The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1901, Page 6

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(Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2618.) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. . .....Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . 30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Cc.; Great Northern ‘Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C,) OFFICE. . ..1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—I2T M ..DECEMBER 21, 1901 Union Square; tgomery, corner of Clay, open until $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until $:30 o'clock. 191 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, cpen until § o'clock. 109 Valencia, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen until 3 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § . m. AMUSEMENTS. Grand Opera-house—*"Diplomacy.” California—""Rip Van Winkle.’ Tivoli—"Little Red Riding Hood.” Central—**Muldoon’s Picnie.” Alcazar—*"The Gay Mr. Lightfoot.” Columbia—*'A Royal Rogue.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Paseball. Central Park—Vasco Ball Game. Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. W Layng—Saturday, December 21, at 11 o'clock, By Wm. G. Trotting Stock, at 721 Howard street. o= A DISSOLVING CABINET. ESPITE Presicdent Roosevelt's announcement D that he would carry out the policy of Mc- Kinley, and despite his earnest efforts made 2t the time he took office to induce McKinley's Min- isters to remain and assist him in the task, the Cabi- ret is dissolving rapidly. If all reports from Wash- ington be true it is probable there will be virtually if ot absolutely a new Cabinet in office before the close of this session of Congress. Rumor has been busy with stories of discord be- tween the new President and the Cabinet officers. It has been said that several of them do not like his methods of doing business. Reports have been given out that this or that Secretary is displeased because the President confers directly with subordinates when he wishes information concerning certain phases of work in their department instead of making+ his inqujries through the Secretary himselfi. Some of these stories and reports may have a partial founda- tion, but it is safe to say all such are exaggerated and none are wholly true. Even should all the predicted changes in the Cabinat take place, there would be no occasion for resorting to such rumors to find an ex- planation of them. It is well known that at the close of the first term of McKinley there were common reporfs that there would be a great many changes in the Cabinet at the beginning of the new term. These reports were founded upon the well-known desire of several mem- bers of the Cabinet to retire at that time. Secretary Gage, for example, remained only because of the ur- gent desirc of his chief, and there were others who were influenced in ths same way. It is natural that these men should not feel the same obligation to Roosevelt as to their former chief. Their private in- terests are large, and they may well feel that it will be no more than what is right ifithey now turn the public service over to the new ai ration and set zbout looking after their own al The relations of a President to Cabinet are necessarily very close. There ought tofexist between them something of personal congeniality as well as of political harmony. Under such cifcumstances the retirement of members of the Cabinet does not imply any real antagonism between them and the Presi- dent. It has been the clear intention of the opposition to arouse factional strife in the Republican party if it can. Almost every day brings a new story of dis- cord between the President and some prominent Re- publican. We have been told that he has disagreed with Hanna, with Platt and with Fairbanks of In- diana. Whenever a Cabinet officer intimates a de- sire to return to private life, or a Senator does not obtain exactiy the patronage he wishes, the story goes forth that the President is alienating his party. There is no reason why the intelligence of the coun- try should be disturbed by such reports. The present Cabinet may dissolve as quickly as some of thz Washington dispatches forecast, but the harmony be- tween the Republican majority in Congress and the administration will continue unbroken. s e e A Minnesota schoolboy who was getting up in- formation for his side of a school debate wrote to the Secretary of War to ask whether Miles or Merritt is the better general; and, while the inquiry seems im- pertinent, it shows that the boy has the making of a good newspaper man in him, for he goes to the right place to get the kind of information that would be most interesting to the public. Eastern papers announce the coming production of an American grand opera by an American com- poser with an American prima donna, so now let the world be still and listen and it will hear something doing on the Atlantic coast. It is stated that all the linen used in the White House this year will be the work of Porto Rico women, and thus does the baby colony get its little industries known to the country at the first jump. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBEBI 21, 1901, FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE. - OLLOWING the strenuous contests between F labor and capital during the past summer and fall there has come a movement designed to prevent the recurrence of such disastrous antagon- isms in the future. The committee appointed at the recent conference in New York gives promise that the hope of those who desire peace will be fulfilled. It is composed of men who are in the fullest sense representative of labor, of capital, and of the conser- vative spirit of the nation at large. That it will have a potent moral influence at all times when it chooses to exert itself to prevent strikes or lockouts is beyond question, and that in itself will go far toward achiev- ing the desired end. . It is not the intention of the committee to consider or discuss any of the relations of capital and labor as abstract propositions. It will deal only with specific appeals which may be made from time to time and wil.l act upon those as practical issues and not with any intention of formulating theoretical principles. It will be, in fact, a set of practical men organized to deal with industrial disputes between employers and employes, and will do its work in a business way, having no o object than that of clearing up such misunderstandings.as may exist between the contend- ing parties. That the work of such a committee will prove bene- ficial appears almost inevitable. In his address to the conference John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, said: “I have never seen a strike that could not have been averted if the two interests had met fairly in.advance.” The statement is the more impressive because it comes from a man who has probably seen more strikes than any other man of his age in the country. It reveals clearly how large a field there is for the work of a committee which will have sufficient moral force back of it to well nigh compel both sides to confer fairly before either ven- tures upon a lockout or a strike. On the day after its appointment the committee or- ganized as “The Industrial Department of the Na- tional Civic Federation.” It defined its purpose by declaring: “The scope and province of this depart- ment shall be to do whatever may seem best to pro- mote industrial peace, to be helpful in establishing rightful relations between employers and workers, by its good offices endeavor to obviate and prevent strikes and lockouts, to aid in renewing industrial re- | lations where a rupture has ocgurred®” For the purpose of carrying out thg work pro- posed the committee, either as a whole or through subcommittees, will “act as a forum to adjust and de- cide upon questions at issue between workers and their employers, provided in its opinion the subject is one of sufficient importance.” It is to be specially noted that the committee declares “it will-not consider abstract industrial problems,” and “assumes no pow- ers of arbitration unless such powers be conferred by both parties to the dispute.” Here, then, we have a committee of national im- portance undertaking the task of making sure that there shail be no great strike until after a fair con- ference between the contending parties has been had. It exerts no power other than that which eman- ates from moral influerce, but it is well known that in this country that power is great. It is fairly cer- tain public opinion will not sustain any party to an industrial controversy which would refuse to heed a call of the Industrial Department of the National Civic Federation summoning it to a conference. We need not indulge all the sanguine hopes ex- pressed by some of the members of the conference to recognize that a great force making for the general good has been established. It will not be able to prevent strikes and lockouts altogether, but it will help materially to that end. The work is in the hands of strong and resolute men, and in every well de- vised action they take they will have the support of a vast majority of the people. L H. Gaylord Wilshire, the ®publisher of one of the fake periodicals which under the new ruling have been denied the privilege 0f transmission through the mails as second class matter, has removed him- self and his publication to Canada, and thus does the new rule benefit this country to a far greater extent than was expected. THE TARIFF AND THE TRUSTS. ONGRESSMAN PAYNE of New York has ‘ contributed to the current number of the In- ternational Monthly a review of the relation of trusts to tariffs in this country and in the prin- cipal nations of Europe. The article is directed to an examination of the arguments of those who hold that trusts are the outcome of protective tariffs, that they are more numerous arnd more powerful in this coun- try than elsewhere, and that the best means of break- ing such monopolies as they establish is to expose them to the competition of free trade. Mr. Payne points out that the protective system has built up the industries of the United States, has es- tablished them upon a basis of home competition, has so stimulated American mechanical skill and energy that we are now by far the foremost industrial nation on the globe, and has raised our workingmen to a standard of living far higher than is enjoyed by the workers of any other people. He cites many illus- trations of the good effects of protection in develop- ing in this country important industries that could never have been maintained here under a system of iree trade. By reason of the profits assured to indus- try through the tariff there has arisen a competition among manufacturers engaged in