The San Francisco call., 1899-12-10
FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON.

| custom which has become something like
unwritten law the leading periodicals OF the
Christian world will issue to their readers holiday
editions designed to be appropriate to the occasion
and add to the general delight in the festival sea-
In harmony with that custom The Call will issue
Sunday the artistic Christmas number that
ever appeared from a California newspaper office
The illuminated covers will be something more than
gaudy patches OF color They will be veritable works
OF art presenting pictures by artists OF high rank
pictures that will repay prolonged study and merit
a conspicuous place among the artistic treasures Of
the most cultured homes
The contents OF the supplement will include articles
by Mark Twain. Ouida Madge Morris Wagner and
other wel-known writer's The Rev. Peter c. Yorke
will narrate the story of his year OF travel in
Europe; Major Jose Ramon Pico, who has lived
in California under three flags, will describe the
Christmas festivities OF the pastoral days before the
discovery OF gold and the breaking up OF the old,
happy life that was lived around the missions and or
the haciendas OF the great landowners There will
be also pages OF fashions, stories for children,
Christmas tales for grown people, and something OF
special interest all classes OF readers and TO every
member OF each family.
The illustrations which will accompany the articles
and adorn the pages will be of unusual excellence
even for The Call, whose superiority in newspaper
art work is now recognized throughout the Union.
Taken a whole The Christmas Call will be the
most beautiful ever issued on the Pacific Coast and
not inferior any in the Union 1t will mark another
degree attained in the progress OF The Call and by
surprising all that has been achieved in the past
will point OF departure for even
greater and more artistic triumphs to come
II the allepatiOnS made bv ao,;rs,
United States Senator Clark be true there must have
been very recent boom in the Market price OF Mon
tana legislators. There certainly ought to be some
reduction when they bought in lots.
Calamity howlers have been given another proof
that things not bad they might be and that
patience is virtue not to be despsed. Henry J.
Dibble has rushed into print to tell what he would
do il he were Governor OF the State
1t is not too much to presume that President
Bergerot OF the Board of Education is all at sea with
regard to School Department politics Otherwise
why should he be taking postal card soundings to
ascertain where he is at?
A woman's club of Chicago, in denouncing the
horror OF Maysville insists that the time has come
TO stop the burning OF human beings This is the
first suspicion, utterly groundless that the fend OF
Maysville was human
The burghers in South Africa seem to be thor
oughfy alive 20 the eternal fitness of things Presi-
dent Steyn OF the Orange Free State has announced
his intention OF connecting with one OF General
Cronjes laagers
Inc Oakland missionary who reports that he is
teaching his Chinese converts the ntricacies OF foot
ball must be trying give the Celestias an object
lesson OF how savage Christians can be when they
want to be.
Secretary OF the Treasury Gage has arrived at the
conclusion that the present banking laws are entirely
too strict Any number of would-be borrowers
reached the same conclusion years ago.
Inc TACT that the national council OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic has decided to hold the next
annual encampment at Chicago in August would
seem to insure the veterans hot time
Inc football players of the country having had
their battles OF Modder River the nation is awaiting
with bated breath the list of casualties.