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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL FRID‘\Y DECEMBER 1 1903 -— Mummies as Fuel. McDOWELL. We BY (Author of MALA Shop LM Talks or Crafts right, 1908, by Joseph B Bowles.) (Caps Some of the old boys who saw en- gineering service when they were dig- ging the Suez canal are wondering if the firemen on the Panama cut will use embalmed fuel. They remember that in sen they were ScoOp- ing out i to make an island of Africa co s a scarce commodity at times, a the steam raisers had to fall ba yon whatever W able So the irreve t discovered 1 the mummi of cats and other Is which were held sacred by t ient ns made a pretty hot fire. That arted the joke which had more truth than hu- mor in it: “Here, Bill,” yelled the En glish engineer to his fir “chuck in & king; those plebei on't get up enough steam to take vou to the top of the grade.” Tk contractors who supplied fuel to the railroad were none too particular and when cat were not handy they didn’t scruple to break up human mummies. Word has come to the engineers and firemen‘who are part of the out- fits of American contractors who -obably will be put to work digging that the ancien ¥ the Panama inhabit ed 1t make and some of 11 locate a few dried up Montezumas and feed them into the firebox. But the chances are that most of the steam used on the isthmus cut will be raised by liquid fuel—crude oil from the Beaumont field of Texas. American « ctors have a habit of | anticipa g things, who h Iready decided that th will on the great work have e outlined a pipe line scheme which contemplates tank the oil, a pumping plant, storage tanks and a pipe line extending the entire Jength of the works. Ol for fuel has been pushing its way forward spite of =all opposition. Ocean greyvhounds are using it; it sprayed into the fire boxes of locomo- tives, and its use for steam purposes is rapidly extending. It is figured out that there is as much fuel value in two tons of crude oil as in three tons of coal at $3 50 a ton, and that weight for weight forty cubic feet of ofl is equiv: lent to seventy feet of coal. This last comparison gives oil an enormous ad- vantage in matter of storage aboard steamships and on Tocomotives. Thus a steamship which carries in her bunkers 4500 tons of coal would only carry 3000 tons of oil, and the oil could be stored in the double bottom of the ehip, giving all the coal bunker space to the cargo. Crude oil is burned under boilers in several ways. The ordinary method is the injection method, the oil being sprayed into the combustion chamber by @ jet of steam or compressed air. If steam is used, air, to aid combustion, is introduced at the same time. In an- other process the liquid fuel percolates upward through a porous bed, accom- panied by heated air, and sometimes by steam. Recently an oil burning device has been used which spurts the oil un- der & high pressure into the furnace, and still another vapori the oil by means of a small retort which is heated in the furnace. All sorts of extravagant claims are made by the fuel oil men as to the val- ue of liguid fuel. They have claimed that one pound of crude oil will evap- orate forty-six pounds of water. But practical tests by practical men indi- cate that under ordinary everyday | working conditions fuel oil will evap- orate from fifteen to sixteen pounds of water to a pound of oil. Under like conditions a pound of anthracite evap- orates 9.7 pounds of water and a pound of soft coal 10.14 pounds The evaporated duty and calorific value of fuels are not always true guides to the man who uses steam. The list of fuels for industrial pur- poses is a long one, and includes hard and soft coal, charcoal, wood, coke, natural gas, fuel gas, crude petroleum, the residuum from petroleum distilla- tion, asphaltum, coal tar, resin, bri- quettes—compressed lumps of pow- dered coal mixed with some binding compound—corncobs, twisted hay, pine cones, sawdust and refuse in woodworking plants, fish, garbage, greasy refuse from packing-houses and rendering plants, peat, cotton waste and, in the Bessemer converter, just plain air. Switzerland has come forward with an idea which is American, because it was originated by Dr. E. J. Constans of New York, at present professor of chemistry in the Federal Polytechni- cuns at Zurich. He proposes to re- form the whole coal trade of Switzer- land by selling coal according to its heat-producing value instead of by dead weight. The Swiss Government has authorized the institution of a fed- eral testing station for fuel, for Switz- erland, producing no coal and having no mavigable rivers to the seacoast, must import all her coal by rail. So Switzerland is going to test all kinds of fuels and to enlighten the Swiss public through periodical publications on the subject. Clever Boxing Moves. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. (Athletic Expert New York Evening World, Author of ‘Muscle Building,” Btc.) (Copyright, 1903, by Joseph B. Bowles.) The cross-parry, a hvwlte ruse of steamers to carry | INST RUCT IVEJ‘TUDIBJ‘ McDermott’s, is little known now- adays, It is, nevertheless, effective, and is all the more worth learning because so few modern boxers understand it. Its success depends almost wholly on your knowledge of your opponent’s balance. Tried prematurely the cross- parry is doomed to failure. Like most other boxing tricks, everything depends on its timeliness. When your opponent leads with his left throw your left arm (not your right) in such a way as to catch the “heel” of his glove with the “heel” of your own, at the point (on both your | | | | -3 | PIVOT ON LEFT FOOT. i e ows glove and his)' where the padding | slopes sharply in toward the wrist on the outer ( left) side of the left hand. Catching his glove at this point, push | his hand and arm far to the left. Do | this as the weight of his body rests on the ball of his left foot (as it will in de- | livering the blow). His balance will be | thrown forward and will, for the in- | stant, depend on one point—the ball of | the left foot. His left arm will also be | igid. Therefore, the sharp twist to| he left imparted to his arm by your | will send his whole body | | spinning aro to the right (to your left), the ball of his left foot serving as a pivot. He will, before he can recover him- | self, face cl wver to your left, leav- ing his left side exposed. you can either land on the left | Then | side of his jaw or on his heart or kid- neys with your right, or else you can | (if you are quick enough) plant right and left hand blows on him before he | can get back into position. | " As you will readily see,-it is neces- | sary to try the cross-parry during the | action of a second while the other man’s weight is on his left foot and while his left arm is far extended. To do this it is sometimes well to step back just far enough to be out of his reach, before his blow has advanced to its full length, for the cross-parry must be applied while its victim’s arm is ex- tended. There was once a saflor named George La Blanche who left the sea for the | prize-ring. He was not one of the great- | est fighters the world has ever seen. But he invented and - put into practice a blow which made him famous and | which still goes by his name. This blow | bas since been ruled out and is not per- mitted in public boxing matches or| fights. 1 do mot know why, for it re- qu skill and strength, and I| | can see nothing unfair about it. I shall | | teach it to you now. You will not be allowed to use it in a “formal” bout, but it is a good thing to know and will come in very handy if ever you are | called on to defend yourself in earnest. La Blanche was in a fight some years ago and was not faring particularly well. His adversary rushed him. La Blanche whirled suddenly about. Be- fore half the spectators could take in the significance of what had occurred there was a prostrate, unconscious man lying in a heap on the canvas floor, while George La Blanche stood calmly awaiting the referee's decision. . speed, Now, this is what La Blanche had done: As his adversary led for his face | with the left La Blanche whirled about | to the right, using the ball of the left | foot as a pivot, lifting his right foot | slightly from the ground and throwing | enough impetus into the revolution to | bring him clear around in a complete | circle. As he whirled he threw out his right arm, extending it to full length and holding it as rigid as an iron bar. Around he came, and as his body whirled past the place toward which his antagonist was rushing La Planche’s right fist caught him on the side of the head. That is all there was to that fight. In practicing with your sparring part- ner let him keep his right arm raised alongside his head to catch the blow. The moment you hit him, on complet- ing the pivot, bring the right foot to the ground and brace yourself or the impact may topple you over. Even should your fist miss him some part of your forearm will land on the side of his head or face and the effect will be not unlike that produced by a blow from a baseball bat. If you merely wish to avold his rush and do not want to counter on him, pivot on your right foot instead of on your left. That will take you out of his reach. Let me warn you again to be careful how you employ this pivot blow in a friendly bout. gl The last blow we shall take up to- day was invénted by “Kid” McCoy and used by him in knocking out Steve O'Donnell, three years ago. Swing for your opponent’s face with your left. If you land, or-if he blocks the blow, try again until he draws back and the swing goes past his face. Now, bring back the hand toward the left and land on his face on the return 1om{ey This return must be very rapid, and the body must turn slightly at the same time in order to give strength to the blow, which would otherwise be merely a slap. Let the left go past his face, remem- ber, and then bring it back, landing it against the left side of his jaw, the | dishonesty until arm being bent and the impetus sup- plied by the ghoulder and body. It is not difficult and can be used to great effect against any one who is not ac- customed to 1t. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication OffiCe we ce e veve cvoscesscvonoe . .Third and Market Streets, S: F. THE UNIVERSITY ROBBED. FRIDAY. \HE robbery of the university by its secretary is Tnot exactly a clap of thunder from a clear sky. The thief had been going the pace for some time, and his doings were so public as to provoke caution. had the affairs of the institution been under strict ob- servation by the Regents. Nothing is easier than lock- ing the stable after the horse is stolen, and “I told you 50" is always said too late. The Regents are all men of affairs, foremgst among the citizens of the State, but that has not prevented the robbery of an institution the most worthy and the most needy in the State. Is it not true that in selecting Regents our Governors have made the mistake of choosing men whose constant direct and personal attention to the university is im- possible by reason of the greatness and the absorbing nature of their own affairs? The president has upon him executive duties requir- ing all of his time. These make necessary his general contact with our public men and all of our material in- terests. He must be the representative of the university at public gatherings, and of necessity has to trayvel much and appear on great occasions far away to fitly represent the culture and purpose of the University of California. The busy Regents, pressed for time in their own mat- ters, though specially charged with committee duties relating to the finances, are in just the condition to be misled by an adroit scoundrel, such as the secretary seems to have been. Superserviceable, ready to relieve others of work and to oversee and report upon the things that they should do, he was placed in the exact position where his champagne thirst would naturally seek quenching outside of his beer income. Now that the exposure has come through his reck- less use of long immunity from any check, the discovery is made that should long ago have been made by those it was to make it. The bookkeeping turns out to be archaic. No proper system of checks upon the secretary existed. He received and handled money which, under a proper system, should never have come into his hands. He was permitted to sow of wind and reap of the whirlwind without let or hindrance. The Call has often said that on the directing boards of State institutions there should be an element com- posed of citizens especially skilled and highly interested in the work of the institution to be managed. Penologists with business ideas should be among the managers of prisons; experts in juvenile training and devoted to it should be in contact with the reform schools, and so on up to the State University. In its regency should be men, if possible, of university training and with such leisure in their own affairs as to have time left to look into the bookkeeping and watch the income and outgo of every penny of income. It is true that the Regents have an auditor, a paid officer, but no good has come of pass- {ing to him the responsibility that belonged to them, for neither he nor they noticed the defective book- keeping, the slipshod ways and the door left open to inadvertence of the criminal himself whose business the exposed it all. The theft soon mounted up to $60,000, and may go higher. But whatever its amount it may still be a cheap price to pay for a thorough reformation in the business methods and safeguards of the university. In effecting this the fact should not be lost sight of that gentlemen whose vast affairs require that they be constantly alert to prevent just such crimes happening in their own business have no time left to keep watch against them in the business of the university. The criminal himself is undeserving of sympathy. Since he was a boy he had been a beneficiary of the institution. He had no one dependent upon him; his official income was ample for his honest needs, and, above that, was sufficient to have laid for him the foun- dation of fortune. All of this opportunity he threw away. He was an ingrate to his benefactors and disloyal to his trust. Now he takes himself for a text and preaches morality to others. The most useful lesson he can teach is by suffering the extreme penalty of his of- fense. It is fof others to point out the moral taught by his downfall. Those who have trusts in keeping for others have only one safe method to follow, and that is pointed out by the