The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1902, Page 6

The— slne Enll FRIDAY \OVEMBER 7, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprielor. Acdress All Communications to W. S LEAKE, Manager. i Ask for THE CALI..—“'he Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevemmon St. | Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday). one year.. $8.00 DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), 6 months. 8.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month. @Ss SUNDAY CALL, One Yeer. ::; | All postmasters are authorised to recelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering cl of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS !n grder #0 iosure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. PAKLAND OFFIC: .. +20.1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Yensger Fereipn Advertising, Marquette Buflding, Chicago. 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Many samples are of such bulk or weight that they can only go as freight, but many may be carried by mail, provided there are proper mail treaties between this and other coyn- tries for a pargels post. Such 2 postal arrangement is especially needed be- tween this country and Australia, and California is very much interested in securing it. At present such ited to twelve ounces, and no package | weight can be sent by mail. Oddly | gh we have a parcels post arrangement with | Zealand by which any weight up to eleven | ay be sent by mail. Australians who desire samples are compelled to get them wia | or have them- sent direct by express at | s is.a restraint upon trade. ne firm has taken up the matter with a ure a proper mail arrangement for carry- | | | | [ I er ing ples between the two countries. They re- port t it costs a Melbourne merchant to get from the United States $2 30 that which an Auckland fer- it gets by post for 75 cents. Our reciprocal trade with, Australia is considerable and is. growing all the time, and San Francisco gets a considerable part of it. | The trade in Melbourne and Sydney has heretofore found = proper postal arrangement difficult because the separate colenial Governments had to be dealt with, but the Australian federation removes this dif- ficulty and offers the same advantage as New Zeal- ngle governmental authority to deal with. cisco merchants are very much interested in joining the Australian merchants in getting a proper sample privilege by post. We are to.look to the trade of,Oceanica and Asia, as the countries there Jovk to us. It is to be complementary and re- ciprocal exchange, and this city will be its distribut- ing point. Our commercial bédies should do every- thing possible to encourage its increase, and to make the facilities for its transaction greater here than glsewhere. Every merchant knows the figure trade cut by samples. The advisory board of the Commercial 1luseum at Philadelphia has issued a volume on extension of our foreign trade relations, and it teems with reference to the importance of samples. All of our Consuls in France join in saving that the French must have ocular proof of the goods. They must see samples and their purchase must equal the sample. From Spain comes the consular advice, “Send samples and ship according to sample.” From Germany comes the same word: - “Send samples; the articles must be up to the standard of sample; *they must not fall below -in" quality:” it jvas that way that our cheese trade was ruined in &gland, through the dishonest shipment of an inferior article.” From South Africa the Australian demand for a parcels post is duplicated. England has a parcels post treaty with Portugal at Lorenzo Marquez, which | saves cost in transportation and $2 50 in customs fees on each sample. We have no such arrangement, | and our merchants are handicapped lh;reby. It is interesting that our commercial rivais omit no detail, however small, that will help their foreign trade, and they all seem to have regardéd this par- cels post arrangement as of preliminary importance. Therefore let us look into it and/in that respect give our own merchants facilities equal to those of their rivals. in London papers complain that the “American inva- sion” has so changed good old British customs that it is mow not uncommon to sce men in the box stalls of theaters and at dinner in fashionable restaurants without evening dress, while Boston papers com- plain that the clubmen of that city.have a veritable mania for putting on evening clothes. Thus does the world change. Britain fakes our customs and we take hers, and still nobody is satisfied. Paris reports announce the death of a great python after 2 fast of two years five months and three days. During the whole period of its captivity it could not be induced to eat food of any kind; though it would' erush any bird or animal put into its cage. During the fast it Jost 66 per cent of its weight before it died, @ record of vitality of which science has no equal. o R “ It is stated that the Colombian Government shows signs of putting obstructiohs in the way of the con- 'S | cess is due to a personal cause purely. i there is. THE SAN - FRANCIS THE REPUBLICAN WES TATESMEN and politicians may profitably study the. returns from the Western States of the Upper Mississippi Valley and west of the Missouri River. Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, the two Dakotas, Kan- sas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon and Califbrnia have all again ‘Wheéled into the Republican column. Ne- vada alone remains ‘outside. i These States were affected the worst by the silver craze of 1896. The ravages of that creased westwardly, side ‘of ‘the Missouri River, and an early poll in Mr. Bryan's campaign showed that Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and I8wa, on the other side, were so seriously affected that extreme alarm was felt by the Republi- can and Gold Democratic national committees, that they would topple over on the side of unsound money. What a mighty change has been wrought since then! The 'West, in its broad sense, is now the stronghold; oi sound' money and Republicanism. It elects » majority of the Republican members of the House :and can do as it pleases in the eléction of a Speaker and in ‘shaping the legislative policy of the party. * 2 In 1892 the regular Democrac’;' carried Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and .California for' Mr. Cleve- land, and Weaver, the Populist candidate, by fusion carried Colorado, Idaho and Kansas, These seven States are now Republican, for Colorado élects a’ Re- publican Governor and State ticket, though the Leg- islature is in doubt. ‘Tt has not often happened in American politics that such populations, under such circumstances, after leaving a party and turning their backs upon'it, have within ten years been brought back to it without any change at all in its principies and policies. There is no doubt that the issues made by the Bryan Democracy in 1896, which have been further demented by adding certain socialist and com- munist doctrines since, have caused thousands of old- disorder in- | time Democrats to adhere to the Republican ticket: Young men casting their first vote have been re- pelled by the defamatory issues made by Mr. B-yan and his iriends as much as they have been attracted by Republican principles, and their votes have added to the total which makes the old West and the new a Republican stronghcld. It is to be noted that the States included in this review were supposed to be the most sensitive to | anti-trust appeals, and that issue was made in them all by exactly the same emotional appeal as was used in advocating rotten money. But it was unheeded, cither because the people refuse to see in the trust problem anything but an evolution of the corporate activity of capital, or because they are entirely $atis- fied’ with President Roosevelt’s statement of the problem and trust him to destroy what is evil and hold fast what is good in the trusts. Everywhere this year a new element in politics was nursed by the Demogracy. That party found labor | organized, and as all politicians attempt to make use of votes that are controlled by ‘prganization and not by individual reason and judgment, every effort was made to encourage the labor unions-to indulge in sep- arate political action or to solidify .and then fuse as a united qpposjtion to Republicanism. The result shows either that the unions did not stay solid and vote, together, or that they are still a minority of the whole labor of the country,*for they have pro- | duced but insignificant results, and these of a kind nét calculated to commend their good judgment or wisdom to the masses of the people who were on the other side: In the final analysis it may be said that the Democ- racy, although receiving again the support of old leaders like: Cleveland, Olney and Hill, Cable and ‘Whitney. had not reformed itself so as to command popular confidence. The gains made by its alliances in one place are offset by losses in another, and its forlorn state is not bettered by the result. It was expected that Towa would stand for a sign of re- action, but there is none there. True, the Second District elects a Democrat to Congress, but his suc- His oppo- nent, Mr. Hoffman, ignorantly