The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1902, Page 6

Thes godzn: Call. “WEDNESDAY.....ccciemees- .».OCTC’IBER 1, 1902 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor, : Address A1l Cemmuniestions to W. 5. LEAKE, Manager. { TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect ‘You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S. F. 17 to 221 Stevemsom St. GAKLAAD OFFICE...ccccc0ese0+1118 Broadway ©. GEORGE KROGNESS. ¥asager Poreign Advertising, Marquetts Buflding, Chisage. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: S@TEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Buildiag NEW TORK CORRESPONDENT: O O. CARLTON...c..cceseesseees.Hernld Square NEW TYORK NEWS STANDS: ; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square: o= CHICAGO NEWE STANDS; Eberman House; F. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Sremont House; Auditortum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. HMORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 633 MeAllister, open unty) 0:80 'clock. 616 Larkin, open until ©:30 c'clock. 1941 Mission, open untfl 10 o'clock. 2261 opea untll § o clock. u::uvm 106 Hieventh, Wuflx‘:mkmm 2200 Filimore, open untll § p. m. = BRYAN AND HIS TYPEWRITER. N the midst of the campaign the solemn ponder- Iosity of Mr. Bryan's prophetic presentation of public questions is int€rrupted by a typewriter, or a Mergenthaler or some other mechanism, which jumps in to illustrate the malice of inanimate things. He has the habit of confidential communication with his supporters. This was shown in his book, in which he furnished accurate information about himself, even to the reason for parting his hair and a description of his ample smile. Following out this habit, he wrote a personal letter to all of the sub- seribers to his Commoner newspaper, urging them to promote its circulation and get new subscribers and keep the ball a-rolling.. In this letter he said: “It is my intention to discuss through the Commoner, from 2 Democratic standpoint, all questions of public importance, and to use the Democratic party for mercenary purposes.” Then his subscribers remembered the levy on towns for the stopping of his campaign trains, the grading of the assessment according to the population of the place, and they recalled the swelling in his assessed property after he began running for President, and then arose visions of his new barn and his thousand dollar Jersey heifer, and they said, “What manner of, man is this, who becomes a coupon cutter by turning running for office into a gainful vocation, and now admits his intention to use the Democratic party for mercenary purposes?” Some were sure that the printed letter was a for- gery, sent out by the goldbugs to injure the cham- pion of the white metal, while others forswore the Nebraskan and all his works and made ready to vote the Republican ticket. At last one recipient of the piratical and acquisitive declaration had the courage to send it back and demand an explanation. In due time each subscriber received another letter saying that the stenographer, the typewriter or the type- setter had blundered by omitting a line, and that the sentence should read: “It is my intention to dis- cuss through the Commoner, from a Democratic standpoint, 2ll questions of public importance, and to use the paper’s influence to thwart the plans of those who would use the Democratic party for mer- cenary purposes.” This transfer of the mercenary to the other fellow made it all right, but there be those who will insist that the first version showed the desire of the types to tell the truth and stick to facts. And as the types were on the ground and knew all the gains made by the Nebraska reformer since he began to reform others, their unamended statement will be taken as against the studied correction. One of the humors of the campaign comes from Indiasa. The Republican State Committee receives a large number of campaign docuragpts from Wash- ington and these are marked for the pastoffice as pub- lic documients entitled to free transmission. For brevity the marking stands, “Pub. Docs. Free.” By a slight misprint an announcemes that such docu- ments could be had fronrthe comsmittee was made to read, “Pup Dogs Fiee” The committee has ever since been-trying to stand off a rfush of applicants who wish a.pup dog. The London ‘Statist after carefully calculating all the costs of the South African war to Great Britain es- timates the total at about $1,500,000,000, or more than the great war indemnity demanded of France by Ger- many, and says the unpreparedness of the nation for war cost more than “the most elaborate reorganiza- tion of her military system could possibly have en- tailed.” e Up in New England the voters seem to have de- cided to take advantage of the off year in national politics to determine whether it would not be better to substitute local option for State prohibition, and we infer that most of them are tired of having to ask for “medicine” when they wish straight whisky. It is worth noting that the Russian order author- izing gunboats to sink any seal poachers found within Siberian waters was issued by the Minister of Agriculture. Evidently it was not intended as a war measure, bt as an extension of the farming system. { Philadelphia woman asks the public to believe th.. she was relieved of a distressing desire to go on the stage by “faith cure,” but most people will hold the opinion that she