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= vnknown t.. the deg ego. A line w of the boxing footwork. He found who could land a b f the way before th in had a vast ad nary foe. He found an adversary as to re- - - his whereabouts, by keeping in con- | stepoing in to stant motion and by 5 strike and stepping out to avoid re- prisals, harder blows could be struck and much punishment avoided. | For years footwork gradually gained | ground. At last Jim Corbett, the clev- | érest boxer the world has yet seen, brought it to perfection. Yl e So much for the history of footwork— a history that has transformed boxing from a mere slugging exhibition into | one of the most graceful cf athletic| accomplishments. Now get your gloves on and let us| practice this new branch of cur art. Though to-day your feet will do more work than your hands. Morcover, to- day’s lesson will teach you cne of the most important things a boxer has to learn—namely, how to gauge distance. Stand on guard. Lead for your spar- ring partner’s face with the left (after first going over all the various blows, counters, guards, etc., that you have thus far learned. Remember to begin each lesson with a review of all past work.) Lead for his face with your left, as I have said. Now, as you bring back your left arm to the first positjon, step backward at the same time with the right foot, bringing the left foot after- ward, 50 that when the left foot touches ground you will be standing again on guard, feet eighteen inches apart as usual, but a step farther away from your opponent than you were. Repeat this until you can make this backward step quickly after delivering the blow, and can do so without losing your bal- ance or making a misstep or failing to fall into correct position as you swiftly bring back the left foot to its correct place in front of the right. 3 R | Now step forward again untl you judge that you are at the correct dis- | i l : 2 l Overreaching Is a Common Fault. 4+ . tance from your opponent and lead for his face again with your left. The chances are three to one you will find you have miscalculated the distance and that you are either too n2ar or too far from him. Usually the latter. Should you attempt to lead when too far away vou cannot reach him, and you will probably lose your balance and topple forward from *the impetus of your own blow, thus leaving yourself . 4 | | | range for | may | the; | vada M [to a height of at his mercy. Or, if you step too close you stand an excellent chance of re- celving a blow from him while you are still in motion and before you can get into a position to guard. Nothing but constant and wearisome practice will teach you to gauge dis- tance correctly. Try this maneuver over and over again until you are able to step to exactly the right spot from which your blow should be delivered. It is difficult, but in time you can do it. Having learned this all essential fac- tog in boxing, practice as follows: Lead with your left for the face and step away. Let your sparring partner also step back or to one side, thus chang- ing his original Now advance until ¥ou are at the proper d and lead for his face with yvour right and step away. Next let him lead with his left for your face, wiile you move | : . vour head and counter for his jaw with vour left. Let both step back, and go on through all the various blows and counters in the same manner, leading, stepping away and getting back into another lead. Continue this day after day until it becomes ture to vou to lead or guard at the right distance without ce. . When 1 suggest that you try a cer- ts maneuver on your sparring part- ner I do not, of courge, mean that he is to do all the drudgery and that you are to reap all the benefit. Take turns at this. For instance, let him for the first half of the lesson go through the various blow counters, ete.,, while you do the guarding, the left leads for-his counters, etc. Then in the sec- . | ond bhalf change around. After each has had his lesson you box three rounds. Even though me n no great skill just at this bout after the lesson will vou first | accustom you both to the feel of the gloves and to the sensation of giving d receiving blows. But during the actice what you For instance, when your you with his left remember the various things you may do, d do one of them. Don’t hit back blindly or be content guard and hit. If he has led for our face try the left or right face counter on him; if for your pody, try a body counter, or else the body guard =0 that weight, balance and reach are all considered. If one of you make a blunder let the other stop the bout and Take kindly criticism grate- Without it you (amwt'bocomr‘ Tountain Building. JRGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. M., LL. D. Author of “The Tce Age In North America Man and Glaclal Period,”” FEte. All the highest mountains are young | mountains. This is proved by the fact at, high up upon their shoulders, bear sedimentary rocks of the lat- geological period, namely, the ter- tiary. Where now we behold the great | mountain systems of America, Europe and Asia, the waters of a shallow sea prevailed