The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1904, Page 8

. “& FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY. JANUARY: 29. 1904. . ane +y hing Bag. can be a good boxer who does inderstand (and constantly prac- g punching. Bag punching is to the boxer what ales and “exercises” are to the pian- at a dictionary is to the studeat. | nly does the punching bag teach st way of delivering | tting of the way,” st all-around form It is as useful | | { | | st and e o the e 1 know an or the society wo- - —] ¢ 2| | | | | | | | = [ | | ' | ] [ | | | ' [ 4 | | ! ! | | i 11 § B P < H | THE TWO STYLES OF || PUNCHING BAGS. 1 5 = + snan as it is to the pugilist. It imparts grace, quickness and accuracy, while strengthening every muscle, developing the figure and affording inestimable ®id to the lungs and circulation. | For persons in ‘all walks of life bag punching is desirable. For a boxer it is & necessity. The apparatus cost little. The money you would other- wise spend on candy, cigarettes, theater tickets and expensive lunches will in a very short time amount to a suffictent!y | whole required will large sum to buy the whole outfit. And, | once bought, it will last for years 1 daily a punching bag and “plat- form” that 1 bought three years ago. Both have stood heaviest sort of hitting, and both are still in excellent | conditon You can, of course, pay fancy sums for such an outfit, but large expenditure is unnecessary. Here is an “outside estumate” of the cost One punching bag One “ydatior Sgrh cord . Pair of “striking” gloves .. 1f you are financially situated as I was at your age $725 will look like 2 decidedly large sum. But if your spar- cost s £onca . | | | i | CORRECT POSE WHEN | | PUNCHING THE BAG. i i | S — e ring partner and yourself divide the expense, or if you can induge some oth- er boys in the neighmmomfia join you in the purchase, it quickly becomes easier. You may even be able to pick up a good second-hand outfit for half the sum T have named. e P 1 you cannot afford this buy a “dou- ble-ender” bag. A “double-ender” will cost from 98 cents to $2. It has no plat- form, but fastens (at one end with a rope and at the other with an elastic vord) to the top and bottom of a door- way. Screws and stapies are provided INSTRUCTIVE STUDIEAS B ' N AND pace with them. | the | the albatross is very tame and very ! | profoundly and stepping rather heav- | iy, with it. and the bag can be adjusted 10 whatsoever height its user prefers, Ome staple is screwed at the top, the other at the bottom of the doorway in such manne? as not to Interfere with 1he opening or closing of the door. The bag should hang at the height of the user's throat. The apparatus can be put up or removed in half a minute. The bag may be inflated (it must never be fabby) by blowing into it or by means of a bicycle pump. The “‘dou- ble-ender” is most useful to persons who have limited space in which to ex- ercise and whose neighbors object to nofse., * . B The “platform” entails the use of a “single-ender” bag. A ring platform, consisting of an iron or woocden ring, from the center of which the bag is i ol 3 suspended, is best for home use; the | flat “ceiling’” being noisier and more | expensive. The bag should hang from | a rope just long enough to allow the center of the sphere to touch the plat- | form. Wooden or iron supports come | with these platforms and can be| screwed to the wall at the required height. To further assure the platform | from “springing” or getting shaky un- | der the great strain put upon it, I re- enforced the supports of mine with two heavy joists, of wood. ! The striking gloves (padded leather | mittens) prevents sprains and bruises, and are an indispensable rart of the | outfit. Now for practical work. Take up the first position in boxing, left foot foremost, right toe abou eighteen inches behind left heel, knees | unbent, shoulders slightly back and | head erect. Each hand, when not in | use, shou!d fall back to the regular | “‘on guard” pose. . | Hit out with your left in the regulay | “left lead,” striking the bag as nearly | as possible on the imaginary spot mid- | way between tcp and bottom. Throw the weight of the shoulder and of the | body into the blow. As the bag is not | vour sparring partner, you can “slug” | it with all your strength. By use of | the bag only can you give full force to your blows, and determine accurately | your hitting power and scope of reach. | When you land this first blow the | bag will iy back against the ring of | the platform and will rebound. If you are standing close to the plat- form at the time the bag will probably | strike you full in the face on the re- bound. To avoid this, move your head | | quickly to one side, or else