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3. Ambrose Bierce — His awful humor — Fitch 

 and Millard — A great occasion lost — Liter- 

 ary journalists — A grim old fighter 



4. Stebbins, Wendte, and Brown — Voorsanger — 

 Other friendly neighbors — Olney — The Cooper 

 staff — Stallard 



5. Sutro — Valentine and Mills — A strong woman 



— General Lowe — The Mission Inn — A Sac- 

 ramento trio — The Bidwells — A monumental 

 romancer — The Baron of Arizona 



6. Welcome guests — An interesting career — A 

 Bismarckian critic — Lapses from German grace 



— "Primitive" Americans — Our greatest 

 preacher 



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1. Death of the founder — Southern Pacific owners 



— An unforeseen dilemma — In the Probate 

 Court — Leland Stanford's funeral 



2. His early life — ■ General merchant - — • War gov- 

 ernor — Railway builder — The last spike — 

 United States Senator — Kindness of heart — 

 Religious attitude — Freedom from entangle- 

 ments of church or party — Training for useful- 

 ness in life — Value of cooperation — Waste of 

 labor ^- To dignify labor — An open road to edu- 

 cation — Need of competent teachers — Suc- 

 cess not measured by numbers — Equal educa- 

 tion for women — Increase of individual eflfi- 

 ciency — Value of time — Farm loan project 



3. Defect in enabling act — Welton Stanford — 

 The panic of 1893 — Professors as personal 

 servants — The bag of gold — A monthly al- 

 lowance — Contribution by professors — The 

 crisis at Vina — The "freezing out" process — 

 Pioneer reception — Stanch supporters 



4. A staggering blow — Government aid to Cen- 

 tral Pacific — Two valuations — No help from 

 partners — "Stopping the circus" — Favorable 



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