The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1904, Page 8

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1904 | | -4 act the st m tion ir if the 2 note rns the page a what is for a loss of a ake hold of the »f the music ible W pos: ever take hold of the Jower corner, for this position brings hig arm directly across the lower part of the page, covering just the part of the music that the rist in finishing his page must naturally wish to see. By turning at the top all awkward- ness of this sort is avoided. If the boy in turning the page is obliged 1o stand at the right of the pianist he must be sure to turn the Jeaf with his right arm, otherwise he will obstruct the pianist's view with his arm as he puts the leaf in place. Apropes of this, it will be well to teach our pupil something of the lives of the well khown composers. While the boy is still very young this can be done by means of stories. LEA¥ TURNED PROPERLY BRINGS HAND AT TOP OF PAGE. 4 4+ -5 Study up the lives of the musicians #nd some rainy day take the child on your lap and in your own language tell him the story of one of them, simply and entertainingly. dates and leave out the dry parts of the biography, if any there be, telling the boy such things as will best stay in his mind and give him a vivid pic- ture of the musician in guestion. If one has the knack of story telling these little histories can be made as interesting to children as fairy sto- ries. Do not be in a hurry to turn from one story to another. Tell the story over and over again on different days and sometimes get the child to repeat 10 you all that he can remember of it. This will help to fix = e N 4 AN = . A it A i a8 for slow geale practice. As the second finger descends the ¥ | thumb (first finger) rises once more, de- Avoid | | to the little boy. There are many ex- l" ent bpoks written on the subject |7 | some of them are particularly tted for children. H if this idea is followed out care- | fully by you, the boy will thus add | | very materially to his knowledge and | |as he progresses in his piano studies {and gradually reaches the place where | | be is able to study music by Mozart, | | Mendelssohn, etc., he will feel twice | the intergst in it that he would other- | | wise, because he will know who the| composer was, how he used to live, | the struggles he had when he v-ul ttle boy, and so on. The composer | will thus become to him a real person instead of some abstract being in whom he feels no interest. | { It ie now time to teach the boy a/| strengthening exercise, which I have| | kept until these later lessons, as the| | pupil needed the weeks of finger prac-| tice cn the earlier studies before he; could possibly be fitted for the ad-| vanced finger work which I am about | ise that T have in mind is one of the most splendid studies for ac- | strength ever invented, and is | jcularly advantageous to the which is always inclined 1o be weaker than the other fingers. The hands are to be used together, both begin oy C, being an octave The right hand begins with the thumb (first finger) striking a heavy, ringing blow with ail the strength the | pupil can pr bly muster, without at the same time throwing the hand out of i or tightening the muscles by the effort. As the thumb descends the next fin- ger rises—just as far as it will go, in| with the directions given scending again with hammer-iike preci- sion, ae before. This time the third fin- ger rises instead of tbe second. After' this the first finger strikes again, and then the fourth. In this exercise the notes are struck chromatically, instead of according to the ordinary scale. | That ig, the thumb strikes C and the d finger C sharp, instead of D, as d be the case ordinarily. Therefore | s played in this way: C, C ), , C. D sharp. This is the end f the first part of the exercise. The thumb then starts on C sharp and the exercise runs in the same way as before, only half a tone higher, mak- ing the motes C sharp, D, C sharp, D arp, C sharp, E. ext the thumb starts on D, and the | exercis This shoulq | be continued, after which the return - the fifth finger starts the exercise, beginning on C. Next comes the fourth finger on B, then the fifth , next the third finger on | B fi ce more, and then the sec- ond finger on A | After this the fifth finger starts once | more, on B, continuing the descent ac- cording 1o the rules of the exercise as | given While the right hand is Inllowing’ on C aE aire; k2 | the Granger cases, because railroad property had become INCORRECT WAY OF TURNING LEAVES. | —_——— the plan of action described above, the left hand is doing exactly the oppo- sige ‘thing. That is to say, the left begins with ‘the little (fifth) fin- e, while playing the same notes as 1l pigyed in the right hand, uses the fifth finger, fourth, fifth, third, fifth, second, and so on up the scale, while the right hand is working with first, second, third and fourth fingers. In descending