The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1903, Page 6

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This paper will alse be on sale at all summer tesorts and is represented oy a local agent im ell towns on the coast. n of the National ssociation at Boston there was series of resolutions ie anim a t the educators of the country desire were convention The resolutions by the and are deserving of Ty thrognout the cou order the principles consist of the following de- he as presented in oi Education at Washington ndependent administrative de- Agricul- as were the departments bor beiore their elevation to Cabinet appropriation should be made by enable the Commissioner of Educa- nd the scope and add to the usefulness of Pr hould be made by Congress b the Indian Territory will have ’ h and carry on a system of public sc SC all classes of citizens in the Ter- rit tional advantages.” 1 not be a suitably at- t career, nor will it command the should, e properly compensated and are as- of country as it »ed tenure during efficiency and aid i s to be regarded “Bt as nd not as a substitute for local | purposes. In many parts of the a large increase in the amount of the « now voted for school purposes is a press- to be better schools and better he highest ethical standards of con- here e of speech should be insisted upon among It is not becoming that commercialism or g should shape their actions or that in- ce “School ol grounds should be planned and for should mark their/ utterances.” s and sc! serve as effective agencies children but the people as of taste.” not a matters “It is the duty of the ey will grow up with revérence for the Jaw. Any system of school discipline < disregards this obligation is harmiul to the Id and dangefous to the state.” Suc are the declarations which the educators of country have to make to the American people. Compared with resolutions that emanate from the general run of American conventions they are sin- moderate and conservative. The demand for an increased dignity and an augmented appropriation for the Natiopai Bureau of Education is in line with the general trend of American<thought. We. are growing to rely more and more upon governmental supervision and help. Commerce, agriculture, labor and mining each and all ask for representation in a Cabinet department or an independent bureau, and it is but right that the great work of public education should also have ample recognition and representa- tion in ‘governmental administration. The portion of the declaration that will find most response from the thoughtiul elements of the peo- ple is that which calls for a more careful instruction of youth in reverence for law. Of late there have been many portentous signs of a growing lawless- ness in mearly all parts of the Union. Atrocious crimes committed by mobs undér the name of lynch law are the worst and the most conspicuous of these | evidences, but they are by np means all. Offenses of violence committed under circumstances that show a contempt for law are becoming so common as to create a serious fear that the future of the country may be one of disturbance and disorder unless some- thing be done to check the tendency. Anything that the schools can do to inculcate a better tone of pub- fic sentiment in that respect will be a valuable ser- vice to the rcpublic, and it is gratifying that the teachers have placed such service among the prin- ciples to which they dedicate themselves. Norte 77 | «++.Herald Square ! to lay the foundations of character in the | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1903 SMUGGLING. AN FRANCISCO being the largest port on S the Pacific, and one of the great transfer points of travel around the world, it is not sur- prising that frequent attempts at smuggling dutiable goods are detected here.)\ But there is smuggling and smuggling. That which is regarded as so harmiful to the revenues is purely commercial. Sometimes it is embarked in by regular importers, and flourishes by collusion with minor officers of the customs service. In such cases false invoices, undervaluations and other de- vices are used. In this form of the offense arise such cases as were exposed here in 1890 and subsequent years, wherein the invoices called for toweling and cheap goods, but the cases were filled with costliest fabrics of France, except one, which bore a private mark designating it to be sent to the Appraiser’s store for examination as a sample of the whole, and which contained towels. The silk undervaluation cases now on in New York, discovered by Appraiser | Wakeman, are a form of smuggling requiring false oaths and official collusion or carelessness. Then there is the bold smuggler, who regularly enters and clears his ship, but lands valuable and highly dutiable cargo on some lonely spot on the coast, where it is hidden for recovery by his land- | lubber confederates, who put it on the market and | divide the profits. As we have no efficient