The record-union., 1897-07-22

wool for 51a cents and had hard time
to get rid of it, This year / got 1112
cents for the same quality Of wool and
did not stir outside of Milton to sell 1t.
A year and a half ago it was hard to
find man who would buy sheep. Now
there are twenty whenever they are
looked for. That is one of the advan-
tages we have in California on account
of not electing Mr.. Bryan to office, and
there are others
A LOYAL NAN.
Mountain Democrat: While giving
the great railroad system with which
his name and interests are so largely
and honorably connected, the benefit
of his administrative ability, he was
alike loyal to his corporation and his
State. BY investments of his private
fortune he still further and unreserv-
eddy identified himself with the city
and county of which his brief and hon.
orable career has been a conspicuous
part. To promote their industrial and
social progress was the generous i'm
pulse of his youth and is the aspiring
ambition of his manhood. With the
| liberality of a prince he paid to an
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artisans and architects the cost of his
palaces and to eleemosynary societies
the obligations of inherited wealth. A
! gentleman in feeling, convictions and
manners, he was true to his friends and
| loyal to all the manifold business and
social relations of a useful and hos
pitable life. While standing by his
order and for the rights of his COM
pany, he was comparatively free from
the envious and vindictive abuse to
which the makers of monumental his
tory have been and are too often sub
jected.
UNCLE SAM
Orovil1e Register: The Denver Post"
wonders why the pictures of Uncle Sam
always show the old gentleman with
trousers too short The Grass Valley
Telegraph explains it by saying that
the trousers are right, but the old man S
leg has been pulled SO much they are
now too long for the trousers.
WARNING TO PROsPECToRS.
Stockton Independent: = will require
a month of travel over the most difficult
roads imaginable to reach the new and
rich diggings in the British Northwest,
The expense of the journey is $500 at the
least and a man who has no more than
that would find himself pennsless at the
end of the journey. This would leave
him Dowerless also because work is not
plentiful and one cannot Saia mine
without money to support him While
prospecting, and If he finds a good claim,
must have more money to develop it.
Those who have been there nave secured
most of the good claims within easy
reach of the bases of supplies and IL
will require large amount to buy one
of the cheapest. These are the condi-
lions that confront those who would
hasten to the frozen north, and unless
they are prepared to meet them they will
| do best not to go.
HAWAIIAN ANNEX ATiON.
| Vacaville Reporter: The JapsEese
are eager to secure Hawaii, even to the
! point of rashly fighting Uncle Sam. We
| do not hear any suggestion from the
subjects of the Emperor of Japan as 10
the cost it will take to properly fortify
the islands if they get them. Such pet
tiness of mind is reserved for the citi-
zens of the Great Republic, which has
heen acting the dog in the Manager for
years and is to-day diffident about Sc
curing possession of a territory coveted
by every other nation under tn, sun.
KIND WORDS.
| Los Angeles Times: A young San
Francisco girl who walked into the surf
near the Cliff House and drowned her
self left this message traced ON the sand:
Violet loves kindness, and she does not
always get it in this country" There is
a pathos in this act and in the brief
n, essage left by an unhappy girl that
will touch more than one person who
reads the story ef7Violet Glow es. If We
would all see to it that there is more
kindness in the world. how much better
would it be as an abiding place. and how
much lighter would be many OF the
weary burdens that suffernS men ard
women carry uncomplainingly along
IUfes thorny highways. Kind words cost
so little, kind deeds are so cheap, and
kind acts are so easily accomplished
that one wonders that 50 many people
forget these things in this everyday eX-
istence, where we are all touching ell
bows with each other-brotEers and sis
tiers of a common humanity
THE RUSH TO ALASKA.
Oakland Tribune: Those who are
being tempted by the stories of the rich
gold fields on the Clondyke will do well
to take to heart that old proverb,
Hasten slowly While it is undoubt-
eddy true that vast treasures are being
unearthed there, it must not be for
gotten that there are thousands of min
ers already on the ground and an army
more en- route from other parts of Alas
ka so by the time those starting now
could reach the scene they would find
all the best placers located and held at
prices so high that purchase would be
impossible. AS for the statement that
labor commands So a day and board,
although that may have been true at
the time the miners who have just ar
rived left the diggings, it is more than
possible that no such wages could be
obtained now s1id probably employ
ment of any kind might be scant
The lesson taught US a few months
ago must not be forgotten too readily.
Stones of wealth almost as enticing as
those that are now coming, lured num-
bers of Oaklanders to participate in ex-
petitions to the far north and almost
without exception they have returned
starved out. disappointed and willing
to acknowledge they had been chasing
a will-o'- the-wisp. Travelling is a
mighty hard thing in that Arctic coun-
try and as food is scarce and winter is
not far away those who ventured there
now would be running the gauntlet of
very serious possibilities. Furthermore
for one who succeeds in a mining eoun
try thousand fail as experience and
precedent prove.
Those who might be figuring on go