The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1903, Page 4

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O Tremont House; Auditorium S STANDS: ; Great Northern Hotel; Palmer House. el; BRANCH OFFICES—327 Montgomery, corner cf Clay, open until $:80 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 638 McAllister, ope: ntil 9:80 o'clock. 6156 Larkin, open until 9:30 o' clock. open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1008 Va- lencia, open until ® o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock, NE. corner Church and Duncan streets, open unttl 9 o'clock corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ¥ ¢ ) Fillmore, open until 9 o’clock. distinctive feature to trade last F there was any I week it w 3 er scare that swept over East Misdle West. Excessive rains flooded the gra a number of States where the grain was in shock and prevented the final har- vesting in a great important districts, the area cted b 300,000,000 acres. mar To aggravate the to be the worst frost ever crop conditions came along the excessive frost it looked for a day i both wheat and corn would shed d what with This of course would oad earnin g depression in Wal street, less purchasing power area known as the wheat and corn beits, emand for merchandise there and a co Of course this has its effct on eral trade as well. Wall street paused, But happily the scare passed than apprehended and by ier again. A p was practically assured, as breathing attendant upon It was a decline in »yant tone had been con- passing of the crop nt to the street. That e face of such a cheerful only bearish but general opinion that the , especially as there was g about the street that the public r the disintegration in the not distant s not public were to realize a whisper might look future of several large industrial syndicates put into operation several years ago by certain large banking interests. No names were mentioned, but the whis- per had its effect just the same, and the public sold off the market, crop damage or no crop damage, As far as distributive trade is concerned the best reports now are irom the Pacific Coast and the South- west. For a long time the Northwest sent in ex- cellent reports, but those from that quarter now are deteriorating. Bad weather along the Atlantic Coast has also given trade a temporary setback in that region. The manufacturing interests, -however, re- port plants well employed as a rule. Even the tex- tile mills, which have for months been lagging be- hind, are now reporting the wheels going briskly. Structfral activity seems to be reviving somewhat and the demand for Jumber is reported good in most sections. Iron and steel quotations continue weak, with scattering recessions every few days, and the mills report fewer orders on their books than at this time last year, though the trade cannot be called dull by any means. Provisions have received a check at Chicago and the recent buoyancy there has been suc- ceeded by a quieter and easier market. The other staples present no new features worthy of note. The financial side of the commercial situation looks well. Fall is upon us, the call for funds to move the crops of the West has begun and thus far there is no friction. Secretary Shaw has sent some of the inter- nal revenue money into the West to help things along, and as the Western banks have been setting aside funds for crop forwarding for some months the calls on New York are fewer and for smaller amounts than in former years. The West is growing more able each succeeding year to furnish its own funds for sending the crops fogward, but New York has still the bulk of the burden, though the Western banks have relieved the tension considerably this wvear. Next year they will probably do even more in this direction. The country’s bank clearings made a better showing last week, the loss from 1902 being reduced from owver 40 per cent for the preceding week to 27.1 per cent as compared with 1902, with the gains and losses about equally distributed among the dozen or fifteen largest cities. The failures for the week were 219, against 199 for the corresponding week in 1902. Local conditions remain unchanged. Times are good both in the city and country, money is in ample supply, collections are normal, there are no important failures, the farmers are receiving first-rate prices for their varied produce as a rule, real estate continues active at good prices and both the domestic and for- eign trade of the coast are reported fine. Conditions coulé not be better if we made them ourselves. Pos- sibly they would mot be so good. 30 Tribune Building | { ten years and 5 per cent for the next ten years. | tween him and the disgruntled generals. GEARY STREET ROAD. HE Examiner of September 16 attacks the T estimates of the City Engineer as to the cost of operating the Geary-3treet road and character- izes them as “hasty.” The fact is that the City En- gineer was several months in making these estimates, that he is the only official upon whose estimates the municipality can act and that he has estimated that it will cost the city annually $20,550 in excess of its re- ceipts to operate this road, pay the interest on its bonds and raise the sinking fund positively required by the charter. But apart from these figures, how about the loss of the profits that would accrue to the city if a franchise were granted