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The Washington times., 1894-04-01
DOMESTIC p1scoRD.
II L Not Promoted Especially BY the Pretty
Typewriter.

II L Not Promoted Especially By the Pretty
Typewriter.
The New York Recorder recently offered 4
prize for an answer to the question:
'sIs tho female typewriter promoter Of
domestic discord?"
Several hundred replies were received.
One Of the brightest was sent by Miss Lydia
Mantle Fox, stenographer and typewriter
Of Washington. Her letter took the prize.
It was.
Is the typewriter promoter OF domestic dis
cordf
TO this query answer "No" most emphati-
admit that there have been cases in which
trouble has arisen In the family circle because
Of the typewriter. This has also happened from
many other causes Cooks and Easter bonnets
often SOW the seeds of discord. So do the pies
that mother made, and lost collar buttons Still,
no one thinks of Internationally condemning
bonnets, cooks, collar buttons; or pies
Typewriters, as o class, are very much like
other people They are usually spoken Of as
being young, well-dressed and wonderfully at
tractive. The word pretty" is so universally
coupled with the word "typewriter' that one
would suppose that an ugly typewriter was as
much an oddity as white blackbird- am a
member of the band In question, and have a
very extended acquaintance with members of
the profession As to beauty, do not think We
possess more than an average amount
Neituet are we all IN the urSt picOm OI youth
Alas, we grow old and have creature inflrmities
like unto other women. l know number Of
typewriters, and very good ones, too, who have
white hair, and one lady who Is a grandmother
is n member of our band
We are not all arrayed in purple and fine
linen. Most of us cannot afford it, and others Of
us take far too little heed of our personal ap-
pearance and of the dainty neatness which
stamps lady, no matter how cheap her dress.
Nor are We each and every one deeply and
dangerously attractive to the sterner sex Many
OF US see too much of them to care to attract
them even If we could
In point of fact we typewriters are Just plain,
everyday women, working hard forlour daily
bread and asking only justice and fair show.
II we do wrong 1t is not because we are type
writer's If We succeed IL is not because of
beauty or charms, but because we possess
brains enough anc perseverance enough to de-
serve success. If we tail 1t is not because We
have freckles, snub noses, or have lost the bloom
from our cheeks, but usually because we can't
spell or punctuate correctly, or run away from
business to attend matinee.
think few men will tolerate a typewriter who
Is careless of her personal appearance, but that
is as II should be. Neither do they want a dirty
floor or an office boy whose finger nails are
dressed in mourning or whose hair is a stranger
to the brush
say again, 1t is as unfair TO say that type
writer's promote domestic discord as to say that
bread does because a batch of bread has caused
a family row
The Washington times., 1894-04-01
Where Monks and Nuns Are Plentiful.
IFrom the London Guardian.l

The religious statistics of Belgium for 1890,
which were only published toward the close
OF last year, give the number of conventual
institutions and their inmates in the kingdom
--229 monasteries, with ATS monks, and
I.546 converts. with 25,323 sisters and nuns.
These have grown during the decade preced-
ing from 213 monasteries. with 4, ,120 monks,
and 1.346 converts, with 21.242 sisters. The
increase was not so great as in the period
1s70-s0. when many OF the religious expelled
from Prussia settled in Belgium. In the next
decade many OF these returned, owing to the
relaxation OF the Church laws. But there are
to the various orders and, taking the popula-
ton of Belgium in 1890 at 5000, 900, we find
one ''religious"-monk or sister-to every
200 persons.
The Washington times., 1894-04-01
How to Keep the Hair Brush.

hair brush should be carefully cleaned
as often as once week if it is rut to the
proper use in brushing the hair every day.
Soap is apt to soften the bristles. The best
wash is a teaspoonful of borax in pint of
water or the same amount of soda in a pint of
water that is about blood heat Shake the
brush back and forth in this water. and the
dirt and grease will disappear like magic.
Then rinse the brush in warm water and
stand on the bristles to dry. Do not dry in
the sun or near the fire.
The Washington times., 1894-04-01
II the Tins Wear Out.

