The San Francisco call. [volume], May 05, 1903, Image 6

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St. Louis hopes to obtain both national conven
tions next year as attractions to her exposition, but
it is barely possible they may not be exactly the kind
of expositions we would like to make in the eyes of
foreign visitors. One of them is likely to be too
much one-sided to be interesting, and the other too
many sided to be comprehensible.
Freight Traffic Director William Sproule
of the Southern Pacific Company an
nounced yesterday that the special rate
on lemons from Southern California to all
Eastern common points at Jl per 100 in
carload lots had been extended until th-3
last day of this month. This concession
is made pwing to the late condition of the
femon crop this year.
Lemon Rate Is Extended.
FROM time immemorial the Government of the
United States has had trouble and worry over
the affairs of men who come to this country
and after obtaining naturalization return. to their for
mer homes to live and to do business while claiming
protection as American citizens whenever they deem
it desirable to do so. Of late we have not had much
trouble of that kind with European countries, for the
status of naturalized Americans residing there hrs
been fairly well established and agreed upon, but it
appears our Consuls are finding a good deal of dif
ficulty in straightening out some of the nnmerous
cases of the kind arising in South America.,
Consul Sampson, at Quito, Ecuador, recently re
ported to the State Department some of the difficul
ties attending the claims of naturalized citizens, and
in the course of his statement said: "I know one case
in which a naturalized subject has resided for over
forty years in the land of his nativity, without even
visiting the United States, and cannot speak one word
of English. Some such persons are engaged in mer
chandising. You may inspect their stock and not
.find a dollar's worth that has been purchased in the
United States. In many instances they have amassed
fortunes, but not one dollar of it increased the wealth
of the United States, and yet it seeCs the protection
of this nation. In prominent letters seen over the
front of the door are the words 'American property.'
In every possible way and by repeated assertions they
claim American citizenship, and if an official repre
sentative of the United States dare question it the
over-zealous citizen becomes indignant and informs
the official that the Government would not hesitate tj
protect her citizens when abroad."
The Government of the United States of course
does not concede that the naturalization of a citizen
is weakened by residence abroad, no matter how long
it may be continued. In fact, Mr. Hay recently wrote
ANOTHER PERPLEXITY.
The New. York politicians who are talking of
Cleveland as a Presidential candidate are probably
mindful that the silly season has come and are talking
just to pass the time away.
The regular annual theatrical perform
ance of the Cathedral Mission at Second
and Folsom streets will be held on Wed
nesday evening, May 6. As has beea the
custom for the past three years, the pro
gramme will be furnished by the well
known organization, the Beta' Sigma
Dramatic Club and Orchestra. A play in
three acts, entitled "A London Romance,"
will be the bill. Judging from the at
tendance at previous entertainments the
Good Samaritan Home should be filled to
its capacity.
- The Rev. Mr. Turner, who has charge
of the arrangements, has shown himself
to be a resourceful manager by the clever
manner in which he has converted" the
barren social hall into a well appointed
theater. The following well-known ama
teur artists will appear in the cast: Miss
Lurllne Lyons, Miss Loretta Nolan, Miss
May Sullivan, Miss Katherine Arnold,
Frank Erlin. Eugene C. Fritz, Fred W.
Hollman and Ernest Vincent. The Beta
Sigma orchestra will render popular and
operatic selections under the direction of
Miss Gertrude Hopkins, organist of Sa
cred Heart Church.
CATHEDRAL MISSION WILL
GIVE ANNUAL THEATRICAL
The Beta Sigma Dramatic Club and
Orchestra to Present an At
tractive Programme..
THE imperial commission sent out by Germany
to inquire into the productive conditions of
American agriculture has arrived in Washington
and proposes to spend some time in California. It is
not expected that the work and conclusions of this
commission will affect immigration. At the present
rate of foreign inpour we need nothing of that kind.
The commission will rather equip itself with infor
mation that will have "much to do in determining
Germany's policy in trade and commercial treaties
with this country. Continental Europe has in some
cases reached, and in all cases is approaching, the
status -of England in regard to food supply. There
fore all Continental nations are interested in the ca
pacity of the United States to produce a surplus of
foodstuffs at a price that will put them within reach
of the people of Europe.
Our methods of production are believed to be
more advanced than those of any other people. The
use of farm tools and machinery in this country,
added to our variety of climates and products, and
the extreme fertility of our soil, give us a primacy
which no other country can well dispute.
