The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1904. i 7o 1 Frow Your Man. Bowles.) “lock” has a o old fashioned wrestling. When s you knock his infighting) so side” his. are “i with the left left it just behind his | | |~ Remembering -this, until your left hand, by which you are grasping his right wrist, is near your left shoulder. As you do this seize his right leg just above the knee with your right hand. Now your back is against his chest. With your left hand you are grasping his right wrist. With your right hand you grip his right leg. Keep your left foot far enough ad- vanced to bear the extra burden with- out loss of balance, and (by moving | your own body and hauling on his by | pulling his right wrist outward with your left) bring the back of your shoulders down across his waist. Now rise to an upright position, swinging | his body up as you go, his stomach resting across your shoulders,’ his | | right hand and leg caught and held by lyou as just described. The manner | in’which his body is balanced, midway ross your shoulders (again the ques- tion of the fence and the seesaw board), the impetus of his rush and your rise are such that you can thus | swing into the air a man of double vour own weight. The whole thing depends on speed, accuracy and | («bove all) on balancing his body cor- | rectly across your shoulders. When once you have him thus in the air |3ou can drop him any way you please | |or dash h . head downward if you | prefer. Don’t let him seize you with | his free hand during the process. The trick is, as I said, far easier than it sounds. | There are several nerve centers in various portions of the human body, which if struck hard will cause for the moment a sort of temporary paralysis, or which by pain or jar will communi- cate to the brain a shock that inca- pacitates that organ for instant action. One of these vulnerable spots, as I have explained to you, is the solar plexus. Another is the point of the jaw. A third is the top of the instep. try the follow- ing trick if d pressed by a street { leafer who is trying to practice unfair | methods of fighting: { When he steps close catch the biceps | of both his arms (as in one of the“ clinches 1 taught you) in such a way | as to prevent him for the moment from | | striking. As you do so bring forward | either foot, toe upward. Throwing the <+ = < A Throw Over the Shoulder. — — - heel left arm about hi waist o the smail of hi back in the hip lock) bring your right hand against s throat. Now, on ystem of opposing forces, push wit r right hand and draw | | intvard h your left arm, keeping your left foot in such a position that he « )t step backward nor recover his balanc Throw him to the right, letting go as soon he is on the way to the ground and not giving him time to catch hold of you. To guard t this, in case a man tries to get h a grip o ou, whirl to your right, bringing your left foot around in front to prevent him from | This mo > prevent hi stepp Iy w a grip on you. from getting The “ck and hip throw” is one of the dreaded holds in t¥ »n prize ring catego; ¥ gonist lez for your face with either hand, guard with your left and lead for his gauging the dis: tance so t if you do not land your blow wi g0 past his head. Bring back your right arm untili it encircles his neck | from behind. As you do this whirl about (on your left toe as a pivot) e - —— - > l “Easier Than It Looks.” R —— until you are standing directly front of him, with your back to his chest, your right arm still about his neck and your left hand gripping his Tight wrist. Your hips should both be in front of h Bend the knees so as to bring you lower down, draw his head for ng your hips as a lever, forward over your head. This is easy if correctly done. To guard this, twist your head vielent- ly from under his grip the moment vou feel his arm behind your neck. Or step suddenly to the right, thus spoil- ing his leverage by getting to one side of his hips. If you put one short end of a long, heavy seesaw board over a fence you can hardly lift the other end. If you shove it along until one-half of the board is on each side of the fence you can raise or lower the board at will. This is a matter of balance. Now if that board were on the ground you could not, perhaps, raise either end of it. The fence across which the board les makes the lifting easy by im- » parting what is known as leverage. Balance and leverage make very easy the apparently difficult feat I am about to describe, a feat whereby I have seen a man who weighed 120 throw a 200- pound opponent high into the air and dash him to the ground. Here is the trick: 3 Your street foe strikes for you wild- Iy with his right hand. Catch hold of his right wrist as he does so with your Jeft hand. Bend your left knee and Jean forward with the upper part of the body. At the same time pull his right arm backward over your head done quick- | | whole weight of the body on this foot, bring down the heel with all your force {on to the top of his instep about mid- | | way between the point where the toes join the foot and the spot where the | front part of the foot ends and the | |ar.kle starts. As you do this thrust | him backward and land at will on his - ! { | i | i | i | | | Heel on Opponent's Instep. l] | o - - :ja\\A Be sure to have the other foot | planted in such a y that if you miss your aim you will not lose your bal- {ance. T have seen men faint from the | pain and shock of this foot blow. Again, if your opponent rushes you, | !strik‘ g at you, seize his extended arm | by tbke wrist with both hands, wheel | |about so that ou are facing in the | same direction as he (his imprisoned arm being drawn over your shoulder | and still held by the wrist in both your | hands), bend suddenly forward above | the waist, bracing your feet, and pull- ing his arm forward sharply and with all your strength. The impetus of his | own rush, aided by the pull you give his arm, will send him over your head to the ground. ! One thing more: The 5treet fighter, as 1 have said, will kick. Be careful to stand in such a way that his kicks cannot land on your abdomen. Stand somewhat more to one side than in reg- ular bexing, and keep your left leg ex- tended in such a way as party to pro- tect the abdomen and to receive any kick that may be aimed thereat. Our next boxing lesson will take us back to the gloves and will deal with the various attitudes in sparring and some favorite blows and guards of fa- mous pugilists. These will include Jef- fries’ famous “crouching attitude” and Fitzsimmons’ great “shift —_—— Is It Transmutation? | In the last few months' something little short of confusion has been wrought in the ranks of science by the revelations of the metal radium. The atomic theory, long established, was upset; the principle of conservation of energy, which seemed impregnable, was threatened, and a general insecurity in scientific beliefs began to be felt. But a great hope alsc arose, the hope that { humanity was on the verge of some marvelous discovery of the true con- stitution of things and perhaps of the meaning of life and nature. That hope has ‘not yet been fulfilled, and it is gradually subsiding again. But radium reserved at least one other surprise for the scientists... Sir lliam msay, professor of chemistry at University College, London, has made the discov- ery that this mysterious element has the power of changing by some subtle process into another element, namely, helium. He found that, besides its oth- er manifestations, radium constantly gives off an emanation which seems 1o behave in all respects like a heavy gas. It can be collected in flasks, mea- sured, weighed, but in about a month it entirely disappears. What becomes of it? By the aid of the spect: . Sir William Ramsay found that it changes into helium. Thus, it is claim- ed, one element has been detected in the very process of transformation into another.—Harper's Weekly, { canal, and that it will cost two hundred millions in ex- i They | from complaining. | pectation that the uspal results of Government work will | seek partisan issues elsewhere than in this purely ex- | any President would do the same. | is President. | teachers | pass an hour and then to be forgotten. THE SAN FRANCISCQ CAL L JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor « . + + « « » + « » Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Pnbmoflco'@ VoS G S e Kpaskioe: flledie; 8. W THE CANAL AND THE PRESIDENT. UR friend of the Colusa Sun seems unable to get O out of the Panama canal. In a recent issue he says: “It was said without contradiction that the Panama Company paid to somebody ten millions of dollars for getting the route adopted by the country.” We beg of our influential contemporary to consider for a moment what this charge means. We never heard of it before. It was made, if at all, by some one who de- sired to defeat a canal and at the sathe time malign the administration. As a vagrant accusatien, general in its nature, it could not be contradicted. - But let us look into it more closely. The power to adopt a canal route was by law conferred upon the President of the United States. Does the Sun believe that President Roosevelt | was influenced corruptly and by money? That is what the charge amounts to, and the one who made it and all who repeat it assume the responsibility of accusing the President of the United States of the most serious of- fense that an executive can commit. Such charges have been made against Presidents be- fore. Mr. Bryan charged Mr. Cleveland with corrup- tion in office, and this grave and serious accusation was | part of the Democratic campaign material of 1896. * But no one believed it and.all jq‘]icious citizens regretted that it was made, for the sake of the good name of the country. All such will now regret that a similar charge | is made against President Roosevelt. % When the President visited Nevada last year, the Democratic Governor, John Sparks, introduced him to a great audience at Carson, and said of him, “The Presi- dent is a good American. There is not influence enough in the world to turn him from what he believes to be right, nor money enough in the world to induce him to do wrong.” Governor Sparks greatly dignified himself by that ascription. It is true. It uttered the belief of the whole American people. We believe even that the editor of the Colusa Sun knows it was true, and know- ing it should be above slandering the President. He says he is in favor of going on with the Panama cess of the estimates. That it will cost more than the estimates is probable, because it is Government work. All work done by the Government exceeds the cost of work