The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL JONIN D. SPRECKELS.......0000e <ocoessensesnsssssssnsssssPrOprictor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO +e...Manager BS)H_\' McNAUGHT PUBLICATI THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, BAN FRANCISCO ..JANUARY 4, 1900 OFFICE., THURSDAY. THE AWAKENING OF CHINA. OTH Marquis Tseng and Li Hung Chang said that when ina built railroads the empire would have ample room for all its people and ample means for their advancement. Li Hung | g acted upon his belief in the future of his country, as ai- means of transportation other than rivers and canals, and It owned one of the first lines in the country. \ Now the Government and Chinese capitalists are actively taking the work of railroad building. Concessions heretofore granted reigners are being bought back, and surveys are being peér- ed for a system so extensive that during the next twenty years | 1 promises to be the principal railroad building country of the | world. The Canton-Hankow line, recently bought back from J. P. an 2 the Belgian syndicate, is being pushed to completion. Peking-Kalgan, Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo, Tientsin-Chin- g Swatow-Fuchau, - Ichiang-Chupgking and Chungking-Yun- under construction. [ s connect the treaty ports with the productive valle Eastern China,.and with very large inland commercial cities. The Yunnan connects with the French roads in Indo-China, and commerce of Hanoi, and ultimately with the valley of the Cam-| When these roads are finished and the Chinese be- me accustomed to their operation and use as a commercial facility, ns will penetrate the far interior to Ala-Shan, the head of 1 River-and the mountain border of the Gobi Desert. oulation of China has naturally congested on the coast, rivers, because water afforded.the only means of The country has lacked wagon roads, and instead and vehicles for short transportation merchandisc buted by carrying it on the backs of coolies, a method to us by the Chinese peddlers. in California. Practi- ines are a River. a exported from China is still carried to the rivers It way. is grown in all .the provinces south of and “backed” to boats for export. The shrub Bohea hills, and the Sang-le and in Oopak, a | When igh pe penetrated by lines now in construction. | port of the crop are supplied it is reasonable | ppose t tea culture will increase and -the price will decrease, | all merchandise that has no Jlimit upon its pro- | d consumption, The finer teas; now sel- | will reach the market in the| h will 1es 10r° ex sportation se of their cost, | the northern The domestic all over China except in rows silk is produced. 1d regulates the export, and of -course | | | ¢ is nearly as common as a cloth- } { as cotton is in the United States. - It is used in by laborers and in the classes above the coolie its | universal. Practically all of the silk, from the coarse Punjam | , or ibbon silk, is carried to market, either in the cocoon | ske on the backs of coolies. We may understand ‘what such | s ans if we can imagine that all of the wheat anrlL 2 o * co and other agricultural products of the United [<— - —te | o3 . s carried in the same way to the coast .or a river for | | Answers to & weries | | | bl or export The Chinese have -heretofore objected. to | 4— - — || 0” 6’ lI 6’ 0 ré’e { )2 r reason$ sing in superstition. But to these have been| SEELEY DINNER—R. W, City. The = S e § of onle that i S : | so-called Seeley dinner given in the city ¢ { _peoy le that other means' of transportation | ot "New York, in whieh - Litte Seypt By J. J. Holden H rive the people of employment in carrying merchandise on | took a prominent part, was given in the Yy J. Je ' | | ri We may pardon them for this when we remember that | month of May, 1 i N y New York fought De Witt Clinton s y s i PHE AUTHO! 