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though, were still worth more as bullion
than as money and went out of circula-
ton as fast as coined, leaving our coun-
try with a gold standard, and we have
had gold standard ever since 1910,
when the ratio was changed from 10 to
to Is to /. Before that we had a. silver
standard and the gold all left the coun-
try as fast as coined because ii was
then worth more as bullion in the mar
kets of the world than as money at
home. The fact of the business is that
this country never really did have a
double standard for single year in all
it's history, for one metal or the other
was always worth more as bullion than
as money and went out of circulation
as fast as put in.
ON LENDING MONEY.
San Jose Herald: A Stockton paper
declares that no money can be bor-
rowed from San Francisco banks on
San Joaquin valley farm lands and at
tributes it, by a queer process of reason
ing. to the decentralization of silver
and the contraction of the volume of
money by the destruction of one-half
OF it," This, it claims, has caused de-
cline in the value of land and may cause
a still further decline, which is the rea-
son why the bankers refuse to loan.
OF course this is all exceedingly fool
ish, yet probably it will deceive some
people. Silver is not "demonetized; :"
there has been no contraction of the
volume of money by the destruction of
one-half of it," there is more money in
circulation to-day per capita, by 20 per
cent, than there was before the alleged
demonstration" of silver; there is
about 81 100000 in gold and silver
in circulation, or represented by paper
certificates, where there was none be-
fore decentralization, and it is all le-
gal tender and receivable for all pub
lie and private dues. Before demon
etization" we had no gold OF silver
nothing but deprecated paper Yet this
silverite organ is either ignorant or un-
facts as it does.
If it had any conception of monetary
questions it would understand that the
bankers and business men of the whole
United States, and also of Europe, are
waiting to see what we are going to do
about the money question before they
loan money or make investments.
With the threat of free silver coinage
hanging over them the banks do not
want to loan unless they know what
kind of money they are going to be paid
in. Also they want to know what the
probabilities are that the borrowers will
be able to pay them in any kind of
money. They know that a change to
the single silver standard, which will
surely follow free silver coinage, will
cause a great financial revulsion; and
they simply refuse to take any chances
on loaning with such revulsion in
r1.oSppct
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ANECDOTES WORTH TELLING.
Each Has a Streak of HumOr or a
Grain of Philosophy.

A writer in one of the English re-
views relates that during a conVerSa-
ton with George Eliot not long before
her death, vase toppled over on the
mant1epiece. The great writer quickly
and unconsciously put out her hand
to stop its fall.
II hope" said she. replacing it, that
the time will come when we shall in
stinctively hold UP the man or woman
who begins to fall as naturally and un-
consciously as we arrest a falling piece
of furniture or an ornament"
A tutor Of one Of the oxford colleges
who limped in his walk was some years
ago acoosted by well-known politi-
clan, who asked him if he were not
the chaplain of the college at such a
time, naming the year. The doctor re-
piled that he was. The interrogation OBJ
served:
Il knew you by your limp"
We'll" said the doctor, ut seemed
my lhnoing made q deeper impression
than my preaching"
"Ah, doctor" was the reply, with
ready wit, "it IS the highest compli-
ment we can pay a minister to say that
he Is known by his walk rather than
by his conversation"
Socrates, the ecclesiastical hiStOriog-
rapher. reports a story of one Pambo,
a plain, ignorant man who came to a
learned man and desired to teach him
some pslam or other. He began to read
unto him the Both psalm: II said
1 viii take heed to my ways that sin
not with my tongue" Having passed
this first verse, Pambo shut the book
and took his leave, saying that he
would go and learn that point first.
When he had absented himself for the
space of nine months he was demanded
of his reader when hewould go forward.
He answered that he had not yet
learned hts old lesson, and he gave
the very same answer to one that asked
the like question forty-nine years af-
ter
Sir Ashley Cooper, on visiting Paris,
was asked by the surgeon zen chef" of
the empire how many times he had
performed certain wonderful feat of
surgery. He replied that he had per-
formed the operation thirteen times
'Ah, but, monsieur, I have done him
16O times. How many times did you
save life?" continued the curious
Frenchman. after he had looked into
the blank amazement of Sir Ashley s
face.
t." said the Englishman, saved
eleven out of the thirteen. How many
did you save out of 1902"
"Ah, monsieur, lose dem all; but de
operation was very brilliant
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SOME FANCIES IN FOOD.
A Tuition Chop Would Have Been
AbhOrred by the Thebans.

