The San Francisco call., 1897-08-13

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NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months
A California mining boom is now in or
der.
Trinity sees Klondike and goes 1t mug
get better.
A continual change in schoolbooks is
no way 10 teach economy 10 pupils.
1t is better to prospect in California and
strike a pocket than to go to the Yukon
and be out of pocket.
1t is not certain whether the world has
lost Andree or Andree has lost the earth,
but there is surely something missing.
1t is called now "Klondicitis," as if it
were disease, but up 20 date the cure for
the microbe of it has not been discovered.
Some spell it "Skagaway" and some
"Skaguay" but all admit that one spell of
it is enough to satisfy the average citizen.
If Weyler is not recalled very soon the
Cubans may take Havana and SEND him
home without waiting for the recalling
voice.
This is a good time to decide to give
California mines a trial before flying to
the frozen north on something like a wild
goose chase.
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goods on the other side OF Chilcoot Pass
are bad, but not so bad as the blockade on
this side OF the line.
The most thorough and accurate reports
from Dyea are those sent by our special
correspondents. Read THE CALL for gen.
uine news and no fake.
The announcement that Bryan is going
to Mexico while every one else is going to
Alaska shows that he is out of sympathy
with the people and won't travel with the
procession.
As the Kalsers visit to the Car has
already come to an end it is evident it was
short enough to be sweet, and probably
not sweet enough to have been worth
lengthening.
The adventurers who at juneau have
decided to turn back and wait for spring
may have weaker hearts than their COM
panions who 60 on, but it looks as if they
had stronger brains.
Nicaragua has changed her mind and
will now receive Minister Merry without
making row about 1t. In dealing with
some people it is always worth while to
give them q chance to have a second
thought.
Pretty soon there will be a newspaper
in Dawson expressing the surprise of that
community that so many people in the
United States should be crazy enough to
stay at home when there is SO much free
fun on the Yukon.
The New York plan of bringing mer-
chants from other places TO visit that city
has proven so successful that PhiIadelphla
will initiate it, and it might be we'll for
San Francisco to see how the movement
would work on this coast if it were we'll
pushed along.
During the last week Of July, 1885, the
number of shares OF stock bought and
sold in Wall street was less that a million
but this year the sales for the correspond
ing period exceeded two millions. That
is the way the wave of prosperity rolls up
where the brokers are.
The pure-food exhibit promises TO be
the chief feature of the Mechanics Insti-
sute fair this year, and it is to be hoped it
Will be complete display OF what Cali
fornia can do in that line. Public opinion
is now interested in the subject, and this
Is the time to appeal to it.
According to the Chicago Tribune the
bicycle causes more accidents of sufficient
seriousness to be reported to the police
than all other forces in that city put to-
gether. 1t seems to be the most uncertain
Of human inventions and some regard it
as an invention of the devil
1t is announced that Secretary Wilson,
who is now at Denver. will visit Utah.
Idaho and Montana. We should see to it
that California is added to the list. II will
never do to let member OF the admins
.ration of prosperity come 10 our door and
20 away without coming in to shake hands
The one consoling feature of the wreck
Of the Mexico was the courage displayed
by all on board when the disaster occurred.
Officers, crew and passengers alike pre-
served their presence OF mind and met
with calm heroism the dangers which
confronted them. The loss was great, but
fortunately it did not include a single
life.
The threatened strike of the postal
clerks in Great Britain is peculiar. The
Government employe has been supposed
to be SO eager to keep his job that strike
S the last thing the public expected from
linn. The British experiment will be
watched with iniereet and if the clerks
strike it is to be hoped they will hit the
Government a lick hard enough to make
it tsqueal.