8 NCLE ALONZO SPONDLEIGH had { covered, the more he raised and sold Soms £ thie"Frie o3 '1" bty ‘,'“ g 2 ;Tp]?" j‘ml; B T l-m\>;,l{x?gr:l::i‘tb:z' Dalpncgy made his fortune in Wheat-and|the worse off he became. So he sent '..v. { the rie ¢ 1, Dbecause ‘h would disuse their the ts from a poem entitled *“To corn, and the time had come for for ’unl agricultural expert, and a cur- he Hudson River, and that would | Love, Forget and Die,” T o0, Fancy Shawsd that wive man that ruin the -farmers. e objectidus of the Chinese to-railroads, however; are rapidly y ir own Government and Chinese capitalists ction. = Nothing has occurred of 1d the commercial world as this de- pire with a metwork of railroads. It wagon roads in the interior, the introduc- ion of ,-silk 2 | is immediate as well as remote. We will | t-of the world the growing commerce in the | But our makers of locomotives, cars and rails | China is not yet able to supply these .for her- | ok to the United States and Europe. Within the | next few years, i existing plans are carried out, China will build| | « and must buy the equipment abroad. railroads will call for the opening in every province in the empire. Their allow, for lack of machinery and mechanical of the mechanical appliances for mining at | | will want th The mining machinery manufac- | ncisco rmay well inquire into that market, for it | and’employment of skilled labor here. We have routetd that empire and should be prepared to | it to the utmost. ling of railroads in China means the happi-! erity of the Chinese themselves, an increase in their I"their wants, and. of the means for supplying them. AN EDITORIAL SWEAR-OFF. shoul¢ ¢ notice. edijors of Eennsylvania are just now, violently and With deménstration, swearing off the railroad pass habit. Railroads e quasi-publié corporations and newspapers are quasi-public Heretofore, in Pennsylvania, they seem to have dwelt to- rer upon the understanding that a newspaper would mitigate the ardor of the headlines and the horrors of the text when railroad matter had to be printed, because the editor could travel to and ro up and down the earth on a pass. The railroads, moved upon by the spirit of reform, have stopped giving passes. Whereupon the editors have announced that there will be no more sfippression of railroad news. Hereafter an accident on.the rail is going to be an accident, with all the trimmings, in lurid and blood red color. At this distance it looks as though the railroads have the best o The newspaper men have put themselves in the position of admitting that passes have influenced them in the suppression or |¢ sophisticating of the news: The railroads stand out as willing that cverything concerning them shall be published, if it be true that passes have prevented it To the barbarians of this part of the country, supposed to be ery wild and woolly, the attitude of the newspaper men of Penn- sylvania and the reasons given for it seem like evils in a far coun- try, with newspaper manners and customs that are strange and peculiar. Not in the highest anti-railroad exeitement in California, nor in the pleasantest and most peaceful times, has a railroad been known to ask a reputable newspaper to suppress facts in its interest, pass or no pass. It is true that railroads have been known to con- tract for the payment of a large monthly sum in money, to a dis- reputable newspaper, the consideration being “fair treatment,” but no reputable journal, city or country, has been to be under restriction or restraint here in respect to railroad news. We have to advise the railroads and newspapers of Pennsylvania to send a joint committee out here, of course not on passes, to study the su- serior situation that exists in California between reputable railroads and reputable newspapers. I3 It is better to have a wife than a breach of promise suit—New York Press. L GEREN S y EEST ER l) % U N E g THERE YOU ARE. NOT A TROBBLE NOT A CARE oM YOUR MIND. NOTHING WORRY ABOUT AND o LITTLE woulD You A HOLIDAY, FROM BEGINNING T0 END, NO AMBITIONS, NO REGRETS, NOTHING BUT_CONTINUAL et el T (OH. WELL, 1 BE ON MY WA) nL GET, 10 SCRATCHING RO G ION. SS 1 PET You, You ARE ALWAYS LOOK ING FOR A PETTG NKE DOG. CARE IF You DID. SLEEP AND EAT 15 YOUR ONLY QCCUPA! YOUR LIFE IS ONE ONG RECREATIO! MYSELF. | GUESS TS SCRATCH PRE MUCH ALL AROUNI NOWADATS, YEP! :)er. « space to a § as | flowers. ject in the Fr nation mea tior means 2 @ s ’ R THE PR ther draft animals, an in¢rease in production, | Cherles O'Connor of New York was'ai P profit, higher wages to labor, better returns to | ;';“:dt‘tj:l":dr"; the office oF Lresiaercios by Joaquin Mil- GUAGE OF FLOWERS—-E. W. R, de blication of the language of You will ind books on that sub- ee Public Library. Pink car- woman's love”; red carna- ! for my poor heart.” Subscriber, City. es in 1872 at the time the other great products of the country, | General Grant ran for the second term. | property. so great that it will place China abreast of the |He received 25,408 votes. him to take a ittle rest. could not remember ever living in the country, but he knew he had been born there, and there being a certain back- to-nature feeling in the air, he