The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1901, Page 6

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Central Tiveli “A Fair Rebel *“The 1dol's Eye.” Vaudeville ‘The Conguerors.” Grand Opera-house—'‘Under Two Flags.” California—""The Evil Eye.”” Olympia, corner Mason Chutes, and evening * Fischers—Vaudeville A olitan Hall—Lecture. Tanforan Park—Races. ddy streets—Specialties. T0 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Cal! subscribers contemplating a change of .1408 G St., N. W. | [ | | | | THE SAN FR EXPULSION OF THE NEGRO. THE Methodist Advocate, organ of the M. E. Church South, published in this city, denounces an editorial in The Call on expulsion of the negro from the South as “Ignorance or malicious- nress.” Our critic read us carelessly. We have quoted a letter written by Senator Morgan to an editor in Ala- bama in which disfranclisement of the negro is highly approved and his expulsion from the South is advo- cated. The Senator <ays that when-such expulsion is accomplished the Southerners “will be a free and happy people.” He also advises that in view of the success which las so far attended the disfranchisement of the negro it is best to work quietly and with as little discussion as possible. He concludes also that the passage of the Congressional apportionment bill and the count- ing of the electoral vote may be taken as evidence that thie North does not intend to interfere. If quoting Morgan is evidence of ignorance or malice we will have to plead guilty. The Advocate says: “The Call, to have been fair, should have informed its readers that the law en- fcrcing these measures (negro disfranchisement) is an exact copy of a statute of a certain Northern State, | and, also, that the law as operated in the Southern country is against white and black alike.” “As operated in the Scuthern country,” the law, for example, in North Carolina, provides that if a man is descended from one who was a voter prior to the date of the fifteenth amendment he is excluded from the operation of the law, though himself illiterate, and remains a voter by reason of the franchise of his an- cestor. As no negro was a voter “in the Southern ccuntry” prior to the adoption of the fifteenth amend- ment, none can vote on the franchise of his ances- tor. This has come to be known as “the grandfather clause” in the law “as operated in the Southern coun- try,” but the Advocate says that law is “an exact copy of a statute of a certain Northern State,” refer- ring, we suppose, to the law of Massachusetts. Now, wili the Advocate pleasc to specify a certain Norti- crn State, or any Northern State, which has a “grand- father clause” in its law to exclude illiterates from the franchise? If it cannot do this will it please to with- | draw i(s'charge that in discussing a public subject of Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and | prime importance The Call shows ignorance or malice? If the exception of zn illiterate white voter from | the law because his grandfather voted, and the in- | tion of servitude and residence during the summer months can have | their paper forwarded by mail to their new ®ddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer nd is represcnted by u local agent im on the coast. ALARMS IN CHINA. T is reported that the numerous appointments of l Chinese with anti-foreign tendencies alarm the mission and otber foreigners as to the fu- Why should it not? Chinese public officers in this but let any candidate run and take his medicine. In uted facts concern- ries wure tion strong ant Ch ele alarms the -Chines view of the ing the condu creign armies in China, wiiat are we to expect of human beings with the experience the Chinese | vith foreigners? The w 1d this time be sufficiently informed of the Chinese s ion to conclude that wisdom re Guires that t - Governments of the Weste: powers sh ase 1] participation as Governments the so-called evangelizing of China. Secular and sacrosanct hip in China has caused a thou- | one conversion, and has defiled an? ad woe, sorrow, dire death and dis ked the soil with the blood of the done worse than this. It has propa- n the Christian world the most awful heresy he mind can conceive. It has caused it to be that these crimes must of necessity accom- v the evangelizing of a people, and that they are chosen process of the Almighty! he result is that ~hose of good heart, the lovers' of humanity, those who believe in manhood honorable 2 anhood undefiled, are averting their faces »m that which is taught as Christianity, and the very lands which send forth the soldier to kill and the mis- sicnary to convert ar: falling away from a system ir which the people detect such a gulf between pro- fession and practice. It is an evil for w! medicine. murders to destroyed, spr tres preached 1 in wor h plain speaking is the only The more plain speaking the better for ac- tua] Christianity, which is not a dogma that must be taught with Krag-Jorgersons and written in the blood of slaughtered innocence, but a life to be lived in illus- tiation of the gentle and humane precepts of its fovnder. The great