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Including Postage (Caih With Order): DAILY CALL (including: Sunday). 1 year $8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday). « months 4.00 DAILY CALL— By single month 760 SUNDAY CALL. 1 year •..\u2666• 2.60 WEEKLY CALL, 1 year * 100 SDailv $8.00 Per Year Extra Sunday* ". 4.15 Per Year Extra Weekly 100 Per Year Extra Entered at th* United State* Postofflce as Second-Class Matter. All. POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded "When Requested. Mall subscribers In ordering change of address should be particular to a;ive both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS In order to Insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. THE JINGO BOOBY OF JAMAICA PROBABLY the single reasonable inference to be drawn from the Sweitenham international episode is that the Governor of lamaica is a monumental idiot, with the manners of a boor. The prompt repudiation and condemnation of his astonishing behavior by the British press and public deprives the affair of any international significance. \ Swettenham is interesting only as a queer survival of nearly extinct prejudice. Whether he imagined that Admiral Davis had come to take Jamaica and make him a prisoner to be dragged in triumph through the streets of Wash ington, or whether he was merely suffering from earthquake hysteria, it is scarcely worth while to inquire. For Governor Swettenham the dead were dead, and they might bury themselves at leisure. If there were sick or wounded they could wait. If thieves were abroad he could attend to them, and, in fact, he came very near telling Admiral Davis in so many words that he was a liar — a blarsted Yankee liar. Then he turns sarcastic and draws a parallel between the burglary of a millionaire's house in New York and the condition of Kingston ravaged by fire and earth quake. A burglary committed in Xew York would be no excuse for the landing of an armed party by a British admiral. The close ness of the parallel is too obvious. One wonders how many Swettenhams are still at large. We cannot say that we are entirely free from the breed. The blather skite with a chip on his shoulder and aching to whip all creation is not altogether extinct. But we should have been glad to think that in an hour of distress, when help was proffered in common humanity, lhe jingo official booby might have understood that he would com promise a whole nation by exhibiting himself as an unfeeling and ill-mannered blockhead. It is humiliating for Great Britain. « DISBAND THE SCHOOL FRATERNITIES IN many of the Eastern States and in parts of California school boards have taken action to suppress the fraternities and sorori ties, so called, in the common schools. The recent suicide of a girl student at a local school because of the jealousies and rivalries attributed to associations of this kind furnishes a striking illustration of the dangers that may arise from such societies when carried to extremes. It may be urged that z similar case might not occur again in a hundred years, but that is not the point. The danger arises from the fact that these associations furnish an in jurious, distracting influence. The youthful mind is impressible and easily molded. The public opinion of a school concentrated by association comes to regard these fraternities as the most im portant affair of their life. Jealousies, heart burnings, rivalries and intrigues distract the minds of students. An atmosphere of politics pervades the institution. • Very much the same conditions are found in the universities. t The boys and girls come to regard the fraternities as the first and , greatest thing in university life. The student body is split up in i cliques and factions. They ape the fashions of older folk. Worst !of all, the fraternity breeds snobs and fosters an undemo jcratic spirit. Studies are neglected to keep up the pace with fraternity func jtions. There are altogether too many "student activities'' that clash jwith the business of education. It was only the other day that the ' Stanford faculty conditioned several score of the leading spirits of the student body. They had been busy at everything but learn- It may not be possible to put an end to this business at the universities. When a boy attains that age he is supposed \o have some discretion and responsibility. It is probably better to cultivate j a sense of responsible y than to keep him too long in leading strings, ;but all that theory does not apply to 'high school boys and girls. : They are of an age when discipline is of the highest importance. , They are not emacipated from parental control, and it is most in jurious to themselves that they should be permitted to imagine > anything of the kind. In the line of this necessary and beneficial \u25a0 discipline the Board of Education should make a rule forbidding 'under penalties the organization or maintenance of common school