The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-11-30
NOTE AND COMMENT.

San Domingo is progressing. The dis
patches report that there has been a
1ynching bee in that little republic
American example is being followed,
evidently, by our island neighbors.
The Sheriff of this county says that
womans ward is needed in the Coun-
ty Jail; that it is a shame to decency
that men and women should be herded
together in the assembly-room of the
County Jail. The Sheriff is right. The
county is amply able to provide
woman's ward and it ought to be done
at once. There should be separate
air and exercise yard also for women
at the Jail. 1t will not be enough to pro-
vide a room department. They should
not be compelled to mingle with the
motely crew of the Jail in the common
exercise yard. They should have open
air exercise as well as men. No matter
who the poor creatures may be who are
so unfortunate as to be confined in the
county prison they are women, and
their sex demands of men separate
apartments and yard. There is room in
plenty for a separate yard where
women inmates of the jail may eXer-
else. To create such yard will really
afford additional security to the jail,
because it will have to be cut off of the
Courthouse yard fronting on l street
and which is now ornamental only, and
not necessary for the occupation of the
county offices. To wall in the space be-
tween the fountain and the present jail
wall, will give a narrow strip of yard
for women for exercise and in which to
get a breath of fresh air. This will
render such escapes as that of some
weeks ago less likely, because there Will
then be two doors through which a
break would have to be made, and these
two would never be open at the same
time. Let this reform be instituted at
once. The cost will not be great, and
the need is, as it long has BEEN press
ing. The most decent and best OF
women may be confined in the
JAIL awaiting bail, or as a
witness To insult such by keep
ing them for a single hour among
toughs, thieves murderers, tramps,
Migrants and the off-scourings that
drift into and are held in the county
prison, is something for which no apol-
ogy can be sufficiently ample.
There was fight in a Toronto school
Thanksgiving Day between American
boys and Canadian youths, because the
former raised an American flag in
honor of the day. 1t appears to have
been lively students scrimmage, and
~ fn ~ a
show of patriotism on the part of the
two lots of fighters. We may admire
the American boys spunk and congrat-
ulate them that they were not whipped,
even if they did not succeed in thrash
ing the Canadians. But really the Amer
lean boys were unwise in raising the
stars and stripes knowing that there
were objections made to such display.
They appear not to have appreciated
the fact that Canada is not within the
United States, where any one may raise
the flag of any nationality he chooses
without risk of getting pummeled for
it. Really we ought to have little SYM
pathy for the American boys in the
fight, because they had no business to
be over the line. What is the matter
with American veterinary colleges that.
it is thought necessary to send
eighty American youths to Toronto to
study the anatomy of the horse?
The Porte has reported to the foreign
representatives at the Turkish capital
that he is rapidly restoring order and
insuring quiet in the disturbed dis
tricts. Probably; but the dispatches
also tell us that he is doing it by blot
ting out the Christian population and
the methods employed are such as the
savages of America used to practice
upon our frontiersmen.
Prince Bismarck received about 21S,
coo postal cards from as many admirers
congratulating him on his eightieth
birthday. These cards have a total
weight of 800 pounds, and piled up in