The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1902, Page 6

Thes eiiime Call. THURSDAY................NOVEMBER 13, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. i B e et F it Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. e A A e i TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With tae Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 217 to 221 Stevemson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), ¢ months, DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), 3 months DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All Postmasters are suthorized to receive subscriptions. will be forwarded when requested. Sampie coples Mai subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o ineure & prompt and correct compliance Wwith their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. .1118 Broadway C. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. __ PREJUDICE AGAINST BANKS, T the meeting of the American Bankers' As- | sociation in New Orleans it has been made 2p- | A parent that the bankers, in association, will tender no advice to Congress in relation to banking and currency reform. The reason given is the wide- spread prejudice against banks and bankers. It was stated, however, that there are indications of abatement of that prejudice, which never had any foundation in reason for its tence. The prosperity of banks is inseparable from the prosperity of the country and of all the people. In fact, so close is the relation that banks are the first ifices to prevent financial disorder, and, s reach an extreme, banks are the first to ise they stand first and in front of all itutions and interests; they meet the on credit, and if it be overpowering st and greatest sufferers. to make s; do what Government cannot do in sustain- ate credit against overthrow, and a proper financial policy should to increasing their strength for defensive purposes. In this view it should not be necessary for bankers’ associations -to rengthening legislation. If the public com- prehend their proper relation, use and purpose, the appezl fer tonmic iegislation should come ifrom the people t elves. This was the organic idea of the Indianapolis Monetary Conference, and that body con- stituted its executive committee by resorting more to the business body outside of bankers than by draw- ing upon the banking community. From the beginning of our national life this coun- try zed all of its business and industries upon the practice of using banks. Great industries have found it for their interest to organize special ing pri run for has orga ban} institutions for their own use. To this ne- cessity New York owes the organization of the Chem- | ical Bank, the Hide 2nd Leather Bank and other in- | stitutions. California fruit-growers would find it dis- tinctly to their advantzge to organize a fruit-growers’ | bank, that would be cble to advance to them needed capital and abolish the necessity of giving crop mort- gages at rates ruipous in proportion to the seasonal necessities of the borrower. As the business of the country is tramsacted through banks our business re- quires the soundest, best and most flexible system of banking that the law can provide. Of course there have been banks, and banks. The country long ago passed through the period of wild- cat banks, which were organizations that had no more relation to proper and legitimate banking than the “pot” in a poker game has to the contents of a | church collection box. Perhaps much of the remain- ing prejudice against banks had its origin in the ex- periences of that era. But the transmission of those experiences and the transfer of the resulting prejudice to legitimate banks and banking has no just or proper reason. We are quite sure that the declarations at the cur- Tent meeting in New Orleans will greatly clarify the atmosphere through which Congress is trying to see its way to protective legislation that will relieve the treasury cf responsibility for private credit and im- pose between it and the needs of credit a strong, flexible, sound and safe system of banking. The New York Press, by studying the result of the polls in that city, has discovered that Coler’s big ma- jorities were obtained not in the Democratic but the Republican districts and were obtained by reason of the failure of Republicans to vote. It is another case where gverconfidence came very near causing a loss of a great State. In the Democratic districts Coler’s plurality is said to have been less than that of Van Wyck over Roosevelt in 1808. The fact that the Democrats carried Rhode Island has attracted a good deal of attention in the East, but out here we would never have noticed that there was anything unusual going on over there. It is not a heavy load to carry, of course, but even slight as it is the changes are the old donkey will be too weak to carry it next time. The Siamese Princes have been praising everything they see in the East, but as they refused to go to the top of 2 twenty-story building to lunch it is evident they draw the line somewhere. / The new Governor of Georgia has just issued com- { other peoples is felt as a tribute to our own., P missions to 100 lieutenant colonels, and when he takes his staff to the St. Louis exposition he will challenge the world to a showdown. A WORD FOR PEACE, RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S address at the P banquet of the Chamber of Commerce of New York is full of memorable expressions, worthy to be ripely considered by the