The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1903, Page 6

—t for Children Should Include Exercises of Finger Muscles (pres d of k at pt a m is any the pr (Song Writer. Formerly Director of Music in the College of St. John the Baptist, New York.) | T is my purpose in these lessons to help children to ' Ipommc time, and in order to do this I am going to ask both children and parents to co-operate with me by giv- | ing great attention, even to the smallest detail, and by mak- | In my experience with children 1 have found that the precocious ones are not necessarily those who first reach | the goal; on the contrary, more often thanm not, the chil- | to be more successful musicians than those more brilliant, .i. simply because the former have not had their precociousness depend upon, and have hud to use patience and perse verance in its stead. others as well 1f 1= what I am going to explaln in these lessons. For- it & child could “perform a little” (genmerally a few hymns) on “the instru- v & melodeon), he was considered to have mastered all that was ¢ music in the home, it is apt to be of the tin pan variety, where of the performer seems to be to pound the poor, long-suffering as possible, without the - : cerated sensibilities of the| istener, who has been polite enough to let self be beguiled into “‘hearing Georgle | By Anice Tcrhune. galn a substantial knowledge of music in the shortest ing a perfectly fair trial of each exercise and suggestion. dren who have been described to me as “slow” have proved Sy 5la ma: < himself in a truly musical way that will give pleasure m in the musical line, and even now, in this enlightened age, if there tempo, rhythm, expres-f: | Georgie,” as ule, is only too delight- 1 a ed to exhibit, but in spité of his willing- ness to “show off,” the moment he touches | the plano his fingers, wrists and arms be- | from fright, and, having no| tion of technique or knowledge | to fall back upon, the result is| strous. 1l this can be avolded, and from y first a child may be taught to gain entire control over his fingers and to acquire the beautiful, clear, “singing, le- gato touch” in former times mastered only by professional planists, and that after years and years of hagd study. Surely it is worth trying for, isn't it? Particularly when it is right within our grasp and re- quires nothing but patient attention, inter- | est and, above all, practice. The younger a child begins, the better, | always remembering to keep him interest- | d most dise Now the v ed in the proceedings { ity | And now one last word to both parents | nd children before we begin the lesson, K3 itself. Please believe that I am personally sely intérested ¥ anx n each one of you, and es we work along together you cannot n I am that these lessons shall be of great benefit and that to look with knowing eyes into this great musical world that is more v people who know nothing of music is worse) will say: ““What is the use of technique? It will playing mechanical!” They know not whereof they speak. echnique ever mace any ong playing mechanical if properly applied, as every o really understands the matter may see, for a knowledge of technique sim- piy makes one entirely independent of technical pianist & chance to give full play to his mu . Ndw Yor ‘the lessons thomselves: The first etep is to get the little hands ready to play., The exercises T am going e for this preparing process are of the utmost importance and must be fol- | out in every detall, whether they seem to be necessary or not. Place the child at an ordinary table and be sure that the chair he occupies brings at the proper level—that is, see that his arms are the same helght in relation to | v would be in regard to the keyboard were he seated at the piano. | difficulties, thereby giving the ical feeling without impediment, . the table the His elbow e going to vse the table as an imaginary keyboard just at first, the child’'s fingers are in readiness for the piano. | as you sit beside him, hold his wrist lightly in your hand (your hand be-§ his) and raise his arm in a perfectly straight line about as high as his This is the N then drop it, allowing it to fall as it will f the muscles. first exercise for relflx~' %+ The child’s unconsclous inclination will be to help you raise the arm, and also| to help you drop it. To obviate this tell | him to raise both arms unaided by you, | then fling them limply down at his sides, as if he were very tired and could not | hold them up. Try this experiment with your own arms several times, until you feel the relaxation of your muscles. Then get him to do it a few times with | you, until his motions are entirely free from constraint. Children think this a | joke and enter into the spirit of it without | any trouble, If made to feel that it is “just for fun.” When you have tried this several times take his wrist lightly in your hand again, | Turn his head away, so that he cannot see how far you are going to ralse his | arm, or when you are going to drop it, | for if he is watching you he will