The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO.CALL,/ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1906. THE SAN FRAN_CISCO CALL J0HN D. SPRECKELS... ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO Proprictor FRANCISCO _THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN ....FEBRUARY 19, 1906 BUSINESS CONDITIONS MORE IRREGULAR. : lerlying currents, to which attention was called | k as containing within themselves possibilities more iverse to the current remarkable trade activity, be- 1ced during the past week, and the general com- the seems to be undergoing a gradual | no ionger that unanimity in the weekly reports ches of business which has prevailed for a year | is evident that conditions are becoming more in- count uar. not being poured out like water as heretofore, ke profits at the present high valuations for This is particularly noticeable in the The unqualified statement is made by street that a change of sentiment is grad- stock market, and that the feverish, irra- aracterized the market during the fall| :bsided and is giving place to what is er and saner tendency.” Points to buy this t so eagerly sought as a month or so ago. le. gest financial interests’ have disposed ofi their vast profits and left the market, for | e It is observed that new issues of securities | the very highest and best class of investors, y lower and more amateurish class. It is fur- | those great interests who have sold out their | ir funds in good real estate, and many of | 1 larger cash bank accounts than for months. | 1 of January about $100,000,000 of new bonds | ket, was seen that the purchases of the | were considerably lighter than usual. Even | s who were so enthusiastic some weeks ago[ s are abnormally high, that caution should ‘ and e the current quotations, and that a Money has been work- The foreign exchange nciers are rather expecting Again, the operators in Wall street growing short interest is plainly | a man and a | Some irregularity is developing in | and corn downward and cotton e predictions of the bulls by selling | hes say that a firm provision market is “the | lore wheat is pressing upon the great| 1 they can absorb. Coffee is active | 1 good tone, but hides in the West are dull | e asking prices which the tanners now they are prohibitive. ding \aterials, however, continue extremely ter has enabled building to be carried over ith practically no break demand for merchandise continues excellent, and sections. The movement in dry goods. footwear is reported active, and coilections ervwhere. make a fine exhibit. The failures last 8 last vear. Of ninety cities and towns k clearings only seven reported a decrease from small and third-rate places. Not an im- v showed a loss, and the gains in most But the aggregate clearings themselves hp\‘c‘ ,000,000 to $2,764,250,000 during the past ten ncrease for the whole country during the week The railroad earnings during the first week in per cent larger than during the same week in exports in January showed a falling off from Decem- expected to show a larger January volume than has en seer the staples wheat rkets ers a ng conditions which are now attracting the commercial observers in the country. It has| while the general business of the country | than at this time last year some lines have sthers are halting, others actually falling back, 1 expanding. A readjustment is apparently taking | as in Wall street. We may have gone ahead | not improbable in the near future. | th ne i The great | York, in expressing this anticipation, do not take | c view of a readjustment, but rather hail it with satisfac- ng to allay the recent fever to plunge deeply into all financial exploitations and restore general business has already been quoted as “a quieter and saner tendency the Pacific Coast continue cheerful. Trade everywhere is reported good and active, and the crop prospects are exceptionally fine. As we rely upon these crop prospects for the n of our prosperity our individual outlook is certainly Cor ons on major por A CHINESE T;LK TO TEE CHINESE NATION. br HINESE books are not often considered in this country, but C a recent one written by two young men of that race who spent a year together in Japan and who now are employed as e Board of Education in Tientsin is deemed of much 2s indicating a feature of the new education in China. An le on it has been published in the East of Asia Magazine, a pub- ed from the office of the North China Herald, Shanghai. first edition was a hundred