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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

direct the act, enter the charge and collect
it while the officer doing the service Woulo
debit the service against the Office issuing
the order Under such system peculatlon
could be INDUCED in only by collision. AS
II now is. however, the fee need not even
be entered If the entry is omitted, the
discovery of the omission can only be MADE
Inv search of all the documents filed Tor
which fees are chargeable, in order to make
ont a Drima facie case against the deiln-
ouent. In the matter of furnishing ceru-
fed copies for which fees are ehargeable,
II Is notorious that there is no check what
ever. and only the barest possibility OF the
discovery of wrongdoing, since, If the OIL
cial makes no record of the service, all the
chances are against disclosure. But if 1t be
admitted. for the sake of the argument, that
II would be some inconvenience to the citi-
zen to procure an order from one official
for service by another, it would be compcn-
stated by the barrier such system would
erect agains. fee-thieving i'll official station,
and the consequent i'll it works in the pub
lie service and in the public mind. 1t is as
certain as that two and two make four that
the State must reform her system of book
keeping, and that neither bonds nor human
trust will work the reform. Business
method only will accomplish it-a check
system between the salesman and the
cashier. We have reason to believe that
such check system will be established by
| legislative enactment the coming winter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18
RIGHT ACTION.

The Supervisors Of Yolo county have
acted wisely in abolishins all licenses, cx-
cept those for liquor selling and for ped
ding merchandise The REcoRD-UNIoN
has always maintained that license taxes
collected from merchants and dealers are
in the nature of extortion, since they have
no basis of equality and do not distribute
the burdens Of supporting government ac-
cording to any equitable principle. What
ever is charged to the retailer for the privi-
lege of doing business is taxed back by him
upon his patrons. 1t amounts to this, then,
that where authority lays a license tax
upon the seller Of necessities, it simply puts
an extra tax upon the consumer Of neces-
sites. Where the license tax is lower in
one place than in another, an advantage is
given to the dealer in the latter locality
and trade handicapped in the former. The
man possessing millions of property values
consumes no more food than the man
working for daily wages and having no
other means Yet the license tax visits
Just as much of its burden upon one as
upon the other. 1t has not the equality OF
the poll or head tax, and is not rate laid
upon property values So far as it applies
10 the luxury OF liquor it may be classed
as a regulalive measure, and hence we favor
it being made so high as to actually con
troll and regulate and to compensate, in part
ut least, for the cost liquor retailing entails
upon any system of government. Tole
has set good example, and her people
have row direct trade advantage Over
those of Sacramento-not great it is true
but still an advantage.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

THE MngGziHe Of 1n makes a Just criti-
cism when it declares that the tendency of
the day, 50 far as sculptors are concerned,
is 10 ignore the artist in notices of his work.
This is due very largely to the press, and
the criticism should be confined mainly to
that vehicle Of news Thus, in notices Of
monumental work, the artists product is
treated very much in commercial light.
In the press notices, for instance, of the
soldiers monument at Dayton. o., while
the work is warmly commended, there is
no mention of the author OF it. The statue
is described in detail, and pronounced
among the finest of works of art, but no
line tells the world Of the genius that gave
ii birth, and the only reference in that di-
rection is that referring to it being the worl,
of a native sculptor. So, too, in the ac-
count of the statue of Elias Howe at
Bridgeport, the giver is named, but the
designer is not even referred to. These are
but examples of growing tendency to be
| little the sculptor's work. 1t is indeed a
low view of art" by which monumental
work is considered as are contracts for
brick houses or stone sewers. That it is
due to mere carelessness is not accurate; il
arises from a lack of knowledge of art pro-
prieties upon a large class of men en-
ployed to write tor the daily press, first, and
secondly, from the fact that sculpture is
being largely displaced in monumental
work by the manufacturer.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18
ER-PREsSURE.n

