The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1905, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL e e e ] JOHN D. SPRECKELS ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO JOHN -Mapager Faes | \ NCISCO CALL,’ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER - BROOKLYN GIRL HAS A REMARKABLE | | CAREER IN WALL STREET. o THE TEHUANTEPEC RAILROAD. y no means to be left out of the commercial cal- Her domestic and exotic enterprises profitable. They include all of and he world. ant and ive resources gineering of a hich class e Senator Gv ight and genius. He looked far 1dgmernt upon things simple and cy of change ection and of great d accurate in the dir 1dged in that part of his career Civil War and his death. He was exiled to Paris by when the expedition to put Maximilian on the Mexican i I pressed himself upon the Marquis , hold ssion that Austrian ephemeral Gwin was given control of the state of Sonora. ng to found there an American state, that might w the course that was taken by after the » in 1836. But the prolongation of our civil war g 4 mity of the new empire thwarted his plans and Other great plans have met a like fate, but it i 1 the greatness of their conception. lian was shot at Quer- terest in the importance railroad to be f option on a of Tehuantepec to connect the gulf of Te- f Campeachy, and furnish a rail connection \tlan 1C1SCC tic ar h advantage York by 1200 miles, giving the Mexi ’anama route. But he and proposed to make it a ed on one terminus, received ks and hauied by locomo- he water in twenty-four erra Madre Mountains, were in the way. Washington, Senor Romero, o and the project was presented have been at that time the satis- lems in transcontinental transporta- 1g the capital to put it under way. a mere rail cor 1d cross the & Our Government had its atten- d followed the Nicaraguan project t grew cold it was determined that It by our Government, and not by private en- hat peint Mexico began to take notice. Diaz secured the route of Gwin’s old option across the isth- c, and now there is a railroad there between the or the t portation of freight and passengers in’s ship raillvay, but it may at any time be made It passes between the states of Tobasco 1 Vera Cruz and Oaxaca on the north. bad freight on one side, carry it to the aboard ship in two days. The distance being orter between New York and San Francisco means five days’ time over the Panama route and canal, and 1g of canal tolls. s great plan was in the interest of California commerce. the scheme to the attention of Mexico, and his dteam ized long after his death. The harbors on each side her own borders an important commercial fa- de of the world, and a very effective check on the nal itself when it is completed. ranscontinental route has up to this time attracted 1tion, because every one is looking toward the canal. s effect upon commerce on both sides of the continent is sure become very apparent. ’ a THE WATERS AND FORESTS SOCIETY. HE convention in is an important event. The forestry statute, passed by the last Legislature, should be by this time sufficiently digested to permit opinions upon its fitness for the pur- pose for which it was designed. The stripping of the mountains has gone so far that we have a season of unusually large rainfall on the range followed by early and prolonged failure of springs and of water for mining. and mine owners have been without returns.. The ax has been put at the root of their prosperity and what it deadened fire has de- stroyed. The society will have to decide whether the new law meets those conditions and promises their abatement. We must soon pre- pare not only for preservation of the forests that are left, but for the reafforestation of the mountain slopes that have been so prodi- gally stripped of their timber. -+ The society must also look into the conservation of the ground waters of the State. wasted like the forests. The subterranean reservoirs are being tapped by hundreds of artesian wells that are not used potably nor to produce crops, Ever since 1876 the law has required such wells to be capped, but that law is permitted to remain a dead letter by the country officials whose duty is to enforce it. The Supreme Court has decided that it is unlawful to uselessly deplete the waters of a well that is of beneficial use in raising crops. This decision settles the issue between the parties to the case, but it also applies to all cases that aré on all