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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-29
FOE SALE.

FOR SALE OR TO LET-21a story house
u situated on Fessenden street, Oakdale,
water and furnace heat, large lot Apply to
ROLLINS & ADAMS, 81 Exchange st. pol
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-29

ROE SALE-T9 satisfy mortgage. elegant
a. modern brick house of ii rooms With
steam and all modern improvements, large lot
with & oh fruit. close to Congress Square. Cost
ORION, $50 Middle street. 2s.1
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-29

ITO LET-After the first of July, furnished
u rooms at71 Free St. D. T B. 26-tf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-29

To LET-Brick house No. 148 Spring street,
N corner of Park Lane. Has all modern con-
eemences; suitable for private residence or
IlrSt,elass boarding house. Apply to A. G..
LlBBY, 421a Exchange strset. 27-A
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-31
To Keep Ants Away.

Rub light film-coat of balsa,
Peru around near the bottom I
table or kitchen safe legs-just
narrow band will do-and reI
the balsam every two or til. :
weeks. This will keep ants aH 5
from the tables, kitchen safes, ct
and what they hold or c0ntai;9
provided there is no other ant-w9
than up the legs.
One drop balsam Peru sprea
around the upper part a siru
bottle will keep the ants away 70
months.
Boil one ounce balsam Peru i
one gallon rain water for half a.
hour, and sponge this water, Will
hot, over wooden floors and walls
and it will keep ants away for
long time.-Ex.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-31
C. BREWER s. CO., LID

q -
QUEEN STREET, HosoLuLu II.
AG ErITS FOX
Hawaiian Agricultural Go.
Onomea Sugar Co.
Honomu Sugar 90.
Wailuku Sugar Co.
Waihee Sugar Co.
Makee Sugar Co.
Haleakala Ranch 20.
KapApEla Ranch.
Planters Line San Francisco Packets.
Chas. Brewer X Co.'s Line 81 Boston
Packets.
Agents Boston Board of Underwriters.
Agents Philadelphia Board Of Underwrl.
ters.
LIST OF OFFICERS:
Hon. J. o. Carter, President II Manager
George III. Robertson Treasurer
+. +. Bishop Secretary
Col. w. +. Allen Auditor
Chas M Cooke
III. Waterhouse Esq. Directors.
8. @. Allen Esq.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-31
THE NE WSPAPER.
by LINUS DIBBLE, OF sAYBROoK.

God bless the man who invented the
plan
To give us the news of the day.
Ii they were mum we'd all be dumb
If some folks had their way.
- Pause and conjecture, list TO my lee
ture,
AS you take up the ink-smelling
sheet.
How could you part with the life
giving art,
Amid life's burdensome heat.
To you he comes, or gladly runs,
Alike in joy or sorrow.
While you're asleep, that he may
greet,
With good news on the morrow.
Blot out the press and bring distress,
With nought soul to cheer,
The light gone out, you're left in
doubt,
? A reign of terror near.
How oft it cheers, and kist the tears
When all was dark and black,
When damp of death left all bereft,
Ii brought the sunshine back.
Tho words were few, like early dew,
Those words lay on my soul;
Till morning came / blessed the name
That did console.
Some hate the paper; nor care taper,
It's bad habit they have got.
Better go back, be an old quack,
And lay in the furrOw and rot.
They find fault with the news, insult
and abuse.
There's nothing in papers that's real;
Wen blow out the taper, by stopping
the paper,
And send them all to Sheol.
Sometimes we hear clergyman
swear.
Denounce them tomorrow and SIGH;
Then we feel sure, with slight demure
With disreputable papers he'll hitch.
The man, let me say, who reads the
paper today.
You can tell mile away;
The girls are brighter, their burdens
lighter,
They make better wives, they say.
A tombstone man from his own flu
neral ran,
"Pray what do you read," cried,
"My Bible, begor, and nothing
more,n
And he sighed.
The Bible, read il with your eye.
You cannot prize its sacred truths of |
yore;
Once read it with the heart, twill |
then impart
Joys unknown before.
What, sir? we must know thoughts |
as they go,
If we would be happy and see
That our spirit keeps, with the life
blood that leaps
In the genius of 1913.
A paper to read is what we need,
To solace our weary hours;
And pay for it too, without n boOhoO,
While here amidst sunshine and |
flowers.
The Weekly Journalist.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-31