deter- mined to learn something about the grain he had dealt in for so many vears, and he bought a small farm. He ran the farm for one year, hiring his work done by the neighboring farm- ers. He had fine crops, and every- thing was satisfactory except the bal- ance sheet, which, like a good man of business, he drew up against his new At the rate he was going, he dis- Mirror of s Dame Fashion. — =) 7 PLAIDS ARE HIGHLY POPULAR. J T& huhun ':fitn -hm:t-m urposes; and b them \ est or P and one sees '\ of materlals, from velvet and velveteen to sllk trated is of the latter fabric, soft of weave and with a filfluulmn'na T ‘One of those soft shades of copper T black, pale blue, green and gold, the just an unobtrusive contrast. b depth. TFhe collar is of the tion, and fastening in the and mohatr. The Uncle Alonzo had been paying about twice as much for his horses and men as he should have paid. The two Cloase brotiers, his nearest | neighbors, had done most of this work | the year before. He saw them when the new season opened and had a lit- tle talk. "I have been paying you two men $4 a day for plowing twenty acres of ground a day with your two horses. I won’t make the bargain with the pair of you this year, but I'll deal with you singly on the same terms., If that is satistactory, go ahead.” The two men said it was, and they spent four days in getting the cighty acres in shape. Then they came ror their pay. Uncle Alonzo offered them $2 apiece before witnesses in full discharge of the debt. There was an altercation, a suit, and the case came on for trial before the county justice near by, who had been a ploneer school teacher. Unele Alonzo was his own attorney. He es- tablished the exact wording of the bar- gain, proved his tender of $2 apiece to the Cloases, and spoke his piece. “I need not say to your Honor that this is merely a question of the double rule of three. If two men are entitled to $4 a day for plowing twenty acres with two horses, one man-is entitled to $2 a day for plowing twenty acres with two horses, and one man is entitled to 31 a day for plowing twenty acres with one horse, and one man is entitled to fifty cents a day for plowing ten acres with one horse. Therefore one man is entitled to four times fifty cents, or $2, for plowing forty acres in four days with oné horse. And here is the $2 apiece.” The justice took a day to consider the matter, went over his old arithme- tic with care and particularity, and rendered judgment in favor of the de- fendant. Now old Uncle admired man in roundabout. 2I a Lucky Number. The lottery gamblers, who already had many superstitions, now have a fresh one. Some industriou$ statistictan found out that mere than half of the big prizes this month have been won by tickets the num- bers of which added up make 21, says the glfl! correspondent of the New York un. Thus on December 1 the holder of ticket No. 230,385 won 40,00 pounds. The same day the holder of ticket No. 13,138 won 4000 pounds. On December 5 No. 206,427 won 2000 pounds and on the same day No. 435,504 won 1000 pounds. On December 15 No. 230,385 won the first prize of the Paris Municipal Lottery. ‘The superstitious gamblers now demand not only that the prizes but also the tickets shall be balloted for, so that the favored numbers will not go all in one district. Alonzo is the most twenty townships Exposure Enough. In his efforts to be polite a clerk at one of the largest hotels of the ity re- Special information supplied daily to pusiness houses and public men by the A aliost Tolephons Matn Tt 3 % The Smart Set By Sally Sharp. | i e — < . | | The “coming out” dance of Miss Rhoda | and Miss Marie Pickering will take place | this evening with half a hundred young | guests to enjoy the Lospitality of Mr. and | Mrs. Frederick M. Plckering. & vre The second dance of the Galety Club amid the artistic surroundings offered by the beautiful rcoms, with the added at- traction of tloral decoration. Miss Emilie Parrott, hostess of the evening, presided most graciously, those leading the cotillon being Wharton Thurs- ton and Wilberforce Williams. As is known, this club is composed of thirty-five of our exclusive society maids, who augment their number by as many bachelors for each dance, the total being delightfully requisite for ,comfort and pleasure. . The new club entertained additionally last eveniug Miss Lutie Collier and Miss Merritt Reid. . e s The engagement has been announced by Miss Ruth Foster of Los Angeles and Robert Sherman of the same city. There is widespread