The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1902, Page 6

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AND OLD ADDRESS in order compliance with their request. +e++1118 Broadway HE King of Belgium has a checkered personal T record and in meny respects seems to bC an un- desirable person, but on the great question of public order and liberty he is eminently sound. In } his response to the deputation from the legislative ! chamber which congratulated him upon, his escape | from assassination he referred to the anarchists and | to the agitators who create the atmosphere in which they flourish. He said: “Without order only license remains, which leads inevitably to despotism.” A better man could not.have said a truer thing, and it applies as well to constitutional republics as tq con- stitutional monarchies. This country is included with every other government in its application. In- | deed, a system that is worked by wniversal suffrage may well be in greater danger from discontent and disorder than one that is less liberal in its institutions. For the last six years the political ambitions of | worthless men have moved them to play continually | upon discontent, and to artificially classify our people in order to-have 2 class spirit and prejudice that may | be infiuenced to disorder. ‘Every case of distress and to class persecution, and masses of the people are led to look for remedies that can never be applied without overthrow of the gov- ernment itself. misfortune is ascribed Personal misfortunes and inequalities of fortuneE may be ascribed to two causes. One is external to | the individual who suffers, and the other originates in himself. In this country the inequalities and misfor- | tunes with external causes are less than in any other part of the world. Man's inhumanity to man causes ‘i less sorrow and suffering here than man’s lack of thrift, temperance.and industry. The external cause | is growing less frequent. Law protects men against their fellows better here than elsewhere. Of course | every'wise man wishes that its protection grere com- ¢ plete and perfect, but that cannot be secured by de- | nouncing law apd order. ! For political purposes it is the habit to denounce [games were glayed. the courts of the country, the executive, the protec- tion of life and property by the militia, until a consid- erable section of the people are toming to believe that they would be better off if courts, executives and military support of the civil power were de- stroyed entirely. Every labor strike and every indus- trial contention raise the voice of the agitator, | teaching ‘the people that men whorisk in the found- ‘ ing of industries and in keeping active the business of the country are their enemies. It was the public judgment that this sort of vicious appeal led directly to the assassination of President McKinley. The same newspapers which were responsible for it then are edging toward the same sort of attack on President Roosevelt. The Examiner, it may be no- ticed, greedily seizes upon every case of misfortune from whatever cause, and manages to connect the | President’s name with it. A ioman drowns herself | in New York, leaving a family of little children, and | the sorrowful event is made the text of an editorial | cunningly phrased in its references to_the President, [ so that the ignorant and vicious reader at once con- | cludes that he is responsible for the tragedy. It | takes but little of this sort of malicious appeal to | create an atmobphere in which another assassin is nerved to another great crime. Intelligent pecple watch the gradual evolution of | this spirit of murder with apprehension, but they wait | until the catastrophe has come before expressing | their indignation. Let them:be impressed now with | the fact that what is true of government in Belgium is true also here, and that republics have no immun- | ity from tlie consequences of constant teaching of | disorder and lawlessness. Wise men see that if such | teachings go unchecked and unrebuked they must end in the dissolution of government, since ‘the fan- cied remedies for fancied wrongs can never be ap- | plied, and those who are daily taught grudges and | grievances will not hesitate to bring about that an- archy which is finally succeeded by despotism. —— { | The recent murder of a soldier at the Presidio gates and the lamentable failure of the military au- thorities to discover the assassin indicate very clearly that our troopers are not particularly apt as detect- ives except when they are detailed to discover an