fours with it, and there are hundreds of them. But the sufferers should. not be put to the expense of going into court, when it is made the duty of county officials to enforce the law and stop the waste. The Waters and Forests Society should appoint a law committee to see that this is done. I that President Smith of the Mormon church has peremptorily refused to sanction polygamy, even in the Mormon colony in Mexico. Mr. Conger was a member of Zion in full standing and duly married to one wife. His fancy craved another and number one asSented. Thereupon he took intended number two and fared to Mexico, domesticated himself in the Mormon colony and prepared a house with a door for each wife, and made ready for a ‘dual es- tablishment graced by three souls with but a single thought, three hearts that beat as one. Just then President Smith appeared in the colony on a tour of pious inspection, and not only denied to Mr. Conger all the comforts of a home, but excommunicated and cast him into outer darkness. Conger's feelings are hurt. President Smith has five wives and forty-three children to his credit, and the whole live in domestic peace and harmony in Salt Lake, making his domestic establishment look like a nest of sociable birds of plumage gay. Being full jeweled in that respect, Mr. Conger deems that the president has treated him with unjust discrimination. There is an advertising air aboft the gaudy publicity of this incident. Apparently the president is appeasing the public, with the connivance of Mr. Conger, while secretly he approves the happy multi-plural domestic life practiced by himself. Whenever he turns the limelight upon the large number of Mormon children of tenmder age in Utah and Idaho, who apparently have one ent and ll;‘:t the mother, he will increase eonide{u:e in his good fal:t"b. T MORMON REFORM. T is announced, with rather suspicious eagerness and ostentation, | | | | \ | Miners have long been idle and without wages, | | When once our two hearts join as one transportation, and are | , who left his mark deeply cut upon early Makes Fortune by Selling Tips on Stocks. Is Now Interested in Mines in Nevada. EIS is the story of how a Miss Nellie R. Conkling, a Brooklyn girl, made a fortune. It. begins ittle waif in an institution was 4dopted by the matron and brought up us her own daughter. She was a quiet, odest child who talked in a nt volce and seemed the last girl world to have a future outside T ple; in the the home. lic scheool and a few lessons from a clergyman’s wife in shorthand inspired girl to become a typewriter, and to surprise of her friends she pro- cured a position in the office of a Wall- °t broker, wh by the way, be- # to & lot of clubs and is one of the of Tammany Hall, financier, a who thought he knew all the tricks of :et, was sailing along in high perity, when a deal in Alaska perties manipulated by a man on ie spot nearly’ bankrupted him. He was the most astonished man in forty States. Meanwhile his little black-eyed typewriter had actually made money on several little stock transactions and | | Conkling said when interviewed at her one day her employer said: “You're a mascot, You'd better go into busi- nes “I have sold friends several tips,” she said, “which I picked up around the office, and they have made money and giv me a share in the profits.” To say that the astute and experi- enced broker was surprised does not alf express it. “You had better keep ght on,” he said. *You'll make a for- tune yet, and I think another Alaska venture will finish me for life.” The soft-voiced typewriter took the joking advice in earnest and straight- way sent out a circular letter offering tips on the market and asking no pay | if they proved worthless. Her terms were 10 per cent of the stock pur- chased by the subscriber, he to carry | her share of the stock bought, keep up her margins, etc. Result: two-thirds of her tips were About parts of the country in letters dressed t6 the little typewriter. The first returns of $1500 in the morn- ing’s ‘'mail nearly paralyzed the office. The Tammany Hall financier buckled on his best diamonds, gave an extra polish to his silk hat and went to the Demo- ad- | eratic Club to tell the news dbout his | Arablan Nights typewriter. *“What's the use of knowing anything? Experience don’t count in Wall street. A Brooklyn girl knows more of stocks than the old timers of the Exchange.” “I simply kept my eyes open,” Miss 25 P low, | But a few years