The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 11, 1903, Page 6

+ for Musicians. +, New York.) e taken paratory exer- ses that are first steps toward the se to en s into prac- w taking no stool or chair that is, that proper height ear th t they me relation did at the ta- | | . | FINGER EXERCISE. l : ~ - have plenty of room w for relaxation, o bove the would thus re to three inches keys everythi a5 Je exercise ned playing posi- a few times, ‘hen all the muscles xed raise the thumb r exercise given Instead of merely let- »p at will, however, we time, juse a nough to enable the finger a slight sound from the r is pressed downward. finger exercise you will that we raised the finger very the same time counting “one, Then as we gave the count sed to hold the fin- iropped of its own former we mere raisec as the pupll counts op his finger in the put enough strength ) depress the key his fin- it emits a slight sound. of gravitation still brings b but ance to stop the its downward course, unless it put of strength. » infinitesimal is case, and it using any y lies the dif- ng” tone and our strength finger ir be aided by = that time we must ich as possibie. key have the pupil e key just as it fell d the exercise by after which he must means of the circle counting * relax th exercise. Never let him hurry in his counting. His “one, two, three four, five, six"” should be slow and even as the swinging of a pendulum, for it is the first step to- ward his knowledge of rhythm. R this exercise it is well to start humb or first finger of the right over the key of C (commonly le C”) and the other fingers on corresponding keys in playing position. Teach the child to find “middle C” him- gelf by showing him, first the grouping of the black keys as they are placed in twos and threes fromone end of the plano 10 the other, and then explaining that the note C is the white key always to be found just below the first or left hand black note in the groups of two. Let him Jook for the groups of two and the adja- cent C's up and down the plano until he is familiar enough with the position of C to find it instantly. Now explain to him that the one called “middle C” is so called because it is in the middle or rather near. est the middle of the keyboard, and may be found by counting the C's from each end of the piano until he reaches the cen- ter one. The piano, or rather the keyboard, hav. ing now become ag it were an outline map of the country wherein he Is to travel, “middle C” is the road by which he be- gins his journey: therefore on “middle C” let his first finger (thumb) take its stand, S el ) After trying the finger exercise with the first finger slowly six times, counting each time and relaxing after each trial, let the pupil try it with each finger in turn in exactly the same way, always re- membering to put just enough strength in the end of the finger to make a sound, but no more. It is also very important that as the descending finger strikes the key it should keep its curved position ex- |y | this exercise Tittle | g actly as it did in descending upon the table before any pressure was used. If the position of the finger changes it shows that the muscles have tightened slightly with the added strength, and you must work carefully and steadily with the child until his motions become as relaxed with the acc@ssion of strength as without it. 1f he camnot seem to conquer the tightening mugcles, take him to the table again for a few moments and try the old | exercises there; then return to the piano, then back to the table again. and so on, until he has found the difference between strength and tight muscles. Just at this point it will require much patience, for it is a matter that cannot be hurried or ssed over lightly. All will most certain. come right in a little time, but until is perfectly understood by the pupil do mot attempt to push him a step further, P { Next in order comes a wrist exercise, | similar to that already explained in the former lesson, but with the difference that in this, as in the finger exercise men- tioned above, strength enough is used to | strike the key, or rather Keys, fogr this time two notes are to sound. From playing position raise the wrist slowly, counting “‘one, two, three.” Hold it in its raised position (strictly according to the first wrist exercise) until the count “four” is given, when it must drop at once to the five keys under it. The fingers fall on the keys C, D, E, F and G, and as they hit the keyboard there must be just enough strength put into the first (thumb) and fifth (little) fingers to bring out the sound of the two notes C and G, after which, of course, comes the always neces sary circle exercise. This combination of sound in the simul- first introduction to a chord. | the chord‘is what is called a “fifth,” or “quint.”” Explain this to him and tell him it is called a “fifth” because five notes are contained in the space from