The San Francisco call., 1897-03-22

eral building started.
The next news from Europe may tell a
dreadful story of war cloud burst and
deluge of gore.
The people can afford to be amused by
Democratic blundering on the tariff issue
this time. 1t won't hurt anything.
1t is possible the Democrats in Con-
gress may think it necessary to fight the
Dingley bill just to let the country know
they are still alive.
Now that we have begun work on the
boulevard let US furnish the money to
complete it. There should be no half
way job in a movement of that kind.
According to the Toronto Globe bureau
fSr the employment of casual laborers is
to be established by that city, and the re-
suit of the experiment will be worth
watching. We may learn something from
Canada.
General Weyler has begun to treat
American citizens in Cuba with respect
and perhaps will continue to do so now
that Cleveland is out of Office, but all the
same it will be worth while to keep a
watch on him.
A Louisville man has been held for per-
jury for swearing he owned a lot worth
$400 when it was shown that the lot was
in q cemetery. 1t was regarded by the
court as grave offense and the man is
now entomb bed in Jail.
According to reports from New York
the advertisers in that city are beginning
10 abandon the decadent journals OF SEN
sation and crime because decent people
do not read them and advertisements
published in them are of no value.
One Of the forlornest searches on record
is that now being made by Democratic
newspapers for grounds on which to begin
the opposition and attack on the admins
tration. The search for the north pole is
nothing to it for frigidity and futility.
If it be true as reported that Rudyard
.Kipling gets $l2 line for his poetry, he
deserves credit for writing so little. 1t is
a very high artistic instinct that impels
an author to cut his work short at the
right place when he could make $120 by
adding ten superhuous lines.
1t was once the boast of New YORK that
her marriage laws made access to the
matrimonial state more easy and egress
from it more difficult than did the law of
any other State in the Union, but now
the people are weary OF that condition of
things and instead of boasting of the law
are trying to get rid OF it.
a French magistrate who has been
studying the tramp question in that coun-
try has reached the conclusiou that
tramps make good soldiers, but are not
good tor anything else. The discipline of
the army, ne says, is better for vagrants
than the confinement of iails and he ad-
vises that all tramps be enlisted for life.
1t is believed that by the beginning of
May there will be Carlist uprising in
Spain OF such proportions that the Gov
ernment will be compelled to recall the
troops from Cuba TO protect the throne.
The Cuban patriots have therefore
brighter prospects than ever, and they
may yet have the satisfaction of ceIe-
before the year is over.
An act of the Arkansas Legislature
creates Railroad Commission with full
power to regulate railroad rates and other
wise supervise the transportation business
OF the State, but enjoins the commission
from doing anything TO check railroad
building. It will be interesting TO see
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earns the salary of its members without
offending shippers or checking railroads.
Josiah Flynt, who claims to have studied
CRIMINALS "in the open" as well as in Jail.
states in paper in the Forum that he has
. failed to find insanity common among
criminals or any lack of will power
among them. These statements are in
opposition to the prevailing view that the
criminal is degenerate and imply that the
worst offender can be made to behave
himself by simply teaching him that
crime doesn't pay.
General Vassos, the Greek commander
in Crete. is playing very difficult role,
and thus far he has managed 1t with COM
-plete success. He has held his position
in the islsnd, protected the Greek citi-
zens,. maintaine the prestige OF his
country and has given the allied forces
no slightest opportunity for just cause
of offense 1t is evident that Vassos is a
diplomatist as well as soldier and is en-
inently the right man in the right place
at this juncture.
1t is said that the cultivation OF teasels.
used in removing the. nap from flne
WOODEN cloths, is confined in this country
10 a small district around Skaneateles,
New York. The farmers Of no other sec
tion have thoughtit worth while to grow
them, and yet it is said they yield an
average-o of 100000 to the acre and sell from
so cents to 81 a thousand. The profit is
large ana it would seem to be worth while
for some Californian with land to spare to
try the crop for variety.