The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, e - INSTRUCTIVE J‘TUD TERHUNE sirector of mu: 2 B ing point s the sub- tion. Now (taking the pupil has been breathing exercises meantime) we will se by means of which h his first singing hat CIRCLE DE- BY TONE. play the note D he fourth line hoose this note be- too high nor too low ry child's voice. It is child to sing moderate- rder avoid so-called nes, and vet one must be strain the vocal chords voice too high at first hild sing “ah” on the he should first h slowly, then as slow- 2gain, and as the breath d out he must use it » sound “ah” on the note D. s soon as the pupil is able to ase, that is, to start the iably from the proper upward ke tt o+ STARTING POINTS OF | BREATH AND TONE. | 4 explained in the previous ) and to give forth a clear, free tone when he sa) h,”” we must make the little less simple. This tume his breath is to come from the dlaphragm in just the way that it did before, but he must turn his thought to the height of the tone and start the exercise sound mentally from the top of his head. The higher a note is *“placed” the sweeter and more round it will be, and the pupil must, as he studies these exercises, iry to “think” high as possible. In this way a free, clear, relaxed passage will be made from the diaphragm to head, through which the breath and resultant sound can travel unimpeded. It is most desirable to obtain this free yassage, for nothing is more unpleas- | ant to listen to than a “throaty” voice— in other words, a voice where the tones begin and end in the throat, and a flat, choked-up tone #s the result. A “throaty” voice is, of course, very lim- ited in its capabilities, and any ten- dency on the pupil’s part to sing in this way must be corrected at once. It is nothing more nor less than rigid mus- cles instead of the perfect relaxation s0 necessary if happy results are to be expected. Every muscle, from the pu- pil's diaphragm to the top of the head, should be absolutely relaxed. To aid in this let him try to imagine that the tone he emits describes a circle—the larger the better. (You will understand what I mean by the illustration.) This circle starts as his mouth opens, and the tone is carried up, up, up, coming down gradually on the other side as it follows the line of the circle. This is a simple exercise, but it will be found of great use in placing a child’s voice, for the imagination plays as ifiportant a the note as | —p part here as it does in the study of piano technique. The pupil must now begin to place the tone at the top of the head at the | same moment that he places the breath | at his diaphragm. One sarts up as the | other starts down. They meet at the front of the mouth (just back of the front teeth), and by their meeting a musical note is made. Instead of stand- | ing still on the threshold, so to speak, the sound is borne out into the room by means of the imaginary circle just described, and the wider the circle the better “placed” will be the note. In other words, the more freedom the pu- | pil is able to acquire the better, clearer, | sweeter tone will his vocal chords give | forth. The pupil must be careful not to push | | the breath, but to let it come naturally, even if the sound is very small and thin at first. That is of very little mo- | ment, for the voice will strengthen rap- idly with practice, and the only im- portant thing at first is to acquire| sweetness and purity of tone, letting the rest come afterward. If the pupil fercing the breath you can easily detect | jt, for as he starts to expel the breath | he will probably say “ha” instead of | “ah” in that case, and the difference in | tene will be apparent at once. Remem- ber, too, that the voice must always | come out and never go toward the back of the throat. We will now take up an exercise de- signed to promote freedom and flexi- bility of tone. The pupil must start on D once more, but this time he is to sing three notes in one breath, instead of one | as before. He is to go from D to Eand | back to D again—in other words, he is | tosing D, E, D. The moment he has struck D his| mind must travel to E: in other words, he must “think ahead,” as he has been | taught to do when reading piano musie. | The method is the same in both cases, | but the idea in singing is to ‘“place” | the note before it is actually struck; that is, to find out as soon as possible | where the te is to go, to place the e in the mind, and so to be ready coice when the time comes to | the note. After a short time this will all hap- pen naturally ithout any con- scious thought cer on the part| of the child. ¥ merely mental ding at sight,” and requires no ef- whatever, as soon as the pupil customed to singing in this | Now we take up a third and more | Jengthy exercise. This begins, as did | the others, with D. The pupil must i st D, then E. then D, then E| After this he should take a| breath and reveat the exercise. Next| he does exactly the same thing on the | two notes C and D, repeating this part of the exercise as he did the first part. | Next he must try it on B and C, then} A and B, and finally on G and A, thus going through the compass of five notes and completing the exercise. Between each group of notes the breath should be taken, but as lightly as pos- | run | sible, so that the exercise