The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1903, Page 6

— W onderful Graphite. OLM McDOWELL. he Wonders of the Carbon is the industrial paradox. It is f the softest of the known su It burns and doesn’t burn. It § ss and transparent and black It scintillates and sparkles. dull and lifeless. It is heavy one place and in another fifty p 12 barrel to overflowing. that it is called “precious™ it often is a drug on It is a poor conductor of ne of the best. It is so not much larger than 1 fortune and so cheap citizen buys it by the y and such a necessity the industries of the paralyzed. adox because as a dia- us stone, the hardest colorless and trans- it is s and so ton. d be mond 1t is of know parent ite it is black, soft, opague s refractory that it is mafie into for melting things almost to he: s coal it burns and is the chief source dustrial and domestic heat. As c ck is so “fluffy” that a boy easily e a barrel of it. The 4 which is pure carbon, is & poor ¢ uctor of electricity, and graphi sometimes is 99 per cent pure c d retort carbon— gas good conductors are used in the elec- rial arts. that large trical section of the indu . s substances which enter nobtrusively _into ses such varied mnlike things that the simple act he path of any one of them ing pursuit Starch, clay, sulphur, aluminum, and a dozen 1 offer themselves to prove there is a great in common things. arbon ran h in the list. of all the elements which affect ter of iron, carbon exercises the ence. The amount of it e metal determines whether is a fas water, san petroleum greatest the most useful of metsals is cast iron, steel or malleable iron. Cast iron c tains more carbon than steel, and steel | has more than bar or malleable iron. It affects the hardness, strength, melting degree and color of cast iron. Its “per cent” in steel makes that alloy of iron table for rails or ragors, ers, cold chisels or dies, is. Graphite, known also as plumbago and black lea the softest minerals, armor plate or . and s © n earth singularly free from impurities. The graphite mines in Ticonderoj produce graphite which diamond—pure car- »ck of graphite d in the pres- is pure. 3 placed on a b y pure carbon— intense heat c be reduced to ashes, but the graphite will show no in- dication of h been heat affected. A d it will cut glass, but graphite is s0 soft that mixed with pipe clay it is used almost exclusively for Jead pencils which will not scratch even tissue paper. Every rider of a bicycle and every au- tomobilist knows graphite as a lubricant. It is difficult to believe that the greasy- feeling, smooth, unctuous black stuff which m izes the friction between the eprock chain of the bicycle which is molded into ing gold and steel and other refractory substances. The lady bf the house might find it bard to see a strong family resemblance between the diamond on her finger and the stove pol- ish which her cook is using on the kitch- en range, but the stove polish is made of graphite. Her husband would discredit the statement that the shine on his shoes and the coal in his cellar are relatives; nevertheless carbon black, the soot from natural gas, which is the base of many shoe blackings, and anthracite are half- brothers. diamond is 80 Carbon is not very particular as to lo- cality. As a diamond it is picked out of gravel and sand and blasted from the blue cement in the South African mines in the form of crystals. Graphite is found underground in detached masses and sheets in Ceylon, New York, Wisconsin, California, Vermont, Germany and other places. Coal, hard and soft, is mined. Petroleum (liquid carbon) and natural gas (gaseous carbon) are brought from the earth through pipes. Carbon grows in trees, but must be subjected to heat to become the charcoal of trade. N In preparing carbon for useful purposes ~and the dlamond is not altogether mere- ly & thing of beauty, several trades use it as a common tool—the methods employed are as wide apart as are the original forms and varied characteristics of the curious substance. The diamond is cut by the continuous application of the hardest of brasives and its own dust, but graphite is mashed 1o a powder and floated on water through a series of tanks to re- move the impurities and “grade” it. Car- bon black, which is the base of the best printing inks, and which enters into the make-up of paints, stove polishes, shoe blacking, varnishes and lacquers, is the soot of natural g: tom of iron pans, suspended over long rows of gas jets. Gas retort carbon, used as crushed coke for domestic pur- poses and for the “carbons” of arc lights and electric batteries, is the deposit left in retorts during the manufacture of flluminating and fuel gas. Anthracite (hard coal) is mined and broken into its merchantable sizes in the huge coal breakers of Pennsylvania, while bitumin- ous (soft coal) is screened and sometimes washed after it is brought to the surface. Coke and charcoal are made practically by the same process—siow combustion— the one from co.d. t.h. other from wood. . In the text books carbon is called *“one Je more than an element, more than a sub- stance—it is & dominating influence. Bozxing Tips. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, (Athletic Expert New York Bvening Author of *Muscle Building,” etc.) Be careful, when making body counters, not to twist the body into an awkward or unnatural posture. This {s a common fault. It detracts from the force of the blow end renders your ‘recovery’ less quick than it should be, Change the at- titude of the body no more than is nec- essary for the simple moving of the head, the bending of the knee and the delivery of the blow. In counters of every kind successful de- livery depends entirely on quickness and accuracy. A second too slow and the | chance is lost. A second too soon (as may be the case where you think your oppo- | nent is going to lead, when in reality he is only feinting) and you lay yourself open to a return blow which you will too soon nor an instant too late is the keynote of every move in boxingn Above all in countering. e In delivering the left counter to the wind (described in detail in the last ar- 4 g Right Counter to Heart. R — 3 ticle) a little knowledge of anatomy will | stand you in good stead. Just where the ribs diverge into a sort of inverted V there is a spot, about the size of a silver | dollar, directly below the apex of the V. | This is known as the solar plexus. It is | an important nerve center. A heavy blow | there will temporarily paralyze the whole | body. Even a moderately stiff blow, sci- | entifically planted there will make your | opponent groggy. But a few inches above or to either side he is protected by an armor of bonmes. So you see the necessity of planting this left counter in exactly the right place. If you err at all you will give more effect to your blow if you land it below the solar plexus than above or to one side of it. In friendly sparring or in practicing the various points do not “slug” when deliv- ering a body blow. Strike lightly, but in such a way that, if you so desire, you | could throw tremendous force into the blow. In other words, bring the weight and strength of the body into the blow, but do not drive that weight and strength home with full force. If you do you are apt to have a knocked out sparring partner or a free fight on your hands. PR Now for another body counter. Let your sparring partner lead again for your face with his left. This time move | head to the left to avoid his blow, bend the left knee and lead for his heart with | your right. Raise your left arm to 2 po- sition where you can guard any possible right-hander for your face. Maintain your balance carefully (until that balance becomes instinctive) in these counters, for only perfect balance can render the blows effective. The very instant the blow lands corfe back at once to the first position of guard. & - o l Guarding Right Lead for Heart s 8 e Whatever blows parries or other moves you make at any stage of boxing always remember to come back again at once to “on guard.” ‘When your opponent leads a straight right for your heart knock his arm out- ward with your left and bring your right across in a straight lead for his face. A similar rule applies when he leads for your solar plexus with his left. In the latter case knock his arm outward with your right and send in a left lead for his face. In order to make these guards do not, of course, raise your arm as in guard- ing & blow for the face, but lower which- ever arm you wish to guard with, and with an outward down-arm motion push his blow aside. Take care not to push his blow merely downward, as it will then probably land on you below the beit. o HS ‘When boxing hold the hands lightly clenched. Do not clench them tightly, except in the very moment of delivering the blow. Never (as I have seen ama- teurs do in a moment of nervousness) clench the fist with the thumb inside the fingers. A broken thumb is the sure re- sult of that bit of awkwardness. There is something else I would like to impress on you to-day. As I have said, never “slug” in a friendly bout, but if your opponent should accidentally land a heavier blow on you than he intended do not lose your tempef. The man who cannot learn to keep his temper is not fit to box, and he can never excel in the art. Perfect cooiness and good nature are larly until he is 14. If you find that your first fatigue continues after half a dozen find difficulty in guarding. Not an instant | ‘World, | | abundance, if cared for and not overstocked, to make them | used. The injury of the land for other purposes will be | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 1903. 