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ALLEGED FINDINGS.

A San Francisco sensational journal
claims to have authentic account Of the
findings of the American Board Of In
quiry at Havana. and that it is to the
effect that the Maine was blown up
from an outside explosion. The details
the report is to be are that the ships
bottom was blown upward to and above
the water line; that a hole was found
above the keel on the port side where
q torpedo struck the ship; that the
greater part OF the port side Of the
ship was blown off; that all the plates
from the keel up are pushed upward;
that the powder magazines and she'll
rooms are intact; that the boilers did
not explode. for her fires We're aft, not
forward
We do not believe that any one Of
the Board of Inquiry has leaked" in
this matter; that any one of the dis
finguished naval officials connected
with the inquiry has been so scurvy as
to violate the command of his superb
ors TO reveal to no one what his find
ings are prior to submitting them for
approval or dissent of the Washington
Government
We do not believe that the reported
findings are anything more than the
conjectures of flash correspondents
based on apparent facts which have
been repeatedly published as such
While the findings may prove to be
substantially as stated above, since
there is fair reason for believing that
the condition of the wreck justifies
them, it win not do to place trust in
the assertion that the board has al
lowed it's verdict to be disclosed, for it
is absurd to suppose that the board
has prepared it's findings before it has
completed it's Investigations, and it is
well known that it is still pursuing its
inquiry at Havana
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between the officers and the enlisted
men are, as role, of the most friendly
nature.
! Athletic sports have been widely en-
couraged in recent years, so that to-
day there is a football team or base
ball nine made up of officers and en-
hsted men al almost every army post
/ IN the United States.
This reference to sports is made 10
show that the soldiers life is not al
/ together an unhappy ose in time of
peace.
/ MARRIAGES NOT ENCOURAGED.
| Under the head of hardships in army
| life, IT is sometimes necessary to sep
arate married man from his family
| To that end, marriages among enlisted
men are not encouraged, and in making
| enlistments it is considered desirable
10 select single men in preference TO
men With families, other things being
| equal. AT many of the army posts en-
| listed men are married and live with
their families. As far as he is able.
the commanding officer of a post gives
the married men quarters by them
selves, and their wives perform various
duties around the post, such as wash
| ms, dressmaking, etc. and in that way
many a happy little family is kept
united
| 1t sometimes occurs that Cupid
breaks into the ranks of the enlisted
men, and then the victim of the god of
love is required to notify the command
| ing officer of his intended plunge into
matrimony. AS far as he IS able. the
commanding officer tries to discourage
marriage in the ranks, but if the vic
tim is persistent the commanding Off
Ger generally gives his consent and
manages to find quarters for the newly
welded pair.
General Miles in his last annual re-
port paid high compliment TO the
character and efficiency of the enlisted
men of the army, and said that it had
never been higher than at the present
time. The short term of service and
liberal discharge, by purchase or order,
OF men who find themselves unsuited
to the life, have eliminated from the
army most of those who are an unde-
sirable element
Under the army regulations every
post is a recruiting station. the object
being to effect a saving in Transporter
ton. If vacancies occur in one of the
frontier regiments the officers of that
post are allowed to fill such vacancies
locally, or as near the post as possible.
80 1t is with the stations along the
coast. II recruits needed for duty in
New York harbor can be secured in
New york 1t is not necessary to go to
the Pacific Coast for them.-New York
Herald
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for the insane as State charges, when
the law says that such persons shall
pay This has long been one Of the
scandals of our State Government, and
one of the worst leaks in the Treasury.
AS an Illustration of the absurd lack OF
system, case is mentioned of a
woman in the Stockton asylum, who
has an estate which was appraised at
$500, GOO, and who has been patient
twenty-five years without paylnS
cent. AT the rate of $40 month, the
very low rate fixed by the law, she
owes the State of California STU,
and there is no reason on earth except
official incapacity why she should not
be made to pay up. II all persons who
ought to pay, but do not, were made
to do it, the burden of supporting the
asylums would be greatly lightened for
the taxpayers.
AN IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT
Los Angeles Express: For the first
time since the blowing up of the Maine,
the Associated Press accepts, and ex-
presses in cold, formal language, the
belief of the majority Of naval eX-
pertS that the disaster was the work
of treachery and design; not that the
Spanish Government had hand in the
affair, simply that it was not an acct
dent.
All signs now indicate the irrepress-
ible conflict 1t is not status of the
Maine incident. it is not the De LONE
matters it is not that the autonomy
scheme has failed 1t is not any OF
these things, nor all of them together.
that point irretrievably to war. The
causes are deeper seated; they are fur
Their back. The Spanish atrocities and
the answering appeal of humanity, the
conditions in both countries, particu-
larry in Spain, and the great cause that
underies all, the cause of freedom
against oppression, ali are leading the
two countries toward hostilities.
Every country has its jingoes. In
Spain they are bowling for war, I'M
thinkingly, perhaps, and without any
sense of responsibility; but still their
influence is felt.
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NOTHING TO ARBITRATE.

