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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
cosTERMoNGER ON KLoNDrKE

Come ter the plice here the've got it right come
where III treasures I'D,
Where 'at-full of mud s a five-pun note, and the
cd yer EEL is quid.
Where yer scratches e soil and il tumbles art as
much as yer ands ian odd,
Where the ills above ami the pines beneath is
bu gin an crackIn' with gold.
Klordike Klondlke! Libel yer Iuggidge Klondike!
heer's no chawnce in the street ter-dye,
Theirs no luck darn ShOredtch wye,
PACK up yer traps an be orr. 1 sye,
An orr an ANY ter KlonGEe!
Lots o. chaps they as stawtid small, and awter-
wuds struck it rich,
Barght their kerrdges SLED their yachts-nut-
thinks too good ior SIGH
Awmies o servants, miles O. land, cuttin' the top
peat art
Brar-noo pa ISIS to knock Park-line, then
what was thlnkin' Abart?
Klondike. hlondike! chinge the subjec' ter Klon-
dixie!
Theer's no chawnte in the street ter-dye
Theirs no luck darn Shoredich wye,
Pack up your traps and be orr, sye,
An orr an awe Ter Klondike.
Lots o. chaps they as stawtid small and finished ?
ii smaller vet
An the gold yer wants amt good for nix twixt
ERE an 'e !, yer bet;
Froze ter death, stawved death, or shot in
yer tracks yer'll lie.
Fur one u PICK an come 'ome sgen, but twenty
ul PICK an die.
Klondike! Klondike! It sticks its own, does
kio idike.
1heer's no luck darn ohoreditch wye,
An fur all yer eats yer as ter pye.
And yer'l ind it the slime in klondike!
London Daily Chronicle
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THE CIVIL SERVICE.

To the Editor of the San Francisco Call
SIR: The editorial uterances of The CALL on
september 8. in relation to the "Flaw in the
Reform" seem to suggest remedy that ap-
parently meets with the approval of the 'civil
service reformers." 1t is well enough to re-
quire bonds from employees in the Government
service. though this rule should only apply TO
those acting in fduciary capacity. But this
requirement should not be urged in connec-
ton with the extension of the so-called civil
service, which is an imposition on the COM
mon sense of the American people. The ques-
ton of security for faithful performance of
the duties devolving upon the occupant of
any Federal subordinate position can be
reached By general enactment by Congress,
indie pendent and irrespective OF civil service
REFORM"
The Declaration of Independence spoke of
bodies being quartered on the people, and we
might speak with equal prOprety OF bodies OF
subordinates being "quartered' on the people
by means OF clever move made by Grover
Cleveland. Since then the people have said
by their ballots that another administration
should hanGf, the affairs of government. If
this is TO continue as n government OF the
people theni it follows that when the people
decree a change the administration should be
able 10 appoint those who can carry out its
intentions, instead OF being compe He'd to work
along with those totally opposed to it. The
browning consideration, however, is that no
one set of men should be Quartared on the
public treasury during the term of their nat
ural lives, coming in effect petty contiuu-
Gus office-holding oiigarchy, in no way subject
to the peoples Will as expressed at the ballot
box, but the creatures of an unwise law. Why
should we elect occupants of official places at
all if they cannot appoint their subordinates !?
So many abuses of'the so-called civil service
law have come 10 light tn al exhibit not alone
its imperfections but the necessity OF its re-
peal and return to the system of government
by the people instead of an office-holding oil
garchy CIVIL service re form is only another
way of incu eating monarchical sentiment
in our midst, and sets up class above the
peoples elected officers. and in time, ii eX-
tended, will constitute an irremovable class.
AS the logical result of crystalllzatiol OF
pubic sentime mt inimical 10 monarchical ten
denotes OF the law, a movement is on loot, TO
have prepared and submitted to Congress
through our Congressional Represen tatives
next Deem Der, bill repea ing the so-caled
civil service law and aboIishing the expensive
commission now enjoying lat thing under
its provisions. If such bill becomes law
we will be assured of return TO the former
equitable conditions and simplifca'ion of
governmental rule. L. NJ. CALVIN
San Francisco. September 13, 1897.
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A BRYAN TYPE OF STATESMAN
New York Sun.