uncon- | Mand-Shaping Exercise—Perfect | sciously help you as before. | Playing Position. | Now raise his arm, very slowly, holding | <it as lightly as possible, so that you | may detect the slightest inclination to push forward or hoid back on his part. When | you have slowly raisedthe arm as high as his head, release it suddenly. If it is not | perfectly relaxed it will stay in the upraised position an instant after you have | ceased to touch it before it drops down. Impress it upon him that he must neither | raise the arm nor drop it, but that you ere going to do all the work in this game you are playing. . Be very careful that the wrist ascends in a perfectly straight line each time. It is of the greatest importance. o When this exercise has been trled with both arms until they have become abso- lutely limp and relaxed, for theytl: on the fable, with the paim of Me hand and the fingers touching the table. hand must be perfectly Siat, but with fingers and thumb spread loosely. Next draw the thumb (or first finger, as it is called in music) in toward the palm of the hand, curving its joints as much as possible withott at the same time caus- ing discomfort. Be careful not to move the other fingers or the wrist at all. In drawing the thumb toward the other fingers all the movement is started at the top of the thumb—that is, the end of the thumb describes a wide half circle and the two_joints merely follow the lead of the end of the thumb, i Now, Jeaving the thumb resting Iightly almost on its tip, draw the other fin- gers slowly and lightly toward it, raising the joints and the wrist gradually at the same time untfl the fingers each rest lightly on their very tips. Be sure as the band stands thus that the first joint of each finger is as nearly vertical as possible, and that the thumb retains the position gained by its half-circle movement—i. e., the end resting-on its left side near the top of the point of the nail. It is difficult to get the first joint of the little (or fifth) finger to stand exactly The | electirig an anti-Republican Mayor. be about three inches above the table to allow a full sweep of | | dectors. ime being,place the right arm and hand lightly | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1903. HTHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL w e e+« .. .Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor Publication Office..... Third and Market Streets, S. F. WEDNESDAY ...... IN FAR AFRICA. R. LANE'S campaign is closing, as it began, with M pyrotechnics in oratory. Himself a partisan nomi- nee, in his latest speech he makes an appeal to non- partisanship for votes. In this appeal he lauded the Re- publican party and its illustrious leaders, known, he de- clared, for their genius and quality throughout the civilized world, and “even in far Africa.” 3 This geographical, globe-embracing argument and as- cription to the Republican party and its great names will no doubt suggest to Republicans that such a party is fit to be intrusted with the government of San Francisco, where, | Mr. Lane admits, its voters and adherents are in a ‘fnajority. I Ethiopia lift up her voice in praise of Republicans, San Francisco should be willing to trust them to run her gov- ernment for two years. Mr. Lane filed an explanation of his gray hairs, a sort of plea in abatement, by declaring that he is only a boy in politics, but that his election is necessary to put an end to | bossism in the city. Where are the bosses? Looking into the literature of the campaign one boss is discovered. A year ago he was revealed by Mr. Lane's morning organ, the Examiner, which refused to support Lane for Governor be- cause he was under Boss McNab. The McNab was then presented by Mr. Hearst's paper as the most odious and offensive boss that ever infested the town, the enemy of labor; the foe of human peace, an epigrammatic monster with the instincts of a cannibal and the predatory habits of a bird of prey. Yet the hand of this kilted curiosity in poli- tics was plainer in Lane’s nomination for Mayor than when he was nominated for Governor. Can the boss change his | tartan and swap his philabeg? The same night that Lane’s oratory rolled around the world from San Francisco ‘to the Dark Continent Mayor Schmitz, who has developed oratory that runs neck and neck with Lane’s, was using rhetoric as an art of persuasion upon his fellow citizens in declaring that his is a fight for | the rights of the plain people, and that if elected he wiIlt know no points of the compass; north and south will loek alike to him; he will cherish labor and capital as a hen‘. hovereth her chickens. He, too, asked his fellow citizens | to drop all partisanship and made a bid for Republican | votes. So at the Union Labor and Democratic corners of | the triangular fight the contest is a sort of auction. At| each the fact is recognized that the goods, the votes, are at | Crocker’s corner, in the hands of Republicans, and Lane and Schmitz.bid against each other to get them. This concession means that the decision of the contest is | with the Republicans of this city. If they resist the bids {and the blandishments of Schmitz and Lane, Crocker will | be Mayor. If they so stand, as present indications are that they will, they will be joined by thousands of Demo- | cratic and independent voters who are tired of hysterical and hypnotic politics. They have seen the city govern- ment traded for unredeemed promises for .the last seven years. In the beginning of that period they were told that morally and politically San Francisco was in a bad way and the only medicine to set it right would be found in | The bid was accepted then, and has been accepted twice since. Now they are told that the city is in a worse way than ever, and can be | rescued only by again handing it over to the same rescue ! party that confesses to a three-ply failure. The Digger Indians have a hard and fast rule about When their medicine man makes three successive | failures to cure they save him from further chagrin by taking him out in the chaparral and killing him. The anti-Republican doctors who diagnosed the diseases of San Francisco, and have had three chances at the patient, con- fess that they have three times failed. The people ought to have as much sense as Digger Indians, and should change doctors at least. No one will ask that they do more than take the quack medicine men out into the man- zanita and kill them politically. Physically we all wish them well, and desire that they survive to enjoy good gov- | ernment under Mayor Crocker and to rejoice with the rest of us in the rise of that Greater San Francisco of which the | prophets have prophesied. Mayor Schmitz says he wants to be elected Mayor for | the same reason that the United States went to war with Spain, whatever that may mean. Lane cries, from the midst of an attitude, “Let this be a non-partisan fight and give San Francisco a government that all the world will point to with pride and admiration,” and appeals to his Repub- lican fellow citizens to have it so by electing him. Well, please present the compliments of his Republican fellow citizens to all the world, as it stands ready and anxious to point, with the information that they prefer to make San Francisco the blushing object of planetary attention .by giving it Republican government under the leadership of Mayor Crogker. Then in the seclusion of private life Schmitz and Lane can settle their differences, as to which | was the incarnation of virtue, the avatar of a ‘civic golden age, and the heir at law of all the virtues. An unconfirmed story has come from Servia that the as- sassins of King Alexander and Queen Draga have been given as financial compensation for their bloody crime sums ranging from $400 to $10,000. - For the sake of even Servia, the nation of regicides, it is to be hoped that the stories of BRYAN’S LEGACY. HE litigation by Mr. Bryan to take from the Ben- vertic the nearer vertical it is the better. When the first joints are thus prope ced the hand will be in perfect position for playing—in other words, 3 gers, from the tips of the nails upward, will describg an .arch of Which the third knuckle of the middie finger will be the topmost point.” The wrist will be just @ trific higher than the top knuckle when viewed from the side, the tips of the fin- gers will rest lightly on the table and the elbow will swing free from it two inches or so. ¢ Be careful not to raise the wrist too high nor to drop it. Let it stand easily in the aforementioned relation to the knuckles. This exercise is called “hand-shaping.” As soon as the position is perfect let the child try his relaxing exercise again, Do not be discouraged if his muscles tighten persistently at first. It is only to be expected, particularly as soon as he tries to do something with them, as in the hand-shaping. The difficulty will soon disappear, however, and to aid it here is an- other exercise: Place the little pupil’'s hand and arm i playing position once more, and, holding his wrist lightly, slowly move it in a cir- cle. As the wrist describes the circle the fingers follow it, the shorter ones even be- ing raised a trifie from the table as they follow the motions of the wrist. Here, again, the whole aim is to relax the mus- cles, and arm, elbow and fingers must be limp and receptive, merely following the motions of the wrist. Get the child to center his thought on the wrist as much as possible, and be sure that it is the wrist that leads the motion and not the elbow, as is very apt to be the case unless the exercise is watched very carefully. At the end of each revolution the hand and arm must be in playing position. % . Every moment or two let the child rest bis right arm and try the left, letting him ®et up and move around the room oc- y to relieve the tension. Do not keep him at any of these ex-+ E ‘Wrist Movement. T ———4%| A male individual, cruelly named Sharkey, was sent, hope- -n:uu ;.'oo long e:;;. ‘4:,«-:‘” .o:e:n nmm-t.':h o:l:n-.:’ ud .l:l‘nf ;w:;‘h. m:-t they | lessly insane, to an asylum a few days ago. Unfortunately (The Second Lesson Will Appear