to a private owner? The Examiner has carefully refrained from noticing these items and yet they are most important. The city would receive about $10,000 a year in taxes from any private owner of this road. This sum it would forfeit if it owns the road. This amount would be added to the general taxes to make up the required sum, as no one believes that the general taxes would be reduced that amount. The taxpay- ers generally would have this additional amount to pay. The same reasoning applies to the license fees and to the sums that would have to be paid for in- juries resulting from the negligence of the employes. A municipal corporation operating a street railroad is to that extent acting in a private and not a public capacity, and many courts hold it liable for such in- juries. Then again under the charter if private individuals or corporations own the street railroads the city will necessarily derive a profit from them as to all new franchises granted. If a new franchise in granted the city must receive at least 3 per cent of the gross re- ceipts for the first five years, 4 per cent for the next If the gross receipts of this road amount to $200,000 a year the city would receive during the twenty-five years of the franchise the sum of $210,000, or $8400 a year. This would be the city’s profit from the road, earned without the expenditure of a dollar or the imposition of a dollar’s taxation on the people. In addition the city would own at the expiration of the franchise the roadbed and fixtures on the streets without any cost to itself or the taxpayers. Is there a business man that would hesitate a second between the two propositions, viz.: Borrow $710,000, and mortgage his property to secure the loan, to invest it in an enterprise that his expert ad- viser tells him will cost him annually $20,550 more than his income, or, Give another man the privilege of undertaking this enterprise, let him do the borrowing and charge him for the privilege $18850 a year? And yet the Examiner urges the people to undertake the losing venture rather than receive the certain profit, not because of any public necessity, not to supply any urgent public need, nor for any sensible reason that we have yet heard Emperor Francis Joseph has created a European sensation by refusing emphatically to grant the de- mands of the Hungarian army. He is to be congrat- ulated that at least he has his national back yard be- The death of Alexander and Draga and the predicament of Peter are lessons which monarchs learn without difficulty. s and a correspond- | ORIGIN OF GOLD. ROM Nome comes a pamphlet by Conrad Siem F setting forth a theory of the origin of gold, which the author describes as “‘of particular in- tercst 1o the people of Nome.” In these days of sci- entific speculation it is also of interest to the general public, since it furnishes what is at least a plausible cxplanation of the method by which nature has pro- duced and continues to produce her golden ores. Starting with the sound proposition that what na- ture has done once she is always doing, Mr. Siem argues that the process by which gold was produced in the past is going on continually and that new stores of gold are being wrought out in the giant laboratories of nature with an inexhaustible and un- cezsing energy. The particular interest which Nome kas in the theory is due to the fact that, according to the author, the production of gold is always car- | ried on under glacial conditions, the precious metal being the result of the fusion of elementary matter by volcanic heat under the pressure of mighty ice | caps. Mr. Siem says: “We have evidence that gold grows. Conceiving it as a product of time, as a produce of nature’s great laboratory that is ever actively refin- ing, may it not well be that the best breeding and producing grounds of gold are lying under these very ice caps? The downward pressure of the ice and the upward pressure of the earth are ever alike, and with these titanic hammer and anvil nature forges matter to the fineness of gold.” A geological argument too elaborate to be accu- rately summarized is advanced in the pamphlet to maintain the thesis that Seward peninsula, jutting out as it does between the frozen north and the Pacific, bears the brunt of the conflict between those forces which tend to spread Arctic conditiong downward to the south and the counterbalancing forces that tend to uphold the existing equilibrium. He says: “Over its extent the ice of the Arctic and the warm waters of the Pacific have fought for supremacy through the ages. In periods it has been compressed and depressed by towering mountains of ice, and in others following the sea would wash clean over it from the south, Whenever it became relieved from the over- bearing ice it would always gradually rise, and rearing its head high above the sea, would hold once more the gate against the north.” It will be perceived that the theory requires for its maintenance a proof that wherever gold is found there has once been a tremendous ice cap, but that does not disturb the author. He says: “Take region after region, and by studying thoroughly their for- mations and by following closely all the traces yet in existence you shall see in what places alternately through the ages the poles were situated; where once the central ice cap rested; how from the central mass the glacial streams radiated.” In