The record-union., 1898-11-09


eous assault upon innocence and help
lessness, but hangs the latter with as
| little compunction as the former.
| Lynching is indefensible, Missourians,
but if you must lynch, let there be no
| color line
HE IS RIGHT.
| Humboldt Standard: General Shaf-
| ter is right in saying that the attacks
| made upon him are due to spite. III
| the Santiago campaign he ran several
offensive yellow journalists out of
camp, all for good cause, and since
then their papers have abused him sys-
| tematically. General Sherman. had a
| similar experience during the civil war,
but came out of it with eclat which
ought to be encouraging to the present
victim.
MARK 1T.
Kern Echo: Mark the prediction:
When the peace negotiations between
the United States and Spain are ended
Europe will stand in open-eyed Won
der at American diplomacy. The 'un-
trained fellows have already shown
| themselves more than a match for the
smooth and much trained dons. The
best diplomacy is to succeed in your
| undertaking and this the American
usually does with vim.
PHILIPPINE HONEY BEE. .y'
Marysville Appeal: There has been
some talk of introducing the honey bee
of the Philippines in this country 1t
is twice as long as that of its Amerl-
can cousin, and this is considered a
drawback. 1t is said, however, that
the Philippine bee is little slow in ac-
ton, SO that it needs about twenty Sec
onds after alighting to get its sting
| ready for Introduction. For this rea-
son, some contend, there need be no
fear Of the insect, as there would al
ways be ample time to brush 1t off or
destroy it, in case of attack Perhaps
it might not be thought invidious to re-
mark that this insect is the only in
dustrious native of the Philippines thus
far discovered.
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Marysville Appeal: The growing of
sugar beets in Contra Costa and Solano
Counties has proved a success. One
farmer in Contra Costa is said to have
cleared $50 an acre from fifty acres of
land planted to beets. The big refin-
cry at Crockett takes all the beets at
prices satisfactory to the growers. 1t is
high time for the beet sugar industry
to be put under way in this part of the
State.
RAILROAD FIGURES.
Pasadena Star: Few people have
any idea that the number Of 1ocomo-
| tives exceeds that of passenger cars;
but it does, according to a late state
ment, which places the number Of the
former at $4,000 to 26,000 Of the lat
| ter The enormous number of freight
cars is also surprising, being 1,2o0,0OO
| on American roads. These would be
| from forty to fifty million feet long, and
the number of miles you can figure out
| for yourself ss4se
| THE BOOK RING.
The Calistogan:; The cost of school
books in California, where the State
| furnishes them to the people at the
cost of manufacture, is over 75 per
cent less than the people of Nevada
have to pay for similar school books
under the private contract system The
Eastern school book ring still occupies
the field in Nevada.
| THE AUSTRALIAN FAIR.
| Oakland Tribune: The United States
Government has received an invitation
from Australia to place an exhibit in
the big fair that is to be held in the
southern continent next year. Con-
gress would be comforting a boon on
| the nation, and especially on the Pa
cific Coast, if arrangements were made
to have a representative display there,
for the United States is the country
with which Australia should naturally
| u NIL of
which would, Of course, come to this
coast.
| THE CROPS.
| Oakland Tribune: If the crops in
California had been as plentiful as
usual this year the railroads would
have had a hard time handling them.
Even as things are it is all that can
be done to furnish enough freight cars
| for the shipments in sight, a condition
that is due to the ever-increasing acre
age that is being brought under culti-
walton throughout the State
THE NORTHERN BELT.
| Alameda Encinal: The orange crop
of Northern California-including the
Tulare and Fresno crop-seems to be a
hard matter to estimate. We have been
4 we'll posted and an average of their
opinions would be about 225, 900 boxes,
or a little less than 700 carloads. In
other words, Northern and Central Cal
ifornia will produce about one-half as
many oranges as Redlands does alone
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It seems to the "EncinaP that this is
a pretty good showing. Not so many
ff
sneeringly ask when Northern Cali
fornia expected to ship its first carload
of oranges Now it will have some
thing like 700 carloads, which is g
pretty fair yield.
HARVEST CUSTOMS.
Healdsburg Tribune: The United
States is said to be about the only coun
try which has no established harves'
customs. In some parts celebrations are
held, but as nation we have no ira.
ditions such as they have abroad. A
;. notable exception to this statement Is
the harvest festival which is annually
celebrated in Sonoma County in ro-
mantle grove near our Oldest town OF
Sonoma There should be more Of these
celebrations, for if there are people or
Gods footstool who have cause fol
such festivals, they live beneath the
Star-Spangled Banner.
A LESSON SUGGESTED.
San Diego Union: The people of thi!
country could learn a very impressive
lesson from France just at this juno
ture. That republics relations will
England have reached a delicate ant
critical stage. Te escape war. and a.
the same time to avoid humiliation