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The Portland daily press., 1898-01-18
COTTON MANUFACTURING IN
MAINE.

Augusta, January 1.-THE forthcoming
report of the state commissioner of in
dustrial and labor statistics will include
tabuIations of facts received from one
half the cotton manufacturing business
in the state. These show that the raw
material and wages entering into given
product in 1880 were together n per cent
while i'll 1897 the same items constituted
81 per cent of the product. Taking the
value of the product as a basis wages
have increased from 20 per cont in 1880 to
SO. 1 per cent in 1897. Average annual
earnings in 1880, Sa49.73; in 1880, S312. SO;
in 1897, $3.50. 80.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-18
THE CUT AT LISBON FALLS.

Lisbon Falls, January IA ten per
cent cut down in wages went into effect
at the Farewell cotton mills at Lisbon
today. The operatives, 300 in mum Der,
accepted the new rate without opposition.
W. FL. Miles, the agent of the mill,
states that he preferred to shut down
than cut down wages, but as all the other
mills around were to reduce and continue
operation, he had to do the same.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-18
BATH RESIDENCES BURGLARIzED

The residence in Bath of Miss Hattie
Preble, who is spending the winter in
Woodfords, was found to have been
burglarized sometime during her absence
yesterday.
The drawers in some of the closets
had been pulled out and the contents
disturbed. 1t was impossible to realize
how much was carried away by the
thieves, and it was not known what had
been left in the dwelling.
The burglars entered the house through
a bay window on the west side of the din
ing room. A pane of glass had been
broken and the fastening removed.
The house has not been occupied for
several months.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-18
WHEELS SILENT.
Continued From First Page.

duction in the rent of it's tenement houses
occupied by its operatives.
Augusta, January 17.-Eyerything is
running as usual at the Edwards Manu-
featuring company's cotton mill. The
cut went into effect this morning.
WEAvERS STRIKE IN LEWISTON.
Lewiston, January 1.-THE only mill
where operatives stayed out this morning
is the Androscoggin, where only seven
weayers went in. Policemen guarded the
mill gates, but there was no trouble. The
Androscoggin has about 400 weavers. The
reduction went into effect in six mills.
Total spindles in these mills 29,026
total operatives 8, 756; total weekly pay
roll $43,Ooo The ten and eleven per cent
cut does not apply to all the departments.
The Androscoggin mill weavers held a
meeting this forenoon, voted to continue
the strike and raised committee to wait
on Agent Bean, provided Mr.. Bean re-
quested conference.
With the exception of the Bates, the out
is about II 10 per cent. At the Bates
only one,or two departments are affected
by the reduction, the rate of wages being
lower than at some of the other mills.
The cut will not average more than per
cent
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS,
A TALK WITH MRS. PINKHAM
About the Cause of Anemia.

Everybody comes into this world with pre-
disposition to disease Of some particular tissue;
in other words, everybody has a weak spot
In ninety-nine cases out of hundred the
weak spot in women is somewhere in the utter
inc system. The uterine organs have less re-
sistance to disease than the vital organs; that's
why they give out the soonest.
Not more than one Woman in q hundred
The record-union., 1898-01-16
Curious Notices.

A facetious hotel proprietor hung up
this sign in his rooms: Indian clubs
and dumbells will not be permitted in
any of the rooms. Guests in need of
exercise can go down to the kitchen
and pound a steak"
A notice displayed in a Norway hotel
is a curious specimen of English as
she is spoke" 1t reads as follows:
Bath, First-class bath. Can any
body get Tushbath. Warm and cold.
Tubbath and shower bath. At any
time. Except Saturday BY two
hours forbore'
This brings to mind another specimen
of foreigners English, displayed on a
notice posted up in an art exhibition in
Japan, to which foreigners were well
coined. Here are a few examples of
the rules: Visitors is requested at the
entrance TO show tickets for inspection.
Tickets are charged 10 Gems and = Gems,
for the special and common respective
ly. No visitor who is mad or intox-
icated is allowed to enter in, if any
person found in shall be claimed to re-
tire. No visitor is allowed to carry
in with himself any parcel. umbrella.
stick. and the like kind. except his
purse. and IL strictly forbidden to take
within himself dog, or the same kind
of beasts. Visitors is requested to
take good care of himself from thieve-
w Tit
The record-union., 1898-01-16
Precautions Against EARTHQUAKES.

