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ton, for outside lands, might, we think, be
safely rated at say from s. to $40, while
colony lands rate from sos to SIS, the
many accompanying advantages of colony
settlement accounting for the differences of
prices, more often than the land quality.
REASONS FOR PRESENT CONDITIONS.
From the foregoing the practical reader
Will naturally inquire: If the results
above alluded to are fair illustration of
the capabilities OF the soil of the foothill
region there, why is there so much unoc-
cupied and uncultivated land? and why is
land that is so productive yet so cheap,
as compared with other portions of the
State?
Of the many reasons to be assigned for
this state of affairs, the principal ones are
noticed as follows:
First-Mining has been the great in
dustry of this section, and popular error
prevails that mining lands are not adapted
to agriculture
second-The lack of facilities for trans
portation, it being but few years since
this county was supplied with railway
connections. That obstacle has now been
wholly overcome.
The third reason is that a man must I'M
derstand his business if he wishes to make
1t success. Mining men understand min
ing, but as a rule they are, at best, but in
different gardeners and horticulturists.
What is most needed at the present time
to adequately develop the capabilities of
this region, is the introduction among the
resident population of practical farmers
and horticulturists, who, by their industry,
skill and practical methods of cultivation
OF the soil and care of its products, will
make competency for themselves, and at
the same time stimulate the old residents
to like activity, and thus demonstrate
the possibility of converting these foot
hills into the finest orchards and vine.
yards in the State.
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Wind-rolled snow-balls are, says an ex-
change, often seen on the Dakota and Wy
oming prairies. Sometimes millions upon
millions of the balls are in sight at one
time. Many are of the size of an orange,
some as big as cannon-ball, while others
reach the proportions of the prize pump
kin of the country fair. These freaks of
the storm leave person under the fancifuI
impression that great armies of school
boys have been battling over the snowy
spaces.
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A Prerequisite of Good CITY Goverpme


Ex-Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn, in the
May Forum says: "The average city char
Der provides a scheme of administration
which is curlously at war with all the
teachings of experience. If any one point
of business administration is well settled
it is that executive work must be commit
ted to one man. Every successful business
depends upon this principle, in connection
with its companion thought of individual
responsibility, running through every de-
partment, from the head down. With
few exceptions the charters of our cities
run counter to this well-settled principle,
with completeness which leaves nothing
TO be imagined. Brooklyn, Philadelphia
and Chicago, in recent years, have made
important steps in the direction of concen-
trated responsibility upon the executive
side of city government. In Brooklyn the
Police Department, the Fire Department,
the Health Department, the Building De
partment, the Department Of City Works,
all are under the charge of single head
Not single voice has been heard in
Brooklyn since the change was made sug-
costing return to old methods. Each
head of department understands that he
alone is responsible for any faults in his
department. He also knows that he gets
the praise for whatever merits it may
claim. These officers, being themselves
appointed by the Mayor, without confirm
alton by the Common Council, for terms
conterminous with his own, are all within
the reach of the people at a single cleo
ton. In consequence a change of Mayor
places within the reach of the voters a
change in the entire character of the city
government. In this way the city govern
ment has been made responsible to the
people to an extent never known before.
The people know that the remedy for bad
government under such a charter is within
their own reach. The officials know it
also, and the result is responsiveness to
public sentiment far beyond what is usu-
ally the case. On its executive side
think the charter of Brooklyn is good
model for any city wishing to improve its
administration. The unsolved organic
problem in connection with city govern
ment, in my mind, is the Common Council. ;"
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THE MARROW GAUGE.
Brief Sketches of the Road and the
Towns along tho Route.

Brief Sketches of the Road and the
Towns along tho Route.
This little road, twenty-five miles and a
half in length, passes through delight
fully picturesque and romantic region, and
is thoroughly equipped, having steel rails,
three locomotives, an abundance of rolling
stock, and is fortunate in being managed
and operated by officers and employees uni
formly courteous and obliging. The south
ern terminus of the road is at Colfax,
where it exchanges traffic with the main
overland line of the Southern Pacific
Company. This little town, with pop
ula.ion of 500, Is fast growing in
Importance, and although recently de-
vastated by fire is rapidly rebuilding, and
is destined to become one of the important
places in the foothill section. 1t is we'll
supplied with stores, carrying full assort-
ments of general merchandise; has two
well-equipped livery stables, blacksmith
shops, good lodging houses, restaurants,
and ample church and educational accom-
dations
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WHAT CART BE CURED
must be endured" Fight dit With
SAPOLIC

