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The National tribune., 1881-12-10
AN SOLD BOYSu ADVICE.
BY EBEN e. REXFoRD.

My boy, you're soon to be a man;
Get ready for a mans work now,
And learn to do the best you can,
When sweat is brought to arm and brow.
Don't be afraid, my boy, to work;
You've got to, if you mean to win!
He is a coward who will shirk;
Roll up your sleeves, and then go IN!
Don't wait for chances; look about!
There's always something you can do.
He who will manfully strike out,
Finds labor; plenty of 1t, too.
But he who folds his hands and waits
For something to turn up" will find
The toiler passes Fortunes gates,
While he, alas, is left behind!
Be honest as the day is long;
Don't grind the poor man for his cent.
In helping others, you grow strong,
And kind deeds done are wisely lent.
And this remember: if you're wise,
To your OUn business be confined.
He is a fool, and fails, who tries
His fellow-mens affairs to mind.
Don't be discouraged and get blue
If things don't go to suit you quite;
Work on! Perhaps it rests with you
To set the wrong that worries, right.
Don't lean on others! Be Gn.Gn!
Stand on footing of your own!
Be independent, if you can,
And cultivate sound backbone!
Be brave and steadfast, kind and true,
With faith in God and fellow-man,
And win from them a faith in you,
By doing just The best you can!
The National tribune., 1881-12-10
A PUZZLED MAN.

The inebriate is sometimes as simple minded
and over-credulous as child, and we may add,
as easily puzzled. One such too good natured
and witty to remain sober long, was vainly try
ing to find his way home. He accosted passer
by with, "Beg pardon, sir, I've been having too
good time to walk very straight. Will you be
kind enough beg pardon, sir, to tell me which is
the other side of the street?" The stranger
kindly answered, "Why, my dear fellow, 1 sup
pose it is just there" pointing with his fin
ger. The inebriate seemed to be strangely puz-
zled by the answer, and for moment was lost
in profound meditation. At last he looked into
the strangers face and said sweetly: Beg par
don, sir, that's just what thought myself, but L
went over there about ten minutes ago and asked
a gentleman the same question, and-beg pardon
sir-he told me it was over here. What IN the
world Pm going to do don't knows You see
beg pardon, sir-I live just on the other slae VI
the street from the club and I've been more 'n''n
two hours trying to find it"
The National tribune., 1881-12-10

Thought is the property of him VINO can enter
tain it. and of him who can adequately place IT,
Emerson.
We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves
Goethe.
Orthodoxy is my doxy, Heterodo1y is another
mans doxy-Bishop Warbarton
That action is best, which pIocures the greatest
happiness for the greatest numbers.
Better to wear out than to rust out-Btshop
Horne
God sends meat. and the devil sends cooks
Rays Proverbs.
Women, like princes, find few real friends
Lord Lyttleton.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14
TIE STATE OF PERU.

The European Powers are just now be-
ginning to think seriously of interfering for
the rescue OF Peru from the throttling
grasp of Chile but judging from the gen.
eral indications the proposed intervention
comes too late to do any good. Peru has
been completely crushed by her brutal and
ruthless enemy. She has been plundered
to the skin. Her best citizens have been
beggared. or murdered, or both. Her rev.
enues have been destroyed or confscated.
Her spirit has been broken, and there APP
pears to remain to her no power or even in.
ciination to resume the work of govern.
ment, or to do anything for the future. 1t
is a real satisfaction to know that the for.
eign Powers that refused to interfere when
something practical could have been
effected, are finding that their subjects
have shared in the misfortunes of Peru,
however. Selfish considerations such as this
are much more likely tesoring active inter
venticn than any regard for the fate Of
Peru. As it is, the latter appears to be in
so utterly PROSTATE and helpless condi.
ton that it will be extremely difficult to
put her on her feet again, even if Chile can
be choked off from her helpless victim.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14
THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.

