The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1906, Page 8

JOHN McNAUGHT. PUBLICATION OFFICE. ANOTHER FINE BUSINESS WEEK. the we was the fine t a num t the bu »sperit ted the of 2 . statistics bank ¢ Co: es. ories are sending n New 6 per cent ion w ¢ ng an easier « g gold imports Stocks, of course, 10ney r well nese boyc nels ies, and all were flattering. wdition as 91.2, against Qo last year, and a ten-year aver- 1d said that only one State w. it the great wheat State of Kansas promised to break | The weather over the cotton belt, too, was much better | ral preceding weeks, and there was less pessimism | 1S leading Crop. it is the crops more than anything else which impart t ness feeling throughout the country seems to have them as its basis. | ast conditions show no material change. s is excellent and active, except in one or two lines, vhich has been seriously suffering from the effects of tt. But numerous reports through various chan- ndicate that the boycott is dying out, and, in fact, | AST week was another excellent one in trade. The improved tted an uninterrupted movement in general mer- i the result was at once apparent in an expansion ge spring business. -k, and one which imparted confidence to the xhibit of the winter wheat crop. The 1st of 1ber of crop reports and estimates from well- Snow, the statistician, Another au- below go. ok is as brilliant as at present the stimulus to All other considerations, even tight money bances, are outweighed in the long run by ) the present excellent crop outlook, then, nism prevailing from one coast to the| | 1 fiirm the cheerfulness inspired by the crop rings for the week again rag up over $3,000 vhole country was 4.3 per cent over last and South sending in the highest per- nues to lead with an increase of 54.8 per cent, 7 per cent, Los Angeles 235.9 per cent, Tacoma per cent, and so on. vo exceptions, showed an increase, but they were ) 10 per cent average, though the iron and steel exhibited 30.1 per cent. st 232 last year, while the failure record for 1e year was the very best for the first quarter in the liabilities averaging only 81 cents on each pavments through the clearing houses. The Atlantic Coast The failures for the The rail- st 886,000 last year. | strikes are showing but little effect on busi the New York Stock Exchange and in those | They were discounted several weeks in the outcome of the controversy is perceptibly | in good reports, and lumber and ions now current all over the country. rkets of New York and Boston have experienced he past week. suddenly rose to 18 per cent, on Thursday rther advance to 30 per cent, while 31 per cent was day, with frequent feverish fluctuations, running On that day $1,000,000 was loaned at 23 per i somewhat relieved, however, by the re- the Bank of England’s discount rate from 4 to 3} per oney market in London, while rumors | lent re thrown into more or less confusion ey, and went up and down abruptly and sharply rate declined or advanced. 1s, however, and the stock market weathered the | On Wednesday the rate for further encouragement to the There were no Business in letters received in San Francisco from China during the week said t full co: resumed W hin thirty days. mercial relations with the United States would probably If this proves true there will prob- ably be a revival in the flour trade, and the many mills now shut down m ay start up again. here is no change in the money situation on this coast. We have all the money we need, and it is a question whether we have not more than is good for us. For that matter, even in New York, when call money was scarce at 30 per cent, the statement came through from that metropolis that the only stringency was in call loans, and that time money was plentiful enough. Collections are good all over the coast, there have been no large failures for some time, real estate and building continue extremely active, the crop prospects, as far as grain is concerned, are ideal, and we are still cheerfully bowling along over a smooth and sunny commercial sea. ARMY AND NAVY DESERTIONS. SR S— P effective remedy for the method of escape from duties assumed at enlistment. timen UBLIC condemnation of the act of desertion from the United States army or navy is said by