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THE SA N FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1903. & left len the face, and how to parry your op 's left lead. You and your | sparring par st practice that lead | aad parry con: , over and over | important. Let the | he blow to add force. . but put the weight of | ch blow. By this I do not ug.” Slugging is not It is to be &volded in all friendly | u can put shoulder and | v without knocking your | off. Lead ligh dut | again, for it is very 't sta »dy into ¢ mean you are to boxing. Let T last weck not to draw ba Lead from the | nd ! gl it ; ading. inary > the blow and ur antagonist what your are go- your ur sparring partn €0 in a straight line | 3 g vour solar plexus) to his face, rising at the same time on the toe of the right foot to add force to the blow. Do not bend the knees, | but put shoulder and weight Into the blow as in the left lead. Keep the left foot flat on the ground. body awkwardly, as is sometimes the ten- dency when thus leading with the right. To guard a right hand lead for the fa raise the left keeping the elbow lower than the wrist, throwing the fore- | arm out and upward and turning the hand | out. Try to catch the blow on the fleshy part of the forearm; or, when more ex- pert, merely push your opponent’s blow &+ TS Do not twist the | | 3 — - I Right Mand Cross Counter to Head. l * & outward (to your right) by letting his wrist or forearm hit your right forearm, and then throwing your arm slightly to the right. In elther case it is better to hit his wrist or forearm and throw it out- ward in parrying than to rely on merely stopping his glove. For in a regular fight he wowid have on no big glove and might slip in past your guard were you depend- ing solely on stopping him by means of bitting his glove aside. . Having perfected yourself in these right and left leads and parries for the face (and 1t cannot be done in a single lesson), try the right and left counters for the fece, which I shall now teach you. First, the left cross-counter for the face: | Stand on guard. Let your sparring part. mer lead for your face with his left. Now, @s you are standing his blow would strike you fairly in the middle of your perspir- ing countenance. But as the blow comes + : 3 i - + move your head sharply to the right and @t the same time lead for his face with your jeft. The result will be that his blow wil! go harmlessly past your head and your jeft fist will catch him squarely n the face. When I say “move your head to the right” I do not mean “turn your head sideways,” but, keeping: your face still toward him, move the whole head (Just as you used to move it in dodging a parental box on the ear). His blow will €0 where your face ought to be, but will merely encounter thin air. Your jeft will hit his unprotected face, and his own im- - petug will lend force to your blow as he runs into it. % The right cross-counter for the face is somewhat similar: Let your sparring partner again lead for your face with his left. This time -| outside of his arm (that is, to the right of | record that some y - move your head to the left instead of to the right, ard lead for his face with your right. But bring your right arm around it), so that your blow will reach his face instead of merely collldiug with his out- stretched left arm. &L These two counters are among the most | effective tricks in boxing, and they are extremely simple. But they require prac- tice—constant, careful practice—as does every maneuver I have taught or shall teach you. . . Remember this seemingly unimportant maxim, as it°will save confuslon later on: Never bend either knee in any lead, | counter or parry for the.face. The knee | should only be bent In delivering body blows, and those I shall take up in our next lesson. | You now have the right and left leads and parries for the face and the right and | left cross-counters for the face, Those | should keep you busy for some time. | Let me suggest that you cut out each | of these articles and save them. They will come in handy even after you are further advanced, and you will need to refer to them from time to time, ! You cannot hope to learn eve at once, but if you will each week prac- | tice daily all the lessons that I have | taught you up to that time you will soon find yourself *‘getting the bang of it.” | There is no other exercise half to inter- | esting and exciting .as boxing, and once | vou get fairly into it you will join the mighty army of enthusfasts. In the meantime remember T am al- ways glad to answer any questions in re- gard to such points as are not perfectly clear to vou, or to give additional advice | on the subject of diet, training, etc. Write to me on any of these subjects and I shall | gl2d to advise you personally to the | ry best of my ability. In next week's lesson we wil} take up | body blows 2nd their guards, as well as several more & nced steps in boxing. The Age of Wire. (Author of * A COLM McDOWELL, P 1; wlhe Wonders of the | Wire of such extraordinary fineness that a Mlttle over 400 pounds of it would | earth will be