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small pox. If it visits America, California
is more likely to be the first than the last
State afflicted, since with the Orient our
connection is SO direct. What we need to
do, then, is to prepare now. The prepare
ton will contribute to the lettering of
the public health in any event, and so we
have nothing to lose by the steps we should
take There are always, in every CON-
munity, people who will not keep their
premises cleanly. These can only be
reached by the arm of the law vigorously
applied. All cities in California have am
pie powers to enforce sanitary regulations.
These can be applied here probably more
easily than in any other State, because our
climate favors the carrying out of purify.
ing measures. We should cease, and st
once saturating the soil by leaky drain
pipes and improperly constructed cesspools.
We should provide escapes into high upper
air for all poisonous gases, and cut eff all
possibility of their entrance into the
dwelling house. We should see to it that
decsyiug vegetable and animal matter is
destroyed, and no more be allowed TO ao-
eumulate, and every drain, sewer and waste
pipe should be thoroughly ventilated and
frequently flushed, cleansed and disinfectsd.
In thoroughly clean place, where no de-
cay of matter is permitted, the cholera
is not likely to take . vicious hold. Il
remains then, iof California cities, espeoi.
ally those in the warm valleys, to adopt
severe sanitary measures, and enforce
them. These are NOT directed against the
Clearly but against those who otherwise
will not take the necessary precautions.
AT this writing letter from representa-
tive citizen ia before US, who wos COM
PEELED to remove from clean, we'll
drained premises, because Of an overflow
ing cesspool on an adjoining lot polluting
the atmosphere Of an entire neiehborhood.
In diphthericsl, cholera or small. pox cpl
denic, just such spot would be first
fastened upon, and the responsibility
would rest upon the municipal authority
that neglected to enforce ordinary sanitary
regulations, The best way to give a
people courage against disease, TO heat
down fear and alarm that are provocative
OF it, Is, by cleanliness, to give them con-
fisncs in the superiority Of their sur
ronndings.
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NEEDED REFORMS IN PRISON MAN
AGEMgEr,

u. Il. Brockway, fluent writer, has
a paper in the last number of the
North American Re0iee0 which should be
more generally read than it is likely TO be-
He treats Of Needed Reforms in Prison
Management "a subject which every
citizen having the good of the whole COM
munity at heart should consider, and, if
possible. study in detail, for there are
fewer topics of more grave Importance in
the economy OF State Governments.
Mr.. Brockway finds the jails of to-day
substantially what Howard found jails to
be in the eighteenth century. The annual
number of crimes may now be forecast
with as much accuracy as the annual death
rate. There is a popular demand for re-
forms; some voice them hoping for Pc
cuniary gain, and politicians echo them
for partisan effect. But a demanded re-
form, which IS genuine, relates to prison
management.
The first need, according to Mr.. Brock.
way, and in tie statement of which he is
entirely correct, is better sentiment
among prison governors and the public as
TO the tr1e purpose Of prisons and the
treatment OF criminals. The popular dc.
mand is for punishment in retaliation.
This is expressed in Court DEGREES and the
laws, aud is the bane of good government.
For it he would give place to the passion.
less sentiment ealing for the prisoner to
be reasonably cured of his criminality as
the condition Of freedom. Both punish
ment and pardon should be promotive of
reformation. Now there is such thing,
as the writer shows, and as all obseryant
men are aware, as the public becoming
habituated 50 the infietion of penalties
until the severest lose their rigor, in popu-
lar estimation. He holds, therefore-but,
We must irterpolate. no. with force
sufficient to convince us he is right
in this regard that legislation, which
is the popular voice, should MOI
prescribe the pains or duration of i'm
prisonment, but they should be left
to the prison governors to be determined
and adjusted for reformation according to
the idiosYncrasies and ever. changing sub
iective state of the criminal" OF course
prison wardens must, exercising such pow.
ers, be held to stric. accountability, but
not politically. Prison management should
be removed entirely out of the sphere of
partisan politics and denominationalism.