may smoothly from beginning to end. As the exercise descends the pupil should endeavor to keep “thinking! high"—in fact, the lower the notes go | the higher he should try tp think to| keep his tones high and pure. The idea is to _gradually bring all his notes to the same level, so that one shall be in quality exactly like another, as are the notes of a violin or piano. I hope 1| make myself perfectly plain. When I say that one note should be just like another I do mot of course refer to the | differences in tone required to bring | out the proper amount of feeling and | expression—of course there are “head” | tcnes and ‘“/chest” tones, ‘“‘covered” tones, “crying” tones, and 8o on, ad in- finitum; but with all these (with the exception of the head tones) we have nothing to do just now. We are merely getting the voice ready to sing, as we prepared the fingers for playing, and the first and most necessary thing of ail is to teach the pupil to know how to manage his voice so that one note shall be just as good as another, and so that that which is the quality of his best note at the beginning shall become the quality of all his notes as time goes on. The “thinking ahead” process will help him to acquire a legato, singing tone in just the way that it does when playing the piano. If he wishes to take a note an octave higher than the | one he has just sung, his mind, brought first to the note in question and firmly placed on it, will place the tone thereon twice as easily as it could be done in any other way. Another point to remember is this: The higher the note is the deeper the | breath should be. The pupil should strive always to start the breath deep- ler and deeper, the tone higher and higher, and to widen always the cir- cle of sound, as explained earlier in the lesson. The last exercise that I described | is in its complete form D, E, D, E, D. {then C, D, C, D, C, then B, C, B, C, B, |then A, B, A, B, A and finally G, A, 1G, A, G. This should be sung as given in the | fllustration, and as the pupil tries it |strike a chord occasionally on the | plano, to be sure that he is keeping | exactly on the key. Do not play for | him all the time, however, as he must |learn to carry the different “inter- | vals” in his mind and so acquire a true | sense of pitch. | After each trial of the exercise let | him rest a bit, so that he may begin | operations with perfectly relaxed throat muscles. Do not keep him at voice practice more than five or ten ‘fly ey e y cate and eas- —— | A Late Business Call.—“Curious what men will do when they've been drink- ing,” said Representative “Tim" Syl livan. “When I was over in New York I heard a story about a man I know who had been out nearly all night and was considerably the worse for wear. “He came along a street and saw '.n undertaker's sign, with a night bell, just over a speaking tube. He rang the bell fiercely. “‘What is it?" yelled the undertaker | down the tube. “What do you want?' ““Nothing in particular,’ the chap re. plied; ‘only I want to say that you're the last man I'll do business with,’ "— Philadelphia Telegraph. | WEDNESDAY THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor + .+« + .. ... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager WEDNESDA FEBRUARY 17, 1904 Publication Office .Third and Market Streets, S. P. cee.ss:..FEBRUARY 17, 1904 OAKLAND BONDS. UR lively and ambitious neighbor, Oakland, is O awakening to her opportunity. The City Coun- cil has decided upon a bond issue of $3,500,000, of which $1,110,000 is for additional schoolhouses. That item is not only creditable but significant. It shows that the population has far outgrown existing school accom- modations. The public schpols of Oakland enjoy a dis- tinction beyond those of any other city in the United States. - They possess a completely equipped astronomi- cal observatory, donated by the late Anthony Chabet, in which physical and mathematical astronomy may be studied, with the use of telescopes and other instru- ments. The bond issue also devotes $150,000 to the equip- ment of a polytechnic school, which is in line with the latest developed necessity of the school system. In it - pupils will be taught the essentials of all mechanical training, and may learn the handicrafts in all their de- tails. The progress of juvenile incorrigibility in the country is traced to the lack of training in the handi- crafts. To that Jack we owe the creation of the juvenile courts and other devices for restraining the tendencies of youth which have their ofigin in idleness. A polytech- nic school has become a necessity in all large cities, and Oakland will get most favorable results from the one which the bond issue will create. In another respect the Council has been mindful of the health and good order of the city. It is proposed to create a park system in the foothills, supplemented by plazas and children’s playgrounds in different parts of the city. One of these is located on the filled ground in West Oakland, where it is in sight from the main line of the railroad. That part of Oakland has for years done much harm to the whole city by its unsightliness. It is to be hoped that this new playground will serve as a nucleus for the transformation of the whole marsh into a park, causing the removal of the garbage dumps and every offensive