The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1903, Page 6

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ONCERNING " the meaning of the Czar's Witte from the position of ice to that of President of Nomir the promo- the imperial ministry, g as a presidency that has be that Witte has been nd for the purpose of de- C ce of that ki former authority t-the distinguished Russian has pute in ope and in the He: has- been credited with the au- of the great poli finance, nternal development which have ce he entered the min- work has been regarded as and more than one panegyric has the statesman who could western ies of marvels in such a land de of western admiration was flowing 1 ion was given to criticisms methods. Such reports of Russia e were set down e opposition of a barbaric conser- from man. Of late, how- ever a m serious study of the Russian “uropean economists, and the have been by no means favorable to Witte's ter; for the showing a sociological egian statesman and s of the financial sit- t that the public debt reach Of this $1,- 35,400,000 $855,600,000 abroad. In the past four years Russia has borrowed #broad $700,000,000 and this does not include the loans for Taxes have increased to a degrée. of terrible exaction in the same period. Bjoern- 2 “Expend: ipts can no longer keep pace with them. A part of the railway system pays no dividends; does nbt even pay for its running. Taxes have reached their ultimate limit. This last point is confirmed by Witte iri his report to the imperial council.” Bad ‘as is the financial condition of the empire it is- by no means the worst feature of the situation. The-industnal and 'social conditions are even more threatening than the menace of imperial bankruptcy. . Professor Ernest Tarbouriech, who has made a long sojouin.in Russia and a careful study of the people, Jhas- recently startled Europe by the gloomy picture which he presents of the Russian situation as a whole, . @nd by his delineation of the portentous signs of a coming revolution or insurrection that may involve 2]l eastern Europé in strife and disaster. Other au- ‘thorities confirm the report of Tarbouriech. It is - stated that at the present time in South Russia alone there are wpward of 500,000 men on a strike, and so iutense is the popular interest in the struggle that the government for the first time in recent history has beeén forced to permit the press to publish reports - of the event and keep the public informed of the developments in the various districts where the strikes -prevail. A Berlin report of recent date says the strikes are merely a covering for a social revolt of enormous " proportions, which, starting in the Caucasus, has spread rapidly in every direction. The cause of the ‘outbr’cak is seid to have been a racial antagonism “among the people of the Caucasus excited by the efforts of the, government to “Russianize” them. The closing of Armenian schools is reported to have de- prived 20,000 children of their opportunities to ob- - tain an- education in their native language, and other races have been as badly treated as the Armenians. It will be remembered that while the “Russification” “of the southern tribes has been enforced in that * drastic way, a similar policy has been applied with an equal barbarity in Finland, so that the extreme north of the empire is almost as badly disturbed as the south. 8 . Taken as a whole, the Russian situation is by no means encouraging to those who desire the main- tenance of peace in that part of the world, and it is clear that a new control is needed in the imperial --council. - Whether the promotion of Witte means that he is to have full power to act in dealing with the crisis, or whether it means that a new man is to have charge, remains to be seen. The one thing indisputable is that it is high time for some one to change the impesial programme, ntly. Bjoernson, mar of letters, made an analy: e sum of $3 ed ¢ watien in Russi 0,000,000. and was placed -at ome railivays. e es are steadily increasing, but | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, i PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS. HE charter of this city provides that it may go Tin(o various branches of business by the pur- chase or creation of public utilities. That term had in the beginning a definite and restricted mean- ing, but its meaning is now indefinitely extended. In the experience of New Zealand it is taken to mean public ownership of lands and the founding and ad- ministration of life insurance, the guarantee of work and wages with the state as an employer, and a long list of other things that were once considered far beyond the purpose of governmen-. We are just entering upon a policy that elsewhere has worked out to disuse or exhaustion. New Zea- land has borrowed money on her general credit for the pushing of her business enterprises and is in such a condition that failures and deficits are not chargeable to the business in which they occur, but pass on to the state and burden the general credit unti! public creditors