In England and our own country there
has been much recent debate Of the ques-
ton Of over-pressure upon school children.
It has very frequently assumed that the
common school curriculum was too severe
for certain juvenile intellects. Every now
and then some lad or miss dies, of whom it
is said over-application in an effort TO ac-
complish school tasks, was the cause. But
it is not true that it is chargeable TO the
system, however popular to say So since
out Of the hundreds of thousands of school
pupils, only very, very few break down
by reason of severe application TO study.
Ii is not just, therefore, to lay at the door
of the system abnormal results. No system
of study worth pursuing can be established
that viii not bear heavily here and there
upon pupil In any considerable number
of pupils.therc will always be found few,
who if not properly restrained will over
task themselves, or find certain studies une-
quail to their powers. But the fact is that
the everlasting is nearly always due 10
physical causes. 1t is not 50 much appli-
cation, as it is neglect of the physical, If
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rRIs nioRNING's NEWS.

IL New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 120}s for is of 1907; HES for l9sS'
sterling, 81 S2@4 So: 100 for SIS: silver bars
11a9z
silver in London, 50 1S-16d: conscis. lol l5-l6d;
per cent United States bonds, extended iV'
A., 1885; as, 115is.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at SS14@2S34 cents.
In the San Francisco stock market yesterday
morning an increased disposition TO sell at mar
ket rates made BUSINESS livelier among certain
of the Comstoeks, to the detriment of prices.
The Washoe list was lower and even the middle
stocks gave way
Cleveland returned to Albany yesterday.
Blaine continues to fire the Michigan heart.
Ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, has
been arrested in Detroit as a common swindler
Fire in Detroit loss, 5000
The death of General Alvord, L. s. A., re
tired, is announced from Washington.
The war of railroad passenger rates shows no
sign Of truce in the East.
Difficulty is found i'll landing the shore end
of the Bennett Mackay cable at Manhattan
Beach, Long Island
The steamship Nevada arrived at Queenstown
from New York yesterday with her cargo on fire.
England accepts the principles on which the
Congo Conference is to be held.
The vintage of Rheims. france, is the best
since 1874.
Fresh forces of Chinese arc invading Tonquin
The proprielors uf public houses in St Peters
burg have been ordered to remove all portraits
of the Car, as disrespect is shown them by the
people.
The stage between Sonora and Milton was
robbed yesterday by L masked highwayman.
In Z. railroad collision near Bowie, Utah, Tues
day, a conductor was killed and several other
persons hurt.
The advertised prize fight between Fulijames
and Gilmore did not come of in Canada, the
latter not showing M"
The French have scored another victory over
the Chinese, killing 500 of them.
The Grand Lodge of California, +. and A. NJ.
yesterday reelected the old officers.
J. c. Haake died in san Francisco yesterday
from injuries received while attempting 10 board
a Market-street cable car
\ grand demonstration of merchants in favor
of Blaine will take place in New York Monday
night.
Tie first days registry i'll Jersey City amounted
to 20.Co0.
During September the Mexican Central Kali
road earned S250,0O0
David c. Anderson e. Uncle Davc''), the vet
Gran actor, died in New York Thursday.
a bare knuckle prize fight took place at Pitts
burg Thursday night both men being badly
punished.
Schaelfer challenges Slosson to play two games
of billiards for 81 900 each.
The Wyoming Republicans have nominated
+. E. Warner, Of Cheyenne, as Delegate to Con
gress
Great damage has been caused i'll Alabama by
drought
Dennis McNally committed suicide mt Park
City, Utah, Thursday night.
Calkins, the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor of Indiana, is IL.
At Flint, Mich, yesterday, Blaine denied that
he had ever been a Know-nothing, and proved
by General Fremont that he WAS an ardent sup
porter of the Republican ticket in 1856
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18
AMERICAN PACKING.

