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of the curve depends wholly on the
distance between yourself and the man
for whom you are leading. Some
timcF, when your opponent is at very
close quarters, the arm is bent as
much as in delivering an ordinary
"jolt." and the arc of the circle that
is traveled is, of course, more re
stricted. In that case the power be
hind the blow cjomes mainly from the
body, and, in " delivering the uppercut
Special Information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by tfc«
P?J« Clipping Bureau (Allen's) ZZ> Call,
fornla «treet. Telephone Main 104X • .
The Empress Dowager of China has decided that for
a' tiniest 'least she will treat all seditious editors gently.
It is evidently esteemed a privilege of high i moment to
¦(•nioya comparatively painful death in. the Flowery
Kingdom.. The /Dowager's concession, however, is not
iikeivto broadenthe fieid of sedition.
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Townsend's California glace fruits »nd
candles. Me a pound, in artistic ttre
etcned boxes. A nice present for Eastern
friends. 715 Market St.. above Call bid*. •
Outfits for oil painting, water color,
drawing and taking photographs" are de-. .
Jl?ab!e for Christmas. Sanborn. Vail^ fr<
Co. , , „ . •
'Alaska's Giant Glacier.
Muir Glacier, which is nearly as
large as the State of Rhode Island,
has receded nearly three miles since
1899. Formerly the glacier was visited
by great crowds of tourists, -who
found it one of the most wonderful
sights in wonderful Alaska; but in the
fall of 1899 a great earthquake shook
the' huge mass so violently that Im
mense fragments : were tumbled from
Its ice front, preventing tourists from
approaching nearer than five or ten
miles. During the past summer a mem
ber' of the National Geographic So
ciety,- C. L. Andrews of Skagway.
and a photographer, .desiring to learn
the- changes that had been . taking
place, proceeded In an open boat from
Skagway to Muir Inlet, a distance of
150 mile3, and landed on the moraine
of .the glacier. They then exploded the
ice mass thoroughly, taking many
pictures. Mr. Andrews publishes an
Illustrated account of what he found
REPRESENTATIVE— L.. Redding.
Cal The Representative from the First
Congressional District at thisalrae is
J N. Gillette, of Eureka. Humboldt
County. His predecessor from the
First District was Frank L. Coombs
of Napa, Napa County. During the in
cumbency of Coombs. Mendocino Napa
and Sonoma counties wer? In the First
District; now, they are lh, the Second
District Alpine. Calaveras. Mariposa.
Nevada! El Dorado, Amador and Tuo
lumne counties, formerly in the Second
District, are now in the First.
UNDER cover of the lowering war clouds which
have been hanging over Manchuria and in 'the
babel of diplomatic .wrangles ," over ( the ."open
door," the duplicity of diplomacy in the Far
Eastern question and the Japanese resolve as to'the fu
ture of Korea, a British adventurer has accbmpjisjjcd
an act which adds a new thread to the diplomatic tangle
Colonel Younghusband of the. British army has led-an
armed force across the -Himalayas into Thibet upon an
"exploring expedition." The ultimate' results of his "ex
plorations" have yet to be. learned. „¦ C
The purpose of Colonel Younghusband's advance into
the Forbidden Country is manifest. What Lord Xlive
did in India is nbw^to be repeated by this adventurous
army officer. A "sphere of influence" in the barbaric
court of the Grand Lama may, be easily enforced by
armed exploring parties. According to the well-ordered
English procedure this can be followed by a protectorate/
and then by absolute dominion. Evidently Great Britain
would have the Himalayas and more as a barrier against
the predatory raids of Adam Zad. The-mouhtain passes
would look no longer directly into the face of the Rus-.
,sian bear once v the foreboding 'Wastes of Thibet were
brought under the suzerainty of Great , Britain. - With
Thibet as the frontier, India, the jealously guarded," would
tit as safe as Newfoundland or Tasmania/. , • /
¦ Thibet cannot be considered a strategic position in the
imbroglio ' now 'waging""- bver^ China and Manchuria:;
¦Though nominally a part of the Chinese empire
BRITAIN ' AND THIBET.
