Part 12

WHERE THE CREAMY YUCCA BLOOMS.

Say mate, I'm in the foothills; Got a tent to sleep in nights, Far away from beaten highways And the talk of human rights; Far away from din and tumult, Where the greed of pelf consumes-- I've a corner, here, of heaven Where the creamy yucca blooms.

God! the newborn sense of freedom! Down in chain and bolt and bar, Rent the vain that kept in hiding Lore of sky and silver star. Wisdom dwelleth not in cities; 'Tis the foothill night illumes-- Where the insects chant their hymnals, And the creamy yucca blooms.

Get a move on, mate, come out here, Leave the deadly fever-dreams Of the street and of the market Where the "rocky yellow" gleams. Here you live in every moment, And the soul its own assumes In this blessed bit of heaven, Where the creamy yucca blooms.

ELIZABETH BAKER BOHAN, in _West Coast Magazine._

DECEMBER 31.

ELECTRICITY ON THE COMSTOCK.

Born from nothing, it leaps into existence with the full-fledged strength of a giant, dies, is born again; lives a thousand lives and dies a thousand deaths in a single pulsating second of time.

It soars to every height, plunges to every depth, and stretches its vast arms throughout illimitable space.

It plants the first blush upon the cheek of dawn; with brush of gold upon the glowing canvas of the west, it tells the story of the dying day.

At its mere whim and caprice, a thousand pillars of light leap from the dark and sullen seas which surge about the poles, while from its shimmering loom it weaves the opalescent tapestry of the aurora to hang against the black background of the arctic night.

It rouses nature from her winter sleep, breaks the icy fetters of the frost that binds the streams, lifts the shroud of snow from off the landscape, woos the tender mold and bids the birth of bud and blossom; dowers the flower with perfume and clothes the earth with verdure of the spring.

It rides the swift courses of the storms that circle round the bald crest of old Mount Davidson; cleaves the black curtain of the night with scimitar of flame; rouses the lightnings from their couch of clouds and wakes the earthquake.

Beneath its touch, the beetling crag, which took omnipotence a thousand years to rear, crumbles into dust, the mere plaything of the idle wind; it lays its hand upon the populous city with its teeming, restless multitude. And yesterday, where stood the glittering spire, the shining tower, the frowning battlement, today the cold gray ocean rolls in undisputed might.

It gathers the doings of the day from the four corners of the world, the tales of love and death, of fire and flood, of strife and pestilence, and under eight thousand miles of shivering sea, whispers the babble of two hemispheres.

It turns the wheels of peace where poor men toil, and helps the husbandman to plow and plant and reap his whispering grain.

It rides the wings of war where brave men die; and when it stalks between contending hosts, exalts the kingly crest and helps an empire plant its flag of conquest.

It glows in lonely attics where weary workers toil to earn their crust. It shines o'er scenes where feet of feasters tread the halls of revelry. It lights the mourners on their pathway to the tomb. It glares in haunts where jeweled ringers lift the cup of pleasure to the month of sin, 'mid the sobbing of the sensuous music and flow of forbidden wine; and speeding on its way illumes the dim cathedral aisle, where surpliced priest proclaims the teachings of the master, and golden-throated choirs lift their hosannas to the King of Kings.

It was the Maker's ally at the dawn of time, and when God from the depths of infinite space, said "Let there be light," it sent the pulse of life along creation's veins, baptized earth's cold brow with floods of fire, and stood the sponsor of a cradled world.

SAM P. DAVIS.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

ANGIER, BELLE SUMNER, (Mrs. Walter Burn.) Special training in floricultural and horticultural subjects. Staff writer on Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Express. Writer on garden and floral topics for California newspapers and many magazines. _Author:_ Garden Book of California. _Address:_ 1036 N. Washington St., Los Angeles, Calif.

ARCHER, RUBY, _b._ Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 28, 1873. _Ed._ Kansas City High School and private tutors. Contributor of poems, translations from French and German dramas and lyrics, prose articles on Art, Architecture, Music, Biblical Literature, Philosophy, etc., for papers and magazines. _Author:_ Little Poems. $1.25. Thought Awakening. $1.00. _Address:_ R.F.D. No. 8, Box 11-A, Los Angeles, Calif. (The Studio is at Granada Park, on the Covina Electric Line.)

AUSTIN, MARY. _Author:_ The Land of Little Rain, an account of the California Desert. $2.00. The Basket Woman, a book of Indian myths and fanciful tales for children. $1.50. Isidro, a romance of Mission days. $1.50. The Flock, an account of the shepherd industry of California. $2.00. Santa Lucia, a novel. $1.50. Lost Borders, the people of the desert. _Address:_ Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, or care of Harper Bros., New York.

