The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRA'.INCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1898. AUGUST 5, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. -LEAKE, Manager. - (e PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., - A B Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Malo. 1574. ¥HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents. YHE WEEKLY CALL.. DOAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE. ....Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Ri¢gs Houss C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... .Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall, $1.58 .908 Broadway JBRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open unti} 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10'o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25i8 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open unth 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk strect, opem until 9:30 «o’clock. Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—*The Maskea Ball."” Aleazar— Richelieu Morosco’s—"Bonnle Scotland " Tivoli— Lucia di Lammermoor.” Orpheum-— Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville:and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympla—Corner Mason and Eddy- ejreets, Specialtles. Macdonough Theater. Cakland—Columbian Minstrels. Sutro’s Baths—Swimming. E! Campo—Music, dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. State Fair—Sacramento, September 5. AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, August 6. Furniture, at 826 Macon street, at 11 0 clock. REPAVING MARKET STREET. INCE the -Supervisors have determined to re- pave Market street between Second and Sixth will introduce at le the work. If as soon as the space between the “rib- with bituminous rock, it is to be hoped they st a few business principles.into bon” already laid and the cable tracks is repaved it is | proposed to grant a franchise to another car company to run down the highway, we respectiully suggest that the franchise be granted and the track built prior to the work now proposed being done. We recall the fact that a few years ago Eddy street, between Mason and Taylor, having risen to the dig- and pestilence in hole in winter and a nity of a mu summer, paved with bituminous rock at an ex- pense of $9ooo. The block was hardly dry ere the Electric Company cbtained a franchise et @ proceeded to tear it up from end to end. When the double track of this line had been finished the beautiful pavement looked assthough it < by a Kans Substantially ppened on Stockton street between The business men on this poli as tornado. had been stru Ma arrell block suffer :d ¢ar tracks, cobbles and dirt for o s. Finally the city paved the block with bitumen at an expense of about $5000. - The day aiter the work was done it- occurred to the Spring Valley Water Works that it needed a pipe in | the block, and the vandals of that corporation dug a | hole through it in short order. If anything of this character needs to be done upon Market street between Second and Sixth the time to do it is before the pavement now projected by the Supervisors is laid. At the very best the bitumen will | be. frequently torn up; it will be impossible to stay | the hands of the side sewer vandals and the building operations of enterprising citizens.” But the water, | gas and telephone companies can at least be com- pelled to put their pipes and conduits in order for a long season of repose. . If something of this sort is not done, not only will | a great deal of money be wasted, but the street will be maintained in a constant state of impassability. Every time a bituminous pavement is torn up a per- | manent scar is made which gradually develops into a “chuck hole.” As the city has no facilities for re- pairing “‘chuck holes,” the first resort of the Street Department is to fill them with macadam. This has been done on Third street, which is now in a worse condition than it was before the basalt blocks were yemoved. If Market street is going to meet the fate that has overtaken the streets we have named, it had better -be | restored to the control of the street car monopoly | and allowed to continue its revel with ¢obbles, ba- salt ‘blocks, carbolized wood and asphalt. improvement in the appearance and usefulness of the magnificent thoroughfare can be made by introduc- ing into the work now in progress a little sense. and reason. The introduction of these things may shock the politicians at the City Hall, but they ought to stand it in the public interest. ONE UNCONQUERABLE FOE. S to the necessity for hurrying Shafter’s