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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 8§, 1904. — * Caustic English Critics. Special Correspondence. HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, § HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, June “Eng- lish Bards and Scotch Reviewers” was | the title, it will be remembered, of By- ron’s savage onslaught upon the Edin- burgh Review, and that of “American Eooks and English Reviewers” might be | applied to the discussion that has been | late in a prominent Londonl‘ raging of newspaper regarding works from the United States and their standing in| this country. Probably echoes of this| argument have not failed to reach the other side of the Atlantic. It started in the Chronicle—which is known as the most literary of the London dailies— &nd arose out of a book review which | ly in the columns of that newspaper. The volume reviewed, which had as its subject “Matthew Arnold,” was published by G. P. Put- nam’s Sons, and perhaps this was why | the reviewer, who roasted the work, got the impression that its origin was American, and gave this impression in what he wrote about it. Instantly| came a letter from George H. Putnam, who is now in this country, pointing | out that the volume’s author was not | an American at all, but English, and deprecating what the publisher de-| scribed as a prejudice against American | bogks on the part of the British re- viewers. The resultant discussion has | been as to whether such a prejudice | exists, and opinions have been ex-| pressed by authors, reviewers and pub- | lishers — among them John Lane, Rita,” Mre. Dudenay and, appeared recer lastly, | Arthur Waugh, who wrote the offend- ing review. It was asserted by one witness that the books by American professors that find their way over| here almost invariably compare so un- | favorably with the works of British| savants that no Engiish reviewer can | be blamed for feeling some misgiving | on encountering a supposedly “pro-| found™ volume from the other side, but even this writer denied indignantly that a book of any kind would be “roasted” here, regardless of its merit, simply because it was American. Possibly the first part of the fore- going may be true—though one hopes it isn't. Regarding the point at issue, the present writer's experience has led | him to believe that an American work of real quality — whether serious or | fiction—will be recognized as such by | nipety-nine out of a hundred British reviewers. But when an American book is bad—well, then I think there is idency on the part of most literary t to make rather a point of its | trans-Atlantic origin. Dr. Emil Reich, whose book, “Suc- | cess Among Nations,” seems to have! aroused a good deal of controversy in | the United States—just as it has over | here—ie a smooth-faced, handsome, mifdle-aged Hungarian savant who has the gift of speech to an aimost miraculous degree. He has been gi ing a course of university lectures in London this season on a wide range of tepics, packed with all sorts of difficult facts, and vet with never so much as | 2 cuff-note to look at. His eloguence i of the persuasive sort that some- how enables him to tell an audience largely composed of English women that as a rule he thinks English women a tame lot, not at all comparable with thejr sisters in France, for instance. There is something about his fiery en- thusiadm that takes the sting out of the words. He dearly loves to be on the other side of an argument, and I euspect that is one reason for his con- troversial attitude regarding American women. He chuckled joyously the other day in the writer's presence when an American visitor huried at him the following comment: “You may have lived iz America five years, Dr. Reich, but you evidently saw only one kind of American woman—the kind that rushed up to you after a lecture and car- ried you off triumphantly to dinner for the sake of getting a bit of prestige. You got among culture-grabbers and hend-shakers and stayed among ‘em the whole five years, and never knew there was another sort of American | woman. You made a hasty generaliza- | tion, in other words.” The learned | doctor's answer to this gallant on- | slaught was crushing. “My boy.” said | he, “come and have a . drink.”” The doctor’s wife is a charming little French lady, and their London home is hospitable, indeed. The coming centenary of George Sand has brought out the fact—which | probably will surprise most persons— that some of the authoress’ work still which now are likely to see the light of day, include two plays named “The Mar With the Marionettes,” and “Manon,” and several fragments of novels. Of these the most interesting is “Memoirs of J. Paille,” which, be- gun by George Sand in 1863, was in- tended by the authoress to be the life- story of an imaginary grandson of Rousseau. It was given up, however, when Madame Sand discovered that { that Herr Richard Skowronnek, a Ger- " | which speaks to the woman of “our | We are