The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO. CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897. 7 Call EMBER 8, 1897 6 SEPT JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE : 710 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL RCOMS. vieees D17 Clay street N FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by THE S c n this eity and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week, By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL....... .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... 908 Brosdway NEW YORK OFFICE ...Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. Montgomery street, corner BRANCH OFFICES y; open until 9:30 o’clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:3) o'clock. 615 Larkin strect; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteeuth and Mission streets; open until 9 o’clock. 2518 Mission street; opeu until 9 o’cloc 3 Mission street; openuntil 9 o’cleck. 1503 FPolk street; op 9130 o'cloc! . corner Twenty-second ; open 1ill 9 o’ciock. NATIVE SONS AT SANTA ROSA. HE principal scene of the celebration of Admission day this year by the Native Sons will be at Santa Rosa, and it is assured the attendance will be large and the ceremony brilliant. No piace in the State 1s better fitted for a festival of any kind than Santa Rosa, and the Native Sons have now had sufficient experience in the arrangement and conduct of affairs of this sort to know how to produce the best resultson all occasions. 1t is gratify holiday becomes mor eral of our public festivais have so far lost their signiticance for the people th th either are not observed at all, or are kept in ways qu t from what was intended. The celebration of the birthday of Washington has become bardly more than an occasion for the paradeo! a few companies of the National G with one or more clubs that make a specialty of patriotic observances, while even Decoration day in many parts of the country is rapidly tecoming a dsy of sports and recreation rather than of solemn memories of the patriotism we owe the pres- 1z that as the years pass the celebration of this 1d more notabie and impressive. Sev- re ard beroic dead, to whose valor and ervation of the Union. There 1s no danger of any lapse or change 1n the celebration of Admission day. The order of the Native Sons will see to it that the day is always well and worthily commemorated. With the passage of years the order advances in strength, numbers and influence, and, therefore, however the population of the State increases, the Native Sons will be always able to exe:t sufficient force tod irect popular attention to this ceremony and to fashion the celebration of it in ways which wiil express its true meaning and intent. It is altogether fitting that the day should be celebrated with more than ordinary pomp and circumstance. The admis- sion of California to the Union was an event of great importance not only to America but to the world at large. The Pacific Ocean seems destined to be the scane of the greatest rivalries, The pos- combats and successes of the nations in the future. session by the United States of acommanding position upon its | shores has already brought us face to face with vast problems end these will augment with the future. It is therefore no smail eventin human history that the Native Sons will celebrate amid the flowers and groves of Santa Rosa. The theme may well excite the patriotism and inspire the eloquence of the orator of the day, while the beauty of the scene and the hospitality of the hosts may well incline bim to turn away from speculations of the fature and figd 2mid the conditions of the present sufficient cause for patrioiic rejoicings and celebrations by those to whom California is a heritage by right of birth, Staid old Connecticut now bas a band of thieves whose chiet is a girl, beautiful of course. We have learned to expect this sort of thing from New Mexico, but Connecticut ought to know better. ‘The yarn might be accepted, however, save for the beauty of the girt. The world, ever ready 1o welcome freaks, is really anxious to get sight of some female thief whois devoid of *‘pearly teeth.” has no “flashing eyes,” and instead of a “‘wealth of tresses” is provided with an ornery-looking wisp the color of straw. 8he would not only get a short sentence, but thereafter museums would pay her so much that she would have no temptation to steal Europe appears to have designs on a flonrishing Oregon in- dustry, and to earry out her purpose is buying up Western broncos for Continental armies. ¥T'he animal had no kick com- ing on his treatment by the Weblooters; but he’ll never quit kicking now that he is forced to support butchers of another type and to suffer the stings of the despot’s lash. The province of Ontario is excited over the discovery of a mine which yields gold in ‘chunks as large as kernels of wheat.”” The furor in Ontario is excusable; but Californians have ceased to marvel at native nuggets under the siza of | mature pumpkins. Yellow Jack in New Orleans is terrible; but there is hope for the Louisiuna metropo!is solong as it isn’t yellow iwins, A WILD GOOSE CHASE. THE advocates of the scheme for purchasing a large tract of land in the Mission, ostensibly for the purpose of