one of the uncom- ings shown at the World's Fair in next year. This wire will be so delicate that speclal® means o be employed that it may be scen. Practically it will be invisible, for 1t will be something less than one twenty- ve thousandth part of an inch in diame- ter. This wire will be made from a gold- plated silver rod and it will run about 600 yards in length to every ounce in | welght. . . The human hair bout one three-hun- dredth of an inch in diameter and the | silk worm's fiber Is about one five-thou- sandth of an inch across, but platinum wire has been made so fine that 25,000 wires, sld: by side, would measure but | one inch across, and it is a matter of s ago a wire worker named Wollaston, by silver plating the platinum, secured a wire the three one- hundred-thousandth part of an inch in diameter, wire which weighed one and a quarter grains to the mile. The silver plate alded him in that it held the plati- num until it could be drawn no finer. Then the silver was eaten off by nitric acid, and the result was a wire which | could mot be seen by the unaided eye. Aluminum has been drawn so fine that one ounce of the metal made 34,200 feet —over six miles—of wire, but it must be remembered thit aluminum is the lightest | of the useful metals. Iron wire has been secured so fine drawn that forty miles of it weighed but one pound, and in England is a cofl of hard copper wire which weighs eleven pounds and ll‘! wire in one un- broken length is 100 Miles long. It taxes one’s credulity to learn that iron, steel, copper and other metals can be drawn and stretched to such degrees of fineness, yet the silver-gilt wire used in the man- ufacture of “gold lace” for uniforms and tassels—an ordinary everyday product— runs from 1500 to 2500 yards to the ounce and it has been figured out that 50,000 hair springs for watches are made from one pounl of steel. | % This has been called “the age of wire,” for almost everything in common use has more or less wire in its make-up. | If, in some way, all the wire in this coun- try were suddenly destroyed, business, | manufacturing, mining, transportation and farming would stop. Any time a storm brings down the wires between two centers of population business and commerce are hampered if not seriously cmbarrassed. One has but to glance around to appreciate the fact—not com- monly recognized—that wire is an essen- tial to one’s everyday life. In the com- monest things—pins, needles, nails, win- dow screens, bed springs, picture cord, watch springs, brooms, fruit boxes, | pianos, women's hats, hairpins, shoes, | books, magazines, umbrellas, spectacles, | Kitchen utensils, watch chains, scarf- | pins, fences and so on—wire forms the | whole or part. Great cables, which can | withstand a pull of 150 tons, and bolting | cloth which has 40,000 meshes to the square inch are made of wire, and all of the precious and useful metals and their | lloys are drawn through steel dles or | “gem draw plates” to meet requirements | which call for wire. Rubies, sapphires and diamonds, with microscopic holes drilled through them, | arz the “gem draw plates” made in France, where the method of drilling precious stones to such almost unbe- | lievable fineness is kept a close trade | secret. It is through these brilliants | that gold, silver, platinum and the silver | glit are drawn down to attenuated fila- ments which can only be measured by-a | comparison of weights. Pure gold wire is not a commercial commodity, but a large amount of gold-plated silver wire | is used in the manufacture of gold lace, | embroideries, trimmings, etc. siw T Silver ingots are “grained” by melting the metal and running it into water, where it takes a granular form. The granules are remelted and poured into molds, which make silver bars, which arc hammered into rods about two inches in diameter. The hammering makes the ‘metal more compact. One end of the rod is pointed, and the point inserted through a hole of a steel die. A clamp is screwed to the pointed end and a chain, which runs around a revolving drum, is attached to the clamp. The machine is started and the silver rod is pulled through the hole, which diminishes its diameter and gives the rod a mirror- like polish. Gold leaf is then laid on to the rod, completely covering the polished sur- face, and-the “gilded” rod is then drawn again and again through the steel dies until it becomes too fine for its holes. The “gem draw plates” are then brought into action and the drawing process is continued until the wire is about .002 to .002 inch in diameter—that is, about as fine as the hair on a baby’s head. Wax, oil or soap is employed tq lubricate the wire \during the operation, and oc- casionally the wire is annealed by being wound on copper cylinders and lald on a charcoal fire for a few minutes. The result of the series of drawing is to pull a silver rod about one and three-quarter inches in diameter and two feet six inches long, coated with but one layer of gold leaf, into a wire if pot cut, would extend 400 to 500 miles from the wire drawer's workshop. | looked forward to a betterment of conditions when the | tional law, go far toward enabling the crystallization of a THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL| . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor - . . . . . l"nblicnmm Office. . e el @ reeieeveeeees ess-..Third and Market Strests, S. E. THE COLOMBIAN REVOLUTION. FRIDAY. OR the first time in the history of the Latin-American Fsta(es there is a revolution that means more than power and plunder. When the Congress at )_Bogota Te- jected the canal treaty with the United States, and during the proceedings captured and held the official dispatches to our Minister and his to the State Department, cutting off all communication with our official representative, The Call predicted the revolution that has jus} broken out. The people of the isthmus want the canal. The Parama railroad has given them contact and experience with the world's civilization and commerce. While they are out- numbered by the non-isthmian provinces, they have the intelligence and the enterprise of Colombia within their borders. With great commercial opportunities near to them they find themselves hampered and held back by a vicious Government and a financial system that is a farce. Their rate of exchange is about 1200, meaning that one dollar in the world’s money is wofth 1200 dollars in the money in which their Government compels them to do business. They world’s highway between the oceans. was built across their territory. These aspiratipns were sane and praiseworthy. But a weak executive and a corrupt Congress defeated them, and managed to do it in a way that was such dn in- sult to the United States as to -warrant the withdrawal of our Minister from Bogota. The expected revolution on the isthmus follows. The Bogota Government has met it in the usual uncivilized way, by a bombardment without notice and the intercep- tion of the dispatches of our Government to the command- ers of our warships, to prevent their presence at the scene, where they would have forbidden the barbarous bombard- ment. It is obvious that the United States cannot take ac- tive steps to aid the revolution. Though it might be in the interest of civilization, it would not conform to our inter- nationa] obligations. But, clearly within our rights, we can passively contribute to the success of a praiseworthy as- piration, s Under our treaty with Colombia we assume the respon- sibility of protecting the operation and the neutrality of the Panama railway. We can prevent its use for military pur- poses by the Bogota Government, and we can prohibit the bombardment of Panama or Colon. The revolutionary forces are already on the isthmus, for they constitute the inhabitants. They do not have to use the railway to get there, but the predatory Government from which they se--| cede must use it to make effective resistance. Denied the right to bombard, that Government finds its gunboats quite useless, and while it is making overland marches to get at the seat of war, such time will elapse as to give our Government the clear right to accord belligerency to the revolutionists and to redognize theirs as a government de tacto, as is our settled practice in dealing with the effer- vescent Latin-American states. These two steps, which violate no principle of interna- government de jure. All Europe recognizes our hegemony of this hemisphere and willingly concedes our right to pro- tect our own and the nationals of other powers while the trouble is on. The practice of the Latin-American Goyvernments . of.| stealing our official dispatches to our Ministers and our fleet commanders suggests a desirable change in our naval policy. Our naval officers should be trusted with a larger discretion. Suddenly developed situations like this should be dealt with primarily by them, using their best judgment. They are trained men, of necessity learned in international law, and they have the power to communicate with our Ministers and Consuls General near the scene of action. They should have the power to use a wise discretion and say to an uneasy arid half-savage people, “Thou shalt and thou shalt not.” While our Government, as we have satd, may only pas- sively and within its rights do anything to aid the righteous revolution, it is conceivable that many Americans, who understand the situation and, looking at the map, see the slender attachment of the isthmus to the body of Co- lombia, may conclude to do some work thete on their own account, and if they conclude, in sufficient numbers, to put their hands to the cutting of the isthmus from the body that misuses it, the work will be done effectively. Looking to our interest in the canal, there is obvious propriety in having that waterway entirely in the joint con- trol of the United States and a people who are all interested in it. The creation of a purely isthmian state, advanced and self-governing, to be traversed by the canal, is required by the world’s commerce. The great body of Colombia, being remote from the canal, with an immobile people who would never see it and who would appreciate it only as something new to be plundered