The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1904, Page 8

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 190a. Practice on Scales. BY ANICE TERHUNE. (Bong writer, formerly director of music in the College of St. Jol Baptist, New York.) pyright, 1904, by Joseph B. Bowles.) As the pupil advances he will ob- serve more and more the great ad- vantages to be gained from systematic scale practice. Scales keep the fingers in good con- dition as nothing else will and add ever-increasing fluency to the musi- cian’s touch. A friend of mine be stopping at the same hotel with g - STARTING SCALE N | “THIRDS.” | t:nt of the most famous concert pianists of to-day, told me not long ago that the pianist in question prac- ticed scales—nothing but scales—all day long. - From morning until night, day after day, up and down the piano his fingers flew unceasingly—and vet he is a2 wonderful pianist, and must, it would seem, have already realized the helght of his ambition in bringing forth for the benefit of the public the exq e music to be heard at his recitals. I merely mention this to show how extremely necessary the greatest pian- ists consider scale practice as a means 10 retain their art in its perfection. Regarding the joys of listening to such scale practice twelve hours a day there may be, from the outsider’s - | EBTARTING SCALE SIXTHS.” —_ - point of view, differences of opinion. My friend occupied a room directly | under that belonging to the pianist. and it is unnecessary to state that he changed his abiding place as soon as he possibly could to quarters in the farthest wing of the hotel, believing that in this case distance would lend, if not enchantment, at least resigna- | tion and’ a soothing calm. In order tq derive the greatest benefit from the scales it will be well for the pupil to practice them in all keys, and in all the different arrangements possi- ble. After the “plain scale” come scales in “thirds,” “sixths” and “tenths.” In playing “thirds” the pupil plays the left hand as usual, while the right, in- stead of being placed an octave above the left, as in the plain scale, is placed only a third above it. If the left hand begins on C this would bring the right + STARTING _ SCALE “TENTHS.” IN hand on E. The fingering is exactly the INSTRUCTIVE :STUDIE.S . £ =M : ' who chanced to | | |in the left. | | by even one halting or stumbling note. — note, or, in other words, the beginning of every octave—this, of course, to be done only in rapld scale practice. This should all be worked up with the aid of the metronome, as explained in former lessons. All this is well for the pupil to learn fairly soon, but I preferred not to bring {1t into these lessons earlier, as it is best to become perfectly familiar with | the simple scale, played with the hands |separate, before attempting to put them together or trying to go too much into | the intricacies of the scales that con-| tain sharps and flats. | Too much use of the hands together | |is not a good thing in scale practice, | | for in that way one hand unconsciously | becomes careless and depends upon the | | other hand to do all the steady work. A long avprenticeship at the single | scales makes a splendid foundation {nr‘ the time when the hands are to prac-| tice the scales together, and even after | the student has become most proficient | |in rapid, difficult scale work with the, hands together he will gain much by | | going back occasionally to the single | scale, played with separate hands. | Now we come to the “arpeggios.” | You will remember that I explained | | the meaning of the word (harp) in | one of my earlier lessons, and the pu- { pil must try to carry out the word- | meaning by making his runs as harp- | like as possible. We will take first the peggios,” with the key of C for a sam- ple key, understanding that the ar- peggios. when once learned, are to be practiced on all the keys, as are the other forms of the scale. . The right hand starts with the thumb (first finger) on C, and the left hand with the fifth finger on C an oc- | tave below the right. Next the sec- ond finger in the right hand strikes E, while the left hand at the same time strikes E with the fourth finger. Then G is struck with the third finger in the right hand, and the second finger | Next the fifth finger of | the right hand strikes C and the left covers C with the thumb. This is the first part of the arpeggio. Next the fingers move up to E, that is, the E just above the C on which they began the exercise. In this case the Motes to be played in succession are E, G, C, E. The other of the fin- gers is first the thumb, then second finger, then fourth (on account of the long reach between G and C), then fifth finger, in the right hand. The order used in the left is first and fifth, then fourth, then second, then first finger or thumb. ' At the next move the fingers start with thumb and fifth finger, as usual, but this time on G.