The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1903, Page 6

_— | To Know the Game. 1 | HUNE. | ning World; | > ete) Bowles.) us try a right swing. When | ent leads for your face move left and at the same . ng the right arm in the same | :ve taught you to swing the palm turned out and hand toward your op- | z the of the The umu e | ng, carrying as it does the| weight and force of arm | | man on whom Sharkey chanced to land too heavy by the same means with which 'you would guard a straight blow. Guard a body swing by ecatch- ing it glancing on the fore arm and throwing “the blow forward, or by catching it on the palm'of your glove and knocking it -outward.. If possible, when you s¢e a swing coming, step back out of refich ‘and be ready to at- tack your antagonist before he can re- cover his ‘balance. ‘Or else step in too cloge for the blow: to barm you. This last move, however, I can. make you underitand betfer when we take up the important ‘ subject of ‘iclinches” in a future, dessom. % In delivering a swing mever strike so hard that (if your opponent steps back and does not stop ‘the “blow) you will THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1903. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . . . . . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager e e T MORE BLUE BOSH. R. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST is counted M out. That fortnight in which he was to ‘write for Democracy its brightest page is up, and the said page has not got as far as the proof galley, His issue on Cuban reciprocity ended in all the Democrats “but ten voting with the administration, and now he is out with an- other on the isthmus of Panama. 7 Very naturally he sides with the degenerate hybrids of Bogota, and against the more progressive and enlightened folks of the isthmus. ' But it is time for Mr. Hearst to let canal affairs alone. When the McKinley administration | was using every resource for the Nicaragua route, and was | threading its way through the maze of international issues raised by the three sovereignties that had to be dealt with lose your balance. Never, in: starting’ to swing, drop the hand below the level | of the hips. (In no maneuver in box- ing, by the way, should the gloves drop below the level of the nips.) I have sesn Tom Sharkey; who was one of the heaviest hitters among the pugilists of his day, start a swing from | behind his back (instead of at his side) and send the blow around with such terrific force that, (who jumped back out of reach), he whirled ha!f-way about and fell with a crash to the ground, merely through the impetus of his own blow. Tha#® is not boxing. It is not cven clever slug- ging. It is blind brute force. Many a such swines went “down and out” from the fearful impact. But many! more pugilists avoided Sharkey's wild missing his man | on that line, thg Hearst papers daily beset the President | and denounced him for offenses that eéxisted in a perfetid | imagination. They appealed to every sentiment that could | be moved to oppose the. President, and attacked him per- ; sonally with that venom which followed him to the moment | of his assassination. We suspected then and believe now that Mr. Hearst was actuated by no higher motive than the | promoting of interests antagonistic to any canal. But he | succeeded in obstructing and was instrumental in wasting fyears of time, when the interests of the world required the | prompt building of the canal. When McKinley turned to the Panama project, wisely secking an alternative to the Nicaragua route, Mr. Hearst used the publicity at his command to obstruct on that line. Now he is putting more blue bosh on the market, and while | the tongue is the tongue of Hearst, the song it sings is ind body and gathering extras momen- | swing and buil-like rushes, and ere the | that of the combinations which are willing to put up mil- aggressor could recover himself landed a succession of lightning-like blows on his face and body and “got away’ scathed. am from the long distance it travels, G o | | 1. The “Swing." { | + & is far more powerful than the straight arm blow, but (on the same principle of a straight line being the shortest distance between two points) it is also a much slower blow. If your sparring | pertner led a straight blow for your | face at precisely the same instant that | you swung for his face, and if neither of you moved the head, his blow would | land before yours. For that reason the | swing should always be used as a counter and not as a lead. Your an-| tagonist leads for you with a straight, blow. You block or duck his blow and counter with a swing. In such a case | your swing stands a good chance of landing on him. But if you swing for | him before he leads he will have time to send in @ straight blow and to block | or avoid y swing. There is another | and still more cogent reason why you should only use the swing as a counter. Whei. you swing you leave one side of your body and face practically un- guarded. Hence it Is necessary to re- | frain from syinging until your oppo- nent has other work to attend to,| which will render him unable to take | advantage of the opening. Let him® lead, therefore, before you swing. This | is worth remembering To swing for th- body, use the same < | + { arm 18 not lowered or drawn back, but | | face or bods | tion 1s not unlke a grass hook or sickle. | | Hearst’s opinion that the Spooner | | Guard a hook as a swing is guarded | same reach as does the swing, nor re~: sally,” 2. The “Hook.” | > | method as in swinging for the head, except, of course, that the “circle” you describe takes a slightly downward instead of upward curve. Swing for the heart with the right, for the wind with the left. When swinging for the kidneys, across the small of the back (a blow that shoeuld never be employed in a friendly bout between beginners), use your right, as the other man will be standing with his left side slightly forward and the small of the back will be more exposed and more easily reach- ed from that side. A swing for the face is guarded by raising the right or left hand (accord- ing to which side the swing comes from), so that the arm from fist to el- un- McGovern, who was the typi- irlwind fighter,” said to me I never swing. It leaves a man too open. hances egainst its success are too bIg. e hooks, but not swings. The “hook” is merely a short-arm swing. It used to be called a "hBll'I hook™ or “half-swing.” In a hook the | comes around toward the objective with fore arm and upper about at right angles to each | The arm thus in shape and mo- arm other. Bring shoulder and weight of body around when “hooking,” as in a swing. The hook, like the swing, may be de livered with' either hand and for the | face or for the body. You are not nearly as much exposed, | however, when you send in a hook, as | at least part of the arm you are em- | ploying is always in front of your body. | The blow, too, traveling a much shorter distance than does the swing, is much | quicker. ¥t is of use only at compar- | atively close quarters, not having the | | || | lions to beat any canal. He mourns because in the eyes of Colombia, “We seem now not a great, free and liberty- loving republic, but a robber power, adopting for our rule of conduct the brutal maxim that might makes right. In | their eyes we are lost to all perception of justice and senti- | ments of chivalry and deaf to every appeal that is not ad- dressed to our material interests.” i If Mr. Hearst desires to look well in the eyes of the special gang of revolutionary bandits who at this moment rule Colombia, he is at liberty to ge down there wrought upon by a fellow feeling, and take pot luck with the tyrants who have ruled the isthmus only to rob it. Instead -of human liberty suffering by the separation of Panama, it is advanced and made more secure. ‘It is Mr. act requires that the President return to the old policy of walking in a circle, nd never getting anywhere, by turning to Nicaragua and making canal treaties with Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The Spooner act says that if the President cannot get permis- sion from Colombia to dig the Panama Canal, in a reason- able time, he shall try the other route. Because Colombia had sovereignty of the isthmus when the Spooner act passed the name was used. But suppose that a revolu- ticnary congress, like the one that wiped out New Granada and installed Colombia in its place, had meantime met and wiped out Colombia and called it “Hearstom,” or “Dirty- " would Mr. Hearst contend that the President would have no power to treat with it because the name had been changed? The thing to be dealt with is the sovereignty of-the isthmus. We could not dig a canal there in the midst of constant civil war. Therefore, a new sovereignty having appeared called the republic of Panama, strictly according to the Spooner act we deal with it, we make a canal treaty, 5 & » Eand we propose to keep the isthmus from having revolu- tionary cat fits long enough to enable us to dig the canal, !let the water in and start the world’s commerce flowing through the new channel. This may all seem very sad to Mr. Hearst, but we venture the prediction that if it come to 2 vote in Congress the best element in the Democracy will sustain the administration, SR — A fellow in Clark University has made the astounding announcement that no American, enjoying the varied ex- perience that comes with 3 years of age, is safe from Cupid’s darts. This particular investigator has carried his curious inquiry to the pumnt of his own conviction that heart susceptibility in a woman reaches its maturity at 22 years and in a man at 24 years. It is very evident that AMERICANS IN CANADA. 2 | 3. The “Jolt.” quiring in every circumstance to be1 used merely as a counter. In both | hooks and swings everything depends on the speed and accuracy of the blow | and on the power of putting the force and weight of the body into it. Re- member, when I speak of “putting the force and weight of the body” into a blow, I do not mean that, in a friendly ! bout, you shall strike with all that strength. But the power should be there, used in moderation, and capable of far greater use If necessary. In the hook the body movement is given more prominence than in the swing, and in the “jolt” most of the force -of the blow depends on the co-operation of - the-body. - This brings me to the “jolt” itself. A swing is delivered with the arm stretched almost to full extent: a hook with the arm bent at an angle of about 90 degrees. A jolt is delivered with the arm doubled at an angle of almost 180 degrees, the elbow out from the body. It is always a close-quarter