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The record-union., 1894-02-20
A PLAN TO CHECK HIGHWAY
ROBBERY.

What is needed in California is a State
consta bulary, whose duty IL snail De 10 pursue
train robbers like these TO the enc OF the earth,
II necessary, at the States expense. Sucn
force should be under salary. and nave extra
ordinary powers given them.-Fresno EX-
positor.
The REcoRD-UNIoN concurs. It advo-
Gated the establishment OF State con-
stabulary years ago. and has not faltered
in that advocacy at any time since. In
fact. the idea was first advanced in the
REooRD-UNIoN by an old-time and
skilled detective. But such force as
suggested need not be large, nor be in
vested with exceptional powers. There
should be chief, with his headquarters
in the State Capital. He should have one
trained, tried man in Los Angeles, one IN
San Francisco, one in Red Bluff or Red
ding, one at Truckee, one say at Ukiah,
another at Fresno or Visalia-in all seven
good men familiar with the ways of the
criminal class.
These officers should be empowered as
peace officers, TO act in any county Of the
State, and to call upon and enlist the
services of Sheriffs, Constables and police,
when pursuing criminals; and all such
officers should be subordinate to the
State Constable when he is pursuing
murderers, highway robbers. train
wreckers and the like, since the officer
would represent the State authority and
The record-union., 1894-02-20

THE officers OF the Society for the Preven-
ton OF Cruelty to Animals have undertaken to
stop the fau some lads have OF wearing a pin
10 which q live chameleon is fastened by a
chain. This humane society can spend its
time and money to much better advantage
There is no suffering without Intelligence, and
the intelligence OF these lizards is OF about
the lowest type There can be but little phy-
seal suffering, and, as there is no mentality to
suffer, there is no mental suffering. The fad
Is, therefore. q harmless one. There are in
san Francisco good and intelligent children
beaten and abused every day by heartess
parents and by others who have charge of
them. If the society has dollar to spare or
time to fool away on lizards, that dollar and
that time might save some innocent child un-
told suffering. The officers of this society
may have good hearts, but their brain power
is OF the microscopic order.-Colusa Sun.
Cruelty to animals is statutory as well
as common-law crime, and long has
been. Societies, to secure the enforce
ment of the law. are organized under it
for twofold purpose-to prevent cruelty
to the helpless beings over which man
has dominion, and to cultivate the spirit
of kindness and mercitul treatment
among men, because of the good effect
upon society of the dominance Of such a
spirit. There are societies also organized
especially to care for children's rights
when they are infringed. 1t is not the
province of the frst-named organization II
to care for the last-named objects. The
law authorizing the organizations to pre-
vent cruelty to animals charters them for
that purpose only. Effort that is ditfuse
always lacks vigor. Because men organ
ize to promote the humane treatment OF
animals is no reason why others should
not organize to enforce the law prohibit
ing the unmerciful treatment Of children.
Time is not fooled away nor money
wasted in the first instance because the
workers do not divide their efforts.
When the Sun characterizes the 17,0OC
members of the Societies for Proven
ton of Cruelty TO Animals as having
brain power of the microscopic order, il
gratuitously, thoughtlessly wrongs peo-
pie whose brain power' Is quite level
with that Of the SUMS. For when il
stigmatizes one society thus for assailing
the lizard fad, it includes all, since they
all condemn the tad and seek its sup
preston. Has it not dawned upon the
Intelligence of the Sun that prosecution
of the lizard-wearers reaches beyond
them, and has broader and wider sig
nificance and a greater object than saving
lizards from suffering? 1t is probable.
as is too often the case, that the para
graphic criticism was written as a sort OF
sdash off," a bit Of loud-sounding
philosophizing without due reflection.
Was the usually level-headed editor OF
tho san, absent from his post?
The record-union., 1894-02-20
DWARFING TREES IN JAPAN.
In the Case of Pines the Process Re
ouires Ten Years for Completion.

