The San Francisco call., 1897-01-18


Rio seems to have been about correct. The
others are marching on Havana.
No less than four State Legislatures are
now wrestling with the theater hat ques-
ton, and all the time the girl who wears
the hat is not saying a single word.
Whether the country will have any kind
OF theory left when Cleveland goes out of
Office may be doubtful. but it will Ger.
tainly be altogether out of condition.
Now that Mr.. Madden has retired from
the Senatorial contest in Illinois it Is an
nounced that he is not "a Doodle Alder
man" but a good citizen thoroughly de-
voted to civic interests.
-Four years ago the Democrats had organ
lied the Legislatures in the big States of the
Union and were busy electing Senators,
but now they are hardly able to organize
a crowd and elect what they wish 10
drink.
The Georgia Legislature has refused to
pass a law making a close season for the
protection of possums, but as long as the
Georgians raise chickens and leave the
pSA54n mOl tEcSS BIOhAuS LuS pOSoun Cdu
look out for himself
There is not likely to be any dIsappoint-
ment with John Sherman as Secretary OF
State. While he has never shown his
hand much in foreign affairs he has am
ply demonstrated IN Ohio politics that he
is at home in diplomacy.
The effect of Eastern weather upon the
human intellect may be estimated from
the fact that the papers over there are
now elaborately disputing with one an
other whether women ever make good
resolutions on New Years day.
It is said the indemnity to be demanded
by the Beers for the Jameson raid into the
Transvaal will amount to something more
than $40 900, 600. and 1t goes without saying
that when England sees the bill she will
Immediately demand arbitration.
The latest development in civil service
legislation at Washington is bill provtd-
ing a pension for every mem Der of the
service who has served for thirty-fve years.
A few more reforms and Government
job will be soft snap sure enough.
During the past year there were con-
structed in this country 1175 locomotives
of an average value of $40 600, and of
these 300 were exported, thus showing
that foreign countries are learning where
to come when they want the best ma
chinery.
The recent official report showing that
Savannah has Il, ,063 trees along her side
walks has led nobody to declare that the
city is in the shade. On the contrary, it
Is everywhere regarded as a proof that her
people live in the sunlight and know how
to enjoy it.
Governor Black of New York startled
the State in his inaugural by declaring:
"In my judgment civil service reform will
work better with less starch" The state
ment IL the more surprising because it
shows that the Governor himself has lots
of starch in him.
Boies Penrose. who at the age of SO has
been honored by election to the United
States Senate from Pennsylvania, is said
to be man of marked personal character
istics, so eccentric in many respects that
at one time there was much fun made of
him. But the fun-making fellows are for
gotten now.
Omaha, like so many other cities, is
straining herself at charter-making, and is
trying to devise some method to prevent
Councilmen who are going ont of Office
from putting up Jobs between the time of
election and the time when the new Coun-
cilmen take their seats. 1t would seem
from this that the average Omaha Council
man is tough ouss.
According to President Fallon of the
Ohio Fish and Game Commission the fish
in Lake Erie will be exhausted in two or
three years unless some protection is
given them. There can be no greater evi.
dence of the rapacity of the Ohio man.
Let us be thankful that State is not To-
Gated on the Pacific, for if 1t were the big
ocean would be exhausted of everything,
from islands to shrimps, in less than de-
cade.