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NOTE AND COMMENT.

While the eleven hundred victims of
the Cars barbecue remained unburied
the Emperor Of all the Russias contin-
ued the dance and festivities of the coro-
nation ceremonies. How much greater
an Emperor he would have been had he
ordered the court into mourning But,
then, only peasants were trampled to
death.
Rev. j. Q. A. Henry delivered an ad-
dress at Metropolitan Temple in San
Francisco, on Monday night, entitled
'The Perils of Professionalism" under
the auspices of the W. A. P. A. and
Orangemen. In the course Of his re-
marks the Rev Henry said: mo man
has higher appreciation Of the good
ness and the nobleness of our American
women than I. I believe they are the
best part of our nation, and I long for
the day when we shall have women at
the ballot, because when women are al
lowed the privileges of the ballot-b box
we shall hear less of the confessional
box" Rev. Henry and his ilk have been
loudly declaring that the priests con-
troll the votes Of the members of their
churches. Now he is either not sincere
in that declaration or else he knows that
the priest would be fully as likely to
control the votes of the female members
Of his congregation as those of the
males.
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White Goods.

Sheer quality in checks and plaids, also
plain cord and satin check effects. AS
good values as are ever marked 15c a
SPECIAL 9 CENTS A YARD.
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In New York they are talking Of put
ting a special tax on bicycles in addi-
ton to the personal property tax. That
is. they desire to license them for use
ANY attempt of that kind will be tyr
annous and unjust. The bicycle ought
TO be cIassed with other personal prop
erty, and is in all assessment rolls The
buyer pays besides the personal prop
erty tax a tax in the purchase, since
the seller puts his tax into the price
as the manufacturer does against the
middle man whom he supplies. The
bicyclist pays therefore the double tax,
as does the owner of wagon or a
buggy. To single him out therefore for
still q third tax is discrimination that
will prove intolerable. and we think that
the New York Aldermen will find it so
All attempts to wiring money from the
people by such devices will be resented
and come to grief. The two-wheeled
vehicle known as the bicycle should
stand on precisely the same footing as
the two-wheeler known as the cart
and the four-wheeler known as the
buggy We fail to see wherein there
is to be made any distinction in the
scheme Of tolerable taxation. In fact
IL anything. there might, with justice,
be some favor shown to the bicycle,
since 1t makes, while other vehicles
unmake, roads. It hardens and smoothes
the highway, while others cut up and
destroy 1t. It is in use but three
fourths Of the year, while other vehi-
cles roll the year round 1t requires
no such costly street and road struct-
ure as do trucks. wagons and heavy We
hicles. It adds the least to the cost of
government and takes the very least
benefit from government. 1t is in the
street a good deal Of g. nuisance, to be
sure. but so are hacks and butcher
carts, drunken drivers and women and
children who pull to the left 1t
startles some people when they cross
the highway, but so do the butcher
boys and the milk wagons, and a run
away horse usually does more damage
in one splurge than all the bicycles in
a community in six months time.
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Misses Shoes.

A mixed lot of all-kid button. Mostly
medium and narrow widths, with plain
toe. Had we a complete line they would
be marked 81 pair.
SPECIAL 75 CENTS PAIR
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Weather Forecast.

Northern CalifOrnia-Fair; warmer in
the interior Of the north portion Wednes-
day; high northwesterly winds along the
coast
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Dinities

In pretty corded effects, with colored
figures, stripes and dots, all light grounds
and fast colors.
SPECIAL 614 CENTS A YARD.
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SOCIAL EVENTS.


