The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-17
VOICE OF THE PRESS.

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EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
Expressions.
State and Coast Opinions ON suh-
iects, Of Living News
Interest.
Stockton Record: Most of the tele-
graphic bulletins that are sent from
London about Mrs. Bradley Martin rev
late entirely to her jewels. 1t seems
that she wore her string of diamonds
at the Ascot and appeared at the
opera with her enormous emeralds.
Her glittering mission appears to be to
vary her coruscating exterior accord
ing to the resources of her casket. So
marked has this manner of chronicling
the Martins movements become that 1t
has raised a slight complaint, for even
the Martin desires to be heralded occa-
sionally Independently of her baubles.
An investigation has shown that this
popularity of the bulletins is mainly
owing to the intrusion of the female
chronicler into journalism. She it is
who tags after the recorder of events,
to tabulate the dresses and the gems,
and whose glittering reports-take prec-
edence Of all others in Vanity Fair. A
double shotted cablegram has been
or tn ha tor 70 of
feet that on a certain occasion in Lon
don the Bradley Martin wore her huge
turquoise. This detail once on its
way, grew to be the real event itself,
and the Bradley Martin utterly disap-
peared in the resplendence of her trav-
cling turquoise. When the news got
as far as the Mississippi, it wore only
one significance in heavy black letters,
.'She wore her turquoise" Edmund
Gosse, who inclines rather to gems of
thought than to court Jewels, calls this
| the bric-a- brac, side of journalism, and
declares that he is becoming somewhat
| unseated by the overdose of feminin-.
ism. The complaint is not without
some justification. We know of Mrs.
Brown Potter only by her change of
garments, and Shakespeare himself
| now reaches us only through Worths
establishment. If you wish to know
what Mrs Arthur Paget is up to, you
will have to ask the costumer. The
social religions and even the political
changes are changes Of dress. To such
an extent has this been carried by the
society reporters that one is entitled
| to hope that the end is near.
| * ~. CURRENCY. II
Tulare Register: John P. Jones has
declared in an interview that if there
were no gold standard there would be
no trusts that trusts are due to a
shrinking currency and falling prices.
But it SO happens that the currency is
not shrinking and prices are not fall
ing and John P. Jones talketh through
his hat that he may blow where he
listeth and hear the sound thereof.
THE LAND WE LIVE IN
Oakland Tribune: The wondrous de-
velopment of the California oil fields
] is once more attracting the attention
of the rest of the country to this State,
and those who have always regarded
the Golden West as veritable treasure
land are more impressed now with the
fact than ever. Gold mines richer than
| the world ever saw before, wheat fields
vaster in many instances than Euro
pean principalities, orange groves COM
pared with which the far-famed pro-
ducts of the Mediterranean lose their
luster, orchards bearing a greater and
richer variety of fruits: than any other
Ecultivated section of the universe, for
ests of redwood representing hundreds
of millions of dollars, Oil fields that
promise to vie with any yet tapped by
man-all of these treasures have in
quick succession been developed and
poured forth upon the lap of the world
in the fifty brief years Of our history.
| When to this galaxy of attractions
is added our Incompatible climate and
harbor-d dotted coast line, washed by
the most peaceful of all the oceans, we
| can well look around upon the rest of
| creation and ask if there is anything
to compare with the land in which we
/ live. Our resources, too, are not con-
| fined merely to productions that rep
resent so much money, for we posSeSS
everything that nature con furnish for
/ the enrichment and enjoyment of life.
There issno scenery in the world grand
Ter or more impressive than that of the
| Yosemite Valley, while in our lake dis
| trict we possess springs that surpass
| the famous. resorts Of the Old World.
France for many years Boosted that of
all the waters she alone had claim to
/ a champagne Ike spring such as bub-
| bles forth at her town of Vfchy, but
she can do so no longer, for we possess
it's very counterpart in our own State.
Then there are our iron, magnesia,
| soda apollnariS and the MANY other
waters of the coast counties, that en-
| tire part of the State teeming with
medicinal springs, the very rivers and
creeks showing traces of the mineral
nature of the section.
| If we can only present all these re-
sources and attractions at the Paris
Fair in a manner that will do justice
to them, the rest of the world cannot
but pay us homage as the most remark
able country the sun has ever shone
upon. Those of our citizens who have
not travelled. and hence. have had no
opportunities of comparison, s cannot
| fully appreciate the magnificent empire
| in which they live or how we'll they
have been endowed by nature in the
distribution of favors that mean wealth
and prosperity if proper advantages are
taken of them.
THE RIGHT MAN.
| Los Angeles Times. The Kansas City
star points a moral in this wise:
Major General OTIS who is variously
estimated as a great General and a
great failure, probably remembers, with
some degree of satisfaction, that, after
/ the battle of Shiloh, General Grant was