rules of honor and honesty that are known to all men, gentle and simple alike. The desire for a life of pleasure enjoyed by dishonest courses is the maggot that destroys character and purpose. The end is always sure. It is disgrace, punishment, sometimes suicide and al- ways despair. No doubt many a man is deterred from taking the first step by the constant vigilance of those whose business it is to watch his work, and it is unwise and grievous that such oversight is so often omitted. King Peter of Servia, by a series of diplomatic blun- ders and by conduct obnoxious to the kingly tribe in Europe, is making himself thoroughly disliked abroad. Peter is wise in his time and generation. Precedent ar- gues very forcibly for him that at all hazards he must not become disliked at home. He can therefore give play to his disposition abroad. HAPPY BAILEY. ENATOR BAILEY of Texas is a picturesque fig- S ure in the Senate. He is rich, learned and im- pulsive. The latter quality led him to make an attack @n Senator Beveridge of Indiana in a moment of exaltation that did not advance him in the scale of statesmanship nor in the esteem of his colleagues. He is a debater of the high horse variety, and when he takes the floor the welkin stuffs its ears with cotton and waits till the clouds of sound roll by. The other day he took the floor against Cuban recip- rocity and ripped it up, back and front, leaving it looking like a bee tree that has been split-to get at the honey. When he finished the bill passed the Senate by the votes of such Democratic Senators as Blackburn, Me- Creary, Cockrell, Stone, Bacon, Clay and many others, After all this intellectual and muscular exertion of Sen- ator Bailey it is amusing to read in the Hearst news- papers that he only presented the ideas of William Randolph Hearst, as evolved from his gray matter and published in his several journals. Happy Bailey! He did not have to think at all in that long speech. ‘Mr. Hearst had done it for him. The yse- fulness of Mr. Hearst is without bounds. He is the thinkist for the statesmen of his party in Congress, and his idea factory is continually putting labeled goods on the market for their intellectual wear. But we must have no more pretense that then mental goods are home made. If Mr. Bailey had been duly grateful to Mr. Hearst he would have risen for oratory and said: “I am now about to be the mdmn of conveyance and oral trum % - of the ideas of Hon. William Randolph Hearst of New York, who wears the head of the party on his shoulders. I am but an humble instrument, with no more relation to the cause of what I utter than a water pipe has to the creation of the water that flows through it. I am simply a job of oratorical plumbing, a patchwork of pipe and soft solder. The affluent spring which supplies the ineffably lofty and fluid thought which passes through me is in the other house. Attend now, Senators, while my oratorical works work on the supply of thought which gushes in a ceaseless stream from Mr. Hearst.” That would be doing the proper thing, for we insist that it is wrong to compel Mr. Hearst to call public atten- tion in his own paper to the source of Bailey’s speech in himself. His shrinking modesty approaches the mak- ing ‘of such a revelation with painful diffidence, and it is wrong in Bailey and others to compel him to stop the machinery of his thbught factory and bank the fires while he calls attention to his output. Secretary McKowen, the thieving official of the Uni- versity of California, squandered his stolen thousands upon the harpies of the racetrack. There might be some satisfaction in the affair if he were the only crop of crime which the course produces, but the merchants who have trusted employes in this neighborhood have yet to expert their books. THE NATIONAL PARKS. CE the policy of reserving large tracts as na- S tional parks for scenic purposes was adopted by the Government there has been little or no consid- eration of the economic side of the matter. The parks are administered by regular soldiers, an officer being considered as superintendent, and the parks have been protected against grazing, and to a degree from fire. There has come to pass now the need of some adjust- ment of the rights of private owners of lands, acquired long before the reservations were made, and who are deprived of all beneficial use of their property, and the adjustment also & certain rights founded in public needs. The first park -eeGrvation made in this State was the one known as the Yosemite National Park, which saddles the Sierra, taking in an enormous tract, and in that part of it lying between the Merced and Tuolumne rivers -in- cluding more private property than it does public do- main. by the map and not by inspection. For this reason much territory was included that has no scenic value whatever. This is especially true of the portion