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But when h. goes iGrlhcr and. taking as his
precedent the acton olsthe Chinese Govern-
ment in past instances. where the lives of
American citizens, and their property in China
have been endangered, and argues reciprocal
obligation on the part of the United States TO
indemnity the Chinese subjects who suffered at
Rock Springs, it becomes necessary 10 meet his
argument, and to deny most empbatically the
conclusions he seeks to draw as 10 the existence
OF such liability, and the right OF the Chinese
tention of Congress to the latter Part o the note
of the Secretary of State OF February Is, 1885, in
reply to the Chinese Minister'S representations
ami to invite special consideration of the cogent
reasons by which he reaches the conclusion that
whilst the United States Government is under
no obligation whether by the express terms of
its treaty with China, or the pricipies of inter
national law,
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FOR SALE :
CLOSING OUT ENTIRE STOCK
CALIFORNIA DRUG STORE.
N the Town of DIXON. Inquire of s. G. LITTLE.
DixQn Feb 1896
FOR SALE.

UNIVE YOUNG SHORT HORNSSz-z1szzzN
Il Bulls of the best families, &&f&
from imported cows. Also. eigh- R
teen High Grades, all good solid --A
colors one mile east of Davisville.
fes-tf =. s. CHILES, Davisville Cal
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f0R SALE-TO Lee.

DooMS FOR HOUSEKEEPING THE UP
III per portion of the residence, No. 4l9 o
street between Fourth and Fifth, comprising
large and well ventilated rooms with con
venient clothes closets will be let TO desirable
tenant; extra-large Kitchen and Pantry; Bath
room, Closet, etc. mr2-tf
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PAINTS AND OILS.

7 L. CEADDERDON IMPORTER AND DEAL
sy. er Ia Paints Oils, vsrnishes, Window Glass
Mixed Paints, Artists and Painters Asterials
Wall Paper, etc No. 214 K ST., Sacramento
faI--Jptf
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For Prices and Additional Particulars,
APPLY To-
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PASTURES.
MI nv
National Livestock Journal.

As 4 rule, the tastes or preferences Of animals
are the best guides as TO what kinds of food
are best suited TO their development, and most
profitable 10 iced. We mean. of course, the
tastes At animals that have not been starved
and have had 4 variety Of food, ifnota chance
TO select. An English writer on this subject
says: IF you observe n permanent pasture
when it is moderately stocked you will not
have much difficulty in picking out the worth
less grasses Sdeep and cattle do not eat at
random; on the contrary, they carefully select
their food. rejecting one blade of grass which
they dislike, and selecting the next one which
they like; the Consequence of this ccii"scln Is,
voorhees, grasses run 10 seed, except on meadow
lands" This illustrates our meaning, when
We say the taste or instinct OF the animals IS 4
good guide TO Us in our selection of food for II
to cat 1t also contains valuable hint as 10
why the best grasses sometimes run out and
the poorest take possession of the soil. II in
dicatcs that an early and repeated moving Of
pastures would keep down the ol'jc tionablc
grasses rejected by the stock, and that IN an
nual spnnkling of the right kind of seed over
the pastures would keep up the presence otthc
more desirable grasses. OF comSe. it is not
every pasture that can be moved, but this docs
not initiate against the fact that moving would
be an advantage. Many pastures can be
moved; and cutting down the rank, rejected
growths gives chance for the tender and
sweet grasses to spring up, as aftermath docs
in the meadow after moving. On all PASTURES
tits possible to sow seed. w, believe it would
pay To dc"otc more attention To pasiur ;, keep
ing out weeds, discouraeing the development
of the inferior grasses, and promoting the PFC
sence and growth of the better, more palatILle
and more nutritious ones.
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EVIDENCES or CHRISTIANITY.