shown wretched, pallid, ill-fed y remains unpublished. These 'wrMnu,l‘n which Theodosia . tor. She has, of course, already had literary experience to burn, first with the Harpers in America, and later as her husband’s most valued assistant here—not to mention having written two or three plays. Mark Twain has shown that no one can be more serious than a humorist, when so dispeged, as Mrs. Gamp would say, and Jerome K. Jerome is another example. Of late, the humorist has been pitching into the vivisectionists in a really savage way. It may be re- membered, too, that when Jerome was editing “Tq-day,” he went for the Sul- tan of Turkey so viciously that the Foreign Office had to warn him to soft- en his tone. And the author of “Three Men” once assured a gathering of voters that if they sent him to Parlia- ment—which they didn’t—he would be “‘as solemn as the most portentous M. P. ever known.” It was not so long ago that I wrote about a French poet who, because let- ters proved unremunerative, set up as a cobbler, and now word reaches me man dramatist, who has gained some little recognition, is about to abandon play-writing and take over the man- agement of a shoe-blacking factory. Perbaps it may not be improper to mention that on Friday last a paper on “Books of the Day” was read before the Women’s Institute, of London, by the customary writer of these letters, HAYDEN CHURCH. Terry Will Tour America. LONDON, June 22.—At the present writing arrangements are practically complete for a lengthy teur in the United States on the part of Edward Terry, the English actor-manager. He will be seen in America about the end of the year in “The House of Burn- side,” which he is now giving at his own theater in London and which, if it is not a workmanlike play, is at all events an interesting one and shows the actor at his best. Few actors on this side of the water are better known than Edward Terry, though this will be his first visit to the United States. He is famous as one of that merry band who disported them- selves at the Old Gaiety when the “Sa- cred Lamp of Burlesque” was burning most brightly, and of whom Henry Irv- ing, Nellie Farren and Toole were also | members, but perhaps he is best known on account of his connection with “Sweet Lavender.” The Pinero comedy was one of Terry’s first ventures at the theater which he opened in the Strand | in 1887. It was his great card—he played | Dick Phenyl, the hero, 670 times in Lon. | don, and goodness only knows how many in the provinces and colonies. Since he was obliged to shelve “Sweet Lavender” Terry has beea looking for | another such play, without much luck until now. His last appearance in Lon- don, when he used a piece by Captain Basil Hood, was a dire failure. But it really looks as if the actor had a good | thing in ““The House of Burnside.” It is one more adaptation from the French by the indefatigable Louis N. Parker, and well enough done for all practical purposes. The original was called “La | Maison.” The story is simple. Richard Burnside, the gruff but really (ender-j hearted old hero, is exactly the sort of | character which Terry is happiest in representing. He is head of the great shipping house of Burnside, but great as is his pride in the business, it has to take second place to his love for his two little grandchildren. Burnside's son, Dick, has proved a ne'er do weel, and | after his death his wife, Marion, and her two children have come to live with | Richard Burnside. The shipowner has | planned that the boy, littie Dick, shal!’ succeed to the business. On the little | girl, Maggie, he intends to settle half his fortune. Then tragedy comes in at the door. A letter arrives for the young widow which falls into Burnside’s hands and child.” Needless to say, written by the shipowner's son. upon the proud old man bursts knowledge that one of his grandchil- dren is {llegitimate. The question is, which one? Burnside believes that he can drag the truth out of the mother, but she declines to teil. And the rest of the play shows the old man crushed | by the knowledge that has come to him and harassed by doubts as to what course he must take. It is all tragic enough, but the author brings about a happy ending by making the old ship- per decide to take both children to his heart again and to carry out his first intention regarding them. If “Warp and Woof,” the new play by the Hon. Mrs. Aifred Lyttelton, p sents a true picture, as it purports to do, of the state of affairs existing in fashionable London dressmaking estab- lishments, then it constitutes an in- dictment of the Government of which her husband, the Colonial Secretary, is a shining member, for failure to enforce the factory acts. One might para- phrase Hood and call it a dramatic ‘“Song of the Skirt.” We are intro- duced to the sweat shop, not in’the purlieus of poverty stricken White- chapel, but in the luxurious West End. it was not Thus , the | T women being worked early and late in defiance of the law to complete in time for some fashionable