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Carnegie has given five million dollars more to advance
the interests of another American public institution. The
steel king has left no doubt of his purpose to prove that
it rs possible for at least one man in the world, properly
conditioned by enormous wealth, to cultivate philan
thropy as a habit. It is a habit, however, that not
many will. find it difficult to direct or break.
A Berkeley educator, skilled in' the gentle art of
teaching the youn£ idea how to shoot, has unburdened
himself of the, opinion that we must have uniformity in
the course of study in our' public schools. While form
is unquestionably of primary value" in the premises, is
it not wise also to pay necessary attention to matter?
There are some methods in vogue in the San Francisco
schools that are uniformly dangerous.
EEtnNTJ POPiTTOrc IN I&BBER
fiTRENGTHENIN'a E^CKHCIfc-E.
iStrens^h'/lo press" the finger down in
thi» pimple exercise tis it would if one
*vere seated at a mechanical keyboard
jando UFing the same pressure in an
other 'way. #
G Thft-o is another way of practicing
*vith ihp rubber band, which is also
ben«*ficijil.
This Is to hold tjie band elastic side- ,
vSxs and purh tfye finger away from
it: in tine? word*, in an opposite di
rection. 0 o
. The #ame rules regarding moderation,
vv&iheFs and so on are to be. observed
-here asTin the. first form of the exer
•; The jiupil should place the rubber
"band on each fin^rih in turn, first on
One hand and then on the other, thus
civinpr all the muscles an equal chance
to gain the much desfred strength.
Never let the pupil spend more than
a few moments at a time upon any one
linger, for the exercise, simple as it
snay seem, is the most ("training one I
know of, and the utmost caution must
be observed in Its use. It stands to
reason that the exercise would not be
as effective as it is were this not the
case, but there is.no possible chance
idea, the giving to the world of the
particular message that the composer
had in mind, ehall not be wanting.
There' is always some particular
theme which is to dominate the whole
fugue, while other less important
themes are brought in to make the
work a perfect whole.
A fugue is really to be likened to a
play. For instance, there is the central
and most Important theme (equivalent
to the hero or heroine of the play), next
a secondary theme, and often a third,
taking the places of the lesser charac
ters, while there are innumerable small
passages whose use is merely to hold
the more important passages together
— to effect a change of key, and so on.
these smaller parts bearing a strong
semblance to the unimportant charac
ters who fill the stage and keep the play
going while the hero and heroine
chance to be "off." Looking at a fugue
from this point of view one finds it
much more easy to approach than
when taken as a whole, and evidently
the fugue writers intended their work
to be analyzed, for the principal theme
is always announced, alone, at the very
beginning of the fugue. It enters, so to
speak. 'proclaiming the message of the
entire fugue through a single voice.
As it finishes the first motif, a second
voice takes it up, saying just exactly
what the first voice did, while the latter
goes 00 to a secondary theme.
After this the third part starts In,
and then the fourth, each reiterating
the message of_jhe first voice. The
first voice has meanwhile .gone on from
one lesser theme to ant-ther, being fol
lov/ed invariably by the voices behind
it, as sheep follow one another over a
wall. If the first voice stops for a mo
ment the second voice invariably stops
in exactly the same way, when it
reaches that particular spot in the
thcDae, and the third and fourth voices
observe the same rules. It always
seems the aim of each voice to ex
ploit the principal theme as much as
possible, and as the twistings and turn
ings of the fugue become more and
more involved one becomes conscious
that the principal theme Is always be
ing, upheld by one or another of the
voices until, in the course of the ever
broadening grandeur of the mingled
themes, the fugue Is at' last brought to
a glorious and dignified climax.
If the pupil begins his fugue study
with the "inventions," as I suggested,
he will find it very easy to follow; the
Bo-called "voices" to their legitimate
conclusion, and the way toward the
real fugues will be easily paved.
BOYS OF AMERICA— W. H. S., Cam
awlllo, Ventura County, Cal. No account
has beeri published of late of the status
of the subscriptions taken up to build
a battleship to.be called The Boyfc of
America. If you were a subscriber to
that fund you have a right to write to
those who had charge of it and ascer
tain what the present conditions are.
