The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1904, Page 6

g B T e S e —" e s o o e THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL —— | |1 | | { | | | | | | | e e s ct—————————————— ERF Song Writer.) Joseph ent finds that as Copyright, 1904, b: Many a pian time goes on his octave playing does not develop in proportion to his other | is because techniqu Sometimes this his hand, instead of being long und[‘ flexible by nature s of the short thick ety If this is the case exercise for | stretct ich as possi- ble, while same time the hand i being strengthened Even the most perfect octave hand be improved | and with this ide v 1 shall give ¥ ave exercise which is help even the most ob- lina ling muscles if prac- ¥ . s " Before we begin the explanation. | however, 1 wish to give a word of cise I am about to nded for the small- lesons T Iy he earlier gave w which if proper foliowed for child’s hand is constantly relaxing exercises” strenuous enough Moreover, the growing and are quite the average child the ordinary are enough in the to develop a | good octave hand withou d of ex- tra stretching in the earlier stages of the pupil’s course of study. It is only after the student has reached the point where complicated octave pass- ages occur in his music and call for Prilliant work of this kind that the exercise I am about to give should be taken uy A R The pur should first relax thor- oughly, then placing his right hand upon the piano in “plaving position,” give one revolution of the “circle mo- tion,” according to the directions given in the earlier lessons. Next he | must suddenly and with all the strength he can muster draw the hand tightly together and hold it that way, braced against the wrist, as in the ac- companying illustration. While hold- ing the hand in this position the boy ghould feel that every muscle is tightly gripped as is possible: in fact he must try to increase the power of his grip momentarily, as he holds his hand tightly doubl For several seconds his hand should be held in this position, after which it should spring free, spreading to its utmost capacity as it does so. As the fingers land upon the Kkeys the first and fifth should strike an oc- tave. It may be difficult for the pu- pil to hit the notes squarely at the OCTAVE EXERCT B *— start, but a Jittle practice will make everything come v The firet octav uck should be C mnd after reiax once the student shoulé repeat the exercise, this time striking the ectave D. In this way he should go straight up the scale for ecight notes or more, after which he should return as he came, being careful to relax between | each trial of the exercise. After practicing in this way for some days the pupil should continue his study of the exercise without the relaxing periods between. By this time the work should be carried out in the form of one continuous exer- cise, up and down the piano, and the metronome will be found a great help in preserving the rhythm and so en- abling the exercise 1o move of itself, @s it were. There should be a regular “clinch,” “spring”-—clinch, spring— clinch, spring—one beat of the metro- nome marking each change of move- ment. The pupil must not, *of course, give up the “relaxing” periods until he can practice the exercise without tighten- ing the muscles—that must be under- ®tood at the outset—but just as soon he can he must drop the relaxing, that he may be able to swing the ise along rhythmically. Naturally all his wrist muscies will !!E ’ | clinched, but the moment the hand | after some weeks of study in this way, | hands ave ! be o =2 tighten greatly while the hand is the octave the pupil ehould feel (if the exercise be prac- ticed in the right way) a total laxation and freedom of the muscles. Thi& most important, as any one who has followed me thus far in these will at once realize. pupil, by reason of the natural asticity of his band, is unable to strike an octave at all, he should first try the exercise with seven notes in- stead of eight. That is, he should! ke C and B rather than C and C, nd =0 on up and down the scale, striking a seventh each time instead | of an eighth. He should, however, stretch his hand with all his might each time, trying for the octave every little while. When the student finds that he can, spreads for re- ! is octaves with ease let him try | hing cone note beyond an octave | —that nine notes. Some people’s | naturally so flexible that they can do this w very little prac- | tice, but in the majority of cases it is not so, and practice of this sort is a good thing, for occasionally the pupil will come across some musical’ pas- sage where there is a chord, the sound of which would be improved i two notes, nine