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C ILFRID LAURIER, the Premier of the | Dominion of Canada, has struck out on a | new line of statesmanship that may set the | Jace for other crown colonies of Great Britain. He | attended the conference of colonial Premiers in Loadon t¢ discuss the colonial commercial federation scheme, which failed to head. Thereafter he con- | ceived the policy of independent action, and visited Comtinental Europe to discuss a Canadian preferen- { tial tariff directed agzinst the United States. This projeet has taken shape sufficiently to interest the W United States. It is not generally known that one of our great interests is being transferred from this country to Canada. The destruction of our stock ranges on the public domain by overstocking and the indifference of the Government to that condition have caused | the migration of nearly 30,000 American stockmen to the Dominion in the last two years. There they get range lands on the public domain by lease and a homestead privilege, somewhat on the range lease plan of Australiz, and it is expected by Canada that within three vears she will enter the lists as a beef cxporter in rivalry with us. The great and increasing shortage in the range cattle supply of the United States is one cause of the i high prices which are beginning to tell on our beef | export, and are the subject of general complaint by the home consumer. It is easy to see that an astute statesman like Laurier may use the liberal policy of | his Government toward the stockmen to promote an | interest which here is made the victim of govern- mental indifference, or worse. Our Western ranges were the finest in the world, 2nd if preserved would have furnished a2 permanent grazing zrea of about 400,000,000 acres. But, unpro- tected, and the forage destroyed, these pastures are becoming desert again at the rate of about 5,000,000 acres annually. The meat supply of Europe is one of the great problems of that hemisphere and one of the prizes of this. Sir Wilirid Laurier’s farsighted policy may | give that supply to Canada at our expense, and when this is done Americans will wonder why it is per- mitted. This is the one point at which Laurier’s policy may succeed to our injury. The public domain of Canada, heretofore largely unutilized, has a grazing area equal to ours ir extent and of greater value, because its forage has not been exterminated. It is the most valuable asset of the Dominion. She can- not hope to approach us in manufactures, metal pro- duction, cotton, grain, tobacco and sugar, but she can easily excel us ir livestock production on her public range. Beef is more economically produced on the range than by any other method. It will be scen that while we are destroying the cheapest source of beef cupply Canada is developing hers and pre- serving it. It is a race the result of which may eas- ily be foreseen. When the question of a universal language was under discussion by the British Association at Belfast reeently Sir Frederick Bramwell set forth the advis- ability of adopting Italian, as its use would give rise to no international jealousies, and suggested that the great nations agree that after twenty years no one shall be appointed to public office unless speak Italian. How does that jar you? he can A story is going the rounds in New York that Lord Salisbury resigned the Premiership becapse the King would not let him confer a peerage upon William Waldorf Astor, so it seems the high flyers believe they are swaying empires and controlling Ministries as well 2s running automobiles; but perhaps they are mistaken, B A A New York soldier, feeling excebdingly thirsty and finding no beer within reach, went into a barber- shop and drank a bottle of bay rum and a bottle of witchhazel. He lived but four hours to enjoy the spree, but during that time he had such a jag on that it took six men to hold him. The boy firebugs who have been creating ~ such havoc in San Rafael and elsewhere suggest in their dangerous selves the propriety of establishing some sort of an institution where reform will not be the THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1902. DOLLIVER ON TRUSTS. ENATOR DOLLIVER of Iowa in his speech S on trusts and combines to the Republican | clubs at Chicago vindicated the vitality of the law of competition, which survives all attempts at nullification. Measured by the volume of their capi- talization, about one-half of the trusts formed in this country have already fallen to pieces. In this process loss was inflicted upon investors in their stocks. An old story was told over again. The investors in George Law’s Mississippi scheme were losers, and so were the shareholders in Paterson’s - Darien company. All attempts to exceed the safe limits of capitali- zation have failed. We are aware that some may deny this by citing the increase in the capitalization of some American railways. But these citations may not always be in point. It is easy to conceive that a railway, built upon credit through an unsettied coun- try, which is to be developed by the road itself, will acquire greater value with the increase in its busi- ness, and there is no way in which this increase can be represented except by an increase in its stock. The