The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1903, Page 6

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WRIGHT, United States Com- { mi Labor, states that during the past year the rate of wages in the country genera was higher than ever before in our history Simultaneous with that statement come reports New York, Chicago and other large centers of an wage for the new year. ioner of from in several of our largest industries We have therefore to rejoice over ease of a condition for present good that promises a greater good to cor Mr. Wright e s that it is not easy to sum up wages as e owing to the complexities and large | variations ¢ 1 that exist in our wage system He pomts « t the investigations of the coal coa] miner is at once an strike have st , since he has men working vages. Then there are ies from which no exact Thus it is dif- ve n exact conclusion of the total but, taking the entire country, enough is o justify the statement that wages during the reflected the prevailing prosperity evel never before attained whom he pays Zdus are received. tak vear and ed a ior to.l st year the wage rate reached its high- point in 1892 est 1803 did not lower the rate of wages except in a few cases. Its effect was mainly siiown in the closing of The depreséion that followed in industries and-the discharge of workingmen the industries continued they paid, as a rule, the same rate of wages as before. After the revival of industry the few employers who had reduced wages raised them- again, and the fact was heralded as a rise in wages, while as a matter of fact it was simply a restoration of the old rate. Since that time, how- ever, there has been a genuine rise. Mr. Wright says: “During the, last two or three years wages in many industries have been increased over the rates of 1892, while the great bulk of the industries that reduced wages in 1803-96 have fully restored them. The in- crease in railroad, steel mill and other operatives’ Where wages recently made by several companies is a notable evidence of the upward tendency, at which we all re- joice.” News of a further 2dvance in wages came on New Year's day from several of the largest railway com- panies in the country, and also from many of leading corporations handling great industries. the An- other notable item of news of the same day that may | be referred to in this connection is the announcemen that the United States Steel Corporation purposes to inaugurate a system ‘whereby the employes of the sompany may become stockholders and share in the profits and dividends. .There are at present upward of 55000 stockholders in: the corporation, ‘and ‘the new movement Will of course. largely increase their number. Thus in the end the great trust, so far from giving 2 few men a monopoly of that industry, will enroll among its proprictors and beneficiaries a larger number of persons than ever could have shared in it under the old rule. It is to be noted that in nearly every case the rise in wages of last year and of the new. year has been due to a voluntary act on the part of the employers. There have been strikes, of course, and some of them have been of great magnitude, but still as compared with the country as a whole the largest strike, even that of the anthracite miners, is but a " little thing. The upward tendency of wages has been met by the great mass of employers with a willing spirit and the labor of the country has been given a fair chare in the gerieral prosperity. Our situation in that respect is the more notable A. Brentapo, 21 TUnion Square; | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1903. CALIFORNIA’'S PROSPECTS. ALIFORNIA fronts the new year with high ‘ expectations, and the year responds by prom- ises of a realization of nearly all that the most ! sanguine expect. In fact, our conditions of every kind | are so excellent that it will be mainly our own fault if we do not achieve a prosperity this year that will surpass cven the record of the year that has just closed. It seems evident that good work will win | in every line of endeavor during the next twelve {nomhs, for there is no menace of any outward force coming to inflict disaster on a single industry ér a single aspiration. We have had early winter rains in abundance, so | { that there is now fair assurance of the coming of | | good crops for all who sow the right seed and prop- | erly cultivate it. OQur farms, pastures, orchards, vine- | | yards and gardens may be counted on to _yield abundantly in response to the care of the workers, and doubtiess next fall we shall be rejoicing in rich | revenues from their manifold and various