A Russian officer is authority for the statement that
the, 1 world will never know until the Eastern war is
ever, if it knows then, how many Japanese fighting ships
have been crippled or destroyed by the guns of the
Czar. If we were to accept as true what Russian au
thorities think they see at Port Arthur we would believe
that every- time a Japanese ship was hit it exploded into
a dozen more, each better qualified to fight than that
STREET CARS— A. S., City. There
are fifty-three street car lines in the
city of New York, which Includes the
Manhattan and Bronx boroughs. All
car lines are required by ordinance to
run cars between midnight and 5
o'clock In the morning at Intervals of
twenty minutes. After 5 In the morning
until midnight all cars run at intervals
of three to ten minutes.
OAK FINISH— J. A. B., Oakland,
Cal. Any Arst-class dealer In paints
and oil In your city or in San Fran-*
ciseo will furnish preparations ready
for use to produce "weathered oak
or golden oak finish."
Who shall hold that magic key
But the child of destiny,
In whose veins haf mingled long
All the best blood -of the strong?
He who takes his place by grace
Of no single tribe or race,
But by many a rich bequest
From the bravest and the best.
Sentinel of duty, here
Must he guard a hemisphere.
Let the old wo'rld keep its ways;
Naught to him Its blame or praise;
Naught Its greed, or hate, or fear;
For all swords be sheathed here.
Yea. the gateway shall be free
Unto all, from sea to sea;
And no fratricidal slaughter
Shall defile its sacred water;
But— the hand that oped the gate shall
forever hold the key. • '.
—James Jeffrey Roche, in April
Scribner 8. • - • ¦ t
Here the oceans twain have waited
All .the ages to be mated —
Waited long and waited vainly.
Though the script was written plainly:
"This, the portal of the sea.
Opes for him who hold3 the key;
Here the empire of the earth
Walts in patience for its birth.**
But the Spanish monarch, dimly
Seeing little, answered grimly:
"North and South the land is Spain's;
As God gave it. it remains.
He •who seeks to break the tie.
By mine honor, he shall- die!"
So the centuries rolled on.
And the gift of great Colon,
Like a spendthrift's heritage,
Dwindled slowly, age by age,
Till the flsg of red and gold
Fell from hands, unnerved and old.
And the pranite-pillared gate \
"Waited still the key of fate.
[Philip II decreed the penalty of death
for any one who should propose cutting
a canal through the isthmus.]
Panama.
TYPEWRITTEN COPT— C. A. D..
City. Any kind of white pap«r -will
answer for typewriting copy for publi
cation. If the copy Is to be used on
linotype the most acceptable size Is
%y 2 by VA Inches.
LATERAL. MOTION IN RUBBER
EXERCISE.
MME. NORCROSSE— AL, Brooklyn.
N. Y. This correspondent wishes to
know the address of Mine. Norcrosse,
an opera singer, soprano, who went on
the lyric stage from California. ?
TRINITY STEEPLE — Subscribe^
City. The height of the steeple of Ttln
ity Church, In New York City, la 284
feet, not so high a? the top of Tho Call
building in San Francisco.
'Answers to Queries.
In Friesland there is a custom that
the news of a birth or death Is an
nounced verbally by a man who calls
at every house in the village for that
purpose. If he brings the news of a
birth he wears white gloves; If of a
death they are black. Some days back
a child was born dead In a Frisian vil
lage. It was necessary that the usual
announcement should be made, but in
what colored gloves? The harbinger
was a man of resource. He went his
rounds wearing one white glove and
one black one.
'A Compromise.
Now, hojding "the upper end of the
rubber lightly in .place with the free
hand, rlo^vly and cteadily lower the
end of the f'nger ;i round which the
band is -wound, until it can descend
¦no further. Then slowly let o it return
¦to its forrr.cr position, raising it un- j
til the elastic j ban<l becomes loose
again.
Whil^ followingthese directions the
pupil must endeavor'to keep the curve
of the moving linger jis well as pos-
Fib3e, although he may find it hard
to do so, against the resistance of the
rubber fcand. The finger must not be
allo-w to go down crookedly or in a
one-sid^d way. It must descend in a
straight lijje from where it started
and return to ii* pldce over the same
route.
The principle, of this exercise can
readily be^ understood — the resistance
of tho rubber band is quite as great.
