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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
New Prize.

We will award "the Pictorial Bible
Commentator, by Ingram Goblin. V. d. NJ,
and Rev. Daniel March,, for our next prize.
1t is a work with $50 illustrations and
maps, and is large octavo-volume OF over
1000 pages, with analytical and chrome
logical tables, and wood and steel. plate en-
cravings. 1t contains, also, Hesba STREET
toms = Wonderful Life of Christ 1t is
a book especially suited to youth and those
whose Bible commentary reading has been
meager. 1t will be awarded to the tan
elerp who mails to the "Quiet Hour
metrical or prose riddle of not less than
three nor more than six lines. The riddle
must have for its answer some well-known
and frequently used single or compound
word of thing, place, name, calling, art
or study. It must not be charade, and
the distinction between riddle and charade
must be clearly maintained. Generally,
riddles embrace in the statement a whole
word and it's whole meaning, while cha
rades treat of words or phrases in parts
and their meaning, and indicate the whole
by description or some reference different
from any of the descriptions of the parts.
The letters bearing the riddles must be
post.marked on or before March l, 1881.
Winners OF the Poe prize are barred for
this one.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
Answers to Correspondents and Correct
Solutions

Utah says: 81 wish to return thanks
to members of the Quiet Hour circle for
their kind words. Praise from Califor-
mans is doubiy appreciated, as residence
there of twenty-one years gives me the
right to claim the Golden State as my
home.
Rose says 1929 proves too much for
my capacity, and but that you do not al
low two by the same author, l should de-
clare 92S and 929 written by the same
person. There is no mistaking $50, for F.
NJ. S. shows through the ginger, and l
think Trinity gives as 925, and Utah 926.
am sorry Trinity thinks the last prize
was bestowed on NE by mistake, but while
l am willing to allow that E. G.
DIS charade was the best. l shall
hold on to the prize now l have it. | am
not ungenerous, however, and II Trinity
happens to be keeping bachelors hall L
will loan him the cookbook, and to a
young housekeeper it would be treasure.
Since the Quiet Hour always bears my cuffs
so meekly, [ wish to astonish it by few
words of hearty praise. First, because it
is no mere puzzler's corner, where the
editor has all the sociahility to himself,
and because when prize is offered we all
know it is something worth doing our best
to win, and not ten-cent prize primer
Ito borrow an expression from II. II And
last but not least, like an intelligent physi-
clan, the Q. H. believes in a varied diet,
consequently does not feed us entirely on
seven-letter squares and charades. IL.
H, induce Lucy to continue. Send the
answer. You forgot it.
Conrad Delmar-Glad TO welcome you to
the Quiet Hour circle Continue. Your
suggestions are good, but applied would be
too prodigal Of space, and both nom do
plume and residence incognito are preserved
strictly.
Hattie Heath-93l, 932, 1913, 934, 9S6,
942, 943.
7 Tr init 9aa, 9s4, 9a5, 9aG (uoarly),
937.
&c. D. thinks f. N. s. entitled to
credit for his solution to $685., and that 1t
is full of poetic suggestion, and adds
g But my answer to 922 takes the medal.
Please don't hide my light under bushel
| am sure Utah will appreciate its brillian-
CIV. Ny answer was 'curtail' / had only
puzzle prizes in my mind, and this would
fill the requirement for whale a ours
tail Is under or over, as his mood dictates,
and is also part OF the cur, or first.
think that quite as good as the original for
any purpose not gastronomic. Trinity pays
me a high compliment, of which l am
proud.
E. c. D. answers 932 (nearly), 93S,
Rose~924, 925, 926, 928, $50.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
The Poe Charades.

The committee to which was submitted
the task of awarding the Poe prize has re-
ported the first prize due to 924 lAl by
Consonant. On opening the envelope
marked "A" we find Consonant to be
Utah" OF Sandy Station, Salt Lake
county, Utah Territory The committee
awards the second prize to 925 (Bl by B,
who proves to "B'' Augusta Blake of
Holister, San Benito county. The
curious guesses as to the true authors
will be appreciated by this list
Consonant was Utah; B, Augusta
Blake; Avis was Rose Dick was Am
ethyst; B. No. was Hattie Heath f.; Ray
was E. G. d. and Ginger was Gus. The
committee was puzzled as to its duty, and
it is fair to say so divided in opinion as to
require a second and third examination to
arrive at majority decision. The COM
mittee is warm in its praise of all the
charades, and finds special points of merit
IN each, but most points in those named as
combining both literary and "charade
merritt that term may be permitted.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
Cultivating Wheat.