crops. There is, furthermore, a promise of good prices for | every kind of product, for the people of the East are ! | prosperous, wages are high, the demand for labor is abundant, and almost every home will be able to | consume more or less of the fruits, wines, nuts, raisins !and oils that we have for sale. Thus the outlook for rural prosperity is exceedingly. bright, and it is wellf known that when the country prospers the city | | | lpudding from Londor. to Hongkong by quick mail !advocates of a sensible system of parcels delivery by 'Ior 3s, you cannot éet one delivered in Southern Rhodesia under 7s 6d—a state of things that surely clamors for explanation. To the Transvaal the tariff is 3s 4d. Hongkong we generally reckon among the uttermost ends of the earth, so Mr. Chamberlain might tell us how he manages to get his ‘puddings there for 1s 6d.” ‘While there is clearly something wrong in such strange differences in the cost of transporting pud- dings through the postoffice of the empire, the Ameri- can will be of the opinion that the Briton should re- joice rather than growl over the situation. It would be a blessing to us if we could send plum puddings or any other article of similar weight and nature through a parcel post to our home localities at any- thing like the price. To be able to send a plum and in security for about 36 cents is really something to brag of and not to growl about. In this country it will cost nearly that much to send a pudding fifty miles. The issue is the more interesting to us because there come reports that the express companies, not content with fighting every effort to establish a domestic par- cels post on anything like a useful scale, are now trying to bring about a repeal of the parcels post arrange- ment with Germany. In the meantime, however, the post in this country are not'idle. - Sooner or later we shall have a parcels post system equal to that of any | prospers. i Rumors of railway extensions toward California | are so rife that it is fairly certdin the year will brir_lgg ,us 2 good deal of improvement in our rmnsport;b; | tion facilities. Moreover, the existing lines are being | | improved, their terminal facilities augmented and | their equipment increased. With better methods of | transportation there ought to come a reduction in freight rates and better commercial facilities of evcry{ kind, so that all our industries may reasonably coumi upon enlarged markets and easier access to existing | markets. That, of course, will mean a benefit to the | community as a whole. ! The increasing use of oil fuel and the improving | methods of handling it will tend to advance ourf manufacturing enterprises, and it may be that this| ! year will mark the-beginning of many an industry | .(hat' will eventually grow into an enterprise of gre:n} magnitude. The increasing development of electric | power generated among the waterfalls of the moun- tains will also add to our manufagturing capacities and help forward the general nm\me in that direc- tion. We have reached in mining and in rural indus- | tries a higher level than any other State, and it will be highly gratiiying when we can begin to measure up with the larger States of the Fast in the manufac- | ture of our raw material and the maintenance of highly diversified urban industry Among the minor factors that will tend to our| benefit we may probably count the pure food bill re- cently passed by the House and now beiore the Sen- | ate. Tts enactment is still somewhat doubtiul o a wing to the shortness of the session, but should it pass the result is sure to be beneficial to our producers of | pure fruits, oils and wines. The sale of Californid products of that kind is largely hampered noie by ! the sale in the East oi.so much comparatively worth- less stuff marked as “California” products. - The passage and enforcement of the pure food law will be a marked benefit to every producer and manufac- turer of pure articles of food or drink, and of course California will reap her sharé of the beneficial re. | sults, The year may also seethe beginning in earnest of the work of providing irrigation for the vast arid re- gions to the east of us, and also the beginning of the.