1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. « + . . « . « . . Address All Communications. to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager PubBontion PRIOR. ... Lo iiismrs s B S Santd @ teeeeeeceesse woee-.Third and Market Streets, 8. F. .NOVEMBER 13, 1903 THE NEW LAND BILL. FRIDAY .. HE conservative action of the National Irrigation T Congress at Ogden is reflected in the bill introduced by Mr. Hansbrough, chairman of the Land Com- mittee of the Senate. Every one having knowledge of the operation of the timber and stone entry laws knows that in the beginning they were unnecessary to the administra- tion of our land system. The stone act added a surplus classification to the public domain, which was unnecessary. This is not saying that reclassification would not have been a benefit. Experience had shown clearly that there were about four hundred millions of acres of lands that were not agricultural nor timber lands. They were grazing lands only, with no other possible use in sight. They were located in the arid and semi-arid regions, and nature had furnished them with forage grasses and plants in sufficient permanently the largest and best stock-grazing area in the world. They should have been classified as grazing lands, and to protect the future settler in the event of a nobler use appearing the title should have been left in the Government and the forage should have been protected by leasing, in sufficiently large tracts to make the payment of a proper rental an object to the stock men. Instead of doing this, however, we got the timber and stone acts, which have been grossly misused to alienate the public title without carrying at all the good intent of the laws, if they had any. It is quite significant that when the stock men did ap- peal to Congress for a range lease instant objection was made that the lease law would by implication and operation repeal the stone entry law and perhaps the timber entry also. To this the stock men rejoined that both ought to be | repealed, and they received the defeat of their leasing meas- ure as the reward of their frankness. But now, following closely upon that defeat, come the General Land Office, the Interior Department and the chairman of the Senate Land Committee in entire agreement with the position of the stock rangers in regard to those laws. The law proposed by Senator Hansbrough is framed | precisely on the principle of the range lease law. By it the title to stone and timber lands remains in the Govern- ment. It, in effect, leases the privilege to remove for eco- nomic purposes the timber and stone. Thé holder of such privilege may not alienate it to another, but it must be used for his benefit and operated by him. This is a vast improvement on the policy it will supplant. The proposed permits will fix the conditions upon which they may be prevented. The West will not have its progress ch:ckch by lack of the use of timber or stone, but its future will be safeguarded and its present welfare promoted at the same time. For another reason the law will be of the highest im- portance. All timber land will be withdrawn from entry. The harvest of the forest will go on, under regulations that permit the use of all ripe timber, but preserve for the future all that is unripe and growing. This policy will extend to the present forest reservations, and the country will nat- urally enter upon the preservation and perpetuation of its forests without at all abridging the proper use of timber for the many purposes for which it has no substitute. The Gov- ernment by the sale of its ripe timber, at a proper stumpage, will derive a large revenue, which may be used in the re- forestation of its timber lands, and we will have bridged a difficulty in administration which has been the despair of the advocates of forest preservation. - This difficulty is made plain by study of the forest laws of Continental Europe. There, by reason of the difference of the political powers of government from ours, it is possible to regulate the use of timber tracts in private ownership. Here it is doubtfu! whether there is the power to do this— indeed it may be said confidently that such power does not inhere in our system. But our Government, as owner of the forest lands, may lease or permit the harvest of timber under such regulations as any owner ma; impose upon the lessee. It may even require him to plant a crop of timber where he has cut a harvest, though this will probably be the legitimate work of the Forestry Bureau. The same law proposes a reform of the lieu scrip system, by requiring that when a private party within a forest res- ervation exchanges his holding for an equal acreage of scrip it must be located on agricultural lands. This puts an end to the present offensive practice of taking scrip on private timber holdings, that have been stripped, and imme- diately relocating upon an equal holding of virgin timber. The Dakota Senator has succeeded in drafting a conser- vative and highly important measure. The stock men will see in it the advance guard of their proposition