establishing a zoological garden, have entered upon a wild goose chase in more ways than one. To find support for their project of increasing the burden of taxation upon the veople they have 1o go beyond the limit of reason for argu- ments and beyond the limit of the City and the list of tax- payers for champions. They are hunting the country over for versons who will give even a seeming approval to their scheme, and are finding them few and far b:tween. Tue CaLn bas published an extensive series of interviews with a Jarge number of weli-known taxpavers, many of whom are residents of the Mission, and all residents of the City, com- mending its course in opposing the project. To counteract as far as possible the effect ot these interviews, the evening papers that stand in with the scheme have undertaken to get up a series of interviews themselves. They have succeeded in finding quite a number of persous who give a seeming approval 1o the plan, and of these they have made as much as they can, but what they have made is much less than what they claim. There are in fact very few taxpayers of S8an Francisco, even among the residents of the Mission district, who desire to have another park in the City at the cost which its establishment would entail. Those who favor the plan have not given it full consideration, or else have some private interest which they believe would be sutserved by it. The people generally desire further improvements in Golden Gate Park, so that spacious plea ure ground can be comnpleted, and above all they desire thorough work upon the streets and sewers to put an end to those evils which now constituts a dis- grace to the municipality. These things will cost large sums of money, and until they have been carried ont and paid for the taxpayers will not be willing to enter upon any costly projects of a purely ornamental nature. Azcarraga’s threats against the United States on behalf of Spain may not be intended as a joke, and in the absence of this explanation are hard to account ior. A country that can’t sub- due the Philippine Islands and is helpless bsfore the defiance of little Cuba should at least cultivate the virtue of modesty. 0ld World scientists who have found that medicinal virtue is inherent in lizards and toads are hundreds of years behind the times. Any Chinatown apothecary could have told them the same thing years ago. It is eaid that liltle is stolen in the Klondike, and this tri- umph of principle has been extensively lauded. As the few who do steal, however, are hanced for 1t, possibly principle is receiving too much credit. | | for the whole people. A FLAW IN THE REFORM. CORRESPONDENT defends the civil service entire, and specifically in the respsct wherein we recently pointed out its flaw. Passing by what is said of the case we used as an illustra- tion, in which we went no further than the trial record, we in- sist that in the non-excepted classes occur places of trust, of financial responsibility, and that the accounting officer is left by law powerless to protect himself against the malfeasance of subordinates who are furnished to him by automatic operation. The fact that he may choose between three persons at the head of a class is not a relief, and in no way removes from him the risk of complete responsibility for a subordinate, who, as our correspondent clearly proves, is not responsible to him. One point is entirely lost sight of, that the law fixes the qualifications required of thz appointee taken from the three who head the list. The giving of a bond or security in any form is not among those qualifications. It is not there, for a reason which occurs at once to any one familiar with legal construction, because it would enable the selecting officer to nullify the operation of the entire law by fixing a qualification unattainable to the selected appointee. It is true that bonds are exacted, as our correspondent says, but the judicial deci- sions are uniformly against their enforcement, because their exaction is not authorized by law. When the security is given by a surety company its cost is the reduction by its amount of the salary of the selected appointee, and the surety in that form would, we have no doubt, bs voided by the courts if the question were presented to them. In such a situation of legal doubt, of risk to every account. ing officer, of irresponsibility to him of his civil service subor= dinates, it seems clear that the proper course is for Congress to perfect the law by providing a security running to the Gov- ernment direct. This will prevent the nullification of the law which might result by letting the security run to the selecting officer with power to fix its amount beyond the reach of the selected employe, and it will zlso put the entire service in its proper relation of direct responsibility to the Government. Without this, we repeat, accounting officers assume a risk too great for a prudent man to carry. The system under which they are bonded at all is open to high criticism. The President appointsand the Senate confirms these officers, acting This being done the whole people im- mediately rise above any further responsibility and a few bondsmen are asked to stand between the whole people and any loss which may result. The statute of limitations