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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
CONVENTION WORK.

1t will be pleasing to our citizens to
note the promptitude with which the
work TO bring conventions here next year
is being carried forward. The convention
committee was scarcely organized long
enough to realize its existence before
circular letters were forwarded to all the
passenger agents west OF st. Paul, New
Orleans and the Missouri River for the
purpose of securing round-trip rate low
enough to encourage the coming of con-
ventions 10 this Stale.
The fact that the Grand Army meets in
Buffalo this month, and will then decide
where they will encamp next year. makes
it essential that we should hurry in secur-
ing the necessary information to present
to the veterans to enable them to make a
decision on our invitation. The soldiers
are said to remem Der with much appre-
citation their former visit to this City, and
1t is very pro ba pie that they only neeo be
assured of reasonable rates of transporta-
ton to gladly accept the call to California.
Colonel Goodman's plan of arranging
for the Grand Army encampment and the
National Educational Association conven-
ton to meet in California in the same
trip rate will likely be potent argument
with the railways. and it is to be hoped
the two conventions will agree to the pro-
posal. By this idea one system of organi-
cation would cover the handling of both
crowds, and thus much expe nse and labor
would be saved. In such an arrangement
the veterans would be called on to be the
most complaisant In selecting the time,
for they have large choice OF months,
while the educational convention is bound
by the rules to meet in July. The pro-
posal to hold one of these conventions in
this City and the other in Los Angeles,
with the tickets made to take in both
cities as the visitors returned, also seems
happy thought. The opportunity thus
given to see so large part of California
could be played as strong card in the
game of trying to win both conventions.
The work has been well begun, and this
energy only needs to be persisted in to
secure the objects desired. Each conven-
tlon secured will be half the victory of
getting another, until we can claim for
California the name of Convention State.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
TO REDEEM PALESTINE.

The power of sentiment is strikingly
shown in the movement among number
of prominent Hebrews to re-establish for
the Jews a national existence in Pales-
tine. In spite of the accusation often
brought against the race that it is domi-
mated wholly by commercial motives, we
are compelled to see in this movement an
impulse patriotic and poetic. 1t is not
the worship Of the almighty dollar when
has prompted the enterprise.
From all accounts DR.. Theodore Hert-
eel of Vienna is succeeding very well IN
arousing serious attention TO the scheme
for the purchase of Palestine and the
formation of an indie pendent Jewish state
there. If il is true as stated that the rep
resentatives of the vast Baron Hlrsch
charities are favorabIy inclined to the
project it is a good indication of the FEAST
biity OF the idea.
The reasoning of Hartzel that the Turks
would be willing to sell the Holy Land, or
if not, the early disintegration of the Otto
man empire would enable the Jews to get
back their ancient country by permission
of the combined powers Of Europe. will
not be accepted without considerable
doubt. 1t is possible that the Turks
fanaticism may prove stronger force in
the decision than his financial Necessities.
We were quite recently informed, IN the
affair of the conquest of Thessaly, that 1t
was against the teachings Of Mohammed
and the settled policy Of the Ottoman rule
to surrender any conquest unless forced
by arms 10 do so. The REIMBURSEMENT of
Thessay may be conceded because the
mandate of the com bined powers is con-
strued as equivalent to being overpowered
in battle, but the Mohammedan law would
hold against parting with Judea and Gal
lice.
The proposition of HertZel to seek Ar
gentine in case of failure to get the Holy
Land will not strike the sentiment OF
sy mpathetic world as anything like so de-
sirable a contamination, The Jews in
general are not nearly so likely to have
their enthusiasm rousei by the project to
establish a nation distant from its natural
site. All the romance of their history, all
the poetry of their literature, all the
prophetic promises of their future, would
make Jerusalem and the land of the Jor-
dan the one and only proper home Tor a
restored Hebrew nation.
1t does not seem likely that Palestine
could now be made a vantage point for
great commerce, and for this reason many
Jews would prefer to live where business
possibilities are larger. There is no tell
ing, however, what splendid results their
welI-known commercial talents would
achieve if they settled there. The soil is
said by travellers TO be fertile, and much
of it is now abandoned to luxuriant tan
gle of wild vegetation. Energy and good
government would soon reclaim the waste
places, and the whole land would be made
a garden-spot of wonderful prod uctiveness.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
THE WIZARD ELECTRICIANS.

