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OVERDONE ATHLETICS.

II is odd but true, that England IS
suffering a good deal because her
Young men are being supplanted in
commercial and general business pur-
suits by Germans and others. This is
due. it is alleged, to the over training
Of the school youth of England in attn
letics. Commercial men say that this
excessive devotion to athletics unht
Young Englishmen for business, and
hence they turn to the slower, more
devoted and painstaking Germans,
Danes. Swedes and even Russians.
So it is reported by recent editorial
paper in an English review that in
London and Liverpool counting rooms,
the young Englishmen are becoming
conspicuous by their absence. Where
are they? Gone, says this same au-
thority upon expeditions demanding
fight. tussle, adventure, struggle and
warning. Or they have gone into pro-
fessional athletic business, or are en-
gagged in training other youths to be
inefficient in+business because of excess
sive Indulgence in athletic exercises.
1t is added that the other day the
Government advertised for 100 men for
service as South African mounted po-
lice. There were LOO responses, and
nearly all of, them from young English
men who were trained athletes, ana
had nothing to do. In Germany the
athletes find places in the army for the
working off of their fever. The youth Of
the land is so largely absorbed by that
body. that the business world does not
feel what London now experiences. Ger
man cmmercial life is accustomed to
wait for the army term to expire be-
fore taking men into business, and then
they come trained into habits of obe-
dience; they are amenable TO discipline,
they have formed orderly habits, and
they have got well over their athletic
fever.
OF course there is such a thing as
carving athletic exercises to the alb
surd extreme, just as we are doing
now in America in promoting the game
Of football 1t might be played so as
to develop vigor. stimulate courage and
conserve endurance and indifference to
pain, without being, as unquestionably
il is, dangerous to life and limb and
mind. The record of the gridron field
Is not one pleasant to contemplate, as
all over it the story of death, insanity
and crippled bodies is written.
| While the President of the University
of Georgia has unsparingly condemned
/ the game, forbidden ii to his students
and asked the Legislature to prohibit
/ its being played in that State, the
President of Harvard has come out in a
magazine article in defense of the game,
| just as it is, contending that it is not
for the weak, the misformed and the
! tll-born, but for the development Of the
The record-union., 1897-12-12
THE GOLD NOT THERE.

| THE GOLD NOT THERE.
| Nevada Transcript The dredging
machine recently built to mine the bed
OF the South Yuba River below Smarts
vile is not being worked Miners up
this way have not had any faith in
the practicability of the scheme since
1t was broached The dredgers look
beautiful ON paper and pay enormous
returns theoretically, but the first case
has yet to be recorded where that meth
Cd of mining has been made profitable
IN this part of the country The re-
suit or experiments so far indicate that
gold does not exist in the live" river
channels in paying quantities.
DEMOCRATIC HAIR R-SPLITTING.
Marysvllle Appeal: Another ridiculous
and unjust pension ruling of the late
soldler-hatlng Administration has just
been reversed, and rightly So The
minor children of member of a Ken
lucky regiment applied for pension.
In the course of the unwinding of the
necessary red tape il became essential
TO SHOW that the parents were legally
married. AS they We're backwoods peo-
pie and had moved about frequently,
1t was impossible to do this. though
1t was well established that the couple
had conducted themselves lust like hun
dreds of other married couples in re-
mote localities where marriage certifi-
Gates and family Bibles are almost un-
known. furthermore. it was shown
that the records of the county where
the marriage had occurred had been
burned. But the Democratic soldier
matters selZed upon the absence of any
record, and actually refused to grant
pension on the ground that it was
not shown that the children were born
In lawful wedlOck This was one of
the last acts of the Cleveland Admins
tratlon, the infamous ruling having
been made on February 20, 1897. The
present Administration, however, took
the case up in due time and after ex-
animation of the evidence the pension
officials reversed the ruling and grant
ed the pension
FRAUDS OF YELLOW JOURNALS.
Santa Cruz Surf The enterprise" of
the San Francisco dailies, which re-
celVed great laudation when a small
army OF correspondents was sent up
the ukon and across the Chilcoot into
the klondike country, has proved OF
very questionable benefit to the country
by reason of the petty jealousies, the
fiat contradictions, the ordinations
and the recriminations among those
influential journals and their represen-
talves who are alleged to be sending
facts" from the frozen North.
III these contradictory statements
concerned themselves only with the
amount of gold being taken out, or the
amount of gold waiting to be taken
out along the Yukon and its tributaries
small harm would be done But, from
the first, they have had to do with
the issues of life and death, with pri-
walton, suffering, starvation and the
most awful woes to which humanity
may be exposed.
The record-union., 1897-12-12

