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treaties with China, must be given pre-
ciseiy the same possessions and privi-
leges. If Germany is to have a coal
ing and naval station in Kiaochau Bay,
then England and all others must have
like stations in the same bay. If Rus
sia is permitted to winter her ships at
Port Arthur, then England and other
nations must be permitted to winter
their war ships in the same port If
France and Germany and Russia are to
occupy Chinese territory then England
claims the same privilege in the same
provinces and to the same extent.
These claims are made under the
most favored nation clause of the
treaties with China. That they are
just claims, fair play claims, there can
be no denial. England does not say
by preferring them that she favors the
recent seizures or approves of the par
ceiling out of China among the Euro
pean Powers; but she does say if the
tnlng goes on, If the partition and
grant of special privileges for harbors;
II railway concessions and territorial
aggrandizment are t2 be the rule, then
Great Britain and all other Powers hav-
ing similar treaties with China, must
be recognized and favored in like man.
ner That is to say, I'VE do not ask
Tor a piece, but If there are pieces to
be distributed we want our share and
an equal and undivided interest in the
grant of any privileges you may wiring
from China This is simply fair play.
1t is right declaration. But in saying
this the grab and steal of Chinese ter
ritory and the coercion Of that help
less Power is not thereby justified.
Opponents of annexation of Hawaii
are loud in protestation that Hawaii as
a State would be disturbing and un-
certain political factor in our Govern
ment; that it could not be governed
with satisfaction as a sovereign body
of the Union. This is advanced upon
the assumption that If admitted Ha-
waii will become an Independent State
There is but one sovereignty in the
Union that came into the family of
States without passing through the pro-
bationary territorial stage. 1t has at
no time beeen claimed that Hawaii
should come in as a State. The ask
ing has not been upon that basis by
the Hawaiian Government, nor has ad-
vocacy of the wisdom of annexation
been grounded upon any such claim.
On the contrary, it has been steadily
announced that Hawaii shall be a CO.
lonial possession, and the treaty so ex-
pressly declares. 1t has not been pro-
posed even, that our form of terrific
rial government should be applied to
the islands. AS the Portland "Orego-
nian' recently said, If England can
hold South Africa, a colony of mixed
races, fairly in hand, why not the
United States? A Government like
that applied successfully to the Dis
trict of Columbia would probably be
practicable"
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Slow Selection.

Eyes, my wife is a very painstaking
talker. I've known her to take several
seconds to select a fitting word"
"Indeed?"
Yes, she suffers"
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VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
Interest.


