The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1905, Page 8

\THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1905. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,| JOHN D. SPRECKEILS.. . ... Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COM JOHN McNAUGHT.. - . BLICATION OFF SDAY.. THE TRADE YEAR CLOSING ACTIVELY. T IS now the holiday season when trade ought by all precedent to be dull, whether it is or not. But it declines to get dull. Every week sees the same greaf volume of general business, Iroads taxed to their utmost capacity to handle all the »d them for transportation and showing! earnings of ver the corresponding period last year. Unless makes its appearance very soon there will be few weeks the spring demand for merchan- ior in 2 10liday business bf the country is reported away ious year, as the people seem to be remarkably flush g to spend it liberally. The weather has been too sual movement in winter goods, such as heavy but the same warm weather has been favor- ding operations, which are reported on a very hese in turn have caused a large demand for lumber llic building material, so it is an ill wind that blows no large sc and meta good The bank clearings affirm this remarkable business activity and last week made another of their recent sensational exhibits, the | clearings running up to an aggregate of $3,480,000,000, with St. Joseph the only of the first fifty on the list to show a loss from | last year, while sc of the gains among the most important cities | vere large, such as 44.7 per cent at New. York, 28.9 at San Francisco, 2y.4 at Chicago, 22 at Boston, 47.9 at Seattle, and so on. The exhibit of these weekly clearings of late has been wonderful. The showing of the staples is also excellent and above the| average at this time of the year. The daily records of the grain, provision and textile exchanges of New York, Chicago and other | large centers exhibit, day after day, active markets for all lines of | factory, farm and orchard products, with prices high and firm. New York. reports more disposition among buyers of dry goods to | take hold of the market, with sellers confident of the future. Sugar, dairy products, canned and dried fruit, hides and leather, iron and | steel and most of the minor metals, cured meats and other prepared foods are all strong, with the markets in excellent condition for sellers. The cotton market has continued active, with frequent | wide fluctuations due to the uncertainty in regard to the size of the | crop engendered by the different estimates of the Southern ginners’ associations and the Government bureaus. The Southern cotton planters have united in bodies here and there to maintain prices of the raw goods and have been successful, so that, as one report from} New York puts it, cotton is still king. The failures for the week, | in spite of the collapse of the three Walsh banks at Chicago, which | was not due to unfavorable business conditions, but the oper 1S of the principal stockholder, were only 226, against 251 last | The leading feature of the week, aside from the Chicago bank | failures, was the continued active speculation in Wall street stocks, the wave of investment for temporary and permanent profits being | termed “irresistible.” In vain the banks are protesting against this | wild plunging in the stock market, which is not only maintaining the | 4 ready high prices for railroad and industrial stocks, but carrying | of them to still higher levels, while a seat has just been sold | tock Exchange for $92,000, which beats the record. The | | man 1l listen to no advice from the banks or any other source. ly sales on the exchange continue to range from 1,000,000 000 shares daily, and even the drastic restraint of very high | s interposed by the banks to check the enthusiastic buy- f its purpose. The banks and other powerful financial | , however, are making the best of the opportunity presented | ic purchasing. Stocks, according to the best ‘posted | reet authorities, are steadily passing from strong into weak | nds. In other words, the large holders of securities, finding their | efforts to check the tide of speculation futile, are quietly unloading | eir great holdings at the high quotations and making rich profits | ereby, and very soon it will be seen that the public are carrying most of the stocks and that the vast controlling interests are out game with millions of profits in their pockets and the stocks neatly unloaded upon the public. The latter will have no | und for complaint, for they have been fully admonished to let| the market alone at the ruling high prices. It is a case of a runaway horse which refuses to be stopped. 