The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1903, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES—S27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open enti] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1006 Va- until ® o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 . corner Church and Duncan streets, open | NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, | clock more, open until 9 o'clock.’ | PUBLIC ULiLITY BONDS. no answer to our demand that s be a lien on the plants create and not upon the taxpayers plan only can there be secured nd proper management of a e city. Take a water sys- the bonds that acquire it and and be tem as an exan t charged e © ration extension have not only the ready means of com- under corporate management, g whether it is honestly and eco- Every year the balance- ater system is put before the rate- red. 'S W income and outgo be equal they know it; a surplus they see in it a reason for a less if there be 2 deficit they see in it a reason for rger water rate s applies especially to Oakland, where the prop- If in that 1 is charged off 1 deficits are put upon er instead of the ratepayer, these items are 1 the tax receipt, and knowledge is kept e ratepayer, who may think that he is getting f its cost is unknown ter cheaper bec , that part v will have to be provided for, and the resuit will be the scaling down of the levy for the essential purposes of gov- ernmen as ce, fire and proper maintenance of streets, and ar things that go to | the prot ation and just government of the city. atform in this city demands a 3 lities. The industries which it proposes to include in a scheme of business carried on by the city will involve a capital but little less th pel the $100,000,000, which it is proposed to com- to supply by taxation, and which is to become a lien upon the city instead of upon the plants which it creates. It is admitted that the ad- ministration of these vast business systems by ,the 1 be ore costly than under private owner- in attempting to justify making treet Railroad bonds a lien upon the city upon the road, says: “The traffic will grow 8 2 There would be a substantial 1 the city could dispose of as it saw fit. This Id go in part to the employes, in meeting expense of the eight-hour day required by the charter. The in ries which the Mayor's platform pro- poses to run as public utilities have now about 8000 employes. Who doubts that their influence in politics will be immediately enlisted in removing their wages from the influence of supply and demand and making them subject to legislation by the city gov- ernment? Does any one expect soon to see a city government here that will not seek and hold power by granting every demand of that kind? The result will be that all this “extra expense” will be legislated out of the pockets of the taxpayers instead of com- ing out of the income of the vast and varied busi- nesses which it is proposed the city shall manage. What may be expected to happen has already hap- pened in Kansas City in the municipal ownership and administration of the water supply. The rate re- mains the same as that charged by the private water ccmpany, the income has increased only 13 per cent, and the expense has increased over 9o per cent. Now when that increase, which is an actual deficit, is charged off to the general fund, the ratepayer is left in ignorance of the cost of his water supply, caused by the increase in wages paid. ; There is only one right way in business, either pub- lic or private, and that way dictates the putting of all bonds, and their interest, and the cost of admin- istration, upon the plant which they create. — Two of the daring footpads who have been giving San Franciscans the shivers of late have been cap- tured by the police and identified by some of their victims. It is sincerely to be hoped that the next phase of their career will be confined to a long and dishonorable service to the State, breaking rock in a penitentiary. ER 9, 1903 | to the ratepayers in the cost to them of the | CALIFORNIA AND HER DAY. ALIFORNIA'S State festival will probably be ‘ to-day more generally celebrated than ever before in her history. It is of course nat- \ural that it should be so, for with each succeeding year the influence of the Native Sons and Daughters augments, and with that influence there develops an increasing popular pride in the greatness of the State, its romantic history and its glorious future. It is inevitable that such feelings of patriotic regard for the commonweslth should prompt a public manifes- tation, and accordingly in well nigh every section of the State there will be this year a notable celebration of the day that marked the admission of the com- monwealth as a State in the Union. By way of contributing to the observance of the day The Call presents this morning a supplement containing a compendium of the history of Califor- nia, set forth both in letters and in pictures. The supplement is by all odds the most comprehensive and instructive ever published