The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1904, Page 8

FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1904. - N TERHUNE York Evening W Building,” ete.) ALBER exvert New £ *Muscle 1904, 1 rid, Joseph B. Bowles.) of awkwardness in ny boxers is the inability to rush ithout leaving face or body exposed. McGovern, at his best, ideal “rusher” and perfected ‘whirlwind” e of attack. With one arm crooked before him, s to protect the head and to knock with the other hand way like lightning, yet o shift in such a way as Hht other form orry when s the side body blows; hamme » guard hile the first hand attacked vith head down, jaw drawn in, abdo- men drawn back so as to render heart and wind almost inaccessible; with - i - THE “WHIRLWIND"” STYLE. ~¥ ed yet not enough to pre- gility, he would bore opponent, enveloping him le shower of blows, yet al- ving himself open to A most Qui incessant motion; ‘good uracy, impetus and a brain Kk unconfused are the chief requisites for r The man who rushes blind- swinging his arms like flails, and who thinks that is boxing, is sadly mistaken and usually pays dearly for ¢ blunder. In rus € more than at any other time a n needs all his coolness and skill For he is courting attack and he cannot hope to be as thoroughly protected as when he is on the defen- sive. n a man rushes you keep cool; sidesiep and when necessary give ground. But always be on the lookout for an opening: never let the flant “get you going” by rushing you off your feet. Remember that when he is attacking the advantage rests with you as long as you can spy out and take advantage of all openings and as long as your footwork is clever enough to keep you out of harm’s way. Other things being equal, the ad- e 3+ “BPARRING FOR WIN! e S T T < vantage in boxing usually rests with the heavier of the two contestants. He can put greater weight into his blows, his rushes carry heavier weight (and thus more force), and when on the defensive he can often stop a lighter antagonist's rush. By a sort of com- pensation the lighter of two boxers is nearly slways the quicker and thus the contest becomes one of weight vs. speed. Such was the fight in which Corbett conguered Sullivan. Such, on the other hand, was the fight wherein the heavier Jeffries defeated Corbett. S S Often in a friendly bout a man will tire, will receive a blow that temporar- ily weakens or wearies him, or will get out of breath. The thing to do at such a juncture is to “spar for wind”— in other words, to keep the other man off with as few motions as possibie, resting solely on the defensive t for such feints as may serve to avert a rush or a dangerous lead. Take things easily. resting as much as possi- ble, yet keeping your foe &t & distance . until the desired strength or speed is| i restored. H | JOHN D. There are several ways in which this | may be accomplished. It is best, of | | course, not to let your opponent see| | that that you are in distress. Keep on | the defensive, give ground if he rushes, : try to hold him at long range. All the | { time breathe slowly in steady, deep; respirations (through the nostrils, wnh‘{ lips closed), and resting as much as/ vou can the tired muscles. i If you are in good condition you will | quickly regain strength and breath | enough to enable you to finish the | round. Often both men will become | simultaneously fatigued and wiil by | tacit mutual consent spar for wind un- | til they once more in shape for | active work. . are Boys often weary their arms unneces- sarily in boxing by keeping the fists tightly clinched all the time. This putsa constant and needless strain on the | fingers and forearm. There is no excuss for this. Keep the hands half-open, or only lightly clinched, except when actually leading. Then close the fist just before the blow lands. In this way you add a certain degree of force to your blow and miss much fatigue incident on muscles too long left tense. When you are rushed and are forced to give ground do not let your desire to get out of reach render you careless of | balance. In retreat, as well as in at-| tack, balance is the foremost l‘eqn{sltt\l If you are not careful your halance will | depart, you will shuffie awkwardly on | feet that are too near together and you | will in this attitude lose all chance of | landing a powerful blow, such as might | stop your opponent’s rush, for with the | feet together and the body bent back- | ward there remains little force to go| into a lead. While you can still keep | vour feet in correct position and retain | a balance that will let you counter | heavily should the opportunity