The San Francisco call., 1897-08-18

your address Do not let Il miss you for you VIII
miss IL. Orders given 10 the carrier or left
business Office viii receive prompt attention
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer month";
It looks as if silver might yet fall as low
as Bryanism.
The climb at the Chilkoot is no worse
than the climate at Dawson.
Why not call it Chilly Coot Pass? That's
the way the coots who 90 there feel.
Do not be afraid to stay with California
and WORK for her. She pays good wages.
What is most needed in San Francisco
at this time is a remedy for the tax levy
complaint.
TIE tugboat marriage industry may
have to be dispensed with in the new era,
but the loss will be little
The prospector does not envy the farmer
and the farmer is not envving the pros
rector. Everybody is happy.
Do not fail TO see the exposition at the
Mechanics Institute and post yourself on
the pure food supply of California.
There are still few people who insist
that prosperity has not returned, but the
old calamity howl is no longer heard
About all We can do for the Klondikers
is to wish them luck and get ready to
take up subscriptions for a relief fund.
First the name was spelled Skagaway,
then Skeguay, then skagUa, and before
winter sets in 1t may be known as Skags.
The persistence with which the Cubans
continue to march on Havana without
ever getting there is becoming noticeable.
The approach of winter will soon cool
down the ALASKAN excitement, but the
mining boom of California will go on as
brisk!y as ever.
AS rule Fresno keeps up with the pro-
eession. but she has refused to join the
Klondike rush and has started a mining
excitement Of her own.
II is evident that the early prospectors
of California overlooked about as much
rod as they found. and it may still be said
OF our soil there's millions in it."
The next time Henry of Orleans writes
an account of his travels he will take care
to write nothing likely to need revision
by man with fine Italian hand.
1t will be noticed that very few Ohio
men are taking part IN the rush to the
gold fields. 1t is an election year in that
State and they have klondike at home.
Eminent Frenchmen are not likely to
growi at the Italians very much since
Count Turin has given them an illustra-
tion of the Italian method of rushing the
growIer.
The Grand Army should assemble in
San Francisco next year to see how the
City has improved since the former visit.
We can show visible evidences OF growth
that will astonIsh the veterans.
Mexico should be allowed voice in the
international conference of the silver
question. She is as much interested as
any other power and moreover she would
cast her vote on the American side.
il half the people who say they are
go ing to the Klondike next spring keep
their words the woods along the Yukon
will be full OF them and the summer will
be the greatest picnic ever witnessed.
After Justice Field gets.'through re-
joicing over having broken the record for
length of service on the Supreme bench
he should reflect little on the fact that
By so doing be has violated all the prece-
dents Of the court.
Messages purporting to have been sent
out by Andree by means of pigeons are
being received with as cold frost as any
they experienced in the frozen north.
No one, either in America or in Europe,
seems to warm up 10 them.
In the course Of a casual conversation
between two Santa Rosa editors occurs
the phrase. IAN insinuating, cozening
blackSuard and coward" The insertion
of the word "cozenlng" suggests that the
remark was intended to be an expression
OF disesteem.
Between the Moslem fanatics among his
people on one side and British troops on
the other the unfortunate Ameer of AT
ghanistan is in a position from which it
seems impossible 10 escape, except by
crawling into gimlet-hole and pulling
the hole in, too.
There is good deal of curiosity in the
East to see what the gold Democrats will
succeed in doing in Ohio, Iowa and Ken
lucky this year, ana the opinion prevails
that they will not poll votes enough TO get
out of the scattering column when the
tally-sheets are made up.
Let US hope that no new mining camp
or district in this Stale will ever be called
Klondike. We have already overdone the
thing in the way of applying foreign
names TO California Localities. and the
sooner we have sufficient originality to be
distinctive in names, at least, the better
for Us.