Uncle Sam says it's
all right

Uncle Sam, in the person of ten of his government officials, is always in charge of every
department of our distillery. During the entire process of distillation, after the whiskey
is stored in barrels in our warehouses, during the seven years it remains there, from the
very grain we buy to the whiskey you get, Uncle Sam is constantly on the watch We dare
not take a gallon of our own whiskey from our own warehouse unless he says it's all right.
And when he does say so, that whiskey goes direct to you, with all its original strength, rich-
ness and flavor, carrying a UNITED STATES REGISTERED DISTILLER'S GUARAN-
TEE of PURITY and AGE, and saving the dealers' enormous profits. That's why
HAYNER WHISKEY is the best for medicinal purposes. That's why it is preferred for
other uses. That's why we have over a quarter of a million satisfied customers. That's
why YOU should try it. Your money back if you're not satisfied.

Direct from our distillery to YOU

Saves Dealers' Profits! Prevents Adulteration!

HAYNER WHISKEY

4

PURE SEVEN-YEAR-OLD RYE

$4.00

FULL $4.00 EXPRESS
QUARTS
PREPAID

We will send you FOUR FULL QUART BOTTLES of HAYNER'S SEVEN-
YEAR-OLD RYE for $4.00, and we will pay the express charges. Try it and
if you don't find it all right and as good as you ever used or can buy from
anybody else at any price, send it back at our expense, and your $4.00 will be
returned to you by next mail. Just think that offer over. How could it be
fairer? If you are not perfectly satisfied, you are not out a cent. Better let
us send you a trial order. If you don't want four quarts yourself, get a
friend to join you. We ship in a plain sealed case, no marks to show what's
inside.

If you can use 20 Quarts or can get some of your friends to join you,
we will send you 20 Quarts for $16.00 by Freight Prepaid, thus
saving you $4.00. We have been in business over 36 years and have a
paid-up capital of $500,000.00 so you run no risk.

Write our nearest office and do it NOW.

THE HAYNER DISTILLING COMPANY

HAYNER'S
RYE

SEVEN YEAR OLD

בה

THIRTY-SIX

YEARS OF CONTINUOUS SUCCESS. Just think of what that means. Thirty-six long years in business, each year more successful than the previous one, with never a backward movement, always growing larger, ever in.creasing in popular favor. How many that were doing business 36 years ago are even in existence to-day? Very, very few. In this age of development and fierce competition, a concern must do business right, treat its customers right, and sell what is right, to even hold its own, much less advance. To do otherwise means that the concern of to-day

is likely to be out of the running tomorrow. The graveyard of business failures is full to overflowing. But thirtysix years of continuous success and still growing! Think of it! How has it been accomplished? In just one way. By selling absolutely pure whiskey, direct from our own distillery to the consumer, saving him the enormous profits of the dealers, and carrying out to the letter every statement or offer we make, thereby creating a confidence with our over a quarter of a million satisfied customers that cannot be broken. Read our offer above. The Hayner Distilling Company.

Overland Monthly

AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF THE WEST

DECEMBER, 1902

CONTENTS:

Frontispiece ......"God's mercy, what nyme do ye put to a ship like that?"..488

The Strange Story of the House Opposite.. By Gordon H. Grant
Illustrated by the author.

Christmas in Uncle Sam's Colonial Possessions (illustrated)

.503

...510

Alaska, by J. M. Shawhan; Philippines, by W. O. McGeehan, Hawaii and Samoa, by Franklin Austin; Porto Rico, by Paul G. Miller.

The Manufacture and Application of Glass for Art and Decoration....

Illustrated by photographs.

By William Schroeder

525

The Christmas Keeping of the Lukasgild.. By Charleton Lawrence Edholm..535 Illustrated by the author.

The Mountains and Valleys of Yuba County.. By C. M. Olney
Illustrated by photographs.

.563

.567

HE OVERLAND MONTHLY, an Illustrated Magazine of the West. Entered at the San Francisco, Cal., Postoffice as second-class matter.

The Overland Monthly subscription price is $1.00 a year payable in advance. Foreign sub-criptions, $1.60.

New Subscriptions can commence at any time during the year.

Payment for Overland Monthly, when sent by mail, should be made in a Post-office Money-Order,
Bank Check, or Draft, Express Money-Order or Registered Letter.
Silver sent through the mail is at sender's risk.

