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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO- CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 380, 1902 BANKER SNYDER MUST FAGE JURY State of Missouri Scores Point in Prosecution of Boodlers. Noted Promoter Strives in Vain to Evade Trial on Charge of Bribery. el e LOUIS, Sept. ~The first day’s n the trial of Robert M. Sny- banker and promoter of Kansas New ¥ n charges of bribery with the passage of the bill several years ago, ory for the State, t Attorney Joseph ection offered by the g ed by Judge Ryan. arraigned, but refused to e court ordered the clerk to ST. proceet n of a jury will e upon the State dant is not a resi- statute of limita- sheltered all the officials in the deal is the legal loop- which Snyder’s attorneys il him to Hberty. e witnesses summoned by the e a mber of members er members of the St. Louis Mu- and Dr. William B. ational Bank cf attorney, and Kansas City. der adWsement an ap- writ of habeas corpus to , Helms, Schnettler and legates in jail inder n case was called made an elaborate argu- or of the demurrer, which al- t was faulty and e under the stat. i nally that the pros- barred under the statute of : Ik argued to the The court overruled the demur- ception was taken by the filed a special plea in dictment, reqfiiring, se, a special trial of not the statute of to prosecution. ade the argument ontention that this is- tely. the special plea aignment on the t was read the court lant how he pleaded. for Gefendant renewed plea in asked to have the present trial by & general ju instead of a ary. T ain overruled defense in the y and proceed with of counsel for the yan quashed the venire I grand jury and ordered an- ble to-morrow. The court ge EANKER SNYDER APPEARS TO ANSWER INDICTMENT Through Counsel ‘He Objects to Post- ponement of His Trial on Bribery Charge. IS, Sept. 20.—Robert M. Snyder, T a r of City and N T d on the charge of brib- with the passage of the for which $250,000 is members of the for trial in the crimi- der’'s ing on > the postponement of g sins For Elastic Currency. PEORIA 2.—Charles G. Dawes, e of the Currency, £ on of the 1 of Illinois here to- c spoke more elastic currency and & p political issue. ated cold ~ cure, ison Huntington, who rdzy nfght on a bench from Judge Lawlor's court af- Supreme Court had reaffirmed the judgment of the lower court seniencing in San Quentin_for man- the death of Miss vn, appeared in court y his aged father and mcth nted & pathetic sight. An in 1 request was made of the Judge that, owing to the young man's continued sickness, he be allowed qut on bonds pending = motion for a rghearing, but 3 he could not interfere process of the law. Dr. atington was taken back to the County AUCTION OF t PERSIAN - RUGS Wonday, Sept. 29--Daily ONE WEEK. At1la m end 2p m. befittingly inaugurate the opening y new Art Rooms I have brought and ur ssed collection of ntique Persian Rugs. wiil delight Rug lovers, Sale ely without reserve, M. B. MIHRAN 205 Post St., Just above Grant ave. _— 5 A pos | reference to the history of secular music WARRANTS OUT ~ FOR ~RUSTLERS™ Prominent Nevada Men Accused of Cattle Stealing. One of the Suspects Is the Brother of Lander’s Sheriff. | Special Dispatch to The Call. WINNEMUCCA, Nev. Sept. 20.—The |Lander County Grand Jury has been in session for a week investigating the charge of cattle stealing against James Watt and George Williams, twe well- known citizens, and the case promises to develop into one of the most sensational in the history of the State. The Arst- named defendant is a brother of George Watt, at present Sheriff of the county, and the family is one of the oldest in i that section. Warrants are now out for the arrest of both Watt and Willlams, who were partners in a ranch about forty miles east of Austin. 8o far as is known there is no clew as to their present where- abouts. The case has been complicated by the reported refusal of the Sheriff to serve the warrant on his brother. Ru- mors are fiying thick and fast in Austin | of others belng implicated, at least to the | extent of having knowledge of the eattles stealing operations of Watt and Willlams which, it is claimed, have been going on for some time. It is alleged that thous sands of head have been stolen from the cattlemen in Eureka and Lander counties, the brands and earmarks altered and the animals shipped out of the country. The | case against Watt and Williams is being | prosecuted by the Lander County Cattle Association. The particular case that the Grand Jury has under investigation is the stealing of about thirty cattle belonging to Patrick Walsh and the Dean estate. Some of the cattle were found on the ranch of Watt | and Willlams and the remainder were | traced to Reno and to Loyalton, Cal. It is said they were included in a shipment | of several hundred head made by Mrs. | George Watt to John Sparks of Reno three weeks ago, the latter having dis- | pesed of a part of them to a cattleman | at Loyalton without knowing ~whence | they camre. Sparks is at present the Sil- | ver party nominee for Governor of the State. The stolen cattle were traced by de- tectives employed by the Lander Asso- clation. The brands and marks had been changed, but the work was done in stch | a bungling manner that detection was not difficult and the ownership of the ani- | mals may casily be proved. LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS INCREASES*HIS STAFF | Secures the Services of Two Noted Authorities on American His- tory and Musie. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—The librarian of Congress has announced twé import- ant appointments to the library service— a chief of the division of manuscripts at a salary of $3000 and a chief of the divi- sion of music at a salary The new chief of the d scripts is Worthington C. Ford, who was, chief of the bureau of statistics of the 7Treasury Department from 1885 until 1898, when he became connected with the Bos- ton Public Library. Ford's work here| will be exclusively with manuscripts. | These relate chiefly to American history, | a field in which Ford is already an au- | thority and on which he has published a number of valuable writings, O. T. G. Sumner, the new chigf of the division of music, was born in Jersey City, N. J., in 1878. He took courses in | history and theory of music at the Uni- versity of Heidelberg and was for four years at the University of Munich. Since [ a § Univ s been S He is well known as a w d foreign periodicals on musical sub- jects. He composes and has been engag- ed for some time in special research with | | { in the United States. RURAL FREE DELIVERY SERVICE TO BE IMPROVED| Completed Estimates Include an In- crease of Five Million Dollars for Carriers. SHINGTON, Sept. 20.—The esti- for the rural free delivery service for the next fiscal year were finally fram- | ed to-day. They aggregate $12,65,800, a | net increase of $5,126,400 over the appropri- ations made for the current year. The s include the following items: ¢ to letter carriers, $12,000,000, an in- ,000; ten division Superin- tendents at $2500 each per annum in place | of seven special agents in charge of di- | vislo four special agents at $1800 each | (2 new grade); thirty special agents at $1600, an increase of fifteen in number; | fifteen special agents at $1400; fifteen spe- | cial agents at $1300 each; fifty-six route | inspectors at $1200, aggregating $67,200, a | decrease of $21,600 per annum for seventy- | nine special agents and fifty-six route in- | spectors, increase of $1 per diem for route inspectors, total $168,000, increased $29,- £00; incidental expenses of division su- perintendents, special agents, route in- spectors, livery hire, etc., $25,000; inclden. tal expenses, including letter boxes, furni- ture, straps, badges, etc., $200,000; clerks in division headquarters, $51,400. i i UNITED IRISH LEAGUE CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Redmond, Dillon and Davitt Are | Coming Here to Attend the National Convention. | DUBLIN, Sept. 2).—John Redmond, | chairman of the Irish Parliamentary par- | ty, has summoned a meeting of the Na- | tionatist members of Parliament for Octo- | ber 7 to prepare the programme for the coming session. Bishop | Redmond, the Catholie of Raphoe, the Most Rev. Patrick O'Donnell, | and Stephen O'Mara, as frustees of tha national defense fund, have issued & man. ifesto to the Irish, urging the necessity | for immediate and generous contributions | | 10 enable the United Irish League to com- bat the “incessant and unccrupulous as- | | saults of the landlords’ organization and | of the castle on public liberties.” Messrs. Redmond, Dillon and Davitt ex- pect to sail for the United States October 10 to attend the national convention of | | the United Irish League, which opens at | | Boston October 18. ‘ Probing the Beef Trust. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 20.—When the beef in- | quiry was resumed to-day Charles H. Klenk, manager of the A. Laux Contract- | ing Company, testified that for three | years a combination existed between all | local packers and the “big four” for the regulation of prices. He said that the | | combination went out of existence last May after Attorney General Knox began | suits against the trust under the anti- trust law. e ————— To Cure a Cold in One Day Teke Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money If it fails to cure. | E.'W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. + | odor likely to cause asphyxiation was dis- EMILE ZOLA, NOTED NOVELIST, ASPHYXIATED WHILE SLEEPING Famous French Writer and His Wife Are Overcome by Fumes of a Defective Stove, and He Perishes While Desperately Striving to Leave His Bed---Madame Zola in Critical Condition 28 S S— ARIS, Sept. 20.