The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1906, Page 8

NCISCOCALL Til—lgEisAiN FRA JOHN D. SPRECKELS... ADDREES ALL COM JOHN MeNAUGHT... . MUNICATIONS TO Manager OFFICE THIRD A ND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISC voliaas s JARRIL 3, 1906 to encourage Americ es, bounties and The London ed satisfaction, the ¢ i In 1894 there ns under our flag. Ten The Gazette say: ments. ship 7 tons how they are s of interest to know that shipping companies of Europe, that have made millions on carrying | water trade, build and maintain square-rigged ships for | f training miasters, officers and able seamen. fear any policy on the partyof American ship-owners, there is no American we have not. hour for the Atlanti sidy of $ 00 2 year for tw nt. We are discussing our as a subsidy to revive Ameri far iliarity of their g blow salt ake sight and sound of the I nd clearly their de; yple who never saw the loaded on a railroad t ir ;.\mdnfls ceases of appropriations read coast T comes to a subsi yossible to keep them afloa ge that local Congressman. pping companies, and th 1 lainies. which inland interests freight remains at home, s finds no American ht. left after pay ges necessary on the wa n | arket. This is practic n carriers. Every foreign The total deep: sea to 311,208 toms. States. y and Japan. maritime nations of Europe. hat the Pacific Ocean is an soon look ill alongside of the fact that the commerce of our lake will carried under the flag of Japan scen as the sea serpent. THE CASTRO RUMOR. HE report that Venezuela is appetite for wars and rumors pointed for massacre i Chinese are eating their rice and worshiping ‘their ancestors in eace. The Algeciras conference, has composed all of the troubles started by the Kaiser on his yacht- o trip in the Mediterranean, and now Mars scowls upon South eriea, and a mythical expedition is made out of thin air, armed g with rapid-fire guns and sailing on of the Andes up a cocoanut tree. put to sea, it would be overhauled for piracy. . It may well be that a revolution will occur in Venezuela. It is about due. Castro went into office example, Guzman Blanco, the dic lions regarded as the necessary equipment of those robbers for They seldom hold on aiter light. port the style they desire to put on in Paris. El Salvador. Haiti, also went there. Fr neopl "THE SHIPPING BILL. g of an American merchant marine has and is before a House committee. session out or come up for*action is not known at present. ised by the great foreign shipping interests, built up by th i our carrying trade, which they have enjoyed at the same id extinction of their square-rigged fleet and are be- encourage the outlay required to maintain such That is to say, there is no use in training men for al ard line is just finishing two immense turbine steamers | hips, the Lusitania and Mauritania, will draw a| e countries of Europe are differently situated in- water clear across the British Germany and Italy are not so extensive in their territory nd carry their trade. o their own fortunes. They see their grain and hogs they feel hurt and regard the money as thrown must be bombarded with resolutions and t is understood by the astute representatives of 1 ander until he thinks that helping American ships is t So we have inland opposition to the very great commerce of the country is in its surplus products. | | find a foreign market, and must seek it over seas. The| | go to a seaport and find a ship to take it to the far con- | ! find American bottoms sufficient to carry it, the money | to enlarge the home market for the inland products. His product brings him a price that is ng freight and insurance, brokerage and all I merican producers, mainly inlanders, in this way pay | 10,000,000 a year freight.to foreign ships for carrying their prop- n, since there are no American ships to compete with ed millions a year is subsidized or paid a bounty by its Great Britain has 13,999,218 tons. 801,869, and little Norway has 1,017,248, nearly as much as nited Spain has more than half our tonnage and so At Japan’s rate of increase in deep sea ships and tonnage she will soon pass us and take her place with the hile we lag behind in ships we pass the time pleasantly brag- thrown is probably a gross fake. reports of trouble in China, and by the expectation that failure of the Algeciras conference would put Europe in a blood-shedding mood. splurged and died. So did Zaldivar, the bravo who