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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1906. 8 - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN McNAUGHT ACATION OFFICE. MONDAY ..MARCH 26, 1906 CURRENT TRADE. 1s checked trade all over the United States last 1d the Pacific Coast did not escape from the elements. was delayed in some sections and the shipment of farm ce to the markets diminished. But, taken on the whole, the great storms were beneficial everywhere. They covered the winter belt with an ample shelter of snow, moistened the ground there had been complaints of drought, and stimulated the h of green feed all over this coast. With us the rain was > weather being soft, from now on we will probably harvest large crops rings reflected the weather conditions by showing only the small increase of 2 per cent over the corresponding week , with aggregate clearings of $2,793,349,000, which is consid- ‘ast heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures dam- | d vegetables, and on the Pacific Coast country trans- | and should no severe frosts be ex- | of | WHAT YOU WANT 1S A FILE OR COLD CHISEL, CAP YoURE GETTING EXCITED, EK: | WANT A GLASS han the re t average. A noticeable feature in this con- uring towns of the East and West making equally good rule. commercial statist of business. The failures for the week were only 213, again year, and there were none of serious importance. The rail- ngs are still running ahead of last year, the comparatively having enabled the great lines to operate more freely ring the midc winter months, and those thus far for the corresponding period in 1905 by 9.1 ed thos ticularly noticeable west of the Missouri River, h the Pacific, with San Francisco the ob- 1 of the most important. During the next five naps mi] show a pronounced revision as far as For over twenty years this city was ig- cerned. a 1 south of us, but latterly the tardy railroad promot- | ng up for lost time. bution of spring merchandise has been smaller than‘ > past week, but with more settled weather a greatly | is anticipated. The textile mills all over the coun- | in reports of mills fully employed as a rule. The| giving notice that' they will not have as many goods | ear as they had a year ago, and some of them do of new business for the next few weeks. Cotton down South and the demand from spinners i wool market has recently developed more tone, and in England, but the operation of buyers| m.... growers have been temporarily checked by the | however, report the market in very good | leather have lately taken a turn for the bet- | aving been in active demand of late. The imports of 1e United States thus far this year at the port of t to $39,383,000, against $35,374,000 during the | onding week in 1905. he flour trade of the country, while reported better in some | 1l languishing, and a good many mills are not run- factor in this dullness is the Chinese boycott, which 1e Oriental demand for flour from America to Canada, anad mills are enjoying an increased business on this ne of them being obliged to enlarge the capacity of their date this new and unexpected demand. But dur- three weeks Oregon and Washington millers report a 1and for flour for Japan and Vladivostok, inter- Russo-Japanese war, and some large shipments to recently been made. San Francisco thus far has of this renewed business, and flour is dull in this rices lower than they have been, and the California | n mills cutting each other’s quotations for business. 1as been on the down grade of late owing to the heavy the world, the crop of 1c according to accepted been the largest ever harvested. This, of course, | ffect on flour quotations, and the diminution in the flour | and has in its turn unfavorably affected the price of wheat. So this suffering breadstuffs market has caught it both ways. Corn, vever, has lately shown more strength, and prices at Chicago rose s and e der Viad nk.