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Apropos new and narkably powerful nc Robert Cavelier,” by William Dana Orcutt. the early chron- jcles about the hero of the story, the Sieur de La Salle, assume an added freshness in their auai interest. While a review of the present author's or is reserved tale of the great is for the Sunday Call's book page, interesting to read n the earliest edition of Joutel's “Journal of the Last ge of M. de La Salle” the story of the discoverer's work from the pen of a conte ary. Says the old his- Robert Cavelier, ommonly calli’d 2 Native of Roan, aving been educated Learning, went over very ada and took Delight in e in Projects of new jes up the Inland of those vasi « to settie there and make he pur- Island oY built the Leagues abitation ir has xd Town of Canada above Quebeck Many Discover: had been made to the Northward, before Monsieur de la Sale’s Time; but none had ad- vanc'd far towards the South or South- t, beyond Fort Frontenac, which is Lake Ontario. the nearest this chased ar Mont-r sixty w Way of the five great Lakes. Something was known of the fa- mous River Missisipi, which it was ‘supposed might fall into the South Sea and open a Way to it. These Con- jectures working upon Monsieur de la Sale, who being zealous for the Honour of his Nation, design'd to signalize the French Name, on Account of extraor- dinary Discoveries nd all that went before him; he form'd the Design and resolv'd to put it in Execution. He s certainly very fit for it, and suc- ceeded at the Expense of his Life; for no Man has done so much in that Way as he did for the Space of twenty Years he spent in that Employment. He was & Man of a regular Behaviour, f a large Soul, well enough rned, nd understanding in the Mathe- maticks, désigning, bold, undaunted, dexterous, insinuating, not to be dis- couraged at any Thing, ready at ex- tricating himself out of any Difficul_ ties no Way apprehensive of the greatest Fatigues, wonderful steady in adversity, and what was of extraordi- nary Use, well enough versed in sev- eral Savage Languages. M. de la having such ordinary Taler whereof he had given suffici upon several occasions, ga teem of the Governors of Canada and Messieurs de Courcelles, Talon, and de successively express'd the fame, by often employing him in Af- fairs for the Honour and Advantage of the Colony “The great Reputation Monsieur de la Sale had gain'd, and his mighty Projects, occasion’d a Jealousy in some and Envy in others. His own Country- men thwarted his Designs; but he sur- mounted all those Obstacles and re- turn'd into Canada, about the year 1676, . He set out at length. and . proceeded to the Westward, and found the River of the Illinois, which he call’d the River of Seignelay, and following its course came into the Mis- Frontenac sisipi. where the other discharges it- self. . All along its Banks he found many Savage Nations with whom by means of his Presents he enter'd into Alliances, and gave the Country the Name of Louisiana, to honour the Yome and Memory of our August Monarch. At length the Course of the Missisipi convey'd Mon- sieur de la Sale to its Mouths, and he arriv'’d there in the Month of April 1682 or 1683." RO St The Scribners announce the imme- | diate publication of a2 book by the late Henry Seton Merriman under the title of “Tomaso's Fortune and Other Sto- ries.” The volume is made up of the short stories—nearly a score of them —that he left at his death, stories said to possess in an unusual degree the qualities that have made his novels acceptable to a multitude of readers. The themes are varied—from a Span- ieh cafe to a field hospital in India or South Africa, with an admixture of sea stories of an original character. | The treatment is all dramatic, the ac- tion rapid, the incidents salient, the figures strongly marked types. Alto- gether the book shows that Mr. Mer- riman was the master of the art of the short story as well as the novel. Early in autumn the same house will publish “The Last Hope,” the novel Mr. Mer- riman completed some time before his death, and the last one which will ap- pear from his pen. Since its comple- tion it has been in the possession of his publishers and will be put into | book form without appearing first as a serial. The mnovel, which compares in length and completeness of plot and historical _setting with any Mr. Merriman has written, the power and fascination of his m notable and popular stories. R S o “The winds that waft fame blow has also all | ;most the first English writer to show appreciation of it was Lucas Malet, the gifted author of “Sir Richard Cal- mady,” who, as long ago as last De- cember, included it in a list of “best | holiday books” prepared by her for a | London periodical. And now it has attracted the attention of W. Robert= | son Nicoll, the discoverer of Maclaren, [jBarrie