The San Francisco call., 1897-07-12

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Business Office will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months
The convention stays with us.
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We may count on the tariff this week.
The Sultan will never be struck by an
ultim tum until 1t is shot at him out of a
warship.
After the calamity bowler we need the
advance agent of prosperity. The invita-
lion 10 Mckinley should be made urgent.
Our visitors look as if every one of them
had come from a section OF country where
the revival of prosperity had got in its
best work long ago.
Now that q trust has been formed to
make boards out of straw, it seems the
lumber trust will have to get into the COM
petition class after all.
From the crowds the Endeavorers draw
to their meetings one would think that
Christian is the greatest novelty ever
shown in San Francisco
The gold Democrats are arranging to
make the race in every State election held
this fall, but it is not likely they will run
far before lhey are run over
The movement for international bimet-
allism has the right of way, and aspirants
for the Presidency had better join the
procession or get out of the road.
The thing that makes summertime un-
bearable to an Eastern city Is to have a
hot wave strike il in the midst of a popu-
lar agitation against scorching.
The Car and the Kaiser have both re-
ceived the credit of having a string on
the Sultan, but up to date neither OF them
has shown any ability to pull him out OF
Thessaly.
Some of the Eastern traders have
declared an intention 10 keep up an agita-
tion against the new tariff until it is re-
pealed. 1t ought not to be against the law
to drown such fellows.
John G. Carlisle is expected to emerge
from his cuckoo nest to preside over
ROIQ OSulOCIdI convention IN hODLQCKV,
but his temperance will not have much
effect except as an irritation to Joe Black
burn.
The one satisfactory feature of the drift
of the Democratic party in Ohio this year
is the fact that it is retiring the party
farther and farther away from Mr.. Brice
and the worst is that it is setting in the
nF NH ;.
A New York clergyman is reported to
have stated in a recent sermon that the
text, He that winketh with the eyes
causes sorrow" is warning against fiirt-
ing. 1t must be borne in mind, however,
that the acreage summer girl can firt
whole picnic through and never bat an
eyelid.
II it be true as reported that the Iowa
Agricultural College has arranged to dis
pose of every pound of its butter product
to firm in London, it stands chance 10
get big a reputation as a business college.
An arrangement of that kind would be re-
garded as good stroke on The part of the
best and most enierprising dairy COM
pany in the country.
1t has been proposed that the work IF
the National Fish Com mission shall be in
creased so as 10 include the propagation
of game birds as we'll as FISH, and the pro-
posal has been well received in the East
If the idea is carried out we may add
largely to the value of our fields and
forests and eventually enable the average
citizen TO have a game dinner occa.
sionally.
With the enactment of the new tariff we
shall in all proba bility close tariff contro-
yersies for the rest of this generation.
The settlement of the financial problems
will come next and that also will prob
ably be accomplished during this admin
istration. The contest of 1900 is therefore
likely TO turn wholly upon new issues, un-
less the country should be so we'll satisfied
with Mckinley as 10 decide to re-eleet
him without contest.
Some New York detectives, who man
aged to catch one of the largest lottery
ticket dealers in that city, discovered also
that while ne imported some tickets from
the lottery headquarters of Europe Mex
leo and Honduras the great mass of his
tickets we're bogus and printed in New
York. 1t appears from this that the swim
die is the same everywhere. The fraud
that catches the innocents of San Fran
cisco ropes in the fly boys of the big me-
tropolis.
H. c. Mcmillan, chairman of the Re-
publican State Central Committee in
Iowa, is farmer as well as a lawyer.
This spring he had field of corn, which,
when several inches in height, was frozen
TO the ground. His men desired to piow
1t up and plant the field again, but Nc
Mill anoIdered il 10 be left alone. In a
few days it started up and is now the best
field of corn in that section of the State.
This shows the advantage of being a
statesman and having confidence in the