The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1906, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL . +. . Proprietor ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THIRD AND MARKET STREETS, BAN FRANCISCO ...APRIL 12, 1906 THURSDAY interests United States are stand- ding, those of our maritime rivals are Since The Call's recent reference to yan to dominate the Pacific shipping States Consul Rogers of Shanghai has Shanghai gives evidence of Japanese ac- ) control the deep water commerce of the | nt at Shanghai formerly owned by the | mpany has been bought by the Nippon any. It is now fitted with a long line and to which is a constant stream of rers of light draft that easily pass se river steamers are taking all the trade ere is a weekly Japanese steamer service » Kobe and Shanghai as the terminals. The Kobe and Moji their great shipping ports, with g base. They are getting ready to put on a lian ports, running via Hongkong and Aus yards are all crowded with work, building new ones and altering the large number taken as zes in t war. The great maritime companies of Japan heir purpose to reach every seaport of importance i by the Pacific Ocean. Taking all of these ce, the Consul says that there will be seen on the Japanese activity that will astonish the world. The { for service is enormous and the work goes | s are on every Chinese river. They con- , Soochow and Huchow, via the Whang- It is easy to see the advantage of con- erway commerce as a feeder to deep water le foréign Consuls in the United States their governments the decadence of American pearance of square-rigged ships, taking with them r training masters, officers and able seamen. Not ive in occupying the field we have left open. With n the Oriental side, we are also pressed from the line, long operated successfully on the At- rica, plying to Montevideo and Buenos ed to the West coast, touching at Valpa- Mexican ports and San Francisco. Imme- Swedish extension comes a new German line, Kosmos, to touch all ports on the Pacific side Of\ same time as the report of Consul Rogers of that of Consul Metcalf, from Newcastle-on-Tyne. He more tonnage building on the northeast coast : Last year added te the British register | steam and 60,000 sail tonnage, all new. At present the | ied with work that one large firm cannot book an- mmer of 1go7, and many others have ninc s’ building ahead. Lloyd’s reports now under con- ¢ three northern rivers 502,684 tons of shipping. United States Minister to Uruguay, for- department a table showing the amount and char- tonnage employed between Europe and the river Plata | oved between the United States and the Plata. In that are seventeen British companies, five German, two 1, two Spanish; Swedish, Dutch and Austrian one The most of our trade with the goes from New York, Boston and Philadelphia ing the Atlantic twice between its terminals. »anding so rapidly that the Congress of Argentina ous sums in increasing seaport facilities to accom- is building a canal to overcome the obstruction to f the Parana at low water and increase the shipping of vans, director of the American Commercial Museum in isco, recently spent several months on the West coast of g the needs of our trade there. Mr. Mans- es Consul at Valparaiso, reports Mr. Evans as hat city: “Present methods of transportation and on American goods to foreign countries leave much There is discrimination against us by those who con- ht rates of foreign going vessels, which is seriously nany American interests, especially in South Ameri- ) that the subsidized European lines favor the com- own flag at the expense of ours. It is not a stimulant erican pride to read of the shipping and shipbuilding activity going on all over the world, except in our own country, and ly our pride but our pocket nerve is touched when we are told to competing points is discriminated against by the upon which we are entirely dependent for transporta- It would seem that we might risk a few millions in trying to i an American merchant marine. studyi FOOD PRESERVATIVES. OISON squad is the name given to the band of young men of whom Dr. Wiley of the United States Agricultural Department makes use for the purpose of investigating the effects of chemi- ves put into foods. “Try it on the dog” seems an out- formula now, at least it is insufficient for the proofs sought he Bureau of Chemistry. Thé evil of food adulterants is too btle to be detected by experiments on dogs who can make no in- eports of the injuries to their stomachs. So a number of 1 who have passed civil