The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1903, Page 8

THE 8 .N | ment to be sure everything is relaxed; then at- n the ex- » much the t lesson I give you The next exercise is to be a com- on of two of the others and is called movement. limbered up the a moment by m ise the right arm »out the height of exactly as you did it for him rst e: : but in coming down chiid’s t your aid to his head there is a difference. Instead of letting it will it drop axed and free condition 1d keeping the exact position natu on its upward—consequenti it comes down the tip of middle fin- ger will hit table first. Using this finger as a pivot, try the circle exercise that is, describe a circle with the wrist, according to the explanation in the first lesson. This will r the muscles, in case there is a tende: to tighten them in the raising and lowering of the arm. It will simplify this exercise greatly if you tell the child to imagine there is a string hanging from the ceiling, the end of which is tled to his wrist_ and which draws the wrist up toward the ceiling, holds it there a moment and then lets it gently drop down again. That will help him to put his thought directly on his wrist, will make him relax all the other muscles and at the same time relax his wrist, even while it is going up, for the imiaginary string will have quite as much power to help him as your hand had in the first exercise, only in this case he will be doing all the work without realizing it. Be sure that his wrist is leading, in- stead of either elbow or shoulder. If you do not watch him every instant, if you do mot continue calling his attention to “the string,” his mind may wander, and unconsciously his arm will be raised by elbow or shoulder, which will throw it out of poise, and so do harm instead of good. As the wrist rises the band and elbow bang loosely downward, and do not alter their relative positions in the exercise until the middle finger has touched the table again, after which (not before) the wrist drops and rises, describing the circle several times, or untll you are satisfied that the muscles are perfectly free. S This “down-arm” exercise is very im- portant, for it is always used (In a mod- ified form, of course) in bringing out rich tones in plano playing, where heavy chorde occur. It prevents any flat, “bangy” effects, and makes instead a vol- ume of sound combined with a richness in tome mot to be accomplished in any other way. It i= a delight to watoch Paderewski's grasp of this exercise and to hear the wonderful effects he produces with ft. Any fine pianist is worth taking your child to hear and see, however, provided you let him sit near enough so that noth- ing will escape him. It is very poor economy to take children to any sort of entertainment and buy seats in the rear of the house. It is a great strain on the eyes, they miss much that they should see and their interest is apt to wane before the performance is half over. It is much better to go to a few concerts or recitals and sit in close proximity to the performer than to go to many and sit so far back that the child derives little or no b:nen-t from them. After the “down-arm” has been mas- tered with both hands we come to the wrist motion, which is to prepare the pu- pil for octave playing. Place the hand and arm at “playing po- sition” and try the a mo- x3 as the circular motion ceases and the hand t “playing position,” hi the the hand very slowly, m »eing careful neither to raise the wrist nor to lower it, and to keep it perfectly free The fingers must not aid in the raising | or falling, but must mereiy obey the di-| rection of the wrist muscles. An easy way to convey this idea to the child is to have him hold out his arm and wave his hand rapidly and vigorously for a mo- ment, as if waving to some little friend outside the windaw. He will at once find that the root of the action lies directly in | is wri | it rises. As he two, three,” “thre: turned ¢ can, but the finger ends must | the palm of the| tension of the fia- count ‘‘three” let m to go on with ur, fi six.” At ir” the hand dre ntly to play- “WRIST MOTION.” ‘I !