step back out of reach. Perhaps you think it is an easy mat- | ter for a beginner to hit the punching | bag a straight blow and make it re- bound to the place whence it started. | If so, your first blow will undeéeive | you. The bag will fly off at all sorts | of weird angles. It is difficult, until you learn the trick by experience, to | hit the bag in such a way as to make | it strike the ring and return to the| desired point. A very little practice, | however, will teach you how to gauge | the force and direction of your blows. Continue this left hand lead until you | can hit the bag on its return bound and send it back again. Begin slowly. Hit the bag with your left fist, just/ | hard enough to make it touch the op- posite side of the platform and bounce | ['back. Then, as it returns, hit it again | with your left. Increase the force of | vour blows as rapidly as you are able to make your accuracy in hitting keep | 1f you cannot in the beginning hit the bag on its first re- bound wait and hit it on fhe second. { When you have learned to hit it with tolerable accuracy With' the left lead | with the right instead, and go through | the same course of accustoming your- | self to the bag's eccentric movement. Then lead with the left, and as the bag rebounds lead with the right, strik- | ing it alternately with right and left. | You cannot at first strike these al- | ternate blows on the first rebound. Strike therefore with the left and then | on the second rebound with the right, | and so on, increasing the force of your | blows until the right-left, right-left, be- comes as quick and regular as the tick of a watch. Do not neglect the pose of the body or ‘form” of your blows when strik- ing the bag. Do not maul, slap or paw it. Every blow must be struck with as much precision and form as though it i were atmed at a human opponent. | Hiving mastered the “left-right” al- ternate blows, on the second rebound, try (slowly at first) the same blows on the first rebound. This is known as the tattoo. With sufficient practice you can work-this tattoo so rapidly that the beat of the bag against fists and ring will sound like the continuous roll of a drum. Indeed, the tattoo is sometimes called the “roll” and takes its name from the sound made by drums rolling out the military tattoo. This subject will be continued in the next article. Albatross Cakewalk. In the Laysan Islands of the Pacific abundant. A naturalist, in an exchange, thus describes the so-called dance or kewalk,” as the. sailors call it, of | these interesting birds: “Two alba- trosses approach each other bowing ! They circle afound each other nodding solemnly all the time. they fence a little. cr whetting them together, pecking mean- | while and dropping stiff little blows, Suddenly one lifts its closed wing and nibbles at the feather underneath, or, rarely, if in a hurry, merely turns its head and tucks its bill under its wing. The other bird during this short per- formance assumes a statuesque pose and either looks mechanically fron side to side or snaps its bill loudly a few times.- Then the first bird bows once and, pointing its head and beak | straight upward, riges on its toes, puffs | out its breast and utters a prolonged nasal groan, the cther bird snapping its bill loudly and rapidly at the same time. When they have finished they begin bowing at each other again, al- most always rapidly and alternately, and presently repeat the performance. | “Sometimes three of the birds will | engage in the play, one dividing its attention between two. They are al- ways most polite, never losing. their temper or offering any violence. They begin bowing and walking about as if their very lives depended upon it. If one stands where albatrosses are reasonably abundant he can gee as many as twenty couples hard at work bowing and groaning on all sides, and -‘paying not the slightest attention to his presence. When walking through the grassy portions of the island I have seen white heads bob] up and down above the green, as solltary pairs were amusing themselves away from the larger congregations of their kind. If T walked up to them they would stop and gaze in a deprecating way and walk off, bowing still, with one eye in my direction. Having reached what they considered a respectful distance, '.hiey would fall to and resume their play,” v A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriefor « « « « . .. ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office .....".. .Third and Market Streets, S. F. FRIDAY 18 .JANUP_.RY 29, 1904 COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. N incomplete experiment in New ‘Zealand has in- duced many economic doctrinaires in this country to demand laws for the compulsory arbitration of labor disputes. The extreme desirability of preventing long and damaging strikes has induced a great many to join the demand without clearly understanding what it means. In Massachusetts compulsory arbitration and profit sharing were yoked together, and the Legisla- ture ordered a commission of inquiry into both. This commission has just reported against both propositions, This was to have been expected by any one who is fa- miliar with the cause and genius of our social and politi- cal institutions. Compulsory arbitration means merely that all disputes must be arbitrated, but that in pute the award is against workingmen, it would mean tHat they must return to work for the other party to the lispute on the terms fixed by thé arbitrators. Such com- pulsion is a violation of the natural and constitutional rights of American citizens. Work on such terms is in- voluntary servitude. A man may contract his labor to an employer, for certain hours and wages, observing.that ontract as long as he chooses, but if he choose to quit t is not within the capacity of any court, nor of the whole Government, to compel him to continue. This fact has led to much misunderstanding and mis- | taken judgment in the case of contracts entered into by iabor unions. They cover only hours and wages while the men choose to work. They are within their rights when they quit and refuse to continue unless other | hours or wages are conceded. The right to labor and use one’s skill and strength to the best advantage to him- self is a supreme and superior right, with which no government has attempted to interfere. It is the right which distinguishes freedom from servitude. When that right is clearly understood and the high reasons for it become familiar, one great cause of prejudice and misun- derstanding will be removed. It seems so clear that compulsory arbitration destroys that freedom that it is strange that the idea ever got any headway in this coun- The right to work and to quit work must be free from any arbitrary interference by government or indi- viduals, lest there be created a system of servitude to | one or the other. A system of compulsory profit sharing is equally ob- jectionable. 1t was proposed that by law this should be substituted for the present wage system. Such a method would be compulsory extension of the law of partner- ship to the employes in any industry. It would mean loss sharing as well as profit sharing, since it would sum- marily put an end to all business if the emiployer were compelled to stand all the losses but to divide all the profits. 1f the partnership were made equal, the homes and property of the workmen would have to be pledged for the borrowed capital upon which nine-tenths of the country’s business is done. In the nature of things the workmen counld not maintain oversight of the business, as their skill lies in a different direction. As long as there were profits to share it would go well with them, but when there were no profits it would mean that they must continue working without any compensation at all, which would be involuntary servitude. The two plans imply artificial and arbitrary interfer- ence with the rights of man. Neither is workable, and it is to be hoped that the Massachusetts report will end their discussion in this country. We have had no condi- tion under our existing system that is not preferable to either of them. Our history so far proves the superior- ity of institutions which protect every man in the pursuit of his interests and his happiness in his own way, unre- strained except by law. We ‘are well aware that we may be asked if an em- ployer have no security when he takes a contract baséd upon the current time and wage scale, and may lose in its performance by his workmen demanding more wages and less hours? His protection is in the freedom of all men to labor or to quit work. If his wage and time scales are adjusted to the natural conditions, that free- dom is his protection. Indeed it protects him better than compulsory arbitration would, because .no man will put fidelity into his work when it is compulsory. A New York banker, inspired, he says, by mysterious influences operating in his stomach, wants to kill Presi- dent Roosevelt. He should possess himself in patience. Hepburn’s pure food bill will sopn be a law and the stom- ach as an incentive to murder will be modified. ] partment under his charge which Postmaster Gen- eral H. C. Payne has just submitted to the President, several deficlencies in the workings of the postoffice are pointed out and strong recommendations made for im- proved methods of operation. Payne pays especial at- tention to the recently organized system of raral free de- livery, reporting it to be in the