declared in the can- vass that there is no tariff on bituminous coal, when This slip was made the most of to show that he was not sufficiently wel! informed to go to Congress, and thewpeople beat him, not because he was a Republican, but because he didn’t know what he was talking about. : These accidents occur in every party, and their effects are sporadic and impermanent, and in spite of them the Great West, new and old, has |.:ult away, the childish things of Bryanism and will stand in the Republican line henceforward: unless some great po- litical convulsion occur that cannot be foreseen. —— Our spluttering, noise-creating submarine monster of war seems to have been designed for one purpose and completed for ancther. The boat makes its ap- proach more ludicrously apparent than the'march of a brigand chorus in a comic opera.v NOW FOR THANKSGIVING. URING the heats of the political campaign D but little heed was paid to the President’s proclamation designating Necvember 27 as a day of national thanksgiving Now that the elections are over even to the shouting and nothing remains of the strife but a threat here and there of a contest and a recount,“it will be well for the public to take up the subject. of Thanksgiving as a basis for the restoration of old-time friendships among the mem- bers of the contending parties. cans have always many things for which to give thanks, and this year they are exceptionally numer- ous and widespread. The. President’s proclamation is notable for the tone of piety which pervades it. He says compara- tively little of our abundant materiai prosperity and other subjects of the kind on which former Presidents hdve laid much stress at Thanksgiving time. He re- calls that during the century and a quarter of their career as an independeat nation the people of the United ‘States have had many heavy burdens to bear and many grim trials to undergo. The cougtry, he ‘says; has been “menaced by malice, domestic or for- eign levy,” and “the hand of the Lord” has been heavy upon it “in drought, or flood, or pestilence, when in bodily distress and anguish of soul it paid the penalty of {olly and/a froward heart.” A Despite the heaviness of the burdens and the grim- ness of the trials we have had more to be thankful for than any other people, and the President reminds us: “Decade by decade we have struggled onward and upward; we now abundantly enjoy material well being, and under the favor of the Most High are striving earnestly to achieve moral and spiritual ’ struction of the Panama canal by Uncle Sam, and it is now up to Samuel to decide whether to buy off the uplifting. The year that has just closed has been one of peace and overflowing plenty. Rarely has any opposition, whip the obstructors, or let Panama go | people enjoyed greater prpsperity than we are now and carry the canal through the Nicaragua route. | enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn It was a political epidemic this | Win or lose, Ameri-. Him, not by words only, but by deeds, by the way “in ‘which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fel- low men.” g o o i 1 It is in the spirit of ‘those words we are to ap- ;Pfoach our great annual festival. The country will be résponsive to the President’s appeal. The season of joy vail be also a season of charity and of mutual good: will. ‘Out of the abundant material prosperity that has blessed the labors of all classes of workers in every section of the Union there will come a gen- uine spiritual uplifting that will enable men to see the brighter and the better side of our national life and appreciate more fully the golden opportunities it af- fords to all deserving men. The dissensions of politics and the long wrangling over issues on which the people‘are divided may lead us at times to believe the country_is full of evil, but Thanksgiving meditations and reflections_ will clear away all doubts and fears. As the Georgia poet, Frank Stanton, sings: Ain't it a mighty good country—spite of an’ all, sonin’ fruits o' the fall! Then ho for a song As we're trudgin’ along For the brightest old country of all! e v Army officers who suffer from the administration of {’knockout 'drops,” and then make an. exhibition of themselves offensive to the rest of us, ought to be chaperoned th}'ough the wicked byways of our city { while sojourning among 'us. "'} - BRITAIN'S PACIFIC CABLE. UR good friends of Great Britain, Canada O and Australia are congratulating one another over the completion ef the Pacific cable con- necting Canada with Australia and giving to the em- pire control over a telegraph circuit that girdles the world. They are justified-in beasting a little bit, for in addition to the m;gfiimde of the enterprise there was a celerity bf work that gives it a good place among the marvels of the7achievement of the new century. The total-length of the cable is 7086-nautical miles, and a recent summary of the work says: “The Co- 1 1 =, Yo thanks to the Giver of Good, and we seek to praise its trqubles From the red o’ the blooms in the .).