—Emile Zola, the novelist, who gained additional prominence in recent years be- cause of his defense of the Jews and of Captain Dreyfus, was found dead in his Paris house this morn- ing. Asphyxiation resulting from fumes from a stove in his bedroom i given as the cause of death. M. Zola and his wife retired at 10 o'clock last night. Madame Zola was serlously ill when the room was broken into this morning. At about noon she was removed to a private hospital, where she recovered consciousness for a short time and was able briefly to explain to a magistrate what had happened. M. and Mme. Zola returned to Parls from their country house at Medan yesterday. Owing to a sudden spell of cold weather the heating stove in their bedrbom was ordered to be lighted. The stove burned badly and the pipes of the stove are said to have been out of order. SEES ZOLA LEAVE BED. To the magistrate Mme. Zola explained that she woke early this morning with a splitting headache. She wakened her hus- band and asked him to open the window. She saw him riseé and attempt to move toward a window, but he staggered and fell to the floor unconscious. Mmie. Zola faipted at the same moment and was, therefore, unable to give the alarm. Mme. Zola does not know yet of = hef husband’'s death and it is feared she may suffer a relapse when Informed of it. It T o P SALON ZOLAS melh PARLSI AN RESIDENCE —— 1N FAMOUS FRENCH NOVELIST WHO, FROM A HUMBLE BEGINNING, WORKED HIS WAY TO THE FRONT IN THE RANKS OF LITERATURE, AND BECAME FOREMOST AI(ONG THE WORLD'S MEN OF LETTERS, AND LATER GAINED RENOWN FOR HIS DEFENSE OF DREYFUS. is thought to-night, however, that she will recover. The dedth of M. Zola, which only be- came generally known late this afternoon, has caused a great senbation in Paris, and this evening there was a constant stream of callers at the Zola residence. M. Zola’s body lies on a divan in the center of the spaclous drawing-room of his house under a canopy of rare and an- cient hangings. The body is covered with | a sheet. FIND NOVELIST DEAD. The ‘servants of the Zola household, not hearing any movement in their master's | apartment this morning, entered the bed- | room at 9:30 and found M. Zola lying with | his head and shoulders on the floor and | his legs on the bed. Doctors were sum- moned, but they failed to resuscitate him. Mme. Zola was unconsclous. After pro- | longed efforts on the part of the physi- | clans ghe showed signs of life, but it was | some time before she became unconsciou A slight odor of carbonic gas was no- ticed when the servants broke into the | room. From the position of M. Zola'si body it was evident that he had tried to | rise, but had been overcome by the fumes from the stove. The servants immedi- ately opened the windows and sent for | physicians. A commissary of police was also summoned. It was reported here during the day that there were evidences of suicide in the death of M. Zola. Nothing has so far developed to substantiate this theory, and the statement by Mme. Zola to the magis- trate seems to disprove it. No unusual sound was heard from the bedroom dur- ing the night. Two little dogs belonging to the Zolas passed the night in their master's bedroom. They were alive this morning. REPORT OF DRUGGIST. A druggist, who was the first to arrive at the house to attend M. Zola and his wife, said: “When I entered the bedroom M. Zola was lying partly on the floor. No special tinguishable. M. and Mme. Zola did not present exclusive symptoms of asphyxia- tion. Their faces were contorted and their lips were bloodless, but not violet colored. 1 think the accldent was probably caused by the Zolas inhaling heavy carbonic gas, which lay mainly below the level of the high bed. This would account for Mme. Zola's escape. They were not suffocated on the bed. M. Zola was awakened by the effects of the gas and tried to rise, but he was seized with vomiting and fainted, falling to the floor, and was suf- focated. Mme. Zola was overcome by the gas, but to a less degree than her hus- band.” The commissary of police, who was summoned to the Zola residence, said in his report to the Prefect of Police: “The heating stove was not lighted and | there was no odor of gas. It is believed that M. Zola's death was due to acciden- tal poisoning by drugs. Two little dogs found in the bedroom are alive.” In a second report the commissiary of police indorses the medical opinion that M. Zola’s death was accidental and duesto asphyxiation. Dr. Leyrand, who attended the Zolas, is quoted as saying in an interview publish- ed this evening that the heating stove was still warm when he entered the room. The Prefect of Police has ordered the city architect to examine the bedroom in which M. Zola died and has instructed that analysis be made of his blood and of the atmosphere in his room. M. Zola had been resting from literary work since he finished his book called “The Truth,” which is being published in serfal form in the Aurore. The obituaty notices pay tribute to M. Zola's high lit- erary talent. The Temps says French let- ters have suffered a loss which will be keenly felt. The newspapers judge M. Zola's role in :7‘;8 Dreyfus affair according to political as. It is now said that Mme. Zola