C to G. If the notes are to be in accord they must be struck simultaneously. Therefore be very careful that the hand comes down { in perfect position, well curved, with the joints of the fingers making a perfect arch and the hand returning to playing posi- tion the wrist drops, the sound emitted is clear and ringing, instead of hard and dry, as it may be at first. particular in every little thing, for now | is the time to prevent slovenly, uneven | chords. The habit of thoroughness in de- tall, once acquired, will save the pupil | many unhappy hours later on. 1 remember once playing at a concert | among other things an “‘Impromptu in A Flat,” by Chopin, which as far as the actual notes are concerned is not tremen- | dously difficult, but it demands great agil- ity, lightness and velocity—should give the impression, in fact, of a bit of clear, | bracing winter air. At the close of the | concert many people were introduced to me, and among others was a young girl who said to me: “How can any one possibly play that | Chopin impromptu as you did? I have 2 | UP-ARM MOTION. % +* my hands go together at all. knew there was any music in it until I heard you play it just now.” At a glance I knew her to be one of that hopeless class of musical aspirants who are anxious to get to' the top, but who are in such a hurry to'become pian- ists that they do mot let their right hand know what their left hand doeth, and the resuit is—chaos! I wanted to help her if possible, how- ever; so I carefully explained to her that the way I had first learned to play the impromptu was by paying every atten- tion to small detalls—working at the seemingly unimportant passages as much | as at the important ones—working at my left hand in exactly as thorough a way as at my right, trying them first alone and then together, until each note held its allotted place in the impromptu as se- message as well as if it were being played by an orchestra, where they are plenty of instruments to bring out each shade of tone. My explanations ended, the girl looked seriously at me a moment, and then said: “Why, do you know, I never bothered about the left hand at all! I thought that would take care of itself, if I could get the right hand to go!” 1 suppose she is plodding blindly along vet somewhere, walting for some miracle to come and make her left hand play as her right one does. I merely mention this example to show how necessary it is to watch every mo- tion, every sound, during these first les- sons. Nothing is lost that is done care- fully and consclentiously. One is sure to be repaid & hundred-fold, as time goes on. s s e Now let the pupil attack the “down- arm” exercise given in the last lesson and see if he can apply it to the plano himself, without your aid. If he is un- able to 0 8o, recall to his mind the imag- inary string, have him raise his arm in accordance with it (always being sure that the wrist, and not the elbow, is lead- ing) make him count aloud as usual, drop the arm at “four,” striking middle C (with ,the middie finger) with a loud, ringing tone. Here it is no question of a iittle strength in the end of the finger, but it is the weight of the whole arm, and if struck properly the note should ring and reverberate like a deep toned beil. Do not let the wrist sink until after the note has sounded; the arm must come down exactly as it went up. Strike the note on its downward journey; then, using the middle finger as a pivot, relax carefully and begin again. Education and Success. An uneducated child has one chance in 150,000 of attaining distinction as a factor in the progress of the age. A common school education increases his chance nearly four times. A high school education increases the chance of the common school child twen- ty-three times, giving him eighty-seven times the chance of the uneducated. A college education increases the chance of the high school boy nine times, giving him 219 times the chance of the common school boy and more than 800 times the %vh.m of the untrained.—The World's taneous striking of C and G is the pupil’s | In this case | Try this exercise over and over until, as | Above all, be | | worked months over it and I cannot make I never | curely and could give its own particular | 'i'fim' SAN FBA‘NCISC(I)- cLLf,. wnn,nnsn#g, Vnov:munm 11, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SPRECKELS, Proprietor - - - - - - « . . Address All Commanications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager | WEDNESDAY COLOMBIA AND GERMANY. T is probably a wild rumor that Colombia is out for | l blood, and proposes to get it By seeking a German pro- | tectorate and giving the Kaiser naval stations within | striking distance of the ends of the isthmian canal. Some of the Democratic newspapers are talking about our Gov- jernment despoiling Colombia and comparing President Roosevalt to Sir Henry Morgan, pirate and cutthroat. Nobody has despoiled Colombia. She has