The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1897, Page 6

Call v dOCTOBER o, 1807 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor, SATURDAY.. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE... .710 Market street, S8an Francisco Telephone Main 1863, EDITORIAL RCOMS.. veses..517 Clay street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL..... .One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. .Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o'cleck. 1503 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentvcky sireets; open tiil 9 o'clock. A NEEDED PUBLIC IMFROVEMENT. HATEVER view may be taken hereafter of the details V V of any proposed plan for recovering to the city for park purposes the land lying between tne City Hall and Market street, there is not likely to be any question of the de- sirability of the improvement itself. The sale of the land in the first place was the blunder of a false economy and the ill effects of it increase in proportion as San Francisco grows in wealth and population. At the present time our most important munieipal building, the center and home of our civic life, is shut away from the main thoroughfare of the community by a range of small un- sightly structures, snd loses half of its architectural dignity by lack of fit surroundings. It is located on what are virtually bick streets, and only partial and inadequate glimpses of its facsdes can be obtained from any point of view whatever. The opening of a grand plaza between the building and the main thoroughfare of the city will not only provile an orna- mental garden for public enjoyment ina place where one is much needed, but wili add vastly to the appearance of both the street and the edifice. It wiil go far toward the accomplishment of that dignity and beauty that are characteristic of every city HOW WE STAND. T is sometimes difficult to determine exactly to what to I attribute the verbal rage of our valued contemporary, the Chronicle. That esteemed journal sleeps through most of the exciting local events of the day. During the carly part of the late Supervisorial unpleasantness it observed with watchful care the concert of Europe, and argued strenuously in favor of maintaining the autonomy of Greece. Now that the trouble at the City Hall is over, however, and the old Board of Super- visors has been restored to power, it extends the glad hand to the *‘Solid Eight” and jumps upon THE CALL with the natural vim of one who has been enjoying a long period of slumber. It is related of Daniel O’Connell that once, desiring to anger a Dublin fishwife, he called her a * paralielogram.” But we have applied no such irritating term to the Chronicle. In fact, we have not referred to it in any manner whatever. We have assumed that, having been aroused from its siumber by the noise of the Supervisorial difficulty long enough to write one editorial deprecating Mayor Phelan’s haste in seating the new Supervisors, it would go to sleep again and let affairs in this troubled city take care of themselves. If THE CALL has said anything to offend this enraged contemporary, it is sorry. We will go a step farther than this; if the Chronicle will fix our responsibility for disturbing its slumbers, we will apologize. In the mean time, however, it may be well to remind our contemporary that in making its points against us, it should treat the truth with proper respect. When we said that the new Supervisors ‘‘were unfortunate in the manner of their selection,”” we cast no reflection upon Mayor Phelan or the new Supervisors. That phrase, when read in the article in which it appeared, meant merely that we considered it unfortunate that the new Supervisors should have been seated in such a man- ner as to have made their tenure uncertain. As Mayor Phelan seated the board, we have said that it was his duty to proceed according to law. THE CALL had nothing to do with the Mayor’s attempt to eject the old board from the City Hall Such being the case, it is not unreasonable for us to complain because twelve first-class, honorable citizens have been dragged Into the political arena and made fools of by a Mayor and a few lawyers who should have known how to proceed in order to avoid disastrous results. As the Chronicle usually sleeps through local episodes of this kind, it is not expected to be thoroughly familiar with the facts. Butif it will take the trouble to examine our record in whose people are infused with artistic aspirations and civic patriotism, and, therefore, will be a most important step in the development of that ““San Francisco, the beautiful,”’ which is to be in the future. The Grand Jury is to be commended for giving attention to this work. 1t is to be hoped the investigations undertaken will