Lamartine, in his Life Of Column
bus, thus describes his approach to
America: One day at sunrise
some rushes recently torn up were
seen near the vessel; a plank evil
IDENTIFY hewn by an axe; stick
skillfully carved by some cutting
instrument; a bough Of hawthorn in
blossom; and lastly, birds nest
on a branch which the wind had
broken, and full Of eggs, on which
the parent bird was sitting amid
the gently-rolling waves, were seen
floating past upon the waters.
They were voices from the shore,
confirming the assurance of Column
bus. Delicious and unknown per-
fumes reached the vessels from
the dim outlines of the shore, with
the roar of the waves upon the
reefs and the soft land-breczc. In
a few hours his feet trod the sands
of new world" A friend of ours,
Watching by the side of his sick
wife, spoke of evidences of Christ
ianity. He wanted nothing more
to show its truth than her patience
and Christian meekness. Her life
o him was like the breeze to
Columbus, pointing out not near
ing land, but nearing heaven.
The sorrows and the joys, the
sickness and death, of our beloved
all tell us we draw near that new
world where God shall wipe away
all tears, and where shall be no
more death.-Southern Church
man.
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HUMoR IN THE FAMILY,

Good humor is rightly recoIned
a most valuable aid to happy home
life. An equally good and useful
faculty is a sense OF humor or the
capacity to have a little amuse-
ment along with the humdrum
cares and work of life. We all
know how it brightens up things
generally to have a lively, witty
companion who sees the ridicu-
Ious point of things, and who can
turn an annoyance into an occasion
for laughter. 1t does a great deal
better to laugh over domestic mis-
haps than to cry and scold over
them. Its well to turn off an i'm
patient question sometimes, and to
regard it from a humorous point of
view, instead of becoming irritated
about it. "Wife, what is the rea-
son can never End a clean shirt"
exclaimed a rather impatient hus-
band after rummaging through the
wrong drawer. His wife looked
at him steadily for moment, half
inclined to be provoked; then with
a comical look, she said: 81 never
could guess conundrums; 1 give it
up" Then he laughed, and they
both laughed, and she went and
got his shirt, and he felt ashamed
of himself and kissed her. and then
she felt happy; and so what might
have been an occasion for unkind
feelings and hard words became
just the contrary, all through the
little vein of humor that cropped
out to the surface. Laughter is
better than tears. Let US have d
little more of it at honolulu
Gran.
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The Weekly BANNER.


Sam 0nes puts it il. this shape,
and his head is level on The subject
To getin debt financially is about
the worst thing a znan-cando. A
man had better die than to get in
debt, as l speak that with all the
honesty of my nature and out OF
deep experience. Death has hurt
fewer people than debt has, and
Spurgeon said a good thing when
he said;Es'f have ouglItthree enes
mics, Trust Successfully dirt, and
the devil, and debt, and, by the
grace of God, L hope to conquer
all three and make my way to
heaven And l don't know which
is the worst. By soap and water
you can rub the first of. by prayer
and faith you can make the,seeond
git but this thing Of debt is q
mighty hard thing to Managerial
man that will buy a luxury on
credit IS a tool,ssaud a man that
will buy a1nxuV when=heowes
money on an honest debt is a ras-
cal. The same God that said,
Thou shalt not steal" said, "Owe
no man anything, but to love one
another Don't buy thing il
you can'tpay for it. But if you
must get into debt, the next best
thing to do is to settle up the first
of every month every dollar you
owe. If not once month, then
have clear receipt in full every
Christmas day, and man who
doesn't settle at least once a year
is on the road to bankruptcy.
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RHERE FARMING poEsEN 7 PAY.

