The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TH DAY, JULY 21. 1898. Call L. JULY 21, 3808 JO}"I‘NiD. SI;RECKELS, Propnetor. e e e i Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. Fu Telephone Main 1858 EDITORIAL ROOMSG..........217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year: per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE... .- NEW YORK OFFICE...... ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.... ..Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mail, $1.50 .908 Broadway SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'ciock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untl. 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSENMENTS Columbta—*“Liberty Hall " Alcaz Faust Morosco's Tivoli—"The Impudence of Corneville” and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Eddy streets, Specialdes. boating, fishing. every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfiel Market and Seventh street: This day, July 21. Library, at corner 13 0 cl0CK D. m. LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN. of Agnews Asylum becomes more apparent. Not only have ndalous acts been broadly charged, but there seems to be a tendency on the part of the board to override the law. That the mem- bers do not desire investigation is an excellent rea- son why there should be one without delay, sparing , and clearing all who may d. The latter will be glad The wishes of the former !\l ECESSITY for investigation of the manage- none who may be gt have been unjustly a to have the truth known. are not to be considered. Frank H. Gould, by his official conduct, has won the title “C of Agnews.” The law does not ap- pear to have made provision for such a personage, and the law carries weight. Mr. Gould does not seem to have realized this until recently, but he does now, and the thought gives him pain. He has no right to retain as employes people of improper character, nor | to expel those who do not conform to his personal opinions. There is more to be looked into than the sensational allegations according to which the asy- | lum reeks with immorality; the superintendent is | unfit, and some of the attaches wantonly gross in | their conduct, yet protected by superiors. | The State Board of Lunacy formulates rules under which asylums are supposed to be governed. Ap- parently the plan at Agnews has been to set aside these rules whenever they interfered with the ambi- tion of a favorite to secure a position. An investiga- tion will afford opportunity for explanations. By | all means let the trustees have the “sweeping inquiry” they profess to desire, and if it sweep the institution clean so much the better. @DVICE FOR POPULISTS. HE Populists who at Sacramento the other day Tnnmin:ncd Judge Maguire for Governor are not likely to derive much comfort from the pro- ceedings on Tuesday evening of the local Demo- cratic Committee of One Hundred. This committee was appointed by “Whispering” McNab, Frank Hood Gould and “Hallucination” Alford of the State | committee to take charge of the Democracy of this city, and its members mostly hail from Republican districts. Yet it is a fairly representative Democratic body. The test of a committee’s democracy in this region is the number of its members who want office. An overwhelming majority of the Committee of One Hundred want an office. At its meeting on Tuesday evening the committee adopted a resolution indorsing Maguire for Gov- ernor. This action was opposed by a Democrat named McKinne, who thought it would injure the Judge’s prospects, complicating him, we infer, with his friends the Populists. In short, McKinne made it plain that his theory of Maguire’s campaign is the true Democratic theory, namely, addition, division and silence. In McKinne's judgment it will be fatal to let the Populists know that the Democracy is unanimous for Maguire, as in such'a contingency they may suspect that in the event of his election he | will put, as the gentleman tersely expressed it, “none but Democrats on guard.” However, the Committee of One Hundred differed | from McKinne entirely. The resolutlon was adopted with only one dissenting vote (McKinne's), and thus, so far as the Democracy of San Francisco is repre- sented by the committee, it is pledged to the little Populist “giant” for Governor. It is quite probable that any advice we may tender the Populists at this juncture will be spurned. The leaders of the bewhiskered party do not take kindly to advice under any circumstances, and good advice they always disregard. But if they will listen a mo- ment they will hear of something to their advantage. Common prudence should teach them that the great necessity of the present moment is an understanding with Maguire as to what he will do about patronage if elected Governor. It ought to be apparent to the Populists that the Democratic rank and file, through- out the State are declaring themselves in on Maguire without reference to their rights. If Maguire is suc- cessful these Democrats will certainly capture him. This is evidently the Democratic