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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24
PARTY FUTURE AND THE QUESTIONS
OF THE DAY

Washington GLADDEN., in the June Cent
eyB takes issue with De Tocqueville that
"partics are necessary evil in free gov
ernmcnts" He accords the better judg-
ment to Sir Thomas Erskine May, who de-
ciared that we owe to party most of our
rights and liberties" Mr. GLADDEN. admits
that Tocqueville's dictum expresses a COM
mon belief in this country, but calls atten-
ton to Mays more vigorous text; Gov
eminent without party is absoluti,m"
Parties, theoretically at least, represent
the differing policies to which citizens in a
free government adhere. Upon these lines
officers are chosen to administer public af-
fairs. 1t is essential that the administra-
ton, whatever it may be, shall be constant
" held in check, and all the time subject
10 criticism as to its measures and the use
of It's patronage. 1t is equally as necessa-
~ that this watchful party be strong
enough to command the respect of the adj
ministration, for weak opposition breeds
tyranny and corruption. He arrives,
therefore, at the old truism that our coun-
try Is safest when the great parties are most
nearly even numerically.
The striking and central thought in the
essay, however is when Mr. GLADDEN.
comes down to modern time in our
political history, and points out that the
slavery question was not legitimately a
political issue, except in so far as the very
existence of national being may be said to
be an issue. The Southern question, there
fore, should and must drop out of politics,
for the slavery issue was settled by the
war, and it Is conceded that very soon the
negro in the South will not need the cham
pionship of party. He must take his place
as a citizen, and not as a class.
Parties must in the future divide upon
great lines Of state craft, and no longer ex-
list upon traditions, prejudices or remem-
bered passions There is he concludes,
very little difference at this time between
the two great parties of the nation on
State questions, Neither is settled as to
finance or tariff questions, and no marked
intellectual change is necessary now for
man to pass from one to the other of the
parties.
But Mr. GLADDEN. overlooks a very i'm
portant distinction that does exist in the
&c of the parties. No careful observer
can fail to note that the foreign element
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24
GOVERNOR sTANFoRD's SCHEME.

1t has been twice announced by tele-
graph that Ex-Governor Stanford proposes
on his return to this State, to found an
educational institution and endow il liber-
ally, that its advantages may be availed of
by the youth OF this State We have no
information As to the truth Of the story be-
yond the chat of the dispatches. But
third one at this date goes 50 far as to say
that in very few weeks the Governor will
enter upon the work; that he will locate
the Institution at Palo Alto, where he has
grounds admirably adapted, and that the
purpose of the scheme is to make it
monument to the love he bore his son
lately deceased. II is probable that there
is some truth in the dispatches. All we
can do now is TO speculate upon their
probability of truth 1t would be in keep
ing with the character of the man that he
should engage in this work All his in
stincts are intellectual. Ii he turns from
them TO business it is an avocation; if he
gives thought to the Improvement of
earth culture, or the production
of the best stock, it has been that those
who are to live after him shall
reap the benefits. Those who know the
man best know that he is far-seeing, and
in all his work has looked beyond the
present and his own time. They know that
his intellectual part has never been mac
tive and that business has not shut him ont
from the delights of intellectual culture.
1t was known that prior to his departure
from the State, nearly two years ago. he
contemplated the founding in California Of
a school OF invention for the promotion of
inventive genius, and to afford youths the
advantages of thorough mechanical and
general education. 1t is possible that that
plan may be interviewer with one of even
greater proportions now, and that the re-
suit will be an educational scheme carried
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

RUSSIAN traveller and critic NJ Alexis
Reskoff, in recent work from his pen, makes
sport OF English women regarding their polite
ness over cup of tea. 1t may well apply to
our own women. He comments on curious
parsimony of ladies who see no meanness in
turning half pint of warmish water on some
tepid leaves by way of Offering a visitor a sec
ond cup of tea. 1t never occurs to an English
man who is drinking with a friend to fill up the
decanter with water, and to say, Take another
glass" yet the wine which he draws out so
freely costs even when bad, ten times the price
of good CUP of tea
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCY.

