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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-01-17
Hints for January.

Well. boys, what are you up TO now
Good time 10 get up the wood, and you had
better rush business before the snow gets
deeper. While you are browsing around in
the woods, cut out your supply Of bean
poles. Get enough. 50 YOU can raise some
beans next year. Pole beans are the most
productive, an old ~ren's egg bean is the
best We know of to bake. 1t takes four or
five hills of bush beans to Weld as much
YOU would get on one pole. and
then they are out Of the way of sand and not
so liable to rust. We told you few weeks
ago how to get the pods off, by push
ing the poles through hole in board.
How about the calves? Are they getting
rough Look out for lice and put on
little dry sand Get a good stiff brush for
all kinds Of stock. and then it will be
pleasure 10 YOU a. well as to them. to spend
few minutes over each animal twice day
A card is a barbarous implement on
Young stock. and they and their attendants
soon come 10 dread it. while brush
changes the whole thing. &c, one and see
how much better the cattle will look in
week.
Keep watch Of the sheep Give the weak
ones place to eat by themselves. Look out
for ticks early A poor sheep in March i,
poor property.
Don't let things 90 at loose end, because
some one else does. Spruce up. pull down
YOUR vest and TRY TO be somebody No
matter if YOU do things a .i,rc better
than your neighbors sho 10 not read the
Mirror. See that the pigs have warn. nest
and that the trough i not fun Of frozen
>will.
Has not your mother got Tired Of washing
that old rough door Now i, good time
10 yet ou; 1 white maple or other hard
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-01-17
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-01-17

A HINT CONCERNING THE SHEEP.-Ac-
custom your sheep early to going into
their quarters. Every farmer knows
hos hard it is TO manage sheep in the
winter. Get them into the habit Of going
into their pens. Put something there for
them.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-01-17

81 don't like to have my husband chew
tobacco" remarked . young married lady,
"but put up with it, for the tin-foil is just
too handy for anything in doing up my front
ermps."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-01-17

Buffalo feed" is corn from which the
sugar (glucose) has been extracted for
beet-sweetening, and it weighs 46 pounds,
and costs Is cents . bushel.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-01-17

Use kerosene, or bath brick, or powder
ed lime to scour iron, tin or copper
wash in hot suds and polish with dry
whiting.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-01-17

Changing aocks from one pasture to an
other is conducive to the health of the
sheep.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1884-01-17

HONE COURTEsiZs.-All the courtesies
and amenities Of home life have an import
ant influence and bearing upon the charac-
ter of every one, no matter what his or her
station in life, an influence far stronger and
deeper than any one can be aware Of, who
has not given the subject much considers
ton.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
HOW TIE MONEY MAY BE SPENT.

Ids. RECoRD.UNIoN So much has been
said on the question of the special tax for
levee purposes, and we have had it paraded
before our eyes like a war cry so long-"S40,-
500 where it is not wanted, and nothing
where it is needed, that we concluded TO
interview the legal fraternity and our city
authorities on this subj CT, and we now give
the people the result of our investigations.
While Estimates" are given to The amount
Of $40, 800, the people only vote % cents on
$780, or $685. 600 for leves purposes. The
other So 500, having been included in the
general tax levee, the Trustees have the right
and will uss this latter amount wherever in
their Judgment they deem it necessary. If.
owing TO toe experience of this winter, they
see fit TO spend it raising the Front street
levee, they have the right TO spend the So,
500 on the Front street levee. or any other
portion Of our levees where it is necessary
whether we vote on the lsvee tax yes" or
mo" Another thing has been frequently
published, which is, that is we set aside $40 :
800 large part of it will never see the labor
ing IN ans pocket. We assert that this is
very broad and wholly unjust censure on our
present B 1ard Of Trustees in their past and
future management of levee funds But we
believe the people do not share in this dis
trust, but are willing to pass over to the pres
ent Board, including any new Trustee that
may be elected, not only $40, 600 but 500. 600
if necessary for levee purposes, having full
confidence that the money will be wisely and
properly spent and appropriated.
SEVERAL CITIZENS,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

no means least, familiaiize the mird
of youth with vicious deeds and criminal
acts, thinly yelled and attrsetively masked.
The further considerations Of the answer
to his question relate to another branch OF
the subject and are foreign to the division
of it which we have commented upon, and
which is the chief and mainly essential
portion Of the whole debste.
We certainly consider it as hopeful
sign when such minds, in so philosophic a
manner, are giving new attention to sub
ieot so pregnant with results to the Amer,
lean people. And while these methods OF
treatment will advance the crusade against
the literature which can only exist in q
state of society where moral blindness Is
prevalent, as Jameson puts it when speak
ing of such products as Zola's novels, We
could wish for more practical, plain ano
aggressive policy of assault on the part o
the American press generally.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
THE CITY ELECTION.

