The record-union., 1899-08-04
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State ana Coast opinions on Sub
jeots Of Living News
Interest.
Humboldt Standard 1t is gratifying
to note that the use of American flour
abroad has reached its high water
mark in the fiscal year just closed with
the expectation of 1S,000,OOO barrels.
The average price per bushel of wheat
exported during the year was I4u
cents, and the average price per bushei
for the wheat exported in the form
of flour was S7.67 cents, calculating
that four and one-half bushels of
wheat are utilized in. the production OF
a barrel of flour. This adds 12.9 cents
to the amount of money received for
each bushels of wheat sent abroad in
this form. thus making over S1O,OOO,-
600 during the year as a compensation
to the American labor which trans
formed the tSO,ee0,0e0 bushels of grain
into the 100000 barrels of flour ex-
ported during the year.
TWO SIDES OF IT.
Fresno. Republican,: Two children
whose parents reside in San Joaquin
County died on Thursday from an
overdose of medicine administered by
a physician. As. these children were
not victims" of , Christian Science
treatment, it is notF thought that the
medical fraternity will make any great
noise about the trifling modernism
Jose Mercury.
In the first place, the children died OF
medicine administered, not by a physi-
clan, but by their parents, in ignorant
violation of the physicians orders.
Also, there is radical difference be-
tween the ignorant abuse of a rational
treatment and the ignorant adoption
of an Irrational one. It is nothing
against food in general that improper
food sometimes kills. But if some one
should convince himself that food was
an evil and starvation a virtue, the
sincerity of his conviction would not
make it any less criminal for him to
apply his theories to his children or
dependents.
NO1DANGER.
Fresno Democrat: Just what the
Democrat expected. Here's a quota
ton from the Denver Republican"
1.-The recent earthquakes in California
have caused much excitement out there.
as one may see by our special dis
patches on the subject The earth
did quake some in a way-off corner Of
California, but that corner is not CAL
ifornia, and as regards excitement,
there was only ripple. There is not
the slightest danger, we Eastern cous-
ms, that California will take a slide
into the ocean. She's pretty safely an
chered and it will take succession of
the Hveliest earthquakes to sever her
connection from the remainder Of the
continent. Don't excite yourselves, as
long as we do not even ruff1e a hair
thinking over IT,
A SIGNIFICANT INCIDENT.
Los Angeles Express: In her annual
naval maneuvers, England is about to
practice an operation which will at
tract the attention of the civilized
world, for one of the plans to be work
ed Quits the protection Of British grain
ships from American attacks.
The plan of maneuvers begins with
two vessels in charge of a cruiser cross
ing the Atlantic. One squadron is to
make an effort to capture the vessels,
and another will attempt to defeat the
plan. The first squadron will bring the
vessels safely to England. Each squad
ron will be equipped as in actual war.
This game, which has never before
been played, will be one of vital inter-
est to England. The maneuvers will
last about week. Correspondents
with the squadrons will be treated gen.
erously, though heretofore they have
been considered necessary nuisance.
This action on the part of England
emphasizes more forcibly than any
thing that has yet happened the grow
ing Importance of the United States
as naval power, and shows that the
nations appreciate the splendid work
of the American ships in the late war
with Spain. OF course, there is not
enc chance in a thousand of the man
euver ever being necessary in actual
warfare, as Great Britain and the
United States are natural allies, and
the relations between the two coun-
tiles are every day becoming more cor
dial, but the greatest naval power on
earth realizes that in the future the
United States must be considered in all
matters affecting the world at large,
and is governing herself accordingly.
AS for ourselves, we must continue
to improve our navy, and keep It up
to the highest standard, all of which
is demanded by our increased npor-
lance We cannot afford to go back
ward. or even stand still. We must
keep going forward.
SOMETHING TO THINK OVER.
Los Angeles Herald: Here is some
thing for enterprising business men of
this coast to ponder. The steamer
Arcata cleared from Philadelphia for
Japan recently with cargo of 1900
tons, which, the dispatch says, is ''by
far the largest cargo ever shipped from
Philadelphia" That vessel will have
voyage of somewhere near $4,000
miles. She will pass through the Suez
Canal and pay an enormous toll, which
averages $1,000 for vessels Of all
classes. In the first six months of
1898, 1,792 vessels went through the
canal, and the aggregate toll was 49,,
636, 500. Now, the distance from san
Francisco to Yokohama is 4,09S miles,
but little more than one-fourth the dis
lance the Arcata must travel in sailing
eastward. There is no canal toll 20
pay on the broad bosom of the Pacific.
The nature of the Arcata's cargo is not
stated but there is probably nothing in
it that might not be either produced on
or profitably shipped from our Pacific
Coast