The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 27, 1900, Page 7

THE LARGEST FURNITERE AND CARPET HOUSE IN THE WEST. PATTOSIEN’S furniture Exposition Building. BLOCK: 16th Street, from Mission to Capp. Special Carpet Offerings sconano. Our aim has been to excel. pinion How? look at 3 irs and rooms wut borders, value e at $1.00. Everybody should learn our Carpet resources. There’s profit in them. EKnowledge of our facilities will save you time and " We've succeeded grandly. That's of unbiased judges. We make buying elsewhere costly for l;y always underselling competition. Spare a few minutes these: Smith's Axminster Carpets—their new- | est and most beautiful patterns and colorings—made to retail at $1.35; choice at $1.10. Bargains in Wilton Rugs. Lowest-ever-quoted prices for similar qualitites. Richest Persian designs and colorings. Prices talk. he $2.00 kind, 18x36 inches e $4.50 kind, 27x354 inches. he $8.00 kind, 36x63 inches. 10.00 for the $24.00 kind, 6xg feet. 828.00 for the $34.00 kind, 8%4x10%; feet $84.00 for the $40.00 kind, gx12 feet. The Furniture Sale. We are confident concerning our prices. Equal cheapness was never before within your grasp. We’'ve applied a vast amount of capital, skill, taste, experience and energy to this vital interest of our store, and it is growing marvelously. The above quotations are merely a fractional part of the bargains that keep us in the forefront of the procession. Dining wove quartered oak, finely|C box seat, high back, well e $3.00; at $2.25. quartered oak, high C and back covered with at $4.00. | bra and back covered with er; at $6.00. poli sare top, heavy post carved legs y be extended eight feet; at $12.00. g Table: vy carved legs, may be ; at $21.00. solid quartered wide, full swell front. s, French plate| at $25.00. six drawers, two cabinets, ate mirror 36x20 inches; at| quartered oak, drawer and uartered oak, 3 ft. 4 in f has mirror back; at top, value $830; our | rge size, quartered oak, C shed quartered oak | Chiffoniers, white enamel solid oak, five deep draw- | Chiffoniers, large hiffoniers, solid oak, five deep drawers, mirror toilet top, value $14.00; our price $10.50. hiffoniers, solid oak, five deep drawers, carved front, beveled French plate mirror 12x20 inches; at $11.50. hiffoniers, quarter-sawed oak, five drawers and hat box, cast brass trim- mings, large pattern French plate mirror; at $12.00. finish, five drawers, French plate mirror, size 15x19 inches, value $15.00; at $13.00. polished quartered oak, | Dressers, large size, oak, three deep drzwers.zgcvcl French plate mirror, size 24x inches, value $14.00 at $10.25. | Dressers, large size, quarter-sawed oak, full swell front, cast brass trimmings, French plate mirror 24x30 inches; at $18.00. , quartered oak, handsomely | Dressers, white enameled finish, four drawers, toilet mirror size 17x22 inches, value $13.00; our price $11.00. Three-piece Bedroom Suits, solid oak, large dresser, full swell quartered oak front, French plate mirror, size 20x23 inches, $26.00. | Three-piece Bedroom Suits, solid oak, large dresser, four drawers and hat box, cheval mirror size 18x40 inches; at $24.00. size, imitation hogany finish, five value $15.00. ma- deep drawers, - COLUMBIA 552 HT,, “A BULLS-EYE” SUSSESS! UCCESS ! Night, Including Sunday. Matinee Sat Smyth & Ri® Present Comedian WILLIE | 1 | | IN HIE OWN NEW FARCE, | MR. SMOOTH| SECOND AND LAST WEEK OF THE RIVAL | Magnificently Mayo's Commencing.. AMUSEMENTS. OF ALL AMERICAN PLAYS, HEAD WILSON” Presented by Mrs. Edwin F. rb Company and the Brilllant Actor, MR. BURR McINTOSH. SEATS NOW ON SALE FOR “ON THE SUWANEE RIVER.” SWEET AS A X\ ORANGE BLOSSOM. Sunday Afternoon, April 1 *TIVOLI* ER ENORMOUS SUCCESS!! Musical Extravaganza, ila Bound! t Eeries of Encores Last Night. s Rapturously Received, the Great Novelty, Mon Geli Ballet!” Matinee Saturday at 3. “The Koo Evenings at &, POPULAR PRICES—25¢ and 50c. TELEPHONE—BUEH #. Watch for “THE WIZARD OF THE NILE." Second Concert To-M | FRIDAY AFTERNOC MONDAY AFTERNO( CALIFORNIA THEATER. THERE 1S ONLY ONE Paderewski. THE GREATEST LIVING PIANIST. TREMENDOUS TRIUMPH LAST NIGHT. Enthusiasm Knew No Bounds. orrow, Wednesday, After- noon, at . RECITALS TO FOLIOW Reserved Seats, $150, 32, 33, 84 ~—STEINWAY PIANO USED.