And you will win. Is there any melody in work?
Work is considered Observation-Disclosures
pleasant Ii 1t does not accord with our de-
sires, 1t makes discord in our hearts But to
people who are trained to do it rightly, work is
one of the best amusements, and knows no dis
cord. There is melody in work. fthe one who
works uses the best methods and combines wis
dom with the work then it goes forward Joy
fully. Sapolio is the best method of doing all
hOuSe-cleauing No. &c
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the edges was shoveled in to level up, thus
forming saucer-shaped area about 100
feet across, which planted to blackberries,
Melted IN one season $50. One vine of
Mission grapes produced last season GO
pounds. Here also are excellent speci-
mems of plums, prunes, apricots, nectarines,
the persimmon, both American and
Japanese, the pawpaw, mulberry, walnuts,
English and japanese, chestnuts and but
ternuts all smooth, clean and healthy look
ing, and bearing to the full capacity.
Prune trees six years old averaged 200
pounds to the tree, and many limbs al
though well propped broke down under
their tremendous load
OTHER INSTANCES.
DR.. A. Chapman has on the Newtowu
read, two and half miles west of Nevada
City, forty acres of assorted fruit trees in
bearing-principally apples-planted from
1858 to 1868. These trees in all this time
have never failed to produce a good yield,
and have received even less than ordinary
care. There are besides some 200 trees of
Bartlett pears that bear exceliently, about
sixty bearing cherry trees, from one of
which, black Oxheart, the gathered fruit
last season weighed 325 pounds, that
brought from Is to % cents per pound,
and not less than twenty-five or thirty
pounds was shaken off by the wind few
days prior to the picking. One apple tree
| yielded twenty-five bushels of fine fruit
The average price paid for apples has been
about ! cents per pound, and for Bartlett
pears. on the tree, from to ,! cents pei
pound.
Fred Bost, two and half miles from
Nevada City, has seven acres of assorted
fruit that brings him in $4,000 year
Hay also is crop that it pays well to look
after on land heretofore described as being
adapted to its growth.
| The Nevada County Land Association
| have fifteen acres between Grass VALLEY
and Nevada City from which was cut Is
tons Of clover, and had splendid pasturagc
for quite large herd of stock for long
Time after the last cutting Numerous
other tracts are worthy of more extended
note if space permitted. Among these is
the place of Mr.. Reed, on the Rough and
Ready road, with finely cultivated young
orchard.
RHUBARB CULTURE.
On this place, too, was noticed field o.
rhuharb, or "pie-plant," as nice as any to
be found, and, like the fruit trees, grown
without irrigation. This plant is seem
ingly of small importance, and yet the
profit in cultivating it is sufficiently
remunerative to warrant its cultivation
There are but few localities III the State
and these of limited extent, where it can
be successfully grown, and one of these
places is the central part of Nevada county
There are several tracts at Grass Valley
where the plant is successfully grown
yielding from five to eight tons to the
acre. The demand is always in excess OF
the supply-the price ranging from % to G
cents per pound. Mr.. Biggs sold $40C
worth of rhubarb from three-quarter acre.
of ground last season, and others did
equally as we'll. The plant requires a
black, loamy soil and thorough cultivation
| POTATO RAISING.
| r.. u
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GENERAL NOTICES.
Gammoning the Public.

There are innumerable ways of doing this
Not the least Objectionable is the communication
by irresponsible dealers of tooth powders pastes
and washes either positively injurious OF utterly
Intellectual. Protect pocket and teeth by pur-
chasing wholesome S0Z0DONT. IT'S
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The Experience of Mrs. Peters

