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WILL NOT UNDERSTAND.

The San Francisco Chronicle says that
when we demonstrate that the Australian
system of balloting is superior to the
California system, it will withdraw its
objections. Demonstration in such case
means trial. There can be no demonstra-
ton on paper of a ballot system. We
have several times and in detail pointed
cut the superiority of the Australian sys-
tenn, as modified by later improvements
If these calculations have not touched the
Chronicles reason, we confess that the task
of debating with it a simple proposition is
hopeless. Our contemporary says that the
chief merit of the Australian plan is the
secrecy of the ballot insured. That is one
of its merits, but not all. In degree, the
California'system does subserve the secrecy
of the ballot, but not wholly; it is not a
s'vest pocket" ballot in fact, since every
polls-worker knows that voting seattle"
as the election brokers term them, are
driven to the polls and compelled to vote
as the boss wishes. Is it not within the
knowledge of the Chronicle that scores of
voters in every precinct, in hotiy con-
tested elections, are hustled to the polls
with prepared ballots in their hands, OF
which the strikers in charge of the voters
never lose sight for an instant? These
men are marched to the polls, rushed
through dense crowd, pushed up to the
box by the hirelings who have them pris-
oners, virtually, and hence they no more
exercise the privilege of the sovereign
than the veriest slave. Under the re-
formed systems the voter must procure his
ballot of the Election Board while at the
booth alone, and with none except the
Election Board within many feet of him.
He takes the ballot into stall where no
eve is upon him, and there is absolute
nriyacy. When he returns to the box and
deposits the ballot, no one can possibly
know its contents or identity 1t as
his. But as said, this is only
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-24
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

W. NJ. Coward, of Woodland, is in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. VI. C. Clark, of Yuba City, are at
the Golden Eagle.
Allen Towle, the Placer county lumberman,
is registered al the Capital Hotel.
Hon Doc" Burwell, the Butte statesman,
intends going to Virginia on visit.
Mrs. j. Albert Todd has returned home after a
ten days visit to San Francisco and Woodland.
l. Allen, telegraph editor of the San Fran
cisco Examiner, was in town yesterday morning
on business.
Our old townsman, Charles P. O'Neal, of San
Francisco. was in the city yesterday. He is get
ting to be quite aldermanie in his proportions.
Arrivalsst the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday:
r. p. Shorcraft. Olympia: VIM. ellis and wife,
James Bryan, W. A. der. 7. W. Armstrong
New York; NJ. G. Clark and wife, Yuba City;
c. H. Holt and wife, Mrs. Alice Walsh, Percy
Gaunt, Boston: Z. b. 0yerace. Frank p Button,
N G. Cobb, J. A. Shook, I. II. Mccain, S.
Levine. Mrs E. J. Warden, Felix Greenwald, A.
Lewalo, II. Morgan, San Francisco.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday: J.
H Rice, Albert Oberhilzer. Dixon: Charles II.
Drew. J. C. Mlron. George W. Leslie. Fred
Zwerfel Jim Murphy, Otis Harlin. George A.
Bean Miss Francis. Miss Wart, Miss Carlisle
Miss Wilson, Miss Bulkley, Miss HAYWOOD. l. F.
Baldwin, W. L. Heskert, James Crane. Hayt's
Brass Monkey" Company; Thomas Stephen
son. Mormon Island; H. J. kraffe, New York; s.
Y HalSey, Dutch Flat; W. NJ. coward, Wood
land Allan Towle, Towles; D II. ellis, ]. L.
Garrett Rocklin; A. c. Brownell, Eimira.
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THE people of Stockton are jubilant over
the discovery of natural gas supply in
the earth stratas below that city. The
original discovery some monthsago created
great interest, but some doubt remained as
to the permanency of the flow. So far as
such thing is capable of demonstration,
it has now been established that the flow
of gas is steady and practically unlimited.
Assuming this judgment to be correct,
Stockton has vast wealth in the discovery.
1t will make the place a manufacturing
town with important advantages, and such
as are not enjoyed by any other in the
State. She will also be able to pipe the
gas to other towns and cities, and thus de-
rive large revenue from the business. 1t
is the opinion of the State Mineralogist,
Mr.. lrelan, that the same sub-surface con-
ditions exist at Sacramento that have been
proven at Stockton by boring for natural
gas. If this conclusion is correct, though
the official named does not claim to ad-
vance it as fact, but rather as reason
able speculation without boring into the
earth, then it would be the wise thing for
Sacramento enterprise to experiment, with
view of ascertaining whether there may
not be beneath this city reservoirs of
natural gas.
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LEGITIMATE RESULTS.