If not greater, than th^t of a weighted
key, and -it takAs, quite as much
. I>et:t£e pupil take an ordinary rub
ber- band, and, winding it once about
the -end- of his middle finger, hold the
¦end-. 6f it tightly in his other hand,
fibdve ihe finger around which the
"band is *ound. • :
The first illustration in to-day's les
t=on . will .make nay meaning plain.
accomplish with .' absolutely no ex
penditure exactly the same end which
it is generally supposed can be gained
only .through the use of the afore
mentioned jpechanical instruments.
The "exercise is a .very simple one,
¦and it ifcay sem incredible to you that
it^ can have the power to develop
Firer.*fth as rapidly cs it does, but its
•value has been j>roved over and over
again.- • . * *
NEWCHWANG is a Chinese river port on the Liao.
It is one of the ports opened to commerce by our
late treaty with China and to which we sent a
"consul. It is under Chinese jurisdiction, else we could
not make a treaty respecting it. Russia has occupied it,
proclaimed martial law and Cossacks have hauled down
the American flag from the consulate and the residences
of Americans. The same has been done with the British
flag. :
This was done by the order of Viceroy Alexieff and it
is not yet known whether the high-handed proceeding is
indorsed by his Government. When that is known there
will probably be diplomatic exchanges between our
State Department and Count Cassini. The. Count will
dutifully convey the studied misrepresentations of his
Government to ours, and there the matter may rest. The
act is another violation of the neutrality and territory of
China. Meantime General Ma, at the head of a Chinese
army the strength and equipment of which are unknown,
is moving toward North China, and Russia is protesting
at Peking that his presence within Chinese sovereignty
with an armed. force is a violation of neutrality and he
must be ordered to withdraw.
The Western nations may not choose to move in^the
matter. But there is no doubt about what they should
do. They should support China in putting Ma and his
army/ right up to the frontier. It is obvious that Russia
intends to continue her outrages upon China until that
upfortunate empire is compelled to- resist. If, at that
time, Japan have an army in the valley of the Liao above
Newchwang and Ma is north of the Kangan Mountains a
1 junction between the two forces would be unhappy for
Russia. In view of this she desires to occupy any
Chinese position that is strategetic as and when she
pleases, pull down flags, violate treaties and keep the
territory free from the military^ forces of China to which
it belongs.
What she failed to get by the secret treaty into which
she would have forced China had it not been discovered
by Minister. Conger she now takes by brute force and in
brazen defiance of the international rights of the United
States,, and Great -Britain.' Maybe such a course will
win and perhaps it won't. The United States has no de
sire . to be drawn into the controversy, but too many
Cossack attacks on our flag may rouse such resentment
among our people that the Government will go beyond
merely pretending to believe the diplomatic lies of the
legation.
FIRST FOZITIOS IN RUBnER
PTHEN'UTHENING EXERCISE.
HAULING DOWN THE FLAG.
"Bill Brown" is a colored boy about
15 years of age. He is even more col
ored than his name would indicate —
he is coal black. He is a wise youth
is Bill, as is evidenced by the records
of the Juvenile Court.
It appears that some months ago Bill
was arrested' for roaming the streets
at unseemly hours and haled before
the Juvenile Court. Judge Murasky,
on his promise to keep off the streets,
released him, but warned him that his
actions would be watched and ordered
him to appear every Friday and let
the court . know how he was getting
along. For several weeks Bill reported
and his statements that he was "gettin*
along all right, mistah," were verified
by the reports of the probation officer.
One Friday afternoon Bill appeared
as usual, but this time he sat in the
jury box with the boys who- had been
arrested during the week.
"How is this, William?" said Judge
Murasky as the black bby stepped up
to the bench in response to his name.
"I thought you promised . to behave
yourself. I see you are charged with
fighting."
"I couldn't help it, mistah," said BH1
with a sly grin. "I jes' has to fight.
You've been pretty good to me."
"Well, Will," interrupted the court,
"what have I got to do with it?"
"Well, mistah," responded Bill, hang
ing his head, but slyly gazing at the
Judge, "yer sent a white kid to de
Boys' and Girls' Aid the, day yer let
me go. Dat kid got erway, and de
odder night he met me and said you
was no good. Mistah, I jes' had to
fight"—
Bill is still on probation.
He Jcs' Had to Fight.
