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FRUIT DIET.

Long ago it was given us to understand
that the free use Of fruit in diet was
healthful Recently this advice has been
combatted and the claim made that it
was greatly overrated in value But now
comes the Lancet, an admitted high au-
thority and defends the earlier theory.
1t holds that the increased use of fruit is
one of the most salutary tendencies of
domestic management in this day. Thus
1t shows that the starchy and saccharine
components of fruit are similarly useful
with the more solid ingredients of meat
and fat, though not equal in accumulated
force to them. The fruit ingredients are
more digestible, are locally stimulant in
the care of the sub-acid fruits, and control
too active peptic secretion, and its in
fiuence of attraction upon the al
kaline and aperient intestinal juice
is an advantage. All which en-
ables the lover of fruit diet to dismiss
any fears some recent theorists may have
awakened. 1t will be especially graft
flying to the dyspeptic to learn from the
Lancet that the use of fruit in diet is al
most wholly beneficial, but the equity, and
the rheumatic and those tending to di-
arrhea, dysentery or saccharine diabetes
are advised that it will be likely to dis
agree with them.
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appeared to some to have been very much
OF picnic but to the enlisted men and
the regimental commanders it was any
thing but that. 1t was sacrifice Of time
and money; enforcement OF unusual disci-
pline service byno means light, and duty
doing of wholly unselfsh character. The
result of the encampment can arm no an
tagonist of the Guard system its benefits
fully compensate the State for its cost. If
it developed errors and indicated where
reforms are needed, it did precisely what
the thoughtful friends of the Guard fore
saw. The men went to the camp to learn ;
they were diIligent, manly, sober, orderly,
upon the State that intrusts to them Its
arms and defense. The warnings given
them we're needed, and the result was such
as TO Justify a repetition of the encamp-
ment, shorn of those things which have
given occasion for some too-ready critics to
assail the whole Guard system. We were
among the first 10 criticise some apparent
maladministration of the camp. We were
as quick to recognize the benefits to flow
from it, and now that it is over, find in it
results every cause for congratulating the
people upon it, and for encouraging thu
Guardsmen to perfect system that it
friends have always admitted to be capa
! bic, like all other human institutions, Q
material improvement.
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NEWS OF THE MORNING.

IN New York yesterday Government BONDS
were quoted at 1925 tor As Of 1857; ll34 for i1ss
sterling. sa s5G4 81 1875 for Ss; silver
bars, 1851.
silver IN London, 4s13d; consois, 100 15-l6d;
per cent United States bonds, extended lo5; a.
1865; IS, 1147s.
In san Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at s5149s534 cents.
There were no important changes in the San
Francisco stock market yesterday. Sierra Ne
vada closed a little better at 81 so, but the other
Comstocks dragged along at previous rates. In
the outside stocks the Bodies were steady.
Two police officers were found murdered In
the street at Geneva, H., Thursday night
Citizens took a murderer from jail at San
Marcios, Texas, Wednesday night, and hanged
him.
Mrs. Mccoy, shot by her divorced husband
in June, died in San Buenayen:ura yesterday.
Samuel W. Collins was hanged at Bowling
Green, No, yesterday, for the murder of Otto
Utterback.
The Knights of Labor and the Wabash Rail
way Company are said to have satisfactorily
arranged their differences.
Kelly has not yet resigned as United States
Minister to Austria but viii soon do so.
Gladstone has RETURNED 10 EuBldnu llulh -Noi-
way, greatly benefited in health.
The obsequies of the late Admiral Courbet
took place yesterday in Paris
Unemployed workmen in Hackney, Eng, de
lnand that the Government assist them to emf
CRATE.
Russia is said to be making overtures for an
alliance with Turkey.
At Marseilles, Thursday, there were nineteen
deaths from cholera, and thirty in Toulon
Fire in London, Eng; loss, s250,000.
John Sedgwick so years old, committed sui
eide yesterday in Astoria, Or.
The ship Cilurnum, from Newcastle, Eng, fol
san Francisco. has been burned at sea.
In a quarrel about land in Grant county, Ore
gon squatter was killed by French, cattle
king.
An outbreak of the Texas cattle fever is re
ported from Kankakee, III.
John Sexton was killed near Waitsburg, W. T.
yesterday, in a runaway accident.
A heavy gate fell on Johnny Murphy at Port
land, Or, yesterday, and killed him.
C. NJ. Shortridge has repurchased the San Jose
Mercury, recently sold by him.
Fifty cases of smallpox were reported III
Montreal Thursday
British man-of-war has left Alden to occupy
Ambo, east Africa, to anticipate the occupation
of the place by France.
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That Railrcad Tax Money.