COUPONS — Me. City. If a tobac
conist abstracts from packages of to
bacco 'coupons which ought to go to
the purchaser, so that he may profit
by the use of them for himself, he I*
engaged In very small business, but
this department does not know of any
law that will reach him. The pack
ages are his until he sells them and
he is at- liberty to da with them as h?
pleases; but to deprive customers of
the coupons they expect when mak
ing: a purchase K a dishonest practice
which can be punished only by ceas
ing to'ijatronize the dealer..
In answer to persistent reports that, he is dangerously
ill, the Duke of Manchester replies that he is simply
taking the rest cure. So would wfi ii he could so arrange
his various affairs as , to make them less a matter of
public gossip than they are.' . < . ¦•¦¦. '¦
Transmigration.
Glory lay on the hill-top.
Glory slept in the glade;
Oh! that morning and evening!—
The first God ever made.
I watched your deep eyes darken.
You watched my bosom heave.
For you were the first man, Adam,
I, the first woman. EVe.
The blue of the sky seemed tangled
In sudden, silvery mist.
And the new-made earth was shaken
By the first kiss ever kissed.
To-day, with the eyes of a stranger.
You met my gaze once more;
But you are no longer Adam.
While. I am Eve, to the core.
Strange, that I should remember.
More strange you should not know
That we were -the two In the Garden,
Six thousand years ago!
-^-Collier's Weekly.
DEATH PENALTY— A. O. a. City.
Greece enforces the death penalty for
capital crimes. The executioner is a
condemned murderer who is given th*
choice of executing others or being
himself executed. If he accepts he be
comes the executioner during life or
until by age is unable to perform the
duties of his office. The one so chosen
Is required to live alone in an old tower
built by Venetians on an islet outside
of the port of Nauplia, where neces^
saries are taken to him every morning
by a boatman.
PRE-EMPTION FILING— An Old
Subscriber. Marysville, Cal. A pre
emption filing is no bar to a homestead
entry under the United States law. The
first actual settler who makes entry
three months after actual settlement is
entitled to land, while the first man to
make entry may have been the last to
make settlement, and hence have ths
least claim to the land.
The oil fields of Russia at Baku, on
the Caspian Sea. however, bear the
palm both for abundance and con
stancy of production. From the earl^
lest times gas has been known to come
out of the rocks -there, so that It early
became a sacred place for the Parsees,
or fire worshipers.? For .' thousands of
years the sacred fires were kept burn
ing, beneath the dome, of a great.tem
ple built bythe priests, and religious
devotees came from . as far away as
India. . Indeed, it "is. only a- few. years
since their visits ceased.
The commercial discovery of petro
leum dates from the memory of men
now little past middle life. Between
1850 and 18C0 much alarm began to be
felt throughout the civilized world be
cause the whale fisheries were becom
ing unproductive. The disappearance
of whales meant the disappearance .of
whale oil, •which was the main depsnd
ence for light.
For some time, however, rock oil, or
petroleum, had been known to exude in
small quantities in Western Pennsyl
vania, and was put up in small bottles
and sold for 25 cents as an ointment
good for rheumatism and other Ills.
Sometimes thl* was called Mexican oil,
but more generally Seneca oil, from
the name of the Indian tribe settled on
the Allegheny River, where it was
chiefly found. But there had been no
thought of getting it in sufficient quan
tities for fuel and light. Still in some
places It formed such a "scum" on the
small streams that It was reported the
small boys vho went in swimming
were made so slippery that they could
not keep their clothes on.
The most plausible theory to account
for the great supplies of. oil which are
now found In the "oil sands", of West
ern Pennsylvania and vicinity Is that
it is a' slow accumulation from -the dis
tillation of the shales, which has
been unable to escape through the com
pact rocks covering the surface and
has. found refuge in the interstices and
crevices of the loose sandstone overly
ing the_ shale. ..'...,
More recently important discoveries
of oil have been - made in Colorado,
Wyoming, California and Texas. That
In California.' is specially Important, as
the State had no coal mines. Almost
Immediately on the discovery of this
oil in California it came into use in
the locomotives of the^. great railroad
lines. Th*» Texas fields were so far
from economical means of transporta
tion that much has been lost, while the
supply Is ndt as great as was at first
hoped. .. .
•Man and the Glacial Period," etc.]
(Copyright. 1003, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
BY O. FREDERICK WRIGHT. A. M., LL. D.
JAuthor of 'Th" Ice Age In North America,"
Oil, the Great Pan'cr.
"Ansivers to Queries.
