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The record-union., 1898-08-20

the surprising doctrine that all rail-
roads must be compelled to pay wages
to their employees in accordance with
the platforms system of ascertaining
railroad values. From which PROPOSE
ton let all railway wage earners pray
learned only from this amazing plat
form, that the Railway Commission is
constitutionally empowered to fix rates
of wages for railway employees.
There is a declaration in favor of
river and harbor improvements, OF
course; a sop to San Pedro harbor
sentiment, and an absurd claim that by
some sort of hocus pocus a revival or
Of the Democratic party; de-
mand for the immediate construction
of debris restraining dams; the fulmina-
ton of a point blank falsehood concern
land laws and grants; a hollow declara-
tion about government by injunc-
tion''-a fa1lacy exploded, a chimera
having domicil only in the skull boxes
of those who misconceive the origin,
purpose and office of good government
weak approval of the laundering and
weaker Democratic State Administra-
ton; beslobber of the State Universi-
ty, which no one assails or wishes i'll;
approval Of the cause of organized Ia
Dor, which all the world wishes justice
and deserved success: demand for an
increased and strengthened navy al
ready ordered and still further pro-
jected by the Republican Administra-
ton, and then this amazing platform
closes.
Where in it all is there an issue?
Let the student tear from it's bowels a
single proposition upon which a, polit-
ical contest should be waged in this
State Let those who may, strive to
| separate the chaff from the wheat,
where there is no grain.
The simple truth is that the plat
form, as we have already said, makes
no issue worthy of consideration. 1t Is
a convenient platform for the footing
of a candidate for Governor who has
kicked through every platform he has
mounted, save that of the single tax
now put aside for votes sake. He has
harnessed in all ranks save those OF
the Republican party, thank heaven,
and now serves as procurer for the
prostitution of the Democratic party
to the lust of Populism-
A platform of platitudes, timidity and
cowardice; of solicitation and weak
consent we doubt if it has even
strength sufficient to prevent Mr.. Ma
glire from boiling it before the cam
paign is over. AS he left the Democ-
racy once with cursing upon his lips,
he returns to it only for the purposes
of debasing it in the open to the de-
sire of Populis1n, which has equally had
his condemnation, but which is deemed
useful for the moment to boost a shifty
candidate into a position self-respect-
ing men have filed.
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Afro-American League.

At recent meeting of the Afro
American League several new names
were added to the roll. A resolution
was offered indorsing the action of the
late Afro-American Congress that con-
vened in Pasadena on the I'd.
j. A. Wylley was elected to repre-
sent the league in the State Executive
Council.
A vote of thanks was rendered the
members of the late congress for Sc
lecting Sacramento as the place to hold
the next session in September, 1899.
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President Adams of the G. A. c. c.
has appointed William l.. Loos of San
Francisco Chairman of the Road Rae
ing Committee to succeed Mr.. Myrick
who resigned because of press of pri-
vate business upon his time. The ap-
pointment is an excellent one. Mr..
Loos is widely and favorably known
among cyclists. As Captain of the
Olympic Club Wheelmen he has an en-
viable record. He is a modest but en-
thusiastic worker in wheeling circles,
and is himself an accomplished speed
rider. His appointment gives great
satisfaction in Sacramento.
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Fruit Shipments.

Forty-two cars of fruit We're sent
East yesterday-Peaches seven, plums
six, pears twenty-four and a. half,
grapes four and a half On the same
date last year fifty-six cars were ship
ped
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should always bear in mind is that he
or she should never have more than
two inches of saddle pin projecting
above the tube
The record-union., 1898-08-20

The largest piano house in Northern
California, carrying the most complete
and extensive stock, is the Wiley B. AL
len Co., 415 K. Jobbers and retailers.* =
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1t is reported that Osgoode Township,
Canada, is the first municipality in
America to forbid bicycle riding. The
action Is alleged to have been taken
because the farmers claim the bicycles
scared their horses
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Save money by buying your tea and
coffee of J. McMorry, 5S1 NJ
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DAILY RECORD-UNlON
ISSUED BY THE
SACRAMENTO PUBLISHING COMPANY
Office. Third Street. between and a.
Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair except partiy
cloudy along the coast Saturday morn
ing; brisk west wind.
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THE SADDLE ROCK
RESTAURANT AND OYSTER HOUSE