Daily Advertiser SOC. per month
The record-union., 1893-02-27

THE action of President Harrison in
calling an extra session of the United
States Senate very probably reflects the
desire of the majority of the people that
the Hawaiian treaty matter shall be DIS
posed of one way or the other at once and
not be permitted to hang fire for months.
There is reasonableness in the sugges-
ton that the incoming President has been
consulted in this matter, and that the call
represents his views to the extent that he
wishes the treaty question settled at the
earliest possible moment.
The record-union., 1893-02-27

Objectionable one-it will be either
dead-letter, and never be enforced, or else
the burdens of this unnatural restraint
upon the commerce of the country will
SO outrage the people as to result in its
instant repeal when the next Legislature
assemblies.
In the last arguments upon the bills the
old and falsely taken point was re-made
that the declination of the rate of interest
IN other States has been due to usury
laws. But here in California, we repeat,
as in Nevada, there has been most rapid
decline, and no usury laws. The con-
ciusion that the declination elsewhere has
been due to legislation is not warranted
by the history of usury laws.
The record-union., 1893-02-27
A GOOD CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT.

The constitutional amendment pro-
posed by Senator Hart has strong merits.
1t proposes that members of the Legisla-
lure shall be paid in full for their services
the sum of $1,000; that mileage allowed
Shall remain as now, 10 cents, and contin-
gent allowances shall not exceed S25 per
member for each session, as at present;
also that the pay of no attache of the
Legislature shall be increased after his
selection or appointment, as is now the
law.
The pay of legislators now is $3.50 for a
session of sixty days. 1t is not enough,
that will be generally conceded, to COM
pensate man for leaving his regular en-
ployment for two months. In fact, it is
probably true that member of the Legis-
lature who is fit for his place loses money
by serving the State for sixty days, pro-
vided he is an honest man. The campaign
expenses that are strictly proper are
wholly excluded in that estimate. and
still the man who is competent for the
! Office loses money in six cases out of ten,
because his vocation at home has not his
personal attention.
Our idea is that the State ought to have
good service and pay decently for it; it
can afford to offer to its legislators sum
for their services that will be commen-
surate with their outlay to engage in the
service.
The pay proposed would tend to remove
some obstacles in the way of men who
ought to serve, but do not feel that they
can afford the sacrifice In this matter
true economy is not conserved by insult
ficient salary. If the character of legisla-
lures is to be elevated we must make the
invitation to fill the Legislative position
liberal enough to justify the poor man
who must leave his regular employment;
the business man who must commit his
affairs to the charge of others, and the
professional man who must abandon his
practice for two months or more. in taking
the Office.
Something of temptation may also be
removed by the betterment of the salary.
The length of the session will not, under
the new rule, be the gauge of the wages,
but the rule will operate to make legisla-
tors industrious and time-saving, since
they will gain by economizing time rather
than by extending it.
The record-union., 1893-02-27

The unwisdom of the original of Sem
ate Bill No. All was as nothing to the raid
it provided for upon the county treas
urles. That Act permitted the Super
vlsors OF any county to pay for mainte-
nance and treatment of drunkards and
opium fiends and the insane generally
sent to any private institution. This was
SO raw that the Senate committee could
not stomach it, hence the substitute,
upon which we freely commented on
Saturday. But this substitute could not
have been considered by committee de-
hberately. Possibly it was passed around
and qualified consent secured that it
might be put in. Had the promoters of
this legislation had the wisdom to have
given ordinary publicity to their desire
to aid poor men to treatment for alcohol
ism, the probability is a bill might have
been devised that would have accom-
plished that object without ,opening
ways to the looting of the treasury. 1t is
too late to do it now.
The record-union., 1893-02-27

are not taken into account at all; but we
do insist that to take from the people the
right they now have to fix the license
tax at sum greater than 500 year for
saloon privilege, is to do most unwise
thing; to outrage perfectly developed
public sentiment upon the subject; to re-
peal law that is working well, and for
the repeal of which not single petition
has gone up from the people, and for the
destruction of which there has not been
voiced any desire of the people, through
the press or otherwise.
The friends of local self-government
should be watchful to secure defeat of
Senate Bill No. 622. Legislators who be-
lieve the people in each community can
be trusted to regulate liquor licenses to
their own needs and in conformity with
their own best interests should be alert
to vote down this bad bill before it gains
further footing that will aid its progress
to passage.
The record-union., 1893-02-27
TWO BAD BILLS.