feature. No city in the Union is as favorably situated as Oak- land to receive the adornments of art. The climate | leaves nothing to be desired. and the good taste shown by private citizens in architecture and the adornment of lawns and borders has always been most commenda- ble. It has long been a proper subject of complaint that public enterprise has lagged behind. The determi- nation of the present city government to catch up with the procession in that respect will cause it to be long re- membered by the people. San Francisco appreciates the function of Oakland in aiding this larger city to retain here the commercial su- premacy which is of so much importance to California. There is a limit to the capacity of our water front to accommodate trade. Though that limit has not yet been reached, it may well be. Then will arise the question of diversion of trade elsewhere. San Francisco should give to Oakland all support necessary in securing harbor fa- cilities and dock room, to the end that our ample bay may continue to attract the fleets of the world. We are sure that the municipal authorities of Oakland appre- ciate the importance of this view, and if need be will show in that respect the same awakening enterprise* that is in the bond issue for the purpose of enlarging school facilities and securing parks. Another important feature in the bond issue is the ap- | propriation for a new City Hall. A man is known by the house and its surroundings in which he lives. He owes it to the community to make these the best he can, in proportion to his means. If this be a private duty, how much more is it a public duty, in the government of a city, to house its administration well and properly. The Oakland City Hall has long been an eyesore. It looks like the stepdaughter of the San Francisco custom- house, and with such a stepmother what could be ex- pected? In the basement is a noisome jail that affects the Board of Health, and violates the constitution by in- flicting cruel and unusual punishment upon prisoners. The building is blistered like the lips of an ague patient, and its exterior would be improved by painting it over with patent medicine and tobacco signs, after the fashion of country barns. The amount proposed in the bond issue for a new City Hall will erect a proper building, with nobility of architecture suited to a city of the rank and dignity of Oakland. In all of these proposed improvements San Francisco takes as lively and friendly an interest a3 if they were her own. In this there is no disposition to treat Oak- land as a suburb of this city. We salute her as our com- ing equal in all things. Her progress in no sense im- pedes ours, but is an essential part 6f it. San Francisco wants no dead neighbors, but requires that they all be alive and strong, working for the general progress by working for their own. In the bond campaign it will surely be the pleasant duty of The Call to urge its read- ers in Oakland to go forward, with the assurance that the experience gained by the proper expenditure of the avails of the issue now proposed will incite them to fur- ther efforts until they secure for themselves the most at- tractive, healthful and impressive city of its size on the continent. —— A San Jose woman wedded her deceased husband’s brother the other day in order not to risk losing in a $1000 breach of promise suit which he had instituted against her. The man in the case can now certainly fix at least his maximum monetary value in the eyes of his spouse. T morality is vastly improved by the highly honor# ble course pursued*by Mr. Shafroth of Colorado, who volantarily surrendered his seat in Congress, after himself discovering that his election was tainted by fraud. His seat was contested on the ground of fraud. His Republican opponent agreed with him that the bal- lots should be sent to the House Committee on Elections and Privileges for examination. After Shafroth had ex- amined a portion of them he assured the House that if he were sitting as a judge on the evidence of the ballots he would be compelled to decide against himself, there- fore without waiting for action or report by the com- mittee he gave up his seat. Mr. Shafroth has been in Congress four terms. Though AN HONEST MAN. HE whole country is impressed and the public | in the minority he has commanded the respect of all. He was one of the working members and rendered valuable public service. The committee and the House exoner- ated him of any privity to the frauds which were com- mitted by his party. Indeed it was satisfactorily shown that he had done everything he could to have a fair election. He leaves his seat with the profound respect of the House and of the country. o This very dramatic episode raises a collateral question of more than passing interest. It was charged in Colo- rado-that the same ballot frauds extended to the election of members of the Legislature, but investigation in that respect was prevented, and hence it was believed that the re-clection of United States Senator Teller was tainted by fraud and illegality. But he was elected and holds his seat. It remains to be seen whether he will follow the highly honorable course of Mr. Shafroth, and demand an investigation of the ballots cast for the mem- bers of the Legislature who elected him. " While