people and held as guidés in the future. In some of his previous ad- dresses the keenly observant have found what has ap- peared to them to be a too militant spirit, a desire to put forward strife and strenuous war as desirable fac- tors in the progress of the nation. That his real thought was not fathomed by such analysis is now apparent when the expressions that caused apprehen- sion are projected by his well considered statement to the merchants. In the afternoon address to the Chamber of Com- merce ex-President Cleveland had said: “As the pio- neer of colonization and expansion commerce has in other days had justly laid at its door cruel aggression and ruthless disregard of human rights in nations where, to use the language of an apologist, ‘the wel- fare of the inhabitants of these possessions is subor- dinate to the strategic or commercial purposes for | which they are held.” : As if this were used as a text, in his evening ad- dress President Roosevelt said: “We have passed that stage of national development when depreciation of We have shown by our attitude toward Cuba and China | that, as regards weaker powers, our desire is that they may be able to stand alone, and that if they will show themselves willing to deal honestly and fairly with the rest of mankind we on our side will do all we can to help and not to hinder them. With the great powers of the world we desire no rivalry that is not honor- able to both parties. We wish them well- We be- lieve that the trend of the “modern spitit is ever stronger toward peace, not war; not hostility, as the normal international aititude. We shall be a potent factor for peace largely in pro- portion io the way in which we make it evident that our attitude is due, not to weakness, not to inability to defend our United States, but to a genuine repug- nance to wrongdoing, a genuine desire for seli- respecting friendship with our neighbors.” These vtterances will have great and needed effect upon the minds of the people. After every war, no matter how trivial its cause or how brief its course, there remain the embers of pugnacity in the national spirit, a certain restlessness that is reckless of the: consequences of acts that make for strife. This spifft, failing to produce disorder abroad, is inimical to order at home, and it is inflamed by pseudo appeals to the sentiment of gloty and is led by the pomp of appear- ance. While war may secure ultimate justice, its progress is always and of necessity at odds with ethics, ‘and in denial of the principles of private justice. Older men remember how general was the feeling at the close of the Civil War, that the belligerent spirit of both armies was so high pitched that it could be satisfied only by joining them and crossing the Rio Grande to embark upon a career of southern conquest. Grant understood the gravity of the frowning forces that had been brought into being by four years of the ! world's greatest war, and he stilled the rising tem- pest by saying to the people, “Let us have peace.” Like him President Roosevelt, who gallantly stood his share of our last campaign, rises to remind the people that civilization means peace, not war, and that justice and not the sword shall typify the great- ness of a people. If he needed to be set right with those who feel that war is degtructive of the results of human effort, and in its turn impairs the energies from which those results may spring, his whole-hearted as- cription to peace as the policy of the strong, and to justness and helpfulness as their moral attitude toward the weak, will remove the last feeling of so- licitude. The world has grown weary of the harsh and warlike expressions of the Kaiser and of his ap- peals to the sword as the only instrument of national purpose that is worth considering. Even he is ob- viously changing his mood, and evidently sees in peace and economic policies the real strength of his | empire. There hzve been fears that the opening of the twen- tieth century would be as bloody and distressful as that of its predecessor, but the abatement of the war- | like temper of the German Emperor and the admoni- tory morality of the utterances of the American President promise better things for the new century. A graduate of a New York college wrote an essay on the “Ethics of Morals” for his graduating address last June, and it was so good that it won for him a beautiful bride; moreover, the faculty were so proud of it that they printed and circulated it, with the re- sult that 2 woman bobbed up and claimed the youth as her long-lost husband, and he is now being prose- cuted for bigamy. All of which shows that bad men should nat be too eloquent on the subject of morals. PROTECTION FOR TAXPAYERS. UBLIC thanks are due to Tax Collector Smith for urging the Board of Supervisors to adopt a resolution declaring that all taxes paid for this year be regarded as paid under protest so far as the special levy for new schoolhouses and a city and county hospital are concerned. The reason for the resolution is that a number of large corporations and wealthy property-owners are protesting against the tax in ‘excess of the dollar limit on the ground that it is a violation of the char- ter. Should they be able to maintain their protest the taxes they have.paid in excess of the dollar limit will be refunded, while those taxpayers who have not protested would have no right to recover what they have paid. Mr. Smith’s resolution, therefore, aims at placing all taxpayers on an equality, so that if those who have