The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1895, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1895 SAN FRANCISCO. MAY Artificial Lightning Can Do | It if the Money"Is Put Up. BATTERIES BY THE SEA. The City’'s Atmosphere Could Be Cleaned Every Day Besides. ! ALEXANDER MAIDE'S IDEAS. The Scientific Possibilities of Aerial | Sanitation in the Near Fu- ture. If San Francisco wants to get rid of all its fogs and, by breathe clean, pure air by day and SI dust that to do and do ome It may be news to mos co that they | and | | widely the effect of a d. | ume may be given a high intensity. RID ITSELF OF FOGS, about the flashes of artificial lightning would be similar to that of the thunder- storm and the d n the cellar and the jar. The s apor would be dis- sipated and the i ities driven from the air. Twoor three flashes and as many seconds would do the wc ¥ 1t’s going entirely too far and asking too much to inquire right off how thickly these electrical discharges would have to be arranged through the City, how much | current it would take, what it would cost, so on. It isn't even known how harge of a given power would be felt through the open air. Likely there would have to be a lot of made lightnir d off from high and other high places to get at the far enough above the ground, though the fog doesn’t roll very high. When t do what bl juestion of how practicaily to be demonstrated to be possi bobs up there arises a host of new me nical and other problems. For in-| nce, these discharges of electricity from | point to point, as in Leyden jars and otherwise, have never been put to any practical use, and there has been no effort | to do so. In the cou of scientific ex-| { periment Tesla and one of the Westing- e experts produced flashes five feet odge in his experimental cellar- made the electricity jump four In nature’s dynamics it jumps from clond to cloud, from cloud to earth and f b to cloud. When man has any nt use for big electrical discharges improve the It is not the ordinary in which it is used for that tificial 1 nsformed . 1t is not quantity but in | needed, and a current small in \‘([vi- n A FLASH OF LIGHTNING PHOTCGRAPHED AT 11 P. LAST, BY GEORGE F. TOWNSEND, Al AU<TIN, TEX. | M., MAY with chill they do t ,d 't want to be. d; ming, pressing fogs if the n windows, b on pedestrians und hackin; , can be ree Shn Francisco of What is more, tk free £ forever. air could be made as m smoke, dust and Laze as a clear ig and interesting, but it if not a practical possibility, iteresting as such. Beinga vility, who knows what the future may do with such a fanciful scheme? 1t would mean an artificial climate for San Francisco, vastly increased delight of liv- ing and an immense decrease in disease | and suffering. It may sound at first thoueht like an imagining by Jules Verne, but it is not. | Alexander McAide says that this is about what could be done. ) McAide is the widely known Government meteorologist, who has been sent here from Washington as assistant to ecast Official W. H. Hammon. He is a young man, of high scientific attainm s in the line of meteorology, developed during three vears of post-graduate study at Harvard and thirteen years of scientific work for the Government. His specialty has for some time been the study of thunderstorms, and his photographs of lightning flashes and | his papers on the subject published as Government bulletins “and in leading periodicals have attracted wide attention. | Dhring the next few month; he will do | some important and interesting work in studying the unknown upper air with in- struments attached to kites and balioons, | and will probably do some interesting work 1n studying the electrical phenomena | and lack of them on this coast. It was while modestly discussing yester- day the effect of thunderstorms and recent | investigations of the effect of electrical disturbances in the atmosphere that Mr. McAide advanced the rather startling gmuusi(ion that artificial lightning could e made to do for the atmosphere about this City what thunderstorms do for the atmosphere in which they oceur. Thunderstorms ssipate vapors and clear the air quickly of smoke and all other floating impurities. A glass jar filled with smoke is made cl as & bell'in | & second by a discharge of electricity from | one metallic point to another within the jar. Professor Lodge similarly cleared a cellar of smoke by using a stronger cur- | rent and a longer di ge. With the effect of natural lightning known and the effect of artificial fxpntning within smalil areas demonstrated the idea of cleaning up the air of a city is seen to be simply the same thingon a larger scale, and it ap- pears less chimerical. It’s undoubtedly simply a matter of expense and experiment as to the best practical way of aoing it, according to Mr. McAide. Imagine the City at an hour when a brooding afternoon fog has settled over it, with the air full of the day’s dust and smoke, and with buildings three blocks away invisible, and then imagine the touch of an eleetric button, and presto, in two seconds the sun beams from a soft Italian sky through a_balmy air as fresh and pure as that of a May morn. But ' that's