plan of campaign. What the offiee-secking members of the hirsute party should now do is to demand a pledge from Maguire or take him off their ticket. Otherwise, in the event of his election, they will not get an office. With the childlike faith which has characterized them from the first, the Spanish are said to believe that the United States has purchased Cuba, and that their exit from the island is not in token of defeat. But this faith will be wrecked some time, and the re- sulting row will be heard to a great distance. So many cases of wife-beating are being _hcard of lately as to cause a vague yearning for the introduc- tion of the reformatory whipping post. Cubans seem to be out for blood, but would pre- AFFAIRS IN THE PHILIPPINES. CCORDING to dispatches from Washington A the officials of the administration are much more worried over possible trouble with the native insurgents in the Philippines than with the Germans. This throws a strong side light upon the situation at Manila and helps to a better understand- ing of the meaning of the recent action of the Ger- man warships there. ‘When a short time ago the news was received that the German gunboat Irene had interfered to prevent an attack of the insurgents on an island in Subic Bay, and had immediately retired upon the appearance of an American war vessel, the story was at once seized upon by many people as a proof that Germany was hostile to the United States, but did not dare to face our fleet. The sensational jingo press that seems de- sirous of fighting the Germans as well as the Span- iards made the country ring with indignant com- ments, and the whole incident was misrepresented and distorted from beginning to end. . The commander of the Irene made an explanation to Admiral Dewey at the time, stating that his inter- ference against the insurgents had been solely in the interests of humanity. He had acted simply to pre- vent an island on which hundreds of Europeans, men and women, had taken refuge from being cap- tured, looted and plundered by men who are little bet- ter than savages. As soon as an American war ves- sel arrived to accept the surrender of the island and protect the property and lives of the refugees the Ger- mans gladly stood aside. In this action, as explained by the Germans, there was nothing for us to complain of. The fact that our own officials are now fearing an outbreak of the insurgent natives is itself a proof that the commander of the Irene acted with discretion as well as with humanity in staying the attack at Subic Bay until our own ships came up. We do not need the aid of savages to defeat the Spaniards, and we certainly do not wish them to take advantage of the success of our arms at Manila to carry the torch and the sword among the homes of European residents. With the arrival of reinforcements for Dewey there will be no longer any cause for anxiety among Europeans in the Philippines, nor will the German or any other foreign warships at Manila have excuse for interfering in any way whatever. Our own force there will then be sufficient to compel the surrender of all Spanish garrisons and to maintain peace and order in all places where European residents live. That will put an end to all possibility of complica- tions with Germany, and, accordingly, at Washing- ton, no further fear is felt on that sore. The insurgents of the interior, however, remain to be dealt with. Our experience in Cuba has not given us any exalted idea of the general character of the insurgents there who claim us as allies, and the Cu- bans are far superior to the mongrel races of the Philippines. Reports from all sources show that a good deal of friction has arisen already between Gen- eral Shafter and the Cuban leaders clamoring for con- trol of Santiago. Something of the same nature, but to a greater extent and of a worse degree is very sure to occur at Manila avhen we capture the city and ba'k the insurgents of their expected booty. In that direction lies our possible trouble, and not with anything the Germans have done or are likely to do. JUGGLING WITH PROMOTIONS. E have repeatedly of late directed attention to W the defects of the present system of promotion in the navy, and have pointed out the injus- tice of moving a man up to a higher place on the rank list when that implies not so much a promotion for him as a reduction of some other officer. The Baltimore Sun now notes a specific case which shows the injustice in a striking light. It says: “Under existing law there seems to be no way by which a naval officer can be rewarded for exceptionally bril- liant service except at the expense of some other officer equally deserving. A monstrous instance of this recently occurred. Captain Clark of the battle- ship Oregon brought his ship, which was designed for no such service, about 14,000 miles, and at the end of that long journey she was ready to go into action. After performing this great feat Captain Clark found himself lower in rank than when he started onhis voy- age. This had occurred by reason of the promotions of the captains at Manila.” Upon a