- Do not let the pupil ases to hold on of gravita- n again. wn—he simply c nd must rise very, | nly—not in a jerky s much more slowly than ra; be done as slo way to ac- them nd, in fact, | do not for- scles with the motion, taking great care that| elbow and hand follow freely during the progress of each revolution. Do not be disturbed if the child’s arm aches a little at first. It will not do so ircular ui he is holding some muscle or mus- | « a e muscles a ind unconfined there sensation. Also re- for t the lessons will moment Now let him try the exercise again, | | raising the hand backward toward the wrist and slowly counting aloud *One, | Publication Office... WEDNESDAY THIE RESULD, ITHOUT entering now upon an analysis of the vote cast for Mayor, in general terms it may be said to mean that, after selecting their ticket by the largest vote thrown at a pri- | p,y ghophouse down on Leidesdorft street mery hy any party in years the Republicans of San Francisco shied and flinched and con- cluded to evade undertaking the responsibility of ine city’s administration. fact, and we do not pretend to account for it. The Republicans of this city have done the same thing | dispens e e | before and will probably do it again, until some overmastering necessity jars them They chose to vate for Budd against Estee, and tflerc‘.»y defeated a man whose honesty of purpose, abil- | Nevada half of Slide Mountain forsook ity and service were not questioned. When the party skies were dark he upheld the banner in his equal | {25 ¢ contest with Hon. Stephen M. White, the ablest leader and the best the | in the State. t the back of the hand must be! far toward the wrist as it con- ! | | formed and fashioned by many. wn to the position whence | | cisco, in her preference in national politics, is a Republican city. might speed her progress and make easier her advance, she is unerring in her judgment in greater things| The name was duly accepted and the | every little while, so not become irksome. And now, at last, we come to the fing- | | ers s of the | With the hand before, let the aving position » the first iger drop ur,” just as he did the | rist motion just described. r motion is to be treated in same way as the wrist m but great care must be taken th igers all remain laxed and th. d is not thrown out of poise. tion. Do this exercise with the first finger (thumb) six times, alwa to count aloud, very slowly; then go on to the second finger and try that six times in the same and =0 on through all the fingers of hands. You will find much more difficulty with His party rewarded him with the Senatorship, and Estee’s reward, when the time came to confer | ¥ranic's ranch and then settled down in No one %an account for this occasional outbreak of fondness for the syncrasy which reflection and experience only can cure. principles and theories of politics Lane and Schmitz were twins. They are the Eng and Chang of San ' that 1anded on top? it, was defeat by his own party. holy rollers in politics. It is an i Francisco politics. to united Republicanism an opportunity which it has rejected by refusing to unite. ticket was exceptionally worthy, and its head was a business man of the best standing, young, energetic | cause eversy man owned his property to and public-spirited. \ The members of his party who have seen the banner that he carried with courage and with clean hands go down to defeat may now have leisure to ask themselves whether in the future any man as | | good will be found willing to respond to a call to leadership. | finally comes to a point where there are no generals, and has to use its guns on members of the staff, We take the result with philosophy. pendent press can prevent many of the abuses of administration by their timely exposure, and in a cer Of feated litigunt and, at last, in a massacre of the privates. An army that shoots the Democracy This is the ever In their cussedness on the part of Slide Mountain Under such' circumstances they divided the holy roller vote of -the city and offered ;.° Sy ererr man SENAE Mk TROUY The Republicar generals the s A watchful and inde-| 1"\ 5 . "0t four davs. | But. tain high sense the press holds a commission to protect the people, even against the consequences their own folly or indifference. in which the people have refused to stand guard. The San Francisco of to-day is not the work of one man, but the structure wrought upon and | 720 Bd, b One administration did not make| We were persuaded that an administration under Mr. Crocker would clothe | But no one man or Mayor can divest it. it, nor can one unmake it. it with dignity and grandeur greater than it had known. So will be this city of the future. In that spirit and with that purpose we shall stand sentry in the place Tule r one class of its citizens can gather to themselves a monopoly of its gifts and graces and benefits. different at the polls, and prone to tie upon the city’s feet clogs that impair progress and slacken her IS 3 Suetees 06 O e style amons advance, the people, 4fter all, when they find each day’s march growing shorter and the advance dered by their own acts, put their shoulders under the burden of their own unwisdom and liit it. they choose to make this work more difficult it is their choice and they pay the penalty. Out of the confusion of sounds and signs that