We have not discussed the monetary
conference much, for the reason that we
have never believed that it would have any
results. The whole foundation of the
expectations OF the United States in the
premises is SO preposterous, and the ab-
surdity of the proposition made to Europe
by our representatives is so obvious, and
has been from the first, that one
of the most amusing features of the
business has been the gravity with
which our bimetalIic newspapers
have discussed it. One thing this
Conference has done, and that is to expose
the ignorance of those journals which pos
sessed only fimsy veneering of informa-
ton on the subject. To them it did not seem
impossible that double-standard should
be established, if only international
agreement could be obtained. This is equiv.
alent to the idea that the law of gray
itation might be suspended If only an
international compact to that effect were
signSd. As to the proposals we have
made to France, it would need much more
incapacity on the part of French states
men to perceive what is before their noses,
than they have ever displayed, to make
them accept a plan which has absolutely
no advantage for them in it. and which is
so stupidity and plainly selfish on our part
as to have no decent disguise. The None
tary Conference will do nothing. That is
matter of course, and has been from the
first. 1t will do nothing, because no such
Conference can reverse the laws of nature,
and because the double standard is an i'm.
possibility. If, however, this predestined
failure drives little sense into the heads
OF our silver lunatics the fasco will not
have been altogether vain.
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TIE CARS MANIFESTO.

Very little can be gathered from the
Cars manifesto to his people. 1t appears
that he is resolved to devote all his ener.
gies to the consolidation and maintenance
of the autocrscy. If that means anything
it means that he has no intention of grant
ing his people a Constitution. As God has
commanded him to adopt this course there
is nothing more to be said about it; unless
indeed desire should be expressed for a
sight of the credentials of the Deity who
is credited with this singular action. The
Gar does not intimate what his policy will
be, save in the vaguest manner, but as no
reference is made to any changes it is to be
presumed that he does not contemplate
such changes. He has evidently overcome
his fears of the Nihilists so much as to
abandon his seclusion and review his
troops, but as to what his future course
is to be, speculation ia vain. Perhaps the
Nihilists themselves may issue comment
airy upon his last ukase which will show its
real significance more clearly.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Mobs in South Russia are attacking stu.
dents as well as Jews
Elizabeth Gadene, the wire rope dancer,
who fell from rope while performing at New
York, died yesterday.
The ship Macmillan, from Antwerp for
San Francisco, before reported aground in
the Scheldt, has been foated, says London
dispatch.
Over 4, 600 emigrants arrived at New York
Thursday, and most of them viii go to West
ern towns aud farms. This is the largest
days arrivals on record.
1t is stated from Sofa that Prince Alexsn-
der will shortly proclaim Bulgaria in state
of siege. The newspapers are forbidden to
write anything against the Prince of Bull
garis.
Applications for continuance of per
cent bonds at 81 per cent are pouring into
the Treasury. and Secretary Window be-
heves that refundipg will be quickly and sue.
cessfully accomplished.
The Pullman Palace Car Company have
begun the erection of large repair shops at
st. Louis, which will occupy nearly block
on Scott avenue, near the Union depot. The
building will be completed in sixty days.
The President has nominated Charles Henry
of Ohio to be United States Marshal Of the
D4sbtiNb Vi SoiuuiOio, AItti GIcNcIlCk DOuSAdeS
to be Recorder of Deeds of the District of
Columbia, vice George A. Sheridan, resigned.
The New York Worlds City of Mexico,
special of the 1lth says General Grant to-
day signed new contract with the Mexican
Government, embracing extensions of the
Mexican Railway. It will be submitted to
Congress tomorrow.
The New York Herald says: Memorial
services commemorative of the late Mrs.
Paddock, wife of Bishop Paddock, who died
recently in Washington Territory, were held
Thursday at st. Peters (Episcopall Church,
Brooklyn. The church was crowded with
friends of deceased and her husband, and
there was large number Of clergy men of
different denominations present The ser
Communion services were read by Rev. DR..
Schenck, and an address on the religious life
OF the deceased was then made by the Bishop
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14