In the Case of Pines the Process Re-
ouires Ten Years for Completion.
The art of dwarfing plants is so little
known in other lands that short de-
scription of its process is given by Garden
and Forest. The pines may truly be con-
sidered the most important OF all trees IN
Japan. and great care is taken in their
cultivation and preservation. They are
generally grown from seed, and great
care is taken to select the choicest quality
of seed. In the spring of the second year,
when the seedlings are about eight inches
in hight, they are staked with bamboo
canes and tied with rice straw, the plants
being bent in different desirable shapes.
In the next fall they are transplanted to
richer soil and are well tertilized. IN the
following spring the plants are restaked
and twisted and tied in fanciful forms.
This mode of treatment is given until the
seventh year, when the trees Will nave
assumed fairly large proportions, the
branches being trained in graceful forms
and the foliage like small crowds of dense
green. ,
The plants are now taken up and placed
in pots one and a half feet In diameter,
and are kept we'll Watered every succeed
ing year; great care must be taken to
keep new shoots pinched back. After
another three years OF this treatment the
trees are virtually dwarfed, there being
no growth thereafter. The dwarfing OF
bamb is another important branch OF
the Japanese nursery business. A few
weeks after the shoots begin TO grow, and
when the trunks measure about three
inches in circumference and five eject in
hight, the bark is removed, piece by
piece from the joint. After i've weeks,
when the plant gets somewhat stout, the
stem is bent and tied in. After three
months, when the side shoots grow strong
enough, they are all cut off five or six
| inches from the main trunk; they are
then dug up and potted in sand. Care
should be taken not to use any fertilizer,
but plenty OF water should be given.
Cut off the large shoots every year in
Nav or June, and after three years the
twigs will present admirable yellow and
green tints.
The record-union., 1894-02-20

IT is proposed in Congress to send a
rescue expedition to pick up the bones of
the Kearsarge, and such of her old-fash-
ioned armament as can be grappled.
Don't. Let the gallant old ships remains
lie in the coral crevices of ''the snorer." 4"
They are fitly buried there; to pull them
out and make them museum objects will
conserve no good nor one whit more per-
petuate the record of the old ships serv-
ice to the nation.
The record-union., 1894-02-20
WHO ARE THE RoBBBRs2
The Tariff is Not Responsible for This
Condition,
From the Fresno Expoaitor.l

L \
Condition.
From the Fresno Expositor.l
It would be quite as profitable for the
fruit-growers of California to study up
the conditions of trade which compel
them to accept from three and a half to
six cents a pound Tor their dried fruit,
whether that fruit be raisins, peaches,
pears or other kinds of fruit, while the
consumers in the East are compelled to
pay from fifteen to forty cents pound
for it, as to be everlastingly anxious to
lay all their misfortunes to the tariff,
whether of the Mckinley or Wilson
kind.
The freight on fruit between California
and the East is not more than two cents,
and the commissions on selling are not
more than cent a pound, and yet the
consumers of California fruits are forced
to pay from 250 to 400 per cent. Of the cost
OF growing drying, packing and loading
the fruit on the cars for shipment to the
Eastern markets.
1t is plain that nothing that Congress
can do with the tariff is going to reach
the conditions that now operate to keep
the people who want our fruits from get
ting them, and that the only way to make
fruit growing profitable as permanent
business in this State is for the fruit
growers themselves to organize for the
purpose of finding out who il is that robs
them of the margin between the prices
they get, with the freight and commits
sions added, and the price that the consul
mer has to pay. Both producer and con-
sumer are being most outrageously
robbed, and they will continue to be the
prey Of the robbers until the producers
ind out who these robbers are and adopt
measures TO protect themselves. When
they do that the consumers viii also find
that they are protected, for California can
afford TO produce all kinds Of fruit at
prices that the people Of The East can
afford to pay, aud at which they would
gladly buy all that can be raised.
The record-union., 1894-02-20
ARARE OPPORTUNITY
Good Agricultural Land for $40
to $40 per Acre.

