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them. lnere is no cry of despair in
his own heart, and he will not suffer his
pen to write one. A really good novel
IS better bread than was ever made of
wheat, for it nourishes and cherlshes
emotion and sentiments, that will live
for ever. No one can doubt its ipflu-
ence, it has made our souls thrill to
loftler thoughts than those that stir our
daily life, and it has enriched our mem
ory with some holy or noble character
who will be forever part of our best
self
But bad is linked to good as shadow
to light, and vice will have its interpreter
as well as virtue. Bad novels must be
recognized as fact of this day, and a
very unpleasant one. They are the
pustules and eruptions of the social
body, indicating threatened moral epi
demic. If physical one OF cholera or
smallpox were imminent, there would
be every effort made to arrest its prog
ress !; and it seems as reasonable for the
State to protect the purity, as the goods
and chattels of its citiznens to punish
with fitting justice both the criminals
who detile the one and who steal the
other.-B00k Meas.
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Everybody Should Learn to Swim,

How many young women in Albany
are swimmers2 What proportion OF
men, or women, have any confidence
in their ability to save themselves or
render assistance to others in an emer-
gency that would leave them helpless
in the water2 Would not the answer
show a woful inattention to this useful
art, and a lamentable ignorance of
practical information concerning it?
Every year adults and children, robust
and strong, able to save themselves had
they been taught how, are drowned
within sight OF Albany, and sometimes
these disasters come pretty near to our
own doors. Then, too, we constantly
place ourselves in positions where there
is liability to loss of life, with perfect
trust in chances. On steamers in rivers,
on mid-ocean on sailboats and row.
boats on inland lakes and ponds in a
hundred ways, and yet, should disaster
come, we would be numbered with the
lost. Life may be short, but it is not
too short for physical development, for
attention to the art of self defense not
too short to learn how to swim and to
keep in practice.--4l6any I1.gMS.
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Open Your Windows at Niyht,

An extraordinary fallacy is the dread
of night air. What air can we breathe
at night but night air7 The choice is
between pure night air from without
and foul air from within. Most people
prefer the latter-an unaccountable
choice. What will they say if it is
proved to be true that fully one-haH of
all the diseases we suffer from are
occasloned by people sleeping with
their windows shut2 An open window
most nights in the year can never hurt
any one. In great cities night air is
often the best and purest to be had in
twenty-four hours. One could better
understand shutting the windows in
town during the day than during the
night for the sake of the sick. The
absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend
to make the night the best time for
airing the patient. One of our highest
medical authorities on consumption
and climate has told me that the air of
London is never so good as after 10
O'Clock at night. Always air your room,
then, from the outside air, if possible
Windows are made to open, doors are
made to shut-a truth which seems
extremely difficult OF apprehension.
Everyroom must be aired from without,
every passage from within.-Sanita,y
U0rld.
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TEARS ON TOMBsTON Es.

Tears on tombstones tell the same
tale as the lachrymatories of the an
clients; and if they tell it after a SIM
pier, rougher fashion, cannot see
that their mode of expression is a
whit more absurd than the one which
classic association has taught us to
regard with gravity. Throughout
Normandy it is usual to find black
tears painted on white grave crosses,
and white tears on black ones; for
tears must be surely signihed by the
Prince Rupert drop-shaped figures
which are placed under. above, or
about so many memorial inscrip-
tions. No niggard weeping indicated
thus, and not modern altogether is
the symbolism. There are tear-like
figures in the Bayeux tapestry, on
the bed where the defunct lies.
"Celu ci," says the Able J. Lafetay
in his pleasant historical and descrip-
tive notice of the needlework "ditte
della Refine Mathilde," "celu-ci est
couche sur un lit parseme be larmes.
| am much mistaken if have not
sometimes seen spots intended to
represent tears on that curious ma
terial Grape which, both in this coun-
try and in France, seems to be indis-
pensible to the outfit of complete
mourner. Some time ago remem-
Der reading in a newspaper that in
Pere la Chaise Cemetery there is a
monument in the form of tear.
The monument was erected by
husband to his wife bore the inscrip-
ton, Judge by that how l loved
here" | unfortunately do not re-
member the name of the paper or the
date.-MoteS and Queries. .
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WHEN WOMEN SHOULD MARRY.