ex- cuse for dereliction in “knockout” drops. Our soldiers should submit themselves to the kindly care of our police. A resident of Modoc, recently arrived, says the Iynching outrages in the county have been forgotten, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, ‘190z THE PRINCE OF SIAWM. HE presence of the Crown Prince of Siam in this State is an event that raises at once every question involved in our oriental trade. Per- i haps our people are slow to appreciate the fact that- the commerce of this coast has exactly the same in- terest in Asia that cur Atlantic commerce has in Europe. At the New York banquet to Wu, Ting Fang President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern made the startling statement that if we could ex- port to China one cent per day per capita of her population it would niore than exhaust our present exportable surplus. Though surprising, this is true, and when we add to China the rest of the Ortient there appears a commerce that will entirely- eclipse our Atlantic trade to Europe. President Hill added: “There is not an intelligent sentence on the statute books of this country that will permit you to carry your trade to China. I haveé looked “them through from end to end and I cannot find“one. There is everything to destroy it.” These two sentiments taken together call our people to ac- tive attention to that commerce in which lies the fu- ture of the coast, and especially that of California, as the léading producing and trading State of the coast group.. We want more knowledge of the oriental peoples, of their social and civic ‘organization, of the features in their domestic life which reveal the wants | that we can supply, and.of the possibility of the devel- opment of wants not now present in that vast popu- lation. To this end we should make ag effort to se- cure here the presence of the representatives of oriental governments, especially of the independent governments like Japan, China, Siam and Korea. The Crown Prince who is now the guest™df Cali- fornia represents a~wejl established and independent government, which controls not only Siam proper but the 'Shan states. While the commercial possibili- ties of Siam are not as great as those of China and Japan, it affords an opportunity for oriental study, and in cultivating close relations with it we learn how to do the same with the greater states. We must get rid of any remainder . of our bumptious prejudice against the races which people those oriental states. They havg their own form of civilization, older than ours and:suited to their environment. We learn to respect it as much as we respect the diverse ideas of Europe, and so:let them know that we are willing to learn the use of what they produce and to take it in satisfactionof our wants, in a fair exchange for any surplus we have which will satisfy theirs. Siam produces much that we take now, and when the commerce of the two countries calls for it she can greatly increase her production. Tt is estimated that only one-twentieth of her valuable delta lands is now under cultivation, and that her mines of tin and gold and her forests of valuable hardwood are only superficially utilized. Her present ruler is an enlightened monarch, and has reformed his govern- ment so’that it has the germ of a parliamentary sys- tem in,the King and council, which legislate in con- junetion. education, and has now embarked upon the new pol- icy of sending his heir to make a tour of the world, with special reference to an investigation of the in- dustrial, productive and commercial conditions of the { United States. The King himself intends coming to see us, con- tingent somewhat upon the report made by ' the Prince of the sincerity and cordiality of his reception. We should be alive tc the fact that concurrently we will have with us the greatest and wisest of Chinese statesmen in Wu Ting Fang, and the heir of one of the oldest crowns of Asia. A wise regard for ¢ur own interests as well as the California instinct of hos- pitality will join in making their brief stay memor- able, and in enabling them both to carry home a good report’ of the friendly sentiment of the coast of this nation nearest to.their people for all the pur- poses of commerce and enlightenment. It will be in vain that we build ships for the oriental trade, and endow chairs of the oriental languages and literature iih our universities, if we neglect the graces of pef- sonal association and the duties of hospitality to rep- resentatives of the Orient when they come among us. [ In some Eastern colleges the ‘students' are