(Readers of the Record Union are re-
quested to send to this Office personals,
weddings, engagements, society notes and
home gatherings of every kind. Write
on one side of the paper, and give your
name and address, not for publication, but
as a guarantee of good faith)
Yesterday at u O'Clock the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. K. Wallace, 2114 M
street, was the scene Of a very delight
full home wedding. The contracting
parties were Edgar NJ. Sheehan, cashier
in the Record Union" office, and Miss
Leda, Peltier, sister Of Mrs. Wallace.
The house was beautifully decorated
and feStoOned tlhroug hOut with flowers.
The front room was in white, with
sweet peas to correspond. The nuptial
knot was tied under a beautiful floral
piece in the shape of a lovers knot,
Rev. Father Walsh officiating The
other rooms were also made attractive
with a profusion of fragrant flowers
and potted palms, etc
AT the conclusion Of the ceremony,
which was attended by only immediate
relatives and friends to the number of
about forty, the guests were invited to
partake of a bounteous wedding feast.
w. H Mills presided, and MANY appro-
prialte toasts were given and responded
to- Many beautiful presents were re-
ceived.
The newly welded couple left on the
afternoon train for San Francisco amid
a shower of rice. They will visit all in
teresting points in the south, and ex-
pect to return in about a week. They
will occupy their new home ON Sutter
terrace.
On last Monday evening Miss Alma
V Dunn, daughter of Alexander Dunns
for many years a resident of this city,
but for the last year and a half an en-
ploye in the United States Sub-Treas-
ury in San Francisco, was united in
marriage to c. F. Jackson, Chief Clerk
in the Money-Order Department in the
San Francisco Postofice. The bride
! has many friends in this city, who will
be pleased tQ congratulate her on her
matrimonial venture.
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SATURDAYS
aI-PHced Merchandise.
Savings in Them-FOr You.
Finishing Braids.

White feather stitched trimming braidi
in and l. yard pieces; all pretty pat1
terms made to sell this spring at 20 and
25c bolt. SPECIAL 10 CENTS EACHs
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Children's S Hats.

Light tan straw, with wide brim; well
made and finished throughout. Worth
25c each. SPECIAL Is CENTS EACH.
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Record-Union Telephone.

Entered at the Postofice at Sacramento
as second-class matter.
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Mems .Suspenders.

The popular and durable wire buckle.
Light colored fancy webbing, with
drawer supporters and grip back. Value
15c each. SPECIAL . CENTS EACH.
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Note Books.

Students note books of good quality
ruled MANILA paper with decorated
covers The regular price, 10c each.
SPECIAL 8 CENTS EACH.
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Lawn Aprons.

Ladies White Lawn Aprons, good
quality material, with pretty stripe ef-
fects in border. Regular 25c values.
SPECIAL 10 CENTS EACH.
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THR WEEKLY UNION
10 Paoesl .

Is the cheapest and most deslrapie H9Ile,
News and Literary Journal published on
the Pacific Coast. -o
The Weekly Union, per year. 81 90
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These publications are sent either py
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All POST
masters are agents
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
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Dress Shields,

Rubber lined, the very highest grade in
the market Usually sold at 25c, 30c and
35c pair, according to size
SPECIAL 10 CENTS EACH.
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Clothing
Department.

Our 'Kast Iron" Clothing has be-
come favorite with mothers Of
boys 4 to "A years old. The
Soits are from al1-wool cloths, IN
neat weaves, nobbi1Y cot and
strongly sewed. Suit comprises
cap, jacket and two pairs pants,
for $5.
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Ladies' HandkerCF1iefs,

Made of white lawn. They have narrow
pretty colored hemstitched borders, ali
neat patterns that are well worth 90
each. SPECIAL CENTS EACH
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THE DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N.

FOR one year. $780,. 80 'So W
For six months. hS....sss.sses. . ~
For three months. .................. Oo
Subscribers served by carriers at F1f-
teen cents per week. In all interior cues
and towns the paper can be had of the
principal periodical dealers, newsmen and
agents.
The Sunday "Record-Union, twelve
pages, 70 cents per month, delivered by
carrier. Sent by mail at 81 80 per year.
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LADIES' COVERT CLOTH

JACKETS, with box front
and ripple back. They have
the stylish mandolin sleeves
and are halt silk lined. Very
stylish garments. Price, SIS.
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Special Agencies.

Ecdttorial Rooms Red 131
Business Office. ce.................BL black 4o4
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Table Linen.

Cream bleached table damask, 60 inches
wide made from pure flax. All good
housekeepers will say worth SOC yard
SPECIAL 80 CENTS YARD.
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REFER SUITS that any boy 4
to 8 years old would be proud to
get into, and they are values
that parents viii be glad of.
Nobby cheviots and worsteds
that are either prettily embroid-
cred or braided.
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Lace Curtains.

White ana ecru color Nottingham cur
tains, 31a yards long by SO to 90 inche!
wide. As values are to-day they're
worth S3 80 pair.
SPECIAL, So 10 PAIR
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Infants Shoes.