5 Conditions on this coast remain the same. General trade is| Il active, with high prices for almost all coast products main- tained. Building operations in all of the three States continue very active. More rain and warmer weather are needed to insure large crops and give us green feed, which is very backward this year on account ,of the prolonged dry and cold weather. This, however, is the only adverse condition on the coast at present, and we are going | out of 1905 and into 1906 with colors flying and everybody cheerful and confident of another good year. T be sure of adoption in some form by the Canadian Parliament. The High Commission which has been at work on the Dominion tariff has had quite a problem before it to find a wav | to give more protection to dissatisfied Canadian manufacturers and | at the same time continue to favor Great Britain at the expense of | the United States and Germany. Their solution is to- be a sort of threefold tariff law which is to be submitted to Parliament. The highest charge will be against those countries which are hard on Canadian goods, and these are especially the United States and Germany. There will be 2 lower charge for those countries which give no serious reason for retaliation. ’Fh: third, and lowest, will be the British preferential. L If the proposed law goes into effect it will have considerable influence. on American exporting interests. Canada has already had some experience in these wars of commercial retaliation, for Germany has struck back at her vigorously. A study of the sub- ject made by Burton L. Read, in Moody’s Magazine, shows the very complicated position in which Canada is placed by virtue of her family relationship with Great Britain. The preferential she allows to the mother country really amounts to a gift. Canada at one time gave to Germany the same tariff terms as to Great Britain. When Canada termin~ted that treaty Germany retaliated with an exclusion of Canada from the most favored nation clause, and Canada fought back with a surtax on German goods of 33 1-3 per vent. Germany then put the same tax on Canadian exports. It is a curious fact that Canada’s action in favoring Great Bri- tain’s goods more than American has not injured us to the extent which might have been expected. There are so many natural advantages possessed by this country that the Canadians continue to trade with us and our trade there has increased much more rapidly than the British. In the period from 1897 to 1905 our trade grew from $58,500,000 to $163,000,000, while the British ross in the same period only from $32,000,000 to $60,000,000. This is mainly due to geographical unity, close communication, prompt de- livery and the enterprise of American merchants. While we can probably afford to safely count on these natural powers enabling us to control a large share of Canadian trade, it would be well to remember that Canada is said to be willing to encourage friendly trade relations with this country and that con- servative opinion there opposes any action so radical as would jeopard the prospect of mutually beneficial tariff schedules. If our CANADA’S NEW TARIFF. HE plan of 2 “maximum and minimum” tariff law is said to | said the Old Codger during a recent ses- ) RIAGE NOW, HORSES AND COACHMAN, WHY NoT? I'M SWELL ENOWGH. LIFE'S T00 e, TR RIG 15, WA MUST 90 LOWS, BE GOOD, DONY TAKE IN > X RIED AUTOMOBILES AND RSHIPS BUT GIVE ME THE OLD WAGON FOR MINE. RE_GQOES, IM GOING Hom GOOD His Opinion of the News | 0 g (13 VERY now and again there is a discussion of the question of what is the proper definition of the word news,” acridi-pessimistically sion of the Linen Pants Club. “Many able men have from time to time answered it, with pesfect satisfaction to themsalves, and still the question won't stay settled. “Last night I read in my paper that the King of What-d'ye-call-it—some little E- flat dab of land over there somewhere—is complalning bitterly of poverty b-cuz he has only a paltry $887,600 a year and a herd of little kings to support, and that two beautiful young ladies who were walt- ing at table in a restaurant in Kansas City fought a duel with ketchup bottles for love's sweet sake. I also learned of a burglar who remained concealed behind a cabinet organ while a village maiden playved hymn tunes on it for three solid hours; that a certain side-whiskered octo- pus owns the oldest pair of andirons in existence, and that a bright young man in Izard County, Arkansas, only 20 years of age has just succeeded in bein’ acci~ dentally- shot for: the ’leventh time by mistake for something or other. I noted that a fool woman had grabbed an inno- cent United Btates Senator by the th'oat and kissed him despite his squérms; I learned, too, how to pronounce jiu-jitsu, and the reason why a lady in New Har- mony, Ind., sued her husband for divorce —she alleged that he kicked her on the OFT white liberty satin is the sage with The lining is closely fitted and for general evening wear, and in the original it was worn Y skirt of flounced net upon a foundation of the same material. THE TOPER'S CAROL | !T\\'AS the night Christmas, And all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Not even a mouse; And the reason for thisness I'll now tell you, sir; The punch had all vanished; There was nothing to stir. —New York Press. after Comedy. Sardou hunted for a new plot. “What sort of a play is it to be?’ we asked casually. “A comedy,” he replied. “Have you thought about dramatizing Chicago's municipal ownership?” we in- quired. Frowning upon our levity, he produced a problem drama.