Senator Teller's political course has been sinu- ous, he has always ranked both in the Republican and Democratic parties as an honest man. His public ser- vice has been long and varied. He was one of the first Senators from Colorado, and was still a Senator in 1882 when he resigned to succeed Governor Kirkwood as Sec- retary of the Interior under President Arthur. Upon the termination of that service he was returned to the Sen- ate as a Republican in 1885, and was still a Senator when he walked out of the Republican National Convention in | 1896, and has held his seat as a Populist, Silver Republi- | can and Democrat. Such a man cannot afford to be the beneficiary of. the | frauds of his party, and it is clearly his duty to purge | himself of all suspicion of benefiting by corruption of | the ballot-box. Like him, Mr. Shafroth entered public! life and Congress as a-Republican. They were both | well brought np, and it will be good for public morality if each “show his raising” by refusing to hold a seat that | is smirched by illegality. | The authorities at Washington have taken late steps | but wise ones to place American Consuls upon a properf plane of dignity in the many foreign cities where they | serve Americans and should reflect the prominence and | power of the United States. “Our Consuls should be well housed and well paid. t RAILWAYS AND WORLD POLITICS. USSIA’S menacing advance upon China, precipita- | R ting war with Japan, is generally spoken of as! another march of imperial ambition not essen- tially dissimilar to the conguests of former ages. So, too, the annexation of the Dutch republics in South Africa to the British empire has been looked upon as im- | perial aggression; a like view will be taken of the expan- | sion of the German colonial system in Africa as soon as it becomes sufficiently aggressive to attract public atten- tion and occasion comment. | Such views of the progress of the white man’s con- | quest in our time, however, are not wholly correct. It was ' not imperialism, but railway comstruction, that has | set the nations marching so aggressively in all parts of | the world in these later years. Britain would never have coveted the Transvaal, nor even Orange Free State, had not Cecil Rhodes pushed his railway enterprises to | the north and projected the famous line from the Cape| to Cairo. Russia would not now be tightening her grip | upon Manchuria, in defiance of the powers and in viola- | | i tion of solemn treaties, had she not first constructed al railway across Siberia. What she is now seeking is not | so much a military conquest as a commercial port neces- | sary to the best use of her great transcontinental line. | The important part that railways are now playing in ; the world should not be overlooked, for a clear under-| standing of it is essential to a right view of the menaces | of war to-day and the possibilities of future war. It is! to be borne in mind that the Siberian road and the; Cape to Cairo road are not the only great enterprises of | the kind under way. There are several other roads | hardly noted now, whose construction may force an issue | of battle in future just as the Siberian road is forcing | battle now. | Of the new lines that are almost certain to have a po-| tent influence on world politics in the immediate future perhaps the most notable is the line that is to be con- structed under German control from the Bosphorus to the Gulf of Persia down the valley of the Euphrates or of the Tigris. A considerable part of the line is al- | ready constructed and concessions for the whole route, so far as it lies through the Turkish empire, have be':n! obtained. The road of course will need an outlet to the | sea, and the only outlet possible must be found some- | where on the Persian Gulf. It happens that both Russia | and Great Britain are keenly interested in the gulf ports. Russia has railway lines tending to the sea in that quar- ter, while Great Britain will watch with no little jealousy | the establishment in those waters of any power able to maintain there a naval force strong enough to threaten the route between India and the Suez Canal. Another line that carries with it a menace of war is the projected cxtension of the British Indo-Burmah Railway to the head of navigation on the Yangtse-Kiang. The road if completed would open up middle China to British trade through India. Its construction, however, would compel the establishment of some form of British control over the terminal in China, and as a consequence Great Britain would probably find herself compelled to play a role similar to that now being enacted by the Rus- sians in Manchuria. % Finally it is to be borne in mind that there are lines which sooner or later must be constructed in our own hemisphere that will be very apt to involve war issues. The much discussed line connecting the railway systems of South America with our own may some day be under- taken, and then will arise the question of maintaining peace along the route. Another element of danger lies in the fact that German interests in Brazil are already large and in the end will demand railways across the con- tinent. Such lines will be likely to disturb the existing order of things and lead to international disputes; so that in the new as well as in the old world there