Probably the best time for the av.
erage civilized woman to marry
would be at any age between "a
and SO. 1t is not said that no wo-
man should marry earlier or later
than either OF these ages; but youth
and health and vigor are ordinarily
at their highest perfection between
these two periods. Very early mar
riages are seldom desirable for girls,
and that for many reasons. The
brain is immature, the reason is fee
BILE and the character is uniformed.
The considerations which would
prompt girl to marry at II would
IN many cases have very little weight
with her at "a. At II she is a child,
at 24 woman. Where a girl has
intelligent parents the seven years
between II and p are the period
when mind and body are most amen
able to wise disipline, and best repay
the thought and toll devoted to their
development. Before II few girls
have learned to understand what life
is, what discipline is, what duty IS.
They cannot value what is best,
either in the fathers wisdom or the
mother tenderness. When married
at that childish period they are like
young recruits taken fresh from the
farm and the workshop, and hurried
off to long campaign without any
period of preliminary drill and train
ing or like a schoolboy removed
from school to a curacy without be-
ing sent to the university or to a
theological hall. Who can help
grieving over chlld-wife, especially
if she have children and husband
who is an inexperienced and possibly
exacting BOWMAN? The ardor of
his love soon cools; the visionary
bliss of her poetical imagination van
ishes like the summer mist; there is
nothing left but disappointment and
wonder that what promised to be so
beautiful and long day should have
clouded over almost before sunrise.
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Education Neglected.

81 think that the young men of the
present day are very deficient in men,
tai culture" said young lady; "don't
you, Mr.. Strokohr?"
"Very," was the reply. "Why, the
other day l actually met young man
who didn't know what l meant when
said that Kelly fumbled foul ball.
Merchant 7ra0ekey.
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AUTHORS AGES.

he following summary CT the ages
of prominent American authors was
prepared by w. J. Box for the Mev
York Grabhic
DR.. Holmes will be eighty in August.
Whittier is eighty-one, and Lowell has
reached his threescore years and ten.
Richard Henry Stoddard is sixty four,
George H. Boxer is sixty five, George
Bancroft next October will end his
eighty ninth year, George Ticknor Cur
It's IS seventy six, Joel T. Headley Is
seventy six, Colonel Thomas Went
worth Higginson is sixty-five, Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe is seventy, Edmund Clar-
ence Stedmen is fifty-six, John Bigelow
is seventy one, Mrs. Stowe is seventy
seven, Donald G.. Mitchell is sixty
seven, Francis Parkman is sixty six,
Charles Dudley Warner is sixty, George
William Curtis is sixty five, Moncure
ID. Conway IS ffty-seven, and Edward
Everett Hale is sixty-seven.
Sarah Orne Jewett will be forty next
September, Mrs. Humphry Ward il
thirty eight, Lucy Larcom is slxty-three
Harriet Prescott Spofiord is fifty four,
Edith M. Thomas IS thirty five, Marion
Harland (Mrs. Terhune) is fifty-nne,
Amelie Rives- Chanler will be twenty
six next August, Mrs. Frances Hodg-
son Burnett is thirty nine, and she pub
lished her first story when only eigh-
teen Celia Thaxter is fifty three, Mrs.
Croly Oenny June) is fifty-seven, Miss
Braddon is irty-two, Blanche Willis
Howard is forty-two, Rose Terry Cooke
is sixty-two, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ward will be forty-fve in August, Miss
Louise Imogen Quincy is twenty seven,
Constance Fenimore Woolson Is forty
one nobody ever found exactly the
age of Miss Woolsey (Susan Colidge)
but is believed that she was born in
IS45, which would make her age forty
four; Mrs. Margaret Wade Deland,
author of "John Ward, Preacher" is
thirty one, and Mary Abigail Dodge
| (Gail Hamilton), is at least twenty
eight years older.
F. Marion Crawford will be thirty
five in August, and he wrote "Mr.
Isaacs" when only twenty-seven
Robert Louis Stevenson is thirty nine,
w. D. Howells is fifty two, E w. Howe
is hirty-fve, Bret Harte is forty nine,
Julian Hawthorne is torty-three, Rich
ard Malcom Johnson is sixty-seYen,
and Rosslter Johnson is forty-nine
Arlo Bates is thirty-nine, Walter Besanl
is ffty-one, Thomas Bailey Aldrich will
be fifty-three next November. and in
his picture looks twenty-five; William
Black is forty eight, William H. Bishop
is forty-two, and General Lew Wallace
is sixty-two, and he wrote "Ben Hur'
when fifty lone; ; John Habberton, the
author of "Helens Babies," is forty.
seven Joel Chandler Harris is forty.
one. George w. Cable is forty-tour
Edward Eggleston is fifty-one, anG
looks fifteen years older; H. H. Boye-
sen is forty, H. &. Bunner is about
thirty eight; James Anthony Froude
has begun now to write novels at the
age of seventy lone Frank R. Stockton
is fifty-tive, William Hamilton Gibson
is forty eight, Thomas Nelson Page i:
thirty-six James Whitcomb Riley wa
born in 1852, James Payn is ffty-nine
Brander Matthews is thirty-seven, J. T
Trowbridge is sixty-one, and JULIE
Verne is the same age, while Edga
Fawcet IS forty two.
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Why He Was Saved.

