The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 18, 1903, Page 8

BY /NO1i-8= - P We will now motior ing gmooth, connected sound to scattered chords y from on the piar ne point apil at the > impress , Te- prin- ) in this les- in order ‘down-arm" | the middle ¢ alwayi 1 C above “mid- thus covering a to the word t there- s an oc- notes in et him e the two Cs become fa e try the new rm” motion on , then the mo- st, carrying the nd C” to the second of the mistake rel; ¥ a few circular motion, rm k to “mid- me method used in which, one motion, | the foregoing juired, and the carried out, | on trouble in gaining a perfe standing of this | rew exercise l To simplify rs le and en- | able the puy r juick =oncep- ‘ WATER MOTION, RETURNING. | | L 2 -+ tion of the motion, hold his wrist light- | )y and draw it up and down the plano keys. Then let him try it alone, tell- ing him to imagine that he is in a lit- tle rowboat, with his hand hanging over the side, and that he is dragging it lazily back and forth through the | water. That is the motion exactly. The wrist leads, in both directions, whether going up or down the piano, and is used in a manner very similar to that which a violinist employs when “bowing” 2s the manipulation of his ‘bow is technically called. Bach time the exercise is attempted begin with the “down-arm,” then the “eircle,” then the bowing or water mo- tion, carrying the wrist up until it stands over the upper C; the striking with the wrist motion; then a few revo- Jutions with the finger as a pivot; re- turn in exactly the same manner; the striking motion once more, the relax- ing, and the exercise is at an end. Remember to drag the fingers and wrm after the wrist and to watch the elbow particularly, lest unconsciously it, instead of the wrist, take the lead. This exercise cannot receive too much INSTRUCTIVE STUDIES | independence, { | (thumb), counting “one, | as the first finger touches the key no ! motion, between jumps, as | thing becomes second nature to the | raise the fourth finger very high, if it THE{! SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDA —_— 4 S i i . attention, for, in addition to its value as a tone producer, it promotes grace and beauty of motion in the pianist to | be gained in no other way. Again, let | me refer to Paderewski as a shining | example and a fit subject for imitation. | One can almost see the drops of water flowing from his fingers, so perfect is the movement. . 9 o we will turn our attention par- to the fingers for a few mo- for the time has come when while at the same time preserving their With the hand and arm in playing sition slowly raise the first finger two, three” slowly, as in the striking exercise given | in the last lesson. This time, however, strength is used, and therefore the fin- ger stops as it hits the keyboard. Si-| | multaneously with its touching the key, however, the second finger leaps up- | ward and remains elevated (at thel same time preserving the perfect arch | of the finger joints, as in the original non-striking exercise for the separate , while the pupil counts “four, | after which, still keeping the | 1d finger elevated (with the tip inting straight downward) the relax- ing motion is brought into play for a moment; then the counting begins again, “one, two, three.” When “four” is reached the second finger descends to its original position on the keyboard, | and the first finger once more Tis { Not a second of time must be wasted between the going down of one finger the coming up of the other, The unting must be as slow and regular | s ever, but when the time comes fc finger to rise and the other to d descend it must be done with lightning- like rapidity. This rapidity is just as yortant as is the necessity for the slow, even counting, and the relaxing | it were. When the’finger rises it should give a regular “Jack-in-the-box” spring, and | its descent should be equally sudden. If the movement of the two fingers | be not ultaneous, just so much time | d and just that much weight is added on the wrong side of the balance between clumsy, heavy playing and a | light, clean, clear-cut tone. | The “practice clavier” has a very! clever arrangement, hy_ means of which one can very quickly accomplish the end which we have in view. The instrument emits no musical sound, but by turning a small crank each note can b: made to give forth an individual | click. Consequently when a pair of iingers are moving up and down (as in the exercise we are now studying) if the letting go of the note by one finger and the hitting of the next note by the | other finger be not absolutely simulta- ous, there will be two clicks heard stead of one, as will be the case if the two fingers move in opposite directions | at exactly the same instant. { The value of this invention will at | once be seen, as the pupil's attention is thus forced upon the matter through no effort of his own. Exactly the same effect can be gained, however, without the aid of anv outside instrument if a | little concentration of mind be used, | and personally I prefer the results thus acquired. The greatest care must al- ways be taken that the pupil’'s hand (with the exception of the finger that happens to be raised at that particular | moment) be kept in perfect position— | that is, the position we acquired by the | “hand-shaping” process and which we | now call “playing position.” i The tendency will be to lean the hand | over toward