gave up the desire because of a lack of faith on the part of the public in her ability 10 act. X 3 THE DEATH OF ZOLA. OLA’S death recalls attention to the extraor- dinary literary fecundity of France. In Eng- fand and the United States literary production has its pér‘xods of impulse and repose. It cannot be fairly said that we have in numbers or genius now a literary group that fanks with Poe, Willis, Irving, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier and Hawthorne. England cannot boast a company that equals Thackeray, Dickens, Macaulay, the Lake poets and Tennysor. But France sucteeds in continuing from genera- tion to generation a succession of writers, that hold the attention of the reading world. Close upon Hugo, Dumas, Renan and their peers followed a group in which Alphonse Daudet and Zola illustrated French genius in perennial form. His realistic work in “I'Assomoit,” “La Terre,” “Le Faute de I'’Abbe Mouret” and “Germinal,” in some quarters obscured appreciation of the psychology and philosophy which were the motif of all his writing. Again, in his Trilogy he attacked what he considered to be the superstitions of religion, and won the extreme opposition of the churchmen. But after all he was in books what Millet was on canvas, and stands for a distinct development in French art. His life history was that of a genius. His education was desultory, and he finally failed in the routine of the schools, and resorted to labor of the rudest kind on the Paris docks to support him- self. His first assured income was the small salary of & bookstore clerk, and while in that employment the fires began to brighten that have just been quenched by death in a petty accident. He was a patriot with all else that he was, and had an active hatred of injustice and tyranny. At the time there was no other force in France that could have broken the power of the army, and compelled a rehearing for Dreyfus. No matter what opinion men may have of the guilt or innocence of the for- lorn prisoner of Devils Island, there can be no differ- ence of cpinion about the high courage of Zola in striking the French conscience such a blow that a nation was impressed with a doubt of the prisonexj’s guilt, and the strong anti-Semite prejudice of the people was suppressed and a rehearing secured which resulted in a perfunctory verdict and an immediate pardon. In the reaction Zola suffered. Political and religious prejudice assaulted him with peculiar venom, and it is probable that he felt also the sting of in- gratitude, but he faced it all serenely, with the air of 2 man who had stood not for a man but for a cause, and stood there feeling that national injustice does the most harm to the nation, and that the af- flictioh of its individual victim is not significant when compared to the harm wrought by the hardening of the national heart. French literary composition has charms that are much obscured by translation. In that tongue are delicate shadings that disappear in another language. What is vulgar in translation is often innocent in the original. So Zola has suffered in the English trans- lation and in the opinion of his English readers. Still, his writings will remain always a study in literary style and form and his genius in descriptive writing will perhaps be equaled only by his French successors in the same field. He shared the capacity for descrip- tion with Victor Hugo, and had the same vivid touch that appears in that great exile’s “Ninety-three” and “Les Miserables.” Zola knew the human heart in its heights and in its depths. Its motives vicious and virtuous were as an open book, and though his reader may revolt when he draws out and displays the sodden and sordid that is in man, made more repugnant by contrast with the virtue and good that are never absent, the truth of the picture is not disputed, and all discussion must turn on the utility of a complete realism in his method which insists upon presenting man as he is, a compound of good and bad. This question must be determined in the light of his philosophy. Whether that philosophy is right is an open question. It is believed by writers on the history of miorals that man’s upward and onward progress has been aided by keeping before him the example of the virtuous and not of the vicious. Vice is in the world, but shall that fact be flaunted in literature and kept always in evidence before men? If we are to interpret the philosophy of Zola con- sistently with.some of the great qualities he displayed, we must conclude that he had confidence in the re- pulsive power of vice, and believed it superior to the attractive influence of virtue. Of this there are more than grave doubts, as there will always be a doubt whether the good of his works is equal‘to the harm. He represented a distinctively French school, and perhaps one must be'in the atmosphere of modern France to judge him wisely, since primarily his books were made for that people, with a studied adaptation to their demands. It is-said that as long as he recog- nized the taste, the opinions and the prejudices of his publishers, he failed of popular recogaition. But when, in working out his philosophic ideas of heredity, he defied that restraint, popularity and for- tune came to him. This seems to prove his profound study of his immediate public. \ The Academy never reversed its first judgment against him, and his revolt against that austgre de- cision seemed to thrcw him into greater extremes than