on the subject of Cali- fornia’s history, industries, resources and prospects, while a special page is devoted to San Francisco— the golden city of the modern world, the Bagdad of the West. Comprehensive as it is, the story of the State thus presented can be easily read during the leisure hours of the holiday, for it is tersely told. No effort has been made to publish a voluminous supplement more notable for its many pages than for any other merit. On the contrary, the aim in preparing this record of the State has been to give the facts compactly in good literary style, illustrated with portraits of distinguished men, sketches of interesting places and incidents, and symbolic cartoons of “California up- to-date” and of her native Muses—Art, Literature and Music. The story thus told is one of the most interesting |in the annals of mankind. Beginning as a tale of ad- | venture on the part of the cavaliers and freebooters of Spain and of England, exemplified in the roman- | tic personalities of Cabrillo and Drake, it is soon transiormed into a story of missionary zeal, telling of the labors of Junipero Serra and his colleagues; then slowly changes into an idyll of pastoral life whose continuity is rudely broken first by revolution {and then by a magic working discovery of gold that brings the restless foot of American enterprise to the land and begins an era that changes every ex- ‘isung institution and creates a virtually new com- | monwealth. With the change in the nature of its civilization a | change comes over the story of the State, but it re- interesting as ever. In place of the old |records of adventurers, missionaries and lordly | rancheros we have now the story of gold hunters, | miners, builders, founders of schools, churches and universities—men of every The story of the | work of those men and of their sons constitutes the world’s greatest historic romance of modern times. In no other part of the world, among any- thing like so limited a population, has there been done so much during the last fifty years to advance human welfare | mains as merchants, railroad class and grade of the pioneer type. We have carried the industries of ning and of horticulture to a perfection unknown elsewhere. Our ship-builders have established them- | selves among the foremost of the age. In the appli- {cation of electric energy to the needs of industry, not only in cities but in rural districts, we lead the 28 n of progress, and in many another department of |industry we hold rank among the foremost. | Nor haye the achievements of the Californias been |confined to the attainment of material good. We have already furnished many a brilliant name to the lists of scientists, poets, painters, singers, sculptors, | musicians and orators whom the world honors. In short, the profuse fertility of the State has been al- | most as notable in the domain of the intellect as in. | that of the production of fruits and of gold A commonwealth so rich in resources, so genial in climate. so romantic and so honorabfe in her history, merits the patriotic love with which her people, | whether native or adopted, regard her. Her festival |day falls at a season af the year when everything of {earth and sky can be counted on to contribute to | the sum of human enjoyment. It is then no wonder that the observation of the day becomes more and | more general as the years pass, and that each suc- | ceeding celebration exceeds its predecessor in the fer- {vor of popular enthusiasm and in the brilliancy of |its ceremonial decorations and parades. A San Francisco man secured a divorce a few days |20 because his wife insisted upon parading before him in tights and smoking cigarettes just to be tough. Ii it would not appear like seeking to satisfy an un- reasonable curiosity it might be interesting to know to what extreme the lady would have gone had she | conceived the thought of being tougher. A VANISHED BUGABOO. HEN it was announced that the Depart- | W ment of Agriculture would set its chemists | to work to inspect every kind and grade of |food and of drink products that reached our custom- | houses seeking access to our markets there was a Europe that we should have trouble. So insistent were the declarations of hostility to the new law that the officials of the Department of Ag- riculture were compelled to repeat again and again their assurances that the enforcement of the new policy would injure no legitimate industry, but on {the contrary would benefit one and all by ridding | them of the competition of unscrupulous manufactur- ers of adulterated or falsely labeled goods. The law has now been in force for some time, and | the results have proven that the fears of injury to foreign producers and of possible wvindictive retalia- Etion on the part of European Governments were ut- | terly unfounded. In fact, the former exporters of objectionable goods have profited by the warning given by the publication of the law and have made no effort to get their goods into our market. It is stated that while upward of a