The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1904, Page 8

. FRANCISCO —— B n, trade, occupation, how to achieve the result—to vie with is to-day the of men and Bowles.) professic stion pussible —to succeed, ngrossing thought o other period of the world was much thought, care and study the question of success as now. ss—that invigorating, fresh-air suce and how to gain it—is rmost in men's minds. the great attention »ing paid to the problem of ment but become convinced that ency of the world is to become ized, that less is being left to that the ways of the struggling lightened and that it is gradu- @ becoming more possible to accom- plish great things than ever before. The drama rolling in its devotees the be thought and energies of the thousands, has become a force that is daily being reckoned with more and paid to view st more. When Victor Hugo many years ago called the actor the high priest in his pulpit, who sows seeds of thought, he spoke with the voice of a seer that was not taken seriously by his genera- tion, but was to be listened to a hun- dred years after. The great multitudes of theatergoers who attend theaters htly throughout this country are a tribute to the art of the actor, the sur- roundings of the stage and the neces- of the drama as a means of rec- reation. It mow rests with the actor 1o make it a means of ennoblement. How to succeed as an actor, how to ¥ the warmest tribute to the drama, now 1o give the public the greatest re- sults of the actor's efforts are sub- lecia“worthy of close attention from the best minds. I have always contended that the actor's art embraces all the other arts. In his own being he brings out the ef- fects aimed at in the color emotions of the painter, in the prose emotions 3 the sculptor, in the thought emotions of the author, in the soul emotions of the poet, in the magnetic emotions of the orator. He incorporates these in a composite whole in his work and re- flects them in himself. The laws of success in each of these branches of art enter of necessity into the art of the actor. If one would of laws to ipon the stage, desire to lay down a govern advancement one is struck at the outset by the -elusiveness of the e«-hemo for the drama, like all other | s, requires the innate artistic sense. “hm that is once found, as a gen- | eral rule, ing, like the sprout that grows under set the ground and forces itself into the | sun, into the plant or shrub or beau- tiful flower it is ordained to be. Itis the strength of the inborn artistic sense that will make itself be felt more | or less, according to its worth and in- tensity. Whatever may be said to aid an actor can only be set forth in a few rules of ethics—a moral guidance that will not make an actor of a man whom nature has not ordered to be one. but would help in lending a clean- | ly 2id to the drama in those who would succeed. The actor is a law unto himself. He is innately an actor. There is a temperament that gives conviction to the audience—there is nature that gives grace and allows the elasticity io take on and give out emotion, for that is the great effort for which the actor’s energies are| bent—the giving out of emotion. I have seen humble supernumeraries who were great actors, though they did not know it. They had the grace and some could rules will make a man an actor. others, cast for leading roles, wver hope to equal. No set of No help will assist him to span mediocrity | if he is not a dramatic artist at heart. | Granting an actor is innately one | and has the natural gifts of a pleasing appearance, magnetism and inspiration —what then? first examination into the eligibles. Plutarch relates of a battle-scarred Roman being asked what were the re- yuirements to become a great warrior <ol be answered: “A great character.” | it is not such a great cry after all irom a great warrior to a great actor. Character is as much a part of suc- cess in the drama as it is in the n‘ht- ing field. I would place character at the head | of requirements for the stage success. A great man character is a gentleman at hesrt. He will live in a plane of | high thinking and lowly living. He will have sane methods; he will breathe a good personality over the footlights; he will take pleasure in the simple things of life and will aid the dérama on the road to enroblement. Charscter is the essence which defies temptetion Jaxity and the diversions that are the pitfalls. Character will instill concentration. To keep oneself simple and fresh and young at heart i= the duty of the actor, and sanity, health 2nd that feeling Ibsen expresses as “the joy,of life” are the things our drama will always need. The actor with character is the strength ond backbone of the drama to come—the drama that will be poctic. scientific #nd full of great hope and nlmmre—‘ 2 side | the Arama that will take its pla by side with the puipit i Findly help and ennoblement. The management