coast- guard system this kind of smuggling was formerly | very prevalent here. It dealt principally with opium. | | The higher the duty on an article the greater is the profit in smuggling. When the tariff on opium was | $12 per pound, put at that high figure with the pur- | pose of excluding it from the country by a prohib | tive rate, there was no lack of the drug, but very little of it came in through the custom-house. It was landed in all sorts of ways. Sometimes it got ashore | in secluded places in small boats, and sometimes it | was protected from the water and thrown overboard attached to a buoy or float of some kind, to be re- | covered by an innocent looking fishing-boat. Now that the opium tariff is greatly less, smuggling it does not pay and it comes through the custom-house. When it was $12 per pound the smugglers could af- ford to lose every other cargo, since they lost only | | the first cost of the drug. But at the lower rate the } profit does not offset the risk, and there is every rea- | son to believe that but little of the drug is smuggled. | The guide to all detective work for protection of | the revenue is the tariff itseli. The merchandise that | pays the highest duty is sure to be the most smug- | gled. Under the high schedules of the Morrill tariff smuggling flourished. The moiety law was passed, giving the Collector, Naval Officer and Surveyor of | Customs a moiety of the value of smuggled goods | that they could catch. This enabled them to employ | private detectives and use means of detection that the Government is unable or unwilling to use. But the moiety law was repealed, it is believed by the in- | fluence of the smuggling ring, which was then very | extensive and very powerful, and the freebooters reveled in profits for awhile, until our lower modern | tariff more nearly equalized risk and profit. | Anothe? form of smuggling, of which we hear the most, is that of dutiable goods in passengers’, bag- gage. To understand the prevalence of this it is necessary to explain that smuggling being wrong only because it is prohibited, and the act of bringing in merchandise purchased abroad being innocent in | itself, the conscience does not revolt against it, and | the best people will do a little smuggling with no sense of its being wrong. The ladies, God bless "em, | are natural-born smugglers, and not one comes from |2 trip abroad without hoping to get some dutiable | knicknack past the customs officers free. This is the | kind of evasion of duty that is rife here and at every L seaport. Passengers make incomplete declaration of | | their baggage or refuse to make any at all, and when | | it is searched it is found stuffed with valuable goods. | The temptation to smuggle valuable Asiatic goods in this way is very marked. Ladies cannot resist the lure of the darling silk kimonas of China and Japan, nor of the Oriental embroideries, splendid objects of | art, so cheap there and so dear here. So they scheme and stitch and hide and lie like angels about it. When detected they are surprised. Their maid must have { put that stuff in the trunk. or a careless husband is berated for it. Then they offer a tip to the in- spector, and when this is refused resort to tears and get into the newspapers But revenue officers have no choice. | | They are be- tween the two fires, observation by the secret service 1 | and by legitimate importers, who are injured by the | admission free of any dutiable article. The Govern- | ment transports plying to Manila have become con- spicuous for the many attempts at smuggling by their | passengers, and army and navy officers and their J-.-.i\~e< have shown the same desire to evade duty on | fine things that is shown by civilians. When it gets | into the papers this sort of smugglers are indignant | and declare thet they have been humiliated. A little | common sense will teach them that every reader of | their supposed humiliation would have taken the; | same risks under the same circumstances, for no one | regards smuggling as malum in se. |. Complaint is being made that the Shamrock III f‘cxn find no wind for her practice spins in prepara- | tion for the great race. It is extremely unlikely that during any stage in the big game she will find any- | 1 ‘Hhing to blow about. | | | | E most any kind is not as a rule very cheerful i reading for us. Even when they commend us | they do so with a sort of condescension implying a | belief that we are not in the same class with them- L‘el\‘es and that praise given to us means no more than so much patrpnizing approval given to a smart | boy. It appears, however, that in one art we have | really captured Europe and are leading crowned {heads and artists alike in triumph behind our vic- | torious chariot wheels. That arl is the art of stage dancing. i The average American has not looked upon stage stepping of any kind, from the sl dance to the cakewalk, as a source of national pride, but it seems we shall have to do so if we