The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1905, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN ; SPR‘éCKm. '3 IEORIC U S . o ol SRR g ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN MCNAUGHT........00.ens «++:. . Manager _THIRD AND MAREET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO .NOVEMBER 13, 1905 - LAST WEEK A BRILLIANT ONE. AST week’s trade exhibit was brilliant as far as the important staples of the country were concerned. The Government issued its estimate of the corn crop, placing it at 2,707,993,000 L bushels, or about 100,000,000 bushels more than expected some time It also issued an estimate of the cotton crop, which indicated ago. a larger yield than anticipated, and which immediately broke' the cotton market. Complaints of scarcity of railroad cars increased, both in number and vehemence, from all parts of the country. Conditions in Wall street were rather peculiar and contra- dictory. In the very face of an advance in call money to 10 to 15 per cent the stock market not only held its own, but actually ad- vanced. This was abnormal and gave rise to a good deal of con- jecture, which crystallized into the general opinion that the rise in money was. artificial, not justified by current, conditions and was the result of manipulation by the banks, which sought by ad- vancing the money rates to restrain speculation, which was showing vmptoms of becoming reckless. Conservatism is the governing policy of the banks and great financial interests at present, and any lency toward overspeculation is met by prompt repressive measures, which is a wise course. It is realized that stocks are 2bout as high as they can stand without a further large increase in ; h, in view of the current abnormal activity in general is hardly to be expected; hence any further inflation of stock values would probably either lead to decreased dividends or | heavy liquidation, either of which would depress quotations and cause more or less distrust in all quarters. Hence the advancement | noney to 15 per cent. \Whether this theory is correct or not 1ains to be seen. { Another theory was that the money magnates were discour- | aging any Governmental assistance to the market and that &hey | are quite willing to have the rates high until they are able to com- plete their purchases of stocks. It is conservatively estimated that timid holders threw overboard more than 300,000 shares of stock | last week. The readiness with which these jettisoned holdings were | absorbed led close observers to rather anticipate another bull move- ment later on. | The showing of general trade was most excellent. Seasonal | weather increased the demand for clothing and other necessaries of | life, and the demand for holiday goods showed signs of breaking | the record. The bank clearings suddenly shot up from about 3 per‘; cent increase to 21.1 per cent over the corresponding week of last | year, with Cincinpati and Louisville the only important cities failing | to show an increase. Of the dozen leading cities New Qrleans | showed the largest gain—46.4 per cent—while San Francisco came next with 36.8 per cent, and Minneapolis third with 33.7 per cent. | Pittsburg recorded 14.7 per cent, New York 20.6 per cent, and so| on. This exhibit of the bank clearings was the best for some| weeks. Supplementary thereto was the advance in Dun’s “index | ‘ commodities to $103.853, the highest point | Hides rose to the highest point in forty years, | with an active market all over the of recent years according to Dun's repo: country. Cotton goods were reported becoming daily scarcer, with an active inquiry, and 1y lines sold away ahgad into next year. I'he failures for the week were 183, against 213 last year. The per capita of money in circulation also touched the new record of All these figures show that trade is not only holding its actually expanding, though it has heretofore been thought of expansion had been reached and that the best to $31.60. own, but that the ¢ limit be expected from now on would be the maintenance of current con- ditions. When this wonderful and persistent business expansion will cease is a question as far from determination as ever. Like a g snowball it seems to grow with every step. The dividend record is also making a most brilliant showing. 