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MEASURING THE BABY

Don't measure the baby There IS an
before the year is out, and it's always
best TO be on the safe side. Do you see
that name written in lead pencil on the
decreasing? Well, that's where we
measured the baby. II you get down
on your knees you viii be able
to read, g jim Just SO high. " 1t wasn't
year ago that we al came out here,
father, mother and the girls, and got
down on the grass and stood him up there.
he was sight to look at-ail pink and
white. with the softest rings of hair, and
eyes like violets in the spring. And he'd
tumble down, and we'd all laugh and
cheer him up again and Jenny laid the
pencil fiat on has head, and notched the
wall, and then we wrote that to mark the
spot, but I've wished many time since
I'd never had it done. You. see we had
been reading some pretty verses about
that very thing, and 1t Just fitted to our
baby exactly in the beginning:
eve measured the rietous baby
Against the cottage WALL
A lily grew on The threshold,
And the roy was just as TALL
That was SO like our baby that cut that
verse out, and pasted it in the blank leaf
Of the big Bible Then Jenny said there
were more verses that suited him. but af.
ter getting the iull drift Of the poetry,
most wished we hadn't seen it, but l took
two more verses and let them go with the
others. Here they are
His eyes were wide as blue bells,
Chats little Jim exactly y
His mouth Ike flower unbown;
(1hats him again.)
Two little bare feet, ike funny white mice,
Peeped out from his snowy gown.
And we thought with thrill of rapture,
That yet had touch OF pain,
When June rolls round with her roses
Wen measure the boy again"
Now, if it had stopped there, as l ex-
pected it would, I'd have nothing to saw,
and there'd be another mark on the door
casing, $50 much higher" but-but--
well, what's the use OF beating about the
bush in this way You see there's no
mark there, and it wasn't any superstition
after all. | went to-day into the room
where he lay tall white and peaceful like,
and so still that it was sin to cry and
disturb his sleep, and | added the rest OF
the poetry, that Jenny had kept without
knowing why, to the old Bible
eve measured the sleeping baby
With ribbons white as snow,
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited him below.
g And out OF the darkened chamber
We went with childless moan
To the hight OF the sinless angels
Our little one had grown"
That tells the story of little Jim better
than could tell it; that is why there's a
L Al. 4
bright, and the birds have stopped singing,
and we can never again measure the baby,
for he has gone so high that we can
only reach him by the golden ladder Of
death.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
ISLANDER.

Some ore who has lately been in Chicago
has written for Louisville paper the follow
ing rhymes waich have more feet than riost
"opens
Lift item UP tenderly,
Handle with care,
Fashioned SO slenderly,
a beautiful pair
Look AZ those number twelyes,
a sight in themselves
Made from two OK hides he truth i must tel
Made for a young girl, a Chicago belle
How were her fathers feet
How were Der mother's2
How were her sisters feet
How we're her brothers
What has this maiden done
hat she should merit il
Was il judgment,
or did she inherit It?
Alas for the rarity VI Christian charity,
Sesrcer than pearls
And 0 it is pitiful to see 2 whole city iull
OF bigfooted girls.
Look at the maidens shoes
Look at shoe laees
I.aces like clothes lines
Pass through the noles
And the drovss Of horned cattle in passing around
Look at her hrogans. then paw up the ground,
Relieving all the while, knowing fun well
The leather required Tor Chicago belle
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
Hints.

