The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1904, Page 8

FRANCISCO CALL, THE ' S. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1904. o INST RUCTIVE J‘T UDID\S‘ sEOns) ready ex ’ e the pur st : part of an_ ascending scale, begirn the noté G and trav= eling ward, T note, till he’ e 1551 mes -down the * £ » more strikeés SINGING EXERCISE. | he’ sings D agdin, ysing r final note. 1 stration. will exercise greatly, Chance mw anaiyse che but ake o by infervening unac- must -be treated nted notes in an In other. words, te. is as -important cented; and. must th of the beat, 8 = that it is. entitled @ and » rving.. the necessary smobthness. 1 care should be taken * about this h wise the tones may wome jerky, ‘instedd -of. just- the. res Tee, 25 the exercise is designed 1o imake them 8o mu he frst part of the ex. 1 the e .has ended s cor 0’ again to G the & ready- fof the jump to D and hack % As-foon as hesirikes G his mind must iy ‘at once to D-(while he is still hold- its allotted time) and tzke tire efore he actually. sings MENTAL INVERSION' ERCISE. OF RISk At “The 6 and D are half-nofes,’ so are 1o be held for 1wo -beats.. The final u 7 is°to" be: Sung as.a whole nule In order o give the prcmex". swing - - To, thie’ éxercise- jet -&. circle “with the .pupil describe his hand-and arm -at beiit (not. ll(‘l(‘ . making four circkes to each measure. - He muist.d6 this according to ‘the rules. - given in the ‘former lesson. -He must try- to “think whead” - ffom beat to | --beat; 80 as to be preparu‘l for each | note as it (‘umm( think just ‘as high- as possible and _he is able to_concentrate his mind he il find it & great-help. tc 1xen;m ‘menfally as ‘he.sihgs it,- T luve found this to'be of almost great- _er dd\unl&‘r than anything else in acquiring geod tones and it is not at _all difficult, althéugh it may sound $6 “umtil’ one_hus tried it. Thé idea is " merely this—while -KnglnxG A, B, C D; €.B,.A; G, D, G, the pupil must try to think D,C.B,/A.G,A, B.C.D,G, D, which the pupil’will find ¢if he tri it-ori the piano) is exactly the sam thing s the exercise itself, only that Con€ goes up while the other goes down and vise versa. The jdea will be read- ' -ily under'stood. 1t is only another form of wem:ug notes lu;elhen 80 that one. tome. shiall become as perfect as an- . ather ard. there will. be- no idea . of .dfstance: Here, as in al eise pertain- ing to- music, the mind has a wonder- ful power to smooth the way over difficulties. “Strange -as it may -seem, | ple is just the same. ' we taught the pupil how t sing.a- sin- and . the >thiy” through the: taken - that the - pupil dently intended for grand opera and | --and thus ~ He must also try to | \erl the . This, it will be seen, F. G, A; B, C. is substantially the same thing as the ‘pianp- scale in_ “thirds.” .The princi- In the first place gie note—-then two ‘notes in’conjunc- | tion, then a short scale exercise em- asizing .every other:-note (in other 3 g the scale. in: “twos”). Now--wé are - giving ‘it to_ him in and’ so infricate W «chi day..when the pupil beglm- nis 1 practice, “he. must takKe up, his .mug exercises before. attempting After this he must take ses _one’ after an- r-’]mr!h'g him: for third: other in the. order ‘in” which. I have glven them. if he wishes to obtain the best r related to the other "in a direct -line of progression and all are related to the lhmxs which are.to come"after. In helping the boy. through. these exercises be-sure that he always keeps on the key. Sirike the chord.often enough. to keep him from straying, if hé has any disposition’ to do so.* In the effort to acquire.a good fone don’t neglect -to -acquire a- frye one, and o1 make ‘the pupil listen to his voice al- ways,- teaching - him in’ this “way to once a fall from pitch. It not.to use:the: pi Y rore than. is absoliitely ‘nécessary at - this time, bui & chard-or two to steady the pupil- will do 1o harm.’ * ‘By.this timeé the pup customed’ his vocal chory in singing ‘and his prictice time can be lengtheiied & little. ~ One cannot set down_an exact Fule for this, further in -that the voice ‘must never be weeks the practice will have ac- to daily use A After a_few € sradually -be lengthened to twenty minutes or- half an hour, but never | more than that at a-time. Fifteen nrl twenty minutes in the- morning: and thé same amount later in the day is| & good rule, if the pupil works con- | sciéntiously and’ does not.try to force his - voi temember * that 4 lttle | forcing mow may: ruin. his voice. for- éver, and the pupil must -be content go siowly ‘and give his voice .4 chapce 'to_grow ‘s it will. Tk one great -defect that our dent “must look ‘for, .and