before. No pen has drawn more hideous pic- tures of the vices of greed and avarice than his, in “La Terre,” but it requires a bold advocate to declare that men inclined to those vices will be repelled and reformed by the picture. As a patriot he taught France the impolicy of intolerance. As a literary genius has he Yaught the world the policy of a clean PEARY AND THE POLE mind? Land in many respects the most successful of living explorers of the Arctic, has announced that he will not make another venture in the north, but from this time forth will confine himself to the ordinary service of the navy. He is by no means discouraged, however, over the prospects of future exploration, and is reported to have stated in a re- cent interview that were the right man backed by $200,000 of capital and given ten years’ time in which to force the icy barriers of the extreme north, the pole could be reached and the long quest ended. Exploration has now reached within 343 miles of the pole and virtually the condition of the region is known. The north coast of Greenland is the nearest land and beyond that the polar region is a sea. It is not, however, an easy sea to traverse. A reviewer of Peary’s work during his last exploration says: “The ultimate north is locked within and guarded by the shifting turbulence of the terrible Arctic_pack, across whose ridges, fissures and lanes of open water and new ice further progress was impossible. Had the Arctic land covered with its glaciated cap of ice and snow extended farther progress had been more easy, but the changing difficulties of the floating floes are | piled by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics: ! prosperity of the people. IEUTENANT PEARY, the most persistent’ »a wel ht impassable barrier. He found that ice in worse condition than it had been in his attempt in 1900, ‘and all reports from the Arctic tell the same story. The ice“of the Polar Sea grows heavier and more impassable year by year, till it seems as if the chances of reaching the pole diminish rather than increase.” g ¢ The report that the ice cap around the pole is in- creasing gives- confirmation: to a theory, long entertained by some scientists, that the earth is abott to enter upon another period of glaciation. It is said that the researches of meteorologists the world over have furnished data which point to the con-- clusion that countries in the north temperate zone are growing steadily colder. They have attributed this to an increase of ice at the pole and to the effect’ of the cold currents of air and water that come down from the augmenting masses of ice. Peary’s report of the discovery of heavier ice than before isin line with that theory, and will therefore’ be recelved wide interest. 3 Al The explorer, however, has done something morg than discover that the polar ice cap is growing. His exploratigns along the coast of ' Greenland ~have added much to geographical knowledge of that-part of the globe, and it is also reported he has made other discoveries that will be of value to science when a formal report of them is made in a comprehensive and accurate way. Thus while Peary hag not succeed- ed in reaching the pole, nor in fact in coming near- er to it than any other, he has accomplished much'of scientific worth, and has ably upheld the traditions of American Arctic exploration. Should he hold to his present determination not to retirn. to the north, but leave further search to younger men, he #ill still have a right ‘to share in the honor:that comes to him who finally reaches the pole, for he' has done much to show the road and to make plain the method by which’ the difficulties in the way can be overcome. Connecticut Democrats have foflowed the example of their brothers in Massachusetts and turned Bryan’s picture to the wall and upset the Kansas City platform and from a Nebraska point of view it looks as if Plutocracy had pocketed every Demiocrat in what Mr. Bryan called “the enemy’s country.” THE VITAL ISSUE. ROM one end of the countryto the other Dem- F ocrats are trying to work up an issue for the campaign. The efforts are far frop: being har- monious. In some instances the orators of the party are incessantly talking of trusts and of the necessity of destroying them by an application of that free trade policy which neéver fails to destroy American industry; while at the same time other orators are incessantly asserting that national issues should not be taken into consideration this year; that even in the Congressional districts” the campaigns should be determined by local icsues only. While these contrary views are being set forth with so much clamor the silent progress of the country has put an issue in the field of transcéndent impprt- ance, that of maintaining the conditions on which the prevailing prosperity of the people depends. The destruction of trusts by the adoption of any exten- tive system of tariff reduction would entail first the destruction of thousands of smaller industries before the great combinations would be affected at all. Furthermore, to eliminate this great national issue from the campaign for the purpose of reducing the canvass to strictly local questions would be to sur- render the best interests of the localities themselves, since-no district of the country has any higher in- terest in politics just now than that of conserving its industries by retaining unimpaired the protective system under which they have been built up. Recently