case of that kind no comment is necessary. The fact itself carries the moral irresistibility with it. It should be noted, however, that since the Balti- more Sun reviewed the case Captain Clark and the Oregon have accomplished other feats of renown in naval warfare. All reports of the sea fight off San- tiago agree that to him and his battle-ship the chief glory of the conflict is due, Stationed at the eastern side of the harbor, the Oregon was out of the way when Cervera made his rush for escape to the west- ward. Nevertheless by her extraordinary sailing power she passed the Jowa and engaged three Span- ish ships, the Teresa, the Oquendo and the Vizcaya, in turn, and mainly by her guns they were driven, battered and burning, to the shore. Captain Clark, however, is still lower in rank in the navy than he was when he started from San Francisco. The New York Times argues that Captain Clark"s rank will be made up to him when the promotions are passed around for the Santiago fight. That much may be readily admitted, but where will he stand then? If by the promotion he gets he is simply given his former relative rank hewillnothave beenadvanced | at all. Moreover, the Manila heroes, after having been put above him, will then be once more placed be- low him, and they also will have no promotion. It will be seen that the present system is simply a process of shuffling. One shuffle after the victory at Manila puts Captain Clark down, and another shuffle soon to take place will put the Manila men down. The thing is more like a comic opera than the acts of a great nation. There is but one ra- tional method of dealing with the problem. The system of promotions in the navy should be entirely reorganized. The ranks of admiral and vice-admiral should be restored so that there may be absolute pro- motion for the higher officers, and the navy persohnel bill should be enacted so that members of the staff and enlisted men may also have a chance to rise. These things should be required of Congress this winter. They have been postponed too long already. Of course the war is somewhat depressing to Sec- retary Alger, but his gloom has doubtless been ac- centuated by the necessity for signing his name to a paper awarding the contract for beginning work at San Pedro. Camara’s best ship is reported to have been dam- aged, but it hasn’t a thing the matter with it compared with what it will acquire a few seconds after meeting Watson. e Persistency wins. Zola's determined effort to fer that Americans and Cubans do the shedding of it. break into jail has been successful THE VALLEY ROAD. ATTERS for congratulation among the peo- /\/\ ple of San Francisco and the San Joaquin, and indeed throughout California, are to be found in the report of the affairs of the Valley Road, made at the annual meeting on Tuesday. It is a re- port of steady progtess in the past and a programme of future progress, and therefore carries with it that kind of encouragement which rests upon the sure basis of work performed. It is now two years since the Valley Road began operating, and the financial report shows for the year just closed a large increase of profits over those of the preceding one. Notwithstanding the heavy ex- penditures entailed by the extensive construction work carried on during the year, there is still, according to the report, a sufficient amount of money on hand to push forward the build- ing of the road from Stockton to Point Rich- mond and to carry on various other contemplated im- provements. The construction of the road southward has been continuous from the start. In September last year the line was opened for operation to Visalia, and in January following it had reached Bakersfield. Work is now in progress on the line fror Hanford to Bakersfield, and nearly all the buildings required for the business of the road along that part of the route are completed. The most important work before the directors of the road at present is the completion of the line from Stockton to Point Richmond and the opening of di- rect communication with San Francisco. Of this work it is reported that the heavier portions have been completed. Satisfactory progress has been made at both ends of the Franklin tunnel and con- tracts let for road work six miles at each end, so that the line will be practically ready for operation as soon as the tunnel is completed. So near is the opening of the line that the con- struction of two steel ferry-boats is under considera- tion and the work on thein is expected to begin in the near future. When these are completed San Fran- cisco will have that direct competitive communication with the rich and growing country of the San Joa- quin for which her merchants and her manufacturers have so long waited while bearing as best they could the grinding exactions of the Southern Pacific mo- nopoly. While the reports for the year show the brightening prospects of the road itself, it should not be over- looked that the greater benefits resulting from the construction are not to be found in the report. These benefits are not in the profits derived by