The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1903, Page 4

MONDAY.. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. munications to W. 5. LEAKE, Manoger. TELEPHONE. nddress @ll Co Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect | You With the Department You Wish. "l BLICATION OFFICE. I DITORIAL ROOMS. -Market and Third. S. F. .217 to 221 Stevensom St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: . ome year.. % Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. ring change of address sh ) OLD ADDRESS s pliance with their r NE! @ prompt and corre: > gtve C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreige Adyertising, Marqectte Building, Chisage Long Distance Telephone “° tral 2619.°) NEW YORK STEPHEN B. SMITH. . PRESENTATIV! 0 Tribune Buoilding NEW YORK CORR €. C. CARLTON. . SSPONDE! ...Herald Square NEW YORK Northern Hotel; ...1118 Broadway THE SAN FRANCISCO CALIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1903 THE NEEDS OF THE CITY. Year we have recounted the good which we now possess and pointed out the bright pros- hat promise even better things for the future. 1 has had its utterance. It is now timely to | turn to a consideration of the defects of our situation | and devise means for providing a remedy for them. The Merchants’ Association Review devotesits New | Year number to a pertinent discussion of that phase It points out that there are many | things needed to promote the welfare of the city and the State and urges united action toward their ac- | complishment. The plea merits a cordial response { from the press and the public. Much has been done, but more remains to do. The laying of the Pacific cable and the opening of the Orient to foreign trade are opportunities for San Francisco and for Cali- | fornia, but the profits of those opportunities must be reaped by labor. They will not come of themselves to enrich a people who make no effort to seize the | opportunity and turn it to advantage. | In summing up the needs of the city the Review San Francisco needs better government. She Ineeds a better administration of the water front. She needs more seawall and better wharves. She 1l the added room for commerce that such e improvement of Islais Creck would af- improved thoroughfares to accom- eds for handling the freight of her railways and steamer nes. She needs better transportation arrangements the Pacific islands and the Orient. She needs ;a direct steamship line to Alaska. She needs lower arges and especially she needs emancipation e pilotage monopoly that has her ocean trade by the throat and arbitrarily taxes and hampers her commerce. She needs a better understanding with the port ct from t State at large on all subjects of common interest such as irrigation and State promotion east of the Paimer House | Rockies. She needs better pavements, cleaner streets, e -, | more small parks, grea armony i archi- WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ..1408 G St., , {more small parks, greater harmony. in her ‘arch MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. tecture, trees on her residence thoroughfares and all Y her clad in verdure and beauty as added attrac- ES—27 Mon k. 300 Haye BRANCH OFFIC f 1903 opens w and make agreeable reading, ght cate that differe for 1903 wil Fitlan o f the co d of expanded collections and few al active ailures. it cnse industrial and railway dreds of th cor- wage ual cities y in 1902 and pros- nds of 1903. Prominent says that its jobbers than among rs on r books for years, have ® per cent more deposits and 14.5 n at the opening of 1902 and iron was made or handled t vear bank t more loans 00.000 tons of j ot nsas C in vear; Portland, 1902 larger than New 1q reports 1002 over 1901, the to 10 per cent, interest. s last year ntioned, much of d cost of opera- d wages, scarcity ncre: , advance city of cars, though less! the West is offering the sortation than they will on at present is light, he year, and the retail the regular falling ofi aiter the” e two features always character- | r tra distributic of t on for pro- upward, with an t Jarge buy d shoe factories are orders, Pro 1 over the count er downward than upward. There on and steel trades, which mills ordered report © nt after the r, the bank ; there was rent of strength visible, and it was evi- e public needed a wink to take hold Easier money is being freely pre- d by all, but perhaps this ¢ expectation that.Congress ¢ currency before long. At ling on the street is much brighter h or o0 ago. the tide of money gene ead of lowing to the West to move the crops, cor flowing arters, to be used in the reg- ] market. Otherwise there ing mew in the situation at New York. The feature of the week in our local market was | establishment of cable connection with W] mezns to trade ought to be apparent to even the most casual ob- Its cltimate effect will be to jorm another er in the mesh that is gradualiy arranging itseli around San Fran 0 2s a center and making it one of the hali-dozen prominent financial marts of the world. n Francisco exchange” will be 2 more frequent commercial expression hereafter than it has been, to say nothing of the great advertising the city will get in the transmission of internaticnal news through the press. This city going along