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The record-union., 1899-09-12
w. G. r. U.
The State Convention Will Meet
in This City October I'd.

The State Convention Of the w. c.
mencing October I'd and closing Octo-
Der 9Th There will be between $50
and 300 delegates here. The ladies of
the w. c.. T. u. earnestly request all
those who can help to entertain these
guests with lodging and breakfast to
notify the Secretary of Sacramento
Union at 1411 Fifteenth street, as soon
as possible, as the ladies desire to fur
nish the delegates with accommoda-
tions Immediately upon their arrival.
The object Of the State Convention
is to elect State officers for the ensuing
year and to review the work that has
been done and outline work for the
coming year A very elaborate pro-
gram has been arranged for each even
ing, to which the public is generally in
vited
Southern California sent their State
President to the National Convention
last year with 500 new members
names, which entitled her to a place
on the platform benefit night.
Northern California is stirring to
make as good a showing as the South,
and every member of the w. c. T. U.
is earnestly requested to secure as
many new names as possible.
A union meeting of all the temper
ance societies will be held on Wednes-
day at 3 D. M. at 725 street, to which
all temperance societies are cordially
inuita1
The record-union., 1899-09-12
Articles Of incorporation.

The following articles of incorpora-
ton have been filed in the office of
the Secretary of State:
The Blue Lakes Canning Company.
Principal place of business, San Fran
cisco. Capital stock, $4,000; with S125
subscribed, and H Wambold of Bertha,
Lake County, and G. B. Laninger, G.
H. Schmidt, H. G. Martins and w.
Weber of San Francisco as directors.
The Twin Eagles Mining Company.
Principal place of business DoWnie-
vile. Capital stock, $4,000; all SUBJ
scribed, with James n. Hastings, John
S. Wilbur, Edward McGary, Jr., and
James McGary of San Francisco and
F. c. Gould of Alameda as directors.
The record-union., 1899-09-12
Weather Reports.

The Weather Bureau reports show
the highest and lowest temperatures
yesterday to have been 90 and IS, with
light to gentle southerly and easterly
winds and clear or hazy weather pre-
vailing with clouds floating in the air.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were 90 and
56. one year ago to-day 9S and 90.
The average temperature was 76, and
the normal Il, showing yesterday to
have been degrees warmer than usual
for the 18th day of September.
River steady at feet, Z inches.
The record-union., 1899-09-12
The Best prescription for Malaria

and Fever is bottle of Groves Tasteess
Chill Tonic IT is simply iron and quinine
In a tasteless form. No cure-no pay.
Price, 80 cents.
The record-union., 1899-09-12
"A PROPOSED FREE CONFERENCE.

The Santa Rosa Republican" has
thrown out the suggestion that as pre-
liminary to any proceeding looking to-
wards an extra session of the Legisla-
ture with view to filling the vacant
seat Of California in the United States
Senate, there should be a free confer
ence Of the Republican members of the
two houses of the Legislature.
1t is wise and timely proposition.
The Republican party will be held re-
sponsible for the call for the extra ses-
sion. 1t is therefore eminently proper
that the representatives of that party
in the Legislature should first meet
and counsel together. In such free
conference the Republicans will be bet
ter able to determine what the result
of an extra session might be, than by
any other method
The more the suggestion is thought
upon the stronger it grows, until it
takes the form of a natural and indeed
a positive demand that the representa-
tives of the party in the Legislature
shall have this pre- conference, and by
deliberation in the calm, arrive upon
a method determining the future course
of the party so far as legislative action
can affect it.
1t will be seen after a moments 5
thought that such free conference will
be undisturbed by the environment of
a legislative session. 1t will be free
from outside influences and will not be
hanpered by such schemes and obsta-
cles as present at such conferences in
the midst of a session. AS it viii be
likely to affect the whole subject of the
calling Of an extra session by the Gov
ernor, it will be a much freer and more
expressive and determinate- council or
caucus than can be held after a. call
may issue.
Wise conservatism will be more like
ly to dominate and members will give
greater heed to the advice of each 9TH
er in such a pre-conference. Indeed,
however viewed, the preliminary eau
Gus or conference will tend for good of
the party and of the State, and there
fore it should be called and held.
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Petition for Probate.

