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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19
WHEEL TOURING ABROAD

Americans who purpose to take BIZ
cycle tours through Europe this sum-
mer will do we'll to acquaint themselves
with the rules which the various Eu-
ropean countries have laid down in re-
gard to foreign cyclers. The duty on
cycles brought into France is S4S %
on every I'D pounds-about twenty
five cents per pound dead weight. This
duty must be paid on cycles imported
for sale, and the same amount may be
required as a deposit from any Amer
lean who lands in France with a cycle.
even though his sole intention is to
tour through the country on his wheel
There is in France an annual tax Of
- on each cycle, but this is only col
lected from residents and not from
tourists. The revenue from this tax
which in 1896 amounted to 1000, coo
francs. is spent on improving the pub
lie highways Anyone touring through
France will have to observe the follow
ing Ministerial decree:
Each wheel must be provided with a
gong or bell capable of being heard at
a distance Of fifty yards A plate.
bearing the name and address of the
owner must be attached to the cycle.
Lanterns must be lighted at shutdown.
Cyclists must take the right on meet
ing vehicle and, when passing one.
must take the left, decreasing speed
and sounding the bell.
In crowded thoToughfares the cyclist
must dismount and lead the wheel
Cyclists are forbidden to form groups.
so as to obstruct the public WAYS. or
to pass through funeral corteges or
military professions.
Cyclists are forbidden to cycle on the
pavements and footpaths reserved for
pedestrians, except in the country
where the roads are paved or being
mended In cases where it is permit
ted to cycle on the footpaths the cy-
clist must moderate his speed when
meeting pedestrians.
All French railroads are required to
carry cycles as baggage, and are held
responsible for any damage. the
amount of indemnity varying according
second or third class.
In Germany the duty on cycles is
about three cents per pound Tourists
are entirely unrestricted, and need not
pay any deposit
In Austria there is a duty of SD O6
on every cycle imported for sale. Each
tourist. too, must deposit so at the
Custom house and make an affidavit
that his y heel IS ret fer sale. and that
he does not intend to become resident
of the country. When his tour is over
he gets back the deposit
In Belgium the duty is u per cent.
ad valorem, and tourists are required
to deposit a sum equivalent to that
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CYCLER'S COLUMN.
ONE MILE RECORDS-THE SAC
RAMENTO MEET.
A Recognized CIub-Wheeling
Regulations in Europe-Some
Secession Talk.

New York Times: There are the rud-
iments of a joke in the fact that the
great battle of the bicycIists is to be
fought for them by the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This
organization proposes to enforce with
all possible stringency the law against
the scattering in highways of any sub
stances, vitreOus, metallic, or other,
calculated to injure the feet of horses,
but there are SO few horses and so
many bicycles on the road nowadays
that really the crusade Will be of little
real Importance except as ii saves rub
Der tires from mutilation. However.
the law is good and the work is good,
so the wheelmen will not object to BEN
citing by either, even though the con-
sequences should be an occasional iden-
LITIGATION of themselves with the So
ciety's other wards.
THE ONE MILE RECORD.
Cleveland Leader: The bicycle record
for ore mile has again been reduced
by about two seconds. AS an English
rider did the work it is probable that
the British cycling papers which used
to question the correctness of what
they called impossible records made
by wheelmen in America, will accept
without hesitation the statement that
a mile has been ridden, on an oval
track, in / minute 80 % seconds. Tha.
beats the best time ever made by q
running horse on any but a straight
course by about three and one-half sec
onds and it is the little fraction Of one
tenth of a second inside the time made
by Salvador when that great horse ran
the Monmouth straight track in l min
ute 331a seconds. Salvatore record was
made IN 1890 It has not been equaled
since. The bicycle mile time comes
down three or four seconds a year
A NEW CLUB.
The Garden City Cyclers of San
Jose went to the wall sometime ago
in San Jose. They attempted too much
in the construction of a wheel track,
and insolvency swamped them But
the membership resolved upon reor-
ganization, and a new club has just
arisen out of the ashes Of the old one.
1t is all due to the untiring efforts of
such men as r. J. Butler, j. A. Desi-
none. and j. B. Lambl4in. The name
of the new club is the Garden City
Wheelmen, and the following are the
officers:
President, J. B. Lambkin; Vice Pres
ident, Robert j. Butler; Recording Sec
rotary, j. A. Desimone; Financial Sec
rotary. H. L. Miller; Directors, George
Osen, George Owen, DR. F. Schumach-
err, Al. Hubbard, and Edgar Johnson.
Committees: Recruiting-R ]. Butler
and Tony Delmas. Club Rooms-R. J.
Butler and Dr. Schumacher A secret
committee to pass upon applications for
charter membership was also appoint
ed.
THE BIG MEET
The Capital City Wheelmen have
completed all arrangements for the
great meet in Sacramento on the 26th
instant. And it will be a great meet,
indeed. That championship race prom
lses to be the big event of the coast, to
say nothing of that professional mile
handicap with over SI00 in S;ob+ To-
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

