The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21


have in the East that don't trouble u.s.
The path of individual enterprise soon
becomes the highway of public progress.
The only motive-power of good many
people is derived from the force of habit.
Manufacturing enterprises will take the
place of land booms in the coming revival
Only men who have resources in them
selves can make use of the resources of
nature.
To a man who knows how to profit by it
even disappointment may be good in
vestment.
The injurious insects now in California
are those that have two legs and talk about
hard times.
1t is difficult for a braggart to talk of
anything except himself without losing
his eloquence.
The busiest man is half an idler If the
work which he is doing accomplishes noth-
ing for the race.
If the excitement of enterprise contin-
ues even the raw material will be worked
up after while.
The man who is too wise to learn from
Miss Anthony must have cut an extra set
of wisdom teeth.
About the hardest and least profitable
way to kill time is to take hurried trip
round the world.
Some people use the longest pole to
reach the persimmon, and some use it to
reach the sour grapes.
Stockton will soon be laying its ear to
the rail and listening for the rumble of
approaching good times.
''How to be happy though rich" is a
problem that most poor men would like to
assist millionaires in solving.
If the racket in the Democratic party
keeps on their next National Convention
will be suppressed as prize fight.
The horse might be iubilant over the
prevalence of the bicycle did he not reflect
on the propinquity of the butcher-shop.
The Fourth of July ought to present an
opportunity for San Francisco to have the
grandest festival ever seen in the West
Perhaps Cleveland may seek revenge by
sending his book in as Presidential mess
age and make the Government publish it.
European investments in American Sc
curities may make bull market, but it
looks too much like John Bull move
ment.
All over the State the demand is for
factories, and those localities that desire
them had better start in before the rush
comes.
The German Kaiser is at that point in
his career when kings discover that their
swords may not prove as hard as their
hearts.
Carlisle has opened his campaign for
what he calls "hard money" which is a
deliciously appropriate name for gold these
hard times.
Senator Palmer's question, 'Is the Demo-
cratic party worth maintaining?" has the
defect OF assuming that somebody wishes
to maintain it.
This is the time of the year when birds
are building nests and young mans
fancy lightly turns TO contemplate the
cost of a summer outing.
The Cuban insurgents have not yet ex-
hibited that devotion TO principle which
transforms patriots into martyrs and mar
tyrs into torches of liberty.
1t is now the season when, as Bobby
Burns would have said. "the wind doth
blaw," but it is not blowing dust into the
eyes of people who live on clean streets.
Montreal proposes to hold an interna-
tional exposition next year at the same
time with that of Mexico, and Uncle Sam
will probably have to take them both in.
Calamitous as has been the Cleveland
administration the Supreme Court decision
annulling the income-tax law tears the
last wisp of straw from the oistended BODY.
If 1t be true as reported that the yacht
Defender is to cost 100000, it would seem
that international yachting races will have
TO be carried on after while at the cost of
the nations.
If the frost-ridden people of the Western
States do not see in their affection provi-
Dental notice that California is the best
place to live in, their intellects are i'm
pervious to wisdom.
The grin on Bismarck's face as he be-
holds the rebellion in the Reichstag has
less of sympathy for humanity than of
amusement at the weakness of a Chancel-
lor whom history will never accuse of
being man of blood and iron.
There must be something wrong with a
domestic restraint that makes it possible
for boys to organize in bands Of burglars,
and it might be profitable to inquire into
their home lives and ascertain to what
extent ignorance is the cause and who is
responsible for the ignorance.