1t is announced that two of the steamers
that have been plying between the Orient
and San Francisco have been withdrawn
from the service and sent to the Atlantic
side. While the Exclusion Act has re-
duced the business of carrying Chinese
passengers, the chief reason of the with
drawal is the competition of the Canadian
Pacific lines. Against this the American
lines cannot contend, because the condi-
tions are unequal and the advantages SO
greatly in favor of the foreign line. The
agent of the home company is reported as
saying, in reference to the Canadian compe-
tition: at stands to reason that we can
not compete with line that is so literally
subsidized. The British Government gives
it a subsidy that amounts to $4,000 for
every trip which its steamers make. This
is clean and above the profit which the
line makes in the transportation of goods,
merchandise and passengers. For this
reason it can afford to reduce freights and
fares. Our companies get nothing from
the Government except the postage for the
mails that are carried"
The agent added, in response to an in
quiry by a reporter, that the business the
Canadian road and its steamers takes from
the American lines is. the overland traffic,
and that it is not placing it too high to
say that this diversion already amounts to
40 per cent.
There is small need to comment upon
this significant statement. The American
transcontinental railroads are called upon
to compete with foreign parallel line OF
transportation, that has well been termed
"1'he British Government on Wheels"
1t enjoys immunity from taxation and is
practically free from Understanding debt.
1t received over seven hundred miles OF
It's ROAD, ready built for it by the Govern
ment; has cash and land subsidies aggre-
eating more in money value than all the
grants and aid given to all the American
roads, and is supplemented by steamer
line to the Orient, that under the cover of
subsidies for mail service receives sufficient
from the Dominion and English Govern
ments to enable it to reduce ocean trans
portation charges to figure that no COM
petitor can parallel who is compelled to
meet the ordinary expenses of steamship
line. OF course the result of this unequal
contest will be visited most heavily upon
the people living along the line of the
American roads. AS the latter are stripped
of their through business, the cost of OPP
Grating the roads must be borne by the
local traffic. This will practically amount
to the local public being taxed to pay the
running expenses of the foreign road, il
not in full, at least to the extent that the
diverted commerce contributes to those
expenses. The matter is therefore one o.
immediate and vital Importance TO the
people within the United States who do
business over the American transconti
mental roads. The subject has been so fire..
quently and deliberately presented that the
general public is now thoroughly we'll
informed upon it-still, the reason fer the
withdrawal of two of the steamers hereto
fore in the Oriental trade, is too signif.
cant to be treated with silence.
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THE San Francisco Neus Letter thinks
that the placing of Malietoa upon the Sa-
moan throne will mean that the United
States Government has been outwitted by
Bismarck after all, and that in diplomacy
we are no match for the Iron Chancellor.
1t believes that as Tamasese was Vice
King when Malietoa was deposed, the
restoration will carry with it the placing
of the rebel Tamasese in the position he
originally held; that Malietoa being aged
and intirm, he cannot long hold the reins
of power, and therefore Tamasese will sue
coed to the throne and thus accomplish
the end Germany has all along striven for
This is an adroit theory, to be sure, but
what if it turns out that the United States
Commissioners required the stipulation to
be made IN the Berlin agreement that
Tamasese should not be restored to power
as Vice-King? 1t is only reasonable to
suppose that they had foresight suficien
to insist upon such provision in return
for the concession Bismarck exacted that
Mataafa should be excluded. We would
be willing to stake considerable of repu-
tation for good sense on the proposition
that precisely such an agreement will be
found in the memorandum of the Berlin
conference.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-24