The usuary bills are making rapid pro-
gress to final passage. Either is mis-
taken and dangerous measure. 1t flies
in the face of the judgment of every ac-
cepted writer on political economy, and
is opposed to the experience of nations
and States that have tried such laws.
Wherever they exist to-day they are
practically lumber on the statute books.
There is no need for such a law in Cali
fornia. The rate of interest has steadily
declined here to low figure from the
highest ever known in this country, with
out the aid of any usury law.
An attempt was made in the Senate the
other day to exempt from the provisions
one of the bills the building and loan
associations, but the effort proved fruit
less. II either Act becomes law, it will
have the effect of adding to the already
TOO numerous and potent influences that
are successfully driving capital out of the
State that seeks legitimate investment,
and will turn the money-lending business
over to the sharks, who will assume the
risks of the law, and make the borrower
suffer all the more in consequence.
1t really should be entitled an Act to
nromote the business of extortioners and
shylocks, and to blot out savings banks
and building and loan associations, and
to commit poor men to the mercies ofthe
money-lenders. The highest interest of
the non-capitalists is to have money free,
as is any other thing that may be legiti-
mately hired for service. We venture the
nronhecy that if either of the bills become
a law-and the Senate bill is the more
The record-union., 1893-02-27
WANTS MONOPOLY OF DIsTIBU.
TION

The San Francisco Call, in a labored
reply, finds itself driven to admit the
soundness of the RECoRD-UNIoN's state
ment that the interior is not the enemy
of the metropolis, and that the former
simply demands that the policy of the
city shall not be unjust to the interior.
Certainly this admission is deducible
from the CARS article. 1t is, moreover,
true to the letter as the RECoRD-UNIoN
put it-there is no affirmative animosity
on the part of the interior to the city and
business of San Francisco.
The Call. however, hedges as best it
may by declaring that while community
exposed to competition cannot insist
upon larger profits than its competitors
are content with, yet what San Francisco
wants is system that will enable it to
give the interior goods at lower rates than
the same kinds and classes of goods can
be obtained for elsewhere.
1t will be conceded that, if San Fran
cisco can by any means secure goods
to be delivered to her at rates that will
enable her to sell to the interior less than
or level with other supply markets open
to the interior it is her right to do so, and
she ought to do it. But no policy can be
justified, or under the law set up. that
Will give San Francisco rates less than
charged to interior competitive points
nearer the common source of supply by
the same route. That is to say, goods
bought by Sacramento in Chicago must
not, for transcontinental charges for car
riage, be shipped to San Francisco at a
less rate than to Sacramento, the nearer
point.
What San Francisco wants is that the
goods shall from the point of freight
origin be carried past interior competi-
tive points to San Francisco, at rate
which will enable San Francisco to ship
back to the interior competitive point
and deliver at less cost than the interior
can buy at the point of origin of
the transcontinental shipment and de-
liver to itself. 1t is discrimination
in favor of San Francisco that is de-
manded, which will give her monopoly
of distribution. Her merchants have
time and again asserted this, and have
attempted to fortify it by the statement
that it is San Francisco's natural and
commercial right to enjoy this monopoly
of distribution.
The record-union., 1893-02-27

THERE is profound sympathy through
out the civilized world for the elder De
Lesseps. But it appears that President
Carnot has not the power to lift the SEN
tence of imprisonment from the diving
engineer, only the Chamber of Deputies
and the Senate can do that. But the tenn
per of the lower house is not of the mer-
ciful order just now, and until it softens
the old man must be held a convict.
though nature, more generous, has inter
vened with deadly illness, one from
which it is probable he cannot rally, one
so blighting in its character that the pris-
oner is not even conscious of the fact of
his condemnation, the news of which has
not been communicated to him. The de-
tectives maintain show of watching the
residence of the invalid-a performance
that is wholly unnecessary.
The record-union., 1893-02-27
ANOTHER DANGEROUS BILL.