high authority to be the only prevalence of that dishonorable Public sen- ment at present is said to rather favor than condemn a soldier who deserts in time of peace, and Secretary Taft and Admiral Converse | ¢xpress the view that it is a cause of desertion. and It appears the War Navy Departments are powerless to keep down the large percentage of desertions unless the public assists in apprehending de- serters and puts the ban of public disapproval on such acts'of dis- Joyalt Something, however, is to be said on behalf of a discontented soldier. With the increasing prosperity of the country in nearly every branch of industry, it seems reasonable that there should be <0 increase in the wages of those who are expected to keep them- es ‘in-training and to hold themselves in readiness to fight for i v. To pay the soldier $13 per month seems a studied ay of keeping ambitious men from entering the service. When so many better rewards are offering all around him the soldier is likely to feel himself little more than a slave on such wages. It was General Sherman who said you could hardly expect to get men with all the, cardinal virtues for $13 per month. Ten per cent of the men who now enlist in the army or the navy prove contract-breakers. In the event of sudden war that ten per cent of discontented element might prove a very costly weak- ing of the service. ment of e ter Efforts are being made to improve the con- soldiers by having libraries, reading-rooms, lunch- rooms, amusement-rooms and gymnasiums provided at army posts. For that purpose $2,000,000 has been expended, and additional ap- propr but it should be accompanied by a more generous pay. ions are being asked. That is a very desirable improvement, As the country advances in prosperity the soldier must get his share of the forward movement if we expect him to stay content. A Boston physician solemnly asserts that you can get a skate on by Philadeiphia Press. ling the fumes of gasoline. To be explicit, a sort of automobile jag!— —— A bill has been introduced into Congress “to purify water.” Oh, pshaw! Let's purify something that we drink.—Atlanta Journal. | | | i h were 6.9 per cent larger than for the cor-| in 1903, and the exports of wheat last week were | | | staples show no marked change from the conditions | 1. Provisions rule firm, the wool and hide markets} lition for producers and sellers, the iron and s active, dairy products are high and in un- nt for this time of the year, the textile and s are notably brisk, owing to the remarkable | ) | apprentice he rapidly mounted the lad- | | Castle I was charmed with the modest THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL MONDAY, APRIL 9, 190€. COPYSIGHT, 158, OY THE REW 10RX 2 ' Noted Men | Have BY THE INTERVIEWER. Never Interviewed NDREW CARNEGIE is the bon- A niest (two n's, please) son of bonny Scotland. He was born in | Dunfermline, Fifeshire, in 1837, and dis- | covered America in 1848, claiming all | that section of Pensylvania adjecent to | and including Pittsburg by right of | discovery. Beginning life as a weaver’s | der of fame, landing a good job as a | messenger boy for a telegraph company | three years later. | His experience while acting In the capacity of messenger boy imbued him with the desire to establish circulating [ librarfes throughout the world and in portions of Scotland. | Out of his first year's salary as mes- senger boy be purchased a large steel rolling mill near Pittsburg. He became the leading roller of the country. What he didn’t know about steel couldn’t be learned by close perusal of the Con- gressional Record. He wes the first to introduce the Bessemer process in this country. He made a very great deal of money, so much so that he finally found it convenient to retire and give | the rest of us a chance. Mr, Carnegie lives in a magnificent castle called Skibo (pronounced Skidoo) in Scotland, but he votes the Repub- lican ticket in this country. There was no one at home when I crossed the thistle patches that grew ever and anon among the heather sur- rounding Skidoo Castle. “Hoot, man,” said I, pounding on the big front door. “Is Andee in?” “Abide a wee an’ we'll see,” answered a Scotch highball voice. I was told that he was out in the| world somewhere