function the cos- tumes ordered by society women who are utterly indifferent to the welfare of the toilers who minister to their pleas- ure. Their shallowness, vulgarity and selfishness are strikingly depicted. The most dramatic scene in the play is that (Mrs. Patrick Campbell) enters the drawing-room of Lady Jenny Barkenstone with the gown which the latter is awaiting. ‘While making it Theodosia’s sister had fainted. In the presence of her guests, Lady Jenny, irritated by the delay in the garment’s arrival, treats Theodosia to a torrent of abuse. It is then that the shop girl, driven desperate by the sufferings she has witnessed and the unjust attack upon herself, lets fly at her ladyship and the assembled com- the same idea had been used by Claude Genoux in “Les Enfants de Rousseau.” Among the other fragments is “The Queen of the Snows,” which its au- O’Connor, of the des- London's first American woman edi- pany and tells them some wholesome truths from the working woman’s point of view. Some critics assert that drawn. Dressmakers and factory in- spectors have been interviewed and of course they declare that the ills which Mrs. Lyttelton has portrayed exist only in her imagination. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . » « » « « . » . . Address All Communications to JOHN NcNAUGHT, Manager TPOBMCRIION OIROD - . - ovoteoseoseovsssesots - sasseesisssesassseisosshosbueste ssssvereos -2 THIR and Market Strects, 8. F. e _.JULY 8, 1904 MONROE DOCTRINE AGAIN. FRIDAY . HE Democratic press has shricked itself into ex- T haustion in sustaining Mr. John Sharp Williams in his attack on the President in the matter of his views on the Monroe hemisphere. Mr. Cleveland inter- preted the Monroe doctrine once in a way satisfactory to the country and declared that our honor required that we defend it by war if necessary. That was on the ques- tion of arbitrating the boundary dispute between 'Great Britain and Venezuela. It was hoped in this country that the demonstration then made would improve the quality of government in Venezuela. We declared it to be our policy and inten- tion to defend her sovereignty and territory against the strongest power in the world, and immediately gratitude toward us became epidemic at Caracas. A monument to Monroe was planned and “El tio Samuel” was toasted from the Andes to the sea. But the lesson was lost upon that Government. Instead of acquiring respect for the international rights of others Venezuela became more lawless than ever and included nationals’ of the United States among those she plundered and outraged. She is a nefarious example of that indecency of government that President Roosevelt deprecated and by so doing brought upon him Democratic wrath. Now comes Hayti, remembering that Mr. Clcvelandl threatened to fight Great Britain for Venezuela, and look- ing to this country to defend her against France and Germany, whose Ministers have been stoned in the streets by the bodyguard of the President who has suc- ceeded Simon Sam. This offense 'was not committed by the rabble of ‘the street, but by the official guard of the President under gommand of officers who, if they did not participate in the outrage, did nothing to prevent it. A nation is insulted in the person of its Minister, A blow aimed at him is aimed at the nation he represents and is a matter that cannot be ignored. France and Germany are sending each a war ship to Hayti to de- mand reparation and that country tries now to run to cover under the wing of the American eagle and wishes our protection against punishment for her indecency. But she knocks at the wrong door. France and Ger- many have our permission under the Monroe doctrine to land troops and thrash Hayti soundly. They may even impose upon her a money indemnity to pay the cost of whipping her into decency and must stop only at her sovereignty and her territorial integrity. We are of the opinion that it would be a wholesome lesson, useful to all mongrel Latin-America, to let Hayti be soundly punished by the two nations she has in- sulted. It would do her good and would improve her Government and elevate the ideas of her people. It would also save the United States the expense of admin- istering discipline to the Haytians and others, for nothing is more certain than that this country will have to interfere in certain parts of Latin-America and by force of arms compel order. Both parties set the exam- ple and established the precedent by intervening in Cuba. The reason was found in that island being near us, in the Monroe-hemisphere, and its condition of chronic revolution disturbed our commerce, made diffi- cult the ohservance of our neutral obligations and hurt our feelings. This all applies to all Latin-America, and if indecent government, defiance of international obligations and re- fusal to pay debts while the public revenues are being stolen by robbers like Castro continue we will have to enforce order there as we did in Cuba. If France and Germany will do it for us in Hayti it will save us trouble and expense. Independence day has passed, the smoke of celebra- tion has cleared, patriotism has found full and boister- ous expression and the small boy, somewhat the worse for the wear and tear of the day, perhaps, is still with us. Having shown that on July 4 we are all loving members of a glorious national family, we will now pro- ceed to exploit our various unworth in the great national political campaign which closes in November. After a little bluster, some buncombe will do no harm. GIANTS OF THE MOUNTAINS. WO cities on the Pacific Coast are expecting the immediate use of the convertible strength born of mountain torrents.