par, as regards news facilities, with the
most pretentious and considerable news
papers published anywhere in the country.
Whatever news such papers as the New
York Tribune and Times and Herald have
is at the disposal of the SACRAMENTO
RECORD UNION. As regards coast news
our facilities are, as we have stated, in
finitely superior to those OF any interior
paper. The California Associated Press
is, if possible. more perfectly organized
machinery than the New York Associated
Press. It covers the whole ground. Its
agents are everywhere. No occurrence of
the least consequence escapes their atten-
ton. and if at times they. seem to dispatch
trivial incidents, the fact is only fresh
proof of their determination to report every
thing which may by any possibility pos
sess an interest for the public they serve.
The RECORD. UNION offers the public of
California as good a newspaper in all re-
spects as they can get anywhere in the
country. 1t can and does challenge COM
parison with Its contemporaries. As it is
the only member of the Associated Press
in California outside of San Francisco so
it possesses advantages that no other jour
nal can possibly compete with. Papers
which get driblets OF news at second. hand,
and have no power of selecting or dictat-
ing what they are to have, cannot furnish
their readers with 1.-THE of the current
news, and as matter of fact do not do so.
The REcoRD. UNION has the best facilities
that can be obtained, and will continue to
present its subscribers with the fullest and
most trustworthy intelligence on all points.
Under the new arrangements about to be
made it will reach the interior full day
ahead of the San Francisco papers, and it
will give all the news they have it in their
power to supply.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14
COLLEGE TRAINING AND JouarALIsm

The San Francisco Altd demurs to the
opinion of contemporary that very few
men of college training have risen to emf
hence in journalism, and cites as instances
to the contrary the names of Emile de
Girardin. the late James Gordon Bennett,
George William Curtis, Charles A. Dana
and Mnrat Halstead. We have no doubt
that very respectable list might be made
Of college bred men who have made good
or even eminent journalists, but we doubt
whether the list given by the Alta will
stand analysis. 1t speaks of them as
University bred men," and unless we
wholly misunderstood the significance of
that phrase, few, if any of them,
come within it. James Gordon Bennett
received his education at a Roman
Catholic seminary in Aberdeen. George
William Curtis was educated chief
ly at private schools. Murat Hal
stead only spent a short time at
little rural college in Ohio. We do not
think that Charles A. Dana ever graduated
at University, nor is there evidence that
Emile de Girardin was more highly favored
in his education. Surely it is stretch of
language to call these journalists "Uni.
versity- bred men," There are and have
been plenty of Harvard and Yale men in
journalism, and enough of them have made
their mark to expose the absurdity of
Horace Greeley's prejudice against college
bred men. In fact when his position is ex-
amined seriously it amounts to little more
than an assertion that men who have had
inferior opportunities OF acquiring informa-
ton make the best journalists. 1t is
hardly worth while for journalists to take
this position, for it involves depreciation
of the profession by no means compliment
airy to its members. 1t may perhaps
be asserted with truth that superior ed.
ueation alone cannot make successful
journalist, and that without special
aptitude such an education will not prevent
failure. But it is equally clear that if the
aptitude is present, the possession OF su-
perior education will largely increase its
scope and force. The fact that many good
journalists have come from the cease only
shows that they were men whose abilities
enabled them to rise superior to disadvan-
tages of training and education. But it is
very certain that if they were not educated
in colleges they had to educate themselves,
and if this self education was imposed upon
them after they had reached maturity, it
must have involved distinct loss of time
and opportunity while it was proceeding.
Attempts to prove that men can some.
how do better without education than with
it are necessarily futile, and in an age
when intellectual fabbiness is too much
the rule, they are calculated to do more
harm than good.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14
Is IT THE END :?

The Legislature adjourned sinesdie yes.
terday, but it does not appear to be at all
certain that we have seen the end of legis-
lation. The blunder which has been dis
covered in the enrolment of the tax levy
bill may, in the opinion OF many, make it
necessary for the Governor to call another
session at once. If it is decided by COM
petent authority that the blunder invali-
dates the bill, no other course will be pos
sible, and if the Legislature is called to-
gether again it may or may not adjourn
quickly. In such an uncertain condition
of things it would be premature to say
farewell to the Legislature, but it may be
said that it has managed to wind up a
particularly unsatisfactory extra session
in particularly unsatisfactory way. 1t
should seem that enough care to have
avoided this blunder might easily have
been taken, considering how little was be.
fore either house for several days past.
For the most intelligent body that ever sat
here, as some of the members modestly
designated it the other day, such piece
of work is, to say the least, surprising.
AS regards the failure of the apportion-
ment bill, we have already expressed our
opinion. That was the direct consequence
OF the disingenuousness of the anti. SlIckens
members, and the people are not likely to
make any mistake as to the location of the
responsibility. The Sears amendment
and similar devices effectually destroyed
all hope of apportionment, but nothing
else could have produced this result.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-14
THE SINGLE SPRINGS RAILROAD