The Paris Figaro" alarmed at the
preparations of America and Spain,
suggests that the issues between them
shall be left to arbitration, and that
the Car of Russia or the Pope of
Rome be selected as arbitrator Well
and the butchery in Cuba go on mean
while? Or is it meant that there shall
be an armistice?
No matter what the Figaro" means
arbitrator such as it names are out
of the question. The Car has his
hands full and more now, though a
just man probably in matters where
self-interest is not involved AS for
the Pope, he has been blessing the
Spanish troops. and says he has been
praying for their success over the peo-
pie of his own faith in Cuba He is
not an impartial party.
But, then, the idea of arbitration as
to even the procedures of American
and Spanish diplomatists," as the
Figaro" finally qualities its unsolic-
tied advice, would be simply absurd.
We have no diplomatic issues with
Spain to settle. The last of these
was disposed of when De LONE sailed
for his peninsular home.
There is nothing to arbitrate. Butch
cry is not a subject of arbitration. Our
right to recognize the belligerency of
any contending party cannot be made
matter for arbitration. Our recog-
milton Of people as an independent
political body is a right and not an
issue to be arbitrated. We have moth
ing at issue with Spain to arbitrate
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Derivation Of the Word KIondike

1.-THE River Trip to the Klondike' is
the title of an article by John Sidney
Webb in the March Century" Mr..
Webb says:
From Dawson the trail to the mine
leads over a steep hill to the creek
made so famous by it's tributaries; for
there is not a single mine on the prn-
cipal stream which in the miners
slang is called Klondike. And yet this
stream does in reality bear a charac-
teristic name given it by the Indians
which is utterly murdered by this pro-
nunciation now so common
The Indians name the creeks through
out the country from some character
istic in connection with the ctream
| itself; and as this one is so swift that
in order to set their salmon traps or
nets they were obliged to use hammer
to drive the stakes to anchor them
the creek was named by them Hammer
Creek, or, in their language, phoneti-
cally, Troan Dix. The spelling Klon-
dixie means absolutely nothing, but has
been accepted so / learn. by the Board
of Geographical Names of the United
States
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minded people. They have suspended
Judgment, as they We're asked to do,
not waver from that position because
of the hasty report of the Spanish
board By the way, it looks little
odd that the Spanish officials should
reach an official conclusion in advance
of the inquiry of the American board,
the facilities of which for getting at
the truth must be greater than those
at the command of the Spanish?
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BIRD-SONGS.
To Hear Them Truly Requires an
Ear ParficuIrrIv Affirmed

