The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1904, Page 8

I erly Dire yohn of Music in the Baptist, New INSTRUCTIVE .STUDIEAS should read something new every day —and the more the better. In fact, he should keep at it until he can read music at sight as fluently as he can read a novel—and then keep at it still more. Next, he should follow the singer's voice absolutely and utterly. He must never branch out into his own inter- pretation of the song, ‘even when ne considers that the singer has the wrong interpretation. When he starts to ac- company the voice he loses all respon- sibility of direction. His mission is to follow, and to follow so in the footsteps of his leader that the feet of both shall leave but one impression. He must listen to the words of the |song as they leave the mouth of the | singer, so that he may keep in perfect | touch with song and singer at the same time. He must feel the song as the singer feels it—must express the- same en- j thusiasm when approaching the climax that he feels to be vibraring the voice | of the singer. Side by side they should | | 80 ‘through the softer passages and in| the fortissimo (very loud) parts the ay . There are and the fi that accomp not made Accompanying itself, and a y valuable one. The jan who is able instinctively to the st’s every thought and weld together song and accompa- ve Now solc — PLAYING MENTS. *— -5 | ACCOMPANT- i niment that it shall make one perfect whole, rather than two forces at war with each other most certainly a genius and worthy of much musical re- spect It is not always t such an accom- panist is to be four wever, and all 100 often the soloist’s tones are marred by the de on of the accompa- mist to bring his performance at the piano into undue prominence. We have all, I think, suifered while listening to performances of this kind, for they a far, far too common, and one is lidble be obliged to endure this form of egot t the ha the accompanist at almost any concert one happens to attend. It is most an- noying to the er or soloist of an kind, and a good accompanist is alway Therefore our puy tention necessary tc paniment w portunity to s nd improve every op- quaintances in t capaci A reliable accompanist can make an excellent living, and there is a large field of any one who is willing to take up the study of accompaniments | seriously. In the first pi the fact that he perform a duet with the singer (or vio- linist), but that the part of the pro- gramme allotted to him is that of filling in a background for the subject of the musical picture, as it were. The singer tells the story in panoramic form, in which the principal characters occupy the center of the stage from beginning to end. Imagine then what a catastro- phe it is when the background, stage setting so to speak, falls forward to the front of the stage with a re- sounding crash and buries the strug- ce he is not called upon to must recognize VOICE OF FOLLOWING THE SINGER. + RS R gling voice underneath heavy chords, which, while most beautiful and effec- tive when kept at the back of the stage (the place intended for them), show thémselves to be all out of proportion when brought into the glate of the footlights. If the singer is plucky his voice will rise again and again, only, however, to be repeatedly downed by the determined accompanist, who thrills with inward satisfaction at what he (with the best intentions no doubt) thinks is his brilliant playing. As a matter of fact the accompanist is really the most important feature of the programme, for he keeps the balil rolling. Without him the concert can- mot go on. He is the foundation of everything. He has it in his power to make or mar the whole performance. Let him realize this fact then and try conscientiously to beautify that which it is his vecation to do. He should grasp every opportunity to read music—not alone accompaniments, but every form of written music that he is able to lay his hands on. He _ | taining power of the accompaniment. , | be everywhere at once. the | singer should never fail to feel the sus- | The decompanist’s eyes and ears must He must train : mind so that as his eyes rest on the ic they not only take in the notes | of the singer (as his ears take in the jwords of the song), but they must at | the same time read ahead a measure or two, in order to be prepared for any sudden freak of the soloist—any varia- ;U-rn in time, a crescendo or an un- | tooked-for ritara. | pupil will, T think, understand, reading this lesson, that ‘he art " accompanying is nct to be treated lightly. It is omplishreent, and is, as I said | before, a most lucrative profession, if | | one is willing to work a little