The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1906, Page 26

THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL FOHN D. SPRECKEIS......ce00se s+ssesasessnpes-acsssso. . Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO FONN McNAUGHT........ trueseseees. . Manager X! e o - =] FURIATION SRPCR. ET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO .....FEBRUARY 11, 1906 n-»!!"ilflb AND MARK! BAITING CHINA. - SUNDAY. HERE seems to be a set purpose in some quarter to stir up T trouble between this country and China. The news dispatches on the subject are evidently concocted at some center, probably Shanghai, and betray a desire of the ropean nations to ride on in a movement that will renew their aggressions on that No doubt there is a Chinese boycott on American geods, h we may blame ourselves. The idea is being spread abroad, from the source that we have mentioned, that this country should in some way compel the Chinese to buy our goods. This is eposterous. England covered herself with irremovable odium s the “opium war,” to force China to make the poppy culture of ia profitable. At that time such outrages were possible, but hey are not pow. China was forced to take English opium, and now we and the English people are hypocritically horrified because the Chinese use opium! There is no doubt that the Chinese are incensed because Ameri- can officials have treated merchants, students and travelers as We chould rejoice that they do resent it. There would be no hope for them as a people, no room in the world for them and no e in their trade, which we want, if they did not resent it. Behind 1 of this movement to embroil us with China is evidently the de- sire of Europe to start trouble there in order that a descent may be made upon China before she is prepared to resist it. Instead of a Chinese plot, it is a European plot, with partition and spoliation as its purpose. China is perfecting a military organization that will make her means of defense effective. This, too, is a hopeful sign at which good men rejoice. Chicken stealing is discouraged by locking the ouse. Therefore the man who locks it is the agent of good rorals. The virtue and honesty of Christendom have surrendered the presence of an undefended Asia. The temptation has made Instead of treating with Asiatic governments he history of European presence in them is a story istice. It cannot be put stronger than to say that except in our treatment of our Indian tribes. No tizen of the United States will wish that his country shall te in such a policy. We can afford to abide by the example set by Secretary Hay. He knew the history of the dealings of Chris- tendom in Asia. From the murder of Nand-Kumar by Warren Hastings to the violation of the treaty rights of the Achinese by the Dutch, clear around to the seizure of Chihese territory by Russia and Gern t is a history of hard-hearted injustice. After it all, ised that the Western nations are not loved in 1 i lies. partici Mr. really an expression of the determination to destroy this John H It will be obsérved in all the dispatches that nment is censured for listening to any demand for better treatment of the gxempted classes of Chinese. It is wearily repeated that the Asiatics take this as evidence that we fear them. It is ad- vised, persistently, that we use harsh measures, show our power and indulge in armed aggression as the only means of commanding the respect of China All this is bad adviee, and it will be lamentable if our people i Government are led astray by it. We have not kept faith with Let us correct that fault. We constantly violate treaties with that empire. Let us stop it, or else stop blaming Chinese for doing the same thing. Only an attitude of rigid justice is becoming to this Government, and only that will permanently prq- mote our commercial intere in Eastern Asia. na. a China in all things. . THE TOURIST TRAVEL. HE intermountain region and the coast have a population of 5,000,000 in this country to draw upon for tourist travel. It nearly all lies within from two to four days’ travel of scenery i climate, novel, inspiring, and with all the physical charms known in other parts of the world, and with some peculiar to itself, These facts have impressed the “See America first” movement that was itiated recently at Salt Lake. Americans, touring abroad, seeing e sights in Europe or seeking a clement climate, spend there $200,- 000,000 a year. All over Europe the value and importance of this travel are so well understood that every effort is made to attract it. Hotels, stage railroads, restaurants, are all keyed up for Amer- ican travel. As far as scenery is concerned Europe has nothing su- perior to our own mountain and coast region, and as for climate it has