army fl out of Cuba there can be no question. The opinion among medical men is unanimous that if retained there the men must perish by thousands, for the yellow fever cannot by any application of. science be much longer kept in abeyance. In case of an outbreak it would find the troops weakened by malaria and less deadly maladies, so that they would be swept away. by thousands. There is no call for such sacrifice. Omne of the strongest statements of the conditions prevailing there comes from - Colonel Roosevelt. That he is a brave man he has proved. That he is a patriotic and level-headed citizen was known before “he led the Rough Riders on their splendid dash - toward Santiago. Yet Roosevelt is anxious to have the army moved to the north. He points outéthe awful results of delay and the futility of condemning soldiers to the dev: ion of the scourge. As he makes clear, the men would not repine if by remain- ing at whatever risk they would accomplish aught " for their country. But for the time their work has . been done, and done in a manner which was a glory to the land. Now let them be granted a haven of : safety, a chance for life. Even with peace seemingly assured the death list . has been long enough to carry sorrow to homes in - ‘every State of the Union. There should not be added- to it uselessly another name. .- Just as Garcia is reported as having retired in dis- gust comes the news that he has met and defeated a wing of the Sg nish forces. He appears to be about - as uncertain a quantity as several others which enter into the composition of the situation. - - The prospects that Americans may have to fight the “rebels in the Philippines ought to be more distressing o the rebels than to anybody else, NW. corner Twenty-second ana | W A great | ' A WOODPECKER CAMPAIGN. OLITICAL contests begin much earlier in the Eastern States than on this coast, and as a con- sequence the classification and naming of new political features as they appear in each succe:@nng campaign devolve upon the experts of that region. In the contest that is now approaching the most notable feature is the determination of the Demo- crats to make the fight on State issues only. This is such a novelty in our politics that it requires a name of its own to avoid confusion, and accordingly the Fastern authorities on political nomenclature have by general consent agreed to call it a “woodpecker” campaign. The name will be perplexing to some. It is but a short time ago that Democracy was flitting about the country as a cuckoo, answering to that call very readily, and its appearance this year as a woodpecker | it must be admitted is somewhat surprising. In fact there is no telling to what extent these rapid variety changes may go. The old Democratic bird that be- | gan its career as a game rooster may yet wind up as a pewee. Surprising as the name may be, however, it has not been inaptly chosen, as any one may learn who chooses to make a study of woodpeckers in relation | to Democrats. The Century Dictionary tells us there are 250 species of woodpeckers, and it is well known there are just that many kinds of Democratic factions. If this be not sufficient proof that the two creatures are birds of a feather, all doubts will be re- moved by the further statement of the dictionary that the woodpecker is a scansorial, saurognathus, sagittalingual pecarian; that the tongue is capable of being thrust far out of the mouth and is lumbrici- { form. With these facts before us and with the campaign | rapidly approaching in our beloved State it is clearly [ the- duty of intelligent patriots to study woodpeckers. :OE the many species of the bird there are some of | special ‘interest to us by reason of their numbers on | this coast and the part they are likely to play in the contest. The most common of these is the Califor- nian woodpecker, Melanorpes formicivorus, de- scribed in the Encyclopedia Britannica as the most provident bird in the woods, but withal so senseless that he cannot distinguish an acorn from a pebble, being about as apt to pick up the one as the other on his foraging expeditions. This is the kind of a woodpecker that in a political flurry would pick up such -a hard old Populist pebble as Maguire and think it good stuff. Another local species deserving attention is the hairy woodpecker, Picus dendrocopus villosus, a rural creature of the Alford type, hard to be dis- tinguished from a jay, and also incapable of knowing a pebblé from an acorn until after swallowing it. Next come the yellow-bellied woodpeckers, com- monly known as sapsuckers, but recognized among politicians as papsuckers. These yeliow fellows are exemplified in the McNab specimen and generally nest with the Hearstlings. gold bug votary who will not be conspicuous in the campaign, but we cannot ignore the bristle-bellied woodpecker of the genus asyndesmus. Many people who have never heard of a woodpecker with bristles will be inclined to doubt the existence of this species. 