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The record-union., 1894-07-07

TIE REooRD-UNIoN is daily publish
ing to the full extent of the mechanical
ability of its force to handle, the news
dispatches from the East and all parts of
the State relating to the present strike
and its activities. 1t receives these dis
patches through the usual and established
agencies of news collection and distribu-
ton under the auspices OF the Associated
Press, the news-gathering capacity and
facilities of which are unsurpassed. This
news is given as received, and Ia neither
padded nor cut to suit anyone. A great
deal of matter in such times il sent over
the wires in excess of the capacity of
this or any other Journal to print, and
most of such matter In excess Is value
less and incopsequential. All that is
news, not contradicted and not proved to
be error; all that is meaty, to the point
and from authentic sources Is given in
these columns up TO the hour of going to
press. This much is said because 1t is
due to the Woodworking, conscientious
and honest-hearted force, TO the Associ-
ated Press and to our readers. We want
it distinctly understood that we are Civ
ing the news TO the extent of our capac-
ity TO compose and print. neither favor
ing nor hindering. warping. comforting
or changing. but faithfully, as the REC.
ORD UxIox has always done, serving the
The record-union., 1894-07-07

public with the truth as nearly as we
can gather it. This much, it may be
added, is due to the silly and vulgar
souled few who have the dishonesty TO
assert that this journal misrepresents
the news, suppresses and perverts the
dispatches and manipulates them to suit
its fancies. Possibly there are journals
where such practices obtain. but whoever
asserts it with regard to this paper, if he
does not know that he falsifes, is to be
pitled more than condemned.
The record-union., 1894-07-07
RESPONSIBILITY FOR SUSPENDED
RAILROAD SERVICE.

General Manager Tewne of the South
ern Pacific Company, over his own sig-
nature. has declared that the company
for which he Is authorized to speak, in
willing to operate all trains heretofore
operated TO which no Pullman cars have
been attached, including freight and local
passenger trains.
This Is clear-eut. unambiguous and
perfectly understandable declaration by
an official duly authorized, and whose
statement is entitled to full credit, and in
the performance of whose pledges faith
il to be placed implicitly.
This distinct and perfectly sincere
proposition defines the issue between the
striking employees and the railroad COM
psny on to the responsibility for the sus-
pension of freight service and the stagna-
szAa of commerce. and unqusstionahly
The record-union., 1894-07-07
Birds as Foragers.

Food provision is the object for which
birds periodically change their dwelling
places. The sovereigns, the Bishops, the
Barons of old and medieval times, when
they had exhausted the resources of one
estate, moved on TO another. This was
the reason of the constant journeyings
of our ancestors in the days gone by,
when each district provided for its own
needs. The fashion among birds still
prevails. Hence the great waves Of bird
life constantly ebbing and flowing high
up in the ocean of air; hence the regu-
lar rnigrations so wonderful in the dis
tances and dangers little birds compass
in their long flights over thousands OF
miles: hence the itful Fittings, which,
on q smaller scale. distinguish even the
birds that are classified as stationary
species.
birds in the higher arctic regions in
winter; plants. FISH, insects are killed or
buried in the Ice and snow; the vast hordes
of Jennings, little creatures near akin TO
the yoles that have made such ravages
on the sheep farms of Southern Scot
land of late years, leave these high lat
itudes; there is nothing left even for
birds OF prey.
In the summer wild luxurianee Of for
est. field and fen, shoals of fish In the
great rivers and the deep blue sea,
swarms of insects flying in dense clouds
over fold and ford and steppe, and birds
in teefning nultitudes-ss8 birds, river
birds, sand birds, hill-l5ving birds, wood
haunting birds, field birds. birds big and
birds little, myriad hosts of birds. In the
winter. frozen seas. ice-bOund rivers,
iron hills, snew-clad forests, snowy fields,
no fish, no insects, no seeds, no berries.
no worms visible, even 20 sharp bird
eyes, therefore, no birds.
In the countries bordering on the polar
seas. where the changing seasons bring
alternately the tive extremes of dearth
and plenty, birds are more numerous In
the short summer than anywhere else all
the world over, and in winter absent Alto
gether. All are migrants there by force OF
"Reminiscences s.-Cornhiu Magazine
The record-union., 1894-07-07
THE SMOOTH HANDLE.