Rats are great enemies to chickens,
and VIII often burrow near the chicken
coop and carry of many during the sea.
son, unless great care is taken to place the
coop in an open space, and all weeds and
high grass and piles OF brush and rubbish
are removed good distance of, so as to
provide shelter or retreats for them. Damp
ness and wet are to be guarded against.
No hen with her brood should be allowed
to wander from her coop before 10 O'Clock
in the morning. or until the dew IS entirely
gone, for if the chickens get wet, it is
almost sure death to them. Il IS true that
few of the strong ones mighs endure it,
but it retards their growth. and they never
make as nice birds. Ii tbs day is pleasant,
about 10 o'clock let the hen and the brood
out, and they will soon be active in scratch
ing and picking up worms AID insects, and
such other dainties as suit their appetiEes
and of which we know but little; prepare
shelter in different parts of your yard SO in
case Of sudden showers the hen and her
brood can run under and protect them
selves from such unlooked-for innovations
IL their daily rambles. In rainy or cloady
days take no chances, bat keep them
shur IN
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
AGRICULTURAL.
aAFTER PREPARED SPECIALLY FOR
THE "REcoRD UNION"
Better Markets for General Produce
Foul stuff in wheat-The
Chines.-Etc.

RIO AaRIcuIruRIsTs AND STOCK RAlsERs. Com
nnunications are invited for this department from
agriculturists. stock rasers and Others, concern.
ing diseases alc citing cattle this coast. For in
stance, considerable attention is beng drawn TO
what is known as the spleen fever and it is the
intention of the RECORD UNION and WEEKLY UNION
70 institute inquiry in such direction with view
to drawing out the experience Of all Immediately
concerned as to such diseases, the origin remedy
and proper treatment By this free Interchange
of experience and advice 1t is certain that much
good will result ard t. that end this journal viii
lend all uossibls aid
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30

Prize Fourth OF July Tangles.
1924. Charade No l:
Like hand which traced in DAYS of old
a startling sentence on the wall,
So war, III crimson letters, told
Our nation without q" first must fall
Reverse my second, tiny word,
It's q tone in music often heard
America extends her hands
TO the poor, oppressed and weak,
Who, fleeing from less favored lands,
IN our great third" protection seek.
a well known sent ment is {" WHOLE"
Dear to every patriots soul.
Il25. Charade No. 2:
Hail to cur glorious natal day.
When liberty clears the wsY .
Tyranny no longer has sway,
But to freedom it must yield.
Fer liberty our graed sires fought,
And with their lives dearly bought
The independence that they sought
Upon the CORY battlefield
with yict'rY, honor and renown,
The tyrant's flag they pulled down,
And placed instead ibertY's crown.
Now our country it is free,
0ppressors from It's shores did fee;
Our independence now we see,
And Be'er again will we be slaves.
See 50 first on ship floating on the main,
A proposition second" obtain.
The patriot fought for Z" third " to gain
Its precious gift to celebrate.
90 Whole I saw the Fourth of July
Elevated toward the sky.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30

LYDIA L. PIsKBAM's Vegetable Compound
has done thousands Of women more good thar
tae medicines Of many doctors. 1t is posi-
tive cure for all female complaints. Send tt
Mrs Lydia L. Pinkham.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
COOKING BY GAS.

TVyHE CAPITAL GAS COMPANY HAVING
l received a supply OF the most approved pat
terms OF GAS COOKING STOVES. request their
ING. Eighth street, between J and K and select
their Cooking Stoves. ALL WHO ARE USING
GAS STOVES FOR COOKING are agreeably sur
prised to find they easy to manage; cause no
neat SCOT dust in the apartment; take up little
room; may be placed wherever desired, and are less
expensive for most families than the ordinary cook
ing stove They win pnt them up at their own ex-
pense, charging for their small monthly rental
All those now in use giving complete satlsfac-
ion far ss known. iv1-istf
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
TIE QUIET HOUR.
TANGLER's CORNER AND PUzzLgR's Cum
TRIBUTIoN BOX

charades, Enigmas, Riddles, Puzzles, Word
Squares, answers to and from Cor,
respondents, and Solutions
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
Cinnamon and the Fruit and Vegetable
Crops