The first election in the State in the
Presidential year takes place in this city
Tuesday next. The moral effect, so far as
it has any effect, should be in favor of Civ.
ing this State to the Republicans next No
vember. 1t is not wise to belttle the i'm
portance of the local election as factor in
directing public opinion in the right direc.
ton. The Democracy has proven that it
does not know how to advance State inter.
ests. Il is using its power not for the good
of the people, but for vicious party ends.
Republicans should not be used as means
to that end. In the election of Mayor in
Republican city Republican should be
chosen. Joseph Stefens came with his
parents to this country a mere boy, in
1912, from Canada. He has by his
unsided exertions built to himself
respected name in the esteem
of his fellow citizens. He is
thorough business man has no sympathy
with the Democracy, which plays fast and
loose with the trusts reposed in it in Cali
fornis. We need to constantly keep bust
ness ability in all offices, and Joseph Ssef.
fens viii bring the highest order of ability
into his Office. OF necessity he will be in
a minority in the Board of Trustees for
while, and for that very reason he is the
man for the place. for he has backbone,
courage of conviction, honesty of motive,
and is the peer of any man the Democracy
can produce. 1t is good year for Repub-
licans. 1t is a good year to rebuke the
" division Democracy, and throttle the
communistic crowd that has the State by
the throat, and the best time to take
grip on the Democratic windpipe will be
payk Vuaedav
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
ADJECrlvAL HOT Scot FROM MR.
BASsETT,

OACRAMENTO, March I, 1881,
To THE PEOPLE OF SACRAMENTO l have
for days remained silent under the assaults
Of the Bee, because have repeatedly denied
its charges made against me. But as it per-
sists in assertions that tend to affect my
character as s. citizen and an engineer, give
me leave, please, to say that deny empbatj.
caliy, positively and explicitly that L have
maze any false, misleading, malicious, lcrOng,
corrupt or other than correct figures, Surveys,
ieueIS or statements relative co the Front, y
street. north, east. Brighton Slcale, or other
leUeeS non leUees, places, things or fluctuations,
watershed, slope or grade either for the REC
ORD UNION, for the city, for the Citizens
Association, for myself or for any one else.
Ii there are any mare sd1sctivss or words
needed TO enter a denial of the Bees singu-
larly untruthful and unmanly assaults, will
it please consider them used. TeGtfIm all
hare said 1eritten, penned, figured, Surveyed,
etc etc., ia this debate. | renew my chal
lenge to the Bee TO pr0ge the truth Of my state.
mentS and the falsity and indecency of its
assaults on me, by sre.susvey, the los to psy
the costs Its past refusal to test the matter
is confession of its own fslsity. 1 suppose it
will continue to say, "Bassett does not
deny" and that the RECORD UNION published
Bassett's false figures and that it procured
me TO do so. 1t is libelous, not to say in
famous. Let the people understand that the
necessity have stated for leves improvement
docs exist. L. f. BAssETT, City Engineer.
NoTE-The RECORD UNION concurs.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

the bill 10 submit the prohibition question
to vote Of the people failed ID pass the
Legislature. OF the sixty-one votes cast
for i. in the Assembly, ffty-three were
cast by Republicans fact which our pro-
hibition friends, who appear to delight IN
assailing the Republican party, should
ponder upon. Eight Democrats against
and fifty.three Republicans in favor, in the
New York Legislature, of giving the
people the opportunity to vote upon
measure of Importance, and yet the Re-
publican party is assaulted by the very
men who should cling TO it and give it their
moral and active support. Since the failure
of the bill, however, a second one has been
put forward which calls for high license.
and the first great journal to declare for it
is the New York Tribune, which desires
license ''to cost at the minimum $500, "
and adds ''The people have right to
expect that from this Republican Lsgisla-
ture will issue wholesome reform measure
in the interest of temperance, and there
fore in the interest of public morality and
progress. The high license bill is such a
measure" We may misread the signs OF
the times, but nevertheless we again
venture the prophecy that the sentiment
of this country will demand and secure
high license regulation. Whether prohlbi-
ton will be it. sequence is another and
distinct question.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