Farmers would not think of planting corn
and expecting coed crop without some after
cultivation. One or two civilizations after
planting, and perhaps one or two hoeings, are
deemed necessary to the production of good
crop of corn. Now, why cannot wheat
crop be increased by cultivation as well as
corn crop? This is a question which every
wheat-farmer sho1ld put to himself, and
which he should oe able to answer intelil-
gently from practical demonstration. This
season is most favorable one to experlment IN
this direction. The wheat now In the ground
was by far the largest portion of it sown before
the heavy rains, and the soil has been beaten
and packed down with the storms of the past
month, till the surface is hard and compact.
When the water shall have receded and the
sun and north winds shall succeed the damp
weather, these compact surfaces will dry and
bake and actually pinch the stems, and thus
greatly damage the crop. As soon as the
soil will permit, therefore, the surface should
be cultivated and loosened up. A good drag
cling and cross dragging will prove of great
benefit. So long as the roots are not
actually pulled up the cultivation will
be beneficial. Even if considerable portion
of the wheat plants are pulled out by the
roots, the cultivation will still be beneficial,
as those left will thus be made to stool much
more, and the growth will be much more free
and luxurious. The cultivation should be
done a. soon as may be in the spring, after
the surface of the soil has been dried out so
as not to mire the horses feet too deeply, and
before the wheat has become too far adj
vancsS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
FEIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE.
A Boat with Four Men Dashed Over the
Cascades

Portland (0r) Bulletin.l
On Tuesday, Henry Thielson, Assistant
Engineer of the railroad division of the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company,
with a party of four men, left the mouth of
the John Day river, for the purpose of
going down to Cello. Shortly after start
ing dense fog appeared on the river,
which rendered 1t impossible for the men
in the boat to distinguish the shore line,
and the increasing swIftness OF the current
of the river carried the boat along at a
speed not realized by the occupants until
the harsh, dull roar of the water, as it
dashed over the head of the Cas-
cades, below Cello, was heard, and an
awful fate seemed to be inevitable. 1t
was useless to endeavor to take the boat
out of the whirling eddies that now encir-
cled it, and the rustling waters seemed
to be but p aging with the frail bark, as
every moment it was drawn nearer and
nearer to an almost certain doom, while the
wild roaring of the waters as they dashed
down into the seething abyss below seemed
to hiss and sputter and laugh in perfect
carnival of terror. As the terrified inmates
of the boats approached the fatal spot, like
flash the boat suddenly darted out of
the eddy straight to the fall-one minute
and the boat would be dashed to pieces,
but, as if guarded by the hands of Provi-
dence, the boat caught on sunken rock
just on the vergeo the fall, and lying there
swinging with the motion of the waters, but
leaving the men powerless, facing death, and
while saved from 1t unable to escape. 1t
was at this moment that new danger, and
one that made the certainty of being car
ried over the falls inevitable, now pre-
sented ITSELF Coming down the river and
almost on the top of the boat was discov-
cred an immense flow of ice. The almost
certainty of death either by being carried
over the rocks or else crushed to pieces
in the ice was only left to choose, and
before the engineer and his party could
realize it the ice was upon them, and one
immense cake had shot under the boat,
lifted it over the sunken rock and ice,
and boat and men were carried over the
falls down into the basin below, and not
soul injured. 1t was fearful expert
ence, an event that not one OF the party
will ever forget, though they live to be
numbered with the centenarians of future
years. Once in the basin below, the party
gained the shore and reached their desti-
nation by overland route.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
Kew Tangles.
GIG Charade. by Lucy 4:

