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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-11-04
NEARLY A FIRE.
Berryvi1le Postoffice Narrowly Escapes
Going UP in Smoke,

The postofice building at Berryville
came near going up in smoke one day
last week. A little girl attempted to
build fire and used gasoline instead
of kerosene to start it. There was an
explosion and for time it looked as
if the building would be burned up
with the furniture and stock of goods.
Frank Diedish and Charles Teske, of
Racine, linemen of the Wisconsin
Telephone company, who happened to
be working near by, heard the alarm
and succeeded in smothering the blaze
with sand and water. Carpets were
damaged and also considerable furni-
ture. The work of the two gentlemen
was what saved the place.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-11-04
THE WEATHER FOR OCTOBER
1t Has Been VERY Warm With Few High
Winds.

Under existing circumstances in the
weather line there seems to be de-
mand for gerrymandering the map and
placing Kenosha in the semi-tropical
belt, while Texas and other parts OF
the sunny south are transferred to the
belt where billiards abound and seal
skin coats are seasOnable. According
to the weather reports the temperature
is much lower at Ell Paso, Tex, just
across the Rio Grande from Mexico,
than it is in this city, and from the
present trend of the wave which has
chilled the southwest since Saturday
there is hope of FROST in New Orleans,
where a frost just now would material
ly lessen the prevalence of yellow fever.
Along the Rio Grande valley the tenn
perature Sunday was 36 degrees and
lower, almost to the freezing point,
and plenty cold enough for very heavy
frost.
October was remarkable for it's clear
and warm weather, but it was not the
warmest October on record. The av-
erage temperature during the month
was So degrees, while in October, 1879,
the average was COS. One record was
made which is likely to stand for some
time, and that was the temperature of
81 degrees recorded Oct. 10. The
lowest temperature for the month was
80 degrees, Oct. 80. The lowest tenn
perature on record for October is II
degrees, on the 25th, in 1887.
Rainfall during the month was very
slight, amounting in all to .18 of an
inch This is one of the dryest months
on record, those that had less rain be-
ing December, 1896, is, and Feb
ruary, 1877, .06 of an inch. Last month
and the September preceding form the
drYest successive months in the history
of the weather bureau, the total rain
fall for the two being but "a of al
inch
The normal temperature for October
was 50 degrees, and during the month
there was large addition to the eX-
cess over the normal that has accumu-
lated during the year. There has
been a corresponding falling below the
normal in the matter of rainfall which
since Jan. l, shows a deficiency Of $40
inches. The records of the bureau
show that as rule the rainfall aver
aged pretty we'll for each year and
that when one period of the year is
excessively dry there is enough rainfall
at some other period to equalize mat
tiers and bring the average out ali
right at the end.
The records of the Office show, how
ever, that there is gradual decrease
in the amount of rain that falls in this
vicinity. During twenty years ended
in 1890 the average rainfall year for
this city was &c inches, while since
1890 the average has dropped to 1915
inches The average daily tempera-
ture for the year is 48.8 degrees, and
no appreciate change in this respect
has been noted since the weather Office
was established twenty-seven years
ago.
The absence of high winds was an
other feature of the month that has
passed There were few days when
the wind attained more than a moder-
ate velocity, the maximum being
forty-seven miles an hour, from the
southwpst Oct "a
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-11-04
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
| if it fails to cure. 25c. "A On
The record-union., 1897-12-04