wish to have any pride {at all. Long ago Treports came in that the cakewalk had captured Berlin, had been approved with de- light by the Kaiser, and had been danced by high dig- nitaries and stately dames at a court reception, Only recently it is announced that King Edward, who has not many points of sympathy or affinity with the Kaiser, has agreed with him on that one at any rate and has had cakewalk festivities at Sandringham. The approval of crowned heads is flattering from a social point of view, but it is worth nothing in the y orld of art, and consequently we may note with de- light that artists as well as Kings and Emperors have found joy in the American dance and are looking to it as to the comiing of a new era in the realms of ; WHERE WE LEAD. UROPEAN criticism of American art of al- | must not necessarily lose where another gains. | many, however, appears to have taken the hint. | the millions. | lic, ignorant of Alaska, with varying degrees | can be forced into existence in Massachusetts | brain is reached by the ordinary avenues for trans- | & of San Salvador or when Julius Caesar crossed Terpischore. One of the experts whom the world listens to with attention on such subjects has recently saidr “The solemn, wearisome ballet has existed too long on conventional lines at Paris, Milan, St. Pe-. tersburg and Vienna. Efforts have been made to re- juvenate it, but it has lost all expression within thirty years. Who knows that the American dance will not be established in the academies of old Europe?” In that question we have a promise of the future that may well cause us to lift up our heads in the world of art and be not ashamed. The old nations | may look down upon our sculpture, our painting, our music and our poetry, but when it comes to dancing they must do kow-tow. America will be known hereafter not only as the land of liberty and of gold, but of the cakewalk and the rejuvenated ballet. That may not be much, but it is something. We have a specialty. It is nct improbable that in his efforts to please us the Kaiser may not only patronize the | cakewalk, but oh some future occasion do a turn at 1t himself. B Germany has decided that she dBes not want to enter into a tariff war with Great Britain. It seems to be taking the world a long time, attended with much tribulation, to learn that in trade one nation Ger- ALASKAN POSSIBILITIES. EN who are well acquainted with Alaska have | M repeatedly asserted that- thousands of acres of the Territory are sufficiently well adapted for agriculture during the short summer as to pro- duce food enough for a population running up into | These assertions have been sustained | in messages by the Governor and in official reports from various agents of the Fedéral Government in the Territory. They have been received by the pub- | of | credulity or incredulity. It would seem, however, | that the experiments in the growing of grain and of many kinds of vegetables have now been carried i so far as to fully substantiate the assertions of the Alaskan boomers. It will be remembered that during his address at Seattle President Roosevelt. predicted a great future | for Alaska and asserted that men now living would | see the Territory as populous as some of the largest | American States. Unaffected by reports that furnish ‘ ample justification for the prediction of the President, | the Springfield Republican, like a good many other | New England papers that have no conception of the Pacific Coast, ridiculed the speech and suggested | that the President did not know what he was talking | about, or else had reached a degree of Western en- | thusiasm that rendered him indifferent as to the ac- [ curacy of what he said. The mocking words of the Republican reached’in | due tite the people of Alaska, and the Bonanza Record has sent back a reply. The Record says: | “Both the coast and interior of Alaska cbntain more | agricultural land than the whole population of Mas- sachusetts ever saw. - It is better and richer land than ever existed in Massachusetts even in the days when Miles Standish was fighting Indians and Roger Wil- liams skipped out for Providence, R.'I. The sun does not hang low in the summer time, but on the con- ] trary it shines in on these ‘desert’ fields of :\laskai i | | | and the Yukon from four different directions—north, east, south and west. Every kind of vegetable that gIPWs here with greater luxuriance than anywhere in the world. To the local readers of the Record it is not | necessary to enumerate them, but since a marked | copy of this paper will go to the inner sanctum of the Republican office it might be stated briefly that the list includes lettuce, radishes, beets, cabbage, po- tatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnip: spinach, oyster plant, parsley, celery, cauliflower, pnions, cucumbers, | gourds, mushrooms, oats, wheat, barley and seyeral | kinds of hay.” \ Pausing at that pcint to take breath and to cut short a list that began