hundred cargoes of for- eign food and drink products have been inspected by the government chemists, not a single sample has shown the slightest adulteration. - A report from Washington .giving an account of the manner in which the law is operated says: “The result is declared to be most gratifying in every de- tail. No delay that has caused inconvenience to shipper or consignee has resulted. The Department of Agriculture receives invoices of every cargo des- tined to ports of the Ukited States. These invoices are sent by fast mail. The department is also in- formed by cable of shipments, and the cable advices are made explicit, so that the mail advices need not be awaited as a basis for the issuance of an order on the Treasury Department for samples from that par- ticular cargo. The use of the cable has only recently been adopted for this purpose. The analyses have each been completed by the chemistry bureau of the Department of Agriculture in two days, and beyond clamor from !thil no delay has been occasioned in goods through the custom-houses.” So vanish all the bugaboo fears that the law would be a disturbance of trade and ineffectual as a remedy against the evils complained of. Expe- rience has shown that the bare announcement of the law, accompanied by a clearly manifest intent to strictly enforce it, has brought about a suspension of the injurious imports. The result has naturally enough given.encouragement to the advocates of the adoption of a domestic pure food law, and it is not unlikely it may be provided at the coming session of Congress. e ——— An innocent, law-abiding horse of Salinas saw an automobile the other day, shivered and dropped dead on the spot. Even he who runs must admit without discussion that the animal died from natural causes. TAMPERING WITH DISPATQHES. T is established as a fact that official dispatches be- | l tween our State Department and the American Minister to Colombia were sequestered by the Colombian Government, and all communication by wire with our representative was cut off for nearly a month, during the discussion of the canal treaty in the Colombian Congress. The offense is a serious one. In international re- {lations it amounts almost to an act of war. The first claim of sovereignty is the right of unrestricted communication with our Ministers sent to foreign countries. To deny that is to insult our Government in a manner that requires the vindication of its dig- nity. Colombia, like most of the petty governments of Central America, controls all the telegraph sys- tem. It is a Government institution, and therefore |the suppression of these official dispatches is the direct act. of the Gov:mm'ent. The disposition behind it is that of most of the Latin-American states. Our Government has been slow to treat those states as it does the rest of the {world. It does not enforce the rights of our citizens | within their jurisdiction, and has permitted the rob- | bery and oppression of Americans to such an extent that the whole group of Latin states in this hemi- | sphere have become convinced that it is safe not only to rob our citizens but to insult our Government. During the war between Chile and Peru an Amer- ican was an officer in the Peruvian army. He was taken in battle along with other prisoners of war, and he alone was immediately condemned to be shot. When the American Consul was appealed to he refused to interfere to prevent the barbarity. But when an American sea captain, who heard of the in- tended murder, told the British Consul that the man was a British subject, that officer went at once to | the Chilean commander and demanded the man’s re- lease, threatening that if this was not instantly done the British warships in the harbor would bombard the town. The prisoner was immediately set free, though the firing squad was already in place to mur- der him. During the revolution three or four years ago in Guatemala Americans in the seaport appealed in vain to their Minister for protection, and had to give some of their property to Englishmen, who informed the British Minister at Guatemala City, and imme- diately a British gunboat appeared in the harbor and her captain took command of the town under a threat to bombard it if his authority were not re- spected. These things are intensely humiliating to Americans, and they inspire those pestilent states | with contempt for our Government. Primarily the | fault is with our own people, who do not seem to | understand that it is the duty of this Government to | protect its citizens and their property abroad in re- |turn for the allegiance which it demands of them. | Minister Bowen has done the interests of our people and the digrity of his Government great harm by his mushy blatherskiting in the interest of the bandit fiend Castro of Venezuela. The Latin-Ameri- cans attribute his attitude to fear of them and take him as expressing the cowardice of our Government. What is needed in Latin-America is the resentment of these insults to our Government, even to the ex- tent of a thorough