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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

Laporte. Indiana, has a bachelors
club. the members OF which are sworn
To commit suicide if not married
within period of five years from the
time of joining. Here's fine oppor-
tunity for some heroic missionary
work on the part Of the new woman.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

Does your husband sympathize with
the Greeks? lie does indeed; he has
named two OF our new pups Alpha
and Omegl.-ChIcago Record.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

When man asks girl what is the
least money a woman can buy good
dress for, she always names the price
of her most expensive one.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

All those creeping, crawling sting
ing sensations that combine to make
up the torturcs of any itching disease
Of the skin are instantly relieved and
pcrmancntiy cured by Doau's Oint-
mcnt. Take no substitute. Doan's
never tails.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

a journalist is a newspaper man
who claims he gets magazine salary.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

Michigan pensioners are interested IN
the pension agency question and will
be glad to learn that Michigan memb crs
have received assurances from Secrc-
tary Bliss that the pension agency con
soidation, ordered by Cleveland, will
not be carried out. This means to a
certainty that the Detroit agency will
not 90 to indianapolis.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

People who hold their peace never
lose their power.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

preston. He also read from manu-.
script detailed statement of the affairs
of Crete from early times. At the re-
quest of Chairman Davis of the foreign
relations committee, Senator Davis
promising spec y action.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

Love is a souls telescope.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30
FROM The SUPREME COURT SATUR
DAY ON LIQUOR BONDS.
Common Council Must Deter.
mine the Responsibility of
BondSmen Court was
Divided on one Phase
of the Case.
The Opinion

Last Saturday afternoon the supreme
court handed down an opinion that is
of great interest and importance just
AT this time, when liquor bonds are be-
ing presented for approval. The case
was that of Alfred Wolcott, prosecut-
ing attorney vs.. Judge BurIingame of
the superior court of Grand Rapids 1t
appears that some time ago Fred Saun-
ders of Grand Rapids was arrested at
the instance of the Citizens league TOR
selling liquor without having a legal
| bond, it being shown that one Of his
sureties was "A surety upon six on eight
other liquor bonds. Judge Buringame
OF the superior court, quashed the in
formation, and the supreme court was
asked to direct that this order be set
| aside and the case reinstated. On the
question the Justices differ. Chief
Justice Long aud Justice Montgomery
held that the approval of the council
was a protection to the dealer, while
Justices Hooker Grant and Moore held
that it was not and that Saunders
should be tried for the offense charged
la the dissenting opinion, which Is
written by Justice Montgomery, at
tention is called to the fact that the in
formation did not allege that Saunders
knew that the sureties on the bond APP
proved by the council were on more
than the statutory number of bonds,
nor did it appear that the bond was IN
any respect informal. This being the
case, the question arouse whether one
who in good faith tenders bond in
proper form, rporting to he signed
by sureties competent for the purpose,
and who, after filing such bond, with
the approval of the common council,
engages in the business of selling liquor
is liable to a criminal prosecution and
the opinion upholds the constitutionaliN
OF the PROVISION making it unlawful for
The same person to be surety on more
than one liquor bond.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

While agreeing with the dissenting
opinion in the disposition of this con-
sttutional question majority of the
court in an opinion written by Justice
Hooker, disagree on the other branch
of the case. The opinion says it was
the intention of the Legislature to make
the execution and delivery of the pres
cribed bond a condition precedent to
sale, and TO require the person desiring
To engage i'm the business to assume the
responsibility of knowing that the bond,
when presented 70 the council, complied
in all essential particulars with the law.
The suilciency of the bond, both as
to the amount within limits fixed by The
act, and as to the pecuniary response
bility of the sureties, is to be deter
mined by the board. This is the eX-
cent of the discretion lodged in the
board. The person giving a defective
bond, as contradistnguShed from ono
that IS insufficient, cannot shelter him
self behind an approval by the board
whether such approval be the result OF
incompetency, carelessness, mistake
fraGd or collision. The law expressly
says that man who shall engage in
business before he offered the required
bond shall be punished, says the ma
iorlty opinion. Certainly this is plan
language, and there is, in the court.
opinion no necessity for holding that il
means less than il says, because it give.
to the public the right of supervisor
to mike sure that such bond shall be
signed by responsible surelies, or be
cause the penalty of such bond is no
required to be the same in all cases
In the nature of things it is as easy fol
the person giving the bond to ascertain
whether the.proposed sureties are elig-
BILE, as for the board TO do so.
If the responsibility is on the board,
it must ascertain the necessary facts at
its own or the public expense. If such
is the rule, imposition is greatly faclli-
tated and premium put upon it, while
if it is understood that the approval of
defective bond is no protection, the
law practically enforces itself In this
view of the case, the question of intent
ON the part of the accused becomes un-
important.-Statc Republican.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

