The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1901, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1901. | UAIGLON AN BERNHARDT AND RACHLI, —_—— B8Y L. DU PONT SYLE. D ROSTAND, ROFITING by his disastrous expe- riences with the uncopyrighted,”Cy- rano de Bergerac,” M. Rostand has fully protected his rights, both for publication and for representation, “L’Aiglon.” To readers and to audi- es, as well gated bles: ed us from ng: it has sav ng a poetic drama of whose no eonception and from rned, badly printed, cheap uch as deluged our market as ‘twas demonstrated (by the Daly) that the product of M. Rost- brains could be stolen without dan- of the thief's being landed behind bars ge of the international copy- law was vehemently opposed ' good publishers who had plundering English, French hors. Yet to this law and e we owe the mercy ac- and also the eonscious- ve go to Europe we are d upon as lterary bucca- sciousness is worth some- American—unless he hap- be an ex-member of the League Encouragement of International then, to the of the International copyright law, deterrent effects the Thanks fregboote: have be compelled to keep t 4. off with the r sult the play, published in Paris b « ntier & Fasquelle, a in excellent shape by ew York. This edition con: nteresung items that do the otherwise admirable Mr. Louis Parker (Russell, ) are the motto from has cted for dered i may be rent for lack of poetic skill thor I can give only ! This is not a After ters, comes this delj he reader must not be some lines thagy At the thea- lose at a definite the author . come two the Crypt the Jabor of @ is quite verses rtaking: fr. Edward Robe- hed with task of a What recollections Racine, the bel esprit Champmesle, under his tui- wvreur, whose tragic be assoclated with the r performance in of course, erous h, not the least inter- e the most accessible of M. Paul Mesnard in the of “Racine” English read- onception before- means, there is ritique of George v Rachel in this role uld be seen,”” he says, of the unutterable ing despair of a cestuous passion, con- ggling with its as to the author, this is an spectacie of barn-storming t, and last but | L 5 MME. SARAH BERNHARDT, | WORLD-FAMOUS FRENCH ACTRESS. | <. 3 | guilt, vet o filled with it, so moved by 1it. | 50 possessed by it that the verse was real- C’est Venus tout entiere a sa prole tachee.” Her entrance as she appeared, wasting away with the fire that con- sumed her, standing on the verge of the grave, her face pallid, her e hot, her | arms and hands emaciated, filled us with | a ghestly horror. * * * The whole of | the scene was inexpressibly affecting, and in gesture, look, tone and conception in the very highest styrle of tragic art. There was Put one defect, and that was | the mode of uttering the famous, ‘C'est | tol qui I'as momme,’ which we take to| have been a misconception of its mean- ing, the more remarkable from the intense | truth with which she gave the hurrving horror of the preceding lines, where with | a shiver between each phrase, yet {rres'st- mpelled to utter her thoughts, she ouir le comble des horreurs. —& ce nom fatal je tremble, = Quir RE—Tu connals ce fils de I'Amazone, ce prince si longtemps par mol-méme Op- ' ? Grana dleux! 4 qui Tas nommé! she uttered in a sorrowful, re-| pri 1l tone—but is that Racine's mean- | ing? Gught not the line to be uttered with a sort of eager throwing upon | Oenone of all the horror of the thing by | na She has kept her love long | a secret: it is a crime; to utter it is horri- | nd Oenone utters it by naming Hip- The meaning is, * *Tis you, not I, ing 1t? polyte that have dared to mention his name. In the second act, where she de- clares her passion, Rachel was | cendent. There was a subtle - | {cation of the diseased passion, of | {its fiery but unhealthy—irresistible | and yet odlous —character in the| febrile Ty with which she portrayed | TEY it. It was terrible in its vehemence and | | abandonment; eloquent in its horror; fierce and rapid as if the thoughts were | | crowding upon her brain in tumult and jed with such amazing compass of t when she left the scene one’s re quivering with excitement | upportable. The storm of rage, ir 1it up the fourth act ptaing. ~JEvery one who has seen Rachel will remember the intense | expression she throws into single words, | varying th the music of her delivery; | but we