the stockholders, but in those that have accrued to the people of the San Joaquin and of San Francisco. They are manifest in the reduction of freight rates, not only by the Valley Road, but by its rival, the old-time monopoly. By these reductfons a vast sav- ing has been made to all producers and shippers in the valley. Every city, town and village along the line has felt the good effects of the saving thus made, and the whole country and all its people are more prosperous than they were. DR. COGSWELL’S FOUNTAINS. N a communication published Monday Mr. J. H. l Culver asks us a pointed question. He desires to ascertain our reasons for thinking that it was proper to remove the Cogswell fountain at the junc- tion of California and Market streets, we having re- marked to that effect a few weeks ago. We do not know exactly how to answer Mr. Cul- ver's interrogatory. He must be aware of the fact that the fountain had ceased to be useful, having in- curred the resentment of the people of its immediate neighborhood, and it is quite probable that the weal of the city demanded its removal. It was manifestly vain to maintain a fountain at which nobody would drink and the sight of which angered small boys armed with cobbles. Our opinion was that the Cogs- well fountain at the foot of California street, having fallen into innocuous desuetude, like all worn out | things, was properly removed. But on the main proposition we agree heartily with Mr. Culver. The treatment accorded to Dr. Cogs- well’s gifts in this city has been outrageous. Making due allowance for all the doctor’s eccentricities, the spirit of his philanthropy was high and noble. He gave the city an endowed technical school and at- tempted to beautify its streets with fountains. The people accepted the school and stoned and demol- ished his fountains. In a less barbarous community than this the act of the crowd who lassoed the foun- tain at the foot of California street and pulled it down would have encountered severe punishment. Here it is regarded as a rare piece of humor. When Dr. Cogswell, angry at the ingratitude of our people, attempted to recover possession of the Poly- technic School property we heartily sympathized with him. He was justified in thinking that a com- munity which would treat philanthropy as his phil- anthropy had been treated would, immediately upon death, sell his school property and go on a pic- nic with the money. Certainly Dr. Cogswell had no reason to believe that anybody was grateful for his gift. Several thousand dollars’ worth of fountain ma- terial presented to the city by him has been allowed to go to ruin at the City Hall; yet somebody pro- poses to put a figure of Admiral Dewey at the foot of California street. How do we know that our hu- morous youngsters will not lassoo the old seadog and pull him down? We are expecting daily to hear that somebody who does not like Mayor Phelan has as- saulted his fountain at the juncture of Market and Mason streets. On one great historic occasion this spirit of in- gratitude and envy inflicted almost irreparable dam- age upon the State. About 1883 the late Senator Stanford contemplated giving his millions to the University of California. With a view to encouraging his design Governor Perkins appointed him a regent. But the legislative session of 1883 was stuffed with pin-headed statesmen who regarded the railroad with hungry eyes and its president’s money with desperate yearning. Stanford’s name came before the Senate for confirmation. The pin-heads arose on their hind legs and flapped their ears. To prevent rejection Governor Perkins withdrew the name. Soon after the magnate established the Stanford University. Those who think the mean spirit of envy which has characterized the treatment accorded to Dr. Cogs- well’s fountains in this city inflicts no damage upon the country should reflect for a moment on the glories of the State University with Stanford’s mil- lions behind it. It is our opinion that future his- torians will hold the pin-headed Senators of 1883 re- sponsible for the diversion of this money. If some one does not single them out and erect them as Macauley | erected Barere, upon a pinnacle of infamy so high that nobody will ever be able to lassoo and pull them down, we are laboring under a mistake. However, we are still of opinion that Dr. Cogs- well’s fountain was properly removed. Mr. Culver makes an argument which may well shame us, but we think the fountain should have been removed, if for no other reason than to obliterate a conspicuous evidence of municipal meanness AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Judge D, R. Prince of Fresno s a guest at the Grand. J. L. Burham, an attorney of Red Bluff, is at the Grand. E. C. Sawyer and wife of Hollister are staying at the.Russ, William Curtis and wife of Nogales are stopping at the Russ. Dr. Ferguson and wife of Bakersfleld are stopping at the Palace. J. J. Kemble, a merchant of Red Bluff, is registered at the Palace. F. A. Hihn, a capitalist of Santa Cruz, Is staying at the Occidental. E. Y. E. Chase and wife of San