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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
A NATIONAL LITERATURE.

Charles Dudley Warner, at the Hamilton
College alumni banquet in New York, in
speaking of American literature and its
individuality, said In the novel of a
distinguished Englishman, which was re-
Gently published lit is not by first class
English literary man, for Disraeli is not a
first class English writer, there is found a
dialect that cannot understand. In Tom
Brown at Rugby there is also dialect,
there are expressions that no American can
appreciate. Hence it need not be thought
surprising that an Englishman cannot un-
derstand our peculiar expressions. We
must go on and produce what we can. We
must have national literature. 1t will
be only gained as thus developed. We
expect popularity in the French and
German literatures Why not in ours
Their literature is impregnated with mon
archical ideas. Ours should teach repub-
hcanism. Our House of Representatives,
which is not so friendly to the literature of
the land as it is to the steel trade, might
take hint from this thought Those
wise men at Washington, from whom we
take our manners, and who mold our laws,
should remember that for fifty years this
country has been swayed and affected by
the literature afforded it. That literature
has been essentially English. Through its
teachings has grown up some infdelity to
the Declaration Of Independence. Is it
not worth the while of our Representa-
tives, even at some pecuniary cost, to fos-
ter literature which shall encourage free
institutions ?"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
Late-sown Wheat.

Should the weather continue favorable dur
ing the month of March the area in wheat
will be greatly increased throughout the
State. Up to the present time we doubt if
half as much land is in wheat as was sown
and harvested last year. It is not too late to
secure a good crop if proper care is exercised
in preparing the soil and in sowing the seed.
Soil to be sown in wheat this late in the
season should be put in the very best of filth,
not only on the surface, but down to
a depth of from six to eight inches.
Wheat sown DOW viii not stool as the same
would if sown earlier in the season, and
hence more seed should be sown-say twenty
per cent. more-than would have been necss-
sary in December. Greater pains should be
taken also in covering the grain and in finish
ing up the work than is generally taken with
earlier-sown land. 1t is not probable we will
have a large amount of rain after this date,
and it is not likely the storms will be
very heavy to beat and compact thesoil. This
then should be done with the harrow and
roller, or board. Let the harrow be used
thoroughly and both ways, and when the soil
Is completely worked down, put on the roller
and pack it, and the increased crop viii well
repay for the extra work. One advantage
Iate-sown crops are likely to have this year
over early-sown will be found in their
cIearness from chess and weeds, which are
sure TO be plentiful in all the esrly-sown
wheat. This will undoubtedly be a good
year for chess, as this is kind of grass that
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
Magazines. Etc.

"The Sunday Magazine for March
frank Leslie's publishing house, New York;
is a number strong in attraction, both in
matter and illustration. 1t embraces 136
close pages and vast deal of exceedingly
choice Sunday reading.
From Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston, we
have package of new music, containing
much that is new, beautiful and strange AS
new Easter hymn $50 cents, Lift your
glad voices;' sweet song in praise of g Red
Letter Days" (35 centsl; and an &c Unfinished
Song 40 cents, of much merit, by F. II.
Cowen the bright Torpedo Galop" (40
cents) from Olivette Flower of St. Peters
burg Waltz" 80 cents) by J. J. Pound and
Mountain Rose Waltz" 80 cents) by Mrs
Hattie Bloomer.
The Atlantic Monthly" (Houghton,
Mifiin & Co.. Boston for March has these
leading articles: Friends" by Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps; "Story of Great Monop-
oily" by H. d. Lloyd Arachne. by Rose
Terry Cooke; +" The Portrait of Lady," by
Henry James, Jr.; :" The Seven Days" by
Frances L. Mace; New York Theaters =
"The Genesis of Genius, by Grant Allen !;
before Dawn" by Maurice Thompson !;
Is The Wives of Poets, by William NJ. Ros-
setti; THE End of the War" by Theodore
Bacon Random Reconections Of England"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

