The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-30

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SATURDAY MARCH 30, 1885
The pledge is the thing.
There is no tax on generosity and enter
prise.
Promises are good. but pledge means
business.
Winter is dallying a little too Familiarity
with spring.
The true definition of journalistic ethics
IS manliness.
Whenever you see a silurian shy a cob
blestone at him.
Any art that makes matrimony mex
pedient is ignoble.
Every subscription to the new road
counts for progress.
Grain and fodder are claiming the atten-
ton of the Prussian Diet.
Promise your business TO a road that will
give you the benefits of competition.
Every revolution in Nicaragua brings it
nearer to United States protectorate.
Fit is disgrace for divorce suit to be
published, then divorce itself is a disgrace
1t is about time to make Great Britain
understand that the Monroe doctrine is a
buzz saw.
Dynamite must be pretty windy sub
stance if We are to believe all the talk
about its blowing open safes.
It is suggested that the next silurian who
goes swimming provide himself with a
1ife-preserver made of cobblestones.
The sudden rise in silver caused by the
belief that England will join the bimetallic
conference has thrilled the whole West
with hope.
The British Parliament see trouble ahead
in Asia, Africa and America, with no ap-
parent chance of making a successful bluff
anywhere.
AS the San Joaquin road is pledged to
promote the business of merchants, all
merchants should pledge their business to
promote the road.
If you wish to enjoy some of the bright
est and best articles of current journalism,
during your leisure tomorrow, be sure to
get the Sunday CALL.
The first blast of the whistle which the
first train of the valley road shall emit will
send a thousand old ghosts and hobgoblins
shrieking to the woods.
The angel of peace that is spreading its
wings over the Orient is still sufficiently
material to demand a pair of very expen-
siye silver shoe buckles.
The report that the East thinks more of
US since we undertook the construction of
the San Joaquin road is not unexpected
in fact, we think more of ourselves.
The possibility of a war between France
and England over the possession of a re-
mote strip of darkest Africa is one of the
paradoxes of the era of the world greatest
enlightenment.
been started in Greenland called Aviaqaq-
1iotis Natenginnamik Sysaraminassassinsik
and if it doesn't ill the long-felt want to
the bottom and stick out yard or so at
the top, there is certainly nothing in a
name.
1t is pleasing evidence of the awakened
spirit of progress in California that all
classes of people are subscribing to the
competing road, and that the workers, in
proportion to their means, are doing as
much for the good cause as the capitalists
themselves.
The gentle spirit of the peace-loving
Robert Louis Stevenson may not be exult-
ing over the fact that Charles Thomas
Taylor has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment for charging him with hav-
ing furnished arms and ammunition to
the rebels, but it is probable that the white
cloud on which his spirit is sitting is not
shedding any tears on the tropics.
In declaring, while acknowledging her
suit for divorce, that she would rather have
Mr.. Massen for friend than husband,
Marie Burroughs has made a peculiar dis
tlnction, which is an attempt to divorce
husband cannot at the same time be her
friend, we have encountered mole that
burrows under the foundations of the home.
The arrival at Healdsburg of the machin-
cry for the great creamery to be established
there, is an important event for all that Sec
ton If not for the entire State. California
has the possibility of becoming one of the
richest dairy States in the Union and every
step in that direction should be hailed with
qualification as another evidence of the
tendency toward diversified industry
which is SO necessary to prosperity.
1t is an old superstition in the South
that every Friday each iaybird in the
world takes grain of sand to Satan, and
that in this way the destruction of the
world will eventually occur. This ought
to be hint to each resident of San Fran
cisco to pick up cobblestone when he