hard at The real work comes only at too, for when one has once |learned how to accompany, it is never | forgotten. If one works hard at it for | 2 while,. it all comes in time, and, put- | ting aside all thought of the money one may earn in this way, the boy or girl, man or woman, who can play accom- paniments well is always in great de- mand and most deservedly pepular, en people wish to arrange a jolly ening. In other words, an accompa- is never a “wallflower”—he cannoci ., because too much depends upon | im. To look at the matter more seriously, | | accompaniment playing is splendid | mental and musical training for any | | one, even if his whole aim is to be a solo pianist. He gains musical insight, quickness of thought and a power for understanding what he reads on sight that is hardly to be gained in any other | way. Moreover, his horizon is wid- | ened constantly, and he is brought in | touch with music that he would know nothing of if he were to confine himself 1% S 1 i m | | however, a most delight- | € n e, h { 1 PLAYFD iN KEY OF A FLAT OIS mERR +- | PLAYED IN KEY OF A FLAT. i ME THING TRANSPOSED | HALF A TONE, MAKING | THE KEY A NATURAL. [ | entirely to piano soios. | strongly urge all my pupils who al | studying these lessons to embrag | every opportunity that may come to | lthm to do accompaniment work, | In studying the great composers, ! which I hope you will all do as llmé goes on, you will find quite as much of their personality put into their songs, their violin music and so on, as in the‘ music they have written for the piano. And in justice to them, we should view 3 - Therefore, I | | them from all points, I think, in order | to thoroughly understand their mes- | sages to the world. It is absolutely essential to under- ' stand how to transpose music, if one is {to be a thoroughly good accompanist, | for very often the key in which a song is written happens to be too low, or too high, to suit the voice of the singer. While songs are sometimes written in two keys, in a majority of cases it is not so, and the person singing the song is obliged to depend upon his accompa- nist to change the key in case the one in which it (the song) is written is not suited to his voice. If the pianist is a | student of harmony this is a compara- luvely simple mattes, but if not, if he | does not understand the value of an | “interval,” “chord building” and so | | forth, it may be a little difficult for him | to familiarize himself with the different | keys sufficiently to enable him to trans. | Pose a song from one key to a at first sight. e The best way for a stu i quire this faculty is for :l:“t;at:l‘(:;’ some simple little piece of piano music that he is familiar with and transpose | it, raising it half a tone. That is, he | plays each note half a tone higher t'han 11t is written. Take, for instance, the: tune of “Yankee Doodle.”” Supposing {it to be written in the key of D, the first few notes would be t-ese—p), D, E, F sharp, D, F sharp, E. Transpose this 2 half tone higher, | s and it wi | be in the key of E flat, thus: E L;t‘:]:‘: E flat, F (natural). G, E flat, G, F (nat. | ural), and yet the tune wor ; the same. 1 merely give '::.dlsbeuj'fx: example, so that the pupil may under- stand just what is meant by “trans- posing.” He must not, however, take for study anything so familiar to him as the example I have just given, for in such a case he would be transpos- ing by ear only, and not with any real knowledge of what he was doing. Transposition should be done by the eye and braip, if it is to be of use in sight reading. therefore let the pupil choose something he is rather with, but not enough so as to play it | in the administration of their respective states and in | from memory. N THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1904 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL IOHND.SPRECKH.S.Pmprkm.........._MdrmAnummufiatkqh}oflflmflm,lzmsa Publication Office ......co0eeentcene = - ...Third and Market Streets, S. F. THE INHARMONY DINNER. HE great harmony dinner in New York, eaten by Tthc invited Democracy and paid for by Tammany, has been the means of renewing the party jangle and wrangle. In the first place, it is announced that Mr. William Randolph Hearst is affronted highly, of such an altitude that no apology can unaffront him, because he was not invited. When McClellan and the Tammany ticket were elected in New York, Mr. Hearst modestly announced that he did it, and that victory perched on his banner and preened its feathers there. Under such circumstances to deny the company his inspiring presence was smpethjng not to be forgotten. But it is said of him that, in view of the