The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
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THE SUMMER MONTHS.
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for summer months
The snow on the ChiIcoot glitters, but
it isn't gold.
Luck deserted Jeter on election day, bu!
has been camping with him ever since.
Attend the Mechanics Fair. Study
home industry. Help to make it sue
cess.
This is the day 10 leave orders for THE
SUNDAY CALL and make sure of good read
Ing ior your day OF rest.
Freight competition by the way of the
Horn has to go long way round, but If it
gets here all right every body will be salts
fed
Every distur bance in the European con-
cert seems TO be caused By a refusal on
the part of John Bull to play his from
bone right.
Section % of the Dingley bill may have
been loaded for the Canadian bear. but it
seems to have brought down the British
bull as well.
The CALL news service has been good
in the past and will be better in the
future. The world goes forward and we
keep up with the procession.
We may as we'll make up our minds to
it that Spain will never recall Weyier
until she recalls her last soldier from
Havana and let's Cuba go free.
Lynch law has been asserted so vigor-
ously along the Skaguay route that man
cannot even steal q march without being
brought up with a round turn.
General Weyler's retiring disposition is
acuteIy manifest only when Gomez strays
into the neighborhood. 1t never reaches
the extreme of letting go of mis- job.
Whatever may be thought on general
principles of Spain, it must be admitted
that when she catches an assassin red
handed she knows what to do with him.
In these days OF pros perity there are
just two classes of people who are sad:
those who are sorry they cannot go to
Alaska and those at Dyea who wish they
had stayed at home.
To be "fulI of prunes" is an expression
sometimes meant to convey reproach, but
California owns up this year to thousands
of tons of the fruit, and doesn't care who
knows ii.
II the story that Healer Schlatter has
just married q widow is true, then that
other story that he starved TO death
months ago becomes painfully shadowed
with doubt.
Is it possible that Governor Budd has
left the State so as TO give mis- friend Jeter
the pleasure OF passing upon the Hill
murder case? He enjoys such things so
much himself, too.
1t is reported that many of the boomers
who went from Kansas to Oklahoma a
lew years ago are now returning to Kan
sas and the bleeding State expects to
boom again next year.
The symptoms of the titled gentIen an
who recently acquired sword thrust have
not been detailed for day or Two, lead
ing 10 the uncomfortable suspicion that
he may be getting we'll.
1t is stated that Kansas man started
for the Klondike six days after his we'd
ding, but ii would perhaps have been
more accurate to say n Kansas woman
started her husband out of the State.
The committee of one hundred must
bear in mind that the object of their labor
is not to devise an ideal form of munich
pal government, but one that the people
OF San Francisco will be willing to adopt.
The writer who says the mountains OF
Chilcoot point 10000 feet into the air is
modest. Why, at certain times of day
those mountains have been known to
point directly at the sun, and that's mil
lions of miles distant.
1AS dOSSAtSS lOuEId4iSt WuO Sl6uueIS
men in San Francisco and then sinks in
the slums of New York to avoid the con-
sequences may call himself the publisher
of newspaper, but he is more like the
calculator of dodger.
In their latest raid into Armenia the
Kurds killed every Armenian in sight,
whether Mosiem or Christian, and the
absolute impartiality OF the proceeding
viii proba bly, prevent the Christian powers
of Europe from raising row about it.
1t was not simply for throwing a beer
glass at q gentleman who had attained
his disapprobation that Cincinnati um-
pire was fined 500. Evidence was con-
elusive that in his haste to hurl the mis-
siIe the umpire had absolutely wasted the
beer.
This talk of Canoyas as foremost
statesman" OF Spain begins to grow
wearisome. Circumstances point inevita-
bly, to the conclusion that even before
Canovas was murdered, Spain did not
have any statesman of this desirable va
riety.