and one or two other authors |'of lesser note. Mr. Nicoll has been greatly diverted by Mr. Ford’s picture of New York journalism, and partic- ularly with the chapter describing the | manner in which a fashionable wed-| ding is reported in a yellow newspa- per. He, too, is inclined to take the k seriously, and declares in the widely read British Weekly that it ‘ought to have a wide circulation in England.” . . L2 zra S. Brudno, author of “The Fugi- tive,” the nmew book on Russian op- pressfon of the Jews, which is having a wide sale, comes of a distinguished family. Though very small, it includes | a number of men weil known for their | success in scholdrly ways, and also some of the richest Jews in Russia. There are perhaps in all not more than a dozen households, with the author, his parents and three brothers the only representatives in this country. Mr. Brudno's great-grandfather was a famous rabbi and author, whose father emigrated to Lithuania, in Russia, | from Holland, and the ancestry before this time is traced to Spain. The writ-| ing of “The Fugitive” was begun while | Mr. Brudno a student at Yale,! which was not so long ago. In the last | year or so it has been entirely rewrit- | ten. The book came from the press of Doubleday, Page & Co. just at the| nioment when the outbreaking of the! stern war made it plain that the matters with which the book deals would complicate the great struggle. has been aroused among the readers of Miss Ellen Glas- gow’s novel “The Deliverance” as to the real locality of the story. The au- | thor says that the scenes are all laid in | Caroline County, Virginia, which is near the edge of the dark tobacco grow- ing district. The home of the Blakes was near the little town of Balty. The old mansion from which the Blake house was drawn still stands, a monu- ment to an aristocratic regime. Ac-! cording to the April Bookman “The De- | liverance” is easily the best-selling book in the United States. It is the book most in demand, too, in the twen- | ty largest cities. . Much interest It would seem as if G. Bernard Shaw had at last come into his own. For over a year there has been almost continu-! ous reference to this clever vriter in the English papers, and for six months past he has occupied no little space in American journals. Some of this au- thor's earliest work, he informs the public, is entirely out of print and will never be republished. There are a few of his admirers who have had the cour- age of théir convictions, and two of his choicest early books have been care- | fully reprinted in this country. One of these, “An Unsocial Sodialist, is the only edition at present on the market. | A New York house (Brentano's) issued this volume and “Cashel Byron's Pro- fession” at a time when his following in| America was execeedingly limited, and their belief in the value of Mr. Shaw's work seems to be warranted. There is at present general interest in anything he doe for which this reprinting of ! his earlier books is to a great extent| responsible. Mr. Howells, whose new serial, “The Son of Royal Langbrith,” is now ap- pearing in the North American Re- ! view, has gome abroad and can only be reached through the London office of Harper & Brothers, in Albemarle street. A member of Mr. Howells’ fam- | ily who has remained in New York has | been kept busy forwarding his im- portant mail or returning the less pressing communications with the fol- | lowing printed slip: *Mr. Howells is in Europe, and during his absence it is impracticable to reply to your inclosed communication.” His mail includes poems from aspiring young girls, long MSS. from people under the mistaken impression that he is an editor of Har- | per's Magazine and who expect one of the busiest of authors to devote hours to their critical perusal, and of requests | for assistance of all sorts: When Mr. | Howells is home in addition to his reg- ular work he gets through this mail ! somehow, but nobody knows how. { | No Red Skirts. The Philadelphia Public Ledger prints a dispatch from Pittsburg, dated | April 5, which tells of a novel order sent out on the Pennsylvania Rallroad. | “Let no woman wearing a red skirt come near the tracks of the®Pennsyl- | vania Railroad” is an order that came | | from the company offices in Philadel- | phia. When the order was received there was considerable amusement among the local officers. Said ne of them: ! “Red skirts have stopped fast trains. Italian women gathering coal along the line when the harvest was good flagged both’ freight and fliers.” All women wearing red skirts found | on the iine of the company will be summarily arrested, and the detectives have been instructed to try to keep | the offenders off the line of the road. | Workingmen will also be forbidden to { wear red shirts. Good Advice. | When the late A. H. Garland was | Attorney General, during Cleveland's first administration, he brought from ‘Arkn.