by private enterprise. But the canal was made a Government enterprise principally by the persistence of the Democrats. They all favored it as a national work. all knew the consequences, and that the cost would probably be greater, and they are estopped now Nor can they ask that the work be confided to a Democratic administration, in the ex- be avoided, for they appear under all administrations, and it 1s the partisan habit and business of the outs to tell the country that only the ins permit such excesses. As the canal is a work of such stupendous importance to the world, and as its. completion will be so conspicu- ously honorable to thi§ ¢ountry, why can we not have a trice to partisanship in the matter? It is evident that the Democrats in the Senate will ratify the treaty. Why not do it graciously, tdke their share of the credit and ternal and inter-world matter? The whole country knows that President Roosevelt will enforce honesty in the work, will curb extravagance as far as oversight and foresight can do it, and every one knows too that So let it stand at that and curb this bad and unpatriotic tendency to de- | fame a2 man and gentleman and countryman because he | | | The worthy ladies and gentlemen who honored the | ' institute recently in this city were at much pains to counsel their associates against the danger of useless, unnecessary, ornamental instruction. The peda- gogues were urged to go back to the simpler principles of education and to leave the frills alone. The advice was well given, and as it was nothing new served perhaps to MODERN WORLD POLITICS. HE new year begins th shadows falling over Tmany parts of the world, forecasting the approach of war. Macedonia and Manchuria are storm cen- ters. A possible contest on the isthmus between our- sclves and Colombia would hardly b} more than an opera bouffe affair in itself, but it would none the less have consequences affecting the world. Trivial there- fore as it may seem, it takes its place in the domain of world politics and must. be considered along with the larger contests that appear to be impending in the Le- vant and in the Orient. s In times gone by the course of world politics was de- termined mainly by the ambitions of contending dynas- ties. Macaulay in a striking passage tells how the desire of Frederick the Great to annex Silesia caused rival Moguls to go to war against one another in the valley of the Ganges and the red men to scalp one another on the banks of Lake Huron, The statement is not an ex-| aggeration, for the ambitions of Frederick involved Great Britain and France in his wars, and they in turn set their armies and fleets to stirring up their allies to battle in India and in America. Thus the schemes of a military adventurer who happened to be born to a throne sufficed to set three continents aflame with war. About the only direct results of those old wars were the extensions of the bounds of empire and the increase of the military power of this or that nation. Widely dif- ferent is the nature of the world politics of our time. No dynastic ambition’ is concerned in the impending struggles in Macedonia or in Manchuria any more than in Panama. The quiet and melancholy man who sits upon the Russian throne and is known as Autocrat is doubtless as desirous of peace as any other man living, and so far from seeking an increase of power would probably be glad to dispense with much that is now weighing upon him. A new force is driving the nations forward. Russian advance into Manchuria is done in the name of the commerce and the industries of civiliza- tion, even as is our advance toward supremacy in Pan- ama. . Of course Russia cannot carry to any part of the world the civilization that. prevails in Western Europe and in the United States, and to that extent her aggressive movements upon Turkey, China and Per- sia are looked upon as portentous of danger to civiliza- tion itseli. Were it otherwise, the impending conflicts in Macedonia and in Manchuria would be frankly count- ed as parts of that general movement of conquest on the part of civilization over the barbarian or semi-civilized races of the earth that is so notable a feature of our time. Outside of the three points named there are other { | movements toward the white man’s conquest. One of H i the most notable of these is the growing prestige ot France in Northern Africa and the probable early an- nexation of Morocco to the French empire. That country is too rich and too important from a commer- cial point of view to be left in the hands of rac® who neither know how to develop it themselves nor will per- mit others to do s Finally, the continuous disturb- ances throughout South America are largely due to the inflow of commercial energy into those countries, bringing’ about conflicts betwcen the interests of the progressive elements of the population and the greed of the more lawless, who, under one . leadership or an- other, seize upon the government and make spoil of all they can lay their hands on. Modern world politics is distinctly the politics of commerce and of civilization. It seeks to extend em- pires by peaceable means as far as possible, and where war is imperative it seeks to make war itself subserve the interests of trade. By means of machinery, steam and electricity, civilization has attained such a power of expansion