After this years experience no par
ty VIII have the nerve to introduce
wheat into American politics as a cam
paign issue.
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cause. She denounces the man whom
she imagines entrapped him and then
cries out in abject apology when she
learns that the man whom she up
braids is her lover. The General is led
to believe that his son is there as a spy
and condemns him TO death. The Gen
eral is killed in the ensuing battle which
places the herO's adversary in command.
Maryland intercedes for his life, but his
enemy in the presence of her bound
lover who is about to be led out for
execution, insults her and she seizes
bayonet and strikes him down. She
then frees the prisoner, who escapes;
and as the bell is about TO be rung an
nCuncing the fugitiveiS fight, Maryland
PUSHES up the belfry stairway. clutches
the clapper of the bell and swinging to
and fro in midair, prevents the ringing
of the alarm and furthers his escape.
The cast, headed by Mrs Leslie Carter,
calls into requisitiOn the full compile
ncnt of the supporting company, among
whom are James E. Wilson, Frank
Mordaunt, Theodore Roberts, Henry
Weaver Jr., Grant Stewart, Malcolm
Williams, Herbert Millward J. H
Hazelton, Helen Tracy. Angela McCaull
and Virginia Tracy. 1t is seemingly ex-
IfdNaSanl praise. DGb q COOi-DtdueQ
actor the other day told the Record
Union" that he holds Mrs. Carter to be
the foremost of all American actresses.
Sam T. Shaw's large stock company
closes tonight a very successful fort
nights season in Sacramento. and goes
next to McDonough's Theater. Oak
land 1t is a good organization. pains
taking. earnest, and performing all it
promises, and more. That such a large
troupe. and one so competent. can
make It pay at 10. 20 and 30 cents. IS
the puzzle. H. S. Duffield is general
managerand part proprietor of the COM
pany better man could not be Sc
lected for the position. Here Dufheld
and Shaw have made host of friends
and will be gladly welcomed back
whenever they choose TO come this
way
Among the plays which Sarah Bern
hardt holds in readiness for her coming
season at the Paris Renaissance are
La Vile Morte,' by Signor Gabrielle
d'Annunzio, and Plus que Refine"
play on a Napoleonic subject by NJ.
Emile Bergerat The version of Ham
let" prepared for the actress by NM.
Eugene Morand and Marcel Schwob IS
said to be entitled La Tragique His
tore d'Hamlet, Prince de Ranemark."
Moritz Jokai has finished new dra-
ma, entitled "Levante" 1t is 10 be
put on the stage during the winter at
the National Theater in Buda-Pesth
1t is announced that the distinguished
italian tragedian, Signor Zacconi, who
has been the subject of most enthusi-
astic admiration in the European press.
has signed contracts to give a series
of performances with an Italian COM
pany in the United States.
George Alexander has been visiting
the new municipal theater at wies-
baden, where the curtain is raised and
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

Mrs. Oscar Beringer has written a
one-act play for her two daughters. It
is called My Lady's Orchard" and in
it Miss Esme Beringer will appear as
a troubadour and make love to her sis
ter Vera.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19
COMPLIMENTARY NOTE