distributing libraries to unread people. “Is it a fact, Andy, that your one great desirs is to die poor? If it is, I should like to observe that I have a large-handled wheelbarrow backed up to the castle door, though that isn't what I came here to observe. Far be it from such.” “Ah, weel, mon, Aye meet as weel tell ve. Aye ha' been misquoted. I dinna ken whee a mon need be asheemed to ha’ plenty o' money all the time.” “How many libraries have you given away?” “A very greet mony. Aye meet as weel tell ye that Aye hoold th’ deemond- studded beelt as th’ champeen giver of leebraries in th’ woorld.” “Is It true that it i{s more pleasant to give than receive?’ I asked. “Eet is—when ye ha’ all ye want. Wheen ye ha' noot, eet is na sa ex- heelerating.” As my eyes wandered over Skidoo manner in which it was furnished with all the comforts and luxuries that cash down could buy. There wasn't a pic- ture from the magazine section of a Bundays newspaper on any of the walls and the laundryman called at the castle e e S . ONLY A TEAR. +$ while I was there, which refutes the base rumor that the washing is done at home every Monday. I saw no loose change lying around, but the surround- ings convinced me that Mr. Carnegie must be a very wealthy man. “Ah, weel, must ye be a-going? But I"that's the wee o' the woorld—here to- day and Coom aroond some leebrary on me."” I thanked him and told him I was well supplled with literature—that our library at home had all the interesting books of the day, including the revised city ordinances, Webster Davis’ “Ac- count of the Boer War” and the “True Btory of the Life of Lydia Pinkham."— Chicago Journal. Maria Mitchell’s Beer. Professor Maria Mitchell, the noted as- tronomer, was once ordered lager beer by her physician as a tonic. On the way to visit her sister, Mrs. Joshua Kendall of Cambridge, she stopped at a grog shop (it was before the no-license regime) and bought a bottle of beer, which she asked her brother-in-law to open for her. The Mitchell family, says the Boston Herald, spoke the “plain” language among’ themselves. “Where'dld thee get it, Marl tioned her sister. “At the saloon on the corner,” replied Miss Mitcheli, serenely. “Why, Marfa! Doesn’t thee know re- spectable women don't go Into such een Noo Jersey tomorrow. day and ha' a ques- sald Miss Mitchell, in the manner of one who has done all that could be re- quired, “I told the man he ought to be thoroughly ashamed”of his traffic.” e R Pardoned. “Who is that distinguished-looking man?” asked the stranger. “Dat man saved me a good deal of trou- ble once,” replied the man on the corner. “He Interrupted me in de middle of a sentence, and—"" “Ah, I see. You were going to say something improper and—"" “Naw! I wuz in de penitentiary an’ he “Oh! Herbert, I'm sure I felt a rain_drop.” “Nonsense, darling; we are un- der the weeping willow.” wuz Governor of de State at de time.”— Philadelphia Ledger. When He Got Even. Mrs. Wiggs—I can’t imagine what you can see to laugh at in this rough weather, John. Mr. Wiggs—Oh, it's nothing. I was only thinking of your mother waiting for us at the corner, that's all.—Pick-Me-Up. AT . G An Insinuation. “Don’t you think Ethel s complexion has greatly improved since sne took up physi- cal culture?” “Yes. I understand she has changed drug stores.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, Putting Him Wise. Senfor > photographer)—Which way shall I turn my eye? Photographer—Toward that sign, please. (Sisn reads: ‘“Terms cash.”)—Cornell Widow. A= -44 1) THATS NEAR THAT | - (IDREAM OF THE JRAREBIT IGET AT THOsE (MEZSE VATS! GET AT £M FIRST! We GREAT scaTT M (OVERED Iwith CHEESE 2% 2 — <= 'EVENING TELEGRAM (NEW YORX HERALD COJ WERE T00. HoW waitt e eveR G 1047 08 WERE | (anT Byocs OCCIDENTAL ||| Gefting Up Good Natured. | ACC’DENTALS ‘ 4 BY DOROTHY FENIMORE. + BY A. J. WATERHOUSE | N - ALFALFA PHILOSOPHY. O, I can’t say ’at I think any man N deserves ’'ternal punishment, but I've saw some cases where 1 jedged ‘at a million years or so wouldn't be fur frum right. The wisdom ’at comes with age may be a good thing to have, but I've saw lots of it that would have ben willin' to trade "bout a carload of itself for jest one of the red an’ glitt'rin’ times that makes of youth one hilarious