The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-18


ride.
Were it not for the conceit of the foolish
the modesty of the wise would seem COM
monplace.
Some Of the laws against lottery adver-
Using might be found to stick if they were
applied forcibly.
The small boy and the frecracker are
already engaged in destructive raid on
peace and quiet.
1t should not be expected of the manu-
facturer that he be the only consumer OF
homemade goods.
We ought to show in the Fourth of July
celebration how much we have profted by
the tiestas of the season.
The unspeakable Turk is beginning to
sober up from too deep indulgence in the
sublimity OF his own Porte.
Factories increase the price of real estate,
and benefit the merchant and neigh boring
farmers by putting money in circulation.
The women OF Los Gatos have taken the
Improvement broom in hand and are going
to make their town picture OF loveliness.
In the Democratic rumpus in Kentucky
it appears that Carlisle is the parrot and
Blackburn is trying TO monkey with him.
There seems to be profit for California
in everything that happens, and even the
gold stringency has caused revival of
mining.
If it be true that Olney's practice was
worth $4,000 year, we may put him down
as man whose practice is much better
than his talk.
If President Zelaya of Nicaragua fail to
consolidate the Central American States,
he might try his hand on the consolidation
OF Nicaragua.
The lottery-ticket peddler can hardly be
blamed for trying to sell tickets at every
house where newspaper that advertises
lotteries is taken.
The Santa Clara County Floral Society
proposes to hold flower carnival next
year that will fairly mop the earth with
flowers and Los Angeles.
Forging lottery tickets is q mean kind of
rascality, but the employer who induces
his employee TO buy tickets from him is en-
gagged in a meaner kind still.
AS the Baltimore Sun comedies that
things are looking blue for the Democrats
in Maryland, We may add another feature
to the bright prospects ahead.
AS the pioneers of California athletes in
the East, the Berkeley lads displayed the
sort OF grit that enabled their fathers to
win California for civilization.
The Salvation Army camp-meeting
across the bay proves that people can be
thoroughly earnest rehgionists. and at the
same time be as happy and jolly as school
children at picnic.
In the sweltering heat of Cleveland the
delegates to the Republican League Con-
vention will be easily persuaded that the
National Convention OF the party should
be held in San Francisco.
Our own manufacturers are able to meet
any demands made upon them, and if they
received the full support of the people of
the State, several thousand more working
men and mechanics would find employ
ment.
1t is surmised that the thrifty beaux of
Oakland are appalled, at the prospect of
having TO pay 10 cents vote if there
should be an election of Goddess of Lib
erty, and are inspiring the sentiment ad-
verse to such q contest
s
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald is now
unearthlng contract japanese coolies in
Naca Valley, and showing generally and
further that in skill in evading American
laws the Orientals display a superiority
that staggers the rascals of Europe.
Old Bismarck planned the canal from
the Baltic to the North Sea and the Ger.
man people paid for it, but now both
Bismarck and the people will have to give
the glory to the Kaiser and bow down in
doing it. for such is life in monarchy.
The rich consumer should order the pur-
yeyors to his household to deliver him
only California articles, and thereby
learn how much easier his rents would be
collected and how rapidly his empty
houses would fill up with prosperous ten
ants.
As Fritz Scheel was the director of the
concert at the park last Sunday, we sup
pose that he is responsible for this way of
announcing the first number on the pro-
gramme: 'Star-spangied Banner Sir
Francis Key" We must infer from this
either that Francis Scott Key had been
knighted at some time lin which event the
Bart" should not have been omitted) or
that the ghost of that delightful pirate,
Sir Francis Drake, is haunting Conserva-
tory Valley.