. The commission will find three products in Cali
fornia of great interest. Our wheat, beet sugar and
fruits will be the objects, of their closest study.
Their report will carry localities to the attention of
the German people. No pains should be spared to
make them fully aware that the citrus belt of the
western foothills of the Sierras' exists, overlooking
the field of production of allthe deciduous fruits, of
raisins, beet sugar and wheat. This is a massing of
production in variety that is seen nowhere else in
the world, and California will not enter into her
proper estate and position in the world until that fact
becomes a part of the world's common knowledge.
These imperial commissioners should have ample
time and opportunity to sec and survey both sides
ol, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Neither,
nor any characteristic part of either, should be
omitted. This survey is not for the purpose of sell
ing land, or to induce immigration, but for the pur
pose of "sending widely abroad the true agricultural
and horticultural character of our State. ; -
We are. more interested in that than in'immediate
trade or the relaxation of Germany's present com
mercial regulations. Of this we should be able to
convince these official visitors.
When we know how little California is understood
and how much misunderstood by our own country
men in the Eastern States we need not marvel at the
same thing in the case of Europe, and we must not
underestimate the value of an opportunity like this
to be known abroad for what we are.
OUR GERMAN VISITORS.
Townsend's Cal. glace fruits. 713 Mrkt.*
Special Information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali
fornia street. Telephone Main 1942. •
Townsend's California glace fruit and
candles. 50c a pound, in artistic flre-etch*>il
boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends.
Moved from Palace Hotel building to 71">
Market st.,-two doors above Call bulldir.ff.*
DECORATION DAY— E. H.. City. Th*
custom that led up to Decoration day
originated in the Southern States beforn
the close of the Civil War. Early In t';e
spring of each year the Southern women
•were in the habit of decorating the grave j
of their dead soldiers with flowers, and
thus an unwritten law fixed May 20 as t..-3
day of observance. Similar observances
had been Inaugurated in the North, with
no special unanimity. May 5. 1S6S. Gen
eral John A. Logan, then commander in.
chief of the Grand Army of the Republic,
issued an order fixing May 30 of that year
for 6trewing with flowers the graves of
dead soldiers.
DR. STOLI/S CASE-Subsciiber. Pa
cific Grove, Cal. The charge of homicide
against Dr. Stoll for the shooting of Dr.
Blake wa? dismissed in the Superior
Court of San Francisco upoo the state
ment of the District Attorney in his open
ing before the Jury in Judge Cook's court.
From this it appeared that it was a clear
case of self-defense and the Judge In
structed to return a verdict of not guilty.
BURNER— M. K., City. The particular
kind of gas burner mentioned in letter of
Inquiry burns brightest when the gaa is
turned on to a. certain force.. If greater
pressure is used there is a waste of gas
without any corresponding increase in
light.
FISH AND GAME-C. R. C. City. Ev
ery county in the State of California has
the power to pass ordinances for the pro
tection of fish and game in its respective
county, providing such are not in con
flict with the general laws of th« State.
SENATOR PERKTN'S— S.. City. George
C. Perkln3 of California was re-elerted
Senator in t903. When In attendance upon
his duties In Congress his temporary resi
dence is in Washington. D. C; at other
times his residence is Oakland, CaJ.
BOOTBLACK STANDS— H. 8.. City.
The matter of ordering bootblack stasiila
fiom public sidewalks is within the pow
er of the Board of Supervisors. If that
body decides that they must go, they will
have to.
Steamboats and railways -have made migration easy
to nearly all classes of people, and the result is that
we are living in a period when migration is going on
at a rate unprecedented in the world's history. It is
estimated that when the lists are footed up at the
close of this fiscal year it will be found that fully.800,
000 aliens have entered the United States since last
June. Many thousands more are going to Canada,
to South America and to Australia. It is therefore
not strange that old communities should take ad
vantage of the huge stream to send along with it the
refuse humanity they wish to get rid of.
