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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
A STRANGE SECRET.

Bockel, the official custodian of the
Keely motor secret, says: Il use no ex.
Z" travsganee of language when l assert
" beyond question that both men of science
g and of practical engineering skill alike
" would stand amazed to-day if they
REALIZED what Keely has already accom-.
"plished. Mr.. Bockel may be con-
scientious in that belief, but it is certain
that his expression will not inspire any
greater faith in Keely's invention. This is
practical people, and they are disinclined
to take anything for granted. Not only
do they desire to verify the cooks praise
of the pudding by the eating test, but they
are not then always satisfied that the sense
of taste is not deceptive. We certainly
hope Keely has made great discovery
that it will prove all he claims for it,
and that he may "amazs the men Of
" science" but he has as yet utterly failed
to show any good reason for his secrecy.
II he has discovered the opera.
ton of new force, he could suffer no harm
by stating the principle. The law is ample
to protect him in his proprietorship, and
his fearfulness about the whole matter is
just what has begot public distrust.
Other great inventors have not found it
necessary to surround their work with such
profound mystery. Notably in point is the
case of Mr.. Edison, whose principles OF
operation have not been matters of secrecy,
though the details of performance have
frequently been withheld. If it is said
that Kelly nvention is nobody's business
but his own, TO that blunt statement of
fact it may be responded that he should
not then ask the public to place faith in his
scheme until it is made good by the testi-
mony of works, and this is just what he
has done for years. Human trust is de-
manded at times of all men, but Mr. Kelly
has no claim to exact it in this case
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
FOR GOOD BUTTER,

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN Your remarks this
morning on oleomsrgarine were quite anus
ing, but you can assure your readers, in this
community especially, that it is not likely
that they will be " sffl cted " with oleomsrpa-
rine, at least until dairy butter brings better
prices and all dairymen make nothing but
choice butter. There is always plenty of
second-grade butter to take its place and sup.
ply all demand for q cheap article, and mer-
chants generally are not favorable to the in
PRODUCTION OF any substitute. Ii the Legis.
lature can pass an effective law for the
regulation of weights of two-pouud rolls. let
them go farther and pass an Act com.
pelling every dairymau to make oplv
choice butter. But the dairymen ars
not wholly to blame for putting up
short weights, nor do they get the benefits,
They invariably sell to dealers at actual
weight, and the commission merchant does
the same to the retailer snd the retailer
usually IS compelled by competition to sell AZ
SO small profit that very MANY time, he
gains only the difference in Notwithstanding
and selling at the same figure "Competi.
ton, the life of trade" will not ALLOW
short weights or any deficiency in quality
without corresponding reduction in prices. or
loss OF trade. Then it would be almost i'm
possible to make a mold that would make
all grades OF butter weigh exactly alike. a.
butter differs in density, and the same dairy-
IAN would have to use different mold at
d II erent seasoHs-good butter being heavisr
IN summer, or with good feed Such things
usually correct themselves, and Legislators. i
think, could employ their time to better ad
vantage on other subjects.
Sacramento Decamhar TX 1899
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tract universal attention. Not the least
interesting feature of the affair will be the
scientific tests that are to be made OF the
leading exhibits. A guarantee fund has
been raised that insures the financial branch
of the scheme, and the profits of which
will be given in prizes, and donated to rail.
way service benevolent purposes. Such
men as ex- Governor Fairchild, of Wiscon.
sin; Geo. NJ. Pullman, of the Palace Car
Company Aaron French, OF Pittsburgh !;
E. II. Talbot, Chicago E. V. Cherry, Gin
cinnati and A. G. Darwin, of New York,
with score of others of like high reputa-
ton, constitute the managing commission
ers. with their headquarters at Chicago.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
The LODGE BUSINESS.