-lt an old friend named James H. Ward, who was made watchman and placed in charge of the building at ight. . A telegram was received late one night addressed to the “Department of Justice,” which Ward opened and from the east to the west” is a saying | found that the sender of the message whose truth no one familiar with the history of American literature will question, but in the case of James L. Ford's “Brazen Calf” fame seems to be traveling in an easterly direction, has made itself it is wanted to know whether there was ‘uy statute that forbade the killing of a man who was a common drunkard |{and a public nuisance. Ward concluded that the Attorney General should not be disturbed at so late an hour with |tihmn.uduuln-‘mu- swer was recuested sent this reply: “None that I'know of."” “will be but little interrupted by adverse weather. | risk alone. THE SAN “FRA W eeee.e..Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT. Manager NCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propricto PAbcRtion OMOS -5 +5sthivs s pob b tosiasnsinaka @ etietieeessiee....Thifd and Market Streets, S. F. o THURSDAY.. THE INSTRUCTION CAMP. HE better training of our small army requires that T the Government provide the places and the means for instruction in artillery gunnery and small arms marksmanship. This means practically that our land forces shall be trained 2s our sea forces are. The importance of such training was proved in the Spanish war. Our men behind the guns on our war ships had been long drilled in the service and aiming of naval artillery. The Spanish ships were in tonnage and equip- ment the equal of ours. But the poverty or .indifference of the Spanish Government had made it consider as wasteful the use of ammunition in practice. When our ships engaged the Spanish fleets our shots went home, while the Spanish gunners hgd not skill enough to hit the islands they were defending much less the ships in our fleets. The land battles of Spain were in the same condi- tion. Indeed some of them had no ammunition at all. This furnished the only humorous incident of the brief war. When Captain Glass sailed up to Guam and took a crack at the fort the Spanish Governor, who had not heard of the war, thought it was a salute and put off for Glass’s ship with his staff in full uniform to apologize for not returning the salute because his Government fur- nished him no powder. He was carried off as a prisoner of war without a change of shirts. Our Government, in pursuance of its policy of making our land troops efficient in the actual operations of war, has provided for the location in different parts of the country of instruction camps of such ample area as to accommodate cavalry and infantry drill, furnish space for artillery practice on a large scale and for training in rifle shooting. One of these camps is to be located on this coast and for climatic and other reasons the War De- partment prefers that it be in California. A commission appointed for the purpose reported two or three sites {in San Luis Obispo County and adjacent territory. The representatives of these rival properties of course antag- onized each other, with the result of holding the selection in abeyance, and another commission has been appointed to re-examine the whole subject and make report. As it is evident that in the Philippines we have on hand | the same kind of a job, with more difficulties, as the sub- jection of our warlike Indian tribes, there will be upon us for a long time the necessity of forwarding to and returning from the islands-a considerable military force of trained men. The quality of the climate will not per- mit the same force to remain there more than two years, so that the change of men njust be going on all the time. A camp of instruction hcrcn&ill have to be occupied con- | tinually by a force of irom five to seven thousand men, and their commissary and maintenance are matters of importance in which transportation and supplies must be considered. The first public movement to promote a proper location has been undertaken by the State Board of Trade, which has appointed a committee to co-operate with the new military commission and to ask the assistance of the other commercial bodies of this city. This is a practi- cal and worthy movement started none too soon. Tt is our right to consult and assist the economical fea- ture of the selection, which interests all the taxpayers. For immovable and unchangeable physical reasons economy requires that the location be in California. It should be made at some point where the large transpor- tation of equipment and supplies may be no monopoly,| but be affected by water and rail competition. It is not unreasonable to ask that it be also where the largest number of people may enjoy whatever