Diego are staying at tn~ Occidental. B. U. Steinman, ex-Mayor of Sacra- mento, Is stopping at the Palace. C. A. Storke, an attorney of Santa Bar- bara, is registered at the Grand. State Senator W. F. Prisk of Grass Val- ley is stopping at the Occidental. E. M. Matthews, a prominent business man of Gilroy, is staying at the Russ. 8. D. Marjoribanks and Newman Smith of London are stopping at the Palace. U URPUV NS Colonel Kowal- o £ sky of lethargic % COLONEL g tendencles will ¥ KOWALSKY i never sleep with % TOOK A NAP, 1 that becoming o ease and repose 666 OEO O X QF 8 s Which character- ized his wakeful moments in the days of yore. He now holds one eye open when in his naps and this method of obtaining the ‘“balm to hurt minds” is changing the angelic dis- position of the colonel to one packed with moroseness and peevish impatience. One of Howard Taylor's supposedly humorous but certalnly risque stories was the mov- ing cause. The colonel has been spending a few days at Mill Valley to get away from the winds, fogs and dust of this glorfous climate, the discovery of which is credited to Francis Drake of historic fame. The colonel found none of these undesirable elements of weather in Mill Valley, but something else found him. Just as Howard Taylor reached the point of his story Colonel Kowalsky dozed, and with that dozing came his undoing. Jer- sey claims the palm for mosquitoes, but it 1s parading under false presumptions as the colonel will attest. The Mill Val- ley product is a sword-flourishing affair, and it raises lumps faster than anything on this earth. Taylor’s story would have enshrouded the colonel in oblivious slum- bers earlier in the game had it not been for the swarm of mosquitoes that had been hovering over his head and which he kept at a distance by much acrobatic effort. : The colonel's propensity for sleep caught him in the act of crunching a mosquito on his neck. The snoring that followed told the Insects of the feast prospective. For some ten minutes Mr. Morpheus sat upon the pent-up lids of Mr. Kowalsky and the mosquitoes took ageressive possession of all exposed parts of his body. When the victim awoke he had lost his {dentity. His face was lumpy and his nose was twice its normal size. Of course, several sweet things were sald by Colonel Kowalsky, but what did the mosquitoes care? Quick, hurried orders were given at once for the packing of the colonel's baggage. It was noticed when returning to the city that the colo- nel held one eye open, and he was asked what was the reason thereof. Hg re- plied: “Never again will T sleep with®oth my eyes. I have been reckless to my un- doing all my life, and now I shall be cau- tious. I need a lotion.” G. J. Hamilton, a prominent capitalist and land owner of Hollister, is staying at tne Russ. H. A. Jastro of Bakersfleld, chalrman of the Board of Supervisors of that place, is stopping at the Grand. M. Blackstock and wife of Ventura, where Mr. Blackstock has large business interests, are registerea at the Grand. J. J. Gotlobb of the Columbia Theater management has returned from the East, after an absence of several weeks. He has booked attractions for the Califor- nia, Columbia and Baldwin theaters for the coming season, and is sald to have many fine attractions to present. L. T. Moore, a retired merchant of Kan- sas City, Mo., and family are camping near Oakland. They have just returned from the Yosemite, where they spent an outdoor life for three weeks. camping paraphernalia comprises three teams and a great quantity of luggage. Three servants were brought with him from Missouri, and they are in attendance during the tri ——— e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 20.—J. A. Scott of San Francisco is at the Raleigh; Mrs. and the Misses Hilborn, wife and daugh- ters of Representative Hilborn, arrived in Washington to-day from the Maine coast; Representative Maguire and family will leave for San Francisco on Monday. — e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 20.—Carroll Johnson of San Francisco is at the Sturtevant. W. H. Holabird of Los Angeles s at the Manhattan. R. D. Davis of Sacramento is at the Imperial. e — NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Lord Beresford recently called the at- tention of Parliament to the insufficient pensions pald to men in the navy by which a continuous service man only re- celved 29 cents a day pension after thirty- two Years” service, and he advocated a small increase as asked for by the pen- sioners. In the course of his remarks upon this subject he referred to the fact that the “Chatham Chest,” established in 159, had been despoiled in 1814 and §25,- 000,000 to $35,000,000 had mysteriously dis- appeared and had not been made good. The “Chatham Chest” fund was com- posed partly of § per cent of the prize money pald voluntarily by officers and men and partly of the accumulations of 12 cents per month of wages for 200 years, the fund being intended to give pensions for wounds and other injuries received in the service. The sum total for this pur- pose was now only $6,780,000, the interest