The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1900, Page 6

T HE SAN FRAN CISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1900, Proprietor. LEAKE MANAGER Y Telephon . .Market and Third, Press 201. PUBLICATION OFFIC Teleph Stevensom St. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ... Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. ien, 5 Cents. Terms b Including Postaze: - AILY CALL ¥), one year. $6.9° r day), § months = day). 3 months By 4 Y masters are authorized to receive eriptions. One Year jed when requested change of address should be D OLD ADDRESS !n order s i ser = S < OPPOsitic 0 s a singular spectacle > for th re ed by their inter- e XN ven exhibit ch evidences that 1t ing on the e of the It or of the country that men of e and Caffery of pol ve not out period MOROCCCO AND OURSELVES, untry is without a single dissent g President in \ an American in from Morocco re- urder of is worth while to remember grant redress to Italy ians by lynch law in this requires that we should give the one case as in the other. ngress the President, after re of the Italians by a mob and the to bring the guilty parties to jus- “I renew the urgent recommendations | t year that Congress appropriately conier vpon the Federal courts jurisdiction in this class of is message to C g case: where the ultimate responsibility ent may be invoived, and I bills to accomplish this which the Senate and the House.” Con- subject, the President added: erated in a great and civil- United States; courts, e the penalties of the law. Goverr t be tc he not The c order, the right of discussion, urts and the orderly administra- ntinue forever the rock Governinent securely rests.” se a good claim for redress from E i, a naturalized citizen oi s murdered at Fez last June, and as the Government of Morocco made no effort to pun- es or to offer any reparation for rament has a just right to demand redress and indemnity. We are powerful enough to send warships to Morocco and compel compliance with our demands. Why should not our Government ve an equal power to compel redress for murder of alien done by Iynch law in any portion of its own territory? of We have Morocco. this country, w ne, our Goves I It is certainly clear from the developments of the past year that something will have to be done to ar- rest the tendency toward exercise of lynch law in va- rious parts of the United States. The Federal cou-is » course could not interfere, except, as the President in cases where the lynching affects int national obligations, but even when confined to such cases one or two examples of the punishment of lynch- points ou ers would have a wholesome effect upon the public | nd This feature of the President’s message should not be overlooked in the pressure of material interests beiore Congress and the country. In fact, the very cfforts we are now making to obtain redress from semi-barbarous countries like Morocco and Turkey [ ought to have the effect of rousing American senti- | ment against that relic of barbarism and savagery which exists among us in the form of lynching. A CALIFORNIA CROPS. P to this time California has hardly her fair l share of the benefits that follow the establish- ment of the Agricultural Department in the National Governmen:. Beginning at the Atlantic coast and extending us far west as the ninety-ninth meridian, the seasons and the processes which pro- duce crops have such features in common that the investigations, conclusions, information and advice of i 4 | the department m area From that line westwardly, howeve rly apply to all parts of that differentiation Soils and seasons change. e need of irri- gation introduces different methods of farming. When the Sierra Nevada Mountains are crossed the change of process and physical conditions is as complete as if a new continent had been entered. Isothermal lines are found allying our climate with that of the tropics while at the same time our productions are semi- 1 and north temperate zone. It the flora of widely divided regions flourish here begins tropic is found that The camphor tree of Formosa and the cinnamon and p mento of Ceylon the rubber tree of the tropics, the ginger vine of Asia, the licorice plant oi Spain, the melons of Arabia, the dates of the Sahara, the figs of Greece, all grow under the same sun and in the same with the grapes of Valencia and the Ionian Isles and the citrus fruits of Sicily. Alongside of these of our own continent, Norway and the Black and the root crops oi France, Asia and Sweden. s readily seen