The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1903, Page 8

— e tpe Finer Points of Boxing. | INST RUCTJTUDID\S‘ ~ —_— band on the side of his face as he passes the point where you have so re- cently been standing. Or, when he leads, step to the right, with your right foot touching ground | about on a line with your left foot, and | at once bring the left foot up close to the right and fall into guard In your | { new position, facing your opponent from whichever point of the compass he may recover himself from his rush. This is the simplest of the side steps, being literally a mere step to onk side. If you can do so without losing your | balance jump to one side instead of step- ping when executing this manevuer. requisite in side stepping. . i= o It will take you some time to perfect yourself in the various tactics I have described in to-day’s lesson. It is the | most important lesson you have thus | far had and the hardest to master. Side stepping, leading and getting out of reach, and the gauging of distance, | THE S8 f ! COLOMBIA IS VIOLENT. 1’ HE several protests of Colombia are now before the }T world. They are issued in forgetfulness of the fact | that more than two months ago Bogota furnished the | United States a casus belli. When the telegrams between our State Department and our Minister to Colombia were intercepted, and their delivery prevented by that Govern- ment, we had the right to withdraw our Minister, cease f intercourse and demand an apology. That we did not do so was due to a spirit of patience with a willful and semi-civil- | ized state. Under such circumstances it was apparent that Colombia could not be trusted to observe her international obliga- i | Speed, as I have said, is an absolute | tjons, arising in a canal treaty, and that our future experi- | ences with her would be a continual torment and expense, (not justified by the natural situation. In the independence of Panama and the desire of Cauca and Antioquia to join | her, there is revealed the internal struggle between progress | and civilization on one side and retrogression and savagery | on the other. The three states that stand for progress contribute the AN FRANCISCO CALL., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 20, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL)]| JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. - + + - - - - . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager PuPBIIen GBS . o o o rsdairsonsesiioesesiiomussi @ tesesesecesse wese..Third and Market Streets, S. F. 1903. «+....NOVEMBER 20, 1903 gratifying to have such a movement started in the State by a city of the size and prestige of Oakland. The expansion of cities and the consolidation of small communities into larger ones, where such enterprises can be carried out under favorable conditions, are undoubtedly beneficial and tend to improve municipal life. California has hitherto stood aloof from the general movement in that direction, and as a re- sult our cities do not make a showing of growth equal to that of Eastern cities. Oakland, therefore, is doing good service by agitating the issue, even if it go no farther for a while. In the end, however, there will be but one city on the other side of the bay, but that one will be a city of first-class rank. - e rrme— e A scientist more sanguine than explicit has discovered to his own satisfaction that it is always summer on the sun. This announcement, however, no more makes old Sol a de- sirable place of residence than does the fact that the antipo- | des of heaven is also always summer make it more popular in general estimation. What most of us are looking far on the other side is a comparatively cool place, ! —— TALK OF THE The Dream Voice. “You remember the big Baldwin Ho- tel fire?” sald an old time newspaper man to a little group of fellow work- ers gathered about the comfortable fireplace in the Press Club lounging- room. “I can tell you a story about that fire,” he continued, *“which will give you something to think about for a few minutes. I had caught the last boat to Oakland and was soundly sleeping when the fire broke out some- where about early daybreak. “Shortly before 6 o'clock that morn- ing in my dreams it seemed that I re- ceived a message from my city editor to report for duty at once and to get to the scene of the fire with all speed. “So intensely vivid was this dream that I awoke with a start. I hurriedly dressed myself and posted off for the first boat to San Francisco. “On train and boat I heard about the L mother, father and chum to the little cripple. And the big, fat grocer doesn’t growl either when the wagon's a min- ute or two overdue, for the kid has to big fire, but it was no news to me. As soon as the boat landed I made all haste up Market street and hustled about to see who was in charge of the story. Sure enough, there was the be taken over home and