to look like a compendium of | rural products, the editor resumed by saying: “This is only a partial list, but enough for a man whose mitting intelligence. There thousands of acres of such are thousands upon land, and it is as vacant as | the day Christopher Columbus strode up the beach ! the Rubicon. The editorial writer of the Republican | must have served the most of his life as the hermit of a 10-acre hay ranch near the town of Springfield.” The exuberance of that language will of course in- cline the reader to smile, but it is not altogether the language of exaggeration, unless all Alaskans have united in a great trust to support and swear to each other's lies. Again and again the agricultural pos- sibilities of many sections of Alaska have been tested | for a series of years, and the results have justified the prediction of the President. Gold is by no means | the only valuable mineral of Alaska, and her people | | will not always be dependent upon imported foods. Like the rest of the Pacifie Coast, it is a land of wonders, and some day it will demonstrate the wis- dom of those who are trying to develop its resources, exploit its mines and cultivate its soil. 3 P If the war cloud which seems to be hovering so persistently over the Orient ever breaks it may del- uge the nations which look apparently with so much kindness on its appearance with.a rain of.common sense out of which may grow a wholesome respect for one another. The belligerents may find that it costs as much in blood and money to bé®victors as well as vanquished. The Hawaiian Legislature has involved itself in one | of the most remarkable squabbles of governmental history. It cannot agree upon the salaries to bei paid to public officials with whom it is friendly. The memory of man does not run to the time when salaries of men in the public service were not fixed | for all the tariff would -bear. b gl A white woman killed herself the other day be- cause a coolie, with a fine sense of the fitness of | things, refused to marry her. As if to complete a | job to which he had no liking and rid his brain of | its burden of unwelcome memory, the Chinese paid the money necessary to bury the woman. S SR An American woman has become, the dispatches say, the Empress of Korea. It is strange what re- markable versatility American women can display in the expfession of their affections, but if the lady is satisfied - in this instance there certainly can be no reason for us to complain. 3 g Tammany has been accused of secking to make capital out of certain charges which it has preferred against a public official of New York. Has Tam- many ever been suspected of seeking anything but capital in anything it ever did or ever attempted to do in the body politic? | Nevada, registered at the Occidental ves | 15. | the Imperial; C. F. Regan, | Union; | honey, T. V. Cator and E. 8. | Council, :% PLANS OF ARCHITECTS FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL AT MARTINEZ ARE ACCEPTEQ - : PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. L. M. Taylor of Washington, D. C., is at the Palace. E. H. Cox, a wealthy lumberman of Madera, is at the Palace. Dr. J. M. West of Red Bluff is among the latest arrivals at the California. Colonel W. 8. Davis, a mining man of Auburn, Is registered at the Palace. B. L. Smith, cashier of the Eureka County Bank of Nevada, is at the Palace. John Nicol, a well known mining man of Guafemala, is visiting friends in the eity. Mason W. Mather, a mining man of terday. George Nixon, the well known banker of Winnemucca, who has just returned from a visit to the East, is at the Palace. J. H. Ferguson, a manufacturer of fire- works, and H. B. Phillips, a man of Rochester, are guests at the Cali- fornia A. J. Rich of the firm of A. J. Rich & Co., who has been absent in Europe during the last four months, sailed from London on the steamer Oceanic on July After spending a few days in New York City he will start for San Fran- cisco. Mr. Rich expects to be home on August 1. At SP L ANE Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 16.—From San Fran- cisco—E. O. Burnes and Dr. T. E. Moore, at the Herald Square; B. F. Brooks, at t the Grand Miss Dixon, at the Grand; A. Hanford, Miss B. Harris and S. A. Harris and wife, at the Everett; E. M. Marks, at the Grenoble; S. S. Schener, at the Gilsey. From Los Angeles—E. Dusoe, at the St. Denis; J. B. Berner, G. A. Fitch and wife, W. H. Harrison, W. P. Jeffries, R. H. Jeftries, H. Krohn, G. 1. Kyte, F. M. Parker and wife, Porter, Dr. W. A. Smith and L. V. Youngworth, at the Her- ald Square. From Santa Rosa—M. E. Broadway Central. Kelso, at the -— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, July 16.