1t seems now TO be settled that
under existing conditions 1t docs
not pay to grow grain or raise
cattle in the best part of the con-
tipept and tho British isles. For
this curious and alarming state of
things the world is indebted to the
extension of steam navigation TO
all parts of the earth. Wheat,
barley, oats, etc., can be grown on
almost any arabic land. II follows
that wherever the factors are most
favorable that region gets the
benefit of this cheap access to the
consuming market. A few years
ago India contributed hut 10000
bushels Of wheat to countries out
side Of the Peninsula. Its export
supply is now about 100000 of
bushels, and with the extension of
the railway system it will have
fully 10O,000,0O0 for outside con-
sumption.
The secret of India's ability to
sell in distant markets is the extra
ordinary cheapness OF labor, which
does not command more than 10
cents @ day of our money. The
Unined States, Australia, and Now
Zealand can produce wheat and lay
it down in Liverpool at a price
which is simply runous to the
English and European wheat,
grower. This is BECAUSE Of cheaper
and moro fertile lands and the use
of machinery on the broad prai-
ries and plains, which dlsponses
with costly labor. Recent statis-
tics show that tenanG-farmcrs in
tho British islands who confne
themselves to cereals and cattle
raising can not make both ends |
meet if they undertake TO pay
their rent. This accounts for the |
distress among the agricultural |
classes IN the Old World, and more
for the abject misery of
the Irish people, who have no d.
versIficd industries, because the
island is without coal or iron, and
British laws discourage manufac-
lures of any kind in that unhappy |
country.
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When member of congress dies
his pay ceases on tho day OF his
death. The salary of the successor
commences the day after the de-
cease of the former member,
though the election may not occur
for several months. The new
member, in other words, draws pay
for time he never served.
A member is allowed twenty
cents miiage each way, or forty
cents a mIlc one way, and he can
cheek for the full amount OF both
trips hen he takes his seat. He
is allowed one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve dollars a year for station
AIRY. The most OF this sum is
pocketed.
The members draw their money
in different ways. There are prob
ably twenty of the present House
who lie ttheir salaries run into nest
eggs. Among these are Scott and
Evarts of Pennsylvania, Powell
of Illinois, BouteIIe, of Maine;
Henley, California Jones, Stewart,
and Regan, of Texas Ellsbury,
of Ohio; Stone, of Massachusetts;
and Wakefield, OF Minnesota.
Scott has over a year owing him
about $4,000. The other members
mentioned have from $1,000 to
$4,000 to their credit. There arc
a couple a dozen members wns al
ways overdraw, or, rather, borrow
from the head of the bank. They
borrow or get la sdVance sums
ranging from $40 to $500, and at
the end of the month they have
nothing. The great majority of
the members draw all that &c COM
ing to them at the end of each
G.nnth, particularly those who
have tthelr families with them.
Some of them never soc an outside
bank, but let monthly salaries re-
main and draw 1t out in sma.ni
sums. Others take out their sal
aries and place them in other
banks. But this is not done as
much as formerly. A number of
them got caught in tho Middleton
bank that broke some time ago.
Most of the members do all their
financial business over the counter
of the Congressional bank, and
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One of the largest pasture and cattle own,
ers " the lower country says that the small
farmer is not only invading his section, bu
that in the matter of farming he is :. success
and thinks that ifhe meets with the encourage
ment he deserves, il will not be long unt
enough (qoi Will be raised to mature and fatter
all The beeVes that vii be to spare. He adj
mits that these small farmers are MOI able tc
buy the beeves to which his crops may be fed
but says the stockraiser is able to buy his
feed. and in case he does not care TO bother
With feeding cattle he suggests that where the
farmer is reliable, it might be well for stock,
man 10 enter into an agreement 10 furnish li.,,
as many beeves as he can fatten, the profits tc
be divided upon basis to be agreed upon
betweea than. Tbe gentleman who sugges-
ted the above thoughts, though no; mgch hear
from in the cattle conventions, is one of the
Oldest and most successful cattlemen of his
section, snd lis apity that more ofhis sort are
not seen and heard at CUR cattle conventions,
both great and small.-Texas Slackman,
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SIGNS AND PoRTENTs.
Dream of eggs, sign of money.
Dream of snakes sign of enc

Dream of eggs, sign of money.
Dream of snakes sign of enc
MES.
If you sing before supper you
will cry before supper.
Dreaming of muddy or rushing
water brings trouble.
Finding horse shoe or four
leavcd clover brings good look.
1t you cut your nails or sncczc
on Saturday you do it "for evil"
She who takes the last stitch at
= quilting will be the first TO marry.
If You cannot make up n hand
some bed your husband will have
Il homely nose.
Stub your right toe, you are
going where you arc wanted; your
left, whcrc'you arc not wanted.
II the rooster crow on the fence,
tho weather will be fair; If on the
doorsteps, he will bring company.
If the first Sunday in the month
Is unpleasant, there will be but one
pleasant Sunday during the month.
If by chance mourning hat or
bonnet is placed upon your head
You will mood one of your own
soon.
If your right ear burns. some one
is praising you; if your left, your
friends arc raking you over the
Goals.
Returning TO tho house for a mo-
mcnt after having once started out
will bring bad luck unless you sit
dom.
While at the wash board, if the
suds splash and wet the clothes
you are wearing; you will have a
drunken husband.
If you drop your dishcloth you
will have company; also if you
sweep black mark or if two
chairs stand accidentally back to
back.
II a baby secs his face in the
glass 1t will be the death of him.
If his nails arc cut he will be a
thict. If he tumbles out of bed ii
will save his being fool.
Break mirror, sign of death
Death is also toretoId by dog
bowling under Il window hear a
mourning dove, strange dove
lowering about or dreaming of 4
white horse.
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CONVERTING CORN Nro PORK.

