The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1906 THE SAN FRANCISCOCALL, ?OHN D. spfi%fl,‘;““,""'_" cesanen .7........Plgnrlebor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO ponN LICATION OFFICE. McNAUGHT , SAN FRANCISCO FEBRUARY 26, 1906 CONFLICTING TRADE CONDITIONS. was no ange in the trade situation last week, nor has been for a fortnight. The cross currents and contradict- ements noted a week ago are still visible, and if any- nounced. yming particularly noticeable in the iron and steel e unprecedented production, the continued weakness efiorts of speculative holders to liquidate are r e future contracts. In some districts, too, stocks of s for prompt delivery. It is significant that except ir e lower prices have not appreciably stimulated the de- thus be seen that there is no longer a general and m in the iron and steel industry. ¢ observation applies to other lines. Many commodi- more or less easiness, notably wheat, corn, cot- The latter, which have been higher than for ling back to a lovger level, with the different Wool is sTll very firmly held, but it operations in the new clip are checked by the This was remarked several months ago in ket, when the Eastern buyers, refusing to pay the high quo- nded by the California growers, withdrew from the ot yet returned. As a result the winter market 1, as far as California is concerned, has been stagnant, considerable lines of old wool still left in the interior. now fal the decline. ices. ] got so high that consumers are thinking twice before Per ndise, and we may see a lower trend in prices from ivestock, however, has gone up sharply during the past atton and pork have reached a pinnacle where the c are ceasing to consume them as far as pos 7 cents per pound alive and 11 cents dressed, and at 11 cents wholesale, the average citizen looks about g cheaper to cat. But if he turns to beef he encounters itions. The fact is, the United States no longer pos- | overplus of fresh meats to which we have been accus- it is doubtful if the days of superabundance | on will ever return. The butchers say they never the staples to financia] conditions we find similar | There are still plenty of funds available for good reasonable rates of interest, and the interior banks | Il over thescountry are still carrying large amounts of cash, but t ow leaving the stock markets and going into real bank reserves of New York are lower than for 1is season, which is not a desirable condition avhen hat large interest and dividend obligations must | of April. Furthermore, according to one l1igh} of New York, very unusual demands are now | he money market by the enormous issues of new | anced time money to 5% per cent. | “Since the first of the year about $400,000,000 | ve been announced as coming on the market now or | These include $200,000,000 of Southern Rail- | erican Telephone and Telegraph, $20,000,000 | ny, $35,000,000 Lake Shore, $10,000,000 | onds, $15,000,000 Westinghouse Electric | York City municipal bonds and several | There is no doubt that a large portion of cessfully placed provided the prices are made . but close money and enormous issues of new | nything but bull arguments and the combination | rtain to cause a weaker stock market.” reet stock market has reflected these conditions by a 1 the daily volume of sales on the Stock Exchange, he transactions amounted to only 593,000 shares, weck or so ago the daily record ranged from 1,000,000 to Another reason for this decrease has already been There has recently been a bull campaign, “whoop-up,” in which the vast financial interests, who r several years had been carrying large blocks of stock, cleverly | unloaded them upon the second grade of operators and the general | c, and then with a smile of gratification over their successful | turn withdrew from the market and are now walking on velvet, free from care, and letting the other fellow carry the load. It is the old | tory tv savs Ve ined in this column. But in spite of these adverse factors the statistical condition of trade continues strong and encouraging. Last week we had the al brilliant exhibit of the bank clearings, which showed an in- crease over last year of 24.8 per cent, with all but one of the thirty- first cities on the list showing a gain. The largest gains were re- | ported by the Pacific Coast, Seattle standing first with 141 per cent | and San Francisco 34.3 per cent. New York gained 27.7 per cent, Philadelphia 25.5 per cent, and so on. The railway earnings are| making a phenomenal exhibit, those thus far in February being 26.7 per cent over 1905. The failures for the week were 218, against 252 last year. The