nothing equal for every day, all the year round wear, to ours. The movement to attract the tourist travel of our own country is not initiated because we need the money, for we have plenty without it. It is a movement intended to add to the health and pleasure of our countrymen, whom we desire to induce to see and know the charms of their own land before they go abroad. It is for their enlightenment and enlargement of view. We are not jealous i Europe. Superiority can have room for no such sentiment. The ist travel to other lands has been a great means of education and broadening of views. The various tourist companies which personally conduct travelers have been really educating institutions and deserve encouragement. What is needed now is to induce them 10 widen their curriculum by educating Americans in matters re- lating to their own country, as a very necessary preparation to the seeking of information abroad. All Californians who come in contact with Americans who haye spent much time abroad hear them lament that they had not seen this State first. If they had noted the leading facts in the variety and value of its production and been inspired by its scenery, they would have been able to make comparisons with things in Eurepe more intelligently and beneficially. Every interest here should join in the “See America first” movement. Let it be understaod, top, that it applies to Californians also. They go much abroad and without having seen all that is worth seeing in their own country. The region of the Great Lakes; the great cities and the commercial and manufacturing centers of this country should be seen by Californians. Many of them go abroad and see the capitals of Europe before they have visited Washington City and seen the things of absorbing pa- triotic and historical interest in the home of their own Government. Their own land. “2f every land the pride,” should be known first. California is moewing in all her sections to attract American travel, to give it what it wants when it comes, and if all the scenic States do as well, millions of our countrymen will come, see and be con- _quered, n €s, It's industry that makes ghe thousands of poor Jews so quickly pros- perous in America—New York Commercial. 7 e—————mew Stuyvesant Fish declares there has been too much reckless railroading in this country. Yes, and not enough of the wreckless kind.—Washington Post. _— President Roesevelt approves a canal of the lock pattern. We shall be lucky if Congress in providing for it does mot conduct legislation on the deadlock pattern.—Chicago News. e As chairman of the Committee on the Potomac River Front Senator La Foliette should at least reassure us occasionaily witha report that all’s guiet along the Potomac.—Washington Post. SR 1f young Mr. Rockefeller really wishes to increase the membership of his Sunday school class to 1000 let him arrange with Lew Dockstader to lead the singing and Tom Lawson to pass the hat—Kansas City Star, ng with Asia, as far as it concerned us. He proposed to substi- hfulness for lying, justice for injustice, mercy for murder. ent attempt to influence this country into trouble with | TIHE, GAl R P Lift the undying boughs About the Father's House, Where many mansions are, With splendors infinite! And round its crystal watl, Deep-throated, musical, The mystic rivers tiow. There, winding in and out, Fach hlest abode about, Color and soft perfume 1In fields of unknown bloom, That fade not, nor decay. ¢¢ 7 WISH you would tell me how to [ cultivate nerve,” writes a young { business man. ,“In other words, I wish you would prescribe a cure for tim- idity. All my life I have been compelled to see others with less ability push ahead of me and attaln a success I was quite | as competent te achieye. I have fought this falling persistently, but it seems only to have grown more pronounced. Nerve is what I need.” Yes, nerve {s what you need, for ‘‘nerve” is only another word for fearlessness, without which no man or woman can hope to succeed in any walk of life. THE FIRST STEP, The very first step for you to take in conquering timidity is te stop believing that you are timid. Every thought you hold about yourself is bound to become a realliy. It]s the beliefs you cherish about yourself that make you what you are. Just so long as you are picturing your- self to be timid, shrinking, fearful, you are making it impossible to be anything else. You must at onee cut out of your mind that concept of yourself, and you must substitute for it exactly the oppo- site bellef. This you ean do by repeatedly making statements directly opposed to those you have made heretofore, Instead of thinking the thing you do not wish to become, insist upon thinking the thing you wish to become. Whatever con- IN