Mrs. Peters had Ills
Mrs. Peters had chills,
Mrs. Peters was sure she was going TO die:
They dosed her with pills,
With powders and sqnills,
With remedies wet, and with remedies dry.
Many medicines lured her,
But none of them cured her,
Their names and their number nobody could
tell;
And she soon might have died,
But some pellets were tried
That acted like magic, and then she got well.
The magic Pellets" were DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets (the original
Little Liver Puls). They cured Mrs Peters,
and now she wouldn't be without them.
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The employees get good wages, live well,
and, as rule, are men of families that
own their homes, which are beautifed by
flowers, shrubs, fruit and ornamental trees.
The mines make an excellent home mar
ket for the products of the surrounding
farms and orchards, and the superb rail-
road facilities enable the producer to ship
at profit what is not needed for home
supply. The surplus shipped last season
amounted to 600 tons. The city has a
supply of pure water furnished under 10
feet pressure, afiording unexceptional pro-
lection against fire, and is furnished to
families at the low rate of 81 per month.
The power for the mines is also furnished
by water under a 500-foot pressure, and a
six-foot Pelton wheel is sufficient to fur
nish motor and hoisting power for mine
and 30-stamp mill.
There are five dry-goods houses, dozen
or fifteen groceries, four breweries, Two
foundries, two planning mills, and such
| other industries as are usually represented
in a city of this Importance.
The town is lighted by gas and electricity,
both plants furnishing excellent and cheap
light. There are two newspaper and job
printing establishments in Grass Valley,
the Daily Union and the DAILY and TVeekll,
1idings. The public school has an enroll
ment of 1900 children. with corps of
nineteen teachers. There are six churches
Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal,
Catholic, African Methodist and Christian
ali well attended, and maintaining Sunday
schools. The Methodist Sunday school
has an average attendance of over 500.
\ Catholic Asylum for boys and another
for girls is conducted by the Sisters o.
Charity, and afford homes for several
hundred orphans and half orphans.
For business, health or homes, Gras.
Valley affords most excellent advantages
and to Californians and tourists from tht
States will invariably prove to be a de
lightful and instructive place to visit
AT the session of the Legislature, in the
spring of 1885, bill was passed creating
the
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John Eitel, Assayer and Chemist, corner
Seventeenth andJ Streets Also buys gold. IF
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The best place In California have yo== printing do1=i
A. J. Johnston q Co.'S. 90 81, Sscssnen.o. @,
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This is new town, the SURVEYS of
which have just been completed. 1t IS
located on the line of the narrow gauge,
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OF all the things which man can do or
make here below, by far the most moment
GUS, wonderful and worthy are the things
We call books.-Carlyle.
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SEVENTEETH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL.
ASSOCIATION,


To be composed of Nevada and Placer
counties. As soon as practicable, after
their appointment, the Directors of the
Association purchased the Glenbrook
race-track and park, and proceeded al
once to put it in condition for the autumn
exhibition. The park is situated in a
little valley half way between the towns
of Nevada City and Grass Valley. 1t is OF
easy access, having the Nevada County
Narrow Gauge Railway on the one side,
and the Nevada and Grass Valley Turn,
pike Road on the other side of the in
closure. The turnpike is kept in a
thorough state of repair, is frequently
sprinkled to keep down the dust, and as
the fair grounds are but two miles from
either town, affords most pleasant and
popular driveway, there being scarcely a
day during the season when the track is
not enlivened with teams for pleasure rid
ing and horses in training. The race
track is represented to be one of the best in
the State
Adjoining this property is
THE GLENBRooK ACADEMY.
\ day and boarding-school, managed by
tho. g+,,l- e. Il.
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If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DIR. Isaac
THOMPSON'S EYE WATER. Druggists selli II
at Is cents. o15-1yS
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G. Potter, Manufacturer and Dealer In
Harness and Saddles, liza Second ST., X and LIT
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5. & Ell, southworth. Dentists, Sac
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JnlS property
THE GLENBROoK
I II Ill

\ day and boarding-school, managed by
I corporation, the stock of which is owned
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POTATO RAISING.