are now npon us one thing is clear. Inattentive to the local and makes no mistake in tracing her fortunes to their origin in the national policies of the party whose meda man displayed the flags and ta- | right to rule in municipal affairs she disputes with success. | judgment in greater things, and next year will make good report of her purpose in national politics. STUDENT RIOTS. riotous, unlawful and disorderly conduct by students in colleges, universities and high schools. Often serious personal injury is inflicted and property is maliciously de- stroyed. In one town even the young lady students engaged in a free for all fight on the stage in a public hall, and bit and bruised and scratched each other and tore off clothes to the extreme of indecency. These things are too much F ROM East and West come almost daily accounts of | excused on the score of class spirit and youthful efferves- | t be absolutely no movement | , except in the one finger; and each time remember to relax with r two revolutions of the “‘circle” mo- the fourth finger than with any other, | because of its close muscular connection e o 3 = ¥ - “FINGER MOTION.” - + with the little finger. Do not expect too much of it at first, however. It will grad- ually come under better control. Many people have had the muscles con- necting the fourth and fifth fingers cut, hoping thereby to gain great indepen- dence; but this is a very dangerous ex- pe: ent, and In almost every case has resulted in partial paralysis of the fingers and In materially lessening their strength. If these finger exercises I am giving you are carried out, the fourth finger will gradually become as strong and free as the others and the pupil will be able to 1ift 1t just as high as any of the others in the course of time. In raising the fingers always raise them from the second joint, thus keep- ing them arched exactly as they are when at rest, in “playing position.”” The best way to acconfplish this is to bring the imaginary string into use again. Pretend thatit is tied around the second joint of the finger, and that it raises and lowers the fingers, exactly as it did the wrist. If vou do not use this little subterfuge the boy’s tendency will be to throw the end of the finger forward and out as it rises, thereby inducing a complex mus- cular action which we wish to avoid. After all the fingers have received their proper amount of exercise it is quite pos- sible that in spite of your efforts with the relaxing motion there may be some tension, caused by all this added work. Therefore it is a good plan to go back to first principles occaslonally during the lesson and raising the pupiis arm for him, let it drop at will, repeating the ex- ercise until all is as it should be again. Above all, never stop the lesson while the child’'s arm is tense. Be sure he is per- fectly relaxed before you cease operations for the day. Do not fail to follow all these direc- tions carefully, for the next lesson will take our little pupil to the piano itseif, cence of feeling. They show bad training in the spirit of respect for the rights of others, and in the inviolability of property. A felony committed upon person or property is no less a ielony because they who commit it are students and are young and bumptious. Even in old and sober in- stitutions like Yale and Harvard there are violent out- breaks which lead to criminal excesses. It is not always that the persons injured and property damaged or destroyed belong to the institutions whose stu- remembering | dents are responsible. The citizens who live in the vicinity of universities and colleges, instead of finding the contact elevating to their children, are mortified to know that the spirit of recklessness and disorder is by example taught to their own households, and there is a general loosening of the bonds of order and obedience. Even homicides are com- mitted in these mad outbreaks, or wounds are inflicted that are a lifelong handicap upon the sufferer. There is need of drawing closer the lines of parental ad- monition and control, and of stricter attention to discipline "on the part of the officers of institutions of learning. No sane person objects to the young folks having “a good time,” but it is not having a good time to brawl like drunken costermongers, or destroy property like criminal incen- diaries. There is everything in the good old-fashioned char- acter of lady and gentleman. It is a character founded upon lifelong restraint of reckless impulse, and in a refined re- spect for the rights of others. But these wholesome stan- dards seem to be lost sight of. It is too frequently the case that people who have to be on the streets, or in public conveyances, near institutions of learning are