thousand copies, and a new edition | wplated. A copy was placed in the hands of every student ous government schools and colleges in the city of Tient- | is said copies are being sent to similar students through- | the province. The intent of the work is to awaken patriotism in e rising generation, and to induce changes in national thought 1 action. The book is called “The People’s Opportunity,” and the first ~d in it is to urge the Chinese to realize that the people m are inseparable. Their old inability to grasp this swn in their saying: “This is the nation’s affair; it has| g to do with The people are warned that the immense | en of the indemnity caused by the Boxer troubles would not >d if the people had come to the aid of the Gov- vas too late. Next they are taught the value of lic schools and of compulsory education—Japan’s recent victory yeing attributed to the faithfulness of the village schoolmasters. litary conscription is urged—the example of Japan again being cited. £ | In discussing the ill treatment accorded the Chinese bv for- eigners the fanlts of their own people are frankly noted as pz'rfly 3. cause of the condition. Mencius is quoted thus: “It is the man | who first degrades himself who is afterward degraded by others.” Illustration of this degradation is given in the prevalence of opium smoking. The Japanese refuse to take passage with them in the same cabins of the boats at Chemulpo, Korea, because of this rs by ation 1ss ument t us. Colonel Harvey wants to sce President Woodrow Wiison of Princeton as the Democratic candidate for President. Fine chance for a bricf cam- | paign ecry, “Wilson—that's all!"—Kansas City Journal. | SRR TGRS v York society never did indorse the Roosevelt demand Vhat it needs in its business is privacy.—Memphis Commer- | blicity Appeal cial KNOWN EACH OTHER? WHY, WE WENT To SHOOL TOGETHER. DIONT NINK ? 10 THINK ABOUT (WHAT? DONT wmgmm RASH! KATE, [ USED T0 LOVE You ONCE , MY FIRST AND QNLY LOVE. YES, MY | HEART, KATE, STILL BEATS! [_/FoR ONE. KATE! THAT ~ JONE 15 You! | LOVE L vou! Ak ALWAYS B _DID LOVE You. RARERIT HEND)(] BRING 1K JELECTRIC PATTERY hgRRY —) ) ouk JUST wHY 00! You GET MAR| Jes, | COULD EASI SOMEONE | WouLON'T o GET THE RIGHT aNE 1S THE TRICK, i | 7 FIND "\ HAVE? ot HOW OLD ARE You-. RER WEART HAS STOPPED BEATING, YES, L HAVE 1O HER SOME 6"'ENILAII! R T CHEESE Pyl o s O ™ NEARLY OEAD! 1. O MERCY ! OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS. | - - 4oy : ] | THE HOMELESS GIRL. | Fun From Yonkers | || | By Dorothy Fenimore. THE DEBTOR'S PLEA. . By A. J. Waterhouse. % 2 4 |“In fact, T belleve "twas this very same | 4o GIRL 19 years of age, Virginia A Beaureggyd Troup, was recent- ly sentenced to fourteen years in the Illinols State prison at Jollet for the murder of her husband. That she had killed him in his own gun, held in his own hand, and after he had made attempts on her life, seemed to have influenced in no way the decision of the jury. The fact that before her marriage the girl had been somewhat wild fur- nished the State with the basis of its prosecution. That far into the girl's life the prosecutor delved. Had | he traced the laws of cause and effect one | step further he would bave dwelt upon two facts that might be considered somewhat in the light of extenuating | elrcumstances and which are of a far- reaching significance. Virginia Beauregard had to support] herself in Chicago, a city strange to her, upon $4 50 a week. And Virginia Beauregard was the graduate of an in- dustrial school. It is possible for a girl to live in Chicago upon $4 50 a week. There are, it is true, working girls’ homes where she may secure board for $2 50 or $3 a week. There are families who would glve board to a girl for this amount. But how is a girl, a stranger in a city, to know of these places? They are not advertised to the extent they should be. The homes are, in many instances, incopveniently located in reference to the place where the girl may find em- ployment. Seeking the line of least resistance, the girl finds some rooming-house con- venient to her place of employment, where she engages a room for not less than $1 50 a week. This leaves her $3 for food and clothing, to say nothing of incidentals. It is a life of constant work and worry, lightened by no hope of improvement of conditions. Priva- tion is her lot, the while she sees girls of her own age enjoying the very best that !ife has to offer. The revolt against society is almost inevitable. The soclal system gives her