In the year 1857 there occurred a ter
rible earthquake in Italy, which de-
stroyed several villages and killed TO-
coo human beings. A full account of
this disaster may be found in a book by
Robert Mallett, who went from place
to place and fully studied the phenom-
ena exhibited. He writes of the ca
tastrophe as IAN appalling mass of hui
man misery, almost the whole of which
was preventable by the exercise of
proper care in choice of methods of
house construction in the earthquake
region, and further repetitions of which
might thus be completely avoided" 1t
is curious to note that Professor Milne,
the leading earthquake authority, is
saying exactly the same thing with re-
gard to the recent earthquake in AS
sam, by which 100 lives were lost
and an enormous amount of property
destroyed. He points out that Japan
has suffered from far more severe
earthquakes; but that, profiting by ex-
perience and guided by experiment, the
engineers there, with their European
colleagues, have gradually departed
from the stereotyped system of build
ing construction in vogue in other
countries The result is that new
buildings resist earthquake shock, while
the old ones are gradually disappearing
The wise Japanese spend large sum
annually to assist a committee in in
vestigating earthquake phenomena, a
professor is employed at their uni
versity to lecture upon the best meth
DDS of building construction in earth
quake districts, and they have sent a
special Commissioner to Assam to re-
port upon the recent earthquake there.
Professor Milne urges the Government
of India to take lesson from Japan
Chambers Journal.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

lover. If in such a case, where there
was no plea of justification, if life
taker can go clear, why not asks our
contemporary, where a fellow pleads
into him?
The belief is that in the Falimef case
the jury took the broad ground that
the murdered man deserved killing any
cut no figure in the law, they simply
prove that juries often take the bit be-
tween the teeth, and refuse to convict
the wronged woman, the deceived hus.
band, the outraged wife, the dshonored
brother or the father
The record-union., 1898-01-16
FAIR PLAY.

The idea is being sent abroad as fact
that if Hawaii is annexed it will be
death blow to beet sugar industry. This
has been and is now being used at
Washington to influence Senators
against the treaty The Record
Union" has shown repeatedly that such
argument is hollow
The enormous surplus of Of importa-
ton of sugar exclusive of Hawaiian
product defeats the story of the argu-
ment. 1t will take twenty-five years of
home growing of sugar plants before
such industry can feel any effect from
Hawaiian production, if even then there
is any competitive pressure. Moreover,
home sugar growers are not now pro-
tected against Hawaiian sugar produc-
ton. Yet the point blank falsehood is
being used by anti-annexationists that
the taking of Hawaii will paralyze tar
ife protection.
In fact, under annexation, Hawaiian
sugar will not be any more withheld
from importation than now, SO far as
the tariff is concerned; nor under defeat
of the annexation treaty. will it be any
more withheld from us than now. If
we do not take Hawaii, the aggregate
of sugar importation will be just as
large as if We do annex the islands.
There ought to be perfect fairness IN
ton. 1t is regretful to have to say that
the anti-annexationists are not playing
fair.
The record-union., 1898-01-16
The Mark Wa. stiil There.

Who are You engaged to now,
Ethel2D asked her friend, sweetly. I
hear you have had change"
yes, my dear; Jack was really too
stupid; | could not put up with him
any longer. It's Charlie Heeks now;
he is 50 very niee-auite d contrast to
Jack
Engaged to Charlie, / am sur
prised. He is hardly the kind of sweet
heart / thought you would have
chosen, Ethel
Il don't understand what you have
against Charlie, my dear Mary" re-
turned the fair Ethel He bears the
impress of a gentleman
Hasn't he got over it YETI" asked
Mary, softly Why it is quite three
weeks since Sarah's father kicked him
down stairs."
And now they do not speak as they
pass by.-Pearson's Weekly.
The record-union., 1898-01-16
The PACIFIC STATES SAYINGS, LOAN
And BUILDING COMPANY.

The LARGEST and most PROS
Porous Loan Association on the
Coast. This company has reserved
one thousand Glass G Shares for
Sacramento investors; now is the
time to subscribe. Over thirty-five
hundred shares have been sold in
Sacramento. These shares are a
desirable investment for those who
wish to make monthly deposit.
There is no better, safer OF more
profitable system in this State.
Net profits for the year ending
July 81, 1897, over $4,000. De-
posts on shares can be withdrawn
at any time, with 6 per cent. in
terest, compounded annually. For
shares OF loans address
C. w. REDFIELD,
725 G street, Sacramento.
Shareholders paid 6 per cent. per
annum on deposits made with this
company. ja9-4tSu2p
The record-union., 1898-01-16
Meal Time-AlI Time.

