The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07


SUNDAY. MARCH 7. 1897
During the week ending yes
terday THE CALL published
4SlS inches
of advertisements, which is
% inches more
than was published by any other
San Francisco newspaper during
the same time.
Now, then, for harmony.
Let us make it an era of good feeling.
The way to have prosperity is to work
for it.
There should be no factious opposition
to the tariff.
Let us start the boulevard as highway
to better times.
Don't fail to subscribe to the fund to
provide work for the unemployed.
When all classes of citizens work
together great things are ACCOMPLISHED.
The cloudy skies give the outlook for
agriculture all the brightness OF sunshine.
The great powers have found they can.
not take Greece out of Crete with soft
soap.
If we get the new tariff bill by the 1st of
July we will make the Fourth glorious.
indeed.
The Greek backbone is strong enough to
make a bold front and may be strong
enough to win out.
A war in the Levant would send wheat
prices sky high and it may come before
the next crop is ready.
In the task of restoring prosperity the
people have responsibility hardly less
than that OF the Government.
No one objects to Cleveland's duck
shooting trip this time. We have in
Washington much better man to attend
to business.
This ought to be great year for carni-
vals in this country, as the people were
never more joyous or more in a mood to
have jubilee.
No objection was made in the Senate to
any member of McKinley's Cabinet ex-
cept Bliss, and yet every body knows that
where there is harmony there is sure to be
bliss.
Since war against her has been raised
in the Caroline Islands as we'll as in Cuba
and the Philippines, Spain will have
reason to believe that all islands are of
a volcanic nature
Not a single sentence in Mckinley 8
message tends to stir up strife among The
people. 1t said the right things in the
right way and appeals to the sentiments
of all patriotic people.
The story that microbes four inches
long have been found in Chicago water
was probably started by some visitor 10
the city who drank so much Chicago beer
that he was unable to tell the difference
between microbe and sausage.
The Boston Transcript says that the
seven wonders of America are Niagara
Falls, Yosemite Valley, Mammoth Cave.
Muir Glacier, Natural Bridge, Yellowstone
Park and the Grand Canyon of the Colo.
RADIO. The list is good, but why Kansas
was left out is another wonder
According to Mr.. Prater of ST. Louis.
the time is soon coming when farmers
will receive about $25 per acre for their
cornstaiks after the corn and fodder have
been stripped from them. The stalks. he
says, will be used i'll making cellulose,
celluloid, smokeless gunpowder, lacquer.
cattle feed, roofing material and material
that will answer every purpose of PAPER
mache.
At the recent municipal elections in
Philadelphia five women were elected tn
the school board, so that now there are
eleven women in that body representing
nine out of the thirty-eight wards of the
city. The success of the women is re.
garded by the press of Philadelphia as a
matter for congratulation, and the predlc-
ton is made that before long every ward
will have at least one woman to represent
it as a school director.
A few years ago some enterprising man
brought water hyacinths from Venezuela
as fine plant to adorn the grounds OF
one of the big hotels in Florida. The
plant got into the rivers of the State and
thrived like the rabbit in Australia. II
now impedes navigation on such impor.
tant streams as the st. John, and serves
as another warning to man not to be toe
hasty in propagating either plants or ami
mails in lands where nature has not placed
them.
Senator Wolcott, who has just returned
from Europe, says: "An intern ational
agreement for the remonetization of silver
is entirely feasible, and its accomplish
ment rests LARGELY with the United States
and is dependent on the course We pur.
sue." This statement is encouraging, and
taken In connection with Mckinley
promise that international bimetallism
will have early attention gives ope that
this issue is like the tariff-will soon be
out of politics.