notes apart, could be played | by « nd, without having either to | slur in arpeggio fashion, or, as | is generally the case, a compromise effected by means of which the other | hand is called in to solve the difficulty and strike cne of the notes. It is, of | course, always much more artistic to | strike notes as they are written, for one does not like to feel that one has any limitations, particularly in a mat- ter of technique, where the difficulty | can be overcome by patient study. Care | must be taken, however, not to over- in the muscles, and this exercise 1ld not be indulged in longer than ew moments daily. ple In conjunction with this the pupil | should take up the study of octaves | with the limp wrist. These should be | practiced in scale fashion. First very slowly (with ome hand), relaxing be- tween each note, and keeping time with the metronome, which should be set a very slow figure. Next the exer- should be practiced in “twos” (ac- cise cording to directions for scale prac- tice given in former lessons). Here every other note should be accented, and the e, time of the exercise will, of be twice as rapid as in the! form. Next it should be tried in ” emphasizing every third t in fourths, with the usual The pupil must not try to play his octaves too rapidly; he is trying for flexibility and tone now, and if he ac- quires these the rapidity will take care of itself. The pupil’'s aim should be to keep his wrist ag light as possible, and let it | lead the hand and arm up and down| the scale, as in the “water motion,” so | often brought in to aid us. This is{ — - ! |+ — - STRIKING TWO NOTES ABOVE AN OCTAVE, STRETCHING EXER- ‘} - : L | the legato form of octave playing, and | | the student should endeavor to make | his octaves sound as smooth and even |as a single-hand scale, binding the | notes together in such a way that the | flow of tone may be uninterrupted. | Octaves should be practiced in this | way, both with separate hands and the | hands together. To rouse the pupil's ambition, I can only call to his mind ]lhe liquid octaves of Paderewski and De Pachmann, and ask if he (the boy) cares to let the chance go by of follow- ing in their footsteps, without a seri- ous attempt to the most of everything | | there is in him. There is another way of practicing octaves—the light staccato method, | which is also excellent, and is very beneficial when taken in conjunction with the method just described. In this octave form the hand is first | raised with the ordinary light-wrist | motion, then, descending quickly, | strikes the octave with a 'sharp, rapid blow, and as quickly springs upward into place, spending only a fraction of a second on the key-board. The pupil should take plenty of time before the | spring downward, but once started, should lose no time in getting back to the position where his hand is upraised in readiness for the next rapid de- scent. This octave study should be prac- ticed up and down the scale, with | single and with both hands, and should be tried in all the different forms, “twos,” “threeg,” and so forth, not omitting the arpeggios. ‘When the pupil has become perfectly familiar with the three different forms of octave study given in the lesson to- | day he must make a systematic study of them in all keys. It would be well for him to take the keys chromatically for instance, after he has made a thorough study of oc- taves in the key of C let him take up the same thing in the key of D flat. After the intricacies of the study in D flat have been mastered he must try his octaves in the key of D. Then in E flat, then in E, F, and so on. Naturally, this is not all to be done in one day, or a week, or a month, but | O | strategists that Japan will make a tactical mistake by | and peace and happiness and development will take the | place of war and destruction. | is there any fear that the interests of the world will | suffer irom such a solution of the Eastern problem. it is well to know all the forms, so that one may have a variety to choose from when studying. It not only helps the student to gain a thorough mastery over the piano (which, of course, is the main object in view), but it prevents to a few scale forms, and a single t..nm-. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Pmpflé;_. weeeee... Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office . = ..Third and Market Streets, S. F. WEDNESDAXY. .. ..cosivpsrssssrossssssmnipssssionsis arnpesssadtits it ssnassass sasshsns sacs soABRIL, ‘6, 1904 RUSSIANS OUT OF KOREA. UT of the cloud of rumor from the Eastern war one fact seems to issue, and that is that Korean soil is clear of Russians. The Japanese have been very successful in the use of their transport service in getting an army of 300,000 men into Korea. Whenever the forces have met in action the Japanese have seemed to be victorious, and whenever the Russians have retired the ground has been occupied by the forces of the Mitkado. - The Russians appear to have made their stand in Man- churia, and now approaches the interesting period of the war. It has been the opinion of British military penetrating Manchuria. It has been held that it would be the policy of Russia to lure them into that province. It is not definitely known whether the ultimate purpose of Japan extends beyond Korea. Her suspicions were roused by Korean concessions to Russia on the Yalu ‘River, which justified the belief that the annexation of Korea was intended. The Hermit Kingdom is now practically Japanese territory. The powers would prob- 2bly assent to its annexation. If Japan be willing to ae-’ cept this as a substitute for her former conquest of Man- churia in the war with China, the road is open for the good offices of other governments to end the war. Rus- sia would lose prestige, but would hold her footing in Manchuria, and Japan would gain more than her ancient rights in Korea. But Japan has a plan, that is not known to the out- side world. She knows the strength of Russia and has counted the cost of a campaign and the chances of suc- cess. The effrontery of Russia rankles still at Tokio. After the Chinese war Port Arthur and all that part of Manchuria now occupied by Russia was ceded to Japan. Then Russia appealed to Germany and the rest of Eu- rope ‘to nullify the.treaty of cession on the ground that tocede a part of Manchuria to Japan would be a dismem- berment of China! Japan was forced to relinquish her conquest and accept the wild island of Formosa, as the barren fruit of her victory. Russia then immediately took the part of Manchuria that Japan had been com- pelled to relinquish, and Germany got territory on the Guli of Pechili as her pay for her part in the transac- tion. In all history there is hardly a more rank trans- action. If Japan have the ability to whip Russia and take Manchuria, whether she keep it or restore it to China, the believers in fair play will rejoice. Russia is again trying to scare the world by the cry of Pan-Mongolism and the specter of the yellow peril. In this country, where we have been long in contact with Japanese statesmanship, there is no response to this tocsin, nor is there, we believe, in Great Britain. If China, Korea and Japan are in combination, with Japan as leader and teacher, the world has nothing to fear from Pan-Mongolism. China and Korea are as capable of re- ceiving all that can be assimilated of Western civilization as Japan has proved‘to be, and it is better that they do this, independently, than that they be seized and ex- ploited by any of the Western nations. The woes of the East have been caused by European ambitions and aggrandizement. At this moment Great Britain, fearful of the appearance of Russia in Tibet, menacing her Indian frontier, i§%in that country on a mission of slaughter that sickens the world. The peo- ple of the land are the innocent victims of one European power’s suspicion of the motives of another, and are be- ing slain in an issue to which they are not parties. Ever since Russia crossed the Amur she has been making a shambles of Manchuria. Given Pan-Mongolism and autonomy, and we will see progress and civilization in Eastern Asia under the intelligent leadership of Japan, We are not aware that anywhere in the United States If the good offices of the friendly powers should be asked and used effectively in ending the war, by leaving Japan in Korea and Russia in Manchuria, it would be a settle- ment that would give secondary satisfaction. It would imply such restrictions upon Russian occupation of Man- churia as would protect Japan at home and in Korea and enhance her influence in China. Russia is still inflamed against the United States, and the St. Petersburg press is flouting at “the ungrateful Yankees,” while they boast of service rendered in our Civil War. That service is written only in the political Apocrypha of forty years ago. But granting it was what the Russians claim it was, it ijs no reason why we should support Russia in a policy of conquest, injustice and murder. Our Government has maintained a severe neutrality and will continue to do so. Our people are free. They do not have a nobility and aristocracy to think for them. They think for themselves, and Russia must learn that in a free country the attitude of the Government is one thing, dominated by international obligations and responsibilities, and the sympathy of the people is quite another thing, under