despoiled We believe that Simon Sam, the dusky tyrant of a sober American standpoint it would appear that the e of Venezuela havé had enoguh of revolutions and dictators, be willing to settle down and develop their country under an shipping and to promote the | assed the Sen- | Whethér it will sleep It is | C | | various subventions fronh their | Shipping Gazette notes, with | lisappearance of the American | were 633 square-rigged ships 05“ years later there were 322 ships “The Americans see 3 pros- . HEAVENS ! THE COK WiLL BE AWFULY ANGRY going to train the masters and | our maritime rivals, the strong | The Ga-| steamship fleet at present suf—i c trade between this country and | enty years from the British Gov- | ability to give $1,000,000 a year | can shipping! : 3 g 1 11 BUTTO! »opulation with their coasts from | S o Isles, and } ocean a novelty to their people. | pendence upon deep water com- But in this country are mil- ocean. They have no clear idea rain and taken away, and their when the train is out of sight. | by Congress to keep up harbors idy to build American ships, at, why, that, to the inland mind, | [N - EATING RAISINS, THEY._ CERTARLY ARE 2 BEST 1 EVER. AT e |, KNOW WMAT Il DO ILL GET A ey have plied the rural and in- he COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM (NEW YORK HERALD C0) WX+ will be more favored than any * he | & o OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS * | By A. J. Waterhouse . : - T SIMPLE COMMUTATION LIFE. HY do people live in the great, W bustling, noisy, heartless city when they can just as well dwell across the bay and commute, you know? There they can have a little home, with a little garden, and raise their own little vegetables for their neighbor’s little hens, and—aAbh, it is the ideal existence, and when I am away from it I never think of it save with a filmy veil of longing dimming my eyes. to employ labor and pay wages | ships to carry it to market. The y from producer to consumer. ally a non-competitive price for | n ship that gets its share of that nnage flying the American flag is and going from the city, to which Germany some erring mortals object, they are nothing after one has got used to them, and anybody can get used te them if he tries hard enough and Fves iong enough. It is but-to hang to a strap on a street car fiftéen minutes, if you can get the strap; ride twenty minutes on a boat, a half-hour on a train, then get off and walk seventeen blocks, more or less, to your home, and—there you are! Nothing could be more sim- ple. AR, the recollection of those com- mutation days, how it does haunt and hold one! And how the pictures of the dear old scenes are painted upon the walls of memory! You are about to start on your daily trip from your simple, happy home, and your Joving wife is right on hand to supervise the proceedings. “Well, good-by, dear,” you say your thoughtless, insouciant manner. American lake. This boast will , and our own will be as rarely to be’invaded and Castro over- It comes in to satisfy the of wars that was aroused by the : n Good-by, and—oh, yes!—you won't n China have all passed, and the |forget- that toilet soap, will you, George?” “Certainly not. Good b—" thanks to American diplomacy, whhia Cearge; ADRE Sor MRy HITg: ToF: get the six yards of ribben to match the sample I gave you.” “All right. Goo—" “And, George; you know what that string is tled on your finger for, don't you?” “Sure! TIt's to—to—it's to—it's to make me wonder what in thunder it is’for, anyway.” “Now, George! That's just what I thought. Well, will you remember now. that it is to make ‘you remember that rew kind of breakfast food?” “Sure. Well, good b—" . “And, George, don’t fail to call up Mrs. Smith and tell her that I can't] possibly go with her tomorrow.” “All right. Now I really must—" “And, George, be sure that you—' But just then your train whistles and you are compelied to run for it, and the last words that ypu hear from your loving wife as you turn the corner, are these: “And, George—" three ships, to chase the monkey If such a filibustering adventure by revolution, and like his great tator, has accumulated the mil- they get enough money to sup- Blanco went there As for the daily trips in coming to —3 turn Back to these happy scenes! Some written, I fear that some devoted com- people might think that such scenes| muter may find treason in them and would be 4 @rawback to -the ‘com- |read them with swelling