cxotics we produce the cereal and t ¢ of the British Isles, hat the arts of agriculture and alture are quite different in their practice here irom the region lying eastward of us. Seedtime and Larvest, the pruning and cultivation of our ors and sreparation and marketing of their pro are h ns and processes for which E rience furnishes us no guide Ir cur rural industries find i stern expe- ymigrants who come to vs to embark in any of t necessary to unlearn all same industries elsewhere and ap- es to learning the things made necessary know of the ply them ey by our different physical conditions It will be rcadi en that if the Agricultural De- partment appreciate this difference in processes and conditions its Year Book may be made the medium informati great to California The intending immigrant, with access to that publi- of specifi n of va e cation. may be informed in advance oi-the novel con- and will come with his eyes ledge, which ditions he will find her and equipped will prevent many I its resources to a study of help our already established agriculturists and horti- open vith acquired know farlures nd disappointments. partment, by devotion of alifornia conditions. will addition to this the d culturists has here a distinct Vegetable physiology individuality, and the vegetable pathologists of the department will find in Californi new field The enemies of all vegetable life, from fungi are here peculiar, W for study. 1 1sect individual and disti: Remedies that apply to them maust be as special We the liability to diseases that have 1 ations. recognize in man climatic origin A study of the inter- mittent fevers which are endemic in parts of the Mis- ssippi Va ellow fevers, cal and semi- throws no light on the y f the tre mi o and other epi tropical regions All th Agricul of siderations impressed the Secre- t of luring his visit here two years ago, and in his current recommendations to Con- sked for to main- asks for a special appropriations his department. he pent in giving sy attention 1 character of the rural n gress. tain the work of carrying appropriation to be c te he highly individu tries of Cal ornia We desire to call this matter to the attention of our Whil sight to be a local interest. y members of Congress. seem at first Cali nia has become the leading producer and purveyor of eral as to fall far beyond our ¢ fruit products for all of this country and a consider- able part of Europe. The Southern States produce the cotton which keeps the weavers of Lancashire busy and clothes three-quaiters of the population of the planet. Official attention to such an important pro- duction is not in the interest of the producer alone, ! but serves also the far distant weaver and the more istant consumer. Precisely so is it with our rural in dustries in California, and when they get their share { al attention and assistance their production, transmutation and exchange are all benefited. The State will be thankful to Secretary Wilson for his good intentions in the matter, and will look to our members of Congress to supply the means to make of o them effective O ally killed we cannot state with accuracy, for we have mislaid our tally sheet, but evident the full number of his lives has not been exhausted, for we learn from our York THE CAT COMES BACK. F David Bennett Hill it may be ¢aid that, like t, he has nine | Just how many tin c es. e has been politi New ex- changes that he has zome ba The reason for Hill's return to activity at this time is the fight the reformers have started against Croker. t is stated that Hill's friends in New York City will cordially support the 1eform committee of fifteen and do all in their power to advance the anti movement k to politics. ammany Their efforts, however, will be directed rot so much against Tammany itself as against the The New York Post says: “They are alread working in several Assembly districts to stir up a re- volt against Croker rule, and they will join heartily 4n any movement that promises the downfall of the boss* of Tammany Hall. Whether they will try to form another Democratic organization in the city has not yet been determined. Just now they believe that co-operation with a citizens’ movement is the best means of accomplishing the purpose they have 1 view, but later it may be decided that another organi- zation should be formed.” . According to some authorities Hill is after big stakes. He is fighting not only to revenge the wrongs of the past, but to prepare a way for future glory. Once more aspirations for the Presidency have re- vived