The San Francisco call., 1910-09-04


on such piece of land?"
We'll" replied the sagebrush fnancier his voice
falling into a confidential and impressive tone, I'm
looking for change of administration"
Are the imaginary ills of our land to be remedied
/ shall vote for Johnson in November; but I
Pead s,f, for = the old republican slogan KEEP on
for decency and respect toward Joseph G. Cannon,
who Tor a third of century has stood in the
national house for sound business principles and
who has committed no crime Shall VIC not recall
the days of the second Cleveland administration
and the regime of the Wilson tariff and profit
thereby? Or must we build cyclone cellars with
safety deposit vaults against the day of the i'm
Listen to the tall grass whispering; the alfalfa
makes its moan, but is comforted lest worse befall.
DUNK's DEsERTIoN
Can it be that Dunk Mcpherson has deserted
from the old guard? Thus the Santa Cruz News:
There's an old saying that shut their doors
to to the setting sun Witness the following from
the editorial columns of this mornings Sentinel:
Can Herrn come back? Jeffries could not
He tried in vain. = = If republicans of Cali
fornia will fight the political enemy as
hard as they have fought among themselves the
last few. months, November victory will be
Can it be that Our esteemed uptown conten-
porary intends to desert the old guard in its hour
NO LADY
When read in the papers last week that Captain
Ivy Baldwin would fly across the Golden gate |
wondered, What would the women do next? Had
the Salvation Army abandoned the devil to-his own
devices and invaded the deeps of heaven? Here
was an officer and lady attacking the blue and
daring the perils of the upper air. Then it was
explained to me that this only another con-
fusion of names like that which so much enlbar-
rassed recent candidate for secretary of state
RUN BY THE SHIPS GOAT
Watsonville and the Pajaro valley got a lot of
good advertising out of the fool break made bv
Portland editor. Hugh Hume who used to be
San francisco newspaperman and now lives in
Portland, writes
logical editor of the Oregonan the skating rink
editor has been allowed to write about the orchards
and farms of neighboring state and especially
OF the wonderfully fertile PaJaro valley, of which
an unklnd fate has denied the skating rink editor
glimpse, and regarding the geographical location
OF which mind imperfecty formed to receive
instruction has been left in the darkest ignorance
The Oregonians skating rink editor, out of the
tulness of marvellous misunderstanding saws
We know all about the Pajaro valley 1t is one
OF those forsaken spots where nothing grows but
sand and conceit, with here and there spnding
fruit tree which is painfully kept alive by empty
ing the dishwater at its roots
Probably that is humor, and yet the skating rink
editor is not humorousy inclined; and the re-
1nainder of the article is wholly unrelieved by
single gleam of good nature, is absolutely
devoid of fact. If the article meant as humor
it is very serious; if it intended o be serious
it is humorous displaying prousion of misir-
formation that the mind of a skating rink editor
alone could contain.
The Oregonian having lost its pilot is now run
by the ships goat
THE CALL OF THE WILD
The literary colony at Carmel-by-the- Sea appeals
to paywrights, asking them to supply dramas suit