made protests recover the excess of taxes paid the whole body of taxpayers can do the same. Mr. Smith says in his communication te the board that the protesting taxpayers contend that the addi- tional levies of 734 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation for new schoolhouse buildings and the 774 cents for the new city and county hospital, as pro- vided for in this year’s levy, are prohibited by the | charter. He then adds: “It appears to me that if the courts should hold that these special levies are illegal a great injustice would unintentionally be done the small taxpayers, who as a rule are the first to pay taxes and rarely question the legality of the same. I respectiully suggest that your honorable board, by resolution, adopt some measure by which this class of our citizenship may secure your protection in this matter. I suggest a resolution to the effect that all taxes paid for the year 190z be deemed paid under protest in so far as the legality of these special levies is concerned.” * 7 % There can be no question of the soundress of Mr. Smith’s assertion that if the protested taxes be re- turned to the wealthier 4axpayers they should be re- turned also to other taxpayers. That is nothing more than simple justice. The board should ass the reso- toward friendship, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THUBSDAQ. NOVEMBER 13, 1902 lution, and Tax Collector Smith should receive credit for looking out for the interests of the people and seeking to procure justice for them. l During the Molineux murder trial the handwriting experts characterized a certaip kind of penmanship as “the fluent fizzle.” They explained that they meant the habit of merely scrawling the last few letters.of a word. There are a good many men that have it, and there are some whose whole signature is but a fluent fizzle. Those who indulge the practice would better stop it or they may some day be tried for muxder.' B debate over the educational bill, and by a ma- jority of 222 to 103 has carried through Parlia- ment a vote applying the closure rule to the discus- sion. Under the operation of the closure the vote upon the passage of the act must be taken before the end of the month. No one can justly complain of the | closure in this case, for the measure has been under consideration in the country and the House for months. Abouy all that can be said either for or against the bilf has been said, and further talk would be a waste of time. The measure is of little or no interest to Americans. The feature of it that has aroused most opposition is a provision for granting state aid to so-called “volun- tary schools”—that is, schools maintained by other than public boards. Such schools are mainly under the control of the churches, and the objection made to the bill is that it provides for taxing the people to support denominational instruction. ¢ The extent to which the plan would carry taxation for church schools is shown by a recent statement that there are now'in operation in the kingdom 14,294 vol- :untary schools and 5857 board schools. The volun- tary schools are divisible as follows: Church of Eng- land school$, 11,731; 'Roman Catholic, 1053; “Brit- ish” and miscellaneous, 1052; Wesleyan, 458. In the voluntary schools there are, in round numbers, 3,200,- 000 children. .In the board schiools there are, in round numbers, 2,600,000. The mixture of church and state involved in the bill has produced the usual amount of irritation in the public mind. The Call has already- directed attention to the organization of a league pledged not to pay school taxes if the bill pass in its present form, but to resist as a matter of conscience. That in itself shows how heated has become the temper of public opinion, but a still more striking proof of wrath is manifest in an assertion that if the measure pass the King ought to veto it. A royal veto of an act of Parliament is quite legal under the British constitution, but it has been so many years since a sovereign undertook to do such { a thing that its occurrence now would be almost in the naturt of a revolution. That it should be se- riously urged by the opponents of the measure, who are mostly Liberals and Radicals, is a striking illus- tration of the influence American governmental forms have exerted among the British people. The Presi- dent of the United States frequently exercises the veto power to prevent prejudicial legislation, and the effects of the vetoes have inclined British'students of American affairs to desire the exercise of a similar power by their own sovereign. | It is of course not at all likely that Edward will give even a moment of serious consideration to. the proposal. Should he veto the bill the Ministry would promptly resign, and he would have a hard time find- ing another. The only point in the matter, there- | fore, that is of any interest is the exhibition of a sen- timent in favor of a veto among a considerable body of the people. It is clear that they are willing to re- sort to almost anything to beat the bill, and equally clear that they have learned to admire the American | constitution and would be quite willing to adopt some of its most characteristic features. THE ROYAL VETO. ALFOUR has decided to put an end to the long { The best lo/ve story of. the season comes from New Jersey, to the effect that 3'man of 65 met a woman of 74 in a horse trade, and as the woman got the bet- ter of the bargain the man fell in love with her shrewdness while she loved him for his honesty, so they