with the rest of the American procession. We growl at our own lethargy sometimes, which is not a bad sign (for a2 lazy m never complzins of his own iaziness), but if we will take the trouble to lock back four or five years and see what we have acco how we have grown it will open cur eyes. mediately server. tions to strangers.” All of those things, of course, are not to be ob- There may indeed be differences of ed in a year. on as to whether some of them ought to be of sougt In a city where sunshine is so valu- doubtiul good to line our residence | streets with trees. Such adornments in the East are e the swel- makes shade al- le whether the ancisco for the { not only I but are neceded bec tering sun of the 1 but stern summer questiona wouvld compensate in San F with the sunshine. Th however, is sint and one of little t. The main our conditions as a metropolis are by they cught to be, and it is our duty he year what we can beginning of rove them. s a strong argument for public red It says very ndividua! cannot do such work alone. improvements. O:rg him all three. It is the only method by which great public ends can be gained. It now ance nization, however, gives atifying to note that the association has more than 1200 individuals and firms on its all of whem take an interest in its work. enough to roll, rich the comfort of without fear for its own exchequer. view says: “Large and influential should be but the leus of a It was ma an Fiancisco's citizens and visitors Yet as the Re- s it is, it far bigger and stronger body—a unicn of all San Francisco's bus ness men whose actuating principle should be united action for our city’s good.” The time es of a public now n is propitious for undertaking great en- terp! well as of a private nature. Business is good, commerce is expanding, profits are increasing and wages are rising. The sales of realty last year were the largest in the record of the cit; tructures are rising all round-us. Every the time justifies the conclusion that is rapidly We 11 never have a better time to advance plans for municipal im- provement, and it is to be hoped the unity of action needed for such improvements- will be forthcoming. evidence population of increasing. B he various elopements and abdications on the part of the minor royalties of Europe make very good side- shows, but wlat the world would like to have as a genuine sensation is a sight of Kaiser William bolting job. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. his OR many a year past the Canadians have been F Jamenting that the tide of migration was against them, that the number of immigrants who en- tered their country did not make up for the loss of those who leit Canada for the United States. The tide has now turned. Canada is getting a considerable in- crease of population from this country, but still all Canadians are not happy. Some, indeed, are boasting that the Dominion is drawing the best breed of Americans to her northwest provinces, but others are lamenting 2n immigration which they fearfully think overwhelm the British stock and give to Canada {2 population widely different from that which now dominates the country. The Victoria Colonist takes a sanguine view ‘of the flow of the tide. After pointing out that for some years the flow of Canadian emigration to the United States was about 70,000 annually and that jn 1890 there were 980,938 Canadians settled in the United States, it says: “In 1808 0ooo people emigrated from the United States and settled in the Canadian Northwest, in 1899 11,000, in 1000 15,000, in 1901 19,000 and in 1902 over 23,000. So that in the direct relations between Canada and the United States the balance oitrade has i aitered to the tune of 95,000 people a year in favor of Canada. A debit balance of 70,000 has been turned %in:o a credit balance of 25,000 people. This is very Igraxifying and the more so as the population migra- | ting from the United States to Canada is of the best type.” It is not to be denied that our Canadian con- temporary has good reason to rejoice over the im- migration that is now settling the rich lands of the Canadian Northwest. We would be glad to ve those :ame vigorous and enterprising home-seekers turn their cyes to California, where we can supply them with better homes than Canada can ever give them. Still there is another side to the Canadian immigration question, and there are Canadians’who think it the more important of the two. It is one that threatens the supremacy of the British stock among the elements of the population, and according- | Iy there are glocomy views taken of it by the con-| servatives. A recent presentation of that side of the question isays: “The figures of the recent census show that nplished and | the immigration from the United Kingdom into the ! of pearl shirts. ; Do ion does not suffice to supply the loss by NDER the influence of the gladness of the Z\'ew} Ireland or Scotland there wi odate her growing traffic and increase the facilities | her time, equipment nor expert assist- | ke a $5000 donation to increase] death among the British-born and Irish-born inhabi- tants of the country. Of persons born in England, ere residing in Canada| in 1901 only 380,062, as against 483,524 in 1871. That | is to say, there are fewer British and Irish