A countryman presented himself at
the clerks desk in a hotel, and after
having room assigned him, inquired
at what hours meals We're served.
Breakfast from : 10 II, luncheon
from II to B. dinner from to 8, sup
per from to H." recited the clerk
glibly.
Jerushy," calculated the country
man, with bulging eyes. when am
a-going 70 git time to see the town.
Eddyville Tale.
The record-union., 1898-01-16
Whipped for Telling the Truth.

Johnny's face was smeared with dirt
and tears, there was lump on his left
cheek, and one knee projected through
a jagged rent in his trousers leg.
Johnny, Johnny exclaimed his
mother, have You been fighting
again."
Yep" he replied. Me an that boy
from New York had to scrap. He looks
wors'n l do, too, you bet!'
You'll break my heart, you willful
boyi What We're you fighting about?
About the Biography of Chicago.
said it hadn't any bluffs, an he said
it was all bluff, an l chugged hint
Chicago Tribune.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

The suggestion made in Congress that
the postal delivery service should be cut
down a third, in order to retrench, is
not a good one. The Postal Committee
must find some better road to economy
than that. Instead of cutting down de-
livery service it ought to be enlarged
to take in rural districts, wherever good
roads make it possible. The committee
might effect a great saving by crop
ping the privilege of using the mails,
now enjoyed by so-called Journals"
which are simply monthly or weekly
prints of cheap novels and silly short
stories The cost of this use Of the mails
is enormous. 1t is not alarming that
there is a postal deficit-there always
has been, and probably the Postal De-
partment never will be revenue
producer. But the service is
such an invaluable convenience
that the people cannot dispense
with it. or suffer it to be shorn.
They foot the bills and are willing to
do so rather than have the efficiency of
the service degenerate. The fact is that
the free delivery system has greatly in
creased postal income; increased it, we
believe, more than any other influence.
If it were possible to measure it's pres
ent cost against the business it brings TO
the mails, it would, We are convinced,
be found that the delivery system pays
its way, and more. But such ascertain
ment is not possible.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

The Florida orange crop is practically
ruined for this year. What with frost,
will be nil. Now, then, get in and
charge it to Mckinley and the Repub-
lican policy-and don't forget to in
clude Hanna among the defendants.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

Spanish Government bonds. aggre-
eating S4o0.000.00 are in the hands
of French, German and English hold
ers. Spain shrewdly made the bonds
dependent upon Cuban revenues. This
The record-union., 1898-01-16

Academic student (reading history
During the wars in the reign of Philip
III. husbandry was much neglected.
Teacher-What do you understand by
that?
Pupil-Husbandry was neglected be-
cause the husbands had all gone to
the war.
"a true case).-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

Ex-Attorney Philbrook is suing a
whole lot of people, including the SUI
because of his dTsbarment Well, he
at least sets a respectable price upon
himself, which proves that he it not
deficient in seIf-est eeu
The record-union., 1898-01-16

There was a wineless turkey on ex-
hibitson at the poultry show in Eu-
gene. Or. This is the kind of bird TO
breed, IL what should be the wings
has run to breast meat.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

society for the improvement of high
ways, every county should have its
Central Committee with which the dis
trict societies can confer, and yearly
conventions of the societies held.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

For the sake of human interest and
the we'll being of the intrepid Andree,
it is to be hoped that the telegraph OPP
orator up in Northern, Minnesota who
insists that he saw the explorers bal
not looking through the bottom of
glass
The record-union., 1898-01-16
Weather Forecast.

Northern California: Cloudy and unset
tied weather, with showers in the north
ern portion Sunday night; northerly,
changing to southeasterly winds
The record-union., 1898-01-16

1t is notable that very much of SYM
pathy for the Armenians has evapo-
rated The public mind is coming
around TO the belief that there are two
sides TO the Armenian question The
recent threat of the Armenian bomb
throwers to blow up the Russian EN-
bassy at Constantinople is not condu-
Give to cultivation of sympathy for the
Armenian cause. However, that the
Turk has greatly oppressed these peo-
pie, and used his power over them UNI
mercifully, is true. Indeed. the Turk is
chargeable for much Of the riotous and
desperate spirit manifest among Arme-
mans. 1t would be we'll TO suspend
judgment until the report of the New
York "Heralds" agent is made. He is a
man who will be believed; he has been
given every opportunity by the Turkish
Government to make a complete and
exhaustive investigation, and it will, we
believe, be an impartial one.
The record-union., 1898-01-16


