The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 20, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ’Hlj\ D. SP E(‘m §OHN McNAUGHT A NEEDED FACILITY. ns brokers and importers of San Francisco have sent ton a protest and petition, disclosing the need of ter facilities here for the prompt transaction of business with rotests against the appraisement of imports and uty thereon went to the Treasury Department es have to be paid h’(.‘l'vll'\' a protest can ved decision ties up the importer’s capital while a n is pending. Action upon these questions in was slow at best, and finally, when our large proportions, it was found that the de- inadequate and in response to a general de- Board of General Appraisers, located it k City, and provided that it should take on, appraisement and classification of ff (hr hands of the Treasury. mprovement and has much facilitated business. wporters the expense of hiring attorneys, had embarrassed them when the business ment. But the growth of trade, especially on abc e same conditions for which the es- ral Appraisers was at first a remedy. Cases ion of our local customs officers are delayed a are decided. When a protest is made on an article e imposter must protect his rights by pro- sortations. He must, however, pay the rate of e protests. If the final decision sustain his s entries have to be reliquidated in the Custom- harge is returned to him. If a prompt decision 1d lose the use of a less amount of money and v n would be less. 3 Appraisers were located in New York City because ng port of entry and its business is immense. The aid at New York naturally get the preference in General Appraiserg, and cases which arise at wait long for their turn. As a result San Fran- ploy attorneys in New York, who, with try to fa cilitate a hearing for their clients. nce to our trade. One effect of it is that ers are getting in the habit of entering their goods at nd paying their duties there, because their protests can r hearing and they are'not deprived of the use of their s0 ati as they are when they do business here. As all d tment .u\hu e ties w ne sar long seen once that this diversion of trade is harmful to NCisc It deprives us of the credit of all revenue that it s to New York. It transfers the business to other brokers s 1 tends to degrade this city as a port of entry. If con- ere reversed and because of congestion in the Board of At trade were diverted from New York to San ] s would not stand it a week. Committees of | ld crowd Washington and a remedy would not be would be demanded and the demand would be imme- 1as its analogy in the growth of business and its con on in our judicial courts. The Supreme Court of tates, located in Washington, became so crowded with it never reached the end of its docket, When Congress vided the Circuit Courts of Appeal, in each of these courts cert classes of es reach me Court is relieved, and litigants all over r rights promptly deoided. experience. Our Supreme Court was sub- At first the Legislature created a comnission fot | d efficacious for a time, but finally the volume of | and the delay of )l»hu amounted to its denial, | Legislature, following the example of Congress, ereated | located them in different places for the economy litigants and attorneys, and now justice is pmmpf~ | same natle pea is pro ew enience of istered. be seen, then, that commeree is simply asking the same on that has been givgp to the judicial business of th= nd the nation, The importers of this city want a convenicnt | t of appeals, located here, with the same Yunction and authority e General Appraisers in New York. They are worn out by the ays of a year or more in getting their cases heard and decided. v do not wish to be compelled to divert and divide their business y being compelled to use New York instead of San Francisco as ir port of entry. They want to pay their customs dugies here. 1 It will That which is entered and liquidated in New York is paid there and is Tost to San Francisco. It is, indeed, a question much larger than the mere convenience of brokers and importers. It greatly eoncerns | the rank and standing of San Francisco, as a commercial city and a | of entry, and our merchants should urge the creation of a General Appraiser’s office permanently located here, and they should not cease urging until they get what they+want. CLIMATE VALUE TO MANUFACTURE. E machinery in the relation of climate to manufacture California can find new resource—if not wholly unsuspected, at least not hitherto fully exploited. We have known our climate is a valuable asset in many as for fruit and grain and flowers ‘and health and the bringing tourists, the development of physical beauty and she stimulus to rature and art; hut this aspect of it-as an asset has been generally out of the list of our claims on the score of climatic advantages. 