The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1904, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1904. 1 s } l T { | l | | = ;yur any harm coming to the pupil | throngh its use if my directions are mplic and the pupil’s en- m and ambition do not carry ! to the point of rashness in | th: itter. He should stop work lhc‘ | moment his fingers become tired, no atter how interested he may be. | practic the lateral form the | student -should try the exercise first with one pair of fingers, then with an- other, changing thé grouping in every i For instance, after tak- as they naturally come er and second, second and third and fourth, fourth and fifth), ke should try the first and third zether, then the second and fourth, then the third and fifth. After this let Ihlm try the first and fourth, then sec- | | {ond and fifth, and finally the first and ——% | Afth. | After practicing this exercise_the boy | must always finish by relaxing mo- tions for the fingers, wrist and arm. .| Do not let him forget this, even once. | It should be done naturally, as if it| nical | were a part of the exercise, for I can- .ids | not speak too strongly of the nece: the | (Brst 8 | third, f of mech sity of careful and conscientious re- laxaticn after all straining work. The | strain, the semsation of effort, must not be left in the fingers—there must be instead a feeling of wholesome re- lief and relaxation if the muscles are to be strengthened and invigorated in- stead of worn out. This rule should apply invariably to every sort of music study, whether vocal ol | Do not fall to realize its importance, I| , however, are purchase of come, even though anxious to learn to | nging for addi- | pee of you, and see that the pupil thor- | < every | oughly understands it. : he [ am| The time has now come t6 bring up G » which | the subject of fugues. To the un- ! initiated a fugue, unless it be marvel- | ously well played (and even then, in a| majority of cases) is utterly without meaning, melody or music. Even to | the mildly musical mind, a fugue seems to have little excuse for being and if | | 2 person who claims to be only “rather | | musical” really enjoys hearing a fugue, he doesn’t know exactly why he likes it. | In order to thoroughly enjoy a fugue, one must study the fugue-form, and | find out what it is all abeut. i | The easiest way to do this, is by | studying the “inventions” of Bach, as| | {1 stated in a former lesson. They are | ydivided into what Bach called “two- \ voiced” and “three-voiced” inventions, | and the principgl difference between them and a fugue lies in the fact that | a fugue, generally speaking, has four voices,” in other words, four parts, | which makes it proportienately more ag pupil m of the moving finger sibie though to do so rubber Hand. allow one-sided way. straight lipe and return to ils pldce over the same route. The iddle finger While following-these directions the | ¢ ust emdeavor to keep the curve he against the re: The finger must not be to go down crookedly or in a It must descend in a from where principle, of this exercise can inyolved than the “two-voiced” or “three-voiced” creations. | In the old days, the great masters had something to say, and they did not hesitate to say it in firm, emphatic lan- guage—and the more voices they could absolutely no ex- e same end which d can be gained | say it in, and the more times they u of the afore- |could ma each voice repeat it, the al instruments, better they liked it. { The puavil must hear this in mind, | very simple one, ible to you thai |04 In learning to render a fugue in- 8 e g | telligently, must try té bring each voice er to develod by, tyrn to the fore, so that the main it does, but its oved over and over | 4-’:4 ke an ordinary rub- ding it once about inger, hold the | other hand, which the | | in his around in to-day’s les- ning plain. upper end of the | ce with the free adily lower the d which the can descend 1y let it return | | tion, raising it un-| | 4 becomes loose | | . LATERAL MOTION IN RUBBER as well as pos- EXERCISE. may find it hard tance of the + -+ idea, the giving to the world of the particular message that the composer | had in mind, shall not be wanting. There is always some particular theme which is to dominate the whole fugue, while other less important themeg are brought in to make the work a perfect whole., A fugue is really to be likened to a play. For instance, there is the central and ritost important theme (equivalent | to the hero or heroine of the play), next | a secondary theme, and often a third, teking the places of the lesser charac- ters, while there are innumerable small | passages whose use is merely to hold the more important passages together —to effect a change of key, and so on, | | these smaller parts bearing a strong semblgnece to the unimportant charac- ters who fill the stage and keep the play going while the hero and heroine chance to be “off.” Looking at a fugue from this point of view one finds it much more easy to approach than when taken as a whole, and evidently the fugue writers intended their work to be analyzed, for the principal theme is always announced, alone, at the very inning of the fugue. It enters, so to speak, ‘proclaiming the message of the entire fugue through a single voice. As it finishes the first motif, a second voice takes it up, saying just exactly it started tood—the resistance nd is quite as great, n that of a weighted s. quite as much 1N HUBBER- N6 EXERCISE. stresztheio pres8 the finger down in 1his simple exercise s it would if one svere seated at a mechanical keyboard and, using the same pressure in an- other’way. Thére is another way of practicing :awith the rubber band, which i= also benefic This is 1o hold the band elastic side- wixs @nd push the finger away from it: in oibef worde, in an opposite di- rection.