— ALCAZAR _THEATER. “A LAUGHING SUCCESS." TO-NIGHT—A WORLD OF FUN. AUNT JACK A. M. PALMER'S. Laughal e e 'rEttE. :m;xl. furor in SEATS—15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢. IN PREPARATION ““QUO_ VADIS” E SATURDAY AND SUNDAT. L le comedy don GRAN OPERA HOUSE ST TWO WEEKS OF THE SEASON ONLY THIS WEEK. EL CAPITAN Saturday Next, Last Matinee of the Present | Company. ——PHONE MAIN 532.— USUAL POPULAR PRICES, Good Reserved Seat In Orchestra, Saturday Matinee, 25c. Branch Ticket Otfice Emporium. A" OTHER B'G VAUDEVILLE TRIUNPL. CHARLES SWEET. KENO, WELCH and MELROSE; A GUILLE; LONEY HASKELL. THE 5 McCOY and BAM MARION: | Oukisnd mole connect with San Pablo avenue SRy NEILSON SISTERS; WS- | SEUTC, 00" 0 srains via A'ameds. mole con- | TON an ST. nect -;:n.fls. Plh:; avenue cars at Fourteenth | WALTER m'Es ." 'm‘ “‘u_ , | amd B way, Oaklan: These electric cars 1244 N with trains trac dies and thelr escorts; ferry tickets to Shell Mound. RACING! RACING! RACING! 1900—CALIFORNIA JOOKEY CLUB-1800 MARCH 2 to APRIL 7, INCLUSIVE. OAKLAND RACE TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- Frifay and Saturday. Rain or shine. ay. 20, 1, Do sm 5 ect fifteen minutes. #9 diredt 1o the track in fiftee eserved Seats, e . 10c; Ope turning—Trains leave the track at 4:15 and Rt B Reate e |48 B Rt gt g Se i Matinees We . Baturday and Sunday. | g B MILROY, Secretary. i % FISCHER'S CONCERT HOUSE, 24 ' FARRELL STREET. merica. nrichs’ Fischer, Prop ioest M o E A The Hand Mooser, wic Hall in Al su- racco; $:81, M Pollettini; 3 Tro- vatore.” AD- MISSION. 10 Cents. NEXT WEEBK—THE BEAUTIFUL SALVINL ex Fried, . 5:51, Signorina Master Leo Hichman; 11 to 11345, “T August Hinrichs' orchestra. i Agn 3 Wity Cal §L00 prvear - BOTELSEE 3 Located on Market street, in close proximity to busi- ness section. places of amusement and PALAC AND GRAND sz THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1900. NAVAL RESERVE BOAT MARION T0 BE OVERHAULED Went to Navy-Yard Yester- day in Tow of State Tug Governor Markham. !Benmohr and A. G. Ropes in Colli- | sion—Ship Edward Sewall En- ters Montevideo in Dis- tress. | e ot The naval reserve stéamer Marion went to the Mare Island navy yard yesterday. Ever since she was turned over by the | Navy Department to the State she had |peen either out in the bay or alongside | | Howard street wharf. Barnacles gath- | | ered on her from the keel to the water | | line, until now it is almost impossible to | get her through the water. A few Sun- | days ago, when a cruise around the bay was in order, Captain W. T. James found | that the old sloop-of-war’'s bottom was 80 | | foul that a speed of five knots an hour | could not be obtalned. He notified the Secretary of the Navy of the state of af- fairs and yesterday at 10 a. m. & tele- | ram came ordering the Marion to be at | | Mare Island at 10 p. m. yesterday in order | to be ready to enter the navy yard dry- | dock on this morning’s tide. | As soon as Captain James got the dis- patch he went to the Harbor Commis- sioners and those gentlemen at once | | placed the State tug Governor Markham at his disposal. Then he had to get a crew together, but this also proyed an easy job. At 2 p. m. the Marion was | hove short and a few minutes later the | Governor Markham went alongside. It | was some time before the tug and he: | tow got under way, however, as the Ma- rion’s anchor was foul and had to be| cleared. The Marion was recently inspected by Commander Drake under orders from the | Navy Department, and he sent a long re- port to Washington dealing with her con- dition and making recommendations for changes and additions to her. All of these were on small matters, however, for the Government cannot afford to spend much money on the old ship. It is in her engl- neers’ department where most of the work will be needed, but it is quite possi- ble to put her engines in fair condition at small cost. It is probable that some of the repairs suggested by Commander Drake will be made on the vessel before she leaves the island again. ‘While the Marion was being got ready for her trip to the navy yard the tide was _running like a millrace. The ship A. G. Ropes began to drag and for a few