nothing. Why should she be held by the laws governing that society? This is her line of argument. The end is not far to seek. If, however, a girl has been endowed by good training she will undoubtedly tide over this crisis. Her moral strength will be of such fiber that she will over- come the temptations that beset her, But how many girls thus thrown on a great city have had this training? Hundreds of them are, Beauregard, out of the schools of the country. Granting that the management of an in- dustrial school may be perfect—and this is a sypposition far from the one way- ranted by direct evidence—ths most salient point is that the present system of industrial schools is one productive of evil results. One may not touch pitch without being blackened. A girl 10 years old placed by her father in an institution of this sort because he had nowhere else to leave her is in hourly — industrial self-defense with | like Virginia | | | contact with girls who have been sent to the school by ‘order of the court for some crime committed. This assocfation has the most terrible influence on the child. There is a fascination about the daring of evil doing that will make ap- peal at times to the most level-headed {and carefully trained of womankind. And as long as this system of Industrial schools, which are a combination of re- form institutions and cherity schools, exists these results are as certain as the course of the stars. With the economic conditions govern- ing the wages of young girls in the cities the law has nothing to do. But with the i placing of young children without proper guardians it has much to do. It sends to these schools children whose parents are dead and who are without legal guar- dians, or those whose parents are unable to take care of them. These children then, wards of the State, are left in the ! companionship of children whom the law is punishing for participation in crime. “I would rather let a boy take his chances on the street,”” a minister once sald to me, “than send him to an in- dustrial school He has ninety-nine chances of becoming a good man if ho 8rows up on the streets to the one he would have if sent to an Industrial school.” And If it Is bad for the boy it is a hun- dred times worse for the girl! The law that sends children to the ip- dustrial school has more than once re- ceived them back murderers. Is it not time that the students of soclal conditions should devote their attention to this problem in a practical way? Are there not organizations of women willing to turn thelr activities to the founding of real homes, not Homes with a capital H, where the good, shall not be defiled by association with the bad? Are there no individual philanthropic women who will take an interest in the welfare of home- less girls? 1f there be bad boys and bad girls, it is meet that the law should punish them; but it is not meet that the law should drive into one herd the sheep and the goats of society and then expect the sheep to remain sheep when they have been given the freedom of the highroads of life. SUKFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. Bury your conscience, and just at the time when you think you have it safely covered it wriggles to the top. They say that in the great economics of Nature nothing is wasted. How about curly hair on the head of a man? ‘When two men talk learnedly each is engaged in trying very hard to keep the other from finding out how much he doesn’t know. It is all right, of course, for you to ad- mit your meanness to yourself, but you are not what they call a Christlan unless you admit it to others. If you are past 50 you are having good enough luck if you can look anything up in the dictionary and get as far as three feet away with the knowledge still in your head.—Atchison (Kans.) Globe. SOUND ADVICE. Boose—Do you think I need stronger glasses? tyouble me. Friend — No; try weaker glasses and fewer of them. g —— My eyes — NO NOVELTY. Willle—Did. yer go to de baby ‘show when it was here? Leander—Naw, I wuz one of dem tings myself some years ago. ——————— date I promised your bill I would pay; But please understand, on account of the fog, I'm unable to see you to-day.” AT THE WOMAN'S CLUB. “Does your husband Ilike brains?"” “Oh, he’s got to like 'em. They're the only ones he'll ever have" calves’ A LADIES' TAILOR. She—Was she ever disappointed by a tailor? He—Oh yes; she married one. LOOKED BAD AFTER SMOKING. He—That lamp chimney seems to look pretty bad. Bhe—Yes; it !mo\ked to-day for the