that. is nasal tones. It is astonishing how tany people sing through their noses | and never knew it.. Nothing is more ly ‘musical to' my mind than irig,” and ; nothing, also, “is | 1o cure; ‘for, as a rule, the is- unconscious’ of the trouble and . often refuses-to believe it when 101 of his fault by.friend or teacher. to ger Oftentimes . the reason -that he fails | Jlize ‘the situation is because he s through his nose, and so, b ing accustomed {0 the sound. thinks othing of.it #hd does not realize that | lis - intonation is -different from that | “of any one ‘else: ir -pupil has any | such tenden 5 for the longer. e sjngs or talks | in -that -way the harder. it will- be for him _to: overcome it."-Sométimes, in fact,’ it can never be overcome, as for instance. in- lhe case of 4 v 1 knew, whe from her. babyhood -had | béen actustomed 16 sing at Sunday- | school. eoncerts and so forth. -When she reached the sge of 16 her miather took her to.oné of .the finest vocal teachers i the city where she’ lived. © was ‘delightedl ‘with her voice (al- though he noticed. the nasal guality), for he. feit sure that he could conquer that beforé-1ong:. In d short time her voicé developed wonderfully, increas- ing daily in volume until it.became a tremendous voice, astounding the girl herself, her relatives and teacher alike. He told her that she was evi- must study with that end in view. At this she. of course, redoubled her ef- forts: and- cenquéred all but ons dif- ficulty—she could not keep froin sing- ing throu—* her nose! Her lungs were ; wonderful, the volume of the tone most remarkable and the smoothness roundness of- her tones were charming, when the nasal quality was absent, but-in spite of all this ¢he master was obliged to give.her up ‘in- despair at last, because she did not know' when she ‘was. singing through her nose and when not. and therefore her trouble was incurable, Try as she |-would (and she tried desperately hard, for - a possibly great future was at stake) she. could ‘not detect the rasal fwang. and when her teacher really became - convinced that' she would never know the difference in tone_ he ‘realized ‘thal in spité of her lovely voice he could never make a singer of her, hard as it seemed, for, of course, i no.audience would take seriously or care.to listen to a singér who every few minutes lapsexl into a nasal way | 6f singing, no matter how lovely her | other tones might be. 2 One cannot .help” wondering if . the rouble could not have been eradicated if she had been taught to listen to her | voice as a little girl, for, of course, long usage and familmrity with the sound ! of .her voice in singing and-epeaking would ‘make it just-so much harder to \.detéct any fault of that kind. At any rate, we wish to begin in the | proper way with our pupil and give | him no chance to say, “If only I had ‘ been taught not to do that ‘wheén I was e 1 sinsins comen (rom one of two xmu:& Either” because the singer un- | consciously tightens some muscle or i does. not. | some syrup that was a substitute for molasses. | dividuals. |'and physics that is not general. he very thoughit of taking a high note | muscles in the nose, thus restricting }- in_itself enough to ugnfen t;‘e voca] the free passage of air through the chords concerned unless some sort of | nasal cavity, 6r because the student . mental preparation is resoried to. The | IS the victim of some catarrhal trouble. note alwaye seéms much more u.m.l'nm last reason “is really’ much less tainable. than ‘it really is, and m,,‘serlous than the other form from a thought® of the leap frightens us, - If, SiDge's point of view, for a very slight hoivever, -the pupil . resorts to me|“aurrhal irritation will often cause aforementiohed metirods of placing | nasal tones, and as soon as this has the pote- in his mind before actually | Peen cured the pupil will be free from teking it he will ar once admit the | any tendency toward nasal singing. It value of this self-imposed- ruse. is best, however, to find out just what -In the next exercise, which is to bg!the cause is in such a case and to mnme:u-.nun last, the “mental inversion” will help him’ still more. exercise. is-to be sung in four- four time, but.is.in groups of. trip- remedy it @s soon as.possible, for the effect upon the child’s musical ear is the same whatever cause. the trouble comes from, and the longer it is al- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHND..PRE(IE.S.P:W:..........M&&AH &mmumfionsb}OKNlcNAUGflT Manager Publication Oflco ........Tmrdnndmrknsms.!