The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1899, D JOHN Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager ..Market and Third, S. F. one Maln 18568, PUBLICATION OFY Tele EDITORIAL ROOMS. .....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. ngle Coples, & Centw. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: LL (incinding Sunday), one year cluding Sanday), 6 months including Sunday), 3 months DAILY CALL DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUADAY CALL Ome Year. WEEKLY CALL OBe Year....ooeeeess postmasters are authortzed to subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested recelve OAKLAND OFFICE. v...008 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marguette Baild- ing, Chicago. ENTATIVE: .29 Tribune Building NEW YORK REFR PERRY LUKENS JR.. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.; Great North- House; Auditorium Hotel. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum-—Vaufeville. the Charity Fund of the Assoclated | Thursday afternoon, December 14 mbla—"The Lion's Mouth fornia—'"The Fatal Card.” T “Tar and Tartar Grand Opers-house “himes of Normandy.™ Alcazar—‘Mother Parth Alhambra—Georgia Minstrels Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and wvening Olympta, corner Mason and Ellis streets—Spectalties. Central Park—Stecplechase a ney lsland. Panorama Battle of Manila Bay, Market street, Dear Eghtn Western Turf”Association, San Mateo Co AUCTION SALES. g, December 14, at 7:45 ward street ng Thursday ev Yeaurlinge, at THE ROSSER CASE. ustice that the courts ceeded in convicting a Just before murder. nit had without cause t another murder t of the wretch rged, though us than that of the tion with the er in a favorable light before ve been convicted and thing in his record to show g There was 1 1 a degraded pervert, on d family was as e as after. The trial was a sworn jury forgot its and took upon itself a 1 g Rosser’s second crime New York an insult to the proper military i in he verdict of ac- s great y as it was a It nace to the safety of nd cannot be re- f Cain upon the jury profes- n the legal ipon the legal pr should be anxious to avoid H ance. i bee Idebrand was without a single The a dn of the assassin without the the idea from the his regiment upon the in- egro clam digger, which ged was imbibed t his uniform protec hi « utrage upon a citizen 1 was reflected in his boast, made in the f the dead b of his victim, “I killed 1 nd a soldier, sir!” his murderous instinct and its out- New York shouid admonish our courts to sitive tone in the charging of juries. It is not a settled principle of law that drunkenness is use for murder and a proper reason for the ac 1 of assassin. The Rosser jury did its d ible worst to go settle it, but if it were so set- ny wretch » nurses murder in his heart has | liquor to commit that the shortcomings in the ad- the scoundrel’s prompt punishment by That his latest victim may sur- ope of every sane-minded person, assassin may, in any event, get the ex- , whether that be the snuffing out of a term of imprisonment that will ad- itators, all good men will expect. 1 be the THE RECIPROCITY TREATIES. ROTESTS made by Californians against the reciprocity treaties with France and with Ja- aica, now pending in the Senate for ratifica- have the effect of defeating the treaties; have that of showing the injustice . and may thereby serve to prevent fur- ther inju in making treaties with other countries. In the very nature of things a reciprocity treaty with France, or with any other country that exports fruits, wines and nuts, must be more or less injurious to California, since it can hardly do otherwise than admit the exporters of those countries to something like a free competition with the California producers. That being so, the State Department should be very careful not to carry such treaties too igr or to grant too many concessions. It is not fair that California should be sacrificed to the advantage of the East. It will in the end be more beneficial to the Eastern peo- ple to build up the wine, oil, nut and raisin industry here than to get an insecure market abroad by pur- chasing it at the price of ruin to California’s rural in- dustrics. In his talk with the California delegation on the subject, Commissioner Kasson, who arranged the treaty, figured out that by reducing the duty on citrns fruits 20 per cent there would be no competition suffi- cient to change the price received for the citrus fruits of our own country; he also maintained that the re- duction of duties on French wines and oil would not afiect California wine and oil. The theory of Com- missioner Kasson, we have no doubt, can be main- tained with some very brilliant argument. The Com. missioner, however, has not given concessions on any articles that would compete with the products of P tion, m but they v done the St 3 his own State of Towa, and we would have preferred | the certainty of the protection given to Iowa to the risks of bis pecpliar reciprocify: 8t our expensey - ~ | his interview and appears ce in Rosser’s case here will be | { FRYE ON THE PHILIPPINES. S garded as a