in his breast, and he believes the defeat of Bryan has given him an opportunity to gratify that ambition. To achieve his desire he must have the support of New York Democracy, but he cannot get that so long as Croker rules Tammany. Hence Mr. Hill has be- come a fierce reformer and has taken to the warpath with tomahawk and scalping-knife. Ii there be any foundation for these reports the question of the reorganization of Democracy is to be tzken out of the domain of idle discussion and con- verted into something like a scrapping match. The first round in the contest will be the attempt to over- throw Croker’s domination in New York. and then, if that be successful, there will follow the effort to or- | ganize New York City Democracy under a different leadership from that of Tammany. Each of thess contests will be among the liveliest of the coming | year and will start the new century on a red-hot career. Not the least interesting feature of the reports is ‘ the announcement that Hill is to “make the fight in boss ! the open.” Tt is well known that as a rule the sage | of Woliert's Roost has made his fights indirectly-and | has preferred to put some one else to the front whi | he remained in the rear and directed the onset. This time he has come to the conclusion that he has noth- :ing to gain by indirection and nothing to lose by | straight fighting. Ever since Croker turned him | down at the Kansas City convention he has been | known as a victim of the boss, and has therefore no | reason for any longer hiding in the bush. Such are the reports that come from the metropoli: While the city election is still distant, the various ele- | ments of the people are rapidly aligning themselves | for the fray, and if Hill intends to take a leading part | in the reform movement we shall soon learn it. Should | he do so it will prove an event of no little interest, for it would mean a new development in Democracy that | | would be of national importance. | | i | UT of the discussion now going on in Great ! SALISBURY’S CABINZT. Britain over the new Cabinet formed by Lord | O Salisbury there is coming a good deal of infor- | mation that will be new to most Americans. It ap- | pears, for example, that there is no such thing known } to the British constitution as the office of Prime | inister, and yet it is for the performance of the | duties of such office that Salisbury has recently ac- 5 | cepted a y. Shortly after the reconstruction of the Cabinet the ! | Court Circular, an official journal, spoke of “the | office of Prime Minister,” and the London Law Times directed attention to the incident as the first of | its kind on record. Then Mr. Campbell-Bannerman, | speaking at Dundee, referred to the office of Prime AMinister, whereupon the Westminster Gazette, in re- | buking him: for the use of the term, said: “This is | a great departure from the tradition of the days of Walpole, when the peers embodied a protest against the use of the phrase, ‘Sole or first Minister, an oi- ficer unknown to the constitution.” At a later day | Lord North always refused to be called Prime Minis- i ter, even in private. And it has remained for the and this constitutiohal Government to give official sanction te a phrase which was so odious present age to the Tories of an carlier generation.” The assumption of the unconstitutional office is however, the least of the innovations made by Salis- bury. In addition to that offense he has arbitrarily | increased to twenty the number of the members oi the Cabinet, and has appointed members of his own family to three of the highest offices in it. So large a Cabinet has naturaily cxcited the distrust of a peo ple so conservative the British, and it is said that ‘ even among members of his own party the action has ized. As for the appointment of | so many of his own relatives to office, the public condemnation has not been as severe as would have | followed had any such action been committed in' this | wountry, but still it will be remembered that on the | opening of Parliament Lord Rosebery sarcastical been severely criti congratulated £ in his family. isbury on having so many statesmen | Summing up the general objection writer in the Fortnightly The Cabinet has become a mob, and when the num- ber of its members has reached twenty it would be better if it were suppressed It could not be a gov- | It should not if it could. Concentration, not diffusion, of personal responsibil- ity is the vital condition of exccutive efficiency. In | a Cabinet of twenty we have obviously an institution