been in a ‘chmnic state of civil war for years. Under our treaty of | 1846 we are responsible for the freedom and neutrality of the Panama Railway, “or any other means for transit of the isthmus of Panama.” No one can say without reference to { the record how many times we have been at the expense of policing the railroad during civil brawls between the isth- mians and the misgovernment of Colombia. It has been | of yearly occurrence, and sometimes has been necessary sev- | eral times a year, until it has become requisite in the dis- j charge of our duty to the world under the treaty that brawl- ing cease. This can be only by the independence of the State of Panama. The isthmus has the enterprise and the progres- sive element of the country, and its people have been ruled by successive packs of thieves at Bogota until they have grown weary and have decided to govern themselves. Ger- { many will hesitate long before going so far from home in { search for trouble that she can find with less mileage. Our | desire to perform our international obligation under the | treaty of 1846 is no reason for Colombia asking a foreign | protectorate that violates the Monroe doctrine. It is still less a reason for German interference in this hemisphere, | where that empire has no colonies and no interests present | or prospective that require naval stations or the direct or | indirect acquisition of territory. | Our interest is apparent, direct and known of all nations, | We are bound by the treaty of 1846 and by our obligation " to the world as the only nation that can construct an isth- mian canal. There is no reason to believe that Germany | will seek to interfere in a hemisphere where nature and the | political situation join to make ours the paramount interest. ! 1f Colombia should adopt the proposed measure of asking for foreign aid, it would simply mean that we must occupy that country before it can be alienated in any form to any European power. We would probably do this and turn it over to the Republic of Panama as soon as we have intro- duced order and decency into its administration. The Democratic press would dignify itself by standing in with its own country, supporting the Monroe doctrine and taking on some of the sturdy Americanism that made Ben- ton illustrious. If, instead of doing this, it chooses to sup- port chronic disorder on the isthmus, and give aid to such German pretensions as are implied by the Colombian threat, it can do so. But it is a far cry from that kind of Democracy and the quality that was illustrated by Jackson, | Polk, Cass and Marcy. At the recent election it cost New York $300 to secure the vote of one elector, for whose special benefit an entire ‘dls!rict was created. There is, however, some sentimental satisfaction in the fact that the vote thus secured was cast for Low. Tammany ought to increase the expense account by instituting proceedings to have th§ vote thrown out on the score that it violated the secrecy of the ballot. | SPACE AT ST. LOUIS. T is a good indication of what California will do at St. I Louis that our counties are competing with each other for space in which to display their resources. When a | single county asks for 2000 square feet of floor space it means | that the people are thoroughly alive to their opportunity | and their responsibility. But while the interest felt by those who will exhibit is unprecedented in its vigor, it is still not up to the expectation of the East about what California Lwill do. The State’s exhibits, heretofore made out of the abundant facilities of the State Board of Trade, have only whetted the curiosity of the East and its appetite for more. At no | time in our history has there been as much interest in Cali- fornia as now. In commercial circles it i- at last under- stood that we command the raisin, prune and citrus fruit supply of the world, and that our product controls the mar- ket. Along with this goes the important fact, now well un- derstood, that our area of these productions is so capacious | as to guarantee stability. There is no such thing as failure in the staple fruit crops | of California. If there be a shortage in one valley, there is i extra and surplus production in another. It shows the most | admirable natural adaptation of the State to the character- istic productions which interest the consumers of the world, In Europe the field is limited. If conditions are unfavorable ; in any season, production is curtailed and the market suffers | by aberrations in price. From all this chance and accident California is free. The exhibits of counties at St. Louis in conjunction with a raised map of the State will show the vast distribution of production and exploit California as a land where the milk and honey are always on tap and the fountain of production is always affluent. significance in comparison with another disaster which lowers ominously over Oregon. Some of the followers