those industries, and the result has been a general lowering of prices to consumers without lowering wages. Having thus set forth the benefits of protection he proceeds directly to the question of the relation of tariffs to trusts. He furnishes a long array of facts gathered from consular reports showing that trusts exist in every important nation in the world, despite the variation in their tariffs. They exist and flourish where there is free trade as well as where there is protection. Great Britain, for example, has an al- most unlimited freedom of trade, and yet, as Mr. Payne says: “Next to Germany Great Britain seems to lead the world in the extent to which its industries are under the control of trusts. These combinations are so frequent over there as to excite little attention or interest. They control almost every branch and kind of industry. To give any detailed account of their extent, or the various branches of manufacture they control, would require more space than is ac- corded to a magazine article, These trusts are or- ganized under the incorporation laws, and also as a combination of many firms. ticles covered by trusts in Great Britain are imported free of duty would seem to indicate that the tariff in Great Britain is not the mother of trusts.” The conclusion of the whole argument is this: “A protective tariff tends to foster and build up com- petition. Every successful corporation which is | launched in a particular busi‘less, great or small, is The fact that all ar-- 1 an incentive to the holders of the abundant capital which now exists in this country to engage in a sim- ilar branch of business. This is having its effect every day. * * * The main hope of destroying trusts, or rendering their operations harmless, is in the competition which results from the natural laws of trade, fostered when needed by the protective tariff.” While there is nothing in this argument that is new to those who have studied the subject, the article has yet a special value because of the array of facts brought to sustain it. It is also pertinent to the time, since under the leadership of men like Con- gressman Babcock there has been started a move- ment to break down the protective system under the pretense that by such action it will be possible to pre- vent the formation of monopolistic trusts. So long as that agitation goes on a clear presentation of the | truth concerning the tariff and the trusts cannot be too frequently made. Our industries rest upon pro- tection, and if that be withdrawn we may destroy our domestic trusts indeed, but nearly all local industries | will_go with them, and we shall fall into the hands of foreign trusts, against which no home competition will avail anything A statistician estimates that if all the armies of Europe were drawn up in a long procession, with their artillery, baggage-wagons and other equip- ments, the line would extend for upward of 24,000 miles, or virtually form a continuous array all round the globe; and that is the kind of military ring the workingmen of Europe have to support. e ———— A Conservative Clubs in Great Britain there was adopted a resolution declaring: “That for the better security of the nation Parliament should con- sider what measures can be taken for the preserva- tion and continuance of our iood supply in case of complications with otker powers.” To Americans the resolution may not mean much, but in Great Britain it is taken as a preliminary step toward a campaign of education in favor of protect- ing British agriculture. The object of the resolution is to get a committee appointed to investigate the food supplies of the country. It is believed the in- vestigation will disclose the serious danger of star- vation in which many thousands of people in Great Britain would be placed by a war which would BRITAIN’S FOOD SUPPLY. T a recent meeting of the National Union of threaten her supremacy on the sea and interfere with | the importation of food. With such a showing, based upon official statistics, the agriculturists will go be- fore the ccuntry and ask for a protective tariff on wheat and other foodstuffs sufficiently high to render profitable their cultivation at home. A programme of that kind has to be approached cautiously. The British have come to regard free trade with something like a superstitious reverence, and any Jirect attack upon it would doom to defeat the candidate who made it. Moreover, a tariff duty on wheat and farm produce generally would be a tax on bread and meat. It would be literally what the German workingmen are calling the new German tariff, “a hunger tax.” The British workingman would not support it for a day, unless it can be proven to him that he runs the risk of starvation in case of war if he do not consent to’pay the cost of food- raising at home. This is perhaps as good a time as any to make such an appeal for a return to the corn laws. The British people are by no means so sure of themselves as they were a few years ago. Many of the manufacturers whose predecessors led the free trade movement un- der the leadership of Cobden and Bright are begin- ning to feel the need of protection for their own in- dustries, and consequently will be much more inclined | to listen favorably to the plea of the land-owners than they were a few yvears ago. The cautiousness with which any suggestion of tariff duties is approached shows there is no party in Great Britain willing as yet to include protection in its political programme, but none the less the move- ment toward a resumption of protection is unmis- takable.