if possible, has no more right to control it in any degree than the savages of the Congo basin, A reward of $5000- has been offered by the Santa Fe | Railroad for information that will lead to the apprehension of the demons that recently wrecked the train eastbound from Denver. Praiseworthy as is this offer of the railroad people, it should not be needed as a spur to any one to con- sider a train-wrecker as beyond the pale of all civilized mercy, as an outlaw who should be hunted down and de- stroyed, as worse than a savage animal. In a discussion of Macedonian affairs a Berkeley pro- fessor has unloosed his burden of information, and in the scattering scraps we discover his opinion that official life in American cities is as corrupt as it is in Macedonia. Con- siderable weight is given to the pedagogue’s interesting re- mark by the probable fact that the gentleman knows noth- ing about Macedonia except by hearsay, and less about the government of our cities. DA St The intrepid Alameda youth who solicited and re- ceived a season in jail as a protection against the vagaries of a perpetual jag has repented .o( his action and wants to set the wheels of state in motion to be relieved of durance vile. It is strange how some people just miss being great. To sink from the height of unreasoning fanaticism to the dreary level of commonplace remorse and backsliding is a great fall. —————— 4 . An attorney in New York, pleading for an anarchist who has been ordered deported from this country, asked the court to believe that anarchy is a religion, not a crime. It is very evident that at least one lawyer ought to accompany an anarchist abroad. The opinions of John Alexander Dowie, must be bearing fruit in Manhattan. LAl Sl gt A street sweeper of San Francisco, variously occupied in addition to his service to the municipality as a thief, burglar and a “fencé” for thieves, has by strict attention to business accumulated a nest-egg of twenty thousand dollars in five years. And now who wouldn’t go West and grow up with the country? . GORMAN’S REMARK. ENATOR GORMAN carried Maryland by 8000 major- S ity. It puts him in the Presidential field, and Sen- ator Morgan says that he will have the support of the solid South for the nomination. Interviewed about the result, Mr. Gorman said: “I regard the result of yesters day's election in Maryland as a protest against further radi- cal action intended to disturb the business interests of the country.” That is a Delphic utterance. The Senator furnishes no | interpretation. His party, ever since 1896, has been pro- posing radical action that would have destroyed and not | merely disturbed the business interests of the country. Dur- | ing all that time the Republican party, materially aided by the Gold Democracy, has been safeguarding and promoting those interests. Does the Senator mean that his victory | means that he indorses the Republican record and has com- pelled his party in Maryland to surrender? Read another way, for his utterance is an anagram, he may mean that he adopts as his own the view of President Roosevelt taken by the New York Sun and other trust organs. According to that the President has disturbed the business interests of the country by enforcing the anti- trust laws and compelling the situation which discloses Schwab and Morgan and other high financiers as promoters of jobs to induce the public to invest in water, ‘supposing it to be stocks that represented only the actual value of such combined properties as those of the ship-building trust. Read that way, and there is every reason for believing that to_be his meaning, the Senator issues his anagram as a grand hailing sign to -the hydraulic financiers that help cometh from “My Maryland,” and if their scheme can only hold water till Mr. Gorman gets into the White House it will go to par. Of course he will not publicly put it that way. He works along the color line, and accuses the President of disturbing the harmonious relations of the North and South, s necessary to business, by insisting that the constitution is the fundamental law and that under it there is equality in the common rights of humanity. The Sun and the other trust organs in New York made that issue against the President. It is not original with¢ Mr. Gorman. The two Morgans, J. P. and J. T., differ less than by their middle initials on that subject and would pull harmoniously in Mr. | Gorman’s tug-of-war. Of course it would never do for | the trust newspapers to put their real reason for opposing President Roosevelt, so they made the usual appeal to prejudice and .raised the race issue, The people are ready to end the traditional prejudices of the Civil War by hanging the Republican bloody shirt | on Mr. Gorman’s Democratic color line to dry while they go on in the path of reason and equal rights and against special privileges., It will be very difficult for Mr. Gorman | to make a distinction favorable to him between the honest | policies required for the prosperity of the country, which | will present him as an exponent of that which is wisest and best. When he chooses to