to Salisbury’s | Review says: action. a erning body if it would which has ceased to be an active organ of the body but the vague tradition of a responsibili which it no longer possesses, serves the most mis- chievous purpose possible by concealing from the a tention of the nation the real depasitaries of politic 1preme To say that there is a Cabinet within the Cabinet merely means that Lord Salisbury can con- | sult whom he likes, and that it is incumbent upon him to consult nobody. When three members of his fam- | power ily are among his colleagues, the only ‘inner Cabinet’ that is inevitable is one which perverts the first prin- ciples of sound politics.” Of course a matter of this | nd is only a minor is- ge the atten tion and tax the thoughts of the British people. It is one of the little things, however, that are likely to have consequences, and Salisbury may yet have occa- sue in the stirring affairs that now enga sion to regret that he permitted himself such a lar | liberty of action when he reorganized his Cabinet. | The Colombian rebels are becoming objects of ac- | tual concern. As long as they fired at one another | they were engaged in a pastime to which no reason able person could abject. But now they are attacking | outsiders and are Jikely to learn that war is not a ‘ fcol's game The opening session of Parliament demonstrated that whatever else may be said of Secretary Chamber- lain, he is no coward A nman who can with impunity meet the attack of the most brilliant men in the Com- | | mons should have the portiolio of war as well as of the | colonies | — Inspired by the very essence of courtesy, the author- ities of Seattle have | mer to the Canadian | officials. If the gentiemen want to borrow any more | they should not forget that we have San Quentin and aned a pri will not only lend a few but give them away. Money seems to know neither nationa triotism. ity nor pa- One of the freaks of immigration intended | for New York is a colony of Boer sejtlers, driven | | from their homes by British guns and supported in | | founding their new home by British gold. The favorite aid de camp of the Shah of Persia has crossed the seas to inspect our institutions and criti- | cize our civilization. It is to be hoped that he will not make the same atrocious show of himself to us as did his royal master to the Parisians. The authorities at Victoria have canceled, on the | ground of fraud, the applications of 3000 Japanese for citizenship and naturalization. The little brown men should have remembered that meekness is the badge | of deceit as well as of. docility R e Paul Kruger has decided that he will make no further effort to secure the intervention of Europe. When a fellow discovers that his friends have trou- bles of their own he generally keeps the story of his own to himself. — 1i the nihilistic scoundrel who threw a bomb into a Harvard auditorium were caught he might have serious cause to remember what -a liberty-possessing people think of the criminal license of his creed. Lord Salisbury has declared that the people of South Africa may not he given power of éeli-govern- ment for generations. The Premier must believe in leaving a heritage of war to the British nation. The Seattle murderer who annihilated almost an entire family now weeps bitterly and long in jail. He is probably sorsy that he did not have time enough to kill the rest of his intended victims. SOLDIERS MAY SOON New Head Dress Will En- able Them to Accom- plish a Paradox. UNIVERSAL head-dress for the army is the ingenious conception of an Englishman, who claims for it the advantages of being hoth useful and ornamental, inasmuch the foundation consists of two separate sna essential articles built of aluminum, and so constructed as to form an efficient head-dress. In order to carry out the idea of useful- combined with ornamentation, the the knife, fork and spoon, and shaving brush—marked A, B, C and D in our illustration—for fusilier battalions, as a reccmpense for the deprivation of the bezrskin. On the foreign service, more- over, the soldler can vse his towel as a puggaree. Among the further advantages which this helmet affords the soldler is that a considerable portion of the weight Is transferred from his back to his head. The letters R anG L are intended as a zuide to young officers giving the com- mend. “Right” or “Left,”” while F and B (behind) are a means of knowing the front mental badge cr helmet plate is re- LIVE IN THEIR HATS or back of the company without appeal- ing to the color sergeant. E is