the control of enlightened human- ity. The spirit of war moves again in the sluggish breasts of the Far Eastern combatants. Newchwang has been placed under martial law by the Russians and it is not beyond the range of probability that we may expect at any time to hear that Admiral Togo has fired another shot into the Retvizan. Unless friends intervene Russia and Japan may actually come to blows in a few months. T there are more than 5000 irrigated farms in Oregon. Much has been said about the rain in the State next north of California on the Pacific Coast. Indeed, by reason of the copious downfalls from the skies the Oregonians have jocularly been given the title of “webfooters.” This idea will need to be modified in a degree by the irrigation statistics that have just been re- ceived from the United States Census Bureau. Oregon finds it necessary, in order that farming shall be carried on to the satisfaction of its people, to irrigate nearly half a million acres, or, to be exact, 439,981 acres, Better methods of management are urged and more eco- nomical use of water, that a greater area may have the benefits of irrigation. Since 1899 the increase in the irrigated Oregon area has increased, according to the official figures, by 51,671 acres, or 13.3 pé cent in three years, the figures in total, as given, representing the | conditions at the end of 1902. In that year Oregon had 23555 irrigation systems in operation, representing a total construction cost of $2,- IRRIGATION IN OREGON. HE average reader may be surprised to. learn that ‘tion on the charge that they have been deserting their | the outposts of the missions have been pushed farther !igh% only Yliunh prize at 039,600—an average of $818 per system and $475 per irrigated acre. The total length of main canals and ditches was 3553 milxs, an average of one and four-tenths miles per system. ¥ | The aggregate number of irrigated farms was 4978 and | the average cost per acre was $481. Systems that sup- | plied water from springs irrigated 10,759 acres and there | ‘Picked His Company. A well-known insurance broker, who lives in the Western Addition, is of the opinion that his little eight- vear-old son is about as bright a boy as can be found in the Golden State— | or elsewher® for that matter. By re- were 114 such 'systems. The stream systems cost, | initially, $2,062,188 for 3604 miles of main canals and ! ditches and the necessary dams and head gates. The | first cost of the spring systems was $22,085 and the | length of their main ditches in total was 49 miles. Then | there is a system of irrigation from wells that repre- | sénts small cost, the total being less than $3000. Oregon | has an arid region where an artificial supply of water | is as essential as it is in any part of California. Three police officers of this city are under investiga- beats. Whatever the merit of these cases may be there | is positively no question that the police patrolmen of San Francisco give too much of their patronage to saloons while on duty. It is strange that the Police Commissioners cannot see what is palpable to everybody else. A night's inquiry would be a revelation. | METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE. N May 4 in the city of Los Angeles the Quadrens, nial General Conference of the Methodist Epis- | copal church will open its session. In attendance | upon the conference there will be delegates from all | parts of the United States, missionaries from foreign fields and the governing heads of the church, thus mak- ing the body one of the most representative assemblages of church workers of the many which have come to Cali- fornia for their deliberations. In view of the enormous increase in the missionary ac- tivities of the church since the last General Conference in 1900 the subject of the spread of the word promises to be one of the most important topics of discussion which will be brought before the delegates. The recent operations of the missionaries in the Philippines and China and the constantly growing exigencies of the mis- | sionary fields in those countries will make the Los An- geles conference particularly a notable one for the work { which it will do in this direction. According to the report of the missionary society of the church, which will be submitted at the conference, afield into unoccupied territory during the past four years than at any other time during the recent history of the church. In Korea the membership in the missionary conference has grown from 3897 to 6013, in the Philip- pines from a nominal number up to 7842, in Northwest India from 34,460 to 42,672. The estimated value of all foreign mission property has increased from $3,4710,- 038 