standard American authority on commercial questions. He has been regarded from | the beginning as a stanch imperialist, and therefore his recent interview on the Philippines will cause some surprise. . He is reported as saying that the Republican party proposes certain policies in the Philippines, among which are good government and decent wages, and | an effort to arouse in the natives the ambition to be- come good citizens. This latter proposition reminds ! one of Rob Roy's reception of Bailie Nicol Jarvie's advice to the Highlander to give his sons an educa- |(ion. I Standards of life are racial standards. Good citi- zenship may mean a far different thing to a Filipino and a native of Maine. The Senator adds that possibly the Filipinos may become fit to establish a republican, stable and strong government, able to preserve order and peace, pro- tect life and property and observe their international obligations, and that possibly, “when that time ar- rives,” we, being the sole judges, might surrender to | them the sovereignty, reserving to ourselves naval and coaling stations. | The Senator adds to this qualified promise that he | personally would never surrender the sovereignty to | any people, within the islands or without. | The first clauses of his interview hold a hope that is snatched away by this last qualification. | Americans who believe in their institutions would be delighted if this country should become the ac- { tive agent in the founding of an Asiatic republic in those islands. Asian countries have long been gov- erned by absolutism and the strong hand. Their sub- jection to Occidental conquerors has not changed their condition in that respect. This republic has long been known to them as the world’s best expo nent of self-government. The name of Washington is known throughout the Orient and is respected as that of the founder of self-government on this con- nent. | enter into that enlightened condition in which they have been fired by Washington's example. Senator rye shows an uneasy conscience in the first part of to feel in considerable | strength the impulse of Republican principles. He | admits that those people may become capable of ad- ! ministering independent government under repub- lican forms, but declares that, even if they do, he personally will oppose permitting them to enjoy that for which they prove themselves fitted! This is He a counter | proposition, express his intention to admit them as | citizens of this republic, panoplied in statehood and sharers of our birthright of seli-government, subject to the constitution. This means that when they prove | ENATOR FRYE has long been prominent on the Senate Committee on Commerce and is re- a vital inconsistency. does not, as | themselves capable of seli-government they are not | | to have it, either under a polity of their own or as full citizens of the United States. v one will see at once the afflictions of such a i To their admission to full citizenship in the United States our people will feel grave objec- tions. A republic to endure and fulfill its function must have racial homogeneity. No art nor education can assimilate and abolish racial differences of char- acter. The strength spent in the effort is an economic waste. Therefore it is the fact that if we do not cherish, as our ultimate purpose, the final indepen- dence of the Philippines, on the line of our example and under the shield of our friendship, we must hold | | them as a subject people, the spoil of our bow and spear. What the result will be can be foreseen in | the recent uprising in. Negros. The President's mes- sage dwells at length upon the happy conditions in | that island. Its people were represented as joyfully | accepting our sovercignty and flattered by coming under our jurisdiction. But as soon as military vigi- lance over them was relaxed, and almost before the President’s words were in type, they rose and slaugh- | tered the only white man they could get at, a valuable | and devoted army officer. There is every reason to | believe that had a considerable number of Americans in civil life been among them they would all have | shared the fate of the luckless lieutenant who fell. | | It is an expectation not based in human nature that | we are to woo their friendship by doing for them those things which they aspire to do for themselves. condition. l Nebraska harbors a murderer who is perhaps the | most considerate on record. In deference to Thanks- | giving day and in response to an earnest pleading | he postponed a double assassination to the following day. | BRITISH MHNUFACTURING PROB- | LEMS. ONSULAR REPORTS for November con- C tains in a report from Rufus Fleming, United States Consul at Edinburgh, one of the most | interesting contributions yet made to the discussion of manufacturing problems in Great Britain. It re- | veals some of the causes of the decline in British in- | dustries and the difficulties which stand in the way | ¢t improvement. In the first place British machinery is now far be- low the grade of efficiency reached by machines used 1in this country. As an illustration of this the case is | cited