RUEF KNOWS IT THE Call congratulates Supervisor Tvcitmoe and Supervisor O'N'eil on their sense of official propriety and -rectitude that impels them to refuse contact with the weekly caucuses oi their colleagues, at which Abe Ruef is the guiding and pre , siding spirit. No more shameless exhibition of boss rule flaunting i its power in defiance of the people, has ever been witnessed in ; zny American city since the day when Boss Tweed asked ,the decent ; people of New York, "What are you going to do about it?" TVeed went to jail. That is what the people did about it. \u25a0 Rucf will follow the same road, for all his squirming and pettifog ging. He knows it arid shows that he knows it by the way he dodges and twists. LOOK OUT FOR HUGHES ftTT EEP your eye on Hughes is a word that runs through the L 4 prevailing political comment of the country. His message | \_ on assuming the Governorship of Xew York has attracted more attention than any other public document issued this year, including the President's voluminous output of messages on .every conceivable topic Unlike the reception accorded to most of EDITORIAL PAGE Roosevelt's outgivings, the comment on Hughes has been uniformly favorable, whether they came from political backers or opponents. Chiefly attention was drawn by the recommendation \u25a0 that a recount should be had of the votes cast for Hearst and McClellan in the Xew York Mayoralty election. It furnishes a strange commen tary on contemporary politics that this recommendation should appear so startling. Every newspaper editor in New York has known for more than a year that common justice entitled Hearst to a recount, but not one of them— except Hearst — has ever dared to say so. Now that Hughes has had the courage to tell' the truth the partisan newspapers have suddenly and clamorouslydiscovered that they knew it all the time. But they are totally blind to the humor of the situation. Besides the recount matter Hughes made some radical promises. Among these are the abolition of the State Railroad Commission and several other useless bodies of that kind. But possibly the under taking that will have the most important results is the promise to hold aij investigation of banking methods in New York. From the frantic resistance made to the holding of an investigation oi} the banks during his predecessor's term it is commonly believed that even worse scandals than those of the life insurance investigation will be uncovered. New York City is headquarters for political banking. i MRS. J. LE ROY NICKEL, .who is spending the winter with her father. Henry Miller, at the Horace Hill home at Laguna and Sacramento streets, which he pur chased recently, has sent out cards for a. bridge party on Tuesday. January 29. at which she will entertain a large number of guests. Captain Henry B. Clark. U- S. A.; Captain Louis Brecherain Jr.. U. S. A.; Lieutenant Guy K. Manning, U. S. A., and Lieutenant Clarence Carrigan, V.. S. A., have sent out Invitations to a dance at Fort Baker on Wednesday evening, February 6. which bids fair to' repeat the success which their laat dance, just before Christmas, proved to be. The government boat will leave the Washington-street wharf at 7:30 o'clock for the post and will return at midnight. Mrs. Samuel E. Thomson has sent out invitations for the marriage of her daughter, Miriam Putnam Thomson, to Frederick Parsons Tatum, at noon Fri day. January 25, at Trinity Methodist Church. Berkeley.- Mrs. Horatio P. Livermore of this city, who is spending the winter In Santa Barbara, -was . the hostess on Tuesday of last week at a tea in honor of Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, who is also a visitor in the southern city from here. The hostess was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Durrant. Miss t-Ala. Chamberlain. Miss Elizabeth Liv ermore. Miss Stella MeCalla, while Mrs. Benjamin Bakewell and Mrs. Hazard poured tea. Mrs. John P. Young will be hostess at a bridge party on Monday after noon next at her home in California street. The wedding of Miss Genevieve Isaacs and Carl Schilling Jr. will take place this evening at 8:30 o'clock at the First Unitarian Church. A large number of guests will be present. Mrs. Squire Varlck Mooney -will en tertain at a bridge party on Thurs day afternoon. January 31. at which about thlrty-flve guests will be pres ent. • • • Mrs. Mountford Wilson, Mrs. George Lent and Miss Jennie Hooker left last \u25a0week for a brief Eastern trip. They «xpeot to spend about ten days in New York, and will return here before Lent." Mrs. Pelham Ames, who has been spending several months as the guest of her daughter. Mrs. Robert Wood. In Baltimore, is expected to return to San Francisco about the end of this week. Miss Ethel Beaver left a few days since for the East, where 6he will epend several months. She will go first to Philadelphia, where sha will be the guest of Mr?. "William Mintzer. who "went on- from, here In the early fall to spend the winter In that city. . Mrs. Louise Barrollhot and her grand daughters.