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Western Kansas world., 1888-02-18

was forever the 1a1nG, lulIluR 1alI OF
water in the marble basins Of tinkling
fountains Then her troth-pight would
rise before her, and she felt q vague
dread of what-she could not define.
So she often hummed the old French
rhyme, "Loyalje serai datrasat ma vie,
and she strove to be honest; to hate
the smell of Southern honeysuckle; to
forget the glory of the Southern moon,
and shut out from memory the musical
flow of the Sunfower River.
@What is that couplet you repeat 80
often?" he queried one day, and then
her womanly instinct tempted her to
tell him all
"It means my loyalty is above all
other things in the world, she said,
with an attempt at smile, which was
an ignominous failure. II have lover
in the North whom shall marry some
day, and sing it when I think of him.
The words cost her powerful effort,
and the blood surged to her face rs she
saw him turn away, with his own face
pale as death. She noticed that, ever
after, the grave melancholy of his de-
meanor was intensified, and though he
was with her more than ever, he did not
smile at every light saying of hers as
was his wont.
One autumn morning they rode out
together. It was her last day. To
morrow she was going home.
"The old conventionalities, the old
hollow mockery," she thought-aall
these will enter into my life in Q few
days I shall miss my short. sweet
freedom, and I shall miss even more
she scarcely dared finish the thought
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
Insect Diseases.

In Bulletin No. of the Minnesota Ex-
pertinent Station Otto Lugger, the En-
tomologist of the Station, gives a most ex-
cellent paper on Fungi Which Kill In
sects - Especially as Affecting Chinch-
Bugs and Locusts."
The diseases treated of by Mr. Lugger
are only those that are produced usually
by the microscopically small fungi, or
fowerless plants. Many of our food plants
are attacked in much the same manner as
the insects are, by such fungi as rust,
blight, mildew and smut, which are repro
duced by means of spores, which, falling
upon or entering the proper tissues,
whether animal or vegetable, grow rapidly,
producing eventually either a slow or a
sudden death.
Insects seem to be most freely attacked
by fungi during rainy seasons, when their
dead bodies may be found clinging to
plants or hiding under boards or rubbish,
the nature of their death being clearly in
dicated by white thread-like or cottony
mass surrounding or imbedding them A
good example of this is the common
house-hy, which may frequently be found
clinging to window-panes during the
autumn, imbedded in such white ma S.
Certain forms of bacteria, or fungi, con
sisting of single cells, destroy great num-
bers of the silk-worms in European coun-
tries, and in this country many species of
butterfly Larvae are attacked, among them
the Larvae of the cabbage butterfly. These
bacteria may be introduced into the Larvae
with their food, which has been contami-
mated by diseased one, or by some other
means. When the larve feed in large
companies, the disease spreads very rap
idly.
Mr.. Luggers account of how one of
these fungi, a species of the genus Ento-
rnophthord, attacks the chinch-bug in the
field, is very interesting. He says: "The
fields invaded by the disease afford truly
edifying spectacle to those not interested
in the welfare of the chinch-bugs. They
looked quite panic-stricken, and moved
about in a slow and dazed way, fguratively
speaking, as if badly scared. And well
they might bel The victims of the dis
ease could be seen everywhere by thou
sands; they had been slaughtered in all
kinds of positions, but they were usually
fastened to the blades and stems of grass.
or to the leaves of young clover. All
showed plainly that their last and strong
determination in life had been to hold on
as long as possible; their legs we're firmly
planted upon the substance where the bug
happened to be; others had only their
beaks inserted, and were dangling by it in
the free air"
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15