1f such people, however, will only look around they will perceive a good many of the bristling kind. ~ As a matter of fact, in some instances, as in that of the Harney bird, the bristles just now are even more conspicuous than the feathers, and the species is at- tested mainly by the sagittalingual tongue. With such a variety of the game in sight, California | ought to make something like a picnic out of the woodpecker campaign. Tt remains to be said only that in this State there is no close season for wood- peckers. ‘Anybody may take a pot shot at them at any time. FLINCHED UNDER FIRE. HILE there seem to be grounds for the belief that the Seventy-first New York was tem- porarily panic-stricken before Santiago, the men should not be too harshly condemned. As sol- diers they were entirely raw. The great majority knew nothing tnore of war and its weapons than had been learned in peaceful parades and picnic encamp- | ments. They were facing a fearful fire coming from an invisible foe. At first there were no trained troops to set an example. These civilians, suddenly trans- formed into a fighting force, were at the front. If for a time they gave way to the impulse of fear, they _ Any student of history knows that in battle there are conditions under which even veterans quail. To strength of the enemy, not certain that there are re- inforcements at hand, is a terrible ordeal. Moreover, once get started, whether from a tangible cause or a mere prompting of timidity, and it spreads like a | vaguest idea what they are scared about join in the rout. ¥ larly subject. Cowardice is an infection, and one faltering poltroon may spread dismay in every direc- WHAT GOES WITH THE FLAG. l N a recent interview Mr. Hitt, one of the two II- | % talked interestingly of the effect of our flag upon | the prosperity of the territory over which it floats. | He instanced General Grant's attempt to annex San Domingo. During that effort Mr. Hitt visited San tives of American syndicates negotiating for fran- chises and privileges which covered the resources contingent upon annexation to the United States. He transfers this condition to our possession of nies we may take from Spain, and quotes it to show what goes with our flag. transfer of the flag to more territory does not mean an enlargement of the individual opportunities, but ital, made secure in its gains by franchises and privi- leges. There is no talk of an opening for individual American laborers in which to better their state and advance more rapidly to independence. The lure is chance to increase their profits entrenched behind privilege. 5 always stood for. During more than a hundred years it was an invitation to the man and not the dollar, Europe, they brought thrift and industry, a fresh stream to mingle with our original blood, and a de- secem to have redeemed themselves. | adyance against a storm of bullets, not knowing the 4 panic is an unaccountable phenomenon. Let it | flame in the dry grass. People who have not the To such experiences as these soldiers are particu- tion. linois members- of the Hawaiian Commission, Domingo and says that he found there representa- and capacities of the country, but which were all taken Hawaii and, prospectively, to the countries and colo- To a cool observer this seems to imply that the opens a new field for the rapacity of combined cap- enterprise, of a field for hundreds of thousands of to hundreds of millions of American dollars, with a It must be confessed that this is not what the flag Men responded, and, flocking here from Northern votion to the principles of our government which s the gilded woodpecker, a species of | the fortunes of the individual. Men feel emotions, they thrill to patriotism, they bring to institutions that enduring love of country which is necessary in peace and war. To the accumulation of wealth there is no objection, if it be not accompanied by the with- drawal of individual opportunity. To say that special franchises and privileges go with the flag is to emphasize a new era in our na- tional development, which may have to come in the history of all nations, but that nation is the happiest in which its coming is the longest delayed. It has an evil sound when uttered in connection with the annexation of Hawaii. The chief end of our form of government has been supposed to be the