The San Francisco call., 1897-06-05

BRANCH OFFICES:
527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until
e:S0 O'clock.
3Se Hayes street; open until $50 o'clock
SIS Lsrkin street, open until $3.50 o'clock.
sW corner sixteenth and Mission streets, open
Until O'clock.
26ls Mission street, open until O'Clock.
l67 Ninth street, open until O'clock
1905 Polk street; open until $3.50 o'clock
NV. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky
streets; open till O'Clock.
OAKLAND oFFICR
eJS Broad way.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and SO, "a Park Row. New York city,
DAVID II. FoLTZ, Eastern Manager
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
The SUMMtK MONTHS.
you going TO the country on A vacation II
70 ii is no trouble for US 10 forward THE CALL to
your address. DO not let it miss you for you win
miss it. Orders given 10 the carrier or left at
Business Ofice will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months.
1t is now time for the theater hat to de-
mand arbitration.
Whenever the House meets there is an
attack on the Speaker, but it is always a
new man who makes the attack.
John Wannamaker has about reached
the conclusion that even the business
man in politics can talk too much.
The United States Supreme Court will
soon have to apply to Congress for an an
mex to consider appeals in murder cases.
Leave orders day for THE SUNDAY
CALL and provide yourself with lively,
bright and entertaining reading for to-
morrow.
According to all reports we shall have
to recognize Cuba very soon or there won't
be enough LETT for even a coroner's in
quest TO recognize.
If the counterfeiting Of silver coin goes
much further the nations will have to do
something to raise the price OF silver bu =
lion in order to protect their coinage.
In point of mum bers engaged and the
cost of production the London jubilee will
probably be the greatest extravaganza the
world has seen since the fall OF old Rome.
The concert Of powers is expected to-
day to speak its little place on the Turkish
claims agains: Greece, and after that
there will be more talk, and then another
claim.
And all that comes as final result of
the so-caled great fight" against water
faS ia q yNr0lonrad ;lvo
comes from pig under fence, or a bar
rel organ out of tune.
The rascals who stole the cannon from
West Point added insult to injury by sell
ing them for old metal, and 1t is TO be
hoped that they will soon be properly
charged in court and fred into Jail.
As Mr.. Bryan denies that he is going
abroad, and as-erts he will continue to
lecture in this country, it is clear he has
not forgiven the people for voting against
him last fall and intends to give them no
rest.
The editor OF the San Joaquin Valley
Reflector. a new Fresno paper, promises to
remain "a plain, everyday citizen, with
out getting sweiled head" if success
should crown his efforts. Let him be put
to the test.
CanoVas will make another attempt to
orm ministry, and it IS safe 10 say the
Duke of Tetuan will not have a place in il.
although he has been the most striking
figure and sIap-dash member of the
present one.
The Fresno police are doing their work
halfway well in raiding the Chinese lot
teries, but if they would do it wholly we'll
they must raid all lotteries In games of
that kind the Caucasian faker is as big a
swindler as the Monaghan.
Commissioner Calhoun, who is on his
way home from Cuba, will find the peopie
30 eager TO hear what he has to say tn at
1t will not be necessary for him to hire o.
hall to get chance to tell all he knows of
Cuba ana good deal of what he thinks.
Ex-senator Calvin Brice, we are told. is
TO make an active campaign in Ohio in the
interest Of Democratic harmony. His pIan
is to put up u silver man for Governor
and a gold man for Senator, thus ilnglinq
both metals before the shy voter and max.
ing trap to catch him either coming or
going.
The announcement that the Fire Com
missioners ex pect their financial report IN
show surplus at the end of the wear is
so gratifying and so different from the
condition OF other departments that IL
would be good idea to have the firemen
parade on the first of the fiscal year in
honor Of the event.
Some Pennsylvania congregations are
getting very particular if the Philadelphia
Inquirer is correct in saying that one of
them recently requested deacon TO carry
cash register when taking up collections
1t is gratifying to note that the deacon is
reported TO have resigned rather than sub
NIT to the innovation.
Since the fearful charity bazaar fire in
Paris some women in that CITY have petit
toned the authorities for permission to
wear trousers when attending large gath
erings. so that they will not be in danger
OF similar disaster, and thus the bloomer
move ment IS advanced by every thing that
happens from a fad to fire.
The people OF a Kansas town have Pc
titioned the Common Council to suppress
as nuisance the local brass band. The