mentioned between the two rivers, which no one was ever known to visit for enjoyment of the scenery. Within the reservation are hydraulic powers, on the streams, and an enormous water supply present in nat- ural reservoirs, and possible by creating artificial reser- voirs to hold the great fall of storm waters without im- pairing the normal flow of the streams throughout the year. The Secretary of the Interior is clothed with dis- cretionary power to grant privileges in the Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant national parks, in this State, “for electrical plants, ‘poles and lines for the generation and distribution of electrical power, and for telephone and telegraph purposes, and for canals, ditches, pipes and pipe lines, flumes, tunnels or other water conduits, and for water plants, dams and reservoirs, used to promote irrigation, or mining or quarrying, or the supplying of water for domestic, public or any other beneficial uses,” provided that such permit shall not be incompatible with the public interest. The Secretary of the Interior is un- derstood to decline, in all cases, to exercise this discre- tion, on the ground that such economic uses will impair scenery and enhance the cost of administration of the parks, and on the further ground that the use of such privileges will be profitable to those who make the necessary investthents. As far as the matter of cost is concerned the parks are patrolled by soldiers of the regular army, and the cost is only their pay and subsistence, which would be the same if they were stewed in barracks instead of hav- ing the freedom of the mountains. o doubt Congress | in bestowing the discretion upon thé Secretary had in view the fact that these reservations included certain great economic resources, the use of which is necessary to the life of the people, as, for instance, electrical power and potable water, and that permission to use meant their profitable use to somebody. If a-pole line or a water ditch impair natural scenery, its impairment by a passable road is much greater. Yet roads must be made to enable people to get in sight of the scenery, which otherwise will remain like the moonshine or sunshine in “Mazeppa”—"in lonely luster.” No doubt the Secretary intends to make it plain that a re-examination of these hastily made reservations is necessary, in order to reform their lines and conform them at once to the preservation of natural scenery and the use of economic resources where there is no scenery to impair. Tt is a vital question to so many people in this State that it is quite necessary that our members of Congress address themselves to a speedy solution. Our Canadian friends have recovered from their fit of anger toward us and are beaming with satisfaction at the report of their experts that they can so fortify Wales Island as to make untenable any other position we may assume in Portland Canal. When they think again and realize that what we want are the profits of peace, not the glories of war, we may expect to hear more about Yankee craft and English crookedness. — The minister who landed among us stranded from the Antipodes and seeking a wife to pour financial balm upon his wounds came with the wrong credentials. He had the necessary impudence and assurance, was cer- tainly worthless enough to interest some of our silly girls, but he lacked that primary essential to the success of such quests. He took no pains to prove the taint in a man’s blood commonly called blue. S ————— 2 It seems almost a criminal waste of time and a use- less expenditure of the money of the State to send to the penitentiary the two boys, aged 17 years and 135 years respectively, who were captured the other day while plying their trade as highwaymen on the water front. They certainly know now as much as they would learn in San Quentin, and a post-graduate course in crime for them would be as if painting the lily. A gypsy was arrested in Oakland a few dlys ago for telling fortunes without a license. The old woman should have been charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, and she should also be arraigned for _conspiring against the fair name of the town by exciting | mem! some of its denizens to an exhibition of suppressed and uda,:_iui}e traits. When this reservation was made it was delimited | 4 Sailor’s Shot. Occasionally there are published ac- counts of policemen - pursuing and shooting at fleeing criminals, but it is ot often that there is-a record of such successful aim as that of John Coulter, who was a member of the po- lice force in the latter part of the fif- tles. Coulter was a bluff old fellow, who had sean many days on board ship and understood more about ropes and sails than he did about target practice, vet he made a remarkable record while on the force, Early gne morning, while under the shadow of some trees on the Battery- street