The attempt of some of the San
Francisco press to magnify the express
sion of Chief Justice Beatty, that the
effect of a certain decision Of his court
will be mischievous, as an insult to his
| colleagues, is not warranted. We lind
nothing whatever in such an express
sion Justifying the assumption that one
of the Supreme Court has deliberately
and With purpose insuted another. In
fact, the opinions of appellate tribu-
mails will be found to contain innumer-
able instances of declarations of dis
sent, where the expression is that a
contrary view is dangerous, erroneous
and mischievous in it's results. A large
portion of the San Francisco press is
disposed to make mountains out of
mole hills, and exaggerate very ordi-
nary matters into sensational import
ance. Unhappily, this trend of metro
politan journalism is of augmenting
momentum, and is "mischievous in its
effects" Happily, however, there is a
counter irritant that is serving to mod
ify the pernicious results of this order
of newspaper work, namely, the grow
ing unbelief of the general reading
public in anything they see in the SEN
sational press. Where this feeling has
not expanded into absolute unbelief, it
| assumes the form of doubt, which
serves to suspend judgment until there
4
| is verifcation of the journalistic as
sertion. Then, again, unhappily, this
disposition to doubt and refusal to ac-
cept affects to some extent the nom
| sensational, the conservative and self
respecting press with a soul above the
greed for nickels. 1t is thus that black
| sheep tend to give a bad name to the
entire flock.
The record-union., 1897-12-12

Australia is growing in Importance as
market for American apples. Last sea-
son the short native crop was supple
mented by our fruit and its super
ior quality so pleased the Australians
that our apples viii be in good demand
this year and are menacing the pros
poets Of the native growers.
The record-union., 1897-12-12

The Alameda Argus" says that 'it is
hard work for those papers that are
bound to be dissatisfied to get up cause
of complaint for the way the Pacific
roads have been handled now that all
the money owing to the Government
has been recovered from the greater of
the roads. oh, no. not hard work. The
fault finder has the easiest of tasks
imaginable. Nothing is beset with so
few difficulties as carping criticism and
perpendicular growing. 1t is so easy
to point the way that is hard to go. 1t
is so easy to pull down and so difficult
to build up. There is one consolation
the Argus" can take home TO comfort
it--no one on this round globe expected
these chronic, partisan and selfish fault
finders to be satisfied with anything the
Administration does.
The record-union., 1897-12-12
SPECIAL. AGENCIES.

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The record-union., 1897-12-12
Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Sunday; prob
ably light fog on the coast; northerly
winds.
The record-union., 1897-12-12

What is the matter with San Fran
cisco gas-that sent through the street
mains, we mean? More people are
killed, apparently, by that deadly pro-
duction than by all other means COM
mned in that CITY
The record-union., 1897-12-12
Confirmation at st. Paul,s.