foreign trade returns in January far exceeded those in any previous January of the country’s history. The figures and facts do not agree. The figures show a steady expansion in trade all over the country, while almost every impor- tant staple is reported quieter and the money market is not as easy as heretofore. We hear from New York that “the situation is mixed,” and this phrase explains the current condition of trade. One thing is certain, that the Pacific Coast is doing as well as at any time iuring the past eight years, excepting perhaps the boom era of ths Spanish war, and with the current copious rains, which almost as- sure abundant crops for this year, the outlook in California and the two northern States could not well be better. GAYETY OF HEINE'S HEROISM. | the soul over the body is said by Georg Brandes, eat Danish critic of literature, to have seldom displayed so unmistakably as in the case of the heroism of Heinrich I'he fiftieth anniversary of Heine's death passed by us on the 17th of this month and received but little notice. In these days, | vhen the exploitation of the so-called New Thought is so prevalent, the example of his life might well be taken to illustrate the leading principle of the new thought, namely, the power of the soul over the body. Tbe chief characteristic of the way in which Heine exercised that power, the feature of it that gives him a peculiar pre-eminence among literary men and heroes, is the gayety of his method of mas- <ering gloor It is for this, even if it were for this alone, that we should gratefully remember him and his brightly buoyant services to our sad humanity The death fifty vears ago of the brilliant Judeo-Christian writer was one of slow and terrible torture stretching over about seven vears, during which he is spoken of as being “nailed to his mattress.” Brandes speaks of him as wielding the sword of sarcasm in the cause of liberty. He was crippled and almost lifeless on his couch. | On that bed of suffering he not only continued his literary produc- | tion, but he wrote better than ever before. It would have been mar- velous that he should produce brilliant and incisive verse under such conditions even if the creations were of somber hue; but that his genius should have “bubbled over with sparkling, whimsical jest and mockery” gives to his production a still more wonderful history, and adds to his courage and endurance a plus element of bright cheérfulness that gives it distinction even among notable heroisms, wer prices with less disposition on the part of con-| reased, but others still report brisk operations, | >se things tend to show that prices for the leading com- | haps we have seen top-notch quotations for most | | ible. When | | bors. .1 KNOw M Golntg 10 FEEL UKE A FOCL WiTH THIS ONRE‘" TVE GOT TO NOT AT [LAST. My ERST DRSS SUIT HuH! IT LOUXS PRETTY SWELL BuT IT | GH! TM GLAD IVE GoT RiC OF THAT HAT 'FOR A WHILE, NOW, I'VE GOT 10 WALK [N To THE BALL ROOM AND 100K COMFORTABLE AND WISE HELLQ, PRES! (OME HERE' | WANT You To MEET SOME OF THE LADIES HE QONT BE BASH: ou wike P @ THE KLON MISTER 1 MUST THE AR 15 QUITE cwccr sar THe. I, WeLL, THE AR, fiHE PLACE 15, s QUITE, WeLL. | HT SALQUITES ‘AND MISS HAND: {SoME! THIS 15 \MR.DADSON OF |wHame You {HEARD S0 MUGH, s/ (BUT THEN, T {GoLD 15 57 {TiFuL THAT ou{J GOT A (OLD-EH, UP iN {roRGERS #hov THAT, £, COUNTRY T CHILLINESS ([PSHAW! TH) 1{GOING HOME. 1} | FEEL ] {WITH THIS RIG ) |{on. 1 FEEL SM- YE: oWt 10Uy WE MAY |MEET AGAIN. HOPE (o) MINE GOLD \JHE <oLD—) (w1 SAY \VE MADE loNE FROST, THA |ENQUGH FOR ME [7M GOING TO SKIPOUT f 7T FOR ME! NOT FOR MINE! [ MISERABLE ENQUGH NOWY, M GOING | To SNEAK OUT OF HERE, 1 FEEL TERRIBLE IN THIS DRESS SUIT— ATE A RAREBIT BEFORE GOING| 70 BED AND | HAD APNRAV:S('{. BOUT YOU. PRESIC gu%%’f: :sz A 1?(: TIME AT, THE BALL. SON2 . (7 (QHL YAURE HOAE, ARE YU ! | and Use the Stairways. BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. ILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, poet and editor, made it a practice during cvery day of his fifty-tiree years in New York to walk up and down stairs to his la- He Jived to be nearly 84, and constantly attributed much of his health to that single fact. In our cities it is the habit of nearly everybody to take an elevator to go up or down a single flight of stairs. From every harnd comes the complaint that business hours permit little or no time for rational exercise. If some of those who complain most loudly would make it a point to follow Bryant's illustrious example, the {lls that they lay over to business would largely cease. There is' no better exercise for a man deprived in other ways