The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1906, Page 8

3 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1906. RSO THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. EPRECKELS.....c.occve soetsssesssseesnssess s Proprictor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO FOBEN MONAUGHT. .. ..covereeesssssssssasssssssseensnseo-...Manager .« THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLICATION OFFICS.. CURRENT BUSINESS CONDITIONS. MONDAY.... HILE there were no salient features to trade last week, cer- W:am new conditions arose and they may possibly presage some variajion in the monotonous current of commerce has prevailed for some months. First, stocks of some kinds of winter goods are now found to be unduly large, owing to the warm weather of a fortnight or so ago, which for the time being checked the usual distribution of winter clothing, fuel and other midwinter merchandise and enabled the production to not only overtake consumption but actually pass But the weather has recently turned colder, and in consequence these accumulated goods have again started into motion and are now going out freely, hence it is expected that with continued sea- sonable temperatures the accumulation will soon be worked off. At the same time, it must not be forgotten that any accumulation of | stock at any time indicates that the current consumption is not taking all the output of the different mills of the country. Another condition is that prices of some leading staples have shown a tendency to recede from the high plane on which they have been for some time. Thus, the hide market has become duller, h less inquiry reported in a number of sections. Raw cotton, n spite of the recent sanguine predictions of operators and specu- ators, has gone down, and prices which were ridiculed by the | market lls are now actually prevailing, and in some cases even lower he decline, however, haé not yet affected the market for | manufactured cotton goods, which is still quoted strong. . Pig iron, | too, has been exhibiting some weakness of late. But as in the case f o though the raw product is weak, the mannfactured; is firm, the mills sending in cheerful reports of large structural material, and immense earnings for the past | ! 1 corn have been steadily tending toward lower| | 1e time, and here i8 another instance where the manu- | is firm in the face of a weaker raw product, for the | lately improved. | d al controversy still hangs over the country, and while s been no strike yet, the possibility that one may occur unsettle business more or less over a wide and densely tton product with rders ur has out the only adverse features at the moment. ve a continued brilliant exhibit of the bank earings, week showing an increase in business over the same time last year of 28.8 per cent, with practically every one e first cities and towns on the list of the ninety reporting| | clear s showing a gain, while the aggregate clearings con- | | 3 being $3.481,839,000. This fine record of | the statement from the different sections | \gainst t} goods, continues excellent. Collections are t alities and money is abundant and easy failures for the week were 229, against 256 far mn ad earnings for January show that the month was ever experienced by the transportation 1903, being 10.6 per cent, which aviest monthly increase for over a vear. There are I'he market for raw wool, which weeks ago, has turned firmer again, with i strength displayed at the recent London sales. legislation, which was considered a bugbear pecially in Wall street, has thus far pro- disturbance. The House passed the bill bx a and much less than the usual amount of debate, is going along as usual. The matter has probably ed by the Wall street speculators and operators. market itself has been without sensation during the | he quotations have been fairly sustained as a rule, but f note that the volume of business has been steadily m s. During January and along into the first ary the daily sales on the Stock Exchapge 000 to several hundred thousand over t week they fell to less than a million, with a cy toward a still further shrinkage. This rather indi- great stock-owning interests, who have for several | ving large quantities of stock, have succeeded in ipon many smaller and weaker hands, and having object of ridding themselves of their cumber- rich profits, are quietly withdrawing from the t, in they no longer have more than ordinary inter- [his denouement has been frequently predicted of late, and | it prove a fact will surprise nobody except the enthusiastic gers who wanted a “bull campaign” and got it, made to order. January rease over January exhibit newhat several some ¢ B shares d th ings at ings at h ke whic | ey may now have the felicity of holding their securities im’}x some time, and many of them v sell out at lower prices th:m:l. hev paid : As far as this coast is concerned, the week passed without | especial incident. Renewed rains and warm weather gave addi- | ional promise of abundant crops in the harvest of 1906. All lines of trade, foreign and domestic, wholesale and retail, continued excel- San Francisco is showing wonderful industrial and com- | mercial activity. Real estate operations continue large and brisk | and the way the city is rushing along with the erection of new ngs, mercantile and residential, has never been exceeded, even e famous flush days of '49. There are no dull times in San lent. WYLIE IS SCARED. Francisco, nor anywhere else on the coast, for that matter. ROFESSOR WYLIE of the Chemical Bureau of the Agricul- P tural Department is scared by the result of his investigations in adulteration. No doubt the sophistication of food is too general, but the professor is going to extremes when he fixes the exact number of millions of children that are killed by soothing syrups and milk. Some of the heartiest youngsters we have known had their colic eased in infancy by a little soothing syrup, and lived happy ever after. We do not wish to minimize the evils of food adulteration. The practice should be extirpated by law, not only because many of the adulterants are dangerous to the health, but because the practice is a cheat and a fraud. The appeal for legal interference to punish and prevent adulter- ation has heretofore been made in the interest of health, and it must be confessed that the results are unsatisfactory. Professor Wylie seems to be putting a last ditch argument on that line, by declaring that he trembles with fear when he approaches the dinner table, loaded with adulterated food. We don’t think this will impress any- body very strongly. Let the matter be presented as a fraud, a cheat, and the popular demand for correction will gain strength. Nothing rlakes a buyer more furious than short weight, short measure or short change. We are all buying short weight when we buy an adulterated article. We pay for a quart of pure milk and get less than a quart, the shortage being made up of water and formaldehyde. cheated in weight and measure. The man who cheats us is a thicf. He takes money and renders no equivalent. He should come under a statute of frauds, or be jailed for petty larceny. The public pocket nerve is far more sensitive than the pneumogastric nerve, which tells pur brain what is going on in our stomach. Let us touch the pocket serve and see what will happen. 1f Senator Tillman would adopt the rule never to say anything until he has counted 5000 he would get along much better—Chicago Tribune. AR SR AT Poultney Bigelow may file an objection against giving that horse credit for reducing Secretary Taft's weight—Washingtan Post. | — 2 distributive trade, especially in the direc- | g | WHAT DO YOU KNOW, LITTLE ONE? since—for they show no particular dispo- W What are they { What do you | Each the attendant at the ga “your ticket has brought wrong destination. stairs.” 234 — 91— 31 = ¢ ;o - 43 —~29 = (52 -0l 76 - 2% - 23 ~ 757 HAVE A GAME, WITH \S_T0UGH A MAN AS HE 132 HES A TERROR —a1 — I —e— W - S-Ge~ 193 — 48304 —1]- 44 -5— 26 —473-2 7490 — 37 — 77 ~ 6 — —91—472 — = ;;‘%mq‘g_zz,wrr A THATE 17, BoYstTHATS \ (/' < Tt KEEP ON! WERE DOING IMMENSE, FIF TEEN( bt A 32y | + ——t OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS. By A. J. Waterhouse, HAT do you know, little boy, lit- tle boy, What of their prize unwon? bearing to curse you or bless? What shall they build or destroy? What of the path that your feet shall press— What do you know, little boy? know, little girl, little girl, Dreaming your dream of bliss? | What shall the fabric of years unfurl, ‘Slr&‘ghl from the loom whence our life- webs whirl? ‘What shall you gain or miss? Little heart broken, or little soul glad? Days as of jet, or of pearl? | How shall the on-sweeping morrows be clad— What do you know, little girl? once knew a boy, little lad, little lass, | Who dreamed, as I know that you do, | That the sun-lighted morrows in rapture should pass, bearing for him prosperity’s glass, And blossoms his pathway to strew. | But, oh, for the boy, and the dream that must die! | And, on, for the course that we run! = or he buried his, vision one day, with a sigh— And 1 was the boy, little one. Your face is so bright, little lass, little lad, Your laugh such a sonnet of bliss, ewould pray to the Father your days might be glad, ntcuched by the worry that maketh men mad, That the shadow of sorrow you miss, Were it not that I know that the burden upborne Giveth strength for the journey above; ‘Tis