William Jennings Bryan, the ex-actor, is en-
gagged at present on the rather difficult task OF
explaining how it is that, in spite OF his pre-
dictions, the price of wheat and the price of
silver are not interdependent. Unable to ig.
more the prosperity that hes come without his
assistance, he can only indulge in talk about
the greater prosperity which would have
blessed the country had he been elected NJ.
Alfred Capus of the Figaro thus satirizes this
sort of statesman in the follow ing dialogue
between q countryman and Deputy:
The Peasant-A rise of 2 sous the four
pcunds-that is indeed hard, Monsieur the
Deputy.
The Deputy told you how it would be.
The Peasant-When was that?
The Deputy-When the Bourgeois Ministry
fell. Don't you remember what told you
then?
The Peasant-scarcely.
The Deputy SAID to you: "Now this will
be all the worse for the people. There is no
longer any one TO protect them" And, year
atterward, you have bread rising. And it
ISM over, either.
The Peasant-You think it will continue?
The Deputv-What, continue? Why, ii will
pounds every week. You see what 1t will
come 10 in year
The Peasant-Bon Dieu, de bon Dieu! And
you think that if NJ Bourgeois came back?
The Deputy-M. Bourgeoisi He would only
have to make a sign, and the loaf would be
half price tomorrow.
the PeasauI-What man!
The Deputy-You may say that.
The Peasant-And how would he really set
aboutit?
The Deputy-He would pronounce certain
words-words of his own-of which he hollis
the secret. And next day The loaf would fall
to three sous the kilo.
The Peasant (angriiy)-And they turned him
out OF The Ministry!
The Deputy-They knew very well that as
long as Bourgeois was there be would never
permit bread to rise.
The Peasant-Thunderl
1t will be readily seen that this is not the
only country in the world where arguments
such were used by the Bryanites in the
recent campaign have force with certain
sort of intelligence.
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MEN AND WOMEN.

John Howells, son of the novelist, William
Dean Howells, recently received di ploma in
architecture from a Paris institution, where he
had been a student five years.
At Usage Kans., R. H. Lyons turned waste
pool On his farm into a fish pond ten years
ago. Now he has chain OF FISH ponds worth
$4,000 on the place, all stocked from the waste
pool.
Burke Perkins, "a years old, whose children
mum Der twenty four and whose grandchildren
are uncounted. the other day welded Mrs.
Elizabeth Goings, rs years old, in the town of
Greenville, Ohio.
Mrs. Conarroe of Philadelphia has presented
handsome public library 10 tue village OF
Ogunqutt, Me, in memory of her husband, the
late George W. Conarroe, who spent many
summers in Ogunquit and endeared himself
TO all the people.
Miss Frances Goodwin OF Newcastle, Ind,
sculptress, who has recently complete u bust
OF the late Schuyler Colfax, Vice President
under General Grant, is in Washington ar
ranging for the placing of the bust in the
niche in the Senate chamber prepared for its
reception. The bust is said 10 be an excellent
piece of work.
In Connecticut are ffty-six daughters of
revou tionary soldiers, ranging in age from
lO3 down to % years. One OF these, Mr..
Elisha B. Avery, who was born July 10, 1889,
is the daughter OF Solomon Loring, who, when
nearly ii years old, entered the revolutio :
airy army aid to Colonel Best OF Massachu-
sets. Mrs. Avery was born when her father
was past TO- and at the age OF Is received
minors pension.
The Prince of Monaco, on his steam yacht
the Princess Alice, is in the Azores purs uing
his photographic researches. This year the
Prince has worked in the district of Horta
which includes the islands Fayal Pico and
Flores and ii is to Horta, the principal town
OF the island OF Fayal, which possesses the best
anchorage in the archipelago, that the Prin-
cess A:ica will go to be reftted and to take on
supplies. The work of the Prince and his col
laborators is nearly over for this season.
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SURF EITED WITH kLONDlKE.