than stair climbing. The reason will be made plain if a small boy is followed through a single day of his busy life. He Is absolutely un- conscious of his heart—for the good reason that he runs so much it has constant exercise. A good heart Is essential to any sort of health, and when the man no longer runs, and at the same time acquires the eleyator habit, his heart is exercised almost not at all from one year’s end to another, The particular need of busy men and women, whether busy or not, is concentrated exercise. Health-lifts and the like are much in use to that end; thoygh not as much as they were some years ago, owing to the constant danger of overstrain. Walking In the open air is admirable; but walking Is so customary a habit, so normal a galt, that it needs something like four miles pounded out in an hour to give the heart anything in particular to do. Running a block is probably better than walking a mile —and running in the city is attended with difficulties. When stairs are climbed the body has to be lifted—its entire weight—with every step upward. It is really violent exercise, if the height to be reached is over a hundred feet. Walking up to the top of a skyscraper is all-that a robust man or woman demands to keep him going, and he can in- crease the pace at will. Making the demands upon the heart and lungs that it does, it is well for tne unaccustomed to take to it gradually and slowly, stopping at the least sign of distress, and walk- ing down rather than up at that time. The breath must not be allowed to become gasping, and the heart must not palpitate—the two often go together. But it Is admirable for the digestion, and can be made effective for the entire body by tensing the muscles of the arms and trunk during the ascent. Try it—it costs nothing. Oncle Biff’s Observations. W * 3 = Y hokey, Erny Slivers busted out lafin’ when Ap B Toner fell off th' kitchen roof this mornin’. After Ab pulled hisself together he hollered, “Shet up, ye little iggit, I hed to come down after th’ nails anyhow!"—Cleye- lanad Plain Dealer. No Damages From Him. “There had been a rallway collision near a country town, and a ghrewd lawyer had hurried to the scene of disaster. He no- ticed an old negro with a badly injured head, and hurried up to where he lay moaning on the ground. “How about damages?”’ he began. But the sufferer waved him off. “G'way, boss, g'way,” he sald. “Ah nebber hit de train. Ah nebber done such a t'Ing in all mah life! _ Yo' cyain’t git no damage out ob me.”—Lancaster Review, T SIZE OF LITTLE THINGS, HE good man prayed thus: “Lord, help me valiantly to combat the little things, and I will take my own chances with the big things.” The more 1 think of it, and the more I view life, my Epaminondas, the mord do I conclude that the man who prayed ] thus was not only good, but wise as well. | For they are the little things of life, my boy, that are most likely to knock us out in one inglorious round and lay our good intentions and purposes on a back shelf for future reference. We need not mind so much about the big things, for they do not come along very often, but heaven help us when the little things tackle us! I knew a man who adored his wife and thought she was quite the sweetest bit of femininity that ever wore things no bach- elor knows how to name. Moreover, he had promised to love, honor and ob—no, now that I come to think of it, it was she who promised that; but he had promised to loverand honor her, and, because he prized her so dearly, he meant to keep his promise. Well, one night this man ate 3 Welsh rabbit just beforé going to bed, and all night long he tossed, and groaned, and thought he had murdered all his relatives and was being relentlessly pursued by the minfons of the majestic law; and when he awoke In the morning there was dark brown fuzz in his mouth and rancor in his heart: and he sald things to his adored wife that—well, even vet it makes me shudder to think of them. And all this because of a Welsh rabbit! And you will admit—will you not, Epam- inondas?