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The record-union., 1896-03-29

as well as the frank but not carping
recognition of error may go in the way
of enlarging art perceptions, stimulat-
ing to better performance. and broaden
ing the capacity to see the beautiful and
appreciate its influence in molding
character?
But the practical side of all such insti-
tutions is broad, however coldly examin-
ed. 1t is sascertained from its register
that the School of Design in its history
has sent from its classrooms. more or
less better equipped for life's duties,
nearly 400 human beings. mainly
from the homes of Sacramento, every
one of whom, by reason of the education
received, has. in some degree been better
capacitated to help himself and herself
Their tastes have been refined, THEREON
ceptions of natural beauty broadened.
their ability to see the symmetrical, ap-
preciate the true and discover the un-
graceful has been enlarged and
strengthened.
More than this the institution has
opened up to them knowledge of a
means of expression that is closed
against those who are limited to speech,
song and mechanical means. 1t has
qualified them in some degree to apply
this method of expression to the design
ing of forms used in all branches of
trade and manufacture, and thus euip-
ped them to greater or less extent in the
directio of practical application of skill
to the mechanic arts and commerce.
In this issue of the Record Union
are number of fanciful quick drawn
headings, four of which on little more
than an hours notice were originated
and executed by some of the pupils of
this local school by request of the Rec
ord-Union," in order to test the ca
paeity to design with rapidity and ex-
press thought in visible forms other
than those of the alphabet 1t is simple
justice to say that the most of those ap-
pearing this morning are from the quick
fancy and ready pen of one of the
youngest of the pupils, mere child in
deed. 1t is fair to say also that very
much of the original beauty and the
grace of these designs have been lost
in the redrawing upon metal plates for
the zincographic process.
But this is aside; our purpose is to call
attention to the local art Institutes ex-
hibftion thus prominently that it may
have the examination by the public that
is its due, and that the School may by the
people be more availed of and be made
more useful as an educational factor,
by receiving, as it deserves, a very
much larger and more general support
than it now has. Sacramento cannot,
even in the face of the State institution
of like character, permit it's own school,
the pioneer in the interior Of the State.
one that has won it's position through
merit and the courageous support of the
association at its back, to suffer for
want Of that material support which it
deserves, and which assistance and en-
couragement is asked by it's promoters
to be made manifest only in the direc-
ton Of an enlarged number of pupils,
for it is neither a charity nor a beggar.
If there is any institution in the com
munity addressing the finer sensibili-
ties and tastes, that gives more of value
Of an imperishable character for the
cost of maintenance, we have yet to
learn of it
The record-union., 1896-03-29
Just What is Needed.
Butte County Pendulum.)

