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The record-union., 1895-05-10
A Cowardly Assault.

A boy named Sam Dickson was as
saulted by drunken rowdy at Eighth
and o streets on Wednesday evening.
He received a blow from whip, and
when he objected and wanted to know
the cause of the assault, the fellow struck
him q severe blow on the neck with his
fist.
The identity of the ruffian has been
ascertained, and he will be arrested.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
BLooMBERG's JBWRLRY.

It Has Been Recovered and the Pur-
loiner Arrested.
A young man named Bert Davis is
locked up in the city prison for the crime
of grand larceny. He is charged with
stealing $500 worth of jewelry from the
secondhand store of Jacob Bloomberg on
X street on Wednesday night
Officer McManus and Max Fisher, an
expressmsn, suspected Davis of being the
thief, and endeavored to locate him
through the agency of woman with
whom he is living. Yesterday Fisher ar
rested Davis, and the latter acknowledged
having stolen the jewelry. He. took
Fisher into the washroom in down
town hotel and from beneath wash
bowl he brought forth the stolen goods.
Fisher took Davis to Bloom berg store,
where Davis returned the jewelry.
Bloomberg said he would not prosecute
him, and Fisher allowed him to go.
Officer Maley afterward heard OF the
affair, and arrested Davis.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
Young Women Christians.

The Y. w. c. A. will give parlor con-
ference at their rooms, 90l Eighth street,
this evening, at which Miss Emma
Reeder, the Pacific Coast Secretary, will
be present. An interesting programme
has been prepared.
Different phases of the work viii be
presented by the Secretaries and business
men and women. All are cordially in
vited to pe present.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
All Keung Discharged.

The examination OF All Keung. C.
cused OF having committed perjury in the
Police Court. resulted in his release yes
terday. Justice Henry gave as his reason
for discharging the Chinaman that. as the
Grand Jury had refused to indict him, he
did not feel inclined to hold him to
answer.
The record-union., 1895-05-10

HEADQUARTERS for mandolins and
guitars, banjos, accordeons, sheet music;
violins and fine strings speciality.
Agents for Conover (the artists piano.,
the Mathushek and Jacob Doll pianos,
and everything in the musical line.
Neale, Eilers Company Cooper Music
COMPANY G3l J street
The record-union., 1895-05-10
NOW IN JAIL
The Fate of Two Fishermen Wh<

The Fate of Two Fishermen Who
Ignored a Court Order.
A. Conrad and Harley Noyse. the fish
ermen arrested the other night for fish
ing with an illegal net, and who failed to
appear for trial in Justice Henry's court
on Wednesday. were rearrested yester-
day on bench-warrant by Under Sheriff
Reese at Front and | streets.
They were taken before Justice Henry,
who increased their bail from 500 to $500
each. Being unable to give bonds in that
amount they were locked up in the
County Jail.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
New Raflroad Time-Table.

1t is expected the ferry boat Solano will
resume her place on the Benicia route on
Monday, the 10Th of this month. The
railroad company is, therefore, preparing
its new time schedule, which will soon
be announced.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
Two Divorce Cases.

Amelia Kessler has been granted di-
vorce by Superior Judge Catlin from Carl
kessler, on the ground of desertion.
Louisa Bocklich, by her attorneys.
White. Hughes IL Seymour, has brought
suit for divorce from Antoine Bocklich,
on the ground of extreme cruelty.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
saloon BurgIarIzed.

At an early hour yesterday morning
Buchanan d Cowles' Del Paso Saloon at
6I5 * street was entered and robbed of a
small sum of money and q pistol. The
burglar broke two slot machines for the
nickels they contained.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
Only a Chimney Fire.

The alarm of fire from box sc last even
ing was occasioned by the burning out of
a chimney in the house occupied by Will
lam Frieske at 300 Thirteenth street
There was no damage.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
Committed to stockton.

E. II. McGrew was examined for in
sanity by Doctors g. c. Simmons and f.
B. Sutliff yesterday, and upon their rec
ommendation Judge Johnson committed
him to the asylum at Stockton.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
bankrupt Stock

OF women's and mems wear of merchan-
disc viii be on sale, commencing to-mor-
row, consisting of mems clothing, fur
nishing goods, socks, hosiery, gloves, dry
goods, etc., at The Red House Co. y
The record-union., 1895-05-10
The Office of Coroner.