—that & Welsh rabbit is a very little thing? Then, again, I knew a woman who was perfectly devoted to her husband, and who had promised to love, honor and obey him—which she meant to do if he didn’t ask anything unreasonable of her— and I used to think as I looked at that wéman that she ought to be worth more than untold millions to any man. ‘Well, one day this lovely woman caught a cold, and In the first place it got upon her nerves, and In the second place it got into her soul, and then—Epaminon- das, if I should tell you the things that devoted wife said to her cowering hus- band you would not belleve it possible; so what Is the use? But, oh, her words seared and blighted. And all this because of a cold! And a cold is such a little thing, is it not, dear boy? And so it goes all through life. While we are waiting for a big thing, along comes a little thing, and we are carried to the hospital on a stretcher. I tell you, Epaminondas, the good man was right; we would do well to pray with him: “Tiord, help me vallantly to combat the little things, and I will take my chances with the big things.” MODERN BEATITUDES. Blessed is he who desires nothing, for everybody will be willing to let him have it. Blessed is he who does nothing notice- able, for he will escape the hammers. Blessed is he who is wrapped in self- concelit, for no *“slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’” shall jar it. Blessed are ve when men ‘“‘shall say all manner of evil against you falsely,” for it proves that they consider you worth the ammunition. Blessed is fashion, for it gives some women an object in life. Blessed is the man who always knows he is right, for the truth that looks in ‘another direction shall not shake him. RUN YOUR PIPES BETWEEN. In the river, it you've noticed, all the mire Is desp below, While the scum and worthless flotsam on the top serenely flow; And if you would get the water that is needed by vour crop, You must-find the liquid flowing 'twixt the bottom and the top. There the stream Is vivicying, there the best of it is found, Neitker In the foam above it nmor the muck long the ground. Dregs and surface both are useless it you'd - keep your pasture green, And, if vou are secking water, you must run your pipes between. In the mighty stream of living I have noticed in my time | Just the truth that I am preaching, or sug- gesting, in my rhyme. We are needing living water for our varled earthly crop, But the mire is on the bottom and the scum is on the top; Mire that hides within the darkness, that dances worthlessy, While between them is the promise of the best that man shall be. it you would find true manhood—of the splendid type, I mean— Never mind the top and vottom; merely run a pipe between. scum So, “I told her she was the sweetest girl I ever had met.” “Did she seem to appreclate what you sald?” “Not entirely. come off!" ™ All she sald was, ‘Oh, BUT WHAT ARE THESE? And know ye aught of plctures wrought When Nature's brush is wielded, The matchless gems unsold, unbought, To every eecker yielded? The pulsate red in skies o'erhead That blush in twilight longing To seek the sun, where he has fled, And woo him till the dawning? But what are these to thee and me It cnly yellow gold we see? The sunbeams stray adown the, bay And silver-kiss its billows, And Nereids with the ripples play, Or sleep on shifting pillows; 'Neath boughs unknit the shadows To join in phantom dances, And every dewdrop seems a bit Of diamond as it glances. But what are these to thee and me, It =elf, wee eclf, is all we see? fiit Through all the trees the vagrant breeze Forever more doth wander, And chants a song the soul to ple: And make all life the fonder; From myriad throats the silvern notes Of birds in rapture vying Adown earth’s sea of ether floats A chorus never-dying. But how can these be sweet or dear, It self’s discord is all we hear? Go where we may, lite’s song alway Is in its gladness ringing, And every flower that greets the day Its grace to all is bringing. Such sweetness lies beneath the skies As e'en the gods might covet, For it with heaven's glory vies And well we all should love It, But first we need, for you and me, The ear to hear, the eye to see. “Do you suppose that anybody In tiis day and age of the world believes in the divine right of the close family corpora- tion of Kings?” “I do.” “Who?" . “The Kings."” “Do_you believe that water ever was | turned into wine?"” “Belfeve it! Well, if you ever had seen the bartender at the corner preparing his wine for the day’s trade you wouldn't ask such a foolish question.” “It was Oliver Wencell Holmes, was it not, who said, ‘The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men?" “S-s-s! It's a fine day, isn't it?” “What's the matter?” “Some university professor hear you.” “I understand that society delights to honor her.” “Yes, indeed! Her husband is worth ten million dollars at least.” might JOIN THE CLIMBERS. ||| Occidental Accidentals. ‘ | NO UTTER DEPRAVITY. | Get Away From the Elevator Habit ||| __BY A. J. WATERHOUSE. _1|| Some Evil in the Best of Us, as Well as Good in the Worst of Us. BY WALLACE RICE. ‘< OUBTFUL” wishes to know, “when meanness and D selfishness are apparent in a person, can there be any gocd in him? 1If