\m;\ ot ob have P several cents in as many days. Stocks and money are without striking feature at present. Money is comparatively easy, though the New York bankers con- ish the public that they may expect interest flurries the first of April, when the large quarterly interest and lend payments fall due. It was reported from Wall street dur- ng the week that the banking interests have made a change of front nd are now willing to see aggressive buying again, having, in fact, stock market themselves as buyers. This may be true, and the statement should be taken with a grain as it is hardly likely that the banks would pour a lot of nto stocks just before the first of April requirements. Again, strike situation is still a cloud over the stock market, and tself would naturally operate against any pronounced re- newal of either stock investment or speculation. The above conditions show that there really has been no note- change in trade conditions during the past week. Business . dmc worthy ha a of course are merely transitory and of a surface and The country is still on a sound and whic changeable character. 1 commercial basis. THE PRESS OF THE NATION. remark is not uncommon these days that there is a marked im- the newspapers of the State since the editors have discon- vement in d traveling on railroads. The presumption is that they have now more time to devote to their editorial work.—Wheeling Register. e e e L e Mississippi Legislature has considered a bill to abolish bridge whist, euchre and other card games, and now a lawmaker proposes to legalize 1 The Mississippi taste for amusements is evidently peculiar.— o Bl R N S Pittsburg dispatch says that Charles M. Schwab made $1,000,000 in his is true the rest of the people who are grubbing for a living e glad that Charley doesn’t work every day.—Philadelphia Tele- A two ¢ gra R W TR While hell may be the insane asylum of the unmiverse, as Evangelist orrey contends, it is by no means certain that all the promising cases have been collected there.—Dayton News. MR = an i Not every man elected to Congress is a college gradyate, but his cer- tificate < sziection entitles him t0 membership in the Gabba Gabba frater- nity.—Washington Post. i L Aot 5 It would be a rare joke on the whisky trust if Dr. Wiley would patent a pocket distillery which would enable every man to make his own booze.— Detroit Free Press. —_— ion was that the cities of the Pacific Coast, with the exception | which exhibited a great gain of 106.9 per cent, no longer | the best reports, though they were all excellent, the large | continue to show an excellent con- | : s - B s i R | ES. FEEL BE TIL HAVE T0 GIVE YOU ON i th e r th T ol | (TER NOW. EH? Hnlnoueauea | HAVEN'T AE 1s connection it is well to note the steady demand for | IWo ok FIVE IN THE HOUSE s affirmative of the current expansion in rallroad‘ f s;w:n traffic interests are reaching out for in- | extensions, though there were plenty of them | | | server to his false conclusion with re- | The man asked for a kiss, and the girl DID_JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER LEAVE A PACKACE OF HICKORY, NUTS HE FOR_ME. O ARE You THE LAQY THAT ‘sToLe HY NAPKIN RIN B oW LETS SEE, 1-2- 3y 18- 1 o lwmsz THOSE m - 121314 ar YES. M SORKY 24 TVE SEEN EM UIE A TOWEL AND A SPONGE BUT THATS. HELLO! YES! YES! YES! AR AHAL | KNOW ALL ABOUT THAT OLD STALL. AHAL YES! (524§~ 5270- 327/~ 1292 - F 273~ 0d THE EVER GET JAGGED- 5274 - 5215~ 3270 - $277 YES. 1 SUPPOSE SO-522F - 279 — I ‘?‘,‘ V‘§,\ /\‘,, COPYRIGHT, 1906, 8Y THE NEW YORK EVENING TELEQRAM (NEW YORK HERALD.C0), ROMANCE NOT DEAD ' By Dorothy Fenimore b x O less a literary authority than +____—__+ N Andrew Lang has put himself on record by declaring that romance {s dead, except In the bosoms of the #ged. I always suspected that Mr. Lang would develop into a scolding old critic, and since he is getting old, I suppose he thinks that the spark of romance in his breast is the only genu- ine brand and therefore can burn only in the aged. More likely, though, the flint in his makeup has never been of the sort to Impart a spark when struck by the pure steel of romance, and for | this reason he knows nothing about the sensations. Mr. Lang is wrong. Not only is ro- mance still alive, but it is of a truer, better kind than the world ever before knew. My observation shows me that it is not dead even in Mr. Lang’s own country, England; and as for the United States, ‘well, I think that I can prove romance to be the ome great living, vital factor in all classes, from infancy | to old age. It is interesting to note the observa- tions that led this near-sighted ob- \DOROTHY' gard to romance. ; i S He heard two lovers of the middle class converse while on an excursion. snappishly told him to “cut it out.” The deduction was that there has