of his career is Ereat & pecessity to an actor as his natural gifis as an artist. There !fiwlng INS TRUCTIVE STUDIES it forces itself into a hear- | the power of expression which | These will pass his | ITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. .PRECKFJ.S, Prrpmtor s ae ses iaierss Address Al Commmuutwns to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office .Third and Market Streets, S. F. are those who, in their dreamy search for the artistic, overlook the pract | side of life, the part that is nece: {for an men to keep st There is a debit and credit side #6 every man’'s career. It is necessary for him to keep a sort of spiritual | book, keep his balance, if possible, al- on the right side of profit. An | actor's career is his stock in trade. It is the merchandise with which he | loads his shelf. It is his very work. It is the thing from which he is to get | his credit. It represents his toil. It is well to take an inventory of his | career very often to see where he has suceceded—to note where he has fa ed. When one has done this, one will learn at once the value of integrity, | without which success in no walk of |lite can be gained. I have known many who have all| the attributes.of great actors, but who | | have not the position they should hold | | because they have not managed their reers well. In the search for the istic they forgot the almost busi- s side of the actor’s life. It has ny times brought to my mind a tory Sir Walter Scott tells of a pil- grim who entered a monastery for the night and was surprised to see all | the holy inmates performing the most manual of labor. Some utilized wheel- way barrows, others the humble spade. | The pilgrim held up his hands in; horror. *“ We are holy men,” he said “It is our duty to pray. Such mater= [ ial work is not for us.” He prayed | zealously in a cell when he was shown to it, and when he was not called to supper he asked to see the nbbnl.l “Your reverence, I am hungr; he | said. “You said our duty here was| simply to pray,” said the holy father. “Keep on praying, my son.” The management of a man’s career calls constantly for a watch over the ethics of his heart so that he does no unwise thing. It keeps him keen for what Marcus Aurelius centuries ago | so aptly called “Keep the thoughts| upon the main chance.” There has been much ado at certain times over what has been termed the | artificiality of the actor’s art—a cry | that he leads an unnatural life, that | his whole life’s work consists of dis- sembling and assuming a thing which is not. It is true, the first impression | a beginner gets is that romance ends | behind the asbestos curtain. The moon | to which he utters impassioned ad-| dresses is only a box light, with per- | haps a tobacco stained man operating it; the sunshine is but a mass of blind- ing lights, the mountains but painted daubs and the woman he makes love to perhaps is the one he passes in the | dining-room with a chilly good-day. Well, what of all that? The painter does not place upon his canvas the real effect of the sky; the sculptor | simply reproduces the pose of life in senseless marble; the orator commands thought through figments of speech; the actor's art calls for him in his own person to become a thing which exists first merely in his brain, but that is his art—to make unrealities real—and he must bend his energies upon an ability to create perfect illu- sion If he would endeaver to succeed. Scientists tell us the color of the sun we look upon as golden is in reality- | blue, and we know the tints we see | in the horizon denoting a sunset are not the real pigments, but simply illu- sions: so we afterward learn that ro- mance is romance on the stage only as it exists in oneself. The watching of the simple things of life is paramount. When I began my career I one day walked through a public park at sundown with a promi- nent actor. A man sitting upon a bench suddenly lit his pipe. My friend caught me by the hand and watched | | the play of the light effect over the | man’s face and surroundings. A short time after that I saw him in a repro- | tduction that had a marvelous array | of light effect in it. I praised it to| | him, and he called to mind the scene | we witnessed of the man lighting his pipe. From that simple incident he had caught the suggestion for a novel lighting effect of an entire scene. Among some of the impassioned thoughts of Guy de Maupassant is this: “The public is. composed of numerous groups who say to us, ‘Con- sole me, amuse me, make me sad, make me sgentimental, make me| dream, make me laugh, make me tremble, make me weep, make me think,” but there are some chosen | spirits who demand of the artist ‘Make | for me something fine in the form which suits you best, following your own temperament.’” The actor who is sincere will make his work iike unto his innermost soul. Let him look to it that that soul is good and clean and wholesome, then he will have a great and pleasing per- | sonality that others will love. They will wish to see him and cherish him during his life and perhaps for a few | days fn memory after his death; and to be loved for our work while we | work, and to be spoken of kindly for a little while after we have made our final exit, is the greatest meed of suc- cess the actor can hope for. If he gains this he has reached the highest round of success of the-actor's art. I would like to tabulate the require- ments of an actor’s art as follows: | 1. Character. 