by Richard Grant White; Boston to Flor
ence," by Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1.-The
Eleventh Hour" by Katharine Darlington /;
Recent French and German Essays y
"War Ships and Navies;'' "Challoner's
History Of Music"
"Appleton's Monthly" for March ID.
Appleton & Co., New York; has been re-
ceived. Its contents are Scotch Ortho-
doxy and Modern Thought; Adventures
in Patagonia ;" 1.-THE Veterans Of Yester-
day, from the French of Erckmann- Chatri-
an; Suwarrow; 1.-The Criterion of Poe
try" by Peter Bayne; 8 On Some of Snake
speare's Female Characters Il Ophelia, by
Helena Faucit Martin "Tennyson's New
Drama )" George Eliot; " Orlando's Re-
venge," by Barnet Phillips Some Recent
Novels :" "Geist's Grave" by Matthew Ar
mold Editors Table; Notes for Readers.
From Cassell, Peter Galpin & Co, New
York, we have the February number OF
1.-The Magazine of Art" Its engravlngs are
especially inc. notably so that from Schip-
pens "Sunset on the Oosterschelde," aud
1.-THE Madness of Hugo Van Der Goes, y
from the picture by Wauters. Among the
excellent text matters will be found another
article on 'fOur Living Artists ;" also an.
other chapter on Cradles of Art;" an ar
ticle on China Painting at the Brussels
Exhibition - "a Sculptor in Cold" by
Trollope, and other deeply interesting CON
tributions. The art notes are very full in
this number, and the whole magazine very
attractive.
''The Californian for March California
Publishing Company, San Francisco is al
hand. and these are It's leading papers: "'49
and 80" by John Vance Cheney; "A New
California, by Alexander Del Mar; Inter
oceanic Communication, by VIM, Lawrence
Merry "a Night of Storm" by Ina D.
Coobrith "a Strange Confession" by w.
C. Morrow Doubling and Working" by
J. Royce "Oae Stormy Night" by Julia
H. S. Bugeia can Old Story" by Carlotta
Perry; a Literary Shrine, by Nathan W.
Moore &" In the Skyland Omnibus" by Mary
H. Field; "Uncle Sam and the Western
Farmer" by Leigh Mann The Olive
Tree, by John l. Bleasdale, D. D. :" Learned
by the Way" by James Berry Bensel; The
Present House of Stuart. by Edward Kirk.
patrick: 1.-The Rival Cities, by William
Sloane Kennedy
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

EDUCATION IN INDA.-Tbere are &c, COO
schools and colleges in India, with an at
tendance OF l, $50, 600 boys and girls. The
intellectual portion of the instruction given
is extended to literature, history and all
included under the general term of the
"humanities. The natives prove them
selves very proficient in languages
Lord Northbrook once said that very few
European foreigners could speak English
as well as it was spoken by the natives of
India. Scientific education in India chiefly
consists of instruction in medical science
and civil engineering, and in both these
branches great success has been attained.
The medical colleges have sent out great
number of thoroughly competent native
surgeons and physicians. There is little
technical teaching given in India. The
natives are said to have retentive memories
and expansive imaginationf, but not suffi-
Gent steadiness and maturity of thought.
They subordinate their reason to their i'm
agination. Girls schools for all classes are
being established.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
rime and MODE of harvesting wheat.

Time and Mode Of Harvesting Wheat.
After the wheat will all be in the ground
this season, there will be but little time to
prepare for the harvest, since sowing will be
finished late in the season, and in all proba-
bility harvest will begin early. During this
period the farmers should study the ques-
lions of the time and mode of harvesting.
or notwithstanding it has quite generally
been considered by farmers in Califor-
MIA that they had fully mastered these
questions in practical way, still there Is yet
much to be learned as TO the best time for
cutting wheat and as to the best mode of cut
ting and securing it. Heretofore the header
has been the popular machine, because with
it the work could be rushed forward with so
much dispatch. The use of the header
to a certain extent fixed the time
of harvesting, because wheat could
CURED by the use of the header until it was
dead ripe. Therefore everybody who had
adopted the header ss the machine to cut
wheat with had to allow their wheat to stand
untouched until the whole field was sutfi-
GENTLY ripe to go Immediately into the sack
without the risk Of heating. Then
everybody wanted to use the header
at the same time, and all the
available help Of horses, men and machinery
must be pressed into service at the same time
in order to get through cutting before a
norther should come and thrash out the over
ripe wheat before it has headed. Such has
been the hurry and hustle of harvesting
in California heretofore. The sober,
second thought of farmers has led
them, however, to question not only
the practice of allowing wheat to get so
dead ripe before cutting, but also the economy
Of this hurrah boys mode of putting the
work through. This sober second thought
has led to an investigation of the values of
wheat cut at an earlier stage and that
cut when ripe enough for the head
er, and this investigation has led
to establishing the fact beyond dispute that
wheat cut just as it is hardening from the
dough is worth from FIVE to ten per cent. more,
or will make from five to ten per cent. more
pounds, than if allowed to become thoroughly
hardened and dry, or dead ripe. This fact goes
a long way towards condemning the header
as a harvesting machine, and has stim-
ulated inventors in the discovery or in
vention of means by which the grain can be
harvested earlier. The drift of opinion is
now towards the use of self binding harvest
ers, and this question is one worthy of careful
examination before the coming harvest.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
Wheat-erowers' Organization.