San Francisco Call: The Ariel Bicycle
Club of Vallejo contemplates giving a
meet in October on it's six-lap board
track there, and will probably select
the 18th as the date. AS Sacramento
intends to follow up it's September 10Th
meet with another in about a month
this will make at least one big meet
every week for some time to come. and
they will be conducted in cities where
a large attendance is assured. and by
clubs that thoroughly understand the
business. With the Sacramento man
agement there is nothing to be de-
sired, and the same must be said of
Vallejo, save that it's care of the Off
Gals and newspaper men is very slight.
There is ample room in front of the
NalleJo grand stand to construct a good
judges stand and press box, and this
should be done before another meet is
given
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

Save money by buying your tea and
coffee of j. Mem orry, 531 II.
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Gounod's oratorio ''Mors ct Vita" re-
Gently had its first performance in Italy
at Genoa and met with an enthusiastic
reception III Trovatore" says it was
AN enormous success
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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

Frank Bacon's compact, sterling com
edy company has had a good week in
Sacramento and holds on for another,
producing at the new Clunie Mr.
BRUSHES domestic drama, THE Estate
Of Hannibal Howe" This successful
piece has been trimmed, cut, rewritten
fitted neatly into five acts instead of
four, and made. all in all, most
charming drama, that we undertake to
say will be we'll received on the road
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

The Grand PriX de Rome, which has
been held by most of the great French
composers, has been awarded this year
to a M. d'Olonne, a pupil of Massenet.
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hand wherever he goes.
Foreign composers are becoming
pessimistic. The other day Joseph Ben
nett asked Professor Stanford when
London was likely to hear again his
fine ''Elegiac Ode" After / am dead,
was the answer. So NJ. Saint-Saens,
talked TO about his glory" exclaimed:
Don't bother about my glory; let us
drink TO music. Glory cannot come
without DEATH
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

Mr.. F'loersheim contradicts the rumor
that the Flying Dutchman" is to be
staged at Bayreuth for the first time
in 1899. There will be no festival in
1898, and in 1899 the repertory will be
the same as this year-"Parsifal" and
the Nlbelung Tetralogy. Last year
Mr.. F'loersheim was in somewhat skep
teal mood, but this year he again be-
came Convinced of the almost unap-
proachable superiority Of Bayreuth
over all other cities in it's Wagner per-
fOrmanceS.
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phelps, fact Whlch IS IN ltSeI rec
ommendation for any actor or man
ager.
In reviewing the late opera season
the London Times" said that Nine.
Emma Eames for a time enjoyed the
position of prima donna assOluta in a
far strIcter sense than usually attaches
to the term. Her appearance is al
ways picturesque her parts have al
ways been carefully studied as well as
exquisitely sung while she has i'm
proved as an actress. she still lacks the
final gift of conviction which, if she
could only gain it, would raise her to
supreme position among modern sopra
nos" OF Jean de ResZi<e the same pa
per says that his superb impersona-
ton OF the brilliant part of Seigfried
stands cut as the browning event of
the year," while in all the German per-
formances the magnificently artistic
conducting Of Herr Anton Seidl was
strong element of their success. The
star opera in London is now ''Lohen-
grin" in German, which both opened
and closed the season.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

Martha Morton's new play, "A Bach
lor's Romance" will be produced in
the Garden Theater on the 10Th of Sep
TENDER. with Sol Smith Russell as the
hero.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

Justin Huntly Mccarthy has writ
ten q new version of Paul Feval's LIE
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

Richard Mansfield will open his Lon
don season with piece by Oscar Wilde.
conceived and partly written during his
imprisonment. The name of the piece is
not announced.
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THE BIG MEET.