—New York World. sly with his wooden leg. I also gained a vast amount of information about sani- tary mattresses and breakfast fodders, and freaks and follles of the rich and their envious imitators; how to buy whis- ky and grow tall by mail, and so on and so forth “And, thinking it over, I couldn’'t help concluding that ‘news,” as understood and disseminated by the press of to-day, is largely a conglomeration of breeze, bray, pifie and non-essential: flap-doodle, and that the heads of the kind of people who appreciate that kind of stuff must surely be more or less flattened at the poles.”— Tom P. Morgan, in January Smart Set. material of this daintily made cor- he soft material arranged with a goodly measure of fullness, this disposed in shirrings done over tiny featherbone cords to maintain trade is now large it may grow still larger by being friendly and avoiding any of those retaliatory laws such as put a surtax of 331-3 per cent on the mutual trade between Germany and the Dominion. This Government doesn’t need so many men ‘who are willing to die for it as it does of those who are willing to live for it.—Dallas News. is decidedly original, bordered all some semblance of shape. The odd bertha around with a cobweb lace en- crusted with tiny coral cabochons, and having a little featherbone cord run in the edge all around. The sleeve, too, displays this same effec- tive method, the shirrings following this fashion; and little bones are sprung upon the lining so that the ing at all stiff or stuffed. A piping of coral velvet defines the decol- letage all around, and the fastening is, as usual, In the back. puff stands well out without look- ' | husband neglects. you in the Protest of i ‘, a Husband By Angela Morgan e ¥ HUSBAND protests that I am not A fair to the men in laying chiefly upon them the blame for lack of romance in married life. “The fault in a great many instances is the woman’s,” he maintains. “It happens only too often that by nag- ging and pouting and complaining, wives are themselves responsible for the destructfon of happiness in mar- riage. “Women lay to much stress on little things. They are too imaginative and suspicious. They are always referring to the happiness of courtship and blam- ing their husbands if they don’t pay them the same attentions. ‘ “A woman Is selfish and egotistical to expect that her husband has time for such foolishness. The chief busi- ness of a married man is to provide for his wife, and if he is kind and con- siderate in the bargain she ought to be satisfied without foolish sentiment. You have told the men their duty made plain their mistakes. Now, tell the wives where they fail.” The writer is evidently one of the “sensible” kind that fail to take any but the practical view of life and love. He does not see that by his own words he has condemned himself; that when he dismisses as “foolish” the tender joys and delights of courtship he confesses himself unqualified to make a just estimate of the situation. My dear sir, unless a woman is ex- ceptionally unreasonable, selfish and childish, she doesenot complain of neg- lect without cause. The trouble with S0 many of your sex Is, that you do not get the woman’s . point of view. You attempt to solve her problem by your own rules. A wife is neither selfish nor egotisti- cal wher she resents a husband’s in- difference to the finer obligations and courtesies of marrlage. That she should Insist upon his observing them is by no means an evidence of a too exacting disposition. No woman with any ideality is sat- isfied to be loved with a love that rec- ognizes only the practical, the material side of life. A wife lays stress upon the “little things” because they are an indica- tlon of the quality of her husband’s love. If it remains deep, springing, fine and beautiful as it was before marriage, the “little attentions” are no effort for him, but the natural ex- pression of an abundant affection. ‘When they icease, it is only too fre- quently the ocase that the quality of his love has deteriorated. He is “sure” of his wife’s devotion, and he settles into the Indifferent state. Is it any wonder she Kkeenly resents this change? It seems impossible for the average man to realize that when a wife does resent this she is not acting the part of a silly child, but a woman, who sor- rows because her finest needs are 1g- nored. A woman, to be happy In marriags, must realize the response to her love's ethereal side. During courtship the e loves does grant her this re- spon In the glow and exaltation of love's beginning, the man as well as the woman rql homage to the spirit- ual, the ant, the ethereal in love. ‘Whether he is consclous of it or not, he recognizes