1e New York Journal of Commerce says that the total industrial dividends payable in November will exceed $15,000,000, an increase about $1.000,000 over the same month last year. This makes the aggregate for the ten months of the current year $232.400.000, an boy's 1¢ ncrease of about $18,000,000. No wonder that the - blic have been buying stocks and that the banks have found it i c.ssary to| advance rates of interest to check over-purchasing, if it be true | that they have. It is evident from all these exhibits that the prosperity has not vet reached the end of its rope. But conditions will bear watching. | It is the commercial history of this country that hard times have | been immediately preceded by a remarkable activity in general | business; so, without any desire to croak or throw cold water on | current trade conditions, it is as well, as the powerful financial | interests are now suggesting, to bear a watchful eye on financial | matters in order not to be caught napping should any sudden | reverse in conditions occur. It is well to remember the papular French saying that it is the unexpected that happens. S been rousing the New England States to renewed efforts and expectations for the passage of a bill by Congress that will revive the fortunes of American shipping. He has expressed so much confidence in the success of the pending measure that it seems reasonable to suppose he knows the opposition to Federal aid which has existed among some Western Republicans has been argued or persuaded away. He has concluded that certain plans that have been proposed to accomplish this aid to shipping are impracticable, and he strongly advises other methods which will reach good results without so much opposition. As if to emphasize his speech by practical illustration, there has recently sailed into Boston harbor the big steamship Missis- sippi, flying the American flag and bringing an enormously valuable cargo of hemp from the Philippine Islands. She is followed by her | sister ship, the Missouri, with a burden of sugar and hemp worth more than a million dollars. These two suggest the immensity of the commerce that might be fostered by American capital and car- ried in American bottoms. Tramp steamships, small and great, and fiying other flags than ours, are now doing the bulk of this trans- portation, which would be done by American ships if the bill to favor our marine were passed. According to Senator Lodge’s plans, the aid to shipping by the Government would not be an outright gift, but must be earned. He thinks that subsidies cannot be given because of the prejudice in this country against them; and that the plan of assistance by dis- eriminating duties is also impractical because to accomplish it would require the abrogation of thirty existing treaties. He mentions favorably a proposition to give bounties to American vessels in foreign trade and to pay the expense of which there would be an increase in port and light charges. These charges in this country, AMERICAN SHIPPING. ENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE has by his eloquence | the blamed thing 1s epidemical. he says, are extremely low, and he would raise them to a slight in- crease over what they are in England, thereby providing $2,000,000.4 - Another proposition is to remit port charges on ships carrying American naval reserve seamen. As thus planned our annual ex- penditure for aid would be $4,000,000; and this sum he says we could provide without a cent of new taxes on the American people. He points out that all the industries have been protected except shipping, and he wishes to place American marine development on an equal footing of competition with foreign vessels, which are amply subsidized and protected by bounties. A Virginia preacher has been suspended for six months for kissing a pretty girl. And yet church people wonder why more young men do not enter the ministry.—Kansas City Journal. N e e bl Some men are self-made; then they get married and their wives have to make them over again to make them respectable—Dallas News. L, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1905. ! I — e THE MODE PARISIENNE. OR a separate wrap of dressy design this illustration will offer several hints and suggestions to the clever dressmaker. The coat itself is of original cut, the back laid in one piece to the waistline, and the full- ness of the skirt deftly inserted beneath the strappings of lace that follow a bolero form all around the body of the coat. The fronts are - one-pleced likewise, the side lines of the figure cleverly indicated, and the front fasten- ing foilowing the extreme straight line that fashion so strenuously Insists upon in the later modes. The sleeve is very full at the top, supported witn haircloth flounce tacked upon the lining, so that they stand out in a