WILL our contemporary, the Alto, please
take notice that the Republican up in
Washington Territory who was nomi-
mated and elected to the bench while
under Indictment in another Territory,
came out all right in the end ? In turns
out that he was not indicted until after he
was nominated; that he satisfied the peo-
pie of his innocence, and that the indict-
ments were the result of personal malice
on the part of enemies. After the cleo
tion-the people believing in him-he
went back to Arizona to face his accusers,
but they were unequal to the task of
meeting him. The indictments were
thereupon dismissed by the prosecution for
want of evidence to sustain the charges
made. So Judge Stiles stands indicated
by the laws of his country, and the voters
of Washington are justified in their ac-
ton in reposing confidence in him. Now
as to the man Sim Coy whom Indiana
Democrats nominated and elected to office
while under conviction for poll-list for
geries, and whom they elected SO soon as
he oouId leave his quarters in the State
prison, we are prepared to admit that
President Harrison pardoned him. This
should leave the honors easy.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-24

THE cry of distress already goes up from
one of the new States of Dakotah. Some
of her wheat farmers are starving. 1t may
be harsh to say SO now, but it is true, that
this is the result of too much wheat grow
ing. The suffering farmers had depended
upon one staple, and two bad seasons
leave them in absolute want. Small and
varied farming would not, probably, have
resulted in this way. At least something
of resource would have been left them.
But they are in need, starving, and they
must be helped, and generously, too; there
will be time enough to lecture and moral
ize later.
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The RECORD UNION. SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
Coast, outside Of San francisco, that receive
the full associated Press dispatches from all
parts of the vorld. Outside of San Francisco,
shey hare no competitors either IN influence
dome asd general circulation throughout the
Gnte
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SAN FRANOTsCo AGENCIES.

This paper is for sale at the following places:
=. p. Fishers, room q, Merchants Exchange,
California street. who is also sole Advertising
Agent for San Francisco; the principal News
Stands and Hotels. and at the Market-street
Ferry.
81 Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
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THE public can now draw one long sigh
of relief-a jury has been secured in the
Cronin case. But it is shameful that our
jealousy of the invasion of human right,
should be of such quality as to make it
possible for ninety days of time to be con-
sumed in finding twelve men, good and true,
to try a murder case.
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FOR PURE FOOD.
THE PHYSICIANS OF THE SAN FRAN
CISCO BOARD OF HEALTH
Determine for Consumers which is the
Purest, Strongest and Best
Baking Powder.
[san Francisco Chronicle. !

San Francisco Chronicle.
The Board of Health can engage in no more
laudable occupation than the examination of
our food supply and the instruction of the pub
lie as TO those articles it finds to be pure and
wholesome, and which, therefore, consumers
should use.
There are quantities of baking powders in the
market to use which is certain detriment to the
health of the consumer. They are made from
alum, or improperly compounded from other
chemicals, SO that they leave strong alkaline
resiudum in the food. Many of these powders,
having been prohibited from sale in the East
have been collected by their manufacturers
from the dealers with whom they were left on
commission, and shipped TO the Pacific coast.
The public knows nothing about their quality
except what 1t reads in the newspaper adver-
tisements. In the effort to gain a foothold in
this market unscrapulous manufacturers OF
these eheaply-made, low grade baking powders
have INDUCED in eXtravagant statements both
with reference to their own and other brands,
claiming tae most improbable Endorsements for
their goods and denouncing the brands best
known and longest used upon the Pacific coast.
The action of the physicians of the Board of
Health, therefore, in giving the public reliable,
authoritative information as to the brand OF
baking powder to be used to secure the most
economical and wholesome food is most valu-
able and timely
The chief brands of baking powders sold upon
the Pacific coast were collected and analysed
by Messrs. Thomas Price 4 Son, the we'll known
analytical chemists of San Francisco. They
found the strength or leavening gas (measured
at 10Jo +. OF the brands named as follows:
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-24

THAT tired feeling is entirely overcome
by Hoods Sarsaparilla, which creates an
appetite, rouses the liver cures headache,
and gives renewed strength aud vigor TO
the whole body. Be sure to get Hoods
Ssrsaparilla, which is peculiar TO itself.
Sold by all druggists.
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Notice to Contractors.

dds FOR PUTTING IN AN IRON FRONT
d in Masonic Hall Building, at Marysville,
Cal, will be received by the Secretary up to
November 9Th. Plans and Specifications may
be seen at the Office ofthe President, c. E. Stone,
Empire Block, Marysville, Cal.
A. c. IRWIN,
21-istd Secretary Masonic Hal Association.
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The Musical Event of the Season
CONCERT BY THE JINGLERS.