II you find that your tins are wearing out
too rapidly. you may be pretty sure that the
cause Of the little corroded spots can be laid to
improperly drying the vessels before putting
them away. Tin should be rinsed with
dash Of hot water-scalding hot-and dried
with clean. dry cloth. then put over the heat
of the stove for a moment before being hung
up. Eternal vigilance is the price Of clean
tinware
The Washington times., 1894-04-01
Pretty Summer Dresses.

pretty Summer dress is of yellow dotted
Swiss, black lace and black moire ribbon.
The skirt has two fiounces edged with the
lace. Then drapery. or rather four cas-
caded vandykes, are placed at intervals
around the entire skirt. These vandykes are
also edged with the black lace. The bodice
is round surphce. with pelerine Of lace over
black moire. The sleeves are the "cap"
The Washington times., 1894-04-01
10 Keep the Flannel from shrinking.

All flannel can be kept from further shrink
ing if it is first soaked in cold and then in hot
water before it is made up. And all cloth.
either of the flannel family or smooth faced,
as lady's cloth, should be sponged before it
is cut into. This would save good deal Of
after trouble In the way OF spotting and soil
ing. Many Of these materials will show. un-
less they are thus attended to, every spot Of
water dropped upon them as il it were grease.
A rainstorm will almost ruin them.
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SOULFUL, BUT NOT WILLING.

walked one day with Phyllith
Ovah in Bothton town,
/, in me long Pwynce Albert,
She in new Worth gown
! talked that day with Phyllith
ovah in Bothton town,
OF things intenth and thoulful,
Begged her me love to cwown.
Ipawted that day with Phyllith
0vah in Bothton town;
She be bwothah to me, she said,
But wouldn't be Mitheth Bwown.
Wesleyan Literary Monthly.
The Washington times., 1894-04-01
Oblivion the Joy.

TFrom the Chicago Inter-ocean.I
Ibid you have pleasant evening at Gay
boy's?"
He-Glorious.
"what did you do?'
He-That's like a woman. How could it
have been a glorious time if could remem-
ber anything We did.
The Washington times., 1894-04-01
Special for Monday. Tuesday. and Wed
ueSday

Every purchaser of ono pound Of our cele-
brated Thea-Nectar at 60 cents pound, or one
pound Of our a. & p. Baking Powder at 45 cents.
will be given their choice of the following useful
household articles: decorated sugar box, a
knife box, glass sugar bowl, glass butter
dish, decorated cup and saucer and plate, dec
grated cuspidor, eight-inch platter, eight-inch
nappie, fancy plate, three-pint decorated
other articles too numerous to mention. This
splendid offer for three days cnly-Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday-at our main store,
sol and sos Seventh street northwest, corner Of
z street.
TEE GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA Co.,
Newton Il Bowman, Manager for D. G
The Washington times., 1894-04-01

A phase OF the woman question as yet
scarcely touched upon is the one most closely
related 10 domestic comfort. or, had better
say. domestic discomfort. since the greater
part OF woman's trials in housekeeping
come through the kitchen. The universal
complaint IS, we pay enough for good service
and generally get nothing. or anything, for
our money.
There are some things to be said on both
sides of the question, but the fact remains. in
no other place of wage-earning occupation is
SO little return required of the EMPLOYED as
in the kitchen. Maids come to us well rec
ommenued who do not know how to build a
fire that will burn. They cannot serve the
simplest dishes without constant supervision;
they are wasteful, careless, and almost uni
versaily dishonest. They seem to feel no re-
sponsibility for anything. They scratch our
tableware and nick our china, and not one in
q hundred knows how to wash dishes prop
erly. The constant change and worry OF all
this drive women into nervous prostration
and families. where a family should never go
from choice, to the boarding house, while
men are tired to death of the discomforts of
the average household and the continual
drizzle of this discomfort!
These are severe things to charge, but they
are true. For once. think it quite time
that housewives cried out and endeavored to
hit upon some plan to protect themselves, and
while securing better service benefit also
those who serve. Happily, there are excep-
tons to this general jeremiad. A few servants
who are trustworthy. honest, careful of their
employers interests, and in word, jewels of
their kind. retain their places from year
to year and earn all the money they get, from
which to gather hope of better things to come.
Women themselves are partly responsible
for the terrible state of things. Having
"stood" Harriet or Jane as long as they can,
The Washington times., 1894-04-01