explanation of the method by which the gold production is carried on benéath the Arctic ice cap he says: “Slowly and surely the ice cap is grinding along, crushing and shifting rocks and strata with indomitable force. All at once it strikes a spark, which catches in the imbedded and compressed layers upon layers of what once was life—highly resinous trees, pulps of all sorts, sulphurs, nitres, etc. The substances are on fire. They burn, explode and then smolder, explode and explode again. There is no escape for the gases. The ice cap ever doubles them back on the fire. Steadily fed by them the heat grows stronger and stronger. With the upward pressure of the heat the downward pressure of the indomitable ice ever increases. That is nature’s for- midable smelter; none of the gases escape, but all their virtues stay with the mass, which is in a con- tinuous state of chemical metamorphosis.” It will be seen that upon this theory Nome be- time, and the essayist predicts that wonderful stores of the ore will be found there in the least expected places. Of the probability of gold production arti- ficially he has little expectation, saying: “The alchemist has tried for ages to imitate the process of nature and to manufacture gold by transmutation of baser metals. He has never succeeded, nor is there much hope that he will. Gold is a distinct goal of a certain process of time. It is utmost complexity per- fected into irreducible simplicity, a fruit which only ripens on the ramified tree of the ages.” R S e e Russia and Austria, it is said, will probably occupy Macedonia to prevent a clash between Bulgaria and Turkey and to save the slaughter of Christians. And we have been trying for weeks to discover how the unspeakable Turk was to be driven out of Europe. Our next speculation will be to determine the revised maps of Austria and Russia. C——————— THE ISSUE OF THE TIME. ESPITE the efforts of Tom Johnson to make D a campaign in Ohio this year on strictly local issues the pressure of national interests at stake has been too great to be avoided, and already the contest has opened with the tariff question as the primal object of controversy. It is strange that at this juncture, when the British themselves are on the eve of abandoning the free trade policy bécause of the ruin with which it threat- ens manufacturing as well as agricultural industries, any considerable number of Americans should think of trying to adopt it as an American policy. Nothing but the known capacity of Democratic leaders for ! blundering suffices to induce the people to believe that such an effort is likely to be made. There can, however, be no doubt of it. The extraordinary activ- ity of the Free Trade League has long been notable, and'for some time past the reorganizers in their struggles to get away from'Bryanism and free silver have been floundering steadily toward the free trade slough. Thus it is that in Ohio Mr. Clarke, the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate, who happens to be a gold Democrat, in seeking to dodge the question of Bryanism has been forced to make a fight on the tariff, and the issue thus becomes the chief point of debate between himself and Senator Hanna. Clarke approachied the subject with as much astute- ness as he possesses. He did not speak outright for free trade, but sought to gain support from the prejudices of the ignorant by advocating a repeal of the tariff on goods manufactured by trusts. Further- more in order to give at least a pretense of a reason why there should be a change from a Republican to a Democratic administration he found it necessary to say, “This country is on the verge of a financial and industrial collapse.” Senator Hanna was prompt to take advantage of the folly of his opponent. He has reminded the peo- ple of Ohio of the sound foundations of our prosper- ity and at the same time warned them of the folly of alarming the timid by howling calamity and endeav- oring to destroy popular confidence in the contin- uance of good times. As the Senator put it: “The only danger that can possibly come to the people of this country is through their own act, by their own power and the will to change those policies which h_a\ve made us what we are to-day.” Of the tariff issue the Senator said: “Mr. Clarke | qualifies his position on the tariff by saying that he | | would take the tariff entirely off of every article man- ufactured by the trusts. What does that mean? Every iron and steel industry in the United States, | everything connected with the metal trades, with the cotton trades and, in fact, nearly all of our great in- dustries, would come under the scope of his proposi- tion. Why, is there any intelligent man among the workingmen of my State who does not know what would be the result of that policy? Absolute free trade through all the schedules of our tariff would shut up 75 per cent of the industrial institutions of the United States until we could get labor down to the price where we could compete with Europe.” There is no getting away from that proposition. Tom Johnson, seeking the office of Governor of Ohio, may evade the issue, but his candidate for the United States Senate cannot. It is once more a fight of the party of blunderers and deficits against the principle of protection to American industry. That is what the workingmen of Ohio are to face in this campaign and it is what those of