1t is to be hoped that the Railroad Com
missioners may find some means of inter.
feriDg with the high.handed and arbitrary
proceedings which have resulted in the dis.
use of the railroad between Folsom and
Single Springs, and that they may be
enabled to take it out of the hands of the
dog n-the-manger receiver who cannot use
it himself and will not let anyone else use
it. The Central Pacific Company stands
ready to stock and operate the road for the
convenience of it's patrons the moment the
prohibition is removed. 1t is evident that
it can never produce any benefit to its
present holders so long as it is not oper.
ated. The residents all through the region
which it taps are suffering serious and in.
creasing injury from the irrational and
perverse tying up of the road. No
plausible explanation of the action of the
Court in the premises has thus far been
given. In fact it might be supposed that
the only object in view had been to damage
aud Inconvenience the people who are cut
of from transportation by the closing of
the road. 1t is certainly time that some.
thing was done to relieve the public in the
premises, and if the Court will not do this
1t is to be hoped that the Railroad Com.
mssloners possess jurisdiction,
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PASSENGER LISTS.

CARLIN, May 1Sth.-Passed here to. dsy,
to arrive in Sacramento tomorrow S. II
Smith, Oregon; Mrs. G. NJ Holtou and
child. Iowa City, Ia; Mr.. McCreery, G. NJ.
Leavy. L. @. Henderson, San Francisco :
Miss NJ. Hampton, Michigan Miss E. Gill
chriest, w. Porter, Chicago; Miss Il. A.
Dow, Ohio; Miss L. Marks, Adolph VI
mann, W. Keiser, Miss B. Fernie, Miss d.
Smith, New York; William Moffatt Buff
falo, n. Y; Miss n, Gilliland, Mrs. c. Gil.
hland, Kansas Mrs. H. G. Thompson and
O; J. Flaherty, wife and two children, Oak
land /; Hattie Keller, Minnesota f. Ahrens
and wife, Kansas; Mrs E. Phelps, Santa
Rosa; Mrs. F. T. Pray. Miss G. Gould, Bos-
tom G. H. Roberts, Cherry Creek, New. j;
Miss Ella Harper, Baltimore. Nd; lis emil
grant passengers, including SO males, to ar
rive in Sacramento May 18th.
NEwHALL, May 13th.-Passed here to-
day, to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow !:
j. E. Curtis, Mrs. G. W. Curtis, Il. 2. Eli
Oft Arizona; G. Lind, d. NJ. Farrell, Mrs.
Baldwin. Miss Depois, Z. j. Baldwin, Mrs.
Mann. San Francisco ; A. Hutsinpillar, wife
Deming D, c. Lyall, wife and two daugh-
tiers, Henry C. Jarrett, Miss E. Vellsey, F.
=. Stark, New York Simon GoldbauIn, San
Diego; G. Adams, John Schudder and wife,
Los Angeles; 7. H. Titus. San Gabriel A.
A. Mills. Tombstone; w. II. Holmes, st.
Louis; r. j. Malapy, Indiana.
OMAHA, May 13th.-Left here to-day, to
arrive in Sacramento May 18th: Cor =
modore Shufeldt and daughter, U. S. Navy !;
Geo. Smith, Boston; Lizzie McGaughey,
Winons, Mimi; Miss Isaninger, Burlington,
Ohio; Mrs. S. Kahn, San Francisco; Es-
tella Covell. Vernon, Conn; L. c. Clinton,
Chicago; Fred Sslinger, London. England
E. J. Depart and wife, Portland, Or; Albert
O. Newton and child, Delaware,
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fore he ought rather to be praised than
blamed. Here is another proof OF his utter
unftness for the position he holds.
He proceeds to alternate attacks upon'a and
abuse of the railroads with replies to Mr..
Beerstecher. His references to the cor
poration are precisely such as stump-spout.
ers of the baser sort have familiarized the
public with. He speaks of the tools of
st this new tyranny, which, according to
this veracious and highly judicial person,
is 8 by its manipulation of the earnings of
sthe people, with its army OF lawyers and
newspapers and agents, endeavoring 20
change our form OF government into a
corporate oligarchy." He declares his
conviction that the integrity of repobli.
"can institutions" is threatened by the great
combinations of corporate wealth now
q going on" and he calls upon the people
to 'smake their voices heard and their in
fuence felt in the matter of the action OF
"this Commission, and hold its members
s'to strict accountability for their every
ssact." IF General Stoneman is held to a
strict accountability for his every act IN
the Board there will be 10 course open to
him but resignation, for assuredly no Off
cial has ever more fully exposed his own
incompetence for such a position. We
cannot, however, go in detail over his ex-
traordinary statement, for this would re-
auire review of almost every sentence,
since scarcely a sentence is free from gross
Misrepresentation, wild and wanton fiction,
or malicious SANDER.
General Stoneman does not think it
necessary to advance one iota Of proof con-
corning any one of his accusations, but he
blackguards the railroads right and left
with a heartiness which leaves no doubt OF
his malignity, and which renders it certain
that he is not capable of doing the corpo-
rations justice. In fact more demagog-
ical piece of literature than his statement
has never been offered for preservation as
the work of publ, Commission, and it is
fresh evidence OF the authors unftness
that he should have been unable to per-
ceive the extreme improperly of his at.
tempt to get such a document recorded.
1t is the interest OF the public that equal
and exact justice should be done in this
matter of the railroads. Experience has
shown that the peoples worst enemies are
always those who advocate and urge vio-
lent and inequitable measures. A dema-
gogue who has so little intelligence as to
suppose that his demagogism is matter
for pride is assuredly the very worst per-
son TO intrust with functions requiring
dispassionate and unbiased intelligence
for their proper discharge. General Stone
man has shown himself to be such dema-
gogue, and he has, unconsciously to him
self, made it apparent that he is no more
fit to perform judicial duties between the
State and the railroads than Denis Kear-
ney would be.
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OREGON.
Advices from Portland.