A boy leaves home in the morning purdened
with more iniunctions than railroad fight
ing for crossing, and naturally he forgets
half of them before he gets to school and the
other half before the first forbidden game is
played through. 1t isn't well to make rule
for him that you know perfectly well he will
break just as you broke it at his age every
time it was laid upon you. 'Now, don't run
when you play and overhead yourself" You
hearthat in some, that is, in nearly all homes,
every day as the boy starts for school. Feet
of the dun deeri What live boy ever PLAYED
without running? Make broad, comprehen-
sive laws and few of them. He'll learn, with
your help-he can't learn alone-to supply
the details and to legislate under the consti-
tuition. Russia is the only great 'paternar'
government in the world which attempts to
lay down rule for the simplest actions of its
subjects lives. 1t is also, without question
or exception, the worst government in the
world.
"How should father enter into his sons
religious life?' Certainly as far as minister
should enter into the religious life of any
member OF his congregation, of any one whom
he desires to lead in right paths. You can't
teach boy the principles of the purest and
noblest manhood without teaching him
religion. Teach him, by all means, that the
great concern of his life is his relation to
Goo; tnat reHglOn Is the great business OF
life; that this will go with him after his money
is dross, his broad acres of fertile lands DESC
late desert, his family extinct, his name for
gotten from the minds and faded out of the
records Of men; that it is the only thing that
will 90 with him beyond the grave. Prepare
him for the last lonely journey he will take as
carefully, as thoughtfully, as earnestly as you
help to get him ready for a trip to California,
voyage to Europe, or his departure for
college. You need not frighten him into
religion; 1t is better not, because then you
The record-union., 1894-08-14

the fact that we have for years refused
entry to certain classes of immigrants.
and no later than last year turned back
$500 immigrant paupers, criminals and
contract laborers.
The debate and passage of the bill by
unanimous vote of the Senate really de-
clared the policy of the American Gov
ernment to be the full recognition of the
right of expatriation as a personal right
but also declared the right of the United
States TO refuse refuge and residence to
any persons it deems dangerous to peace
and good order, and who are not attached
to the principles and institutions on
which our Government rests, and also
the right and disposition of the United
States TO send out of the country aliens
who are anarchists and who are deemed
dangerous to peace and good order
The bill went back on the 9th inst. to
the House for concurrence in certain
amendments. through the agency of a
Conference Committee. It will undoubt-
edly become law.
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Notice Of AWardof Contract No. 234