The wheat-growers who held convention
in San Francisco, some time since, agreed
upon and issued a call for convention on
the 14th of April next of wheat growers
throughout the State, at San Francisco, for
the purpose of effecting a permanent organi-
cation. They appointed a committee to max e
all necessary arrangements for the April
in regard to the business and objects
to be considered at the same. The
Chairman of the Committee of Arrange
ments is e. Jacob, of Fisalia, Tulare county,
who can be addressed as above. We under
stand that one of the main objects of the
meeting in April is to perfect a permanent
organization of wheat-growers, both for the
purposes of improving the modes of culture,
the character of wheat cultivated and to see
that they are not hereafter, as they have been
this year, compelled to pay exorbitant freights
to market. Should conservative counsels
prevail at the April meeting and sound bust
ness principles be adhered to, doubtless great
benefits can be secured to the wheat farmers
in all these respects. One of the first things
to be accomplished by such an organization
should be to ascertain correctly the amount
of land sown to wheat each season. and as
early in the season as possible. This being
fixed, the groundwork for estimating the
crop for the year is laid. This being doIe
steps should be taken for securing careful and
candid statements, say each month, and per
haps twice a month during the critical
period, say April, May and June, of
the condition OF the crop in every principal
wheat section of the State. Upon these
statements careful estimates of the crop
should be prepared and circulated, not
only at home for the information and
satisfaction Of growers, but abroad for
the information of dealers and freighters.
Statements thus carefully and honestly made
up will be Of great value to all parties inter
ested, and will so regulate the prices of wheat
and the ocean frsights on the same as to
eliminate to a great extent the speculative
features from the business, and render wheat
growing more certainly profitable and salts
factory. Now we desire to impress upon the
wheat farmers the Importance of at
tending the meeting on the 18th of April.
They should not let the opportunity pass of
being personally at the meeting. Do not re-
main at home, acting upon the principle that
what Is everybody's business is nobody's,"
OF that others viii attend, and it will make
no difference If you are not there, but let
each one go and be prepared when there not
only to scan and discuss, in a spirit of fair
ness and candor, each and every proposition
made, but to make suggestions for Others
to discuss; and 90 determined to make the
occasion one of real benefit to those for whose
interest the meeting is called. We are salts
fed that an organization like the one sug-
gestsd can be made TO answer the purposes Of
its originatOrs and to bring great benefits to
those who will take hold of and manage in
telhsently and honestly for those purposes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
Rectiry Torpidiry of lhe Liver

Remove biliousness, dyspepsia and irreg-
ularity, and impart new tone and vigor to
the system by Liebig Coz Coca Beef Tonic.
Sold by all druggists.
Yellow, dyspeptic, nervous invalids grow
strong, ruddy, and healthy by the use of the
Liebig CO.. Coca Beef Tonic.
Beware Of cheap, worthless limitations under
our and similar names. Ask for Coca Beef
Tonic.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
ENTERTAINMENT AND BALL