~ Ten thousand horsepower will soon be carried by cables 125 miles long from the Kern River into the city of Los Angeles. A great plant will take into Scattle, from Cedar Lake, eléctrical energy that can eventnally be developed to the maximum force of 50,000 horses. In the Pacific Coast mountains are torrential streams, fed by melting snows and vast water- sheds, endowed with sufficient potentiality to revolution- ize the industries of the entire slope and to create new sources of wealth. Countless small mountain rivulets become creeks, then lakes and rivers in which stored-up possibilities invite enterprise and offer advantages sup- plemental to the great ones of climate and soil. Less than a quarter of a century ago the men at the ‘head of transcontinental railways looked upon the States of the Pacific Coast as areas that must perforce be considered principally agricultural or for a time mineral, until the deposits in the mines were all extracted. They were supposed to be a sure field to afford tolls for all time for the long haul across the continent of the goods and wares manufactured in the East. Eastern manu- facturers took the same view of this seaward slope. One of the daring conceptions of which the historian of this industrial nation must take account was that en- tertained by freight traffic managers of railways east and west, that it would be possible to minimize sea competi- tion in the carrying trade by so shaping freight tariffs that Chicago and its vicinity should be built up as manu- facturing cities as against large communities already ex- tensively manufacturing on the seaboard of the Atlantic. Much was done to accomplish this romantic dream of hard-headed millionaires back of railway management and the temporary results have certainly been large and profitable to the Middle West. No one, seemingly, took into consideration the water power of the Pacific Coast mountains. Sea carriers of freight were much smaller than they are. They burned expensive fuel; were hampered in their use of the sea by restrictive agreements that tied up traffic by way of the Isthmus of Panama and handed its control over to rail- ways that were thousands of miles distant from the isthmus, but dominated its transportation by subsidy contracts. Every day during this period the Pacific Coast moun- tain streams, unharnessed, were wasting their strength in destroying levees in the springtime or idly flowing to the sea during the remainder of the year. The day of their supremacy has since been slowly but surely dawn- ing. Great electric power plants, based on the flow of ol water down mountain sides to basins, have multiplied. The giants are peérceived now to be giants indeed. The initial voltage to be delivered in Los Angeles will be 45000. Later there will be an increase to 65,000 volts. The water power machinery that has been in- stalled at Borel is capable of generating 17,500 horse- power. The company that has harnessed the Kern River for the benefit of Los Angeles has already another large plant in view to be constructed. The current will be turned on in Seattle from the Cedar Lake plant in about two months. Five thousand horsepower will be delivered in Seattle at the outset. To increase to 50,000 horsepower there will be con- structed a dam at Cedar Lake to raise the water fifty feet above its present level. The sad financial experience of several wealthy women who tried to evade the payment of heavy customs duties at this port should be a warning to ladies similarly in- clined that Uncle Sam draws no distinction of sex in de- manding his exactions from the owners of foreign-made goods. If the deft fingers of foreigners can weave better than our own, then those that think so must pay for their opinion. THE JAPANESE QUALITY. HE world is getting information that it has lacked about the quality of the Japanese. The little em- pire is strained to ultimate tension by the war with Russia. The genius of its leaders~and the courage of its people are on trial and they stand the test. The lamen- tations are not for the dead, but that those who are left at home were not privileged to perish in their place. Mothers hear that their sons died in battle and exult that they bore them to die for their country. Fathers mourn not that their children have fallen under arms, but that their age keeps them inactive at home. On- lookers