The Office of the RECoRD-UNIoS in San Fran
cisco is al No. s New Montgomery street-Palace
Hotel, opposite the Grand. The paper can be
obtained At all the principal news-stands.
WILLIAM CAMERON,
Special Advertising and Subscription Agent
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VERIFY this is an era of political conspiracies
Not content with a conspiracy to seize upon the
Railroad Commission, and make it the means of
forcing the people into antagonism with the
interests of the State, that the
selfish aims Of Mr.. George Hearst and Judge
Wallace might be promoted, the same dema-
gogues, according to the Aha are engaged in "a
plot TO capture the Stockton Con-
vention, in order to stuff the party into the
pocket of their candidate for Senator" The Alta
means Mr.. George Hearst. The Alta should
know, and unquestionably does know, whereof
IL
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

upon the due performance of their public
duties, how can it be expected that the
vicious elements, seeing the way left open,
will fail to utilize their opportunities, or
how can the public expect just verdiets in
capital cases when the work of the jury is
abandoned to such as sympathize with the
r .iminals ~
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

LET us hope says the MERGED star, "that
before the next election, with the humiliating
knowledge of the result of partisan prejudice,
sectional feeling and power given to ineficiency.
all before the people that something more than
mere Democratic nomination will be required
to insure the election of legislative, executive
or judicial officer"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

IT is reported" says the Marysville appeal,
" that Delmas Il Co. are preparing an address to
the Radicals and railroad burners explaining
their defeat and heaping the failure of the
Legislature upon the Conservative Democrats in
the Senate. 1t is hoped that the Radicals will
be frank enough to admit they made big mis-
take in inducing the Governor to call the extra
session,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

You are now one" said the minister
to the happy pair he had just tied together
with a knot that they never could undo.
Which one ?" asked the bride. You will
have to settle that for yourselves, said the
clergyman.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

INDIA, Australia and the Argentine Republic.
two years ago, shipped little or no wheat Now
they send TO Europe 175, 100000 bushels In the
case of each the railroad has been the stimu-
lating agency by bringing farm and ship to-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

ELLA WHEELER, the poetess of passion has
recently married. Her latest poem is entitled
" Have You Heard from the Valley of Baby
land? ~ What is Ella thinking about?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24

THE Alta holds, and it is democratic or moth
ing. that the prediction is all stuff and nonsense
that the issues of the extra session will be fought
out in the stockton Convention.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24
DR.. G. N. WEST,

rs THE INVENTOR, M 0Wrc
| patentee and owner O.. =. y 81
of the soc allie 49, ~ = ~-,1~S}
Horne Belt; to any ssSlECTRO- INF AL BILL
one wishing it wil1N$AI Aao-AlEJE5 lyy1L lI/
sell it for $40. But \SSGkaE
have an improved
Electro Medical Belt superior to any in the
world; scientifically tested by competent cleo
tricans, and so pronounced. The only Belt that
will carry A current of electricity through the
human system. Cures all diseases without medi-
cine; restores lost manhood. Send for circular.
Price. $40. Sent c. o. d. or for cash c; n.
WEST. 652 Market street, below hearny, San
Francisco Cal. Beware OF frauds. mzi-op
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TIER UPON TIER

OF open tin boxes, or drawers. with the bO-
tanlcal names of families of plants painted
on them, a system devised by a former
member of the academy-more enthusiast
tic than practical-for the storing of the
dried specimens gathered by the academy :.
but the cases were unprotected from dust
and weather, and could not be used for DO
tanical or any other purposes A door be
tween two of these cases admits YOU into
what was the body of the church. There
stand still the rows of pews and even the
cushions for the seats remain There is
the high stage. or roStrum, usual in Conrre-
gational churches, and below il a sort of
reading desk. In the chapels, or wings, on
the one side are open alcoves made BY
movable bookcases, giving the effect of
stalls and on the other side are the cases
containing the valuable collection of birds
presented to the academy by Mrs f. B.
Croker, of Sacramento These are of
especial value because they are mounted
II Is becoming usual with ornithologists
now to prepare only the skins of their
specimens so as To secure them by chemi-
Gals from the depredations of animals and
insects, and fold them away in drawers, be-
cause this method of preparation admits
the accommodation of SO many more speci-
mems. Under these circumstances, how
ever, the collection is only interesting to
scientists, whereas mounted-set up a. thew
call it-laymen may spend an instructive
quarter of an hour studying the form and
pose of q rosy spOonbill or a famngo.
On the shelves behind the cases of birds is
the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24
FREEHAND NOTES.
THE MUSEUM OF TIE ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES,
What is to be Seen there-Ths Ward
COllection-Its Value and its
Culriesities.
say FRAsc1soo. MAY %. 1874.