side of the Postoffice, he saw three men breaking into a store at the corner of Rattery and Jackson. As soon as he had satisfled himself that a burglary was being eommitted, he crept up on the men, revolver in hand, and called upon them to surrender. | The men did not surrender, but started | off on,a dead run in three different di- rections, one going north on Battery street and the two others running one up and the other down Jackson street. | Coulter immediately fired, first at the. one on Battery street, then at the one | +* on, “are about mathematics and num- bers. My mind seems to be of a math- ematical turn. At the age of five and a half years I knew the muitiplication tables from one up to twelve. I learned the tables up to the sixes on the first | day I attended school, in Oectober, 1868, and before November, of the same year, I knew them all. up Jackson street and then at the one | running down that street. Each shot | was followed by an exclamation of | pain. Before assistance arrived Coulter | investigated. One went to the Morgue, | the other two to the prison hospital and | Coulter was the police hero of the | time. The dead burglar proved to be | one Morris, a brother of “Tipperary | Bill,” who was under the ban of the Vigilance Committee of '56. Called Collis Down. Collis P. Huntington, world leader in | railroad finance, a genius for organiza- | | tion and a controlling factor for many | years in the great Wall street game, was called to time once and so com- | pletely floored by a humble employe of the Southern Pacific Company that the | story is one of the sacred traditions in local railroad annals. | During one of Huntington’s visits to | the coast some time before his death a | clerk from the gemeral auditor’s office | { was sent to the president with a busi-| ness message. Blank, the clerk, had no | | trouble in reaching Huntington's quar- | ters, but upon entering found the great | financier stretched out on a lounge, | sound asleep. Blank figured that |li would not do to arouse the slumbering | magnate, so he waited. An hour elapsed before Huntington awakened. “Young man, how long have you been | |waiting?" demanded Huntington, after Blank stated his errand. “An hour, Mr. Huntington,” was the reply. “Well, sir; why didn’t you wake me, | sir?” asked the multi-millionaire. “The | Southern Pacific Company cannot af- ford to have you waste an hour of your | time. Suppose every one of the 25,000 men on the payrolls wasted an hour a day, where would we land?" “I had thought of that,” responded | Blank, “but I concluded that if the | Southern Pacific Company could afford | | to lose an hour of your time at the sal- | | ary you are getting, Mr. Huntington, | it could stand my wait until you had | finished your nap.” . | How “Bughouse” Was Born. “Did you ever know the origin of the word ‘bughouse’?” said Tom Ernst, a prominent member of the Musicians’ Union, to some friends. “Well, a few | years ago I was playing clarionet in) the orchestra of @ theater in Oakland. We had a little old German | playing viola, who loved onliy his instru- ment and himself. He was altogether too quiet to suit the drummer, who was | always up to something, from tying some one’s instrument up and hanging | it in the flies, to nailing a plug hat to the wall—which he once did because | the cornet player had the temerity to wear it. “It was the season for the big brown electric light bugs, as they are called, and the chance to do something to the viola player was not to be lost to Mr. Drummer. He gathered a dozen or two of the big beetles, and before the musi- cians arrived one evening squeezed them | through the sound-holes into the viola. Nothing happened until the leader dropped his baton for the first note of the overture, and then—whang! went the bugs as the bow struck the strings. The little German if not ‘bughouse’ was not far off. He nearly fell off his seat, and on partly recovering composure be- gan swearing loudly In German. When the overture ended the only explana- tion that could be obtained for his er- ratic conduct was, ‘You take me and | my fiddle for bughouse, héy?" " Pysttaleia. Aegina's foam is hlgh and wild Where Pan immortal sits enisled, But thou and I with flying oar Seek Psyttaleia's sacred shore. The City of the Violet Crown Well knows that rocky island’s frown, But thou and I together learned ‘What fires upon her altars burned. Oh, many a sail goes glumlng Bound for some olive-garden fai But thou and I made fast to her And found her cypress lovelier. The shrines of Aphrodite 1ift Their smoke in every village-rift; But thou and I. remote from man, Propitiate the woodland Pan. —The Reader. there, ir; Renmrkable Blind Man. That the loss of one sensc uuickens the activity of others is shown by the story of George Hebble, a blind mu- sician of Indianapolis. ‘When seen at his home Mr. Hebble