The record-union., 1895-09-28

NOTE AND COMMENT.


The Governor of Texas has called special
session of the Legislature for next week to
make laws that Will prevent the holding OF
the threatened big prize fight in that State
That is the kind of q Governor to have. He
knows that the people intended the present
law TO be effective and ample to prevent prize
lighting; but weakness of the statute hay-
ing developed of which the brusers take ad-
vantage, hepromptly summons the Legis-
lature to fill and reinforce the law. There is
not now a State in the Union where the prize
fighter can hope to be "let alone" Laus Dec
The Supervisors OF San Francisco have an
ordinance before them from committee re-
quiring bicyclists TO keep to the right of the
road, to carry lamp at night, and TO carry at
all times and at crossings gong, trum-
pet, whistle or bell. To this ex-Mayor Ellert
objects for the wheelmen, and very properly.
Here, as in San Francisco, the law should
compel all persons using the streets to drive
and ride on the right. To compel wheelmen
to keep to the right and permit teamsters to
run them down by driving to the left is out
rageous. The lamp at night regulation is all
right, but the whistle trumpet section is all
wrong. Either may take riders hands from
the steering bar and an accident result. The
speed should be regulated. but it should be
the same in application to those driving or
riding horses. In Sacramento there is abso-
Lutte need of some official action to compel
drivers to keep to the right; as is they drive
'all over the road, and seem sometimes to be
attempting to occupy both sides at once.
That w yoming missing link, the discovery
OF which the RECORD UNION at the time pro-
nounced a fraud, turns out to be just that.
1t is merely the skeleton OF a pet monkey
some cowboys buried years ago. The New
York professor who carted the bones to Co
Iumbia College Is the fit subject for jest.
Heavens, here is Britisher to greet. Bea-
trice Harraden, the accomplished authoress,
has nice, healthful nook in Southern Cali
fornia where her health is improving and
where she is engaged in writing another book.
Some of her London friends wrote to her re-
Gently, asking If the scenes OF the story would
be located in America, and the characters be
American, and Beatrice replies:
''W hati lay the scene OF the story in Amer
lea? Why, / We been here only eighteen
months, and in that time what could | do
with American character or scenes? No,
Will not attempt it. l wrote one short story
OF life down in California. That was allow
able because it was lie at my doorstep"
Beatrice deserves to be preserved in a mu-
scum. She is the first literary foreigner dis
covered in America who did not feel entirely
competent TO write critically and fully Of the
United States and its people after a ten-days'
run across half the States.
There are people who have hazy idea that
there is a law forbidding prze-hghtlng in
California. Yet here we have the press ac-
counts of regular prize-ring contest, in
which the brutal sport" was carried on the
other night without complaint or interfer-
ence. Colma is in the State. 1t must be i'll d
county. There must be a Sheriff and peace
officers in that county. More than that We
dare not suggest.
The Federal legislators who toured up and
down the Sacramento the other day ''weTe
much impressed with the magnificent
stream" says a San Francisco reporter
Probably, but how long is the impression to
last? DO they think its magnificence fitting
it only to be a sewer pipe for hydraulic
miners? Do they think this magnificent
stream worth preserving? Is it worth as
much in the way of appropriation as Trail
Greek, and the Calumet River, or Squirt Ham
Drain, or Pin Hook Bayou? Really less pre-
tentious streams and puddles than those
named have received millions OF money to
make them something nature never intended
them TO be, while the sacramento River has
been permitted TO choke, and ill, and sicken,
and run shallow for want Of decent care TO pre-
serve its magnifcence and navigability.
one firm OK oIive-growers in a county not
far north from Sacramento has had such a
run for the ripe picked olives'of their pick
ling this season that the demand exceeds the
supply by ten thousand pounds or more ana
still the demand grows. The firm have sold
out every ounce of their product, and only
regret that they had not twenty times more
OF acreage in olives. Two things are thus
proved, first, that olive-growlng for home
consumption is profitable at this time in
Northern California, and will contin ue
until the supply exceeds the demand. Sec
ond, that the people are at last discovering
that the only way to eat a picked olive is
when ii is picked ripe The green picked
olive is like any other green thing picked, q
relish for cast iron stomachs. But the ripe olive
picked Is balm, comfort, satisfaction, food. In
deed it will alone support life were one article
of food alone desirable But such is its
nutritious quality that one can support life
and strength upon the ripe olive without
difficulty.