were married and now each of them owns both horses. OUR UNIFORM TRIUMPHS, E have heard much and often of the tri- W umphs of American industry in Europe. We are selling shoes and locomotives to Great Britain, beef and fruit to Germany and wine to France. Something in the way of American manufacture goes to the home market of every capital in the Old World. Thus we may be said to have had a uniform triumph over European competition, but ‘that is not the only way in which we can make the boast. We have had another uniform trimph over there, and one that was | not expected. During the grand maneuvers of the autumn, when military representatives of every nation on the globe assembled to, watch the splendid legions of France, Germany and Austria parade and show their fighting skill, there were seen by observant and admiring eyes every kind of uniform known to civilized war, Among the rest appeared the American uniform, not the old army blue of song and story, but the new olive drab recently adopted. Those of our people who looked at it askance when it appeared and were afraid it might show poorly in European circles may now hold up their heads and be proud. Competent critics pro- nounce it the best uniform in the world. A report from Paris concerning the field maneuvers at Toulon says: “The khaki-clad representative of Great Britain was quite a ‘loud’ figure beside the semi-invisible American, and the gilt buttons of the former would have made a shining mark for a hostile rifleman, whereas the dull bronze buttons and orna- ments on the new American uniform failed to reflect a Tsingle ray of the sun. War, declared that if wnhampered by tradition he would adopt some such uniform for the French army. ‘The ideal uniform,’ remarked another high officer, ‘there it is complete—comfortable, serviceable, almost invisible, and (what is more important) chic, abso- lutely chic and all that is most elegant.’ Especial notice is directed to the statement that the new uniform is “absolutely chic.” It was a Parisian who said it. Even the ladies can ask no more. Let us then congratulate ourselves.* The army blue was glorious on the field of battle, but the army drab is chic on parade. We have triumphed. Our uniform is not so loud as a brass band, but it leads the world and artistic France bows to compliment it. e —— ) A man who tested the British round the world tele- graphic circuit just completed by the Pacific cable found that it took thirty-nine hours to get a méssage irom Boston round the globe back to Boston and then it had three mistakes. Even that, however, is a good record when you come to think of it -they will keep the Home Rulers in check General Andre, the Minister of {. A HAWAIIAN RE PUBLICANS TRIUMPH IN ELECTIQN — ! X L l YOUNG REPUBLICANS OF HONOLULU WHO TOOK A PROMINENT | PART IN THE ELECTION OF THE TERRITORIAL DELEGATE TO l THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. ¢ o ONOLULU, Nov. 5.—Yesterday's elections Tesulted in an over- whelming victory for the Repub- lican party. The present Dele- gate to Congress, Robert Wilcox, the Home Rule candidate, was defeated by Prince Kuhio, the Hepublican candi- date, by a majority of more than 2000 votes. The Republicans also. carry the Senate | in the Territorial Legislature, electing all of their seven candidates, The House of Representatives is still in doubt. The Re- publicans have elected seven out of twelve candidates for the lower branch of the Legislature on the island of Oahu, also all four candidates on Kauai. Even if they do not have a working majority, by their contrgl of the Senate. Prince Kuhio conducted a quiet, earnest and educational campaign, more in the nature of heart-to-heart talks with the people than of brilllant oratory. He se- cured a majority of 982 votes on the island of Oahu, where Sam Parker's majority was less than 300 in the election of two years ago. The island of ‘Hawail, which went for ‘Wilcox in 1900, gave Prince Cupid yester- day a majority of 532 in thirteen out of seventeen precincts. The island of Kauai gives Cupid 257 majority, turning com- pletely over to the Republican party. Maui and Molokai will swell the Prince’s majority to more than 2000, out of a total voting population of 13,000 registered vot- ers. - The election has been distinetly a vie- tory for good government, sound busj- ness, progress and prosperity. The little clique of Republican malcontents has been as completely scotched as it was by President Roosevelt's indorsement or Governor Dole a few months ago. The SCHOOL BOARD CENSURES THE WORKS BOARD s e The Board of Education yesterday cen- sured the Board of Works for its delay in preparing plans for the proposed nmew schoolhouses. The censure was contained in a report filed by Director Woodward regarding the work of repairs to school- houses, which was indorsed by the board in a formal resolution. The report shows that the regular force of forty-two car- penters, painters and plumbers was con- stantly. employed during October in ren- ovating some thirty school buildings. The report continues: Although, In order to expedite the erection of new school buildings, the board appointed an architect two months @go to assist the | Board of Public Works, they have not yet completed the plans and’ specifications of one of the seven schools for which we have asked. The six-room addition to the Sherman is the noarest to completion, ‘the Noe Valley has been outlined, but there has been absolutely nothing done on the Sunnyside, Monroe, a Honda, Bergerot, and Carville