Such is the scheme of the new Constitution
of California, but thus far it has been most
adroitly defeated and set at defiance.
Criminals should be classified. Not sc.
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SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The San Francisco Stock and Exchange
Board viii adjourn at the close of business
Saturday until July 9Th.
Saturday morning the First Regiment
will go to San Jose. and will return to this
city the morning of the Fourth.
A gas explosion occurred at No. 1893
Hayes street Tanrsday night. Taomas
Dryden and Alfred Tucker were burned.
The steamers Costa Rica and China have
been sold by the Pacific Mail Company to
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany.
Colonel WATSON, who was sent to look
after the violations of the Chinese Restric.
ton Act in the northern Territories. will
present letter to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
The will of Eugene Cssserly has been
filed. He leaves his property to his wife,
Teresa, and makes her sole executrIx. The
personal property is valued az So, coo.
The value of the real property il not
stated.
Thursday l34 Cinnamon sailed for Hong.
kong on the steamship Arabic, and Friday
four went north on the Dlkota. Forty
have thus far been registered for the Gra-
NADIA for Penama, and seven for Honolulu
by the ZealAndia. Thus far Z, 1927 certifi.
Gates have been issued.
Mark r. G.. Pulliam, for many years
identified with mining industries, died at
the Occidental Hotel Thursday, of heart
disease. Mr.. Pulliam was for many years
engaged in mining enterprises in the
northern part of the State. He was
member of the Constitutional Convention
of 1879, having been elected as a Demo.
crat.
While J. w. Ward and John P. Geary
were removing small flagstaff from the
top of two.story building Friday, the
pole escaped from their grasp, and falling,
struck John Ahern, sitting on a hack, on
the back of his neck, hurting him to the
ground and killing him almost instantly,
Geary fed but Ward was arrested Tor
granddaughter.
General Passenger Agent Minis, of the
Denver and Rio Grsnde Railroad, saws
there has been no cutting Of rates over his
road from Ogden to points east. The
changes telegraphed from Salt Lake aye
simply the adoption of new tariff redac-
ing rates on both lines about "a as was
agreed with the Union Pacific. The state.
mens that Pullman palace cars are to be
ran from San Francisco to the Missouri
river without change is premature. At
present these cars will be run to Ogden.
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AmsR17Ax ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.

On the invitation of committee ap-
pointed by the Archaeological Institute of
America, several American colleges have,
by joint subscription, provided an annual
sum of ESQ., Thus endowed, the Amer
lean School of Classical Studies was opened
at Athens on October 2 1882. Graduates
of the subscribing colleges are eligible for
admission on presentation to the COM
mittee in America a certificate from
their college that they are qualified
to pursue a course of classical study
at Athens under the advice of the Dr.
rector. They pay no fees on the other
hand, the sclool does not lodge them, nor
in aay way contribute to defray their ex-
penses. The Director is appointed by the
committee for a period Of one year, or Of
two Years. He is chosen from among the
Professors of Greek in the subscribing coll
lcges. His duties are to advise and assist
the studies of members, to hold periodical
meetings at Athens for consultation and
discussion, and to report annually to the
committee. He occupies house. which
contains the library of the school, open to
the use of members. The corporation of
Harvard University allows it's Greek Pro-
lessor, the present Director, salary of 5000
during the year of his absence at Athens,
Each member of the school is to sub.
nit yearly at least one taesis to the Di-
rector, embodying the results of his work.
II approved by the Director, it Is to be for.
warded 60 the committee Ia America. On
completing one full year of study, of which
eight months (Oct. June II must have
been passed in the Levant, member OF the
school is entitled to certificate signed by
the Director, the President of the Areh@-
logical Institute, and the committee. The
American school thus approximstes TO the
French type as regards the relation Of Di-
rector to student, but differs from ;eby the
absence Of collegiate system and of a tri-
ennial course. THE Fortnightly Review.
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nopEkN yIEw OF AsoIEsg eagEcE.