during the middie of the ter- tiary period. West of the Mississipp) | River the dry land was limited to the narrow axis of the Rocky Mountain chain, to an elevated plateau now oc- cupied by the great basin of which Utah is the center, and to detached ele- vations along the line of the Sierra Ne- ains bordering the Paciflc Ocean. e that time this vast area has been lifted up out of the sea, car- rying the sedimentary rocks then formed with their abundant sea shelis eral thousand feet nd lifting the original mountain peaks to a correspondingly greater height. One hundred and fifty years ago the occurrence of these shells in the rocks on high Alpine elevations were taken as evidence of the flood, and Voltaire knew of no way to discredit the evi- dence, except to deny its truth. He, therefore, resorted to the suggestion that the shells found at these high ele- vations had been carried there by pil- | grims and carelessly thrown away. But Voltaire v no geologist, or he would have disproved the theory of the flood by a better argument, for these shells are found as constituent elements of great thicknesses of rock, entirely be- vond the capacity of so temporary a submersion #s the deluge is reported to | have been. Rocks of similar age, with their 4n- cluded recent forms of oceanic life, are found upon the flanks of the Caucasus Mountains at an equal height, and in Thibet and in the Himalaya Moun- tains, at an elevation of 13,000 or 14,000 feet. As the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Caucasus and the moun- tains of Central and Southern Asia in- clude by far the highest mountains of the world, the proposition announced at the beginning of this article is suffi- ciently proved. At the same time the age of these loftiest mountains is strik- ingly in contrast with that of various older mountain chains. What we call the Highlands of Carada, surrounding Hudson Bay, are composed of the old- est rocks of the world, but they no- where rise to a height of more than | 2000 or 3000 feet. The Alleghany Moun- tains, likewise, though younger than the Highlands of Canada, are much older than the Rocky Mountains, but they are not half as high. In Europe the Scandinavian and Ural Mountains are very old, and likewise comparative- ly low, nowhere rising more than one- third the height of the Alps, or one- fifth of the height of the mountains in Central Asia. Two causes may be assigned to this greater height of the younger moun- tains, one of which is connected with the general theory of mountain build- ing, and the other with the agencies which ‘ared constantly wearing the mountains down and ca ny back into the sea. L Now the generally acepted theory concerning the earth’s history is that it wa# originally a molton globe, which has slowly cooled down, allowing a crust to form over' the surface, which has gradually thickened in proportion as the earth cooled. This crust is therefore much thicker in the later geological periods than it was in the earlier. As a consequence the geolo- gists point out that the inevitable ten- dency would be for the later wrinkles to be ampler than the earlier ones; for in the earlier geological ages, when the crust was comparatively thin, it could not sustain itself in 80 high an eleva- tion as would be possible when it had thickened up in later ages. It is there- fore believed that in the earlier geolo- gical ages the mountains were never so high as they were in later geological periods. The thinner and softer strata pf the earlier geological period would break up and mash together where the later ones would swell up and be folded over. b ey The extent to which strata of later times have been folded up and piled upon each other is dlmost incredible. Professor Claypole measured the strata in the Alleghany Mountains across Huntingdon, Juniata and Perry counties, in Pennsylvania, 'and found that where they were originally spread out on the ocean bottom to a distance of 100 miles they had been wrinkled and folded and crushed together, until they Were compressed within sixty-five miles. Professor Heim of Zurich esti- mates that the folding up of the Alps resulted in the compression of about seventy-four miles; that Is, if the Alps were flattened out again, as you would flatten out the wrinkles in cloth, two points on the opposite sides of the Alps would be seventy-four miles farther away from each other than they are now. In many cases in the Alps, and indeed in the Appalachian Mountains, the superficial sedimentary strata ‘have been folded over, so that what now the top was formerly the bottom. THE FRANCISCO CAL THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL)| TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 1903 Publication Office. JOHR D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor - - . - . . . . .. Address All Communications to JOEN McNAUGHT, Manager @ cesesessesene ove...Third and Market Streets, S. F. TUESDAY ... ...NOVEMBER 17, 1903 THE MINERS MEET. HE California Miners' Association is in session in this | T city, and the numbers in attendance and the subjects | discussed will convince the country that mining is not played -out in California. The association probably con- tains and represents more expert miners and a greater va- riety of mines and deposits of the precious metals and use- ful minerals than any other organization from a similar area in the world. Kimberley has diamonds and the Rand has gold. But California has such a variety of mineral de- posits and in them such a large aggregate of potential wealth as te make her the leading mining region of th.e earth. There is e subject that the Miners' Association should consider. Among our mineral riches are the finest of build- ing stones. Our granites’are unexcelled in appearange, and in all the qualities of a first-class material: Our marbles | rank any other iff the United Statés, and our onyx, for in- side finish, is the equal of the Mexican, which leads the world. Under these circumstances the many public build- ngs, Federal and other, that are being and to be erected | in the State, should be built of domestic material. Yet the new Oakland postoffice is built, we believe, of stone from Utah, and we understand that for some reason, that surely is not found in the lack of quantity or quality in our home material, other public buildings are of foreign material. s subject requires attention. The mining of building an important branch. It employs labor, and the use of our domestic material stimulates the search for new deposits. The convention will serve a great interest if it will suggest to our members of Congress that they secure the right of way for California stone in the construction of | Federal buildings. 3 Another mineral interest that is making rapid progress is the manufacture of hydraulic cement. This has been at- tempted in other States, but nowhere else with the success athieved here. Our domestic cement is now being .used in concrete works, in sidewalks, curbs and in reservoirs and other submerged structures. The Government is installing irrigation works throughout the arid region, requiring the use of an enormous quantity of cement. As the tarif on Portland cement, imported from Belgium, is for the pur- pose of encouraging the manuwfacture of the domestic ar- ticle, and California produces the equal of the imported, it should surely be the policy of the Government to use onr cement in its own work. We are informed that the preference o far has been given to imported cement, while it is officially admitted that ours is as good. This should be inquired into. Perhaps millions of tons of cement must be used in irrigation work. What is the use of sending em- bassies abroad to look for foreign consumption of our products if we shut out a domestic demand by meeting it with an imported supply? The precious metals make their own markets. They need no protection and no effort. But the useful materials of the State, vast in their potential supply and practically inexhaustible, need the intelligent attention of this asso- ciation, that stands for the mineral interests of California. Recently we have added oil to our stock of valuable mineral substances. This association should promote the use of our We have iron of excellent quality in forty- one counties. Some of it is very convenient to the coast and near the oil regions. If our oil can be used as a smelting fuel California can speedily have a large iron pro- duction. We have the ore and the flux, everything but the coal for smelting. If an oil flame can be diffused through a cupola we will be independent as to our iron and steel. The convention will doubtless consider all that pertains to the mineral interests of the State, and these subjects should be objects of its deliberation. A Tacoma man, otherwise harmless, says that he has a commission from the Mexican Government and a promise of $1,000,000 in silver to conquer a tribe of cannibals on a Pacific Coast island. After driving the man eaters into the sea he will scarch for gold, of which ‘the island is largely composed. What a shame it would be to wake him up! T next year's Presidential elections on the subject of a new Democratic fusion. It is Mr. Hearst's business to manufacture and put that literature on the market. His several newspapers have determined to make San Fran- cisco the basis of the argument in that behali, and to make a statement of political conditions here whith, if spread as a sort of veneer all over the country, will make the election of a fusion candidate sure, provided the Democratic and iabor union parties cuddle in the same camp., Starting with an artificial figure of 25,000 as the Repub- lican vote of San Francisco, with a Democratic vote of 14,034 and a Labor party vote of 15,205, Mr. Hearst is able to show a fusion majority here of 3724. To make fusion fuse, and to extend his new Democratic party on that basis all over the United States, he calls the fused organization the Popular Rights party, and argues, at great length and little breadth, to show that Labor Union party and Demo- cratic principles, as stated in the city platforms, are iden- tical. _ . To demonstrate this he says: “The platforms might have been exchanged without doing violence to the convic- tions of either party., They are pledged