Washington Post.
"This Klondike business is rapidly being
run in to the ground" remarked ]. X. Leonard,
OF Lansing, Mich ut is like a new popular
song. At first every one is wild over it, an
then after a while one grows exceedingly tired
OF the thing, and is irritated each time some
street gamln walks along whlstling the
chestnut at the top of his whistler. so 1t is
with the Klondike. The people are surfeited
with Klondike, and are very tired OF l., Judg-
ing from IN own feeling on the sublect, ana
from conversation 1 have had with many OF
zone can't pick up paper or magazine
that is not full of Klondike. A brief glance
over hotel newsstand display, ana ~ seems
that Kloudfke is on the front page OF each AMI
every periodical. The dime novel writers have
taken up X ondike now, and are spinning out
a varied assortment OF choice 1aprlcalons anu
wonderful deeds of bold adventurers. am
perfectly SATISFIED with America. and for one
don't care to mix up with Klondike affairs"
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of bright thought and busy brains. who is
willing save TO his passion for electrical ex-
pertinent. His newly invented railroad, he
asserts, will overcome the obstacles of noun
tain, gorge. lake and stream. which now make
passage TO the Alaska Ell Dorado so dlfncult
and dangerous
To represeD tative OF the Cincinnati En-
ouirer who smoked him out at his laboratory
in Indianapolis Wizard Nesom declared that
his patent will enable every man to have his
own car, and that corporate capital Will
merely have TO supply the power and line OF
rails Those once available, farmers mer-
chants, tourists, go d-seekers or whoever else
may wish TO use the lines can have their own
cars at cos less than that OF a bicycle.
The only important thing which is new IN
this invention is that the wheel and motor
are inside the track from which the car is sus-
pended. The rails are OF d shape, with the
vertical limo of the letter downward, in which
is a groove with edges holding The motor N
place and protecting it from snow and ice
That is about all there is OF 1t, eX-
cept poles, Orders and power-houses The
poles Mr. Nesom proposes 10 place sixty ieet
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apart, and the 'power-houses at a distance o.
iorty miles from each other. The cars are con-
trolled by compound levers and hand brakes,
and the end OF each is made narrow TO lessen
the air resistance under great speed.
''This road can be built with iron Suspension
doub track said Mr. Nesom, '1or about
F35OO mile speed from so to 100 miles
an hour, carrying from fifteen to twenty
passengers, can be obtained. If wooden
rack is built the cost would be lessened-
one half and the speed about the same
claim this system can be made far superior
10 any IN existence. 1t now requires ZOO
pounds dead weight 10 curry The average pas
ger (97 pounds) by the present railway sys-
TEN, at q cost one and half cents mile,
and by the present trolley electric system
ground track $50 pounds at q cost OF three
quarters of cent mile. he telpherage sys
tenn reduces the dead weigh to fifty pounds
TO the passenger, at a cost OF less than one
mill, reducing the trolley system nine times.
The road be made automatic, whereby
m all or small packages can be sent at q rapid
speed, stopping al any point desired. Il can
not be blocked by rain, snow, ice or sIeet."
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PRYAN AS A DEADHEAD.

DEoPLE who may have wondered why Bryan solicited a
r. pass from Southern Pacific Company while making
tour California posing the enemy corpora.
tons mounting his independence of the pluto
Gratis and monopois more. The action of
the demagogue casual slip, bunder arising
from an nconsderate mind The solicitation of railway
passes it appears of Mr. Bryan. habua
deadhead
The publication by OF the relating ryans
pass obtained Pacific Company together
with Mr. Mills letter, the subject attracted
East well this coast and a conse-
of the late asprant for Presidency
investigated that section of the Union. The first
investigation the discovery made public
Bryan makes free of railway favors in the East
as in California 'Mr Bryan" says Bee to ST.
days ago Wabash deadheaded
way with 1897 annual pass"
will be remembered that the offered Bryan
that the given him exchange
vertisine the World Herald of Omaha 1t appears pass
the Wabash ostensby of that paper
In commenting upon this the Bee says
passes exchange advertising
they
advertising
represent paid an
did AMI when and where
Did he much a mile or lump sum =?
The discredtable of these deadhead transactions
that the who is thus riding about country free
passes continually representing himself the
the people against corporation rule and
he habtual solicitor of corporation avors When de-
the he forward the plea paying
for them by advertising in Of which he is said to
be stakeholder, but with which he has other
whatever
has been pointed out by Mr. Mills that every man who
rides deadhead poses the railroad company the
task of making else for it. That Bryan and
kind may b carried passenger
raised who The dema who is also
deadhead therefore double burden the It
has long been desired Bryan should talking and
the interest of the travelling public is equally desirable
that he should quit riding.
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GLORY OF THE SMITH FAMILY
" ashington Post.

