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The record-union., 1899-01-03
A CASE IN POINT.

So does trade follow the flag. Even
before the treaty Of peace was signed
by which we acquire the Sulu Islands
really a part of the Philippine group
an adventurous Yankee invaded the
most beautiful and fruitful Of the ISL
ands. He had gone out to the Philip
pines with some money and set about
to invest it. He heard of the Sulus
and became convinced that his fortune
lay in that direction Accordingly he
ribbons, light body cloths Of fanciful
design, some light weight blankets,
beads in variety, great stock of
looking glasses, some hardware and a
set sail for the Sulus.
Arrived there a few weeks ago he
procured ponies and built trail carts,
two wheeled affairs with very long,
lank frames fairly sweeping the
ground in the rear, and he started out
to sell his goods, or rather to swap"
He was received cordially and his
goods went off like hot cakes" he
taking in exchange lacquer work, pot
terry, bric-a-brac and a variety Of the
deft finger work for which the Sulu
natives are famous
His looking glasses were especially
in favor, for until this adventurous
Yankee introduced them, such an ar
ticle had never been seen in the islands.
Notwithstanding that the Spanish have
held the group these hundreds of years
The barter goods he received he has
loaded on a ship and brought to the
United States, where the curios will find
ready sale at fine prices. In the mean
while the far-seeing American has or
dered another cargo Of Yankee notions,
and ere long every one of the 10000
people Of the island group will have one
or more articles of American manu-
facture in his possession, while the we'll
TODD will be stocked up with them.
The record-union., 1899-01-03

Sagasta says he knew the Americans
and that knowledge kept him awake of
nights. Probably. But he did not find
US out soon enough
The record-union., 1899-01-03
CHEESEMAN'S SPECIFIC MIXTURE,

WITH THIS REMEDY PERSONS CAN
cure themselves without the least ex-
nosure. change of diet or change in appli-
cation of business. The medicine contains
nothing that is of the least injury to the
Constitution. Ask your druggist for it..
Price, 81 q bottle TUT
The record-union., 1899-01-03
A REPORT AND MATTER OF FIRST
IMPORTANCE

There has been filed for consideration
by the Legislature a phenomenal re-
port, inasmuch as it is one showing
that accomplishment has been secured
of a great public work of incalculable
benefit to the whole State, for less than
onethird the amount of money appro-
priated, over two-t thirds of the sum be-
ing turned back into the State treas
ury.
This report of the Commissioner OF
Public Works, Auditing Board and En-
gineers, appeared in full in the Rec
ord-Union" of Sunday. 1t has two
conspicuous virtues. brevity and lucid
ity. 1t should be read by every cltl-
zen who has the welfare Of the State
at heart. 1t involves a question of
apparently changing national policy,
which in itself is of profound interest.
1t concerns the conservation OF the
navigability of the States waterways,
and incidentally the important subject
of adding vastly to the taxable wealth
of the State and it's productive capac-
ity. These two directly affect benefl-
cially the interests of all citizens,
whether inhabitants of the Sacramento
or San Joaquin Valleys, of the noun
famous counties of the north or the
lands of the south and the coast
AS the Record Union" for a long
time was disposed to doubt the wis
dom of the policy of the Commissioner
the Auditing Board and the engineers,
it is in a peculiarly happy position to
critically pass upon this report, since
it is convinced that SO far as 1t goes,
the work accomplished is phenomenal
in its excellence, its economy and Its
effectiveness. But concerning the ne
cessity and desirability of dredging,
upon which question we took issue with
the Auditing Board, the Record
Union" still maintains its views.
The record-union., 1899-01-03
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
ceived by the Trustees of Arcade School
District, Sacramento County, for the
erection of a one-story school-house, as
per plans and specifications on. file at
Office of F. II. Schardin architect, Breu-
ner building. Bids to be received at ar
chitect's office on or before JANUARY Z,
1899, at p. m, at which time and place
they will be opened A certified check or
cash of 500 must accompany each bid.
Right is reserved to reject any or all
bids. f. S. CULVER,
d27-10t G.. l.. SWAN, Trustees.
business Houses, Contractors and Public Men
-FURNIsHED WITH
NEWSPAPER INFORMATION 0FALL KINDS
BY ALIENS
PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU.
$40 Montgomery street. San Francisco.
The record-union., 1899-01-03
THE SADDLE ROC
RESTAURANT AND OYSTER HO

