The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-11-30

Now for holiday trade.
Early purchasers get the first pick.
Keep.a lookout Tor California products.
Read the advertisements and pos. your
self on bargains.
ANY old thing goes now if you call it a
Christmas novelty
Santa Claus owns the original mare that
made the money go.
Santa Claus never hssiiates to- count on
the home market, and what is more-he
never gets left.
Q Eastern people who do not like billiards
know very we'll where to come to get out
of the way of them.
.. The funding bill may come up at this
session off Congress. but it will not stay
up. The people are onto it.
The first big store that makes conspic-
uous display of California novelties and
delicacies is going to make len-strike.
The latest novelty in tricycles is ma
chine in which you do the riding and an
other fellow works the pedals. 1t is the
boss.
{. The coming session of Congress prom
. Uses to be dull, but we shall have lively
session of the Legislature to make up
for it.
The report that Cleveland has decided to
make his future home in Princeton en-
: courages the hope that he may yet learn
something
aClevelands message in defense OF his
administration will not be exactly char
'ity, but all the same it will cover a multi
tude of sins.
There is apparently only one way to pre-
vent Bryan from continuing mis- tour of
agitation and that is TO employ Tom Wat
son to head him off.
70 There is a manifest tendency on the part
OF many Eastern people to criticize Bry-
ans book before he writes it, and that can
hardly be called iudicious advertising.
Two things for Californians to do in
Congress this winter are to fight the fund
ing bill and work for the establishment of
a Department of Mines and Mining.
Really it does not matter much now
whether Cleveland recognizes Cuba or not
ashe will soon be in a position where
Cuba will hardly De able to recognize him.
o San Luis Obispo will be claiming to
> have the cream Of Californfas population
within her borders this week simply be-
cause she is TO hold dairymen's conven-
ton.
Ohio statesmen evidently figure a long
way ahead, for some of them are said to be
laying plans to defeat Senator Sherman
when he comes up for reelection two
years from now.
Our country beats the world talking of
international arbitration and the continu-
ance of peace, but as we keep right along
improving our coast defenses and enlarg-
ing our navy nobody regards us as a Ma.
ton of dreamers.
New York and Wisconsin claim to make
all the Limburger cheese that is used in
this country, but we see nothing in the
Claim to be proud of. California can al
lord to turn UP her nose at it.
The gold-standard Democratic papers
In the East are in a queer state of indie
cision'whettier to set to work reorg AIMING
their own party or to pass the time advis-
ing Republicans not to reform the tariff.
According to the London correspondent
of the Inter OceUa If iS raporfad - E,-I.ra
that ex-President Harrison will be the
. next United States ambassador TO that
country, but American news from that
source is always more amusing than in
structive.
1t bas been noted that Colorado gave
Bryan larger plurality than he obtained
in the five Southern States of Georgia.
Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana; but the notice is not to the
credit of Colorado.
Illinois has new political organization
calling itself the Christian CITIZENSHIP
League, and if it carries out all the re-
forms demanded by it's platform it will
have to sweep the State with new broom
ana mop up the spot where Chicago was
with hot water.
Among the concessions asked of the
managers of the Paris Exposition is one
o by an American who wishes to put up a
glass barrel tifty-two feet long and twenty
seven feet high, with an American bar in
side OF it, and it would seem to be trans
parent money making scheme. Q
One Of the things which will be much
discussed in California this winter will be
road Improvement. and it is probable tie
discussion will bring out the fact hat d ur-
ing the past year there has been much
more i'm provement of the kind made in
the State than is generally supposed.
As soon asCongress assemblies Repub-
hean caucus will be held to decide
whether any tariff legisl alton shall be at
tempted at this session; but the problem
involves SO many factors tue solution will
not be easy, and the chances are that the
whole thing will be left for the next Con-
gress to deal with.