Ventura Independent: In drawing uT
your New Year resolutions do not for
get TO add one pledging yourself te
better support the newspaper thai
helps you and all the community by
helping to build the place up and te
add to its attractiveness.
DEGENERATION.
Stockton Record: Justice Edward
Patterson of the New York Supreme
Court, the highest judicial authority in
the Empire State spoke ten days age
at law club dinner and created a
sensation by declaring that the pro-
fession is sadly degenerating: it had III
fact relinquished it's right to be called
a profession and was a mere trade
He advised the bar to abandon the
habit of cross examination, contend
ing that it was unnecessary, and that
only four lawyers in the country are
equal to it. Judge Patterson is de-
scribed by one of the critics of his ut
terances as the member of a highly
cultivated mind and an energy and
alertness of which every young man
might be proud
MORE JAW.
Stockton Independent: The big pu-
gilists are talking fight again, and the
boys may as well save up for a long
trip and large expenses in the sum-
ner not so far away. The managers
are talking, too, and somebody must
bring out the cash to keep these men
we'll fed and prosperous. Gentlemen
who love sport must pay for it.
CALIFORNIA BANKS.
Kern Echo: A statement from 15l
banks in this State has just been COM
pleted by the State Board of Bank
Commissioners. 1t shows that there
is a good deal of money in the country
banks, and it also appears by the re-
ports that a great deal of this money
does not belong to the banks. The to-
tai assets of these banks amounts to
So, 100000. This covers bank prem
ises, real estate, bonds and stocks. But
among the liabilities appears an item
of $4,000, 600 belonging to depositors.
LUMBER AND RECIPROCITY.
San Jose Herald: The National Lum-
bermen's Association is up in arms
against any scheme of reciprocity with
Canada that will reduce the duty on
pine lumber. 1t is a fact which every
man who wants to build house real
ICES tnat lumber has risen in price, and
the lumbermen want to keep it where
it is or send it higher. No doubt the
National Lumbermens Association is
a very large and powerful trust. Not
quite so strong, perhaps, as the sugar
trust, yet big combine. OF course it
is much more desirable that such a
combine should have the privilege of
charging its own price for lumber than
that the people should be able to ac-
quire cheap homes, so perhaps the
trust will have its way. 1t is great
thing to have a political and business
mil combined
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Cloudy Wednes-
day; probably without rain, except IN eA'
treme northwestern portion; southerly
winds
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Another young life has been sacri-
feed on the football altar The
Wheatland young man who came to his
death through the brutality of one of
the rushes in game at Marysville last
week, was the victim Of a silly and use
less rule, that justifies and advises the
''piling on" tactics. Recently it was
published that football magnates were
soon to assemble and revise the rules
of the game. The sooner they do so
the better. 1t would seem to outsiders
that the game would be just as inter-
estfng as its devotees claim it to be,
If, when a player secures the ball and
goes to earth with it, that the spot
where he falls shall be the limit of ad-
vance. Abolish the Crawling" tao
tics, and with it wifi so of necessity the
''piling on" in which, as in the case of
the Wheatland youth, backs are broken
The record-union., 1898-01-05

In his inaugural message Mayor Land
calls the attention of the City Trustees
to their sworn duty to furnish the City
Treasurer with a suitable vault for the
safe keeping of the city funds separ-
ate and apart from those of any con-
Germ, individual or bank This sub
Ject has been so thoroughly explored
and the mandate of the law made so
clear, that there is no necessity for
further debate of it. The simple ques-
ton before the Trustees as presented
by the Mayor is, "Will you comply with
the law and provide safe storage for
the city funds that shall be wholly un-
der the control of Treasurer Frost, and
accessible by him only; a place and
means of storage that shall belong to
and be the property of the city?"
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Don't bet with your wife, unless you
are prepared to lose, whether you win
or not.
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THE WEEKLY UNION.
TWELVE PAGES.

TWELVE PAGES.
Is the cheapest and most desirable Home,
News and Literary Journal published on
the Pacific Coast. a. 40
The Weekly Union, per year........Sl W
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These publications are sent either py
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All POST
masters are agents. -,
The best advertising mediums on IN
Pacific Coast.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
as second class matter.
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WHO WILL DECIDE?

Winters Express: One preacher at
Berkeley played ball on Christmas Day,
while another denounced all such
amusements as a ''desecration of the
most solemn of religious festivals.
Members of two church congregations
were pitted against each other on the
diamond, while those of a third spent
almost the entire day in devotional ex-
ercises. Will some Solomon please in
form the rest of the obtuSe mortalS
who are on the fence whether there
is any divine authority for designating
Christmas as a holy day, or is it simply
a man-made institution, as are some
other days denominated holy by the
unco-good?
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rpToWN BRANCH OFFICES.

AT Thomas ". McAuliffe q co. Drug
Store southeast corner OF Tenth and
streets.
OAK PARK AGENCY-Carters Black
smith shop, corner Thirty-fourth street
and Sacramento avenue.
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SACRAMENTO BANK.

THE OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN
the city, corner Fifth and streets, Sac
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January 1, 1897. s., 6S5, ,T61 75. Terms and
ordinary deposits received. Dividends paid
in January and July. Money loaned upon
real estate only. Information furnished
upon application to
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Subscribers served by carriers. at Eli
teen cents per week. In all interior clueS
and towns the paper can be had of the
principal periodical dealers, newsmen
and agents.
The Sunday Record Union twelve
pages, % cents per month, delivered by
carrier. Sent by mail at 81 per year.
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THE LEADING HOUSE OF SACRA-
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ANNEXATION.