the whole coun- try will probably have to face in the Presidential cam- paign of next yea Russia has at last secured a competent press agent through whom to place her cause adequately and favorably before the world. In a recent massacre of Jews the report reads that four Christians and two Jews were killed. It is always well to tell your story before the other fellow has a chance to do so, as three-quarters of the battle is won if your opponent is farced on the defensive. A Federal expert whose word, based upon pains- taking investigation, cannot be gainsaid, says with reproach that we simply are drinking labels when we think we are drinking foreign wines. Has he forgot- ten the American axiom that nothing is but thinking makes it so? We are trained to believe that anybody who can cheat an American deserves his triumph. Hawaii is herself again. Her threatened lapse into monotonous respectability has been safely passed and the reputation she has justly earned has been saved. She held a political convention the other day and conducted it only to the accompaniment of the most serious disturbances. We have glad hopes for some- thing more startling. The practice of mistaking poison for medicine and, in the ministration of the substitute, killing the pa- tient seems to be drifting rapidly into a national characteristic. It is a habit that might most easily be discouraged by the enaction of penal laws. *Care- lessness is worse than maliciousness, as it injures both persons affected. The death of Johnson Sides, the Piute Indian peace- maker, removes from life a man essentially brave and good and worthy of the best thoughts of his genera- tion. The lesson he taught may be conned to better advantage by white men than by the simple people of his own blood. His message was to act the golden rule. Robbers entered the Santa Barbara express office the other day, found the combination to the safe con- veniently in a drawer and rifled the vault of all its cash. When the society for the encouragement of vice ever meets Santa Barbara should be the unani- mous choice of the convention for the place of as- sembly. T Kentucky has reached a desperate and utterly unex- pected crisis in her political and social affairs. Her predicament appeals to the humanity of her fellow States. One of her distinguished murderers, a start- _ acomes the center of nature’s gold laboratory in our ;ling example for many, has threatened to confess. OF SWIFT ARMORED CRUISERS | i | - 3 o is CRUISER OLYMPIA OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, NOW IN DOCK AT NORFOLK, UNDERGOING REPAIRS FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED LAST MONTH, AT WHICH TIME THE PORT AND STARBOARD BOTTOM PLATES WERE BADLY DAMAGED. + NE of the results of the recent British naval maneuvers was to establish beyond a doubt | the great value of swift ar- mored cruisers. One of these, the Good Hope, it is claimed, | made an average speed of 22! knots for | several hours, far exceeding that of the fastest cryiser in the fleet. It enabled her to overhaul any vessel or escape from any battleship too powerful to engage. As to the lighter cruisers, a naval expert asserts that they were often more of a hindrance than a help, and expresses the ! | opinion that in actual warfare it would often be necessary to sacrifice them by wholesale. The safest plan, he maintains, would be to keep all of them, excepting scouts and dispatch vessels, within reach of fortified harbors until the heavier ves- sels have been disposed of in pitched bat- tles, when they would be of importance as a reserve force. The latest torpedo experiments on the old Belleisle were chiefly to test the value of American cellulose as a water-exclud- ing material. A compartment was fitted on the outside of the hull, twenty feet long, three feet deep and projecting two feet from the side. This cofferdam was located ten feet below the waterline and packed tight with cellulose. When the torpedo—lashed to this compartment—ex- { ploded, the top of the cofferdam blew off, scattering much of the cellulose into space and the test was therefore hardly to be considered conclusive. A large hole was blown through the vessel and the Bellisle settled down in shallow water. | The ship is again to be patched up and subjected to further tests. ) Four gunboats for the Chinese navy are | being built by contract at Kobe, Japan. Blds were received from other countries, but none were as low as the offer of the Japanese. The boats are intended for | service on the Yangtse River, and are 180 | feet in length, 28 feet beam and displace | 525 tons on 7 feet draught. The engines | are of %0 horsepower, calculated to give | a speed of 13 knots. . The results of firing the 12-inch guns of the French battleship Massena against | the turret of the Suffren are not vet suf- | ficiently known to establish the value of the experiment, nor has the object of the trial been given out. The probable ob- ject was to ascertain whether the impact of a shell against the turret would be disastrous to the crew and if the turning machinery would be damaged. The first shell or armor-piercing projectile, weigh- ing 644 pounds or 750 pounds according to | its designation, was fired at short range | with a reduced charged which would give | the velocity of 5000 feet if fired at the latter range with a full charge. The tur- ret of the Suffren, 10 inches