The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1904, Page 6

A“THE"SAN * FRANCISCO “CALY world this after in a 1 Burns was reali he liv me While his n danger of putting him upon fter a pre » of his more pointed right. that he felt adictions. of heights succeeded in » othe He e work of his brain he bet- than he knew and It is alw ish betw man »rs in his popu- people found of his creative g s upon It has been said that tland was an idea > within gave to unity which eir kinship the When his songs are onal consciousness nation spirit is : national pride is tc ) s th Scots wha’ hae w Wallace B Scotchmen feel a few inches tal they have a keener sense of their native importance and They feel themselves to be the And when in a ds and sing 2 their hearts are fused intc they feel like the scattered me of one famiiy who have met once more under the patri- archal roof tree. Is there any wonder that they love the poet who stirs with- in them such ten and noble senti- | ments? only that, but Burng, along with has made the Scotland ot 10-day B d which foreigners f romance, the Seo n e reflected glory Scotchmen are wont to bask with se- rene satisf cottage near Alloway's where Burns | was borr has become a shrine for i all the pla arou 1= has thrown glam are visited yea by year by th all Stratford s of admirers from rth. It is said that narts One of ests of genius of the first wa is it= influence continues to grow after the lap f time. Burns has stood this test. His star is still in the ascendant. Speaking with true prophetic vision he =aid of himself: “I will be more respected 100 after 1 am dead niam aty nt Burns saw things straight and he speaks of them in language that all can understand. His style s clear and I'mpid as a mountain brook, except when he turn I »m his native Dorie and writes in : and then it is turgid and bomba The Scotch dia- leet in which he wrote has the appear- ance of being rude and uncouth, and | for the expression of certain ideas it 1= admittedly poverty-stricken. But it is a good vehicle for the expression of the emotions. It is a good language to | sing in, to pray in, or to make love in. | Burns found it an excellent instrument | for his purpose. Many study it to-day | with patient care in order to dig up | the treasures which he has locked ap within it. But for him it would soon | have passed away. This raises the question: Is Burns one of those poets who are praised but not read? Yes, and no. Only a few read him thoroughly, so as to study | him, but the best of his songs have be- | come the heritage of the whole English- | speaking world. | In his songs, and especially in his | Jove songs, his rare poetic gift shines | forth. The tragedies of his life came from his very excess of sentiment. His | etrength of passion, combined with | his weakness of moral restraint, led to | his undoing and to the undoing of | others. This he himself pathetically confesses in the following stanza, which | 8ir Walter Scott has said “contains the essence of a thousand lo— tales”: 1 we never loved sae kindly, Had we never sae blindly, Never met—e We had never parted, ne'er been broken-hearted. The main secret of his pcwer was not | hiz gift of lyrical expression, great ac that was, but his ability to touch the human heart. He was a man of strong and tender sympathies. His voice was always raised for the downtrodden and the weak. He sang out of the heart of his own poverty, and struggle, and | disappointment songs of hope and| i neath all social artificialities until he ! his own day did in the noble possibili- | And |istence apart from his family and his | country. g made men fcel the glory He went be- cheer. He and dignity of manhood. found what was of real and abiding worth. His song, “A Man's a Man for a’ That,” was ome of the cieverest, strongest notes ever uttered on behalf of human equality and human brother- hood. Were Burps alive to-day he would sing the new songs of labor, and put into the mouths of -men their 1 watch cries in the battle for hu- | man rights. He believed as very few in | ties of human nature, and in the work- ing of a power by which all wrorg, things would vitimately be righted. In | the darkness before the dawn he couid | lcok forward hopefolly and sing: } Then let us pray that coms it may, As come it will for a’ that, man the warld o'er Sball britkers be for a' that. Stor A TAN DE WATER. . 1901, by Joseph B. Bowles.) lunch the other day1 the question arose as to what would | e ial luxury in which each | nt would indulge had she | eans. The answers were | some saying travel, others en- ing, numerous pictures, bric-a-brac. pers unlimited my n pres ks ana One woman at last addressed, and replied that she had not spoken be- she_knew ncne of those present h her. d. flushing shyly, “my wou!d be for a large family of | n whom I could have finely edu- | d to whom I could give all the | adv i'es I would want my boys and girls to have.” Her remark was greeted with a mur- | mur of surprise and dissent. “Do you really mean that?” one woman incredulously. “Indeed, 1 dc,” was the calm reply. “To my way of thinking there is no ! greater happiness than for a woman ! to be surrounded by a number of chil- | dren, with the means to do them jus-l childre cated asked | Ah, there’s the rub. Surely "tis a pity | that the dollar mark must shine | through everything as it does, an ugly birth scar on the face of nature. In many cases, however, it is not the | thought of the present expenses