| work of constructing: the isthmian canal. - The very | inauguration of those great' undertakings will ‘be 3 stimulus to California enterprises. - Their effects will | be- felt not only here but in the East Far-sighted men will perceive that a new set of conditions is to prevail on this side of the continent and that the | growth- of the past will be exceeded by thé growth ! of the future. Consequently while neither the irriga- | tion plans nor the canal can be completed for years. to come, the expectancy of the public mind conrern'»: ing them may tend to-our advantage immediately. iy Further, it is to bé noted that the Pacific cablemt | | is to bring us in close communication with the Orient | and ‘the ‘Australias is now weil advanced in construc- | tion, and it is expected we shall have it in operation { by July. “What the effect of the cable ~will be in stimulating our Eastern ‘trade is more than any one | | can forecast. - We can be sure, however, it will be of | | immense advantage to every manufacturer of goods | | for use in the Orient and to every merchant/engaged | {in- oriental trade. It has long been recognized that ! | our true interests in trade and manufacture lie toward | the Orient and ‘the -Australias: Westward the course | of empire takes its way.. The cable will connect us‘l with ‘our destiny and will help us to attain it. | Einally, we may expect. this year to gather the! benefits of the work done by the California Pri)mo-" tion Committee during the past year. ' The northern ‘ counties of the State are now aroused as they have.! | never been before, and as the preliminary work *of | | organization, gdverh‘:cment and exploitation:“has been done weli and systematically, we may look now | for the coming of the well-carned results of the past -t labor. | Taken altogether, then, California: has a right toy expect much of the new year and. to-look tpon it ]: able to our hopes, and it will b‘c our own fault'if we do ' not find the year to be one of unsurpassed achieye- | ment. and prosperity. ——————— ¥ * PARCELS POST BENEFITS. UR British cousins are fond of ‘grawling, and it is therefore not surprising to lcarn they have | their Christmas joys. Britishers who go forth beyond | | the sea carry with them a memory of the plum pud- | O found something ‘to growl over even amid ' dings of their native land and yearn for them in | pling litigation. jour water laws, more it consonance with the needs | further- fegisla | promises with confidence. - All conditions- are favor~| ¢ {him’ thdt. his bad cluck it this C:oim'try ‘is not-due .1 our part but solely to the vicissitudes of his profes-. i sion. They jnform him that the.road from Maine to hen contrasted with the hard times that prevail | foreign countries. As a consequence there has been over all Europe. Even in progressive Germany | built up a large tradc in supplying exiled English- wages have not risen, and of late there has been a | men with London made puddings. The puddings are menace of an industrial depression that threatens t6 | sent out by the parcels post of the empire, and it is throw thousands of workingmen out of employment. | In Great Britain the labor situation is serious, and in some important lines of industry the rate of wages has declined from the level of two years ago. will be seen, then, that we have good reason to re- joice over the conditions of last year and the pros- pects that dawn with the new one. Our prosperity has been in the fullest sense of the words the pros- perity of the workers, and it is the hope of all that it may continue so. South Dakota will probably soon be enriched by the residence of another distinguished person of the fair and frailer sex. The Crown Princess of Saxony, whose flight shocked Europe, cannot, it is said, find | 2 congenial home on the Continent and will come to us. . It| over that fact the grumbling has arisen. The London Chronicle says: “One of the restau- ! rant companies has had for some weeks on its tables special price lists of Christmas puddings for exporta- tion to all parts of the world. There are some anomalies in the list that would furnish material for a question to Mr. Austen Chamberlain‘in the House of Commons. For instance, how comes it that you can post a Christmas pudding to Australia for half a crown, while a2 pudding of the same size, if sént to Canada, which is much nearer London, will cost you twopence more? One to the Cape Colony, which is the hali-way house to Australia, also costs twopence more than if it went the whole distance to Melbourne or Sydney. A pudding to Madeira, the winter suburh of London, costs the same as one to Austraia. While you can’ get a pudding into British Ceatral Africa other country, and prebably superior. One of the most timely -and "eloquent warnings which San. Francisco has recently received to be.