- The number of those who frankly declare for it is increasing, and it would seem to be a mat- ter of but a comparatively few years when one party or the other will make it an issue and win. Secretary Gage has recommended the repeal of what are known as the “miscellaneous war taxes.” He says “they are in their nature vaxatious, in some instances oppressive, and separately considered yield but small revenue.” The recommendation suits the country and Congress should live up to it. AN FRANCISCO has undertaken by voluntary subscription to erect two monuments, one to prises of patriotism should be kept in mind during the holiday, giit-giving season. Why should not each one OUR MONUMENT FUNDS. S Lincoln and one to McKinley. These enter- in proportion to his means contribute something of 'his holiday money to one or both of the funds, which are designed for the double purpose of attesting our veneration for the martyred Presidents and of adorn- ing our city with artistic memorials? The McKinley fund is growing apace. It has al- ready reached very nearly the sum of $30,000. The Lincoln fund has not yet been so well supported, though equally deserving. There is of course a rea- son for the difference in the popular contributions to the two enterprises. The death of McKinley is still acutely felt as the supreme tragedy of the year. The hearts of all are still vibrating with personal memo- ries of the President who was so cruelly shot down in the very midst of an assembly of the people whom his statesmanship hall helped to render prosperous. On the other hand the memory of Lincoln has be- come weakened by the lapse of time. He is not a part of the life of this generation as McKinley was,” and hence there is no such sense of personal loss when we recall his death. Naturally the people fol- low the stronger impulse, and their contributions have been mainly to the fund designed to erect a monument to the President who is personally remem- bered. We ought to have each of these funds completed as soon as possible. A little contribution to each would be no heavy burden upon any one at this glad season of the year. Where all give something no one need give' much. The gifts, moreover, would not be for toys soon to be broken or for presents for a mere holiday gladness, but would remain in the city as permanent additions to its artistic and patriotic treasures. We have undertaken the two monuments. Let us fulfill our undertaking. 3 The Philippine tariff bill went through the House of Representatives like wheat through a shoot, but when it gets to the Senate it will have to pass through a grjnding process, and not until that is fin- ished will we know what the grist is to be. /LOSES A COMMISSION E \ FOR JILTING FIANCE ., - : % PORTRAITS OF MISS REBECCA DOUGLASS AND CAPTAIN W. P. | CRAWFORD OF CHESTER, 8. C. SECRETARY ROOT DENIED A COMMISSION TO LATTER FOR BREAKING HIS ENGAGEMENT. - X3 & S of the United States. declded did not justify the refusal. ding. H The South Carolina Senator PERSONAL MENTION. J. S. Childs of Redding is at the Palace. H. H. Knapp, a banker of Napa, is at the Palace. Ross C. Kline, coast representative of the Wabash road at Los Angeles, s at | the Grand. P. L. Flanigan, a mining man of Reno, Nev., is at the Grand. L. A. Grant, a railroad contractor of | Los Angeles, s at the Palace. | F. G. Ostrander, District Attorney of Merced County, is at the Lick. { Judge Frank H. Short of Fresno arrived last evening and is at the Palace. D. E. Dittmar, editor of the Mining News of Redding, is at the Grand. Theo Winters, a well known horse raiser of Washoe, Nev., is at the Russ. E. B. Willis, managing editor of the Record-Union of Sacramento, is at the Ru: W. B. Clapp of the United States Geo- logical Survey has returned from Los An- geles and is at the Occidental. F. W. Buskirk, assistant general pas- senger agent of the Erie roads, with head- quarters in Chicago, left last evening for Coronado. Orlando Harriman, brother of E. H. Harriman, president of the Southern Pa- | cific Company, arrived yesterday and is | at the Palace. Sanford F. de Ved, a United States Marshal of Elmira, N. Y., is at the Pal- ace. He brought a Chinaman from the | BEast who is to be deported. Thomas Turnbull, representing the in- dustrial interests of California before the Congressional Industrial Commission, re- turned yesterday from Washington, where he had been to make an officfal report. ———— A CHANCE TO SMILE. “The White House has just received two coats of paint.” “Has it? What color?” | Customer—See here, waiter, I found a button in this salad. ‘Waiter—Yes, sir; that's part of the dressing.—Philadelphia Record. “Oh, Miss Simpkins, when you smile on { me I'm in the seventh heaven.” “Well, Mr. Hopkins, that's no great ele- vation according to- the way buildings are put up now.”’—Chicago Record-Herald. Nell—I suppose she’s long and lanky, just the same as ever. Belle—Not at all. You know she recent- 1y came into a fortune. She's “divinely tall” now.—Philadelphia Record. “But your franchise is not properly as- sessed,” suggested the citizen. “That's all you know about it,” an- swered the street railway man; “the Al- | dermen taxed us the limit price when we | got it.”—Chicago Post. S S L Cholce candies, Townsend’s, Palace Hotel.