The non-scientific press was naturally
much exercised over the announcement
that Nikola Tesla has been engaged
upon and has met with success in an
invention to remove the microbes Of dis
ease from the human body by the use
OF electricity. Whether he would claim
the ability to remove germs. however,
was not at first stated. We had not
much faith in the proposed invention,
nor were we by any means convinced
that Tesla had made any announcement
of such employment OF electricity. 1t
read in all we saw printed about it very
much hike a yellow journalistic crea-
tion. One Of this class OF papers, COM
menting upon the discovery" said re-
Gently that with such application of
electricity we will have no more old peo-
pie; everybody viii go down to the grave
retaining all the fullness and bloom of
youth, in so far as outward appearance
goes. So spoke the New York World"
TO which that practical journal. "Elec
tricity," which never loses its head, thus
replies:
Now this Is another sample of the ex
aggerated nonsense a few Of the daily
papers are in the habit of printing
whenever anything a little out of the
ordinary is heard OF in the electrical
field.
Mr.. Tesla's theory is, that as two
bodies charged with the same kind of
electricity repel one another, by charg-
ing the surface Of the human body with
static electricity the invisible microbes
collected thereon will become similarly
charged and will consequently be
thrown off. He further proposes to sup
plenaent this treatment by bathing the
body in some disinfectant and by mild
form OF massage.
So after all 1t turns out that our con-
lecture was right What Mr.. Tesla Is
dealing with Is as yet a theory" not an
accomplished fact. 1t is problematical
whether anything will come of 1t, as VIII
be seen. To keep the body charged with
static electricity is one thing in theory.
but another and very different thing in
practice Assuming Mr. Tesias theory
to be sound. in application It would OF
The record-union., 1897-12-04
Clear as Mud.

Suffragist-If you are elected, will you
cut the street through the Henchbury
District? that's what we want to know
Aspirant-I think 1 can state positive
ly that IL case of my election it will be
my purpose to promote the interests ol
the Henchbury District in all possible
ways.
Suifragist-But / am opposed to the
Henchbury crowd
Aspirant-I was about to say. when
you interrupted me, that it will be my
purpose to promote the interests of the
Henchbury District in all possible ways
but that in my opinion the best way tC
do this is to consult the interests of the
whole city rather than any part of it.
and that, in word, there is no hurry
about cutting a street through the
Henchbury District. l hope l make my
self tolerably distinct ?-Boston Tran
script
The record-union., 1897-12-04
THE DUTY OF SACRAMENTANS
TODAY

The proposition before the people of
If all who are favorable to it's adoption
go to the polls and vote That seven
tenths of the people believe it to be all
economic and most advisable PROPOSE
tion is positive-there can be no doubt
about that. If it is lost, therefore, it
will be because of neglect on the part of
the friends of this excellent plan for
county betterment
All that can be said has been said upon
the question. 1t is not possible to adj
vance any further argument in support
of the proposition. So, too, every pos
sible objection to it has been examined
and answered. In these columns
the whole matter has been
debated in all needful fullness. The
Record Union" which has the highest
and best interests of the whole county
at heart, and desires the greatest pros
perity Of all the people, has advised the
adoption of the Folsom road plan Of
iefeO Dy the state ana mas le1t OneX-
riained and unexamined nothing what
ever relating even most remotely to the
subject. 1t has given the use of its
columns freely to the dissemination of
all the literature of the question, and
has added to it the weight of its own
conviction Of the truth.
Nothing remains now but to get the
friends of the proposition to the polls.
To that labor let all energies be bent to-
day until the last second before the
going down of the sun. 1t is all but un-
thinkable that Sacramento County will
refuse the States offer and thus invite
upon the Capital county OF California
the scorn and animosity Of the other
sections Of the commonwealth There
must be no such unhappy outcome, and
there VIII not be II the people who be-
1ieve the proposition to be wise, eco
nomic and just one, will turn out and
work for the affirmative to-day as If
they were battling for their personal
and most vital business interests.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