FIRST-CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RE-
spect. Ladies' dining-room separate.
Open day and night. BUCKMAN & CAR
RAGHER, Proprietors. No. 1919 Second
street. between ] and X. Sacramento.
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Cordong, the Dutch champion twen-
tyfour hour cyclist, is anxious to race
Tom Linton in America. The distance
he wishes to ride is fifty miles and it
must be behind pace. Linton's man
ayers have agreed to such match.
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On English tracks the recently intro
duced American custom of placing time
limits on the races has proved success
full In stopping the loaf1ng tactics that
The record-union., 1898-08-20
BAY RESTAURANT.

Private rooms for families; open day
and night. Orders served outside. Oys-
ters in every style. MATT and JOHN
RADONICH, Proprietors.
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Cyclists desiring to join the California
Associated Cycling Clubs may obtain
full printed information and member
ship blanks by sending their names and
addresses to Stanley G. Scovern, Sec
retary..-San Francisco.
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physician He graduate of the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons New York, and he says of RPans
Tabues that the formula has long been in favor with
medical men, but the method of preparation in the pres
ent form is modern and very great convenience. He
lately spoke of them to in these very words "I
always keep vial of the Tabules upon my dressing
table and use them with confidence whenever occasion
arises For disturbed condition of the digestive or
gans know of nothing good, and for an all round
family remedy do believe there is anything better
to be had"
The record-union., 1898-08-20

In the extreme West the necessity
of having national cycle law to cover
all rules and regulations affecting the
use of the wheel on the public thor
oughfares is being urged. Its promot-
ers claim it would do away with the
inconvenience to which a cyclist is
subjected in many sections, owing to
the conflict of State and town laws and
the differences in legislation in adjoin-
ing towns.
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Accommodations first-class Free 'bu
to and from hCteI w ELDER Mgr
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STATE HOUSE HOTEL,
Corner Tenth and Sts., Sacramento

BOARD AND ROOM, 81 Is TO 81 PEI
day. Meals. 25c.
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of serrated tread tires at present COM
prises a smooth strip at the point of
contact, from which slight longitudinal
ribs branch on each side. It seems to
be happy mean between the rough
and entirely smooth tires.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-23

don't lick the ole woman-don't do nuthin' to skeer this melyon from grow in as big as house.
 That's what he said. and me and the ole woman used to walk around on tip- toes and speak in whispers. reckoned that when that yere melyon got to be as big as a shed it would sort O settle down and stop growin' and go to keep in house, but it 'peared she had an am bishun, too. She kept growth till she was mighty nigh as big as this cabin, and If 1 had cleaned her out she would have made shed fur the mewl. It was her heft which made that big hole in the airth over thar. 1 reckon that about 500 people cum yere 10 look at that melyon, and Kurnel Bunker said that my ambishun would carry me to the legislachur."
 And you got the melon down to the county fair?' l observed as the old man made long pause.
 NO, sah, we didn't" he slowly re- piled. "0ne day l got 16 men up yere with hand-spikes and ropes, and we rolled that melyon down to the river and a fatboat. To kin see how she gullied out the airth as she went along. We got her on the fatboat all right and sot off 10 float her down the river. but arter we had gone bout ten miles the roof of that melyon begun to cave in."
 ''It was too ripe, eh?''
 No, sah, that wasn't it. Fust thing we knew thar was about 20 cull'd folks-men. wimen and chill'en-aboard us. They wasn't thar when we start ed, and they hadn't swum aboard. They had dun crawled out of that melyon."
 'You don't mean iti"
 Every last word, sah. Yes, sah--- them three families had dun squatted inside that melyon fur cabin befo' it left my land, and they had eaten away till the roof got weak and fell in on lem. They had dun dug out three big rooms inside, and hang me if they didn't
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he did begin to yell yo' could hey heard him fur mile, but the mo be ho.lered the mo it seemed to tickle the bars. When one got tired O waltzin' him around another was ready to be- gin, and bimeby the felier got so weak that his legs gin out and he fell down."
 "Bu5 didn't the bears hurt him? ?'
 Not $ hurt, sah. That is, they didn't bite nor claw him. They cid roll him around pufty rough, though, and fur the last ten minutes he was in dead faint and purity nigh naked. wasn't goin' to interfere, even if they had be- gun to eat him, and 1 wasn't goin' to harm the critters who had done me sich good turn. However, my ole woman had heard the rumpns up at the cabin, and as she cum down to see what was the matter the bars got sight of her and skulked off When she seen the artist a-lyin' thar. and 1 had told her the rest, she dSaps down on her knees and thanks the Lawd and sez 10 me;
 "'Zeb White, he had the nose of a spy, and a spy I knowed he was The next feller may call himself the gov ernor of Tennessee, but yo' jest look at his nose befo' yo take hirn in. "
 And what did you do with tie man T I asked.
 "Oh, nuthin' much. replied zeb, with smile. "The fust thing was to bring him 10 his senses. The next was to let him know that we knew he was a revenue feler. Then we showed him some mounting scenery he hadn't never seen befo'. It was a scene of a man tied up to a tree, with three other men lavin' switches over his back. We gin him 100 apiece. and wien we east him loose he said he reckoned he would go out O the artist bizness fur good and all. I think he did, fur he never cum back fur his paints and breshes,"
 And what of the bears?"
 q killed one of 'em three or fo' days later. and he was still too drunk to walk straight. The other two got clean off. but I reckon it was week at least befo' they got over the headache. Yes this moonshine bizness is full O. euru; things-mighty curus things. Sum oi 'em beat any tricks yo' see iz circus
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-23