It is a fact, though not generally known,
that Gilman en- are to very great extent
handling the vegetable and fruit crops Of the
State, and are making it very profitable to do
SO. They are raising a large proportion Of
the former, while they take orchards on
shares or buy the fruit On the Trees and pick
aud market it. In this way, besides mohop-
olizing much Of the profits Of yegetable-pTo-
dueing and fr1it-raising. they are practically
monepolizing the farm labor Of the State. ex-
cept that employed Ia putting in and
harvesting the wheat crops The labor IN
which the Chinsmen are engaging with
greatest energy is that kind which gives en-
ploymen5 the year through. willis that upon
which white laborers mostly depend gives
them employment 5us few months each year.
Probably this IS ore Of the chief reasons why
we have so few Chinese tramps and so many
of some other na.ionalities.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
Melons as q Crop

It would be an easy matter to oveIstock
the market with watarmelons and canta-
loupes ON account of their perishable nature,
but we know of some parties IN the Sacra-
mento river that are making it pay very well
this year to produce and sell these perishable
articles in the Sacramento market. One
party who has ten acres in melons has al
ready sold from the same over enc thousand
dollars worth, aud will doubtless sell another
thousand dollars worth before the season for
them ends. The REM of tie land and Guilt
walton of the same viii not exceed, and we
e ink viii not equal, three hundred dollars.
There will be net profit Of from fifteen to
seventeen hundred dollars on the ten acres,
or from one hundred and nifty to one huG-
bred and seventy dollars an acre.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30

The Tahoe Tattier says fishing for silver
trout has now been going on in Lake Tahoe
for more than twenty years, but the old
fishermen and residents Of that vicinity say
there never yet has been season
when more have been taken than
in this, hence we may safely argue
that they grow faster than they can be
taken out, and the supply is practically
inexhaustible, so long as no other means
than the hook is resorted to for taking
them
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30

On the mountain ranch Of James
Sauiuels, twenty-eight miles northwest OF
Healdsburg, bear signs have been visible
Tor three weeks past. A steel trap, baIted
with the head et deer, was set, and one
day last week a 40O.pound bruin of the
black bear species was caught. When dis
covered by Mr. Samuels, the animal was
quite ferooious, but Wilson Brown plugged
nm in the temple with navy-ball, and
ended his sheep. killing and steel-trap ex-
periences forever.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30
Better Markets for General Froduc,

If there is one fact being demonstrated in
California mere than another this year, it is
that the products of diversified farming are
gaining better and more satisfactory prices
year after year. We are finding good markets
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30

this year for all kinds of fruit and vegetables
we have to spare, outside the State, and yet
SO near US that we can afford to pay the
freight to these markets and still make good
| profits in their production. We are sending
fruits of various kinds to the Atlantic sea-
board, and to all places along the road from
here there. We are sending green corn,
potatoes, cabbage, melons and cantaloupes all
through Nevada, and to many pointsin Utah
and the Territories further east; in fact,
although this is one of the most productive
years we have had in the State, there is
nothing o drug 10 the market. Everything
that is not needed for home consumption
finds a ready sale for shipment. In this fact
taken in connection with the dull state
Of the wheat market, IS found one OF
the strongest arguments in favor of
abandonine the old one-erop system,
which has been followed so long, and branch
ing out i8to more rational and profitable
plan of farming. It is mistaken idea that
our best grain lands will raise nothing but
small grains. Any good wheat land will
produce good Early Rose potatoes il planted
IN January or February. They will raise
good cabbage, good beets, carrots, parsnips,
lettuce, peas, beans, corn, and in fact
If planted early enough in the season,
and thus every wheat grower can with but q
very little trouble produce all that he viii
consume of this kind of food, and thus save
the bills that eat such large holes in his re-
csipts fer the wheat. At the low prices for
wheat that have prevailed of late years it
takes too large part of the proceeds Of the
wheat crop to pay for other articles that havs
heretofore been bought. Let each farmer
that has good field summer fallowed row
set apart one or two acres in an accessible
corner and make a general produce
miniature farm Of it this fall and
winter, and our word for it if he
viii manage it well he will be the gamer
in money and in a mora independent living.
The vegetable bill must be the hardest bill
for a wheat-larmer to pay. Il must give him
the blues TO pay out money that he gets for
his wheat for potatoes, cabbage ana every
other kind Of vegetable. when ne could save
that money by raising them on his own place.
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Answers to July 18th.

