The San Francisco Examiner asked Jack London if he would be ready to jump out at call. Jack, near the close of his sea novel, sorely needing funds, held himself awaiting the summons. Finances he arranged so that regular payments would be made to his mother as well as to his children, with instructions to his Eastern publishers to stand prepared to advance any necessary further sums should his wife call for the same. Meanwhile the managing editor haled him to San Francisco, to sit for photographs against the day of featuring a sensational departure. The pictures were posed on the roof of the Examiner building, and portray a very lovable, very boyish, unrnodish much tousled as to curls. Although hostilities had not yet been actually declared, Jack was dispatched on the S.S. Siberia. To Cloudesley, on January 7, he dashed to Sail today for Yokohama...