AT
Fresno Republican: The Hawaiian
Government comes asking for annex
alton, and whatever may be said re-
garding the legitimacy of that Gov
ernment and the rights and wishes OF
the native population, the fact remains
that it is the existing Government, and
whatever it's future may be, that the
native population have as much part
in it as they can have in any govern
ment that will ever exist there. Their
supremacy has gone for all time, fo1
the sufficient reason that neither IN
point of numbers nor ability to govern
are they capable of reassuming the
function they once exercised. Hence II
follows that annexation could not pos
sibly deprive them of any preroga-
tives, existing or prospective. To the
contrary. any benefits that would re-
suit to that Republic by reason of an,
nexation would accrue TO them equally
with any other class of population.
The question of Hawaiian annexation
is not one of sentiment but of ex-
pediency. Whether it is a wise and
necessary act on the part of this Gov
ernment. considered from our own
stantiaI reason that the Republican
sees for such action is the probability
that failure to pursue that course would
be followed by the annexation or the
Hawaiian Islands by some foreign Pow
err This is a probable contingency
against which the United States should
certainly guard
GOT A SETBACK.
Los Angeles Express: Somehow 1T has
failed to be noticed in many OF the
newspapers that the cause OF silver at
16 to | was given a decided setback at
the Nashville meeting of the Fedora
ton of Labor. That body last year in
dorsed Bryan and all his works, put
ting 16 to / silver at the top of its
creed. but at Nashville, three weeks
ago. It refused by a decisive major
ity to commit itself again to. the losing
doctrine.
INDUCING TRAVEL.
Oakland Enquirer: The San Francis
co papers are exerting themselves
good deal to divert to that city next
years tide of travel from the East to
the Klordike. This is very well, but If
those Journalists could go back through
that country and see just what inf1u-
ences are operating to make Seattle,
rather than San Francisco, the point
of departure for Alaska. they might be
a little discouraged. They would find
ticket agents for various railroads, in
Guiding the Union Pacific, the North
ern Pacific, the Great Northern, the
Canadian Pacific, and also various lines
forming connections with the above
named, who are working to route the
gold seekers via Seattle or Tacoma or
Portland or Victoria. How many rail-
roads are working in the East to bring
the travel to San Francisco? Presum-
ably the Southern Pacific is doing so,
but ii IS one against many. These rail-
road ticket agents, scattered over the
country, come in more direct contact
with the prospective gold seekers than
do special editions of the San Fran
cisco papers or the appeals of the Alas
kan Trade Committee.
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WINDSOR HOTEL.

The Best Family and Transient Hotel
in the city. Table second TO none Prices
TY, Proprietor.
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TURCLU HOTEL

CONDUCTED ON The EUROPEAN
plan; strictly first class: hot and cold
baths free to gtests; electric cars paSs
the door. FRANK MEYER, Prop.
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THE SADDLE ROCK
RESTAURANT AND OYSTER HOUSE

FIRST CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RE-
spect Ladies dining-room separate.
RAGHER, Proprietors. No. 1919 Second
street. between j and X, Sacramento.
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EDUCATIONAL TEST.