The old, reliable Record Union" of
Sacramento has concluded to branch
out in the journalistic field, and will
henceforth issue a Sunday edition. 1T
has been a mystery to us for a long time
why that journal should be content to
see the field occupied by the Bay papers,
when it was in position to give its
readers the news so much earlier in the
day. If there has been any one thing
that the Capital City needed it was a
good seven-day service of the news, and
we are glad to see that the Record
Union" is going to fill rne field.
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tramps there is wide difference. Pretty
well acquainted with the policy, charity
and mercifui kindness OF the people of
Sacramento, we know of no instance in
which they have foisted their depend
ents or mendicants upon other commu-
mites. The "oft-repeated offenses'' of
which the Appear complains exist
only in the imagination Of our eontem-
porary. 1t will be pleased, perhaps. to
name single instance of the kind, and
it is given, liberty to run down the rec
ord for twenty years past if it chooses
The truth is, that our contemporary
has seized opportunity to pose as an in-
dignant but it really has no cause for
it; no reason whatever for dignifying
its fanciful grief with editorial proni-
nence.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Our esteemed contemporary the
Marysville Appeal should contain it
self and hold hard upon it's temper
The Record Union the other day con-
tanned a news item to the effect that a
distressed family in a wagon passed
through Colusa from the north, on the
way, they said, to Sacramento, to place
the head of the family in the County
Hospital. The poor people drove a
half-starved team; the husband lay
sick in the wagon, evidently dying of
consumption; the wife was wan and
weak, and the little children in rags and
hungry. Upon this representation the
"Record-Union" said locally, that Sac
ramento taxpayers maintain hospital
and home for indigents of their own
not for those of other counties, and that
it costs the taxpayers a round sum an
nually to care for the poor who should
be succored in their own communities.
Upon the strength of some such re-
marks, the Appeal boils over in this
manner in leader editorial:
Coming from any other place than
Sacramento we might have overlooked
this spirit of petulancy. From that
place it comes with very poor grace.
Marysville is made the dumping
ground for a very large fraction of the
itinerant unfoTtunates of society by
reason of it's peculiar location. Sacra-
mento is similarly situated and natu-
rally gets more of the class that needs
consideration, but for every one of the
mendicantS sent to her she more than
repays the courtesy whenever the police
or executives of that city get on one
of their periodical spells of reformation
Then the Capital City creates worry
among the neighbors that is in no way
compensated for by an occasional con-
signment of hospital or poorhouse sub
jects 1t may be a small and trivial
matter, but the Capital City should not
manifest such a spirit on the face of its
oft-repeated offenses along the same
lines.
Sacramento does not ship its indi-
gents away 1t has never done so, nor
has it failed to relieve very many of
those of other counties. Migrants.
thieves and the wolves OF society it has
warned away, and. some it has driven
out. Between the worthy poor, the
sick and distressed, and the vagrants,
FOUNDERS. thieves and professional
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Not everything is running smoothly
for the Japanese in Formosa The war
like, the ferocfous Fornosans viii not
remain whipped. A new revolution has
broken out, or rather a new rising to
expel the invader" and the little
brown men are having the liveliest
kind of a time in holding their own in
this spirited isle. The suspicion that
the Chinese officials are secretly sup
plying the Formosans with arms and
ammunition is taking the form of real
ity. But the Japs win overcome the OPP
position to their occupancy of this rich
spoil of war as certainly as they over
came the Chinese Empire and wrung
from it humiliating peace.
The record-union., 1896-03-29
At the Art Gallery.

There was busy note of preparation
all day yesterday at the Art Gallery
where the pupils of the School of De-
sign, of the water color class of Mr..
Jorgensen and the committees of the
Camera Club are arranging some 700
examples of their work for the annual
exhibition to be held tomorrow night
The exhibits already up give conclusive
proof that the coming exhibition Will
be the largest and best yet held.
The record-union., 1896-03-29
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The Nevada City Herald" says:
'Roentgen named bis peculiar discov-
cry the x ray because he did not know
what else to call it,
That is right. In algebraic formula
x is the sign for the unknown guam
tity.
The record-union., 1896-03-29
Three Migrants.

Laura Steinnailler, Kitty Woodward
and Annie Bell were convicted yester
day in the Police Court of vagrancy,
and Laura was sentenced to seventy
days in the County Jail, while the others
will keep her company for the same
length Of time.
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be impossible. Men are too brutal, and
they need the restraining influence OF
law. Ideal anarehisrn, or the age of no
law, is only possible when mankind is
perfect. But State socialism is possi-
bic. and is just the remedy for our
present troubles
Eds. Record Union: Who was
Stradivarius? Where can his violins
be had and at what price? SACO.
Lodi.
Antonio Stradivari He died in 1877,
and hence to procure his make of vio-
Inns is difficult, and you can only get
them of collectors and estates to which
they have descended If you have
handy $4,000, you may coax one to
your possession, but be careful; there
are plenty of limitations prepared fol-
the innocent buyer
Eds. "Record-Union'': There has been
so much dispute relative to the origin
of the word news that / make bold
to ask you if it is settled that it is de-
rived from the cardinal points of the
compass-N., E., W., S. Please an
swer and settle a. debate. ELSIE S.
Sacramento.
That explanation is an old but a
purely fanciful one. Notes and Que
ries" settled the question long ago by
pointing out that news is simply from
the adjective new. The word appears
in the Genevan edition of the Bible,
1860 prov. XIV, 25). The word news
was known a hundred years before
newspapers appeared
The record-union., 1896-03-29
Tbe Prince of or1eans.

