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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

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viii be furccd 10 the conVirtian that
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19
A Word from loah Wise

IN ousratuia.
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yees ffosn a dis
tance AZ these
hiKhtonsd wea-
din'a mu.t be
blamed suggestive
TO the high eon.
traesln partls..
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

Hearing GA the irish land bill haH
heeu postponed hy parliament until
June ~.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

lake Chsiau = east q fhe Cascade
naouuiAtus sa tha state q Washing
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= ln Fhsian county
u l. ahaut sixfY- ffvs nfira ianr aud
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

Fourteen Worigmen hiiled by ex-
plorlan Of iyddite Ia London.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

Russia says that the asAaaainn 81
king and queen Of sefyih should be
punished It's punlHhment enough
to make them run the government
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

In repiy 90 the query l.. 4. L.. We
would say. " the fish bite, muHzic
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

William Har4ee. escaped muir
asrwr aAs s.sat and allied BY patma-
ing 0ffirrss At Glasgow. Mont.
Death II Aitea sWsHson. wealthy
80 Angeles mine oNnsF. T. eeink
investigated Looks like murder.
Navy department. officers we're
eutsgnxi from launching cisaissf Gal
teston at niehuseHd. Va. because
oasapaay buiisinE her Wrre inset.
lhslr ulousy.
Frau f.fnyEoata. known as The
ssrsfn4le niaehrafsi 70 on trial IN
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

The usual election rows were
pulled of IN the German rciehHtas
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

neriln fdF poisoning four huHhahan
The NTH one caught hsr trying 10
feed him arsenic.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

TIE feltaainx lines are ~ Lazy
Luke. the fioog~ siker n = second
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

n yuu visit chlcAKe this summer.
dnu't forset your lunch basket,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-06-19

A usual ip kensscky that jury
trying che fsudista couldn't akrcss
that's 2hf there are 80 many Ia
graf.y ards there.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
CALIFORNIA CLIMAToLoGY.

" HE Weather Bureau of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington has just pub
ished a remarkably comprehensive bulletin upon
"The Climatoogy of California the work of Professor
Alexander G. McAde district forecaster OF the Weather
Bureau in this city Through the courtesy of the author
The Call is in receipt of copy of this extensive review
of climatic conditions in the State Even from lay
mans point of view perusal of the work of Professor
Meade makes manifest its value agricutursts and
all those whose business dependent upon the rise and
fall Of rivers.
Aside from its strictly technical information and the
inutey tabuated statistics of rainfall temperature
changes, McAdie's bulletin contains interesting
facts upon the very paradoxes which found to be
characteristic of California cmatology. Though our
stretch of territory from north south corresponds with
like strip of the Atlantic seaboard from Boston to
Savannah difference in the annual temperature
of ten degrees only exists between San Diego and Sis
kiyou counties. At Eureka the temperature
throughout the year 81 degrees at San Francisco 56
degrees, at San Diego o. Yet have the extremes
Sahara Greenland In the Salton maxi
thermometer has registered high I3o de-
grees the shade; yet within three hundred miles of
that point Bodie the summit of the Sierra the
freshenng breezes registered low 80 degrees
below zero.
Though is certain that other State in Union
can offer such admirable conditions for Hammam
bath on large scale McAdies bulletin demonstrates it
be also the fact that nobody approach for ups
and downs in topography Mount Whitney, the highest
peak the United States has the gentle lift of
feet above level. and yet almost within view of its
summit our land dips down Death Valley 2o3 feet
below the line of the oceans surf Truly California IS
the enchanted land of fable
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
EXAMPLES OF WHOLE,
HALF, QUARTER AND
EIGHTH NOTES.