The temptation of people in older countries to get
rid of their black sheep by shipping them to a for
eign land is of course great. It is felt even in the
older States of the Union. Only a short time ago
The Call directed attention to the action of a Judge
in Massachusetts who permitted a convicted forger
to go free "on condition that he would leave the
State." That forger of course immediately took a
train for the West and New England was happily
rid of him. Fortunately such practices are not likely
to become common with us, but it appears that in
Continental Europe a good many vagrants and ras
cals are encouraged and helped to leave their coun
try- for their country's good and seek new fields in
Great Britain or the United States.
of immigration by the announcement that while it is
true many of the immigrants who are now arriving
are undesirable, yet the proportion of desirable im
migrants has been largely increased during, the last
two months. A very large number arc now coming
from the north of Europe and arc well supplied with
money. It is not their intention to settle in the
East, but they arc coming direct to the Western
Stales, where their arrival will be welcome.
While we are thus guarded to a Considerable ex
tent at least against the incoming of aliens unfitted
either to become good citizens or to maintain them
selves until they find employment, Great Britain ap
pears to have become the resort of those who are
not desired at home and will not be received here.
A recent report from London says: "There are now
in custody in England and Wales, undergoing terms
of imprisonment for crime*, 625 aliens of compara
tively recent importation. An investigation into the
antecedent? of these criminals shows that in a ma
jority of instances they were driven or assisted cut
of their own countries and entered Great Britain un
challenged. Of the total number mentioned 175 were
.Germans. 149 Russians and Poles, 54 French, 44
Italians, 29 Norwegians. Swedes and Danes, 8 Dutch
and 163 of all other nationalities. The offenses are
returned as 228 against property, 114 against prop
erty with violence, 98 against the person, 33 forgery,
counterfeiting and coining, and 147 other offenses."
An even worse showing is made of the mendicant
snd pauper immigrants, who are now almost literally
overrunning London. A single borough of the great
city recently represented to the Board of Trade that
in addition to its own native-born dependencies it had
last year to relieve the needs of 710 alien families, be
sides providing for sixteen lunatics who had entered
the borough in a demented condition and had never
for a single day performed any work there. The Brit
ish ratepayers very naturally object to having to sup
port such a number of dependent people shipped
from their homes on the Continent, and as a conse
quence it is likely Great Britain will have to follow
our example and subject alien immigration to strin
gent regulations.
COMMISSIONER GENERAL SARGENT
of the Immigration Bureau has done much to
quiet anxieties in the East over the increase
IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS.
The map also gives the population of
the different cities and to:/r..s and the
county seats of the different o.untie*. to
gether with the distances from San Fran
cisco. It is printed in colors, each shado
having a signification.
The California Promotion Committee has
issued a "descriptive" map of the State,
which will he furnished any one who de
sires it. The size is 23x27 inches. Tha
ir.ap has been compiled with great care
and is strictly up to date. It is so sys
tematically arranged that no one will
have difficulty in identifying any location
or in finding distances. It gives in detail
the chief horticultural, agricultural .mri
mineral products of California, classified
in counties. It also gives a miscellaneous
list of industries. The prospective settler
can tell immediately by looking at the
classification table where the various
products are grown and how the locali
ties are reached.
CALIFORNIA PROMOTION"
COMMITTEE ISSUES MAP
The second floor will contain the pe
riodical reading room, lecture room, spe
cial reference room, society room anil a
room for the blind. The stacks will iun
from the basement to the recond floor and
will have a storage capacity of 500,000 vol
umes.
pervisors will incorporate in the
proposed bond issue to be submitted to
a vote of the people next August, have
been completed in the office of City Archi
tect Cuthbertson. under the supervision of
Chief Draughtsman H. G. Corwin. The
drawing of plans was in the hands of
Draughtsman E. B. Scott.
The building is to be a handsome struc
ture of classic design with Corinthian
columns, and its estimated cost is $£00,000.
The. site selected by the Board of Super
visors is the block bounced by Van Ness*
avenue, Polk, Fulton and G^ove streets.
The main entrance of the library will
face on Van Ness avenue and there wili
be two entrances into the basement on
Fulton and Grove street?. The building
will have a central rotun-Ja with support
ing columns similar to the one in the City
Hall.
The basement will contain the news
paper reading room, the cataloguing de
partment, the sub-*tationa and packing
rooms and tho book .stacks.
The first floor will be devoted to the
main delivery space, the reference and
reading rooms, open shelves and the of
fices of the librarian and secretary. On
a mezzanine floor will bf the meeting
room of the public library trustees, the
ordering room and space for exhibits.
THE plans for the proposed new
public library building, the con
struction of which the Board of Su-
3PECTALIST-J. C. City. As this de
partment does not advertise or recom
mend any one engaged in any business. It
cannot inform you where you can con
sult a first-class specialist.