interest attaching to this news, as the flancee 1s a maid well known in society of this city, having resided here for some years and is frequently a visitor in town. Miss Foster is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, N. H. Foster, and Mr. Sherman is the son of General M. H. Sherman, one of the railroad mag- nates of Southern Calffornia. At a tea yesterday in her home Miss Foster formally made public her be- trothal, and she will be the persenal re- cipient of many good wishes very soon in this city, coming to be an attendant at the Oddie-Treanor nuptials. + s . Much eagerness is being displayed con- .cerning the event at Sequoia Club on Sat urday evening, where “Twelfth Night' will be presented with all its rich accou- terments of dress and setting. The af- fair will be most artistic under the su- pervision of William Greer Harrison and an able corps of assistants. oo e Mrs. John Chase entertained at a luncheon yesterday in honor of Mrs. Thomas Edward Bailey and Mrs. Wil- llam Aloysius Sexton. + s . Miss Hallie Moulton and Horatlo We- ber Baker were quietly married at noon yesterday at the home of the bride’s par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Fx Moulton, on Devisadero street. The bride, who was unattended, was gowned in a white lace robe over satin, with a long vell, and carrying & shower bouquet of lilies of the valley. Dr. William Harvey served the groom, "% Occidental | % took place in Century Hali last evening,, j Rev. George C. Adams reading the ser- vice. No announcement of this wedding date had been made previously, and yester- day’s ceremony has come as a surprise. Mr. Baker, who is to occupy the chair of civil engineering fn the University of Nevada, is a son of Professor Baker of iversity of Iliinois, and after tour- ing with his bride threugh the south they will make their home in Reno. I The third hop at the Presidlo I3 named for January 18, when the officers and ladies of the post and of the gen- eral hospital will entertain in their usual delightful manner. ™ Miss Maybelle )y entertained at a luncheon for eight yesterday in the St Francis. Mise Lysbeth Painter, who is being much feted before her mar- riage to George Engelhardt, was the guest of honor at yesterday's affair, This same pretty maid will again be to-day the honored guest of Miss Georgie Spieker, who will entertain at a luncheon in her home on Devisadero street. #g e Mrs. Walter Martin entertained at a dinner on New Year's evening, bidding several guests to the St. Francis Hotel N Mrs. Walter Byron Waebster enter- tained twenty-four guests at a dinmer on New Year's day. All those bidden to the feast having birthdays in January, a feature which provoked much pleas- ure upon this occasion. The affair took place at a downtown restaurant, after which all”returned to the home of Mr. apd Mrs. Webster, where the evening was passed at whist. & Captain and Mrs. Wade L. Jolly wers among the New Year's entertainers at Mare Island, a dinner being given to eight guests. e Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kaetzel (Ger- trude Jack) have taken apartments at the California Hotel and will be the recipients of much social attentfon dur- ing their stay in San Francisco. « o o Mrs. Florence Land May is prepar- ing for an Eastern trip, which she will make in February, visiting principally in New Orleans. During her absence Mrs. May's Broad- way home will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Robinson of Philadelphia. RS Mr. and Mrs, P. F. G. Piazgon have afrived in New York and will soon sail for Italy. Accidentals % | Bt By A. J. Waterkouse. ; A PRAYER. IVE me the grace each day to see G The duty that is nearest me, | The will to heed that duty, though | 1t 1ead me where I would not go: The strength that copes with little things, And from thelr smallness greatness brings; The might to meet the cares of day | And send them blest upon their way. !lec me the heart to feel and know Another’s grief, another’s woe; The hand outstretched in helnfulness, | The soul that lives to others bless; | More care for brothers, less for self; | More love for all, less greed for pelf; | Less of the thought which makes its plea: “Why need these others? All for me!" | Fain would I know how small am 1, | And nqt “Self! Self” forever cry; | Fain would I feel, as God is good, | One Fatherhood, one brotherhood; | And when I reach the wall of mist And heed the call that none resist, Fain would I then my spirit tell: “I cared for others—all is well!” My-words