prosperity and happiness of the people brought under its influence, and their encouragement by the full protection given to the rights of person and prop- erty. But as man is the producer of wealth, by con- version thereinto of natural resources, his interests as an individual can never be safely forgotten. That they are in danger of being forgotten when wealth, and not its producer, becomes the first object of governmental care, seems to be true. We fear that Mr. Hitt's idea of the advantages of annexation and expansion sounds a note of alarm. e PROVOKED BY d LIAR, HERE are occasions which call for plain lan- Tguage and acts which must in honesty be de- nounced as knavish and cowardly. There are liars who to th@sin of falsehood add the crime of_in- gratitude and the despicable quality of cowardice. Such an occasion was the appearance in the Kans‘as City Times of an article, unsigned, traducing San Francisco, and such an act was that of the nameless and shameless poltroon who wrote it. In this San Francisco is denounced as a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, its citizens held up to ridicule, | and its ready and lavish hospitality maligned in such terms as a blackguard may command. There is an intimation throughout the missive that it is the work of a member of the Kansas regiment. Ii so that regiment, which by its deportment here has made friends, about whose pitiful state of unprepared- ness upon arrival there was a storm of indignation, whose incompetent Governor was denounced for having sent his men unclad and unarmed, for whom the Red Cross provided food and clothing; that regi- | ment contains one man who is a sneak, who would | bite the hand extended to greet him, who would thrust a knife into the back of a benefactor and who in camp or in distant lands will be a disgrace to the | soldiers with whom he associates. | The letter enlarges upon the wickedness of the city. All great centers of population have their evil spots. San Francisco has its share. But the soldiers have been warned concerning them. They have been begged to stay away. The papers have solicited them to avoid excesses; their officers have given them or- ders, but all in vain. In any city they would have had a similar experience. The police have befriended them, piloting them from dangerous quarters and re- | fusing to arrest them unless offenses were tos flag- | rant to be overlooked. Perhaps the writer of the ar- ticle in question is suffering from the indiscretion of not heeding well-meant counsel. Yet San Franecisco is accustomed to the libel of being called wicked, and ‘ will pass this by. One street is described as being | like a lane through Hades. While the accuracy of the description 'must remain in doubt, common sense would suggest that a street of this character be avoided. But there are specific libels. “California regiments | then stationed here were made up of the worst class | of south of Market hoodlums,” continues this measure- ‘} less liar, and he tells about the “sallow-faced” Cali- | fornians who were raised with a “hop can” and “fairy lamp” at their side. He adds that there is no | law here against opium-smoking. While the futility of replying to one who is so completely vicious, so absolutely dead to the sense of decency, in fact such | void and his absent conscience is concerned, there are people at a distance whom he might mislead. The Californians who have gone to the front consti- tute a regiment made up of the best blood of the West, fine," manly, patriotic, a thousand strong; they | went with the tears and blessings of people who loved them and took pride in them. No better regi- ment serves under the flag we honor. But this mis- erable scoundrel must traduce them, slander them, try | to give out the impression that these big, brave boys are opium fiends! Was there ever affront more con- temptible? The fellow deserves to be whipped from the army as a snarling and rabid cur. | His crowning insult is to the hospitaligy which has been lavished on every soldier. He says it was all for the Native Sons of the Golden West. The whelp lies again knowingly and maliciously. It cannot have escaped him that in this hospitality there has been no distinction. The First California Regiment was early removed from the scenme. Then came other regiments, from Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Penn- 'sylvania, Kansas, Montana, the Dakotas, Utah, Ore- gon, Washington, Tennessee, Wyoming; at inter- vals there would be additions to the regular army. All of these were greeted with equal fervor, all made welcome, all fed. They were all “our boys” and the common heart went out to