The RECoRD-UNIoN ten or twelve days
ago pointed out the unwisdom of Senate
Bill No. 622, which proposes to deprive
the cities and counties of their right to fix
the limits of license taxes for the sale of
Intoxicating liquors. The bill has had
favorable recommendation, and is on its
way to second reading. 1t may never
reach third, but it is of the class of legis-
lation that is liable to be pushed at the
right moment, and which has behind it
powerful interest. 1t has popped up at
every Legislature for eight years. and
seems to have the virtue of persistence.
We do not oppose it upon sentimental
grounds, but for purely economic and
political reasons; political in that broader
sense than the policy of party. The bill
fixes maximum license tax at $500 a
year, beyond which no city or town or
county shall go. 1t is, therefore, a bill
limiting, restraining, choking local self
government, and dangerously So
If there is any one subject that ought,
of all others to be committed wholly to
the community Immediately interested,
and which is compelled to bear the entire
burden of taxation resulting from the
business licensed, it is the subject of
licensing places of entertainment, refresh
ment and indulgence.
For the Legislature to say to the people,
"You shall not collect from business a
tax, in your judgment commensurate
with the cost of the business to your
community" is to put local government
away from the people, whereas the set
tied policy of good legislation to-day the
world over is to give to local bodies, such
as towns, cities and counties, the broadest
possible powers of local legislation, and
thus bring local government near to the
people. And this. for two great reasons:
First, that the nearer the government is
to the people the better for both; second,
that local needs are best determined by
the local community affected.
In the matter of liquor license, more
perhaps than in anything else, localism
is and of right should dominate The
Constitution itself breaches this when it
gives communities power to go to the ex-
tent of passing upon local option propo-
sitions. No one but the people of a
community brought into direct and con-
slant contact with the business to be
licensed can judge so wisely of what the
license should be to meet the needs of
regulation and revenue"-the words of
the bill. The operation of the bill would
be in some counties to enormously reduce
the license tax the people have seen proper
to levy and under which they are content
to live. The fact that the bill is intro
duced presupposes that the liquor inter-
est is afraid to trust the people, and such
confession ought to damn any measure.
We believe the bill to be of the class
properly styled dangerous, because it
legislates in the interest of business reg
ulation of which belongs to communities,
and against the wisdom of local self-gov-
ernment and away from repose of trust in
the people to govern in their local affairs.
We are not considering the question from
a temperance or from a high-hcense
standpoint. Considerations of that order
The record-union., 1893-02-27
Ilrru ADVERTISEMENTS.
MASQUERADE BALL.

CACRAMENTO ATHLETIC CLUB.
Old Pavilion. Sixth and NJ Grand Athletic
Exhibition, in which thirty-one members take
part--1st, overture; I'd, leaping; Sd, Roman
ladders; 4th, boxing; 9th, parallel bar; 9Th,
9TH, wrestling; Sth, pyramid ladders; 9th,
side horse; 10th, fencing. Cash prizes-1st,
handsomest costume, S15; I'd, original char
acter, $40; Sd, best sustained character, 81 5;
4th, best local character, SO; 9th, best group
five or more, S25; 9Th, second best group, $40
Same for ladies, with exception of groups-lst
SO. fe27-4t
The record-union., 1893-02-27
SpaciaI Apancies.

This paper is for sale at the following places:
L. z. Fishers, room 81, Merchants Exchange,
California street; the principal News Stands
and Hotels, and a. the Market-street Ferry,
San Francisco.
Los ANGELEs.-Eclectic Book Store, corner
Second and Main streets.
SAN DIEeo.-Emmal & Co., $50 Fifth street.
CoRoNADo.-Hopkins & Cox, Coronado
hotel.
SANTA BARBARA.-Hassinge News Depot.
FREsNo.-C. T. Cearley, I'LL street.
SANTA CRUz-Cooper Bros. News Depot.
az Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento
The record-union., 1893-02-27

The RECoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside Of San Francisco, that re-
cefUe the full Associated Press Dis
patches from all parts Of the World. Out
s1de Of San Francisco, they haze no COM
petitors, either in influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State.
The record-union., 1893-02-27

ANOTHER death from slogging is re-
corded, and again in San Francisco. This
is the third man killed in that city by the
art of the slogger. Boxing as it should
be is unobjectionable. Indeed, it is a
dextrous art that all men should under
stand, but its degeneracy into slogging
until one or the other of the contestants
falls in such a physical condition that he
is helpless. is simply brutal, and the
sooner it is registered among the cata-
logue of crimes the better for society.
The record-union., 1893-02-27

CT. PAUL'S CHURCH-WANTED.A AN OR
- gantst; also, one soprano, one alto, one
tenor, and one basso. Applications must be re-
ceived not later than noon on WEDNESDAY, ;
March 1, 1898. Address CHAIRMAN COM.
MITTEE ON MUSIC, P. o. box 419, Sacra-
mento." fe27,3tned .
The record-union., 1893-02-27

observation-disclosures No. 4e.
For Editorial Rooms, ring one bell.
For Business Office. ring three bells.
The record-union., 1893-02-27
Weather Forecast.