II seems that every city has its antiqui-
ties, even a city as young as San Francisco,
and it is All odd sensation to step out of the
superficial commonplace of the intensely
usual into sort of cloister where the
smaller affairs of life never get a moments
consideration, and where in scholarly Sc
clusion there is brain work going on of the
severest quality Such nook is the build
ing at present occupied by the
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
At the foot of California street. diagonally
opposite St. Mary's Cathedral there stands
what was formerly a church built and oc-
cupied sixteen years ago by what is now
the congregation preached TO by the Rev.
DR.. BarrowS. II was, in fact. the first Con
gregational Church. For ten years it has
been the headquarters of the Academy of
Sciences. Some academic trees grow in
front OF it, you go through an open iron
gate and mount some very sohdly built
stone steps masked with wall of masonry,
and one turn places you IN a wide. shallow
vestibule; you are confronted by u deter
mined looking walrus his head that is.
mounted on shield. which you examine
with due regard to his twelve-inch tusks
and whiskers like the coarse teeth of a tor
toisc shell comb The whole length of the
wall opposite the entrance Is occupied by
wooden cases filled with
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24
100000 PAID

H FNDOWMENTS TO DATE-THE UNI
versal Benevolent Association OF California.
Incorporated August S, 1881.
Home ONCE: 1898 Mission street, San
Francisco.
Issue of Certificates of Endowment OF One to
of Maturity. Send for Circulars and Papers. Re
liable Agents Wanted. lal6-2pu
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80 DAYS TRIAL.

-\$SlE<- n ufacturer of
+ oR@G H.,o., Horne's Electric Belts
| Gps.z1z17SS s. | warn the public to
| ELECTRIC SElAos1 beware of the reck-
etsHEsalI I F 1neAEElll! lessly false statements
|YTSE Jthat c. n. IVES
N-zZA A\--- - discarded the same.
He could not possibly do so, since he never man
such Belts. Years ago l sold Vests
Belts, but discarded them on account of their
defective electric construction. My NEW M
PROVED ELECTRIC BELTS are superior to any
electric or galvanic belts in America in curing
diseases without medicine. W. J. HORNE In
yentor and Manufacturer, 19l Wabash avenue,
Chicago 762 MARKET STREET, San Francisco.
mr1-3p6m&W6m
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-24
ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS!
and of the Third Congressional Dis
trict.

T NEBEBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF A CANDI.
i iate for Congress from the Third Congress
sional District subject TO the decision of the
suing Republican Congressional Nominating
Convention. HENRY EDGERTON.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-11

whose duties are irksome enough to
render special supervision by superiors
matter of positive necessity. Deal
ers in contraband goods, scamps who
live by their wits, and unscrupulous
traders of many kinds tax the resources
OF human ingenuity and craft to the
uttermost. Logs of foreign wood, Gun
nlngly eXcavated and packed with ci-
sars and spirits; cases Of boots and
hoes, in the heels Of which watches
and jcwelry are hidden; miraculous
trunks, false as Machiavelli, being thin
ly hollow on side and end, top and bot
tom, concealing laces, hair, trinkets,
etc, ETC., are among the common de-
vices of ingenious freebooters. Keen,
honest, true men-such as may be seen
on any tour Of night inspection, like
mastiffs at their post, and especially if
visitors be eXpectod-are needed to
battle the plots Of the rascals. Politi-
cal Affiliations constitute no guarantee
of efficiency The best attainable is
through rigid adherence to the rules of
the civil service reform. -Huper'S
magazine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-11