Adjoining Mr.. Reeds place is the old
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Snow is not of such rare occurrence as in
the valleys and foothills, but winters fire.
quently pass without so much as the sion
of a snowfall. At other times snow
comes to the depth of from two to six
inches, but rarely lasts mere than TWENTY
Eour hours, generally melting and dis
appearing as it falls. Last winter when the
blzzard-swept section of the Union east of
she Sierras was enjoying their sleigh rides.
spelling schools and skating carniyals.
with the mercury averaging from thirty TO
sixty degrees below zero California cot in
and
BROKE HER RECORD
By experiencing the coolest snap ever re-
corded in the history of the State. On
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81. Louis, Fen. H. Flour-quiet but steady
Corn-Market hlsherand strong .oaSh,' "a
81, February closing N9', asked; March clos
iuG ~ :; Iuue closing -.
Vhcat-'Ihe market opened firm al ,l' 40
s. for May. but was talOwed hl drop TO
-.DS2 with free selling. The outside IN ar
wheat HdVuLcrd somewhat, which caused re-
action to 81 but 1t was only Temporary as ad-
verse advices came along and the leading
trade hammered down to - Close was
hrmor 81 x. 40. red cash, 79ia March So 8
bid, May 81 -lGS2 ., closing 81 rune - :, clos
ing - bid, August ~! 4@7y'-, CLOSING ~
oats-Lower; cash, rs; May, 29i..
Cornmeal- steady at 30.
WhiSkJ-Market eteady at | %.
Provisions-Market steady.
Pork-New, 1900.
Lard-Prime stream, 42l2 per 100 lbs,
= o0i long clear, ~; clear ribs, 62H; short
Bacon Shoulders, (hoxed) SO: long clear
>: clear ribs, 70; short clears, 10.
Hams-Market stron -er at 10 5OOl2 %.
AFTEENouS BOARD.
Wheat weaker; February, s)la; March, S2}&c;
May, 81 ; june - asked July, 7g's
Corn steady; February, & &c; March, f.;
oats steady; May, 5ja-
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. ll-FIour--ln good
demand and q shade higher; choice, - Ct3 30;
fancy, 3 S3d4 %; extra fancy, ?1Gi 30; winter
| wheat patents I 5ogl 10: Minnesota paten!
! process, lud'p Ou.
Corn Market nrmcr at 40 &c per 4u~hel
ONIS-MArSet quiet but steady No. >, ne
Clrnmeai-Alalket quiet ut > -.
.iay-Market nrmer; prime, 10 90; choice
log ProJucts-Market Irregular
Lard, refined terce 37l2
Bulk shoulders. p; long clear
bacon shoulders. c75, long clear, 5 ~
Hams-Choice sugar-cured canyassed, ll2
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WOOL"

At, LOUIS. Feb. tl--wooi market active
ana steady; uuwashed bright medium
li9A coarse braid, II 1921; low san,
~ IOplN; fine light, 1908; hre heavy, lWnl7:
tub washed, choice, Sly; inferior 4U9S3
sacked, lo9lj.
BosroS, reb. If Wool Ohio and pcnsyl.
Nanla lleeces. DG3lc; y y. Slho53c;NX and
above, 5-1aGS3c; NO /, - a &c; choice MicA -
gan extra, Ne, territory aud other uuwHshed
woods, secured, 5iQ15 &; fine, sc; hue medium
ana OtM II srudes nnrhnnRnl.
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aaI1. ciss ooscl steady,loto II point, lower
sales "a tpssy losing prices.
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LARD.
COFFEE.

GALYEsroS, Feb. 1T Office qul4t Nc low
er Wholesale grocers quoted good ordinary,
~; tair, 1917; prime 22},; choice, 2u1a G2l
peaberrY. y; govern meut Java, 26tl
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steadily increasing. One Oonercss now does
dovernment, Already the Fiftieth oongress
have ali been engrossqd, and this is about as
por cent. ahead Of the first session Of the last
CONGRESS-. Yet numbers hardly convey an ac-
curatd idea Of the volume Of WORK done. The
appropriation bills require as much labor as
ali OF the other House bills combined, and II
the pending Tariff bill should pass. with
amendments, It will take as long to enroll 1t as
would 200 or more ordinary private bills
But to return to the history of the bill :; Its
soon described. The ,engrossed House bill,
when returned with the Senatorial approval
and transcribed, ts, at the end OF the session,
stored away in the basement OF the Capitol.
The entire walls Of a great crypt-lik room are
covered with shelves filled with them.
The transcribed or enrolled bills are CAREFUL
ly compared with the originals by the Commit
tee on Enrolled Bills and taken to the Presi-
dent. II he approves them. no so, notifies the
House and sends them over to the state De-
partment, where copies are again made for the
use Of tho printors, who set up the statutes nt
now known Us acts OF Congress-take their
places In tho files along with those passed ut
the first Congress- OF the United States.
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the chaso tho r,st Of tho hounds tool the wrons