FRONT ELEVATION OF THE
PROPOSED NEW PUBLIC LI
BRARY BUILDING.
FILMS— W. O., Hilton. Cal. One way to
prevent photographic films from curling
after development is to place them be
tween plates of glass.
VINING— S.. City. E. P. Vlning. for
mer manager of the Market-street sys
tem, is not at present engaged in busi
ness.
SENATOR CLARK— S. W. M., Spring
Valley, Cal. The home address of Sena
tor Clark of Montana is Eutte. Mont.
ANSWERS TO QUERIES
WASHINGTON, May 4.— The following
Californians arrived here to-day: At the
New "Willard— C. G. Church and wife, E.
H. Kinney, G. A. Burns, R. Andreas, of
San Francisco, Master Richard Bradley,
Mrs. M. G. Wall of California.
From Los Angeles— Dr. A. Fleming, at
the Navarre; N. O. Bagge, at the Hol
land; Miss R. Corea, at the New Amster
dam: A. J. Ruthmuller, at the Albert.
Californians in Washington.
NEW YORK, May 4— The following
Californians are in New York: From San
Francisco— D. A. IIulz<\ Mrs. Lamb. F.
Klbrldge and wife. J. H. Hunt and Dr. C.
Orr. at the Herald Square: C. "W. Smith
and wife, at the Marlborough: IT. C
Coward, at the Gregorian; Dr. W. 1,.
Dohrmann, at the Holland; Mra. 8. Doug
las, E. M. Munger and M. Munger, at the
Broadway Central; A. G. Griffin, at the
St. Denis; R. J. Jose, at the Gilaey; C. R.
Kirchner, at the Hoffman;' C. McGilli
vray, at the Murray Hill; Dr. G. Selfridge
and wife, at the Albemarle.
Californians in New York.
C. J.. Smith, purchasing agent of the
Northern Pacific road and former presi
dent of the old Oregon Improvement Com
pany, now known ns the- Pacific Coast
Company, arrived from the north last
night and Is registered at the Palace.
Georg« W. Catt of New York, presi
dent of the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf
Bridge Company, which has the contract
for the construction work at Mare Isl
and, over which there has been consid
erable trouble of late, is at the Palace.
D. O. Mills and his son-in-law. White
law Rpld, who have been spending several
weeks at Millbrae, departed for the East
Sunday night. • '.
Clarence G. Follls. the young capitalist
who has been in .the Kant for the last
four months, returned yesterday and is
registered at the. Palace.
W. Hi Bancroft, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Oregon Short Line,
arrived from Salt Lake yesterday and is
stopping at the Palace. He Is here to con
fer with President 1 Harriman on business
of the road.
PERSONAL. MENTION.
A. "Weed, a lumber man of SIsson, Is at.
the Lick.
Dr. W. II. La Brce of Wcavervllle is
at the Grand.
John Kerr, a merchant of Honolulu, is
at the Palace.
J. M. Engle. a mining. man of Quincy,
is at the Palace. '
Jesse Pound3tone, a rancher of Grimes,
is at th« Grand.
S. D. Rosenbaum. a merchant of Stpck
ton, is at the Palace.
B. Pi« Hartley, a raining man of Au
burn, l« at the Grand.
D. S. Fish, a prominent business* man
of Hanford, Is registered at the Grand.
E. S. Sweeney, president of the Seattle
Brewing and Malt Company, is at the
Palace.
Mark L. McDonald, formerly of Santa
Rosa, who is now building the railroad
between Sunset and the coast, is at the
Occidental.
(Sht -t^3iii5*3 Call.
TUESDAY: MAY 5, 1903
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SOCIALISM as manifest in politics has now be
come so notable in the East that after every
election the students of political tendencies de
vote considerable attention to studying the returns
for the purpose of obtaining data to serve as a basis
for calculating the increase or decline in the new
movement The spring elections in various cities
have furnished the latest opportunities for obtaining
information of that kind, and accordingly the com
pleted returns have been carefully gone over by those
interested in the subject.
' There is as yet no agreement as to what constitutes
a true test of the strength of the socialist element in
cur politics. Some authorities count the successes
of Harrison in Chicago, Johnson in Cleveland and
Jones in Toledo as virtual victories for socialism.