having great fun at this season by making bonfires of their football clothes and dancing around the blaze, but several of them would doubtless have had a mer- rier, time had they performed the rite before the ONE GOVERNMENT'S WQRK. E have heard so much in recent years of the great enterprise and wonderful success of the Russiani Government in constructing the Siberian railway that many people who are more or less inclined to governmental control of railways have been persuaded to accept the work as:a proof | that in Jarge projects of the kind it is better to trust the Government than to leave the work to private or corporate coptrol. Late advices from Russia, how- ever, disclose a condition of affairs on the Siberia | road that is by no means creditable to the gower' that constructed it. Railway experts who have madé a tour ‘of inspec- tion over the line report that “the ‘manner of con- struction of the cis-Baikal portion of the system leaves much to be desired, while that employed in building the trans-Baikal portions. is little short of criminal.” It is stated that over long stretches of the road the ballasting has been so imperfectly done and the track so poorly laid that a train cannot traverse ¢hem at z higher rate thap twelve miles an hour without running great risks of wreck. The defects were revealed in a marked mtanner during the time of the shipment of troops to the Chigese frontier on the outbreak of the Boxers. In transporting the troops several trains were derailed. Long delays were caused by various accidents dueto the deficient roadway, and perhaps more soldiers were killed or hurt in the course of transportation than in the fight- ing after reaching their destination. & As for the governmental management, it is stated ’that the whole system of operation appears to rail- way men of European countries as being “hopelessly primitive.”. To American railway managers it would doubtlessly appear barbarous. Along with its defec- tiveness goes a waste of time and of money. In fact, it is said that there were the road to pass into the hands of an American company the managers would not attempt to improve it, but would tear it all up and brild an entirely new road from start to finish. % / That is the sort of road building done by the most potent’ and autocratic, Government on earth. The officers of the Czar had it in their pawer to construct the road as economically as they could conceive of. They did not have to float bonds in the markets of the world to raise money, neither did they have to pay high wages for laborers, nor bargains. for rights. What he probably meant was that the people wanted to forget what no one in California efet will 3 ’ of way. They had only to go ahead with military precision and power. Yet they have constructed a .1 road that cannot compare in efficiency with any road must He has given his large family a European | ) built by corporate enterptise in the United States, { even if we look for one'among the very earliest roads constructed in the ‘days when railway building was an experiment and steel rails and modern ballasting _were undreamed of. L General Chaffee has expressed ‘the opinion that we must find some way to induce our dear subjects in the Jolo archipelago tosrespect Christians sufficiently to permit them to live. ' This astonishing interference withthe historic privileges of our newly won fellow citizens is fast approaching the point ofintolerance. e R — S FOR LOVE AND LUCRE. some who when cunningly tempted prove to be about as insane as any within the‘watis. Such 4 lesson, how- ever, has been given by a lunatic in New York to a set of deserving pupils scatteréd all over the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific-Coast. and _from Sedttle to Texas. The lesson so-imstructive. to the fools will be found amusing by the public and per- haps profitable, so it will be worth while to take note of it. T et The instructor in the case, who is described as “an incurable male maniac,” managed to advertise him- self as the daughter of a millionaire; a- graduate of | Vassar, desirods of a husband, and the advertisement was accompanied by a half-tone picture of a charming young woman. He received letters in abundance, all of which in due time fell into the hands of his keep- ers. Some of them have been ‘made public and fur- nish very valuable contributions to the. literature of bope and imagination. A man from Texas wrote: | to Texas I promise that you will find me here waiting for you. Just pack your valise with a change of clothes and come to me. I will give