the chass the rest Of the hounds took the wrong
trail. and these three alone stuck to the right
one. Their famished condition lent Itself TO
this conclusion. and, at any rate. never saw
or heard OF the fcst Of the pack or any OF the
guards. But soon found that bloodhounds
are not to be despsed "a travelling compan-
ions for wandered almlessly for eight dnys
longer. and, had II not been for, them would
most certainly have staryeh They ran down
rabbits for me. and one day, BY great chance
managed to keep alive. At night time We all
slept In a heap, and the dogs kept mo warm.
Moreover. knew that 1t would. be impossible
for any one to surprise mo before they would
give the alarm.
On the eleventh day out and my thrce
bloodhounds walked into cow camp. and
when the good natured cow punchers heard
my story and satisfied themselves that l had
been one OF them once upon o time. they un.
dertook to spirit me over tho Stato line. I
hated to part with the dogs, for We had con-
ceivod q great esteem for cach other; but tho
cowboys kept them as loot, and, afterward
learned, sold one OF them for SIS to an English
tourist. After n couple OF months of vicissi-
tudes made my way North, and. although the
authoritics OF Texas have assured mo that
there will be no effort made to prosecute or re-
arrest me- have never had any craving TO re-
visit tho Lone Star State
The sun., 1888-05-06
WOMEN UHo CAN KEEP A sECREE
All that Can be Learned About the Grand
Uuited Order of Tents

All that Can be Learned About the Grand
Uuited Order of Tents.
The Grand United Order Of Tents is one
OF the most thoroughly typical secret orders Of
this day and generation OF societies. It is one
OF which tho great public has as yot heard lit
tle and the beauties OF its regnlia, ceremonies,
and principles will first become known to
thousands through this publication.
The Order Of Tents is 30 myterious that It Is
almost impossible to obtain any information OF
the organization, its foundation Its age, its
extent, its numbers, or its strength. And no
man may hope to solve these myteries by join
ing the order as some other societies are some
times joined. out OF curiosity. Men arc not
eligible They can't get in and they can't find
out what is going on inside. The membership
Of the Tents is entirely made up Of women.
They are all colored women. too, and almost
all OF them good church members as we'll. The
clergymen cannot find out anything about
the mysterious order, either. but they have no
fault to find with 1t. as its sisters are no loss
excellent church members on account OF their
other affiliations.
The origin Of the order Is obscure. or else tho
reticence OF the members has become SO fixed
o habit on account Of the many efforts that
The sun., 1888-05-06


Prof. W. K. Brooks OF Baltimore has dis
produce an excess OF females among animals
and plants, and an unfayorable environment
an excess OF males II this BE- true. u race or
species which Is on the point OF extinction
should have an excess OF males.
The population Of Australia consists OF .
small and decreasing number OF aborigtnes.
and a prosperous and increasing population OF
foreign settlers and tner ao roaeesesndants e amount.
native population is rapidly disappearing, wo
should expect to find the males more numer-
GUS among them as compared with the females
than among the inha6ilianas 81 OF loreign oriGlh,
100 females there were In Victoria. OF native
born Australians, 100 2-10 males, and OF foreign
ers, exclusive OF Chinese. l29 lilo males, The
ratio Of males to females In tho population OF
than II would be ii 1t depended upon the birth
rate alone; and as this modifying influence
does not Affect the abortgines. an excess of
males among no gresspr tps or even little
foreign origin, would indicate that the excess
Of male births Ia much greater among thom
than among the people OF foreign origin. Com
Putation shows that the ,, sfeess 81 males among
tralizing Influences, very much greater than 1t
Is among the foreign population.
For all Australia there are l4372 aboriginal
msss to each hS there e '
females. Notwithstanding tho fact that 100
male settled In these colonies To each 100 ie-
males.
ther. 1t may be Interesting to know that an
enormous collection OF statistics relative TO
the Indian tribe; ;aS Of the ypitsd states rs p was
SS O. saH' s nSs ssSs
and would MIpish muoh better basis OF com.
DAnaeA tAAA " 6AN eA0Gen ~ exe& 1soekA