TIA New Orleans Thus Wife, Eng.
land, Old, Robe, Ellen, Aenid, Nelson,
Lie Sebastopc).
IT'S Love.
lll6 Charming.
lll7. Stare.
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rnnorts Of ARGOS. or Crude Tartar.

A correspondent sends US the following
pertinent inquiries in regard to matter of
esme considerable Importance TO the wine
producing interests of this State at the pres
ent time, and which bids fair in the future TO
become of much greater interest than at the
present:
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SAcRamENro. July %. 1881

EDITOR AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT REC
ORD YIoN-Sir: Queer things come under
persons notice once in while. incloss
some slips fer you to notice the quserness Of ::
emery lists it not queer that with the
many thousands of acres Of vines now culti-
waited for wine that the amount Of argols are
imported and not produced by the viae-grow-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-30

" And out OF the darkened chamber
We went with a childless moan
To the hight OF the sinless angels
A,,. liaAl.L- No lad crrc...r, .
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-29

United States Consul Aynie, Of Yucatan,
relates the following: Speaking of ears, a
friend OF mine travelling here told me that
nc once had a mule with very fine ears, so
long THAT they mel behind his back. They
were continually in his way, as the mule
couldn't help Tapping them, and frequently
knocked my friend-vho Is very sfaid and
truthful man-oT his saddle Though q
very humane man, as well as yetacious, he
couldn't stand. this sort of thing every day,
so what did he co2 Well, he thought II over
awhile, and then hit on q plan. He inocu-
lated one ofthe mules ears with a WI IT,
and then by cutting slit in the other he
had a natural button and buttonhole, by.
means Of which he buttohed the ears to-
gether under tho mules. tail. This was
pleasant for awhile-for my ffiend-but
he soon saw his mistake. That wart kept
growing, and he had 10 exte8d The button
bole TO keep pace with IL. until those can
were hardly ANYTHING else but want and
buffon-hole. HcSouDd himself In the same
position Is the H.eiIds OF General Graut
who had been trying for years 10 get bis
mouth Open, and then went crazy because
they couidn't get Il shut. Another uncoin-
portable thing about Il was that, when the
mule wanfed TO wagele-i0r a muie 10 50
CONSTITUTED that he mgsf waK 4 certsin num-
Der Of times q day or die-he had 70 dis
mount. tie the animal 10 a tree, aud prr
the cars apart With buiton-h00k. asked
him how much the ears measured, and be
said he didn't know, but the mule had
caused him 10 measure his length sew
erai tines"
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-29

apb4l|l( N IN lA4lfl|sH W. f|IIH|NI
tdlbmns M lNbll nm WbH tHlhl n
conducted viii lhnig Ahd lhltfflY b0l
ihey mua IN haehed hg hstfle maFt ~
bsptf Hceeei A radiation N lldl ffei
wai hliowed w y realization N another
Ildpofiaht net alhnt whena oommndiy
possesa barely sufficient population and
buslncss 10 support one papef md
enable. u 10 progress with lta .siiis
foundlnas, n was folly 10 aiitmh 10
meet Tho demands of Tie readers ~
eitier whom two or tlIrec daily papers were
published, MI ~ tic semo politics and gcn.
oral policy, About two years ago. Dallas,
live aud growing town, had two morning
papers, Tho IIsnELb and Cominorolal, and
neither was or could be made, profitable
with tho patronage the people could afford
to give, or what the town and county de-
mandcd In the way Of u newspaper. They
might have struggled on to this day In
sort of cutihroat manner and neither
reached tho degree Of excellence demanded,
but their proprictors wisely consolidated
the two into one, and the result has been q
fine paper. the people of that section have
good reason to be proud Of"
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-29