further fact that he is the leading candidate of the party for the Presidency, not to give him a chance at the fried chicken, or at least the opportunity to send a letter full of delirious inspiration, was an injury to the party. That is not the only crop of trouble planted at that dinner. Mr. Olney’s ascription to Mr. Cleveland was a breeze fanning all the smoldering Democratic hatred of the ex-President. Many Southern members of Congress wheeled their Gatling vocabulary into line and opened on him. They were not even restrained while he was in the silent house mourning-over his first born, but went into interviews attacking and defaming him, their hard spirit making no truce even in the presence of death. The spectacle led Senator Dubois of Idaho to declare that the Democracy cannot be got to agree on the Ten Com- mandments. The scene has its sad and instructive features. Mor- gan and Gorman are fighting the President on Panama, while the Legislatures of Louisiana and Mississippi are instructing their Senators to support the admini_stration and ratify the treaty, and the commercial bodies and press of the South are unanimously joined in the same course. Out of all these sounds of confusion and creature com- plaints issues the last and only possible cry to the coun- try to justify the election of a Democratic President. An eminent Massachusetts Democrat says that he is the friend of Mr. Olney, but that Olney is an impossible can- didate, for he doesn‘t know politics when he meets it in the middle of the street with a cow bell on its neck. This gentleman says that the safety of the future requires a Republican Senate and House and a Democratic Presi- dent. He views Mr. Roosevelt with alarm, but his posi- tion concedes that the Republican party is the ark of national safety, therefore, it should continue in control | of Congress. This undoubtedly discloses -the plan of campaign for this year. Republicans will be asked to tfade the Presi- dency for Congress. It is expected that this will utilize the enmity of the trusts against the President, and will secure the votes of all-the grafters, boodlers and swill suckers who have been hard hit by the President in his campaign of purifiéation: <It is really Mr. Bryan’s fusion plan over again, without formal action as in his case. The Adullamites all over the country will be asked to be patriotic and save their country from injury, by yoting in a Republican Congress, and at the same time save their dollars- gained ‘dishonestly andein some cases them- selves from prison; and fatten their grudges, by voting in a Democratic President. We find it unthinkable that the country should indofse such a programme. Its proposition is based upon the declaration that President Roosevelt is unsafe, tflat he precipitates crises, that he disturbs business. How? Have not these very men howled unceasingly for enforce- ment of the anti-trust laws, and that the President’s rigid land always successful enforcement of them constitutes the disturbance of business, with which he is charged? In the same cout is included Cuban reciprocity, but only ten Democratic votes were cast against it, and the leading papers of that party everywhere supported it. Again, it is charged that he is hasty to the verge of peril to the national peace. How? In what matter has he shown inconsiderate impetuosity? Here -Panama is chargéd as an offense. If Morgan, or Gorman, or Olney had been President will either say that he would have | done differently? This country has had to obey its responsibility under the treaty of 1846, by guarding the isthmus’ through fifty- three revolutions against New Granada and Colombia. These outbreaks were caused by Bogota's misgovern- ment of the isthmus. But did they admonish Bogota to institute there better government as a means to stability and order? No, and for the obvious Teason that the pres- ence of the United States forces each time enabled Bo- gota to subject the isthmians to her misrule. Under such circumstances it was to be expected that Bogota would reciprocate by ratifying ‘the canal treaty, after | having dictated its terms and conditions and given it ex- ecutive sanction. But that was not done. When the ex- pected revolution ensued what were we to do? Were we { to proceed, the fifty-fourth time, to enable the suppres- sion of the independent aspirations of Panama, and con- tinue in power there a government that refused to gov- ern well at home and to keep faith abroad? . There is not a thoughtful American, who appreciates the importance of the canal and the honor of his country, but will say that the fifty-third subjection of-the isthmus was sufficient. and that President