in the pub- ! man of experlence, | correct, | and money began caoming in from all ! i he said, & - MISS NELLIE R. CONKLING. home, “and used my Brooklyn sense in regard to stocks. My employer also gave me tips which panned out wonderfully and would have made money for him if he had followed them himself. Of course all my predictions did not win, but two- thirds of them did, and in one day I re- ceived $8000 from cllents between Pitts- burg and Boston. They expréssed them- selves as delighted and asked me to tele- graph them more tips daily.” “Are you still n the business?” “No,"” replied the girl; “I made money £0 easily that I determined to enlarge my operations. Hearing of the great mining bonanzas in Southern Nevada I went out there, and as luck would have it got a letter of introduction to the prospector who made the discoveries in the Thunder Mountain and Bulldog districts. Had I been a man I suppose he would have tried to unload a ‘bogus’ mine on me, but being a girl I awakened his interest and ‘I am going to give you a for- tune.’ “So he took me to the slope south of the famous gold district. In a single | shaft thirty feet deep, which cost per- haps 3200 to dig, the owners took out $15,000 or $20,000 in gold, and this shaft is only an opening for the development of mines. “My property, which we staked out, ad- joins this wonderful outcropping of gold. The earth is full of the precious mineral. Assays assure fortunes indeed, and T have come Bast to close up my affairs Compositor’s Love Song. Oh, come with me and be .my Jove! None love you half so well Of all the types of girls. my pearl, My Lady Nonpariel. Tehuantepec are safe and ample, and Mexico has | ] set you up In luzury, In diamonds you'll be brave; | I'll be your faithful minion—nay, T'll be your galley slave. I'll give you proofs of love galore, All feeling else I'll kill, And my life’s record all shall be The copy of your will. The composition of this love ‘Will never out be wiped, Although the phrases of its tale May seem quite stereotyped. 7 T : s | To st home I've matrices, s and Forests Society in its annual |~ 4. ol & S And even plates for “pi,” And we will keep this house in print, If “devils” come not high. Upon my breast your head display - T'd put in fond caress, And lock your form with tender force In my arms’ loving press. So come with me and be my love, We'll live in bliss seraphic, In union typographic. —Brooklyn Eagle. Cures for Colds. “Coal ofl will knock any cold silly,” said C. C. Warren. “The idea of drink- ing coal oil may seem repugnant to some esthetic tastes, but one table- spoonful will fix the business for ‘the | 1d in head or body. These are being unlawfully and prodigally,m"‘ o oty “Turpentine is another fine thing for general conditions. I firmly believe that if a man will take fifteen to twenty drops of turpentine in sugar once every two manths he will'never be really sick. It's an internal Turk- ish bath In effect and leaves the sys- tem thoroughly cleansed and in good shape to take on new strength. There's no excuse for a cold. and it's a dan- gerous thing to pass by.”—Baltimore News. —————— Townsend’s California glace frults and choicest candies in artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * ————i e Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by,the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Calls fornia strect. Telephone Main 1042, + Glasgow, Scotland, spends on drinK $16,- 000,000 & year, an average of $21 35 a head. Tom—You are the only girl I "M-H"r 3 but you've missed . lot of fun. i ; and begin work out there on a large scale, with a twenty-stamp mill as a | starter,” By this time the girl's former employer, the Tammany finapcier, was in a state of excitement. He looked on her with ad- miration. “She is the most wonderful girl I ever heard of,” he exclaimed with sparkling eyes. “Her will power is something won- derful. Her judgment surpasses a man's. I have watched her career with pride and amazement. I went out with her to that mining country and to my surprise she ! began operations like a veteran. “But this is not all. She is about to lay out a couple of mining towns and sell lots, so that every miner in her employ may have a home and all the advantages of civilization. There will be churches, libraries, mercantile establishments, man- ufactories, so that vast sums will be saved in having supplies sold on the ground at reasonable prices. She pur- poses to take out