Charles Flohr has petitioned the Su-
perior Court for probate of the will Of
Katherine Kohl, deceased.
The will divides her property into
six equal parts, between her daughters
Mary Wolf, Regina Stafford, Emma
Flohr, I<ittie Munger, Celia Hess and
John and Jacob Frees, children of her
deceased daughter, Lena Frees. The es,
tate consists of personal property
valued at $4,000.
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torney should be procured as to the
powers of the board to purchase the
map book and road map book, before
it proceeds further in the matter
So ordered, and the board, after al
lowing number of claims, adjourned
till this morning at 10 o'clock.
The record-union., 1899-09-12

The military judges who tried and
convicted Dreyfus have sent to the
President Of France a request that the
prisoner shall not be subjected again to
the ceremony of degradation. This is
most significant. But If the man is
guilty, why relieve him from any part
of the penalty for treason? If he is
worthy of such relief then why is he
found guilty? Clearly they are getting
ready to pardon Dreyfus. And per-
haps that will be the best way out.
France cannot afford another trial of
the prisoner, and that the Court Of
Cessation will refuse to affirm the
Judgment of the court-martial seems to
be conceded. To pardon Dreyfus, there
fore, may save a host of trouble to
the disturbed nation; besides it will
amount practically to an acquittal. If
the prosecutors of Dreyfus are willing
TO consent to this moral capitulation on
the part of the Government, why should
the friends of the accused object?
The record-union., 1899-09-12

interests, the betterment of horticulture
in the State, and Improvement along all
lines of production. 1t should be a
time and place for the annual review by
exposition and by assembly of societies
and associations of what the State has
produced, the capacity of the soil, the
skill Of the inventor and the invest
ment of the stock grower.
What is needed is an awakening OF
the interest Of all the people in what
is their own, and not that of a locality
This can be done The public mind
can be disabused Of the false notions so
long distilled into it by those who, to
say the very least, have been short
sighted in misrepresenting the fair. We
our State exposition belongs to all of US
and we have the right to equal share
in and benefit from it. 1t has this
year made a great step forward, due
most largely to intelligent direction
from inside and generous devoted en-
deavor from the outside on the part of
the people Of the Capital City, as was
right and proper, and which has been
just such interest and concern as should
animate any community where the
State Fair might be held, and where
State pride and broad public spirit pre-
vail among the people.
The record-union., 1899-09-12

Let us be careful that sentiment and
sympathy do not run away with good
judgment in this Dreyfus matter. ALI
France is not chargeable with the Of
fenses of it's military generals, or the
unwisdom of it's politicians. This talk
of threat of boyeotting the Paris Ex-
position because of the condemnation
of Dreyfus is ridiculous, and not a
whit to the credit of any one who
prompts or repeats it. We have mad
miscarriages Of justice in our own
land, but we would have felt it to
have been cruelty unjust on the part
of any foreign power. if on that ac-
count the whole nation had been as
sailed, and its commerce. industry and
enterprise been blacklisted.
The record-union., 1899-09-12
Weather Forecast.

Northern California: Cloudy Tuesday;
cooler in the interior; brisk westerly
winds on the coast, with dense fog.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14

speare. Sweet swan of Avon" The noxious
Baconian bacillus was very much alive in the
brains Of men IN all parts OF the world 1t was
"a tale full OF sound and fury. sgnifying moth
ing" Bacon was no poet; he tried to write
verse and failed miseraby Mr.. Lee undertook
to prove to any impartial jury who were
pledged to abide by the spurious logic Of the
Baconians that every poem usually assigned
TO Lord Tennyson really the exercise of
Mr.. GladStOne3 recreation, or that the volumes
that had come forth under the present Poet
Laureate'S name were the CALCULATIONS of the
muse of their distinguished fellow townsman,
Mr. Chamberlain.
Somebody who is perhaps troubled by the
''BacOnlan bacillus" quotes comment on
Mr.. Lees statement that Bacon poet"
these passages from Shelleys Defence of Po-
etry":
plato exhibits the rare union OF close and
subtle logic with the Pythian enthusiasm Of
poetry. melted by the splendor and harmony
Of his periods into one irresistible stream Of
musical impressions. which hurry the persua-
sions onward, as in breathess career His
language Is that Of immortal spirit rather
than man. Lord Bacon u.s. perhaps the only
writer who in these particulars can be COM
pared with him. His imitator, Cicero, sinks In
the comparison into an ape hooking the ges
lures Of a man. Lord Bacon a poet. His
language has n sweet and majestic rhythm
which satisfies the sense no less than the al
r:cst superhuman wisdom of his philosophy
satisfies the intellect. 1t is a strain which dis
tends. and then bursts the circumference of the
readers mind, and pOurS itself forth, together
with it, into the universal element with which
1t has perpetual sympathy"
Mr. Lee also had something to say at Biz
mingham concerning modern imaginative lit
erature. To him, he said, the topic was not
eXhilaratng Apart from Mr., Rudyard Kip
ing. whose recovery To health was matter OF
rejoicing among all English speaking peoples
there seemed dearth of greatness. Of genuine
originality among our poets and novelists. Pos
siby new Messiahs were on the road His ex-
perience as editor Of THE National Biography"
taught him how often contemporary estimates
Of literature were falsifed. Those who enjoyed
repute and riches as authors in their own day
were spurned az impostOrs by the succeeding
generation. while the meek and lowly of their
own time were lifted TO the highest pinnacles
after their death 1t was quite certain that in
the case of the mass Of our everyday literature
the approval OF the great reading mob was no
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14