of children, or the thought of what they will cost during the first fesw years of their life, that causes people to wish to | have small families. It is rather the | ad lest. when the young people are | old enough to enter college there will not be the finances necessary to the completion of their education. It would be well for those who argue thus to remember that in this country of ours few people have, during the first years | of marriage, the money that is theirs | twenty vears later. Each of us knows married couples who at 25 were poor, and who at 50 are considered wealthy. I have in mind one man and woman who were so poor during the first years of their married life that the wife did all her own work, including the washing and ironing. Her husband is now worth In their early mar- | | several milions. | ried life they felt that they could af-| ford but one child. He was born and died Now they look with envious eves at parents of large families. They | have the means, without which they | felt they should not have children. But | they have not the children. I would not have any one imagine that 1 would advocate the bringing into the world more little ones| than one can, at the time,| feed and clothe. But I do | hold that when parents are ah\mdsmly; able to provide for their chil-| dren during childhood, they make | a mistake in insisting that at birth there must be on hand the money with+ which to send the new-born baby | through college and get him up in the business or profession he may choose. A refutation of the theory that the| only reason that American parents | have small families i= lack of funds| lies in the fact that it is the wealthy | and well-to-do parents who have few children. Let us look the matter plainly in the face and announce that parents have » more right to indulge in numbers children—crowding into the nursery vift sueccession, taking mnreI money than the parents have, making | the payment of just debts impossible, | and sapping the courage of the father | and the strength of the mother| —than they have to purchase houses | and lands for which they cannot pay.l But, when parents can buy luxuries that are not necessities, and can in- dulge their personal whims and wishes, surely children have a right to be. To bear and rear children is one of the chief aims of woman’'s existence, and until she has borne a child she has in s not lived up to the purpose of her being, and hers is not a full, round life. The obstacle that stands in the way of large families to-day is the bug- bear that we may as well call by its right name—selfishness. And it is the woman's selfishness. Surely, she pleads—and with reason on her side— she is the one to be considered, as it is upon her, not upon the husband, that the burden of bearing, nursing and caring for the children comes, the American husband, noted over the world for his consideration for his wife's. wishes, declares that she shell have her way in this matter. Japanese Lt;_;rall_v. Loyalty to country and Emperor is instilled in the minds of the Japanese from infancy, and the principle of pa- triotism is the strongest motive power in Japan to-day. It supersedes all oth- ers and amounts almost to fanaticism, The next most prominent feature is re- spect for parents, teachers and those in authority. The idea of the individual is only slightly developed, and a man can hardly be considered to have any ex- His duty to his wife and children is nothing in comparison to his duty to his parents; and, again, his duty to his parents counts for nothing as against his duty to the state and the Emperor. Every public schoolboy goes through a course of military drill, and even young children are taught to sing the modern songs of war and the old songs of loyaity. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1904. I THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL IOF?I_& SPRECKELS, Propriefor . ... ... ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Oflice ...Third and Market Streets, S. F. ) TRADE OUTLOOK IMPROVING. MONDAY.... RADE scems to have turned a corner during the T past fortnight. All signs now point to a good, healthy spring business. There are no disquieting indications anywhere and the only unsatisfactory feature visible the number of large failures which have oc- curred since the first of the year, but these are a regular znnual feature and to be expected. The movement in merchandise seems to be expanding rather than contract- ing and all parts of the country report plenty of money, with collections up to the average. In New York funds are so plentiful that a plethora is actually reported and interest is down to 134 to 2 per cent for call loans, while time money can be had at 3 per cent. As long as money is in such Jiberal supply there can be no serious finan- cial disturbance in the immediate future, barring, of course, some sudden and unexpected catastrophe, which is not likely to happen. The bank clearings continue to show a loss from last year, illustrating the contraction in general business from the boom conditions of a year ago, and all the largest cities except St. Louis, San Francisco, Kansas City and New Orleans show a deficit. ' New Orleans exhibits a large gain of 38.8 per cent, due probably to the continued large dealings in cotton there. The loss at New York is 17.3 per cent, due to the decline in speculation in Wall street. Chicago about balances, the decrease being prac- tically nothing. The aggregate