Placer Republican,. An educational
test is a prominent feature of the inn
migration restriction bill pending be-
fore the Republican Congress and like
ly to be made a law The Republican
party has always been the champion
of intelligence and education, while
those opposed to it have welcomed to
their ranks large percentage of the
unsatisfactory element coming from
abroad. 1t will be remembered that
the immigration restriction bill of last
Congress Was vetoed by Democratic
President
WHAT WE MAY LOOK FORWARD
TO.
Oroville Register: 1t is now ten years
since orange planting began here for
commercial purposes. Year by year
the number of trees increased and at
the present time many are fairly in
bearing. This year the shipments from
Oroville, Palermo and Thermalito will
be fully 125 carloads. AS these or
anges ripen early, we need fear no
competition with those from Southern
California. Even if those from the
South are sent to the same market, the
richer color, the brighter appearance
and the sweeter flavor of the Butte
County oranges will always hold the
market
Many of the trees planted within a
few miles Of this town have not yet
come into bearing. AS the seasons go
by from the increased acreage and the
added number of trees that come into
bearing it is certain that the number
of carloads we produce will be in
creased. BY 1900 we may expect at
least 500 carloads from the three To-
calities named above The number of
orange trees will steadily increase and
the time is coming when the shipments
from Butte will be very large.
WOOL-GROWERS' GAIN.
Ukiah Press: The wool-growers of
the country having sold their last
years clip at a large increase over
'Wilson-law prices, the woolen mills are
compelled to look to the foreign mar
kets for an additional supply in spite
of the fact that heavy importations
We're made during the pendency of the
Dingley tariff law. Large contracts
have recently been placed abroad for
foreign WOOL and it is expected that
these importations will begin early
next month and add materially to the
earnings of the new tariff law. The
manufacturers of woolen goods have
been running on full time and over
time since the enactment of the Ding
ley law, and this fact accounts both
for the largely increased price of do
mestic woods and the necessity for
sending abroad for supply with which
to meet the shortage in domestic wools
due to the destruction Of American
fiocks while the Wilson law was in ap-
Grafton.
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NIATSON FAITRE

RESTAURANT DE FRANCE. 427 X
street formerly near Golden Eagle Ho-
ted. Family Orders. Banquets and We'd
ding Parties specially
/. FAiJRE Prourietor
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THE DAILY RECoRD-UNION.

A sEyEN-DAY ISSUE.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-05

July 18th has been observed as St.
Swithin's day for over thousand
years. It commentaries the death OF
the famous bishop Of Winchester, who
was the tutor OF Alfred the Great, and
about whose burial there was so much
dispute among the monks OF the
cloister. Some of them wished to
bury the dead bishop in the minister
itself; others declared that his lord
ship had expressed wish to be laid
in the earth under the vault of heaven.
The new bishop wished to have the
interment made in the graveyard, and
the funeral was appointed to take
place. But on the day set for it the
heavens were opened, and rain de-
scended III such torrents that the dig
nitaries of the church would not risk
the spelling of their gorgeous robes,
and postponed the obsequies. How
ever the rain continued to fall for
forty days, and at last, unable to
longer put off the burial, the dead
saint was entombed i'll the cathedral.
This was no sooner done than the
rain ceased. A superstition grew up
in that part of England that if it rained
on st. Swithin's day it would rain for
forty continuous days. New York
Tribune.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-05
am.ris.n sslal.r 10 Hawai-.


Could anything be finer than the
conduct % Uncle Sans boys recently ?
COupri up a. thew hal been m the
transports, given free shore leave M =
town that thew we're strange tu,amung
people they did not know, there vas
every irmpiaiiunto cut loose aud show
the worst side Of their nature. But
this town saw what probably no town
hu, ever seen, aud that j. a couple 81
Thousand meu given liberty and not
case which called for police interior
enre.
OF course this comes from the pecu-
liar material Of which these troops are
composed. They are no rif-rafi, no
sverpiIgs OF the purlieus Of city.
They are the pick aud choice Of the
growing western states. Had not the
call OF duty come. these youths would
one aud all have been filling honorary
Positions aud laying the foundations
Of their own prosperity and that of
the community in which they lived.
Other nations have sacrificed their
dearest and best. hut it Is very Doubt
iul indeed whether any nation would
seud forth to the grimmest of war
such rank and file as are today march
ing in our streets - honolulu Star.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-05