FIRST-CLASS HOUSE IN EVERY RE-
snect. Ladies' dining-room separate.
RAGHER, Proprietors No. 1919 Second
street, between and X. Sacramento.
The record-union., 1899-01-03
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Try McMorry,s Blend coffee. Csc. :.

fake Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All drug
gistsrefund he money If it fails to cure. 25c. The
genuine has L. B. O. on each tablet.
The record-union., 1899-01-03

) Aged A No. port wine, 81 gallon.
Theo Blauth, 407 x street. Tel. 297. =
Tr1lipofov, ,,;oroc VUiIo1y u A11o~ ~ .
The record-union., 1899-01-03
BAY RESTAURANT

Private rooms for families; oYen day
and night. Orders served outside. Oys-
tiers in every style. MATT and JOHN
RADONICH 2xoprtAtoxA
The record-union., 1899-01-03

Originally it was contemplated to
buy a dredger Of the hydraulic pattern,
and artificially scour the channels, and
hence the Act of the Legislature be-
came known as "The Dredger Bill"
But when the official bodies got to
work these things developed to their
conviction as truth.
First-That no machine can be used
upon rivers without full consent of the
engineering arm of the War Depart
ment.
Second-That the proposed dredger
was factor in unsettled litigation.
Third-That Federal Engineers were
averse to its use at present, and that
the cost Of it's operation was excessive.
F'ourth-That the policy of the Fed
eral Government is to do work upon
the rivers only sufficient to maintain
navigability at low water, equal to the
demands of present commerce. That
1t was simply wasted labor and energy
to attempt to induce the Federal Gov
eminent to improve California rivers
with a view to developing all the pos
sibilities of the great agricultural en-
pire which they drain.
Fifth-That therefore, the State could
entertain no high hope Of the Federal
Government doing the important work
California so much desired; that, on
the contrary, if the commerce of the
rivers should decline by reason of their
continued deterioration, such decline
would correspondingly prescribe and
limit the scope of river work by the
United States Government.
Sixth-The belief grew up and is
steadily gaining that the national pol
icy of treating rivers is becoming an
nually narrower, owing to the enormous
sums demanded in river and harbor
bills, and the disposition to make such
bills vehicles of plumber. Indeed, there
posed to look for complete abandon
ment, eventually, of all river improve
ment by the Federal Government, out
side of great streams, such as the Mis-
sissippi, Ohio, Columbia, etc.
1t may not be an evil day when that
is done and the States are stiffened in
selfhelpfulness by the removal of the
leaning staff With these facts before
it the commission and Auditing Board
resolved to undertake such work as
The record-union., 1899-01-03

CAPITAL HOTEL,
S. ". Cor. and Seventh Sts., Sacramento
CONDUCTED ON THE EUROPEAN
plan. Strictly first-class. Electric cars
pass the door every three minutes.
BLESSING & GUTHRIE, Props.
The record-union., 1899-01-03