BAMBOO— Subscriber, City. The av
erage height of the bamboo Is from
twenty to thirty feet. Some species
attain a height of from seventy to one
hundred feet.
~—
Democratic Prelate.
Dr. Winnington-Ingram, the Bishop
of London, is an unconventional as
President Roosevelt. He is the bosom
friend of the East End costermongers.
They ride with him in his carriage,
and he rides with them in theirs. The
accident that one is a landau drawn
by a horse and the other a barrow
drawn by a donkey makes no differ
ence. His camaraderie is natural, not
affected. He is an Oxford man, but
he knows how to mix the Oxford ac
cent with the Cockney dialect. His
rough, practical common sense recalls
that of the late Dr. Temple, but he is
free from that great Archbishop's fa
mous brusquerle. He is no orator.
His energy takes the English form of
administrative passion.
He is a lean, laborious man, restless,
quick, keen, nervous, every feature
alive with intense purpose, his muscles
like coiled springs^ready to release.
The candid flash of his eye recalls the
glance of John Morley. Add to it the
sharp -vigilance of Anthony Hope and
you have a rough sketch of his ex
pression. — Booklovers' Magazine.
A Good Suggestion.
E. A. Denicke. the enterprising mem
ber of the California Promotion Com
mittee, in a communication to The Call
offers the following unique suggestion
for a San Francisco feature at the
World's Fair. He writes:
"Permit me to suggest a circular pan
orama in a separate building, the spec
tator to stand on Goat Island. Twin
Peaks. Rincon Hill. Alta square or oth
er point as may be thought best. We
have a number of artists in this city
who. if employed at once, could get the
painting done in time."
THE great misfortune to man in the operation of any
form of . religion is secretiveness. All adherents' to
a religious idea which attracts numbers assume
some sort of moral obligation, take oi|- some vows, sub
scribe to some creed. When this is done publicly and
the nature of the obligation is known of all men the state
is not disturbed. But when the obligation is secret,
when it is assumed behind a veil and in a place that none
unobligated are permitted to enter, it becomes the means
of enchaining the mind and enslaving the reason.
Secret religious ceremonies are promotive of supersti
tion and imply a control, of men that projects beyond the
essential purposes of religion to dictate civil action and
civic duty. The state claims its citizens for its purposes
alone. It refuses to recognize or reject any form of the
religious idea," be it' Christian or pagan. Under these
circumstances if a civil state exist in which one form of
religion is in the majority, and that form entrenches
ecclesiastical power behind secret ceremonies, and by
secret obligations that" make those who take them sub
ject themselves to ecclesiastical dictation of their civil
actions as members • of. the political state, a union of
church and (State is created and the state is 'virtually de
throned and displaced by a theocracy. Human liberty
is not safe in the'keeping' of a political theocracy.
Apostle Woodruff of the Mormon church in discussing
the Smoot case in. the: tabernacle- at .'Salt Lake last Sun
day said: "American citizenship came from God, and
let man beware of how he attempts to undo what God
has done. It is remarkable that any person be so nar
row, so bigoted, that because another person does not
believe the same as he does he would deny him the right
of his American citizenship." There are none so bigoted
as that. There are none who propose to take away citi
zenship or make its rights depend upon religious belief.
Nor is American citizenship of celestial origin or sanc
tion, for it that were so the nations that live under other
forms of government are victims of the Divine neglect.
Citizenship is neither a privilege nor a pleasure. It is a
responsibility, and he who holds American citizenship is
responsible for its use for the purposes of the state alone
and not for the purposes of any church.
The oaths and obligations of the Mormon church are
secret. They are not known. The ghostly compact of
the Twelve Apostles is not public. It is secret. But
reasoning backward from what happens publicly it is be
lieved by many that in that system of obligations some
where there is evaporated by oath the principle of Ameri
can citizenship and its condensation into the hands of the
hierarchy. When the members of a church are known to
hold publicly certain political convictions and to vote
against them as members of the state it is evidence that
they have surrendered to the church their right of prU
vate judgment. That is the situation that is believed to
exist in Utah. If it exist it is" the end of civil govern
ment. It is the subversion of the state by the church.