blow. Holding your right arm elbow down, hand up, lead for your sparring part- ner’s jaw, moving the hand less than twelve inches in delivering the blow, but rising on the right toe and throw- ing the right shoulder forward to lend additional reach and power to the lead. In jolting with the left, rise on the right toe again (keeping the left foot flat on the ground in both instances), somebody has been telling the secrets of Oakland. e S e e POPULAR Amcrican author whose skill as a ro- A manticist has been well established has, in his latest book, ventured out of the realms of story-telling and essayed a little voyage upon the sea of social economy. Aiter bewailing the disappearance of the typical American frontiersman of the '30's and satisfying himself that with | the buckskin and powder horn there departed also the back- | bone of American nationality, the author makes the asser- tion that Canada is becoming the only haven for our | latter day backwoodsmen, and that we are annually losing to our sister. commonwealth on the north an appalling number of the flower of our citizens, “Canada once lost one-fifth of her population to the United States,” says the amateur sociologist. “She is re- gaining much of it to-day, because she still has a west and we have none. There is systematic, deliberate and highly differentiated effort going on toward the influencing of this American immigration, Jo offset this we have nothing to offer except the incoming stream of city dwellers from Europe and the possible policy of national irrigation, subject always to the dubious methods of American politics. Gaze once more, if you like, upon the picture of the old West and the new.” . The note of warning cannot be taken as seriously as it would were it to come from some competent student of American affairs, whose judgment would not be tinged with a romantic affection for the things of the past. True it is that thm‘lunds of Americans have taken up homes in the great Northwest, and that British Columbia is being subdued py the ax of the American %o less than that of the and bringing forward the left shoulder with the blow. . The shoulder and arm should not move straight forward, but with a slightly circular motion. This puts more force into the jolt. The New Verse Form. The bachelor e fights for one, (Copyright/ 1903, by Rudyard Kipling.) As joyful as can be; (Copyright, 1903, by Rudyard Kipling.) 1(3&: thi gl::n"l’::xm don’t call it fun, pyright, ., by Rudyard Kipling, ‘cssauie ‘e fights for three— e yright, 1803, by Rudyard For 'Im and 'Er and It A (Copyright, 1903, by Rudyard Kipling.) (An’ Two an’ One makes Three). > (Copyright, 1903, by Rudyard Kipling.) 'E wants to finish 'is little bit, (Copyright, 1903, by Rudyard Kipling.) An' ‘e wants to go "ome to 'is tea! (Copyright, 1903, by Rudyard Kipling.) —Life. Canadian. Thousands also have invaded Mexico and now practically control the mining interests pof that country. Other Americans are building railroads in China, working diamond mines in South Africa, raising cofiee in Central America. The same spirit which moved our ancestors, the frontiersmen, to conquer the Ohio Valley in the first decade of the nineteenth century is now, in the first half of the twentieth, bringing the world to our doors through the ships of the seven seas. e It always has been that in”the history of our country there are those restless ones whose joy in. life lies in ‘breasting the unsubdued forces of nature. The forests and rugged mountains are theirs by choice; when the forests disappear and the mountains are girdled by railroads they put their-household into a covered wagon and scek those places where there is no smoke on the horizon. They are the folk who moved from Tennessee to Missouri, from Missouri to Nebraska, from Nebraska to Oregon and now to Canada. Their departure is neither a menace to the continued welfare of the United States nés an indication of any insidious plot on the part of Canada to depopulate this land of ours. . ——— . o . e r A woman resident of Sacramento, having in the course of litigation been declared dead by the courts, has appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States to declare her alive. From what we know of the capital city the simple announcement of the lady's residence there should be enough to declare her alive in any court in the land. W THE EUROPEAN MAN. HAT is the matter with Europe? are more deaths than births. not increased by In France there The population is immigration, and is quite rapidly declining. When population begins going down| hill it will reach the bottom some time, and at the present rate the end of the French people may be figured with accuracy, as to the time when there will Ye no more French- men in France, That is the pessimistic view of it, but things do not al- ways justify that view nor vindicate its hopeless mathe- matics. Malthus resorted ‘to mathematics, and proved that the world’s population would come to an end, or at least retrograde and countermarch, to meet the food supply, because the mouths to eat it increased faster than the food. Time has destroyed the Malthusian theory, and it may obsolete the pessimistic view of the French race. It is quite forgotten that the same idea once prevailed about the population of Germany. After the exhausting wars of Frederick the Great, especially