The King-Some people say we're
very wicked. The Jack-Aud yet
there isn't black heart in the whole
deck.-N. Y. journal.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

Buckingham, Dye for the Whiskers
is the best, handiest. safest, surest.
cleancst. most economical and salts
factory dye ever invented. 1t i, the
gen1lemcn's fav0rite.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

The new commissioner of pensions,
H. Clay Evans Is not a teetotlar but he
is insisting that liquor shan't interfere
with the business Of the department
and has given notice that the drinking
men among his employ ees must turn
over a new leaf or give way to clerks of
temperate habits, all of which is com
mended by wise people.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

Senator Chambers proposition for
the government to take possession of
the steel plants of the Cramps and Car
negies has created no little discussion
not only in government circles bur
among outsiders. 1t seems to be gen
orally conceded that willie the govern
ment should be protected, private en
terprise should not be discouraged
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

The Illinois members are organizing
an opposition to the amendment to
transfer the main Indian warehouse
from Chicago to Omaha. Its removal
from Chicago would mean the loss of Il
good many dollars to that city as, nat
urally nearly all the supplies are pur-
chased where The warehouse is located.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30

Illinois new senator has reputation
for being a lirst-class story teller. o.
course he hasn't been able to satisfy all
MS important constituents demands
for offices and they ae
wroth. A disappointed otiice-seeker
remarked the other day that Senator
Mason has told a heap of funny stories,
but hadn't sold clam
The record-union., 1897-12-27
UPTOWN POLICE PROTECTION.

The bitter complaint of citizens resid-
ing above Twelfth street of the incur
sions of burglars and thieves is we'll
taken. The rascals who rob and break
into houses very well know that the
whole secuon--more than one and
half miles square-has but one police
patrolman on duty. They know that
the hveliest sprinter in the force. how
ever minded, cannot cover the beat
above Twelfth street inside OF several
hours. and afford the property and peo-
pie any protection supposed to result
from his presence and watchfulness.
The thieves choose the time when
they know the officers are distant from
the point the burglars propose 10 as
sail. perfectly certain that before an
officer can be called. or come near them.
they can carry off house and lot if
they wish to do so. Police protection
under such circumstances becomes
really farcical- There is no charge In
this that the officers are inefficient-it
is simply the result OF our system that
gives most police protection to the sec
tionS where there are most saloons and
public houses, and where there are
many special officers on duty in small
beats, and the least protection TO the
largest districts of the city in which
protection is most needed
The record-union., 1897-12-27

But Of course the response is that
this is inevitable with such a small
force. That the force down town is not
a man too large; but that the body of
the police is too small to permit of
smaller beats UP town. That is about
the truth.
If, then, the city cannot afford more
police patrolmen for the residence sec
tions, where burglars just now seem to
hold high revel, what is to be done?
The Record Union" recently locally
suggested one way out, or rather par
tial way, since the number Of uptown
officers is shamefully smalI-that is,
that on the uptown beats the men be
furnished with bicycles and compelled
to ride them. This has been done in
Oakland with success. In New York
there are 800 mounted officers on
wheels. In San Francisco there are a
few, but the hilly conditions there pre-
vent such liberal use Of the wheel as is
desirable
An officer on a bicycle above Twelfth
street, privileged to use walk ways if
need be, can make the rounds of his
beat ten times where he makes it once
on foot now. He can pursue and over
take, where on foot he has not the ad
vantage of the burglar. He can more
easily and quickly respond to a call
for help. He is better off than an officer
mounted on a horse because he can
more easily abandon his mount, and Is
less conspicuous. A policeman on
horseback at night is prominent, and the
thief easily distinguishes him. But .bi-
cyclists at all hours are plentiful. and
the burglar will not be able to distin-
guish easily the officer of the law from
the ordinary wheelman.
Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chi
cago, Des Moines and plenty of cities
OF the size of Sacramento as well, have
a portion of their police forces mount
ed on bicycles, and have found it to be
economic, and to greatly enlarge the
efficiency of the patrolmen, making one
mounted man as good as three un-
mounted for getting over a beat and
for general patrol duty.
The record-union., 1897-12-27