If don't hev to wear butes nor git my ha'r cut. sez I.
 Then I'll tell yo' what to do sez he We ar gwine to hold county far this fall, and do you go at ii and raise up the biggest watermelyen ever seen on the face of this airth. That shall be yo'r ambishun, and it will be one to glorify the hull state. When that melyon gifts the prize at our show the name of Abe Hope will be writ in let ters of gold on the records of time, and with my own hand will I present yo.r ole woman with hull pound O snuff and new par O shoes.
 That's the way be talked to me" said Abe as he still dug at the silver, ''and I promised him that I'd hey am bishun. I had growed sum whoppin' big melyoBs in my time, but had nev- CT spread myself to see what could be dun with lem. It was 'bout plantin' time then and fixed up the sile and picked out sum seeds and went to work I lowed fur plenty of room, and put a bresh fence around the spot to keep the mewl off. Bimeby the seed cum up and the vine begun to run, and I never did see anythin' like it Thar was six melyons on that vine, but the one in the middle was the best"
 "And it grew to be whopper?" aueried.
 Stranger. whopper of a melyon is one thing. but a whoppinest whopper Is another. When she got to be as big as a beer-keg she was whopper. When she got to be as big as a four bar1 she was a whoppinest wbopper. Arter that l couldn't find no words to call her by. She jest rig up and spread out and got big. and finally she was the size of a hogshead."
 "You don't mean it?'
 Ask Kurnel Bunker. sah! He rid down yere one day and took look at that melyon, and arter he had walked all around it he sez to me:
 "'Abe Hope, them pyramids of Egypt ant nowhar' alongside this melyon. and the archives of time will be hold in yo'r name when that of Napoleon has dun bin forgotten. Don't git drunk
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-23
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the still and hid 'em in the ravipe. and then got Dan Shaw's oldest gal to watch the path and gin the alarm. Fur two days nuthin' happened. Then the gal cum down to the still and said d bar was rollin' the kegs of whisky around. l went up to the ravine and found three bars thar. They had rolled one O the kegs around till it had busted open, and they was lappin' up the whisky as if it was so much water. hadn't any gun down thar, and as l had never seed drunken bar in all my life jest kept quiet and let 'em go ahead"
 And did they get drunk? ?" asked.
 "They did, sah-got drunk as req'lar as three men. Ii was a sight to make yo' laugh all over. I reckon every one O them bars got a full quart apiece. and it was co'n-mash whisky without any water in it. At fust they was mighty jolly and went dancin' around and tumblin' over each other, but arter awhile they got out O sorts. same as men do. The biggest bar O three wanted mo whisky, but the other two thought he'd had huff and kept him off. They was gittin' ready fur row when the artist cum sneakin' down a side-raFine. He was on the trail of my still, and right thar he was within 800 feet of it."
 And he ran up against the bears?" I asked
 "Of eo'se he did-of co'se. Yes, sah, he was right among 'em bars befo' he lInowed it. and they was mighty glad to see him. They looked at him fur q spell, as if wonderin' whether he was drunk, too, and then they went in to hev sum fun. The big bar reached out and got hang on him and begun to dance around, and fur awhile the artist was too skeered to holer. When
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-23