(a_yflme to the crim- A A e BOAT ESTIMATED TO BE AT LEAST A THOUSAND YEARS OLD, RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN A PERFECT STATE OF PRESERVATION IN COUNTY GALWAY, MONDE, WHO HAS BOUGHT THE ANCIENT: CRAFT. E THOUSAND YEARS OLD - IS DISCOVERED IN COUNTY GALWAY = . \ DISCOVERY of great archeological importance was recenitly made by e laborer engaged in cutting turf from a bog near Knock Mulltown, County Galway, Ire- land. IRELAND, AND PORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS ES- S —Y ews; then plank boats stiffened with ribs, and finally vessels in which framework was first set up and the timbers added afterward. The boat found in Ireland represents the second | lonia sailed from Bamfield Creek, the Vancauyer Island terminus of the Pacific cable; at 2:30 p. m. on | the 18th of September, and laid 3455 nautical miles of cable in 17 days and 21} hours. This.is an average pof_eight milesan hour, andis. believed to be a rec- ord in cable laying. - The distance traveled was about eighty-five miles less than the estimate. The Colonia then went to Honolulu, where her crew was transferred to the cable steamer Anglia, and that ves- sel, “after making the shore connection with Fanning, started out October 18 for Suva to lay the last link connecting the Fijis with Norfolk Island; to which island the cable had already been connected by the Anglia from New Zealand and Queensland.” The last link was completed, it will be remem- bered, on October 30. That is surely a good twen- tieth century record for speed. Laying an ocean cable | at a rate of eight miles an hour on an average for nearly eigh!een‘dayé in succession is a feat to make | any set of workers feel proud of themselves. The section of the line between Australia and Nor- folk Island was laid last sprifhlg, so that part of the line does not count in the record of speed. With the completion of the cable Great Britain has now a wire of her own aréund the globe, and a good deal of stress is laid upon the fact that the new line touches no shores that are not a part of the empire. | It would have been much more convenient and eco- nomical for the British Tine to have touched at Hawaii than to have gone on from Vancouver to Fanning Island, but the desire to have the stations wholly un- der British control outweighed all other considera- tions. : The cable affords another proof of what can be ac- complished by a single man who has a resolute de- termination to achieve a certain object of general good and who knows how to devote himself to that one end without becoming a crank. “'All accounts agree that the work is due to the persistent efforts of Sir Sandford Fleming of Ottawa. ~ As far back as 1879, when he was plain Mr. Fleming and a compara- tively obscure man, he began working for the en- terprise. He submitted plans for the cable to the Government and to eapitalists in Great Britain, in Canada-and in Australia. In 1887 he had accom- | plished little or nothing, but in that year he brought the enterprise up for consideration before an inter- colonial conference in London and succeeded in get- ting,it indorsed. After that time his progress was jsteady. Support came to him from all quarters, and now the cable has been laid. 2 The moral of such a life is worth noting. It never pays to become completely absorbed in a single object, for then an idea becomes a mania and a life is wasted; but, on the other hand, it is always worth while to stick to a good object and work tirelessly for it, for in that way an individual life becomes an Sir Sanflford Fleming has been knighted for his ser- vices, and he deserves the honor, for he has wrought a great thing for his country and for the warld. The British, cable is all right. Now for an American cable. New York reports say that a building now being erected near the Waldorf-Astoria for gambling pur- poses is to be something like al itable fortress in the. way of resisting assault. The Press says that unless the police “shall organize a battery of artillery and attach to their offensive forces a corps of sap- pers and miners the steel armored and sledge-hammer proof palace must - easily resist all methods for taking it by assault.” It thus