| The other notes in the group (C, E, G) are played by the second, fourth and i i “broken ar- | fifth fingers in the right hand, and third, second and first in the left hand. Next the first and fifth fingers take C once more, bringing them just | |an octave higher than they were | when the exercise started. As soon as the student becomes ffl-‘ miliar with the style of fingering nec- | essary for these arpeggios he must be- gin practicing them systematically. from one octave to another, up and down the whole length of the piano. The descending arpeggios need no explanation, as the fingering is just the same as it was in the ascending arpeggio except that the right hand uses in descending she fingering that | | the left hand used in ascending, and | the fingers of the left hand are used | exactly as those of the right hand | were in the ascending exercise. This explanation may sound rather intri-| cate to the uninitiated, but it all| works out very simply, indeed, as the | pupil will see when he begins. Even more important than the “bro- | ken arpeggios” are the “running ar- pegglos.” In these the same notes are used as in the other arpeggios, but the | runs, once started, are played straight up the keyboard as far as the will of | the pianist, instead of, continually go- | | ing back and starting over again, as |in the arpeggios I have already de- |scribed. The runs are, in fact, up- | broken, and therein lies the difference between the two. The fingers used in the running ar- peggios of the right hand are the first, second and third. The fifth finger would naturally fall on the upper C| |of the octave, but the thumb passes under the other fingers (exactly as it | does in the scale) and comes out on C, | thus carrying the hand along to the . next octave. and so on, up and down | the keyboard. In descending, the third | finger is the one that crosses over on | its downward course—the left hand be- | ing just the opposite of the right, both | ascending and descending. In these arpeggios, as in the scales already described, great care must be | | taken that the finger that crosses over | |or under the others (either ascending | | or descending) does not bring into un-! due prominence the note on which it! | strikes. As a preventive of this it will | |be well for the pupil to review the| | “preparatory scale exercise” given in | | one of the earlier lessons. In this ex-| ierciu the passing of the fingers over and under is dealt with, and it -can easily be brought to the assistance of | | the pupil who is really trying to make |his runs sound “harplike.” It is es-| pecially important that there should be ! | no hiteh in the rhythm of an arpeggio, | | as the whole effect is necessarily spoiled { | { In order to work up these runs to a rapid tempo they should be treated ex- actly as are the scales. In other words, they should be practiced with the met- ronome, and counted in “ones,” “twos"” and “threes” (as explained in other les- sons), according to the number of oc- taves comprised. School in Miniature. The little islet of Nordstrandschmor, in the North Sea, boasts what is prob- ably the smallest school in the world. Oceanic upheaval has wrenched the islet away from the island of Nord- was erected, capable of providing for about a dozen children. Wmi't‘he dwin- dling of the islet, however, the popu- lation has thinned and now numbers more than fifteen souls. For five | endo. | ica prevent our building the canal, let a foreign power | sobriquet of “Little Dave,” given him by his old chief | what the party will do. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . » + « + « » » . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication om@ Ceeieviivein.e....Third and Market Streets, S. F. . weee...JANUARY 13, 1904 DINNERS AND POLITICS. WEDNESDAY.. HE two wings of the Democracy seem determined T to feed, either separately or together. The Jack- son banquet in Omaha seems to have enraged the supporters of Mr. Bryan, who propose to give him a dol- lar dinner at Lincoln on his return from Europe, in which he shall be the lone, bright and particular star. Between these two political dinners one has been eaten { and spoken over in New York, which brought together Tammany and Hill, Olney and Murphy. Mr. Olney made a polished speech, but it was an eéxample of innu- 1t attacked the administration in negative meta- phor, by laying down what a Democratic administration would not do. In this way our present foreign policy was attacked. But Mr. Olney seems to have forgotten his letter, written when Hawaii and the Philippines were burning questions, in which he put Washington’s farewell address out of focus as of any present value. That address had long been a guideboard on the na- tional highway, but Mr. Olney chopped it down ard planted in its place another, inscribed “The United States assumes its responsibility as a world power.” Conservative Democrats were appalled at his position, while the more adventurous spirits of the party rejoiced at his expansive views. Now he appears, eating and drinking and railing because his counsel has been fol- lowed. What did he mean by.a world power? Are we to stick our foot out into the world and when it is trod on are we to whimper, apologize, or kick? The Demo- cratic Monroe doctrine makes us the trustees of the hemisphere. Are we to let Germany plant naval stations here, permit the revolutionary bandits of Central Amer- acquire islands that command either of its ends, and be a world power for bluster and not for business? If so, Mr. Olney’s letter was our commission as the Don Quixote of the nations, with