service' examinations volunteer for a few weeks and to note the progress of slow their systems. mination of the effects of small quantities of preservatives systematically. Healthy young men use the chemicals in food in the same minute quantities as are commercially em- For instance, one test is 7% grains of borax per day. The effect took some time to show on these strong young men, but after fifteen or twenty days the symptoms showed the borax ad- mixture was not wholesome. The men experienced loss of appetite, headaches and general depression and debility. One explanation of the ill effects is that the human body is ar- ranged to do a certain amount of normal work. When you change the normal food by the chemical addition of these preservatives you P T Sunflower Philosophy T_. out of. Every dull day we long to be a store- keeper. Women have a terrible time keeping a good preacher. . ‘When you are mad all the way through, leave your pistol at home, Great things can't be very difficult or an ordinary man couldn’'t accomplish them. Some way, there is a general smile in a restaurant when a man orders a cup of tea. If you think you have great strength of character try to stop talking too much. Women say they dislike the “dry emoks” some men affect more than any other kind: It's a good thing we don’t carry a club, like a policeman; we couldn't resist the temptation to use it occasionally. Get a man interested in a garden, and you do more for him than you can hope to do by building him a modern tene- ment. ‘When father gets his slippers on, how it does Irritate him when the door bell warns the family that company’s coming! There are ten in an Atchison family, and, if they were kittens, all of them ex- cept the mother and one boy would be drowned. As goon as a woman discovers that h}r husband's love for her has grown coid she begins to go through his pockets at night to find the reason. An Archison woman married an out-of- town man who calls himself a bacteriolo- gist, but her kin in telling what he is are a little mixed and say he is a bacchana- lian. You can always tell the mood of the whistling fellows. If they are feeing good they whistie a lively tune, but if they are feeling tough they whistle a slow, sober tune.—Atchison, Kan., Globe. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. DIVORCE—C. 8., Healdsburg, Cal. The grounds for divorce in California are: Cruelty, desertion one year, neglect one year, babitual drunkenness one year, felony. SQUARE MILE—MILE SQUARE—-A Subscriber, Pleasantoni, Cal. There is no difference between a mile square and a square mile, each contains® 640 acres. There is, however, a difference between two miles square and two square miles. add a burden to functional activity which must be hurtful. In the very fact that each day’s injury is so slight as to be hardly percepti- ble there lies a subtle danger. People can thereby be made to pass to a lower condition of vitality without ever noticing nature’s wan} ing that something is going wrong. In bigger doses the poison, or the adulterant, would arouse attention, investigation, resentment and remedy. The injury by inches is-not noted promptly enough to intelligently conmect cause and effect. Even in the case of the less harmful preservatives the case is well put by Dr. Wiley when he says he does not believe a healthy organism will be permanently injured by eating cranberries with benzoic acid in them, but they would be more wholesome without it. Dr. Wiley also explains the great difference between the wholesome- ness of a substance elaborated by nature’s process and what is chem- ically the same thing but artificially inserted in the food. It is a good work—this systematic test, and the public will approve it. POPULATION-M. & M., City. On Jan- uary 1, 196, the population of Brooklyan was estimated to be 1,508,89l. That of Greater New York as follows: Manhat- tan, 2,112,637; Bronx, 271,629; Brooklyn, 1.