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down and intelligent labor has become
drug on the market.
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down and intelligent labor has become
a drug on the market.
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Los Angeles Times: Mr.. Hanna has
been elected in Ohio, but, unless all
signs, fail, feud has been created
which promises to rise up and plague
-the Republican party of that State for
years to come This is deplorahle
thing for more than one reason, the
greatest Of which is, however, that the
supremacy of the party in that great
State in 1000 is jeopardized, and Ohio
can i'll be spared from the Republican
column. But such is life in the Far
West.
1T is SARCASTIC.
Stockton Mail: 1t has been raining in
San Francisco, and the result has been
joyous in the extreme to the soul which
finds joy in humor. Sitting in their
windows and observing the shower
making glad the waste places on Mar
ket street, the editors of the ''Exami-
ner" and Call" have simultaneously
reached the pleasing conclusion that
the crops of the State are saved by the
welcome downpour. They have both
announced that rain has fallen upon
California and that nothing is left to
ask Of Providence.
OF course we rejoice in the good for
tune of our San Francisco fellow-citi-
zens and farmers. That the parched
wheat fields of Market street and the
waving citrus groves of Third street
have been refreshed by copious rain
brings not less joy to us than to the
hearts of the anxious agriculturists
who till those thoroughfareS. 1t is graft
flying to know that the fragrant gar
dens about the fountain will continue
to blossom with picked flowers and the
the srreet-car turn-table will put forth
its leaves and yield its fruits after
its seasons. The assured safety of the
tobacco and cigar crops on the corner
lots and the gratifying promise of in
creased yield where niekel-in- the-slot
machines have been planted is glad
news TO the interior.
Nevertheless, we feel bound to point
out to our esteemed contemporaries
agricultural, horticultural, pomolog1-
cal and Chronological editorial writer's
that the fact that it rains on the
| ranches along Market and Third streets
is not conclusive evidence that all Cali
dred re nches in the San Joaquin VAL
ley, in the Sacramento Valley, in South
ern California, and scattered about in
other sections, which up to date are
almost as dry as an orthodox sermon.
TEA TESTS
Tacoma Ledger: The new tea tests
seem to be working satisfactorily in
the direction expected and desired, and
the attempted importation of bad and
impure teas has very largely fallen off,
with a probability of entire cessation in
the near future. OF a recent importa-
ton in New York, amounting to several
tons, not pound of bad tea was found
The growers will have to find some
other dumping ground for their impure
refuse.
SAME AS TO LAMPS.
San Jose Mercury: The Los Angeles
City Council is going over the stale
ground of whether it is advisable to re-
quire bicyclists to carry bells That
question has been decided by a ma
jority of cities in the negative. The
bell simply serves to confuse pedes-
trians, who are then more apt TO get
in the way than out of it, With the
exception of scorehers, who have no
regard whatever for the rights of pc
destrians, wheelmen will do the dodg-
ing if pedestrians pay no attention to
them.