are clamoring for their money or are protesting against further impairment of their security. % Public ownership and administration of utilities was not dreamed of by the statesmen who founded our system and was left out of the calculations of those who originated or adapted our scheme of municipal government. Where it has long existed it is im- possible to ascertain its merits or its demerits be- cause its administration is merged so chaotically with the purely political purposes of government that its unraveling is the despair of accountants and actu- |aries. Only one thing is known. Everywhere there |is extravagance and waste, which, so far as they are | measurable, prove that they equal corporate profits |in similar lines of business. When the cause of waste is sought, the wisest advocates of public ownership pin its wisest opponents in admitting that it lies 1 separating the bonds for public plants and the cost of their administration from the plants them- selves. Recent investigations show that public utilities un- |der city ownership are more costly than under pri- :vat: ownership. Chicago runs a municipal electric {light plant. A recent investigation by the city’s ex- | pert accountant discloses these facts: That during ilhe whole period of city ownership from 1888 to 1900 the average annual cost per arc light was $142 18, and {in one year it was $266 44 The private company 4wh|ch supplies Cleveland charged only $04 80 per arc ‘\ligh!. The apparent cost per arc light supplied by | the public plant in Detroit is $78, but sinking fund, | interest and expenses charged off to the general fund | bring the cost up to $90 72 as‘shown by the sifting of the accounts by experts. i It will be seen that the taxpayer of Detroit was deceived when told that his light was costing him the ‘]c&ser sum. That deception was made possible by | separating debt, interest and expense from the plant {and putting them upon the general fund. Surely these experiences, which are common to the history {of public plants in every large city in the Union, should teach and exhort this city and Oakland to ‘I)cgin the public utility policy in the right way, which lis the business way. Besides this there is a question of confiscatory tax- ation invelved. Why should property remote from the Geary street road be taxed to acquire and run it as a public enterprise when it has no share in its | benefits and no use of the public convenience which it supplies? Why should all the taxpayers south of Market have their tax burden, already heavy, in- creased to supply those who live on the Geary street road the means of transportation? Are the Geary | street people doing anything for those who live and pay taxes south of Market street> No, they in no way reciprocate, nor propose to reciprocate. Oakland there is a very large number of taxpayers who have their own water supply. The private water company in that city does not reach them. not charge them anything. They are beyond its control. If citv water bonds are based upon the plant to be created by them these non-users will con- tiue to be independent, but if the bonds are a lien upon the city every taxpayer must contribute whether {he is a user or a non-user. - { It can- While this phase of the question, in respect to | water, may be abridged in its seeming importance, because the non-users are in a minority, the tax- ‘ntion of one man only for a benefit he does not share, | nor need to share, is a violation of his rights, which, tolerated, may in other matters be indefinitely e {tended so that large masses of taxpayers may be i volved in confiscation. In the case of the Geary | street road there is no such mitigation. The large | majority are to be taxed for the benefit of a small | minority. The independence of our people began in | (a protest against taxation without representation. Is |not taxation without benefit, or the possibility of | benefit, as bad, or worse? e s s s If reports from various parts of California were {true one might suspect that there are a hundred des- perate convicts at large with murderous and thieving intent instead of less than ten. Frightened men and | women are seeing in every strange and passing face {and in every unwonted shadow i desperate jailbird, freed from his cage and bent on crime. A s e e HEN Tom Johnson won out in the Demo- FIGHTING MARK HANNA. [ W cratic State convention in Ohio there was a triumph not only for Bryan's platform, but | for Bryan's latest method of making a political fight. éIt appears that the campaign in Ohio is to be made itpersonal to a degree hitherto unknown in that State, |and just as Bryan now devotes himself mainly to a fight against Cleveland, so Johnson and his follow- ers are to make their fight mainly against Senator Hanna. It is so seldom in our politics that a great party speaking in a State convention singles out some one man for denunciation, that it is interesting to note to what extent the Ohio Democrats singled out Sen- ator Hanna as the sole object of their antagonism. The task of sounding the