1t would be interesting to know
how much human hair has been shed
for Mrs Langtry. A gentleman writes
me that he met Il lady friend Il day or
two ago in Washington who tells him
that the American women went so far
in their imitation of the Langtry bang
that now when the Lily has changed
to "top-knot" they are devoid ui The
necessary amount Of hair for Il fresh
imitation. Bangs, she admits, existed
before the Langtry, but they were
mere frizzcs and fringcs. a custom
has grown up out of it in Washington
of going regularly t. shops and wait
ing for 'neXt' as men have done for
generations before them, to get their
bangs shngled. The shop is Just
like a barberzshOp, only the dresser has
a private room and little bell. You
couldn't get woman to sit in Il chair
under the critical eye of dozen of her
sex. get my bangs shinglcd twice a
month and agood many others do
more often. lie charges twenty-five
cents, and as his place is always full
and he works rapidly he must make
money" The lady goes on as follows
"You ought to see these women, all in
arrow like wax figures against the
wall, waiting for their turn. There
were fashionable ladies from the West
End, clcrkesses and servant-girls, in
age running from sixteen tosiXly, mix.
ed ND in the most democratic way. |
recognized next to me a millionaire
Senator's daughter---I should th1nI
she would lave her BANGING done Il!
homeland on the other side what
took to be u French waiting-maid
Every time the bell taps and one
comes out from under the hands o! tn
bangor, the woman nearest his door
goes in. Then the woman who sal
next moves into tho vacant chair neal
the door and the whole row Of waiting
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-11

The Philadelphia Record furnishes
the following on the utilization of old
tin cans The tin can and scrap tin
like the old and much abused hoop
skirts, have always resisted all attempts
to convert them to some suitable use
except as food for goats, and any plan
to relieve humanity of their annoyance
and turn them to possible good, will be
hailed with satisfaction: "rhe empty
tin can at last has a mission, and a
profitable one, at that. Emptied of
its contents of peaches or tomatoes
discarded and thrown out at the
kitchen gate, it may soon be sent in at
the front door or find an honored
place in the best room in the house.
Thousands of these cans are gathered
in Philadelphia every week and made
into shining sheets and used to deco
rate or cover large travelling trunks,
and thus get a promotion from the
back ward to the b0udoir. On the out
skirts Of the city, within short time
number Of factories for the CONVEX
sion of these old Dulfeted and battered
cans and other tin refuse from the ash
heaps have sprung up, and the business
is growing one, One of considerable
size is on Moyamensing avenue, below
Minlin street, where large force of
men is kept busy day in and day out
The cans are collected in various ways
but principally from the city ash heaps
and the hotels and large boarding
houses. At the factory the soldered
seams are subjected to IN intense heat
in such a way that the solder is allowed
to run into receptacle, and is careful
ly saved and sold, the profit from this
source alone almost paying for the eX-
pcnse of the gathering and handling
of the cans. The tops and bottoms of
the cans are melted and turned into
window sash weights. The labels on
he tin plate are easily taken off, after
aving been thoroughly soaked in
water and the plates themselves rolled
out flat by machinery. AS the inside
of the plates are not much discolored
by the contents of the can they present
a clean surface and make excellent
lovers for trunks, the seams being
hidden by the trunk braces, either of
wood or sheet iron. Other uses are
also made of the tin plates, and there
is considerable profit in the business.
The process is quite simple, and very
little capital is required. One concern
in this city rolled out 10000 of these
plates in less than two months, and
the industry promises to be largely de-
yeloped both here and elsewhere"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-11
What Is Exhibition

This word is in constant use in all
the literatures of the world. Indeed,
with some writer's it is as important a
word as law, force, nature, and even
God. Herbert Spencer has helped to
make it fashionable, and this is the
definition of it,
"Evo!ution is an indignation of mat,
ter and concomitant dissipation Of
motion. during which the latter pass
Cs from an indefinite, incoherent hon.
oyaneity TO a definite, coherent heterO.
geneitY, and during which the retain
ed motioa undergols parallel trans
formation
70 the average reader this is about
as clear as mud, but its meaning seems
TO be that there is IA process in nature
which unloldS or develops higher from
lower types Of existence. 1t CORE
spends to the word progress as ap
piled to the course of history in hui
man affairs. -DemoreSt,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-11