of humor, great liking for her not altogether
RESPONSIVE garden, and very agreeable method
of chatting about her lord and master. her chill
dren and her friends and acquaintance. A
shrewd comprehension of human nature ana
an exceedingly warm heart combine to enliven
this diary of life in North Germany. She writes
prettily and comically about her beloved garden,
but she does not know much about the practical
side of it, The bud of it, however. is in her. and
we know that with opportunity she would flower
into as thorough a gardener Miss Jekyll
meanwhile the garden serves as an engaging
background for the CHEEKY round of existence in
the old house with her ironical but. adoring hus-
band her winsome offspring. the April baby, the
May baby and the June baby. and her abound
ing books Her spirit OF pure Joy and content
in these things fills her pages with sunshine
"The passion for bSng forever with ones fell
lows" sh, writes "and the fear OF being left
for a few hours alone is to me wholly incom-
prehensibIe'; these shallow feelings she likens
to those cf her servants, girls whose one idea
OF happiness is to live in a town where there
are others OF their sort with whom to drink
beer and dance on Sunday afternoons" To her
full heart and rich mind lovely Nature and the
books upon her library shelves are ever-beguil-
ing companions. Her little diary was decidedly
worth printing. and is to be heartily commended
TO those kindred souls for whose absence from
her region of dull housewives Elzabeth's flowers
so tenderly console her.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14
THE OXFORD CHAIR OF POETRY.

WHAT MIR. ANDREW LANG THINKS ABOUT IT
From Longman's Magazine.
Mr. Palgrave's adventures with the Oxford
chair of poetry suggest reflections. When MI
Sharp left that tripod Mr.. Pagrave's uncle.
Sir Francis Doyle. succeeded for ten years. Then
there was a contested election between Mr.. Pal
grave and his friend. Mr. Courthope 0SSj). I
remember that Sir Francis Doyle paid me the
greatest compliment ever received, in wishing
me to stand on this occasion; but naturally
and most justly, he took the part of his kins-
nan. But how odiOus these contests are The
competitors are usually friends (as Mr.. Court
hope and Mr. Palgrave were; as, I'm fact the
competitors almost always are). and why should
they be pitted against each other in a quest OF
votes? 1t is no reflection Mr. Courthope to
say that it was Mr.. Pagraves turn. and he was
elected. Then the tenure OF office-ten years
is too long. Men wax old before their turn
comes round. Make 1t an affair of three years
tenure. In three years anybody can say what
he has to say. Time enough there is, in all CON
science. We have never had Mr.. Swinburne.
and. too obviously. never will. The young Ok
ford poets will be elderly before they have
chance. There can be no doubt TO who
should succeed Mr.. Courthope in the chair Of
Mr.. Matthew Arnold: and. afterward les jeuneS
should have their opportunity.
The custom of re-electing after five years.
ought to be abolished; 1t seems TO be only ira
dtion Poets and critics at oxford come in
little groups-Mr Arnold. Mr. Clough. Mr.. Pal
grave; or Mr. Mackail Mr. Beeching and their
group. Thus it takes thirty years to give three
of them chance to be edifyng. or (but Of this
Mr.. Arnold was the solitary example) enter
tanning. These things ought not 10 be thus
Mr.. Jowetts mission was to make people write
great books" One pupil did it, wrote "A big
book at least, and then the master didn't read
II, as an injured person had the audacty to tell
him. He wanted Mr.. Palgrave to write the
Lives Of the Poets" an excellent idea. But
If Mr. Palgrave had obeyed can one not see the
master taking up Dr.. JohnsOn's Lives Of the
Poets" merely for comparison. and then forget
ting to return TO the novelty? We grow OLD
and say "the old il better" 1t IL recorded here
of Mr.. Ruskin QS9O that hearing Mr. Pal
said who Is -" friend OF Mr.. Pal
graves | think | can remember In the six
ties hearing Mr.. Ruskin ask, Who Is Nillon''
and certainly lent him the works OF that poet.
with which he had been unacquainted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14