EDS. RECoRD-U UNION The State Con-
troller seems to regard himself as better
lawyer than the Attorney-G General of the
State; bat that question was surely long
ago settled by the people who elected both
to their separate offices. Surely the State
Controller would meet the wishes of the
people better by letting the Attorney Gen
eral assume the legal part of the question
regarding the S474,000 railroad taxes said
attorney has collected by legal process, and
| only now requests the Controller to issue
his certificate therefor, that he may hand
over the proceeds to the State Treasurer for
proper distribution. The evils of with
holding it are well known, and to some
extent paralyzing to the State, and has al
ready tended to large increased expendi-
lures, as, for the last extra session of the
Legislature, which was pronounced q
| failure. For this, and in consequence
of insutficiency of public moneys by the
! long Withholding of the $474 900 from pub
, lie use, are we not all the sufferers by in
creased taxation to meet such exigency?
| How much anxiety the State Controller
might have spared himself for the last two
years, and how much better for the people
if he had courteously met the best en-
deavors Of the Attorney-General in the
| TdllTOdu TAX iudtltI.
If the principle that Controller Dunn
| contends for was applied to the partial dis
| tribution of estates, for the maintenance Of
the widow and children, pending the whole
collection by the administrator, it would be
disastrous, as it would inhibit any Probate
Judge from making the usual order, al
though the administrator might have col
lected a considerable sum for distribution
| The administrator would be compelled tC
retain it against his will, until he could
collect, and had collected, the whole of the
estate proceeds.
| Bat administrators are not so barred
from turning over partial proceeds of ar
estate for the use of those who need it, and
what would be intolerable in their case
and throughout the broad State, is just a;
| intolerable in such q case as the State Con
troller is setting up against the Attorney.
General and the people of California.
1t seems indeed remarkable how thu
State Controllers honesty of purpose i:
thus rendered by mistaken perversity {
source of colossal public wrong and injury
to the State. But honest, if he may be
still if the Attorney General is his superior
I as law officer. then want of submission tC
him is INSTRUMENTATION, and would bt
treated as such in the case of any lower
grade officer. EQUITY.
Sacramento, August 26, 1885.
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CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION.

IT is tune, not technique, that makes music
important and valuable for the great mass OF
mankind.-[Chicago Herald
THE more grudgingly New York makes its
contributions to the Grant monument fund the
harder will 1t be to get anything from the rest
of the country.-[Cleveland Leader.
Mr.. HENDRICKS can lay the fattering unctiori
to his soul that his share in the administration
has been fully approved. That is more than the
President can say indianapolis Journal
THE extent to which great railroad CORPORA
tons, ike the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
are preyed upon by parasites of every descrip-
ton is not duly considered in explaining the
causes of the constant diminution in their earn.
ings.-[P philadelphia Record.
THE love of money is the desire to be served
by our fellow creatures instead of our serving
them.-[Detroit Free Press.
THE frugal French file-maker is simply an
offender against morals. He should refuse to
live on forty cents day as matter of moral
principle Madison Cwis.) Democrat.
THE Chicago Netcs makes good point against
the cattle leases when it calls attention to the
fact that the granting of extraordinary priv
ileges to the cattlemen enables them to com
pete in the beef market with the farmer to the
great injury of the latter.-[Detroit (Mich.) Free
Press.
THE great want in our literature at present
unquestionably, is full, accurate and satisfac-
tory history of the war of the rebellion. That
stupendous struggle, which to those who were
in and of it seems thing of yesterday, almost,
is to a far larger number of people an affair of
remote and more or less indefinite character
[St. Louis Globe Democrat.
NuxBERLEss instances occur every year when
good, respectable citizens sign petition for
something, and then, when the other side is
presented, put their names to a remonstrance
with equal willingness, and never think they
have acted inconsistency Boston Globe.
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Flat-Footed Criticism.
[Petaluma Courier Dem.).l


