The San Francisco call., 1897-06-16

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for summer months
Poor Barney Barnato" they call him
now, and but a little while ago they
called him "C:9sus"
The tariff movement has stopped for a
while and the Senate seems to be doing
nothing but blowing off steam.
1t is now clear that Bryant's tour in the
East has been a decided failure. He
should have made it on bicycle.
The Jubilee crowd in London will be
much larger than our crowd of Christian
Endeavorers, but it won't be so good.
The talk of Hawaiian reciprocity is
giviag way to talk OF Hawaiian annexa.
tion. The issue is going to be a fight to a
finish.
Thousands of Americans who are going
to London 10 see the jubilee would enjoy
themselves much better and save money
by coming to California and camping out.
sidewalks should be pushed steadily along.
The citizens of every American COM
munity are entitled 10 a clean walk in
life.
The name of Barney Barnato will live
long in the records of these money-seek-
ing times, but it Will be quoted much
of.ener TO point a moral than to adorn a
tale.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant, British matron
OF high degree, society leader and social
reiormer, has smoked a cigarette and
found it good, and he can now make big
pin money by writing recommendation
OF the brand she used.
The proposed organization OF the sash
and door factories into q trust will prob
ably give an impetus to the portiere trade
ana TO the manufacture of camping out
fits. We can down the projected trust
either by living without doors or by living
out of doors.
Decoration day, Flag day, Bunker Hill
day and Fourth of July make for the
American people a series of patriotic fes-
tlvals such as no other Nation enjoys, and
1t Is gratifying to note that the o. servance
of them is becoming every year more gen.
eral throughout the Union
This is certainly very far from being
jubilee year for India, as her people have
been afflicted with famine, pestilence and
earthquakes and are now threatened with
var. 1t would be more fitting for the
Queen TO condole with India than for
India to decorate her sorrows and dance
with the Queen.
By way of a change from the potato
patch idea, Macon, Ga, is said to have set
her unemployed to work planting oats on
the vacant lots in the city, and is now
reaping her reward at the rats of $50 an
acre, thereby increasing her reputation for
sagacity and incidentally running the risk
of getting one as liar.
New Workers have been greatly excited
OF late by the arrival at the public aquar.
ium in that ty of a magnificent hell
binder" and all the papers are now busy
explaining what kind of fish it is, but up
to date none of them have stated whether
they caught him in Kansas creek or
grew him in their own bay.
Aroiher proof that a quiet, orderly, re-
tired lie is conducive 10 longevity is fur
nished by The statement that a man who
has already spent forty five years of his
lie in State prisons has been recently
sentenced in Indiana 10 seven years ore
for counterfeiting. He is over so years
old, is still healthy, and expects to serve
out his term and then return to the tur-
moil of out-of-door life.
North Carolina, Texas Utah and Wash
ington are said 10 be competing with one
another in offering inducements 10 Debs
for his proposed cooperative colony.
Each of these States has an abundance of
cheap land, and in either of them the
co!onists would have a good chance TO
achieve success, provided they did not per-
nit new ideas 10 interfere with the prac-
lice of old-fashioned industry.
Il that Boston inventor can make good
his claim to have constructed a machine
by which be can dart lightning at will to
strike anything he aims at his invention
should at once be bought up by The Gov
eminent and used for the whole people.
Under our political system it will never
do to let few men have control of an APP
paratus by which they can make lightning
strike wherever they choose in a nomi-
mating convention.
En- bassador Hay has already created
ripple Of talk in London bv marking his
official stationery American EN- bassy"
instead of UNITED States EN- bassy." 1t
is said he does not represent all America
and is spreading the eagle too much. 1t
should be remembered, however, that Hay
IS poet as well as an EN- bassador and is
entitled to poetic privileges. The United
States is already known as America in our
National hymn and in poetry and song
generally, so we might as we'll adopt the