the publishers Of that list have been the pub
fishers OF Emerson and Holmes Longfellow ana
Whittier Hawthorne and Lowell Their press
has been identified with some Of the nobiest and
most characteristic names in our literature ana
we find this catalogue expressive all along the
line of a loyalty to American letters. Stedman
and Aldrich. Bret Harte and w. ID. Howells
James Parton and Justin Winsor-these are
only few of the distinguished Americans who
figure in these pages. II is a catalogue OF when
the publishers may justly be proud.
Mr. c. j. Moulton- Barrett the eldest surviving
brother of Mrs. Browning. deeply resents the
publication of the Browning love-letters-chiefly
because of the picture OF the elder Barrett pre-
scented therein. He says in letter to The
London Standard:
In spite OF earnest protests Mr. Browning
with a want Of delicacy hardly conceivable has
published the letters Of his father and mother
previous to their marriage. The careless in
difference OF MIR. Robert Browning. There they
are. do with them you please when | am
dead and gone. was no excuse for the sacrilege.
His mother would have been Mortified. She
loved her father
THE notices OF the book have generally been
so cruelty unjust To my fathers memory that |
consider 1t my duty. as his eldest surviving
son, to relate the facts. My father acted his
own merchant for his Jamaica estates. and on
that account went daily TO the City. He never
met Mr.. Browning. He was aware of his Wis
it's and he regarded them. like the visits Of Miss
Milford and Mr. Kenyon. affording my sister
pleasure My sister had been invalid for
years. BY the directions OF DR.. Chambers. her
room was kept at a certain temperate and
she never left it. Under these circumstances
my father lost his daughter. He had loved her
from her childhood. He never recovered it, /
venture to say few fathers would take the hand
OF a man who had SO acted. And | would adj
few sons. either for gain or love Of notoriety
would make public the confidential letters Of
their mother"
THE London Academy" in commenting upon
the Mouton-B Barrett letter. sets forth In de-
fence Of the poets cOncealment of their attach
g,.anf finA ID ,fal.I
knew from actual observation that her father
would not stop short OF personal violence when
a daughters engagement was in question. Ii
adds: And there Is point Of view in which
the conduct OF his father the opponent of his
sisters marriage may be canvassed more Sc
verely than has yet been limited at In print II
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14

is not necessary to go into sordld details; but II
need were something could and should be said
in exclamation OF conduct which not even a
false idea of ilial pety should have LED MT.
Moulton- Barrett TO defend"
Mr. A. b. Wenzell, the clever illustrator OF
social types has gone abroad TO sketch the
picturesque events of the Paris and LONDON
seasons-the Queens Drawing Room, the Hen
ley regatta, the Grand Prix. and the Ascot
races His drawings are to appear IN future
numbers of Golfers Weekly"
complete edition of Stephane Mallarmes
poetry is to be brought out by Deman, the Brus-
sells publisher. new volume OF poems by
Francois Coppee will soon be issued. 1t is or
a religious character
Mr. Sidney Lee declared in his recent address
at Birmingham that there was no law OF eVl-
dence which, when applied to Shakespeare
biography justified in the brain Of any man or
ordinary capacity the smallest doubt that
the inhabitant OF Stratford -on-AvOn, William
Shakespeare, whose tomb in Stratford Church
bore the contemporary attestation that he ana
no other was the greatest man Of letters or his
6ay-there was no reasonable room for doubt
that Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays
which were published under his full name and
were commended to the reading public just
after his death by his friend Ben Jonson as the
outpourings Of the voice of his beloved Shake
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14
LITERARY NOTES.