Farm, Field and Stockman:
Pork and corn seem to be insep-
arabic articles. But unless the
corn is properly fed the pork will
be expensive. Corn and pork
only go together when it is desira-
BILE to fatten the hogs. If corn is
used in any other manner or for a
different purpose the pork becomes
a very expensive product. We do
not advocate feeding corn in the
summer to any class of stock, and
experience shows that while it is
invaluable to the pork raiser, pork
can be produced more cheaply
when the corn is fed in a judicious
manner. Many farmers, though
aged, do not know that clover hay
can be fed with advantage to hogs,
and yet such is the fact. We have
long separated the hog from all
other classes of stock and denied
him the privilege OF being ted on
grass, cut hay, ground oats and
other food that is more acceptable
to him during his growing period
than corn, and the consequence is
that he fails under his long con-
tinued diet of corn, and becomes
susceptible to diseases that were
before unknown. To keep the
steer stuffed with dry corn which
is a concentrated food, and deprive
it of bulky provender or pure water
would cause it to succumb in a
short time, yet this is just the treat
ment that the hog is compelled to
undergo, simply because corn is
king" and supposed to be cheap,
when the fact is that when fed
under such circumstances it is very
costly. What the hog requires is
a variety, including bulky food,
and corn will then perform an
important service.
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A man whe has experienced all the vicisi-
tudes of the cattle business, thus enlightened
the live stock reporter yesterday: "IIave you
observed that the mil ionaire strut of the cat
tie king has degeneratcd into a s 5000 Sumter?
Time was when two and a-h lfmeant S25o,-
600. I hat was when big trades wcre made
and the cattle man in hurry 10 get t.
watering place TO recupcrat his health, didn't
have the time or breath TO say Sz5o,oco, and
he just abbreviated it 10 az. Ikpow If one
trade involving 5000, 900, in referringto which
the seller said that he had got OF. Butthings
have sadly changed. Two and a-halP now
means S2.5o, and instead of dining at the
fashionable hour Of 4 p. M. the cattle men eats
his dinner at high noon, rests plebian hour
and goes 10 work, and the summer resorts and
other PAGES ofrccreation and amusement know
him no more forever" News.
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SNAKES IN his BOOTS.

Talking about snakes" began
the old man, who had been sitting
quietly on box summing himself
yesterday, listening to stories Of
marvellous escapes from snakes
told by a group of young men, 81
have seen two or three big snakes
myself" The younger knew that
something was going to break loose
and leaning up against each other,
to get what little support they
could, waited. at was in the
mountains of Kentucky, Just after
the war, and l was out hunting
squirrels. Coming down a hillside
l stepped on what ] thought was a
charred branch when | felt it move,
and looking down, saw that it was
a monster black snake, not less
than ten feet long. With a shout to
my companions, / ran through the
brush until ] stumbled over limb
and fell just as the snake made a
jump and passed over me, going on
down into small ravine. In less
than two seconds there was 500
snakes reused by that black viper.
Rattlesnakes started up a chorus,
while the smell from the copper
heads was sickening. They held
a jubilee for a few minutes while
I, scared almost to death and never
expecting to come out alive, faint
ed. The next thing l knew the
boys were bathing my head with
cold water. They said they had
some difficulty in finding me. that
they saw no snakes, and that they
had to use water instead of giving
me drink of whiskey because my
flask was entirely empty"
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WHArA COW SHOULD YIELD

