The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1903, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1903. = o e THE SAN FRANCISCO CALLJ i INSTRUCTIVE .STUDIES i commaion o o vt | TALL. OF THE TOWN ‘ ] = l (e 73 3 @Wmdmmmg_r %ND K ; | the “boxing balance.” When you walk, | run or even sgand you are unconsclousl | maintaining a balance. You do not real ize this, because it has become instinctive. It some one pushes you hard and sud- | Genly, what happens? You lose your bal- | ance. Instinctively, if you are at all | quick on vour feet, you will recover this | baldnce. Otherwise you will fall. When | you first learned to walk, you lost your It was new to Water Molds the World. r, A. M, LL. D. | America.” “Man | Asiatic i £0 the erosive pow- ter was chiefly thought | h the waves which | rock bound coasts, | rivers which seam with deep gorges and | 1 serpentine course ering vallers. But more | the facts make it ) e play but a minor part| yvements that are con-| the continents to | The greater part of | » rapidly going on of the hills and Alling up al | down wearing dowr iekes and bays extending the coast line wt into a, is accomplished by the on of innumerable less conspicuous = agen | part of the United | falls | feet of water wo-thirds of this is goes directly back to | aiding the great ero- i going on. But the s ¢ water that Ta finds its agent of tremen- the streams 1= precipitation 1 States, 230 cubic ried into the oce: two-thirds of & o drop of this wat rom its place some particie er and borne it by its owr to & lower level, and has in ived some of the soluble o d teken it hardness m speak of literally dissolving as warm spring showe accumulated snows of win the saltness ar us we on a lime and other soluble as removed from the f boilers and tea teract the effects n washing is estimated that | forty-eight tons of lime, mag- | soda, salt and suiphurie | id are annually leached n every square mile alone is estimated d from its soil every year solid matter which has Ived @nd held in solution by water. By this process alone, | foot in depth-of the rocks | d Wales would be dissolved | into t v 12,978 years. | world o \ average of 100 | rocky matter is thus annually by running water from every | £q mile and carried into the ocean. Most of the celebrated caves character- | | dissolved izing limestone regions have been formed | by the slow action of streams in solv- ing the lim=stone rock. The Luray caves of Virginia, the Mammoth Cave of Ken tucky, the Indiana and the Ozark region in Missouri and the groat Wind Cave in the Black Hills of Western Dakota are well-known fllustrations. But in many cases this en- largement has gone on 5o far that the roof of the long underground water chaniel bas fallen in, leaving a rock-lined, de-p, open gorge through which flowing, sometimes above the surface and sometimes in a still deeper underground channel through which 1t has found its way. In general the river valleys ure larg- er where they cross limestone regions than they are where they cross rocks with less soluble material. Many of the valle in Penneylvania, Kentucky, West Vi ginta end all along the Appalachian chain have evidentiy been formed by this ex- cessive action of water in dissolving lime- | stone rocks. It is estimated that the Nit- tany Valley in Pennsylvania has been @eepened 1000 feet below that of the ad- Jolning region by the sole ageney of this chemical action of water upon the lime- stone rock °» W o But far in excess of this chemical action of water in dissolving the rocks is its me- chanical action. Some streams are el- All streams are muddy dur- ater. By estimating the flow of a stream and the amount of sediment carried along in every gallon of water at different stages of its flow, it is possibie to get a fair estimate of the total amount of material carried off from the drainage basin in any given time, Such estimates have been very carefully made by the T'nited Btates Government with reference to the Misslssippi. Every one knows that the Jower Mississippi s very muddy, and that a considerable amount of sediment will settle in even a tumblerful of water. Indeed, the cities along the Mississippi and its larger tributaries are often taunt- ed with drinking moke-believe lemonadc, and it is said that those who drink Mis- souri River water before it settles are compelled to pick their teeth after every glass, while those who use it assert that the settling of the sediment acts like a filter, and purifies the water. The actual investigations of Humphreys and Abbott, the engineers who had the work in charge, showed that in the lower Missiesippi one fifteen hundredth of the water by weight was sediment, and that in addition 1 large amount of gravel and sand was constantly being pushed along the bottom of the river. Altogether they found {hat 750,000,000 cubic feet of sand, carth and gravel were being carried every yeer inio the Gulf of Mexico by this river alone. This would form a prism 268 feet in height, with a base of one square mile, and would weigh the enormous amount of 812500,000,000 pounds. This would make every year a railroad em- bankment fifty feet widc and twenty-six feet high, more than 1000 miles long, or a mountain a mile square and a mile high every twenty yea Fine Points of Boxing. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, (Athietic Expert New York Evening World, Author of “‘Muscie Bullding,” etc.) A great writer once said: “During the accomplishment of any- thing that is really worth the doing, there ¢ always at least one ‘sticking point.” " In nothing is this more true than in learning to box. There are three distinct ticking piaces” in the path of the boy who is beginning to box. The first is learning what is known as | went { which you were | ful | numerous caves in Southerr | the river is | balance most of the time. You were obliged to think of it all A moment’'s forgetfulness or a | cle and down you | the balance became in- | Graduaily stinctive. €o it i in boxing. Until you get your boxing balance, you will be awkward and’ will make lttle progress. But it will | come, with a little practice. { S | To acquire this balance, throw yourself repeatedly into the first position (“on guard,” as described in the last lesson). lead with left and right, and continue to do this until such leads no longer result | in a tendency to make you topple over. While still standing on guard, jump for- ward, then backward, then to either side: | always landing in just the attitude in| standing before you made the leap. This is not easy at first, but a little practice will make it so. The | “boxing balance” being far different from | the ordinary balance, must be cultivated | until it, too, becomes second nature. The second of the three “sticking points” is sooner and more easily over-! come. Every boy has an instinctive idea | of self-defense. When he has tgken a few boxing lessons, this primitive instinct seems, for the time, to leave him. In other words, he has lost his natural knack of fighting, and he has not yet ac- | quired the sclentific method of boxing. He feels awkward, almost helpless. In| a few more lessons, however, he will | adapt himself to the science he is learn- ing and will quickly become more formid- able than ever before. Then, in time, if nis natural instincts at self-defense were | really good, they will return and willl blend with the boxing skill he has learned. The boy in whom these natural and scientific instincts are best blended, is the finest boxer and the most terrific fighter. Such a boxer is Terry McGovern, who, while a mere boy, fought his way to the head of his profession. Another uf the same sort is Jim Jeffries. The third “‘sticking point” comes when a boy, having learned by rote all the va leads, guards, blocks, counters, etc., of boxing, tries to apply those tric in a regular boxing match. Just as a music pupil who has learned all the scales cannot expect at once to become a dash- ing performer, 80 a boy Who has the de- tafls of boxing at his fingers’ ends must practice those various detalls over and sver until he has them instinctively Then, when his opponent makes a certain h will know, without stopping to K hat is the correct guard or in- He will also see openings in | rd and will be quick to | of them Onl tant boxing can this in- stinct be That is one of the great advantages of choosing another boy of about your own size as a “sparring partner.” You can help each other and at the same time im- prove by constant practice. It is always well, when somewhat further advanced, to box whenever you can with some one who is & better boxer than you are, For it is by boxing with better and not with inferior opponents that one becomes skill- Watch your sparring partner's work and make him watch yours. When either of you make a ‘mistake stop and go over the maneuver agadn and again until you et it correctly.» Don’t let each other fall ints bad or slovenly habits of boxing, but keep each other *“up to the mark.” Don't practice for a week or so and then | give it up. Nothing worth knowing was | ever learned in that time. Spar at it daily, month after month. Spar three | rounds a day. No more than that. At first spar two-minute rounds. Then, | as wind and muscle improve, lengthen the | rounds to three minutes each. But never ;hnx longer than three minutes without | resting The “rests” between rounds should at| | first be two minutes long. Later, shorten these “rests” to one minute each. More boys are injured during the “rests” | | than in any actual boxing. For instance, | | you are overheated, perspiring and pant- ing. Your natural instinct is to “cool off” | quickly. And that is the very worst thing |you can do, for it leads to pneumonia, rheumatism and a dozen other ills. As soon as the rest begins wrap a coat about you or some other thick covering, keep |out of a draught and run no risks of tak- { ing cold. | When through your bout for the day | take a quick, cold eponge bath, then rub | vourself down vigorously with a rough towel and dress as rapidly as possibla. There will be other but far less im- portant points to puzzle you as you pro- | ceed. The three I have named are by far | the most difficult to overcome, and yet| each of the trio can be mastered with a | littie practice. | $ . aia { | While we are on the subject of faults | | ana obstacles let me caution you against | one flaw that has marred many an other- | wise good boxer. That is the habit of “snapping back.” “Snapping back” is drawing back the hand and arm before the blow you have just delivered has fair- |1y landed. It is, of course, necessary to | | get back to guard at once just as soon as | your blow is delivered. But that blow should be delivered with all the force you intended to put into it before the arm is ! drawn back. Nervousness often leads a man to snap back his arm to guard be- | | fore his blow has fairly reached its mark. | To fall into this habit is ruinous to all | hopes of good boxing. 