Others count nothing as a test of socialistic strength
except direct votes for candidates running on avowed
Socialist tickets. There is an element of truth on
each side. It is unquestionable that the municipal
platforms of Harrison, Johnson and Jones represent a
socialistic tendency, and consequently the success of
those candidates implies a willingness on the part of
a majority of the voters in those communities to ac
cept certain parts at least of the general socialist
programme.
The one significant feature in the showing of the
results of the various contests is that wherever the
opposition to the Republican party triumphed at all
it attained its success on something in the nature of
a socialist platform. It thus appears that whatever the
conservative wing of the Democratic party may be
.doing in the South, the Western rank and file re
main substantially true to -Bryanism. There may be
no further campaigns for free silver, there may be no
further renomination of Bryan, but the extreme Pop
ulistic. element of the party is in control in those
States where there is likely to be a close contest in.
the next Presidential election. The men who will
go to the next Democratic convention from Illinois,
Ohio and the Middle West generally will be follow
ers of Harrison and Johnson. They will confront the
claims of the conservatives by pointing to the suc
cesses they have achieved while the conservatives
were plotting in secret or feasting at ten-dollar ban
quets. Thus whether Democracy as a whole desires
to follow socialist programmes in the future, it ap
pears quite likely that it will be forced to do so in
the next. campaign or sacrifice every chance of carry
ing anj' State in the Middle West.
. Meantime the socialists of New England have brcn
showing themselves sufficiently formidable to compel |
the Democrats of those States to compromise with
them, and in a large measure to co-operate with |
them. They cannot promise to carry a New England
State for a Democratic candidate for the Presidency,
but they can give assurances of carrying a city now
and then, and accordingly they will not be without in
fluence in determining the character of the New Eng
land delegation to" the national convention. In that
section, therefore, as well as in Illinois and Ohio,
socialistic Democracy is apt to triumph over con
servatism and help to bring about the nomination of
a Bryanite despite all that the reorganizers can do.
SOCIALIST VOTE
The enthusiasm for "imperial unity" that prevailed
in Canada and Australia during the Boer war appears
to have completely subsided. The taxpayers of the
two colonies evidently believe that Great Britain
should pay all the cost of maintaining the empire
while they devote their energies to making themselves
strong enough to stand alone when they get ready.
The statement is made that if the price can be
permanently maintained to secure. the steady rate of
exchange for Mexico at 200 that country will make
a profit of $40,000,000 a year. This profit will be di
rect and will be increased by a.rhuch larger indirect
profit, which conies to any country in tlie stability
of business .which follows stability of the medium
of exchange.
It is stated, significant!}-, that the Guggenhei-ms
have betn for some time preparing for action, but
saw no opportunity until consumption increased.
This came- to th<Au when the United States began
buying silver for the Philippine' coinage. It is also
said that if the United State?. China and Japan
should cease buying and conclude to^- wait for a de
cline the syndicate is. able to store and hold all the
Mexican silver for two years. As this would 'require
the holding of 140.000,000 ounces, to do this at the
present price requires a capital of $77,000,000, and that
is a large sum to keep on the waiting list.
The highest product of silver by the United States
was 63. 500,000 ounces. In. 1901 the yield was 55,244,
000 ounces. So, if the syndicate undertake to buy and
store all the silver of both countries for two years! it
must have a capital of $137,768,400, or a capital and
credit united equal to/that amount.- Such an under
taking is the most stupendous operation ever un
dertaken by financiers. It is of intense interest to
the owners of silver mines. The prospective profits
of the operation may induce them .to make an alliance
with the syndicate by which they will mine and hold
their own 'silver. But this will merely distribute the
task without decreasing the reserve capital needed
for its accomplishment.
However, when the Mexican Government is taken
into account, as a passive but powerful partner in the
operation, it may be successfully done/ The great
corners in products, except copper, have heretofore
been in perishable property, such as' foodstuffs. The
element of perishability has had to be considered, and
also the accidents that beset production. But the
metals are non-perishable in a sufficient sense to
eliminate that risk, and only supply and demand have
to be considered. As the nations can, in a pinch, re
sort toipaper currency, a new risk is presented. The
United Ststes, for illustration, is in a position to do
away with silver dollar coinage entirely, and by a flex
ible currency system, for which we have an abundant
gold basis, use silver only for subsidiary coinage. It
would seem that this power is sufficient to hold in
check any speculative rise in silver procured by stor
ing that metal and keeping it off the market.