| watchful of its pocketbooks was given a few days ago when a pugilist, ‘i unguarded candor, declared that this city is the greatést on the continent for people of his kind. He might have said that in the | shadow of every fool there is a knav ¥ 4 OPPOSITION TO THE WATER LAW S a legal question the status of water rights in A this State has always been full of vexations. After the riparian decision of the Supremie Court, the Wright iaw sought to adjust the use of water for irrigation to that interpretation of the law, by providing for the purchase or condemnation of water rights. But, in its other features, providing the use of rights so acquired, and creating districts in which all land, whether beneficially affected or not, should be subject ta district taxation for the acquisi- | tion of water and the maintenance of works for its| storage and distribution, the law encountered crip- | The bill drawn by eminent lawyers, to be presented | to the next Legislature, proposes a readjustment of of the State. - It is frankly admitted that in important | features the proposed law will require a judicial re- view which may, by obsoleting vital parts of it, nullify | itall. - Of course any measire so intimately Involving many rights must, to be safe for its beneficiaries, be- founded upon the judicial finality, and the authors of this bill expect that it will ‘be tested by litigation. But the process will be vastly useful, inasmuch as even an.adverse decision will illuminate the ‘way. to n: ; 1 For the.reason’ that the law will not ‘be operative | itil the courts pass upon it, it is to be regretted that | here has appeared anjorganized, opposition to jts assage by the Legislatire. This opposition comes | {irom Southern California and presents a formidable front. - All that the promoters of the. bill can do is to | oppose organization by. organization, and fight it out | before the Legislature, unless Southern C:r,lil'nmiu; will-listen to' reason, and let the bill pass the Legis- ture anmd go to the courts to be Killed or given. life | under the judicial .test, . The opposition .is interestirigly suggestive. Tt is said to arise in a difference in pliysical cefiditions be- tween Northern and Southern California. The avail- | able water in the South is limited by such condifions. The jower altitude of the mountains there abridges their function .as'a water reservoir. “They . do not catch and hold permanent snow like the great. range north of the Tehachapi. Thereiore the storage must be thit of storm waters éntirely, and must be artifi- cial: In’Northern California the storagé is natural; but may be supplemented by artificial works. - We do | not‘affirm the statement thit the opposition arises in this-difference: in physical conditions, bt surely ‘the’| suggestion that it is so is of the keenest interest. -If| the causé be physical the différence is irreconcilable, | and that means an adjustment that m: reaching gonsequences. ay -have far- Another model town has been projected by-a syn- dicate of millionaires. ' The new veriture is to be a city-built.arotind a great ceritral park ini ‘which will be a_furnace providing heat, ; Land : kitchen and laundry se g v liousewives of the town will have nothin t8uch®a; button and then take a Test, * ‘A terrible repit comes from, Indiatia to the effect | ‘that a young schaol teacher “punished sonie, rc,fract'ofy _pipils by making them read. the Presidént’s message: “She-has heen cited before. the Scheol Board to-dnswer for the infliction..e an’ unuspal punishv{lei\_t_.-bfit per- hapsthe President “will ‘be glid 1o. Know thas his ‘mé: sage as had an. educational ‘valte, * %8 fascagni by telling People are trying to -conso to any lack of hospitality or appreciation of genius on California is strewn with the wrecks of musical ven- tures and advise him to brace up. g < e | The proper, authorilies_ of this city are. making energetic endeavors to secure an adequate Normal .School building for San Francisco. It seems almost a pity ta suggest that the ruihed shack which now serves us for a Normal School' should be destroyed. We may show it to visitors as a curiosity in e thing it should not be. A The interesting inhabitants of the island of Guam want to be endowed with American citizenship. As the Pacific cable will touch the island and of all our insular possessions Hawaii is the only one now giving us political scandals, it might be well for the reading public to give the dear people of Guam citizenship | rights. very: SRS ey A long suffering, patient public is to be submitted to another indignity at the hands of the pugilistic fra- ternity. A plug ugly named Munroe who didn’t have his head properly beaten into a pulp by Jeffries is to go on the stage. The Empress Dowager of China has been making eyes at General Miles, feting him and extending him unparalleled honors. The