- 358,801; Queens, 198,214; Richmond, 72,846, Total, 4,014,304 JAPAN—G., City. The latest statistics show that there are in Japan 52,600 who profess the Catholic religion, 25688 who belong to the Greek church, and 42278 Protestants. History say$ that at the close of the fifteenth century 70,000 Chris- There's a lot of foolishness to keep | F At o SR B AN i e SRS R S AN e S At S TN . i S 28 S S S e G 52 S S, S S S8 S, BRI S P AR — Fuee 2 TBEAL T s | @ @ TWO WISHES. * & | CAUGHT a glance from Jessie’s eyes, A glint of mischief meeting mine; She held a wishbone in her hand, And I obeyed the' daring sign. T also held a turquoise ring Within my mind, and hoped to say The words that burned within my heart To cause a change of name some day. She held the trophy out to me, I seized the gage ere she could wink; And broke it short; the while T felt The tremble of her hand, I think. She looked perplexed, somewhat chagrined, Then, smiling, archly made this cast: “Since you have won, now tell your wish, Or, forfeiting, you get yours last.” “I wished that one I love most dear Were surely mine, and loved me true; And that my love were near today, About as near as I to - you. “And that our lives could hold no more Than lasting joy of wedded bliss; And that today a promise would Be made and kept, sealed with a kiss. “Now, since my wish is truly told, To bring fulfillment on my head, Pray tell me yours.” Her eyes drooped: “Well! I wished your wish were mine,” she said. - —CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. L e T R e e . NOT ON EXHIBITION. Miss Julla Marlowe is so unusually gracious in yielding to the many de- mands that are made upon her time and patience, in the way of autographs, pho- tographs, interviews and the llke, that there is small wonder she Is not more frequently imposed upon than she is. Oc- castonally, however, there come remark- able requests at which even her good nature draws the line. Not long ago, while she was playing In Chicago, she received a note ‘containing a plea so startling as to be almost in- credible, and which was so amusing as to senad her into gales of laughter. It was from a feminine vocal teacher of the Windy City who stated that she lald great stress on her work, upon the for- mation of the throat in both the speaking and the singing voice, holding that cer- tain positions of the vocal chords are re- quisite for producing full, mellow tones. She went on to say that she had long been an ardent admirer of Miss Mar- lowe's voice, and requested that, as & spe- cial privilege, she be allowed to bring her class of young lady pupils to visit the actress, and let them look down her throat!—Success Magazine. EDITOR IS SORE. A man may use the mole on the back, of his neck for a collar button; he may ride a freight to save three cents a mile; he may light the lamp with a splinter to save matches; he may stop his watch at night to save wear; use a period for a semicolan to save ink, and pasture his grandmother’s grave to save hay; but a man of this kind is a scholar and a gen- tleman compared to a man who will take a newspaper and when asked to pay for it put it back in the postoffice marked “Refused.”—Okmulgee, L T., Democrat. COARSE WORK. They were having a hearing on the me- tric system before the House committee on coinage, weights and measures, says the Washington correspondent of the New York World. “Tell me,” said Representative .ush- man of Washington to a witnéss from the buredn of standards, “could one of you men take the little end of nothing ani whittle it down to such a fine peint that he could then take the hair of a mouse, push out the pith and use the cavity for a tube?” “SBure!” said the witness, enthusiasti- cally: “that would be coarse work for us.” —_————— HABIT OF YEARS. Mr. Reddevle—Here, James! Why didn’t You stop the auto when you saw me on the corner waving my hand to you? You looked directly at me and simply put on ::;g speed. What do you mean by it, Chauffeur—Beg your pardon, sir. It was force of habit. I used to be a mo- torman on a trolley car, sir.—Cleveland Leader. OVERPOWERING. Teacher—Here's a little sum in addition for you. If your father gave you 10 cents and your mother gave you 5, what would you then have? : Jimmy~—T'd bave a fit.—Chicago News. ——————— Townsend's California glace fruits and choicest candies In &ichied boxes. New store, 67 Markor § ———— information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the B R i OCCIDENTAL ACCIDENTALS By A. J. Watethouse. | SIS SIAERES CAUSE OF UNIVERSAL PRIDE. € {7 NOTICE,” sald the man from Bog Crick, “that John D. Rockefeller is itendin’ to come out to Call- forny to pass his reclinin’ years, an’ grad- ooally git used to the felic’ties of that heaven which, es is well understood, he's allers ben a prayerfully strivin’ for.” “Well, w'at of it?” the man from Var- mint Gulch inquired. “The State’s nailed down, ain't it, an’™—" “I know; I know all 'bout that, an’" 80 I ain’t objectin’ any. He's goin’ to have a home in Pasadeny, an'—" “W'at of it? Pasadeny’s nailed down, too, ain't 1t?” “Who sald 'twan't? Don’t I tell you I ain’t pertestin’? His home 'Il cost "bout $450,000, an’ it'll be a great comfort to folks jest to