® o The game rules regarding moderation, evenfess and so on are to be observed -here a¥ in the first form of the exer- cise. ~ o 4 i The pupil should place the rubber band on each fi gt what the first voice did, while the latter Boes om to a secondary theme. After this the third part starts in, and then the fourth, each reiterating the message of the first voice. The first voice has meanwhile gone on from instrumental. | | publican leader and sat him down on the Democratic | shipéd by those who opposed him and to have been % out of the few articles we don’t produce, very few in one lesser theme to antther, being fol- ! lowed invariably by the voices behind it, as sheep follow one another over a wall. If the first voice stops for a mo- ment the second voice invariably stops in exactly the same way, when it reaches that particular spot in the theme, and the third and fourth voices observe the same rules. It always seems the aim of each voice to ex- ploit the principal theme as much as possible, and as the twistings and turn- ings of the fugue become mdre and more involved one becomes conscious . in turn, first on one hand and them on the other, thus | that the principal theme is always be- giving all the muscles an equal chance to gain the much destred strength. ing upheld by one or another of the voices until, in the course of the ever Never let the pupil spend more than | broadening grandeur of the mingled a few moments at a time upon any one | themes, the fugue is at last brought to finger, for the exercise, simple as it |a glorious and dignified cllmax. may seem, is the most straining one I If the pupil begins his fugue study know of, and the utmost caution must | with the “inventions,” as I suggested, be observed in it use. It stands to | he will find it very easy to follow the reason that the exercise would not be | so-called *“voices” to their legitimate as effective as it is were thig not the | conclusion, and the way toward the case, but there is no possible chance |real fugues will be easily paved. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SPRECKELS, Propriefor » « - « « « + » » Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager veeee.....Third and Market Streets, S. F. MARCH 30, 1904 WEDN I HE House has had another free-for-all day. True, T the business on hand was the sundry civil appro- priation bill, but the members discussed lynchings, the negro question and the tariff. After many spats and speeches Mr. Champ Clark of Missouri rose to engage in the manufacture of an issue for the campaign. He se- lected the tarifi and when he finished that venerable and time-tried question was put out and laid in its corner while the referee counted ten. One thing in all this Democratic search for somecthing to use in the cam- | paign is interesting. In Mr. Hearst’s platform is this statement: “Believing in the principles of government expressed by Thomas Jefferson, applied with matchless courage by Andrew Jackson and nobly supported by Abraham Lincoln.” d Lincoln has been dead thirty-nine years, and .is now adopted as one of the saints in the Democratic calendar! In his lifetime he opposed everything for which Democ- racy stood, from the time he entered politics as a mem- ber of the lllinois Legislature until the night he was shot by Wilkes Booth. He opposed slavery, fought the Le- compton constitution, the fugitive slave law, secession; free trade and every other Democratic policy. He was the founder of the national bank system and the second founder of the Union, and in every measure and princi- ple of government for which he stood was fought tooth and claw by the Democracy of his day. Buchanan, Jerry Black, Lewis Cass, Toombs, Yancey, Wigfall, Governor Seymour, Hendricks, Bill Allen, Thur- man, and the long list of Democratic leaders contem- | porary with him looked upon him as the enemy of the country and the destroyer of the constitution. If the Democracy of to-day adopt him they must adopt also his supporters, and point with pride to those great and wise promoters of the principles of Jefferson and Jackson: | Sumner, Lovejoy, Thad Stevens, Joshua R. Giddings, | John G. Birney, Gerritt Smith, John Brown of Osawat- | omie, Wendell Phillips, Senator Doolittle and Jim Lane. Mr. Champ Clark is not to be outdone by Mr. Hearst in claiming dead Republicans as the exponents of living Democratic principles, and so in his issue-making speech he lifted McKinley right off his seat in history as a Re- | SSUE MAKING. side of the tariff question! / Republicans may well pinch themselves and ask with | Congressman Cobb, “Where was I at?” Some one ought to put a padlock on Dingley’s record, or some