the scgle the left hand naturally begins with the first finger, ueing next the second, first, third, first and fourth, as the right hand did in ascending. X After haying finished this form of the exercise the pupil should try it in another way, beginning with the sec- ond finger, instead of the thumb, and uging this finger to come back to each | | time. This will bring the fifth finger on the final note ‘'of course. The left ' hand must now begin with the fourth | finger, finishing the exercise with the | thumb, instead of the second finger as heretofore. Coming down the scale the opposite ' { rules are observed, as usual. In this way all the fingers have an | equal chance at the strengthening | process. The close proximity of the half tones makes it necessary for the pupil to strike a carefullv direct blow at the | very ¢enter of the note in order to keep the fingers from interfering with each | other. In practicing this exercise the boy ‘uses more strength than he has ever put into an exercise before, and there- fore he must be careful to keep arms and wrists free. Bystematic relaxation is the safest plan in this exereise, and I would ad- vise the pupil to relax entirely and to | unions in this State, discusses the decision at great | seem to effectually dispose of Justice Harlan's assertion .‘ | denied these genuine powers delegated by Congress to | property.” | private property, but have recognized the right of public | regulation. | right. "In this view they were supported by the decision | | deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without | due process of law.” ! money, his property, for transportation, and the railroad | an element of private property, it became important to | reasoners held that it was the legislative and executive try his “circle exercise” (explained fully in the earlier lessons) at the end of each ascent or descent during the pro- gress of the study. This will leave him fresh for each attack and will prevent him from becoming the vietim to zny _possible strain which might be engen- dered by the strem and unusual work a study of this involves. The student must never work very long at this on a stretch. It is a good plan to practice it, or & part of it, for :tewmmiolh.n‘mu‘ht. airy musie. It is best always when do- ing a great deal of heavy piano work to intersperse it with music contalning delicate, graceful passages. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL} JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . .. . . .. . . . Address All Communications to JOHN MicNAUGHT, Manager MARCH 23, 1904 THE MERGER DECISION. WEDNESDAY HE decision of the Supreme Court in the case of I the Northern Securities Company is antagonized from an unexpected quarter. The Redding Searchlight, known as one of the ablest organs of labor length, and, granting the premise, with conspicuous abil- ity. The Call is not of the belief that all the wisdom or all of the abifity in journalism is to be found in the metro- politan' press. Both truth and error are propagated with equal ability by the country press, and it influences public opinion for right or wrong with as much power as the city press. Therefore, we take the opinions of the Searchlight as significant and forcible. After declaring that the Federal courts have shorn the | Interstate Commerce Commission of the genuine pow- ers delegated to it by Congress, and that the State | courts have done the same with the State Railroad Com- i missions, the Searchlight says: *“This showing would that the power of Congress over interstate commerce is as complete as the power of a State over domestic com- merce, for the courts of last resort in both cases have | the Interstate Commerce Commission and by the State to the Railroad Commission. This gross and insur- | mountable inconsistency proceeds from the constitu- tional impossibility 6f reorganizing and protecting and ignoring and destroying at one and the same time the rights and privileges vested in the ownership of private An examination of the decisions, in the Minnesota and Texas cases, discloses something quite different from this. The courts have not treated railroads as entirely The quasi public character of railroad prop—E erty is derived from the permission to railroads to use the right of eminent domain, in the condemnation of a right of way. The right was a burning question in American politics more than sixty years ago. When it was demonstrated that the construction of railways was impossible, if the corporations had to deal with each owner of real estate for a right of way across his land, because he could re- fuse to sell at all, and thus block the enterprise, the right to condemn was asserted. Now one owner of private property cannot condemn to his use the private property The right to do so is a public right. Private property may only be condemned for a public use, and paid for at such rate as a court may find to be a just | compensation. of