2. The management of his career. 2. To keep himself .simple and natural. 4. Alertness watching the actions | of life. : | & Incessant work. Ingenious Spiders. The Royal Soclety in London was recently entertained with an account by R. 1 Pocock .of a spider of the Desidae family, living in Australia, which makes its habitation along the seashore in the crevices of the rocks between high and low water marks. This locaticn is selected, no doubt, be- cause it abounds with the food that these spiders prefer. But when the tide |is in their homes are covered with wa- |ter. Instead of deserting them, how- ever, the spiders solve the difficulty by ,means of closcly woven sheets of silk, which they stretch over the entrances, and within which they imprison suffi- | cient air to keep them alive during the ‘time that thev remain submerged.— | valuable Russian base for an attack on the capital. CHINESE NEUTRALITY. T is reported that Russia has ordered the Chinese I out of the Chinese town of Mukden, with the in- tention of occupying it with a Russian garrison. Mukden is in Chinese territory and administration, Russia has never had territorial jurisdiction nor sov- ereignty there. The best evidence of this is that the United States has treaties with China covering Mukden as a Chinese port, and providing for an American Consul there, whose exequatur has to be issued by the’ Chinese Government. Mukden is not very far from Peking and would be a Its occupancy by the forces of the Czar is an intimidation of the Chinese Government. It is probable that this, and similar acts, will be indulged in by Russia, to force China into resistance, and then the claim will be made from St. Petersburg that China has violated neutrality. Russia is a past master in such tactics and may not be expected to omit their use in the present struggle for control of Eastern Asia. Her policy is one of exas- peration, to force the other party into an overt act. If it do not succeed in this, then the foothold she has gained by craft is made permanént. In dealing with the countries she has overrun in her progress toward Eastern Asia, she has pursued this course of occupy- ing what does not belong to her and then treating re- sistance as an act of aggression, to be punished by every cruelty that her Cossacks can inflict. The United States has soughtsthrough Mr. Hay's note to the powers, to protect China against these tactics, and it remains to be seen whether the nations interested in the autonomy of China will be listless spectators of such aggressions as will destroy China if not resisted, and will furnish Russia an excuse to subvert that em- pire if resisted. As an administrative entity China has sofirelgnty of Mukden. If the Japanese had occupied it there would be an immediate protest from St. Petersburg, and the nations would be compelled to take notice. Japan may not choose to protest, leaving that to the Governments which accepted Mr. Hay’s note. It would be tactics for Japan to let the Russian violation of Chinese neu- trality become apparent, permitting resistance of China to develop into defensive measures which would amount to involving China in the struggle. This would create a diversion of value to Japan, provided that China could master a sufficient force to offer effective resistance. Of this, however, there may be doubt. The outside world knows but little about the armament and military capacity of China, but she is supposed to be weak, except in the enormous number of her people. The Chinese fight, when they have to, and given proper arms and discipline could be sufficiently formidable to keep Russia busy for some time. As the most important foreign affairs of China ars now in charge of Wu Ting Fang, the diplomatic part will be conducted by him with great intelligence, for he has an experience greater than any other Chinese states- man since Li Hung Chang. He has the ability to make clear to the Western hations any controversy in which Russian aggression or effrontery may involve the empire. In the judgment of Americans, who act from their convictions of what human liberty means, and without prejudice engendered by remote collateral issues, the struggle between Russia and Japan appears as a conflict between absolutism and representative government. Wherever the Russian standard is planted stands “the scepter that ends with a cimeter