The San Francisco call., 1895-10-13


Don't make your leisure hard job.
Nothing is so truly mans own as his
losses.
There are dark horses in society as well
as in politics.
People who cannot see good prospects
ahead are short sighted.
Make yourself cheerful in reading 'the
coming season will be gay"
Pretty nearly everything we meet in
this world is an opposition.
The trolley-car is not the only passing
show that often ends in tragedy.
There is Just enough heat in the elections
this fall to make the Democrats boil.
The average reformer takes just enough
interest in politics to be dissatisfied with it.
It is because sour grapes come high that
some people think they must have them.
When O man has thoroughly identified
him self with town he never fails to praise
it.
There are some silurians who are too
stingy even to give compliment to prog
ress.
The missionary goes to China to prepare
the way of peace and then calls for war
ship.
People who are in the swim think those
who are out of it have a dry time, but it is
not always so.
You see few things from the best point
Of view when you look at them from your
own standpoint.
If Corbett and Fitzsimmons really wish
place to fight in they should not overlook
the hospitality OF Cuba.
Cleveland has left Gray Gables and will
now oyerwork himself for week or two
before asking for another rest.
The Ohio campaign has got far enough
along to make it certain that Brice's money
talks through Campbelrs hat.
Preparations for the coming carnivals
will turn the vacant lots of many town
into flower gardens this season.
Since peace is in sight in Madagascar
perhaps France will listen to Olney's long
delayed vigor and let Waller go.
It is one of the parodoxes of life that
we always consider a man to be coming
our way when he is going our way.
Don't complain of the fools in the world,
for if there were none, clever people would
have to work harder to make living.
We shall probably never have a perfect
republic until there is an Office for every
candidate and majority to elect him.
We will believe that Eastern sympathy
with Cuba has become fighting mad when
we see some of the fighters going to the
front.
It is natural for DR.. Parkhurst to be dis
pleased with the fusion ticket in New York
as he is one of the kind who prefer con-
fusion.
The time for deciding where the next
Republican convention will be held IS near
enough at hand now to make the situation
thrilling.
Other towns have to rely on garden
flowers for their festivals, but San Fran
cisco could decorate a civic carnival with
parlor rosebuds.
City politics in New York this year is
not so much a matter of parties, or even
of factions, as of cliques, coteries, clubs,
classes and gangs.
The Hawaiian officials will now have
chance to learn that the truth cannot be
hidden by covering the man who tells it
with tar and feathers.
No one will deny the usefulness of g.
Grand Jury that stirs up the street con-
tractors and makes them do better for
little while at any rate.
The fact that some of the milk-dealers
are protesting against the work of Milk In
spector Dockery is perhaps the best proof
we have that he is doing his work well.
The Farmers National Congress at At
lanta debated finance instead of farming
and were wise in dong so, for what most
farmers need now is to raise money as well
as crops.
Ii the University of Chicago is to be run
as an annex to the Millionaires' Club it
will hardly add any more to the credit of
the city than another pork-packing estab-
lIshment.
The result OF the recent Congressional
election in the Fifth Georgia District seems
to show that the Democrats down there
have stolen the ism from Populism and
silenced the pop.
As Alaska is to have delegates to the
next Republican Convention San Fran
cisco can claim it as the city nearest the
geographical center of the country from
which the delegates are to come.
The one defect in the revival of trade is
that so large a portion of the goods now
beng sold ccme from foreign countries
through the gap made in the protective
system by the Democratic tariff tinkers.