arise, | you are not in any great danger from | the rush of the strongest, heaviest an- tagonist. Once lose your poise and bui- ance, however, and a child can upset| | ; | | { i i | i i you. R Do not through fear or strategy fall |, into the frequent error of turning your | back on your opponent during his| rush. De not turn your back, for that | matter, at any stage of the bout. | I have seen many a beginner turn| sideways or half way around and let | a blow fall on back or shoulders in- | stead of troubling himself to guard it | 1 have seen far more | so-called rs who, hard pressed, turned their backs on their opponents, doubtless in the belief that the latter would not strike them there. Now, this is cowardice and meanness | combined. There is no law in the an- nals of boxing which prohibits a man | from striking his opponent on the back. | 1f your opponent turns his back on you | ! hit his back as hard as you choose to. | You are taking no unfair advantage of him in doing this. It will also teach him to face you in future. ‘While we are on the subject of faulty | form let me warn you against one of | ithe commonest and worst faults in box- | ing, the fault known as “snapping | back.” It has ruined the form of many | a man and is fatally easy to acquire. “Snapping back” is merely an ex- | aggeration of the maxim: ‘“Lead and| | then get back on guard.” The ideal boxer delivers his blow and then brings | his arm back to “guard” as rapidly as | possible. But before he draws back his jarm he makes sure that the blow is | fully delivered; that all the force and { reach which were to go into it have | been used. | Sometimes a man, in his haste to re- |turn to guard, leads and before the | blow has fairly landed whips back his | arm. The blow does not travel its full length. Tt gets none of the force from body and shoulder. It is a poor, nerve- less imitation of a blow. While every by-Jaw. of boxing demands that the arm return as quickly as possible to first position as soon as a blow is delivered, | every by-law also forbids “snapping | back.” Nervousness, awkwardness and (In | rare instances) cowardice are contrib- | utory causes to this habit. It is to be avoided, even at the cost of speed and at the risk of a return blow. His Maiden Effort. All hands were making political speeches in the House the other after- noon when a Representative, making his maiden speech, shot off a few | rhetorical fireworks for Judge Parker | of New York. ; “Parker, Parker,” g£aid the crushing Grosvenor of Ohio, in a musing tone, | getting to his feet and stroking his 5 Santa Claus beard reflectively. “Seems | jto me that I've heard that name be- fore somewhere. Do yvou mean Judge Parker of New York?"” “That’s whom I mean,” promptly replied the young man making his | maiden speech. | “Um—exactly,” said Grosvenor. | “By the way, what's Judge Parker's | first name?” | The new Representative flushed and started to stammer some reply. An old-timer in a scat some distance be- hind the new man made a funnel of his hands and tried to whisper the |name “Alton” to the new man, but | Grosvenor of Ohio saw this move. “Hey, no coaching or offside plays!"” {he demanded. “Now,” turning to the new Representative again, “what's Judge Parker’s first name, hey? Seems to me that it's reasonable to expect you to know the name of the man you're booming for President of the United States, isn’t it? What his first name, anyhow?” The new Representative made some floundering reply to the general ef- fect that Judge Parker's first name didn’'t make any erence, etc., but he failed to get away with it. The House roared and presently the new | Representative brought his talk to an abrupt close and sat down, looking flabbergasted.—Omaha Bee. Rev. Dr. Thirdly--Young man, don't you know there is no such thing as a certainty? The Gambier—Say, partner, I reckon you never ran a shell game.—Boston | Herald THE - SAN FRANCISCO: CALL. to JOHN MicNAUGHT, Manager SPRECKELS, Proprietof « « « « « « . « . . Address All Communications Publication Office .. 