Bishop Graves. of the Northern Episco-
pal Diocese, will administer confirma-
ton at the II o'clock service at St
Pauls Church to-day.
The record-union., 1897-12-12

The belief IS entertained that Ferdi-
too heavy for his brow, and is about
to abdicate. In his recent address to
delegation from his Parliament at
Sofia he very bitterly took his Cabinet
to task for failing to give his meas
ures support, and in aiding him to meet
attacks made upon his administration.
He told the legislators that he had ac-
cepted the crown unselfishly, but if it
was thought by the houses that he had
done SO for greed or personal ambition
he would gladly lay down his burdens
and leave the country. Unhappfly for
Ferdinand he has managed to have
trouble with all the neighboring States
and with every European Government
until three Of the great Powers have
withdrawn their Ministers from his
court, and have ceased to hold diplo-
matte converse with his Cabinet On
top of all this, he has had a very lively
row with the Pope, and now the power
of the Catholic church is leveled against
him. His family relations are unpleas-
ant, he having antagonized most of his
relatives and those of his wife. He is
believed to have been not wholly free
from blame in the assassination Of
Stambouloff, and to have had criminal
cogniZance of other assassinations
Such Prince would do we'll to quit the
business of ruling, and from the wreck
of a once great fortune which he has
clear up enough to engage in some
other vocation.
The record-union., 1897-12-12

sound. strong and vigorous manly quail
tiles of courage, endurance and hardi-
ness.
But we apprehend that the general
public will agree with the Georgia ed
ucator that there is no need for the
present danger in the game. 1t may
be played with elimination of its ap-
parently purely animal features and
still retain its vigor developing quail
ties. In a very large degree baseball
does this without involving the player
in such excessive output of muscular
energy as to overtax or endanger.
The plea is made that the rugged
character OF the game tends to develop
men who in time of need will do, and
dare to do heroically. But history
proves that there has been more hero
ism and daring and doing by the non
athletes, than by those who make ath-
letics a fad. The most daring men
and women of this or any age, those
who have dared and done heroically,
We're moved by the heart and mind
rather than by consciousness OF their
physical strength, or as the result OF
rough and tumble athletic exercise IN
youth We are agreed with our con-
temporary, the "Oregonian, that as
in the past, in the present and IN the
future brain rather than Drawn Will
make the heroic records.
No one at all sensible decries athiet-
fc training for youth. for properly con-
Quoted it is means TO great physlcaI
vigor and an aid to bounding health.
1t is the excessive indulgence in these
exercises against which a just protest
goes up. We want no athletics that SO
absorb the man as to unfit him for any
thing but muscular fields of activity.
The day and the age want brain ana
they demand brawn, hard, firm, ribbed
as with steel and brass, but the want
is for both in combination, and in such
combination that the one does not en-
slave the other.
The record-union., 1897-12-12

contradicted by the facts. Free trad
erS are either proverbially badly in
formed about all questions touching
business or they are so blinded by self
interest that their better Judgment is
overcome. The only business men who
are ifee traders in the United States.
as a rule, are importers. They look upon
the matter as it affects their own inter-
ests. they prefer to see American
factories closed and those of Europe
in operation because they handle the
goods.
The record-union., 1897-12-12
THE DAILY RECoRD-UNIoN
A sEyEN-DAY ISSUE.

A SlIN EN-OA1 1SO
For one year 90
For six months ......................3 3 90
For three months. hs............,........... l 30
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teen cents per week. In all interior cities
and towns the paper can be had of the
principal periodical dealers, newsmen
and agents.
The Sunday Record Union twelve
pages, 20 cents per month, delivered by
carrier. Sent by mail at 81 per year
UPTOWN BRANCH OFFICES.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
as second-class matter.
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These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All Post
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
The record-union., 1897-12-12
POSTAL RATES.

Fresno Republican: The proposition
to taisc the postage rate on second
class matter because the postal service
is run at a loss would be more clearly
justified if the railroad companies Were
not paid cents a pound for carrying
the mails, whereas the same service
is performed for the express companies
for / cent pound. The postal SER
vice should be made self-supporting
but the first thing that should be done
to attain that end is to reduce the cost
of carrying the mails. When that SER
vice has been reduced to a fair busi-
ness basis it will then be in order to in
crease rates, if the department is still
lacking in revenue sufficient to pay
expenses.
The record-union., 1897-12-12
FREE TRADE.