square rather than a drooping line from the shoulders. A pendant cuff of circular cut makes a finish at the wrist. Cravette strappings of the material are crossed upon the bust, the velvet flb?on frilled edge making for a dainty THE CALL OF THE WEST BREATH of breeze that bears a scent of rose; fi A wreath of wind that wafts from’spruce and pinej An airy messenger the spirit knows, And leaps to hold communion with the sign. { | - + A melody of fruit and fields of wheat; A piercing cry of snow on mountain-crest; A sea-wave’s chant thac cataracts repeat— The wild, unsilenced calling of the West. A bloom of red that mingles with the gold; A coolness o’ impeénetrable .green; A froth of white, ifemadness, ocean rolled— And in the midst a spirit moves unseea. Unseen, but not unheard. The clarion note echoing and answering breast to breast; A brotherhood of yearning wakens, smote BY the wild, unsilenced calling of the West. —Pacific Monthly. s Lightning struck Bill Rupe's cowshed | handed in her resignation and expects to last night and this morning the cows |go on the stage and do opery stunts and gave sour mi'k. tight rope walking. Her father used to Spiral Maginnis has broken out again |drive a four-horse animal show wagon in this community and Doc Blank says | for Robinson's circus and got a big sal- ary. Lige McSwat and wife are visiting Joe | Ott Sidebotton is a great cut-up. Yes- Carvin's. Sister McSwat's bunions have | terday he pulled a chair out from under been cured and she feels quite chipper [ bis mother-in-law just as she was sitting again, thanks to Malinda Gulliver's bun- | down to dinner and she sot down so hard jon eradicator. she bit a piece off her tongue.—Okmulgee Doremus Attwater's hired girl (1.T.) Democrat. THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE. has Orville Gaulie—It is my integtion to marry your daughter, sir. I have considered the step I am about to take. i Old Billyuns—You have, eh? ‘Well, 1 have an idea you're going to take about elght steps without touching them. WHAT DID HE MEANT Mrs. Weeds—The last thing my husband did was 'to kiss me. Mr. Kidder—Then 1 suppose he was ready to die. Farmer Korntassel—Waal, 100 bad you recelved the notice of my little hhl:fl'l Blrth!:'oo ‘:a‘; to put iIn t paper. Y, yer think of a good name for her? Editor (of the Bingtown Bugle) —Sure; call her Ad. delayed. Occidental Accidentals BY A, J. WATERHOUSE. TO PHILADELPHIA—GREETING. P e e T BoaeIoRiein the recent election.) \ ATR city of our brotherhood, Great eity of the kindly Penn, ‘Whose genial spirit ruled thee when The wilderness did round thee brood, For this, the word that now we hear, The splendid word that brings us cheer; For that thy knaves are put to rout, That men are in and rascals out— “ Our greeting! Thy birth was high, thy fall was great— 1 What then? They’ll learn at last, no doubt, That Evil does not Evil rout, That Right must represent the Right, That rainbows shine not in the night. And when that day has come at last, ‘When black corruption’s sway is past, He journeyed north, and he journeyed south, Through lands of plenty and lands of A drouth; Then, wearied o'ermuch with the cease-| less quest, He returned to the land that he loved the best— / 8o sheer a fall from such estate— Where Penn had dreamed that worth should rule The dastard schemer worked his will To rob thy bank and tap thy till; Corruption taught her shameful school, While voters whom she used as tool Forever graced the dunce’s stool; And e’en thine olg and honored name ‘Was lisped as onym of shame. Foul, trait'rous scoundrels ruled thee then— But that is past, and so, again, Our greeting! We know right well our greetings halt, And still hark backward to our fault, For that which thou hadst grace to do, To vomit forth the recreant crew, Somehow we missed—ah, tears and rue! Our David no Goliath slew. But still tl‘e lesson thou hast taught . ‘We'll not forget, we yet will heed, That men may rise to stalwart deed And set the plans of knaves at naught, ‘We note the lesson thou hast taught, That soon or late the thief is caught, That rascalry shall reach its end; And so, with thanks, to thee we send bt Our greeting! We:ate not wed to knavery here ¢ ough to some it might appear Buch were the case); We're merely blind, And unto folly half-inclined. ‘We own some thousands who suppose A stench befits the fairest nose, That claws are ofra lambkin’s toes; That by supreme, celestial laws (To which some give their votes’ applause) A knave must represent a cause; And so their birthright they betray, And barter