1904 THE CANAL TREATY. FRIDAY HEN the Panama revolution occurred, and the W canal treaty followed, The Call predicted that the treaty would be ratified, and would be sup- ported by Democrats in the Senate. From the begin- ning it was known that fifteen Senators of. that party would support it. Yet Mr. Gorman, with his force di- vided in halves, sought to make a party question of it, to put the administration in what the politicians call “a hole.” Since then the republic of Panama has made a constitution and elected a national government to admin- ister it, and now the treaty is ratified, fifteen Democrats voting for it. Thus, the second attempt during this Congress to make an issue against Roosevelt has failed. The minor- ity in each case has furnished support to his plans and policies which were attacked, and the expected issue has gone glimmering to the limbo of failures. What is the logical conclusion from this situation? Can it be other than that the President is really representative of the hopes and aspirations of the American people? The canal treaty was supported by a public sentiment so overwhelming that the minority felt it and could not stand up aglinst it. Of course, wisdom would have dictated agreement with that sentiment in the first place, to the end that such a project as the canal might be be- gun and finished without a tinge of partisanship. But the President has been sustained, and public sentiment has been saluted by half of the Democratic Senators. While Senator Gorman made a capital mistake, he is not the object of amusement. The simian feature in'the whole affair is furnished by Mr. William Randolph Hearst, who hastens to say in his newspapers that the fifteen Senators, in supporting the administration, obeyed his instructions! Yet in his papers of the oth of last November he said: “Would Theodore Roosevelt have dared to act toward Great Britain as he has toward Colombia? What excuse can be offered for this astound- ing crime? None that any honest man will accept. If President Roosevelt shall be sustained in this Panama crime by his party, then his party would sustain him in any freebooting foray against the lands and sovereignty of our weaker neighbors, that might be agreeable to the wishes and interests of such other aggregations of greedy speculators as we see collected in and around the rotten and scandal-coated French Panama Company. T}:e honor of the United States has been dragged in the mud of Panama.” Now the President is sustained by both parties, and Mr. William Randolph Hearst rushes into the glare of the footlights shouting: “I did it. The Democratic Sen- ators followed my plan and voted my sentiments!” It is amusing and at the same time disgusting. None will resent it more than the Democratic Senators who had their way to doing right made harder by the unscrupu- lous falsehoods of the man who claims them as his pup- pets. The unpartisan feeling of the President and his desire to put the copstruction in first-class control, regardless of party, have been showr by his selection of commis- sioners. Mr. William Randolph Hearst is now exclaiming in poster type, “Mr. Roosevelt, build that canal.” There is no doubt that he will. He has begun the great work, and the people will see to it that it is left in his hands far toward its conclusion. When it is finished, the people will read, perhaps, in some crippled weekly news- paper, a feeble shout from Mr. Hearst, “I did it,”. and then the country will grin. ‘ The ratification of the treaty is preliminary to the country’s ratification of President Roosevelt next No- vember. If the Southern people are wise they will make this the occasion for differentiating their local from their national politics, and will join in this ratification. The canal has long been the dream of their section. It has a vast and valuable relation to their future prosperity. They have more interest in it than the rest of the coun- try, because their necessities are greater. It is a great national work, that should mark the final disappearance of all issues that have their radix in the Civil War. Why embarrass it by making an attempt to change the ad- ministration, which will fail any way? It is felt that if the South voted as her interests dic- tafe, as the prosperity of her people requires, and as the i needs of development of her resources demand, she would add largely to the electoral vote of President Roosevelt. The present Democracy having ceased to be a proper instrument of the public will, why not end the faction fights which distract it, by completely evaporat- ing it as a political force, in the expectation that it will reprecipitate in a more useful form? —_— The Grand Jury has commenced an inquiry to deter- mine to what extent and by whom the Almshouse has been cheated of supplies and provisions ordered for the proper conduct of the institution by the city authorities. It is better late than never, perhaps, for our governing commissions to discover that nobody is so poor that he may not be robbed. HOSPITAL CARS. 5 HE CALL has often suggested that means be T sought to isolate from other passengers con- sumptives who travel to seek relief by change