never remember anything so ter- | rific as her ‘Miserable! et je vis!' Other | passages we have DLeen accustomed to | hear her deliver with more effect—but this one passage reached the very height passionate power.” . % Can Mme. Bernhardt equal this? Nearly twenty-five years ago Matthew Arnold, who had seen both Rachel and Bernhardt, { to declared that the former began almost | where the latter ends—but twenty-five years is a long time and offers many op- portu Nous ver- | rons: es for Improvement. GENEROSITY OF BERNHARDT. dt was in the city - a breakfast at the Californ: noon and it erself. In the midst of the repast was a man downstairs who give his card and igsisted on to see her. up “Let him com call boy exp ** was her reply. ed that he wus a Never mind his looks or his clothes, he may be a friend of mine,” was the re- Py, In & few minutes & man of about & or mors entered the room. He was very shabbily dressed. had not shaved for a week and hiz shirt front was well gar- nished with tobacco juice. The instant 4t saw him she gave an exclama- self upon his neck and covered his rough e with kisses. The man was Mr. Levl, who died recently in this city. tany of The Call readers will remember hort, Heavy figure as he uséd to walk treets with furs throwp over his , looking for customers. nhardt at once made a place at the 2nd began opening champagne for guest. She introduced him as an old end from Paris and explained that when sbe was a child and her family was in straits Mr. Levi had cared for them all one winter and kept them from absolute want. _ Fwery few moments she would jump up, €iasp him about the neck and kiss him again and again. There was no acting about these embraces, she was glad to see pim =nd she wanted no misunderstanding on that score. Presently she asked him why he did not go back to Paris and see Lis relatives. He answered sadly that he was not able. Oh, that is easlly remedied,” she said, d & moment later she had written out check for $1500 and thrown it across the table to him. He picked it up, and when he saw the amount he broke down com- Jletely. With the tears streaming down lis cheeks he said: “Sarah, I didn’t come here for charity, but just to see you a few moments.” He handed the check back across the table. “Oh, not enough? I make it bigger.” She wrote, another check for $2000 and threw it over to him. He looked at the second check and merely said: “Give me the other, Sarah.’ She smiled as she handed it to him. and then the old man did a magnificently in- dependent thing. He slowly placed the two checks together, tore them into bits and handed the fragments back to- the madame. “No, no, Sarah; no money. Just your gratitude; that is all I ever wanted.” Then she was at his side again, his tears away and sobbing herself. It vas & very pathetic scene and one not a ¥ knocked at the door and sald | tramp and might be crazy. | v forgotten by those who witnesséd She sald that she would “fix him vet” in that pecullar way of hers, which | always means that she intends to have her own will. Some months later I was in San Fran- cisco and met old Levi waddling along the streets with his furs. He stopped me and sald he wanted my advice. | "I have just got a letter from Sarah,” | | he £aid, “and I don’t know what the devil to do about it.” He translated the letter | as he read it, and it went something like | this, as near as I can recall it: “You tore up the last check I gave you, which was very mean of you. 1 was very angry at the way you treat my checks. No one else ever did such a thing to me but you, and you make me angry every time I | think of you and your treatment of me. | You humiliate me before strangers. They | must have thought that my checks were worthless, or you must have thought so. I now enclose another and larger one. It | 1s for twenty-five hundred dollars of your | American money and if that is not big enough send it back and I will make it larger, but some check of some denomina- tion you must accept and if I gave you all the money I ever earned it would not repay you for the time years ago in Paris you saved me from want. I shall expect You to come to Paris at once and be my guest. Answer yes by cable and make us all happy. If you do not do this you must never call on me again, as I shall refuse to recelve you. Affectionately, “SARAH.” “What shall I do?” asked the old man with