BAMFORD, MARY ELLEN, _b._ Healdsburg, Calif. _Author:_ Up and Down the Brooks. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 75c. Her Twenty Heathen. Pilgrim Press. 50c. My Land and Water Friends. D. Lothrop & Co. The Look About Club. D. Lothrop & Co. Second Year of the Look About Club. D. Lothrop & Co. Janet and Her Father. Congregational S.S. & Pub. Soc. Marie's Story. Congregational S.S. & Pub. Soc. Miss Millie's Trying. Hunt & Eaton. Number One or Number Two. Hunt & Eaton. A Piece of Kitty Hunter's Life. Hunt & Eaton. Father Lambert's Family. Phillips & Hunt. Thoughts of My Dumb Neighbors. Phillips & Hunt. Eleanor and I. Congregational S.S. & Pub. Soc. Talks by Queer Folks. D. Lothrop Co. Jessie's Three Resolutions. Am. Bap. Pub. Soc. In Editha's Days. Am. Baptist Pub. Soc. Three Roman Girls. Am. Baptist Pub. Soc. Out of the Triangle. D.C. Cook Pub. Co. 25c. Ti: A Story of San Francisco's Chinatown. D.C. Cook Co. 25c. The Denby Children at the Fair. D.C. Cook Co. _Address:_ 621 E. 15th St., East Oakland, Calif.

BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE, _b._ May 5, 1832, Granville, Ohio. _Ed._ Granville Academy until sixteen years of age. Clerk in bookstore in Buffalo, N.Y. Came to San Francisco March, 1852. While building up a large book-selling and publishing house, Mr. Bancroft worked for 30 years on the colossal history which bears his name, issued in Vols. as follows: The Native Races of the Pacific States, 5 vols. History of Central America, 3 vols. History of Mexico, 6 vols. North Mexican States and Texas, 2 vols. California, 7 vols. Arizona and New Mexico, 1 vol. Colorado and Wyoming, 1 vol. Utah and Nevada, 1 vol. Northwest Coast, 2 vols. Oregon, 2 vols. Washington, Idaho and Montana, 1 vol. British Columbia, 1 vol. Alaska, 1 vol. California Pastoral, 1 vol. California Inter Pocula, 1 vol. Popular Tribunals, 2 vols. Essays and Miscellany, 1 vol. Literary Industries, 1 vol. Also Book of the Fair, Book of Wealth, Resources of Mexico, The New Pacific, etc. _Address:_ 2898 Jackson St., San Francisco.

BANDINI, HELEN ELLIOTT (Mrs. Arturo), _b._ Indianapolis, _Ed._ in public schools. Came to California in 1874 when father was president of Indiana Colony, which founded Pasadena. Writer for newspapers and magazines. _Author:_ History of California (Am. Book Co.) The Romance of California History (in press.) _Address:_ 1149 San Pasqual St., Pasadena. Calif.

BARTLETT, DANA WEBSTER, _b._ Bangor, Me., Oct. 27, 1860. _Ed._ Iowa College (Grinnell, La.,) 1882. Attended Yale and Chicago Theol. Sems. Pastor Phillips Church, Salt Lake. Since 1896 pastor Bethlehem Inst. Church, Los Angeles, which now covers six city lots. _Author:_ The Better City: "Our Government in Social Service." _Address:_ Bethlehem Institutional Church, Los Angeles, Calif.

BARUCH, BERTHA HIRSCH, _b._ Province of Posen, Germany. Came to New London, Conn., with father in 1876. Wrote poetry in her teens and was encouraged by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop in her literary efforts. Active in College Settlement and Univ. Ext. work. Attended Penn. Univ. and Yale. On editorial staff Los Angeles Times. _Address:_ 1168 W. 36th St., Los Angeles, Calif.

BASHFORD, HERBERT, _b._ Sioux City, Ia., 1871. Contributor to leading magazines on literature and the drama. _Author:_ The Wolves of the Sea; The Tenting of the Tillicums: At the Shrine of Song, etc. Writer of several successful plays, The Defiance of Doris, etc. _Address:_ San Jose, Calif.

BINGHAM, HELEN, _b._ San Francisco, Aug. 23, 1885. _Ed._ private tutors, with special reference to Archaeology. _Author:_ In Tamal Land. $2.00. _Address:_ 785 Cole St., San Francisco, Calif.