Under the management OF Committee OF
Ladies of the
spirituaiist Union, ut Turner Hall.
On MONDAY EVENING, February Is, 1881, com
Tencing at 730 o'clock. he opening address will
be delivered by Hon. Warren Chase. Music by Jones,
Beebe & Grant. Tickets (admitting gentleman and
LADY,, 80 cents-refre shments included. fe24 81
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

DR.. UNsAR's LIQUOR ANTIDoTB, carefully prepared
Of the best Quill Bark by NJ. S. Hammer, druggist,
s4crsrnento fhe celebrated cure for drunkenness.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

HAMMERS CAscARA sAGRADA brrTsRs III
complaints arising from an INSTRUCTED state of the
sqstem.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

delights in extremely wet seasons, but it is
not likely to flourish so much in soil that Is
worked and planted alter the extremely wet
spell is passed, and hence will not De found IN
the late-sown grain.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

HAMMERS C1soARA SAeRLDA BHTgRs touches the
right spot in dyspepsia, constipation and liver com
nlsi1t
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

ASK Your DRUGGIST for Hammers ely.
cerole of Tar for coughs and colds, and take
no other.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
LADIES
yXTHo DESIRE CLEAR, NATURAL AND
w Beautiful Complexion should use
PHOSPHATE SOAP.

And nothing else. No other TOILET SOAP is 30
cleansing soothing and healing. 1t Cures Skin
Diseases of every kind. For sale by Druggists
and Grocers generally. Ask for PHOSPHATE
SOAP, andtake nothing else, n2o-2Pa
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26
WEEKLY UNION,
Sacramento, Cal.

AMERICAN NEWS VIA PARIS" Most
horrible An accident atrocious comes to
have place on the line of the Great North
western, at the States United. Two trains
are encountered themselves shocked, and
so for to say re-entered the one in the other
in leveling himself completely. There does
not rest of a survivor many more than a
mechanician. Arrived at the station, we
do not know how, all the world throws it
self on him; we interrogate him, feverish-
ly. Him, very calm /: 'Oh, there has not
had large thing-the two trains have made
telescope r"-[Paris paper.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

FOB THE COUGHS AND COLDS now prevail
ing, Hammers Glycerole of Tar is specific.
Bullion receipts at Salt Lake City are in
creasing.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-26

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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-22

$50 you're not going TO marry Ezra
Haskins' daughter. though you know
my heart is set on that MATCH" thund-
cred Sir Marmaduke, the dairy king.
to his son, Lem Norton. the OK tanner
of Yellow Springs. mo. Sir" meekly
replied the young man. "And SIR
roared the eXasperated father, may I
ask why you dare thus to thwart my
expressed wilIP' yes, SIR" said his
son. in a low, faint voice, like joke
before breakfast, "because l asked her
and she said she'd rather marry a
pump log for brains than anybody in
this family" ''Ahr' exclaimed Sir
Marmaduke. with fading infection,
and then he turned away to tho new
Ayrshire COW in the corner of the lot,
and said, in the voice of thun,ler-
cloud: 'Huddup yer foot. We fur-tailed
imp of thistle-patch, or I'll knock the
stuffin' outen ye with a neck-yoker'
And his own son knew that the proud
spirited old man was thinking Of her.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-22
The Man With tha Flail.