tears in his eyes. *She is bound to have her way. She always was that way as a child.” “Better send the dispatch and then cash the check and go to Paris.” “I guess T'll have to,” said the old man, and he started for the telegraph office. ONE OF THE GUESTS. =il I | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager .SUNDAY . FEBRUARY 17, 1001 ceesmseseisngann heeesesessasesresessessasaanns vveverseess..Market and Third, S. F. Publication Office..........c00uu SIMPLICITY AND POMP. HE world sits as an audience to/great events which affect the welfare of nations and peoples. With solemn pomp the English Queen and Empress has been entombed, and with medieval pageantry her son and successor has been proclaimed. His Parliament has been opened with elaborate ceremony, and he will take the great oaths of coronation that guarantee the civil and re- ligious freedom of his people. e, 3 Just across that channel that was once swept by Van Tromp’s broom the Queen of Holland has taken a noble to husband, and her people, on whom government rests lightly, have cele- brated with her in all the good feeling of one family and with a simplicity of heart that makes one forget the royal pomp and circumstance of an occasion of such significance to the young woman and to her country and dynasty. . : In the land of Holland’s old' oppressor passes a different wedding scene, uniting two ancient houses. But while the Spanish Princess signs her wedding settlement her country rocks and sways in the first tempest of revolution. Mobs howl at the palace gates, and .make the great plazas as dangerous as battle-fields. Students and artisans, professors from the secular schools, shepherds frogn the slopes and toilers from the vineyards, join their voices in an angry bellow and their hands in the work of contempt and destruction. So in all its varied tints and tones passes the procession of royalty, dead and living, mourn- ing and marrying and giving in marriage, while the people, feeling themselves far from much of it, express pleasure or displeasure. according as they feel disinheritance in their own land and have no voice in its affairs. ¢ Almost concurrently another scene is on the stage that concerns the government of man and perhaps the welfare of the world in a sense that may not be ascribed to the others. At Washington the representatives of the people and the Senators who represent the States “in this free society have met under the forms of law made by the people and in the manner thereby prescribed have counted the votes ordered cast by the people for the office of President and: Vice President of the republic. There was no pompous ritual, no trumpet blasts, no military display. While hearts may have felt the prayer “God save the republic,” no voice had to cry “God save the King.” The will of the peopte was validated and inscribed as quietly and dispassionately as it was declared, and no sycophants offered lip service, nor did any mob, shortened in food or clothing or liberty, howl and roar at the gates. Power had returned to the people and had by them been passed back to the‘hax;ds into which they had committed it before, and no man in- all the \republic was hindered in his career, obstructed in his business, hampered in his benevolence, nor harmed in his fortunes by the process. Liberty remained unbound and glorious as the sunshine that gilds her helmet. As the simple ceremony passed it recalled no past bitterness, but only the extending line of distinguished sons of the republic who, by thesame simple forms, have been declared chosen of the people. It brought no repinings of dynasties overthrown, pretenders in exile, popular uprisings, passion and violence black-handed reaching for power through blood and fire, but only memories of a succes- sion of administrations that came and went as orderly and as beneficently as the seasons. As royalty has endured in Spain, in Holland, in England, and its ritual and ceremony are unchanged, .so may freedom, with its simplicity and sincerity, its popular forms and absence of glare and gauds, endure:forever. ' CHINA BASIN. HE lease of China Basin to the San Joaquin Valley Railway Company, which caused so much public discussion for several months while it was-under consideration by the State Beard of Harbor Commissioners, is now before the Legislature. Under this lease the railway com- pany takes