volume of clearances keeps up, being $2,110,000,000 for the week. The failures for the week were 358, against 265 for the corresponding week in 1903, Weather conditions, as far as transportation of mer- chandise is concerned, have been against the railroads of late, but in spite of this drawback the earnings thus far in January are 4.9 per cent over those of 1603. The same | conditions have also interfered with general trade, but | even with this adverse factor expansion in spring busi- | ness is reported over the whole West, while even the East, which has been behind the West for some time, re- | ports rather more movement than expected. The iron trade continues irregular, being good in some sections and poor in others, though the situation in this industry as a whole is satisfactory. Lumber and building material are rather quiet at the moment, as is usually the case in midwinter, but a good movement is promised for the spring. The general opinion in the iron and steel trade | is that bottom prices have been touched for the present. As far as the other staples are concerned the situation seems encouraging. Wheat is selling at better prices than have prevailed since 1898, owing to an excellent mill- ing and export demand, though in our local market this | grain is not being exported, as holders decline to come down to the bids of exporters. The demand for corn and oats is reported good throughout the West, with higher quotations during the past few days. Increased strength and activity in hides are reported, while Boston quotes the shoe and leather markets firm at advances. The same city reports wool shipments larger than at the same time last year. Chicago and St. Louis report ex- panding orders for necessaries, such as clothing, shoes, ! leather, hardware and groceries, and at the latter point Southwestern buyers are purchasing freely, even in the face of higher prices. In the lake regions general busi- ness is reported better on the whole than at the corre- sponding time in 1903. The provision market, however, is not in a satisfactory condition and is attracting some attention on this ac- count, as provisions share with iron and steel the reputa- tion of being good barometers to the condition of gen- eral trade. The distri‘huting points throughout the West are bullish on the market and are buying freely, while the packers are selling them as freely. The tendency in quotations is downward, and as stocks are accumulating the best posted operators express the opinion that still lower prices will prevail. The production seems to be larger than the current consumption in this line. Wall street continties tame and featureless. The tone is cheerful and business is fair, but the public are still olding aloof from the market. The war cloud in the East, while not as dark and threatening as a month ago, still sufficiently menacing to render speculators and investors wary about entering the market. Hints that Russia is waiting for spring before making any serious demonstration keep the market in a condition of doubt and uncertainty, and every fresh movement of troops in Manchuria, Japan or Korea is but another setback to the speculating public. It is not likely that Wall street will emerge from its present quietude until the Eastern ques- tion gets definitely settled one way or the other. Conditions in California remain about the same, with this exception, that rains in the southern part of the State, while not copious, have brightened things consid- erably in that section and allayed a good deal of appre- hension as to the crop outlook, which was becoming serious. Cattle and sheep were dying on the ranges, but the grass is now beginning to grow, and with another shower within a few days feed will probably be sufficient to carry the stock along. The northern and central por- tions of the State are in excellent condition for the grow- ing crops, though the rainfall up to date is deficient. Cold weather and heavy frosts have kept the fruit buds back, thus decreasing the liability of damage by frost later on, while they have not seriously damaged the new pastur- age or growing cereal crops. For the rest money con- tinues plentiful at reasonable rates of interest, the export and internal trade of the State are both good, building operations continue on a large scale, real estate is chang- ing hands freely, with prices tending upward, and the merchants are not complaining, though all report, busi- ness lighter than at this time last year, with a gradual decline in the generality of commercial quotations. CONVENTION BICKERINGS. HE Democracy cannot even locate the National TConvention without a row. It went to St. Louis, and was dated at the hottest time of the summer, but the dispute about it was more torrid. Mr. Hearst had a large contingént of the employes of his papers present working for Chicago. He opposed New York, because Tammany had said kind things about CIeve‘land and did not invite him to the recent harmony dinner. His sirens sang for Chicago, and when the committee stuffed cotton in its ears and steered for St. Louis he immediately caused it to be announced that the preda- tory influences which controlled the committee feared him and had side-tracked Chicago on that account. Thereupon he telegraphed a printing office into St. Louis and announced that one of his invincible newspapers would be immediately established there, in order that the people may read his own estimate of his greatness, and