The San Francisco call., 1897-05-29
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for summer months.
The farmers have quit praying for rain
and are busily making hay while the sun
shines.
The tariff debate is turning out to be a
walkover instead of a contest. Protection
wins at every lap.
An interview with Chapman on the
Hayemeyer case would be interesting il
Mr.. Chapman would be candid.
1t is probably putting it mildly 10 say
that the veil which charity draws over the
Barillas episode is full of holes.
The Sultan is like the rest Having
knocked out featner-weight he feels like
challenging all the champions in sight
One more Representative has run MP
against the Speaker, and one more d;stin-
guished citizen will monkey with the buzz
saw no more.
It looks as if England intends to run q
Monroe doctrine of her own in South
Africa and would bar out arbitration as
an impertinence.
Leave orders for THE SUNDAY CALL to-
day and you will provide yourselves with
a whole magazine of good reading for
your day of leisure.
THAT eternal want of pence which
vexes public men" has now struck the
School Board, and before long it will be
vexing the private taxpayer.
The first carload of wheat of the season
has been marketed at Stockton. 1t was
an early bird, but it caught no grub worm.
The price paid for it was tit bit.
II the Senate committee appointed 20
Investigate the sugar-deal scandal should
revive itself and recall Mr.. Havemeyer for
further examination there would be q
circus.
1t takes the Board OF Supervisors about
as long TO frame tariff of water rates as
It takes Congress 70 frame tariff of Gus
toms duties for the whole Nation, SO it
isn't always the biggest body that moves
slowest.
Morgan Hill, in Santa Clara County, is a
small town and a new town (hardly more
than three years old) but as it proposes
to organize a bicycle club it evidently in
tends to keen up with the procession, and
may yet challenge the metropolis.
Cal of Florida, so long known in the
Senate as the National bore, is no longer
in the Senate, bat he is as big bore as eve,
and is now working his powers as an
Office seeker with the intention of talk.
ing Mckinley into surrender or death.
The most interesting elections of the
year will be those of Ohio and Maryland
Tne political fortunes OF Hanna will be
dependent on the result in one and those
of German in the other. These are big
men and will make big fights whether
they win or go down.
OCOL
observed with due loyalty and patriotism
Now let Us show forth the earnestness o1
these feelings by subscribing to the fund
for the erection of monument to Lincoln
in Golden Gate Park which will be worthy
of the City and of the man.
A Kernville correspondent, in calling
attention to the climatic advantages OF his
section, declares that "did the livelihood
of our doctors depend upon their practice
they would surely starve." Is it possible
that Kernvilie doctors have to go out and
saw wood or bale hay for a living?
The San Diego San, noting that the
kine;oscope has settled the dispute be.
tween Corbett's and Fitzsimm friends,
is cheerfully inspired to hope that the
same means may be employed to deter
mine whether there be any fowls in the
fight between Turkey and Greece. There
is one, very bad one-a Crane.
TIE humorist of the Holister Bee has
heard of Kansas man who has a corner
on onions, or an onion on corner-he
isn't sure which-but he ventures to con
clude that the onionist under either cir
cumstanee can make a few scents on hi,
investment. He may do even more-hs
may make so much that every bod vi
breath will be taken away.
A Michigan man, 65 years old, has jus
regaIned his speech after dunn bness o
half century. 1t is q cruel fate, how
ever, that fills the voyager with iubilan
hope only to wreck him and dash him to
pieces on the shore of good fortune. Since
this Michigander found his voice he has
been talking almost necessarily, until, as
result of his wild joy, his reason is tot
tering on its throne.
The appeal of Colonel Ethan Allen,
president of the Cuban League of tbs
United States, for contributions to a mil
1ion-dollar fund to advance the cause oil
free Cuba ought 10 meet with liberal re-
sponse. In the East. where large bust
ness is done with Cuba in times of peace,
it should be easy to raise that sum sim ply
as means of recovering the trade which
the war has destroyed.