are pos- sibilities of railway wars looming up over the future as far as human foresight can reach. In short the twentieth century.is likely to be a century of wars caused mainly by the extension of industrial and commercial enterprises. Railway influences will be felt in international as well as in domestic politics, and the railway projector will be as potent in conquest as any of the military adventurers of the past. * The authorities of Los Angeles are seeking to discover if a dishonest voter can tamper with the voting machines submitted to the southern city for adoption. Has los Angeles forgotten that the safe-breaker is always a notch ahead of the safe-maker in mechanical craft? The only protection against a dishonest voter is the shadow of the penitentidry. — An actor, whose histrionic ability was measured eyven by his fellows as below par, killed himself a few days since because he was refused a place among traveling player folk. How unfortunate it is that some of the poor fellow’s associates are not inspired by his desperate pur- poses concerning himself. 7 | thought came to him. — TALK OF THE TOWN The Unknown God. Dewn in one of the old rookeries on Montgomery street, the office rooms of which are now given over to penniless artists and slaves of the pen, there lives a newspaper man whose sense of humor is-larger than his purse. After a little incident that occurred several nights ago he feels that, humble as his station may be, he is yet an unknown god in the eyes of at least cme of the nameless wretches whose haunts are the alleys and wine shops of the old quarter down back of the hall. After the -paper had gone to press and the newspaper scribe had tramped his weary way down the deserted street to his room he was endeavoring to fight away insomnia by leaning out of his window and sucking on his old briar while he idly watched the scumperlngl rats in the dimly lit alley below. His attention was attracted by the zigzag | tacking down the alley of the huddled | figure of a drunk. Hardly had the be- sotted toper come directly below him when a black figure darted out from the shadow of the fish market. dealt the shambling drunkard a blow on the | jaw which felled him and then began to disrobe him. Overcoat, hat, jacket and vest came | off in a twinkling and then with a final | tug the shces were gone, too, and the sudden apparition was off down the alley with his bundle tucked under his | arm. Those clothes safely represented | 50 cents and that would buy “the dope” for several days. From the despoiled one lying below in the dark street there came a jum- bled roar of oaths and protest which trailed off into a whimper as the cold merning air began to nip. Four stories above in his window the reporter was enjoying it hugely. Then a merry He ducked into his room for a min- ute and then returned to the window, arms full of old clothes. First he pep- pered the thing below with a choice assortment of ¢id socks, tightly knott in pairs. ers went gyrating down through the gloom; a jacket fell like a lump of lead, | and finally an old mackintosh swooped and sailed like a vampire down to the bewildered creature. | He looked up; there was no light— nothing but the walls rising cheerless in the dim mcrning half light. he laughed like a loon and, gathering up the clothes, cavorted down the alley singing lustily. Her Answer. She sat modestly and quietly in a corner on the upper deck of an Oak- land ferry-boat, one of the first of the afternoon thropg of homeward-bound commuters. A book engrossed her at- tention and she was not aware that a bold pair of eyes were staring at her, the owner a dapper and bit over- dressed man with a pair of grips, for | the world like a drummer’s outfit. o] Then a pair of veteran (rous" Then | * labor presents little that is new. But I confess the quotations you gave on Friday from a South African corre- sponder.t strike me as quite a novel de- parture in the way of unctuous recti- tude. After a series of violent asser- tions, none of which he attempts to prove, the writer appeals to ‘the blood, the misery, the tears’ that will follow the arrival of the Chinesc. In my ex- perience the blood, the misery and the tears have been entirely on the side of the unhappy Chinamen whom the hooligans and their backers have felt at liberty to assault, to rob and to murder at their sweet will. The China- man, to whom the early prosperity of California was so largely owing, is a singularly laborious and law-abiding citizen, and for that reason he was hated, ill-treated and ultimately pro- hibited in the Golden State—whose prosperity, by the way, “hereby fered a lasting check.” Now, just wherein has suf- California | suffered a “lasting check” from the ex- clusion act? Word Blindness. Some curious instances of the physi- cal defect of “word blindness” re given in the Lancet. The disease is, fortunately. uncommon. In one case the sufferer, an Englishman, 34 years of age, who knew Greek, Latin rad French well, suddenly lost all knowl- edge of English, though he could read and understand Greek perfectly, and Latin and French in a rather smaller degree. Another and almost more cu- rious case was that of a man who lost the power of reading at sight. This patient was able to write accurately from dictation, but was completely un- able to read