ish out the exercise with e, d and c.
Let him try this with different groups
Of notes, always being careful to have
some note therein that is first to be
played with a sharp and then made
natural" the next time it is played
Now explain to him that in case there
is a sharp written at the beginning Of
the staff beside the clef sign and the
time" sign, it means that that partic-
ular note must be sharped every time
it is struck during the whole exercise,
unless there is natural sign put in
somewhere.
Tell him that the only key that has
no. sharDs or fats is the key of C-that
is, the key that all his scales and exer-
cises have been written IN hitherto. It
is time for him to know something
about the other keys, however, and it
would be well to let him draw a staff,
divided into a number Of measures
with simple time" sign at the left.
by the clef sign. Now let him place a
sharp on the top line of the staff at
the extreme left. This makes the key
he is writing in the key of G. Let him
now write a number of notes, enough to
fill out the measures. and sprinkle in a
plentiful number of is, so that he may
come TO understand the use of the
sharp. Let him put in a number of
naturals, too. explaining to him at the
same time that the natural" sign
holds good only to the end of the meas
ure.
After giving him an idea of the uses
Of flats, by this same method let him
look through his instruction book and
find "sharps," flats" and "naturals"
for you until he is perfectly familiar
with them all.
In addition to this. let him now take
up the scale Of G, and from now on
divide UP his scale practice between the
two scales, c and G. He must take the
scale Of G in exactly the same way
that he did c, first in "ones,' then
''twos." then "threes,'' and practicing
it with the metrononle faithfully
By this time he should have become
proficient enough in scale of c to play
il with perfect ease at the metronome
50. Therefore let him hereafter play it
at so. while playing the scale of c at SO.
This applies to both hands of course,
although they are still to be practiced
separately.
1t would be well to let the boy try
his contrary motion" on the scale Of
G, occasionally, for the sooner he be-
comes accustomed to sharps, the bet
ter. Moreover, his scale practice will
be much more interesting to him if it
goes hand in hand with his study Of
written music, and whenever he attacks
a new key, in exercise of piece, should
advise practicing his scales in that par
ticular key. that all things may work
together.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
TALKs OF THE TOWN
AND 19RHG>sS.~QZ OF RHE
TIMEC ~
To the Radiant Lady.

Little Maria Luigenetti wanted a
doll for Christmas. She knew that her
mother, who went away for the whole
day and worked for the bread that
they ate. would have no silver to buy
that angelic vision of white and lace
which stood in the window of the
store down near Washington square.
Her father she only saw at nights
when he returned from the wine shop
and too often she saw the blows which
he struck upon that bent back of the
mother. He buy a doll-impossibl
The mother had sometimes taken lit
tie Maria to the big cathedral and
taught her to pray before the beau
tiful golden images all set around with
candles. She had told the tiny girl
that there was good mother in heav-
en- who answered the prayers of those
who sought her. How many times the
little waif left alone in the dingy room
which was her home, pictured to her
self this radiant lady. Sitting there in
the half light which filtered through
the smeared window, Maria bethought
herself of seeking her doll through the
FAAAAOAlCoo VI bAAAO WOLOAONO fAN7ACA4 u s~AN
lights.
From the wall in her mothers room
she took down the gaudy print of the
Virgin. Then upon the top of a cracker
box she spread the cambria print of
the flag of Italy which her father used
when he marched in parade. Rev
erently she set the colOred print upon
the flag: a stump of a candle and
vagrant wisp of geranium filched
from the neighbOr's window box COM
pIeted the decorations of the shrine.
Then in the Pickering light of that
stump Of a candle the child prayed
aloud to the Virgin: 20 blessed lady,
all lighted up by candles and with the
gold crown, and with the sweet SMELL
ing smoke all around you, Maria Lui-
genetti has no doll and wants one for
Christmas Give her one, blessed lady,
cause she wants one very bad. Maria
is
A loud guffaw interrupted the prayer.
Quickly the little one turned her head
and there, leaning heavily against the
door jamb with his great head tipped
away back, was the father come home
from the wine shop.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
INSTRUCTIVE JTUDIEng
By INOTEDAAllEssEN AND
1|[sS)F1EN "