born | people in Canada,to-day by nearly 100,000 than there | ;. were thirty years ago. On the other hand, the num-i i ber of immigrants from countries other than those ] embraced in the British empire was 278,804 in 1901, | as against only 131,083 in 1881. Of the 49,149 im- | migrants that entered Canada in 1901. only 11,810 were of British and Irish birth.” | This increase of immigrants other than those of British origin is pondered by the despondent ones in i | connection with the fact that the French Canadians | iarc increasing more rzpidly than the English speak- | | ing people. Thus the representatives of the ancient | | British stock see themselves in danger of being over- | whelmed by the Fremch in the Eastern provinces and by Americans in the West. They are asking one | another what will become of Canada when the | dominant element of her population ceases to be f British. It is of course not a very harassing question to any except the people who are pondering over it, for should Canada ever become controiled by a | thoroughly American population, there will be a bet- | ter Canada than ever has been before. T — L It is stated that the University of Berlin has up-[ | ward of 11,000 students, 508t will be seen we have a long way to climb before an American university touches the top, but we will get there aiter a while. | | | | — { PHILIPPINE CURRENCY. | 3mAXILA continues to insist with increasiag earnestness upon her plea for a sound cur- all commercial and industrial interests appear to be | unanimous in urging action to that_end by Con-| gress at the present session. It must be admitted, too, that they have a good- right to insist. They are | under the control of Congress. They cannot make laws for themselves. Authority rests with us and ) responsibility goes with authority. It is a plain duty | of our Government to provide the people of the islands with a currency of stable value in the ex- changes of the world. The Manila Critic in discussing the situation in the islands say “There might have been a time when a compromise on the basis of a silver currency would have been acceptable. That time has now passed and the people want the gold standard, Anreri- can currency and the national banking system extended to these They not only want it, but they demand it, preferring to accept the pres- ent conditions until these conditions have resulted in utter commercial r rather than any compromise. While it is known that the Civil Com- mission, its recommendation to twice urged the coina American nds. to accept in Congress, has e of the s0-cent dollar and subsidiary coinage, believing that the needs oi the islands demand cheap money, it is to be presumed that now, out of deference to public opinion, the gold standard will be recommended. .There appears to be no good and valid reason why the gold stand- ard as well as our national banking system should not be extended to these islands.” The evils of a cheap and fluctuating currency are well known to American Jawmakers. We have had that question eclaborately discussed in Congress and before the people. We have decided that for our- selves we shall have the best currency in the world. We have refused to accept silver. We have done so on the express ground that a fluctuating Silver cur- rency is injurious and to a certain extent dishonest. Why then should we impose such a currency upon a subject people? * We have carried the gold standard to Porto Rico and ail reports are to the cfiect that its benefits have been vast. We sce Mexico, the greatest silver producing country in the world, disturbed and dis- ordered by reason of its silver currency, and the Gov- | ernment preparing to provide some remedy for the evil. With such examples of good resuiting from a stable currency and evil resulting4rom silver, surely we cannot with any respect for our own intelligence argue that silver is best for the Philippines. The present session of Congress is short and there is a good deal of work beiore it. The temptation to postpone much of the legi¢lation now under way will i be pressing. Indeed, 2 good deal of it will have to be | postporied. Legislation for the: Philippines and for Alaska ought, however, to have the right of way. Neither of those countries has any local seli-govern- ment. Neither can do anything for itseli. The first | duty of Congress is therefore to the people of those | countries. Alaskan legislation and Philippine legisla- | tion would not take much time, and since Congress | alone has power to provide the laws needed for their i welfare, the desired legislation should be promptly | provided. | 5 SRR R > { Pierpont Morgan has been enjoying the holidays | by buying coal mines and Mr. Rockefeller has been | | buying more oil wells. That is their way of having | | fun and increasing their stock of toys. | GARMENTS OF STONE. LOTH made of glass was once a curiosity and a world's wonder. During the time of the C Columbian Exposition we heard a great deal | about the marvelous glass garments exhibited at the fair, and there was much curious speculation as to the probability of a general use of glass goods clothing in the near future. | | Time has passed and the old wonder has passed | with it. A new exposition is approaching and new novelties are being