minutes it looked as though she would drift down on the naval reserve boat. She took a sheer, however, and ranged up alongside the British steamer Benmohr. The tug Liberty and Sea King came along just in time and separated the vessels be- fore much damage was done. The Ropes is in ballast and was lying in the stream awaiting a crew in order to start for Ho- nolulu to load sugar for New York. | _The new steel ship Edward Sewall is in Montevideo in distress. She is on her “maiden” from Baltimore for S8an Fran- cisco, and the dispatch to the Merchants’ Exchange says that the cargo of coal| heated. The Edward Sewall is a sister ship to the Arthur Sewall and Erskine M. Phelps. The transport Columbia is on the dry- dock getting a thorough overhauling pre- paratory to her cruise to Cape Nome with | soldiers. Captain Dobson will remain in | command and Purser Robinson will have | charge of the ship's treasury. Both gen- tlemen have made enviable records for | themselves while in a private capacity in | the transport service to Manila. | The transport Grant sails for Manila on | April 1, the Hancock, with the Philippine | Commission, on April 16, and the Warren | on May 1. The Badger, as soon as she is | turned over to the transport service, will | be made into a first-class hospital ship, while the Missouri will be made into a freight boat. The Warren was to have been thoroughly overhauled and made into a model troop ship, but the work will not now be done until she comes back from Manila. The Kimball Steamship Company will not have its fine, palatial steamer John 8. | Kimball ready for the first rush to Nome, The vessel was to have been ready to have gone into commission on the 15th inst., but as she was not launched until that, day it will be impossible to get her ready for sea before June next. Quite a number of eople were booked to sall on the Kim- | ball, but the company at once notified the | passengers of the delay and offered them | the return of their money or passage on | the steamers Sequoia, Albion or Aloha. In | every instance the offer was accepted, and the vessels named will go out with every passenger they can Carry. will =ail April 25, the Aloha May 10 and the Sequoia May 15. ¥ The steamer Czarina is now loading gen- eral_merchandise at Pacific-street whart for Honolulu. She will Problhly get away early to-morrow, as all her cargo is en- gaged. The Czarina has been put on to “help out,” as a number of the Spreckels sailing fleet have been sold recently and the new vessels are not ready to go on the run. The Annie Themas, now out 241 days from Cardiff for Acapulco, went to 85 per cent, and the Henry Clement, 241 days out from Hamburg to China, to 30 per cent yesterday. The Lydgate, on which 15 per c»n{; was paid, arrived at Shanghci yes- terday. Just before the old Professor Morse was condemned, in 1898, Captain Fisher tried to buy the engines of the Eastern Oregon for her. When the inspectors refused to | pass the hull he go{msed to dismantle her {and tow her to Seattle as a hulk. On the Sound, he confldently asserted, he could et a license for her. Even as a hulk the nspectors refused to allow her to leave rt, but it now appears that Captain isher and Captain Handy secured some- bod_vkln Seattle to put $10,000 into the | wreck. | Architectural Draughtsmen Wruted. | The United States Civil Bervice Com- mission announces that on May 2 an ex- amination will be held in this city of ap- | | plicants for the positions of junior architectural draughtsmen. at ~sala- ries of an T al num, and architectural raughts- men, at salaries of $1200 and $1400. Ap- 1d or over. licants must be 20 years ol g’enons desiring to compete should at once apply to the United States Civil Ser- vice Commission, Washington, D. C., for application forms AN , which ghould be properly executed and promptly filed with the commission. General Appraiser Fischer Customs Collector Jackson was notified yesterday by the Board of General Ap- praisers that General Appraiser Fischer will \.1:;&( th&l ccfiuu l:l\m'l for the trmru se of conducting on protests nd reappraisements, He will be at Los Angeles from April 23 until M-l‘ 4, in San Franclsco from May 6 to May i1, in Port- land from May 18 to the 15th and in