The record-union., 1897-10-16

the main ingredient. The conscientious
and careful housekeeper should put an
absolute veto upon the use of any such
compound. There is rarely any need
for them, since where fruits and vege-
tables are used and the proper direc-
tions for sterilizing by heat, etc, are
carried out, canned or preserved goods
of all descriptions can be prepared that
viii remain in good condition for years
without the aid of any preservative."
HAVE WE LEARNED THE LESSON?
Los Angeles Express: About the only
good that could come out. Of the hard
times of the past five years would be
that our people, as a whole, should learn
the lesson of providence, thrift and
economy. No people, taking the whole
population into the account, needed
more to learn this lesson. Mobiles who
flocked around Nebuchadnezzar in the
days which made Babylon a by-word
forever probably eclipsed US in extrav-
agance. The debauchees who surround
ed Cleopatra were less provdent than
the richest Americans of the day. The
Romans in the time of Lucullus
thought less than Mr.. Seeley Of New
York as to the expense of a spread But
taking in all sorts and conditions of
men in the nation, we are probably the
most extravagant of any people of any
age or Cline
American artisans who earn from 81
to 81 per day spend every cent they
make. Not all Of them, but not ones or
twos also. Hundreds and hundreds of
thousands do so. Men who have to live
and maintain a family on their daily
wages think nothing of treating one TO
four or five friends once to four or five
times a day. And they take ten-cent
drinks or ten-cent cigars all around
The hard times seem to have had
good deal of effect. In 1892 the people
of the United States consumed 10 gall
Ions of spirit per capita. The total was
over 100,000,000 gallons. The cost was
not less than SO per gallon, or $780,,
OUO,000 in the aggregate. In 1896 the
consumption of spirits had fallen to one
gallon per head, saving of 100000,
600 for the same population. As the
population was 100000 or 6,000000
more, the amount saved was proper
tionately greater. In the same period
the consumption Of wine fell from A
of a gallon per head to 20 of a gallon.
There was a similar saving in the use
of expensive cigars. Thousands learned
to smoke five-cent cigar, a stogie
costing one or two cents, or took to a
pipe.
A SUPREME COURT DECISION.
Marysville Democrat: When Judge
Wallace ordered decree entered III
the records of his court removing from
office twelve men who constitute the
Board of Supervisors of the city and
county of San Francisco the Demo
cTat'' took the position that the court
had erred in removing four innocent
men. 1t was conceded that four of the
officers were not derelict in the duties
required of them, therefore the court
erred in convicting them on charge of
malfeasance in office. The court took
the position that to accomplish the end
desired the entire number should be re-
moved, as the law designated that num-
ber to constitute Board of Supervis
ors in that city. The Constitution pro-
vides that laws shall be made to ex
| clude from office persons convicted of
bribery, perjury, malfeasance in office
or other crimes. The charge preferred
in the case Of the removed Supervisors
was malfeasance in office. To say that
the laws contemplate the conviction of
four innocent men that eight guilty offi-
cials may be punished is preposterous.
The Constitution goes further in this re-
| spect and declares that persons so con-
victed shall be excluded from serving
on juries and from the right of suf
frage. When Governor Budd and May
or Phelan appointed these four con-
victed men as members Of the new
| board they violated a provision of the
Constitution of this State. Taking these
matters into consideration it IS not to
! be wondered at that the Supreme Court
! has reinstated the removed Supervis-
| ors. And when the main question comes
up on appeal the court certainly will
/ consider the constitutional points, par
| ticularly the parts we have here re-
ferred to. The present decision will be
| approved quite generally, except by the
sensational press and the cranks in
| San Francisco.
A DAISY CHAIN.
! Los Angeles Record: Before the war
| the daisy chain was never known IN
our Southern States. and Sherman's S
march to the sea can be followed in
summer by keeping where the daisies
! grow. The supposition is that their
| seed was transplanted in the hay taken
along for the horses. A daisy chain
/ should link brothers. The chance SOW
| ing was prophetic.
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