The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-11

established his claim to distinction with the re-
mark
1 bites for the Blanks
NOT INTRODUCED
lhe lawyers are having lots of fun over Tus-
t1ce Kerrigan's decision in the Bradbury perjury
case, in which the verdict of jury was set aside
on the ground, the learned urist held that YOU
can't tell bank anything The old practitioner
remarked that it recalled Van Paterson's famous
point in the sheep stealing case Mr. Paterson was
counsel for the sheep stealer on the preliminary
examination before justice of the peace and it
looked like hopeless case But when the prose
cutting witness was put on the stand the district
attorney inquired did you know these Sheep
Mr.. Paterson promptly objected that no man
could know sheep and the justice held with him.
The ruling broke down the for the prosecution
and the prisoner was discharged. The witness
had never been introduced to the sheep.
MY ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARIES
The Chronicle put Mr. Taft's recent warning to
the standpatters at the Yale commandments in
the department of Suburban news Might have
happened in Milpitas. Every other paper in the
United States put the speech the front page.
The Call printer, being wise with acute
sense of the law of libel, has converted Commits
soner Filcher into Commissioner Pitcher.
The Examiner, telling the story of Central
American revolution announces that cruiser
lays for Moisant." What did that cruiser lay for
Moisant?
The Los Angeles Express which is the turtle
dove of California journalism mourns bitterly over
the untimely taking off that removed Captain Fries
by the order OF heartless war department from the
construction of San Pedro harbor The Express
lapses into ragged rhyme as the only means of
relief and this is the elegy:
There's great agitation for consolidation; the
project is stirring the air; it with hear
test recommendation; we're whooping it up every
where San Pedro and Wilmington both are adj
vancing, Los Angeles EN- half way, and
down toward the seaboard we're steadily prancing,
dead will reach it day. But
is stated that Fries is to leave us-that Uncle Sam
calls him from here; the drefu news has done moth
ing but grieyc us and knocks hopes plumb
out of gear Oh good Uncle Samuel get rid of the
notion that Fries must be working elsewhere, OF
this port of the Pacific will rise and
vehemently swear. He's wise schemes and
the whole situation-oh, good Uncle Samuel,
pray, don't take him away from this important
station; need him right here. Let Fries stay!
Brother Cowell of the Stockton Mail seeing in
the dispatches that "San Jose picks a goddess OF
liberty logically concludes that "she must be a
peach"
Brother Rowe remarks in the Fresno Repub-
lean Taft is all right; Aldrich and Cannon have
to be all right and the nine ghosts hope will be
all right" Who or what are these mine ghosts?
Why, the supreme court justices in the holy city.
God bless us
BUT WHO WILL SAVE JUDGE DEASY?
Police Judge Deasy promotes civilization by the
step in advance which he has taken toward stand
ardzing art. The eccentricities of the artistic
temperament have always been cause of embar-
rassment to plain people, and Judge Deasy pro-
notes the general enlightenment when he proposes
to put the thing business basis by CLASSIFYING
art products. That is what the railroads do with
freight and the process appears to pay, although
the rules of the classification are quite as uncer-
tain as those which Judge Deasy propounds One
feels little confused by Judge Deasy's rule that
what might be immoral at the Mission would be
all right in the Golden Gate park, but doubtless the
learned judge had in mind what Alexander Pope
wrote:
But where TIL extreme of Vice was ne'er agreed:
Ask where's the north?-at York It's on the Tweed;
In Scotland at the Orcades; and there
At Greenland, Zemba, or the Lord knows where
There French gentleman who wrote that
morals merely matter of geography The
Candid Friend hopes that Judge Deasy's inexorable
processes of logic do not compel him to that I'M
happy conclusion.