PLANTATION MELODIES, SOLOS, DUETS,
i quartets and Full Chorus, Old time Jubilees,
Imitation Brass Band, Barnums Steam Calliope,
and their famous Chiuee Song. 1.-THE Jingers
are immense. SO says everyone that has heard
them. AT Sixth street NJ. Z. Church, october
2s,h and Goth, at O'Clock. ADMISSION
Adults, SO cents; children under 10 years, 20
cents. o2tSt
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WANING.

WE HEREBY NOTIFY ALL PERSONS
w that on and after this date there will be
Lakes situated about twelve miles below this
city, between the Lower Stockton Road and the
Sacramento River. All trespassers will be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
PACIFIC SPORTSMEN'S CLUB,
J. MORRISON, Pres.
Sacramento, October %, 1885, o2i 2t*
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

1NHE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF CAL
i vary Baptist Mission TIL URSDAY EVENING
Oct. oath, ST., between Twelfth and Thirteenth
Everyone welcome ltf
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Department Tno-ynn Fleet. Indre


WEDNESDAY, October ., 1889.
NJ. S. Nevis vs.. NJ. J. Azavedo ct al-Motion
to dissolve Injunction on hearing.
Matter of samuel Bagnel insane-Order OF
commitment to Napa Asylum
Matter of Thomas ]. Richards, insane-Order
OF commitment. TO Stockton Asylum.
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DAM OR SHINE. = THE SACRAMENTO
IL Templars Band of Hope will give literary
and social entertainment in the Christian
Church Lecture Rooms, Eighth st. between n
and o, on FRIDAY EVENING October 25th.
Some of the best local talent will assist. Ad-
mission-Adults, 25 cents; Children, 10 cents
Refreshments served free. o2i-2t
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SCHOOL OF PIANO.
MR.. ARTHUR NJ. STRAUB of Chicago
Has opened SCHOOL OF PIANO at
No. sci j street, Hodson's Art Gallery,
Rooms and 3.

A LII THOSE DESIRING TO STUDY THE
N piano should consult MR. STRAUB. Much
time and money can be saved by studying his
modern methods of piano technics, as taught
by Miss Amy Fay, Carlyle Petersilia, w. G. K.
Seeboeck, William Sherwood and DR.. William
Mason, New York and Boston. sS0-29t
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SUPERIOR COURT.
Department one-Armstrong, j

WEDNESDAY October %. 1859.
People VS.. Charles E Kelly, contempt of
Court-Defendant discharged.
People vs.. Peter Dolan, burglary-sentence
continued till Monday.
People VS.. James Hogan and Daniel Conant
burglary-On trial.
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ADJUSTMENTS, ETC.
A Brass Monkey!

Mr.. Chas. III. Drew! Miss Flora Walsh
And the Original New York Company.
Just closed three weeks engagement at the
New California Theater, San Francisco. to
the largest receipts ever known in the his
tory of the Theater Produced under the
personal direction of MR.. HOYT. All New
Music. All New Songs and Dances.
Prices, so cents and 81. No extra charge
for reserviDg. seats on sale all day.
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The general usefulness of baking powder
depends upon the quantity of leavening gas il
gives off. AS these powders are retail ed at
about the same price, the most economical il
also apparent.
The opinion of the Board of Health is as fol-
lows:
We. the members of the Board of Health OF
the city and count. of San Francisco, cordially
approve aud recommend the Royal Baking
Powder. 1t is absolutely pure and healthfui,
composed of the best ingredients, of the highest
strength and character.
In our judgment, it is impossible to make a
purer or stronger baking powder than the
Royal
JOS. R DAVIDSON, NJ. D.,
CHAS. McQUESTtN, NJ. D.,
HENRY NJ. FISKE. NJ. D.,
T. ]. LET0URNElX, NJ. D.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 5, 1889.
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The RECORD. UNION. SUNDAY UNION a