benefit there is in it. As the effect of such a location is felt beneficially by the State and reciprocally by San Francisco this city cannot be indifferent to it. As the State Board vi Trade has led off in the matter all of our people should manifest their interest and lend a hand in the work. Army officers are familiar with our military posts and are entirely aware of our climatic conditions. They know the latter to be favorable above any other part of the ccuntry. The difficult part of their task is in finding a location of sufficient area for artillery practice and cavalry drill and rightly placed so as to economize in transportation and the purchase of sup- plies. Surely such a place can be found somewhere around the bay and can be acquired at a reasonable price. Here the health of the men is best assured and their training It is true that there are theorists who deprecate the forma- tion of such camps, “because they imply a training for war. But the day has not come when a nation can afford to snub the defensive arts and when the necessity for their use appears the theorists have never been found ready to step out from their protection and stand the It is a practical and not a theoretical matter and should be treated from the standpoint of military efficiency and public economy alone. The Berkeley moths have temporarily let go of the university professors’ gowns to take a flutter at the.noble oaks, and the ladies’ club has appointed a paris green re- ception committee for the function. Better a nice dark corner in a woolly gown with an occasional outing to an electric Jight than to seek the intellectual atmosphere of a university neighborhood if you have a name like Phryganidia Californica. l to protect Presidents of the United States from an- archist murder, nor to contemplate the necessity for exerting ultimate force to restrain organizations of men from denying to others the rights which they claim for themselves. These things going on in our own country arrest the attention of the thoughtful. Much against his will the President has to be guarded by officers in plain clothes, and his partisan enemies make this the excuse for attacking him with accusations that he is of imperial- istic tendencies. The spectacle impresses one that civjlization has not yet reached the marrow of men and is merely a surface affair, while beneath there is the fiber of the barbarian with all of his motives and his uncontrolled passions. But the conditions in this country are demoted to second place when we read that the Pope, a most amiable and inoffensive personality, has to be guarded by detectives' in the robes of priests while he. celebrates mass in St. Peter’s. There is a screw loose in Christendom when the head of a considerable portion of the Christian church cannot perform the rituals of his church without being in danger of assassination. These things should direct our attention to our- THE CRIMINAL INSTINCT. T is not pleasant to read the debates over legislation selves and should modify that spirit which restlessly im- T TR O R A A e 8 S R Sy eI SR ke P A S LSS RS MTA S pels us to impose our civilization ypon peoples who have a civilization of their own. We should rather feel inclined to see if they have not something which we may profitably adopt, leaving them free to choose for themselves such parts of ours as may fit them. All Christendom is as much interested in the personal safety of the Pope as are his own churchmen, for his assassination would at once rekindle prejudices long gone to ashes. But those who would be affected by such an event realize their powerlessness to prevent such an appalling calamity. The consciences of those who would cause it are quite beyond their reach. It is a species of atavism that constantly recurs under all forms of gov- ernment and in spite of the teachings of Christianity. No schools, no ethics, no moral or religious teaching has succeeded in eradicating it. It is a persistent disease in civilization, chronic and incurable. Some dreamers refer it to poverty and ascribe that poverty to the selfishness of those who are not poor. But this view is not justified, for the preachers of an- | archy are far from membership in the dependent class in any of the countries where that cult finds a lurking place. Nor can it be ascribed to partiality and oppression in civic institutions, for the evil spirit is here, where men are the freest and the most prosperous in the enjoyment of more equality of opportunity. All that can be done is to recognize it as a peculiarly sinister and covert and merciless form of the criminal‘instinct and when we find it to stamp it out as we do physical contagion. A dispatch from London says: “It is doubtful whether the long expected engagement for the possession of Yalu River will ever take place—certainly not unless the Rus- sians