you 1500 atres of good oil-and rice land on the wedding day.” That was straight business, but the Texan soon warmed to rapture and added: “Now-won’t you let me call you darling, and let me feel the loying tendrils of - your | rosy lips to mine while the stars of twilight shine?” A Philadelphia man made a better bid by writing: “I am sorely tempted to chide you for describing yourself as ‘daughter of ‘a_ millionaire” Those four words dispelled the kalo of romance that I had in- stantly woven about your face and figure.” Clearly that wooer wished to make record for a love purely romantic, fre¢ from any taint of a desire for lucre. Had the recipignt of the letter been a genuine heiress it might have had a very fetching effect. Very dif- ferent was the tone of a man in an Iflinois town; who ‘wrote: “I think with your great.wealth and my. abil- ity of success in business lifé¢ we could make life a heaven on earth. I am confident that I could learn to love you, so if you.will send me money to come to see you with, I will do so.” J 1t is gratifying to note that Gur Pacific Coast fools cam write just as rapturous love letters as those of the cffete East or the Texan rice lands. An aspirant from Seattle wrote:- “I have just come from Dawson to spend the winter. I have plenty of claims and would like-to have a sweet little girl to take back with me mn the ‘spring.. We can have-a lovely time, and the trip is well worth seeing.”* We believe that to be the only instance .on record- where the scenery, along the route of the proposed wedding tour is pu forward, as an inducfment to matrimony. A man- from San Francisco described himself as the holder of fdiplomas from two cotleges and the winner of a gold medal for oratory. He said he is kept down to a clerkship because he has no pull to get anything higher. Then he burst forth: “The morning of love has dawned upon me with irrésistible force, lea\!ing in my héart a void which only love can fill, and fill- ing it with a feeling of loneliness which only love can expel; yes, an indescribable longing which only love can satisfy—feelings which no doubt are not strange ‘to your heart. If you have a photo or even a proof, | please send it.” y 3 Among these effusions of glowing brains it is sad- deninig to note the low gnd sordid tone taken by soe wooers in their efforts to catch ‘the advertising he’iress. A mah from our Golden State wrote: “L believe I can take my sweetheart’s capital and make a fortune for us both by manufacturing our inventions ourselves and placing-them on the market.” That is. more like a bid for a business partner than for a wife, but what shall we think of the New York man who wrote: ““The characteristics of my face denote sternness. My teeth are all goo&; three gold crown and three gold filling in upper set; back ones all filled with amalgam; shoe size, 7; glove size, 8.” It will be perceived from these samples selected al- most at random from a Jarge mass of similar material that even’a maniac can Tatch a lot of people if he | baits his*hook with love and lucre. To persons of { high hopes and vivid imaginations thetcombination is irfresistible. . T T —— e — An (illustration of “how enterprising journalism sometimes beats itself is furnished by a Mississippi paper, which just before Roosevelt began his bear hunt anrounced that the affair had been carefully programmed and that ten good bears had been trapped and were in ‘readiness to be turned loose where the President could get a sure shot at them. As the President did not once get within gun shot of a bear it will be s¥en the enterprising journal was not .| within gun shot of the truth. Our Eastern contemporaries are quoting with ap- proval the statement of Carroll D. Wright in his re- cent address at Minneapolis: “We are to have a new law of wages grown out of the religious thought. True application of this religious idea is the true solution of the labor problem.” We doubt not the wisdom of approving that statement, but it sounds mystic and we would like a diagram, a key and an interpretation before we bet on it. Senator Hanna is reported to have written to a friend that he is not only averse to becoming a can- didate for the Presidency, but will not seck re- election to the Senate at the expiration of his term. The statements appear emphatic enough, and ‘yet there is an undercurrent of suggesfion that the Sena- tor has merely put himself in the hands of his friends, A Philadelphia man sued for damages for the loss of the services of his wife, who was injured by an accident, and fhe wife sued the same company