issue that concerns the Western world is net the conversion of China, but the conversion of the istian nations to Christianity. — A very nice problem has arisen in connection with the operation of the Chicago drainage canal. The itary authorities decided that to completely carry y the sewage and prevent the contamination of the rivers into which the canal empties, there should flow through it 400,000 cubic feet of water every min- ute; but the result was the immediate lowering of the lake level to a point that made navigation dangerous, and Secretary Root has ordered that the flow be limited to 200,000 cubic feet. The question is whether navigation or public heaith is the more important, and the argument upon it between St. Louis and Chicago is getting hot enough e raise the temperature all over the Mississippi Valley. sa n W The introduction of coffins made of paper is not in itself surprising, for in these days paper is being used ior almost all sorts of articles from napkins to car wheels: but it is a little odd that the applicant for a paient on the new style coffins should be a practicing physician. It would Le z rather dubious proceeding to call to the sick a doctor who has coffins for sale. The report that the Kaiser is writing a book af- fords some explanation of his insistence that his speeches shall not be published by the newspapers. He doubtless intends to work them over in the form of an historical romance and wishes them to have something of a novel appearance when they appear in book form. Winter is still Iingering in the lap of spring in the East, and yet the people are already wondering what they will do for ice this summer. It seems they are never happy over there, | | | ing: | the Southern Methodist Church in the West.” r | submit that this is gratuitous. We have no doubt that the | clusion of an ignorant regro because his grandfather was a slave and could not vote, is not depriving hi of the ballot because of his ancestor's previous condi- not a violation of the Fad- eral constitution, we would like to know what would clate it. Senator Tilliran of South Carolina says i* a violation of the constitution, for which “exhibition | of ignorance or malice” we turn him over to the Ad- vocate for discipline. The Advocate concludes its caustic attack by say- “Of course it i3 manifest to all thinking and informed people that this whole string of falsehoods are given out purely for political effect; not that The Call has any love for the negro, or cares a snap for his personal interests. ~Such misrepresentation as this goes a long way toward prejudicing the uninformed 2gainst the Southern people, and especially against We An opinion founded vpon facts is not prejudice. If Tillman and Mor- gan whom we give as authority, are injuring the Methodist Church South in the West, we suggest that the Advocate turn its theological Gatling at them and raise its siege on The Call. If the editor of that excellent denominational organ will join the ranks of | the informed he will learn that the policy of the South, as declared by Morgan, is to disfranct tke negroes by an illiterate franchise law because their ancestors were slaves and not voters, and at the same t'me retain their members of Congress and Presiden- unl Electors obtained by counting the disfranchised negroes in the apportionment, thbugh this is forbid- den by the constitution. All frank Southerners, hke Meorgan, admit this and cpenly’rejoice that the schemne is a success: In further proof we call the Advocate's serious and religious attention to a news dispatch of the 22d inst. from Birmingham, Ala., which notes the close of the campaign in that State for a constitu- tional convention which proposes to make practically but one change in the State constitution, “the elimi- ration of the negro vote by an educational qualifica- tion.” To this is added: “The Democratic party has pledged itself to see that no white man will be dis- franchised.” This mzans that the plan followed in North Carolina and cther parts of “the Southern country” is to be adopted in Senator Morgan’s State, and illiteracy is to hit the black voter and miss the white. Again let us express the pleasure we feel in anticipation of the Advocate’s citation of the statute of “a certain Northern State” of which such a law “is the exact copy.” Of course The Call is a besotted secular journal, and the Advocate is a refined, religious and upright or- gan that is mindful of morality and truthfulness. We leave to it the front of the stage. It is reported that at a recent session of the Loyal Lecgion Congress in Washington President McKinley joined in singing “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean,” so if we wish to give him in California a better chancf., than he ever had anywhere else it should be arranged to let him sing a solo. e o st THE BRIGHT SIDE OF @GUSTRIA. UCH in the way of ill news has come of iate /\/\ from Austria. The continuous wranglings in the Reichsrath and the repeated outbreaks of discontented and unemployed workingmen have held the most conspicuous place in all dispatches from the empire. Indeed, so ominous