* —— e Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's* pat o i Al bt Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per ib at Townsend's. * —_———— Thousands of pounds of Califorhia glace | —_—— Townsend's famous broken and plain mixed candy, 2 1bs 25c. 639 Market street.* ———————— Time to express Townsend's California glace fruits to your Eastern friends. * B Thousands of fire-etched boxes to select | from at Townsend's, 627 Market, Palace.® ————— Useful Christmas present—finest eye- glasses, specs, 20c to 40c. 81 Fourth street, front of barber and grocer. . ————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men Ly t Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. . —————— Two-pound handsome fire-etched box of California Glace Fruits, express charges prepald to Chicago, New York and East- ern points, $1.35. Time to send now. Thou- | Sands ot packages ready. 63 Market st. * ——— For the Writing Desk. Leather Bound Silver Mounted Blotters, Desk Sets, Ink Stands, Lap Tablets, Lia- ! ries, Calendars, Papeterfes, Gold Mounted ! Pen Holders and Penclls make inexpens- ive, beautiful and useful 'Christmas pres- ents. Greatest variety and best values at Sanborn, Vail & Co.'s, 741 Market st. * i el All a man has to do to make a girl think she is having a desperate flirtation with him is to ask her what he ought to do to show women his ideals are different from other men’s. “The Overland Limited,” via Unicn Pacific R. R., is the only train making connection in Chicago with the fast Express Trains leaving Chicago in the morring for New York. By this Route You can remain in San Francisco until 10 a. m., reaching Chicago six hours | quicker than on any other Limited Train. This train runs Every Day in the Year. D. W. Hn;m:mk. Gen. Agt.. No. 1 Montgomery st.. 8 F. fruits ready for shipping. Townsend's. * ECRETARY ROOT recently decided that the man who jilts his flancee with- out excellent reasons therefor may not receive a commission in the army The Secretary reached this conclusion in the case of Captain W. P. Crawford of Chester, 8. C., whom he found appointment to a lleutenancy In the regular service because he refused to marry ‘Miss Rebecca Douglass of the same place, giving reasons which the Secretary he could not recommend for Secretary Rcot has had the matter under consideration for several months. When Miss Douglass heard that Crawford, who had won a captaincy in volun- teer service in Cuba and the Philippines, was an applicant for a commission she induced her friends to interest Senator McLaurin in her behalf. that Crawford had jilted her without cause almost at the hour set for the wed- She asserted laid the facts before the Secretary and also the President, and the application was held up pending an investigation. Crawford was called upon for an explanation, but he said he preferred to lose the commission to explaining to the Secretary why he had broken the engage- ment. He said, however, he had explained very fully in a letter to the young woman’s mother, and that he had no objection to having the Secretary see that letter if Miss Douglass’ mother would consent. Three weeks ago Mrs. Douglass was asked if she would submit that letter to the Secretary. To-day she answered by sending Crawford’'s explanaflon. -After the Secretary considered the matter for a few hours he announced that he would not recommend Crawford for appofntment. even a hint of the reason given by Crawford for the jilting. The Secretary declined to disclose ANSWERS TO QUERIES. EGGS—S., City. It requires two hours and a half to digest raw eggs, three hours to digest soft-boiled and three and a half hours to digest hard-boiled eggs. MEXICO—G. W. Z., Placerville, Cal. The American Consul at the City of Mexico is Andrew D. Barlow. Communicate with the Consul for the information about the firm you ask about. COINS—G. F., L#s Gatos, Cal. In the long list of coins submitted but one com- mands a premium, and that is the. gold dollar of 1861, for which dealers offer a premium of 20 cents, AIRSHIP—O. A. R., Bullion, Nev. The work of building the airship near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco has been dis- continved for some time for want of funds to continue the same. CORDUROY—Derwent, San Mateo, Cal. If you have a white corduroy waist that has become soiled you had better send it to some professional cleaner, as by try- Ing to clean it yourself you will in all probability ruin it. Corduroy has to be cleaned the same as white velvet, and great skill is required to do that properly. BOOKS AND COIN—E., Evergreen, Cal. An arithmetic of 1715 and a copy of the John Bell Magazine of 1813 have no mar- ket value and are worth only what one desiring such would be willing to pay. ‘What is the value of a coin of 1806 hav- ing stamped upon it Georgius III D. G. Rex?"” cannot be answered, as there were many denominations of George III coins in that year and the inquiry does not classify it. HOMESTEAD-J. A. Plymouth, Cali- fornja. If a man file on a homestead, lives there several months with his fam- ily, then moves away taking with him his family and household effects, making his home elsewhere for a year or even six months, he forfeits his rights to the homestead. Temporary absence to earn a living does not break the continuity of residence, for a man may absent himseif five months in the aggregate each year to €arn money to improve the homestead. The law is