The record-union., 1897-04-30


and September and the dessicated fruit
since the beginning of October.
Half the United States does not
know what prunes are, and the other
half does not know that the four States
of California, Oregon, Idaho and Wash
ington are the only ones where prunes
can be grown with any great degree
of profit. California raises as high
favored a prune as any of the four
States, except Idaho, which unfortu-
nately has but q small area of land
dhe Boise Valley favorable to their
production. Oregon has vast tracts OF
good land for this purpose, as has also
Washington; and those States produce
thinner-slkined prune than California,
as we'll as one that is larger in its green
condition. But there ends all their adj
vantages over us. Their climate is Sc
humid that the shrinkage in curing the
fruit is much greater than in California.
And not only that, but their humid eli
mate also prevents the curing of prunes
in the open air, as is customary in most
counties of this State. Hence it is that
if prunes ever go down as low as 3 cents
per pound, California orchardists will
find prune culture more profitable than
her northern neighbors.
DON'T YOU SEE?
Colusa Sun: One of the most brazen
outrages in the history of Populism
was that committed by the Populisdc
administration in Kansas, which turned
out fourteen regents and professors IN
the State Agricultural College because,
forsoOth, those gentlemen were not in
harmony with the fundamental prin-
ciples of the administration" Topics
happens to know that institution and
the men who have been put out that
Populists and socialists might be put in,
and they are all educators and not pol
iticians.-Tulare Register.
Yes, but don't you see eve are the
people." Men should not be in any
kind of Office not in harmony with 'the
people!" When either of the old parties
get in by deceiving the people OF
course they have no right to turn any
body out, because that is the 'spoils
system" but when the people do it
themselves it is quite a different thing.
You ought to see the difference with one
eye shut!
THE BIG HAT AND FREQUENT
EXIT.
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Now that the
women are beginning to oblige the pub
lie by taking off their hats in the the
aters, they are turning on the men and
inQuiring when their courtesy will be
reciprCcated; for the men-that is, GER
tain Doors among them-are still Of
Tending by a rush out for liquor be
tween the acts. At least, a great ma
jority of all who leave their seats dur
ing an entertainment go for liquor. Once
in great while man is called away
on business; once in a While he tires of
the clOseness and heat, and goes to the
sidewalk for a breath of air; once in q
while he really to wishes to see a man
in some other part of the house; but it
is drink that takes most of the disturb
ers out of their places. 1t is absurd to
suppose that strong man cannot stay
in his seat for two hours and a half; it
is absurd to allege that whether strong
or weak, he requires a stimulant often
er than once in two hours and half,
and it is well that an agitation is be-
wore big hats his excuse was that, as
he could not see the show, he might as
well be tramping about the house and
leaning against a bar as sitting in his
place, though his excuse was actually
good for eXcuSing his attendance alto
gether. And usually the man with the
most uncomfortable thirst buys his
seat squarely in the middle of a row,
instead of on the aisle. Nobody is in
commoded by the entrance or exit of
the man who sits on the aisle, but the
man who has to squeeze by eight or ten
others is a nuisance of the most pro
nOunced kind. He is a nuisance when
he goes out tramping on peoples feet
mussing their clothes, brushing their
hats, programmes and opera glasses
out of their laps, and he is a worse
nuisance when he goes back, for then
he repeats his aggressiOns, and also
brings a stencil Of smoke or liquor with
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