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The record-union., 1896-10-15
THAT LABOR REPORT.

The Trade and Labor Assembly Of
Chicago has dealt the Bryanites a dead
ly blow 1t sent committee to Mexico
to ascertain just what are the facts rel
ative to labor conditions in that silver
country. The report is conclusive on
the subject.
The committee say that labor is de-
based and that the pay Of the laborer
paid for the same service in the United
States, while the condition of the
worker with us is infinitely better.
The Mexican worker is content with a
low wage. corn pone and beans. clay
floor for bed and single blanket for
covering. His quarters are scant, his
ambitions 'nil,'' his pleasures few and
opportunities for him to rise do not ex-
ist.
Women and children receive from 25
cents a day in cotton-seed mills, broom
and soap factories, where men get 3112
to 80 cents day Mexican money. The
skilled mechanics are always foreigners,
and native laborers' wages are very low.
The committee says 1t was shocked"
at the condition Of the workers in
Mexico, but this shock was modified
when it ascertained that the laborer
has no ambition to live better or earn
more, and is really IN a most abject
and spiritless condition In Mexico the
employer has not brains to contend
with in labor lines, and hence it is that
there is a seeming of content.
The whole tenor of the report sus-
tains the contention OF the Republican
party that cheap labor such as is
the rule in free-silver Mexico Is
the very last thing we want in
the United States, and that civiliza-
ton has most to do with the question
involved In the words Of the COM
mittee, while progressive nations have
been going ahead, Mexico has been
marking time It is a good country for
the shrewd employer, who makes money
because of the debased labor condi-
transformations that would not be toll
Grated for day in the United States
The record-union., 1896-10-15

1t will be farce to vote for McKin-
ley and protection and against Con-
gresham, and legislators who make
United States Senators, who are nomi-
nees of the Republican party. No mat
ter whether one likes the nominee per-
sonally or not-it is not now ques-
tion Of personal likes and dislikes-he
should send a delegation to Congress,
so far as his vote can do it, that viii
stand to the support of Mckinley and
the protective policy, Of which he is the
foremost living advocate.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

The Bryanites constantly point to
Russia as free silver country. Let us
see how true that Is. The rouble Is legal
tender in the empire, but there is no
such thing in Russia as silver or any
other coinage to individual account and
without that there is no true free coin
age. The result is that Russia has the
largest stock Of gold and the smallest
amount of silver in her vaults Of any
nation. But in Russia the silver rouble
has practically gone out of use; silver
depreciation was so rapid and danger
Gus that in 1893 the Government by
Imperial decree disassociated itself
from the silver rouble, and business is
now done on paper that has taken its
place, the Government retaining the sill
yer basis still, but coming only on its
own account and keeping the metal by
Government pledge at the value OF
81 1-3 cents in gold for a piece contain
ing but twenty-eight cents of pure
silver.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

Bismarck is a patriot He would be
far less if he did not desire to promote
German interests before any other. Ger
many has $10O,OOO.0OO of silver on
hand, and has had ever since 1877, when
Bismarck put Germany on a gold basis.
Silver has since then steadily fallen and
Germany's store Of the metal is not
worth now more than $51, ,OOO,OOO OF
course if the United States adopts free
coinage Germany will hope to get rid of
her silver at better price. "Hinc lilac
lacrymae."
The record-union., 1896-10-15

The removal OF the Iron Gates" the
natural obstruction in the Danube, has
much of significance for US. 1t makes
the Danube a great free highway for
nearly all ships from Vienna to the
Black Sea. This new artery Of COM
merce will develop traffic Of enormous
proportions by cheapening transporta-
ton and bringing the Black Sea region
nearer to the European markets. This
will intensity the competition between
Black Sea products which come into the
worlds markets in conflict with ours.
The record-union., 1896-10-15
AN ESCAPE CAPTURED.
A Y0lo Officer Takes in Harry Des-
mOnd, the Burglar.