them. Some were poorly equipped, ragged, unarmed. For such there was a particular manifestation of regard. Money was poured out freely. Women gave their time to providing necessities which the: Government had been slow to furnish. Thousands of dollars were freely contrib- uted and spent for blankets, shoes, delicacies. The badge of the Red Cross became a badge of ‘honor, and none was too proud to wear it.. There had been official neglect, or at least tardiness, and every effort was made to remedy this. For the hardships the boys suffered at the hands of unscrupulous contractors the greatest indignation was among. the people of San Francisco, and the outcry they raised was the means of bringing the rascals to time. When a camp site was selected where the cold winds brought in the fogs it was the people who protested and caused re- moval to a more healthful spot. From all over the country came messages of gratitude for the atten- tions bestowed on brothers and sons. This Kansas mongrel struck the:first discordant note. Does he know that a humble employe of this paper, happening to hail from Kansas, started a sub- scription among fellow workmen and presented to the Kansas regiment an expensive set of surgical | instruments? Or, knowing it, is he a cur too yellow.| to, appreciate? The gift was never acknowledged, || but no matter. When the men of the regiment learn of it they will be grateful. It is not the stray, yelping canine from ,which thanks are to be expected. San Francisco is glad to have the Kansas regiment |- here. Tt has the fullest sympathy with fhe ambition. to sail for the field of action. When the regiment de- parts it will be given a farewell and a hearty god- speed, for with all our faults we are not so-small as to judge the men of Kansas, the loyal, young citi- zens, by the one debased and scurrilous scoundrel who has invaded their rank Tt is as we suspected. When Aguinaldo’s head had produced the enlarged opportunity, for betterment of | a $25,000 price set upon it it began to swell. | dental. i | | querque is at the Palace. a fool, is apparent so far as touching his intellectual | P -78044/- z‘;%wfl o Ae N, Zpe il iy s B AROUND THE CORRIDORS- Dr. A. Ferrys and wife are at the Occi- | B. C. Henry of Canton is at the dental. H. B. Gillls, a lawyer of Yreka, the Grand. W. R. Forman, a lumber man of och, is at the Grand. Colonel George Hagar, a banker Colusa, fs at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. Charles T. Poore of New York are at the Palace. Ocel- is at Anti- of Isaac Bird, the insurance man, of Fresno, is at the Grand. Dr. Willlam H. Greenburg of Alber- J. M. Buffington, a mining man of Ne- vada City, is at the Lick. W. L. Smith, wife and son, of Wads- worth, Nev., are at the Russ. HUUCUEOONE Lieutenant g Crow, acting ma- jor of the Tenth Pennsylvania re- crults, was en- % LIEUTENANT ¥ © TO COLONEL # ¥ INADAY. ¥ tertaining anum- < & ber of friendsin BB UGG BHNG the Palace lobby last night with tales of the camp and field. This is one of them; “Just after we left Ogden a sergeant in one of the companies came up to me and with a more than ordinary respect- ful salute begged me to allow him to get off at the next station and fill his can- teen, as he was feeling ill and needed fortifying of both spirit and the body. He seemed to be the personificatfon of honesty, and I granted him permission to do as he desired. " “The next station was passed and he appeared again. ‘Well, sergeant, what is wrang now? I asked. ‘If you nplease, captain, I am a very sick man, and I need some more medicine, he replied. Of course, I told him that at the next station he might refill his eanteen, but advised him not to take too much. Hardly had T settied myself for a com- fortable sleep on the seats, after passing the:second stop on the route, when Mr. Sergeant appears again. This time it was: ‘Major, I am feeling worse and worse; wouldn’t you please let me fill this tin again at the next station? Hoping that the next canteen would prove disabling, I told him it was all right. - The next station was reached and passed, and there stood the gentleman with bibulous in- clinations, pleading just one more favor. ‘Now, colonel, I need” this medicine badly. Let me off at the next sta-shun an’ll be your fren fer. lif—sure.’ “I had to stop his medicine taking for my own protection. If I had allowed that man to continue ;on the same tack I would have been on the retired list long before T reached San Francisco.” Captain E. P. Newhall, a mine owner of Washington, is at the Russ. George Osbourne, the actor, and wife returned from Fresno yesterday, and are at the California. ‘Wilbur F. George, a prominent attor- ney of Sacramento, left this city vester- day for the Catalina Islands, and will be gone for two weeks. M. Taylor Pyne, the well-known East- ern capitalist, arrived yesterday from Princeton, accompanied by his family, They crossed the continent on a special car. John D. Spreckels, who was recently injured in an accident at San Diego, has so far recovered that he will leave for this city on Sunday. 1 pele- 'HISTORIC VALLEY -FORGE. To many of those who celebrated Evac- uation day at Valley Forge the visit was a revelation. For the first time they re- alized the extent af that historic winter encampment and saw for themselves th what has been acquired by the State for the purpose of restoration is but a small portion of the territory occupied by ‘Washington and his troops during the memorable winter and that if any proper restoration is to take place the remain- ing territory covered by the encampment must be gequired. Some half-filled earth- works still exist and the remnants of a system of defensive fortifications are still visited, but very little remains to fur. nish even an outline of the Valley Forge encampment in its entirety. With the maps and descriptions still _available a restoration could be effected, and the sooner the land is acquired and the work undertaken the better. While no battle was fought at Valley Forge, it was in this historic camp o Offze that the revolutionary | soldiers were transformed by discipline from raw, untrained militia fo the well- | drilled, heroic army that compelled the evacuation of a score of fields in the South and triumphed grandly at York- town. Schooled in the hardships and pri- vation of winter camp these heroic men here acquired the patience, discipline, en- = and uncanquerable love of Hber- made them invincible on the fu- attlefields of the revolution.—Phil- ture adelphia Times. THE GRAVE AT LA QUASINA. ““The regiment stood In close ranks about the ave as the muffled flgures were lowered . the chaplain calling out the names of h. ' He called the names of, mule packer, salesman, cowboy, and, last of ‘afl, Hamilton Fish Jr.,, the young sergeant who was carried to tre front to die, and whose watch bore the crests of Alexander Hamilton and Nicholas | | Fish, and the motto ‘God Will Give.’ *'—Rich- ard Harding Davis in the New Yurk Herald. Bury them, bury them side by side, With the tropic grasses bending aver, , all undenied, stant lover! Where the royal Shall be their con There, on the hiliside over the bay, Over the beautiful Cuban valley, Tenderly, tenderly lay them away— Where they won their last flerce rally! Oh, the desperate charge they made— The flag of the Stars and Stripes before them— And never a heart of these hearts afral To strike for the land that bore them! Peace!—the chaplain is calling their names, Peace to the ashes and dust returning: But earth cannot cover the light of their fames Or darken the glow of its burning! Cowboy, clerk and packer are here— Fortune's favorite, dauntless and true,— One, in their scorn of a coward fear, One, in their Jove for the Blue! Northland, Southland, East and West— Northlan: uthland—never again! West and Fast in a love confessed Over these voiceless men! Chaplain, call us again the rolls! For earth hath never a melody As sweet as the names of the hero souls That strive to make men free! Leave not one from the shining list— Fach is something transfigured now; Over our eyes swe holy mist, A shadow is on each brow! But “God will give' in the days to come; God will give as ever He gives; After the roar of miusket and drum He knows, He cares, He lives! And these our mother is_taking to_ sleep In her deepest breast, by the Cuban bayj Shall_ever be under the Father's keep— And shal Inot pass away! John Jerome Rooney. ¥, 1 X. L—N., Tiburon, I X L'stand for “I excel. THE COUNTY SEAT—L. J., City. Reno is the county seat of Washoe, State of Nevada. e , Tiburon, Cal. THE FIRST MAYOR— John W. Geary was the first Ma; San Francisco. He took office lnyoh‘&ag'f 1850, and held for one year, » 1 DEATH TO FLEAS—H. D. A, City. 1t is said that the leaves of the black wal- nut are death to fleas. The odor of tae leaves puts them to sleep forever. CARPENTER’'S MATE—F. H. L., City. In the United States navy a carpenter’s mate is a g;:lty officer, who assists the carpenter. His pay is $40 per month. SEATTLE FIRES—O. S, ¢ The fire in Seattle which destroyed the gzreater part of the business portion S- edlfisluss of $20,000,000, uccurrg\imzx(:l C;‘\rx:e 0. K.