for damages for mental and physical suffering. The jury awarded larger damages to the husband than to the wife, and it is now up_to debating societies to decide whether the jury did right or wrong. r —_— It is said that the big fruit companies of the East have virtually effected a combination with the large dealers in Great Britain, and as the ship-owners, the tobacco men and- the steel men have made a like dea] it looks as'if the British-American alliance might be effected by trusts long before statesmen get ready to do even so much as think about it. ARELY does it happen that a lunatic gives a | good lesson to fools and p'x{o&c‘s “that among | [ the sane folks outside of the asylum there are | “If you will only come [ FORMAL FUNCTIONS — g HE artistic home of Mr. and Mrs. James Dyas Bailey on Webster street Was the scene of a pretty reception yesterday afternoon, the occasion being the formal debut of their aanughter, Miss Florence Bailey, who is already immensely popular. More than 300 callers were hospitably. entertdined be- tween the hours of 5 and 7. The floral decorations consisted of follage, chrysan- themums and madrone berries effectively arranged. A dinner was given for de- butantes later in the evening. The charm- ing debutante, her mother and Mrs. Mil- ton Balley were becomingly n-ttlred in handsome white gowns. They were as- sisted in receiving by: Allen, Miss Elizabeth Allen, Miss Dnlfl;! Pavrott, Miss Marle Louise Parrott, Miss Katherine Herrin, Miss Della Mills, Miss Bes- sie Milis, Miss Kathryn Robinson, Miss Caro- line Oliver of Oakland, Miss Enid Yale of - | lana, Miss Alice Kline, Miss Maye Colburn, | Mrs. John Rodgers Clarke and Mrs. Wakefiel Baker. ¥, el ‘Mrs. E. F. Preston and Mrs. Worthing- ton Ames gave a charming reception yes- terday afternoon at thé Preston residence on Franklin street. The drawing-rooms were made attractive with cut flowers and foliage and a large number of friends were pleasantly entertained. Th;.v hostesses were assisted in receiving by: Mrs. Pelham Ames, Mrs. A. N. Drown, Miss ena Robinson, Miss Gertrs e Nrs. Ton Owens, Mrs. Swartly, Miss Bernie Drown and Mrs. Willard Drown. %= Civ T . Mrs. James Robinson gave a pleasant musicale yesterday and received & num- ber of guests quite informally. "Among those present were: Mrs. Pomeroy, Mrs. Downey Harver; M“r:- lyn, Mrs. MacMonagle, LC::;" Mios: Asbie, Mrs. Russell Wilson, Mrs. 1 Murphy, Mrs. James Otls, Mrs. Girvin, ifil:ug.m:.rpcgomr' Miss McKinstry and Mrs. Salisbury. S Mrs. Clarence Mann was hostess at an eiaborate luncheon Thursday at the Pal- ace Hotel grill room. Mrs. John-waser— man’ Phillips was guest of honor. Nine baskets of Cecil Brunet roses decorated the table effectively. Autumn leaves, in- | terwoven with asparagus fern, constitut- ed the unique tablecloth. Among those present were: . E. B. Pond, Mrs. Jullus Rels, Mrs. Ja- et Bortsous of Ross Vailey, Mrs. Gordon Stolp of Oakland, Mrs, Edward T. Allen, Mrs. Irving * Moulton, Mrs. Mee, Mrs. John Spruance, Mrs. ‘William Willis, Mrs. James Martel, Mrs. Teni- son Deane;-Miss Adelaide Russell,” Mrs. Fred- erick Stolp, Mrs. John Dempster McKee. . s o Mrs. Robert. McCreery gave an m(fin ! cuchre party Thursday afternoon. TSs. Samuel Buckbee and Mrs. Van Fleet as- sisted the hostess. = ’ e . Three brides-elect and a young matron were ,the guests at a pretty luncheon giv- en by Miss Maud Woods and Miss Lottie ‘Woods yesterday. The honored guests were Miss Janet Bruce, Miss Mayy Pal- mer, Miss Florence Coleman and Mrs: James McKenzie (nee Sparks). PR - Mrs. W. G. Irwin gave a pretty red and white dinner on Wednesday evening, cumplimentary to Mrs. C. A. Spreckels.: ‘Those present were: 3 4 . and Mrs. C. A. Spreckels, Mr. and Mrsp Homses Chase; My and. Mes: Williazn: Bose Mrs. Russell J. Wilson, William Tevis, Harry Holbrook, James Robinson, Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Tobin, Horace Platt, Mrs. Ivers. . News of a quiet little weddlni which occurred- at Chico Thursday will be of much interest to many San Franciscans, the principals being Miss Jovita Grissim and Jono Bouse, both of this eity. number of friends went to Chico with the bridal party to witness the nuptials. The ceremony was performed at the Christian church in accordance with the wishes of the groom’'s mother, Mrs. M. J. Bouse, whose home was afterward the scene of a delightful reception and dinner. The bride, a pretty brunette, was hand- somely attired in a gown of white renals-. sance lace over silk, with garniture of skirred chiffon, blue chiffon piping and turquoise stones. The