to lease the grazing lands. Unless this is done we will soon expel our live stock industry, and it will be relocated in Mexico and Northwestern Canada, and we will lose our important com- mercial position in the meat trade of the world. e e s s CASSINI'S MISTAKE. OUNT CASSINI, the Russian Embassador to Washington, has returned from a long vacation, most of which he spent in Paris. He says truly that his post is now regarded as the most important to Russia. But he is surprised to find a palpable enmity in this coun- try toward the Government of the Czar. This he quite mistakenly ascribes to the Kishenev massacre of Jews. As far as the American people are concerned they joined the humanity of the world in expressions of deprecation of that fanatical crime, but it did not cause any settled en- mity to the Russian Government, which seemed to us to every demand with promises; postpone the fulfillment of these promises to the last moment; gain time; throw every pos- sible difficulty in the way of complainants; act so that, weary of making demands, they will desist. If, however, they threaten, yield, but just as little as possible; if they begin to load their guns yield entirely, but not until the supreme moment arrive: Russian diplomacy is of the school of Ab-der-Rahman, upon which that of Machiavelli may be easily grafted. Rus- sia’s course in the East is a perfect illustration of the policy of the old Sultan, and China has been the first while other nations are to be the second victims of that sinister policy. Count Cassini declares that he realizes that in diplo- macy perfect frankness is especially necessary. ir: dealing with the United States. But was he frank in denying the Russian demands on China and trying to impeach the ve- racity of the American Minister to Peking? e Alameda has risen in unanimous protest against the night revelries of her crowing roosters. This concerted attack upon the assertive members of the domesticated feather tribe may be the envious promptings of competition. Roosters have not a monopoly of crowing in Alameda. S by a proposition to urge the construction of a debris dam on Webber Creek, sometimes known as Weaver Creek, the expense to be borne jointly by the United States and the State of California. A report has just been filed concerning the matter by a committee of the El Dorado County Miners' Association. The text of the findings of the committee is published in the El Dorado Republican. The place selected for the location of the dam is at the narrows of Webber Creek, below its confluence with Hang- town Creek and Cold Springs Creek. The El Dorado miners will strive to enlist public attention by bringing their proposition before the annual convention of the Cali- AN HYDRAULIC PROPOSITION. OME stir has been occasioned in El Dorado County | fornia Miners' Association, to be held in this city Novem- ber 16, 17 and 18. Therefore a full discussion is likely to take place. The end aimed at is indicated clearly in orle paragraph of the report of the committee: “In the area drained by this creek and its many tributaries and branches are lo- cated numerous and extensive deposits of auriferous gravel, adapted to be worked by hydraulic mining, nearly all of which are now neglected and idle by reason of the onerous requirements of the laws with regard to the restraint and storage of the debris from such mines. * * * Hydraulic mining would be extensively renewed within the area drained by Weaver Creek and its branches if suitable pro- vision could be made for preventing the resulting debris from reaching the navigable rivers of the Sacramento Valley.” The committee reports that with the view of determin- ing the feasibility of erecting the proposed barrier an exami- nation has been made of a site admirably adapted for the dam. At the junction of Hangtown Creek with Weaver Creek there is a flat or valley that extends down Weaver Creek nearly one mile and is about half a mile wide, form- ing a basin of flat land but little above the level of high water in the creek. At its lower end, so the committee reports, “this basin is inclosed by abrupt hills, through which the creek makes its way in a steep canyon or gorge of hard, metamorphic rock, supplying an ideal site for the dam across the stream, a considerable portion of which has al- ready been constructed by nature, which has also pro- vided an abundance of material, close at hand and of the best quality, for its completion.” . On the more important consideration as to whether the dam would hold back the debris the committee reports in substance that it would back the water up Weaver Creek for about one mile, and that the stream, when backed, would have an average width of about half a mile, thus covering an area of at least 320 acres; that the basin would have a capacity to hold 12,000,000 cubic yards of material; that inasmuch as the dam would be several miles below where the