Acknowledgement Marshall still retains,
though unwillingly, the $4,000 railroad
taxes paid on account and as per stipula-
ton. The United States Supreme Court
has decided that the money could be re-
ceiyed on account without jeopardizing the
items contested. But State Controller Dunn
begs leave to differ with the Court of last
resort, ard still refuses to receive the
States portion Of the money, and where
ever he and his advisers could influence
the County Treasures they have likewise
refused TO receive their part of the money
For colossal cheek, bull-headedness and
stupidity, commend Us to the action of
the Controller and his advisers in the
matter of these railroad taxes. Had the
Supreme Court not decided the question
and it was still in doubt, Mr.. Dunn might
have some excuse, but as the case now
stands, we can't see that he has any at all.
The people will not always be blinded by
prejudice, and will before many days get
their eyes opened to the real merits and
dement's of the controversy between the
Acknowledgement and Controller, and
when they do somebody will have to
stand from under and get out of the way.
One of the wisest acts of our last Board of
County Supervisors was the compromise
with the railroad of the tax suits. We
na'o ai"a!S oeHeNeu eiey ulu IlSht. III
this Supervisor district the issue was
squarely made by George F. Allen, one of
that Board running as an independent
candidate for reelection. The charge of
voting for the compromise mentioned was
urged against him, but notwithstanding
the bitter opposition to his candidacy, he
was elected by handsome majority. We
have sometimes thought the large major
ity by which we lost the State at last
election was at least slight indication of
loss of confidence in US as party by the
people. But our friends of the other
faction of the party insisted that it was
a clear Endorsement of their course all
through. A hell of an Endorsement One
more such would make us turn up our
political toes.
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CRITICISMS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD.

Some ill-natured, hasty and captious
criticisms of the National Guard are being
INDUCED in because everything at the late
State encampment was not exactly up to
the standard prim West Pointer might
demand. 1t is undeniable that there were
too many receptions in camp, and out of
camp but related to it. too much of
social exchanges" very excessive guard
duty, and too much detailing of orderlies.
But it remains that these very things now
have their value as aids in evolving the
possibilities of future encampments where
they shall be rigidly tabooed. 1t is true
that the Guard would be improved by
rank attainment according to merit, and
after a system of promotions that would
completely blot out staff selections from
raw material, as well as the political ele-
ment in appointments to the brigade and
division commands and these reforms
must come in time. But with the law as
it is, the National Guard is a wonderfully
successful arm of the State Government.
That it is what it is, is more surprising
than that it is not what it may and should
be. Uniformity the REcoRD-UNIoN has
stood the friend of "a well disciplined
militia" and the consistent and earnest
advocate of the National Guard. The
first attempt at a general eneampment was
unquestionably success. That it is easy
to find fault and cautiously pick out blum
ders and errors in the management, every
one knows. 1t is vastly easier to point the
way than to walk in it. Nothing
is less difficult than to indicate the hight
another should attain and the rugged path
he must climb to reach it. 1t is the work
of weaklings to pull down, but the achiev-
ment Of strength and skill to build up.
Whoever saw the men in camp at Santa
Cruz must have felt glow of pride at such
a representation of the good citizenship of
the State. The encampment may have
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Not for the Interest of the State.