a barber’s basin for the helmet of Mambrino and a cheese knife for the sword of the Cid Campeador. He does not seem to appreciate the difference between a world power and a world laughing stock. But, after all, his speech had all the frigid dig- nity of New England in it, and when he came to discuss Presidential candidates he had only one to offer, and that his old chief, Mr. Cleveland. As Mr. Cleveland has declined, and is not in the habit of trifling, this was equivalent to saying that the party has no candidate. Then a letter from Mr. Cleveland was read in which he took occasion to read a needed lecture to the new Tammany government of New York, exhort- ing it to behave and govern wisely and cleanly. This was like advising the leopard to change his spots and the Ethiopian his skin. There is no assurance that what the seasoned Knickerbocker Van Wyck failed to do will be done by the raw and sentimental McClellan. After this Mr. Hill was introduced and justified the Tweed. He proceeded to feed his hearers the peanuts of, politics. He nominated both Murphy and McClellan to the Presidency, won victories in his mind, and measured the administration in his half-pint cup. The dinner proba- bly produced no effect except indigestion for those who ate it, and the country is sick guessing in the dark about Nor does the party itself seem to know any better now than it did after the defeat of 1900. [ts orators speak in more tongues than bave been heard since the dispersion of man upon the plains of Shinar. Bryan's dollar dinner will add to the Babel. We do not pretend that such a condition is best for the country or for the Republican party. In a free soci- cty intelligent opposition is a necessity. But naturally the Republican party cannot be responsible for creating such an opposition to itself. That rests upon the shoul- ders of its friend the enemy, and instead of doing it the enemy is eating indigestible dinners and talking indiges- tible tommyrot. In the war of clashing mterests now raging toward a crash of arms in the Orient the world is gossiping over the probable fate of Japan and of Russia in the outcome. But what about Korea? It seems that both antagonists are determined to settle their disputes on her unhappy ground and she will not even be allowed the ungrateful role of a peacemaker. THE BURDENS OF THE ZIONISTS. AST month an attempt was made by a fanatic L the Jewish Zionist movement to take the life: of Dr. Max Nordau. The would-be assassin gave as the reason for his deed an alleged attempt of Dr. Nor- dau and Dr. Herzl to sway the Zionistic sentiment for a reunited Judea into support of a proposed colony for Tews on the east coast of Africa. In striking down the heads of this plot, as the disordered brain of the fanatic conceived, it to be, the self-appointed murderer felt that he would be saving the Hebraic dréeam of a rebuilded temple and a restored ark of the covenant | from disruption at the hands of false prophets. This attempt at the destruction of the man who has been at the forefront of the Zionist movement from the moment of its conception by Theodore Herzl in 1896 brings to the public eye. once more the grand scheme which now has it's followers throughout all Jewry, and | offers a striking example of the stupendous obstacles which stand in the way of a fulfillment of it. Worthy to be ranked as one of the phenomena of the history of the races, yet doomed, it would seem, to be the last and greatest tragedy of this people of tragic history, is this remarkable attempt to rehabilitate a state, dead these 1600 years, with a congeries of nationalities whose tongues are babel. In the very zeal which moved this fanatic to level his pistol at Nordau is to be found one great barrier to the success of the movement. Distrust of their lead- ers, suspicion of the motives of their highest men, jeal- ousy among themselves-ithese are the leaden weights which drag upon the enterprise. In the very nature of things it cannot be expected of human nature that a great brotherhood of religious enthusiasts, gathered from every. civilized land and representing a dozen different nationalities, should possess any great degree of har- mony, lofty and undivided as their purpose may be. In a recent essay upon the Zionist movement Nordau himself has given voice to this very danger. He says: “Many of them (the opponents of the movement) con- tent themselves with libeling and insulting-leaders of the Zionist movement. This kind of hostility they who are vilified can afford to despise. Men who, without expect- ing the slightest advantage to themselves, out of the purest, most unselfish love for the unhappy ones of their of the right ‘smilingly to shrug their shoulders when irre- sponsible fanatics or pitiable paid scribes reproach them with self-interest or vanity.” Despite the assaults of the traducers and notwith- standing the fact that among the Hebrew race itself the Zionist movement finds its bitterest enemies, the move- ment which was set on foot in 1896 has been making great headway. Upon no uncertain and evanescent foun- dations have the Zionists built their hopes for the es- tablishment of a new Palestine, but upon the firm rock of nationality. For the sake of the brave few who have already gone to the Holy Land