ayes. my name is regarded very COM
M on" said X u. Smith OF Leban on, Pa.
But he added. there are very lew people
that know how anceiQt and honor BILE the
name really is. There are few who know,
say, that the Smith family antecedes the
building of Solomon's temple by forty years.
Again. there are few who know that the fam
lily antecedes the Chris tian era by 1855 years
and the Declaration of Independence by 1851
years. The name is known in almost every
foreign nation, and you will find many men
bearing the cognomen holding nigh and hon
ored positions in the world.
"To give you some idea OF how widely known
are the Smiths would refer you 10 the annual
reunion OF the Smith Family Association of
Blair County Pa, which was held last month
at Lakemont Park: Invitations were sent all
over the civilized world. The epistles were
sent, and letters of regret are coming in from
the Italian Smiths, the Spanish Smithos, the
German Schmidts, The French Smeets, the
Russian Smittowskis, the Greek SmIkons and
the Turk Smeefs Show me family that can
beat that in ancient lineage and l will petit
ton the Legislature to change mine"
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THE EVEN ING BREEZE.

Now praise the Lord both moon and sun,
Aud prais him all ye nights ana days,
And golden arves every one,
And al ye hidden waterways,
With cattle standing TO The knees
safe from The bitter adj sung;
But praise him most little breeze
That walks abb DAD a evening.
0 praise him all ye orchards now,
And AL ye gardens deep in green,
Ripe apples on the yeIlowing b)ugh,
And golden p UNI and nectarine,
And peaches ruddl II than The rose,
And pears a al asst the southern wall;
But N ST The little wind that blows,
The BILE S4d wind at eve mall.
o praise him, hoary dews again.
Dire nc hing the meadows meath the moon,
And praise him id en- founts of rain,
And amber brook singing tune
AND icy deeps Of wel-water,
And each pellucd stream and spring;
But praise him most, o wind as:ir,
blessed wind at evening.
o praise him now ye burning DAYS
OF golden summer. hot AMI spent,
Planets and stars see that praise
Be blown ABOUT the armament.
Yet praise him best, o little wind
That out of he aven Will blow and call,
Because, because our God is kind
And bids us live a. eventual.
Pail Mall Gazet te
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DID NOT SUIT.
Detroit Free Press

Detroit Free Press.
"And so my daughters views displease
you?"
"They do" said the young husband firmly,
sand have come to ask you take her back
The old man gazed silently for a moment at
the man who had wooed and won his only
daughter, the light of his life and household
scarcely month before. He thought of the
swee t-1aced girl whom he had reared with
such loving care, and then of the cold. booded
proposition just made him by the man TO
whom she had intrusted her happiness, and
Tor a brief space he was unable to speak. Then,
crushing back his strong, undyinig parental
love, he made answer 10 the cool, unabashed
young man who stood before him:
"Be 1T So" he said. Bring Sally around to-.
morrow and I'll make her three quarters
profile from the rear"
The young husband nodded carelessly, and
left the photograph gallery.
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WITH YOUR COFFEE.

The agitator-Why were you not at the meet
ing of the unemployed to-day?
The wo-ker-Too busy.-Cinc1nnati CONNER
cia[Tribune.
ave let our typewriter girl CO."
"What was the troube"
"Why. she didn't take enough interest in the
business to pry into our private letters Chi
cago Record.
'Safe at last"
The electricity. working up to-date 1897
relief.
at was a close shave"
He wiped his forehead YEARLY.
But at last the reporters have dropped the
case and the police have taken it up. Now
can rest easily. - Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
"Did you say" said the dramatic critic,
'that this pugilistic star is in the habit of
making a punching bag of anybody who
speaks slightingly of his nistrionic talent2'
That's his custom"
al don't like to mislead the pubic. l guess
the best thing to do will be to refer 10 him as
an actor of great power. Washington Star.
Ethel-Papa, does God tell you what to write
in your sermon?
Papa-Yes, my dear.
Ethel-Then why do you scratch out so much.
Papa (after pausel-To please your mother.
Truth.
Yeast-One thing l can say about my wife
she always acts natural.
Crimson beak-Yes; you ought to stop it, N y
boy; people thinks she's silly. - Yonkers
Statesman.
'1t's jes my luck" said Farmer Corntossell
goomily. I'm the wust guessef a-goin'. The
only way fer man to get along is 10 make up
his mind whut he's a-goin' ter do an keep on
doin' jes' that
"Have you had bad luck?
'Nothin' else. Last year L raised wheat
W hen L orter hev tuck in summer boarders
T his year / tuck in summer boarders when
orter hev raised wheat ''-Washington Star.
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A LESSON TO BE REMEMBERED.