PURSUANT TO LAW AND TO THE RES
olution OF the Board of Trustees OF the
City of Sacramento adopted August 1 9th,
1894, directing this notice, notice is hereby
session, on the 9th day of August, 1894,
opened, examined and publicly declared all
sealed proposals offered for the following
work, to wit:
That Thiro street in saia city, from thesouth
line OF e street to the north line of street,
be improved by grading and graveling to the
official grades, constructing redwo Cd curb1ng
with round corners and filling in behind the
same with earth, constructing Oregon plank
crosswalks and redwood culverts. Rejected
all of said bids except that next hereinafter
mentioned, and thereafter, on the 10th day Of
August, 1894, awarded the contract for said
work TO the lowest regular responsible bidder,
to wit: I o RoZa & Silva, at the prices named
for said work in their proposal on file.
O. S. FLINT.
Clerk of Board of Trustees of Sacramento City.
Sacramento, August 10. 1894. au13-2t
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THERE are some citizens who express
themselves that too much "fuss' is being
made about anarchists in this country,
but if the "fuss" had been made earlier
there would be no need for it now. There
is fuss because the anarchist makes it.
When he ceases to be an offense there
will be no agitation concerning him. II
his aim was not against all society. but
against individuals. he could be taken
care of under the ordinary criminal laws.
But since he has developed as the foe OF
all order, all society, it is needful that he
be taken upon his own ground and war
be made upon all anarchists and ali
anarchisn.
The record-union., 1894-08-14
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 lands from first-
class Sacramento Valley agricultural land, to
land of fair average quality, and is offered at
from SO TO $40 per acre, in subdivisions OF
40, so, 100, 100 ana $50 acres.
The terms upon which these lands are offered
are especially attractive. They viii be sold in
subdivisions, as above indicated, by the pay
ment OF interest only for three years, at which
time the purchaser can begin the payment OF
principal by paying the first OF i've equal an
nual installments. Thus no part Of the prin-
cipal is 10 be paid tor three years, and then
the purchaser is to have i've years in which 10
pay Ave equal annual installments, with in
terest at the rate of per cent. per annum,
making payments extending over period of
eight years. Intending purchasers are as
sured that this is an opportunity to purchase
land of fair average quality at SO per acre,
end 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 fruitgrowing, cannot be
had in California for less than from $50 to
800 an acre An examination OF the land
subject of this advertisement viii prove 10
home-seekeTs 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 G. P. R. r., Fourth and
Townsend streets. San Francisco. Cal.
The record-union., 1894-08-14

AS on this coast so at the East, the rail-
road companies are overrun with appli-
cants for labor places who are not and
never were of the striker organizations
This means that the assumption of the
Railway Union that it represented all, or
at least the greater body, of the workers
was false. 1t proves also that the labor
organizations do not stand for all the
willing workers in the land; that there is
a plethora Of men who want work; that
the foreign input has been so great that it
has crowded to the rear vast body of
men willing to labor who have not
affiliated with the movements to promote
strikes and boycotts and who have not
engaged in riotous proceedings. Some
body is learning q wonderfully valuable
lesson.
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ReaI Estate transfers.

The following real estate transactions
have been recorded since our last report:
Clarington Linnen and wife to II. NJ.
Wade-All of lot and strip 43s feet of
lots and 8, block l, town OF Gait; Sl00.
T. f. Frawley and wife to r. j. Law
rence-Lot II, block IS, Folsom; $780,
o. P. Willis to Mrs. Fannie NJ. Tade-
East half of north half of lot 4, E, @.
Sixteenth and Seventeeth streets.
J. w. Easton and wife and Eveline
Winter to II. 3. w. Iagau-Two hundred
and two acres in Swamp Land Survey
Nos. 339 and $40.
Charles Il. Dosch and wife to Fred Dosch
and j. A. NJ. Weldon-South half of lots
5 and 6, E, F, Twenty-second and
Twenty-third streets.
A. l.. da Roza and wife TO Marianne
Jacinto-Lot 4, U, V, Third and Fourth
streets.
The record-union., 1894-08-14

The RECORD UNION and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside of San Francisco, that re-
ceiVe the full Associated Press Dis
patches from oil parts Of the s0orLd. Out
side of San Francisco, they haze no COM
petitorS, either IN influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State.
The record-union., 1894-08-14

THE pyrotechnical d Exclamation of
Attorney Hart and his fiaInboyant style
of treating the merits of the train-wreck
ing case, do not appear to have moved
Justice Fisher, since he denies the
motion to dismiss the defendants under
examination at Woodland. The at
torney's unprovoked assaults upon peo-
pie having nothing to do with the case,
the arraignment of citizens of Sacra-
mento as guilty of something monstrous
because they esteemed the laws of the
land and the peace and good order of the
community superior to the dictatorship
of Debs, Knox 81 Co., did not, it is evil
dent, defect the mind of the Justice
from the consideration of the essential
and vital matters relevant to the case be-
fore him. Not many murder cases are
laughed or ridiculed out of court These
defendants, until held and convicted, are
entitled to the benefit of the presumption
OF innocence, but their chief counsel
could not have done more. had he tried,
TO break down that presumption than
by the extraordinary course he has pur-
sued in the examination thus far.
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WHAT TO DO WITH HIM.