offended by disorderly conduct and vile language by students. The per- sonal philosophy of life and character and conduct are re- vealed not by y{\lng people in moments of self-conscious- ness, when they wish to be favorably impressed upon those who observe them, but by their seli-restraint and demeanor when in charge of their own discipline. It is painful to reflect that when the standard is applied so many fail in measurement to the proportion of gentlemen. It is to be hoped that from the family outward to the col- lege faculty there may be made and enforced a strong im- pression of the need of inculcating unselfishness and re- spect for others and for propriety of conduct. A student body so trained should be incapable of resolving itself into a destructive mob, capable of thoughtless and violent con- duct. The example is of evil, and only evil. It strengthens the bad purpose of the criminal and abandoned, who, seeing the toleration of lawlessness in students, conclude naturally that their kind of criminal disregard for the law is just as war- rantable. Every American should desire to see our students all capable of self-control as a great preparation for the time soon coming when, as citizens, they' will control the Gov- ernment itself, and take its direction for good or for evil. Our old friends the porch climbers are with us again. The advent of winter has brought them to us like a visita- tion of fleas, and it is well for householders to know that the knights of the jimmy and the skeleton keys have neither sought an introduction nor a welcome from the police, Tt may not be amiss either to know that the guardians of our streets have shown no particular desire to renew old ac- quaintanceships. Lk ST In affairs athletic the effete East is still maintaining its theatrical pre-eminence over the West. On the Annapolis football field one man was killed a few days ago, and this advantage was quickly followed by Brooklyn, where a youngster had his neck broken on the gridiron, We haven’t yet had even a serious accident, and the season has progressed in violence almost to the big intercollegiate game. " PROBABLY A BLUNDER. W E are not informed as to the exact crime com- | gri/it JOF FOU ATA e e mitted by the British subject, Lynchehaun, whose | boys before I can convince the gang that extradition has been refused by the United States Commissioner at Indianapolis. The crime is admitted by | the Commissioner to have been brutal, but he insists that | it was political in its nature, and the accused is therefore not subject to extradition. tradition. There is in progress San Fran-| .. surier, 3 spur that Smith & few weeks later. “Here are the Erratic in lesser things, she is sound in her | ;¢ G ilca Murtel atter Mr. Smiiiy dangii- L O e o e This decision is probably a blun- | erey) ana eficient weapon,” says the Lon- | der that may weaken the whole international system of ex- | don Telegraph. “It has an extreme range no revolution Britain, and personal assaults under lose all political color in the supreme ‘to protection in their personal rights. the political assassination of President McKinley, has en- re- CIFCUMSLAances | time fuse permits of effective shrapnel right of ‘the people | fire at a range of 310 yards, an enor- This country, since deavored to create an international understanding in gard to the treatment of anarchists. upon general recognition of the fact that, in the absence of revolutionary conditions and when Governments have inter- nal peace, personal assault and assassination is an act of | anarchy. It is none the less ‘so if committed upon the person of a | Was necessary to work it quickly, while lesser official than the chief executive of a nation, or if even ! ccrew threads when Inserting the shell a private citizen or subject be its victim. We had one other j necessitated an amount of care which ma- noted case before this of Lynchehaun, but with features en- of “Ahig i tirely different. The Ezeta brothers murdered and fought | the invention of Colonel Deport of the their way to power in Salvador, one becoming Presi- dent and the other Vice President. they reached power, though abnormal elsewhere, were nor- mal there, since a constitutional change in the Presidency had been unknown for fiity years, and one robber and mur- In| This has depended | ruptea The processes by which derer had succeeded another as President by revolution. due time Gutierrez, country, incident to the many usurpations of the Presiden- | the instant the disc has swung into posi- tial power, and while the Ezetas had probably been'a trifle | tion and closed the breech. When a slow- handier with gun and dagger than their bloodthirsty prede- the automatic action s put out of gear cessors