Discontinuances. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his magazine stopped. All arre raves must be paid.

Always give the name of the Post-office to which your paper is sent. Your name cannot be found on our books unless this is done.

Letters should be add.essed and drafts made payable to OVERLAND MONTHLY, San Francisco,
California.

For Back Numbers, more than three months old, an additional charge of 5c for each month is made.
F. MARRIOTT, PUBLISHER.
OVERLAND MONTHLY, S. F.

Copyrighted, 1902, by F. Marriott.

THE

The Christmas
Century

HE Christmas number of The Century Magazine is such a splendid, all around Holiday issue that one could take a great amount of space in detailing the contents,―more than you would read. Here, however, are

Three Important features

(Only three out of many)

(1) “The High-Water Mark of Color Reproduction HOWARD PYLE's superb paintings, illustrating "The Travels of the Soul." This is what Mr. Pyle wrote to The Century Co. when he saw the proofs:

"I wish to express to you my great and sincere admiration for the way in which you have reproduced my pictures. I had never hoped to have such really great results. . . . It appears to me that if you print the magazine at all like the proofs, you will have reached the high-water mark of color reproduction. Very sincerely yours.

(Signed)

HOWARD PYLE.”

And there are other color-pictures in the number, with beautiful
illustrations in black and white.

(2) First Chapters of a New Story by the Author of
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"

46

For seven consecutive months one of the six most popular books
in the United States has been "Mrs. Wiggs,"—and with reason,
for it is a book that does the reader good,-you go and get halt
a dozen copies and send them to your friends. "Lovey Mary,"
Miss Hegan's new story, has all the charm of "Mrs. Wiggs," and
that lady herself is one of the characters. It begins in this num-
ber and will continue for four months.

(3) A Most Enlightening Article on

The United States Steel Corporation

Not by way of attack or defense, but just a fair, truthful account
of how and why this great so-called Trust was organized, and how
it carries on its business. Written by Henry Loomis Nelson, and
one of an important series which THE CENTURY is printing on the
different so-called Trusts.

These three features alone are
enough to sell the Christmas Century.

New Subscribers who begin their yearly subscription with this Christmas

number will receive the November number free of charge.

and so begin the volume and ALL THE SERIALS. Price $4.00.

The Century Co., Union Square, New York

1

Don't Forget

That whatever magazine you may se-
lect for yourself for the coming year,

St. Nicholas

NICHOLA

For Young Folks

belongs somewhere in your family.

The best possible Christmas present for a boy or girl is a year's subscription to St. Nicholas Magazine.

St. Nicholas is an illustrated monthly magazine for boys and girls, conducted by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by The Century Co. St. Nicholas is thirty years old! It has become the acknowledged standard of literature for young folks. Possibly you took it when you were young, and know how good it was. It It is just as good as ever-better, some think. teaches the advantages of honesty, truth, and goodfellowship. It goes into the best homes in this country and abroad. Now, are you taking it for your boys

and girls, or the boys and girls in whom you have an interest? If not, why not begin now?

IN 1903 St. Nicholas will have a splendid serial story about King Arthur, writ

ten and illustrated by Howard Pyle, and stories by Miss Alcott (never

before published), and by the author of "Mrs. Wiggs," by Ruth McEnery Stuart, and by many other writers you know and like. And the departments! You do not know about them, perhaps, but the "St. Nicholas League" and "Nature and Science" and "Books and Reading" are the most popular departments ever known in a young folks' magazine.

Our Special Christmas Gift Offer

Let us send you the November and December numbers (November begins the volume, December is the great Christmas Number) and a handsome certificate-these you give at Christmas, and the numbers from January on, for a whole year, go directly to the recipient of your gift. By this offer you get fourteen numbers for the price of twelve. Price $3.00. Subscribe through dealers or remit to the publishers.

Another Suggestion

The next best Christmas gift is a set of the bound volumes of St. Nicholas for the past year. Two beautiful books, crowded from cover to cover with complete stories, pictures, poems, jingles, puzzles-1000 pages of happiness. Sold everywhere, or sent prepaid by the publishers on receipt of $4.00. Send for "An Open Letter," printed in two colors, which tells all about St. Nicholas, and a free sample copy of the magazine.

The Century Co.

Union Square, New York

radievery