main proficient, but urg- ing changes which will render its operations of wider and more perfect application. ¥ One of the results of the rural free delivery system, according to the Postmaster General, is to render more POSTMASTER GENERAL’S REPORT N the annual report upon the conditions in the de- imperative the necessity of providing for the transmission | of small sums through the medium of postal orders. “As the rural free delivery service has been extended,” says Payne, “the number of letters carrying smadll amounts of currency has greatly increased. = At present there is no convenient method provided in the rural dis- tricts for making such rem~ittance through the mails ex- cept in currency or postage stamps, and such currency and stamp remittances are a constant temptation to those handling them.” % A scrious defect in the operation of the rural delivery system is noted by the Postmaster General. He reports that the privilege accorded rural carriers of doiufi ex- press package business for their individual profit and aside from their duties in the Government employ has resulted, in many instances, in the carriers neglecting their mail delivery for the more lucrative opportunities offered by the private delivery business. In one instance Payne reports that the rural carriers-organized and ex- acted weekly toll from the publishers ‘of newspapers to insure the delivery of their papers. The head of the postoffice recommends that either the compessation of $600 2 year now paid to the rural carriers be raised and th: express package business be ‘prohibited, or that the contract system be inaugurated if the present privilege is. allowed to remain. On account of the unequal opportu- nities for carrying on the auxiliary express business which exist in differefit sections of the country, Paynes first suggestion seems to be the most fair to all con- cerned and best calculated to insure better service. For Porto Rico Payne has a very er \ ol ! decision must be enforced. Suppose that in such a dis- | on that island to conduct a postal savings business so that natives may find a safe depository for their small savings and receive in addition a small interest upon their money. It is not the rule, probably, that the native son of that balmy isle is greatly worried over any surplus which he may have in this world’s goods, but since stockings are not a common article of personal wear down there, it is wise that the thriity Carib be provided with some place where he can safely store his surplus peso. As cxecutor oi the Bennett estate William Jennings Bryan has decided that his claim for $50,000 as a con- tested legatee is justified and he must be paid. There seems to be only one element of success lacking in Mr. Bryan’s decision. Nobody else agrees with him. T down South “a hant,” by which name aré known all the sights and sounds to which superstition gives a fearful meaning.. A man who is supposed to be under supernatural discipline is not said to be haunted, | but to have “a hant.” Not long ago in Virginia a negro girl died, and soon after a negro woman next door had *“a hant” and died in hysterical fright. Very soon another negro woman’'s fancy pictured on the frosty window pane the forms of two dead wemen and a strange man, and her “hant” threw her into a screaming fit that drew the whole colored neighborhood, and they afl had “a | hant,” and the police had to come and quiet them. The Democratic leaders in Congress have “a hant.” We believe that ‘our hypnotic Representative, Mr. Liver- nash, took it in the extra session. He was followed about by the ghost of the prerogatives of the House and conceived that they had been murdered at the White House, and their poor pale shades were castanetting with their toothless jaws or jawless teeth, to induce him to avenge them. From that start, one after another has had “a hant.” Senator Daniel sees on the frosty pane ll}c constitution lying dead, while the President dances | on its poor and pitifully cold stomach. He takes hysterics and screams: Then Senator Morgan looks up in the swaying branches of the leafless sycamores and sees death riding the pale horse. He rushes into the Senate to interpret his vision as “Roosevelt the man on horse- back,” and in their hysteria the others who sympathize POLITICAL HYSTERICS. I with him don’t know what to do, but think that to keep the man on horseback from com- ing we would better prohibit horses, and then, of course, the man on horseback would have to come on foot. Senator Carmack, looking at the verdigris on the Goddess of Liberty over the dome of the Capitol, thinks it is a shroud, and seeing one eye drop monument below runs wild-eyed to his seat and gets recognized to announce the death of Liberty