was in- formed of the death of her husband befors she left here. She at first refused to be- lleve the news and was terribly affected. She did not wish to leave the house, but the physicians finally persuaded her to al- low herself to be removed to the hospital. A large crowd assembled in front of the Zola residence to-night. Among the call- ers at the house were almost all the liter- ary celebrities of Paris. CAREER OF EMILE ZOLA. Writings That Eventually Made the Novelist Famous. Emile Zola was born in Paris April 2, 1840, of a French mother, Emilie Aubert by name, but his father, a hydraulic en- gineer, whose name is still assoclaty with a canal which he constructed in the southern part of France, was an Italian. The father died when young Zola was but 7 years of age, leaving the family in very straitened circumstances. Emile attended the lower schools at Alx and then studied at the local college until he was 18 years of age, when, in Febru- ary, 1858, he went to Paris. He entered the Lycee St. Louis on a scholarship and becime a pupil of the celebrated Levasseur, who, on reading Zola’s essay on “Milton Dictating to His Daughter,” predicted a bright career in letters for the young man. The prophecy ‘was not to be realized at once, however. Zola failed to pass his requisite viva voce examinations in literature and was re- fused his bachelor's degree. He left the school in disgust and went to work on the docks. He stayed there but a short time, however, being yet more disgusted with the hard work than he was at his failure in the school. After trying several other things which brought him a bare subsistence, he at last, in 1861, secured a place as shopman at $20 per month in the publishing house of Messrs. Hachette. His abllity soon won recogni- tion and promotion to & clerkship. He devoted his leisure hours to study ;.;d writing and on October 24, 1864, made | living from the first, but debut as a writer in a volume of short 1 —r stories called ‘‘Contes a Ninon.” During the next year he wrote a number of tales. for Petit Journal and La Vie Pa- risienne and a serles of storles for the Sa- lut Public of Lyons, which was afterward published under the title of ‘“Mes lamnes.' The same year he also pub- lished *‘La Confession de Claude.” i The favor withh which the foregoing were received caused him to throw up his position at Hachette's and seek his fortune with his pen. It brought him a the fortune halted for many years to come. H His work began now to teem with his ; realisms, that later so distinguished his writings, and made for his high fame. A set of articles on the “‘Salon” (1866) cre- ated such a sensation-that the publica- tion had to be discontinued. For the next five years his work met with varied success. “Le Voeu d'une Morte” and “‘Les Mysteres de Marsellles,” published as serials in Parislan and provincial papers, | Macin expedition, | folly of further opposition. | ner sent the Sultans a letter by Captain ' somoir"” ! “Le Debacle,” a strong picture of | later made an officer. SEERS 10 CALM MORD SULTA General Sumner Expecte to Avoid Warfare on Mindanao. Cholera Now Threatens to Depopulate the Island of Samar. AR SR MANTLA, Sept. %9.=Brigadler General { Samuel S. Sumner, in repofting to Gén= eral Chaffee the departure of thé Second telepgraphs that he hopes the strength of Captaln Pershing's column will show the Macin Sultans the General Sum Pershing warning them against shooting Americans and advising them to be friendly. The general also directed Cap- taln Pershing not to attack the natives or destroy property unles sthe Sultans in- sist on being hostile. General Sumner says it 18 wrong to eall the operations a war as there is no gen- eral uprising and it Is net likely that there will be one. The Sultan of Marapin whom General Sumner regards the most intelligent Moro leader, visited Camp Viears Saturday and proiised to remain peaceful and volun- teered to visit the Moros north of the lake and tell them of the futility of fight- ing against o many men and guns. The Bultan of Alri has fled to thé moun- talns. General Summner expects to cap- ture him. QGeneral Chaffee has now decided to leave here for San Francisco October 2 on the United States transport Bumner. He will be accompanied by Vice Governor Wright. Cholera threatens to depopulate the isl- and of Samar. The population of many of the towns has been heavily redueed through death and' the flight of panie- stricken people. Many of the dead are unburied and the Government is sending Surgeofis and medicine to fight the dis- | ease. The epldemie also eontinues its ravages at Toilo. It is reported that the totals for the isl- ands foot up 70,222 cases and 45,402 deaths. But the actual total of cases is estimated ! to be about 100,000, with deaths in propor- tion. © e @ when “L’'Assoméir,” the seventh of the series, beégan its appearance In Le Bien Publie, Zola stepped at once into a place among the successful writers of his day. Great outery was made against “L'As= on