comforted with the promise of another ride “bymby.” Abigail’s Clothesline. A. Maurice Low contributes to ths current Harper's Weekly an entertain- ing character study of “Uncle Joe” Cannon, the honorabl® Speaker of the are things that require constant, daily | ‘I‘rat‘tlr’e, until they are thoroughly | learned. After that they become in- | stinetive and your feet will carry you |in and out at the right time without QuAarters. | congcious effort on your part, just as nent VeN- | the expert dancer goes through waltz most of the public revenues. They want a financial system that will protect their commerce. They don’t want to be part of a nation where everything is at so low an ebb that $1200 of its money is equal to only $1 of the money of civ- ilization. The three discontented states have an aggregate @ ter- | or two-step without counting or taking | PoPulation of 1,128,000, or nearly half that of the whole But at long range a right | peeq of each movement. | country. But under Colombian polity their civil governors lead is liable to throw you off your bal-| you will find that this branch of box- “ and military comandantes are appointed by the Bogota wind and for parrying only for guarding or cc except at THE MERCHANTS’ ASSOCIATION. HE coming banquet of the Merchants’ Association is to consider one proposition—the proper exhibit at | St. Louis to set for the position, capacity, resources | city editor. R and achievements of San Francisco. It is a pleasure to find | * ‘What are you doing here?’ he que- busi . P P ried, as if much surprised. our business men unltfd on a matter of such immense im- | "0/ ‘Why, you sent for me,’ I replied, a portance to San Francisco. bit disturbed. Time was that this city did not have to bestir itself to | * ‘I did nothing of the kind,’ was the ance. Moreover, it does not reach 80|, o i | ing will do more than anything else to | .., . : i ms does the left. Bamember all this. {¢oiiev ‘the foot-awhwaninos so fre- | OC meat and they iaye but Mitieioftinb mdegententef . t e et s tinent. But the | astounding retort. House of Representatives. One-of the It is useful. | quent to boyhood. The rapidly grow- |and control of their domestic affairs that are the preroga- n p ¥ aF S aide o the scondinent: ! “ “Well, if you didn’t, who under the | gnecdotes which Mr. Low tells of him Now for footwork that is far|ing 15y js prone to find his feet always | tive of our States. very development which the enterprise of San Francisco | y.,yeng aia?” 1 urged. gives one an fnsight fnto the peculiar more o than mere advanc-|in his way and to be sadly deficient In | Bogota has shown no title to our consideration in her promoted naturally raised up rivals, with whom we now | «As I unfolded my early morning ex- powerd/of the man. . 1f wad ik the tant ing, retreating ce gauging, ete.— | o 5 7! | A i i it irit, | perience to him it rather staggered » 3 | Eracefulness. When he has learned | (.. oo with her provinces, beyond tegard for her sover- | Must reckon. We call them rivals in no uniriendly spirit, | p Certain it is that the |Session of Congress. Following the re- namely, the side teach you t . 1 shall not only | tep which is learned in ordinary boxing-schools, but also the | various improvements on it invented by | such pastmasters as Corbett and Mec- Coy and by Professor McDermott, old Brooklyn gladiator, who has been | christened “the father of the side| step.” The side step as I teach it is of four variett | ide . First, let your sparring partner lead L2 | | | | for your face with his left. As he does so throw your left foot about twenty- | four inches to the left, letting it come to the ground at that distance to the left of the ht foot and on a line wih the latter. Turn the body to the right at the same time, pivoting on the ball of the right foot. By the time your left foot und you should be standin ht angles to your former position (see illustration). Your op- ponent’s blow has whizzed past you, or if he rushed he has tumbled across your rigt 9 hent you have touck brought yourself position at right angles to your former posture either use the left foot as a pivot to wheel you into some new position, far | out of reach of the other man's rush, simply ight foot to a position about eighteen inches behind the left, wheelin the left on the ball left foot at the same time until t as you stood just before side step, only twenty- ches to the right of that former | pose. All this, of course, must be done with lightning rapidity. With a little practice you can side step quickly be- | fore your opponent can recover from his blow or rush. If he has rushed he | will, of course, have moved his own | position. | or bring f the In any case, turn at once so | as to.face him. The side step will have | thus carried you out of his way and you will be ready to meet his next as- sault or to attack him before he realizes where you have gone. This side step is particularly useful when boxing or fighting against a heavier or stronger man than yourself. A second side step is to advance the jeft foot obliquely to the right (instead of to one side) as your adversary leads or rushes. Step just far enough to one side to avoid his body. Follow up the left foot with the right, throwing the weight of the body on the latter, and pivoting on the ball of the left foot (when the right has come up to it), until you face your opponent; then bracing yourself by falling at once into the first “on guard” pose. Be sure not to collide with him in this move. Judge the distance so that you will just.