A San Francisco paper calls TO mind at
this juncture Jetferson's maxim, 'Take
things by the smooth handle" Very
good. Ifpossible, always take things by
the smooth handle. but that does not inn
ply any sacrificing of principle. Men
can differ and contend over policies and
rights without calling names and GER
tainly without cutting each others
throats.
There is now dsplorable condition of
affairs, an unparalleled contest between
railways and their employees, but it is
most gratifyingly in evidence that there
has been, so far as we have read the
news, no passionate yituperation, even
when authoritative force was invoked.
In all the letters written and all
the words said and appeals made
and sent to print by railway officers on
this coast we have yet to find an abusive
and offensive word or insulting passage.
So, too, Sc far as we have been able to
see and examine the statements and man
ifestoes of the striking employees, we
have been unable TO discover any COM
plant against the companies, nor the use
of epithet, offensive designation or harsh
word.
This Is certainly wisely taking things
by the smooth handle. It is the part of
wisdom, to say nothing of its being the
part of gentlemanly conduct. We have
never known a harsh word to heal a
wound or ease pain; we have known
single one to put an end to hope. that
which of all else one should borrow in
preference to borrowing trouble.
The RECORD UNION believes that the
contention of the striking railway men
Of California who emphatically disavow
any complaint against the companies, is
antagonistie to vital principle of free
Government; namely that ownership
must carry with it control; that to con-
cede the demand of the men making it is
to open the door for the substitution of
dictation for control and domination
without ownership or responsibility;
that this cannot be granted without
abandoning the constitutional guarantee
of the sacredness of lawful contracts; that
to concede what the striking men de-
m&nd is to set up q new law that cuts
loose from control the ownership and
operation of railway lines, and subjects
every person in the land to the liability
of being drawn into and made the victim
of controversy between people they
may have never heard of and over which
they have no control.
The advancement OF these views have
been frankly and firmly made, but with
out vituperation, in which there
is no strength. This taking of
things by the smooth handle is wisest
and best, because most effective and alto
gether most satisfactory. since passion
rarely has Victories, and when 1t does,
leaves the ashes Of regret.
But let the striking employees ask
themselves whether they can. by the
ethics of their own demand, justify the
action in which they indulge in seizing
trains and running them for their own
purposes, in foroibly occupying property
they do not own, in divorcing ownership
and control by force, and in maintaining
by menace and threat position that ar
rays them against the laws of their
country7
The record-union., 1894-07-07

GERMAN scientists have decided that
American dried apples are not healthful,
it is said. They may have done so. but if
they have it is because their Government
had an object in depressing the market
for the product in that country. The idea
that any such decision by scientific men
was reached in sincerity is absurd.
The record-union., 1894-07-07

The RECORD UNION and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on The Coast,
outside Of San francisco, that re-
cetve the full Associated Press Dis
patches from all parts Of the world. Out
side Of San francisco, they hGve no COM
pet1tors. either in influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State.
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HARPER'S
Pictorial History
Or THE
Civil w ar.