The improvement and restoration of
the navigable channels of California
rivers, directly concerns every citizen
Of the State. Unhappily, for many
years these subjects have been consid-
cred by large body of the people as
purely local or district questions, and
hence coast, mountain and non-valley
sections have for years declared that
they had no concern in them and would
do nothing to further them. In the
valley lands traversed by these water
ways, there has been constant leaning
upon the Federal Government, and in
effective appeals to it to do the nee
essary work, since the streams are Fed
eral property.
Putting aside all question Of causes
of deterioration of the rivers, decline
of their navigability and their CONVEX
sion into menaces to adjacent lands by
overflow owing to the filling Of the
channels, we are to consider two sim
pie and undeniable conditions confront
ing US and demanding treatment.
F'irst-That the two great rivers were
rapidly and surely and still are falling
away from their one time navigable
character, and just as steadily aug
menting as menaces to vast taxable
property of the State.
Second-That the Federal Govern
ment announces that it never has, and
never will treat rivers with a view to
retaining private lands, or to the de-
velopment of prospective commerce.
| AT the same time the Federal Gov
eminent retains it's exclusive jurisdic-
ton over the streams and will permit
no work to be done upon them except
after its approval of the detail.
With this situation before it, the
State two years ago, so far abandoned
it's narrow and selfish view of river
treatment being of local and not of
State concernment, as to appropriate
$4,000 for the treatment Of the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin Rivers b.,
the Commissioner of Public Works, and
the Auditing Board-erected as a check
upon him. 1t is the result of the ap-
plication of that policy which is now
reported, and to the reading of which
attention is invited.
The record-union., 1899-01-03
Weather Forecast.

For Northern California-Partly cloudy,
with occasional light scattered showers
Tuesday; fresh west wind.
The record-union., 1899-01-03

Sacramento, December 13, 1895
d13 to jane
The record-union., 1899-01-03

BOARD AND ROOM. 81 % TO 81 Pc
day. Meals, 25c.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08

Now that the argument is busted
made by republicans that "the only
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08

This is what Thomas A. Edison
said in reply to question address
ed him by an agnostic: "Why, af-
ter years of watching the processes
Of nature, can no more doubt the
existence OF an Intelligence that is
running things than do Of the
existence of myself Take, for ex-
ample, the substance water that
forms the crystal known as ice.
Now, there are hundreds of CONS
binations that form crystals, and
every one of them save that of ice
sinks in water. Ice, l say. doesn't
and it is rather lucky for us NOR
tais, for if it had done SO we would
all be dead. Why? Simply because
if ice sank to the bottom Of rivers,
lakes and oceans as fast as it froze,
those places would be frozen up,
and there would be no water left.
That is only one example out OF
thousands that to me prove beyond
the possibility of a doubt that some
vast Intelligence is governing this
and other planets"
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08
Students Returning Home.

For the holiday vacations, can, upon
presentation of proper credentials, OBJ
tain tickets to Central passenger asso-
citation points, located on tn. Nickle
Plate road, at fare and third for the
round trip. Tickets will be sold on day
school sloses and day Immediately pre-
ceding closing date, with return limit to
but not later than January 10, 1900.
For information as to train service to
Fort Wayne, Cleveland, Fostoria, Erie
and other points. call on or address Gen
eral Agent Ill Adams ST.. Chicago;
Chicago Passenger station, Van Buren,
ST. and Pacific avenue, on the Elevated
Loop.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08
Death of Mrs. c. A. Duncan.

1t will be with feelings of the most
sincere sorrow that tho many friends Of
the Duncan family OF Nashville Tenn,
will hear that Mrs. Charles A. Duncan,
the widow of Charles A. Duncan who
died In this city in 1897. died at her
home in Nashville Tenn, about three
mo this ago, Of pneumonia.
No one who has ever lived in this city
had the many friends that Charlie Dun
can had He was one of the most gen
ial, attractive personalities who ever
lived here. Everybody loved him. He
was as soft in speech as a woman and az
brave as lion.
Mrs. Duncan, was Of nature almost
an exact counterpart of her husband.
She spent some time here in 1896 and
returned too late to nurse her husband
in his last sickne For several years
she was connected with the reporforial
staff of the Nashville American, one OF
the leading papers OF the south and was
noted for doing some especially fine
special work for that publication.
The word OF her death came to a
friend of the family in this city, from
stranger living in Nashville and gave no
particulars of her death. Two chrildren
survive her.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08
Business LOCALS.