the Prussians seemed to lapse and show plain signs of exhaustion and loss of vigor. But Father Jan started his organization of Turners, incited the yvoung to outdoor life and athletic exercise, and the Germans of to-day are as vigorous as any race, and the population is seeking outlets by colonization. France may have a like futyre The greatest surprise in vital matters is the recent con- clusion that the English have detericrated and degenerated physically. We have been so in the habit of respecting the brawn of the beefeating British that this arouses inter- est on this side of the water. Already the English press is Alled with reasons for the degeneration which all seem to admit is a fact. One writer traces it to the excessive use of soap; others attribute it to the decline of agriculture and the separation of man from .he soit. We are inclined to think that this has something in it. The mines, mills and cities are hardly capable of furnishing as robust men and women as the farm. The subject has attracted the attention of Parliament, and a royal commission is proposed to ex- amine into it and suggest remedies. The decline of the population of France and the decay in vigor of that of England may have effects far beyond the borders of both countries, These two causes may seriously disturb the world’s equilibrium, disorder its markets, re- lccate its productive and consumptive power, and change entirely its commercial geography. The United States may well rejoice in her strength, which is the strength of her people. If soap destroy vigor, ours would be gone, for we use more of it per capita than any other people in the world. We have plenty to eat, and an appetite for it. A majority of us live out of doors most of the time, and we take the European immigrants, small in bedy through gen- | crations of underfeeding, and make them look like stallfed oxen, e e s An anarchist, duly commissioned and fully resolved to murder the President of Switzerland, has been placed under arrest. This rodent of civilization is practicing the “re- ligion” which an American lawyer, pleading for a client, re- cently preached. Modern society invites the commission of motiveless crimes by maudlin toleration. W 1831, there were but six registered insane, or 1 to every 21,000 inhabitants. In the report of the State hospitals for 1902 the number of insane under public charge is placed at 5276 persons, or I to every 260 residents of the State. According to these figures California has the largest percentage of insane of any State in the Union. New York, with the ratio of 1 to 330, has the nearest approach to our record in demented persons. Our State, which 1s proudly vaunted as the land of fruit and flowers, seems also by this token to be the land of lunatics. However, there is no occasion for our Eastern friends to class lunacy along with the much advertised bubonic plague and the California earthquake as a deterrent to prospective colonists. The most erudite physicians do not dare to make the assertion that dementia is contagious. No germ of neurosis has yet been discovered to have made its habitat in our atmosphere. We do not, as a State, lay claim to lead- ing the pace that kills. On the other hand, our remarkable percentage of insane patients must be traced to that very army of homeseekers which is yearly pouring over our bor- ders in ever increasing numbers to find an abiding place in California. It may not seem fair to attribute our seeming mental weaknesses to those who have come here to be our fellow- citizens, but statistics cannot be gainsaid. John' W. Rob- ertson, M. D., superintendent of the Livermore Sanitarium, in a pamphlet upon “The Prevalence of Insanity in Califor- nia,” points out the fact that the foreign born, who constitute 25 per cent of our population, provide 57 per cent of our asylum inmates. Dr. Robertson goes farther and shows by figures that out of the native born Californians, consti- tuting 50 per cent of our total population, only 17 per cent of the insane are furnished. That part of the population born in other States sent 26 per cent of the total number of the demented to the hospitals. A native Indian is almost unknown as an inmate of an asylum. This preponderance of foreign born and of transmontane insane which serves to bring the record of our State hospi- tals up to such alarming proportions is accounted for by Dr. Robertson in a very plausible manner. Immigrants from the Old World have already a tendency to dementia, owing to the very fact of their removal from the land of INSANITY IN CALIFORNIA. HEN the first census of California was taken, in their birth to one which must of necessity bring about a, radical change in their mode of living and a consequent re- action on their mental economy. Further, they are usually of the poorer class, and financial disaster or bodily hurt be- felling them in a strange continent tends to mental unbal- ance. The same conditions hold good to a lesser degree with respect to Eastern settlers, for in their case a large number seek California under the spur of a malignant dis- case, and too many bring with them a predilection to in- “sanity. } . C— A New York litigant sued the Socialist party of that State recently for monetary damages and was actually awarded a judgment by the court. When the unfortunate victim at- teflpts