Travelers who have returned from
the heart of Africa and the Australa
sian continent tell wonderful stories
of nest building people who inhabit the
wilds of those countries. In the bush
men of Australia we find, perhaps. th«
lowest order of men that is known,
says the Penny Magazine. They are
so primitive that they do- not know
enough to build even the simplest form
of huts for shelter. The nearest they
can approach to it ia to gather a lot of
twigs and grass and, taking them into
a thicket or jungle, build a nest for a
home. The nest is usually built large
enough for the family, and if the lat
ter be^ numerous then the nests are
of a very large size. Sometimes the
foliage above will form a natural cov
erning, but there is never any attempt
at constructing a protection from tha
rain and storms.
They Live in Nests.
To students of the history of political shibboleths the
fact is not without interest that the followers of For
aker in Ohio are known by their opponents as Filipinos.
This seems to indicate that whatever our opinion of the
little fellows of .the South Sea. Islands may be we are
likely some day to be forced in simple fair play to de
fend them against prejudices in the creation of which
they had nothing to do. The conduct of a Foraker par
tisan is a reflection on the Filipino.
Aids' 40 'Finger Exercise.
BT AKICE TEIUr-WE.
<Eor.j Writsr.)
(Copyright. YX>i. I* Joseph B. Bowles)
There tire a number of mechanical
inventions Intended to be used as aids
to': lh<?" studertf in pursuit of piano
strenst?i. Some of them aH excellent
and of sxeat benefit to the pupil, while
otiiert -arc less so. •All, however, are
quite expensive, and *he purchase of
Fueh things ffeais an extravagance to
.1 nerson'of ?mall income, even though
he. may t»c.niost anxious to learn to
play iho piano well.
Knowing- of the. longing for addi
tional strength that comes to every
earnest student as he advances, I am
going to give you an' exercise which
ill make it posfible for our pupil to
"Working dogs are not confined^ to
any particular variety. A*ny dog that is
large and strong may be used, and a
great many different kinds are seen.
When a person comes to Germany ona
of the first things that is sure to im
press him as strange is the sight of a
dog hitched to a wagon with a woman
as his mate. In Leipsic working dogs
are very numerous, and are mostly
owned by the poor people. So far as I
have seen, the dogs are treated with
consideration by their owners and
seem, in many cases, really to enjoy
their w6rk."
T — r
the three classes. Dogs of the flrjt
class are taxed 20 mark3 (?4 76). those
of the second class 10 marks ($2 33).
and those of the third class only *
marks ($1 19) per annum.
The variety of dog which seems t»
be the most fancied as a pet 1ft Ger
many i3 the short-legged, elongated
dachshund.
"The dogs that are used for hunting
are mostly German deerhound* ami
bird- dogs of the setter and pointer
types. Beagles are seldom used an4
are uncommon. Hunting dogs, aa a
rule, are kept in the country, and very
little is seen of them.
But McKinley stood to his guns, and in the center of a
hollow square formed out of the old guard of his party
refused to surrender. In 1896 he went into the Presi
dency with not a policy recanted nor an act apologized
for. Now, according to Champing Clark, he is fellow-
shiped by those who opposed him and to have been
logical that year they should have supported him in
stead of Bryan.
Clark declares now that there are no Democratic free
traders. They are all for tariff. But what sort of issue
does that make? We appear then to have two parties,
both supporters of the same thing. If the Democrats
make it a question of degree instead of kind, they may
decline upon a revenue tariff. Such a tariff-requires the
high taxation , of what we don't produce, such as tea,
coffee and some few fibers and fabrics. In the fiscal year
1 902^. we derived from tariff taxation $254,444,708 and
from internal revenue $271,880,122. Our total revenue
was $684,326,280 and our total expenditure was $593,038,
903. To be sure there was a surplus, but it is about to
be made useful in building the Panama canal.
Does Mr. Clark propose to get all that tariff revenue
out of the few articles -we don't produce, very few in
number and all susceptible of being substituted? When
ever we have had a tax on tea and coffee the people have
used something else. The high tax that would make
those articles produce the revenue yielded by the Ding
ley bill would at once materially disuse them. The Mc-
Kinley tariff of 1890 was planned to yield revenue and
promote the domestic manufacture of tin, sugar, buttons
and many other things which furnished use for our raw
material, employed labor and made us independent of
other countries.-
Mr. Clark should submit, a .bill' of particulars and cir
cumnavigate his tariff so that the' people will know just
what it meansj Democratic denunciation of the Mc-
Kinley tariff of 1890 elected. Mr. Cleveland in 1892, but
when his party tried to make a tariff it was a nonde
script which he refused to sign and denounced in a spe
cial message as "a record of perfidy and dishonor." We
venture to inform Mr. Clark that the people do not want
any more perfidy-and-dishonor tariffs. Protection is
good enough.