easy enough. Just have dynamos enough grinding out electricity at one or two stations and wires running to big pairs of metal points set here and there about the City. With these points set several feet apart the current would leap across the intervening space in power- ful discharges and brilliant flashes when turned on, and the effect on the air all | Fe | clear the air of San Francisco in the way the five-foot discharges mentioned the cur- rent was transformed into about 200,000 volts. So in cleaning a few cubic miles of the requisite would not be a tremendous | \ electricity, but alternating cur- rents aeveloped by transformers into great 3ut, then, the whole question of how to do this thing with electricity would be like | those of the recent past, now solved or being solved with much experi- ment— to produce light, how to pro- | duce economic power, how to transmit power, and so on. Artificial lighting is yet a laboratory experiment. The thingfof present interest 1s the possibility. Any one can now see how easy the | thing would be—that is, after it was found out just how to do it. It’s only a question of machines, distances, potentialities, dol- lars and such thin Ot course, it wo n’t do much good to described when a big fog bank was rolling in all the time from the sea. The air would be cleaned nicely, but to keep the City clear of fog the supply would have to be “headed off. That would have to be Alexander McAide, the Meteorologist Who Is the New Assistant at the Weather Bureau Lere. done by setting up a long battery of hightning dischargers down the coast from the Cliff House to the San Bruno hills and across the Golden Gate. Against this battery the incoming fog bank would dis- appear like an icicle going into a furnace. The City would then say to the fog, *“Thus far and no farther,” and smile securely at the ocean’s dismal exhalations. With a series of lightning flashes constantly kept up along the line of breakers through evening, night and morning, the down- town purifiers would have to care only for the dirt in the air and any vapory haze that might creep through the lines and spread. That this idea is not the scheme of a crazy inventor, but one that has newly appeared on the horizon as man has ad- vanced into the great unknown, is further evidenced by the fact that Professor Lodge, a scientist of world-wide reputation, not long ago proposed before a scientific body the dissipation of the dangerous fogs of the Struig; of Belle Isle by such a method. However fanciful the idea may appear when applied right here at_home, the pos- sibility of such a control of the conditions of nature by man is exceedingly interest- ing, as is the natural further question, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking | the hills and the bay, and finding the per- | | centage of sooty carbon and so on and | to see if the air department is giving the | | people the air they are taxed for. | interesting as | be done actu | are even driven into the glass. | FOR BETTER DRIVEWAYS. | i<sgxzé!l%nmder ABSOLUTELY PURE i What good would it do to clear the air of I San Francisco of fogs and its impurities? | Yesterday Dr. Albert Abrams, a member of the faculty of Cooper Medical Collece and a specialist in lung diseases, said that | it would remove at once the most preva- | lent and troublesome diseases here. { “If such a change in the aimosphere of | San Francisco were produced.” said Dr. | Abrams, “it would remove at once the | potent cause of tuberculosis, or consump- l tion, herc. It would revolutionize the local conditions surrounding the disease | that carries away two-sevenths of the human race. The effect of breathing air | full of smoke and dust is well known and | is demonstrated by people whose occup: tions make them breath much dust, asin coal mines, certain kinds of mills and so | on. When the air holds in suspension | dust and smoke the particles for one thing lodye in the mucuous membrane of the | lungs and make little openings favorable | to the lodgment of .the tubercle bacillus | which causes consumption. The main | feature of the most advanced treatment of | consumption is pure air. Then various | germs of disease do not float in pure air, | Tf the air here could be kept clean and | pure a potent cause of consumption | ources of other diseases would be re- | moved. | ‘‘The absence of fogs would make a great | difference, too. All my asthmatic patients | are worse when the air is humid, and they | can anticipate moisture as a rheumatic | can. sal catarrh, which is so prevalent ' | | i | | in San Francisco, has two causes—irrita- tion by the dust particles inhaled and moisture which causes the mucous mem- brane to swell like a sponge. In fact, com- paratively few people here have normal mucous membranes. Not only would purifying the air have an immense bene- ficial ect in these and other ways, but ng the air in the manner you would destroy germs of many wild is a dream that some day in the twentieth century there will be an air departmentin the City Government, which Sl dorae responsible for so much of the health e and comfort of a great city full of people and for so much of thé delightful ing of