does not run against a ‘Federal bond. The proper auditors of the treasury may close an offi- cer’s accounts at the end of his term and pass a receipt in full, but that does not discharge the bond. Years aftzr some error may be discovered and suit may lie against the bondsmen, who plead in vain the final settlement and receipt. Now, when to this ironclad situation is added the bonded officer’s responsibil- ity for his irresponsible civil service subordinates an intolerable condition arises. Again we advise the defenders of the civil service system to avert consequences serious to that reform by assenting in time to an amendm:nt justifisd by reason and experience, lest the increasing necessity causs sweeping inroads upon the whole body of the civil service law. » The melancholy gentleman who flooded his Interior with ink, thinking to wash himself out of this world of woe, is stil here. However futile the method he chose his use of the ink was more to be commended than the habit of employing it to write a long letter for the harrying of survivors, as others of a pessimistic turn of mind have often done just before going per- manently hence. There is reason to regret that Sophia Parounoff should have been sentenced to Siberia just as the world had grown weary of the saffron twin’s yvowls from Cienerosis, a rare butincurable mall ady of the infantile inteliigence. The predicament of Miss Parounoff will tend to aggravate a aisease that had reached a stage of comparative quiet and aroused a8 hope that coma was about to ensue. ‘When a man known locally as “‘King of Bunko-steerers' is released from jail on hisown recognizance people begin to realize that a recognizance 1s a valuable thing to keep on band, and wonder what is the difference between it and a pull. THE FORECLOSURE SCHEME. ENATOR MORGAN’S presence in San Francisco has given our people another opportunity to deciare their opposition to any form of compounding the debts of the Central and the Union Pacific companies, and the manner in which the Benator was received amply demonstrates that the opposition bas lost none of its force or fervor with the passage of time. The spirit animating the audience which gathered to hear the Senator on Monday evening was not the ougcome of curios- ity to see a distinguished man, nor even of a desire to show at- {ention to an eminent and honored guest. IL was a spirit of California patriotism. The audience met to bear and applaud tie statesman who stands among the foremost in opposition to the schemes of the railway monopoly that threaten to harass our industries and prevent our prosperity even more in the fu- ture than in the past. P Benator Morgan made no attempt at an exfended argument on the Pacific roads’ debts. It was not necessary that he should do so, for our people are familiar with the issue, and have long ago made up their minds concerning it. His speech was nota- ble by reason of the simple and plain terms in which he stated the salient points of the contest. Keep in mind, he said, the fact that the roads were built at public expense for the purpose of establishing rapid and safe communication between the East and California. They were paid for by taxes upon the people. The railroad companies have defaulted in their obliga- tions, and are now seeking to induce the Government to com- promise with them on terms which the Senator estimates would entail a loes to the people of upward of $50,000,000. The rights of the people and the interests of the Goyern- ment in the roads have been seriously compromised by the action of President Cieveland in making what Senator Morgan points out was virtually a private contract with a New York syndicate by which on the debt of the Union Pacific alone the Government will lose $25,000,000. So bad is the complication the Senator declared he would feel as if he were holding a post-mortem examination on the railroad interests of the State ii it were not for his confidence that the voice of the people properly expressed will induce President McKinley to undo the wrong that Cleveland com- mitted. It is to that end, therefore, we must direct our en- ergies. California bas in the past protesied many times against schemes designed to perpetuate the domination of the railroad monopoly. On the whole these protests have not been ineffect- ual. Refunding schemes have been defeated as often as they have been brought forward in Congress. It now remeins to be seen whether we can defeat the new scheme, which 15 even worse than refunding. McKinley has rid the country of many forms of Cleve!andism, and it is with hope as‘well as with justice that we can urge him to put an end also to this scheme concocted by Cleveland for the spoliation of California in the interests of a New York eyndicate. When a militia warrior souses his cantain with the contents of a soup plate it may well be said that the institutions of the land are tottering. The affair took place at Modesto. The cap- tain’s uniform, it may be assumed, was mayred, discipline received a facer, and the soup was absolutely wasted, the last being perhaps the most melancholy phase of the somber episode. Vigilantes at 8kaguay seem desirous of having ‘crooks im- pressed with the truth that a man who by a confidence game wins all the money in sight and gets his neck stretched is not much abead on the deal. Between the yellow faver tbat has broken out at the South and the gold fever raging along {ar northern trails there scems to be littie choice. PERSONAL. Juage D. R. Prince of Fresno is at the Grand. H. H. Scovel of Los Angelesis at the Baldwin. E. L. Rehm, a merchant of Sonoms, is at the Lick. T. P. Black, a merchant of San Jose, is at the Grand. Dr. 8. 