drop down as futile things, | Like birds of air with broken wings, | Yet, stricken though the songster lie, | His dying instinct bids him fly; | Thus may my broken words avail | To tell the One who heeds their tale Phat though a falterer am I, I still would mount, I still would fy. “If a woman who has never been mar- ried is called a maid, what should a fair divorcee be termed?” ive it up.” ‘Why, re-maid, of course.” A GOOD BET. ‘When Duncan Doleful entered life he en- tered with a wail, And he merely kept on walling till the finish of the tale; He wailed about the weather, and he walled about the ero| He played the organ of rere stops; But when he dled the parson sald he'd have in heaven a share— And I'd like to bet a dollar he is wailing Over There. ALFALFA PHILOSOPHY. I've knowed some fellers that married fer love, but wus dern careful not to fall in 'fore they investigated her pa's bank ‘count. Perseverance is a good qual'ty, but they’s sech a thing es wastin’ it. Fer in- stance, a hen that sets on a doorknob don't ever reap much of a reward. God makes all kinds of women—'cept the New Woman. She makes herself, so ‘tain’t any refiection on Him. A woman that's attendin’ a club fer the ‘provement of her mind, w'ile her kids is runnin’ the streets, may reach heaven; but I'll bet that the cross-exam- ination 'l be middlin’ searchin’, I'm so blame proud of John D. Rocke- feller’s releegion 'at I don't feel like say- in" a word ’'bout the rest. It must be soothin’ es oil to him. Many a feller's made the mistake of knockin’ at the door of Forchen, an’ then backin’ off 'cause she didn't ans’er the firs' time. It's 'mough to puzzle any man to tell DS, his life with mise- Jungle Bootblack. Monk—Polish "em up, boss? Jumbo—No; I've had emough of your monkey-shines. whether It's better to know a lot that' I —— ain't so or not to know a lot that is so. P'raps flne feathers don't make fine birds, as folks say, but I admire a pea- cock with a tail more'n I do one without | one. d | TI've knowed fellers 'at said they wus | perparin® fer the nex’ world that I s'pose | overlooked the necessity of buyin’ a suit of asbestos clothin TUP-TO-DATE DEFINITIONS, Law—An intangible something t the courts decide to-day and reverse to- morrow. 3 Equity—What you rarely get if you sue for it. A Peach—You know her name, but it need not be mentloned lm this place. Life Insurance—A soft snap that we have constructed for the other fellow. | Party, in Politics—A phantom that has been conjured up to hold us chumpyps in line. Candy—A bit of condensed sweetness. Girl—The same. Candor—A condensed something that frequently is not so sweet. Genius—That which 1s occasionally recognized—after death. J— “I see that Blivens is having another below-cost sale.” “Yes, and it is very successful.” “How do you know?” “He told me last night that, although it had been running but a week, he al- ready had cleared more thap a thous- and dollars.” We've horseless carts and - wireless news, And thingless things that flurry me, But, ob, the fact that hurts the most Is thinkless thoughts that worry me. CONCERNING “BUTTING IN It is all right, my boy, to have just loads of fun at the expense of the peo- ple who “butt in,” but I have noticed that the ones who butt in are the ones who are most likely to make a winning in this queer game of life—those who butt in the most and hardest. They may recelve many a snub whica would crush a man or woman of finer sensi- bilities, but, bless their pachydermatous hides! they do rot feel it, and, like the immortal flea, they “get there just the same.” I know artists, litterateurs, mu- sicians and that ilk, in plenty, who owa one-third of their evident Success to natural talent in their profession, and the other two-thirds to a high genius for butting in—butting into seciety, when it does not want them; art circles, when they are not invited; “the swim,” when anybody else would see and heed the sign, “No Trespass!” on the bank of the pool. Men butt inte business cir- cles, and the first thing you kmow you hear them mentioned as “merchant princes.” And so you wijl see the big game be- Ing played wherever you may turn your eyes. Don't take my word for it, my boy. Look about you and see if I am right; and If 1 am, then off with your bhat and join with me in one jubilant huzzah for the man, or woman, who gets there by butting in! Yeu may not respect them any mere than I do, but the laurel that the world tenders to | success, bowever won, Is on their brow; anddso—'ray! Simple Mistake.