—The following Californian: registered at the hotels to- day: At the Natlonal—W. V. Leach of San Francisco. At the Ralelgh—L. W. Seely of S8an Francisco. lard—S., C. Irving of San Francisco. —_—ee————— CLUB OPTION ON UNION SQUARE LOT EXPIRES Members of the League Declare Against the Levy of Arbi- trary Assessment. The Union League Club’s option to-pay | $5000 to secure the Rosenfeld lot, at the | southeast corner of Stockton street and Union Square avenue, expired at 2 p. m. vesterday, while Thomas V. Cator was speaking on the subject. A vote of thanks was given to the Rosenfeld brothers for their kindness in holding the site at the club’s disposal for such a considerable length of time. It was voted to prolong | the existence of the committee of iwenty- five and reinvest it with authority to ex- amine building sites. A committee consisting of W. H. Ma- Gates was appointed to look into the articies of in- corporation to ascertain if the club was vested with authority to erect and rent a building and to acquire and mortgage real estate. The sentiment of the league on the ques- tion of levying an arbitrary assessment on the members was freely expressed, and a resolution declaring against such as- sessment was adopted. C. H. Garoutte, who was among the advocates of the { building enterprise, did not favor the pol- icy of assessing the members to raise the money to buy land and build a clubhouse. “olonel George H. Pippy. president of the Union League, Is not discouraged by the failure of the initial effort to provide the league with a new home, and will con- | tinue agitation in behalf of the enterprise. ——e—————— PENDO SUPREME COUNCIL AMENDS CONSTITUTION ‘ Volunteer Council No. 159 Tenders Reception to Officers in Golden Gate Hall. The Supreme Council of the Order of Pendo was engaged all day yesterday in revising and amending the constitution and making changes for the better pro- tection of members. To-day there will be another session to continue in that work and to-morrow the new officers will be installed. Last evening Volunteer Council No. 159 held a reception in Golden Gate Hall to | the officers and members of the Supreme There was a large number of people in the very tastefully decorated hall. The committees in charge of the affair were: Arrangements—J. J. Jcell, chairman; Kraus, Dr. C. H. Waiworth, Mrs. E. J. well and Mrs. H. C. Schaertzer., Reception—J. W. Tarpley, J. W. Bryant, Margaret Lewis, Rose McCall, Anna Smiley, Mrs. Maud Hollister, Verona Linge, Mary Zim- merman, Alice McCall, Mrs. A. 8. Joell, Emma Salsbury, Lillian E. Tugwell, Carrle’ Byrne, Inez M. Aiken and Mabel Seary. Floor—Dr. C. H. Walworth, manager: A. Wickersham, assistant manager: George W. H. bert, F. S. Paul, Fred Duden, Norman R. Hill, J. A. Matthews and D. M. Nicholas. H. Tug- plt S e bt e News in Army Circles. The detachment of avtillery stationed at the Presidio held a field day yesterday. Private Joseph F. Parsons, Company D, Thirteenth Infantry, won first honors in the battalion small arms practice at Be- nicla last week, with a score of 421 out of a possible 550 points. Ttallan Minister to the United States Des Planches paid an official visit to Gen- eral MacArthur at the latter's headquar- ters in the Phelan bullding yesterday. ———e—— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a und, in artistic etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. T15 Market st., above Call bldg.* ——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alle 230 Cal fornla street. Telephone Main 1042 nursery | At the New \\'fl-‘ NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING TO BE ERECTED AT MAR- TINEZ. | | | . ————— ARTINEZ, July 16.—The trustees of the Alhambra High School have accepted the plans of Stone | & Smith, architects, of San Fran- M cisco for a new High School builiding to | | be erected here at a cost of §10,000. To detray the expenses of building 4 per cent bonds for this amount have been sold at | par to the Bank of Martinez. Four designs were submitted to the | trustees. The successful architects drew { | the plans for the Emma Spreckels build- | ing in San Francisco and their design for | a new building has been adopted by the Concord High School District of this | county. The plan for the new High School here | represents a building of the California | mission style, with one floor and base- | ment. The first floor will contain a| study hall, three recitation rooms, with convenient hatrooms, etc. The entrances will be from the front and rear and will | lead into a spacious center rotunda, y feet in diameter. From this halls L3 3 g2 will 1 to the various classrooms. The | | plan is so arranged that from the teach- | ers’ p tions a view will be had of all the approaches and entrances to classrooms, | thus greatly aiding discipline. The principal's office and library on| the first floor will be nicely arranged, | both for teachers and pupils. The base- ment will contain sclence-rooms, heating, ventilating and sanitary plants and lunch- rooms L e e e e e e e ] SOCIETY IS AMUSED | WITH WELL-TOLD TALES, —_ | Rev. Adrain Hofmeyr Tells His| Friends of Adventures in the | | “Dark Continent.” | The farewell testimonial tendered to the Rev. Adrain Hofmeyr at Native Sons’) Hall