This gentleman of princely birth has,
while in his long exile, accepted from
the French Republic the Cross Of the
Legion of Honor. He is going to try
Sutter Bourbon next. B. K. Bloch &5
Co., agents.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

We will place on sale Monday 200
gray enameled teakettles, No. size,
soc; No. Z, 60c; No. 8, zoe; No. 8, SOC.
This is imported ware of superior quail
ity, and prices are about half their real
value. A. c. S, Eighth and K.
The record-union., 1896-03-29
BUREAU OF INFORMATION.
Some Odd Questions Briefly Answered
Herein.
Information Given to Inquirers on
Subjects of More or Less Gen.
eral Interest.

Eds. Record Union: You sometimes
use the word preparedness. Is it a good
word? PUPIL. &
The record-union., 1896-03-29

The California Fruit Grower says:
having visited every county in Califor-
MIA, is reported to have found the best
roads. in the counties of Santa Cruz,
Santa Clara and Yolo. The question of
at least fairly good roads in any coun-
ty in the State is merely one of honest
and business-like management of the
enormous road fund every year wasted
in nearly every county in California. !"
That is a mistake. There may be the
best management in the world so far
as mere business administration is con-
cerned, and no good roads result. The
something else needed is knowledge as
to what good road is; knowledge that
a razor backed ridge is not good road;
knowledge that a canal-like gully is
not a road; knowledge that road build
ing is now recognized as science, re-
quiring special instruction; knowledge
concerning materials, grades, drainage,
binding qualities of the units of road
finishing of the surface, them fact,
the whole business should be, must be,
in the hands of skilled men, if there is
to be economic use of the public fund
and the attainment. of desired ends.
Di Rudini has declared in the italian
Chamber of Deputies that he is opposed
to the policy of colonial expansion in
Africa. This statement, of course,
caused a sensation, following as it did
upon the heels of a declaration that ne
g0tiations for peace with Abyssinia are
favorably progressing and will proba-
bly, be concluded in a few days. The
temper of ITALY for continuation of the
war with Menelek has been manifested
by the attitude and words of the King.
1t is not therefore improbable that the
Di Rudini Ministry will collapse unless
there has been a very decided and gem
eral shift Of public opinion in Italy, of
which we have not yet heard
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Eds Record Union: Will you kind
ly inform through the medium of your
esteemed paper if man with no FAM
lily is eligible for School Trustee, or
what men are eligible? And oblige,
yours very truly, z. Y. x.
Blue Canyon.
Certainly he is eligible. The most
moSs-g grown old bachelor in the world
is eligible, and generally they make
pretty good School Trustees, these same
bachelors.
The record-union., 1896-03-29
THE LAW AND SUICIDE.

The New York Senate has passed a
bill to repeal that part Of the Penal
Code making it crime to commit sui
eide. In California the Penal Code
makes it felony to aid or advise one
to commit suicide. It is probable that
the Assembly will concur with the New
York Senate, since the burden of opin-
ion in that State is that the law as it
no doubt that the law was born of good
intention. 1t was the purpose, clearly,
to make attempts to commit suicide
odious, and to rob such efforts Of SYM
pathy and heroism. 1
The demand for the repeal comes
from sentiment approved by the medi-
cal world and the lawyers, who hold
that an attempt to commit self-murder
is evidence of a diseased condition of
the brain: that a sane person never
makes such an attempt that to pun
ish for failure to kill ones self is no
more reasonable than to punish for
having rheumatism, tuberculosis or
pneumonia. The strongest argument
against the law, however, to the lay
mind is that the statute as it stands
simply prompts would-Jbe suicides to
make sure work, and thus the number
of successful suicides is augmented.
4 The law has been many years a dead
letter, and has not been enforced until
recently, when the Recorder of New
York sent an unhappy fellow to prison
for a year for doing his self-appointed
job so i'll that he failed of death. If
the contention of the faculty and bar
of New York is sound-and it is chari-
table to so hold-then of course it is
farcical to punish for having diseased
mind. But the question whether the
California law to which we have re-
ferred is open to objection is not a
debatable one in fact. That statute
should and will stand. He who at
tempts to influence another to do self
murder is not within the category of
those to whom the New York doctors
and lawyers refer. Really, the aiding
and abetting one to kill himself is just
as much attempt to do murder as aid
ing one to kill some other person.
The record-union., 1896-03-29
uptown Rranch once.

