The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 8

THE SANFRANCISCOCALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS. ADDRBSS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO ¢ ‘m McNAUGHT “BLICATION OFFICE.. = 2 SATURDAY. PRIVATE CAR LINES. OGDEN ARMOUR, the present head of the house of , has published a defense of the private car lines, the itermediate between the railroads and the shippers. that the private lines of reirigerator cars-had ains lis description of the first use of these lines His father conceived the idea of putting animal interest slanghtering establishments as near to the origin of live stock as | | possible. So located, the shipment of live animals was shortened and deterioration of condition prevented. and the meat was distributed in a fresh and edible state to any distance. Armo o 1e cold storage cars, contracted for ith the r is, and sent his own meat in his own cars, iced by h wn ice, to the distant consumers. ng establishment and his retail shops might be and a great distance apart. It concentrated the places where the animals were ‘slaughtered. le reduction to econor ge number of small slaughter-hoies was concentration, and enabled the elder yed everything of a pig except the ughter: tirely separated holesale sl prodt and enabled before been made 1« C uses. system Mr. Armour w The cars were simpl cher’s wagons, drawn by horses, from const the old way. to haul his product, he con- as an exclusive contract, for d the same privilege for the hauling own business. his own business, the elde je system to the fruit busines 1¢ on “he had a continued and in- ent of the fruit industry—a per- itself over and above that which he and its profits.” We do not intend Armour by noting that the profits siness preceded his heartfelt interest in the fectly natural. His son fails to note the ng his own meat in his own cars, and hauling f other people. In the one case he was hand- 1ess entirely 'and not the business of others. In e a common carrier, handling the property nvolved a double contract system. The fruit r his freight with the railroad company all this S Oown cars. in to mers, ha I s own cars the extension of t t} perfe 1st use the private line of price as its owners choose to exac pay rs belonged to the , a combination of fruit growers and st ers could build icing stations and ice the cars hired of the T do t at co: st as Phil Armour iced his this is not permitted under the contract of the rail In other words, the private lincs oads. s bitter in discussing the agitation against 1 . He says: “It is quite natural then that the d ask: If the private car has done all this for the why all this outery from the fruit men against the know the truth of the matter; it is time they did, ir as soon s they see the real situation fairly. ter is that this whole agitation started with the These middlemen are the manipu- that is being prosecuted for the express pur- r lines out of business. With Wash- center, these commission men are pushing an be he n men of the countr: the cam know the antagonism between the growers and the #nd looks as though Mr. Armour proposes to advantage of this to save his cold-storage-in-transit monopol, shipper, the fruit grower, the real owner of the- property in it » the private car line. The fruit reaches the commi: charges paid, and it makes no difference to him it brings pays the freight and cold storage or not. has no interest in it at all. he fruit growers in this State complain of. the icing charge They believe that,they pay $100 for $25 worth of ice. If the bus ss were open they would ice their own cars at cost, as Phil Ar- wour iced his meat cars. They regard the private line system, as carried on, as being the imposition of a middleman between them and nsportation company to take a high profit out of them, jver and above the freight they pay to the railroads. The commi a middleman, but they can escape him by organi- n man_ is also sion a h Inm standing at the point of consumption between r and consumer, and the private car line at the shipping igh profit to two middlemen in order to reach the con- the way the fruit growers of California look at it, and ke to see a review of Mr. Armour’s defense of the system by one of the well informed fruit men of this State. THE NEW CIVIC SPIRIT. would disclese both sides of the controvers; IVIC progress is asserted by Charles Zueblin to be greater i ‘ le than in all our previous national history. The