The record-union., 1899-06-21

ana there has been nothing III the DOL
ICY OF the Canadian or British Colum-
bias Government which wound invite the
swerving by. q hairs breadth from ex-
act justice in the premises.
MR. BRYANS CANDIDACY.
Woodland Democrat: All the. roads
lead to ANCIENT Rome. and SO now All
signs point to re-harnesedne Colonel
bryan for the Presidential race t,f 1900.
Whether the rock-ribbed Democracy OF
the Gognan- Hill sort like it or not.
1near enorts to reinstate themselves In
the control OF the united Democracy
are doomed They will have to get an
spiratlon from the Bryan jug or swear
en- entirely. Ever since the young
Colossus from the breezy prairies
swooped down upon the Chicago Con-
vention like bull in a china shop. all
esforts to cement the broken bowls have
been fiat failures. After the wreck q
portion OF the party tried tos secure
quiet by breaking the enraged animals
jawbone, but it proved to them as in-
v,ncible as the one David welded. Of
old David and Bryan each slew his
Goliath. The Colonels work will be
as effectual at their convention in 1900
as it was in 1886. if the china shop
can only be furnished True, the Re-
publicans came to the relief of the dds-
mayed party in 1896, and for it kindly
knocked the horns off the china shop
destroyer; but even that drubhdng did
not quiet him. He will be candidate
in 1900 if he has to smash all conven-
tions and harness himself It will only
be after the Republicans have in 1900
supplemented the dehorning by the
skinning process that the old-time DEM
ocracy can have any rest, or hope of
success
DEATH IN TEA.
Los Angeles Times: And now 1t has
been discovered that death turks at
the bottom of the tea cup, which has
been hitherto regarded as the last place
on earth which the grim reaper would
select from which to ensnare the hap-
less mortal. From time out of mind the
praises have been sung of the cup that
cheers but does not inebriate," and
the discovery of its deadly properties
at this late day is likely to send a thrill
of horror through the countless mill
lions of tea drinkers to whom this po-
tion has become an absolute necessity,
as much SO, almost, as the staff of life
itself.
But there can be no doubt of the dam
ger that threat tens the tea drinker. The
statement is made on the very highest
medical authority, the London Lam
cet," and to show that it is no theoret-
ical danger, but an actual fact, q, case
in point is cited, where a Coroner's jury
at Poplar has returned q verdict of
death from tea poisoning" In COM
menting on this case the Lancet
says:
The deceased, who was male furni-
ture dealer, aged 38 years, yas in the
habit of consuming an enormous
amount Of tea,' often drinking eight
cups before leaving home in the MORN
ing His nervous system had been
nearly destroyed, in the opinion OF
medical witness. but although that was
no doubt the case 1t seems difficult to
understand how death sufficiently sud-
den to call for Judicial inquiry could
have supervened."
1t is all very well for the Lancet"
and other scientific journals to specu-
late over the necessity for a judicial
inquiry into a case Of this kind, and
On the matter. But the common peo-
pie, the countless millions Of tea drink
ers Gncluding the Chinese) will rise up
and call that English Coroner,s jury
blessed for investigating and putting
them on their guard. Otherwise they
might have gone down to their graves
from old age in bliesful ignorance Of the
daily danger from which they were pre-
served by a kind Providence. Verify
the dangers in our peaceful home lives
are greater than those Of war-at least
the late Spanish war.
SPANS SALE.
Oakland Tribune: Spain has sold out
about all the job lots of islands at her
disposal. and unless she puts herself
on the block next there will be an end
to that way of filling her empty treas
ury. The sale of her remaining islands
in the Pacific for $5,0O0,OOO cleans up
everything in that part of the world and
attracts attention to the Canaries as
being the next possibility on the list.
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