another. This question was first fought over in New Hampshire, | where it disrupted the Democratic party. The fight ex- | 1 westward as railroads were extended, and reached | States west of the Mississippi in 1851. ~Railroads ac- 1 cepted the use of condemnation and thereby acceplfd the | quasi public nature of their property. But later om, in the sixties, they resisted public regulation on the ground that it was not provided for in their charters and fran- chi and that these constituted an inviolable vested of the Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College case. That doctrine was finaily overthrown and reversed in | quasi public, through the use of the power to condemn private property for its purposes. This opened up the whole question of public regula- tion the method The States pro- | ceeded 1o exercise it by the use of legislative and execu- tive power. When this issue arose it was discovered that 2 change had been made in the Federal constitution by the fourteenth amendment, which became operative July 28, 1868, and provided this: “Nor shall any State and of its exercise. As the power to fix railroad rates is the power to take property from one for the benefit of another, and affects both the shipper who pays his company, in whose quasi public character there remains know the meaning of due process of law. One school of 1 | process, another that it was the judicial process only.l The latter position is obviously right. Were it o:her-/t wise the legislative or the executive could inflict loss of liberty or life, without the agency of the courts. In the Minnesota and Texas cases the judicial pro- cess was upheld. We assume that it is this decision which is held to have shorn the Interstate Commerce Commission and the State Railroad Commissions of their genuine powers. The mistake is in assuming that the powers were genuine which were obnoxious to the fourteenth amendment. Eliminating the element of private property, co-exist- ent with the guasi public character of railroad property, the affirmation of the judicial process as the due process of law still standswindicated. Therefore, no inconsist- ency appears in Justice Harlan’s decision. Congress has the same control over interstate and the States over domestic commerce as before, but must provide for the exercise of such control by due process of law. In the evolution of the system of control we will have either the existing appeal from executive regulation, or the Interstate Commerce Commission and State Rail- road Commissions will be made courts of first instance, entirely judicial in their character, and their decisions will be subject to the same appeal. The nation and the States retain and may exercise the same power over com- merce, and may legislate against combinations to re- strain trade by preventing competition, but the courts have the last word. That is all, and it appears to us perfectly plain and consistent. The power of public reg- ulation arises in the quasi public character of the prop- erty, and the right to the judicial process for protection in the associated element of private property. e ————— BACK TO THE LAND. HE various agencies engaged in advertising Cali- fornia in the East cannot afford to overlook the processes by which other States have been settled. It has been done by such industrial conditions as attract a laboring population, to acquire through good wages the means to get back to the land, Mechanics and other workmen with large families find the cut to in- dependence by becoming land owners as soon as their accumulations are sufficient to start them. e Such a start is easier here than elsewhere because it requires less land. Every man who from, State a double service. | of the soil. W He adds a family to the forces of rural production, and leaves a place for another me- chanic, who is added to the consumers, and in his turn is to go out upon land. This -process has given to many parts of California their best and most intelligent tillers In the valleys around Mount Diablo are the homes of men who got their start as carpenters, black- smiths, teachers, hod-carriers and cabinet-makers. In Tulare County there are many more of the same class, and in the awakening that is going on in the Sacramento Valley, there is room and opportunity for thousands of | them. The year book of the State Board of Trade deals with this subject, in a statement of the wages and oppor- tunities for labor here. The great impulse that business, “building and produc- tive industrigs feel in our cities is naturally attractive to mechanics and laborers, who are the solid foundation of | all development in a State, and our efforts to get people to come here and join us in the making of a State should be especially directed to the putting ot our resources and opportunities before the intelligent American mechanics | and workingmen, who have in their skill and strength the means ot becoming land-owners and financially