and the cross that ends with a knout.” Tt is absolutism, the most retrogressive and opposed to the spirit of the age. The institutidns of China are democratic by comparison. It was the belief of Bonaparte that the Russian spirit would never change and it has not changed since his time. Since the Italian campaign every Continental Gov- | ernment except Russia has been liberalized by the rise of parliamentary institutions, through which the people have some voice in their Government. It is a step for- ward in the enlargement of the protection of human rights. Only Russia stands where the savage Rurik placed her. This gives her a certain advantage in such adventures as she is attempting in Eastern Asia. Her Government, being autocratic and executive, does not have to consult the people, who have only the privilege of fighting for the Czar for 17 cents a month and found, and of dying for a system that keeps them in ignorance and degradation. Such a Government cannot be questioned at home and it carries its methods abroad with yonfidence. Its proposition to use Chinese territory as a base is one result. If any nation with a Parliament and popular rep- resentation did such a thing its administration would be questioned, as is done in the British Parliament, our Congress and the legislative bodies of the Continent. But the nobles, who control even the Czar, permit no inquiry and have no questions to answer, unless they are asked by other nations. We will see whether Mukden will provoke inquiry from any quarter. San Francisco has within her gates the first assign- ment of Filipino soldiers of the United States to cross the seas, They seem to be surprised at us and we cer- tainly are at them. They are little, but every inch of them is soldier. A few more such as they will do much to correct the Amenean nmpresslon of the South Sea islanders. A appearance of San Francisco = more attractive, This city has extraordinary advantages in its diversified surface. A flat city is not as capable of re- ceiving artificial ornamentation as one that has varied topography and altitudes. Many years ago Hon. Fran- cis G. Newlands submitted a very comprehensive plan for beautifying San Francisco, which merged public and private energies to that end. The bonds voted last fall include a considerable part of his plan and private enter- prise should be induced to supplement public effort. A modern city to be attractive needs, in the first place, the best street pavements, and in the erection of all business buildings their exterior graces should be con- sidered. The architect of the Claus Spreckels building had this m\mmg and produced what is admitted to be the only handsome skyscraper in the United States. In the East the tall buildings are nerely square topped structures in the planning of which utility alone was considered. The San Francisco architect treated this building as a column and crowned it mth a apml And dome. vamwefluvammndhshmbfimpoi attractive exterior in }h b—oav. mfio- e{ BEAU’I‘IFYING THE CITY COMMITTEE has been organized to make the b the committee of beautifiers may find much room for improvement in the residence districts. There every possible use should be made of the tropical foliage to which our climate is kindly. The heights, such as Rus~ sian and Telegraph hills, Buena Vista and Twin Peaks, are susceptible of being made most alluring features. Buena Vista is already a park reservation. Not many of our people ever visit its summit, from which there is a view of the bay, the ocean and far scenery, including Tamalpais, Diablo, Mission Peak and the Farallones. Nature has lavished charms within the corporate limits which the people of other cities' go far to seck. Let it be understood, also, that cleanliness is always beautiful. A clean city has charms that a dirty city cammot have. In this respect San Francisco has beeu greatly improved since the merchants took the matter in hand. Rough pavements are not easily kept clean, so that to be clean streets must be well paved, and one improvement begets ahother. San Francisco can be made the most attractive of the great commercial cities of the United States. At pres- ent our water front is repulsive. The old wooden build- ings are tottering to their fall, but will be propped and crutched as long as they bring rents out of proportion to their value. Some betterment is appearing on the front, and it is to be hoped that owners there will follow the few examples that have appeared. The better and more beautiful our builghgs, the cleaner and more ornamental our streets, the better will be our local governments. A dirty and forbidding town is less mindful of its municipal administration than one that is clean and attractive. The owner of the Kohinoor would not keep it in grimy surroundings and ignoble company. A clean city means clean hands in its governmeft. The new committee on beauty has an important duty and deserves .géneral encouragement. - After persistent and apparently unreasoning denial by | the Japanese the world now has proof that one of their cruisers was sunk in the sea fight off Chemulpo. Do the little brown men seek to enhance their reputation for prowess and bravery by picturing their foe as imbecile? A brave fighter loves a. brave antagonist and from the conflict comes with greater glory in either victory or defeat. G pioneer of the Golden West, and for twenty-six years “Guardian of the Yosemite,” at go years of age has been prevailed upon to write a truly notable and valuable book about the wonderful valley and the Indians who inhabited it when he made his first visit among them in 1855. Thousands upon thousands of people have visited Yosemite and marveled at its grand- eur, but it is a surprising fact that few of them ecarry away any knowledge of Chief Teneiya and his tribe, who ruled the valley when the adventurous miners first came to wrest it from him and enslave his warriors. Fewer still know anything of the war of extermination that was waged on both sides almost immediately thereafter, even though it is comparatively recent his- tory. And besides being one of the original surveyors of the famous “Mariposa Grant,” Mr. Clark was the dis- coverer of the Mariposa Big Tree Grove, which, to- gether with Yosemite Valley itself, he was chiefly in- strumental in bringing under Government control. Thus this remarkable man perhaps knows more about the sub- ject on which he writes than any one else in the world, and for this reason, too, the copious extracts that have been made from an advanced copy of the pook, and which will be published in the Sunday Call to-morrow by special permission, easily make up the most interest- ing and important article of the year. But even apart from this notable contribution the Sunday Call to-morrow will present many excellent magazine features. On the page devoted to the “Timely Topics of the World” is a big birdseye view photo- graph of the St. Louis Exposition, with an article de- scribing the wonders that will be displayed at the big fair, tion of how the ancient gods of war are being invoked in the Far East. Still another tells how American . SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE. ALEN CLARK, for more than half a century a farmers are being made out of Russian Hebrews by scientific methods. Equally valuable with Galen Clark’s book are the recollections and reflections of Thomas Fitch, the famous orator, on John C. Fremont, one of California’s grandest heroes. In a lighter vein but in the field of pure literature are several pages of the latest and most popular fiction. First there is the fourth installment of “To-morrow’s Tangle,” the stirring California novel, by Geraldine Bon- ner, tht famous California authoress, for the exclusive rights of which the Sunday Call paid $1000. Then follows the second of the series of sea stories by Albert Son- nichsen, the California writer who is now the literary lion of the hour in New York. It is called the “Mur- derer Who Laughed.” “In the Mitter of His Nibs,” by Francis Walton and Josiah Flynt, is no less unique and equally thrilling. Added to this is “Mrs. Bluebeard,” by Izofa Forrester, and a full page of “Half-hour Storiettes,” which are truly fascinating. Pictorially, the Sunday Call to-morrow will be quite up to its standard of excellence. For .instance, there is a full page of photographs of the girls who are play- ing “Ring Hockey,” the newest gymnasium game; a full page of photographs of the beautiful society women of Santa Cruz; a full-page photograph in multiple colors of Baby Helene Muller: a page of “Parisian Novelties for Easter”; a “Scrap-Book Page” of the strangest things under the sun, and many attractive features besides. A Port Arthur policeman committed suicide recently because he failed to apprehend certain elusive news- paper corfespondents that were making life miserable for the military authorities. The unfortunate man as- sumed his unwelcome duty with too serious a notion of it gravity. The correspondents who may be in Port Arthur have proved themselves to be absolutely harm- less. If they know anything about conditions there they have kept their knowledge a secret. The Mormons, it is said, are making strenuous efforts and pglpable headway in their campaign to settle and | proselyte in Oregon. If there be any people in Oregon that can tolerate, much less accept, the Mormons after the revelations made at the United States Sematorial inquiry into Smoot’s affairs they deserve the fate that they are inviting. Whatever they may wish, however, .honu not be m‘ to jeonrdise th interests of | S7°° Another timely article gives a graphic descrip- | | | On its face this curious bit of Japanese | English would seem to have been writ- | catalogue, while the second apologized | for the insignificance of the order and | acknowledged the firm's ! characteristic