From the. beginning of time there has
been always some variety of fruit, fish
vegetable or meat which certain por-
tions Of mankind refused to eat Among
the edibles at some time or other under
the ban were the apple, pear, straw
berry, ounce, bean, onion, leek, aspara-
gus, woodpecker, pigeon, goose, deer
bear, turtle and eel.
The Jews have an antipathy to pork
On the other hand, this meat was highly
esteemed by the ancient Greeks and
Romans, as frequent reference to it in
accounts of banquets is made. At the
great feast held annually in honor of
Demeter roast pig was always the piece
de resistance. Those who took part in
another Grecian festival abstained,
however, from beans.
Mice are esteemed in China and some
parts of India, while, on the other hand,
the Egyptians. Greeks and Jews alb
horred mouse meat. In old Egypt rats
and field mice were sacred and in Greece
the mouse was sacred to Apollo.
People have abstained from eating
flesh which we think is pretty good
stuff. For example-the Thebans would
not touch mutton-and what can be
Saiu against a JUICY mutton cIOp! Inc
Romans sneered at the Egyptians be-
cause the latter would not eat onions
and garlic, while on the other hand the
Romans refused to touch woodpecker
stew.
1t is claimed by students that antipa-
thy to any kind OF meat has it's origin
In the peculiar custom and belief called
toteism. There is time in the history
of every people when they claim kin
ship and descent from wild beasts and
birds. This particular animal is the
family totem and they religiously re-
frain from eating it. No member of the
bear family, for instance, would eat
bear meat II starving.
The survival of antipathy to certain
foods was found among people so high
ly civilized as the Egyptians, Greeks
and Romans. The goat could not be
eaten in Mendes, nor the cat in Bubas-
tbs, nor the crocodile at Ombos, nor the
rat which was sacred to the sun god.
In Greece families were named after
plants as well as animals.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA. COUNTY
of Sacramento, ss.-In the Superior Court,
in and for said county.
The People of the State of California TO
THOMAS ELDRIDGE, GEORGE Ell
DRIDGE. ALBERT c.. WOLF, IRA
GOULD, MINNIE J. MARTIN, JUDSON
HANCOCK and GEORGE B. HANCOCK,
You are hereby notified that an action
was commenced in the Superior Court or
the County of Sacramento, state afore-
said by filing a complaint in the Clerk
Office of said Court on the 6tA day or
June 1896 in which action FREDERlCk
MIER and MARY A MIER are plaintiffs
and you are defendants.
That the general nature Of the action,
as appears from said complaint, is as fol-
lows: To obtain judgment against the
aboye-named defendants adjudging and de-
creeing that they have no title or interest
in or to that lot or tract OF land in the
CITY of Sacramento and state of Califor-
MIA described as follows: Commencing at
a point on the westerly line OF lot number
eight seventy feet northerly from the
southwest corner of said lot, thence run
ming northerly along the westerly line of
said lot number eight seventy feet to Oak
avenue: thence easterly along the south
erlv line of Oak avenue sixty feet; thence
sontberiy at right angles to Oak avenue
seventy feet and thence westerly at right
angles with last named line sixty feet to
the place of beginning, ana that plaintiffs
their title be quieted thereto, and for costs
of suit. All of which is fully set forth
in the complaint on ME nere1n reference
TO which is hereby made, and you are
hereby directed to appear and answer
said complaint within ten days from the
service of this writ, exclusive of the day
of service If served on you in said County
of Sacramento; and within thirty days. ex-
elusive of the day of service, if served
elsewhere; and you are further notified
that unless you so appear and answer
within the time above specified the plain
tiff will apply to the Court for the relief
In witness whereof, I, VIM B. HamiI-
ton, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do
hereunto set my hand and afilx the seq
1896.
ISeal.) w. b. HAMILTON, Clerk.
By E. s. Wachhorst, Deputy Clerk
Holl Sc Dunn, Attorneys for PLAINTIFFS.
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Mckniey'S First Vote.