in- dependent citizens. In that way the States of the upper Mississippi Valley were settled. In every farming neighborhood could be found mechanics of all kinds, whose skill at some trade stood them in good stead in their farm life. It must not be taken for granted that only farmers in the | East are to be looked to as the source of our rural immi- gration. when land-owners find other farmers to whom to sell. But we must look alse among those who want to be land-owners, and who can come here and by fheir work acquire the means to achieve their wish. At St. Louis we should make this feature prominent and strive to in- sterest the handicraftsmen of the congested districts of the East. When convinced that they can come here and more quickly achieve independence than eisewhere, that class of immigrants will turn this way. There appears to be little question that British mili- tary experts are giving advice to the Japanese in refer- ence to the conduct of their land campaign. Whether or not the advice is voluntary or solicited is not known, but of one important fact there can be no doubt. Japanese certainly are familiar with the South African war and hardly want to imitate the tactics of the Brifish displayed in that conflict. IMPURE FOOD. E are glad that the Board of Health in Hawaii s holding up foodstuffs, imported from Califor- nia, that are impure and fraudulent. Jellies and jams are found by the chemist to be sophisticated, in that there are no currants in the currant jelly and no berries in the berry jam, and that both are colored with coal tar dyes. These dyes carry zinc, copper, tin and arsenic, none of which chemicals are freely chosen by the people a5 a proper part of the diet. They are high- Iy injurious.to the health, and their use in commercial products can be punished, if in no other way, by the con- g | some time ago, and it so happened that | i { | | there | | TALK O o F THE TOWl;JI No Catechism. Three tousled, tattered tykes, urch- ins of the alleys, ground between pov- erty and parental neglect, stood trem- bling before the police sergeant’s desk, a big, good natured patrolman their resent guardian. p“Well, what are these?”’ queried the booking officer, eying the raggedy yopngsters with a quigzical glint of half humorous interest. “Been stealing wagon loads of coal from the bunkers,” replied the arresting policeman, sententiously. “Wagon loads!"” doubtfully exclaimed the sergeant. “Yes, wagon loads,” repeated the offi- cer, exposing a four-wheeled hm:z made arrangement that he had cap- tured as evidence. “It's this way,” explained the police- man. “These kids here got a chance to sell the coal they stole to a water front restaurant man, who paid them 10 cents a load. 100 pounds in a load, and you can figure what the restaurant fellow made on it by educating these little waifs to be- come thieves. “We found that a great many wagon loads had been hauled to this place by this bunch of youngsters and, what's worse, they did not see anything wrong in it.” “Don’t you know it's wrong to steal?” interrupted the sergeant, kindly ad- Farming communities there contribute to it, | dressing his mites of prisoners. “Didn’t any one ever tell you that you shouldn’t steal?” he urged. “Naw, nobody never told us,” struck up one of the now whimpering mis- | ereants. “Yes, they did, too,” contradicted one of his companions in misery. “Who was it?” inquired the sergeant. “The ‘cop’ that pinched us,” replied the boy. “Put ‘em away,” ordered the officer. “I guess they are not so much to blame as their parents. We'll turn them over to the Juvenile Court.” He Stopped a Few. A certain colu?e?’pu[ilist was en- | gaged in a battle of the gloves in the arena at Mechanics’ Pavilion his white opponent was administering an unmerciful beating to him. Along about the end of the fourth round the cclored first artist came wobbling over to his corner, 8o groggy that he could not locate his chair. His manager grabbed hold of him, threw him into the chair and at once began to tell him how he should fight his opponent. “Why, you big bum,” quoth the manager, “you can't fight a lick on earth. You ought to be moving houses instead of putting up your mitts against real boxers. Why don’t you get wise and ston a few of those wallops?” The colored man rolled his eyes wild- 1y for a moment. Then he looked up at his manager in disgust and said: “Stop dem wallops? Why, for de Lawd’s sake, I bet not one ob 'enf has demnation and destruction of the articles in which they | missed me since de fight commenced.” are used. * The loss from. such commercial dishonor runs back to | the grower of the fruits which should be used in these manufactured products. Currants and berries are pro- duced here in quantities more than sufficient for all the | jellies and jams called for by our domestic and foreign trade. Such extension would go back to the grower in the form of a proper return for his industry. But the manufacturers