that no quarter of the globe can long remain free from its influence. The early years of this century will see a revolution wrought in South America, Asia {and Africa, and during the present year the swing of that revolution may carry us toward wars of extraor- dinary magnitude, affecting not only the nations di- rectly engaged, but the entire world. The Chicago horror has excited our own authorities to needed-action in reference to the condition of local the- aters. An investigation of the measures that theatrical managers have taken to protect the public has begun, and surely it should not end until every theater and pub- lic place of amusement is absolutely safe. A to happen in the near future is the development in Central Africa of an electrical power plant that will be the largest in the world, leaving that-at Niagara Falls as a bad second. The enterprise has been carefully considered by engineers and is reported to be entirely feasible, so that the region known to men of the,present generation as “Darkest Africa” may possess within a few years the most stupendous source of electrical energy that human enterprise has been able to achieve. "The proposed plant is to be established at Victoria Falls, and will be of enormous value to the coun- try, where there is a great lack of coal and suit- able wood for fuel purposes. The region around the AN AFRICAN ENTERPRISE. MONG the things unexpected that are quite likely falls is rich in resources of many kinds, but its expioita-| tion has been financially impossible bedause every man- ufactured article used in the development of any kind of industry has to be imported at heavy cost. The opera- tion of electrical power generated by the great falls will provide means for establishing manufactories in the coun- try itself and thus promote its exploitation in every di- rection. A recent account of the project says: “The electric plant will be built on a shelf cut into the side near the bottom of one of the zigzag cracks below the falls. The water will be carried around the cataract in great steel tubes and dropped three hundred feet to big turbine wheels. The engineers of the South African Company estimate that the falls will furnish 35,000,000 horse- power; Niagara, if every drop of water were used, would not furnish more than 7,000,000 horsepower. Thirty- five million horsepower means the equivalent of more than ten horses, working night and day, for every white person in South Africa. It is enough, one would think, to manufacture every article that South Africa needs; it is enough to light the city of New York, run its street cars and do all its manufacturing.” The projectors believe that the achievement of their undertaking would hasten the completion of the much talked of road from the Cape to Cairo and that with such communication with the outer world there would grow up around Victoria Falls a city of first-class importance that would in time become the metropolis of Airica and one of the great industrial centers of the world. One sanguine boomer of the project says: “In South Africa, since the power cannot come to the city, the city will go to the power. They will bind their New York or their Pittsburg on the edge of Victoria Falls. If any one has ever sighed with the man who fifty years ago could have bought a square mile of what is now Chicago for a thou- sand dollars let him go to South Africa and buy land near Victoria Falls. In his old age he will be founding uni- versities and public libraries. The stories of Chicago, Minneapolis and Denver are sure to be repeated and | magnified.” Even the premonitory war’ growling of Russia and Japan has sent a stream of gold into the coffers of the merchants of San Francisco. While we sincerely wish that the two powers of the Orient may see their way clear to live in peace and harmony, we cannot help but temper the hope with a satisfaction that if they must ‘fight we will reap the harvest of the peace-loving de- corous tradesman. Information from the Far East announces that Chi- nese cruisers are rapidly being prepared for ‘service, and in the war which seems imminent between Japan and Russia will act as allies of*Japan. Judging from what Chinese cruisers did in the war between Japan and the Flowery Kingdom, it would be difficult to tell whether they would be safer to the Mikado as enemies or as friends. ) —_—— The Schoo! Board of Kansas City, Kansas, is under the fire of accusation of bribery and corruption in con- nection with the purchase of school supplies. If dishon- esty in public oftice be a disease distinctly American there is at least one consolation that its contagion is not secretly spread. Those that contract it know that ex- posure, humiliation and, frequently, punishment inev~ itably follow. X g — Wircless telegraphy is now a practical reality be- tween here and the Farallones. Let us hope that this important improvement, distinctly the triumph of pa- tient science, may serve as a protection to ships that come to our coast as well as an advantage to the vast commercial interests that find their home in San Francisco. g Revolution has lit its torch in Urgruay, and the en- tire republic is said to be in a state of siege in conse- | tuted as follows: quence. There appears to be cause for no unusual alarm, however, as South Amgerican revolutions seldom ;¢ create