appears that the tenderloin of New York has taken lessons from Chinatown in metropolis are up to the tricks of Ah Sin. There were many people _who said” the Cubans would not for several generations to come reach an undersfanding of American politics, but now comes a report thg’t a syndicate in Havana has raised the sum of $20,000 to get a franchise scheme through the important factor in the larger destinies of mankind; k {C. H., City. 1 i fornia was Peter H. Burnett, elected in Governor. ‘ors were Democrats, ‘turpéntine or kerosene. San Francisco and the millionaire gamblers of the | City Council. If that be not our method, whose method.is it? s Kentucky has a2 woman who draws from the Gov- ernment four pensions as the widow of four soldiers, There is no ffaud in the case. The Government rec- ognizes that her claims are rightful under the law, and the case-is interesting only as an illustration of what a Kentucky woman can do when she takes to marrying for pensions. gE R oo A Lfind;&fi tailor asserts that men have reached fit— i fection in the manner of clothing their legs, and that the style of trousers worn a'thousand years from now | will not be.essentially different in form from thos .worn to-day. Woman's dress may improve, but % well preserved. day. two tons. Sir Thomas'Esmonde, Bart., has purchased this-valuable find“for presentation to the Royal Irlsh Academy, where it will hold a place of honor as a valuable piece of antiguity. Archeoldgists claim that this boat belongs to the time of Experts recognize flve classes of craft in First comes the primitive raft of the crudely hollowed out of a’ tree trunk; next eame canoes of wood stitched together with sia- the cave-dwellers. the evolution of ships. aborigines, then the cance, - PERSONAL MENTION, ‘Dr. B. A. Plant of Represa is at the rand. < Thomas Flint Jr, of San Juan is.at the Palace. J. A. Petray, a merchant of Healds- burg, is at the Russ. A W. North, an attorney of ‘Woodland, is at the Occidental. G."W. Crystal, a fruit man of Vaea- ville, is at the Grand. : F. L. Caughey, Auditor of Mendocing County, is at the Lick. O. McHenry, a banker of Modesto, is registered at the Occidental. J. M. Fuiton, a miining man of Reno, is a guest at the California. E. Matell, a lumberman of Carters, is among the arrivals at the Russ. Edgar R. Gates, a wall-known mining man of Humboldt, is at the Russ. Willilam Rosenthal, a merchant cf Healdsburg, is registered at the Russ. J. B. Treadwell, a well-known oil man of Bakersfield, is at the Grand, accom- panied by his wife, E. C. Farnsworth, who was a Demo- cratic candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme bench, is at thesLick. C. J. Cox, a merchant of Hollister, is here on a short business trip and has made his headquarters at the California. Ex-United States Senator A. P. Wik liams is at the Palace. He is actompa- nifed by his wife, who is convalescent after a very severe iliness. Dr. Albert Atkins, the well-known spe- cialist, has resumed practice at his omc:; in the Parrott building after a visit several weeks in ‘Galveston and other Texas points. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The folldwing Californians registdred at the hotels to- day: At the Ebbitt, J. H. Bacon; at the New Willard—Mrs. M. Cottrell Smith, H. T. Scott, H. S. Scott and R. Forsyth; at the St. James—H. C. Faber and wife, all from San Francisco. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A QUOTATXbN—B. C., City.. The lines ‘When the sun’s last rays are fading Into twilight soft and dim are from “Thou Wilt Think of . Me Again,” by Theodore L. Barker. , BRESCI-W. H. G., City. Gaetano Bresci, who shot and killed King Hum- tert of Italy at Mouza July 29, 1900, com- mitted suicide in the penitentiary at San Stefano, near Naples, May 21, 1901 ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL BILL—E. V. G., City. In The Call of October 11, 1902, page 6, under the heading of “Brit- ain’s School Fight,” you will find a re- sume of the educational bill that is ag- itating the people of England. FAIR BEQUESTS—L. M., City.. By the will of the late James G. Fair, filed De- cember 29, 1894, the sum of $50,000 was left to the Roman Catholic asylums of San Francisco, a like sum to the Protestant \Asylum, and $25,000 to the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. GOVERNORS OF CALIFORNIA—A. The first Governor of Cali- 1849. Since then there were, prior to No- vember of this year, sixteen elections for Of these nine of the Govern- five Republicans, one Union, one Knownothing and one no party. . POULTRY-Y. W. C., Redding, Cal Poultry may be freed from vermin by ‘washing the roosts with soap and water and then rubbing them with spirits of The floor of the coop should be strewn with a few sprigs upon which either of the liquids named has been poured. The place where poultry is kept should be kept veéry clean. SPROUTING ONIONS—B. M., Spanish- town, Cal. Onions sprout through the process of vegetation. This may be re- tarded by placing the enions in a very ‘cold place, notably an icechest. By the cold. brocess the vegetation is so much suspended that the onions are kept fresh and uninjured till they give place to an- other crop in its natural season. 