hot after- noon in the House the Democrats will wave it in the dim religious light that shines through the smoked glass ceiling and claim him as an exponent of their time-hon- ored principles. It is not a far cry to 1890, the year of the McKinley tariff, which the Democrats attacked like ' Cossacks swooping on a Chinese village. It was denounced as the | sum of all Democrats elected the largest majority in the House that any party has had since the Civil War. The banner | of free trade was flung jocund to the breeze and impas- sioned oratory followed the sunrise across the continent from ocean to ocean, and then got up and took a drink | next morning in Maine and refiewed the chase. But McKinley stood to his guns, and in the center of a hollow square formed out of the old guard of his party refused to surrender. In 1806 he went into the Presi- dency with not a policy recanted nor an act apologized for. Now, according to Champing Clark, he is fellow- logical that year they should have supported him in- stead of Bryan. Clark declares now that there are no Democratic. free traders. They are all for tariff. But what sort of issue does that make? We appear then to have two parties, both supporters of the same thing. If the Democrats make it a question of degree instead of kind, they may decline upon a revenue tariff. Such a tariff requires the high taxation of what we don’t produce, such as tea, coffee and some few fibers and fabrics. In the fiscal year 1902-3 we derived from tariff taxation $254,444,708 and from internal revenue $271,880,122. Our total revenue was $684,326,280 and our total expenditure was $593,038,- 903. To be sure there was a surplus, but it is about to be made useful in building the Panama canal. . Does Mr. Clark propose to get all that tariff revenue number and all susceptible of being substituted? When- ever we have had a tax on tea and coffee the people have used something else. The high tax that would make those articles produce the revenue yielded by the Ding- ley bill would at once materially disuse them. The Mec- Kinley tariff of 1890 was planned to yield revenue and promote the domestic manufacture of tin, sugar, buttons and many other things which furnished use for our raw material, employed labor and made us independent of other countries. Mr. Clark should submit a bill’ of particulars and cir- cumnavigate his tariff so that the people will know just what it means, Democratic denunciation of the Mec- Kinley tariff of 1800 elected Mr. Cleveland in 1802, but when his party tried to make a tariff it was a nonde- script which he refused to sign and denounced in a spe- cial message as “a record of perfidy and dishonor.” We venture to inform Mr. Clark that the people do not want any more perfidy-and-dishonor tariffs. Protection good enough. is A Berkeley educator, skilled in’ the gentle art of teaching the younf idea how to shoot, has unburdened himself of the opinion that we must have uniformity in the course of study in our public schools. While form is unquestionably of primary value in the premises, is it not wise also to pay necessary attention to matter? There are some methods in vogue in the San Francisco schools that are uniformly dangerous. W the heavy rains in this State were published The" Call directed attention to the fact that while the damage would be severely felt by those upon whom it fell, yet the loss to the State as a whole would be slight, and, in comparison ~with the losses resulting from springtime floods in the Eastern States, almost insigni- ficant. That statement is verified by reports just 're- ceived of the storms and floods now sweeping over al- most the whole region of country east of the Mississippi. The dispatches of a single day tell » story of damage far in excess of the total flood losses in California in several years. ¢ In the reports of Sunday morning, for example, a dis- patch from Detroit said of the floods along the course of Grand River: “Estimates made at various stations m&eflooddmmntumflmflfiuuddli& The EASTERN FLOODS. HEN first the storics of the floods caused by | dry weather, this is the best land on earth. economic villainies, and, denouncing it, the number of drownings reported is three.” Reports from Indiana were to the effect that at Portland two men were drowned and a property damage of $100,000 caused by a flood in that section, while from Indianapolis came a story of a flood that drove 300 families from their homes and caused an enormous loss of property. From Battle Creek, Mich., there was a report of losses from floods amounting to upward of $300,000. A dispatch from Springfield, Ohio, says: “The worst flood in Spring- field’s history threw a thousand men out of employment, drove twenty-five families from their homes and com- pletely stopped street car traffic.” No estimate of dam- age was given. Since Sunday the reports of each succeeding day have added heavily to the lists of deaths and losses in the various States. In Northern and Central Indiana the re- cord up to Monday night showed eight persons drowned and a property loss estimated at $8,000,000. In Michi- gan 14,000 people are reportegd to be in distress because of the floods, and reports almost as bad come from va- rious points in Ohio and