Se- | attle from May 16 to May 18. for 1 i ; } : : i ; ! : : : ; B B a2 o o o o i d I * t & Q040006600000+ 060 0000000000 0000+0+8+0] Naval Reserve Steamer Marion Bound for Mare Isiand THERESK BELL NOW FGHTING FOR EVIDENCE Is Given the Right to Pho- tograph the Staacke Letters. ———is Progreso Mining Company’s Trus- tees Succeed in Regaining Pos- session of All Their Books and Documents. AN A3 Mrs. Theresa Bell is confident that she will wrest fortune from the wreck of the estate of her late husband, Thomas Bell, | and she has opened the preliminaries with a rush. Some time ago Mrs. Bell shook off the spell of inactivity that resulted in s0 much loss to her and mads her start “Mammy’ Pleasant out of the ““House of Mystery” forever. Now rid of the aged negress she is making her fight for her property. Last Friday she secured an order removing George Staacke as exec- utor of decedent’s wili and appointing her- self as executrix. Yesterday she appeared in court to contest the application made by H. M. A. Miiler and John W. C. Max- well, trustees for the creditors of the Progreso Mining Company, to modify the order made giving them possession of | all estate papers that they might secure the possession of papers relating solely to the mining properties under their charge. As the estate of Thomas Bell is ons of | the big creditors of the mining company Judge Coffey decided that testimony must be taken before he would permit the re moval of the papers in quesiion. Mr. Miller was called to the stand and went through the entire history of the Pro- greso mines and told of the manner in which he came into possession of the pa Keru and documents. He said that they ad been in his possession for five years last past and were not a part of the prop- erties of decedent’s estate. Judge Coffey finally granted the order, providing, how- ever, that Mrs. Bell be permitted as a creditor of the company to examine the apers at any thme the court may so or- er. The effort made by George Staacke to recover possession of the letters written to him by Laura J. Thompson was not so successful. Mrs. Bell claimed that these letters substantiated her charges that Staacke had committed fraud upon the estate, and Judge Coffey, although order- ing her to deliver the same to Staacke, granted her the right to pho(ograph such of those as she saw fit or would assist her in her mnnlgement of decedent’s estate. As soon as these preliminaries have been concluded Staacke will be made to defend himself against Mrs. Bell's charges, and the proceedings will many interesting facts. HE TWICE DENIED THAT HE WAS DEAD John C. White, Well Known in Mia- ing Circles, Succumbs at Tepu- acan, Mexico. Public Administrator Boland yesterday applied for letters of administration upon the estate of the late John C. White, a mining man, well known in this city, who died in Tepuacan, Mexico, March 7. In December of it vas reported in_this city that Mr. White was dead and Pub- lic’ Administrator Drinkhouse applied for letters n his estate. Subsequently it was ..;‘f,’;’ reported that Mr. White had succumbed to fever and each time he was_forced to ‘vrevem his funds in the local banks being taken charge of by provii that he was still in the land of the Hving. A telegram from the scene of his death, however, seems to r out the bellef that deatn has surely claimed Mr. te, and his funds in local banks, amounting to some $7000, will be taken charge of by the Public Administrator. —_—————— Eric Jansen Died. Eric Jansen, a youth 19 years old, dled yesterday morning from injuries received on March 13 at the Union Iron Works by being knocked down by a crane. doubtless develo;l ASPIRANTS FOR | CONGRESS WILL BE HEARD LATER Nominating Convention Can- not Be Chosen Until Next August. v False Notion of Many Voters That Assemblies Chosen to Select Na- tional Delegates Can Nom- inate Congressmen. RGN The fact is not generally known and appreciated that candidates for Congress | must be nominated by conventions chosen | under the provisions of the primary elec- | | tion law. Many Republican voters who | | expect to take an active part in the next | | campaign are impressed with the idea | "toward recovering her estate by ordering | that the conventions chosen to