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The record-union., 1897-10-04

The Philadelphia Ledger says OF the
shortage of coal for schoolhouses in that
city that cannot be accounted for on
honest lines. But then what of itV
Cities always get short weight in every
thing" Is that so? Then it is because
they have short shortcon-
science, short-weight men in executive
departments. A single stalwart man
with backbone and courage, with busi-
ness sense and lots of grit sitting in the
executive seat can assure city or village
of long measure, full. weight and the
bushel heaped up and running over,
Ethically, there is no reason why a city
cannot buy just as cheaply and as wen
as can the private individual Practi-
cally, there should be no reason, either,
A speaker at the recent conference of
business men and ministers in this
city said that Sacramento does not get
the government she deserves: that this
city deserves in all things better than
she gets, and that remark was applaud
ingiy true If not brilliantly original. No
doubt the worthy young business man
who said it believed it. 1t reflects his
desires and hopes, and probably re-
fleets his political action. But it was
error of statement and complaint all the
same Every city gets just exactly all
il deserves when the deserving is de-
pendent upon its peoples action, as in
ninety cases out of ninety-one 1t is. If
a people cOngregated under municipal
forms permit themselves to be cheated.
it Is because there are either thieves
or incompetents at the till. If the sub
stance of a city and its people is wasted,
and it's opportunities are cast to the
winds, 1t is because there are fools in
command or rascals in the seat Of gov
ernment. Now for fools and incomDe-
tents the people are to blame. No IA
ther may deny his child. Likewise, for
rascals and thieves in trust the people
once bitten are blameworthy. Either
this, or self-government is failure. If
jealousy, chagrin, axes to grind, politi-
cal chicane or social spleen keep good
men SO far apart that they cannot, with
the butt end of the ballot keep out the
fellows who tamper with the scales,
then they get just as good as they de-
serve
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From the Ground Up.
CRedding Free Press.)

The Republicans of Sacramento have
nominated an excellent municipal tick
ct. For Mayor they have selected Will
lam Land, the proprietor of the West
ern Hotel. The nominee is a business
man from the ground up He knows
how to do business, and if elected
Mayor will doubtless conduct the busi-
hess of the city on business principles.
That is the kind of man who is want
ed for Mayor. and the people of Sacra-
mento will appreciate the fact.
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Unnecessary Admonition.

Did you tell that young man not to
call here any moreo" asked Mabel's ia
ther. severely.
'N-no."
why not?''
II didn't think thatit was necessary I
don't see how he could call any more
now. He calls seven times a week -
Washington Star.
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THE sPAN1sH-cUBAN QUESTION.

1t is evident that there is a squad of
hysterical newspaper reporters on both
sides the Atlantic who are detailed for
no other purpose than to keep the pub
lie mind in a tumult of doubt and
uncertainty regarding the relations of
Spain and the United States, the doings
of politicians in Spain and concerning
its policy regarding Cuba. Within
week we have had story, assertion, de-
nial, dispute. retraction, reaffirmation,
rebutter and sur-rebutter in the press
dispatches until the mind sickens with
contemplation of 1t all.
The probable truth is that the Queen
Regent of Spain is in trouble over the
formation of a stable Cabinet; that the
Liberals and Conservatives and Repub-
licans are at the very poles of disagree
ment, and that patriotism furnishes
them no common ground; that the Car
lists threaten a rising, and have lately
augmented their ranks from the discon-
tented of all great parties; that the
Spanish policy is to conquer Cuba no
matter how long it takes nor what it
costs; that no proposition has been
made to sell Cuba. and no price has
been proposed for its purchase; that
the American Minister at Madrid has
submitted no ultimatum, has not threat
than express the hope of his Gov
ernment for the early pacification of
Cuba, and that he has rendered the good
offices of this Government to that end
1t is not proved that we have said to
Spain that we will interfere in the Gu
ban difficulty because the war of re-
bellion seriously affects American ma
tional interests. Yet it is true that that
is the only ground upon which we could
interfere unless it is in the name of
humanity. But, then, all war is inhu-
man. We have had many instances of
cruel war and consequent dire suffer
ing, great wrong and absolute brutal
ity, but we have not interfered with
such conditions.
Some instances are catalogued by q
contemporary: AS when Haynau was
butchering Hungarian prisoners; when
Austrian troops were foggtng naked
Hungarian women on the banks of the
Danube; when the Turks were Sitting
the throats of helpless Christians and
beating out the brains of baby Arme-
mans with the butts of guns welded by
Moslem soldiery; when the Chinese tor
tured their captives and buried thou
sands,alive, or killed them by slow mis-
cry and awful dismemberment; nor
when South Americans starved captives
in prison until they died and dragged
prisoners of war to death at the carts s
tail; nor yet when Central Americans
proceed to carve each other to death.
Iftwe interfered every time humanity
called upon US we would be embroiled
in foreign wars so frequently as to en-
ploy all our energies and treasure We
may and should interfere when our ma
uonal interest is imperiled, and We are
now so close to that condition that it
may be said there is justification at
hand for speaking to Spain far more
plainly than we have. Nations in these
days rarely, if ever, go to war for senti-
ment dfsassociated from patriotism
The record-union., 1897-10-04
A Short Time Hence.