since the Emmanuel Church murderer
was convicted. is it remarkable that the
people should declare, that such enor-
mites as that consummated in San
Francisco Wednesday evening are the
logical result of the failure of the law
to promptly and properly punish GRIM
inals?
CROP STATISTICS.
Oakland Enquirer. While Secretary
Wilson is engaged in improving the for
eign crop estimates of the Department
of Agriculture, he should not neglect
the service at home. II has recently
become necessary for the department to
revise its estimate of the present year 5
wheat crop in the United States and
raise it from 1853, 100000 to 10000
600; G1, ,000,0 900 bushels are quite a mar
gin. The commercial agency figures
are still larger, making the total yield
oIo, 100000 bushels. Whether or not
the farmer shall receive the full value
of his crop depends to very large ex-
tent OH correctness and timeliness in
the collection of these statistics.
INCREASING PROSPERITY.
Los Angeles Times: One of the indi
cations of increasing prosperity is found
in the fact that railroad earnings
throughout the country are showing de-
cided gains During the past three
months the roads which regularly re-
port their weekly earnings (some eighty
in number) have shown gains of from
10 TO 70 per cent. The volume of rail-
road business is a tolerably reliable
barometer of the general condition of
business throughout the country.
POPULAR INTEREST IN WOMEN.
Los Angeles Express: That women
in their club organizations are rapidly
creating an interest in themselves such
as they never before have possessed is
q manifest fact. Distinct evidence Of
it is seen in every part of the country.
Every town, almost of 10000 popula-
ton and over in the entire land has
woinan's club, and many such towns
have two or three such clubs. They
are doing each work of its own, and
in most cases doing it well. By far the
greater number of them are something
more than purely literary though that
is much-enough, indeed to justify the
existence of any club-for the majority
of the women of the day, in their as
sociated activities and aspirations, are
given rather more to practica1ities than
to aesthetics. Some of them stand for
one kind of reform or another, either
gentle or reverse. Those that espouse
social reform are in a field apart from
the men, certainly apart from the men
in their clubs, while those who are en-
gagged on the side of civic reforms have
a mission which they share with men
of like minds, in this respect, with their
own. In some of the larger cities their
influence has come to be very sensibly
felt. Indeed, in the largest city of all,
New York, they are regarded as a pow
er even in politics. Their clubs are
a continuing, observant authority in
their respective communities, which it
is believed the dishonest in business
and the rascalIy in politics will dread
more ard more as time passes. There
IS nothing detractive from true femin-
unity in all this; it is only that the wom-
en- have, in the new conditions Of mod
ern life, resolved simply to do their
dutV
The record-union., 1897-12-27
ONE THING OR THE OTHER.

Those who prate Of Hawaiian inde-
pendence by choice of the native Ha-
waiians, If the present Republican
Government should be overthrown, dis
gulse the fact that the native Hawaii
ans are admittedly incapable of main
tanning an Independent Government un-
aided by white Hawaiians. Even with
the present Government Of mixed
whites and brown natives, there is no
possible hope for independence if any
strong foreign Power chooses to decree
otherwise, and the United States should
stand aloof
1t is annexation to the United States
for Hawaii or subjugation by a foreign
Power, and the only thing that can
| possibly prevent it, will be the exten-
sion of protectorate over Hawaii by
America. But that would involve us
| quite as much as would annexation. In
that case the present or Dole Govern
ment being overthrown-for that is pre-
cisely what the anti-annexationists
| contend for, since they say that new
| consent of the natives must be secured
for any home government over them
| the condition of the islanders would be
deplorable.
| They have not capacity for self gov
eminent. With a few exceptions their
people are indolent, careless Of politi-
cal concerns and do not trouble them
| co1xroc rr-f{r,
ment. If as the anti-annexationists
insist the whole governmental control
question is to be reopened in Hawaii,
and the matter left to the decision of
the people, there is no doubt in our
mind concerning the result In the
very nature of the proposition, the
United States would be bound TO stand
aside and exercise no influence what
ever in the contest. but it could not en-
force like conduct upon other nations
England pushed forward by the greed
of Canada to possess the key to the mid
Pacific and dominate its trade, would
work control into her own hands and
we would be estopped from even pro-
testing.
| There would be no annexation to
Great Britain; by no means-the Eng
lish are far too shrewd for that-but
the new local government would be, to
all intents and purposes, English, and
we would not be able to prevent it. 1t
| is annexation to the United States Of
the Hawaiian group or loss to US Of
every advantage we would have by it's
possession, or even by reason Of COM
mercial or other connection. There is
really but one question in the mat
| ter. namely, shall we take Hawaii as its
established and recognized Government
beseeches US to do, or shall we yield
the group to European power, proba-
| bly, England?
The record-union., 1897-12-27
Longevity and the Brain.

Speaking at Selkirk on the Sth inst,
Sir James Crichton- Browne dwelt on
the dangers to health involved in in
dolence and disuSe of the brain. The
medical profession, he said, adapting
itself to the needs of the times, had
felt it incumbent upon it during the
last decade to insist mainly on the
evils of misuse of the brain, on tho
excessive strain not seldom imposed
on 1t in these days in the fierce strug-
gle of the race to be rich, and more
especially on the over pressure inn
posed on it in the name of education
when in an immature state, but they
We're not less keenly alive to the cor
relative evils of the disuse of the
brain.
Elderly persons who gave up busi-
ness and professional men who laid
aside their avocations without having
other interests or pursuits to which to
turn We're In many cases plunged in
dependency or hurried into premature
dotage. He did not know any surer
way of inducing premature mental de-
cay than for a man of active habits
to retire and do nothing when just
past the zenith of life; and, on the
other hand. he did not know any surer
way of enjoying green old age than
to keep on working at something till
the close. It had been said that one
of the rewards of philosophy was
length of days, and a striking list
might be presented of men distinguish
ed for their intellectual labors which
they had never laid aside. who had far
exceeded the allotted span of human
life Calico lived to so. Newton to 50,
Franklin to So, Button to so, Faraday
to 76, and Brewster to "a years. Sir
James Crichton-Browne drew special
attention to the great age generally
attained by our Judges.-London Lam
Get.
The record-union., 1897-12-27
IN THE SITPERIOR COTrRT c1ATU