This great book has sold for years
at SIC to $50 in two big volumes.
The pages are I64xII3 inches.
There are 832 pages. Lots of maps
and sketches, and one big colored
map 23x33 inches.
People wanted them, but couldn't
afford sI6 and kept asking for the
old "Harpers Weekly during the
War" After the pictures had been
put into this big, new, complete his
tory, the old Weekly plates were de-
stroyed and now those files are scarce.
But the big history was SO inter-
esting, and, being compiled from all
the official records, was so COM
plete and valuable that thousands
bought it.
Now it is all cut up and everybody
is getting it and being surprised.
1t is made into rs big parts, ga
big pages in each, and printed on
nice supercalendered paper-better
than ever before-and has a hand
some buff cover with emblematic de-
sign on each part.
The parts have sold as high as 81
each, but can be got for only 8 cents
each if you know how. The
pictures alone are worth more than
that, but the story and copies OF
many official documents and state
papers of priceless historic value, all
go in with the pictures.
The record-union., 1894-07-07
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

CTILLWAGON MILL AND MINING
y Company Location OF principal place OF
business, Sacramento, Cal. Location OF mine,
Brownsville Mining District. FL Dorado
County. CaIifornia.-Notioe Is hereby given
that at regular meeting Of the Board Of
Directors, held on the 18th day OF June,
1894 an assessment of cent per share was
the corporation. payable Immediately In
United States gold coin, to the Secretary OF
said company at Its Office, 631 street, In the
City of SACRAMENTO California
ANY stock upon which this assessment
shall remain unpaid on the 18th ddy OF July,
1894, viii be delinquent, and advertised for
ssle at pubifc auction; and unless payment is
made before. Will be sold on THURSDAY,
the asth day Of July. i 1584. to pay the de-
lincuent assessment. together with cost OF
advertising and expenses OF sale.
BY order Of the Board OF Directors.
S. b. NOURSE, Secretary.
Office. No. 631 street, Sacramento. Cali
foruia. 1s46-4ts
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CoRoNApoW ATER, McMorry sole agent.
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Mrs. 0. II. WING.

Walton has been much changed by the
sad accident ever since it occurred, being
no longer the light-heaTted boy he was
when he came here, and he was much
affected by the letter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06
CHILD ENTERTAINERS.
They Are Employed by Many London Sc
ciety Leaders.

They Are Employed by Many London So-
c!ety Leaders.
Fain would / utter my protest
against child entertainers: those poor
little mites with pale cheeks, sunken
eyes and old faces who are expected to
amuse mixed company with music
hall patter and coster ditties, writes
Lady Violet Greville in the London
Graphic. If the little creatures under
stand what they sing, woe betide them;
it is terrible to contemplate their
future. If they do not, they are no
better than well-trained monkeys and
ought to give less pleasure to grown.
up audience. Child-life is beautiful in
itself in its natural grace and uncon-
sciousness and innocent selfshness,
but child who mods and winlzs and
intonates like low comedian, with
leering glance, abusive gestures and a
repertory of double meaning, is to me
positively repulsive. Clever, no doubt,
the performance is, and perhaps it may
do the child's moral nature no great
harm, but suffer 1t must in its physical
constitution.
Dragged from party to party, spend
ing it's life in possible excitement,
spoiled by the guests, fed on cakes and
sv'eetmeats, breathing the vitiated air
of hot rooms and educated in an atmos=
phere of slang, low fun and hard work,
there can be little hope of healthy
and happy future for it. II we must
have music hail artistes to entertain
our flabby, effete and worn-out com
pany let them at least be men and
women who understand what they say
and are able to take care of them
selves, not poor little farmed-out mites
bringing grist to the mill of their els
ders. What the life means was wildly
impressed on me once when l said to
the child singer, at an hour long past
midnight: Il am sure YOU must be
tired. hope you haven't far to CO."
and she answered: "Only three buses
and then we're at home"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06
A RARE MANUSCRIPT.
Copy of the Pentateuch Believed to BE
Eight Centuries Old.