to $6,655,058, an advance of $1,244,120. The increase of the self-supporting capacity of the foreign missions over that of four years ago amounts to 37 per cent. When it takes into consideration that these materfal advances in the work of spreading the gospel have been accomplished in some instances under the most dis- couraging circumstances the Methodist church should have just cause for self-congratulation. The Boxer up- risings in the north of China and the floods in the south and central regions have made the work of the mis- | sionaries one of great physical risk and sometimes of{ little profit. Cholera and the plague in the Indian coun- | tries have had to be fought as well as the prejudices and century-rooted antipathies of the natives. The ex- ! pansion of the missionary field has made it imperative that all of these endeavors be pushed with less and | less of financial assistance from the home offices. i Much has been said and written lately of the futility of missionary work on the part of the Christian churches. It has been argued that the proselytes utilize their con- version for selfish motives, that the presence of mis- sionaries in a heathen country leads to disturbances and | bloodshed often, and that so ardent a prosecution of the | | | command of Christ to go forth and teach all men the | way of truth is a fruitless waste of energy. The best | disproof of these assertions is to be found in the very reports such as that of the missionary society, wherein | the tale of added converts to the fold of Christianity is | told from every pagan land. T Younghusband has had its first clash with the na- tives of the unknown land. At the village of Guru | a detachment of the Tibetan army, under the leadership of one of the most fanatijcal Lamas, opposed the further advance of the British, fired upon them unawares and were almost annihilated by the desperate charges of the Indian' Sikhs. By the side of the body of almost every one of the slain Tibetans was found a gun bearing the mark of Russian manufacture. This foray at Guru, a village, by the way, on the Tib- etan side of the Himalayas well in the Dalai Lama’s province, marks the opening of a new chapter in the his- tory of British dominion in the East. The charges which were made by the Indian troops were the first of many which are to be follow and which are to lead straight through the gates of the Forbidden City itself. Tibet’s existence as a~land of mystery, a country forbidden to any one with white blood in his veins,-is not for long now. Whatever may have been the announced intention of Colonel Younghusband’s march over the “roof of the world,” the expected has come to pass and the con- gquest of Tibet is now a thing in the making. In a recent number of the Century Ekai Kawaguchi, a Japanese Buddhist priest who had made his way into Lassa and there studied the tenets of his religion and incidentally the political aspect of the Dalai Lama’s gov- ernment, tells at length of Russia’s secret influence which has been at work in the capital of the forbidden land. Tibetan priests, bought with the gold of Russian governors along the northern border, had acted as the emissaries of the Dalai Lama. Gifts had been ex- changed between that dignitary and the Czar. What the Czar's gifts were is revealed by the finding of the Rus- sian guns on the slain at Guru. England was evidently not unaware of the conditions which this Buddhist priest reveals in his article when she allowed Lord Curzon to dispatch the Younghusband expedition. Upon the acquisition of a protectorate or a complete colonial form of government over Tibet depends the in- tegrity of the empire of India as surely as does the possession of Korea assure Jasan of a continued na- tional existence. England and Jaran are both proceed- ing in the open against a foe whose darkly veiled move- ments, always stealthy, always forward, are brought to theit\!gcl is won, o ENGLISH ADVAN‘CE IN TIBET. HE nmi? Tibetan expedition under Colonel | with salmon. peating the numerous smart sayings of the youngster he has established such a reputation for him that the friends of the family, when they call on the insurance man and his charm- ing wife, invariably ask to see the lit- tle fellow in the hope that they might get a sample of his brightness at first hand. A few nights ago the insurance man had a card party at his house. When the guests had all assembled one of them asked after little Edgar and re- quested that he be brought into the room for a few minutes. The proud fath- er immediately went up to the nursery to bring the little fellow down. When | he re-entered the room, carrying the boy, he sat the little fellow down and told him to go