A mixed lot, worth from 75c to 81 % a
pair; mostly small sizes, in black and
tan color. SPECIAL AZ CENTS PAIR.
The record-union., 1896-06-03

Bleached twill cotton crash, II inches
70 YARDS 81.
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ITEMS Shoes.

Good quality cordovan for dress wear,
Goodyear sewed welts; neat razor toe1
and tips, and they're worth fully double,
SPECIAL 81 A PAIR,
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Ginghanns.
TOWeIing.

In pretty apron checks. Good standard
quality. SPECIAL AT CENTS YARD.
The record-union., 1896-06-03

LADIES' MODE AND TAN
CLOTH JACKETS, with
velvet collar, ripple back and
large sleeves; perfect fitting
and slightly garments. Only
So SO each.
The record-union., 1896-06-03

BOYS SUITS for apes "A to t9
years, we have in stylish cuts
and newest patterns of cheviots,
worsteds and cassineres. The
lines at S5, 81 SO and 10 will be
found to be exceptional good
va1ueS.
The record-union., 1896-06-03
FRIDAYS
SpeciiaI-Priced Merchandise.
Savings in Them-For You.

Savings in Them-For ]
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bers OF the parish Sunday school, IL held on
hve evenings OF the week. Girls are taught
embroidery, cookery, millinery, dressmak-
ing, and calisthenics. At the club rooms
for boys are military drill, athletic sports,
and games and reading. The Employment
Guild keeps forty women in work from No.
vember till May. At the Mothers meetings
are religious talks, singing, prayers, and
music and Rotations.
Under the several divisions Of Work
Among the Young" n large part of tho
Year Book tells in detail of the operations
of many of these agencies, including a
Chinese Sunday school,, from which three
Cinnamon were confirmed last year. The
parish maintains n summer Seaside
Home ut Rockawuy Park; and there are
many other and subordinate religious and
charitable agencies which WI have not
space to describe. Moreover, we have made
no mention of the purely religious services
Of the church.
The parish OF st. Georges is not singular
among the Episcopal and other Protestant
parishes of New York in its multifarious
philanthropic and educational activities. 1t
Is only a conspicuous example Of the enter
prise which marks them all at this period.
TIL sum of their p~ecuniary contributions
and personal services in behalf Of the poor,
and for the improvement Of the condition of
the people Of the crowded districts, is enor-
nous. Add 1t to the aggregate of the rest
of public and private charity and philan-
throphy, and it is hard to see how there can
be any distress left unrelieved in New York;
yet social discontent. continues and seems
to increase portentously, and the appeals
for the relief of poverty and suffering grow
louder and more incessant.
The question canno fail to arise in re-
fiecting minds whether this vast machinery
OF bencvolence is accomplishing actual re-
suits commensurate with its cost and its
magnitude; whether it is founded on n
sound principle or only tends to aggravate
the evil of dependence and to create the
spirit Of pauperism and social rebellion.
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agricultural implements and machinery
we sent to South America In the year
named q quantity valued at el,814,OoO,
and the United Kingdom sent OF similar
commodities S8,24S. 900 worth. or other
machinery, engines, &c. we sent Ss,7Se,-
600 worth, while from the United Kingdom
was exported an amount Of similar articles
valued at %, 406, 900. The value Of Ameri-
can cotton cloths shipped for South America
was S3,476, 900; that of English cloths was
S2S, 3o4 900. In the same year we sold to
South America carriages and carts valued
at e456, oOC; the United Kingdom sold
81, 122, 900 worth OF similar vehicles.
Finally, Of hardware. tools, &c, we ex-
ported to South American countries a
quantity appraised at $4,000 while the
United Kingdom sold them $1,S27, 900
worth of the same commodities. TIL list
comprehonding these five kinds Of products
is regarded by Mr.. SCARCE as the key to the
largest South American markets which
American manufacturers desire to reach. 1t
exhibits the five general classes of mer-
chandise in which we should be able to
compete with England, but of which we
are rs yet furnishing only a small share Of
the amount consumed in South America.
Here, then, Is the opportunity; how shall
it be turned to account In the first place,
Mr.. SEARCH is convinced that United States
manufacturers must send representatives
to live in South America, that they may
learn to understand their prospective Gus
toners and obtain their good will and con-
fdence. He is convinced that the success
of the English, Germans, French, and Bel
gians in extending their trade in foreign
markets Is due in large measure to their
close personal contact with the purchaser.
We also need better facilities for carrying
our goods to foreign markets. On this
point we are reminded that more than two
thirds of our imports and exports were
commonly carried in American vessels,
while now but little more than a tenth Of
this trade is borne under our W flag.
Not only, moreover. in our ocean COM
merce, but also in our financial re-
lations with South American countries
are we dependent upon services rem
dered by foreign Intermediates. We
do $3.50, OOO, 900 worth of business with
South America in a year, yet all u bal
ances have to be settled through English or
European banking house Then. again,
our consular service 10 far from rendering
the assistance in the promotion of trade
which is rendered by the corresponding
services of European nations. From this
point of view it needs to be thoroughly
overhauled, reorganized, and established on
a sound business basis. Finally, AS we have
said, the manufacturers of the United
States want to see the reciprocity treaties,
which have been abropated. renewed. and
new ones added.
Mr.. SEARCH is unquestionably right in
regarding the South American market as
one Of vast and increasing magnitude. No
means Of disputing or controlling it should
be neglected by any American statesman or
business man,
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Defeat has only stimulated the intellect
ual processes of those deep-revolving students
OF the science of government without govern
ment who look with true Altgeldian terror
upon Federal interference with the precious
privilege OF %rioting, destroying property, and
blocking trains. Here. for instance. is q Mis-
souri, journal. the Columbia Herald. full Of fear
and hatred Of the Federal courts. 1t declares
that the Federal judiciary is a danger cloud
on the republics horizon. The Federal Judges.
appointed for life. practically irresponsible.
more powerful than makers of laws, greater
than executors, may be the rock upon which
the republic founders" Which is just the kind
of talk to cheer the heart of the somewhat for
gotten but still hopeful DEBs. The income
tax decision" the Missouri Debsite goes on to
say. was simply one of many decisions
which have gradually centralized power in
this republic, and which are gradually
changing the form OF Government. For
years. slowly but surely the Federal
Judges have insidiously and effectually
attacked tho rights of the States. the liberties
of the individual" The Columbia Herald pro-
poses that the Federal Judges shall be elected.
But this would be too mild a remedy. The Hon.
BENJAMIN r. TILLMAS's plan OF taking the
Supreme Court by the throat" seems better
SUITED to the peculiar notions Of the Missouri
enen j of the Federal courts.
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who Are the Friends of Mckinley Z?