of disaster have been nearly all reports frgm Vienna that the public has be- come well-nigh convinced of the correctness of the prediction that upon the death of Francis Joseph there will be an outburst of civil war which will not end until the empire has been dismembered and blotted from the political map of Europe. It appears, however, that affairs are by no means so bad in the Austrian empire as they seem,when atten- tion is confined to political disturbances. " The people are enjoying a fair degree of prosperity and have from an industrial point of view bright prospects be- fore them. That much is made evident by the show- ing of the results of the recent census and by tie aunounced programme of public works to be under- taken by the Government. | A report from the Unired States Consul General at Vienna to the State Department at Washington, giv- ing a summary of the Austrian census taken in De- cember, is to the effect that the present population of the Austro-Hungarian ncnarchy is about 46,890,000 or slightly greater than that of Japan. With reference to population Austria-Hungary is the seventh country of the world. During the last ten years the popula- tion of Austria alone has increased 9.3 per cent, a more rapid growth than it has experienced in previous decades. The presént population of Hungary is about 10.200,000. Its rate of growth in the fast teri years has been 10.7 per cent, or slightly more rapid than in Austria, but slightly less than its own rate of growth in the ten years preceding. Such an increase of population during the decdde is a better showing than can be made by any other country id Europe, with the sole exception of Ger- many. It is now fairly certain the British census just taken will not show anything like such an increase. ‘Where population advances at such a rate there must be something of genctal prosperity, and it would appear, therefore, that the wrangling pol the Reichsrath are not to be looked upon as true rep- resentatives of the peopie. The programine of public work recently announce: is a notable one and will go far toward settling the labor question by affording work for virtually all the unemployenjl It has been announced that the general scheme of the Governmient is to cover Austria with a network of railroads and canals. Nearly $100,000,000 will be spent in the next five years for railroads, and a considerably larger snum will be used in the course of a dozen years for canals. The railroads will com- prise a great trunk line running from the northern provinces across the Tauern Alps to Trieste, with branches and connections which will make it a high- way of traffic not only for Bohemia, Moravia and Upper and Lower Austriz to the coast, but also for Bavaria and Saxony; thus, it is hoped, enormously augmenting the importance and prosperity of Trieste as a center of commerce. As to the canals, one is to connect the Elbe with the Danube, and another is to connect that with the Oder, the Vistula and all the Galician fivers, thus opening a waterway clear across Europe, from both the North Sea and the Baltic to the Black Sea. When those great improvemeénts are under way, when workingmen are earning good wages, while merchants and manufacturers and landowners are find- ing new benefits from the increased facilities of trans- portation, the people may think twice before permil ting the politicians to involve them in civil war. Evi- dently there are statesmen in Austria who understand their Business, and who are going about it with vim and vigor. Duels in New England are very rare, but the re- cent story of a duel fought by two Boston men over a collar button shows that when an issue large enough tu interest the New Ergland intellect arises the New Englander will fight. BETTER FOREST CONTROL. ROM the floods that have swept along the streams and the rivers of the East this spring new ,and forcible arguments will be drawn to confirm the growing conviction of the people that it : high time something were done to provide for the protection and preservation of our forests. It has been fully demonstrated that the floods are due in a large measure to thé wasting of the woods. Streams that in former years flowed with an even volume of water through the summer now rush down in torrents in the spring. Once they furnished ample power to turn mill wheels and promote industry all the year round, but now they flood the mills in spring and leave them dependent upon steam for motive power during the summer. New Jersey is one of the States that has been promptest to engage in the work. A plan has been proposed there which is said to be more comprehen- sive than that of any other State in the Union. "Its aim is nothing less than the acquirement by the State of all the remaining forests within her ‘borders and of all barren lands that czn be used for forest cultiva- tion. The promoters of the plan estimate that if it be carried out and the forests be cultivated upon busi- ness principles the State will within a few years be 2ble to obtain from the woods a net revenue of not less than $500,000, and thus add a large pecuniary profit to