of climate. The enormous increase of this disease in the East, following the annual win- ter epidemic of grip and pneumonia in that re- gion, has caused a corresponding increase in the num- ber of victims who seek relief on the hot deserts of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California. As it seems to be settled that the disease is spread by infection, the dried sputum in Pullman cars presents a real danger that makes travel in them unpleasant to a great many healthy people. Human sympathy is never withheld from consump- tives, but this only adds to the tension and discomfort of traveling in the same cars with them. To meet the growing difficulty, the Santa Fe road is having con- structed proper and well equipped hospital cars, in which consumptive travelers will enjoy all that is had in first- class Pullmans, and also find such other facilities and comforts as their condition requires. These cars will run to such points in New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California as are the objective of these unfortunate trav- elers. . The statistics show that on the hot and dry deserts consumption is greatly mitigated, and when the patient has the resolution to adhere to a proper use of the desert air and sunshine it is wholly cured. It is gratifying that in our country there are these desert regions, other- wise not useful to man, in which this dreadful disease may be cured. All over the East the faces of the victims are turned to the desert, where lies their hope of life. But mingling with other tsavelers in trausit is also be- coming a reason for the restraint of healthy tourist travel to Pacific Coast points, which are now more sought than the French and Italian Riviera for rest and ‘recreation in a clement climate during the winter months. As those who come here in health to escape the winter diseases of the East which lead to consump- tion in a manner insure themselves against an attack, it is plain that California climate is useful in restricting the disease. 1f, however, great risk of infection is in- curred en route, this travel will not coms. There may be an initial difficulty in restricting con-r sumptive travel to the new cars. In this much assistance can be given by the medical profession in the East. Physicians will see the obvious advantage of such cars for their patients who are seeking relief by change of | location. It is probable that the Santa Fe and other | roads which adopt the system will find it advantageous to supply a physician also to attend to patients en route, and finally it will doubtless be found that the patients | themselves will prefer the isolation and advantages of the new system. California will give the Santa Fe great credit for in- augurating this system, since we need the rdmoval of every possible impediment in the way of travel to our State. A policy that serves suffering humanity, protects | the healthy from infection and promotes our material welfare by removing an objection to travel is most en- terprising and praiseworthy, and its success will be promoted by every encouragement our people can render. Through the establishment of a correspondence school the University of California hopes to make out of the good farmers of the State a corps of conscien- tious students. If the wise men of Berkeley can now only see their way clear to work out the reverse proposi- | tion and make a few farmers out of their many students a very serious problem will have beén solved for Cali- fornia. F latest and best literature in the world, The Sunday | Call paid $1000 to secure the exclusive rights to “To-morrow’s Tangle” in the West. . It will be published complete in five successive installments, beginning next Sunday, February 28. This is really a remarkable offer, for this book cannot be bought elsewhere, in any form, for five times what it will cost in The Sunday Call, which gives in addition to thés exclusive novel many other brilliant features besides. In “To-morrow’s Tangle” Geraldine Bonner, the clever California author, has written a novel as strong, as tense, as thrillingly dramatic and as thoroughly Californian as “The Octopus,” with which Frank Norris amazed the world a few years ago. Indeed, “To-morrow’s Tangle,” which is a brand new book just off the presses, bids fair to become vastly more popular, because not only all the people in this almost historical drama but all the places wherein they love and hate and fight their public and private battles are known, & It is a story of the early pioneers and their children, brought right down to date, but so entirely different are the