and greet the guests. Much to his surprise, the boy stood stock still, refusing to budge éven after his father had told him a second time and rather sharply to obey his bidding. Chagrined, the father repeated his command; but the boy remained dumb and motionless. The situation was an embarrassing one, and it was not bettered when the little fellow, after gazing about the room and taking in with one glance the card outfit and the waiting players, said: “Papa, I refuse to ’'sociate with gamblers.” His Freak Memory. On one occasion, says the April World's Work, when Rear Admiral Enouye met an old Annapolis class- mate in Japan, he forgot all the Eng- lish he ever knew, but showed his pleasure by repeatedly embracing the American, swearing his affection in the purest Satsuma dialect, all the while singing old academy songs, which, strangely enough, he seemed to remem- ber perfectly, though he had forgotten the meaning of the words. Enouye opened a bottle of wine in the cabin of his ship, the Naniwas, where he exhib- ited with much pride and joy his old academy raincoat, with “Y. Enouye” stenciled on it. Possibly to convey to the mind of his guest his purpose in showing this coat, though the weather ‘was hot and clear, he rushed out on the | quarter-deck and shouted in excellent English: ‘“‘Rain-coats! Cap-covers! Overshoes and leggin’s!” the aston- ished Japanese officers and crew look- ing at him as if they thought he had suddenly gone mad. Enouye had sud- denly remembered the orders for rainy * mall route that will reach the rich copper mines, 200 miles’ farther into the interior of the country to the northwest of Victoria Falls. The ex- tenslon of the railroad will ultimately reach the same point on its way to Calro. So rich are the mines that those engaged in their development can afford to pay me £2 10s a hundred pounds to transport foodstuffs from Buluwayo to the mines, a distance of 510 miles. On my way from Califor- nia I stopped at Niagara Falls, and am able to compare them with the falls in the Zambesi. The maximum drop of the water at Niagara, I under- stand, is 172 feet, while that of Vic- toria Falls is 450 feet, and the width of the river straight across from bank to bank is a mile. Our summer, which extends over eight months, beginning in October, is the dry season, and in that period the flow is depleted, but nevertheless a great volume of water goes over the falls, and since my visit to Niagara I can readily understand the practical value in power that could be derived from the falls in the Zambesi, which are identical with the falls of Niagara in the manner in which the river bed drops abruptly.” A Youthful Voyager. The London Mail tells of a youthful traveler who took a trans-oceanic trip with as much sangfroid as he would an omnibus ride in London. ‘When the Cunard liner Etruria dis- embarked her passengers at Liverpool after her last voyage from New York, there stepped on to the landing stage a solitary small boy, so small and soli- tary that a policeman followed him wonderingly with his eye. The boy was Ernest John Bennett, who lives in Hazelwood Road, Wal- thamstow. He is 11 years old, a bright, blue-eyed little fellow, with close-cut golden hair and much- self-reliance. day dress at Annapolis. The New.Moon. The new moon through the firs Shines like a silver lamp, Tranquil and bright. The purple mountain wall And the dark-shadowed gorge Glimmer and pale. Serene, untroubled_thoughts Come to me out of the night, So blue, so still. The ancient life of the gods, With knowledge and calm and desire, Flows through the world. And we, too, lovely friend, Partake of their endless joy, Having known love. —Bliss Carman in Everybody's. Our “Treasure Islands.” Captain McLellan, whose recent voy- age to the Aleutian Islands in the reve- nue cutter Manning has had such mem- orable results, found the streams of Attu and of the other islands crowded On Buldir Island, in 52 degrees 30 minutes north, he found new fur seal rookeries. That this discovery may prove to .be of great financial value may be realized when it is con- sidered that the revenue from the rook- eries of the Pribiloff Islands has amounted thus far to over $50,000,000. On Umnak Island the revenue cutter steamed into a harbor two miles long and three-fourths of a mile wide. So strongly convinced are some of the alert men of the northwest that the Aleutians are now destined to as- sume great importance in the affairs of the Pacific that a company has been formed to colonize the archipelago. ‘Wharves and storehouses are to be built and trading stations established. Stock raising is to be begun first on Akun Island. There, it is estimated, 50,000 head of cattle can find