tarararaboomdeay. Firs' a man an’ woman go a-strayin’ an’ pickin’ the posies in the fleld of evil together, an’ then she pays the penalty fur both, w'ile the man cultivates a inno- eent jook. - Course I ain’t kickin’. Why should I? TI'm a man, an' git the benefit of the systim, don’t 12 As I understand it, the decision of the court wus that Henry H. Rogers would have to ans'er them lawsuit questions— 'fore the jedgment bar o' the Almighty, an’ prob’ly not this side of that. Lots o’ ortomobile owners wouldn't reely need a chawfer ef 'twan’t 'at they have to have somebody ter be arrested an’ pay the fines. The Elder couldn’t git Sister Blinks to Jine the church till one day he happened to menshun that Heaven's the greatest bargain counter ever offered to suff'rin’ humanity. She jined the next Sunday. The youth that, at twenty, knows more'n hig father does, frequently knows a dern sight less 'an the old gentleman when an- other ten or a dozen years has rolled ‘round. A WOMAN THERE WAS. A woman there Was in the bloom of youth— Ah and ah ame! but the price we pay! Who listened to lies and esteemed them truth— And the knave and the woman may meet alway— So she bartered her soul for a long, long Kiss— Ah, for the kisses, and, oh, for their paini— And she sank to the depths with a sigh of bliss— i For why should we wWeep when the tears are vain? And ever and ever it runs this way; The man may flatter; the woman must pay, And the day of woe s aTong, long day, As those in the depths malntain. The man went his way, and he heeded no whit— ‘What would you have? A man is a man— And his name in the circles exclusive was writ— Give thanks as you must for Soclety’s plan— But the woman, God help her, sank lower and low— for the woman! Ab, The price she must And her sisters were shocked at her conduct, I trow— How cholce 1s Soclety’s way! . ' But thus it has been since woman and man First noticed a primrose, admiring its plan, And gathered a few On the path, as it ran Close unto the Slough of Dismay. | Now I don’t say-a word for the scandalous ones ‘When I feel that we all should condemn, For theirs is a course that my rectitude shuns, And I am not constructed like them; But I'd like to suggest, when & Woman goes wrong— /Tis s fact you may mever have known— ‘When she picks a few posies while straying along, She rarely goes sinning &lone. 7 ‘ And it justice were justice, as tis not today, Both the man and the woman for pleasure ‘would pay, And she wouldn't weep while he sneaked away, And lert her their guilt to atone. " “The poor girl had a great longing to be considered fine-looking and attractive.” “How do you know?” “Why, she left a note saying that she committed suicide so that the newspapers ‘would be certain to describe her once as a ‘beautiful young woman.' " “It is a sad case. They were engaged, but the engagement has been broken.” ““What was the cause?” “In an evil hour she sung to him, and, unfortunately, he possesses an ear for music.” “He asserted that man fiay live for- ever, without the change which we <L ey | \F { woman regarding marriage. suceinct bit of wisdom involved in Punchs “Don’t!” up to the care- fully con- sidered and p o n derous books of sen timen- talists and s c 1 entists, when the time comes the man and woman gO and MAarry as they will, and not as s o mebody else would have them. It was probably intended it should be that way, or it would not happen so often. But of all the gifts the advice offered to ecither man or From that into the wedded state the most valuable single accomplishment probably is that of waking up in the morning—and every morning—good-natured. It is not -even outweighed by what seems to be a much larger and more inclusive gift, that of a good disposition. that either bride or bridegroom can "bring’ H | natured more rare among women EW things in this world make so; For it is doubtful if anybody has a really little difference to those involved as good disposition who has to spend an hour or two on arising in getting himself straight with the world; or whether any- { body who starts the day right every day can be divested of a good disposition. Certainly to get up with a smile means ! exactly the same thing as being well dis- posed toward the world and its inhabi- tants, while