There is a report that Mr.. II. Il. Wheatley
TIE editor of the edition of Pepys's Diary.
intends to edit the TanSicr Diary of Pepys
and some OF his mostly unpublished corre-
spondence.
II Is asserted that the novel on which Nine
Sarah Grand is now engaged will repeat, or
even exceed. the success of The Heavenly
Twins" Two-thirds of ii have been written.
but no title has yet been decided upon. II VIII
not be published until the autumn of 1900. NO
definite details concerning it are known beyond
the fact that it has a character nicknamed
"Petticoats" The author is writing in uninter-
rupted peace and quiet. The comparative failure
OF The Beth Book is ascribed to the circum-
stances under which it written. Nine.
Grand being in attendance at the time upon
sick relative. and moving about from one health
resort to another
"a Catalogue OF Authors Whose Works Are
Published by Houghton. Mihlin & CO. Is the
title of an exquisitely printed book OF about
two hundred pages which we have just re-
ceived from the well-known Boston firm. The
book Is itself a testimony to the admirable
work done at the Riverside Press. The group
of portraits which we reproduce from it is sig
ni6cant of the lofty standard illustrated by the
long list of authors. 1t is not for nothing that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14

The large sum Of S675 was paid for the copy
or Rudyard kiplings "Schoolboy Lyrics" re-
Gently sold al auction in London. This book AZ
we have said before. printed when its au-
thor was only eighteen years old 1t is ex-
cessiVely rare-perhaps unique. Nearly a hun
dred dollars was paid at the same sale for a
first edition Of Departmental Ditties"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14

Under the title Of "Tristram Lacy or the In
dividualist." Mr.. w. H. Mallock's new novel
will be published at once in this country and
England
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-11
Y. NJ. C. A. SUNDAY.

The second service IN the young
Mems Series" will be conducted at the
Portsmouth Association Tomorrow af-
ternoon. The subject for the afternoon
Will be AN American Citizen" Mr.. c.
w. Coleman. Il well-known attorney
VIII be the speaker. This is a very inn
portant and fruitful subject. The
speaker will show some OF the privi-
ieses' pleasures and duties of an Amer
ican citizen. Every young man in the
city should hear this address
The Song Service will begin at 4
o'clock.
The Boys Gospel Army will meet a,
O'Clock, and the Bible Training Glass
at ) O'clock
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-11
THE poLICEMAN's LOT.

But few people except those who arc
out at all hours of the night have any
idea of the hardships n policeman has
TO endure on such nights as the pas
three. They have to remain on duty
Tor eleven hours without relief, and
nave no opportunities 10 warm them
selves unless they steal'a chance and
slip in some place for few moments,
and even then they run the risk of be
ing caught and discharged from the
force. During the cold winter several
years ago the men were allowed one
hour at night TO go to the station house
ana warm, and while there 10 get Il
cup of coffee
1t Is hoped that the commissioners
WIFI adopt similar resolution at their
next meeting, 10 continue in force dur
ing the cold weather.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-11
THE MACHINIsTs LAST NIGHT

THE MACHlNISTS LAST NIGHT
Last night, as per announcement in
these columns. Portsmouth lodge No
AL. International Association or Ma
chinists, met i'm Elks' Hall :tn.l a most
interesting gathering 1t proved 20 lc
The Hon. T.. c. Folkes. of Richmond,
was expected to be present. but on ac-
count of delayed train on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway it was impos-
Sible for him 10 reach the city in time
10 deliver the promised address on Or
ganization."
Tho larse crowd present was. how
ever. highly entertained by Mr.. Daniel
}. Reardon, who, in n most interesti,,:
manner, explained the aims and objects;
OF the organization, which is doing so
much for its members. He read m.
platform and discussed in an able man
ner its principal features.
1t was most pleasant Machinists'
smoker" Several other speakers dis
cussed the necessity of organiza-
ton. and song and story ruled the hour.
Those who were fortunate enough to be
present expressed themselves as being
highly pleased.
After the smoker" had ended and the
invited guests had departed, the hody
went into executive session and ele"tcC:
Mr.. Dan j. Reardon a delegate 10 rem
resent the lodge in conjunction with the
Norfolk Board of Trade, and tho COM
mittce appointed by the worlkingmen' {
meeting to go to Washington and labor
for the passage of the eight hour la,v.
the payment of money due EMPLOYEES
of this yard for overtime. and the
building here of one of the new battle
ships provided for by Congress.