keynote of the campaign was intrusted to the Hon. G. M. Saltzgaber, who was introduced as temporary chairman, and who made the opening address of the convention. In the course of his speech the orator denounced what he called “tariff iniquities” and went on to say: “Con- vince the people that you are in earnest and will carry this one reform into effect, and on that alone the majority will sweep you into power. Why should they continue to vote with Mr. Hanna? Nineteen- twentieths of the voters of Ohio are also righteously opposed to Mr. Hanna's ship subsidy scheme to draw money from the public treasury and bestow it on those already rich. Will a majority of the voters consent that Mr. Hanna shall remain in power to further schemes by which some are enrichéd at the expense of the many?” Judging from the tone of the convention, Demo- cracy sees nothing in politics except Mark Hanna, and has no other impulse to activity than a desire So in | Jto down him. Of course, if the issue be made upon the policies of protection to American industry, both on land and on the sea, Senator Hanna will hardly need to take the stump, for the people of Ohio have time and again declared themselves in favor of both the one and the other. It is, perhaps, for that rea- son the Democratic campaigners have decided to make the fight this year not so much against those policies as against the personality of a man whose successes in business and in politics may be sup- posed to have caused enmities and envies that will incline a good many discontented people to vote against him just for spite's sake. Whatever may be the differences of opinion con- cerning the expediency of making a personal fight against Senator Hanna, it will be admitted by all that such a fight is very small politics. With Bryan de- nouncing Cleveland as a “bunko steerer” and Tom Johnson denouncing Hanna as the “heavy villain” of American life, it is not strange the conservative Democrats have resolved to save their party from such leaders at the next national convention, or leave it forever. B Hopolulu has determined to rid herself of myriads of empty tin cans preliminary to measures for free- ing herself of mosquitoes. Why not import innu- merable small boys and as many inoffensive cur dogs and the thing is done. | I rut was not murdered. The American Minis- i ter at Constantinople misinformed his Govern- ment. The vice-consul hiniseli answers an official ‘inquiry that he is “fit as a fiddle.” Just what that |implies in diplomacy is for the experts of the State | Department to say. It would seem proper that he }'be sent elsewhere to display his violincular fitness, since it is a quite serious matter to mislead a govern- ment into making a costly naval demonstration against a friendly power. Concurrently with the report of the vice-consul's | assassination was a harrowing tale of crime against 'the American college at Harput. That college is a | potent storm center. Many members of its faculty | are Armenians who are naturalized Americans. They carry into their use of that missionary school their violent racial and religious prejudice against the | Turks, and, sheltered by our flag, act in a way that would not occur to native Americans. When the clerical cry went up for the slaughter of the Turks and their expulsion from Europe, it was supposed that Harput had been or was about to | be put to the torch. The American Missionary As- | sociation arranged for a.conference with Secretary | Hay to secure another demonstration at Harput. | Now it turns out that the shot supposed to be in- | tended for the vice-consul at Beirut was a blank | cartridge fired in the air by a wedding party accord- {1ng to a local custom, and that Harput is as quiet |as a fashionable church in Boston during vacation. ’The Missionary Association notifies Secretary Hay | that a’ conference is unnecessary and thc American | Minister at Constantinople and the consul at Beirut ‘should be admonished to keep cool and not have the navy sent on any more fool’s errands. | e e s | Oakland murderer, A DECLINE OF HYSTERIA. T turns out that the American vice-consul at Bei- | An self-confessed, noncha- | lantly chewed gum the other day during the progress iof his trial. He probably knows better than any one | else that in the trial for his life nothing very serious |is at stake. 