Lady Grey cigar at 400 Main street.
Duke OF Parma cigar at 400 Main st.
Yellow King cigar at 400 Main street
Choice cigars and tobaccos at Came
ron's, 4O8.
Fresh chocolate bon bons at Mitchell's
drug store.
Kindling wood for sale. Apply at
Ackermans.
Cameron sells the Best &c. cigar in
the city, 400.
Ask for the White Knight cigar at
Cameron's, 400.
Take notice OF the window display Of
hair brushes at Mitchells Drug store.
Twenty-Five per cent Of cut on cam
eras and kodaks. Grand Junction Boo4
& Stationery Co., j. w. Bedwsll, Mgr
1t will be to the advantage of any one
desiring first class hair brush to in
spect the stock now on hand at Mitehell's
Drug store.
The new Excelsior Steam Laundry is
up o-date. Try it and be convinced.
Frank Bushring,
Proprietor.
WANTED-Trustwo persons 70
take orders for "War in South Africa
and the Dark Continent from Aavagsry
to civilization" by William Harding, the
famous traveller. cable editor, and author
Press says wonderfully complete"
graphic descriptions" brilliantly writ
tor" "sumptously illustrated; demand
remarkable; sales unprecedented, prEoes
low. We shall distribute 100000 in
gold among our salespeopls; be frst,
dent miss this chance; alse highest com.
missions; books on 30 days credit; freight
and duty paid; sample case free. Ad-
dress The Dominion Company, Dept. v
Chicago.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08

1t is a beggarly excuse which
Mr.. Ramey and his colleagues have
given the public, why they do not
act with the other members of the
council to start the construction OF
sewerage. The question arises
would Mr.. Ramey perform his
sworn duty, if Mr.. Currie would
secure the sewerage bonds for sale.
People are not blind to Mr.. Ra-
mey's acts, they have him fully
sized up at his worth and they will
not be satisfied with any pharasai-
cal excuse, about his great fear OF
contamination. They are fully cog
infant of his secret reasons for not
acting upon the sewerage question
and it is not any credit whatever
to him. Can Mr.. Ramey honestly
say that his personal fear OF con
tamination in sitting in council with
Starr and Mckinney outweigh his
duty to the public. Can disease
and epidemic, the result of prooras>
tination, be compared to the injury
to Mr.. Ramey's feelings. We
think not. The fact is Mr.. Ramey
has always been as clay in the pots
ter's hands to a set OF men who
have used him. He now has the
opportunity to swing clear and
show his colors as being that Of a
real man but he hesitates and the
public suffer and it will not hold
him blameless by any means.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08

The congressman who are con-
Quoting the case against Roberts,
the Mormon congressman, do not
regard that biblical injunction, "He
who is without guile, let him cast
the first stone, etc." Did they do
SO, it might be very hard propo>
sition to secure prosecuting COM
mittee.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08
Advertised Letters.

Letters remaining uucalled for in the
Post Office at Grard Junction, Colorado,
for the week ending Dec. 8, 1899.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08
Friday, December S, 1899.

Mr.. Ramey may believe the peo>
pie are with him in his actions in
barring progress on the conxtruc-
ton of sewers; if he does so believe
he will find in a very short time
that he is greatly mistaken.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08

hope for silver lies in the republics
an party" by the open declaration
of the president in favor Of the gold
standard, to be consistent they
should leave that party.
The daily sentinel., 1899-12-08
Reduced Rates For Holidays.

Tho Nickls Plate road will sell tickets
December %, "a. 26, 30, 81, 1899, aad
January l, 1900 at rate Of fare and .
third for the round "trip 10 any poiDt L.
GATED in Central Passenger Association
territory, COED returning 10 and inclsd-
ing January 2, 1900. Address General
Agent, Ill Adams street, Chicago, for
particulars. Depot Van Bursa 0tvsst
and Pacific Avenue, On Elevated Loep.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

