CLARINET 



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CLARK 



its manufacture in France. A genuine claret 

 is made in California, and it is a popular wine 

 in that region. 



CLARINET, klair'inet, the leading instru- 

 ment in military bands; in fullness and variety 

 of tone it is considered the most perfect of 

 wind instruments. It is usually of wood, with 

 a trumpet-shaped mouthpiece, in which is 



THE CLARINET 



placed a thin reed, the vibrations of which 

 produce the tones; the fingers playing on keys 

 covering holes in the tube produce the melody. 

 A range of three and one-half octaves is cov- 

 ered, but not every key can be played on one 

 instrument, so clarinets of different pitch are 

 used. In orchestras the A and Bb clarinets are 

 used, sometimes the high and the bass C. 

 Mozart, with his symphony in Eb major, made 

 the clarinet a permanent orchestra instrument. 

 See ORCHESTRA. 



CLARK, CHAMP [JAMES BEAUCHAMP] (1850- 

 ), one of the best-known leaders in the 

 Democratic party of the present day. In 1913 

 he was honored with the most influential office 

 in the United States below the Presidency, 

 the Speakership 

 of the House of 

 Represen- 

 tatives. He was 

 born in Ken- 

 tucky, attended 

 'the common 

 schools, was grad- 

 uated at Bethany 

 College, West 

 Virginia, and then 

 from the Cincin- 

 nati Law School. 



Before he became 



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prominent in pol- states House of Represen . 



itics he worked tatives from 1911 to 1917. 

 as a farm laborer, clerk, editor and lawyer, and 

 served as president of Marshall College, in 

 West Virginia. In 1880 he began the prac- 

 tice of law in Bowling Green, Mo., and nine 

 years later was elected to the national House 

 of Representatives; he has represented Mis- 

 souri in that body continuously since then, 

 except for two terms, from 1891 to 1893 and 

 1895 to 1897. 



Clark became Democratic leader in the 

 House in the second session of the sixtieth 

 Congress, and in 1911, when a heavy vote 



JAMES BEAUCHAMP 



CLARK 

 Speaker of the United 



against the Republican party caused the Demo- 

 cratic landslide in the Congressional elections, 

 he was elected Speaker of the House. During 

 the Presidential campaign of 1912 his great 

 personal popularity was shown in the spring 

 primaries, where he sought pledges for the 

 Presidential nomination, and he was one of the 

 strongest candidates in the Baltimore conven- 

 tion of that year; Woodrow Wilson, however, 

 was nominated after more than thirty ballots, 

 and Clark supported him in the ensuing cam- 

 paign. 



CLARK, CHARLES HEBER (1841-1915), an 

 American humorist, better known under the 

 pen name of MAX ADELER, author of the amus- 

 ing books In Happy Hollow, Elbow Room, 

 Random Shots, Out of the Hurly-Burly and 

 Desperate Adventures. In 1865 he engaged in 

 journalism, devoting most of his time there- 

 after to that work. While editor of The Manu- 

 facturer, the organ of the Manufacturers' Club 

 of Philadelphia, economic subjects occupied 

 much of his editorial attention. 



CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD (1851- ), 

 founder of the Young People's Society of 

 Christian Endeavor, and editor of the Golden 

 Rule, the paper of that organization. He was 

 born in Aylrner, Canada. After graduation 

 from Dartmouth College and Andover Theo- 

 logical Seminary he became a Congregational 

 clergyman. From 1876 to 1883 he was pastor 

 of a church in Portland, Me., and he spent the 

 following five years in charge of a Boston 

 church. Since then Mr. Clark has devoted his 

 time to Christian Endeavor work, traveling 

 around the world five times in its interests and 

 serving continuously as president of the United 

 Society. See CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR, YOUNG 

 PEOPLE'S SOCIETY OF. 



CLARK, GEORGE ROGERS (1752-1818), a fa- 

 mous American soldier and frontiersman, whose 

 military successes in the old Northwest during 

 the Revolutionary War gave the United States 

 its chief claim, in the peace negotiations, to 

 the territory between the Mississippi River 

 and the Alleghany Mountains. He was born 

 near Monticello, Va., received a common school 

 education and began his career as a land sur- 

 veyor. At the beginning of the Revolution 

 he was chosen a delegate to represent Ken- 

 tucky, then a district of Virginia, in negotia- 

 tions which resulted in organizing Kentucky 

 as a separate county. 



In 1778, having become lieutenant-colonel, 

 Clark raised a force of troops and began the 

 conquest of the Northwest by capturing Kas- 