3 | CHICAGO’'S CENTENNIAL. HICAGO is going to do herself proud by cel- brating the centennial of her existence as a | C home of white men. The first settlement dates back to August of a hundred years ago, but | Chicago has postponed the festival until September 26, when she will begin it and continue it for six days. Just why the postponement was made has |not been stated. Of course Chicago is not getting to be so slow that she cannot keep up with the al- | manac, so it is not probable the delay has been oc- | casioned by any lack of ability to get ready at the proper time. Possibly the August weather may have | had something to do with the change of date. Au- | gust is a sultry, thirsty time in Chicago even under the most quiet conditions, and it may be her leading citizens felt that if a celebration were sprung upon them at that time the thirst would be too great for the supply of lake water to quench, and an impor- tation of beer from St. Louis might be rendered nec- essary. Such a fear would, of course, have caused a postponement of the festival without further debate. Chicago can do many things, but she cannot revel with a true joy on beer bearing a St. Louis label. Toward the close then of this month, at a time when the weather is not utterly horrid, Chicago will shoot rockets at the stars, burn red lights on the tops of her skyscrapers, set her streets blazing with ¢’ ctric lights, adorn her stockyards, slaughter-houses and university with gay bunting, and be ready to blow her horn of jubilation over the growth she made during the hundred years that have passed since the first white man settled there because he could not get away, having neither energy to go farther west nor money to return east. Quite an extensive programme has been arranged for the six days of bragging and booming. A report says: “Another Fort Dearborn will be set up in one of the parks, within and without the counterpart of the original. Four hundred real Indians will come from Michigan in their canoes and when the cele- bration begins they will paddle up the river and camp near the fort, upon which at stated times they will make sham attacks. Then there will be an al- legorical 2nd industrial parade. With myriad lights and countless torches a procession of floats will rep- resent, successively, its Indian origin, its early set- tlement, the massacre of its pioneers by the red men, its great fire and its World’s Fair; while its commercial progress will be told in a series of tab- leaux and illuminated pictures.” The chief spectacular show of the occasion is to be a celebration of the great fire. In describing it the report goes on to say: “Over the great terri- tory devastated by the conflagration the roofs of all the larger buildings will be arr.1ged for red fire. Sim- ultaneously this combustible powder will be touched off and a glare that will be wvisible for many miles around will be maintained for two hours. A bomb display will also be given from the roof of the O'Leary home on De Koven street to signalize the spot where the cow kicked over the lantern.” Altogether the occasion is going to be a halcyon and vociferous time. The visitor will not have to expend any of his money or his energy in painting the town red, for all that will be done for him by his Chicago entertainers. All that he will have to do will be to enjoy himself and every now and then refer to the coming exposition at St. Louis as a prospective side show, P ) 1903. ST. HELENA WILL EXTEND ROYAL WELCOME TO THE NATIVE SONS Womirzzp C. Foakzr PRESIDENT B DaverrerRs Cor, T. HELENA, Sept. 2—St. Helena Parlor No. 8, N. 8. G. W., will observe the anniversary of Cali- fornia's admission to statehood by giving the largest celebration ever held in St. Helena and one of the best seen in Napa County for many vears. The committee of arrangements, con- sisting of Bismarck Bruck (chairman), E. L. Cavg (secretary), Joseph Galewsky, Dr. F. D.Watkins and E. G. Schuneman, has been busy for the last two weeks and has everything in readiness for the entertainment of the visitors. Excursion rates have been secured from San Francisco and way stations and a special train will leave Vallejo on Wed- nesday morning, September 8, at 8 o'clock, returning at 1 o’clock Thursday morning. The celebration is to be participated in by all the parlors of Napa and Solano counties. Napa Parlor will bring its band and about 400 excursionists. The Inde- pendence band will accompany Vallejo Parlor, also a large part of the popula- tion of the navy yard town. = The procession will be confined entirely to the Native Sons, excepting the pres- ence of “Uncle Jack” York and wife, who will celebrate their sixty-third wed- ding anniversary om the 7th. Mr. and Mrs, York crossed the plains in a prairie schooner. York was a member of the Bear Flag party at Sonoma and was one of the two men who carrled the American flag to General Fremont at Sacramento. Judge C. B. McLaughlin of Quincy Par- lor No. 131, first grand vice president of ‘he order, will deliver the oration. Mr. Dockery will be grand marshal. Besides the parade tne arrangements consist of literary exercises, games and amusements of all kinds and dancing in the pavilion in Hunt's park. A grand ball wili be held at night. The town will be decorated and an arch erected across Main street in front of the Native Sons’ headquarters will be flluminated by electricity at night, also on the evening of September 8. On Tuesday evening, September 8, at which time many of the visitors will ar- rive, the local parlors will have open house at its headquarters, which will be in charge of the Native Daughters un- der direction of Miss Winifred C. Booker, president, and Anne L. F. Whitehead, secretary. e Native Daughters Will Parade. SAN JOSE, Sept. 2.