for a sodden mess, ‘Which may not help, which cannot bless, In Esau’s old and simple way. Then, echoing back, shall ring this way ‘The greeting that we send to-day; For Philadelphia, knavery-clear, ‘We know right well that we shall hear Thy greeting! HE JOURNEYED. He journeyed east, and he journeyed west, 1In search of the peace that should be his guest; The land he had left, and, lo, he learned That, peace was its dweller that he had spurned. “Ethel's now gown cost $39 “Yes? What did she do with the re- mainder of the bill?" “She gave it to the poor, but she is quite disgusted with the resuit.” “Why s0?" “She says they didn’t seem to show any appreciation at all of her generosity with them.” Of all the things that need our thanks, If T may have a thought at it, Let's add this one unto their ranks— That we have not been caught at it. “Mrs. Golitely made a particularly fine cake the other day ' “How do you know?" . “I happened to overhear her telling her at the table that she be- lfeved it was the worst cake she had ever made.” Scatter deeds of kindness ' ‘Wherever you may And, while you're seatt'ring, A few of them at home, For deeds of kindness scattered Are scarcely worth a whoop If they're always scattered somewhere ‘Without the family coop. atter “What made Mabyl break her engage- ment with young Payne?” “Why, she said that the more she saw of him the more he gave her one.” AH STUBS ALONG. Ah stubs erlong an' Ah bahks mah ehins— Glory ter de Lawd, Ah say!— An' Ah ’'lows Anh's los' in de bog ob sins, But glory ter de Lawd, Ah say, h ebry time dat Ah stubs mah toe Ab knows de place whah Ah bes’ not go, An’ mah shins git well ef dey hab er ghow; 8o glory ter de Lawd, Ah say. Ah knows er heap dat Ah don’ knmow "tall— Glory ter de Lawd, Ah say!— ‘W’en Ah's puff up mos' den Ah’'s gwine ter , An’ it's glory ter de Lawd, Ah say. A po’ brack niggah may be fool, Ah know, But de Lawd keep er school whah he hab show. er . An' his brack be white es de driben snow; So it's glory ter de Lawd, Ah say. A MAN AND A WOMAN WERE WED. A man and & woman were wed one day— Ho .and oho when Cupid is young!— And their record read in the old, old way, - For the man and the woman had each a tongue; And a tongue may say what were bet- ter uynsald: “That is, if the love is dead—is dead, And no word is recalled when it onece has sped— Ah, for the hopes to the desert flung! A man and a woman were wed one day— Ho and oho when Cupld is young! And thanks to the God who has shown us the way To ilhne? the temper and curb the For Love is fairer than all beside, Msd‘”fllofhhm is fair and Mum Before Breakfast. BY ANGELA MORGAN. A Splendid Rule for Wives to Follow Is to Keep i WOMAN afks me to suggest some plan to prevent well-meaning hus- bands and wives from bickering and quarreling. She confesses to being unable to control the situation, so far as she and her husband are concerned. *““We love each other dearly, but never- theless we do Ret on each other’s nerves and quarrel bitterly at times, I can not understand it. We start out each morn- ing with the very best intentions, but be- fore we have sat down to breakfast we have snapped each other up a dozen times and sald a hundred hateful things we ought not to have said. Is it fiervous- ness, natural meanness, or what, that goads us on? We have both prided our- selves on our good nature, but now we aré beginning to look upon ourselves as flends. Please suggest some rule to over- come this.” It so often happens that we human be- ings, while seeking methods of conquer- ing our difficulties, slight the very sim- plest, easlest rules lying close at hand. Perhaps the writer of the above letter will not see much beauty in the sugges- tion I shall give her for her benefit and for the benefit of others in the same plight. I would say to her, However: Don’t laugh at this simple little rule, commonplace though it may seem, for it will bring the answer to your problem pnd that is what you want. ‘Well, then, ‘this is the remedy. Don’t address your husband, if you can avold it, during that nebulous period when he is disentangling his wits from the land of dreams. Neither should you permit him to at- tempt conversation with you during that critical time. To be more concise—keep mum before breakfast. From what you write it is safe to assert that either one or both of you belong to that class of persons that find it exceedingly difficult, in the morning, to adjust themselves to the waking world. It is a fact familiar to us all that upon waking from sleep many grown-ups, +* - as well as children., are