The record-union., 1897-04-29

| mentioned are not to be found on the
average map, and newspaper men who
are called upon to edit the reports have
to go it blind.
CONVICT LABOR.
| Kern Standard: There is no doubt
that convicts in penitentiaries ought to
be employed. Civilization has advanc-
ed sufficiently for this to be generally
admitted. How to employ them without
| having their labor come in competition
With that of more or less honest men
outside the prisons is the problem to
be solved. One good suggestion along
this line is for the prisoners to be en-
ployed as far as possible at hand labor.
Among the convicts are few who have
| had any real manual training. To be-
| gin with them as with boys in trade
school and educate their eyes and hands
by systematic manual work would go a
long way to giving them regular habits
of industry and preparing them to be
| good citizens after they We're out OF
prison. To this end they should be
taught to work by hand without the
aid of machinery. Carroll Wright is
| correct in his position that it is not
the money return from convict labor
that is to be considered so much as
reforming the convict himself. Training
him to work without machinery would
not only make the employment last
longer, but would give twice the like
lihood Of making man of him.
THE GOOD BICYCLES DO
Fresno Expositor: Up to three years
ago the young men of San Francisco,
who now spend most of their Sundays
and holidays on the health giving
wheel, had less laudable methods of
employing such time These young
men then went the rounds of the park
and Cliff House, and left the cars al
the Baldwin Hotel and went down
the line" en- the north side of Market
street and '.up the line" on the west
side of Kearny as far as the Laurel
Palace, retracing their tracks as long
as they could walk as straight as a
worm fence"
Many of them We're considered good"
for rig at livery stable every Sun
day morning for the park and Cliff
House rounds or for spin through
the Mission and past Barney Farley
and maybe down the San Bruno road
to the famous Log Cabin wayside
house. The rest made the outing trip
on the cable cars or on the across the
bay excursion boats. But invariably
the Market and Kearny-street bar
rooms got their next attention and
later in the evening the concert beer
halls concluded the arrangements Of
the young gentlemen for Mondays
headache and poverty.
| The bicycle came whiZZing along anC
whirled revolution into the lives oil
these young men. The wheel cut then
off as customers of the livery stable
man. That was bad for the livery
man. The wheel withdrew the youns
men as customers of various bars anC
beer halls. That was bad for the pro
prietOrs of those places. The whee
weaned these young men from the ca bic
and electric care lines. This was bac
for certain corporations.
Now the question is: Which is bet
ter for the young men?
The situation was we'll illustrated by
the doleful comments of San Fran
cisco liveryman in conversation a few
months ago. Pointing to a group o.
coming up Market street from the
boat, he said: Those fellows are do
ing up the livery stables of San Fran
cisco and Oakland. That is bicycle
club and there are fifty or more like II
on both sides of the bay. Every one
of those boys used to hire at least Z
single rig on Sunday. Sometimes two
dubbed in to pay for it and sometimes
one paid and took his girl. While out
they patroniZed the wayside houses
! When they came back they were liberia
at the bars. Now they don't hire any
rigs, they don't give their girls free
rides, they don't patronize the roadside
houses, and when they get home to-
night, get a bath, change clothes. and
have dinner, they will read awhile an6
go to bed instead of taking in the
town and putting money in circulation
If we ignore the neglect of the girls
what a splendid tribute this is to the
bicycle revolution, The cyclists do not
patronize wayside houses much because
| they soon learn that a giddy-headed
man does not accomplish the wheel
mans purpose. They do not take In
| the town after returning because they
have had exercise and variety enough
Besides these wheelmen have had their
| lungs inflated all day with the pure
rich ozone of the country roadside
meadows, slopes and fields They re-
| turn with bright eyes, developed mus
cles and that bouyancy of spirit which
factivity and contentment produce
These are far better than the effects OF
San Bruno roadside beer, Cliff House
whiskey or Market street champagne
There is economy as we'll as health in
the change, too.
The loss of free buggy rides to young
ladies will be compensated. In fact the
young ladies are conquests of the BIZ
cycle invasion also. What they lost in
those buggy rides they gained in avoid
ing the wayside house associations.
The imaginary loss made them easy
prey for the bicycle, and now the young
lady cyclists will rival the young men
in gathering from the wheel the glories
OF meadow, brook and sky. Their en-
r1chment Will come in the natural roses
on their cheeks, and the progressing
health and strength that cycling be-
slows.
We are sorry for the liveryman. but
the young men and women of all the
cities and towns deserve congratula
| tons
New England Dinner.