to the public ownership of public utilities.” Granted that they are, and that the twins cannot be told apart, let us suppose the vagaries of the joint platforms spread over the Union as the national principles of the Popular Rights party, what re- ception will they meet? Mr. Hearst says: “The Demo- cratic party has an unshakable hold on the South, With the workingmen of the cities voting for the same candidates the alliance will prove invincible.” Does he mean that the South will in the future show the same appetite for vagaries that it had for those of Mr. Bryan, and that it will go further and chew and swallow those in the San Francisco platiorm? If so, we think he is mistaken. States and sections in this country show an un- ceasing tendency to revert to former ideas and ideals in poli- tics. For a long time prior to the Civil War the South had a strong affinity for the Whig party. In 1840 the Whigs carried eight of the Southern States, and 1848 again took a majority of them for Taylor, the last Whig Presi- dent. In 1852 the Whig party was moribund and Pierce’s ideas on the slavery question won the South away from an organization that had lost its grip. But whether Whig or Democratic. there is nothing in the economic situation or political ideals of the South to warrant the conclusion that it will in national convention support the platform of new principles hewed out for Mr. Hearst’s Popular Rights iparty as the successor to the Democracy. Every Southern leader, from Jefferson to Jefferson Davis, has expressly repudiated Mr. Hearst's ideas of government as expressed for him in the local platiorms which he ad- mires so much. Tt is to think meanly of the South to con- clude that her people will now surrender long heéld convic- MORE NEW PR‘INCIPLES. HERE will be no lack of literature between now and tions as to the nature and purpose oi government for the sake of such an alliance as Mr. Hearst proposes with class clements in the great cities of the North. : In 1896 the South did suffer an aberration on the finan- cial question and followed Mr. Bryan, against the protest of Bayard, Gray, Caffery, Patterson, Jones and scores of leaders who knew the right and abided with it. But it must be ad- mitted that the impulse of that aberration had some excuse. The South was poor. Faulty finance and imperfect - distri- bution of money made interest high and obsoleted much of the collateral that the South had to offer for loans. When the people were told that these conditions were caused by a scarcity of money, it is not to be wondered at that they seized upon Mr. Bryan's quantitative theory and followed it into the campaign. By 1900 the South was clothed and in her right mind on the money question, and in the Kansas City convention opposed all the financial theories she had adopted four years before. But suppose that she accept, next year, the two | platforms proposed by Mr. Hearst and enter the alliance he seeks to make, what then? That will be done on the same theory as the fusions of 1806 and 1900, and will be made upon an incorrect statement of the facts. In 1900 Mr. Mc- Kinley had 35000 votes to 25000 for Bryan in San Fran- cisco. That is about the strength of the two political ideas | in this city. The recent vote for Mayor Schmitz had in it an element that is Republican in national elections. It supported him for various reasons, not the least being his tactful statement that as Mayor he had settled labor difficulties without strikes and violence, and if re-elected would have the power to do so in the future. With Mr. Hearst's proposed alliance made and with him as the candidate, there is every reason to believe that Roosevelt’s vote here will exceed McKinley's by not less than 5000, and that his majority in the State will go to 75.000. This is not a Republican opinion of the situation exclusively, for it is concurred in by shrewd Democratic politicians all over the State. The weakness of all political fusions is their extremely artificial nature. The followers of Lane and Schmitz in this city cannot be voted by agreement. Nor can the members of any political party be allotted by its leaders. Republicans will highly approve Mr. Hearst's fusion and hope to see him the hybrid candidate. e s Converse County, Wyoming, is fearful that it will be forced into bankruptcy if it is compelled to prosecute the Indians that recently terrorized the State by their murderous raid. On the other hand it might be argued that refusal to prose- cute will so increase the funeral expenses of the citizens of the county that bankruptcy in any other cause will be wel- comed as a hoon. —— THE MERCHANT MARINE BILL. ITH the assembling of Congress there will natur- W ally be a revival of popular interest in the much discussed question of promoting American com- merce by well devised legislation in favor of upbuilding an adequate American merchant marine. The issue was made one of special note in several States during the recent cam- paigns, and in Ohio the contest against Senator Hanna was made almost wholly one of opposition to what the Demo- crats called “the ship subsidy bill.” ~Wherever this issue was