of a rope manufacturing company which re- | cently made a test of an American machine in thei- | factory. The company, it is said, had four British machines for preparing manila fiber for rope-making. The combined daily output of these machines did not exceed three and a half tons, and each required | two operatives. An American machine was intro- duced, costing $1000, about the price of the British | machines. It is worked by two operatives of the same class and receiving the same pay as those work- | ing the British machines, but it turns out four tons | of the product a day, and if run at full speed could make an output of five tons. Moreover, the product : of the American machine is of better quality than that from the British. Here, then, is a gain of time, Ia- | bor, wages and quality of product for the American | machine, and it is clear the British machinery can- | not stand against such competition. | On that showing it would seem the British would | everywhere hasten to adopt the improved machinery { and that our machine-making establishments would | be rushed with British orders. It appears, however, there is a lion in the path. The British workman is essentially conservative and he stands in antagonism to the introduction of machinery that will result in diminishing the number of men employed in any particular industry. The British, it must be borne in mind, have no wide field for the expansion of their commerce just at this time, and any large increase in the output of their manufactured goods would find no market. The extensive use of improved machin- | ery would therefore mean the discharge of a con- siderable number of men, and should that be under- taken there would be a strike. The Consul quotés a British engineer as saying: Tf the majority of skilled working people in the United Kingdom do not abate their hostility to im- Lproved machinery and take the chances of a readjust. But the Filipinos are the first Asiatics to | | intensity. ment of the mass of labor to the new mechanical facilities by emigration or otherwise there is trouble ahead, the consequences of which no man can meas- ure. The engineers’ strike, which came tq an end in | 1898, threatened the entire fabric of British industries by shaking the confidence of the world and of our | own people in their productive power. Another such experience would be disastrous beyond all cal- culation. Our manufacturers have to face that pos- sibility. I do not put it as a probability, because 1 am not a pessimist and prefer to look at the bright side. It were useless, however, to blink the fact that in the industrial revolution now going on, brought about chiefly by American competition, there lurks a grave peril.” It is indeed a dire dilemma that confronts the Brit- ish manufacturer and workingman. It appears economic forces are already in operation which tend to break down the fabric of the mighty empire which until recently completely dominated the industrial and commercial world. Great Britain can keep on equal terms with all rivals in the machinery of armies and navies, but it will not be so easy to withstand the machines of peaceful industry that are beating her in the markets of commerce. —— Captain Carter, the convicted army officer who is re- sisting the sentence of his judges, must think that he can be as extravagant with his own time as he was with other people’s money. He would be wise to be- gin the payment of a debt that can’t be evaded. — THE NEXT SUNDAY CALL. l:The Call to be issued next Sunday will be by far the most attractive and the most interesting ever sent forth from the office of a Pacific Coast newspaper. No expense of time, energy or money has been spared to render the number beyond the reach of rivalry, and its appearance will mark the beginning of a new era in journalistic art in Cali- fornia. The illuminated covers have been designed by artists of the first rank and will be examples of the best work that lithography can do in the way of reproducing colors without exaggerating or losing any of the most delicate tones and values of the original. The contents of the number will be in harmony with the exquisite finish of the covers. There will be nothing freaky, gaudy or sensational, but all will be bright, entertaining and fitted for the holiday season in the homes of cultured families. Mark Twain contributes to the number a delight- ROM an artistic point of view the edition of | fully droll account of “My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It.” Ouida, whose name and whose writings have long been familiar to the lovers of romance, has | a story of “A Faithful Servant” which will add to her reputation as a writer of short stories of dramatic “The Record of My Wander-Year,” by Rev. Peter C. Yorke, will be found instructive as well as entertaining, while the description given of “Christmas in California Before the Gringo Came,” by Major Jose Ramon Pico, will have for all read- | ers an historic as well as a romantic interest by rea- son of the fact that it deals with a condition of life which has long since passed away, but the memory of which will be perpetuated