advance sheets of a new book by him called “A Decade of Civic Development.” soon to be published by the University of Chicago Press, show an enthusiasm about our own times which seems like a prophecy. "He gives reasons for the faith that is in him and marks ours as a quite distinct epoch in social development. This the last deca progress is due to the new ciwic spirit which makes present ideals | ery different from these of the last century. ‘The change as he lefines it is from characteristics that were theological and individ- salistic to those that are ethical and social. As a result of this change participation in the life of the masse has become the ambition of a portion of the new generation. Zueblin is not one of those philosophers who are greatly alarmed because f our advance in material prosperity. He admits that the comforts of prosperity are apt to produce too much complacency and a be- “siumbing optimism, and that the democratic spirit is compelled to fight against this; but material prosperity is a thing which the nobler prosperities can use and build upon. As he puts it the logical steps in civic progress are prosperity, leisure, culture. So prosperity providing the leisure makes the culture possible. Tire ills that of old time resulted from wealth and lixury will be avoided because of this new civic spirit which has so wonderfully developed. The idea of social responsibility that is held so widely to-day is quite opposite from the thought of the nineteenth century. Democracy, fraternity, freedom of social expression are being more truly realized, and from this has come 2 new dynamic force able to remake the American community. ! It is semi-officially stated that Pak-che-soon, Korean Foreign @Minister, will sherily change his name to Pak-dam-soon, by authority of the Imperial Japasese Government.—St. Louis Republic. ping business and were extended into | It was a system by which his! What had | n glad to have the question raised, for the people, | to pay, in advance, the freight to the railroad and the | he producer and the railroad, the fruit grower has Such a reviewl 11 | ain’t begging, but can I foller yer that ‘ere bone?’—Bystander. Plausibié” Mendicant—Lidy, I'm one o i | ! ! | ; the rveal unemployed, and I abaht tilf yer dawg's done with g Day Off for Wives. BY DOROTHY | { ! USBANDS, did you ever (~ons|(iv?(he| H advisability of giving vour wives | a day off? | Why not? t 1 know it is a revolutionary suggestion | | and will be laughed at by most men. But; stop and think it over. : Your wife does not need a day off, youl v do you? . Oh, you have ares, and ! what business cares The duty ofi running a hou v where there are children, , and it is a conglomeration of cares little dreamed of | by the average business man. Many men think their wives have perpetual holiday—nothing to do but s at home when they please and just givl orders, or go calling and gossip Wwith neighbors when they feel like it. The worst 1 could wish such men would | be that they might trade places with their | wives for a few months. You men al have Sunda | (I am speaking of the average man) grumble if your rest is disturbed. You! tire of, the children before Sunday-school | time and make life miserable for your poor wives if they cannot keep the little | ones from bothering you the rest of the | day. | Your wives work harder than on any | other day to see that you have an es-| pecially good Sunday dinner, an often give up cherished plans for that; day to obligingly conferm to what you | have decided you wish to do. In fact, Sunday is the hardest day in the week | for magy wives. i The cook has Thursday off, and that! makes another unusually hard day for; | the wife. ! The children have Saturday and Sunday | | away from school, and manage to make Saturday particularly hard for mother, | and with your help they make Sunday | even harder. | In fact, every one in the household ex- | | cepting the wife has a day off. She has | no day or part of a day that she can | | call her own and do with as she pleases. | & — | KNEW HER WEAKNESS. 