last night was distinctively a soclai | | success. The subject the speaker chose | was announced as “An Explorer's Ad-| | ventures in the Dark Continent.” It consisted of what some stories. might be called very pretty lttle after-dinner They were told in an off-hand r and interspersed with occasional | s of friendly jocularit: which met the approval of a most kindly disposed | audtence. The speaker has a sort of force and easy way of delivering his narrations and | a good deal of personal mangetism. He | was thoroughly at ease with his listen- ers and they all appeared to enjoy what he said. Whenever he alluded to any particular one of thelr number they ap- | peared to be especially interested and | pleased. | " Burlingame sent up a large contingent and Mrs. Francis Carolan came up for the occasion in her private car. Repre- sentatives were present from the Bohem- jan Club and a letter of regret was sent by British Consul Bennett i dated ket To Welcome the Chief. Oakland Lodge of Good Templars will velcome Grand Chief Templar T. D. Kanouse in its lodgerodms, 1060 Broad- way, this evening, on which occasion the lodge will hold an open meeting. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. VIRGINIA CITY FIRE—W., City. The great fire in Virginia City occured Oc- tober 26, 1875 VENUS-8., City. The planet that shone so brightly in the western sky im the latter part of June was Venus. STRADIVARIUS—W. T. D., Gonzales. Cal. Antonio Stradivarius, the famed vio- lin maker, was born in 1649 and died In 1737, THE 10W A—Subseriber, City. The bat- tleship lowa on trial developed 12,195 horse-power and an average speed of L17.087 WEBE'S SWIM—T. H.. Alameda, Cal It was on August 24, 1§75, that Captain Webb swam the English Channel. The time occupled was twenty-one hours. MAX ADLER—A Subscriber, City. You can find the works of Charles H. Clark Max Adler) in the Free Public Library and fn such you can find the quotation asked Wolll. FALSE SWEARING—A. B. C., Oakland, Cal. The question asked as to the labil ty of a man who swears falsely as to his citizenship before taking office should state where and under what condition he made the declaration before an answer can be given. THE CHURCH MURDERS-—K. D., City. The murders in the church for the commission of which Theodore Durr: was adjudged guilty and executed oceur- red in April, 13%. The body of one of the murdered girls was discovered on the 13th of that month ahd that of the other on the following day AHWANEE—-C., City. The books on Indian names do not give the definition of the name Ahwanee. The question asked was submitted to the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution and the reply from there is: “Your query as to the meaning of Ah- wanee has been referred here and there for several months, but no one has been able to give the meaning. -Inclose mote from A. S. Gottschetf, ome of dur best men,” The note referred to is as follows “I have not yet secured the meaning Ahwanee, but think the name was an im- portation from the East.” Can any of the readers of this department give the meaning of this word, which is the name of a place in the Yosemite Valley? —_——————— Mayor Objects to Report. The Board of Health met yesterday and received the report of its committee in- forming the board that Mayor Schmitz had refused to give his sanctiom to the printing of the monthly health report of the department. The committee reported | that the Mayor’'s objection was based on £ the ground that the monthly report would contain actual statistics as to the heaith and sickness of each resident in & Francisco. The matter was referred back to the committee with instructions to again confer wfth the Mayor. —_————— Flames Damage Oil Tanks. LOS ANGELES, July 16.—Fire to-day the oil district threatened a serious co flagration for a time, but was brought under control after doing $4000 damage to derricks and tanks. The fire started in the dry grass near a sumphole and soon enveloped a rig standing in the midst of a hundred rigs, tanks and numerous sumpholes. The fire department succe ed in confining the fire to the one proj erty, ——— e \ WASHINGTON, July 16.—Secretary Hay and Minister Arriga to-day exchanged ratifica- tions of the Guatemalan extradition treaty, which was signed some time ago. The treaty is on modern lines, i CHRIS COX’S STRANGE CHINATOWN EXPERIENCES Whisper to Your Lady Love SOMETHING NEW—SOMETHING FASCINATING Ode to the Summer Girl BY MARY E. WILKINS This Is the First of a Series of Full-Page Pictures, With Catchy Appreciations by Famous Authors, Which Are Just as Good for the Bashful Swain as the Ardent Suitor. X SUNDAY (A Truth, Philosophy and a Laugh in Every Line of the “Letters Frou a Self-Made Merchant to His Sor,” Called Pastels in Pork No. 3 You'll Simply Roar Over the Next » COLORED COMIC SUPPLEMENT . And There's a Splendid Masterpiece in Color, Made Espeeciall for Framing, ! % WATSON'S “HIGHLAND CATTLE” WONDERFUL CAREER OF A BLIND “CATTLE KING”