Very few Of our Consuls fail to complain,
in their reports TO the State Department,
Of the shiftess manner in which our ex-
porters pack their goods IN the many re-
ports we have examined for year, this
complaint has been chief ono. II it was
merely a matter Of r.proaci, and no more,
il would not be 50 important. But il IS in
evidence that the cheap and careless meth
DDS employed by our merchants and manu-
tacturers in packing are rapidly and per
manently iniuring our foreign trade. The
latest instance is that of the complaint
from Ecuador, with which we have q large
trade. Consul Beach reports from Guaya-
quil that our packing is 50 inferior to that
of the German and English that our trade
is seriously menaced We do not make our
packages sufficiently compact. in order to
reduce measurement we make up our
goods in too large packages nails are
driven carelessly, and do not hold in the
soft wood employed we use tin 50 thin
that a large per cent of fluid goods AS
OILS ttASt ~ N'iy-'F- ~ Ao'
sometimes, when we should use boxes.
We do not put up our goods in small
enough packages to enable the merchant to
take from The custoIn-house a part of a
shipment We do not pack our glassware
with sufficient care, and so On. But the
English and German exporters comply
with all the requirements the omission OF
which ;hc recitals indicate go to our debit.
Like complaints come 50 frequently, and
from such widely-separatedr regions and are
SO uniformly represented as serious and
threatening to our trade that American
merchants cannot longer afford to ignore
them While by sighting our packing We
MAY he turning nimble sixpence, we are
certain, " in the long run, to fail TO turn
the honest shilling.
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children are permitted by engrossment in
study to neglect taking proper exercise,
sufficient sleep, mental relaxation, and nu-
tritious food, they must be expected to
break down. The New York Tribune
hits the nail upon the head when it
says that diet and hours have probably
quite as much to do in the establishment of
abnormal conditions of health as any pos
sible educational pressure But exercise
and mental relaxation, absolute withdrawal
from the thought of study, are equally es-
sential. The duty of the parent is one
that must ever be awake to adjust the
demands upon the intellectual and the
physical being, so that neither shall take
harm. And when friction sets in and
conflict arises between the wo.that reason
teaches will result in i'll, there is but one
Judgment for the parent to form and that
is in favor of the physical. 1t is by no
means certain that the suggestion of our
contemporary for increased gymnastic eX-
ercises for girls in schools is wise. We
situations show signs of falling home train
ing, free open air exercise, the romping on
the play ground, the relaxation that may be
INDUCED in at home are preferable to the
methodical training of the school gymna-
SUM. Not but that this latter may well be
established for the use of pupils from
choice, but it remains that it is within
% school hours, if the use is enforced, and
in a sense, therefore, school gymnasium
training keeps up the strain of " school
hours" Where it is obvious that child
is failing physically at school, short hours,
fewer studies, and more of home and open
air exercise and diet regulation will, in the
vast majority of cases. prove the best RENE
dies, preferable to medicine, gymnasiums
and old in StI,dv
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18
STATE BOOKKEEPING.

Recent developments have emphasized
the criticism we made last year upon the
unbusiness-like manner in which the State
ofGaliiornia keeps It's books and carries on
its fee system We then pointed out that
there is no proper system of checks, and
further examination Of the matter confirms
our statement We aver that there IS no
proper precaution taken 70 prevent THEY
ing. For instance, there is no Office of the
State government under which fees are col
lected where any check is pat upon the
possibility of pociScting the fees The law
requires officers receiving fees to turn them
over to the State Treasurer at certain
periods and to make a repor! thereof to the
State Controller But there the system
stops: ends where it begins. Our Suggos-
ton that there should be no receipt Of fees
except through the check Of another than
the receiver was pooh-poohed 10y certain OF
our contemporaries as a red tape PROPOSE
tion. Yet it is precisely upon such sys-
tenn that every weil-regulated private bust
ness is conducted. There could be no steal
ing By The oflicercharging the fee for service
performed, if the law required payment to
be made 10 another officer upon the cerhii-
cate of the official making the charge Pre-
cisely such q system of checks is established
against the State Treasurer, who can neither
receive nor pay out except upon the certifi-
cate of the Controller. What good reason
can be advanced against applying it TO all
other departments of the State gov
ernInent? What hardship would ii
work npsn the citizen to apply to the
Controller, for instance. or the Treasurer,
for given service by the Secretary of State
or the Suryeyor-General? Under such a
system the Treasurer or Controller would
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