8. Bogle of Monterey is registered at the Lick. Phil Hirschfeld, a merchant of Los Angeles, is at the Lick. A. C. Rosendale, a merchant of Pacific Grove, is at the Grand. State Senator D. A, Ostrom of Yuba County is at the Grand. Alexander Besack of St. Petersburg, Russie, is at the Palace. Judge H, T. Lamey of Denver arrived at the Palace yesterduy. Dr. A. M. Gar lum is at the Lick. A. Manassee, a tanner of Napa, is & late ar- rival at the Grand. Lieutenant William Braunenreiter, U. 8. is at the Occidental. State Senator William Johnston of Court- land is at the Grand. J. F. Denendorf, a real estate dealer of San Jose, is at the Grand. C. J. Parker, a real-cstate dealer of San Jose, is a guest at the Grand. 1. R. McNoble, an attorney of Stockton, is registered at the Grand. Dr. Franklin J. Tower ot Milwaukee, Wis., 18 a guest at the Occidental. Emmett Riggins, a contractor of Fresno, isa guestat the Cosmopolitan. A. Krauss of Bristol, Eng., here on a visit to friends, is a guest at the Palace. Gzorge A. Parker, a large land-owner of Visalia, is registered at the Russ. M. B. Harriman, owner of the Bonanza mine of Sonoma, is a guest at the Lick. Among the recent arrivals at the Occidental is Mayor C. H. Hubbard of Sacramento. A. Kohn, a merchant of Portland, Or., is among the recent arrivals at the Grand, W. E. Luman of Butte City is spending a fow days at the Grand accompanied by his wife. Brad Barnar, a mining operator from Lon- dou, England, arrived yesterday at the Grand. Juiius Paul Smith, proprietor of the Olivena vineyard of Livermore, is a guest at the Occi- aental, W. Stoddard of Merced, accompanied by his wife and daughter, is staying at the Cosmo- poiltan. A. W, Simpson, a lumber merchant of Stock- ton, is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Simpsoa. M. Butler, who is identified with the dairy interests of Point Reyes, iz registered at the Cosmopolitan. George Johnston, s large land-owner of Pleasauton 18 at the Occldental accompanied by his wife and family. J. R. Garrett of Marysville, one of the oldest merchants of Yuba County, is at the Lick, ac- companied by his wife. Colonel James A. Hardin of Sants Ros rived at the Russ yesterday. He owns cattle in the three coast States. A. 8. Jeffs, the Varsity baseball captain of Stanford University and & member of the joot- ball team, is at the Grand. J. W. Parsons, the champlon cyclist of Aus- tralia, will leave here on the 16th for Australia | in the stesmship Mariposa. John C. Lynch, Collector of Internal Rev- enue as successor to Welburn, is at the Bald- win, registered from Cucamonga. Colonel A. W. Barrett. adjutant-general of the California National Guarg, is at the Cali- fornia registered from Sacramento. W. Stairley, Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of California, is at the Grana, registered from Sacramento, Colonel L.S. Morris of the Unitea States army srrived at the Occidental last night from the East, accompanied by his family. H. W. Patton, a former editor of Los Angeles, W. B, Creighton, a Los Angeles journalist, and Thomas L. Beaity, also of the City of Angels, are guesis at the Palace. 8 €. Walker, United States Tmmigration Agent at Tacoma and Seattle and an ola resi- dent of West Virginia, is in town, having come down to renew his friendship with several of tne Wheeling guuboat party. He is at the Baldwin. D. E. Maxwell of Fernandino, Fla., general manager of the F.orida Central and Peninsuia system of railroads, and Walter G. Coleman of Jacksonville, Fla., general traveling agent of the same line, both accompanied by their families on & tour of California in & private car, 1eft here last nigat for Portiand, Or. Among the arrivals at the Caiifornia yester- day were two young Parisians now on their way home after having spent two months and & half in this country, principally in the min- ing districts. One 1s Le Bret of the Paris Natlonal School of Mines, to which the French Government admits only thirty-three students each year, and the other s T. Join-Lambert, a university student. r of the Napa Insane Asy- N, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept.7.—At the Grand Union—E. Hutchinson, J.W. Bodefeld; Grand— G. von Gerlohten; Imperiai—W. 8. Miller, E. E. Woife, M. Willard, A. W, 8t. Pear, M. Gardner, Westminister . L. Griffiths; Metropolit; L. Kiehl; Sturtevant—J. Lightner; Amster- dam—F. L H. Noble; St. Cloud—J. W. Murray, P. 8. Dolan, F. W. Olcott. Wheat is jumping, Fajrly humping. Wi b an upward pace is pumping, Aud the farmer wears a smile ne’er seen before, Gold is pouring, Migers boring, Unknown Arctic fields exploring. 2 For the mililous which the earth has held in store. Silver's dropping, Theorles poppiug, While the Pops their eyes are mopping, As the mortgageors are paying off their debts. All 18 hust'e, All is bustle, Work for brain and work for muscle, The Calemityiies are paying u, their bets. —New York Sun. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Member of Congress—I want to get that speech copyrighted which Idelivered in the House just before the c:0:e of the session. Copyright Clerk—All rignt, sir. Who's the author?—New York tun. “We have some kind of celamity shriekers with us all the time,” sighed Uncle Alien Sparks. “Justassoon as the wail about hard times begins to stop and things look a little cheerful here comes the katydid predicting an carly frost.”—Chicago Tribune, He—When I first met my wife I thought she was one of the most economical women in the matter of clothes I had ever known. She—You met her at the seashore, didn’t you?—Petit Journal Pour Rire. “Why do you say we are perfectly safe if we clope on a railroad train’'?" ‘‘Because papa won't pursue until he can get & pass.”~Chicago Record. There are men on the way to Klondyke who have never felt themselves equal to the task of shoveling snow off ten square feet of sidewalk. —Roxbury Gazatte. HIS CIRCUS DAY3S GONE BY. Nebraska State Journal. A Lincoln attorney who is a church member was figuring on taking his son to the etreus to see the animals this year, as has been his cus- tom in the past ever since the youngster has been large enough to appreciate the menag- erie attractions. The son is 15 years old, ana he recently announced to his father that he was big enougn to go elone. The father was wken considerably aback, for he had mot counted ou being deprivedof the excuse for going this year that he had always used belore. *‘Why do you want to go alone?” the father asked. “Idon’t know,” replied the boy in a reluc- tant manner. ““Yes, you do,” said his father. *You would not tell me that you want 1o go alone without areason. “Well, papa,” he said, *‘I want to stay out in the animal tent longer than you do.”* The man’s wife was in earshot, and he has Dot yet heard the last of the 1ncident. ORIGIN OF *‘CRAPS.” I there is one game to which the Savannah negro is devoted above all others it is craps, City or country, it is all alike. On Sunday the country negroes gather in little groups in the shade of the trees, out of signt of the “big house,” and play ail day long, or until the wages which they received on Saturday night are gone. In the cities they gather on the wharves, in the corners of warehouses, or any favorable spot out of sight of the “cop,”’ and play for any amcunt they may possess, from coppers to dollars, The Savannan bootblacks and tewsboys, like those of any other city, gamble away their earnings, and many & game is carried on in the lanes, the pleyers often becoming so in. terested that they lose all thoaght of the po- liceman until that worthy appears in_their midst and nabs & couple of the players. White boys play the game, too, but negroes of all ages and sizes “shoot” craps. There is only one other game which equals craps in fascina- DEFENDS THE LAW. D. J. 0’Leary Cunnot Discern the Flaw in the Civil Service Regulations. To the Edutor of the San Francisco Call— Sir: In theissue of your pap°r under date of ‘August 29 is presented au editorial titled “A Flaw in the Reform,” which deels with the matter of a fiducial employe of the postoffice, who having become & defaulter, suit was in- stituted on the bond of the ex-Postmaster to reimbur:e the Government to the extent of the loss. The demurrer of the Government to the answer of the ex-Postmaster was sus- tained, which in effect holds the Postmaster responsible for the defalcations of his subor- ordinate. As the title of the editorial indicates, the occasion and circumstance is taken advantage of to presume there is & flaw in the civil ser- vice rules and laws to an extent that allows of an aceounting officer beiug forced on an ap- pointing officer and such appointing officer 1 Ty | =t ‘\\,, W S N N R N N N R THE SEDUCTIVE GAME OF CRAPS. tion for them, and that is policy, and, as policy is more llable to be interfered with by the police, craps has all the advantage. There are fascinations about tlie game pe- culiarly African. It is not without its in- tricacles; the ordinary ‘‘come seven, come eleven” plan of the game is simple enough, but there is & crowd around the players, ana there may be half a dozen interested ir the game and a dozen side bets. How they map- age to keep the run of the game is u mysier to the ordinary observer, but they do so with unerring accuracy. Fights over crap games are rare, The expressions common to the game are amusing. “New dress for de baby.'” exclaims one. “See my gal Buunday night,” exciaims another, ‘‘De little number two,’’ sa; that unlucky number shows up. you.” says auother, meaning that he bets that number wiil not turn up before the ‘lucky seven.” And so it goes. The City Council of New Orleans has just pessed a law making tne game of Crapsil- legal. Itdoes not mutter where it is played, whether in the streets, in the club,or al bome, craps is specially singled out as the most depraved of gambiing games, not (o be tolerated anwhere. The game, according to a writer in Harper's, is of New Orleaus origin and over 100 years oid. Bernard de Marigay, who entertained Louis Philippe wnen he came to Loulsisua, and who stood seventy years ago at the head of the creole colony of the State as its wealthiest