Official forecast for the twenty-four hours
ending at midnight February 27th-Northern
Califorria-Fair weather; slight changes in
temperature; northerly winds.
The record-union., 1893-02-27
9prrtnl a1nttrra.

FAST TIME TO THE EAST.-The Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad Santa Fe route) is now
twelve hours shorter to Kansas City and st.
Louis, and twenty-four hours shorter to Chi
cago than formerly. Pullman Tourist Sleep
ing Cars to Chicago every day without change.
personally conducted excursions every
GE0RGls W Tifn RAITnM oTIrst car car 20 60stoh,
street, Sacramento. MWF
MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP,
has been in use over fifty years by millions Of
mothers for their children while teething,
with perfect success. 1t soothes the child
softens the gums, allays pain, cures wind collie,
regulates tue bowels, and is the best remedy
Tor diarrhoea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. For sale by druggists in
every part of the world. Be sure and ask for
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Twenty-Five
cents a bottle. MWF
PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH by
use of local anesthetic. DIR. WELDON, Dem
list. Eighth and J streets
The record-union., 1893-02-27

Entered at the Postofice at Sacramento as
second-class matter.
The record-union., 1893-02-27
GRAND DEDICATION

NEW ODD FELLOWS HALL
AT ELK GROVE, ON
Friday, March sd.
Grand Entertainment and Ball. Music by
Jones, Beebe & Hand. Tickets Qncluding sup
wer), So. The Committee of Arrangements
will provide transportation from Sacramento
for SO cents for the round trip, fare to be paid
on the cars. Cars leave Sacramento at $3.50
Pm 1t*
The record-union., 1893-02-27

These publications are sent either by
Slau or Express 10 agents or single sub
ers are agents.
p, The best advertising mediums on the Pacific
The record-union., 1893-02-27
Eastern Business omoes.

4S Tribune Building, New York
5o9 The Rookery," ;" Chicago.
;. Z. Beckwith, sole agent foreign advertis
The record-union., 1893-02-27
NATIONAL BANK OF D. 0. MILLS II CO.
sacramento, Cal.-Founded 1850.

Capital and SLrPIIs:
100000.
The record-union., 1893-02-27
@ltareuoftenua.
HOMES ON THE INSTALLlIENT PLAN,
WHY PAY RENT IF YOU HAVE LITTLE MONEY TO
PAY, DOWN ON HOME

S3,OOO-A corner lot SOx9O,
No. 500 M street; dwelling, 5
rooms; street and sidewalk all
complete and accepted by city;
only $500 required; balance in
8 years; interest only 7 per
cent
The record-union., 1893-02-27

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
YTNHE OLD ESTABLISHED EMPIRE MAR
ket on X street, between Front and Second.
is offered for rent. Now doing good business
Apply to JOHN COOK, on the premises
The record-union., 1893-02-27

$2,5OO-A New Cottage Of 5
rooms; modern cOnveniences;
lot 9OXSO; one block to electric
cars; $500 down.; remainder
in 3 years; interest 7 per cent.
The record-union., 1893-02-27

KEEPS ON HAND A FINE LINE OF
DIAMONDS, WATCHES AND IEWELRY,
So Repairing of Watches and Jewelry
made speciality.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-04-07
Deserving PraIse.

We desire to say to our citizens that
for years we have been selling Dr.
Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton, DR.. Kings New Life Pills, Buck
lens Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters
and have never handled remedies that
sell as well, or that have given such
universal satisfaction. We do not
hesitate to guarantee them every time,
and we stand ready to refund the pur-
chase price if satisfactory results do
not follow their use. These remedies
have won their great popularity pure
ly on their merits.
SMITH DRUG Co.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-04-07

A VIRGINIA man appears to have
produced the best smokeless powder
which the army has tested up to this
date. The test was recently held at
the Frankfort Pa, arsenal, with ex.
cellent results, and request was
sent for additional and large
quantities of the powder. The com
position came from Leonard Mason
Another successful report has been
received from the California COM
pany, and the firm is engaged in de-
veloping the powder recently tested
with good result.