1 will speak of | other errors to be avoided later on. Now for our lesson, which you will find in next Friday's issue. £ | An Old-Time Dance. 3 De banjo sorter gits me, ‘twel I never wants ter res’, En I'm happy w'én a fiddle is a singin' of de way, wes' de fum de *Good my honey, daylight say, so still, A-logul::' at de brightness on de top er Zion 111, De singin’ er o fiddle make ime lose my way will— de daylight eay, ‘“‘Good I1L. It's dat wav in de summer, wen de dreamy days begin, En de lizard think he runnin’ got ter win: But 1 has de feclin’ wusser w'en de Chris'mus time come in, En we dance ‘twel de daylight say, ““Good mawnin' "’ o Den it's never min’ de weather, wid de slingin' er de sleet, Wid_de music des a-makin’ sich a fidget in yo' feet; Chris'mus, en a fiddle—oh, dey mighty hard ter beat!— "twel de daylight say, ““Good -—Atlanta Constitution. er a race he “You're not going to bar me out, are you?” the newly arrived spirit pleaded. “Oh! no,” replied St. Peter. ““You're the street railway magnate, aren’t you?" “‘Yes, sir.” ““Well, just hang on to one of those straps over there for eternity or so.”— Philadelphia Press. [ the most remarkable assemblage of buildings in the world. | secular history. | from this threatening fire that modern means of fire-proofing ’whclc pile burn. | much anxiety as the Pope himself for the safety of the build- TO-DAY DECIDES. REAT issues depend on the result of this day’s balloting in San Francisco. il government; doctrinaires in reform and business men o ter was framed by experts in Fiv 0 repute. It was expected that immediate cal and better government. ¢ ther friends of the charte: was done, ar squads, and each is The new char- i results would follow its adeption, in more economi- Immediately following its confirmation as the fundamental law e arose a small party of politicians who taught the people that they-were the only . and who claimed that its practical operation should be entrusted to them. This 2d from the hour that it became operative until now its administration has been in the‘ ! hands of those claimants. In politics they were anti-Republicans, and now they are divided into two accusing the other of having used the charter for the benefit of the partisan or- ganizations and the aggrandizement of their political friends. | Each accuses the other of letting the charter lie dormant as an instrument through which to effectsthe public and general welfare, while diverting and using its powers for the restricted benefit of a few. This is their attitude toward the anti-Republican administration of the charter since the people gave itlife and them authority. It is their own declaration, and the final result of the new charter, as seen by these seli-elected iriends of that instrument, is a maze of crimination and recrimination charging its misuse and misapplication. Schmitz and Lane muttially charge each other with the in- tention to continue and perpetuate this misuse of the organic law. They to-day go to judgment, to be weighed and measured by the people in the light of their own charges of maladministration, and their | averment that the system is to be continued by whichever The people feel deeply that there is fact at the bot The men who trumpeted their mission as its friends have ing is founded. There is also a wide conviction that the of betterment in government which it was devised to se This gave rise to the desire to of professional politicians headed business man, which caused the nomination e is elected. The city is weary of this. of the asserted misuse of the charter. | urnished the testimony on which this feel-| ilure of the charter to produce the degree re is due to putting its powers in the hands trust the government to a clean and clear- The people want to' of Mr, Crocker for Mayor. test the charter in such hands. Its self-chosen friends confess that where its powers have so far been invoked they have been abused. The people want its dorntfant possibilities of better government in-| spired with activity. They want an efficient test.of greatmess in San Francisco. . ® ... . its potentiality as a sufficient cause of growth and They want to settl® now the issue whether a business man has the right! to aspire to the headship of the town. All who have kept in touch with the current incidents of the, campaign have noticed Mr. Crocker’s abstention from personalities. the level path of average good citizenship, where the majority of our people go and come. They have noted that he has claimed no special inspiration abave the heads of his fellows, and that he has claimed no mysterious predestination, and no election to a special mission. They have seen his walk upon, He has been | | | content to utter the desires of the average