-‘. ....MARCH 2, 1go4 IMPROVED AGRICULTURE. ED\'EQDA\’ ¢ HE Colu=4 Sun ¢omments upon the criticism, in a T San Francisco paper, of a pmposxhun that the Ag- -ricultural Department- éxert itself to find a stock food- equal to Indian corn, that will grow wheré corn This proposition is made the text for a dis- coursé.on ‘the departure of the. Federal Government from the safe moorings of the consfitution: We are unable to find .a breach niade in' thé constitution by the Agricul- tural. Department. The Federal Government, under. all administrations, : has considered it. a duty to introduce | new planla in order to dn.ermfy .agriculture and add to its profits. & This. work. was formcrh considered a fum:uon of the I‘atem Office. before the. Agricultural Bureau of the In- terior Department was created as the germ of the pres- ent :Cabinet Department. duced orfe plant that proved of vast importance to the people. A Democratic Patent- Commissioner, the late Charjes Mason, introduced the sorghum sugar cane.- It flourished as far north as Minnesota. The Patent Office issued bulletins -ome its cultivation, methods of grinding the-cane and of evaporating the juice, to make a whole- 3 -Great skill in these processes was developed, ‘and forty. years '.a;z »,:all through the prairie States, there were evaporat- ing plants to which farmers hauled their cane lu be manu- factered into syrup. p B During the Civil War, when sugar was I-ugh sorghum was of the greatest economic value. Later it was. discov- ered that the plant was valuable fodder for stock, better than corn stover and an excellent substitute for hay. Now | it 1s a standard forage crop on the dry lands of Western Kansas- and Nebraska.. Sown thickly, the cane grows small, with abundant leaves, full of sugar, and .makes a fattening food. Yet the sorghum never destroyed the Fed- eral constitution when introduced under the administra- F“,," of Buchanan, and we are entirely unable to see that liberty is endangered by finding a substitiite for Indian corn E This. work. of plant mtroductmn cannot be done by in- Jt tours of investigation and dis- covery all over the world, and a knowledge. of botany The Agricuitiral De- partmrent -was capable of introducing the blastophaga into California to fertilize our Smyrna figs, when the effort of individuals had. failed., That werk of the de- partment enabled California last year to export 680 tons of dnc(l figs' of ‘excellence equal to the imported article. Then ‘the department found certain varieties of the date involves ripening in Lali[umm farther north than elseuhere in the | world. It started. its expert, vestigation of the date palm. “Mr. Swingle, upon an .in- Then for the first time our | general public learned from him that there are dates. and the varieties being certainly as numerdus ds the | dates, variéties ‘of peaches. On a far oasis in the Sahara he found the deglet noor, the highest. type of date. 2 Turning his attention to California, by patient investi- gmtum he found that-the Colorado Desert was even bet- | ter adapted to this date than its home.on the oasis. Re- visiting the Sahara he procured the plants, packed them on camels hundreds of miles planted"them ‘on our desert. Their rapid growth veri- fies hiis conclusions, and there is presented naw the pros- pect that this- State will become as celebrated for date production as it is in the growth of citrus frmls and that in“a very few years we will dominate the markets in oranges, figs and dates. Surely the States cannot do lhi: work, nor can individuals, and it is the specific work for which. the old Patent Office was partly designed and which belongs to the Department of Agriculture. 1f the Federal Government discovered these new and valuable plants, proved the . adaptation of our soil and climate to their profitable cul!ivatién, and then -itself monopolized' them, as a producer, fo, the exclusion of citizens, it is admitted that it would be doing something constitutionally quéstionible. The Secretary of Agriculture has been criticized, and indeed denounced. as an unscieftific man. But he is a practical farmer and was a professof of pracncal agri- culture in a college when appointed to his- present posi= tion. His immediate predecessor, Mr. Morton of Ne- braska, was not educated in a laboratory, but he also was a practical farmer andsniade in the department that or- ganization of the sciences contributory to agriculture, which has been so largely and so usefully developéd and applied by Mr. Wilson. We are of the opinion that if civil ‘liberty face no greater danger than is incurred by the operations of that department, the days of our en- slavement are as remote as the fixed stars. sharp of speech, clear of vision and. slirr of. analysis, says that observation is reason for an’ assurance that we have not a friend, sincerely con- sidered, among the nations of Europe. If nations, as well as men, are to be judged by the company they keep, we are to be congratulated. 