The record-union., 1897-05-30
VOICE OF qHE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on Sub.
iects of Living and News
Interest.

lIuTucIeu MS W11e the OlneT udy, Sdiu
when brought into court that he was
guilty and wanted to be hanged I'M
mediately. He should be humored in
this matter, and sent on his way with
out any unnecessary delay.
PAPER MONEY IN CUBA.
San Jose Herald: Captain-General
Weyler with his almost despotic pow
er has tried to force paper money on
Cuba as a Government proposition, and
now such paper is quoted at Cardenas.
one of the leading seaports of the
island, at cents on the silver dollar.
The Government backing does not
seem to amount to much in this case.
SETTLED.
Los Angeles Times: The oredon was
a species of wild sheep, wholly different
from the American cimmaron or big
horn" and also different from the
moufflon of Thibet and Persia. It's ex-
istence was for years denied by our
most eminent scientists, but now that
a perfect skeleton of one has been
found by some Yale College students,
not far from the scene of the Custer
massacre, the dispute must be consid-
erede as ended
WILL SHE?
Oroville Register: The editor of the
Livermore Herald" advises the girls
to wear bloomers if they wish to. The
advice is thrown away. When it comes
to a dress a woman will wear just
what she chooses, in spite of all the
men from the time of Adam to the
youngest Native Son.
EXPECT THE AK.
Chico Record: The School Directors
of Berkeley have adopted a rule for
the employment of healthy teachers in
the school department. instructors
troubled with indigestion are apt to be
cranky with the youngsters; hence only
those who can show a clean bill of
health can in the future find employ
ment in the college town. This new
rule applies to teachers already en-
ployed in the department. 1t is the
intention of the board to make
thorough investigation of the teachers
conditions, and all suffering from dys-
pepsia or consumption may expect the
ak at an early hour.
THE HIGH HAT
Alameda Argus: Dr. Rottanzi, Su-
pervisor of San Francisco, has succeed
ed in having the ordinance against
high hats passed, and now all that re-
mains is to put it in force. After the
latter shall have been accomplished
there will be many to rise up and call
DR.. Rottanzi blessed For of all the
fanciful creations for the feminine
head those to be seen at the theater
easily take the lead. They rise ram
pant from fair brows, and flare with
particular angularity. There are GER
tain appurtenances and adjuncts, hung
on trembly wires that bob and wriggla
across the vision of those behind until
stark insanity and the asylum seem at
times to be all that is left. If any
new law will do away with the mod
ern hat that so many women insist on
wearing in the theater it will be
new lease of life and the enjoyments
thereof 40
SQUEEZE.
Santa Rosa Democrat: THE banks
TWO VIEWS OF RURAL DELIV-
ERY.
San Jose Mercury: A few days ago
the Los Gatos Mali noted in an edit
orial paragraph that since the rural
free postal delivery in Campbell dis
trict has been in operation many farm
ers and fruit growers residing between
Campbell and Los Gatos, who formerly
received their mail at the latter town
seldom visit the town, as their mail is
delivered at their door, and that when
wishing to buy groceries or other goods
they make a special trip to San Jose
instead of purchasing in small quanti
ties every few days, as they We're wont
to do at Los Gatos. To what extent the
new system of mail delivery thus af-
fects Los Gatos we are not told, but we
are of the opinion that it is not serious,
as no similar complaint has been heard
from Campbell, which is the center of
the district in which free postal deliv
cry prevails and which naturally would
be the first to feel any such loss of bus
mess as that referred to by the Los
Gatos Mall
However, the Mails" paragraph,
which was referred to at the time in
these columns, has stirred up a lot of
editorial discussion concerning the ben
efts and the disadvantages of the rural
free postal system. The fruit section
at Campbell was selected by the Gov
ernment as a suitable field in which to
make the experiment because it is an
ideal rural district, embracing a large
and progressive population, a fact we'll
known and appreciated by Congress
man Loud, to whom the district is in
debted for this favor. The purpose had
in view by the Postoffice Department
was the accommodation of hundreds
of rural residents who have
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inconvenience and loss Of time to OBJ
tain their daily mail The department
proposes, should the experiment prove
successful, as it appears to have done
SO far at Campbell. to give thousands
of similar communities throughout the
Union a similar advantage. placing
them on the same footing as the resi-
dents of cities. The only question that
the department considers is the great
est good to the greatest number.
The Oakland Enquirer" is inclined
to believe with the Los Gatos Mail
that the system, where introduced, will
injure the small towns. What has
happened it says, ''in the case of Los
Gatos is likely to happen to several
thousand small towns and villages in
the United States if ever rural postal
delivery passes out of the experimental
stage and becomes universal; all OF
those small business places will be
hard hit, while the larger towns will
prosper accordingly The Postoffice is
what draws the farmer, the stockman
and the miner to his neigboring village
once a week at least, and generally two
or three times; take away that attrac-
ton. and what would half of the ham,
let's amount to?
On the other hand, the Santa Rosa