and most prominent citizen—he was entitled to ecall himself Marquis in French—was the inventoror father of “craps,” and brought it in high favor the fashion- able gampiing of the day. When he laid off his vlantation, just below the then nlt{ of New Orleans—it is now the Third District, but was then the Faubourg Marigny—and divided it up into lots, he named one of the principal streets “Craps,” and expiained that he did so because he had lost the money he received irom the lois on t] eet in this favorite game of his, It re. main Craps street until a few years ag when a rrmeszw. raised against such a di; reputable name for a very quiet and respecta- bie street, especially given to churches. After Bernard Marigny’s deatn craps as & gamblin; zame descended in the sociui Scale, and w: finally monopolized mainly by negroes and sireet gamins. —Savannah (Ga.) News, LAFAYETTE ON NAPOLEON, New York Commercial Advertiser. There bas recently come to light a hitherto- unpublished letter of Lafayette, written in 1827 to M. Comte, a political reformer, who had, in a violent article, denounced the abuse of decorations which (hen existed, at the same time incidentally attacking Napoleon to the extent ot denying that he possessed any courage. Laiayette's letter was written with the intention of bringing back the reformer io & less biased view of thivgs. “I do not blame,” as you well must know,” he writes, ‘‘vour jusi indignation and your harsh expressions concerning the greatest and vilest of crimes, thut of making use, to the prejudice of the rights and iiberty of & nation, of tue powers accorded by truthiulness and o atiain by the worst means the worst ends. “Nevertheless, although I admit that in cer- tain political emergencies, notabiy that of the eighteenth Brumaire, Bonaparte did not show presence of mind, {t seems to me tnatthe word ‘fear’ cannot be allied with the name of one of the greatest leaders of history, that is tosay, of the man who, amid the material and moral perils ot the most terrible battles, best retains the faculty of judging ths enemy’s tactics, of directing his own and of seizing the favoraplecrisis. But this, I confess, does not prevent the fact that. iu some oircumstances, be may have feit an agitation out of keeping with the rest of his lie. “Ido not like auy better than you do the substitution of ribbops, cordons and medals for the fine institution ot the Order of Honor; but, perbaps it is not inexact to add, while saying that men of talent have been known 10 accept the littie red ribbon, thal perhaps some of them donned it when it was thrust notonly at great generals, but also at ilius- trious men of every description; and never, without a doubi, has any associstion, even that of theinstitute, had ong i1s members more talent than the possessors ot the first medals of honor. You wonld not make use of your Customary sagacity were to think that my criticisms are in the inter { those whom you attack. * Emtlie snares my gratefulness for your kind care ot my two Snildren, Oscar and Frederic. - All my family joins with me to send you, as well as Mme. Comte, a thousand affectionate messages. We should be so glad to see you both at La Grange. Speak of us to M. Say and to all his family. * * * Good-by and ranch love, “LAFAYETTE."” “La Grange, July 29, 1827. TAKING C(ARE OF ITSELF. Globe-Democrat. Nobody is paying the slightest attention to the treasury gold reserve these days, because everybody knows it can take care of itself. It {s, indeed, doing justthis. The withdrawals of gold for exportation ran the gold reserve down to $140,000,000, but since the exporta- tion stopped, the fund is increasing, anu now tis about $144,000,000. When the gold 1m- portation seis in a lew weeks hence the re. serve is likely to goup to U ighest figures touched since recumption began. A FOPOCRATIC IDEA. New York Mall and Express. One plank in the platiorm of the Iowa Populists demands “a sufficlent amount of sourd and flexible circulating medium wheu- ever and wherever needed.” Doubtless this means that when & man runs out of money he should be able to step right into the United States treasury and stuff his pockets. held responsible for the acts of ore whom he had no voice or part in appointing. such is not the case, and inasmuch as your article in- vites an expression ¢f opinion, &s a civil ser- vice advocate I submit the following: 1 glean from investigation that the indi- vidual defaulting in the case at hand was not a civil service appointee. He was the per- sonal appointee of ex-Postmaster Buckus, held by ex-Postmaster Bryan on his own jersonal responsibility, and therefore the civil service laws had not, in the slightest measure, any- thing to do with his appointment or reten- tion, An inquiry and investigation will demon- strate that the classified civil service does not include those positions of a strictly account- ing snd financial uature, and tnat in those cutes of a quasi-financial character included in such elass fication there is nothing to pre- vent, and, in fact, bonds are insisted upon. The truth of the first recitgl is evidenced by the position of cashier of the Custom-house, and the recital as to bonds is borne out by the occupants of the money -order aud stamp departments of the postoffice, in which