furnich data upon which estimates may be made as to the prob- able cost of the improvement. Until these estimates are forth- coming it will be too early to pronounce judgment upon the subject excep: in a general way. A thing good in itself may be too costly, but there is no reason why this should be so. The buildings which at present incuomber the tract and shut off the view are of comparatively little value, and the cost of purchase ougzht not to be much in excess of the price of tae land itself. Pictures of the City Hall as it now appesrs from Market streei and as it would appear if the proposed park were opene 1 were published in Tue CALL yesterday and others to-day. These show more clearly than words can do how greatly the perspective woula be improved by the change. Ouar municipal capitol would ¢then Lave an ap- proach worthy of its importance, and visitors to the city would have a proof that San Francisco aims at the accomplishment of artistic effects along her thoroughfares not icferior to those which bave made the capitals of the Old World famous as well as bezutiul and draw to them tourists and students from all parts of the globe. Of course Mr. Ebanks did not bang. Having committea murder, been caught and conv.cted, his chance of being sub- jected to this salutary process vanished at once. Now and then somebody is hunged, to be sure, but generally the act is volun- tary and due to drink or dyspepsia, and in no sense a reward of demerit. If a law were enacted providing specifically that to apply itself with its accustomed fervor to overturning the law, there would be some hope that the thud of the reformatory trap would be heard oftener. Tne way not to do a certain The Santa Monica Justice who married a suspected mur- derer and the womsn expected to furnish evidence against the whirlwind of indignation about his head.” Itought tobe a fierce one, and never abate until it had blown off the aforesaid head, officially considered of course. The loss would be incon- ing attention to the fact that before a silly person mounted the bench a lot of silly persons had been t ogether contriving laws. TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. ECAUSE the McKinley administration has determined to carry out an arrangement made by the Democratic ad- minisiration ot Cleveland jor settling the claimso! the and some Democratic politicians of the State have seen fit to de- nounce the determination as a public scandal and to insinuate that it is essentially corrupt and dishonest. they resort to a degree of misrepresentation that closely ap- proaches downright lying. They declare the administraton bas made with a New York syndicate a deal which virtually ignoring the fact that the salieged deal was made not by Me- Kinley, but by Cleveland, they swear themselves into a passion and then tear the passion to tatters in a frantic effort to make So loud has been the shouting of these scandal criers that it seems the noise of their raving has reached London, and some people there, not knowing the nature of yellow jour- to inquire whether the statements are true. To thess Attorney- General McKenna replied in a dispatch to our Consul-General at Londor, published yesterdey: ““The Union Pacific has not est bidder on November 1" It is strange that it should have been necessary to make the explanation since the fact has been 80 well understood by the public in this country, but, perhaps, of waiting for it to perish of its own foulness, The dispatch of the Attorney-General may pat an end to the false rumors in London, but they will not put an end to the the statement that $20,000,000 or $25,000,000 of tne people’s properly has been given away to the syndicate. It reiterated the o'd charges of a “scandalous scheme,” and again misrepre- that the pian of settlement was arranged by Cleveland and was supported in Congress by Democratic votes. The original deal made by Cleveland and other Democrats job to sell the interests of the people for less than their true value. 1t may have been the intention to let the syndicate have the road at the minimum price fixed, and not sell it at that time an advocate of foreciosure under the Cleveland regime, and as it had been but recently on the payroll of the Southern Pacific it was, by its relations to the Democratic whether the deal then arranged was a corrupt job or not. The yellow journal bas no right, bowever, to epeak for a Republican administration. Cleveland is ont of office. The minimum price to be taken for the Government claims on tne Union Pacific, and will get as much more as the capitalists of the world will offer when the road is sold. The public inter. 