the benefits which will result from the mere preservation of the woods. There appears to be nothing in the way of exag- geration in the estimate. The forest area of New Jersey is 2,060,819 acres. From those woods there were cut last year and sold lumber and timber in one form or another amounting in value to more than $4,000,000. The principal items were: Railroad ties, $625,000; telegraph and telephone wires and poling, $100,000; fuel for dome:tic consumption, brick and tile manufacture, $2,400.000; fencing, $365,000; logs and bolts at mills, $692,537. There are other sources by which it is believed at least a million dollars more is added to the aggregate value of the timber an- nually cut. - In addition to the movements undertaken in the various States there is also a demand for a beticr system of forest control on the part of the National Government. As has been pointed out by a recent report on the subject: “The system of forest control r.ow in vogue is at once inadequate, inharmonious and expensive. There are virtually three divisions of it— one under the direction cf the Geological Survey, one under the control of the Land office and one under the direction of the Division of Forestry of the De- partment of Agriculture—and because of this division of authority and a consequent lack of concert in ac- tion the service is by no means as thorough as it should be. - The plan for consolidating these various branches under a single head has been adopted by Secretaries Hitchcock and Wilson after a careful study of the whole situation, and under it the Interior De- partment will continuc to exercise the power of policing forest reservations against fire and unlawful timber cutting, while the general work of forest cul- ture and extension will be conducted by the Depart- n:ent of Agriculture.” The new plan will be an improvement upon the oid, and from it there may come the formation of a comprehensive system oi forest control and preser- vation. The issue is one toward the solution of which the National Government might well lead the way. It would also be beneficial to the wholé coun- try if New Jersey wortld undertake in good earnest | the plan that has been proposed there. The Ameri- ¢an people are promyt to follow a good example of business, and if New Jersey can at the same time save her forests and make an increasing profit from them it would not be long before other progressive commonwealths would follow her lead. It is reported that extensive preparations are being made for the coronaticn of King Edward next year. and it is possible his Majesty will get up a spectacle that will help to elevate the stage by giving them an object lesson in the way of a royal show. Senator Hoar recently expressed regret that he had given his life to politics instead of to law; but as it is well known the Senator never acts as he talks, his vegrets have not led any one to suppose he thinks of resigning. Nearly 50,000 immigrants entered this country dur- ing the month of March, so it will be seen that our prosperity is attractive ac the greatest show on earth. . CISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1901, X.—ART STUDY IN To the women of America we owe the preservation of the fine arts in this coun- try during an age of unprecedented com- mercialism. ‘Without the enthusiastic support of the women's clubs art and literature alike would be practically extinct throughout a large section of the United States. Were our womankind as indifferent to these branches of culture as were their grand- mothers a few decades ago their very names would soon become obsolete and meaningless. Our twentieth century man, absorbed in his fascinating game of busi- ness, with its high stakes and narrow horizon, would soen be reduced to a most limited vernacular. The few gentlemen of fortune who possess taste as well, the oc- casional student, the schoolmaster with a liking for literature, the lame and the in- valided who have dropped out of the great struggle and find solace in art— these all together form so small a per cent of the mighty, active aggressive popula- tion of the interior that by themselves they count for nothing at all in the propa- ganda of ways esthetic. By themselves, be it noted, for reinforced as they are by the moral strength of an Amazon army crusading under the banner of “The True, the Beautiful and the Good,” they in turn become positive influences. And even the producers, the writers and the artists— gentle, unclassified dreamers that they are, lost amid swarming wealth-winners— feel now and then the unwonted joy of a sympathetic comprehension; imagine themselves for the moment in an “art at- mosphere.” “I want to kncw" seems to be woman's motto in these days. In choosing art as i one of the subjects of greatest appeal the clubs have selected the most delightful and at the same time the most elusive of themes. You can study arithmetic out of a book; you can learn a great deal about the ge- ography ahd geology of the world while imprisoned within the four walls of a schoolroom. Grammar and rhetoric, soci- ology, political economy and even theol- ogy are to