Reno Gazette: One of the most per-
sistently made claims of free traders
is that a protective tariff on goods
brought into the country creates a
spirit of hostility toward US. resulting
in a iessened demand for our products.
That some i'll feeling is engendered is
manifest, but that it affects the de-
mand fer our goods is q proposition
The record-union., 1897-12-12
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.........H 90
The record-union., 1897-12-12
AN IDLE THREAT.

Los Angeles Times: The enactment
of the Dingley tariff law has very nat
urallv caused a great deal of dissatis-
faction in Europe, where the Ameri-
can market is regarded as the legiti-
mate prey of those who can capture it
by strategy or assault. Protests" more
or less loud and deep have come across
the seas from time to time, declaring
the schedules of the Dingley law to be
unjust, extreme, oppressive and other
wise obnoxious. These protests have
been followed by threats of retaliatory
tariffs, such as would result in dire in
jury to American industries, and would
cause us to regret that We had the te-
merity to enact a protective tariff law.
These protests and threats from Eu-
rope are idle. Europe will not retaliate
to any great extent, because of the in
creased duties of the Dingley tariff.
Europe cannot afford to erect high ar
if barriers against American products,
for the reason that she needs these
products and must have them. If Eu-
rope We're to exclude American prod
ucts from her markets. or bar their
entrance thereto by unreasonably high
tariffs, Europe would be a far greater
sufferer than the United States through
the operation of such a policy.
The record-union., 1897-12-12
IT is RIGHT.

Los Angeles Record: 1t is not
strange nor to be deplored, that there
is so much politics in the newspapers.
In every civilized country the ruling
powers are constantly occupied with
questions of finance, with regulating
tariffs and collecting customs; with ne
gotiating and enforcing treaties; with
enacting and enforcing laws. All these
matters affect the people In all the
ranks and in every relation of life.
And since the people in this republic
of ours are the direct sources of au-
thority to do these things. and every
year. in some way, are called upon to
express their will at the ballot box,
they must think about their political
duties: must talk about them, and
many people must be constantly writ
ing about them.
Otherwise there would come to be po-
litical indifference and stagnation, and
government of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people would perish
from the earth''
The record-union., 1897-12-12

The Calistogan: The country VIII
congratulate Chairman DinSley on ms
new tariff law when Congress meets.
Neither he nor Congress will have oc-
caSion to he ashamed of its records.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-02-24

cause of some of the losses which he
is sustaing in his herd. But up to
this time the farmer has been very
backward about testing his herd.
There has been too much money
spent scientifically in the dairy bust
ness searching for facts to permit any
old time methods to stand in the way
of development of the industry. And
those who do not have time to read
up and understand the business need
not expect that they are going to be
successful to any extent in the future,
because there is little prospect of any
material advance in the average price
of butter in the very near future. At
the same time it is hardly to be ex-
pected that the average farmer will be
able for some time to make butter as
cheap as Prof Hacker can turn it
out. But he can make it good deal
cheaper than he is doing today
Chicago Produce.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-02-24
POLITICAL NEWS.

The Iowa legislature has pronounced
against fusion.
Governor Bushnell of Ohio announ-
ces that he will appoint Mr.. Hanna
senator.
United States Senator J. Fl. Kyle of
South Dakota has been reelected.
This result was accomplished by Re-
publican votes.
Senator Kyle makes statement in
which he says that he will endeavor to
vote for the best interests of his Re-
publican constituents.
President-elect Mckinley has ap-
pointed John A. McCook Of New York
and James 4. Gary of Maryland, at
torney general and postmaster general
in his cabinet.
1t has been definitely settled that M.
A. Hanna will not go into McKinley's
cabinet, but will contest in the Ohio
legislature for the full term in the
United States senate next winter.
The Reform Press association held it's
annual convention in two sections, one
meeting at Memphis under the leader
ship of President Vandervoort, and the
other at Kansas City under call of SEQ
Tetary ROs0lle
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-02-24
DAIRY NEWS.
Reports From Creameries.