Harry Desmond, the burglar who es-
capped from the Yolo Jail last Monday
In company with Joe Sprout and George
Irving, was captured in this city near
Twenty-eighth street and the north
levee last evening.
The capture was made Deputy Con-
stable Hines of Yolo. who had been on
the trail of the fugitive. Desmond was
lodged in the County Jail, and will be
taken over to Woodland this morning.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

1t really seems that Mr.. Bryan has
permitted his vanity to swallow his
judgment. He appears to think that if
he makes a speech in a community that
particular section is irrevocably bound
to vote for him. He probably believes
what he says when he declares that he
will carry every State in the Union
He is undoubtedly sincere when he de-
ciares that he will be elected. He is so
convinced that the tariff question cuts
no figure in the campaign that he re-
fuses to discuss it. and treats the Ques-
tions asked him concerning the protec-
ton Of American industries as silly and
not worthy of attention. This is the at
titude of the over-confident man, al
ways a dangerous position. Mr.. Bryan
would be more respected IL he did not
The record-union., 1896-10-15

What does this mean? The Bryan
papers are slurring Tillman Have they
at last awakened to the truth that TILL
man is plain and emphatic speaker
who tells tales out Of school, and in re-
vealing the hidden meaning Of the
Chicago platform has alarmed the
country and aroused the patriotism Of
the people to defense Of American insti-
tutions?
The record-union., 1896-10-15
Land Patents Signed.

Governor Budd has signed the fol-
lowing land patents for sixteenth and
thirty sixth sections: Henry L. Cole, 4C
acres In Sonoma County; George F.
Baldwin, so acres in Monterey County
James B. F. Fitzgerald, 12O acres in
Mendocino County; H. A. Messenger
40 acres in Calaveras County; w. B.
Stoddard, $40 acres in Humboldt
County.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

And still wheat goes up and silver
goes down. Where is that Bryan state
ment that was chalked on so many
blackboards, to the effect that the prices
Of the two commodities keep pace? We
have not heard much about it of late.
Has it been retired?
The record-union., 1896-10-15
Affidavits as to personal character

Aff1daVltS as 70 PERSONAL character
may be necessary to allay suspicion or
to attract the simple minded, but what
has the manufacturers private charac-
ter to do with the efficacy of his So
called "cure?" Ely's Cream Balm de-
pends solely upon it's reputation Of
years as cure for catarrh in all its
stages. 1t is absolutely free from mer-
curry or any other drug injurious to the
system. Apply directly to the diseased
Pmembrane.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

The silence of "Silver Dick" is omin-
Gus. Since he was made second fiddle
at the New York meeting Mr.. Bland
has retired to his plow and is still in the
furrow with never a word to say.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

1t will be entirely practicable and
consistent for Congress when the Re
publican party comes into authority to
order all the store of silver belonging to
the Government to be coined into silver
dollars. This can be made legal tender
to the extent of $50 for all manner OF
silver coin we mint. Then let no gold be
struck from the mints, or any paper
based on gold be issued in denomina-
tions of less than $40. For convenience
of handling let silver note of $40 issue.
Thus we will at once vastly enlarge the
silver currency for domestic use, rel
egate gold to the uses Of commerce
other than domestic, not drive gold out,
but give us rest from the financial agl-
tation until such time as international
agreement can be achieved, and that 1t
will be is ON all sides conceded.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

The Chicago Record" has been TAX
Chicago. The returns are as yet in
complete. OF those in, the showing is
70 per cent. for Mckinley and p pei
cent. for Bryan. In 1894 a similar straw
taken in the same way in the same six
teen wards showed 81 per cent. Repub-
licans, 80 per cent. Democratic, IL pei
cent. Populist.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

Drive out the impurities from your
blood and build up your system by Gre
ating an appetite and toning the stom-
ach with Hoods Sarsaparilla, if you
would keep yourself well.
Hoods Pills are the best after dinner
pill; assist digestion. cure headache.
% cents.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

treat 50 cavalierly a matter that has
been put squarely in issue by the plat
forms Of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties
The record-union., 1896-10-15

DR.. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, tho
most efficacious stimulant to excite the
appetite, keeps the digestive organs in
order.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

Uncle Boies of Iowa has been still as
mouse since he was turned down at
Chicago for Bryan. His silence in the
campaign is distressing to the Bryan
ties
The record-union., 1896-10-15
Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Thursday, ex-
cept partly cloudy along the coast; fresh
variable winds, becoming brisk to high
southwesterly on the coast.
The record-union., 1896-10-15
LAND AGAINST CAMP.
Decree of Foreclosure Granted by
Judge Johnson.