The common impression OF Greece
Judge to be that it was once filled with
scholars and heroes, but Is now den OF
thieves. l wish to present the other side
of Greek history, ancient and modern, that
we may not have too high an opinion of she
past of Greece, nor too low view Of it's
present.
Distance has lent ench&ntment to the
wholesale robberies Of Hercules and of
Sparta, but familiarity breeds contempt for
the lesser thefts of the Greek Albanians Of
to-day. As dark storm-clouds 10 the dis
tant west at sunset seem to be banks of
gold, 30 the ancient Greek wars Of am5i-
tion and pride, and envy, and the adulter-
les of greatness, lose their blacknass In the
far distance of history.
Great men, until we see them, are
thought of as taller and larger than other
men, and it IS real disappointment to
find, on closer inspection. Ca&g TIRE choicest
goods are done up in such small packages.
Bat one little diamond Is worth more than
a great mauy large lumos Of ceal, though
made Of the same material
A schoolboy who has not Feen led to
compare the sizs of Greece vita familiar
districts of to-day, naturally thinks Of 1t
as a great country, ike Russia or the
United States. The other side Of that i'm
sgining is that ancient Greece was really
as large as one eighth of Texss-nesrly as
large as the little State of Maine We are
to think OF the wars Of Athens with Sparta
as like wsr today between BANGOR and
Portland, or between Syracuse and Albany.
The free population OF Sparta at its best
period Is gwen rs about 30. 600, of whom
only 5000 were SpaItsns. A5hens was
probably little larger. [0f course, there
were a large number OF slaves IA oosh cities
VINO are not counted in this estimate
Only 800 Sp9rsans fought at Thermo-
pyle only Q coo Athenians a. Marathon,
which were all the city was able TO send TO
battle ct time of extreme peril. At
Plataa, one Of the most severe OF che
Greek battles, only 800 Greeks are re-
ported as killed.
The Olympisn mountainoi the gods and
Parnsssus, the mounsain horne o. the 5,uses
the frs 10 600 the sec9ud s 600 feet
h.gh-would seem ike half grown boys
AMID our Rocky mountains, Of which
Gray's Peak, Pixies Pesk and Mount
Brown are each more than Is. COO feet high.
Pentelicus and Hymet5us would SCI m
dwarfs even in our White mountains-
Mount Washington being 6 1913 teet; PEN
t-licus, 3, 800; Hymsttus, 800.
For King Of Athens read al 5yoT Of SYRIA
cuse; for King of Soerta reao Chief Of the
Sioux Indians for King of the PelopOn-
nesus read Governor Of New Jersey.
Wish the exception of Athens, the child
Of cultured Egypt, the Grecian States, 30
called, were more like group of half
civilized Mexican tribes, continually en-
gagged in war or robbery, and living in
Ignorance and semi-savagery. Those who
engaged IL commerce were grade higher
in civilization through the educating infu-
ence Of .travel.-[W. Z. Crafts, d. D., in
Lsslie's Sunday Magazine.
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The 1LIsoIs Lie 4asE Law.

The New York Tines, after studious
consideration of the question, concludes
that there is great deal to be said in sup
port of high license law, like tie one re-
Gently enacted in Illinois. Lave requiring
the payment of smaller sums than those
fixed in the Illinois law, and in similar
laws enacted not long ago in other North
western States, have been in force for years
in other States, and in some cases have ex-
listed by the side of local option laws. The
supporters of high license hold that the
large sum required-S500 for spirits and
wines in Illinois, 81, 600 for dealers of the
same class IN the large cities of Nebraska,
and even higher fees in some parts of
Iowa-will reduce the number Of liquor
sellers and keep the business in the hands
of those who Go not abuse their privileges.
Those who have been keeping cheap
places, in which poisonous liquors are sold
and crimes are committed, cannot raise
the money which the law demands it is
said, and will therefore be crowded out of
the trade. Bat, as the Times points out,
it must not be expected that the Law will
be strictly obeyed in cities like Chicago.