the razor strop, while the helmet itself is divided intc two portions marked F and G, signifying respectively upper canteen, wash basin. PRUNES 'FEEDS mas Jacob of Visalia, who is tion, has found one way both observes and experiment in feeding horses. of prune repife 1 do. in about the same quantity quarts at a feed, the horses preferri corn. el el 'PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. J. E. Cohn and wife of Napa are at the Grand. Milton McWhirter, a Kern County OH‘ ! man, is at the Grand. Rev. A. A. Morrison and wife of Port- land are at the Occidental. Jonathan C. Royle and wife of Salt Lake City are at the Occidental. Mrs. Scott McKeon registered from Los Angeles at the Palace yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman and son of Syd- ney. Australia, are at the Palac Peter Engel, a Marysville jeweler, was among yesterday's arrivals at the Lick W. G. Irwin, millionaire Honolulu plan- ter, who, with his family, have been ab- sent from their island home for more than a year, spending part of the time here and part in foreign travel, returns to Honolulu to-day on the new steamsh Sierra. Mr. Irwin's family will remain in San Francisco and the children will at- tend school here. The family will join Mr. Irwin next May. and in October all will return to San Francisco to perma- nently oc the palatial residence which Mr. Irwin is now having built in this city. L3 g + | FASHION EINT FROM PARIS [ : 1 ! ', [ | : | | | 1 i i | | | | ; ' i BLUE SERGE COSTUME. This costume, for morning outdoor wear, is of navy blue serge. The skirt fastens behind beneath three wide pleat jacket, which barely reaches the pointed in front and ornamented with ol silver buttons. The coliar, yoke jacket are embroidered with black braid. —————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. VOTE IN INDIANA—P. R. B., Pacheco, Ca Indiana in 1596 was 323,754, that of Bryan was 305,573, of Palmer 2145, of Levering 3006, of Bradley 2267 and of Matchett 324. WAR WITH SPAIN—P., City. The Re- publican and the Democratic vote for war with Spain in Congress was as follows: Senate, 20 Republicans for, 17 against; 33 Democrats for, 1 against. 'In the House, 138 Republicans for, 8 against; 108 Demo- crats for, 18 against. BREATHING AIR—K. W. G, City. In common life, at the easy average of eight- een to twenty inspirations a minute,.an ordinary man will inhale and exhaie a bulk of air amounting to about 4000 gailons in_twenty-four hours. If undergoing vio- lent exertion, he would require much more than that. MARRIAGE LICENSE—J. B. City. / of disposing of smail and unmarketable Mr. Jacob is a practical and experienced and what he has to say is worth listening to. It has been ascertained that small prunes can be profitably fed to ho, Mr. Jacob has demonstrated that they form an admirable substitute for bar- sked by a Mercury representative, Do vou think the small sizes bove 12, are worth more than $10 a ton for any purpose?®” We have fed them to horses for three scasons, feeding once as The popular vote for McKinley in | TO HIS HORSES. a director of the California Cured Fruit fruit grower, one who and he if feeding grain ng them to bar! about four or five or rolled Egyptian efeepeleriele ootttk @ They do equally as well as when fed upon graln alone, and I would prefer to use my small prunes in feeding horses than to seil them at $10 a ton. I consider them as valuable a feed for horses as I do barley at from < $1S to §20 per ton. 7 “I believe If the fruit growers would make a trial of using their small prunes in this way that they would get very satisfactory results and would . be better satisfied than they would in taking the prices they could realize E for them in the market. Bk “I think it would be better in using prunes for feed to have them passed through a roller which would crush the seeds. I think I have given tb ; prune a fair trial for this purpose during a period of three years, and ca + confidently state that 1 have found it equal, pound for pound, to barley as < a food."