4. J. Wells, in'an article published in Out West, last fall, pointed the supremacy of California as a manufacturing country. The enthusiasm of his language is backed up by some remarkable figures. In the United States operatives in manufacturing establishments pro- uce about four times as much, each man, as those of England. That great difference is accounted for as being partly due to automatic machinery, clever contrivances and improved. system. In California the opergtive produces pot four but seven times as much as the English, and so we must seek for an additional cause for the four- folded iperease having suddenly jumped to nearly sevenfold. The cause is climate. The same force that works for exuberance of grain and fruit and flower acts effectively to produce a finer and layger prodyct from the factory bench. Air, sunlight, ventilation are some of the elements for this success. There are minor causes, as cheaper power, less costlybuildings, etc., but the main cause is that the climate is prqduging a higher physical and mental vigor. An Eastern engineer, who studied statistics in order to compare Connec- ticut with California as locations for manufacturing plants, summed up by saying that in California about half as many men turn out nearly twice as much value. AJW clls quotes that great traveler Bayard Taylot, who knew the whole round of the world perhaps more familiarly than .any other “man, as saying of California: “If I live to be old and feel my fac- ulties failing, I =hall go back to restore the sensations of youth in that wonderful air.” This is perhaps the best enthusiastic philosophi- cal explanation of the cold figures that are collected from the sta- tistical tables, ——— T, IR AT T S R When Tai Hung Chi, Son of the Sun, and Tuan Hong, Son of the Moon, go away from here they will confer a favor by taking Mock Duck, Son of 3 Gun, with them.—New York Telegram. PR R PG, Riches may “shrivel the soul,” but poverty is equally hard on the up- pers.—Philadelphia Tribune. In this State we | Francisco meeds the credit of every dollar of her foreign trade. | RPCTION of a new factory at San Jose for the manufacture of | is an incident that calls attention to the fact that | THE SAN FRANCISCO EIALL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY AND PUT A JHOE - DUTTONER UNDER YOUR. COAT FOR A TAIL, AND TRY w™My LUCK ACAIN [ ing? Lertaln]y it would seem to be the latter, if we should judge by the recent scandals involving milllonaires ana | their families in domestic disgrace and showing the pretty girl triumphing over | the wife whose beauty has begun to | wane. We are compelled, apparently, to see beauty brought into decided disrepute. It would appear that only too often the woman blessed with good looks regards her charms as legitimate weapons for pringing down whatever game she de- whether the vietim is married or | single. “’ht'gler she wins love honestly or dishonestly matters not. *“To the victor | belong the spoils” is apparently her the- ory of action. Her beauty gives her the right to dis- | regard law and trample upon the feelings of sister woman. She has no respect for the sacredness of the domestic relation. A man’s duty to his wife is a mere tra. dition in her eyes; scruples of conscience belong to the realm of superstition and should be swept away when they conflict with the authority her beauty assumes. In my opipion the general human esti- | mate regarding feminine attragtiveness s just as much to blame for this state of | things as the imperious attitude of the beauty herself. Whether consclous of the fact or not, people generally uphold the woman gifted with superfor attraetions in her assump- tion that nature has fitted her to be & conqueror. The spirit of the age is go materialistic that even persons of avowed high princi- es are_prone to regard the possession of personal chamms by woman as purely material advantage; & means to be em- | ployed for worlaly gain. If a woman is handsomer than her sis- sires, 2| ters, the immedlate declaration is that | she should be ‘“clever” enough to make that beapnty serve her in advancing her position in life. She should be smart enough to manipulate men and things for the furtherance of her ambitions. She should catch a richy husband. She should shine in society. She should compel suc- cess in every way. This materfalistic standard is the thing Oncle Biff’s Observations ZRY JONES fixed up a nice soft bed o hay in his barn ylisterday to ketch thet tramp thet's been loaf- in' round here for th' last weeék. Ezry wus goin’ to bed las’ night ‘bout 8 o'clock, when he heard a terrible roar from out back.’ By the time he got there th’ feller wus gone. Ezry sez he fixed him thet time, an’ thet ho could lu where he did som: in,’ Sez he hdk geld huv row under th’ bed o' hay with th' teeth up, -m—mm land Plain Dealer. BEAUTY SHOULD BE A BLESSING By Angela Morgagp =} this that corrupts the ideals of our women and girls. It is this that causes girls ot immature reasoning powers to envy the unscrupulous female whose surpassing loveliness can compel a man to give up wife, home and children for her sake. In tBeir secret hearts even women of high standards are inclined to look upon such achlevement as indicative of supe- rior powers. They condemn the othe: woman while longing for her gifts. So perverted is the general idea about womanly lovelinesg that it is believed the homely woman is high principled because she is homely. The idea obtains that if she were handsome she would find her stand- ards to be quite different. This #s all wrong. Is there no such thing.as principle for principle’s sake, in- dependent of physical comeliness or the lack of it? So confused have we become on this subject that mothers of high ideals, de- termined to train their daughters to be strong and pure, are afrald to permit a comely daughter to realize her comeli- ness. Eeauty of person is looked upon as a dangerous gift. Girls of such parents are taught to completely disregard their appearance. The other day a mother of this type confessed to me that rather than let her pretty daughter belleve herself to be at- tractive she trained that daughter to Jook upon the compliments of her assoclates as ridicule. To me such deception seems ab- surd. ‘Why may net the gift of beauty semwe as a great blessing instead of the curse it seems to be? Why may not the woman so gifted be doubly beautiful in character? Why may she pot employ her gift for the good of others and for her own highest development? 1 sincerely believe shp may. the fundamental errow. Let the woman endowed with beauty look upon her gift as an added reason why she should make her life sweet and pure and strqng and of benefit to others. Let her aim to be through it an influenee for good wherever she goes. Mothers, train your daughters to regard comeliness as a gift from heaven; a blessing, not a dangerous power. Teach them that beauty rightly used is a po- tent influence for good. _Answers to Queries. ELECTRICITY—A. S. City. If you will g0 to the Free Public Library aad consult some of the magy works on electrical construction to be found there, you will find out how to obtaln such a current as you desire, Change NUMERALS—G. W. J, City. In Ro- man numerals M §s 1000, D is 500, CCCC is 400 ana II is 2. By a combination ot D and CCCC to make 900, MDCCCCIT can be made to read 1902, but the sim- pler way to express that .t in numerals would be to use M (1000), CM (900, II (2); that is, MCMIL ~ A WORD-BE. B, Oakland. In your communication you agked the explana- tion of & word used by eleotriciags, but your letter is very plain in every part except one, gnd that is the very word you want to be informed about. ' It 1s scratched and writtensover, 80 that it is impossible to discover what the word is. Better try again. REAL BSTATE-S. C. R, Clty. The constitution of the Staje of California provides ‘‘That foreigners of the white race or of African descent, eligible to beeome citizens of the United States un- der the naturalisation laws thereof, while bona fide residents of the State, shall have the same rights in respect to the | 190 may remain such owners. ’ | Telling His Fortune | E was ushered into a room filled with incense. Two candles burned dimly on the table. He had a curl- osity to know what might be in store for | | him during the coming vear, so he had | come here. Presently a woman entered | the room from behind portieres. She was the fortune-teller. “Please be seated,” she said. He did so, and she dropped into a seat on the oppo-/ site side of a small table from him. He % - held out his hand and she took it in hers. She looked at it critically. Then she spoke: “I see a dollar in-your hand,” she said. He reached into his pocket, produced a dollar, after which she continued: “The life line is very dim, but the joy line—"" “‘Must be the Fall River line,” he butted in, but she froze him with & stare. “The clothes line and the trunk line cross at the sign of the lobster,” she pro- ceeded; “this Indicates that you will be married soon.”” “What, again!”” he gasped. “That would be bigamy.” But she paid no heed. ‘“You are going to change your place of resjdence soon,” she ventured. “Yes,” he nodded with a sigh, “the last pf this month—before the first of next.” “I gee that the narrow gauge line crosses the trunk line at right angles—' “Ah, there ought to be a flagman there. “Here I see a dark man coming with a bundle.” “I'm glad it isn’t a bird with a bundle— we have seven common ones and a palr of twins now.” “This dark man will cross your path and through him you will meet with a financial reverse.” *‘Oh, the bundle which the dark man has s a blackjack!" “The joy line grows faint at its morth- ern extremity, where it enters the arctic circle, indicating that you will suffer a severe illness before long."” 5 “That will be énough, thanks,” said the man, pulling away his hand and picking up his hat. “I'm nhnmed to take any more information away with me—I've got more than my money's worth now.” ‘With that he made a break for the street,—Boston Post. Matched. | | By A.]