thrashing of one of those states, land Colombia would be a good place to begin. If that Government had suppressed communication be- tween the British Foreign Office and the Minister to Bogota she would be in trouble of the most serious kind immediately. What our own Government needs the rights of Americans abroad, and especially a pub- lic opinion immediately resentful of such acts as }his suppression of our official dispatches. T:r Agriculture contains in the report of the Secretary a striking passage upon the waste that has followed the partial destruction of the forests at the headwaters of the streams of the Appalachian Mountains. That part of the United States is far from California, but not so far but what the lesson of its teaching should come home to us and warn us of the danger that threatens our own land from the waste of the woodlands. It is estimated that during the twelve months end- ing with April, 1902, the damage done by floods re- ysulting from the destruction of forests along that mountain district approximated $18,000,000. The re- port goes on to say: “The examinations also show as additional results of the deforestation of these moun- tain slopes that the water powers along these streams, which have an aggregate annual value of $20,000,000, as a basis for manufacturing enterprises, are being gradually but certainly destroyed through the in- creasing irregularity in the flow of the streams; that the soil which is being washed down from the moun- tain slopes is rendering annually less navigable the Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee and other rivers of the Southeastern States; and that the rate of land ero- sion on these mountain slopes from which the forest cover has been removed is now as great in a single year as it was in ten centuries while the slopes were covered with primeval forests.” A statement of that kind emanating from an official source after expert investigation is startling. The at- tention of the. Eastern public has been drawn to the evil and a bill is now before Congress providing for the establishment of a great national forest reserve along the Appalachian summits. The maintenance of such a reserve will of course be highly beneficial to all the wide region of country through which flow the streams that have their rise in those mountains; but great as is the need of a good forestry system in that section of the country, it is probably not so great as the need of such a system in California. It is indeed high time for us to approach this sub- ject seriously and with a resolve to take action before the destruction of the woods goes much further. Man cannot afford to so waste the mountain lands as to bring about every year an erosion equal to that which nature would have caused in ten centuries. THE WASTE OF FORESTS. HE newly issued yearbook of the Department - » is the support of a proper American conception of | PROMISING STAGE OFFER Miss Marie Relma, A ST SO0 | @ - HE footlights have attracted an- other Californian girl, Miss Marie Relma, who is about to leave for New York to win new laureis. Society has claimed Miss Relma | for the last few years, but a New York | manager has recently prevailed upan her PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Rae Fell of Eureka is at the Lick. Dr M. L. Nichols of Sacramento is at the Grind. PR T W. G. Galbraith, a mining man of Mex- ico, is at the Palace. W. B. Pittman, a mining man of Tono- pah, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. John Birmingham of Pinole are at the Palace. P. G. Kennard, a paymaster at Mare | Island, is at the Occidental. Wailter E. Lester, the well known young mining man, s at the Palace. Judge and Mrs. Erskine Ross of Los | Angeles are registered at the Palace. | Licutenant Governnr‘a\men Anderscn is down from Sacramenté and is staying at | the Grand. Dr. Jennie E. Hayner of Chicago, who is making a tour of the coast, is a guest at the Grand. Wilham G. Kerckhoff, a prominent rail- road and lumber man of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. Ex-United States Senator Stephen W. Dorsey and wife arrived from Los An- geles vesterday and are staying at the | Palace. 2 Frederick W. Carey, who Is attached to the office of the Secretary of State at Sacramento, is spending a few days in | 8an Francisco. | James C. Hogue, private secretary to :Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, and his wife ar- rived from the East yesterday and are registered at the Palace. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the United | States Bureau of Forestry, returned from the southern part of the State yesterday and is at the Occidental. Henry Bratnober, the millionaire mining man who headed an exploration party | that has been traveling over new mining fields in Alaska, returned to the city yes- terday. —_— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—F. 8. Burrows, at the Hoff- man; P. W. Hills, at the Imperial; 8. F. Stephens, at the Continental; W. Topper- beck, at the Imperial: N. E. Belker, at the Herald Square; C. E. Campbell, at the Cosmopolitan; G. F. Pay, at the Hotel Manhattan; Mrs. H. H. Noble, at the Savoy; Mrs. Ralle, at the Victoria, and Miss A. Wakins and Miss J. Wallingford, at_the Everett. From Los Angeles—R. H. Barnwell, at the Everett: Miss E. E. Dearth, at the St. Denis; H. Glass, at the Belvedere; Miss Goodwin, at the Continental, and Mrs. J. M. Reynolds, at the St. Denis. s News of Drowning Doubted. The Alaska Packers’ Assoclation makes the statement that its advices recelved lately from Alaska do not confirm the news of the drowning of nine men in Bristol Bay, as reported on August 29 by the steamer North Star. The associa- tion is of the opinion that the news w: erroneous. — e THE CALL'S GREAT ATLAS OFFER Will close on September 24, 18083, and all holders of Atlas Coupons are requested to pre- sent them immediately, as this 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. < | S s ; TALENTED CALIFORNIA GIRL WHO IS ABOUT TO DEPART FOR NEW l YORK, WHERE SHE WILL APPEAR IN OPERA UNDER THE DI- H RECTION OF A WELL-KNOWN MANAGER. = + to accept a professional engagement. Miss Relma possesses a fine mezzo- soprano volce, with good stage presence |and rare dramatic ability, and her hosts of friends on both continents, where she has traveled extensively, are looking for- ward to her success. e e e R ANSWERS TO QUEREIS. CORRECT EXPRESSION--A. P., City. It would be proper to say or write, “He is one of the greatest painters who ever 1ived.” SNOW—W. T. H., City. Before this | department can answer the question as to whether there is any snow within thir- ty-five miles of a certain designated lo- cality in the State of California it is necessary to know in what direction from that particular place the correspondent wants Information. Twp LOCATIONS—W. T. K., Chinese Camp, Cal. It has been held that there is no provision of law to prevent partles from locating other claims upon the same lode, outside of the first location made on the lode or vein. If a lode or vein 3000 feet in length is discovered two loca- tions may be made, each 1500 feet, there- on. The book asked about may be pro- cured through any dealer in books. o Soprano of Rare Drama-| _ ., yevro, tic Ability, Signs Contract With New York Man- ager Opening Bright Career Behind Footlights. THE SAN FRANCISECO CALL, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBERl 9, 1908. — e pssse of| SQCIETY GIRL ACCEPTS TIMBER LANDS ASSESSMENTS MAY BE RAISED RERSEES B Sept. 8.—At the sesiion of the State Board of Equalization to-lay the members expressed surprise at the Jow assessment of timber lands in norh ern California and Chairman Brown s he was in favor of raising every cou;, in that section in another year if ; do not make a better assesment on thes lande. ta was the first county to be hea't this morning. It was represented by ;‘- gessor R. E. Collins and other county off fl;}: Collins said there would have h,: a large increase in the county’s assesee valuation were it not for labor 1;1{0\1 e The Bully Hill mine was closed down avold a strike on account of its em The Mountain Copper fompany’s Keswick was shut dn::‘nkin No- v last on account of the st :;;b;:a now at work again. None of ths stores at Keswick lald in any stock on account of the fear of a recurrence of tha strike. In 1902 the assessed valuation o the county was 38,516,898, The assessment this year was fixed at 39.227,120. Assessor Collins said the reduction ir personal property in both the Mnun.la.i-» Copper Company and the Bully Hill Com pany was caused by the closing down o both smelters last fall. Both companies had little or no ore or builion out at the time of the present assessment compared with last year. The assessment on th real ‘estate of these companies has in- creased. The outlook for this county on the first of March, said Mr. Collins, was not very promising compared with the same time the previous year. The assessed valuation ) County In 1902 was $7.865.3. For this year it was fixed at 38, . Assessor J. 8. Nalley sald the mines in Siskiyou County have gone backward. Lumber is increasing. Timber land was assessed from $3 %5 to $5 an acre. Lassen County was represented by As- sessor C. E. Emerson. The assessment in 1902 was $3,542,650. This year it is $4,367,135. No timber is being taken out. It is held in large bodies at the present time. Gov- ernment reserves cover about all the tim- ber that is left in the county. There is but one good mine in the county. The principal industry is stock raisng. —_———— CREAMERY MEN TO HOLD of Siskiyou Fresno Committee Has Formulated a Plan for a California But- ter Exchange. FRESNO, Sept. §.—The committee ap- pointed on June 6 at the meeting of the creamery operators held in Fresno for the purpose of reporting a plan for the form- ation of the California Butter Exchange have formulated a plan, which, while as yet in a crude state, they believe contains the nucleus of a practicable organization for the establishing of a uniform price and the successful marketing of the prod- uets. This committee will make its re- port to the creamery men and dealers at a meeting in Sacramento on Thursday September 10. —_——— Rio Vista Editor a Benedick. SUISUN, Sept. 8.