go an’ look at it frum the outside. They won't be a thing to hender even the humblest an’ lowliest frum gazin® all they want to. They'll view it with eyes beamin’ with the pride of par- shul ownership an’ with breasts heavin® with gratitude that they wus able to chip in’ an’ they’ll whisper low to theirselves: “‘Ain’t it grand! An’ to think that I helped to build it! Course I can't tell Jest zackly w’at part T o'nstructed, but it don't matter—no, it don't matter, fer 1 c'nstructed some of it. I s'pose I've bought 'nough oil, anyway, to make that cornish. An’ ain’t it magnificent? I don’'t reckon I ever c'mstructed a more han™- somer cornish than that. It's my chet doover, an' w'en I look at it an’ refiec’ that I built it easiern some men could make a cobhouse, an’ without It's strain- | in’ me hardly any ‘tall, my speerit is filled with pride for myself an’ I can't reely express my gratitood fer my ‘mazin’ gifts. Alas! my bee-oo-tiful cornish, me own loved cornish! Must I leave thee now, all mixed up like this with the contributions of other fellers that may never see the charmin' palace they ‘rected? But it shan’t be for long. Yea. it shan’t be fer long. Ev'ry little ‘while Tl stroll round here an' gaze upon thee, me own loved cornish.” “That's the way even the humblest an’ lowliest "Il talk to theirselves, an’ them's the sentiments of pride an’ gratitood with which they'll view that stately manshun. Prob’ly one feller ‘Il claim a cornish, an’ another a winder-frame, an’ another a docorknob, an’ so on, but the sentiment ot thankfulness 'll be the same in every case, fer even the poorest widder an’ the |° raggedest orfling can clalm anyways a nail or two. Ain’t it a noble thought? ‘What you think?” “I think,” the man from Varmint Gulch slowlf and deliberately remarked, “that you've been drinkin’ agin.” “They say that Dowie consoles himself, in the treatment he is now receiving, by reading the Scriptures.” z What does he find in the Scriptures to console him?"” “Matthew, v:12—'So persecuted they the prophets which were before you." ™ “But it doesn’t say anything about cap- turing the profits.”” “] know. That Is why Dowie contends that the present proceeding is unjustifia- ble.” USE OF THE KING. A traveler found In an ancient tomb, The bones of a king that were sans their clay— Time was when his nod brought joy or doom, But he eiept mid the stones, and was less than they. “Memento mori,” the traveler cried, And he took the skull—for it naught com- plained— And bore it over an ccean wide To a land unknown when the great king retgned. 'Twas a paper-weight first, this gaping skull, And it held the screed that a fool might write, Nor knew if the words wers bright or dull, Or if they rankled or gave delight. Then the children played with the grinning thing, Passing the hours of the merry day, And they laughed as they cried, ‘“Toss me the king' And :hgn_ at the last, it was thrown away, 1t you see the skull of that king today, The ekul! of the king who was proud and great, You must look in a heap of ash and clay, Where it molders still to its last esta! And perhaps when the ashman comes around, Merrily singing a song of mirth, A use for the king may at last de found In adding fertility unto the L'ENVOL Prince, who joy in the pride of place, Deeming your clay is somewhat rare; Princess, maid of the charming face, The pink, pink cheeks and the golden hair, Strange how the scenes of the drama shift— Under the clay Is the grinning skull— Strange, while the actors mistward drift, Tinsel of pride from such stuff we culll I DONT KNOW— But the best horse won the heat, but what made him lose the next two? But Mrs, Peachby is as mild as she looks, but what makes her husband ap- pear so subdued? But a title by marriage may be worth what some Americans pay for it, but I don't belleve you could prove it by the Gould family. But a pugilist may be a gentleman, but’| those whom I have known have lacked some of the symptoms. But people who attend grand opera al- ways are musical, but I sometimes.have observed that they seem less likely to be so if their new gowns are not com- pleted. But there may be as many ways to heaven as I have had pointed out to me, SMART SET. By Sally Sharp. — Professor Blodgstt of the musical chair at Stanford will speak tonight befors the Sequola Club upon “The Genesls of Mod~ ern Romantic Music.” Musical illustra- tions from Mendelssohn, Chopin, Wagner and Schumann will round éut the lecture, ‘which will be of high Interest. Mrs. C. A. Hawkins, hostess of the evening, will be aided In recetving by