SALMON TRAVELS = Researches by
Swedish and Finnish savants furnish evil
dence that salmon are in the habit of
making enormous journeys across the
Baltic-quitting the rivers of Northern
Sweden and Finland in the autumn for a
visit to the shores of Northern Germany
during the winter, and returning to their
haunts in the spring. In Germany and
Norway efforts have been made to learn
something of the migration of salmon
through the plan of liberating carefully
marked specimens and offering rewards
for particulars concerning their re-capture.
In iS72 a thousand marked salmon were
turned into the Weser, but not until a few
weeks ago was the first capture of a
marked fish reported-the fish being taken
near the place where it was put into the
river. Its weight being fully thirty pounds,
and its marks showing that it was thirteen
wears old in 1872. Several hundred sal
mon and trout, plainly marked with tags,
were liberated in Norway during last
autumn and winter.
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notices of supplement of the Sentinel
containing the full reiteration of the libel.
The San Francisco -Aha slapped the fellow
in the face, and told him to go to some
shop where they dealt in filth. We recon-
mended him to apply to the San Francisco
Examiner, and he did, but even that shame
faced sheet enthusiastically kept its mouth
shut. 1t had just tried that sort of litera-
ture on its readers in the VIGOROUSLY in
famous . First Lady of the Land" leader,
and got such walloping from an indig-
nant public that it declined to invite Sec
ond leathering. Lately Shoemaker sent
one of his circulars to the Terre Haute
Democrat Qndiana) and the Democrat re-
sponded promptly in the following style;
''Yes, you can have friendly mention
Any newspaper that would stab the vitue of a
mother to crafty the cravings of putrid brain
can have plenty of friendly mentioL.' Any
newspaper that goes into moral bankruptcy TO
drown III tears the respect of children for a
mother can have plenty of friendly mention
from the editor of the Democrat: some of il may
same ANY newspaper that advertises itself by
fattening the bats of moral pollution on the eX-
udence of depraved and rotten brains can have
friendly mention by the editor of the DEM
ocrdt. Yes, Charley, will send you marked
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

IRRIGATION CoNvENTTcy.-The State Irr;-
CATION Convention, which IS called TO meet
in Fresno in Decemhe" commencing on
the Sd, promises to bring ogether large
number of people from different parts of
the State. There is no interest in California
so neglected and mis- understood by the
mass of the people as that of irrigation,
vet it is what imparts life and prosperity 10
southern California. The objects of this
Convention are TO discuss and determine
the needs of this interest in the way OF
legislation, and to compare notes and ex-
periences, so that irrigation may be con-
Quoted in the most intelligent manner
possible. Arrangements have been made
with the railroad company for reduction
of fare from all points on their line. Dele
gates paying full fare to Fresno will be
allowed to return home at one-third rcgu-
lar rates. Fresno EXpositor.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18
The REcoRp- UNIoN is lie only paper

The RECORD UNION is The only paper on
the coast outside Of San Francisco that re-
ceiues the full associated Press dispatches
from al parts Of Il, worid. Outside Of San
francisco it les no competition, in point Of
numbers, IN its home and general circulation
throughout ae coast Challenges Of TWO TO
ONE, copering points ADORE, extended to local
evening paper, rencin open for acceptance
s. c. Beckwit, Tribune" Building, Ne~
York, sole agent for the Eastern States, Nm.
Cameron, No. s Men Montgomery street, ga"
Francisco, special agent for San Francisco and
ricinitn.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

SHE WANTED THE BEsT.-Clerk-" This
silk is worth So yard and is very narrow
measure Here is some nice summer SILK
at so cents yard" Kitchen Lady" An
is it in style?" "The very height OF
style. Only yesterday ! sold pattern
from this to Mrs. Blank, whom you know
is a leader of fashion" "Oh, l know that
there woman very well. | lives at her
house" "Shall l cut off some?D NO
indeed. | wouldn't like to be mistaken
for her. Give me some of the So stuff."
[ Exchange.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

