The San Francisco call., 1897-07-17

DIT montgomery hSEoetg COAhSA NA~1 ~
$3.50 o'clock.
sss Hayes street; open until $50 O'Clock
el5 Larkin street, open until S;SO o CLOCK
sW. corner sixteenth and Mission Streets open
until O'Clock.
8blS Mission street, open until 9 O'CLOCK
1877 Ninth street, open until O'Clock
1905 Polk street; open ntil e;SO o'clock
NV corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky
streets; open till O'Clock.
OAKLAND OFFICE:
Gus Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
8ssns 81 and SO. "a Park Row. New York CITY.
DAVID NJ. FOLTZ. Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
THE SUMMER nlUNTrfS.
Are you going to the country vacations II
30, It is no trouble for TO forward THE CALL to
your address. Do not let it miss you for you will
miss it. Orders given 10 the carrier or left at
Business Office will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
fer summer months.
Don't start to Alaska too early. Wait a
little and avoid the rush.
At the way wheat is jumping it will
4
the crop.
The Supervisor can be distinguished
from the average citizen just now by the
pale cast OF his thought.
Senator Sherman seems to have landed
on the neck OF the British lion at the same
time he twisted the tail.
Shipping wheat to Argentina has not
been habit of ours, but it will be easy to
acquire it now that we have begun.
II is not easy to tell from this distance
whether the conference committee is con-
ferring on the tariff or chewing the rag.
Industry if attended by luck may strike
it rich on the Yukon, but industry in
California DOESN'T have to wait for luck.
What will it profit the City to turn out
one set of Democratic Supervisors and
have another set of Democrats appointed ?
The report OF Captain Raddy, superin-
tendent of the Almshouse, is one of the
kind taxpayers like to read. II shows
surplus.
1t looks as if wheat would rise high
enough to brush the cobwebs out of the
sky and brighten up the atmosphere all
over the country.
The temperance OF Carlisle in Ken
tucky politics as a defender OF Cleveland
ism is only another proof that some men
never know when they have had enough.
~---
Gomez informs Weyler I'VE will neither
accept reforms nor home rule under
Spanish control" and Weyler imme-
diately telegra apis to Madrid, Another
Cuban pacitied.'
If any plan OF arbitration provides way
for a speedy and friendly settlement of
the coaiminers' strike, then we shall put
arbitration in the list of things to give
praise for on Thanksgiving day.
The railroads of the State have good
reason to be we'll pleased with the Chris
tian Endeavor convention, for it has
brought big business to them. and even
yet they haven't finished with it.
The report that Nansen maze $3.50. 900
out of his book describing his search for
the pole is probably one OF the things that
have inspired Peary with a desire to try it
again and take typewriter with him.
One OF the few men Of Washington who
is missed at this time is the fellow who
proposed 10 get up a baseball game be-
tween Senators and Representatives TO
pass tt time while The tariff bill was in
conference.
The Epworth League is doing so well
with its international convention at
Toronto that it cannot hope to do better
next year unless it should profit by the
experience of the Christian Endeavorers
and come to San Francisco.
1t may be, as Professor Jaffa says "an
open question whether the American
workingman eats too much or the Euro
pean laborer eats too llttle," but so long
as the thing is open every man who goes
through will prefer to get over on the
American side.
The Trans Mississippi Convention has
followed the Miners convention at Den
yer and adopted resolutions urging the
establishment of National department.
of mines and mining, and thus another
strong force joins to push the movement
along to speedy success.
The announcement that local SOAP
manufacturers will make an effort to sup
ply the market with that article and save
the State the $500, 600 which we are said TO
pay out annually for imported soap is en-
couraging. 1t is very unenterprising peo-
pie that cannot make soap enough to keep
itself clean.
The Kaiser's claim TO the throne of Eng
land in succession to Victoria is founded
on the fact that he is the descendant OF
the eldest child of the Queen, and while
it is very good as claims 60 it will be the
easiest thing IN the world for Wales to sit
down on it as we'll as the throne when the
vacancy occurs.
The indignation of the women of Kansas
City against the officials who have ordered
women prisoners 10 be set to work break
ing rock is commendable, but we regret to
learn the wrath is directed not so much
at the work as at the fact that the convict