in Next Wednesday's Issue,) for a long-suffering public he was the wrong Sharkey. I this new horror never will be confirmed. T nett family of Connecticut a legacy of $50,000 will be a cause celebre. Mr. Bryan appears as his own at- torney. The lawyer for the Bennetts made a legal argu- ment covering the law as applied to the estates and property of decedents. Mr. Bryan in rejoinder said that the attorney for the family failed to comprehend the fine sentiment of the transaction, and was influenced by the fact that he is a gold Democrat and is opposed to Mr. Bryan’s politics! It is the policy of the country to guard legally the es- tates of the dead, to give them lawful distribution, and to guard them from that very “sentiment” in the testator upon which Mr. Bryan bases his claim. Sentiment is what leads to undue infiuence in the devising of property. It was shown in the testimony that Mr. Bryan had concealed from Mrs. Bennett the fact that her husband had willed money to Mrs. Bryan; because it would be distasteful to her to have her husband’s estate divided with another man’s wife. On the face of it Mr. Bryan is making a sordid attempt, in an indelicate manner, to get his hands on money that he never earned, and his only claim to which lies in the fan- atical prepossession for him of a stranger who was capti- vated by his extravagant political theories and his arts of persuasion. If Mr. Bryan have any explanation to make that is consistent with ethics, professional or sonal, it is at present somewhat overdue.” o & surrender of the rights of his riva ‘moons. THE MONTANA TROUBLE. HE country outside of ‘the copper region of Mon- T tana has heard with indifference the noisy litigation long carried on there betwéen rival interests claim- ing ownership in the rich deposits of the red metal. There have been decrees and counter decrees, charges of judicial bribery and proceedings in impeachment; but now a de- cision seems to have been rendered by a district Judge which includes all the-issues that were joined and con- cludes them, being the law in the case until it is reversed by a higher court. As result of this decision the party adverse, which seems to have heen in control of the properties, has closed them all down, throwing out of employment many thou- sands of miners and other people supported in industries collateral to copper mining, such as timbering, quarrying a limestone, burning brick, smithing and the many industries | recessary in the mining and smelting of the copper ores. This has precipitated an industrial crisis upon Montana, since it steps the earnings of the miners and the men in the impinged occupations, and by shutting off the flow of money for the necessaries of life into the channels of trade mate- rially abridges every activity of the State. ~ Either the decision of Judge Clancy is good law or it is not. That can only be finally determined on appeal. To an outsider it would seem the proper course for both par- ties to the controversy to ask the court to appoint a re- ceiver to take charge of and operate the property while the several rival interests are undergoing final judicial ascer- tainment. The law cares for personal and property inter- ests in a manner consistent with the public peace when it is properly invoked. Had a receiver been asked for and appointed, the hullabaloo that is heard to the farthest parts of the republic would not have been raised. Now, however, the public peace is imperiled, and it is not pleasant | to read that the Judge who gave the decision has to have a heavily armed bodyguard to protect him against the rage of the idle miners. of the Supreme Court will affirm his decision at their per- sonal peril, and raises a vision of the duress of justice in that State that will not have a good effect upon its future fortunes. It must be said for the miners that they have offered to buy the stock of the losers in the suit who are respon- sible for shutting down the mines, and a bank has offered to furnish the money for that purpese. The price offered is $500 per share, the par value being $100. To this Mr. Heinze has replied with an offer to sell certain of the stock at $200 and $35 per share, respectively, provided he is per- mitted to buy certain other stock at a price fixed by him- seli. It secems, however, that the stock he wants is the cause of the controversy, and his offer is declared to mean a|to the room. which have been judi- cially confirmed. So that method of settling the issue is abandoned. The police and guards are being doubled, and i | | i | i i > Minute Cure in a Local Jag Sanitarium for Incorrigibles The Strenuous Effects of Five ; i | [ Abner. me, as Tennyson remarks pomes. In other words, cut it out. “We were notified to look out for a one of these five-minute liquor cures the other night and | nearly all these gray hairs of mine are the result of it | “I was standing on the corner when I sorter felt some- | 1 turned quickly and found a long, thin | guy with plenty of hair in his whiskers and a sort of hun- | gry look in his bloodshot eyes and a cobblestone poised to body behind me. plunk me with. are one of the fallen angels.” “Say, I was sure scared some. cobra with muscular appliances to burp. | kinder soft as it were, ‘You've got the wrong dope. joint on the corner over there who is an HESE jag cures may be all right,” said the nldi policeman on the beat, “but not for your Uncle Sort of eschew that kind of sledging for somewhere What are you going to do with that rock? I asked. ‘I have been commissioned to smite you," says he. “You | | This fellow looked like a | in his boozomaniac from | 1 said to_him,™ > There is a gazabo running a Elijah without wings. = Go over and muss him up some and you will score a bullseye.’ “He took my advice and while he was crossing the street I rang In for the wagon seven times. trol the exhilarated gent. When it arrived it took, four cops and twenty citizens to con- I lost an entire uniform. “The funniest thing about it was that we found out this strenuous drunkard was merely a prominent business man who had tried the jag cure and then scorned it like a self-controlled man.” Why the Italians Did Not Identify S Morgue Subject — HEY had just brought in a “float- er’” from the bay. The reporters J were sitting around the stove up- stairs in the Morgue waiting for Some- body to come and identify the thing downstairs on the slab. “Reminds me of a good story,” said | the old reporter. This can only mean that the Justices | | ter of '92, | —he got out of the busine “You remember the fellow who used to be on the Inquisitor several years ago a while ago and is making money now—tall, thin fel- low with a cadaverous face. ‘““Well, one very rainy day in the win- when I was on the Morgue and police beat with him, - they brought in an Italian fisherman who had been drowned in the bay. him the deputies went down to’ Fisher- men's wharf and got a bunch of six or eight Italians to come up to the Morgue and view the body. The Inquisitor man tipped off his hand to me and as the fishermen hove in sight around the cor- ner he slipped down to the room below. I told the deputy that since he was busy I would take the Italians downstairs and show them the body. “I met the Italians and took them down their great sea boots stomping on the floor each pulled off his cap and crossed himself. I'turned on the lights and there on the first slab (with a sheet drawn up to his chin and his cadaverous face drawn the legal authorities are taking every precaution to protect | ang set, lay the Inquisitor man. property against outhreak. Surrounding States have an interest in the controversy, since it may result in thirty thousand miners and others engaged in related industries leaving Montana to seek em- ployment in the other mining States, where the demand is not equal to the absorption of so much labor. by lawyers who are disinterested that Judge Clancy’s deci- sion is good law, and it remains to be seen whether prompt action on appeal to the Supreme Court will bring peace or war. The Flathead Indians on a Montana reservation have revived the whipping post for certain offenses and have It is held | | | “I drew back. the curtains and they gathered around in awesome silence. *“Just as they were about to turn away to go to the next slab the Inquisitor man let out a most dismal groan and sat up on the slab with the sheet grasped about his chin and his head wagging shaxily. “Well, there w.s the most unearthly yell from the fishermen. They all tried to get out of the door at onee. They left two pipes and a cap behind them and the way those sea boots hit that pavement down Kearny street to the Barbary Coast | was something to dream about.” Isolated Wisconsin. In these days of lightning express trains, autos and dirigible balloons it is found it to be notably of advantage. Perhaps the Flatheads, ! para to realize that within the memory of the necessity of this institution and have decided not to wait until they need it as badly as we do S ———— SLOUGHS AND COMMERCE. THE Modesto Herald indorses the proposition made by missioners of Public Works for the closing of the big sloughs in the Tuolumne River, near the river's mouth and on the San Joaquin River at points in Stanislaus County. It is declared by the Herald that “the closure of these sloughs is of great importance to the people of this county and to all sections tributary to the Northern San Joaquin Engineer Nourse’s report contains the statement that | Engineer Nourse to the auditing board of the Com- | [ the action suggested by him must result in improving the | channel of the San Joaquin River. Confined to the river proper, he says, the water will scour out a comparatively deep channel through existing bars. the influence of the sloughs, but is only two feet deep just below. The engineer was directed to make a specific and de- tailed report. This has started discussion on the part of those who have interests to be affected. The Modesto Her- ald argues at some length: “It is not so much the commerce carried, but the fact that the waterway is available for commerce that renders