Dirtt en- OF my friends were browne d
by de upsetting of de pote 4; l was de
only one saved" said Dutchmar.
"And how did you escape7" asked an
anxious hearer. 81 did not 60 on de
same pote. = Youths Companion.
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LACK Gratitude.

Mother-Dar, now, | done tole
you not to play wild dem white chill
drens. Dey lick all de lasses off yer
bread and den call yer nigger!-
Texas .SyHngS.
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Aid to N ature."

"Ayer's Hair Vigor is most excel
lent preparation for the hair. Ispeal of
it from my own experience. Its use pro-
notes the growth of new hair, and makes
it glossy and soft. The Nigor is also "A
sure cure for dandruff. u. w. Bowen,
Editor :" EHquirer," Macarthur, Ohio.
Bessie II. Bedloe, Burlington, Vt,
had a disease Of the scalp, causing her
hair to become very harsh and dry, and
to fall so freely that she scarcely dared
comb it. Ayers
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Great enefit

from the use of Ayers Hair Nigor. II
freed my scalp from humors, and has
restored my hair to its original coloI
and healthy condition."
"I have used Ayers Hair Vigor foI
promoting the growth Of the hair, and
think it unequaled. For restoring the
hair to its original color, and for dress
ing, it cannot be surpassed. Mrs
Geo. La Fever, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
Miss Sarah J. Gregory, Elizabeth,
y. j., says: 81 have used
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The Ladies

Prefer Ayers Hair Vigor to any Other
dressing for the hair. 1t restores color
prevents the hair from falling out, pro
notes its growth, and keeps it soft
glossy, and free from dandruif.
81 have used Ayers Hair Vigor for a
number Of years, and it has always given
me satisfaction. 1t is an excellent dress.
ing, prevents the hair from turning
gray, insures its vigorous growth, and
keeps the scalp white and clean" -
Mary A. Jackson, Salem, Mass.
Mrs. L. NJ. Holmes, Maiden, Mass.
certiiies: I" l have experienced
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Some men are always in bad CON-
pany-even when they are. alone
Dominion illustrated.
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DR.. Ayers Hair Vigor,

Hair Vigor for number of years, and
find it very effective in promoting the
growth of the hair"
Prepared by DIR. J. c. Aver & Co, Lowell, Mass.
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1T STANDS ALONE

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Walnut Street. Dec t,
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A Complexion

Free from Pimples, Tan, or other dis
coloration, has always been regarded as
essential to Perfect Beauty. Few are
so favored but more might he, hy using
Ayers Sarsaparilla, the best and most
reliable blood-purtier ever discovered.
"This is to certify that my health
broke down, and my skin was rough
and discolored. After using
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Use No Other

Dressing for the Hair while applying
Ayers Hair Efgor, and thus avoid in
terfering with its action on the scalp
and on the hair-forming glands. The
Nigor, properly applied, will keep the
scalp healthy and clean.
J. B. Williams, Florenceville, Texas,
writes: g Some time ago l lost all my
hair in consequence of measles. After
due waiting, no new growth appeared.
| then used Ayers Hair Nigor and my
hair grew out thick and strong. 1t has
apparently come 10 stay. The Eigor is
n,-i1antl,- u ,rr.at
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c. W. KENNARD & cos
FERTILIZER.