the da that bless San Fran-| cisco above most other cities of the earth, but yet a little less than others that nestle | under projecting hills and see the fog- | banks melt into nothingness before reach- | them ? i Why, ves; and an air inspector, too, who will go'about taking samples from the top of THE CaLy building and from the street ng samples for little disease germ i Mr. McAide doés not, of course, project | his fancy into the future in any such ways. | ience, who is careful of | tatement while eagerly but slowly push- | what little way he can _into the limii- scientific unknown. However, he be- | es the thing described possible, and if‘ | millionaire would kindly give him a few hundred thousand for the purpose he | would take great Melight in finding out | ust what could be done in the way of | aerial sanitation and in regulating the air | | according to the ideas of man. “It is undoubtedly within the power of | man to control meteorological conditions,” | said the.young meteorologist. *‘That fog ! out there can be dissipated, if given money | and time for successiul experiment. It is| simply now a scientific possibility and is | It can be done now | ing, and it may some day | | Fog, smoke and haze can be dissipatad | and a dusty air clarified by electrical di charges, as has been shown by the exper ments of Lod. e, Clark, Bidwell, Van Helm holst and others. Thunder-storms clear | the air, ana that is nature’s way, on a large | scale, of doing what man can yet doon | only a very small scale. It is simply a | ion of generating and properly hand- | ficient electriciiy to do the work. The ordinary current must be transformed | into a high potential and then made to | produce a disruptive discharge in the air. | “I have cleared perfectly a glass jar full | of smoke with one discharge. The ex- planation isthis: The electrified particles | coalesce, forming larger and bLeavier parti- | cles, which fall to the bottom, and other | particles are driven with great force in all | directions to the sides of the jar. They | with a play ‘‘Tne same operation resulted when D Oliver Lodge, professor of physics in Uni- versity College, Liverpool, cleared a smoky cellar with two or three discharges. I have no doubt that smoke consumers might be constructed on that principle, and it may be done. “1f there were electric storms here as in | . the East the fogs would often be seen to be | dissipated by them. Now fogs depend for | their nature largely on the particles of | solid matter, even of salt from the ocean, | floating in the air, The moisture collects | around these particles. A haif dozen good lightning flashes would dissipate any fog But as I say the thing is merely an inter- | esting scientific possibility, and I would venture no prediction as to what will or | will not be done practically in the future in | the way of dissipating fogs and cleansing the air.” Mr. McAide is not making or expecting ! to make any experiments in this line, but | he calmly believes in the interesting pos- sibility, and for the present it isaban- doned to the fancies of those who may like to imagine the future. | San Francisco will probably want and | get clean sewers, better and cheaper water, | cleaner streets, and a few other things of present day practigability before it tries to n _and “wring out its| air; but the day may come when | fogs and sooty air laden with im-| purities and disease germs will be thought | as worthy of guarding against as bad water, tainted meat and adulterated milk, | and who knows but that ;xeu‘pln may some | day be willing to be taxed for clean air to | breathe? | Temporary Organization Effected at | a Meeting at the Baldwin | Hotel. The subject of improved driveways was discussed at a meeting of liverymen, car- riage-owners and others held at the Bald- win Hotel last night. The result of the discussion was the formation of a tempo- rary organization with C. 8. Crittenden as chairman and Joseph Magner as secretary. A committee on permanent organization was appointed by the chair as follows: John McCord, John Murphy, J. Hirsch, J. O’Kane, C. C. Bemi The committee will report to the next meeting on Wednesday night. The matter under discussion last night and which will receive the first official at- tention of the new organization is the building of a new driveway to the ocean and Park, contemplated in the following | suggestions presented in the call for last night’s meeting: A suitable road from the Golden Gate Park to the Almshouse road. The extension of the boulevard along the beach to meet the Ocean House road, The widening and improving of the roadway to t‘:le new Cliff House, 50 85 to accommodate traftie. Also, to make such general improvements from time to time as shall meet the best inter- ests of the public. Richard Freud, secretary of the Mer- chants’ Association was present and ad- dressed the meeting, stating that Presi- dent Dohrmann could not be there. 