Several citizens are being talked of in
connection with the office of Coroner.
made vacant by the death Of John Miller.
It is not unlikely that some of those said
TO be candidates have no aspirations for
the office.
The record-union., 1895-05-10

For SALE.-House of six rooms, corner
lot, 35xl00. House of six rooms, lot 40 by
100. L. C. Hyde, Real Estate and Insur-
ance Agent, 10ll Ninth St, bet. and K. =
The record-union., 1895-05-10
Duck
Suits.

WOmen's Ready made Duck
Suits, perfect fitting, Eton OF
Blazer Jackets as may be pre-
ferred, light or dark patterns.
Prices, 81 IS 81 so and So 50.
This season We had Misses
Cape that proved so popular that
we sold ali We had. To-day We
have more of them.
Tan OF cardinal, s. Is.
The record-union., 1895-05-10

Supposed Kansas Crook Arrested.
Officer MoManus and Max Fisher yes
terday arrested man named w. G. Dom
The record-union., 1895-05-10
sAcRAMENro. Thursday. May 6

SACRAMENTO, Thursday, May 9, 1895.
S. f. 94-White vs. Superior Court-By the
court. Ordered that the alternative writ of
prohibition heretofore granted herein be and
The same is hereby modified so that the de-
fendant, Wilson T. Smith, receiver, be and ne
hereby is permitted TO proceed With the
further publication of the notice of the sale
complained of IL the petition OF the plaintiff,
George t. White, filed herein.
Dated, San Francisco, May 8, 1895.
BEATTY. g. j.
The record-union., 1895-05-10
chicago Sailors for the Picnics.

Ladies' and misses handsomely
trimmed tor 75c and S5c; untrimmed
zoe and 2oc. Ladies garden sun hats. l0c.
flowers and feathers; violets IN all colors
from &c dozen TO 25c, California violets.
Roses, ali shades, at The Red House Co.
The record-union., 1895-05-10

Roumania was originally Romania, a
Roman province.
The advocate., 1895-04-24
The Battle Of 1895

EDITOR ADVOCATE:-The time has
come when real success in the work Of
social and political reform can only be
secured through a bold and fearless
advocacy of those principles that are
founded in perfect justice between all
men. No half measures adopted in
Difference to time-serving policy and
a temporizing people, can now have
any other result than defeat of the
party adopting it; nor should true and
intelligent men desire any other result.
Christianity has proven valuable to
man because of its champions of the
true principles Of a human brother.
hood and the most bold attacks upon,
and exposure Of those evils entrenched
behind wealth, power and "respecta-
bility." In the struggles of the Nsza-
rene, there were professed friends who
advised less radical and more "sVsil.
able" policy. AS an immediate result
of the radicslism of His teaching and
His example, Christ was cruci6ed and
His apostles suffered msrtyrdom.
The policy now shamefully proposed
by few professed friends of political
reform, if practiced by Jesus Christ,
would have averted the cslamities that
He and His followers suffered; but
how about the salvation which re-.
suited to man by the stern integrity
and fidelity of the great exemplary
In late meeting of men now advo.
eating the organization of a politica!
party on the one SILVER plank, apron
The advocate., 1895-04-24

inent Populist is reported to have said
that "defeat must come to the Peo.
ple's party because Of their numerous
isms."
l feel truly sorry for this dear fellow
whom 1 had learned to respect highly
for his noble advocacy Of the princi.
pies of the Omaha platform. / sup
posed that he was sincere when in his
eloquent public utterances he so ably
insisted upon the vast Importance Of
the adoption by this government of
each of the three fundamentals Of said
platform, namely, land, money and
transportation. Can it be possible that
any intelligent man in the Peoples
party to-day fails to see that the carry
ing out Of every principle advocated
by this proposed silver party would
leave the people just as fully as ever at
the mercy of the money powerP
Let no man imagine that the mil
lions of intelligent Populists will suffer
the dropping Of either one Of those
three essentially fundamental prinCi-
pies of our present platform, even If
by so doing we are sure Of electing the
entire ticket in 1895. An election
under such circumstances would be:
~ The triumph of plutocracy and (2)
the utter destruction Of the Peoples
party, and the retarding for many
years to come of true political reform
in the United States, if not also in the
entire world.
No, sir, the only change demanded
by present conditions is a more definite,
full and complete enuncistion of the
true principles Of the ownership of the
earth and all its treasures, by all It's in
hsbitsnts. w. M. GooDNER.
The advocate., 1895-04-24