Copy of the Pentateuch Believed to Be
Eight Centuries Old.
Hebrew scholars in San Francisco
are very much exercised over the ap:
thenticity OF rare document in the
library of Adolph Sutro, the Comstoclk
tunnel mill ionaire, says O recent
dispatch to the Globe Democrat
Sutro, when in Europe about
eight years ago, bought largely
Egyptian, Hebraic and Arabian doc
uments and curios. These are now
being overhauled by Rev. DIR. Solomon
Roubin, an Orientalist who has lately
arrived from Paris. In examining
several antique scrolls, upon which the
Pentateuch is written, DR.. Roubin
accidentally stumbled upon one very
dilapidated manuscript, moldy and very
much impaired, that attracted his at
tention. He discovered that the
method of its scripture, the arrange
ment of the columns and other de-
tails, differed materially from the us
ual methods which obtain in writing
Hebrew scrolls,
Remembering that the great doctor,
MdlHlOulueS, III HIS rlUuaI cOueX nuu
given variance from the regular ordi-
nance governing the writing of scrolls,
DR.. Roubin compared the discovered
manuscript with the rabbits codex and
found that the document agreed IN
every particular with the rules laid
down by the Egyptian sage. This
makes the manuscript, if genuine, at
least eight centuries old. 1t is made
of tanned goatskin ana is much dam
aged. Sutro, in order to confirm the
opinions of his librarian, called meet
ing of Hebrew scholars at the library
and after discussion it was decided to
photograph the manuscript and send
copies to the leading archpologists of
Europe. The worst that can be said
against its genuineness is that it was
bought at the auction sale of the eff
fects of Shapiro, the man who sWin-
died the British museum ana many
other large libraries with spurious HeA
brew and Creek manuscripts, but as
fully half of Shapira's documents were
genuine this may not have been maui.
featured. i-a'- 2 '"' ''''''''i
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06
CONVERSATION WITHOUT INTRO
DUCTION.
INTRO

/ A question has arisen in many
circles whether, at a reception, tea
or any informal entertainment, the
guests of the hostess should con-
slider the introduction necessary.
Many persons object to what is
called 'Eroof introduction, +" and do
not believe in an equality so social.
Therefore, for the most part, the
formal and permitted introduction
remains the perferred way of bring
ing people together.
In the giving of letters of intro
duction, permission first should be
granted, even in the case of intimate
friends.
To proffer letters is a dangerous
thing, unless one knows well the
standing and social character of the
person one is thus introducing;
many unpleasant consequences arise
from "good heartedness. Such a
letter can be presented in person,
but the more elegant way is to send
the letter by messenger or post, the
card of the person comforting the
introduction and your own, with
address accompanying it.
A visit should be made within a
week after the arrival of the letter
by the person receiving it, if the
acquaintance is desired.
In writing letter of introduction
care should be taken that requests
which involve much time or trouble
should not be made. To give a
dinner in many houses is a sore
trial, where service is not ample
and means are limited. Therefore
the letter of introduction should
entail only attentions of minor
sort.
There is word to be given to
the shy, the timid and to those
young people who are unused to
society and its laws: The "intro-
duction" is the social helper that
inspires courage, the key that in
time opens to one the world, its
pleasures and its ways.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06
woNDRous EXPERIMENTS.
The Servian Electrician, Tesla, able
Furnish Light without Using Wires.