Judge Johnson yesterday granted q
decree of foreclosure in the suit of Will
lam Land against j. E. Camp for S15,-
600. The matter Of the claim of d. O.
Mills & Co. against the same property
under a trust deed, was taken under ad-
visement.
s. B. Smith was appointed commits.
sioner to sell the mortgaged premises
his bond being fixed at $4,000.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

Electric light fixtures and electrical
supplies. Tom Scott. the plumber.
303 J.
The record-union., 1896-10-15

Nelson. Mary Anderson, Langtry, John
Brougham, Patti and Jenny Lind
The record-union., 1896-10-15
The Proper Thing

To do when buying a mandolin. guitan
banjo or anything in the musical line
is to visit all the other music houses,
ascertain their prices and then call on
US and see how much we can save YOU
Do this and you will make money!
Hammers Music Store, S1S street
The record-union., 1896-10-15

To Cure a Cold I'm One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money If is
fails to cure. 25c.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
CHAPTER. LII

Mr.. Carteret could not sleep that night
1t seemed to him at every moment as
though he saw the PROSTATE form, the
rigid features of the man whom he had
always considered his enemy. and the
haunting recurrence of whose face now
gave him intolerable pain. He could not
help remembering that Eleanor had once
loved this man, and the remembrance
added bitterness to his thoughts.
For what right had he to prevent a
meeting between the husband and wife :?
He had not been so tender a father him
self that he should dread the pain for
Eleanor, or even resent the way in which
Hervey had treated her. Surely it would
only have been fair to allow him to plead
his own cause, and to take her away-if
she would consent to go-from the place
in which she had been miserable.
For she had been mlserable-he knew
that now. He knew very well that every
line of her face breathed unhappiness;
that she had grown pale and thin; and
that her beauty was well-nigh worn away
with secret fretting and with tears. He
knew it, and yet it seemed to him as if he
had never acknowledged it until now.
Lancelot Hervey's words had shown him
the aspect which his conduct must wear
in the sight of others. And he did not
like the aspect at all.
To think of it as a kind of cruelty
went home to him with curious sharp
ness. He had always considered that
he was behaving extremely well to
Eleanor. But what would she say
now if she knew that he had carried
his harshness and hardness of heart
80 far as to deny her husband access
to her, and afterward to wrestle with him,
to fight with hint had an ugly sound
until he fell to the earth deadl These
were the thoughts that troubled him all
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
The Giant Wolf.

The giant wolf, the woodland wolf,
Strobe southwark down the winu,
And the gale yelled keen and the moon
cleaned green,
And the little stars blinKed blind.
The seething snow snakes twined before
And hissed through the knotted grass,
And he heard overhead the sheeted dead,
That dance in the whirlwind, pass.
His shag gray locks roughed with the wind,
His white teeth fanged with wrath;
Now God be good to the man whose blood
He smells before his path!
Now God be good to the man whose feet
On the snow blind, swirling way
Shall meet the blaze of his hungry gaze
And the snarling fangs that slay.
And happy he that sits al home,
Where the corn-fire smolders warm,
When alone in the white OF the whirling night
The gray wolf walks the storm.
HERBERT BATES.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
Marriage.

Love springs as lightly from the human heart
As springs the lovely rose upon the brier,
Which turns the common hedge to floral fire,
As love wings time with rosy-feathered dart;
But marriage is the sublimest work of art
OF all the arts which lift the spirit higher;
The incarnation of the hearts desire
Which masters time-set on mans will apart.
The many try; but, oh how few are they
To whom the finest of the arts is given,
Which shall teach Love, the rosy runaway,
To bide from bridal morn to brooding even:
Yet this-this only-is the narrow way
By which, while yet on earth, we enter
heaven. MATHILDE BLIND.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
Our Babu's Shoe.