THERE is nothing singular, and at no time has
there been anything impossible, about corner
ing the silver product. It is as easy as the cor
nering of copper, and is subject to the same vicissi
tudes. The silver corner, taking in the control of the
entire product of Mexico, and assisted by that Gov
ernment, . is an established fact. What the Bland
and Sherman bills failed to do permanently has for
the present been accomplished by the Guggenheim
syndicate, and silver has been forced up at a rapid
rate. The rise effected by those two acts of the
American Congress was a brief bull movement in the
market, influenced by the purchases of the bullion by
this Government. But it did not last, and under both
laws the price took a downward turn, and fell steadily
until the purchases ceased. Then it kept falling un
til this corner has sent it upward again.
The ability of the Guggenheims to maintain the
advance will depend first upon the extent of their
control of the product. The first copper corner,
known as the Societe des Metaux, took in all the
copper properties of the world which produced down
to a minimum line, and made no account of the
properties below that line. But the price was artifi
cially forced up until it paid to work the properties
below the minimum, and soon these properties had
as much copper on the market as the Socictc, and
the price broke, with results disastrous to the syndi
cate. •
Whether the Guggenheims have profited by this ex
perience and have included in their scheme the silver
production of Colorado, Nevada, Idaho and Montana
is not plain. If they have their capacity to force the
price will depend upon consumption of the product.
The demand is in China, Japan and the Philippines.
In the latter the United States is immediately con
cerned, but . the stock needed in the islands is not
large enough to make a demand that will seriously
affect the market. Mexico has a very direct interest
in the corner, because she is a large silver producer
and her finances have been badly disordered by fluc
tuations in the price. She has endured variations in
exchange from that .cause amounting sometimes to
more than 40 per cent in a single month. Such fluc
tuation is very tormenting to business, but it remains
to be seen whether it can be prevented by the opera
tions of a private syndicate:
PLANS FOR PROPOSED PUBLIC LIBRARY
SHOW A BUILDING OF CLASSiC DESIGN
THE SILVER CORNER.
to Embassador Porter at Paris: "The Government
holds that every citizen sojourning or traveling
abroad in pursuit of his lawful affairs is entitled to a
passport, and the duration of such sojourn the de
partment does not arrogate to itself the right to limit
or prescribe." No objection can be made, of course,
to the maintenance of that rule, still one can readily
perceive how it may be abused by persons who ac
quire naturalization not for honest purposes. Per
haps the only solution will be for our courts to exer
cise greater care in granting naturalization, and until
that is done our Consuls must do the best they can
in settling the claims submitted to them by men who
claim the protection of a Government which they
neither serve nor love. »
THE SAN FBANCISCO CALL., TUESDAY, MAY ,5, 1903.
It is announced that agricultural conditions arc
now of such a serious nature that it will be necessary
to import rice into the Philippines. This seems al
most like carrying coals to Newcastle,
A syndicate of capitalists is said to have offered the
city of Pittsburg the sum of $500,000 a year for a
monopoly of supplying water to the people; and now
the people are wondering what would happert if the
monopoly were granted.
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NEW ADVEBTISEMENTS.
CAUSE OF FALLING HAIR.
Dandruff, Which Is a Germ Disease.
Kill the Germ.
Falling hair is caused by dandruff,
which is a. germ disease. The germ in bur-
rowing into the root of the hair, whero it
destroys the vitality of the hair. causlr:<
tho hair to fall out, digs up the cuticle in
little scales, called dandruff or scurf. You"
can't stop the falling hair without curing
the dandruff, and you can't cure the dan-
druff without killing tho dandruff germ
"Destroy the cause, 'you remove the ef-
fect." Newbro'a Herpicide is the only hair
preparation that kills tho dandruff germ
Herpicide is also a delightful hair dress-
ing. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c
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Detroit. Minn. . • -
"THE GREEDY TIGER"
A fascinating fable, telling how this striped prowler of the
jungle was caught on a gTappling-hook dangling from a clear sky.
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"The Gentlemaa From Indiana"
BY BOOTH TARKINGTON.
It tells what happened to Harkless, the hero, after he hed
been sent out into the thunder-storm, wretched and hopeless by
the beautiful little woman he loved, only to be surrounded by the
Whitecaps of Six Crossroads.
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