and there begun to till the soil, for the sake of the thousands in Russia who count the Christmas celebration of the Greek church only as a signal for murder and rapine, it is to be hoped that the stupendous dream of the Zionists may some day have its full realization. —_— By courtesy of the managers of the St. Louis Expo- sition the University of California will receive all the space it thinks it requires at the great fair. This should be to the directors of the Berkeley institution at once a congratulation and an obligation, an opportunity to illus- trate our triumphs in education and a duty to show what we have done that is of the best SHIPPING SUBSIDIES. OME time ago The Call directed attention to cer- tain statements made by Herr Ballin, director gen- | eral of the Hamburg-American line, in an inter- | view_ with the New York Herald, in opposition to the | policy of promoting the American merchant marine by governmental aid. The statements of Mr. Balin were reviewed by Senator Frye, one of the strongest advo- cates of the policy which the German ship-owner con- | demns. He pointed out that the upbuilding of the Ger- | man merchant marine was due to governmental aid, andi that American ships, unassisted by the Government and | compelled to pay high prices for American labor, both in | constructing the ship and in operating it, could not compete with the subsidized foreign lines built and run by cheap foreign labor. The discussion did not end there. Foreign ship- cwners are so eager to prevent the upbuilding of an American merchant marine that would deprive them of the immense annual tribute they now draw from this country that they have not been willing to let the issue pass without attempting at least to refute the arguments of the Senator. One of the ablest of these efforts to dis- credit the shipping bill appears in the New York Herald of January 2 in the form of a long and interesting article by Emil L. Boas, general manager of the Hamburg- American line. Mr. Boas strenuously upholds the asser- tions of his director general, and insists that the Ameri- can people would be very foolish should they imitate the policy of the Germans and promote théir merchant marine by the grant of governmental aid. In the course of his reply to Herr Ballin Senator Frye quoted a report on the German ship subsidies from | | United States Consul General Mason at Berlin, and said: “Our Consul General goes on to show how subsidy and ! the accompanying requirements that the subsidized ships | shall be built in German yards so stimulated construc- tion in the empire that both the North German Lloyd | and Hamburg-American companies were enabled to or»; der home ships like the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,i Friedrich der Grosse, Koenigin Luise, Auguste Vic~: toria, Fuerst Bismarck, Patricia and Palatia. That they did all this Consul General Mason declares was mainly due to the fact that they were forced into it by an act of legislation.” Mr. Boas, in replying to Senator Frye, undertakes to break the force of the report of Consul General Mason by saying that the Hamburg-American line has enjoyed the benefits of a subsidy for but two steamers out of a fleet of one hundred and twenty-five, and that so far from being forced by legislative action to withdraw its patronage from British contractors, during all the period under consideration it repeatedly ordered ships in British yards. The controversy is the more interesting to the Amer- | ican people because it shows how eager the foreign | chip-owners are to defeat any measure before' Congress designed to promote the American merchant marine. | It has been estimated that the tribute we pay to foreign-j ers for carrying our ocean commerce amounts to as | much as $200,000,000 annually. Perhaps that accounts | for the interest they take in the shipping bill and their | repeated counsel to the American people not to enact | one. | { Mrs. Maybrick will soon be set free from the English | prison in which she has passed so many wretched years. With her liberation will close one 6f the greatest of | modern chapters illustrating the stern sense of British | justicé. No pleading, no influence, not even that of the most powerful diplomats of the United States, could | shake the decree of the English court. This is one rea- son that English courts possess the veneration of the English people. They believe that what is right is jus- | tice. After years of weary waiting California has a home in which worthily to house its chief executive. No sooner was the Governor established in it than rats, sewer gas and plumbers usurped it and disturbed the content of its residents. The public must silence its expressions of anxiety.” The Governor himself must de- termine which of the three usurpers is the worst. Rats are bad, sewer gas is dangerous, but plumbers—that is for his Excellency to decide. . The inquiry into the causes of the Rock Island Railroad wreck has developed one of the oddities of the age in such investigations. It actually looks as if some of the train- men will be held responsible for the disaster and may be forced to pay some sort of penalty for the tremendous loss of life their carelessness caused. The age of miracles, in America at least, has not passed. The