The Capital City Wheelmen have
completed all arrangements for the
great meet in Sacramento on the 26th
instant. And it Will be a great meet.
indeed. That championship race prom
ises to be the big event of the coast to
say nothing of that professional mile
handicap, with over S400 in sight for
the winners
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Phelps, a fact which is in itself a rec
ommendation for any actor or man
ager.
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that artists belonging to the aristocracy
may not use their titles on theater bills.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

George Alexander has been visiting
the new municipal theater at wies-
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-19

Signor Patti, the eminent violon-
cellist. is now IS years old, After
long career, upwards of half a century
of which he has spent in London, he
has now retired from the Monday Pop
ular Concert season, his place being
taken by Professor Hubert Becker of
Frankfort
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-05-22

bers of the order and in sacred and i'm
pressive manner lending their strength
to Il movement in such way rs to make
them permanent factors in an impend
ing struggle, whereas the average con
vert in political campaign frequently
wavers between contending arguments
and is not always to be relied on when
the day arrives for recording his will as
sovereign citizen. The lodges of the
order are gradually developing into
schools of patriotism and as permanent
fixtures in the United States looking to
more perfect government and the ulti-
mate emancipation of the human race
by the study of the science of civiliza
ton. The indirect work of the order
has been as great or greater than the
direct influence. By reason of this
direct strength and support and con
fidence of its officers and members there
has come to it an influence that has
been far reaching in its affects.
Through the activity of the publishing
house connected with its national Office
there has been sold during one month
the enormous number of $50, 900 copies
of the books handled by it bearing
directly on the financial question, to say
nothing of the 2 900, 900 books previous
ly handled by it, In addition to the
circulation of books tens of thousands
of smaller literature have been sent out
all over the country in the interest of
humanity.
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commissioners Sale !

NOTICE is hereby given that, under ana by
~ authority of decree rendered on the chan
Gerry side of the Circuit Court of Crawford
County Arkansas, on the 2nd day of December,
1885, In an action pending in said court between
McKibben Il Pape Plaintiffs and Geo Brock,
ct al, Defendants, wherein 1t was adiudged that
unless within 80 days from the date of said
decree the defendants, George Brock Wyatt
Brock and Edy Jones. should pay off the note
given by them to Berkeley Neal amounting to
S33l.2 %, described in said decree. the mortgage
executed by them to secure.the payment of said
note should stand toreclosed and their equity OF
redemption in the land described in said decree
be barred, the sum of money aforesaid remain
ing unpaid, l will on
Saturday, June D, 1897,
at the front or Main Street entrance to the Court
House in the City of Van Buren,, within the
hours for judicial sales, offer for sale and sell
at public cutlery to the highest bidder on a
credit of three months. the tract of land
described in said decree, to-wit
All that part of the Northeast quarter oil
Section Fifteen, Township Nine, North, Range
Thirty-two West lying and being west of Lees
Creek containing Ninety .one acres, three roods
and twenty seven poles.
The purchaser will be required to execute
note with approved security, and a lien will BIZ
retained on the land for the purchase money.
W. z. SADLER,
Special Commissioner
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The President is DIspleased With the
Senate Tariff.

Special to the Republic.
WASHINGTON, May 14.-It is an
nounced this evening with show of
authority that the president is so much
displeased with the senate tariff bill in
general that he will veto it unless its
sugar schedule is vitality amended. He
was much better pleased with the house
bill, which is thought to have been
drawn in some part according to his
informally expressed desires. The
president has no idea that the senate
bill will pass congress, and is so con-
fident of it that he is not in the least
disturbed at the possibility of having to
officially give it his disapproval.
The president is opposed to the bill in
general, not that he finds something to
complain of in every feature, but that
in the main it is unsatisfactory.
The president has not talked to many
Congressman on the subject of the bill.
He has not considered it necessary to
freely give his opinion He has CON
fidence that the bill as it stands will not
get through, and that is sufficient for
him. 1t is doubted if he has talked
about the bill to over twenty congress
men. That vast majority of Republican
leaders who go to the White House are
consulted on offices, and their opinion
on the tariff bill is not asked. He has
probably talked more to Dingley, the
author of the house BILL than to all
others combined. Yet it is certain that
Dingley does not share the president s
hope for the vital amendment of the
senate bill. In his paper recently he
said:
They will keep the bill before the
senate constantly after it is called up
for consideration, and by beginning the
daily sessions at an early hour and
continuing them at night try to complete
the consideration of the bill if possible
before the end of the fiscal year. 1t
will then be sent to the house, and if a
committee of conference is asked the
senate will decline to appoint one, and
the house will thus be forced to the
necessity of accepting the senate bill or
prolonging the contest indefinitely, with
the possibility of having no bill at all
If such an exigency should arise, we
should again be confronted with the
power of the senate to bunco the balance
of the government. -
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Hill Did Not Vote for Mckinley.