An interior contemporary, comment
ing upon the good roads question, says
that the recent roads constructed on
the ideal plan last year in Massachu-
sets cost $4,000 a mile, it therefore
concludes that the outlook for the good
road cause In California is bad, as with
our immense area and sparse popula-
ton no such road advance can be even
contemplated here. That is all a mis-
take. The Massachusetts roads re-
ferred to We're across sandy beaches
and stretches where the earth is so
yielding that below macadam sub
structure it was necessary to put in a
cobble underpinning, with the cobbles
laid by hand point up, and with as
much care as in making street. Then,
in other cases, marshy places had to
In addition to all this, roads in Massa-
chusetts have to be built with the ex-
pansion and contraction of the ground
kept in view, due to freezing, frost and
there have to be given great attention
as TO drainage, far more than is de-
nlanded in California, because Of local
conditions. Still, again, Massachusetts,
roads nearly all include more or less Of
what is really street work, SO near are
settled places and SO continuous often
are lines of residences. In addition to
all this is the especial ambition of
Massachusetts, to construct the best
roads in the world regardless of ex-
pense. For the old Bay State IS deter
mined to be full of attractions, since in
production she is thrown into such vio-
lent competition with more fertile re-
gions. However, there are many mile
ages of macadam roadways in Massa-
chusetts that cost no more than $1,000
mile, and some even less.
The record-union., 1898-01-16
He Was Overlooked.

Ziggs (slapping his friend on the back
Well. it's settled, old man; the cards
are out
Zaggs (who didn't get one)-Did they
run out ?-Detroit Journal.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

The Chinese are in trouble about ne
gOtiating that heavy loan, Lii Hung
Chang wants Colonel Fred Grant sent
out as our Minister to the Empire, but
he will not go; the Germans have Off
cially notified the powers that the oc-
cupation of Kiaochau Bay by them is
to be permanent; the Brother of the Sun
finds he is short in powder and shy
few big guns and ships-all in all, China
is in "a heap of trouble"
The record-union., 1898-01-16
THREE THINGS.

Folsom Telegraph: There be three
things that make nation great and
prosperous-a fertile soil, busy work
shops and easy conveyance for men and
commodities from one place TO another" "
Lord Bacon.
The first and second of these requisites
the great West possesses in abundance,
and in an abundance that so far as the
busy workshops" are concerned, con-
tinuaIly is increasing. In the third it is
sadly deficient. The West certainly
does not have easy conveyance for men
and commodities from one place to an
other" They have trusted too much to
their railways, forgetting That railways
must be but receivers of travel that
comes along innumerable lines OF high
ways. Many a farmer who lives three
miles from the nearest railway station
spends more time and worries himself
more in reaching il than In travelling
fifty miles after he has reached It, 1t
often costs more to haul a load of
produce from the farm to the railway
than to carry it a hundred miles after
il is placed on the cars. 1t often
takes a longer time to go for and come
back with letter or newspaper from
the nearest Postoffice than 1t does for
the missive to come from its starting
place to the office. Many a plow
goes unrepaired many needed piece
of farm work goes undone during the
long winter months and forms need
less part of the worry" in getting
ready for springtide operations, be-
cause of the all but impossible roads
between the farm and the store or
the shop. Country merchants lose
trade. farmers lose money by inability
10 take advantage of a temporary
raise or fall in the price of produce be-
cause Of the roads upon which nothing
considerable can be hauled during a
great part of the year. There are whole
counties which rain and frost rule with
despotic authority Rain converts the
tracks that are dignified by the name OF
roads into impossible swamps, frost
hardens the mud into ridges and mounds
that no horse can travel without danger
OF lameness and across which no heavy
weight can be drawn. The loss to the
farmers and country merchants of the
West is not to be counted by hundreds
of thousands, but by millions yearly. 1t
is true that vigorous work, and work
that is as intelligent as it is vigorous
should be done in remedy Of the evil
condition into which we have fallen
Every road district should have its
The record-union., 1898-01-16
CHANGE OF PLACE.