and successors, their offenses wére still the ordinary | by a very simple arrangement, and the incidents in the politics of Salvador, and extradition was refused. Had the party been extradited of course they would | ordinary way. An exactly similar breech have been tied together and shot as soon as they landed in This case was not on all fours with that of | manufactured in future will be fitted with His offense, whatever it was, seems to have | it. In opening the breech after the shot Salvador. Lynchehaun. been a felony under the laws of Great Britain. mary punishment without trial, but would have his day that is, the cartridge and the shell joined in court and the benefit of all the orderly machinery of jus- | in one piece, like a rifle cartridge—will, It of ccurse, be used for the new gun.” by revolution, expelled the Ezetas. and one of thc@, with his stgfi of ragamutfin generals, t"ook time when performed by well trained gun- refuge on a United States ship and landed in San Francisco, where they were detained upon Salvador's demand that they be extradited for punishment. THe case was heard by Hon. W. W. Morrow, then United States District Judge, and it was clearly shown that | School of Gunnery. This extreme rapid- the crimes imputed to Ezeta were customary acts in that | ity is effected by the adoption of an auto- ¥ Had he been | pim" of the exploded cartridge case and extradited he would not have been delivered over'to sum- | Jerks it out, so as to leave the gun ready tice to prove his innocence or mitigate his punishment. is a misrepresentation of American sentiment to say that his crime, though brutal, was political, and that therefore he is We | Carnegie libraries cost something. Mr. entitled to an inviolable asylum in the United States. don’t want any additions to that class of people in this | goung 760 Itbrarics and have $00 more nn country. When the next anarchist murders a President of | der advisement.” the United States, if he succeed in making a_foreign asylum, his extradition may be refused to us on exactly the same grounds as those put for the benefit of Lynchehgun by the | 88 & Indianapolis Commissioner. habit. | everything from the faro banks to the had : would a-cared a bit about that, except hin- | the pleasure craft of the bay city. . | If | Tax Collector Ed Smith, who 1s a friend | in Great “Quartz” Billings grew again while he was sitting in the Cold the other night. Between gulps of coffee he began to discuss his favorite topic— the sublimity of Nevada justice as it was ispensed ten years ago. “‘Quartz,” “when ! real estate was running sorter loose in the rest and came tearing down into the back of Washoe City. Nobody | that it was going at sech a rate that when | it hit the valley it picked up Joe Frey's | ranch and boosted it over on top of Tule the hole Joe Frey's ranch used to occupy. “The perplexing question of law this brought up was, Who owned the ranch Joe Frey claimed | the ranch because his was on top, and ;ar up to the blue heaven. said the ranch was his'n be- N under the Tule Fran! the middle of the earth. So the litigation began. ~ They got a jury together in back of old postoffice at Washoe before the County Jedge, and some young fellers from the States turned loose more law in x dayX of the trial than the Jedge's | cranium could take in in seventeen years. “Then the jury went out to decide who nature intended to own these ranches. finally, ched a jedgment we r the doom of the de- and git drunk with the Well, that jury found that nk was the owner of that ranch, but stuck in the proviso to the effeck that before Tule Frank could use the ranch he’d have to throw Joe Frey’'s when the jury all filed in to hc ner. “Quartz” Billings Again. T reminiscent | A Matter of Names. No' An Alameda man has just completed the II'I construction ¢ a small sailboat for his | 13-year-old boy. The boat was launched, proved a success and oniy lacked a name “Let me choose a name for her,” said of the amateur boat builder, “and I will furnish a set of flags.” “I have honored y after m; ur boat by calling daughter,” said | flags. 