AT A. c. Tufts Drug Store, southeast
corner of Tenth and ] streets, where sup
scriptions viii be received for the Dally ly
alone. OAK PARK AGENCY-At ]. I.
Bakers grocery, corner Railroad anu
Magnolia avenue
The record-union., 1896-03-29

A very good word. 1t is noun. 1t is
found in any standard dictionary. 1t
is good English, and means much
The record-union., 1896-03-29
Record-Union TeIepho

Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
Ne second-class matter.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Go to wilson's stable, 318 K street.
New horses, harness, buggies; finest
turnouts in the city.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

The free market for Sacramento, If it
is established, ought to be ready for
use next month, as spring produce is
offered for market. There has as yet
been raised no voice against the propo-
sition. Why, then, is it not taken up by
the Chamber of Commerce and the city
authorities?
The record-union., 1896-03-29
SacrannentC

Eds. Record Union: Just what is
anarchism? I can't find a satisfying
definition anywhere. RUSTICUS.
fa
The record-union., 1896-03-29

If Uncle Kruger leaves his safe home
retreat in the Transvaal and comes to
England at the command Of Lord Sal
isbury, he will prove himself ever SO
many kinds of fool.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Ideally it is perfect peace and rest;
practically it would attain that end
through absolute violence and fear.
Neebe, the Chicago anarchist, just out
from a seven-years' term in prison,
thus defines it: "Anarchism under
our present state of civilization, would
The record-union., 1896-03-29
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carrier Sent by mail at 81 30 per year.
The record-union., 1896-03-29
THE WEEKLY UNION
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Is the cheapest and most desirable Home,
News and Literary Journal puonsneo on
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The record-union., 1896-03-29

Tuesday 5 Specials.
csc Gowns, 60c.
Ladies' White Muslin Nightgowns of good
muslin with new style yoke and fine trim |
mings. Worth 95c each. Special on Tues
day at 60c.
BleaChed rIuslin, 7C Yard.
36-inch wide Bleached Muslin good, even
thread soft finished for the needle and free
from dressing. Special Tuesday at &c yard.
Ladies' Shoes at Half.
A large mixed lot of Ladies' Seamless Foxed
Button Shoes. Not all sizes, but all have nice |
cloth tops and patent tips. They're worth
from 81 to So pair. Tuesdays special
price, 81.
25c Suspenders for 15C.
Mems Wire Buckle Suspenders with patent
grip back and drawer supporters. Actual
value, 25e pair. Tuesdays price, 15c.
Paper Napkins.
With picnic time near at hand comes this
price tumble in napkins. Fancy BorGered |
Jap Paper Napkins, worth everywhere 15c |
per hundred. Tuesday, 10c per hundred.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Eds. Record Union: Is the gold
fish of a class by itself, and where does
it come from? G. T.
Sacramento.
1t is of the carp family. and by breed
ing and dWarfing has been brought to
what it is. It's cultivation is prosecuted
in the Orient, among the Japanese and
Chinese especially.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Eds. Record Union: Is the Mormon
Tabernacle choir that is coming to Cal
| ifornia composed of Mormons only, or
are there other singers in it?
The record-union., 1896-03-29


This naner is for sale at the following
places: l.. P. Fishers, room Il, Mer- %
chants Exchange, California street. lne ne
principal News Stands and Hoteis nsaaa anu o.
the Market-street Ferry, san francis@co' Sl So
! LOS ANGELES Eclectic BOOK StoIe'
corner Second and Main streets oo 7,,e4,,
SAN DIEGO-Emmal & Co., SOU fhll
street.
-CoRoNADo-Hopkins & Cox, Coronado
Hotel
SANTA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES news
Depot.
FRESNO-C. T. Cearley, I'LL ] street.
SANTA CRUZ-Cooper Bros News De-
pot.
Also for sale on all trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
Eastern Business Offices.
<''The Tribune" Building, New York City.
Western Business Office, THE Rook-
cry Chicago.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
sole agents foreign advertising.
The record-union., 1896-03-29
Special Agencies.