5 { It was the sweet scent of the lilies in | | the conservatory, the beauty of the young I | girl's gilt hair or the excellent cham- | pagne he had taken with his supper—at |any rate, after the two-step, as they rested in the shadow beneath a palm, he proposed to the debutante.in white. a ys, and vou | “It cannot be' she said. “I am un- | worthy of yo! | “Oh, rubbish.” said he. “Jt js true: it is too true.” And she | sighed. No, no: you are wrong,” said the young girl. - “1 am vain, idle, silly, ut-} | terly unfit to be your helpmate through | | ufe.” He laughed lightly. He said in a sooth- ing voice: 1 “Why, this is sheer madness. What sort of a wife do you think I ought to pave? } {T“a very wise, deliberate, practical! ‘one able to live on w York Press. he name seems famillar, meditatively; but—" “1” explained the appiicant, “I come ! from Bden. I am the progenitor of the | whole human race.” And vou!” thundered Saint Peter, “you have the nerve to apply for admis- sion here? Front! Show the gentleman | | while your wife goes shopping, vi | | o I | FENIMOXE. Justice is not the foundation of such a household. I syppose you think that your wife is &0 domestic that she will think my sug- gestion as_ prepostcrous as you do: that | would not knew what to do with a day off if she had one. Just sit down and talk it over with her to-night. If she is ultra domesticated she will probably try to laugh‘away the idea. But if she is at all agreeable, insist that the scheme be tried Let there be one day a week (not Sun- day) when the family shall shift for itselt iting, without or does anything she pleases ! bothering her head about you, the chil- | dren, the dinner or any household duties. Make her believe that things get along better without her on that day and you will get a lot of fun out of the experi ment if you are the right sort. So will she. B e : | Fashion’s Mirror A'DAINTY BREAKFAST SACK. HESE are the days when the wise shopper goes forth on bargains intent, for materials for the dozen and one garments that go te complete the wardrobe may like as not be found on the bargain counters if one but be ob- servant. The little dressing sack illustrated is an example of a fas- cinating garment that the wearer —and she is also the maker—says cdsts her the proverbial “song.” e remnant of challle of cream, spotted over with brown rings, is cut in shirt-waist fasajon to the belt, then little skirt pleces at- taghed. For trimming she found a (bargain len of fine swiss beading fully an inch and a haif wide. This is used about the large sailor collar, to band the sleeves, and to form a belt, and is run with a wide brown velvet ribbon. The collar and sleeves are further hed with a ruffle of swiss em- dery. It is all “bargain coun- 18F,"” says the wearer, except the velvet ribbon. In these little odd jackets,one may use all sorts of appareégtly useless patterns to great advantage if the trimming scheme be but cleverly planned. | i ek / | Accfdentals BY A. J.WTERHOUSE. SHE GIGGLES. WEET Mary is a charming girl, S Or so Augustus thinks. She wears her golden hair a-curl In fascinating kinks; But, oh, will some one tell me why. ‘While still with life she higgies And ali its solemn moments fly, She giggles? | ! P, v llt matters not tow dread the hour, How grave its moments be; While others’ tears fall like a shower, Sweet Mary says, “Te he!” And there are others of her For instance, young Miss ‘Who, when she needs to air her mind, Just giggles. I sat with Hamiet but last week. The melancholy Dane Brought tears to my unwonted cheek, 8o sore his wee and pain. “To be or not to be,” he cried, ‘While Mary squirmed and wriggled, And when at last poor Hamie{ died, She giggled. Within the solemn house of prayer, At function or pink tea; Whera Mary goes—yc¢s, everywhere— She takes her te he he. { If laughter's due, or iaughter's not, Her golden head she wiggles, And, though there's patlios in the plot, She giggles. I've thought full oft of Mary's Along life’s thorny road. is her giggler out of piac | And why does it expiude? Is it because her thinks won't The while she writnes and wriggles? | I dare not say—I only know 1 She giggle case, | | Why | flow, i “The defendant aa. toxicated, your Honu: ating circumsgunces,” s i he was in- bur pieads extenu- | i THE MAN WHO REFORMED. Once upon a time taere was a Certain | Man who lay awake in the long! { watches of the nigui and took thought of himself, and &= he thought he said within the hidden and noly reccsses of his soul: | “Lo, my days have been written in | foliy! T have risen betimes, or at other | | times, in the morning, and, beuold, it | | was hard for my family to live with ime! And I have painted 'er red when | a cerulean blue would have been a bet- | ter color! And I have felt that because | the moon got full, I also must—but | why mention it, for now I will