make jelly out ‘of gelatine, treated | with mineral acids and colored with mineral dyes, and jams out of dried apples and glucose, with a few berry seeds, snubbing the currants and berries which we pro- duce in excellence and abundance, and betraying the confidence and injuring the health of the consumer. It is an injurious trick of the trade. California can supply the world with these fruit products, in absolute purity, but will lose that trade and opportunity by vio- lating the principles of commercial honor. There is no plea to sustain this offense against the prosperity of the State and the health of the people. It will not do to say that our currants and berries will not make commercial jellies and jams, for every housewife knows better. It is no excuse to say that these injurious arts are practiced by foreign competitors, who must be met in the markets with equal craft and as bad drugs. The true way to com- pete is to establish the reputation of California products for purity and excelience, when they will be‘preferred to the impure and poisonous article. Buyers and con- sumers are not so foolish as to take poison because it is cheap. The Treasury Department is exerting every energy to prevent the importation of impure foodstuffs. All of its work will be thrown away if it prove to be only for the purpose of shutting out foreign adulterations in order that our people may be poisoned by the domestic sophis- ticator. It is a question of such large importance as to induce a keen interest in the food show by the grocers jn this c«ty If publicity and law can restrain these adul- terations, both should be invoked. A French student, medically inclined in the enuncia- tion of his theories, expresses the opinion that war is a disease in which the death-giving germ may be discov- ered and destroyed if science will only give itself pa- tiently and courageously to the task. As a contribution If they alome were used the articles would be | | wholesome and of such high character as to extend the | consumption. { The 7S, Close by Life's garden-side Silently, ceaselessly. Tangling the hea Deep in its meshes, Spinneth a spider. of men Silently, ceaselessly, Weaving a web that is Fashioned of filminess. Sun-gleams and gossamers Dew-pearled and odorous; Weaving a web that is Frailer than mist at times, Steel-strong at others. Tangling the hearts of men Ever and hopelessly In its soft thonging, Spinneth the blithe-footed Spider of Love! Close by Life's garden-side, Swiftly, relentiessly. Stiffing the hearts of men In its thick meshes, Spinneth a spider Silently, ceaselessly, Swiftly, relentlessly, Weaving a web that is Dull-hued and lusterless; Weaving a web so dense Yet so impalpable. Soft and insidious, None may escape it— Spinneth the thousand-eyed, ager, implacable, Gray. gaunt and terrible Spider of Death! —Smart Set. Pumpkin Catsup. State Chemist Walker of Nebraska, after spending several weeks in anal- ¥yzing tomato catsup and strawberry jam states that only one brand of cat- sup was found which was made from tomatoes and was not artificially col- ored. Pumpkin was found to form the basis of all the others, and the col- oring is attained by means of coal tar dyes. Alleged strawberry jam in a number of cases he found was made chiefly of pumpkin, colored with coal tar dyes and containing a preservative | in the form of benzoic. Timothy seed was also found to be an ingredient in some cases. Sinking Town Lots. A few weeks ago England was startled by the news that a laborer, going to work at 3 in the morning, was literally swallowed into the earth in a Cheshire town. As it was Impossible to reéover the body, funeral services to the diseussion from a layman please aécept the sug- | were held over the spot where he dis- gestion that' the easiest way and perhaps the only one | appeared, and it took elghty tons of to ‘kill the germ is to destroy humanity. Men being rational must fight with one another. R earth to fill 4p the hole. Now alarming reports are coming from Northwich, another little pretty Cheshire town, where many of the Of late our courts appear to have become privileged | houses are sinking into the ground. ground for the publication of unwarranted and outra- TUp to this time there has been no loss of life at Northwich; but the damage geous slanders upon innocent persons that, under the |to the property has beem so tremen- law, have no: redress. There should be some statute | d0us that the town is a practical non- providing for the infliction of severe penalties upon at- entity, so far as land values are con- cerned. Since the town began to sub- torneys that use the courts for the promulgation of | side property valued previously at $1,- statements they cannot prove. Liberty is spilled license , 559,425 has deteriorated to $514,745, and by too many lawyers. Tolstoy has so far ventured an opinion upon William N the annual loss from these causes is more than $25,000. Seven years ago Northwich