what he had written. | World blindness is apparen !y akin to | color blindness, but is certainly attend- | ed by" much more inconvenient conse- | quences. Very Antique. A young naval officer returned re- eently from the European station amd brought several odd bits of furniture Some of the passengers noticed the | Which he had picked up in a small shop ogling and pretty soon she raised her glance from the pages and caught the stare. She blushed and fidgeted in her seat. The eyes continued their insult- ing stare. As if he thought there was response in her sudden, shifting glance, he | moved closer to the woman, then still closer. She nervousiy felt the ad- vance. There had been no intentional move of encouragement on her part. The situation became very embarrass- ing, for he turned to her with a “Good evening:; you seem to be en- Joying that book, miss.” The demure little creature flashed anger and was all excitement in an instant. She had avoided the scene, but with one rousing swing she struck that impertinent fellow full in the face. with open palm, the slapping blow being heard by many passengers. Then the girl, her face red with sup- pressed emotion, settled back in her seat. The man, all in a heap from surpriss gathered himself together and escaped to the lower deck, with the jeers of a bunch of women echo- ing behind him. Courtship of the Sea. I Lady of the Golden Gate, I. the regnant Sea, Amorous of thee. Fain would have thee be Queen of my infinite estate. E’en now thy fortune and thy fate Abide with me, the Imperial Sea! 1L Girded thou for high emprise! Thine the gold-veined hill, Treasure-bedded rill. Vine that dbth distill Nectar ambrosial; thine the fairest skies, And patriarch pines ancient as paradise, While fruits world-coveted thy lap do fill. TIL Be my queen. O Lady fair, Then from land to land Shall, at thy command, Speed my snowy band— Fleet coursers of the sea and air— To fetch thee garments rich and rare, And Orient pearls and gems frem the coral strand. Iv. Lady, where thou keepest state, On thy throne of gold, Thou shalt have and hold Wealth undreamed of old In reaches of the Arts, that come elate To thy congenial home, where through thy Gate ‘Flow wun and gilded wave together rolled, V. Be indifferent no more! Greater shalt thou be, Wedded thus to me, Than Venice, when that she Rolgned mistress all my kingdom o'er, In the dim centuries of yore, And shared her glory with her spouse. the Sea! REGSFORD JANGSRY, Not So Fast. A contributor to tha Westminstes Gazette of London takes acension v draw Instructive paraliels hetween the present Chinese Iaboy tiowble W ihe Rand and what we of Calitoinim e had. Says he: “To any one Whe 1 Famsirr wivh vhe flowe 8 of AW-ORiRERe RavoRy, & spouters’ o he The Eewih African oppoRItion v ChEe e |in Portsmouth, England. One of the pieces Was a folding table, antique, and | consequently somewhat worn. It was much admired, and the price paid for | it, £3, was considered amazingly small. | One day he showed it to a dealer with a request for a valuation of it, and information as to its age, make and the like. In the course of the examina- tion_the dealer looked at the under side of one of the drawers and found thereon a somewhat blurred paper label. When this was inspected close to the light these letters were readily discernible. They were: “GR—ND RAPID—MICHI—." —Ne York Post. Answers to Queries. GOOLD BROWN'S L. G., City. GRAMMAR—M. “Goold Brown's Grammar" | has always been considered a standard authority. RUTH CLEVELAND, E. S. B, Seai- tle, Wash. Ruth, daughter of ex-Presi- dent Grover Cleyeland. was born in New York City, October 3, 1591 POSTAGE—Subscriber, Milton, Cal. The rate of postage under the pos laws of the United States Congress is the same to all points of the United States. WEBER AND FIELDS—A Reader, City. Weber and Fields were in this city about fifteen years ago. They are not natives of San Francisco. They were born in New York City. YOUNG CORBETT—Subscriber. City- William H. Rothwell, “Young Corbett, was born in Denver, Colo., in 1879. His first record fight was with Bert Carter in 1897, when he defeated him in threa rounds. LIMERICKS—M. F. T, Vallejo, Cal This correspondent wants to know why Jingling rhymes frequently published in the press of to-day are called “limr- ericks.” Can any of the readers of this department enlighten the correspond- ent? ADMIRAL FISHER—A Call Reader. Stockton, Cal. Sir John Fisher, H. M. R. N., was born in 1841. His father was Captain William Fisher of the Seventy- eighth Highlanders. None of the pub- lished biographies gives the place of birth. HER NAME-J. E. 8, Milton, Cal George Eliot is the pseudonym that was adopted by Mary Ann or Marian Evans, the authoress, born at Arbury farm (Chllvers Coton), Warwickshire, Fne- Jand, November 22, 1819: died at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, Decem- ber 22, 1880, RBORN IN HONGKONG-—-C., City. The wighta of ehtidren born in Hongkong to an American father and a Chinese wother cannot be determined without a faller explanation of the case cited. The status of the father will have to e wore fully given before this depart- Went van anawer. e e ————— Fewnaend's California glace frults and We a pound, In artistic fire- \u« present for Eastern ket st above Call bldg. * —————— (nformation SR