principal mining operations would be carried on, the greater part of the coarser material dislodged would never reach the dam; that the dam would provide safely for the lodgment of at least 50,000,000 cubic yards of mate- rial, as it now lies in the banks to be mined, and would im- pound and restrain the same above the proposed barrier for all time. The estimated cost of the work is $25,000, as reported by the committee, this including the title of all lands to be inundated. Such prospectively submerged areas are “mostly mined-off bedrock, not fit for cultivation and of little value.” The committee, consisting of H. N. Picket, C. J. Green, Thomas Alderson, Thomas Clark and A. Baring-Gould, ex- press the opinion that the construction of the dam, “above which all the owners of mines could operate without fear of loss or damage to their neighbors of the valleys below, would result in a largely increased production of gold in this district and be of material and lasting benefit to the citizens of our county and State and the country at large.” P A APOSTLE GRANT IN TROUBLE. HEN Apostle Grant bragged to the alumni of WUtah University that he had a harem which he would stock up better if the law would let him he revealed the temper and secret purpose of the Mor- mon church to restore polygamy whenever and wherever it could evade the eye of the Itw. It was said that the take fairly prompt and certainly creditable measures to punish the criminals in that affair and degrade the public officials who should have prevented it. We furnish too many illustrations of the violence of racial and religious prejudices in the midst of us to sit in stern judgment upon other nations that are subject to the same disorders. The tecent mobbing and murder of inoffensive Chinese at Tonopah, Nev., and the unlawful treatment of the same people in this State, in Tuolumne County, not only infringe the treaty rights of the Chinese, but deny the constitutional rights of their American employers. So we are not unmind- ful of the beam in our own eye. The growing enmity to Russia in this country has quite another cause. Russia does not keep her word. She seems guilty of a trick in joining the other powers in an agree- ment to evacuate China after the Boxer troubles were over. She waits until all the others are gone and then refuses to go. She amends the date of her departure and still stays. Her bad faith is cumulative. She has stayed in China by breaking her word, and her stay has been used in aggres- sions which endanger the peace of the East and thereby the peace of the world. It is amusing that the Count complains that Russian diplomacy is actused of belonging to the Machiavellian school, and that he carefully limits his interview to Kishe- nev and Macedonia, omitting any reference to Manchuria and China. His diplomacy belongs to an older school than that of Machiavelli. Long before him the Sultan Ab-der- first presidency rebuked him for his imprudence, and the other eleven apostles were quite disturbed. But there is no doubt that the church secretly regarded him as a hero and the evangel of a good time coming, when an unlimited number of wives would be the reward of the faithful. But the law in Utah, though battered, is still in the ring, and Apostle Grant finds himseli compelled to hide from or face the service of a State’s warrant in a criminal proceeding to punish him for the crime of polygamy. Mor- mon sentiment has tempered the law to the shorn poly- gamist, and the punishment is light, being a fine of $300, with alternative imprisonment. It is quite easy, still it may restrain the ordinary lay members from keeping harems, but it is little restraint upon the apostles, who can pay it out of what Brigham Young called “the treasury of the Lord.” It seems that Apostle Grant had trouble before, and five years ago was convicted of polygamy and fined $500. Going to the Mormon view of it as a question of morals, we find that proof of that which the law of his State makes a felony did not injure Mr. Grant in the estimation of the church. Is it thinkable that the Methodists would take a man con- victed and punished for bigamy and make him a Bishop, or that any church called by the Mormons Gentile would con- tinue to keep in place, promote or favor with power in its councils £ man so proved guilty? Every one knows thi | could not be so outside the Mormon church, and that it is 30 inside of Mormonty yevealy that sommupity.in # light dn- i to the law and dangerous to civilization. The Water Cure. A veteran policeman gave an interest- ing illustration the other day of the strange and, to most of us, inexplicable action of one mind upon another. The bluecoat did not attempt to explain the occurrence. Here is his story: “One night we had in the old City Prison a man who had become a mere shell, mentally and physically, by the use of ‘dope’—morphine, opium, cocaine and what not. He was about the worst speci- men of the ‘flend’ I had ever seen. Along toward morning craving for the drug overpowered him and the poor wretch was in agony. He lay in his bunk, naked and writhing and screaming in excruciat- ing pain. The torments were almost in- describable. “I tried to quiet the man, but could do nothing. There was not much sym- pathy for him, to be sure. “I decided not to give him the chloral for which he was begging and pleading. But I did decide to try anm experl- ment of which I had read in some book or another. “Going to the cell, I said to my sub- Ject: “‘You want chloral, do you? Well, it 1 give you some will you quit your howl- ing and go to sleep?” ““‘Yes, yes,' he answered. ‘For God's sake, give me some.’ “Calling a trusty to the wicket I or- dered him to stay there while I went to the medicine chest, got a glass, making all the noise I could as if in opening the bottle and pouring out the drug. Instead of returning with the stuft I half filled the glass with cold water, nothing else. I passed it in to the wretched drug-crazed fellow with the sharp order: “+Here's your chloral. Drink it quick and go to sleep.’ “Down went the harmless fluid with a gulp. Ten minutes later my patient was sleeping as peacefully as a child in moth- er's arms, and we heard nothing more from him that night.” Editor Carey’s Error. James A. Carey, editor of the Adjuster (which is Holy Writ to the Insurance men of the coast), had an encounter with a footpad several weeks ago. Editor Carey likes to look at the humorous sidg of life, so he told the story at the Press Club, after pledging the newspaper men not to publish it—a pledge that lapse of time has outlawed. Carey was walking out Pine street after the theater when the thug approached him. The editor guessed the fellow’s In- tention and cleared decks for action. When the footpad bumped against him and made a grab for his watch Carey let go a right swing that caught the stranger squarely upon the jaw and sent him to the sidewalk. “Carey, old man, you did that beauti- fully,” said the Adjuster man to him- self. “Now is your time to make a reputa- tion and get your picture into the papers. ‘When he gets up soak him again and then arrest him.” The thug was in no hurry to arise, but Carey, bubbling over with enthusiasm, helped him to his feet and steadied him while he started another swing toward the place where it would do the most good. “About that time,” sald the editor in telling the story, “I seemed to start upon a trip that took in every sub-station along the Milky Way. I remember that before I landed anywhere the thought flashed through my mind: ‘By Jove! that fellow counters well.” When I got up the footpad was half a block away and los- ing no time. As several men were hurry- ing to the scene I feit it incumbent upon my honor to give chase, but I didn’t feel called upon to break any records, and when I had gone fifty yards the fellow was out of sight. - “When I reached home and had given the arnica bottie an airing, I put in sev- eral hours calling myself names. When a man gives way to brute instinct and is not satisfied with scoring one knockdown upon a fellow being he deserves a setback to his ambition. People would have been pointing me out on the streets to-day if I hadn’t been so greedy. At the Rainbow's End. For just a few minutes last Wednes- day the warm rays of the sun broke through the pall of clouds and, reflecting through the prisms of the mist that was falling, threw a rainbow over the city. “Well, I'm derned,” said an old man who was sitting on the dummy of a car climbing up Eighteenth street toward Twin Peaks. “I always thought when I was a youngster that my grandmother was a-lyin’ to me when she said that at each end of a rainbow there always was a sack of gold, but here’s proof positive that she told the truth. “‘One end of that there rainbow is rest- in’ fine as you please on the Hibernia Bank and, if my eyes don’t lie to me_the other’'s kinder nestlin' affectionately on top of the Standard Oil Works over there in the Potrero. If that ain't a sack of gold at both ends I'll kill my pet calf.” The rest of the passengers followed the sweep of his arm. They saw that what he said was true. Then all hands grinned. Twilight in Florence. Anlnm:nmflunolunmm o Thelr brief autumnal meesage, on the wall of Eremite, Ot villa and of vintage, and again the orchard sees A low white moon entangled in her mesh of olive trees, 1 Down the slopes of Bellosquardo the grape leaves hold the sun, Though through the inner eloisters wan the purple shadows run, And wide-horned oxen, turned, stride rhythmic. cheek to cheek, it "0!:& sacrificial pyre of besuty-loving Somewhere a sudden bursting of pomegranate- hearted song Such ‘n to sultry lover-throats of Italy be- Er‘o'flr,‘dmommmmuh. lken husk, enchanted lights come twinkling Flesols through the dusk. The Arno yields another day to dreams of And by the open Roman gate the