-Miss Emily Bowie and Miss Helen Bowie, left last "week for. New York, and will sail : from . there for Europe to be absent about a year. Lieutenant Clarence Kempff, U. S. N., bo has been In Asiatic waters Tor Will He Get There? .*. The Smart Set .*. The Rev. Daviß Montgomery Crab tree and Mrs. Crabtree (who was for merly Miss Eugenic Hawes) have left New York, where they have been for the past few months and where Mr. Crabtree was a student in the General Theological Seminary, and have gone to Washington. D. C. Rev. Mr. Crab tree has been made assistant rector of one of the large churches there. v Mlss Virginia Gibbs willleave with in a few days for Europe,' where she will spend some time traveling. Mr. and Mrs. William ' B. Hamilton, who have been spending the past' two months with Major and Mrs. Dunning at Burllngame. expect to return to town about February 1. • ' The following item from the Santa Barbara Independent -will proveof in terest In San Francisco, where both General and Mrs. Blddle are \u25a0 well known and have so many friends. Mrs. Biddle's book will be looked for with special interest: . <. "Yielding to the solicitation of her friends who have, not yet had an op portunity to hear selections from her book, 'Reminiscences of an Army Offi cer's Wife,' Mrs. . James Blddle will read a chapter or two of her manu script tomorrow afternoon to a little group consisting of -women who ar« spending the winter at the hotter, and three outsiders, Mrs. William Miller Graham. Mrs. Arthur Lord and Mrs. Charles S. Fay. After the reading is over (and that It will be of absorbing interest in certain, for Mrs. Biddle is besieged with requests from publishers who wish to bring but" the, book) tea will be served. The occasion Is but one of the informal little affairs that make life among this congenial coterie at the big hotel delightful." Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marron Fickert have leased their pretty apartment on Pacific avenue and will" make their home for a time with Mrs. Fickett's parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wallace, at the latter's home on Gough street. Mr. and Mrs. John Speck (formerly Miss Martha Lee) have returned. from a two months' bridal trip throughout the East, having visited all of the principal cities, Including Washington,; where they .visited the White House and. had the pleasure of meeting .President Roosevelt. Mrs. Speck will be at home on commencing- with today at 3398 Clay street. Cholly Nowltt— D'ye : know. Miss Smart, though I've only Just met you, there seems -to be a sort of Intellectual sympathy between us? -You «know"'Just how to appeal to ray tastes, you see. Are you a. literary woman? Dolly Smart — No; I'm a kindergarten teacher.— Tit-Bits. . Townsend's Cal. gle.ee fruits and can dles at Emporium. Post and Van Ness, 1250;Sutter at. and 1203 and 1220 Va- the past two years, has been ordered detached from the Raleigh and ordered home, which means that this popular young officer and his attractive wife, who was formerly Miss Alice Brigham, will soon be here. Both Lieutenant and Mrs. Kempff have spent most of tnetr lives from childhood in San Fran cisco, and have a host of friends here. John Hubert Mcc Is at present In the East, where he went 'for a six weeks' trip, largely on business affairs. Gossip of the Doings of Railroad Men R. A. Drake has been appointed dis trict engineer, maintenance of way, for the northern division of the South ern Pacific to succeed W. C. Edes, who has been appointed chief engineer of the Northwestern Pacific. Drake has been the resident engineer of the west ern division, with headquarters In Oakland. He Joined the company in 1595 as assistant engineer on the Sac ramento division, and remained there till 1899. He was then made assistant engineer of the coast division, and held that position till 1906, when he was made assistant resident engineer. In March of that year he was made resident engineer of the coast division, and In November of the same year he was again promoted and appointed resident engineer of the more Impor tant, division, known as \ the -west ern division. General Superintendent Palmer has not . yet named his cus cessor at the Oakland pier. A bill has been introduced In Con gress by Representative Sherman to make the maximum passenger fare in the United States 2 cents a mile for interstate traffic The bill Is. of course, not pleasing to the operators of West ern roads, and will be opposed by them to the best of their ability. The measure, according to railroad men, does not take Into account any differ ence in population, topography of the country, expense of railway operation or wages. It is proposed to make the same rate effective on poorly patronized branch lines as on roads through - the thickly settled sections. The rallroali com