first time, AT THE OPERA. | Patience—Why do they call them pri- vate boxes? Patrice—I suppose because they are in the most conspicuous place in the house. CANAL MATTERS. Yeast—I see an astronomer has discov- ered some disturbance on the planet Mars. Crimsonbeak—Perhaps they gre digging a new canal there, too. THE BOY'S IDEA. The Mother—Yes, my son, in the days of ancient Rome all the fighting was done in the arena. The Boy—And didn't they allow any fighting in the choir, ma? LIKE NEW YORK. Mr. Gotham—Were you homesick while visiting in Chicago, dear? Mrs. Gotham—Not a bit. Why, every day I got into a street car I had to hold on to a strap just like in New York! FESTIVITIES. “When you awake in the morning and find the street strewn with old shoes,” remarked the Observer of Events and Things, “‘you are not absolutely certain whether there was a wedding or a cat- fight in the immediate neighborhood the night before.” RELIEVED SOMBE. Bill-And you threw your alarm clock out of the window at a howling cat last night, did you? ¥ Jil—Yes, I did. 1 “Why, you wouldn’t hit a cat In a thou- sand veal “I know it; but I felt pretty certain that I would get rid of one of the nuis- ances, anyway!'—Yonkers Statesman. ANSWERS T0 QUERIES. PENSIONS—J. M., City. According ‘o the latest published statistics of the United States Pension Bureau. 776 widows of soldiers of the war of 1812 werc on June 30 of last year entitled to yensions. ADDRESSES—E. O, Oakland, Cal This department does not publish the business addresses of private corporations or firms. Correspondents to this depart- ment asking questions of that character must accompany the request with a self- addressed and stamped envelope for re- ply by mail | DEBTS OF NATIONS—Subscriber, City. The Bureau of Statistics, Depart- ment of Commerce, Washington, D. C., glives the following figures as to the debts of the natlons asked about: France, | flock, and compute how many there would $5,856,708,403; Germany (Empire $608,840,- 400, German States, $§2,687,621,000), fotal $3,386,470,400; Ttaly, $2,56,605.000. The an- inuu Statesman's Year Book gives thal | debt of England as $3,13,148,775. POSTAGE—F. R, City. Written or first-class matter sent through the mail j of the United States to any part of the I United States or its possession is 2 cents an ounce or fraction thereot,l whether sealed or unsealed. The rate is as given on drop letters or local let- THE MATHEMATICAL MIND. ¢ ¢ 7 TRUST aad believe,” the large man ] proudly remarked, ‘“‘thac my sonm | nas a naihematical mind.” “Oh, I trust not!” the small man repited. “Sir, you surprise me!” the large man responded. 'hat better than such a mind could a father desire for his son? In mathematical processes, as everybody | recognizes, is exemplified the highest type | of inductive reasoning, and :the mtellect‘ must be clear, indeed, to which thesc| processes are as an open path. I shall be | very proud and happy if I am not mis- taken in supposing that my son possesses the mathematical mind.” “I judge that you do not possess a mind of that kind yourselr,” the small man ob- served. “I regret to say that I do not,” was the answer. “Well, I regret to say that I do. Even in my extreme youth I took to anything mathematical like the symbolical duck to water. Before I was 9 years cld I could solve all those pleasing lttlo problems in which elementary arithmetics abound, such as, If seventeen bushels of corn cost $850 and nineteen bushels of oats cost §7 6, what will be the retall price of coal oll when a high official of the ofl company | has just donated steen millicn dollars to charity? I really was a youthful prodigy, and recelved many a thrashing from the other boys because I was recognized as ‘the pride of the school’ I used to be quite proud of my mathematical proficien- cy in those days, as well as during my college days, but woe is mine that the pain of it still lingers with mel™ ““What do you mean’dy ‘the paln of it “Of course, you do not understand, not possessing a mathematical mind, but it is terrible—terrible! The trouble with such & dratted mind is that it never leaves you. 1t dogs you by day and it baunts you by night; you have to keep right on counts ing, computing and figuring when yol yearn for a rest—oh, so yearnfully! Oa ths train you have to count the telegraph poles. You really do not care s whoop how many telegraph poles thers are, but you have to count them, anyway. On the street you are impelled to count the num- ber of women and men you meet, sub- tract