We had some bitter words, my wife and l,
About some trivial thing-I made her cry.
Too bad-it left us sadder than before,
Till through the shadow of an open door
Our spaniel, Hector, came and gently laid
There on the carpet where sunbeam strayed
tiny burden. All, how well we knew
That little worn-out thing-our baby's shoe
Our little one, our darling, ours no more
Since God had beckoned from the other shore
And now this treasure from its hiding-place
Came like the memory of our baby's face
Blindly we found it through haze OF tears;
Gone was our anger, gone our doubts and fears
Each in soft pity for the others pain
Love touched our hearts and gave US peace
again. WALDRoN w. ANDERSON
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

II will see her now," cried Hervey, with
one of those sudden bursts Of impulsive
rage VIII ich had been his bane through
life; and with sudden, swift movement
he tried to pass the Squire, who barred his
way. But the Squire would not bulge.
In another moment the two men were
wrestling together as if for life; and they
were more equally matched than one
might have imagined. for the Squire,
though old, was muscular, and Hervey
had the strength of feverish passion. But
such struggle could not last very long.
Suddenly the younger man gave way and
went down like log-as 1t seemed to Mr..
Carteret, without any especial violence on
his part. Down he went into the snow,
which had drifted into a bank by the
path, and a mass of snowdrift fell over
and across him, as if it meant to bury the
PROSTATE form from sight And Hervey
did not move.
The Squire, becoming suddenly ash am ed
of his vehemence and alarmed at his SON.
in-law's stiffness, drew near and peered
down into his face. A horrible thought
seized him. Was the man dead? And
dead by the Squire's own act2 He had
committing crime, but now it flashed
across him that he might be guilty oi
murder if Lancelot Hervey died.
Not movement, not a gesture, not a
sign! The mans face was rigid; his
glazed eyes showed family between the
half closed lids; the mouth had fallen
open. Mr.. Carteret felt his heart, but ii
seemed to have ceased to beat. There was
no stir of pulse at his wrist, no throb al
his temples, no faintest futter OF life OF
breath. After a long examination the
Squire rose painfully to his feet. He had
seen death before-he could not be mis-.
taken in its signs.
II will fetch help" he said to himself.
"I will go to the stables-surely someb body
will be about Or no, 1 will go to the
too late-too late!"
He took few steps along the road, and
then new thought came to him which
made hin hesitate. The man was GER
tainly dead. If the Squire went for help
he would only arouse curiosity-susp picion
even. Would Eleanor suspect him oi
having brought her husband to his death
What was the use of going for help at all
John Carteret went back to the dead
man s side. Yes, he was dead. He was
rigid already. He was past the power oil
help. The best thing, therefore, was to
leave him where he was. The gardener
or the lodgekeeper would find him in the
morning and nobody would hear more
than that stranger had been found dead
in the snow, just inside the Squire's ave-
nne. 1t was the easiest way to say moth
ing-to do nothing.
And so the Squire walked slowly back tc
the house and entered it with bent
shoulders and hanging head, as Eleanor
had remarked from her vantage point
within the door of the little darkened
room. And it was the last thing that she
was likely to suspect-that he had left her
husbands dead body by the wayside, in
the snow
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
Woodspuree.

Dark, thinned, beside the wall of stone
The box dripped in the air;
Its odor through my house was blown
Into the chamber there.
Remote. and yet distinct the scent,
The sole thing of the kind;
As though one spoke word half meant
That left sting behind.
knew not Grief could go from me,
And naught of it be plain,
Except how keen the box can be
After fall of rain
LIzETTE WooDwoRTH REESE.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
GEMS FROM THE POETS.
The Old Mans Christmas.

pve always been stickler for the plain and
simple truth
And never quite could tolerate a lie;
But is it right to disappoint the glowing hopes
of youth?
And is II always wrong to falsify?
believe Pm strictly honest-and my hair has
turned TO gray
But Sir, l speak exactly as feel
When answer childish queries, and emphat-
iea,ly, say.
That still believe old Santa Claus is real.
Experience has taught me, sir, that what we
say is ''real'-
No matter what we wish, or think, or do
Is affected very largely by the way we chance
to feel
1t depends entirely on the point OF view.
lonce believed that loyalty and love would
ever last;
Ithoughtne one my happiness could steal;
Since then like fleeting phantoms those '.reali-
ties" have passed.
To-day say that Santa Claus is real.
FRANK S. PIXLEY.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
A Doubt.