It is not a far cry to 1890,- the year of the McKinley
tariff, which the Democrats attacked like \ Cossacks
swooping on a Chinese village. It was denounced as the
sum of all economic villainies, and, denouncing it, the
Democrats elected the largest majority in the House
that any party has had since the Civil War. The banner
of free trade was flung jocund to the breeze and impas
sioned oratory followed the sunrise across the continent
from ocean to ocean, and then got uo and took a drink
next morning in Maine and renewed the chase.'
Republicans may well pinch themselves and ask with
Congressman Cobb, "Where was I at?" Some one ought
to put a padlock on Dingley's record, or some hot after
noon in the House the Democrats will wave it in the dim
religious light that shines through the smoked glass
ceiling and claim him as an exponent of their time-hon
ored principles.
Buchanan, Jerry Black, Lewis Cass, Toombs, Yancey,
Wigfall, Governor Seymour, Hendricks, Bill Allen, Thur
man, and the long list of Democratic leaders contem
porary, with him looked upon him as the enemy of the
country and the destroyer of the If the
Democracy of to-day adopt him they must adopt also his
supporters, and point with pride to those great and wise
promoters of the principles of Jefferson and Jackson:
Sumner, Lovejoy, Thad Stevens, Joshua R. Giddings,
John G. Birney, Gerritt Smith, John Brown of Osawat
omie, Wendell Phillips, Senator Doolittle and Jim Lane.
Mr. Champ Clark is not to be outdone by Mr. Hearst
in claiming dead Republicans as the exponents of living
Democratic. principles, and so in his issue-making speech
he lifted McKinley right off his seat in history as a Re
publican leader and sat him down on the Democratic
side of the tariff question! '
THE House has had another free-for-all day. True,
the business on hand was the sundry civil appro
priation bili, but the members discussed lynchings,
,the negro question and the tariff. After many spats and
speeches Mr. Champ Clark of Missouri rose to engage in
the manufacture of .an issue for the campaign. He se
lected the tariff and when he finished that venerable and
time-tried question was put out and laid in its corner
while the referee counted ten. One thing in all this
Democratic search for something to use in the cam
paign is interesting, in Mr. Hearst's platform is this
statement: "Believing in the principles of government
expressed by Thomas Jefferson, applied with matchless
courage by Andrew Jackson and nobly supported by
Abraham Lincoln."
Lincoln has been dead thirty-nine years, and is now
adopted as one of the saints in the Democratic calendar!
In his lifetime he opposed everything for which Democ
racy stood, from the time he entered politics as a mem
ber of the Illinois Legislature until the night he was shot
by Wilkes Booth. He opposed slavery; fought the Le
compton constitution, the fugitive slave law, secession,'
free trade and every other Democratic policy. He was
the founder of the national bank system and the second
founder of the Union, and in every measure and princi
ple of government for which he stood was fought tooth
and claw by the Democracy of his day. .
The time has now come to bring up
the subject of fugues. To the un
initiated a fugue, unless it be marvel
ously well played (and even then, in a
majority of cases) is utterly without
meaning, melody or music. Even to
the mildly musical mind, a fugue seems
to have little excuse for being and if
a person who claims to be only "rather
musical" really enjoys hearing a fugue,
he doesn't know exactly why he likes it.
In order to thoroughly enjoy a fugue,
one must study the fugue-form, and
find out what it is all about
The easiest way to do this, is by
studying the "inventions" of Bach, as
I stated in a former lesson. They are
divided into what Bach called "two
voiced" and "three-voiced" inventions,
and the principal difference between
them and a fugue lies in the fact that
a fugue, generally speaking, has four
'"voices," in other words, four parts,
which makes it proportionately more
involved than the "two-voiced" or
"three-voiced" creations. ,
In the old days, the great masters
had something to say, and they did not
hesitate to say it in firm, emphatic lan
guage — and the more voices they could
say it in, and the more times they
could make each voice repeat it, the
better they liked it.