have been heavily reinforced.” The only value of such a dispatch is that it confirms public opinion. In fact, the doubtfulness of any important engagement be- tween the Japs and Russians in the near future has now become so great that any occurrence of the kind would be hailed as a surprise party. THE CLASH IN COLORADO. HERE is a pretty kettle of fish asimmer ove?in T Colorado, where the State troops have been called out to protect the property of the mines at Tellu- ride. It seems that District Judge Theron Stevens has ordered the arrest of Adjutant General Sherman M. Bell and Captain Bulkeley Wells, commanding the militia, for contempt of court on acount of their failure to deliver | the person of Charles Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, upon the presentation of a writ of habeas corpus issued by this selfsame Judge Stevens. Not only has'he set the arm of the law in motion, but the Judge has declared that the Governor and all the execu- tive authority of the State of Colorado are in insur- rection against the law. Governor Peabody calmly maintains that the military will not give up the miners’ president, nor will it pay any heed to the order for the arrest of the officers. This seems to be the hardest snarl of all the difficul- ties arising out of the struggle between the mine owners and tie striking operatives in the harassed State of Coly orado. To the unfortunate circumstance of State troops having to be called out in order that the business of a corporation or corporations may be carried on peace- fully is now added the vastly more regrettable complica- tion of the strife between Federal judicial authority and the government of the State. Governor Peabody has the entire force of the State’s troops to back his decis Judge Sawyer has recourse to the higher Federal judi- ciary, even to the Supreme Court of the United States if a benc¢h of final appeal be necessary. h It is a knotty problem, this one raised by the refusal of | the State authorities to obey a Federal court, and there must be worked out some delicate problems of the law before either the Judge or the Governor, may be cen- sured. Governor Peabody evidently rests the justness of the arrest of Moyer upon the fifth amendment to the constitution of the United States, which says that “no person shall be held to answer for a capital or other- wise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indict- ment of a Grand Jury except ‘.“ cases arising in the land or naval iorces, or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger.” then, an act of military necessity, according to the lights of Governor Peabody. By the Federal constitution also, which provides that “the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasions, the public safety may require it,” Colorado’s Governor fortifies himself for the refusal to heed the writ issued by the Federal Judge. The Federal Judge plainly justifies his issuance of the writ by his construction of what constitutes a “case of rebellion.” Evidently believing that no rebellion exists at the present time in Telluride, he feels that he acts perfectly within his rights in calling to account those who refuse to honor a Federal writ of habeas corpus. If the cyief executive of the State refuse \to abide by the order of the Judge he puts himselfi-in contempt of the Federal authority and is subject to impeachment. This, then, is the state of affairs in Colorado. Whether it will work itself out satisfactorily or will grow into a situation wherein the United States Government will have to take an active part remains to be decided by | future events. — The Russians announce with much vociferation and many repetitions that they are very glad France and Great Britain have decided to remain at peace. It may be the Russians really feel a genuine love for peace, but the chances are their delight over the British and French agreement is due solely to their gratification that noth- ing is likely to happen to raise the price of war supplies. A strictly up-to-date burglar captured at Mountain View had an improved kit of tools of his own invention, the use of which he explained to the Sheriff with much pride. It is to be hoped the State jailer will be quite as modish in the style of his padlocks, so that his profes- sional vanity may not be put to the blush by his prom- ised guest. . The number of Russian warships that have been blown up by Russian mines is ing ominous. If the Japs continue to tease them to it of the harbor and fight, they may succeed at getting all the Rus- siay mines exploded and all hipg blown up with no loss to Japan at ail. o M of “mysterious murder” in of Mi Mabel Page, is but another proof that mysterious murders have now become so com- | mon in New ww that section a murder which is not mysterious would be the greatest mystery of all. . Moyer's