and the dis- ability of the Muse of History as the work of the Presi- earth. “hant” of the Virginia negroes. Washington and every President since who, as a man of action, left a useful im- pression upon history and upon our institutions has been the cause of “a hant” to hystericil politicians. Jefferson destroyed the country, and so did Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland and McKinley, according to the politi- cal neurotics. Yet it seems to have survived several de- Roosevelt may destroy it once more. But while all of this hair-raising “hant” goes on, the quiet and sensible people of all parties are behind the President, holding up his hands and telling him to build the canal and they will do the rest. > Both of them have evidently reached the conclusion of the rest of us, that to have a pretension and to justify it own pretensions raises contempt and ridicule. ~ e HE echo of denunciation of the President as the T friend of Russia has hardly subsided before, from the same source, comes another attack that is in- teresting because of'its novelty. A Southern writer has found the key to the future. He declares that our foreign policy is the only live question of the day, and desires no platform for the Democracy but Washington's Fareweli Address. 3 In explanation he adds: “Of course before the election the administration is for neutrality between Russia and Japan. Next year it will not be. England is using the puffed up and obtuse Japanese as she wishes to use us. England wants done. among the Pacific Coast people, and if Democrats will leave 16 to I in cold storage for the present, the hatred of Californians, Oregonians and Washingtonians for the Japanese will carry those States against an administra- tion that is helping the yellow and hindering the white party to the Russo-Japanese troublg.” There you are! Just now the President was accused of backing Russia and that lead was worked out, and now comes this distinguished and learned doctor of interna- tional law to declare that the merits of a controversy are not to be sought in the principles involved, but in the color of the parties! The coantry is asked to put the Demoeratic party in' 'power because it will ‘adopt that simple rule in interna- ! tional affairs and probably mob in Washington the lega- tions of Siam," China, Japan, Persia and Turkey, and send (l!eir Ministers out of the country clad in a close- fitting suit of feathers and tar. The writer is another silver mine and died Germany and England are greatly exercised because of horrible atrocities being perpetrated upon their sub- jects by the savage natives of South Africa. Still it 'is not difficult to read quickly an effect from a cause in the wretched affair. taught the very refinement of “savagery from the so- called civilized pepples that have made the land their conquest. 3 G In a partisan debate in the House of Representatives one of the speakers, who punctwated his remarks too violently with expletives, declared that the Secretary of War had wasted two hundred thousand dollars of the public moneys in a vain effort to exploit the Langley airship. That is nothing; more than one good fellow has spent more than that trying to be a highfiyer. . | HE Democratic party seems to have what is called | dent who goes around wiping things off the face of the If it were real it would be of no higher rank than the | Japan and Russia are again at a diplomatic deadlock. | is the audacity of force, but to be unworthy of one’s | The Roosevelt wing of the Republican party will do as! There is no treason to our race | | | | 'eaving line. The licight of Infamy. They were discussing the daring of the thieves and wharfrats that infest all seaports. Somebody told the lime- juicer’s mate how three of San Fran- cisco’s choicest specimens had stolen the fog bell from the end of Lombard- street wharf. “I halways thought Calcutta was the worst blooming plice for thieves,” said the mate, “but s’help me if I don’t think London tikes the palm. “We went alongside at Gravesend at night the last time we was ‘ome. We'd been waiting in the dark for a boat to run our lines to shore. One ‘eaves in sight. I ‘ails it. “‘Urry up now, slowcoach. Tike this awser,” I says, 'eaving the end into the boat as'it came alongside. Off rows the boat and I starts paying out "awser. I pays and pays and pret- ty soon it's all out and splash goes the end into the water. 4 ~I ’ails the boat, tells 'em what's ap- pened and a .young feller answers, ‘Hall right, matey. Give us a ‘eaving line and you can. 'aul back your blooming end.’ “I throws the ’eaving line. They grabs it, snatches it out of my ‘and and that’s the last I seen of 'awser or Five minutes later the boat that 'ad really been hengaged to run our lines comes alongside, but they couldn’t find no trice of them ‘awser thieves and the 'arbor pelice just laughs and calls me greeney w'en I reports the theft. London’s the plice for your jolly well artful thieves." Saved. Soldiers whose terms of enlistment expire in the Philippines are frequently paid off with a good round sum, repre- senting the savings of three years in 1 | witness to the sad decadence of a party that ruled the | Call, country for sixty years, and then in 1896 crawled into - |Some of the thinking men of the city. The natives of South Africa have been | Buena Island,” | scious in the gutter. the army and Uncle Sam’s liberal pro- vision for the expense of the journey to the place of énlistment, or “travel pay,” as it is officially called. When the ex-soldier finds himself'a free agent in a lively seaport city like San Fran- cisco, his pockets bulging with coin and the memory of three years' rigid dis- cipline and a tedious voyage across the Pacific as an excuse, it is not strange that the time-expired man should feel at liberty to make his new-found and well-financed freedom the occasion for celebration. The harbor police not long ago found one of these ex-soldiers lying uncon- He had money in every pocket and when the drink- | soaked veteran was carried to his cell out of the head of the Muse of History on the Peace ! the station keeper counted the coin found on his person and it footed just $480, : The soldier was taken later to the Hall of Justice and in due course slept off his jag and was discharged from custody. Three weeks later a very hungry, dirty, ragged and despondent soldier dropped in at the Harbor police station. “My name is Blank. I was arrested for drunk three weeks ago. Had a good knife before I got loaded. If vou've got it, sergeant, for God's sake ! let me have it or give me half a dollar and keep it. I'm starving.” Sergeant Cullom looked up the rec- structions and is left beautiful to look upon, only that fore “Yes, we've got your knife. I'll give you an order for it. But say, why haven’'t you been after your money?"” “Money! Did I have any money?”" “Only $480. Here's an order for the whole business.” “Four-hundred-and— You're net joshing me? I'm awake, ain't 1? Four hundred. Say,.Sarge’, I'¥e been living on three doughnuts a day for the last two weeks; wasg going to jump into the bay just now, when I remembered that knife. Four hundred bones! Holy smoke! And the jag I had. It's now Private Blenk, capitalist, and riveted on the water wagon. Jee-rusalem! Four hundred—-!" A Bashful Muse. It is not generally known that Attor- ney Charles S. Wheeler is a writer of no mean ability. The following re- markably strong though grisly poem of his was printed in the Argonaut in 1885 under his initials only and the author- ship would have probably remained a secret with the editor had not some perfidious friend dragged the Wheeler muse into the open: THE RULING PASSION. Full many a dank, unwholesome fume Hung o'er the grim dissecting room, Where, all intent upon his toil, ‘With no companion but the grim, Cold being that confronted him, A student burned the midnight oil. The “subject” over which he bent Had shielded as its tenement A fallen soul. ©ne of the kind Who, hiding from the social frown, Renounced the wide world for the town, To honer lost, to virtué blind. Her rigid arm was raised upright So_that the flesh might best invite The studerit's knife. With eager eye He followed nerve and muscle spare, Laid ganglia and membrane bare, With head%ent to his “subject” nigh. e cut a cord. The upraised arm rawn downward and with gruesome charm His neck embraced with amorous fold. “The ruling passion strong in death.” The surgeon muttered 'neath his breath; J'hev;‘ fglmly smiled and loosed its old. d Concurs With The Call. The editorial upon “Yerba Buena Is]- and,” which appeared in yesterday's hag attracted the attention of E. W. Hopkins, the capitalist and pio- neer resident of the community, in- dorses The Call's sentiment in the fol- lowing communication: SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28, 1904, Editor San Francisco Call=Sir: 1 read with much interest in The Can of this morning your editorial “Yerba the closing sentence of which, ’V|L: “That istand of right be- longs to San Francisco; it is needed for our commerce and the sooner we get 1t the better,” is an important sStatement of fact and there should be no twe opinions in regard to it. % The island contains 150 acres there can bemmbybmumm ing in on all sides a very extensive level surface, together with very ex- tensive water front facilities where ship and car can come together, San Francisco should own the island, put it in shape to accommodate all | marks