old lady, wiser than her generation, evidently knows a good fellow when she sees him. | the Pi | Joseph A. Chanslor; the well known ofl al I Inchis 4y & to do bt fp | Bryan Comple | .'NEW YORK, FILIPINO SCOUT +/GOES TO PRISON : FOR MURDER DENVER, Jan. 1-Manila dispatches received at the headquarters of the Army of the Colorado in this city state that | Hiiarlo Placido, a Filipino, who aided | General Funston in the capture of Aguin- aldo, has been sentenced to 1¥e imprison- ment for murder. Details of the crime are lacking, but General Funston and other army officers here who know the scout believe that the crime was com- mitted since they left the island, as it doez not seem probable that Placido could have been called to account for something done during the time he was engaged as an active participant in the rebellion. In speaking of Placido, General Funston sal He was never my spy and the only morey he received from the United States | was for the part in the capture of Aguin- aldo. Hé fought against the Spaniards | and then took up arms against the United States. In 189 he was severely wounded, being shot through the lung. He recov- | €re@ and again took an active part in the war. The following year he sur- rendered at the same time that General | Garcla did. He was a prisoner for about | three months and then I released him. He took the oath of allegiance and often- | times of his own volition gave me infor- mation regarding the enemy. He was not | a spy in the sense of the word that he | was in the Government's employ, nor did | he ever go into their lines fgr information | 10f our use. )/ “When I arranged the plan for the cap- ture of Aguinaldo I took him along. He ‘did not know the object of the expedition until we were well under way. I then ex- plained my plan to him and he agreed to | Wyoming Mi help me. In order to carry out the scheme . he: became the nominal com- essary to fhake the natives believe that | we Americins were prisoners. When we reached thé camp of Aguinaldo Placido rushed in and threw his former chief on the floor of the hut and held him there until we. made -him a prisoner. ‘For his Government.™ PERSONAL MENTION. | John W. Storer, a mining man of Tono- pah, is at the Grand. | A. Brown of the State Board of Equal- | i ization is at the Lick. 1 Judge S. F. Geil of Salinas is among the arrivals at the Occidental. | Fred Gerstley, a capitalist of Los An- geles, is a guest at the Lick. J. H. Edwards, a cattle man of New- | man, is registered at the Lick. i Dr. E. D. Curtis, a well known physi- | cian of Woodland, is at the Lick. Louis Farr, a prominent missionary of the Mormon Church of Ogden, is at the Lick. Charles Monroe, an attorney of Los An- | geles, is here on a short business trip and | is at the Palace. i H. W. Benjamin, a merchant of London and a brother of the ex-Lord Mayor, is at magnate of .os Angeles, who went East recently or his" honeymoon, has returned with his bride to the Palace. ey Brssonduutiiite GOVERNOR ODELL ENTERS - UPON HIS SECOND TERM Inaugurated . at ~Albany Amid Un- usually Brilliant Demon- x strations. > ¥., Jan. 1.—Governor Odell to-day “was :inaugurated for his second term. The . occasion brilliant one, marked by ‘the presence of many distinguished visitors and the par- Al NY.D ticipation. of a large representation of the | s well as crowds from | tional Guar varts of the State. capital accord and ‘that there ‘should be no legis- lation which seeks to advance the inter- ests of one at the expense of the othe because such_ discrimination would inevit- lead to. results and conditions which State. DIAZ MAKES ‘A SPEECH. Brilliant New Year Ceremonies in the Southern Republic. 5 MEXICQ CITY, Jan. 1.—There was a brilliant séene “at the palace to-day wWhen PresiGent. Diaz received the diplomatic corps, Consuls, officers of .the army and v, members of the Senaté. and House of Revresentatives and . leading. citizens. The diplomatic corps. was headed by Baron von Hevking, the German Minister, | who made ‘a’ speech. ‘of :congratulation, te which President Diaz United. States Embassador’ Powell Clay- ton was -not present,” having gone to Cuernavacd, - thus '‘courteously . yielding precedence to the is soon to ‘go away on a long leave of a sence. . In. the absence. of Fmbassad Ciayton, the American embassy. was- rep resented hy: First Secretary : MeCreéry. The -ladles :of. the. diplomatic corps fthis - morning.paid their respects ‘td- Mrs. Diaz. | MEXICG, CITY, to-morrow., ‘He is mug¢h ln(ergs(ed in the -fact that- many Americans “with small eapital have’started in life’in.Meéxi¢o as planters.. Though .greatly “please the brilliant prospects of tropical* ture, Bryan says hé is still very, well satisfiéd with his littlé. Jan.; Thé temporary teal shortage due to the .Christmas holi- duys is at @n end.and anthracite is com- ing into the city in a normal way. The excellent weather is conspiring with the special_efforts of the carrying_roads to meet the demands of the New Year. Pl A T Severe Earthquake Felt in Costa Rica SAN JOSE, Costa Rica. Jan. 1.