The Pacific improvement Company has re-
Gently purchased twelve thousand ceres Of
land in the heart of Tehama County, for the
purpose of promoting subdivision and settle
ment. This land embraces lsnds from first
class Sacramento Valley agricultural land, to
land of fair average quality, and is offered ct
from SO to $40 per acre, in subdivisions Of
40, so, 12O, 100 and $50 acres.
The terms upon which these lands are offered
are especially attractive. They will be sold in
subdivisions, as above indicated by the pay
ment of interest only Tor three years, at which
time the purchaser can begin the payment Of
principal by paying the first OF five equal an
nual installments. Thus no part Of the prin-
cipal is to be paid for three years, and then
the purchaser is to have five years in which to
nav five equal annual installments, with in
terest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum,
making payments extending over q period of
eight years. Intending purchasers are as
sured that this is an opportunity to purchase
land of fair average quality st SO per acre,
and good agricultural land at $40 an acre,
with other grades Of land at prices to CORE
spond between these figures.
The assertion is frequently made that good
lands, suitable for general farming, and es-
pecially adapted for fruit growing, cannot be
had in California for less than from $50 to
Wv az esClS. AL SAotlAAiL4dIiOn Ot bue ldIiQ
subject of this advertisement will prove TO
home-seekers that this is an opportunity for
the purchase of good agricultural land at $50
an acre, and for qualities grading down to fair
agricultural land at SO an acre, on terms of
payment which should make the disposition
of these lands to actual settlers result easy OF
accomplishment.
The primary object of the purchase of this
body of land was the breaking up Of large
holding for the purpose of promoting its set
tlement in smaller quantities and its devotion
TO diligent husbandry.
For further particulars, call upon or ad.
dress VIM. II. MILLS,
Land Agent of the c. P R. R., Fourth and
Townsend streets. San Francisco. Cal!
The record-union., 1894-02-20

THE fellow who has started out to
"beat' his way around the world ought
to be taken up as vagrant in the first
town he enters. Because he is some sort
of an attache to newspaper Office and
has wagered that he can "bum" his way
about the world expending not cent of
money or an ounce of labor, he is not the
less tramp and vagrant.
The record-union., 1894-02-20

THE Colusa Sun, in capital letters, ex-
claims, "Our State institutions cost too
much" That is true, sound. undeniable.
What is to be done about it? Why, re-
duce the cost. He who knows his evil
way and having the capacity to correct it
does not do so, is entitled to no pity when
the consequences of his in-doing affiict
him
The record-union., 1894-02-20

The RECORD UNION and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast
ontSide OF San Francisco, that re-
celVe the full Associated Press Dis
patches from all parts Of the tOorLd. out
side of San Francisco, they have no com
petitors, either IN influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State.
The record-union., 1894-02-20

THE Sacramento River receives but
SO, 900 this year for it's improvements. A
Democratic Congress retrenches by en-
dangering the chief waterway of the
State, since every season of delay makes
the work of final reclamation OF the river
costlier and the more difficult.
The record-union., 1894-02-20

THERE are two object lessons in this
city that the advocates of gravel roads
the Seventeenth and Eighth street mac
adam streets. The inspection of these two
streets, with comparative glance at the
miry, sticky, filthy roadways on either
hand, is sufficient to convince any man
that the former are the cheaper as well as
the better.
The record-union., 1894-02-20

CHRIS EVANS artificial arm has been
put on exhibition at the Midwinter Fair.
What is the management thinking of to
permit this trophy to be shown and thus
stimulate admiration for rascally muir
derer and robber?
The record-union., 1894-02-20

WITH every development OF anarchi s
plotting in Europe, it becomes palmer
that the anarchists, as a rule, are a scurvy
lot. Thus far not one in twenty has come
to the front who, by reason of intellectual
power, strong following, or any OF the
elements of character which command
the attention of men, has awakened even
the slightest sympathy or inspired any
respect whatever. Most doctrines OF a
political character are championed by a
very considerable number OF men who
are able to call opponents into the field
who at least are not afraid to cross blades
with them. Not so the anarchists; with
verv few exceptions they manifest only
the brutal, and in the majority Of cases of
those who come prominently to the front.
their characters are of the shady and dis
reputable order. i cause thus cham
nioned may make itself feared-as does
the wild beast-but nothing more.
The record-union., 1894-02-20

railroad officials are to be arrested, and
by the law prejudged guilty of man
slaughter and sent to prison. Ii there
ever was proposed any greater absurdity
the world has not heard of it.
The record-union., 1894-02-20

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
N Emmanuel Baptist Church of Sacra-
mento. corporation, has petitioned the Su-
perior Court of the county OF Sacramento,
Stateof California, TO mortgage the following
described premises, to wit: The south 10
feet OF lot No. 3, in the block bounded by NJ
and \, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
streets, IN the city of Sacramento, California.
And notice is further given that by an order
of the said Superior Court, said petition is set
for hearing on FRIDAY, the 23d day of Feb
ruary, 1894, at the hour of 10 o'clock A. N. OF
that day at the courtroom of said Court, in
the city OF Sacramento, California
Witness my nand and the seal of said Court
this 9th day of February, A. D. 1894.
SEAL. ". =. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY e. s. WACHHoRST. Deputy Clerk.
HoLL. & Dunn, Attorneys for Petitioner.
fe2n-3t
The record-union., 1894-02-20

