The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-06-12

acter which must always be admired. 1t
| was its consistency. Those stern men did
| not preach one thing and practice some-
thing entirely different Life, they held,
was something not to be treated lightly.
| II was too serious to DO trit1ed with. We
can see today the necessity for just such
molding process as they brought to
bear upon our early history. We should
have been very different people without
| it, although we may not now accept all
| the sterner teachings of Puritan faith.
| We hear q great deal about the old
| time Puritan Sabbath. and the mon and
women who were born and brought up
in New England after the manner of its
| teachings seem largely to have broken
away from them in practice, and they
keep the Sabbath much after the fashion
of to-day. But they still reyerently
cherish the recollection of that early e1-
perence, and it is . sacred memory of
which they would not be deprived.
WOMEN IN BOOMERS.
[Sonoma Democrat
The Mosaic law prohibits the wearing
of mems clothing by women, but it does
| not say anything about boomers. The
man to deny WOMEN the right to wear
boomers is without either legal or script
ural precedent.
Boomers may be worn by women,
argues the New York World. because
they are not mems clothes and also for the
reason that at no time in the worlds his
tory dlo men ever wear anything 80 gro
tesquely ugly.
Ugiiness is largely matter of opinion
in the matter of bloomers as In every
thing else, perhaps. But no matter how
ugly they may be considered by Chicago
Aldermen, bloomers will De worn by as
many women as want to wear them.
There is nothing to prevent it. Women
are at least emancipated from the tyranny
| OF man. The scold's bride, the ducking
stool, the family rod of correction, mo
| thicker than the thumb" are out of date.
And In their absence any stand that the
Chicago Aldermen may make for the
restoration of male despOtism will be
futile.
THE AMERICAN POLICY.
Los Angeles Herald.l
There is but one policy that can be
American, and that is the one that is
founded upon the eternal rock of right,
and renders unto Caesar the things which
are Caesars, and unto God the things
which are God's;" the policy which is
just and fair to all Governments alike.
the great and the small, the monarchical
| and the republican,; the policy that will
indulge in none OF the chicane, the du-
plicity or the arrogance of old world dip
lomacy, bat that will have the courage to
admit the rights of others frankly and
| the bravery to defend to the ultimate
ditch that which belongs to its own coun-
| try; the policy that will never dishonor
| the uniform of the American navy by
compelling it's wearer to overflow and
subjugate a weak and friendly Govern
ment, even though it be an island king
dom of the Pacific; the policy that no.
where will we hoist the stars and stripes
as the symbol OF fraud. usurpation and
unjustitiable conquest, because we need
this or that island" but that will every
where and At all times win for the old flag
the admiration and the love that belongs
to the emblem OF dignity. honor and JUS
tice.
| General Rafael Reyes, who commanded
| the Government troops who put down
the insurrection in Colombia, is man of
action. with keen, dark face, love of
adventure, and wealth of experience in
revolutions. A regiment of Indians. at
tracted by his magnetism, served with
| him in the revolution of 1855.
| DON'T wait until vacation comes be-
! fore building up the tired brain and run
down system. Put the blood in good
| condition now by taking Hoods Sarsa-
| parilla and renewed strength will follow