i 1t carried the beholder back to thir-
ty years ago, when the thrashing-
chine was heard only at rare intervals,
| and the honest farmer spread his gol-
den stalks on the clean barn floor and
| failed away with such tempered blows
! that not n kernel was broken. The
man who had it sat down on one of the
benches in the West Circus Park. The
rare sight of such an article halted ev-
cry pedestrian, and the man had to
keep explaining over and over:
''Well, I'll have some beans to shell
this fall, and / kinder thought 'twoud
be easier to fail 'em out. The hard
ware man told me he had to send to
Vermont for it.''
Pretty soon along came a gray-head-
ed Alderman, and when he saw that
tlail he looked ten years younger all at
once.
81 handled that for over ten years. -
he said as he picked it up and spit on
his hands. "Seems like old times to
get hold of this hickory again."
He stepped out one side to give the
crowd an exhibition on the grass, and
his success was great. At the second
blow the fail end hesitated in mid-air,
wobbled about and finally came down
with whack on the patriots head,
making him see more stars than Win
ter's night ever brought out. He
dropped the weapon with the remark
that he was already ten minutes late in
keeping an appointment, and he was
rubbing his skull as far down the street
as he could be seen. The next man tn
try it was one who got off a passing
car under the idea that Il dog-fight was
in progress.
"a flailP Ha! ha! Why. I haven't
seen a fail since l was married." he
chuckled as he reached for it. 81 pre-
sumo l have failed thousand bushels
of wheat in my time. You boys stand
back there.'
The boys retreated, and the man lift
ed the fail on high AND patted the grass
in a vigorous manner.
bushels day." he continued, and
though do say it myself II
Something happened. He dropped
the fail, seized his jaw. anil danced off
rs if he had springs und,'r him, and
although a dozen voices asked what hit
him he refused to tell.
By and by third man come sailing
along, and when he saw the fail he re-
marked that his father had used one
like it nearly all his life, and was
called the smartest failer in New
Hampshire.
Cant you use itP'' inquired one OF
the crowd.
.'Why, of course. If you boys want
to see how our fathers got their wheat
to mill I'll give you little exhibition.
Here, bub, hold my hat"
He buttoned his coat, moistened his
hands, and began work. The first blow
nearly broke mans knee; the second
cracked against a boys elbow, and at
the third the flailer grabbed the top OF
his head and sat down with a subdued
look in the corners of his mouth.
''Well, guess Pll be jogging along
said the owner of the fail as he rose
up. ''It's all in getting the kink of it.
A fcller who makes twists and wobbles
a special study won't git his head broke
over twice day, but q green hand
might as we'll sit down under a brick
kiln durin' tornader. Day, gentle
men" ."-DetrOit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-22
Accuracy in Standards of Measurement.

Few realize the great practical im-
portance of extreme accuracy in stan
| dards of weight and extension, and it
is not generally known what degree OF
accuracy has been attained in the meas.
urement of the standards of lengths
now in use in different countries. The
carpenters foot-rule and the tailor
yard are familiar articles. but, if
asked, probably neither tho carpenter
nor the tailor could tell whether there
is any means by which the true length
of q foot or yard can be determined.
It is clear, however, that there must be
n standard with which the common
measures should be made to agree, in
Or,ler to have the same absolute value.
But we may reflect that the constant
use of any measure will change its
length. and that it will eventually be-
come worn out. We can, then, readily
understand the great value of an ac-
cepted standard. from which copies
can be made, thus preventing any grad
ual alteration in our measures. Such
standards of reference are properly
held in the custody of national Gov
ernments, sciontific societies and insti-
tutions.
1t is by no means simple process to
COauputC OHC HCdSulC Will uuOtuCI,
and to determine the variation between
the two. On the contrary, the utmost
skill and long experience are required
for such work, as we'll as the most elab-
crate and costly apparatus. Allowance
must be made for errors that are SO
small as to be almost inappreciable, but
which cannot be eliminated, until they
have been subjected to future investi-
cations of a very delicate nature. Ev-
cry careful observer will obtain results
which are almost marvelously acoordant
inter se;; but the results obtained by
two observers, with different instru-
ments, viii probably not agree. The
personal equation" has not yet been
eliminated from work of this kind.
In the comparison of weights and
measures, science demands the utmost
accuracy, and it would not be possible,
even if it were desirable. in an article
like this, to more than allude to few
of the steps which have resulted in the
final adoption of national and interna,
tional standards.-Popular Science
Mosth1y.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-09-22
Anxious for the News.

A Tyrone gentleman who has spent
the greater part of his life in America
arrived in Omagh for few months
holidays on the day that the news of
the shooting of the American President
was published. He lives in the coun-
try, and the excitement which seiz I'd
him when he heard the news, formed
an interesting and unusual treat TO the
placid natives of this part of the coun-
try, who are capable OF bearing any in
telligence unmoved. As the evening
advanced, the visitor, who remained in
town. appealed excitedly to entire and
callous Strangers, rs follows:
Il must get the latest news-how in
heaven can l get the evening papers!
If l wait till morning, poor Garfield
may be dead. Tyrone Constitution