1o assassin should go to the gallows,and the legal fraternity were thing is to legislatively provide for the doing of it. prisoner, thus destroying ber value as a witness, has raised “a siderable. S.ill the act of the Justice may have a vaiue in call- Government against the Union Pacitic Company the Ezaminer In order to give an appearance of force to their charges gives the syndicate control of the road for $50,000,000, and, an incredulous public believe they are telling the truth. nalism, have become so much alarmed as to think it necessary been sold to the Schiff syndicate. It will be sold to the high- it is just as well at times to hit a lie when it crops up instead screechings of the yellow journal here. Yesterday it repeated sented the whole situation by ignoring the well-known fact in his Cabinet and in Congress may have been a scandalous public auction to the highest bidder. The Ezaminer was at party and the railroad syndicate, in a good position to know new President has obtsined an increase of $5.000,000 in the ests ase in safe hands, this connection, it will discover that in only one respect have we criticized the new Supervisors. We have dissented from the tax levy on what appear to us convincing grounds. Otherwise we have hailed their appointment as an effort at re- form which should receive the support of all good citizens. If we have complained because Mayor Phelan has made a fiasco of the affair, that proves nothing more than that we believe he has sacrificed the interests of the city either to his personal ambitions or to a careless desire to exercise power without ref- erence to results. In other words, we object to trifling, and trifling is the only verdict that can justly be entered in this case. The genuine civic patriotism’ with which we credited Mayor Phelan at the start, and the “general satisfaction”” with which we said his action would be received, were predicated on the supposition that the Mayor understood his business and was proceeding according to law. When subsequent events, however, dis- closed the fact that at the time the entire bar of San Francisco (with two possible exceptions) knew he was wrong, and that the Supreme Court is unanimously of the opinion that he pro- ceeded in defiance of law and in a manner certain to result in making fools out of all his supporters, we do not think that we should be charged with inconsistency for making what our valued contemporary would cali a gentle “*kick.”” THE FRAUDULENT - LIQUOR BUSINESS. NOTHER strong blow has been struck in the fight against the sale in this city of adulterated, counterfeit or frandu- lent articles of food and drink, Several parties have been arrested for selling liquors bearing counterfeit labels, and while their innocence will be presumed until their guilt has been proven in court, the very fact of the arrest will have the effect of patting the public on guard against tricks of the kind com- plained of in the charges made by the officers of the law. The offense the arrested parties are allezed to have com- mitted is that of selling as staple articles of Earopean manu- facture certain concoctions made in San Francisco. It does not appear that these compounds ars in themselves deleterious. Perhaps had they been sold honestly as genuine products of home industry and skill there woula have been no offense com- mitted. The charge made is simply that of violating the law of copyright, but that is enough. Food sold in this city should not only be pure, but it should be sold under labels which will let the purchaser know exactly what he is getting for his money. Beyond the fact that the sale of goods bearing counterfeit labels is a species of swindling that wrongs not only the pur- chaser, but the manufacturer of the cenuine article, there is a further injury done to the industries of those who sre seeking to find a market for home goods of a similar kind. The honest manufacturer who is trying to build up a trade for some new product of the State can hardly compete with the trickster who offers his goods under the labsl of some estab- lished brand extensively advertised and well known to the pub- lic. A vigilant and vigorous enforcement of the cooyright law is therefore one of the steps toward protecting legitimate home industry, and there will be general gratification in the punish- ment of any one convicted of violating it €chemers who induced people to flock unprepared into the Klondike are now being held prisoners by thelr victims and obliged to listen to threats of hanging. To hang a man is usu- ally regarded as in token of disapprobation, and, perhaps, the present instance is no exception, yet with the alternative of re- maining alive on a diet of icicies and gumboots the temporary inconvenience of being noosed might almost be regarded as merciful. And the schemers do not deserve mercy. g gl it s Indiana is merely hanging to