man for good government, for clean administration, for the| city's accomplishment of a great fufure projected from its great past. He has expressed his conviction that the charter is an ample garment to clothe a greater city, and has not claimed that he is the one and only man who can guide San Francisco forward to the mark of ker high calling, but only that his romination and election put upon him the duty of doing the wisest and best that he knows. From the masses have come abundant evidence that he is credited with the ability and the force to do this, and that the average citizen turns to him with frank confidence. Since the demonstration on Saturday night his election. no good judge of the popular purpose has doubted He has been the object of much spiteful abuse, of flagrant misrepresentation and of the stock partisan accusations made by politicians, not to save the city from any risk, not to turn any im- pending peril from the public, not to effect any good thing, but only to promote the fortunes of profes- sional politicians, who, divided into rival camps of spoilsmen, turn from detraction of him to belabor each other. The people are tired of all this hypocrisy and pretense, of the exploitation of fads to divert the people’s attention from the admitted misuse of the charter, and the conversion of public authority into private gain. The supporters of Mr. Crocker are not confined to one party nor to one class. They are found in every section of the city and among all who labor, by hand, head and heart, to achieve, the destiny which they believe possible.to San Francisco. Therefore he says, with conviction and intent, that he will, as Mayor, regard his duty as run- ning to the service of all the people, extending to each his just share of good and righteous administra- | tion. His canvass has not been devoted to showing in abhorrent colors how bad and beastly somebody else is, but to expressing his faith in the people, his confidence in their judgment and his submission to their will. A vote for him is a hallot for sanity in government and for the right use of authority ad-! ministered in a spirit of respect for all rights, and in inspiration and purpose of our free institutions. | in the Vatican, becauses it reverses the idea that that great structure, with its stores of art and sacred and secular history, was fireproof. The building, with its ample patio of gardens, stands on the Vatican Hill, and was erected in 1145-53 by Pope Eugenius III as one of the Papal resi- dences. After the transfer of the Holy See from Avignon to Rome it became the palace of the Pope, and the original structure has been added to by successive Popes, until it is THE VATICAN FIRE. HE civilized world is impressed by the thireatening fire Its art treasures probably exceed those of any other collec- tion, and its literary store is a mine of ecclestastical and There are kept the original manuscript of the Scriptures, and the parchment treasures of many lands and all ages. The destruction of the venerable pile would inflict a loss upon the world. Pope Pius X is a practical man, and will doubtless learn must be applied to prevent irreparable loss. It is a revela- tion of the housekeeping arrangements of the Papal resi- dence that the conflagration started from the kitchen stove of one of the officers of the household. It would be a strange | result, by some held to be providential, if this accident should be the means of an entente between the Papacy and the kingdom of Italy. Fgr the first time since the inclusion of the states of the church in the kingdom the civil officers of the city of Rome and of the King of Italy entered the precincts of the Vatican, in interested co-operation witlgghe Pope, to arrest the fire. According to the radical views of some the civil officers should have beén pleased to see the But, on the contrary, they manifested as ing and its treasures. Out of this may well issue a result which is believed in some quarters to be the purpose of the new Pope, in the form of an understanding that will termi- nate the constructive imprisonment of the Holy Father. Every citizen who desires San Francisco to be governed by a man of affairs, a man of strict and tried integrity, a man of wide and successful business activity and a man in- spired by high civic principles and loity ambitions, will vote to-day for Henry J. Crocker for Mayor. He who wishes a professional politician, knowing nothing but the craft of his trade and the impudent importunities of his heelers,‘ will vote against Henry J. Crocker. A vote for some one else is a vote against Crocker. —_——— Violations of the pension laws, frauds in the postal ser- vice, crookedness in the enormous field of lieu lands, are strong indications that there are spots on Uncle Sam’s dirty linen. But we must not confuse house-cleaning with the destruction of the house. There is a mess and noise and some flying dust for a while, and then the house is better than before. The man who has at heart the well-being of his city, who wishes to see it morally clean as well -as physically healthful, who hopes to see it honestly and capably governed and economically administered, will vote to-day for Henry J. Crocker, who represents in himself