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T i Grand Opera-house—*‘Alda."® California—*Yon Yonson.” Tivoli—"The Geisha.™ Central—*Siberia."” Aloazar—*"We 'Uns of Tennessee/® Columbia—*‘One the Quiet.’” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Chutes, Zoo snd Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evering. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Osakland Ractrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. Br Wm. C. Leyng—Tuesday evening, December 3, at 7:i5 o’clock, Thoroughbred Horses, at 721 Howard street. = : INDUSTRIAL OONTESTS. rain, and ITH Thanksgiving there came a bountiful \[\/ le most of our people would have preferred to have it on some other day the holiday, yet all will recognize it was some- thing to give thanks for. Showers at this season mean 2 good deal for all classes of people. They prepare the way fog the prosperity that is to come, and we can well afford to sacrifice a race or a foot- ball match once in a while for the sake of a genuine downpour of showers in all parts of the State. The prosperity that prevails in the United States, and particularly that enjoyed in California, can hard- ly be understood in full measure unless note is taken of the contrast presented by the conditions of the peoples of Europe, not to speak of those in other parts of the world. Reports from those countries are full of accounts of bad times now and forebodings of worse to come. We with our present and pros- pective blessings are unquestionably the most for- tunate of the dwellers on the earth. Great Britain is worn by a wearisome and vex- atious guerrilla war which costs enormously, and which may last for a year to come, or perhaps even for a longer time. By reason of that wag her peo- ple are burdened with taxation heavierafilan ever, and with an, increase of public debt at a juncture when advancing rivalry in industry and trade menaces many of her manufacturers and merchants with ruin. So far from being able to find easy markets in other countries for their goods, the British now perceive their own markets invaded, and thousands of their workingmen threatened with a loss of employment. Among the Germans affairs industrially are per- haps even worse than in Great Britain, though they have no war upon their hands to waste their earn- ings and to increase their debts and their taxes. It is stated that something like a collapse has fallen upon the industry of the empire. A similar situa- tion is found in Austria. So serious has become the demand for employment among the workingmen that the Government has been forced to undertake an extensive system of internal improvements in order to provide work for those who néed it. The work, liowever, cannot be started at once, and a recent re- port from Vienna says the industrial situation is ex- tremely unsatisfactory, and the number of the un- employed is rapidly increasing. Worst of all is the situation in Russia. In that country it is becoming apparent that .the famine which affects so many populous districts is to be much worse than was expected by the Government, and the preparations made for the relief of the peo- ple will be found insufficient. A recent St. Peters- burg dispatch says: than The reports from many provinces show the dry au- tumn has disastrously affected the new sowing. From Tomsk, West Siberia, are reported local crop fallures and a flight of the peasants back to European Russia. The assignment of money (15000 rubles)-and grain is declared to be insufficient, and the hungry peasants have been driven to robbery and even murder. Deeds of violence are declared to be of daily occurrence. Such is the condition that prevails throfighout northern Europe from Great Britain .to Russia. Southern Europe fares little better. In no other land is there for labor or for capital such good con- RIGHTS OF SCHOOL TEACHERS. C OMMENTING upon the decision of the Su- perior Court in the Dwyer case, one of our cvening contemporaries declares it amounts to a decision that the School Board has no right to interfere in a quarrel between teachers, and adds: *Should the Supreme Court, if the matter be finally referred to that tribunal, sustain the attitude of the lower court, every contentious teacher in the depart- ment would enjoy a free rein to vent his or her spleen on those with whom he or she was unable to agree, without incurring the risk of punishment from the Board of Directors, who employ and pay teachers their salaries.” That statement of the decision is not accurate, and the conclusions drawn from it are utterly er- roneous. The Dwyer case arose out of a controversy in which one school teacher was charged with slap- ping another teacher in the face. The only point decided by the court is that a single display of tem- per on the part of a teacher does not constitute “in- competency, unprofessional or immoral conduct,” nor is it a violation of the rules of the Board of Education as provided for in section 1793 of the Political Code. It is not contended that a display of temper on the part