MEMORY OF DB, GEORGE. WHe Ll AST realms of untold space, Through ways no eye may trace, Past moon and sun and star— Bright are its towers! How bright TJewels, that gleam and glow! God’s gardens stretch away; —_— i3 _OF FRANCIICO, CMIMORE THE, WELL PELOVED, sadu Within this garden-close Behold the rows on rows Of flowering miracles! The slender, singing brooks Threading the emerald nooks, With sound of whispering bells. Broad-branched the trees, that spread, Full-fruited, overhead, Arched in majestic height— Sifting through leafy bars The Radiance whence stars And suns take life and light. Soitly, all rapture-spun, Bird song and earillon Blend in ecstatic bliss. O wonderful! O rare! Thou friend of mine, how fair, How fair thy garden is! OD ARSY 11, 19.06, For kindly word and deed The roots are and the seed Wherefrom these blossoms spring; The selfless act and thought Through life divinely wrought Live here, unperishing. b asualihog s _ Cultivate Nerve and Make Simc_ess in Life More Certain. BY ANGELA MORGAN. . dition you desire to see manifested in your oliter world must first become a fact n your inmer world—your mind. THINK DIFFERENTLY. If you have been calling yourself a timid mun and drawing to yourself the negative mental states that follow in the train of such statement, shut off that eurrent of thought at once. Turn on a Rew current. Just so long as you hold in your mind the picture of yourself as lacking the ag- gressive qualities you desire, just so long will you definitely lack those qualities. 1 care not how valiantly you “fight” the failing. While you are looking upon it as an established fact you will never be able to get rid of it. The truth is, it is not an established fact. That is, it has no roots that cannot be pulled up. The roots are in your mind. Destruy them, and in their place plant the beliefs that will make you just what you long Lo be—a fearless man. You do not lack “nerve,” but you have told yourself repeatedly that you do, un- til you have made the statement a real- ity. You are mentally hide-bound; held in the grip of an idea that paralyzes your energies. Even though you may have employed your will power to overcome the de- ficiency, declaring, I will be courageous; I will not submit to my fault,”” you have emphasized the fault, recognized it per- sistently until it has galned still greater Te the Hditer of The Call: A few days ago I was reading a paper on astronomy, in which, incidentally, it was stated that our earth, in her motion of rotation, trayels, at the equator, about 1000 miles per hour. Thig startled me. Indeed, when we must travel but some kilometers we have to play or use our legs in walking; and le, that anybody who is at the equator has the chance of traveling at a speed of about 1000 miles per hour, without having the annoyance of buying a ticket. But here, ‘my thoughts pcinted out something which could give me a means of judging with more justice. Do not our economists say that everything must be paid for which has some amount of hu- man labor in 1t? Therefore, it is natural that we must pay for our railroad tickets, for you know our rallroad magnates are working in corrupting our Legislature, and we must pay also for our coal and gil. But it seems ridiculous to say any- thing gbout paying for the use of the sun- light or of the air. They come freely to everybedy, there- fore they must cost nothing. But—there s a but here—do they really cost noth- ing? Does man enjoy all the sunlight and u:;"n is able to get really for nothing? Well, I won't oppose too boldly this com- monly accepted opinion. After all, it may be that our optimists are right. But our Greek ancestors were of the opinjon that there is room for some blessings more on this earth, notwithstanding all that flew off through the curlosity of Pandera. I sirable only when by some blessings, as bread 15 better when l - The Free Gifts of Nature. with some pittance. "1 don’t know if we are really bound to consider them as free gifts. Nobody, probably, would accept all-burned books or broken vases. As a, book is (sometimes) valuable when it can be read, or a vase is useful when it can contain something, so sunlight and air are to be considere? as gifts when accom- panied by some blessings. And when not accompanied by them I doubt if they are rightly called “Nature's free gifts.” A. DELPERO. San Francisco, Feb. 9. —_————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. The only cooks that stay with a family are those that are married to it. Mothers think if they look after the plltc)imnkln!‘. the lovemaking will look after itself. B A man thinks he |s awful smart to read about somebody else getting run over by a street car. The more money a man has the more his peighbors hate him and the more respect they pay him. Even when a woman knows it isn’t so, she always belleyes her husband who is away when he writes how lonesome he is. —New York Press, A LAUGBING MATTER, “Pop!” i “Yes, my son.” “What is a horse Jaugh?” “Why, a horse laugh, my boy, is one the nag gives when he's drawing a disabled touripg car back to town. proportions. According te your own con- fession this is so.’ ACQUIRE COURAGE. The only way to gain courage is to think courage, speak ecourage, act cour- age. When you get up in the morning say to yourself, “I am fearless; I can this day do anything I set out te do. I can meet every man fearlessly and enlist the interest of whomsoever I will in my be- half. I am invincible. Nothing can make me afraid.” Tell yourself this as you ride in the car on your way down town to your work, Keep on saying it during the day. “I am fearless,"” Hold this picture of yourself and re- fuse to see any other. Repeat the state- ment over and over while you are in the street, or in the restaurant, or sitting at your desk. 1 know personally a man who com- quered timidity by this method. He had an unusually sensitive, shrinking pature, and in his struggle to achieve business success he suffered mental torment such as only natures of that kind can appre- ciate. His timidity was actually appall- ing, and almost unbelieyable in a man of such splendid traits otherwise, B0 keenly did he shrink from going out to enlist the aid of business men in his schemes that many mornings when he started out he would turn on his heel and go in an opposite direction from the offices he had planned to visit. He would virtually run away from them. And when at last he did pluck up courage to retrace his steps he wouid walk around the out- side of the building he was to enter and agonize for hal an hour before he went in. RID OF TIMIDITY. To-day he is as dauntless a business man as I have ever met. Perfectly poised, fearless, aggressive, magnetic, his foreeful personality belies completely the timid character of ten years ago. How did he do it? He began by telling himself at the very times he was most afraid that there was no such thing as fear for him. He did not wait to see if he could grow courage. He declared that he possessed courage. He compelled him- self to look people mnaroly'ln the eyes at times when he was Inwardly quaking and trembling with fear and embarrass- ment. He forced himself to do the things he most dreaded to do. Whenever he found himself shrinking from a new and ai cult undertaking he sald, “Nothing daunts me. I want to face it. I glory in the epportunity. I am absolutely fear- The man has outstripped in his success 1 of his friends who started out bet- ter equipped financially and intellectually than he. He knows the law of mind con- tral. “I am courageous. I am aggressive. am dauntless.” 3 This is what you should tell yourself it you want to overcome timidity. Don't wait until you feel courageous before saying it. Say it first and courage will follow. You gre not a timid man. You are splendidly’ equipped with the fearless traits you desire. Recognize them. sist on them. And you have flmquml!-' I LOF PEARSON was born on the “13th,” But despite the associations which customarily attach them- gelves to the “unlucky” pumber, ever gince that unfortynate start he proved his right to a place in the world, says the Chieago News. He lived through the “croaks” of his mother's friends to be a healthy, hawling baby, and he has looked forward hopefuily: to the recurrence of the 13th day of the month. Whataver g00d fortune befalls him is sure to arrive on that date. Confident that it is his mission in life to break the infallibility of all “hoodoos,” he has sought continually to walk under ladders and to sing every morming t_nhr" breakfast. Such a thing as a horseshoe he always kicks out of the way, and, as for stooping to pick up a pin in the street he views such action with tne greatest abherrence. A white horse and a red-haired girl, drifting into Olof Pearson’s vision at the same jnstant, have absolutely no sig- nificanece for him, and, after careful re- search endyring through several years, he has at last determined which is the wrong side of the bed, and never clambers from his couch in the morning by any other exit. Not only was Mr. Pearson born on the 13th, but also on a Friday. “Too bad, teo bad,” breathed solicitous friends. “Sugh a sweet child; but, of eoyrse, the little darling mever can ltve | long. Even if he should live, he would better have died In infancy. Nothing ex- éept misfortune can follow such a bad be- ginning." p This remarkable perturber of pepular superstition did live, however, and at present has a jewelry store in Roseiand, at One Hundred and Thirteenth street and Michigan