Oakland Tribune: Getting Charles
Page Bryan confirmed as Minister to
China having proved too hard a nut
for the Administration to crack, he is
now to go to Brazil, the land where the
nuts come from" Although the Brazil
ian mission is not as desirable as the
Chinese one, by reason of the fact that
the incumbent rarely has an opportuni-
ty to show what he is capable OF, the
emoluments are the same, the Ministers
to China, Japan, Spain, Austria, Italy
and Brazil all getting $4,000 per an
mum. They rank next to the Embassa-
doris to France, Germany and Great
Britain and the Ministers to Russia and
Mexico, the salary attached to those
places being SIT 800 per annum.
The record-union., 1898-01-16
zaZaXAs.
Jl1NkHIlL,
NOIlGs Of IlsHsaTllg Of ll8 Report Of the VleWeTS

Hu1Vu Vi lHuuuuliAS VI tAu A1PVii VI tuO flOWttc
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION
of Mrs. j. NJ. French ct ais. for a new
county road in Road District No. 5, Sac
ramento County, California, and to all
non-consenting land owners to said pc
tition.
of the viewers heretofore appointed in
this matter, having been filed III open
session of the Board of Supervisors of
Sacramento County, California, on the
7th' day of January, 1888. and the hearing
of the said report having been fixed by
said board for, MONDAY, February I.
1898. at O'Clock p. M. at the office OF
said board in the Hall of Records of said
county on l street. between Sixth and
Seventh streets, of Sacramento City Cal
ifornia. And you are hereby notified then
and there to appear and show cause IL
any you have, why said report should not
be adopted and s approved, and said pro-
herewith Said new road is described as
follows. to wit: Commencing at the
southwest corner of the southeast quar-
ter of section 10. running south through
the center of section Is through the land
of CLAIMS and Mrs. Nicolaus, thence
west through the land of CLAIMS and Mrs.
Nicolaus. then through the land OF
CLAIMS and Mrs. French, then through
the land. of CLAIMS and J. X. Houston,
Lower Stockton Road, the same to be
fifty feet wide.
BY order of said Board of Supervisors
Attest: VIM. B. HAMILTON
-1e.Ot -.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE
of California, County of Sacramento
In the matter of the estate of MARY
MUIR, deceased. Notice is hereby given
1898, at 10 o'clock a. m of said day and
the courtroom of said court, at the Court
house, in the city of Sacramento County
of Sacramento and State of California
has been appointed as the time and place
for proving the will of said Mary Muir
deceased, and for hearing the application
GaQf n R0Vd for ha 10
him of letters testamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court this 7th day of January, 1898.
tSeal) w. B. HAMILTON Clerk
BY F.. S. Wachhorst, Deputy Clerk.
White & Seymour. Attorneys for Peti-
toner.
Indorsed Filed January Z. 1895
w. 3. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY E. s. Wachhorst, Deputy. JaS-10t
The record-union., 1898-01-16
SACRAMENTO BANK.

TIE OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN
the city. corner Fifth and streets, Sac
ramento. Guaranteed capital, sou, 700;
serve fund, S52 600; term and ordinary de-
posts. So, 224 931 so; loans OH real estate
January 1, 1897, s., 1856, 761 10. Terms and
ordinary deposits received Dividends paid
in January and July. Money loaned upon
real estate only. Information furnished
upon application 20
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of course, enlisted the investors for
the cause Of Spain, and these inffu-
ences have, accordingly, been felt for
long time opposed to the insurgent
cause. Now however, when it is found
that Spain is unable TO subdue the reb-
els, and that the security may go glim-
mering, the bondholders are reported
as solicitous that the United States
shall interpose to bring about peace
meaning, of course, settlement Of the
rebellion on the basis of Spanish DOM
nance and Cuban submission. There
is no sentiment in money-lending.
Money is a contemplate coward, but
though this is true all the world wants
| possession of the poltroon. 1t looks
| very much now as if so many of the
| English, French and Germans as in
vested upon the chance of Cuban de-
| feat will presently be in the market Of
fering Spanish paper at a rufnous dis
count. 1t will make excellent stock for
papier mache.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento
as Second-clasS matter.
The record-union., 1898-01-16

The resolution of Senator Cannon of
Utah, adopted on Thursday in the
United States Senate, requests the
President to inform Congress as to
what steps, if any, have been taken to
protect American interests in Cuba.
This will result in giving the country
the information it has desired. We
trust that the reply will show that our
people in the fated isle are not in peril
for lack of precautions on the part of
the American Government But it is
impossible to conceal the fact that feel
ing is abroad that our country, out of
Difference to Spanish senSibility, has
not been so much in evidence in the
harbors of Cuba as wisdom advises.