the matter of importance, its influence on freight rates saving us a large sum annually. This is strikingly illustrated by comparison of the freight rates to Modesto and to Living- ston, twenty-eight miles south of Modesto. The general rate to Modestg, let us say, is $1 20; to Livingston it is $2 20. A general merchandise firm operating at Livingston made big wages with its teams last fall by hauling from Modesto to Livingston by wagon the goods that were brought to Modesto by rail. The Valley road is not the influencing factor, for that road approaches nearer to Liv- ingston than to this city. It is the fact that we can land freight here by water during several months in the year that affords us this advantage. Freight rates on grain from the west side in particular and a portion of this side are in- fluenced by the same consideration.” In conclusion the Modesto Herald has to say that “the State should close the larger of these sloughs and the land- owners will then attend to the smaller. It is worth hun- dreds of thou;l'ndn of dollars to that part of the valley trib- utary to the Upper San Joaquin River that the waterway be kept open for commerce.” Rail freight rates in California are undoubtedly kept down by water competition. This is demonstrated to the satisfaction of many localities where there are navigable streams. Low rates to the interior are important to large distribution centers like San Francisco, having a trade in the interior to maintain. They are of equal importance to the farmers whqse products are secking market. i — The end has come. John Alexander Dowie has said it and the newspaper reporter, collectively and individually, is doomed. No restoration talk is to be wasted upon him, no hope is held forth to him and he is among the things un- clean. Emanating from such a source this decision may em- phatically be considered the first tangible encouragement and vindication wl;?ch the reporter has received in many He finds that the San | Joaquin River is seven feet deep at a point directly above | | i | | casually observant of conditions among us, have recognized | living men portions of the now populous East were as shut off from the world as | are some of the remote Alaskan cities nowadays. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Taylor recently grew reminis- cent of early Wisconsin days to an East- ern newspaper man. “Those were great days on the upper | Mississippl River,” he said, “when the first steamboat in springtime was looked forward to as one of the great events of the year. To be frozen in all the winter, except for communication by stage once or twice a week from the outside, and then to have navigation opened for the spring and summer rush were times not to be forgotten by the people who lived op the river. I remember one winter I ltved at Hudson, Wis., on the Mississippl. The river there usually froze over about the 15th of November and remained in that condition until around April 15. There were no raliroads, and the hauling of freight for so many miles overland was too difficult and the cost too great to be thought of. Consequently we arranged in the summer for the long winter seige. As April came around the betting on the first boat began. Talk about betting on Presi- dential elections. From a local standpoint the Presidential election fever was noth- ing compared to that of the coming of the first boat, because the arrival of the first boat to get through the ice meant com- munication with the outside world and a| fresh supply of new things in the stores. Everybody bet on the first boat, and lots of money changed hands on the date.” Fall. Partridges a-callin’, Hick'rynuts a-fallin’, Country jest a-smilin’ all around; Cattle bells a-tinklin’, Silver frost a-sprinklin’ Spicy-like, an’ sweetenin’ all the ground! —Atlanta Constitution. A Little Previous. Fred Niblo, manager of the Four Co- hans and other attractions, recently en- gaged a press agent who undertook to “make good” by secur!ng the publication of a story regarding his employer. first effort concerned Mr. Niblo's son, who was credited with having made some exceptionally clever remarks. Mr. Niblo read the story over carefully. “How do you like it?"" asked the new press agent. “Very good,” was the answer, “but I wculd like to make one change in it.” Mr. Niblo took a pencil and changed the age 'of the boy from eight years to two months. “But,” interposed the press agent, “a two-months-old baby ean’t talk.” “Can’t help it,” said Niblo. I was married only a year ago."