reform | and lead a better life, and I will cut | out the primrose path and avaunt the | ruby wine, and I will tell my wife that her pies are delicious evenswhen 1 have fo carve the lower crust with an ax, and 1 will cali the children little dears instead of rubbernecks. OB, yes, you bet I am a Truly Réformed on the Highway to Reformville!” And the Certain Man felt so good over his Beautiful Resolution that he turned over and went to sleep. i | But when the Dark and Gloomy | | Morning came, lo, it was different! For the Certain Man’s brain appeared | to be made of putty kneaded (and even more needed) in Hades, and his glori- ous and glorifying thoughts had con- siderably wilted over night, and he told his dear wife thaf he wonid take some of the coffee to the office to be used as ink were it not that the mud would spofl it for that purpose, and, just because he felt that way he took | three of his charming children to the | woodshed and argued with them | i ways, and when he was gone to the | ‘vofl'.u} his family, as with one voice, re- i marked, “Thank Gawd! At last!” But his office force felt differently. Moral—Two a. m. resolutions fre- quently are not worth a whoop. | Moral 2—The Certain Man was, in | some degree, very much like the rest | of us. He tried preaching and failed.” Yes.” “School teaching and failed.” “How unfortunate.” he law and faile heard of that” 'he mercantile business and failed.” You don’t sa “Farming and failed.” “Poor fellow!” | “Oh, you must not say that.” “Why not? He seems to be a child | of misfortune.” i “All of his friends now are assuring { him that he is perfectly adapted to go linto the newspaper business.” { “She is recognized as a leader in so- | ciety.” | “So I heard. make his money?” How did her husband | { i | — { | A CURIOUS NOTION. i !1 know some very good people, indeed, | | Who hold a curious notion g The world from vice and sin were freed {..Jf 1t would keed their motion. i “Just heed our whim." they say in act, | ol If .they do not in letter, | Regardless of the potent fact, Some one may have a better. Thelr actions say forever, “For unto us 'tis very plain, Just how he holds the lever. | Our one day is the only one: | There should not be another. | In dancing evil Is begun— | Abjure the dance, my brother!” { That they are meritorious folk, I do not here deny it, | And yet my neck won't fit their yoke, i No matter héw I try it. { Their notions all are very good, | _But me they only fetter, { For my blind soul has understood That there may be a better. 1 BRIEF TALK AT THE GATE. J “You didn’t do what little you might | to relieve the world of Its sorrow and heartache,” said the Accusing Angel. ‘The lately released soul squirmed a lit- | | i E“Ncw worshin God as we ordain,” et | i your brother is Flossie—So a saflor. Ain’t vou afraid he - bezzlement. g drinks? Mrs. Nipper—Think of him Jessie—Not now, his ship's having to live among common l | in drydock. thieves who took small sums! PSS, P S SN SR I L5 RSl SSRGS TS AR TR shocked to Caller—I was Bhear of your husband's em- Little Thi—;lgs They Talk About While Shopping or Over the Teacups. Would vou marry a old enough to be your Millie—No, not unless he was old enough to be my grand- father. s v | | | one’s self; the maral sense.” says 1§ "is the reason, employed about | BY SALL The home of Mrs. W. W. Stow on Pine street will be Slled to-day with callers to greet Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kaetzel (Ger- trude Jack) of Santa Barabara. Mrs. Kaetzel is well known among our smart set, having visited much ameong its mem- bers, and is aiso a belle of the southland. To-day’s affair will bring the good wishes of many old friends to both Mr. and Mrs. Kaetzel, who are spending part of their wedding trip in town. Other affairs are on the tapis for the young coupie. They will remain a few weeks. & '. . Mrs. Edward Barron is entertaining to- at a large luncheon, having issued day cards for 1 o'clock at her home on Broad- | way. "o . This is to be Sequoia’s gala night. when a finished and delightful presentation of “Twelfth Night” will be witnessed by the ciub membership. Those taking part have spared no pains to prepare rich costuming. The leadership of William Greer Harrison insures an artistic pro- duction, and Sequoia will be quoted with another memorable date. . s s The announcement of Mrs. Eleanor Marti and Mrs. Peter Martin's day at home vesterday caused a constant surge of callers to