The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03


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: Chinatown is redhet again.
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. The highbinders are on the warpath.
The Monaghan fiends are demanding
blood money OF. blood.
:. There: is needed in Chinatown now a
strong hand and prompt one.
II is very poor sort of scow that can
not get a move on as an Alaskan steamer.
The threat of tariff war in Europe
sounds ominous, but it will not disturb US.
Our tariff is all right.
1t looks as if the Cubans would spend
Christmas in Havana and give Weyler a
chance to spend it in Madrid.
Since prosperity is now plainly at hand
several former calamity howlers are to be
heard saying they predicted it.
,: Wireless teIegraphy will be benefit,
but the country would have preferred a
system of wireless political conventions.
The royalty which Canada proposes to
impose on the miners of the Kiondyke is
not of the kind that attains TO jubilee.
1t is well enough 10 have rising prices
and rising wages, but the prospect OF
rising tax levy is too much of good thing.
The trouble in the Afghan country seems
to- be that the British attempted to take
Swat in an underhand manner and got it
in the neck. .
=. Ii Bryan intends.to keep up his continu-
:ous performance tour he will soon have to
;, geta trick monkey or an anlmatoscope to
:, help draw crowd.
-: The Cretan question comes up again as
!. Al disturbing factor in the Turkish prob
lem, and once more it finds Europe unpre-
pared with an answer. H..
r. There will be no pirates to assail the re-
turning miners from Alaska but there
. VIII be card sharpers enough all along the
:: line to do the business.
People who are in doubt whether to go
to Alaska or Peru will lose nothing by
their indecision so long as it leaves them
safe and sound in California.
:. Marconi gives US good promise of a wire
less telegraph, and perhaps the problem
of Kidding modern cities of electric wires
may be solved for Us in very inexpensive
way.
The number of men who are giving up
a sure thing in California for change in
Alaska is an evidence that our lunatic
asylums are not yet adequate to the needs
of the State.
- The Alice Barrett mystery in Boston is
: an evidence that when the new woman
undertakes to lead double life che can
make. it more mysterious than a Gaboriau
romance and not half try.
=. The silver men of Nebraska are to meet
:: in three distinct conventions and make an
attempt not only to shout the same names
. but to shout them in unison, SO We may as
well be, on the lookout for: a ruction. -:
=. The story that the Cubans, in sacking
several stores in the suburbs of Havana,
refused to carry off anything imported
from Spain on the ground that they are
too patriotic to use anything Spanish even
.lf:taken as a spoil of war is so beautiful
that a. chrome should have been offered
along with it for the first person who be-
lieves it..
~ The Mohammedan agitator who told the
people Of Lucknow that Victoria exists
:; only by the sufferance of the Sultan, and
but for his forbearance "the old lady's ribs
would have been broken years ago." ex-
pressed what is undoubtedly a.wides pread
opinion among the Moslems of India, and
:; the British will not get the idea out of the
popular mind by the simple process of i'm
=. prisoning the man who uttered it.
:. According to- the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat. Nebraska has paid off sac, 900,
600 indie btedness; North Dakota has paid
" off $25, 000. 900 indebtedness; South Dako ia
:. has paid off $50; 600. 600 indebtedness; Kan
:: sas has paid off $5O,OOO.0 600 Indebtedness
J. Iowa has paid off $4,000, coo indebted.
:. ness" With. a showing like that before
= us it is plain that the failure of Bryan's
: calamity tourtwas due 10 something else
&: than the hoarseness of the orator.
Professor Ramsay. scientist OF repute,
who has spent many years in the Levant,
says the Turkish men are better than the
Greeks. but the Greek women are better
than the Turkish women. From this fact
he draws the conclusion that the Greek
race is improving, while the Turks are de-
generating. He adds that IL the two
peoples would blend, the result would be
one of the strongest races in Earope, as
each has qualities which the other needs
10 make a strong manhood. The Greek
has ingenuity, but he lacks persistence,