to collect on his judgment he will have a heartrend- ing realization of what the purchase of a gold brick means. Such decisiors by our courts should be pl.t'ed in the cate- gory of tural punishmentsa ¥ < “Quarts” on Sociables. “Yes siree, you just sorter eschew those church socials if you want to live in all peace an’ amity.” There was a note of seriousness in “Quartz” Bill- ings’ voice as he drew out a toothpick from behind his ear and prepared to deliver himself of a moral. “It wuz all this way. My wife’s cousin frum down Tucson way give my wife a yellar chiner dog what sits on a mantelpiece in the parlor and looks wise. Now I hated that cousin with {a genuine onreasonability and ac- !cordln' 1 jest had a pizen hatred of that stinkin' yellar dog sittin’ up lhere' an' grinnin’ at me whenever me an !my old woman has a onpleasantness— | an’ they wuz most concernin’ the dis- | posal of that selfsame yellar dog. She |is so sot that she says she gets a di- | | vorce if I tech a hair of his dogarned head. { “Well, sir, with the comin’ to Vir- ginia of that new Piscolupian parson | ail the hens of the town, includin’ my ) wife, ,gets to rarin’ 'round an’ buck- i snortin’ over him an’ they decides to | give a church social. Well since all the | boys’ wives wuz in the deal to a show-down they sorter feels that it |is up to 'em to make a showin’ at the |dog fight. So we wuz all there that jDight even down to Shagnasty Jim { with his squaw. | “I wuz circlin’ 'round among the | ]bun(‘h. grinnin’ foolish an’ lookin' for my old woman. She wuzn't jollyin® the parson—a most decayed, onraveled lookin' piece of lindsay-woolsey; she wuzn’t sellin’ shavin' paper done up in outrageous pinkey bundles to the re- formed Mormon elder; she wuzn't dish- | In’ out sickly tea at two bits per dish. | But over in one corner of the room ilhere wuz a sheet hung up an’ a lot of | galoots standin’ in front an' payin’ | their good dust to fish for toys with |a bamboo pole. They all bids to see | | who gets the chance to make a dam | fool of himself. So I gets my sportin’ | blood an’ I bids five good dollars an’ | wins the fish. | "I drops my hook over thg sheet an' j waits an’' bimeby I hears a snicker isflundln‘ some familiar cum frum be- hin’ that sheet an’ gets a yank on my | line. ‘Pull him | Henry," says the in gently, George | voice of my old | Wwoman frum behind the sheet. I lifts | my pole an’ there, danglin’ on the end |of the line with his poppy eyes jest gleamin’, is thet yellar chiner dog."” i Old Adage Exemplified. [ “The old saying that ‘there is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip’ is about as truthful a one as any handed down ‘iby the wiseacres of the days of yore,” said “Cupid” Danforth a few days ago "durlng a lull in the marriage ligense i business. “It was exemplified here this | morning,” he added. | “Just after I opened the ofice a young { couple came in. They bore all the ear- | marks of lovers, and every move of the | girl showed that she thought a whole | 1ot of the young fellow. Though it was j evident that he was just as hard hit, | he was a little bit more reserved, and | looked quite embarrassed when she | called him ‘darling’ in such a tone that | T could hear it. “Well, he walked up to the desk and gave his name, and age and also that of the blushing girl. Without looking up | I then asked if either of them had been married before. A very low but de- | Idsl\'e ‘no’ came from the lips of the | girl, but the young man remained si- |lent. Surprised, I raised my eyes and | said to him ‘Were you? “He hesitated fust a moment, and i then answered ‘ves.’ I thought the yvoung lady would faint when she heard | it, but she reccvered herself and cried jout in an agonized voice, ‘Oh, Will!" | Then without another word she walked jout of the office. The young fellow started to follow her, but returned ‘to | the desk for the document. I completed the license, gave it to him and he dashed cut of the office like mad. Two hours later he came back, handed me back the document. &nd in a voice choked with emotion said, ‘Cancel this, please.’ " The Maze. “Say,” said a well-known attorney occupying offices in the Claus Spreckels building, “did you ever stand for a mo- ment and watch the efforts of the un- initiated to find a way to get through the new circular machine that mas- querades as a door to this building? Well, it's worth while. When she's whirling it's easv, but when in repose a person has as much right to think he can enter his home by diving through the spokes of his turbine windmill as he has to guess the *ight way through this new-fangled thing if he hasn't seen it in action. You should have been there when on a recent occasion T was Inside of the building approaching the door and noticed a man with ortho- dox pastoral whiskers enmeshed in the mysterious entrance. They probably don’t have these doors up in his county. At any rate the man looked as wild- - = k) ter sport in the Northern and North- western States as tobogganing in Can- ada, says “Countjy Life” in America's W Christmas Annual. Where the snow- fall, as in Oregon, Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin, lies on the ground for weeks together to the depth of several feet skees virtually become the life- preservers of the inhabitants. They furnish the only means by which the mail carriers