—San Jose Mercury. ) 4 - Ao ettt @ | & conditlon precedert to obtaining a mar- | riage license. “John Smith,” whose legal | residence is 8an Francisco, can fo to any | part of the State and obtain a license to | marry, but the license is valid onl | county in which it is issued. MOUNTAINS—J. M. F.,, Taylor, Cal | The longest range of mountains in the | world is the Andes. The two highest in the mountains in the world are Mt. Hercules | in the Stanley Range in the southeastern part of New Guinea, 32,7% feet, and Mt. Yverest. in the Himalaya Range, Asia, 29,002 feet. ’ A COMMA-T. E. W, City. Many rules ve been laid down for the use of the in writing. Probably the best is efore and after a word of phrase to associate it with the group to which it belongs, if, without the comma, the sentence would be equivocal; and gen- erally a comma may be Inserted wherever its use will prevent ambiguity. TO ASK A VOTE —Subscriber, Bishop, 1. At the election held on the 6th of ovember, 190, if 1 voter was properly registered the only questions the hoard of election officers in the precinet at which he offered his vote would ask would be his name and his residence. 1f challenged the questions would depend on the nature of the challenge. WOOD AND COAL—Subscriber, Oak- land. Cal. Wood is the least efficient of the combustibles on account of the great amount of water it contains that must be converted into steam, while coal is the most efficient. Dry wood, when burned, evglves, on an average, 2600 heat unit and bituminous coal an average of 7500 heat units. GENERAL MEAGHER—N. S, General Thomas Francis Meagher was not made “a full citizen of the United States within thirty-six hours after landing in New York from Ireland.” In the first place, the general did not land in New rk from Ireland, and in the second place. he could not. under the nat rali tion laws. have become a_ eltizen within that time. The party with whom you have had a contention probably means that the general declared his infention to become a citizen of the United States within_thirty-six hours after landing in New York City, in May, 1852, from Tas- mania. HOOSE IN CATTLE—W. lofs, Or. Hoose Is a disease f attle, especially in by a husky cough, I of appetite, dry muzzle, rough coat and staring, quick- ened respiration. the horns hot, but the ears. nose and eyes cold and bowels con- stipated. It is caused by the filling of the bronchial tubes and air passages with hair-like white worms, the eggs of which 2re found on the grass in damp pastures. | The following is the Farmer's Encyclope- dia remedy for the hoose: tine, 1 ounce: linseed oil. 3 to 1 ounces: and powdered ginger, 1 dram. Mix: repeat at intervals of a week, as often as may be necessar 3 sident to or mug, and lower canteen, or | City. | P. B.. Lang- | Ives, characterized | ““Oil of turpen. | EDITORIAL UTTERANCE . IN VARIETY | Taxes on Spirits. The tax>s on spirits, fermented Nquors | ani tobacco are the mainstay of the | Government. They furnish more revenue | than the customs duties do, while the cost of collection is much less. " . these HICAC Given by the Constitution. The argument that the power should not | be given to one man to enlarge th | is met by the fact that the Preside | ways has supreme power over the | This power is given him by the « | tion, and he Is. therefore, made t of the military needs of BALTIMORE AMERICAN Creed Revision. | _The agitaticn for creed | Presbyterian church has b. for many years, but has n midable proportions until army | | | | advogates of revision had P pose they would dcubtless succeed at early day and probably In the ne: | eral” Assembly, but as the frien vision are widely divergent in th | and purposes, the agitation prom! | continue for some years to come. | LAS NEWS. | Two-Minute Trotter. | Mr. Seannell has made up his mind that The Abbot shall trot in two minutes 191, provided that the most careful and thorough preparation and the most lavisa expenditure can bring about that triumph. | One thing is certain. If Mr. Scannell's | horze trots a mile in two minutes Mr Scannell's name will go spinning down the | corridors of time as the owner of The Ab- bot, and not as the New York Fire Com missioner, the Tammany chieftain and ths president’ of the Seneca Club.—NEW YORK TRIBUNE. Canteen in the Senate. Most of those who voted to abolish the ises t DAL- canteen undoubtedly did so in the belief that th: Senate the p | hibitory clause. e. rea in the interest of gance b nomirally on accou 1e Senate’s ob- stinacy, will rece from its positior »f the utility of the canteen as f temperance Te The great majorit it and nine-tenths it.—CHICAGO For moter The Power of Congress. We believe that Congress should be re- spected and that the people sho s pulously guard that its pFerogatiy should not be Infringed upon in any qua | ter. They should insist upon its hold its full power in the government, and, in order that there may be no temptation t take away any of this power, they shou careful that nome but t are elected to membership. really tne safe of the republican form of government.