tue ragged edge of civilization now, and nothing short of hanging the white caps who bave brought her to this situation can ever restore her to ber old place. There should be an open season for white caps all the year ‘round, a reward for their :calps, ana a medal for the re- ‘ormer securing the greatest number. —_— An Austrian Count has shot himself because rejected by an English governess. The rash man, had he tried America, might have been living now the pampered pet of some beautly dowered to her dimpled chin with gold. And nobody, until after the ceremony, would have inquired about the genuine- ness of his title, PR E R Oakland has seldom harbored a freak more irritating to the nerves than its “Rev.”” Young, who professes to be a teacher of men, but really ought to be & pupil, instructions being whacked into him with a police club. Cannot the general ordinances providing for abatement of nuisances be so construed to cover his case? When a guilty man cannot be sent 10 jail because the e x- pected witnesses fail to appear on time the next best way is to send the witnesses to jail when they do appsar. Tais partica- lar form of dereliction has bacome so common as to be annoy- ing. Nobody wants to see the laugh on Justice all the time., A question has been raised as to whether or not Weyleris a traitor. Even the shadow of such a suspicion calls for prompt action. Let the gentleman pe garroted without delay and a rigid inquiry be made thereafter. SR At last & man has reached Ban Quentin under sentencs of death and with & prospect that the sentence will be carried into effect. Naturally the case is regarded as extraordinary. Putting bad liquor into good bottles does not tend to save wear and tear on the Jining of the humaa stomach. PERSONAL. Dr.J. M. Fox of Montana is & guest at the Palace, Cartain W. Newhall of Sesttle is a guestat the Russ. ' A. B. C. Dowdell, 8 merchant of St. Helens, is at the Baldwin, e William B. Frowe, a young San Jose capital- ist, is at the Baldwin, George A. Knox of Stockton is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Joseph Goldman, a merchant of Merced, isa late arrival at tho Grand. Wiley W. Stone of Arcat Arcata Bauk, is at the Grand. Samuel Prager of Los Angeles, the ex-Super- Visor, is registered at the Grand. E. D. McCabe of Merced, the State libraran 1s making a short stay at the Grand. Charles Rule, s landed proprietor of Dun- cans Mills, s registered at the Grand. casbier of the W. G. Eelis, a hat manufscturer of Phila- deiphia, arrived at the Palacs yesterday. Dr. W. B. Campbell of the Southern Califor- nia State Hospital, is registered at the Lick. Rev. J. W. Pulley and family of Willets, Mendocing County, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Taylor returned yester- day from their trip to China. They are at the dwin. Mr. and Mrs. Hay Walker, young society people of Pittsburg, Pa., arrived at the Palace last night. A. W. Rhude, & prominent mining man of Chiapas, Mexico, is staying at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel Dr. and Mrs. Chesholm of Mexico arrived here yesterday in the City of Para and are at the Baldwin. Rev. W. L. Githens, a missionary, on his way home to South Carolina, arrived here yes- terday. He is at the Grand. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti, the lawyer, of Jackson, who is one of the Code Commis- sioners, is a late arrival at the Lick. E. D. McCabe of Sacramento, late secretary to the Governor and now State Librarian, is in town. He has a room at the Grand. Commander Richardson Clover, U. 8. N., ac- companied by Mrs. Clover and family, re- turned to the Palace last night from Calistoga. Charles L. &cheiffelin, manager of the hotel at Redondo, is at the Baldwin, registered from Los Angeles and accompaniea by Mrs. Scheif- felin. Traffic Manager Moss of the Valley road an- nounces the appointment of F. W. Forsey as station agent at the new station of Del Rey in Fresno County, Rev. W. L. Giphens, & missionary who has been £t work in China, arrivea here yesterday and registered at the Grand. He is on his way home to South Curolina. Among the passengers who arrived here yesterday in the City of Para from Guatemala were F.G.John, Mrs. M. Linebert and Mrs. Ben Cohn of Guatemala. They are at the Baldwin. John L. D. Borthwick, U. §. N., together | with Mrs. Borthwick and Mrs. Gill of New York, were passengers here yesterday on the City of Para from Panama. They are staying at the Occidental. 8. B. Hynds of Los Angeles, late of the Santa Fe system and now general mansger of the Los Angeles Terminal Rallway from Pasadena through Los Augeles to San Pedro, was in the cily yesterday on business. William E. Hunt, late United States Consul at Hougkong, arrived here yesterday on his way home to Greenville, Miss. He is at the Occidental, accompanied by Mrs. Huat and child ana by J. O. Hunt and Miss Stone. Isaac V. Brokew, a New York merchant on his way home from a trip through Vancouver, Hongkong and Honolulu, arrived here yester- day in the China, ac ompanied by Mrs. Brokaw and his sons, Howard Crosby Brokaw and George T. Brokaw. The Brokawsare at the Palace. George B. Robbins of Chicago, manager of the Armour car line that carries fruits, meats and produce, is a recent arrival at the Psiace, accompanied by Robert Graham of Sacri mento, manager of the Fruit-growers’ Expre: which, in effect, is & Pacific Coast branch of the Armour system. NUGGETS OF HUMOR. 'Twas a battle "twixt the Oystersand the Bean. vots, fierce and wild; 'Twas a scrapping match of large dimen. sions, too; But the Bean-pots were victorious, and with scientific ease They placed the gentle Oysters in the stew. —Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. She—If it wasn't for the old bachelors there would be no filris. He—If it wasn’t for the flirts there would be no old bachelors.—Chicago News. “What an air of well-bred repose young New- rich ki but he was naturally lazy to begin Chicago Record. The man who does the weather forecasts for the slmanac was drawing up his bulleiin for the next year in the sitting-room at home. “Graclous!” his wife screamed, *“why, you've vut down stormy for the second week in Au- gust?” ““Well, that's all right.” “All right, when we've promised to spend the first fortnight of August with the Brad. leys at the seaside!” The prophet recognized his error with a nod. He crossed out the word he had put down ena wrote, “‘Uninterrupted fine weather," —Tit-Bits. “‘Doclor, is there nota certain scientific jus- tification for the command of etiquette not to eat pie with a kaife? “On, assuredly. It would be far better for & person to eat only the knife.”—Detroit Jour- nal imme & bite o’ your peach.” *Well, gimme de stone.” Ui, Ill give you de stome. But its mighty lucky for you dat de peach ain’t a pear.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. You will notice in life’s voyage, While floating down the stream, That the milk of human kiudness Eeldom raises any cream. —Chicago Record. ~&TO-MORKROW-@- WILL CONTAIN THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF tHE SUNDAY c;m} “A REMARKABLE WOMAN.” A STRONG STORY, BY W. C. MORROW. There will be a Review of the History of California - Stage Robbers. An Article Showing Why Men Remain Single will be Found New and Interesting. There will be Many Other Bright Features and Striking Illustrations in Plenty, = AUGTION OF THE KING'S TRAPPINGS. BY MIRIAM MIGHELSON. Onee upon a time in sn isiand kingdom ot the southern seas there dwelt a dusky queen. Some ye-np:he reigned till at last one day her white subjects—a baker's dozen of them—rose ethro; 3 el oo 1?:; reason of their dlssatisfaction they explained was that the Queen had done in 1893 that which tiey themselves had compelled her brother, the late King, todo in 1887. Of course it IS apparent—to a revolutionist—ihat it is indelicate to do at one time that which may be done with perfoct proprieiy at an- other and vice versa. The revolutionists declared the Queeu'l: action | an cffc gainst good taste. Their sense of the fitness of things was outraged. They could no longer recognize as the head of the state one who was capable of doing the right thing at the wrong time, or the wrong thing at tne right time. So they revolted and set up a Government of their own. This Government they called a republic, because under it all men were considered free and equal—provided ooly that they held the seme opinions with an equal degree of fervor as did the revolutionists. One 0dd thing about this peculiar revolution is that it was a mi- nority revolution. The people did not rise against their sovereign; & many-headed sovereign rose sgainst the people. The sans culottes did not rebel against the better clad; the rich rebelled against the poor. It wasn’t a struggle for equal rights; it wasa fight tor exclu- sive privileges. It wasn’t that the psople were not satisfied; it was that the revolutionists—a dozen of them—iwere not. So they hoisted the red flag and a bloodless burlesque revolution followed. For a great republic had seen and sympathized with the revolutionists’ earnest desire to do away with a mild monarchy and in its placs erect that paradox—a despotic republie. If there is one thing we Americans pride ourselves upon it’s our distaste for the monarchical form of ggvernment, Better to be dis- franchised and oppressed by & republic than to be possessed of fullest liberty under a king! Of course, it was & little hard for the natives to appreciate the theoretical value of living in a republic, especially as the practical disadvantages for them were sc many and so hard to bear. Butitis a well-known fact that it takes an enlightened mind to really value liberty, and it became the auty of tne revolutionists to teach the blessings of a representative government—in which, by the way, the people were not represented. The people must be iree, the republicans declared. They would compel them to be tree, if necessary. No tyrant monarch should ovpress them ; 1f they were to be oppressed the revolutionists would see that the oppressing was well and thoroughly done. But at first the dozen-seated throne of the republic (this occurred in topsy-turveydom; everything is reversed in the South Seas, you must remember) the throne of the republic had to be made secure. It trembled and tottered with every trade wind that blew an American newspaper down to the islands. It shook and quaked with every political change in the great republic that had foster-mothered the smaller. . But after thirty months of alternate hope and fear—a period when eacn gory, gentlemanly revolutionist of them all knew not whether the islands would become a glorious republic or a degenerate king- dom—the case was decided, and in favor of the republic. Then dia the revolutionist, a dozen of nim, rise inall the majesty of his full power. He had been prudent—this was in the South Seas, § you know, where revolutionists are prudent—and had been content merely to keep his head above the waves and on his own shoutder: But now he struck out boldly. He resolved upon an utter destruc- tion of all ancient anti-republican memories. Not a vestige—that is, not & vestige that could be converted into mouey—should be left of the old-time monarchical superstition. He decided upon & measure terrible inits effectiveness, appalling in 1ts cold-blooded disregard of humanity. He decreed an auction! There in the lovely capital, where king eafter king nad dwelt, a tawdry, dusty auctioneer’s block for the sacrificial altar, a Minister of Foreign Affairs for high priest, the terrible but necessary deed was consummated. Not once did the brave, businesslike republicans falter, not once did they hesitate. The wonarchy was dead; let nothing live to re- call it! “What am I bid?” sang the auctioneer—if you do not bear in mind that this occurred in the South Seas yon may think it's a bit of comic opera—*‘what am I bid for this helmet, presented to Kalakaua by the Emperor of Germany? Look, ladies and gentlemen, upon this fine historieal relic! What am I pid—what am I pid?"” So the ladies and gentlemen of the republic bid; and Kate Fleld, who happened to b2 in Honolulu at the time, bid also; and u German, unreasonably, pngallantly loyal to his Emperor, bid also. For, to the German’s crude. unbusinessiike mind, there was some- thing shocking, something barbarously American. as he phrased it, in putting up at public auction & King's giit to a King. So he outbid the tnrifty adherents of the new republic and the indignant literary lady, and carried his Emperor’s present home with something of the feeling the devout worshiper might have for a shrine which has escaped defilement. As to the Hawaiians’ feeling in the matter this was clearly not the revolutionists’ affair. The royalists watched the proceeding with rage and despair. The associations, the sentiments that clung about the throne of the last of a long royal line, the personal mementos of their kings were to be scattered here and there all over the world, to be hawked about by curio-venders and sellers of souvenirs. But they were weak; they could not prevent what to them was desecration, They were poor; they could not outbid their congueror: However, to the prudent patriot, the vandal for revenue only, a dollar is & doliar. Business is business and not sentiment. In his zeal the Minister of Foreign Affairs left the weighty business of his oflice to his deputy and devoted himseli exclusively to getting good prices for the merchandise on hand. The disinterested patriotism of the South Sea revolutionist has been questioned by cynics, Butlet no man impugn his devotion to business. The massive candelabra which the French Government had given the sovereign of the islands, the exquisitely chased and jeweled sword, the gold-mounted trappings, which various sovereigns had presented to Hawail’s King, the monogramed, royal-crowned table service, the silver, the glassware, the royal orange-feathered staffs and necklaces and coronets—doubly valuable because the bird which furnished the leathers, just two feathers from each bird, was extinct— all went into the auctioneer’s maw, to be transmuted from bar,arous relics of a heathenish monarchy into bright new republican dol'ars. It was an excellent opvortuaity for bargains, and the careful, prudent members of the new government profited doubly, Killing the monerchical bird and the goose that should feather their own nes with one stone. Butafter a time the bidding flagged. Noteven & royal standard, nor crowned and monogramed wineglasses could tempt the languid buyers. So the auctloneer—that is to say, the Mirister of Foreign Affairs—announced regretfully that the rest of the goods was for the present withdrawn. And when the high functionaries of the republic came, in quiet and seclusion, to count over the proceeds of the transaction it was discovered that not enough had been realized to pay the Attorney- General's salary for the next six months! The question is: Were these South Searepublicans too shrewd, or weren't they shrewd enough ? Sinc: that time, a year and & half ago, no sale has taken place. But bargain-hunters veed not despair. When the United States shall take pcssession of the Hawiian Islands in the great settling of old dobts there may come a second republican housecleaning. Perhaps, too, in time the stolen diamonds of the Ha- walian crowns may be recovered, with other valuables lost in the turmoil of the two-penny revolution. Then far and wide over land and sea shall this ad vertisement go forth: 3T WASATWELVE EADED REVOLUTION.” E HIGHEST BIDDER | |NOT ENOUSH PROCEEDS |TO PAY THE AT TORNEY |3 (GENERALS SALARY. | AUCTION! AVUCTION! SALE EXTRAORDINARY! : The Royal Mementos of the Hawalino Kings ars tnis daytobe placed on sale, - All the Personal and Private Property collected since the firstof the Kamehamehas - resigued will basold at suction to the highest bidder. : Terms—U. & Goid Coin. UNCLE SAM, Auctioneer. OMENS OF FLOURISHING DAYS. Pacific Christian Endeavorer. The rapid advance of industrial pursuits in renewing their operations, with the general extension {n aH the various lines of commer- cial affairs, #nd the greatly increased totals in the clear B%-house balances, are inconirovert- ib'e proofs that the long period of stringency 1s drawing 10 a permanent ending. The future is fraught with tokens of profit, #nd he must be either ignorant or necalessly skeptical regaraing the fulfillment of the flai- tering omens who does no:award a decided credit to them. Through these predictions the long *“winter of onr discontent will he made glorious summer,” and the vapid croak- ings of the unbelievers will be “in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” LOVE VS DUCATS. The vioiins were laugbing all the while— My german f.vor was white Plerrot; And, wi h the most intoxicating smile, She gaye me Culumbine—his g.rl, you know. We danced a gra ely measure throngh. She wooed my very sub e wile; And with her eves she vowed she loved me, too! The violins were laughing all the while— and sta rt b 1511d: “Were you a picture on a tile I'd worship you from morn (ill night " violin 8 were laughing a 1 1he while— Were 1 a picture, sir,” sue sa d, “you might!" And ye: wo sat alone upon a stair— Ob. smallest, whitest hands, s0 warm In mine! Though bo.h Knew that we oughtn't 1o be there— Nou I, Pierrot, nor she, my Columbine. For when her mother’s carriare blocked the way, Tt was not | who led her down the aisie; It was the man who married her to-day— And violina were lavghing all the while, “ToM s+ ALL, In Tru FADS OF CO .POSERS. Pittsburg Dispateh. Genius has a queer way of doing things. Haydn, when in the humor for composition, always put on his best suit and made his toilet as if going to a court ball. Another of his fads was to write hils musie on the finest paper that could be purchased. Gluck had his piano carried out into a meadow and, with a bottle of champagne on each side of him, went at his work like a wild man. Paisiello composed whole of his operas- he Barber of and a”—while in bed. Sacchini could do nothing without having his :l'o favorite cats on his snoulders. Cimarosa wi when he composed his music, while Sartial- ways withdrew to a Jonely chamber lignted dimly by a single lamp. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Frederick W. Lincoln Jr., who is the oldest surviving Mayor of Boston, b2gan to serve 1858, and with the exception of three years served until 1866. Mrs. F. W. Fackler of Dayton, Ohio, fallen heir to an estate in Germany valued o $20,000. Her title to the estate was establish.q by a femily Bible in her possession. q Rev. Mr. Saunders, a member of the East ] Ohlo United Brotnren Conlerence, recenly re-/ signed because the conference decided that its members should not use tobaceo. It is thought that David J. Brewer, Associat Jus ice of the United States Supreme Cou will ba chosen successor to Rev. Dr. Ric 8. Storrs ot Brooklyn, as president of t} American Board of Commissioners for Foreig Missions at the annual meeting of the board at New Haven this month. The last survivor of the old band of aboli- tion agitators is Parker Fillsbury, who lives at Concord, N. H., and isstill in comparatively good health at the age of 88. his birth y. having been the same as that of Lin Gladstone and Darwin. Mr. Pillsbury’s wife, whom he married in early manhood, is als, stiil living Coionel Wiiliam K. Morrison of Illfnois, president ot ihe Interstate Commerce Cc merce Commission, is preparing to retire i private life at the end of his tern in Janun next. Colonel Morrison hins been a memt of the Interstate Commerce Commission for ten years. There will be a lively contest for the position, as the office carries with it « salary of $7500 a year. NEW CALIFORNIA WONDERS Seb:storol Times. There 18 no need of going to the Geys Petrified Forest or tne Yosemite to see the wonderful works of natare when we freaks of equal curiosity lurking at our One day this week our reporter drov the Jim Robinson ranch, a few miles south. west of town, for the purpose of wrl strange and almost unknown spot. Back in the foothills on this ranch are two mammoth caves, the sight of which isa pay for the trouble one experiences in rea ing them. The caves are about 300 feetapa each being nearly fifly feet high and run back into the hiliside almost twenty About midway between the base and of one of the caves is a stratum of be tiful sea shells, whicn look es thou they have been there since time immemor Just below ere two huge bowlders, & fire glance at which would impress one wi idea that they were the work of a skiilful son. Upon closer inspection, however. evident that nature alone is the trowel 1hat made such a periect, soiid formation. Upo, one of these rocks are engraved the initials and date “W. E.. 1841." T ner bears ihe inscription L. B. and C. E,, 1847.” The most peculiar thing about the second cave is a large tree which grows out of a solid mass of rock. The tree is about eight feet dlameter, proj:cts three feet from the granite wall, and then, turning upward, reaches the top of the cave. These two wonders are indeed worthy of at- tention, and our people, before going abroad to see curiosities, shouid find out what they nave at home. ANSWERS TO CORKESPONDENTS, THE ALASKA MINES—P. C., Oakland, Cal. is stated that noman who wants to go (0 mines in Alaska should have iess than 5 when he arrives at St. Michael to enable hin 10 reach the diggings. It SAN QUENTIN—F. H. and J. W., City. If pro- nounced as by the Spanish Quentin issounded as if written Kwen-leen, but if pronounced es by the Fremch, there is no combination of English letters that can reproduce the sound. THE RAINFALL—R. W. S., Santa Cruz, Cal, The average 1ainfall at Sania z is 25 8. The weather station at Seattle isa compara- tively new one, and from the menger records appears tha: the average rainfall there is 9. A KLONDIKE CoMPANY—H. M., Salinss, Cal The records of the County Clerk of San Fran- cisco show that there was filed in his office on the 7th of August, current year, the artic es of incorporation of the Klondike, Yukon, British Columbia Gold Mining and Developibg Com- pany. A Cousiy First REMOVED—B. L. J. C., City. A man has a daughter and a son. Both chil- dren marry. The daughter has a daughter, who in ime marries ana she &iso has a daugh ter. The son becomes tne father of a son. The grandchild of his sister is & cousin, once removed, 10 his son. | MANUSCRIPT—C. A. E., Cily. Manuscript for the use of publishers, if wriiten, need not be on any particular kind of paper. It should be written very plainly and on one side of the paper only. * Tne siz: that publishers prefer s commercial note. Type-written manuseript is more in favor than wiitten manuseript. Pub- ,hlx;e‘;-s are not partial to manuscript thatis rolle: CrTizexsHIP—W. W., Alameda, Cal. In no State of the Union can an alien obtain his finel papers of citizenship until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that he madea declaration to become a citizen two years b- iore applying for final papers, and has restded contiuuously within the United States for at least five years and within the State or Terrie tory in which such court is held atleast one year. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c1b. Townsent'v* ses, epecs, 15¢ up. 33 Fourtn st* Ll JUDGE MAGUIRE on ‘‘Government by Injunce tion’ in this week’s Star. by EPECIAL information daily to manufacturars, business houses end public men by the Prass Ciipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— UNDERSTAND Wwhat *‘Government oy Injunce tion” means by reading what Judge Maguire will say in a special article 1n this week’s Star. Ask your newsdealer for it. i — LORD TENNYSON AND DANTE. FINE eyegl Westminster Gazette. 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