the higher needs of the woman he loves. . A man who {8 vexed and disgusted when his wife complains of neglect should question if, after all, she may no} have cause for unhappiness. believe, however, that the dissatis- fled wife should carry her disappoint- ment with more philosophy. She should not permit herself to grow un- lovable because of disillusionment. No woman who sulks and complains and Is continually reminding her hus: band of his delinquencies can hope to keep his devotlon very long. The best method of meeting such a situation s found in cheerfully setting an example for the husband to follow and never swerving_from the sweet, tender, wo- manly ways. There is no teacher more powerful than example. Dear woman. if your Occidental Accidentals . il iz e THE HIRED GIRL LEFT. HE first we had was Mary Ann, & T literary lass, Who used to read “The Maiden's, Doom: or, How She Went to Grass.” And other chastely luring books the while the beefsteak burned, Tl Lillian sald somewhere she’'d heard that e'en a worm had turned; And so she spoke to Mary Ann, with gen- tle words and low, And saild we'd like our beefsteak cooked some two hours less or so— Then the hired girl left! Just two days later Norah came, and with | her came a cop, As well as Michael, Peter, Paul—I guess I'll have to stop, Because I never learned the names of half of those who wooed. But they were fond of Norah, and were also fond of food. I humbly spoke to her myself, and sald I hoped, perhaps, That in the largeness of her heart she’d see we got the scraps— | Then the hired girl left! Lucls, the musical, who loved pianc keys to press; Sweet Gretchen, who her taste displayed | by wearing Lillian’s dress; Carlotta, Betty, Mandy, Mae, me in review, And oft I see them in my dreams, as oft| I’ shudder, too; For something broke, ' or something| snapped, or something split in twain, And so I see them flitting by, -a fascinat- ing train— As the hired girls left! ey pass The last that cameé was Annabel, dear Annabel, -the blest, Who deemed each day of every week the Sunday of her rest. She washed the dishes once a weelk, and sometimes wiped them, too. At last we kindly spoke to her, and then | the coop she flew. I wash and wipe the dishes now, and do Some other things That must be done, as all allow, but, oh, | they leave their stings— Since the hired girl left! SWEET DREAM OF MARRIAGE. T heard you remark, Horatlo, that the| married life which you are about to essay | will be one long, swget dream. Probably | | you are risht, my boy, and I sincerely | trust that you are, but then, again, the| dream might turn out to be & long, dis-| mal nightmare, for it is very difficult to| order one’s dreams tn advance, you know. | Look at the divoree courts; there are| trotted out and exhibited the dreams that | got bogged and lapsed into mightmares, | you know. Ah, but it cannot be so with you, you say, for the girl whom you are about to | marry is a perfect angel. I believe you, for there is a time in almost every wo- man’s life when she is an angel—to one | man. She remains so for a few days, | more or less, and then, out of the frills and furbelows that adorn her, creeps some of that innate cussedness which Is a part of the human inheritance of us al!, and—well, she makes the queerest angel, | 1 suppose, that ever got outside of Para- dise. | So it will be with your angel, in some degree. Some morning, fine or otherwise, after you are married, she will get out of the wrong side of the bed, and you will be shocked and pained to hear the ex- pressions of ‘her opinion of things. Then, if you have happened to get out of the wrong side of the bed. too, the service bureau probably will report, “About this time look ‘out for storms and | squally weather”; and, whether it does or not, you may pretty safely bet a week's salary that they will come. There may be exceptions to this rule, but I do not recol- | lect to have observed any. Then, again, think of an angel living with you or me! I don't know how 4t| would be with you, but I would be will- ing to speculate four bits that I would get | hold of her halo and either lose or irre- trievably tarnish it within & week. No, I desire no angel to live with me, nor should you. I think too much of nnnls.' Still, If you treat the dear girl all right, 1 fancy that she will treat yvou the same; and I don’t know that any of us have any right to ask any more than that. Let us all do that, and even the most pessimistic astrologist will find no divorce in our hor- oscope. “The man in No. 7,” he said, *“Was stricken dumb one day. He hears as well as ¢'er he did, But not a word can say."” “What was the cause,” I askad, “That seemed his tongue to kT “Forgot his oaths,” the guide replied, “And so he cannot talk.” “There goes one of our prominent cfti~ zens.” “What is his particular line of graft?” — things” be careful always to remem- ber them yourself. Be thoughtful, con- siderate, attentive to his needs as you would wish him to be to yours. Thus