Roosevelt took the course dictated by national honor and humanity. . Then where is the impetuous spirit which imperils peace, in a policy that serves mankind and has prevented the fifty- fourth murderous war on the line of the world’s high- way? HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. OT one of the least interesting or ins}ructive by- paths in historical studies is that which leads to a survey of the repetition in a new age of events of moment which have passed down into the record of the years. That history repeats itself has come to be an old maxim. That history should have repeated itself with such absolute fidelity as it has done in the affairs of the Russian stae during the last five years is beyond prece- dent. The first vears of the new century are witnessing an identical replica of the Russian diplomatic panorama which was spread before the eyes of a wondering worh“l in the first years of the last. ¢ During the occupation of Paris by the allies after the battle of Waterloo in 1815 Czar Alexander, being moved to dizzy heights of altrnism by the machinations of one Julie Krudener, proposed to his fellow monarchs of the European dynasties that they unite themselves into a holy alliance for the furtherance of God’s work on earth, After successfully imbuing his less hysterical fellows with enthusiasm for his scheme Alexander succeeded in having his ideas incorporated into a treaty which pledged the powers concerned “that they solemnly declare that the present act has no other object than fo publish in the face of the whole world their fixed resolution, both Government, to their political relations with every other R T SR 7 S take for their sole guide the precepts of that holy relig- ion, namely, the precepts of Yustice, Christian Charity and Peace.” Within five years of that time Czar Alexan- der, the founder of this Holy Alliance, was offering to march his army into Spain to crush the patriot army which was fighting against tyranny. This was the teach- ings of that “holy religion.” i 1 In August, 1808, there came from Czar Nicholas an im- perial rescript borne by the dove of peace over the troubled waters of European diplomacy, a very olive branch to the world. 1t was a plea for universal disarm- ament; the world over righteousness and peace should kiss one another. “This, by the help of God, will be a happy presage for the century which is about to open. It will converge into one powerful focus the efforts of all states sincerely seeking to make the great conception of universal peace triumph over the elements of trouble and discord.” To that peace congress which was invoked by the grace of God and the piety of Czar Nicholas there came all nations to listen to the angelic voice of peace on/ earth, good will toward men. Japan was there; China was there. Now within the fleeting space of five years we see this altruistic Czar marshaling all of his resources so that the weight of his mailed fist may be laid upon | the power which is endeavoring to check his benevolent assimilation of all ‘Asia. By both Alexander and his soulful successor the grace of the Almjghty was invoked in behalf of schemes for | the relief of the ills of suffering mortals. Both rulers earnestly desired that all the powers co-operate with them in their mission of charity. They were willing to become the humble instruments of divine power; to be the little light to shine in a naughty world. Alike Alex ander and Nicholas forgot straightway when the red prize of war glinted hefore their eves When the House of Representatives sought to destroy certain evils that have grown out of civil service it cer- tainly was dangerous policy to try to kill the institution itself. The establishment of business methods and a tenure of office based upon correct and efficient conduct are too important to be lightly considered or even threat- ened. The American public pay enough for their politics without interjecting it offensivgly into the civil service. V.V lock and were married. Nothing singular in that. It has been going on in Illinois for years. But the town paper held them up as an example of heroism theretofore unknown in Illinois, from Fever River to the Sangamon bottoms, because the bride had bravely con- A HONEYMOON CLIMATE. E find an interesting item in an Illinois paper. A young couple hat taken leap year by the fore- sented to spend the honeymoon on a ranch in Pasadena,! California. The newspaper pictured the austerities and trials of life on a ranch, its isolation from society, its unbeautiful surroundings, its demands on nerve and courage, and upon this somber background projected the love-lit spirit which induced this brave pair