Missouri. . The floods thus reported occurred along comparatively small streams. They are but the preliminaries of the vast floods that will follow when the swollen waters of these streams unite to swell the greater rivers to flood height. It is rather early yet for the Eastern flood sea- son to reach its worst, but before long we ‘shall hear of all the rivers from New England to Texas overrunning their Banks and carrying destruction to towns and cities as well a3 to farm lands. These heavy floods come to the entire Eastern section of the country every year. In comparison with them our worst California floods amount to but a trifle either as to the area of country flooded or as to the amount of damage done and lives lost. Taken at its worst Califor- nia is a much better land for either urban or rural life than any other part of the world. We have our draw- | backs, it is true, but when we review them'in compari- son with the tfemendous disadvantages of other lands we can find no reason to complain. Be it wet weather or To students of the history of political shibboleths the fact is not without interest that the followers of For- aker in Ohio are known by their opponents as Filipinos. This seems to indicate that whatever our opinion of the little fellows of the South Sea Islands may be we are likely some day to be forced in simple fair play ta de- fend them against prejudices in the creation of which they had nothing to do. The conduct of a Foraker par- tisan is a reflection on the Filipino. N ‘consul. HAULING DOWN THE FLAG. EWCHWANG is a Chinese river port on the Liao. 1t 1s one of the ports opened to commerce by our late treaty with China and to which we sent a It is under Chinese jurisdiction, else we could not make a treaty respecting it. Russia has occupied it, proclaimed martial law and Cossacks have hauled down the American flag from the consulate and the residences of Americans. The same has been done with the British flag. . This was done by the order of Viceroy Alexieff and it is not yet known whether the high-handed proceeding is indorsed by his Government. When that is known there will probably be diplomatic exchanges between our | State Department and Count Cassini. The. Count will dutifully convey the studied misrepreséntations of his Government to ours, and there the matter may rest. The act is another violation of the neuytrality and territory of China. Meantime General Ma, at the head of a Chinese army the strength and equipment of which are unknown, is moving toward North China, and Russia is protesting at Peking that his presence within Chinese sovereignty with an armed force is a yiolation of neutrality and he must be ordered to withdraw. The Westgrn nations may not choose to move in the matter. Buf there is no doubt about what they should do. They should support China in putting Ma and his army, right up to the frontier. It is obvious that Russia intends to continue her outrages upon China until that upfortunate empire is compelled to resist. If, at that time, Japan have an army in the valley of the Liao above Newchwang and Ma is north of the Kangan Mountains a junction between the two forces would be unhappy for Cloudy in the South. Every old Stanford man will tell this story, but for those who know no Stanford men it will have a refreshing- ly humorous appeal. In the old days when Bristow Adams, Charlie Field and Bill Irwin were livening the prosaic atmosphere down at Dr. Jordan’s school it hap- pened that there came to the college a freshman from the city who had more money thap wisdom and whose dearest desire was to become a mem- ber of one of the students’ fraternities. He did not hesitate to voice his wishes to fraternity men, a rank breach of college etiquette. 8o it was that a dozen or more of the jokers got together and sent a bid toyhe freshman to join their fraternity, which they said was one of the strong- est in the East, but which was carry- ing on a temporary sub rosa existence at Stanford. They said that he was to appear at a certain lonely spot in the arboretum at a late hour of the night with a bus of sufficient dimensions to carry all the loyal brothers to May- field, where the initiation services were to be held. He was ‘here with the bus and to Mayfield some twenty odd of the mystic circle hied themselves. The initiation, which was drawn from the Koran, Josephus, the Talmud and half a dozen other sources, was a noble one. Likewise the “feed” which followed—paid for, by the way, by the novitiate, In the height of the fun Bill Irwin arose and with great dignity read a letter from one of the prominent mem- bers of the faculty, regretting that he was unable to be present at the festivi- ties, but hoping that the newly initi- ated brother would not be long in coming to him and making himself known. After the reading of the let- ter the neophyte was told that out of due courtesy he should call on Pro- fessor Blank the very next morning. Remember to give him the password, “It is cloudy in the south to-night,” and the sign—Ileft forefinger to the side of the nose. Down at Stanford they still tell of the meeting the next day between the freshman and Professor Blank when the boy brought his instructor to the front door from his breakfast table to