Citizen-By the way, have been told
that the Klondike gold is not worth so
much to the ounce as some other
brands.
Returned Klondiker-I couldn't say
as to that We never measured by less
than ton l have no idea as TO ounce
values Enquirer.
The record-union., 1897-10-04

Hugh O'Donnell, one of the more
thoughtful of the labor leaders, has ex-
pressed himself concerning the causes
Of the late coal strike. According TO
this exposition Of reasons, the first
cause is the deadly hostility between
the foreign elements in the coal re-
gions. Secondly, the system of
company stores" which results in the
men having to pay more for supplies
than they can buy for in the open mar
ket. Thirdly. the overplus of workers
and the overproduction of coal The
statistics support the contention OF
O'Donnen concerning overproduction.
Our annual consumption is about 300
100000 tons of coal, whereas the coal
labor supply is equal TO the production
of GOO, ,000, 600 tons New coal districts
have come into the market, and sharp
competition has depressed prices. and
resulted In such a narrowing of mar
The record-union., 1897-10-04

The Sunday Leader" appeared yes
terday in a new form and new dress
eight pages of FIVE columns each, in
stead of four pages of seven columns
each. 1t presented a very neat ap-
pearance. Yesterday was also the
twentieth birthday of the Leader"
The record-union., 1897-10-04
Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Monday; war
mer in the southeast portion; fresh north
erly winds. westerly on the coast.
The record-union., 1897-10-04

These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
Bcribers with charges prepaid. All Post
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast
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SPECIAL AGENCIES.

CIE0lAL AGAA4N(II-o-
This paper Is for sale at the following
places: L. p. Fishers. room q, Mer-
chants Exchange, California street. and
the principal news stands and hotels, San
Francisco.
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corner Second and Main streets.
SAN DIEGO-News Stand, $50 Fifth
street.
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pot.
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Western Business ONCE. THE Rook-
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The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency,
sole agents foreign advertising.
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THE THIRD STAGE.

Pasadena Star: THE third stage of
CALIFORNIA; agricultural development"
is what the California Advocate" calls
sugar beets. The first stage was stock
raising. and the second wheat grow
ing Each has decreased the amount
of land required. Wheat was less than
stock ranging, and sugar beets not one
tenth that of wheat. SO we all the time
with each successive development econ
omize our land. which is the one feat
ure of capital stock that cannot be in
creased
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
as secoDd-class matter.
The record-union., 1897-10-04
THE DAILY RECoRD-UNIor
THE WEEKLY UNION.

TWELVE PAGES.
Is the cheapest and most desirable Home,
News and Literary Journal published on
the Pacific Coast.
The Weekly Union. per year.........a 90
The record-union., 1897-10-04

RECoRD-UNION TELEPHONE
Editorial Rooms Red 131
Business Office. Black 131
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BUSINESS is BETTER.

Santa Rosa Press: 1t is not difficult
to see that times are pretty lively in
Sonoma County this fall. The big crops,
sharp demand and good prices could
not fail to make business animated
With hay, fruit, hops, grapes and other
products selling at a very considerable
advance over last years figures there
is no reason why the farmers should
not feel greatly encouraged, and when
the farmers feel that way everybody
else has the same buoyancy of spirit.
1t is no time for kickers and knockers.
Times are becoming better, and every
body should be glad of it. While the
improvement is due to natural causes,
all should recognize it and hope that
it will continue. Santa Rosa is already
feeling the effects. Business men, gen.
orally say that trade is much better
than 1t was year ago. The people
have had bigger crops, are receiving
more money for them, and as conSe-
quence are spending more. The big
amounts paid out for labor in gather
ing the crops are being disbursed, for
those employed in the fields and can
neries do not hoard up their wealth. All
these things contribute their share to
the general improvement, and help to
keep the ball rolling. That merchants
anticipate a heavier business this fall
and winter than they had last is shown
by the way they are stocking up, and
everybody will hope that their 1udg-
nent will .provp correct
The record-union., 1897-10-04
TURCLU HOTEL