and in his united, en- thusiastic supporters these objects of municipal government. . the interest of that equality of all men which is the | ¢ CHINA ASKS HELP. | T appears that, in the face of the Russian pretense that: I her presence in Manchuria is necessary to protect the country from bandits, she has had in her employ the chief bandit of that province, on whose head China had set ai price. The Chinese officers caught him and immediately | proceeded to separate him from his head. At this Russia took umbrage and made it an excuse for the armed re- | occupation of Moukden. This was followed by a demand; that China behead the officer who had beheaded the robber! | This is a Western lesson in justice for the benefit of the be- f nighted Chinese heathen! | Poor China cries out to the Western nations for help | and advice, confessing herself powerless to resist the mon- | strous claims and immoral policy of Russia. Will she get it? | Is there that refined sense of justice in Europe, where lies the right to interfere, that the United States showed in go- | ing to the relief of Cuba against Spain? We fear that it will | not be found, or, if it exist, it will not be converted into | such action as we took to protect the weak against the | strong. < { By this incident Russia stands convicted of entering Manchuria as the ally of bandits and criminals and of pro- tecting them against the punishment due their crimes. San Francisco is entering upon a new era of success and expansion. It is imperative that she have a good name, sound credit, honest government and fair dealing to all. Every element of her population, therefore, is vitally con- cerned in the election of a man who will represent the best that is in us. Henry J. Crocker is such a man, and his election, is a duty placed upon those of us that have at heart the well-being of San Francisco. A vote for him to- day is a civic duty well done. y Sl ———. The Grand Jury of Honolulu has set upon itself the task of investigating the conduct of the Territorial House of Representatives, against which the tongue of calumny is wagging. Nothing could be more encouraging in its Amer- icanism. We have a passion for investigations, a besetting sin for suspicion and an unlimited reserve of satisfaction for results not accomplished. il il The merchant who wishes to live and thrive in a pro- gressive, well ordered, well governed city, where investment gives work, stimulates healthy trade and inspires a sharing of profits, will recognize that a vote for Henry J. Crocker will contribute to thesé conditions and a vote against him will hazard,what we have and lose what we expect. A]r}’other plot has beensdiscovered against the lives and fortupes of the Servian regicides. It would be far better for the peace of Servia at home and for her credit abroad if shg would take these cowardly assassins out and shoot them. Then she could complete her entries in a miserable page_of her history, close the books and start over again. The mechanic who sees in the good name and the sound credit of his city the pledges of employment, prosperity and good wages will vote to-day for Henry J. Crocker for Mayer. Such a vote is not only a civic duty, but an act of seli“interest and self-preservation. : |and he replied In an off-hand way that | back alleyways, until he entered a notor- | the wicket door with one of his pleasant | Sergeant Bidwell to come, as he wished | short explanation convinced the prison | when my husband was ordered West 1 { the kitchen, told her we were ready for The Aftermath. “What is intended for a joke often ends in the pathetic, though the perpetrator may never know of it,” sald a policeman ;In the Latin quarter, as he watched the | ambulance, drive away with a lad who ;had been run over by a car. “This kid | 1 Just sent away reminds me of one who | was killed here in about the same way ten vears ago ard about whom there is a story. “I was talking to a surveyor who was working with a tripod level near Tele- graph Hill one afternoon, when an Italian woman came up and asked my compan- fon in broken English what he would charge to photograph her family. See- ing that the woman mistook his instru- ment for a camera, he winked at me and stated an unusually small fee for his work. There were nine in the family and the oldest of the children was 12 years. “We did have fun. He lined them all | up in front of this surveyor's transit and had them performing all sorts of stunts and posing in every imaginable way for about half an hour, much to the amuse- | ment of myself and a crowd that had gathered. When he had finished he was asked when the pictures would be com- pleted and where they could be procured. he would be at the corner of Dupont and Vallejo streets about three days from that time. “That night the oldest boy was killed by a car and I remember what a time we had to take the little body from the parents and send it to the Morgue. The head was badly crushed and they never saw his face after he had left the house, soon after the photograph incident, smil- ing and happy, to sell his papers. But the father had one consolation—he thought that we would have the lad's picture in two days and could always keep it. “Afterward I would see the father