lands through which it runs have increased from the Government price of $1 25 per acre to a value of §50 or $100 per acre. It would be idle to say that the railroad Ias not also increased, and additions to its stock to represent that increase may not be justly stigmatized as stock watering to represent a fictitious value. It is not without interest that this process of in- creasing a stock issue was first hit upon by the farmers of Ohio, who originally built and owned what i now known as the Lake Shore Railroad. They found tHat the road had increased in value. They wanted to sell it and get the benefit of the increment, and accomplished this by increasing the stock. This new method was soon used by railroad speculators to create a fictitious value, but in its origin it was a correct business method. In the time to come every business enterprise in this country that is overcapitalized will fall and in- vestors will be losers. Conservative Englishmen, who know all about capitalization, are already criti- operations with caution and suspicion, because he runs to excessive overcapitalization, thereBy dis- counting the future of many of his projects. He may have plain sailing while general prosperity in- duces an overbuoyant hopefulness of the future, but at the first sign of reaction and loss of confidence | there will be many a wreck. People in all the commercial nations had to learn by experience in the operations of ordinary corpora- tions. They had to lose by reckless operation or gross overcapitalization, and had to be admonished by stringent laws enforcing the liability of stock- holders. So in this new method of incorporating corporations into a trust the people must learn that no wizard can nullify the laws of capital. President Roosevelt, while Governor of New York, insisted upon publicity as a safeguard against the evils of overcapitalization. The lure to the pro- moter of trusts is found in his commission upon the transaction, which comes out of the good money paid for the stock by individual investors. If the law compel complete publicity that will' disclose the actual value of the physical properties represented by the stock the sale of watered stock will be impos- sible. No Napoleon of finance will ever charm peo- ple into paying a dollar for stock and getting only twenty-five cents in actual value. Turgot broke down George Law’s scheme by exposing it through his essay on the quality and nature of money. It accomplished exactly what complete publicity will in the case of the overcapitalized trusts. While no one pretends that all evils may be exor- cised by publicity, the primary evil of stock inflation will disappear. And what then? The lure of great and improper gain to the promoter will be removed, and we will see less activity in the formation of trusts. Without special legislation upon that sub- ject the element of competition will continue. The United States Steel Company is very far from ‘making 2ll the steel or controlling completely the metal output and prices of the country. It has more than one strong rival in the field, and our limestone, iron and coal deposits are so extensive that no single combination can control them, and any attempt to artificially raise prices will bring more competition into the field. When a trust attempts to control entirely a nat- ural resource, with a view of artificial advance in price to meet the demands of overcapitalization and hold up’ the fictitious value of an overissue of stock, it is playing with fire at both ends. The cost of taking in all enlargement of the natural resources that may be discovered drains it at one end, while attempts to meet this drain and sustain its stock by artificial advance in price at the other invite com- petition, and between the two the ambitions and greedy project falls and fails. The commercial world has gone through the fever of joint stock companies and corporations and sur- vived without permanent impression upon the law of supply and demand, and it will survive the trust fever and come out whole and sound. The country has been hearing much pessimism on the trust ques- tion. But that is not new. It was uttered in the case of the joint stock companies and corporations, but the people in all the great nations, and especially in this, have advanced and prospered, and the luxuries of the few yesterday have become the -at- tainable comforts of the many to-day. primary object of discipline. Industrious seckers after evil-doers are still un- earthing boodlers in St. Louis. Perhaps the town thinks it best to wash its dirty linen before it opens #s great show to the world, It must be distressing to Mr. Rockefeller that while it is so easy to buy 90,000 acres for a hunting park it is impossible for him to buy enough hairs to make his head look gamy. A SERIOUS QUESTION. OMMENTING upon the proposition of ‘ allowing Congress to regulate trusts, Presi- dent Hill of the Great Northern, in a recent address to the farmers of Grant County, Minnesota, asked them this question: “What sort of a Congress would we have after a while if all the business of the country were to be turned over to it?” The question may not be easy to answer, but it is certainly worthy of consideration. Mr. Hill himself did not undertake to answer it