— BOSTON HERALD Perils of Prosperity. President McKinley's warning to Con- gress to beware of the temptations to & travagance offe by great prosperit growing power and a _full treasury timely and necessary. says, will strengthen mote legitimate commercial expansion is to be hoped that words of caution may not fall upon ears already deafened by the clamor of the hungry horde of lob- byists, privilege seeking syndicates and corporate cormorants that has swooped down upon Washington to divide the spoils of prosperity. —PHILADELPHIA NORTH AMERICAN. Not a Just Parallel. It is true that one of the horrors of wa is the theft and rapine carried on by ir- sible camp followers, which ma !1f all the more necessary that comma ders shall not authorize an unneces: increase of these horrors. But the as tion that Sheridan and Sherman did w reported from South Africa and Chir a libel on them. Sheridan’s famous dis patch to Grant told of the destruction supplies in a district which had not once the but a half score. times furnished means for a Confederate advance threaten Washington; but Sheridan not authorize the turning of Southern w men and children of doors ber their husbands and sons persisted in ing. Sherman the tearing foraging_for supplies he aid not authorize the burning of tho homes of non-combatants or the shooting of prisoners.—PITTSBURG DISPATCH —_—e——— Chofce candies. Townsend's Paiace e T Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —_———— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50e a pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel bullding. * ——— Spectal information supplied daily busizess houses and public men by the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 o | et i telephone Main 1043 Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. Exhibiticn closes and last conce: place this (Thursday) evening e e The diamond tooth creasing and a New York dentist declares he simply piled up orders during his stay in the ¥rench capital. ———————— IT WAS THE ROUTE IN 49! It Is the Route To-Day, and Will Ba For All Time to Come. Ladles and children traveling without es appreciate the advantage of a solld vestiby train like “The Overland Limited” runni through from San Franclseo to Chicago, out change, IN LESS THAN THRE L Central Pacifie, | Northwestern raflwaye. rallroads and with. Union P poisonous domestic | GERT'S Angostura Bitters, | American tonic. the great Soun X W*-Qw*@i%i@*@fié PR S S S SN S SN S S e P the world of letters. glan Actress.” which was { | | the best novels of the season. hardly rivaled, and vet the dramatic the United States. plot with just enough color, dash and of her own State. “Captain Shrimp” is the #itle of Edith Sessions Tupper; “Jeanne's Vv O THATATAT AT AT AT AT AT R < The name of this author now ranks among those of the leading literary lights in the field of fiction. Her book, “A Geor- ublished this year, has justly been considered one of Her stories possess a refined delicacy of touch that is terest is so well sustained that the read- er’s attention is won from cover to cover Miss Mackie has written a Christmas short story exclusively for the Christmas Call. Tt will appear in no other paper in The author has taken for her scene the good old pligrim days of Miles Standish and has woven a love venture to make it altogether charming. As Miss Mackie s now making California her home and is at present a resident of Berkeley, 1t is only right that her best work should be offered first to the people story, which will appear in the Christmes Call on December 16 is the best short story of its kind which has appeared this season. Here are a few of the other excellent stories which will be a feature of the Tstmln Call. all of them by well-known writers ing.” by John Strange Winter; “A Shot in Time. “An Angel Unawares,” by Marion Harland: by Justin McCarthy: by Mme. Sophia Bomiplani; “Christmas in the Fatherland,” by Count o Andrew Bernstaff; “Christmas in the Sagebrush,” by Isabel Darling. S ATHATS AT AT AT @ Palling Bradford Magkic to Write » for the Christmag Car AULINE BRADFORD MACKIE has written for the Christmas Call a short story that will be remem- bered—one that will add greatly to the already high position she occuples in * * S g———— -4 in- - A B ad- ST B = Q » It ( A k. Read it. oto by her ™ * “A Little Empty Stock- »- by General Charles King; ) Jack Redmond's Treasure,” by Nicholas.” by Jessie Juliet “Christmas Day In isit to ¢ Residence In the State of California is not BT HTHT AT R RT RN QRO OR DR TSOETSIIEIDYTQ