squarcly made victory rested with the Republican party, and it is therefore fair to say that the country has virtually once more declared in favor of protecting American indus- try on the ocean as well as on land. Shortly before the election Secretary Shaw in an address at Boston said: ‘“We are securing only 10 per cent of the trade of South America, of South Africa and of the countries washed by the Pacific Ocean. This trade is worth more than $1,000,000,000 per annum. We get 10 per cent of it. Other countries secure the balance. Why? They are ready to pay the price. They avail themselves of every natural advantage and pay the price of others. They have and we do not have direct and regular steamship communication with these countries. I was recently told by a man who ought to know that William Deering obtained an order for $100,- 000 worth of implements to go to South America by acci- dentally finding in some of our Eastern ports a tramp steamer going direct to the point of destination. Other- wise he would have been compelled to ship first to Europe, thence to South America, and then it would have been too late.” The Secretary went on to point out that under the térms of the merchant marine bill introduced last winter it was specifically provided that the subsidies granted by the bill to American shipping should never exceed $9,000,000 in any one year, while we annually pay $200,000,000 to foreign subsidized ships to get our foreign commerce carried across the seas. The facts thus stated by Secretary Shaw were not new to the people of Boston. long time. In fact the voters of the country have again and again given them due consideration and voted upon them, casting a heavy vote in favor of the desired legisla- tion. Argument before the people is therefore hardly neces- sary any further. The issue now is to get Congress to obey the will of the people and enact the required laws. 1t is not too much to expect the passage of a well devised | bill during the coming winter, and the industrial and com- mercial bodies of the country should not hesitate to de- mand it. e m———c The independence of the Dominion of Canada has been predicted by one of the leading citizens of that interesting colony of Great Britain. And yet this buoyant pioneer of a new state forgets that Canada was never more palpably dependent, more pitiably in need of direction and counsel, than when she protested in impotent vehemence against the decision of a court in which she was a member and to whose decision she was in honor pledged to Submit. ¢ Two of the Filipino wards of Uncle Sam, who are to be educated at national expense,-arrived in the city a few days ago, blew out the gas and escaped an untimely death only by accident. There is nothing like a liberal education in the ‘practical things of life. In the natural course of events the gold brick man is the next stage, and then wilj commence the deeply significant test involved in the hurdles of the tenderloin. ——— Democratic leaders in Congress have decided that it is good party politics to attack the administration in refer- ence to the establishment of the republic of Panama. This decision is neitl}er unusual, unbecoming nor unfit as hon- estly representative of Democratic wisdom. The fellow who pictured and personified the Democracy as a braying jackass was gifted with prophetic intelligence. 4 IR T AT Latest reports from the Philippines give the encouragi g information that our Moro fellow citizens are inclined 'to show a friendly spirit. Somebody interested in their wel- fare has probably persuaded them that friendship and life are unquestionably more desirable than enmity and death. ] They have been well known for a | TALK OF THE L “Quarts” on Evidence. “Quartz” Billings shook the dottle from his corncob into the palm of his hand, added thereto the shavings from | his black plug of navy and began slow- |1y tamping the mixture back into the i bowi of his pipe. Preparations for a | smoke always elicited some reminis- cence from him. “Yes, sir,” said he, “‘some fellows are powerful lienyunt on a jury when it ! comes to a little case of shootin. Now there was the case of Vinegar John- | son—called him Vinegar ‘cause he | cleared up a small fortune onct selling | spoiled cider for vinegar down in So- | nora. “Well, sir, he shot a man down | Tombstone way in the '80's an’ made a | piea of self-defense for the fact of the other fellow havin' a coat on his back the time he shot him. He an’ a very bad man from down in Texas had a | little dispute in the Pleasant Hour grog 'shop one day over the relative merits, as the papers says, of the ‘Mamie Tay- lor' an’ the ‘Pitfsburg Hogwash' as drinks fur the coolin’ of the inner man and the elevatin’ of his soul. They (each said some onpleasant things 'bout each other an’ separated. “Two hours arterwards Vinegar sees | the Texas man comin’ down the street with his jacket on an’ he hides be- hind the door of the Globe Hotel an’ } he shoots the Texan three times in the | kidneys as he goes by. “When they gets him up before a jury he makes them a speech—kinder conciliatin’ like and showin’' his great ‘inttoilam Says Vinegar: ‘It air fhot down here in these parts, iBIn't it? An’ the sun shines down | that fiercely that any ord'nary | man goes 'round with jes’ as little as the majesty of the law—which is rep- resented by this most honorable Jedge here—will allow; am I right? Well, sir, | You have trouble with a man an’ cast some ’spersions on his fambly name maybe, an’ that man is in his shirt i sleeves, with his tongue hangin’ out frum the heatf, “You see ¢ T an a hoas srtarwards comin’ down the street with his tail coat on—the one he wears to the picnic Fourth of July an’ keeps under his bed ev'ry other day in the year. Weil, sirs, what’'s he wearin’ under that coat which would be dargln/’ in piain sight if he was dressed ord'nary like? What if it ain’t a shooting’ iron?" “The jury wuz only out three min- utes an’ brought in an acquittal for Vinegar, with reccumendachions for a vote of thanks to him for Kkillin’ the Texas man.” Partners. e The tall fellow was known as “Tex- as” Watson and his partner, “Zek” Waterford. They had started in-the early spring from Arizona to prospect the hills northward to Nevada. It was now the latter part of May and the snow was nearly gone. Their canteens were filled at every opportunity either with the snow or well water and they progressed across the barren hills with little difficulty. With water sixty miles to the front and only enough left in their canteens to suffice them for three days, ‘“Zek" became suddenly delirious from a quick desert fevers The burning sun on the | second day found the man tossing un- der the rudely constructed tent with lips purple from the fires which were consuming his blood. By his side sat “Texas,” from time to time gently wet- ting the sufferer's lips from the single lcalnteen of precious fluid which was eft. The third day the cries for water be- came more and more feeble. The gaunt | man who was sitting there in the grill- | ing heat, fanning the insects from the brow of the figure on the sand, was swaying from weakness, for he had taken none of the precious water which | had wetted the lips of his fevered part- ner. Drop by drop it was sped until at last as the sun shone down from the zenith the last dew was licked dry from the mouth of the canteen. Sixty miles away from the nearest water spring. ‘With the setting of the sun the life of | the sick man was sped. Scarcely able to drag himself from the tent, the lone survivor scratched a hole in the sand and buried his partner. ‘Water was below that red horizon. The tottering limbs refused to carry the anguished body farther. He sat | down upon the heap of sand and, bury- ing his head in his arms, he waited the Iriséng of another sun and with it the | end. After the Ball. In the early days when the “Big Four” were in full control of the old Central Pacific Railroad Company conductors were suspected of “knock- ing down” more ready money out of the company than some of the stock- holders. The idea was therefore con- i ceived by which to ferret out the men who were living in luxury on their in- come thus illicitly derived from their positions as conductors. To arrive at this for a certainty and without doing the honest men an in- justice, a notice was issued from the superintendent’s office stating that the railroad management desired to show its appreciation of the services render- | ed by the conductors by giving a ball in their honor at the Oakland mole. This invitation was cheerfully accepted by the railroad men and as usual each lady vied with her neighbor to appear in the very finest of gowns and jewelry to“mh:ltch. o Vhile all this preparation w: ing on the keen mlnd: of the m:'ng?\: were not idle. The sharpest of detec- tives were employed to note the splen- dor of the ladies and an approximate value of the diamonds, etc., worn by the wives and sweethearts of the con- guctorg ’rhaht the‘ ball was a great 'uccess was the universal ve W!II‘(; ey by rdict of all ter the detectives’ reports w sent to headquarters and duly not:‘: Nothing was said by the foxy manage- ment for a month or so afterward. Then gradually conductor after con- ductor whose wife was more than or- dinarily resplendent at the ball found a little note handed to him, with the information that his services were no longer required. In the opinion of the managers an honest conductor, living on the salary given him, could not af- ford to give his wife diamonds and silks. This was the unpleasant sequel of the first conductors’ ball. Frills in Education. To the Editor of The Call—Sir: Tt has seemed to me for many years that it is about time that a note of protest should be sounded against the modern principle of grammar school eduecation. I do not couch this letter in the terms of an attack upon our own city school department, which I think is as capable as the funds allotted to it can make it: but I do wish to express my dissent from the opinions held by t{- educa- tors all over the country and in _our common grade schools. In a word—and copying an.old and TOWN L very trite term—the grammar school education which our little children are receiving nowadays is too “high-fa- lutin™; there are too many educaticnal