his firm belief that he is the only fit nominee for the Presidency. Happy St. Louis! Happy Democracy! It is something unique in American politics that a candidate for the Presidency, a multimillionaire, has to establish his own newspapers in which to announce his candidacy and trumpet his merits. The party cannot escape him. It may locate its convention in the Barcan desert, or where rolls the Oregon, and Hearst will be there with a news- paper. He says now that Gorman, Olney and Parker all fear him and will join forces against him. Surely if it were not for his candidacy and for the fact that he deposits his newspapers as generally and as reck- lessly as a fly doels specks much interest would be taken out of the campaign. Fre announces with confidence that he has already pledged the delegations from California, Towa, Michigan and New Jersey with a mortgage ready to foreclose on several Southern States. Heretofore un- heard of but ambitious men are telling their friends that they are staked out for places in his Cabinet, and some believe that he has already the right to negotiate treaties and send them to the Senate. In the arrest and occasional confession of fiends that robbed the dead and dying in the Iroquois Theater disas- | ter, Chicago is suffering a shocking sequel to her calam- | ity in which the nation deeply sympathizes. It seems in- credible that human nature in its modern environment can | exploit such unspeakable degradation, but since it does legislation to meet it with fitting punishment is justified. T century can be born upon this world without a bap- | tism of blood. Those mournful ones who croak this shibboleth point to the record of history for justification of their pessimis Looking no further back than the | beginnings of modern history they point to each suc- cessive century's advent with its record of devastating wars. In the year 1604 the Netherlands were drenched with the blood of the patriots who were fighting their Span- | ish masters, and Germany was torn with religious strug- gles. In 1704 the Seven Years’ War was at its height. Blenheim had just been fought and the war was being carried on-in the jungles of India and the wilderness of North America. The year 1804 saw the army of Na- poleon crowding the provinces of all Europe with the cagles of the newly proclaimed Emperor. Now at the | opening of the twentieth century does the note of dolei still sound! At the present moment there are battles and the move- ments of armed men in almost every portion of the planet. | Australia, Greenland and the dim, unexplored regions | THE BAPTISM OF WAR. | HERE is a grim superstition prevalent that no new | i | forks and filled | I'll swear if people didn't keep com- | old doctor, | Twelfth street, near the estuary, when St. Sure Not Sure. Ralph Hamlin, the man who has turned the creaking old bridge that connects Alameda City and Bay Farm Islan@ for twenty years and let hun- | dreds of boats in and out of San Lean- dro Bay, likes to tell how Fred St. Sure, Alameda’s former City Recorder, once hoaxed half of Alameda County | with the biggest fish story ever told. Judge St. Sure used to parcel out news as well as justice while he was | on the bench, und five years ago acted as correspondent for a San Francisco paper. One day news was scarce, SO the Judge wrote a lurid account of an extraordinary run of smelt into San Leandro Bay. His imagination filled the waters with such numbers of fish that they clogged the wheels of the drawbridge. Hamlin couldn’t turn it with a horse and two men. People lined the shores, armed with pitch- their wagons with fish. It was slyly hinted that a sub- marine upheaval had caused this tre- mendous run. “Well, say,” Hamlin goes on to re- late, “when people read that yarn next day they came to this bridge in droves —hundreds. They came afoot and in wagons from miles around. They | all brought lunches and most of them | babies. They had all kinds of fishing tackle. Seme brought pitchforks, thinking the Judge's story true. I sold out all my bait to the first three men that came. I'll bet I could have sold $100 worth, easy. Well, there wasn't a fish caught that day. You never saw a more disappointed crowd in your life. But I told them all the tide wasn't right and to come again. ing every day for a week after that, but none of them ever got more than cne or two shiners. As a matter of fact there has never been a run of fish into this bay since I've been here. It was all the Judge's imagination.” No Respect. Superior Judge Greene of Alameda County tells a good one about Dr. Samuel Merritt and Sabin Harris, the cattle dealer. Years ago, when the who weighed something over three hundred pounds, was Mayor of Oakland, he was strolling down “Sabe” Harris came along driving a band of cattle which he had purchased in San Joaquin County. One of the about the south pole are the only lands upon the Al-| mighty’s fair footstool which do not sound with the crash of arms or mutter with impending struggle. In| Europe the Balkans are still boiling. In Africa the Brit- ish are mowing down Dervishes with Gatlings. In South America a revolution is singing merrily in the Uruguayan kettle. North America has to admit that all is not lovely in Santo Domingo and Panama. Finally in Asia there is gathered such a war cloud that its seemingly inevitable thunder clap will shake the world. Every nation that can afford it is building herself navies, arsenals and fortresses. The weaker members of the great family are hastily taking to cover. It seems that all of the children | of Adam are awaiting, muscle tense, the sounding of | some inevitable signal for the joining of battle. I Within the century just passed there occurred some of the most sanguinary wars the world ever witnessed. Yet | with that same century there was born a universal feel- ing that the millennium days of eternal peace might be found in the twentieth century. From no less a head than the anointed of all the Russias came the appeal for | peace, which widened and spread downward until the meanest nation had caught the lilt of the peace so’ng. At The Hague tribunal were to be brought all of the ills of the world for the salve of arbitration. Even the most optimistic have been brought to ac- knowledge, however, that there can no more be a time | of peace in these days than in the past. The wage of war | is even greater now than it was two hundred years ago. | | i i | Catherine of Russia fought Frederick the Great because | the latter passed some personal comments upon her pri- | vate life, and Pompadour urged France into war for the same reason. But now when the nations are all restless in their land getting and the rewards of a bold stroke | may be the control of a continent, the old selfishness which has been since Jacob coveted Esau’s heritage can- | not bend to the altruistic dictates of sentiment and put | aside the old law that might is right. Cordial invitation to contribute to an agricultural fairE soon to be held at Cordova has been extended to manu- facturers of .the United States. Special stress is placed upon a desire for American agricultural implements and | farming machinery. Surely this is an opportunity to show good will to our vanquished Spanish friends and to demonstrate that we are as proficient in the arts of peace as we are dangerous in those of war. Sz R Russian statesmen and governmentally inspired news- papers of the Czar are frank in the expression of their opinion that the United States was undiplomatic and un- friendly to Russia in signing a treaty with ‘China in ref- erence to Manchurian ports under existing strained con- ditions. If Uncle Sam’s action made for peace in the Far East, even the subjects of the Czar will praise and thank War is dear at any price. us. The faculty of a St. Louis medical college refused re- cently to grant a diploma to a young man because dur- ing his cailow college days he had “loved neither wisely | nor weli. The Supreme Court of the State reverses the faculty, and now we are in happy possession of authority to announce that in Missouri love is not in the category of diseases with which doctors may tamper. Representative Williams, called by an unkind fate to the leadership of the Democracy in the lower house, says that he doesn’t know what a straight flush is. Mr. Williams has sat so long and tried to look pleasant be- hind a pair of deuces in the political game that he probably has forgotten what a good hand looks like. e e X Retreating under the pressure of his royal relatives the nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph has refused to marry the girl of his choice. The young lady possesses every virtue esteemed in a woman except blood of the quality of the Hapsburgs. Everything considered she is to be congratulated on her escape. A clerk formerly in the employ of Russell Sage sued the old man for his salary the other day, and the gossips are trying to figure out what the young man’s purpose is. He probably wants to take a remote chance of becoming famous by forcing the financier to pay back something. | sel was in a very filthy state on ac- | puzzled, of course, and was about to wild steers made a rush for the portly Mayor, who fortunately was near a place where the two lower boards had been knocked off the fence. Through the aperture thus left he rolled to a place of safety on the opposite side of the fence from that near which the baffled steer stood snorting and paw- ing the ground. In the process of reaching such asy- lum Dr. Merritt lost both his digmty and his breath. When he had partially regained the latfer he struggled to his feet, shook his fist at Harris and ex- claimed: “How dare you! Do you know who 1 am, sir?” “Oh, yes, doctor,” drawled Harris, “I know who you are, but you'll have to excuse the steer. He's from the Joaquin and ain't been interdooced.” Ignorance Is Bliss. “You talk about ignorance,” said a well known naval officer connected with the construction department at Mare Island a few days ago; “there is a man working in fny department on the navy yard who is certainly the limit. About a week ago I went aboard one of the vessels alongside the quay wall to take a few measure- ments. I had forgotten that the ves- - daughters, maybe, whose intended hus- bands are always entertained at tea those days, accounting for this. There is more money spent in this way among the Eastsiders than is generally sup- posed. ‘A Word From Marysville. The following from the Marysville Daily Appeal demonstrates the fact that merit is not unrewarded: “For several months past we have been attracted to the San Francisco Call by its entire change of makeup and its general newsy and wideawake appearance. “Its news columns literally beam with the news of the day presented in an up-to-date and really very clever and interesting manner, and its edito- rial page is certainly one of the most ably written and highly educational of any of our coast