THE Fresno Republican would hold
railroad people responsible for man
slaugn,er in all cases of train wrecking
where life is lost. What an absurdity
The cranky notion is amusing. Think of
III \ rascal removes a rail; a passenger
train in the dead of night speeding along
rms into fhe gap. and the cars are de-
railea and srme one is killed. For this
The record-union., 1894-02-20
Weather Fnrecasr.

Official forecast for the twenty-four hours
ending at midnight February 2oth: Nortll-
ern California-Rafn. following by clearing;
cooler weather Tuesday evening or night
fresh westerly winds, becoming northerly.
The record-union., 1894-02-20
For BAD Drinking water

USE HoRsFoRD's ACID PHOSPHATE.
Travellers in the alkali districts of the
West have noticed that few drops OF
Horsford's Acid Phosphate render the
use af alkali water harmless,
The record-union., 1894-02-20
Metropolitan X Market,

S.W. COR. TWELFTH AND STREETS
CELLS MEAT CHEAPER THAN ANY
- other market in The city. Try il and be
convinced. This is not Union Market and
meats will be furnished any day and at all
boiIrs. CONRAD SCHEPP. Propr.
The record-union., 1894-02-20
mea1t 0p-Dan.

NOTICE TO CREDwoRs-EsTATE OF
N DOROTHEA DAVIS, deceased. Notice
Davis, administrator of the estate of said de-
ceased, 10 the creditOrsEof, and oil persons
having claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them with the necessary vouchers,
within four months after the first publication
ofthis notice, to the said administrator at the
Office OF Johnson & Johnson, SOL ] street,
Sacramento. Cal, upstairs, the same being the
place for the transaction of the business of the
said estate in the said County of Sacramento,
State of California. PRICE DAVIS,
Administrator of the estate of Dorothea
Davis, deceased.
Dated at Sacramento, February 10, 1894.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON, Attorneys for estate.
The record-union., 1894-02-20
snecial Agencies.

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second-class matter.
The record-union., 1894-02-20
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The pioneer journal, which,
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The record-union., 1894-02-20

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DIR. WELDON, Dentist. has opened an Office
at SOC street.
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The evening world., 1894-01-03
PocLetIess Dresses.

The modern dress remains pccketless
to the end of the year. A modiste would
laugh at the suggestion of protest
Even the jackets are without receptacle
of any sort for a handkerchief or car
ticket, and there Is no alternative but
to carry the big pocketbooks which,
while shorter than those of a few years
ago, get more folio-like in width every
season. The capacity of these lizard,
alligator, seal, boar and morocco books
Is not obvious until the contents are dis
lodged. Not only visiting cards, a shop
ping list, money, lead pencil, handker-
chief key, Stamps and the usual collec-
tion of samples, recipes and poems fur
nish the average book, but the average
woman comfortably locates watch,
powder rag, pin disk, church calendar,
lip rouge paint and Job lot of business
cards advertising the places where an
tique furniture, tailor-made dresses and
complexion lotions may be had for the
proverbal half nothing"
The evening world., 1894-01-03
Sliced ApDle Pic.

Peel the apples-let them be greenings
pippins or Spitzenburgs; slice them thin
into an earthen dish. 1t takes six good.
sized apples to make large pie. Lay
the slices in the pie-plate on the under
crust, with which 1t is lined. Have II
well heaped up with apples, sprinkle
with sugar. flavor with allspice, CHINA
mon or caraway seed, whichever you like
best. Sprinkle a few drops of water
over the top. few tiny pats of butter.
dredGe over the whole a little flour. Put
on the upper crust, press tightly around
the edge of the pan to keep the juice
In. put in the oven and bake forty min.
utes with a moderate fire. When done
take out of oven. make a little incision
in top of crust and pour in two table
spoonfuls of water hold the pie in both
hands after you have done this and give
it two or three rotary movements to
equally distribute the water. Then put
the pie in cool, dry place till ready Il
eat-if your desire don't get the better Of
you and tempt you to eat 1t while hot.