each. -+ railroad lines coming to San Francisco | via Oakland, thus giving among other benefits the very important one of a ten-minute ferry in place of our present twenty-minute ferry with its great dangers and risks of loss of life, par- ticularly in foggy weather. Let San Francisco own and operate the island as a terminal on the same lines as the San Francisco water front i3 now oper- ated by the State. The daily press and the people of both sides of the bay should be unani- mous in their desires and efforts to ac- quire the island in the interest of the trade and commerce of our State and of the cities particularly benefited. The harbor of San Francisco Bay, with Yerba Buena Island made avail- able for modern deep araught ships, in connection with all railroads term- inating at that point, will have no equal. Very sincerely, E. W. HOPKINS. German Africa. German Southwest Africa, where there are now two native insurrections going on at widely separated points, is a domain greater in extent than the Transvaal and the Orange River Col- ony put together—much larger, in facT, than the German empire. Yet in it all, at last accounts, there were but 1557 Germans besides the military force, and all the German bona fide settlers had been lured into the country by advance loans from the Government of 4000 Nevertheless there is the promise in the region of a substantial colonial development eventually. The natives have been troublesome ever since Germany took the country, a r ing of these same Herero blacks who are now in revolt having been sup- pressed in 1896 at considerable cost of blood and treasure. Umbrellas in Rank. In Java the umbrellas of the Sultan and the Dutch Governor Gemeral are covered entirely with gold embroidery; then those of the Princes possess a few threads less tinsel, and so on down from the higher nobles until the ordi- nary citizen walks abroad with an um- brella on which there is no gold at all. As this law applies also to the um- brellas of the Javanese ladies, one can happily perceive at a glance “who's who"” among them. Personages of dis- tinction in Java, however, never carry their own umbrellas. A Cabinet min- ister of the Sultan is always attended by his umbrella bearer, who helds the emblem of rank over his master's head, marching in a kind of procession. But | should the servant be merely going to meet his master he bears the umbrella over his shoulder with the same dig- nity, though closed instead of open. The furled umbrella is still emblematic of its owner’s rank.—Four Track News. Answers to Queries. AUSTRIA—A. O. 8, City. The im- perial and royal family of Austria de- scends from Rudolph von Hapsburg, who was born in 1218 and was chosen Emperor in 1273. The last representa- tive in the male line was Karl VI, who died in 1740. STOLEN MONEY—Subsecriber, City. If a man steals money, is arrested, cc victed of larceny and serves a term in prison for the crime of larceny it does rot give him a‘claim to the money after he has been released. _If the stoien money is found on his person or under his control after his release from prison it can be taken from him by the au- thorities and in process of law be ve- stored to the one from whom it was stolen. . YERBA MATE—Sutter Club, Saera- mento, Cal. Yerba mate or Paraguay tea, is used exclusively in South Amer- ica as a substituté for tea. It consists of the leaves and green shoots of a cer- tain species of the holly. The latin name of this species is Ilex Paraguay- ensis. The leafy portion is reduced to a coarse powder, and the twigs being in a more or less broken state. The term mate was originally from the lan- guage of the Incas and was “yerva de mate,” but in time yerva was dropped. In later years yerba, meaning herb, was substituted. The term mate, which by usage hais attached to the so-called tea, is the Incas name for gourds or calabashes. In such vessels, often trained into curious forms during growth, a small quantity of the leaves and twigs are placed and infused with boiling water. The equivalent of the term yerba de mate is the herb of the gourd or calabash. In South America the loving cup principle applies to the tea. The gourd or calabash in which it is infused is brought te these who in- tend to imbibe. Each is provided with a small tube about eight inches in length called a bombilla, made of bas- ket work of wonderful fineness to act as a strainer and prevent the fine parti- cles from being drawn into the mouth. He dips in this instrument and sucks up a sma” portion of the infusion, ther passes the mate on to the next person. It is usual to drink it exceed- ———— Townsend's California glace fruits and ¢ a pound, in nice present H‘ufi. 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