946. Charade, by Lucy
Ny first is found, the world around,
On many thrifty farm;
Il may be seen round pastures green,
And it keeps the crops from harm.
Again, It's a word that is often heard
In loud and angry tones,
The scene IS rife with bitter strife,
And peace affrighted means.
Ny last the weary sailor halls,
AS Ocean-tossed by stormy gales
He spies the longed for goal,
The $ Up at anchor safely rides,
Within the last while smoother tides
Around her gently roll.
am always found where pleasant towns
Arise to greet the travellers eve;
In vale S rich, and barren downs
A over mountains rough and high.
Ny whole encirces many lands
Where science, art and toll combine;
From AtIantics shore 30 Pacific sands
Its strong and steady course you'll find.
947 Charade, for Utah, by Hattie Heath
There came to my dwelling one dark rainy day,
A first asking last from the blast.
have no great liking for first must say,
But like him have penchant for last.
l knew the poor elf was both hungry and cold,
So l gave him some meat and roll,
| thought it was better than silver or gold,
Yet he saUcily begged for a whole.
94S. Puzzle by Utah
Black
Caspian. R 500. 800. Yu loosely.
949. Charade, by Conrad Delmar:
Never try to get first,
Should a second ever tease you,
But run like old Harry
Should total try to seize you.
$50. Charade, by Amethyst
First writes charades, you understand;
Next is a stream in classic land
Next makes the floor all white and clean;
Last is a girls pet name ween;
Whole is a flower fair TO view,
OF graceful shape and brilliant hue.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12

It is reported that 300 Mormon families
are now preparing to leave Utah and join
Others of their people who have already
settled at Mesa City, about twenty miles
from Phoenix, A. t. They go under orders
from the head of their Church.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12

The Pilgrim suit is one of the most popu-
lar OF street suits. In corduroy, shades of
gray or brown, with silver gray plush,
make stylish suit, little scarlet, pale
blue or maroon satin appearing in the hood
and cordings. An aims pocket, added TO
the right side, is caught in by the waist
cord.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
Deterioration of California Wheat.


During the last five years we have fire.
quently called attention TO the deterioration
of California wheat, and the consequent de-
cline in the grade of our wheat below its
former standard, and below the grade of
many other countries whose wheat was for
merly graded below ours. We have shown
on former occasions that in consequence of
this deterioration and decline in price the
wheat farmers were losers annually to the
amount of many hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Following our efforts in this direc-
ton for reform in this respect the Produce
Exchange Of San Francisco last spring
took up the subject, charging the cause
to carelessness of farmers and urging great
care on the part of wheat-growers generally.
Farmers retorted through the press that the
fault did not lie SO much with them as with
shippers, who, In making up cargoes Of wheat,
were careless aud mixed inferior with good
wheat, thus causing all to be clsssed as in
ferior. The discussion of the subject is bear
ing good fruit all around. Farmers are TAX
ing more pains with their soil and seed, and
are making great efforts to clean their wheat
better, and shippers are also exer-
cising greater care IN keeping good and bad
grades of wheat separate. We hear but
little now OF gravel in wheat, which shows
that the farmers are also seeing TO it that the
forks used in bringing the grain TO the ma
chimes while thrsshing are handled more
carefully, so that they do not scoop up the
soil with the grain. At 3 meeting of wheat
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
THE QUIET HOUR.

TANGLERs' CORNER AND PUzzLERs CON-
TRIBUTIoN BOX
Charades, Enigmas, Riddles, Puzzles, Word
Squares, Answers to and from Cor
respondents, and Solutions.
Answers to January goth.
93l. NJ A t L N
A Il I S Z
I l L i S
l S L 4 L
n + S Z S
$50. Baron Won Bismarck colonize.
933. Carmine,
934. Let us then be up and doing,
with heart for any fate. F"
935. " Nothing new under the sun"
936 Chill, agate, drink.
937. Rock, baby.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
A new petticoat has been brought out

a new petticoat has been brought out in
London, so arranged as to keep the short
skirt out at the back just at the spot above
the ankle where it frequently annoys by
falling in. The plan is simple one, and
consists merely in crinoline steel being
run through casing in the back breadth,
where it stands out stiffiy and holds out
the dress, to the great comfort of the
Yearer.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12

Says the Arizona Journal: The valley of
the Rio Salinas is the garden spot of the
Territory. To the traveller weary with
iourneying over arid wastes of sand, or bar
rem, bleak mountain ranges, it indeed pre-.
sents fair appearance. While many other
sections have bloomed into butterfly ex-
istence of few short months, it has grown
rapidly and surely to what it now is. Miles
and miles of irrigating bitches have been
constructed to put under cultivation thous-
ands of acres of rich and productive land.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12
summer-falloW this Year.