proportionate carelessness ir the render
ing of the works of the rival school, and
therefore it is no wonder that the public
prefer "Lohengrin" in full glory to Lucia"
indifferently performed. " Des TeufePs
Antheil" was recently given in the Royal
Opera at Munich and as Fraulein Dressler
cannot sing fiorid music, Carlo Croschi's
trills and runs, which make that role so
attractive, we're omitted One of the
daily papers acknowledged that the omis-
sion was a rather daring innovation, but
excused it on the ground that "we Ger
mans do not care much for colorature."
What made the incident still more sur
prising was the fact that only short time
previous TO this MANNED performance
Lucca had sung the role in her most brill
liant manner to a crowded and enthusiastic
house. In the same theater, Robert der
Teufel" was given not long ago with the
part of Isabella omitted. Think of it
Robert without the Gnaden aria!
The following anecdote will illustrate
the indifference of the extreme Wagnerites
to thorough vocal culture. One of the
most prominent devotees of the Wagner
cult in Germany was recently extolling the
capacities of Marianne Brandt as an inter-
prefer of Wagner, when a bystander ven
tured to interpose an adverse criticism re-
specting that artists voice; whereupon the
music director hastened to exclaim, "Oh,
she can't sing at all She doesn't know
how to singl" and then proceeded in his
eulogy of her great dramatic power, her
immense capacity for expression. Now
when a thorough musician claims pre-
eminence for a singer who doesn't know
how to sing" it is high time to stop and
see whittier this infatuation is tending.
| The man was more nearly right than most
admirers of the new school of music would
| be willing to allow. Very few of the
| younger singers know how to sing; and at
| all the great musical centers there is an
immense number of disappointed aspirants,
pupils who have broken down before fin
ishing their studies; debutanteS who have
been forced to retire after short and I'M
successful probation, artists who possess all
| the requirements belonging to their
profession excepting the voice, which has
either been spoiled by wrong training or
worn out by excessive demands upon its
| power.
The Wagnerites are accustomed to assert
that Wagner's music does not injure the
voice. But this pleasing delusion will not
bear the test of experience. Let any one
listen to Heinrich Vogl when he comes,
fresh from his summer vacation, to such
roles as Severus or Don Attavio, and then
hear him again after he has been through
the Nibelungen Cyclus, and there will nc
longer be the slightest question as to the
effect of Wagner's music upon the voice
Vogl has the advantage Of a perfect
method added to the gift of an organ ex.
ceptionally strong. Yet the tired sound
does not leave his voice for weeks after.
wards, and there is no doubt that hi,
power will fail prematurely in consequence
of the tremendous strain so frequently ap
plied.-December Atlantic
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Proportion of Taxes 10 Earnings.

Our present population is about 81 ,00O,-
600. At fifty cents per day each for per-
sonal use the share of total product comes
to Sll ,200, 100000. National and State
taxes come to about S700,000,0O0. The
addition to capital computed at ten per
cent. comes to 81, 800, 100000. This gives
a gross product of S13,000,000,000 This
would be $500 per head to one in three
occupied for gain.
Now let any reader or observer pass in
review or attempt to compute the number
of people about whose condition he him
self Is tolerably well informed in the COM
munity in which he lives, and he will un-
questionably find greater number of men
and women who are engaged in getting
their own living Ito say nothing of chill
dren) whose earnings are less than one
dollar and three-quarters a day, than he
viii of those whose earnings are more.
What is the aspect of life to this vast body.
constituting majority of the people Of
this country, who earn less than one dollar
and three-quarters per day and who sup
port themselves and two others on such an
income? When this question is brought
clearly before the mind, the true labor
question begins to declare itself-Edvard
AtkinsoR.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
PoultrY in the Orchard.

While it is undisputed that an orchard
is one of the best places in the world in
which to establish poultry yard, we have
also found poultry to be excellent for fruit
trees. We have sixteen Shockley apple
trees, now 7 years old, standing in and
around our poultry yards. Some of those
standing directly in the runs of the fowls
have as many apples as any Of the five trees
on the outside. This is conclusive evi-
dence that the one is beneficial to the
other. The chickens destroy all bugs and
other insects that prey upon the trees and
fruit; at the same time they keep down
all grass and weeds and keep the surface
of the ground well scratched up and in a
mellow condition, thus promoting the
health and vigor of the trees, causing them
to bear larger and better crops of fruit.
Some of the trees in our yard are literally
hanging with nice apples, and so heavily
laden we are compelled to keep the limbs
well propped to keep them from breaking
down Shade is one of the Indispensable
about poultry establishment during the
summer months, and it is certainly better
and more profitable to have some good va
rIety of fruit We at the same time get
the needed shade while we get bountiful
supply of delicious fruit, if of the right
kind. We should certainly advise all to
have orchards for poultry and poultry for
orchards, for the one viii be greatly bene-
fitted by the other.-Pouitry Guide
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
ROUGH ON BUGS.
A Shipment of Australian Scale Destroy
ers for California.
[ Los Angeles lin 5.

