The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08

for summer months.
Tuolumne has the best of California this
week.
The Native Daughters meet at Sonora
and sway the State.
Wherever Bryan goes he stirs up dis
sensions in his party; and rightly enough,
for he is better man to fight over than to
follow any day.
Arizona will now begin a movement to
bring about an enlarged use of one-cent
pieces on the Pacific Coast. She has struck
copper ore OF great richness.
With the golden key given them at
Sonora tn Native Daughters can come in
body to San Francisco, open the Golden
Gate and take the whole swim.
When the sugar duties and the tea
duties of the tariff are discussed we shall
see some lively stirring in the Senate and
perhaps a tempest in teapot sure en- ough.
AS Tom Watson's paper denounces what
it calls the three B's-Bryan, Butler and
Bargains"-it is evident Tommy doesn't
favor the busy bees, and prefers TO act as
hornet in the camp.
1t is announced that Csnovas will re-
main Prime Minister OF Spain and Weyler
will continue to rule all he can reach in
Cuba, so the Tetuan crisis by no means
deserved the scare heads an expectant
journalism gave ii.
1t is announced from New York that
there are now on the way to this country
from Mediterranean ports 49 200 boxes of
oranges and 2O3 800 boxes of lemons. and
that fact should go far toward determin-
ing the tariff-makers to give US better pro-
lection on citrus fruits.
The fact that ST. Louis man has been
found drowned in his bathtub is sufficient
to disprove the Chicago ASSERT on that St.
Louis people never bathe, but at the same
time it shows they do not practice the
habit with sufficient frequency to know
how to do it with safety.
The net result of the session of the Leg
islature in New York IS the addition to
the statute-b books of 797 new acts, and now
the oldest lawyers in the State are going
to school again trying TO find out whether
the new laws have filled up chinks in the
former statutes or riddled them with new
holes.
The experiment of intrusting the man.
sgement of a farm of 140 acres to boys
taken from the streets OF New York will
be watched with no little interest, and the
philanthropists who are putting up their
money for it will probably have the en-
joyment OF one of the best circuses of the
season.
The proposed tunnel under Pixies Peak
TO connect Colorado City with Cripple
Creek is estimated to cost $50, 600, 600, and
the projectors claim they will take out
enough gold ore to pay for it. but the
chances are the scheme VIII be another
pixies Peak or bust" venture and will
end as the former one did.
The latest story from Oklahoma is TO
the effect that there has been unearthed a
scheme devised by some Deputy United
States Marshals to rob bank, thus prov
ing that the bank president, the cashier
and the desperado are not the only people
who believe the money of depositors
should be put into circulation at all
hazards.
The fight of the COOL people of sausalito
against the gam blers is one that will be
watched with interest Oh this side Of the
bay, for there are many here VINO look
with favor on that thriving town as a good
place for suburban nome, and who may
locate there provided it is kept free from
influences p rnicious to the home and to
boys yerging upon manhood.
The festivals accompanying the unvei-
ing of monuments to Washington and
GirarG, closely followed by horse show
and the opening of the Commercial
Museum. have made Philadelphia This
season the gayest city in the East, and as
a consequence New York and Chicago
have steadily kept their eyes averted and
talked necessarily about local politics.
Sir Charles Dixie recently said: "The
present House of Commons, although the
LATEST that ever sat, is intellectually supe-
rior not only to any l have known but
even to the Parliaments of FL zabeth and
Charles l. P" The shades OF Bacon, Coke.
Cecil and those of Hampden, Vane and
Cromwell will now size up the present
Commons and then lay for Dixie in the
next wor Id with club.
The lynching at Urbana, Ohio, cams
very near being followed by another at
Chester, Pa, on Sunday, and only the
prompt action of two constables saved the
ouprit from the mob. 1t is evident from
these occurrences that lynching is not pc
culiar to any section of the Union, and it
may be safely said the only way TO pre-
vent it is TO devise some system of punish
ing crime through the medium OF the
courts in which the people will have con-
fidence ana to which they will be willing
to trust,