of John Alexander Dowie, dissatisfied with his conduct and principles, are planning to invade the Webfoot State and establish a reformed Zion with many modifications of Dowie- ism. There is not in the United States a State big enough in which successfully to create a fools’ paradise, Y ————— The time is fast approaching, if it has not come, when the Klondike will cease to be a field for the romancer, the story- teller and theliterary liar. The telegraph has brought the frozen north into the world and now prices for the neces- saries of life have gone down to the commonplace plane of the rest of civilization. The last element of the extraordi- nary has been destroyed and even life is respected by the denizens of the frozen fields of gold. —— — Several powerful insurance companies have instituted pro- ceedings in court to have canceled the enormous policies held by James L. Blair, the St. Louis boodler, on the ground that he intends to defraud them by committing suicide. Life has reached a pretty pass when a man can'’t kill himself without being accused of cheating somebody else. In this game with death the joke is generally considered to be on the suicide. The mendacity of the boodlers of Missouri was never m glaring than when they made their shameless confessions of crime upon the witness stand.. It may be well for men to | speak the truth even when it accuses themselves, but‘the pub- lic should be spared an indecent exposure by a trial of the affair behind closed doors. The only mitigating element in the whole wretched business is the certainty that the of- fenders will be punished, S el The threatened bankruptcy of Portland has paled into in- | NOVEMBER 11, 1903 MORE FUSION. HE Examiner wants the Democratic party to fuse again. Mr. William Randolph Hearst is not admon- ished by the fate of Bryan, but feels that he needs fu- i sion in his present business of bawling from the housetops in order that a Presidential nomination may find him. Therefore he wants a labor party and a Democratic party, but wants them to pull in the same harness, and as he pro- poses to be the load the team is to haul, it will be cheerfully admitted that the burden is too great for one, and needs two. His imagination is excited by figures. He creates purely fanciful statistics of the vote of the three parties in this city, and proves to his own satisfaction that if the Dem- ocrats had nominated Schmitz and the labor party had nom- inated the Democratic candidates for Auditor, City Attor- ney, County Clerk and all the other nominees of that party who were beaten, they would all have been elected and would have lived happy ever after. ¢ s Before the eye of what he regards as his mind there rises the vision of the Republican party as the party of spe- cial privilege, for the benefit of the few and the oppression of the many. He sees the many divided and the few vic- torious over the two minorities. Consequently everything is going wrong and he was born to set it right. The history of the Republican party is a refutation of his uneasy nightmare. The condition of the whole people of the United States turns his dream into a calumny upon his own country. One must seek in the independent and uncon- trolled movements and actions of men for the true index to conditions. The freedom, seli-government and prosper- ity of the plain people of the United States are certified by the fact that this country attracts to it the greatest movement of men who seek betterment of their conditions that the world has ever seen. Others are as rich in natural re- sources, some are as free, and several have a scantier popu- lation in proportion to their area. But the movement is persistently hither. The opportunity and prosperity of the many here are so pronounced that immigration flows in a vast stream to us, that millions more may have a share in our birthright. | If the hypodermic revery of Mr. Hearst were true, this coun- try would be avoided by those who seek better fortune and a larger life. The solemn fact is that Republican policies, wrought upon our natural resources and respectful of the | rights of man, have made the United States so desirable that we are in danger of sharing too freely what others come to enjoy. There be those who believe that we should more carefully save for ourselves, and our natural increase, the riches that nature has stored and wise government made available for man. The proposed fusion is based upon the theory that these conditions ¢an be made better. How? What is the bill of particulars? President Roesevelt has declared his policy and has done more. He has concreted it into action. His whole administration has been a successful effort against all special privilege. His energetic action in that direction has brought upon him the wrath of one of the parties to Mr. Hearst's proposed fusion, for some radical labor men have already declared war upon the President for refusing to violate