frills added to the old regime to the detriment of the beneficial effects of the old style courses. Our fathers used to be taught “readin’, writin' and "rith- metic,” geography and the elements of grammar and rhetoric; and they were taught these thoroughly, consistently, so that they did not pass in one ear and out of the other. But now, if you please, the little mite 8 years old i made to know where her pancreas is located and what part in the progress of digestion her salivary ducts occupy. Within a year from that time she is taken in hand by a teacher of mechanical drawing and taught to differentiate between a parallelopiped and a rhomboid and is made to spend her nights at home constructing elab- orate paper models of truncated cones and pyramids. By the time that your modern pupil is 13 he is initiated into the mysteries of irregular Latin verbs and made to know that “a, ab, absque, coram, de, palam,” etc., govern the ab- lative case. Then a year before he is ready to enter the high school he has the enigmas of algebraie formulas Ariv- en into his head; he knows how to find the relation between the arc of a eirels and the angle subtended by the radil. I do not profess to be a pedagogue nor to have any great acquaintance with the principles of educational sei- ence, but from the good common-sense deductions of a householder and a father I am assured that a little mora of the salt of knowledge and less of the spice would improve the product which ocur common schools turn out. A READER. San Francisco, Nov. 16. - Yukon's Guardians. Seven years ago the sole representa- tives of authority on the Upper Yukon were a detachment of twenty North- west Mounted Police, under Major Constantine, sent tp by the Canadian Government to maintain law and order as best they could, says the London Times. They built a post at Fort Cudahy on the Yukon, twenty-flve milés on our side of Alaska, near the mining town of Forty Mile. Gold dig- ging had been going on there for ten years before, but Englishmen had heard nothing of it and would only have smiled if they had. The Dominion Government thus took actual posses- sion of the gold country, which was supplied entirely by United States trading companies, working up from the Behring Sea. In the summer of 1896 the great gold deposits on the Klondike creeks were discovered, and when the news reached England, twelve months afterward, no one knew where they were. Was the Kiondike in British Columbia or Alas- ka? Nobody thought of the Northwest Territories, little knowing that they stretched far beyond the northern range of the Rocky Mountains. Within a couple of years Yukon. on account of its remoteness andginaccessibility, was taken out of the Jurisdiction of the Territorial Government and created a separate territory, under a Commis- sioner and Couneil, and now the force of police is 290 strong, with detach- ments throughout the whole basin of the Upper Yukon. The work of the police is of endless variety. It will perhaps be remembered that a story of a Russian boundary monument in the disputed Territory was reported in the course of the last year. A party from the Daiton Trail post was dispatched to examine into this, with Assistant Surgeon Fraser in charge. Mr. Fraser reported that about three miles past Mount Glave the horse trail crosses a tributary of the Clear Creek, and about 100 yards up from this stones are piled up to make a shel- ter to be used by Indlans while storm bound crossing the summit. This pile constituted the alleged monument and consisted of a large flat stone, about four feet by three feet, and a few inches thick, raisel at an angle of forty-five degrees from the ground, and supported in this position by another smaller stone, the two forming a rude shelter. Indigo Blue. Tammany landsiide in G:‘t:em;e:::tevldenuy tinged that good Dr. Parkhurst a most viralent mm:n blue. Here is his comment anent the disaster: B T mem!?w?emo:: years of hell on earth. We are going to have twenty-four months of ‘open’ city. Feople are go- ing to have all the gambiing. all the whisky and all the licentiousness that they want—and they want a great deal. There was great breaching” on Tues- day. God took the lid off hell and let us smell some of the smoke that as- cends up forever and ever. That 31 000 men should deliberateiy stand . and enroll themselves as members the devil's kingdom of greed and vil- lainy is horrible. unbelievable. But it is in accord with the downward dr It is unquestionably the fact that m sentiment is lacking among the bes us and that is our consummate malady Marriage, that used to be so unspeak- nuary will com- d, is becoming am amuse- ,',:'::f'f{'we cannot clean the carpet for a new wife by worrying our pres- ent wife into the grave we cut the Gordian knot by pushing the case in the divorce court—a species of Mor- monism that might have brought the blush of shame to the face of Brigham Young.” Townsend's California glace frutts and candles, S0c a pound, in artistic fre- boxes. A nice present for Eastern S neis. 7i5 Market st above Call bidg. * dally to the -sc_g‘_ Special information supplied fornia street. Telephone e 4 ‘ 4 ?»