John Burroughs writes tor the Cen
tury'' an article on the Songs OF
American Birds" Mr. Burroughs says.
l suspect it requires a special gift
Of grace to enable one to hear the bird
songs; some new power must be added
to the ear, or some obstruction re-
moved. There are not only scales
upon our eyes so that we do not see,
there are scales upon our ears so that
we do not hear a city woman who
had spent much of her time in the
country once asked a well-known orni-
biologist TO take her where she could
hear the bluebird. What, never heard
the bluebird" said he Il have not,
said the woman. Then you will never
hear it," said the bird-lover. That is,
never hear it with that inward ear
that gives beauty and meaning to the
note. He could probably have taken
her in few minutes where she could
have heard the call or MARBLE of the
bluebird; but it would have fallen upon
unresponsive ears-upon ears that were
not sensitized by love for the birds or
associations with them.
Bird-SongS are not music properly
speaking, but only suggestions of mu-
sic. A great many people whose at
tention would be quickly arrested by
the same volume of sound made by q
a musical instrument or by any artifi-
cial means never hear of them at all.
The sound of a boys penny whistle
there in the grove or the meadow would
separate itself more from the back
ground of nature and be a greater chal-
lenge to the ear, than is the strain Of
the thrush or the song of the sparrow.
There is something elusive, indefinite,
neutral, about bird-songs that makes
them strike obliquely, as it were, upon
theear; and, We are very apt to miss
them. They are part of nature, and
nature lies about US, entirely regardless
of our presence. Hence it is with bird
songs as it is with so many other
things in nature-they are what we
make them; the ear that hears them
must be half creative.
am always disturbed when persons
not especially observant of birds as.
me to take them where they can hear
which they have become interested in
through a description of it in some
book. AS l listen with them feel like
apologizing for the bird it has bad
cold, or has just heard some depress-
ing news; it win not let itself out The
song seems so casual and minor when
you make a dead set at it. | have
taken persons to hear the hermit
thrush, and / have fancied that they
were all the time saying to themselves.
"Is that alp" But when one hears the
bird in his walk when the mind is at
tuned to simple things and is open and
receptive, when eXpectationis not arous-
ed and the song comes as a surpries out
of the dusky silence of the woods one
feels that it merits all the fine things
that can be said of it.
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THE LATTIMER CASE.

The Pennsylvania Sheriff and his
deputies who have been some time on
trial for alleged unlawful killing OF
strikers at Lattimer in the riots OF
last year, have been acquitted by jury
of their country, without any hesita-
ton whatever, and apparently as
quickly as the panel could frame a
verdict Just at the time the defense
began TO introduce testimony came the
Maine disaster, and the further com
plications with Spain regarding Cuba
absorbed public attention and the Wig
lance of news agencies, so that the
reports of the character of the de-
Tense brought home to its mind.
1t was a complete and crushing de-
Tense, showing as it did that the Sher-
if acted within the bounds of his au-
thority, and that he was under such
menace, assault and danger to life as
to justify him in his acts and his dep
uties in theirs. The assailants were
defying lawful authority. They had
full knowledge of the character of that
authority; they knew that the officers
ing a mandate of a lawful tribunal of
the country Still they advanced and
with arms and force engaged with the
Sheriff's party. Evidence incontro-
vertible was laid before the jury, show
ing that the strikers were armed. had
the present ability to assail and do
bodily harm and did assault the officers
of the law
Under such a condition of affairs the
officers would have been more than
human had they not defended and
driven back their assailants as they
did. The verdict must be taken as a
calm and just judgment upon the case,
since it has not been contended at any
time that the prosecution had cause
to complain of the panel, or that it did
not have full sweep in selecting the
jurors
There are many other cases of like
character with that just disposed of,
pending against the officers, but we
doubt very much if any of them will
be brought to trial If they are, it is
altogether improbable that the strik-
ers viii again take the stand and tes-
tify that they were unarmed and
peaceable in the face Of the overwheIm-
ing evidence to the contrary, that was
brought out for the defense.
Had the verdict been otherwise than
what it was, it would, if accepted as a
precedent, have paralyzed the arm of
the law in quelling riots and check
ing disturbance Of the peace. In fact
the conviction of the Sheriff in the face
OF the testimony given at the trial
would have been a public calamity. His
acquittal has read to all men the old
lesson once more, that resistance of
lawful authority with force and arms
cannot be tolerated in a free govern
ment. Break down the power of the
Government to enforce it's DEGREES is
sued under the laws of the land, and
anarchy follows.
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The Bottomless Pit.