by suggestion you may remind him more forcibly than you could ever hope to do through tears, complaints and reproaches. Above all things, keep lovable. Don’t give up your {deals. Insist upon keep- ing alive the beauty in your own af- fection and your problem will be half solved. A BIG HELP Wite—It's all right if you have failed. I have $500 llz:fl up from money that you've given me from time to time. Husband—That will be a blg help. Wite—Help? I guess it will. ‘Why, that will just buy me my ‘winter outfit nicely. — v ad The Smart Set | | By Sally Sharp —_— A new club for society women, provid- ing for them luxurious rooms where they may rest, read and serve tea, has been organized by Mrs. J. Downey Harvey and apartments have been secured in the new Shreve building. The appointments are to be upon an extensive and elaborats scale, the members being from the in- fluential families of the smart set. Among them are Mrs. Horace Pillsbury, s Mrs. Mountford Wilson, or Dean, Mrs. Henry T. Scott, Mrs. Samuel Knight,” Mrs. Walter Martin, Mrs. Josepn Grant, Mrs. Frank Johnson, Mrs. William Babcock, Mrs. Mayo Newhall and Mrs Joseph Crockett. . Mrs. Bleanor Martin and Mrs. Peter Martin will hold receptions on the after noons of January 5 and January 19 a the Martin home on Broadwax PR Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Duggany will be at home to a large number Of guests next Monday evening, January 1, at their residence on Pacific avenue. o & . Mrs. George Lair Smith was & dinner hostess Sunday evening at her home on Jackson street, entertaining & dJdozen guests. : . The wedding of Miss Marleita Myery and Georgs P. Fuller is set for next fall, the ceremony to take place at the bride’s home in Seattle. . < A large number of guests at the home of Captain and Mrs. A M Burns on Sunday evening in honor of the eightieth birthday of Captain Burne The event was doubly celebrated by » Christmas tree, which m ‘mioh merriment and pleasure for all, who »f- fered many congratulatory speeches mad toasts to their host. -0 e Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Albert Stent dady several friends to be present last Sun4 day afternoon In honor of the christening' of their little daughter, Miss Frances Reis Stent. Dr. Clampett performed the rites over the little maid, her sponsors being Mrs. Christian Reis, Miss Fannle Arques ot San Joss and Ferdinand Reis Jr. > ol i Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden entertained at a dinner last evening in their home. . e Mrs. Harry Nathaniel Gray will be one of the first hostesses of the new | planning to give a bridgs party early in the month. ¢ T W The officers and ladies of the Presidio and general hospital will give a hop on the evening of December 38 at the Pre- sidlo Club, many invitations having been issued for townspeople and the residents of other posts. The patronesses will in- clude Mrs. Samuel Cumner, Mrs. Frede:- 4 | ick Funstom, Mrs. Charles Morris, Mrs, Edward G. Brown, Mrs. James M. Ken- nedy and Mrs. Edwin M. Supplee. [T s Mrs. Florence Land May and Mra J. W. Wright entertained delightfully at a tea on Sunday at Mrs. May's Broadway home, the house being filied with callers between 4 and 6 o'clock, among whom were General and Mrs. Charles Austin Coolidge, Miss Nell Rose Baggett, Miss Elsa Draper, Miss Arline Johnson, Miss Beatrice Fife, Miss Dorothy Dunsta Miss Frances Stewart, Miss Roma Pax ton, the Misses Ertz, Miss Erna Her- mann, Miss Hisie Clifford, Miss Evelyn Clifford, Miss Marion Wright, Miss Jean- nette Wright and Miss Adelaids Johnson. % 4 e Mrs. James Foilis entertained a score of | the little friemds of Master Ralph Gwin Follls on Sunday afternoon at a Christ- mas party. Everything to delight the hearts of children was provided, Master Ralph being host for these small guests: Miss Josephine Drown, Miss Marie Louise Potter, Miss Frances Pringle, Miss Mar- garet Buckbee, Miss Florense Martin, Miss Mary Emma Hord, Miss Flora Mil- ler, Miss Barbara Kimble, Edwin Dean, Francis Ames, Harrison Brown, Hillyer Brown, Reddick Meclvor, Joseph Baldwin, James Hord Jr., Willard Drown Jr. and Scott Smith. LR The wedding of Miss Frances May born and Dr. John Crockett Newton will take place to-day in Grace Church. Both are graduates of the University of Call- fornia, Dr. Newton being identified with the medical fraternity and & well-known clubman. The classmates~ef the bride will attend her, and after the- a tour of some length wiil be young couple. r i e Mr. and Mrs. George Maybelle Toy, who ha days at Del Monts, to-day. 124 hoicest ganaice i fefisie Hrer Special Information supplied dally usiness houses and public Clipping Bureau (ALl T w lo::i.a nm‘m-nh:n(ofi' “‘: The annual catch of fish in waters is 1,696,000,000 pounds, sents a money valus of $47,130,000, WALL STREET Mandy — Why, Cyrus, yer must hev walked yerself tor death in New York, yer looks %o tired. Cyrus—Thet's what I did. I wuz tryin’ fer find thet streat ‘wot wuz full of bulls an’ bears.