a contemporary, in considering the temp
tations to which young men are exposed,
advises them, in order to dispose OF their
evenings, to "join a lodge" and points
out the advantages that accrue from mu.
tual.sid associations and confraternities in
general. Abstraetly it is well for young
men to nave membership with their fellows
in organizations that are intended to secure
them against the rainy day that cultivate
the benevolent impulses, and teach the
truths of mutual dependence and duty.
But practically the matter has phase that
is decidedly bjectionable-it develops
the tendency to unite with many orders.
Very largely the lodge business is over
done. The call i. makes upon time that
should be given to home and the family is
very often too great, and results in ir iury
to the person, and not unfreauently leads
to the lodge being preferred to the hearth.
stone. The man who is a member of many
orders must find his efforts in all weakened
by the very division of thought and labor
required. There are many wives and
children who have grievous cause of com.
plant against the lodge. As rule the
man who is faithful in one or two well.
conducted organizations is better off
than he who spreads his energies
over SO broad field of fraternity and be-
nevolence represented by the "lodge," as
to absorb time that is due to the home cir.
Gle. The animosity that many wives and
mothers feel toward the lodge grows out
OF this fact. The tendency in latter years
to unite with large number of "orders"
is one that does not benefit. Some organi.
cations have realized this fact, and are con-
sidering measures to restrict their members
in this direction. Home and business are
jealous of all rivals, and will not brook
them. It is better advice to the Young
mau to say to him that it is we'll enough to
be lodge member, but it is bad to have
membership in many. He should have the
time that he devotes to number of frater.
mites for social intercourse in non .lodse
circles, for good reading, for home and its
pleasures and duties, and for exercises that
will contribute to the culture OF his mind
and body-aud lodge duty very seldom
does either of these. The subject is capa-
bic of elaboration and the analysis of still
other grave considerations, but may be con.
cluded for the time by repeating the warn
ing to resist the temptation to unite with
every new order that presents its invitation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
A sEkIous QUESTION.

High authority charges that the adultera-
ton of drugs has grown to be monstrous
evil. We might abide sand in our sugar,
endure water in cur milk, and even be be.
guiled by the economical considerations
that dwell in butterine, but really the
world OF trade should afford US guarantees
against the spurious in those compounds
intended to correct the results Of our
physical indiscretions or misfortunes Sc.
riously, there is cause for governmental in.
vestigstion into the matter. Men are not
awake to the facts. They receive their
prescriptions from their physicians With all
confidence that the apothecary will dis.
pense the required drugs, and not supply
their places with spurious and non-effective
compounds But this confidence, we are
assured, lie greatly misplaced, and that in
nothing Is there more ease of adulteration
than in the drugs OF every. day use. The
difficulties are apparent at glance that
environ the patient in detecting these
adulterations-in fact he can rarely do so.
even if inclined. 1t appears, too, that our
druggists are not always at fault, for they
are compelled to take what the manu-.
featuring chemist presents, though they
are not wholly free from blame, for by
combined effort they could effectually crush
out spurious articles and those that have
been tempered with. On their behalf it is
claimed that this cannot be done except by
the aid of the law, and the more conscientious
apothecaries are agreed upon the necessity
for such legislation as shall prevent mere
tyros from engaging il the business of
compromising and dispensing, that the
learned and skilled may be encouraged in
the vocation, and such alone as are capable
OF detecting authorizations. There is
reason in this. He who deals in
poisons and in drugs of general
use should have a thorough edu.
cation in pharmaceutical science, and the
highest order of skill in that line be re-
quired, as is the rule now in several Eu.
ropean countries. The subject of drug
adulteration is one of the gravest import,
and medical science, says an English jour.
nal tina. has given the matter special atten.
ton, has before it no more serious problem
than that involved in the question, "How
"can the people be insured genuine medi-
'' cines:" It is question, singular as il
may seem, to which there has as yet been
made no satisfactory answer, and no re-
ply that even suggests a practicable solu.
ton of the difficulty. Says one writer,
" Adulterated food may provoke disease,
" but assuredly adulterated drugs will not
"cure it. In all the literature of medi.
cine we find very few contributions on this
subject, but the testimony is abundant
that drug adulteration has reached an
alarming degree of prosperity.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16

civilizing the territories and protecting
frontier society. Nothing could be further
from the truth than this species of assump-
tion. It is altogether absurd to say that
lawlessness under any condition of society
is necessary to the development of civil
order. When there is an undue proportion
of the lawless element in frontier society,
what ia needed is greater vigi.
lance and activity OF the part of
good citizens in the support of the law.
Such effJrt would be directly in the line of
natural evolution in thedevelopment OF civil
order. In Jones' case there was no room
for doubt in the mind of tie jury that
he had melted the mob to hang Har.
ripgton, or that Harrington was an limo.
cent man but there evidently was feel
ing in the minds of that jury that to hang
the leader of mob would be bad prece.
dent, as tending to discourage the mob
method. In short, that jury must
have regarded the right of Jones
and his associates to hang an
innocent man without trial as a kind of
public duty, and that society would lose
one OF its most valuable corrsctives for
lswlessness- if mob rule was thus signally
condemned. The case serves to show how
much remains to be accomplished in the
way of correcting the barbarous tendencies
of society before we can claim to have
achieved any high ideals of civilization
toward which the great ideas of self.gov.
eminent should constantly tend.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
Right THIS TIME.