cross, B fussy and wretehedly unsociable. The secret of this is that these unfortu- nates experience keen difficulty—aimost | pain—in gaining control of the voluntary mind. » The involuntary mind-the mind that con- trols one during sleep—is only partia under the command of the will at t time. The result is that the half-ws ened one is sensible of great inharmony; | 4 distressed, irritable, not himseif. | "It sometimes takes such a one an hour. or even two hours, to gain complete con- trol of his voluntary mind. Not until hs ldues achieve this is he fully himseif. For this reason it is not only foolish, but very unwise, fex any¥ one to attach |ty ce to his moods or his words before this time. It is unkind and waste of time to "“answer back” or re { prove him when he gives utterance : hateful remarks. He should be let alon until he reaches that adjustment wh he is really accountable for what he sa The same rule that applies to a hungry husband applies %o one not fully awake. Don't attempt to enteffain him: don't talk to him; let him alon€ until he is him- self. A, Not onty should wives ‘employ forbear- ance with husbands, but husbands should be equally considerate of wives in this matter. 3 Indeed it would be weil if every mem ber of a family recognized this prin in dealing with one another. to assert that, if this rule was universally observed, a vast amount of friction and inharmony in households would be en tirely done away with and the divorce lawyers given a long vacation. Perhaps that Des Moines woman, Mrs. Rosalle Pohlman, who had to divorce her hysband because he was such a “grouc and because he refused to laugh at her Jokes, made the error of springing those jokes before breakfast. If she did, she would not be greatly surprised at what happened. Keep mum before breakfast s a 1y fule, but a good one, ‘as you will cover when you try It | A i ome- dis- REVIVAL OF AN OLD GRUDGE ———— e - ETTER from Mr. James Hillary to Mrs. Hillary:— “‘Syracuse, July 6, 1905. “Dear Sallle: I am dead tired to- night. Traveling is hard work; still it has its compensations. You certain- Iy get a lot of good things to eat at | these big hotels. I enclose the meru | | for to-night's dinner. That soup with | the French name was simply out of | sight. The roasts and . entrees and | salads were enough to stir up an ap- petite in a wooden Indian. How are | the kids? Love to all. Yours, JIM. “P. 8.—The coffee they give you here | is the best ever.” Letter from Mrs. Hillary tg Mr. Hil- | lary: “New York, July 3 | “Dear Jim: The children are well. I am glad you enjoy your meals. “SALLY.” Letter from Mr. Hillary to Mrs. Hil- | lary. with mental interpolations on the part of the writer: | “July 15. | “Dear Sally: I am begining to get mighty tired of this hotel cooking. (That is a lie, but I've got to say some- thing to square myself for that break I made last week.) Everything tastes | the same—just like sawdust. 1 thought when I was eating a while ago that I'd give a dollar for one of your delicious dinners. I am afraid I shall have to glve up traveling. My system, I feel | sure, will not stand tue messes a fellow | is compelled to eat in hotels and res- taurants. I have indigestion already. | I am afraid I shall never be a well man again till I get back to good home cooking. The coffee they serve here is vile. When I get to Bur- lington, next week, I think I shall try to make arrangements to stop at your cousin Belle’s. I shall have to be there for a week, perhaps longer, and decent quiet may give me a chance to recup- erate. Of course, I don't know any- thing of Belle’s cooking. but as she is your cousin there is a likelihood of her | sharing the family talents. Anyway, I 1 have business with Belle’'s husband. He has an important pesition with the National Steam Power Company, and if ‘I can only get him interested in my plans I can put through a deal that | will net him and me a thousand dollars apiece. Howeover, I have to handle him with care. He is one of the touchy | sort. Yours, . ! Mrs. Hillary to Mr. Hillary: | “July 18. “Jim, Dearest: I am awfully worrfed about your health. I am sure you must be worn to a skeleton. Thank good- | ness you are going to get away from | those horrid hotels for a few days. I have written to Belle, telling her of your proposed trip to Burlington. I am sure she will be delighted to enter- tain you. Like you, Jim, dear, I know nothing about her cooking, but—we QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY. Writing under the pseudonym ‘“Peter Rabbit” in Harper's Magazine for No- vember, a