The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-24
SACRAMENTO RECoRD-UNIoN SATURDAY "a

idle and shiftless will make money
without effort Taking their view, it
is tolerably plain that the real good
time for which they sigh will never
dawn upon this or any other country.
A CONCESSION.
Santa Rosa Press: But. should the
output of gold become so tremendous
that the added supply will replace the
primary money that was swept out of
existence by the characterization Of sill
yer; If the development of the new gold
fields shall result in increasing the vol
ume of primary money to the point per
capita bimetallists have long demand
ed. the problem, in a very considerable
degree, will have been solved. and very
satisfactorily, and the advocates of a
better currency system should be
among the first to rejoice.
THAT FAIR CASE.
Colusa Sun: The most amusing case
of straining at the gnat and gulping
down the camel is in the action of the
San Francisco Board of Education in
regard to the notorious Craven woman.
She is a teacher in good standing in the
public schools of that remarkably
moral city Many months ago she pro-
duced marriage contract with the
late Senator Fair, and declared that ii
had been duly contaminated. The
board has a rule that if a lady teacher
marry she shall give up her school. Ac-
cording to her story, she married a
man many times a millionaire, but
kept the fact from the board and kept
her place. Now, if she was really the
wife of Senator Fair, ought she to have
the school? If she was not his wife
she certainly should not have 1t. After
passing all this over, she is hauled up
because she fancied that some men
were watching her who in fact were
not watching her! huff sed!'
A LOSS TO THE STATE
Pasadena News: The death of Colonel
Croker, Vice-P President of the Southern
Pacific, will bring a sincere regret from
even the most bitter opponents of the
course of that corporation. Born in
Sacramento in 1854, he was Californian
through and through. He was of a
most generous nature, and had he been
in most any other position his public
spirit would have been more generally
recognized Colonel Crocker's death is
a loss to the State.
GOLDEN DREAMS.
Los Angeles Express: The tales of
fabulous gold discoveries in the frozen
north rival those that were carried
over the mountains and deserts to the
East nearly fifty years ago from Cali
fornia. If half the stories are authenti-
Gated, as they probably will be, in the
next few weeks there will be an un-
reasoning rush to one of the most in
accessible regions of the earth.
There will be the usual great num-
Der of failures. the customary few sue
cesses and an overwhelming amount of
suffering Most of those who leave
for the gold fields are those who have
the least means and the least knowledge
of the dangers and risks they must I'M
dergo They forget that for every sue
cess given out there have been hum
dreds of failures-the latter are never
given publicity. They forget that
thousands are already on the ground
and everything in the way of desirable
locations is taken. They forget that
with wages at S15 per day, food and
raiment are proportionately dear. They
do not know that only three months of
the year are open for labor, and that
for the remaining nine months they
must remain cooped up in foul nuts
with the temperature outside fatal in
it's intense cold. All these things, which
they should remember they forget
1t would be fortunate thing for many
a man if these stories had never passed
outside the frigid regions where they
originated AS long, however, as hui
mainly remains as it is golden fables
will lure men to their own destruction
AN EARNEST PRAYER.
Tulare Register: Some pous farmers
in Kansas recently struck good thing
in the shape of a good wheat crop, which
was ripening rapidly and the weather
was threatening. Sunday was also COM
ing, but the wheat would not wait and
there had been so much the matter with
the Government and with finances dur
ing recent years that this was the first
real good harvest thsy had had to reward
their efforts and they were in quandry
what to do. Their good sense got the
better of their conSciences, however, ana
when Sunday came they sent the women
and children to church while they
worked the Irvine binder for all it was
good for. The good clergyman looked
out of the window, took in the situation,
offered a prayer as follows: "Oh Lord
bless those who are toiling in yonder
field. If it had not been Thy will that
they should work this day Thou
wouldest not that the grain should ripen
so fast Bless them for they toll to feed
the mouths of their little ones and If
they do wrong they don't mean TO.
Therefore forgive them and lay it not up
against them" And the Good Lord
didn't.
DIVIDE FAIR.
Los Angeles Herald: The duty on BIZ
luminous coal, which is the only kind
imported, is raised by the new tariff bill
from 40 cents to IS cents ton, and the
reason given for the advance was the
low price of labor in the Canadian mines.