—A se- vere shock of earthquake was felt here at 1 o’clock this morning. The shock is be- lieved to have originated from the voleano :of Trazu, and it followed the same direc- tion as the shocks felt here December 1s. — e Prunes stuffed with lprlcdtt. Townsend's. —— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st., Palace Hotel buflding. * —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042, g S AR P RS THENTIETH CENTURY COOK BOOKS A ear-lond of Cook Books bhas just arrived from Chicago and they are ready for distri- bution at the busi ce of thisx paper. All Call sab- seribers are entitied to a copy of this great Cook Book at the premium price of fifty cents. < An additional charge of 20 cents to pay expressage will be required from out of town was an unusually | address Governor Odell said that | nd labor. should be in thorough | 1d be a menace to the welfare of the | replied . fittingly. | jerman ‘Minister, who. | [vevery must speal | mander of the expedition, as it was nec- | ¥ | Plain Dealer. v 2 | man who had just returned from a hunt- part in this work he was paid by the | no” V4% gening trip to | “wken you saw { lien?"” | scape,” 7 | movntain trout.”—Chicago Tribune. PENNSYLVANIA MINERS REFUSE | TO GOTO WORK | i | St | SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 1.—An effort was made by all the coal operators to work their collieries to-day, but it met with ill success. At each colliery the foremen went | around yesterday and gave notice to all hands that the company was very desir- cus of working, that the relieving of the MARCONI WILL EXTEND SERVICE ON THE LAND PEE RIS WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 1.—Marconi is preparing to install a wireless trans- continental service through Canada. Two cf his experts passed through hers yes- terday on their way west to arrange for a series of ‘tests in the Rockies. It Is ex- pected by the inventor that the diverse electrical currents in the rarefled atmos- phere of the high altitudes may interfers men reported at every mine, but it was| with the .ucgessful sending of his m’f only in a few instances that enough re- | sages and it is to satisfy himself that the ported to make a start. | tests are made in the winter. when the The Delaware, Lackawanna and West- | “50 (0 00 g he more unfavorable. ern Company got four of its nineteen col- Vinni is to be the halfway house of lieries started, but at noontime they had h“innlp;’: ": o wadocstoad that s statien vn, the hands, particu- | the system. = - lm & e i - % will be located at Stony Mountain, an arly the slate-pickers, refusing to con- tinue. The Delaware and Hudson got tWo | cniinence twelve miles from Winnipes Ic will receive messages from Mr\m_z of its twenty-one places started, but they worked only a few hours. - The Erie start- | goyal, at Montreal, and it Is the w ed two places and one of them, the Katy- | o¢ these experts to locate the next West- erp station in the Rockles. coal famine might not be retarded. Some @id, at Moosic, ran all day. None of the thirteen tario and Western or lo: (‘he e—— cight Tefple Iron Company’s collieries ” < cven made a start. | ANSWERS TQ QUERIES. It is feared that to-morrow will see a repetition of the-experience of the day | following Christmas, when only about half cf the men reported for work. e rs Keep the Holiday. WILKESBARRE, Pa.; Jan. 1.—The min- ers of the. Wyoming region kept New Year's as a holiday. Nearly all the col- leries. were idle and the output of coal to-day was only a few thousand tons. A CHANCE TO SMILE. “As long, George, as we haven't any coal to cook with, there i one thing I kgto the fish dealer about.” “And wha® is that, my dear?” Pl “] must ask him to be sure to lay in| THE HATR—M. H. Middleton, Ca a large supply of raw oysters.”—Cleveland | There is a superstition that If the hair o - the human head is cut during the time of the new moon it will grow better. It 1s but a superstition. HAGUE ARBITRATORS-G. K. H, City. The report of The Hague arbitra tors in regard to the confiscation o American sealing vessels appeared in The Call of November 3, 1902, page 17, co umn 2. TWO RIVERS-C. M, .