MdTlu IOuilly JOurOdl.
Last June Marshall notified Dunn that
he had $474 062 %, which he had collected
from the railroads on account of taxes due
by them to the State. Dunn now replies,
stating his reason why he has declined to
issue the certificate for the payment of the
money into the State treasury He says
that $144, 49, 80 of the amount must be
paid into the county treasures, and cannot
reach the State treasury by being paid into
it directly by the Attorney General. As to
the $685., 337 10 remaining, that sum in
cludes what belongs to the various counties
as well as to the State and that it was S222,-
291 Sc less than the sum due He states
that the law says explicitly that the rail
roads must pay into the State treasury the
whole amount of taxes due, and if. after
having done this, they deem the amount
excessive, they may sue for the recovery of
the sum they claim. He concludes by say
ing it would be a violation of the law to
give the railroads a discharge when the
amount paid is 1929, 291 sc less than the
amount due, AL right. MARSHALL does
not propose to give discharge" The
railroad does not dispute certain amount
of the tax, and offered to pay that and let
the rest be subject to the decision of the
Court Marshall took the money, and the
Court has decided that it was right to do
so. Still Dunn refuses to receive it. What
his object is in so doing is not clear. 1t is
not for the interest of the State, that is sure
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to the beach, to be sure. All the cry last
fall was, "Turn the rascals out" Elk
anime the books !" Well, the Democracy
has examined the books, and is turning
out the Republicans, but, singular as il
may seem, the rascals do not develop, and
the searching of the books has evolved
no evidence of dishonesty. Can it be that,
after all, the battle shout Examine the
books" was a catch-penny cry? Did our
Democratic friends really believe that on
taking Office all they had to do was to open
door and be knocked over by the stencil
Of Republican corruption in political
charnel house? If they so believed, how
grievously they have been mistaken. No
party ever went out Of Office with cleaner
hands, a neater or winter trial balance, or
record of greater official purity. Mr..
Hendricks grew red in the face with shout
ing, Let us look into the books" He
has had full opportunity, but has been
significantly silent as to the result. The
truth is, that such crookedness as has come
to the surface has been found attaching
almost exclusively to Democratic states
| men and patriots. The Coast Survey net
brought in full batch; the Indian land
leases shed light on another lot, and the
promise is that the breaking up Of the
crooked whisky barrels viii expose another
| Democratic gang within. Secretary Man
ming testifes to the cleanness of the record
of the Treasury Department, and the SAME
condition is reported from ali the other
governmental offices. All the new official;
agree that the methods OF business adopted
by the Republican officials and under Re
| publican rule have been far in advance o
the old methods bequeathed them by tht
Democracy, and cannot be improved upor
materially. Some of the Democratic in
cumbents are led to indulge in very higf
praise of Republican efficiency and cor
rectness, and so it will continue to be dis
closed that the Republican party wa
vastly better than it has had credit for
since now even its enemies are driven for
/ ward, unwilling witnesses in its behalf
The Democracy has been disappointed
sadly disappointed, in its expectation o
unearthing villainy, for it finds little o
nothing to command its detective atten
ton. There is some excuse after all, how
ever, for the expectation of the Democracy
1t was led to believe that there was
I perfect mine of Republican chicane anC
official rottenness to be worked out, becaus
whenever rascal did crop up in the Re
publican party, that organization had tn
courage to pursue and prosecute him.
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LET NO ONE BE DECEIVED.