Some of the campaign biographies are
In error in locating McE<inley's first vote.
His first vote was cast for Abraham
Lincoln in 1864 1t was cast in Virginia
while his regiment was in the field, and
the three men who went with the young
Lieutenant TO the ballot box were Philip
II. Sheridan, Rutherford B. Hayes and
Alfred Fl. Terry. All four voted for
Lincoln-New York Mail and Express.
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voter who is entirely free from the
temptations that besst the time-serving
politician or the ambitious place-seeker,
would give even small share of ordi-
nary attention to his duties as stock
holder in the municipal corporation, the
evils which he so loudly complains Of,
and which he yet condones by his nom
action, would speedily disappear. The
duty of citizenship is personal, and no
one can depend upon his neighbor to
perform it for him. Proxies are prohib-
tied in voting opinions. and should be in
voicing them"
The record-union., 1896-07-09

The Buffalo Express" in the wit
test Of sarcastic strains, deplores the
businesslike, open and manly methods
of Mr.. Hanna, McKinley's manager. In
the name of the memories of the dead
and gone bosses, what right had this
frank, square and level-headed busi-
ness man TO supersede the ways OF the
willy politician with the straightfor-
wardness Of the business man. with
nothing to conceal and everything to
do in the open. The Express" says:
Nobody but a mere business man. an
amateur of politics, a doctrinatre and
a dreamer, would have thought OF pur-
suing the course Mark Hanna took to
nominate William Mckinley. He ac-
tually applied to politics the same SIM
rle, direct, vigorous methods by which
ne has succeeded In his regular business
Not being familiar with. or, as some
might say, hampered by, the traditions
of politics. he had nothing to fall back
upon save his mercantile experience
In the iron business, Of which Mr.. Han
1a is a. student If you wish to prosper,
you must first produce better line
you must first produce better line OF
goods than any of your competitors, and
then dispatch your drummers to visit
the trade in advance Of all rival
houses. Mark Hanna concluded that
Mckinley was the best thing in the
Presidential market this year. And ne
sent out his travellers very early. When
the professionals came TO visit the de-
bata.bIe States they found that the am
ateur Hanna and his agents had been
there months before. Instead of being
satisfied TO divide the territory" In
quiet. conservative way. the Cleveland
iron man and political dilettante IN
sisted on having all the delegates.
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The boiling Of men from conventions
and from former lines Of fealty, the de-
parture of newspapers upon new tacks
in political waters, and the protests
against party action by partisans, none
of these in themselves have elements
that should alarm. The fact is that the
right to bolt is a sacred one, and we
have no condemnation for the man who
conscientiously exercises it. His judg-
ment may be wrong and the proper sub
ject for switching sharply, and for the
most incisive criticism, but the absolute
right to bolt is not to be denied nor is he
to be lampooned for availing of it. Who
ever sees a thing in the light of to-day
differently from his view of it in the
light of yesterday, is sound in the con-
slstency that is right to-day regardless
of yesterday Where the bolt is made,
however, to win the applause of the
moment to puff self into undue prom
inence, to satisfy disappointed greed or
sooth denied ambition where it is made
with an eye single to the main chance,
and is merely the manifestation of the
demagogue, there is no language too Sc
we're, nor terms of reproach too bitter,
with which to visit such hypocrisy.
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While two hundred of the chose