boring in harmony under a wise theory
and single head, while the conditions
above briefly sketched together with
the necessary additional details and ap-
pliances all adjusted to but single
end. But it is the result of over a de-
cade is slow, systematic growth, spon-
sored by liberal legislative policy,
sustained by enlightened public senti-
ment. The summary of aggregate re-
suits show the remarkable ratio of
Probable Reformation" of 5.0S3 out of
a total received of S,139 delinquents,
with only probable return to crime"
Of but TT; or 1913 per cent. AS the
ratio Of recidivism in the various pris-
ons of the world average from "a to
43 per cent. it Will be seen at a glance
that a we'll equipped and efficient re-
formatory system is the only rational
counteractant to the vast increase of
the criminal population, and the sole
effective instrument of metamorphos-
ing the anti-social and non- productive
element into a useful and law abiding
factor of society. When reminded that
the cost of his enterprise $3.50, 600 an
nual appropriation for maintenance
was great. he replied But see the
work We turn out!" 1t was cheap in
the end. Crime cost the State of CAL
ifornia 81 ,062, $50 in 1890
So we hopefully anticipated a steady
growth of reformatory principles in
our land despite the stormy period that
attends the inception of all great move
ments, and we bespeak for them an
eventual era of great usefulness as the
only true, rational, scientific solvent in
the reduction of the chronic delinquent
problem whose true proportion and
significance We are but just beginning
to realize upon these ultimate shores
Respectfully, A. DRAHMS,
Chaplain and Moral Instructor, State
Prison, San Quentin, Cal
San Quentin Cal Dec 9 1907
The record-union., 1897-12-04
HOW STOCKTON VIEWS 1T.
A San joaquin Paper ON the Fol-
som Road Election.
(From Stockton Daily Recol

(trom stockton Daily RecOrd)
Saturday Sacramento County will
vote on the proposition to issue $75,-
600 in bonds to build the macadam
road from the Capital City to Folsom
The State aids to the extent Of contrib
uting the rock under a special bill
passed by the last Legislature The op-
position to the bonding comes princi-
pally from the Gait section and pres
ent indications seem to be that the
proposition will be defeated
1t would seem to be a very narrow
sighted policy for farmers or residents
OF any section to oppose a scheme of
Improvement of this kind. Sacramento
County expends every year the sum
OF $4,000 ON it's country highways
This amount is raised on the property
outside of the Incorporated cities and
towns. assessed at something over
S12,OOO.OO0. The proposed bonds are
to run twenty years. The amount of
road tax that would be paid in that
time would be at least 100000, or
dUOut . per cent. OF the value OF the
property. But now the city of Sacra-
mento offers to add it's wealth to the
| road assessment rolls if the country
people will consent to build one good
| road. 1t will, If the bonds carry, pay
approximately three-ffths of the bill
for constructing the macadam road
which it is not bound to help with a
single cent. And yet the envies of the
local districts and the narrow and
short-sighted economical views of por-
tions of the rural population influence
them to oppose a project that would
really be one of induring economy and
| a pride to the whole State. We hope
| that progression will triumph over si-
| lurianism at Saturdays election. 1t
will be pleasant to have a neighbor
| with one good stretch of winter road.
even if we of San Joaquin are doomed
| to mud.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

While the anti-high-hat crusade is
on and at fever heat in Philadelphia, in
Des Moines. says the Register of that
city. such thing is unknown, for in
precisely as do the men when sitting in
congregations Of any character. 1t adds
lsis gratuitous slap at unhappy Phila-
delphia: We suppose there are boor-
Alas friend Register" your hit reaches
beyond your intention. for even In San
Francisco and Sacramento, away out on
the last step Of Western civilization, we
have boorish women and cowardly leg
isiators.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

The disgraceful school scandal at Los
educational system of the State. 1t does
shadow the political character of the
system; so far as we politically choose
school governors it develops a weak
Joint in our system. However, that is
matter for consideration distinct from
the situation at Los Angeles.
The shame of that affair, if all is true
that is related in the local press con-
corning it, is that the educational posi-
tions in Los Angeles have been ''raked
to meet the pledges of politicians and
enable political patronage to be dis
persed. Thus, from janitors to teach
ers, money has been extorted and school,
directors have combined and conspired
to that end, in order to satisfy the de-
nands of political servitors, who 1t
turns out in a chief case are partisans
of the purity and reform group known
as Populists.
A blacklist was prepared, and this in
dictated to those most concerned what
was necessary to do to retain their
places in the school department But it
must be added that the recital of these
facts by one director in the nature of a
confession, is denied by those charged
with guilt, and the repentant director
is branded openly and Enthusiastically as
having lied" and Originated scheme"
to blaclen official character.
For the sake of Los Angeles we shall
hope that this denial will be established
as truth, and that the School Board will
go free with clean skirts. Unhappily for
this hope, however, there are evidences
outside of the reported confession of d
director which tend to convince the fair
mind that there are chicane, rottenness
and corruption in the School Board of
the second city of the State, and that
more will develop than is now known
of shameless transactions and infamous
bargains. The whole matter suggests
the thought that some method should be
devised for taking the administration of
public schools out of political hands
wholly.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