'He of- fered the hearty co-operation of the Mer- chants’ Association and congratulated the members of the meeting upon the effort being made. Colonel Little sJioke of the necessary re- duction of the grade of Seventh avenue and encouraged the new association. —————— Streetcar Transfers. A conference will be held to-day between General Manager Vining of the Market-street Railvay Company and a special committee from the Merchanis’ Association, composed of Messrs, Donrmann, Baldwin, Doane and Kol- berg. The association is desirous of securing for the public better iransier accommodations on the streetcars. Special interest is felt in gle\ung transfers to the Kearny-street line. he raflroad people have expressed a desire to grant the request, and state that even more | is it merely | gathered from all over the United States. { in original package. A TRADE “VENDETTA" Bloodcurdling Letter Re- ceived by a Lumber Merchant. DEMAND MADE FOR CASH. Penalties for Refusal Include Murder, Arson and Kid- naping. THE SENDER QUICKLY TRAPPED. His Name Is S. D. McLean, but He Claims He Is the Innocent Victim of Another Man. Is there a band of men organized under the name of “The Vendetta League of the | Unitea States” for the purpose of black- mail, murder, arson and other crimes, or chimera of a man, are ques- tions that will in a few days be discussed in the Police Court. On Saturday D. L. Westover, secretary | of the Sonoma Lumber Company, 319 Pine street, was amazed to receive a blood-curd- ling letter which reads as follows: HEADQUARTERS VENDETTA LEAGUE NITED STATES. D. L. Westover, San Francisco, Cal.—DEAR STR: Your attention is called to the fact that an as- sessment of $2500 has been made upon you by the executive board of the Vendetta League of the United States, and payment releases you from further assessments till our special agent finds that you are worth over $500,000, when ill be at liberty to call upon you again. Payment of this will warrant you every protec- tion against outside crooks that our position in the “profesh’’ affords us. That you mey be fully informed as to why and by ‘whom this demand is made we here- with give you the following: The Vendetta League is an associaticn of the most skillful crooks in the United States. We have & head office, where data as regards men’s business standing and social and domestic rw‘lnuousare ur object is twofold. First, not to molest men in business who are so involved that they would be ruined to pay our demands, and as all as- sessmeuts are made from data in the main imply the amount, name and ad- nt to the party who takes charge, ion arises, and each member gets his no mistake is made. Second, our social and domestic data puts us in & posi- tlon to hit the hardest possible blow where we meet with a refusal or our efforts are molested in any way. We use every weapon known to criminality to punish with, arson, abduction, kidnaping, social ruin, and do not’ stop at killing if the case requires. We do ali this class of work through a class that we can always lay our hands on for & few dollars, and no league member appears in. it. Within three years we have been fully organized. We have had only three oceasions (0 apply the laws of the league, and hope never (o have 10 do. 1t arain. We never harm or molest the party who refuses personal that is, we cause a few fires, make insnranceé hard to get. and whole lots of things might happen that would make life & burden, To attempt to molest any of our agents or try to use detective or police work on us comes under the head of capital_crime, and then & | man must be well prepared and ever vigilant if somethiug does not happen to some of his be- loved ones. for the Vendetta once set to work knows 1o let up so long as there is any more l)h\\:e left 1o strike, or else the offender is in an nsane asylum or blown his brains out. We always use innocent parties to do our col- lecting and delivering of funds to final desti- nation, and any watch put on them or any at- tempt to trail them issure to be followed by bad results. Pioperty may be recovered, an innocent tool may be booked by the cunning detective, but our hawkeye who is watching over the game gives due warning so none of our peoplé get thieir fingers burned. And then | woe_to the man who for dollars’ sake brings the Vendetta on his trail. Life from then on is one econtinued nightmare. A son comes up missing, & child is kidnaped, a wife sickens and dies, fires attack property until insurance is impussible, and any other kind of revenge and devilishness that can be devised by fertile brains will surely follow. The payment of the above $2500 assessment must be paid in United States bank bills in de- nominations of $5, $10 and $20; no new biils Any attempt to mark bilis will fall on the head of yourself and will be treated as attempted detection. We will send our collector to your office at 3 P. M. next Monday, who will hand you an enveiope with a receipt for the amount signed Vendetta. Ask him no questions, but hand him the money, nicely wrapped Up in & newspaper par- cel aud tied ‘with a stout cord. Any attempt to follow the collector will only bring on the Tesults set forth above. Respectiully, 'VENDETTA. San Francisco, October 25, 1895. P.S.