exchanges. The Call is surely making great gains in circu- lation, and its advertising columns speak for themselves, as its pages are filled to overflowing with advertise- ments from al the enterprising and pro- gressive merchants of San Francisc not to say anything of the vast amount of Eastern business it carries. “The Cgll's hiew undertaking of gx- ploiting the resources and enterprises of California is a grand work and is daily adding to its already great influence and prestige.” Odd Smuggling Device. There is no end to curious devices for smuggling. The Brussels correspond- ent of the Morning Advertiser says that some time ago French customs officers took possession of a block of stone which they found in a truck be- longing to the Belgian State Railway, and which weighed nearly two tons. The stone had been sent from Brussels to Peroult Flamicourt. They turned it over, and found that the underside had been partially scooped, then covered with a slab fastened with irom pins. This was covered with a thick layer of mortar. When the slab was removed 700 pounds of tobacco was found in the stone. An inquiry showed that this block of stone had made several jour- neys between Belgium and France. Sometimes its cavity contained liqueur, sometimes tobacco. The man who sent it forth on its adventures was discov- ered. He belongs to Menin. Brought before the courts in Brussels, he was fined $20 for making a false declaration of merchandise. He has yet to be dealt with by the French authorities. Answers to Queries. LIME POINT—Subscriber, City. The distance from Lime Point, Marin Coun- ty, to Fort Point, San Francisco, is just one mile. NEW YORK MAYOR—Subscriber, City. Fernando Wood was Mayor of the city of New York 1855-1858, and count of the repairs being made to her hull, and wore my newest uni- form. Not wishing to spoil it I called a man to me who was working about the decks. I gave him my rule and told him to measure the width of a hole cut in the spar deck. He disappeared between decks and was gone about ten minutes. “When he came back he handed me my rule extended to its full length and placed at my feet a brick and a short bar of iron. I was very much ask him what in the world he was doing, when he saluted me and said: ‘It is as wide as the stick, the brick and the bit of iron put together." " Needed Regulating. The new cuckoo clock, which was supposed to strike only the hours, bul occasionally added an extra perform- ance gratis, and had to be regulated in consequence, was a source of con- stant wonderment to small Marjorie; even more so, indeed, than the baby brother that had come to live with her about a month before. One day baby brother’s dinner did not apparently agree with him, and a fit of hiccoughs ensued. After a. few moments’ amazed contemplation of this strange phenomenon, finger in mouth and eyes riveted on the periodi- cally convulsed countenance of the pink headed baby, the little girl sped away to give the alarm. “Oh, daddy!” she cried, almost breathless with excitement, * ‘ittle| bruvver's swallowed a cuckoo, an’ he's striking hours an’ hours an’ ’‘tween times! You'd better come reg'late him —quick!"—New York Times. A New Trade. One of the strangest occupations fol- lowed by the ple of the teeming East Side of New York is that of “dish lender.” There are only two men—one a Hebrew and the othér an Italian— in the business. They are located in Baxter and Hester streets, respectively. The former has his “establishment” in the basement of a six-story tenement- house. The place is almost entirely lined with rows of shelves, on which are neatly arranged tea and dinner services of varied colors and patterns, besides dishes and plates of all kind: In one corner of the basement is a large wooden box, divided into numer- ous partitions, for the knives, forks, spoons and other “silverware.” Most of the borrowers are as regular as clock- work in their requirements on Satur- days and Sundays, marriageable again 1360-62. STATE BOARD—Subscriber, City. The term of the present members of the State Board of Health will not expire until March 29, 1905. MANSARD ROOFS—E. J.,, City. The term Mansard roof was given to such by Mansard, a French architect, who lived from 1598 to 1666. He de- vised such roofs to give height to at- tics. MARRIAGE CEREMONIES — Mrs. W. B., City. This department has not the space to describe the marriage cere- monies in the various foreign countries. If you wi" call at the reference room of the Free Public Library you will there be furnisked books that deseribe the ceremonies in the different coun- tries. COPYRIGHT—Writer, City. cure a copyright a priated title of the book, map, chart, or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, photograph or chromo, or a de- scription of the painting, dravies, statue, statuary or model or design for a work of the fine arts, for which copy- right is desired, must be delivered to the Librarian of Congress, or deposited in the mail, within United States, prepaid. addressed “Librarian of Con- gress, Washington, D. €. This must be done on or before day of publication in this or any foreign country. The printed title required may be a copy of the title page of such publica- tions as have title pages. In other cases the title must be ~int<d expres: ly for copyright entry, with name of claimant of copyrig'*. The st: ot type is immaterial, and the print of a typewriter will be accepted. 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