The wires bring the news from far
across the ocean that Bismarck the re-
tired German statesman, says America
is arrogant and that Germany must op-
pose her impertinence in inquiring into
the Lueders Haytien case. The Prince
is in his dotage or he has been misin-
formed. In either case the old man
makes himself ridiculous by expressing
an opinion on the subject such as that
credited to him. The United States has
done nothing in the premises that any
friendly nation may not freely do with
out otfense, when appealed to to prevent
by kindly offer a conflict of arms. There
is nothing impertinent or arrogant in
any step TAX n in the case In hand by tn >
United States Government.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

It is evident that Germany and China
are upon the eve of a more serious con-
fiict than that which emphasized the
late seizure of the forts. The En-
peror of China declares that he will for
felt his crown before he will yield to the
exactions of Germany, and we can we'll
understand that he is sincere In making
that declaration. While it is probable
that the action of Germany will result
in greater security being afforded for
eign residents in China, since the Pro-
vincial Governors now see that by per-
mitting assaults upon the citizens and
subjects of other countries they
imperil their offices and heads,
it is not probable that China will
be compelled to yield to the extraordl-
nary demands of the German Emperor.
Other nations will scarcely remain silent
and asserting if German forces attempt
to seize and permanently occupy Chin
ese territory. That reparation must be
made for the outrages upon the German
missionaries is a matter of course, but
the murders will not be permitted 10
serve Germany as an excuse for making
conquest of Chinese province.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

The "Athenaeum'' scores Americans
for setting a very bad example which
it fears Englishmen are following in
calling out actors to make speeches at
the conclusion Of plays. Our surprise is
that the "Athenaeum'' should confess
American. But unless we are greatly
mistaken actors We're not infrequently
called out to speak in England many
years ago. Whatever the truth, the fact
is that it is a bad practice, and the
sooner given its quietus the better. 1t
largely destroys the lingering pleasure
of the play one wishes to carry away
with him after witnessing a fine per-
formance. This disassociation of the
character from the man effected by the
coStumery, the stage environment and
the atmosphere of the play, is some
thing one does not wish to have rudely
disturbed, as it is when the actor, still
robed as the character, appears gasping
and painting, as the man, and with
wasted breath begins formal speech
in which everyone knows he dare not ut
ter words Of truth If they would be ad-
verse to the judgment or feelings of his
auditors. The Critic says that while it
is truly an Objectionable practice, it is
not true thatAmefic audiences 'extort
the speech from the actor" 1t is nearer
to the truth to say that it is the actor
who extorts the opportunity for speech
from the audience. No matter; who
ever is blameworthy, the practice is
bad, just the same.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

necessity be very limited, and could
only be used in those cases where it
was deemed advisable to disinfect. so to
speak, the body of a person who had
been greatly exposed to the assaults OF
disease, or so placed as to render the
liability of the lodgment of the germs or
microbes very great.
The record-union., 1897-12-04
Too Weak For HIN.