wakening with a frown means just the other thing It seems to be more or less true that women weep more often in their sleep than men, and that men laugh more often in their sleep than women. This appears to be true of boys and girls as well as of grown folk. Women weep more than men in a waking state, and men probably laugh more than women also, which would be the easlest way of accounting for a similar state of affairs in slumber. But it makes the gift of rising good- tnan among men, one would suppose, for the entirely obvious reason that laughter con- duces to joy more than tears. To awaken with a smile, to begin the day with a laugh, to dress in good spirits iand eat one's breakfast in joyous com- panionship, to w! le and sing on the way to work—is there anything more likely to conquer the world? To arise with a scowl, to hate one's bath, and the donning of one’s clothing, to =it silent and solitary at breakfast, to grouch all the way downtown—is thers anything that better deserves to lose ons's friends, family and home? ‘Whether getting up good-natured can be cultivated or not I do not know; but if it can be, it certainly deserves to be. —_— - Answers fo Queries. HARMONICS—N., Virginia City, Nev. Harmonics are taught and played on the ‘mandolin. WESTERN PACIFIC—F. J., Clipper Gap, Cal. A person seeking employment with the Western Pacific Rallway Com- pany should send application to the gen- eral office, San Francisco, and it will be referred to the proper department. | ARITHMETIC-A Subscriber, City. Your question as to how much a cer- tain party would gain by a change of date in a lease is eme of simple arith- metic, a class of questions that this de- partment does not answer. PRESIDENT—J. G. G, City. The President of the United States is not elected by direct vote. The voters cast their ballots for electors, who in turn cast theirs for the candidate they rep- resent, but there is nothing to prevent the electors from casting their ballot for any one they desire. TWO FALLS—A Subscriber, Ouakland, Cal. At the falls of the Niagara River, twenty-two miles from Lake Erfe, the river has a breadth of 4750 feet, but its center is occupled by Goat Island, con- taining about seventy-five acres. In con- name dying, if he has faith enough, and I think he would have demonstrated the truth of his assertion if something unfortunate had not happened.” “What was t?” - “He died.” “That seems to disprove the truth of his theory, does It not?” “Oh, me. It merely shows that he didn’t have faith enough.” “He must be a man of the very highest education.” “Yes? What makes you think so?” “Why, he uses none but the very choicest English. “Unfortunately, I do not know him. Could you give me an filustration?” “Certainly. For instance{ if he were in- troduced to you he would not say, ‘I am glad to meet you'; instead he would re- mark, ‘It affords me unspeakable pleasure thus to be precipitated into congenjal ap- proximation with you.' Dom't you recog- nize that he must be highly educated?” “Either that, or a lingual fool.” AR A S S R R O P e R RS ool SRS S5 B or 8. S A The Modernist. This world gets better year by yeary Philosophers have made it clear. Its chief defect of old, you see, ‘Was lack of folks ltke you and me. ‘With men like us to make it move The world is certain to Improve. —Washington Star. ———p sequence of a bend in the channel by far the large portion of the water is sent down by the Canadian side. The breadth of the Canadian side, about 2300 feet, is increased by an upward bend in its line, On that side is the grandest ecataract, which was named “Horseshoe Fall." This fall is about 150 feet in height. The Victoria Fall on the Zambesi River is 400 feet deep, bounded by perpendftular walls of basalt, and is less than 200 feet in width. As to which of these twe falls is the grandest is like beauty in woman, a matter of individual opinton. —_—— Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candies In_ artistic fire- etched boxes. New store, 767 Market, * Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 20 ¢oir fornia street. Telephone Maln 1042. » T00 BAD. Soak—Do- you know. old chap, T don't :p:n‘: as much money now as before I was mar- ried? Swornoff—How’s that? Soak—Well, I don't get ft spend. - 4 »