Close behind the message of the achieve
ment of the Italian electrician, Marconi,
in sending electrical communications
twelve miles without wire connection,
comes a report of Nicola Tesla's latest dis
covery by which he can transmit wireless
electrical messages to as many different
poin is simultaneously as he desires. The
third of the supreme trio OF electrical
wizards, Edison, is yet to be heard from,
but there is little doubt his genius has
some surprise in preparation which will
equal If not surpass the achievements of
these gifted foreigners. Edison has the
most elaborate plant for electrical re-
search that ingenuity and money can pro-
vide and he has continuously proved
his capacity for accomplishing great
results. We trust he will sustain the
American reputation for surprising in
ventive skill by bringing forward some
thing that will cap these electrical mar
wells.
Tesla's claim that he can now, with a
few simple instruments, create such
changes in the total electricity of the globe
that the effect of the disturbance can be
felt everywhere on its surface will, If true,
mark the utmost bound yet attained by
man in the control of nature. Hitherto
we have been proud of being able to COM
pei the smallest fraction of tbs great
natural forces to do our bidding, and now
to have the power to affect one of these to
its utmost bounds, and that in way to
minister to our wants, is fulfillment of
the Biblical command to subdue the
earth that our ancestors would not have
dreamed of.
Marconis latest reported Improvement
of the wireless telegraph method so as to
reach barely far enough 10 be of much
commercial use seemed great because the
accomplishment led him to prophesy
that he could ere long send wireless COM
munications across the ocean by extend
ing his transmitting wires to tremendo Gus
heights in the air, but Tesla almost In
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

THE CALAMITY HOWLER.
Kansas City journal.


Certain esteemed contemporaries are ex-
changing premature congratul atoms on the
passing of the calamity bowler. They assume
that, with abundant harvests, good prices for
farm products increased bank clearings and
railroad earnings and a rising labor market,
calamity's voice will b, hushed, and the form
OF the bowler will fade away.
These suppositions do credit to the hearts of
the journalistic brethren, but thev show an
ignorance of the essential nature of the Gala
nifty species which is astonishing to the
thoughtful mind. The truth is that pessimism,
popullsm, or whatever you may choose to call
1t, Is not theory; IT. is a condition. 1t is not
a mistake; it is a disease. The cure is not in
tellectual demonstr alton, but spiritual re-
newal.
The calamity bowler doesn't need argument
Brain surgery might avail possibly, assumin g
the existence Of the necessary organs But so
far. we are inclined to pin our it'll TO what is
technically known in Methodist camp meet
ings as ''sound conversion" In the absence of
that, the case of the calamity bowler is hope
less
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

SANITY throws his discovery out of date
by hnding a way to send the messages
across the ocean, or around the globe, with
out the costly and difficult vertical wire.
But for the repeated marvellous achieve
ments of modern times we would be in
credulous as to Tesla's claim. The re-
markabls results of Ma.coni's researches
along similar lines, coupled with our
modern training to be prepared to be-
lleve almost anything in the way OF
scientific feats, will bring credence even
to this Tesla wonder. The claims of
the two great electricians seem to COR
roborate each other, and now we will
conhdlngly await the evolution of these
first discoveries Into such shape as will
give practical demonstration to our senses
and serve the needs Of commerce.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
THE GOLD FEVER.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
And merry old soul was he;
So he called for his pipe
And he called for his bowl
And he called for his fddlers three.
They brought his pipe and tn ey brought his bow
And they brought them speedily,
But he called with his might
And he called with his soul,
But in vain for the tijdlers three
He looked up high and he looked down low
And not a one could he see
So he called for his man
And he told HIM to GO
Where he thought they would likely be.
The man went West with a merry heart
Oh awav off West went he,
And he found all the men
In a Klondike part,
And they captured some millions three.
And old King Cole the merry old soul
When he heard their history,
He called for his pick
And he called for his bowl
And he sailed for the Bering sea-
NJ. E. W., IN Montreal Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
WITH YOUR COFFEE,
THIS is TERRIBLE

THIS TERRIBLE
Though others fail, far, fair Klondike
little bunko game see,
You work upon the tenderfeet-
yukon" them most successfully!
Cincinnati Commercial rbune.
"There is nothing funny about being cook
in this weather." said the sympathizer.
ooh, l don't know" warbled the chef.
"Slicing bacon is simply side-splitting. Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
Daisy-she has such pretty foot. don't
know where you would find anything smaller,
do you?
Frances-Yes the shoe she wears.-Boston
Traveller.
81 discovered a gold mine" said the 49er.
81 invented torpedo-boat," replied the
genius
Then they shook hands like brothers and
pooled their capital to buy cheap dinner
Detroit Free Press.
Dear ant jane" wrote litte Bonnie limp
kins to his fathers sister, 81 thot wood rite
an tell you that ma got baby hopin' thes'
fue Times will FIN you the same yore nefyou
benny."-Harrer's Bazaar.
"Do you think you can accustom yourself to
Klondyke cooking?"
why not? My wife took the first prize al
Vassar for her paper weight biscuits. "-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
"How do you pronounce juneau" asked
the inqusitive friend
"Well," replied the old-time miner, 81 can't
say IS matter of book-learning. But from
experience / should be inclined to pronounce
1t Jonah. "--Washlngton Star.
Here is new conundrum," said the cheer
full boarder; 'I made it myself. What is the
difference between me and a Klondike miner?
Can you guess, Mrs. Hashleigh?'"
"No, never liked conundrums" snapped
the landlady.
"All give 1t up?"
| There was no response.
Because" said the cheerful boarder, zone
stakes the claim and the other claims the
steak!"
And he helped himself to the bit OF sirloir
on the platter.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Excuse me-" said the popocrat,
:" If rude to you 1 seem to be-"
And then ne turned his back and prayed,
a. do not see Prosperity"
Cincinnati Tribune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
MEN AND WOMEN.

Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. HYDE is be-
Ing printed in French translation by the
French Temps as the original work OF French
author.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Italy have
been presented by the citizens OF Rome with
beautiful album containing over $4,000 sig
natures OF notable persons from all parts of
Italy, including most OF the Mayors The al
bum, which is intended as q souvenir in con-
nection with the wedding OF the Prince OF
Naples and Princess Helene of Montenegro
also contains loyal address Illuminated by
the most celebrated Italian painters.
British enthusiasts who wished to celebrate
what they call the thousandth anniversary of
the foundation of England's navy by King
Alfred have been snubbed by young Mr..
Chamberlain, who is Civil Lord OF the Admir-
atty, with the statement that the Navy De-
partment has had enough celebration for this
year.
A. D. Bartlett, who died recently in London,
acquired international fame through the fact
that he was superintendent of the London
Geological Garden when the well-known ele-
plant jun bo, became so uncertain of temper
that il was unsafe for children to go near him.
Mr.. Bartlett sold the brute TO Barnum for $10-
600, and the storm OF protests that followed al.
most ousted Mr.. Bartlett from the Zoo.
Miss Braddon joins to her talent as novelist
a genius for housekeeping. She always trains
her own servants, and can teach something to
even the most accomplished pupil of school
OF cookery. She is also an excellent needle
woman, and when her children were young
she delighted in nothing so much as in max
ing and mending their clothes Miss Braddon
sh ares with Mrs. Humphry Ward the distinc-
ton among leading lady novelists of never
having been interviewed.
Miss Julia Nelson can claim to being not
only the most classically beautiful, but also
the tallest woman on the British stage. Alma
Tadema considers hers the ideal Greek figure,
and he is very fond of designing her cos TUNES.
On more than one occasion he has even sug-
gested various ways in which her hair might
be done Miss Nelson, whenever it is pos ST.
She has often had the advantage of being
coached by her sister-in-law Miss Ellen Terry.
The Infauta Isabella Ferdinanda FRANCHISE
JOSEF inc, aunt of the King of Spain aud Sis
ter of the ex-King Francis d Assist, who died
the other day in poverty in a wretched inn in
Paris, was the most beautiful Princess in the
Spanish court fifty years ago. Her mar
rage in 1S4l 10 Count Ignatius Gurowski, a
Pole, caused a rupture between her and her
family. He died in 1887, leaving her penni-
less. and she has been living from hand to
mouth ever since.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
CANADIAN STIN ESS.
Chicago Journal.

Perhaps the United States, when 1t had op.
portunity, should have barred Canadians fro m
the California gold fields. Perhaps it was
foolish TO invite the world to sit at its table of
bounty. Perhaps, instead of acting like big.
generous, good-natured philanthropist, it
should have behaved like a fat boy choking
himself on an apple-core so no one else could
get any. But 1t didn't Everybody, from
Canadians to Cinnamon, had chance at its
great yellow store, and just as good a chanc
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
cALIFoRNIANs IN NEW York;

NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. TAT the St.
Cloud, ]. Moran; Morton, Mr.. and Mrs A. L.
Hetz; Bartholomew, NJ Friedlander. ]. NJ.
Newton is here buying. s .ster Carmen Divi,
Sister Mencia Msdurranoz, Sister Louisa Sierra
and Sister Mary Sureda OF Los Angeles sailed
on the Ems for Gen
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

as had anv American. 1t is too late to be
sfingy with California But something else
oon bs done II the Dominion Parliament acts
~ any snch sWinish fashion as the CaDlnet
nronoses. Congress can destroy the last vest1ge
of market for Canadian goods that the ping
iav . nil left in this country, and the Canadians
sSo,,id he notified TO that effect Immediately.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
You Are Going East

Remember to- morrow, August 9, is the last day
f sale NJ tickets at The Christian Endeavor rates.
Through trains to Denver, Kansas City, Omaha
Chicago ST. Louis and Eastern points leave san
Francisc co Monday, August 8, Tuesday, August TO-
and Wednesd ay, August IL. via the RIO Granoe
Western Railway and connections. General TICKET
office Ia Montgomery street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
THE WISDOM OF KRUGER.
From Golf.