the use of the basin for the term of fifty years under authority conferred upon the board before it was made, and no further legislation is needed .as to that portion. By another provision of the same instrument the railway company undertakes to build a seawall in front of the basin, a distance of about twenty-four hundred feet, if the Legislature ratifies that arrangement. It is estimated by the chief engineer of the board that the cost of this seawall will exceed $350,000, and the State will be benefited to that extent, as it would otherwise be soon compelled to build this wall with its own funds to meet the increasing demands of commerce along the water front. The advantages to the railway company from this wall are that it gains additional harbor facilities, which are greatly needed, and avoids the interference with its traffic arrange- ments which must necessarily occur should the State, by a failure of the Legislature to act, be compelled later on to construct this portion of the seawall in front of the leased premises in China Basin. 4 It is conceded by all the commercial bodies of the city, after a careful consideration of the subject, that the lease is a good one, that it will save an expenditure of over $350,000 to the State and be very beneficial to the immediate business demands of the city. They have so expressed themselves in petitions to the Legislature for favorable action upon the bills presented by the Har- bor Commissioners, and in an open meeting held last Friday at the office of the Commissioners when a committee of our representative men was appointed to visit the capital and present thi; matter to the Governor and the members of the Legislature. ‘ It is understood that the aets to secure this needed legislation were drawn by the attorfiey of the Harbor Commissioners, and have the approval of that body as well as the business com- munity. It would seem to be sufficient to satisfy the members of the Legislature that the Harbor Commisficmers requ.cs.t th.is legislation, and with the backing of the commercial bodies it will be strange if any opposition is developed to its enactment, and it will also be interesting, in such an event, to consider the names of the members so opposing and their probable motives f;r so doing. GODOWSKY 1S A GENIUS BUT NEEDS PRESS AGENT | —_—— | BY BLANCHE -+ E3 MISS LEONORA JACKSON, THE TALENTED, VIOLINIST, WHO PLAYS TO-MORROW. - ET anorher imposition upon the innocence of San Francisco, this time at the hands of the kereto- fore unimpeachable Berlin critics and in the matter of Leopold Go- dowsky, the latest planist. By all the Berlin crities of note Godowsky is ranked as one af the greatest planists of the age. in some directions absolutely unequaled, and his recent visit to that city was the signal for an enthusiasm rarely aroused in that stronghold of the hardened review- er of things musical. Bit of what can the critics have been dreaming? It is true that Godowsky can play the piano, but of other earmarks of “the greatest pian- ist of the age” he has none. He hap not a mannerism to his name. He neither fiings his clever hands heavenwards, nov droops a supple wrjst in Delsarte curves in latest Leschetizky fashlon—which re- minds that he is that rara avis, a pupil of another than the great Viennese mas- ter. Unlike another ‘“greatest pianist.’ he neither bends a frowning brow upon a re- wreathed smile like him compels atten- tion to the forthcoming beautles of his favorite Chopin movements. His halr, too, 18 absolutely unmusical. Black, short, curly, worn even as thine and mine, it is hopeless from a planistic standpoint. Then, too, the player brings with him no photographs of phenomenal fists, no rec- ords of feats of pianistic pugilism. of instruments broken in symphonic ardors: and, worse than all, this last discovery of the Berliners seems destitute even of the indispensable halo of hysterical femi- nine appreciations—and a great planist! For these reasons, largely, Mr. Godowsky at his first recital here last Tuesday was heard only by a half houseful of musi- clans, at his second recital by perhaps ternoon by only a comfortably crowded house. Get thee to a press agent, Sir Pianist, and on thy next Californian tour the Metropolitan Temple shall not hold the erowds anxious to greet the great art- | ist, Leopold Godowsky. o W | As before sald, Godowsky can plav