can reach the inaccessible and outlying mountain districts of the Rockies. Skees differ radically from the Canadian or Indlan snowshoe. They are about seven feet long, four inches broad and taper from an inch thick at the center to three-quarters. The Western skee-runner ¢fa cover on an average about four to eight miles an hour, going up and down hill. Down hill an experienced runner can let him- self go, but for a beginner it would be like turning on the clutch valve of an automobile without knowing where the break was. Skees were first known to bave been used in the thirteenth century. Eight centuries passed before the trappers, lumbermen and woodchoppers of America learned the vast superiority of the skee over the Canadian snow- shoe. In a century more the latter will be looked at in museums as the clumsy implement of the bygone age. a . A Talented Artist. Edwin Lord Weeks, an American painter and writer, whose work is largely associated with India and Per- sia, died in Paris recently, being about 50 years old. He was a native of Bos- ton, and a student of French schools in art; and while for some years main- taining a studio in New York, and ex- hibiting at the National Academy of Design, he was essentially European in his character and work. He luxu- riated in the rich and various color | ot oriental life, and his studio in the Tenth-street building was a bewilder- ing bazaar of fabrics and bric-a-brac. scented with attar-of-roses. He painted with masterly cleverness the subjects which he loved, and was personally a charming cosmopolite. He had exhib- ited his paintinge all over Europe, and everywhere got honors. He was a chevalier of the Legion of Homor, an officer of the order of St. Michael of Bavaria; won the grand diploma of honor at Berlin in 1891; was given first class medals at Paris in 1889. Munich and Dresden in 1897; received the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art Club in 1891, and in 1896 was given a special medal and prize at the Empire of In- dia exhibition in London. Paintings o: his are in the Corcoran gallery a Washington and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Other honors he had: and he wrote a large number of articles for magazines, among them Harper's, and published two books, “From the Black Sea Through Persia and Indk and “Epi- sodes of Mountaineering.” In one of his mountain traversing expeditions he was lost sight and hearing of so long that he was supposed to have been killed; as it turned out, his eompan- fon was killed. Answers to Queries. RESURRECTION—J. W, City. “The Resurrection,” painted by Plockhorst, the German painter, in 1867, is now in the Marienwerder Cnhe:irsl. Germany. HOT SPRINGS—A Subscriber, Bay Center, Wash. This department will not advertise where “the very best hot springs are in California,” as this is not a free advertising department. TO BE HANGED—OId Subscriber, City. In pronouncing the death sen- tence the Judge says: “That you be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy om your soul.” REPRESENTATIVE—S,, Novato, Cal. Sonoma County is in the Second Con gressional District of California. Theclk dore A. Bell is the Representative from that district. His predecessor was Frank L. Coombs, who was from the First District, and at that time Sonoma was in that district. MINING CLAIM—Subscriber, Relief, eyed as though he had been inveigled into a mirror maze and couldn't get out. His hands tightly grasped the hand-rail in front of him and there he stuck fast. He had got in somehow, but I'll bet he didn’t know how him- self, and the boy on the burning deck wasn't a marker to him for sticking. As I entered. my cell I attempted to push the thing around and release the prisoner, but. Uncle Jasper, seeing something was about to happen. took no chances and began pulling back. I was heavier than he was, and finally got things going my way. “Jasper, selng it move, became pas- sive, and went where fate and the door willed. 1 thought I had finally done him a service by getting him inside the building, but instead of stepping out of the segment when he was Inside he kept on going around. I don't know whether he was simply dazed or whether he really liked it, but honest sure, I saw the man wind around in that thing for two full circles until finally I became ashamed of watching his discomfiture and left. I hope he was finally whirled in, however.” Sport on Skees. " During the last ten years skeeing has &rown to be almost as much of a win- Cal. Before your question relative (o annual work on a mining claim can be answered Ythere should be & statement as to whether the number of acres in- cludes several claims or locations, and if they are embraced in one application for a patent. MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR—F. B., San Jose, Cal. There never was a Governor of Massachusetts named either Diamond or Dummond, but Wil- llam Dummer was Governor from 1723 to 1728 and acting Govermor from 1728 to 1730. That State has never had a Governor named Smith. DRUG STORE—G. A. F., Berkeley, Cal. This department does not adver- tise any business, therefore cannot an- swer the question asked as to a certain drug store. Correspondents should not ask questions the answer to which amounts to an advertisement of busi- ness of any kind, for such questions will not be answered. Townsend's