States, the fish commissioners have al
ready sent out an expedition to investi-
gate its aquatic life and of $50 specimens
brought back many were new to science
Among the odd things that were found
was a devil fish of most ugly appearance,
a sword fish with a monstrous fin extend
ing straight up from its back, and feelers
reaching far beneath the body, and a fish
Z that resembles the common bat so closely
in it's appearance that it was promptly
named the bat fish.
Another result of the expedition was the
establishment of the fact that there are
actually poisonous fish in those waters
The claim that such fish existed so near
the United States has repeatedly been
made, but 1t was looked upon as some
thing in the nature of a myth.
During the recent expedition, however,
Professor Evermann and the scientists
who accompanied him discovered at least
two species that were certainly poisonous
One of these was the jural, a kind OF
mackerel which attains the weight of
twenty pounds, and the other was the
meletta, kind of tropical herring, the
most dangerous part of which was the
roe. In neither case are these fishes easi-
ly distinguished from other fish of a SINH
lar appearance, but which are perfectly
harmless.
During the past few years the study of
icththyology has ceased to be confined to
scientists. People who can lay no claim to
such a distinction have taken up the
study of fishes and the result has been
the establishment of many private aquar-
iums many of which have become quite
wide In their scope.
Among the fishes that are within the
means of the ordinary collector there are
none that are more popular than the gold
fishes of Japan and China. and the demand
for these little fellows has caused the i'm
portation of varieties that were practical
ly unknown a few months ago.
The breeding of gold fish in China is an
industry almost as old as the Empire IT.
self. No one knows when it was first
started, but the first gold fish seen in Eu-
rope were imported from China to Portu-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

work. Its chief charm, however, is its tail,
which is long and dropping. When at ease
is seems like a long brush of the finest of
silk threads and the effect as the little fish
throws it around him with all the grace OF
a skirt dancer is most enhancing.
If disturbed the silky effect disappears
as If by magic and the brush-like all de-
comes a sharp, stiff weapon of attack or
defense.
The polka dot or fantail is another
specimen that it much sought after by
collectors It's distinguishing character
istic is that like the chameleon, it has the
power of changing it's color. At one time
it is bright red, again it is sivery
white or deep black. Sometimes when its
color is pink or purple small round dots
will suddenly appear upon its back and 1t
is this effect that has earned for it the
name by which 1t is most often known
polka dot"
Among the rarest of these freak fishes
Is the telescope fish, species that is rev.
erenced and prayed to in some parts of
China. Its strange body is covered with
siivery scales and from its oddly shaped
head protrude two big eyes, the pupils of
which look for all the world like the lenses
of a telescope. To the Chinese who wor-
ship him he is the embodiment of a demon
who has power over the elements and at
times of drought they pray to him for
rain.
All those who have taken up the sci
ence of ichthyology declare that the study
Is most interesting, and there is no doubt
that 1t will not be long before the study
of fish life will become even more general
in which case we may allow for even more
unique discoveries among the species of
fishes particularly attractive to the anna
teur scientist-the smaller fishes in which
the combination of beauty and daintiness
is most facinating.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

shape as that which the trunk fish wears.
His belly and back and even a part of
his head are covered by this hard casing,
from the end of which the tail protrudes.
Another beautiful specimen that recently
was transported from the Bermuda wa
tiers is the tiny four-eyed bride, one of the
daintiest fish that swms Besides the
two eyes in the head, there are two in the
tail, and he looks like a big opal as he
goes darting in and out between the oys-
ter shells, any one of which are larger
than he. As beautiful as the gold fish are,
there is not a specimen of that family that
can surpass the bride fish in attractive
ness.
Although it was few months ago that
Porto Rico was acquired by the United
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-21

Students of ichthyology are now willing
to admit that they are just beginning to
discover how many strange things there
are existing in the depths of the ocean,
Fifty years ago it was not believed by
scientists that fish could swim in the great
ocean depths The hydrostatic pressure
was believed to be so great that few speci-
mems, if any, could live beyond the thous-
and foot level. Occasionally strange fishes
would be found floating on the surface of
the ocean and turned over to scientific
men, but they were always dead, or dying.
and were not believed to have come from
great depths.