indignation; muter’s tranquil existence, but they are | so I hasten to'‘explain that when I have nothing—absolutely nothing—when amy choice I always select the com- man has learned-to ferget all of his | muter's simple life. It may have its wife's errands with a light heart and a | slight infelicities, but I prefer to dwell smiling countenance. where there are more signs of God and Now that the foregoing words are{less of man; where my next door neighbor knows whether I was burled G ———-———————F | yesterday or still live; where I do not MIRROR OF FASHION. have to consult an almanac to know that there is a moon, and where men do not blush if they unexpectedly are caught at their best. Believe me, this is why this Jittle commutation panegyric has been “writ- ten. Like many of the rest of you who are not wedded to noise and tur- moil, I want to be a commuter and with commuters stand, a string upon my finger and twelve packages in hand. HE WENT SINGING ON HIS WAY. I knew a man who went his way Cheerily, oh, so cheerily, Though the road was rough and the sky loomed gray, Drearily, oh, so dresrily Yet ever he sang one low. sweet song, Like a note of cheer for the busy throng, And the world grew glad as he jogged along, Cheerily, oh, 5o cheerily! “Hope, hope—it liveth still, Though the play is ended: It shall greet us o'er the hill Where our steps have trended.’ Though the clouds the sun did fiout, Tearlly, oh, so tearily, Yet his song of haope rang out Cheerily, oh, so cheerily. Still his song rang clear and sweet, Tenderly, Dh, so tenderly, Though the chasm missed his feet Slenderly, oh, o slenderly. Yet his song was sweet and clear, And men paused that song to hear, Ringing like & note of cheer, Tenderly, ch, so tenderly. A NEW SPRING REEFER. HE reefer loses none of its popularity \vith the open- ing of the .new season, for the highest class lines are all displaying it in a varlety of rr : materials. Scotch tweéeds of R e St S, loose, open .weave, light in And its bright, fmmortal shade welght, but affording all neces- 5 sary warmtnh, seem to be the favorites, and with a good pat- tern and the proper material, the work of making one of these little reefers is compara- tively easy. The body is cut to hang quite loose from the shoulder to well over the hips, from which point the jaunty little pleated skirts spring out sq prettily. Deep pockets, with square corncred flaps, are set Greets us o'er the river. Thus he sang till shone Jife Slenderly, oh, so slenderly; Then who doubts One lifted him Tenderly, oh, so tenderly? ~ IN THE RAILROAD OFFICE. Subofdinate—There has been a terrible accident on the line. Scores of people were killed, other scores were sorely in- Jjured, and— Head official—Issue a bulletin at once slim either side §pf the double- announcing that all trains will be on breasted front. There is no time, and, above all— trimming, simply thé heavy “Yes, above all?” machine stitching as a finish for all edges. ~A- saucy little sailor with ribbon rosette and quill completes the costume. “See that the facts are concealed from the public.” e “As usual in such cases?” S e i o e Sy SRR THE SMART SET = | By Sally Sharp = THE Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bertram Lister will give a musical reading of Mrs. Lister’s comic opera, “The King of Spades,” next Sunday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, before the Sequoia Club. Mrs. Lister will be assisted in receiv- ing by Mrs. Thomas Morffew, Mrs. Louis H. Long and Mrs. Ella Sexton. The dramatis personae will consist of Alfred Cogswell, barytone; R. W. Jones, basso: A. E. McMillan, tenor; and Mrs. Lister, soprano, with Leo Bruck conducting the orchestra. * 9 s Mrs. Lee Sloss and Miss Amy Sloss will be at home tomerrow at their home on Franklin street. - R Mrs. Margaret J. Scooffy entertained at a luncheon at her home on Taylor street Yesterday, her guests including Mrs. Mary A. Hart, Mrs. M. F. Gam- midge and Major Horace A. Bell. s o o The announcement of Dr. Washington Dodge's engagement to a fair Gotham- ite is causing a bit of pleasurable ex- citement. Mrs, Ruth Brown, the fian- cee, is the daughter of Rabbi Vidaver, who was well known in this city a decade ago as the rabbi of the Taylor- street synagogue. Since the demise of Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown has made her home in London with an occasional visit to San Fran- cisco, where she has been very popu- lar among the musical and art set. The