—As & sensible business man you will not give this ietter publicity, as by so doing you would only give some coarse crooks a i;uinter that they would use without judgment. f atany time you want to make use of us for detectives you put & notice in the Chicago Tribune to the effect that you want to com- municate with the Vendetta and we will find a wey. Mr. Westover immediately sent the let- ter to police headquarters, and Detective Bohen was detailed on the case. On Mon- day afternoon Bohen was in waiting at the ofiice 319 Pine street, and promptly on time a messenger-boy entered and handed Mr. Westover a latter. He opened it and it contained the receipt referred to in the letter. Bohen took the messengerin hand and made him return to the place where he got the letter. It was from a house on the southwest corner of Bush and Mont- gomery streets, and when Bohen got there be ascertained that the lanalady got the letter from one of her roomers that morn- ing with instructions to send it with a messenger to 319 Pine street. The land- lady said her roomer's name was S. A, Mec- Lean and that he had gone to Alameda. Bohen found that McLean had been stopping at the Russ House, and was in the habit of going there frequently, so he left instructions with the cierk to notify the California police station when McLean called. This was done, and Policeman l\]‘Yreu went to the Russ House and arrested im, Ye:bgrd? Mr. Westover swore to a com- Klamt in Judge Conlan’s court, charging fcLean with a felony in attempting to extort money. McLean was seen in the City Prison yes- t would be granted if the privilege was not abused and a regular traffic in transfers could be stopped. ' terday afternoon. He is a man about 40 years of age, and doeg not seem much con- cerned over his arrest. When asked for an explanation he said: “I know nothing about the Vendetta and am the innocent victim in the matter. I was in Guatemala for about two years and came from there in the beginning of September. I met a friend of mine from Guatemala named Meddaugh, who re- tarned on the steamer before iast. I had seen Meddaugh talking with & man sev- eral times, and zfter he had taken his de- parture I was in the Lick House and this man spoke to me. Idon’t know his name and never thought of asking it, as he was merely a casual acquaintance. He was a man about 5 feet 8 inches tall and about 36 years of age. *‘I met him several times afterward and on Saturday he told me he was going to Sacramento for a few days and asked me if I would deliver a letter to 319 Pine street on Monday afternoon, as he had some papers there which he wanted to get. He would get them from me on his return from Sacramento. I promised to do so and on Monday, as I had to go to Alameda on business, I gave the landlady the letter and asked her to send it with a messenger- boy in the afternoon. That's all I know about it. “I am a native of Michigan and have been in the lumber business for a number of years. I have had hard luck recently. but have cabied to Guatemala for money to help me out of this trouble. I have known Westover since he was a boy and I can’t see why he should disbelieve my story that I know nothing of the letter.’”” _The police are puzzled. They are satis- fied there has been a deliberate attempt at blackmail, but whether there is a Vendetta League in existence or not is what is puz- zling them. When Delbert L. Westover was asked last night concerning his knowledge of 8. . McLean he saic 1 know him to be a thoroughly unprincipled fellow, wild, reckiess and dissipated. I have known him and his family for, I should vears. He comes fre an ‘excellent family, and they were wealthy. His actions, I think, had something to do with his father's death. He is one of those fellows whom lack of principle brought aown. I received this letter yesterday morning. It was an old-time threatening letter. but there were certain “earmarks”’ about it that made me suspect its authorship. It wasina Russ House envelope, and he used to live there until he was putout for non-payment, eud then it was headed “Frisco,’”” anotlier indication of an Easterner. t first I was inclined to pay no attention to ut the more I thought of it the more I be- came provoked to think that any one would think I was the kind of man to be reached in such a way, and so I handed it to the police and Detective Bohen traced itsorigin to a cheap lodging-house on Montgomery street near my . Tf, as McLean claims, an unknown man handed him the letter why didn’t he step round the corner and deliver it to me himself instead of ordering the landiady to get & mes- senger to take it (o me? About two years ago he left Michigan for San Salyador or Guatemala. Isaw him in Bay City, Mich., just before he leit. He had a scheme on foot then to build a railroad in Centyal Amer- ica, and he was going to buy up all the lumber in this City to do it. He always had some big scheme on hand, His father used to be in. the lumbering busi- ness, and when the only son went into the mines in Honduras and in Colorado his draits on his father were always honored. T guess he has gone through over $200,000 altogether. Before he went south to Guatemala he pleaded with me to indorse his drait for $300 50 he could pev his hotel bill before leaving e. Finally, at his suggestion, I gave him £150 in cash and took the draft with the