the keyboard to the right with the right hand, and toward the | f | | { | { { | i { | | | E3 | TWO-FINGER EXERCISE, NON- | STRIKING. * i left with the left hand, thus crippling | the fifth (little) finger on either hand and throwing the whole hand out of | position. Guard against this, carefully watching to see that the arch from fin- ger ends to wrist is properly kept, and also that the wrist muscles do not tighten as the fingers perform their | work. The elbow, too, may need a little uncture. . . | It may seem that I am overexplicit | in my directions and overparticular in | having them carried out, but, believe | attention at this § | me, it is absolutely necessary to go over | | and over these little details as we pro- | gress from step to step until the whole | child, and he relaxes without being | told, assumes the proper positions nat- | urally and efully and, above all, | brings out a beautiful tone from the | piano. In practicing this last finger exercise, | let the pupil raise and lower the first and second fingers, counting ‘“‘one, two, three four, five, six”—"one, two, three, | four, five, six” as one continuous ex- | ercise, relaxing between the count “six” | in the first group and “one” in the sec- | ond (the finger upraised meanwhile un- | til the count “one,” when it drops and | the other one rises). Be sure that the | whole thing is rhythmic and not jerky ! and uneven. Let him do this six times | slowly, with the first pair of fingers, then go on to the second and third fin- ger, third and fourth. and finally fourth and fifth, trying each six times in turn. ‘When exercising the fourth finger, both in connection with the third and the fifth, he will find even more diffi- culty in raising it to the proper level than he did in the singie exercise for the fingers given In lesson 2. It will all come right by practice, however, and the principal thing to guard agai_st in the matter is the turning of the hand. Do not let him attempt to strains it at all. for it is better to go somewhat slowly than to risk injuring the little hands. “Piano paralysis” is often brought on by eontinued straining of the muscles before they have had time to gradally acquire the strength necessary to with- stand the demands made on them, and more than one musical genius has had his career nipped in the bud by just this very thing. . Let me repeat, at this juncture, that 1 shall be very glad to answer person- ally all letters from pupils or parents who are puzzied as to the best way to carry out these instructions, or who de- sire additional advice of any sort what- soever. Write to me, and I shall do make everything clear. M NOVEMBER . 18, 1903. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor - - - - - - - - - Address All Commonications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office......... MINING AND WILDCATTING. WEDNESDAY ...... RESIDENT BELSHAW of the Miners’ Association P in his annual address laid proper stress upon the necessity of hunting down wildcat mining schemes, by which distant investors,are swindled and a bad name is extended to legitifate mir/lingA The day has gone by when mining is all chance. The progress made in the mechanical and chemical features of mining has made it almost un- necessary to take the great risks that were formerly as- sumed by investors in deposits of the precious metals. This progress has been promoted by the founding of schools in mining and metallurgy. Science has come to the aid of the miner, and nearly all of the former uncertainty in the industry is canceled. In this State there already exists a valuable safeguard against wildcat mining, in the State Mining Bureau, which has its official headquarters and its vast and valuable museum exhibit in the ferry building. If it were more widely advertised and known that such an official body exists, under the laws of California, Eastern people and foreigners would more generally resort to it for infor- mation about the reality of mining schemes that are put on the market at a distance. The building of the isthmian canal will give an impulse to California mining, because many of our valuable refrac- tory ores have to be sent to Swansea, the metallurgical cen- ter of the world, for reduction. But the Miners’ Associa- | tion may well inquire why there is not a strong school ot mines in this State, and why the United States, the great- est mining country in the world, must export its refractory ores to Wales for reduction. The proposition to have a Federal Department of Mines, with a Cabinet officer at its head, and to include every class of mining in its jurisdiction, may be an important step toward the promotion of metallurgy by the creation of the facilities here which are now found only in Swansea. The possibility of an all-water line from this coast to Swansea | will enable the sending of much more ore to that center for extraction of its values, but it should not deter American min- ing enterprise from seeking to have that extraction done at home. If the Federal Government will not undertake to sh such an institution the State of California can well its promotion. Our abundant electrical power, the close relation of our ore bodies to the manufacturing center of the State, on San Francisco Bay, and the desirability of making the most of our mineral wealth, should inspire the mining interest to move strongly for the establishment of an American metallurgical center here. Heretofore