CONDUCTED ON THE Ey7popu .Sr
plan: strictly first class. hot and coid
baths free to ,ssEeSts; electric cars 49,
the door FRANK MEYER, Prop.
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JORDAN ON DEMOCRACY.

Oakland Enquirer: If newspapers
wish to get up a symposium for the
discussion of propositions advanced by
President Jordan. they would do well
to drop the subject of hanging insane
criminals and pay attention to what
the President of Stanford University
has TO say in his late address in Oak
land. as We'll as in other recent
speeches. in regard to popular govern
ment. 1t is much more sensational
than any off-hand opinion concerning
the proper method of dealing with in
sane murderers. President Jordan
says, in effect, that If the object of
democracy is the securing of the most
efficient kind of government, then it is
an abject failure 1t does not, he says,
give us the rule of the wisest and best,
but merely of the average man, and
this is q loose. expensive and inefficient
government. And yet President Jordan
believes in this form of government
only he finds its object is the educa-s
ton of the. people. For them TO know
how to govern themselves, he says, is
The record-union., 1897-10-04
AT HOGANSVILLE.
KEEP HER OUT.

Alameda Encinal: If there is no law
by which such pestilential anarchists
as Louise Michel and her ilk can be
kept out of the country, then there
should be one While there is room in
this country for all self-supporting
friends of liberty there Is no room for
the ,Iost and Michel classes. They do
net know the difference between lib
erty and license and will never learn
it except at the mouth Of a musket or
the aud of rope
The record-union., 1897-10-04
STATE HOUSE HOTEL
Corner Tenth and Sts., Sacramento

BOARD AND ROOM, 81 IS TO 81 PER
daY. Meals onc. !
The record-union., 1897-10-04

THE BELVIDERE HOTEL,
1923 Sixth Street.
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT; NO
Chinese employed or patronized. We so-
licit your patronage Eirst-ciass table.
Low rates
The record-union., 1897-10-04

Accommodations frst-class Free 'bu.
to and from hotel W. j. ELDER Mgr.
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MAS AL
CATARRH

LOCAL DISEASE
and is the result OF
colds and sud-
den climatic
changes.
This remedy d o e s
not contain mercury
or any other injuri-
Gus drug.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16
Religious News Notes.

The regular meeting o, the Union
Bible class of Grace church was omitted
on Thursday evening, owing to illness
in the family of the pastor, Rev. Mr..
Ulrich.
Roger Evans, who for six years has
occupied the position of church Choir
lister at the First Welsh Congrega-
tional church, resigned last Sunday
evening. The resignation has since
been accepted.
The initial concert of a proposed
series of similar affairs to be given
throughout the winter at the Railroad
Young Mems Christian association was
given on Monday evening under the
direction of the Ladies' Auxiliary COM
mttee.
Colonel Sanderson delivered his lee
ture on Granada and the Alhambra"
on Thursday evening in the Elm Park
church parlors to a large audience.
The lecture was given under the direc-
tion of the Zenith Missionary society
of the church.
The sixth anniversary of the Chris
tian EndeavOr society connected with
the Sherman Avenue Mission was an
propriately observed on Tuesday even
ing. Miss Della p. Evans, secretary
or the society, presided and an excel
lent programme was carried out,
Rev. DIR. Joseph x. Dixon delivered
his lecture on THE Great Monuments
of the World" Thursday evening in tbe
Penn Avenue Baptist church. 1t was
the second of course of lectures, Rev.
DIR. Lorimer of Boston, having de-
livered the first Oct. 8. Colonel George
Nox Mccain, of Philadelphia, and Rev.
DIR. John r. Paxton, of New York citv
will next be heard.
The Seventh Day Adventists, who
have been holding tent meetings in
parts of this city for some time and
have now established a regular meet
ing place on North Main avenue. CON
Quoted a convention and revival meet
ing there during four days of this
week, commencing on Tuesday. Evan
gelists c. f. McVeagh and w IT
Smith, assisted by Elders r. A. Under
wood, X. c. Russell ]. N. Williams
and f. l.. Mead, conducted the SER
vices.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16