BLAND, HENRY MEADE, _b._ Suisun, Solano Co., Calif., April 21, 1863. _Ed._ public schools, University of the Pacific (Ph.D., 1890), Stanford University (M.A., 1895). Professor English Literature since 1898 at State Normal School, San Jose. Contributor leading magazines. _Author:_ A song of Autumn and Other Poems. 1908. $1.00. _Address:_ State Normal School, San Jose, Calif.

BOHAN, MRS. ELIZABETH BAKER, _b._ England, August 18. When 4 years old came to Milwaukee, Wisc. _Ed._ in public schools. Married in Milwaukee and began to write short stories, poems, and philosophical articles. _Author:_ The Drag-net, 1909, C.M. Clark, Boston. The Strength of the Weak, Grafton Co., Los Angeles $1.50 each. _Address:_ 1844 Santa Cruz Street, Los Angeles, California.

BOOTHS, CHARLES BEACH, _b._ Stratford, Conn., July 3, 1851. _Ed._ Stratford Acad. 1894 came to Los Angeles. Pres. Nat. Irrigation Congress, 1896-7. Writer on Conservation of National Resources. _Address:_ Los Angeles, Calif.

BRANNICK, LAURENCE, _b._ Scardene, Co. Mayo, Ire., May 24, 1874. _Ed._ St. Jarlath's College, Tuam and Maynooth College. B.A. 1907 Univ. S. Calif. Writer for papers and magazines. Especially interested in perpetuation of Gaelic language. _Address:_ Station K., Los Angeles, Calif.

BRIGMAN, MRS. ANNIE W., _b._ Honolulu, Dec. 3. Came to California in young girlhood. Writer of verses to accompany her own artistic photographs. _Address:_ 647 32nd St., Oakland, Calif.

BRININSTOOL. E.A., _b._ Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N.Y., October 11, 1870. Attended common school until 17. In 1887 learned printer's trade. In 1895 came to Calif. In 1900 began to write humorous verse for the Los Angeles Times, Record, Examiner and Express. Since 1905 on Los Angeles Express in editorial paragraphs and a short column of verse and miscellaneous matter, dubbed, "Lights and Shadows." _Address:_ The Express, Los Angeles, Calif.

BROOKS, FRED EMERSON, _b._ Waverly, N.Y., Dec. 5, 1850. _Grad._ Madison (now Colgate) Univ., 1873. Lived in S.F. 1873-1891. S.F. Call styled him California's Celebration Poet. Writer of plays, magazine articles, etc. _Author:_ Old Ace and Other Poems. Pickett's Charge and Other Poems, (both by Forbes & Co., Chicago.) _Address:_ 564 W. 182nd St., New York.

BROWN, HENRY HARRISON, _b._ June 26, 1840, Uxbridge, Mass. _Ed._ at public schools, Nichols Academy at Dudley, Mass., and Meadville, Penn., Divinity School. Began to teach school when he was 17, and with the exception of three years in service during the Civil War continued teaching till he was 30. Preacher in Unitarian churches for 7 years; lectured for 17 years on reformatory topics. _Pub._ in San Francisco from 1900 to 1906, _Now: A Journal of Affirmation_. Is contributor to progressive magazines and lectures extensively. _Author:_ Concentration: The Road to Success. 50c. and $1.00. How to Control Fate Through Suggestion. 25c. Not Hypnotism, But Suggestion. 25c. Man's Greatest Discovery. 25c. Self Healing Through Suggestion. 25c. The Call of the Twentieth Century. 25c. Dollars Want Me: The New Road to Opulence. 10c. _Address:_ "Now" Home, Glenwood, Santa Cruz Co., Calif.

BRUN, SAMUEL JACQUES, _b._ Mime, Province of Gard, France, of Huguenot parents. _Grad._ French Univ. Instructor in French at Haverford College, Cornell Univ., Stanford Univ. Now an attorney. _Author:_ Tableaux de la Revolution (a French reader, 9th ed.) Tales of Languedoc (Folk Lore.) $1.50. _Address:_ 110 Sutter St., and 1467 Willard St., San Francisco.

BRUN, MRS. S.J., nee Hanna Otis, _b._ Auburn, N.Y. Writer for magazines. _Address:_ 1467 Willard St., San Francisco.

BURBANK, BLANCHE M., _b._ West Troy, N.Y. Has lived most of her life in California. Has written poems for the magazines. _Author:_ Reed Notes, 1905. _Address:_ Union Square Hotel, San Francisco, Calif.