NAV trouble him a little to conquer the
natural dependence of one hand on the
other. and it will help him to acquire
the desired independence if at this time
he takes up the contrary motion" in
his scales.
Let him place both thumbs on mid
die c. and proceed TO play his scale
with both hands, going in an opposite
direction toward each end of the piano,
the left hand playing the descending
scale at the same time the right hand
is playing the ascending scale.
Let him practice this exactly as he
has been in the habit of practicing his
oEe-hand scale-that is, in one, two
and three octaYes respectively, with the
accompanying accents, as previously
explained in. other lessons. This must
not be done to the exclusion of his reg
ular scale practice, however, but in ad-
dition to it.
1t is not necessary to go into all the
details of time" and so forth for if
the pupil understands fully the proper
ties Of whole notes, quarter notes, and
so on, all of which were explained in
the last lesson, he can easily follow out
the working of his instruction book,
with the aid Of a little simple arithme-
tic; for instance, one quarter pOte is
equal to two eighth notes, and so on.
Examples Of eighth notes (they are just
like a quarter note only that there is a
little curve attached to the stem) are
given in the Illustration.
The numbers at the beginning of the
staff always signify what the time"
Of the piece is to be, as. for instance,
PA means that two quarter notes are
TO be counted to each measure.
These things are all to be taken grad
Uaily, and care must be taken not to
crowd the pupil too much and so con-
fuse him.
Quite early in his progress through
his instruction book he will come to
sharps and fats, and it viii be well
right here to explain to him that a
sharp raises a note half a tone and a
fat lowers it. Show him the fat and
sharp signs. and let him draw them
until he has fixed them in his memory.
Also the natural sign, which is used
to bring the note back to it's normal
place after it has been sharped. Have
the child illustrate this himself by
drawing the staff, then placing the
notes, c, d, e, f, g, upon it. Tell him
to put the sharp sign in front Of (that
is. TO the left of before he writes &.
Now, after writing G, let him continue
along the staff by writing another f..
This time, however, he must make a
natural before the f. showing that it
is not to be sharped. Then let him fin
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23

But in the Colombian Congress the MorgaS Gor-
mans and Daniels who concluded to make politics out
of the defeat of the treaty They defeated IT. and the
Panama revolution followed.
Our own Senators might be in better business than
the imitation of Colombian methods But If they choose
that kind of craftsmanship they independent OF any
control except by public opinion and for the present that
can only find expression through the press and its
authoritative declaration only be made at the polls
next November We are we'll assured that the issue
they make will work both ways. The strong financial
interests in this country which oppose the canal will go
with the Democracy and will slightly divide the Repub-
can party But the issue will also divide the Democ-
racy.
In view of the history of the canal project Senators
Morgan German and Daniel are taking great respon-
siblity for it is less than the responsibility OF de-
featng canal entirely Their action presents emer-
gency in which the commercial bodies and the citizens
of the country should be heard The President has done
Colombia is responsible Having done all that the
stituon gives him to do the issue is thrown upon the
Senate Those who so confident of the destructive
effect upon the President of what they call Vote of
want Of confidence should remember that political
history furnishes instances in which Presidents. denied
the confidence of the Senate have had the confidence Of
the people.
These same Senators were earnest in denying the
confidence of the Senate Mr. Cleveland the money
ISSUE but the election of 1896 indorsed his side of the
issue, though to do the people had to elect Repub
can successor to him. This time such Endorsement will
require the election of President Roosevelt succeed
himself, and the caba OF opposition Senators should
learn by experience that the people not to be de-
ceived be mised from the main question by their
attempts to create a party issue.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
Search for Lost Species.