—Boston Herald. Books in China. The London Westminster Gazette says: “From the latest report of the British commercial attache at Peking it may be noted that the economic position of China is being improved by the spread of West- demand for foreign literature. This should interest English publishers. Hitherto, we imagine, they have mainly found a mar- ket—and only a limited one—at Hongkong and the treaty ports. But if the China- men in the great cities of the interior are g to buy English and other for- ::“xn__booh infinite possibilities may re- In order to identify | As they lumbered in with | His | : » Captain Howland Is the Hero of an { Unrecorded Dictory APTAIN CHARLES ROSCOE HOW- LAND, inspector of small arms | practice of the Department of Cali- fornia, tells an amusing story of the. dif- { ficulties with which he was beset in tak- | ing Senora Fama, mother of Aguinaldo, | from the province of Pangasinan to Gen- eral Otis’ headquarters in Manila in No- | vember, 1599. The lady was accompanied by her four- | year-ola grandson, offspring of the fllus- | trious insurrectionist. | Captain Howland went to San Fablan |in a hospital corps wagon and told Se- nora Fama of the wishes of the great | “blanco general.” She readily consented to take the trip and the party set out for Calasiao, where | & special train was in waiting. The offi- cer soon observed that neither woman nor | ehild would eat or drink and he was | puzzled to find a cause for their strang behavior. Coming to the hacienda of a | French mestizo near Dagupan, he told | the man of his troubles. The latter ex- | plained that the senora must believe that the Americans wanted to poison her and the child. Thenceforward on the journey the cap- tain was compelled to eat first from every dish touched by the relatives of the elu- sive Filipino President, drank half of each | cup of water before his companions would | imbibe and smoke a portion of every cigar which subsequently soothed the tired brains of boy and grandmother on ’ sl s 5 i their long trip to the metropolis. So much haste did Captain Howland make | on his strange journey that he is always known in the family of Aguinaldo as “Senor Pronto” (the fast man). | | Passing of the God. | The_gallery gods have had thelr day. | says the Boston Herald, and the gefbral | theater-going public will show little dis- position to regret that it has passed into history. In the good, old times, when t gallery gods ruled supreme, giving expres- | slon to their approval or disapproval in | vartous ways characteristic to their taste | and temporary mood, actors were in con- | stant dread of incurring the displeasure of the topmost region of the house. Even men like Henry Irving, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett and Joseph Jefferson were not spared by the gallery gods, and many a time the effect of some | of their strongest and most impressive | scenes was destroyed by the pranks of the | gallery. | " Often enough the criticism bestowed by | the gods was well deserved, and was ex- pressed with so much good-natured wit |-and irresistible humor that the rest of the audience heartily enjoyed and appreciated it, accepting it as one of the brightening features of a sometimes dull performance At other times, however, when the god# were in an ugly mood, the manifestations | of their independent criticlsm were sea- soned with so much bitterness and aceom panied by such a display of rowdylsm | that it became a disturbing factor, seri- ously interfering with the enjoyment of | the play by the lower parts of the house. | Attempts to suppress the gallery gods were futile at first and only tended to |irritate and incite them to more nolsy |and disturbing demonstrations. Condi- | tions became unbearable and in the end | the managers of houses catering to the | better classes found themselves facing the | alternative of choosing between the gal- | lery and the rest of their houses. It did | not take them long to make their choice |and the doom of the gallery god was | sealed. Now the galleries in the first and sec- | ond class houses are well behaved and | the gods have retired to the wilderness of the outlying theaters, where they still exercise occasionally their time honored prerogative of being judge and jury of the merits of the plays offered to their criticism. A “Dummy” Parrot. “Parrots? No, there isn’t a great. de- mand for parrots any more,” continued the dealer. “A man from Mount Airy came in the other day with a fine-looking bird, which he said was a good talker, and sold it to me cheap. I know the na- ture of parrots pretty well, and when this | one fafled to show off its accomplishments 1 attributed it to the natural stubbornness of the bird. But day after day went by, and it never uttered a sound. All it would | do was to sit on its perch and gesticulate | with its feet, making all sorts of fantastic | motions with its toes. About a week later Fthe man who had sold it to me came in. ‘I thought you said that parrot you seld me was a good talker,’ I said. ‘It hasn't shown any evidence of it. All it does 1= to sit and wriggle its tees.' ‘That's all right,’ said the Mount Airy man, ‘it was | raised in the deaf and dumb asylum.' "— Philadelphia Record. Optimism. Dis worl’ is curious ez kin be, In spite er glad bells chimin'; De bes’ fruit’s highest on de tree, En some ain’t bo'n for climbin’! But, ‘tain’t no use ter stop en si ‘Whilst still de race m‘?nn. :uf:‘ Even ef de ripe fruit hang too high, Des shake down what you kin, suhby —Atlanta Constitution. 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