. Waterhouse A FEW QUESTIONS. tF man must be considered fear- fully and wonderfully made, what about gentle woman's makeup? If an energetic hen will lay seven | eggs a week when that fruit retails at | 20 cents a dozen, will she lay two or| less eggs a month when the market | price of eggs is 0 cents? Why is it, when you feel your own importance most, that so many other people seem to be totally lacking in the sease of feeling? | Why is it that the dratted neighbors | so frequently refuse to See the good- | ness and brightness that, you are per- fectly sure, exist in your child? If you really think that genuine manhood is the essential thing—and vou said that you thought so—why are you somewhat more obsequious to De Snobbs than you gre to plain Hobbs? You believe in the Man of Nazareth, but if he were to come to the world again, clad in poor raiment and with no place to lay his head, do you sup- pose that you would be one of the first to bail him out of the jail where our vagrancy laws probaly would send him? “Speaking of John D. Rockefeller's disappearance—" said the man. “Yes,” said the other man, “wasn’t it startling?” “So the papers said, but speaking of his disappearance—" “Yes, wasn't the public deeply in- terested and ftated, though?” | “So the papers said, but speaking of{ his disappeariince—" “Well, what about ance?” “Why, had you ever thought that, as | his dlsappear- long as his family was satisfled, it was | nobody else’'s business?” WE SHALL MEET AGAIN. (Tt cannot be denied that ig our time faith in ifmmortality has becoms uncertain In the ever-widening circles where scientific and his- | torical investigations and views have taken root, and it Is not clear that the future will bring a _change in this situation.”—Professar George B. Foster of the Divinity School of the | University of Chicago.) I sat beside my dying friend. bright and clear, Although we knew the mist drew close that | separates men here. In converse we recalled again the unforgotten | His mind was past, Looked forward to eternity and saw its aeons massed. His wasted body held a soul that royal work had done; | There came the change that men call death— now, tell me, was there none? Where was the mind that just before had an- swered to my own? Blotted out? Obliterate, and nothing- ness alone? Is this the final, hopeless word that Sclence dares to speak? | Then let us trust our spiri¥s word, and never farther seek. Gone? Does Scierice teach within its schools that less surpasses more? Or does it Lold the body king and soul slave from yore? This thing that hopes, this thing that dreams, e'en of eternity; | Is matter base its soverelgn lord to crush or | let it be? The murd'rous thug Wwhose pistol shot rings | out some mortgl's knell, Does his deed, thef. the body kill, the soul as weil? “l know within our soul of souls that mind is matter's king; Yet doth the vassal o'er his lord annihilation fiing? its and kil Time was when Shakespéare's peerless mind shone forth, the world to bless; A moment's change, a lapse of breath—was Shakespeare nothingness? Solence, e'er describing how, telling why, Has l!aneIl matter, then, the power to bid a kespegre die? study of the stars, or atoms here Oh, but never To mln a below, Come in your catalogue of truth? sum you show? Then, walking through your solemn halls, with awe and reverence shod, I'd fain inquire, And does your lore annihilate man's God? Is this the O, tools, and fools,’ and less than fools, whence comes the power we see, To dream of that, surpassitg all, which may not ever be? How chances it that in this clay is something more than clay, Which talks with you, and hopes with you, and bullds with you to-day? Low spake my friend, ‘‘We'll meet again.” Was this some cursed lie? Nay, from the realms where flesh s not, a spirit made reply: “The soul is more than matter knows, or grop- | ing sages ken; It is not bounded by & breath—ye two shall meet again.'” “What I demand,” sald the Czar, “is peace.” “So I understand,” De Witte observed. “Yes, I demand peace, and if any of my people object, just sheot them down.” “Tt shall be doge, Sire.” “That's right. I may seem over partic- ular, but, really, if there is anything for | which I am a neflect stickler, it is peace.” First Swget Young Thing—Chollle had a narrow escape last summer. Becond Sweet Young Thing—What was 1t? ‘‘He asked that Mayme Blings to marry him."” “Yes?" “And she refuged him.” “Graclous! Wasn't that a close call?” —— “He is a genius. “What does he do?” “Nothing." “Why do you cgll him a genius, then?