The San Francisco call., 1897-06-20

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The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
THE SUMMER mUNInS.
Are you going 10 the country a vacation II
Fo.it is no trouble for rs 10 forward THE CALL TO
your address. Do not let it miss you for you will
miss it. Orders given TO the carrier left at
Business Office viii receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months
June showers are the latest novelties.
Even the Weather Bureau has started a
new era.
1t NAV turn out to be an abdication
jubilee for the Queen.
The mugwumps are beginning to call it
jingo administration.
All reports from Washington confirm
the belief that we are going to have free
Cuba in short order.
The last jree-trader in the Senate is
Vest, and his party colleagues are pulling
him down every day.
People who are looking for another festi-
val as gay as that at Lakeport will soon
be shouting "Eureka!"
People continue to talk of the coming
OF prosperity, but to many industries
prosperity is already here.
Senator Tillman has such psrverse in.
tellect that whenever he has the right
thing to say he says it wrong.
Every citizen is expected to be a Chris
tian Endeavorer so far as helping to en-
tertain the convention is concerned.
Since the Democratic party is clearly
bankrupt, it would seem that Mr.. Bryan
would make just as good receiver as
anybody.
Another tornado has swept the East
from Kansas to Illinois, and another
warning has been gwen to the people
over there to come West and get out Of
the draught.
The last regular meeting of the San Jose
Board of Trade was held not in the city,
but at Alum Rock Park under the i'm
preston probably that taking trade to a
health resort would relieve the tired feel
ing and give 1t picnic buoy ancy.
Theories of nervous prostration are COM
mon enough in these days, but now comes
Philadelphia doctor and says that many
As a change for the summer the new
nervousness is worth acquiring by those
who have been afflicted by the other
thing.
There is little ripple of movement in
Rhode Island to unite Providence, Paw
tuoket Johnston and Central Falls, which
are contiguous TO one another at the head
of Narragansett Bay into one municipal
ity, making a city of about 200 600 inhab-
itants and giving the Rhode Islander an
excuse for putting on metropolitan airs
when he goes to the State capital.
There will be many good spft ches on
the coming Fourth of July, but that
which the people will enjoy most will be
the oracular utterance with which Tom
Watson viii read Bryan and Butter out
OF the Populist party at the Nashville
convention, and consign them to a place
SO low they will have to climb up to get
into hades.
The dismissal OF the cases against
Shrlver and Edwards. charged with con-
tempt for refusing to answer questions
put TO them during the investigation by
the Senate OF the sugar deal scand al virtu-
ally closes the case. 1t is net, however.
so much victory for the defendants as
for the Senators. inasmuch as Senatorial
deals hereafter will be guaranteed all the
secrecy and security of proceedings in ex-
ecutive session.
That was very good advice which DIR.
Ollie gave to Young men in his recent ad.
dress: Don't marry a woman for phvsi-
cal beauty any more than you would buy
farm ior the holyhocks in the door.
yard. When the young man comes to
see the physical beauty, however, he will
believe the whole farm is full OF holly
hooks and will grab at it under the i'm
preston he is going 10 get flower garden
bonanza.
In an elaborate eulogium OF the weather
IN that section of the country, the Boston
Journal says: 1--WE admit that the climate
is full of surprises. But the largest ele-
ment of wit is surprise, and Herbert Mayo
once defined wit as felicity OF expression.
Therefore, the New England climate is
the felicitous expression of nature" The
logic of the argument is unanswerable.
but IL is worth noting that whas is re-
garded as natures felicity of expression in
New ENGLAND would be regarded accord
ing TO Western ideas of culture as ex-
tremely raw.
Here is a Kansas story that is as
good as g romance in a violet bind
ing. man applied to a court 10
have his 1S-year-old daughter adjudged
insane and sent to an asylum. On
examination the girl stated that she
was in love with nice young man. and
her fathers object in getting her sent TO
an asylum was to prevent her marriage.
The Judge sent for the young man and,
alter investigation decided the lovers
were not lunatics. He thereupon married
them in court straightway and sent them
home, assessing all costs on The astounded
father.