thick, was | furtier reinforced by an additional plate in wake of the locality to be hit, and the projectile struck the spot fairly with no visible damage to either the turret or the sheep within it. The secend shot, fired with an increased charge, jammed the turret slightly, broke several electric light wires within the turret, and wounded two of the sheep. Pieces of the shell flew back on the Massena without, however, hurt- ing anyone. This trial is by no means the first of its kind for a similar one took { place in the British navy In 1865 with the turret ship Royal Sovereign, and again in July, 1872, when the 12-inch guns of the Hotspur were fired against the turret of the Glatton. The results then, as now, prove that a well aimed shot is likely to disable the turret either by disabling the turning gear or by forcing the turret off its center. R, The naval vessels comprising the fleet in the recent German maneuvers con- sisted of seven battleships, four coast- defense ships, one armored cruiser, ten cruisers and twenty-three torpedo divis- fon boats. The latter, in’four divisions, consisted of five boats, S. 91 and % built in 1899, which were rated at 2614 knots, five boats at 27 knots and thirteen boats, just out of the builders’ hands, having a sea speed of 30 knots. An interesting case has been decided in the court martial of Captain Jacobson of the German gunnery ship Freya. In No- vember last the ship, with the tender Brummer, was bpracticing at sea and a collision was narrowly averted through the captain’s order; to shift the helm. Through this order the responsiblity of the watch officer, previously in command of the ship, ceased, and shortly after when a steamer came uncomfortably close to the Freya, Captain Jacobson and the watch NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. HAIR NATURALLY ABUNDANT. When It Is Free of Dandruff, It Grows Luxuriantly. Hair preparations and dandruff cures, as a rule, are sticky or_irritating affairs, that do no earthly good. Hair when not diseased grows naturally, luxuriantly. Dandruff is the cause of nine-tenths of all halr trouble, and dandruff is caused by a germ. The only way to cure dan- druff is to kill the germ; and so far the only hair preparation that will positively destroy the germ is Newbro's Herpiclde— absolutely harmless, free from grease, sediment, dye matter or dangerous drugs. 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It was shown that accident was entirely un- avoldable, but nevertheless the court sen- tenced the captain to one day’s arrest and the navigator to three days, both to be confined to their quarters for that period. £S5 g . to three The resignations In the United States navy show no abatement and it is likely that some law will be passed bv Con- gress to curtail this practice. There have been eleven resignations éince January 1, 1903, namely, three lieutenants, one junior lieutenant, one ensign, two passed assist- ant surgeons, two naval constructors, one assistant constructor and one second lieu- tenant of marines. The resignation of the eight Naval Academy graduates is espe- cially serfous. The aggregate cost of these officers for education and salaries approximates $250,000, for which have rendered but little service, and at this particular time, when every one of the lower grades is short of officers, the resig- nations are rather embarrassing to the Navy Department. Thus, the construct- ors’ corps, which on January 1 consisted of forty members, still remains at the same strength, and it will be utterly im- possible to Increase it to seventy-five dur- ing the next six years, as contemplated by the law of last March. It requires more training to make an efficient bullder of vessels than is demanded of a junior deck officer. Slowly but surely business principles displace antiquated and irrational meth- ods in the Navy Department. The latest improvement in that direction is contem- plated in the extinction of the so-called Bureau of Equipment, the usefulness of which ceased with the advent of the steam navy. At the present time there are eight bureaus, namely: Yards and Docks, Equipment, Navigation, Ordnance, Con- struction and Repair, Steam Engineering, Supplies and Accounts and Medicine and Surgery. The functions of the Equip- ment, Ordnance, Construction and Steam Engineering bureaus have never been ac- curately defined and there has been much contention as to which bureau should perform certain kinds of work. Each maintains a department tm the navy yards, with separate buildings, offices, of- fice force, workshops, étc., increasing the | expense and reducing the efficiency of the national dockyards, and now that the navy yards are placed in competition with An ap- | | ( | ] private yards the reform in business methods cannot be longer protracted, and the bureaus could be reduced from eight to six, thereby increasing the efficiency and reducing the expense of the navy. The Bureau of Equipment is an Incon- gruous establishment. It has charge of the purchise and care of coal, compasses and cooking utensils, the manufacture of rope, anchors, cables, riggng, sails and galleys. It has charge of the Naval Ob- servatory, Nautical Almanac, Hydro- graphic Office, and also fnstalls and maintains electrical appliances on board ship. The chief of that bureau has cudgeled his brains for two years to de- vise a wireless telegraph system