In the truck patch, on the north side of the old squatter's cabin. was wa termelon so near the size of a flour-bar- rel that l gasped at the sight of it, and after 1 lad walked around it three or four times I asked Abe Hope if that was the biggest melon ht raised.
 That no account tf.i.s out thar'?" he exclaimed in tones of eu tempt as he glanced towards the patch. Why. sah, that's one that wasn't wuth totin' away to sell to the steamboat men! Any of the eull'd folks aroundyere would hey 10 be mighty hard up to steal that melyon. Shoo! Hull"
 ''Then you have raised larger ones?" I persisted.
 Stranger" said Abe as he picked at silver in the sole of his shoe. I'm gwine to tell yo' bout the whoppinest melyon ever raised, and the old woman and all the folks around yere will back me up in it. might lie bout wild cats or catfish, but a man would hey to be low-down to lie bout melyons. Bout fo' y'ars ago Kurnel Bunker cum along yere one day and sez to me:
 "'Abe Hope, folks dun tell me that yo' ar the laziest man in all Arkinsaw. and Pm feelin' bad over it.
 What's the use in workin' when yo' don't hey to?' sez I.
 "'But every critter orter hev an am hisbun,' sez he as he takes off his hat to the old woman standin' in the doah.
 "'Hev yo' got an ambishun, Kurnel Bunker?'
 "T hev. I want to be goy'ner of Ar kinsaw next y'ar. Everybody in the state except yo' has got an ambishun, and I've dun cum down to see if I can't stir yo' up. To needn't hev no ambi- shun as big as house, and one to make yo' sweat yo'r shirt, but jest sumthin' 10 keep the chills and fever off. Ar yo' willin' to tackle an am- bishun?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-23