de- partments bonds are exacted ranning in favor of the postmaster. The intimation that an academfe testis not proof of charscter may be admitted, but it must also be stated that no spplication for an examination can be made, unless the names of several citizens are wppended, guarantee- ing and vouching as to the character and in- tegrity of the app icant. Furthermore, tne statement that an appoint. ing officer 13 deprived of the liberty of appoint- ment is true oulyin a small degree. The civil service law provides that the names of the three highest eligibles shall be ceriified to the appointing officer, and from such certifi- cation he shall make his sppointment. This allows of his makipng his own selection. The history of the conduct and faithful- ness of officials so selected will bear more than & favorable comparison with appointments made, it ean be suil, of men entirely unkown to an prmmmz cfficer, but suggested and in many instances dictated from political sources, There has never existed on the part of civil service advocates a desire to in any manner §2t & premium on dishonesty, but on the con- trary they have aiways been guided by a de- sire (0 in every possible manner surround the selection of officials with care, and having once been selected, protected in.their tenures, if they be honest and faithful, regardless of their political affiliations or religious belief, The official 50 protected necessarily is inde- pendent in the exercise of the right of suf- irage, for it matters not to him which poiiti- cal party is successful, he has voted on the questions and policy of his country ag his own resources and judgment have dictated, The instituiton of e¢ivil service laws and rules in the United Ststes, considering the great number of those it affects, cannot by the most optimistic be presumed 10 be perfect in all its details, but its practical application will demonstrate what smendments or changes are necessary 'o perfect it. The proof of the cupaciiy and jaithfulness of civil service office-holders is & part of the record of all the departments of the Govern- ment, and it will continue to reflect eredit on its originator and those Wno espouse it @s long as those clothed with authority to en- force 1ts provisions do so sincerely and faith- fully. Respeeifuily submitted, S:ptember 4, 1897. D. J. O'LEARY. KANSAS CORN CROP. Topeka Capital Speculators have quit talking of doliar wheat and are now predicting 50-cent corn. If their expectations are realized it will do more for Kansas than the immeuse rise in wheat. Corn 1nst year was slow sale at 15 cents in Eastern Kansas, from which point it has aavanced nearly 100 per cent, and is still going up. It 1s probable that the farmers of tnis State will have more corn on hand alter harvest this season than in any year intbe history of the State, with the exception of 1889, when the erop sold at from 12 to 15 ceats. MEN AND wOMEN. Emperor Francis Joseph, who is 67 years old this month, will celebrate next year the fif- tieth anniversary of his ascent to the throne. Mrs. Mary Raulett is an American lady, and moreover & wholesale dealer and contractor insatlors. She has bullt up an extensive bust- ness, and from her offices she will supply qualified men for any branch of the service atamoment's notice and at moderate prices, The Archduchess Elizabeth of Austria is certainly among the most interesting girl roy- alties of Europe, for & great many Austrians freely assert that she may some day be Em- press-Queen in her own rignt. The orphan Archduchess sirongly resembles her unfortu- nate futher, the late Crown Prince of Ausirta, whose painful suicide attracted so much tention some years ago. King Osear I1.0of Sweden and Norw be made a “deetor quadruplex” of -:i ’x;-:: versity of Vienna on September 18, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his :eceni'on to the throne—recelving the honory degree of doctor from each of the ‘four facuities of the university, theology, law, medicine and phi- losophy. It will be the first time that Vienna has granted the four degrees atonce to the same person, and speecial permission had to be obtained from Emperor Francis Joseph. Itis asserted that the ouly other occasion on which a university has graated 1ts four de. grees at once was when Jena honored Geethe, in 1826, at the celebration of the fiftieth an: niversary of hisarrival in Wetmar. ANOTEER BOLEFARD. Supervisors Addressed by the State Highway Com- missioners. A Proposed Road From San Mateo County to the Famous Balboa Highway. Following out its policy of tryingto con- nect the county seats of this State by roads that will permit of essy travel, the State Department of Highways has ad- dressed the following communication to the Board of Supervisors: DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, ; SACRAMENTO, CAL., August 31, 1897.