Apostle Woodruff says American citizenship comes
from God. While that declaration may be open to more
than one interpretation its meaning intended by him is
"obvious.^ .According to; the institutes and practice- of the
Mormon, church it is the representative to its people of
God on earth. Citizenship, not inhering in birth or nat
uralization, not being a civil condition, originating in the
laws of the state and for the purposes of the state, be
comes, according to the apostle, a concern solely of the
church." "This "is the necessary conclusion of his premise.
The state imposes, obligations and penalties upon the re
sponsibility of citizenship. It forbids treason, but that
which the state defines as treason tor it may be held to'
be loyalty to the church, the representative and agent of
"God, of whom the apostles are the vicegerents.
The theory of citizenship held by the apostle and prac
ticed by the church is- of interest because of the quite
uncertain state of the fundamental law. The constitu
tion forbids that Congress pass any law respecting the
establishment of- any religion and provides that no relig
ious 'test shall berequired as a qualification for any office
or trust under the United States. When a church subor
dinates citizenship and dictates its exercise it has estab
lishedVa religious test for office and, using the state as
an agent, is, doing^what the state cannot do as principal.
.Woodruff's appearance in the discussion supplies ma
terial'for those who watch with care* over the political
equality of the believers in all forms of religion.
AN APOSTOLIC MISTAKE.
STRAIGHT COUNTER.
Embarrassed.
"Chudge, can you git me some mo
mends?" said a big., good-natured
looking German the other day to
Judge Graham as he was about to en
ter his chambers.
"Certainly," said Graham. . ushering
the Teuton into the room. "What can
I 'do for you?"
The German stood on one foot and
then on the other, twisted his hat all
out of shape, started to say something
and then commenced twisting and
turning again.
"I'm in a hurry, my man," said the
Judge; "you will have to be quick."
Still the German did not speak. He
seemed to get more excited, and then
after a moment into his inside coat
pocket went a huge fist. In a twink
ling it again came into view., contain
ing a legal looking document.
"Some advices, Chudge," he blurted
out; "please gif it to me."
The Judge opened the document and
saw that it was a license for John
Schmidt to marry Wilhelmina Strauss.
"Well, well," said the exasperated
jurist, "what do you wapt?" j-
"Oh,. .'Chudge, please do help me
ouid!" cried the German. "Tell me
somedings vot I must do. I was lof
Wilhelmina like anydlngs. I lof Kat
rina Schultz more better. Yesterday
night Katrina. say 'yes' and to-day I
come by'der nail to get me some li
censes to get married alretty. I get der
paper and den I go me by Katrina's
house so'she look at it. She see dot
paper a_nd den she scream drei ' times
and- run ouid. I look myselluf in der
paper and I see dot I am a chackass.
I find me dot I got der license to mar
ry Wilhelmina. Please, Chudge, give
me some advices."
A negro, convicted of a heinous offense, has been sen
tenced to serve an imprisonment of one thousand years
in-Tcxas. To an ordinary observer it seems that if not
the length of the sentence surely its locality brings it
within the prohibitive category of unnatural punishments.
It is terrifying to contemplate the residence of anybody,
dead or alive, for one thousand years in Texas.
Alcoholism Hidden.
Switzerland is a country in which
very little drunkenness is to be ob
served, for the good and sufficient
reason that the police arrest on the
spot every person who shows the least
sign of Intoxication. There is, never
theless, a large amount ol secret drink
ing, and especially in French Switzer
land absinthe has of late increased in
U3e till Its ravages are very noticeable.
The government recognizes the drink
problem a3 a most serious one, and is
doing all it can to find means for its
control. One of its recent investiga
tions concerns the death rate from
alcoholism. Statistics of this nature
are usually Inaccurate, for the reason '•
that it is often impossible to find out
just to^what extent a deceased person
has been given to the use of liquors.
The facts thus collected show that
among males over 20 years of age the
deaths from delirium tremens average
half of 1 per cent. This la. ten tlmea
the rate officially recorded in France
by. the old and imperfect statistical
methods. For males over 70 years of
age alcohol is given as the principal
or concomitant cause of death in 10
per cent of the cases. The general
death rate directly referable to acute
or chronic alcoholism, without in
cluding hepatic cirrhosis or other sub
sidiary conditions, is 3 per cent. This
showing must admittedly be regarded
as an alarming one, and as sufficient
Justification for the most strenuaus ef
forts In the cause of temperance.—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Tricks in ihe Game.