II EPORTS from special correspondents various
points in Alaska well stories told returning pros
pecors and miners make it certain that
Kondike virtually for this may have
repetition of spring. and in all probability will
opportunity think calmly prospects
finding fortune along the banks OF the Yukon
the cost of getting there
this time until winter and puts an end to
attempts further travel to Dawson before spring
reports of disaster and deprvation perhaps
those should carefully
by the adventurous making
going the Klondke conditions
will be widely different in the coming from
of the and the experience of
this should be warning those
scale the Chlcoot as the next opens
From the beginning of the excitement the leading
the country have been and persistent in advising
make the journey Dawson without
careful preparation for all the Arctic
mountains through food
and time unatanable. AS long, however
miners continued bring gold discoveries
warnings unheeded The glamour gold upon the
mind and danger and difficulty scoffed at
1t will be different The reports of distress des
tuition will confirm emphasis to the
consider them we'll that they will not forget the
excitement breaks next spring shall
repetition want chedness misery which seem to
pending thousands OF sanguine men and
women, too but short time ago full OF
hope and speedy journey the gold fields
prompt fortune when there.
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YELLOW JOURNALS M.
Chicago Times.HeraId.

Chicago Times Herald.
comments On the testimony given on the
trial OF q man on the charge of murder, show
Ing Its force or effect, are no part of decent
and dignifed journalism. To draw imag mary
conclusions from the personal appearance Of;
the man on trial, supplemented with more or
less fanciful pictorial representations OF the
mans face as he appeared during the exami-
nation of the witnesses, does not come within
the range OF legitimate newspaper enterprise
1t is the business of "yellow journalism"
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PROTECTION IN THE SOUTH.
RI orleston News and Courier.

South Carolina, we believe, has approved ct
Tho nolls the "new evangel," as Mr.. McLau-
rin,s opponents calleo it, Of the equal and i'm
partial application of the protection policy
whenever and so long as it is tho accepted
policy OF the Government. and will support
hat principle hereafter. And the example OF
this state this year, we are cor fident, will be
followed by every Southern State in which the
same issue is sharply and plainly made, as 1t
was made here this year.
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PLAIN ENOUGH.
Philadelnhia Leduer

Altgeld's platform is plain. but comprehen-
sive. 1t is, simply, up with silver and down
with the courts" There is time recorded
in sacred history when there was no King in
israel and every man did that which was
right III his own eyes" blu. it is not recorded
that II was an era of universal prosperity
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RlDD EsTHEoRIEs.
indianapolis Journal.

indianapolis Journal
The assertions of the silyerites regarding
the insuficiency of money to do the business
OF the country are being as conspicuousIy dis
proved as all their other assertions. Business
is increasing every day and the crops are NOV
ing as never before, yet there is all abundance
OF money for all legitimate pur poses.
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HERE Is THE VERY LATEST in RAILROADS.

The thousands of wealth-seekers who are yet
to brave the dangers of the Chill cot Pass are
but a few OF those who will rise and
call Thomas Nesom blessed if his new sys-
TEN of railroadng proves to be practicable
and is put to use in Alaska. Mr.. Nesom is
an Indiana electrician, and is said 10 be
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
SOMETHING SPAIN WOULD NEED.
st. Louis Repu bile,

SPANS new Premier says that his country
would "have the sympathy of all Europe" in
the event of war with the United States.
sympathy is what Spain would need before
Uncle Sam got through with her, it's more
than likely.
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GOOD THING FOR WEYLER.

Chicago Times Herald.
Wireless telegraphy will be great thing for
General Weyler's campaign in Cuba. 1t will
then be Impossible to destroy any of his VIC
tories by cutting the wires.
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he was an inquisitive boy. much interested
in business methods, and had just been read
ing about the New York Stock Exchange.
"Father," he said, "in order to buy and sell
stock, have you actually got to be in Wall
street,"
mot at all" replied his father; "you can
live anywhere. In Washington, for in
stance.'-Lje.
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AN AWKWARD ACCIDENT,
lisville Courier Journal.

LOUISVILLE COurler-J 0urnnI.
The latest plant of Brer Bryan hath the
sound OF ore crying in the wilderness, who
hath punctuted his tire on his crown of
thorns.