The record-union., 1897-06-03
Voice OF qHE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
Of the State and the Coast on SUBJ
iects of Living and News
Interest.

Santa Barbara Press: Only this week
representative of a large manufact-
urer of jelly was in Santa Barbara. HIS
wares We're good to look upon, and tasted
like the various fruits they represented
or pretended 10 represent. But the
price was the phenomenal part, ana the
frank cynicism of the agent who mace
no pretense that his wares were any
thing but imitation. He frankly as
serted that strawberry jelly could be
made at a profit for three cents pound,
that glucose, aniline dyes and grass SEED
We're ali cheap and harmless.
MINING LAW.
Oakland Enquirer: The Supreme Court
of the United States. in a Colorado case,
has decided that, under law of Con-
gress enacted many years ago and for
gotten a person who runs tunnel IN
a mining district is entitled to the own
ership of any bodies of ore lying within
1900 feet of the face of the tunnel and
not discovered or discoverable from the
surface of the ground. The Denver pa
pers speak of this as a sensational de-
cision, and we assume it will affect in
terests in every mining region to an ex-
scription of it.
AN EGG STORY.
Oakland Tribune: Here is another proof
of the power of the press: A farmer of
Clare County Michigan, has found that
he can increase the egg-laying abilities
of his hens by feeding to them old news
papers torn to bits and soaked in sour
milk until the whole becomes a pulp.
The next experiment of interest will be
to see whether they lay more eggs after
eating Democratic or Republican news
papers.
BE CONTENT
Humboldt Standard: Whenever you
are disposed to find fault with the way
things are managed in this country, just
think of the man who was imprisoned
for criticising the high-headed young
Emperor of Germany, although the crit
icism was made in the privacy of his
own home and in the bosom of his own
family. What are a mans little incon-
veniences here to such treatement?i
DOCKING HORSES.
Alameda Encinal: Every lover of the
horse will rejoice to learn that President
Mckinley, like the man and the Amer
lean that he is, will not tolerate the
aping of the English custom of dock
ingF the tails OF horses that are to be
used by him. The attempt was made
to have him use such mutilated animals
in Washington, but he emphatically
refused And he is right No man with
a. particle of real love for the noblest of
the brute creation, or with a particle of
humanity in his composition, not to
L nf hax T0r hos nj Fl II
and symmetrical, would tolerate the
docking of a horse when he could pre-
vent it. There is nothing so fine as a
horse with flowing name and tail as ma
ture made them, and as nature intended
they should remain, Just as there is
nothing quite so cruel in the treatment of
horses as to deprive them of what nature
meant at once as an ornament and as a
protection. There ought to be, if such
a thing We're possible, a national law
against this form of cruelty.
TWO OBJECT LESSONS.
Los Angeles Herald: General Drum
mond is a British subject. He was one
of the leaders who headed the late rev
olution in Honduras, and, being made
a prisoner by the Government troops
some two weeks ago. was sentenced to
be shot. At this critical moment the
British warship Intrepid steamed into
Port Cortez The commander, having
received information that many for
eigners were imprisoned there for po-
litical offenses, demanded their imme-
diate release and then, turning over
the temporary command of his vesse
to the proper officer, proceeded inland
in person, to the town of Pedro, where
Drummond was about TO be executed
and ordered his immediate release also
All his demands were met with very
speedy compliance. This is lesson num-
Der one.
The other case happened in the month
of February. A French cruiser touched
at the isthmus, and while lying at an
Choir her commander received a mes
sage from the French Consul at Hava-
ma. stating that French citizen was
unlawfully imprisoned in the military
dungeon there, and that demand for his
release had been made and refused
The cruiser Immediately hoisted her an.
Choir and sailed for Havana. Upor
her arrival very polite note was hand
ed to Weyler, which required the re-
lease of the French citizen within ar
hour. Before the hour had expired
the prisoner was free, and the French
officer was occupied in reading a pro
fuse explanation from the Captain
General apologizing for the unhappy
mistake through which citizen of tht
French republic had suffered an incon.
venience.
These are little things, but they
greatly stimulate the patriotism of tbs
citizen. and as greatly the good will o.
the stranger who has been rescued. Ths
policy thus adopted by France ant
England in dealing with the Spanish
American Governments and peopl,
may seem harsh. but it really is not so
Generosity, unmixed with firmness, i:
invariably misunderstood and misinter
rupted, everywhere, from Mexico t
Patagonia. The masses of the peopl,
are ignorant, and respect no other at
tribute in a foreigner as highly as they
do the reputation of his nationality fol
military power. Englishmen are cor
daily detested by the official classes il
the coast cities of Spanish America, bu
they are nevertheless treated with grea
civility. while in the interior they ar,
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