The San Francisco call., 1897-09-10
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

| THE WATER SUPPLY-"A Friend in Need"
City. To reach San Francisco's water supply
| awheel go out Folsom street to Twenty-third,
| along that street to Potrero avenue, down the
avenue to the San Bruno or Bay-shore road,
| passing Sierra Point and San Bruno, thir teen
| miles from the City. At Uncle Toms Cabin,
| one mile farther on, turn to tie right along
| the road which leads over one long grade to
| Lake san Andreas, four miles distant Ii you
| are a strong rider you can ride over two steep
grades to Lake Pilarcitos, returning the same
way. At Pilarcitos you can have lunch. You
| can, If you wish, after crossing the San An
dreas dam, turn to the left and follow the road,
VIII ieh will lead 10 Crystal Springs dam, iour
| lies distant, and from there to San Mateo
three miles. To reach Crystal Springs direct
| from San Francisco follow the same route as
described to San Bruno, thirteen miles, Mill
brae seven teen miles and San Mateo twenty
| miles. On the county road just outside OF San
Mateo there is steel bridge; turn 10 the
right at that point and ride three miles to
Crystal Springs.
ALIEN MINE HoLDERs-W. B. A., Naps, Cal.
The following decisions have been rendered
by courts and the land office under the min
eTal laws:
Proof-A foreigner may make mining loca-
cation, provided he becomes a citizen before dis
posing of the mne.-Mineral Lands, p. 17z (154).
Location, possession-Alens cannot locate or
hold mining claims An alien who has never de-
clared his in ntenton TO become a citizen, is not
qualified locator of mining ground, he cannot
hold mining claim either bv actual possession
or by location against one who connects himself
with the Government title, bv compliance with
'R Right To bis to
become citizen an alien may have he advantage
of work previously done. and of record pre-
viously made by him III locating mining claim
on the public mineral lands.-Landowner, vol.
II. p 7s-
to locate claim, he performs all the acts neces-
sary to valid location by a citizen, and theu con-
and continues perform all he conditions re-
quired by law to hold such claim. such citizen
thereby acquires and holds valid title to the
claim so located by the len, against all per-
sons having acquired no right therein before such
conveyance by the alien.
Patent-Applicants for patent to mining lands
m ust file atfidavits when and where born; If nat
uralized intention declared the date, place and
court must be named.-Mineral Lands, p. 221
194).
"HoME, SWEET HOME e. w. L., City.
"Home, Sweet Home" the song that can never
die, was written by John Howard Payne, who
was born in New York June 9, 1892, and died
in Tunis April 10, 1852. There is no founda-
tiou for the assertion that the words OF the
song we're inspired by Payne, but written by
Oliver Wendell Holmes The original manu-
script in the handwriting OF Payne was within
lady living in Athens, Ga. The words as first
written much interlined, with here and
there an endeariDg expression from the writer
to the lady who owned the Manuscript. To
her Payne was devotedly attached. She had
many of his letters. and she refused a large
sum of money for the manuscript OF the world
IdnSU sOus.
When Charles Kemble was manager of Co.
vent Garden in 1892 he bought quantity OF
Payne's writings. Among them was q play
entitled ''Ciari, the Maid of Milan" Payne
was almost starving in an attic in the Palsis
Royal Paris, when, at Kembies request, he
altered the play into an opera and Introduced
into it the words of Home, Sweet Home"
Originally it contained but two stanzaS. Miss
NJ. Trse, eldest sister OF Mrs. Charles Kean,
was the prima donna and she sang the song
that won her wealthy husband and en-
riched all who handled it except the author
who did not even receive $125, which he
reckoned as the share that the opera should
count in the $1150 Tor which he sold his writ
ings.
At the request of an American lady in Lon
don Payne wrote two additional stanzas to the
song but these were dropped. They are as
follows:
To us, In despite OF H. absence of years,
How sweet the remembrance of home appears;
from allurements abroad which but hatter the
eve,
The unsatsfed heart turns and says with sigh:
Home. sweet home, etc.
Your exile is blest with all fate besiow;
But mine has been checkered with many woeI
Yet, tho different our fortunes onr tho't5 are the
same
And both, as think OF Columbia, exclaim:
Home, sweet home, etc.