The San Francisco call., 1897-07-14

sos Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and S2 "a Park Row, New York City
DAVID NJ FOLTZ, Eastern Manager
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Business Office will receive prompt attention.
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Good-by, Endeavorers
Have you seen the midday Venus?
Oakland was full of herself and her
visitors yesterday.
1t is pity the convention didn't stick
it out like Congress.
The country voted for new tariff and
a rest, and it will soon get both.
There are almost as many offers OF
ground for park i'll the Mission as there
are ideas on the subj ct.
Our relations with Japan are getting TO
be of a nature which will require US to act
toward her like Dutch uncle.
What would it profit the United States
to gain the sugar industry of Hawaii and
sacrifice that OF California?
The snags in the way of the tariff move
ment need disturb nobody. The Republi-
can party knows how to remove snags.
There are coed many pieces of paper
money circulating round town as souve-
Mrs of the convention and we are glad tc
have them.
The Mission park movement has reached
the fork Of t e road, and there will be a
deal OF trouble in deciding which fork it is
best to take.
Some of our visitors will see more OF
California than many people who were
born here, but who have done their trav-
cling in foreign parts.
The Sultan continues 10 ask Europe
"What are you going to do about it?' He
continues also 10 find satisfaction in the
fact that he gets no answer.
The report that a lake recently discoy-
cred in Alaska is full of pure coal oil will
never be credited until somebody puts a
match to it and ilIumines the subject.
This is one OF the few years in our his
tory that business revival has been noted
in 8 MINER, and as a consequence the out
look for the fall trade is exceptionally
bright.
Bryan deserves all the credit he ever re-
ceived as eatner-Iunged, swivel tongued
orator, for he is sstiIl travelling and talking
like a brass bound machine operated by
bellows.
The report that some of the visitors did
not like the weather we gave them con-
firms the belief that some folks when they
get to heaven will complain that their
halos don't fit.
The United States viii be called on to
export an unusually large amount of
wheat 10 foreign markets this year and
the phrase good as wheat will have
golden sound in the mouths of the people.
The efforts Of the workingmen of the
City 10 have the new Federal building
erected of California material, and by the
eight-hour day system of labor, ought to
be encouraged and assisted by the citizens
generally.
The Christian Eadeavorers came in
time to see The City Hall dome completed,
and perhaps by the time they return to us
Ne will have the new Hall of Justice
ready to raise the roof to the sound of
sweet music.
According TO the latest revised figures
there are II 900 more women than men
over l 4 years OF age In Massachusetts, and
before long the abandoned farm problem
won't be a circumstance to that of the tor
saken woman.
Now that full reports o.. Altgeld's
speech on July 4 have come TO u.s. it is
easy to understand why it was not tele-
graphed. 1t was one OF those stale old
calamity howls of which the people have
grown weary long ago.
The Spanish idea that by going to war
with the United States they can lose Cuba
in the shuttle without losing their honor
is curious. and if they ever put 1t into
practice they Will find it about the costli.
est curio in the worlds market.
At the Tammany celebration of the
Fourth of July letters were received from
Cleveland. Hill and Bryan. The first was
Missed, the second slighted and the third
cheered. The tiger. it will be seen, has
determined 10 go the whole hog on the
Chicago platform.
An Oregon company is said to have re-
ceived an order from Paris for 5000 barrels
of cured horse meat, and thus field has
been opened for the horse industry with
which the bicycle cannot compete until
some nation develops taste Tor sausages
made of rubber tires.
As the threats of revolt in India have
come wholly from ohammedans it is
believed in some quarters the movement
is not so N uch tho result of the famine as
an outburst of fanatic zeal caused by the
success of the Turkish Moslems in the