mining has followed. the line of least resist- ance. Beginning with the primitive processes that peopled the placers with a swarm of hardy men, securing the treas- ure by the rudest means, with all the progress of science we yet seek the precious metals by the easiest methods, and have been content to leave to a foreign country the profit of getting the most out of the most difficult ores. Since the organization of the Miners' Association there has developed a more thorough method and a disposition to patiently attack the harder problems of mining. By all means let us kill the wildcats, put an end to swindling schemes, dignify mining by protecting those who invest in it, and surrounding it with all the certainties that mechanics and chemistry afford, and then let us go further and do here ourselves and for ourselves all that needs to be done in the economic reduction of every form of combination in which the precious metals and useful minerals are found. e In a Wallace theater a few nights ago a gentleman in- sisted, in opposition to the wishes of the management, upon smoking during the performance. As a result of the argument that followed two men were killed and two were dangerously wounded. § It 1s such pleasantries as this that once gave local color and a name to social affairs distinc- tively Californian THE COLOMBIAN PROTEST. ARROQUIN and Jarmmillo have sent a protest to the Senate pleading the .obligation of the United States to maintain Colombian sovereignty on the isthmus of Panama. We have shown by article 35 of the treaty of 1846 that ii such be our obligation it runs to the defunct state of New Granada, which was overthrown by a revolutionary congress. The only fair interpretation of the treaty is that we will uphold local sovereignty over the isth- mus, and will not assume it ourselves nor permit its aliena- tion to any European power. For Colombia to demand that we prevent the secession of Panama is to ask a vain thing, for which there is no basis in fact. Panama has repeatedly been independent and has as repeatedly remerged in the government of the continen- tal territory now called Colombia. It is useless for Colom- bia to remind vs of our opposition to domestic secession. The case of Panama is entirely different. Its analogy is found in the case of Cuba. That island is near our shores; the tranquillity of its people concerned our commerce and touched our interests in a variety of ways. It was in con- stant uproar and revolution. While we had no treaty obli- gation to justify us. we had the general obligation to hu- manity and the world, which Europe has been reminded of in the case of Turkey and Macedonia. In pursuance thereof we demanded that Spain recognize the independence of Cuba, and upon her refusal to do so we occupied the isl- and, and after tranquillizing it gave it over to its own peo- ple to govern. We are under precisely the same general obligation as to Panama, and added tc it is our treaty responsibility to preserve the peaceful transit and neutrality of the isthmus. ‘We suppose that Colombia will hardly pretend that the constant condition of revolution in Panama is the protest of the isthmians against good government, justice and en- forcement of their rights! In his protest to Great Britain Marroquin accuses the United States of “fomenting the separatist spirit, of which there is abundant evidence.” That is refrigerated diplo- macy, in view of all the facts. Our readers will remember that in August Jast, when Panama was hoping that the Bo- gota Government would keep faith with the United States by ratifying the Hay-Herran canal treaty, the military com- andante at Panama, a minion of Bogota, at midnight ar- rested and deposed the civil Governor, an isthmian, and sub- verted the civi] government of the state. Next day he of- fered the governorship to the United States Consul, and then it developed that he was on a drunk and was making sixes and sevens of the affairs of Panama. For this act he was not punihed by the central government. Again, and bear- ing on the charge that we promoted the separatist spirit, when Obaldia pleaded for Panama that the canal treaty be ratified, he said if that were done “I am a Colombian; if it be not done I am a Panaman.” The separatist spirit was promoted by Bogota and not by Washington. If Colombia suffer it is her fault, and is the punishment due to bad faith and misgovernment. Mar- roquin confesses that in the recent past the United States gave Bogota a chance to tranquillize the isthmus by land- ing bluejackets and policing the railroad in the revolution that ended last year. That being done, it was his business to make tranquillity the permanent condition of Panama. Having failed so soon, does he expect that we will go on forever attending to his business for him? As well might Spain have expected that, instead of making Cuba indepen- dent and peaceful, we would turn the island over to her after | 3.on cith fire.” The inside workings | ending the revolution. Twelve cranks have visited the White House within a month, the President still lives and the gentlemen with the unbalanced superstructures are yet among us moving their mysterious way. This sort of thing seems to agree with Mr. Roosevelt, so the superstitious may silence their fears and await the coming of the thirteenth fellow with the calm as- surance that he will only make the White House a way sta- tion on his road to trouble. —— YOSEMITE