a mining colony and begin operations on a large scale. By this time next vear her mines will be boom- ing and the towns prosperous and full of business. Such is a hint of the wonderful story told by the Brooklyn typewriter and a Wall street veteran in Tammany Hall. ““We would be foolish,” the man added, “to sell stock in a bonanza like ours.” “‘Yes, indeed,” added the Brooklyn girl, “we'll never sell a dollar's worth of stock in our property. We shall keep it for ourselves alone.” — e 3 The VD‘ignity .of Labor BY DOROTHY FENIMORE HAT is the dignity of labor? This was the subject of an il- luminative paragraph which I chanced upon the other day in my general reading, and which sug- gested to me something that I bad nev- er thought of before—wherein was re- ally labor’s dignity. The writer did not insist upon that uninspiring creed of work fér work’s sake, which, like that other bit of transcendental philosophy, do right for the sake of right, was meant for the elect and not for the average man. He said that the dignity of labor, as labor, resides in “the prerogative of mas- tery. “Dignified labor is masterful and cre- ative labor. A treadmill is a slave-pen. A forge or a carpenter’s bench may be a kingdom. “That labor is dignified in which mind molds things. Labor is dignified in proportion as it is mental mastery of materials or conditions.” There is no disnity in drudgery, but in endurance there is dignity, and in the personal aim which leads an indi- vidual to submit to an uncongenial en- vironment. Here we plainly see the dividing line between work that is drudgery and the work which justifies that lofty and fa- miliar phrase, “the dignity of labor.” It is in the spirit of the worker, and not in the task itself, that dignity re- sides. In this fragment of sociological reasoning we have much the same idea as the one which has brought so much of comfort and aspiration te many plodders, duty-bound te drudgery, in George Herbert's simple lines of hope: “Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and th’ action fine.” I am disposed to go farther than our sociologist does, and believe that there is dignity in work itself, especlally in oceupations of a humbler sort. Almost every daily task has its_historic and its social side. The generatfons before you have done similarly with you, and the generations coming after will re- f‘“ the action, or perform its equiva- ent. Take the making 6t bread-for an il- lustration, a task which forms a neces- sary part of the household routine. The history of bread is the history of man- kind; even the cave-dweller was an W-a9s 11 o WY, 95 a1 m— eater of parched corn. The woman who makes bread makes history in so do- ing. Her work is at the same time di- rectly creative; it is the result of men- tal mastery of materials and conditions. No one who has any appreciation of artistic and practical values denies the beauty of toil-worn hands, whereon the daily task, faithfully performed, has left its mark indelibly. To me, al- though I love youth as tenderly as a mother loves her child, a beautiful old woman is a sweeter sight than the loveliest maiden living, And when I look upon the face of a grand old man I am touched with awe and reverence, knowing how much noble living is represented by a fine old age. I doubt if there is any grown person into whose life no rain falls, or in whose every day there is no trying routine of spirit or of hand. Will you be a.drudge? The freadmill is ready. ‘Will you be a ruler, vested in the dig- nity of office? Your throneroom is walit- ing for its monarch. The dignity of labor is your dignity as a worker. You may be a slave or you may be a king. ————————— Caught in Act. John La Farge, the painter, was talking in his studio about witty wo- men, says the New York Tribune. “Let me relate a young woman's wit- ticism that I heard of the other day,” he said. “There was a man who loved a maid, and she returned his passion; but there were reasons that made secrecy desir- able, and thus, though the two were betrothed, they pretended to the world that they were good friends and roth- ing more. 3 “One evening as the young man was pressing his sweetheart to his breast, her sister entered the room suddenly. “The lovers drew ap haste and the sister, me,’ turned to go. “But the young man deemed an ex- planation necessary. He sald: “‘Don’t go. We have just been measuring to see which is the taller.’ “The intruder, standing by the door, looked at the lovers intently. Then a delicate smile flitted over her pretty face and she said: “*‘You are about the same helght, but I think sister is'much the redder.” ith an ‘Excuse with great. [} Occidental Accidentals E — BY A. J. WATERHOUS + GOT TO KEEP 'ER HUSTLING. i OT to keep 'er hustlir’, G Have to make 'er boil; Heres' a world for rustlin’— Got to furnish oll; | Keep the thing a-bustle Long as she will run— Mighty hard to hustle When the hustlin’s done! “Blinkum says he finds it difficult to bring up his boys in the way they should go. | “Why, he says that he is afraid some fool will up and tell them the way he acted when he was a boy.” UP-TO-DATE DEFINITIONS. Old age—Any time of life when you have forgotten how to be care free and happy. Youth—Any time of life when a smile “| still is iz your heart and on your face. Prominent citizen—A wealthy citizen. Wealthy citizen—A prominent citizen. A bet—The final argument of a fool. A will—(a) Something for heirs to con- test if the estate is large enough; (b) that which your wife A creed—Another man's what you ought to believe. MRS. ALADDIN AND THE LAMP. Some months after Aladdin had married and settled down in life, after settling up with his creditors, his wife, who knew nothing about the wonderful lamp, was going through his private drawer in his absence when she came upon that re- markable luminary, and in examining it to see if it was a real antique accident- | ally rubbed it. Immediately the Genius of the Lamp appearesd. “Great heavings!" cried Mrs. Aladdin in alarm. “I told Alaudie that that last| wine was too strong!" Thereupon the genius attempted to com- fort her by aseuring her that he was only | the Genius of the Lamp. { “The Genius!” Mrs. Aladdin ecried. | | “Why, I didn’t know that this lamp had | genius. I should have thought, to look { at it, that it was even talented.” But the Genjus reassured her and ex-| pressed his willingness to do her bidding. | “Do you really mean,” Mrs. Aladdin | anxiously inquired, “that you will do; whatever I wish?” i “Indeed, I will,” replied the Genlus.| “Let your heart's dearest wish, the thing | of all things that you most crave, be ex-| pressed and it shall be yours.” i “‘Oh, then,” Mr. Aladdin’s fair consort | unhesitatingly responded, “bring me at once, without a moment’s delay, a new | hat that will make that odious Mrs. | Benjamin Hassan's new hat look as If it | were selected from a bunch of twelve for a nickel.” So the Genius got busy and did as re- quested. And this is why Mrs. Aladdin attended | church the very next Sunday. “The plaintiff in that breach of promise case swore that although the defendant | said and wrote many loving things to her, | he never kisszed her.” “Have you ever seen the plaintiff?” “Nost “Well, the defendant may have been foolish, but his mind was not entirely gone.” es. statement of YOU ARE “IT.” The children play their little srel. The while they laugh in simple glee, And, list'ning, e'er my soul proclaims, “Their world were good enough for me”; With footsteps light as idle thought, Or here or there they gayly flit, Until some luckless tot is caught; Then shriek they wildly, “You are {t!" AR, me! the mighty game of life, I've noticed oft, is much the same. We lay our plans to win from strife The tinsel trophy we would claim; And just as it is close at hand ; ‘We're both surprised and pained a bit To hear and know and understand The world's rude chorus, “You are it!" “What was the cause of old Squeezem's | death?” “I don’t know. He had just given a dime to a starving wretch, and—" But the Coromer’s jury waited to hear no more before bringing in a verdict of “death from heart failure.” “Jones had two boys. One of them had epileptic convulsions; the other did not. The former lived, but the latter atedr “Yes, I see—a case of the survival of the fitt! “The fair plaintiff wept, but it had no effect on the jurymen.” ‘Why not?” 11 of them were married men.” SEESAW, MARGERY DAW. “Seesaw, Margery Daw, Johnny shall have a new master. | brides—Miss Emily Chickering — The Smart Set BY SALLY SHARP — — A jolly gathering of Sequoians will be that of next Saturday evening, | when all those who are art exhibitors are to dine at the club. Then will there be divulged a faculty for cull- nary art, John M. Gamble and Wil Sparks to enact the role of chefs, with their fellows of the palette as judges. 