from generation to generation in Californian song and story. Among the other literary features are to be a par- ticularly bright array oi Christmas stories and de- scriptive articles, including “Christmas of the Vete- rans,” “Christmas at the Farallones,” “The Fugi- tive’s Christmas,” “Christmas at Manila,” “The Story of a Haunted House,” “The Kiss of Ninito Dios” and “Found in the Snow,” by Mary E. Wilkins. To all who are in doubt what sort of gift to provide | for the Christmas season this edition of The Call will be invaluable, for in its columns will be found ad- vertisements setting forth all manner of attractive novelties or useful gifts and telling exactly where to obtain them. These features of the paper will not be the least interesting of its many attractions to the general public. It will be, in fact, a species of guide to the rich storehouses of Santa Claus in the city and can be studied with advantage and profit by all. —— “The shocking suicide of a crazed patient at the Receiving Hospital is another indication that death is a welcome visitor to the institution. It is small wonder that the doors are barred to a scrutinizing public. ——— THE MUNICIPALITIES CONVENTION. UT of the convention of Californian municipali- O ties which is to assemble in this city during the week there ought to come something more than discussion, though even that is likely to prove beneficial. On this coast we have lagged far behind the East in considering municipal problems and in devising means of municipal progress. It is no dis- credit to us that it should be so, for improvement in communities, like improvement in individuals, is de- pendent largely upon the existence of evils that force the improvement to be undertaken. Most Californian cities are comparatively young and have not reached the period of development which marks those of the East that have been most enterprising in the path of progress. While we have not felt the necessity for muni- cipal progress that has been noted in older communi- ties, it would none the less be wise for us to profit by their experience and adopt improved methods of municipal administration before we feel the worse effects of the evils from which they are now trying to escape. For that reason everything in the form of earnest discussion by men who have practical con- trol of municipal matters is to be commended. Much of the talk may be idle, but where serious men meet to consider practical problems there is very sure to be much of mutual benefit from the exchange of opinions. Every municipality in the State is to some extent secking to improve its conditions and solve some of the difficulties that attend the administration of cities. The officials of each have therefore acquired by ex- perience something of administrative wisdom from which others can learn. Moreover, there is much to be attained in the way of organizing for united work to bring about reforms or amendments in State laws affecting cities which have been found to be un- wisely devised. For all these reasons that portion of the people who have a proper regard for municipal issues will watch with no little interest the proceed- ings of the convention. The programme of discus- sicn has been well arranged, and the meeting will doubtlese prove profitable in many ways. e —— A local sneakthief who has escaped punishment after being arrested twenty-eight times wants to be adjudged insane. He probably thinks that the au- thorities are as good judges of sanity as they are of justice. Carl Becker, the prince of forgers, has at last found an occupation commensurate with his ability and perfectly safe to the community. He is writing uveair programmes at San Quentin prisony . ARE THEY WORTH THE PRICE? | | | | | | " i R e R B e S o 0 S S LT S g St. Louls Post-Dispatch. IMPROVEMENT CLUBS WORKING FOR SUCCESS Thank The Call for Its Encouragement and Declare They Are Banded Together for Victory. Editor The Call—Dear Sir: We thank you sincerely for your extensive report of our Monday night’s meeting. We also desire to express our sincere appreciation for your encouraging editorial in this morning’s issue and shall endeavor to fulfill the “promise to achieve great results for the public good” so we may always have with us the “sentiment of the whole progressive community.” As you well state, the various improvement clubs have ac- complished many notable successes in their special line of work, and now that they are banded together we shall surely be victor- ious, especially if, as you so justly exhort, “every progressive cit- izen will join in the work to make success certain.” Yours truly, PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS CENTRAL CLUB OF CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS. A. SBARORO, President. NAPH B. GREENSFELDER, Vice President. GUSTAVE SCHNEE, Secretary. San Francisco, December 6, 189q. PANIC N THE SAN FRANCISCO GAS MONOPOLY Wages Cut and Em- ployes Discharged. ]p\*ulnr competition in the future. he general opinion among business men seems to be that gas stock will be | dear as a gift as soon as the new com- pany starts into active operation. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | “PARSON OF JACKMAN'S GULCH". Anxious One, City. Two friends of this department bave kindly furnished the in- formation that “The Parson of Jackman's | Gulch” is J A. Conan Doyle and may be found in “My Friend the Murderer.” The thanks of this department for the infor- mation. CHRISTMAS PRESENT—Hasty, City. | If you have been working In an office about six months with another young lady | andyou think so much of her thatyou feel | ¥you ought to make her a Christmas pres- | ent, it would not be bad form for you to do so, unless you are actuated by a selfish motive. For instance, if the lady Is your superfor and Jon have known her but the | time named, {t might be taken in the na- ture of a bribe to induce her to grant you favers in the line of your duties. Only three motives move people to make pres- ents—love, appreciation and self-interest. HIS BEST GIRL—A Subscriber, City. It does not cost anything to be polite and any one of the male sex who pretends to have any respect for the other sex shou'd always ralse his hat on meeting a lady, even if she is ‘‘his best girl and they are both working in the same store.” A’ lady whose shoe has become unlaced would RETRENCHMENT NECESSARY The San Franelsco Gas Light Company Is having troubles of its own. First the Mayor succeeded in having the rate re- duced from $175 to $1 50 per thousand, which was something of a calamity in it- self, viewed from the standpoint of the stockholders in the concern, and then a new and powerful opposition sprang up which will soon enter the field, heretofore the almost exclusive property of the Gas Light Company, with unlimited financial backing to push it forward and the best business brains in the community to di- not ask a gentleman with whom she is walking to lace it for her unless by reason of physical disability she is un- able to step Into a doorway, stoop over and tle the lace. NINETY DAYS' RESIDENCE—A Sub- scriber, City. In North Dakota and in Oklahoma a ninety days’ residence is re- quired before an action for divorce can be commenced. COLUMBIAN HALF-DOLLAR-D. L., City. The selling price of a Columblan half-dollar of 1862 is from $125 to $150; that is, what you can purchase one for, #0 that gives you an idea of its value. A silver 5-cent plece of 1835 sells for from 40 to $ cents. AROUND THE CORRIDORS T. J. Fleld, the Monterey banker, is at the Palace with his wife. Dr. A. L. Hood of Big Oak Flat is at the Grand foy a short stay. R. H. Woolfall, a merchant of Japan, is registered at the Occidental. E. E. Bush, a prominent attorney of Hanford, 1s registered at the Lick. G. W. Henshaw, a lumber dealer of Portland, is at the Occidental. Postal Inspector Erwin returned last Sunday evening from a trip to the East. A. Wellheimer, a well-known business man of Fresno, Is staying at the Grand. George R. Beveridge, a wealthy frult man of Fresno, is a guest at the Occi- dental. J. Craig, proprietor of Highland Springs, is at the Grand, accompanied by his family. Mrs. U. 8. Grant Jr. arrived in this city yesterday and took apartments at the Palace. H. Braunschweiger is visiting his son and daughter, at present attending Stan- ford University. Dr. W. E. Gibbons, one of the leading medical men of Stockton, is registered for a short stay at the Grand. Pedro de Salsset, a wealthy coffee planter of Ban Jose, C. A., is registered at the Occidental, accompanied by his daughter. M. Sandeck!, a traveler from Austria, is among those who arrived in the city yesterday on the China steamer and went to the Palace. N. Blackstock, the Rallroad Commis- sloner, 18 among the recent arrivals at the Grand, where he registered yester- day from his home in Ventura. Mrs. H. G. Squires, wife of the First Secretary of the United States legation at Peking, Is registered at the Palace with her three daughters. She is on her way home to New York on a visit to her family. Chevaller de Wonters d'Oplinter, secre- tary of the German Embassy at Peking, 1s a guest at the Palace. He arrived on the America Maru yesterday and Is on his way home on a short vacation from his official duties. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Ford A. Hunter of San Francisco is at the Grand; M. ‘Willard of San Francisco s at the Plaza. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—George Stone of Saf Francisco, president of the Na- tional League of Republican Clubs, s In Washington to attend a meeting of the National Committee. He is at the Wil- lard. A. D. Wilson of Oakland is at the Ebbitt House. William Frank of San Francisco is at the Shoreham. Dr. J. 8. Brown of Los Angeles Is at the St. James. —_———— Cal. glace fruit §e per Ib at Townsend's.® i Mocha, Camella, Plstache for soires. 