un- derstanding that he was to send for the re- mainder, but when I presented the draft it was returned unhonored. When he was in Central America he drew a draft for £1000 on my father, who is a banker in Bay City, and, of course, it was not honored, and I have been told that'he also drew a draft on a well-known law firm in Bay City iteen years ago he was a society swell in Bay City. “He owned a $10,000 yecht and had astring of horses and his own stable. Now, I understand, his mother's home is mortgaged, and all to raise funds for him, his first wife got a divorce second wife remains with him. California somewhere, I thin LECTURE BY OB T.F, DAY, Auspicious Opening of the Pres- bytery Church Exten- sion Course. say, nearly twenty k. ® om him, but his he is here iu Poetry, History, Philosophy, Oratory and Prophesies of the 0ld Testament. The theological extension course opened y at Calvary Presbyterian Church last evening. Dr. Thomas F. Day was the speaker and his theme *‘Old Testa- ment Literature.” The fact that scarcely aseat in the church parlors was vacant augured the success of the course. Dr. Day said: “The Bible is not a book, but a library of books, inspired through many ages. “The Hebrew race has some marked characteristics that are reflected in Old Testament literature. Theseare intuition, the quick glance that needs no help from logic, and a highly developed emotional nature. “The land in which they dwelt, Pales- tine, with its range from subtropical to subalpine climate, also had its influence upon the Scriptures. Without such a land the Bible would have been impossible. The Jewish semi-nomadic habits brought them into contact with people of every cb“nie' hence the Bible is a cosmopolitan 00k, “The history contained in the Old Tes- tament 1s wonderfully varied. Its parables are prose epics. The self-restraint shown by the narrators, in contrast with the pro- lix style of Oriental books, shows the divinity of its origin. The Old Testament is not, as been claimed, a series of biogra- biies of men, but an autobiography of od. “It is a pity that in our academic groves Isaiah must give way to Plato, that He- brew classics do not have a place in the college curriculum side by side with the Roman and Greek.” Judah’s speech to Joseph was cited as an example of splendid oratory and the book of Deuteronomy was said to be full of the orations of Moses. In conclusion Dr. Day said the Old and New Testaments were as indivisible as the body and soul, and that the times and peo- ple who would be indifferent to the Old would turn aside from the New. . . B Among the Railways. Beginning on Thursday one-horse cars will replace the present ones in use on the Montgomery and Fourth-street route. In- stead of eleven two-horse cars running at intervals of about five minutes, there will be seventeen of the single-horse cars run- ning at intervals of three minutes during the rushes of the day and of four minutes during the remaining period. These cars will be kent on until the proposed electric road along Montgomery street is con- structed. H. E. Huntington, vice-president of the Southern Pacific Company, was so seri- ously indisposed yesterday that he was un- able to be at his office. Assistant Traffic Manager Sproule of the Southern Pacific Company left for Salt Lake yesterday to attend the conference of the Trans-Missouri Association, to present the demand of the Southern Pa- cific Company for lower rates to Utah cominon points, so that California mer- chants will have a better chance of doing business in Utah. e e 85000 Verdict Against the S. P. The case of Mathias Knapp against the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, to recover damages for & broken arm_sustained by being caught between two cars, which has been on trial before Judge Daingerfield for two days, was concluded late last evening, a verdiet being rendered for the plaintiff in $5000. e b el b The Human Fish. A phenomenal creature, said to have been caught in the Gulf of California, was brought fo hisOlty. on the Sisamer San Blas. It is DOW on ex] on af earny street, where itis Known as “the human fish." i NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. e e e et oA e SPECIALSALE OXE" COLORED BERGED! 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The twenty-third year of this famous magazine, recognized alike in England and America as “ the king of all periodicals for girls and boys,” begins with November, 1895. “No cultivated home where there are young people is complete without it.” THE PROGRAM FOR ’96. Letters to a Boy, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Delightful letters written by Mr. Stevenson to a boy and to other young: friends, grphically describing incidents in his own life at Samoa. Fully illustrated., Rudyard Kipling, > James Whitcomb Riley, whose first Jungle Stories were in the Hoosier poet, has one of his fi- ST. NICHOLAS, will write foritin ’g6, nestpoemsin tha Christmasnumber. SERIAL STORIES will include : “The Swordmaker’s Son,” a story of boy-life at fl,’_’ time of the founding of Christianity, by W. O. Stoddard ; “The Prize Cup,” one of J. T. 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