The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1906, Page 8

. Manacer . TEIRD AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO = TMABCH s, 1006 PUBLICATION OFFICE. TRADE CONDITIONS MORE DEFINED. HE irregular drift to which attention has been called during | past month is steadily becoming more pronounced, and | vague and blind condition is now becoming defined. | spect we are now becoming better posted as to the specific trade and know more positively how the country at| ature in this gradual unveiling of the nation’s | lies in the exhibit of the bank clearings last week. | months they have shown a uniform gain from they ned ab: last week and presented a loss of | the corresponding week in 1905. The aggregate were large, amounting to $3,226,760,000, which | movement of general merchandise and | active | | that the Pacific Coast is sending in the best re—} ic cities the poorest. For instance, New York | i 148 per cent, owing probably to the recent marked‘ lume of business on the Stock Exchange, and Bos- | r doubtless due to the decline in copper stock ress in the footwear industry caused by the | diminished the usual demand for winter 1s and left the shoe factories of New England f heavy winter goods still on hand unsold, to be next winter. Those large Eastern and Central cities clearings made very slight gains, at Philadelphia, 1.2 at St. Louis, )rleans, and so on. % is apparent falling off in business on is the record of the Pacific Coast cities. San Fran a gain of 28.2 per cent, Los Angeles 42.7, Seattle lzg,,.;,j volu the condition of business is this: It is tic coast and better on the Pacific coast, and | rage of recent years throughout the vast | few losses and many substantial and. encouraging at at present is the falling off in speculation in | over the country. This is general and pro-| transactions on the New York and Boston ex- strial and copper shares are chiefly v, and those stock markets are now The reason given for this is that “the big men and this specious explanation is being indus- It will do as well as any other, en off s L i over the land. be remarked in this connection that February onths as a rule and the statement is t vacation m uring the past six months run stocks away up and high prices upon the public, have turned their | Another reason is that large | | { s already pointed out, that the great financial in-J backs on the game for the time being. noney, hitherto employed in financing great stock deals, passing into real estate investments, where the dividends, 1al and large, are safer. Still another is that the looming up on the horizon, and enormous interest nents are to be made at that time, and the funds that purpose are being hoarded by the corpora- | | | { yved fo, matter of grain speculation at Chicago and other West- | ¢ markets have been weakened by a pressure of large | wheat for sale all over the world, and a pronounced emand for American flour. | ailroads continue to make a fine showing with their traffic | the gain in February over the same month in 1905 no“'z laced at 2R.2 per cent. The failures in February were 908, | 1013 last year, but though they were numerically fewer liabilities, which were $10,850,000, against | 1905. It is stated that the dividend pay- March will largely exceed those for March, 1905, and it is be hoped that the prediction will be realized. deal hinges on the crop prospects. One of the most | in the country says that the trade conditions of ) worked into such shape that a crop failure would dull times and an abundant harvest would give us a con- f rrent prosperity. According to this, the commer- ditions are now so balanced that the die is in the hands of What they do this year will determine business for the 3 Fortunately the outlook is now encouraging. Some ons, as, for instance, Kansas, have been sending in reports of to the wvinter wheat by dust sand storms and the freezing 1e plant in other regions where it is unprotected by the usual but, taking the belt as a whole, the crop is in good condi- . with a heavy fall of rain or snow reported from many points at the close. is yet too early to calculate upon cotton, though ex- perts estimate an increased acreage this year, and the corn crop has not yet been planted. It will be seen from the above that the business condition of the try has passed out of its monotonous and uniform state of gen- eral activity and become varied, some branches maintaining their previous high plane and others falling back somewhat. At the pres- ent rate of development the situation ought very soon now to be comprehensible by everybody. The majority of indications, how- are cheerful. Money showed signs of becoming stringent during the week, as rates began to advance, but the action Secretary Shaw in depositing $10,000,000 in gold among the ever, aga ket again and the close of the week found it in much better condi- tion than at the opening. SPAIN'S RECUPERATION. AT suffered in war with the United States is proving itself to have been a blessing in disguise to Spain. The loss of the colonies she was so ill fitted to take care of has been rather like the lifting of too heavy a burden than the lessening of national strength. Our Department of Commerce and Labor pub- lishes a letter from Bernard & Co. of Madrid, showing a great finan- cial improvement in Spain, and pointing out the fine possibilities open in that country to foreign technical experience and initiative. The three principal inducements that invite foreign enterprise are railroads, irrigation and cheap power—electric, steam and water. Spaniards lack the technical skill and experience to make use of these advantages, but they are eager to receive them from other countries and will support them with money and every other co-operation. Since 18R a large part of the debt of the Spanish Treasury to the Bank of Spain, amounting to $280,000,000, has been paid, and the budgets show a yearly surplus of from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000. Since the war Spaniards have invested $40,000,000 in their own mer- chant marine, $45,000,000 in sugar factories, $150,000,000 in electric plants, mine developments and other industries. ‘A new spirit of commerce has arisen all over the country, this being reflected 'in agriculture and industry.” The country is said to be just beginning to appreciate the enormous resources of the soil, which has to a large extent lain dormant so long. The spirit of enterprise is awakening in Spain, but one of the essentials of its accomplishing good results is lacking, namely, the thorough means of rapid communication. There are seven hundred towns in Spain, with from 3000 to inhabitants, that have no railroad service. This dearth of railroads, coupled with a rapid increase in financial prosperity and a lack of native technical skill, certainly indicates a good opening for capital and brains, | of me. THE EARTH. ZHTWHAT A \WONDERFUL STRUCTURE. (\{llcHma, 1 BELIEVE 1 F{CAN DO 1T, RIGHT fl____;l___. PRE SUME PROBADELY MO A W (M BOUND 10 GET THERE. | UL 8 LAUGRED AT, LIKE ALL 1N~ VENTORS AND OTHER DISCOVERERS HAVE AFTER IT. IF | PAIL WELL, 1 NOT PAIL IF | KEEP AT e £ BUT.1 CAl WORK_ THAT, | INTEND T0 D HOwW MUCHEE “You' TEE 2 HOW MIH EE You BET AH HE? come ON{ RDS! TALKEE 0 MUCHEE. CIT AH 1T QUT. S Occidental Aic_identals By A. J. WATERHOUSE. + L “’(’)ES OF THE STOMACH. FORLORN LIVER who had fallen A deeply in love with a Melancholy Stomach, who lived next door to him, once looked over the fence that di- vided their properties and saw his charm- | ing neighbor sitting on her back porch, | fanning herself. “Prithee, m ttle bunch of roses,” he cried to her, ‘‘stray hither to the fence and let us hold sweet commune together."” “Bunch of roses nothing!" his charmer remarked. “Don’t you dare tb make fun I am sure that 1 am a bunch of long-ago cabbages this morning.” At the same time she neglected to stray thither. “Don’t you feel well today, my dear?” “No, I'm on the bum again.” “And 1 am feeling a little off-color my- self. What do you imagine can be the matter?” “Matter! It's the same old matter.” “Not the—the—" “Yes, the Man! I am not afraid to say He has been having a ‘little time’ again. Oh, dear me! It began early last evening. In the first place, he sent me down a cocktail with his compliments, | and as I was experiencing a slight sensa- tion of lassitude I really felt quite grate- ful to him. Then he sent another down to me, and I sent back word that I was much obliged, but two would be a great sufficiency. Well, the chump heeded my suggestion to the extent that he sent me no more cocktails, and the next that ar- rived was a whisky straight. So were the next six. After that he sent me a tamale, an enchilada and a pint of white wine. He had the nerve to send his compli- ments with this mess, too, but I returned the compliments to him, with a sugges- tion that he put dynamite under them and blow them somewhere else. He had the effrontery to respond that he couldn’t blow any compliments, because he was busily engaged in blowing himself."” “Oh, my poor charmer,” murmured the Forlorn Liver, “stray hither and repose thine aching head upon my comforting breast.” But the poor charmer refused to stray. She sald she just couldn’t feel yearnful while her house looked as it then did. “Besides,” she continued, “I haven't got done with my recapitulation. Next he sent me a pint of red wine, some mussels