panies have already put themselves on record as being violently opposed to the measure, declaring that the pas senger traffic is the least profitable of their revenue, and that the bill is un just in that It seeks to create a com mon rate throughout the country with out any regard to operating condi tions. They point out. that, notwith standing the good times, the passenger earnings per train mile have not in creased. Local passenger representatives say that the effect of the law *n the .West would be to increase the number of mixed freight and passenger trains very largely: to reduce the number of strictly passenger trains and to pre vent.' further Improvements in the train service, both in equipment and sched ules. . The; present rate in California, except in the, mountain districts, is 3 cents a mile. In thinly settled sec tions, like Nevada and Arizona, it is 4 cents a mile. This is also true on a few branch ltnea In the West. The Western roads keep the " earn ings per mile of every train In their service, and no doubt a radical reduc tion In revenue would put a great many, trains in the "red ink" class, which would bo followed by a discon tinuance, or a merging into freight trains. "It really looks as if wd were going to have another road from Stockton to this city before the end of the year," remarked a railroad man -who had just returned from that city. "The Western Pacific has about four miles of track laid out of Stockton, and there are any number of -men at work upon the roadbed. The Western Pacific fol lows the line of the Southern Pacific almost all the way from Stockton to Oakland, and. If the builders desired, they could easily have the road in operation Inside of eight months. It seems as if all the heavy filling had been finished and that within the time mentioned the cars could be running. It looks like business -when you see flat and box cars marked Western Pa cific on the tracks near Stockton." J. J. Byrne, assistant traffic manager of the Santa Fe, .who Is In .the city, looks forward to a very large tourist business in the southern part of the State. He« says, that the, travel into that section is just beginning, and he thinks that it will be , as large as it was last year. The Santa Fe' is still having trouble with* the Franklin tunnel. ' It will be several days before the line to Stock ton is opened. '. • • • J. W. McClymond, who represents the Armour lines, says that the orange crop in the south is beginning to 'move freely. One and -.} fifty cars are going East a day on the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe. - A. M. Cleland, general .passenger agent of the- Northern Pacific, arrived In -the-city ".from 'the' southern part of the' State j-iesterday. He will -be here for. a^few days, and 'will then" return to his home In St.- Paul. Press of the State Denounces the Patronage Thievery Even the long-eared, long-haired suf fering voter has no unlimited supply of patience. Though he may joke about the railroad rule over the State, be cause he falls to see the working out of the orders Issued from Southern Pad-c headquarters, he can and" does see that to expend $150,000 In ten weeks simply to reward political heelers and hangers-on is theft, barefaced, open, scandalous theft, inexcusable extrava gance and criminal squandering of the taxpayers* money at a time when the State needs to hoard every cent it has for rebuilding.— San Bernardino Index. By their vote for patronage— an ac tion which is not only contemptible, but politically unwise — the members of the present Legislature seem to disregard a future in which they will be held re sponsible for this abuse of power. • • The country will not continuously tol erate the scandalous abuse of patron age. — Vacavllle Reporter. .* • • It is a well-known fact that many persons having their names on the payroll will not be in Sacramento dup» ing the session. This order of things must and will be changed sooner or later, or those who are responsible for It will be relegated to political oblivion, which they deserve. — Suisun Republican. • i •, ' j " No language could/be too strong to characterize It. and ' if there is any stronger word in the language than "steal" that word should be applied to it. The whole grab is a loot, and the members who engineer and favor it are thieves. — -Fresno Republican. The cost of the last Legislature was a public scandal. Its extravagance, waste and downright robbery were held up to the scorn and detestation of the general public. But in this dis graceful pre-eminence the present Leg islature promises to take the crown from the head of the last. • • • W-e hope the time has come when all graft ers and plunderers of the public treas ury will be forever relegated to private life, if nothing worse is done to them. — San Jose Mercury. The so-called patronage grab, con ceded larcey, will continue until the State provides adequate salary for members of the Legislature