While two hundred of the chosen
daughters of California were marching
at Monterey in the form of an Amer1-
can flag and singing the "Star-Span-
gled Banner in honor OF the seand-een-
tenIlaal of the raising of "Old Glory on
these shores and the acquisition of this
fadr land, what was tTanspiping at Chi
cagodn the headquarters Of the Demo
cratic delegation from Cali foGIta.2 Why,
almost at the same hour BlaokbuSn OF
Kentucky. by invitation, was roaring
the praises Of treason IN the California
rooms and declaring that he and Billy
Foote, who welcomed him, had first met
as blanket mates in the most glorious
period of their lives when fighting for
the Confederacy and against the flag OF
the republic. And he added that which
should have been uuSadd, no matter hoGg
much felt, that he had no regrets for
his act and no apologies to make. and
he and Foote were proud of this "segv-
ice" to their country. And then the
crowd sang and what were the melodies
which scorched the air and shriveled
the breath of patriotisn9 Not the di-
vine strains Of the air that the women Of
California were singing at Monterey in
honor of a. glorious achievement by Com
modore Sloat No, but there was roared
out THE Bonnie Blue Flag" Dixie"
and other songs reminiscent Of rebellion
and blood and million Of lost lives. Is
treason to mount the saddle once more,
reinforced by A1tgeld anarchism and
anything to VIM? Is the love of the
Union to be conternned and the men
who did to death the representatives OF
the law who fell in Haymarket Square
In '87 to be newly honored and the he
roes who died in the trenches from I'll
to '65 be insulted by the bravado OF
rebel bullies as they faunt their despite
In the faces Of freernen?
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The Philadelphia Times" a Demo-l
cratic paper of the most sturdy type,
declares that it will support Mckinley
in preference to a candidate of the Chi
cago convention on a platform of silver
ruin and all manner of economic here
sizes. 1t is not for gold to the exclusion
of silver, but for sound money in both
metals. But as to the free silver craze,
this old time Democratic war-horse
says: THE free silver heresy has grown
10 fearful proportions, but its strength
Is chiefly the creation of cowardice
Politicians have feared it and bowed to
il until they have been driven step by
step to the very verge OF Repatriation
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS-ESTA
of DAVID STRAUCH, deceased. Notice
is hereby given by the undersigned,
Magdalena Strauch, executriX of the last
will and testament Of David Strauch, de-
ceased, to the creditors of and all per-
sons having claims against the said de-
ceased, to exhibit them, with the neces-
sary vouchers, within four months after
the first publication of this notice, to the
said executriX, at the law office of Alex
ander, Miller & Gardner, No. 4051a J
street. of the city of Sacramento, the. same
being her place for the transaction of the
business of the said estate in the county
of Sacramento, State of California
MAGDALENA STRAUCH
Executrix of the last will and testament
of David Strauch, deceased.
Dated at Sacramento City, July /, 1896.
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and anarchy, and while they have been
driven by a frenzy, they have been
steadily intensifying and strengthening
1t by sheer cowardice,"
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The Chicago Times Herald" an in
dependent journal, says of Mr.. Hanna
as Chairman of the National Republican
Committee:
Under Mark Hanna's Craftsmanship
no Republican leader worthy of the
name will be ignored. No unworthy
alliances will be made. No unnecessary
dollar will be collected, and no dollar
will be expended except for legitimate
purposes. There viii be no rainbow
chasing. Business-like methods will pre-
vail at headquarters. The books OF the
committee will be kept so that they
may be at any time open to the inspec-
ton of those who have right to see
them. There will be no deficit to be met
four years later. No mud will be
thrown Personal issues will not be al
lowed to becloud the great questions at
stake.
The campaign will be conducted on
dignified plane, and the methods en-
ployed to secure success will be worthy
alike of the candidate and of the cause.
OF these things Mark Hanna's Chair
manship is a guaranty.
The record-union., 1896-07-09
Weather Forecast.