definitely nor posi- tively, but he said: *I think a good deal of business would be doing in Congress under such conditions, but the business the Congressmen would do would not bring to you the business you wish.” It will be conceded that Mr." Hill's thought is not far from the truth. A Congress engaged in overseeing, directing and controlling the vast business affairs of the great corporations of the country, with power to promote some and hinder others; would be a Congress in which the lobbyist would'havc a bonanza. Mr. Hill argued that trusts should be dealt with separately, each upon its own merits, and said: “We .4 should hold every man responsible for his acts. If 4 letin on the subject. cizing Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan and look upon his | ) he does wrong punish him, but if he does right pro- tect him. When that is done the trust question will answer itself.” There are of course many persons who have not Mr. Hill's optimism and who will continue to doubt whether it is possible to get along without some kind of wholesale supervision of great capitalistic combi- nations, but to those persons Mr. Hill's question re- mains:” “What sort of a Congress will we have after a.while ii we clothe it with power to manage all the great business affairs of the country?” The ques- tion goes to the whole people and each may answer it for himself according to his intelligence. Galusha A. Grow has retired from politics and an- nounces that he will neither write a book, write for the magazines nor lecture. In the name of the peo- ple: Thanks! O American industries is the migration which is carrying each line of work to the locality where it can be conducted most economically and effectively. This migration has been going on for some time, but was not distirictly marked until of late. At the present time it has gone so far toward centering particular industries in certain localities as to have -attracted the attention of the census offi- cials and led to the publication of an interesting bul- S e e ————— LOCALIZED INDUSTRIES. NE of the most interesting movements in For the purposes of showing the migration and localization clearly great care was taken in prepar- ing the tables of the bulletin to prevent confusion, for the general statistics of any industry show of course a great many facts other than that of localiza- tion, and so it is not easy to note the localizing movement. Fifteen industries were selected for study with respect to this particular movement, and in each industry four tables are given showing the localization by States and by cities and the speciali- zation of cities and States in a particular industry. The tables thus show first how large a proportion of any industry is concentrated within a comparatively small area, and second how largely certain localities are given over to a special industry. It appears that 85 per cent of the collar and cuff manufacture of the Union is carried on at Troy; Baltimore does more than 65 per cent of the total oyster canning; more than 54 per cent of our gloves come from Gloversville and Johnstown, New York; Waterbury manufactures over 45 per cent of our brassware; Philadelphia more than 45 per cent of our carpets; Providence and neighbor- ing towns more than 45 per cent of our jewelry and 36 per cent of the silverware manufactire; Meriden produces over 32 per cent of our plated-and britan- nia ware; more than 35 per cent of the meat pack- ing business of the country is carried on at Chicago, and the same city produces more than 24 per cent of our agricultural implements. Statistics relating to the extent to which certain cities specialize their industrial energies show that in South Omaha nearly go per cent of all her wage- earners were engaged in slaughtering and meat pack- ing; nearly 89 per cent of the labor of McKeesport, Pa,, is employed in the iron and steel industry; East Liverpool, Ohio, has over 87 per cent of her labor employed in potteries; Bethel, ‘Conn., has 86 per cent.in the fur hat industry; Tarentum, Pa., 86 per cent in the manufacture of glass; Fall River, Mass., 81 per cent in the production of cotton goods; Brockton, 77 per cent in the boot and shoe industry; and Hoboken, N. J., 76 per cent in the manufacture of silk. It is to be noted that localization is not definitely fixed. The migratory movement is still strong. Thus in the report of the manufacture of farm implements the bulletin says: “A feature of the development of the industry during the last ten years has been its remarkable increase in Illinois and its decline in New York and Ohio. The manufacture is forced to es- tablish itself near its chief market on account of the high freight rates. The industry has therefore local- ized near the center of agriculture and especially of the grain producing section of the country, and has moved westward from decade to decade.” Other industries are of course subject to like in- fluences. The manufacture of cotton goods is mov- ing toward the South, and the center of production of many lines of goods is moving West. The present manufacturing supremacy of a comparatively small section of the Union ‘will eventually pass away, and the West and South will build up largely through industries that move from their present