The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1905, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1905 RANCISCOCALL THESANF JOHN D. SPRECKELS ADDR! JOHN McNAUGHT. _THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, BAN NOVEMBER 20, 1005 ANOTHER RECORD WEEK IN TRADE. HE improvement in trade noted a week ago was still further vated last week, which was almost a record breaker. in business all over the country was marked. iounted to the vast total of $3,439.469,000, the ninety cities and towns reporting clearings neapolis, Louisville and Detroit were the g losses, and these were so small that More wintry weather and the s imparted a pronounced stimulus i e expansion bank cle s arng thirteen ot holid ay 1 1 le all over the country, and collections ted prompt. The manufacturing plants re- occupied, many of them working overtime -rs, while a scarcity of labor was reported in a number s were congested with traffic, and the usual ity of cars were heard. The metal markets , with higher prices for copper, tin and lead, p to 644 cents, the highest price in three years v goods ket was so closely sold up that jobbers > to secure goods from the manufacturers, were n one another. litions point to a continuation of the wonderful which has been with us for seven or eight years, | yet shown any signs of having reached its limit. to commercial history as the most remarkable | s ever witnessed in the United States. There 1 the country and people are so flush that pro- | le to fully fy the consumption, except in a propor American population are living | in their most sanguine hours. | re of the week was the Russian situa- market in an unsettled condition and ependence of nations. Russia has for out feelers for a very large loan, which they ever dreas nly disturbing feat kept me vhout the distracted empire. All on was additionally affected by | its of nal stock markets and attracted the the country. Caution in financial | observed and the stock market re- ¢ movements, being buoyant one day posted men in Wall street have for | hother bull movement in stocks, high as outbreak has thrown their calculations | the general run of stocks are as high as| a dividend basis, and that any further advance but the financiers evidently think otherwise. ing dropped from a number of posted quarters further bull movement at this timg is the to still further advance quotations in order | heir liberal holdings of securities upon the t the load from now on. They | if the Russian situation clears. With this | nated the present is certainly the psycho- ch a coup, for everybody has money and is no matter how, if there is half a chance of ut of it. In the present optimistic frame of the n era of reckless speculation would be an easy matter though the result might prove disastrous in the Conditions California are now largely dependent upon the The prolonged dry spell began to affect some lines of M last week. ines had to close down owing to shortage of ion of electrical power was also menaced. here and there. Plowing was discontinued on some ions, and apprehensions of a dry winter were expressed. But it is yet too early for talk of this sort. Some of the best seasons we have known have followed dry falls and the whole winter is yet before us. No living man can predict the weather, 1 we may be complaining of too much rain in sixty days. Mean- sec and while we are doing an active business, with plenty of money in the banks, labor fully employed, collections good and farm products bringing excellent prices with one or two exceptions, real estate active and building operations proceeding on a vast scale, hence forebodings as to the future are unnecessary at present. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof E of noted players and theatrical managers on a page of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The question put for discussion is whether a serious ethical purpose—a moral lesson, or a fragment of human experience that uplifts the spectator, is desirable in a play. The discussion was precipitated by a controversy between Clyde Fiteh and the Ledger’s dramatic critic as to whether the former's plays contained such purpose. Without trying to settle the dispute between them, it is noteworthy that Fitch claims that his ambition and endeavor is always to put that uplift-to-humanity effect in his work. He laments that he does not always succeed in “getting this over the footlights.” The net result of the whole page of opinions is just about what his own common sense would tell each individual without his going to experts for an opinion. A serious play should always have a serious ethical purpose. That moral quality should not, however, be obtruded in such a way as to make itself so important that art could be ignored in its presentation. The stage is not a pulpit, ‘and fine acting is not so direct a preaching of ethics as the pastors give us, al- though it might by the aid of art convey a lesson in conduct too subtle to be developed in any sermon. Then there are plays that are rightly not intended to be