Japanese resident in California, and under the laws. of their native land bound to return home at the call of war, don’t want to go. While it is clearly opportune to praise their judgment, it would be idle to miss the opportunity to assure them'tltt we are willing to spare some of them for any length of time they choose to re- ‘main away. - R 2 L Reports from the south are insistent that Colombia is mobilizing hentrgqp- and by overt acts, variously offen- race, out of reverence for their forefathers, out of a|sive, is indicating that she wants to try conclusions with general spirit of philanthropy, have made the greatest Unel sacrifices in money, time, strength and health in order to elevate their people and to free the millions of in- ncle Sam on the territory of Panama. Perhaps after all it might be well to show our South American friends the o g R o o st o i His Fortune Made. For more than an hour he had been sitting in a dark corner in the waiting- room at the Central Emergency+Hos- pital. Not a word had he uttered dur- ing all that time; neither had he stirred and the attaches were beginning to wonder what brought him tnere. He aid not look to be in need of any treat- ment and as he made no disturbance no one bothered him. TFor fully an- other hour he remained there and then suddenly he got up and tip-toed to an- other corner of the room. A few min- utes later, without uttering a sound or making a particle of noise, he tip-toed back again. Then, still on tip-toe, he began circling around the room. Sud- denly he made a dive under the wall desk on which is kept the book of rec- ords of the hospital. As he landed on his hands and knees under the desk he let out a yell of triumph. “I've got you, I've got you,” he cried, rising to his feet, and laughing and capering about with joy. “What have you got?" said the stew- ard, who had rushed into the room at the sound of the man’s voice. “The greatest freak ¥ou ever saw,” was the answer; ‘“‘a cat with buttons on his tail. T'll make a fortune exhibit- ing him.” “You are a lucky man,” said the steward. “Come in here and let us see him.”: And he led him into the “D. T.” cell and slammed the door shut. ‘A Delicacy. * Some believe that Assistant District | Attorney Everett J. Brown over in the Alameda County courts does not pos- sess any elements of wit in his mental make-up, but the following story would seem to confirm that as one of his ! many accomplishments. It seems that one of the peace-loving residents of somnolent Oakland had as- saulted a waiter and so far forgotten | his early training as to chew the wait- er's ear with much vigor during the melee. The Oaklander was being tried for mayhem. The waiter had just been released from the witness stand at the closing of the taking of testimony and | she jury was about to be instructed. Prisoner was seen to look at the hands of the clock over the judicial head 2nd then speak earnestly with his counsel. It was 12 o'clock. Counsel for the defense was on the point of ris- ing to his feet to address the Judge when Brown spoke up. “May it please your honor,” said he, “I think that the prisoner at the bar ‘Hs hungry and that his attorney is go- ing to plead for, a recess until after | lunch. If the prisoner's hunger is so Ipressmg, we might recall the waiter.” | Hidden Treasures. Hidden treasure has an irresistible attraction for the human race. On the slightest hint from seer or fortune tell- er some one is sure to dig where the , buried treasure is supposed to be, and disappointment does not discourage an- other attempt when another “tip” is received. Very few have ever come upon hidden treasure, and the few have found it unexpectedly. Take, for instance, that romantic un- earthing of 200,000 coins in the bed of the river Dove, in Staffordshire, sev- enty-two years ago. Some workmen were engaged in removing a mudbank which had formed in the center of the river, when one of them was amazed to find on raising his spade that it glis- tened with silver coins. Attracted by the digger's exclama- tions of astcnishment and delight, his tellow workmen hurried’ up, and in a moment half a dozen men were scram- bling and fighting for the treasure, fe- verishly filling their pockets. their hats | and beer cans with silver coins, which were worth their weight in gold, for they were of the time of the first two Edwards and had lain in the river for 500 years. That the bulk of the treas- ure trove was ultimately claimed by the Duchy of Lancaster matters little, for its finders had already appropri- ated scores of thousands of the precious disks. Only two vears later a few village boys were playing at marbles one Sun- day afternoon in a field near Bea- worth, in Hampshire, when one of them caught sight of a piece of lead project- | ing from a cart rut in a rough road that crossed the pastures. Tugging at the strip of metal. he disclosed a hole, and through the exposed opening he saw a pile of glittering coins, bright as if fresh from the mint. To fill his pockets and those of his playmates was the work of a few moments, and so | little did the youngsters appreciate the value of their discovery that on their way home they amused themselves by flinging the coins into the village pond. Ultimately nearly 7000 coins were re- covered from this buried treasure chest, and they proved to be of the reigns of Willilam T and Willlam II, and in a wonderful state of preservation.