BURBANK, LUTHER, _b._ Lancaster, Mass., March 7, 1849. _Ed._ at Lancaster, and in the schools of adversity, Nature, and prosperity. _Author:_ The Training of the Human Plant. _Address:_ Santa Rosa, Calif.

BURBANK, WM. F., _b._ in San Francisco. _Ed._ Oakland High School and State University. Written poems for magazines, etc. _Address:_ Union Square Hotel, San Francisco, Calif.

BURDETTE, ROBT. JONES, _b._ July 30, 1844. Greensboro, Greene Co., Penn. _Grad._ High School, Peoria, Ill., 1861. D.D. Kalamazoo College, 1905. Writer on Peoria Transcript and Evening Review. Writer and afterwards editor Burlington Hawkeye. Large contributor to newspapers and magazines. Pastor Temple Baptist Church, July, 1903, to August, 1909. Resigned through ill health. _Author:_ The Sons of Asaph. The Life of William Penn. Smiles Yoked With Sighs, 1900. Rise and Fall of a Mustache, 1877. Chimes From a Jester's Bells, 1897. _Address:_ Sunnycrest, Orange Grove Ave., Pasadena, Calif.

BURGESS, GELETT, _b._ Boston, January 30, 1866. _Ed._ public schools, Boston. _Grad._ Massachusetts Institute Technology, B.S., 1887. Instructor topo. drawing University of California, 1891-4. Ass. Ed. The Wave, 1894-5. Edited Lark, San Francisco, 1895-7. _Author:_ Vivette, (novelette.) Copeland & Day, 1897. $1.25. The Lively City O'Ligg, (Juvenile.) F.A. Stokes Co., 1899. $1.50. Goops, and How to be Them, (Juvenile.) Stokes Co., 1900. $1.50. A Gage of Youth, (Poems, chiefly from "The Lark.") Small, Maynard & Co., 1901. $1.00. The Burgess Nonsense Book, (Prose and Verse.) Stokes Co., 1901. $2.00. The Romance of the Commonplace. Elder & Shepherd, S.F., 1901. $1.50. More Goops, and How Not to Be Them, (Juvenile.) Stokes Co., 1903. $1.50. The Reign of Queen Isyl. Short stories in collaboration with WILL IRWIN. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903. $1.50. The Picaroons. Short stories in collaboration with WILL IRWIN. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. $1.50. The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne. (Satire and Parody.) Stokes, 1904. 75c. Goop Tales. (Juvenile.) Stokes Co., 1904. $1.50. A Little Sister of Destiny. (Short Stories.) Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904, $1.50. The White Cat. (Novel.) Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1907. $1.50. The Heart Line. (Novel.) Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1907. $1.50. The Maxims of Methuselah. (Satire and Parody.) Stokes Co., 1907. 75c. Blue Goops and Red. (Juvenile.) Stokes Co., 1909. $1.35 net. Lady Mechante. (4-wart Novel.) Stokes Co., 1909. $1.50. _Address:_ 1285 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.

CARR, SARAH PRATT, _b._ Maine, 1850. Taken to California 1852. _Ed._ in public schools of California. Wrote for newspapers and magazines. Short time Unitarian minister. _Author:_ The Iron Way, McClurg's, $1.50. Waters of Eden, run serially in Alaska-Yukon magazine. Billy Tomorrow. (Juvenile book.) McClurg's. _Address:_ The Hillcrest, Seattle, Wash.

CARTER, CHARLES FRANKLIN, _b._ Waterbury, Conn., July 19, 1862. _Grad._ School of Fine Arts, Yale University. Pupil of J. Alden Weir, New York City. Resided in California 1891-95, 1898-1900. _Author:_ The Missions of Nueva California, 1900. The Whitaker & Ray Company. $1.50. Out of print. Some By-Ways of California, 1902. The Grafton Press, New York. $1.25. _Address:_ 232 S. Main St., Waterbury, Conn.

CHARLES, FRANCES, _b._ San Francisco, Cal., April 10, 1872. _Ed._ S.F. public schools. _Author:_ In the Country God Forgot. The Siege of Youth. The Awakening of the Duchess. Pardner of Blossom Range. All by Little, Brown & Co. $1.50 each. _Address:_ 370 26th Ave., Richmond District, San Francisco, Calif.