serious. They are to amuse. It may be said that just to amuse is, in a sense, a serious purpose, for it is a need of humanity, and no doubt the Creator gave us laughter for a serious purpose. Some of the players point out to us that even the portrayal of crime, if done artistically true to nature, has a serious ethical purpose; and also that the representation of heartrending griefs is of ethical usefulness, for they lift us from self-satisfaction or seli-pity to heights of sympathy for our fellow-beings. The public should take note that the players think that the fault of the plays being not universally up to a higher standard is attributable to the public’s taste. They give us what we call for and are willing to pay for. Grace George puts it this way: “Dramas of serious purpose are rated far below par in the theatrical mart, and for that reason the stage of to-day is not the educator it ‘should be.” As for the manner and method in which plays should be ethical. Henry Miller expresses it very well when he quotes in regard to this serious purpose that it should not be “a round unvarnished tale.” The symposium as a whole would serve as quite an argument for our need of an endowed theater, where art need not condescend too much to seek box-office results. SERIOUS PURPOSE PLAYS. THICAL purpose in drama is made the subject of a symposium President Roosevelt fired 2 boiler before he left the West Virginia. It is not stated what the boiler had been caught at.—Chicago Journal. PRI i . 75 President McCall says that there are two sides to the insurance business, but he seems to hate awfully to show the inside.—Atlanta Journal. e It seems those filtration plants in Philadelphia were attached mainly to the City Treasury.—Baltimore Sun, | | been floated a fortnight ago had not this last | came affected by the Russian con—% | money wherewith to move the | high rates, with violent daily fluctuations. | Will Stick Richest Woman in United States, Hetty Green, Seventy Years Old To-Morrow, to Business. e b Sl e RS. HETTY H. R. GREEN to- morrow will celebrate her seven- tieth birthday, and round out also her fortieth year as a business wo- man, during which time she accumulated $50,000,000. The wealthiest woman in America started with a fortune of $9,000,- 000, left by her father. She has no idea of retiring from business. “Why should I give up work?” she asked the other day. “I was never more capable of managing affalrs. Besides, business has become a habit with me after so many years of it. “Yes, I have had a hard time of it. There is no place on earth where women are so persecuted as here. Our heiresses have a harder time even than the Indian REMARKABLE TWINS. Born the same day, married the same day and so much alike that their own husbands are only able to tell them apart by means of their wedding rings, | Mrs. Thomas Evenden and Mrs. Charles Allen of Bondurant find themselves for the first time in their lives sleeping in separate rooms and under different roofs, says the Sioux City, Iowa, cor- respondent of the St. Paul Dispateh. The startling similarity of the “Hall twins,” as they have been widely known, has long been an object of much curiosity in Central Towa. the same day and in the same hour, but they were baptized the same day, start- ed to school the same day, donned new dresses and new hats on the same day and were always scrupulously careful to have their wearing apparel exactly alike to the veriest detail. Their ened them Mamie and Minnie, but were always at the mercy of the girls when it came to identifying them. If one was to be fayored over the other the other invariably secured a compromise by stoutly maintaining that it was she whom they really intended to favor end that her sister was temporarily an tmpostor. So, too, when it came to ad- ministering reprimands and punish- ment. The offender had but to say it | was her sister who was the culprit | and start an argument between them as |to who had given offense to cause a permanent suspension of hostilities. When they wanted to be god they wore different styles of ties and dif- ferent rings so as to enable thelr parents to differentiate. ‘When they became old enough to have suitors the aspirant for the favor of either of the twins found himself at the mercy of the other. If the latter insisted that she was the one he was wooing he was unable to successfully argue the point. Consequently they forced their suitors to come in pairs, and, so long as both were thoroughly satisfied, they wore their rings and ties in such a manner as to enable the young men to tell which was Mamie and which Minnle. An unfortunate mix-up was narrowly averted at the altar last Wednesday, when the double marriage took ‘place that separated them for the first time in their lives. Their trousseaus were exactly allke and the minister and re- spective grooms had to take their words for it as to which they were marry- ing. Knowing they were capricious, the grooms feared a practical joke. LOOK BEFuKs YOU BLOW. Smokers have heard much in these days of microbes of the disinfecting