account of its immorality, but that only advertiséd the work and its author all the more. Le Bien Publie di continued the publication, but another | journal, La Reépublique des Lettres, took | up and ran it through. The author wrote | a strong defense of it, contending that it | had a high moral aim. It was afterward | dramatized under the English title of “Drink,” and played with much success in London by Charles Warner. The next volumie was “Une Page d'Amour.” Then came “Nana,” which made even a greater sensation than “L’Assomolr.” It was published serially by Voltaire, and then in voluine, Lhe first edition running to 55,000, an unheard- of thing in French novel publication. The success of the rest of the series was assured in advance, as they followed in order. "“Pot Bouille” (1882); '‘La Jole ‘Au Bonheur des S a_ study of Fremch_ miners “L'Oeuvre,” dealing with art and _liter- ature; “La Terre,” a study of the peasantry; and “Le Reve,’ a study on romantic lines, which fell far short of the others. It was reported that Zola wrote “Le Reve” to placate the French Acad- emy and secure his admission thereto. If g0 he failed, as did every after effort to gain the much coveted honor. *La Bete | dealing with the raflways; a study of the bourse;| the break up of the second empire, followed. and lastly came “Le Docteur Pascal,” which lengthenied the originally planned tweive volumes of the great series out to twenty. On the completion of the series Zola was feted and congratulated on all sides, except it were by the academy, which to the last denied him formal tribute. On July 14, 1888, he was appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honor, and five years In 1891 he was “La Societe des elected president of | Gens de Lettres,” and held the position until 1894, In 1808, however, he cime before | France and the world in a new role, de- manding justice for Captain Alfred Drey- FILES GRARGES OF GONGPIRACY Counsel in the Stratton ‘Will Case Sgrings a Sensation, Accuses Administrators of Plotting to Speculate Upon the Will COLORADO SPRINGS, Sept. 2, —Couse for the executors In the already | famous litigation over the estate of the |late W. 8. Straften this afternon took a step that Is in all respects tke most sensational yet taken in the eontroversy Formal charges of conspiracy to iavolve | the Stratton estate in litigation fof the profit of persons interested in ne way in the estate are brought against Messrs. H. M. Blackmer and C. C. Hamlin, two of the administrators to colleet, appointed by Judge Orr, Blackmer being decared to | kave already put up considerable money |of his ewn in an effort to earry out the | terms of a deliberate and fraudulent con- spiracy entered inté with a view to specu- lating upon the will and the estate. A charge I8 made that the court ftself, the Judge of whieh is a brother-in-law of the third administrator to collect, has shown itself blased and prejudiced and grossly imposed upon, and the demand is made that the litigation be taken out of this court and transferred to the District Court of El Paso County. The charges are made in the nature of | an answer to the petition of the admin- | istrators to collect, as a result of which citations to appear in the County Court at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning and show | cause for their refusal to recognize the | administrators to colleet were issued on | Baturday. Messis. T, n 8. Dines of Den- ver, D. H. Rice and Carl 8. Chamberlain | of this eéity, executors named in the will of Stratton, wefe served with such cita- tions and will appear In the County Court to-morrew morning. It is declared by their attorneys here that they will go to jail for eontempt of court rather than ac- cede to the order to turn over the affalrs | of Stratton to these adminlstrators. The ansWet flled this afternoon further | charges that C. 8. Thomas, of the firm of | Thothas, Bryant & Lee of Denver, is at- torney for the administrators to colieét | anpeinted by the court and Also for ces- | tain persons who intend and have long | intended to bring suit against the Strat- ton estate involving praectically the en- | tire estate. | The administrators to collect, Blackmer (and Hamlin, aré declared to be financial- ly interested in a fully organized promo- tion company, which is declared to have wrongfully confederated and entered Into egntracts with young Stratton, by which they assume all expenses of litigation, | guarantee him the 350,000 allowed him in | the will and secure the right to involve | the estate in ltigation for their own | profit. The bond in the sum of $8,000,000, which was givén by the administrators to col- leet, which bond was agreed upon, and fully arranged at a meeting in the office of Henry Blackmer at 2 o'clock on the morning of September 26, which meetinrg is said to have been attended by the ad- ministrators and the counsel for young Stratton, 18 made an object of attack in the answer filed to-day. It is declared At the Statutes of Colorado prohibit any bonding company from writing a bond in excess of half its capitalization and that the aggregate capitalization of the companies who have written this $3,000,000 bond is but four millions. Public feeling here is running high In the matter. Rumors more or less direct | are tnvolving large numbers of prominent business men of this city and the Cripple Creek district is the alleged conspiracy | and there 15 a growing sentiment In favor |ot the strictest investigation of all ru- mors. The hearing to-morrow morning will attract more attention than anything in the courts here for years. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Several Changes Are Made in the Postal Service and More Pen- sions Granted. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Postoffice name changed—California—Edgwood, Sis- kiyou County, to Edgewood. Postmasters commissioned—California—Jessie L. Ro ison, Hooker; Edward B. Cavanaugh, fus, who In 1894 was tried for treason | Edgewood. Washington — Willlam and sentenced to confinement for life on! Chapman, Irondale. Fourth-class post- Devils Island. His celebrated letter| masters appointed—Oregon—W. T. Eakin, beginning “J'accuse” (I accuse) at-| Hopewell, Yamhill County, vice Thor tacking the militaty tribunal which | W. Nash, resigned; Albert J. Tull, V sentenced Dreyfus, and the clique| tillas, Lake County, vice Almon Lap- of the general staff which worked up the | ham, resigned; J. D. Carter, Yaquina, case against him, publishad in Clemen- | Lincoln County, vice Julius C. Hoeflein, ceau’s journal, L'Aurore, threw France | resigned. into convulsions. He was bitterly perse-| These pensions were granted to-d cuted therefor and came near being| California—Increase, reissue, ete.—~Charies mobbed while going to and returning| E Hodgdon, S8an Francisco, $8 (war with from the court. He was found gullty, but on appeal the proceedings were quashed on an Informality. On a sécond trial he was condemned by default, but Jeft the country before arrest and went to England, where he remained until the Court of Cassatlon gave its judgment on the whole question of revision. He then returned to France, but on account of the strong feeling between the pro and anti Dreyfusites remained In comparative s fell quite flat, but in 1887 “Therese Ra~ /Seclusion. guin,” first entitled ‘“Une Histoire @’Amour,” brought him $120 in, money, a | series of fierce articles 1n Figaro attack- ing his work. ‘“‘Madeleine Feral,” a novel founded on a play that he had written the previous year, which, -however; was never accept- | ed, was published in' the ‘Evenement,” modified to sult the views of some of its puritanical patrons, and falled of| much notice, Had Zola stopped there his name as | a writer would long since have been for- gotten. His work up to that time was really only of a tentative nature, as it were. He wrote under constraint of pleasing his publishers, and modified the | expression of his ldeas to suit thelr views. In 1868 he may be sald to have started | on a new grade in his career. He studied | for some months in the libraries and museums and on the street gathering ma- | terlal to show in his work of romance | the workings of the laws of heredity. | He then mapped out a series of works | carrylng the genealogical descents and | hereditles of a certain family, “Les Rou- | gons.” | He proposed to his publishérs to write a series of twelve volumes on these lines to be styled “Les Rougon-Macquart.” ! The contract was signed May, 1569, 1In 1870 the Siecle began the publication of the first of the series—'La Fortune des Rougons.” The Franco-Prussian war in- terrupted the work and it appeared in vol- ume form in 1871. In the preface Zola ex- plained that his object was to show how | a family can produce a number of indi- | viduals apparently dissimilar, yet who on | analysis prove to be closely connected | with and like each other. e The second volume, “‘La Curee,” ed In 1872. The weird Pari: a description of the markets of Parls, soon followed. Then came ‘“‘La Faute de 'Abbe Mouret,” an attack on celibacy and a graphic portraiture of provincial life. Then “San Excellence Hu- gene Rougon.” Up to this point none of the series had made any great stir, but B appear- “La Ventre de Spain). Widows, minors and dependent relatives—Augusta M. Syphors, Los A geles, $12; Altha Dusenbury, Briceland, $ ‘Washington—W1dows, minors and depen: ent relatives—Sarah Case Roy, $8. Navy order—Lieutenant W. H. Stand- ley is detached from the Pensacola and transferred to the Adams. Army orders—First Lieutenant Alvin C. Read, Thirteenth Infantty, is crdered be- fore the examining board at San Franeis- co for promotion. ¢] just want more.” —Oliver Twist. Sweet as the breath of the oat- field when summer is young is the delicate fragrance of H-O. H-O pancakes are just as easily made\- ordi- nary griddie cakes, but they taste better. That good taste is put into them by adding H-O. Porridge left over from breakfast can be used for next day’s pancakes.