scenes and incidents from anything ever written be- fore, with the history and development of California as a background, that this story ranks at once as a unique and distinet creation. The prologue, with its death and birth on the scorch- ing desert—its outrageous trade in wives and horses by the Mormon, who afterward becomes a “bonanza king,” and the primitive marriage in a blizzard, will grip the heart through every word. Indeed it is an intimate knowledge of the characters and the circumstances of their lives that enhances an ap- preciation of the intensely dramatic and delightfully | human qualities of this book. Mariposa’s rehearsal at the Grand Opera-house and her bitter love scenes in Golden Gate Park, the stirring tragedy in the million- aire’s home in Menlo Park, the meeting between Mari- posa and the Mormon's second wife in the mansion on Nob Hill, the strange discovery of the millionaire’s son in the photograph gallery on Post street, Mariposa’s fight with Essex in the rain on Sutter street, and her thrillingly pathetic plight in the old garder on Russian Hill are vivid—almost too realistically vivid. And yet they are only incidents in a wonderfully well rounded volume. > Among other brilliant features, for instance, there is “The Human Hafd,” written by the Queen of Roumania, an article that is as beautiful as it is strange in concep- tion. Then there is an article that shows the incredible de- velopment of Japan since her wonderful awakening in 1868 from the despotic rulé of the Shogun, the military usurper, who kept the Mikado practically a prisoner through the force of arms, and who made a treaty with Commodore Perry in his own name instead of the Em- peror’s, which endured for fourteen years without Amer- ica or any of the allied nations becoming the wiser. Add to this the “Brownie and the Bolo,™which is one of the most interesting of the photographic features of the St. Louis World’s Fair, “A Bill From Tiffany’s,” by Edwin Lefevre, “The Weakness of an Amazon,” by Troy Allison, the full page photograph of the March Calendar Girl, “The Latest in Traveling Equipment,” etc., etc, and there is a truly excellent magazine. THE SUNDAY CALL’S POLICY. OLLOWING its policy of giving its readers lhcl i A local physician, testifying in a murder case thel other day, declared that he knew of a doctor who while insane for a year practiced his profession with customary success. This startling announcement-of the man of pills and pellets is to be applauded for its frankness. | Most of us knew that something was wrong somewhere, but now we have a flooding light of revelation. The medico of whom the witness spoke is probably not unique. In the general unrest that is sweeping throughout Eu- rope because of the war in the Far East there are signs that the Finns may rise against their Russian oppressors | other day with ome of the little brown Japanese Thrift. “It would not surprise me the least,” said a prominent Mwyer the other day to a number of attorneys with whom he was enjoying lunch, “to see the Japs whip the Russians. I, or rather my wife, had an experience the in men that caused me to think that they are a great people. “It was last Saturday, I think, that my wife sent cut to a Jap house ciean- ing establishment for a man to do some window washing and other little things about the house. A neat and natty little chap came over. It was just at 2 o'clock when he started in and by 4 he had the work finished. My wife paid him the half dollar he de-| manded, and was so pleased at the way he worked that she told him to sit down and take a little lunch of pre- serves and cakes. He accepted the in- vitation with a smile and a ‘thank you,’ and for fifteen minutes was busy with the edibles. When he got through my wife showed him to the door. She was greatly surprised when he seemed re- luctant to leave and almost fainted when he demanded 10 cents. “‘What for?" she said. ‘I paid you 50 cents for twe hours’ work. You only charge 25 cents an hour. ““Yes,’ said the Jap:; ‘him all right: but I stay fifteen minutes kitchen. Boss no pay me to eat.”” Grateful Recognition. It is an old saying among raifroad | men that they know when everything is going along all right from the mere fact that no complaints are received. They do not expect and rarely recelve praise from the public they serve, but they are pretty certain to hear of it when things go wrong. It must there- fore have been very gratifying to our Southern Pacific friends when the pas- senger department in this city received the following resolution, dated Sacra- mento, February 18, voted for and signed