-miss his advancing body. And remember that on speed, correct balance and accuracy the whole suc- cess of the movement depends. Prac- tice these side steps against an imag- inary opponent when going through your morning exercise just after rising. You will quickly “get the hang" of them. A variation of this last mentioned side step is to step back obliquely to the right, with the right foot (instead of obliquely forward with the left), bringing back the left foot at once to position. Thus your opponent is likely to overreach himself in his lead or rush and lose his balance, leaving him open to your attack. R Here is another side step: As your opponent leads bring your right foot ‘F, the | ¢ | fect harmony. { lights—arc or incandescent—if a night footwork in boxing he also finds that he has learned to move about grace- | fully in other pursuits. | In our next lesson we will take up | ings, hooks, jolts, etc. They are 0od blows to learn, and are not diffi- cult. They are also the heaviest blows in all the science of boxing. | Remember always that I shall be| glad to answer any questions you may care to ask, or to give advice on any | t that puzzies you. | | Mechanical “Spellbinders.” BY MALCOLM McDOWELL (Author of ot the | Mechanical “spellbinders” will Itho stump next year. The genial De- | plain to every American that we would forfeit these and | pew, the candid Hanna, the magnetic | make additional trouble for ourselves, if we now permitted take B be s n and the caustic Tillman will | een and heard in hundreds of coun- phonograph and moving picture ma- | chine have been induced to work to- | gether so successfully that the clever men who have “synchronized” the in- animate mimics say they act in per- | The man who has done this said: | “The first machines will be used in| next year's political campaign. The | big oratorical guns of both parties are | to be ‘phono-photoed,’ and every | crossroad village and little town in close territory will have their first chance to see and hear the great po- | litical speakers of the day. Certain| spelibinders are always in such de- mand that they cannot be supplied. | Next year hundreds of operators will be in readiness with machines to fill all such wants, and the novelty alone is certain to attract the crowds which all campaigners crave. “Suppose the chairman of a national committee selects a popular speaker to be ‘reproduced’? We take our record- ing apparatus to the city or town where he lives, fit up a room and bring him to it. We begin operations the in- stant he steps upon the platform. He | bows to us—his audience—and begins his speech just as if he were facing | a large hall crowded with yelling par- tisans. He will speak not more than fifteen minutes and then he bows, steps down and we're through with him. But we have him and his speech, and our | apparatus is so nearly perfect that every man in a fair-sized hall will be able to hear every word hé uttered, while, at the same time, they all are | looking at his life-sized moving picture, | every motion fitting the corresponding | word and every word the proper mo- tion.” . This novelty is not the oniy one promised for next year. A knock-down “trailer” for trolley cars is scheduled to take a lively part in the political battle. The shrewd campaign man- agers have grasped the possibilities which lie in the electric streetcar lines which operate in the rural districts in many States. A mechanical genius has invented what might be called a “port- able rostrum.” It is a “knock-down" or collapsible platform, provided with light steel wheels of standard gauge, and so made that it can be rapidly and easily taken apart for shipment from place to place by freight. This platform carries with it a portable switch track, by which it can be switched from the tracks of the trol- ley line into the field selected for the barbecue, fish fry or round-up. A heavily insulated and flexible electric cable, with a hooked pole, is to be part of the equipment, designed to take the current from the tyolley line for electric meeting is desired.” Jointed poles and insulated wire are to be used for in- stalling the temporary electric light Eystem. eriie sy It is planned to send these portable rostrums to termini of electric