1t seems to have dawned at last upon
the people of San Francisco that the local
criminal repository there, known as the
Industrial School, is a burdensome lux
ury. To guard III youthful offenders,
says the Post, it costs the city the pretty
sum of 49, 500 per annum for salaries of
officers. Thereupon it urges the disestab-
llshment of that reformatory, which it is
admitted has failed of its purposes, and de.
sires instead, that State Juvenile Re.
formasory be set up. As an argument in
its favor, it urges, with force, that through
such an agency the neophytes in crime
may be prevented from becoming hard
ened criminals by the associations of State
Prison life. So far as this branch Of prison
reform is concerned, and the duty of the
State to adopt preventive measures against
the criminal education of young offenders,
there can be no issue. All well ordered
States act upon that principle California
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
TIE HOLIDAY NUABEa.


In accordance with its annual custom, the EcoRp.
UNION holiday number viii appear on the ist day Of
January, 1883 II viii be sheet Of unusual size
1t will contain number of articles prepared es-
pecally for it by writers of the highest ability and
OF broad reputation as scholars and advanced
thinkers. These will be topics of profoundest in
terest 70 the people. 1t will contain statistics of
the wealth and production of the State, the finsn
cial condition of the commonwealth, the record of
births, deaths and marriages for 1882 local sta
tistcs the current news, choice miscellany market
ports, and special articles Of the highest inport
ance and value to the reader. All the usual feat
ures Of the regular edition will be retained The
holiday REcoRDUSIoS wiz be found to possess
especial value paper to be sent abroad, as repre-
sentative Of this city and the State and will form
the very best medium for business announcements,
as 1t viii have an unprecedentedly large circulation
Special arrangements are being made to give that
issue the widest distribution ever gwen any similar
publication More detailed announcements as to
tn specific character and great value of the paper
wall be made hereafter and in time to enable orders
for extra copies to be fled
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
A PROMISED EXPOSITION.

Preparations are now being made for the
opening at Chicago in May next of what
promises to be most important and valu.
able mechanical fair. It is to be national
exposition of railway appliances. Railway
men, inventors and manufacturers gener-
ally, have given the scheme warm appro-
val, and that is accepted as safe indica.
tion that the exposition will result in prac-
teal benefit to the railway and manufac-
turing interests of the country. 1t may be
safely predicted that this fair will prove
enc of the most curious, and at the came
time profoundly interesting of exhibitions.
Railways have called into exercise the
highest inventive genius, and developed
the most marvellous mechanical skill, and
the grouping of examples of their results
will make up an exhibition which must at,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16

urLspzLPHIA paper is in an agony Of nervous fret
over the westernisms of some Of its cont mporaries
of the boundless prairies. Such violations of the
Laws Of pure diction as inquested," suicided,"
"ora.ed," +" demised" and the like affect the SEN
stlve taste of the polished East, and cause out
pouring Of criticism that should bring relief tears
do to overburdened hearts But while the Atlantic
critic has truth on his side as TO the eontorons of
language at the West, he forgets that his own sec
ton Is quite as much at fault and that the Eastern
prsss presents solecisms quite outrageous. The
truth is that the tendency slang and to man
ufacture7 words is growing one among the re
pJrtcral fraternity, and correct writing is giving
way to 8 species of smartness, the wit OF which is
supposed TO dwell in the twisting and defOrmIng Of
good English Both East aud West the writers on
local papers need correction in this respect.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
An INrEREaFInG rRIAL

In Kansas City some time ago a mob
hanged negro named Harrington for the
alleged shooting of an officer. The day
following this lynching it was conclusively
shown that Harrington was innocent. The
real offenders were discovered and dealt
with according to law. One NJ. V. Jones
was leader of she mob which hanged Har-
rington. For melting to that deed of law
lessness and for the death which resulted,
Jones was indicted for murder, and his
trial closed yesterday by failure of the
jury to agree. This involves the necessity
of new trial /; but it is scarcely to be
hoped that Jones will be convicted by a
Southwestern jury. There is, in fact, a
lingering barbarism in public opinion
throughout the country that an execution
by mob is not murder. This error is fos.
tered Dy the loose thinking and thoughtless
advocacy of mob law by men and journals
when under a state of excitement due to
the commission Of some great crime. But
even under ordinary circumstances there
still remains in the public conscience SEN
timent justifying murder by mob law.
Such murder has to the popular conception
something of the sanction of legal exc
cution. Recently San Francisco contem-
porary, In discussing the restoration of law
and order to the territory of Arizona, at
tribu.ed the improved state of society there
to the free application of lynch law and the
lawless sway of mob rule. The same jour-
nal referred to this proceeding as an indis-
pensable remedy for certain lawless condi-
tions of society, and claimed that lynch
law had played an indispensable part in
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
THE WEEKLY UNION

