The record-union., 1897-01-10
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Vi the State and the Coast on SUBJ
jectS Of Living and News
Interest.

Bakersfield Californian: In selecting
Its horde of useless attaches the Legis-
lature appears to have been governed
solely by the desire to provide each
member of the majority with a certain
amount Of patronage" The needs of
the public service are entirely ignored
as usual, and the political needs of the
legislators are made the paramount con-
sideration. The list of employees in
cludes any number of gatekeepers, as
sistant gatekeepers, ushers and guards,
clerks and all manner of highly paid at
taches who have nothing under the sun
TO do except to kill time and draw their
salaries Of S. to So day, whereas they
gould not earn more than 81 a day on
their merits.
LYNCH LAW.
Fresno Expositor: The Governors
Recommendation that county be COM
PEELED to pay to the heirs of person IL
legally executed, a sum of money, is
good one, but the dolorous view and
weird descriptions of crimes committed
years and years ago would certainly
give rise to erroneous impressions with
those residing abroad who should
chance to peruse his message. Cali
fornia has been freer from lynchings
any other State in the Union as far
as it is possible to learn. The contrary
would be imagined from the Governors
message.
SERVED HIM RIGHT.
Los Angeles Times: On Tuesday last
An San Francisco Police Judge Low sent
to prison for the term of six months
butcher named Scheyer, who had been
convicted before him of selling portions
of diseased COW. The evidence against
Scheyer was conclusive, and it was no
very great trouble to convict him, but
he was a man of influence in political
circles, and it was thought that his
political pull might save him from
the punishment he so richly deserved.
But Judge Low was obdurate and would
not listen to anything but the enforce
ment of the law in such cases, made and
provided. That Judge did a good day s
work and deserves to be promoted. 1t
was proven on the trial that Scheyer
had received the cow from the San
Pablo dairy with orders to turn her over
to the fertilizing company. Instead or
that. he slaughtered the animal and sold
the meat Hence the court imposed the
extreme penalty prescribed by the law.
The only regret in the premises is that
the penalty was not two years in the
penitentiary at hard labor in place of
six months in the County Jail.
WRITING IN KANSAS.
Santa Rosa Republican: Not all the
Kansas tanners are pleased with the
men who were voted into office In that
State last November, as was shown by
~ ND of
Atchison, District Judge-elect, from a
rural citizen asking Mr.. Bland please
to tell him where the Judge-elect
learned to write II wish to send my
boy to school, the farmer wrote, "and
I'm afraid he might hit on the same
school you went to- That there is
feeling of respect in Kansas for persons
possessing the ability to write appears
from the action of Governor Morrill,,
who pardoned a convict, Harwell P.
Heath, sentenced from Emporia for get
ling money on false pre'tensas, in recog-
nition of Heath's having written the
annual report of the penftentiary in
which he was confined. The report
:rea,ted of the management in a very
kindly spirit.
A GYPSY PRINCESS WARNING.
may, an American woman of society
who married a title in Bohemia, or in
popular phrase has sold herself to
gypsy fortune-hunter," has addressed
letter to her countrywomen warning
them of her fate and urging them to be
true to themselves. There is something
pitiful in the appeal 1t is brought to
the direct attention of the reader that
after all the children of fashion and So
ciety are not responsible for their own
ill fate. The real responsibility lies
with those who mold society and the
parents who train children to 1t.
1t should be a matter of pride to the
countrywomen of this Princess that she
still retains enough of the American
spirit to express her concern for the
future welfare of her countrywomen,
while yet sacrificing herself to duty. She
is still living with her gypsy husband
She is reaping the woe begotten by
what she esteems to be her own folly
but has the humanity and courage to
warn others to avoid her example. 1t is
rare instance of heroism among the
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