abundant pasture the year through. It is claimed that, on account of the mollifying influence’ of the Japan cur- rent, the Aleutian Islands have a more desirable climate than any part of the Atlantic seaboard north of Cape Hat- teras. Aside from stock raising, gen- eral agriculture is to be inaugurated. It is stated that copper, gold, oil and coal are found on the islands, and that there is a great abundance of water power, as in Japan. One town, valled Jarvis, has already been started in Lost Harbor. The problem of transportation will not have to be solved, as in the interior of Alaska, for steamers to and from the Orient, Siberia, St. Michael and Nome now pass daily within a few miles of some of the best harbors in the archipelago.—Booklovers' Magazine. | Cape to Cairo. The New York Tribune prints an interesting interview with Christian H. Zeederburg of Buluwayo, in Rhodesia, Africa, in which that gentleman tells of the progress of the Cape to Cairo railroad. Says he: “The main line of the Cape to Cairo railroad from Cape Town to Bulu- ‘wayo, 1360 miles north, has been open since 1897. The branch to the north- east runs through Salisbury, the capi- tal of Rhodesia, to the port of Beira, on the Portuguese coast. The exten- sion of the main line northwest from Buluwayo runs through the Wanki coal fields. These are 220 miles from Buluwayo and the work of construc- tion has been pushed on toward the falls in the Zambesi or Victoria Falis. an additional distance of 90 miles. “Only twenty miles of this remains to be built, and it will probably be accomplished by the end of April. I must be back at Cape Town by May 3. and I there take up a new pioneer In November last an uncle who lives in Brooklyn wished the boy to pay him a visit, so he went across the Atlantic alone, and he came back alone. His chief “chum” on the way back was a sailor, who in the evenings, un- der the shadow of one of the funnels, told tales of his horrible adventures in Arctic seas. The second-class passen- gers took an interest in the lad, and he soon made friends with two boys of his own age. They organized athletic sports on the deck. Other leisure time he spent with a select library of eight prize books, which he had won at a ‘Walthamstow board school. He does not like the American boy, who is, he says, too “cheeky.” The American boy also affected to believe that he was either Irish or German— an insult which he cannot endure. Answers to Queries. BATHING—Reader, City. In bat 8, rubbing down may be with the hafd, a specially prepared brush or a coarse towel. . HELLTOWN-—Subscriber, City. Theres is such a place in California as Hell- town. It is in Butte County and is reached by rail to Oroville, 168 miles, thence twenty-five miles by stage. AN ADDRESS—Subscriber, City. A woman writing to anyone who does not know if the writer is married or single should always use in the signature Mrs. or Miss, as the case may be, as other- wise the receiver would not know hew to address the reply. RICE—R. T. M., Oakland, Cal. Rice was introduced into this country from Madagascar through the gift of a sack thereof by the captain of a vessel that ‘was driven into the harbor of Charles- ton, S. C., in 1694, to one Thomas Smith, who planted in his garden and then distributed the seed. SAN, FRANCISCO STREETS — G., City. In the early days of San Fran- cisco the streets south of Market street and east of Valencia, now numbered numerically from Sixth to Sixteenth, both inclusive, were known by the fol- lowing names, commencing with Sixth: Simmons, Harris, Price, Johnston, Thorn, Wood, Brown, Ellen, Tracy, Sparks and Center. CONVICT'S RIGHTS—T., Sacramen- to, Cal. Under the following section of the Penal Code of California a convict may be restored to citizenship at the discretion of the Governor: “At the end of every month the board must report to the Governor of this State the names of all- prisoners whose terms of imprisonment are about to expire by reason of the benefits of this chapter, giving in such report the terms of their sentences, the date of imprisonment, the amount of total credits to the date of such report and the date when their service would ex- pire by limitation of sentence. The Governor, at the expiration of the term for which any prisoner has been sen- tenced, less the number of days allow- ed and credited to him, must order the release of such prisoner, by an order under his hand, addressed to the war- den of the prison, in such mode and form as he may deen proper, and with or without restoration to citizenghip, according to his discretion.” —_———————— Townsend's California Glace frifts and ‘box: Amwa-:nmumm ns"w-«-«. above Call bullding. * —— e a1 information supplied N