bride has many- friends in this eity, having resided at the California Hotel for three vears and engaged in. consider- able philanthropic work. The groom s a prominent business man, being manager and principal owner in the California Hydraulic Engineering’ and Supply Com- pany in for twenty-four years. Mr. Bouse is .a graduate-of the University of California, class of '9l. Mr. and Mrs. Bouse are taking a short wedding trip, after which they will occupy a new home on. Gree: street, near Buchanan. . DR the Trving Club enjoyed . * : -rne\ ladies of AIN SOCIETY : “POPULAR SOCIETY GIRLS WHO WILL MAKE THEIR FORMAL DE- BUT AT A RECEPTION TO-DAY. their regular meeting Thursday at Utopla Hall. An executive board meeting and Lusinéss of the alumnae occupied the earlier part of the afternoon, after which a pleasant programme was rendered. Mrs. Mary Fairweather, who has beea appointed leader of literary work, gave a lecture upon Goethe’'s “Faust,” which was- both entertaining and instructive. Miss Cornahrens rendered a piano selec- tion excellently and Miss Grace de For- rest sang a solo, which was well received. An informdl reception was held after the programme. w e The second reception of the recently or- ganized Bookbinders’ Guild of California held Thursday evening at Elder & Shep- ard’s art rooms was largely attended, the occasion being the first annual exhibition of contemporary art in bookbinding on the coast. ~Enthusiastic jnterest was shown in the exhibits, as wéll as the new organization, the purpose of which is to focalize Into a distinct movement the early efforts of several California stu- {dlos to produce bookbindings of the best technical quality, combined with designs artistic rather than commercial. The xem‘heuhm is not limited to active orkers, and those interested in the de- velopment of this art are invited to be- come associate members. Morgan Shep- ard and Paul Elder are among the well known charter members. The exhibition will close on Saturday of this week. Frederick MacMonnies' bronzes were the center of much interest last evening. -5 e On ‘Thursday evening, December 4, branch No. 10 of the Catholic Radies’ Aid Soclety will give an at home at the res- idence of Mrs. Samuel McFadden, presi- dent of the branch. The object of this aftair is to raise funds to assist the de- serving poor of the district to which this branch of the society belongs. LR The reception of the Homer®Kings to- day will be a very smart affair and serve to formally introduce their daughters, Miss Genevieve and Hazel King, both of Wwhem are extremely popular already. This event has long been looked forward to with interest by their many friends. —_—— Thirty Drowned in Disaster. VIENNA, Nov. 2L.—A Danube steamer, crowded with workmen, sank off Orsova, a frontier town of Sqrvia, on an island in the Danube, yesterday evening. Thirty of those who were on board were drowned. Owing to the darkness the boats from the shore were able to rescue only five persons. GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS; The c¥isis in the bookbinding trade, to which . reference has. been made during the last two weeks, has ended for the present. Four of the masters and four of the men met and talked and after a long discussion it was decided that the delegates of ‘the employes should ask their societies to accept the arbitration of the Board of Trade. I found yesterday many publishers with whom I talked in a most cheerful mood. It has been a great worry to them, not only on account of the loss to themselves sus(ainey through the non-publication of works promised by a certain date, but owing to their inability to keep faith with their anthors. Some of these publishers spoke ds if the season, which has been rather slowfooted, might now gather way. Already the bookbincers have begun overtime work, as may be shown from the fact that at least 200 books have been piled into thé booksellers’ shops, as com- pared with, I belleve, about twenty dur- ing the whole of the last week. The pub- lishers now speak hopefully of being able to undertake all their Christmas orders in time if the binders continue to do their P the literary world the evert of the most interest this ‘week has been the ad- vent ‘of T." P. O’'Connor's new weekly, which is simply called T. P’s Weekly. That is enough, for it is questionaple if there is any man or woman whd .an read through the length and breadtn of the British Isles who does not know “T. P.” It has been said of writers that there are fewer to-day with a following than at almost any time in recent jour- nalistic