'We may well afford to lose friends whose friendship is a synonym for selfishness and whose well-wishes inevitably spell trouble and en- tangling allianees. T MEDAL TEST FOR ORANGES. the world and to determine by the wise verdict of disin- HE St. Louis Exposition will afford great oppor- tunities for rival industries, rival sections and new terested mankind at large whether claims that have been made in their behalf are justified by the facts. Jurors will be appointed to consider the relative merits of applicants for medals. Supposedly the jurors will give fair hearing, will bring skilled and impartial observation to their tasks and will decide in accordance with sound thinking in at least a majority of the instances. At the conclusion of their labors they will award diplomas, ribbons, medals, etc., fo be used as lasting evidence by the fortunate win- ners. To this test the orange growers of Northern and Cen- tral California may submit their citrus fruits and their reputations as growers of such fruitage, confident that the results will be satisfactory. In various parts off Cali- fornia preparations are in progress to have oranges se- lected and prepared for show, competitively, at St. Louis. Poultney Bigelow, The old Patent Office intro-- .across the desert and: inventions to place themselves in evidence before. delightful place for dwellings. The winner of the gold medal for oranges will need no better advertisement for his neighborhood. Hence the significance of lhe medal test for oranges that is impending at St. Louis. For a long term ‘of years Southern California has claimed to have a climate supe- rior to any to be found in Northern or-Central California. On the other hand the northern and central sections of the State have called into the court of public opinion the evidence supplied by .the official figures of the United States Weather Bureau to prove that the temperatures in their-neighborhoods are as equable and that the extremes of heat and cold are not more marked than they are south of Tehachapi Pass. Red Bluff, for instance, has heen compared with Redlands climatically. Official statistics covering considerable periods have seemed to fully jus- m'y all slatcnlents that have been made in.favor of north- | ern and central pmnts in general as compared ‘with the southern sections. & "The - stranger, however, ‘will not pore over statistics when he is in St. Louis. He wiil instantly appreciate the | fact that an grange country is ‘delightful. He will see | oranges from Northern, (.eutral and Southern’ California. He will inquire to same extent regarding the conditions | under which they were produced: He will learn about ithe rainfall of the different places that vaunt orang:s as evidence: of their natural udvantages. He' need not be a great expert to realizé that oranges are sweet, juicy; fair to look upon, palatable in -every redpect. He will gef literature dealing with orange-growing to a large extent as representative alike of the north and south. if he is interested in California he will watch to see which particular locality is awarded the first gold medal for oranges. Counties hundreds .of mlles north of San Franciseo and_those. south of Tehachapi will be rivals for the gold:| medal distinction. The foothills of the Sierra will -ad- vance to the fore with their oranges and show them { had planned, but the woman -proudly. The inland valleys of "Central California will show what can be done in alist of counties. The Sacra- mento Valley is confident. W. D. Nichols, who is in charge of the Sacramento Valley fruits, writes to a prominent orange-grower of Placer County in reference to oranges feady to be sent to St. Louis, “I am confident | they will carfy off a gold médal.” The contest will be noteworthy and the prizes worth struggling for. The bartenders of Oakland threaten 'to ‘boycott the saloonkeepers if demands alfeady made with, insistence_ are not lmmcdmtely met by .compliance. What a strange’ and. refreshing incident .it will. be in the scheme | of modern municipalities to see a saloon boycotted any- | where by anvbody' Oakland is b:ddmg for fame by a single coup. ‘ English reports and rumors are set going to em- ! ". broil the United States with the Czar. To this | <lass it is said belongs the statement that the American man-of-war Vicksburg did not rescue floating Russian marines at Chemulpo. s Americans are rather skeptical as to the Russian com- plaint. The position of our Government