The record-union., 1896-02-11
NOTE AND COMMENT.


The burglar is all too plentiful in
Sacramento. He outnumbers the police
considerably, and he appears to be
more willy There are but two things
the burglar fears, namely, whiffett
dog in the house which he cannot reach
TO silence, and pistol in a hand that
can steadily pull a trigger Now the
average burglar calculates on the aver
age woman going off into a dead faint
when he encounters her in a house. Evi
IDENTIFY, then, the thing for Sacramento
women to do is to learn how to handle
a pistol, and to aim at the vitals of the
burglar. There is no sort of reason
whatever for the timidity of women re-
garding firearms; it is the result Of ne
elected education; just that and moth
ing more. Now, then, let some enter
prising genius turn an honest penny by
opening shooting gallery "for women
only" Let every head of a family in
sist that the women of his household
learn how to shoot, and take them to
the woman's gallery for practice. A
few dimes spent under direction of a
competent teacher will make any
woman of ordinary brains a good
CilOdSh SHUT w AlSAA II 10 AAA0OASbOON ~
the burglarious fraternity that three or
four thousand women in Sacramento
understand how to handle a pistol, and
have trained their nerves sufficiently
to train it on house-breakers, there will
be added a new risk to the burglar in
dustry that will render it very much
more hazardous Mrs. Colby of this
city fired three shots at a burglar Sun
day evening; unfortunately she was
provided with a toy pistol only, and
though she certainly hit the fellow, g.
twenty two -caliber bullet, except it
strikes in vital part, does not produce
the shock that brings man to the
ground as does thirty eight bullet when
it impinges upon his frame anywhere
What Sacramento women need to do is,
therefore, to be prepared for the burg
lar. The very fact of preparation will
very greatly deter burglarious schemes,
and in itself be protective. In all seri-
BUSINESS we advise the women to learn
to shoot A pistol club formed by them
would be one of the most beneficial of
institutions, and will have the cordial
Endorsement and support of the men
without exception-unless we except
Mr.. Burglar, and his consent will not be
asked.
The San Francisco Wave" declares
that it has been engaged in task
that it now gives up as hopeless. 1t has
endeavored, it says, by all fair means
to lure the Examiner" into a discus
sion OF the funding bill, ''untrammeled
by falsehood. unobscured by hatred and
vituperation' and confined to honest
argument and honest reply" In vain.
1t has been unable to extract from it
single line of argument "a solitary
word of reason, or anything but shreds
of truth, patches of fairness and whole
bolts of falsehood." The Wave"
might have known better. Others be-
fore it have engaged in the same fruit
less task. The surprise is, that knowing
the influences which operate behind and
upon the Examiner" the Wave"
should have wasted time in such hope
less labor.
Some of the San Francisco press want
an observatory built on Mount Tamal-
pals Good idea.-there is more weather
to the square inch on that hill than any
other in the land. At least ten days in
the year fog does not envelop old Ia
malpais most hours of the twentyfour