§ Gent'emen : We desire’ to cail the atied tion of your houorable board to the importanco o opening a public highway or road from the county line of San Mateo County,at & point 500 feet west of the right of way of the South- ern Pacific Railroad Company, thence north 10 & point on Ocean avenue near the Ingleside Road House, and connecting with Balboe ave nue to Golden Gate Park. The Suvervisors of San Mateo County have a propo road in view to connect with this road at the county line, and are awaiting the action of your board before incurring any expense. We un- derstand that all the property in the City and County of S8an_Francisco that this road will traverse belongs o the Spring Valley Water Company and that they are ready and wiliing to give the rightof way providing the City will build the road without any expense to them. We would call your attention to an act of the Legisiature, statutes of 1897, page 361, chapter CCXLVIIL sections 1 and 2, and sus- gest that ihe City acquire said road under thisact. We desire also to call your atteation to the fact that this road if constructed will form a part of the sysiem of pubiic highways That this department is seeking to have estab- lished, connecting the principal centers of population and county seatsof the State, and which are to be laid out on lines that will vest serve the inierests of the traveling pubiic. Awaiting your reply We Are, yOUrs very re- spectiully, EPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS. By A. L. HEN ecretary. THE QUEEN ON HER WAY HERE, Hawali’s Ex - Euler Left Washington Monday and Will Ee Here Saturday. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii will be bere next Saturday. 5 Sbe has engaged apartments at the Cali- fornia Hotel, and in all probability will remain in this City until the arrival hers from England next month of her niece, Princess Kaiulani, whose proposed visit to Hawaii after an absence of ten years was first announced a forinignt since in THE AL b Litinogalani left Washington last Mon- day; she passed through Chicago yester- day. ©She is traveling privately, accom- panied by only two personal native Ha- weilan attendants, who were formerly her retainers. Tney are man and wife. The man attends to the ex-Queen’s minor money affairs and bis wile acts as Liliuo- kalanl’s companion ———————— Entries of Driving Races. Follow:ng is a list of the entries for the races to be given under the anspices of the Golden Gate Park Driving Association of San Fran- cisco to-morrow at Oakland Racetrac! First race, 2:50 class—F. Gormett’s Mamie Wilke's, F. McGraw's Ruby Wilkes, (] Onlandt’s Klondike, N. Johnson’s Annie G, A. Echwarta's Klttie. Second race, 2:28 class—E. Stewart’s Dion, J. G. Chesiey’s Pescal, L. Kichardson’s Matile B, E. Afgeltinger's Our Joe, J. C. Oblandi’s Haviland, W. Uber’s Kate Brady. Third race, free for all—J. Cusick’s Videtts, E, Cerciat’s Fred Wilkes, J. 5. Chesley’s Lady Thornbill Fourth race, 2:30 class—L. Richardson's Maud /. ieek’s Delmas, F. Gormeti's agher’s kan Jose, M. Riordan’s Thompson's Ivan, £ Circlat's Bisnop Hero. Fifth race, 2:40 Patchen, J. Menae' Van Nets, F. G. O’ ————— Stole a Horse and Buggy. James Hopkins and Ed Bohen jumped into a buggy at Golden Gate avenue and Taylor street Monday atternoon about 2 o’clock and drove off. The rig_belonged to Kennedy & O'Keefe, grocers, Eddy and Pierce streets. Late Monday night Bohen wrs arrested on Eddy and Mason streets by Policemen Ring and McCottery with the rig in his possession. He was booked jor grand larceny, and a war- rant was issued yesterday for Hopkils’ arrest. e e e class—A. Ecnwartz's Lee Haverly, E. Stewari’s Lady CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's* R g £pECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses snd public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * SomIRSIE sy sa THREE MORE CROPS 10 RAISE. Chicago Inier Ocean. A Bryan organ pompously observes: “The G. O. P. can’t live four years on one wheat crop.” It won'ttry. Itexpecisto raise three more during the four years, and then one every yesr for a score of years to come, and pay for all in money worth 100 cents on the dollar. The Republican party is not out on & wildeat picii “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been nsed over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with perfect success. 1t :00thes the child. softens the zums, al- 1ays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and s the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world, Be sure and sk for ¥rs. W insiow’s Soothiug Syrup. 25¢abottie b on @ e CoroxADO.—Almosphere is perfectly dry. soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- won further north. Round- trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days board at the ifowsi i3 Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 pec day, APPL7 4 New Montgomery street. San Frauclsco, g LUXURIANT hair with its youthful color assured by USINg PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDERCOR: the best cure for corns. 15 cts. TomEil L HUBER'S Orchestra has returned from Del Monte. O1de1s received at Sherman, Clay & (0.'s. STRIKINGLY ILLUSTRATED. Mobfle Regisier. The evils of resort to mob lsw are most strikingly illustrated in the recent case in Louisiana where three Italisns were lynched for supposed complicity in & murder. Wea read the evidence at hand at the time and were convinced that it was not strong enough 1o convict the men. Now, the actual crimiaal has been discovered, who admits his guilt. This, however, will not bring the three vic. tims back 10 life, 0K WHISKEY Is Five Years In Wood Before Bottling. E. MARTIN ©® CO., 411 Market St. Ean Francisco. [ OURBON.