Isabella-Isn't the water just delight
full? I could live on it; couldn't you?
Ferdinand-Well, I guess my health
| would require something stronger occa-
SiOuallv
The record-union., 1897-12-04
Weather. Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Saturday
light variable winds, shifting to south
erly.
The record-union., 1897-12-04
TEE 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.......-.N W
These publications are sent either by
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scribers with charges prepaid. All Post
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
eS Second-class matter.
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sprCrAr. AcrNrTrs

This paper is for sale at the following
places: L. p. Fishers. room p. Mer-
chants Exchange, California street, and
the principal news stands and hotels, San
Francisco.
LOS ANGELES-Eclectic Book Store,
gorner Second and Main streets.
SAN DIEGO-News Stand. $50 Fifth
street
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pot.
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Also for sale on all trains leaving and
Eoming into Sacramento
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Expensive Ignorance.

There are a few men whom
! we cannot fit. There are
many who think we cannot
fit them.
Pretty expensive ignorance
that!
Special sizes for very tall or
stout men and a frst-class
tailor constantly on the prem
ises to make alterations free.
See our new fall Business
Suits at 81 so, $40 and SI2 so.
Where else such cloth and
workmanship as you'll find
in them for the same money?
High Novelties
in ITEMS Hosiery.
We have from our New
. York office by express some
beautiful novelties in Mems
Hosiery such as is now being
shown by the swell haber-
dashers of that city. You will
find them on our counters to-
day for the first time.
The feet and tops are black
Isle, while the legs are in
quiet but rich changeable ef-
fects, bordering on blues,
greens, purples, etc. Nothing
like them ever seen before in
mems hosiery. They came
from Europe and are Of
weight and quality that in
plain colors would we'll be
. worth the SOC that we charge
for them. In other words, we
give you the benefit OF these
fashionable color combina-
tons at the price of plain
goods.
But see them-this descrip-
ton hardly does them justice.
: WeinSt0Ck, Lubin & Co.,
. 4OO-412 X STREET,
, Sacramento, California.
sssesss~eessse
The record-union., 1897-12-04

EASTERN BUSINESS HOUSES.
The Tribune Building New York City.
Western Business Once, ''The Rock
cry" Chicago.
The S. C. Beckwith Special Agency,
sole agents foreign advertising.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

RECORD-UNION TELEPHONE.
Editorial Rooms Red 131
Business Office Black '131
The record-union., 1897-12-04
THE SADDLE ROCK
RESTAURANT AND OYSTER HOUSE

FIRST-CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RE-
spect Ladies' dining-room separate
Open day and night. BUCKMAN & CAR
RAGHER, ProprietorS. No. 10l9 Second
street between ] and K, Sacramento.
The record-union., 1897-12-04
WINDSOR HOTEL.

The Best Family and Transient Hotel
in the city. Table second to none Prices
rea sonable. Electric ears pass the door.
Eighth and streets. PETER FLAHER-
TY. Proprietor.
The record-union., 1897-12-04

500 II street.
CONDUCTED ON THE EUROPEAN
plan; strictly first class: hot and cold
baths free to grests; electric cars pass
the door. FRANK MEYER, Prop.
The herald., 1897-01-29
PYTHIAN RIGHTS.
Seeding Lodges Cannot Be Deprived Of
Their Property.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 28.-The
supreme court today reversed the judg-
ment obtained by the grand lodge of
the Knights of Pythias against Koerner
Lodge No. 6 of this city depriving it of
it's property because it had adopted
a resolution 10 secede from the knights
of Pythias and form lodge of the In
diana Zeitungbund. The Koerner lodge
was composed of Germans who trans
acted all of their business in German.
Ir 1892 the supreme lodge K. of P. of the
world passed a law requiring that all
rituals printed in the German language
should be surrendered by the lodges that
had been using them and that the ritu-
ais thereafter used should be printe d
only in the English language. The mem :
bers of Koerner lodge took this as per-
sonal affront and threatened to with
draw from the order. Before the lodge
met again the janitor of the hall took the
charter from the hall and delivered
it to the grand keeper of records and
seals, but at the next meeting of the
lodge after it had been opened, the min :
utes of the last meeting were corrected
so as not to show the violent action
taken before. The grand lodge claimed
that the adoption OF the resolution to Sc
ceola worked a dissolution of the lodge