history. “T. P.” is one of the few. Notwithstanding “T. P.’s” great success, there is not the least trace of Jjealousy in anyiafithe reviews of his new venture, which a ' ared quite irrespec- tive of party. The journals, whether Con- servatiye or Liberal, all joined in one united paean of congratulation and praise. It is considered even brighter for a start than his widely read M. A. P. It is at once a personal and a literary jour- nal. He himself tells anecdotes of well known people in that inimitable style of his which everybody knows and enjoys. T. P.’s Weekly shows, too, that his fund of humor is by no means becoming ex- hausted. It seems, in fact, as if he could not get sufficient vent for it in M. A. P. Hence one of the reasons for T. P.s WeeRly. Then there is a choice of crisp extracts from the most interesting’ books of the week and a serial by Rider Hag- gard. One knows less personally of Lord Salisbury than of many men not so emi- nent. He has never cared to gratify curi- osity in that respect, nor is he likely to do so. There is, however, good material for a broad pegsonal study of Alm. This is the idea of a book which the Messrs. Isbister are about to publish. It is by F. D. How, whose biography of his own father, Dr. Walsham How, has won very much favor. He tells of the former Pre- mier at Eton and Oxford and in Aus- tralia, also of his early literary work, and weaves the story of his career around his personality. G. A. Henry, through the medium of an interviewer, has been telling how he writes and why he writes. As to “why,” he says: “My object has been to'teach history, and, still more, to ‘- encourage manly, straight living and feeling among 5. bol&ore appears behind the title of “The Monk of Llanthony,” the new bcok by the Baroness de Bertouch, which Messrs. Methuen are to publish, than may appear to the eye of the casua’ peruser of the publishers’ announcements. It is, in fact, the life of Father Ignatius, whose reputa- tion as a preacher is so well known throughout the United States, as else- where. It is sometimes easier to write a book than to find a good appealing title for it. The remark s trite, but it is suggested by Phil Robilson’s new volume, ‘‘Bub- ble and Squeak.” He tells how it went to the printers and nearly became a bock without a title. The happy thought came not, but the printers were making pro- gress and something had to be done. He wanted a name for a serles of light, humorous studies of animal life. Finally —so he says—there was nothing for it but to write out likely titlec, such as “Fly Papers,” “Zoological Crumbs,” ‘“Bubble and Squeak” and so on, and draw lota “Bubble and Squeak’ had it. Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’s.* gy e e Townsend’'s California glace frutt and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etcned boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 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With the shadow of the all devouring railroad juggernaut over it all, after the vivid contrasts between the social elect and the defeated and ' desperate wheat growers passing each other on the stairs at the fashionable Teception at the San Francisco Bohemian Club—the stormy meeting of the comspirators and the denunciation of Lyman Derrick at Los Muertos Rancho— the race for life and the fight for liberty of the blacklisted San Joaquin Valley engineer, Van Dyke, against the hirelings of the rail. road from the cabs of two huge pounding moguls on parallel tracks, and the last fatal gunfight of the Mussel Slough wheat kings a Behrman, the smooth and crafty railroad tool, and his of deputies—that last chapter is tremendous in its strength and strange import. There is no straining after effect—no forced sen- sationalism—it is absolutely inevitable, yet withal so simple that the reader wonders that he never thought of it before. But nobody who reads “The Octopus” to that last . . One half of the story has already been published in two edi- tions, November 9 and 16. ‘If you haven’t read the first install~ ments you will have to hurry to get The Sunday Call, for Octopus” is having a tremendous sale. And now just read what is to follow: First—“The Gospel _Judas Iscariot,” by Aaron Dwight Baldwin, which is the now ligious and literary semsation of two continents—and will crea a deep furor here in the West; “The Leopard’s Spots,” “The Thir. teenth District,” “When Knighthood Was in Flower” (both the pla and the novel); “The Gentleman From Indiana,” “The Bubble,’* “Tainted Gol 1, Turnpike Mouse,” that list anywhere? Yuuln get them with The ¢