by every passenger on the train that had been detained by the washouts south of Ashland: “Be it resolved by the passengers on the extra late No. 15 train from Ash- land to San Francisco, that it is the unanimous cpinion of all passengers that they have been treated with ex- ceeding good courtesy and the best pos- sible service by all officials, conductors and trainmen, and we especially thank Pullman Conductor L. P. Bradley for his kind and efficient care and atten- tion during the entire trip, and espe- cially on account of the consideration of the company to the traveling public during the delay caused by landslides, washouts, etc., of this special trip.” Modern Life Savers. They were evidently from up in the valley—that old man’ with the long linen- duster and the bright-eyed lit- tle chap who sat by his side upon the deck of the ferry-boat. This was ob- viously the first trip to the city which either of the twain had ever enjoyed, though the old gentleman tried to look unconcerned. As the boat slipped swiftly past Goat Island the sharp eyes of the youngster spied the big red buoys which were scattered about the dock near the lighthouse. “Oh, pa, see them punkins! They don’'t raise them so big as that back in Capay.” “No, m’son, them ain’t punkins.” The old man put on a wise look while he stroked his gray whiskers reflect- ively. “Y’'see, them is the life-savin’ contraptions which they carries on the decks of steamboats. If the boat gets wrecked out in the ocean the passen- gers throw them over into the sea and clings to them until they is picked up. “But I du say,” mused the gentle- man from Capay, “that I shouldn’t think them would be the most com- fable things in the world to sit on durin’ a ragin’ storm with the waves swashin’ some.” In Winter. In winter, when the nights are long, I sit and dream before the fire; My heart is light, my love is strong For books, near friends that never tire, | er in this manner, it is thought many industrial works would be carried on. The Pri A Paris paper takes note of a ree markable type of criminal in the fol- lowing article: “Laurent Delarue, a criminal, who robbed on so large a scale and with such method and resources as to win for himseif the title of ‘King of the Burglars,” was brought up for trial to-day before the Seine-et-Oise Court, charged with a large number of thefts in various parts of the coun- try. “Delarue graduated in his profes- sion by a systematic course of educa- tion, working for some years as a safe- maker and afterward as a locksmith. Having thus acquired much valuable technical knowledge, he took up his quarters at Sartrouville, a village ten miles from Paris, and raided houses in every direction. Some 500 or 800 robberies are put down to him and over 1500 witnesses can be called if necessary. One night he broke into a small railway station near Dieppe, wrenched away the little safe from its fastenings, and, hoisting it on his shoulders, pro- ceeded to a neighboring field to break open and ransack it at his leisure. “A villager who caught sight of him from his window called upon him to stop, but Delarue paid no heed to him. Thereupon the peasant fetched his gun and fired both barrels at the robber. ‘The bullets, however, flattened them- selves against the safe, and Delarue, dropping his burdem, made for the railway station at Auppray, which he pillaged thoroughly.” Coal for Luck. ¢ Burglar, Recently a burglar in an E ish Po- ; a piece lice Court was found to car of ccal in his pocket “for luck.” Many English criminals think coal carried about with them gives good fortune. A belief in coal as a talisman is said to have Been held by the early Britons, and it is frequently found in their bu- rial places converted into personal or- naments, such as beads. Bellévers in dreams maintain that to dream of coal is a certain sign coming riches. ‘Then, too, there was a famous spec lum, or mirror of divination—that caused a great sensation in the six- teenth centuty-——of Dr. Dee, which was formed of cannel coal, though the doc- tor pretended to have received it from the angels. of Answers to Queries. AMERICAN ARTISTS—A. Y. P, City. The address of the secretary of the Society of American Artists is 215 West Fifty-seventh street, New York City; Henry Prellwitz, secretary. ST. LOUIS FAIR—Old Subscriber, Sebastopol, Cal. The Call will publish all the news of the werld's fair at St. Louis and will give data as to the at- tendance when the exposition opens. CENTER OF POPULATION—A. E. S., San Jose, Cal. The center of population in the United States ac- cording to the latest census is six miles southeast