more harm than the presentation of a new comic opera. If it had not been for this new disturbance we might have forgotten that Uruguay is on the map. The Mahatma's Monster. He is “the boy mahatma from La- hassa, the sacred city of Tee-bet.” Be- sides possessing a body which is just a reservoir for all sorts of mystic Bud- dhist influences, curative controls from the heights of the Himalayas and won- derful revelations of the ancient pow- ers of the sacred priests, this boy ma- hatma owns a rattlesnake from Arizona and two healthy, pulpy Gila monsters from the banks of the Colorado. far away. When he is not allowing his curative powers to be turned loose on Grant avenue this highly charged stor- age battery of influences from “Tee- bet” lives with his reptiles up in an apartment-house on Pine street. It was some time in the dim hours of the morning when a gentleman of bibulous tendencies who had heard af the small but deadly menagerie in the | boy mahatma's apartments was mak- ing a stealthy way down the halls of the apartment-house to his room. Just as he turned a corner his toe touched against something in the dark and he tiously to one side and there pause if to await attack. The scream whicl came from that bibulous gentleman | was even heard by the policeman down in the saloon on the corner. Then with a dive the bibulous gentleman jerked at the call bell at the head of the stairs, standing meanwhile upon the | marble slab of the hatrack. “The Gila monster’s loose—turn out— the Gila monster's runnin’ around the halls! They's two o' them—they an’ the rattlesnake an’ the boy mahatma is all loose!” The harp that Tang through Tara's halls was not a eir- cumstance to that terrified appeal. A vision in white and curl papers bounded from a bedroom into the hall crying “fire.” “Hey, look out; the Gila monster’s there—oh, Lord, he’s down there on the floor, almost where you're steppin’!” The vision gasped and was up on top of the landlady’s desk in a second. By that time the hall began to be crowded with the frantic lodgers. To each the bibulous gentleman from the hatrack shrieked a frantic warning. Some one had already turned in the fire alarm, and police whistles were blow- ing from three different windows. At last, just as the police arrived upon the scene and the water tower was being trained upon the upper story | the boy mahatma from “Tee-bet’” calm- iy opened his door and stepped out into the hall, thick with gloom and terror. As he-stepped across the flood of light ! lying on the floor in front of his open | door his sandaled shoe struck an | orange, which rolled a few paces and | then stopped truculently in the very | midst of the assembled multitude. Anent the Canteen. Great uneasiness was caused to the | country at large by the recent official | report that, during the last official | year, 5034 men, the equivalent of six full | regiments, had deserted from the | American army. In view of such a fact it becomes of vital importance ! search for the causes of the discontent which must be at the root of this evil | Colonel W. C. Church, editor of the ! Army and Navy Journal, in a thought- | ful article in the December number of | the North American Review, expresses . the opinion that, in any thorough and comprehensive investigation, the effect ! of the discontinuance of the army can- |teen must not be overlooked. The | army canteen was established for the | sake of abolishing the post trader, and | Colonel Church avers that the army | was making excellent progress in tem- perance under the influence of the can- teen, when, in obedience to civilian in- | terference, Congress legislated it out of | existence. Colonel Church deplores the tendency shown by a multitude of peo- | ple who know nothing of army condi- ;uons to impose their theories in prac- {tice upon the American soldier. He | quotes the, testimony of a number of clergymen familiar with army life to the evil effects of the anti-canteen leg- islation, and in confirmation of his views he appeals to the opinion ex- pressed by the vast majority of the of- ficers of the army; who are almost, he says, a unit in their desire for the re- establishment of the canteen, which was found to be a highly successful | means of keeping the soldier within the barracks and away from the tempta- tions which lie in wait for him beyond its c«gflnn. The Reckoning. Love taught me all I knew of bliss; Love taught me all I knew of pain— Lured me with laughter and disdain, Then made me captive with his Kiss. He vowed no pleasure I should miss, Then swift he wounded me again— Love taught me all I knew of bliss; Love taught me all I knew of pain. So_deep we sounded: grief's abyss, My heart to beg release was fain: ADh. would my pleading had been vain, For now I but remember this: Love taught me all I knew of bliss' —Smart Set. Not a Joke. Under the cantion “A Joke on .John Bull” there appeared in these columns a few days agoeseference to the toast recently given by Emveror William of Germany, in which he said that Blucher, the great German leader, had rescued the English army from annihilation at ‘Waterloo. A reader has taken excep- tion to the consideration of this speech of Mr. Hohenzollern's in anything but a serious mood in a communication, which reads as follow. “Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: 1 most respectfully beg you to convey to the writer of the inclosed article (“A Joke on John Bull”) the statement that his- torical record will prove that Emperor ‘Willilam's speech was not a, joke on John Bull, but the expression of a real- ity. General Blucher did come with the Prussians to rescue Waterloo from a French victory, to save not only the English, but also the Germans, Hol- landers and Belstu% comprising the allied army under the command of Wellington. The army at Waterloo commanded by Wellington was consti- AB4: killed iy Milled mas el e rs _and Belgians—19.891 - . 