be had in neat packages, like condensed soups, ready for use when properly thinned out. But art is not so complaisant. It is neither a mathematic formula nor a synopsis. It is more than a zinc etching or a half tone. You can learn a vast deal about it and yet know nothing of it. A class may study the history of art for months and yet remain unable to tell a good picture from a bad one. A club may compile monumental essays on art for twenty years and yet fail to recognize a masterpiece unless it be labeled. Difficulties in Art Study. To illustrate how the unguided student may travel all around a subject and quite iniss its vital essence imagine an art cir- cle endeavoring to comprehend the work of Claude Monet through the aid of re- prcductions in black and white. How of- | ten they have been discussed by the hour without a suspicion of their real signifi- cance in the evolution of art! The half- tones show only what the pictures lack; their absence of sentiment, their indiffer- ent composition, their shortcomings, ac- cording to all classical precedent. their sparkling sunshine, their delicate tones, their exquisite values the reproduc- tions give no notion. Beside a neat sharp photograph of one of Gerome’s groups they would be voted unworthy of atten- tion. v Take as another example the sculptures of M. Rodin. To the conscientious begin- ner gazing upon single views of figures in the round how perfectly incomprehen- sible some of those strange creations | must appear! It is impossible that they should convey in any wise the sculptor’s point of view. A single glance at the Bal- zac would convince the average self-re- specting admirer of the ‘Apollo Belvidere (g:t M. Rodin is a fraud. Yet he is con- sidered by many artists and critics the greatest of living sculptors. 1t is evident that what the art classes need most is familiarity, not with books, but with the real thing—with art itself. Histories and textbooks of art are neces- sary, and papers prepared and papers hezrd are helpful, but there are two or three things which should precede and which would illuminate all of this re- search, giving it 2 new significance. Hélpful Methods for Beginners. The first of these is a ‘“speaking ac- | quaintance,” at least, with the processes | of the arts. Flow can one hope to make much out of the history of painting with- out a knowledge of what painting is; its possibilities, its limitations and its vari- ous means and methods? To whom shall we go for this knowledge if not to the vainter hims?lf’! The old method of “thinking up papers” on art has largely given way to the labor-saving invention of employing a “leader” to write them. By this simple device many clubs are now supplied at a low rate with critical essays charged with emotion and discreetly enlivened with kit- ten stories and tales of the painters’ loves. Such a system of vicarious study has its i advantages, but suggests further devel- | opment; why not learn of those who can speak with authority? A course in the history of galnung is proposed; what would introduce it more fittingly thun a demonstration of the artists’ methods by a skillful portrait painter? We have sev- eral of them in America who could do it well. Let him pose a strllflng model be- fore the audience, arrange his lighting and accessories, make his drawing (or | have it ready), set his palette and then “paint in” the head and surroundings with fit explanation at each step. Would this not make an Interesting and highly instructive entertainment? Would it not be something entirely new to the larger | portion of his audience? Such an initia- | tion could not fail to make them feel Let- ter acquainted with Rubens and Velas- quez, with Sargent and Zorn. Artists as Lecturers for Clubs. The writer speaks from experience, hav- ! ing given many similar demonstrations of the processes of sculpture. The interest shown by people of all ages and classcs is a copstant surprise. e like to see things done, and having once seen, we retain_some impression ever after. It is a_bond of closer sympathy with the art- ist and his productions. “I shall never see a statue again without thinking of your work in the clay,” “I had no idea i how it was done,” “I want to thank you for opening a new world to me”—such ars expressions familiar and ever grateful to | the lecturer's eer. Now, let an accomplished landscape man bring his canvas and blackboard and, after illustrating the classic forms of com- position, sketch and paint in a modern landscape from an out-of-doors study. It need not be a “‘finished” picture, but sure- ly in an hour and a half a good man should be able to work up a very impres- | sive “buckeye,” while throwing out a shower of interesting side hints on va- rious methods of technigue, Juxtaposition of colors, values, etc. By the ald of the stereopticon the processes of etching could be illustrated in the same way, and other arts as well. There are accomplished | masters of these professions who are ready and willing to do such work from time to time. Their charges would not | be exorbitant and thé united art circles and clubs of the State will soon