—Vendome Parlor of 2 5 PERSONAL MENTION. Peter Musto, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand. H. Hunsaker, a mining man of Denver, at the Palace. Attorney Nathan Cole of Los Angeles is at the California. Ex-Congressman Thomas J. Geary of Santa Rosa is at the Grand. W. H. Cheatham, pr<§r|etor of a hotel is at Albuquerque, is amgng the latest ar- rivals at the Grand. Bishop and Mrs. H. W, ‘Warren of Den- ver are enjoying a short vacation in Cali- fornia and are stopping at the Palace. 3J. J. Byrne, general passenger agent of the Santa Fe road, is up from Los geles and registered at the Palace. Dr. G. Goodfellow, formerly chief sur- geon of the Santa Fe road, and his wife Teturned last evening from a visit to the East and are temporarily stopping at, the Palace. W. W. Stevenson, brother of Adlai E. Stevenson, ex-Vice President of the Unit- ed States, and his son, J. B. Stevenson Jr.. of Bloomington, 1., are in San Fran- cisco on a pleasure trip. Robert de P. Tytus, who for the last five years has been representing the Unit- ed States Government in the archaeclog- jcal researches in Egypt, Is at the Palace with his wife. He is going to Luxor after spending several months in this country. —_—————————— Califcrnians in New York. YORK, Sept. 2.—Californians in Nx:v?v;ork—C, L. Ackerman, Holland; A. ‘Allmacher, Belvidere; Dr. A. and 'W. Bar- kan, Manhattan; D. Marx, Hotel Impe- rial; P. Hotel Albert; H. M. Page, Mrs. C. Purcell, C. H. Warner, Gn:d Union; F. L. Whitney, Hoffman; 3 llogg, Morton; Miss Ligny, Gllsey ;lmfi:; 1?3. Thompson, Gilsey House. San Die go—G. D. Goldman, St. Denis. —————————— THE CALL’S GREAT ATLAS OFFER Will close on September 24, great opportunity to secure one of these splendid Atlases at The Call’s premium rates will be brought to a close on Septem- ber 24. St P BRIy, L — LEADING MEMBERS OF AD- MISSION DAY CELEBRATION COMMITTEE GF ST. HELENA. _ - - - - -m—-— the Native Daughters of the Golden West will be a striking feature of the big Ad- mission day parade. Twenty or more of the young ladies will lead their parlor on horseback. They will be attired in natty white suits with white automobile caps. Many of the number are expert horsewomen and already they are busy breaking their steeds to become used to the din and neise of a parade. SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS - CAPTAIN BARR—Reader, City. Cap- tain Barr of the Rellance was born in Gourock, Scotland, July 11, 1364, . PROSPECTOR'S GUIDE-W. T. K Chinese Camp, Cal.’ - The guide asked about can be procured through any first-class book dealer. VOTES CAST—Subscriber, Sacramento, - . At the general election held in Calt fo‘rlnl-. in November, 1902, George C. r‘,\t‘ dee recelved 146,332 votes and Franklin K Lane 143,783. W. W. Shannon for State Printer received 161,243, and E. I Wood- man 110,613. THE PINKERTONS—L. W. T. and L. - . T., City. W. A. Pinkerton, detective, IDQY! this zl(y for the Orient March 11, 1903. The blograghies published. of this Pinkerton make no mention of any: sons during his married life. Robert A. Pin- kerton, his brother, was born in Dundee, 1L FIRE ESCAPE—L. F.. Oakland, Cal. It you have an idea in relation to & fire es- cape that you either wish to patent or dispose of you should consult somé re- liable attorney or agent who handles pat. ents. There are several in San Franéis- co, but this department cannot advertise them. LYNCH LAW-S., City. Charles.Linch: or Lynch, a Virginia planter and colonel, who was born in 1728 and .died in 1796, 1s. sald to have set himself, in conjinction with two neighbors, to secure good order by punishing offenders with stripes or banishment without the process. of law.. This treatment of lawbreakers was called “Lynch law.” ‘The term is now appited to rough justice by a mob substituted for the regular operation of law. Y PRESIDENT'S CABINET—Miss City. The members of President Roose- velt's Cabinet at.the date of your Inquiry August 26, were: John Hay, Secretary of State; L. M. Shaw, of tlie Treasury; Root, of War; P. C. Knox, Attern Gen- eral; H. C. Payne, Postmaster General: W. H. Moady, Secretary of the. Naw E. A. Hitchcock, of the Interior;: James Wilson, of Agriculture, and G. B. Cortel- you, of Commerce. Secretary Root of the War Department has resigned, ard Judge Taft of the Philippine Commission has been appointed to ce ITEMS OF INTEREST “What d1d you steal that cradle for?” asked the police magistrate. “Oh, just for a kid,” repliéd the pris- oner, who was lost to all sénse of shame. —Chicago News. E. The old lady had just dropped a coin In the begsgar's - outstretched Hand. “You ought to say ‘thank you,’” she suggested. “What! for a nickel?” he_ retorted.- Chicago Evening Post. “Suppose you succeed .in owning the earth,” said the abrupt man, “what good will it do you?' “Well,”” answered the trust_promoter, “I'm naturally'a man of hospitable instincts. There will be.a kind of satisfaction in feeling that I am. per- mitting other people to inhabit this globe.”