a face indicates meanae and selfishness, is it a sure sign that the person’s charae- ter is the same?” If there is such a thing as unpardonable sin—and I hope there isn’t—Iit surely must come from a combination of meanness and selfishness, since elther amounts 1 crime against our common humanity and all that makes life desirable in this world. I believe, too, that there is less likely to be good in a person who unites in himself nualities at once mean and selfish tham in any on else. But I do not for a monient believe that any human belng can ever be utterly depraved, without “any good in him.,” with the exception of a few instances of minds diseased, so rare as to show that the rule is as I state it. As there is some evil in the best of us, so, surely, is there some good in the worst of us, We do not get down to motives. Single-purposed nen have been known to do the most outrageous things—relig~ ious persecutions and pelitical feuds afford abunlant in- stances—with the best cdmecience in the world. Any stu- dent of history will be able to multiply Instances whers men have been mean for the noblest reasons, and selfish for reasons the most disinterested. We know that the best man and the worst man have move points of contact than of difference. And we can always be charitable. even as we expect charity from others. A lifetime of what seems meanness and selfishness may turn out to be consecrated to the highest ideals as soon as the mask of deeds Is re- moved and the reality of the underlying motive lald bare. My correspondent, it will be seen, guards agalnst too liberal a charity in answering his first question by writing meanness and selfishness on his example’s face in his sec- ond question. But the face is In no man a complete Index of character. The best of us, knowing he Is to be taken at his “face value,” disguises the actuality beneath, lest ha lay bare his inmost thouxht to a critical world, It is reasonable to suppose that good men sometimes unconsciously hide behind a cloak of seeming evil, just a3 weak men assume an appearance of strength, or bad men the garb of virtue. The comfort comes to the man of good intentions proveq by falr performance in the thought that, bitterly as the mean and selfish man punishes others, still more bitterly does he punish his own soul. Pestilential as he is, it i3 be< to cause of a raging disease within. — A.[ T HE light from the flickering ghostlike shadows about the room. With a strange look in his hollow eyes, the long- haired man nervously took a spoonful of snuff, placed it on a sheet of writing paper, folded it and inclosed it in the envelope. “At last, at last,” he muttered, “my revenge will be com- plete.. When the editor who refused to print my stuff gets this he’ll sneeze his head off.” With a flendish laugh, he blew out the candle and dis- appeared into the night.—Milwaukee Sentinel, P SRR RS ndle cast Ideal Woman’s Status. “I have watched the ideal woman in many places, at home and in society, with the result that I have come to the conclusion that she is the one of our sex whom men most persistently avoid.” 2 Thus writes “A Spinster” in “The Truth About Man,” and she continues her indictment as follows: “They are quite civil to her when she is thrown In their way; they will even admire openly her demeanor, or the way she keeps house, or nurses her invalid mother; but they do not seek ber out and they do not marry her.” —_— Townsend's California glace frults and choicest candies in artistj - etched boxes. New store, 767 Mu;flgr: ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men b:; Press Clippiug Bureau (Allen’s), xo’cnmn: forria street. Tclephone Main 1042, ¢ Answers to Queries. MILLER’'S AGE—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. the actor, was born in London, England, 1580, Henry Miller, YEARS AGO—Subscriber, Santa Clara, Cal. April 24, 1853, fell on a Sunday. The 4th of May, 1856, also fell on a Sunday. AT THE SWITCH--Subscriber. City. The poem entitled “Asleep at the Switch” was written by George Hoey. It is to be found in Popular Recitations No. 2. MASONIC—A. E.. City. The returns of grand lodges of the | United States and British America for 1905-6 show the member- | ship of Free and Accepted Masons to be 99,176, MAN WITH THE HOE—Subscriber, City. The amount that il H. Crocker of San Francisco paid for the celebrated pic- ure entitled “The Man With the Hoe" was a little in ex: of $4000. RAZZLE DAZZLE—J. D., Sausalite, Cal. In the dice game of razzle dazzle aces are high. If A shakes five aces and B three aces and two sixes, A wins. Sixes are not counted as aces unless it Is so agreed before the game. 3