wedding will take place in New York, after which Dr. Dodge will re- turn here with his bride and establish a home on Presidio Terrace. P Mrs, Hermann Oelrichs has arrived in New York after the last two months spent upen the Pacific Coast. e e e Miss Jane Green and Orville Brown- ing Carroll will hormrrhd on May 3 in St. Mary’s Church, Greenwich, Cann., Archbishop Riordan of this city to offi- clate. & e William Norman Guthrie, A. M., will give an. address today in Trinity Church, Bush and Gough streets, upon “Shakespeare and Our Times.” The lecture will be heid at 4 o'clock and is under the patromage of the Bishop of California. « s = Mrs. Burton Harrison, who is In Europe, will return to Bar Harbor in May to remain the summer. Her son, Francis Burton Harrison, in New York. is BT et Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huse (Juanita Wells), are in Paris and among other Californians recently registered in that city are Mz. and Mrs. C. C. Cunningbam (May Mott Smith). " e e Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wright (Isa- belle Lathrop) bave taken apartments 4t the Gables for the summer. e AR Miss Mary Carrick left last evening with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Carriek, for New York em route for Europe, where she will tour in concert and lycnd two years in the study of musi¢ in Germany. g owiN " Mies Elsa Draper leaves today with her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Laighton, for New York, where she will remain for six months. Colonel and Mrs. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper are planning to spend the early summer at their coun- try home in Oregon, after which they will ‘probably make a brief visit to Europe, taking Miss Elsa and Miss Dorothy with them. B Tt S R, AS WE THINK, S0 WE ARE. | By Angela Morgan. WISH every worker might read l Morgan Robertson’s article on self- hypnosis in the current number of the Critic. The writer has pointed out with great clearness how a worker may become hypnotized into believing any sort of detrimental thing about himself simply through the suggestions given him—directly or telepathically— by other persons. He has shown how a man's abilitles may become restricted, his habits spoiled, his health injured or his pros- pects ruined, simply through an idea that is impressed upon his mind at a time when he is particularly suggesti- ble. This idea, the writer contends, be- comes an agtual obsession, to escape from which the victim should “trace out and run down to its source every telepathic thought that has affiicted him, every harmful suggestion siven him, and offset these influences by in- telligent counter-suggestions.” The drink habit, as indulged by lit- eray men laboring under the delusion that they cannot write well without stimulants, is distinctly shown to be the result of self-hypnosis. Whereas the article is' written par- ticularly for authors and other creative workers, the principles set forth in it are, I believe, applicable to the prob- lems of every human being. It is my cenviction that not alone in the ranks of authors, artists and the like do we find examples of self-hyp- nosis, but that every member of the human family who is the victim of In- jurious habits, or who suffers from in- harmony, unhappiness, disease or nom- success, is In the grip of an obsessing jdea. -And I believe such idea can be removed by the person himself: that through his intelligent and repeated use of powerful counter-suggestions he can conquer the ideas or beliets which hamper and torment him. 1 believe that none of us is as much the victim of actual limitations and deficien- cies as he is of harmful beliefs and ideas. We hypnotize ourselves into belleving we are restricted by such and such condi- tions; that we are handicapped by certain inherited traits; that we are kept from achievement because of environment or training, or lack of natural aptitude for the work lying nearest—the work im- peratively ours to do. In our blindness many of us shift the blame upon fate or luck, complaining bit- terly of the weaknesses, deficiencies and handicaps with which nature has cursed us. We forget to look for the cause in ourselves, and do not seéthat in our own erroneous bellefs injure our lives and the lives of those about us. We would help ourselves and others greatly if we would stop talking about failure, weakness, limitation, and em- phasize their oppesites in thought and speech. For certainly if we can hypno- tize ourselves to believe we are il!, or un- happy, or unsuccessful, or that we are the slaves of harmful habits, we can just as easily “hypnotize’” ourselves into desir- able conditions. s That is, if wrong suggestion has wrought havoe in our lives, right sugges- tion will work beauty, harmony, health and success. ONCLE BIFFS OB"FRVATIONS = Y ginger, Doc Tweezer u in Cleveland sex he wish th” milk man "ud quit fallin® off his back perch nights. Sez he wears glass heels on his boots, so’s ye know he's comi: ‘When he comes up th' str every mornin’ 'bout three you'd think a cyclone hed hit a biler .