of a teacher in the presence of her pupils or otherwise may not be a cause of a reprimand from the Board of Education, nor is it ‘contended that fre- quent and repeated :displays of temper might not so impair the usefulness of a teacher as to render her unfit to teach, and thus liable to dismissal; but it is contended that a single display of temper is not a statutory ground for dismissal, and that was the only point involved in the Dwyer case. Our contemporary in its eagerness to make a point against the court and against the school teachers goes so.far-as to say:- “A large commercial house—and the Board of Education is purely a business organi- zation—if properly conducted demands harmony among its employes and unflinching loyalty to those in charge. A clerk or bookkeeper whose private life reflects dishonor on his employers or whose office behavior breeds discord and contention among his associates is often dismissed’ without trial or investi- gation. And so it should be in the management of the school department. -The School Board should have full authority to remove at any time it sees fit those whose behavior is in conflict with the rules of the department.” Should such a policy be adopted the spoils system would be set up in the School Department in its worst forgi. The department is not private business but publig business. It must be conducted not ac- cording to personal whim and caprice, but accord- ing to law, A bookkeeper of a private firm, as our contemporary says, may be dismissed by his em- ployer without trial or investigation, though it would be an unfair employer who would do it; but our school teachers are fortunately not subject to such arbitrary removal. Weére it otherwise the positions and the salaries of the department would be the prey of politicians, and no teacher would be securd from unjust removal at any time. Clerks and other employes in the various branches of the city government hold their office under civil service regulations, and can be removed only when good cause for the removal has been shown. Yet our contemporary would rcb ‘the public school teachers of the independent tenure of office they now enjoy, and would reduce them to a condition of something like servility to politicians; for that would surely be the result if their tenure of office were made dependent upon the pleasure of the Board of Edu- cation. Even with the safeguards which have been thrown around the teachers’ tentire of office by the law and by the decision of the Supreme Court in the Ken- nedy case, the position is still far from being one of security. It has frequently been the case that the trial of a teacher by the board has not been a full and fair hearing of all the evidence relating to the accusations, but simply a form which the board has gone through for the purpose of registering against the teacher a decision which has been already agreed upon in secret caucus. The law cannot too carefully guard the indepen- dence JF the teachers of the public schools, and it isegratifying to nete that the decision in the Dwyer case, like that in the Kennedy case, is a proof that the courts recognize that the intention of the law is to secure that independence, and construe it accord- inglys The Conservative recommends that the “regener- ated Democracy” of New York support for President in 1904 Charles S. Fairchild, formerly Secretary of the Treasury, and should the recommendation be followed Senator Jones’ desire for an “obscure candidate” would have a chance to be realized. TALES . OF TWO FAMILIES. ECENT news reports have brought to light R tales of two families which taken as they ap- pear in the reports show striking contrasts of human nature. One of these tells of a woman who served as a nurse and governess for the Roosevelts, and the other of a woman who held a similar posi- tion in the family of John D. Rockefeller, the Stan- dard Oil magnate. Their contrast is sufficiently not- able to merit at least a passing comment. The Roosevelt story comes from' New York and is to the effect that when in that city recently the President called at a flat where an old family servant is lying ill. His call was due to concern felt fo- the woman who had been the nurse of his children and of the mother before them, .She has not been in any way neglected by the President. His call was not one of condolence merely. The old servant is under-the care of skillful and careful nurses whose services are paid for by the President. He and his wife, however, have not been content to employ others to look after the woman who has so long been in their service. Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt have called upon her whenever they have had an opportunity to do so, and even the business engagements of the Presidency have not been per- ditions now or such bright prospects for the imme- diate future as prevail here. Between our situation and that of any other people there is a sharp con- trast. We have only to look abroad to see how much we have to be thankful for at home. An American correspondent who has been looking over affaits in South Africa says the outer world knows nothing of the situation there because both the British and the Boers have been lying; but he ad- mits thete is a good deal of ruction in-the country, so there must be some truth in what we have heard. From the way in which peeresses and the rich American women in London are buying gems for the coronation spectacular display, it looks as if the diamond trade would have 2 boom worth talking about. mitted to prevent them from finding such oppor- tunity. : The Rockefeller story is local. There was recent- ly taken to the Central Hospital in this city a woman eighty years of age, suffering from a fractured hip, caused by a fall. This woman was employed as a domestic in the family of John D. Rockefeller in the days when he was earning his livelihood as a clerk. Soon after leaving his household wealth came- to Rockefeller and distress to the nurse. He is now rich enough to maintain an -ostentatious philan- thropy, but the nurse who served in his family has been taken to the County Hospital, where she will be caredl for at the public expense, Upon these contrasted stories little comment is needed. It is a dull brain and a duller heart that can- not draw the moral. It isqa frequent complaint that in these later days the relations between the employer sand the employed are losing all the former feeling of a mutual loyalty to one another; that the relation is becoming a mere matter of dollars and cents; that the employer cares nothing for the employe who breaks down in the service, but dismisses him \yith indifference to whatsoever treatmerit he may reccive from the public hospitals and asylums. The story of the Rockefeller family servant gives confirmation to the complaint, but the story of the Roosevelts confutes it. The relations among men have not yet become wholly matters of bargain and hire. There are still genuine affections in the household for those who serve it faithfully, and it is gratifying to see that affection manifest in the family of the President of the republic. e ——— About the, only thing that Chicago -has to brag about at ' this time is a $50,000,000 Bible-class with a Rockefeller at the head of it, but they seem to use the thing more as a means of impressing outsiders than as a local incentive to a religious life. S the official statements of Chief Moore of the Wezther Bureau concerning the 'alleged suc- cess achieved in certain wine dist_ricts in Europe in treaking up hailstorms by firing cannon. It is therefore worth noting that it is now reported that the Swiss Government, after investigating the sub- iect, has reached the conclusion that the cannonading las a beneficial effect, and the practice 'is recom- mended for adoption in Switzerland. Chief Moore’s condemnation of the scheme was based upon seemingly indisputable grounds, He maintained that the forces of nature that build up and direct a hailstorm are altogether too powerful to be dissipated by any cannonading that man could do. He recalled the experiments made in this country in the effort to bring about a fall of rain by discharging cannons and bombs of one kind or another, and ex- pressed a conviction that the vineyardists of Europe were merely repeating the experiment and would have no more success than was attained by the rain- makers in this country, 3 The reasoning of the chief was' clear and valid, but the report made to the Swiss Government is suffi- ciently strong to raise a question whether there may not be certain forces set in operation by vigorous cannonading which are capable of achieving effects much greater than scientists suppose possible. It is not to be forgotten that very able men said it would be impossible to make a locomotive run on ‘a. rail- road, others equally wise ridiculed the idea of lighting a city by burning gas, and even in our own time there were scientific men to deny the feasibility of wire- less telegraphy. It is therefore sometimes worth while making an experiment, even though scientists ridicule it. In the summary that comes to us of the report to the Swiss Government the Commissioners are quoted as sayirg: “A direct proof that hail-shooting prop- e:ly practiced will under all circumstances prevent hail is of course impossible to furnish; but the fact that certain districts of Styria, which were before the use of hail-guns devastated by hailstorms year by year, Lave not for the last five years, since the guns are in use, experienced any hail, is a strong point in favor of the hail-guns.” The justice of that conclusion can hardly be de- nied. The Swiss Commissioners. are reported as ad- mitting that the effect of the “air ring” which is shot into the hail clouds has not yet been satisfactorily or sufficiently explained; but they say that from Styria, where it started, the system has spread throughout Hungary and into many parts of Italy and France, everywhere justifying its cost, at least to the minds of those upon whom the expense falls. Such is the record as it comes to us. If it be said that no