do for private citizens under no physi-
cal or mental disability, what they can
best do for themselves, is apparent. 1t
is an insulting attempt to put the Ia
borer under legislative tutelage which
is not only degrading to his manhood,
but subVersive Of his rights as citizen
of the United States. We do not wish
to give countensnce to the idea that
miner or manufacturer has right to
discriminate against his employees. No
employe should buy from such an en-
ployer. The remedy is in the hands Of
the employe. He is not compelled to
buy from his employer, and general
law without special statute will fully
protect him in his refusal to do so. The
ground on which this act is condemned
is that it is class legislation and an un-
just interference with the rights, priVi.
leges and property of both employer
and employe. 1t places on both the
badge Of slavery by denying to one the
right of managing his own private
business and assuming that the other
has so little capacity and manhood as
to be unable to protect himself or man
age his own private affairs.
In 1892 the Illinois supreme court in
Frorer VS.. People held unconstitutional
a law of the previous year, aimed at the
truck stores of mine and factory oper.
ators. AS it did not similarly regulate
other industries the court said that it
deprived persons of property rights
without due process of law, and con-
tinued: "ThOse who are entitled to
exercise the elective franchise are
deemed equals before the law and it is
not admissible to arbitrarily brand by
statute, one class of them, without
reference to and wholly irrespective Of
their actual good or bad behavior, as
too unscrupulous, and the other class
as too imbecile or timid and weak to
exercise that freedom in contracting
which is allowed to all Others"
Is it not high time that the old auto
cratic distrust of the masses be elimi-
mated from our system of government
and that we adopt the initiative and
referendum, thus making ourselves the
highest power, instead of committing
our rights to judicial oligarchyP
j. G. RUPPENTHAL, JR.
The advocate., 1895-04-24

Our DOLLAR LIBRARY il a good thing
to put into the hands OF people who
have not been reading reform literature.
II goes free with three 81 subscribers {
the ADVOCATE.
The advocate., 1895-04-24
Labor Laws and the Courts.

iquities of the "truck store" system by
which laborers are paid in goods at
high prices for work done at low wages.
In America the wrongs growing out of
the system were known to the laborers
in the anthracite coal mines of Penn
sylVania at least as long ago as the de-
cade preceding the civil war. In 1881
the labor commissioner of Missouri re-
ported that the "truck stores" charged
high prices for goods, caused wages to
be low, and often held mems wages for
three or four months after due. The
free American citizen was so treated
that "sfter years of toll, if he desired
to leave, he would have to leave as q
tramp; or if unable longer to maintain
himself, he would have to accept life
asa charity from Others" This was not
in Madagascar nor in Cuba, but in the
Gland of the free"
To remedy the evil, statutes were
passed in several states. Pennsylvania
provided that the wages of laborers in
and about iron mills should be paid at
regular intervals and in lawful money
of the United States. The state su.
preme court overthrow the law in the
case of Godchsrles vs.. Wigemsn in
1886, saying: "These sections are utterly
unconstitutional andVoid, inssmuch as
by them an attempt has been made by
the legislature to do what, in this coun-
try cannot be done, that is, prevent
persons who are sui .juriS from max
ing their own contracts" (The court
seemed to forget that instead of leaV-
ing it to private contract, law set the
maximum rate of interest, freight and
passenger rates on railroads and canals,
the charges of grain elevators, and, at
least in Michigan and Alabama, the
price of bread in citieS.J "The act is an
infringement alike Of the rights of en-
ployer and employe. More than this,
it is an insulting attempt to put the Ia
bOrer under legislative tutelage which
is not only degrading to his manhood,
butsubVersiVeo of his rights as citizen Of
the United States. He1may sell his labor
for what he thinks best, whether money
or goods, just as his employer may sell
his iron or coal, and any and every law
that proposes to prevent him from 80
doing is an infringement of his consti-
tutional privileges, and consequently
vicious and void"
This decision was followed in nu-
merous instances by courts of other
states, for our courts slavishly follow
precedent. In 1889 a struck store" law
of West Virginia was tested in the
case of State vs.. Goodwill. The learned
court said: "It is species of sumptu-
ary legislation which has been uni
Versally ~ condemned as an attempt
tU degrade the intelligence, virtue and
manhood of the American laborer, and
to foist upon the people paternal gov
ernment of the most Objectionable
character, because it assumes that the
employer is tyrant and the lsborer an
imbecile. This section is unconstitu-
tional and void"
At about the same time, this court
summarily disposed of a statute for
bidding mining and manufacturing
corpotS.ions to charge their employees
The advocate., 1895-04-24
the ADVOCATE.
By w. n. HARVEY.