the | plano. He has every quality of the art- | ist-planist—a ravishingly beautiful tome, | an almost undreamed-of technical capa- city, the soul of a poet and the mathe- | matical brain. Anything more lovely | than his tone it Is impossible to conce! Limpid, velvety, silky soft in the plani: simos and round and rich with no threat of harshness In the loudest fortes, it is deliciously satisfying. His technique Is almost laughably facile, a marvel and continual wonder. All the ordinary aiffi- culties of the Instrument—octaves, doubls scales and trills; great handfuls of chords and the rest of it, go without saying; and in the finer difficulties of polyphonio tech- nique each part is colored and weighted with as much smoothness and beauty as if the planist had a half dozen instead of terpretation of course comes in here, and Godowsky's readings are as amply satis- | fying as the rest of his work. If thers is | a lack in his equipment it is In a last re- serve of physical force in the climaxes, and even that, in the tremendous render- ing of the Wagner-Lizst ‘*“Tannhauser” | overture, with which he closed his last recital, was lost sight of. He has tnei‘ eplc rather than the lyric inspiration, | purely poetic and without the least trace of sentimentalism; an absolutely legiti- mate art, logical, inevitable and emi- | nently beautiful. His sense of balance Is marvelous, the minute perfection of the detail never for a moment detracting from the large outlines of the whole. But Godowsky can do as he will with the plano, and what he wills to do in the sum total is greater than the achieve- ment of any planist we have vet heard In the leisure and rest of to-day the good peopl, i ple of San Francisco should not fa:ft‘that to-morrow the gam}alers will make another effort to obtain from the Sup:::z::( :ll:: privilege of resuming poolselling and bookmaking at Ingleside track. Consequently one of the duties of to-day is to resolve to attend the meetin : y g of the board to-morrow 3 . wrong and defeat the scheme. to protest against ‘the ——— If there be no other way to settle the dispute before the adj Schley and Sampson to agrec to arbitrate or draw straws. versy, and it is time the heroes of the fight off Santiago sho their valor and their patriotism. ournment, Congress should get The country is weary of their contro- uld receive the reward due them for ¢ Sl The Assembly investigating committee opened j £ , 4 4 just enough doo: to reveal the fact that a further investigation is necessary. It ias béer:: “:ntal:'leePeoh.;:n]?et%a"e:“i:": very interesting skeleton in the closet, an > 3 3 e :3;1 ‘ g d the closet-door should be opened and the thing brought ———— When the prune men began théir.combination they hold their crops in their own hands, but now that the Evidently there is such a thing as an association bein thought it would be a good thing to y have them on hand they are not satisfied. g too full ofprunes. It seems well nigh assured we are to have an extra session of Congress this summer, but a AMUSEMENTS. Central—*'After Dark.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. | Alcazar—*A Night of.” Callfornia—'“The Waifs of New York.” Grand house—*"Phedre’” and “Les Pre- | cteuses Ridicules.” p | Alhambra—"Uncle John Spruceby.’ | _Olympia. corner Mason and Eddy st | Specialties. sl Tivoli—*"Nell Gwynne.” ¢ Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudevi afternoon and evening. e L Fischer’s—Vauceville, [ ‘M;tmpfllll‘n Temple—Henschel Recltal to- night. Sherman-Clay Hall—Lectu; - ey re by Coquelin this TUnion Coursing Park—Coursing to-day. California Jockey Club (Oakland)—Races to- morrow. Tanforan Park—Races to-morrow. e i The modern demand for. high-power machinery i showa by the fact that in Paris the average horse-power per ma- chine exhibited in 1867 was 16; in 1878, .62; in 18%9, 170, and in 1900, 973. * little cloud like that will not dim the general brightness of the year. can Congress, and therefore can be counted on to do.the right thing. ERE-R A Ll Mrs. Nation, the saloon-smashing agitator of Kansas, until all groggeries are foreyer closed, probably has not 1 tried once to mop up the sea. Fortunately it is a Republi- who says she will not cease her labors earred the lefion taught by the lady who L —_— Papa Zimmerman wants to purchase an ancestral castle for his daughtér chester. It is unfortunate that he cannot buy her a : purchasing power of money. the Duchess of M. grandfather, for there is aiter all a limit to :llx: RO AT General Gomez appears to be somewhat more successful He has won in the ¢onstitutional convention at Havana a vict his military career. T > with ballots than he was with bullets. ory which reflects great credit upon ————— € . A plan is proposed to have only one State Commissioner of Textbooks i three. _scheme commends itself on the theory that one tinker is less liable to do dnmzm three. 