The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1901, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. - T QUEEN OF SCOTS )4 day following the occurrence, when the words reported. But the other guard sa'd public at large still belleved Victoria Re- ' that these were heard only by the ears gina to be In the fullness of her pow- of a.frightened imagination. ers, people who read it sald, “Nonsense, Was it Mary? Mary, the sad Queen? the Queen lives and shall live. This is Elizabeth had signed her death warrant. the tale of a foolish fellow, who babbles Elizabeth had sent her to the seaffold, nonsense.” and she died the bitterest death that ever ‘Within the month all Christendom was Queen dled. watching at her bedside and saw her pass An old manuscript says: “Att last whils y say, Mary has alwavs walked on come and go and no man see them. Christmas eve before the mor When the whilom ruddy old guard was die through his search his cheeks were as thoughts, the guard d white as those of a frightened mald and for his fooiishness. What were his hand shook like the hand of one. He 1? he Gueried. Naught hurried to the outer door and looked up idle minds, to be and down, trying to see some one. It was he could only catch sight of a human ues. Some of n. He would hunt being, he thought, it would dispel the away. one of the executioners held hir streight ( creeps that were settling upon him, bt . 2 % . t was then that some stopped to reflect ly with one of his handes, th v EN T s diar ¢ = a4 HE " 3 2 s, the other gave mbed the :,,z S f:h; 'S, There was nobody about. Duty was upon what the guard had said. two stroakes with an axe before he did st oo, fellow 5. h L = :1’ ty. He was the appointed guard of the It was the same way, they remembered, cutt of hir head. ver, and there was nothing to do but T Some face the night out in the place. end of the when Elizabeth died. The 24th of the pre- “Shee made very smale noyse, no part ceding December was the first time that stirred from the place where shee lay-. outside the windows of Whitshall and ing f tradition of the I s i So until the day dawned. h inied, 4 hich e, <t e s s 1 S0 Wil iy el s et tie ghost had made itself known. The executioners lifted up the head and there ended his story. e ueen Cer - & ‘r\f e o - s of mm 8 nsz1 ”f It was heard then by two watchers, so bade God save the Queen. Then hir The Christmas eve before his éxecution re alwayson ‘"¢ ¢ - Mary @ stening for another sound o! v & ” Sy be had reached the top at ibs 16 Nonasess it the story goes. It walked half the night dressinge of lawn fell from hir heade, 5 woman passing the Tower of London, ceding the 5 s o Aces e g through, and it wailed most horribly. Ths which appeared as gray as if shes had hurrying home late in the night, for she s of England. ©0 s s, h s Cs 1v|lm‘u§h he says now. men clung to one another in terror and been three score and ten veares olde. HIr was alone and timid, heard a long sad =% humping eart, gave it al p: en I heard it I knew that o en’s v ¢ y there ap- death w ‘r I ’-h“- o T o knew not what it meant. face was much altred. Hir lippes stirred ory from the top of the Tower. She % paper an item : @ ," b ; « ‘.‘ within “the year. And Once it spoke, =0 one of them said, but up and down almost a quarter of an hour .,;1d see no light, and when she Inquired > glag-pined o nad No one w s that only last Christmas eve, and she the-other denfed It. *Elizabeth shall die: after hir heade was cutte off.” next day she learned that no one had = — s 1 r;gl ‘1'(-:“1 |In her bed la!rl;shnrn» God she who beheld me captive.” were the Was not this a death that might Inspire p.en known to be in the Tower the pre- rest her soul, on the 22d of Janua . Ol ; ¥ \ Tower of London. A AW (08, ceding night. All entrances wers closed. it wail a sorry monarch for whom the ghost in the Tower."” Since the time of Elizabeth, persecutor or rightful avenger ofs Mary Stuart, whichever she may have be the ghost ha to make itself heard e before the death of Marauders had not been noticed In that eastern end of the city. “Nor did it sound like marauders,” af- firmed the woman. “Sure It sounded more ke the volce of one that is dead and gone. It was far-off like and yet near, and it had the sound of a great trov that there is no remec " of. So tale was told before the death of T v tel:graphed acro: 2 printed in as yet s been ported each Chr the reigning an ol1 wives’ tal Perhaps this is be in m on the wav And yet, do you rgmember when tha 1 again, just eeding sov- guard's story was n forth? On the les and James + i ™ 5 1 Mary in " " B . their turns and Queen Anne in hers. Then ¢ four Georges followed in succession and Willam IV, and always came the warn- - ing. I = It has been the loudest and most ter- ritying when the death was violen toria, loving sovereign, long and peac of reign, was so gently warned one within the Tower, so the gu could have heard the infinite sadness in them, but no ter: “Or there would have been no terror if they had come in the day,” he adds. “It was fearsome like in the night. One allus fears more when it happens than on the day afterward when one thinks it over. It don’t seem now to be anything to run for, but I did want to run when I heard it, that's true enough Ghost or no ghost, Victoria died. THE HOMELY LIFE