on which gave but an insignificant sum toward the object intended. The battleship Koenig Wilhelm, of 11,000 tons, building at the Germania Works, Kiel, for the German navy, is to be com- pleted and ready for trial in thirty-four months. The estimated cost is $3,360,560, exclusive of armament and torpedo out- fit. The ship will have triple screws, en- gines of 13,000 horsepower and a speed of 18 knots. Austria {s recognizing the value of economy in coal and has built a cruiser, called the Zenta, of 2326 tons, to have a maximum speed of 20 knots. She has two masts with auxiliary sail power spread- ing 6300 square feet of canvas or only about one-half the sall area required for full sail power. It is sufficient, however, for use when the state of weather war- rants substitution of sail for steam and thus saves much coal. ‘Germany Is getting the lion’s share of shipbuilding for the new navy of China. No orders are on hand at Elswick since the Hai-Chi and Hal-Tien, cruisers of 4300 tons and 24 knots speed, were de- livered. The ’'Hai-Shen, Hal-Shew and Hal-Yung, cruisers of 2050 tons and 19.5 knots, have been completed at Vulcan Works, Stettin, and it is rumored that more orders to that firm will follow as soon as the Chinese finances are in a con- dition to warrant additional increase of the navy. Four torpedo-boat destroyers named Hai-Lung, Hal-Nju, Hai-Ching and Hai-Hoha have likewise been com- Mr. Moore's | pleted at Schichau, Elbing, and are said to be vastly superior to the best bullt for the British navy. They are 193.6 feet in length, 300 tons displacement and with twin screw engines of 6500 horsepower and will develop a speed of 32 knots. There is not a boat built yet for any other navy that has come up to that speed, although it is estimated to be reached in the Albatross and Gypsy of 860 tons and 300 tons each, with horse- powers of 7500 and 7700. These boats are building at Chiswick and Gowan for the British navy. The recent book of Vice Admiral 8. J. Makaroff of the Russian navy has been translated by Lieutenant John B. Berna- dou of the United States navy and ap- pears in the General Information series, No. XVII, issued by the Office of Naval Intelligence. Vice Admiral Makaroff treats the subject of *“naval tactics” in all its bearings and his thoroughness and manner of explaining all that pertains to naval warfare {s so lucid and interesting as to commend itself even to readers who may not be familiar with the technic of warships, ordnance, electricity and tor- pedoes. Forelgn naval powers are. directing their chief attention to quick-firing guns and their adequate protection. In the German navy all guns up to and includ- ing 9.45 inch caliber are henceforth to be quick-firers. In the French navy the old style 14.5-inch breech-loaders are be- ing displaced by 9.45-inch and 6.47-inch quick-firers. In the British navy no larger caliber than é-inch is yet in use, but the number of guns carried is on the in- crease., Japan still holds on to 12-inch breech-loaders for the battleships, but is mounting 8-inch quick-firers on the armored cruisers under construction, and the remainder of the batteries are com- posed entirely of quick-firers. The largest quick-firers in the Russian navy are of 6- inch caliber and the ordinary breech- loaders are slowly being supplanted. The South American republics’ navy vessels, chiefly built at Elswick, have batteries entirely composed of quick-firers, rang- ing from 8 inches down to one pounders, and within a year the ships of the United States navy will have discarded ordinary breech-loaders of less than 8-inch caliber. THE DAYS THAT WERE. The lovely twilight lingers llke a spirit round the place; The sweetheart roses at the gate are me- mories of her face; The lilies lean and listen—the ghosts of lost deligut— The sunflower like golden star signals the silent night. This s the place I met her—there, in the TOSY years, ‘When life was all of hope and all its ways too sweet for tears; This is the place I met her—this is the dear, sweet place, And all the world is wondrous with mem- ories of her face. Oh, it may be that not for me another light shall shine Like the last light—like the past light that made sweet this life of mine; It may be I shall never see, for all life's grief and grace, The beam, the gleam, the stream—the dream, and over all, that face! Strange ways, strange days and lands and hands, and what we think is fate; But over all some crimson bands that bind a twilight late With rare star-sprinkled roses, with all their youth time grace, And those sweet lips that kissed me, and ever more that face! Let us forget! and yet—and yet—we will remember still The blood that made the rose so red—the ripple of the rill— The hills that climbed to heaven, and each remembered place That made the whole world sweeter for one dear woman's face! Dear face! I may not meet thee—I may not ever sight The phantom ship that bears thee from the watchfires of my night; But still the beam, the gleam, the dream, and evermore I see A face that makes life beautiful—the one sweet face for me! F. L. STANTON