Not the persons who are constantly trying
to breed hatred between the two foremost
Republicans; they are not Major MckiN-
LEY's friends.
One OF their favorlte expedients is to start
reports that when the Fifty-ffth House of
Representatives assemblies, either in extra
session next spring or ct the regular time OF
meeting, q year hence, there will be IN at
tempt to depose the Hon. THOMAS b. REED
OF Maine from the exalted office which he
has earned by service and holds by virtue Of
commanding merit.
This demonstration against the Speaker
IL to be made by "the friends Of MoKIN-
LEY" by running for Speaker some dis
tinctively MCKINLEY man, preferably Gen.
G%RosvENoR of Ohio.
We observe that with great good sense
Gen. GRosvENoR has taken the trouble to
deny this yarn, and to say squareiy that he
expects the election of Mr.. REED as Speaker
in the Fifty-ffth Congress.
On general grounds 1t may safely be pre-
dicted that the friends Of Major MCKINLEY
will not Engage in any such enterprise; and
this for three excellent reasons:
First, the " friends Of MCKINLEY" prob
ably could not prevent Mr.. REEDS reBlec-
tion IL they tried;
Secondly, they would not want 10 pro-
vent it, II they could;
Thirdly. If they wanted to prevent It, and
attempted to prevent 1t, they would only
prove that they were not Major McKINLEY's
friends, but his enemies.
We take it for granted that the friends
Of MCKINLEY are the men who wish him
we'll and desire the success Of his Admins
tration for the sake OF the country and its
prosperity; and this class includes nearly
every American citizen worthy Of the name,
without regard to political nomenclature;
but the promoters of trouble within the
Republican party at this time do not
answer to that description.
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Tho oIney.Pauncefote Agreement.