Entered at the Postofice at Sacramento as
necond-claSs matter
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-03-29
aa q BLOOMsBURG, Pa. FRIDAY MARCH % 1889

as some antiquariaDs insist and as III
name implies, we are forced to believe
that time has wrought mighty changes
10 its surroundings.
The city cannot be seen from the
harbor. Along the terrace at the foo,
Of the mountain are rows of red-tilled
and white walled buildings and ware
houses, the first signs of habitation
This is the landing place for boats, and
is called Steamer Point, where most OF
the business of the port is transacted.
Here are assembled the tradesmen from
many lands, few Europeans, large
number of the original type, and many
other Arabian and African merchants.
As soon as vessel comes to anchor
in the harbor it is surrounded by scores
of boats, manned by dusky and naked
boatmeD, who offer for sale numerous
articles of native manufacture. A
fund of amusement is furnished by the
small boys, in a state of perfect nudity,
who paddle about in little dug out
canoes. They are expert in swimming
aud diving, and expect you to throw a
few pennies in the water They un-
derstand perfectly every move on deck.
There is scramble among them the
very moment you take the money In
your fingers. With splash, that fair.
ly upsets their boats, dozen boys
disappear under the water, and never
fail to catch the money before it reach
es the bottom.
OF the strange people that are met
with here, perhaps the most startling
are the Somaulees. They are not ma.
tives of Arden, but simply traders who
come from the province of Somaulee
on.the opposite shore of Africa. In
color and features they are negroes.
Their heads are covered with long
frowzy red hair, that is made rigid
with paste of clay and stands on end,
giving them frightful and uncanny
appearance. Their attention is devoted
to.their hair rather than the person.
They wear no clothes to speak of, their
1.-THE, sinewy forms being displayed to
good advantage.
Alden is situated in the crater of an
extinct volcano, several miles in cir
conference, and is reached from the
the leading place by tunnel cut
Though the rocks. On the hill-sides
are to be found the ruins of wells and
cisterns of immense size.and capacity,
from which the city was formerly sup
piled with water in the dry season,
sometimes lasting several years. They
were built centuries ago, and have long
been indisuse. There are various public
squares in the central part of the city
where the caravans from the desert,
with camels and merchandise, are
usually encamped. The streets are
narrow and dirty, lined with dipgy
shops aud native huts 1t is an uD.
healthy and inhospitable place, intense
ly hot, without particle of water,
shade, or vegetation. In the broiling
heat, in which the natives seem to suf-
fer no inconvenience, the European
residents are soon overcome, as is
shown by the frequent changes in the
British garrison. Its population num-
Der twenty thousand, most of whom
are black, indolent and stupid, forming
a semi-barbarous and wildly fanatical
people.
SALISBURY.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-03-29
A Hundred Tons of money.

1t hardly seems possible that the
money paid in one month for ten
cent article, could, if pennies were used
in payment, weigh one hundred tons.
Yet one of our bright school boys has
figured that this is true of Diamond
Dyes. To judge from the stock of our
dealers in dye stuffs, Diamond Dyes
own the field of package dyes, and are
complete success. OF course they
have imitators. Nothing is a success
until initiated" But no one wants to
risk a counterfeit When the genuine
can be obtained at the same price.
Three new colors have lately been ad-
ded TO the list of Diamond Dyes: Fast
Stocking black, Turkey Red for Cotton,
and Brown for Cotton. The manu-
facturers, Wells, Richardson q Co.,
Burlington, VT, will send colored sam
pies of these new dyes, with book Of
directions, to any address, free of
charge. These additions seem to have
made the line 50 complete that any
shade can be matched with some color
of Diamond Dyes. The beautiful
sample book of shaded colors, lately
sent to all dealers in dyes, will delight
the eye of any lady sits easy to dye
with Diamond Dyes" is 80 absolutely
true that home dyeiug is no longer a
difficult and disagreeable task. Alma.
macs, with their hints as to proper times
for different times for different work,
tell us that now is the time for Spring
dyeng. This, together with the
thought of that hundred tons of money
leads us TO ask what school boy can
figure how many thousand of ladies
are now saying that this is the time to
use Diamond Dyes.