The bottomless pit. though much
smaller and less grand, has some of the
characteristics of Gorin's Dome. 1t is
a fearful pit to look down ivto from
the bridge spanning one of its bays.
once went with a companion through
its tortuous passage to the bottom oil
this pit, and While there We heard the
shouting party overhead. Extinguish-
ing our lights, we waited until they had
collected on the bridge overhead, and
as they looked down. trying to pene
trate the unfathomable darkness of the
deep pit, we gave an unearthly sepul-
chral wall. Explanations of fear and
horror resounded through the cave
from the frightened crowd upon the
bridge: but the guide. knowing that We
had gone into the cave in advance of
his party, quoted their fears by the
assurance that the sounds did not come
from evil spirits of the Vastly deep
John II. Proctor in Century
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The Spanish Board of Inquiry into
the cause of the destruction Of the
Maine is said to have reported to the
Madrid Government that it was due to
internal explosion. causing the upper
part of the ship to be cast for
ward and upward, and the hull
TO collapse inwardly. That is very
suecinct. it's true. but wait until Un-
Gle Sans Board of Inquiry is heard
from. When that board speaks, what
ever the verdict. the American people
will accept 1t in perfect good faith.
They are neither jingoes nor goo-goos.
but square. fair-dealing and sober
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To Keen the Streets Clean.

After a great deal of thought and
patient figuring" he said, II feel that
can safely say that have solved one of
the great municipal problems
Which is?" they asked him.
Keeping the streets Clean" he re-
piled.
How would you do it ?"
II would assess the cost where it be-
longs-on the men who advertise by
means of handbills and circulars" ne
answered. -Chicago Post
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write to him, at 1.505 Arch Street Phila-
delphia, for free medical advice.
Mr.. A. J. Wilkinson. Yosemite House.
Sonora, Cal, says: Business called me
TO the mines here. and l found many
people suffering from a kind OF collie,
brought on by the change OF water. I
myself was attacked in the same way,
and purchased Munyon's Colic Cure. II
worked Ike a charm, curing me prompt
~ and permanently. l recommended
this remedy to several other people suf-
1erlns IN the same way and II cured
them also. l sent your Dyspepsia and
Liver Cures to a friend OF mine in
stockton, Cal. and they cured him OF
both those troubles. ! am daily recon-
friends"
Mr.. b. Kunze. 400 3. Los Angeles
street, Los Angeles, Cal, SAYS: I had
rheumatism IN the small OF INV hack 50
badly that l could scarcely walk. When
sitting down the pain would sometimes
becomes so severe that | could scarreIv-
get up. One small bottle of MUNYON'S
rheumatism Cure cured me entirely
after a great many other remedies
failed"
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MURDER AND COMPROMISE.

A dispatch announces that Below, the
poisoner of his brother and sister, who
has confessed his fiendfsh crime and
now awaits trial at Suisun, Solano Coun-
ty, entertains the hope of saving his
neck by pleading guilty. If that is per-
mitted, if he is given lease of life by any
promise Of clemency or a compromise
verdict, justice will be outraged If
ever a fellow deserved more than hang
ing it is this cowardly murderer. The
public win watch the movements of the
prosecuting officers of Solano County
with great jealousy. If there is a dis
position to accommodate Below there
will go up such public protest as will
command respect and obedience. How
ever, to this date the Solano officials
have given no sign of relaxing in their
duty. They are not indicating any ac-
quiescence with his expressed wish to
plead guilty on promise that he shall
not be hanged.
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What is SCott's Emul

