The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-25

nest motives, but unregardful OF pre-
cedent. He dedicated his life and his
talents to task that gives no return
not even that of remembrance.
With all respect for the members of
the w. G. T. u, am bound to say they
might be in better business than rush
Ing into print and Mysteries at the pros
pect of the breaking of a bottle of wine
over the PROV of ship. In California
people drink wine. A bountiful Provi-
dence has connived at clothing the hills
with vines, and the press runs red with
the juice of the grape. Wine is a
cheap, wholesome and harmless bever-
age If it is not fit to swallow, let us
make statute against the grape, vote
the vltlculturist an outlaw, and benef-
icent nature a corrupter of morals
Ihere remains to the good ladies who
shudder at the existence Of wine the
blessed privilege of letting it alone and
tanning their correct insides with tea.
General Barnes is now on the stump
and silver tongueing full tilt There
is none who can do 1t more effectively.
Yet II the ELOQUENT general would pluck
away before presenting the bouquet to
the multitude it seems to me the re-
suit would be pleasing In campaign
times people want to stay on the earth.
An occasional excursion among the
stars may be all right, but plain Ameri-
can citizens cannot hobnob with the
torches burning i'm ~,o~ta1 in the mid
night sky" all the time.
If Frank Murphy was the driver Of
the patrol wagon which passed along
Third street, between Market and Mis-
sion, Tuesday night at about half past
II, returning a few moments later, he
is unfit to hold a position in the Po-
lice Department. 1 am told on what
seems to be excellent authority that
Murphy was the man. AT that hour
band of enthusiasts were holding an
open air meeting. Attracted by their
singing a throng had collected, a quiet,
well-behaved gathering, listening re-
spectfully to the words of earnest men
and women. The patrol wagon ap-
preached on its way toward Mission
street. There was ample room for it
to pass without disturbing the meet
Ing, but the driver guided his horses
directly into the crowd, swearing at
them and denouncing them as buns -
In short time he returned and the
operation was repeated. There was
not in either instance the slightest ex-
cuse for this exhibition of brutality.
No underling of the police force guilty
of it should be tolerated. This fellow
deliberately disturbed the peace used
indecent Oa nd
record as hoodlum. Had I the neces-
tenure of office would have an extreme
limit of fifteen seconds.
Following the example of Governor
Budd, the Car of all the Russias has
reaped his royal whiskers. Since then
he has sat for his photograph and
obeyed the photographers admiration
to look pleasant. AS revealed with a
beardless face, the Car looks like an
ordinary mortal, and most likely hts8is.
He has a plain, honest face and might
we'll be taken for a back county citi-
zen in his best suit of hand downs.
But it is marvellous to reflect that this
young man is the ruler of millions, an
autocrat with more power than 4ny
other in the world; that when he
speaks civilized nations listen, and
though they may not believe what he
says, give respectful attention.
Never having learned to dance I have
no active interest in the rules laid
down by the professors of the art, but
do feel a curiosity at the information
ht1C In hoe ia,
the waltz. I cannot help wondering
what the waltz is for now.
1t would be generous course for
women to do their shopping in the
morning, provides they have not faith
enough in the old man to give him a
list of the things they want and let
him brave the bargain counter. They
have habit Of coming down town in
the afternoon, and the result is that
the masculine element of society rides
h ne swinging from a strap, because
the shopper jams the car with her be-
neficent presence. Before the dinner
hour she could have the car all alone
but she prefers a seat which has been
yielded by somebody probably as tired
as she is. 1t is not that she is selfish.
1t is simply way she has.
A surprising announcement comes
from Niles, Mich, that fifty-five per-
sons have been poisoned by eating
canned beef at a church social. The
details of a church social as a func-
ton are unknown, to me, but I never
supposed that among the delicacies was
to be numbered canned beef. Some
how, the idea jars. Why not bacon?
A Philadelphia newspaper writer
says: Some men have been so fool
ish as to bet that they could eat a
broiled quail day for thirty DAYS"
think the foolishness comes in on the
part Of the fellow on the other side of
the wager. A man with an ordinary
appetite could eat broiled quail every
day not only for a month. but for .
year, and the belief that he could not
is the merest superstition growing ont
of one of the old tales told by RabeIais
When a laborer eats bacon every
breakfast he ever has, or soldier
subsists on bareback for weeks. II is
nonsense to suppose that a broiled
n nd da1;o