built a $10,000 police station. wmbufldln‘hmlwma | Jennings Bryan, who recently called upon the Russian |shell, the foundations of which have most interesting men he ever met. We share Tolstoy’s opinion, but we must insist that it is unfortunate that he did not indicate in what manner his visitor is interest. I suppose there was | * tom of the table the quickest wav 1o | get anything is to have it slid to you The Crown and Anchor started out with the intention of being one of the | finest hostelries outside of London. Two years after it was built it led a perfectly upright life, and was the boast of the town. To-dav you can- not tell which is crown and which is anchor. Last month a stable attached | to the private dwelling of L. Coomber | was swallowed up entirely. There was | a horse in the stable at the time. Sta ble and animal disappeared entirely from the face of the earth. Three days after this a small butcher shop adjoin- ing the stable also “went below.” Wonderful Fertilizer. | The secret of the imexhaustible fer- tility of the Nile Valley, which has long been credited to the annual deposit of silt from the overflowing of the river | has been discovered by Mr. Faire | agricultural explorer of the Uni States Government, to be the nitrifying | power of the plant, berseem. | Berseem is a species of trifolium, which has the power not only to con sume saline and alkaline properties the land, but also to enrich it with nitrates. Something of a composite « aifalfa and clover, it is In every way more delicate in flavor and spcculent than either. In Egypt it is the food horses, camels, cattle and donkey | Even the peasants or fellaheen find 4t 2 | palatable dish. It is remarkably fatten | Ing and chokes out nearly all weeds. | _ Mr. Fairchild in the Nile delta visited | basins of alkaline lands that have been | thoroughly reclaimed by growing ber- | seem there. He saw cattle and horses | grazing on luxurious flelds of berseem | fields that two years before were, he | says, “as barren of vegetation as a | bathing beach.” Furthermore the roots of berseem stored such a vast amount of nitrogen in the soil reclaimed that the third year the land was able to pro- | duce a crop of cotton. | It is the purpose to test this plant in Texas, Arizona, Oregon. Washington and other sections of the Northwest. In the Southwest it will be tried in rota- tion with cotton. In Arizona and Cali- fornia, where irrigation is practiced, berseem will be used as a winter soiling and fodder crop. and in the Northwest, | where it will be planted after danger of frost has passed and harvested b | fore the heated term, it will be tried in | rotation with wheat. Answers to Queries. RUSSIAN HILL—P. J. P. In the | Query Column of the Call January 26, 19804, there is published a full answer as to why Russian Hill in San Fran- cisco was so named. MOUTH WITHOUT LIPS—E. M. A., City. According to physiognomi: a person who has very thin lips, or, as face readers say: “A mouth without lips—a mere slit in the face,” is cold- hearted and selfish. VOCABULARY—W. 8., Alameda, Cal. An individual may Increase his vocabulary or stock of words by study- ing any first-ciass work of synonyms, by studying the modern dictionaries and by reading the best authors. STAMPS—P. J. P, City. The new two-cent stamps of the United States were issued before the supply of the previous design was exhausted. which accounts for two kinds of United States two-cent stamps at this time. WOOD FIRE B, City. The various colors in flame in a wood firs are caused by the combustion of the elements of the fuel. The light blue is from hydrogen, the white from car- bon, the violet from manganese, the red from magnesia and the yellow from soda. COMPOSERS—Subscriber, Pacific B Grove, Cal. It is impossible to give a pgeneral answer to the question, “Who were the five best musical composers?™ for the reason that there is no standard for arriving at a determination. Music is a matter of individual taste and what pleases one displeases another. A NOTE—A promissory note in California becomes owtlawed if action is not commenced within four years if executed ‘in the State and two years if executed out of the State. If the holder 8f a note does not commence an action within the statutory timse £% has no recourse. o NOTICE TO TENANT—Old Sub- scriber, City. In this State, if a land- lord wishes to change the terms of the tenancy of a month to month ten- ant or the amount of the remt, he must give at least fiftéen days’ notice of intention to do so.© The change of term takes effect immediately after the termination of the month for which the premises were rented. WENDS — Subscribers, Alameda, Cal. Wends is & name given by the Germans to roving or wandering tribes of a branch of the Slavs, which as early as the sixth century occu- pled the north and east of Germany, from the Eilbe, along the coast of the Baltic, to the Vistula, and as far south Bohemia. In a narrower sense the