2p here, Paderewskl and Rosenthal not ex- AP, . e e As to. the famous Godowsky para- phrases on the Chopin Etud As one prominent musician says, “They look better than they sound.” Of their tremen- dous technical difficulty and remarkable ingenuity there can be no two opinlons: thelr musicalncss is another question. One curfous feature about the matter Is that no one has accused their author of impertinence, and neither is there the least suspicion of i{rreverence about the paraphrases. But if Chopin had wanted them that way he knew enough to have written them in that fashion: and that his was the only way was amply proved when Godowsky played paraphrase and etude proper on the same programme. -Other less familiar numbers given here were the ‘Varlatlons on a Norwegian Theme” of Grieg, the Chopin B minor sonata, E flat minor “Scherzo” of Brahms, ballet from ‘‘Alceste,” a Saint- Baens arrangement of the Gluck and a brilllant “Contrapuntal Paraphrase” by Godowsky himeelf on Weber's “Invita- tion to the Waltz.” The artist after his American tour will return to Berlin, where he will make his home. He has lived in Chicago for nine years. ag R The musical event of the coming week will be the appearance of Miss Leonora Jackson, the violinist, and formerly a resident of Californta. Miss Jacksen s scarcely out of her teens, but has already won an enviable reputation for herself as a violinist. As a child she was sent abroad to study by George M. Pullman, Mrs. Grover Cleveland and others, and the wisdom of their Investment has been amply proved, according to the crities, who have commented most favorably upon the work of this young woman. As Miss Jackson was engaged for eight con- certs in one séason by the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra, there seems little doubt of her attalnments, and she is accom- panied by Josephine Elburna, a soprano of note, and Selden G. Pratt, planist. Miss Jackson will :Ww.amm in recitals, to-morrow an v affernoons, the California Theater, when she "ll’ doubtless repeat her triumphs of Lon- don, Berlin and Paris. . ‘ Metro- politan Temple, which will be the last op- ers during this visit. Rty creant listener nor with nod and beck and |. even fewer persons, and on the third af- | only two small and wonderful hands. In- | PARTINGTON. known vocalist and teacher, Mme. ‘nez Fabbri Mueller, speaks for itself. “I need hardly remind you that fomths last twenty-five years I have devoted all my energies as artist as well as teadier toward the musical education of the ¥s- ing generation of San Francisco; and n in the evening of my life, when I shoul able to enjoy the fruits of my labor, tress and desolation lie at my door. dear husband, Jacob Mueller, is stricl down and les prostrate and helpless 2 bed of sickness. In_order to restope him to life and health I have resolved o appeal to my friends for assistance. W host of artists have kindly volunteered §» tender us.a benefit on the evening o March 3 at Native Sons’ Hall. I keenly feel and regret that dire necessity com. pels me to accept this token of esteem, but I can do nothing else, it is a case of life or death with us. The tickets will 50 cents and such help as you can give will be most gratefully appreciated.” Mme. Mueller will be remembered as ; former prima donna of the Impert opera-houses of Vienna and Berlin of Covent Garden and the Royal Soclety of Londgn, and the sympath all musiclans will go out to the singer her afflicted husband in their trouble G What a royally good band is So and what an excellent reception ! bo where meets. All of the concerts last week, matinees included, ha en attended by large and crowds, in spite of the ple: tractions in town. We have nation, reasop to be proud of his band, and they go this sea new honors.for American m exhibition at Glasgow, Scotlan s @ o A particularly Interesting