look gravely at him over his left fore- finger and tell him that it “was cloudy in the south to-night.” He Jes’ Had to Fight. “Bill Brown” is a colored boy about 15 years of age. He is even more col- cred than his name would indicate— he is coal black. He is a wise youth is Bill, as is evidenced by the records of the Juvenile Court. It appears that some months ago Bill was arrested for roaming the streets at unseemly hours and haled before the Juvenile Court. Judge Murasky, on his promise to keep off the streets, released him, but warned him that his actions would be watched and ordered him to appear every Friday and let the court know how he was getting along. For several weeks Bill reported and his statements that he was “gettin’ along all right, mistah,” were verified by the reports of the probation officer. One Friday afternoon Bill appeared as usual, but this time he sat in the jury box with the boys who had been arrested during the week. “How is this, William?" said Judge Muragky as the black bby stepped up to the bench in response to his name. “I thought you promised, to behave +* the three classes. Dogs of the first class are taxed 20 marks (34 76), those jof the seécond class 10 marks (32 33) and those of the third class only marks ($1 19) per annum. - The variety of dog which seems t be the meost fancied as a pet i Ger- many is the short-legged, elongated dachshund. * “The dogs that are used for hunting are mostly German deerhounda and bird dogs of the setter and pointer types. Beagles are seldom used and are uncommon. Hunting dogs, as a | rule, are kept in the country, and very little is seen of them. “Working dogs are any particular variety. Any dog that is large and strong may be used, and a great many different kinds are seen. | When a person comes to Germany one of the first things that is sure to im- press him as strange is the sight of a dog hitched to a wagon with a woman as his mate. In Leipsic working dogs are very numerous, and are mostly owned by the poor people. So far as [ have seen, the dogs are treated with consideration by their owners and | seem, in many cases, really to enjoy | their work.” They Ltve in Nests. 1 not confined to Travelers who have returned from the heart of Africa and the Australa- sian continent tell wonderful stories of nest building people who inhabit the wilds of those countries. In the bush- men of Australia we find, perhaps, the lowest order of men that is known, says the Penny Magazine. They are so primitive that they do not know enough to build even the simplest form of huts for shelter. The nearest they can approach to it is to gather a lot of twigs and grass and, taking them into | a thicket or jungle, build a nest for a | home. The nest is usually built large enough for the family, and if the lat- ter be numerous then the nests are of a very large size. Sometimes the foliage above will form a natural cov- erning, but there is never any attempt at comstructing a protection from the rain and storms. ‘A Compromise. In Friesland there is a cusiom that the mews of a birth or death is an- nounced verbally by a man who calls at every house in the village for that purpose. If he brings the news of a birth he wears white gloves; If of a death they are black. Some days back a child was born dead in a Frisian vil- lage. It was necessary that the usual announcement should be made, but in what colored gloves? The harbinger was a man of resource. He went his yourself. I see you are charged with fighting.” “I couldn’t help it, mistah,” said Bl with a sly grin. “I jes’ has to fight. You've been pretty good to me.” “Well, Will,” interrupted the court, “what have I got to do with it?” “Well, mistah,” responded Bill, hang- ing his head, but slyly gazing at the Judge, “yer sent a white kid to de Boys' and Girls’ Aid the day yer let me go. Dat kid got erway, and de odder mnight he met me and said you was no good. Mistah, I jes' had to fight”— Russia. In view of this she desires to occupy any Chinede position that i¥ strategetic as and when she pleases, pull down flags, violate treaties and keep the territory iree from the military forces of ¥hina to which it belongs. v What she failed to get by the secret treaty into which she would have forced China had it not been discovered by Minister Conger she now takes by brute force and in brazen defiance of the international rights of the United States and Great ‘Britain. Maybe such a course will win and perhaps it won't. The United States has no de- sire to be drawn into the controversy, but too many Cossack attacks on our flag may rouse such resentment among our people that the Government will go beyond merely pfatending to believe the diplomatic lies of the legation. A Russian officer is authority for the statement that the world will never know until the Eastern war is cver, if it knows then, how many Japanese fighting ships have been crippled or destroyed by the guns of the Czar. If we were to accept as true what Russian au- thorities think they see at Port Arthur we would believe that every time a Japanese ship was hit it exploded into a dozen more, each better gualified to fight than that irom which it sprang. — Carnegie has given five million dollars more to advance the interests of another