The record-union., 1893-05-18

out representative in Nicaragua Just as
the crisis OF the revolution was reached.
1t was poor policy to allow the regularly
accredited Minister to leave that country
until his successor could arrive. Amer
leans III Nicaragua, If deprived OF their
rights, would be compelled to adopt the
Illuminating expedient of calling upon the
representatives of other nations for the
protection which should be accorded by
their own Minister.
San Dieg0n-Stta: The re-establish-
ment OF great irrigation system
throughout the arid Southwest on the
very plains where historic people main-
tanned them centuries ago has been the
SUBJECT OF tlttul commentin some Eastern
papers during the last few years. And
irrigation, looked upon by most people as
a poor substitute for the natural rainfall,
is last being accorded in the better
informed Eastern mind the full dignity
TO which 1t Is entitled by the enormous
value of the interests which it involves
and the transformation which it is work.
ing.
Nisalia Times: A mill man of Stockton
was in this city yesterday on his return
home from Bakersfield, where he had
gone to inspect the waterfalls twelve
miles east ofthat city in Kern River. The
plan OF the bakersfield capitalists is to
harness the water-power OF the river, and
conduct II twelve miles TO furnish motive
power for all kinds of machinery in
Bakersfield and Sumner. The gentleman
says capital is all that is needed, for the
thing is practical. This is the plan that
the people of Visalia hope to see put in
| operation between the falls of the Kaweah
and Visalia. Cheap motive power means
the cheap operation of all kinds of ma
chinery.
Bakersfield Californian: A Puget Sound
newspaper publishes a scare-head article
upon the subject of the Decay of Cali
! fornla," and takes much satisfaction to
Itself In the presumption that the assumed
retrogression of this State must rebound
! to the benefit of Washington. This is of
a piece with the practice INDUCED in in
some parts of this State, where foolish
people undertake to build up one section
| by wholesale detraction of another. 1t is
| bound to react unfavorably for the one
| engaging in such dirty work. But if the
newspaper referred to thinks California
Is uecaylng its editor might come down
ana inspect the corpse for himself. He
will find it the healthiest and liveliest
one he has seen for a long time.
California F51tit GroWer: While there
are at least million acres of land in Cali
1ornla whereon two or more good crops
OF potatoes may be grown each year, we
are confronted at the leading grocery
stores OF San Francisco with the signs:
| Wisconsin Potatoes, Oregon Potatoes.
| Washington Potatoes. But this is not
the worst OF it. We are paying more
than half as much per pound for Wiscon-
| SIN potatoes as the people of that blizzard
swept but thrifty land are paying for our
| best oranges. what fools these mortals
be-; and how the railroad companies
Iced upon our want of forethought and
thrift 1t all brings grist to their mill;
ana alter all what should we do without
them? Starve of course; since we are
to. IL
/ supplies, even in this best potato country
| in America.
San Leandro Standard: Do you want
to see your town grow? Do you want to
see 1t prosperous community? asks an
exchange. If so, you must stop whiting
up dry goods boxes and roll up your
sleeves and go to work to build it up
You must spend your dollars as well as
! your energy, Tor no town ever forged
ahead without some expenditure of
money. Iou must be wide awake and
able to seize all opportunities that will
tend to further your towns advancement.
Again, you must all pull together. Don't
put all your public improvements into a
wagon and then let one man do the pull
ing, while you throw ropes and rocks in
his way. When you have gained your
! victory then you may sing, "We'n Jump
into tie wagon, and We'll all take ride, :"
but you must all harmoniously pull to-
gether and get the wagon up the hill.
San Bernardino Courier: There is no
greater proof of the prosperity of South
ern California than is shown bv the State
of the labor markets of Los Angeles. the
commercial metropolis of Southern Cali
fornia, and San Francisco, which holds
l the same position to the northern end of
the State. AT the former real estate sales
are numerous, all kinds of business is on
firm basis, and there is a general COM
nr1t- n,ntO . 81 l.. :
sufficient skilled labor to carry on the
many public and private works. At the
Northern metropolis just the reverse is
| true, and the number of unemployed
is away up in the thousands. This state
OF affairs at the north end OF the State is
not due to lack of money, for the city
stands high from financial standpoint
but the wealth is boarded up and there is
no business energy and push to bring it
out and put it where it will be of any use
to mankind. 1t is the wealth of the iniser
and not OF the business man. Los An
geles may not be able to as readily paw
spot cash for all its improvements. as per-
haps San Francisco could, but its credit
is good and that will in time turn to cash,
Los Angeles Times: A San francisco
exchange inquiries with some pertinancy
how it was that the Bank Commissioners
did not discover the rotten condition of
the Bank of Santa Clara long ago. The
bank had paid-up capital of only Sl35.-
600 and deposits amounting to S234 734
ct, on the first of January, this year,
the Commissioners reported that it had
$780, ,293 loaned out on personal security
| That was within $4,000 of it's total capital
and deposits, and of the amount out
standing former cashier owed $40. 900
and the acting cashier had absorbed Sl35,-
0S2. Now, if the Bank Commissioners
perform their work in such superficial
way as not TO spot that sort of thing on
| sight, what is the use of paying thousands
of dollars yearly for their services? They
must regard their offices as sinecures de-
signed principally for salary-drawinr
purposes, or else 1t Is very easy to pull
the wool over their eyes. If they had ex-
amined the personal securities" of the
Santa Clara Bank, and found that it
had loaned such large sums OF money to
its own officials, they would have known
at once that something was crooked
about it. But they allowed the institu-
ton to go ahead and VictimiZe hundreds
poor people who deposited their money
| with it. W hen Bank Commission can
not do better than that it fails of its op-
ject; for the State has assumed the pre-
rogative of examining into the affairs of
banks working under its laws for the
sole purpose of protecting citizens from
maladministration.
Bees and rheumatism.
Some two years ago an Austrian
physician advanced the remarkable
theory that persons who have been stung
by bees enjoy an immunity from the
effects of bee stlngs tor varying periods,
and that, moreover, the virus OF the bee
sting is an infallible remedy for acute
rheumatism. The latter part of the
theory, according to the Mediterranean
Naturalist, has received most unques-
tionable confirmation from a custom OF
I tho nnfrN Dannln in MalfQ