BT ALB2P.T PATSOX TEKIIfNE.
tAtfc>tlr E»*rt New Torts Ev<»nSns World,
Author of •llu^e Ruildiax." «¦*<*-> '
<Copyri?r-.t. :nn :. by Joseph 15. Boirlfi.
The blov/3 ana parries I am going to
tr-ach you now cannot be cla?sined
under any particular heading, yet they
are none the l«>ss very important to
pood boxing. - -\v
Each and ever;' one of them has
proved Us rifiht to a place in. the fore
most ranks of glove tactic?. Yet none
of. them are to-day taught in most
boxing schools.
The first of the list :s the 'straight
counter." Ftand on guard and I will
explain it to you.
Let your pparring partner lead a
straight 2<?ft for your fare. Guard his
blow with your right, knocking his left
in the National Geographic Magazine
for December. Muir Glacier is not a
narrow river of Ice of the ordinary
alpine type, but rather a broad lake
of ice fed by tributary streams from
many directions and discharging
through an outlet valley to Glacier
Bay. The map which Mr. Andrew
publishes shows that the glacier has
retreated nearly three miles and has
lost about ten square miles of area.
It Is not improbable that the end of
the career of the Muir as a tidewater
glacier Is near at hand.
IN the exposition of California climate made by Presi
dent Chipman of the State Board of Trade appear
facts which we have constantly insisted should be
kept foremost in the interest of the State. To our cli
mate there has been one serious drawback, which lies in
the lure of it to the sufferers by consumption, the; "white
terror" of the world. Now, however, ample experiment
has shown that the best locality for consumptives is on
the desert, where outdoor life and the sun cure promise
means of relief and cure.
The deserts in Southern California are being increas
ingly utilized for this purpose and the balmy climate of
the rest of the State is becoming less the source of dan
ger. President Chipman exploits the health and blessing
of that life in the open, which is one of the. charms of ex
istence in California. It is a prime means of .avoiding
pulmonary and other diseases of the respiratory system
and of gaining a ruggedness and vigor of constitution,
which fortify it against all of the ills of the flesh.
But bodily health is not the only advantage gained by
living in California. N r or are all the benefits exhibited
in the demonstration of the relation of climate to our
vast and varied production, which is on a scale unknown
to any other similar area in the world. The satisfactions
of life inherent in our climate run also to the esthetic.
It is possible here to adorn the landscape and garnish
cities with a flora that exists nowhere else on the conti
nent in such variety and beauty. California should take
advantage of this, for it is the outward and visible sign
of a peculiarly clement and hospitable climate.
This very question is up now in our neighboring cities
of Oakland and Berkeley in the matter of lining their
streets an^d highways with trees. During the discussion
of this subject two parties have appeared, one alive to
our climatic advantages and Ihe other under the spell of
sentiment and memory. What may be called "the cli
matic party" desires to improve the advantages of our
semi-tropical and equable climate by lining the streets
with palms, which cast but little shade, do not litter the
street and walk by shedding leaves as do the deciduous
trees, and which, being tap root trees, do not invade the
sewers nor tear up the sidewalks. Besides these distinct
advantages the palms, being associated in the mind with
the tropics, give a permanent tropical aspect to a city,
which is very alluring to the people of the East.
Probably no city in the State presents a more beautiful
aspect than Sacramento, not because any attention has
been given to systematic tree planting on the streets, .but
because the lot holders everywhere use the different vari
ties of 'palms, and nearly every home has also planted
around it orange and lemon trees, which are either snowy
with fragrant bloom or*beautiful with loads of the -yel
low fruit. Orange trees with the ripe fruit, .sharing a
lawn with date and fan palms, join to present the most
enchanting picture to the Eastern eye, and Sacramento
should be one of the show places of the State'and will be
so when more attention is paid to streets and the making
of public parks with ample driveways and bridle paths
lined with tropical flora. Oakland has the same oppor
tunity and should improve it. The fan and canary palms
grow there in great form and give an air of luxury'* and
beauty that is imparted by no other trees.
The other party across the bay seems to represent
memory and sentiment and contends for deciduous and
lateral rooted trees. Its favorite seems to be. the elm.