In Thursdays Times appeared a short
dispatch from San Francisco, stating that
State Inspector Klee was mourning over
the loss of box of Australian parasites
intended for him, but which, by mistake
had been sent to Los Angeles It trans
pires that these parasites were collected
at Adelaide, Australia, by Albert Koebele,
whom Professor Riley of the United States
Department of Agriculture dispatched to
Australia last August for the purpose of
obtaining and forwarding parasitic and
other insects that prey upon the white
(cottony cushion scale. They were brought
to San Francisco free of charge by one OF
the steamers controlled by J. D. Spreckels,
and were consigned to D. W. Coquillett,
of Los Angeles, one of Professor Riley's
agents. Mr.. Coquillett, in conjunction
with ]. W. Wolfskill, of this city, has in
closed two orange trees belonging to the
latter gentleman, and has placed the para
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sites within these Enclosures. One of the
boxes, as intimated above, was addressed
to Inspector Klee, but as 10 letter was re-
ceived with the boxes, Mr.. Coquillett sup
posed that Mr.. Klee had concluded to send
him the entire consignment, so he placed
this box of parasites under the tent along
with the others.
The parasites were sent in two small
wooden boxes, tin one, and a glass case
containing living plants infested with white
scales, upon which the parasites could sub
sist during their long journey to this coun-
try. The parasites were of four kinds, one
of which lives in its preparatory stages
within the body of the white scale, ulti-
mately causing its death, while the three
other kinds catch and deTour the festive
scales. something as a cat catches and de-
yours mouse. Two of these latter kind
are the young of lady-bugs, and are ex-
ceedingly voracious; when they were trans
ferred to the inclosed orange tree each of
them seized upon the first white scale it
met with, and did not relinquish its hold
until nothing remained of the luckless
scale except the empty skin.
The wooden boxes which contained the
greater number of the parasites that live
within the bodies of the white scales were
brought over on ice, in order that their de-
velopment might be retarded as much as
possible and the parasites be placed under
the tent while yet in their preparatory
stages. The perfect fly, after issuing from
the pupa state, which is assumed within
the body of the scale, lives only about nine
days, during which time pairing takes place
and the eggs are laid. 1t was, therefore,
desirable to retard the issuing of the flies
Until they were placed among scales upon
which they could deposit their eggs, other
wise the flies would issue and perish before
reaching their journeys END. The wisdom
of this proceeding is seen by the fact that
already over a hundred flies have issued
from these two boxes.
This parasitic fly, which reioices in the
euphonious appellation of Lestopbonus
iceryde, is a thick-set, black, two-winged
fly, in general appearance resembling a
| common house-hy, but is only about one
| fourth as large. 1t attaches It's eggs to the
bodies of the younger white scales, and
from each of these eggs matches minute
| footless maggot that bores its way into the
body of the scale and for about three
months thereafter lives at the expense of
lls NlcIlini lnen having reacheu us luIi
growth, it assumes the pupa form and in
the course of a week or so is changed to
the winged fly, but before this takes place
its victim has passed beyond the borders
of bugdom. In one of the white scales re-
ceived from Australia were fourteen pupae
of this fly, but the usual number is from
two TO four.
Mr.. Coquillett proposes to get these par
asites well established upon the trees he
has inclosed, after which they will be dis
tributed to the fruitgrowers who are desir-
Gus of colonizing them upon their own
trees. The prospect is certainly very
promising, and there is every reason for
believing that good results will follow this
first attempt at importing and colonizing
parasites of imported insect pests.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
A Man without an Ancestry.

AS soon as the American negro seeks to
rise above the level of the former time he
finds himself confronted with the past of
his race and the woes of his kindred. The
white man traces his ancestry back for
generations, knows whence they came.
where they lived, and guesses what they
did. To the American negro the past is
only darkness, replete with unimaginable
horrors. Ancestors he has none. Until
within quarter of century he had no
record of his kindred. He had no father.
no mother-only a sire and dam. Being
bred for market, he had no name, only a
Distinguishing appellative, like that of
horse or a dog. Even in comparison with
these animals he was at disadvantage; (;
there was no "herd-book" of slaves. The
remembrance of this condition is not pleas
ant, and can never become so. 1t is ex-
asperating, CALLING, degrading. Every
freedman's life is colored by this shadow.
Thus the life of the negro, as a slave, freed
man and racial outcast, offers undoubtedly
the richest mine Of romantic material that
has opened to the English-speaking novel
ist since the Wizard of the North discov-
cred and depicted the common life in Scot
land. The negro as man has an i'm
mense advantage over the negro as a serv-
ant, being an altogether new character in
fction.-A. W. Tourgee in the December
Forum
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
OPERA AND VOICE.
The Field of the Wagner Music and its
Eject on Soncsters

The best singers of Wagners music to-
day are the singers who were trained in
the old Italian school and developed
through the practice of Italian opera. But.
unfortunately, these singers are dying out,
and their successors have neither their
training nor their practice to fortify them
against the demands of I" the music of the
future"
1t is the fashion to assert that italian
opera is dead" and this in face Of the fact
that the greatest living singer sings only
Italian opera. 1t is an absurd assertion.
for there viii always be voices for which
forid music is better suited than any other,
and there viii always he listeners who pre-
fer brilliant execution to heavy recitative.
Patti will never want for an audience, nor
will any other singer who is perfect in her
art. The trouble IS that the increasing
popularity of German opera has caused a
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
Do not Think for a Moment

That catarrh will ia time wear out. The
theory is false. Men try TO believe it, be-
cause It would be pleasant if true, but it is
not. as all know. Do not let an acute
attack of cold in the head remain uusub-
dued. 1t Is liable to develop into catarrh.
You can rid yourself of the cold and avoid
all chance Of catarrh by using DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. If already afflicted rid
yourself of this troublesome disease speed
lily by the same means. At all druggists.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15