The art of sewing has been known
from very remote period, as is shown
by the fact that bone needles have
been found among the oldest remains
of the Swiss lake dwellings, and in the
caves Of France and Great Britain
which were lrequentol by man during
the reindeer age. Some Of these early
needles were perforated in the middle
which was the thicllest part--and
others were pierced at the larger end.
A French cavern has yielded need
les much superior to those of tile an,
Gent Gauls and to the ivory needles
of the modern E5qumauX, especial
skill having been applied to the boring
of the eyes, which must have been done
with a fine llntdriil.
The Swiss lake dwcller5 used linen
thread or bark fibre for sewing, and
made garments from woven fabrics Of
linen and bark as well as from the
skins of animals. The cave people en-
ployed thread made from split ten
dons and perhaps strings of gut, and
the linenesS of some of their needles
has suggested the probability that they
performed some more delicate work
than the sewing of skins.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-11
fcY York Gus ON House INSPECTORS

The night inspectors are appointed
to prevent smuggling, are uniformed
aud armed, AM are authorized to stop
AMI search rca 'onally suspected per-
Sons who MAJ 60 on board or come
from the vessel. The Office is by no
means a sinecurc. 1t involves watch
Ing, exposure aGd fatigue. The Gu
ban steamers have Deen wont to bring
men WHO inciosed cigars in rubber
bags and threw them into the waters
Of the lower lay. Clnrederates in
boats then pickcl them up, placed
them in express wagons waiting on the
shore. AMI then drove rapidly away.
There Is something contagious in the
gleG Of wide-awaHe officials rs they re-
late how they had watched unseen the
whole operation until the wagon was
ready to start, when they seized the
r'inS, AMI landel tho spollS AT the
seizure room. One French steamer,
notorious for smuggling by driblets,
when searched by this force, was found
~ contain thirteen hundred bottles of
spirits. VII ell it Was Intended to send
a ,hJro bottle after h'!t'c, Tins about
IN inch deep, AMI It.ed To the body
under he armpit5, have been taken
f.rln the lodies Of men Who were
tnu3 atcalthly bringing in valuable
bay oil. One dealer in human hair,
who died in poss? sion Of about 5000.
0)1 was dctc tel in llicitimportations
under the shirts Of his agen'', An.
other viyaciOus fellow, belonging to q
French steamer, rniciced ina prolita
lie trade in kid gloves 5ecreted by the
t,"2en in lis lmman5a boots. Sailing
ve5stls ase watched by special agents
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-11
How Towns are Started in Colorado.

The Flown Site company" l ought
to explain, for the benefit of some
Eastern readers, is an association Of
men who make up their minds that
a town should, would, or could grow
up at certain point in a wild region
whittier civilization is tending, or
whittier a rush is expected, contingent
upon certain event, like the discov-
cry of pr1ci0u, metals or the compile
ton of a railway. Under laws Of the
United States these men "take up u
certain area upon which to build their
town, and proceedt to put it into as
presentable shape as circumstances
will admit, by surveying streets, indi-
eating parks and reservations for pub
lie buildings-hospitais, churches, city
hall, libraries and so on; by bringing
water from the hills, planting shade
trees, and perhaps building big no.
tel. In many cases the railway is a
partner, and helps by concentrating
operations at that point; indeed, the
emergencies of railway construction
and operation are generally the most
potent factors in deciding the locality.
The place plotted and the "compa-
ny" on the ground, lively advertising
begins. The floating frontier crowd
rushes to the new spot, and wild
speculation in town lots at once be-
gins, prices being paid that have no
relation to the intrinsic value OF the
property acquired, which, as yet, is
worth next to nothing, but, like the
wildcat stocks of Wall street, simply
represent the amount man is willing
to stake on that particular card, or the
rental can afford for immediate use
and opportunities. -Enest IngerSoU,
in The Manhattan.