The record-union., 1897-09-23

ing the impurities in the kettle. ANY
person who win take the pains to ex-
anime the kettle of a still after ap-
parently pure water has been dis
titled from it a few hours will find
residue of slime and earth that look
like sewage and will be convinced that
boiling does not purify. Physicians all
recommend the use of distilled water
and many go so far as to say that it is
a remedy for rheumatism by its ten
defcy to dissolve the chalky matter in
the system and carry it off. During the
prevalence Of cholera in the East the
few people who used no other drink
than distilled water were almost wholly
free from the plague while those who
drank hard water that was found IN
limestone formations were great suf-
ferers from the scourge. To boil water
is simply to cook the animal or other
matter held in solution while TO distill
it wholly separates the water from the
foreign matter and renders it abso-
lutely pure.
THE HAT PIN.
Oakland Tribune: A crusade has
been started against the hat pin, and
the evidence advanced regarding 1T GER
tainly calls for it's classification as
deadly weapon. Several Instances OIL
serious injury from it are given, one
being the case of where by the lurch
of a street car q young lady was
thrown against one of the male pas
sengera, her hat pin penetrating ms
right eye and destroying it's s1ght. IN
another case a girl playing tennis col
lided with her partner and her hat PIN
was stuck into one of his eyes, max
ing 5lirn totally blind. A serious accl-
dent is also reported regarding a lazy
who was being driven home in cap
The driver had to pull up short to
avoid a collision, the lady's head
bumpcd against the back of the We
hicle and her hat pin penetrated her
skull. These are but samples Of many
cases of the kind, but they show the
great dangers of this article of the toi-
letta. 1t should be retired. if possible
THE LYNCHING HABIT.
Los Angeles Times: This business of
lynching malefactors seems to be be-
coming so universal that 1t is a colo
day when the descending sun sees not
a Job of first-class hanging done some
where in the world Either this is a
contagion in the public blood or else
this United States Republic is not
the only contry in which laws ap-
pear at times to be administered IN
the interest of criminals rather than
to the vindication of justice 1t is Ger
tainly to be deplored that the people
anywhere are too impatient to wait for
the machinery of the law to work, but
much of their impatience may be at
| tributed to the weak and wobbly way
in which the legal machine performs
its operations We may be sure that
if the people felt confident that the
courts would administer fitting punish
ment to the guilty, men would not
| imperil their freedom by indulging IN
| lynching bees. 1t would seem as though
the courts would eventually awake to
the situation and effectually put stop
to the illicit operations of Judge Lynch
by swift convictions. quick sentences
and speedy executions. If this We're
done in all cases, the stigma of lynch
ing would be removed from the coun-
try, the public peace would be pre-
served and human life would be rem
dered safe from the pistol of the
assassin and the bludgeon of the foot
DaQ. Let tue COuI - QO tiiS11 0OIS ~eAAN@
the people. we may hope, will do
| theirs Meantime outraged public
sentiment may be expected to contin-
ue the removal of Objectionable indi-
viduals until such time as the courts
get a good ready to perform the hon
est duty for which they are created.
OUR MERCHANT MARINE.
Los Angeles Express: For thirty-six
years the free trade press has wept a
sea of tears over the decay of our mer-
chant marine. The cause of the decay
was, of course, the protective tariff
| laws which We're enacted to encourage
shipbuilding and the operating of ships.
! The decay like the tears, is all in their
eve. The American merchant marine is
a pretty lusty thing as it is. Where it
| falls short of the full measure of its
growth is where other countries make
competition impossible because of the
| subsidies they pay their ships The
trouble is not in our protection, but that
we do not encourage shipbuilding as
much as our rivals do.
| But the American shipping industry
is not dead by great deal. We have
! %. .633 documented craft flying the stars
| and stripes. and the gross tonnage reg
istered is 4, ,769, 020. This is an increase
| of 65, 400 tons for the year. The increase
| is mostly in steam tonnage, which now
nearly equals sailing tonnage.
| During the year there were built in
the country forty-!wo steel steam yes
sells with a. tonnage of 76, 253, and three
! iron steam vessels of 1,S19 tons. There
were also built 302 steam vessels of
wood the total tonnage of which was
| 1892. The total number of steamers
built was 347, and of sailing vessels
| 3S2. Of these sailers eleven were steel.
| The total number of all kinds of yes
| sis for the year was 729, or twenty
more than in the previous year. We
built twenty-five more steam vessels
this year than last and five fewer sail
ers.
The merchant marine of the Great
! Lakes forms a very large fleet. Some
of the steamers plying on the lakes
equal in size and otherwise some of
the finest that cross the oceans.
It is directly due to our protective
shipping laws that we have this mag
nificent fleet. These laws prohibit all
carrying between domestic ports in any
foreign vessels. Were it not for this,
cheap ships of foreign nations, manned
by cheap seamen, would drive our flag
literally from the sea.
Agony.
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