call it fatalism and name it an Oriental trait, an Asiatic peculiarity. But it has in it as pure and high- minded patriotism as burns in the breasts of the heroes of the whitest nations. Americans who had contact with our red Indians in their primitive nobility see at once the existence of the Japanese quality. It is not stolidity nor indifference, but is a manifestation of the sense of duty to country, to tribe, to others, in its highest form. The physical likeness of the American Indian to the Eastern Asiatic is supple- mented by this psychological likeness, which is revealed under the pressure of war. Ethnologists will not fail to observe and investigate it. It is not a fact that the Ja- panese feel no grief for their dead heroes. It is in the heart, but unexpressed. It is under the indly cover of a philosophy and patriotism the most admirable and a patience that is not jarred by any personal sorrow. The people pause to render the rites for the dead and then set their faces to the further responsibilities of the strug- gle for national independence. If Japan go down she will fall furnishing to the world a new history, a most interesting and instructive story of human endurance and courage against odds. Her soldiers who concealed the freezing of their feet on the march that they might not be denied the rapture of the fight have placed the standard of bravery and devotion higher than men have put it in all the past. Kuropatkin, it is announced, will be ready, after the rainy season, just beginning, has ended, to take the of- fensive against his doughty Japanese foes. This procla- mation seems almost incredible to those of us that have followed even casually the warlike events in the Far East. For a soldier with a reputation Kuropatkin is the most inoffensive, peace-loving, retiring gentleman now in the world’s eye. It would be a violation of the pro- prieties which he has created to make him fight. — T ting ransom money and extension of his power for an American and an Englishman has fired the chiefs of the Anghera tribe, who threaten to capture an- other Englishman and hold him as a hostage until cer- tain of their tribesmen who are in jail for various crimes are released. It is to be hoped they will do this and that they will make the same demand that Raissouli made, for ransom and for territory and privileges to be granted by the Sultan and guaranteed by Great Britain. Such a de- mand should be acceded to until the captive is released and then Great Britain should land a force sufficient to wipe the whole gang off the face of the earth. 5 These landsmen are playing the same game that was played for years by the Algerine pirates who levied blackmail upon Mediterranean commerce and took white Europeans off ships and sold them into slavery. Every nation in Europe submitted to this, and the more money they paid the pirates in ransoms and for freedom of the sea the more was charged. Finally the United States took up the matter and ended Algerine piraty and paved the way for the French conquest, which has resulted in making that part of Africa peaceable and safe. We have no desire now to interfere beyond the limit of the Perdi- caris case. That supplied a vigorous phrase in the his- tory of American diplomacy when Secretary Hay de- manded of the Sultan: “The American alive or Raissouli dead.” That unkeys the situation for Great Britain. Under our form of government an act of war must be authorized by Congress. But the British Government is executive and can act with promptness. It can not only demand a robber dead but can make him dead in default of action by another. The safety of the nationals of every Government on earth is the first requirement of international justice and it should be secured at all hazards. The North African plan of putting the Sultan of Morocco in a hole by cap- turing foreigners and holding them as hostages or for a ransom will not run much further without running against a large surprise. THE MOOR RAMPANT. HE success of the Moorish bandit Raissouli in get- v Another American army officer has killed himself, and behind the tragedy of his self-destruction is the shadow of a woman. These bloody affairs are becoming of so frequent occurrence that certainly it is time for Uncle Sam to school his soldiers in the tricks of Cupid no less than in the craft of Mars. Lovely woman appears to be far more dangerous to our heroes than the arts of our valiant foes: Both Russians and Japanese are appealing to that great court of rational opinion represented by the ethics of civilized nations against alleged barbarities perpe- trated by both in the oriental conflict. It is highly prob- able that both are to blame and that neither censure nor suggestion will be potent enough to modify their prac- tices while the war is in progress. Victory covers every offense in war. g | | {a very modest one for radium. TALK OF THE TOWN Thought It Was a Bird. Two deep-sea Jackies of Celtic race and Uncle Samuel's service were cruis- ing for a berth one day