The record-union., 1899-12-31

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news coincident with the jubilee era OF
good feeling is the announcement of the
purchase of the Peoples Telephone
plant and business by the Sunset Com
pany. Two telephone services are
necessarily nuisance in any commu-
nifty. Customers must either have both
phones or: put up with partial service.
THE PACIFIC POWER.
Yreka journal: Hon. John Barrett,
late United States Minister to Siam,
said, in a lecture on The Philippines
and the Far East" delivered under the
auspices of the National Geographic
Society: IF were asked to state the
necessary immediate influences that
will assist in making America forever
the paramount power of the Pacific,
would enumerate in order of import
ance: First, permanent sovereignty
over the Philippines; second, construc-
ton of the -Isthmian Canal;
third, preservation according to the
treaty of our trade rights throughout
China; fourth, laying of the Pacific
cable; fifth, upbuilding or reasonable
substituting of our merchant marine;
sixth, new but important proposition,
the extension of a parcel post system;
seventh, the early sending of commits
sion to fully investigate and report on
Asiatic markets. as recommended in the
Presidents message" With the ex-
ception of the sixth, the President an
fininofo of Sc
suggestions in his annual message to
Congress.
THE TRAILING GOWN.
Pomona Progress: What is more dis
gushing than to see a nicely dressed
woman sail down the street with the
train of her dress dragging through all
kinds of dirt and giving a practical
demonstration of the slang expression,
you can't see me for the dust" A
worse custom could scare be ina gined
than that of wearing dresses with
trains on the street; because the trains
must either be held up at great incon-
venience if the lady is shopping, or if
they are left to drag the result is dis
gushing uncleanliness and danger to
health. But If the women can stand it,
SO.
COMMENDED TRUTH.
Alameda Argus: We think we never
before saw more truth and sense crowd
ed into so small a space as is to be
found in the following extract 1t IS
from an article by Arnold White, in the
October number of the National Re-
view" of London:
In our great cities no social stigma
attaches to preventable i'll health.
Parental neglect, premature and reck-
less marriage, leading to the multiple
cation Of tainted brains and rickety
frames, are matters of no Importance
to practical politicians. Christian char
ity is invoked to canonize weakness.
whilst preventable disease is hcnored
under the sacred principle of individual
freedom. No law prevents the union of
consumptive swain with his strumous
sweetheart; no restriction interferes
with the colonization of our great
towns by diseased aliens; neither
church nor State debars penniless and
understood striplings from undertaking
parental responsibilities. A break
down in purse involves social disgrace
breakdown in person, whatever the
cause, evokes sympathy, subscriptions
ana silence-except where our celibate
soidlery are concerned. Specialized
school children, destitute and epileptic,
grow into consumptive bridegrooms and
scrofulous brides, and are assured be-
rorehand of the blessing Of the church,
the aid of the compassionate, and such
soiace as medical comforts provided
wholesale by unknown donors can SUD-
ply. II a voice be raised in protest
against the unhealthy perversion of the
command, Be We faithful and multiply.
II is drowned in chorus of sickly emo
tion"