snard fur week, and on two or three sWashuns l tramped around with him. aae found what he was arter, and he 3aked about buyin' all the land around 8lge, but one mawnin' my ole woman #ato me:
 4 Feb White, kin a man find iron or saal in the darkness of night?'
 He skassly can't sez l.
 But fur these last two nights the 7aranger has slipped outer bed and bin
 gone fo' or five hours. If he ain't hunt Aa fur coal and iron then he's huntin' sar yo'r still, and yo'd better look out That set me to thinkin', and when aght cum agin l was on the watch. me teller went to bed about nine o'clock, but climbed out of the winder aa hour later and started up the hill. 10 kin allus git the smell of still bet sf oy night, yo' see, and from the way aat feller was headed he would hey
 ,sa plump on it. played that l was gdf however. and l skeert him so that E made back fur the cabin. Next uaWnin' l axed him to move on, and he So, out O the nayburhood in hurry. 'aought I'd ketch on to the next man lsy sent up, but they was too tricky
 'u me. One day feller appeared who saiQ he was an artist and wanted to p@'n' some mounting scenery fur one the biggest men in New York. He @awed a pictur' of the ole woman on fspef' and was so handy about it that l
 .sAoned he was all right. He went to ''Op With Dan Shaw and he had paints
 r auu oreshes and things and used to
 nD'S away by the hour. Nobody was
 s.uuln him in the least when my ole
 suan aa speaks up one day and sez: ,oo 1eo White, hev yo' tooken a good 'Sa so1 at that artists nose yit?'
 sot so very particular-why? ,,p Oause it was made fur smellin' out 0r. m,'S and he's allus sniffin about. He's
 mo. On the Bald Hill every mawnin' snd Sa l, af1er daylight to sniff the wind ano,t' gwine to find yo'r still befo'
 lbi. s'uer week. could smell it myself ~r, ,mawnin' when opened the doah. sa,s "at set me to think.n'," said Feb low Jest made up uay mind to lay
 took four kegs O whisky from
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hev fo' or five cats and dawgs along with 'em! Ireckon 1 was never so mad in all my bon days, but what could do bout it?"
 What did you Go?'' I asked.
 "Rolled it ashore and let them nig- gers brace up the roof and live in it all winter. It wasn't no good to me any mo as prize melyon. When 1 met Kurnel Bunker l sez to him:
 Kurnel. didn't yo' peal to me to hey ambishun?'
 "I did, sez he.
 And didn't hey it like baby with the measles?'
 "'Yo' did, Abe Hope.
 And hain't I bin knocked out wrecked-busted and l1erflopped by passle O niggers?'
 "'Yo' hey, and l can't blame yo' if yo'r ambisbun has fled and yo' dun turn about and never draw another long breath.'"
 But you haye?n I said.
 ''Mebbe so, stranger-mebbe so." re- piled Abe as he stretched out his back in the sun, but if hey 1 didn't skass- ly mean to do itl No, sah-I hain't got no mo ambishun, and them pyramids of Egypt and archives of time and let ters of gold ain't gwine to bother me fur the rest of my life. Thar's a pipe and terbacker on the shelf and jug of whisky on the floah. and yo' jest dun help yo'self and be at home and don't git up no talk to make hard work fur mel"
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coming. when the old 'possum
 of Tennessee was in a story
 Z. mood. I asked him how close a
 5o had ever had from the revenue
 while making moonshine whis-
 sdafter a little thought he replied:
 r.ll they cum powerful clus to me
 sm fo' times, but on one occashun
 saved in mighty curus way.
 spowed I had still up yere in
 aonntines, and they was jest bound fs,dit or bust. They knowed, too, |, srerybody up yere was agin 'em, a tbey had to be mighty keerful. [r didn't cum huntin' around in an l, way. but sent spies to trap us. Inst feller that cum along pur- La to be preacher, and he [,.bed 10 us on fo' different Sun ], down at the sehoolhouse. I can't s I mistrusted him the least bit, s,rter his fust sermon the ole wom- 
 aid to me:
 .geb White, if that preacher ain't o them revenoo spies then I'll hrefut all winterl I follered his mon mighty clus, and he ain't her Baptist. Methodist, Presbyter- Mormon or any other pertickler i. He ain't fur hell-fre nor agin Hs ain't fur heaven nor agin it. He lest smellin' of everybody's breath he time, and do yo' look out or git five vars in state prison!'" nd did he turn out to be a spy 2" ed.
 UT suah. sah." replied the old man. sah, we found him spyin' around e hills and in the hollers and gin two hours to pack up and git. He off on a trot. and the Nashville pa- had a long piece about The next feller to cum wanted to ,oal and iron. and he was sich an t-lookin' chap that l took him to .
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Told Enough.

"oh, don't worry about Mrs. Chat ter; she knows great deal that she doesn't tell"
 'My! What a wise woman sine must be."-Chieago Journal.
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\ Matter Of Doubf.

Miss Witihers teoyly)-l'm probably older than you think am.
 MT. Frankly-Oh, Idon't know.--Chi- cago Daily News.
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FuGs To the skater it comes With the loudest ring That little learning's A dangerous thing.
 IN. r. Truth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-10-15
SHIELD OF WATER.
Pipemen to BE Protected While at
Work by n Novel In
venttOn.

A really valuable and unique patent
fire hose nozzle has been brought out
by large firm Of English fire engine
builders. This nozzle is so constructed
that at moments notice the fireman
can shield himself from the heat be-
hind continuous circle of spray, says
the Philadelphia Record. Very often
in large conflagrations the heat is so
intense as to make 1t impossible for
the firemen to advance to the positions
where their hose would be most eff
fective, and it is in just such cases that
the nozzle would be most advantage
Gus. The shield of water can be made
as large in circumference as desired or
can be directed at any angle by sim
pie movement of the milled head near
the extremity of the nozzle. When it
is required to shut off the spray so that
the view may not be obscured the re-
verse motion of the milled head ac-
complishes the purpose. The entire
stream of water can be converted into
spray or a solid column of water can
be thrown with the spray shield for
protection as described above. When
the spray is punched to the front in
the form of torrentit can be used for
extinguishing fires among light goods
and materials which would be scat
tered by solid stream. 1t is useful
on board ship for cleaning decks, etc.,
and 1t also forms an ideal spreader
for fountains, or it can be used as a
tree sprinkler.