A question sometimes arises as to what
remains for Congress to do in the settle
ment Of the Venezuela boundary dispute.
1t took a most influential step toward eff
fecting that settlement when it provided for
the appointment of the High Commission
to determine the true divisional line be-
tween Venezuela and British Guiana. Save
for that decisive act, in prompt response to
the call Of Messrs. CLEVELAND and OLNEY,
Lord SALISBURY would presumably have
come to no agreement on the question, be-
ing satisfied with forcible possession, and
with ~encroaching more and more on Venez-
uelan soil. 1t was otherwise with force
menacing force.
But does the OLERY-PAUNCEFoTE agree
msnt require ratification from Congress ?
We do not understand that it does. The
original dispute having been between Ven
szusla and Great Britain. the final settle
msnt must be exclusively between them.
Our country interfered because Eng
land was violating the Monroe doc,
trins by virtually extending her do
mains in this hemisphere. 1t interfered,
. the leader of American republics,
following whose example they had all
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A recent statement by our esteemed con-
temporary the Herald. that Mr.. r. C. LEH-
MAN, who has come to America from Eng
land to relay the foundations of the oars
mans art in Harvard University, is a pro-
%fessional, maintaining hims-!t by coach
ing college crews,'' was an error which
should be refuted, in justice to Harvard as
we'll as to Mr.. LEHMAN.
The truth is that last spring, at the time
of the Oxford-C Cambridge boat race, Mr.. II.
c. WATSON, who has coached the Harvard
crew for the past two years, met Mr.. LEH-
MAN in England, and, in the name of the
men of his college, invited the latter 10
come to America to coach the crew of next
year, saying at the time that Harvard
would certainly be pleased to pay his travel
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thrown of the European yoke, and as being
the only one among them able to cope with
Great Britain should she persist in OPP
pressing and Remembering Venezuela. But
our mission will end with providing a
scheme of arbitration which does not vio-
late the Monroe doctrine. and on which the
disputants agree.
Having obtained E%ngland's assent to
that doctrine as a rule OF international con-
duet, and also to the hegemony oft the United
States in the New World, we next pave the
way for the resumption Of diplomatic inter
course between Great Britain and the
Caracas Government. 1t Is out OF the ques-
ton that Venezuela should be ignored or
should be deposed from her place as n prin-
cipal in the dispute. She broke off relations
with England because she believed that
country substituted force for arbitration in
settling their diffe rences; now she can re-
sumo negotiations with a good grace.
This disposition of the case Is the more
important, rs it relieves US of responsible
ties that we have never desired or purposed
to assume. The first omment Of some dis
satisfied European critics upon IL implied
that ut least we had become sponsor for the
smaller American republics and for their
fidelity in keeping agreements. We have
never coveted q protectorate over them, bat
have desired hat they should be as free
as our country is. And by turning over to
| Venezuela and England the entire duty Of
settling their dispute on the basis we have
secured, the chimera which some persons
had conjured up, of our assuming a liza
bility toward European countries, pecuni-
arily and otherwise, for the deeds and
misdeeds OF the other republics in this
hemisphere, vanishes at once.
AS matters now stand, accordingly, the
OLNEY-PAuNCEFoTE protocol does not re-
quire the ratification Of the Senate, or de-
pend on any action whatever by either
House. Practically the only question re-
naming is whether it will be accepted by
Venezuela. II 1t should not be, the dispute
would be reBpened. But with Venezuela's
counsel favoring the agreement, and Minis
ter ANDRADE urging it Mt Caracas, there is
at least no need OF specializing on what
would happen should it be rejected.
Should the arbitration be carried out, the
United States would be an interested on
locker. not represented by counsel in the
court, but perhaps being able to furnish
much help in the calculation of the case
from the material collected and arranged.
by the High Commission And yet, as
Congress is not likely to be called upon
to act further in the matter, we may
assume that it will not seek. pending the
arbitration between England and Venez-
uela, to learn the conclusions reached by the
High Commission or by any of its members.
AS the next friend of Venezuela, should she
find the terms Of arbitration satisfactory,
we shall expect her to abide by the result.
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The Hon. GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS, for
merry one OF the most eminent Popocrats in
Dedhnm. Mass. has been avenged. His friends
have seeded from the Young Mems Demo-
cratic CLUB OF Massachusetts and formed
a so-called Democratic club. to which they
welcome "Popuiists, Socialists. and other re-
formers The use OF the word "Democratic'
in description of a club OF Popllists, Socialists.
and cranks is nearly as humorous as the public
career of Mr.. WILLIAMS has been.