CHENEY, JOHN VANCE, _b._ Groveland. N.Y., Dec. 29, 1848. _Grad._ Temple Hill Acad., Geneseo, N.Y., at 17. Practiced law, 1875. Came to California in 1876. Librarian Pub. Library, San Francisco, 1887-94. Newberry Lib., Chicago, 1894-1909. _Author:_ The Old Doctor, 1881. Thistle Drift (poems) 1887. Wood Blooms, 1888. The Golden Guess, 1872. That Dome in Air, 1895. Queen Helen, 1895. Out of the Silence, 1897. Lyrics, 1901. Poems, 1905. Editor 3 Caxton Club pubs. _Address:_ 3390 Third St., San Diego, Calif.

CLARK, GALEN, 96 years old. Went to Yosemite in 1853. Known as Father of Yosemite. _Author:_ Big Trees of California: Their History and Characteristics. The Indians of Yosemite: Their History, Customs and Traditions. $1.00. Paper 50c. _Address:_ 216 11th St. Oakland, Calif.

CONNOLLY. JAMES, _b._ County Cavan, Ireland July 12, 1842. In 1852 came to Dennis, Mass. _Ed._ public schools. At 13 went to sea, at 18 second mate, at 21 first mate. Later master. For 18 years has resided at Coronado. Writer of poems and short stories for magazines. _Author:_ The Jewels of King Art. _Address:_ Coronado, Calif.

COX, PALMER, _b._ Granby, Quebec, Can., April 28, 1840. _Grad._ Granby Academy. In 1862 came to San Francisco _via._ Panama. Contributed to Golden Era, Alta California, and Examiner, etc. _Author:_ Squibs of California, 1874. (Later republished as Comic Yarns.) Hans Von Petter's Trip to Gotham. How Columbus Found America. That Stanley. Queer People. All now o.p. Then he invented the Brownies and in quick succession were published The Brownies, Their Book; Another Book; The B.'s at Home; The B.'s Around the World; The B.'s Through the Union; The B.'s Abroad; The B.'s in the Philippines. $1.50 each. The B. Clown in B. Town. $1.00. The B. Primer. 40c. All by Century Co. The B. Calendar, McLoughlin Bros., N.Y. $1.00. Palmer Cox's Brownies. Spectacular play. The B.'s in Fairyland (Children's Cantata.) Also articles in leading magazines. _Address:_ Pine View House, East Quogue, L.I.

DAGGETT, MARY STEWART, _b._ Morristown. O., May 30, 1856. _Ed._ Steubenville, O., Seminary, 1873. Writer for newspapers and magazines. _Author:_ Mariposilla, 1895. The Broad Isle, 1899. _Address:_ Columbia Hill, Pasadena, Calif.

DAVIS, SAM P., _b._ Branford, Conn., April 4, 1850. Newspaper and magazine writer for 40 years. Lecturer and public speaker--also politician. _Author:_ One book Short Stories and Poems, and The First Piano in Camp. _Address:_ Public Industrial Commission, Carson City, Nevada.

DILLON, HENRY CLAY, _b._ Lancaster, Wis., Nov. 6, 1846. _Ed._ public schools and Lancaster Academy. _Grad._ Racine College, 1872 (Gold Medalist, 1870.) Came to California in 1888. Writer of clever short stories and law. Lecturer on Common Law Pleading, etc., University of Southern Calif. _Address:_ Colorado Orchards, Long Beach, Calif., and Los Angeles, Calif.

DONOVAN, ELLEN DWYER, _b._ Castletown, Beara, Co. Cork, Ire. _Ed._ Academy Sisters of Mercy. Came to Calif, and contributor to leading magazines on Art Criticism. Writer of short stories. Will shortly publish a Romance of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. _Address:_ Ashbury St., San Francisco, Calif.

EDHOLM-SIBLEY, MARY CHARLTON, _b._ Freeport, Ill., Oct. 28, 1854. _Ed._ public schools and college. Writer and lecturer on social and economic subjects. Founded Lucy Charlton Memorial for unfortunate women and children, in Oakland. _Author:_ Traffic in Girls. 30c. Sales go to help the Memorial. _Address:_ 904-6 Security Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.

EDWARDS, ADRIADNE HOLMES, _b._ Placerville, Cal., May 7. Student of Grand Opera. Writer and composer of songs. _Author:_ My Nightingale, Sing On (words and music.) O Bonniest Lassie Yet. Enticement. _Address:_ Hotel Hargrave, 112 W. 72nd St., New York.