schools. Thix dividetl responsibility is something greatly to be regretted. our own architect been free- to act, and had he been supplied with draughtsmen, instead of the present state of affairs, we should have had the construction of at least one building actually begun. The board declined to rescind its ac- ticn of the last meeting in refusing to grant Miss E. J. McGillvy a renewal of her primary certificate on the ground that it had already expired. This action was taken notwithstanding that the City Beard of Examination advised that McGillvy had applied for her renewal the day before the certificate expired and that under a court decision in another case she is entitled to the renewal. In accordance with a Superior Court decision and the opinion of the City At- torney the board adopted a resolution rroviding for the payment of back sal- aries aggregating George D. Mitchell and Mre. Irene D. Reeves, who were dismissed from the department some years ago and were ordered rein- stated by the court. The board spent some time in trying to induce Superintendent Webster to sign | business methods, getting into touch with the salary demand of Louis S. Stone, who was employed as a consulting architect on the plans for-the new schoolhouses. Auditor Baehr refused to audit the orig- inal demand- and a second warrant was ordered drawn to allow Stone to manda- mus the Auditor. Webster sajd he would not sign the demand until he had asked L o S S R Y ) Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* i .7k 85 ol Townsend’s California glace frult and candies, 60c a pound, in a: fire-etched s a —— Special information st upplied lmdlla hn_‘ and’ public fornia mm.""tmp ‘;n(. *| three Republican Senators elected here | are representative business men, who have their money and interests at stake in the Territory. All of them—Paul Isen- berg, who leads their ticket; L. L. Me- | Candless and W. C. Achi—have had pre- vious legislative experience. On Ozahu the total vote .for Delegate was: Prince Cupid, 2354; R. W. Wilcox, 2372; majority for Cupid, 982. To the young men of the Republican party can be attributed the sweeping Re- publidan victory in Hawaii. A young man was clected Delegate and young men con- ducted the practical work of the cam- paign. Clarence L. Crabbe, chairman of the Republican committee, is a young Hawaiian, who has shown himself pos- sessed of exccllent executive ability. Calm, courteous, of keen foresight and sound judgment, he has directed affairs | quietly, firmly and successfully. His right hand man is A. L. C. Atkinson, an- | other young Hawaijan and a graduate of | Ann Arbor (Mich.) Law School. They | have injected into their work a system of every voter from the day of his registra- tion, keeping tab on the opposing faction and carefully guiding the party in the direetion of victory. It has been an economical campaign, too, for the Re- publicans have received but 2 per cent of the amount of money that was given the old leaders. ‘Watching the expenditure of every dol- lar, with the aid of Treasurer George R. Carter, who was a personal friend and classmate of President Roosevelt at Yale, there has been better and more effective work dene than when money was squan- | dered two years ago. Bysiness men al- ready predict that much good will accrue to the Territory with the inauguration of purer politics, a more practical Legisla- ture and a Delegate in sympathy with the | Republican administration and the Re- publican majority in Congress. an oolnion from the City Attorney. The following certificates were granted: Grammar_school—Miss Helen Murphy and George E. Riley, Permanent - primary—Miss Estelle Carpenter and Mrs. Marian S. Miel. Recommended to State Board of Education for special life diplomas—Stenography, Miss Mary_Leila Richards; bookkeeping, Miss Har- viet ' E. Rademaker; bookkeeping and type- CUBAN TARIFF IS DISCUSSED BY THE CABINET WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—An important conference aring upon the subject of the Cuban iprocity treaty was held at the War Department to-day, the partici pants being Secretaries Hay and Root and General Bliss. The latter was called into the conference at Secretary Hay's suggestion because of his expert knowl- edge of the existing Cuban tariff, Before the conference at the War De- partment Secretary Hay had talked on this subject with Senator Cullom, chair- man of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and also with Senor Quesada, the Cuban Minister here. Semor Quesada was not able to submit to Secretary Hay the draft of the reciprocity treaty which has been under consideration so long by the authorities at Havana, as the docu- ments have not yet left that place. Semi-officially the United States Gow- ernment coptinues in ignorance of the ex~ tent and character of the changes, if any, which President Palma may desire to make in the treaty. In other than official sources, however, the disposition of the Cuban President in this matter has developed pretty clear- ly. The cardinal objection of President Palma to the treaty as it stands is ths insufficlent rebate of 20 per cent proposed to be allowed on Cuban imports into the United States, and Secretary Hay’s pur- 4 pose is to ascertain if possible how far he can yield in that matter and still be able to rely upon the support of Congress next session when the treaty is submitted. So far his advices do not favor any increase of the rebates, and, indeed, he has been assured by some persons with whom he has talked that