\(agnald.. (::l 1 th of the Mississippl River is 330 | 1m):l:sm;‘nd that of the Missour} 1S 2100. WILLIAM PENN-P. K., Vallefo, Ca A Willlam Penn, founder of the colon Pennsylvania, was born in London, Eng 1and, October 14, 1644, THE OREGON—M. M., City. The Ore gon was launched October 26, 1593. T contract price was $3,180,000, exclusive the cost of armament. IMAGES—A. C. R, City. The ‘b combination of paste used in making tie images and statues that are sold the streets”” is plaster of Parls. | “What did you do?’ they asked of the| far West. | mountain the your first “1 left him in possession of the land- he replied, “‘and went back to my | as T tell you,” Tommy's mamma “It's about time you realized the of struggling against the inevi- PRACTICE OF MEDICINE—O. D. L. City.. No one in the city and county of San Francisco is pérmitted to practice “Do | table. Do you know what that means?” | medicine as a profession without a cer “Yes'm,’" replied Tommy. “It means | tificate as required by law. The law dn?- | there's no use o° your washin’ my hands | not require that a party seeking to obtain | an' face, ‘cause they’ll only get dirty | authority to practice shall speak ths | again."—Philadelphia Press. English language. To obtain such a cer- . tificate the party should apply to the school of physicians to which he belongs, and there he will be fully advised as to | what steps are necessary to secure a cer- | tificate. A He—T knew the night I proposed to ¥ that you would accept me. She—Why; did I look so foolish?—Yon- kers Statesman. ou | R e wesssssssss oo How to Get Rich Next Sunday’s *CALL Do you know how to get rich in these days of billionaires and giant trusts? Well, read on Did the great and yet simple littie truism: ever force itself upon you that it is npot olone: the man who specializes—the man who knows: everything there is to know about his partic- ; ular trade or profession—but THE MAN WHO! KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING!: AND EVERYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING—a dis-: tinction with a very potent difference—THAT ! HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THE WORLD-—: not last century, but RIGHT NOW—WHO IS; PILING UP THE GREAT AMERICAN FOR-! 1 TUNES THAT MAKE THE REST OF THE; t WORLD ' GASP FOR BREATH? That is the sort of'man who not only knows what he is} ‘talking about-when he talks about prosperity, | but, what is‘better still, knows how to make { prosperity. | Perhaps; a = R R R L R . i ! fter all, you think you know . thing about everything that there is to! know, but DO YOU? : Do you know, for instance, what was the! greatest, the most heart-rending tragedy of! 1902 and - what effect . it had upon the pros-. P ‘made and ur)mades - ¢+ .o perity of America—how ‘it fabuious fortunes in a single hour? 3 ~If -you are in business of any sort you! must surely have:felt the .efiect of it. If you; jdon’t .Know everything "about it you surely} {ought to. : Sk 3 ‘-And so it is with a’ thousand and one oc-s currences that-happened i 1902, all of vitals .importdnce to you whether you are in busi-} ness for yourself or are working for some -one ! else, as you will quickly find by reading the SUNDAY CALL’'S REVIEW FOR 1902, which: makes a special feature in itself in the MAGA.: ZINE SECTION NEXT SUNDAY, January 4tb.§ It gives you a complete record of every- thing under the sun. ; Another feature that you will want to cut out and : Keep is the SUNDAY CALL'S BEAUTIFUL NOVELTY ART CALENDAR, WHICH GIVES YOU THREE CALENDARS; IN ONE. Just think of that. There is a large one demt in color suitable for mural poster decoration. There is} a smaller one for your desk and finally there is a tlny: one—a full calendar complete for 1903—to paste in your + watch. Nothing like it has ever been done in the West ! before. 3 > ‘ @nd then there is—but it would toke too much space to enumerate all -t up-to-date news and maga- zine features—games and puzzles and prizes for children + and grown-ups as well, in the NEXT SUND@Y CALL. But, by the way—speaking of things hazardous— what would you do if your head was brought in con- stant danger of being lopped off on the block, through the too ardent fondness of a princess of the blood royal for your kisses, especially when that reckless princess was the beautiful sister of King Henry VIlI, of Ensand? Just read “WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER," which begins in the SUNDAY CALL of January lith, and see for yourself. It is spicy, sprightly, tremendously exciting—and best of all—it is absolutely historically true. And last, but not least, you get the beautiful @rt Supplement, A Coquette,” free with next Sunday’s Call.