bordelais and a welsh rabbit. I had the greatest notion in the world to send them all back to him, but finally I concluded not to do so. Do you suppose that he ap- preciated my long-suffering kindness? Not on your life! Within the next three hours he sent me a few gallons of beer, several slices of rye bread and limburger cheese ad limitum. After that I fejl into a stupor and knew nothing more till I was awakened by the telephoue bell this morning. Who do you suppose it was?"” “‘Couldn’t guess, I am sure.” “Well, I should think you could. It was that fool Brain, who prides himself so on his intellectuality. After Central had concluded her conversation with one of her Pest young men this idiot Brain and 1 were able to talk, and he wanted to what I meant by treating him so. Treating you how?' I asked. , I can’'t do my work,’ he re- o P S ) WOULDN'T DO AT A Grocer—What are you taking Jim- mie out of school for? Butcher—Well, I'm golng to have him follow the butcher business and the teacher's telling him that six- teen ounces makes'a pound. R B G S g, Pt s 1 SEE YOu SOME OTHER . [OAY, MAYBE, YES! NOT 0| DAY. SOME OTHER OAY You_COME, GO BACK (VELLY MUCHEE 100 much. | SEE MEN(T MUCH veLlY pLENTY NOW: GENTLEMEN, THE FUSS. M ONLY AN CRDI wilil | 3 GOPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM (NEW YORK HERALD COJ WOMEN OF THE COUNTRY UNITE FOR PURE FOODS Concerted Attack on All the Adulterated Products Now Foisted on the Public Is the Best Work of the Clubs of the Gentler Sex. BY ANGELA MORGAN. s | HE report that the women's clubs all over this country Tare definitely unfting to wage war on impure food is the best news that has been heard in the land for many a day. This is getting down to business. At Jast women's or- ganizations have found the proper outlet for their energies: have discovered their real mission. In banding together to demand wholesome. unadulterated food. the women are rising to a recognition of their rights as rulers of homes, guardians of the family pocketbook and mothers of chil- dren who are to make the future generation, Some one has said that every individual possesses o peculiar gift; is gble to do some one thing better than any ‘one élse in the world could do it. As a sex, woman I3 capable of accomplishing one especial thing as no power on earth besides could accomplish it; yiz, the securing of pure food for the families of the nation. It is her province to bring about the enforcement of pure-food laws. It is in her power to compel the manu- facturer to be honest. She holds the purse. Once she has secured information as to the foods that are impure, she has the influence to drive the unscrupulous manufacturer out of business. All she ’need do is to refuse to buy his | goods. To secure legislation that will enable her to tell the pure from the impure food is the object upon which the women’s clubs are uniting. They demand an honest label, which means a label giving the name of.the manufacturer who guarantees the product; his place of business; states whether preservatives are used. and also states whether the article complies with the standards adopted by the United States Government. The clubwomen worked with all their might for the passage of the Hepburn pure-food bill in the Senate and will keep up the fight to make the measure a law. . At the biennial meeting of the federation. to be held in St. Paul next May, the subject that will claim the attention of the great army of wives, mothers and home-makers will be this supreme question of obtaining unadulterated food for the people. I had the pleasure recently of discussing this subject with Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Columbla, Mo., who is the national chairman of the pure food committee for the General Federation of Women's Clubs. “Thas first and most important step of all,” sald Mrs. Miller, “is to rouse the women to a realization of the actunal situation. The wives, mothers and housekeepers must be educated to appreciate the importance of this movement; i e everybody below .the sponded, ‘when Larynx is asleep.’ “‘Can’t ¢o your work, hey!" says I. “‘You bet I can't,’ says he. “ “Well, then the Man is in luck,’ said L. He, he! Ain't I spiteful when I have a mind to be? But do you suppose 1 could make that imbecile understand my dilem- ma? No, sirrce! He blamed me to the 1ast, and he is blaming me yet. Oh, dear! 1t's discouraging!” “It must be,” sighed the Forlorn Liver. “In fact, I am feeling it keenly myself. Come hither and lay—" “Not a lay!"” snapped the Melancholy Stomach. “If you could see my house you would think it was time I got back to my straightening-up.’ 3 8o the Melancholy Stomach went in the house, and the Forlorn Liver was left to mourn his hopeless love. The cats upon “He says he always does as his con- sclence directs.” . “Well, I know men who could afford to give millions of dollars for l\lih a con- science. Noise is out?” “He's outa town.” —_— He didn't want to live, For he felt the game was hard; He didn’t want to die, % For the thought his spirit jarred, And T guess he was in luck, ‘Though the fact he ne'er descried, In having rome one else The question to decids Reflections of a Bachelor. It's pretty nice the way a girl's lips can look so red and warm .and feel 80 cool and fresh. A man can be hated and awful popu- lar with his relatives at the same time if he has money enough. A girl is always afraid that some- body will see her stocking when there is a hole in it, or won't when there fsn’t. It makes & woman awful proud to say she doesn't play whist as well as her husband when he can’t do it at all. A girl likes to dance till 4 o'clock in the morning because her mother will be away?’ “Nobody but me.” Sentinel. common herd.’ “No 2" A self now. she is flirting.—New York Press Reminiscences. ‘When I was six I liked to scare the fence, and tare A hole or two—but never mind, "Twould only bore you—quite unkind. 1 was In mischief everywhere. When Mabel met me on the stair ' And asked a kiss—I pullea her halr And most decisively declined * ‘When I was six. Those tom cats' sons now fill the alr ‘With notes of hideous despair. But I scarce hear them for I find I'm musing why I e'er resigned That chance with Mabel—now so rare— ‘When 1 was six. Ot S S o, Modern Business Titles. “Say, is the Big Noise in?"” inquired the visitor as he entered the office. “Naw, he’s out feedin'” “Well, where is the Chief Gazabo— the one who has charge when the Big “Aln’t there some one here who acts as the Main Squeeze when “‘And ‘who are you?” 'm de Small Bunch—de guy what sweeps out de office—see?"—Milwaukee —_————— Unfine. “He has noné of the finer sensibilities, nothing to distinguish him from the “No, sir. T've heard him confess, out of his own mouth, that all autos smell alike to him."—Puck. “He's still employed by that wholesale hcuse, isn't, he?” ~ *“No; I think he's in business for him- ‘He used to take an hour for too sleepy ifter midnight to notice how | lunch, but now he only takes a bare five ! minutes.”—Philadelphi must be shown the danger to their families existing at present in the adulteration of food being practiced by manufacturers.” Certainly it would not seem possible that women needed to be urged upon a question as vital as this. Surely there should be nothing of greater concern to all women than their own health and the health of their families. Yet, in- credible as it seems, there are women all over this conti- nent who fail utterly to realize the need of the human body for wholesome nourishment. “The spirit of economy—the bargain instinct=—is respon- sible for this in many cases.” Mrs. Miller declared. “Women want to buy cheaply. They want as much as they can possibly get for the money. Housewives need to be edi- cated to see that it is quality. not guantity, that counts when the nourishment of the body is the issue. “The bargain instinct is a deadly thing and retards the moral progress of women perhaps more than anything else. ‘Women should learn to spend lavishly when It Is necessary. They should acquire a proper appreciation of true values.” And so, after all, the pure-food laws and their enforce- ment depend upon the women. It is for the housekeepers of America to settle the question. There is no doubt that if the clubwomen would forsake minor matters and bend all their energies to the solution of this problem, pure food legislation would come about speedily enough. Let the women drop Browning and Ibsen, art, music, charity and the like long enough to give their individual attention to this greatest cause of all. Charity begins at home. It is far more essential that growing children be given the proper sustenance for their bodies than that people should be taught art or music or literature. Pure food is above and beyond every other consideration, As Miss Jane Addams so aptly declares: “It is woman's traditional business to select the food for the family and to see.that its ingredients are wholesome and pure. Women will have to g0 back to their traditional privilege. Not to do this is to shirk a very obvious duty.” And she says. further: “With the exception of China, the United States is the only civilized nation that is without pure food legislation. No European government permits a single food product to be placed on the market without a statement or label showing the contents of the package or the ingredients of which it is composed. Why can we not have the same