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE
of California, County of Sacramento.
In the matter of the estate of s. w.
RAISTON, deceased.
Notice is hereby. given that Friday, the
31st day of December 1897, at 10 O'clock a.
m. of said day, and the court room of said
court, at the Courthouse in the City of
Sacramento, County of Sacramento, and
State of California, has been appointed as
the time and place for proving the will of
said S. w. Ralston, deceased, and for
hearing the application of Marie A. Raj
ston for the issuance to her of letters tes-
tamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court, this goth day of December, 1897.
(Seal) W. B. HAMILTON, Clerk
BY E. S. Wachhorst, Deputy Clerk
White & Seymour, Attorneys for Peti-
toner. d21-10t
The record-union., 1897-12-27
JOHN w. GRIGGS.
as Probable Successor
to Attorney-Genera1 McKenna.

The present Governor of New Jersey
is John w. Griggs. He was elected
Governor of New Jersey in 1895. over
Alexander T. McGill by plurality of
26,9O0, being the first Republican Gov
ernor of New Jersey for twenty-five
years. He is mentioned as the probable
successor of Attorney General McKen-
ma, who is likely to be honored as the
successor of Justice Field.
The record-union., 1897-12-27

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE
of California, County of Sacramento
In the matter of the estate of CATHE-
RINE BROWN. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Friday, the
S1st day of December, 1897 at 80 O'Clock
p. m. of said day. and the court room.
Department One of Said court, at the
Court house, in the City of Sacramento,
County of Sacramento, and State
of California, has been appoint
ed as the time and place for proving the
will of said Catherine Brown. deceased
Lent and s. S. Slawson for the issuance
to them of letters testamentary thereon
court, this 18th day of December, 1897
(Seal) w. b. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY B. II. Gallup, Deputy Clerk
Hiram w. Johnson. Attorney for Peti-
toner. d21-td
The record-union., 1897-12-27

John w Griggs is a native of New
Jersey, having been born forty-eight
years ago last July. When he was 49,
he was graduated from Lafayette Col
Iege, and in 1871 he was admitted to
the BAR and entered on a very sue
cessful practice of law at Paterson.
In 1875 he was elected a member of
the lower House of his State and was
reelected. In 1882 he was elected to
the State Senate and was reelected
In 1886 he was chosen President of
that body. Mr.. Griggs is a leading
business man of Paterson, and is an
authority on legal matters. He is mar
ried and has six children, four daugh-
terS ard two sons
The record-union., 1897-12-27
Wasn't Sure Ahouf II.

Diggs-Is your daughter improving
In her piano playing?
Biggs-She is either improving or else
we are getting used to it. don't know
which
The record-union., 1897-12-27
A Regular Battering Ram.

rs your son making any headWay
in college?"
ANY headway? I should say he was.
You ought to see him bucking the
centeri"
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The record-union., 1897-12-27

While Russia occupied Port Arthur
in the first instance as the result of an
agreement made with China less than
two years ago and entirely peaceful
and proper in its provisions, being SIM
ply intended to afford Russian fleets
shelter and rendezvous stations in time
Of threat OF war, ii is now evident that
the Car will occupy the port perma-
nently. That China is perfectly will
ing that this should be done is not de-
MED. The fact is that the evidences
point unerringly to the fact that China
and Russia are now allies; or rather
that Russia is the accepted great pro-
tector of the Brother of the Sun" This
is sufficient cause for the present ex-
citement in Japan. That it may ripen
into war between the three nations is
probable. In that case China may be
able after all to even up things with
Japan at the expense of good share
of her independence and territory.
The record-union., 1897-12-27

The Woodland Mall says that a
gentleman from Los Angeles has ex-
amined oranges grown in Capay Valley
the fruit. The fact is that Capay
Valley is better citrus country than
Redlands or Riverside. The trees at
tain a greater growth in the same
length of time and bear at a younger
age. At Cadenasso's, there are four
or five trees planted for ornamental
purposes, now about twelve years of
age, and they will compare favorably
with any orange trees grown elsewhere
in the State, both as to the size at
tanned and the quality of the fruit.