1 hope you will like them.” following morning at breakfast the Ala- | formed his family that the yacht would | ter. The selection was received with | | warm approval by all but the youth for | whese recreation the boat had been bulit. | “What's the matter, George?' said his | | father. “Don’t you like the name?” g s, the name's all right and it's easy enough for you and very nice for Mr. the boat is named after Muriel Smith and not the Muriel that lives up the street.” New Gun. “The new gun is an exceptionally pow- of 10,000 yards and a rate of fire of twen- ty-nine rounds per minute. The improved mous advance on anything possible with our present type of field gun. There are four special points in which the new type surpasses tae old. These are simplicity of the breech action, in which the Inter- screw is abolished: increased | range, vastly increased rapidity of fire | and perfect absorption of the recoil. In the old type of gun a coned steel block, carrying an interrupted screw thread, was used to close the breech and Intricate | and comparatively delicate mechanism | the danger of burring or injuring the terfally interfered with the rapid loading The new breech, which is French artillery, entirely obviates these | difficulties. Instead of a threaded cone, | worked by a complicated system of levers and ratchets, there will be in the new gun a plain steel disc, swinging on a pivot. “When the crank handle attached to the disc is pulled the disc slides around. so that a cartridge can be inserted in the bore, a reversal of the motion closes the breech and fires the gun, the whole operation occupying less than a second of ners. The writer saw a French gun de- tachment fire eight rounds in fifteen sec- onds for the benefit of the Czar of Rus- sia at Fort de Fresne, near Rheims_and thirty rcunds have been firéd in one min- | ute by a picked squad at the French | matic attachment, which fires the gun er rate of fire is required, as in ranging, gun can then be fired by pulling a lan- vard, which releases the striker in the mechanism has been adopted by the Ad- miralty for heavy guns, and weapons has *been fired an extractor grips the for the next round. Fixed ammunition— Cost of Libraries. Carnegie recently said: “I have helped This will make, say, 1500 in all. During the last year he gave 1158 library buildings, at a cost to him of $6,679,000, so the average cost of the build- $12,270, and 1500 of them will aggre— gate $63,405,000. gNow. under the contract with Mr. Carnegie, the cities blessed must tax themselves annually 10 per cent of the cost of the bulldings to provide funds for It is likely that San Francisco will soon have anothA #he maintenance. This would be $5,340,500 h every year, in additon to the interest on distinguished visitor, and it goes without saying we will | more than $30,000,000 paid by the cities for welcome him. A hypnotist in the South Dakota town of La- | IbaTy sites. By these transactions the libraries will cost Mr. Carnegle each year, mont induced a fool to be buried alive the other day and |at 5 per cent Interest on his Investment, $3,170,250, while the cost to the cities at the consequences were disastrous to the fool. The populace | the same rate will be $7.840,50, or two beat the hypnotist almost to death. cisco is on the map, and it is the business of all impostors to know that it is, he certainly will take up his lifework un- der our encouragement, If he knows San Fran-|and a half times as mfch.—Kansas City Journal. The Wind’s Chisel. In Western Beaver County, Okla., w! is known geologically as the Dakota n:‘.if 1t is very hkfly that Charles S.rhwab' the shrewdly un- | stone rises from its dip under the plains, scrupulous manipulator of the ship-building trust, will be |and Isolated fragments of striking con- sued for twenty million dollars which, it is claimed, he has | the lo tour stand like sentinels in the silence y country. Erosion by wind .:‘: rain has worn pyramids of sand- unlawfully acquired. There is yet reason to hope, therefore, stone till they r&‘:hle tall chimneys of that with courts, investigations and honest prosecutors, the | fantastic design, cap Iying on cap, till it way of thg American transgressor is still hard. 3 X would seem that a push would them to the ground. Many natural for- FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1903. ITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL[" £ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . - . . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager TA.LK Ol‘ THE TOWN e e, R z ~en @ i B o . STHIrdADd Mnketstreetl,s.r.; A_ND 5 R eSs E E T R S veer.....NOVEMBER g4, ;90'3: T T . | - mations alleged to resembel human faces, ete., require a stretch of the imagination to fill in the detail. Six miles east of Kenton, however, is a Dakota sandstone chipped and chiseled by the elements till its iikeness is silhouette to the head of a woman is perfect. Every feature, chin, mouth, nose and brow, is cut against the sky in clearest outline. The head rounds gracefully to the neck, which offers a slender support to the mass of rock above it. The face is that of an aristocratic colonial dame. ew York Tribune. California Feathers. “To find out anything about the os- trich feather trade in New York,” says the New York Times, “it is necessary to listen to diametric statements of whole- sale