prepared for it. There is a pros- | pect that St. Louis at her exposition will show a | fine line of garments made of a material even more startling than those woven of glass threads. In fact | we are promised cloth made of stone and guaranteed'! | not to shrink in washing. i | The report comes that weaving stone into a ma- | | terial sufficiently light and flexible to be used for| | clothing has been accomplished at a cost not so great as to render the industry unprofitable. It is an- nounced that “the making of flexible and lasting | granite trousers, black marble coats and onyx waist- | coats may be a possibility of the near future.”” Tt is! added that the making of curtains from asbestos and | ‘cloth from chalk is an casy thing. Furthermore, an | enterprising spinner is reported to have woven sea | ! shells into a handsome cover for an armchair. l We are thus on the verge of great things. The old | poem that mocked at the vanity of fine clothes by reminding us “that the poor’sheep and silkworn wore that very clothing long before” will not affect the | vain ones of the future. They will not garment | | themselves with silk nor with wool. The cotton | field may be given up to, the production of peanuts | and sheepherders may devote their energies to the! raising of turkeys. Girls will be radiant in glassoline garments glowing like the rainbow, while men will be brave in marble coats, quartz trousers and mother | “There’s a good time coming. Wait 1 a little Tonger i ! negro. | present. | speed of twenty-two knots. | speed, —ee————— I'TWO GIRL BABIES IN THE PALACE OF THE ITALIAN KING, BUT NO HEI R %= HE baby daughter born to the King and Queen of Italy recently is the second child of the royal couple. Yo- landa, the first of the tiny Prin- cesses, made her initial appearance in the royal household in June, 1901, but she, like her sister, would have brought more joy to King Victor Emmanuel if she had been a boy, as Victor of Italy, like Nicholas of Russia, is praying for an beir. On one side Princess Yolanda and the latest baby have behind them the il- lustrious house of Savoy, which has fur- nished numerous Kings to the world's his- tery. On the other side they are de- scended from a hardy race of mountain Princes of the queer principality of Mon- tenegro. They are also connected with the Romanoffs of Russia, who are the warm friends of their grandfather, Prince Nicholas Petrovitch Niegoch of Monte- Little Yolanda has a name almost as queer as her extraction—Yolanda Mar- gherita Milena Elisabetta Romana Maria. —_—————— Royal Italian Band Farewell. Ellery’s Royal Italian band, which has had such a successful season In San Francisco, will give its closing concert this evening in the Mechanics’ Pavilion under the auspices of the Young -Men's Christlan Assoclation for the benefit of the building fund. A select programme of the choicest music will be discoursed. The pavilion will be made warm and com- fortable, and from present indications the largest audlence of the season will be Announcements of this benefit and concert for the association building fund were made in nearly all the city churches yesterday. i . WORRIES THE AYMASTER JOHN CLYDE SUL- LIVAN is not yet out of trouble. He has been in disfavor since 1892, in which yvear. while serving on the Mohican in Bering Sea, he expressed the inion in a Seattle newspaper that “the United States did not have the shadow of a right to declare Bering Sea a closed sea.” He was given six menths' vacation on furlough pay for his indiscretion. One year later, when ordered to the Independence, an alleged shortage was discovered in his accounts of the Mohican, and *a court-martial rec- ommended his dismissal. He was dis- missed February 1, 1864, but Senators Mc- Millan and Perkins secured his reinstate- ment June 19, 1869, notwithstanding vig- orous protests from members of the pay corps. In June of 1%2, Sullivan came up for promotion to pay inspector, but the examining board found him mentally, rhysically and morally unfitted. dinarily the next step would be to drop the ofiicer from the list with one year's ray, an’s influence was strong erough to cause the President to point another board to determine claim for retirement. Fhis board has ported him mentally and physically sound, &nd therefore not entitled to Ye- tirement. The case is a hard one for the Navy Department. It does not want Eim in the service, and he cannot be re- tired. Another board will probably be appointed to review Sullivan’s case. Some years ago Pay Inspector John H. Steven- son caused the department some annoy- ance through his talkativeness, with the resuit that he was not recommended for rromotion. A long fight ensued, at the conclusion of which Stevenson was forced to_go on the retired list. The keel for the new battleship Loulsi- ana will be laid about February 1 at the Newport News shipyard, and the armored cruisers Maryland and West Virginia are to be launched in May, probably on the same day. The battleship Missouri is to Lave her builder's trial before July, and may be turned over to the navy at ciose of the year. Improvements are al- ready going forward at this yard, it is expected that great efforts will be made to make a record with the Louisiana and excel that of the New York navy vard, where