centers in New England, New York and Pennsylvania. | About the only truth that shines clear and clean out of the ceaseless turmoil in Wall street is that it is high time for the American people to take the United States treasury out of the pool. R when it was more important than now for in- dependent citizens to cast their ballots for the Republican ticket from top to bottom. The demor- alized and confused opposition, if successful, could do no mare than carry confusion into the Government or into any department of which it obtained control. In no single instance does the opposition present to the people a candidate who is superior to his Repub- lican opponent, so that not even the score of per- sonal merit can be urged anywhere to justify the sub- stitution of an opposition candidate in the place of a Republican candidate. In the Congressional districts the issue is the plain one of electing to Congress men who will sustain the administration and the policies to which so much of our prosperity is due. In the State Legislature we need men who will vote for the election of a Republi- can to the United States Senate and who will enact legislation to carry out the great programme of State improvements to which the party is pledged. For the county offices the Republicans have nominated men of known business ability and fidelity. The can- didates of the party for judicial offices have been selected with an eye single to their fitness for the bench. There is not 2 man among them who is not worthy of the support of the party and of independent voters. There is a good opportunity this year for the peo- ple to get permanently rid of the last remain- ing vestiges of Bryanism and political demor- alization. A clean sweep of the field will rid the politics of the country of the fusion and confusion which have prevailed in the ranks of the opposition ever since the-free silver craze drove statesmen and business men out of the Democratic party and left it in the hands of boy orators, windy demagogues and office-seekers of well nigh every gaudy stripe. There is but one way to clear the field of all that; we must have a victory for the whole THE WHOLE TICKET. ARELY ‘has there been in our politics a year ARR RRANGEMENTS for another big bazaar for charity are now under way. An affair to be given at the Palace Hotel Maple Room on the 18th day of next month will benefit the Protestant Episcopal Old Ladies’ Home. In addition to the attractive things to sell, there will be an interesting musical pro- gramme. The plans are as yet quite in- definite, but with the good management back of it, the bazaar is bound to be a success. oy Misses Amy and Grace Garoutte invited a few of their friends to their home on Page street yesterday afternoon to meet Mrs. G. H. Umbsen, nee Downey of Chicago, who has recently come to this city to reside. The affair was entirely in- formal and not a tea as was erroneously stated. The guests yere: Miss Georgla Spieker, Mrs. John Chase, Miss Cluff, Miss Mabel Cluff, the Misses Bull, Miss Allce May, Mrs. Gardner Perry Pond (another bride), Elizabeth Painter, Miss Rachel Hovey, Miss Paula Wolff and Mrs, Harvey Titoomb o Sacramento. e Miss Merritt Reid left some days ago for Boston, accompanied by her mother, and has entered Miss Chamberlain’s fin- ishing school. Miss Reld is extremely [popular and it was hoped she would mako her debut this winter in society, but she is very young and her devoted parents have arranged for more study and travel for her before permitting her to give up her time to social gayeties. Galel e Mrs. Silvester entertained a number of friends at her new residence In San Ra- fael on Wednesday evening of this week. P Mrs, Jullan Thorne will be guest of hon- jor at r card party to be given by Mrs. I, Walton Thorne on Wednesday next. . s o The informal hop at the Presidio last evening was a pleasant affair and served to introduce & number of new officers. s o The Whist and Forestry sections of the [Californta Club held interesting sessions yesterday morning. o el The members of the Consumers’ League re planning to do some very practical ork this coming winter. They have the fo-operation of the health officers in their nvestigations, and some of the large stores carry goods bearing the label of he league, while others are willing to do CHARITY e s0. The league will soon have a State factory inspector appointed. The com- mittees of the league are as follows: Visiting committee—Mrs. Mark Gerstle (chairman), Mrs. Jesse Godley, Miss Marie Voorhies, Mrs. Willlam Gerstle. Speakers’ committee—Mrs., J. F. lr:hlh'l'l’mn),A Hrrl_“F.flG, Sanborn, M Orr, Mrs. A. F. Morrison. Membership committee—Mrs. F. G. Sanborn (chairman), Mrs. Kaspar Pischel. Press and printing committee—Mrs. O._Southard. Investigating committee—Mrs. A. F, Mor- rison (temporary chairman), Miss Virginia Fitch, Mrs. L. P. Smiley, Miss Luctle Eaves, Dr. Dorothea Moore, Swift J. W, Clare B e i R R e R S R TUESDAY CLUB OF SACRAMENTO IS PROSPERING The Tuesday Club of Sacramento, which was founded by Mrs. Finley R. Dray of that city in 189, has elected the follow- Ing named as its officers for the current year: Mrs. Frank A. Edinger, president; Mrs. G. M. Dixon and Mrs. George W. Lorenz, vice-presidents; Mrs. Bruce