the law and give them discrimination and special privilege. For the same reason the trusts are embattled against him, and do not scruple to declare their purpose to have his head. We hope that Mr. Hearst's fusion will fuse, and will pull the band-wagon together, and that he will be the band. A warrant issued for the arrest of a New York State Sen- ator named Green shows that the hunted man has thrived through life in the possession and profitable use of four aliases. This should silence our boasts of legislative tri- umphs. Our Solons generally have their time fully occupied in ruining one name much less four. T eucaylptus tree to insure in California the amount of bloom necessary for bee feed. The honey industry is a large one. Sometimes the fields do not suffice to make what is ctonsidered a full crop. How is this defect to be remedied? The Fruit World says simply that the planting of a proper number of eucalyptus trees is all that is requi- site, There is something novel in the proposition to cover the land with trees of the size of the lofty eucalyptus to serve the minute, buzzing honey-makers. It does not follow from this suggestion that bécause the idea is new it is not prac- ticable. Indeed the Fruit World cites facts that are at least interesting in support of its scheme. There are a sufficient number of varieties of eucalyptus known to California to provide blooms during every season in greater or less quantity. When the flower-bearing plants and shrubs fail to contribute their full quota of nectar the eucalyptus would be invaluable, so . estimates the Fruit World. “It is possible,” says the editor of the journal, “to make such planting of eucalyptus trees as to secure from them a succession of bloom which will, in addition to their use as fuel, give ranges for the honey-githererg." The Eucalyptus callophylla and the Eucalyptus aceme- noides are in flower from July to October. The first named is the bearer of white blossoms. The Eucalyptus cornuta, which is well known by its affluence of yellow flowers, fol- lows closely after the callophylla in time of blossoming. The Eucalyptus corymbrosia has the same season practically. The Eucalyptus exima, a low-growing tree, reigns florally from September to December. The Eucalyptus punctata, famed for withstanding drought, is an October bloomer. The most brilliant of the eucalyptus family is the ficifolia, but its season is short. On the adobe hills the rudis thrives. At all seasons the occidentalis proclaims its name through its crimson adornments. Then there are the Leli mellidora, that is rich in honey; the lehmani, the paniculata, Seeds and trees, it is said, are available to start all the plantations that may be required. The eucalyptus has re- tained its popularity variqusly in this State duting many vears. Tall groves make wind breaks to shield orchards of de- ciduous and citrus fruits in many localities. Long avenues of shade attest its dgsinbility in another use. Stout cord- wood it makes to enhance the joys of home as it is con- signed to the open grate. Medicinal qualitie§ inhere in it, and many men bless its oil. It has been employed to furnish material for cleansing the interiors of steam boilers. Now, ‘humming through the ambrosial air of California, the nec- tar gathering bee may add its note of cheerful praise for the bouquets of flowers raised high above arid lands by the | eucalyptus’ aspiring and mast-like trunk as a source of a table dainty. 5 . A e ————— - When it comes to unselfish forethought and premeditated kindliness to his fellows and to those that trusted in his honesty the Oklahm bank president who recently skipped must be given the . He left $50 in silver for the deposi- tors, who are wondering if fe did it as a joke or out of pure e TIMBER AND BEE FEED. HE Pacific Fruit World turns to the varieties of Honesty Pays. “It pays to be honest,” said the old hackman as he signed up to Louey for another lager.. “That's my pilan. When- ever you see a fellow doing anything crooked you can bet everything down to your finger nails that he is framing up to get a bet down on a loser. “Now, for instance, a swell guy came up the other night to where I stand and told me to take him out to an address on Pacific avenue. He was all los"ud up in them swell clothes that don’t alm to prove no alibl for a shirt and he had some spirits concealed about his persons. We drove off, him a-singing ‘My Sweet Anona From Arizopa,’ and me a-driving Dlenty over the cobbles to keep him shook up so he wouldn't go to sleep. Finally we comes to the address, which is one of them big mansions with a long flight of stairs leading up to the troat door. I helps him out of the cab and pilots him up the stairs. “Shall I ring the bell, sir?” I says. “‘Not on your life,” says he. My turn is the soft and lowly and I don't need no partner for that sketch.’ “Then he runs his hand into his pocket and pulls out a handful of money. T gets a lamp at it and it looks like about $4. “‘What's the charge,' says he. “Four dollars,” says L. “Just then he runs his hand down in his other pocket. “‘Driver,” says he, ‘I dropped a $20 gold plece in that blooming hack of yours. “All right, sir,” says I, “T'll go and get it,” at the same time holding out my mitt for the four cases. “‘Go get it says he, stralghtening up and pointing his finger in a kingly fash- ion. “I starts down the stairs, and so help me, I could see before I was half way down that that horse of mine was rest- less. So instead of bringing the twenty I climbs up on the seat and drives off. When I gets about twelve blocks off I climbs down and looks for the twenty. S0 help me, there wasn’'t no more twenty there than there is In the bottom of that beer glass. So you see there I lose four cases cold and get a bad name with the swell guy, who probably thinks I meant to be crooked.” “Bucket Town.” “I had often heard of bucket brigades, but never saw onme In action until I struck a little Nevada town last week," said a drummer in a downtown hotel “The place had about 230 inhabitants, one store, the customary number of saloons and just enough in the treasury to pay Constable and Justice fees and keep square with the county on the pro-rata plan. Some wag dubbed it ‘Bucket-town,’ but it never got on the map as such. “I put up at a one-herse hotel, where they all wash in the same tin basin on the front porch and congregate around the kitchen stove to swap yarns at night. About 3 o'clock in the morning I was awakened by a heayy pounding on my door and jumping into the hallway Stum- bled over a bucket. Looking down the passage I saw the proprietor with an armful of buckets, leaving one at each door.. The guests who had been sum- moned first, at the other end of the hall, were by this time appearing, hastily clad, and grabbing their buckets they disap- peared In the street. “I followed suit, took my bucket and hurried along. The schoolhouse was on fire and I shall never forget the sight that greeted me. Men, women and chil- dren were hastening out of the darkness toward the burning structure and each one carried a bucket. Swinging into a line they passed water from the town well a quarter of a mile distant. I work- ed for half an hour until I was exhausted and when the schoolhouse was in ashes they tapped the fire ‘out.” Then the citi- zens stood around in bunches and dis- cussed the fire, which proved to have been the only event of importance since Frank Milich's cow was shot by Hank Farlot's boy last spring. I have worked the old hand engines, but no more bucket brigades for me.” I ri.\'m“i ty. He was a recent arrival from the Em- erald Isle by the name of Grogan, and on applying to the superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad shops was at once put to work and was told to make himself generally useful. Grogan began operations by removing some rubbish from one of the roundhouses, but his work was somewhat interrupted by the apparently futlle attempts of an engin- eer to run a refractory engine in the roundhouse. The engineer would run the engine into the house, but the machinery must have been out of ordeér, for as fast as he ran the engine in, it' would reverse and run out again. This occurred several times and the anger of the engineer was not mollified when Grogan, addressing him, sald: “You don’t seem to be able to put the engine in the roundhouse, do you?" “Is that so?’ retorted the engineer. “Probably you can do the trick.” “Be ‘gorry, I'll try,” said Grogan, at once climbing up on the cab. Grogan pulled open the throttle and the engine went in the roundhouse, but just as before it came out again. Gi was puzzled at the strange action of the engine, but kept at it until finally he gave it up in disgust. ‘‘Well, I don’t see that you put the en- gine in the roundhouse,” said the engin- eer, evidently pleased at Grogan's dis- comfiture. ““Well, I put her in all right,” said Gro- gan. ‘“Yes, but you did not seem to ktevpv her there,” sald the b':bhtn ‘‘Well,” said Grogan, triumphantly, “when I had her in why didn’t you clo:e the doors on her?” Dire Possibility. (It would be a mistake f nada to allow the United States &'.'.f? pos- sesslon, say of the north pole.—Senator Polrer, in the Canadian Pariiamest.] Brethren, tremble w! rethren, hen you think of Being captured by a Yankee ‘Who would take it down to Dallas, in the brink of on domain R that's M of e‘nl',.