—Subscriber, Clty. O. K., as sig- nifying correct, is in the opinion ot B fessor Wyman'of the University of Aus ama, from the Choctaw “ g which means “all right."” ey RAILROAD SHOPS—Subscriber, Oak- land, Cal. The railroad shops ot the aa Joaquin Rallroad are In Stockton. Appli- gthan:‘f&x;cvsgg ox} :‘)‘xe road ‘sh ulg be ade e 0 i LU € company in San MARRIAGE LICENSE—Ignorant, City. Rwdenic«: in a city or a county is not a prerequisite in'California to obtai marriage license. A strangero ct&nnlgr:’g tfi Oakland if he desires and secure a license to marry anywhere in Alameda County. SURVEYS.—The “investigation and re- cording of mountains, rivers, lakes and harbors of our country” devolves upon geological surveys by order of the Gov- ernment. The Geodetic and Coast Survey makes observations and charts, but its erations are confined to a narrow mar- In not over three to five miles along the coast surrounding harbors, bays, rivers up to the head of tidewater and other locations where hydrographic ~surveys have been made. THE BEST GENERAL—N. N., City. As to which {s the “best general in the ring, Corbett or Fitzsimmons,” that is a matter of taste by the admirers of the two men. Each belleves that his particu- lar man is the best gepgral. If this de- partment should dm that one dor | | | 1 the other is the best there would be hundreds who would demand that it publish a _statement thav the other fellow is. Under the circumstances this department must respectfully decline to give an answer, and for the further reason that the communication does not bear either name or address. THE FRIGATE BRANDYWINE—J. A. B., City. The old frigate Brandywine, 1723 tons, 44 guns, was a storeship in the North Atlantic squadron in 1863. She was destroyed by fire at Norfolk, Va., in 1864 To ascértain if David -G. Buckley was on board of her at that time you will have to address a communication to the Navy Department at Washington, D. C., as that is the only place where there is a record. For information about any one drawing-a -pension: as a Qependent of Buckley, a communication must be ad- dressed to the Pension Bureau at Wash- ington, D. C. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION—-A. E. V., Palo_Alto, Cal. The examination for teachers' positions in the city of San Francisco will be held some time in Octo- ber, date not yet fixed. The list of sub- jects includes for the candidates for grammar grade certificates all that is taught In that grade. Each school district sets {ts own time for the election of teachers for the fall term. For the purpose of - ascertaining when such an election is to be held, the applicant _should address a communica- tion to the School Trustees of the dis- trict in which the applicant would like to obtain employment. AN ALIEN MINOR—E}Jbscriber, Peta- luma, Cal. An alien under the age of 21 years who has resided in the United States three years next preceding his ar- riving at that age, and who has continued to reside therein to the time he may make application to be admitted a citizen there- of, may, after he arrives at the age of 21 years, and after he has resided five years within the United States, including the three years of his minority, be admitted a citizen; but he must make a declaration on oath and prove to the satisfaction of the court that for two years next preced- ing it was his bona fide intention to be- come a citizen. If you came here at the age of 16 and come within the provisions quoted you can become a citizen without taking out first papers. “CONSISTENCY THOU ART A JEW- EL"—P. A. M, City. ‘“Consistency, thou art a jewel,” is one of those popular say- ings that, like “Virtue brings its own re- ward,” ‘‘ARe before beauty,” and “Be good and you will be happy” cannot be traced to origin. In 1868 the question asked by this correspondent was asked by some one in the East and, being taken up by the newspapers, attracted attention wherever the English language was spok- en. A search for the origin of the phrase was made in the old and new world, and everybody gave it up, but a bright wag of the time announced that he had dis- covered the origin, and in proof of his as- sertion quoted the following, which, he sald, was taken from the ballad, “Jolly Robin Roughhead,” published in Mur- tagh's collection in 1754: Tush! Tush! my lassle, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruel. Fine pictures suit in frs C le's a jewell o Cind, me coarse clothes are best, Rude folks in homelye raiment drest, Wite Joan and goodman Robi;. o nvestigation disclosed the fact that th‘:r':‘pinevf-r was such a collection as Mur-* tagh’s and that the ballad of “Jolly Bob- in_ Roughhead~ first appeared in an American newspaper in 1867. Like Tofsy. the phrase was never born—it ust growed. 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