been a radical change from the halcyon days when lovers took kisses without asking and coy maidens blushed and liked it, no matter what they said. He overheard the conversation of a couple of the upper class in an auto car, and their careless use of such slang words as “beastly,” “bum,” etc., showed him that romance was lacking there. The following statement by a mother is held up ' for ridicule: *Children are a perfect nuisance. In school they are bad, at home noisy, and what am I to do? Their father expeets them always to walk slowly, speak softly and eat like angels.” And he sees no romance in that. An unmarried woman in the thirties seemed duly impressed by moonlight and music, but a friend remarked: “Oh, ves, she sighs and is sentimental be- cause she does not know what she is rhapsodizing about: she thinks man’s love a beautiful thing because she has never tried it” The deduction evi- dently was that in all single women romance is merely ignorant and ideal- istic yearning for the unattainable. By this line of reasoning Mr. Lang finds that romance does not exist in lovers, married or single. But romance exists just the same, and in greater degree than ever before. The human race hides it more than it used to. ‘We do not proclaim it from the housetops, or from the horsetops, as did the knights errant in the olden days. We hate its open demonstration, but the heart of youth is just as warm now as that ot the most sentimental being that sighed and looked like he had the colic in the centuries gone by. The romantic novel was never more popular than now, and the young woman | | and young man read the burning chap- ters with just as many sighs and as many desires to emulate the heroes and heroines as did their great-grandparents. “The romantic play, especially the roman- tic tragedy, draws bigger crowds than ever before. This would not be so if romance were not more alive than ever. Many a novel and many a play would have been dead after the first edition ‘were it not for the motive of love of man for woman which made it Interesting and prosperously popular. And it is refreshing to note that the kind that are most popular are the ones that contain the good old-faghioned romantic love, not those deformed by the French school of playwrights and authors, It is my belief that the whole scheme of modern civilizatfon is based on ro- mance. The desire of man to make the surroundings of woman comfortable and luxuriant is responsible for man's ad- vancement, to a larger extent than is as in centuries past, and when he claims her hand and comes to take her away it is in a comfortable carriage or auto car, and the wedding journey is in a palace car, instead of on a perspiring charger laden with cheap trappings, as in the days of old, when knights were bold. Man used to be content to end his ro- mance by taking his wife to live in a tent or a hut, beside which the average cot- tage or apartment is a palace. I sald ‘“end his romance” purposely, for the home and the life a man gave his wife in those days robbed existence of its glamour after the briefest honeymoon. The luxury and comfort provided for a wife in these days tends to continue the romance, B0 1 wish to put myself on record as saying that not only are there more ro- mances in the world today than ever before, but they last longer. e S D TAILORING AND PHOTOGRAPHY. Perhaps the latest application of pho- tography is in tailoring. This appears to be a Parisian invention. ‘The person to be measured is photographed in several positions while standing behind a net- work, which is photographed on the same plate and serves as a standard of refer- ence. By means of a kind of harness, in- dicating the location of armpits and other concealed points of the figure, the neces- su\l'y accuracy {s obtained.—Chicago Jour- nal. LiChaea President Castro’s proposal to test the Monroe doctrine reminds us somehow of the boy’s unfortunate desire to see if it was loaded.