PARK. T is reported that the military superintendent oi} l Yosemite Park recommends that the Government take immediate possession of all patented lands in the park and in the forest reserves. Without the full text of the re- port before us this language must be taken in its plain in- tent. ' Within the parks and reserves there are extensive pri- vate holdings, paid for and patented long before the reser- vations were made. The owners of these properties, and | they include timber and mineral lands and valuable riparian rights, are now practically forbidden their use, which is bad enough, but to take immediate possession of them is worse, if it were possible that such summary spoliation can be in- dulged in under the constitutional declaration that no citi- zen can be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. It is quite easy to make the reservation policy so oppressive as to blind the judgment of men to its vast bene- fits. Within the reservations in this State are located some of the best of our hydraulic powers. They are usually in private ownership, antedating by many years the creation of the reservation. They were not of great importance until the modern application of electricity. Now they are im- portant to the economics of considerable sections of the State. In many extensive mineral districts the operation of mines is impossible withouit the use of power from such sources. To the ordinary mind no reason appears why such prop- erties, already long patented and in private ownership, should not be used, under proper Government regulation, to provide that such use shall not interfere with the object | of park reservations, which is to preserve impressive natural scenery, or of the forest reservations, which is to preserve | the forests to conserve moisture, but permit the harvest of their r'pe timber. This State is favorable and friendly to all these reserves, but our people will oppose the summary and immediate seizure of private property recommended by the military | superintendent. The report also deals with the jurisdiction of the Yosemite Valley. The park of the same name is com- | monly confused and confounded with the valley. The val- ley is inclosed by the park, but it is administered by the State as a trust conferred by Congress. If the reports from the mountains last summer were true | there is danger in divided jurisdiction, for it was said that when the most destructive fire that ever visited the vicinity | of the valley was raging the State superintendent of the val- | ley and the military superintendent of the park stood for | days disputing whether the fire was on Federal or State territory, until it gained such headway that their combined | forces could not master it until it had destroyed the fine forest extending from the Wawona road to Glacier Point. A single jurisdiction would render such a catastrophe from such a cause impossible. When the United States of Colombia asked Germany to assume a protectorate over her she should have been brought before the bar of nations on the ground of impugning the in- telligence of one of the greatest powers on earth. It will re- quire more than this insult of the Soufh American rat, how- ever, to injure the credit of our shrewd and well-wishing friends across the water. W trade annals and likewise a valuable exploitation of the commercial resources of California is the “Blue Book of California Manufactures and Industries,” which is now in course of publication by the California Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. The proof copy, which is already forwarded to the several members of the association for correction and additions, gives promise of a forthcoming catalogue which will find: ready acceptance in | Eastern commercial circles and do much to further the mani- | fold business interests of the State. The catalogue aims to note every industry and manufac- ture from lumbering down to ostrich farming. From the latest reports of the United States Census Bureau and the various bureaus of trade interested within the State the sta- tistical data for the volume have been drawn. With a view to giving Eastern capital the latest word on some of Cali- fornia’s leading industries, extended reviews of the more prominent industrial opportunities preface the alphabetical guide to the names of those interested in them. The “Blue Book” is a worthy effort and s".ould find hearty indorsement from business men and producers in the State. That it may be complete, every member of the association should see to it that nothing within his province is omitted or allowed to be incorrect. T — One of Uncle Sam’s soldier boys deserted from Goat Island the other day, hired a tug and stole thisty miles of copper wire. The poor fellow evidently took too literally the current opinion of the advantages of wire-pulling in public and governmental affairs. He will probably find that he is tangled up in the wrong kind of wire, —— A BLUE BOOK OF TRADE. HAT is to be a distinct innovation in Pacific Coast . . < Tantalus Outdone. i o] | Men whose business it is to handle criminals do not hesitate to “fight the of the far-famed “sweat box™ rarely come into public view. It is better for | every one concerned but the criminal, haps, that the mysteries of that po- l‘:;ro ml::hod of uncovering crime should be veiled. In a city not far from San Francisco there had been a long series of serious robberies and burglaries, with