—Washington Star. * Unselfish goodness is seldoin appreciat- ed in this world of ours. man in the electric car, - for - instance. Having rung up three-fares in his sfforts to stop the car for the woman.that sat on the opposite side, he tossed after her the umbrella that belonged to the-little gray whiskered man on his right. Neither the gray whiskered man nor the conductor liked the thoughtful Samaritan for his al: truistic efforts.—Boston Transeript. ————————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. Ti5 Market.st., above Call bldg. * ——— Special information supplied” dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau {(Allen’s), 230 Cal fornia street. Telephone Main 1 . didn’t it? Why? £ Me-ows of a Killy. HAT line above caught and chained your attention to this article, Not merely because it was startling or facetious, unusual or bizarre, but because—because it was about a CAT: < _what it is. Easiest way is to buy That might seem an utterly absurd reason, now that it is brought home to you so boldly, but it isn’t. It is the most natural reason-in the world because—well—because everybody is interested in cats, particularly those who hate them most. Why? That is one of the mysteries of the ages that has never b€en explained. Like the riddle of the sphinx, it bids:fair to be an eternal mystery, because like the sphinx a cat—any old cat— will attract and hold your interest as nothing else can, even'in spite of | yourself. 2 Through all the ages, in various countries, cats erated as a diety. Deep in its nature is the spirit of the unfathomable. Take notice for yourself, no matter how fond you may be of your own household tabby, there are times when it creeps into your presence with an air of the uncanny in every sly, snake-like movement. Again, brush - | its shiny coat in the dark and every hair will emit an electric spark. - In all the vast literary lore that clusters about it, it stands with equal adapt- ibility for truth and falsehood. Purring lazily in the chimney corner it is the very embodiment of eternal calm and irreproachable dignity. And yet how quick a fiendish metamorphosis. may be wrought. No mat- ter how tame, it can never be quite trusted. Like half truths, it is ¢on- - tinually engaged in disarming suspicion, as for instance: I “All the world loves a lover except the girl he is chasing.” > “Love controls the matrimonial market, but money 'often cor- ners it.” 2 “A man who boasts of his morality needs watching.” “Love is ofter a poor paying hot-air investment.” “Memory is both the hope and despair of life.” ; } However, that is quite enough to illustrate the point in question, namely the mystery and attractiveness of cats. you ‘want to hear more—and of course you do—any time, all the time—you will see the big picture of the particular feline about which the above is written and read the strange article that goes therewith in the next Sunday Cail. Even more fascinating are the two pages of “Half-Hour Storiettés.™ “In the Mystic Wake-of the Red Canoe” is one that you will read with - distinct pleasure, nor will you be able to overlook “The Wild Flight of Cupid and the Comet.” Odd titles. eh? Yes. But they're both quaint, exciting stories. And there are others, you may. be “sure, atters,” “Elsie’s Gray Hat,” “A Modern Pandora,” “Finding of Her,” “Victims of a Recoil,” “Fables for the Foolish,” “Aphorisms From - the . Silver - Poppy,” “Fads and Phrases,” “The Oracle of Mulberry Center,”" ete. ' These are not only unusual titles, but each is at the- top-of a_clever, thrilling, new and novel story. You'll read every one of them, -and more, because there is much more to read. Take note further. 2 There is a full-page story by Josephine Dodge Daskam, who, asevery- =1 body knows. won vast fame for her stories about children—not merely namby-pamby child stories, but real flesh and blood children. = Just watch for “Ardelia in Arcadia” if you don’t know the sort that Miss Daskam writes about. You'll laugh until your sides ache. ¢ Then there is “Old John Gorgon Graham’s Alphabet” This is. (ie . most ongmal creation ever penned. Will you laugh? Yes. And do' some serious thinking besides long before you get down to X, Y, Z. And then there is the third installment of “Brewster's which tells what that sorely perplexed but dead game young man did to make up for lost time after his long. serious illness to spend—actually spend—not dissipate—his uncle’s million in one short year to inherit six . more. He rushed off to the Mediterranean, nd—well just get The Sunday | Call and read for yourself. Tt is an installment that makes a complete.. story in itself. You don’t have to know what went before to be fasci- - nated. enthralled. A § Then there is a Sea Monster gobble. here V that gobbled forty-five tons at : It’s right here in California waters. too. Can’t possibly m:;: ¥ % a paper and find out from the pictures. s a woTar Then there is the second page of “The Wonderful Kingdom of “Von- derful Things” and—but it Sun- Sortl o to.lell S .: wo::g € .l.s much space as the whole Sun. have been ven-- .| Millions,” . ‘| There was that, prospector’s . R,