the less number from the multiply the remainder by the number of boys ycu meet, divide the product by the number of girls you meet, and then estie mate the number of mathematical imbe- clles like yourself there should be in the product. You cannot play a single game of solitaire, because you must play a se- rles in order to ascertain how you and a supposititious dealer would come out it onp of you must pay a certain number of dol- lars or cents for each card that either of you may hold to the good. You count trees, fence posts, French heels, horses, street cars—oh, it is count, count, count! compute, compute, compute! until life ba- comes a burden to you, and you are re- lteved to feel that you will count but one in the army of the dead. “You go to bed worn and weary, and you feel that rest would be so sweet to you. But you don't get it—not by a jugftul! The old problem of counting phantom black sheep jumping over a spectral fence is nothing to you. You have to count the white sheep and the spotted sheep as well; then you have to count the rams, the ewes and the lambs and ascertain what is the total number in the Infernal give a thousand dollars this minute if he had my mathematical mind, and I then should advise him to take it out and chlo- roform it. Oh, you bet it is tough—tough?"” “You may be right,” sald the large man. “Nevertheless, I do hope that my son will prove to have a mathematical mind." " “And Lord help him!" remarked the small man. LOOK IN YOURSELF FOR THE . TROUBLE. 1f the world s awry and you cannot guess why, And if worry, It you feel astray, And the game is all wrong as you play It the care that you know forever doth gr Or, at least, you are seeing it double, Why, then, is the hour, and may yours be the power To lock in yourself for the trouble. you cannot allay § that your way runs somewhat For the world, as God made it, is goiden and air, A place to be happy ana jolly; And most of our trouble and most of our care We make for ourseives in our folly. If we dance, don’t you know, we must pay ae we £3; The fiddler is needing his money. Thers is thrill in the wine that makes us feel fine, But the feeling next day isn't funny. So I judge it is best as we swim with the rest, Mers motes on a vaporous bubble, To smile just a bit, though we're rather hard hit, And look In curselves for the trouble. For the world, as God made | 0 ehewry enough, With clouds that but pleasantly shade % And if you know trouble that seems sethes # tough, Perhaps you will S2d that yeu made & “Why did the officer arrest D¢ Smitat® “On suspicion.” “Susplofon of what? “That be was suspected by an officen™ —_——— Genuine syeglasses, 30c to S0y “ mlo;n.zotnn&«:fl..fi.‘-fi‘ ownsend’s Californis glace hoicest candles in boxes New store, 1% ——— ' 2 n:elnl hln.formuoa usiness houses and p Press Clipping Burea: cfi fornla nrnt."runth —e— MIRROR OF FASHION T\ and etch be if there were thrice as many rams, seven times as many ewes and one-thiy- teenth as many lambs. At last you drop off into a fitful slumber, from which you are awakened by an awful realization that the largest ram of them all is about to bu't you and that you will be saved from a sudden and shocking death only by an immediate computation how high he will toss you at the momentum he will have acquired when he reaches you. Then your wife remarks that a man so restless ought to be compelled to sleep alone, and you lapse into a computation concerning some fool thing that Is absolutely without interest to you. ““And so it goes. Your days are days of unrest and your nights are trouble haunt- ters. where there is a free delivery and | ed, all because of your blasted mathe- where there is none such the rate is but 1 cent. - matical mind. If you really wish your son to have anything of the sort, I would MODEL FOR A LINGERIE FROCK. HE bretelle or suspender Styles are still first favorites for the small folks and are exceedingly pretty developed M dotted and plain Swiss, as in the illustration. Here the skirt is of fine dotted Swiss tucked and flounced: the blouse of plain Swiss, the fullness laid In tucks and the front strap col- lar and cuffs of embroidery. The bretelles with whive shoul- der revers are of the Swiss, edged with fine Swiss embroid- ery. These are fastened to the belt back and front with large embroidery buttons, such as are now on sale at most of the well-stocked button counters. Dotted Swisses in the light tints of pink and blue are pretty made up in thls form Wwith a blouse of white. ——