test has ever been scientifically made, then certainly upon such evidence as that given it is time to make one. California is not much affected by storms, so the experiments may be of no great value to us, but it is unquestionably worth while to try the effect of the hail-gun upon the warious kinds of storms and tornadoes that do so much damage in the Mississippi Valley. CANNONALING HAILSTORMS. OME time ago The Call directed attention to The President can do many things and do most of them well, but he might as well give up the attempt to get the people of this country to call his name “Rosyvelt.” S to bring about such a 'reorganization of the militia of the country as will render it more fitted o meet the exigencies of modern war. “Many of his predecessors in the War Office have made similar efforts. Revision of the militia law has been a standing subject of discussion at Washington for a period so, long that there is probably not a man niow in the service of the office who can recall a time when the discussion was not. ; The Secretary states in his annual report to the President that our militia law stands to-day practi- cally as it was enacted in 1792. That is a very long time for a statute to remain’ unaltered ‘and un- amended in this mutable world. There have been great changes in the nation and in the art of war since 1792. It is not necessary to read the statute to know that it is now chsolete, out of date, ineffective and worthless. Its very age condemns it. Should it be found to have any virtue in it for use in a war of our time it would be more wonderful than the famous one-horse shay that ran a hundred years to a day, for the statute has run more than a century. It stands a good chance of rounding out the first decade of a second century. - The Secretary says: “The reliance of the country for the large forles necessary in modern warfare must necessarily be'chiefly upon volunteers. The method and procedure of raising the volunteer force should be prescribed in advance, so that instead of waiting to devise plans for a volunteer army until the excitement and haste of impending war make per- fection of design difficult, and satisfactory execution impossible, Congress will have but to direct the execution of a well understood plan by officers, each of whom has long.been familiar with the part he has to play.” ' Arguments of that kind are convincing to the public, but somehow they seem to have but little weight with Congress, and as a consequence the old statute of 1702 still stands as the militia law of the nation. Surely this Congress can be counted on to find time to enact a new one. MILITIA REORGANIZATION. ECRETARY ROOT will make another effort —— By reason of ‘the heavy tax placed upon private gardens in Paris it is said many of the old nobility are unable to stand the expense agd several of them have arranged to turn the gardens into building lots and put up rows of apartment houses. The lovers of the old order of things are of course howling, but it looks as if the city in the end would be improved by | the change, % IMPOSSIBLE TO SIGNAL INTELLIGENTLY TO MARS THAT PLANET ARE FUTILE. L ASTRONOMER SIR ROBERT BALL, WHO SAYS THERE HAS BEEN NO PROOF OF LIFE ON MARS AND THAT EFFORTS TO BSIGNAL E et’s inhabitants. “One needs only remember,” he said, & speck no larger than a pin head. and shake all this on a flagpole 760 miles spack to those on Mars. thoughtful, sensible people?” certain seasons. called oases. is a statement not too great for belief. PERSONAL MENTION.. W. A, Veitch, a raisin grower of Fresno, is at the Grand. : 0. O. Weber, a prominent attorney of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. H. E. Huntington returned yesterday from a trip to Los Angeles. K. Casper, a merchant of Vallejo, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. de Young leave to- day for a trip to New York «nd Paris. M. J. Brock, an attorney.of Grass Val- ley, registered at the California yester- day. . J. Hardy of White Horse, Yukon Ter- ritory, is at the Grand, accompanted by his wife. ‘W. H. Nichols, a rancher and extensive landowner of Courtland, is registered at the Grand. \ P. C. Drescher of the firm of Hickmott & Drescher, extensive canners of Sacra- mento, is at the California. Alexander Miller, secretary of the Har- riman syndicate of railroads, left for the East yesterday with his family. Dr. T. D. Blodgett, who was connected with St. Luke's Hospital in this city, but who is now practicing at Tulare, is at the Grand. : George H. Ketcham, owner of the great trotting horse Cresceus, arrived from Sac- ramento yesterday, accompanied by his wife. He is at the Palace. Charles P. Braslan, a seed merchant of San Jose, arrived here yesterday with his wife and is staying at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Braslan are on their honeymoon. —————————— ANSWERS TO QUERIES. “LA TRAVIATA—Opera, City. ‘La Traviata,” an opera, was written by Ver- ai in 1856. UNITED STATES LANDS—A. C. 8, City. For information about public lands in Modoc County, communicate with the