that if it is proved to the satisfaction of the land department that a_ settler has changed his residence or abandoned the land embraced in his homestead entry for more than six months at any time, such entry will be canceled and the land revert to the Gov- ernment. GOSSIP FROM LONDON WORLD OF LETTERS ——— 1 The taste for the publication of lova letters seems a widespread one at the present day. It has sufficed for the r mor to get abroad that the correspond ence of George Sand with her two m famous lovers—Alfred de Musset ar Chopin—were to be published. Thi caused quite a pleasurable tremor of ticipation among the circulating libraries It appears, however, that the rumor partly premature, partly false. Georg Sand her#elf confided her correspondence with Alfred de Musget to Emile Auca to be published at an opportune moment, which apparently ghas not yet arri Her letters to Chopin, which wer2 re- turned to her by Alexandre Dumas iil she, like a wise woman, cogfided to ti flames. The letters which Mme. Maurice San collated shortly before her recent death and which are about to be given to the world, contain, it is true, some of D« Musset’s, but these are not in the leas love letters, in company with letters from some of George Sand’s other famous cor respondents, such as Victor Hugo, F\auy bort, Barbes and Saint-Beuve. It is reck oned that they should form an interesti commentary on their ideas of the events of part of the nineteenth century, such as Voltaire's correspondence gives of the eighteenth. Most Popular Novels. Now that most of the recent works of leading novelists are in the hands of the reading public it may be interesting to hear what books are being most widely read on this side. From inquiries of some of the principal libraries it -seems, as of course might have been expected, that Hall Caine's “HEternal City” is in most demand, but— and there is a very decided “but” in this case—most librarians consider the popu- larity of Hall Caine’s book only moment- ary. One of the leading West End libra- rians says: ‘“While it is true that “Eternal City’ is in most demand at pres- ent there can be no doubt that its popu- larity is but a fleeting one. It represen only the requirements of a class of r ers which is both uneritical and fick rarely exercising a conscious preferen and content with obtaining the best ad- vertised article of the day. “Among the more discriminating read- ers the most popular novels are Richard Calmady,’ ‘Tristram of Ble and ‘Kim.’ In a very short time the “Eternal City’ will be as much torzoucr» as the ‘Master Christian,’ which it had) now supplanted.” Now, take the opinion of ome of the chief librarians of the East End, where literary tastes are usually of quite a d ferent stamp.. Here again in this c opinion is quite the same as in the Wes “The ‘Eternal City’#s certainly one of the books most asked for, and is the most frequently available for issue, be- cause it is of such an absorbing and ex- citing nature that people sit up all nig to finish it. At any rate it is pretty res- ularly returned the day after issue. Con- sidering its length approaches to that o the Bible, this is a tribute to its pop ity in one way and a proof that curlosity is soon quenched. The same may be said of all the long problem novels which ap- pear. They are taken out because they are boomed and talked about and are promptly returned. So in this way novel of the ‘Master Christian’ type receive quite a fictitious record of popularity and are .to be found at the top of long lisis of novels arranged in the order of their so-called popularity.” Volume About Bacon. Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup of Amer- jca is ot to be allowed to make a ‘“cor- ner in Bacon.” 4 There is to appear shortly through the firm of Grant Richards a volume enti- tled “The Tragedy of Sir Francis Bacon.” It is an appeal by Harold Bayley for fur- ther investigation and research into many questions at issue. Broadly it advan that Bacon was assoclated with an actu society known superficially to history the “Rosicrucians”; that the object this fraternity of learned men was the advancement of knowledge chiefly by the preparation of instructive and elevating literature; that the books so published were secretly hallmarked. This brings us to the Elizabethan Re- naissance, which is here put to the credit of the “Rosicrucians.” As to the Bacon-Shakespeare contro- versy, it is a deplorable trulsm, says Bay- ley, that we English people know no: ing or next to nothing of one who was perhaps our noblest countryman, Francis Bacon, instead of being rightly revered or even respected, is to the majority but little more than a dishonored name. It is even more deplorable that as day by day new writers come forward with fresh facts their evidence is unheeded or cried down. ———— If any other woman talked about the man a girl iy engaged to the way she does, she would never forgive her with her dying breath. e —— EMMA CALVE TELLS THE STORY OF HER l EXPERIMENTS IN THE OCCULT. PGS . SAN FRANCISCO’S FIRST FIRE LASSIE. Ceelidptasimed . CHRISTMAS AT DICKEY’S. 1 | THE SIGNS IN THE STARS. (Pick out the date of your birth and read your for- tune in next Sunday’s Call). THE LITTLE JAP GIRL AND HER DOLL. SOCIETY LADIES POSE AS MADONNAS. THE BEAUTY QUEST. | Article IT—How to Cultivate Beautiful Curves. THE STORY OF THE SPEDLIN GHOST. '20—PAGES HUMAN INTEREST STORIES—20 | | it | f | I