roads, which not only pass through large towns and villages, but well settled rural districts. Arriving at its destina- tion, the “knock-down” trailer will be put together, hooked on to a trolley car and taken to the first speaking point. The portable switch, which is a combination of derailing frogs and wooden, steel topped rails, will be placed in position, and the platform raoved from the track to the field. The rsceting over, the platform will be pushed back, ready to be hooked on the first trolley car which comes along around to the right in a semicircle un- til it is on & line with the left. At the same time pivot on the ball of the left foot, turning the body to the right. The moment the right touches ground throw the weight of the body on it, draw back the left and, if necessary, headed in the right direction, and transported to the next meeting place. In some parts of the country half a dozen points a day can be covered by the speakers using the traveilng plat- form, ending with a big open-air rally at night. The platform will be covered with an awning,. and will carry a speaker's desk, chairs and cases of campaign literature, and will be large enough to accommodate a good-sized — ' eignty tempered by watchfulness of our own rights on the isthmus and by her proved inability to keep the peace by honest and upright government. Having set our face to- ward our duty in the premises, there can be no step back- ward. If we owe anything to Bogota we owe something. also, to the people of the isthmus, who, relieved of their restraint by a government that has no sympathy with their aspirations and holds them to it only to despoil them, will join the world in going forward. They have established a de facto government, which exercises de facto jurisdiction | over the territory needful to our enterprise of constructing a waterway between the oceans. The peaceful enjoyment of that great facility must always depend much upon the friendship and good feeling of the isthmians. It should be them to be subjugated by the savage government from | try schoolhouses and village halls. The | Which they seek to escape. The Panaman revolution is the first in our time in that region that has been undertaken for the establishment of enlightened principles of government, and to put a people in line with the civil progress of the world. It is just as much our right to recognize such a de facto government and to sympathize with those who have created it as it would be to do the same for any people who have defied any other despotism and taken a stand for the rights of man. Of course, the incident furnishes another opportunity for the enemies of an isthmian canal to fight from ambush. They did this when we were trying to get a canal by the Nicaragua route and had to get a new treaty with Great Britain modifying the Clayton-Bulwer convention. Then the opposition press, working for the enemies of the canal, daily beset President McKinley and Secretary Hay with slander and caricature, preterding an exalted patriotism. They caused the failure of the first Hay-Pauncefote treaty and held the canal up for three years. On the Nicaragua route it proved that we had three sov- ereignties to deal with in Great Britain, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The situation presented difficulties that were im- mensely multiplied by the hampering abuse of our admin- istration by the opposition in this country. Then President McKinley turned to the less complicated proposition of the Panama route. The Hay-Herran treaty was made, with the full knowledge and assent of Marroquin and of every public man in Colombia. But they all broke. faith and de- feated the treaty. This has caused the independent aspira- tions of Panama, Cauca and Antioquia. If Americans sup- port the purpose of Bogota to reduce those states again to misgovernment they are supporting reaction and absolutism and are putting a canal among the improbable things, P ———— A particularly malignant thief was convicted a few days ago for stealing a ship's compass and will be sentenced shortly. However long his term of imprisonment may be it will not be adequate punishment for his crime. There are some offenses for which the law provides no proper penalty. The discovery of this man's atrocity possibly rcbbed the seas of another horror. A GREATER OAKLAND. AKLAND'S movement for consolidation with Ala- O meda and Berkeley is interesting from many points of view. The trend of municipal development in Great Britain and in our Eastern States has been toward the censolidation of small communities so as to form a larger unit of administrative government and at the same time obtain a higher prestige as a metropolis. For some reason California municipalities have not hitherto been affected by that trend of development and the Oakland movement there- fore will be watched by all students of municipal problems to see whether it reveals any new impulse among the people in that respect. The movement in Great Britain and in the East was in- spired largely by economic considerations and by a desire on the part of the public to have a more effective local gov- ernment than could possibly be attained by a small com- munity or by a considerable community divided into sev- eral small independent towns or villages. By reason of the movement we have seen in recent years the extraordinary development of such large cities as Greater Chicago, Greater New York and Greater London, while a similar expansion on a less scale has been carried out among hundreds of communities of lesser note, both in this country and in Great Britain. In no case, so far as we know, has there been any dissatisfaction with the results of consolidation, It is, therefore, the more surprising that the centralizing move- ment has as yet had little or no success in California. The cities and towns along the eastern shore of the bay are in a good position to start the municipal expansion movement for the State. It is evidently only a question of time when they must form a single self-governing commu- nity, and it would seem they have now reached a stage of development where the union might be made to the benefit of all. Of course, there are local questions which will affect the minds of citizens of Berkeley and Alameda and incline them to maintain their present independence and isolation, but it is probable that every consideration of economy and ifliciencyfllgo'emmflt[viflbcuflihefi‘tdéflnlofih— tion. ? since their rivalry is a needed stimulus to our own enter-| prise. We cannot afford to sit down in front of a geography | and point to our position thereon. Boston did that, and | thought that with her geography and her East Indian wharf | she had & oerpetual monopoly on the trade of the Atlantic seabcard. New York penetrated the country to the far- thest ¥/ost with improved transportation, and while her cap- | ital and snergy raised up Chicago and dotted the Missis- sippi Valley with such centers as Omaha and Kansas City, | in the end they all proved to be her outlying tributaries, | benefiting her in proportion to her own prosperity. There is no reason, in the natural order of things, that San Fran- cisco should not hold the same relation to this side of the continent. Some of our energetic rivals declare that we don't make noise enough about our achievements. We are content to | do great things without Jiking pains to use the widely | heard music of the trump of fame. So it is said that while in our Ferry building we have the most imposing structure of its kind in the United States and furnishing to the tide | of travel its best facilities, we said but little about it, except to raise unjustifiable doubts about the sufficiency of its foundation. In our new Federal building, on Seventh and Mission streets, we have a structure which, in nobility of architecture and charms of interior finish, ranks with the Congressional Library in Washington. Yet its corner- stone is laid’ without ceremony and its progress is noted only by growls about the foundation on which it rests, Chicago’s new postoffice is an architectural monstrosity, ignoble and unsatisfactory. Yet, when its cornerstone was laid the President of the United States was invited and, with his Cabinet, graced the ceremony. Millions of people in the world will never see the Chicago building, but they will , never cease to hear Chicago’s boasting abo.t its ceremonial | inauguration. In the nations of Europe it is the custom for | rulers and the nobility to attend the cornerstone laying of | public buildings, and so Europeans will always identify the Chicago ceremony with those which have such august at- tendance. There is no doubt that San Francisco may help herself by | giving more eclat to what she does. But we are a busy and | absorbed people and have been content to do and let others find it out. The Merchants’ Association will do well to put a little more brass band into our heads by giving emphasis to. the value of more publicity. It may be safely said that San Francisco and all California far more than come up to all the brag in which our people have ever indulged. We have the gooc: and should advertise them better. ‘ higher officials of China, who are at the same time among the few progressive advisers of the Emper- or's Government, are reported to be urging the necessity of an alliance between Japan and China against the aggres- sions of Russia. This they advance as the only logical fruit- age of the recent rapprochement between the two Oriental empires in the face of the impending depredations of the Bear. Japan seems not unfavorably disposed toward the project and only the blind adherence to obsolete ideas on the part of the ruling councils in the Flowery Kingdom seems to stand in the way of the progressive measure. Nothing