OF A GERMAN PRINCESS. The Princess Victoria, the only daugh- ter of the Emperor Empress of Ger- many, is being brought up in a homely German fashion. The Emperor said: *“I could wish no better for the men of my nation than that the girls of Germany should follow the example of their their lives, as she dc QUEE: of the three great » Rind . Kuche.” And it may be readily understoo VICTORIA uche.” And it may be rea rs that a woman whose life is bow by her church, children and kitchen will train her daughter in domestic virtues. The little princess knows nothing of 7 Was 2 _ pomp or luxury or self-indulgence. She restlessness in a ghost as it any won- DOED O I i the morning and der that such & vietim should punish her ;) 1 g'clock, the hour when the imperial slayer with grewsome warning? family dines, is busy with her tutors. Her At any rate, Elizabeth died within the year. It was the same way when James I dled. Walkings and wallings were heard, and in March he surrendered the throne which he had held. Then came Charles I. There were politi- cal troubles, he was overthrown. He finally stirred up & fresh civil war and a mind and body are carefully watched over By her mother. Her play hours are as systematically arranged as her study hours. - There were already six sons when this little daughter was born to the house of Hohenzollern,; and the coming of a baby sister was a happy event.. There is row- ing on the lake with her brothers, riding on her pet pony, picnicking in the woods of the park and long botanizing expedi- tions, with her mother as companion, Scottish Invasion in 1648 and his death through the beautiful grounds that sur- followed. He was beheaded on a scaffold round the palace at Potsdam ol @ was ‘crazy to go on the stage’ She had ‘ intelligence, fome talent, handsome WHY HE ST L clothes and a bad case of theatrical fever. The opening n'ght—big house, crowds of F‘Ns her friends, beautiful flowers, great ap- plause, etc. “The next day was Saturday. Matines H'S EAYTH time came—and no girl. We had to fake her part. In the evening she showed up, and when I asked her why she had not To AMATEURS reportdd for the matinee she said jaunt- - , e mammam BARRY CQCORSQO) AN =Y - 2NN\ - Exemy | @& o 2 pEEpS I Rmmy " r-s.N [l <) \ SESPR| g CRRIN TRUTHS- I end of the think they ca 1ly, ‘Why, a lot of my friends came to the house about noon to congratulate me, and they stayed to lunch and I forgot all about the matinee!” “That's all. No apology or anything else. Just forgot to come. “The next week we went on the road—a half-dozen places near Chicago—and the me girl came to me and said: ‘Mr. Clarke, can’t you get along without me for these little towns? There are two or three theater parties arranged for next week and my friends want me to stay and g0 with them.’ “Now, that is a stralght fact. What do you think of it? “Last season I hired a young chap from bad that nothing could have been made of them by anybody, and still others are mediocre, and will never do more than play insignificant parts in obscure organi~ zations. “So you see there are two sides to this amateur question, as there are to every other. And yet thers is just as much trouble with professionals in other ways. “I was trying to find somebody to play the Bishop in ‘Jones.' It was just after I had been up against it hard with some of my amateurs, and I decided to get some- body with experience, that would be com~ petent to jump in and take the part with- out training. % “I sent to a reputable theatrical agency, #rt B 0E “Slach SRl IS bR BN a dramatic school to play a small part in told them exactly what I wanted and a : s Te THNRED 1. the ~What .Happened to Jones’ He was to Man was sent to me—guaranteed to be Al 5 n to ‘go home Join the company in Arkansas. Just be- He looked like a divinity student and I S fore he reached us my juvenile lead was Was tickled to death. swe and kick am two wee performance “1 took a society girl in Chicago whe EDITH HINKLE FADNOR. COOVER POTD taken sick,and when the new fellow came I gitve him the part. It was sixty pages long, and I tol2 him to tie a towel filled with cracked ice on his head and dig. He dld. At the end of twenty-four hours he was letter perfect, and he made more out of the part than I dreamed he could. “But when my juvenile lead got well and came back that new man was so swelled up he raised a horrible row at the idea of filling the part I had hired him for. cessfully in first-class companies in vari- oue parts of the country. Others were 8o “I showed him his part. He glanced it over and then spoke for the first time, in these scholarly words: ‘It's too much. It I'd ever saw'd .de part I wouldn't a touched it And there you are. “It isn’t amateurs alone, you see, that are disappointing. In the long run the manager gets it in the neck from all of them. And my experience—which I admie has been varied for its length—has shown me . that in nearly all cases it is ‘do the other fellow while heddoes you, in the far as “These are just a few of many in- mv"\;‘;:r:’:p:; ",r‘l;’:"_‘:"(j";e" o4 ;T"':“ they are ot £ ) y Corson . Clarke sat to show Sapom e that 1 have trained have yp gown, took a long drink of milk and 3 turned out well and are now playing suc- proceeded to muneh a plece of molasses taffy to help him forget bis managerial troubles.