avenue. He has lived 3§ years so far, and thinks he has a good chance to-live 36 more. He came to the United States from Sweden on July 13, 1386, at the age of 17. This was a year after his fath- er's death, which took place on January 13, 1885, His mother had died when Olof was 18 years old, Mr. Pearson does not state the date of his marriage, but as he appears tosbe ensconeed in conjugal hap- piness it is probable his wedding took LAUGHS AT UNLUCKY OMENS. place on a 13th along with all the of great events of his life. “If anything happens on the 13th am not afrald of the consequences, sald Mr. Pearson. “I always look for- ward to the 13th of every month wit the assurance that it will bring good fortune in some form or other Those people whe say the 13th is u lugky are laboring under a delusio As a matter of fact, it is the luckics number in the arithmeti On June 13, 1895, he started in bu ness on the thirteenth floor of the Co lumous Memorial building, suite 13 From that day on he has prospered. vented his present establishment April 12, 1893, His life has been a singularly aquiet one. In view eof the fact that the omens of bad luck greatly outnumbered the pertents of good fortune, he has been seldom troubled by the thought of ““what might happen.” If he overturns the salt he does nat have to bother about quiekly secyring a pinch of the substance to threw over his left shoulder. He has always delighted in the presence of black cats. To him there is no shadow of com- ing danger lurking in the portentous act ‘of opening an umbrella in the house. It he wishes to do so he does not hesitate, secure in the feeling that the ‘‘powers of evil” haye no influence over him. He has never had to lese valuable time when he stubbed his toe by having to return and recross the obstruction successfully, he has been able to hurry at once to physician. ' In days gone by, when Mr. Pearson was aeeustomed to walk with his sweetheart, he used to choose only those paths where he felt assured he would meet a cross- eyed mam. A mew moon over his left shoulder has given him delight out of the ordinary. To break leeking-glasses used ta be a continuous source of amusement iR this strange individual's younger days, altheugh he declares he has long since given up the practice. In short, he has heen almost entirely free from care since the day of hig entry into the world. He advises all his friends to select the 13th as their birthday, for he attributes all the best things of his life to having made his entrance into the world on that date. — is on . In&ustrial Prog:ess of Germany. | HE end of the Franco-Prussian war, in 1571, saw' a united Germany. In the place of some forty jealous and | T independent kingdoms and prinefpalities stood @ German nation. No event in the | history of Eurcpe has been of greater| significance or more far-reaching in its sult has been achieved in a country in which the agricultural and mineral re- sources are not great, and in the face of the burdens due to long and costly wars, to the maintenanee of a great army, and to the draining of a large part of its pop- ylation through emigration. No exploita- results than this substitution of a nation| and a national policy in the place of ise-| lated states with discordant and ottan-: times hostile political programmes. But| the political significance of United Ger-| many has been only eme of the results| achieved. Not less remarkable and not| less significant is the industrial progress of Germany since it became a nation. In 1870 the manufactures, the inventions and the foreign commerce of the stparate @erman states were far below those of England and of Frence. To-day United Germany stands in the front rank | of the patjons of the world in industrial production, and she clearly leads all other natjons in the applications of science to industry and to the arts. Her position is all the more remarkable because this re- HALF-CENTURY REMINISCENCES. To the Editor of T! Reminiscences of forty years ago take me back to mine of fifty years “0:. to the time of the formation of the Vigi- lance Committee. My husband was en- rolled with the first hundred and entered heartily into the plans for ridding our city of its lawless element. I was on the corner of Montgomery and Clay strests | trial development are several, tion of the virgin resources of a new con- tinent nor millions of new citizens drawn from other lands have brought to Ger- many the unearned increment which the United States has enjoyed during same three and a half decades. The reasons for this tremendous indus- but they all spring more or less directly out of the strong national spirit developed by the accomplishment of German unity. One of the important factors has been the sys- tematic development of sclentific research and the application of research to the practical industrial problems of the na- tion.