the Comptroller of the Currency at Wash- ington issued a statement of the bank deposits of the American people, and while it was not designed as a campaign document, it strikingly exhibits the bene- fits that have resulted from four years of Republican administration. The statistics show. that in 18d1 the total bank deposits of the country aggregated $8,535,- 000,000, an average-of $168 per capita. Ten yearseg’o they aggregated $4,232,000,000, or just half the amount of to-day, and twenty years ago they were $2,600,000,- 000, or a little more than one-quarter of those of to-day. X -A detailed statement of the aggregate bank de- posits for each year since the return of the Republi- can party to power after the overthrow of the Demo- cratic. regime is given in the following table com- & yet avalilable From 1893 to 1897 under Democratic control of the country, the aggregate bank deposits of the coun- try increased only $566,357,374, but during four years of Republican control as the above figures show the increase amounted to $3,338,205,136. The Republican increase exceeds the Democratic increase by more than $2,771,000,000. - ‘Why should any sane voter cast a ballot in favor of changing conditions- that have produced such results throughout the country? It is to'be borne in mind that the bank deposits by no means represent all the They are made up of profits and earnings over and above the cost of living, and it is well known that all classes of people are living much better than during the doleful' four years of Democratic hard.times. 4 - Is it any wonder that-in the face of such efoquent evidences of the excellence of qur present tariff and monetary policies, the orators of the opposition should be hunting high and low and far and wide for some side issue on which to ‘make the campaign. They dare not face the situation of the country fairly and ask the péople to vote for a change. e s e An illustration of.the way trade goes in these days |- is furnished in the reports from the East that the loudest complaints of the price of coal come from merchants who deal in Christmas toys. These men have already ordered -lgrge stacks of goods in the ex- pectation of = big Christmas, and now "they are confronted by the possibility that when the time comes so muth money will be required for coal that little will be left for Santa Claus. o Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, is the latest prophet on the:subject of the strike. At a meeting in Minneapolis some days ago V he said it would end in two or three weeks. Other prophets equally stire have been found to' be wrong, and we shall now see whether the new-one is any better guesser than his predecessor: Lk R Sea serpents have been. reported this year off the coast of Australia and off the coast of Canada, but perhaps it was the saime serpént with his head show- ing at one place and his tail at the other. t1, | Dected by the . | Lawléss machine., - - *OCTOBER 1, 1902, INVENTS A COMPASS OF GREAT ~ VALUE TO THE MARITIME WORLD \ NE of the most important and, | far-reaching inventions to the maritime world ever recorded has been patented by Captain Robert T, Lawless of the steamship Aus. tralla of the Oceanic Steamship Com- pany. The Lawless invention is called a “Stellar Compass” and “Great Circle Course Projector.” By this invention Captain Lawless as- serts_ It is possible to steer a ship after dusk by fixing the compass on a particu- lar star,” thereby insuring the straight course of the vessel throughout the night. ‘When once fixed on a certain star the new invention will hold to it until shifted te another point. Great things are ex- maritime’ world from the ‘The captain is most enthusiastic speaking of his compass. He said: “Its simplicty and usefulness are the stfongest recommendations to the sea- faring’ community, and men who follow the. sea’ to whom I have shown it, pro- nounce it a valuable aid to navigation. NEEDS NO GOMPUTATION. “It is a calculating machine, and needs no computation of any kind. It can be used with the sun, moon or planets as well as the fixed stars. “I have used it on my voyages to Ta- hitl ahd find it a valuable aid, especially when the course has to be changed during the night, as is often the case, and when there is any doubt about the deviation, which there is at all times, unless you can check your magnets by objects that cannot lle. I will give a brief description of the instrument: ““The inside circle, which I call the hor- 1zontal plane, represents a mariner’s com- pass, graduated in points, quarter points and degrees, and is set to the approxi- mate latitude within the next half degree. Rising from the center of the horizontal plane and at right angles to it is a pivot, the top of which is the observer's zenith, On this plyot is a quadrant, graduated t> one-half of a degree of an arc. Its function is to measuré vertical angles or altitudes of heavenly bodies, which is the -same thing, the whole being sup- ported on equatorial axis to admit of lati- tude- adjustment, -which is all that 1s needed, as the zenith point is always as- sumed longitude, thus placing the ob- server in his true position with the earth and the firmament outside of him. “The next part of the machine is more simple and consists,of a circle whose axes are the poles of the heavens (or the earth, which is the same thing) and on this cir- cle are placed the fixed stars in their proper places. By measuring the altitude of any one of them