United States Land Office at Susanville, Lassen County. DOLLARS OF 179%8—A. 8., City. Eastern dealers offer from 50 cents to $2 for United States dollars of 1798 that have a small eagle on the reverse, and a premium of 15 cents for those that have a large eagle. TROUT—Sub, San Jose, Cal. Books on natural history say that the Great Lake trout of which the Mackinaw Straits trout is a species weigh from 15 to 20 pounds and sometimes as much as 50 to 80 pounds. THE BANK OF FRANCE—A. F., City. The Bank of France has authority to is- sue bank notes to the amount of 4,000,000,- 000 francs. To redeem its paper obliga- tions there is held in the bank.a reserve fund or nearly $650,000,000. It redeems its notes with either gold or silver at its option. NAMES—A. L. W., Hollister, Cal. Calve is pronounced as if written Calvay; Eames as if written Ems, with the e sounded as a in state. Grau is a name that no combination of letters in English can give the pronunciation of. You can Jearn how to pronounce it by asking a German to tell you what the German is for gray. 3 VENDOR'S LIEN—Subscriber, City. A vendor's lien is an implication raised by a court of equity which gives a right to resort to the premises sold in satisfaction for the unpaid purchase money. If such a len is reserved on the face of the deed conveying the land it virtually amounts to a”mortgage and the lien may be fore- closed as such. . THE GREAT EASTERN-J. E. 8., City. The steamship Great Eastern was not built for the purpose of laying the At- lantic cable. The vessel was built in 1854- 57, was ready for launching in November of the last named year, vut was not launched until January, 1858. She made her first trip across the Atlantic in June, 1860, and was used to lay the cable in 1865-66. —_———— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, D! ‘Winter Resort in the world, offers best I , climate, boating, bathing, fishing and most amuse- ments. E. S. Babeock, manager, Coronado, Cal. While .-Dr, Ball said the.proof of life on Mars had never been given, “thought the conditions were such that life could exist there. and snow are changeable in extent during the summer and winter of Mars. What apparently seem to be clouds are made out as such, and well defined boundaries of continen:s are strongly impressed upon one. the ice ard snow on Mars melts, an interlocking system of canals may be seen at These will be seen to converge from all corners at certain places What the significance of these canals may be has not been made out. That they indicate the lines along which life and vegetation thrive and exist - — IR ROBERT STANWELL BALL, the eminent Irish astronomer and physicist, in a lecture in Philadelphia recently dwelt at some length on the planet Mars, and the possibility of ever being abl: to communicate with that plan- “that the largest building in the world, if magnified more than 1000 times, then transported to Mars, and when viewed by the most experienced astronomers here, under the most favorable atmospheric conditions, with the most up-to-date apparatus, would appear merely as a speck— “Again, in order to attract the attention of the sharpest eye on Mars, and it would then be necessary for that eye to be diligently watching for a signal, some one on the earth would have to wave a flag 200 miles long, 300 miles wide, long. If a person on Mars were looking just at that time, he might see a speck, but nothing more. “Cover all the Great Lakes with pitch and then fire them, it would be but a “With such statements before me,” said Dr. Ball, “how can the idea of signal- ing to-Mars, so that the signs may be intelligible, ever gain lodgment with he The regions of ice Again, during the period when D e e e e S e e ! A CHANCE TO SMILE. e DIEL B “It is sad to see this mercenary spirit so flagrantly manifested in politics,” said the earnest citizen. “Yes,” answered Scnator Sorghum. *“I have fought against it-all-I could; bat it's no use. I can't get people to voté my way without payin’ 'em.”—Washington Star. “Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Tor- Kins, “I almost wish we were Iiving in China.” “With all the hatred for foreigners that exists there?” “I know it would be embarrassing. But since they smashed the Forbidden City, just think how cheap bric-a-brac must be selling in Peking.”—Washington Star. ‘While the church was locked up for the summer it was occupled as a sleeping place by tramps, and on reopening the building it was decided by the trustees that it must be fumigated. “Have you got any brimstone?” asked the man who had come to do the job. “No, sir,” stiffly replied the sexton. “This is a Universalist church.”—Chicago Tribune. “Are you willing to arbitrate?” asked the employer. “Certainly,” replied the walking dele- gate, “provided I am given a reasonable assurance that the decision will be in ac- cordance with our way of thinking."