—Otto Jensen, editor and proprietor of the River News at Rio Vista, was married at noon to-day to Miss Margaret Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson of Sar Franeisco, former residents of Rio Vista The ceremony was performed at the heme of the bride’s sister, Mrs. Robert Smyth, by the Rev. Father J. P. Redden The honeymoon will be spent in Southern California. Yolo County Is Delighted. WOODLAND, Sept. 8.~The people of Yolo are highly elated over the award of the first premium at the State fair to their county exhibit The Chamber of Commerce, which Installed the exhibit, has arranged an excursion to Sacramento Wednesday evening and a big crowd will go. They will take a brass band along and will make a showing of Yolo's hu- man products in the big State pavillon. ————e e Going abroad. Sell below cost best eye- glasses, specs, 15¢ to §0c. Look out for 81 Fourth st., front of barber. . e e—— Townsend’s California glace fruits and candies, 60c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., apove Call bidg. * —_—————————— A man in Maine recently shipped to London 200 barrels of ‘“cattails,” the well-known marsh weed. The demand for it is constantly increasing in Eng- land, where it is used for filling fine sofa pillows and cushions. —_—— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. = “Oh, what a misfortune! there in Rome?” New Pope’s Sister Prophesies Evil for His Holiness. AR X X My poor Beppo, who so loved a comfort- able chat! Who knows what misery he will go through in that prisdn These were the words, said with tears and real grief, with which E § | fi | é | § 0B0ACROH OROHORCRCRCRCE KO0ACEOHCROE SOROA0R0 HORICBORO OROHOHHORCIRCY BORIOAORCHCE LHONHCRORCY ORCROHO! CHORCRIHORCK LAORON XOROBCROHON! KFOIOROHONCY: Maria, sister of Pius X, received the news that he had been made Pope, and they epitomize the feeling of the family about this elevation of their “Beppo” to one of the most powerful positions on earth. Of course it is not an unusual circumstance, that in all times and all ages evil prophecies of dire disaster to come have been heaped upon the heads of those who have won greatness, but in this instance the above incident, with much more that has followed since then, has electrified and well nigh appalled many of those who are in a position to know the condition of affairs at the Vatican. Indeed, it is extraordinary when one’s own family prophesy evil where only good can be, but yet, strange as it may seem, not only the sister ‘of the new Pope, but her brother and many of the other mem* bers of the family besides have given utterance to words that have added vastly to the mystery of the misery and growing unhappiness that is said to be settling hegvlly upon His Holiness. Strangest of all, they speak authoritatively, without malice, but in deepest compassion, and their words are being given credence far and wide, more particularly as Pius X has been adding equally strange confirmation. He speaks continuously of the many things in his life that he had treasured that are now gone from him forever, and in this way the boyhood, the early manhood, the later ambition, the inner life of His Holiness is brought forth more dramatically than it could be in apn other way. That is how Mr. L. Cochrane has been able to write th:: remarkable article for the next Sunday Call, which, with the Dictures from Rome, occupies a full page. It is the most valuable article about the new Pope that has yet been secured anywhere. Indeed, it is just such features as the above that has given ; istic excellence to the Sunday Call's Magazine Section, wl?id:nig':]urmfi]- :ar in 'thh:tlud u:ha litenry‘wa“y‘. It is no idle boast, or boast ;n“;nv 0 sa; no other paper in merica can e merityxnd fascinating interest. e %0 much of wesudig For instance. next Sunday you will get the fourth an p ment of “Brewster’s Millions,” one of the most mwerffi '3!.\!":115!3“- novels of the day: a complete short story, “The Little God and Diec‘:u{" by Josephine Dodge Daskam. the most famous woman writer in A —t ca go—day; another complete short story, “A Question of Service. '!ne;h Edith Wyatt; two full pages of “Half-Hour Storiettes,” the latest am; most popular development in high-class literature; the “Me. Kmy,aoa briliiant symposium of wit and wisdom, by Kate 'll':\yos:: ;;',,.: “ (Just watch fcr those cat pictures.) “The Oracle of ) - S B River: Pables to i Foome Nicholas Nermy, Ganter. the Wheeling Stars.” by Martha McCullough Williams: ~The £ros of a Bachelor Girl,” by Madge Moore: “The Wonderful Kingdom of Wonderful Things.” by Ben McCutchen, the famous artist and corre- spondent: the very latest in wedding stationery and—but why enumer- ate any more? You are sure to read them all fo i oy o 't yourself in the next TSRS RO FOCS CHOT RIS S OF O IO Cr CF CHORG DL CROSCS OO L ORI HOIOICH OLORCTIN CHONCICH OAOMCRORON HOICROECHONN HOIOCNCE