¥ “Why, that is the Bort of genius he has.” ‘“What do you mean?” “A genlus for doing nothing, know." you THE PARSON'S PERORATION. She had a purple hat And she had a purple dress, And her cheeks were just as lovely As the rose, rose, Tose; But bes{des her purple hat ;And her nobby purple dress, “8he also had some purple On her ' ~“nose, nose, nose. ‘—Miwaukee Sentinel. U b T acquigition, possession, enjoyment, trans- ‘mission and inheritance of all property, other than real estate, as native born | citisens; provided that such aliens own- Ing real estate at the time of the adop- tion of this amendment (November 6, The good Egstern parson had reached the perorat! his sermon. ““A land,” e said, “‘of eternal sunshine; —| | dars. | several sguests —_— SIE_ART SET By Sally Sharp Mrs. J. Parker Currier will entertain | on Mareh 9 at a luncheon in her aparf- ments at St. Dunstan’s, when a score & | of guests will be bidden to meet Miss Brent Watkins, Miss Ethel Shorb and Philip Baneroft. . Mrs. George C. Boardman will be c1e | of to-day's bridge hostesses, entertain- ing at her home on Franklin street. T Mrs. Hugo Ramacciotti will be at home to-day. p " . Several San Francisco people will at- | tend the dance this evening at Angel Island given by the officers and ladies of the Twenty-second Infantry. P The Schumdnn Club will hold an at bome this evening at Wheeler's Audi- torfum, presenting an Interesting mu- sicale programme. . The card section of the Sequota Club will meet this evening with a large at- tendance, this new adjunct already meeting with much enthusiasm. i’ e Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Fickensher will entertain this evening at their home on Washington street fn honor of Miss Manette MeGlashan and Miss An- nie W. Brigman, the affair to be a mu~ sicale. <4 Mr. and Mrs. L. Eugene Lee will be at home this evening to several guests. Miss Mollie Phelan was hostess yes- terday afterncen at the second affair in honor of Miss Alice Dunne of Boston, the guests being bidden entirely from the ranks of the younger set. Receiv- ing with Miss Phelan were Misg Dunne, | Miss Alyce Sullivan, Mrs. Dunne and Mrs. Francis J. Sullivan. B e Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sedgwick Alken entertained at a very informal tea in their new home last Sunday, the guests including ‘the officers of the Sequoia Club. . Mrs. John Wallace was at home yes- | terday in her apartments at St. Dum- stan’s. | Mrs. Joseph Bernard Keenan has fis- sued cards for an at home Monday, Febrrary 26, from 4 to § at her home on TUnion street. Miss Amna Beaver entertained at a luncheon recently in honor of Mrs. Evun S. Pillsbury. . Mrs. Willlam Aloysius Sexton and Mrs. George Englehardt were thy guests of honor at a luncheon LI ‘ Saturday given by Mrs. John Jacob AD- ple at the Hotel Dorchester. Sk i E. Walton Hedges entertained in her apartments at ihe Pleasanton yesterday, bridge being the attraction. Mrs. . . Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam B. Bourn, Miss Maud Bourn, Miss Ethet Cooper, Mrs. James Robinson and Miss Eleanor Rob- inson form a coterie of Californians who have journeyed up tiie Nile during the past fortnight. Shafter Howard is receiving many personal and professional congratula- .« . | tigns upon the suecess of “His Majesty," | which has just been presented in Phil- ddelphia. Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Biddle, with their daughters, Miss Isabel and Jiss Juliag Rush Biddle, are en route to this city from Philadelphia, to continue af- ter a fortnight's stay to Japan. S e 4 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd M. Robbins and Dr. Louis C. Deane are among those wno have just arrived in Paris. — ee— THEIR BEST. i Folks that always do their best . Find at least the sweetest re: Troubles come, an’ troubles go, But that rest they're bound to knowl —Atlanta Constitution. —_——— Townsend's Calffornia glace fruits and choicest candies ig artistic n’- | etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * e Speclal information supplled daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 30 Calt- fornia street. Telephone Main 1043 A Y PR AT o 4 Mirror of Dame Fashion FOR THE SCHOOL GIRL. T least ome sailor blouse in some one or other of its variations is found In a land where comes neither cold, nor snow, nor frost, mor any frigid thing: a land where rarest, sweetest flowers byd and bloom In ceaseless beauty and fra- grance; where luscious goldep or purple frults grow on trees of lustrous green; a land flowing with milk and honey, un- visited by tornadoes and unscathed by dread lightnings; a land of perpetual cheer where—" “He is describing heaven,” whispered an Easterner. “Not by a dern sight,” responded the Callfornian who happened to be present. “He has California in his mimd.” “And which of them was right has not b‘n decided even unto this day. e by wdmh'exmnom * “I know, but there is an exception to every rule.” “What 18 the exception in this case?” “Some lawyers.” every school girl's wuardrobe. Just at present fashion turns agaln to ‘the blouse, and many and delightful are the patterns the shops are showing now in loosely woven flannels. “Indeed. that heavy worked term ‘“chiffon” is now applied even to the fannel weavess The simpler the blouse is cut the better the young miss likes it. and the better style it is promounced. Oné point Is essentlal—it should be amply roomy. The cream white flannel blouse Is much affected for tennis and like sports. Its big sailor col- lar, shield and cuifs may be ornamented with one of the at- tractive patterns of lace braid in white or black. and a smart four-in-hand tle of black silk completes the effect. ——