The pupil must bear this in mind,
and in learning to render a fugue in
telligently, must try t«j bring each voice
In turn to the fore, so that the main
After practicing this exercise_ihe boy
must always finish by relaxing mo
tions for the fingers, wrist and arm.
Do not let him forget this, even once.
It should be done naturally, as if it
were a part of the exercise, for I can
not speak too strongly of the neces
sity of careful and conscientious re
laxatic-n after all straining work. The
strain, the sensation of effort, must
not be left in the fingers— there must
be instead a feeling of wholesome re
lief and relaxation if the muscles are
to be strengthened and invigorated in
stead of worn out. This rule should
apply invariably to every sort of music
study, whether vocal or instrumental.
Do not fail to- realize its importance, I
beg of you, and see that the pupil thor
oughly understands it. 0
In practicing the lateral form the
student ¦ should try the exercise first
with one pair of fingers, then with an
other, changing the grc-uping in every
possible way. For instance, after tak
ing the fingers as -they naturally come
(first finger and second, second and
third, third and fourth, fourth and
fifth), he should try the first and third
together, then the second and fourth,
then the third and fifth. After this let
him try the first and fourth, then,sec
ond and fifth, and finally the first and
fifth.
of any harm coming to the pupil
through its use if my directions 'are
feilbtred implicitly and the pupil's en
thusiasm and ambition do not carry
him away to the point of rashness in
the matter. He should stop work the
moment his fingers become tired, no
matter how interested he may be.
ISSUE MAKING.
Every old Stanford man will tell
this story, but for those who know no
Stanford men It will have a refreshing
ly humorous appeal.
In the old days when Brlstow
Adams, Charlie Field and Bill Irwin
were livening the prosaic atmosphere
down at. Dr. Jordan's school it hap
pened that there came to the college
a freshman from the city who had
more money than wisdom and whose
dearest desire was to become a mem
ber of one of the students' fraternities.
He did not hesitate to voice his wishes
to fraternity men, a rank breach of
college etiquette.
So it was that a dozen or more of
the jokers got together and sent a bid
to^he freshman to join their fraternity,
which they said was one of the strong
est in the East, but which was carry
ing on a temporary sub rosa existence
at Stanford. They said that he was to
appear at a certain lonely spot in tho
arboretum at a late hour of the night
with a bus of sufficient dimensions to
carry all the loyal brothers to May
field, where the initiation services were
to be held. He was there with the
bus and to Mayfield some twenty odd
of the mystic circle hied themselves.
The initiation, which was drawn from
the Koran, Josephus, the Talmud and
half a dozen other sources, was a
noble one. Likewise the "feed"
which followed — paid for, by the way,
by the novitiate.
In the height of the fun Bill Irwin
arose and with great dignity read a
letter from one of the prominent mem
bers Qf the faculty, regretting that he
was unable to be present at the festivi
ties, but hoping that the newly initi
ated brother would not be long In
coming to him and making himself
known. After the reading of" the let
ter the neophyte was told that out of
due courtesy he should call on Pro
fessor Blank the very next morning.
Remember to give him the password,
"It is cloudy in the south to-night,"
and the sign — left forefinger to the
side of the nose.
Down at Stanford they still tell of
the meeting the next day between the
freshman and Professor Blank when
the boy brought his instructor to the
front door from his breakfast table to
look gravely at him over his left fore
finger and tell him that it "was cloudy
in the south to-night."
Cloud v in the South.
number of drownings reported is- three." Reports from
Indiana were to the effect that at Portland two men
were drowned and a property damage of $100,006 caused
by a flood in' that section, while from Indianapolis came
a story of a flood that drove 300 families from their
homes and caused an enormous loss of property. From
Battle Creek, Michi, there was a report of losses from
floods amounting to upward of $300,000. A dispatch from
Springfield, Ohio, says: "The worst flood in Spring
field's history threw a thousand men out of employment,
drove twenty-five families from their homes and com
pletely stopped street car traffic." No estimate of dam
age was given. . ¦> -
Since Sunday the reports of each succeeding day have
added heavily to the lists' of deaths and losses in the
various States. In Northern and Central Indiana the re
cord up to Monday night showed eight persons drowned
and a property loss estimated at $8,000,000. In Michi
gan 14,000 people are , reported to be in distress because
of the floods, and reports almost as bad come from va
rious points in Ohio and Missouri.