told a Pittsburg Gazette correspondent how his remarkable gift of recolleetion was developed. “T mever could under- stand,” he said, “why it should not be just as easy to remember things as to remember where things are. For in- stance, many people—most people I presume—will say, when looking for some paper or other important article, that it is in a certain pigeonhole or drawer in a desk. They cannot tell what the contents of the paper itself relates to, but they know just where it is. Now, it has always seemed to me that it should be just as easy to re- member a thing as to remember where that thing is. That is the whole secret of a good memory. “My earllest recollections,” he went | significant “I have a large circle of acquaint- ances in Indianapolis. I know the names and street addresses of over 5000 persons. Sounds like a good many. doesn’t it? But I know them. And stowed away in the folds of my brain I have the telephone calls of 2100 peo- | ple, on both the old and new phones, Often, when I am unable to go to sleep at night I lie in bed and classify these telephone numbers and addresses until ‘I get to sleep. Other people count sheep for the same purpose, but my tel- ephone calls and street numbers always bring the desired result for me. I have never been able to get very far above 2100 of the phone calls, as I always go to sleep, and so I don't know exactly how many of the calls I have in my memory. I could easily commit the whole of ‘both telephone companies’ directories if it were necessary, but I have never dome so.” A Unique Symbol. President John H. Finley of the Col- lege of the City of New York writes interestingly in the Christmas issue of Harper'’s Weekly about the amusing conflict which has gone on in Cuba be- tween the old, aristocratic traditions inherited from Spain and the newly adopted principles of democracy. One incident which is recalled by Dr. Finley is particularly diverting. He had gone to the cathedral at Ha- vana to be present at a special service and was watching the procession of acolytes, priests and Bishops as it left the altar. In the rear walked the Arch- bishop, in purple vestments, conversing with the President. clad in the plain garments of America’s official habit. “But it was the leader of the proces- sion,” writes Dr. Finley, “whose office attracted my attention. A tall, pale- faced young priest was bearing, sol- emnly and with important air, a great silver salver, and on it—not some ven- erated ecclesiastical symbol, not the | gilded emblem of kingly majesty and nor even the martial in- signia of a v eroy, but the plain, un- adorned, somewhat ruffled. tall, black silk hat of the President of the repub- lic. Democracy must have its crown, and the church had found in it the con- ventional, serviceable, every day cov- prerogative, | ering of a citizen.” World's Fair Notes. Work is progressing rapidly on Bra- zil's pavilion at the World's Fair. It will be one of the largest and finest foreign Government buildings. It will cost $130,000. In the reproduction of Jerusalem at the World's Fair already more than 200 distinct buildings have been erected. The site covers twelve acres and all buildings will be ready for use when | the Exposition opens April 30. The installation of the sculpture on the Palace of Electricity gt the World's Fair has brought out all of the archi- tectural beauty of that mammoth structure, and it will be universally ad- mired by the World's Fair visitors. The builders at the World's Fair are now concentrating their efforts on the Pike. Several of the largest conces- sions are already constructed and scores of others are being built in rec- ord breaking time. The Pike has been paved its entire length with vitrified brick. With December at the World's Fair began the installation of exhibits. Nearly all of the great exhibit palaces are finished and have been turned over to the exhibits departments. Only the Mines, Manufactures and Forestry, Fish and Game buildings are incom- plete, and January 1 will see these last three finished. The work of installation will reach its height in February. Pardo» Us. The San Prancluco Call devotes & page of its Monday’s edition to writing up the resources of the interior of the State. Yesterday it published articles from the pens of C. M. Wooster and N. P. Chipman, president of the Cali- fornia State Board of Trade. Both are interesting and will undoubtedly direct attention to California’s almost unlimited resources. The Call is on the proper course. All of the great journals of the State should devote a little more of their space to building up the interior, and they will not be neglectful of their own interests ir doing so, for as the interior progresses so will their own homes advance and increase in material wealth.—Madera Daily Tribune. It is time to express Townsend's Glace Fruits East for Christmas now. — +~