is_one thing, and | the sympathy of our people is quite another: No Rus- sian can deny the cxc:edmg patience of our Government ' with Russia, When the Czar proposed the secret treaty | with China which foreclosed against the commercial rights of the rest of the world in EasterneAsia, and the sim’sger pact was exposed by our Minister to ‘China, St.! OUR TREATY RIGHTS. OMPLAINTS are made in St. Petersburg that i Petersburg promptly denied that any such treaty had been mooted and flatly accused our Minister of lying to his Government. Subsequently the Chinese Forelgn | Office disclosed the terms of the proposed treaty, which were foiund to be exactly as ‘our Minister had stated | them. The United States could not accept such conduct on | the part of Russia as a challenge to war, and short of | that there was nothing to be done except show our POsi- tion by supporting our Minister. Subsequently we pub- | licly negotiated and concluded a commercial tréaty with China. It was ratified and ratifications were exchanged between the Chinese Minister in Washington and Secre- tary Hay, and of this our Minister at Peking was noti- fied by cable. ‘The French press, spiteful in manifesting sympathy with Russia in order to block the diplomatic game of ingly characterized the telegraphic notice of its ratifica- | tion as “resembling the telephone marriages in vogue in the United States.” This was unfriendly to our Govern- ment and was a gratuitous insult to our people,"by a slanderous accusation against them. is in the rumor business, comes the indorsement in the pudence, and a rather brazen criticism of our right to make a commercial treaty with China at all! Americans would like to know when and how it became obligatory upon their Government to ask the consent of Russia be- fore making a treaty? The Czar has no suzerain rights in China. To secure such rights was the object of the secret treaty which the Czar tried to force China to accept under duress. Qur commercial treaty was the conclusion of the policy of the open door in China, for which Secretary Hay laid the foundation three years ago in his identical note to the European governments. His remarkable foresight es- tablished our commercial rights in China, and they are now secured by the treaty which excites ire in St. Peters- burg. : The Washington Government has in no -particul been unfriendly to Russia, but has gone to the verge of may be the sympathies of our people, they intend that their Government shall do no more than maintain its far for the cause of Russian objection to our Chinese treaty. It unconsciously discloses the Russian purpose |- Finally | enduring | 1on the front platform with the driver. ! that the man ahead -of him had no in- - | the now thoroughly exasperated driver, | turning to Alden, exclaimed, Germany, immediately denounced this treaty and insult- | Now, along with the Russian complaints that England | Russian official newspaper of this piece of French im- ! lar | cOuple who were rights, without military aggression. One need not seek | rough. ‘A Clever Impostor. " The story of the man Meyers, now “the” mystery in the Detention Hos- pital, reminds some of the old San Francisco residents of a similar fake. if faking it is that Meyers is doing. It was in 1871 that a young woman cre- ated quite a sensation by claiming that she had lost Her hearing and power of 'speech in one night.. She aieged that through the shock of an earthquake | during the nighttime this sad happening was occasidned. The woman was sub- jected to thé most critical examination by the then leading physicians in the city, including ‘Drs. A. J. Bowie, J. C. Shorb, H. H. Toland, James Murphy and others, 'but all agreed that it was a mystery beyond their medical ability to solve. S0 mueh’ interest was manifested in the woman's case that the charitably disposed people showered contributions | more wealthy than she éver dreamed of being. The case became so notorious .tha( Captain Lees, then chief of detec~ tives, took a hand in the matter, be- | lieving that the public_were being im=- | posed. upon. He was determined to | sift the woman’s story to the bottom. | Lees and two of his detectives planned | to interview her one.night in her room on Dupont street, and at the same time concected a ruse by hiding another de- | tective-in a clothes closet with instrue- tions to explode a detonating cartridge right behind her at the time that she was engaged in written conversation with her pad and pencil. The object of this was that the sudden noise would | tcause her to turn her head involun- i | tarily in the direction of the explosion, thus showing that her hearing was not