was such precipitation, and conjunctively
along tributaries, as to fully account for
the rise.
But this rapid ascendancy, of course,
was due to rainfall and melting snow, and
it was, after sll, only apparent high water.
That is to say, the volume of the water IN
the river was not so greatly excessive when
compared to the volume of water of former
years that gave no higher food line. What,
then. could be the cause :? There would
appear to be two, thinkable first, that
discharge into and by tributaries is freer
and speedier than before, caused by a
number of factors, chief among which is
timber derudation of the watersheds /;
and secondly, the filling up of the river
bed.
There must of course have come time
when these causes would be noticeable
with some suddenness, although they have
long been growing, because in all processes
there is first an approach to elimination,
and then actual elimination. The river
process and the watershed process are not
new to us, but this year they make them.
selves manifest more prominently.
1t makes no sort of difference to
people living along the streams, for the
phenomena say to them With but L
or Is inches rain, under the new condition
of things you shall hereafter have as high
water as formerly you had with 10 and &c
inches of precipitation. And this is fact
What, then, are the lessons we draw from
it? Two. First-We must do all that
may be done to augment the restorative
capacity of the river, and build defensei
against its threat of encroachment. Sec
ond-We must do all that wise people
should do to stop, not only the shaving O
the catchment area TO badness, but the
robbing of the river of any degree of vigol
to scour and deepen by the diversion of it
waters through artificial openings in it,
banks. And these two subjects may very
well engage the profound attention of tn,
people of the Sacramento valley for a mum
Der of years to come, and the sooner they
are seriously entered upon the better.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
THE TAHOE FORESTRY COMMISSION.

The Lake Bigler Forestry Commission
has issued letter to the people asking for
information as to the effect the partial de-
struction of forests in California has had
~ upon the distribution of rainfall in this
State t2) the amount of rainfall (3l the
permanency of springs; az the area of
snow.covered land; ~ the melting of
snow (6) the amou 1t of water in rivers
and creeks ; (7) the comparative frequency
OF floods tS) the value or productiveness
of cultivated lands. The Commission de-
sires the personal testimony of all citizens
who have had opportunities for observation
in this regard, and solicit replies to be sent
to its Secretary, E. W. Townsend, A Ne
vada block, San Francisco.
The appointment of the Commission was
the first step taken by this State in the d.
rection OF forest preservation. 1t was the
only concession the last Legislature would
make to those who urged upon that body
action in the matter of forestry. It ia a
very small beginning, but better than none.
The scope of the work of the Commission
is confined to the watershed supplying
Lake Tahoe, but we feel greatly encouraged
by the broad field of inquiry the Commits.
siOners have evolved.
It is true that no inquiry relative to the
catchment area of so great body OF water
as Lake Tahoe can be pursued without 60
ing largely over the whole question Of for.
est destruction on both slopes of
the Sierrss, and the effect upon
all the mountain streams. From this
Commission, therefore, may emanate re-
port OF the most vital Importance to this
State. All the physical features in the
Tahoe area are repeated in our mountain
and headwater systems from one end of the
State to the other, and therefore the work
of the Commission, If thoroughly done,
will relate, by indirection at least, to the
entire watershed of the State.
1t will be observed that the Commission.
ers do not limit the information they de-
sire to observations in the Tahoe region,
but open the door for testimony regarding
the effects of forest spoliation in the entire
State. And we are safe to assume that
they will quite as gladly welcome test.
mony throwing light upon the subject, no
matter what the locality of observation.
With this comprehensiveness of work in
view, the body shoald secure the testimony
taken in the State of New York that has
so aroused the people there to the neces.
sity Of protecting navigable streams by the
sequestration to public uses and the state
of nature, of the whole Adirondack forest
region,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
PROPOSITION AND HIGH LICENSE,

Certainly the thought of the country is
progressing in a right direction, and not.
withstanding the heated denunciations of
the Prohibitionists the high license move.
ment is gaining steadily, as the Empire
State is proving. In New York last week
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