Now the elm is a thirsty tree. It goes far with its roots,
in search of water, and when it finds moisture the~roots,
exulting in the supply, send up suckers to make new
trees, creating an unsightly thicket. Other deciduous
trees have the same bad habits, but even if they were not
drouthy as Tain O'Shanter deciduous trees should be
sparingly used in our cities. Eastern people come here
in the winter months. They leave a landscape that, is
brown and forbidding and on which the trees have shed
their leaves and stand naked in the wintry blast. If they
come to a California city and find the streets lined with
the same lifeless looking trees, bare of foliage and as un
interesting as clothespins, we lose in them the proper im
pression that could be made by writing our climate upon
our very streets in the glad language of the palm.
Visitors to Southern ' California cities see no more
sumptuous sight than the streets and long avenues lined
with palms. If the sky be chill no matter, the palms
speak of sunshine, of eternal summer, of life in the open.
If a lot owner in Oakland wish a customer for his realty
let him plant it with palms. That is the test. He would
not set it in maple, sycamore, elms or even the evergreen
acacia, which is hardly an interesting tree and is thirsty
as a toper. Every five dollars spent in palms will add
fifty dollars to the value of the property. This being so
the community value of the streets is capable of being
enhanced by the same means. Oakland is just now
quickened with ambition. She wants the great gifts of
the future. Let her stretch forth her palms in supplica
tion for the good time coming. » ...
Well Xamed.
"Funny how men obtain and retain
sobriquets, isn't it?" said a commercial
man on the train out of Prescott. Ariz.
"There's a man down here that I sell
to twice a year, and the order he hands
me is worth bringing home- He buys
for a string of stores that feed the cop
per mine3 down the road, and when I
first began selling to him I wasn't sure
but that he was handing me a little
jolly to keep my courage up. But his
orders made good, his bills were always
discounted for cash and he became the
lodestar of my hopes as I fared forth
on my southern trip.
"Last year, among other things, he
ordered p. carload of cheese — a carload;
think of It! Well, the goods were de
livered, duly stored in his warehouse
and his account for the same settled
with customary promptness. Three
months later a friend of mine who trav
els for a hardware house blew In on the
cheese plunger and was showing his
prospectus to this man when suddenly
he spied an illustration of a rat trap.
" 'Say, young feller, by gosh, that's
just what I want. Some of them durned
rats have got into my cheese up In
the warehouse. Say. send me down a
carload, young feller.'
" 'What,' exclaimed my hardware
friend, 'a carload of rat traps?' .
" 'That's just what I want, sir,' he re
plied.
"In due time the carload of rat traps
arrived, and since that day the plunger
has been known as 'Rat-trap Riley' the
length and breadth of the Territory.
It is necessary* to rise on the right toe
to lend the desired force and momen
tum.
When the other man is at a distance
it is not necessary to move the heels
from the floor, and the arm is almost
as fully extended as in delivering a
regular swing.
In uppercutting remember that
more of the blow's force depends on
the co-operation of the body than in
almost any other maneuver in boxing.
The arm, too, at whatever angle it is
1>ent, must be rigid and unyielding.
Oft*>n an uppercul will not reach the
face, but land on wind, heart or
throat. Strike in surh a way that the
blow will have full effect wherever it
lands.
The uppercut is most effective when
it lands just on or under the . point
of the jaw. A comparatively light up
percut landing in that locality will do
more to .«hake up its victim than
would a far heavier knock anywhere
else. If you doubt this, rap yourself
gently on the point of the chin or
Ju*t beneath that point with your
clenched knuckles. You will notice
a decidedly unpleasant Jarring sen
sation all through your head and face.
The point of the jaw is a doubly vul
nerable point. A blow struck there
not only Jars every nerve in the
hend and directly affects the brain,
but .in uppercut landing on. or under
the point of the jaw throws the head
backward at risk of temporarily
"throwing out" or dislocating the ver
tebrae.
More knockout blows have been
landed on the point of the jaw than
on all the rest of the body put togeth
pr. This statement Van be verified by
a glance at the records of ring bat
tles. As the jaw is so vulnerable. It
is well to remember to guard
it at all stages of the bout.
Never, in boxing. thrust the
chin forward. Always keep the teeth
clenched shut while you have the
gloves on. . Breathe through the nose
and never unclench your teeth under
any pretext. If you do. a light blow
on the jaw is liable to shatter a front
tooth or two.