affected. Everything went just as Lees never winked an eyebrow when the explosion took place. Lees became convinced of | - her muteness and left. The sequel was that the woman had | been coached by a cléver scoundrel { who afterward married her to possess { her money. Then he deserted her and she confessed the whole scheme. Clothes Make the Man. railroad companies issued an order| that fares be collected from policemen | when they are not in full uniform,” said the old police reporter a few nights | ago, “‘but it didn’t take them very long to countermand it. The late Sam Alden, who at that time was detailed for duty agers' that it was a poor rule that did 'nl)l work both-ways. the order had been issued, and decided | to visit friends residing in the Mission. He boarded one: of the old bobtail cars of the Mission street line, and being in | civilian’s dress was told- by -the driver to drop his fare in the box. The star would pot pass him over the road. Sam contributed his nickel and took a stand The car had gome but a few blocks when a leaKy sand eart pulled in on the track. ‘The carman sounded the bell for | the cart to pull out, but no attention was paid to the signal. Aftr ringing the » bell for nearly two blocks and realizing | tention of giving him the right of way, ‘Mr. Of- ficer, I demand that you arrest that man for obstructing this car.’ “Alden took in the situation at a glance, and with a merry twinkle in his eye drawled, ‘You just wait until I go home and get my uniform, and you bet I'll land that !ellow in jail in a ey incit Qui Se Vincit. A hammock, a chair and a cozy corner, An old young man and a young old maid; Whispers, lies, In the summer gloaming; Feigned emotion, complaisant shade. His Heart believed she was fresh and into her hands, so that she soon became | “A good many years ago the street| in the City Prison, cenvinced the man- | “Sam was off duty a few days after | cient Wk * . only dispatch within news of threaten- ing peril, but rush. out. with utter abandon to face the foe. With ants patriotism is not “second nature”; it is instinctive, inborn, seemingly .as strong in the callow antling as in the veteran brave. | It must be confessed. however, that it is rigidly exclusive. . Racial catholi- city is not an emmetorian virtue. Ants are without that elastic hospitality which embraces and . assimilates ‘all foreigners. Even: the avesmakers hold their domiestic auxiliaries strictly distinct. It may be due to m.ermulenn‘ patriotism that ené fails’ te. discover individual benevolence . ‘in - -ants. Friendships and.personal affection,. in | the limited and specialized: sense fa- | miliar among ‘domestic. animals, are as yet unknown. .And thus.it is with other social insects.—Harper's Maga- zine. The Pump Gard}n. Any one who back’. yard and a pump may have a novel t of gar- den for semi-aquatic-plants which wilt be ‘a’ pleasure to every one, say$ Coun- try Life in America. The:cost is very small—a half day from theé: carpenter and a dvollar's worth of roois from the florist; the eare is natling.: The. in- teresting group of- wild flewers which can be riised by the aid 6f the pump. will be quite different from.the usual row of dusty gerahiums and the strag- gling nasturtiums essayed by the av- erage woman with a’ bit of. yard A small cafch "basin should : be paved with pebbles or broken bifs af marble, the ston mméd well dowit | into ‘the turf. “This- basin: helps - to spread out and distribute the water, | The "ordinary Maily use of the' pump for domestic purposes is quite’ spfi- to keen a pjece of ground: ten feet square in a condition: A small garden of-this kind may-be started with such plants as caridinal flowers, purple gentians, .blue flags, Japanese umbrella plants, water- sun= flowers, myosotis .or. forget-me-nots, violets, marsh marigolds’ ind ‘swamp mailows. These firnish a suévession of blooms for many weeks.. The roots of all these plants may -be obtaine? from any florist. for 10_ cents _about each. . S Jlnrking the. Spot. “The Mexican railroad has erected a monument with suitable inscription, marking the point where the globe is -crossed by the Tropic of Cancer. The monument is of Wood, tivelve feet high. and twenty-four feet long: ~On the top there are two arms pointing: out .the two zones. It is situated- on desert ground a few ml‘u south of. Calono. HAnswers ‘to Qnerle.v. ST. LOUIS—G. DA K., Lol tllloi. CaL The average moisture (annual) in St. Louais, Mo., is 41.8 inches. The average temperature is 5614 degrees.. - . MIRRORS—W. L.. K. CIW. ‘The: Cail's index does not show that thera was published an article on “fl.' ta- lovely, And loved her dearly, and all of that; ‘While - huyilh faith from some far off Enlhrhled and cherished—his Heart did But his Head, old, critical, versed in wickedness, Saw naught but a jaded, old coquette; Brilliant, selfish, vain., unserupulous, To whom Fidelity meant Forget. So his He-rt kept calling his Head a While Ris Head knew all that it saw was true; Yet the stubborn Heart refused to tire, Till a whispered sentence made things all new. For the words dropped the vell from the '“"""x?.