The San Francisco call., 1896-04-12

To-day the new bonnet has another
show.
Our spring weather changes often, but
in the East it changes much.
In our advertising columns this morn
ing you will find 1.-THE very thing"
Among the birds that sing in the spring
this year there is no sign of the cuckoo.
There are even some people who wish to
see Jerry Simpson nominated for Presi-
dent.
The independence of Cuba should not
be regarded as a policy foreign to this
country.
About this time the winter resort puts
on new frills and calls itself summer
paradise.
All Republicans are ready for the rose
festivals, but the Democrats would rather
have somebody give dog show.
If the new woman had her way she
would turn politics into a festival, run for
Queen and let men do the voting.
If it rains to-day we shall have to con-
clude the clerk of the weather has mis-
taken the Easter bonnet for flower
garden.
There are many enterprising persons
who are always taking big chances under
the belief that they are seizing great oppor-
tunities.
When California goes to the st. Louis
convention she must take her interests
with her and see that they have a good
showing.
a Kansas prophet has predicted three
cyclones for the Mississippi Valley this
summer, but it is even betting there will
be dozen.
Ii becomes more evident every day that
If Cleveland wishes some one to lead his
party this year he will have to hire sub
stitute. There are no volunteers.
The band has not yet begun to play, nor
has the curtain been raised, but all the
same the drama OF the Presidential cam
paign is nearly half way through the first
act
A Chicago Judge has accused Chicago
lawyer of trying to amend the ten COM
mandments, and it goes without saying
that all Chicago people wish he had sue
ceeded.
The announcement that the British
forces will act on the offensive in the
Soudan raises the question whether there
is any part of Africa where they are not
acting that way.
The only interest the people will take in
the Chicago convention will be to see
whether the gold men and the silver men
can succeed in breaking away from one
another without mussing up the floor.
According to accounts given by Eastern
papers the bloomer girls who have come
out with the spring in that section are not
last years bloomer girls by any means, but
brand-new ones and much more stunning.
In his Georgia debate Hoke Smith has
the double task of answering his opponent,
Mr.. Crisp, and refuting his own speeches
Of four years ago, and while the first part
of the job may be the harder it is the lat
ter part that worries.
The monopoly has always many tricks
to divide the people in order to carry its
scheme through, but the game it is now
playing between Santa Monica and San
Pedro is less like trick than an attempt
at bulldozing.
The shopkeeper who does not keep
staple articles that are widely advertised,
tf1+ hot is
good,' is most excellent tradesman for
you to pass by and let him find customer
that is just as good.
The seventy cadets who will graduate
from West Point this year and find only a
dozen vacancies awaiting them will be bet.
ter off than the thousands of young men
who will graduate from the law and medica
schools and find no vacancies at all.
The resumption of mining will benefit
the farmers of the State as much as the
miners, by making Better market for
their crops and putting more money into
circulation. The farmers in fact need the
mines almost as much as miners need the
arms.
A club of Morton's supporters in New
York will go to st. Louis on bicycles, thus
introducing the wheel into politics, work
ing som ething like a revolution in cam
paign methods and increasing the heat
of the contest by substituting the scorcher
for the spell binder.
The bill of Senator Perkins granting a
right of way through the Mariposa reser-
vation for the Yosemite and Merced Rail-
road ought to receive the full support OF
the California delegation in Congress and
be passed at this session. 1t is full time
Yosemite Valley were made accessible to
the people.
The bill of Watson of Ohio providing for
an appropriation of S250, 900 for the erec.
ton in Washington of monument to the
private soldiers and the sailors of the navy
in the war for the Union deserves the sup
port of men of all parties in Congress.
The capital of the Nation has been adorned
with the statues of many generals and ad
mirals, and it is time the boys in the ranks
were remembered.