JAMES FRENCH reports ~ bushels average
from G.. w. Kcnnard Y Co.'S Phosphate. a great
improvement on previous crops, buys the same
fertilizer again this fall.
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GEORGE w. BoLroN reports very ar::e crop
/ on the Big Meadow tam and is much pleased
with results. We have his order ior tall tilizer
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AOR(SE
BLANKETS
ARE THE STRONGEST.
NONE GENUINE WITHoUTTHE su LABEL
Manufd by WM. AYREs & Sons, Philada-, who
make the famous Horse Brand Baker Blankets
THE HAY fever SEASON.
july, August, September.

AT this season, when life offers the greatest at
fractions and the most delightful resources Il
persons whose soundness of body permits Out-of
door exercise and amuSements, multitudes are lie
barred from the joys of the summer by hay fever
one OF the most eXaspcrating, wearisome, and de-
pressing Ills to which humanity is subect-Obscure
inexplicahle, descending on given date like al
invisible blow OF fate The sufferers from hay fe
yer have looked in vain for any trustworthy rem
edy. Many of them, however, have looked in
vain because they have been ignorant of Ely's
Cream Balm. an admirable remedy for hay tevel
in all its forms. Agreeable in the use, entirely de
void of any unpleasant ater-efects, this Cream
Balm quickly allays inflammation ana secures that
reliei for which the sufferer has lOnged in vain.
From The Christian Union. New York City
July Is 1889
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RUPTURE cure guaranteed by DIR. J. b. Mayer,
s3l Arch ST., Philadelphia, Pa. Ease at once, no
operation or delay from business, thousands cured,
after otht rs TAIL, send Tor circular. July 2Sly.
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The above reports are from Kent farmers and
only lew among our many pleased customers
ana we Have more I" come. Remember We do not
publish and rcpuh!lsh old testimonials: every.
thing new and true. Gail early. We bou. ht
early, hlcd "ur lousc early. saved i'll buying
early. and from the way orders are "ulniu@ in eX-
pcct to do u Large, early ami hne business, and
saw our customers money.
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RESULTS


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STANDS ALONE
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FFphrI a ftlIIaf kiiDIe rP~HTt.
JNo. n. DupD and INo. LOLLAR, ESuS report
"a remarkr bic result ON corn ground. seeded late
and consequently winter killed: the wheat branch
ed greatly. and the head from l TO II, inches
longer than other wheat Sown in his tallow where
high priced brands OF fertilizers. made ~ other
parties, were used. MIR. Lullar says that no other
fertilizer hut heunard'o could give such won.
deriul result. He knows their worth having
always grown crol, Irom their use.
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WANTED 100000 Weak Backs to cure.
w Greatest Discovery OF the Age. Bassett's
Combination Plaster is the Greatest Cure Known
Tor Weak Back, Kidney Complaint, ETC. Try
them and be convinced. Price by mail, p cents,
for Sl.OO. w. b. RICH n CO., Proprietors
Shelburne Falls. Mass.
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gave her healthy scalp. cleansed the
head of dandrutf, and made the hair
beautifully thick and glossy.
Sold by Druggists and Perfumers.
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Pure Blood

Makes a fair skin, bright eyes, and ripe
red lips. Every lady has it in her power
to enhance these attractions by the use
of Ayers Sarsaparilla. 1t gives vigor
to the system and builds up enfeebled
constitutions.
DIR. Robert Swain, Houston St, New
York, certiiics: No Alternative that we
possess equals Ayers Sar-
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TIL DIFFIRENC

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Ayers Sar sapari!Ia,

saparilla I was completely cured, and
my skin resumed its natural complex
ion" Lizzie Conners, 80 First ST.,
Centralville, Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists. Price 81; six bottles, So.
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for the cure Of Pimplcs, Blotches,
and all other cutancous affections, as
we'll as for the treatment of Scrofulous
Sores"
Sold by all Druggists. Price 81; six bottles, SIS.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-28
HORSE NOTES.
sunoi and Ansel Still at Palo Alto-Re-
ported Recent Sales.