select dele- | gates to attend the national convention | at Philadelphia June 19 may at the direc- | tion of the Congressional district com- | mittees go further and place in the field candidates for Congress. | Voters should clearly understand that | the election ‘laws were amended at the| last regular session of the Legisiature in 1809, and the old custom concerning Con- gressional nominations cannot be ob- seérved. A candidate cannot have his name printed on the official ballot unless he is the nominee of a convention chosen as the law requires. Moreover, the election of delegates to such convention must be held on the second Tuesday of August. { Section 1386, Poiitical Code (new section of primary election law), reads: Section 1385—All_delegates to conventions of | political parties for the purpose of making | nomination of candidates public office | within this State shall be elected at election: known and designated as primary election and conducted at the time and place and un. der the regZlations in this chapter herelnafter | specified AND NOT OTHERWISE. SECTION 1371 PROVIDES THAT THE PRIMARY ELECTION SHALL BE HELD ON THE_ SECOND TUESDAY g}’M‘sUGUST, AND AT NO OTHER Under the reform ballot law as adopted in 1891, and amended from time to time, a convention wiiose nominees might 'be placed on the official ballot was defined as an organized assemblage of delegates representing a political party, which at the last election polied at least 3 per cent of the entire vote of the State, county, district or political division. This provi- sion contained in section 1185 of the Political Code. This section was amend- ed by the Legislature of 153 so as to conform to the primary election law, and a convention is now defined: “As an organized assemblage of delegates elected by ballot at a pri- mary election and representing a po- litical party which cast three per cent | of the votes,” etc. The effect of this amendment, taken in connection with the fflmary election law, is to absolutely require that all delegates | to nominating conventions shall be elected | under the primary election law, | Section 1367 of the primary election law defines conventions to nominate candi- | dates for Congress as distinct conventions. | It is _left, under the provisions of sec- tion 1370, th the Congressional district committees to elect whether the delegates elected under the primary election law to the State convention shall nominate Con- gressmen, or whether separate delegates shall be elected in such Congressional dis- tricts for that purpose. If the Congressional district committee decjdes ghat a separate convention shall be assembled, to be composed of delegates other than those elected from the district to the State convention, notice of such de- cision _must given to the Secretary of State forty days prior to the primary elec- tion. 1If such steps as the law provides | for a separate convention are not taken by the Congressional district committee, then the delegates chosen on the secon Tuesday of August to represent the dis- trict in the State convention must nom- inate the candidate for Congress. These provisions are made applicable to the pomination of candidates for the Rail:oad Commission and State Board of Equaliza- tion. rimary election law does not rec- up roxies. A dele!sne elected to co-vemRm is a commissioned icer. an theresra afinot m: aolanutu:otnor perscn 5 o ‘°1-§'m°5"1'n be Congressional District con- Suéde Gloves Easter——f’l.boa pair ventions and a State convention in Ma next to choose delegates to the Republi- can_National Convention at Philadelphia on June 19. Men elected to comprise these early conventions may indorse, commend or _criticize Ci onal aspl: their hearts’ content, but they cannot do more than s st candidates. Nomina- tiors can only lawfully e by con- ventfons ch on Ly August under the provisions of the pri- a- tion law. e TReEi sy oo e pe ai s L "‘%&?{ P 3 ‘mfl flu!o"d 0 'S every cast a 'ob-.llot at the November election and th Al primary may be properly Ladies’ red tles, worth $1 50, for 50c & pair at sale of shoes, 717 Market street. * The Reliance | tended by the last vowel. | voweis and the nasal sounds over and over | again until he | Branly, though i TWENTY LESSONS IN FRENCH CONVERSATION. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. Note—These lessons have been prepared for The Call's Home Study Circle by Professor Benno Kirschbaum of Philadelphia. They are intended primarily for Americans who purpose attending the Paris Exposition. The lessons include (1) common French words and phrases, (D _easy conversation, and (3) simple reading | essons. LESSON NO. 6—SIXIEME LECON. Hints on Pronunciation. 1. We have in French diphthongs as well as in English. The French diphthongs, however, are formed and sounded alto- fother differently. A piain rule, therefore. s that a diphthong is formed in French by the double vowel sound, slightly ex- The following five diphthongs require our special attention: ay sounds like the English ay-ee In ayant (having); ayee-yang. of sounds like the English wah, as In miroir (mirror); meer-wahr. uf sounds like the English wee, as in lul (to him, her, it); Iwee. oy sounds like the English wah-ee, as In royal (royal); rwah-yal. uy sounds like the English wee-ee, as in essuyer (to wipe); ess-wee-ee-a. To pu{: ayer; pay-ee-a. 1 drink; fi? bois; zjuh-bwah. Cooked: cuit; kwee. Foyer; foyer; fwah-ee-a, Night; nuit; nwee. Note—The student will do well to repeat these and previous sounds; those of the compound is thoroughly familiar with them. | Every new lesson should be preceded by | a full rehearsal of the entire text and | transiation, inciuding tbe pronungiation, of all previous ones. Compare eacH trans- lation of the English text with the French | reading exercise, and vice versa. Write it | out again and again until thoroughly fa- miliar with the spelling of words and construction. To work systematically, translate the exercise of one language into | the other, and when thoroughly familiar with both compare according to the text given in each lesson. A Few Things to Remember. The following will serve as an incom- plete though as far as ssible practical | ?flde 'or the gender of feminine noun: ere i= no positive, fixed rule for ge ders in Fremch. The best and only way to determine it is to commit each noun to memory, with its proper article. (See les- son No. 5.) | (a) Nouns signifying woman in all her | conditions are feminine, as Mother: la mére; mair. Wife; I'épouse; lay-pooz; (also femme; fahm.) Cousin; la cousine; koo-zeen. (b) Names of females of animals: Cat; la chatte; shatt. Ewe; la brebis; breb-ee. Mare; la jument: zhuh-mong. (c) Names of qualities, virtues, vices are usually feminine, though the word “vice’” (vice) 1s masculine and the word *“virtue" (vertu) is feminine. Beauty; la beauté; boh-tay. Goodness; la bonté: bong-tay. Laziness; la paresse; pah-ress, Note—There are & few exceptions, however, to this last rule. (d) Names of fruits are, with few excep- tions, also feminine: Cherry; la cerise; say-rees. Orange’; la orange; o-rahnge. Apple; ia pomme; pom. (e) Nouns ending in an “e” mute are | usually feminine, with byt some few ex- la terre; tairr. a rividre; rea-vee-air. | ahnce. Note—The proper articles to use with the above mentioned and all feminine nouns are la, the (lah); une, one, & or an (oom). to' be used with the masculine nouns given in | e, the | ‘Those | lessons 5, and all masculine nouns are: (luh); un, a, one or an (uhn). Memory Exercises. 1. Will you tell me? Voulez-vous me dire? Voo-lay-voo muh deer. +2. I want to do it. Je veux le faire. Zhuh vuh luh fair. . Do you understand it? Le comprenez-vous? Luh com-pren-nay voo. . Yes, I understand it. Oui, je le comprends. ‘Wee, zhuh luh com-proag. . He has sent them a letter. 1l leur—a envoyé une lettre, Eel luhr ah eng-vwa-yay oon lettr. Note—The student will note in these sen- tences the peculiarity of French construction. This construction cannot be altered, and must therefore be used exactly as given. There are, fdiomatic constructions and phrases peculiar to | the language which should be learned by heart. Remember, then, that the French say: Wil you me teil? He to him has written. He to them has sent a letter, etc., etc. 6. What is the day of the week? uel —est le jour de la semaine? Kell a luh zhoor— | | | | with milk. (9 d | B | est trop peu cuit. 7. We have a holiday to-day; or, to-day is a holiday. Nous_avons congé aujourd hul. Nooz avong kong-zhay—— 8. To-morrow will be the last day of the month. Ce sera demain le dernier jour du mois. Suh s'rah — mwabh. 