The record-union., 1897-11-14

no use on the field of football battle
Neither are they of any use on the field
of life's battle. 1t is TO the courageous,
meeting lines, the fierce struggle, the
brave play, the long run and the wild
cheers which greet well-won gain. are
as wine to the soul and bread to the
body
The finest people, mentally and ply
| sically, which ever lived We're the
Greeks. This intellectual and beautiful
| race We'll understood the supreme in,-
portance of athletic sports They in
vested the public games with a univer-
sal interest and the proud city which
welcomed to its gates winner in the
Olympian games gave itself up to
transports of enthusiasm. The wisdom
of the Greeks is wisdom still We can
not have too much Of fair, manly ath-
letfc sport We want to grow men
not things. Even a prize-fighter is
hundred times more admirable than
chuckle- headed and cane-sucking dude.
THE CASE OF SUBDIVISION.
Oakland Enquirer: Some English
man who is rashly dubbed Scientist"
has been in the Hawaiian Islands study
ing volcanic phenomena, as he says, and
now predicts the total disappearance
of these islands within the next few
years. He gives no reason for believing
they will sink except that the islands
are of volcanic origin and that as he
states, conditions are ripe for such a
catastrophe" 1t is we'll known that a
man gains easily the title of scientist
when he predicts convulsions of nature,
as witness the case of the late famous
Mr.. Virgins of Canada. But we SUI
pect that the fact that Philip Archibald
Cunning, as the present scientist is
named. is an Engishman has some
hing to do with his prophecy. English
men are opposed to the annexation of
the islands to the United States, and
perhaps Mr.. Cunning thinks that an
easy way to dispose of the business is
to sink them out of sight in the ocean.
FOOTBALL.
Oakland Times: California has made
good thing during the past year in
selling its wheat to Australia, but APP
parently there will be no market there
the coming season. A dispatch from
Brisbane announces that the wheat
crop in Queensland is estimated at for
ty bushels per acre, and If the yield
of the southern colonies of Australia IS
anything like this, Australia will be
large shipper next season. Probable
tiles would seem to favor considerably
lower prices for wheat in '9S than in 81
TENNESSEE GAIN.
San Diego Union: The Tennessee
centennial exposition which closed a
few days ago, unlike most affairs of the
kind, appears to have been a success
both as regards attendance and
finances. The yellow fever scare, which
came during the last month of the eX
position. does not seem to have great
ly curtailed the number of visitors. The
real advantages. however which Ten
nessee has gained by its big fair, will
not appear in the figures of the reports
to be made by those who have had
charge of the exposition. The bene-
fits that will result from bringing thou
sands of people from all parts of the
country to that State cannot be set
down in dollars and cents. The les
son of the Nashville exposition is that
cities, as well as business houses, profit
by judicious advertising.
HANNIS TAYLOR.
Santa Rosa Republican:Wh Hannis
Taylor represented the United States
at the Spanish Capital he had no criti-
cism to offer as to the conduct of the
Cuban war Then he did not intimate
to his Government or the American
people that this nation should do any