1t is now evident that on account OF con-
tinued wet weather during the season gen.
orally employed by farmers in putting in
their wheat, the area sown this year to wheat
will be much less than the average-probsbly
not over two-thirds the area in wheat last
year. A very large amount OF land Will
therefore remain uncultivated to any crop
This fact suggests the adoption of a more
certain and better plan of wheatculture, and
at the same time presents the opportunity OF
adopting this plan. We refer to sumner tai
lowing instead of winter blowing and sowing.
We have frequently urged farmers to adopt
the fallow system, even though to do SO would
necessitate their lands to lay idle one year.
Now that they are forced to let their lands
lay idle, the opportunity is offered for them
to adopt for the future the better method OF
cultivation. We have urged the summer tai
lowing heretofore on the ground that more
certain crop would be secured in dry seasons;
We now urge the same plan on the ground
that it viii more certainly secure good crop
even in wet seasons. The lands summer
fallowed last spring, being IN good
condition, were sown in the fsll
before the heavy rains commenced, and are
now promising good crop. Had larger
breadth of land been summer-fallowed, we
would not to-day be regretting the small area
in wheat Summer-fallow this spring, aud
not be caught next fall in the condition that
has overtaken the farmers this fall. While
upon this subject we would urge the practice
of cross blowing the summer fallowed land, at
least once before sowing. We believe tiat
blowing even the third time would fully re-
pay the cost and a good deal more. In our
experience in wheat-growing in the
State of New York, we found that the
third blowing, or cross blowing the second
time, added very materially to the yield and
quality of the wheat, and we see no reason
why the same plan will not produce like re-
suits here. Those who have any doubt as to
the profitableness of blowing the third time
can satisfy themselves at little expense by
trying a few acres.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12

"The Sanitarian," for February ca. n.
Bell, New York;, has been received. This
valuable journal, which we SO frequently
quote from, this month presents these lead
ing papers +" Memphis Sanitation and Quar-
antine," by G.. B. Thornton, NJ. D.; storm
Water Question in Relation to Sewerage"
by Col. Geo. e. Warning, Jr.; Z" Relation of
Schools to Diphtheria and Similar Diseases"
by H. B. Baker, NJ d.; Relations of Ger
tain Filth Diseases to Cold Weather." A. n.
Bell, A. NJ, NJ. D.; Mortality Statistics. !"
From Scribner & Co., New York, we have
proofs of illustrations from "Scribner's
Monthly" and ''St. Nicholas" These are
fifty in number, and are from paintings by
Millet, Eaton, Chase, Bartolommeo, Tchoum-
akof, Vedder, DeMoor, Whistler, Vandy
and Raphael, Van Ostade and Others and
from original designs in wood by Mary
HaIlock Foote, Miss Oakley, and artists of
like high standing. The portfolio is one OF
high merit. and it is very desirable acquisi-
ton to either library or studio.
The "Statistician for 1Ss0-81 is at hand
from the publisher and editor, L. p. Nc.
Carly, San Francisco. It is compact bound
volume OF 62i closely printed pages. It pos
sesses one great merit-there is not an adj
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12

growers, held in San Francisco last week,
resolutions were passed covering the whole
subject in manly and truthful manner,
which gives hope that further cause OF COM
plant may be removed. The resolutions re-
ferred to were passed unanimously, and are
as follows:
WHEREAS, The fact that California wheat has de-
clined in grade in the foreign market to position
below that of the wheat Of many other countries )
and whereas, this condition is due partly to the
careless manner IN which farmers plant, harvest ana
prepare their wheat, and partly to the practice Oh
Spectators, wherein good and inferior wheat are
mixed in making up lots cargoes therefore, be II
resolved, N
First2That it is the sense Of this meeting that all
farmers should pay such attention to preparing
their lands. selecting their seed and conducting
their harvest as shall tend to the production OF tne
purest and cleanest marketable product.
Second-That we denounce as detrimental TO the
treat wheat-producing interest OF our state the
practice which many spectators lave adopted OF
mixing different grades OF wheat, thereby decelVlhg
the cons mer and creating, as it has In our case,
great reduction from the standard quality which our
wheat once maintained in the foreign market, and
which il should now have. go
Third-That the members of this Convention VIII
do all in their power to raise the standard OF Cal
fornia wheat and shall urge the same upon all VINO
are in any way connected with this interest.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-04-07