other remedies; Paine's celery COM
pound is best known from the mouths
of men and women whom it has made
well-they are in every city, town and
village in the country.
No one can pass the newspaper bull
letins without being reminded by how
slight a thread the best of men hold on
to life. The slight ups and downs in
health from which people recover make
them forget that there is a limit to
the bodys elasticity and endurance.
The habitually exhausted nervous sys-
tenn at last loses it's power of recovery
and offers no resistance to disease.
Prevent disease" is the watchword
of the best medical thought of today.
Careful men and women do not wait
until they are fiat on their backs as
people once did. The more intelligent
part of every community has found out
the inestimable benefit to be derived
from Pane's celery compound, when
one is worn out, nerve-tired and out
of-sorts."
The little ills, the beginning of neu-
ralgia and rheumatism, the 'all-gOne"
and tired feelings show the immediate
need of purifying the blood and re-
freshing the nerves. The direct and
energetic way Paine's celery compound
overcomes sick and nervous headaches,
dyspepsia and heart troubles, as it does
all other nervous disorders, has COM,
PEELED the admiration Of the medical
world from the start.
Heartaches, rheumatism, neuralgia,
lfeless feelings, and debility cannot
persist when intelligently met and cor
rected by this greatest of nerve and
brain strengtheners. No remedy ever
kept the confidence of so large body
of inquiring men and women. Try -
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16

Miss Lucy II. Hitchcock, lecturer
department of physical culture, Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union,
Vermont, wrote on May 16, last:
1T affords me pleasure to add my
testimony with others regarding the
healing effects of Paine's celery COM
pound upon an exhausted nervous sys-
tenn"
Aug. u, 1897, she wrote: Gas rule
l do not endorse medicines, but l be-
lieve Paine's celery compound to be of
a different order from the ordinary
medicines. Facts cannot be disputed.
l have derived so much benefit from
the compound that 1 am glad to heart
lily recommend it, hoping others SINH
larly afflicted may be relieved. Any
medicine that will relieve suffering hui
manity is a blessing to the world"
blessing to the world!
Paine's celery compound has been
proven to be the one great remedy that
really makes people we'll This esti-
mable woman, whose Christian work is
earnestly directed toward the better
ment of others. and whose eminence
in the w. c. II. u. makes her advice of
great value, plainly indorses Paine's
celery compound.
The amount of poor health on every
hand is something shocking to every
one who stops to think. Hundreds of
men and women in every neighbor-
hood are today carrying about with
them a needless load of ailments that
a thorough refreshing of their nerves,
purifying of their blood, more sleep
and more regularity in the bodily func-
tions would completely do away with.
Paine's celery compound will do all this
for sick and ailing men and women.
A "hear-say" reputation may do for
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16
BRICKS OF STRAW,
Mixed with Tar and Formed Into
Cubes Under Pressure.

a Polish newspaper announces a new
invention made by a Warsaw engineer
who proposed to the city authorities a
quite original material for street nav
ing. He uses cubes of compressed straw
instead of the wooden blocks used in
some other European countries. The
manufacture of these straw cubes is
carried on according to a peculiar pro-
cess. Straw is cut in pieces of a GER
tain length, impregnated with a fluid
the composition of which is secret of
the inventor, and then pressed in
blocks. The inventor buys up straw in
bales, binds them closely together
with wire and then immerses the en-
tire bundle into a hot solution. the
smell of which indicates that several
materials like pitch, rOsin, tar and
others of the same kind form part Of
the mixture. These bundles of straw
remain for certain length of time
in the solution and are then subjected
to heavy pressure in machine. which
they leave in the shape of ready cubes
According to the inventor this paving
material is cheaper than wood. hut
more durable and stronger, and at the
same time more elastic.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16

Street Baptist church. The ceremony
was performed by the pastor, Rev.
Thomas De Gruchy. The maid of hon
or was Miss Gertrude Pearce the
bridesmaids, Misses Annie and Myra
Pearce and Louise Hale The first
three are sisters Of the bride and the
latter q cousin. Frank Phillips was
best man and Sylvanus Savitts and
Wyman Pearce were groomsmen. The
ushers were: w. II. Morgan, James
Fearce, Arthur Williams, Charles
Smith, Edward Collins, and Thomas
Sweet. The entrance march was an
original composition by Professor J.
Hayden Cousins, who was organist.
During the ceremony, Professor A. E.
Morse played Loves old Sweet Song
on the mandolin with organ accompan-
imcnt. The recessional was from Men
delssohn. a reception was held at the
home of the brides parents Immediate
~ after the ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs.
Decker will reside at the corner of
Price street and North Bromley ave-
nue..
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16
Social Gossip.