could be more natural than that the two repre- sentative Oriental nations should unite to protect common race welfare and identical national interests. The trend of the nations seems to be toward great family pacts. In the labyrinth of latter day diplomacy Slav draws near to Slav, Teuton seeks out Teuton, Latin approaches Latin. The col- umng of peoples which marched out from that dim Aryan land in the dawn of history are gradually drawing together again into their separate tribes. Race ties are beginning t> deterntine twentieth century boundaries. In the light of this great arraying of blood against blood Japan cannot expect to profit greatly by any artificial ties with a nation of the west. Should she draw nearer to Eng- land, for example, the events of a day, a change in the Eng- lish Ministry, a declaration’ of war against another of the great powers on the part of either contracting party, might snap the slender bonds and leave the little isle of the rising sun without an ally. True it is that in an alliance with China Japan would be yoked with a nation which is unwieldy, antiquated, ca- pricious; but China has a potential power, which, if it could be transformed into energy, would make the armed giants of Europe seem drawfs in comparison. By a European ai- liance Japan would be tied only to the selfish support of 2 commercial diplomacy; by a pact between herself and China she would be master of tremendoys possibilities. S ——— AN ORIENTAL ALLIANCE. HANG CHI TUNG and Yuan Shi Kai, two of the The little Oregon town of Grants Pass has started out in the realm of fame to win a name for itself. By authority of the action of its governing body it will be known as the American city that refused a Carnegie library. More than this, but less striking in its presentation, is the fact that Grants Pass is able and willing to buy a library of its own, —_— B Two men, accused of most glaring commercial frauds, are seeking for more time in their trial before a local court ‘of justice. The kind of time they are likely to receive is not the sort of time they are demanding, but since they want QQQWTMWMM&‘MM&& G | Barbary Coqast and talked at both of us. knowledge of that fire came to me when I was sleeping soundly miles away. What was it that sent the news to me and gave that uncanny call to duty?” True Bohemia. Because he claimed acquaintance with several restaurant keepers on the | length upon “jinks"” and “times” he had with the artists all the dear girls called him a true bohemian. Therefore he was careless about his dress and used to drink steam beer with his meals—when anybody whom he knew was with him —and acted the part of the true bo- hemian to the best of his ability. One night he took a party of the fair ones who wanted, oh so much, to get a glimpse of bohemia, up to the mar- fonette show on Broadway. How the fluffy things did gurgle as they climbed the ladder up to the little gallery and what smothered exclamations of de- light they emitted when the curtain went up and Orlando proceeded to woo the lady with the maplewood face with all the ardor that his jointed arms would permit of. The bohemian put on a wise expression with just a tinge of the bored, as if he had seen these things so many times that there was nothing new or surprising to such an old member of bohemia. Notwith- standing the signs, he smoked a cigar- ette to show how well he was known by the management and to what lengths an old habitue of the place could go. But Luigi, the man with the change- able voice, who reads the scores behind the scenes, peeked out during the in- termission and seeing such a distin- guished party of American ladies, thought that he ought to interpret the score in English as a mark of honor to his visitors. So when in the course of the old melodrama it became nec- essary for the fair heroine to berate the giant who kept her in captivity up in his gloomy castle, Luigi cleared his throat. The giant with the pasteboard crown laughed a haughty laugh. Then In the purest English the heroine drew her- self up to her full height of three feet six inches and delivered herself: “I teacha you, you —?*!*! for why you kippa me een disa plaee—** 2 11! i That was true bohemia. ‘A4 Dissatisfied Brother. ‘When de rain don't fall, De blizzard blow, En he sling de sleet En pelt de snow; En dey ain't no hope On de airth below, En I gwine home in de mawnin'! ‘When de blizzard done— 1 Den de big, round sun, He shine so hot Dat he make me run; En I won't find peace 'Twel my day is done, En I gwine home in de mawning’! —Atlanta Constitution. The “Family Man.” “Mister, I see dat yer wants a boy fer errands. Well, I'm a-lookin’ fer a job— and—and, say, mister, would yer mind givin' me a chanct? Ye see, I'm a fambly man now, and I'm up against it pretty hard. Say, mister, gimme a show, will yer?” This from a tousled, tattered kid of 13 or 14 years, hardly promising or