the Broadway residence, where the hostesses received from 4 to 7. Assisting in the reception: of guests were Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, Mrs, Walter S. Martin, Mrs. Henry T. Seott, Miss Anita Harvey and Miss Genevieve Harvey. F Magame Gros will be the h. .ored guest at an elaborate dinner next Tuesday even- ing, to be given by Raphael Weill, at the Bohemian Club. About two dozen guests are bidden, and Mr. Weill is always an ideal host. Madame Gros, whe has but recently re- turned with her daughter, Miss Mar- guerite Gros, trom Paris, Is meeting with many offerings of delightful hospitality. . Mrs. Eugene de Sabla has become the possessor of the doll's house for which so many tickets were sold at the recent productions of the “Mer- chent of Venice” The talking ma- THE SMART SET Y SHARF. chine has been awarded to Miss Jm’ Hotaling. . cLaren will be <cs, enteraining in her . Mrs. Duncan among to-day’s hostes at a lunchaon for ten guests ‘Webster-street home. 4 the coming fort- night will be the large bridge p‘rl)‘ptf be given by Mrs. Jessie Bowie r trick, who has issued cards for nearly forty players. An event within N Mr, and Mrs. C L. Waterbury 'r)( New York have taken a house on \:u: Ness avenue for a few months, wher they will entertain before returning to New York in the spring. PR Mrs. Mansfield Lovell a jell were at home yesterday i residence on Webster street, a large number of callers. P Jules Pages, with his dainty young bride, will arrive frgm Paris in May to make a visit of some months in San Francisco. nd Miss Lov- at their receiving . e g e Miss Elizabeth Huntington Is ¢ guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Brooke Perkins in Pasadena. . . Mrs. Meta Hadenfeldt and Miss Wanda Hadenfeldt are expected to ar- rive in town during March, after aa absénce of a year and a half abroad. They have traveled extensively rough Europe. lhBe!;‘re reaching San Francisco Mrs. Hadenfeldt and Miss Hadenfeldt wil Elmer Woodbury in Pasadena. e S Prominent among smart set who passed the holiday week at Del Monte were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. de Sabla, Miss Ruth Casey, Miss Edna Middleton, Mrs. M. B. Robson, Miss Helene Robson, Mrs. William Newhall, ! Miss Newhall, Miss Gertrude Josselyn, | Mr, ang Mrs. Lewis ree, Dr. Annie | G. Lyle, P. McG. Bean, Allen Kittle and | Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Murphy. folk What Is C BY WALLACE RICE. onscience? HOUGH there is no certain an- Tthuri(}‘ for the general belief, most of us think that in some wWay com- science stands as a sort of guardian angel to direct us toward the light and right and warn us from darkness and it as “the wrong. Webster defines moral faculty passing judgment on Whewell questions of right and wrong, and ac- companied with the sentiments of ap- probation and condemnation.” Yet, because it deals with moral questiofls, it comes to assume a super- natural attitude, a theological entity, and passes from the domain of pure reason, where it belongs, into that of faith in dogma, where it suffers partial eclipse. it is assumed that all' men are borm with consciences that will work satis- factorily in dealing with the meral questions of the present day and age. It is true that we are born with in- stincts, but/these are generally at war with a well regulated conscience. It is also true that we are more likely to take our conscience from our sur- roundings, especially in early life, than to tinge our surroundings with the i color of our conseience. The belief that conseience is some- thing that comes, by inheritance and not K by individual cultiva works great harm to thousands. ey ussume thelr | conscience will teach them to do right. when as a mattér of fact not ome con- science In ten has the knowledge back of it eapable of distinguishing aice quesgions of right and wrong. | I Believe most men and women, as well as most children, are conscien- tious; but 1 also believe that most con- sciences are little better, if better at all, than none. | Conscience is, first of all, based upon | reason. Reason is based upon knowl- edge, upon the dominance of the will over the feelings, upon wisdom, which/ is the application of such knowledge o the affairs of life, and upon experience, some personal, some arrived at through otherd It is folly to expect a reason- able conscience in an unreasonable or irrational man. It is folly to expect conscience to tell the reason what is right and what is wrong, when it is the function of the reason to impart this knowledge to the consclence. Neither here nor elsewhere does nature work batkward A good conscience is a priceless pos- session, but its value lies chiefly in its being kept good. As much as the muscles and the intellect, it requires constant exercise for -its well being. Here, too, Ged Rhelps those whe heln themselves. | BROKEN AND MENDED. On swept the little red automobile that was built for two. “You—you seem the beautiful girl anxiously. so quiet.,” whispered “Is there anything about this machine that is broken?” 