—Bos- ton Transcript. Parks at Washington. Through the courtesy of W. H. Gal- linger, chairman of the Senate Commit. tee on the District of Columbia, The Call is in receipt of the elaborate re- port of that committee upon a proposed park system for the district which, it carried into practice, will surely make the home of our national capital a rival of the renowned parks of Europe. The: whole scheme of operations pro- posed by the committee’s recommenda- tions are with a view to lending to the great public buildings wherein the ma- chinery of our National Government is housed an air of dignity and grace such as is effected at Versailles by the won- derful gardens of Louis Quatorze. Should the plans be followed only in i part the effect would be of surpass- ing beauty. Royal Porcelain. . cessity for additional services is be- yond the power of a commoner’s imag- ination. How the “best china” of royal china closets is preserved from the “breakage” which is the menace of low- lier homes is not recorded; at all events the priceless service owned by the Kaiser's grandfathers is said to be still intact and still in use. Guests at the Imperial table in Berlin become familiar with a series of plates upor which history is indelibly written. The Kaiser uses three dinner services ordered and owned by Frederick the Great, although the greater part of the china belonging to this monarch is in jthe Hohenzollern museum. Ome of these is a service which Frederick had made for his palace at Potsdam.—Har- per’s Bazar. Dyes From Coal Tar. All the various brilliant and beautiful dyes employed for coloring various kinds of fabrics are produced from this substance. Coal tar also furnishes the basis for several kinds of medicines, such as trional, sulphonal and so on. Saccharine, which is a substitute for sugar, is also made from coal tar. Car- bolic acid (phenol), the most important and best known antiseftic and disin- fectant, is a product of coal tar. Ben- zol, & clear and colorless liquid resem- bling alcohol to some extent, is another distillate which is’ employed for remov- ing grease spots from fabrics and also as a solvent for india rubber. Then we have naphthalene, a substance which to some extent resembles camphor, and is employed, like camphor, to protect woolen fabrics from moths. In addition to this there are an almost innumer- able number of products made from coal tar which can be nitrated and which form the basis of high explo- sives, the best known being picric acid, which is nitrated carbolic acid and is chemically known as trinitrophenol. Trinitrotoluene and trinitrocresol are also well-known high explosives made in exactly the same manner as picric acld and having practically the same properties as far as explosiveness is concerned.—Harper's Weekly. A Joke. Overheard in the office of the Noveo Vremya, St. Petersburg: Editor of the funny column to the managing Editor —“It's useless to attempt to roast the Japanese.” “Why so, Mr. Jokovich?” ‘“Because, you see, they are already little brown men.” Unother Joke. Scene—Imperial Palace, St. Peters. burg. Nicholas to his Prime Minister— Why all this delay-sky? Why don't we pitch-in-sky and send Japan-sky to the bottom of the sea-sky? The Prime Minister—Your Maje-sty, the American war commndenz' have not yet arrived on the scene. Nicholas—Ah! Then we must wait- sky. Slamjamorovich, another glass of whi-sky. Answers to Queries. CALIFORNIA JACK—A. 8§, City. The card game called “California Jack™ is ome of the numerous progeny of “All Fours.” It is usually played by two or four persons, with a pack of fifty-two cards, which rank as at whist. HELPERS—T. H,, City. Those who apply for positions as helpers in the quartermaster’s department are not re- quired to undergo a civil service ex- amination, but they must prove that they have the ability to perform the work expected of them. A FRENCH QUOTATION—Marie. City. The words quoted, “On veut avoir ce qu'on a pas, et ce qu'on a cesse de plaire,” are from the French of Monvel, born in 1745, died 1811, in a work en- titled “The Forbidden.” It means, “We want that which we have not, and that which we have ceases to please.” NOT CALLED IN—A. P, City. The coinage of 20-cent pieces was discon- tinued, but those that were issued by the United States mints were not “called in by the Government.” This department does not give the premium or coins, if those asked about have such, unless the query is accompanied by a stamped and self-addressed en- velope 20 that the answer may be sent by mail. VOTE FOR PRESIDENT-D. W. E., Point Richmond, Cal. An alien who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States is entitled to vote for Electors for President of the United States—the President is not voted for direct—after he has resided in the States of Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Michigan or Indiana six bama two years. In all other States and Territories the intending voters must be a full-fledged citizen by birth or naturalization. No alien who has not declared his intention to become a citizen is entitled to vote at any time or for any office, municipal, State or