to dare it all and brave.it all, and survive or perish in the midst of all, in testimony. to their great absorption in each other. The wonder of all this is that there should be in an Eastern newspaper office, even in a cross roads town with a country hotel, a blacksmith shop, a saloon and | such That young couple will leave “an oldest inhabitant,” mgnorance of California. home, with a foot of snow on the ground, the old man | growling about the coal bill and the old woman frugally | darning wool socks of the vintage of 1840, with the hoofs of the cattle frozen and ready to come off at the first thaw, with the house banked to the bottom of the win- dows with stable manure to keep the potatoes from freezing in the cellar and with blankets over them to help out, and they will journey to the awful sacrifices of | ranch life in Caldornia. When they arrive they will find the ranch house in a bower of blooming roses and the lawn sprinkled with | daisies and crocus. They will sit in the evening in a par- lor scented by sheaves of flowers, and if there is any fire it will be the romantic blaze of a hatful of pine cones. Under the house there will be no cellar. the potatoes will be new, just out of the ground, and they will be in the midst of days of bliss and nights elysian, where the tints of the earth and the hues of the sky, in color though varied, in beauty may vie, as the poet said of the Levant, | the lesser California. Hardship indeed, and on a California ranch! The young couple will find there a telephone by which they | may visit and gossip from Texas to Puget Sound. They will eat fresh strawberries and shad, and it will seem | like the nectar and ambrosia of Olympus. The conven- tional honeymoon will go by. If then they were back in Illinois, the bride would be rising to kindle the fire, and would go out to scrape up an apronful of chips with an unromantic icicle hanging to the tip of her nose. The bridegroom would come in at night out of the snow to grease his boots with tallow and ‘beeswax, and growl at the bride because she can't find the pain killer to rub on his chilblains. The romance would have gone glimimer- ing. But on a ranch in California the passing of the honeymoon, is unknown. The humming birds are help- ing the bees rob the January flowers of their sweets, and the days go by in a glory of warmth, color and pleasure. - 1f Calypso had known of California she would have made Ulysses sail straight for the Golden Gate, and when she arrived. she would have recognized the land of | the lotus and sent immigration agents back to her tight little islands to bring over the nymphs and their trunks and chattels. California is the land of the perpetual honeymoon. Luna transacts no other business here. From horns to full orb she is in that business, and all nature conspires with her to invite the young and fond here, to eat the Totus, forget all that is behind them, and settle down and grow up with the country. Even in Germany it has been discovered that an edi- tor has some rights which others are bound to respect. A high German official was fined the other day for in- sulting a knight of the quill, and now that the editorial person has been placed in the category of beings who may be injured we may expect to see some of them migrating to scenes where indiscreet criticism is not pun- ished as it is in Germany. More than one German edi- tor will pay retribution for that fine. The wise men of Japan, taking counsel with them- selves and measuring in the balance of judgment the blessings of peace against the manifold disasters of war, have decided that the only loss that the nation can suf- fer by conflict with Russia is financial. Of what value then is the lives of the thousands that must fight the bat- ‘tles of the Mikado and in the dread years which follow R R victory or defeat rebuild the shattered fortunes of the empire? 3 % ossified and fossiliferous | Minus the Moral. This is a story without a moral. A true tale, however, and treasured in the archives of the Washoe Club as an argument in favor of poker and hard liquor and an illustration of how things sometimes happened in Virginia City’'s mad, delirious prime. The hero of this chapter from the early 70s was W. B. | Thornberg, who twenty years before had made a name for himself as Sheriff of Yuba County. - He is dead now, but the story of how his fortune was found- ed, the tale without a moral, still lives. Thornberg had been speculating in Savage. His little all was tied up in the stock; which was stezdily dropping in value. As the stock’s worth waned the greater waxed Thornberg’s disgust at his choice of investmeat. “I'm going to sell my Savage right away,” he told a friend. “It goes lower |and lower and first thing I know it | won’t bring enough to buy me a ticket to San Francisco.” On his way to order the sale of his | stock, however, Thornberg dropped into | { the Washoe Club, where he wa$ per-; | suaded to take a hand in a poker game. The game proved fascinating. It con-| tinued all that night, went along with- out interruption until the next day’s sun arose and was still going when | i darkness once more fell. As he played | | Thornberg drank whisky. The strain . of the game, lack of sleep and the gen- | | erous flow of liquor finally wore him | out and when he went to bed it was to sleep the round of the clock. 