Not long ago DR.. Frizzell Of the
Canadian Government Lighthouse
service reported the discovery OF fresh
tracks of the mammoth on Unimak
Island, Alaska, says the New YORK
World. Mammoth meat, preserved
for countless centuries in natural re-
frigerators, has not been an unknown
delicacy in the Arctic, and there seems
to be no reason why the region in
which perfect carcasses have been
kept on ice should not contain the
living animal.
An expedition to Patagonica to
search for the ancient three toed sloth
has been unsuccessful. but a fresh
egg of the giant epyornis, bird with
bones bigger than an elephants, IS
said to have been found in NADIA
gascar, and an expedition from the
University of Berlin is now searching
for the living creature itself.
The dodO, the great aux and several
other extinct birds have been exter-
minated by man in very recent times.
If we can find region in which the
destructive activity of humankind has
not been exercised, there is no rea-
son why we may not find there types
of animals that have disappeared
elsewhere. Some hoped that such
species might be found on the virgin
plateau of Roraima, which, perched
on the precipitous cliffs 1000 feet
high, was believed by the Venezuelans
to be inaccessible to man. But that
hope was disappointed, like the search
for mammoths in Alaska.
Perhaps the most promising place
to look for extinct animals now is in
the depths of the sea. 1t is known
that some of the lower forms of life
in the ooze of the ocean bed have been
there unchanged for millions of years.
The sea serpent is believed by many
scientific men to be an actual sur
vivaI of the gigantic saurians Of the
prehistoric seas. and the colossal cut
tlefish of the Newfoundland coast
would have been at home among the
giants of any geological age.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
Dialects.

A woman was recently picked up in
New York who spoke a dialect that no
body in town could understand. This
is saying a great deal of New York.
where there are said to be more Ian
guages and dialects spoken than in any
other city in the world.
All the language sharps in the city
were summoned, but after several days
tLey were obliged to give it up.
Some stoutly averred that the woman
was playing a trick. but there was am
pie evidence that she was not. She
sank back into the world again un-
known.
Sixty years ago it was reckoned that
seventy different yocabularies were to
be found in Brazil. The number Of dia-
lects there runs into the hundreds.
There are also hundreds in Borneo and
Australia, and always the number Of
dialects is in inverse proportion to the
intellectual culture. The greatest talk
ers in the world are all dialect and no
sense.-Boston Globe.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23

The upper. or first parI. is intended
for the pupil. while the accompaniment,
or score. part. falls to the lot of the
teacher or whoever is assisting the
child in his effort to learn reading at
sight.
In the FIRST few duets. at any rate,
the upper part is written in the violin"
cor upper clef for both hands, and
the notes are simple, being merely those
that our pupil has learned already-in
the last lesson.
There are no complications Of tempo
TO bother him. and all he has TO do is
10 keep his mind intent on what. he is
doing, to count regularly ard not to
stop, In sight reading it is most neces-
sary that the pupil should keep right
straight on. whatever happens All in
clinatiou 10 hesitate or stumble must
be nipped in the bud if good results
are 10 be obtained.
Let the assistant also keep right on,
and if the pupil stops make him Under
stand that the lower part is going on
just the same and he must get in"
again as best he can.
II the reading goes very badly let him
go back TO the beginning and try the
duet more slOWly-as slowly as seems
TO be necessar ry-but IN this case the
same rule applies as before, he must
not stop until he reaches an authorized
stopping place.
Another rule to be observed in sight
reading is, as soon as one note is struck
the pupil must look ahead TO see where
the next note is going to take him.
While he is counting aloud The pre-
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
HIGHER CRITICISM IN FLORIDA.