Japanese politeness. | the New oYrk house had filled the or-| TALK OF Ol R b TR o ‘A Poser in Japanese. The present interest in things Japa- nese gives timeliness to the publication of a letter sent several years ago by a tradesman in Tokio to a New York house manufacturing sporting goods. ten by a graduate of one of the Govern- ment schools, from which he had issued strong in the belief that he was master of the speech of the Anglo-Saxons. His epistle, the alien constructions in which show that it could not have been com- posed by any one speaking a European tongue, is as follows: “N. K. Nakamura, Tokio, 13 Ginza: “Messrs. In Abbey & Imbrie, New York—Dear Sirs in yours: We shall | present to your company the bamboo fishing rod, a net basket and a reel, as we have just convenience. All thc.ul were very rough and simply to you laughing for your kind reply which you sent us the catalogue of fishing tackles last etc. “Wishing we now at Japan there it/ was not in prevailing fish-gaming but | fishermen. In scarcely therefore, but| we do not measure how, the progression of the fishing game beforehand. There- fore we shall yleld feeling to restock in my store yo country’'s fishing tackles, etc. “Should you have the kindness to send a such father country even in a few partake, when we send the money in ordering of them, should you? Yours, yourstruly, “N. K. NAKAMURA." A copy of this letter found its way into the fatr hands of a Vassar College senior, who at once organized a so- clety among her classmates for its study and interpretation. After some weeks spent in erudite deliberation they reached the conclusion that the first sentence was an order for certain articles named in the manufacturers’ courtesy in forwarding its list. The third and fourth sentences were found to contain a discussion of ‘the difficulties of es- tablishing a trade in high-class sport- ing goods in Japan, where the fishing was mostly done by professionals. The epistle closes with a little flourish of But while the learned seniors at Vas- | sar were pondering over its mysteries der and got its pay from the courteous Mr. Nakamura. One on Ragan. Health Officer Ragan tells this story on himself. Shortly after Ragan had completed his term as a member of the | Board of Education, some years ago, he‘ moved from his old home on Haight street to a more commodious residence. The Haight street house had been rent- ed in the meantime to a lady who con- ducted a private school, and on the day Ragan moved out the school moved in. Ragan's belongings were strewn pro- miscuously on the sidewalk, and close to them, scattered on the lawn, were the desks, maps, books and other para- phernalia of a well-regulated school. Now, there had just been a Grand July investigation regarding the dis- appearance of some supplies belonging to the School Department, but the in- q\llluorlll body exonerated the Board of Education from any blame in the prem- ises. H. M, Black, the former foreman of the Grand Jury which had conducted the inquiry, chanced to come down on the Haight street car and was inex- pressibly pained to see the desks and other school articies surrounding Ra- gan's house. “Well, I declare,” said Black to a friend as the car passed. “And to think that we cleared those School Directors of any wrong doing. It'sa shame that Ragan should have the effrontery to flaunt in the public gaze the very things which we said he and his col- leagues did not appropriate.” The Bold Ghost. The year was young, but the place was old, And the house had gone to sleep, And the ghost that came by night was For the silence was so deep. Aloud he called to his queen, heart's fair | when he THE TOWN OF AHE . falo, although every available engine was put .on in the effort to overcoma the obstacles created by successiva storms and the extremely low tem- perature. The difficulties of the sit- uation were increased by the unusually arge amount of traffic. The trains had to be loaded lightly and it re- quired nearly three times as many lo- comotives to handle the business as it would in moderate weather. Every | railroad thus hindered in its operations naturally suffered a considerable finan~ cial loss.