The wealthy saloon-keepers will unite and
resist it, and the dives viii contribute
their mite to the common fund, and
only the persistence and courage of the
friends of the measure can secure for it
obedience and respect
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health of the wearer, than at any previous
period. 1t is fact that in clothing for
men, women and children, we have made
advances. We have relieved our bodies of
the great weight of the robes of former
days, of bands and bonds checking cir
culation, of wigs and ruffies, and laces and
stocks, and have taken the burden of
heavy skirts from the hips; we have re-
duced the head dress to something reasona-
bic; have got rid of many worthless fash.
ions even while adopting some silly ones,
but on the whole we have progressed, and
in the right direction. Il is not wise,
therefore, to sneer at the new English idea.
It has reason on its side, and againat it
is only the aversion TO leaving we'll
travelled road. But we have turned aside
from beaten paths IN the past, and viii do
so in thu future. Whatever there is OF
worth in "Lady Haberton's idea" will be
adopted; we may be certain of that.
New ideas may have to wait, and wait
long, but all there is of value in them the
age will take up in time Social uaages
will not stay the progress the race is
making, no more than communism and
socialism can uptuTn the foundations of
society. We may cling to one and be
annoyed, even harmed by the other, but in
time We viii abandon the enc for what ia
better, and conquer the other by the
power of right. OF all reforms dress re-
forms, however, are the most difficult to
advance. First, because SO many ex.
tremists have attached to them secondly,
because they run counter TO the DEGREES Of
social queens. and lastly, because they
seldom have wise and competent leaders.
Bnt the forces that operate to build the
age are potent, aud difficulties only delay,
but cannot defeat them If the dress
reform. such as England is now con.
sidering, is one of the means to our ad.
vancement, it will be taken up and woven
into the web of our destiny. Aad it GER
tainly looks as if this will be done. for the
agencies moving il the matter are more
potent and of a higher order than any ever
before connected with dress reform move
ment.
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BANK DECIsIoN.-The Attornsy-General
has given the following opinion in answer to
the question of Mr.. Farnham us it legal
and right for any bsnk, savings or otherwise,
that is Incorporated under the laws ofaCali-
fornis, TO pay either its stockholders or de-
posisors any dividends from uueollected in
teress = The Attorney General holds that
profits which have not besn realized and in-
terest which has not been paid cannot be up.
propriated to pay dividends Such payments
when made constitute an advance from che
corporations making it, and creates debt to
b paid when the profits are realized or inter-
eat paid. Such liabilities are prohibited by
Section 573 of the Civil Code. The Commits
sioners therefore request the different bank
cihcials to sea that tne'law is enforced.
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soxE journals 90 so far as to condemn the convic-
ton of Louise Michel as a mistake, and hold her
punishment to be an evidence Of weakness on the
part of the French republic. We cannot look upon
it in that light Louise Michel is sufficiently red
handed and prominent to be treated IS political
offender She has been an influence for i'll these
fifteen years or more; her acts have all been aimed
at the existing forms OF government, and her words
have been seditious and reasonable. She has con-
spiredto overthrow the republic, advised the muir
der of its oicars and the conscaton and distribu-
ton of the property of the French people, and has
led the mob behind the red flag ainst life peace,
law and possessions. How the punishment OF such
woman is an evidence of weakness of the republic.
we fail to comprehend.
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SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.

Some time ago we remarked upon a cur.
rent deha5e as TO whether the South is not
pursuing wrong course in raising SO much
cotton to the exclusion of grains for con-
sumption, and which she is now largely
buyiug-that is selling cotton to buy grain.
The subject is not cleared yet Of the fog of
inaccurate statistics. This much Is known,
however, that the South has the capacity
to raise more grain, without any diminu.
ton of cotton culture. In other words,
she has not worked her soil in the past to
its full capacity, nor under the slavery
system did labor produce as it may now be
made to do The South will grow more
aud more of the varied products of the soil
for come years before her limit will be
reached. At the came time there are now
evidences that manufacturing Is to be one
of the most material interests of the South
in the future. There are not . few who
believe thai within the next twenty years
manufactures at the South will quite equal
those Of the Eastern and Middle States.