—New York Commercial. ] generally supposed. sauce into your tea. The = an aul ern lover wooes his lady fair in mobile instead of on horseback, § THE REASON WHY. ! Landladgy—Oh! my dear Mr. N’lcker. Star Boarder—Indeed I ulvoenu that the strong should help the wul. | OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS By A. J. Waterhouse. o ALFALFA PHILOSOPHY. ON'T be too well satisfled with D yourself. Jest as the turkey gob- bler had learned to strut to the complete satisfaction of himself an’ the ladies of his family Thanksgivin’ day come along. I b'lleve in havin’ faith in your feller man, but when he buys a hoss that's six- teen years old, an’ the same hoss is on'y ‘leven years old last fall when he sells it, I—well, I strive not to lose faith in the man, but I've dern little in the hoss. Balvation is free, but I hope you won't ever mention the fact to the Standard Ofl Company. Some speakers orto learn ’at it takes more 'n noise to make a orator. Ef twan't so, I've got a pig 'at I feel no hesitation would beat ole Cicero out in a elocution race. If scratchin’ fer a livin's the main thing in life, like 10ts of folks seem to think, I've got some hens that's 'bout es exem- plary citizens es ever I witnessed. ‘When my hens git into my neighbor's garden I kin see 'at he orto keep up the fence 'tween us. When his hens git into my garden I kin see the same thing, an’ I see it a dern sight clearer. I've ben in Californy 'bout seventeen years, but I ain’t yit passed the pint where I can’t be s'prised by the inferma- tion ’'bout the State 'at I kin git from some feller that’s ben here two or three weeks ah’ then gone back home to edu- cate his neighbors. Jedgin' a man by his clothes is a good deal like jedgin’ a box of apples by its top layer, an' I've seen some blame dis- appointin’ effects perduced by doin’ that. MAH HONEY, HONEY. Whah is yo' gwine, mah honey, honey? Whah is yo gwine now? Ah ain’ got goods an’ Ah ain’ got money, An’ Ah knows mah talk ain’ bright ner funny, But Ah lubs yo', anyhow, Ah lubs yo', anyhow; An’' Ah wants ter go whah yo's gwine terday, ‘Wheddah foh wohk or wheddah foh play, An' ANl do mah bes’, Ah ‘low, Kase Ah lubs yo', anyhow. ‘We ain' got much, mah honey, honey, We aln’ got much down heah, But de paf am bright an’ de way am sunny, Kase lub am its sun, mah honey, honey, An’ Ah lubs you' sho’, mah deah, An lubs yo' sho', mah deah. So Ah takes yo' han’ an’ yo' ‘Il take mine, And’ togeddah we walks In de blessed shine Ob days dat am full ob cheah, Foh Ah lubs yo' sho’, mah deah, Young Hopeful—May I see your hand, Miss Blifkins? Misg Blifkins—Certainly, my little dear. “You must wash it pretty often, don't you, Miss Blifkins?"" “Of course, I wash it. But what makes you think so? Is it because it is so ‘white?” e | guu. £0. Ma says that you have a you are putun; ‘Worcestershire 0U KNOW AS WELL AS ] 00, HIG, THAT IT 0OESN'T | J the painter. lvelihood. | JoBN 8. COPLEY. | OHN SINGLETON COPLEY, the artist whose name is known far and wide by the use of it for the Copley prints, and who takes rank with great artists of modern entirely self-taught, having been extremely studlous in his younger days. It has been said that part of his training he received from a relative who had had some experience as a But this seems unlikely from the biography known of Copley; and, even were it the case, the in- struction that this man wag able to offer would have availed Copley very little. Colonial Boston was hardly a congenial atmosphere for the fostering of fine arts. spiration outside of his own desires, and the money to go elsewhere. He was discouraged by family, friends and acquaintances from taking up art as a means of times, was almost Copley lacked the in- Copley, however, devoted himself to painting, and at last completed a picture, “The Boy and the Fly- Ing Squirrel,” which he sent to Benjamin West, the American artist, the picture nor sent any explanation with it. From the wood of the stretcher West knew that it was an American product. The anonymous picture by the unknown artist cre- ated a sensation. Copley’s future was assured, but his struggle had but begun. By faithful then in London. He neither signed A work he B — ————praised himself to a place of remarkable success. ANSWERS TO VARIOUS QUERIES. e CRIBBAGE—Mrs. D., City. In ecrib- bage 3-3-4-5 counts three for a run of three cards in consecutive order. “FRISCO”—Subscriber, City. There is e finger in every pie that is made in this neighborhood, but your fingers don't show S “He is the laziest fellow I ever knew, yet he manages to make a fair living.” ‘“How does he do it?"” “His wife takes in washing.” TWO PETITIONS. “What have you in your hand?” in- quired the bright angel of poetry. “Two petitions,” the messenger prompt- 1y responded. “What is their nature?” the bright an- gel asked. “They are petitions for a change.” *“Who are they from?” “From Casablanca and Mary.” ““What does Casablanca want?’ “Wants to stand somewhere else. He says that if you think a burning neck does not get hot after a few decades he ‘wishes you would come and try it your- self. Besides, the deck shows signs of finally getting burned up, so he respect- fully petitions for a change. He says, fur- ther, that he does not care where he stands, only so that it is not on a deck that has‘burned too long to be comfort- able—he even, he submits, would be will- ing to stand pat if you so suggest; but, anyway, he yearns for a change.” “Humph!” responded the bright angel. “What does Mary want?"” “She wants you to tie up her lamb. She says that until you have tried it you can form no conception of what it Is to be tagged by one lamb through three or four generations. Moreover, she submits that the lamb now is too old to be classed as lamb in anything except a restaurant. Besides that, she wishes to call your at- tention to the fact that this lamb, such as it is, Is the great-great-great-grand- daughter of the only and original. So she respectfully petitions you to tie it up—she is tired of its buttin-in.” “These petitions,” said the bright an- gel, “seem reasonable to me, and ‘I will permit them to take their course In this department.” The petitions still are taking their course, and Casablanca and Mary are liv- ing in that hope deferred which maketh the heart sick. BETTER LANE NEAR. 'Tis a long, long lane that knows no turn, as You often have heard, I suppose; And there is a truth that we all may learn, which ever the wise man knows. Oh, the way may be long, and the way may be - m.h.ndhud(omrhlheflnctm We may say that the deucedly ough, and deem that the hmm is . * no such place in California as “Frisco.” Some people use the word in place of San Francisco, but it is as Incorrect as to use “York™ when New York is meant, or to use “Sac” for Sacramento. PETER TO PAY PAUL—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. The following is the origin of the popular saying, “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul”: In the year 1550 several es~ tates belonging to Westminster Abbey, England, were granted for the repair and sustenance of St. Paul's Cathedral. As ‘Westminster Abbey is dedicated to St Peter the taking of the abbey funds for the benefit of St. Paul gave rise to the proverbial saying. VALENTINE'S DAY-H. 8, City. St Valentine was a priest of Rom~, who was martyred in the third century. ke was first beaten with clubs and then beheaded. The greater part of his remains are pre- served In the church of St. Plaxedes at Rome, where a gate (now Porto del Po- polo) was formerly named for Porta Valentinl. The origin of St. Val- entine’s day as it is now known In mod- ¢ ern times is a subject of some obscurity. The saint himself seems to have had nothing to do with the matter beyond the accident of his day being used for the purpose. It was the practice in ancient Rome, during a great part of the mont) of February, to celebrate the Lupercalia, which wers feats of homor of Pan and Juno, when the latter deity was named Februata, Februalls and Februlla. On this occasion, amid a variety of cere- monies, the names of young women wers put into a box, from which they wers drawn by the men as chance directed. The pastors of the early Christian church, who, by every possible means, endeavored to eradicate the vestiges of pagan super- stitions, and chiefly by some commuta- tions of their forms, substituted in the present instance the names of particular saints instead of those of women: and as the festival of Lupercalia had commenced aboyt the middle of February they ap- pear to have chosen St. Valentine’s day for celebrating the ncw feast, because it appeared nearly at the same time. That is one version of the origin. Another is to the effect that St. Valentine’s day is commemorative of two saints out of a great number of the same nafne, formerly observed in England, Scotland and parts of France, by peculiar and amusing cus- toms in relation to an allotment of young men #nd young women to each other. | The custom. sending valentines is very ancient. It is heid by some that the birds select their mates on that day, and other equally pleagant nonsense Is related. There remafn, however, traces of this