On uhe same principle, do not turn
your full face on your opponent when
you can avoid doing so. Keep the
face at an oblique angle to him; the
chin drawn In and protected as far as
possible by the left shoulder. This
may not be easy to remember just at
first, but it is less unpleasant than a
series of blows landing flush on your
unguarded jaw. *
* * ¦ •
When a man tries to clinch with
you, his arms being off guard and
spread out, you have an excellent
chance to uppercut him. Gauge the
distance and the speed of the blow in
such a way as to catch him on what
ever part of his face or body you aim
for, before the rest of his body comes
so close to you as to block the blow.
Again, when a man leads for you
with right or left, guard with which
ever, hand is opposite the arm with
which he leads; and, instead of coun
tering with a straight lead, uppercut
him with the other hand. Be careful,
however, that his free hand is not in
a position to block your blow and to
counter on your. face.
Or, when a man rushes you and you
sidestep, you can uppercut him before
he recovers his balance. These are
but a few of m?.ny cases where the
uppercut can be employed. Tour own
judgment will be your best guide as
to its use.
Other blows and parries will be con
sidered in next Friday's Issue.
LIFE IN THE OPEN.
bica* plateau behind the shoulder of the Himalayas is as
independent of the Chinese Emperor as Korea or Anam.
It is separated from the heart of the empire by a thousand
untrodden miles. The seizure of it by England could
not be considered therefore the first step in the mooted
partition of China.
The diplomatic importance of Great Britain's move in
the direction of Thibet lies in its significance as a coun
ter check upon tlie Russian policy in .Manchuria and* a
possible effective diversion calculated to turn the Musco
vitic eyes away from the prey in the north. "
The delicate game of chess which Russia 'and Britain
have been playing with Persia, Afghanistan and the
khanates of Southern Turkestan as the board is given a
new aspect by this sudden move of the British castle.
Were Russia to gain ascendency over Thibet instead of
her .antagonist she would have China in a vise, the two
jaws of which would be Thibet and Manchuria. . More
over she wouJd then stretch- her length along the entire
northeastern boundary of the coveted Indian empire.
That Russia does not take this little side play by Eng
land in all kindness is indicated by the tone of the
Novoe Vremya of St. Petersburg, which threatens that
if the Thibetans are too weak to stem the tide of the
English over the Himalayas "it is quite possible for
others to do so by creating a slight diversion in some
direction disagreeable to the British politicians." The
safety of India is of course here hinted at as the tender
spot in the British flank. With her hands pretty well
filled by the Manchurian bundle it is not very probable
that Russia will undertake retaliation for the present,
however injured her feelings may be. It looks as if
Britain had her on the hio for the nonce.
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glove upward. At the same time lead
a straight left-hander for the face.
_ Keep the knees rigid ar.d the heels
on the ground in the straight 'counter.
By knocking upward your partner's
left glove you leave his face defended
only by his right. If he is quick
enough he can guard your left-hand
counter for his face by throwing his
right arm upward and outward. If
he does so the position is this: Your
right is "inside" his left guard and his
right i? insjide your left guard. There
fore whichever of you is the quicker
may send in a jolt or hook to the jaw
with the hand that is inside the op
ponent's guard, according to the prin
ciples of in -fighting, which I have al
ready explained.
In such a case the advantage usual
ly rests with th*> man who attempted
the straight counter, more especially
if he hsTrti.id the foresight to plan to
use the short-arm blow with the right
in case the left "counter lead'' should
be blocked.
When a man tries to straight coun
ter your left lead, first block hjs left
with your right and then either try
the aforesaid bit of in-fightingr with
your right or else step back out of
reach.
Th* uppercut, which 'I have men
tioned on several occasions, is a pe
culiarly hard blow to give effectively,
and a far harder blow to receive with
equanimity. I have purposely post
poned explaining the '.uppercut until
the present time. Flirt because be
ginner Fhould not try it and second
because I wanted you to learn before
,hand the various situations in which
an uppercut should be used.
The uppercut is. as its * name Im
plies, a cut upward. It Is a vertical
suing. In other words, Instead of de
scribing part of a circle from left to
right or from right to left, it takes a
semi-circular coume, directly upward,
starting at about the waist line of the
man who delivers it and traveling to
the jaw, throat or face of its recipient.
The uppercut should always be de
livered with a curved^ arm. The angle
UPPERCUT.
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