and swinging the al- titude quadrant on the inner eircle around until the particular star observed cor- responds to the altitude just measured, the lower end of the quadrant’ which trav- els around the horizontal plane shows the true bearing of the star, and from which bearing any course desired can be steer- ed, either true or magnetic, without the use of time or tablets or calculatiops of any description. v “The machine has no counterpoise and must not be confounded with the so- called “pelorus.” It is not affected by motion, no matter how violent. It is as useful on top of a mountain as at the sea level and will give the same result on shore as afloat. Having no magnets at- tached it is not affected by iron or load- stone. “On the end of its polar axis Is a side- real clock face, on which can be set the right ascension of the meridian or any of in f—— L3 use circumpolar stars as well as those near the east or west points and makes the measuring of an aititude even unmec- ecsary. STEERING BY THE STARS. “This is all about the machine itself. Now for the reasons why it should find a place in the nautical equipment of ves- sels. In thése days of rapid transit the shipmaster often goes for days without knowing what true course he is making, and it he happens to be in seas where rocks and shoals are abundant, as in the South Pacific, the China Sea and the maze of islands off the coast of Asia, so much the worse for him, especially that part of him which does the thinking. He has not, to use a common phrase, had a “squint at the sun.” . But strange as it may seem, the nights have been clear at times, and in the cloud rifts he has seen an ocecastonal friendly star. But he says to himself: ‘T am foo wornout and tired from night viglls, and if I did work out a star azi- muth I would be afraid to trust the work in my condition now,’ and so he is ill at ease. If he had the stellar compass it would give him rest and peace of mind, because his part would be simple and easy, as the “brass oracle,” once consult- ed, could give no result except a true one. He could go to bed feeling assured that his vessel was plowing straight through aidehannel and rest his poor tired body and mind. the stars. This enables the observer to | *“I suppose that I could go on and give ® o e e L COURT A AITS Burr, Benjamin Watkins, Frederick Knabenshue,' George Stewart, E. M. MEXICO’S REPLY IN FUND CASE THE HAGUE, Sept. 30.—At to-day’s Session of the Intefnational Court of Ar- bitration, which is hearing arguments in the Pjous fund case, after Senator Des- camps had concluded his argument for the United States, during which he con- tended that Mexico ought to pay in gold, “the only international money and the only money represénting real value,” Solicitor Penfield of the United States, commenced his pleadings. Penfield paid tribute to the sovereigns of Russia, Great Britain, Denmark and Holland, as rulers of the countries of some of the members of the tribunal whose judgment will be of the highest importance in conducing to the main- tenance of the peace and justice of the entire world. Counsel proceeded to ar- gue that the Governments of Spain and Mexico had fully recognized the sacred obligation to the employ the Pious fund in accordance with the original intention of the founders of the propagation of the Catholic religion. He maintained the finality of the verdict of the arbitration court of 1875. International arbitration, he added, must be regulated by interna- tional law. 3 In conclusion Penfleld thanked the court for its patient attention to the pleadings and expressed the hope that Mexico and the United States would maintain their close bonds of friendship and sympathy. The pléadings will conclude to-morrow with Mexico’s reply. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. M. J. Gerdes of Nevada is at the Lick. D. W. Carmichael of Sacramento s at the Grand. H. C. Cutting, a mine owner of Tono- pah, is at-the Palace. A, T. J. Reynolds, a fruit grower of ‘Walnut Grove, is at the Lick. Ex-State Senator A. F. Jones of Oro- ville is a guest zi the Palace. ‘M. L. Washburn, a mining man of Daw- son, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. D, 8: Rosenbaum; - president of - the Farmers’' and Merchants’ Bank of Stock- ton, Is at the Palace. Richard McCoy and wife, General R. H. ‘Warfleld, Colonel A. D, Cutter and Majes J. B. Lauck left last evening to attend the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Washington, D. C. v —————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—The following Californians have arrived: San Fran- cisco—H. J. Brand, at the St. Denis; W. Jackman, A. W. Forbes and wife, H. A, Cohen, at the Herald Square; W. N. Kel- ly, C. B. Andman and wife, A. Willkomen, at the Imperial; W. Babcock, at the Man-. hattan; J.. Grant, at the Broadway Cea- tral; E. B. Owens, at the Hoffman; H. C. Reynolds, at the Murray Hill; F. Graves, at the Metropolitan; Mrs. A. W. Jackson, Miss A. Jackson, at the Albemarle; G, Martin and wife, at the Astor; F. P. Mi- naugh, at the Albert. Los Angeles—N. Fitzstubbs, Miss L. Hanwell, at the Broadway Central; A. Douglass, at the Holland. San Jose—W. Edwards, at the Hoffman. d'?a.n Diego—Miss Thompson, at the Ca- “dillae. —_——————— News in Army Circ :s. _The following named officers were ap- pointed by Gen Hughes yesterday to constitute a court-martial to be convened at Monterey October 2: Lieutenant Col- | onel L. A. Matile, Majors Frank Taylor and