THE election of Grover Cleveland will neces-
sarily break up the Democratic party; and the
ton lies in his defeat.-iNew York Sun.
This in not pleasant rejection since, as the
New York Tribune remarks, the people so sim
eerily desire the party broken up, that they
might. if convinced that would result, vote foI
Cleveland to secure it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

DIR. WE'LL, an eminent autist, has come
to the defense of school children. and as
serts that of 5000 he examined last year. he
found the great majority of those charged
with being inattentive, afflicted by partial
deafness. He holds that in every ease Of
inattention the child should have its ears
examined, so convinced is he of the fact
that children who are simply hard of hear
ing are often misjudged and considered in
attentive Indeed, such an examination,
he thinks. would be desirable once or twice
a year for every child, the test being made
in the school-room itself if there be no
other room convenient that is, the teacher
could place the pupil in the corner of the
room, then retire to the other himself, and
test each ear separately by whispering
causing TIE words and sentences used to be
repeated by the pupil, and thus easily find
out which of them are hard of hearing.
He believes the result would be TO call the
attention of parents to the condition of the
hearing of their children, for it may he
defective and not amount to deafness.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

'.WHETHEE Mr.. Blaine is or is not elected, the
present canvass will forever remain what it now
is-an attempt to persuade the American people
that living lips are an acceptable thing to the
Lord" Thus writes an Independent" and
we commend the paragraph to that class of
Democrats who revel in the scandals of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

THE State of Connecticut has, by 15,-
600 majority vote, resolved to have but
biennial sessions of the Legislature. The
wonder is that State SO intelligent should
have so long adhered TO the old system of
annually turning its statute books into a
bull-pen for the politicians especial bene-
fit. Fiye-sixths of the States now have
the biennial system, and the remaining
sixth cling to the annual system, for no
better reason than that which sent men to
the mill so long with grain in one end of
the sack and a stone in the other.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

THE New York State Farmers Alliance says
at becomes our painful duty to denounce Mr.
Cleveland's candidacy as unworthy the support
of farmers and of the great body of independent
voters who elected him two years age
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

II Buffalo yesterday Governor Cleveland said
Paying a hundred cents on the dollar is pc
culiarity of the Democrats" Evidently the
Governor doesn't know very much about Ten
nessee Democracy Nashville Banner,
No. nor of Virginia Democracy and he
evidently knows very little of national
Democratic history, and the effort his party
made to cripple the United States Govern
ment when the people insisted that it
should pay dollar for dollar. Let Governor
Cleveland recall, if he can, tfat i'll 1866
his party declared in favor of initiation of
the currency, and two and half years
later in favor of the taxation of the bonds
of the Government and the payment Of the
same in paper currency. In 1876 it de-
nounccd the law for the resumption of
specie payments, and never ceased de
handing its repeal up to the hour when
resumption in 1870 took place
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

JULES FERRY has had the frankness TO
say that Tonqun is a rich country, and
well worth all the sacrifices that France is
called upon to make for it. He does not
conceal the fact that colonial extension is
the ambition of France, and the creation of
new markets for her trade the highest
hope. The colonial policy" he adds, " is
the policy of the future for country like
France A nation like our own should not
remain confined to its old frontiers. 1t re-
auires new air and more room. Look at
Germany Is she not also trying to create
a colonial empire? l really do not under
stand some of our fellow-countryman who
are opposed to any idea of this kind"
Some American critics have written of this
view as if it were criminal. Ferry treats it
as entirely proper. He sees no wrong i'll
charging the power Of France abroad and
iustifes the policy by historical appeals.
What nation, situated as is France, would
not approve precisely what her Ministry
has done?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18

SHOEMAKER, of the Indianapolis Sentinel,
the man who slandered Mrs. Blaine has
been engaged recently in soliciting from
Democratic contemporaries friendly