&'.‘.’m. crimson soul; Baring & 5 3 Grasping, llant, shameful, brazen, And a 311 tering image of Self—its So_the boyish faith fled back lD its cor- ner The wise old Head wore a cheerful B ile; And t‘l:‘n Heart, philosopher made, through mourning, Thouxht it an episode well worth hile. gent. A Dry Sea. “I was spending a few days Strathavan, Scotland,” Mantell, the actor, recently. Make Transparemt Mirrors.” PENSION—ARn Admirer . of The Call, City. to a pension and back pay make ap- plication to the officer In ¢harge the pension office in this clty WEBER AND n!:LDs—'suhpeflur; City. Weber and Fields, the actors, when in San Francisco about fifteen years ago, appeared in the Bella Union Theater, the Wigwam md the Or- pheum. For information rélative. o8- HYDROGEN GAS—A suhum'nr. i City. Gas used for inflating balloons is hydrogen gas, which is 14:43 times lighter than air. If a balloon occupy~ ing as much space as 1000 pounds of air, but weighs itself, covering, gas and appendages, 600 pounds, it wilt be impeled upward with a force of 400. pounds. Ordinary coal gas, sometimes used to-inflate balloons, is three tlmes lighter than air. "LIFE INSURANCE-A., 8, City. Life Insurance has been traced back to 1698. In that year in London ther= was a hint at modern life insurance m - in | an organization, and this was followed said Robert B. | by another two years later. The meth- “At 'the | ods of these two passed away without inn where I was stopping lived an old | giving to their successors any clear a~- the United States. Naturally enough, they questioned me at some length very dangerous to cross the ocean. I assured him that it was net at all ‘hazardous, although it was often very His sister listened intently, and then remarked with a sigh of contentment: ‘Aweel, aweel, it's been a gay dry summer and I think the preparing to visit | count of their plans of operation. - to make conquest of China. Treaties run with the terri- [ sea’ll no be very deep.' " tory and are not abrogated by change in its sovereignty. If China be absorbed by Russia our open door treaty will Humble Patriotism. A third society called the “Amicable So- ciety for a Perpetual Assurance Office,”” international patience with that power in overlooking its { about the ‘trip, and the old gentle- | was founded in London in 1706. - It was. distinct aggressions and Punic faith. No matter what | man was anxious to know if it was ' mutual; that is, each member, without reference to age, paid a fixed admission fee and a fixed annual payment per share on from one to three shares: it the end of the year a portion of .the fund was divided among the heirs o the members who had died during that weriod, in proportion to the shaves | heid at the time of death. There grew up- with this the election of membets, then limitations as to age, occupation, health and other suggestions which were final- Where oranges grow to perfection the climate is mild and agreeable; the soil is fruitful and moisture is availa- ble in sufficient quantities to endow the orange with the finest flavor and the most ;{ruenuble rind, Mfih« with the hrgest oercenu.g‘ of m block her policy of closing China to the rest of the world, in order that she may gnaw the peace. lowed to go on the harder it will be {or him to become entirely free from it. “To go back for a moment to the ex- ercises given in to-day's lesson, the lets, mdfln‘ twelve notes to the meas- ure. The pupil begins on middle C mdflnulhemlnm-torm C, B, C—D,C.D—E I E—F, E, F— 0.? G—A, G,'A—B, A, B—C (held | pupil must practice very faithfully a whole beat). - Then, returning, C, everything as I.have here given jt, be- D, C—B, C. HB.A—GA.G—NmvaMmtI—a for P.G.P—E.'-E-—DED—C(MG wemwnnur-uhr Many times and in.many ways the |ly developed by other organizations on Celestial bone in | gevotion of ants to their commune | scientific les' and the work o has been tested. The rule is well-nigh | development along those lines .is still invariable of instant and absolute self- | going on. abnegation, and surrender of personal % ease and appetite, life and limb, to the 'l‘a-ud‘- m fruits M ma'clh.re The posting of senti- | Sandies, He &, pound. in is customary, and :un-. flil-ltnn..-hnhl 3