and there by makes it possible for representative men of affairs to drop their business and sustain the loss of time and nioney, in a business way, involved in making a campaign end attending the ses sion. — Modesto Herald. It is too early yet to figure accurately how much of the taxpayers" money is to be wasted upon useless attaches at the present session. • • • There re mains at the capital a great army of hungry ones clamoring for places of profit, and some at least of these as pirants have the necessary '•pull" to land it. The old. costly farce will prob ably be repeated, and while the people may grumble they will foot the bill. — San Diego Union. Of course it was too much to expect. •\u25a0• • Ie ~ would have been credulity little les3 than sublime as well as ridiculous- for the good people of the State to have fondly cherished the hope and belief that their ostensible representatives would be content to forego the conscienceless looting of the State treasury in the guise of daily contingent expenses. • • • With shameless voracity the polluting parley went on even before the legislature was organized. Before all else the cormorant self-seekers who lay claim to patronage — heaven only knows upon what tenable ground — must be satis fied. Then, and not till then, was any attention given to the weighty legiti mate affairs of legislation. .It is a sorry spectacle. — Pasadena Star. If. Governor jiillett has a big stick he might use it to advantage on the Leg islature. — Woodland Democrat. This action of the leglslato.-s will undoubtedly bring upon them much de served criticism. They show an utter lack of any consideration for the voters who elected them to office in making this latest salary grab. Their action Is all the more indefensible when it is remembered that some time ago an economy law was passed, the object of which was to cut down the expenses of the lawmakers, wnich were consid ered altogether too much. In the light of the action of this Legislature that law becomes merely a joke. — Visalia Times. ' The eagerness with which the new- Legislature dips into the treasury Personal Mention A. F." Luening is registered at the Majestic. M. Mitchell of "White River Is at the Majestic. "W. W.Tompkins of New York Is at the Palace. N. Bissinger of Portland is at the Dorchester. B. A. Noble of Providence, R. 1., Is at the Jefferson. < -Ben T.v Allen of Chicago, is at the Majestic Annex. C. J. Romany is at the Dorchester from Philadelphia. W. E. Hughey is at the St. Francis from Goldfield, Nev. N. Wesnelm"er of New York is at the Majestic Annex. Robert Holmes of St. Louis Is reg istered at the Majestic C. H. Campbell of Ely, Nev., is reg istered at the St. Francis. J. .F. Jones and Mra. Jones of Michi gan are at the St. Francis. F. W. Petty and Mrs. Petty of Port land are at the Majestic. .P. F. Kelley'and Mrs. Kelley of Seattle are guests at, the ' Palace. A. C. Kingsbury and Mrs. Kingsbury are at the Palace from Los Angeles. E. L. Kornfeld and Alfred W. Allen of Los Angeles are at the Majestic. Rev. S. M. Cutting and Mrs. Cutting of Pacific Grove are at the Jefferson. Mrs. A. D. Mitchell and Mrs. A_ S. Hunt of Goldfield are at the St. Francis. G. L. (Tex) Rickard and Mrs. Rlck ard of Goldfield are at the St Francis. E. B. McClanahan and Mrs. McClana han of Honolulu are' at the Majestic Annex. ?:v A.v. D. Myers of Goldfield and Frank Naughton of Manhattan are registered at ,the St. Franc\s. Rev. G. R. E. Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald are registered at the Jeffer son from Hanford. : Rev. William H. Wheeler of Tuol umne and Rev. ; H. . H. Powell of Santa Clara, are at the Jefferson. . -- Rev. , Dr.V Starr and Mrs. Starr of Stockton '"are at the Jefferson. Dr. Starr is here to attend the annual con vention of the Episcopal church. JANUARY 22, 1907 shows hunger and no delicacy _ of feel ing on the subject of graft. And Demo crats need not charge the act 10 ' ras cally Republicans." So long "the minority Join. In the raid proposed by the party In power it 1» not in a pos tlon to call the kettle black. But i s it not most indefensible, this \u25a0^"plica tion of the legislative membership by three in order to furnish a per diem to an army of useless attaches and thus •pay off political debts?