305 Larkin. } Special information supplied dally to business houses :nd public men b!l the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Maln 1042, * A Chinese Maiden's Revenge. Leong Pak, a Chinese merchant at 632 Jackson street, secured a warrant yester- # | day from Judge Graham for the arrest of Shoy Ho, a Ch malden, on the charge of grand lar y. He alleged that because he tired of Shoy Ho and wanted to get rid of her she left him, taking with her $422 worth of je ry. —_—— Beauty, Comfort, Safety. Not only does the Lackawanna Raflroad offer one of the most beautiful journeys in the United States, but It gives it with a greater degree of comfort than may be found on any other rallroad. Its locomotives all with appliances for burning anthra. and from journey's beginning to journey neither smoke nor einders molest the traveler Built as it is among the mountains it is bal- lasted with stone from which there s no dust. Rallroad experts who have traversed it conceds its roadbed to b second to none in the world, snd however long the journey, the traveler will feel neither jar nor jolt. Its ordinary coaches are bullt by the company,, and they are noted for their comfort and f-r their conveni- ences. The best equipment of the great sieep- ese |ing car companies may be found upon all through trains. The dining car service Is up to the standard maintained on the best American raflroads. Being double-tracked for its e length the danger of ordinary accidents Iy entirgly eliminated, and the careful watchful- nees constantly exercised by hundreds of em- ployes make even an extraordinary accident almost an impossibility. rect its course. The Gas Light Company might have been able to stand the reduction on its charges, but the competition of the Inde- pendent Electric Light and Power Com- pany promises to give the older concern a run for its patronage which will tax its financial strength to the utmost and the directors of the Gas Light Company have already decided to prepare for the struggle. With characteristic_selfishness they have decided to put the first burden of ‘retrenchment on the shoulders least able to bear It and have started a cut in the salaries of the emfloyes. which has reduced the remuneration of those poor unfortunates about one-half. At the last meeting of the board of di- rectors the subject of retrenchment came up and it was decided that, owing to the recent reduction in the charges and the powerful competition the company would soon be called upon to meet, something should be done to reduce the running ex- penses of the corporation. "‘Many plans were discussed, but the one of redudna the salaries of the various employes founs the most favor and was finally adopted. Consequent upon this action of the board the salary of the president. Joseph B. Crockett, was sliced from $15.000 a year to, report says, the sum of §7600, and fol- lowing him each employe of the company was fnrormed that hereafter he would be expected to do his work at about one- half the figure he had re\-louulr recelved, ‘The men to whom this reduction lpplled were the lucky ones, who because of the importance of their positions or for other reasons were considered valuable enough to_retain. The smaller fry, those who had no dig- nity of position or power of pull to plead for them, lost their heads entirely. They were informed that their services were no longer required, and the consequence {s | that 2 number of men who imagined that they had secure places are now walking nround looking for something to do. ‘When seen yesterday Mr. Crockett and some of the directors admitted that a great reduction of salaries had taken lace, but the exact sizes of the glece; that gnd been sliced off they would not say. The report of the street, however, gives cne-half as the correct amount. Mr. Crockett said the step had been taken with the idea of numm‘, the con- cern on a pnimg commercial basis con- ;Ia‘t’e;n“vl(?dt Bipey n;de:;lo( ghln s that ad followed on the reduction by the cit O fact of e matter is th zyvn % e fact of the matter is tha ile new $1 50 rate has much to do with it, ‘y%? the advent of the Independent Electric Light and Power Company has caused the gas people to look to themselves, and as a director admitted yesterday, the sal- ary cutting looks very much like first move in the tree-climbing proces: Such has been the effect of the on- position company’s entrance into the field of business and the confidence of the pes. rle in the man who is backing it rhn ready to deliver its hough it will not be til next June the price of gas tese AN INNOVATION IN A composite phot: of the Madonna. ture of the age. ph Mark Twain, FOUND IN THE SNOW, by Yorke. CHRISTMAS AT THE FAR- ALLONES. THE COUNTRY CHOIR. goods w stock has dropped from 1 this on mammbmmg!mm The Sunday Call’s GREAT CHRISTMAS ISSUE CHARACTER AND QUALITY. Note the Great Features: KITCHELL'S MARVELOUS MADONNA. he most strikingly beautiful pice MY FIRST LIE AND HOW | GOT OUT OF IT, by THE LEAGUE OF TEN, by Madge Morris Wagner. A FAITHFUL SERVANT, by Ouida. THE KISS OF NINITO DIOS, by Hester M. Stowe. CHRISTMAS IN CALIFORNIA BEFORE THE GRINGOS CAME, by Major Jose Ramon Pico. THE RECORD OF MY ' "WANDER-YEAR" CHRISTMAS OF THE VET- | THE FUGITIVE'S CHRIST- ERAI MAS. CHILDREN'S GAMES FOR CHRISTMAS, se nor time has bee: e e Sunday. call. December 17 will e tha'd o most artistic and Interesting Christ- > mas Issue In Am-rica. Out December 17. of the famous beauty types Mary E. Wilkins, by Father STORY OF A HAUNTED HOUSE. CHRISTMAS AT MANILA.