The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18

ern folks.
Do your shopping promptly and give
other folks chance.
Maceo's body may be modering in the
ground, but his soul goes marching on.
Don't neglect the plea of the Salvation
Army-"P ease help us to cheer the friend
less"
The Senate has decided that the old
Dingley bill is dead issue and that set
ties it.
The San Pedro and Santa Monica fight
to a finish begins Monday and will be held
in the open.
There is good deal of war talk in Con-
gress on the Cuban question, but no signs
OF war feeling.
German has sufficiently recovered to
make a little speech in the Senate, but
Hill is still silent.
In these days our improvement clubs
meet not merely TO discuss ideas, but to
hear reports of progress.
More billiards in the East and more
tourists bound for California. 1t is an i'll
wind that blows nobody good.
When the proposed lighting scheme is
carried out Market street will look like a
rainbow and be a thing OF promise.
We shall believe that some Congress-
man is really in favor of fighting Spain
when we hear him promise to resign and
volunteer for the war.
An extra session OF Congress is now so
wei assured that good many members
OF both houses are getting speeches ready
to meet the emergency.
Lord Sholto Douglas has decided to
lesve Oakland and now there is a move
ment IN that city to annex several SUBJ
urbs to make up the deficiency.
When Senator Teller told the Senate 81
am not sure we did not elect Bryan" he
gave better proof OF hisgreatness as a teller
than of the quality of his telling.
Whether Market street is to be ilumi-
mated, paved or swept the public will be
pleased. 1t will b. impossible to touch it
up in any way without improving it.
Truckee will hold another ice carnival
and we shall again amaze the Eastern
tourist by offering him festivals in snow
palaces or floral bowers at the same time
Cleveland's defense of the German tariff
has been followed by Secretary Herberts
defense of the Texas. Anything with q
deficiency finds favor with this admins
tration.
1t is not known why Liliuokalani came
to this country, but it is significant that
as soon as her arrival was announced
Cleveland made bee line for the South
Carolina marshes.
The report that Mckinley has gone to
Chicago for rest need surprise nobody.
There are miles of secluded prairie in Chi
cago and it is one OF the best country
resorts in the Union.
CleVeland's decision to make his future
home in Princeton has now been public
for some time, but as yet we have heard no
sound of rejoicing in that town nor any
murmur of lament in Buffalo.
1t seems to have been the opinion of the
Senators that while the Dingley bill is not
worth voting on it is a good subject to
talk about whenever they wish to kill
time without killing anything else
"
Los Angeles is 10 have park worthy of
her greatness, even when she becomes
Greater Los Angeles, and, as it comes to
her with all the grace of a Christmas gift.
she will be the recipient of congratula-
tions all around.
The absence of any fighting or even
quarreling over the prospect of a Cabinet
office for Californian seems conclusive
evidence that the new era has dawned
upon US with the sudden briIliancy of the
sun of Austerlitz.
According to a paper read before the
Irrigation Congress by DIR. Chaplin of ILL
nois it requires $50 pounds of water to
produce pound of corn. 1t is therefore
surprising that it takes so much corn to
hquidate little debt.
There seems to be enough money in the
treasury to run the Government this win.
ter without issuing more bonds and, there
fore, the country will be well content to
let the tariff alone until the next Congress
meets to enact one that will be thoroughly
protective.
The Fresno fair has shown that the San
Joaquin can produce any plant grown in
any climate from that of snow-covered
mountains to that of tropic plains, and
hereafter we may expect TO hear Fresno
announcing herself 10 the world as the
center Of the vegetable kingdom.
According to the estimates of political
experts at Washington there will be no
currency legislation either at this or at
the extra session of Congress. The whole
financial question will be postponed until
the tariff is out of the way and the indus
tries of the country put in good condition
again.