arrest was, | -—_— | TALK OF - A False Diagnosis. “They told me I should find my boy here,” explained the little woman nerv- | ously as she stood at the City Prison keeper's desk. The mother was wan :and pale. Marks of care and worry had left their impress plainly on the | tired features. ““His name?” queried the desk man. “Must I tell it?” she pleaded, and ! then in whispered response she gave | the name. | Over the record the booking clerk ran. | Quickly he came to’ the object of search. | “I came all the way from Kansas to | find my son. It took all the money I | had to trace him. He is the only one |left of my five children and I must | see him,” urged the anxious woman. ! “Well, madam, he isn’t here now. ! The record shows that he left here a | week ago,” said the officer. “But where is he?” begged the hailf- distracted mother. “He is in the State penitentiary.” There was a gasp and wild® sob as the woman sank to the floor. They took her in charge at the hospital That night the Morgue eclaimed the worn out body. The doctors said she died of starvation, but, then, doctors do | not know everything. The Carver’s Dilemnma. A grocer of the Western Addition a :Ahort time since celebrated the silver anniversary of his wedding, and to | make the affair werthy of the occa- sion he had a fine supper prepared at which he acted as the host. A fine | turkey, donme to 3 turn, was laid be- fore him and as he took up the carver 'and fork he turned to the lady guest | seated nearest to him, and, desiring to know if she had any particular choice, asked, “What part of the bird would you prefer?” The answer came, “The leg.” Then | he turned to the next guest with the | same question and the reply was, “The ileg.” To a third, a fourth and a fifth {and then a sixth guest he propounded llhe same question and to his discom- ! fort he heard each, evidently uncon- | scious of what the other had said, say, | “the leg.” The host, allowing the carving im- | plements to drop to the table, ex- ! claimed as scon as he could recover !from his astonishment: “My friends, | I'd like to accommodate you, but what ! are you thinking about? Do you think that Fm about to carve a centipede?” | The host was allowed to use his own | judgment after that. Spring in the South. | Now in the oak the sap of life is welling, Though to the bough the rusty foliage 1 clings; Now on the elm the misty buds are swelling: See how the pine-wood grows alive H with wings! | Bluejays fiuttering, yodeling and crying: Meadowlarks sailing low above (he withered grass; | Redbirds whistling clear, silent robins ying— { 1l & | Who has waked the birds up? What | has come to pass? i { Last year's cotton plants, desolately bowing. Stand in the fallows, rugged and for- lorn; Red are the hillsides of the early plow- | ng; | Gray are the lowlands, waiting for i the corn. Earth seems asleep still; but 'tis only feigning; | Deep in her bosom thrills a sweet un- | rest. | Look where the jasmine lavishly is rain- ing {' Jove's golden shower into Danae's i breast. | Now on the plum the snowy bloom is H rifted; | Now on the peach the glory of the | rose; Over the hills a tender haze is sifted; i __Full to the brim the yellow river flows. | Dark cypress boughs with vivid jewels H glisten, Greener than emeralds shining in the sun. Who has wrought the magic? Listen, sweeetheart, listen! The mockingbird is singing; has begun. | i ! spring Hark! in his song no tremor of misgiv- ing- | - All of his heart he pours into his lay, “Love, love, love, and pure delight of living; “Winter is forgotten; live for oy 1 . love to- | Fair in your face I read the flowery presage, . Snowy on your brow and rosy on your | mouth, Sweet in your voice I hear the season's message: “Love, love, love, and spring in. the Sout —The Outlook. The Flowery Aleutians. The Aleutian archipelago is along the | chosen path of Pacific commerce. The | fact that, as fishermen point out, the | future cod fisheries of the world will | be conducted along the Aleutian Islands , would alone make them immensely | valuable and would insure their occu- | pation and settlement by a hardy race | of men. These islands have a still fur- | ther value. Concurrent with the shore | line explorations conducted by Captain McLellan and his nautical experts in the revenue service, Professoy Trevor Kincaid of the University of Washing- ton, an alert Western scientist, has been making a study of the valleys and lmountain slopes of the islands. He first became interested in Alaska at the time of the Harriman expedition. As a result of this vovage of scientific ! discovery he amazed the entomological sands of them being species that de- i pend for existence on the nectar of | blossoms. It was a revelation not only of. the presence of unnumberéd flower- hunting hymenoptera, coleoptera and lepidoptera in Alaska, but incidentally it called the attention of scientific men to the fact that Alaska, instead of be- ing a wilderness of perpetual ice, was a vast wild garden. Extending his in- vestigations in subsequent trips to the Aleutian chain, Professor Kincaid has made the discovery that in the valleys and slopes of those islands a number of kinds of succulent forage grasses grow in luxurious abundance. “1 am convinced,” said he, “that our beef cattle will ultimately come from this interesting archipelago.”