the badge of success by the traveler worn— And may it be yours, little love. | SUBSEQUENT CAREER OF ANANIAS. After Mr. and Mrs. Ananias had been stricken dead for attempting to make a listle financial profit by lying, they wend- ed their way to the straight gate and | knocked for admission. and Mrs. Ananias?” asked. ' was the unani- “Aren’t you Mr. “That's what we are, mous response. “And are you not the lady and gentle- man who endeavored to be frenzled fin- anciers, and consequently were snuffed out, 8o to speak, for coying with the truth? Again was the slight impeachment ad- mitted. “Why didn’t you do like Henry H. Rog- ers ls going to do—refuse to testify?” “We are not that rich,” was the ex- planation. \ “Well, was the response, you to the You belong down- anyway,” The attendant was about to wave them | away, when Ananias, after being hunched by Mrs. Ananlas, interposed. “Just one moment,” he suggested. “Pon’t vou think that the procedure in our case was—well, mary? Are we the only persons of whom you ever heard who told a lle for the sake of financial gain?” Just a trifle sum- “Oh, no; there's millions of them,” the attendant admitted. “And did you ever hear of another one = . . of them all being struck dead for a It is the same with our wine, butter and a long list of foods. We are | trifiing indiscretion of that sort?” ““Well—n-no—as a matter of fact, I don't know as I did.” “All tne rest have a chance to live and repent, do they not?” “I—yes, I believe 80.” ““Well, we want to claim our chance,” remarked both Mr, and Mrs. Ananias at the same time. The more the attendant thought about it the more he realized that the proposi- tion was only fair and just; so he sent Mr. and Mrs. Ananias back to earth in order that they might have a chance to repent. Moral — They have been here ever | acquainted with them. Of the vears that hitherward run, | | Bright with life’s gold or gray with alloy, Dripping with tears or smiling in joy? | Attempt fo put her best foot forward.” | 0. Cromwell died heartbroken, though old - sition to repent—and probably you are “She boasts that she never makes any ‘‘That’s nothing.' If you ever have seen her feet you must realize that she proba- bly would not know which one to select.” “Is Miss Geiggalle's complexion as fine as I have heard some one say it is?” “I don't know. I never have seen except in the afternoon or evening.” her GLAD I AM NOT GREAT. Napoleon died in exile on a sea-worn bit of rock: Great Alexander boozed until he couldn’t stand the shock: Britain's fate he turned, And Alfred took a lashing when the woman's cakes he burned; Our Dewey heard the prafses from the | universal throat, But when he would be President he didn’t get a vote: And when I think about these things, it makes me quite elate To realize I show no signs of ever being great. Ah, yes, I here thank heaven, Which made me rather small, Tkat I really show no g‘mptoms Of being great at all. J. Caesar—he, the mighty—was murdered, as vou know, And his great rival, Pompey, likewise was treated so0; 0ld Hannibal took poison that gave him quite a pain, And when that poison ceased to work he never warred again. So if your lot is lowly .and you're really quite obscure, And you hold a dark suspicion that your name may not endure, ‘Why, join with me in thankfulness, who share your humdrum state, And thank the Lord you show no signs |. of ever being great. Oh, exile is unpleasant, And poison we all hate, And murder must be painful— I'm glad I am not great. “He discovered a panacea for all the diseases that afflict mankind. ““He ought to have become rich in sell- ing it.”” “‘He would have done so if it had not been for just one thing.” “What was that?” ““He dled just as he was about to Intro- duce it."” She cared no whit for anti-fat, As advertised, I me: But, oh, she read the papers through To find an anti-lean. “I don’t think that Job should be con- sidered the most patient and long-endur- ing man mentioned in the Bible.” “Why not? Who could you name that surpassed him In these attributes?” “Why, Solomon had 700 wives, know.’ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A QUOTATION—H. F. 8, quotation asked for is: To hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. It is from Bhelley’s “Prometheus Un- bound” publishea in 1819, Act IV, last stanza. TO LOCATE A PERSON—Call Reader, Belmont, Cal. If you desire to locate person who is gupposed to have been a resident of San Francisco thirty-five or forty years ago place an advertisement in The Call asking for information of such_person. ADDRESS—A READER, Redding, Cal. The publication of the address of a pri- vate citizen residing in New York City is not a matter of general interest and for that reason cannot be published in this department. Correspondents asking ques- tions of a personal character, addresses of business firms, private educational insti- tutions and the like, should always ac- company the question with' a self- addressed and stamped envelope. you City. The VALUE OF DETERMINATION. By Angela Morgan. g— o+ HERE is a certain characteristic frequently encountered in persons of Treflned sensibilities which proves a serious handicap to them when- ever they attempt to gain their due in any walk of life. This is an Interior lack of self-assertion; a shrinking; a too easy deference to the wishes or the convenlence of others at those times when the wishes and convenience of one's self should Be consulted first. This quality is almost invariably found in persons noted for exceeding sensitiveness and gentleness, and whereas it is considered by many a tralt deserving much praise, it may and often does show itself to be a serious defect of character. Gentleness, unselfishness, patience, thoughtfulness of others, all these are admirable in any character when backed by a firm realization of one’s own rights. " When not so sustained they cease (o be virtues and become weaknesses instead. The element of firmness, the quality of backbone, is issential be- fore any character can become thoroughly sound and admirable. . 1 used to think it a great injustice of fate whenever I saw hoggish, selfish, vulgar people rushing in and getting more than their due, while the unselfish persons who considered others first failed to even approach their rightful inheritance. But now I can fairly see that despite the unen- viable manners of the pushing, grabbing, determined person, he possesses a certain irresistible quality, which it will behoove the shrinking ones to cultivate. This compelling quality constitutes the secret of one man's success and another's fallure. It explains why one person can command any favoer while another equally deserving finds his slightest wishes ignored. 1t discloses the reason why one wife gains complete control of her hus- band's pay envelope while another is forced to beg her liege lord for pin money. The secret of the star boarder is likewise explained. Yow know the confident, aggressive boarder who arrives late for meals, don’t you, yet who takes his seat with an assurance not to be denied? He may have seri- ously disarranged the household machinery, but he does not care in the least. What happens? He is treated with the utmost consideration; served with all due respect and solicitude. And the conscientious, apologetic, con- siderate boarder, who, under the same conditions, is actutely conscious of having inconvenienced the cook and the landlady—what of him? He is slighted, frowned upon, treated with distinct disfavor, as though his tardi- ness were the unpardonable sin. The loud-voiced woman boarder, who fusses and storms and com- plains, is the one who gets her windows washed, her window shades re- paired and her room kept free from dust, while the soft-voiced, sweet-tem- pered woman is compelled to put up with blurred windows and all the other undesirable things she has not the nerve to resent. ‘What usually happens as the result of such seeming irony of fate is just this: The refined, gentle person is témpted to belleve that refinement and unselfishness do not pay and that only by bullying others and walking over them can one succeed. This conclusion is far from correct. Neither the hoggish person nor the too considerate one is right. Refilnement never yet prevented any one from clalming his due. Sweet- ness and gentieness of manner are not against making a way In the world, but rather for it. The root of the matter lies in the interior lack of firmness and self- assertion. 1 think nowhere have I seen a clearer explanation of this subject than in the letters of Lord Chesterfield to his son. Over and over did Chester- field repeat the maxim of which he declared, “I do not know any one rule s0 unexceptionably useful and necessary in every part pf life. Here is the maxim: ‘Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re.’” Chesterfield explains: ‘A man who is really difident, timid and bashful, be his merit what it will, never can push himself in the world. * * * The forward, the bustling, the petulant, will always get the better of him. The manner makes the whole difference. What would be impudence in one manner is only a proper and decent jurance in another. A man of sense and knowledge in the world will assert his own rights and pursue his own objects as steadily and intrepidly as the most impudent man living, and commonly more so; but he has art enough to give an outward air of modesty to all he does.” The refined person need not abandon his gentle manner in order