The San Francisco call., 1897-06-29
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL


DAVID NJ. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
THE SUMMER MuNInS.
Are yoa going 10 the country. a vacation II
20. IL is no trouble for forward THE CALL 10
ycur address Do not let it you for you Will
miss it. Orders given 10 the carrier or left at
Busi0ess Office viii receive prompt attention.
No EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months
Another week for the tariff.
Democratic Senators are becoming sassy
again.
Every day brings additional news of re-
viying industry.
The optimist would give the country a
rosy glow, but the pessimist would paint
it red.
The preliminary firecracker has begun
to announce the coming of the glorious
Fourth.
Great Britain will now drop her jubilee
voice and begin TO sing low again in the
European concert.
II is said again that Werler will be re-
called. but the saying don't go. We want
Weyler to go before we celebrate.
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The amateur who goes into the wheat
pit in these days is pretty certain to find
himself IN hole before he gets out.
1t will be better for Bryan to talk bun
combe in California than to talk pessm-
ism. We are tired of calamity
By next winter We ought to be able to
take up the Balboa-avenue movement
again and push it along 10 The county line.
Aproof that the New Workers are i'm
proving is to be found in the fact that
they are paying better prices for California
fruit.
Dsaths from sunstroke are becoming
common in the East, and still the Eastern
folks haven't sense enough 10 come West
and live.
Jameson has returned TO South Africa,
but II Is safe to say he will not venture
again within shooting distance of the
TransVaaI
The next session OF Congress will be
kept red hot from start to finish if it un-
dertskes to com plete all the work that has
been cut out for it.
Something like seismic disturbance
may be felt in the Mississippi Valley this
week. The Ohio Democrats are going TO
hold Stale convention.
l. IL.
The greatest wave of Eastern travel to
California this year should be known as a
Christian Endeavor movement
If it be true as announced that Mark
Twain is to receive for his new book $40. :
900 in cash and a royalty OF 81 on every
volume sold it hardly seems worth while
taxing up subscrip tion for him. 1t will
be enough to buy his book.
An authority, who has searched the re-
cords, says that all of our Pr, sidents nave
received the degree of LID. except Van
Buren,, William Henry Harrison and
Tyler. Grover is not a unique specimen
after all.
Fhe Boston woman WHO, by penny SUBJ
scriptions, has raised money enough to
send Harvard student TO California for a
seven weeks vacation has done well, and
should now take up another subscri ption
and come West herself.
Every day that pas ses brings us nearer
TO better times, lessons the numb of
croakers and increases the mum Der of op-
timisls; we have, therefore, every reason
10 be satisfied with the movement of
things and sanguine that 1t will soon bring
US to a condition of prosperity equal to
any We have ever known.
"The free trade talk" says the New
York San, Twas either waste of breath or
sheer humbug, but it has caused danger
GUS discontent and produced calamitous
business aud industrial confusion" That
was the size OF it in past times, but at pres.
ent it is a waste OF breath merely, for it
will never humbug the people any more.
After all the talk about the invention of q
process OF making fabric from the fiber
'of spruce wood which cannot be distin-
guishsd from silk il is now said the stuff
is not available for commercial purposes
as it is too heavy for wear and breaks and
tears easily when exposed to moisture.
People, therefore, who wish to spruce up
will have to resort to the sikworm in the
future as in the past.
The military and naval displays at the
London jubilee were great, but tie high
est triumph of the occasion was achieved
by that wonderful commercial system
which enabled an island that does not
produce food enough for its own people to
provide amply for millions of visitors in a
single city, and that without any strain
or worry upon the authorities or any not
able disturbance of the food market.
The King of Siam is said to have greatly
shocked the Venetians by visiting all their
art workshops, attentively studying the
articles of ornament and beauty, and then
buying nothing in the city but $500 worth
OF flannel shirts. This was one of those
royal caprices which makes artists turn
In despair from crowned heads and seek
the patronage of pork-packers who know
at least enough about art to understand
that Venice is not the place to go TO buy
shirts.