1t presents the silver question in such way that h
most ignorant wOrshiper Of Cleveland Sherman ca
understand it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
How the Mole Tunnels.
st. Nicholas.

Now place the wriggling and restive
little creature upon the ground, on a
spot where the ground is not unreason-
ably hard, so that he may have fair
chance for disappearing, and see what
he will do.
The instant he touches the earth
down goes his nose, feeling nervously
here and there for place to start his
drill. In about one second he has
found a suitable spot. His nose sinks
into the soil as if it were a rad-awl
with half boring and half pushing
motion, and in a instant half your
mold's head is buried from view
Now watch sharply, or he will be out
of sight before You see how he does it
Up comes his powerful right foot
sliding close around the side of his
nose. His tive-pointed chisel cuts the
earth vertically until he reaches as far
forward az his short ncsel will let it go
then, with quick motion, he prizes
the earth sidewise from his nose, and
so makes quite an opening. Instant
ly the left foot does the same thing on
the other side, and meanwhile the GIN.
let pointed nose has gone right on
boring. In five seconds, by the watch
his body is entirely out of sight, and
only three minutes he will tunnel a
foot, if he is at all in hurry to get on
| in the world.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19

John d. Rockefeller, the Standard
Oil king, is the richest man in Amer
ica. His fortune, says the Detroit
Free Press, has now reached the
gigantic figures of $l45,O00,O0O. Be.
fore the end of the year it will have
reached the terrific sum OF $l50,OO0-
600. People who claim to know say
that his wealth is growing at the rate
of $15, 100000 year. He is not an
extravagant man; his family are even
more modest in tastes than he is, and
that he does not spend one-twentieth
of his annual income is generally be-
lieved by his friends.
Mr.. Rockefeller's income is unques-
tionably somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $l5,0O0,0OO a year. The
Standard Oil Company pays immense
profits to its owners, and Mr.. Rookie
feller is the principal owner. Based
upon an annual income of SIS 600 900
a year. the oil king has $l,250,OOO a
month to spend, or SAL ,666 every day
in the week, including Sundays and
holidays.
1t is not without tho pale of posi-
bility that Mr.. Rockefeller will live to
see his daily income reach the $780,
600 figure. Thirty-five years ago Mr..
Rockefeller was worth $4,000. In
that time practically starting on moth
ing, he has made $l45,OOO,OOO. He is
tifty-five years old, vigorous and
healthy, and in all probability will
live twenty years more, in which time
it would not he unreasonable to sup
pose that he could double his enorm.
ous wealth.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19

/ difference in degree, since it is utterly
impossible that any one in our broad
land, rich or poor, whatever may be
his occupation or wherever his dwell.
| ing, in a center Of finance or COM
mcrcc or in 4 remote corner of our do
main, can be really benefited by a
financial scheme not alike beneficial
to all people, or that any one should
be excluded from Il common and uni
versal interest in the safe character
and stable value OF the currency of
the country. In our relation to this
question We are all in business, for we
all buy and sell; so we all have to do
with financial operations, for we all
earn money and spend it. We cannot
escape our dependence. Merchants
and dealers are in each neighborhood,
and each has its shops and manufac-
turers. Wherever the wants of man
exist business and finance in some
degree are found, related in one direc-
ton to those whose wants they supply,
and in another to the more extensive
business and finance to which they
are tributaries. A fluctuation in price
at the seaboard is known the same
day or hour in the remotest hamlet.
The discredit or depreciation in fnan-
cial centers of any form of money in
the hands Of the people is signal to
immediate loss everywhere. If reck-
less discomfort and wild experiments
should sweep our currency from its
safe support, the most defenseless of
all who suffer in the time of distress
and national discredit would be the
poor, as they reckon their loss in their
scanty support, and the laborer and
workingman, as he sees the money he
has received for his toll shrink and
shrivel in his hand when he tenders it
fer the necessaries to supply his hum
BILE home.
Disguise it as we may, the line of
battle is drawn between the forces OF
safe currency and those OF silver mon
OmetallisM. / will not believe that if
our people are afforded an intelligent
opportunity for sober second thought
they will sanction schemes that, how
ever cloaked, mean disaster and con-
fusion, nor that they will consent, by
undermining the foundation of a safe
currency to endanger the beneicent
character and purposes of their gov
ernment. Yours very truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19
Curious Facts.