'Tis certain a merry time will wax and those not of the eraft are bewail- | Ing _their -ineligibility to attend—ex- | cepting only those who are espoused to the genijuses. About the gustatory board will be {Mr. and Mrs. L. Eugene Lee, Mr. and | Mrs. Jules Mersfelder, Mr. and Mrs. | Cunningham, Miss Elizabeth Wores, | Miss Elizabeth McElroy, Mrs. Al | Chittenden, Miss Butler, Miss Grace | Wishaar, Miss Lillle V. O'Ryan, Wil- liam Sparks, Lorenzo P. Latimer, C. P. INelIson. Joseph Greembaum, John M. Gamble. .t Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Splivalo announce that the marriage of thelr daughter Beatrice to Lieutenant Francis Rawls Shoemaker, U. S. R. C. S. will take place Tuesday, December 35, at 2 o'clock in the Empire room of the Pal- | ace Hotel | - . | Mr. and Mrs. James Knox Wilson | have issued cards for a large tea, at which they will formally present their | daughter, Miss Grace ‘Wilson, to so- | clety. | The affair will take place Saturday | atternoon, December 9, at the Wilson { home, 31968 Paecific avenue, from 5 to 7. Mrs. Wilson, with her daughters, Miss Marle and Miss Grace, will be at home Fridays in January. & e The Misses Van Wyck will entertain |at a large tea next Saturday at their home on Webster street. . The marriage of Miss Leila Marvin and Lieutenant Hiram R.. Searl will take place this evening at the home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Frank Mar- vin. - Miss Florence Marvin will attend the bride, Lieutenant Lawton to serve | the groom, and the utmost simplicity will be observed in all detalls. To-morrow Lieutenant Searles salls for Honolulu with his cutter, Mrs. Searles following a day or so later on a liner and the honeymoon will be spent in the islands. - Miss Alice Treanor will be a guest to-day at a large card party in Oak- land, given by Mrs. George Chase and Mrs. Traylor Bell, who will also enter- tain as guests of honor two other and Miss Jean Downey. . Miss Susie McNa. was a dinner hos- tess of last evening, entertaining four- teen guests in honor of her sister, Mis$ Jessie McNab, and Judge Frank Ker- rigan, whose wedding will take place to-morrow evening. The affair was most dainty In its dec- oration of Bridesmaid roses and mai- denhair fern, with candelabra and place cards matghing in tints. . . . Miss Alice Treanor was hostess at bridge yesterday in homor of Miss Grace Mellus of Los Angeles and Miss Emily Chickering of Oakland. .. Among Sunday’'s charming events was the tea given by Mrs. Linda H. Bryan in homor of Miss Maybelle Toy, a large number of guests assembling at the ‘hostess’ home on Buchanan street. Mrs. Bryan will entertain again on Friday, with Mrs. John L. Bradbury the favored guest. N Mrs. Percy Charles Avery of Indjan- apolis, Ind., a guest at the Palace Ho- tel, will be a luncheon hostess next Saturday, entertaining for six. Mrs. C. H. Middleton, Mrs. William Middleton, Mrs. Seymour Little, Miss Margaret Nash of Chicago, and Miss Foulkes wili enjoy the hespitality of Mrs. Avery, who will afterward conduct her guests to the Mansfleld matinee. . . . The wedding of Rabbi M. Fried- lander of Oakland and Miss Dorothy Altman of Denver will take place with- in a few days. Wi reis e Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Chanslor have returned from an extended trip through the Bast. . home in Seattle. Miss Myers, who came to be maid of honor at the wedding of Miss Juanita Wells and Charles Huse, He shall have but a penny a day, Because he can’t work- any faster.” —Nursery rhyme. But seesaw, Margery Daw, Now what will you do about it? You will marry your Johnny as fast as you can, And as for his slowness youll scout it. For there's never a man who is dolt or lump, Congenital fool or champion chump, But a woman is certain for him to Jump, And there's never a soul can doubt It. Yet seesaw, Margery Daw, It is well for the tribe of asses That every Darby may find his mate In the school of imbecile lasses; For-a fool must mate if a fool would wed, !'otho::n‘t&lmtuhmmmh i And so by the grace of the 3 gods o'er- The clan of the chumps ne’er passes. —_——— Answers to Queries. RIPARIAN = RIGHTS — City. The owner of land bounded navigable river has certain riparian rights whether his title extends to the middle of the stream or i i { i ¢ i 8 T £ sglf | g i l::-l..hlu acquaintance 1 regret her departure. where she will remain through winter and untfl next June. . < Miss Amy Broome of Santa Barbara 1] ' iifii MecClusky, i is k 5 ! H i i ! {l | B il Pt % i ! 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