state frankly his belief, judging by his position on the Wilson tariff bill and sound money, he will say that he believes in protection and the gold stan- dard: Then the people will say to him: “Go to; so does President Roosevelt, who has been tried and not found } wanting.” T publicly manifested. As a form of religion no one has logically any other than a religious quarrel with | Mormenism, such as is chronic between all the diverse forms by which men choose to interpret their relations to the universe. But the Mormon hierarchy was long politically dominant in the State of Deseret and the Territory of Utah. It instituted - polygamy and church divorce, and though by political necessity compelled to abandon them in | order to secure admission of Utah to the Union, it has never relinquished the hope of getting back through politics | what it lost by politics. It is industriously colunizing: Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico, and hopes | with Utah to finally control five States, with ultimate de-i signs on Montana and Nevada. a While the church works through politics it has no par- i tisan politics. The two Utah Senators are Republicans, but | one, Mr. Kearns, is a Gentile. It is the policy of the | church to displace him, and in doing so to secure a member in each party caucus in the Senate. So the next Legislature | of Utah will be Democratic, and a Mormon Democrat will | go to the Senate in place of Mr. Kearns. All this is fore- shadowed in the Salt Lake City election. The result was a Democratic victory, a large majority of the elected officers being Mormons, and their success was openly approved by Apostle and United States Senator Smoot! The Mormon policy raises a question embarrassing to the statehood of Arizona and New Mexico. They are in the Mormon net, and should escape it first before they are permitted to come into the Union. When they come the enabling act admitting them and their State constitutions should contain stronger guaranties than were exacted from Utah. Polygamy is not the only Mormon evil. When any church dictates, and has the power to dictate, and practices dictation to its members in politics, it is as dangerous as anarchy to the life of this republic. It is that dictation that must be prohibited. Any vote cast in obedience to it must be made an illegal ballot, and any election secured by such ballots must be made void. The fiddle-faddle about denying Apostle Smoot his seat in the Senate is inconse- quential. It cannot be done. But the bars that were left down when Utah, Idaho and Wyoming were made States can be put up in the case of New Mexico and Arizona. MORMON POLITICS. , HE political aspirations of the Mormon church are ——— The Governor of Oregon, rising to meet the vital neces- sities of his high position, has declared that between two evils, one the calling of an extra session of.the Oregon Leg- islature and the other a threatened bankruptcy of the city of Portland because of a lack of funds with which - to operate the municipality, the latter is immeasurably the less. Can it be possible that some of our California solons | sorting out ducks. ) Timber-Leg's Misfortune. “Misfortune’s good as an insurance pol- icy to some men,” mused “Quartz” Bil- lings over the top of his foaming schooner down at Manila Jack’s place. “Some men is pestered some by misfortune, and agin there's some as have to keep dodgin’ to keep misfortune from doin’ them a good turn. Now there was Timber-leg Tuthill. “Old Timber-leg fell down a stope In the Never-Touched-Me mine up in Was- hoe some years gone and he didn’t tend to his underpinnin’ sufficient arter one of 'em was broke. Consequence they hikes him to. a housepiddle down Reno way and off with one of his legs. “He comes down here arter his dis- charge and gets a job as stableman over in the Emeryville racetrack. With his first savings he gdes to one of these pa- per mashay studios over here in the city and buys him an artificial leg. It was that leg what did the business. “One day a two-year-old over at the track fell down and strained herself and Timber-leg he took her ‘round-behind the stable and began to bathe her leg with water bilin' hot. Well, sir, one of these Soclety for Prevention of Cussedness to Dumb Critters who was moochin’ ‘round to spot just such business—he gallyvants up to Timber-leg and says: ‘“‘Stop that instantly. Aren't you ashamed to put water on that horse’s leg which is so bilin’ hot that you wouldn’t put it on your own?" “*“Who says I'm skeered to put it on my own? says Timber-leg, kinder soft and persuadin’, . ‘I says that, and what's more I have fitty dollars which says the same thing,’ says the soclety man, who was once a sport by his own words. ““Well, sir, Timber-leg had just won that amount-on a race that day and he draws it.out of his jeans with a soft light shinin’ in his eyes. ‘Put up your money,’ says he. “They puts up their money in a little pile on the ground, and then Timber-leg sticks that patent back ackshun leg of his, pants and all, in the bucket of hot water and reaches for the hundred.” Fooled the Bear. “A bear’s