Should be in every household, because it IS pure
and entertaining journal, adapted to the varied
tastes Of cd and young, the business man and the
scholar the agriculturst and the merchant the me.
chan,c and the day aborer It contains u and reIi-
able market reports, home foreign and Eastern cor.
respondence, book reviews, puzzles, scientific
selections, fashion quotations. political discussions,
consideration Of grave public questions the fullest
and most reliable Geographic news, and generally is
the complete newspaper 1t is mailed to any address
for one year Tor % so.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16

In the Christmas number Of the RECORD UNION
Sil appear Christmas story, written for this jour
nal by one OF the most talented and popular of Eu.
ropean Dovelists. 1t will be complete in that num-
Der, and viii probably occupy between fourteen and
fifteen columns. II will be found to be deeply in
teresting romance, strong in character sketches.
powerful in its descriptive phases and to have pic.
most natural and OF thrilling interest. 1t VIII
n all respects be the leading and most attractive
Christmas story published in any news Journal Of
he country
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16

Reports from South Afrsca tell OF a
financial collapse arising out Of the mania
Tor ostrich farms, which took possession
some time ago of all sorts of members of
the community. Those who could not paw
cash gave bills which were discounted By
the ranks, but the aills fell due before the
feathers were gro31n, and birds bought for
s'Oo pair were sold at $50 and less. In
the way OF mating up new schemes to get
oroke the South Africans seem to hsve
beaten tae record.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16

The farmers are busy seeding nearly all
over the State, and there is an almost gen.
eFal complaint Of a scarcity Of labor,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-16
CHRISTMAS STORY.

Sacramento, December Is, 1882.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-08
The Elections.

Elections were held yesterday in thrty-three
of the thirty-eight states Of the Union. In
many Of them state officers and legisla-
lures, and in all members of congress, were
elected. The next congress will have three
hundred twenty-five members, of which one
hundred sixty-three will be a majority. The
five states which had already held elections
had chosen thirty-two of this number, 80 that
two hundred ninety-three members, just
the number in the present house, were
elected yesterday. The republican fgurers
are hopeful that with gains at the south and
in the strong republican states Of the north,
the losses in the October elections and
those which may still further result in
states where the republicans were divided
on local issues, the republican majority in
the next house will be maintained. Several
states voted on constitutional amendments
New York, on making the canals free Ne
braska, on woman suffrage Illinois, Micbi-
gan, and Wisconsin on minor matters of local
interest. fractional divisions in New York
and Pennsylvania gave little hope of vic
tory for the state tickets there. Their d.
visions are Of local character and do not
extend to national politics, the bearing upon
which is the touchstone by which the i'm
portance of an election is rated. A little
wholesome Christening at the polls will give
the republicans union and energy in 1884,
and will tend to bring the present congress
back to little sober reflection upon its
neglected duty in tariff matters and its
violated duty in respect to the river and
harbor bill. No reasoning republican will
invest in sackcloth and ashes by reason Of
any ill-fortune which may betide the local
battles of the sanguinary off year.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-08
A Court of Claims.

Senator Ide has introduced bill GREETINGS
court of claims for the adjudication of claims
against the state for services and expenses
in the pursuit of criminals. His bill pro-
vides for court in each county, consisting
of the supreme court judge for that county,
the associate judges and the state auditor.
Notice of the time of holding the court shall
be given by publication in the newspapers
and the states attorney shall attend to pro-
tect the interests of the state. The county
associate judges are to receive the same COM
pensstion as is now provided for attendance
at the county court, and the supreme court
may make rules regulating practice in the
court of claims. Files of all claims heard
by the court are to be kept by the auditor in
order that it may be known what has been
adjudicated.
Any measure which shall successfully
provide for the cheap and expeditions hear
ing and settlement of the numerous small
claims for which no legal provision can be
made can hardly fail to be an improvement
upOu tuc pIcocnI Cuuupcioohc cAptu-
sive method of passing them through the
routine of legislative enactments. The last
legislature considered the plan of assigning
to the county judges the work of auditing
such claims, while the auditor of accounts
recommends that an act be passed provid-
ing that this class of claims against the
state be heard only during the session of the
legislature and that they be paid upon the
order of the auditor of accounts when claims
are approved by the unanimous vote of the
Joint committee on claims. A bill providing
for this method of settling these claims was
introduced by Senator Burnap on Monday,
his bill requiring two-thirds vote, instead
of the unanimous approval of the commit
tee, to secure the payment of a claim. The
latter bill is simple in its provisions, a single
tribunal will have jurisdiction Of these mat
ters and the interests of the state will be
| entirely in the hands of its own officials.
These plans for removing legislative and
a costly nuisance should result in the pas
sage of some measure that will effectively
cure the old evil without creating a new one.