rapid progress is being made on the Connecticut, a sister ship to Missouri. ap- his .t & The four new ‘“‘scouts” building for the British navy will have displacements 1anging between 2300 and 3000 tons, with a speed of twenty-five knots under 17,000 horsepower and a cruising radius of 3009 | miles at ten knots speed. Their armament will consist of ten twelve-pounders. The names selected for these vessels are after prominent lghthouses on the _British coast and are as follows: Eddystone, Fastnet, Inskeith and Nores. A large basin is to be built at Chatham, making four basins In which ships can lic at all stages of water. A drydock of 620 to 700 feet in length is also to be built. The basin now under construction wiil be ready for use by April. The two latest armored crulsers to be bullt for the British navy, named the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Con- naught, will be of 13,50 tons displacement, 479 feet in length and 73 feet 10 Inches beam. The engines, of 24,00 horsepower, are caiculated to drive the ships at a sea The Ameri- can armored cruisers Tennessee and Washington, which are similar to the Eritish ships but more heavily armed, are ol 14,500 tons displacement, 502 feet in length and 72 feet 10% inches beam. Their notwithstanding finer lines, is | handicapped by smaller horsepower than | the British ships and is not expected to :EX(‘E(’(} twenty-one knots at sea. The armored cruiser Cumberiand was launched December 16 at the ¥ard of the London and Glasgow Company, Gowan, Scotland. She {s one of ten county eruis- ers known as the Monmouth class, and is of 9800 tons, 22,000 horsepower and a calculated speed of twenty-three knots. The ciuisers of this class were laid down in 1901 and all but one have been launched. There are grave fears that they will not | come up to the anticipated speed within one knot owing to insufficient length. The aggregate cost of these ten ships s about A recent Parliamentary return gives the cost of repairs made to boflers In ships of the British navy. The list includes fifty vessels fitted with Scotch boilers and thirty-three with water tube boilers. twerfty-two of the latter being of the Pelleville type. The service in commis- i sion of the Scotch boilers ranges from nine vears five months to one year nine months, while the water tube boilers have records extending from five years two months down to one morth. The show- ing made for the latter boilers is decid- edly bad as compared with the old Scotch type, and some ships have had their Believille boilers removed after one year's service. The worst cases are those of the Europa, from which, after an expenditure of $122,815 on repairs in one year, the boil- ers have been removed. The Hermes after one cruise is likewise getting a new set of boilers. The repairs to the Powerful's beilers during a three vears' commission averaged $12 per 100 horsepower per an- num, whereas the Scotch boilers on board the Barfleur averaged only $1 per annum per 100 horsepower during a service of seven yvears. . . The sudden close of the extra session of the French Chamber is satd to be due to | the fear of an Investigation in relation to the disappearance of secret documen.s and plans from the Navy Department. The Eclair asserts that the plans given to a foreign Government were those of the submarines. The affair dates back elght- een months—during the time of the Wal- xdeck-Ro:-elu Cabinet—and the discovery of this dct of treason caused a temporary suspension of submersibies until plans could be perfected. Recently built French torpedo-boats ap- new Or- | the | and | the 1 o 7 e rency. The press and the representatives of PAYMASTER SULLIVAN'S CASE NAVY DEPARTMENT pear to have more than fulfilled require- | ments. No. 267 of 8 tons made 24 knots | and No. 254, also’ of 8 tons, made | knots, the contract speed of each i being 235 knots. The torpedo-boat d Escopete, 300 tons, steamed 26.5 knc ceeding the contract by half a knot. The armored cruiser Amiral de don, 8517 tons, 20,000 horsepowe dergone some recent Improvemer afterbody and passed succe: trials. During, five hour: steaming the engines d horsepower, giving a spe: With increased steam the hor: raised to 19,000, under which 21 knots for one hour. Ong of the newly built Russian torpedo- boat destroyers was picked up off Co- runna, Spain, December 9, by an English merchant steamer acd towed into port. | The boat was disabled, her machinery was out of order, there was water in the | engine-recom, her ccal supply ex- bausted and the vessel was g deplorable condition. The sal | boat will probably net steamer about $230,000. . battleship Wittels- at Halskow The new German bach, which ran aground Odde, Denmark, December 15, got off after one week's labor and apparently without any serious damage. The cap- tain refused Danish help, becayse, as al- leged, Emperor Willlam has prohibited foreign aid in all cases of mishap to Ger- | man navy vessels, preferring rather to risk the loss of the ship. Ansaldo, at Genoa, has made a con- tract with Turkey to repair and modern- ize the fleet within two years. A large number of engineers and to start the work. It is to be noted in this | connectlon that the Turkish battleship | Messoudieh, recently successfully recon- | structed at Ansaldo's