in Atlanta Constitution, ONE OF AMERICA’S FIGHTERS. The papers have given many short biog- | raphies of H. W. Lawton, now a major general of Volunteers, who commands one of the divisions of Shafter's army, and whose men were engaged in the des- perate assault at El Caney, writes H. S. Canfleld in the Chicago Times-Herald. They have told of his long years of ser- vice, of how he has worked himself up | through the lieutenancies to his present | rank, and of the training given’ him by | more than a quarter of a century of ex- | perience; but of the gigantic size, the | phenomenal strength and activity, the abnormal endurance, the utter fearless- ness and the inalienable picturesqueness of the man not a word. I have the honor to know him well, and, since I like men | whose basic manhood has not been ut- | terly refined out of them, I like him. Lawton reminds me always of Scott's Norman baron, Front de Boeuf. He has better morals, of course, as well as a very pretty taste in red wines and reed birds, but he is as big as the glant slain by Richard of the Lion Heart, is as direct in | his methods, and, in personal or general combat, every bit as savage. There is | plenty of the primal man in him. What he thinks he says. He has a strong sense of justice, but his temper is terrific and he is not gentle. He requires of his subor= dinates the utmost endeavor, and gets it. He asks no one to do work that he is not competent and willing to do himself. Nat- urally a leader, he goes first, and the more difficult or desperate the undertaking the faster he goes. Upon the gray granite | slab which covers the moldering bones of | & Confederate officer who sleeps on the magnolia-petaled uplands of Louisiana is an inscription: *“He never told his men to go on.” That will do for Lawton when he dies. He is six feet three inches high. He weighs 210 pounds, and nearlé' every ounce | of it is .bone and blood and tendon and | muscle. He is 55 years old and as springy as a youth. His capacity to go without food, drink_ or sleep is seemingly uniim- ited. “Macumazahn,” the Zulus called | Quatermain—‘‘the one who has his eyes | open.” Macumazahn Lawton will keep them open for a week at a stretch, when | necessary, and then walk, talk, eat, drink | or fight a dozen men to a standstill. He has lived a life of peril and hardship. His only rule of hygiene is a tub in the morn- ing, He has taken no sort of care of him. | self. Yet so splendidly was he endowed by nature that there is no perceptible weakening of his forces. Apparently he is as powerful and enduring as when I | saw him first. That was more than ten years ago. He had completed one of the most remarkable feats of stfength and | perseverence chronicled in the long annals of the Anglo-Saxon race, but he was as | fresh as a rose in the morning. | He stood on the Government reserva- | tion at San Antonio surrounded by the | tawny savage band of Chiricahua | Apaches, whom he had hunted off their feet. Near him, tactiturn but of kindly visage, stood {loun§ Chief Naches, ai- most as tall as he. In a tent close by lay Geronimo, the medicine man, groaning from a surplusage of fresh beef eaten raw, The squat figures of the hereditary ene- mies of the whites grouped about him came only to his shoulder. He towered | among them, stern, powerful, dominant— | an incarnation of the spirit of the white | man, whose war drum has beat around | the world. Clad in a faded, dirty fatigue jacket, a greasy flannel shirt of gray, trousers so soiled that the stripe down the leg was barely visible, broken boots and a | disreputable. sombrero that shaded the | harsh features burned almost to black- ness, he was every inch a soldier and a | man. To the other officers at the post the | Indians paid no sort of attention. To ! them General Stanley and his staff were | so many well-dressed lay figures, stand- ! ing about as part of a picture done for their amusement, but the huge, massive man with the stubble on his chin had shown them that he was their superior on hunting grounds that were theirs by birthright, s.nd they hung around his test word. | u%or the tenth time Geronimo's band had jumped the San Carlos reservation. The spring grass was two inches high and the Indian lust for blood was awake. As usual, troops were started upon a peril- ous chase. For days they followed the trail over a country that God Almighty made in wrath. Farther and farther into the vast solitudes they toiled. Volcanic the crests reared about them. Laya tore "’eather from their feet. They %rnmg from springs that gushed thousands od feet above the valleys. They wan ereh in canons so deep and dark that througl the narrow ribbon of white far a%c;\e them the stars were seen at mldhy. They lived upon animals no wilder t Slln the men they were pursuing and scarcely more wild than they. Now ay}d thhen, from a forest of pines far above t] e'}?' a shred of blue smoke drifted on the furnace air, followed by the shrill uflt e bullet's wild singing. The horses lon% since had been left behind. The cavahr,“r men were on foot with Lawton at t elk head, his