5 THE SPEAKER-—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. In each Wouse of Pi iment in England the presiding officer led the Speaker. In the House of Lords the of- fice is filled by the Lord or; in the Lower House the Speaker is elected by the Commons. The ker can vote only in committee, or when the votes or a division are equal; he then gives a cast- ing vote. 3 73 ' CAPITAL PUNISHMENT-G. MCcE, I punishment is inflicted in ‘because it is the law of the vidual has his or her At a depth of sixteen feet he came upon a boat hewn out of a single piece of oak and at least 1000 years old. Notwithstanding its age, it is singularly In shape it very greatly resembles the present day canoe, only many times the size of that ecraft in use to- It is forty-eight feet lang, about three feet wide, and two and one-half ‘féet dcep.. The boat looks as though two, or at most three, men might life it, but when weighed shortly after its excavation it drew the beam down to something over why Tt:fltil punishment. period. stimated to be Sir Thoms saya ) bronze which have time. in the collection of GOSSIP FROM .LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS A little agitation in the labor world this week is'not being without its effect on the bopk werld. The bookbinders of Lon- don have risen in a mass and demanded an increase of wages, which the master bookbinders have declined to give. The result if this is that many books which were_expected to be out during the cur- rent week are still lying on the binders’ shelves. Qut of some two hundred books | of various-sorts which ought to have been in the shops of the booksellers I do not think that more than fifty, if indeed as many, have come out on the date for which they _were .advertised. Of these about twenty are novels. Mrs. Arthur Jacob, whose first novel, “The Sheepstealers,” has made a real hit, is so encouraged that she means to con- tinue in authorship, thougnt it may be a little while before she publishes another novel. At present she is-going out to South Africa to join her husband, who is an officer in the army there. He belongs to an old military family. Mrs. Jacob is a Scotchwoman by birth, her maiden name being Erskine. She, however, lived long on the borders of Wales, so it came to pass that she wrote “The Sheepstealers,” which deals with that region. e I noticed the other day that Lord Hals- bury, the Lord Chancellor and Speaker of the House of Lords, had entered the ranks of reviewers in the public press. His name is signed under a review in the Times of one of the volumes of the new Encyclopaedia Britannica. Yet, after all, there is nothing so very remarkable in that, for on inquiry I find that not a few of )his predecessors on the woolsack were copious contributors to letters, Lord Campbell, for instance, who “added a new terror to death™ by his biographies of the Chancellors, and Brougham, whose con- nection with the Edinburgh Review— which, by the way, celebrated its centen- ary this week—is pretty well known. The present Lord Chancellor's judgments in the House of Lords are occasionally en- livened by some literary quotation or ai- lusion, but it cannot be said that his ap- pearance in the role of reviewer was ex- pected. 3 There are few men who have had better opportunities of observing the varieties of European soclety than Sir Horace Rum- bold. His reminiscences, which are being looked forward to with no Iittle interest, will be published under the title of “Rec- ollecttons of a Diplomat,” and will, Ed- ward Arnold says, be issued by him early this month, though the date is not yeét quite fixed. To show what facllitics he has had for gathering interesting rem- iniscences it may be mentioned that he passed much of his early youth in Paris *“Some wooden piles were also found near the boat, which may have formed part of the platform or landing place alongside of which it was moored. age, to which we may date thls boat, the Mulltown bog must haye been a swamp inhabited by lake-dwellers. - The country round about must have been comparatively