to command his due. Let his manner be pleasing, but at the center let him be firm, determined and unyielding. A LITTLE LESSON IN ADV‘!;'.RSITY. HE man who is most willing to extend a helping hand to his fellow-man fs the man who has known what want and poverty and the need of help Is. The great philanthropists have been, almost without exception, men who have risen from the ranks. George Peabody, one of the greatest philanthropists of any time or country, was one of these. Another was George W. Chillds. Childs was a Baltimore boy, who entered the United Btates navy at the age of thirteen. He remained in the navy for fifteen months. He was only fourteen when he went to Philadelphia to make a try for his fortune. Like Benjamin Franklif, he entered that city almost penniless. He found employment in a book store om a pittance of wage; but from this he managed to take care of himself and even to save a little. Fe was frugal and careful. He knew what hunger was, and he had sxperienced want. Furthermore, he had made up his mind to win success, and he was directing all his ener- gles toward the winning. At the end of a few years he had saved a few hun- dred dollare, and opened a store for himself in the bullding of the Philadelphia Ledger. His definite am- bitfon was to make himself owner of the paper and the bullding. At twenty-one he was a member of a Dublishing flm;qflhtm-flflunucmnwhhmhfi:* + the realization of his ambition. Despite apparently in- | cBORGE. "W criLps. | superable hurdies he had reached his goal. A S || ALL SORTS. | —_ James K. Polk, a great-great-grandson of President Polk, is one of the champion whist team of Washington. Mr. Monkey—What became of the baby? Mrs. Monkey—Mr. Hippo, who is run- ning for office, came around and kissed him.—Harper's Bazar. “What started old Pinchapenny to o studying ocecult science?” “He wants to cuitivate a new sense so he can see a bill collector through & brick wall."—Detroit Free Press. In the French city of Beauvaill a small vehicle, built with two wheels and drawn by & man or boy, is In common use. It is called a vinaigrette. The Japanese Imperial Library at Tokio | has on its shelves something. like 00 | written and printed mathematical works, | extending as far back as 15%. The most expensive thermometer is in use at Johns Hopkins University. It is valued at $10,000 and is an absolutely pe | tect instrument. The graduations on the glass are so fine that it is necessaty to use a microscope to read them. It is proposed to hold a laborers’ exh bition in Paris in 1909. The object wiil be to offer a comparison between the life of workmen throughout the world to-day and that of laborers in past centuries. Measuring seven miles in Ingth and signed by 630,034 persons, a petition Is to | be presented to the British Parhament next session asking that a bill be passed | for the prohibition of the vivisection dogs. “Why did vou insist on only $90.000 a year as your salary?” *““Because,” answered the high flnancier, “as soon as people hear $100.00 mentioned they get suspiclous. It Is better to keep the figures marked down a little.”—Wash- ington Star. | “I've been told, professor,” said Mrs. Locutte, “that the fashionable gown, in your opinion, is tmmodest. “Not at all, madame."” replied Professor Cutting. in my opinion the woman who wears it is.”"—Philadelphia Press. The new Italian postage stamps will not bear the monarch’s head, but & vh- fety of different designs. such as the sea under the rising sun, an Alpine landscape, a ship at sea, a rallway train, the Itallan arms and a wireles telegraph station. Dr. G. N. Brinck, deputy superintendent general of education of the Philippines. says that the islands have 30 American teachers, 5000 native teachers and more than 500,000 native puplls, like Japanese in intellectual readiness and keenness. In a close and uncertain State like Ohio in determining whether or not a sick man_ ‘was incurable it might depend somewhat in times of great political excitement on whether the doctor was a RepuBlican or a Democrat.—Chicago News. “Do you think we shall be allowed to follow the same avocations in a future lite that we do in this?" “I hope s0.” “What do you do?" “Nothing."—Cleveland Leader. The Judge—But If you tooted your horn how is it that the plaintiff did not hear you in time to get out of the way?” The Defendant—I am convinced. your Honor, that the accident was due entirely to the inferior velocity of sound.—Brook- lyn Life. Hold-up Pete—Shoot me for a ecata- mount, but them tenderfoots In that coach have nerve. They don’t seem a bit skeered of guns. * nunm—'rhymmnm ‘!ht’*lbm:hntmmhn.._ vorce colony. —— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men Cli; PR R Ry fornia street. ‘elephone