ALBANY, N. Y, May 14.-In an
interview today ex Senator Hill said
among other things:
II regret to see the uncalled for
remarks made by gold Democrats
rejecting on Mr.. Bryan. A defeated
candidate is always deserving of con-
sideration at the hands of his party.
He is always likely to reappear at times
of emergency and excitement. Sey-
mour, Mcclellan and Hancock were
all possible candidates for denomination
If Mr.. Bryan should modify some
of his views and again be the nominee
of a national Democratic convention
these untimely utterances would rise to
provoke and enbarrass the men who
utter them. They lose sight of the fact
that the Chicago platform stands I'M
altered. No state committee or coterie
of leaders can alter it until the next
national convention. For men who
voted for Mckinley to boast of fidelity
to the Democracy is egregiously
ridiculous. may have been luke
warm-and | confess had no heart in
a contest foredoomed to defeat-but
did not vote for Mckinley | did not
put feather in the way of the success
of the Chicago ticket.
Senator Jones appears to be afraid
that Mr. Cleveland and his followers
will recapture the party said MIR.
Hill. II think he is unduly alarmed.
New York or. perhaps, New Jersey,
will attend to that matter. The chances
are that Mr.. Cleveland could get as
many delegates from Senator Jones
state as he can from New York
Judging from what | understand the
ex president to have said at the Reform
Club dinner-for l did not get time to
read the address-he is still for war and
party disunion. am not with him in
this. This is not country that
tulerates feuds. Nothing is so dis
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The Light Question.

Messrs Johnston and Fuller, the
gentleman who were awarded the con
tract for lighting the city with cleo
tricity, left for st. Louis Saturday
after having deposited with the city
treasurer forfeit of $3.50 for the
prompt compliance of their contract.
Before leaving they announced their
intention of pushing the work as soon
as material can be gotten ready, and
that local labor only would be employed
wherever possible.
AS regards the size of the plant they
announced that it would be of capacity
of 40 arc and 1900 incandescent lights
which they considered would be large
enough for several years, but their
engine and boilers would be sufficiently
large to furnish power for another
dynamo when required. They expect
to return within 30 days.
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of transportation through their secret
rates. In order to save anything from
the wreck the independent owners were
forced to sell their retineries and wells
to the trust. The trust charged what
it pleased for oil, and gradually ex-
tended its operations through the
country. Competition sprang up but
the trust killed it. Whenever a com
petitor started in business the trust
lowered prices below cost. 1t could
afford to lose thousands of dollars until
its rival was ruined.
The Standard company has become so
powerful that it can dictate legislation
1t is generally believed and has been
openly charged that the nomination and
election of ex President Cleveland was
brought about by the oil trust. The
Standard has bought legislatures and
courts. 1t is known that the trust
bribed the Ohio legislature to elect the
late Henry B. Payne to the United
States senate. There are many other
instances of similar nature.
The oil monopolists have used the
grease of gold to accomplish their ends,
and they have been uniformly success
full. Several of these INSCRIPTIONS and
heartless men pose as philanthropists
and Christians. John Rockefeller has
established Baptist churches and he
gave 81 900. 900 to the University of
Chicago.
Henry H. Rogers, the trust s
treasurer. has built public libraries,
and Henry NJ. Flagler, one of the
principal members of the combination,
has spent s., 900, 900 in building several
magnificent hotels in Florida for the
accommodation of invalids. The
Standard Oil company will go down in
history as a monster of iniquity and the
men who have made it what it is will
not be remembered for their money but
the black records of their lives.