A golfer in South Africa left his property to
be equally divided between two sons. Not be-
ing able to agree they decided to let Presid emit
Kruger arbitrate. He said to the eldest:
you're the eldest. are you notr' "Yes," was
the answer. $50 you shall divide the prop
erty." This pleased the elder immensely
'You are the Younger" continued Kruger to
the other, $50 you shall have first choiceW
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
THE SUMMER MONTHS.

Are you going to the country on vacation II
20 it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to
your address Do not let it miss you for you Will
miss it. Orders given 10 the carrier or left at
Business Office will receive prompt attention
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
LOOKING FORWARD.

Some OF the Popocratic managers have 1T
already arranged that when Mr.. Bryan is
elected President he will nominate DR.. An
drews, ex-president of Brown University, for
ambassador to England hat is something
TOR the doctor to look forward to, anyhow
and a mighty long way forward, too.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

There are many adventures to the
Klondike, and many are the schemes by
which they propose to make money, but
there is one who hopes to match all the
rest. He is Pittsburg man and proposes
TO establish a matrimonial bureau at
Dawson.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

This Mr. Gladstone and his Master Gladstone the heir OF
s the
andhe
W. o O
GrandO Id NAM
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

The gondolas of Venice. it is said, are
rapidly being crowded out by steam
launches, and it may not be long before
the prancing horses of other cities will
give way to motorcycles. 1t is getting to
be noisy world and ali ugly one.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
Get Your Tickets to the KIondyke.

The Northern Pacific Steamship Company has
put the magnfcen, steamer City of Seattle into
service tetwe n Tacoma, Seattle juneau anu
Dyea Steamer leaves Tacoma and Seattle Au-
gust Is and 20 For tickets and information call
at the Northern Pacific Railway Office, 1858 Mar
ket street, s F. L. X. Stateler, General Agent.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

If there is any truth in the report that
Weyler is the richest general in the world
he must have been trying to pacify Cuba
all this time by removing the root Of evil
from the possession of the people.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

They build up new summer resorts on
the lake shore near Chicago with degree
of enterprise which is truly dazzling.
There is one which is now drawing yisi-
tors by giving them free steamboat ride,
the free use of a bathing suit and a free
sandwich
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

The Queens speech is full of praise for
the Queens Ministers and the Queens
Ministers wrote it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

So many big capitalists are going to in
vest in Alaskan mines that they may form
a great com bination there before the year
is over and make Circle City ring town.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

The Kaiser and the Gear are having a
nice time together, and for the present
Paris Is not gay.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

The new tariff will raise the revenue as
well as everything else. This is a rising
country now.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

Victoria had nothing definite to say
about Greece, but she expressed great
hopes of the success of the concert.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

We must all give help to the men who
are trying TO make San Francisco the
summer convention city OF the United
States.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

The man with the craze never counts
the cost nor considers the climate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

If the midsummer mosquitoes in Alaska
are as big as reported, there might be a
profit in skinning them and selling the
pelts for buffalo robes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

howlers is that they cannot get share of
the prosperity without going to work.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

Only $50 so to Washington, ID. u,
Via Sunset route and Piedmont air line. Cor
respondingly low rates to other Eastern cities.
For further information call on or ad"ress
Chas. L. HOPKINS, Pacific Coast Passenger
Agent, 621 Market street, San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

When you come to think of it, pupil
in the public schools cannot be expected
to study every book that has ever been
published.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

DR.. Emmens of New York, who claims
to have devised a means Of transmitting
silver into gold, laughs at the Klondikers
and says he will give them a frost and
the rest of the world hot stuff in a few
days
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

Recent experiments in making sugar
from watermelons are said to have dis
turbed the negroes in the neighborhood.
They are clamoring for some one to devise
a means OF converting sugar into water
melons.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

A good situation in California is bette
than TWO prospects in a snowdrift.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

Dried fruit has caught on to the rush
and prunes are worth almost as much as
nuggets.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

CAI1FoRN1A Glace Fruits; soc h., In elegant
fire etched boxes. Townsend's, Palace Ho.ei
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp-
SONS Eve Water Druggists sell it at % cents
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

If the temperature of the weather at
Washington did not fall on the arrival of
Commissioner Foster, then the GOODNESS
between MIN and Professor Elliott has not
affected the public half as much as they
expected.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

The Government says it must be spelled
"klondike."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-08

The silver mines of the future may be
worked for the lead they contain.