American public institution. The steel king has left no doubt of his purpose to prove that it #s possible for at least one man in the world, properly conditioned by enormous wealth, to cultivate philan- thropy as a habit. It is a habit, however, that not many will find it difficult to qirect or bre:k,, When the murderer of an innocent girl stood n: court recently to receive a sentence of life imprisonment for Bill is still on probation. Panama. [Philip IT decreed the penalty of death for any one who should propose cutting a canal through the isthmus.] Here the oceans twain have waited All the ages to be mat Waited long and waited vainly, Though the script was written plainly: “This, the portal of the sea, Opes for him who holds the key; Here the empire of the earth ‘Waits in patience for its birth.” But the Spanish monarch, dimly Seeing little, answered grimly: “North and South the land is Spain's; As God gave it, it remains. He who seeks to break the tie, By mine honor, he shall die!™ So the centuries rolled on, And the gift of great Colon, Like a spendthrift’s heritage, Dwindled slowly, age by age, Till the flag of red and gold Fell from hands unnerved and old, And the granite-pillared gate - Waited still the key of fate. ‘Wheo shall hold that magic key But the child of destiny, In whose veins has mingled long All the best blood of the strong? He who takes his place by grace Of no singlé tribe or race, But by many a rich bequest From the bravest and the best. Sentinel of duty, here Must he guard a h@i-phera Let the old world keep its ways; Naught to him its blame or praise; Naught its greed, or hate, or fear; For all swords be sheathed here, Yea, the gateway shall be free Unto all, from sea to sea; And no fratricidal slaughter Shall defile its sacred water: But—the hand that oped the gate shall er hold the key. + Jeftrey ' Roch —James Scribner’s. his crime his lawyer declared that the defendant had nothing to say. It is not improbable that he felt as did | every ome else that knew the story of his dread deed, that in the gift of his life he was receiving a worthless faver. | oA RO UL N P | Major General Wood has scored another glorious vic- | tory in his vigorous campaign against the Moros. Yet it is highly improbable that General Wood in all his tilitary career will ever register a triumph comparable to that which was achieved for him in his absence in a committee-room of the United States Senate. 3! Third-Class Dogs. “Like everything else in Germany, dogs are divided into classes. The first class contains the dogs that are kept as, pets by people in easy circum- st‘nceg. writes a Leipsic correspond- ent of the Washington Star. “To the second class belong those dogs that are used for hunting. The third class in- cludes all dogs that are kept for work- ing animals by milkmen, butchers, peddlers, etc., in or near towns and cities. “In the city every dog is taxed, but there is a distinction made between rounds wearing one white glove and one black one. : Answers to Queries. TRINITY STEEPLE — Subscribes, City. The height of the steeple of Trin- ity Churech, in New York City, is 234 feet, not so high as the top of The Call building in San Francisco. MME. NORCROSSE—M., Brooklyn, N. Y. This correspondent wishes to know the address of Mme. No: an opera singer, soprano, who went on the lyric stage from California. ' TYPEWRITTEN COPY—C. A. D, City. Any kind of white paper will answer for typewriting copy for publi- cation. If the copy is to be used on linotype the most acceéptable size is 814 by 714 Inches. OAK FINISH—J. A. B, Oaklan Cal. Any first-class dealer in paints and oil in your city or in San Fran- ciseéo will furnish preparations ready for use to produce “weathered oalk or golden oak finish™ STREET CARS—A. 8, City. There are fifty-three street car limes in the city of New York, which includes the Manhattan and Bronx boroughs. All car lines are required by ordinance to run cars between midnight and § o'clock in the morning at intervals of twenty minutes. After 5 in the morning until midnight all cars run at intervals of three to ten minutes. BOYS OF AMERICA—W. H. 8, Cam- awillo, Ventura County, Cal. No account has beerl published of late of the status of the subscriptions taken up to build a battleship to be called The Boys of Ameriea. If you were a subseriber to that fund you have a right to write to those who had charge of it and ascer- tain what the present condijtions are. NOT DUE—J. W. 8. Sutter Creek, Cal. If a firm “way back East offercd to send you certain things te sel, you to pay for them after you had sold them,” and the firm did not send you the goods, you do not owe them any- thing and it cannot collect anything from you. The threat that the firm makes that it will sue you if you do not send it $2 ought not to trouble you, as.you are not required to pay for that which you did net receive. You would better refer the matter to the police authorities of the place in ‘which the firm is located. It is prob- ably one of those ¢oncerns that is ad- vertising with the purpose of trapping the unwary. —_———— ‘Townsend's California Glace fruits and choice candles, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 716 Market street. above Call building. * ————— - S o 1043, *