IuE SIN Of FEnlING.-Ther IL one
Sin which seems % me Is eyrryW here and b,
cvrrl body uHdcr-e>timatcd. and quite TOO
much overlooked in valuations Of charar-
ter Il j. the ,Iu OF frrttng 1t is a> com
mon AZ an. as speech; 50 common that uu
less II rises above it, usual monotone We do
not even observe it. Watch an ordinary
coming together OF people, and see how
many minute, 1t viii be before somebody
trets-that is, make, morr or less com
planning statement Of something or other.
which, most probably, every one in the room.
or the stage, or the street car. or the street
corner, as ii may be, knew before. and which
most probably nobody can help. Why say
ANYTHING about it2 1t is cold, it is hot, it is
wet, it j, dry somebody has broken an an
polntmeut. ili-cooked a meal; stupidity or
bad faith somew here has resulted IN discom
fort. There are always plenty of things to
fret about. 1t is simply astonishing how
much annoyance and discomfort may be
found in the course of every days living.
even at the simplest, if one only keeps a
sharp eye out on that side of things. Even
Holy Writ says We are born to trouble as
sparks fly upward. But even to the sparks
flying upward, in the blackest of smoke.
there Is blue sky above, and the less time
they waste on the road the sooner they will
reach 1t. Fretting is all time wasted on the
road.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-04-07

WHAI PEE~J AIDED IHE VI MplE-A glgut
and w.cked-Iooking mule belonging 20 ii
countryman baked ia River street Yesterday
afternoon. and the usual crowd gathered 10
offer advice and suggest plans tnI moving
the animal. Various eNpedieut, wrrc tried
such a, twisting til, tall ana putting dirt
into his eyes, ears and mouth; but he rt-
tanned his composurr and refused ID notice
the treatment Of the operators. even with q
kick They were about 10 build a fire under
him when a ,aloon-keeper IN the ncIghbor-
hood offered to bet = that Ii, could make
him get, and there being 10 takers, con
cluded to do it just for the sake Of showing
ms know ledge OF mules. He took from hi.
pocket a flask Of River street 'tanglefoot'
and poured little into the passive mules
mouth. In second aiterWard there was
blank astOnishment in every feature OF that
animals countenance, and the next instant
he bumped himself and shot down the street
a. if with the intent Of ecIip>ing st. Julien's
record. The owner watched him for a mo-
ment, and then turning 70 the bottle holder,
said Mister, ii that ere stuff amt too
Pizen strong I'll take drop Of it in my
mouth, for lse got to catch that mule. -
Nerdrk Sunday Cali
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-04-07
. :. . -

How THE LATE CItK IuukEu. - At
tempt> during the last fcw Years have been
made upon the lives Of kaI>ers. kings and
other potenIate, repeatedly. But hitherto
they have failed. The conNpira,or, have
produced a wholesale massacre. but .he >ul-
ereign who was the object of the plot has.
by miracle escaped. The bullet from the
pistol swerved aside By the fraction Of an
inch the stab was dealt moment too soon
or a moment too late; the bomb was thrown
with a rash and unstead, hand the ,ubter-
ranean mine exploded when the wrong train
was passing over the IRON way The Gar
had, therefore, seemed to carry a charmed
existence. All that was terrible in death he
mad indeed experienced. The agony Of
heart, the sickness of soul, and every Symp-
tom Of impending dissolution had been with
him throughout the greater part OF his reign
He wore the expression OF a hunted man.
If he surpassed all his contemporary soyer-
elgns in the absoluteness Of his power, he
surpassed them also in the suproneness OF
his misery. He knew that, some day or 9TH
er. perhaps when he least expected it, the
end would come-that the air would be lit
up BY a sudden flash, that the elements
wosld seem to be convulsed, that a great
pang would shoot through his system, that
an interval of moaning insensiblllty would
follow, and that then darkness would be over
all. But the world in general vas so habit
uated TO periodical shocks at the tidings of
ineffective assassination that il believed the
Gar would die in his bed after the peaceful
fashion Of constitutional kings. Only the
Car himself-only he, with that certain
foreknOw ledge which is sometimes born of
terror, and the men who had swora that he
should die-knew that this would not be
so.