affection for Chinamen and the fact that we were too scared to talk saved two of us from being chewed up or clawed to pleces the other night,” said Policeman Barry of Corporal Sylvester's Chinatown squad. “For once in our lives we did not object to being taken for heathens. “There is a monster black bear on the roof of Ah Chuck’'s butcher shop at 36 Fish alley. He was brought to these parts when a cub and, that he might be out of the way, was shoved up through a trap door to the roof. The butcher for- 8ot to take him down soon enough, so he grew too big to come back through the trap door, and when he does land on terra firma again he will have to be in quarter sections. “We were trying to catch a ‘ple-gow’ game and had disguised as Chinese. In order to reach the room we had to climb over a number of roofs. While doing so ‘we had just lowered ourselves over a high partition to the top of the butcher shop, when a big black bear looked us in the eye. We had left our weapons behind | and were too frightened to speak. Stealth- ily we made for the trap door and climbed down the ladder. At the bottom we de- manded an explanation as soon as We- could breathe again. When the bear heard our voices he came to the opening above, snarled and tried to scratch the roof off. “‘He no likee Melican man. Chinaman good fliend,’ said a Chinese who was ‘You foolo blear. Now he sabee: he hear you talkge. He bellie much mad.” “Had we calle¢ for help on the roof there would have been two vacancles In the department.” Money in Cream Puffs. “Many and varied are the schemes con- cocted by the criminals who are in the business of cashing worthless checks,™ sald the police captain, becoming remin- iscent, “‘but for consummative nerve the inventive crook who utilized cream puffs as an adjunct to prey on the gullible is entitled to first money. “To accomplish his purpose this indi- | vidual made use of the warm friendship existing between a baker and -a grocer whose stores were opposite to each other on the same street.* Entering the baker’'s shop one day, the crook at once placed an order for 100 cream puffs, which he paid for, representing that he wanted to give an orphan asylum an unexpected treat, “After leaving the baker the crook went across the street to the grocer and or- dered $40 worth of goods. Then he ten- dered Iin payment a ‘phoney’ check for $100. The grocer hesitated and the crook, to disarm suspicion, said: ““That's all right. The baker across the street will vouch for me." ~ “The grocer followed by the crook, went to his front door and, seeing the paker standing in front of his shop, shouted as he poinjed to his customer: - <+ eared Into the mountains just ::dlhda‘.;lg,;lem cavalry were galloping up. Since then his namg has been constantly in the mouths of men, and there has been a price upon his head. The Nation’s Footballers. “The football contests between the ca- dets of West Point and Annapo- s have demonstrated the useful- ness of this sport in the training of the officers of the army and navy, as a developing influence for hardihood, seif- rellance, dash and initiative, of both mind and body,” says a writer in the Illustrated Sporting News. “Incidentally these teams have set a high and almost ideal standard of spo manship, free of whatever features h inspired adverse criticism in the conduct and spirit of college football, and the wisdom of those who helped to Introduce football at West Point and Annapolis has been confirmed by the splendid popularity of the contests since they were resumed in 1899, after a break of six years. The college or university undergraduate, with his free and easy curriculum and his wide range of individual freedom, has small idea of the rigor of the dally cadet life and how these young men make such high class elevens in their limited rec- reation hours is as surprising to-day as when they first appeared on the fleld to impress the football leaders with their prowess. “So far as the Washington authorities are concerned, it seems that football is in favor and strongly entrenched at West Point and Annapolis and the games be- tween the academics are safe so long as President Roosevelt is able to speak with authority in favor of the sport for the army and navy. He has shown the keen- est interest in the contests and it is weil known that his opinion of football is all that the coaches can ask.” The Alarm. Clang! A rush in the street. “‘Is he good for a hundred? . “The grocer, of course, referred to the check, but the baker, thinking his friend meant the cream puffs, yeiled back: “ ‘Sure, he's all right.’ “And the grocer thereupon cashed the check.” Maori Golf Champion. Those of us who belleve that the New Zealand Maori lives in trees and wears whiskers like a door mat, as our old geo- graphy used to depict him, will be sur- prised to read that the golf championship of New Zealand was won the other day by a Maort player named Tareha, be- longing to the Hawkes Bay district. Hawkes Bay is the nursery of Maori sport, and it is thence that most of the ‘ative footballers come. Te Aute College, for Maori and half-caste youths, the chief of the native schools In the colony, is also there. It will be amusing to, hear what the Scotchmen down in Otago have to say to this capture of the golf trophy by a simple Maori from the North Is- land. . The Chinese about Dunedin best them sometimes in getting government contracts,and if the aborigines are to beat them at the national game it would seem to be time to go in for a change of some sort. have slipped across the border and are serving Oregon as they served ns? —_— Some very worthy missionaries of New York have de- cided that as importers of tea from India they are a distinct and glittering failure. If they would reach the same conclu- sion in reference to their other importations from the Orient Vengefnl Vendetta. The London Westminster Gazette gives the following account of the implacable hatred of the Turks of Sarafoff, the Mace- donian leader: Boris Sarafoff, whose death is again re- they would have the satisfaction of doing some good in the | ported and again denied, swore his ven- world and would relieve the rest of us from the importunities of oriental impostors. i am—— Australia has suffered from a variety of natural and ac- quired misfortunes and has earned the respect of the world in her stubborn determination to overcome them. has-now to nerve herself for a sterner trial than any she has faced and fought. She is to be afflicted by the residence of John Alexander Dowie, and may the good wishes of the world go forth to her. 2 She | wires, overpowered the guard detta against the Turks at a time when he was a schoolb6y at Salenica and saw his father imprisoned there and bariished without trial to Asia Minor. His first active operations took place in 1885. In that year he crossed the Macedonian border, and descended upon the town of Melnik. There he cut the ulma%h e of tl Turkish Prefecture, turned the prisoners out of the jail, and threw the Prefect In. The garrison, 10 strong, at- tacked his force, but half of them were killed and the remainder fled. Then Sarafoff burnt the government buildings, A swift tumult and nolse Of hurrying feet. The engines! Good men, stout and brave To fight a good fight 'gainst Destruction, To rescue, to save! Fire! Shouting and cries!— The horses, with broad, mighty chests straining forward, ‘With broad, calm, intelligent eyes— A hurling and thunderous vision!— The roar and the beat Of galloping hoofs dying down in the ‘distance— A hush in the street. —8. H. Kemper In Everybody's. The Serviceable Gourd. In the earlier stages of our civilization when cooperage vessels, glass ware and tollet articles were classed as luxufies, the gourd took the place of most of these articles. Our great-grandmothers used the pungah gourd for many purposes. It was the receptacle for lard, molasses, sugar, coffee, fruit, eggs, preserves, salt, soap and other household articles. It served the purposes of the modern cans, boxes, jugs, bottles, buckets, etc. Early legislators valued it so highly that they exempted it from sale by execution for debt. The pungah gourd has no handle and is often eight to twelve inches in height and from fourteen to eighteen inches in di- ameter. A large one will hold a hundred dozen eggs. Ome lady of the early times packed her silk wedding dress in one. The Toll of the Sea. paper gives the num- ber of the “banks” fishermen claimed by the ocean in one year. It says: “Seventy-five lives and six vessels con- stitute Gloucester's tribute to the ous waters of the North Atlantic during the twelve months just ended. “The figures are obtained from statis- tics furnished by the Gloucester Mutual Fishing Insurance Company, the annual meeting of which has just been held. The financial loss was 382,500 and the insur- ance $57,598. In twenty-five years 2306 Hives have been lost in the Gloucester fishing fleet.” A Massachuset! Epigrams. “Different people,” observed the Amer- fcan husband, “‘wear the ring of subjec- tion in different places—the German on his finger, the bull in his nose, the Amer- ican in his voice.” “While the Englishman, I am told,” broke in Jessica, “puts it In his wife's name." “With us the business of cooking is too vitally important to be left to the ladies,” said the French doctor. Art is like a maiden. It does not depend upon age solely for attractiveness.—The Pensionnaires. b Answers to Queries. ARITHMETIC—J. R. S. Lincoln, Cal For such a book as you desire address any first-class book seller. WOMAN SUFFRAGE—H. P. O. City Women in Colorado have full suffrage and including Presidential s KELLY MURDER—G. D. S.. sz“;'l:mu Kelly was shot and killed by Alex Goldenson on Polk street, near Ash avenue, November 10, 1586. VOTING—S., City. If a voter is called upon to vote for eighteen Supervisors and he votes for nineteen, that invalidates his ballot as to those candidates. SHOT W E FLEEING-G. D. 8. City. Patrick Coffey, who was under ar- rest for larceny, escaped from the cus- tody of the officer Who had him in charse and was shot while running-away. That occurred September 16, 1576, Townsend's California ce fruits and friends. m“ifi-:'f’n'. above Call et g