— Chicago Post. GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLDY OF LETTERS —s It having been stated that a new edition of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” hias been prepared by a certain publishing firm. in view of the approaching expiration of the copyright of the first edition, Mr. Murray wishes it to be known that the edition which passes out of copyright at the end of this month is an imperfect edition, which was subsequently thoroughly re- vised bv Darwin. If it is reprinted it would, he adds, be without the consent or authority of Dar- win’s representatives. The only authorized complete editions are published by Messrs. Murray, and they do not lose the copyright for several years to come. Owing to an increased interest being taken in aerfal navigation, a new maga- zine is shortly to be started by Niffe & Sons, entitled “Flying.” Ralph Hall Caine, who has just pur- chased Dickens’ old magazine, Household ‘Words, is not, as I have seen it stated by some papers, a brother of the famous novelist, but a son. Ralph Caine is only 18 years of a young man to attempt the resuscitatfon of such a famous old magazine. Needless to say, Hall Caine ls watch~ ing the venture with the greatest imterest and is writing for it an article on the Pope and Rome as he saw them while staying in’ the Eternal City. Mrs. Langtry as an actress s known to everybody. Sometimes.she appears as & teller of stories in the columns of certain magazines, but it .may be news that she is to appear as a dr#matic author before long . It is on the cards that when she re- opens the Imperial Theater it will be"with a strong society play which she is writing herself. The father of the British novel has re- celved a great honor at the hands of sev~ eral eminent personages. The bust of Samuel Richardson, executed by the famous sculptor, George Frampton, presented by Passmore Ed- wards, was unveiled the other evening in St. Bride's Institute by Anthony Hope. In performing the ceremony Hope sald that though there might be no genius among present day English novelists, a large_amount of highly accomplished work was being produced which might form the sofl from which genius might spring. The souvenir prepared for the occasion was an interesting one, containing a did copies of the inscription on Richardk- son’s tombstone and of the tablet erecte: in St. Bride's Church to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth. TOO MUCH GEARY. Editor The Call: I have but indignation and contempt for the doings of the Anti- Chinese Convention. I am certain this opinion is shared by a majority of my fel- low citizens. With one aceord the people desire the exclusion of the Mongolian race from the United States. The.“Geary bill” is out of date. The less we have to do with .Geary, if the history of the muti- lated Needham telegram be true, the bet- ter it will be for the country. The fixed purpose of the people is: bar admission to every breed and variety of Asiatics. The proceedings of the ¢ vention were palpably cowardly and representative. The Japanese are greater menace than the Thinese. Th assimilate, and, not forming themselves into a colony as the Chinese do, are sand- wiching themselves, as laborers, artificers and merchants, among the inhabitants of the choicest portions of the city. We ca not arrest their offensive burrowing M quickly. The Congressional represe tion of this coast numbers about twenty, who are thoroughly famillar with the question. What need of assistant repre- sentatives? . Are our delegates feeble- minded, or are the 300 statesmen of the East senseless to the requirements of their country and dead-to the duties which de- volve upon them in securing, with en. hanced glory, the perpetuity of American institutions? CHARLES D. CLEVELAND. San Francisco, Nov. 26. —_—— “Yes, the Willlam Tell Company has had hard luck. At one place they had to give up entirely the scene where William shoots the apple off - his brave boy's head.” “Why was that?” “They couldn’t find an apple town—and there wasn’ To in the money enough in the entire company to substitute a po- tato.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. —_——————— Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * i g Choice candles. Townsend's, Palace Hotelt st sl b oes Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* pindsnisd mearbmrdite's Special inforgation supplied dally to business housi ind public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont ( gomery street. Telephone Main 1043 ¢ JOSE. * BURGESS. THE SUNDAY CALL .Prints More Next Sunday Call HOW OUR SCHOOL-CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT TO SING. CAREER OF JOSIE MANSFIELD IN CALIFORNIA. WRINKLES REMOVED AND DIMPLES MADE TO ORDER. This Will Interest Young or Old. A PRIMA DONNA AT HOME The Home Life of Mme. Sembrich. IS KILLING JUSTIFIABLE? BEAUTIFUL HOMES OF SAN WHAT ST. ANDREW'S DAY MEANS TO THE SCOTCH. THERE IS A CAST OF THE LATE QUEEN VICTORIA’S HAND IN SAN FRANCISCO. Read About It in Next Sunday’s Call. POSTER COVER BY GELETT WESTERN STORIES BY WEST- ERN WRITERS. Westera Stories Thax All Other San Frencisco Sunday Papers Combined | GREAT CHRISTMAS NUMBER OUT DEC. 15. Every Woman, MAGAZINE SECTION