well-known naturalist discusses the question of immortality as viewed from the standpoint of the rabbit, who is supposed 10’ be Writing the article: “Among all your hopes there is none that for an instant compares in value with your persistent hope in a personal immortality. Because of its very great- ness it has aroused the most doubt and questioning. Indeed, that it is too good to be true is perhaps the only argument against it; and the rabbit dismisses this with the reflection that the great and good thing that you now enjoy. “Of late, however, men are everywhere asking the old question of Immortality over again. There have been many tribes men who denied immortality to their ‘women, while cherishing it for themselves and their horses. Only as the race grew in civilization were the rights of women recognized, until, I am told, men are now inclined to base their future hopes upon their wives and mothers, rather than upon their own virtues: and it was in- evitable that, as civilized men enlarged thelr charity and their experience, they should consider 2 £ — must hope for the best. Let me know what kind of table she does set, any- way. With much love, SALLIE.” Mr. Hillary to Mrs: Hillary, with more unwritten reflections: “BURLINGTON, July 24. “Dear Sallie: As a housekeeper your cousin Belle is a failure, by comparison, you understand, with some others 1 know. I don't like to complain (heaven knows I have no cause to, for 1 nevqrq sat down to such good grub in my life), and wouldn’t to anybody but you, but the fact is I fare worse here that at hotels. Belle certainly does run her house on cheeseparing prineiples. 1 have gone to bed hungry every night since I have been here. She buys meats and vege- | tables of an Inferior quality (what a confounded yarn that is) and then serves them either underdone or burned to a crisp. I tell* you, Sallle, the longer I stay away from home the more clear- | Iy T realice that there is only one real housekeeper in the land, and that is— you. (There, that ought to be enough soft soap to keep the domestic ma- chinery running smoothly for six months.) Yours, JIML” Mrs. Hillary to her cousin Belle: “NEW YORK, July 2 “Mr. Dear Belle: I am sorry to have to write this way to you. I am sorry that the old grudge you bore against me as a girl is still alive, and that you are now taking it out on my dear hus- band. If you didn't want Jim to stay at your house why didn't you say so? Since you invited him to visit you, why do you insult him? I have his word for it that that is what you do. He says he goes to bed hungry every night. He says you buy tainted meats and vegetables and then only half cook them or else burn them to a cinder. I am so indignant at such treatment that 1 simply cannot contain myself. I could have stood any kind of affront of- fered to me personally and never have said a word, but to my husband—never. Of course, I don’t expect you to go to a lot of extra trouble and expemse on his aecount, but you might at least give him something fit-to eat. Your cousin, Mr. Hillary to Mrs. Hillar; “BURLINGTON, Aug. 1. “Sallle: Good Lord, Sallie, what do you mean by writing Belle such a blast You've v as you sent her last week? played the devil with my plans now. “Her husband is sd mad he won't speak to me. That deal I had on hand is quashed. I'll come home poorer by several hundred dollars than when 1 went away, and you have mnobody to thank for it but yourself. Why can't you women mind your own business, anyhow? Yours, J Mrs. Hillary to Mr. Hillary: “James: I have learned for the thou- sandth time that it is impessible to please a man. Hereafter I shall not try. SALLIE. “P. 8 Idon't care, now, whether you ever get anything fit to eat or not.” MAYOR OF OAKLAND THANKS THE CALL +EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. CITY OF OAKLAND, CAL. FRANK K. MOTT, MAYOR. November 10, 1905, John McNaught, Esq.. Manager San Franciseo Call. San Francisco, Cal. Dear Sir: As Mayor of this city I feel it incumbent on me to thank you on behalf of our whole community for the editorial published a few days ago in The Call. entitled “Oakland and the east side growing.” An | editorial of this nature, based on facts capable of the most conspie- uous proof to any intelligent ob- server, written in such a readable style, with a great newspaper like The Call standing as its sponsor, cannot fail to redound in helping Oakland quicken its pace in the grand march of progress which we all believe it has successfully started on. Once more thanking you on be- half of our people and assuring you