One hundred years ago apples we're not
much larger than plums, tomatoes were
entirely unknown, and many of the most
valuable fruits and vegetables grew in the
woods in the wild state in which nature
created them. Horticulture has made
wonderful strides, and is advancing every
day.
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The overcrowded state of Westminster
Abbey suggests that some other place will
have to be found for those of England S
illustrious dead, for whom, did space ad-
NIT, the earth of the national Walhalla
would constitute their last resting place.
The great majority" however, have so
thronged its vaults, that at most room can
be made for twenty more, and while the
congested state of the crypts has long been
suspected, the announcement comes almost
as surprise that the dead of the present
generation will be the last to be deposited
in them. Westminster Abbey enjoys a
mortuary record Of 1,200 years, and con-
tains in its recesses the dust Of more war
riors and statesmen than have ever been
grouped together under a single fame 1t
is the solitary British institution which
has never been abused, for of the present
silent incumbents of the vaults none has
| dared to challenge the right of any to lie
| there.
Interments at Westminster Abbey are
not matters of everyday occurrence and
though an appreciable interval of time
must elapse before the last funeral pageant
passes up its nave, the recollection of those
| who, in point of years, are ripe for this
honor, enables US to check them off on our
| fingers. The Quaker tribune is in his last
illness, and will certainly monopolize a
portion of that mold to which his older but
still robust colleague must presently come.
| The latter is the contemporary of the
| laureate, who, of all men outside the
services and Parliament, has the best claim
to the Abbey's shelter. Before, however.
| the last of this trio is gathered in, many
| interments will have taken place Of indi-
viduals who, less distinguished than they,
have nevertheless, by their achievements
in arms or the contributions to science,
merited the honor of a burial at St.
Stephens. A few years more and the perch
or so of ground still available for the pur-
pose of sepulture will be occupied, but be-
fore that time the problem of finding
new hall will have to be faced.
Those who come to its shade will find
themselves preceded by august company,
for Wellington lies here, so does Nelson,
the less distinguished fame obtaining for
their bones advantages of isolation that
| could never be afforded in the case OF
Westminster Abbey. For the statesman
the knowledge that a British Premier re-
poses in the crypt may reconcile him to its
civic rawness, while for the warrior, who,
like Wellington, may take passive part
in those honors which a grateful nation
has voted him, next to the Abbey, the vast
Cathedral Church Of St. Paul is by all odds
/ the most fitting place of sepulture.
" Here in streaming London's central roar
Let the sounds OF those he wrought for,
And the feet of those he fought for
Echo round his bones forevermore."
ATLAS.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
Sacramento Bank BDnual Meeting.

THERE WILL BE MEETING OF THE
4 Stockholders of the Sacramento Bank held
at its Office, corner J and Fifth streets. at 7
o'clock P. NJ, December II, 1888, for the purpose
of electing Board of Directors for the coming
year ED. R. HAMILTON, Secretary.
December 4. 1888. de5-lot
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-15
HOLIDAYS, 1893.
s. II. DAVIS.

Ii ARDWARE AND MECHANICS TOOLS.
II Scroll Saws, holiday goods and amateur
supplies in general.
ds-lm4p 704 St., Sacramento, Cal.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DIR. Isaac
TH0MPSON'S S EYE WATER, Sold at % cents. Tvs
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Emile Dreyfous. Teacher of Violin, etc,
Leave orders at any music store. d6-tt
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L H. Taylor, Civil and Hydraulic En-
cheering Also Land Surveying. 214 st. If
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For first-class Carriage or Buggy 60
to HARRY BERNARD'S, Sixth and L s:s. #
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As Mr.. Gladstone ages he gets more
optimistic, and with increasing years ex-
hibits marked tendency to take hopeful
views of affairs which less sanguine Iem-
peraments than his can only contemplate
with misgiviDg. Especially is this the
case when the topic under review is of
international interest, when it is dealt
with by the ex-Premier with fippancy
which suggests the inference that he has
never mastered its details. in the impor-
tant speech Just delivered by Mr.. Glad
stone at Birmingham, when foreign affairs
were touched on at considerable length,
the fisheries failure and the Sackville scan
dal evoked from the right honorable gen.
tleman the utterance of a dozen or SO
platitudes, the shallowness of which is in
striking contrast to the depth of the sub
jects. The latter are not to be dismissed in
few glittering generalities, and if l mis-
take not will yet wear for the English
people complexion hardly less cheerful
than that of Egypt. 1t is very fine for
Mr.. Gladstone to see in "judicious measures
and wisely selected persons" the clearing
up of the fisheries tangle, but when "meas-
ures and persons" have proved abortive in
the past, what is there about them which
iustifes the hope that they will succeed
better in the future?