progr promised by Dr. H. J. Stewart a hour organ recital after service to-day. .It is as f “Das Rheingold™ (fantasta) Vorsplel, Act 1 (Parsifa Wotan's Farewell and Magic Firs Scens (“Dis ‘Walkure™). Funeral March (“Gotterdammerung’). o St o gt PERSONAL MENTION. A. J. Bledsals of Ukiah 1s at the Grand. J. C. Ruddick of Ukiah s at the Grand. Sheriff B. F. Langford of San Jose is at the Lick. J. C. Coughley of Uku S S gh f Ukiah is & guest at Governor Gage Is Palace, E. C. Merritt registered at the of Santa Rosa s at the F. California. Judge J the Palac J. A. McKenzte and wife of Merced are guests at the Lick. Jules Cain, a merchant of registered at the Lick. | A. Kruse, a fruitman of Marshfield, Or., | is a guest at the Rus: W. C. Daub, an ofl man of Bakersfleld, is registered at the Grand. C. R. Tiison, a lumberman of Modesto, is registered at the Grand Judge Edward H. Lamme of Los An- geles is a guest at the Palace. L. A. Soitzer, Assessor of Santa County, is a guest at the Grand. Amos Burr, agent of the New York Central in Los Angeles, is at the Lick. Lieutenant F. F. Clarks of the R. C. R. of Halifax, N. S., I3 at the Occidental. J. G. Enright, a real estate man of San | Jose, accompanied by his wife, is at the Palace. The Right Rev. W. W. H. Moreland, Bishop of Sacramento, is at the Occi- dental. Paul Morton, second vice president of the Banta Fe Railroad, is registered at the Palace. Edward Chambers, general freight | agent of the Santa Fe tn Los Angeles, is at the Palace. ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 1&—The following Californtans are in New York: From San Francisco—W. R. Halle, at the Maribor- ough; L. Curran, at the Imperial; W. Marks and wife, at the Victoria. ANSWERS TO QUERIES, CRIBBAGE-I. H. R, City. If. i a two-handed game of cribbage the play runs 8, 3, 7, 2, 5, 4 there is a run of six. Miller of Saata Crus is at the N. Davis of Jackson is at Newman, 1s Clara A PATENT-G., Gilroy, Cal. The best way “to securs a patent on an article of home manufacture” s to engage the ser- vices of an attorney who makes a spec- jalty of obtaining such. An inventor who wishes to act independently of such an agent might make a mistake that would cost him his patent. SCENT FOR THE BREATH-F. H. City. Theatrical people who desirs to scent the breath use the same scents that are used by other people. 'rn;yh do not use any special preparation. ere are any nu!nbf of preparations sold by drug- gists for scenting the breath, but thig de- partment ecannot recommend any that P31l stay with people a couple of hours.” REVOLUTIONARY WAR-H, City. This department has & communication from this correspondent In which is asked “What was the dats of the termination of the Revolutionary ‘War?" This depart- ment has not been able to discover any Buthoritative statement on that point. Can any of the readers of Answers to Cor- tespondents furnish the desired informa- tion? rLL HANG MY HARP—E. M. 8., Oak- land, Cal. The full text of the song “rn hang my harp on a willow tree’ can be found in “Our Familiar Songs,” page 2. This department has not the space to pub- lish it in full. The book named ys of this song: “There is an absurd trad! that this familiar old ballad was wri by a nobleman who the misfortune lose his heart for Queen Victoria (then Princess Victoria) and who poured forth the sulcidal song when she received the dladem on her brow.” PAYING RENT—B. H., City. The gen- eral rule in San Francisco is that rent shall be paid In advance. If you rented a room on the 24th of August of last year the payment of t:;; amount wna ]d have carried you up to the o entember, and if you have since then paid the amount of your rent "hen it came due in advance and hoid five re- Yeipts, In all you have paid rent until the Sith of January of this year. If vou di ot pay on tha 2dth of last January you are indebted to the landlord for the rent ATl the 2ith of this month. A month to ;‘:r'a!dn:y';l!;. “vou motice that the rent will be increased, or he may serve you With a notice to quit. If It is a notice ot increase of rent, such motice must be given at least thirty days before the in- B eased rent Is to become effective. If | the rent is then not pald a uit {.l:ge‘intoe;:ctment commenced. An_hon- nant will never vacate premises grable {e landlord rent. ————————————— Choice ¢andies, Townsend's, Palace HotelL* ity mmmnmmmnwu —————————