9. “:ihat. day of the month was yester- e y? Quel était hier le %uanfiéme du mols? —— ay-tay — kahng-tee-yehm — 10. It is the lith. C'est,le quatorze. Say luh katorz. 11 I think it is the 2ist. C'est je crois, le vingt —et un. —— krfwah vahn-tay-ubng. 12. Are you sure? En < 8tes-vous sur? Ong nett voo suur. Note—The French do mnot use the ordinal numbers to express dates, chapters, pages, etc. They simply place a cardinal number after the noun, as: 13. To-day is the 17th. C’est-aujourd hul le dix-sept. —— dees sett. The eleventh chapter. Chapitre onze. Sha-peetr ongz. . The 120th page. Page cent vingt. Panzh song vang. ce; une fois; — Twice; deux fols; duh — Three times; trois fois; trwah —— The 19th; le dix-neuf (date); — deez-nuff. The 35th; le trente-six; —— traungt . seess. The first; le premier; —— prem-yay (the only exception to the above note). The last; le dernier; — dair-nee-ay. The middle; le milleu; mee-lyew. The interior; lintérieur; lang-tay- ree-euhr. . The exterior; Vex-tay- The chiteh: Iégiise; lay gleeze. e church: I'église; lay gleeze. The Eng'ish church; I'église anglaise; — ang-laiz. Is there an American church? Y a-t-il une église américaine? —— ah-may-re=-ken. The cathedral of Notre Dame. T'extérieur; pes La cathédrale de Notre Dame. — kahtay-drahl duh notr-dahm. The church of the Madcleine. L’église de la Madeleine. Lay-gleez duh iah mad-lenn. . Service; J'office; lof-feess. . When co they have service at church? : A ufille heurs fait-on l'office dans 1"église High mas: ia grand’' messe; lah g mess. Afternoon service; les vépres; lay vepr. Evening service; l'office du soir; — doo swahr. The Protestant church; I'église pro- testante; — pro-tess-tahngt. The Catholic church; I'église catho- lique; — kah-to-leek. The following is the proper translation of the last French exercise: (1) We breakfast at half-past 8. g I am not hungry. (3) Some mush. ) s coffee is not hot. (5) Give me some soft bolled eggs. (5) A beefsteak, rare, and some toast. (7) Some browned potatoes. (8) Some coffee cakes and some coffes My plate is not clean. (10) Give me another one. (11) Show me your umbreila. (12) Have you.bought a brown hat? (13) Where can I get some flowers? (14) Are these French gloves or German gloves? (15) Of what color is your cloak? Vocabulary—Au gratin: breaded. rter; to take away. Gigot; leg. Ye.ilyA Peu; little. Venez; come. mieux; so much the better. vegetables. Délicleux; delicious. (fem. plur.); gocd. Pension; house. Tenues (fem. plur.) Achéte; buys. Belles (fem. plur. fine. rvir; to serve. Ce, cet; La paresse; idlepess. Vices; vices. Chez; at the house of. Bon (masc. sing.): food. plur.); Chambres; rooms. Toutes (fem. all. Read and translate into English: € nge trois dollars par jour dans cet_hotel. (2) La paresse est la mére de tous les vices. 2) Les~oranges et les poires r‘ue l'on_achéte chez ce marchand sont belles—et bonnes. ({) Les chambres e cette pension sont bien grandes. lles sont trds commodes (convenient). (6) Je vais a la grand” messe A la cathe- drale. (T) (ccme) Venez—avee mol. Voulez-vous m’'accompagner? (3) On anglais dans_ce restaurant. (10) t mieux. (11) Prendrez-vous de la_viande et des légumes? (12) Ce pou'et frit_est délicieux. (13) Envoyez-nous deux cote- lettes de veau au gratin. (14) Ce rosbif 15) Emportez-le. (16) Un gigot de mouton farci et de la gelée. Note—The English transiation 5f this exercise will be found in_ the following lesson, which will be published next Tues- day. Gelée, Tant mes; onnes RECENT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. Note—These papers on practical science have boen “prepated. for The' Cali's Home Study Yirtle "hy Protessor Willlam J. Hopkins<of Drexel Institute. II. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. (Continued.) The Coherer. The spark-gap detector used by Hertz was ext‘t’tmel‘ glmple but of limited sen- sitiveness, failing to respond at distances greater than about 200 feet. The first | requisite, therefore, to make space teleg- raphy of practical value was a detector which should be reliable and sufficlently sensitive to rnfond at a distance of miles | instead of yards. This was found in the} “coherer,” which has been ascribed to| t was known and used in her long before his work | { one foln'n or anotl upon it. ince the first use of the microphone as ’ a telephone transmitter tre fact was well known that a simpie mizrophone contact, like the Blake, if the prints were both made of metal, becam= faintly weided to- gether under the action of the current; and this, a defect in a ul?hene. was one of the principal reasons for the use of | carbon. A single metallic contact of this | sort is the form of coherer which has been used by . Hughes noticed this pe- culfar sensitiveness of a microphonic con- tact, either single or multiple, to a dis- charge through it, and the same effect | appears to have been observed by others. Onesti, however, seems to have the ake use of this Fropeny. dnd ;. ve-nnlh dof the coherer by modifications in the As at present used the coherer consists of | a small glass tube in which metallic ! istons fit tightly. The ce between these pistons—one-twentieth to one-quar- ter of an inch—is filled somewhat lmflyl with filings of metal. The ends of the ' istons are smeared with mercury, and e filings, which mm -m?. re worked :P with a little ury for the best results. In addition to this Marconi has used coherers in which the space be- tween the pistons is Amually or whon{ ! exhausted of air. ings of metal will work, but the best results are ob- tained with a mixture of about S_Rr font kel A0 ik thoy are,packed in tightness with whicl the tube must be mfu{ly justed by moving the pistons. . Action of the Coherer. Touch The s o Which h the mass of fllings. which are o dinai in no particular arrangement, but lying fn random positions, the flings at once themselves in order, nt to point, and the chains thus estab- ‘more perfect by the slight W action at the coni Te- e o fnite, becomea Anitefrom 19 re was 3 o to o] a battery is in 'uunoftmbeuvwotmm&u a b F i e S A T sharp Each individual mulnnb'h most lntn::ly and g e 4 and each positively point is fi-l of & uk':b%u As s00n as cone the charge passes and condition these welds must be broken. This is actually accomplished by causing the tongue of a_vibrator or buzzer to tap the tube and shake up the filings. The same thing may be effected by rotating the coherer or by placing it in & rapidly 2lternating magnetic fiel Sensitiveness of the Coherer. The extraordinary sensitiveness of the coherer may be dimly appreciated when the conditions under which it works are known. It has been computed by Abbott that, working at a distance of tAIFty-five miles—it has responded to more than twice that distance—the coherer has an efficiency of only one five hundred-mil- lonth of 1 per cent. That is, it uses only one fifty-billionth of the energy put in at the transmitting end. Even then the sen- sitiveness will probably be Increased. Marconi’s System. The simplest form of transmitting de- vice consists of an induction eofl or other alternator, with spark gap in the secondary and baitery and key in the pri- mary. When the key is closed a stream of sparks passes across the gap, setting up corresponding ether waves which ra- diate in all directions and are detected by the recélving apparatus. The spark gap may be simple or a an«:sclllmor m{‘be used, ‘which two ger brass lls, very close to- ether, are placed between the terminal s s of ‘;hehcoih i ‘0 send these waves in any rruem.f direction a rnboh: reflector of metal is so placed that the spark gap is at the focus and the open side of the reflector ints in the desired direction. So far as yet been announced, no distance eater than two miles has been covered the use of reflectors. The receiver for a similar a verti L In the method by which the been attained, hweu':.m Mar- wi ad- coni 2 yertical wiré of height Jjusted to the distance over which the | nals are to be sent. One side of & is connected to the vertical other to earth. receiver circuit is less simple. One side of the coherer is connected to the ver- tical wire, the other side to earth; and the coherer is also included in the circuit of and sensitive .thn a discha passes through the coherer its reflstrl.n‘ce is so far lowered that the local battery actuates the s