William Lassiter, Captain John Cot- Reeve, C. R. Elliott, all of the Fifteenth Infantry,-end Major Willlam Stephenson of the medical department. ard Johnson, surgeon, has been appointed examiner of recruits in this city. e e i Inspects Ventilating Plant. ‘The members of the Board of Education recently visited the Berkeley High School to inspect the ventilating plant in opera- tion in that institution. After seeing the workings of the system the board decided to use it in some of the new schools soon to be built. The board expects to have better results in that regard than with the heating plants in the schools. Out of five installed in the Giis’ High, Mission High, Whittler and two other schools, not one worked satisfactorily, though thou- sands of dollars have been spent on them. Director Roncovieri throws up his hand at the coal bills for the heating plants and dreads the possibility of high prices for coal that now rule in New York City. —_———— Weighers’ Salaries Increased. The Treasury Department has increased the salary of the Assistant Weighers in the Custom House from $1200 per annum to 34 per diem, Sundays excepted. The four extra assistants will receive $4 per diem when actually employed. Majer Rich- | - A REMARKABLE STELLAR COM- PASS INVENTED BY CAPTAIN ROBERT T. LAWLESS. & — a thousand reasons for having this ma- chine, and yet nine out of ten men would say, ‘Oh, who cares for the stars. We never see them where we go.’ But to such men let me say that it will be like g thir- ty-eight caliber Smith & Wesson—when the night comes that you will need it the reed will be urgent. “The only astronomical education nec- essary for use with this instrument is an acquaintance with about twenty-two stars of the first magnitude. They will always be emough, as the sky s never without three or four of them visible. You can use the smaller ones if you so desire. This acquaintance need not be such @s an astronomer has, nor Is it need- ful to know to what constellations they belong; neither is It necessary to know their mythical storles so dear to the an- cient Greeks. “You simply know them as you kmow John Smith or Pierpont Morgan, without caring what their family history might be. A man must be very dull indeed if in a month he cannot commit to memory at least half a dozen of the twenty-two, and i he thinks that number enough, no one can say that it is not. But I'll guar- antee that by the time he has committed to memory those half dozen he will go on :‘x;trxi ,be becomes famillar with all the Frunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.* —_———— Townsend's California Glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire-stched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ ———— A. L. Rotch, who has'been studying the German scientific methods of observations in the upper air, says that everywhere he found the Blue hill-kite had besn adopted by the German observers. e ——1 Faded hair recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 1Scts. way franchise in a Western city. would naturally arise in such not a single cent extra. the book is a powerful and capable man who is a master hand at the manipulation of city councils. ‘But here the game for which he is playing has a much higher stake—he hopes not ¢mly to get his coveted charter through, but to secure for himself the more valuable prize of a seat in the United States Semate. This novel gives the most lifelike picture in fiction of the modern trust, the financial promoter and the group of men that always surround him—bankers, promoters, newspaper men and hangers-on. Besides such a strong setting and the accompanying quota of dramatic incidents that story through the weaving of the politicians and social strivers—a love story that is filled with human interest and will hold your un- divided attention from start to finish. Remember that the first half of this novel will be published in the Sunday Magazine Section of The Call on October 5, and will be completed on Sunday, October 12. Buy it at the book stores and this book will cost you $1 50—read it in The Call and it costs you The Best Fictlion of the Year Free With the Sunday Call. EXT Sunday’s Call will contain the first half of that splendid Hnovd of the present day’s social and political life, “The Au- tocrats,” by Charles K. Lush; and on the following Sunday, October 12, this book will be completed. Here yeu have one of the standard works of fiction of the season free! Sunday Call, without any loss of news or feature matter} and a whole novel as well—all for ten cents. “The Autocrats” is a story that is filled with the fresh and in- vigorating atmosphere of Western enterprise and emergy. The mo- tive of the novel is founded upon the dramatic incident of a combi- nation of politicians and capitalists working to secure a street rail- Two issues of the The most prominent character of Mr. Lush writes a pretty love Other books of equal merit are to follow; just cast your eye over some of these titles and notice these names of famous authers who are on The Call’s fiction list. The following are only a few of the splendid novels soon to appear iz the Sunday Call: “The Gen- tleman From Indiana,” by Booth Tarkington; “Alice of Old Vin- cennes,” by Maurice Thompson; ““/hen Rnighthood® Was in Flow- er,” by Charles Major; “The Leopsrd’s Spots,” by Thomas Dix Jr. First Half of “The Avtocrats” Will Re Dublished Next Sunday. ter’and Leroy Upton, Licutémants F. 8.l — . Jo . . oo