EMERSON, WILLIS GEORGE, _b._ near Blakesburg, Monroe Co., Iowa, March 28, 1856. _Ed._ district school, Union Co., Ia. Attended Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. Studied law. Admitted to practice in District U.S. and other courts. Taught country school for four years. Platform orator. His speech replying to "Coin" Harvey's Financial School was issued as a Republican campaign document, 1896, and in 1900 over half a million copies of his speech on sound money were circulated throughout the country. _Author:_ Winning Winds, 1901. Fall of Jason, 1901. My Pardner and I, 1901. Buell Hampton, 1902. The Builders, 1905. The Smoky God, 1908. Has written over 100 stories of travel and sketches of mining camps and mountain scenery. _Address:_ Los Angeles, Calif.

EVANS, TALIESIN, _b._ Manchester, Eng., Nov. 8, 1843. _Ed._ private schools England and Wales. _Author:_ Fisher's Advt. Guide to Calif., 1870. Editor and author of Popular History of Calif. (Revised and enlarged. First edition by Lucia Norman), 1883. American Citizenship, 1892. Municipal Government, 1892. _Address:_ 212 Fourth St., Oakland, Calif.

EYSTER, MRS. NELLIE BLESSING, _b._ Frederick, Md. Lived in California since 1876. Active in W.C.T.U., Indian and Chinese mission work. Contributor to magazines. Lost the MSS. of two books in S.F. fire of 1906. _Author:_ Sunny Hours, or The Child Life of Tom and Mary. Chincapin Charlie. On the Wing. Tom Harding and His Friends. A Colonial Boy. A Chinese Quaker. _Address:_ 2618 Hillegass Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

FAIRBANKS, HAROLD WELLMAN, _b._ Conewango, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y., Aug. 29, 1860. _Ed._ State Normal, Fredonia, N.Y. _Grad._ B.S., University Mich., 1890. Ph.D., University Calif., 1896. Engaged in geological and geographical work: State Mining Bureau. 1890-1894. Asst. U.S. Geological Survey, 1897-98. _Author:_ text books: Stories of Our Mother Earth. 60c. Home Geography. Rocks and Minerals. All by Ed. Pub. Co., Boston. Physiography of California. Macmillan. The Western United States. D.C. Heath. Practical Physiography for High Schools. Allyn & Bacon. _Address:_ Arch St., Berkeley, Calif.

FORBES, MRS. A.S.C. (nee Harrye Smith) _b._ Pennsylvania. Came California 1895. Works for re-establishment of El Camino Real. Created and established Nat. Naval Memorial. _Author:_ Mission Tales in Days of the Dons. $1.50. California Missions and Landmarks. 25c. _Address:_ 1104 Lyndon St., South Pasadena, Calif.

GATES, ELEANOR (Mrs. R.W. Tully.) _Ed._ Stanford, Univ. of Calif. Leaped into fame with her first book. Biography of a Prairie Girl, first pub. in Century Magazine. _Author:_ Biography of a Prairie Girl, 1904. The Plow Woman, 1907. Cupid, the Cow Punch, 1908. Good Night, 1908. _Address:_ Alma, Calif.

GUINN, J.M., writer of History of Southern California. Secretary S. Cal. Hist. Soc. Member Los Angeles Board of Education. _Address:_ 5539 Monte Vista St., Los Angeles, Calif.

HART, JEROME ALFRED, _b._ San Francisco. Sept. 6, 1854. _Ed._ Cal. public schools. Asso. editor, 1880-91. editor, 1891-1906. San Francisco Argonaut, to which contributed letters of foreign travel (1887-1904), and translations from French, German, Spanish, etc. Sec. 1880-91, pres. 1891-1906, of The Argonaut Publishing Co. _Author:_ Argonaut Letters, 1900. Two Argonauts in Spain. 1904. A Levantine Log-Book, 1905. Argonaut Stories (edited) 1906. Contributor to magazines, etc. _Address:_ Weyewolde, Santa Clara Co.. Calif.

HIBBARD, GRACE, _b._ Mass. _Ed._ in Mass. _Author:_ Wild Poppies. Moulton, Buffalo, N.Y. $1.00. California Violets. Robertson, S.F. $1.00. Wild Roses of California. Robertson. $1.00. Forget-Me-Nots From California. Robertson. $1.00. Booklets: More California Violets. 25c. California Christmas Songs. 25c. Daffodils. 25c. Songs of the Samisen. 25c. 'Neath Monterey Pines. 25c. Del Monte Oaks. 25c. Santa Claus Cheated, and Other Christmas Stories. Twenty-eight poems have been set to music. _Address:_ Pacific Grove, Calif.