RITICS have exhausted their ability in passing
[ judgment on the works of Emil Zola 1t is the
~ deliberate opinion of France that his LA Terre"
bes the peasanry and there have been serious
objections in religious circles his "Faue de pAbbe
Mouret" But Zoa is dead, and his last years full
of lurd experiences derived om his Jaccuse letter on
the Dreyfus
Death and judgment have caused examination and
criticism of his work Down in Ybor City,
Florida critics and discussed the obscenty of
of Zolas books. We regret that the critical COM
munon of the Republic of Letters is not informed by
the Associated Press which novel in controversy
but Zola managed to be rsque in most of his books
perhaps this makes difference.
The Ybor critics were Jesus Fernandez. a Spaniard
and Enrique Veasquez. Mexican They discussed with
their bare fists and when time called Zoas work
had not yet been decided be obscene pure. In
pursuit of higher criticism the literary champions
met next day and resumed the discussion with evolver
Jesus got the first argument prove obscenty, and
Enrique fell the second fire. But the champion of
Zoas purity raised his elbow, and although his op
ponent's arguments had made FIVE bullet holes in him.
his vindicatory revolver put the Spaniard and
PEELED his retreafnto the shelter of saloon whence he
emerged prepared to the debate with fervor
dagger.
Meantime the rdd1ed Mexican had got upon his feet
and opened fire again. proving that in literary criticism
the pistol is mghtier than the knife The Spaniard
found himself unable to respond and the Mexican quit
and died winner. The Spaniard was taken away and at
last reports expected die during the night 1t
pity that Zola died soon, for this method of deter
mining whether his pen makes the greater contribution
to vice or virtue would have appealed his imagination
and his method.
pity that the arguments put forward in this
debate evenly matched. The incident transfers
the seat of literary criticism from Boston Ybor City,
and is be hoped that the good work will proceed in
the new of learning and literary Judgment If Zola
have II behOOVeS O I'D
with citations of the latest pattern secockng and hair
trigger action and to keep their cartridge belts full Of
phrases. His enemies there will have learned that de-
bate with dagger puts them disadvantage and the
great discussion may proceed with the critics more
evenly matched.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
EXAM PIE OF EIGHTH
NOTES.

scribed beats Of the note already played
he must always be looking ahead, so
as not TO be taken unawarss when il
is time for the next note TO be played.
An accomplished sight reader is al
WAYS several measures in advance Of
his fingers. and it is only question
Of time and application when cur little
pupil may become equally proficient by
following out the method Of sight read
sing prescribed here.
II viii be seen that sight reading is
taken Ep in 4 manner entirely opposite
from the ordinary study of exercises
and pieces. IN either of the latter per-
fection is only 20 be gained by working
on q few notes at time. by going over
and over each measure, until, every
mistake having been rectifed, persist
ent practice has made il impossible for
the fault to occur again. and the piece
of music stands complete and sound in
every particular. A piece Of music
thus learned is never forgotten, and is
not only a delight to every 9ne who
hears il played in its finished state. but
is a valuable aid TO the pupil IN the
next piece he undertakes.
II sight reading. however, one would
accomplish nothing if one stopped to
carefully remove All the flaws that are
liable 20 appear during the first at
tempts in this new field, and the pupil
must try 10 grasp the music as whole,
in the impressionistic style, rather than
TO seek 10 go into detail. A little later,
as he becomes more at ease ln reading
at sight, he win naturally take in more
at q glance, and viii thus be able to
play more and more correctly at sight.
Now, taking it for granted that the
pupil has become proficient in the first
few exercises in his book, we viii take
him a step further.
Ills next difficulty viii be when he
finds that his two hands are no longer
TO play the same thing, but are TO go
In opposite directions oftentimes. It
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-23
Mr.. DeUOtiOH.

1t was at a recent graduating enter
tainment of trained nurses who had
Just received their diplomas from the
City and County Hospital that well
known city official was made the vic
tim of a joke that caused immense
amusement during the entire evening.
The officials name shall be "Devo-
ton for the occasion. AS soon as the
evenings entertainment was set in mo-
ton by promenade DR.. McElroy, the
superintendent, introduced Mr.. Devo-
tion to a young person who was
known as Miss Bine. The gallant De-
votion was charmed at the introduc-
ton, as Miss Bine was the handsomest
trained nurse in the room. She hooked
on TO Mr.. Devotion's arm with
charming grace and they were soon
in the may dance. She coquetted
fiercely with him, looking UP into his
face and sending one of those soul
piercing glances right at him. To be
brief Devotion was captivated. His
heart was gone; he confessed it to his
personal friends, but with the admoni-
ton not to let the fair charmer know
it as she might decline on such a short
acquaintance.
The secret was kept until just be-
fore the breaking up of the entertain
ment when Miss Bine had the rude
ness to strip off her nurses costume
right in the midst of the select as
semblage. Lo, the fair coquette was
none other than a young doctor, an
inferno at the hospital. What became
of Mr.. Devotion is not known as he
has not appeared at the wirewoven
window of the office since. Should he
not return by the end of the year the
bottom OF the bay will be dragged.