under no conditions would Congress consent to any substan- tial inerease of this rebate. It is understood that the Cubans, tge, are entirely unwilling to accept any smail increase. Im the face of a great shortage in the European crop and a rapidly ris- ing market they have acquired confidence in their ability to get along for an in- definite period of time without reciproc- ity with the United States, and so it is understood they are showing an indiffer- ence in the prosecution of the treaty ne- gotiations, which is serving its turn to stimulate the efforts of our own negotia- tions. Président Palma makes the point that conditions have changed in Cuba so that whereas the 20 per cent rebate might have served when it was first proposed, it would at present afford se little relief as not to warrant the sacrifice of Cuban revenues that would be involved in its acceptance. Secretary Hay has detcrmined to clear up that point, and to that end, after talking with Secretary Root to-day, it was decided that General Bliss should be sent at once to Cuba to make a per- sonal investigation of the industrial situ- ation and the fiscal possibilities of thefd jsland. So it is improbable that pending his return from Cuba the department can advance the treaty negotiations. —e PERSONAL MENTION, Charles Francee, ex-Mayor of Salinas, is at the Grand. James Kyser, a merchant of Napa, is registered at the Grand. James Gillis, a mining man of Senors, is a guest at the Lick. W. J. Dickey, a fruit grower of Fresno, is registered at the Lick. B. F. Burphy, a lumber man of Eu- reka, is a guest at the Grand. C. D. Fontana, a prominent business man of Stockton, is among the arrivals at the Lick. W. A. Gett of Sacramento, who was the Democratie candidate for Attorney Gen- eral, is at the Lick. Lady Alexander of London is at the Oc- cidental. She is accompanied by Miss Baskerwiler, aiso of London. Dr. J. E. Coombs, a well known physi- cian of Visalia, is at the California with his bride. They are touring the Coast on their honeymoon. b —————————— Of 22,000 children placed in families by the Children’s Aid Soeclety, only sixty have been arrested and sent to reform schools.—New York Letter. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. UNNA DEFINES A CAUSE European Skin Specialist Says Dand- ruff Is Caused by Parasites. Upon that theory, proved beyond a doubt, a cure for dandruff was sought after. Scientists, chemists, druggists and physicians all “took a hand,” and the suc- cessful issue is the present product known as “Newbro’s. Herpicide.” This remedy actually kills the parasites that infest the hair bulb, does Iits work most effectively and contains not an atom of substance injurious to anything else than the germ alone. Herpicide causes the halr to grow as nature intended it writing, Miss Ida Garbarino. should, soft and abundant. The Trail of the Railroad ' Juggernaut N explaining why the leading l novelist,” it has been pointed out Frank Norris’ great masterpiec_—a road juggernaut. in “The Octopus®™ critics of the world have been almost unanimous in calling “The Octopus,” the long looked for, “the great American novel,” and its author ‘“the great American that “The Octopus” is not only truly remarkable work of fact and fiction woven into one tense, fascinating, all-vowerful romance—but a gnod half dozen great novels rolled into one. All his characters ¢ze of such strength and force that - whole book might be written round any one of them—while the dramatic situations—the book is crammed full of them—are strong: enough to arnish the ;-adirg climax for a good round dozen of any other books that are being ground out to order nowadays. “The Octopus” is net only distinctively California, it is world wide ‘ in its scope and humanness, and over it all is the shadow of the rail- each of them Engineer Van Dyke’s haunting race for life and fight for lib- erty agaidst the hirelings of the railroad from the cabs of two huge pounding moguls on parallel tracks—the dance and gun fight in Annixter’s Monster barn—Vanamee’s weird, wild mystic through’ all the years for his wronged sweetheart, the search ethereal Angele Varian in the Mission Church garden — Annixter's love scenes with Helma Tree in the dairy-house of his Quien Sabe Rancho —the vivid contrasts of the social crush and the defeated and des- perats wheat growers passing on the stairs at the fashionable re- ception of the San Francisco Bohemian ("b—the stormy mceting of the conspirators and the denunciation of Lyman Derrick at Los Muertos Rancho<-the last fatal fight of the Mussel Slough wheat kings against Behrman, the smooth, crafty railroad tool and his gang of deputies—and its terrible consequences, and Behrma ’s own mg}cud,whiehhthnmmud-tthemcflm.the most inevitable fate ever conceived, are episodes—mere incidents in a human in y a few of the stirring | story. whose theme and purpose—summed up in the “Trilogy of the Wheat”—will be forever identified with the history of the Pacific. untimely death “The Octopus” popularity than ever before. Therefore, following out its readers the best fiction of the day, world, absolutely free in two or to this remarkable book, “THE OCTOPUS” ‘IN THE SUNDAY three editions tion, the Sunday Call at once secured the Frank Norris’ left his great trilogy incomplets — wherefore # risen to a more exalted position and greater . new literary policy of giving its by the &leverest writers in the of the Magazine Sec- exclusive Western rights and notwithstanding the great expense in- IS NOW BEING PUBLISHED