— Napa Register. The California Legislature is in «es sion and the people will be on the rack until It adjourns. The Southern Pacific machine is in complete control and it is supposed that everything has been lubricated sufficiently to have a, harmonious session. Ther« are «om«s things that were promised in the plat forms of both parties, but anything detrimental to the man behind the machine will meet with cold favor. The people put them there and those who voted for the Southern Pacific ticket should take their medicine cheerfully. — Willows Journal. The California press has been prac tically unanimous in denouncing the shameful steal of public money In volved In placing a horde of useless attaches on the payrolls of the Legis lature. • • • But few of them are ever actually present, save when the payrolls are being signed, and many are never seen save at that time, for they do no work whatever. • • • If at every session a number of mem bers would sternly set their faces against such robbery of the public, un der the guise of employing attaches, and absolutely refuse to touch any of the boodle, the example could not be lost, and in the course of time a sweep ing reform might be had. — Sacramento Bee. ~ • • • -. ' Every one who has been about legis lative halls knows that under the guise of paying out money for clerit hire a biennial raid is made on the State treasury, and the "loot" is apportioned under the name of "patronage." • • • If candidates for legislative honors are going to conduct their individual cam paign with the expectation of reward ing all hangers-on through State ap propriation legalized by their . own votes, what is the limit, and where is it going to stop? — Pasadena News. Those six lone Democrats In the As sembly were as greedy for a little of the patronage as the seventy-odd Re publicans. They reached for a chance to distribute $13 a day for attaches with the greatest eagerness. The ques tion of right or wrong being eamlnat ed, here was an opportunity to do some sane and effective politics, but appar ently the six could not rise to the oc casion. — Bakersfield Callfornian. • • • Of course the - Legislature will not pay the slightest heed to the recom mendation of the retiring Governor that the railroad commission be abol ished. It >la unreasonable to expect that a party which will deliberately increase the patronage of each Senator to $25 a day -will separate itself from a sinecure that yields more than $15. 000 annually. — Woodland Democrat. • • • Is it not about time to hold another constitutional convention? The rob bery complained of will never end un der the present State constitution. Could the Senators and Assemblymen pay themselves from $15 to $20 a day each they would undoubtedly do so. Not more than a dozen of them expect to be re-elected, and the motto is: "Rake her. boys; rake her!" — Santi Cruz Sentinel. Instead of being an improvement on the Legislature of two years ago in the matter of square-toed honesty the present bunch seems likely to break all records for indecency in filching money from the State treasury — anil otherwise. — Los Angeles Herald. Altogether there will be something like 500 attaches on the legislative payroll this winter and they will cost the State at least $125,000. • • • The whole business is a piece of gros^ and Inexcusable extravagance; but no Legislature has yet had the courage to lop off the useless attaches and put the clerical work of the two hous%* on a business basis. • • • California seems to have acquired the attach* habit in a very extreme form, and th^ only way a cure can be effected Is to elect a good bunch of members to the Senate and Assembly who will use th<» ax and use it freely on this patronage payroll. — Riverside Press. The State Senators and Assemblymen at Sacramento have proceedad to raid the public treasury In the old. old way. • • • This is an evil in our State government of long standing and it seems to thrive with age, as each year the patronage graft is in creased and the dear people must foot the bills. — Sebastopol Times. Answers to Queries MUST GIVE DATES — S.. City. An applicant for a marriage license must give date of previous marriage or di vorce if there has been either. BALTIMORE PAPERS — Subscriber. Sebastopol, Cal. The leading papers published in Baltimore. MA, are the Sun. the News and the American, CHICKEN— A. N. F.. Petaluma. Cal. There is no reason to believe that a hen raised In Omaha will not lay eggs if brought to California. The change may do her good and 6he may become a bet ter layer. GREATER NEW YORK— H. P. C. San Rafael. Cal. The population Is given at 4.250.000. The name was adopted when the city of New York had added to it the different territo ries such as Bronx. Brooklyn. Queen and Richmond. / ___ TWO THEATERS-S.W.F..City. The Brooklyn Theater. N. T.. was destroyed by fire December 5. 1876. The loss of life was about 300. The Iroquois-Thea ter. In Chicago, was also destroyed by fire, which occurred December 30 1303 Loss of life 639. In the Joke World _ Grace— l hear that Charlie and Helen, have made up their quarreL Gussle— Only temporarily. They are going to be married soon.— lllustrated Bits. Hiram Whiffle— Haw! Haw! What In tarnation, are ye doln' with the fifth wheel to yer wagon. Squire? Imltatln' them there autymobile fellers? Squire Longhead— Nope; anticipate em. — Puck. ._T rr ° U>r ? «xtravagant." said uacle. These cigars are a lot better than th» ones I smofced at your age." "Yes." muttered nephew In an Hl concealed aside, "they're a lot better than what you smoke now."— CUvsUai i-.-eao.er. -\u25a0 . . _^