—From ‘“How Sclence Heips ladustry in Germany,” by Henry S. Pritchett, in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for February. 2 ADROITNESS. Senator Beveridge, in conversation with a group of young disciples, desired to illustrate the quality of adroitness. “By means of adroitness,” he said, “a young equerry of the Calipah Caid sprung in one bound to the impeortamt post of keeper of the privy purse. “The caliph sat on a divan, drinking coffee and smoking a narghile and Lis courtiers surrounded him. when the pisto] was fired that killed | " gg0n1y with a queer trown, he James King of Wililam at the corner of | g, » 3 Montgomery and Washington ’““‘;ce “‘Whom do you regard as the greater was on my way to my husband's o at the corner of California and Davis streets, Before cressing Clay street the crowd was so dense 1 was obliged to turn up Clay and return to my home by the way of Stockton street. With friends and neighbers en a beau- tiful Sa¥bath morning we witnessed from the hill overlooking the jall the march of the Vigilantes to that institution. Many feared there would be resistance to their demand for Cora and Casey, but the of- ficials yielded to their request for the prisoners and they were taken to & build- ing on Sacramento street, which had besn prepared for their reception, to awailt theiy doom, The farewell parade of this orsaniza- tion was one of the finest San Franeisco has ever witnessed. I sat with friends in the Sherman building, on the corner of Montgomery and Clay streets, and 1 think I am the enly one left of that group of friends invited to witness the farewell review of that grand army of men who gave up home comforts and business for months, devoting themselves exclusively to ridding our city of the lawless element which had obtained control, and we are to-day enjoying the fruits of thelr efforis to make Sap Francisco a destrable dwell- ing place for law-abiding people. San Anselme, Feb. 8. S. WL T. ENOUGH OF GUNFIRE. Several days before General Joseph ‘Wheeler died and a_time when he was accasionally irrational he sat up in bed one evening and sald to the nurse; *When dees the firing begin?" Po humor him the nurse replied: “The firing will begin at 9 o'clock, gen- eral.” General Wheeler leaned back in his bed, apparently resting. At five minutes to 9 o'clock he reached over for his watch, no- wfimm.wmmmubn near his bed & small bunch of absorbent cotton. The nurse was watching him, somewhat puszsied by his sctions. Very deliberately General Wheeler plugged both ears with the cotton. Then he leaned back in his bed again and went to sleep.—New York Sun. ——gt——— STOCKINGS FOR MISS ALICE. —_— The Shah of Persla is fond of knitting as a hebby, and likes to knit silk stock- ings fov his personal friends. He onee presented a pair to the Prince of Wales, his own handiwork. It may be that the secret box which arrived at the White House a few days ago from Teheran, sent £ man, my father or 17 “The vizier, the cadi and the white- bearded councilors were silemt, unable to think of an answer would not imperil their places and their heads, g “But the adroit young stepped ‘easily into the breach. *‘What was the question, sire? he asked. ““Which was the greater man, father or 1?" repeated the galiph. Your father, sire,’ the equerry an- swered, ‘for, though yeu are your father's equal in all other respects, he is your superior in this—he had a greater son than any you have.” WIS OWN LIGHT PLANT. “I have a seheme which is worth a whele lat to me,” sald Charles 8. Plerron of Chijcago at the St. Charles Hotel to @ Milwaukee (Wisconsin) man, “and saves me a bit of annoyance. I don't have to make use of it in hotels like this, of eoupsd, but in some small inns up through the State I find it very handy. I got the idea frem a friend of mine at one of the smaller hotels in York a shert time ago. I found him in a room that was far away from daylight. There was one electric light, which did not make the apartment over lustrous. We had seme papers to look over and I moved nearer the air- shaft. ‘I can do better than that,” u& equerry my said, and went to his satchel and toe out an electrie bulb. ‘T carry this for just guch oceasions as this. This lght in the room here does well enough for transient guests, who just come in to sleep and get out again the first thing in the mern- ing, but somietimes one needs more than a sixteen candle-power lamp, and so [ carry a thirty-two candle-power light ‘with me.’ “He unserewed the sixteen candle-pow- Special information supplied daily et aosees ot vl o Sy 8), fornia street. Telephone 1“'.._ —————— Townsend's California glace fruits MR WS