| factry! — Cleveland Plain Dealer. -— % ANSWERS TO QUERIES. DISTANCE—Subscriber, City. The distance from San Francisco to Callao minds is the energy that will free us from | is 4012 miles. the “conditions” that enslave us. 1 have no doubt, if we could trace back to their respective beginnings the various evils and limitaticns that afflict us, we should be amazed to find a large number of them are directly due o the false sug- gestions others have given us or that we have given ourselves, suggestions ‘which %ve, ignorant of our own dominlon, have PROTECTING QUAIL—Hunter, éity. The game laws of the United States show that quall Is protected in every State and Territory except Alaska. - DEER—Hunter, City. Deer is pro- tected by general ldw in every State and Territory except Delaware, Kansas and Louisiana. In the last two named permitted to dominate our thoughts, and | States, local laws govern. hence control our lives. 1 believe even our traits of mind and character are frequently established im this way. If a child is repeatedly In- formed that he is stupld he soon finds it impossible to be anything else. If he is told that he is fll-tempered and bad, he will become ill-tempered and bad. As we think, sp we are. It would je well for us all to ask our- selves just how far we are letting our FERNS-—Reader, City. No I'p‘c“ of fern has a flower. The fern is repro- duced by means of spores which are borne usually on the under side of the leaflets, but sometimes make up the whole stalk. HOURI—Z. X. Y. City. Among the Mohammedans, a houri is a nymph of paradise. These beautiful beings are represented in the Koran as formed of “Yes, as usual.” a constitutionally elected Government. But the trouble is their lack | An, now #he haunting memory does ' oo ————s of intelligent comprehension of civics,and of the relations of orderly s KA and honest government to their own prosperity. The country is one | of the richest in South America, but its people fear to convert its remarkable resources into wealth, because it excites the cupidity of robbers like Blanco and Castro, who by revolution get power to confiscate what others have accumulated. What Venezuela needs is a good and lawful thrashing by some outside power like France. This would shake the people into_their senses and they would not further tolerate the system of brigandage called government under which they have suffered for fifty years. A filibustering invasion will do them more harm than good, since, being an invasion by predatory foreigners, it will rouse their patri- otic resistance and only help Castro or another like him to continue the tragedy of misgovernment. A legal whipping will produce the opposite effect, for it will be recognized as a just punishment for the monkey shines of the bandit President. musk dweliing in pavilions of pearl. To each falthful Mohammedan seventy- two of these are assigned, besides the wives Who belong to him on earth. THE AFRICAN RAILROAD-A. S8, Oakland, Cal. To obtain such informa- tion as you desire about the African rail- road you will have to address a letter of inquiry to the company’s office at Cape- town. Up to date the road is completed about 1500 ‘miles north from Cairo and 1200 from Capetown south, with 3000 miles to finish. ——— -Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candies in artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market. * e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Cl Bureau (Allen's), 30 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ —— e ~ Appropriate to the joyous spirit off and- 5 Hon. Chauncey M. Depew can go anywhere now without his visit being suspected of having any political significance.—Chicago Tribune: e e A Western contemporary says “women will rule this country.” That “will” is certainly superfluous—New York Herald |