Tourists in Rh0lesia. South Africa,
are surprised 10 mad that the medieval
Gu tom Of ringing out the eurfew Is al
established fact IN the Chartered cons
PAWS territory. Special laws have
been made since the Matabele war TO
tYr-y.nt the natives from meeting and
conspiring together. In every town
ship. therefore, at = ?. N the curfew
bell is rung from Jail or courthouse as
a signal for all natives 10 beiake them
selves 10 their locations, a. the
Kafir huts are called. II found at
large after this hour they are charged
with breaking the laws aud are forth
with punished. This regulation has
added considerably TO the order aud
safety Of white people throughout
Rhodesia, though from domestic
point Of view it occasionally proves
somewhat inconvrnient, since the
house servant may not take note OF
me- age abroad once the kaffir curfew
ha, sounded. The law, however, over
looks the Gaze Of native drawing a
lady home from "A late evening party
in her rickshaw-a vehicle which bids
lair to be a popular in Rhodesla a IN
India. The custom of the curtew Will
probably be ,hoIt-lived, since MaSho'
ma, aud Matabele are already so i'm
bued with European ideas that many
of them this past Christmas went the
round Of their white patrons demand
ing the conventional Christmas box,
The ringing of the curfew contrasts
strangely with uchmodern evidences
-Pittsburg Post.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-05

The CleVerest marine architects
have been unable TO devise scheme
10 protect the Stoutest single screw
liners. hit hard Nmidships o. there
ahouts, from disaster Every steam
-hip that has been struck far from
land by even SO modest a craft As a
coal-laden schooner has gone down,
sometimes without the los OF Il soul,
as was the case OF the Oregon. off Fire
island, on March II, 1896, and some
times with more than three quarters of
all on loard.
The Vile du Havre of the French
line was run down almost in the same
The iron British snip Loeb Earn hit the
Vile du Hayre IN a fog in mldocean on
NOV %, 1872. almost cutting her IN
two. She foundered, and only 23O
ont OF 3l3 persons aboard We're aved.
The steamship GeisPr Of the Thing
valH line was hit oil Sable island
in fog on Aug. 13, 1855, by the Thing
valla, u sister ship, and - passengers
and 33 of her crew were lost. The
North German Lloyd steamship Elbe
.foundered in the North sea after being
rammed by the little British steamship
Crathie on Jan. 30, 1895.
Only the steamships that collide
head on have hope of salvation. They
are protected by the collision bulk
heads. A blow astern or At any point
inst forward or abaft mid ShipS Is
usually mortal. New York Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-05

con what day is Washington 5
birthday the teacher inquired.
"Twenty-second of February" an
swered the class.
And Inder endence day?"
"The Fourth OF July
"What is the difference between the
two days."
This seemed to be poser, and no
reply was forthcoming. Finally a
youngster who had been scribbling
on n piece of paper held up his hand.
Good for you, Johnnie, said the
teacher, encouragingly, now tell us
what the difference is between these
two of the greatest days of our ma
tional history"
-Four months and twelve days,
ma am. Current Literature.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-05
LAND OF The SKY.
Special Excursion Rates to Mountain
Retreat.

For the second summer assembly Of the In
ternatiuual Christian Workers Association
at Mountain Retreat. August 10Th 10 Both ill.,
elusive Railroad station Black Mountain,
North Carolina, southern Railway will sell
round trip tickets for one fare. Guing,
August 18th To 24Ih inclusive. and are good
returning until and including September Ri.
Mountain Retreat l. located in the heart OF
the Appalachian Mountains, T. miles east OF
the great Vanderbilt estate Of "Bitmurr.
and IL miles east OF AsheNille.
Attitude varies from 2jUJ to j.Ot feet. Cool.
cumfurtahle;reasOnaOl hotel rates mountain
climbing second only TO switzerland and the
Rockies. Assembly l. under the direction ul
the Mountain Retreat Association, OF which
Rev. Floyd W. Iumkns. u. h.. Rector oI
Grace Church. Providence. Is President,
Music Of the Assembly under the direction ut
the famous GOSPEL singer, ; Vi. Lamb. Low
rates are open, by direction Of the AssUcja-
tiuu, 10 all who desire 10 attend.
Tents and camps can ne >rt up ON HE
grounds Tor a nominal charge. For further
particulars addrc>, \. :. IHwtATr +. I. \.
southern Railway, ri Broadway. New York.