-g 1 must keep myself in practice!” Svmat s R T¢ e tried to Dut on polishi T %wl‘lfl. take warning— ould the Yankee thus surround us, They will write a droclamation e that they have just found us. vrotestations They will worry and perplex us Until to_ thelr They Wi * ernor of Paris, at the time of the Franco-Prussian war was a subaltern of gouaves. Wounded and left for dead on the fleld of Froeschwiller, he managed to crawl as far as the village of Nieder- bronn, where a cottager looked after him until the enemy arrived and took him pris- oner. He escaped by jumping out of the train that was taking him to Germany, and after hiding in a hop fleld found his way to the little fortress of Bitche, where he recovered and played his part in the defense. His next task was to pass through the Prussian lines to join the Army of the East. He accomplished it disguised as a young man taking home the washing from the laundry, carrying a basket of linen on his head and accom- panted by a real washerwoman, Who €ov- ered his confusion and coached him in the details .of the role. Golfers Wives Suffer. An English newspaper asks the follow- ing pertinent question: “Do golfers ne- glect their wives? An amazing number of married women are of opinion that they do, it we may judge by the series of wives' complaints and confesslons now appearing in the Weekly Scotsman. Into too many households we are told golf has insinuated its seductive form and para- lyzed the enterprise and energy of the bread-winner. The man who formerly gave his spare hours to self-improvement and the companifonship of his wife and family now spends every available mo- ment on the golf course. His once bril- liant conversational powers have given place to the gossip of the clubroom, and when he does read it is only the books, magazines and papers that supply him with the small talk of his hobby that have any interest for him. Altogether a very sad state of affairs, if the wives are to be belleved.” California Building. The California bullding at the World's Fair is nearly Inclosed, and preparations for staff work have begun. Mr. Smorell, the sculptor, will model the work so as to faithfully represent the old Santa Barbara Mission. Space has been allowed around the bullding for the sacred gardem, and also for a stone fountain in front. This fountain will be a copy of the one in front of the old mission building, and will be set up after the fair in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Mistake No Excuse The New York Tribune shows that jus- tice in Tennessee is not of the stripe of that in South Carolina. It says: “As strange a case as could well be found in the history of court proceed- ings s that of Clarence Peak, who is under a sentence of eighteen years’ im- prisonment in Tennessee on a charge of killing a person named Silas Hulin. It 1s true, Peak did murder a man who was supposed to be Hulin, but his victim was a wholly different individual. Hulin is alive and well and has shown himself in court repeatedly. Peak never attacked him. The friends of Peak are trying to get his release because a mistake was made in the identity of his victim. But the Tennessee courts have decided so far that even if Peak did not slay Hulin, he certalnly killed some ons and must serve out his sentence.” Unswers to Queries. | REGISTRATION-T. 8. W., Oakland, Cal. The registration of voters is not required in Indiana, New Hampshire or Oklahoma. By constitutional provision it is prohibited In Arkansas and West Vir- ginia. 7 CHAUFFEUR—Subscriber, SBoquel, Cal. It is rather difficult to give in print the exact pronunciation of foreign words. Such can be obtained only by hearing language some one versed in the utter the word or words. As near as the pro- nunciation of chauffeur, the driver of automobile, can be given it is “show-fir, BAYEUX TAPESTRY—W. I, Oakiand, Cal. What is known as the Bayeux tap- ml-umtohnnmmt: Matilda, Queen of William I of It is 19 'inches wide, 214 feet long, and divided into sections, showing the events from the visit of Harold to the Norman court to his death at Hastin@s. It is preserved in the public library at Bayeux, near Caen. VEGETABLE IVORY—B., City. Vege- table ivery is an albuminous substance formed from a milky fluld in the fruit of the species of palm, common in Peru and New Granada. It corresponds to the meat of the cocoanut, the fruit of another spe- cies of palm. When the nuts*are per- fectly ripe dry-the kernels are hard, like ivory, very white. Y WOMAN SUFFRAGE—J. D, Oakland, Cal. In the States of Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming female citizens have full suffrage and vote for all officers, in- cluding Presidential Electors. The woman suffrage law was adopted in Wyoming in 1879, in Colorado in 1598 and in Utah and Wyoming woman suffrage is a con- stitutional provision. CW‘:&-J. F. D, San Diego, Cal. The ‘War commenced March 2, 1854, on which date Ensland and France declared war against Russia. Large masses of troops were sent to Bride, amounting to 3,000 men, of which 2,000 were British, sailed fof Varna September 3, and landed on the 14th, 15th and 16th without opposition at Old Fort, near Eu- patoria, about thirty miles from Sebasto- pol. On the 20th they attacked the Rus- sians, between 40,000 and 50,00 strong, en- trenched on the heights of Alma, -; posed to be unassallable. After a sharp contest the Russians were totally routed.