Hoof and Horns: Something depends of
course upon the kind of COW, but no COW is a
good one that does not yield $500 quarts Of
milk in one year. or about seven quails day
for S6S days. She will be dry a portion of the
time, and of course yield more when fresh than
toward the close of her milking period, but
she should not give less than seven quarts
daily for every day in the yer. The milk
should produce about two hundred pounds of
butter, or pound to every Twelve quarts OF
milk, which, at IS cents a pound the whole
yearwould be $50 The value ofthe cali depends
on its breeding, while the skim milk fed to
pigs and the manure shouldrealze at least SAG
more, making SIS. We mays at ly take rne-
half for cost, leaving $3.50 as profit. The
sum fixed as profit, however, may vary, as the
price of food is cheaper in somr localiii, than
in others. Dairymen differ as TO the amount
of profit a COW should give. Some claim as
much as $50 year, but such dairymcn sell
tho milk directly TO consumers at Il lair price.
The fairest estimate is made upon the practice
Of skimmIng the milk and raising pigs, which
will increase the profit, especially ii good
breed of hogs be used in connection with a
first class lot of dairy COWS.
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If a man had owned 5000 jugs
yesterday morning in Atlanta, and
the jugs had been his, he could
have gone to bed last night rich.
Money could not buy a jug yes
terday. There was none in town.
Tuesday evening one dealer re-
ceived 1900 jugs, and Wednesday
afternoon was down town trying
TO buy more. One firm received
three days ago two car loads, and
Wednesday wanted more, but
could not get them. Jugs that
have been discarded for years
were brought out, boiled out,
cleaned out and then filed with
liquor. The venegar jug, the mo-
lasses jug, and even the jig which
had been consigned to the ash pile
as a receptacle I've was brought
into use again, and is to-day a
treasure. Bottles were abundant,
it is true, but it took too many OF
them to hold as much as a jug
Atlanta Constitution.
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The recovery of digestion, and the rcsump-
ton of activity by the liver, bowels and kid
neys, are milestones which mark our progress
on the road to health. They speedily be-
come perceptible when Hostctter's Stomach
Bitters is used by the invalid. Nothing SO
surely and cxpeditiously consumes the dis
lance to the desired goal. AS no bodily
function can suffer interruption without i'm
pairing the general health of the system, so
the system can never acquire pprf5et VigOr,
health's synonym, until TINT f!nRetion BE- ac-
ton, n suspension of WHICH is invariably rec
tiied by ihe Bitters: If the organs upon
which Il devolvcs grow weak, piIiqusGess,
constipation, headache, poverty Of the blood,
and u hundred other symptoms supervene,
which indicate unmistakably the bancful
general influence of dyspepsia. The disap-
pearqnee q M tnese symptnng, through the
use ofthe Bitiers, show with what thorough
ness it removes their cause.
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One may leel Tat he's getting Cd, but he
naturally dislikes that anything about his
appearance should adj Use others Of The fact.
Yet nothing does this so citettuaiiy is tina
and falling hair. No woman wants to marry
n man, and business firms hesitate to employ
a man, who shows this fatal sign. Parker's
Hair Balsam is worth to you, in this regard,
more than its -e.ght in diamonds. Use it,
ahd have plentiful and glossy NGi4. Many
have had every trace of grayness removed
and bald spots covered by using single
bottle.
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FRELSBURG, TFXAS.
Editors Texas Farm and Ranch:
In the April number and again in the JunC
number of Texas Farm and Ranch you ask
for recipe for dried or smoked beef My
process is to take all the homeless parts hccI
| desire to dry, and cut intn pieces Of desir.
able size-say from 4 to IL pounds. Dip the same
in boiling water for about one minute; thea
salt and pepper. CT add any other kind of spice
you may desire. Rub the beef well with the
salt and spice, and Pack away in box or bar
rel, and press by placing heavy weights on
the beef: let it remain tor four OF FIVE days, OF
even little 10 ger, then hangIt up and smoke
it. This is what we cali Hamburg smoked
beef. The recipe was given me by gentle
man from Hamburg, and l believe it makes
the best smoked beefI ever tasted. 1t might,
perhaps, be better TO season and press the bee
before putting it in beiling water.
IF. IEENDFCKER.
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When you 90 TO your druggist TO buy ;
bottle of Simmons Liver Regulator, and III
offers you some counterfeit with simiIal
sounding name and says ''itis the same thing
or Just ms gaod," ask him his motive for moi
giving on the GenuiGe preparation in White
Wrapper, with red z thereon, prppaped BY
j. H. Zellin & Co. The only object such d
dealer can have is the fact that lie makes an
extra twenty-five cents per BOTTLE profit BY
selling Il cheap and counterfeit article which
may do you positive injury.