powers of the fumes of tobacco; so much, in- deed, that the practice of blowing a whiff of clgar smoke into the speaking bell of a telephone to discourage any germs that muy be there lurking has become a pretty geueral habit. One frequent user of the phone, however, is only now recovering from the lesson which taught him, a few weeks ago, never to blow before he looks, and it is probable that he will not again so windy, whether he looks or not. the occaslon In question the smoker blew a whiff of a fragrant Havana into the phone, when there emerged from the dark interlor a winged fury in the s of a wasp, which lit on the nose of blower and lost no time In lasting impression. In the suddenness of his retreat the smoker knocked over o $30 vase, which was smashed, and dam- aged a typewriting machine by lettin the telephone receiver fall on it. nose is only now assuming its normal he a Not ! only did they come into the world on parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hall, christ- ¢ MRS. HETTY H. R. GREEN. l widows, who can at least burn them- selves on the funeral pyres.of their hus- bands. . “I have been more abused and misrep- resented than any woman alive. Perfodi- | cal attempts have been made to have me declared insane, and for forty years I have had to fight every inch of the way.” The wealth of Hetty Green is widely diversified. Her real estate holdings | fairly freckle the face of the country. Her mortgages embrace some of the safest properties in a chain of cities ex- tending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Railroads, steamboats, mines of copper, gold and iron, telephones and telegraphs all contribute to her income, and it is her proud boast that not one investment is a losing proposition. B — ) YELLOW JOU:NALISH, Editor (as reporter enters; of the murder case? ey oms Reporter (gloomily)—None whatever. Editor—Didn’t you see Detective Find- | later? Reporter—Yes; while I was trying to get 1 some information out of him, a passer-by pointed out casually that his tie had | worked up the back of his neck and the detective made that an excuse to leave me | hastily, Editor—Do you mean to tell me that you | don’t see something sensational in that? i Reporter—I don’t see anything in it. Editor—Then you're no good at report- ing, young man. Here, Smith, take this | down quickly and see that it gets displayed: g THE GREAT MURDER CASE. IMY!TEBIOUE STRANGER GIVES IN- FORMATION TO THE POLICBE. While our special correspondent was in conversation with Detectlve Findlater this afternoon a stranger came up and volunteered some important information, the nature of which we are not at pres- ent at liberty to disclose. The detective ment and at once acted upon it. Further developments will be awaited with in- terest. There, young fellow, this is a truthful paper, and we want facts, but facts | must be put before the public in an in- telligent and attractive manner!—Punch. D ———— IS IT OR 15 IT NOT? Is your teeth loose? Does your gums bleed when washing? Is your teeth decayed? Does your teeth need cleaning? Is your teeth crowded and stand crooked in your mouth? If you are troubled with any or more of the above conditions call on Dr. Seal and he will gladly advise you. clan—See here; you a_political jobber in ‘The Politl called me ¢ your paper this morning. The Editor—I know; but the ipositor made a mistake. He ascertained the truth of the man's state- | OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS By A.J. W_gterhouse. NEW WOMAN AND THE OLD. WOMAN who was New once met A a woman who was Old, and after she had pulled down her vest and adjusted her cravat carefully she looked at the latter woman somewhat super- ciliously. “So you are a woman of the old style, are you?’'she sald. “I trust that I am,” the woman that was Old responded, with a pleasant smile. “Well, I am a New Woman, I would have you understand. I have devoted my life to teaching my poor sisters how they are crushed and trodden under the ruthless heel of Brute Man.” 2 “Have they seemed to grasp the idea?” “Well, not as entirely as I coilld wish, but I live in hope—I live in hope. And from the platform, again and again, I have denounced the tyranny of Man, and have declared that he must sink to the level where his selfish brutalism places him.” “Has he sunk any, so far as you have observed ?” “Well, no: I cannot say that he has, but I live in hope—I live in hope.” “I cannot see that your Newness has accomplished so much.” “Perhaps not, but I live in hope. And what have you accomplished?” “I have loved and helped my husband. I have reared four children, and two of them are good and useful men and citi- zens and two of them are women of whom any mother might be proud—I guess that is all” “It is strange,” the New Woman re- marked, “how some women are joined to their idols!” But two men who had heard the con- versation drew near to the woman who was Old, and one of them placed his arm about her on the one side and sald “My wife!” and the other placed his arm about her on the other side and said “My mother!” and there was infinite tender- ness in their voices. And the New Woman still is wondering, but there is something that God planted in the heart of the Old Woman which will not permit her to wonder in the least. HE CARED FOR HIMSELF. He cared for himself as he jogged along, Angd he cared not a whit for another, For he never had heard the celestial song ‘That rings in the words “My brother.” Yet he sometimes paused to wonder a bit ‘Why his heart and his soul were lonely, But never he changed his creed a whit: “Myself, and my small gelf only.” ! But he died one day—for we all must sleep— ‘With a soul to mourn him never, For the people cried, “Now, why should we weep For_the one who spurned us ever?’ And I'a sooner be the veriest clod, Loathed by the world, and lonely, Than he who sleeps 'neath the senseless sod, And who cared for his small self only. ALFALFA PHILOSOPHY, They’'s two things that is spoiled by | bein’ fam’ly pets. One's your dog an | the other's your child. Leastways it's 80 onless they’s oncommon good stuff in ‘em. I've saw parents persist in sp'ilin’ their children all through their youth jan’ then devote the rest of their years to sadly wond'rin’ what in thunder | afled the young folks. I could hev | told their pas an’ mas, too, but | 'twouldn’t hev done any good. Fire’s more valu'ble an’ some of us reflec’'s. The on'y way lots of us ever learn anything's by puttin’ our han’s in it I s'pose a hen's the dumdest fool Providence ever made till I git to watchin’ some men—then I ain’t nigh so_certain. I don’t know whether we've all de- scended frum monkeys er not, but if | we have I've certain seen some fellers | 'at showed a good deal of a tendency to relapse. | The more we study the lives of | saints an’ heroes the more some of us must wish 'at we could hev ben there | at the time to hev throwed a stone at ‘em. We prove it by the way we treat our saints an’ heroes to-day. “I just dote on some poetry.’ “What makes vou do so?” “Why, it reminds me so much of cer- tain friends of mine—just drivel along, and never say anything.” “Briggs says that he belleves in pre- destination because it is a rellef to his mind.” “How does he make that out?” “Why, he says that If Driges was not predestined to be a stultified imbecile there would be no way of accounting for the success he makes of the role.” A boy may smoke, as his father does; He may ‘‘cuss,” as his father can: But both of the arts, when quite acquired, Will fafl to make him a man. “0ld Boozem says that life throws no nosegays'at him.” “Well, he might find compensation in the thought that he manages to keep hig nose gay enough to hold things fairly even.” “He never earned a penny in his te.” “That's where you are left.” “When did he do such a thing?” “You know that a penny saved is a penny earned.” g 4 “So I bave heard.” “Well, his aunt gave him a penny of A “VERY BEST” FROCK FOR THE MISS OF 15. IMPLE lines are best liked for the misses’ frocks, but any suggestion of | severity should be avolded and for to lend grace to this somewhat awkward age. a smart model developed in Alice blue henrietta, the skirt made in box pleat between which is set a shaped flounce. panels, -, . MIRROR OF DAME FASHION .. .- £32 sufficient freedom of outline provided The illustration is The bedice shows an effee- Yive application of hand embroidery—one of the features of this season's fashions, and one which, by the way, henrietta is splendidly adapted to. ‘A double collar of the cloth is finished on the edge with a double ruffle done in scallops in a darker shade of silk, with a tiny line of gold cord following the outline. of gold, edges the collar, the. bands that encircle the sleeve at elbow height. A vine pattern in the dark blue silk, with touches and this appears at the top of the stock and on Straps of dark blue velvet ribbon of the shade of the embroidery silk outline a vest effeet in the front, and cross below fined under a narrow girdle and sash of the same velvet. 1 touch of elegance in this costume 1S the footwear, the hesiery 'a stripe of a light and dark blue, and the shoes shiny leather pumps tied with bows of the velvet. the shoulder blades in the back, the ends con- The finishing B ——— LEARN HOW TO LOAF By Dorothy Fenimore. | +____———————————-——+ RETIRED army officer has dis- A covered, upon returning to Amer- jca after a two years’ sojourn in Europe, that in his- absence from home he has become expatriated—mnot from a lack of patriotism from his na- tive land, but because he is unable to find in the United States company for his idle hours. Now he is on his way back to Europe, where there are other scientific loafers like himself. By forty-five hard years in the army he has earned, he feels, a right to loaf. And as a friend of his has put it, while this is the greatest land that the sun | shines on as long as you keep working, it's no atmosphere to loaf in. How far right he Is we all of us know who now and then take a day off, and try to spend it in scientific or artistic loafing. There's nobody to loaf with. Every one is too busy—making | money or spending