desires the premises, he must give not less than fifteen days’ notice to the tenant of intention to have the premises restored to him. or of an increase of rent. -t!-rmm-.-.-