along a coun- try road. The joyful festivities of the city water front had delayed their re- turn aboard the white battle-craft whose honored name in letters of gold adorned the front of their blue caps, and now adrift they were rolling ahead with the gentle sidewise swing of a ship when she courtesies buoyantly to the underhurl of the foam-flecked wa- ters. They were ahunger and athirst and had parted with the paymaster's | last donation long before the wharves were hull-down far astern. Presently they saw a fine fat bird of emerald hue in a well-furnished cage hanging on the veranda of a residence. That parrot a little farther up the road, placed on the market, would buy dinner or at least a drink, and this brace of lawless men of the sea bent themselves to its capture. One slipped into the yard while the other moneyless mariner stood at anchor watch at the gate against a possible surprise. Polly held her peace but notea the trick out of the tail, of her big round eye till Jack was well within hail. Then she tound her black tongue: “Shove off, you bloody, brine-soaked pirate!” Startled at the stillness broken by rebuke so aptly spoken—or overcome by the natural superstition of the sea- faring—Jack lest his nerve and stumb- ling astern toward the gate he mut- tered, “Beg pardon, sur. I thought you was a bur-ed.” “Tibetans’ Praying Wheel.” “To the Yellow God, the Black God, the White God and the Green God: Please kindly take us all up with you and do not leave us unprotected, but destroy our enemies.” Such a prayer is to be found on a Tibetan praying whgel, said A. R. Wright at a meeting offthe Folklore Society held in Albe- marle street W. A novel feature of this prayer wheel whicn the Tibetan spends much of the time in turning is that if turned the wrong way every- thing done before is undone. Some of the articles used by the Ti- betans in their devotions are very grewsome. A human thigh bone cov- ered with human skin is used as a horn for exorcising demons and to draw the soul from hell. A double drum made from two halves of a skull, the skin covering being that of a human being, is placed on the altar of certain deities in the Tibetan re- ligion.—London Mail. Children Still: We seek no more a daily prize, Nor triumph in our dreams, So_changed the luster of the skies, _So faint and few the gleams. Yet comes anew, when others play, ‘That unforgotten thrill, And are we dull and old to-day, Or only children still? We loved the battle once, but now We are not overbold, There’s wisdom on the weary brow And iIn our hearts the cold. Yet in the light of eager eyes We lose the wintry chill, And then we are not overwise, But simple children still. The visions of our glorious youth Have faded long ago; We hope no more to find the truth, And should we care to know? Not ours to scale the viewless height, But there's a purple hill, And still we gladden at the sight And climb as children still. How much of all the good we planned 1s perfect or begun? | Who watched the lifting of God's hand, And waits for his “well done”? But when the children whom we The good we missed fulfill, Thank God our hearts prevail to The hearts of children still. —London Saturday Review. Costliest Atoms in World. There are some people, no doubt, who fancy that £32,000 an ounce is quite enough to give for anything in the world, and yet from all appear- ances there is little doubt that this price will come to be looked upon as Tha action of the Austrian Government in restricting the mining of pitchblende in Bohemia is already having its ef- feet and e mighty atoms become more valudble every day. As an in- stance of the manner in which the precious material is regarded, we need only mention the demand that is made for the mere loan of a specimen of radium. It is of 1,800,000 activity, and has a distinct effect on the elec- troscope at a distance of eight feet. For the few specks of yellowish sub- stance in the center of a case half the size of a lady’s watch over £100 has been refused, the owners preferring to lend it out to doctors at £5 a time. Cakewclk to Ghost Dance. Much may be learned from shop- windows, and those of the dealers in popular sheet music just now suggest a coming change of the deepest im- port. Where for ten years past the “swart maid and her swarthier swain” have greeted our eyes in a thousand guises, the red-skinned son of the forest now stands forth. Woolly heads give place to the feathered head-dress of the Indian chief. No publication at hand gives us regularly a list of the six best selling songs, yet the composite impressions of street whistlers and hurdy-gurdies furnish a fairly reliable index of pop- ularity. It cannot be a pure coinci- dence that the tune which came to New York ears last year with the most damnable iteration had an Indian title, that another which has closely followed it bears the same name as the familiar red and white blankets of the Southwest, while more of the same school of melodies appear week- ly, decked out in all the bravery of many-hued