dealers. Broadway below Fourteenth street is the ostrich feather mart of the United States. Feather manufacturers there had spent years in building up a big trade long before ostrich raising was thought of in Southern California. “These merchants, as a rule, have not given a hospitable welcome to the Amer- ican bird. They insist that the contribu- tion of ostrich feathers from California ranches are a mere bagatelle in the trade and that if it were not for the duty of 15 per cent imposed on South African feath- ers in the rough the Pacific Coast os- triches would cut no figure at all. “On the other hand, manufacturers have abandoned imported ostrich feath- ers to devote themselves entirely to the California product and have moved nea er to the retail stores uptown, whe women may see their wares displayed big show windows, declare that the do- mestic ostrich feathers are gaining ev year on the imported article and they going to try to induce Congr the duty on raw feathers to manufactured feathers, “In retail trade the milliners treat rival feather dealers impartially. The diffe ence between the Culifornia and Sout African ostrich feathers is quite 1S marked as the difference between Cal fornia and Burgt claret, and the ference in price in about the sam tlo. Customers may choose for the selves,” Innovation Prophesied. A professor who is said to be an in- structor at the Naval Academy has been telling people in Chicago that libraries will soon be made up of “taling ma- chine disks.” In a lecture out there he is reported to have said: “In time these disks will take the place of textbooks. Paper backed novels will disappear and Instead of reading printed books the student will only have to put a disk in his talking machine and have the novel read to him in the living voice of its creator. “The new method will be especially val- uable to those who teach languages. It will overcome the necessity of linguists wasting time in teaching pronunciation. By the use of the talking machine it has been shown that the pronunciation of for- eign words can be taught in a short time with accuracy unequaled by any other method. We have disks here on which are lessons in French and Spanish spoken by professors. When a student mispro- nounces a word it is only necessary to refer him to a certain disk.” Lil Brown Ffs:t. Oveh de san’ hill, undeh de pine, Lil brown feet am roamin'; Tangled en tohn in de bracbehhy vine— Coled in de mill race foamin'. Off wheh de wil'est ob blossoms grow. Chasin’ det tiny hummeh: : Neveh a keeh or tr'uble know— Free es de win's ob summeh. Lil brown feet. lil brown toes, Oveh de sweet wil' mint dey goes: Oveh de hillside, undeh de tree, Dem lil brown feet so happy en free. Up fum de lowlan's, up fum de swamp, Es de ol’ sun am loweh, Lil brown feet so weahy fum romp, Pattin’ sloweh en sloweh, But soon dem lil feet roll up in bed, Dess lak a Iil brown bundle, De moon man see, when he rise so red, Lil brown feet in de trundle. Lil brown feet! two ob a kin’, Who am de eh? Nebbeh yo' min': Sum day dey’'ll follow de paff ob de plo ‘Stead ob de paff dey's followin' now. —Harper's Magazine. Max?rTmSpeed. An electric car running on the Marfon- felde-Zossen experimental line in Ger- many reached, on October 6, a speed of 125 4-5 miles an hour. Passengers are car- ried at that rate, and live to tell about it. The car used has four motors having be tween them about 1100 horsepower. Fur- ther expefiments are likely to show speeds considerably higher, and the at- tainment of ¢ velocity of 150 miles an nour ¥s not unlikely. Whether this Is to be the speed of fast trains on future railroads is open to discussion. The limit to possible speed no discerning observer is ready to define yet. The limit of speed at which passengers will ever consent to be hauled or raflroad companies can ever afford to haul them will probably be considerably lower, but the facts are not yet forth- coming for the calculation of even that.— Harper's Weekly. Good Sized Cae. The wedding cake of Princess Alice of Battenberg was six feet high. It was one of the largest cakes ever made for a royal bride, although that presented to Princess Beatrice by the ladies of Kent was about twenty inches taller. The latter master- plece in confectionery cost 500 guineas. It is a rule at royal weddings to have four or five cakes, one of which is made by the bride’s own cooks, and cut up for dis- patch to her particular friends. ———— Townsend's California glace fruits m,‘ candles. 50c a pound, artistic fire- etched boxes. A ni€e present Sters friends. 715 Market st., .M‘.lco:n bldg. * —_—— Special information supplied dally to Pout Ciipping Bureaw’ Alens 2’ Coe fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