standing afternoon after afternoon at that corner and turning homeward at night with tears in his eyes when the prom- ised picture did not come. I thought it was a case of where a joke is not always a joke." The Arrest of Ah Sing. “The Chinatown squad was highly elated last night over the capture of Ah Sing, one of the most notorious gamblers in Chinatown.” Such were the lines ap- pearing in the morning papers some time ago. The true history of the arrest of Ah Sing and how the Chinatown squad had been fooled by one of its own mem- bers never saw daviight, for the simple reason that the sharp sleuths did not wish their discomfiture to be known to their comrades on the foree. The true history of the capture of Ah | Sing is this: Officer John Gallaway, who | now patrols Market street during the morning watch, was one of the squad, and in order to capture a notorious gam- bling game that had previously defled | the squad disguised himself, unknown to his comrades, in truly Chinese costume, with the tan colored features. This was done at a costumers, and when so dis- guised Gallaway stepped out on the street at 8 o'clock in the evening and went to Chinatown, where his presence was no- ticed by the sergeant in charge on ac- count of his failure to ape the peculiar Chinese shuffle in his gait. The disguised “cop”” made several tours through the jous gambling joint. As soon as he was seen to enter the squad raided the place and bagged thir- teen Mongolians, including Gallaway. The whole bunch were escorted to the station- house and locked up, including the dis- guised, who had a lot of lottery tickets on his person. After being confined in a cell for an hour or so Gallaway washed the tan from his face and appeared at smiles and asked the trusty to tell Desk to speak to him. When Bidwell saw the broad face of Gallaway In the wicket he almast fainted from astonishment. A keeper of the ruse and Ah Sing was lib- erated under pledge not to give the thing away to the newspaper reporters. Could Not Boil It. The prize servant girl story comes from Mare Island. It was told the other day by the wife of a high naval official to a number of naval officers and their wives who were traveling from the navy yard to.this city on the naval tug Unadilla. “I secured this servant of mine in Phil- adelphia just two years ago,” said the victim of the kitchen mechanic. “Three days after she arrived from the old coun- try she took service under me. She was lamentably ignorant of the art of cook- ing, but I became attached to her and took her out with me. “Kitty was the only servant I brought out. She knew a little something about cooking, so I thought we would be able to get along for a time at least. Weil, one day, a miserably hot ome. I told Kitty that we would not bother about a hot lunch, but would make a light meal out of cake and a delicious watermelon I had purchased in fown that morning. About 1 o’clock I entered the dining room with my husband and, calling Kitty from lunch. “She looked a bit flustered and, to my | e fresh light in which it is seen. Wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, and clad in his thick embroidered robe, this old King, wily vet feeble with the weight of years, stands for the diplomacy and statecraft of the oldest civilized kingdom that we know. No later artist of Egypt. no Re- man portrait-maker, no Renaissance Ital- fan, has outdone the truth and expression of this oidest royal portrait, coming from the first dynasty of Egypt.” Interviewer Interviewed. 1 went to see Monsieur de Blowitz with the line already to cast, because the greatest of all Interviewers has an un- shakable aversion to being “interviewel™ himself in a British magazine, says Miss Esther Brooke, in an English magazine. “TIt is very kind for you to receive me,” I sald, “for you, Monsieur de Bilowits, more than any other person have every reason to know whether the story of the influence of women in the affairs of na- tions s true or only a pleasing myth.” He became grave at once, and lifting his eyes upward he sald impressively: “Whatever man has accomplished, whether it b in art or in war, the secret spring to all his endeavors has always been woman. The motive power of the world is not steam, is not the latest discov- ery iIn electricity nor is it automobiles— it {s woman.” Splendid! I thought; he will surely run away with the line. And the women of history, Marie Antoinette— “History, my child, history is for histo- rians. We are living in the present. I havs always noticed that a good historian is a very bad journalist, and that when people begin to live in reminiscences it meana that their present is on the decline ™ This was as far as we ever got with our “interview.” What Monsieur de Blowitz really thinks of women—the wo men of history—will perhaps always re- main unknown, except as he pictured many as he bad seen then, in his wonder- ful memoirs, which are now published in England and America. Patriotic Nerve. People adopt unique methods sometimes to get their expenses paid to the Wotld's Fair. Secretary Enloe of the Tennessee Commission thinks the letter he received from a Tennesseean who wanted to see the fair may take first rank. The letter follows: “I have a historical plece