Some time ago the report was published
that Robert Bonner was negotiating for the
purchase of Sunol. Pelo Altos sensational
two-year- and that Senator Stanford
had put $50 600 as the price upon her. The
Eastern turf papers are very busy just now
denying the report, but it is true. Negotia-
lions were made, but Mr.. Bonner will
hardly make the purchase. Still Sunol can
be had by any man who wants to pay the
amount named for her.
Another reported sale at Palo Alto is an
error. The telegraph announced several
days ago the purchase by Colonel Russell,
of Boston, OF the stallion Ansel, by Elec
tioneer. The negotiations, if negotiations
there were, have fallen through, and Ansel
will remain at his old home for awhile
generally believed, that Colonel Russell is
trying to buy L. ] Roses famous SIAM
boul. 1t can hardly be possible that
negotiations are pending, as just after
the Grand National was trotted the writer
asked Mr.. ROse if he would sell the horse,
and his reply was that he would sell him
for $50, 600 provided that the purchaser
should also buy all the other stock upon
the farm, which mean that so long as l..
J. Rose was the proprietor of the Rose
meade stud Stamboul would remain there
Toe horse will go East and Try for the big
Grand Circuit trophies this season, but
when the season is over he will return to
California.
The latest sales reported from Palo Alto
are the bay cold, May King, years old, by
Eectioneer, out of May Queen, to e Spers,
of Glen Falls, N. Y, for SO, 900, and a black
yearling filiy by Electioneer ont of Conso-
Iation, by Dictator, to George N. Hopper, of
Unionville, o., for $4,000 The following
foals have been dropped at the ranch since
the first of January:
Trotter. br. colt by Nephew Marietta;
ihoroughbreds. br. C. by Wildidle-imp
Amelia, C. f. by Flood Lady Evangeline.
CD. f. by Flood-Glendew, by Wildidle imp.
Flirt-S F. Chronicle, Jaauary 9th.
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SOCIAL AND PE.soNsL.

J. ID. Spencer and wife, Of Modesto, are in the
city.
W. II. Brown and wife came up from the bay
Saturday.
Miss Lizzie Smith, of Woodland, is visiting
friends in this city.
W. B. Lyon and wife. of San Francisco, are
visiting sacramento.
Mrs. stillwagon. of Plymouth, is visiting rel
atives in Sacramento.
B Wilson left for a six weeks visit TO the East
on Saturday evening.
Superior Judge George Z. Williams, Of FL DC.
RADIO county, is in town.
Miss Lizzie Rush, of San Francisco, is tn gues
OF her cousin, Mrs. N. J. Banford
Miss Nettie Trenholtz, of retalums, aud Miss
Hattie Miller, OF this city, left for Petaluma last
Saturday morning.
Dwight HOLSTER, Courtland George Z. Williams,
Placeryille; Ben T Gels, Willows; Allen Towle,
Towles: d. II. Gilils, Rocklin: Ed Murray, San
Francisco: B. McQinn, city; Frederick Reckon
zaun. San Francisco; Dana Perkins, Rocklin;
T. Brandon, c. Jansen, REUTERS; II. K. Turner,
Sierra: j. c. Campbell Chico; Sol Runyon and
wife, Con-tiand; +. g. Crawford. Willows: L.
Mativia. Alta: J. d. Spencer and wife, Modesto:
F. II. Holrges, Delta; J. n. Lean, city.
Arrivals st the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday
J. Phillips, Thomas Findley, David Levy Frank
". Thompson, W. II. Brown, and wife, A. n
Bergiyin, Thomas Deurgin. Jos. ]. Euright J.
II. Cain, C.. f. Thomas NJ. ID. Rainbow, NJ F.
Brennan, J. VI. Mitchell, Thomas 3. Church,
F. Schilling. Mrs. Best W. II. Mahony, Thos
s. G. siadden, Eugene; Miss. Dickinson, Chico ;
e. TourQue, Boston; 7. P. Reed, Antioch Joseph
Murtch. Chico: James \. Raokin, Sonora; Jno
jackson. Colusa.