The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-26

The CALL SPEAKS FOX ALL.
1t was a great Christmas.
We had as much joy as anybody.
To-day we recuperate and tomorrow we
rest.
There are still few novelties on the bar
gain counter.
The housekeepers will now whirl in and
make clean sweep.
1t wouldn't be bad idea to make this
also holiday and take it easy.
The most popular job with statesmen in
these days is that of helping Mckinley.
There would be lots of happy gossip if
we only knew what the mistletoe could
tell.
Ten chances to one your presents will
look prettIer to-day than they did yester-
day.
Read our advertisements and you will
see there are several bargains left for New
Years.
In the economical household the REM
nants of the turkey can be made as good as
the feast.
Now is the time to begin making up your
mind as to what you will swear off on New
Years day.
If you were too busy yesterday to send
the Christmas CALL to your Eastern friends
you can dc so to-day.
There are few happier people to-day than
the members of the Salvation Army and
few better deserve their happiness.
The New York scheme for establishing
an ideal newspaper was good, but it has
now been abandoned and that is better.
1t would be a big joke on the Senators
if Cleveland should take it into his head
to recognize Cuba before Congress meets
again.
If the Spanish butchers could succeed
in chopping Cuba up into fish bait Cleve-
land would begin to take an interest in
the matter.
The one objection to the anti-noise
crusade is that it can never succeed until
it makes more noise in the world than
anything else.
In dealing with our foreign relations
Cleveland persistentiy ignores the fact
that Cuba is near enough to US to be
called home relation.
An attempt to rush a funding bill
through Congress at bicycle speed will
produce a hot fight. It will take scorcher
TO try it and he will be roasted in doing it.
If Santa Claus overlooked anybody in
California yesterday it was not intentional
for he had many earnest and kind hearted
men and women looking everywhere to
see whom they could help.
The British Government has appointed
a royal commission to look after the
sugar industry of the West Indies, but
that need not disturb US. We have Re-
publican commission in Congress to look
after ours.
William Lee of Boston, whose guest
ex-Queen Liliuokalani will be while in
that city, says she has made the trip
simply for change of scene, and in going
from Honolulu to Boston at this season
she will certainly get it.
The Congressional recess is longer than
usual this year, as Congress will not meet
again until January 5. This will give
Cleveland time enough to get up another
message If he should happen to feel like
annoying the country any further.
The official returns of Arkansas show
that eighty-six votes were cast in that
State at the last election for Jefferson
Davis for Presidential elector. AS no man
of that name was running for the office
the votes were probably intended for
Andrew Jackson.
In order to make metropolitan Boston
that will rank with the biggest cities
in the world there is movement to in
corporate with that city twenty-eIght sur
rounding municipalities, thus expanding
the hub to the rim of the local universe
and taking in all the felloes in sight.
Senator Hill of New York not only
stands no chance of reelection this win
ter, but it is said be will not even get the
complimentary vote of The Democrats in
the Legislature of his State. He crawled
into hole during the campaign and both
factions of the party seem inclined to
leave him there.
The Florida delegation in Congress are
trying to get en- appropriation to defray
the cost of destroying the water hyacinth,
an aquatic plant, which is said to be
choking up the rivers Of the State and
impeding navigation. Thus while Uncle
Sam is busy propagating plants in one
place he is called on to whirl in and de-
stroy them IN another.
The City Vigilance League of New York,
in urging the election of its candidate for
the United States senatorship, says of
him: HE fills large angle in the gen.
eraI regard because OF his native proper
tons and not because he has acquiredst1e
art of conspicuity." The description was
intended for Joseph Choate, but it sounds
like Chauncey Depew.