As to cotton. growing, the best advices
show shat there has been an average in
crease Of 5 Is Per cent. in the past year.
Tins, the acreage in 1889 was l6, 500, 600,
while shat of 1888 is not estimated at less
than l7,l49,0 coo. In Texas the increase
will be fully ten per cent, and in Arkansas
not less than six per cent. While the
crop is little backward, atlasest accounts
it is promising along nearly the whole line
from North Carolina to Texas, and if there
is any doubt as to an exceedingly large
yield anywhere, it is, says the Financial
Chronicles recognized authority-in the
Atlantic coast States only.
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A POLITICAL REFLECTION.

A politician, when he fixes his attention
on the imperfection of the world, the
misery and the crime and the injustice
which exist, may sometimes be tempted TO
despair, and TO feel that il is useless 10 at
tempt anything and better to sit still. As
another time he may feel that the whole
thing Is altogether wrong, and that a
fundamental change is necessary. Pa
thence We are better than we were. Do
what lies before you. Don's try toe much
at eime. Take up some obvious evil
TO which you see remedy, and help TO
apply that remedy. Not much can bs
done in a single generation, and if you
try 20 90 too fast you viii do more harm
tran good. Here is whole string of
homely msxims which are too often for
gotten thst it vas by attending to them
that our 9nc5sa ors made England what she
Is, that We may hope to make her better,
and that our descendants may carry on the
good work 20 an unlimited extent. In
making changes we must, as l have said,
consider not only what we think right in
itself, but also what is opportune. a
great deal may with advantage be done
gradually which If attempted tuddenly
would be disastrous. II you wish to fill
basin with water you must pour slowly,
for il you empty your jug straight in you
will make a great splash and a great
mess, and your basin will only be
half full after all. Ii man
wishes to change from sedentary
to an active life he must begin by moderate
exercise and gradually increase the amount,
or, unless he IS very young and very strong,
he will run the risk of permanent injury.
So in politics, change must be gradual,
Many measures may be advisable now
which would not have been so fifty years
ago. Those who were most in favor Of
the reform bill of 1867, even those who
are open to conviction that an extern
sion of that measure may already be de.
sirable, may doubt very much whether in
1882 a stronger measure could have been
introduced without serious shock to the
Constitution.-TEar Cowper, in the Nine
teenth Century.
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ZOE PRESS eoR SALE.

We have a. the REcoRD- USroN Office two large
double cylinder Hoe presses in perfect order one OF
which will be sold at low price, and upon easy
terms. The size Of bed-plate is 4oxso inches. The
purchaser can have his choice of the presses. The
object in selling is to replace with one OF more rapid
y,ork
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The radical free trade Democratic Journals, no
taby those OF Kentucky, declare that the choosing
Of Mr. Randall as Speaker of the House means moth
other hand the protectionist Democrats Of the East
insist that free trade platform means death to the
organization No wonder the Democracy in Califor-
mia is so anxious to divert attention from the tariff
question and concentrate it against railroads
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The steamship Arabic of the Occidental
line, which sailed Thursday, viii make
only one more trip before returning to
England. 1t is stated that hereafter three
steamships instead OF Ave will run on this
route.
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President ARTHUR is receiving the open com
endations of the country for his radical retrench-
ment in the Department of internal Revenue.
Even Harpe7's Weekly thanks him, and admits that
he is entitled praise for his firnness in the mat
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THE Ohio Prohibitionists, by placing a ticket in
the field, have played directly into the hands OF the
Democracy and the free whisky men. There never
was case where would be refermers went about it
more Systematically to hang themselves.
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The Petaluula Courier (Dem.) exposes the failacy
Of the uniform rate doctrine commended for by the
agitating press, and denouloes it roundly, after
demonstrating what injury must result from it,