thickly populated, judging from the number of Duns still to be seen on all sides, and judging also from the number of objects of stone and In the distant been found in the locality from time to “A very beautiful bronge spearhead of unusual form and filish was- found near the place some time since. It is now Dr. Thomas Costello of Tua A bronze dish was also discovered ('l}il"e comparatively recently, but mfortunately it has since disappeare ‘]xn‘:enliun (h};se finds as evidence that the locality of the boat was at one time a populous center, whose people were not without skill as craftsmen.” and cannot be traced. A CHANCE TO SMILE. The latest thing in expensive jewelry is a capsule of ice in a crescent of anthra- cite coal chips.—Baltimore News. Church—What a rush there i3 home from the mountains! Gothaffi—Oh, yes; you see, the shooting season has begun, and the people now hurrying home are the ones who have lit- tle confidence in their fellow men.—Yon- kers Statesman. “Doesn’t the falling leaves and the gray sky of autumn fill your heart with a tinge of sadness?' asked the sentimental young woman. “I should say it does,” answered tho | businessiike young man. “I'm the pro- prietor of a summer hotel.”—Washington | Star. @ iriimieinieieiniieieieieiei il @ and received hid first appointment from Lord Palmerston in 1349 as an attache of the British Ministry at Turin. He Was | subsequently promoted to posts of in- creasing importance at Frankfort, Stutt- gart, Vienna, Rome, St. Petersburg and lastly to Constantinople. There, in 1875, the présent: volume leaves him, but it is bis-M6pé and intention to carry his remi- niseénces to the completion of his diplo- matic career, in 1900, when -he retived: from the post of British Embassador a§ Vienna. The friends of Dr. George Macdonald, the poet and novelist, have learned with krenel. though not surprise, that he 1s now in very feeble health. This veteran writer is nearing his seventy-eightly birth- day. His first volume, “Within and With- out,” was issued in 1856, and his last book, | “Rampolli,” was published in 1807, his lit- erary activity thus covering a period of forty years. F In the Hampshire' edition of her novels, where the scenes are laid in that interest- ing coyntry, Bromley Johnson, himself in former years the editor of Jane Austen, is making a new expermment in illustra- tion. With the front cover of each novel will be found a map of the country or town in which the scenes of the story oc- cur, while at the back of the book thg particular neighborhood, whether it be imaginary or not, is pictured in similar style; giving the relative sizes, distances, positions of houses and walks, according to the author's descriptions. —_——— ‘ Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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"It needed no advertising, for “The Octopus” tells of the grim realities of life, in a way that they have never been . told before, and never will be told again for many a long year to. | come. It deals with the long bitter death struggle between the wheat |- the railroad trust in the broad valley ghly Califarnian, and from the very looked for, £a : growers of Mussel Slough and . of the San Joaquin. It is thorow, first it was hailed as the long and its young author as the great cently, leaving the great trilogy for all of which reasons is now the highest priced mg: ers ‘plete—absolutely free—set about Octopus” in Magazine Section. first installment a; Leopard’s California, and the men ar ‘est State in America, the Call of November 9? that was doubly strengthened by his sudden death in this 5 This, therefore, is to announce that you will get “The Octopus” in The San Americad novelist, a distinction city re- uncompleted. The other two books were: “The Pit, a Story of Chicago,” and “The Wolf, a Story of Famine Stricken Eurcpe,” which will never be - written now—certainly not as Frank Norris would have written it, “The Octopus” has risen to greater fame and popularity, to a more exalted mmqhmgatcn:‘::ton -Recognizing this fact and notwithstanding that “The Octopus” book in the market, The San Francisco Call, following out its new liters -y policy of very latest novels by the very best writers in ST thawymmmlth&o!muh| at any price for immediate and exclusive - ‘blication we haye succeeded, and Sunday Call, the ppearing Sunday, mw of “The Spots,” which was extensi: that da ““The Leopard’s Spots,” tuflut“'uflu. 3 Just think of what this means. Frank Norris’ great book of ted of book in the world to-day, _be told to read The Lan Francisce ively advertised to eppear on therefore, will be post-omed till