L. gray, recording secretary; Mrs. E. E. corresponding secretary; Mrs. C. ffl%eckwl(hx,) treasurer; Mrs. George Taylor, sentinel. “ This society was originally the “Tues- day Literary Club,” which was started y Mrs. Dray with the idea of having a gtudy club to meet at the parlors of e various members to discuss topics df general interest. After the first meet- ing, held December 1, 18%, in the parlors Gf Mrs. William Beckman, the club had delivered before it during the first season by Mrs, E. B. Purnell & serles of histor- ical lectures on Greece, Rome, England, the colonial days of America and the Civil War. So great was the interest taken in the organization that the mem- seventeen on the charter list })e:::ze; ‘by the end of the first season tp fifty-three. The yclub has since had successively as residents Mrs. F, R. Dray, Mrs. Edward ‘witchell, Mrs. A. J. Johnston and Mrs. . P. Colgan. The club continued to grow in prominence and membership and, it aving outgrown its original purpose, it as deemed advisable to drop the name “literary” and give it the name by which it.is now known. ja |1t was also decided to declare that “its object shall be to form a recognized cen- ter for social and mental culture; to fur- ther the education of women for the re- sponsibilities of life; to encourage all movements for the betterment of soclety, and to foster a generous public spirit in the community.” It was further decided expedient to subdivide the large body into smaller departments, namely “Liter- ature,” “Current Topics,” ‘“Home and Education” and *“Shakspeare,” in order to facilitate the study along different lines made necessary by the diverse tastes of the members. During Mrs. A. J. Johnston's second term as president, the club, in addi- tlon to the usual social reunions, engaged in work of a philanthropic nature to a limited degree. The first undertaking in that direction was the equipment and aintenance of a free cooking school for ung girls under the supervision of Mrs. ta Elliott. Great Interest is taken in the work of the organization and the membership is increasing. This is to be limited to 350. he club took up the subject of the city purchasing East Park to be reserved as a playground and park and to be dedi- cated as a memorial to the late President McKinley. The action taken thereon re- sulted in a promise by the City Trustees to acquiesce, as far as possible, to the Wishes of the club. | The organization has been represented lv delegates in the meetings of the Cal- ifornia Federation of Women, held in San rancisco, the General Federation of Wo- en’s Clubg, held in Los Angeles, and the Sacramento Valley Development Asso- clation in Woodland. A committee from e club worked in connection with the treet Falr Club of Sacramento in its oral day parade. An excellent programme has been ar- nged for the year, which will commence ctober 7 and close April 21, following. n the day first named there is to be a reception, on which occasion the member- ship of the Shakespeare Club of Wood- land and the Reading Club of Woodland will be the guests of the day. e PERSONAL MENTION. “J. H. Yancey, a lumber dealer of Wood- land, is at the Lick. George D. Fiske, a merchant of Wood- land, is at the Grand. E. I. Woodman, Democratic candidate for State Printer, is at the California. Ex-Judge J. J. Hanford, an attorney of San Bernardino, is at the California. Alden Anderson, Republican ecandidate for Lieutenant Governor, is a guest at the Grand. K. Caspar, owner of an extensive elec- tric plant at Vallejo, Is at the Lick, ac- companied by his wife. Mrs. W. H. Whitney, wife of the com- mander of the naval station at Honolulu, is at the Occldental with her family, en route. to the Islands. . ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct. 3.—The fol- lowing Californians have arrived at the hotels: Raleigh—(C', C. Parker, Los An- geles; W, A. Cole, Ban Francisco. P BENEFIT FOR STRIKERS.—A benefit per- formance will be given next Thursday aftei- moon at % o'clock In the Alhambra Theater, pices of the loeal trades unions, Leadiug from almost all the theaters have Mayor Schmitz will lead the STORM DAMPENS MARTIAL ARDOR IN WAR GAME FORT RILEY, Kans.,, Oct. 3.—Another flerce storm, more severe than that of the earlier part of the week, swept over Camp Root to-day and put a temporary stop to the maneuvers. To-night the storm is raging and the prospects for to- morrow are not reassuring, although the Weather Bureau has scheduied fair skies. The ground was in such condition by 8 «’clock that General Bates declared the day’s maneuvers off. until further orders. A number of the National Gpard officers have left for home. Unless there is favor- able weather to-morrow it is likely that more of them will turn their backs upon Fort Riley. It has been planned by the regular army officers to make the closing exercises the most interesting of the entire series, but there will be none of the National Guard to take part in the last maneuvers save 200 men of the Colorado Guard, and they leave one day before the close of the full programme. The work lald out for to-morrow, weather permitting, includes the con- struction of a pontoon bridge by the en- gineers and the formation of an advance guard by the entire command. There will be, as usual, an attack upen the march- ing column. The Forty-fourth Hospital Corps left for Washington this atternoon. The move was made in accordance with orders issued some time ago. Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.* _— Townsend’s California Glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched hoxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. €39 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fernia street. Telephone Main 1042, b ——— s Photographic Suplies. Films, plates, papers, cameras. Print- ing and developing. The best of every- thing at Sanborn-Vall's, 741 Market st.* —_——— Swim at the Crystal Baths, Bay street,.near Powell. Water always clean, warm. Tubdepartment best in city.* ———— . Some men ought to be ashamed of themselves if they are acquainted. ANGEMENTS FOR ANOTHER BIG BAZAAR ARE UNDER WAY —p POPULAR SAN FRANCISCO GIRL WHO IS AT SCHOOL IN BOSTON. SCENIC AUTO ROAD ALONG THE McCLOUD Special Dispatch to The Call . REDDING, Oct. 3.—Siskiyou and Shasta counties are to be connected by an auto- mobile road—a thoroughfare built ex- pressly for the use of the automobiles owned and operated by a half-dozen or more of California millionaires who spend their summers in the healthful climate of the McCloud River. The automobile course will be twenty miles in length and constructed at a cost of about $30,000. The course will be double the width of an or- dinary road. It will commect with the Southern Pacific Rallway at Shasta Springs, will cross the divide east of that resort and, touching the McCloud River, will skirt that beautiful stream for a dis- tance of fifteen miles, ending at the mag- nificent clubhouse that has already been erected on the upper MgCloud River. The chief promoters of the road are Mrs. Phebe Hearst, Colonel Daniel M Burns, Clarence Waterhouse, Colonel Wheeler, the Whittier-Fuller Company and two or three others. It is proposed to begin the work imme- diately and have the road ready for auto- mobile travel before the next summer season opens. The new highway will be lighted at intervals by arc electric lights. Electricity will be cheap along the Mec- Cloud, the McCloud River Power Com- pany having agreed, it is said, to do its share toward this novel work by supply- ing the lights. The road will be unequaled for scenic beauty and will pass through a section of country that will charm mil- lionaire and chauffeur alike. Land Values Increase. A reappraisement flled yesterday of all the realty now in the possession of the exedutors of the will of the late Adolph Sutro shows that the estate as it stands at present is worth $730,250. The report shows that since the death of Sutro the realty, which consists of outside lands, has increased from 10 to 25 per cent in value. The appraisers are G. W. Lent, J. M. Wright and C. A. King. —_——— A vigorous growth and the original color given to the hair by Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 1Scts. tocrad the standard works “The Autocrats” tive of the novel is founded way franchise in a Western city. playing has a much higher coveted charter through, but to prize of a seat in the United not a singls cent extra. the book is a powerful and capable manipulation of city councils. But here the game for which he is stake—he secure for himself the more valuable D piete b S trust, the fnameial mosf e on of the mod th promoter and the group of men that i . Ppromoters, newspaper men and bhangers-on. setting and the accompanying quota of wulm d naturally arise in such scenes, Ty through the weaving of the politicians and social strivers—a love story that is fllled with human divided attention from start to finish. Remember that the first half in the Sunday Magazine Section of 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 Te to follow; just cast your eye f\%——“—* - The Best Ficlion of the Year Free With the Sunday Call. EXT Sunday’s Call will contain the first half of that novel of the present day’s social and political life, “ "’ by Charles K. Lush; October 12, this book will be completed. Here you have one of of fiction of the season free! Two issues of the Sunday Call, without any loss of news whole novel as well—all for ten cents. is a story that is filled with the fresh and in- vigorating atmosphere of Western enterprise and energy. The mo- upon the dramatic incident of a combi- | nation of politicians and capitalists Au- and on the following Sunday, or features matter, and a working to secure a street rail- The most prominent character of man who is a master hand at the hopes not only to get his This novel gives the always surround him—bankers, Besides such a strong dramatic incidents that Mr. Lush writes a pretty love interest and will hold your un- of this novel will be published The Call on October 5, and will over some of these titles and notice these names of famous authors who are on The Call’s fiction list, the aplendid novels soon to appear tleman' From Indiana,” The following are only a few of in the Uunday Call: “The Gen- by Booth Tarkington; “Alics of Old Vin- cennes,” by Maurice Thom; 3 ‘“./hen Knighthood Was in Flow- er,”” by Charles Major; “The Leoparz's Spots,” by Thomas Dix Jr. First Half of “The Avtocrats” Will Re Published Next Svnday. 1 I be completed on Sunday,