M INN N|WNM i've I|NI| i|N||
Hla I'm aa 40 lnd|tf N w. ptlll|1Nl
eNal NJ ltssa. hsye feIlNa non bnlllts
shd ohly leluyengle Nllhhg ellldfeh ahh
nsbhesa. NJ pfeyenl llitin running IN hhci
Shame eods W. Older men. wii0 sflll feel
~ boya sometimes llke ~ ialk viii INA
yonhe bloods aad 40 feclibg, desire n ieil
tuf aohs and neplewa wbm We think
ffifhof necessary m repent me oid adarr,
ayonna fplka ihlbk Obi idka Arc fIols.H 6ul
old iolEs know that young FOLKS nfe-- OH,
"si1p figi,t there, No moio foolishnoss.
Average man u Texas, who do you want
for the noxt Governor a wise villain, o
wise nlncOinpOOp, wise vnlcttdinarinn,
or man OF fine average sense and honest
hort, clever and synipathlzlng with the
toilors Of the landy Which do you want?
Ifyou want sensible and true man, WHO'S
not ashamed because his mother was born
reared and trained on the frontier, and
outer wilds Of Texas, and who, after coming
home from college ut nineteen years OF age,
commanded Indians against Indians, and,
before he vas twenty, recaptured an Hi
nois girl who had been twenty-five years n
prisoner among the Indlans--the same
who, In the late war rose from private TO
be d Drigadier General, and went homo to
his honorod parents and his youthful
bride, and quietly, peacefully seized the
plow-hapdles TO make liying-drank no
whisky, wore no six-shooter,N took
no ironclad oath, minded his own business,
kicked aside every imported official entray,
telling him piously togo to Hades, Heredo-
tus. Herovoniary Herenlaneum, Hindoo-
tuan, Hispaliola county, Texas, or any
other convenient locality, no, he didn't
come with his double distilled hypoc-
risy and theving propensities on his little
reclaimed and resumed domicl in the sub
urbs of Waco, a little territory he and his
brother Pete and their father before them
had helped to rescue from a savage foe,
where bullets, arrows, and starvation
abounded, while our Puritan brethrenlived
on the iatted lamb. Wendell Phillips in
Boston, and Henry Ward Beecher in Brook
lyn-neither of whom ever knew what
meant frontier savage life. poverty, or the
difference between fricassee cooked in a
palace and marrow gut fried on stick
for q son Of Adam who had been four days
without monthful 70 eat.
ex-boy soldier, ex-Nlajor, ex-Lieuten-
ant Colonel, ex-Coionel, ex-Briga-
'dier General in the Confederate army, ex-
Sheriff of McLennan county, ex-mcmber
of the Constitutional Convention of 1875
and present Senator from McLcnnan, Hill
and Johnson, this Sol Ross, college bred,
frontier anointed, the hero of more than a
hundred battles, the most refined elegant
and Christian-like genrleman--how would
he do for Governor of the State of Texas?
if any objections, rise and explain,
NANCY & Me.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-29
R.ra prinkinr Water.


1t has been q subject Of much study by
the scentitic-medical world for a number
of years as to the cause of typhoid fever and
other infamihatory diseases OF the bowels,
and the conclusion almost una nimously ar
rived at recently is that a large portion of
these diseases result from the use of foul or
impure drinking water.
The Kenpesaw Manufg Coaof Memphis,
Tennessee, have invented pump or water
elevator, which, while it gives a full and
steady flow from q well one hundred feet
deep as easilyas from q cistern ten feet,
agitates and purifies the water in such a
manner as to free it from all Of the noxious
ingredients coptained in stagnant water,
and render it as pure as a running stream,
thereby destroying all germs ofdsease, and
also freeing it from all insects.
Sydney Smith & CO., of Dallas, Texas, are
state agents for these pumps and have
them for sale at their Sample Rooms, No,
72s Elm street, Dallas. Texas, where they
can be seen on exhibition, and parties in
need of pumps, of any description win do
we1to call clia examine them before pur
chasing elsewhere
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-12-29
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