of birdseve poplar, about eighteen inches in length, with three sides polished and one in na- tive state, showing the curl thrue and thrue, which makes it very attractive. I have a small fralm to be attached to the plece of wood with glass with histor- ical sketch of the tree out of which it was taken and a deseription and dimen- sions of the tree In typewriting. Now, if you think the wood of sufficlent interest to entitle me to transportation for mysel? and wife to the exposition and return and will return the piece of wood to me after the exhibit in good condition, I am willing _to send it to you.” Mr. Enloe did not accept the patriot's offer, and the piece of poplar plank will scarcely be featured at the big show. Answers to Queries. THE BAND STAND—A., Alameda. The band stand In Golden Gate Park faces east by north. ALMSHOUSE—N., City. Admission to the Almshouse is by application to the Board of Health. SCHMITZ'S FATHER-D. H., City. The father of Mayor Schmitz was born in Westphalia, a province of Prussia. VALENCIA STREET LINE-F. A. H. Q., City. The Market and Valencia street cable line was first operated in August, 1883, KNIGHTS—Enq., City. The Knights of the Modern Maccabees, the original order, was founded in 151, and the Knights of the Maccabees in 1853. DEATH PENALTY-D., City. Those States of the Union in which the death penalty, as punishment for crime, is for- bidden by law, are: Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin. INSURANCE POLICY—Legal, City. As to the rights of an individual to make the amount of the policy issued to him by an old line life company to his wife or anyv surprise, said: “I'm sorry, ma'am, but it's not ready.” “ ‘Ready,” I exclaimed, ‘why, there is nothing to prepare. You know I told you we only wanted a little cake and the wa- termedon.” “* know that, ma'am," she said, with tears in her eyes, ‘and here is the cake, but the melon ain't ready. T've bee: bilin® it for the last two hours, and it's just as hard and as grane now as it was when T first put it in the water." " one else, he should be guided by the rules of the association that issued the policy The officers will give all the information necessary. SOUTH AMERICA—J. A, City. For possibilities for Americans to engage in business in any of the South American States, write to the United States Consul at the point nearest where you might de- sire to locate. For information about Bo- livia, write to the United States Consul at La Paz, Bolivia. < < S!ahwfie_ésioioi};mrs Old. In his article on the “Ten Temples of Abydos” in Harper's Magazine for No- vember, Professor Flinders Petrie tells of his discovery of a statuette of ivory more than 6500 years old, and how he managed to preserve it. “Groping in the thick brown organic mud of this rubbish-hele,” says Professor Petrie, “I lifted out one by one the price- less examples of glazed work and jvory of this earliest age of great art—an art of which we had never understod the excel- SCOTT-G., Santa Rosa, Cal. General Winfleld Scott, appointed a Commissioner to settle the San Juan boundary, left New York on that mission September 20, 1859, for Aspinwall, and after crossing the isthmus took 3 Age. arriving e october 16. He left the next day for the north. TRNITURE-Subscriber, City. 1f a [‘,I:t‘y who died deeded you a home, but Reglected to deed you the furniture there- u believe the party intended . and yo lence from the traces hitherto known. The &:’ou should have the same, you will ivory was sadly rotted, and could scarceiy be lifted without dropping asunder in flakes. So when I found that 1 had touched a plece it was left alone, and other parts were cleared, until at last a patch of ground was left where sevoral ‘pleces of ivory had been observed. t- ting deep around this, I detachel the ‘whole block of sixty or eighty pounds of earth, and had it removed on a trav to my storeroom. There it dried gradually for two or three weeks; and then with a camel’s-hair paint-brush I began to gently dissect it and to trace the ivory rigures. Not a single plece was broken or spoi't by thus working it out, and noble figures of lions, a bear, a large ape and several boys came gradually to light. Suddenly a patterned robe and then a marvellous face appeared in the dust, and there came forth from his 6000-year sleep one of the finest portrait figures that have ever been seen. A single photograph can give but little idea of the subtlety of the face and the expression, which changes with every have to lay your case before a reputable attorney to ascertain your rights. if you have any in the premises. Your question is one that calls for a judicial ruling. EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN—Inq., City The firing of a salute “in honor of any nation, or of any official of any nation, not formally recognized by the Govern- ment of the United States™ is expressly forbidden. If a vessel of a nation that has not been formally recognized by the United States should salute an American war vessel the commander of the United States vessel must not respond. ————— Townsend's California glace fruits and s e gl g T T MRS t ite; Tis Market st above Call bidg: * Special information business houses fornia street. (Allen's) Telephone Main 1042