Let no one be deceived as to the pressing
necessity that does exist for immediate
action to influence the Federal Govern
ment to aid in the reclamation of the
river. Our Congressman have Just been
in consultation at San Francisco upon the
Chinese immigration question. How much
more important to a large section Of the
State it is that they should meet to con-
slider what action shall be taken at Wash
ington to save the navigable rivers and
bays and the low lands from the hydraulic
mining flood. There should be held here,
and at once, a public meeting Of repre-
sentatives of all the river counties to voice
the sentiment OF California on the subject.
Our representatives in Congress should be
present, they should have presented to
them ocular proof of the threat that men
aces us, and be taken upon the ground
where the work of destruction goes on.
There are those who may be expected to
object to any conference of the people upon
the subject now most prominent. They
Will hesitate at no lies to defeat an appeal
to the Federal Government, for its inter
ference would prove an injunction sweep
ing, effectual and conclusive, and put an
end to expenditure in Court, and that is
precisely what they do not want. Let
there be no misunderstanding We want
the counties interested to pursue dill
gently and increasingly every legal rem
edy; to push suits begun, and at once to
institute others where the evidences are
clear-for we must have no failures-but in
the meantime there must be an appeal to
the Federal Government to interpose its
strong arm, and to lay on an injunction
that will be conclusive of the whole sub
ject of the hydraulic mining that drains
into the rivers or their tributaries If that
interposition is secured, as we believe it
can be, it will be an end, at once and for
ever, to the cause of the evil from which
we now suffer The weakly plant and the
lying charge will continue to go up that
those who favor Federal intervention are
seeking to have dams constructed behind
which hydraulic mining may be carried
on. But the mendacity of the charge will
not deceive the people into quiescence and
sole reliance upon lawsuits. Both agencies
may and should be employed-that is, new
appeals to the Courts and an appeal to the
Federal authority to forbid the destruction
by private industry of the trust that au-
thOrity holds for the people. The two
remedies are in perfect harmony, and there
is no conflict whatever between them.
There are three things to be accomplished,
the total and permanent stoppage of the
cause of injury, by local effort and by Fed
eral interference the application of rene
dies for the restoration of the navigability
of the rivers; the protection of the bays
and lower waterways from the destruction
that now threatens them by the descent of
already-deposited debris. Upon the best,
speediest and most economic means of ac-
complishing these objects, and to formulate
the appeal to Federal authority, the people
should consult in convention, and the Anti
Debris Association should issue the call for
the conference at once
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THE SOCIALISTS IN CHICAGO.

The Current says that another group Of
Socialists at Chicago are arming, ami adds
that it Is not all brag. "There will be
Guiteaus among them who will take the
bread-winning bloodthirstiness of their
orators to mean potential bloodshed. So
ciety is tolerably well prepared, as any
civic cererseny shows, to grapple with
fighting rAAacontents, yet it does not seem
the part of wisdom to encourage the incen-
diary propaganda by silence and liberation"
Yet that is precisely what Chicago is do
ing with her socialists and communists.
Chicago's citizens know that nothing more
iniquitous, outrageous, base, foul or dis
gusting-as DIR. Holland put it-"was
ever conceived in the womb of time, be-
gotten of the devil, than the Commune.
1t can never live long in this country"
But its advocates and the more infamous
socialists are tolerated in their efforts to
demoralize society, wreck prosperity and
declare a dividend to all hands once
week from the property and earnings of
the industrious and frugal. 1t may be
that the organized commune cannot live
day in this republic, but we should not, by
excess of federation, give its advocates
even the opportunity to attempt its setting
up. The Current suggests that good citi
zens attend the meetings of the socialists
when their red orators are delivering
themselves, and endeavor to cor
rect their ignorant = it should
have said malicious-statemen But
this, though discussion is invited at these
meetings, is the weakest of corrective
methods 1t will prove no antidote for
the poison of the socialistic orator Be
sides, what is the business of all is the
business of none-in practice. The indi-
vidual citizen is indisposed, except in rare
cases, to take upon himself the business of
defending an entire community from the
evil effects of vicious preaching. There is
required for such tasks degree of philan-
thropic establishment and personal sacri-
fee as rare as praiseworthy. OF course it
would be no serious intellectual task for
the reputable well-informed man to show,
as the Current puts it, that communism,
pure and simple, has never done solitary
good to a soul that it has been the cold
est and most repressive force in human af-
fairs but at best it is thankless labor to
debate with the communist upon his own
field, with even these truths for armor
We are inclined to believe that the better
plan is to let the socialist maniacs and
rogues in Chicago and everywhere else
have their meetings exclusively to them
selves, and to meet them when they lift
the red hand with such respect-command-
ing force that their duped followers will
be thoroughly convinced that organized
society is a power to be met, felt and feared,
even if it shall not command the respect
of the knaves who mask under the guise
of socialists