1aa,+or,a1 Poems Red 131
Ruginass 0ff1ca Black 131
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Holmes. PHOTOGRAPHER. 1908 Tenth. =
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Eds. "Record-Union' To settle a dis
pute, can you find out for US if the
Beers pay their President. The claim is
made that he gets only house rent and
trusts to the Legislature of the repub-
lie to appropriate money for his sup
port. This is told me by one who lived
at johannesburg. / don't think it is so.
Sacramento. ABEL
You are right. "Unc1e Paul. gets the
snug sum Of between S34, 900 and $685.
900 year. The exact amount we can
not give. He has besides $1,000 a year
allowed him with which to entertain.
This is called coffee" money. 1t is
this latter fact which misled your in
formant, probably.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

If the jubilee in celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of
gold in California, and of the making
of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by
which California was acquired, is to be
a reality in 1885, it is not one moment
too early to get to work. 1t is neces-
sary that the whole State shall be
sounded on the subject and the people
informed somewhat in detail as to what
is desired. It is necessary, therefore,
if anything is to be done, and well done,
that the formation of plans, at least
the taking of counsel concerning them,
should begin now. Wherever the idea
has been broached it has been received
with favor. But the movement ought to
emanate from Sacramento, from the
point where Sutter founded his fort;
from the spot from which Marshall
went out and made his discovery of
gold at ColoTna; from the city where
of all others most historic interest CEN
ters concerning the event to be COM
memorated.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Eds. Record Union: When was the
present Car Of Russia crowned? And
where did the ceremony take place?
L wish to refer to it in a sketch 1 have
to prepare. CELIA.
He has not yet had his coronation. Tt
is to take place early this year, prob
ably in May.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

We understand that only saints,
are allowed to sing in that choir. BY the
way, it will repay you to hear that
choir; it is superior.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Lowell said: THE more sympathies
we gain or awaken for what is beauti-
81, by so much deeper will be our SYM
$4thy for that which is most beautiful,
the human SOUL" If every parent would
keep this truth in mind and endeavor
to quicken the sensibilities and percep-
ticns of children for all that is beauti-
full in art and in nature, infinite good
would be done to childhood and man
hood and womanhood be the better as
sured of safe anchors for life's voyage.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Now that there is to be war in the
Soudan again, OsnIan Digna comes to
the front once more. We had believed
this old warrior dead. Certainly English
news had him killed off a dozen times or
more. 1t will be remembered by readers
how Osman Digna twelve years ago
used to advance every now and then
on a devoted city in the Soudan, and
every now and then resurrected and set
to fighting again. Then, when the war
was over and England backed out of the
Soudan poor old Osman was written
up as dead and done for sure. But here
we have him again alive and to the
front, and we are assured that the new
Mahdi relies upon the old slave trader
to stand between him and English
bayonets. The next time Digna dies
we trust that the correspondents from
the Nile will have a jury of identifica-
tion make certain the fact before they
report it and write up the warrior anew.
The record-union., 1896-03-29

Eds. Record Union: Who was
Stradivarius? Where can his violins
be had and at what price? SACO.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-05-03
REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE.

and you by keeping the standard OF resi-
dences up 10 those OF the city ten SQUARES
east of us, where a half square recently
sold for SO per front foot.
We sell lots from sll 10 $50 per front
foot, and every one Of them are fancy
home sites, for we have the modern CON
veniences; our car service. electric arc
street lights free United States nalI-de-
livery. streets and sidewalks. midst grand
parks and drives, are not surpassed in
any part Of the city. Then the modest
taxes we pay here are so much less than
in the city that on a fine residence this
item alone Will quite abundantly supply
your table.
We will furnish you house-plans and
designs until you are perfectly satisfied.
free Of charge, and build you a house on
long credit. plain per cent Interest.
after you own or secure the payment FOR
lot to put Il on, either solid walls or
cased with brick or granite only. The
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known; while costing slightly more than
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ence 10 live In. CONSULT G. Ii. A.
BALL ON THE GROUND DAILY Az
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By +. A. Catlln, Auctloneer,
No. north Eleventh street.
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TRUSTEES SALE

TWO NICE FRAME HOUSES ON TAY-
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F. X. Ellis & Co. Auctioneers.