OutIawry and exile failing US and con-
finement being demonstrably impracti-
cable, Henry Holt in the Forum holds
that in this country all that is left for the
Government to do with the anarchist is
to kill him. 'tThe only question is
whether we shall wait for him to kill
somebody else first. The idea of death
as preventive for crime, instead of as g
The record-union., 1894-08-14
Weather Notes.

The Weather Bureau reports show the
highest and lowest temperatures yester-
day to have been go and 58'. with
light TO gentle and fresh southerly wind s
and clear weather prevailing.
The Darometrical readings at 3 A. NJ. an d
P. NJ. were 1892 and 1888 inches, re-
spectiyely.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were 67o and 54' /,
and one year ago to-day 92' and 54o.
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Special in Our Shoe Department. E S 81. ELKus, q IS
OFFICIAL.
Resolution Of Award, No. 234

DISSOLVED, THAT THE BOARD OF
n Trustees OF the City of Sacramento, hav-
Ing in open session, on the 9th day of August,
1894, opened, examined ana publicly de-
clared all sealed proposals or bids offered for
the following work. to wit:
That Third street in this city, from the
south lineof r street to the north line OF
street, be improved by grading and graveling
to the official grades constructing redwood
curbing with round corners and filling in be-
hind same with EARTH constructing oregon
pine plank crosswalks and redwood culverts.
Hereby rejects all of said bids except that
next hereinafter mentioned, and hereby
awards the contract for said work TO the
lowest regular responsible bidder, to wit: To
Roza & Silva, at the prices specified in their
proposal on file for said work.
The Clerk OF this Board is hereby directed
to post notice of this award conspicuously
on the bulletin board near the chamber door
OF the Office OF this Board, for five days, and
the RECoRD-UNIoN, a daily newspaper pub
lished and circulated in the City OF Sacra-
mento is hereby designated as the newspaper
in which notice OF the adoption OF this reso-
luton of award shall be published for two
days
Adopted August 10, 1894.
o. s. FLINT,
au13-2t Clerk of Board of Trustees.
The record-union., 1894-08-14

SUPERINTENDENT BYRNEs of the New
York Police Department holds fast to the
doctrine that education tends to decrease
crime:
This regard as not necessarily because edu-
cation promotes morality, for have known
well-educated men, of good birth, too, who
it is simply because the more intelligent q
man becomes the more plainly he sees the
risk he runs by committing q crime. The
average criminal is utterly reckless; he does
not stop to consider what will happen to him
ii he Is caught in his law-breaking. AS soon
as he does stop to consider what the conse-
quences OF q crime that he thinks of commit
ting will be, he shows that there are possibill-
ties in him of becoming a law-abiding citizen.
SO it follows that one of the best ways OF pro-
tecting a community from crime is by raising
the stan dard of intelligence amony its men,
bers.
This is quite an important answer from
a high authority to those fearful people
who have been unable to see any gain in
the suppression of crime because of the
system of popular education. Mr.. Byrnes
knows whereof he speaks; that the hard
ened criminal looks upon crime as bus
iness; that there is no such things as
''honor among thieves' when they be-
come thoroughly hardened
The record-union., 1894-08-14

IN 1891 500, 900 i'm migrants came into the
country; $4,000 were skilled workers;
5000 belonged to the professions: all the
others were without calling. In 1892
623, 900 immigrants came in, and 307, 900 of
them were without occupation. In 1893
5O2, 900 immigrants arrived. of whom
450, 600 belonged in the channels of ordi-
nary labor. Is it possible for this indrift
to continue and labor troubles to cease? !?
Where is the native born to find hope for
employment in the face of hard times
and an input of half million or so of
alien laborers, skilled and unskilled :?
It were better to close the gates entirely;
at least until every man in America
worthy of employment has it. at fair
wages. That would be species of pro-
lection that all clear-seeing Americans
could indorse.