1 Upon awakening his first thought was | of his stock. “It’s pinched out by this | time and I'm busted sure,” he solilo- quized as he bathed his aching head | and prepared to visit his broker and | learn the worst. Soon after Thornberg started to play | poker rumors of a strike in Savage had | reached Virginia City. The drooping stock revived. The rumor was con- | | fipmed. The stock went up by leaps { 2nd bounds. When Thornberg returned | to earth it was quoted at $300 a share and when he sold his holdings netfed him nearly $250,000. i * essary to be a classical or theological scholar in order to feel an interest in these documents. Here is an invitation to a wedding in the third century, next a will, then a schoolboy’s letter in which he upbraids his father for not taking him to Alexandria, and threat- ens to starve himself if he does not get a Iyre. There are also MSS. concerning carpenters, builders, stonemasons, mouse catchers and nurses. Besides, there is a small fragment of a poem written by Sappho, in the hope of bringing about a reconciliation with her brother Charaxus, with whom she ad quarreled because of his devetion to a slave girl from Naucratis—Rhodo- pis. In Eber’s “Egyptian Princess,” Sappho, Charaxus and his wife, Rho- dopis, play important parts. Sappho was born about 620 B. C., so thi. papy- rus, which cannot be earlier than the third century A. D., must have been a copy of her works. A Suggestion. SAN JOSE, Jan. 18. Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: Apropos of the “Betterment to Lead- ing Cities of California” in to-day's Call, an avenue 160 feet or more wide, from San Francisco to San Jose, with a park 50 feet wide in the center and the entire avenue lined with semi- tropical trees and the hardier ones of Country Critics. There could be no question in-the mind of the most skeptical that they | were newly wedded and on their honey- ymoon. Even had they not displayed those peculiarities in dress which coun- | | try couples affect on their bridal tours | | their languishing smiles and inane re- | { marks would have made known the| fact that they had but recently been | cisco to sbend the first sweet days of | married life, and were trying hard to| | get their money’s worth of sightseeing. | In the course of their perambulations | | they had come to an art gallery and | | were viewing some celebisited paint-| ings. He was explaining it all to her, | | and his original criticisms had attract- ed the attention of other visitors. At[ last the couple came to a halt before | { an excellent reproduction of “The An-| ! gelus,” while unnoticed behind them was a rapidly growing gathering of in- i | terested listeners. | “Oh, Frank dear,” she exclaimed, | ‘what is that funny looking couple do- | ing?” | He cast his eye about for data and | failed to secure any information be-| | yond that conveyed in the title. “It is a scene near Los Angeles,” he | observed. “That is the way most of the | people down there look when you get outside of the city. The man and his wife have been digging potatoes. Now they are trying to find something they | have lost. The sky-blue-pink-and-yel- | low sunset is a fake. The féllow who | painted it probably has not been around | here long and put those colors in just to attract attention, as they do with | theater bills. Come along, dearie; let's | look at something more natural.” His Majesty the King. His trousers were badly frayed and the Prince Albert coat he wore pos- | sessed the earmarks of age. His hat, a ! brown derby, was in such a condition | that even a second-hand dealer would refuse it a second look. The heels were ‘worn off his shoes, and the single glove he carried had not been new for many a day. In fact, “total wreck” was writ- ten in his every feature and on every | garment, but his airs were those of a | monarch. | When he walked into the Emergency | Hospital the attaches glanced at him and snickered. But the wreck only vecuchsafed a scornful glance. “Such levity,” he said, “is