2 “Yes,” hissed the tall man at her side. bitterly. *“My heart.” Feeling remorsefnl at having jilted him | s0 cruelly, the beautiful girl leaned over and added: “Cheer up, George! If your heart is reailly broken we can stop at a repair shop. “Nonsense! What kind of a repair shop could mend a broken heart?” “Why, the parsonage, George Twenty minutes Jater the “repair shop™ ‘was reached.—Chicago News. -—%t tle. 'Then it mustered up courage, and sail “I was good to my family.” “But,” urged the Accusing Angel, “you were aware that a troubled world had other claims upen you than those of fam- ily. “Charity begins at home.,” the lately released soul muttered. “Yes,” sadly remarked the Accusing Angel, “but unfortunately you did not bring your home with you, and so your charity is not here to be counted in your favor.” Of course that ended the discussion, and the lately released soul regretfully wend- | ed its way to the coal cellar. “Deoes he believe in the survival of the fittest™" “He does.” “On what ground?” “Why, he says he's here and that proves it.” In life it is as "tis in whist, As I have noticed surely: A man may hold a lot of trumps, And play them very poorly. “] gave my little boy his Christmas candies In a horn.” ~ ““Weil, I got the gold wateh that I was expecting In the same way “What sort of a mind has she?" “You may judge for yourself. Her hair s just recovering from a peroxide treat- ment.” | — X e “F suppose you are prepared to say that marriage is a fail- ure, now that you have your divorce?” - *“No: now I have sufficient alimony te support me.” S = |ANSWERS TO QUERIES. ![ VISION—E. E. G, City. A man on a clear ddy can see an object a foot l high at a distance of 1.31 miles DETERIORATED—A. C. R., Fruitvale, Cal. The opposite of “deteriorated” is “improvement.” RESTAURANTS, HOTELS, SALOONS —E. C. G, City. In San Fraacisco there are about §00 restaurants, 400 hotels and 3000 liquor saloons. CORRESPONDENTS—E. E. G. Cit All the newspapers in the city nam in the letter of inquiry have corre- spondents in Russia at this time. KUROKI—Subscriber, City: . Baron Ta- mesada Kuroki, Japanese military com- mander, was boru in 1544 in Kagoshima, jon the southern island of shiu, | birthplace alse of Siago Nanshu, the great military leade:r in the everthrow of the Shogun in 1868, of Fieldd Marshal | Marquis Oyama and of Admiral Togo. the DYING CALIFORNIAN— Subseriber, | City. . The poem “The Dying California.™ was written by Kate Harris of Pasc R. L, iwho afterward beeame M Charles Plass of Napa, Cal. Tt was sus- gested by the reading of a letter dictated |b)' Brown Owens when dying on his way from California. It was read at his fun- j eral service at Chenatchet, R. L I NOON—A Reader, Ci The following | Tule will enable any one to determine the true difference between moon by clock jtime and noon by the sum dial or noon mark: From any almanac take the time from sunzise to 12 o'clock and from 1 | o’clock to sunset. Half of the difference | between the two is the number of m'nutes which the dial shows wrong. either pius or minus. This is called the equation of time and varies about fifteen minutes either way at its highest. THE GUILLOTINE—Subscriber, Santa :L‘hra. Cal. The general impression is | that the guillotine, the instrument adopted ! for inflicting capital punishment by the | French durihg the Reign of Terror, was | the invention of Dr. Joseph Ignace Guil- | lotine. who in 1785 recémmended its ase in { France from motives of humanity ia | place of the barbarous gibbet. There is in the Antiquarian Museum of Edinburgh, ! a guillotine made before 1581, which was jused to behead Morton, the Scottish Re- | gent, who had introduced its use into that country. In the thirteenth eentury theie | was used in Italy an ivstrument very similar to the one used in France. i i ii i i i $ be guests for a time of Mr. and Mrs. , -