a mur- der included in the cl;esl;rtyr.o ‘!lll:et was iving the police no end o 3 “An:r wegl(:: of work, the detectives arrested a young man under suspicion. He had been a burglar and a safe cracker, cool and unylelding to the or- dinary process of police inquisition. His weaknesses were studied. Among them an appetite for morphine was dis- closed. Then came a. siege. Confined incommunicado, this daring | rogue whose guilt had been morally es- | tablished, stiffened against every Sol’l‘ of persuasion the detectives brought to bear to induce him to talk. Well knew | he that a word dropped carelessly | might mean his doom. Each day the | craving for the drug grew upon him. “For days we labored,” said the de- tective who told the story. “For days | we failed. Two weeks passed and not | a word from our manfy Then we| changed our tactics. Every day we | dangled in front of his cell wicket, but | just out of reach, a vial filled with the | precious morphine. Our man held out five days and then broke down and | confessed—told enough to enable us to | {land him in the State penitentiary for | many years. He's there mow.” “Did he get the ‘dope’?” repeated the thief-taker. “Well, it isn’t always wise | to tell everything you do in this busi- | ness.” J Power of Literature. | “You talk about the youth of this country being ruined by reading the blood and thunder tales of the dime | novel variety,” sald a drummer one| night in the lobby of the Grand Hotel. “I was an eye-witness to an incident which happened one scorching hot day | in New York several years ago. That made me change my opinion of the ef- | fect of these lurid tales. “I was walking up Broadway one day, looking for a cool resort. Sudden- | ly 1 saw nearly every person on the street run this way and that and dodge into doorways. I heard the cry of ‘mad dog,’ but being from out West did not appreciate the value of the warning and stood whére I was. When [ got| | sight of the dog, however, 1 can tell you I moved. ! ““Well, the teeth of the mad creature closed upon the arm of a boy about 15 years old, who, on one knee, with arm upraised, stopped the beast in its wild | flight within a few feet of the spot I had so hurriedly vacated. But the| teeth did not sink into the puny arm of the lad, for quicker than I can tell| it, before dropping to his knee, he had | whipped off his coat and wrapped it around his left arm. He shoved the | protected member into the very jaws of the dog and with the other jabbed and jabbed Into the canine’s side a | small penknife until the beast dropped from exhaustion. “We all crowded around the boy and | I had the curiosity to ask him where he learned his trick for stopping mad | dogs. “+Outer dis,” he said, grinning tri-| umphantly and dragging ‘Bad Ned, the Sioux Killer,’ from his pocket.” One Man's Opinion. As the opinion of one man upon thipgs in general in the Philippine Is- lands the following. reflections of the editor of Justicia, a Manila publication, are comprehensive at least. The editor | avers: 1. That there is little or no gold, sil-| ver, copper or lead here in paying| quantities. If so, that the mines have yet to be discovered. % That irom, oil and coal may be | found in paying quantities, but that| these are questions yet to be deter- mined. 3. That there are fortunes to be made here in raising rice, tobacco, hemp and sugar. i 4. That money could be made in the lumber business if the forests of fine woods were thrown open by the Gov-| ernment, but doubt the advisability of doing so. | 5. That the Civil Government is being honestly and ably administered by the commission. 6. That the war is over forever, so long as the islands belong to the Uni- ted States and that the ladrone element will be cleaned up within two years. 7. That the people are capable of self | government, but that the government they would run would not be satisfac- tory to the American people, or to the advantage of the poor people of these islands, who comprise fully 90 per cent of the inhabitants. 8. That there is plenty of labor here to do all the work there is to do, if the workmen were treated fairly and paid fairly, and that the admission of any considerable number of Chinese labor- ers would be injurious to the welfare of the country. 9. That it is money more than labor that is needed here. 3 10. That the Filipino people, as a ‘whole, have given up the idea of inde- pendence and are reasonably well sat- isfied with the American occupancy. London’s Police Report. An Eastern paper reviews the Lon- don police report for the last year as follows: “London’s annual police report, al- ways interesting ‘because it concerns the largest city in the world, is at hand. It shows satisfactory results of the finger print identification as against the measurement system. Asa A carving, clever in workmanship and artistic in design, | means of “signing” documents, the has been discovered in Vancouver, and the wise men of the town say that it must be at least one thousand years old. Let us hope that a few more such specimens may be found. | curves and the thumb or finger print has been in use in India and China and Egypt from remote antiquity, but the peculiar “whorls” at the tips of They may convince our British Columbian friends that they |the digits exhibiting certain unalterable are old enough to behave themselves, >, ————————e After torrents of discussion and much hesitation the pub- combinations which never change