unseemly. Get to your quarters and send hither the | chief.” The chief, in the person of, Steward Bucher, stepped forward. “Your commands, your Highness,” he | ! said, with a bow that would have done credit to a courtier. “Thou art a worthy servant,” said the *wreck; “conduct me to my state apart- ments.” “‘Come hither, Sire,” replied the stew- { ard with another salaam, and he led the wreck into a cell in the insane ward. | Interesting Papyri. v'l.: ‘systematic searc. for p--.ri in Egypt by the Egypt Exploration Fund ! began in, 1897, when Drs. B. P. Grenfell and A. 8. Hunt went to Behnesa, the site of the ancient Oxyrhynchus, ard were so successful, not only in finding a large quantity of Greek papyri, but also some of uniquie interest, such as the “Sayings of Our Lord.” This was the reason that the Graeco-Roman branch of the fund came into existence. For many years, says the London C -aphic, it has been . ._.wn that papyri were used in the making of mummy cartonnage, for it was from this source that Professor Petrie obtained so many valuable Greek papyri, but it --as due to Drs. Grenfell and Flunt that mum- mied crocodiles were recognized as librarie: of considerable importance! It is astonishing what an enormous’ quantity of papyri a full-sized croco- dile will take to cover him. In some instances, too, papyri were found stuffed in the thr.ats. Among the papyri found xt Oxyrhyn- chus are some that will interest all sorts and conditions of men—from the laborer to the society leader, from the schoolbov to the savant. It is not nee- made one. They had come to San Fran- | would be satisfled the tastes | the temperate zone, is a suggestion 1 have to offer. This would be the finest avenue in the world. Palatial homes would eventually line this avenue; the highest style of the horticulturist's art, would be every- where and arboriculture would be the universal workaday spirit of every one. The park, proper, to have the choicest of flowers. What an education. Here of the lovers of botany. Landscape architec- ture would be the all-pervading influ- ence and there would virtually be built one continuous city from San Jose to San Francisco on the line of this ave- nue. Yes, sir, this would make the fin- est drive extant. It would be the most instructive one in its art, offering as it would the view of the bay, the moun- tains thereabout and beyond. Sincere- 1y, WILLIAM W. GOODRICH. Dr. Hale’s Humor. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, the new Senate chaplain, expresses himself as vastly pleased with the welcome he has met everywhere in Washington. The doctor tells with glee of an incident in Boston at Christmas time. He had preached in his church and referred to three great anniversaries in the month of December. After the sermon a young reporter said: “Doctor, I can think of | but two anniversaries in December—the landing of the pilgrims and the short- est day of the year. What was the third?” Dr} Hale answered: “If you | think it of sufficient importance, young man, you might add Christmas day to the landing of the pilgrims and find a substitute for the other one you men- tioned.” Answers to Queries. SILVER CERTIFICATES-S. F., City. The United States Government redeems silver certificates omly in standard silver dollars. HUTCHINGS' MAGAZINE—Pioneer, City. A file of the old California mag- azine published as Hutchings’' can be seen in the local libraries. COMMISSIONERS—R. G. L, Monte- | rey, Cal. J. A. Filcher and Frank Wig- gins have been appointed the horticul- tural commissioners from California to the world’s fair at St. Louis. LONG RUN—Theater, City. The rec- ord for long runs of a play is given to “Charley’s Aunt” at the Royalty and Globe theaters, London, December 21, 1892, to February 24, 1897. The next me‘.; w’: ndgu.vm Vaudeville 3 m, January 1 April 18, 1879, -y g SUPREME COURT—C. M. M., Green- view. Siskivou County, Cal. The Jus- tices of the Supreme Court of the United States are: Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice; John M. Harlan of Ken- tucky, David J. Brewer of Kansas, Henry B. Brown of Michigan, Bdward D. White of Louisiana, Rufus W. Peck- ham of New York, Joseph McKénna of California, Oliver W. Holmes of Mas- sachusetts and William R. Day of Ohio, Associate Justices. This department does not advertise firms engaged in the manufacture of anything. PATENTS—J. S. City. The law governing United States patents guar- antees to the patentee, when he re- ceives a patent, the exclusive right for a period of seventeen years to make, use and vend the invention or discovery throughout the United States and territories. 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