Northern Caiifornia-Fair Thursday;
continued warm weather In the Valleys;
light northwesterly winds on the coast,
probably light fog along the coast.
The record-union., 1896-07-09

Very evidently everything goes" at
the National Democratic Convention.
The order seems to be anything you
want, and if you don't see it, ask for
if >,
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Mayor Ochs of Chattanooga declares
in a recent essay that the bad citizen
shin of the good citizen is the main
cause of our municipal ills. This Is
the neatest possible way of putting the
whole question of municipal reform
If they who claim to be good citizens
do each the full duty of the good citizen,
there will be no municlpal mismahase-
ment. nor any municipal incompetency
In office or trust. AS Mayor Ochs well
saws: .Tf the man o- property, the man
of brains. the citizen who has neither
political debts to pay nor pohticai Ia
yors to seek, the really independent
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Entered at the Postofflce at Sacramento
n second-class matter.
The record-union., 1896-07-09

Edward Atkinson, the distinguished
political economist and statistician, in
his latest essay ON business depres-
sion, says that the discredit of the
Bland-Sherman legislation caused the
panic and depression of 1898. Now he
predicts, If the present attempt to dis
credit affects business no more than 5
per cent, 1t will mean the compulsory
idleness Of 100000 workers, as that
number represents 5 per cent. of the
"a, 100000 workers in the land. But if
discredit assumes a graver aspect, as it
threatens to do under the propositions
to which the Democratic party is now
tying itself, the paralysis that will fol-
low will be too fearful to contemplate
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The Other Barrel.

Inqufring tourist Gin an Oklahoma
eStauIant)-Thaa is q novel idea of
yours, surely, calling your guests to
dinner by firing off one barrel of your
shotgun But pardon me. why do you
discharge only one barrel?
Proprietor EARLY Bird Restau1ant-I
keep the other Ibar'l to collect payment
for the dinner with.-Harper'S Bazaar.
A dream of being clothed In silk de-
notes ultimate wealth for yourself and
happiness for your family.
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There is going to be a funeral in No
vember. The Democratic party is to be
buried and Altgeld will be the officiating
clergyman Or, rather, as one of the
press reporters in Chicago better puts
it, the Democracy is digging it's own
grave with silver mattock and Alt
geld is the sexton.
The record-union., 1896-07-09

Now where is justice hiding her di-
minished head? Here is a fellow in
Michigan. who, having won the affec-
tions of a maiden and been .betrothed
to her, lost his girl by the wiles of a
her affections from him. The original
lover sued to recover in damages, but
the unfeeling court Casey VS.. Smith,
recovery, and the unhappy lover loses
not only his girl but his suit. Here, now,
is another opportunity for Democratic
Convention to denounce the growing
tyranny of the courts and their tres
passes upon human rights, ETC., etc.
The record-union., 1896-07-09

In the midst of so much misrep-
concerning American
finances and systems, it may be well to
call attention to the fact, which the
official records show, that the per cap
ita of gold money in the United States
is to-day: Gold, So IS; silver. SS 80;
paper, So 80; total, $23 80. France,
which is so often compared with the
United States, has, per capita: Gold,
S22 10; silver, S12 IA; paper, so So: to-
tai, $50 rs Germany has: Gold. $12 u;
silver, 81 20; paper. 81 IS In the
United States our stock of gold is
S61S. 100000, silver, $625, ,600,O 900, of
which $54S, 10000 is full legal tender.
and SIT 100000 limited tender. There
are but two other nations having so
large a stock Of silver money, namely,
India and China, while France has
nearly two numbered millions more OF
gold than the United States, and Ger
many slightly exceeds us. England
the United Kingdom-has less than the
United States. These are the facts
shown by the statistics.
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The only surprise is that the National
Democratic Convention, while waiting
for the report of committees yesterday
did not adjourn to Haymarket Square
and hear speech from Johann Prudhon
Altgeld from the foot of the monument
erected to the memory Of the nineteen
dead policemen Altgeld's pardoned an
archiets blew into kingdom come in
1887. With Altgeld roaring disloyalty
from the base of that silent figure in
bronze representing the majesty Of the
law. with Tammany braves dancing
scalp quickstep around the massive
pedestal and with the atmosphere still
blue with the disloyalty and treason OF
AItgeld in 1894 when he denied the
right of the President of the United
States TO throttle the conspiracy to
seize the Government and unloose the
tent hooks of the republic, and when
he patted rioters on the back as they
killed and burned and wrecked, what a
glorious day yesterday would have been
in the city by the great lake of the blue
waters and the mild-eyed white fish.
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