thing here? “The fact is, we would have had it long ago if had demanded it.” & women xfi How Depew Won His Way. Chauncey Depew is a typical parasite. All his days he has fared lnmptuoully. on the fruit of other men's lndultry. but he never has done a useful act ol: originated a useful idea. His ability is somewhat above medloerity, his voice and person were pleasing in their prime and he had a ‘Wway of utterin, vapld platitudes which was slnnhrl; adapted to tickle the ears of rich diners whose wits were befuddied with champagne. Master of all the arts of the courtier, he exercised them with consummate skill upon the reignin, millionaires in New York and beum: the. star favorite in their carnival of corruption.—Portland Oregonian, Society of Whales. The Soclety of Whales is a new or- ganization. Every young wife in town belongs, and the title of the soelety is taken from the faith a bride has in her husband. She would believe him if he said he saw a whale swimming up Com- mercial street. After she has been mar- ried for a few months she drops from the club.—Atchison (Kans.) Globe. A Little Learning. Johnny (after first day at school)—1 learned something today. mamma.” Mamma (much interested) — What was it? Johnny—I learned to say Mamma—You did? Johnny—Yep.—Woman's Home panion. —————— 'How It Happened. ~ Jda—And they say Mabel's father was forced to remain in the house while the wedding procession passed. May—Yes, some one threw the only pair of shoes he owned at the bridal ~pqu.-mum.t-¢ Bits, —Princeton Tiger. they're oy, . es, Com- e ia Ledger. | ferer's hand a little cross she had worm N0 REAL NEED OF ALL TH! \TIZEN QF THE U:S. WHO u‘.:?!“-p‘wua REAT GLORS IF YOU CALLTNAT v, 1 Dont G | When Kindness ’Co:_lg_ts Most By WALLACE RICE NE of the many redeeming traits in O human nature is the quickness of man'’s response to suffering and ac- cident. When man needs help the most, by reason of iliness or death, the whole world of his acquaintance flocks to him, bringing aid and tender sympathy. Not at all unusual, exgept In its expres- sion, was the deed of a kindly woman in Chicago not long ago. She was passing along the street when a man was injured. He was nothing to her and she nothing to him, except fellow-creatures in a world where there is much misery. Yet without any further thought than that of heip- fulness she stopped and placed in the suf- for many years. The injured man was taken to a hospi- tal and operated upon. When he recov- ered consciousness he found the Ilittle symbol of faith and devotion closely held in the hand which had first grasped it, seeking for commiseration as a sinking man seeks a life beit. Search was made for the kindly-heart- ed woman, and she was found—quite un- conscious of having sacrificed any treas- ure, certain only that she had done what her religion prompted. ‘Were the whole truth to be known there are few lives that could not supply inci- dents similar. No one who has had seri- ous loss within kis family can have failed to note how readily the whole circle of friends and acquaintance, even persons little more than strangers, have come to regard any duty set for them as a pre- cious privilege. Friends who had dropped from view through lapse of years and changing interests, and distance Inter- vening, reappear to offer the most dell- cate and indispensable attentions. Among the great and rich there is less and less of this, as greatness and riches increase. It Is one of the compensations of humankind that the poor, who have little or nothizg to proffer but personal service, have the mgst of it, just as they need the most of it. The rich can buy service, but it remains bought. They can place themselves at the disposal of others in affliction, little as remains for them to do. It is a survival of a freer and more human time that makes the anxiety to do something personally so marked. Yet, al- ways, here the poorest are richer than the richest. But, rich or poor, no man has to suffes alone in' this world. Whatever his deeds or misdeeds, human sympathy is an un- failing well of comfort. Time for a Change. For the last ten days Fred Lucas has been wearing a fancy blue shirt which makes him look very sporty.—Braymer (Mo.) Comet. Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candies in_ artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * & Special hlnlormallon supplied daily to usiness houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), !zyClll- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * P i - GIVING HIM A POINTER. Orville Skribbler—I can’t under- Stand it. 'Every story I have sent to this magazine the editor has sat on. ‘The Typewritist — Perhaps ‘wouldn't if sent him one that had some to it