The record-union., 1897-05-14

the next ten days the fine fruit yield
which was promised in early April Will
be reduced more than half.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
And the chief sufferers will be those
very exceptional communities which
never weary of Dragging that they
don't have to irrigate." In the ir-
rigated sections of the State the warm
weather makes the fruit grow and puts
sugar into it, and the trees will be
loaded to the ground. 1t may be nice
not have to irrigate, but it is ever so
convenient to be able to irrigate in dry
times.
STANDARDIZATION
Stockton Independent: 1t seems to be
slowly dawning on Americans that nat
uralization for convenience is an evil.
Senator Hale showed a few days ago
that he appreciated it as regards Cuba
when he said that very few Yankees
had been imprisoned there, and that
the citizens" We're mostly Sanguillys,
RuiZS, etc. There has been a vast
amount of spread-eagleism about such
citizens, many of whom committed
moral perjury if not the statutory Of
Tense in taking the oath of allegiance
with intent only to use their papers as
protection against Governments on
which they intended to make war;
AN EXAMPLE.
Oakland Telegram: The editor of
San Juan Valley paper wrote column
article on "Patronize Home Industries, >"
and then sat down to await results.
During the week following the publ
cation, fourteen out of twenty mer-
chants of the town ordered out their
ads on a hard times excuse, ten of
them bought rubber stamps, and twelve
Of them sent to San Francisco for cheap
billheads with maple syrup advertise
ments printed on the back. That edit
or is now committing to memory Ham
let's soliloquy on death, and wondering
If rubberstamp printed pass will be
accepted by st. Peter.
ECONOMY.
Alameda Encinal: The State Board of
Examiners are quite right in deciding
that during the next four fiscal years
the various State institutions and de-
partments must be conducted on the
appropriations made by the last Legis-
lature, and that they will not grant de-
ticiencies for any purpose. This is
quite right. There is not an institu-
ton supported by the State which is
not susceptible of greater economy in
its management, and it is just as we'll
at the outset to give their managers
due notice that they must keep within
their appropriations.
DISCARDING THE POSTERS.
Marysville Democrat: The leading
theatrical managers of the country
have practically agreed to discontinue
the use Of window Autographs and
bill posting, and next season the most
of them Will be found using the news
papers exclusively. Shrewd managers
have long recognized the newspapers
as the surest and most profitable means
of securing patronage, and now that
an agreement to discard the bill boards
has been practically reached, the poster
and the Autograph will have to go.
Old and experienced managers saw
that while bin boards, posters, pictures,
etc, attract attention, not one person
IN every ten remembers the date when
the play is coming, and not half who
look at the bill boards notice what the
title of the play is, or in what theater
1t IS to be given, says the Albany Elk
press" In the newspaper all is diff
ferent. The theatrical advertisement
is prepared in attractive form and plac-
ed in a conspicuous place, where it is
always sure to be seen.
Then the dramatic column of all
good newspapers is widely read. Ex-
perienced writers are engaged to look
after the dramatic work and every
thing of interest in connection with
plays and actors noted. The news of
all the theaters is given, and those
who wish to go to a theater look in
a reliable newspaper to choose the at
traction they wish TO see; they do not
look at bill boards or flaring litho-
graphs in windows of vacant stores, or
on dead walls on a side street.
A PROTEST.
Mountain Messenger: There are some
papers in this State that never let an
opportunity slip to continually make
adverse criticism of Governor Budd's
acts. No one denies that Budd has
made many mistakes since he became
Governor but it must be remembered
that he has set mis- seal to many acts
that entitle him to credit Indiscrimi-
nate condemnation of any official in
high position is in poor taste and ac-
cOmplishes no good.
ROCKY ARGUMENTS.
Fresno Republicans: Professor Edo
uard Won Hoist, scientist of Chicago.
lays claim to a knowledge of the start
ling discovery that the rocks of the
mountains and pebbles on the beach are
organic and contain within them germs
of life. The announcement is a start
ling one but the Chicago professor is
not the first to entertain such belief
Many a man. unlettered in the rud-
ments of science, who has been hit in
the head with a flying cobblestone, has
been ready to testify that the dumb
thing was alive. New proofs have
been brought to light, but Professor
Edouard Won Hoist and his co-laborers
are not the original discoveries they
profess TO be. Any man who has had
the pavement of Market street, San