of Columbus, Ind. At the time of the taking of the previous census it was twenty miles east of the same city. In winter, when the nights are long. I read from eve till midnight comes; I stir my soul with history; My spirit then with heroes roams; I quaff of poets’ mystery From out the worn beloved tomes. In winter, when the nights are long, ‘When lamp burns bright, and fire burns low, I hear again full many a song, And voices out of the long ago, In winter, when the nights are long. Loved poems! Ah! how sweet you seem Ballade, rondeau and villanelle; Before the glow I sit and dream, Your music casts o'er me its spell, As shadows dance and embers gleam. In winter, when the nights are long, 1 revel. Some the summer praise, Its gentle breeze, its sunlight strong; But let me dedicate my lays To Winter, when the nights are long. —Francis Lee, in the Booklover. ‘A Nbvel Power Scheme. It is believed that before very long the famous Dead Sea will be exploited | for industrial purposes. French,engj- neers are at work on three different projects with this purpose in view. Ac- cording to the Boston Transcript, the level of the Dead Sea being more than 1300 below that of the Mediterranean and Red seas, it is thought by con- necting either of these two seas by means of a canal with the Red Sea a stream of water would flow with a velocity calculated to produce some 25,000 horsepower. There is no danger, and strike a blow for freedom. Perhaps of all the mod- ern races of the world that have felt the heel of tyranny the Finns deserve most the sympathy of free people. Progressive, loyal, peaceable, they have been creatures of monstrous governmental malice. R e France has decided for herself the very impor- tant question whether or not Japan gave violence to the laws of nations by the attack upon the Russian boats at Chemulpo. Meanwhile the rest of us areé trying to de- termine whether our congratulation shall be extended to the Japanese for the thoroughness of their victory or ‘to the Russians for their splendid example of patriot- ism and heroism : 5 “ it is asserted, of an overflowing of the Dead Sea, for the waters there evap- orate at so graat a rate (6,000,000 tons a day) that the incoming waters would make no appreciable difference in the level. One project is to start the canal from the Bay of Acre, read it south- ward past Mount Tabor, and let it join, at Baisan, the waters of the Jordan. Another plan is to build the canal along the railway line from Jaffa to Jerusa- lem. But this would mean blasting a tunnel of some thirty-seven miles through the mountains of Old Judea. The third vroject, the cheapest, pro- THOMAS CADY—A. O. C., Vallejo, Cal. This department has no informa- tion as to where lle the remains of Thomas Cady, a former resident of Vallejo, if he is dead, who was re- ported to have been drowned from off the Frisbie, to have been murdered by Greek fishermen and to have been shanghaied to Scotland. CONFEDERATE HALVES—A. E. 8, San Jose, Cal. When the State of Louisiana seceded from the Union, Jan- uary 26, 1861, it seized the mint at New Orleans, in which there were thou- sands of dollars’ worth of gold and silver. The State issued jointly with the Confederate Government $254,820 in $20 gold pieces and $1,100,316 50 in silver half dollars, using the United States die of 1861. CLOTURE—A. E. 8., San Jose, Cal. Closure of cloture is a method for clos- ing ate in parliamentary assem- bli d& use of which is analogous to that of the previous question in Amer- ican deliberative bodies. In the French Chamber of Deputies the president is to take the sense of the chamber before pronouncing the clos- ing of debate. If the cloture is op- posed only a single speech against it is allowed. The cloture being once pronounced no further debate is al- lowed. In the English Parliament the previous question does not have, as in the United States, the effect of sup- pressing all further debate on the main question. When means for this purpose were first adopted the mame closure or clotyre was adonted from the French. In the 6th of the new rules of the British Parliament, Feb- ruary 9, 1881, power was given the Speaker of the House of Commons to close debate. Under the rules adopted November, 1882, it was first used in Parliament February 29, 1884. ————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candles, 30c a pound. in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for ern. friends. 715 Market =t.. above Call bidg. * —_——— poses to start at Akaba, in the Red | Special information Sea, and vass through the desert of ‘Wady-el-Jebel. Having obtained pow- ok A