yard, is held in | pawn pending cash payment for work | done. | » e The untrustworthiness of trial speeds is shown by the recent performance of the Swedish torpedo-boat Mode, bufit by Tar- row. The boat made 32.4 knots at a three hours’ contract trial about three months ago, but at a recent trial at Karlskrona her best performance was only 29 knots. The reconstruction of the Portuguese | central barbette ship Vasco da Gama, un- | dertaken by Orlando's, at Leghorn, has | proved a success. The ship has been lengthened 23 feet, increasing the dis- placement from 2422 tons to 3215 tons. The former speed of about $ knots has been increased-to 16 knots, the horsepower be- ing 6000 against 3600 when built. The arm- ament is likewise much improved, and consists now of two $-inch, two l4-pound- ers and four 6-pounders. The Italian torpedo-boat destroyer Aqui- ship-builders | have already lef: Italy for Constantinople | B ' W0 000" 000000 | HELENE OF ITALY OF HER DAUGH- QUEEN AND ON | TERS. el beam, 6000 horsepower and 30 knots. The armament consists of one l4-pounder, flve 6-pounders and two torpedo tubes. The coal capacity is sixty tons, and the complement is five officers and forty-eight crew. Two other boats of the same type and details, named Nimbo and Turbine, are approaching completion at Naples. length, 195 feet | INDEPENDENT OPERATORS REPLY TO THE COAL MINERS PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4—The answer of G. B. Markle & Co., indepencent coal operators, to the demands of the miners, was made oublic here to-day and will be submitted to the strike commission to- morrow. It says that the mines, which are worked under a thirty-year lease dat- ing back to 139, employ 2400 men. A phy- and “assistants, who are paid by jon from the men, are always on ek, while a nurse is employed E Stores for the sale of al merchandise are maintained for accommodation of the men, but they not required to deal there. s claimed that the eviction of miners was due to their activity in urging their fellow laborers to strike. —————————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* e ———— sician Useful presents. Look out for $1 Fourth; front of barber and grocery; best eye- glasses, specs, %c¢ to Sde. . ————————— Townsend's California zlace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st.. Palace Hotel bullding. * —_— —e———— information supplied dally to by the Cad- . Special business houses and public men Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Telephone Main 1042 fornia street. See A CLEVER woman epigrammatist once said: “Love is either a dark lantern or a searchlight.” In the modern up-to-date “romantic” novel it is both or — ——— Grealest Love Story of the Age Nexi Svnday Call the dear fun-loving public who buys its books for its thrills—a thrill to every page—will have none of it. And yet it is a strange cir- cumstance, that, with almost the single exception of Charles Ma- jor, all the best novelists of the day have gone far afield in the realm of fiction for pulse-stirring adventures, when historical truth would have given them far better.material to weave around real charac- ters, like Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, for instance, who fought and schemed and plotted and loved through such a period of storm and stress that has never been outdone in even the wildest fiction, and rarely equaled in fact. Charles Brandon was a real soldier of fortune in the reign of King Henry VIII of England. He had the termerity to fall head cver heels in love with the King's sister, just at the time that no- torious monarch wanted to marry her to the doddering old King of France, whom she hated, with a Lealthy girl's hatred of anything so licentious and antiquated. Mary Tudor was King Henry's sister. She was more. She was the most beautiful girl in Europe. Moreover, she had glorious au- burn hair, and she was only nineteen. She fell in love with Charles Brandon before he fell in love with her, and to get his kisses she went to such extremes of recklessness that Charles’ head was in con- stant danger of being lopped off on the block. More than once he went to prison for her, and more than once she saved him and re- paid him and again jeopardized him at one and the same time with more kisses. Eventually she married the old French King and Bran- don, too, all of which, though more than passing strange, is set forth at delightful length in “WHEN EKNIGHTHOOD WAS ‘I‘ FLOW- ER,"WHICH YOU GET FREE—ABSOLUTELY FREE—IN THREE NUMBERS OF THE SUNDAY CALL BEGINNING JANUARY 11. Best of all you get Julia Marlowe's great play as well, in a ser- ies of full page photographs, made es to il story. Just think of that offer and .np::umy a 'h::ou;::y ':t; a $1 50 novel—FREE. ! But that is not all. Besides a I, 1 features there is the SUNDAY cm’?'ni’w? Wlmmmfi TION COMPILED . PROMIN. el ENT SAN FRANCISCO NOT- For instance—there is “THE MEQ' RITTY, Kate Thyson Marr; “HOW TO MAKE u‘;‘ . = FUL,” by James D. Phelan; “THE ADVANT, VANTAGES OF CLUB LIFE FOR WOMEN, berg, President of the Philomath Club; “BENEFITS.OF THE HA- lone was recently launched at Naples. She is of 330 tons displacement, 208 feet WAIIAN CABLE,” by George A. New! and “ADVICE TO YOUNG PEOPL E” liam Booth, Salvation Army. A d by General Wil —