PORTLAND, May 13th.-The weather is
very bright and cool.
A large party of excursionists leave for the
East on the 18th instant. They will visit
Boston and other large cities of the Atlantic
States before returning.
By order of the Light house Department
the automatic buoy has been shifted from off
the south channel to the north channel of the
Columbia river bar.
The steamer Clatsop Chief. against which
suit for damages in $1,000 has been instituted
by Mrs. Emma Kay, has been seized BY the
United States Marshal. The boat is now in
custody of that officer.
During the past week A real estate trans
actions were recorded, the total consideration
being SIS, 76l. $50. The real estate market
has been quite active, with steady and firm
increase of value.
| The annual rife contests are announced.
Tie Department contest will commence July
7th at Vancouver barracks. The Vancouver
barracks contest is to commence hay 23i
| Nineteen of the best shots in the DEPART.
ment will go to the Division contest at San
francisco, to participate in the contest on
August 5th.
Two vessels will soon be due here from
China, with passengers and general merchan-
dise-the Colima and Alden Bassilla. These
vessels bring about 500 Chinese passengers.
Reports from the fisheries down the
Columbia are so conflicting that it is difficult
to get at the real facts of the situation.
The average for week has been about
twenty fish to bost-very fair indeed for
| this season-and the run is steadily but
slowly improving. The indications are that
prices will be low this year, corresponding
with the high price of freight.
| PORTLAND, Nav 15th.-Thomas A. jackson.
convicted of larceny, was sentenced to three
years ia the Penitentiary to-day by Judge
Stott.
| Mrs. Lucinda Embree, an old lady aged
| 70 years, who was thrown from carriage
| few days ago, died yesterday at her home in
| Polk county from the effects of her injuries.
| Moses Robbins, an old and well known cit
izen of Dallas, Polk comfy, was indicted to-
| day by the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court
| for the crime of incest. Robbins is charged
with having criminal relations with his
daughters, aged respectively IL and 10 years.
1t is claimed that Robbins has sustained
these unnatural relations with his daughters
for nearly three years. His neiehbors have
long suspected the crime, and finally de-
manded an investigation. The defendant is
under arrest and will soon be tried. Both
daughters are very intelligent and highly re.
spected young ladies. Robbins has hereto
fore sustained an excellent reputation. The
evidences of his guilt are unquestioned The
affair has created a most intense sensation at
Dallas.
Dora Little, the four year-old daughter of
w. 2. Wright Of Polk county, fell into a
mill-race on the 11th instant and was
drowned. The body was soon recovered.