prepossessing, but terribly in earnest, roused the fat old grocer from his steam beer stupor into repeat- ing in sleepy astonishment, “You're a fambly man, eh?" “Dat's what I am,” returned the lit- tle job-chaser. “I'se got a kid to take care of—since our maw died—she’s dead two weeks now,” said he, with an air of bravado that fitted illy with the wist- fulness in his blue eyes. “And what makes it tough, mister, he's got legs what ain’'t mates, and he can't walk. So all he does 's set an’ cry all day— when I ain’'t witm. So I t'ot if I gota Job near here—we’s a-stayin’ at de Set- tlement over dere at Sout’ Park—dat I times—just till he got over cryin' fer his maw. Say, mister—say, gimme a when yu's not in a hurry.” Now, it happenéd that the fat old grocer had been hard hit a few months before, when his only son drowned in the dark waters and the wound was raw There is no leveler like sorrow, and only he who can feel for another, so gE] i i:08f iz modeling of the White House, there was an apotion sale of old furniture, and among other things a sideboard, which had been presented to the wife of President Hayes by the young women of Cincinnati, was sent to the auction room. It seemed to one Democratic member that a ruthless indignity was about to be committed and he intro- duced a resolution demanding an inves- tigation of the heinous transaction. When he had finished, and while some of the Republican members were quak- ing whether it would be their duty to impeach the President, “Uncle Joe™ Cannon arose: “Mr. Speaker,” he declalmed, “we are told that in the early days of the re- public Abigail Adams hung out her laundry to dry in the East Room of the White House. Good God, Mr. Speaker, where is that clothesline now?” After that and the uproarions sheut which followed, no more was heard of the sideboard. Decayed Sport. An announcement that “the Home- leigh bloodhounds will meet at Thrux- ton Manor, near Andover, at noon on Thursday next to hunt a man” has moved the London Times to admit that in most countries hunting, now that t ’s cone nefther for food nor for safe- 77» has become artificial in exact pro- portion as it has become more nearly to being merely a source of pleasure. Even in so “doggy” a country as Eng- land, however, there evidently lingers the delusion that bloodhounds are es- pecially huge and savage creatures, for the Times assumes with what seems to be more of hope than certainty that the man hunted near Andover is to be in no danger. That accomplished, it proceeds to point out that the hunting of carted stags, or even of preserved foxes, is a strangely different thing from the ancestral efforts to supply the cave with meat, and that there is in such sport, injury to the feelings of the zoophiles apart, little more than the pleasure of riding a horse—not “hard riding,” but carefully regulated progression that involves a minimum of danger. Bryan on Work. Now comes Colonel Willlam Jennings Bryan as an advocate of work. All aspirations for the Presidency being cast aside the silver-tongued man from the Platte is reported to have delivered himself of the following before a boys’ club in New Haven, Conn.: “Don’t think that happiness consists in not having to work. If you have sufficlent money that you are not obliged to work for your living, why, your fleld for work is only made the larger; you then have others to work for besides looking out for yourselves. The most miserable man is the man who does not have to work physically. He is not only impairing his physical health, but he also lacks a stimulus to do the best mental work. “All who have led a life of industry know how true this is. They know that work is a blessing, not a curse. They should know that the thing which curses labor is false ideas, erroneous thoughts, chafing in the fharmess. A man can just as easily make play of work as youth can make work of play on the gridiron and the diamond. The busy man enjoys life ana its, emolu- ments, the idle man only gets a loafer's reward.” A Feathered Veteran. “The Kaiser lately reviewed a feath- ered veteran of the German army,” says the Berlin correspondent of an Eastern daily. “One of his regiments has a pet magpie, which is full of mili- tarism and very proud of its parade step. When the Kaiser visited the regi- mental quarters recently he asked for this accomplished bird. In L'Illustra- tion there is a picture of the incident. There is the Kaiser sitting sternly in the saddle, and there is the magpie with its martial stride, and there are the officers of the regiment, with min- gled anxiety and pride plainly marked on all their faces. Who can be sure of a magple’s tongue? He might have turned upon his sovereign with some expression of private judgment worthy of a Socialist editor. Who can doubt that, after such offense, he would have been tried by court-martial for lese ma- jesty and imprisoned in a fortress?” —_——————