—Leslie's Weekly. Priceless Amimals. That it pays to possess brains ona learns conclusively from a late Lone don paper. We are informed that the late accomplished chimpanzee “Con- sul" was so valuable to its owners that it was Insured for £20,000, and its death at Berlin from bronchitls will cost the insurance companies that amount. This is the largest sum at which an animal of two years old has ever been valued, and the amount was in no sense a fancy price. The animal cost almost nothing to keep and Its performances often brought in & clear £200 in a single day. The sim- ple explanation of this Is brains. There was the “boxing kangaroo,” which rose in value from about £10 to half that number of thousands was in his heydey at the Westminster Aquarium. True, daunt- less resolution perhaps was the dom- inant quality in his personality, but there must also have been in him a liberal admixture of this priceless thing of brains. Fate of a Finn. Mystery surrounds the disappear- ance of Captain Hultin, formerly of the Finnish Guard in St. Petersburg. A few years ago he retired from his military pest in the Russian capital and accepted a pesition as president of the Scandanavian Commercial Bu- reau in Berlin. Again he resigned his posifon and returned to St. Peters- burg, where he entered the employ of & mercantile firm. Later he became a political suspect and as a result the police entered his house and made a thorough search for evidence against him. It resulted in nothing, however. Hultin, conscious of his innocence, felt that an Injustice had been done to him, went to the Chief of Police and demanded satisfaction. From this visit he never returned. ‘Answers to Queries. CHINESE RAILROAD-T. H. B, City. The first railroad bullt in China with the sanction of the Government was opened in 1888. KANSAS MOTTO—Reader, Oakland, Cal. The motto of the State of Kansas, “Ad astra per aspera,” means: To the stars, through all difficulties. THE DICK BILL—W. H. R, City, You can find a copy of the Dick bill for the regulation of the militia in the United States in the Army and Navy Journal, to be seen on file in the San Francisco Free Public Library. CONVICT—E. C. C, City. A man who has been convicted of a felony is not restored to his civil right unless he has been pardoned. He might receive credits for good behavior while in prison, but unless he was pardoned and restored to his civil rights he would not But she would not unbar the door, And the window from which she used to ean Stirred at her touch no more. In vain through the empty night he cried, Buf there came no answering tone; And then he bethought him that since he dies A hundrod years had flown. But a hundred years should have brnu‘h! more near The Love that he loved so well; And the bolld ghost's heart turned cold Whm was ule old-time spell? Had she forgotten what he held fast?— They say 'tis a woman's way Was u nnly aream that Love could last, The dream of an idle day? From the silent house the bold ghost turned— Why dream that a dream is true?— Ashes were where Love's fire once rned; Death's meaning at last he knaw. —Smart Set. Winter and the Railroads. The present winter has been one of the severest on record, and nowhere has this fact been more keenly real- ized than on the railroads of the north- ern part of this country. Not in years be entitled to vote after his release from prison. WHISKY-—Subscriber, City. The derivation of whisky or whiskey is from the Gaelic visge (water) and bea- tha (life), equivalent to the Latin aqua- vitae (water of life). The best is pro- duced from barley after it has been malted. What is known as “raw grain whisky” is made from wheat, oats, ce, rye, Indlan corn, buckwheat and millet. Whisky Is also made from beet root, potatoes, beans, molasses and sugar. CAUSE OF ACTION—A. N. 8, City. In the State of California, if when the cause of action accrues against a per- son when he is out of the State, the action may be commenced within the time limited after his return to the State, and if, after the cause of action accrues, he departs from the State, the time of his absence is not part of the time for the commencement of the ac- tion. In this State the statute of lim- itation on a written obligation runs four years if executed in the State and two years if out of the State. WATER—J. P. O, City. One mil- has the service on these lines been so |lion miner’s inches of water to he taken seriously crippled. snow, blown into huge drifts, block- Heavy falls of | from the Colorade River for irrigation purposes means one million times as aded the tracks and stalled many a | much water as will flow through an train, and the intense cold, numbing | opening one inch sauare under a pres- the workmen, seriously impaired their | sure of six inches. The discharge efficiency. the privations and sufferings of travel- Stories have been rife of | through such an opening under that pressure is about one and one-haif ers compelled to remain for weary | cubic feet per minute. The represent- hours and even days in chilly cars, |ative from the Congressional distriet halted in out-of-the-way places and [in Which you live will advise vou as unable to proceed. But their hard-|to what steps have to be taken to se- ships have been trifling compared with | cure power rights on a river. those of the trainmen, necessarily, from the nature of their dufies, ex- posed to the bitterest weather. The way in which leading railroads have fli mwumwmm which cars But- ————————— Townsend's California Glace fruits ehole- candies, in artistic - fire- uc;:: es. A nice present for Eastern friends. M« street. above Call building. * * n..*:.."‘"..‘?.'."-‘?u