different from those of Marconi and D'Arey, but has evidently given it up, as the German stem is now being introduced in our naval ssels after a delay of two years. As an offset, however, he has selected a stand- ard plated-ware table set and decided that unplated knives are preferable to the plated.article. These diversified functions are now to be given over to other bu- reaus, where they properiy belong, and the time is not far distant when the Bu- reau of Construction will absorb the Bu- reau of Steam Engineering, the former to be known as that of Shipbuilding and Materials, and in conjunction with the Bureau of Ordnance constitute the manu- facturing establishments of the navy The injuries to the battleship Massa- chusetts, cruiser Olympia and gunboat Scorpion, sustained last month, are more serious than first reported ana it will re- quire considerable more time and money to repair the damage. The Mhassachusetts is in dock at the New York navy yard. where the removal of the bottom plates shows that transverse frames and longi- tudinals have been pushed up and twisted for a long distance. This will necessitate, much labor to the inner botiom and cause an expense of about $1%0.000. The famous cruiser Olympia is in dock at Nor- folk; new plates will have to be put in for a distance of ninety-six fleet along the starboard bottom and for forty-five feet on the port bottom. The repairs to the Scorpion at the New York navy yard originally estimated at $8000, will be do ble the expense and consume two months time. No court of inquiry has as yet been ordered in the case of the Scorpion, which is commented upon by naval offi- cers as establishing a new precedent and contrary to the navy regulations. —_————————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a. pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * —_—————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. * The Only Thing That Interests Everybody ID you ever stop to realize what it is in IXe that really intemests you the most—outside of eating, sleeping and being merry, of course? Is it the mock heroics, the polished gentility of a dead and gone age, or isn't it life itseli—tense, eager, puisating life—the very things that the other fellow does that you do yourseli? Just take note D of the following: fired; v engine crew were out of it; i the operator displayed red signals? it was going against us. way the strongest kind. but—is it? it came out? No. know. remarkable series. ing of Chil Ta.rifis," by Sir Henry Seton-Karr., “Fables for the Foolish.” etc., etc. them next Sunday. “The job of front-end brakeman on a mountain division is no great stake for a man ordinarily, but it was one for me just then. We knew when we went into the superintendent’s office that somebody was to get the only question was who—the train crew or the operator? : it was up to the conductor and to me. the operator said yes, but he lied. We couldn’t prove it; put our word against his; and, what made it the worse for me. my con- ductor was something of a liar himseli. “I stood beading in a cold sweat, for I could see with half an eye The superintendent, an up and up railroad man every inch and all business, but suspicious, was “There wasn't another soul in the little room stood before the superintendent’s desk.” There's a situation which at first blush might seem ordinary enough, Perhaps you've been in the same fix yourseli. but it always will be to the man who has the experience for time, and oh, what awful possibilities it portends. every man who works constantly stands in awe of. But you want to know. Of course you want to That is the curiosity—sympathy—or what the lives of those about us—the real flesh and blood men and women we all know—the most absorbing subject imaginable. 1 if you will, but there is not the shadow of a doubt that you will look first for Frank H. Spearman’s thrilling Trainmaster’s Story” in the next Sunday Call. Of course you're reading “Lees and Leaven,” by E. W. Townsend, the famous author of “Chimmie Fadden,” which is nothing short of a ten strike even in the Sunday Call’s comprehensive literary policy of giv- ing you the best novels of the day by the very ‘And then there are the two full pages of the most fascinating litérary craze of the hour. “Philanthropic Whisper,” by Edwin Lefevre. And of course you're reading Thomas Fitch's Reflections of the Bonanza Kings Who Put a Girdle of Gold Around the World,” and the “Letters of a Seli-made Merchant to His Son™ and the “Oracle of Mulberry Center” and“Why Good Men Go Wrong.” by “The Parson,” and the “Dainty Maid,” by Colonel Kate, and “When a Bach- elor Girl Marries.” by Madge Moore, and “Talks to Parents on the Train- ldren,” by William J. Sherer, e C. M. G.. M. P and “The Victories of Peace,” by George A. Maxwell, chairman of the National Irrigation As- sociation, that has just held its convention in Ogden, Utah, and And have you seen the cats? Funny. aren’t they? There's more of Don’t miss those “Me-ows of a Kitty.” Our Had The conductor said no, I said no, we could only leaning the operator’s as the three of us It is not new, the first It is a situation that Can you guess how you will that makes You may deny this two-page narrative of “The It is the second in this best writers in_the world. “Hali-Hour Storiettes.” And there is also “The “Recollections . and A. M., Ph.D., and “Preferential the 000