—The ' Magazine. - Foor Man Beware of Man. The Isle of Man is a place to be THE TOWN or avoided by peovle who have a weak- ness for running up hotel bills without having the means to pay them, for under a Manx law anyone not a native of the island may be imprisoned under such circumstances. To lock up a mau because he cannot pay what he owes is, of course, a somewhat illogical pro- ceeding, for it means adding the cost of keeping and feeding him to the loss caused by his default. But possibly the occasional exercise of this law may be profitable to the hotel keepers of Manxland by acting as a warning. Prevention, however, being less ex- pensive, as a rule, than cure, it would pay the Isle’of Man hotels to append a notice to all advertisements of the attractions of the island calling atten- tion to the fact that visitors who try to leave their hotel bills unpaid can be locked up.—Westminster Gazette. The Lance in Warfare. There is sald to be trouble brewing between the British War Office and General Lord Kitchener cuncerning the abolition of the lance as a weapon of warfare. The Sirdar contends that the lance is a very effective weapon when used against uncivilized troops, and its continued use in India, where the fight- ing is mainly against savage tribes, 13 no doubt advisable. Lord Kitchener is talking only for the Indian army, prob- ably, in. contending for the retention of the lance, for since the introduction of the magazine gun in warfare the cav- Aalry charge is a “Pig-sticking™-is, doubtless, a very ex- kilgrating game when played with @n enemy armed with matchlocks or old breechloaders of obselete pattern, but the game takes on another aspect when the man on horseback is ordered to charge troops armed with modern rapid-fire rifles. It doubtless demoral- izes a savage soldier fo be run through the body with a lance, but the civilized soldier with a magazine rifle in his hands will not permit himself to be run through. The cavalryman presehts too striking a mark that he should b= permitted to get within lance reach, and against well-trained trodps he would not be permitted to get Within spearing distance. Answers to Queries. DELAWARE—C. M. C.. Panhandle City. In the State of Ohio there is the city of Delaware, in Delaware County, lccated in the central portion of the State. THE CROSS—C. M. C.. Panhandle City. The height of the Prayer Cross in Golden Gate Park published in this department included the pedestal on which it stands, and which is seven feet high. IN THE LONG AGO—The Mission Subscriber, City. Uniess the title of the article is furnished it is impossible to trace through the index an article that was published in The Call about eight or nine years ago. g WITii THE DECISION—E. G. B, Birds Landing, Cal. In a pugilistic contest it is ot necessary for the hold- .| er of the championship to be knecked out in order to lose the championship. It goes with the decision of the referee. WORLD'S FAIR—R. T. P, City. The first “World’s Fair” in the United States opened in the Crystal Palace, New York City, July 14, 1853. The next was the Centennial, opened in Philadel- phia in 1876 and the Columbian Expo- sition at Chicago in 1893. The one fol- lowing is the St. Louis Exposition this year. There was also the Midwinter Fair in San Francisco in 1894, which, while it contained much from different parts of the world, was not a “world's fair”” in the strict sense of that term. In the Free Public Library reference room you will find books that will give all the details of these fairs. WEST POINT VACANCIES—R. G.. City. When vacancies occur for any State at the Military Academy, West Point, the Representatives from the State in which there is a vacancy are notified by the War Department and they vroceed to make a selection or selections. Application for a cadetship should be forwarded to the Represen- tative from. the district in which the applicant lives. 1If the examination for admission is to be a competitive one the Representative receiving the appli- cation will notify the appifcant. Appointments are usually made advarce of date of admission by the Secre- world by the bewildering collection of | tary of War upen “lac' nomination of the ator or Represen . These _nominas insects he brought out of Alaska, thou- oo g0 T g e g R be Wwill recelve from the War Department mnwmanl-mhw. thing of the past. *