A Woodland paper says: " We have it
from one of the jurymen that the other night,
while deliberstiug on a certain case. some Of
the jury left the iury-room several times
while the Constable was enjoying repose
and went SO far as two blocks from the JUS
tice Court 70 get drinks. If we are not mis.
taken this is flagrsnt violation of the law.
A verdict under such circumstances would be
null and void"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

A LETTER FROM NONRESIDENT. The
following letter was received yesterday from
resident Of BcstoB, Mass. who is part
owner of real property in Sacramento. 1t
was sent in reply to letter by the owners
agent here. stating what the tax would be on
the lots owned under the special levse tax, if
it carries, and asking relative to proposed i'm
provements:
BosT \, February q, 1884
Yours in response to my inquiry of the Sd was de-
layed in coming. | hope this will reach you in
time to have some influence with J. in the tax
question. Say to j. that l am decidedly OF the
opinion he should go for the tax. What we own in
Sacramento is all dependent on the keeping out of
water see by the slips you send me that the
whole levee is not to be raised, suppose 1t cannot
all be done now, as you say, but the work to be
DONE it seems to me, is very necessary. have not
been with you since three years ago but suppose
the situation is the same. OF course j. knows
best being on the ground and he leaves it to me-
TO me it seems foolish beyond question 10 stand at
S34 tax, when get added security and value
thereby. / believe in public works Of that kind
As an outsider know sacramento can do nothing
better than keep at work until she is so firmly
walled in that no water make her people afraid
You can't get investments there until you show a
disposition TO do that l would have nsented to
putting up the other houses long ago If had not
thought it risk 10 put any more money in Sacra
mento now II J. wants to build Cd the other hslf
of lot 8, will sell him the six inches interest that
the fence stands On over the line. / don't care to
buy his share now. II the levee tax carries tell j.
am for flliEg IN the lots foot above the grade
and next year may build, as you say rentals are
in demand. Get estimates from Hook on five-room
cottages and report to me what the filling on the
west lots and six inches Of dressing on top will cost
by August. Mrs. - sends regards to yourself
and wife. -
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
TIE PHENOMENA OF THE RIVERS.

During the current week there has been
phenomenal rise in the Sacramento river.
Under comparatively small-at least low
average RAINFALL sudden and abnormally
high flood line was reached. 1t does not
appear that even in the upper waters there
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

THE San Francisco Bulletin, referring to the de-
mand to be made at the extra session of the Legis-
ature to provide by law that ipjunctons or pro
hbitions shall be issued in any tax case says "The
only remedy under such circumstances for the ag-
grieved taxpayer would be suit for recovery after
he had paid. This rule would catch great many
persons besides the railroads. 1t might offer also,
premium for the non-residenee of taxpayers,
which would give them standing in the Federal
Courts. The second suggestion is the enactment of
Jaw declaring that the people of the State of CAL
ifornia have not authorized and do not ratiiy any
compromise in relation to taxes that may have been
entered into with the railroad companies This
would be retroactive legislation"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
LASTLY.

Ny judgment is hat the case of "neces-
sity is proven. and that the S28, 900 should
be voted That, as l read the law, it must
be used in the dire csion of the plans adver.
tised, but the so, 500 is to be used under the
general powers Of the Trustees az Levee Com
missioners, and where most needed, if greater
need is shown than TIE plans published Of.
ficially call for, As to the wisdom Of this
expenditure, permit one word. Suppose l
owned all this plat where Sacramento stands,
and it was one farm and worth SIG O00, 000,
aud there wss any doubt about its security,
would or any sensible man hesitate to expend
S2S. 900 st once to secure it and to increase its
selling value? II reckon not" JUNIUs.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

y Amateur theatricas have become so much the
rage in New York that it is proposed to build a
special theater for the indulgence of the amateurs.
Good but put on an addition in the form of a
special lunatic asylum. 1t should be conveniently
hand
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

THE Red Bluff Peoples Cause says; We think
quite as satisfactory conclusion can be reached
without convening the Legislature by doing so,
and much mere economically. But some Demo-
cratic capital must be made for the next campaign,
ami we presume it might as well be at the expense
of the State as not" Aud why SO! What does the
safe owe TO the Democracy?
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08

The disgracefu rush to witness a cowardly slog.
ging match at San Francisco Thursday night must
have been humiliating all citizens who entertain
belief in the progress of the r1ce toward higher
civgizatinn