The floods thus reported occurred along comparatively
small streams. .They are but the preliminaries of the
vast floods that will follow when the swollen waters of
these streams unite to swell the greater rivers to flood
height. It is rather early yet for the Eastern flood sea
son to reach its worst, but before long we 'shall hear of
all the rivers from New England to Texas overrunning
their Hanks and carrying destruction to towns and cities
as well as to farm lands.
These heavy floods come to the entire Eastern section
of the country every year. In comparison with them our
worst California floods amount to but a trifle either as
to the area of country flooded or as to the amount of
damage done and lives lost. Taken at its worst Califor
nia is a much better land for either urban or rural life
than any other part of the world. We have our draw
backs, it is tnte, but when we review them' in compari
son with the tremendous disadvantages of other lands
we can find no reason to complain. Be it wet weather or
dry weather, this is the best land oh earth.
THE SAN FRANCISCO GALL
JOHN D. SFRECKELS, Proprietor .'. . » ... . .-. . Address AH Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager
Publication Office <i§||g^> •••••• .Third and .Market Streets. S. F.
WE^e7dAyT" .:... :.~ •¦' ¦¦¦¦.....¦.:.....~..MARCH3O,IW
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, , MARCH 30, 1904
Townsentfs California fJIar^ frtifts and
choice candles. In artistic flre-ctched
boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends.
715 Market street, above Call building. •
Major General. Wood has scored another glorious vic
tory in his vigorous campaign against the Moros. , Yet
it is highly improbable that General Wood in all his
military career will ever register a triumph comparable
to that which was achieved for him in his^ absence in a
committee-room of the United States Senate. ¦ *.-¦'¦
I "Like everything else. In Germany,
dogs are divided into classes.*: The first
-class contains the dogs that are kept
as/ pets by people in easy "circum
stances," writes a Leipsic correspond
ent of 'the Washington Star. "To the
second class belong those dogs that are
used for hunting. The third class in
cludes all dogs that are kept for work
i ing animals ' by milkmen, butchers,
peddlers, etc., in or near towns and
cities. Special information supplied daily t»
"In the city every dog is taxed, but *>«»"*«» houses and public men by tt»«
I then Us a distinction made' between SSSV58K? S^ mS'ioS.**
TJrird-Class Dogs.
When the murderer of an innocent girl stood in court
recently to receive a sentence of life imprisonment for
his crime his lawyer declared that the defendant had
nothing to say. It is not improbable that he. felt as did
every one else that knew the story of his dread deed,
that in the gift of , his life he was. receiving a worthless
WHEN first the stories. of 1 ' the floods caused by
the heavy rains in this State were published The
Call directed attention to the 'fact that while the
damage would be severely felt by those upon whom it
fell, yet the loss to the State as a whole would be slight,
and, in comparison 'with the losses resulting from
springtime floods in the Eastern States, almost insigni
ficant. That , statement is verified by reports just ' re
ceived of the storms and floods now sweeping over al
most the whole region of country east of the Mississippi.
The dispatches of a single day tell * story of damage far
in excess of the total flood losses in California in several
years. ~ ..
In the reports of Sunday morning, for example, a dis
patch from Detroit said of the floods along the course
of Grand River: "Estimates made, at various stations
place the flood damages at several million; dollars. The
EASTERN FLOODS.
NOT DUE — J. WT S.. Sutter Creek.
Cal- If a firm "way back East offered
to send you certain things to sell, you
to pay for them after you had sold
them," and the firm did not send you
the goods, you do not owe them any
thing and it cannot collect anything
from you. The threat that the firm
makes that it will sue you if you do
not send it $2 ought not to trouble
you, as-you are hot required to pay
for that which you did not receive.
You would. better refer the matter to
the- oollce. authorities of the dace In
which the firm la located. .It is prob
ably one 'of those concerns that ia ad
vertising with the purpose of trapping
the unwary.
MEN AND MATTERS IN
THE FORE AS THE WORLD
MOVES
TALK OF THE TOWN
AND TOPICS OF THE
TIMES
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