Mr.. and Mrs. T. II. Watkins enter
tained at dinner Tuesday and Thurs
day evenings in honor of their guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Holden, who, after spend
ing several davs in this city, returned
with their infant son to New York.
The Otis Whist club, of Pottsville.
cordially invites the Otis club of Scran-
ton to send pairs to tournament in
the former place oct. 10 and 20, when
Mr.. Otis will act as referee. The play
VIII begin at o'clock, closing at s on
the afternoons of the days named. 1t
is TO be hoped that the club of this
city viii accept this pleasant oppor-
tunity to test the prowess of it's expert
players.
The marriage of Mr. James Archibald,
jr, and Miss Margaretta Thompson
will take place next Thursday evening
at Pottsville. A special Z o'clock car
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16
TOmnOrrOW'S Services.

ST. Lukes Farish-Rev. Rogers Israel
rector Rev. EdWar j. Haughton, curate
Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. Eve. of
81. ltuke,s Day, parish anniversary. ST.
Luke's church-7.30 a. m, holy commun-
ion; 9l5 a. m, Sunday school; 1890 a. M.
morning prayer sermon and holy COM
munion; l.SO p. m, evening prayer and SER
mon.
st. Marks, Dunmore-73O a. M, holy
communion; 1880 a. m. morning prayer
and sermon; .. m, Sunday school; 1850
p M, evening prayer and sermon.
81. Georges, Olyphant-Edward's hall.
3 p. m, Sunday school; p. m, evening
prayer and sermon.
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Strictly Ideal,

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
SAY. Sketchy' my boy ! don't want to
md fault with your work, but these girls
in bathing that you've been drawing late
ly are altogether too angelic"
whats the matter with them?"
"'Fhey are not lifelike. They're too love-
ly for bathing purposes. Did you ever see
a girl in bathipg?"
"NeYer,"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16
A Jay inNeW York

Management w. T. Hennessey.
A Grand Company of Artists-including
the famous MAUDE NUGENT, the girl
who wrote Sweet Rosie O'Grady," the
Blondells, Hayes d Bandy, Maynerd
Sisters, Frank Ward, Iotfc Day, w. c.
Davise, the Harbecks, Thomas A. Sedg-
wick, May Davis, Lulu Leslie. WILLIAM
JEROME at every performance.
New songs, new jokes, new dances; every
thing new and up-to-date.
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daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Henry #.
Pearce, Of 1929 Frink street, to Freder-
ick Decker. of Prics street. took place
on Tuesday evening at the Jackson
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16

Rev. and Mrs. Edwin =. Brigham
have issued invitations to the marriage
of their daughter, Mary H., to Mr..
Clarence Valentine June, the ceremony
to take place in the First Baptist
church, Canisteo, N. Y. Wednesday,
oct. 20, at half-past five. Mr.. June has
many friends in this city, having for
merly resided here.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16

The first Excelsior club dance of the
season was held Tuesday evening in
their hall on Wyoming avenue. The
dance was under the management of
the following committee: William Nor
ris, Simon Lauer, William Moses and
NJ. Schwartzkopff. Bauer's orchestra
rendered the music for the dancers.
Refreshments were served by Caterer
Silyerberg.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16

The Rev. A. A. Megmesson, of
Wilkes-Barre, conducted a Swedish
service in st. Marks Lutheran church
on Thursday evening. The Holy Com
munion was administered in the Swed-
ish language and eleven received the
communion
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-16

will convey thither a large number of
Scranton guests. Miss Archibald went
down on Thursday; Mrs. Archibald will
leave for Pottsville today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Belin, jr, gave
a dinner Wednesday evening in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Holden. The other
guests were Mr. and Mrs. T. II. Wat
kins, Mrs. Anderson, Mr., and Mrs. II.
i. Simpson, Mrs. N. @. Robertson.