The record-union., 1896-06-19
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
OF INTERIOR CALI
FORNIA NEWSPAPERS.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmentaI, Practical, TheOret-
ical and Current.

Kern Echo: Considered from its
climatic and Typographical features
there are few States where such force
is needed as badly as in California
since there are few State where escape
is as easy or search for fleeing criminals
as difficult as here. During fully three
fourths of the year life and health are
not exposed by living on the ground.
An escaping criminal sleeps where
night Cor probably where day) over
takes him, and if hard pressed for food
the fields at nearly all seasons will
yield something which will sustain life.
But population is sparse and noun
famous country abundant, both fac
tors in favor of the fleeing criminal.
FIFTEEN NIGHTS OF DARKNESS.
Oakland Tribune: San Francisco last
year made the highest tax levy ever
known in the history of that city. It
is openly charged by the local press that
scandalous corruption has prevailed in
the municipal administration. The
money has disappeared. There is an
empty treasury. 1t would have been
empty had the taxes been doubled.
AS there are no funds, it has been
practically decided that the city shall
remain in darkness during the fifteen
nights of the present month. Dark
ness invites crime. Heaven knows that
there is great surplus of crime in that
city when it is we'll lighted, and that
many of the most desperate criminals
are never detected.
There is statutory provision that
only one-twelfth of the money in the
several funds shall De appropriated in
any one month. This one-tweIfth limit
having been exceeded by passing the
funds from one department to another,
and over-drawing, the great city of San
Francisco having doubled it's rate of
taxation during the last five years is
now without any money TO pay for
street lighting. There is a prospect Of
tallow dips and kerosene. with full play
for the criminal element on dark nights.
WHERE'S THE MONEY?
Bakersfield Californian: A city paper
has lengthy article under this head
ing: In the interests of horticulture
Why Farmers Fail in State Co-opera-
tion-They Won't Put Up Money"
If this sapient instructor of grand
parents in the art Of sucking eggs
would kindly find some farmer who
has any money to put up" for any
purpose, he might have some reason
for his plant Perhaps he will explain
how a man can put up" something
which he has not
UTILITY OF THE BICYCLE
Stockton Record: The thorough util-
ity of the bicycle can in no way be so
well established as by those roads runs
) T. !,
men of the interior are annihilating time
and space with their records, and in
short time the proximity of towns and
bamlets will be expressed by the min
utes it takes for a bicycle run.
No unusual emergency has arisen in
this country since the avent of the
bicycle to test it's full capacity for use
fulness. Had it been in existence dur
iEg the Civil War it would have been
q factor in the Union cause. At the
present day the introduction of the BIZ
cycle is not primarily for practical use.
But the wheelmen who are reaching
out into neighboring cities are fast
demonstrating it's great range of use
fulness.
THE WONDERFUL WHEEL.
San Diego Union: Still there are some
SdiiSiS Dy Lie DiCyCle tIdLc OulSlue VI
the men who make or deal in wheels
and their employees. Butchers and gro
GERS are said to notice in their trade
the good digestion and keen appetite
which bicycling brings to its votaries.
The little wayside hostelries, now not
so frequent as of yore, find return to
something like the prosperity of olden
days. But the greatest gamers of all
are the wheelmen and wheelwomen
themselves. The words of a noted phys
ician on this subject are of interest
Not within 200 years." he declares,
has there been any one thing which
has so benefited mankind as the in
veEtion of the bicycle" and he added
that thousands upon thousands Of
men and women who till within a few
years never got any outdoor exercise
to speak of, are now devoting half
their time to healthy recreation, are
Strengthening and devolping their
bodies, and are not only reaping ben
efits themselves, but are preparing the
way for future generations which will
be born of healthy parents"