westering hours go. Climb, climb, my lusty lfon, on the grim Bargello vane, You will not reach the sky in time, be you however fain! Already die the distant fires behind the argress trees— The vesper bells fall silent as the sleeping While empires sink to ashes in the ragged sun. set Galileo's tower swing Galileo’s stars. a:-mu 3“-1 Dickinson in m’ s Magazine. Rosebery an Amateur. * - mirers as if he were occasionally willing to damage a great measure for the sake of sending forth a sparkling rhetorical paradox. The fatal gift of the amateur makes itself evident in him. He is an amateur of literature, an amateur of pictures, an amateur of yachting, of trav- el and also of politics, but to be a really great political power a man must have a rather more decisive and absorbing taste for political work. Still thers can be no doubt that it Lord Rosebery makes up his mind to devote himself evea for the time to the business of politics, he must be, for the time at least, a power which his opponents would have to take into their most serious consideration.” High Up in New York. Nearly all the visitors who come to New York In summer ask the hotel clerk or somebody else where they can get the “best view” of the city, according to the New York Times. Few of them are ready to accept the metropolis as they find it by tramping through the streets or riding in observation buses. It is disappointing to most of them not to find some place like Bunker Hill Monument, in Beston, or ‘Wash'ngton Monument, in the nation's capital, where they can take In every- thing at a glance. New York is too big for that, and the hotel men are often puzaled to direct the visitors whers to go. Generally they put them off by telling them that it is easy to get to the top of one of the skyscraper office buildings downtown—a statement very far from the truth. as thousands who have tried it will testify. For persons with influence enough to get passes marked ‘“special access” to the summits of tall buildings it is ail right, but the sightseeing multitude that goes up In ex- press elevators finds i*s view blocked front, rear and sides by private offices, which few of them have the temerity to invade. Sometimes a limited view of one street is open to them from a eorrjdor window, but that is all. No views of New York from above are so popular as lower Broadway and its tributaries, where the tide of human life runs strongest. It is a sight visitors from the West cannot see in their largest citles, or indeed anywhere else in the world. There is only one Broadway and one Wall street, Chinese Character. Jay Pollock McCoy of Shangha! China, who recently came to this country for the first time, having been born and reared in China, gave an interesting ap- preciation of Chinese character to the New York Tribune. He said: “I feel that I understand the Chinese character. I had a Chinese nurse and passed the whole of my boyhood with Chinese of my age. Though I am thor- oughly American in my allegiance to the land of my parents, I am in point of con- tact more Chinese than American. Though the Chinese are little understood by foreigners, who underestimate their abilities, they are as capable of loyal at- tachments as the people of any other na- tionality. They may all appear much alike to those who have only casual con- tact with them, but, speaking as one who has grown ap among them, I know them to be as different and as thoroughly dis- tinguishable as are any other people. Be- sides the Chinamen of recognized abill- ties there are a great many of them of equal capacity who have simply been de- nied the opportunity of displaying their abilities.” Pomp of the Law. The cpening of the law courts in Lon- don after the long summer vacation is a ceremonious event, in striving contrast ‘with the procedure marking the beginning of a new term in the United States Su- preme Court. When the English law courts reopened for the Michaslmas term recently, a special service was held in Westminster Abbey, attended by the Judges and 300 members of the London bar. There was no sermon. Gounod's an- them, “Send Qut Thy Light,” was sung after the lesson. and there was a prayer for “his Majesty’s Judges.” The “Red” mass was sung for Roman Catholic Judges and members of the bar at the Church of St. Anselm and St. Cecelia, Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Chronicle says: “This vRed” mass was a regular institu- tion before the Reformation, and was re- vived some years ago.” After lunch the Lord Chief Justice, followed by the Mas- ter of the Rolls, the Judges in the order of senjority and the King's counsel, pro- ceeded to ths courtrooms, and Michaelmas term began. \ ‘Abuse of Quinine. A South American correspondent for the New York Press thus comments upon the abuse of quinine in fever countries: “Habitual users of quinine are slaves to it, but derive little benefit from it Men with malaria eat it by the ounce, 3