teeth hard set. We'll W}lll them down,” he told his sergeant when the mountalns were reached. He was v them down. “g}l;jnvlfeeks afterward an Indian, whosla bones seemed ready to start through ‘?: skin, came to the camp and said t a_ Geronimo was ready to surrender. Law. fon went alone to the lair of the starv- ing wolves and received their submission. Cavernous eyes glared at him. Lips blacll: from thirst and hunger were drawn baci over discolored teeth. Skeleton fingers pointed at him. From skeleton jl{w! came sounds of pleadings mixed with wrath. The poison of bitter racial hatred was in every glance. “Even the rocks smelled like mad Indian,” he told m? with a laugh long afterward. He lounge(t among them, their master by virtue df; superior courage and strength and hardi- hood, and they followed him like shegp to food and imprisonment. That is ti IE story in-outline of the capture of Gero[n e mo, physiclan, wizard, conjurer, orato! A Tt El Caney Is the man of the llons Mogallons, and the man of the Moga is the reincarnation of some shining, k;?,l; meted giant warrior who fell upon Vi sands of Palestine in the first crusade, with the red blood welling over his Eorse& let and his two-handed bnulve-sworA shivered to the hilt. The race-t)pflel Vell'n sists unchanged in eye, in pro e.m figure. It is the race which in alll n: centurles the Valkyrs have wafted rtoho the war decks, have halled from . holm-gangs or helmet-strewn moor!an; —the white-skinned race, whieh, dmnd with the liquor of battle, reeled B.ro):l’nh the dragon standard at Senlac, Wh‘gh fought with Richard Grven\'lllfl. Wm = broke the Old Guard at Waterloo, w'mch rode up the slope at Balaklava, “dcl went down with the Cumberlan lg Hampton Roads, which charged W; Pickett at Gettysburg—the race of the trader, the financier, the sta(esmnn.bt ta inventor, the colonizer, the creator, but, before all, the fighter. GENERAL LAWTON’S ONE MISS- ING MAN. To the Eaitor of the Sun—8ir: Permit me to call your attention to a most re- markable report made from our army be- fore Santiago. Major General H. W. Lawton, com- manding the Second Division, Fifth Army Corps, reports casualties, 410 killed and wounded, with only one man missing. To one who has seen battles this tells a great story of a never retreating line, perfect discipline and constant looking after the men by the officers. It entitles every officer in the command to more than ordinary credit, and shows what can be done by American troops when organ- ized, disciplined amd led by men of such superior character as Henry W. Lawton. It is only what was expected of him by his old comrades of Grant’s army, and some of us lhinkh(hle] (:tlcmll‘m"l1 ?{5 ‘:‘l"\: American people should be calle ;fl . (E‘NE WHO KNOWS HIM. New York, J AL g ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TRADE WINDS—T. N. W., City. The trade winds are at San Francisco and vi- cinity in July and August. RABBITS—Subscriber, City. The near- est place to San Francisco for hunting rabbits in Marin County. Early morning is the best time to hunt them. THE METROPOLITAN THEATER—E., City. The last performance {1\'en at the Metropolitan Theater on Montgomery street, between Washington and Jackson, was on the night of the 23th of April, 1873, in San Francisco, was on the night of the 25th of April, 1873. SAN FRANCISCO BAY-T. N. W, City. The Bay of San Francisco is bounded on the north by San Pablo Bay, Marin and part of Contra Costa County, on the east by Contra Costa and Alameda counties, on the south by Santa Clara ana part of San Mateo County and on the uly 11 west by part of San Mateo County, San Francisco and part of Marin County. A YAWL—J. W., City. This depart- ment has not the time to search over the files to find an article descriptive of the building of a yawl, published about three or four years ago. If you will go to the Free Public Library you will find books there that will give you all the informa- tion you seek, and tell you how to build a cheap or an expensive yawl. THE COMMANDING OFFICER—F. C. C., Oakland, Cal. The commanding offi- cer of a man-of-war, during an engage- ment stands where he can obtain the best view of the situation 'and be in the least ossible danger to himself, so that he may ge able to give his orders and direct the movements of his ship. Sometimes he is on the bridge and at other times in the conning tower. GENERAL AMMEN Subscriber, Yountville, Cal. Jacob Ammen was an American soldier, born in Botetourt, Va., January 7, 1808, He graduated at West Point in 1831; after that he was professor of mathematics at the United States Mili- tary Academy, at Jefferson College and at the University of Indiana. He resigned from the army in 1837. At the outbreak of the Civil war he was commissioned a captain of volunteers and served through the war, being promoted through the sev- eral grades to brigadier general. He was in command of the military district of Tennessee in 1864, and again retired from the army the foliowing vear. He died at | Lockland, Ohlo, February 6, 184. 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