What is Scott's Emul-
sion +?
It is the best cod-liver oil,
partly digested, and com
bined with the hypophos-
phites and glycerine. What
will it do? 1t will make
the poor blood of the anamic
rich and red.
twill give nervous energy
to the overworked brain and
nerves. 1t will add flesh to
the thin form of a child,
wasted from fat-starvation.
1t is everywhere acknowl-
edged as The Standard of
the World.
Soc and $780, all druggists.
SCOTT BOVINE Chemists New York
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Our dispatches yesterday spoke of
the invasion" of China by Russian
troops in the province Of Heilung
Chang. and that the Chimes were flee
ing for their lives. This is not sur
prise. because between the Chinese
and Russian Governments there ex-
lists a compact by which the latter is
authorized to move into and over
Chinese territory sufficient bodies of
armed men to guard the stations of
their railway route and to garrison
posts at and near the concessions
granted to the Russians for a term OF
years. That this movement may,
however, end in the annexation OF
Manchuria to Russia, is a safe predic-
ton. 1t was evidently contemplated
long ago by the Gar. and indeed the
Chinese Emperor has but feeble hold
upon that province, which at best is
burden rather than an aid TO the gem
eral Government of the Empire of Chi
ma. 1t remains to be seen, however,
If the Japanese and the British Gov
ernments viii submit to such advance
of the Russian frontier, since it would
enable Russia to menace the capital of
China with ease. and to hold the EN-
peror in check without much effort
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them - ali as
certain as sun
rise. When one
person has sew
eral diseases IL
Is necessary to
treat each dis
ea sc separate
ly, the same
as IL such dis
ease were dis
trihuted among
a number OF
people"
Munyon has
q 5 Z y a + n tie
remedy or
each disease,
and all drug
eists sell them
Mostly Is cents
a vial. II in
doubt. Profess
g or Munyon
Invites Nnyt IN
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Imitation may be the sincerest Hat
terry, but there is only one Hoods Sar-
saparilla. 1t has a record of success
unequafed by any other medicine Its
great cures prove its wonderful me-
dicinal merit.
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II any one has been disposed to doubt
unityof the American people, he can
have that eonceit taken out of him by
feeling the American pulse just now.
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There is good deal more of truth
than sentiment in the statement pub
lished in full in Mondays Record
Union concerning the real sympathy
existing among English-speaking ma
tons. Combined in friendly alliance,
the Aemerican and English nations
could dominate the destiny of the world
OF mankind.
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Friday; fresh
northerly winds
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Many man who imagines he is a
wrestler cannot even throw dice.
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Sensible Science.
Every Disease Has a Cor
responding Cure.

People ought not TO be sick" says
Professor Muayon. Every disease has
cure, not every. cure has been dis
covered yet, but I have fifty-seven OF
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
rs Seconu-class matter.
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.ENCE WITH A RESER-
WALTON.

San Jose Herald: The Oakland
Tribune reminds California fruit grow
ers of the wisdom of being we'll repre-
scented at the Paris Exposition. 1t
cites the market opened for our fruits
by our display at the Hamburg EXPOSE
sition, which was only a drop in the
bucket to what the Paris event will be-
Our local Republican contemporary
echoes the utterances of the Tribune, :"
and the Herald" hereby indorses both
Of them, on condition that they will
own up that they have been humbug-
ging our fruit growers all along with
talk of protection" when all that the
latter really want is an open market
and commercial freedom. In fact, We
will indorse their proposition anyway,
and leave them to find out the error of
their ways and acknowledge il for
their own credit. But of course the
value of an exhibit at the Paris Ex-
position Will be much impaired If in
making it we announce our intention of
restricting trade between the United
States and Europe
INSANE ASYLUM WRONGS.
Oakland Enquirer: The State Com
mission in Lunacy has never been more
usefully employed than it is right now
It Is engaged in finding out how it
happens that so many members OF
well-to-do families get into the asylum
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THE WEEKLY UNION.

Is the cheapest and most desirable Home
News and Literary Journal published or
the Pacinc Coast
The Weekly Union, per year.........H q
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These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All Post
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
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A FREE MARKET.

The Calistogan: The farmers, fruit
growers and producers have clearly
shown that they favor the proposition 10
establish free market on the San Fran
cisco water front. The project is op-
posed by the San Francisco middlemen.
What now will the Harbor Commission
do-work with the farmers and growers
for the good of the State, or stand IN
with the commission men? The duty Of
the commission is plain; have its mem
bers the courage to do it?