be able to command anything that they want. Forming the Critical Faculty. The reference above to composition htlr:ls! us to another point. Art has itss fundamental principles. which, if under- | stood, make all things clear; which, If rnored, leave the student helpless and muddl It is not enmx‘fh to _know how a painter or a sculptor does things; it is even more important to know why he does, and/why, on grounds entirely re- moved from sentiment, one resuit is bet- ter thap another. Here such works Van Drke's “How to Judge a Pictur and his more advanced “Art for Art's Sake” are helpful. The best thing that L ipve Homan G the elementary principles art is that opening number of the “Uni- versity Lessons on the Fine Arts,” writ- ten by Russell Sturgis. This is really a < PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. What American Women, Organized Into Clubs, Have Done to Develop the Study of the Fine Arts. By L.orado Taft. (COPYRIGHT, 1%0L) WOMEN’S CLUBS. masterly exposition of the subject and “should be in every family”—at least, In every art club. Other numbers of this eminently prac- tical series take up the history of archi- tecture, of sculpture and of painting throughout the ages, giving on the whole the best outline of these arts that has been offered in a single work of corre- sponding scope. It is not superficial like the little textbooks, nor is it expanded into an encyclopedia of prohibitive size and price. A great advantage which it possesses over the familiar standard works lles in its being the latest, and bringing things up to date. Ome can find information anywhere regarding Dona- tello and Botticelli, or even Burne-Jones and Bastien-Lepage, but to galn a just estimate of Besnard, of Frank Bran 7 or of Winslow Homer is a more difficult matter, and involves an endless search through magazines of many months and years. - Art Studied in the Light of History. The thing which the *“University Les- sons” do not provide, however, and which no book offers, is that “local color” so necessary for the full comprehension of any work of art. To understand a Dic- ture or statue we must know what man- ner of man created jt and for whom the work was done. To understand the people we must know the period and the common possessions of the time. Art can only be studied appreciatively when accompanied b{ general history. To estimate a master- Pece O] rl{ we_must be able to view t in the light of his own era, to disso- ciate it from all that has been done since —and to which it may have contributed. It takes a good deal of knowledge to be able thus to divest one’s self of knowl- edge, to live for the time being in'a given period of the past. And to put one’s self in the place of the artist who cre- ates for very joy of doing, or in the atti- tude of his public, enthusiastic and de- vout, it maybe, or critical and discrimin- ating, requires not only knowledge but imagination. It demands qualities of heart as weil as of mind. To grasp a great work fully one must know its original urpose, its location and its associations. me of these things we can never know. Impossible is it for us to look at anything through the eyes of centuries gone. The work as it stands in the museum, though complete, has lost half—yes, nine-tenths of its significance. We realize this as we stare at our dusty casts of Greek sculp- tors, wrested from noble pediments and rhythmic frieze. It is not less the case with the sculptural florescence of the gothic period and rich fruition of the re- naigsance; how far away it all seems! Human nature is always the same, they tell us, but I venture to doubt if we to- day can share fully the fierce joy of the inquisitors or the-exaltation of the crus- aders. Do we grasp the significance of the church bulilding of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries? Do we realize that Wwithin a circle of 100 miles’ radius from Paris, In a country sparsely settled, there grew up in that time scores of the most wonderful edifices that the world has ever seen? Imagine the northern third of Illinols studded with such cathedrals as those of Paris, Chartres, Bourges, Reims, Amiens, Beauvais, Rouen and all of the smaller ones! Can we by any stretch of fancy picture to ourselves the citizens of Aurora, Elgin and Rockford consecrat- ing their lives, their wealth and their children and grandchildren to such works of splendid devotion? We are as intelli- gent as_those old burghers of 800 Frt ago, and know an enormous lot of things they did not know, but childlike faith and pious emulation have waned with the ad- vancing centuries, the world’s capacity for great and lasting enthusiasms has dimin- ished and at this hour we realize feeblv the miracle of those buoyant days when nations were young. Value of Breadth of View. It is for this reason that we must do our best to gain a point of view, to de- velop our emotions, and to thrill, for the moment at least, in unison with the pulse- beats of those who wrought and of those who prayed. Not only were people busy loving and hating then, as now, and marrying and killing as now, and painting and carv- ing, as