From April 1 to Dec. |, $50, milk
received at the Winthrop, Mimi,
creamery was l, 1855, 1897 lbs. Butter
fat produced was 52,745 lbs. and cash
received for butter was $8,370.O5.
Receipts from sales of butter for
the first seven months of business of
Morris, Mimi, creamery amounted to
&,248.33 of which $696.5O went for
expenses of running the creamery,
$39205 paid into the sinking fund, and
and the balance, 81, 1878, went into
the pockets of the farmers.
The annual meeting of the Berlin
Summit creamery in. Minnesota was
held recently, Although the factory
was closed almost two months, the
receipts of milk for the year foot up
5,114,655 pounds, from which 228, 38l
pounds Of butter were made, the total
amount received being $37, 444. OF
this the running expenses amounted
to 1886, and with some other minor
expenses, it left the patrons $33 1865
net. The average yield of butter from
100 pounds of milk was 4.46a pounds
average net price paid patrons per
100 pounds of milk, 65 .25c; average
net price per pound ofbutter received
by patrons, 16.4c.
Albert Lea, MINI. creamery during
1896 received 6, O26, 1913 pounds of milk,
from which 267,6554 pounds of butter
was made, besides the sale of $500
worth of cream, The total receipts
$44.926.26, the net to the patrons bel
ing 1897, 710.7O. Therunning expenses
were $4,O2O.75.
The income for the past year of
the Farmers Creamery Co. of Alden,
Mimi, was $1, 1896. The creamery
has over 40 stockholders.
The Steele Center creamery in
Minnesota received 4, 1865 pounds
of milk. The average test was 3.8
and pounds of butter manufactured
was 1898, Total receipts for butter
were $30,529.66. On milk checks
$25, 1868 were paid,
For the year ending Nov. 30, 1896,
the Hodgson Creek B. & G. Co. in
Wisconsin received Liza, los pounds
of milk and made 1881 pounds Of
butter, The total cash value of but
ter made was $12,269.O1, and the net
price per pound to patrons was 12.7c.
Chicago Produce.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-02-24
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS.

Ex-President Harrison has a new
girl baby.
Mr.. Cleveland will write reminiscent
ses of his public life.
Richard Croker is i'll and his trip to
Europe may have to be postponed.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher had an
other relapse and her condition is con-
sidered hopeless.
An Ohio woman claims to be the
daughter of Barney Barnato. Her
account of the South African mining
king is not fattering.
President Mckinley has recovered
from his attack of influenza, but he
will not see visitors promiscuously from
this time until after the Inauguration.
Postmaster General Wilson has an
nounced that he has accepted the offer
of the presidency of the Washington
and Lee university, located at Licking
ton, Va.
Miss Grace Howard, daughter of Joe
Howard, the well known New York
Journalist, has voluntarily retired from
control of the Indian schools on Crow
Greek reservation.
John G.. A. Leishmann, recently re-
signed from the presidency of the Car
negie Steel company, is a candidate for
appointment as minister to Switzer
land. He desires to go abroad for a
few years and to be pleasantly en-
ployed meanwhile.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-02-24
Butter For Ioc.

Prof. Hacker, of the Minnesota ex-
perimental station has given it out
that he is now making and laying
butter down in New York for 1Oc per
Id.
If this is true, and there is no reas-
on to doubt that it is, the dairyman of
the west, who are complaining that
there is no money i'll the business
with present prices, can learn a great
deal from the professor, who has
made study Of dairying. And the
best part of the whole thing is that
they will have to learn the lesson of
cheaper production, or go out of the
dairy business.
America gave to the world the
Babcock test. There is no reason why
this country should be behind the
times in using it. And it will not
take the farmer with the Babcock
test great while to, find out the