tepees, wampum belts and papooses. The “coon song” owed its 'origin and development to the fortuitous oc- currence in the English language of certaly strictly limited groups of rhymes of which “lady” and “shady,” “honey” and “money” are probably the most important. The new school of paop! melody depends to an love prove -_—_ equal degree on the continued supply of such rhymes as “beau” and “Navajo,” “canoe” and “you.” This latter mine has scarcely been touchad as yet, but the possibilities seem un- bounded. A moment's thought sug- | gests the coupling of “Apache” with 11 snatch ye,” “Comanche” with “Oh, can't ye?" “Sioux” with “true,” “Zuni” with “speony,” “Creek” with “cheek,” “Digger” with “figure,” and almost any infinitude of other combi- nations. Amy rhymster with a set of reports of the bureau of American ethnology could write ditties of this sort as readily as Touchstone parodied | Orlando. | "We have had songs about Indians ‘belare, widely popular ones at that, and it will doubtless be urged that a momentary reappearance of an always pleasing type may easily be mistaken for a symptom of an actual crisis. But close examination merely confirms the view we have expressed above. There were old-time negro melodies, too, and the minstrel show was three-quarters of a century old when modern “rag- time” came into vogue. It is as far a cry from Where sweep the waters Of the biue Juniata, Wild roved an Indian maid, Bright Alfarata. to It_you'll have T bave a Na coon for & beau, as from “The Suwanee River” to “I'm Dreaming a Million Dollar Dream.” The races of man, according to the geographies of the old school, are six in number. With a few struggling ex- ceptions, the music halls have hitherto drawn their inspiration from the Cau- casian and the Ethiopian. Unless signs | tail, the Arlerican is now coming on the stage and may be expected to hold it for half a decade. The far-seeing song writer will do well if, before the |end of this period, he accumulates a stock of Malay, Mongolian and Austra- lian ditties. The market for them is sure to appear in the fullness of time.— New York Evening Post. He Waited for More. They were discussing in the Coro- ner’s office the recent case of the man who found the body of a drowning man in the bay and was allowed the reward of $10 for the recovery of bodies, although the rescued one was not dead. “That reminds me of an incident that occurred some years ago in one of the back-hills counties,” said Deputy Cor- oner MeCormick. “You see they had a law in that county providing for the payment of 35 to the rescuer of a drowning man and $10 for the recovery of a dead body. | “It appears that two members of the genus ‘hobo’ struck the place one day. Things were looking blue for them as | the citizens had no use for ‘hobos’ and the latter being without a cent could ;get nothing to eat. Now the hobos | knew of the law just quoted, and they | agreed to put up a job to secure the $5 reward. One of them was to jump into the creek and feign to be drowning, while the other was to jump from the wharf into the creek at the eritical mo- ment and save his chum and then claim the reward. “Tramp number one jumped into the creek as per programme, but his com- panion evinced no hurry to do the sav- ing act. “‘Jump,’ said the immersed ‘Now is the time to get the $5." “‘Not on your life. said the tramp on the wharf, ‘I am going to wait awhile and make it $10." " one. Answers to Queries. CRUDE OIL—A. A., City. This de- partment has not been able to find any record of the first vessel that “carried crude oil across the western ocean to Furope.” VIOLIN—C. A. B., San Leandro, Cal. The fact that a. violin bears the name Antonio Stradivarius, the celebrated maker, is not proof that it was one of his make. The genuineness of an in- strument can be deterrhined only by an expert. REFUSING TO OBEY—Subscriber, City. Article 21 of the articles of war, United States army (United States Statutes), has the following relative to disobedience of orders: “Any éfficer or soldier who on any pretense whatever strikes his superior officer, or draws or lifts up any weapon or offers any violence against him, being in the exe- cution of his office, or disobeys any law- ful command of his superior officer, shall suffer death or such other punis ment as a court-martial may direct.” Disobedience of an order of a non-com- missioned officer is governed by article 62, which provides: “All erimes not capital and all disorders and neglects which officers and soldlers may be guilty of to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, - though not mentioned in foregoing articles of war, are to be taken cognizance of by a gen- eral, regimental, garrison or summary court, according to the nature and de- gree of the offense, and pumished at the discretion of such court.” ————————— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.o —————— Good specs, eyeglasses, 15¢-50c. 79 4th House, * st front of Key's Cel. 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