The record-union., 1899-07-28

portunities demanded and prevailing
in the pursuit of mining and business
in Alaska will continue to go there
with at least fair prospect of secur-
ing a competency. The few wifi ac-
quire wealth. stfei limited many will
find reasonable recompense for their
lslabor and business enterprise, but the
greater many rwill drop out of sight
| limp back to civilization, so to speak
and find in its avenues opportunities
that can scarcely fail to bring comfort
and contentment by contrast with the
barren presentment of the frozen gold
| fields of the far north. The call for
labor in hayfields and in railroad and
logging camps, with the widening os-
mand Of the grain harvest just at
hand, is indicative of the present op-
portunity for all who will to find, i'll
conjunction with the comforts OF CIV
ilization, something better than Klon-
dixie
GOLD STANDARD FOR INDIA.
! Oakland Tribune: The free silver ad-
vocates will have to revise some OF
their speeches for the campaign next
year, as one striking object lesson has
been cut out. :.
! The report of the Indian Currency
Commission, appointed in 1898, haA
just been made public. 1t concurs IN
the decision of the Indian Government
not to revert to the silver standard, ana
advises that immediate measures De
taken to effectively establish gold
standard, which, it says, is OF para
mount Importance to India's interests. i
| The free silver shouter will talk as
usual about America for Americans
and howl about arranging our circulat7
| ing medium to suit ourselves, irrespec-
| tive of the other nations of the world.
but he cannot point as an example to
India, with her teeming millions OF
people, as a practical Illustration of the
beauties and benefits of silver stand
ard
| OF course every intelligent man
knows that no one nation is entirely Inv
| dependent of every other nation, any
more than any one individual is inde,
pendent of all thearest of mankind. and
this fact should be recognized in all our
dealings. 1t would be better If uni
versal standard could be reached, and
that will undoubtedly come in time, but
until it does, we should. for our own
pFOIeCllOn, take the HeAl Ueol IAl1ls1,
and stand by our gold standard.
OUR FOREIGN LUMBER TRADE.
| Humboldt Standard: The first half
of the present year shows a remark
| able increase in our lumber shipments
abroad. The shipments to Hawaii alone
are more than trebled. consisting or
eleven cargoes of lumber, valued at
$34 $50. Of the other foreign cargoes,
seven in number four went to Austria
] liza, two to Peru and one to Van Die
mems, aggregating eighteen carSoes or
6,373, 237 feet, and being valued at
/ SS6, IFS. The shipments to the Ha-
waiian Islands prove that the annexaI
tion of those Islands has stimulated our
| lumber trade in that direction, as un-
der the new order of things business
| has increased in all lires of trade and
we may expect an increasing demand
for our lumber in those islands.
| The fact that our lumber shipments
for the first half of the present year
have reached nearly four ffths of our
entire trade in lumber for the year
| 1S9S is matter for congratulation.
Last year our entire shipments of lum-
Der from this port amounted to only
50 100000 feet, while the first six
| months of this year they aggregate
over 75.O0O,00G feet. If the rate of in
crease holds good for the second half
| of the year we shall come very near
reaching the high water mark of pre-
vious years. This is truly encouraging
and proves more forcibly than mere
words that we are, entering upon a new
era of prosperity which bids fair to
| carry our lumber trade away and be-
1,oI in, ],
past.
THE RED CROSS BADGE.
Tulare Register: Warmest praise is
accorded the woman who dons a Red
Cross badge and goes out to risk her
health and life to relieve suffering.
The world loves and applauds a hero
| inc, and a heroine means self-sacri-
| fcing woman with whom we are not
we'll acquainted. No one wishes to de-
tract from the record of Red Cross
workers. but it is we'll to sometimes
recall that heroines like angels may be
with us unawares. The woman whose
| form has bent, whose features have
| faded and whose hands have grown
gnarly in uncomplainingly carrying
the burdens laid upon her is certainly
not a mere clod. If peace has it's vic
| tories as well as war, so has the wash
| tub seen self-sacrifice and devotion to
duty as significant as that found be-
side the couch of a sick soldier. The /
woman who wears out her life in be-
half Of her dependent children may
neither receive nor desire public ap
plause but society will not lose by re- 4
membering what she has done.
SHORT PRUNE CROP.
Santa Rosa Republican,: There is a
short prune crop all around this!year. 4
Professor Hilgard says his Bulgarian
advices are to the effect that the Bull
garian crop will rank but 80 per cent.
of standard and that of Servia at only
20 per cent. Speaking of his visit to
Europe in 1872 he says that he found 4
in Dresden, Berlin and Frankfort only
the tart German prunes in glass. 1t is
his opinion and that of others who
have investigated the subject lhat Eu-
rope can be made great market for
California prunes. A considerable de- j
mand for this fruit has been created
there since Professor Hilgard made MS
Investigations, and this will be an ex-
cellent year further to educate the pal 4
ates on the other side oS The Atlantic |
in favor of our product. But organiza- 1
ton and united effort will be required
to do this-another argument in favor /
of fruit growers getting together and
working together.
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