The Servian Electrician, Tesla, able to
Furnish Light without Using Wires.
1t is not an extravagant statement
to say that never before in the history
of the world has there been scientific
discovery about which centered such
magnificent dreams as are being built
up on certain recently discovered cleo
trical principles Among these the
foremost place, according to the
Springfield Republican, must be given
to the astounding discoveries of the
young Servian genius, Nizola Tesla,
which are so novel and so extraordinary
that the most imaginative of Investors
are unable to foresee what form their
development will take. Jus as expert
menters were beginning to think that
they knew all that could be learned
about electricity, and that further i'm
provement must be in the line of more
perfect mechanical application, Mr..
Tesla shows us the electric fluid under
conditions in which it differs from
ordinary electricity as much as light
differs from heat. A current of two
thousand volts will kill man in the
twinkling of an eye, but this modern
wizard let's currents pour through his
hands with potential of two hundred
thousand volts, vibrating a million
times a second and showering from him
in dazzling streams of light.
The widest dream of the inventor
could not have foreseen that while cur
rents of low frequency are deadly,
these are harmless. Mr.. Tesla says
that he will soon be able to wrap him
self in complete sheet of electric fire
that will keep a man warm at the
north pole without harming him.
Neither Merlin nor Michael Scott nor
any of the wizards of old ever wrought
a more potent miracle, even in fancy.
The meaning of this is too far beyond
us to be realized at present. We can
no more grasp its significance than
Franklin could discern the electric
motor in his captured thunderbolt.
Equally astounding and with more WIS.,
ible usefulness is Mr.. Tesla's discovery
that currents of such enormous poten-
tial and frequency can be transmitted
without the use of wires. A room can
be filed with electricity from copper
plates In ceiling and floor, so that cleo
trio lamps will burn without any con-
Meeting wire as soon as they are
brought in. In the same way intelli-
gence and power may be transmitted
without circuit, doing away with the
necessity for trolleys, storage batteries
and subways. When it is considered
that such startling changes as this are
already theoretically possible, it will
be seen that in the inventions upon
which we SO complacently congratu-
late ourselves we have only timidly
padded along the shore of the great
sea yet to be explored.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06
SONG OF The PRoDIeAL.

SONG OF THE PRODIGAL.
Fresh garlands l wove in the springtime
Of the bright and beautiful flowers;
l sung with the birds all the season,
Blessing the hours.
gathered the fair blooms of summer,
My heart was as light as were they;
1 thought for no moment my pleasure
Might pass away.
1 caroled the songs of my childhood,
Nor brooded q bit about age;
questioned no shadow-how could II
None darkened the page
lived in the kingdom of laughter,
A favorite subject at court;
/ drained the brim cup OF sweet pleasure
Sweet OF report.
AT last awoke; ii was winter,
My steps were unsteady and slow;
The Kingdom of laughter deserted,
Echoed with woe.
waste did travel, upfollow wed
BY piiless ghosts of the past;
1 sunk in the storm, and the darkness
Soon overcast
said in my bittermost sorrow:
81 plucked all the fair blooms away,
l left none to prosper and rlpen,
Day after day.
F." And now the long winter Is smiting,
My heart is an-hungered and cold;
The ashes of roses are drifting
Over me, old"
-Chtcapo Record
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06
WOMAN MAYOR IN EWzEALAND
Now Filling the Chair Occupied Some
Years Ago by Her Husband.

Now Filling the Chair 0ccupied some
Years Ago by Her Husband.
The colonies have pnae more stolen
q march on the mother country, says
the London Daily News. While the
house of commons has been debating
timidly whether OF not to allow wom-
On TO sit in various local bodies, the
people in township in New Zealand
have actually elected woman mayor
of the borough. The name of the lady
who has thus achieved the distinction
of being the first female mayor elected
within the British empire is Mrs.
Yates; that of the borough which
elected her, Onehunga. 4 further cir
cumstance of interest about this cleo
tien is that the lady's husband, Capt.
Yates, was himself mayor of the same
borough few years ago. The MAYORS
of New Zealand towns are, we NAV
add, pspai,y-though not, we believe,
necessarily created justices of the
peace, and in view of the existence of
female suffrage in tho colony it is
confidently expected that her worship
Mrs. Yates win promptly be raised to
the magisterial bench. Meanwhile we
gather from some of the New Zealand
papers that the burning question in
Onehunga is, for the moment. one of
names. Is Mrs, Yates mayor" or
''mavorss4lA On this point there is,
however, little difference of opinion OF
difficulty. The lady has been elected,
mayor, and mayoy she is to be called.
The person diseharging the duties OF
this Office is always SO designated in
all acts Of parliament from William
the eap9ueror downward.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-04-06

Miss Shoddie-The Highminds are
going to send Edith to college.
Mrs. Shoddie-IIuh! 1t doesn't cost
half as much to send a girl to college
as it does to have her at home and keep
her dressed up the way we do you.-
Good News.