Mrs. Willlam Greer Harrison, Mrs. Louls H. Long, Mrs. Reg- inald Knight Smith, Mrs. Otto Bendix, Mrs. Adolphus E. Graupner, Mrs. Thomas Noonan, Mrs. L. Eugene Lee, Baroness von Meyerinck, Mrs. C. W. Bennett, Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones and Miss Heien Colburn Heath. e The marriage of Mrs. Ruth Brown and Dr. Washington Dodgs will take placs to- day at the home of the bride’s father In New York, Rev. Dr. F. Vidaver to read the service. . The engagement is announced of Miss Marie Feiling and Malcolm A. Fraser, formerly of this city. Miss Feiling, who is well known in the art world, left last Saturday for London, England, where sha will be married to Mr. Fraser, who hag become established in business In that city. He has a wide acquaintance in San Francisco and was for several years chief clerk to the Board of Public Works. & lov e A prettier wedding has not been wit< nessed for many days than that of Miss Inez Elmer and Assistant Surgeon R. E. Ebersole of the marine hospital service. The bride, who is the perfect ‘type of Southern beauty, wore a superb gown of soft gray silk, with a picture hat of old rose. April was In happy mood and be- stowed her blessing of sunshine, the cotiple standing in its mellow flood, which streamed through the big windows with dazzling effect. The céremony was per- formed at high noon by the Rev. Dr. Clampett at the home of Major H. W, Sawtelle in the marine service grounds, F. W. Elmer Jr. giving his sister away. Dr. and Mrs. Ebersole are at Del Monte and will sall on the Sheridan | next Monday for the Philippines. . Mr. and Mrs. James R. McCraken of Portland will arrive in town on Satur- day. They have engaged apartments at the St. Francis to remain through the opera season. Mr. McCraken is one of Portland’s very prominent business and club men. s v = Mrs. Albert J. Raisch is leaving this week for her country home at Belve- dere to spend Easter and a few days following. Mrs. Raisch has discontin- ued her days at home for this month. o e . Mrs. John C. Rirkpatrick and Miss Susan Kirkpatrick leave today for their country place at Pleasanton for a fort- night's stay. $ The Colonial Dames of America, Chapter f, of which Mrs. George Law Smith is president, will hold a break- fast 4n the Palm Garden on Monday, April 30, at 1 o'clock. Austin Lewis, who gave the interest- Ing reading of Oscar Wilde's “Salome™ tefore the California Club last week, will read agaln next Monday. His sub- Jject will be “The Conversion of Rudyard Kipling.” The reading will take place before the Woman's Auxiliary to ths British and Arcerican Union at 3223 Sutter street at 2:30. e April's sunny days have lured a large number of our prominent folk to Del Monte, where several are still sojourn- ing and will remain through the week. Among' the visitors are Mrs. James Coker Sims, Miss Blythe McDonald, Mrs. Linda H. Bryan, Miss Georgina Shepard, Miss Clare Chabot, Mrs. Alan- son Weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mar- ron Fickert, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wil son, Willlard Barton Jr., Horace G Platt and A. D. Shepard, il PRGN FASHION'S MIRROR. but, in that event, it does seem as if nobody ought to miss it. But the longest pole may get the per- simmon, but the persimmon is a middling poor frult, even if it is Secured. “She certainly is a rare conversation- ist, but the man who sat next to me sald that her talk bored him frequently.” “Oh, well, don't you know who he is?" *No, I never met ‘him before. Who is he ** “Her husband.” The man who talks of art and skill, Of sclence and of pluck, Is always he, if you'll observe, ‘Who plays hie game in luck; ‘While he who of misfortune prates, And tries to ‘“pass the buck,” 1s always he, observe again, Who's playing out of luck. - “Chawley said something awful to Mame.” \ “what was it?” “1 don't know. I didn't hear it.” “How do you know it was awful, then?" “Why, she actually blushed." —_————— Beautiful and strange are the Easter e:ndybox-.tn!g‘nyvmm at Haas' Candy Phelan udmnmfi‘gmn.. FOR VACATION DAYS. O the busy mother who is al- ready planning her school- girls’ frocks for wear during their happy vacation days, any ¢ .d eve.~ suggestion is gratefully and gladly received. The shirt waist suit of the picture is simple and attractive, made up in one of the which is applied the lace or em- broidery insertion. The box pleats are stitched to below the knee line and allowed to fall loosely to the hem. The waist. which buttons in back. has three deep tucks in shoulder seam, stitched to yoke 5§ 298 ;F