we do—much less—here and now; they also amused themselves by writing chronicles and telling tales and alnglng songs. ese explain our pictures an statues and must be studied with them. That is, sometimes they explain the pic- tures, and sometimes the pictures were made to illustrate them: often they are, one and all, the progeny of old folk tradi- tions. At any rate the arts go hand in hand, and though it may be possible to know but one, it is a pity, for they are as like as Italian to French. You can have both for but little more than the price of one. Do not protest that we are piling up an impossible task for the students of art his- tory. This is not intended for a three- months’ course. Nor is it insisted that every class begin with Egypt. I am not at all sure that it is not best to begin with the known and work back into the un- known. Be this as it may, my sugges- tion is merely that whereever the class begins, whatever the period taken up, the history and literature of the time must re- ceive their full tribute of attention. Try this method in fhe study of a single cen- tury or school; search here and there un- til you have built up for yourself a good | picture of the time, until you fairly live | in it. A new world will open before you; | ou will never be willing to stop. And the ilndergarten stories will satisfy you no longer. Art of the Past and the Present. There are clubs so profundly erudite, so enamored of antiquity, that they seem un- able to come down to everyday matters. Some indiviiuals are mentally long-sight- ed and can distinguish only objects held ft arm’s length. Tke life of our own time is too near, too commcnplace, for them. ! Yet, in a sense, it is for this present mo- ment, for us, that all things have been created. All of the past has contributed | to the hour in which we live; wherein are | athered together as in a skein the | {hrec\ds of a thousand converging influ- ences. Surely nothing is so real, o true and significant to us who tenant the earth to-day as this work which our brothers and sisters are doing. can we so fully sympathize; it alone is tangible and it alone brings with it the appeal of an iridescent future, misty but with possibilities. bi En the other Fand, there is damger of | living so completely and complacently in the present as tc lose much of the lesson of the past. It is a pity to sacrifice all of the advantages of a historic perspective. The present means but little save in the light of the past. Assoclation is all that A'Fves valué to anything. No one can hoge to appreciate the art of to-day without the standard of a thorough familiarity with the efforts and nchievements of those who have gone before. Practical Needs of Clubs. Each club should have its library; or else, as is often the case, its special cor- ner in the local library. There should be likewise a club librarfan or secretary ad- dicted to scissors and paste, indefatigable in rescuing from the flood of ephemeral literatute and reproductions those thihgs likely to be of future use. Their value de- pends largely upon classification and ac- cessibility. Every club should subseribe to one or more of the good art journals. The federated clubs will soon be able to command not only clrculating libraries on special topics and collections of photo- graphs and autotypes, but even good ex- hibitions under capable management, their own lecture bureau, and&usmbly a maga- zine on the lines of the Chautauquan, but specifically planned for their own work. So much for the domestic life of art clubs—of that which they can do for them- selves. Later 1 hope to suggest some of the tkings which they can do for others. SUMMER RATES at Hotel del Corcnado, Coronado Beach, Cal, effective after April 15, $¢0 for round trip, including 15 days at hotel Pacific Coast S. S. Co.. 4 New Montgomery st. e ‘Woman may be the weaker vessel, but sh‘efl tlomem'ne: contains the stronger sp . With naught else | PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. T. L. Ward of Yreka is at the Grand. | William A. Pinkerton of Chicago Is at | the Palace. J. M. Griffin, an oil man of Madera, staying at the Lick. Ex-Judge W. H. Hatton of Modesto is a guest at the Lick. W. Porter, an attorney of Fresno, Is a guest at the California. E. R. Snyder, an oil man of Coalinga, is a guest at the Lick. J. 8. Miley, an ofl man of Bakersfleld, is a guest at the Grand. The Rev. John T. Bryan of Stockton is a guest at the Occidental. F. P. Tuttle, an attorney of Auburn, is registered at the Occidental. B. F. Brooks, an oil man of Bakers- fleld, Is a guest at the Palace. Andrew Muir, a rallroad contractor of Ukiah, is staying at the Lick. J. M. Barney, a mining man of Dujch Flat, is staying at the Palace. F. C. Chinn, accompanied by his wife, is down from Sacramento and Is staying at the Palace. State Senator R. W. Irwin of North- ampton, Mass., accompanfed by his wife, is at the Occidental. T. E. Fisher of the Colorado Southern rallway, accompanied by his sister, Miss Katherine Fisher, arrived yesterday from Del Monte. They intended spending a few days in this city, but last night they received a telegram stating that their brother was dangerously i1l in Texas and they immediately left for that State. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 2.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—F. W. Clarke, at Herald Bquare; J. Deutsch, at Bartholdl; F. J. Denan, at Gilsey; C. B. Durnell, at Hoff- msn; O. S. Smoat and wife, at Imperial; S. M. Heyman, at Rossmore; M. Levy, at Herald Scuare. From Los Angeles—H. Lombard, at Im- perial; Miss C. C. Thorn and C. E. Thorn, at Marlborough. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON Californians In Washington are: Ralelgh—George Loswenberg, San Fran- cisco; Shoreham—M. D. Bayles and wife, Los Angeles; St. James—W. M. Manning, San Francisco. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. TO CORRESPONDENTS.—Answers to queries sent to this department are sent in as soon as obtained and they appear in print in the order that they are turned in, as space will permit. Questions are easily asked, but answers ars not easily obtained in every instance, so If dents do not see the answer two or three days after they send in the query they should not feel disappointed. GENERAL GRANT—W. H., City. Gen- eral Grant, in his (our around the world, reached San Francisco on the 20th of September, 1879, arriving from the Orient. SQUARE—W. G., Angel Island, and L. M. N., Arlington, Cal. There i3 no differ- ence between a square foot and a foot square. Each represents twelve squars inches on each side. The same rule ap- plies to a square mile and a mile square. is THE WALNUT—C. W., City. The wal- rut can be raised frum the nut, but a bet- ter result is obtaimed by grafting. The tree bears in about twelve years and con- tinues to bear for about twenty years. The tree that iss grafted bears sooner than the one grown from the seed. What a full bearing tree will produce depends upon the kind of nut and the size. The common walnut tres produces about fif- teen pounds of nuts to the bushel. THE FISHING LAWS—Subscriber, Corning, Cal. The fishing laws of Call- fornia are numerous. To give a synopsis of them would take up more space in this department than can be given to one ques- tion. If you will state the county you wish to know about in which fish may be caught, and the kind of fish it is de- sired to fish for, the answér will be fur- nished. Those who desire to find the fish laws in full should consult the Penal Coda of the State. HI-A-WAT-HA—A. 8, City. Hl-a-wat-ha was the reputed founder of the Iroquois confederacy, composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Sena- cas. - As to the early life of Hiawatha, which is Indlan for “wise man,” if he ever lived, is not known, but tradition has it that he came from above and dwelt among the Onondagas. It is said that he was the son of Mudjeekeewis (the West Wind) and of Wenonah, and that his mother, dying in his infancy, he was brought up by his grandmother, Noko- mis, daughter of the moon. He represents the progress of civilization among the American Indians. POLL TAX-—L. M. N., Arlington, Cal., and J. T. 8., City. The collection of poll tax in the State of California is under the following provision of the State con- stitution: “The Legislature shall provide for the levy and collection of an annual poll tax of not less than $2 on every male inhabi- tant of this State over 21 and under 60 vears of age, except paupers, idiots, in- 4 sane persons and Indians not taxed. Sai tax shall b fund.” The law applies only to inhabitants and not to those who are merely passing through the State en route to some other country. A DEED AND HEIRS—-L. W. M., City, Alden, Cal. The general form of a dead ‘grants, bargains, sells, remises, releases, conveys, aliens and confirms unto the party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever all the following de- scribed,” etc. A person receiving such a deed has a right to dispose of the property in any manner he sees fit or he may mort- gage it without consulting “the heirs.” In common law an heir Is a person who by right of birth succeeds to the real estaie of his ancestor immediately after the lat- ter's death. An heir ddes not acquire any interest until the death of the ancestor. e paid into the State school Choice candies, Townsend's, Palace Hotel® ———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* e e —— Townsend's Cal pound, in_fire-et kets. 639 Market, ornia glace fruits, e a ied boxes or Jap bas- alace Hotel building.® pSpecial information supplied_datly to usiness houses and publi Press Clipping Bureau ‘:.-\llcen' ‘{‘e:)';')b&n'nhl? gomery street. Telephone Main 102 = > When it comes to losing a collar b a detective is usually as unsucceu;:)tl“:m: trying to find it as any other man. | HOLE IN THE LUNGS There are thousands of men and women, as well as ever, | with holes in theirlungs: con- | sumption stopped. | What did it? Some change in way of life and Scott’s emulsion of cod- liver oil. A hole in the lungs, once | healed, is no worse than a too- tight waist or waistcoat. Take the emulsion and give it a chance to heal the wound. 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