it—to have any time to loaf and invite their souls. ‘We know how to work in America, to work magnificently, Titanically. But we don’t know how to live. We spend our precious youth with our noses to the grindstone and get so nearsighted doing it that when, our labor finished, we lift our eyes to take a panoramic view of the world about, we find our- selves too blind to see any farther than the grindstone. I have become old enough to look with appreciative longing back to that time when I had seen eight summers only, and puddles In the roadway were such a temptation to my lagging feet that it took me half an hour to walk one block on my way home from school. For sometimes now I get in so im- patient a mood, in my eagerness to get ahead toward a goal which lures me on, no less because it is but dimly comprehended, that even at grand opera I feel annoyed because the actors keep me, and the rest of the audience, waiting so long while they stand around and sing. The man who cannot be,left alone with his thoughts is a characteristic American type. You all know him. On the railroad he buys a paper or a maga- sine. Left alone in the evening he plays solitaire. Anything but think. I have seen this sort of man In Europe. Rarely does he find the con- solation in exile which apparently re- conciles our retired army officer to it. 1797 when he was a mere child, and he has saved it ever since then.” \ ~ .~ A FEW SMILES WITH THE BREAKFAST FO0OD .. .- “LADY MOON, LADY MOON.,” “You poets always refer to the rd llkhh.to know consid- “Well, you see, nobody knows Just how old the moon really is.” In his peregrinations in search of pleasure he looks more lonely than does 'ADAYS. He—I want get a fancy job where I do very little work for a very great deal of money. She—Become- a medical spe- clalist. a solitary horseman on a snowy coun- try road. And not unlike him in rest- lessness is the plutocratic but uncul= tured American woman, whose career across continents resembles the undu- lating, capricious flight of birds. How fortunate is one who has loafed wisely in the impressionable days of youth, who has kept alive within his breast a capacity for companionship. a receptivity to the white fervor of faith, the warm rapture of pure and simple Joy! Think what a blessing it is to have a quiet hour at the close of a busy day, when one may stand still, and. proud and self-contained, like an island in the midst of the current, reveling in memory in the delicate wildness of a bit of clover tangle, in a white mist that lingers over river meadows. What an incomparable pleasure to stop in the rush of affairs for a mo- mentary recollection of the charm of a | cloistered garden, mossgrown amid its wealth of transplanted flowers, or the beauty of poppy flelds undulating their slow way up the hillside. If you don't learn to loaf when youw'r: young, you will never learn how. Whe: you have made your fortune you a not going to be perfectly happy spend- ing it In Europe among other loafers, for you will be too American for that. Besides, when you have worked too long and too hard without relaxation you lose ability to enjoy, to appreciate, to loaf. ‘What's the use of this kind of suc- cess, anyway? The Cave of Mammon is not nearly so cozy and habitable as smaller, less expensive quarters. BIBLE ON ruOTBALL. (Bastern papers are surprised at the announcement that the football team of the Ohio University Is studying the Bible.) By searching the Scriptures the foot- ball player will find many texts sulted to the game and how it should be played. Glance at the list: “They RUSH with one accord."-Acts, xix., 29. “Many shall RUN to and fro.”—Daniel, xi.. 4 b my FOOTSTEPS SLIP not."=— xvil,, 5. “RUN not to excess."—L Peter, tv., 4 “I will SCATTER them."—Jeremiah, xiil., 24 “Thy TACKLING loosed.” — Isalah, 2. + “TOUCH him not."—Psalms, civ., 32 . “TRAMPLE them."—Isalah, Ixiif., 3 *“Require a SIGN" (signal).—-L thians, L, 2. “Speak that they go FORWARD."— Exodus, xiv., 15. , to KILL."—Ecclesiastes, i, & —Portland Telegram ARSWERS T0 QUERIES. SHE WAS NOT—Subscriber, City. The wife of William R. Hearst was not “a Florcdora Girl in the sex- tet of that opera in New York.” DIVORCE — S., Ukiah, Cal. The grounds for divorce in California are: Adultery, cruelty, desertion one year, neglect one year, habitual drunkenness one year and felony. PENNIES—W. F., City. Pennies of United States mintage are legal tender to the amount of 25 cents and no more. ‘You cannot compel a storekeeper to ac- cept more than twenty-five such ceins in payment of any purchase. DUTIES—-K., Murphys, Cal. 1If you sent to British Columbia for certain dress goods and have.ordered them shipped to this city, address a com- munication to the Collsctor of the Port, San Francisco, for information as to the amount of duty to be paid, stating the value of the goods at the place of purchase. N ——— Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candles In artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. ——r e —— Special information supplied daily In-.c' houses and public men by