You say you love me now. No doubt
You think you do; you may be right.
The winds of summer blow without,
And all is life and light.
But in the dim days yet to be,
And under their wan skies with rain,
Might not the heart you ask of me
Throb only with its pain?
Will love be then one-half so sweet?
Or life a rapture that endures?
Or will it pass with flying feet,
This dream of mine ana yours7
And if love dies new hopes and fears
Make new life for men apart;
We women only see through tears
The shipwreek OF heart!
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25
Copyright, 1896

An unknown man in Westville Conn,
sent thirty cents in postage stamps to the
Treasury Department recently as con-
science contribution. He states, that while
guarding commissary stores during the
war, he took from sugar barrels at various
times many Jumps of sugar, the value of
which, with interest since that time, he
computes at thirty cents,
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

The longest distance to which projec-
tile has been thrown was at Shoeburyness
Eng, on April Is, 1888, hen Longgridg ge
wire-bound gun threw shot q, 1858 yards,
or twelves miles 23S yards.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-25

The most cos tly tomb in existence is
that which was erected to the memory of
Mohammed. The diamonds and rubies
used in the decorate ons are worth two
million pounds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-30
RAILROAD NOTES.

The railroads will give a one-fare
rate for the Saengerfest.
The Sunset pay car went west
this morning.
Mr.. l.. j. Fox, tax agent of the
Southern Pacific, arrived from
Houston this morning.
Mr.. 6. w. Polk, assistant land
agent of the Southern Pacific, is in
the city.
superintendent ID. X. Colburn,
of the building and bridge depart
ment of the Southern Pacific, is in
town.
DR.. w. F. Carver's horses were
shipped to Hou ston over the
Southern Pacific last night.
Attorney T. d. Cobbs, of the
Southern Pacific, came in this
morning from the east.
The little son of Dan Toomey,
resident engineer OF the Southern
Pacific, was bit on the leg by dog
at his home, SIC Crosby street, Sat
urday night.
The Arkansas Pass will make a
big cattle shipment Thursday from
the Alice branch to the Indian
Territory.
President Rouse, of the Katy ;
Colonel Satterlee, Mrs. Raymond
and Mrs. Brooks left for Cali
fornia over the Southern Pacific
this morning. The balance of the
party left for the north yesterday
Live Stock Agent John K. Ros-
son, Of the Katy, is. in town.
Mr.. s. p. Williams, the popular
livestock agent for the Katy in
this city, is happy over the arrival
OF baby girl.
Mr.. E. A. Hirshfield, Of the
Fort Worth and Denver, is in the
city, booming Cripple Creek.
Mr.. G. 7. Leake, chief clerk OF
the Railw ay Mail service Of Fort
Worth, spent Sunday with Chief
Clerk Lippold on South Presa
street and left for San Marcos last
night to examine several clerks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-30
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Cause and Effect.

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Many Doctors can see the effects only, such
as are visible to the eye, and treat the sym.
ptoms, but while the cause exists cure is
impossible and herein lies the secret of so
many failures. The skilled Specialist devotes
all his study to a few diseases and become as
familiar with them as you do with the faces
of your family. When he sees a Skin Dis.
ease, he knows just where the cause lies, and
just Whist to do.
If you have exposed yourself to disease and
there appears a suspicious sore, to his ex-
perienced eye, it becomes plain whether 1t is
poison in the blood or a local trouble.
So it is with Lost Manhood, Gonorrboes,
Syphilis, Early Vices, and other Diseases OF
this class.
DIR. CLEMENS has devoted years to these
diseases and possesses skill and methods OF
treatment unexcelled.
he can cure Structure without cutting, dill
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WEATHER BULLETIN.

The barometer is low over the
entire southwestern country with
slight depressions over south
Texas and south Kansas. Cloudy
weather prevails over east and
central Texas, north Louisiana and
Arkansas, and light sprinkles of
rain have fallen at San Antonio
and Galveston.
The weather is quite cold over
the Texas Panhandle and Colora-
do, a morning temperature of 36
degrees having been reported from
Amarillo and of 30 degrees from
Denver. To the south and east the
temperatures are high and cooler
weather is in prospect for central,
south and east Texas.
The average temperature for
San Antonio is 66 degrees, with
the wind from the northeast, blow
ing at velocity of five miles an
hour.
Showers are predicted for to-
night, and fair and cooler weather
for tomorrow.
S. B. PFANNER, Observer