throughout life has not been used for identification of criminals until quite recently. lic school teachers of New York have organized a union| ‘The Impressions are taken by means with approximately thirteen thousand members. In ap army like that what a delightful time the walking delega would have. The insane asylum, not Sing Sing, would the hazard she would take with her job. A A —_————— _The French people are nothing if mot extraordinary. They are content only when upsetting traditions, and their lives find their natural and fullest expression in the spectacu- lar and unexpected. Two of them fought a duel the other day, with swords at that, and one of them was killed, 2 on te | to press be | thumbs of +* parison of a suspected person’s impres- sion a matter of great simplicity. “The arrests in London for the year were 112,205, an increase of 2671 over the preceding year. The value of the prop- erty stolen was $794500, as against more than $1,500,000 in the previous year. During the year the polic re- stored 17,326 lost persons to their friends, prevented 652 persons from committing suicide, extinguished 51 fires, found 24,986 windows and doors insecurely fastened, photographed 36 unidentified bodies and selzed 34,607 The Charm Broken. “A peculiar story is behind the selec- tion of building material for the great union depot to be constructed in Wash- ington,” says the Omaha Bee. “Gran- ite will be used, but it will be granite | that has never been used for the com- struction of any other building erected upon earth. “Years ago a stone man up in Ver- mont discovered a granite of unusual promise at Bethel. The granite from this quarry had peculiar beauties and qualities of its own, not found in any other granite yet excavated or carved or laid. It was a sort of edition de luxe in the granite line, and he saw profits of an unusual order pouring in from the development of his find. He opened his quarry and prepared to fill orders, when his son was killed in the property. Thereupon he issued the flat that this valuable stone should never be used for any other purpose than tombstones or monuments. And it never has been. “But the stone man who erected this peculiar memorial to his deceased boy has passed away. Heirs have not the same scruples about its use for com- mon building construction. So a sam- ple of the stone was forwarded to the men in charge of the conmstruction of the great union depot, in the erection of which the Government has becomé a partner, after a fashion. The samples of this one stone decided them. They would have no other. And the union depot will be constructed of it.” William’s Fear. Emperor William has more to fear than a cancer in the throat if the Ber- lin correspondent of the New York Times is to be credited. He says: ““There has not perhaps in our time been a more remarkable trial than that which {8 soon to be resumed in Ber- lin, where two Socialist journalists are accused of libel and lese majeste. Fear is not generally regarded as ome of the | weaknesses of Emperor Willlam, but btehind the extraordinary story told at the Soclalist trial lies the suggestion that the Emperor is in fear of a rising of his people. “There has not seemed much foun- dation, it is true, for such suggestions fa the public life of the Kaiser. ruler on a throne has seemed strong against his enemies than he, and Ger- many has been surprisingly free from the hand of the assassin. Yet at this moment thousands of the Kaiser’s sub- jects believe that an island fortress is to be erected near the capital. as a place of safety for the royal house in case of insurrection. The story is that the island was to be linked with the state workshoos at Spandau as a par- liamentary constituency, rendering it politically isolated from the neighbor- ing country, and a new military road is to make it capable of defense at the shortest possible notice.” Money in Silk. The people of the United States spend an average of $2 per capita each year for silks, according to a new magazine de- voted to the silk Industry. “And yet,” continues the article, “we are not raising a pound of it, but are sending great amounts of our money for it to foreign countries. It can be raised right here at home, especially- in the Southern States. Every rural family can easily produce $100 to $300 worth or more every season: and to do so requires only six to eight weeks' work supplemental tg present work, and the women and dren can do nearly all of it. “What a help this additional income would be to fill empty stomachs, to stir sluggish brains and to wake up lazy mus- cles. It would be a big step toyard much further industrial and educational devel- opment.” Royal Stamp Collector. The London Philatelic Society is to be honored at its next mecting by the Prince of Wales, who, as a keen phila- telist, has promised to present a paper and to give a display of proofs, essays and stamps illustrating the history of the postal issues of the United King- dom during the present reign. The notes: which will accompany the dis- play, the London correspondent of the Scotsman states, have been compiled by his royal Highress from official sources, and they will contain a good deal of interes matter relating to the varfous de: s which were sub- mitted to the King before postal labels with his Majesty's head now in use were finally approved. The Prince of \/ales has been a stamp collector ever since his midshipman days. Looking Ahead.