2068. Prussians—45,521; ki “1 wonder if there is a sensible man on earth who will call battle or English victory’ saw an orange colored object move cluJ to] English alone would have been a little lunch for Napoleon. As for the London newspapers becoming excited on ae- count of the truth being told, it is a case of self-deception because they happened to have a few men on the fleld. “At Blenheim they happened to have 7000 men in an army of 63,000. The Hanoverians fought on their side at the battle of Waterloo, and not, as Em- peror William said, with the Prussians. The poor Hanoverians for about 200 years had to do all the fighting for the English. “Hoping that your writer will in the future read some history before writing an article, I beg to be excused for the bad writing. My eyes are rather deli- cate. Very respectfully yours, “MUNROE RUSSELL.” NOTE—The writer of these columns has made arrangements with the de of Wel- lington to 'bout face to the rear and sit down. Output of Rolling Stock. The car and locomotive output for the year 1903, as indicated by estimates prepared by the Railrcad Gazette, shows a falling off in the number of cars built as compared with 1902, and a considerable increase in the number of locomotives turned out. From offi- cial figures received from all but two car building concerns in the United States the Gazette estimates the num- ber of cars built in 1903 at 154,808. These figures include all freight and passen- ger cars built for elevated and steam railroads, and are exclusive of those built by railroads in their own shops and those built for street and other electrie service. Of this number approximately 152,081 were freight cars and 2007 passenger { coaches; 153,195 for domestic use and | 1613 for export. Last vear the total | number of cars built was 164,547, which | is about 9700 in excess of this year. The decrease has occurred in the last two months, as up to that time the output for 1903 was equal to the output for the first ten months of 1902. The number of locomotives turmed out from the various engine works of - the ccuntry is' given at 5152, as com- pared with 4070 in 1902. Included in this number are 88 electric locomotives. The increase over 1502 is the largest that has ever occurred in one year. and is, possibly, due to the fact that the loco- motive works in the country had such a volume of orders placed during 1902 that they were unable to make imme- diate deliveries, and many of the orders were held cver until 1903. Returns from Canada show that 55 locomotives have been built by two firms, one of which has only recently begun operations. At an average cost of $12,000 per loco- motive, the total amount expended by the railroads in 1903 for motive power was approximately $62,000,000. This, of course, is independent of the amount expended for engines built by the rail- roads at their own shops, Answers to Queries. WEIGHT OF COINS—M., City. There are 120 bronze l-cent pieces to a pound weight and seventy-five nickels to the pound. SAN FRANCISCO—A. O. 8., City. San Francisco, Cal, is in latitude 37 48 266 north and in longitude 122 24 398 west. SULLIVAN-KIL R AI N — Constant Reader, City. In their battle at Rich- ling, Miss., July 8, 1889, for $10,000 a side and the championship, Sullivan and Kilrain fought seventy-five rounds. PATENT—J. W, ‘Alameda, Cal. A person desiring to record an assign- ment of patent obtained from the Unit- ed States should adliress a communica- tion to the United States Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. PRINCE OF WALES—Subscriber, Suisun, Cal. The Prince of Wales, now King Edward VII of England, visited the Canadas and the United States in 1360, but his tour did not extend to San Francisco. NATIONAL GUARD-—Miiitia, City. To ascertain when an enlisted man was discharged from a troop of cavalry of the National Guard of California ad- dress'a letter of inquiry to the Adjutant General N. G. C.. Sacramento, Cal. A record of ail discharges from the ser- vice of the State is kept there. PANAMA REVOLUTION — Engq., City. There was a revolution in Pan- ama in 1865. It started March 9. The Government was deposed and Don Ji} Clojune was declared President. There was also a revolution there in 1373, when the Government was overthrown by Colombian troops, October 12, with- out bloodshed. NO MAN'S LAND—C. N, City. “No Man's Land,” in the United States, wag at one time a part of the territory now- Known as Texas. In 1345 Texas, on be- ing admitted to the Union, ceded to the United States that strip of her land which lay north of 36 degrees 30 min- utes, north latitude. This piece, 187 miles long and 35 miles wide, was with- cut government until 1900, when it be- came part of Oklahoma. Until that time it was known as “No Man's