The black ostrich stands seven feet
high.
The greatest velocity attained by q
whale when struck by harpoon is
nine miles an hour.
The records OF Massachusetts, are
written in an official ink specially
made for the purpose.
As early as 1896 a paper was read to
the Royal Society of England on a
natural gas we'll in Lancashire.
A flower cut in the morning will
retain its freshness twice as long as a
flower cut in the middle OF the day,
when the sun is upon it.
One of the heaviest snowfalls in the
history of this country was February
10 to 81, 17l7, when the snow re-
mained five to seven feet deep all over
New England.
1t is reported that the Sultan Of
Turkey feeds his Egyptian steeds on
dried currants, half a pound, in stead
of oats, for each horse, and that this
is the secret of their great endurance
Frank H. Lear, of Walnut Town.
ship, Gallia county, Ohio, claims to be
the champion beet raiser. One that
he pulled from his garden measured
thirty and one-half inches in circum-
ference.
There is about to be published by
the chronological Society of London
an account of the great plague oi
London in 1865, written by London
apothecary, William Boghurst, who
was on the spot through the whole
epidemic.
In Yorkshire, England, there is a
crusade against wicker hand baskets
which are said to harbor all kinds oi
insects. A woman who died from q
mysterious ailment was said to have
been poisoned by eating luncheon Out
OF one of these baskets.
An official ratcatcher has been ap.
pointed by the Liverpool England,
City Council. He is to begin with st.
Johns Market. which he is to clear o.
rats for $3.50, and after such clearance
to keep the market clear of rats fol
the sum OF $l0O per annum."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-04-19

y musical instrument may be re
garded in the light of an exotic, costl,
and requiring constant and careful at
tention.
1t is also like race horse; the bet
ter its treatment the more it respond,
to the hand, and even in the evening
OF its old age is Il thing of beauty will
a past record Of great things accom-
plished.
Frequently alas. though, costly
and beautiful piano grows worthless
and tuneleSs because it is neglected.
Like race horse, also it needs to
be kept covered after use.
In frosty weather, especially, always
! close il when not in use, and II posi-
BILE, throw cover over it. Keep in a
moderately warm room, not too near
the source OF heat, and let the temper
ature be even. Not cold one day and
hot the next, but warm all the time,
say GO or 10 degrees the year round.
Always place the piano against an
inside wall, and a little out from it.
Shun the itincrant tuner who comes
unrecommended and OF whom you
have no previous knowledge. AS soon
intrust your own ills to quack as
your delicate, high-strung instrument
to an ignoramus who had better be
shoeing horse Or saving wood than
meddling with pianos.
Do not allow children to drum on
it. True, Prof. Banghard may expend
a like amount OF strength upon its
keyboard-I doubt if it thoroughly
enjoys either treatment. But il the
right keys are struck it will not affect
it, nor you, so seriously as where
children amuse themselves and wreck
the Christian tempers all all listeners
but those OF their fond mammas, by
their soul-distracting sounds.
Resolutely avoid littering the tops
with brio a-bac, for it unquestionably
affects the tone.
A we'll known maker recommends
frequent wiping off of the case with a
chamois skin wrung out of tepid
water, and where the case is very
highly polished and dark this is not
only necessary but productive of good
results, and little else will answer to
remove the dust that settles resolutely
Oh The rightly-named fret work.
But il you are afraid to try this, and
you want to remove finger marks and
blue mold, take salad oil and vinegar,
two tablespoonful OF oil to one Of
vinegar, and rub on very little OF
this mixture with q soft rag, and with
vast perseverance, mighty muscle and
soft wooden rag rub until your arm
threatens to drop from the socket,
then survey your work with critics
eye. and you will doubtless pronounce
the result good.