Kast thanks McMaster for the gift sent him, "The Book of the Sacred Heart." It is the best prayerbook he has ever read. His club of subscribers is falling away and the two names he encloses are being forced to discontinue their paper because of hard times. Affairs have been greatly unsettled by the communistic principles upon which the anti-Chinese agitation is being conducted and the politicians intend to continue it like that until Grant is elected. Denis Kearny and a few other hirelings are doing their dirty work faithfully and have befogged the judgment of the lower classes so that they do not realize that California is bound hand and foot by the centralized government at Washington, D. C.. Archbishop Joseph S . Alemany of San Francisco has warned the people of these men but thousands of Irish Catholics still listen to their speeches on Sundays in the Sand Lot. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo.