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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-09
Curtain Calls.


Talk about the seven sleepers.' NUT
tered the angry tragedian. TIL bet
there are 1000 of them between Albany
and New York. Brooklyn Life.
The good singer in opera is seldom a
good actor, and 1t is the thinnest and
ugliest woman of the ballet who is the
best dancer.-New Orleans Picayune.
Comediar< during ocean scene)-
What are the wild waves saying? Man
ager-They threaten to strike If don't
raise their salaries.-San Francisco Elk
aminer.
The star, standing before the bill
board, read: Everything as adver-
tised." Except said the star to him
self, 'sthe size of my salary
apolis Journal.
The Comedian-What made you leave
the company? The Tragedian Too
tantalizing! In almost every act I was
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required to eat a sumptuous meal
Detroit Tribune
DO you propose to make these
vaudeville performers work seven days
a week hereafter?" asks the man who
looks world-weary. Certainly" an
swered the manager And not leave
them even one day in which to rest OF
think up new material 2" Cant spare
the time" well all I ask is that you
don't have the effrontery to call it q
variety show. I've been seeing them
for years, and variety show doesn't
apply They're monoteny shows
Washington Star
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The new government-self govern
ment and by the consent of the gov
erned: for them and with the admins
tration in the native hands-of Negroes
has telegraphed to the. President OF
the United States a salutation upon
the establishment of the new system.
pledging for it loyalty to the flag
and expressing confidence in an era OF
fine promise for Negros. The new gov
eminent is under the protection and
Governor Generalship of one Of our
officers, General Smith. It is Ameri-
can government with the native people
filling the offices legislative, judicial
and largely executive, there being a
Civil Governor. What have the anti
expansionists to say to this? Is It
true that Aguinaldo represents these
people? Shall we withdraw and give
them over to his tender mercies? Have
they no right to be consulted, as they
have been in the choice of the govern
ment to be set over them? We appre-
bend that this Negroes matter is going
to be a thorn in the flesh for the anti
exoanHonists.
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And so the Republican victory In
Ohio has been swelled to plurality of
votes in excess of the vote cast for
Mckinley in 1896 1t has now reached
figure approaching 10000 and there
are counties to hear from still. Does
it look a bit as If the Buckeye State
was going back upon the expansion
policy? For be it noted in that State
the fight was made sQuarely upon the
Federal issue. That was the chief
thing in the heated contest. 1t was a
question of approving or condemning
the Administration. The Democracy
made that the chief issue. They cast
their die with that understanding. Now
let them accept the verdict gracefully.
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Would be Just as Silly.

Mrs. Spatts-Oh, if I were only
mani
Mr.. Spatts-You'd be as crazy as
was and go and marry some fool OF
woman, I'll bet dollar.-Town Topics
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The Kansas City Star is brightly
facetious when it remarks that it
would be pitiful indeed if the war in
South Africa should, right at the be-
ginning Of the winter season. bring
on a diamond famine.
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If prediction abuse were worth the
paper writ upon. then this city has been
given over to the devil and the bosses,
and the liberties Of the people have
gone glimmering.
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Those Dear Girls.

Miss Oldgirl--I don't like the color Of
my hair. = sis
Miss Youngthing - Don't let that
bother you, my dear. It can't be long
now before it turns gray.-New York
World :.
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Iowa, too, increases her Republican
strength. Gains for the party there
are very notable, rather unusual
thing, by the way, in what is termed
an off year. Evidently the Middle
West has it in" for the copperheads
in these days.
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evil, but it is infinitely overbalanced
by the good. While the result of the
holding of the Philippines will be ad-
vantageous to us commercially, the
greater benefit of the establishment OF
American institutions there is to flow.
to the native peoples.
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The silent voteoh, where was y?
Ask Of the winds, that far around
with fragments strew the sea"
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Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. E. w. Groves signature Is on
each box. 25c. MTuWTh
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writing to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass.
MRS CORA gibson, Yates, Manistee
Co., Mich, writes:
DEAR MRS. PINKHAM-Two years ago
l began having such dull, heavy. drag
ging pains in my back, menses were pro-
fuse and painful and was troubled with
leucorrhea. I took patent medicines
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Weather Forecast.

For Northern California - Showers
Thursday; cooler along the extreme
northwest coast; brisk southerly winds.
Sacramento and vicinity : Showers
Thursday.
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American institutions there is to flow.
to the native peoples.
There is reason to believe that the
atmosphere of the earth will on Tues
day or Wednesday nights of next week
touch for a brief period that mighty
meteoric belt which is swinging through
space in an orbit measured by thirty
three years of time, the collective debris
of a destroyed comet or world, and that
the particles coming into contact with
the earth's atmosphere will glow in
candescently, and we will have what is
known as the meteoric showers, such
as were seen in 1888. 1t is true that
these predicted returns have not always
kept appointment as to brilliancy, &C
cording to the prophecies of our as
tronomers, but it is also true that they
have come to pass as forecast. While
the moon will be approaching the full
on the nights in question, and a meteoric
shower be thus much diminished in
brilliancy, yet every one should wit
ness the display. Those who saw the
magnificent spectacle in 1888 and again
thirty-thre years later, declare that no
sight the humaneye has rested upon has
ever compared with those glorious spec
tacles IT, then, the display occurs next
week it ought to be seen by every man
and woman and every school child in
the city. It would therefore be an act
Of especial kindness if the Mayor would
arrange to have such signal given at
night, if the shower begins, as will
arouse the people and enable them to
witness the failing of the stars
The advices at hand regarding Sa-
moa make it pretty certain that Amer
lea. England and Germany have come
to an agreement concerning the Sa-
moan Islands. 1t corresponds with the
idea suggested in these columns some
weeks ago that the group of islands
should be divided between the three
Governments, and the effort to main
tain Government by the natives
under the protection of the three Pow
ers acting jointly, be abandoned. 1t
seems reasonably certain that the
change is to be effected. We will get
number Of adjacent islands. The larg-
er of the group with the town of Apia
will go to Germany, and the others to
England. That is precisely the thing
to do. Here now is fine opportunity
for the sentimental copperheads to
howl afresh about the consent of the
governed. We are going to take our
share Of the group and govern it wise
ly and well, and give the people taste
of liberty far above anything they
have had an idea about. We have
tried for fifteen years to establish safe,
free government in the islands. 1t
has been of no avail. The tribes are
not equal to the acceptance of home
rule or the discharge of its obligations
The harbor of Page Page is on the ISL
and awarded to us. 1t was granted to
us by a Samoan Government then ma
tive and having power to make the
sale. Our title. therefore, to the har
Dor is impregnable We will now
make it absolute to the whole island
and the adjacent islets. Our anti
expansionist friends may now take a
long breath for another shout Of pro-
test.
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A SANITARY TRIUMPH.

Los Angeles Times: The surprising
announcement comes from Havana that
that city has established a quarantine
against New York. For some time
past Havana has qparantined against
Key West and other southern ports,
where yellow fever has been worse this
year than 1t has been in Havana; but
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a CAPABLE mother must be healthy mother
The experience of maternity shouldno approached
without careful physical preparation.
Correct and counsel would
without cost bv
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unable to become pregnant; but since used it nv
health much improved and have big baby boy the 1oy
and pride of home"
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THE ANGLo-BoER WAR
This Government Maintains an At
titude Of Neutrality.

Apart from these questions, growing
out of our relationship with our north
ern neighbor, the most friendly dispo-
sition have marked the discussion of
the numerous matters arising in the
vast and intimate intercourse of the
United States with Great Britain. The
Government has maintained an atti-
tude of neutrality in the unfortunate
contest between Great Britain and the
Beers We have remained faithful to
the precept of avoiding entangling al
liances as to affairs not of our own di-
rect concern. Had circumstances sug-
gested that the parties to the quarrel
would have welcomed any kindly ex-
preston of the hope of the American
people that the war might be averted,
good offices would have been gladly
rendered. The United States represen-
tative at Pretoria was early instructed
to see that all neutral American inter-
ests be respected by the combatants.
This has not been an easy task, in view
of the positive declarations of both
British and Boer authorities that the
personal and property rights of our
citizens should be observed.
Upon the withdrawal of the British
agent from Pretoria, the United States
Consul was authorized upon the re-
quest of the British Government, and
with the assent of the South African
and Orange Free State Governments, to
exercise the customary good offices of
a neutral for the care of British inter
ests. In the discharge of this function,
I am happy to say that abundant op-
portunity has been afforded to show
the impartiality of this Government to
both the combatants.
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necessity for some such provision
abundantly appears. Precedent for
constituting Federal Jurisdiction In
criminal cases where aliens are suffer-
ers is nationally deducible from the ex-
listing statute, which gives to the Dis
tr1ct and Circuit Courts of the United
States jurisdiction of civil suits brought
by aliens where the amount involved
exceeds certain sum. If such jealous
solicitude be shown for alien rights in
cases Of merely civil and pecuniary i'm
port, how much greater should be the
pubic duty to take cognizance of mat
ters affecting the life and rights OF
aliens under the settled principles OF
international law no less than under
treaty stipulation, in cases of such
transcendent wrong-d doing as mob muir
der, especially when experience has
shown that local justice is too often
helpless to pun ish the offenders?
After many years of endeavor on the
part of this Government to that end.
the Italian Government has consented
to enter into negotiations for a natu-
raliZatiOn convention, having for one
of it's objects the regulation of the
status of Italians-except those of an
age for active military service-who.
having been naturalized in the United
States, may revisit Italy 1t is hoped
that, with the mutually conciliatory
spirit displayed, a successful conclu-
sion will be reached.
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RESULTS OF THE WAR.
Changed Conditions in West Indies
Under American Control.

NY annual message of last year was
necessarily devoted in great part to a
consideration of the Spanish war, and
of the results it wrought and the con.
ditions it imposed for the future. ]
am gratified to announce that the
treaty of peace has restored friendly
relations between the two Powers Eff
feet has been given to it's most impor-
tant provisions. The evacuation of
Porto Rico having already been ac-
complished on the 18th of October, 1898,
nothing remained necessary there but
to continue the provisional military
control of the island until Congress
should enact suitable government for
the coded territory. Of the character
and scope of the measures to that end
shall treat in another part of this
message.
GOVERNMENT IN CUBA.
The withdrawal of the authority of
Spain from the island of Cuba was ef-
fected by the 1st of January. SO that
the full re-establishment of peace found
the relinquished territory held by the
United States in trust for the inhabi-
tants, maintaining under the direction
of the Executive, such government and
control therein as should conserve pub
lie order, restore the productive con-
ditions Of peace, SO long disturbed by
the instability and disorder which pre-
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SEIZURE OF SEALING SHIPS.
Dispute Between Russia and Amer.
lea to be Arbitrated.

Claims growing out of the seizure of
American sealing vessels in Behring
Sea, have been under discussion With
the Government of Russia for several
years, with the recent happy result of
an agreement to submit them to the de-
cision of a single arbitrator. BY this
act Russia affords proof of her adher-
ence to the beneficent principle of ar
bitration which her plenipotentiaries
conspicuously favored at The Hague
disarmament conference, when it was
advocated by the representatives of the
United States.
EXHIBITS OF OUR PRODUCTS IN
RUSSIA.
"A suggestion for a permanent exposi-
ton of our products and manufactures
in Russia, although not vet fully
shaped, has been so cordially welcomed
by the Imperial Government that it NAV
not 1naptly take a fitting place in what
ever legislation the Congress may adopt
looking to enlargement of our com
mercial opportunities abroad.
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United States and Canada, embracing
twelve subjects, among which were the
questions of the fur seals, the fisheries
of the coast and contiguous inland
waters, the Alaska boundary, the
transmission of merchandise IN BOND,
the alien labor laws. mining rights, re-
ciprocity in trade, revision of the agree
ment respecting naval vessels In the
great lakes, a more complete marking
of parts of the boundary, provision for
the convenience of criminals and for
wrecking and salvage.
Much progress has been made by the
commission toward the adjustment OF
many of these questions where it be-
came apparent that an irreconcillable
difference of views was entertained re-
speeding the delimitation of the Alas
kan boundary. In the failure OF an
agreement as to the meaning of articles
3 and of the treaty OF 1910 between
Russia and Great Britain which de-
fined the boundary between Alaska anu
Canada, the American commissioners
proposed that the subject OF boundary
be laid aside, and that the remaining
questions of difference be proceeded
with, some of which were so lar al
vanced as to assure the probability OF
a settlement This being declined by
the British Commissioners, an adjourn
ment was taken until the boundary
should be adjusted by the two Govern
ments. The subject has been receiving
the careful attention which ITS impor-
lance demands, with the result that
modus vivendi for provisional demarka-
tons in the region above the head OF
Lynn Canal has been agreed upon, and
it is hoped that the negotiations now IN
progress between the two Governments
will end in an agreement for the estao-
lishment and delimitation of a perma-
nent boundary.
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RECIPROCITY WITH JAPAN.
New Treaty of Commerce and Nav
igation Working tremendously.

The treaty of commerce and navi-
cation between the United States and
Japan on November %, 1894, took eff
feet in. accordance with the terms of
its XIXth article on the 18th of July
last, simultaneously with the enforce
ment of like treaties with the other
Powers, except France, whose conyen-
ton did not go into operat on until
August 4th, the United States, however,
being granted up to that date all the
privileges and rights accorded to
French citizens under the new French
treaty. By this notable convention
reform Japan's position as a full indie
pendent sovereign Power is assured,
control being gained of taxation, GUS
toms, revenues, judicial administra-
ton, coasting trade and all other do
nestle functions of Government and
foreign extra territorial rights beng
renounced
Comprehensive codes of civil and
criminal procedure according to West
ern methods. public instruction, pat
ents, copyrights, nun pa, at m st a.
ton, including jurisdiction over the
former foreign settlements, customs
tariffs, and procedure, public health
and other administrative measures
have been proclaimed. The working
of the new system has; given rise to no
material complaints on the part of
American citizens or interests, a cir
cumstance which attests the ripe con-
sideration with which the change has
been prepared.
Valuable assistance was rendered by
the Japanese authorities to the United
States transport ship Morgan City,
while stranded at Kobe. Permission
has been granted to land and pasture
army horses at japanese ports of call
on the way to the Philippine Islands.
These kindly evidences of good will
are highly appreciated.
The Japanese Government has shown
lively interest in the proposition Of
the Pacific cable to add to it's project
ed cable lines to Hawaii, Guam and the
Philippines, a branch connecting with
the coast of japan. 1t would be a
gratifying contamination were the
utility of the contemplated scheme en-
HANGED by bringing Japan and the
United States into direct Geographic
relation.
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RELATIONS WITH MEXICO.
Year Marked by Constant Increase
of Advantageous Interchanges.

The year has been marked by con-
slant increase in the intimacy of our re-
lations with Mexico, and in the mag
nitude of mutually advantageous inter-
changes. This Government has omit
ted no opportunity to show it's strong
desire to develop and Derpetuate the
ties of cordially now SO long happily
unbroken.
Following the termination on January
90 1899, by Mexico of the extradition
treaty of December il, 1891, a new
treaty more in accordance with the as
certained needs of both countries was
signed February %, 1899, and ex-
changed in the City of Mexico on the
22d of April last. It's operation thus far
has been effective and satisfactory. A
recent case has served to test the appli-
cation of it's fourth article, which pro-
vides that neither party shall be bound
to deliver up it's own citizens, but that
the executive authority of each shall
have the power to deliver them up if
in it's discretion it be deemed proper to
do so.
THE CASE OF MRS. RICH.
The extradition of Mrs Hattie Rich,
a citizen of the United States, charged
with homicide committed in Mexico,
was, after mature consideration, direct
ed by me in the conviction that the
ends of justice would be thereby sub
served Similar action, on appropriate
occasion by the Mexican executive. will
not only tend to accomplish the desire
of both Governments that grave crimes
go not unpunished but also to repress
lawlessness along the border of the two
countries. The new treaty stipulates
that neither Government shall assume
jurisdiction in the punishment of crimes
committed exclusively within the ter
ritory of the other. This may obviate
in future the embarrassing controver-
sizes which have heretofore arisen
through Mexico's assertion of a claim
to try and punish an American citizen
for an offense committed within the
jurisdiction of the United States.
BOUNDARY QUESTION.
The International Water Boundary
Commission, organized by the conven-
ton of March /, 1899, for the adjust
ment of questions affecting the Rio
Grande frontier, has not yet completed
it's labors. An extension of it's term for
one year until December "a, 1879, was
effected by a convention signed DecelH-
Der 2, 1885, and exchanged and pro-
claimed in February last
An invitation extended to the Presi-
ident of Mexico to visit Chicago in DC
tober, on the occasion of laying the cor
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CABLE TO MANILA.
Congress Requested to Take the
Subject in Hand.

Without repeating the observations of
my special message of February 1,
1899, concerning the necessity of a
cable to Manila, 1 respectfully invite
attention to it.
+ recommend that in case Congress
should not take measures to bring
about this result by direct action of the
Government, the Postmaster General
be authorized to invite competitive
bids for the establishment of cable,
the company making the best resp0n-
sible bid to be awarded the contract,
the successful company to give ample
bonds to insure the completion of the
work within a reasonable time.